Please Note: The Radiation Reported in “leaked documents” from Zaporozhye / Zaporizhia NPP is NOT “5 mSv/year”, but 5 µSv/hr !!!
(RT mistranslation being spread widely)
4
January. 2014
Because
this discovery of mine, already shared in my Dec. 31, 2014
blogpost, Zaporizhia
/ Zaporozhye NPP Update: Russian Mainstream Media begins to
wonder too,
got “a bit buried” under all kinds of other findings, I’m
repeating it here in this separate blogpost:
I’m
seeing the mistranslation spreading from RT, completely unquestioned,
to pretty much everywhere. The error, as I’ll point out
below, must have had its origin in a difference between Ukrainian and
Russian, as well as the use of online translators that don’t notice
such things.
Intro
if new to this issue: This
blogpost is part of my month-long intensive investigation of what may
actually have happened at the ZNPP plant in the Eastern Ukraine,
starting with an alleged “electrical
circuit issue”
at the end of Nov. 2014 at ZNPP’s unit 3, an issue which popped
back up, almost identically, at ZNPP’s unit 6 precisely a month
later.
!–> For
background, start with my Dec. 15, 2014 overview @ Was
there a causal link between the Nov 28 2014 Accident at the
Zaporizhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and recent Radiation Spikes
in Latvia and Romania?
The
“leaked” documents about the Dec 28-29 incident at ZNPP, just
like the “hacked” documents about the Nov. 28 incident at ZNPP
(See my blogpost about that HERE),
mention radiation in these units: мкЗв/год.
which is what got misinterpreted by
professional journalists and bloggers all around. (Details
below!)
The documents in question have already been included in previous
blogposts: here and here.
Why
5.05 мкЗв/год. (to
take the Dec. 29, 2014 document example)
does
NOT translate to 5.05 mSv/year, nor 0.00505 mSv/year (as
RT erroneously wrote and has yet to correct.) is explained next:
I
discovered a major glitch in translations, including in part due to
Google Translator, of the order of confusing one
with a thousand and
a year with an hour.
What
got me started is this: it’s absolutely bizarre to report on
an acute situation,
an emergency even perhaps, in “per
year”
units. (“And
then what? Divide by 365 and again by 24 to get an idea of the hourly
dose rate? Who does that?”)
And what makes it double strange is that IF you take the “per year”
as correct and calculate the ‘per hour’ dose rate, there’s no
way it could be above any limit, ’cause it would be far below even
the normal local background radiation. I can pat myself
on the back, I figured it out…Check
it out!:
First
the raw text, which the Russian LifeNews
(http://lifenews.ru/news/147890)
quoted from the ‘leaked documents’ (Google Translation below
that):
- For 12.28.2014: На 6 утра 28 декабря на Запорожской АЭС в работе пять энергоблоков (1,2,3,4,5)… Общая мощность 4278 МВт, радиационный фон АЭС — 4,90 мкЗв/год., СВЯП — 4,76 мкЗв/год. — в 16,3 раза превышает допустимую норму, — сказано в сводке.
- For 12.29.2014: На 6 утра 29 декабря на Запорожской АЭС в работе пять энергоблоков (1,2,3,4,5)… В 6 утра 28 декабря шестой энергоблок отключен от единой энергосистемы… Общая мощность 4278 МВт, радиационный фон АЭС — 5,05 мкЗв/год., СВЯП — 4,91 мкЗв/год. — превышение в 16,8 раза, — сообщила ГСЧС Украины.
Google
Translator detects ‘Russian’ and makes this of it:
“For
12.28.2014: At 6
am on December 28 at the Zaporozhye NPP
operates five units (1,2,3,4,5) … The
total capacity of 4278 MW nuclear power
plant radiation background - 4.90 mSv
/ year.,SVYAP - 4 76 mSv / year. - 16.3
times higher than the acceptable norm - said in
a bulletin.For
12.29.2014: At 6
am on December 29 at the Zaporizhzhya
NPP in five units(1,2,3,4,5) … At 6 am on
December 28 sixth unit is disconnected from the
unified energy system … The total capacity
of 4278 MW nuclear power plant radiation
background - 5.05mSv / year., SVYAP - 4.91 mSv
/ year. - Exceeding 16.8 times -
said GSCHS Ukraine.”
