Typhoon Songda spinning down to Tropical Storm. Rain of 1.2" at Fukushima. cooling fails at Unit 5 Radioactive Fish found in Hong Kong Easter Island, Chaco Canyon and Fukushima What will Japans Agricultural production look like? Gunderson Video.
Japan to spread radioactive debris over All japan and world deliberately.
leuren moret video portzline interview recriticality.... Flashback: April 11 video of Government coverup. IAEA on site at Fukushima. workers wait while poisoned water climbs. Hong Kong Radiation Background rises above Tokyo..
Fukushima Music Festival Scheduled...
've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son ?
And where have you been my darling young one ?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, what did you see, my blue eyed son ?
And what did you see, my darling young one ?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son ?
And what did you hear, my darling young one ?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
I heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Oh, who did you meet my blue-eyed son ?
Who did you meet, my darling young one ?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded in hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
And what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son ?
And what'll you do now my darling young one ?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are a many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my songs well before I start singin'
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
Tyhoon Songda continues losing strength, forecast for Fukushima is 1.2 " of
rain in 12 hours and winds of 10-15 MPH. Now will that be enough rain to
flush a lot of contamination deeper into the soils and make decontamination
true misery? Will this wash even more into the seas? Will it destabilize the soils
around the reactors? Hard to say...
well it's good to know TEPCO is completely unprepared for this.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/...
A TEPCO official said, “We have made utmost efforts, but we have not completed covering the damaged reactor buildings. We apologize for the lack of significant measures against wind and rain.”
Goshi Hosono, a special adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, told a press conference Friday that the current measures “cannot be said to be appropriate.” [.
well ahead of the storm water levels are rising in the trenches.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Reactor 2 trench water level:
5/7: 880 millimeters (34.65 inches) from the top of grating of the trench
5/14: 760 millimeters (29.92 inches)
5/21: 760 millimeters (29.92 inches)
5/28: 576 millimeters (22.68 inches)
Reactor 3 trench water level:
5/7: 820 millimeters (32.28 inches) from the top of grating of the trench
5/14: 720 millimeters (28.35 inches)
5/21: 640 millimeters (25.20 inches)
5/28: 431 millimeters (16.97 inches)
the storm will only produce 2 inches of rain but how much will flow from the plant site?
I think it will go very badly.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the pumps to cool the nuclear reactor and fuel pool have stopped at the No. 5 unit, and the operator is now working to switch to backup pumps to restore the cooling system.
When a worker at the plant became aware of the problem at 9 p.m. Saturday, the temperature of the reactor stood at 68 degrees Celsius and that of the fuel pool at 41 degrees Celsius.
They had risen to 87 degrees Celsius and 44 degrees Celsius, respectively, by the time TEPCO began work to restore operations shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday, it said.
h/t adept...
well nothing like trying to fix a busted electrical pump during a tropical storm...
units 5 and 6 are the real worries. They form the cascade from
1-4 and the whole site becomes just nuts.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/...
The level of radiation found in the sample of grey mullet by Hong Kong's Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department - 7.7 becquerels a kilogram - was well below the Government guideline of 100 becquerels a kilogram.
"Based on risk assessment, normal consumption of grey mullets at this low radiation level will not pose any health risk to the consumer," the Government said in a statement.
The statement did not say whether the iodine could be traced to the Fukushima plant, which released radioactive material into the air and water after it was badly damaged in Japan's earthquake-tsunami disaster.
Given the distance and time, i'm not surprised the Iodine levels are at
a lower level, but, what about Cesium, Strontium? Are they monitoring for this?
BTW ENENEWS points out that Hong Kong is almost 2000 Miles away from
Fukushima.
in yesterdays Diary, I pointed out the Japanese were selling radioactive cows.
Let's really see what the impacts of Fukushima are.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html
arable land: 11.64%
permanent crops: 0.9%
so about 12.5% of Japan's land is available for Cultivation.
and: 364,485 sq km
so Figure 45,000 SQKM are available for cultivation.
