Sunday, April 12, 2015

More of the Same from Fukushima


Some readers may wonder why I continue to post jet screen maps and screenshots of atmospheric emissions from Daiichi. I sometimes ask myself that question as well.

The answer is that I am trying to document the ongoing assault from the worst nuclear disaster in human history.

I realize that the main contamination event is occurring out of sight, in the ocean, as fresh water contaminated by melted nuclear fuel seeps and gushes into the Pacific Ocean. 

Ocean contamination signs and symptoms are found in TEPCO press releases, acknowledging dumping and spills of contaminated water, and ongoing government and scientific reports of "adverse mortality" events among Pacific Ocean wildlife.

The latest example of an odd animal mortality event is the beaching of 160 plus dolphins in Japan, an unprecedented event. Fukushima Diary reported today that:
"Most of the inspected dolphins had lungs in ischaemia state as “entirely white” http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/04/most-of-the-inspected-dolphins-had-lungs-in-ischaemia-state-as-entirely-white/
Fukushima Diary states that the head researcher of Japan's National Science Museum investigation of the dolphin beaching declared: “I have never seen such a state.”

I have never seen such a state. Yes, the collapse of the Pacific mammals is indeed an unprecedented state. Dolphins and sea lions have always been my favorite sea mammals, while my youngest son loves the otters best. There is no way to describe the sadness in my heart.


Ongoing atmospheric contamination is probably slight in comparison to the Pacific Ocean ecocide we've labored upon so long and capped with Fukushima's unprecedented and unmitigated radiological assault.

But, I can see and document atmospheric emissions and so I do because these screenshots help close the link between the data points demonstrating ongoing problems and elevated radiation levels AND plant activity, some of which can be seen from the myriad webcams.



A significant emission event occurred at Daiichi last weekend, April 5 and 6.

Japan has experienced elevated radiation levels for the last week and they've not yet subsided. The US has also experienced elevated radiation levels, as demonstrated by my monitoring of the Netc.com system. I don't know the cause.

TEPCO recently reported problems with the spent fuel pool in unit 3 and it reported that the temperature in Unit 2 shot-up abruptly.

Fukushima Diary and mainstream Japanese media covered these events:
Fukushima Diary on Temperature of Reactor 2: http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/04/a-thermometer-of-reactor-2-indicates-a-rapid-increase-of-temperature-from-20%E2%84%83-to-70%E2%84%83-within-6-hours/
Setback at Fukushima No. 1 plant threatens reactor 3 rod removal http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/03/27/national/debris-poses-risk-spent-fuel-pool-gate-fukushima-1s-reactor-3-tepco/#.VRXUlKWfvEk
I suppose either units 2 or 3 could be the source of the emissions I see on the cams and that are likely causing rising radiation levels in Japan and North America.


Here is a screenshot taken this morning and the jet stream. Note the dip in the jet stream coincides with elevated radiation levels in the US:
 



More of the same: unmitigated and unprecedented radiation assaults against the Pacific Ocean and the world's atmosphere.




3 comments:

  1. Majia, great work, please.....don't be disheartened. Be happy about your "walk on part in the war". It is not worth it to be upset. It will be what it will be, and what we can make it.

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  2. I, for one, am very appreciative of your devotion and interest in the daily events of the Fukushima reactors. I check in with you every day for these reports. So little information coming out in other places makes yours so very valuable.
    Thank you, thank you, thank you.
    Liana

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