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Post by auntym on Mar 18, 2011 12:37:30 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=2bit.ly/i6RL2F Scientists Project Path of Radiation PlumeBy WILLIAM J. BROAD Published: March 16, 2011 A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, and touching the Aleutian Islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday. Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States, even if hints of it are ultimately detectable. In a similar way, radiation from the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 spread around the globe and reached the West Coast of the United States in 10 days, its levels measurable but minuscule. The projection, by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, an arm of the United Nations in Vienna, gives no information about actual radiation levels but only shows how a radioactive plume would probably move and disperse. The forecast, calculated Tuesday, is based on patterns of Pacific winds at that time and the predicted path is likely to change as weather patterns shift. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by paulette on Mar 18, 2011 20:57:48 GMT -6
Didn't see this mentioned in our weather today. Radiation plume seems aimed at California and Northern Mexico. However its not like the radiation has stopped - the plume is still pluming. The rods are still melting and risk rating is still rising. My heart goes out to the Japanese people. Some of our more radical news sources are using the word "betrayal" now in regards to leaving the people in the area close to the reactions. I was feeling pretty paranoid and crazy - less so now. Not that being proven right about something BAD is in any way GOOD.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2011 21:25:44 GMT -6
They were 'discussing' this morning concreting the mess..but they have to get them under control first to do that as I understand it. They have pumps now from the U.S and have electric to at least the number 2 reactor..I'm reasonably certain that many Japanese will fall ill because of it.
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Post by lois on Mar 18, 2011 22:51:22 GMT -6
I read that they have raised the threat level from 4 to 5 (out of 7), but didn't change the evacuation radius (12 miles). Call me paranoid, but if I lived within 100 miles of that place I would be leaving. I would be too sansseed. I would try and leave the country my self.
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Post by skywalker on Mar 19, 2011 11:28:56 GMT -6
I just found this video that says that three different volcanoes erupted at the same time as the big quake in Japan.
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Post by swamprat on Mar 20, 2011 15:06:53 GMT -6
Wow! Now I would never have thought of this!!: Officials: South Fla. water table rose after quake
Posted 3/20/2011 2:22 PM ET WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The devastating earthquake that shook Japan caused a temporary jolt in groundwater levels throughout much of Florida, officials said. The South Florida Water Management District reports that a network of groundwater gauges registered a jump of up to three inches in the water table from Orlando to the Florida Keys about 34 minutes after the quake struck on March 11. The oscillations were observed for about two hours and then stabilized. "We were not expecting to see any indication of the geological events in Japan given the island's great distance from Florida," Susan Sylvester, the water district's director of operations control and hydro data management department, said on Saturday. Shimon Wdowinski, an earthquake researcher with the University of Miami, said the water table likely rose because of Florida's porous limestone, which allows water to easily flow beneath the earth's surface and respond to changes in pressure caused by a wave. He said the flow of Florida's aquifer is quite fast. "It's good because we can filter a lot of water through there," Wdowinski said. "But it's bad because in the case of pollution, it can travel very quickly." Changes in groundwater levels were also seen in South Florida after the Haiti and Chile earthquakes. Wdowinski said a 20-foot rise was seen after a 9.2 earthquake in Alaska in 1964. "I wouldn't say it's normal, but it's not unusual," Wdowinski said of the variations. The water district says the data was collected from a series of wells with recording devices. Randy Smith, a spokesman for the water district, said the reverberations were observed hundreds of feet below the surface. He and others expressed surprise at the events, given the distance from Japan. "This was over 7,000 miles," he said. "I think that proves how strong the earthquake was." Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=tallahassee&sParam=36063343.story
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Post by auntym on Mar 20, 2011 15:11:23 GMT -6
WHAT.... THIS IS WHERE I LIVE..... i haven't heard anything on the local news yet.... o'crap
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Post by skywalker on Mar 20, 2011 18:04:28 GMT -6
Swampy is better than the news. More accurate too.