A tiny agricultural sector is highly subsidized and protected, with crop yields among the highest in the world. Usually self sufficient in rice, Japan imports about 60% of its food on a caloric basis. Japan maintains one of the world's largest fishing fleets and accounts for nearly 15% of the global catch
agriculture: 3.9%
now the Japanese have set up an Evac Perimeter of 20 KM. That's 600 SQKM No big deal. The US Recommended 80 KM. that's almost 10,000 SQKM figure 11% is arable
that's 1,000 SQKM of lost farmlands. That's 2%. given the area is pretty rural,
i susspect the losses are worse, say 30%, well, that takes you up 6%...
The bigger losses are in the fishing zones. Japan had enormous fisheries
just offshore and they are contaminated. Can the japanese fish further out?
I guess they have to, maybe they can trawl more off of somalia.
i guess we will see some pretty hefty cod wars start up again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
just as China is spooling up factory fishing, the Japanese screw the pooch.
What I lack is data on where the japanese get their catches.
Could Japan find itself in a Total Collapse.
Frankensteins Monster argues there is no Visible Disaster for Japan.
Certainly it's not a cloverfield or Godzilla stomping Tokyo.
but it could be a children of men scenario.
Japan has one of the lowest population reproduction rates in
the world and one of the oldest populations.
http://thedecisiontree.com/...
Japan’s population is about to tank, and with it, will fall the world’s second largest economy. In roughly 100 years, the country’s population will decrease from 127 million to 44 million. The outlook is bleak, as birth rates are at an all-time low, and the country maintains the highest proportion of senior citizens in the world. By 2050, the Japanese workforce could decrease by as much as 70%. An entertaining segment on Current TV explored both the cause of, and a possible solution to, Japan’s population catastrophe.
Japanese couples are not having babies. As more and more Japanese women and men prioritized their career ambitions over starting families, the national birth rates plummeted. Inadequate child care and employer discrimination of working mothers further discouraged working couples from having children. Swallowed up in the “work hard, play hard” pace of big cities like Tokyo (not to mention all the pretty faces at the local Host/Hostess Clubs), the Japanese 30-somethings claim they’re now too set in their ways to consider having kids.
Children are out — the Japanese aren’t even having sex, let alone children (the average number of sexual encounters per person in Japan is half the number in the US.).
http://connect.in.com/...
in a nation of 127 million only maybe 16 million women are of child bearing potential.
The current Birth rate for women is 1.2 per woman. figure about 13 million women
are currently potentially able to have kids and a few million have not reached the age
of Menarche.
what if 10% of these women miscarry, or have In-vitro abortions due to
genetic abnormailities? Could the Japanese Birth rate spiral down to 1.08 per woman?
Right now the Japanese population is in Negative Population Growth.
It could seriously affected.
http://www.reuters.com/...
Japan's population grew by 288,000 during the five years to October 2010 to 128.05 million, census data showed. That translates into a growth rate of 0.02 percent, the lowest on record and well below the 1945-1950 postwar peak of 15.3 percent.
"The 0.2 growth rate was slightly higher than expected, although it does not change the fact that the number of Japanese is likely to decrease," an internal affairs ministry official said.
The decreasing growth rate is a headache for Japan, which has a shrinking pool of taxable citizens and ballooning social welfare costs to care for an increasing number of elderly.
Slowing population growth also means that Japan, already the most indebted industrial nation with public debt double its $5 trillion economy, will find it increasingly difficult to spread its debt burden
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
According to a government survey, more than a quarter of unmarried men and women between the ages of 30 and 34 are virgins. 50% of men and women in Japan said they were not “going out with anybody”.[28]
Will Fukushima Compound this? Will the Japanese be even less likely to marry
if they feel their partners could be exposed to Radiation?
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors were ostracized and had a very hard time
marrying. What happens when even more don't marry and even the married
find themselves with a declining birth rate?
After TMI there was a wave of miscarriages reported outside the scientific media.
There were also waves of mutation, cancer, etc. I fully expect we will see that in Japan. As Cesium and Iodine settled on much of Tokyo, i expect it will just
affect a major part of the population
What happens if they have a year or two where very few children are born?
and the decade after has a much lower birth rate?
Frankly i don't know but if we see a demographic slice in this year, better sharpen your pencils. Because that may put Japan into a very serious decline.
http://www.eco-action.org/....
