pafret Loc: Northeast

Fukushima Update: "Your Radiation This Week, April 22, 2017"

Posted: 22 Apr 2017 10:02 AM PDT
Publishing Note: Due to Bob Nichol's other commitments the city-specific radiation reporting will now be published every 2 weeks until further notice. The next such report will be on May 6, 2017. I will update the weekly Hiroshima bomb equivalents information. This is to keep you as aware and informed as possible, not alarm you, though you should be alarmed, and is scientific FACT, not sensationalistic nonsense. Everything here is active-linked for your own verification, or not; I encourage you to do so. The radiation's not going anywhere, folks, but we are... - CP



"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
- Shiva

Updated by CP April 22, 2017: Fukushima Equals 14,331.9 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow; There is No Place On Earth to Escape the Rad: The 3 melted-through cores of the destroyed reactors, totaling over 600 tons, at Fukushima daily release the radioactive equivalent of 6.45 Hiroshima bombs directly into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. As of April 22, 2017- 2,222 days since the disaster began- this equals the detonation of 14,331.9 Hiroshima atomic bombs and it is still going strong, with no end in sight, considering that the half-life of uranium-238 is about 4.47 billion years and that of uranium-235 is 704 million years. There is no technology on this planet to deal with this situation. There are only 336 cities on Earth with more than one million people. That is the equivalent of 42.65 Hiroshima atomic bombs apiece. First thing, grasp the difficult concept that this is an ELE or Extinction Level Event. The deadly meltdown and dispersion of radioactive fuel throughout the world is on-going to this day. There is no escaping our fate, there are no solutions. No one is exempt. The radioactive particles are all over the world now.
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"Your Radiation This Week, April 22, 2017"
by Bob Nichols

(San Francisco) April 22, 2017 – "Good Day, this is “Your Radiation This Week” for the past two weeks. For 2017 YRTW will list some of America’s cities Total Gamma Radiation. These are the Recorded Total Gamma Radiation Highs that affected people around the United States. Based on seven years of historical records from EPA, the Rad numbers will continue to increase in the deadly levels. The outlook is not good.
Your Radiation This Week: April 22, 2017
Normal "Background" Radiation is 5 to 20 CPM. 50 CPM is an alert level.

