Fukushima Update - 11/12/2013

Radiation level hits record high at Fukushima plant well

Tepco: New leak “has not been confirmed”

ENENews,

12 November, 2013

Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 12, 2013: Record radioactivity level found at Fukushima plant well [...] A record high level of 710,000 becquerels of beta-ray sources, such as radioactive strontium, was detected per liter of water in an observation well at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. [...] TEPCO said a new leak from the tank has not been confirmed. [...] TEPCO detected 400,000 becquerels per liter at the same well on Oct. 17. The level once fell but has been rising in recent days.

Jiji Press, Nov. 12, 2013: Radiation Level Hits Record High in Fukushima Well Water [...] [Tepco] said Tuesday the highest level of beta ray-emitting radioactive materials such as strontium was detected in water collected Sunday from an observation well [...] The level of such substances in the well water stood at 710,000 becquerels per liter, according to TEPCO [...] and marked a record high for the fourth straight day. The well is about 15 meters north of the storage tank, from which some 300 tons of radioactive water leaked [...]

View Tepco’s translated press release here

Radioactive Reality (12 November 2013) Fukushima "Dangerous Chain of Events"

New radioactive plumes from Japan.

Bobby1's Blog,

12 November, 2013

There is a new spate of emissions from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A new record of 550,000 Bq/liter of all-β radionuclides (including strontium-90) has been measured in groundwater near the E-1 tank.

There was an event on Nov. 3 and 4 that caused a spike of radiation in Fukushima city. An individual in Tokyo was exposed to rainwater on his feet on Nov. 7, causing itching and the skin damage seen in the photo.

Radiation spiked in Hokkaido starting Nov. 9, continuing until the 10th. Kyoto spiked on Nov. 11.

I don’t know if these are two separate events, or the same one. There have been a series of small to moderate earthquakes in Japan lately, so these spikes may be connected to that. Or it may be a new criticality. The map at netc.com is lighting up in the southwest US.

There are more radiation graphics from Japan here.

A mushroom with 430,000 Bq/kq of cesium was found in Minamisoma in October. This is higher than any the concentration of any mushroom I have read about from the Chernobyl exclusion zone. The highest was 280,000 or so… generally much lower than this.

I want to include the following video, the testimony of a brave lady who evacuated from Fukushima with her children, leaving her elderly parents behind.

[Breaking] Malignant thyroid tumor of Fukushima children spiked from 43 to 58 cases 

Fukushima Diary,

12 November, 2013

This summer, Fukushima prefectural government reported about 44 malignant and possible malignant thyroid tumor cases of the children (1 case was benign nodule).

(cf, [Breaking] 18 Fukushima children diagnosed with thyroid cancer / 44 malignant cases reported [URL])

According to their latest report published on 11/12/2013, the malignant and possible malignant cases even increased to be 58 cases (↑ 15 cases).

There are only 2 months interval from the last report.

27 children have already had surgery, and 26 of them were papillary cancer. Papillary cancer cases were 18 in the last report (↑ 8 cases).

The largest diameter of tumor was 40.5mm, which is 19% larger than the last report until the end of July.

The newest case found was 13 years old male, who was 11 years old when 311 took place. The diameter of this tumor is 30.3mm but has had no surgery yet.

Scientists ‘Alarmed’ and 

‘Puzzled’: Hundreds of sea 

turtles washing up dead on 

Pacific coast

• Dogs “stopped breathing and died almost instantly” when eating them
• Researchers analyzing toxicity
• Many with reproductive problems

ENENews,

12 November, 2013

AFP, Nov. 12, 2013 (Emphasis Added): Hundreds of sea turtles are washing up dead on the beaches of Central America and scientists don’t know why. One hypothesis is that the killer is a potent neurotoxin that can be produced by algae during red tides, [...] What puzzles scientists is the fact that red tides have come and gone before without taking such a deadly toll on turtles. [...] In El Salvador, for instance, from late September to the middle of October, 114 sea turtles were discovered dead on Pacific coast [...] Scientists throughout Central America are alarmed [...] The death toll elsewhere is high — 115 so far this year in Guatemala, 280 in Costa Rica and an undisclosed number in Nicaragua. Another 200 died in late 2012 in Panama. And in Nicaragua there is yet another problem: turtles showed up weeks late, at the end of September, to crawl up onto the beach and lay their eggs. [...] In one area of El Salvador’s coast, dogs that started eating dead turtles stopped breathing and died almost instantly. [...] in September scientists in Honduras said turtles on one beach laid 40 per cent fewer eggs. […]

Costa Rica Star, Nov. 12, 2013: [...] Fishermen and maritime tour operators in the Guanacaste province found more than 40 dead sea turtles on Tuesday, November 5th, and immediately alerted nature conservation officials. Marine biologists are still looking into the possible causes for these massive deaths, which extend throughout the Pacific coast of Central America. [...] [They may] have run into nets and fishing hooks. They also present signs of concussions near their skulls. Still, researchers are conducting pathological analyses to rule out toxicity.[...] Researchers in Costa Rica, however, are leaning towards a neurological syndrome [...]

Magazine: The Fukushima 

Crisis Comes to the U.S.

