more admission from the liars at TEPCO

The Yomiuri Shimbun 4/14/11

..."Water leaks from No. 1 reactor
Meanwhile, TEPCO has announced that water has been leaking through small openings in the bottom of the No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel.
Combined, the openings would be equivalent to a hole several centimeters in diameter, and according to TEPCO, were made when melted nuclear fuel damaged the bottom.
The melted fuel likely has accumulated in the bottom of the vessel. TEPCO has admitted the situation is a meltdown, in which melted nuclear fuel cannot maintain its shape and drops down to lower parts of a reactor core.
TEPCO had previously said fuel was just partially damaged...."

fukushima quickly becoming chernobyl on roids....

looks like as they finally get the ability to measure what is going on at the daiichi plant things are going from bad to worse. Note that before this they were only guessing but made it appear as it were scientific fact.

Holes in reactor 1 mean road map needs major overhaul

By MINORU MATSUTANI

Staff writer

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will have to change its road map for stabilizing the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because it will take longer than expected to install a cooling system with circulating water for heavily damaged reactor No. 1, experts said Friday.

fukushima more BS

Reactor 1 fuel rods melted, sank to bottom

Coolant water much lower than Tepco had been estimating

By KAZUAKI NAGATA

Staff writer

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday that the water level in the No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is much lower than thought and that some of the fuel rods melted down and fell to its bottom.

But Tepco also said the temperature in the pressure vessel has been kept at around 100 to 120 degrees, which is cool enough to keep the reactor safe, for now.

Monday, May 2, 2011

U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids

Kyodo

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as "unconscionable" the Japanese government's safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and junior high schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.

Nuclear Adviser to Japanese President Resigns Over Radiation Levels

Nuclear Adviser to Japanese President Resigns Over Radiation Levels

Infowars.com
May 1, 2011
During an emotional and teary news conference, Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, announced his resignation as senior nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Kosako said he could not stay on while the government set inappropriate radiation limits for elementary schools near the plant. “I cannot allow this as a scholar,” he said, adding that he is also opposed the government raising the limit for radiation exposure for workers at the plant, according to the CBC.
Japanese authorities have set a 20-millisievert limit for radiation exposure as safe. Kosako said that is 20 times too high, especially for children, who are more vulnerable to radiation than adults.

Radioactive traces found in Tohoku, Kanto breast milk

the (not-so) funny thing is that they don't mention that  if the radiation is in the breast milk...so too then is it throughout the mothers' bodies. In their bones and glands and that they will die form cancer as a driect cause of the fuckinshima radiation. But hey, don't worry, small amounts of radiation being fed directly into you is god for you ... like meamine, and mercury (which anyone knows makes you smarter)

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Traces of radioactive material were detected in the breast milk of women living in the Tohoku and Kanto regions last month, but not at levels that could pose a health risk to them or their babies, according to the health ministry.
"The levels detected wouldn't harm the health of the mothers or their infants, so they can keep breast-feeding as normal," a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry official said.

fukushima = chernobyl

and here's why...they (govt) have no real idea how much radiation is being released...they just guess based on models (comp) now where have I heard BS based on faulty computer models before? Oh right CRU and climategate and just about any "science" of the modern area. let's be honest the Nuclear industry, like all industry, is FOR PROFIT only and they will do whatever to keep the profits rollin.

Atmospheric radiation leak underestimated

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Data released by the government indicates radioactive material was leaking into the atmosphere from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in early April in greater quantities than previously estimated.
Radioactive material was being released into the atmosphere from the plant at an estimated rate of 154 terabecquerels per day as of April 5, according to data released by the Cabinet Office's Nuclear Safety Commission on Saturday.
The NSC previously estimated radiation leakage on April 5 at "less than 1 terabecquerel per hour."
Iodine-131 and cesium-137 were released into the atmosphere that day at the estimated rates of 0.69 terabecquerel per hour and 0.14 terabecquerel per hour, respectively, the NSC said.
Emissions are converted into iodine-131 equivalents for assessment on the international nuclear event scale (INES), to arrive at the total 154 terabecquerels per day, the nuclear safety watchdog said.

dr. busby on the radiation danger from the beginning

'Japan careless about radiation dangers'

Interview with Professor Chris Busby from the European committee on radiation, London

Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:4AM

Japanese authorities have played down the nuclear reactor leak and the significance of informing citizens of minimal danger, but in fact the opposite is the case.

