Text Fwd: Data from S.N.: radioactive composition of No.3 water that injured 3workers, and Nuclear Safety Commission of radiation exposure simulation

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IEER Press Release: "This accident has long since passed the level of Three Mile Island"
March 27, 2011
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* Text fwd from Makiko Sato on March 27, 2011

Friends, Please share critial information from Satoko Norimatsu . If you haven't look at this, please look at the map in the URL below, which shows the radiation dispersion into the Pacific and the US mainland.

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/news/Documents/irsn-simulation-dispersion-en.pdf

p2/3pages 4- Modelling the dispersion of radioactive releases into the atmosphere on a global scale The lower one is a bird-eye picture of Fukushima Daiichi facilities.

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/news/Documents/IRSN_Fukushima-plant_situation-24032011.pdf

State of the buildings Present contamination is terrible in the sea near the plant, 1850 times more radioactive iodine than the legal limitation, with releases from the plant to the sea still going on, probably.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ocean_surface_currents.jpg

ocean surface currents

Makiko Sato ___________________________________________________________________________ Original Message from Satoko Norimatsu on March 27, 2011

Data from Satoko Norimatsu - radioactive composition of No.3 water that injured three workers, and Nuclear Safety Commission of radiation exposure simulation

Colleagues, Sharing an email I just sent to Arjun Makhijani, head of IEER. You might benefit from the information here. Satoko

Forwarded by Satoko Norimatsu: Original Message on March 26, 2011
from: Satoko Norimatsu to: "Arjun Makhijani"
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Thank you Arjun.

Government (Edano) announced radioactivity exceeding standard in milk from Fukushima and spinach from Ibaraki, on March 19th. Then government put a ban on shipping those produce on March 22. In my understanding, nobody knew about milk and food contamination until March 19th. It was already a week after the quake.

I just spoke to somebody at Nuclear Safety Commission. He did not sound like an expert on the issue, but he said from the reading of the document (which you have), this calculation did not consider radiation intake through food, milk, and water.

It sounds like this SPEEDI system is administered by MEXT, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. NSC staff I spoke to said that all they do is to receive information from MEXT and interpret it. This is the reality of the function of the government that is responsible for nuclear safety.

Now, I will present different data sets and analyses. Prepared by different organizations and individuals, but all based on data provided by TEPCO and the government.

The MEXT website does provide good amount of information in English. http://www.mext.go.jp/english/

This site has prefecture-by-prefecture radiation level update. This is Fukushima, areas surrounding Fukushima Daiichi.
http://www.mext.go.jp/component/english/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2011/03/27/1304318_2710.pdf

Also, University of Tokyo's Hayano Ryugo does a lot of analysis with the government data. Does this mean anything to you? This is an analysis of contaminated water at the turbine building of No.3, which injured three workers.

http://plixi.com/photos/original/87213302

Hayano says "this analysis is only for people in field." This one is more straightforward, by NISA. This is the analysis of water at the bottom of turbine buildings of reactors No.1, No.2, No.3, and No.4.
http://www.meti.go.jp/press/20110327001/20110327001-4.pdf
Where you see lots of Chinese characters just means "under detectable amount." The rest are numbers and alphabets, which should make sense to you without translation.

This was made by MIT's Kotaro Kawajiri. It is a relationship between CS-137 contamination in spinach and the distance from Fukushima Daiichi. Based on data provided by Ministry of Health.
http://plixi.com/p/87149538 This one is in English. Radiation in Kanto area (South of Fukushima, including Tokyo) http://plixi.com/p/87011386

See how how those were around the time when lots of fire, smoke, explosion incidents were happening... I don't remember if governments were producing those data at that time. At least I don't remember seeing reports. They typically report something only when the situation gets better.

Radiation level change in Tohoku/Hokkaido area (except Fukushima and much of Miyagi ) in English too. http://plixi.com/p/87011613

Now, this is ISEP (Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies) analysis of the data of radiation at different monitoring posts inside Fukushima Daiichi. The English version is only available up to 20th.

http://hmatsuba.air-nifty.com/Fukushima1F20110320Eng.pdf

But once you see the English version, you can make more sense out of this latest Japanese version (up to 26th).

http://hmatsuba.air-nifty.com/fukushima1F20110326.pdf

Citizens and press have been complaining how inconsistent TEPCO (probably deliberately) has been in monitoring radiation at Fukushima Daiichi - especially since around March 17, they frequently change monitoring points and produce incomparable data. But again, see how strikingly high radiation levels there were from the onset of quake until March 16/17...

I am sure I have given you way more than you want. I hope this gives you an overview of what is going on. Some latest news. (don't worry about links.. they are in Japanese. I am only placing them for my own record.)

http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0326/TKY201103260412.html

From 1 kilogram of soil in Iidate Village, 40 km away from Fukushima Daiichi, 163,000 Bq Cs-137 and 1,170,000 Bq of Iodine 131 were detected. Devastating news for farmers. Prefecture advised farmers to postpone agricultural activities.

http://www.j-cast.com/2011/03/25091382.html

Asahi newspaper on March 25 reported in the top news "Fukushima reached Level 6." This is based on NSC's calculation of I-131. Asked about the possibility of raising the level, METI spokesperson said they were considering it. According to the Asahi article, NSC's calculation has it that from March 12 to 24, radioactive iodine was released 30,000 to 110,000 "terra-Bq" per hour.

Arjun, I have no idea how this number compares to the French estimate. Is it close?


This article indicates that NSC has no power over Japanese government's decision on the level of accidents. It is METI, which overseas NISA, which seems to have that power. Ridiculous. Arjun, please bear with me on one more important latest news.

http://www.47news.jp/CN/201103/CN2011032701000084.html

NSC's Nishiyama said from the water at No.2, radioactive iodine that has a half life of 53 minutes was detected... 2,900,000,000 Bq/cubic centimetre. Most likely to come from the reactor, through the piping. NISA's Nishiyama said, "this is a terrible number that I can't bear to see." I have never heard him making such a strong statement.

Seawater contamination is rising too. On 25th, iodine 1,250 times of standard was detected at seawater near reactors. On 26th, it was 1,850 times. Please only use what you find useful.

Thanks so much,

Satoko

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I saw the English map first and responded before reading this.

The thyroid is affected also when food and water are contaminated. If milk is consumed from the area that was produced after the accident started, then this would give the greatest dose to children. The authorities did prohibit milk after a certain time, but I wonder whether contaminated food, especially milk was consumed before. What was the date when the government announced that milk should not be consumed?

Best wishes

Arjun