Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Smoke at Daiichi Viewed from the Glass Box


Screen captures of both the TBS and TEPCO cam depict steam & smoke at Daiichi Dec 24 (Japan time zone)

The first set of screenshots was captured by Horse. Steam appears to emanate from the common spent fuel pool area:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yi3j71erys56a0j/Capture77.PNG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/igpdnk4abm8c7ve/12-24%201030-jst1.avi


The second set of screen shots were taken from a video captured by Wotcha:


smoke started @0.59in
2013.12.24 10:00-11:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjSN51eaFuI

On Dec 25 1:30 (TEPCO time stamped) I can see emissions coming up from units 1 and 2, barely visible around the crane over unit 2:

The good news is that the cranes were operative yesterday so the site is still operable despite areas of the plant that have radiation levels at 25 sieverts an hour. See the article at the Asahi Shimbun here.

The bad news is that radiation levels are rising rather than declining:

1,900,000,000 Bq/m3 of all β nuclide in groundwater on seaside of reactor2 / Keeps increasing for a month Posted by Mochizuki on December 23rd, 2013 http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/12/1900000000-bqm3-of-all-%CE%B2-nuclide-in-groundwater-on-seaside-of-reactor2-keeps-increasing-for-a-month/

[Excerpted] Significantly high level of all β nuclide (including Strontium-90) is detected in groundwater on the seaside of reactor2, and it’s breaking the highest records every time Tepco analyzes. This is the groundwater sampled from one of the borings between reactor2 and the sea. From Tepco’s own data, the density has been increasing at least since 11/25/2013. The latest reading is 1,900,000,000 Bq/m3, which is measured on 12/19/2013. This is approx. as double as the one of 11/25/2013. [end]

Majia here: Additional reporting here.

Strontium contamination of the ocean is expected to accelerate rapidly, according to an analysis of strontium contamination from a nuclear disaster:

Headline from Enenews (2013, December ) Study finds giant strontium-90 release into body of water begins around 1,000 days after reactor meltdown — Dec. 5, 2013 = thousand days after 3/11 — Graphic shows very high levels being discharged for tens of thousands of days.

Source citation: A. Bayer, W. Tromm, & I. Al-Omari. Dispersion of Radionuclides and Radiation Exposure After Leaching by Groundwater of a Solidified Core-Concrete Melt. http://www.irpa.net/irpa8/cdrom/VOL.1/M1_97.PDF

Majia here: We are facing unprecedented contamination of the ocean and much of what ends up in the ocean is going to eventually find its way to land through human consumption of sea life and through evaporation.

Already unprecedented die-offs of animal life are occurring along the north American west coast (see here).

The Pacific Ocean that I grew up with is dying:

How much Fukushima Fuel is in the Ocean http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-much-fukushima-fuel-is-in-ocean.html

Ocean Releases Majia's Blog: Ocean Releases

Humanity’s End Foretold in Destruction of Oceans: Majia's Blog: Humanity's End Foretold in Destruction of Oceans

Compromised Oceans mean Compromised People: Majia's Blog: Compromised Oceans Mean Compromised People

Ongoing criticalities may explain spiking radiation readings for ground and ocean water samples. Optimal Prediction reports spiking iodine-131 levels in Chiba Prefecture sludge, analysis here. Iodine-131's 8 day half life implies recent production of spiking detections.

Perhaps the criticalities explain why atmospheric radiation levels are not looking so good in the US:



The world has been deluged with radiation from Fukushima since 3/11/2011 and there is no letting up. Rather, it appears that indeed the entire inventory at the site is going to end up in the ocean and atmosphere.

I recently described the convergence of events that are occurring in Japan (see here):

1. Rapid rise in ground and ocean water contamination levels at Daiichi

2. Change in Japanese government technique for measuring radiation in contaminated zones, essentially affecting a 7fold increase in exposure levels. Rise of US protective action guidelines as well.

3. Passage of punitive state secrets law in Japan

4. Escalation of animal die offs (see also here).

5. I would like to add to this list disturbances of the Enenews Fukushima webcam forum, which to my knowledge is the single most visited site for discussion of webcam observations. The webcam discussion forum has rarely been up over the last few days and comments are visible (when up) only after logging in. The Enenews administrator has not responded to repeated requests for some explanation as to the problem on that one thread when all others seem to be operating smoothly.  One has to wonder whether deliberate censorship is involved. Enenews admin probably has no legal recourse if served with an order to close a thread.

Majia here: The situation at Daiichi is clearly deteriorating and the response is censorship and denial.

Public dis-engagement and apathy, coupled with a tendency to comply with authority - are ensuring rapid destruction of our eco-system and genome.

