Radiation ConversationWelcome to our continuing Radiation Conversation II. It succeeds Radiation Conversation I with its 2,777 informative and lively comments that became so numerous and lengthy that the page slowed loading considerably. Comments from April 1. 2014 to present have been moved here to Radiation Conversation II.
Radiation Conversation I began September 19, 2011 after we had to continue this forum in a new post after 2,433 comments posted on EnviroReporter.com’s Radiation Station which began March 16, 2011.
All new Radiation Conversation comments take place here!
This is false impression and, frankly, a pretty dumb one. The IAEA team “had not observed any Russian military deployment inside the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant” BECAUSE PUTIN’S INVADERS EVACULATED IT BEFORE DETONATING IT AT THEIR OPTION.
The IAEI looks daft for actually thinking this malarkey and then serving it up publicly. Most observers we’ve read aren’t that stupid, thank goodness. The only hope, at this point, is that the Ukrainians can find and disable any left explosives before they blow up the largest nuclear complex in Europe, courtesy of war criminal and soon-to-be-deposed Putin.
30th June 2023 – IAEA saw no evidence Moscow planning attack on Zaporizhia nuclear plant, but ‘anything can happen’ (9 minutes 26 secs)
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The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi spoke to FRANCE 24 from Vienna and stated that his teams had not observed any Russian military deployment inside the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, despite Ukrainian authorities claiming that Moscow was preparing to attack the plant.
Russia and Ukraine are presently both accusing the other of planning to orchestrate a major nuclear event.
The Ukrainian’s are claiming that Russian’s have have placed mines in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear plant spent fuel cooling pools and is presently evacuating staff in preparation for blowing up the facility.
The Russians claim that the Ukrainians have secretly collected nuclear material from one of the Ukrainian nuclear reactors, and that this will enable them to make a dirty bomb, or nuclear bomb.
“In the fog of war the truth is the first casualty!”
Let us to all pray that is madness is averted.
There will be no winners if an event like this were to occur. It would also have serious health affects on multiple future generations in multiple countries as the radiation will spread far and wide. The nuclear plant site and surrounding landscape would also become so contaminated it would become another radioactive exclusion zone, just like the Ukraine Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exclusion zone, created after it’s reactor 4 melted down in 1986.
Link to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant radiation monitoring stations.
The SaveEcoBot site link has been added under the Ukraine and Belarus country headings on EnviroReporter’s International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations. You will also find other radiation monitoring system links listed under the Ukraine and Belarus country headings there. The local monitoring stations on SaveEcoBot measure background radiation levels in Nano Sievert per hour nS/hr. Most of the local background stations in Ukraine and Belarus outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone are presently showing around 100 to 200 nS/hr. Thirty seven years after the Chernobyl reactor 4 meltdown, the exclusion zone is still showing very high background radiation levels. The highest level being 5300 nSu/hr.
If you are new to this, 100 to 200 nS/hr will be the present local background reference level for you on SaveEcoBot.
If you see levels increasing above this on multiple monitoring sites in Ukraine and Belarus near each other, then it likely means a significant nuclear event has occurred, and you will need to start looking for live surface wind direction and weather patterns so you can determine whether a radioactive cloud is heading in your direction. This will help you make a decision on whether to evacuate or shelter in place. Links to live wind and weather monitoring resources are also provided on the EnviroReporter’s International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations page.
You need to learn how to use the wind, weather and radiation monitoring systems before a major nuclear event occurs. Otherwise you will be fumbling around in the dark, trying to figure out how everything works.
If it is headed outside the boarders of Ukraine and Belarus you can then go to EnviroReporter’s “International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations”, to look up other countries radiation monitoring stations.
In the present world environment, owning a Geiger counter and knowing how to use it, could be a potential life saver. If you have questions about how to use a Geiger counter, or how to test food for radiation, please leave questions in the EnviroReporter radiation conversation comment section here.
Also feel free to share your knowledge on the subject.
Get a feel for your Geiger Counter. Knowing what is the average background level you would expect for your local area is important. You need to build up a knowledge base of your local weather and local background radiation levels. Then you have a baseline from which to work.
I have provided a screenshot below from the Khmelnytskyi monitoring station in Ukraine. It is showing a increase in local background Gamma dose. This is not a huge increase, but an increase was detected.
This increase in background level seems to be confined to the local area at present. I have not been able to find any other regional monitoring stations showing an increase like this during this period of time.
“A colossal explosion was heard at the main weapons and ammunition storage facility supplied by NATO in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine. Repeated large detonation explosions occurred after being hit by the missiles, as the depots stockpiled very large quantities of fuel and ammunition for Ukrainian forces’ planned offensive operation.”
I was investigating this massive explosion in real time (video report below), and keeping an eye on the European Ukraine radiation monitoring stations just in case there had been a nuclear component to these explosions. There may have been British depleted uranium anti tank munitions stored there.
At the time nothing above normal background levels were showing up in any of the EU monitoring stations located in Ukraine. I would pop back every now and then to see if there were any significant detections.
Around 7.30 pm my time I found the entire country wide Ukrainian monitoring system had gone down. At around 8pm, all stations came back online again, showing no changes in background levels. Fishy?
This explosion created a massive 3.4 magnitude seismic event at ground level! See screenshot below.
There maybe a significant radioactive event happening that is being covered up.
Can’t say until we have more evidence.
Colossal explosion heard at NATO supplied ammunition facility in Khmelnytskyi (2 minutes 30 secs)
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A colossal explosion was heard at the main weapons and ammunition storage facility supplied by NATO in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine. Repeated large detonation explosions occurred after being hit by the missiles, as the depots stockpiled very large quantities of fuel and ammunition for Ukrainian forces’ planned offensive operation.
On 10/6/2022 the New York Times reports: “A day after the Kremlin announced that it would “nationalize” the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant it has seized in Ukraine, the United Nation’s top atomic energy official said on Thursday that he could not recognize any change of ownership of the plant, which he described as unlawful and destabilizing. And he said a nuclear accident there is “a very, very clear possibility.”
Here is a basic guide to quickly find out if a significant radiological event is occurring in Europe or Ukraine.
The link I provide below takes you to the EURDEP radiation monitoring web site.
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“EUropean Radiological Data Exchange Platform () network for the exchange of radiological monitoring data between participating countries almost in REAL TIME. Monitoring information are collected from automatic surveillance systems in 39 countries. These data reflect essentially the natural radiation background, if NO radiological events occur.”
The EURDEP site link I have provided will take you to their advanced map radiation monitoring page. When you first go to this page scroll down the page and click on the blue button that says, “Open the map, I understand and consent”. If a box appears asking you to allow cookies, you must allow cookies if you want to see the map, and all their radiation monitoring stations.
The radiation monitoring station location dots on the map are colour coded. You can zoom in and out of the map with your mouse wheel. The different colours indicate the radiation level range that is presently being detected at that monitoring location. Purple being the highest and light aqua is the lowest levels being detected.
Once the map view opens you will see a box on the top right of the map area. This box contains layered coloured rows, you will also see a number to the right of each row. This indicates the number of radiation monitoring stations in their system detecting at that level of radiation.
Place your mouse cursor over the coloured bar showing the radiation levels you are interested in, and click.
Once you do this it will filter out all the other monitoring stations on the map that are not in this detection range.
You can use this feature to quickly filter and see what are the highest radiation detections across Europe and Ukraine.
At present there is only one radiation station that is detecting radiation in the 300 to 500 nSv/h range and zero stations in the levels above it. This is a site located in Belarus which was significantly contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown in 1986. Zoom in and you will see that this monitoring station is located just north of the Ukraine border.
If you see more than that one monitoring station showing at this level, you will know there is potentially a major nuclear event in progress.
Note: All monitoring systems are subject to malfunctions at times. Two or more monitoring stations in close proximity indicating an increase in background level is more statistically an indication of a genuine event.
If you click on the monitoring station location dot, a chart will pop up, showing you the radiation levels over time.
If you do see a significant detection, knowing the location’s wind direction at the time will be very important, particularly if you live in Europe.
Wind direction is an important factor in determining where the radiation will go.
The Nullschool 3D Earth wind map service allows you to see wind direction worldwide at different heights. You can rotate the map by holding down your mouse on the map, and dragging. If you use your mouse scroll wheel you can zoom the map location in and out.
If you click on the “Earth” item at the lower left corner of the Nullschool map page, a menu will pop up, that allows you to select different wind height data.
The Russians keep shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine, like they did five times today, Thursday August 11, 2022.
This is the largest nuclear reactor in Europe and one of the ten largest in the world. Should it be destroyed, the consequences are going to be massive.
“This is a serious hour, a grave hour and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] must be allowed to conduct its mission to Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible,” the agency’s chief said at an emergency meeting of the UN security council Thursday night.
EnviroReporter.com recognized the need for accurate US RadNet radiation information being available 24/7/365 soon after the still-ongoing triple meltdowns began at Fukushima Japan March 11, 2011. Millions have seen EnviroReporter.com radiation monitoring ever since because it’s easy and free to use.
There are 142 EPA RadNet stations across America monitoring gamma and beta radiation levels and gamma exposure rates displayed. As of August 11, 2022, there are 483 live graphs continuously streaming though some stations can cut out for periods of time.
Gamma Gross Count Rate and Gamma Gross Count Rate by Channel Range as well as Gamma Exposure Rate and Beta Air Filter Results are graphed continuously courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EnviroReporter.com organized this vital data for ease of use.
Should the “grave hour” become the unthinkable, know that the radiation from any kind of meltdown, fire, explosion or any combination therewith, the air plume would blow over eastern Ukraine but mostly Russia first.
But what glows around goes around and soon enough it could reach North America. That’s when to turn to EnviroReporter.com’s RadNet Air Monitoring.
Florida local TV stations are on the internet. You can watch them, commercials and all, in California or even in Story City, Iowa.
Gavin Newsom is running personal, self promotional advertisements on local Florida television stations. We’ve seen 6 of them so far, and estimate that there are at least 3 variations, which represents a lot of cash outlay in terms of production costs.
In each of the ads, a smiling active Gavin directs his comments to Florida voters, telling them that the Florida elected officials are doing bad things. On his commercials Gavin Newsom promotes California and invites Floridians to move there.
Obviously, Gavin Newsom is really promoting himself, because he doesn’t mention a single Florida Democrat candidate or ask that people vote for them to make people’s lives better in Florida. The focus is just on Gavin’s smiling face.
Its crystal clear that Gavin Newsom is going to take a shot at running for President in 2024. I am betting Boeing has orally promised to make contributions to him.
Boeing panders to whoever is in office, and donated $1 Million to the Democratic Party committee which was sponsoring the Biden/Harris inaugural ball, after the inaugural ball, even after it was cancelled. Boeing did that after having been loyal supporters of Trump when he was in office.
Gavin Newsom has to understand, loudly and clearly, that whatever primary he will be in, his opponents, the local press and local voters are going to hear about his making a sweetheart deal with Boeing, so they [Boeing] don’t have to clean up their toxic mess at Santa Susana Field Lab which has been instrumental in making children and adults sick with cancer.
The Santa Susana Field Lab and the affected people living and dying within 5 miles of it are what stands in the way of Gavin Newsom’s quest for the Presidency.
By the time the Democratic Primary season ends in 2024, the whole of the U.S. electorate will know Gavin Newsom is in Boeing’s pocket and his deal-making in California is killing children as well as adults.
EnviroReporter.com will continue its unique, award-winning work covering the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, aka Rocketdyne, and its associated issues including Runkle Canyon, Brandeis-Bardin and Ahmanson Ranch, which was as good as protected as parkland once our “Rocketdyne Ranch” cover story hit the stands in December 2002. The 2,783 acre “Upper Las Virgenes Open Space Reserve” has thousands of ancient oaks, rolling savannahs, red-legged frogs and mountain lions. The bucolic place has hiking trails, mountain biking, horseback riding, picnicking and even a splendid ranch house for weddings. What you won’t find, however, are the 3,050 luxury homes stopped by our reporting and the community. It’s the perfect staycation destination and you Californians own it in perpetuity!
June 3, 2022
2:40 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 55.3 CPM OR 47.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND^^ which is negligible and a substantial drop since the last measurement in identical conditions just over two months ago on March 30, 2022.
2:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.4 CPM^^
Monthly milestone radiation readings at EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station Stats and Special Radiation Station Tests show no indications of additional airborne radiation resultant of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though that is to be expected considering no significant nuclear event has been detected.
There are at least two factors to remember when nothing unusual is detected in this case. First, the source. EnviroReporter.com‘s 11 years of extensive radiation testing across the United States numbers over 10,000. Our Eat Me! food and drink monitoring has checked thousands of consumables for telltale beta radiation with an Inspector Nuclear Radiation Monitor.
The RadNet Air Monitoring has testing for beta and gamma radiation across America and really keeps a close eye on the big picture of possible radioactive events impacting the country regardless of their source or national origin. There are 142 EPA RadNet stations, with 483 live graphs, organized here testing for Gamma Gross Count Rate and Gamma Gross Count Rate by Channel Range as well as Gamma Exposure Rate and Beta Air Filter Results that are live-graphed continuously courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EnviroReporter.com‘s organization of these data makes it easier to monitor the radiation situation with current normal conditions, and how they look on the graphs, versus anything extraordinary and/or disastrous that may happen in the future. This is an invaluable resource in case of nuclear emergency.
March 30, 2022
9:35 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 95.9 CPM OR 2.3 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
9:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.3 CPM^^
February 21, 2022
6:45 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 92.3 CPM OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
6:25 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 38.5 CPM^^
January 17, 2022
2:15 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 44.9 CPM^^ or normal background
2:00 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.5 CPM^^
December 30, 2021
2:30 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 74.7 CPM^^ OR 1.7 TIMES BACKGROUND WHICH IS LOW
2:00 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 44.3 CPM^^ – Normal background thereby not contaminated by external event(s)
1:45 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.1 CPM^^
The U.S. Department of Energy has undertaken another profoundly dishonest operation, in shipping “hot” nuclear waste to the Nevada Test Site, which is something forbidden under the Federal law the late Senator Harry Reid got enacted and which is still in effect:
It’s worth noting that the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has opined in the SB 990 case that the Secretary of Energy is the Federal regulator in charge of nuclear waste from reactor meltdowns, which is what happened at Santa Susana Field Lab and is what happened at Idaho Falls. Even the radioactively contaminated dirt is classified as “nuclear waste” under the Secretary of Energy’s jurisdiction, according to that opinion, which the U.S. Supreme Court sustained without hearing a case.
Former Governor of Michigan, Corporate Democrat, Harvard Law Grad Jennifer Granholm, she of the immaculate bleached blond hairdo which is so phony at her advanced age, is the Secretary of Energy these days, even though from her resume it appears she had no experience for that job other than being a loyal Biden supporter.
Such a person we can all admire, Jennifer Granholm. She shafts the sick and dying kids around the Santa Susana Field Lab by not ordering Boeing to remediate the radioactive waste, and she also allows her dishonest employees to mislabel nuclear waste and deliver it to Nevada, where Federal law bars her from disposing of it.
And Even More Unbelievable, the DOJ Lead Criminal Prosecutor on the Boeing Case Mentioned in Earlier Links Has Become a Partner in the Huge Law Firm Representing Boeing in the Case She Prosecuted:
Follow-up to comment on JDSupra news story and court opinion on conduct of Boeing Directors and senior officers:
News about Deferred Prosecution Agreement Boeing reached with Trump Administration DOJ’s Criminal Division, coincidentally as announced by DOJ on the day after the Capitol Riot:
One can assume that Boeing’s executives and lawyers were anxious to “get the deal done” to avoid the potential criminal prosecution carrying over into the Biden Administration.
Even more important news about families of victims in the 2 Boeing 737-Max crashes asking a Federal court to set aside the Deferred Prosecution Agreement which DOJ entered into with Boeing:
The families’ request for a set-aside of the non-prosecution agreement brings to light the fact that the dollar amount of the “fine” paid by Boeing is remarkably similar to the amount Sherwin Alumina’s Officers & Directors Insurance policy paid to settle the breach of fiduciary duty case as described in my other December 2021 comment.
BOEING’S SHAREHOLDERS RECOVER BIG BUCKS FROM THE OFFICERS & DIRECTORS LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY FOR THE BOEING BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The online lawyer magazine JDSupra tells the tale of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Boeing’s shareholders/owners against the members of Boeing’s Board of Directors for allowing a climate of abject recklessness on aircraft safety issues which caused the two disastrous crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airliners and grounded the production of the company’s most valuable cash income producing product line. According to JDSupra the Directors were portrayed in a highly unflattering light in the case. The members of the Board of Directors were covered by Officers & Directors Insurance, which is purchased by corporations to protect their shareholders from events of Director misconduct.https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/boeing-s-board-agrees-to-237-5-million-3235085/
The case settled recently for $237.5 Million which will be paid by the insurance company to the shareholders, as theoretical compensation for the Boeing Board of Directors’ errors and misconduct which led to decreases in value of Boeing stock owned by the shareholders. Because the money will be paid under a Settlement Agreement the members of Boeing’s Board of Directors will admit no liability for wrongdoing or negligence, and none will immediately lose their seats on the Board as a direct consequence of the lawsuit or its settlement.
What was particularly interesting about the JDSupra article is that it disclosed and linked to a formal opinion written by a judge of the Delaware Chancery Court which is the court with jurisdiction to rule on misconduct and negligence by the Boards of Directors and corporate officers of most of America’s large corporations, which are fairly uniformly incorporated in Delaware. (In Delaware Chancery Court judges are called “Chancellors” and “Vice Chancellors” but the title doesn’t change their judicial role in terms of issuing binding opinions.) The judge’s opinion is a real eye-popper and can be read here: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=324120 Because the case settled, the lawyers for the Boeing Directors won’t have the opportunity to erase or invalidate the judge’s opinion.
Readers of Enviroreporter who follow the travails of the people who live around the Santa Susana Field Lab might recognize the alleged conduct by the Boeing Board of Directors in the article, and as recounted and characterized by the Delaware Chancery Court judge’s Opinion and might think the allegations and characterizations have a familiar ring to them.
In the third in a continuing series of groundwater remediation lawsuits which the Whittaker-Bermite Community Advisory Group in Santa Clarita got rolling, by intensely lobbying their local water agencies to “sue the polluter” way back in 1999-2000, on FRIDAY 12/4/21 a U.S. District Court jury in LA rendered a $75 Million money damages verdict against Whittaker Bermite Corp. (a subsidiary of the British industrial giant Meggitt) payable to Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, the drinking water provider in the Santa Clarita Valley of California. What did Whittaker do? Leaked VOCs into the ground water and refused to pay to remediate them starting 21 years ago when the first lawsuit was filed. There is yet more litigation to be done by the water agency’s lawyers (Nossaman Guthner) on that case, to try to get even more money out of Whittaker’s insurance company or Whittaker themselves, to pay for the cost of “cleaning up the source of 50+% Santa Clarita’s drinking water” but the verdict shows progress. What is fascinating is that the jury members were young, and they “totally got it” in terms of who should pay to clean-up environmental contamination.
Just like with Rocketdyne, justice for the public takes a long time, but it does happen if people are persistent. Take heart about that point, and share the victory in terms of feeling good!
Las Virgenes Open Space Preserve Officially Opens 18 Years Ago Today!
The place formerly known as Ahmanson Ranch opened as permanent open-space parkland 18 years ago on December 1, 2003. Our Ahmanson Ranch Investigation, which began in LA Weekly, intensified in the Ventura County Reporter, doggedly pursued in Los Angeles CityBeat/ValleyBeat and carried on, with more news to come in 2022, by EnviroReporter.com, resulted in a 2,783 acres of prime, publicly-owned rolling hills with thousands of oaks. We stopped 3,050 luxury homes, two golf courses, and 400,000 square feet of commercial space valued at $2 billion and instead left a legacy of land for mountain lions, red-tail hawks and red-legged frogs.
In 2002, my father Leo Benedict Collins II, was diagnosed with a fatal cancer which he bravely chose not to nuke with radiation or chemicals in order to get the most out of life at home. I knew in my heart that Ahmanson Ranch was going to fold like a house of gooey radioactive cards polluted with perchlorate as I had just started reporting on it. I told my father to hang on because I was going to get that ranch for him and he had to live to see it. He did. My father died the night before the park opened on November 30, 2003. My Pops had to be the first official visitor and he was.
Today, his spirit imbues the place, especially at oak tree number 246, a special spot overlooking the open space where we’ve chosen to rendezvous. My father’s gift to you is this miraculously-won wonderland, where you can hike, bike and even get married at the lovely ranch house. Eighteen years is still young for a massive park, but the timelessness of the place transcends and offers a portal into a better space we all can enjoy.
November 24, 2021
5:45 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 164.2 CPM OR 4.4 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
5:30 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.5 CPM^^
November 23, 2021
12:55 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST VACUUM ONLY: 49.6 CPM OR 49.6 OR BACKGROUND^^
12:40 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.1 CPM^^
[From Michael Collins: To answer Another Simi Mom, rhetorically yet realistially, everything.EnviroReporter.com‘s coverage began in 1998 of the worst partial nuclear reactor meltdown in U.S. history which happened above Simi Valley at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory’s Sodium Reactor Experiment in 1959. Our reporting on this site, commonly known as Rocketdyne led to the creation of adjacent Ahmanson Ranch as preserved open space in 2003.
Now comes the film version which will bring this story to massive audiences from MSNBC Films with their first documentary feature film called In the Dark of the Valley.
The documentary’s trailer takes tragedy and makes art and sense of it for all sorts of folks who will be entertained and outraged.
Here’s what MSNBC Films has to say about their documentary:
A Southern California mother discovers that the Santa Susana Field Lab, the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, is located only 7 miles from her home. Concealed from the public eye for 20 years and never fully cleaned up, she grapples with the idea that the site may be responsible for exposing her daughter and community to cancer-causing radioactive waste. The feature documentary, directed by Nicholas Mihm, airs Sunday, November 14th at 10 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
The Chinese people should be made aware of what their totalitarian government is getting into. Would translated, dubbed or subtitled versions of this potent and illuminating film benefit the Chinese people? Would, say, 150 translated copies of this piece be distributed on DVD there every year for 15 years? The power of the Internet puts that decision in your hands, not the iron fists of the Chinese government.
Look at what EnviroReporter.com has done since it began 15 years ago. Gifting the Chinese people the terrifying truth of nuclear power gone wrong would be the greatest present one could give this august and ancient peoples. It worked here. It can work there.]
October 4, 2021
5:35 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.6 CPM^^ or normal background
5:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.0 CPM^^
August 20, 2021
12:55 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 69.3 CPM OR 65.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND.^^
12:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.8 CPM^^
Texas legislators are, once again, being hypocrites. Two nuclear power plants are located in Texas, but apparently even spent fuel rods from those reactors are just too dangerous for Texan sensibilities:
20th June 2021 – As Chinese Nuclear Incident Unfolds, Expert Falls Off Building & Dies
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Ministry of Ecology and the Environment, responsible for news around nuclear power plants, also said no leak into the environment had occurred. “At present, monitoring results of the radiation environment around the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant show that there is no abnormality in the radiation level around the nuclear power plant,” the statement said.
The housings of about five of the more than 60,000 fuel rods in the Number One reactor are estimated to have been damaged, accounting for less than 0.01 percent of the total number, far lower than the assumed maximum damage proportion of 0.25 percent in the design for the reactor, it said.
With the jet stream able to transport radioactive particles and gases far from their source, people around the world are continuing to keep their eye on whatever is unfolding at the nuclear power plant. While China admitted that a leak of radioactive gas did make it into the environment in April, they say no radioactive gas or matter has escaped into the environment in this latest incident. During April 9 incident, the Taishan facility leaked what officials described as a “small amount” of radioactive gas. The Chinese National Nuclear Safety Administration said that event was a “Level 0” event that lacked safety significance.
Nevertheless, scientists continue to track wind movement for any potential cloud of suspicious gas rising from the nuclear power plant.
Current Leak at Nuclear Power Plant in China (Not Japan):
This is a situation to watch closely, in no small part because governments have a strong tendency NOT to be truthful with the public about health and safety risks members of the public face:
14th June 2021 – Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility
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The company, mainly owned by Électricité de France (EDF), a French utility company, then submitted an operational safety assistance request on June 3, formally asking for a waiver that would allow them to address an urgent safety matter, to the Department of Energy, warning American officials that the nuclear reactor is leaking fission gas.
Framatome reached out to the US government for assistance, the document indicates, because a Chinese government agency was continuing to increase its limits on the amount of gas that could safely be released from the facility without shutting it down, according to the documents reviewed by CNN.
“If they do have a gas leak, that indicates some of their containment is broken,” Rofer said. “It also argues that maybe some of the fuel elements could be broken, which would be a more serious problem.”
Comment:
China has hardly any publicly available monitoring stations available on the Internet, so unless the radioactive gas release flows in an easterly direction offshore, it may be hard to get any publicly reliable detection information.
For those who are interested, you could keep an eye on the situation by using the list of International monitoring stations located here.
Note: The Hong Kong monitoring station in this list does not appear to be working anymore, as the last readings were in late November 2018.
Taiwan does have a very good publicly available radiation monitoring system, so if there was any offshore release that headed in their direction, their system would very likely detect it.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in rollerskating popularity in 2020, which is fantastic. Now, just in time for Summer 2021, EnviroReporter.com shares the first of three inline skating articles that explore the world of 1) the best recreational skate path in Los Angeles; 2) some of the most insane and challenging long distance skate “jaunts” in Southern California; and 3) where to find the best downhill skate slaloms in the Southland.
There is nothing more liberating after a punishing pandemic than a sixty mile inline speed skate on a “jaunt.” This is extreme long distance speed skating on beautiful routes throughout Southern California that are nearly as fun to imagine as to actually skate. Check out “ROLL ON!”
Long distance speed skater Derby knows the dangers of going down. Hard. That’s why she wears protective gear and knows which hills to slalom. You will too reading “BEST STREET SKATING SLALOMS”
May 25, 2021
2:15 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 68.9 CPM OR 67.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND.^^ Did the May 15, 2021 Pacific Palisades Fire impact this reading? Unlikely.
2:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.2 CPM^^
May 10, 2021
4:00 pm PDST EXT INTERSECTION RUNKLE HAUL ROAD/ALBERTSON FIRE ROAD: 60.5 CPM^^
2:30 pm PDST EXT RUNKLE CANYON PARK – SOUTH PARKING LOT: 48.3 CPM^^
Below is a story of seemingly left wing political behavior in Texas. The politics in the story is very obnoxious to me, having traveled throughout rural Texas and read their little local newspapers which spew right wing politics while at the same time ranting about the risk to Texans of the transport of high level nuclear waste on U.S. 20 anywhere near Texans’ beloved Dallas/Fort Worth or their holyland, the area where the Permian Oil Basin is located, surrounding Midland/Odessa.
I’ve been to the dry desert county in West Texas where storage of spent nuclear fuel rods is proposed. Geographically, it’s closer to San Diego than to Houston and the Sabine River forming East Texas’ border. It’s called Andrews County and is due east of the far southeast corner of New Mexico where WIPP is located and where parts for nuclear bombs are manufactured every day. That’s where the proposed nuclear waste disposal site in Texas is proposed, as referred to in the newspaper story linked above.
I find it more than hypocritical that even though Texas has two fully operating nuclear power reactors, and even though Texas politicians are the most obnoxiously “business friendly” folks you’re ever going to meet, in the minds of Texas politicians every part of Texas must be held sacrosanct from being spoiled by the disposal of Texas’s own nuclear garbage, let alone anyone else’s.