Some
notes from examining the details:
mSv/year is
the scientific abbreviation for milliSievert per year. See
my Radiation
Units and Conversions for
more on Sievert, Roentgen, etc.
1
mSv = 1000 µSv (milli is 1000 times
greater than micro) 1µSv = 0.001mSv
Now
get this: Google Translator examples showing differences
between Russian and Ukrainian, revealing important differences:
- Also: Just “мк” Russian-> English = u , while just “мк” Ukrainian->English = mk
- “u” is sometimes used instead of “µ” to indicate “micro”, which “mk” sounds like (more so than “milli”, for sure.
–>
So, that indicates to me that this “mSv” is not actually meaning
milliSievert, as TheAntiMedia reported in their “rough
translation”, but actually in
microSievert!
RT
did get that one. They wrote it in mSv, but correctly as they
divided the shown number by 1000: 0.00505 mSv/year.
!!!–> But
they didn’t spot the other one… ‘Cause… I mean…
Seriously? “5.05microSievert PER
YEAR“?
(It
gets better: continued below this excerpt screenshot!)
So
RT reported “5.05 microSievert PER YEAR”, like what was
reported very well might be correct (as in: the documents may be
legit! and such values make sense). I guess they don’t know
much about doses… Who reports on ‘the dose rate’ of a
local acute radiological situation in terms of ‘per year’
anyhow??? What they reported breaks down to less than
0.0006 µSv/hr, less than the sensitivity of many Geiger Counters.
It would make the place practically devoid of radiation! That’s
ridiculous. (And then RT goes on to make some comparisons…
easily debunked with my my Dose
Deception blogpost.
But that’s not the issue.)
So
I eventually “broke the code” of the 2nd part of this puzzle:
the “per year” part, has an incredible clue: a point.
a point, !–> . <–!,
!!!–> as
in ‘abbreviated’, as in “/год.“,
not “/год” Yeah… Who
knew what Ukrainians can do in an abbreviated hour, takes the
Russians a whole year?! [Just
kidding! ;-) ] Check
it out:
Two screenshots combined: the top one showing the Russian translation
of a couple English words, the one below showing those exact same
words translated to Ukrainian, colored scribbles added by me:
Get
it? The
Ukrainian word for “hour”, годину,
abbreviates to год. ,
which looks precisely like the Russian word for “year”, год
(without the abbreviation point).
Hence RT’s and everybody else’s mistranslation. If I’m
not mistaken, I’m the only, or first, to point that out (an
Allegedly Apparent Blog EXCLUSIVE ;-) ):
SO: 5,05
мк Зв/год.
is
NOT 5.05 mSv/year, nor 0.00505 mSv/year, but = 5.05 µSv/hr !!!
And
yes, 5.05 divided by 16.8 = 0.3 µSv/hr, which is a logical maximum
level for that altitude. ZPNN lies at only 50 m above sea
level.
5.05 µSv/hr !
If
I may refresh your memory to help you put “5.05 µSv/hr” in
context:
- Japan Times (quoted in my Dec. 29 2014 blogpost, Medcom Geiger Counter Measurements in Southern Colorado – Dec. 2014 Notes.): “Radiation levels in central Tokyo were as high as 0.809 microsieverts per hour on March 15, 2011″
- On June 9, 2011, almost 3 months after the Fukushima-Daiichi’s multiple meltdowns, Illate Village, some 40 km for F1 measured 2.91 µSv/hr, which corresponded with a ground contamination of 3,7oo,ooo Bq/m^2 Cs-137. These findings were part of what resulted in the mandatory evacuation zone getting expanded outside the neat 20 km circle to better correspond with the highest contamination levels.
