Radiation Watch 2012

[thorfourwinds]

Originally posted by Aircooled, one of our friends in Canada on Alpha Tango Spooks.

From our little group of civilian rad checkers.
This started yesterday (Aug 8th.) in a place called Ponca, Oklahoma.




Ponca City, OK, US
Coordinates Latitude: 36.43108 Longitude: -97.06180
Altitude: 994 feet
Station Name: Ponca
Geiger Counter Model: Inspector+

Other Criteria; Concrete block room asphalt roof (On Laptop)
Report Period: Day Time AM/PM
Beginning time: 08/07/12 09:45:13 PM
Ending time: 08/07/12 10:04:34 PM
Elapsed Minutes: 19

Radiation Counts Value
Total Counts: 1,825
Average CPM: 96
Minimum CPM: 39
Maximum CPM: 536
Last Alert Level Set (CPM:) 100


Now today in the same place.








Ponca City, OK, US
Coordinates Latitude: 36.43108 Longitude: -97.06180
Altitude: 994 feet
Station Name: Ponca
Geiger Counter Model: Inspector+

Other Criteria: Concrete block room asphalt roof (On Laptop)
Report Period: Day Time AM/PM
Beginning time: 08/08/12 09:05:21 PM
Ending time: 08/09/12 08:15:31 AM
Elapsed Minutes: 670

Radiation Counts Value

Total Counts: 63,417
Average CPM: 94
Minimum CPM: 32
Maximum CPM: 3,455
Last Alert Level Set (CPM): 100

"The best guesses
we can come up with
are a gamma burst or
something to do with the wild fires in Oklahoma.

These spikes are in the air, not rain.

All we know for sure is they are not glitches."

Any other ideas?

[thorfourwinds]

The total number of days between Friday, March 11, 2011 and Friday, October 5, 2012 is
575 days.


The radiation poisoning of we, the people, our children, pets, food, water and our land has continued unabated - 24/7/365

- for

1 year, 6 months, 25 days

which is:

•   49,680,000 seconds

•   828,000 minutes

•   13,800 hours

•   82 weeks (rounded down)



                               



Once again, we ask, are we any closer to a solution to the Fukushima multiple melt-throughs disaster/fiasco spewing life-altering clouds of radiation 24/7/365               



OK, let's try a different tactic to share what we feel is important to understand at this precise time in history.

This is not a drill or dry-fire exercise.

The balloon has dropped, people, and it's called  Nukushima.

(Photo: Deccan Journal)

Japan's no-nuke pledge is already fraying at the edges

September 19, 2012?
The Asahi Shimbun

The government's commitment to abandon nuclear power by the 2030s is increasingly sounding like "maybe," after its new energy policy won only qualified approval at a Cabinet session on Sept. 19 and ministers left ample leeway for its future reversal.

Business circles and local governments in districts where nuclear plants are major employers criticized Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's plan to adapt a no-nuclear goal, while the United States expressed concern over the possible erosion of its ally's nuclear capability.

Now, pro-nuclear advocates are predicting abolition will not occur.
more

(Asahi Shimbun file photo)

Officials inspect the upper part of the prototype fast breeder reactor Monju in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, on Sept. 6.


Concern about aging reactors has been growing because the three units at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in northeastern Japan that went into meltdown following the tsunami in March were built starting in 1967.

Among other reactors at least 40 years old are those at the Tsuruga and Mihama plants in central Japan, which were built starting in 1970.

Many more of the 54 reactors in Japan will reach the 40-year mark in the near future, though some were built only a few years ago.

(Credit: NY Times)

Japan Backs Off Goal to Phase Out Nuclear Power by 2040

September 19, 2012?
The New York Times?
Hiroko Tabuchi

TOKYO — In an abrupt turnabout, the Japanese government on Wednesday stopped short of formally adopting the goal it announced just last week — to phase out nuclear power by 2040 — after the plan drew intense opposition from business groups and communities whose economies depend on local nuclear power plants.

The cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said it would "take into consideration" the 2040 goal, but formally endorsed only a vague promise to "engage in debate with local governments and international society and to gain public understanding" in deciding Japan's economic future in the wake of the 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima.

Energy policy will be developed "with flexibility, based on tireless verification and re-examination," the cabinet's resolution read.

more

The future of Japan's nuclear policy remains under review.