As shown in the article linked above, Texan politicians and the state’s large land/ranch/farm owners would much rather Texas’ own high level nuclear waste be disposed of “somewhere else”, such as in Nye County Nevada, where local politicians and business people would rather “make a buck” by putting their own people a physical risk of harm from shipment of high level nuclear waste from all over the USA.
The article linked above from a “mainstream” Texas newspaper owned by Hearst illustrates that while there are many Texans who support “Texit” it’s unlikely the Texit politicos and zealots will be willing to bear the burden of “nationhood” and store Texas’ own nuclear waste from their own nuclear power plants.
12th April 2021 – Japan Decides To Dump One Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into The Pacific; IAEA Approves
Extract:
But wait… we thought that “scientists” said it was safe: does China and South Korea practice a different “science” – one where a million tons of radioactive water getting dumped into the ocean is actually – gasp – dangerous.
Could it be that we have two “scientific” camps, one of which is motivated by things far more mundane than the scientific method to reach its conclusion. Things such as money?
Of course, for Japan which prints trillions of said money every months, it’s not a concern, and that’s music to the “scientists” ears. Suga said the IAEA and other third parties will be involved in the plan, ensuring it is carried out with transparency. We can only assume that the “third parties” will also receive copious amounts of money to find that nothing is wrong here.
There is much more than radioactive tritium in that water!!!
23rd October 2020 – Greenpeace Warns ‘Potential Damage to Human DNA’ at Risk With Japan’s Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean
Extracts:
According to the report,
If the contaminated water is discharged to the Pacific Ocean, all of the carbon-14 will be released to the environment. With a half-life of 5,730 years, carbon-14 is a major contributor to global human collective dose; once introduced into the environment carbon-14 will be delivered to local, regional, and global populations for many generations.
Contrary to the understanding of the Japanese government, water that contains large quantities of radioactive carbon-14 (as well as the other radioactive isotopes including strontium-90 and tritium) can only be described as contaminated.
Comment:
It is important for the health of the whole planet that this radioactive contaminated water must be prevented from being released into the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government want to use the already stressed Pacific Ocean as a cheap dump for the environmental disaster waste they are responsible for. They have been running a public relations campaign for years now claiming that this radioactive water only contains tritium, when in fact it contains a radioactive soup of different harmful isotopes.
Tritium is much more dangerous than they want the public to know!!!
04.12.2011 – Radioactive Berkeley: No Safe Dose
Extracts:
The video also expressed a public concern over children visiting the Lawrence Hall of Science to exposure to tritium emissions from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) National Tritium Labeling Facility.
Comment:
This video brings up a lot of independent research on the biological effects of radioactive Tritium releases. That Tritium is something to be very concerned about.
Despite having 2 operating nuclear power plants called Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant and South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, officials of the State of Texas are proposing to outlaw disposal of high-level nuclear waste in their state. Property owners in Andrews County Texas have proposed using naturally occurring subterranean caves for that purpose. Andrews County is due east of and directly adjoining Hobbs, NM which has several nuclear processing and storage facilities.
March 10, 2021
1:50 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.5 CPM^^ or normal background
1:15 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.8 CPM^^
March 3, 2021
11:00 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 57.4 CPM^^ or 26.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND
10:45 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 45.5 CPM^^
January 28, 2021
7:30 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 45.3 CPM^^ or normal background
7:15 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.7 CPM^^
POSTED MARCH 8, 2021
19th February 2021 – Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant
Extract:
Cooling water levels have fallen in two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant since a powerful earthquake hit the area last weekend, indicating possible additional damage, its operator said Friday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Keisuke Matsuo said the drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicates that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened by Saturday’s magnitude 7.3 quake, allowing more water to leak.
Meanwhile, the Tokyo High Court on Friday held the government as well as TEPCO accountable for the 2011 nuclear disaster, ordering both to pay about 280 million yen ($2.6 million) in compensation to more than 40 plaintiffs forced to evacuate to Chiba, near Tokyo, for their lost livelihoods and homes.
Comment:
After nearly ten years the government and TEPCO have been found accountable. The victims are still suffering, and the disaster is ongoing! In my opinion, that is extremely poor compensation for all the pain and suffering those people have been through, because of this disaster. Plus there are still large numbers of victims who have not been compensated at all!
2nd January 2021 – Fukushima Radiation Levels: ‘Worse’ than Previously Thought
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A massive amount of radioactive materials “attached to shield plugs of the containment vessels in the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors,” according to Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
The finding poses an “extremely serious” challenge to the shutdown process NRA has been attempting at the site, part of an overall decommissioning of the plant.
December 14, 2020
11:30 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 79.9 CPM^^ OR 78.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
11:15 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.7 CPM^^
November 13, 2020
4:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 70.1 CPM^^ OR 68.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:35 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.5 CPM^^
October 12, 2020
2:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 58.6 CPM^^ OR 37.6% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:05 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
September 7, 2020
7:50 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 51.3 CPM^^ OR 29.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND
7:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 39.5 CPM^^
July 20, 2020
6:10 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 44.5 CPM^^ or background
5:55 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
July 6, 2020
1:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 45.1 CPM^^ OR 19.3% ABOVE BACKGROUND
1:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 38.3 CPM^^
June 29, 2020
9:30 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 54.2 CPM^^ OR 31.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
9:15 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.1 CPM^^
June 23, 2020
12:45 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 47.7 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
12:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.6 CPM^^
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
A serious emergency situation, at around 1 pm (12 noon CET) on December 10th, in Block 2 of the the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant on the western coast of Finland resulted in a reactor shutdown. The plant operator Teollisuuden Voima reported that the radiation levels within the nuclear power unit have increased, but no radioactivity has leaked out.
October 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)
October saw rather volatile swings in local background levels. This is our storm season, and when storms pass through during this time of the year, local area radon levels tend to increase. These radon increases occur when we get northern tropical air flows off the Pacific Ocean. I have set up a local live Radon detector, and I can see all this happening in real time, as the storms pass through the area.
A page has been set up on the Sunshine Coast Computer Club Inc., web site so members can view the local live radiation monitoring station information. This local live radiation monitoring station is publicly available.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
23rd October 2020 – Greenpeace Warns ‘Potential Damage to Human DNA’ at Risk With Japan’s Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean
Extracts:
According to the report,
If the contaminated water is discharged to the Pacific Ocean, all of the carbon-14 will be released to the environment. With a half-life of 5,730 years, carbon-14 is a major contributor to global human collective dose; once introduced into the environment carbon-14 will be delivered to local, regional, and global populations for many generations.
Contrary to the understanding of the Japanese government, water that contains large quantities of radioactive carbon-14 (as well as the other radioactive isotopes including strontium-90 and tritium) can only be described as contaminated.
Comment:
It is important for the health of the whole planet that this radioactive contaminated water must be prevented from being released into the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government want to use the already stressed Pacific Ocean as a cheap dump for the environmental disaster waste they are responsible for. They have been running a public relations campaign for years now claiming that this radioactive water only contains tritium, when in fact it contains a radioactive soup of different harmful isotopes.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
June 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
June average monthly background levels here are showing the usual seasonal variation. We see background levels drop here at this location in the southern hemisphere, during the winter months. The reason for this is that more seasonal winds start coming from the southern ocean air circulation, rather than from the tropics.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
One year after the fatal accident with a nuclear-powered missile in the White Sea, Russia’s weapon designers say a test launch for the Poseidon nuclear powered underwater drone will take place this fall. We don’t know yet.
What we know:
While iodine-131 is only measured in the north, in the Kirkenes area and at Svalbard, Swedish and Finnish radiation authorities inform about other isotopes blowing in the skies over southern Scandinavia.
“We found 0,9 microBq/m3 at Svanhovd and 1,3 microBq/m3 at Viksjøfjell.”
Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) detected on June 16 and 17 small amounts of the radioactive isotopes cobalt, ruthenium and cesium (Co-60, Ru-103, Cs-134 and Cs-137).
All these isotopes indicate that the release comes from a nuclear-reactor. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, and given the small amount measured in the north, this isotope could be gone before the radioactive cloud reached the southern parts of Finland and Sweden a week after the first measurements in the north.
They say the radionuclides came from the direction of Western Russia.
27th June 2020 – Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says
Extracts:
VIENNA (Reuters) – Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.
One of its stations scanning the air for radionuclides – telltale radioactive particles that can be carried long distances by the wind – detected unusually high levels of three radionuclides earlier this week: caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103.
Comment:
The detections were on the 22nd and 23 of June. We are just hearing about it now, four days later!
This free community resource was created after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, so people could quickly locate International radiation monitoring stations, in the event of a major nuclear accident. It is regularly updated and includes a lot of private as well as government monitoring stations.
Two new smartphones have just been sanctioned for exceeding the SAR level: the Xiaomi Redmi 7 and the Gigaset plus. This is a new advance in our alert action!
However, we have been waiting since last October for the Government to deliver on its promise to update the excessive SAR levels of several hundred mobile phone models. We demand that the commitments made following the recommendations of the French National Health Agency (ANSES) be fulfilled.
The Covid19 crisis does not justify such a delay. The Phonegate scandal is also a real health emergency!
See here the list of the 23 smartphones sanctioned to date:
Large numbers of mobile phones in use are emitting microwave frequency radiation way above the regulatory limit, when placed against the body. For safety reasons it would be wise to check if you are, or a family member is using one of these mobile phone models.
Independent scientific experts around the world have been saying for decades that the SAR’s regulatory limits are already set far to high to protect public health, and particularly children!
25th May 2020 – Withdrawal of the Razer Phone 2: not seeing the forest for the trees!
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Since then, in two years, thanks to our action, 23 different smartphone models controlled by ANFR have been found to have SAR levels for the head and body above the regulatory limit of 2 W/kg during ANFR inspections. Four have been withdrawn from the French market. The others have only had their SAR level “updated” (reduced by updating).
However, tests conducted by both ANFR and the journalist Sam Roe for the Chicago Tribune have shown that the local body SAR level is multiplied by a factor of 3 to 4 when measured either at direct skin contact or at 2mm. That of the Razer Phone 2 could reach over 10 W/kg at direct contact with the skin.
“that the representative of the European Commission is hiding behind a staggering technocratic cynicism. His non-reaction shows the extent to which the mobile telephony industry lobbies have knowingly silenced the European authorities. We demand that this new health scandal, Phonegate, be treated with seriousness and a sense of responsibility. The health of hundreds of millions of Europeans citizen is at stake”.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 18, 2020
8:45 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.7 CPM^^ or normal background
8:15 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.7 CPM^^
It is very likely that large numbers of people around the world are now suffering from vitamin D deficiency, after being confined to their homes for months. Even before the pandemic, large numbers of people were already vitamin D deficient.
Below is a link to a recent medical management protocol for COVID-19, released by the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in the US. It points out that vitamin D deficiency could be a significant contributing factor leading to a serious outcome if one were to contract COVID-19. Also, on page three, there is a list of suggested supplements that may have a role in the prevention / mitigation of COVID-19.
EVMS CRITICAL CARE COVID-19 MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
Developed and updated by Paul Marik, MDChief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VAMay 5th, 2020
Extracts Page 3:
Prophylaxis
While there is very limited data (and none specific for COVID-19), the following “cocktail” may have a role in the prevention/mitigation of COVID-19 disease. While there is no high-level evidence that this cocktail is effective; it is cheap, safe and widely available.
• Vitamin C 500 mg BID and Quercetin 250-500 mg BID [1-5]
• Zinc 75-100 mg/day (acetate, gluconate or picolinate). Zinc lozenges are preferred. After 1 month, reduce the dose to 30-50 mg/day.[1,6-9]
• Melatonin (slow release): Begin with 0.3mg and increase as tolerated to 2 mg at night [10-13]
• Vitamin D3 1000-4000 u/day [14-20]
• Optional: Famotidine 20-40mg/day [21]
Extract Page 12:
Furthermore, Vitamin D insufficiency exacerbates the cytokine storm and likely increases the risk of death.
Document:
This EVMS document also contains information on suggested treatments if an infected person progresses into a more serious condition, where they need medical care.
(Note: If you are currently taking prescribed medications any self-medication should not be used without your doctor’s knowledge and approval. Non prescribed medications may have unwanted side effects, change the way prescription medicines being used work in your body, interact with alcohol and other drugs or treatments, Always check with your doctor first — especially if you have any health conditions.)
May 11, 2020
6:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 42.5 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
6:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.5 CPM^^
May 4, 2020
2:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 57.3 CPM^^ OR 35.5% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:10 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.3 CPM^^
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
The Coronavirus pandemic and worldwide economic collapse is breaking the “just in time” supply lines for food growing, processing and delivery in many countries. All the indications are that food inflation and shortages are on the way. If you took notice of my previous article on earth changes, pointing to worldwide crop losses, that were occurring before Covid-19, you would have already set up a home garden. Your locality or country may be spared the worst of this, even so in the present world environment it would be very advisable to have a garden or microgreen system up and running, to supplement your families food requirements. If you are just getting started there are articles below that can help you, even if you are finding it difficult sourcing seeds at present.
Here is a recent article pointing to food inflation and food shortages. This is just one of numerous recent articles on this subject.
19th April 2020 – Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil
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The real takeaway here is that the supply chain for American staples was badly damaged by the outbreak, with the damage more extensive and stubborn than government officials have really acknowledged. Two months on, and millions of Americans are still having trouble finding toilet paper and sterilizing wipes. A comprehensive list of products in perpetual short-supply would be quite lengthy, at this point.
If closures like these continue, it could add further strain on the supply chain. Everywhere you look, you see experts talking about an overabundance of food thanks to the closure of restaurants, which has resulted in unprecedented levels of food waste. But sadly, thanks to the way our food distribution is set up, if there’s no way to process the products, package them and then distribute them to markets around the country, due to staff in lock down, then the food will spoil before it’s eaten.
Bottom line: Thanks to the surprising complexity of food supply chains, there’s a scenario where farmers are dumping milk and other product, factories and farms are closing or rolling back activity, causing the number of products getting to the shelves to fall, leading to instantaneous upward pressure on prices.
Today the ABC in Australia has published an excellent article on planning a vegetable patch that produces all year round. Gardening is a great way to get fresh air and exercise. It is productive and a cost saving activity you can do during the lock down. Gets you away from all those device screens and is also excellent for the mind, body and soul.
Planning a vegetable patch that produces all year round.
For those off you who are new here or who haven’t yet started a garden, microgreens are a very quick and efficient way to grow nutritious food. You can get a crop in a week to ten days instead waiting a month or more to get a crop from a home garden. It also takes up very little space. You can also use specialized indoor lighting to grow them if you need to. Here is some basic practical information to get you started.
10th April 2020 – Terrified Atomic Workers Warn That the COVID-19 Pandemic May Threaten Nuclear Reactor Disaster
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Of critical importance: every 18-24 months each reactor must shut for refueling and repairs. Itinerant crews of 1000 to 1500 technicians travel to 58 sites in 29 states, usually staying 30-60 days. They often board with local families, or in RVs, hotels, or Air B&Bs.
Industry-wide the pandemic has brought working conditions to the brink of collapse. At Pennsylvania’s Limerick Generating Station, workers say they are “terrified” that the plant has become a “breeding ground…a complete cesspool” for the coronavirus. “I’m in a constant state of paranoia,” one technician told Carl Hessler, Jr., of MontcoCourtNews.
The industry is now using the coronavirus pandemic to rush through a wide range of deregulation demands. Among them is a move to allow radioactive waste to be dumped into municipal landfills.
Comment:
The Covid-19 pandemic is going to affect nuclear power plant safety worldwide. As nuclear workers become infected and taken out of the workforce all those countries with operating nuclear reactors will be facing the similar staffing and maintenance problems. Let’s pray and hope that governments around the world are capable of making very good decisions on how to deal with skilled nuclear worker shortages.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
10th April 2020 – Chernobyl fires: Radiation fears as firefighters struggle to contain blazes in radioactive zone
Extracts:
A senior environmental official, Egor Firsov, said at the weekend that radiation in the area was detected at 16 times higher than normal background levels.
A 27-year-old resident of a settlement near the exclusion zone is under investigation on suspicion of having started at least one of the local fires.
Comment:
Fires in the Chernobyl nuclear plant fallout contamination zones are always of concern, because they often release large amounts of radioactive fallout contamination back into the atmosphere.
These recurring fire events place the firefighters and local communities at risk of being exposed to significant radiation exposure.
The fires in the contaminated forests around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant are still not under control. The Ukrainian civil protection agency said that the fire spread to the surrounding grass areas. Three planes and three helicopters are in the air to help fight the fire. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412014002608?via%3Dihub
After the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, large amounts of radioactivity leaked out. The area directly around the nuclear power plant was hardest hit. The pine trees standing there, caught some of the radioactive particles and built them into their wood. Thats the problem now. A study from 2014 came to the conclusion that If around half of the forest in the exclusion zone burned down, we would have a renewed radioactive precipitation.
Two forest fires broke out on Saturday and spread over 250 acres in a forested area near the Chernobyl power plant. Firefighters in Ukraine are battling to extinguish the forest fires.
1. It was found that dry heat disinfection (heating at 70 ℃ for 30 minutes) had the least effect on damaging the filtering mechanism, and the filtering effect could be maintained above 95%.
2. The disinfection method of spraying alcohol on the mask will destroy the electrostatic absorption of the mask, causing filtering efficiency of the mask lowering below 95%.
3. Other methods such as steamer damp heat method and high-pressure high temperature sterilization methods also made the filtering efficiency of the mask lower than 95%.In addition, high temperature and high-pressure method makes the mask seriously deformed.
4. The new coronavirus is sensitive to ultraviolet rays, and ultraviolet disinfection does not affect the filtration efficiency of respirators. However, the inactivation effect of viruses in mask fibers, which cannot be directly observed, is unknown. Therefore, it is not recommended.
How to make your own mask: Hong Kong scientists reveal temporary solution for those unable to get protective gear because of panic buying and price-gouging
I’m very happy to see stats at RSSM still active during the coronavirus emergency. And, it’s also encouraging that radiation levels are going in the downward direction. Hopefully, all are well at RSSM. I have been self-isolating these past 10 days due to mild symptoms. Looks like I either have something else or it’s just a mild case. In any event, having read the advice on this website for the past six years, I feel adequately prepared for the current emergency. Not so much in terms of hand sanitizer or toilet paper mind you, but I am ready to bunker-up for an extended time for emergencies in general. Thank you to Michael Collins and Enviroreporter.com for keeping us informed and helping us to get ready for whatever may be coming our way. Stay safe and do try to stay indoors as much as possible.
March 23, 2020
6:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 53.2 CPM^^ OR 1.4 TIMES BACKGROUND which is considerably less than the previous period’s reading. This is due in part to the sealing of RSSM in light of the Coronavirus pandemic reducing outside particulates and the exterior reduced human activity which has greatly improved the air and diminished the dust. The radiation above background is just one sixth (1/6) that of the last assessment March 6, 2020.
5:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.8 CPM^^
If implemented early, Social Distancing can potentially significantly lower the fatality rate off patients and medical staff during a pandemic.
13th March 2020 – Coronavirus fears prompt health officials to ask Australia’s leaders to ban events with more than 500 people.
Extract:
A senior West Australian doctor has called for all schools to be closed soon and for there to be no crowds allowed at events as the coronavirus spreads, declaring he wants his colleagues to stay alive. Coronavirus claims Coast event as others hang in balance
WA Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Andrew Miller posted on social media: “You want to go to the footy? I want my colleagues to stay alive.”
Why, in this article, are these doctors saying they want their colleagues to stay alive?
This is why?
Look to Italy as an example. They have one of the best hospitals systems in the world. Their hospitals are well equipped, and they were prepared. The Italian public were also told everything was fine. They had two cases a month and a half ago.
On the 30th January 2020, had two Chinese tourists who tested positive for COVID-19.
By 24th February 2020, Italy had 229 confirmed cases and 6 fatalities.
On the 8th March 2020, Italy lock down a region with a population of 16 million people. By this time the number of confirmed cases had risen to 6,387 and deaths had risen to 366.
By 9th March 2020, Italy went into whole country lock down.
On 10th March 2020, there were 10,149 confirmed cases and 631 deaths.
Their hospitals systems are now completely overloaded because the viruses infection rate is exponential. Their staff are exhausted. They can’t treat all the patients. In situations like this, medical staff contract the virus. If you look around the Internet, top Italian medical doctors are telling everyone please don’t make the same mistakes we made.
If you don’t implement social distancing early in an outbreak, a country’s hospital systems can become totally overwhelmed very quickly. This means the fatality rate will increase by a factor of five to ten times or more.
If you implement social distancing in the very early stages of the outbreak, the hospital system has a chance. It spreads the load of infected patients over a longer period of time. This means that the hospitals and staff have a better chance to treat everyone effectively.
Social distancing means a lot more people and medical staff end up surviving the contagion, because many more people were able to get good medical care. See chart below.
During a pandemic you don’t need to wait for a government directive to implement proper social distancing, start implementing it immediately. The sooner social distancing is implemented, the more lives will be saved. Watch this 6.29 minute video. This is what we all need to do. Our personal actions can potentially save a lot of lives.
16th March 2020 – Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you
March 12, 2020
12:20 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 47.7 CPM^^ or normal background
12:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.0 CPM^^
Three robust High Efficiency Air Particle (HEPA) filter air-cleaning and negative ion generating machines have kept EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station Santa Monica air clean and refreshing since the advent of the ongoing triple meltdowns in Fukushima Japan in 2011 as we wrote in Eat Me! that year. One of our machine removes “99.97% of as small as 0.3 microns contaminant particles like pet dander, mold, viruses, bacteria and pollen,” according to a review of the Honeywell 17000-S Air Purifier. “The HRF-AP1 pre-filter has Activated Carbon filter in it. This will both help adsorb VOCs, gases, odors and trap larger particles such as dust, lint, fibers, pet hair & fur.”
EnviroReporter.com‘s air cleaners ‘harvest’ much of the dust and debris that we test for radiation (by vacuuming it off first). The air cleaners also remove viruses like the Coronavirus (COVID-19) making them potentially very effective in rooms in buildings where air is circulated and shared. Aston An added benefit is that HEPA machines filter out the radiation we regularly test for and find, as shown below. This latest test finds the dust/debris sample testing at 230% of background, which is actually a decrease from the previous period’s testing. The following reading is below the California Highway Patrol’s limit of 3.0 times background before a substance is considered hazardous requiring HAZ-MAT protocols.
March 6, 2020
1:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 79.1 CPM^^ OR 2.3 TIMES BACKGROUND
12:40 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 35.0 CPM^^
This recent study shows how very important regular hand washing with soap and water is in preventing infection, and preventing the spread of a global pandemic!
There should be way more up front and visible public education on the importance of hand washing. Watch the educational video Germ Smart, how to wash your hands properly in the post below.
23rd December 2019 – Hand‐Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against Global Disease Spreading through the Air Transportation Network
Abstract Extracts:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) consider hand hygiene as the most efficient and cost‐effective way to limit disease propagation.
Here, we use epidemiological modeling and data‐driven simulations to elucidate the role of individual engagement with hand hygiene inside airports in conjunction with human travel on the global spread of epidemics. We find that, by increasing travelers engagement with hand hygiene at all airports, a potential pandemic can be inhibited by 24% to 69%.
It is my opinion, as the Coronavirus virus spreads around the World, a number of governments will hide the true infection numbers. They will do this to shield their economies against the resulting economic shock that would result by them revealing the true numbers. This could work if the infected numbers remain manageable.
If they lose control, and the infection numbers dramatically increase all of a sudden, you could find your everyday life turned upside down. Within a a very short period of time large parts of your country, towns or districts could be placed under quarantine.
This may not happen in your location. Lets hope it doesn’t. If it does, having the proper knowledge, skills and equipment on hand will greatly improve your family’s chances of of avoiding infection. Do research, bookmark, printout, and download instructional information that will provide your family with the necessary knowledge and skills.
Example, lets start with preventing infection, your family’s first line of defense!
As the Coronavirus spreads Worldwide large numbers of people are purchasing, goggles, gloves, masks, sanitizers and disinfectants etc.
That maybe a great idea, but next to useless exercise if you don’t know how to sanitize, or use the equipment correctly!
The skills provide in the instruction videos below could significantly improve your family member’s chances of avoiding infection.
It is better for all the members of your family to practice and master these techniques now, than wait until the last minute. Remember, for this to work, all the family members will need to work together as a well oiled team.
Don’t just rely on the information presented here, do more research, as there is much more you will need to know.
Firstly and most importantly keep your hands away from your face!
You think you have been washing you hands correctly all these years? Well sorry to say the vast majority of you haven’t been!
Germ Smart – How To Wash Your Hands
I would also suggest that you stop wearing hand jewelry, watches, false nails or nail varnish, plus keep your nails as short a possible. Doing this will significantly improve the effectiveness of using this hand washing technique.
With the potential for COVID-19 to infect through the eyes, it will be import to use whatever eye protection you have available, goggles, wrap around safety glasses, sunglasses, ordinary glasses etc.
Again, I would also suggest that you also stop wearing hand jewelry, watches, false nails and keep your finger nails as short a possible. These sharp items can puncture the gloves.
Obviously, most of you will not be wearing a full PPE kit. It is still very important to know in what order and how to remove the equipment that you are wearing.
This is a commercial product video, I have put it in this list because it provides important information.
Look around your environment for those surfaces that are frequently touched by people. They are the surfaces that will need to be sanitized often. Some surfaces can be damaged by some cleaning and sanitizing chemicals, particularly electronic devices, so do your research first before applying!
With just about everyone addicted to their mobile phone, it would be a very good idea to learn how to sanitize it properly. These devices can be a significant vector in the spread of a contagion. Use speaker phone, texting and avoided placing it on your head or face. Stop using it, or limit its use to absolutely essential calls if possible.
If you touched the outside of the Phone Soap device with your hands as you placed the phone into the device, you will then need to also sanitize the outside of the Phone Soap device, and your hands before removing the phone. There are a number of other phone and tablet sanitizing systems out there that are based on wipes and cloths, that you could research.
Put the toilet lid down before flushing the toilet. This will help contain potential aerosol contaminated water droplets from entering the home, or business environment.
This Reuters article provides detailed information on the likely source of the recent 60x background level radiation detection in Moscow. The report is in English.
11th December 2019 – Russians protest over plans to build road near Soviet-era radioactive waste site
Extracts:
The 34-km (21-mile) road, which city authorities say is safe and will help ease traffic, is set to pass the Moscow Polymetal Plant and a fenced-off site where it disposed of radioactive substances decades ago.
“The thing is, the presence of this nuclear waste dump and its danger are not being acknowledged by the people in charge of construction,” she said. “But it’s obviously not safe for the people living here.”
February 19, 2020
12:45 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 101.1 CPM^^ OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND
12:25 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.9 CPM^^
February 2020 – Moscow recorded a 60-fold excess of radiation levels in the area of the new highway. Ministry of Emergencies denies everything Evgenia Malyarenko, Natalya Telegin
Extracts:
Local residents and activists who are on duty on the slope of the Moscow River, where authorities are planning to build a new expressway – the Southeast Chord, recorded five surges in radiation over the past weekend in this area. They reported this to Open Media. The highest level – 18.06 microsievert per hour – the FSUE Radon sensor on the slope showed on the evening of February 9. The corresponding video on his Facebook page was published by the municipal deputy from the Pechatniki District Sergey Vlasov. He noted that the recorded indicators are 60 times higher than the norm.