IF (Even
now on Jan. 4, 2015, this still all remains ‘a big if…’, but
IF…) IF
this is true… that in the vicinity of the ZNPP, radiation was
measured at over 5 µSv/hr… THEN we
very well might have yet another massive nuclear disaster on our
hands. And a global cover-up of epic proportions…
Only
onsite independent field investigations (radioisotope analysis of
soil, filter and air samples) can bring clarity to this issue, I
think. The sooner the better.
Please
note:
I am NOT claiming that there was a major nuclear accident, I’m
merely asking questions, pointing out inconsistencies and sharing
things I found that have given me very serious doubts about the
official story that there wasn’t.
For an
overview, seeWas
there a causal link between the Nov 28 2014 Accident at the
Zaporizhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and recent Radiation Spikes
in Latvia and Romania?.
Sudden uptick in European Blog Traffic. People searching for more information about ZNPP (With links!)
Dec.
31, 2014 11:33 am (Colorado, USA)
Sudden
uptick in European Blog Traffic. It
is rare to have more traffic from another country than the United
States. More traffic than from the US is pouring in
from Russia, France, Poland and the Ukraine.
I don’t think I’ve seen that before on this blog. On
New Year’s Eve no less! Clearly people in Europe
are searching for information on the possible nuclear accident at the
Zaporizhia Nuclear site in Eastern Ukraine:
The
posts and pages with the black arrows are for Online
Radiation Monitors,
and in particular these pages:
- All Monitors (more options, and including these:)
Those
monitors, when not tampered with in case of a cover-up, can possibly
give hints, however subtly, of a release of radioisotopes taking
place, if the release was huge. Evidence so far appears
minimal, but it is very difficult for a non-expert layman (like
myself) to interpret the raw data. Key information is not
shared with the public.
!–> For
key blogposts that might be helpful to better understand reporting on
nuclear issues, see my overview in Some
Pointers to See Through Nuclear Deceptions.
Articles
related to the situation at the Zaporizhia / Zaporozhye Nuclear Power
Plant (Disaster?) Site include these:
- Earlier today (Dec. 31, 2014), Zaporizhia / Zaporozhye NPP Update: Russian Mainstream Media begins to wonder too (Includes my explaining of an apparent error that slipped into an RT article.)
- December 15, 2014: Was there a causal link between the Nov 28 2014 Accident at the Zaporizhye Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine and recent Radiation Spikes in Latvia and Romania? (comprehensive overview of various news sources contradicting each other, with possibly related info on Westinghouse dealings and monitor outages, all of which got me into researching this issue)
!–> For current
wind directions (open
in a browser like Firefox for it to work!),
see http://earth.nullschool.net/
(My METEO page
has some more links too). Search YouTube for more info on how
to use it.
Winds
have been shifting over the Ukraine quite a bit this past month of
December 2014, so this
screenshot of
visualized wind patterns taken on Dec. 31, 2014 12:21 pm Mountain
Time (Colorado, USA = GMT-7) is likely
to be outdated quickly and
does not reflect where fallout, if there has been any
(still a mystery) might have been blowing since Nov. 28, nor since
Dec. 28:
Another
abnormality is that many public online radiation monitors, on both
the EURDEP and the US EPA radiation networks, have – so it seems –
been turned off during the month of December. Eerily
reminiscent of what occurred right after the Fukushima Nuclear
Disaster in Japan in March 2011, not? Here’s a
screenshot from NETC, @ http://netc.com/inactive-epa.php,
who track this, and run their own independent non-governmental
radiation network (mostly in the USA):
Source: http://netc.com/inactive-epa.php
By
itself this is not enough for a solid conclusion, of course, in
either direction.
My
sense, however, all along, has simply been that they’re not telling
the whole story, and that some recent release of radioisotopes is
being covered up by Ukraine authorities (and
lazy IAEA officials have just been taking their word for it, without
independently investigating the situation on-site) is not
outside the realm of possibilities. That’s
all.
I
can only wish sharing these thoughts, insights and links is somehow
helpful.
Please just quote a small part, with link for more, rather than taking the whole thing. Tx. - mvb
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