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Post by paulette on Mar 22, 2011 15:17:54 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 15:43:51 GMT -6
CNN pretty much divides their time between Japan and our newest little altercation in Libya. The death toll is still climbing and will be for a very long time. The radiation levels in food and water are alarming. As I understand it..the 1 and 2 reactors are cooling but the number 3 is still very out of control and no one's mentioning #4.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2011 10:04:32 GMT -6
Would seem that these poor people haven't had enough yet..they're saying one of the reactors is most likely breeched and the situation is pretty grave. Two workers stepped into radio active water some 10,000 times more radioactive than water around a reactor usually is and suffered skin burns. They've found radiation in the ocean some 20 miles away according to news I heard last night. That's not a good thing for anyone. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake
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Post by auntym on Mar 28, 2011 13:44:53 GMT -6
bigthink.com/ideas/31759 Blunder and Confusion at Fukushima Reactor On SundayMichio Kaku on March 28, 2011, 12:53 PM Race Against Time 2The utitility at Fukushima (TEPCO) announced that radioactive water was found to be 10 million times normal levels at Unit 2, prompting evacuation of that site and world wide anguish and worry. This was a major story. Then, a few hours later, the utility made a rare apology and retracted that statement, stating that the water was only 100,000 times normal. What happened? How could the utility make such a blunder? Only now is it possible to piece together the events that led to this unusual apology. First, workers at Unit 2 were astonished to find that radiation levels in the water were extremely high. This prompted them to evacuate the site immediately. Second, they rushed out so fast that they did not do a second measurement of the water. Third, the first readings were slightly incorrect. The workers got iodine-134 (with a half-life of 53 minutes) confused with iodine-131 (with a half-life of 8 days). Also, cesium-137 was also found in the water (with a half - life of about 30 years). Fourth, by confusing the two, they also go the wrong level of radioactivity. They found more iodine-134 that was actually present in the water. The shorter the half-life, the more radioactive an isotope is - the longer the half-life, the less the radioactivity. So their calibration of iodine-134 was incorrect, yielding thefalse number of 10 million. Fifth, the utility did not send in another crew to check the measurements, so they got their calibration wrong, but they went public with this incorrect number. TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Mar 28, 2011 14:03:46 GMT -6
Latest helicopter footage of Fukushima, zoom-in on ruined reactors
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Mar 28, 2011
Workers are still battling to contain radiation leaks at a nuclear plant severely damaged by the disaster. Japan's nuclear agency says levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the plant have risen to almost two thousand times the usual level.
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Post by auntym on Apr 3, 2011 15:17:12 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/03/japan.tsunami.captain/index.html?hpt=C2
Defiant Japenese Boat Captain Rode Out TsunamiOshima, Japan (CNN) -- Susumu Sugawara looks bemused and a little embarrassed at all the attention he's getting. The 64 year old has become a local hero on the Japanese island of Oshima. Smashed boats adorn the coastline of this once-idyllic tourist spot, but Sugawara's pride and joy, "Sunflower" is intact and working overtime transporting people and aid to and from the island. It can hold around 20 people at a time. When the tsunami came, everyone ran to the hills. But Sugawara ran to his boat and steered it into deeper waters. "I knew if I didn't save my boat, my island would be isolated and in trouble," he tells CNN. As he passed his other boats, used for fishing abalone, he said goodbye to them, apologizing that he could not save them all. Then the first wave came. Sugawara says he is used to seeing waves up to 5 meters high but this was four-times that size. "My feeling at this moment is indescribable," he says with glistening eyes. "I talked to my boat and said you've been with me 42 years. If we live or die, then we'll be together, then I pushed on full throttle." CLICK ON ABOVE LINK TO CONTINUE READING
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2011 15:24:11 GMT -6
Sadly..the men who have labored over the reactors made a statement the other day that they expect to die from the exposure. Now their government is paying 'dart in's' $2,500-5000 to rush in..quickly work on something and rush out before they have reached maximum tolerance. I sincerely hope...that the government would also compensate the families of the men who have been there all along
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Post by skywalker on Apr 3, 2011 19:40:07 GMT -6
They need to stop clowning around and shut those things down one way or another. The longer it takes the more damage it will do.
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Post by paulette on Apr 3, 2011 21:44:32 GMT -6
Radioactive water gushing out means they are still pumping it in and that things are still very very dicey. Concrete is NOT going to set up in the presence of 1. extreme radiation and 2. water pressure. They tried very hard to cap the Texas Gulf oil well leak with concrete or whatever substance science can come up with. Didn't work. The concrete that was put on Chernobyl was sand and just dissolved within a year.
My heart goes out to the men working to come up with some bandaid solution (and getting a death sentence in the process). The WHOLE SCIENTIFIC WORLD should be working on this - not some technicians hired by a private utility company. Japan has had a VERY BAD thing happen but they also have reserves of well and know-how. Pumping out contaminated sea water is NOT OK for the oceans, the planet.....not just the people around the plant. Betrayal!