A radiation repository in the construction area of the new highway New Highway – the Southeast Chord, which, according to city authorities, should connect the Enthusiasts Highway and the Warsaw Highway, is being built in the south of the capital near the Kolomenskoye Park. The project received wide publicity last summer, when activists found that the construction zone of the chord passes through a radioactive repository.
Comment:
Sixty times background is a very significant detection!
Quote:
“After that, the leadership of Radon arrived on the slope urgently, the parliamentarian said. Representatives of the enterprise suggested that such jumps were caused by “electrical interference”, the deputy explained. Later, the director general of the Radon Federal State Unitary Enterprise Alexey Luzhetsky explained officially the failure of high radiation rates in the capital. “Since the sensor is still in setup mode, the readings may be confused.”
Was the detection equipment malfunctioning?
This type of radiation detection equipment is already calibrated and tested, before it is located at a site.
Article: (In Russian, so you will need to use Google translate.)
I have an acquaintance in Santa Clarita named Carl Goldman. He and his wife Jeri own a local radio station. They are passengers on the Diamond Princess, the ship which is quarantined in Yokohama. Carl has been writing a daily diary which is posted on his radio station’s website, telling his friends what is happening with the quarantine.
Traveling with the Goldmans are a couple with the last name Jorgenson. They used to live in Santa Clarita. I don’t know them. Apparently on Friday Mrs. Jorgenson (also named Jeri) was taken away by Japanese government officials because she “tested positive” for the new corona virus. Her husband did not test positive, so he is being shipped home to the USA today, for quarantine here.
Incredibly, the Japanese government is sending the latest coronavirus patients to a hospital in Fukushima!
8th February 2020 – What is known about the institute where the radioactive release occurred
Extracts:
The Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SSC RIAR) is located in the Ulyanovsk Region in the city of Dimitrovgrad, which residents themselves call the “atomic capital.”
According to experts from the Business Online publication, the greatest danger to the Middle Volga region is the BOR-60 fast neutron reactor operating in NIIAR. And one of the main dangers lies in its coolant, which is sodium.
So, the summer of 1997, when an increased release of radioactive iodine-131 began at one of the NIIAR facilities, lasting almost three weeks. Moreover, on some days, the limit level for the emission of iodine-131 in the RIAR exceeded 15-20 times. Local residents continue to sue the university so far and require official documentation of what happened.
In April 2000, an emergency occurred at the VK-50 reactor, which threatened to turn into a “Chernobyl” catastrophe: one of the three emergency protection cassettes spontaneously plunged into the active zone due to a break in the lower thermal insulation of the actuator that fell on the emergency protection working body. The Gosatomnadzor inspection then suspended the VK-50 reactor.
In 2011, information on radiation emissions at the institute was already appearing on the network. Concerned residents called the city hall, saying that an accident had occurred at the RIAR base. But then the press service of the institution told Interfax that there was no accident.
In 2017, RBC wrote about the contamination of part of Russia with the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106. Then Europe suffered from it, which also received a dose of ruthenium. Experts argued that the production of ionizing radiation sources based on ruthenium-106 is in Dimitrovgrad.
On February 3, 2020, in Dimitrovgrad, on the territory of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SSC RIAR), radioactive pollution of snow was recorded. Now the background radiation level is also normal, according to the institution. Journalists investigating this case found that minor pollution with radium-226 is present only at site No. 1 of the institute itself, where the release occurred. Radium-226 is formed during the decay of uranium. The half-life of radium-226 is 1,600 years.
Comment:
With this type of history, this site is just an accident waiting to happen!
“Now the background radiation level is also normal, according to the institution. Journalists investigating this case found that minor pollution with radium-226 is present only at site No. 1”
Which Journalist, and what news organisation do they represent?
This appears to be the usual nuclear industry propaganda, that is disseminated to calm the population.
Article: (In Russian, so you will need to use Google translate)
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
4th February 2020 – In Dimitrovgrad, radiation leaks occurred. Residents bought up drugs with iodine
(Below is a Google translation of this report.)
Extacts:
There is information that yesterday there was a slight pollution of the snow due to the leakage of a radioactive substance. However, employees of the enterprise report that the radiation level is not exceeded. Yesterday, city residents were asked not to leave their homes. Today, due to an emergency, some of the employees in RIAR did not go to work, Khvorov described the situation.
The Ulyanovsk media also reported that yesterday, due to the leakage of radioactive substances at RIAR, the children were not allowed to leave the city on time. According to official data, now the radioactive background in RIAR itself and beyond does not exceed the norm.
Comment:
Here is the google map location of Dimitrovgrad in Russia, zoom out to see the world map.
January 2, 2020
8:45 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR SNOW SAMPLE: 38.4 CPM^^
8:30 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 44.1 CPM^^
11:00 am EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROU 36.0 CPM^^
December 30, 2019
8:45 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR SNOW SAMPLE: 95.0 CPM^^ OR 120.9% OVER BACKGROUND
8:10 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 43.0 CPM^^
7:00 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 45.2 CPM^^
December 29, 2019
10:25 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR RAIN SAMPLE: 54.2 CPM^^ OR 21.8% OVER BACKGROUND
10:10 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 44.5 CPM^^
The location of the radiation monitoring equipment used for the December 2019 radiation report below, is not located anywhere near the major fires affecting the East Coast of Australia.
At present the smoke from those fires have not affected this location.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
This article describes the Russian missle and nuclear warhead combination which crashed into the White Sea in northwest Russia earlier this year, releasing radiation into the sea and air and killing Russian nuclear scientists and technicians. While it’s intellectually satisfying to have the mystery of the nuclear accident and radiation release solved by a formal press release, the details of the nuclear weapon delivery system are sobering to say the least.
On Thursday the19th of December 2019, the floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonossow was put into operation as the first of its kind in the Russian Far East. The facility, designed and built in Russia, symbolically illuminated the central Christmas tree in the city of Pewek, Russia. The Russian group Rosenergoatom, which operates the nuclear power plant, described the commissioning as a historic event not only for the Russian, but also for the global atomic energy industry. This is reported by RIA Novosti. Akademik Lomonossow is not only the first floating but also the northernmost nuclear power plant worldwide. According to Rosenergoatom, the thermal power plant has a high safety factor. It is equipped with two KLT-40S reactors, which are used in nuclear icebreakers. Together they can generate up to 70 MW electrical energy and 50 Gcal / h thermal energy. This is said to be able to supply electricity to a city with around 100,000 inhabitants. https://ria.ru/20191219/1562573532.html Let’s pray it stays afloat.
Potential 110 Times Regulatory Limit Exposure For Children!
Supreme Court Rejects Cell Phone Industry Challenge To Berkeley Ordinance
Extracts:
“The court agreed that our precious First Amendment guarantees that we have the right to know that cell phones emit radiation and that levels can be exceeded when phones contact the body. Astonishingly, the industry argued that compelling them to provide information about tested distances set for large adults denied their right to keep this information hidden as part of their right to free speech.
Investigations at FCC accredited labs by the Chicago Tribune, the law firm of Fegan Scott, and CBC Broadcasting, as well as tests of hundreds of phones by the French government disclosed that the Berkeley advice may well understate exposures. Some of the most popular smartphones emit up to 11 times as much radiation as permitted under outdated FCC radiation exposure guidelines when tested against the body.”
Extract from page two of a research article, link below:
“The use of cell phone in children is dangerous due to the closer proximity of the mobile phone to their brain compared to adults; the average RF exposure from its use is higher by a factor of 2 in a child’s brain and by a factor of 10 in the bone marrow of the skull.
Brain and bone marrow have a higher conductivity in children than in adults and receive a higher energy deposition from RF sources. With age, the bone marrow progressively incorporates more fat, and the bone itself increases in thickness, hardens, and loses water over time, thus making the tissues less vulnerable.”
The statement of 11 times the radiation exposure limit if used against the body, in the Berkeley Ordinance article, is for an adult sized body. This means the child dose equivalent above the regulatory limit would be much much greater, because their body size and head size is smaller than an adults.
Extrapolating from the information provided in the research paper, it would mean that the brains of children, using some of the most popular smartphones, would potentially be exposed to,
an equivalent of 11 X 2, or 22 times above the regulatory limit for their brains,
and
11 X 10, or 110 times greater for their skull bone marrow!
Every parent should be socked by this revelation!!
Research Article Link: (The full article can be downloaded as a PDF if you click the download PDF button, at the top left of the page, under the article heading.)
EnviroReporter.com’s 2019 Death Valley Radiation Roundabout
November 28, 2019
11:45 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK RAIN: 74.1 CPM^^^ OR 1.9 TIMES PRIOR BACKGROUND
11:30 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK BACKGROUND: 37.6 CPM^^^
November 27, 2019
1:10 pm PST EXT FURNACE CREEK DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK HEADQUARTERS PARKING LOT BACKGROUND: 34.9 CPM^^
12:55 pm PST EXT FURNACE CREEK DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK HEADQUARTERS PARKING LOT RAIN: 100.8 CPM^^ OR 2.9 TIMES SUBSEQUENT BACKGROUND NEAR THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL’S THRESHOLD OF THREE TIMES BACKGROUND TO INITIATE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROTOCOLS.
This hot rain reading pales in comparison to rains we sampled and tested in situ in Death Valley in 2013 where we found rain sizzling at up to 31.5 times background as reported in Boreas Storm Packs Radioactive Punch. That said, 2.9 times background is hot indeed. According to documentation reported on by EnviroReporter.com, the California Highway Patrol considers any material or situation over 3.0 times background to be the triggering level for a hazardous materials incident.
11:30 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: 42.2 CPM^^^
EnviroReporter.com’s 2019 Fall Sonoran Desert Badlands Radiation Detection Tour
October 30, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Santa Ysabel, Ramona, San Pasqual Battlefield, Vista, Agra, San Onofre, Fountain Valley, Signal Hill, Carson, Santa Monica – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 29, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Vallecito, Mortero Wash, Anza-Borrego State Park – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 28, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Oasis, Sonoran Desert badlands, Agua Caliente, Sweeney Pass, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 28, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Julian, Banner, Scissors Crossing, Great Southern Overland Stage Route, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 27, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles, Industry, Pomona, Chino Hills, Alberhill, Terra Cota, Temecula, Radec, Wynola – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 27-30-7, 2019
EnviroReporter.com’s 2019 Fall Sonoran Desert Badlands Radiation Detection Tour
November 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 110 cpm)
In the warmer months more tropical air flows to this location compared to the colder months. This November, our spring, we saw a small increase in local background levels compared to the winter months. Spring and summer up ticks in local background have become the new normal here since Fukushima. For comparison, this July’s month average was 107 CPM. http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Hello,
My name is Carolyn Tyler, and I firstly want to thank you for your dedication to this issue of environmental toxins.
I lived in Northridge, six miles from the SSFL and Rocketdyne, from 1956 to 1975. I lost five members of my family to cancer, and my one remaining family member (middle sister) has survived thyroid and breast cancers, starting when she was 20 in 1971. So far, despite testing with high levels of cesium, thallium, cobalt, vanadium, and rubidium in my system, I thankfully remain cancer-free.
When I first read about the meltdown in 1959, I was stunned, but it explained the cancer in my family (grandmother, mother, father, sister, niece, and brother-in-law) , and my neighbors’ families all around me. When I received my heavy-metal toxicity tests in 2014, I discovered that I also had extremely high levels of MANGANESE in addition to the radioactive isotopes, which stymied my doctors, since this element only stays in the body through inhalation of vapor or dust during welding or mining.
Through diligent sleuthing, one immunology researcher I met at a detox clinic in Bangkok found a third source of environmental manganese poisoning–rocket testing. He asked about my lifelong severe and chronic depression, which was noted in my chart, and said that “treatment-resistant chronic and severe depression, bipolar II”, along with Parkinsonism, dementia, and a host of other neurological disorders are associated with high levels of manganese, which migrates from the lungs to the brain. He recommended 2-5 years of intense chelation therapy using EDTA and zeolite clay solution to remove the heavy metals which included lead, arsenic, mercury, as well as the radiation. I added daily infrared sauna treatments, and was down to normal levels by 2016. As the doctor suggested, I weaned myself off antidepressants and have been depression-free for almost four years. This is clear proof to me that my depression was caused by toxic chemicals from Rocketdyne, since there was no other source or opportunity for exposure.
I am hoping you can help get the word out to people who lived in the Valley during the exposure years who may be suffering neurological problems and autoimmune disorders needlessly. I don’t think anyone else has figured out that particulate fallout from spent rocket fuel causes neurological problems including depression–at least I have not found anything online suggesting this, so this is very important news.
Please feel free to write to me with comments or questions at: carolyntyler@gmail.com, and please join my Facebook group: San Fernando Valley Secrets: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You for updates and info on how to get help.
Sincerely, Carolyn Tyler
20th October 2019 – Russia covered up explosion of Skyfall nuclear superweapon
Extracts:
“The explosion was caused by the Skyfall experiencing a criticality accident, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that released a burst of radiation while Russian personnel retrieved it from the seafloor,” Mr. DiNanno said in an interview with The Washington Times.
The blast was set off after the fuel in the missile reactor was no longer cooled by seawater.
In the interview, Mr. DiNanno revealed further details about the incident. As part of the cover-up, he said, Moscow cut off the data gathered by a Russian nuclear monitoring station near the blast. That information is supposed to go to the International Monitoring System, a technical group based in Vienna that operates as a unit of the Comprehensive Test-Ban-Treaty Organization.
“From what I understand, the actual radiation cloud was not dangerous per se,” Mr. DiNanno said.
Here we have a reported nuclear criticality event that sent a radioactive cloud over populated areas in Russia.
“The reactor exploded Aug. 8 off the coast of the northern Russian town of Nenoska, killing seven Russians on a barge in the White Sea as they were overseeing the recovery of a sunken Skyfall.”
There was a twenty times background radioactive cloud detection at the distance of around 30k or 18 miles from Nemoska, in the Russia city of Severodvinsk at the time. This indicates that a significant amount of airborne radioactive contamination was released.
Beta radiation in west Los Angeles Basin air doubles in half the time of last testing period.
October 17, 2019
6:35 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 77.7 CPM^^ OR 82.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
6:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
A Federal task force issued its report on 10/11/19 concerning the F.A.A.’s failure to adequately supervise Boeing and its new 737 MAX airliner. As we’ve seen so often with respect to Rocketdyne aka Santa Susana Field Lab, Boeing simply crushes its regulators.
September 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 110 cpm)
There has been a slight increase in month average background level for September. This seasonal variation in local background levels has become a normal trend here since Fukushima. As we get more tropical air flows at this location in the warmer months, the local background increases, and then drops back down again in winter.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
The “Western Governors Association” has complained to the U.S. Department of Energy about DOE employees making final plans for shipping nuclear waste across the country without getting input from each State’s employee/experts on that topic:
September 25, 2019
11:40 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 65.8 CPM^^ OR 37.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
11:30 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 47.9 CPM^^
Throughout its 40+/- year history of involvement with the Rocketdyne property in Ventura County south of Simi Valley, the parent company of the property owner, Boeing, has been managed with a culture of arrogance and impunity which extended to the Rocketdyne property which Boeing renamed the “Santa Susana Field Lab” when it sold the rest of the Rocketdyne company to unrelated investors.
As Californians too many of us separated our ire at the owner of the Santa Susana Field Lab from our willingness to fly on Southwest Airlines, which flies an all Boeing fleet. In 2018 I flew on a brand spanking new Boeing 737 MAX 8 without any fear at all. I sat at the front of the cabin and was able to overhear a discussion between 3 Southwest Flight Attendants about the “new” internal features of the latest Boeing planes purchased by Southwest in comparison to earlier versions of the 737. Obviously those Flight Attendants had no idea there was anything wrong with the new 737 MAX 8.
After the new Boeing 737 MAX 8’s were grounded by the FAA, in comment sections at the bottom of the Washington Post’s news stories on the new 737 MAX 8, I would spot comments clearly written by airline pilots and aeronautical engineers which were emphatic in their criticism of Boeing’s senior managers. I would roll my eyes and say to myself “What they are seeing in the design and manufacturing of airliners is, in a sense, the same as what we have been seeing Boeing’s managers, officers and directors decide and do with the Santa Susana Field Lab and the “allegation” that radioactive fallout spread from the Field Lab property throughout the communities surrounding it continuing after 2000.
So far, the “national press” has not made any connection at all between alleged “regulatory capture” of the FAA by Boeing in connection with the FAA airworthiness certification process and the regulatory capture by Boeing of the California DTSC, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (which is supposed to regulate L.A. and Ventura County property owners) and other California State agencies, as well as EPA, NASA and U.S. Dept. of Energy, all in connection with radioactive contamination on and around the Santa Susana Field Lab.
On September 18, 2019 “The New Republic” published the important report by Maureen Tkacik, linked below, about the relationship between Boeing and FAA and Boeing’s management arrogance. See:
That story of Boeing’s management decision making concerning the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as described in The New Republic story, is going to seem very familiar to Californians who follow the Santa Susana Field Lab story. Well down in The New Republic story the author and editors say “Indeed most of the Boeing response to the MAX disasters involved disseminating a kind of misinformation and doubt that makes the crashes look more complex than they really are.”
Conducting a disinformation campaign concerning a big problem. No surprise there.
After the second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash, I spent some time looking at Boeing’s Income Statements and Balance Sheets which they had filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Those official financial records showed that at the time of the second crash Boeing was sitting on more than $1 Billion in cash. Of course they have some sort of liability insurance as well, though I haven’t found the amounts of the policy limits or deductibles. Since I’m familiar with the shorthand thinking of air and rail disaster plaintiff’s lawyers I figured that Boeing had more than enough cash and insurance to litigate their way through two airplane crash lawsuits, the thought that Boeing might be financially endangered by the occurrence of the the two crashes didn’t cross my mind.
Then came the grounding of the 737 MAX 8 airplanes, all of them.
In some jurisdictions, but not all, when there is a lawsuit between a large corporation and the family of a human being who was killed by the corporation’s negligence, the lawyers for the plaintiffs can explore through document production demands, document production subpoenas to third parties, written questions and “demands for admissions” which the defendant company must answer, and deposition testimony of the company’s line employees and management as well as independent witnesses, about what other negligent or wrongful acts the company’s senior management has been accused of engaging in during the recent past. A lot of that wrongful acts/repeated negligence evidence is used in connection with punitive damage claims relating to a defendant corporation’s “course of conduct” over many years and analogous circumstances.
If I were Boeing’s lead lawyer, I would advise their Board of Directors to pay and settle all of the claims of the families of the dead arising out of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes NOW. I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directorss to pay and settle, RIGHT NOW, all of the money claims of domestic and foreign airlines for their money damages arising out of the “defects in the 737 MAX 8s causing them to be considered by a jury to be defective products”, leading to the U.S. and foreign governments grounding of all of the 737 MAX 8s the airlines recently purchased. Making those settlements immediately would “shut the door” to statute and judge-compelled discovery concerning the Boeing Board of Director’s and managements policies in analogous circumstances.
I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directors to make those payments and settlements RIGHT NOW, even if Boeing’s liability insurance carriers are/were/would refuse to allow the settlements under the terms of Boeing’s insurance policies. I would advise immediate settlement even if those insurance companies would “deny coverage” if the settlements were made without the insurance companies consenting to the settlements. I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directors to ay those settlement amounts to minimize Boeing shareholders’ long term risk arising out of a 19+ year course of regulatory-capture conduct by the corporation’s senior management.
Boeing’s course of conduct in dealing with California and Federal agencies regulating the Santa Susana Field Lab and in dealing with the FAA concerning the Boeing MAX 8 appear to be nearly identical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLM0zkoXFM
If the national/world press and the plaintiffs’ lawyers examining the crashes and grounding of the “new” Boeing 737 MAX 8s focus on Boeing’s long history of regulatory captures, such as the ones involving the Santa Susana Field Lab, “Katie Bar the Door”.
August 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
The last few months have been relatively quiet, with relatively low background levels. This has been the historical norm for the cooler winter months here.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
More news from Arctic Russia near Finland. The nuclear accident there this summer might NOT have occurred during the testing of a nuclear powered missile. It may turn out that the missile was test fired, ended up at the bottom of a bay in the White Sea, and that the scientists who died from primary exposure to radionuclides were NOT exposed during the test firing.
Instead there’s a possibility the scientists were exposed as part of efforts by the Russians to pull the test missile up from the bottom of the White Sea. That news was reported by 3 reporters from Radio Free Europe. See:
Rachel Maddow has become interested in the stories about the nuclear accident at the White Sea. If you go on the internet and look for MSNBC’s broadcast of her show on 9/5/19 calling attention to the work of those 2 reporters you’ll find her discussion of the nuclear accident about 15 minutes into her show.
“According to three of the doctors, including both senior sources, one of the doctors flown to Moscow was found to have Caesium-137 — a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of the nuclear fission of uranium-235 — in their muscle tissue. One of the sources said the affected doctor had told him so directly, though he was not informed about the amount or concentration of the isotope found. …….Last Friday, Aug. 9, the Baza news outlet, which has close ties to Russia’s security services, reported that men injured during the blast had been brought to a Moscow clinic for radiation sickness treatment. The outlet published a video of a convoy of police cars and ambulances travelling through the Russian capital.
13th August 2019 – Deadly Explosions Aside, Kremlin Says Putin’s Nuclear-Powered Missile Far Ahead Of US Technology
Quote:
“The maximum reported level of radiation would be harmless and on a par with a dental x-ray, according to Jonathan Cobb, a spokesman for the World Nuclear Association. ”
The radiation release was from a large explosion. This means that people exposed to this radioactive cloud as it passed through their area, would have breathed in radioactive contaminated dust and gases. Some of this material would also have been deposited as dust!
The external radiation dose levels reported do not represent the real health risks to the exposed populations. In a radioactive cloud event like this, the microscopic radioactive material potentially breathed in, is far more dangerous than any detected external dose level would indicate!
The 20x background detection only informs us that a significant radioactive cloud passed through. Other downwind communities would also have been exposed to this hazardous airborne radioactive material. Also, the toxic chemicals released from this type of explosion would add a significant multiplier of toxicity to this exposure.
By way of disclosure, I am 1/4 Norwegian. My great grandparents moved from Norway to Iowa in 1866. I have no relatives who are from Finland or Russia. My husband’s paternal grandparents emigrated from Brody and Sambir, in the Austrian Crown Province of Galicia (which had a Tsarist Russian eastern border) around 1905. All of the relatives who were left behind in 1905 died at the hands of the Soviets and the Third Reich. Today both of those small cities are in Western Ukraine, near the much larger formerly Austrian city of Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg, all of them being west of Chernobyl. Neither of us, or our children are employed or politically active in any manner having to do with Russia or Ukraine. However my grandson Oleksei, age 7, does have a beautiful blond Russian girlfriend at his elementary school in Las Vegas, which has a reasonably large Russian and Ukrainian immigrant population, and from time-to-time a good Russian restaurant.
THE MOOD OF THE RUSSIAN/SOVIET PEOPLE DURING A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
I was alive during the Chernobyl nuclear emergency. I took particular interest in the trials and tribulations of the ordinary Soviet people who lived near that nuclear power plant, or down-river heading towards Kiev. If you are interested in experiencing the mood of ordinary Soviet people in the aftermath of the accident and the meltdown, I suggest finding the novel called “Chernobyl Murders” written by Chicago based Ukrainian Michael Beres. Beres’ book is very atmospheric and moody. It tells the story of a woman scientist and her Kiev resident boyfriend as they try to avoid being herded into a displaced persons camp for the residents of Pripyat. Towards the end of the story, the Soviet law enforcement officials stop to have a good meal in a foreign cuisine at a Polish restaurant in Sambir, the same beautiful little Austrian-style city where my inlaws lived in 1904.
Also read Martin Cruz Smith’s novel “Wolves Eat Dogs” which is set in the forest surrounding Chernobyl and Pripyat many years after the nuclear accident. Cruz Smith is famous for writing “Red Square” and other succeeding books with the same character, a Soviet/Ukrainian policeman Arkady Renko, the son of a famous ethnic Ukrainian General in the Soviet Army who led a major group of Soviet forces during World War II. Cruz’s books about Ukraine and Russia are very moody and cosmic.
WHAT HAS LEAKED OUT ABOUT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE EMERGENCY
As to the current status on the ground in the area around this 2019 accident site, the Russians are proceeding much like the Soviets did in the days after the Chernobyl accident. The first responders, including medical personnel, have been flown to Moscow for specialized medical treatment at one or more hospitals with medical experts on nuclear accidents. Many first responders quickly died, in Moscow, in the days after the Chernobyl accident.
The area around the nuclear accident site in 2019 has been cordoned off by Russian government officials. Russian scientists in the appropriate nuclear discipline are investigating what happened while others are trying to figure out what to do with the raw radioactive materials which have been released into the White Sea at Dvina Bay, onto the soil and trees in Karelia and into the ambient air.
Two days ago, Russian officials told the residents of the village nearest to the nuclear accident site, Nenoksa, that they were going to be evacuated “just for a few hours”. However the evacuation was cancelled a few hours later. Perhaps the village residents understand what happened to the residents of Pripyat and the villages immediately around and downstream from Chernobyl: They were told they had to evacuate “just for a few days”, but they were never allowed to return to their apartments and cottages to “get their stuff”.
USING MAPS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON WHERE IN TERMS OF LOCAL HISTORY BEFORE AND AFTER THIS 2019 NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
Take a look at the map posted at the bottom of my August 14 comment on Radiation Conversation II below. I read in Al Jazeera online last night (8/14/19) that the Russians are trying to keep people and boats away from Dvina Bay which is the SOUTHERN-MOST bay which is part of the White Sea. Dvina Bay is also the southern shoreline where the White Sea – Baltic Canal begins. According to Al Jazeera the Russian government has “closed” Dvina Bay for at least a month.
Dvina Bay is the part of the White Sea where Russian nuclear scientists were conducting their experiment on a “platform” floating in the sea, a distance away from the shoreline. The explosion which killed the 7 scientists happened on the platform, which was near a little Russian village called Nenoksa on Dvina Bay’s south shore. (When I ran a search for Nenoksa through Google Maps, the program put up a map showing the village location. If you choose “satellite” while looking at Nenoksa you can see that the surrounding land is barren but not snow covered at this time of the year.)
Nenoksa is the village which the Russian government had decided to evacuate before they changed their minds. The New York times speculated that what was left of the nuclear reactor which was on that platform fell into the White Sea after the explosion, along with the Russian scientists. We can’t see the particular spot where all of them and what remained of their experiment can be said to have fallen into Dvina Bay in particular, but we know it is offshore from Nenoska.
While you’re looking at Nenoksa on Google Maps, also look for Severodvinsk, a small city with about 134,000 people. That’s where the Russian government has set up operations to deal with the consequences of the rocket explosion which occurred some time during daylight around August 8, 2019.
Al Jazeera also reported that the dead scientists had been taken to Sarov, the city where their families reside and where the main nuclear weapons research facility in Russia is located. Sarov is in the Russian region called Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, which is a long, long way away from Dvina Bay. Knowing that long distance one can conclude that the Russian scientists thought it was far too dangerous to test the missile/rocket near Sarov or other populated areas in Russia
Also take a look at the map of the area of Russia where this latest nuclear accident occurred,on the map from Wikipedia Commons in my other comment below. You’ll see Finland’s current eastern border. The vast majority of the land on the Russian side of that border, going all the way to the White Sea is called “Karelia”. It’s the same Karelia which was part of Finland in 1940, populated by so many Finns that they represented 1/3 of the Finnish economy that year.
