via The Asahi Shimbum / July 8, 2013 / Radioactive cesium levels found in moss on a rooftop in downtown Fukushima exceeded 1.7 million becquerels, the highest levels detected in a year, researchers said. Ryoji Enomoto, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, who led the team, said radioactive cesium levels were unusually high in the samples collected. The city is located more than … Continue reading →
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via Kyodo News / June 05, 2013 / An ongoing study on the impact of radiation on Fukushima residents from the crippled atomic power plant has found 12 minors with confirmed thyroid cancer diagnoses, up from three in a report in February, with 15 others suspected to have cancer, up from seven, sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The figures were taken from about 174,000 people aged 18 or … Continue reading →
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / May 27, 2013 / Japan’s health survey on the effects of the March 2011 nuclear crisis should be expanded to include areas outside Fukushima Prefecture, a U.N. expert said. The health management survey should be provided to residents in all affected areas by radiation exposure higher than 1 millisievert per year, Anand Grover, the U.N. special rapporteur on health, said in a report. The report … Continue reading →
Continue readingby Monte Burke / via Forbes / February 20, 2013 / Last May I wrote a piece about Bluefin tuna caught off the coast of southern California that carried radiation from the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear plant that was damaged in the March 2011. The fish were …
Continue readingby Cherrie Lou Bullones / The Japan Daily Press / January 21, 2013 / A murasoi fish, comparable to a rockfish, was found at a port in the area of the now-closed Fukushima nuclear power plant, which contained 254,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium, a…
Continue readingvia The Japan Times / December 8, 2012 / The highest cumulative radiation dose received by the teenagers employed at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant is 56.89 millisieverts, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday. About 20,000 nuclear workers h…
Continue readingBy Miki Aoki / via The Asahi Shimbun / November 22, 2012 / Of the many thousands of workers who have risked radiation exposure at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only a paltry 3.7 percent are eligible for free cancer screenings provid…
Continue readingBy Hiroshi Ishizuka / The Asahi Shimbun / November 13, 2012 / Persistently high radioactivity in some fish caught close to the Fukushima nuclear plant has sparked a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiati…
Continue readingvia GreenPeaceVideo As the Japanese government is allowing residents to return, environmental organisation Greenpeace continues to monitor radiation levels in the nuclear disaster stricken area of Fukushima.
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / October 6, 2012 / Citizens and scientists have raised concerns that the science ministry manipulated its measurement of radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture to show figures lower than they really were. The Association for Ci…
Continue readingvia NHK World News / October 2, 2012 / A Japanese nuclear research agency has begun using an unmanned helicopter to measure radiation levels in areas within a 3-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Detailed studies ha…
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Charlie Wells / via NY Daily News / September 7, 2012 / Scientists think there might be something fishy about the quarter-ton tuna an Australian man caught off the coast of New Zealand. It took two hours and 128 pounds of tackle for Paul Worsteling …
Continue readingby Miako Ichikawa / The Asahi Shimbun / September 5, 2012 / In a peaceful ivy-covered restaurant in the Fussaninomiya district in Fussa, western Tokyo, several women and children are having lunch. In the corner sits a machine that looks like a rice coo…
Continue readingvia NHK / August 26, 2012 / Japan will conduct thyroid tests on children outside Fukushima Prefecture, to determine whether last year’s nuclear accident in the prefecture has anything to do with the discovery of lumps in the thyroid glands of one…
Continue readingvia AsiaOne / August 26, 2012 / The Fukushima prefectural government on Saturday began checking all bags of rice for radiation in Nihonmatsu, home to the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The prefecture decided on radiation checks for the e…
Continue readingvia the Washington Post / August 15, 2012 / Japanese researchers have found very low amounts of radioactivity in the bodies of about 10,000 people who lived near the Fukushima Daiichi power plant when it melted down. The first published study that meas…
Continue readingvia YouTube / August 8, 2012 / This is the truth about the radiation count in Fukushima in the exclusion zone. It is sad that there is a cover up on information that should be made public that is not being made public.That Japanese government along wit…
Continue readingvia The Asahi Shimbun / July 25, 2012 / Radioactive strontium-90 from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been detected for the first time in 10 prefectures outside Miyagi and Fukushima, the science ministry said July 24. The highest r…