Gamma Radiation Report: YRTW 13 and 14- Mapped

https://youtu.be/_dCZFCR6tcM

Table of Poisoned American Cities – Total Gamma Radiation
COUNT CPM, Amount Times Normal, CITY, STATE Count nSv/Hr
10,933 CPM, ColoradoSprgs CO. -
9,558 CPM, Raleigh, NC. -
9,293 CPM, Spokane, WA. -
8,848 CPM, Portland, ME. -
8,775 CPM, Little Rock, AR. -
8,335 CPM, Navajo Lake, NM. -
8,174 CPM, Denver, CO. -
8,017 CPM, Kearney, NE. 202 nSv/Hr
7,997 CPM, Yuma, AZ. -
7,995 CPM, Riverside, CA.
7,897 CPM, Worcester, MA. 99 nSv/Hr
7,797 CPM, Pierre, SD. -
7,688 CPM, Fresno, CA. -
7,603 CPM, Idaho Falls, ID. -
7,503 CPM, Tucson, AZ. -
7,468 CPM, San Diego, CA. 114 nSv/Hr
7,465 CPM, Bakersfield, CA. -
7,368 CPM, Anaheim, CA. -
7,362 CPM, Casper, WY. -
7,341 CPM, Augusta, GA. -
7,289 CPM, Louisville, KY. -
7,121 CPM, Atlanta, GA. -
7,114 CPM, El Paso, TX. -
6,807 CPM, Pittsburgh, PA. -
6,782 CPM, Los Angeles, CA. 81 nSv/Hr
6,749 CPM, Bismarck, ND. -
6,710 CPM, Grand Junction, CO. -
6,672 CPM, Boston, MA. -
6,669 CPM, Concord, NH. -
6,666 CPM, Harrisonburg, VA
6,663 CPM, Kansas City, KS. -
6,625 CPM, Mason City, IA. -
6,569 CPM, San Bernardino, CA. -
6,530 CPM, Rochester, NY. 76 nSv/Hr
6,458 CPM, Phoenix, AZ. 96 nSv/Hr
6,371 CPM, Cleveland, OH. -
6,352 CPM, Champaign, IL. -
6,189 CPM, Dodge City, KS. -
6,086 CPM, Shawano, WI. -
6,065 CPM, Laredo, TX. -
6,050 CPM, Rapid City, SD. -
5,997 CPM, Tulsa, OK. -
5,953 CPM, Reno, NV. -
5,928 CPM, Hartford, CT. -
5,886 CPM, Wichita, KS. -
5,877 CPM, Billings, MT. -
5,861 CPM, Virgina Beach, VA. -
5,858 CPM, Charleston, WV. -
5,754 CPM, Providence, RI. -
5,751 CPM, Richland, WA. 87 nSv/Hr
5,744 CPM, Corpus Christi, TX. -
5,714 CPM, Boise, ID. -
5,697 CPM, Omaha, NE. 127 nSv/Hr
5,656 CPM, Lincoln, NE. -
5,641 CPM, Detroit, MI. -
5,640 CPM, Oklahoma City, OK. -
5,601 CPM, Shreveport, LA. -
5,499 CPM, Albuquerque, NM. -
5,477 CPM, New York City, NY. 68 nSv/Hr
5,455 CPM, Madison, WI. -
5,441 CPM, Tallahassee, FL. 65 nSv/Hr
5,376 CPM, Des Moines, IA. -
5,331 CPM, Salt Lake City, UT. -
5,203 CPM, Lexington, KY. -
5,020 CPM, Ft Worth, TX.
5,013 CPM, Ft Smith, AR. -
4,896 CPM, Lockport, NY.
4,889 CPM, Memphis, TN. -
4,836 CPM, Duluth, MN. -
4,786 CPM, Richmond, VA. -
4,747 CPM, Amarillo, TX. -
4,625 CPM, Montgomery, AL. 62 nSv/Hr
4,528 CPM, St George, UT. -
4,477 CPM, Dallas, TX. 60 nSv/Hr
4,433 CPM, Birmingham, AL. 53 nSv/Hr
4,423 CPM, Indianopolis, IN. -
4,408 CPM, San Francisco, CA. -
4,388 CPM, Aurora, IL. -
4,340 CPM, Burlington, VT. 63 nSv/Hr
4,320 CPM, Knoxville, TN. -
4,314 CPM, Carlsbad, NM. -
4,311 CPM, Philadelphia, PA. 57 nSv/Hr
4,252 CPM, Chicago, IL. 60 nSv/Hr
4,142 CPM, Paducah, KY. -
4,092 CPM, Houston, TX. 53 nSv/Hr
3,868 CPM, Nashville, TN. -
3,867 CPM, Eureka, CA. -
3,823 CPM, Miami, FL. -
3,691 CPM, San Jose, CA. 51 nSv/Hr
3,509 CPM, Baton Rouge, LA. 45 nSv/Hr
3,491 CPM, St. Louis, MO. 58 nSv/Hr
3,314 CPM, Yaphank, NY. 46 nSv/Hr
3,111 CPM, Anchorage, MIA AK. 55 nSv/Hr
2,928 CPM, Tampa, FL. 37 nSv/Hr
2,867 CPM, San Antonio, TX. 53 nSv/Hr
2,675 CPM, Washington, D.C. 49 nSv/Hr
2,018 CPM, Fairbanks, AK. 42 nSv/Hr
Park, Tokyo, JP 56 nSv/Hr
Count: 98 Cities

YRTW SOL will always report Sieverts when available in the future in the States. In addition, Japan and the European Union report radiation measurements in Sieverts. You are encouraged to compare Sievert measurements with the rest of the world. The United States is a very radioactive country. Rad sources are always nuclear reactors and nuke weapons. The Counts per Minute (CPM) reporting continues. The measurements are made in the widely accepted nanoSieverts per Hour, abbreviated world wide as nSv/Hour, or nSv/Hr. These numbers finally give normal people a way to compare like with like in the ever more dangerously radioactive world. Now you can easily compare New York City and Tokyo.