However, in 1940 the Soviet Army invaded Karelia on the pretext that it was needed to stage Soviet troops to protect Leningrad (formerly and now St. Petersburg) from invasion by the Germans. The Finnish Army put up a good fight, using modern weapons like machine guns, trying to fight off the Soviet military. (There’s a good history of the Winter War on Wikipedia.) The Finns lost in what is now called the “Winter War” in 1941.
At that time of the Winter War, there was a dramatic exodus of Karelian Finns towards Helsinki, because they didn’t want to live under Soviet rule. After World War II the Soviets did not give Karelia back to the Finnish people and their government. While the Soviets tried to repopulate Karelia with their own people, the population of Russian Karelia is much lower today than it was in 1940, which is a good thing in terms of a large group of Finns not living smack-dab-up-against the part of the White Sea where the 2019 nuclear accident occurred. Unfortunately, in Karelia and Finland the winds often blow from the north east, meaning that the “Down Winders” from this latest nuclear accident are likely to be Finns as well as Russian residents of Karelia.
That down wind risk in 2019 is nothing new for Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and the Sami people of Lapland, all of whom have lived down wind, since the late 1940’s, from the Soviet/Russian version of the Nevada Nevada Test Site, called the Novaya Zemlya Test Site, located on the gigantic, two-island, mountainous Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, which is crescent shaped, gigantic “arc”island located in the part of the Arctic Ocean called the Barents Sea, to the north east of Norwegian and Russian Lapland, and not too far, as the wind blows, from Karelia.
The Novaya Zemlya Archipelago looks remote, almost uninhabited and cold, given its location in part of the Arctic Sea. The archipelago was first land-surveyed by Russians in 1930 and a Russian village settlement was built in the 1870’s.
The archipelago is made up of two main islands: Yuzhny Island to the south and the much larger Severny Island to the north. The seas around Novaya Zemlya were the sites of serious naval battles during World War II, far too interesting to write here. See Wikipedia for a quick summary of what happened is the sea there.
Severny Island is where the Russians’ outdoor nuclear test site is located on the west side of the island on the Sukhoy Nos Peninsula, which adjoins Mityshikha Bay, part of the Barents Sea. Unlike the treatment of the Pai people, the Navajo and the southern Utah Mormon down-winders, the Soviet government was gracious enough to move-out the local indigenous people, called the Nenets, in 1957, before the Russian outdoor nuclear tests began. By western intelligence at least 224 nuclear bomb tests occurred at the Novaya Zemlya Test Site on Severny Island. (Of those 224 nuclear bombs explosively tested, 2 were American nukes. Wouldn’t it be interesting to learn the details of that Russian-American joint experiment.)
The Novaya Zemlya Test Site is where, as part of experiments and military training, some of those 224 nuclear bombs were detonated in the open air, including the largest outdoor nuclear bomb explosion in history-to-date called the Tsar Bomba, which was exploded on October 30, 1961, nine (9) miles inland from Mityushikha Bay.
Other outdoor and underground nuclear bomb detonations and other nuclear experiments occurred throughout Severny and Yuzhny Islands through the 1990’s.
In September 1961 the Soviets shot 2 “propelled nuclear warheads” TOWARDS the Novaya Zemlya Test Site, which covers most of the two islands. Those nuclear warheads were shot from two places on the Soviet mainlands: (1) one called Salekhard (on the Russian mainland) and (2) one from a military airfield called Vorkuta Sovietsky which was located in the Komi Republic of the Soviet Union, located due south of Novaya Zemlya. It is said that after those two tests, the launch missile was moved by the Soviets to Cuba.
Interpreting the Russians’ actions in 2019, some in the nuclear industry suspect that the test missile which exploded in Dvina Bay was being tested there, rather than on Novaya Zemlya, as an attempt to obscure what the scientists from Sarov were doing. I doubt that is true.
While the Winter War of 1940-1941 caused great sorrow among Finns, at least in 2019 Finnish citizens are not living along Dvina Bay where the accidental ‘nuclear’ explosion occurred.
Ultimately it will be interesting to see if the Russians create a new Exclusion Zone in Karelia like the exclusion zones which exist around Chernobyl in modern day Ukraine encircling the former city of Pripyat, where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and accident were located, and the exclusion zone encircling Fukushima Japan. Clearly the Finnish government and its people will be very unhappy, if the new exclusion zone extends all the way into Finland’s current sovereign territory.
If you’re the praying kind, say a prayer for protection of the health of the people of Scandinavia and Karelia.
Seven people died at the incident Nyonoksa. “Five representatives of nuclear power company Rosatom, and two people from the Russian Armed Forces, reportedly lost their lives while working with technical support of the isotope power source in a liquid propulsion system.”
It’s tough to write a comment for Americans concerning a significant event in modern Russia without starting with a geography and history lesson. Likely 99% of Americans have no clue where Lake Ladoga is in Russia, just as 99% of Russians have no idea where Lake of the Ozarks is here. Fortunately Wikipedia Commons has published a map of the Baltic area of Russia which we are free to copy and study. It is located below.
Early in the Russian people’s history Russia was essentially landlocked, with no access to navigable seas in Winter. In 1697 Tsar Peter I toured western Europe for 18 months. Among other things, Tsar Peter realized that European sovereigns with access to the sea for a navy and commercial shipping were substantially more affluent than rulers of landlocked countries.
Until 1703 the entire U shaped eastern coast of the Gulf of Finland (on the map below) was occupied by Swedes who were call Ingrians. On May 1, 1703 Tsar Peter’s army captured control of Ingria’s most strategic places, the Swedish fortress of Nyenschantz and the City of Nyen on the Neva River. The 40,000 Swedish Ingrians had no way to physically get back to Sweden where they would have been safe in the hands of the Swedish king. As a result Tsar Peter I turned those captured Swedes into serfs and worked them to death building the grand city of St. Petersburg 3 miles in from the Gulf of Finland (Part of the Baltic Sea) under the supervision of German and Dutch engineers he hired. Tsar Peter I designated St. Petersburg as the capital of Russia.
The Baltic Sea coast City of St. Petersburg was nurtured, improved and embellished by subsequent Tsars who kept it as the Russian capital. Access to the sea, and to world trade through the Baltic Sea allowed affluent Russian businessmen to increase their wealth through world trade.
After Tsar Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin took control in the October Revolution,and Lenin moved Russia’s capital back to Moscow.
Historically Russia has had seaports on its northern coast abutting the Arctic Sea. However the winter weather being what it is, during his tenure as leader of the Soviet Union prior to World War II, Joseph Stalin decided to have Soviet laborers dig and build a ship canal from the White Sea (on the map below) to the Baltic Sea. The route chosen took advantage of naturally occurring lakes and rivers, and passed near urban Leningrad before entering the Baltic Sea. That “White Sea – Baltic Canal” was completed in 1933 and Soviet ship traffic began.
According to Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that White Sea-Baltic Canal was constructed by forced labor of 126,000 Soviet gulag prisoners thousands of whom died during the construction process. The route of that White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal is shown on the red line on the map above. The Soviet/Russian people paid a very high price to create their White Sea – Baltic Canal.
History has proven that the bad consequence of man-made canals is that they allow unstoppable movement of chemicals, marine life and plants from one body of water to another.
That’s why the Great Lakes now have lampreys, a snake shaped garbage fish from the Atlantic who swam up the St. Lawrence Seaways canals and locks, and who feed by attacking fish of economic and sporting value like lake trout.
Canals connecting formerly disconnected bodies of water, like the Great Lakes and the canals and rivers that are located in the Great Lakes states are at risk of being invaded by the huge nuisance fish called the Asian carp. The carp got into the Mississippi River and have entered a man made canal connecting the Mississippi to Lake Michigan at Chicago. A massive effort is continuously being made in Congress and on the Great Lakes to stop the Asian carp from populating the lakes and killing off traditional lake fish.
In the late 1960’s fresh water chemists conducted extensive water tests from the Niagara River, attempting to determine the kinds of industrial chemicals in that drinking water source, and those chemicals’ locations of origin. The fresh water chemists found a cornucopia of chemicals identified as having traveled from as far away as Chicago and Milwaukee’s industrial areas as a result of the “natural” flow of water.
As we know from Enviroreporter’s extensive writing on water contamination in the Pacific Ocean near California, and in its fish used as human food, radionuclides are found in the fish and in the water which can be identified as being consistent with water run-off from the melted down nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan which sit at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
On August 8, 2019 news reporting started to appear in the West indicating that there had been a nuclear accident next to or on the White Sea, near Arkangel’sk, shown on the map below. Later news stories indicated that the accident was caused when a large rocket, fueled by a nuclear reactor inside it, had exploded on a barge or dock in the White Sea.
That’s where the White Sea-Baltic Canal presents a big risk to the health and safety of Russian people, if radionuclides in the water of the White Sea enter the canal and head for the lakes and rivers forming the canal leading to the Baltic Sea. On route, those hypothetical radionuclides will contaminate the lakes and rivers incorporated into that canal. Worst case, radionuclides which have traveled through that canal will enter the Baltic Sea.
Russia’s neighbors around the Baltic Sea, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will not be very happy if they discover Fukushima style reactor melt down radionuclides contaminating their beloved and economically important Baltic Sea and its fish.
On August 13th the New York Times speculated that the nuclear reactor could have fallen into the White Sea and that the Russian government may plan to try to retrieve it in no small part to protect the waters of the White Sea from nuclear contamination like the seawaters off Fukushima.
Below is the map location of Nyonoksa and Severodvinsk in Northern Russia. Reportedly Nyonoksa is where the Russian experiment rocket exploded. Severodvinsk, where the 20x background detection occurred, is east of Nyonoksa. This indicates that the wind direction was westerly, at the time of the explosion.
The Russian press have played down the event, stating in one article that Finland’s monitoring system did not detect anything, thus implying that the event was insignificant.
“The claims of a radioactive cover-up have not been supported on the ground, and neighboring Finland has not registered any deviations from normal levels.”
The detection evidence indicates that the wind was heading Westward away from Finland. A twenty times background, at the distance of around 30k or 18 miles between Nyonoksa to Severodvinsk, indicates that a significant radioactive release occurred.
With several days of delay, the Russian authorities have revealed some details of the nuclear accident that occurred at a military base on the White Sea. At least five people lost their lives, with atomic radiation of up to 2.0 microsieverts per hour. The accident occurred on a platform in the sea. Rosatom said his employees had been tasked with running the “isotopic energy source” for a rocket that was being tested on the platform Some questions remained unanswered. For example, the authorities did not clarify whether Rosatom’s confirmed five deaths by its own employees must be supplemented by two deaths from specialists who were announced by the army shortly after the disaster. In addition, there were varying levels of atomic radiation levels – leading to panic buying of iodine tablets in the affected region. While normal background is around 0.11 µSv/h (microsivert per hour), the levels measured at the monitor on the Lomonosov Street near Lake Teatralnoye peaked at 2 µSv/h, nearly 20 times higher gamma radiation than normal.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Below is a link to a National Academy of Sciences published article on a significant leak of Ruthenium 106 into the environment in September 2017 “from” the multi-purpose Russian nuclear site called “Mayak” which is located in the countryside outside of the City of Ozyorsk, Oblast (State) of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Where is Ozyorsk Russia? It is just 150 km south southeast of the City of Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were executed at Ipatiev House in July 1918.
Ozyorsk and Ekaterinburg are far east of Moscow in the Ural mountain region, and due north of Kazakstan.
A cloud of Ruthenium 106 is said to have been released at Mayak in September 2017. In the Soviet era, Mayak was also the site of a major nuclear accident called the “Kyshtym Disaster” in 1957.
The cloud which traveled to Europe in 2017 was made up of Ruthenium 106, a byproduct of nuclear fission with a half-life of 374 days. During the “reprocessing” of “spent” nuclear fuel, the isotopes of Ruthenium 106 usually are separated from the radioactive plutonium and uranium taken from nuclear power reactors and kept in long-term storage with other radioactive waste byproducts.
July 29, 2019
4:15 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 69.8 CPM^^ OR 78.5% ABOVE BACKGROUND
4:15 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 39.1 CPM^^
2019 MICHIGAN RADIATION DETECTING TOUR – July 2, 2019 to July 20, 2019
July 2-3: LAX to O’Hare to Kalamazoo Airport, Michigan- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 4: Kalamazoo-area home and vicinity- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 5-6: Grand Haven, Michigan- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 7-10: Mears, Michigan – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 10-13: St. Ignace, Michigan (Upper Peninsula including Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Canada) – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 13-16: Traverse City, Michigan – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 16-20: Southwest Michigan home and vicinity – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 20: Kalamazoo Airport to O’Hare to LAX – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
In Majak’s Russian nuclear facility in the southern Urals, a serious nuclear accident was believed to have occurred in September 2017, according to an international team of experts from 47 leading institutes. This reports the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. She refers to a report published by 69 scientists under the leadership of radio-ecologist Georg Steinhauser from the University of Hanover and French atmospheric researcher Olivier Masson in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). PNAS is one of the world’s leading science journals.
The accident, to which the researchers now allude, had led to a sudden appearance of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in the atmosphere in large parts of Central and Eastern Europe.
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60th Anniversary of Nuclear Meltdown Near Los Angeles to Be Commemorated July 13
Community event will call for the promised full cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and include a memorial in honor of workers and community members harmed by exposure to the site’s contamination
On Saturday, July 13, community members who live near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) will hold an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the site’s partial nuclear meltdown and to rally in support of its long overdue cleanup. The event will take place from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Rancho Tapo Community Park, 3700 Avenida Simi, Simi Valley, CA at the pavilions near the ballpark.
SSFL is a former nuclear reactor and rocket-engine testing facility located in the hills above the Simi and San Fernando Valleys. On July 13, 1959, power began to rise rapidly in the core of the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE). Operators barely managed to shut it down, but a few hours later, without determining the cause of the incident, inexplicably started it up again and let it run for 10 more days. By the time the SRE was finally shut down, a third of its fuel had experienced melting. Because it had no containment structure, radioactivity was released directly into the environment.
The SSFL meltdown was kept secret for two decades, until it was discovered by UCLA students and their instructor, Dan Hirsch, who brought it to public attention. Hirsch, now retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz and President of the nuclear policy organization Committee to Bridge the Gap, said a lack of candor and disregard for public safety has characterized much of the site’s operations.
“The Atomic Energy Commission issued a news release weeks after the accident merely saying that a ‘parted fuel element’ had been observed,” said Hirsch. “They didn’t admit that 13 out of 43 fuel rods melted, or that they’d intentionally vented radioactivity into the air for weeks. This kind of reckless continued for decades, with little concern for workers and nearby communities. Such disregard continues to this day, with the contamination still not cleaned up.”
SSFL remains contaminated with dangerous radionuclides including strontium-90, cesium-137, plutonium-239 and toxic chemicals such as trichloroethylene (TCE), perchlorate, dioxins and heavy metals. Federally-funded studies indicate increased cancers among site workers, elevated cancer rates in the nearby community associated with proximity to SSFL, and that contamination migrates off of the site over EPA levels of concern.
“Exposure to contaminants that are known to exist at SSFL can cause cancers and leukemias as well as developmental, genetic, neurological, and immune system disorders,” said Dr. Robert Dodge, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, a public health advocacy group that has worked for a full SSFL cleanup for over 30 years.
In 2010, the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control signed agreements with the U.S. Dept. of Energy and NASA to fully clean up their parts of SSFL by 2017. The Boeing Company, which owns most of the site, is similarly bound by a 2007 Consent Order to have completed cleanup by 2017. However, the promised SSFL cleanup has not even begun, and the parties responsible for the contamination are now pushing to leave about 98% of the contamination not cleaned up.
“Since when do polluters get to decide how much of their mess they clean up?” said Marie Mason, Simi Valley resident and co-founder of the Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, which has been fighting for full cleanup since 1989. “They don’t, it’s illegal. But the SSFL cleanup has been one broken promise after another, and all the while contamination comes off that hill and into our neighborhoods. Just last fall, the Woolsey Fire started at and burned most of the site, risking increased exposures to SSFL’s pollution. It’s got to get cleaned up.”
Newer activists like Melissa Bumstead, a West Hills resident whose daughter has twice survived a rare leukemia and who has mapped over 50 other rare pediatric cancers near SSFL, are bringing fresh energy and new voices into the cleanup fight. Bumstead’s Change.org petition has now been signed by over 650,000 people and she is hoping the July 13 event will help galvanize the community to fight for the full, promised cleanup.
“As we look back at the meltdown anniversary, we also have to look forward and get more people involved in fighting for the cleanup. Rock the Cleanup will be a family friendly event, with informative speakers, games, and fun activities like rock-painting, We’ll use those rocks to create memorials to those harmed by SSFL. We have seen some positive steps from our elected officials recently, but more – many more – people have to speak out if we are ever going to get the 100% cleaned up that we were promised.”
Parents vs. SSFL is a grassroots group of concerned parents and residents who demand compliance with cleanup agreements signed in 2010 that require a full cleanup of all radioactive and chemical contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
The Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, or RCC, is a community-based alliance dedicated to the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), commonly known as Rocketdyne.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA) works to protect public health from nuclear and environmental threats and has worked for the full cleanup of SSFL for over 30 years.
The Committee to Bridge the Gap is a non-profit nuclear policy organization focusing on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and disarmament.
Denise, many congratulations on being awarded the prestigious “Bill Mitchell Grassroots Activist Award” from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Well deserved!
Our superb editor and website maven, Denise Duffield, is an amazing person who really rocks the house, this time in Washington D.C. lobbying for the full – and promised – cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and spearheading the Back from the Brink campaign to abolish nuclear weapons in all its many facets. Adding to her many accomplishments is her being awarded the prestigious Bill Mitchell Grassroots Activist Award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability for her superb work, past present and future! Here’s to the best editor (and wife for that matter) this journalist will ever have!
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 24, 2019
7:45 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND- 38.4 CPM^
7:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – RSSMC dust from 3 HEPA filters: 66.5 CPM^ which is 73.2% above subsequent background
May 22, 2019
3:05 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California THUNDER LIGHTNING THEN RAIN– 62.0 CPM^ OR 35.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:50 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND – 45.8 CPM^
May 18, 2019
10:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN- 40.6 CPM^ below background
9:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – 42.7 CPM^
April 2019 Report. (Month Average 108 cpm)
As we move into the cooler months here in the Southern hemisphere, the month average background levels decrease. This seasonal variation in background happens every year as we get more southern ocean air flows in the cooler months. In the warmer months we get more tropical air flows.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
April 29, 2019
12:30 am PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN- 41.5 CPM^ below background
12:20 am PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – 45.2 CPM^
EnviroReporter.com‘s 2019 Radiation Station Santa Monica California Spring Cleaning
April 13, 2019
7:15 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND- 41.0 CPM^
7:00 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – RSSMC Spring Cleaning dust from 3 HEPA filters and vacuumed in-structure dust and fine particulate matter: 56.1 CPM^ which is 36.8% above subsequent background
April 7, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Santa Ysabel, Ramona, San Pasqual Battlefield, Vista, Agra, San Onofre, Fountain Valley, Signal Hill, Carson, Santa Monica – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 6, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Vallecito, Mortero Wash, Anza-Borrego State Park – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 5, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Oasis, Sonoran Desert badlands, Agua Caliente, Sweeney Pass, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 5, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Julian, Banner, Scissors Crossing, Great Southern Overland Stage Route, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 4, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles, Industry, Pomona, Chino Hills, Alberhill, Terra Cota, Temecula, Radec, Wynola – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
We finally received around 300mm of rain in March, decent rain after an exceptionally dry period.
Towards the latter part of March, around when the rain started, a number of very short detection spikes showed up in the 24 hour charts.
Below are examples of a couple of the larger spike detections.
It is normal to occasionally get background spikes, three times background or less. These detections were less than three times background, so are probably not anything to be concerned about.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
A noteworthy KCRW news feature by veteran Jenny Hamet has hit the airwaves and online. “Families affected by cancer want state officials to lead cleanup of Santa Susana” has heartbreaking interviews and provides an excellent introduction to the sordid environmental history of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Boeing, NASA and the Dept. of Energy all declined taped interviews but issued grandiose statements despite estimates that they will leave 98% of the radioactive and chemical contamination at the future “Glow in the Dark Park.” SSFL cleanup activists are a fearless and inspiring lot in this most capable multimedia piece.
March 20, 2019, 2019
9:55 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN SAMPLE: 46.7 CPM^^ OR 16.2% ABOVE NORMAL BACKGROUND RADIATION
9:40 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 40.2 CPM^^
March 5, 2019, 2019
10:50 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN SAMPLE: 43.0 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
10:35 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 45.3 CPM^^
Note: As of 2019, day local background average will now be charted in Counts Per Minute (CPM), not uSv/hr. The new monitoring equipment now being used is a SBT-10 pancake probe, it generally averages 110 CPM. This is around ten times greater CPM sensitivity than the old GammaScout Geiger counter that was previously used for background monitoring here.
January 2019 Report.
It was a hot, dry, and sometimes humid January here. We generally get significant rain in January, and January is usually the start of our wet season. This January ended up being the driest on record, with an insignificant 0.4mm of rainfall. There are no radiation events to report, all calm and stable.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
15th January 2019 – “Nuclear: Dangerous, A Failed Technology” – Former Nuke Regulatory Chief Greg Jaczko Goes Rogue
Extracts:
Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.” He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming.
In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.
Comment:
I can not see how anyone could call multiple nuclear meltdowns and explosions at Fukushima, a controlled cold shutdown of the nuclear reactors. Another fairy tale put forward by the nuclear industry to make it appear to the public that they have the situation under control at Fukushima.
The nuclear industry is spreading a fairy tale on the Internet and in main stream media, that no one has died from, or contracted cancer, as a result of Fukushima.
“There were 2,202 disaster-related deaths in Fukushima, according to the government’s Reconstruction Agency, from evacuation stress, interruption to medical care and suicide; so far, there has not been a single case of cancer linked to radiation from the plant.
That is prompting a shocking reassessment among some scholars: that the evacuation was an error. The human cost would have been far smaller had people stayed where they were, they argue.”
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FACT, a huge number of thyroid cancers, injuries and fatalities have resulted from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Here we have a large list of reports from independent sources that do not have a financial interest in nuclear. These reports tell the true story, not an industry created fairy tale!
HOT HOLIDAY MIDWEST SNOW RADIATION DEFIES EXPLANATION
Defying explanation, EnviroReporter.com detected hot snow in Southwest Michigan at 5.7 times natural radiation background over the holidays that wasn’t from radon progeny, the likely ‘burps’ of periodic nuclear power plant gas releases or radioactive remnants from coal-fired plants on Lake Michigan. This extremely high reading, the highest taken in any media since EnviroReporter.com began measuring Midwest radiation in 2010, would seem to come from an extremely short-lived isotope we can’t identify with a half-life of about 84 minutes. This head-scratcher leaves us little to impart to our readers other than to say it is unlikely anyone made snow cones out of this hot frozen precip so there seems little to worry about from a public health perspective.
January 2, 2019
5:00 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SNOW: 91.9 CPM^ or 143% OVER BACKGROUND
4:45 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.9 CPM^
2019
December 31, 2018
11:25 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN: 61.7 CPM^ or 70.9% OVER BACKGROUND
11:10 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 36.1 CPM^ December 29, 2018
9:50 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room FRESH SNOW FROM SECOND SNOW OF DAY/NIGHT: 67.9 CPM^ or 76.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
9:20 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 38.4 CPM^
10:30 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room NEW & OLD SNOW: 37.4 CPM^ or background
9:50 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room NEW SNOW: 33.7 CPM^ or background
9:35 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 32.8 CPM^ December 28, 2018
7:40 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SNOW: 211.4 CPM^ or 5.67 TIMES BACKGROUND, NEARLY DOUBLE THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL’S THRESH HOLD OF THREE TIMES BACKGROUND TO INITIATE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROTOCOLS.
7:25 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.3 CPM^
5:35 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SLEET: 70.9 CPM^ or 92.1% OVER BACKGROUND
5:30 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 36.9 CPM^
12:30 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.6 CPM^ December 27, 2018
6:15 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN: 40.6 CPM^ or background
6:00 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 39.0 CPM^ December 26, 2018
4:20 pm EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 32,8 CPM^
11:05 am EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 34.1 CPM^ December 25, 2018
11:35 pm EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 31.6 CPM^
More short duration background radiation spikes were detected here in December. The evidence below points to a couple of possible sources.
A. Cosmic ray burst?
At times during some of these detections the planetary Kp index levels were at near zero, or at zero levels. This means at these times there were very low solar wind levels and potentially high cosmic ray activity, pointing to a possible cosmic ray source.
B. Hot particle passing by the sensor or noble gases that were undergoing decay?
The wind maps below show that during each detection the surface wind was coming off the Pacific Ocean. In each instance, upper atmosphere high pressure system air was being draw down into the low pressure systems. This points to upper atmosphere radioactive contamination, possibly being drawn down to the surface.
2nd December
Originally suggested that this December 2nd spike was from a local fire event, the most recent evidence points to other possibilities.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
4:55 pm INT RSSMC HEPA FILTER DUST FROM 3 MACHINES FOR 18 DAYS: 165.4 CPM^^ OR 4.39 TIMES BACKGROUND. Over 6 times higher on per day average than previous HEPA dust measuring period.
4:20 pm INT RSSMC BG: 37.7 CPM^^
Until the unit here became unreliable in mid September 2018, the GammaScout Geiger make of Geiger counter was used for local background monitoring. It was replaced with a different make and model of detection equipment, with different tube sensitivities.
Spike in Background
The chart screen shot below is from the Caloundra Australia monitoring station, from the 1st December to the 2nd December 2018.
This significant spike in background radiation level occurred just after midnight on the 2nd December.
Note: The chart vertical axis is in nSv/hr, so divide by 1,000 to get uSv/hr. The peak is close to 0.375 uSv/hr, Which is around three times the average background for this location.
There were major fires burning North of here at the time. This Nullschool wind map below shows the wind direction and particulate overlay at the time. The green dot on the map marks the approximate location of the detection.
Here are three possibilities that have been put forward for the source of this local spike in background.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
I have exited the foothills of central California. Hopefully for cleaner air. I felt I had to exit as my friends all seemed to be getting ill from a lot of various stuff, like Valley Fever. Weakened immune systems is my guess.
The problem as I see it is that you can run but you can’t hide from the insidious spread of radioactive contamination and it’s potential damage to future generations of all living things.
December 5, 2018
6:55 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 47.7 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
6:35 pm INT RSSMC HEPA FILTER DUST FROM 2 MACHINES FOR 26 DAYS: 75.5 CPM^^ OR 77.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND
6:05 pm INT RSSMC BG: 42.6 CPM^^
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The living laboratory that is Death Valley has provided EnviroReporter.com a great place to test for radiation and this Thanksgiving holiday was no different. All air, water and food readings, documented here and in Eat Me! came in normal. That’s not always the case. Radioactive rains in the national park were staggeringly hot in 2013 as we exposed in Boreas Storm Packs Radioactive Punch:
The rare sustained precipitation tested over 31.5 times normal background radiation levels outside of the park’s visitor’s center in Furnace Creek November 23. Earlier in the day, rain radiation in Stovepipe Wells 24 miles northwest of Furnace Creek registered 29.7 times background. Boreas rain tested November 22 at the same Stovepipe Wells location in the morning came in at 4.6 times normal. Over 40 miles to the south that same day, the rain came in over 26.7 times the background of the area which is at 282 feet below sea level and called, appropriately enough, Badwater.
