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 […]
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. […]
By William Pesek 6 Mar 2012 A year after an earthquake in Japan touched off the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, here’s the question on my mind: Who’s going to jail? The news media are asking the obvious and safe questions ahead of March 11: How well did the government respond? Whither the devastated northeast? […]
The key to cooling damaged nuclear plants now poses a major radioactive worry and storage challenge. By PHRED DVORAK, with Mitsuru Obe29 February 2012 OKUMA, Japan – Nearly a year after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked triple meltdowns at reactors here, the taming of Fukushima Daiichi has become in large part a […]
Watch Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Frontline interviews workers and citizens who recall events in the first nine days of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Inside Japan’s nuclear meltdowns Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,pollution,infrastructure failure
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 March 2012 Kyodo News reports (3/3/2012), nearly one year later: ＳＰＥＥＤＩ予測「公表できない」 文科省文書に記載 SPEEDI simulation “cannot be made public”, according to a document by Ministry of Education and Science 東京電力福島第１原発事故５日目の昨年３月１５日、緊急時迅速放射能影響予測ネットワークシステム（ＳＰＥＥＤＩ）による放射性物質の拡散予測について、当時の高木義明文部科学相ら政務三役や文科省幹部が協議し「一般にはとても公表できない内容と判断」と記した内部文書が作成されていたことが２日、同省関係者への取材で分かった。 It was revealed on 2 March 2012 by speaking with the people involved at the Ministry of Education and Science that an internal memo […]
By AKIKO OKAZAKI / Staff Writer29 February 2012 A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at […]
CNN’s Kyung Lah travels to the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant nearly a year after the quake. Fukushima’s animals abandoned and left to die Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,infrastructure failure,pollution