Some people are worried about radiation in the food and water, as well as the health of children, who are more at risk than are adults to sicknesses from radiation exposure.

(Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)

Anti-nuclear protest in Fukui, Japan: business leaders said the phase-out would force firms to shift production overseas.


Japan drops plans to phase out nuclear power by 2040


19 September 2012
Justin McCurry in Tokyo

Japan has effectively abandoned a commitment to end its reliance on nuclear power by 2040 amid pressure from the country's business lobby, dropping a deadline recommended by a cabinet panel only days ago.

The cabinet on Tuesday gave only a vague endorsement of the panel's report, released last Friday, and dropped any mention of plans to complete the phase-out some time in the 2030s.

The trade and industry minister, Yukio Edano, acknowledged that meeting the target date could prove impossible.

"Whether we can become nuclear free by the 2030s is not something to be achieved only with a decision by policy-makers," he said.

"It also depends on
the will of
electricity users,
technological innovation
and the environment
for energy internationally
in the next decade or two."

And one might hope that the 'electricity users
(read: useless eaters)
might have a say in this
unimaginable travesty in the making...    

The will of the people peacefully expressed by their sheer numbers at one of the ever-expanding anti-nuclear protests sweeping the country.



The government could still save lives

September 16, 2012

Nuclear expert witness Arnie Gundersen discusses Fukushima's radioactive fallout

By David McNell
Special to The Japan Times

In the immediate aftermath of last year's Fukushima triple meltdown, Japan's government and pronuclear experts scrambled to dampen public concern. Experts waved away fears about radiation, cabinet ministers scoffed at comparisons to Chernobyl,

and the word
"meltdown"
itself was effectively
scoured from the media.

Dire warnings: Arnie Gundersen (right) during a recent symposium in Tokyo. Gundersen predicts the Fukushima disaster will lead to 1 million cancer deaths. (Credit: Damien Andrews)


Some observers, however, were quick to hit the panic button. One of the best known was nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, who predicted that the disaster would lead to 1 million extra deaths from cancer.

Eighteen months later, there is still no consensus on the eventual impact of the No. 1 plant's payload, or even on the amount of radiation released, although the most bloodcurdling initial assessments seem to have largely evaporated.

The final official tally
for escaped radiation
is 900,000 terabecquerels,
about one-fifth the amount
released by Chernobyl.

Gundersen, a nuclear engineer, says that's an underestimate. He puts the release of cesium at

about half that of Chernobyl,

and says little attention has been paid to radioactive gases, Xenon and Krypton, which poured out of the No. 1 plant in quantities "two to three times" greater than the 1986 Ukraine meltdown. He is sticking to his original alarming estimate of cancer fatalities.

Hold yer horses...

or
as they say in Rio Linda, LeDave,


Wait
just a freakin'
second here !

"This is without question
the biggest catastrophe
that the planet,
as to my knowledge,
has ever encountered."

What the hell does it take, people?

Whether it's the incoming 'visitor'

Let's call it a human-caused catastrophe...
and we don't know what going to be coming in from space...
as far as man or mankind or humankind causing something,
Fukushima dwarfs everything else.

(Michio Kaku on 4 April 2012)


WTF

does 'we don't know what's coming in from space' mean -
and dropped almost as an aside?


or the

incoming radioactive Japanese tsunami debris island - the size of California -


something has to get the attention of that 100th monkey and the world will change for the better ...      

When waiting s filled -
when enough of
we, the people -
believe that we CAN
change the world by
the way we think -

will be manifested on this plane and all citizens worldwide who share the vision of a radiation-free future will unite in song, dance and one voice: DENY NUCLEAR

We keep hearing the baseless comparisons being floated about regarding the amount of radiation spewed from Chernobyl and the never-ending fiasco/disaster at Fukushima.     


Sharpen your pencil and check my figures.   


We posted this over 500 days ago...


For your consideration:

For the first two days after the accident, the wind blew east from Fukushima towards monitoring stations on the US West Coast; on the third day it blew south-west over the Japanese monitoring station at Takasaki, then swung east again.

Each day, readings for iodine-131 at Sacramento in California, or at Takasaki, both suggested the same amount of iodine was coming out of Fukushima, says Wotawa: 1.2 to 1.3 × 10 to the 17th becquerels per day.