Luckily, the temperate 2018 radiation readings didn’t dampen the excitement of being in the hottest place on Earth.
November 25, 2018
10:05 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 34.4 CPM^^
November 24, 2018
10:15 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 36.6 CPM^^ November 23, 2018
11:30 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 41.3 CPM^^
November 22, 2018
11:15 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 39.8 CPM^^ November 21, 2018
11:40 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 36.2 CPM^^
2018 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
Monthly and yearly average charts from 2007 to 2018.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
“The state agency says it will check out the air monitoring equipment around the defunct lab as soon as fire department officials allow access.”
I was there at 3:30PM Friday. The Fire department was not blocking access to anyone.
Then the claim we updated to state that over the weekend that the samples came back clean.
Let me get this right with you all. If the samples came up bad it was already too late. The fire had already burned to the coast and exposed everyone. Yet, many people returned to clean up the ash and mess shortly after.
So, if there was an issue, it would not of been prevented and if it was hidden exposure risk was actually increased.
Perhaps all those people with the money that were affected will care now?
1. Are you suggesting that if you can no longer smell it, then the possible toxic particles are no longer in the air?
2. If I hose down everything outside my house, that water still goes somewhere. So if I hose off the swingset for the kids, all of the water and possible toxic particles ends up in the dirt. What do you do about that? OR if I hose off a side of the house, all of those potentially toxic particles ends up in my driveway, etc. etc.
3. Are you suggesting that if I grow fruits/vegetables outside then I can simply wash it with warm warm to be safe? I was planning to never eat another lemon, orange, etc. from my trees. Am I being too cautious?
4. Who would I even contact to do testing on my property to check for all of the possible toxic contaminants that might be there?
@Noel Wauchope: Pure hooey. How can one discern no level of radiation unless sealed in a lead box? There is always background radiation, something the creators of this ‘all’s safe’ don’t seem to know. Do not trust statements like this.
There is an ongoing Woolsey Fire Contamination Coverup that EnviroReporter.com is in the process of exposing. Stay tuned.
The U.S. Department of Energy, its contractors and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control inspected the site on Sunday, Nov. 11 and determined that Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone was untouched by the fire.
santa susana Officials: Santa Susana Nuclear Site Safe From Woolsey Fire
View of Area IV and DOE buildings which remain undamaged from fire. (DOE)
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also performed an assessment of the site and found “no discernible level of radiation in the tested area.”
@kat: Working backwards, we’ll address safety then length of threat. While we’re in the process of building a post-Rocketdyne Fire decontamination resource, a few quick ideas. If you can smell it outside still – and you probably can if within several miles of the burn – then wear an N95 mask outside (kids too). Avoid outside activity and kids stay inside. Clean up around house exterior and yards by hosing down everything from the top down to remove soot ONLY IF THERE IS PLENTIFUL WATER and there probably isn’t yet. Careful when sweeping to keep soot from cleanup clothes out of home/office. Drive with recirculation air ON and get car ionizer for air cleaning. Wash all fruit and vegetables grown and harvested outside in warm water and do it well. More on this to come so stay tuned but that will get you started.
“How long do all the toxic elements stay in the air?” is a good question. About 6-7 weeks tops HOWEVER this same dust get recirculated up into the air again and again. We wrote about the science of this in No Place to Hide – Fukushima Fallout Findings Widespread:
According to a 2007 University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering health physics report, “radioactive particulate matter is carried in air within dust particles.” Once a particle or aerosol is suspended in the air at any elevation it can be removed, altered or destroyed but can’t remain in the atmosphere indefinitely, according to Dr. James Dorsey of the University of Manchester where Dorsey earned a PhD in Atmospheric Physics in 2002. “Clearly the lifetime of any particular particle depends on its size and location,” Dorsey wrote. “Larger aerosol settle out of the atmosphere very quickly under gravity, and some surfaces are more efficient at capturing aerosol than others.”
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In dry environments, where very small radioactive particles have no effective path to deposition over land or water bodies, nanoparticles join together in a process known as coagulation. These tiny particles, smaller than 100 nanometers, collide into each other due to forces that include electrostatic attraction, phoretic effects like that of heavier particles on lighter ones and transport of a particle due to temperature gradients where the particle moves from a high temperature to a low one. There is also Brownian diffusion which is the effect of thermal random motion on these particles.
Though complicated, these methods are how particles combine and fall to earth. Indeed, the drier the environment, the easier it is for particles to stick together because they don’t have to ‘squeeze’ the water molecules out first to join together. “In the kinetic regime, coagulation is always enhanced due to the absence of viscous forces,” according to Dorsey. That means Fukushima fallout would better bind with spewing aerosol trails better in drier climes like the desert than wet ones.
How long do all the toxic elements stay in the air? Does it eventually get blown all over the valley and somehow dissipate? Does it remain on everything it lands on,, the plants, streets, dirt, etc.? Trying to figure out how long a mask may be necessary and if everything getting hosed off around my house may help or if there is anything that can be done to make my house and yard safer for kids? Thanks.
@Crystal lane: Yes, for the region. Check out Los Angeles, CA RadNet readings. Note that the gamma graph reflects a significant bump during the fire days though that isn’t proof it was caused by the fire.
There will be a collection of potentially radioactive soot from downwinders for testing – keep an eye on EnviroReporter.com for further details.
Does anyone have any radiation readings downwind from the fire so we have some kind of definitive numbers to give to people for preparing them to do what they can do for protection ?
There is no one you can force to test the air. You can deduce that if we say it contains toxic fumes, it does, as do most wildfires especially one that just roared through Rocketdyne.
ONGOING UPDATES – SANTA SUSANA FIELD LABORATORY/ROCKETDYNE ON FIRE
It has burned before – SSFL in 2005
5:00 pm Thursday Nov. 8, 2018 MICHAEL COLLINS/ENVIROREPORTER.COM BREAKING NEWS:
KTLA’s coverage shows the fire above Brandeis-Bardin burning through Area III with Area IV catching fire. Wind is blowing strong to the southwest carrying toxic smoke towards Ahmanson Ranch, the 101 Freeway, Liberty Canyon, Conejo Valley, Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu, potentially. This is a very dangerous event. All people who can smell the smoke from this fire should get themselves, their children, and pets inside and immediately close windows and use filtered air conditioning if possible. Masks should be worn and extreme care dealing with ash and embers. This is not a drill – ACT NOW
3:00 pm Friday Nov. 9, 2018 MICHAEL COLLINS/ENVIROREPORTER.COM UPDATE:
Television coverage showed the fire sweep through Areas II, III and nuclear Area IV. Since it is called the “Woolsey Fire,” it suggests it started there and probably burned Area I too in its march to the Pacific Ocean. If you are fortunate enough not to have lost property in this disaster, and live anywhere near this area of the fire and can still smell smoke and/or char over the next few days, MASK UP with at least an N95 mask and be very careful cleaning up the soot and ash once the fire is over. Do NOT let kids do the dirty work considering the potential pollutants in this fire soot, ash and debris. YOU do it AFTER the fires are fully out.
THIS FIRE IS STILL ACTIVE IN THE SSFL AREA AND SIMI HILLS. Mask up, keep kids and pets inside, use HEPA filters in air conditioners or stand alones and OFFER HELP TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. N95 MASKS FOR EVERYONE ON YOU!
5:30 pm Friday Nov. 9, 2018 MICHAEL COLLINS/ENVIROREPORTER.COM UPDATE:
ACTIVE FIRE ATTACKING AREA I OF SSFL – Christina Walsh’s video from about an hour ago shows the fire going up “IEL fault canyons” which is at the Area I entrance to SSFL. This area has had massive contamination and, on fire, is especially dangerous. Area residents must AVOID SMOKE, FIRE, EMBERS AND ASH and use N95 masks.
6:10 pm Friday Nov. 9, 2018 MICHAEL COLLINS/ENVIROREPORTER.COM UPDATE:
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), longtime advocates for the complete cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, issued a Nov. 9, 2018 PSR-LA press release called Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up. The two-time Nobel Peace Prize winning group minced no words.
Dr. Robert Dodge, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, shares the community’s concerns. “We know what substances are on the site and how hazardous they are. We’re talking about incredibly dangerous radionuclides and toxic chemicals such a trichloroethylene, perchlorate, dioxins and heavy metals. These toxic materials are in SSFL’s soil and vegetation, and when it burns and becomes airborne in smoke and ash, there is real possibility of heightened exposure for area residents.”
Dodge said protective measures recommended during any fire, such as staying indoors and wearing protective face masks, are even more important given the risks associated with SSFL’s contamination. Community members are organizing a campaign on social media to demand that DTSC release a public statement revealing the potential risks of exposure to SSFL contamination related to the fire.
8:15 pm Thursday Nov. 8, 2018 MICHAEL COLLINS/ENVIROREPORTER.COM BREAKING NEWS:
Minutes ago, a fire flare up along Alpha Road in Area II was spotted by us on excellent KABC Eyewitness News coverage. We captured it via a screen shot save, below. What it shows is that a new flare-up is near the middle of SSFL which cannot be good. Also not good was what wasn’t in any of the video of briefly flying over part of the lab – fire engines.
EnviroReporter.com‘s Denise Duffield joined 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in thanking LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz for his leadership in introducing a resolution in support of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which passed unanimously in August. And she brought her Nobel Peace Prize medal with her!
Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Kortez, who has proven to be a remarkable and courageous leader, noted the historic occasion on Facebook:
“Beatrice Fihn, 2017 Nobel Laureate, brought her medal to City Hall this week to thank me for introducing a resolution this August that called upon our federal leaders to spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first and ending the President’s sole, unchecked authority to launch a nuclear attack. In addition, it asks for a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. I introduced the resolution that was also signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti on the same day that he honored Hiroshima A-bomb survivors. My Director of Environmental Affairs Andy Shrader and I were joined at City Hall by Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles and Rick Wayman, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. — with Denise Duffield, Paul Koretz, Andy Shrader, Rick Wayman and Beatrice Fihn in Los Angeles City Hall.”
October 12, 2018
9:15 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM STORM: 47.4 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny/daughters per usual.
9:00 pm INT RSSMC (Radiation Station Santa Monica California) BG: 45.1 CPM^^
For more Radiation Station Santa Monica California radiation test results:
The reference monitoring station’s GammaScout Geiger counter died on the 12th September 2018, RIP. The last full day average it recorded was on the 11th September 2018. The GammaScout was used as a reference up until now, because all the data recorded here prior to Fukushima was using a GammaScout.
Will be trialling different equipment for the local monitoring station, a SBT-10 pancake, using Theremino Geiger counter software. I worked out how to transfer the logged data for this new setup into the charts I created for the GammaScout logged data. Because this is completely different monitoring equipment, the long term data reference will not be as accurate.
September’s 2018 month average is based on the 29 days of collected data.
September average background here tends to vary a lot from year to year. September marks the seasonal change from winter to spring and wind direction at this location during this seasonal change can swing wildly between tropical to southerlies. The more tropical wind we get for September, the higher the background, the more Southerly, the lower the background.
Caloundra September month average, year comparisons.
2018 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 27% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns September Report – A slight increase around the middle of the month, but otherwise close to average. The Cairns monitoring station has two GammaScout Geiger counters.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
September 13, 2018
10:30 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 34.3 CPM^
7:15 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 32.2 CPM^ Sept 2018 Midwest rad testing – dunes September 11, 2018
10:00 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 37.1 CPM^
10:30 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room ST JOSEPH RIVER MOUTH AT LAKE MICHIGAN WATER SAMPLE: 24.5 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND BETWEEN PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT 20 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST ALONG THE LAKE SHORE AND D.C. COOK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 10 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST
8:05 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 30.3 CPM^
September 10, 2018
11:40 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 36.9 CPM^
9:10 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room LAKE MICHIGAN WATER SAMPLE: 28.7 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND UP CURRENT OF PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT 20 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST ALONG THE LAKE SHORE. AND DOWN CURRENT OF THE D.C. COOK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 10 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST
7:25 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 31.2 CPM^
September 9, 2018
10:35 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 35.6 CPM^
8:10 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 32.9 CPM^
7:45 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 34.0 CPM^ Sept 2018 Midwest rad testing – pier September 8, 2018
9:35 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN SAMPLE: 30.3 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND WITH NO SIGN OF RADON PROGENY PER USUAL IN THIS AREA
9:15 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 32.8 CPM^
11:20 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 31.8 CPM^
6:00 am CDST INT OHARE AIRPORT CHICAGO: 33.1 CPM^
September 7, 2018
11:45 pm INT TERMINAL 4 LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 45.7 CPM^
The historic flooding now occurring after hurricane Florence poses the most serious threat to the local nuclear plants. Brunswick is just one of a number of nuclear power plants in the area that could be affected.
Here is a list of International Radiation Monitoring Stations for those who want to monitor, and keep an eye on the situation. This list includes private as well as government run monitoring stations.
UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO SITE CONDITIONS PREVENTING PLANT ACCESS
“A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence.”
Sent earlier today to EnviroReporter.com from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Press Release
No: II-18-033 September 13, 2018
NRC Expands Nuclear Power Plant Monitoring During Hurricane Florence
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will staff its incident response center in Atlanta around the clock beginning this evening as it expands its monitoring of Hurricane Florence and its effects on nuclear power plants and other NRC-licensed facilities.
The NRC will continue 24-hour staffing as conditions require. NRC staff members will continue to monitor the path of Hurricane Florence while remaining in contact with plant operators, NRC on-site inspectors, the NRC’s headquarters operations center and state emergency officials.
Duke Energy notified the NRC that the company is shutting down both units at the Brunswick nuclear plant south of Wilmington, N.C., as that site is facing hurricane-force winds, major storm surges and heavy rain. This week, NRC inspectors have reviewed storm preparations, including protection against the amount of rain and flooding that might be expected. NRC inspectors are on site at the Brunswick plant and will remain there through the storm.
Officials at the Global Nuclear Fuels plant near Wilmington have also notified the NRC that they have shut down operations and secured equipment in advance of the storm.
Other nuclear plants in the projected storm path have prepared for high winds and heavy rainfall. NRC inspectors also will remain at those sites as conditions require.
Sent earlier today to EnviroReporter.com from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Press Release
No: II-18-032 September 12, 2018
NRC Preparing for Hurricane Florence
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission resident inspectors at nuclear plants in the Carolinas and Virginia are reviewing the plant operators’ preparations in advance of Hurricane Florence, currently projected to make landfall in the Southeast later this week.
The NRC is also sending additional inspectors to those plants and will activate its regional incident response center in Atlanta, to provide around-the-clock staff support during the storm.
Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant south of Wilmington, N.C., could face hurricane-force winds, major storm surges and heavy rain. Other plants near the storm’s projected path are also taking precautions.
Nuclear plant operators would declare an emergency if conditions are expected that would require that declaration.
Plant procedures require operators to shut down the reactor well before hurricane-force winds arrive on site. In preparing for Hurricane Florence, the staffs at Brunswick, Surry in southeastern Virginia, Harris near Raleigh, N.C., Robinson near Hartsville, S.C., and some other plants are working through their severe weather procedures, including ensuring that all loose debris and equipment have been removed or secured, and conducting walk-down inspections of important systems and equipment.
NRC inspectors are verifying that all preparations have been completed, and the plants’ emergency diesel generators are available with ample fuel if the storm affects off-site power.
The NRC has also been in touch with officials at the Global Nuclear Fuels-America facility near Wilmington, N.C., the research reactor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and other NRC licensees in the area to verify their preparations for the storm.
From the NRC Region II incident response center in Atlanta, NRC staff members will monitor Hurricane Florence while remaining in contact with plant operators, NRC on-site inspectors, the NRC’s headquarters operations center, and state emergency officials in the Carolinas, Virginia and all potentially affected states.
The additional NRC inspectors will remain at the nuclear plant sites and the incident response center will remain staffed as long as conditions require.
2018 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns August Report – “All pretty level, no significant peaks.” The Cairns monitoring station has two GammaScout Geiger counters.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
6th September 2018 – Japan nuclear plant’s power restored after quake triggers Hokkaido blackout
Extracts:
Power was restored to a nuclear energy plant in Hokkaido, northern Japan on Thursday after a strong earthquake left it relying on emergency generators for 10 nervous hours, but it may be a week before lights are back on all over the major island.
In another echo of the 2011 disaster, Hokkaido’s situation was compounded by difficulties in receiving supplies from neighboring regions that remain dominated by separate utilities with their own grids.
Someone provided a Quantum Pendent to test, it uses Quantum Scalar Technology.
What is a Quantum Pendant you ask?
It is a wearable pendant around 5cm in diameter, made from specialized Japanese lava based compound and plant extracts like Hemp protein. Claims are that it protects the wearer from EMF radiation emitted by Wifi devices, cell phones, power lines etc., and has positive benefits for your health.
The Youtube video below, indicates there are fake versions of Quantum Pendants being sold.
There are a large number of different styles of Quantum Pendants being sold on the Internet, much more than referenced in this video. There is a lot of debate on the Internet over which versions are actually the fake version of the Quantum Pendant. We have no idea which product is the official version. Ebay prices varied wildly from hundreds of dollars to a couple dollars.
Below are the Pancake Geiger counter and Scintillator test results of the pendant that was provided for testing. Yes, you are supposed to wear this pendant to get the energy benefits! It turns out for some strange reason, that the person who provided it for testing doesn’t want it back, and said I could have it!
The Pancake Geiger result minus background was 2170 Counts Per Minute (CPM), or around eighteen times the local background here.
The scintillator Gamma radiation test result minus test chamber background was 230 CPM. The test chart shows the decay daughters of Thorium-232. This pendant does make an excellent peak calibration test source for the scintillator test equipment here.
In my opinion the one provided for testing was significantly radioactive! I can only say that the one provided for testing had radioactive material in it. Are other Quantum Pendants this radioactive? I have no idea, you would need to have them tested to find out.
Here is what the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), has to say about these pendants.
By the way, I definitely will not be wearing this pendant!
It has been put to good use. It is stored in a lead lined container and used for radioactive peak calibration of scintillator test equipment here.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on here without further research.
Spike in Background Levels in Tasmania 4th and 6th July, and Caloundra on the 7th July 2018
Very surprised to find this significant detection showing up on the Caloundra 24 hour chart for the 7th of July. There had been an up tick in background at the beginning of July compared to June 2018, but the 52% above day average detection was a shock. Wind direction at the time was from inland Australia, which was also very surprising. We had a very light short shower in the morning. The live Radon monitor here showed nothing significant, levels were relatively low, around 0.2 pCi/l.
We have looked around the World wind maps to try and determine the source of these significant background spikes, but have been unable to pinpoint a definitive source. One suggestion put forward is the possible venting of volatile radioactive gases from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney that were blown around in the local atmosphere.
I went to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), monitoring station web site. Their monitoring station is located near Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney Australia. This was to see if their monitoring station had picked up any spikes in July background radiation levels. What I found was the notice below. A strange coincidence ????
Radiation monitoring
“The environmental radiation station will not be operational in July due to repairs and maintenance of the system.”
Interestingly there were reports of a breakdown at the Lucas Height nuclear reactor in late June 2018.
28th June 2018 – Breakdown at Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney sparks fears of medical supplies shortage
Extract:
The facility’s production of 10,000 doses of technetium-99m per week for Australian patients has come to a halt. The products are used in nuclear imaging and are a vital diagnostic tool used in scans for heart, lung and musculoskeletal conditions, cancer and many other medical conditions.
Engineers were not yet able to “physically attend to the conveyor” an ANSTO spokesman said, although they had been working on fixing the mechanical fault over the weekend.
A few days before the Caloundra detection, a contact in Tasmania informed me of spikes in their local background. Spikes in background in Tasmania were detected on two separate detectors. On the 4th July the Tasmanian wind direction source was also off the Australian mainland.
The Tasmanian monitoring station happened to have an air filter which was sent to me for testing and arrived a few day later.
Below is the Tasmania filter test chart minus background tested using new Theremino PMT adapter equipment. If there was anything present it is below the resolution of the equipment here. http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Tasmania-filter-test-110718-TV7.2-16c-161387.png
Caloundra Water Tank Filter test
Here is the latest Caloundra local water tank filter test of 45 grams of fine organic material minus background. The two prominent isotope peaks are for the isotopes of Lead-210, from Radon-222 decay, and Berryllium-7, from upper atmosphere spallation.
The Caloundra and Tasmanian filter tests did not show anything significant, which points to radioactive short life volatile gases passing through. The most likely source of short life volatile radioactive gases in Australia would be the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney Australia. The circumstantial evidence points to venting occurring at the Lucas Heights facility, to fix the broken conveyor used in the production of Technetium-99m.
Other possibilities are,
Another source on the Australia mainland.
An event somewhere else in the World or at Fukushima.
A secret device test in Australia.
Were the Caloundra and Tasmanian detections just coincidental?
Any suggestions or relevant information regarding these detections are welcome.
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July is winter here in the Southern Hemisphere. Since the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe in 2011, long term local data collection is showing an increase in winter local background levels.
2018 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
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International Radiation Monitoring Station Updated
Sites that were no longer operating have been removed, and new monitoring stations added.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
August 1, 2018
6:45 pm INT RSSMC CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 55.1 CPM^^ OR ONLY 27.3% ABOVE BACKGROUND in six weeks aggregate.
6:30 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.3 CPM^^
“Government officials originally estimated it would take about 40 years and $50 billion to clean up the plant, decontaminate the surrounding area, and compensate the disaster’s victims. In December 2016, they more than TRIPLED that estimate to $188 billion. “We have never experienced a disaster as big as Fukushima,” Hiroshige Seko, the head of Japan’s Ministry of Economy…”
“Human beings couldn’t go into the heart of Fukushima’s reactors to find the missing fuel, though—at least not without absorbing a lethal dose of radiation.”
First documentation of melted fuel – July 2017
“Then, something startling appeared on the monitors.”
“What is that?” said Matsuzaki.
“Everyone began talking at once and pointing to what they saw on the screens: murky glimpses of what appeared to be stalactites of something dripping like candle wax from the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel. They’d found the first signs of the missing fuel.”
Spikes detected on Australian monitoring stations located in Tasmania and Caloundra.
Very surprised to find this significant detection showing up on the Caloundra 24 hour chart for the 7th of July. There had been an up tick in background at the beginning of July compared to June 2018, but the 52% above day average detection was a shock. Wind direct at the time was from inland Australia which was also very surprising.
A few days before the Caloundra detection, a contact in Tasmania informed me of spikes in his local background. These spikes in background in Tasmania were detected on two separate detectors. On the 4th July the Tasmanian wind direction source was also off the Australian mainland.
What is the source of these significant Australian winter detections?
Was there an event or release on the Australia mainland?
Has a significant unreported nuclear event occurred somewhere in the world?
Were these detections unrelated and just coincidental?
Suggestions and information related to these detections are welcome.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
June is winter here in the Southern Hemisphere. The long term June data is showing a gradual increase in winter local background levels, since the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
2018 11% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Here are four significant factors that are now contributing to higher radiation detections during plane flights.
1. There was a significant amount of radioactive contamination blown into the upper atmosphere by the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. When planes fly through this, some of the radioactive fallout cloud is sucked into the cabin of the aircraft.
Depending on wind pattens at the time of the catastrophe, flying in the Northern hemisphere between Japan and the USA was particularly hazardous. The radioactive particulate material getting into the aircraft was a significant risk to human health. It is still a risk, but just after Fukushima the risk was much greater. The Southern Hemisphere was not as severely affected by this new hazard.
This article by Michael Collins, EnviroReporter.com, documents a flight across America on December 23rd 2011.
2. Yes, it is normal to be exposed to greater amounts of radiation during flights at high altitudes, more so if the flight is closer to the poles. This is because at higher altitudes the earth’s atmosphere is much thinner and offers less protection from incoming solar and cosmic radiation. Look at this chart, Radiation verses Altitude, from Spaceweather.com. The radioactive particulate from Fukushima increases the risk.
3. A weaker Sun is now a third factor. The Sun is becoming far less radiant and is going into one of its quiet periods. Less Sun radiance means it’s heliosphere becomes much weaker. The heliosphere is a bubble-like region of space dominated by the Sun’s solar wind and magnetic field. It normally extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Plasma blown out from the Sun’s heliosphere acts as a shield, protecting the solar system and Earth from incoming intergalactic and galactic cosmic rays.
A much weaker heliosphere means more cosmic rays strike Earth’s upper atmosphere. Spaceweather.com have been conducting high altitude cosmic ray detection tests since 2015.
4. The Earth’s magnet field is weakening. The Earth’s magnetic field also acts as a protective shield against solar wind and storms, and cosmic rays.
The Earth’s magnetic field has weakened by 20% already, and appears to be weakening by around 10% per decade, plus this weakening may accelerate in the coming years.
Read the “Earth Changes” report on EnviroReporter.com, to gain a better understanding of the dynamic changes that are occurring to our planet’s environment.
Hi, recently I flew from Cairns, Australia to Brisbane and on to Auckland New Zealand and my geiger counter went from 12cpm at ground level up to 2,500cpm at cruising altitude on both legs of the flight. I turned on the counter a number of times during both flights and the reading continued to stay at 2,400 – 2,400 cpm. Once a lower altitude was reached coming in to land, the level dropped back to normal. Is this normal for radiation levels at 30,000 feet, or are there elevated atmospheric levels in the upper atmosphere because of Fukushima?
EnviroReporter.com friend and international nuclear relations expert Dr. Bennett Ramberg has a timely piece on the North Korea/USA summit in Singapore that should be required reading for those in the Trump Administration that can.
The following NBC News OpEd provides the most comprehensive published examination of how layered security assurances can promote a durable North Korea nuclear deal:
A nice quiet month without any significant background events. As most of the air flows here during this season come from a southerly direction, May local background levels were much lower than the summer months
2018 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 30, 2018
8:15 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 36.6 CPM^^ or normal background.
8:00 am INT RSSMC BG: 42.9 CPM^^
May 29, 2018
6:00 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California (RSSMC) CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 93.0 CPM^^ OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND in seven weeks aggregate.
5:45 pm INT RSSMC BG: 38.9 CPM^^
From our friends at Fight for the Future who are behind the “RED ALERT FOR NET NEUTRALITY” campaign you’ve seen, and hopefully signed, on the pages of EnviroReporter.com:
“We won! The U.S. Senate just voted to overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality!
Even better, your work helped win the votes of TWO undecided senators who swung our way at the last minute, giving us a 52-47 margin and huge momentum. That’s game-changing.
Now the fight moves to the House of Representatives—and with the FCC scheduled to end net neutrality on June 11th unless Congress stops them, the stakes are higher than ever…
Comcast, Verizon, and the rest of Big Cable thought sure they could beat us with all the millions they spent on lobbyists and campaign contributions.
But for months, the Internet has been on fire. You called. You rallied. You protested. You did whatever it took. You didn’t give up. And today, the Senate passed the resolution overruling Ajit Pai and restoring net neutrality in a historic upset!
The key to winning in the Senate was mobilizing so much grassroots pressure that it was impossible for undecided senators to ignore us. And that will be even more true in the House of Representatives, where every member is already looking ahead to November and trying to figure out how to keep their seats in what is predicted to be an incredibly close election…
No one thought we’d get this far, but this is just the first step. Now we need to pass the same resolution in the House of Representatives.”
This month the GammaScout Geiger Counter used for data logging local background, developed a fault. I managed to get it working again, but in the process lost some day average logging data, hence the gap in the chart.