Eight absorbed Sieverts per hour and you are probably a dead duck. Ten absorbed Sieverts and you are quite dead; you are history, a Goner. Got it? Oh yeah, remember that the Rad you got yesterday, the day before and last year is cumulative. It all counts.

ALERT: The Readings are in CPM, NOT Sieverts They are very different. It’s a matter of maiming, life and death; the usual stuff in the world of Rad; the only question is “What’s the magic cumulative number that kills or disables you.” Listed in Counts-Per-Minute, a count is one radioactive decay registered by the instrument. CPM is also used by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency,) to measure ionizing, deadly radiation. All reporting cities are above normal. The reporting Radioactive Cities are a few of the radioactive cities in the States. For 2017 YRTW SOL will list some America’s cities Total Gamma Radiation. Take all necessary precautions.

Radiation knocks out your immunities: Everywhere we look- worldwide- old and new diseases are on the march. In its most basic kill attribute Ionizing radiation is an all out attack on our immune systems. As the immunities of the whole planet are taken down a notch, new and old diseases come roaring to life. Oddly, it is not that the diseases are anything especially new or unusual. It is the immunities of the human, animal and plant hosts that are destroyed and the diseases rush in to feed on the newly unprotected food sources. The human, plant and animal hosts are altered, degraded by the Rad; not the diseases. Not yet. That means we are already mutated by the Rad; forever changed for the worse. That’s why all the weird old diseases are cropping up again in the world. It is very likely that the new and old or mutated diseases will last much longer that the newly susceptible hosts – including all of us. Here’s the big picture from Eco-Health Alliance on killer viruses.

"Have a wonderful radioactive weekend and remember to Dodge the Rads,
it’s dangerous out there."
- http://www.veteranstoday.com/

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

The old fear was that a core meltdown would.burn through the planet. Contamination of the water table is real.

We are in trouble.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

We might be experiencing the beginning of the end.....what a horrible curse that too much knowledge can be.

pafret Loc: Northeast

Byron, the people who publish this are calling it an extinction level event and they claim that all life will cease in less than two hundred years. However, there are planes in current use, equipped with special equipment to detect increased radiation from Nuclear testing. How can they distinguish such testing from the widespread increased prevalence of radioactive products from Fukushima? This data came via the ENE news network .

"ENENews, or Energy News, is a fear mongering anti-nuclear news aggregator that was created in response to the Fukushima I nuclear accident. The site tends to have three different types of posts: posts that imply the Fukushima accident has poisoned the entire Pacific Ocean and adjacent coastlines (as if a single nuclear accident could do such a thing) and that "They" are covering up the true scale of the disaster. The site also features posts that report on any and every case of animal death and disease that occurs in the Pacific Ocean and adjacent coastlines, and posts that claim that the Fukushima reactors are seconds away from exploding again and releasing more pollution."

As with anything else, the claims made require research that is beyond what most of us can perform to determine truth. These claims have been made continuously since Fukushima and I haven't seen any mainstream agencies picking up on this material.

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

So just like most any thing else...time will tell I guess..and fishing season opened yesterday but it's always a zoo on the opening weekend, I need to get my priorities in order to go next weekend ..weather providing.
Thank you for the post on Fukushima, and update.

pafret Loc: Northeast

You are welcome Byron, I have been looking at these reports for almost two years but I never posted them because it just doesn't seem plausible. Fukushima is doing some damage but how extensive is anybodies guess. There is a valley right outside of LA which has extensive cracks in the earth, allegedly due to Fracking and the cracks are leaking radioactive Radon Gas.