The history of Easter Island is not one of lost civilisations and esoteric knowledge. Rather it is a striking example of the dependence of human societies on their environment and of the consequences of irreversibly damaging that environment. It is the story of a people who, starting from an extremely limited resource base, constructed one of the most advanced societies in the world for the technology they had available. However, the demands placed on the environment of the island by this development were immense. When it could no longer withstand the pressure, the society that had been painfully built up over the previous thousand years fell with it.
or
the twelfth to the thirteenth centuries, many of the pueblos in Chaco Canyon were abandoned. What caused people to leave the pueblos, the centers of Anasazi society? One pueblo at Sand Canyon can provide clues. Archaeologists found evidence that when Sand Canyon was finally abandoned in the thirteenth century, the kivas were burned. Kivas were sacred ceremonial places; they would not have been systematically burned without cause. Many archaeologists believe the kivas were ceremonially burned, possibly as a way to "close" the kivas when people left. The Anasazi very likely did this because they never intended to return. Another important clue is that, at Sand Canyon, people left almost all their possessions rather than taking them. The Anasazi likely had a long and difficult journey ahead of them.
Japan is way more sophisticated then the Easter Islanders or the Anazasi, yet they face the same risks. Japan is marginally food secure, lose 20%, and then what?
I'd say the key point, that Gunderson rightly hammers on is the probability of Primary containment failure is 1.0 he says at TMI the containment failed and at Fukushima 3 containments failed.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Ministry of Environment has just given an OK sign to 10 towns and villages in the middle section of Fukushima Prefecture called "Naka-dori" region to burn, bury, or recycle the debris from the disaster (earthquake/tsunami) contaminated with radioactive materials, because the air radiation levels in these cities and villages were less than that of the city in the "Aizu" region (western third of Fukushima) with the highest level of air radiation.
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But now the Ministry of Environment has given the permission for the debris to be burned without special filters or system to capture the radioactive materials, buried without consideration for groundwater or soil contamination, or recycled. Soon, the Ministry will allow the debris to be shipped outside Fukushima to be burned, buried, and recycled.
Share the pain. Share the radioactivity. Let everyone suffer the consequence of TEPCO's and the government's mismanagement and pollute the entire country. That seems to be the Japanese way.
read the entire SKF article, I love this guy. So very unjapanese.
I suspect the men in black will drag him off, but he totally has the beam on the
Government bureaucrats. There is no point evaccing Tokyo if they are going to turn the debris into radioative products. Hell, why don't they box this stuff all up
and just mail it around? Kind of like Bill the Galactic Space Hero
Presented without comment.
http://www.earthfiles.com/...
“Most people think things have gotten much better at Fukushima and have no idea that they are no better. Nothing is better. They've made a few plugs here and there, but it's still leaking, and it's still fissioning at Unit 3. The radiation levels are higher than they thought; that the water levels in the reactor (Unit 1) was lower than they thought. Once they got the gauge to work properly, they found out they didn't have any water in the reactor at Unit 1! This just happened the other day.
Since May 5, 2011, we saw at Unit 3 the temperature rise by 100 degrees Celsius, and then another 100 degrees Celsius. So that indicates to me that there is something fissioning at Unit 3. In fact, TEPCO said they started adding boron to that reactor. Their reason was that since they switched over to fresh water instead of sea water that they would have to add boron to prevent re-criticality, but I believe that's just Japanese nuclear speak for, ‘We are going to tell you three weeks from now that there might have been re-criticality and then another three weeks later we'll confirm that there was re-criticality.’
I'd suggest reading the entire portzline interview. It's really a good overview
of the issues.
http://youtu.be/...
The above link is from AFP it's april 11 when secret informants began
talking about coverups.
Speaking of secret informants, rumour has it that Tiger Teams are doing
maintenance scrubs of every US reactor. Word is they are finding lots of small
problems. Nothing that by themselves would bring down a rac, but, certainly
could with a separate failure bring down the unit. TMI was a single off line
pump, a random failure of a polisher and a leaking valve. Emergency procedures
always assume the other systems are fine, very few assume multiple failures.
Apollo 13 was never trained for because it was thought to be impossible (loss of 3 O2 tanks leading to Spacecraft power emergency and damage to the SPS).
The IAEA is on site, preparing a whitewash report.
Now can anyone please tell me, that Unit 3 is still holding containment?