April month averages tend to vary from year to year by a significant amount. As the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches, air flows here swing a lot between Northern Tropic air to Southern Ocean air flows. If we get more tropical air in April the background goes up. If there are more Southern Ocean air flows, the month average goes down. Since Fukushima, this has become a dynamic of the local background monitoring. If you look at the charts on the yearly average background page, link below, you can clearly see an annual winter background dip showing up in the year and month background charts.
2018 24% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 11% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns April Report – Fairly level, without any spikes. (Cairns has two monitoring Geiger counters.)
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 5, 2018
10:20 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA PACIFIC OCEAN SAMPLE FROM SANTA MONICA BAY IN PACIFIC PALISADES: 44.6 CPM^^ or normal background.
10:00 pm INT RSSMC BG: 39.3 CPM^^
When I see the sunrise at Fukushima I can’t help but see the beauty. Thanks to the Nuclear Power Industry that spectacular spot on our planet has been forever changed. No dollar value can be placed on that. 🙁
16th April 2018 – Out-of-control Sydney bush fire spreads towards nuclear reactor and army ammunition warehouse as residents in surrounding suburbs are told ‘it’s too late to leave
Extracts:
Out-of-control Sydney bush fire spreads towards nuclear reactor and army ammunition warehouse as residents in surrounding suburbs are told ‘it’s too late to leave.
A spokesman for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Lucas Heights said there is no current threat to the reactor, but safety measures had been taken.
‘ANSTO always works with local emergency services, and the Rural Fire Service has advised no risk to ANSTO as a result of the fires in the vicinity of our Lucas Heights campus,’ said the spokesperson.
Article:
Below is a screen shot from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) local live radiation monitoring station at Endagine. Endagine is located East of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.
Here are notes from the ANSTO monitoring site page.
Gamma radiation is a penetrating form of short wavelength electromagnetic radiation, similar to X-rays.
The environmental radiation graph (above) shows measurements in nanoGrays (nGy) which are units of absorbed radiation dose commonly used in environmental monitoring. A nanoGray is one billionth (one thousand millionth) of a Gray.
A temporary rise in environmental gamma radiation is often detected when it rains. This occurs because rain affects the behaviour of naturally occurring radionuclides, such as the gas radon. These radionuclides can be absorbed by rain drops and temporarily concentrated near the ground. Also, radon naturally builds up in air spaces in the soil and can be released when rain soaks into the ground.
“Spikes” in the environmental radiation graph (above) may occur during the regular calibration checks (see below) of the instrument that are needed to ensure accurate data. Gaps appearing in either graph are usually associated with delayed radio transmission of data from Engadine.
West Los Angeles Basin dust over double background radiation due to beta rays
April 9, 2018
4:05 pm INT RSSMC CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 87.0 CPM^^ OR 2.1 TIMES BACKGROUND in five weeks aggregate.
3:40 pm INT RSSMC BG: 41.9 CPM^^
The stats are in, and March 2018 had the highest recorded March background ever recorded here, at 46% above average. What is creating these Southern Hemisphere increases? Fukushima atmospheric contamination? Increases cosmic rays? Radon releases, or combination of all off these?
Alert Caloundra 27th March 2018 – In the morning the GammaScout Geiger counter started to alarm on and off very quickly. One visual observation showed a spike of 0.625 uSv/hr. Looking at all the very short duration high detections I have been seeing recently, it suggests to me that I am detecting lots of hot particles in the atmosphere. If I didn’t have 60 second sampling and a 0.30 uSv/hr alarm setting in place, I would probably have missed these detections. They would have been hidden in the averages, because they are of such a short duration.
The 24hr 60 second logging chart shows numerous short duration peaks between 8.30 am and 11.30 am.
At the time we had one low pressure system sitting off the East coast plus another in North Queensland, look at the wind map link below. The wind map shows the local air mass at the time was coming off the Pacific Ocean. The main source appeared to be a high pressure system situated East of New Zealand. The air from it was being drawn into these two lows. This air flow was passing over this location at the time. My present theory is that contaminated air was drawn down from the upper atmosphere to the surface, by this high pressure system.
The wind direction at the time was South Easterly, off the Pacific Ocean! It was an overcast, but a fine day.
2018 46% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 38% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 31% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 24% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2018.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Default Pacific USA time zone unless otherwise indicated
March 22, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM SECOND MAJOR BAND OF “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 42.1 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:00 pm INT RSSMC BG: 44.4 CPM^^
March 21, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 38.5 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:50 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.0 CPM^^
March 21, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 38.5 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:50 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.0 CPM^^
Well, it appears that my suspicions about this not being Californium were well founded.
21st March 2018 – “Nuclear” mystery solved in Ankara”
Extracts:
The mystery behind the seizure by Turkish police of a substance that had been believed to be the extremely rare nuclear chemical Californium in a poor area of Ankara has been solved after Turkey’s nuclear authority identified it instead as an organic resin, economy-focussed newspaper Dünya said .
Analysts were baffled when pro-government broadcaster NTV announced that 1.4 kg of Californium had been found in the Ankara suburb of Pursaklar, with some pointing out that that amount would represent around 4,000 years of global production of the element at present rates.
“Californium is known to be one of the most expensive materials on the earth due to its cost of transportation, limited availability, and expensive production process.”
“Only a handful of facilities are capable of producing Californium including the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia. As little as 0.25g of the element might be produced in a single year. This means that it is extremely scarce and has limited availability.”
If as little as 0.25g of the element might be produced in a single year, then 441 grams would take 1764 years to produce!
Another Quote:
“Thirdly it is an element that is not easily transported. Despite its microscopic size, Californium must travel in specialized heavy duty containers that prevent the release of radioactive material. You may think that a single gram of Californium could be carried in a small container? In reality, that single gram would require a huge shipping cask that is specifically designed and built to transport the element.”
In this article, they are showing multiple glass vials and a plastic bag of highly radioactive Californium, out in the open.
There is far more to this story than a first read would indicate!!!
“Usefulness came later, when bombarding plutonium-239 with single neutrons produced microgram-sized samples. More important than the increase in size was the change in isotopes. Early experiments produced californium-245, which has a seven minute half life. Californium-252, produced during the later experiments, has a half life of around two and a half years. During much of that time, a microgram-sized sample is giving off 170,000,000 neutrons per minute.
This makes it a very useful substance. Nuclear reactors work by getting neutrons shot into them, which causes some of the atoms to split, giving off more neutrons and perpetuating the reaction. The famous inanimate carbon rod can be used to soak up those extra neutrons, slowing the reaction down. When the reaction gets too slow, though, you need a neutron source to start it up. This is where californium-252 comes in. It’s a tiny, effective neutron emitter that can jump-start a nuclear reactor.”
I used Google translate to get the extracts from the Turkish article.
19th March 2018 – US $ 70 million nuclear material operation in Ankara
Extracts:
In an automobile search in Ankara, one kilogram of 441 grams of nuclear “californium”, worth 70 million dollars in market value, was seized.
Turkey Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) to the authorities, security officials, “californium” substance is generated only in the United States and Russia.
Comment:
International smuggling and theft of nuclear material is a huge problem. Weight for weight some nuclear isotopes can be worth way more than gold. Who was going to purchase this californium, and what was it going to be used for?
EnviroReporter.com‘s prescient exposés over the years showing how vulnerable our aged and dangerous nuclear power plant should have been a wake-up call to toughen up standards and security. Now it may be too late with Russia having penetrated America’s critical and nuclear infrastructure according to today’s Ides of MarchU.S. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) ALERT.
Alert (TA18-074A)
Russian Government Cyber Activity Targeting Energy and Other Critical Infrastructure Sectors
Original release date: March 15, 2018
Systems Affected
Domain Controllers
File Servers
Email Servers
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. It also contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and technical details on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Russian government cyber actors on compromised victim networks. DHS and FBI produced this alert to educate network defenders to enhance their ability to identify and reduce exposure to malicious activity.
DHS and FBI characterize this activity as a multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors who targeted small commercial facilities’ networks where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks. After obtaining access, the Russian government cyber actors conducted network reconnaissance, moved laterally, and collected information pertaining to Industrial Control Systems (ICS)…[MORE]
EnviroReporter.com‘s work exposing these nuclear power plant vulnerabilities is more pertinent than ever. It is never too late to at least try to defend these ‘in-place nuclear weapons’ from Russia and other bad actors.
The month average for February 2018 was 49% above pre-Fukushima levels, the highest month average local February background on record. Late February also had three days that were 80%+ above average. This is the first time here we have had three days in a row at 80% above pre-Fukushima levels.
A contributing factor to the day average increases near the end of February would have been the 10 pCi/l + Radon spikes that were detected on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. The Radon spike detections were possibly a precursor to an up tick in earthquake and volcanic activity on the Pacific rim, as the surface wind was coming off the Pacific Ocean at the time.
Even so, the elevated Radon levels would not account for all the month day average background increases.
Caloundra February month average, year comparisons.
2018 49% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 37% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2018.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
[caption id="attachment_25592" align="aligncenter" width="770"] Santa Monica rain at background 3-14-18[/caption] March 14, 2018
12:20 am INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 44.3 CPM^^ or normal background.
12:05 am INT RSSMC BG: 42.5 CPM^^
🙁 3/11 March 11, 2011
I was watching CBS news tonight and they mentioned the 2011 Japanese Tsunami and gave about 20 seconds at the end to mention Fukushima’s Nuclear issues, except to say there were 3 ‘partial’ meltdowns and that the plants were still in cleanup that could take 30 to 40 years. [paraphrased]
Some may say “No news is good news”, but I have to wonder about that when it comes to Fukushima and other radioactive contamination disasters/debacles. (Being ‘fed’ misleading or inaccurate bias’ might also be included.)
IMO: I guess ‘No News’ is not ‘Fake News’, but it is ‘Negligent News’ regardless.
I remember the first day I found this site. I was searching for someone with a Geiger counter several days after the Fukushima meltdowns and I found the Ustream of EnviroReporter’s Inspector Detector. I quickly became fascinated by the implications of Fukushima. Not only understanding of radiation, but how the understanding/misunderstanding came about. I also found it odd that the mainstream media seemed to present a different picture of Fukushima and would ‘seem’ to control the broadcast feed making sure not to alarm the public.
The amount of IMPORTANT knowledge I have found here over the last seven years is immense when I think about it. There were a lot of page views during the first year and then it dropped off to what it is now. But what I know is this, it’s highly likely that another meltdown or radioactive disaster will occur sooner or later and people will again do research and come to this site. If they take the time to read through the historical archives here, at least a quick scan, they will learn quickly and be amazed.
Here’s just a few of things I’ve learned in 7 years.
1. Radiation in ANY amount is not good for you.
2. The Nuclear Industry has been a scam since it’s inception.
3. News and data/information regarding all things Nuclear are lopsided.
4. That governments have failed us and lied to us regarding Nuclear. (ongoing)
5. The planet is at grave risk and not enough people know about it, yet.
6. ‘Acceptable Risk’ is is a misnomer.
Thanks again to EnviroReporter.com for keeping the information coming.
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Slighty elevated readings in rare rain on the border of the Sonoran Desert and the Coastal Ranges of Southern California:
March 4, 2017, 2018
9:00 am INT Building in Sonoran Desert: 44.2 CPM^^
12:25 am INT Building: 50.0 CPM^^ or 18.8% more than immediate prior background. This exceeds the Inspector’s +/- margin of error of 15%. While possible, it is unlikely that radon gas had much to do with the elevated reading as it was very windy and this part of California has low potential for significant radiation.
12:05 am INT Building in Sonoran Desert 40 miles north of Mexico BG: 42.1 CPM^^
February 27, 2017, 2018
12:25 am INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 38.1 CPM^^ or 16% less than normal background which can happen when radon-free rain water is tested.
12:05 am INT RSSMC BG: 45.3 CPM^^
Ever since Fukushima’s triple meltdown began March 11, 2011, EnviroReporter.com has recommended robust air filters. Here’s more evidence of why that’s a good recommendation:
February 26, 2017, 2018
6:25 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 143.3 CPM^^ OR 3.2 TIMES BACKGROUND in seven weeks aggregate. California Highway Patrol considers three times background for a toxic substance to be the threshold for initiating Hazardous Materials Protocols.
6:00 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 44.4 CPM^^
10th February 2018 – Massive alert in Mexico after radioactive device stolen
Extracts:
Mexico’s interior ministry has issued an alert across seven states following the theft of a radioactive device.
The item in question is a nuclear densometer which is used in geotechnical engineering to measure density. It contains radioactive material and there are fears such material could be used to make a “dirty bomb.”
At the peak of this spike it was very humid, but not raining, and the local Radon monitor was in a wooden building with the door and some windows open. Under these environmental monitoring conditions, this is a very large spike in local Radon levels. The wind direction during the event was from the tropics.
Caloundra January month average, year comparisons.
2018 45% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 52% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
On the 15th January there was a marked drop in background levels, as the wind direction changed to a Southerly from the Southern Ocean. This dynamic has been constant since Fukushima. Whenever Southern Ocean air flows reach here, we get a significant drop in background levels.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
2017 was a record breaking year. Contributing factors to this year’s background increases were, Radon from earthquake activity in the Pacific, the Sun going into a quiet period, and from Northern to Southern equatorial air flow break through. These were in addition to the recorded Fukushima increases since 2011. Detailed 2017 monthly reports can be found here, http://sccc.org.au/daily-local-background-radiation-levels-and-advisories-for-2017
1. March 30th saw the highest day average background ever recorded here, at 0.215 uSv/hr.
On March 29th, the day average was 51% above average. On the 30th, the low pressure system left over from cyclone Debbie came through, and the local background 24 hour day average spiked even more. Background peaked at 0.215 uSv/hr which is ~115% above average for this location. Yes, there was a spike in Radon levels on that day,but it wasn’t significant enough to account for this amount of increase in local background.
2. February, June, July, August, September and December had the highest recorded background month averages since Fukushima. June water tank filter testing detected mainly Lead-210, the a decay daughter of Radon, and Beryllium-7. Beryllium-7 is created by cosmic ray spallation in the upper atmosphere. Although Pb-210 and Be-7 may have contributed to the background increases the amounts detected where not significant enough to account for this significant increase in local background.
3. On the 3rd December 2017 a massive radon spike was detected that reached up to 8 pCi/L. At the time of the event it was very humid but not raining. The local live Radon monitor was in a wooden building with the door, and some windows open. Under these environmental monitoring conditions, this is a very large spike in local Radon levels. The wind direction during the Radon spike was easterly off the Pacific Ocean.
4. 2017 had the highest year average background level ever recorded here at 27% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima average. Some of the local background increases in October, November, and early December occurred during Easterly air flows. These Easterly air flows brought Radon gas releases to this location from a massive earthquake swarm and volcanic activity that appeared in the New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Soloman Islands and Fiji regions of the Pacific Ocean, at that time.
5. The Monitoring GammaScout Geiger counter alarmed numerous times on the mornings of the 30th and the 31st December. These alarms were for short duration spikes in background, as wind direction changed to a Northern tropical direction. The last time we saw spikes like this was after Fukushima. These where very short duration events, less than 60 seconds, which suggest hot particles were passing through the monitoring Geiger counter environment.
Background spike detected on the 31st December 2017. (Visual observation at the time saw the GammaScout Geiger counter spike at 0.725 uSv/hr.
Caloundra December month average, year comparisons.
2017 45% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 35% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Dec 21, 2107 12:35 p.m.
“Georgia Power is praising the decision to allow construction of a multibillion-dollar nuclear plant to continue in east Georgia.”
“The PSC agreed Thursday to let construction continue on the two new nuclear reactors, despite massive cost overruns for the multibillion-dollar project.”
“The project has been plagued by delays and spiraling costs, compounded when the main contractor filed for bankruptcy. Westinghouse Electric Co., the U.S. nuclear unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., filed for bankruptcy in March.”
IMO: The cost overruns to humanity cannot be measured.
How many solar panels, windmills, etc… could be built with ‘mutibillions’ of dollars?
Side note: I’m trying to do my part. I bought an all Electric Vehicle, zero emissions. Loving it. (Fiat 500e, used but like new) My old fossil fuel car got about 20 miles to a gallon. At an average cost of $3/gal (currently). I was paying a minimum of $200 in fuel on a monthly basis for a regular commute. Now, my EV charging cost is slightly less than $20 for the entire month. No more smog check, no more oil change, no more radiator/water pump issues, etc… There are less than 10 moving parts to an electric motor compared to over 300 on a gas engine. Maintenance costs are no brainer, no comparison. btw – The term ‘range anxiety’ must have been made up by the oil industry. I wake up every morning with a full tank, so to speak, my house is my gas/charge station. If I really need to drive a couple of hundred miles in a day, I’ll just rent a car with the money I saved commuting with my EV. Driving is fun again, it’s like sailing in the wind. 😉
The fate of America’s only nuclear plant under construction will be decided this coming Thursday.
Plant Vogtle in Georgia.
“This cost estimate is nearly double the company’s original projection, and the timeline is five years behind schedule. The cost of the project for Georgia Power and its co-owners exceeds $20 billion.”
“…a commission made of five elected officials, all Republicans, will vote on whether to permit Georgia Power’s new plan for the project,…”
“In July, South Carolina utilities announced it would cancel a separate plan for two nuclear reactors in the state because of cost overruns after Westinghouse, also the reactor’s designer for that project, went bankrupt.”
The above article says ‘carbon free emissions’ at least 5 times, but not once does it mention the risk to all living things or the deadly costly waste that nobody really knows what to do with.
In my opinion the following word best sums up the Nuclear Industry since day one.
➡ boondoggle
noun
1. work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
“writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature”
“a public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft.”
“they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the great boondoggle”
verb
1. waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects.
Caloundra November 2017 – The elevated background level increases at the end of November 2017 chart have also coincided with a significant increase in Radon detection in the local atmosphere.
The elevated Radon detections over the last couple of months seems to have been a precursor to the outbreak of a very large earthquake swarm in the Eastern Pacific.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake at 86km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia occurred on the 19th November.
The recent Radon increases would have been a contributing factor to the November elevated background levels, but not the only factor.
The third chart down on this page is the local live Radon monitoring chart.
Caloundra November month average, year comparisons.
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 37% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 29% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 31% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
21 November 2017 – Russia confirms ‘extremely high’ radiation levels in toxic cloud
Extracts:
Russian authorities have confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains.
The Russian Meteorological Service said it recorded the release of Ruthenium-106 in the southern Urals in late September and classified it as “extremely high contamination”.
France’s nuclear safety agency earlier this month said that it recorded radioactivity in the area between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains from a suspected accident involving nuclear fuel or the production of radioactive material.
27th October 2017 – Video shows illegal dumping of toxic liquids at Hanford
Extracts:
Workers at the Hanford Site violated multiple state laws and regulations in August when they dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated water straight into the soil.
Videos and internal records obtained by the KING 5 Investigators document three separate incidents where liquid was dumped from large metal boxes that were marked as containing radioactive materials.
Decades of plutonium production at Hanford left behind significant amounts of radioactive and chemical waste, making it the most contaminated spot in the Western Hemisphere and prompting a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar clean-up effort.
Caloundra October 2017 – The elevated background level increases we are seeing in the October 2017 chart have also coincided with a significant increase in Radon detection in the local atmosphere.
The amount of Radon detected locally has increased significantly since September 2017. In September Radon levels stayed below 0.1 pCi/l for the majority of the month.
During this period there was a high pressure system sitting between Australia and New Zealand. It was bringing air flows from the West coast of New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, to this location. This suggests the Radon source is from the recent volcanic activity in Northern New Zealand, and earthquake releases in the Eastern Pacific.
The recent Radon increases would have been a contributing factor to the October elevated background levels, but not the only factor.
Caloundra October month average, year comparisons.
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
The cash triggered an alarm when passing through the radioactivity monitoring system inspection process at Pudong International Airport on October 10. The notes contained a high level of radioactivity. They were being carried in the bag of a male passenger. They were found to contain Americium-241 – a highly toxic radioactive substance, according to the Shanghai Airport Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. Americium-241 has a half-life of 433 years.
Furthermore, it promotes the formation of cancer cells because of its radioactivity. If cash is contaminated by radioactivity, it poses a serious threat because banknotes are circulated quickly, bureau officials said. It is also difficult to track the source of contamination during circulation and users are usually unaware of the risks, the officials added.
Comment:
Americium-241 is mainly an alpha radiation emitter, and is a significant health risk if ingested or inhaled. Americium-241 is the decay daughter of Plutonium-241. Detecting it on bank notes should be raising alarm bells!
There has been a spike of airborne radioactivity in Europe. Ruthenium-106. The highest amount was found in Austria, at 42 millibequerel per cubic meter. Its comming from the direction of the Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus area.
6th October 2017 – Environment Pollution in MultiCountries
Extract:
German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there’s no threat to human health. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection said Thursday that elevated levels of the isotope Ruthenium-106 have been reported in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France since Sept. 29.
Spokesman Jan Henrik Lauer told The Associated Press the source of the Ruthenium-106 isn’t known but calculations indicate it may have been released in eastern Europe. Ruthenium-106 is used for radiation therapy to treat eye tumors, and sometimes as a source of energy to power satellites.
Caloundra September 2017 – In the last few months there has been a steady increase in month averages at this location in the Southern Hemisphere. The months have been very dry. The September rainfall total was 15mm and the wettest day was the 23rd, with 13mm. Radon levels have been low, so it did not contribute significantly to the day average increases we have seen through September.
I have been trying to work out why there has been an unseasonal increase in background here in winter, on top of the normal Fukushima increase.
So what created these recent increases?
Here are some theories.
1. There has been more mixing of Northern and Southern hemisphere tropical air flows, allowing more radiation from the Northern hemisphere to enter the Southern Hemisphere.
2. Research is showing that more cosmic rays are now reaching the Earth because the Sun’s heliosphere is decreasing in intensity.
If this is the case, we would expect there to be an uptick in background radiation detection by Geiger counters, even at the surface of the Earth.
Most people don’t go to the trouble of collecting day average and month average radiation background levels, using 60 second sampling. My system of data collection will show changes that would be missed by others.
3. The Monitoring Geiger Counter is malfunctioning.
I haven’t been able to find any evidence that this is the case. Ruled out the possibility of dust contamination as the area around monitoring counter was cleaned of dust, plus the Geiger counter was also inspected and cleaned of any dust build up. The background levels have continued to climb, even after the clean.
The GammaScout Geiger counter battery level is still at the normal operating 3.6 volts.
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My conclusion at this point is that the increased cosmic ray activity, plus the Fukushima increase, are both contributing to the local background levels we are now seeing.
Caloundra September month average, year comparisons.
2017 27% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
We’re on the way to Albuquerque, so I looked in on their newspaper this evening to see if anything interesting was happening. The Albuquerque Journal just let everyone know that there was another serious “human error” at Los Alamos National Laboratory:
When I think about the founding of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1942, I shake my head at the arrogance of Robert Oppenheimer and his pals in deciding that the people of the Pueblo tribes in the valleys surrounding the lab simply didn’t matter. The Pueblo people had lived in the region since 1200 B.C. according to archaeologists, but the area’s original residents were deemed expendable in the event of an accident with widespread consequences.
This page should be one of the most visited on the internet. Fukushima is still cooking away, and will only get worse. Much worse? How much worse, we don’t know, since professional liars and poltroons (i.e., Tepco) are managing the cleanup.
Meanwhile, the “muh coal mining job” types are literally boiling the oceans. As the comment below points out, methane emissions are poised to surge. We’re going to need Categories VI, VII, VIII for the megahurricanes that are about to ensue.
But at least our leaders understand the magnitude of the issue. That’s why they take private jets for short trips, and that’s why our president spends his time fretting about whether he’ll get Steph Curry’s autograph. We’re fucked, folks, and I’d like to personally thank Trump voters for being so suicidally dumb.
This is the very definition of “climate change” which is a nice way of saying that humans have toasted the planet. There’s no going back from this as the methane released by not-so-permafrost worldwide will make CO2 emissions look like a mere nuisance in comparison.
24th August 2017 – Japan’s Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima
Extracts:
Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said on Thursday it has been hit with another lawsuit filed in a U.S. court seeking $5 billion for compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second filed against the utility in a U.S. court.
The suit filed by 157 individuals is seeking that amount to set up a compensation fund for the costs of medical tests and treatment they say they need after efforts to support the recovery from the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
6th September 2017 – MEPs to raise alarm on Fukushima food imports
Extract:
The draft resolution, seen by EUobserver, said “there are sufficient reasons to believe that this proposal could lead to an increase in exposure to radioactive contaminated food with a corresponding impact on human health”.
In a briefing which Green MEP Rivasi gave to journalists last July, according to a summary provided by her office, the French politician implied that the proposal on Fukushima was a bargaining chip in the negotiations for the FTA, and called it a “scandal”.
14th September 2017 – EU parliament opposes bid to reduce testing of Fukushima food imports
Extract:
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, wants to reduce the list of foods subject to radiation tests before they can be imported into the bloc, which currently includes rice, mushrooms, fish and other seafood.
A resolution passed by a large majority of MEPs called on the commission to withdraw its proposal, saying it was “very difficult to verify whether the measures proposed are sufficient” to protect European consumers and there was reason to think it “could lead to an increase in exposure to radioactive contaminated food.
Caloundra August 2017 – Radon levels have been low and would not account for the month average increase. There was only 24 mm of rain for August. Significant day average increases coincided with Eastern Pacific air flows.
Caloundra August month average, year comparisons.
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
14th largest solar flare ever recorded released from the Sun. Reports suggest it has the potential to damage parts of the electrical grid. So we have this major solar flare occurring at the same time as an unprecedented hurricane.
Current Solar Data (from NOAA). At preset there is an X-class flare event, an electron, and proton storm, plus a major disturbance showing on the Magnetometer.
Two nuclear power plants are in the probable path of Hurricane Irma “the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean”. Most coastal power plants are “Built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.” Their owner FPL aka Florida Power & Light is not telling the press in Florida exactly when the plants will be shut down, but the owner’s P.R. man Peter Robbins says the reactors “will be shut down well in advance of the storm making landfall” in Florida.
There is no “Category 6” on the Saffir Simpson Scale to measure hurricanes, but that’s the number being thrown around on hurricane afficionodo chat-websites. We’ll likely get to see how much of a structural cushion for a really big Category 5 was built into these FPL plants.
The first plant the strongest hurricane winds, and perhaps the eye, will reach is the one south of Miami called Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station. The plant is located in Homestead Florida. You’ll read that it’s on the south side of Biscayne Bay, but realistically the bay is simply a mild curve on the shoreline directly on the Atlantic. The tiny barrier island east of the plant provides no protection from storm surge.
The other nuclear plant in the path of the hurricane is St. Lucie Power Station which is much farther north, on a narrow barrier island right on the Atlantic called Hutchinson Island. Between the ocean and the actual structure containing the reactor is a very narrow beach, about 600′ of mangrove swamp and a normal sized parking lot. I’ve been on that beach and it’s incredibly narrow. If you want to see the plant on a satellite photo type in Port St. Lucie FL which is the nearest town.
From Federal public records available on the internet, dating to 2010 and 2011, it appears that spent fuel rods are stored in casks on site at both of the oceanside plants.
If you want to keep track of what’s going on at these nuclear plants in the storm I’ve found that Alex Harris reporting for the Miami Herald is keeping track of what is going on with them.
The uradmonitor private monitoring system has a number of active stations in Texas. On the opening page it is important to select radiation monitoring from the drop down “Sensor” box at the top left of the screen, or you will be seeing temperature readings instead.
