Saturday, February 10, 2018

Fukushima Looking Progressively More Steamy


Over the last 10 days Fukushima Daiichi has been looking progressively "steamy." Today it looks to be belching.

I do check the weather conditions to try and account for the roles of precipitation and humidity in shaping increased visibility of emissions from the ruined reactors.

High humidity and low temperatures are of course going to make the emissions more visible.

It was 39 degrees Fahrenheit with 88% humidity in Fukushima when I took this screenshot today:



The emissions look very high and I'm hoping that the uptick is simply reflecting an increase in humidity.

However, I'm suspicious that more is going on than changes in humidity levels when I review the correlation between these levels and plant conditions visible in the screenshots from the last couple of months.

If not air humidity, what might explain the increased emissions? Are there any other variables that correlate with increased emissions?

One variable that correlates with change in emissions is local earthquake activity. There has been a lot of earthquake activity around the ring of fire, as I've noted in my blog and as observed by mainstream media (see http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/ring-of-fire-active.html).

Here is a screenshot of recent earthquakes in Japan


 https://earthquaketrack.com/p/japan/recent

Perhaps earthquakes affect still-hot melted fuel beneath reactor 2, which was recently reported as having radiation readings outside the reactor building of 42 sieverts an hour, an incredibly high dose:
Lethal radiation amounts still detected at crippled Fukushima plant 7yrs after disaster
feb 3 2018
https://www.miragenews.com/lethal-radiation-amounts-still-detected-at-crippled-fukushima-plant-7yrs-after-disaster/

A remote-controlled inspection detected 42 Sieverts (Sv) per hour of radiation outside the foundations of the crippled Unit 2 of the plant, according to a newly-released report. And that’s a lot, as just one Sv is enough to cause acute radiation syndrome.

It is hard to know what is true when so much is hidden.  I am concerned about the increased visibility of emissions given the uptick in earthquakes and the report of high radiation readings and the fire at the Daini plant. I hope my concern is misplaced.





10 comments:

  1. Americans should be taking to the streets over Trump. The same for Japanese and Abe in JAPAN

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  2. Rapidly approaching saturation points of toxic chemical and nuclear pollution, where the dilution propaganda is meaningless. Peoples immune systems failing. Thyroid and adrenal axis, failing. Langerhans in kidneys failing, from toxic overloads. Myelin sheaths, so contaminated by heavy metals nerve transmission impaired. Repair systems, and feedback loops dissembled by out of whack, inflmmatory cascades. We have chronically poisoned ourselves into lapsing functioning, even among those who appear healthy. Underneath el jeffes whip, there is a bald, fat, demented old thing that is pure hype and insanity.

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  3. Chris hedges. Deadly rule of the Oligarchs
    "Oligarchic rule, as Aristotle pointed out, is a deviant form of government. Oligarchs care nothing for competency, intelligence, honesty, rationality, self-sacrifice or the common good. They pervert, deform and dismantle systems of power to serve their immediate interests, squandering the future for short-term personal gain. "The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments that rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one, of the few or of the many, are perversions," Aristotle wrote. The classicist Peter L.P. Simpson calls these perversions the "sophistry of oligarchs," meaning that once oligarchs take power, rational, prudent and thoughtful responses to social, economic and political problems are ignored to feed insatiable greed. The late stage of every civilization is characterized by the sophistry of oligarchs, who ravage the decaying carcass of the state."

    https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Deadly-Rule-of-the-Oli-by-Chris-Hedges-Corruption_Economic_Issues_Oligarchy-180212-917.html

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  4. Ys, the nukes are a poppin, the uranium mines, pollutin, the nucular war game and race in full swing. Nothin to stop em now. Blood thirsty idiots, eating it up.

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  5. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/12/is-the-era-of-transhumanism-a-final-corporate-takeover-of-humanity/

    Transhumanism. The ultimate hype. We have been bowled over, by corporate propaganda, since the begining of the industrial age. From Madame Curie to George Jetson, to Bill Gates and fat pasty faved elon musks. . Yet the silver lining never really comes. Just hype and more desperation, to make a buck. Elon musk and the silicon valley stars, are all pronuclear. The ultimate dead end. They have no ai plan or robots to fix fukushima. No robot, they can concieve of can withstand that kind of punishment. Any genetically engineered cyborg or super human is destroyed by radionuclides and ionizing radiation. It's dna , rna ruined. Lying psychotic hype. Elon musk launched a fancy car into space, that will mostly be, destroyed by cosmic radiation in a few months. Woohoo. The nuclear and space hypes, always there to distract us from the genocides, raping, and pillaging of the now bloated ranks of the oligarchs.

