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| Fukushima Radiation: In With the Bricks Wall Street Journal (blog) By Yoree Koh Fukushima prefecture has become all too familiar with radioactive hot spots since the March 11 disasters overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Associated Press A Japanese official measures radiation levels in Namie, ... See all stories on this topic »
discovery of one particular concentration of radiation in Nihonmatsu, a town in the prefecture where many people displaced after March 11 have sought refuge, has provided an unexpected cause for alarm: In a six-month-old apartment development, unusually high radiation levels were detected not in surrounding air or soil, but inside the building itself.
The reason for the aberration? Rocks used to make the cement for the building’s construction originated from a quarry in the town of Namie, a coastal village that at its closest point is situated as little as five kilometers from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
during that six-week period – from March 14 to April 22 – that a giant pile of rocks to be mixed into cement sat in Namie, covered from outdoor elements only by a flimsy roof, according to an official at the government’s Nuclear Emergency Response headquarters on Monday. In that time about 5,200 tons of the rocks were shipped to 19 construction and cement companies. The gravel has since been used in various projects, one of them being the apartment complex in Nihonmatsu
a city-wide survey of children under 18, taken from September to November last year, showed one high school girl had been exposed to 1.62 millisieverts, higher than the annual 1 millisievert level permitted for the general public by the Japanese government in accordance with international safety standards. The cause of the spike was eventually, through subsequent tests, traced back to her home.
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| Tepco: Board members not responsible for Fukushima MarketWatch By MarketWatch Tokyo Electric Power Co. , or Tepco, in a document sent by Monday to its shareholders, denies that any current or former board members hold responsibility for theFukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster triggered by the March 2011 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Japan's first reactor stress tests reach key stage Reuters By Risa Maeda | TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's panel of experts is due to review the nuclear watchdog's first report on reactor stress tests on Wednesday in an important step in efforts to rebuild public trust shattered by the Fukushima crisis and restart ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fukushima Meltdown Update: More Problems at Number 4 Pacific Free Press by Nelle Maxey Two more problems (aside from the Unit #4 mystery which I update below) have surfaced in the last week at the Fukushima plant site. First, a temperature sensor in Unit 2 is recording increasingly high temperatures at the bottom of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Let's clear the atomic cloud Hindustan Times The second is the Fukushima reactor crisis where an earthquake paired with a tsunami nearly overcame Japan's advanced emergency response capacities. The former was why US President Barack Obama declared early on that locking down the world's fissile ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Post-Fukushima Japanese Nuclear Power – SUBMITTERATOR By batman613 Post-Fukushima Japanese Nuclear Power · batman613 11:15 am on 01/16/2012 Log in to leave a Comment Tags: NEWS ( 296 ), SCIENCE ( 200 ), TECH ( 345 ). How have Japanese citizens responded to the ongoing compounded disaster ... Boing Boing Submitterator Radioactive Grasshoppers probably safe to eat, but exceeds govt standard for cesim. Eat bugs far away from the powerplant for least radiation.
With a Geiger counter in his pocket, Mr. Fugo, along with two students, in October went to Iitate, a village located over 30 kilometers away from the nuclear plant and where hot spots of high radiation have been discovered. ...About 4,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 was detected in the grasshoppers, all 500 weighing a cumulative one kilogram. The levels far exceed Japan’s regulatory limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.
...scientist thinks it is safe to eat the bugs because they are usually in snack-sized portions ... amount of cesium dropped considerably after going through the routine steps taken when preparing the insects for consumption.
In contrast, radiation found in about 2,000 locusts collected further away, about 60 kilometers away from the plant, measured well below the government standard.
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