Been keeping an eye on the Texas radiation monitors. As the flooding has increased the number of online local radiation monitoring stations has been decreasing significantly!
International list of real time Radiation monitoring stations can be helpful in tracking radiation events worldwide.
Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast with 130 mile per hour winds, with the eye wall hitting Rockport Texas with winds measured by storm chasers at 150 mph. Rockport is called the “Texas Riviera”. Rockport is the city of many Texans’ fond youthful memories, because of its pristine Blue Wave beach, the most popular in Texas for children safely wading and swimming in Aransas Bay, which is protected from big waves which constantly hit Texas’ barrier islands.
Rockport had both extremely wealthy as well as poor and working class residents, 4 museums, 6 boat harbors, elegant restaurants and many private art galleries, antique stores, and chic boutiques. Unfortunately due to Hurricane Harvey, Rockport and its surrounding Aransas County lost 60% to 70% of its homes, which ranged from trailers and old houses inhabited by the poor to million dollar houses with boat docks for weathy retirees and weekenders from San Antonio and Austin. The State of Texas has bused off to San Antonio the poor people who relocated to a hurricane shelter in a Rockport school, but roughly 40% of the 10,000 person population, plus first responders from out-of-town, remain.
Once Hurricane Harvey left Rockport, it violently thrashed several other communities to the northeast along the Texas Gulf Coast, and caused severely damage to their housing supply: Port Lavaca, Palacios, Matagorda, Bay City, Freeport and Lake Jackson, actually on estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico and the City of Victoria which is inland.
Outside of these Texas Gulf communities are miles and miles of beautiful green farms, marshes and oak woodlands. Now the people remaining there after the hurricane may end up with additional stress caused by allegations that there is a risk of an accident at the 7,000 acre cooling pond/lake for 2 nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project (STP) 80 miles up the Coast from Rockport, north east of Palacios Texas.
On August 29, 2017 the nuclear/public safety group “Beyond Nuclear” sent out a press release [http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2017/8/29/groups-call-for-immediate-shutdown-of-south-texas-nuclear-po.html] describing the fact that the nuclear plant is still being operated at full capacity despite the following: The nuclear plant does not have “cooling towers”. Instead the plant is cooled by a 7,000 acre man made lake which sits between the nuclear plant and Matagorda Bay, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Nuclear explains in their press release the threat of collapse of the earthen walls of that manmade lake because of intense flooding on Texas’ own Colorado River, which is 1.5 miles east of the nuclear plant. The owners and operators of the STP nuclear plant put out a counter-statement to Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-arkema-idUSKCN1B92J9
The problem is that the 7,000 acre cooling lake for the nuclear plant is on “private property” behind fences, and no members of the public or the press can get inside to independently verify the stability of the “dirt walls” surrounding the lake.
You can find the South Texas Project nuclear project site by typing the following address into Google Maps: 12090 FM Road 521, Palacios, TX 77465. The reactors are due north of the round-shaped man made lake which is easily findable even when you adjust the scale of the map outwards to take in the surrounding communities.
Beyond Nuclear’s concerns expressed in their press release are based on the intense flooding which is occurring outside and beyond natural river banks on land to the north, almost all the way to Dallas. Most rain which falls on “Central Texas” drains southward through coastal communities and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Thus the worst flooding in a massive storm occurs in coastal areas.
During the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident the Soviet government initially evacuated people in an 80.5 kilometer (50 mile) area around the nuclear plant. During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident the Japanese government initially evacuated people in a 20 kilometer (12 miles) area around the nuclear plant. During the Three Mile Island nuclear accident (which was far less serious than Chernobyl or Fukushima) the State of Pennyslvania ultimately evacuated people in a 20 mile radius of the nuclear plant. Each government substantially reduced their evacuation zones several months after the accident.
Here’s a chart naming the small cities surrounding the STP nuclear reactors on that manmake lake north east of “Downtown Palacios” on Matagorda Bay of the Gulf of Mexico.
City Name/ Population #/ Distance to STP Reactors
Palacios 4,700 10 miles
Matagorda 36,800 10 miles
Bay City 18,000 15 miles
Port Lavaca 12,400 38 miles
Freeport/Lake Jackson 39,700 40 miles
Victoria 67,800 50 miles
Rockport 10,000 80 miles
Houston Metropolitan 5,628,000 80 miles from Inner Beltway 610
Port Lavaca and its environs and Freeport are the location of 10+ huge, isolated petrochemical plants whose operations are complex and which should not be abandoned during a nuclear emergency evacuation.
The South Texas Project nuclear power plant is owned by NRG Energy (44%), Austin Energy (16%) and CPS Energy (40%) and operated by STP Nuclear Operating Company. A few days ago, STP Nuclear Operating Company put out this hard to read news release, as Hurricane Harvey first entered Houston: http://www.stpegs.com/storm-information/?view=mobile The news release said the nuclear power plant was still operating at full capacity.
Forbes magazine also published an online article lauding the continued full-tilt operation of the STP nuclear plant’s 2 reactors in the wake of the hurricane, failing to mention the physical condition of the earthen walls of the 7,000 acre man made lake/cooling pond as flood waters on Texas’ Colorado River overflowed their banks 1.5 miles to the east.
Say a prayer for the people of the Central Texas Coast, from Freeport to Rockport, that the earthen walls of that massive round-shaped cooling pond/lake stay intact despite the flood waters around it.
Hurricane Harvey, expected to be a very slow moving Category 3 hurricane, with winds at 120+ mph, is expected to hit the Texas Gulf Coast on 8/25/17 in the late evening. Currently the eye of the storm is expected to hit the coast in Matagorda County. The hurricane winds will be the strongest east of the eye. Wind driven storm surge flood water is expected to be 12 feet high along the coast and a few miles inland.
South Texas Nuclear Generating Station is located in Matagorda County, north east of the city of Palacios, Texas. The nuclear generating station relies on a 7,000 acre circular cooling pond south of the reactors which will be subject to those hurricane force winds. The reactor buildings and control room are said to be built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. Press releases concerning past hurricanes say that the nuclear plant’s operators shut down 2 hours before a hurricane is scheduled to hit.
IMHO: This piece of HISTORY documentary is COMPELLING and clearly spells out the future and shows some of the negligent waste dumping of the past. (I’m guessing currently too, if not the USA then there’s all the others.) The out of control waste issue is building by the minute. The only thing I could compare this issue to, is a snowball in Hell.
🙁 I wish everyone could see this NBC documentary.
It’s a solid piece of evidence that proves they knew the risks. Thank you Joan Konner.
Caloundra July 2017 – The local background level increase on 7th July coincided with an increased detection of Radon gas in the air. This increase in Radon levels would not account for all of the day average increase. There were no significant rain washout events. The wettest day was the 6th, with 14mmm of rain. What created the significant background increases for June and July this year?
Caloundra July month average, year comparisons.
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Midwest’s Upper and Lower Michigan peninsula’s and eastern Wisconsin, except for one elevated rain, test normal for radiation throughout July 2017 as does the food and drink as reported in Eat Me!
RADIATION TESTS
Default Pacific USA time zone unless otherwise indicated
July 27, 2017
8:30 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 37.2 CPM^
July 24, 2017
8:20 pm EDST INT 4TH STORY ROOM PETOSKY MI: 30.0 CPM^
July 24, 2017
2:00 pm EDST EXT FORMER BIG ROCK NUCLEAR PLANT AREA WEST OF PETOSKY MI: ~24 CPM^
July 21, 2017
10:25 pm EDST INT MACKINAW CITY MI 2ND FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE ABOVE LAKE HURON: 29.2 CPM^
July 20, 2017
8:00 pm EDST INT MUNISING MI 3RD FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE ABOVE LAKE SUPERIOR: 33.4 CPM^
July 16, 2017
12:16 am EDST INT MANITOWOC WI 3RD FLOOR ROOM RAIN SAMPLE: 81.8 CPM^ OR 55% ABOVE BACKGROUND. WAS NOT RADON DECAY AS ENVIROREPORTER.COM “BETA WATCH” MAP OF U.S. RADON DISTRIBUTION SHOWS.
12:01 am EDST INT MANITOWOC WI 3RD FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE: 52.9 CPM^
July 14, 2017
NOON EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 35.7 CPM^
July 10, 2017
7:30 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 35.1 CPM^
July 8, 2017
8:00 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 36.1 CPM^
7:55 am CDST INT O’HARE INT AIRPORT: 31.9 CPM^
As this event started in early June, the bench area around the monitoring GammaScout Geiger counter was cleaned, and the GammaScout was also cleaned to eliminate the possibility of dust contamination. This has made no difference, as background levels remained higher than usual. This is the Southern Hemisphere winter. Until now, no June pre or post Fukushima background has been higher than 7% above average. We have 10 years of local records to refer to.
It was mostly dry for the month, with only 20mm of rain for the whole month. The local live radon monitor did detect small increases in local Radon levels that coincided with recorded background radiation level increases. These Radon level increases would have been a contributing factor to the background level increase, but not significant enough to be the only factor.
Caloundra June month average, year comparisons.
2017 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
The main isotopes detected were Beryllium Be-7 and Lead Pb-210. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay.
The scintillator device used for testing loses sensitivity with increasing isotope energy (keV). Taking the difference in sensitivity into account, the Be-7 peak is around 14 times higher than than the chart indicates. The Pb-210 would be around twice as high as show on the chart.
That is a lot of Be-7 in 34 grams of material. Would the levels of Pb-210 and Be-7 detected in the organic material collected from the water tank filter be sufficient to explain the significantly elevated local background levels here in June?
My Theory
There must have been a significant amount of cosmic ray spallation happening in the upper atmosphere recently, to produce this much Be-7.
The sun is becoming far less radiant. The sun is going into one of it’s quiet periods. These occur approximately every four hundred years. Less radiance means the sun’s heliosphere is much weaker. The sun’s heliosphere acts as a shield, protecting the Earth from in coming cosmic rays. A much weaker heliosphere means more cosmic rays strike the upper atmosphere, which results in more atmospheric spallation, hence more Be-7 is detected in the water tank filter test.
I notice that when the elevated detections occurred in June, the wind was mostly coming from an easterly direction, off the Pacific Ocean. This suggests that volcanic and earthquake releases of naturally occurring Radon-222 into the atmosphere, was also a contributing factor.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
The detection of cesium-137 from the primary Fukushima Pacific ocean plume has been measured and is increasing.
“The coastal average concentration of cesium-137 is now at 2.7 Bq per m3 according to data from samples collected in October through December 2016 which are now available. The highest concentrations were sampled from Winter Harbour in December which, at 4 Bq per m3 is our second highest measured activity to date, after the initial detection back in February 2015.”
➡ Cesium-137 will be hazardous to life for over 300 years!
I am sure, if there’s cesium, there’s a lot of OTHER kinds of radioactive contamination too. The media and the Nuclear Industry don’t seem to talk about that much, if ever.
Combine these tests/readings and the dust test readings consistently done by EnviroReporter.com along with other readings from user vital1 that also show increases or consistency over time. This tells me the contamination is indeed, obviously, global and continuing.
Long term projections or discussions for what the Fukushima TRIPLE MELTDOWN is ‘really’ going to do to us all, just don’t seem to happen and if they did, would people read them or believe them. (?)
This accident shows the potential risk faced by nuclear workers everywhere. It appears at least two failures occurred to expose the workers to inhalation of long half-life alpha emitters. First, a torn plastic bag containing powdered plutonium, and second, the failure of filtration masks to stop the powdered plutonium from reaching the workers lungs. Whether due to faulty masks, or seepage around the seal of the masks on the face, the consequences for these workers are dire.
Long half-life emitters, once released into the environment are a long term risk for anyone coming in contact with them. If the medicines used to help expel the radioactive particles fail to substantially reduce the contaminate load in the workers lungs, they will be looking at a significantly elevated risk of cancers for the remainder of their. lives. Even people nearby them will experience elevated risk if exposed to radioactive particles shed from lungs. Hopefully, there will be a medical intervention that can clear the bulk of the contamination from their bodies. I wish these workers and their families well. It is a tragic accident and hopefully they will be able to receive treatment to save their lives.
Certainly, procedures to reduce the risk of future accidents of this type need to be developed.
6th June 2017 – Seven more Fukushima residents diagnosed with thyroid cancer
Extracts:
Seven more Fukushima Prefecture residents who were aged 18 or under at the time of the 2011 nuclear accident have been found to have thyroid cancer, the prefectural government said Monday.
The number of Fukushima residents suffering from thyroid cancer now totals 152, the prefectural government said in a meeting of an expert panel.
Comment:
In the light of all the overwhelming evidence, just deny the facts! The comment by the official is laughable.
2017 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
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Nukpro’s Shelter-in-Place in a Radiation Emergency, or just any old Run of the Mill emergency.
If you print it out you can use the check list provided. It also has a notes section with links to free resources to enable you to do more research on the subject.
Caloundra April 2017 – This April saw a lot more Southern Ocean air flows reach this location. As we have seen numerous times, Southern Ocean air flows cause a drop in local temperature, and radiation levels.
2017 10% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
9th May 2017 – “Emergency Alert” Declared At Nuclear Facility In Washington; Evacuation Ordered, No-Fly Zone In Place
Extracts:
As Breaking911 reports, some workers were being evacuated while others were advised to shelter-in-place. The Hanford Fire Department is on scene and updates will be posted as they are available. Workers in the vicinity are still being sheltered as a precaution.
Actions taken to protect site employees include:
Facility personnel have been evacuated
As a precaution, workers in potentially affected areas of the Hanford Site have gone indoors
Access to the 200 East Area of the Hanford Site, which is located in the center of the Hanford Site, has been restricted to protect employees
3rd May 2017 – Nuclear Reactor Wastewater Will End Up In Your Drinking Water
Extracts:
The council voted four to two in favor of the decision to process 70,000 gallons of nuclear reactor wastewater in its public sewer system. La Tour voted against the measure.
“Apparently Beaver Lake is so big it doesn’t matter, but it just makes me uneasy to know we are putting our waste in our drinking water supply,” La Tour said.
Comment:
Tritium will be in the nuclear wastewater they intend to dump into the Fayetteville Arkansas community water supply. They have been told it will be safe. Here is a video that reveals independent research on the biological effects of radioactive Tritium. Tritium is something to be very concerned about!
04.12.2011 – Radioactive Berkeley: No Safe Dose
Extracts:
The video also expressed a public concern over children visiting the Lawrence Hall of Science to exposure to tritium emissions from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) National Tritium Labeling Facility.
Are the source of these background increases from the Namie forest fires in Japan?
Japanese radiation monitoring stations indicating background increases in the last 24 hours.
There are small spikes in radiation levels showing up on the Japanese ATMC monitoring network. Start with the Kitaibaraki and Takahagi monitoring stations South of Fukushima, and work your way down the East coast of Japan. Some Eastern in land stations are also showing a spike in background levels.
The spikes are also showing up on the ATMC Tokyo monitors. When I looked last night, Australian time, the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Centre Tokyo monitors were also showing a background increase.
If you click the Animate button at the left bottom of the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Centre map, you will see the 24 hr background level increases reflected in the number of stations showing elevated levels over a 24 hour period.
Since yesterday, the wind direction has changed to a northerly direction, so in the animation you see the elevated levels moving from the southern stations to the northern stations on the NETC animation map.
30th April 2017 – Fukushima authorities ask troops to help deal with forest fires near crippled nuclear power plant
Extracts:
Fukushima prefecture has asked the Japanese Self-Defense Forces for help in handling forest fires that have swept areas near the crippled Fukushima power plant, local media report. Strong winds are hindering the firefighting efforts, however.
The forest fires broke out near the town of Namie, some seven kilometers from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday evening, Japanese NHK broadcaster reported.
Comment:
There is no mention in this article of the potential for the re-dispersal of radioactive contamination downwind, by the fire and strong winds. Anyone downwind should be closely monitoring the situation!
The present wind direction indicates potential contamination could blow South East and then inland.
Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn.
(with 73 lb – of plutonium-238 and some cameras)
➡
“Had there been any malfunction causing the Cassini space probe to collide with the Earth, NASA’s complete environmental impact study estimated that, in the worst case (with an acute angle of entry in which Cassini would gradually burn up), a significant fraction of the 33 kg[26] of plutonium-238 inside the RTGs would have been dispersed into the Earth’s atmosphere so that up to five billion people (i.e. almost the entire terrestrial population) could have been exposed, causing up to an estimated 5,000 additional cancer deaths[40] (0.0005 per cent, i.e. a fraction 0.000005, of a billion cancer deaths expected anyway from other causes; the product is incorrectly calculated elsewhere[41] as 500,000 deaths), but the chance of that happening were less than one in one million.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Plutonium_power_source
I wonder who makes the final decision to GAMBLE with literally everything and on behalf of what?
I know I certainly didn’t get to vote on it. 😉
Plutonium-238 is a very powerful alpha emitter.
Plutonium-238 has a decay rate, half-life of 87.7 years.
“On December 22, 2015, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory reported that its researchers had successfully produced 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of Pu-238.”
“After an analysis of this sample, production of 300 to 400 grams (11 to 14 oz) of the material per year is planned to begin and then, through automation and scale-up processes, production will increase to an average of 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) per year.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#U.S._production_ceases_and_resumes
On the state of Civil Defense and the re-emerging threat of nuclear war.
Writing about the unthinkable. Most would choose to ignore, even ridicule the thoughts. It may help a few readers, so I offer the following.
The potential for a rogue state / North Korea confrontation is greater now than ever. Preparedness is thought of as unfashionable, and the general state of denial of actual danger creates even more danger.
Everyone will do precisely the wrong thing in reacting to an attack. There will be no warnings issued, most countermeasures will fail, people will leave safe locations for unsafe ones. That mushroom cloud in the distance? Their first thought will be… “What a great selfie this will make!” Don’t forget your SPF 1,000,000 sunblock kids.
No Civil Defense shelters (except for the elites). No stockpiles of food, water, or radiation detectors. No drills for where to go, what to do, and for how long. Answers: Stay inside, away from windows, preferably underground for at least two weeks, breathe filtered air, drink emergency stocks of water, eat canned goods, keep fallout out. If you must be briefly outdoors, don Tyvek outer clothing then rinse off, strip off, and crawl back underground. And, get used to the dark when the batteries run out.
That’s why I’ve been working on my bucket list. Everyday I savor the (mostly) blue skies, fresh air, and a walk in the woods. I’ve updated my emergency supplies, and water stores. Plenty of plastic tarps and duct tape for sealing windows and doors.
I know I’m an amateur, not a real Prepper. And no one thinks “it” will ever really happen. At times, I feel it is ridiculous to even try to be prepared. But, at least I’ve thought about it, and I won’t make the mistake of rushing towards the windows to see what is happening when the flash goes off.
I knew someone who survived a nuclear attack. She was just one kilometer from the hypocenter of the blast.. Sheltering underground, she, and others, waited only a few hours before leaving the shelter. They walked around in the fallout, helping survivors for several weeks. Amazingly, just 15 years old, she survived the ordeal and lived to be 80. No special preparation, special clothing, or access to personal emergency stocks of food and water. She survived because she was in the right location at the right time, avoiding the initial blast and radiation. Then she and others eventually moved out away from the immediate area of destruction, and lived to tell about it.
Should we just hope to be one of the fortunate ones, to be sheltered by chance at the right time? Or should we choose to be ready?
The world is very tense at present, all the reports are indicating a major war could break out, so it would be a good idea to be prepared. Hopefully common sense will prevail, and conflict will be avoided.
A large number of people were desperate to find radiation monitoring station locations after Fukushima. They found this to be difficult because there was no comprehensive International list, plus some monitoring systems were difficult to find.
This free community resource was created after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe so people could quickly locate International radiation monitoring stations in the event of a major nuclear event. It is regularly updated.
In the event of a major nuclear disaster or war, this site may become overloaded, so it is suggested that you download the PDF version of this list onto your personal device, laptop, mobile phone etc from this site. This way you can access the International Radiation Monitoring Station list from your personal device. Check this site for future updates to the list and download the latest version. Let people know this free resource is available.
List of International Radiation Monitoring Stations
Wind direction is an important factor in determining where the radiation will go. Under the “Helpful Tools and Services” item at the top of the page, you will find a link to the Nullschool 3D Earth wind map service.
This service allows you to see location wind direction at different heights. You can rotate the map by holding down your mouse on the map, and dragging. If you use your mouse scroll wheel you can zoom the map in and out.
If you click on the “Earth” item at the lower left corner of the Nullschool map page, a menu will pop up, that allows you to select the wind height.
Free Guides
These free guides can also be downloaded from the top of the International list page.
On Thursday the 30th March 2017, the Sunshine Coast Australia was bracing for a torrential downpour from remnants of ex-Cyclone Debbie. The South East was going into shut down, schools and businesses closed. As the rain fronts came down the east coast of Australia, we saw spikes in local background levels.
On the 29th, the day average was 51% above average. On the 30th when the main weather system, left over from Debbie, came through, the local background 24 hour day average spiked even more. The day average was 0.215 uSv/hr which is ~115% above average for this location!
A part of this increase in background radiation level was probably caused by an increased amount of atmospheric Radon gas. More Radon gas is forced out of the ground during heavy rain events. The increase in Radon levels is seen in the live Radon monitoring chart, screen shot below. In my opinion not all this significant increase in background levels on the 30th, can be attributed to an increase in Radon levels.
The same advisory suggestions for March 2012 apply whenever one of these tropical rain events occur, as they did in 2012.
Report from March 5th 2012
Average background up to 8.30am 0.145uSv/Hr, 24 hr average 0.185 uS/Hr elevated – Advisory Issued
It may be wise to stay out of the rain. I am getting indoor peaks up to 0.63 uS/hr on the Geiger Counter, as this rain event moves through. It suggests it may be radioactively hotter outside. Maybe worth letting your local friends know. If you or a child gets wet in it, have a good shower when you can. I have no idea what isotopes are in the rain, only that my Geiger counter is registering 6x higher than our normal background radiation, in peaks. These peaks are only lasting for a very short period of time.
The March month average data indicates a steady in crease in Southern Hemisphere local background levels has occurred over the years, since Fukushima. If we are getting background increases here in the Southern Hemisphere, it suggests that areas in the Northern Hemisphere would be greater.
2017 38% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 31% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 24% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
17th March 2017 – In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster
Extracts:
A court in Japan has ruled for the first time that the government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were responsible for failing to take preventive measures against the March 11, 2011, quake-triggered tsunami that killed scores and forced tens of thousands from their homes.
The district court ordered the two to pay damages totaling ¥38.55 million to 62 of 137 plaintiffs from 45 households located near the plant, which suffered a triple meltdown caused by the tsunami, awarding ¥70,000 to ¥3.5 million in compensation to each plaintiff.
The case of the USS Reagan Sailors has draw on for years now. Most Americans are not aware of the injustice these servicemen and women have been subjected to! Some have already pasted away, and others as well as being sick themselves now have sick children. A large number of US military personnel have become seriously ill, after being exposed to Fukushima fallout during the 2011 earthquake relief effort in Japan.
These brave members of the US services should be supported, but there has been a news blackout! Their case has constantly been delayed. Look at how many views the video below has had since July 2015.
21st July 2015 – USS Reagan Sailors Sue for Nuclear Justice
Extract:
Attorney Charles Bonner gives an update on his class action litigation on behalf of military personnel harmed by exposure to Fukushima fallout during an aid mission. The suit targets the plant operator and its manufacturers.
When immune systems fail, heart muscles weaken and a doctor informs you that you have two types of rare cancer, then, not a lot else matters. A close relative of mine gave me this news not too long ago. She cried and said she should have listened to me when I advised her not to drink the milk after Fukushima. What do you say to that? I tried to console her with well, maybe it’s from when you lived in Simi Valley in the early 80’s or perhaps the fact you have lived within 2 miles of the Landfill in St. Louis for 20 years. I don’t think that helped much. 🙁
From my personal observation this scenario IS playing out more and more. To a faster and a far greater extent than we may all realize. Perhaps exponentially, but we’ll never know it.
IMHO – The Fukushima’s MELTDOWNS should be treated as an act of war. A war against our planet and the existence of every living thing as we know it. Japan, along with all countries and academics in the world really need to come together and be transparent. Organizing our knowledge base toward survival of this insane nightmare should be priority one.
The Caloundra monthly average charts for February 2012 and 2013 showed wild fluctuations (Charts Below). Now the charts show less volatility, but the average background is higher. This suggests to me that everything is now more evenly mixed in the atmosphere. Even so, background levels have still increased. Interestingly, we had very little rain in February this year, compared to previous years.
Caloundra February month average year comparisons.
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 37% above pre-Fukushima average
February 2017 had the highest recorded February month average background since Fukushima!
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
13th February 2017 – Iodine 131 just reported by European Agency. Incident happened in January 2017!
Extracts:
As usual, we are warned after the fact.
And of course, the IRSN will carefully avoid telling us who is responsible for this pollution. Iodine-131, a radionuclide of artificial origin, was detected in January 2017 as traces in air at ground level in Europe.
Comment:
The largest detection seems to have been in Poland, from the 9th to the 16th of January 2017.
14th February 2016 – Stolen radioactive material found in Malaysian apartment building
Extracts:
Iridium-192, a substance which can potentially be used in a dirty bomb, has been found at a Malaysian apartment complex prompting fears that residents there may have been exposed to the hazardous material.
South Klang district police said residents needed urgent health checks after two stolen radioactive canisters were found with their seals broken, exposing people to the dangerous substance.
Humans are capable of receiving 20 millisieverts of gamma rays a year, however, these canisters had the gamma ray capacity of up to 300 millisieverts per hour, according to the ALEB.
Comment:
Worldwide, the theft of highly radioactive material happens much more frequently than the general public are aware off.
3rd February 2017 – Record radiation level detected inside damaged Fukushima reactor
Extracts:
TOKYO —
A record radiation level has been detected inside the No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, with the estimated reading of up to 530 sieverts per hour, the plant operator said Thursday.
The new radiation level, described by some experts as “unimaginable,” far exceeds 73 sieverts per hour, the previously highest radiation reading monitored in the interior of the reactor.
An official of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences said medical professionals have never considered dealing with this level of radiation in their work.
Comment:
We don’t have the technology available to deal with these extremely high radiation levels! Neither man nor machine can withstand these levels of radiation. It has been nearly six years now, and the buildings are structurally deteriorating, and are located in an earthquake zone, another disaster waiting to happen!
Caloundra January month average year comparisons.
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 52% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
January 2017 saw the usual post Fukushima, seasonal increase in background level, as warmer air flows from the tropics reach this location.
Year and month average local background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
My dear Environmental and politically concerned friends,
An action alert for your consideration. As a member of the resistance to trump’s fascist and racist coup of our government I would like to suggest we make a concerted effort to let corporations and their CEOs know that we will not tolerate their support of trump’s attack on our environment or women’s rights/human rights, civil rights or our freedom of religion and that means any religion. We also stand with our native brothers and sisters at Standing Rock and in solidarity of native Sovereign lands. If they expect us to buy their products we expect them to support these rights.
Everytime I see a senator or representative (state or federal) make a tweet, I Tweet back to them and suggest strongly if they want my support in 2018 they will stand strong with the people against the trump agenda. I am also doing this whenever I see a tweet from any Corporation and let them know that if they expect me to spend my shopping dollars with them that I will not do business with companies or corporations that support his fascist agenda. My wife and I started by calling L.L.Bean and letting them know that we would never buy from them again. They had gotten quite a number of calls and tried desperately to let us know they wanted our business. We told them we wanted their support for freedom. We have been using all types of social media, emails and the telephone. After seeing on the news how many of the large corporations acquiesced immediately when they thought their bottom line would be affected, I believe this to be a sound and important strategy and defense of Human Rights and the rights of the people to demand the government work for us and not the corporations.