In the 10 days it burned, Chernobyl put out 1.76 × 10 to the 18th becquerels of iodine-131, which amounts to only 50 per cent more per day than has been calculated for Fukushima Daiichi. It is not yet clear how long emissions from the Japanese plant will continue.

11 March to 20 June = 70 days.

50% more per day means that Chernobyl put out twice as much Iodine-131 per day than has been calculated for Fukushima Daiichi - but only for 10 days.

Let's take the lower estimate of 1.2 x 10 to the 17th becquerels per day x 70 days:


If our figures are correct, that means that

Fukushima Daiichi has already spewed forth 350% as much Iodine-131 as Chernobyl.

And it is still spewing continuously 
24/7/365 
with no end in sight 
contaminating all the foodstuffs
in the fields in North America.

Similarly, says Wotawa, caesium-137 emissions are on the same order of magnitude as at Chernobyl. The Sacramento readings suggest it has emitted 5 × 10 to the 15th becquerels of caesium-137 per day; Chernobyl put out 8.5 × 10 to the 16th in total – around 70 per cent more per day.

5 × 10 to the 15th becquerels of caesium-137 per day x 70 days:


If our figures are correct, we conclude that Fukushima Daiichi has already spewed forth about 500% as much Cesium-137 as Chernobyl.


And it is still spewing continuously - 24 hours a day - with no end in sight -

contaminating all the foodstuffs in the fields in North America and much of our world.

This cannot bode well
for the inhabitants
of Planet Earth.

That was 20 June, 2011 - just 70 days after 3/11.     



That was 505 days ago ...



Even considering that there may be less fallout emanating on an daily basis from the triple Fukushima meltdowns, extrapolating the relevant data is somewhat astounding and frightening in its implications.   

Peace Love Light

tfw   

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[deuem]

Very good post Thor. As usual you have hit the mark and this subject is not closed. We need a new power source to replace this style. They will never give it up as long as they can hang a meter on it. I would rather see them going back to coal with the new scrubber tech.

I also wonder what the world would have done if this happened say in England and they radiated all of Europe. Or the middle east and they radiated Ibdia and Ch1na. Japan seems to be getting away from a lot of trouble because of the Pacific ocean and air flow. I wonder what Ch1na would do if the flow went East to West. West to East the Ocean is getting hit the worst then the states. Since it looks like an act of nature that started it all, No one blames anyone.

This no blame for this problem is a problem in its own. Where is the UN? Are they hiding out?

When we are all dead and there is no more money to be made the elite will take their game board and close the books. Count their money and then wonder where every one is. You see, money is only good with people. Mother Earth does not care about our financial systems....Deuem

[thorfourwinds]

The total number of days between


Friday, March 11, 2011
and
Friday, December 21, 2012:


651 days



The radiation poisoning of
we, the people,
our children, pets,
food, water and our land
has continued unabated -



24/7/365


- for 1 year, 9 months and 10 days

which is:

•   56,246,400 seconds
•   937,440 minutes
•   15,624 hours
•   93 weeks


Once again,
are we any closer to a solution
to the Fukushima multiple melt-throughs disaster/fiasco
spewing life-altering clouds of radiation
24/7/365  ?
   

Lest we forget:

(Karl Grossman photo: oracle.newpaltz.edu)

15 April 2011

Exclusive Karl Grossman interview: Fukushima Fallout over US Censored News

"Answering whether Fukushima nuclear fallout is impacting or will impact people on United States soil and is being covered-up by mainstream media, as asserted by Dr. Helen Caldicott, Dr. Nick Begich, Dr. Alexey Yablokov, and most recently, Amy Goodman highlighted in her interview of Dr. Michio Kaku this week his calling the catastrophe a "ticking time-bomb."

To shed light on this nuclear bomb, human rights journalist Deborah Dupré turned to American hero pioneer of combining investigative journalism with environmental rights, Karl Grossman, whose expertise on facilitating learning about nuclear power is unparalleled.

In an exclusive interview conducted April 13 and 15 by Dupré, Karl Grossman detailed critically important information that Americans have a right to know about Fukushima radiation and daily lies cover-up this major health issue."



Here is an excerpt from that interview.

Fukushima: Threat to human life cover-up

DEBORAH DUPRE´:"Many say American mainstream media has downplayed fallout possibilities in the US. Can you explain if this has been in best interest of the American public and if not, what should media be airing and how intensively should it be advising people?"