The Hanford Nuclear waste disposal site outside of St Louis has an underground garbage dump fire burning into the radioactive wastes. The fires are going to generate vast amounts of radioactive gases and ash in the air. People in East St. Louis are in momentary danger of being irradiated with lethal doses.

None of it has happened yet and you would have to believe that every single government official and news person in the country was diabolic to ignore these disasters. Happy fishing, if it doesn't glow in the dark, eat your catch.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Have a wonderful time worrying yourselves sick about the radiation.
Please just tell me:
1. What is the source of all these counts per minute?
2. What is the range of a given strength gamma in air, in water?
3. How did we get all this melted fuel over here?
4. Does anyone know the difference
between radiation and a radioactive source?
5. If the melted fuel is not distributed over the earth what difference does the half- life of Uranium 238 or U235 have to do with anything?
I suggest the whole thing is a scare program to continue the hippie antagonism against nuclear power from the 70's.

I have spent all the time I intend to discussing this item. If anyone can answer any of the 5 questions maybe you have the ability to understand what is going on and I would love to hear from you.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

6. What is the normal background count to begin with?

Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon

Now that you covered lots of questions ...please continue with the facts and statistics the would ease some of the legitimate concerns of the leak.

pafret Loc: Northeast

1. These counts are allegedly from government monitoring facilities.

2. Not being given the strength of the Gamma field the question is not answerable. There is no such thing as a gamma other than a Greek letter. Gamma radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) and it refers to the waves (or their quanta, photons) of the electromagnetic field, propagating (radiating) through space carrying electromagnetic radiant energy. It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, (visible) light, ultraviolet, X-, and gamma radiation. These are all subject to the laws of field theory and Maxwell's equations. Quantum and Nuclear physics is not simple.

3. The melted fuel is over there (Japan) the radioactive decay products have been dispersed world wide by air and water.

4. Radiation is the electromagnetic energy emitted from the decay of radioactive material. The Isotopes of certain elements are unstable in that they constantly emit energy -- this is radioactive material. The energy emitted is radiation.

5. The half life of an element is the time required for one half of the original mass to decay into a stable (non-radioactive) element. If the half life is Femto-seconds no one cares; half lives of hundreds of thousands of years says the material remains radioactive with its attendant destruction of any life forms not shielded from its effects virtually forever. Spread enough long half life material around and it kills everything. Another danger is that these elements do not necessarily change to a stable non-radioactive state, they can change into other radioactive elements, some of which are even more destructive.

The most significant factor is that the effects of radiation are cumulative. After enough exposure you develop cancers or your genetic material mutates and you produce two headed kids. We are subject to radiation from myriad sources. Check out the increase in stillbirths among Mormons who were subjected to fallout from the Frenchman Flats Nevada, bomb tests. Check out the results on the ecology of Bikini Atoll and the weird fish that inhabit the area.

Carol Kelly

Ever lived in Japan with the radiation? I have. Had three children there. One of them died a mysterious crib death.

pafret Loc: Northeast

There are two problems and both have to deal with lack of knowledge of fact. It is a fact that the Japanese do not know where the cores are. they have melted through the bottom and until technology is invented to go in and find them nothing is known for certain. The Japanese say there is no immanent danger but, if they admitted such danger they would be evacuating 50 million or so people from that end of the island.