Continue readingvia NHK / July 14, 2012 / Fishermen in Fukushima, Japan, have begun a new round of test catches of marine products. The fishermen hope to be able to put them on the market if they prove safe in terms of radioactive materials following last year’s…
Continue readingby Yuri Oiwa / The Asahi Shimbun / July 11, 2012 / Children in Fukushima Prefecture likely received thyroid gland doses of internal radiation, despite earlier government assurances that the levels of such doses were zero, according to an independent st…
Continue readingvia Japan Times / July 10, 2012 / No radioactive cesium has been detected in tests on the breast milk of mothers in Fukushima Prefecture, the prefectural government said Monday. The Fukushima government released the results of radiation checks on the b…
Continue readingvia Kyodo / July 2, 2012 / The Environment Ministry said Monday it detected 61 to 2,600 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in 23 varieties of freshwater fish sampled at five rivers and lakes in Fukushima Prefecture between December and Febru…
Continue readingNHK / June 12, 2012 / The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says a new method has failed to locate radioactive water leaking from one of the reactors. Identifying the leaks is a key step towards decommissioning the plant. Tokyo Elec…
Continue readingBy Yuriy Humber and Tsuyoshi Inajima / Bloomberg / March 5, 2012 As five-year-olds charge through the corridors of a kindergarten in northeast Japan at lunchtime, teacher Junko Kamada says she is still unsure if their food is safe a year after the Fuku…
Continue readingBy Akiko Okazaki / The Asahi Shimbun / February 29, 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 1…
Continue readingvia Environmental Science & Technology Gregory A. Wetherbee†*, David A. Gay‡, Timothy M. Debey§, Christopher M.B. Lehmann‡, and Mark A. Nilles † U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Branch of Quality Systems, Mail Stop 401, Bldg. 95, Box 25046, …
Continue readingGov’t emergency headquarters refused to conduct additional thyroid testing on children / Mainichi Daily / February 21, 2012 / The government’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters did not fulfill requests from the Cabinet’s Nuclear…
Continue readingSeiichi Nakate on March 11 Nuclear Accident: “We Weren’t Told About Anything, and Cover-Up and Safety Propaganda Engulfed Fukushima” / via ex-SKF / February 15, 2012 / Mr. Nakate is the head of “Fukushima Network to Protect Chil…
Continue readingAssessment of individual radionuclide distributions from the Fukushima nuclear accident covering central-east Japan Norikazu Kinoshitaa,1,2, Keisuke Suekia, Kimikazu Sasaa, Jun-ichi Kitagawaa, Satoshi Ikarashia, Tomohiro Nishimuraa, Ying-Shee Wonga, Yu…
Continue readingCesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident Teppei J. Yasunaria,1, Andreas Stohlb, Ryugo S. Hayanoc, John F. Burkhartb,d, Sabine Eckhardtb, and Tetsuzo Yasunarie aUniversities Space Research Associati…
Continue readingCanadian Collaborative for Radiation Awareness & Monitoring “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” (Margaret Mead) What is the Canadian Collaborative…
Continue readingvia TalkingStickTV: Interview with Marco Kaltofen, PE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, about his research studying airborne radioactive particles from Fukushima and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Related Articles/Videos: Radiation Exposure to the Po…
Continue readingex-SKF / November 6, 2011 / Loose ends of small news and “baseless rumors” at the end of the weekend. Links are mostly in Japanese. Sorry English readers… The case of the high-radiation supermarket in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo: The contracto…
Continue readingSimply Info / November 4, 2011 / Lucas W Hixson may have uncovered a major abuse of the public trust by the NRC. In late March 2011 the NRC issued a directive that allowed the nuclear industry lobbyist group NEI to supply radiation monitoring data to t…
Continue readingby Lucas W Hixson / Enformable.com / November 3, 2011 / We have all been watching this closely, when you watch this video the crane on the right between Reactor 2 and Reactor 3 turns, and the cable descends tojust around the hole area.
Continue readingvia houseoffoust.com / October 31, 2011 [Note: A very rough translation into English of the IRSN French study on Fukushima ocean discharges. The original document in French can be found here.] Summary of knowledge on the impact on the marine environmen…
Continue readingby Marco Kaltofen, PE / apha.confex.com / Monday, October 31, 2011: 8:30 AM Marco Kaltofen, PE , Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA The Fukushima nuclear accident dispersed airborne dusts…
Continue readingnnsa.energy.gov / October 21, 2011 / WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated Japan, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is today releasing the raw radiation monitoring data it collected i…
Continue readingby Geoff Brumfiel / Nature / October 25, 2011 / Global data on Fukushima challenge Japanese estimates The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a stud…
Continue readingvia Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal / Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition A. Stohl1, P. Seibert2, G…
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