KARL GROSSMAN: "U.S. mainstream media has, indeed, downplayed, minimized -- indeed, has been in denial -- regarding the not even fallout possibilities, the fallout realities that have been occurring.

This is not in the best interest of anyone because not telling the truth is never good.

The media should fully report
what the fallout is and how
no amount of radioactivity is safe --
--any amount can cause cancer."

20 August 2011

Fukushima 'seriously out of control,' nuclear industry seriously in control of global media black out

"Since Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant has reportedly released 20 times the radiation contamination amount of the Hiroshima bomb, and its molten core is sinking through the Earth's crust, it appears to be in early stages of a "total China Syndrome meltdown" according to a Russia Today report Thursday during which

Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter answered why media is blacking out the catastrophe, as noted by numerous scientists, and he revealed the increasing threat of a nuclear explosion.

Those were among alarming words stated by Dr. Tatsuhiko Kodama, 58, head of the University of Tokyo Radioisotope Center Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology in Meguro-ku in an interview with The Mainichi Daily News on August 20."

The rest of the story

9 October 2011

TEPCO uses radioactive water from Reactors No. 5 and 6 to spray throughout Fukushima plant — Over 100 tons a day — Tanks close to overflowing

"Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has begun processing low-level radioactive water and spraying it [...]

The water comes from the plant's No. 5 and No. 6 reactors [...]

The move is aimed at preventing trees felled on the plant compound from catching fire and dust containing radioactive materials from scattering, the utility said.

A daily amount of 100 cubic meters of water will be sprayed [...]

Makeshift tanks and an artificial floating island, or "megafloat," [...] are close to overflowing."



19 October 2011

TV: "We don't want to create a panic, but it's good to know" —
Radioactive tsunami debris coming to Hawaii "much earlier" than predicted (VIDEO)

"KITV Honolulu is reporting on the first official discovery of tsunami debris from Japan nearing Hawaii.

And the debris, possibly contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima meltdowns, is coming to Hawaii "much earlier" than the two years researchers expected it would, according to KITV.

"We have a rough estimate of 5 to 20 million tons of debris coming from Japan... Hawaii is just in the path," said University of Hawaii computer programming researcher Jan Hafner."



October 19, 2011

Cesium from tap water in 26% of all the prefectures



13 November 2011

Local Tokyo official says "It became clear that radiation came further south than we thought, all the way to Tokyo"

... while at nursery school with kids rolling in dirt and tasting it (AUDIO)


Reactors No. 5 and 6 were NOT in cold shutdown after quake, implies report by US nuclear industry —

Cooling at Spent Fuel Pool No. 5 stopped until cables installed —

Fresh fuel had been loaded into both reactors



14 November 2011

Xenon known to cause dramatic increase in lung cancer —
Bombards humans with very powerful x-rays —
Turns into cesium —
Xenon from Fukushima most ever, 2.5 times Chernobyl (VIDEO)



27 November 2011

"It's like Russian roulette": Only 10 percent of school lunches in Fukushima tested for radiation —

Officials didn't even know testing equipment was available

"Every day I think of radiation
accumulating in my child's body,"

a 36-year-old Tokyo housewife tells the monthly magazine Takarajima. [...]


Many people no doubt suppress their fears and get on with their lives.

This woman can't.

She thinks Tokyo is contaminated and wants to move — for the child's sake more than her own. [...]

If you're a parent seeking reassurance, don't look to Sunday Mainichi magazine, which last week pointedly demanded,

"Are children's school lunches really safe ?"

Chiba Prefecture in October initiated daily testing, and two weeks later detected radioactive cesium — 350 becquerels — in shiitake mushrooms.

Echoing Takarajima's housewife, the mother of a second-grader says,

"How much radiation
would my child have consumed?

I can't help wondering,
and it sends shivers up my spine."

5 December 2011

WSJ: New Leak Detected at Fukushima Plant

Asahi: Strontium at 1,000,000 times gov't limit?



5 December 2011

5.8 trillion becquerels of strontium leaked from Fukushima over weekend



5 December 2011

Japan Times: Tepco's decontamination system doesn't remove strontium

Media butchers details on latest Fukushima leak



19 December 2011

New leak at Fukushima plant — 230 tons of radioactive water found in tunnel is rather "hot" — 9.6 million Bq/liter



Seven months later...