There is radioactive material and radiation seeping into the ocean. Natural evaporation and air currents is distributing this material world wide. What is the quantity? Who knows, these readings I posted are supposed to be from government sensors and they represent thousands of times higher radiation counts than the pre-Fukushiuma background counts. This material is coming from a site with an axe to grind, they are anti-nuclear and they are weaving a wonderful doomsday scenario. We need some of our researchers to start looking for corroborating data.
ENE news releases might be a huge hoax or maybe they have a handle on something serious. No other sources I have found are sounding an alarm, they can't all be stupid.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Another good question. Might even ask how much might come from naturally occurring Uranium, Polonium, Radon, Radium, Thorium or cosmic from space and the sun.
If you really sweat radiation when you figure what it is, you might check out how much dose you get from a tooth x-ray, chest x-ray. And yes x-rays are radiation similar to gamma but different wave length.
Gotta fess up, I retired from an operating twin unit power nuke plant and sucked up less than 5 REM over 26 years. So I do have a bit of knowledge to back up my rattling on.
Really Chernobyl was in most ways worse than the Japanese one because a steam explosion scattered radioactive debris over the surrounding area in Europe. Not the case in Japan. The cores, while melted are pretty much in one place so easier to deal with and dispose of. It isn't pretty but it is manageable.
Try to work this out. We refueled each unit on the average of every 18 months. During refueling we would replace about 1/3 of the core and put in fresh fuel. While actually refueling the core, we had about 20 feet of water between us and the reactor core while we did our work. Dose was non detectable. So what does that tell you about the ability of water to mitigate radiation? Any one for 5000 miles of salt water to keep the radiation from hitting the US. Like I have tried to tell you if you don't bring the radiated fuel over here you don't have a problem. I do feel for the guys/gals having to clean up but all this work is going to be done underwater just like when we refueled our reactors so the dose to the people will be tolerable.
All during the bit posted to shake people up never did I hear about what radiation sources you might expect to find at the damaged plant. All we got was the half-lives of 2 isotopes of Uranium. I will tell you there are short half-life items and some long term. This ranges from seconds to 10's of years. None of the 18 million the scare turkeys are mumbling about. I'll shut down for now suggesting that if you had a decent radiation monitor, you could find radiation in every rock and brick in and around your house. So. Bottom line radiation is controlled by time and distance. The melted fuel's radioactivity will decay over time and we don't have to sweat the Uranium because even if it hadn't been mined and converted to fuel it would decay at the same rate on the planet. Equating a power plant meltdown to a Hiroshima bomb is stupid at best. If the fuel in the plants happened to be the fissionable type of Uranium had been fabricated into a bomb and then detonated, you might draw a comparison. You did not have an explosion and no scattering of nuclear debris throughout the area. The radiation is controlled by the water covering the whole mess. I agree there were and are still problems to solve but radiation in the isn't one of them unless Pacific currents manage to bring radioactive sources over here. Can't figure how we can make solids heavier than water float to get over here.

again a definition of radiation is needed. Google it to find out what it is and where it comes from.
And don't forget the event that started the whole mess. An earthquake instigated tsunami which surpassed the expected 1000 year tsunami. Gotta remember, risk, is assigned to everything you do whether a flight or a cruise, whether you will die on a given mile of highway or whether you might be struck by a meteorite. The plant designers did their best with all the statistical data available. Easy to Monday Morning Quarterback, not very beneficial but easy.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Actually we got some real input re the question. Yes, let' introduce a new term. When U235 fissions, what happens we now have two or more pieces (daughter products or fission products. Use whichever you like. At any rate, since Uranium has 92 protons and either 143 or 145 neutrons. The daughters share each. Whatever the proton mix is determines the atomic number and what element the daughters are. The yield of fission products has been determined. The real problem is the mix of protons and neutrons determines stability. Since there are so many possible combinations, radioactive daughters are a probability. As we read, emitting radiation is the way unstable atoms return to stability. All non-radioactive atoms have a proton to neutron ratio that doesn't require either the expulsion of either a particle or energy to reach stability and nature strives for stability.
What half life is, is the time 1/2 of the radioactive atoms decay in a sample.

Docadhoc Loc: Elsewhere

The list of cities makes no sense. If the fear is due to spread by water, why are Des Moines, IA and Salt Lake City, Utah.about the same as Corpus Christie, TX? And how did this "dirty water" get into the gulf of Mexico to begin with?

Gamma? Is someone having nightmares about a planet load of.big green musclebound Hulks? Gamma is here 24/7 from space and has been forever.