I feel I report the same story line over and over. We 'who watch' are witnesses to the self-destruction of humanity. We are in a glass box. We can see and know, but our cries are not heard and our frantic gestures behind the glass are turned against us, represented as indications of our insanity, when the true insanity is all around us, in the missing insects and birds, the dying sea lion pups, the bleeding sardines and polar bears, etc, etc. etc.

Yesterday I succumbed to a 'well woman' check-up. The nurse practitioner who conducted the exam has worked here in Scottsdale AZ for one year (she moved from Colorado). When I resisted getting a mammogram, she told me she has never before in over 20 years of practice found so many women over the last year with cancerous breast tumors. Coincidence?

We are living in an increasingly toxic environment. Fukushima radiation adds to the radionuclides, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals we've been creating and disseminating for the last 100 years. The smoke is clear. But we watchers remain locked in the glass box.


RESOURCES 

Introduction to Majia's Blog and Index of Posts Herehttp://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/break-from-bloging.html 
October 2013 Interview with James Fetzer about my book, Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk (Palgrave, 2013)

PowerPoint of data examining reports of conditions at the plant and evidence of criticalities, which can be seen here
 http://www.academia.edu/4314657/Fukushima_Update_Aug_2013  or herehttps://www.dropbox.com/s/11xz1zjgwcsbpo0/Fukushima%20Update%20Aug%202013.pptx




7 comments:

  1. Yes, mammograms are worthless and may contribute to breast cancer. Thermograms may have some value--but do not know. For almost the whole period of the Fukushima affair I have been waiting to see if it would make the news in a sustained way. No. We will just see an increasing wave of cancers and other damaging events and read about the various hypotheses they come up with. I believe spirulena may be very helpful in dealing with radiation sickness--it was used successfully at Chernobyl. Maybe the Power Elite think they can get around the consequences for the Chosen Few million they wish to preserve--but it seems very unlikely. Probably they just are not all that bright. There is something very self evident about what is happening. Surely few in the West are so uneducated as not to know that this is a world wide catastrophe of unimaginable destructiveness. This may well be the end that for at least two thousand year people have claimed was just around the corner. It makes me wonder if the unconscious finally decided to provide the End? Best of luck this holiday.

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  2. Thank you for the comments William and Weez

    William I read about Thanatos recently. He promised a gentle death. The death wish is far more violent than even Freud imagined. What god of misery have we worshiped?

    Weez: thanks for the warning about Spirulina. I wonder if cilantro can be grown inside? It is a good de-tox agent as well and is easier to find.

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  3. Hi precious Majia, even logged in on Enenews, I can't get to the webcam forum. Big hovering on Fuk. over #3. Then back west of #2. Can't even manage to take screenshots. All this is awfully frustrating. I run to your site and find Horse's pics. Thanks so much for sharing them here.
    MSM is doomed to watch it too, soon now. It's been more than a thousand days. We keep watching while we can. And it looks very shaky on Tepcam. Been watching for an hour. Shakes and not shakes. Gusts of wind?
    I dunno... much. Not even if EQs reporting is accurate. Now 2013 12 25 Now 13:17 JST
    Much care.

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  4. Majia, thanks for the continued great work and

    Merry Christmas!

    Also what is best way to buy your book
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  5. Thank you, Majia. You have moved mountains. Much love,
    NoNukes

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  6. There was a time when most high school students in America learned something about radiation and its dangers. In any case one glance at Fukushima ought to have told us all that this was more than catastrophic. This will get worse and go on indefinitely. Centuries. I suppose there may be a way to stop matter from being radioactive. There probably is but that knowledge may be a long time away. So Fukushima will give out this radioactive material almost forever. In the 1950's before Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published even environmentalist thought the earth was so vast, the seas so vast, that polluting them was impossible. Thus they were wonderful places to dump stuff. The USA dumped radioactive material into the ocean. No problem. Now we know. Or at least some of us.
    Words come to mind: permeate, diffuse, suffuse, pervade, overspread, travel about . . . . At some point every square kilometer on the planet will have at least one lethal little particle from Daiichi. And then two, three, one hundred . . . and then quite likely these will be joined by the particles from other sources. There is a whole science here of the movement of things from one place to another over time. A few Japanese business men who have eaten a few hot particles from a delicious fish dinner, board a plane in Tokyo and fly first to Moscow where they excrete some into the Moscow sewer then on to Berlin, Paris and London! A letter mailed in Japan carries one to NYC. And so on. Every conceivable means of conveyance will be at work carrying these terrible threats. And I believe it takes only one to do the damage. Air, wind, water, dust . . . waves on beaches depositing radioactive particles and then a windy day blowing these with dust onto the road where they cling to a tire and go to Las Vegas . . . This is like a horror film. People begin wearing clothing with built in geiger counters. Jewelry that registers radioactivity. A new market is created. And so on.

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  7. http://fukushima.xobor.de/t15f2-.html

    greetings

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