14 July 2012

Fukushima man-made catastrophe hitting West Coast is no hoax

Commission reports government, regulators and Tepco collusion betraying human right to safety

The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe,

concluded the panel,

"was the result of collusion
between the government,
the regulators and Tepco,
and the lack of governance by said parties."

"They effectively betrayed the nation's
right to be safe from nuclear accidents."v

23 August 2012

Fukushima fish radiation 258 times legal limit, higher than earlier

Fish off the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have 258 times the legal limit of radioactive cesium, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday.

"The reading was way beyond the levels recorded before," said Tetsu Nozaki, who heads the Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations. "It is worrying."

"The annual safety limit for radiation exposure from food products is 1 millisievert per person," says Asahi Shimbun.

30 August 2012

Fukushima hot cod stopped from entering U.S.

The central government of Japan has ordered Aomori Prefecture to suspend shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe due to excessive levels of cesium detected, according to The Japan Times Wednesday.

11 September 2012

Japanese mayor says students are gaining knowledge by eating radioactive food in school lunches

"A Tokyo newspaper reported on the comments made by Kawasaki City's mayor regarding lunch items served to students including frozen tangerines (9.1 Bq/Kg of cesium) and canned apples (1.6 Bq/Kg of cesium)", translation by Fukushima Diary:

"It's important for children
to know that they live in danger."

"It's wrong to educate children to be conscious about this level of radiation. There is a risk of being hit by car, there is also a risk of being stabbed by passerby. Should we teach students not to pass by anyone ?"



21 September 2012

CBS: Giant piece of tsunami debris near Hawaii — Fishermen concerned about nuclear contamination (VIDEO)

"A large dock spotted in the waters of Hawaii is the latest tsunami debris sighting and it poses a big threat to fishermen," KGMB-TV's Tim Sakahara reports.

"Yesterday [...] it was about 15 miles north of Molokai [...] the fisherman thinks it will hit around Kahuku sometime Friday evening which had Oahu fisherman concerned

>      Dock estimated to be 30 feet by 50 feet

>      First seen Monday night[/color]

>      Fishermen concerned about nuclear contamination

>      NOAA, Coast Guard, state officials refuse to speak on camera and blame each other..."

16 October 2012

More US tuna contaminated

Entire food web "including humans" may be affected as Fukushima radionuclides spread to West Coast

The incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant released a substantial radioactive contamination into the environment. With the predominant wind and current flow in this part of the North Pacific, these radionuclides will gradually spread to the US West Coast waters after a suitable period of time, with the possibility of affecting food quality throughout the food web (including humans).

25 October 2012

Tepco: Water used to cool Fukushima reactors could be released into ocean



5 November 2012

Fukushima kids playing above nuclear waste — Public parks are now unmarked radioactive dumps

"On a recent weekday morning [in a Koriyama public park], a group of children played on the swings while the retired dentistry professor strolled under the trees.

Beneath the soil in one unmarked, unfenced corner, however, lie hundreds of bags packed with radioactive dirt, sludge from drainage ditches, and other contaminated debris."

What to do with nuclear waste?

"With no other choice, residents, school administrators, and local park departments are burying bags of debris on their property or piling them outside under plastic sheets.

Koriyama's public parks have ended up as scantily regulated repositories for radioactive waste, marked only by a few traffic cones or nothing at all."

15 December 2012

Cover-up of true radiation levels Fukushima residents were exposed to?

WHO accused of underestimating disaster's impact on human health


15 December 2012

Kyodo: M10 quake possible, says study — An hour of shaking — Tsunami lasting for several days


15 December 2012

Intense M5 quakes hit near Fukushima (MAPS & VIDEO)

17 December 2012

"Shocking": Officials make it mandatory to use Fukushima rice in school lunches.

Fukushima plans to use local rice in mandatory school lunches (!). Without members of public present, the assembly decided to use Fukushima rice in mandatory school lunches from next month.

TODAY
651 days
since 3/11/11

This image from the U.S. Coast Guard shows a dock that washed ashore in a rugged area along the Olympic National Park Tuesday. (AP)


20 December 2012

Experts fail to reach tsunami dock

Before being turned back by a swollen stream and rough seas, tsunami-debris experts nearly reached a remote Olympic Peninsula beach to inspect a dock — likely from Japan — that has washed ashore. [...]