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Post by auntym on Apr 4, 2011 10:40:22 GMT -6
www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/la-fgw-japan-relief-20110404,0,7175621.story Red Cross Aid Hasn't Reached Japan Quake VictimsThe relief organization has distributed none of the $1 billion it has collected. The chief Cabinet secretary says the process must be streamlined.Japan's Red Cross has collected more than $1 billion in the first three weeks after the massive earthquake and tsunami but has yet to distribute any funds directly to victims, prompting Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano to urge Sunday that the process be accelerated. Meanwhile, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant reported no significant progress in stopping the leak of radioactive water into the sea. Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials think the leak has been coming from a concrete pit holding power cables near reactor No. 2, and attempted Sunday to seal a crack there with a special polymer. Edano said that the government was going to have independent experts retest the air and soil around the power plant and use that information to re-evaluate whether its current evacuation orders should be modified. Currently, the government has told residents living within 12 miles of the plant to evacuate, and has urged those living within 18 miles to leave or at least stay indoors as much as possible. The government has come under renewed pressure from groups including Greenpeace to expand its evacuation area, but at the same time, residents who vacated the 12-mile zone have been seeking permission to return to their homes briefly to gather personal items. Officials in recent days have not shown signs of budging in either direction, and Edano said Sunday the current order will last "a long time," though he conceded it was "tough on residents." TO CONTINUE READING CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by auntym on Apr 4, 2011 10:54:39 GMT -6
GET THE KLEENEX OUT.... Japan 'tsunami dog' Ban reunited with owner after surviving at sea Uploaded by RussiaToday on Apr 4, 2011 A dog which has been rescued at sea off the coast of Kesennuma, Japan, was reunited with the owner on Monday more than three weeks after being washed away by the killer tsunami triggered by the March 11 earthquake. Japanese broadcaster NTV aired images of the reunion with the woman hugging Ban and the dog warmly wagging her tail. The dog was rescued on Friday after being found drifting on a roof.
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Post by paulette on Apr 4, 2011 14:48:17 GMT -6
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This was under the screen of the lovely dog short. He looked so freaked out when they first rescued him - and so happy to see his person. This video finally tells it like it is.
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Post by auntym on Apr 5, 2011 15:05:27 GMT -6
UFOs Flying Around Sakurajima Volcano 4-5-11
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Post by lois on Apr 5, 2011 20:18:24 GMT -6
This is not good if they are true ufos. I been dreaming a lot of volcanos lately.. they always seem to know everything.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 5, 2011 20:33:26 GMT -6
The lights at the bottom of the volcano are cars driving down a road. I don't know what the ones flying through the sky are.
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Post by auntym on Apr 6, 2011 14:07:08 GMT -6
WHAT IS THIS....? UFO (?) Emerges at Sakurajima, Japan [Full-length] - WEIRD/Space-warp - March 13, 2011
hang in there.... it gets crazy... Uploaded by Sheilaaliens on Apr 6, 2011 Points of interest: 04:37 - Flash of light / object in the sky shoots straight up 07:10 - Identical object in sky shoots straight up 05:52 - 06:18 AND 07:34 = SPACE WARP!!! If you see nothing else of this video, just watch these parts... @_@ original videos from the Japanese Weather Bureau volcanosakurajima.web.fc2.com/
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Post by paulette on Apr 6, 2011 16:18:12 GMT -6
Glowing orbs coming out of volcano are, IMO, rock bombs. Flung out while incandescent.
The headlights never quit going back and forth. If there had been a huge glowing "space warp" I'm pretty sure people would have stopped and taken pictures. I think the light is human generated. In the one before, there were boats anchored in the water and a fast one with the light catching its windows.
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Post by auntym on Apr 7, 2011 11:39:12 GMT -6
7.4 Earthquake in Japan Again
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My God, if that light doesn't look just like the one at Sakurajima, I don't know what does.
Take a look if you haven't seen it:
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Post by lois on Apr 7, 2011 11:43:32 GMT -6
I was going to post this.. this morning and said Oh Auntym will before long.. News is still coming in I guess, it s dark over there right now. Will ever end? I also was wondering about the light. What was it?
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Post by lois on Apr 7, 2011 11:44:54 GMT -6
The weather channel explain the light, something to do with the power..
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Post by auntym on Apr 7, 2011 14:56:32 GMT -6
I was going to post this.. this morning and said Oh Auntym will before long.. News is still coming in I guess, it s dark over there right now. Will ever end? I also was wondering about the light. What was it? lois if you see anything in the news please feel free to copy & paste it here....it will help me a lot....
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Post by auntym on Apr 14, 2011 10:01:56 GMT -6
Japan's Nuclear Crisis / Dr. Michio Kaku 4-13-11
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