• Professor: “New and improved version of the original atomic plague is spreading”
• The truth is so incomprehensible it’s easier to pretend it doesn’t exist

ENENews,
12 November, 2013



Esquire, Nov. 12, 2013: 



Fukushima Radiation Arrives In Alaska – The Fukushima Crisis Comes To The States [...] The catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power plant — aka Yesterday’s Tragedy — appears to be ongoing, and Alaska now has become part of the story. “Some radiation has arrived in northern Alaska and along the west coast. That’s raised concern over contamination of fish and wildlife. More may be heading toward coastal communities” [...] It’s past time for the world to step in because this problem now is riding on the wind and the tides to places far from Fukushima. […]

Hannah Spector, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State (Harrisburg), Transnational Curriculum Inquiry, 2012:

[...] One of the problems we face with radioactive fallout from Fukushima is the lack of information coming from “experts.” Indeed, there has been a global media blackout, a “deadly silence on Fukushima” (Norris, 2011) […] science still does not have the technological or methodological understanding to clean up the disaster (Magwood, 2012) which has leaked into the Pacific Ocean and spread throughout the northern hemisphere by way of wind and rain. This invisible truth is so incomprehensible that it is easier to pretend it doesn’t exist. [...] The novelty of Fukushima is worth noting. A new and improved version of the original atomic plague is spreading across the planet through earth, air, fire, and water – yet it cannot be seen, heard, tasted, smelled, or touched. It has become part of the atmosphere. [...] Where to run? Where to hide? What to do? At the same time, official reports have denied the extent of this boundary-transgressing catastrophe in both overt and covert ways. One year after Fukushima began, National Public Radio reported that “trauma, not radiation is [the] key concern in Japan” (Harris, 2012). [...] focusing upon trauma as being more worrisome than possible effects of radiation contamination deflects from the crime that created the trauma to begin with, a crime that will last days, decades, and millennia into the future depending on what type of radionuclide we are talking about. […]

(In April 2013, Spector received the American Educational Research Association’s Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Award for this journal article  -Source)

View the article in full here

NHK Fukushima Documentary: "Evacuating the Vulnerable: Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture"

• Ex-Fukushima Worker: “This is the end!” I thought when seeing explosion at plant… “I knew how much fuel was there”
• NHK: Reactor 3 blast “like being lifted up off floor” at home several miles away, I thought plane crashed outside

Lying 10km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the town of Tomioka was forced to evacuate the day after the disaster. In the frantic evacuation, residents of care homes for the elderly and for the disabled faced harsh conditions and tiring journeys. Not only did their health decline, but their cares suffered too. One elderly, disabled local missed her chance to evacuate and was left behind alone in the town. This is the story of the vulnerable victims affected by the sudden evacuation.

Air Date 11/3/13

Fukushima on the Hudson: Could a nuclear accident happen near NYC?
'Woefully insufficient'
About 20 million people live within 50 miles of Indian Point, which is in Buchanan, N.Y., along the Hudson River, from which the nuclear plant draws approximately 2.5 billion gallons of water each day to cool its reactors and use in its turbines. Environmental groups have flagged Indian Point as one of the United States' most dangerous nuclear plants, given its proximity to a major urban area and its persistent safety issues.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles...

Three Mile Island Revisited

This powerful documentary challenges the claims of the nuclear industry and government that no one died as a result of the core meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. It utilizes the testimony of area residents and scientific findings to reveal that deaths, especially from cancer and birth defects in children, have been widespread since the 1979 accident. Indeed, it notes that Three Mile Island?s owner has been quietly settling numerous damage cases brought by persons seriously impacted by the accident. Winner of the Worldfest Silver Award, Houston International Film Festival. Winner of the Director?s Citation, Black Maria Video and Film Festival. Chosen for screening at the 1993 Earth Peace International Film Festival. 
Produced by EnviroVideo in 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCgSW...

[Column] What’s going on underground of Fukushima plant ?

Fukushima Diary,

12 November, 2013

Something might be occurring underground of Fukushima plant.

It was months ago when the last tank leakage was stopped.

However, radiation density of groundwater is increasing around the tanks.

(cf, All β nuclide density of groundwater still increasing beside the tank area / “Where is the contamination source ?” [URL])

It can’t be explained.

It is not only the radioactive density.

The groundwater level is also rising.

At some borings around the tanks, the groundwater level is already up 40cm to the surface of the ground. It means the ground stabilization is dipped underground.

It’s not the end.

Huge drains run through the plant area. For some reason, the contamination level is higher upstream of the tank areas.

The drains start at a water reservoir, which has been there since before 311.

Tepco doesn’t give any details / explanation about this reservoir. The contamination level of the water is not announced either.

Either way, this reservoir doesn’t seem to be the only source of contamination.

From the question of press at Tepco’s press conference, Tritium density of retained water in the turbine buildings is also increasing. It’s hard to assume it was concentrated given 400 m3 of groundwater keeps flowing into the buildings everyday.

Optimistically, Tepco has not made any investigation for the possible source of the contamination. They also state the groundwater level will naturally decrease.

Whether they don’t want to know the truth or they don’t want to announce the truth, it is doubtful if there are any countermeasures.

Iori Mochizuki

Fukushima Catastrophic Propaganda Machine Update 11/11/13

Vancouver Food Radiation Monitoring

BC Blueberries

試料 名 Sample ：  ブルーベリー （乾燥） Blueberries（Hydrated)

採取 場所 Origin： 

Granny Franny’s Blueberry Farm, Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada

採取年月 Purchase date： 2013 年7月20日 (July 20, 2013)

測定日時 Date Tested ：  2013 年 10月28日 (October 28, 2013)　      

測定時間 Duration ：       55458 秒(seconds)

試料容器 Container：      70mL容器(Beaker)

試料重量 Sample weight：46.7g

Tested by  CRMSせたがや (Citizen Radioactivity Measuring Station, Setagaya)

For more GO HERE