It was spotted Tuesday by the Coast Guard on the Olympic Peninsula. Tsunami-debris experts didn't try to reach it by ground until Thursday because of stormy weather and treacherous terrain, said David Workman, spokesman for the state Marine Debris Task Force. [...]

21 December 2012

Child with severe nose bleeds, full body rash
after playing in Fukushima contaminated water;

So much blood, thought head was cut open —
Fingers covered in open sores

Today I met Mrs. Mutoh, mother of son Shougo, 11, and daughter Rimi, 8. [...]

Shougo suffers from severe eczema and his hands and fingers are covered in open sores.

Mrs. Mutoh warned Shougo about the dangers of playing outside, but in June of last year, three months after the meltdown, on his way home from school he wandered into a rice paddy in search of frogs.

When Mrs. Mutoh went looking for him, she found him playing in the contaminated water and holding several frogs.


Within a month, Shougo was having severe nose bleeds.

The first time it happened there was so much blood that Mrs. Mutoh was sure Shougo had cut his head open.

Shougo also started having fainting spells, and a red rash broke out over his entire body.

Mrs. Mutoh brought Shougo to a university hospital in Fukushima City. A blood test was conducted, and Shougo was found to have a low white blood cell count.

Without asking,
the doctor immediately told Mrs. Mutoh
that Shougo's condition was NOT related
to radiation exposure and that
no treatment was neccesary...

24 December 2012

"Decontamination is for hiding the fact, fallout from Fukushima incinerator plant, Dec 2012, a thorough decontamination work is being conducted around "Healthy Land Fukushima".

Vast amounts of plastic container bags are piled up for a small area decontamination. Contaminations, surface soil, vegetation, falllen leaves, dust with radioactive particles are stuffed in them.

They removed tree barks for reducing radiation level.

It's very odd."

46.14 microSv/h, Okabe area, near Fukushima city garbage incineration plant 2012 AUG?





29.82 microSv/h, Okabe area, near Fukushima city garbage incineration plant 2012 AUG





30.18 microSv/h, Fukushima city Incineration plant road side mud, Sep 2012

25 December 2012

Kyodo: Radiation fears keep Fukushima kids inside

Filmmaker: Adults break down in tears when seeing children forced to play at indoor 'smile parks'...

"Suddenly, I was overcome with emotion and began to sob"

Even though many schools and playgrounds have been "decontaminated", the surrounding mountains and land have not.

Parents are worried about their children playing outside as it has already been documented that because of wind, rain and other factors,

the radiation levels in areas that had been previously deemed "decontaminated" are already beginning to rise again.

Remember Fukushima?



Peace Love Light

tfw   

Liberty & Equality or Revolution

[Phedre]

Thor, I have read your thread, very informative indeed. But I will say it is "chilling to the bone".  I have lots of friends on the southern Oregon coast and this "crap" has been washing up on the beaches for months. I have not seen it reported in the major media and they stopped talking about it in there local papers. My friends have "no comment" to the questions I ask, regarding the influx of the "stuff".

I also might add that I am a "downwinder" from the Hanford Nuke Plant. When I was little (the 50s) they did measured releases of strontium  90.  We ate it , drank it and lived in it. The government slipped in a few years ago to "check-up" on us and see what type of cancer we are dying from. I have two uncles that died from thyroid cancer.  It can't help but be part of my life or death story.

But I can truly understand those and including myself when the "desire to bury our heads in the sand" and "whistle in the dark". It is such an overwhelming horror, with out recourse, it seems, too much to bare, if looked at straight on, may surely drive some madd in the process!

[spacemaverick]

Thorfourwinds, I just wanted to tell you that you have a very comprehensive and complete reporting setup here at Pegasus.  I have fell behind somewhat in my reporting of Fukushima at the other place.  Keep up the excellent work!

[Pimander]

For the members who don't remember CHernobyl, which happened 26th April, 1986...



28 years later, the restrictions on using Welsh lamb from certain areas - 2200 miles away - for food has finally been lifted.

Last updated on 20 March 2012

Post Chernobyl sheep controls to be removed

The Board of the Food Standards Agency has today agreed to the lifting of the last of the 'Mark and Release' monitoring controls on sheep introduced in 1986 as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.



A review carried out by the FSA has assessed whether these protective measures are still required to maintain food safety. The conclusion of this work, undertaken through 2011, was that the current controls are no longer proportionate to the very low risk and removing the controls would not compromise consumer safety.

http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2012/mar/chernobyl