BTW, is a building in the midfield leaning? Is that just a visual artifact?
is Unit 3 leaning, and making it look funny?
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/...
The tainted water is becoming such a big problem in fact that it is interfering with the beleaguered utility's main task of securing the stricken reactors.
So far, the basements of the turbine buildings of all six reactors have been flooded by about 100,000 tons of radioactive water. That's enough to fill roughly 40 Olympic-size swimming pools.
Now Tepco must wait for the water treatment facility. In the meantime, it has cut the water flow to unit 3 to 14.5 tons per hour from 15.5. Unit 2 continues to get 7 tons per hour.
The water will only rise, but the act of keeping it in the turbine buildings presents the risk of a leak somewhere making it to the Pacific, experts said. As of Saturday morning, water levels had risen to 3.382 meters in unit 2 and 3.570 meters in unit 3, up about 16 mm since 5 p.m. Friday.
that's a lot of water in the Turbine buildings, which have damaged roofs, and
minimal containment. Oh yeah, 1.2 Inches of rain are coming. That will sure help
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/...
The Hong Kong Observatory is reporting radiation readings that are essentially unchanged since April 1, at 0.14 microSv/hr. Official numbers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health show radiation levels in central Tokyo reached a high of 0.109 microsieverts per hour in Shinjuku Ward yesterday. The article doesn't state the typical background levels for Hong Kong prior to the Fukushima incident. Story here
A similar Bloomberg story from Early April revealed similar exposure numbers, and stated that "A person is exposed to 50 microsieverts from a typical x-ray'. I find this figure too low to believe, but we can still make a comparison.
Let's hold Bloomberg and it's source to their sloppy estimation. Based on that number, background radiation of just 1 milliSv/yr would yield the equivalent of 20 chest x-rays in a years time. Children in the Fukushima area, if allowed to accumulate up to 20 milliSv/yr (as indicated by the ICRP), would receive the equivalent of 400 chest x-rays in a years time, based on this estimation.
The chart below, based on research from the Mayo Clinic, indicates twice the exposure value for a chest x-ray (100 microSv) compared to the Bloomberg estimate. If it's accurate (though i still think it's too low), the number is both revealing and disturbing. Considering the amount of radiation that kids in the Fukushima area recieved early on in the crisis, and figuring current levels of exposure a year out, we can make a conservative estimate of 2-10 milliSv/yr/child. That comes out to the equivalent of 40-200 chest x-rays per student. Keep in mind - this dose is distributed whole body, with no gonadal shielding and no collimation, as is the case when a chest x-ray is taken. I doubt any Fukushima parent would be comfortable with that number.
Why would the background level be higher in HK then Tokyo? Is the Japanese
government fudging the numbers? They wouldn't do that? Oh right, they already
have.
http://www.pj-fukushima.jp/...
On August 15, 2011, we will hold a festival focused on music in Fukushima.
We will also carry out diverse project on a long-term basis using this event as a springboard.
Wow, That's like the Bushies deciding to hold a Right Wing C&W concert in
Fallujah in 2005.... Hell if they had it would have been good for America.
Here, this is just psycho. Send a bunch of young people to fukushima for a
weekend of sex, drugs and rock??? I always wondered if my Pink Lady slams
were out of order, now, I'm convinced i was right.
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Once upon a time in the land of misty satin dreamsThere stood a house and a man who painted nature scenesHe painted trees and fields and animals and streams and he stayedAnd he didn't hear the fallin' of the rain
In the forest green lived a girl who put her hair in braidsAnd she sang as she walked all around the wooded gladeShe was glad when the rain came falling on her face and she sang'Cause she didn't mind the fallin' of the rain
Will it always be the same as we recall?Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to seeAnother rainy day without you lyin' next to me
High upon a hill far away from all the dusty crowd is a boyWith his eyes on the ground; his head is bowed; he is a foolAnd his mind is filled with hopeless dreams and he waitsBut he will not see the fallin' of the rain
Will it always be the same as we recall?Does it touch you when the rain begins to fall?Ah, but I don't want to know and I don't want to seeAnother rainy day without you lyin' next to me
So now the boy becomes the man who sits and paints all dayBut the girl with the braids in her hair has gone awayAnd it seems that time has brought things to an end; nothing's changed'Cause you can't stop the fallin' rain.