Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Elevated Radiation Levels in Japan and US Last 2 Days


Elevated radiation levels in Japan according to Netc.com, which uses standard deviations from site averages to indicate elevated radiation readings (green being low averages and red/black being the highest in these figures).

Yesterday in Japan taken at 10:00 Am US Pacific Time 3/9/2015





Today in Japan taken at 10:30 AM US Pacific Time 3/10/2015



Finally, today in the US taken at 10:30 AM US Pacific Time 3/10/2015 (today is higher than yesterday so trending up)





What level of magnitude represents the true increase in radionuclide load in Earth's oceans, fresh water, atmosphere, soil, and biological life over the last 70 years of nuclear madness?


Here is an example of Carbon-14, a particularly nasty radionuclide, whose presence in the atmosphere rose quickly with atmospheric testing:

 

Levels of radiocarbon (C14) in the atmosphere 1945 - 2000. Image credit: Hokanomono.


However, this chart probably OVER-states the drop-off of Carbon-14 because the chart does NOT include the spike of Carbon-14 produced by the Chernobyl disaster, which is documented in this study:  Carbon-14 was measured 30X higher than background in Finland, while tritium was measured 100x higher than background: (Salonen, 1987,http://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewarticle/j$002fract.1987.41.issue-4$002fract.1987.41.4.145$002fract.1987.41.4.145.xml;jsessionid=85EBD308D36F28B56F659DDEBA8FD271

6 comments:

  1. Linus Pauling thought that carbon-14 was the most devastating radionuclide released by the nuclear tests. This was due to both its ubiquity in the environment, and its long half-life of 5,700 years. Carbon-14 and tritium are both released from the ocean directly, and do not require sea salt aerosol production from sea foam and breakers to be released, as with cesium and strontium.

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    1. What would you consider an alarmist level of radiation? One radioactive atom?

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    2. What would you consider an alarmist level of radiation? One radioactive atom?

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    3. One radioactive uranium atom or plutonium atom lodged in the lung could be enough to kill.

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  2. Is poisoning the planet the primary goal here; or is that simply a by-product that they are willing to "live" with? Whether carbon-14 or Cesium 137, whether glyphosate or fluoride or any of a multitude of man made poisons . . . they all bring in money directly or indirectly; so it is natural to interpret in terms of greed--but I think that is being simplistic. Greedy men and women are assets to a "higher" purpose like radical population reduction or some other goal. And maybe knowing the goal is not so important as the consequences that are being forced upon us. Still I can not help wondering. We have nuclear power plants in order to have bomb making materials; we have bomb making materials in order to achieve hegemony. We need hegemony in order to be in a position to of course have nuclear power plants and so on. Rather circular. We could all live like kings and queens were it not for this circularity. Perhaps cosmic humor.

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  3. I live in Central Tokyo and my dosimeter regularly measures "normal" background levels (whatever those are these days). You could walk around Tokyo just about anywhere and get readings that would be the same taken in other parts of the world, for example, in North America (of course, everything is now irradiated to some extent so it is hard to know what is "normal" anymore).

    Unfortunately Netc info is pay per view only so we its hard to get a look at it. A vague source of information that makes huge generalizations about where things are radioactive, IMHO. According to their map "Tokyo" is a hot spot but the areas north of it are not, which makes no sense according to my experiences-- when I visited Fukushima and the surrounding area, even in Fukushima you could get normal readings but once within a certain vicinity of the Daiichi, they were abnormally high.

    That said, no question that Japan was irradiated by Fukushima and that 60 million people were exposed to unhealthy amounts of radiation due to the accident. And there are high radiation areas in various places, and radiation is ongoing. This is not a static situation. Contamination to organisms is ongoing through bioaccumulation.

    Richard Wilcox

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