By Charlie Smith 19 March 2012 A Japanese citizen watchdog has reported that cesium-137 levels rose more than five times in Fukushima over a 24-hour period between March 15 and 16. The online Fukushima Diary pointed out that there were no megabecquerels per square kilometre of cesium-137 detected between March 8 and March 11. But […]
グレイは放射線が物質に当たった時のエネルギー量を表し、大気中の放射線量１グレイは１シーベルトに換算できます。 【参考】健康安全研究センターで平常時に観測されていた測定値：１時間あたり0.028～0.079マイクロシーベルト（平均値は概ね、0.035マイクロシーベルト／時）で推移＜上記の緑色の帯の範囲＞。 Machine translation: Grey represents the amount of energy when radiation hits the material, you can convert the atmospheric radiation 1 gray dose of 1 sievert. [Wikipedia: The gray (symbol: Gy) is the SI derived unit of absorbed radiation dose of ionizing radiation (for example, X-rays), and is defined as the absorption of one […]
By Alistair Gray19 March 2012 Just days after a powerful offshore earthquake sent a wall of seawater surging towards Japan’s north-eastern coastline, devastating the region, companies with operations thousands of miles away were left grappling with shortages of critical components. A year ago this week, as rolling blackouts forced parts plants throughout the world’s third-largest […]
Fukushima City at EveryTrail By arevamirpal::laprimavera 16 March 2012 Professor Yukio Hayakawa was armed with 4 different radiation survey meters. One of the reasons he went to Fukushima was apparently to test the survey meters and compare the readings. The entire walk took 7 hours yesterday, says Hayakawa in his tweet, nothing compared to mountain […]
By Juliet Eilperin18 March 2012 GOLDEN MEADOW, Louisiana – Here on the side of Louisiana’s Highway 1, next to Raymond’s Bait Shop, a spindly pole with Global Positioning System equipment and a cellphone stuck on top charts the water’s gradual encroachment on dry land. In 1991 this stretch of road through the marshlands of southern […]
We use a Lagrangian particles dispersal method to track where free floating material (fish larvae, algae, phytoplankton, zooplankton…) present in the sea water near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station plant could have gone since the earthquake on March 11th. THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION. Since we do not […]
BANGKOK, 12 March 2012 (Global Nation) – The Asia-Pacific region needs to spend about $40 billion a year to “climate proof” its economies against the impact of global warming, Asian Development Bank vice president Bindu Lohani said Monday. Countries need to undergo “transformational change” to build resilience to climate-change disasters, Lohani told the Asia-Pacific Climate […]
By Alan Boyle9 March 2012 Satellite images tracked the catastrophic impact of Japan’s magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami on the Fukushima nuclear complex and other key sites, and now they’re tracking the reconstruction. To mark Sunday’s anniversary of the disaster, DigitalGlobe is releasing pictures showing “before, during and after” views of the devastation. You can see […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 9 March 2012 Whatever this substance is, the number is extremely high. About this “black dust” in Minami Soma, see my past posts, here, here, here.Minami Soma City’s Assemblyman Ooyama reports on his blog (3/8/2012): 試料：ID:080 鹿島区ジサ原CCs-134 1,498,000 ± 1,586 Bq/kgCs-137 1,932,900 ± 2,481 Bq/kgTOTAL 3,430,900± 2,945 Bq/kg It seems to be part […]
By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent7 March 2012 It’s what an insurance company might call “a write-off” – a place that seems beyond salvation, and certainly too expensive to fix. I’d never thought of land that way. You smash up a car, and then it’s compacted into a square and maybe even recycled. […]