Press TV interviews Professor Chris Busby from the European committee on radiation in London who has tried to warn the Japanese that the facts point to risk at the level of Chernobyl or even greater and that Tokyo is at risk.

Press TV: How serious is the situation regarding a radiation leak from the nuclear plant that is taking place in Japan?

Professor Busby: This situation is very similar to Chernobyl in the way in which at the beginning everyone said it was not a big problem, and then they said there was no much radiation; and then along the line we see them backing away from that position as it is getting more and more serious.

Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums

Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums

Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
April 12, 2011
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the US are testing increasingly high for radioactive elements such as Iodine-131, Cesium-134, and Cesium-137, all of which are being emitted from the ongoing Fukushima Daiichia nuclear fallout. As of April 10, 2011, 23 US water supplies have tested positive for radioactive Iodine-131 (http://opendata.socrata.com/w/4ig7-…), and worst of all, milk samples from at least three US locations have tested positive for Iodine-131 at levelsexceeding EPA maximum containment levels(MCL) (http://opendata.socrata.com/w/pkfj-…).
As far as the water supplies are concerned, it is important to note that the EPA isonlytesting for radioactive Iodine-131. There are no readings or data available for cesium, uranium, or plutonium — all of which are being continuously emitted from Fukushima, as far as we know — even though these elements are all much more deadly than Iodine-131.

more on the new chernobyl

One crisis after another harried TEPCO's response

The Yomiuri Shimbun

This is the third installment in a series focusing on delays in implementing emergency steps by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. to deal with the unprecedented nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
TEPCO's venting of radioactive steam from a reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant came too late, but even after the utility acted, a series of hydrogen explosions at the plant's reactor buildings quickly turned the situation into a nightmare the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency had never anticipated.

more on level 7

Huge radiation release led to severity hike

The Yomiuri Shimbun

The government upgraded the severity of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to Level 7. But what exactly does this rating mean? And was the decision made too slowly?
The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised its provisional evaluation of the seriousness of the accident to the maximum of Level 7 in the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) because of the large quantity of radioactive substances that have been discharged from the plant's damaged reactors.
INES is designed to show how serious a nuclear accident is in an easily understandable way.

manbi-idiot: can't see the same argument for not believing one report is the same for AGW

How nuclear apologists mislead the world over radiation

George Monbiot and others at best misinform and at worst distort evidence of the dangers of atomic energy

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A girl is screened in Iitate, about 40km from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, where high levels of radiation have been detected. Photograph: Takumi Harada/AP
Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this observation to be true despite the nuclear industry's campaign about the "minimal" health effects of so-called low-level radiation. That billions of its dollars are at stake if the Fukushima event causes the "nuclear renaissance" to slow down appears to be evident from the industry's attacks on its critics, even in the face of an unresolved and escalating disaster at the reactor complex at Fukushima. Proponents of nuclear power – including George Monbiot, who has had a mysterious road-to-Damascus conversion to its supposedly benign effects – accuse me and others who call attention to the potential serious medical consequences of the accident of "cherry-picking" data and overstating the health effects of radiation from the radioactive fuel in the destroyed reactors and their cooling pools. Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process. To wit: 1) Mr Monbiot, who is a journalist not a scientist, appears unaware of the difference between external and internal radiation Let me educate him.

tepco sucks --but so does reporting that is one sided (govt sponsored)

TEPCO tardy on N-plant emergency

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Prime Minister Naoto Kan's blood must have run cold around 10 p.m. on March 11, the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake, when he received the first report on the terrible situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The report from the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry predicted reactor cores at the nuclear power plant--where power and all functions to cool the reactors were lost in the quake and tsunami--would be exposed to air, and that extreme heat generated by fuel rods would damage their encasing tubes later that night.
Fuel rods would melt down, and the following morning the pressure inside the reactors' containment vessels would reach the maximum allowed for by the facilities' designers, the report predicted.

fukushima is chernobyl!!

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	The Japan Times Printer Friendly Articles High radiation well past no-go zone: Greenpeace By JUN HONGO Staff writer Radiology experts from Greenpeace urged the government to revise their evacuation protocol Monday after they found high levels of radiation around the greater Fukushima area and in the region's fresh produce. A team of radiologists and safety advisers of the nongovernmental organization said a survey conducted from April 4 through Sunday detected radiation levels of 4 microsieverts per hour at a playground in the city of Fukushima. That would translate into a potential annual exposure of 5 millisieverts, Greenpeace expert Rianne Teule said, explaining that the level was the threshold for evacuation at Chernobyl.