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  6. https://nuclear-news.net/2018/02/12/trumps-budget-bill-gives-tax-credits-to-save-vogtle-nuclear-plant-expansion-and-promote-small-modular-nuclear-reactors/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

    Big nuclear welfare and smr financing by trumpturd

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  7. Abe, is the radioactive dictator, who has genocided many of his own people. He has done little, to nothing about stopping Fukushima, or its coninuous poisoning of the ocean, korea , and japan. He continues to keep open broken nuclear reactors in dangerously earthquake, ridden japan. He has ruined Japans economy and peoples
    Now, he wants to rearm Japan, and get nuclear weapons. There is no place to put Japans nuclear waste from the reactors there, or from fukushima. Now, abe is trying to tell south korea, they cannot try any reconciliation with n korea. An evil monkey and radioactive scumbag. As demented and evil than trump.

    http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201802110025.html?utm_content=buffer4abd5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer.



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  8. From William Kaufman Counterpunch
    https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/02/13/a-stock-market-primer-in-six-easy-steps/

    What is the stock market?

    1) It’s not real economic activity—it’s a form of mass hysteria or mass psychosis.

    2) Stock prices reflect a mass-hysteria impression of the worth of a piece of paper you hold—a stock certificate. The worth of that piece of paper is sometimes tethered to some economic reality of some corporation—at least partially—but sometimes not. Often a stock price bears little relation to the economic health of a company, as illustrated in the wildly gyrating stock price-to-earnings ratios through the decades. Hence the stock price is often a matter of caprice, covert manipulation, and/or unfathomable crowd psychology, not necessarily real economic “health” or productivity 

    3) The stock market is a swindle.

    Much of the movement of these equities markets originates in the decisions of large funds or high-speed traders who have access to esoteric information, advanced algorithms, or trading networks from which Joe Trader, playing the market at home on his laptop, is excluded.

    5)touters are inside hacks

    6) This market, more than most, is a big fat bubble, ready to pop.

    This bubble is a cloistered biosphere of Teslas and beach houses, of con artists, kleptocrats, and financial sorcerers. It is rigorously insulated from the dolorous real economy inhabited by the 99 percent: declining living standards; stagnant real hourly wages; lousy service-industry jobs; debilitating consumer and student debt peonage; soaring medical insurance premiums and deductibles that render many people’s swiss-cheese policies unusable; crumbling cities and infrastructure; climate disasters of biblical proportions; and toxic food, water, and air. This stock-market bubble has been artificially inflated by historically low interest rates (so the suckers have to go into the market to get a return on their money) and Fed “quantitative easing,” a technocratic euphemism for a novel form of welfare for the one percent that has left untold trillions of “liquidity” sloshing around among the financial elites with which to play Monopoly with one another and pad their net worth by buying back shares of their own companies to inflate stock prices. Moreover, this bubble is even more perilous and tenuous than previous ones because the “air” inside is being pumped by unprecedented levels of consumer and institutional debt that will cause a deafening “pop” when some of the key players start to lose their shirts, and suddenly all the Peters start calling in the debts of all the Pauls who can’t pay.

    4) The end game is near. We can console ourselves that these latest innovations in financial prestidigitation and fraud are stretched about as far as they can go. The financial elites are out of three-card monte scams to suck the wealth out of the economy. The heroic productivist heyday of capitalism,celebrated by Marx himself, is over in this country—no more driven visionary builders of railroads, factories, skyscrapers, and highways to a better tomorrow: just endless financial skullduggery and hoarding at the top, and for the rest of us the cold comforts of cell phones, smart televisions, and the endless streams of plastic consumer junk circulating through Amazon and Walmart. What Baudrillard called “the mirror of production” is a prison for the planet earth and every species on it. All that is left for the bipartisan predator class of the United States is scavenging: massive tax breaks for the rich today and tomorrow, perhaps, no more Medicare, no more Social Security, no more public schools—if they have their way, and they probably will. Pop goes the stock market, the illusion of prosperity, the whole unsustainable carbon-poison “economy,” and pop goes the planet and the human race. But look at it this way: it’s a buying opportunity.

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  9. How the evil monkey and moronic twit, Trump, is igniting a new, nuclear arms race. It is happening, with russia,china, france. Inflames for possible war.
    https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-expert-suslov-new-us-nuclear-doctrine-could-lead-military-crisis-fraught-direct

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