“Once or twice in every generation a line is crossed so egregiously that where you stood on the issue will forever define you.” Kara Vallow
If you agree with this action please share it with your list and Friends, thank you for your time.
Caloundra December month average year comparisons.
2016 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 35% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
Even thought December 2016 had a lower December month average background compared to December 2012, the 2016 year average background level was the highest recorded here since Fukushima. The 2016 year average was 25% above pre-Fukushima recorded year average. At this Southern Hemisphere location, the local year average background has seen an increase in local background levels since Fukushima (see chart below). If we are seeing a steady increase in year averages here in the Southern Hemisphere, it suggests that locations in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing much greater yearly increases.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
23rd December 2016 – Fuel removal at Fukushima reactor again faces delay
Extracts:
But the clearing work took longer than expected due to contamination being more widespread than previously thought, forcing TEPCO and the government to again put off the retrieval.
Radiation levels have now dropped as almost all of wreckage at the site has been cleared, TEPCO said. The government and TEPCO have said fuel retrieval at the No. 1 and No. 2 reactor buildings will start in fiscal 2020 or later.
Caloundra November month average year comparisons.
2016 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 37% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 29% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 31% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
November 2016 had the the second highest month average local background since Fukushima. At the beginning of the month warm tropical air flows reached this location, this created the initial spike in local background levels. Background levels dropped for the rest of the month, as more Southern air flows reached this location, from the Southern Ocean.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
11th December 2016 – Mutated Blood Found In Humans In Japan — From Fukushima Radiation
Extract:
New blood types called Langereis and Junior, to distinguish them from traditional classifications. According to scientists, this phenomenon is associated with the leakage of radioactive substances resulting from the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
According to doctors, is to be expected in the near future to see additional changes. What scientists are saying in the future there will be at least another 15 new blood groups.
[Editor: We sourced this back to CCTV which gives no sources of its own other than “scientists” therefore this is not confirmed by EnviroReporter.com and is speculative.]
8th December 2016 – Tokyo increases Fukushima operator’s interest-free loan limit to $123bn
Extracts:
The extra 5 trillion yen ($44 billion) loan on top of the original 9 trillion yen ($79 billion) is destined to cover the costs of compensation and decontaminating areas around the plant, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The government plans to have TEPCO and other utilities pay back the loans, Japan’s NHK World reported, as part of the cost will pass to consumers through higher electricity rates.
Last month the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said that the combined costs of paying compensation for the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the decommissioning of the plant will almost double the initial estimate and will cost over 20 trillion yen ($176 billion).
Comment:
The Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe cleanup costs just keep skyrocketing, with no end in sight!
24 November 2016 – Missing Bushehr Radioactive Device Raises Concerns
Extracts:
Tamimi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there are concerns of negative impact of the Iranian nuclear program that could pollute the waters of the Arabian Gulf.
The chairman said most Gulf countries depend on the desalination of sea water and the matter is very critical especially if the contamination reaches desalination stations.
Comment:
The device went missing after the vehicle transporting it was stolen. How many times have I heard this same story over the years? So much for the nuclear industry’s radioactive material safety claim.
EPA proposing massive allowable increase in radiological contamination of our drinking water. Please oppose this now! https://www.nirs.org/
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21st November 2016 – Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami
Extract:
The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake. TEPCO said it managed to restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure.
(Video) 16th November 2016 – Giant radiation shield built to cap Chernobyl’s damaged nuclear reactor
Extract:
A giant radiation shield is being manoevered over the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the final phase of a €1.5 billion (US$1.6bn) project to prevent the leaking of further radioactive material from the damaged reactor.
Comment:
Look at the size of this structure that they are moving into place, it is 350 feet tall and more than 530 feet long. This very expensive temporary cover will also need to be replaced in a 100 years!
The total cost of the Shelter Implementation Plan, of which the New Safe Confinement is the most prominent element, is estimated to be around €2.15 billion (US$3.09 billion).
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
There has been another up tick in background levels at this location for October 2016. This is the second highest October month average since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Mom Lung Cancer, Dad, BLADDER Cancer, Brother, Rectum, large Tumor, sister, female Cancer,
STEP Mother, Cancer, Aunt BLADDER Cancer! Next Door Neighbor Cancer! All these Cancers, people who lived in Simi Valley from 1962-1980’s
Caloundra September month average year comparisons.
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
There has been a small up tick in background levels at this location for September. September 2013 and 2012 were the only years that had higher background levels here, since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
I guess the health and safety of the people who work and live around Los Alamos is more important than the health and safety of people who live around the Santa Susana Field Lab aka Rocketdyne:
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
This ‘tour’ of the Fukushima plant was cut short.
Time Distance = Dose
Four inch sheets of lead line the roads, didn’t seem to help.
This video does cover some touchy, usually not mentioned topics. However, it leaves out some important ones too. Such as, how badly the ocean is being contaminated.
28th August 2016 – Public cost of Fukushima nuclear accident cleanup topped ¥4.2 trillion as of end of March
Extracts:
The public cost of dealing with the aftermath of the March 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant topped ¥4.2 trillion by the end of fiscal 2015, it was learned Sunday.
According to the study, a total of ¥2.34 trillion was disbursed for decontamination of affected areas, disposal of contaminated waste and an interim storage facility for tainted soil. The expense was shouldered by the government, mainly through affiliated Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp.
Tepco and six other power utilities charged their customers at least ¥327 billion in electricity rate hikes after Japan’s worst-ever nuclear accident.
Comment:
¥4.2 trillion (around $628 billion) is an astronomical amount of money. This was the clean up cost up to the end of the 2015 fiscal year! What is the total cost now?
A very important point not mentioned in this report is the staggering costs involved in cleaning up the other seriously damaged Japanese nuclear reactors, that have been conveniently forgotten about by the mainstream media!
The Japanese Government admitted in May 2011 that there were a lot more nuclear reactors seriously damaged, not just the 4 at the Fukushima Nuclear disaster site. We have no real information on what has been happening at those other nuclear disaster sites, because of the news blackout.
Quote:
“According to Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), the earthquake and subsequent tsunami affected fourteen nuclear reactors at four sites along the eastern coast the Fukushima Daiichi site (six reactors), Fukushima Daini site (four reactors), the Ongawa site (three reactors) and the Tokai site (one reactor). The most serious damage occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.”
I was the fourth child in my family and the only one born in Grand Junction, CO. I was diagnosed with CMT1A. It is a neuro muscular disease. I also have neuropathy. Is there anyone else who has been diagnosed with this disease? No one else in my family has this disease, including my parents. I did not inherit it and I am curious if uranium deposits etc. had anything to do with it.
Linda
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
19th July 2016 – San Onofre Nuclear Leak Caused by Pushing Generator Limits, Watchdog Group Says
Extracts:
The cause of a leak in 2012 that led to the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was steam generators being deliberately run too hot, too hard and too fast, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent watchdog organization.
“Edison knew they were pushing San Onofre’s steam generators past the original design limit, but did it anyway for the sake of short-term profits and to correct other design deficiencies as a result of SCE’s unverified analytical assumptions,” Arora alleged.
“MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) has said that on July 16 a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP), while the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom denied the information.”
The surface wind direction is coming from the Ukraine to this Romanian location at present.
This maybe a coincidence, or a malfunctioning station. It is the only private monitoring station in Romania showing very high peak detections at present. No official Ukrainian background monitoring stations are showing any significant background increase.
Tools you need to keep an eye on this, can be found on the International Radiation Monitoring Station list page,
Non-categorized event in Ukraine on July 21 2016 10:29 AM (UTC).
Extract:
MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) has said that on July 16 a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP), while the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom denied the information. “I learnt from reliable sources that the government is hiding the seriousness of the accident occurred on July 16 at reactor one of Khmelnytsky NPP with the depressurization of the reactor primary circuit and leakage of radioactive coolant to the nuclear steam generator. In addition, nuclear fuel leaked, which is a critical situation,” he wrote on his Facebook page. He said that on Monday a meeting with participation of Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion and Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk was held on Monday to discuss the issue and one more government meeting is scheduled for Thursday. The press service of Energoatom told Interfax-Ukraine that information of Artemenko is not true. He took it from unknown and unverified sources and misinformed citizens, they said. “On July 16, reactor one of Khmelnytsky NPP was disconnected from power grid as there was leakage at nuclear steam generator one, and Energoatom informed about it quickly on its website. This is not leakage of nuclear fuel… Radiation level on the industrial site and adjacent areas have not changed.
At this location in the winter months air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. There was a small background level spike on the 19th of June. This occurred as a significant rain event passed over the area.
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
Long term local background information can be found here,
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
There was 123 mm of rainfall in May, at this location.
Small amounts of Pb-210 and Be-7 where detected, plus a very small detection of a possible 77 X-ray from Lead Pb-212, which is the decay daughter of Radon-220. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay. Both Be-7 and Pb-210 can also be released from nuclear power plants, and nuclear accidents. The detection of the Pb-212 77 keV X-ray probably indicates the presents of a small trace of volcanic ash in the air.
Entergy’s FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Ontario near Syracuse, NY is scheduled to be permanently closed in early 2017. However, the U.S. Coast Guard noticed a problem today, with an unknown fluid seemingly coming from the power plant and leaving a sheen on the lake: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2690081/sheen-lake-ontario
As EPA’s political appointee staff prepares to go out of office, they’re apparently positioning themselves to help their friends, including vastly increasing the allowable radioactivity in drinking water:
The tweet from SafeCast on their twitter is not just lame, it’s frightening.
SAFECAST @safecast Jun 15
“Readings were 1 day 6 mos ago. Likely xray machine or person getting radiation”
A pregnant woman walking down the street that day in New York did not have a clue. A major RADIOACTIVE EVENT may have occurred according to Safecast’s data. Those Safecast numbers were very high.
IMO – Could be doing more damage than terrorists with guns or explosives and nobody will know… therefore, nobody will care.
What sort of evil exists within governments that wish to keep this sort of information from becoming publicly known. It is the government’s #1 responsibility to PROTECT it’s people. Any so called government that is not doing so, or is actively removing technology that can protect us, must be held to account. This is evil and it is madness! Raising levels of acceptable exposures to radioactivity internally or externally is an abomination, not rooted in any science whatsoever. It makes one think our own government is trying to kill us. What other conclusion can you come too???
@Michael, This whole exercise shows there is no system in place to investigate this type of detection, by private or government organizations.
“We are down to 9 (NINE) working beta stations out of 130 sites. Beyond outrageous.”
The USA government monitoring system is being dismantled, at the same time they are raising the acceptable amounts of radiation exposure to ridiculous levels. They are still using the outdated dose model. Anyone who has done any research understands this antiquated model has no baring on the serious health effects that are caused by the internal ingestion of artificial isotopes.
Mind you, this is also happening in other countries. There seems to be a concerted worldwide effort through regulatory capture, to increase the acceptable toxic load populations will accept. These sick bastards don’t care about human populations, your children or grand children, their only objective is profit margins.
Look at the latest EPA Draft Protective Action Guide (PAG) for Drinking Water after a Radiological Incident,
@vital1: That really is pathetic. Do individual operators on these systems keep records? Six month lag is not acceptable. Out of the New York sites Buffalo‘s beta and gamma graphs work. Inspecting both reveals that the beta and gamma increases don’t correspond very closely meaning all these RadNet gamma graphs are very helpful, if at all. Thank you vital1 for being our One Man International Radiation Station!
I requested permission to publish the Safecast’s representative’s email reply. They pointed me to the Safecast Twitter account, as Safecast does not publicly comment or advocate, it simply collects and publishes data.
Here is Safecast’s Twitter reply to my query on the New York detection.
“Total estimated cost: $2,478,647 (per year), includes $2,338,804 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.”
(Only 9 out of 130 rad detectors working… where’s that maintenance money going?)
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@Michael, I have contacted Safecast through their web site contact form.
This was sent to Safecast.
Very elevated background New York detection on the Safecast monitoring network. In some locations it is above 3.99 uSv/hr. Not sure how often Safecast refreshes the maps, so there is some uncertainty how recent this detection is.
Is this a genuine detection that would need investigation by local authorities?
I don’t live in the USA, so someone needs to contact the relevant local authority if it is.
Hopefully you can quickly establish if this detection is a result of equipment malfunction, or something to be concerned about.
@vital1: There is no relevant local authority in a country now down to just 9 out of 130 working beta monitors. Safecast could be contacted by you should you want to investigate. One beta machine works in New York state and shows moderate increase. Gamma is active in NYC.
A very elevated background New York detection is showing on the Safecast monitoring network. The map shows detections above 3.99 uSv/hr in some locations. Not sure how often Safecast refreshes their maps, so there is some uncertainty how recent this detection is.
Is it a genuine detection? That would need investigation by local authorities.
“One of the main things I learned here is that we ARE disposing of radioactive waste from Nuke plants. The ways we are disposing and using this stuff will amaze you. It’s in products and building materials etc”
Yes, they turn the waste into a product, that way you can make a profit out of it, and you don’t have expensive disposal costs. It doesn’t matter about the suffering, pain, and environmental damage you cause, when money is your God!
I think they got the crazy road building idea from the USA.
(see Note 2 below)
from the EnvoroReporter Comments Archive:
_________
Chase says:
July 9, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Regarding Fukushima:
“We are at an exposure level that should not be there!”
“No way to contain it, no way to clean it up… they do NOT realize the extent of the problem.”
“Do we have a world wide problem? YES!”
“Are we prepared? NO!”
– Dr. Doug Rokke (pronounced rocky)
Radio interview at the University of Illinois by Roger Cooper located at this link –
47 minutes: http://www.podomatic.com/profile/rogercooper99
(note: link no longer working, I am glad I wrote down at least a couple of these things.)
I learned a tremendous amount from this interview. One of the main things I learned here is that we ARE disposing of radioactive waste from Nuke plants. The ways we are disposing and using this stuff will amaze you. It’s in products and building materials etc… Such as airplane ballasts, golf clubs and more… if these things burn in a crash or fire… then uh oh.
Note 1: DU – Depleted Uranium – DEPLETED does not mean depleted is this case. It’s a word that is used specifically to deceive.
Note 2: Interstate 40 near St. Louis, MO has concrete made with DU. The workers who built that freeway are very sick.
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I can also remember seeing Safecast readings of a very ‘hot’ Santa Monica freeway. If you get stuck on the freeway there it’s ‘sort of like’ getting an unnecessary free x-ray. I am pretty sure this ‘stuff’ has been ‘dumped’ and ‘mixed’ into all kinds of stuff that most are unaware of. 🙁
7th June 2016 – Radioactive soil to be used in base layer for new roads
Extract:
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday drew up a basic plan to use soil contaminated with radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to build roads.
Under the basic plan, tainted soil with relatively low radioactive cesium concentrations of up to 5,000 to 8,000 becquerels per kilogram will be used to form the base layer of roads.
There were a couple of significant day average spikes a the beginning of May 2016. From then to the end of May, day average background levels dropped significantly, from a high of 47% above average to 6%, a near pre-Fukushima normal background.
This significant drop in background over the month occurred as less tropical air, and more Southern Ocean air flows reach this location. May, April, March and February this year have seen the highest May, April, March and February month averages since Fukushima.
Caloundra May month average year comparisons.
2016 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns May 2016 Report – “My readings taken with my old Gamma Scout have been surprisingly flat. I have recorded the readings of the newly received second Gamma Scout as well, which appear on the left side of the graph, not on the right, as they should be.”
May background comparison chart, Cairns (red) compared to Caloundra (orange).
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
There is a high detection showing at Boston’s Logan International airport terminal B building, on the Safecast community monitoring network. It is ~ 3.99 uSv/hr!
a. Someone may have taken their Safecast Geiger counter through a TSA scanner?
b. Some sort of food or goods irradiating quarantine facility?
c. Malfunctioning detector?
Is it something to be concerned about?
I have looked around at a number of International airports on Safecast. At present Bostons Logan International airport is the only one showing a large radiation detection at a terminal building.
I suggest someone in the US makes inquiries to eliminate if it is something to be concerned about, or not.
Also, another high detection is showing up on what would have to be a ship, ferry, or boat off the coast of Boston, on the Safecast community monitoring network. From the colour of the detection marker, it looks like around ~ 0.87 uSv/hr.
Thanks vital 1 for the information. FYI there is a website dedicated to shielding products and sensors relating to EMF exposure. There are ways of lessening the exposure to microwaves in our homes and on our persons. Here is a link to the site; http://www.lessemf.com/
In a world of increasing toxic load, it is important to reduce anything that may cause biological stress to the body. There is ample research showing that Mobile phone and WiFi technologies that are based on microwave radiation, can potentially be harmful.
Page two of this free Wifi Safety Guide provides a list of practical things people can do to reduce their family’s exposer to WiFi radiation.
RT is reporting today, 5/24/16, that the decomissioning chief at Fukushima, a Mr. Naohiro Masuda, has reported that 600 tons of melted fuel is “missing”. RT also says in sum and substance that following the tsunami and explosions 3 reactors gained critical temperature and burnt through the respective reactor pressure vessels, concentrating fuel somewhere on the lower levels of the station currently filled with water.
Masuda supposedly said that while all the melted fuel from Reactor 1 poured out completely, an estimated 30% to 50% of the fuel from Reactors 2 and 3 remained in and around the reactors. Masuda supposedly estimated that approximately 200 tons of fuel debris lies within each unit, which makes in total about 600 tons of melted fuel mixed up with metal construction elements, concrete and whatever else was “down there”.
Matsuda supposedly said “It’s important to find it [the fuel] as soon as possible,” that Japan does not yet possess the technology to extract the melted fuel. “Once we can find out the condition of the melted fuel and identify its location, I believe we can develop the necessary tools to retrieve it.”
RT claims that TEPCO hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel by 2021. RT said that TEPCO’s decommissioning plan implies a 30-40 year period before the consequences of the melt downs are “fully remediated”. Among the remediation projects are some 10 million plastic bags full of contaminated soil concentrated in gigantic waste dumps scattered around the nuclear facility.
So that’s what TEPCO will admit as this time. TEPCO had been planning on building a commercial power generating reactor on leased land near Palacios TX, a plan which TEPCO seemingly abandoned after the Fukushima accident…As they say in Texas “Thank the lord for that.”
19th May 2016 – Former Prime Minister Koizumi backs U.S. sailors suing over Fukushima radiation
Extracts:
“I learned that the number of sick people is still increasing, and their symptoms are worsening,” he told the news conference.
The group of about 400 former U.S. Navy sailors and Marines alleges the utility did not provide accurate information about the dangers of radioactive material being emitted from the disaster-struck plant.
According to lawyers for the group, seven of its members have died so far, including some from leukemia.
Comment:
Most Americans are not aware of the hell these former marines and sailors from the Ronald Reagan task force have been through since Fukushima. The numbers who have become ill has been continually increasing. Some of their children born after the event have also suffered serious health issues. It should have been front page news at the beginning, but there has been a considerable effort to hide their plight from public view!
Well, April 2016 had the highest April month average since records have been kept here. April, March and February this year have seen the highest April, March and February month averages since Fukushima. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia from the Northern tropics. The last few months have seen a lot of Eastern equatorial winds drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed up the East Coast of Australia.
In 2015 the year average background level dropped, to the lowest post Fukushima level. So what is creating the present up tick in background?
Caloundra April month average year comparisons.
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns April 2016 Report – “The readings were fairly flat throughout April. My baseline has slightly diminished from former 0.125 to 0.120 uSv/hr or even less.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
I was shocked recently when a gentleman walked into the radiation station monitoring room here, and set all the Geiger counter alarms off! At first I though a major nuclear event was occurring. 🙁
After the computer based Geiger counter also stated to alarm, I picked up the GammaScout Geiger counter, and noted it was reading 2.67 uSv/hr. I was standing ~ 2 meters away from him at this point. I had been a lot closer. 🙁
It turned out he had just come from a CT scan at a Sunshine Coast Medical Centre here in Australia.
He asked if he should leave? I politely said yes.
I spoke to him later outside on the footpath, mind you keeping my distance.
It turned out that the medical center hadn’t told him squat about what they had injected him with, or given him any warnings or post procedural advice!
I was shocked at the levels, and pointed out they should have warned him to stay clear of people, including his wife, and particularly children, for at least 24 hours, plus drink plenty of water for 24 hours to flush it out of his system.
So at one metre he was 5.34 uSv/hr, at half a meter 10.68 uSv/hr, and at quarter of a meter 21.36 uSv/hr! If he just happened to hold his grandchild or a baby in his arms, well you get the picture, it would be probably greater than 80 uSv/hr.
A medical chest X-ray is approximately an instantaneous 100 uSv, but at half a metre, you’re getting a full body X-ray every ten seconds, while in the presence of this gentleman!
This all happened rather quickly as you can see from the recorded chart below. The GammaScout Geiger counter is on 60 second data collection, so it didn’t pick up the full peak of my visual observation.
The medical profession has become far too complacent in its handling of these highly radioactive materials, and are placing their patients and the public at risk, in my opinion.
bionerd23 – Insane radioactivity in the nuclear medicine operating room
Uploaded on Feb 19, 2010
tiny, radioactive iridium 192 seeds. 10 Curie. 370.000.000.000 atoms decaying every second. and i left my gamma scout with that intense radiation… making an interesting documentary about the levels of ionizing radiation in brachytherapy (to be precise: prostate cancer afterloading).
Latest public detail on plans to move fuel rods from California’s decomissioned nuclear plants to the western-most part of the Texas Panhandle (not West, Texas which is near Waco):
The direct road access to the site can be viewed by doing a map search for Andrews County Texas. It’s due north of Odessa TX which is on U.S. 20, which merges into U.S. 10 east of El Paso. The proposed disposal site also due east of WIPP in New Mexico.
As a result, to get the fuel rods out of California’s populated areas as quickly as possible I would expect them to travel on U.S. 10 to Phoenix, down to Tucson, and on to El Paso merging onto U.S. 20 before Odessa. The other feasible freeway route would be to head towards Kingman Arizona on U.S. 40 and then head due south in New Mexico on U.S. 285 to join up with U.S. 10 east of El Paso.
There appears to be no railroad access to Andrews, Texas.
Note, however, the article claims the fuel rods will not be moved until many years from now.
Fukushima artwork by Tomiyama Taeko. (95 years old)
I personally find paintings #3 and #4 to be very moving.
““JAPAN: Nuclear Power Plant” (Image #4) we see the artist’s interpretation of the wreckage that is Fukushima Daiichi power plant. This image of the bleak, crumbling frame of the plant, a skeleton against an equally bleak landscape, speaks more boldly of the fragility and hubris of this man-made accident than photos or words. “”
“”She describes the growing sense of anger with the folly of building so many power plants in this earthquake-ridden archipelago, as she drove with her friend around the abandoned villages and farmlands in the area. In later reflections on this experience, Tomiyama associates the devastation at Fukushima with Japan’s defeat in WorldWar II. “”
7th May 2016 – Spike in radiation levels after toxic waste leak at Washington nuclear site
Extracts:
The recent readings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) obtained by RT have revealed that a sharp spike in the radiation level had been registered in Richland on the morning of May 5.
The readings show the random jump when the toxic fume rates briefly reached around 410 CPM [counts per minute], nearly the highest possible level.
“When they move that waste, they have a lot more vapors coming out from the stacks. The wind was blowing toward me from that stack. That changed my life and hurt my lungs,” Seth Ellingsworth, who became seriously ill from the fumes, told RT. “It kept getting worse and worse.”
@ Michael, we also had another day here with higher than normal day average background levels. These are the highest day averages for May recorder here. We have local background radiation levels going back to 2007.
Still, the detection here, is not as high as your Santa Monica detection indicates.
Are the Santa Monica and Caloundra background level increases from a new critically event at Fukushima, or from a another recent nuclear event that has been covered up???
Alert Caloundra 3rd May 2016 – On the 3rd May we had a series of storms come through just after midnight. They dropped torrential rain for about 45 minutes, the rest of the day was fine. Background average for the day was 45% above the pre-Fukushima average. The last few days logging data also suggests the GammaScout is functioning fine, as it showed lower background the day before on the 2nd May.
The wind direction plays a big part in detections here. The background monitoring station here is located on a headland, so East, North East and South East of its location is the Pacific Ocean. Maroochydore, the the closest wind detection station, is about ~20 Km away. By comparing the Maroochydore wind direction information against the background chart, it shows the higher detections on the 3rd, were mainly detected when the wind had an Easterly aspect, off the Pacific Ocean.
The question is, what has been creating the background increases over the last few months? In 2015 the year average background level dropped, to the lowest post Fukushima level. May statistically has traditionally been a quiet month, with lower background levels. We have never detected day averages for May at these high 45% + levels, pre or post Fukushima.
Alert Caloundra 1st May 2016 – Here is the day average and the 24hr charts, showing the spike in background coming through. This spike put the day average up to 47% above the pre-Fukushima average.
We had some heavy rain, the first in a long time. The wind direction was all over the place during the event. The next few days may indicate if there was some Geiger counter contamination present, as the monitoring GammaScout was given a clean out and inspection after this spike came through. Nothing obvious was found to indicate contamination was responsible for the spike in background.
H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016
…and H.R., Nuclear Utilization of Keynote Energy Policies Act.
Geoffrey H. Fettus Senior Attorney Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
This is how it happens. Our legislators in action.
NOTE: The video doesn’t actually start until about 30 minutes in.
(of course the youtube comments are turned off) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHSDqnozb0
I cannot fathom what these legislators and their friends are doing even though I see it before my very eyes.
– They want to remove hearing requirements for Nuclear Plants.
– Ease all license renewals. etc… etc…
– Lessen payments from the energy companies so they can make more money.
(yes, they actually say that)
– Creating new product options. ie… portable Nuclear Plants
— …hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars are on the line.
These Nuclear Proponents sound more like an infomercial for SAFE CLEAN RELIABLE Nuclear Power.
(Always said with a smile, or is that a smirk?) :rolleyes: Repeated over and over.
IMO – Legislators that don’t know squat are reading from scripts that they don’t really understand yet purport to be factual. It’s a scam! 😡
There was a low 96mm of rainfall in March. The rain water testing has been consistent for months now, with the usual Pb-210 and Be-7 being detected, plus the detection of a possible 77 X-ray from Lead Pb-212, which is the decay daughter of Radon-220. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay. Both Be-7 and Pb-210 can also be released from nuclear power plants, and nuclear accidents.
The detection of the Pb-212 77 keV X-ray probably indicates the presence of a small trace of volcanic ash in the air.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
While researching California Grizzly Bears, (now extinct), I realized that the last one shot and killed was just several miles from where I now live.
Less than 100 years ago…
“The last hunted California grizzly was shot in Tulare County, California, in August 1922. Later, in 1924, a grizzly known to roam an area of the Sierra Madre Mountains (Santa Barbara County) was spotted for the last time, and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again in California.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
That got me to pondering… What’s it going to be like 100 years from now? (maybe 10) What will our descendants look back upon and say “That sure was stupid, what were they thinking?” I am certain Nuclear Power and TRIPLE MELTDOWNS like Fukushima will be at the top of that list.
Once a species is gone, it’s gone and it don’t take long.
@Michael, A lot of people are not aware that the earth’s magnetic shield weakened by ~15% in the last 150 years. This is one of the earth’s primary defenses against solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun. The other is the earth’s atmosphere.
I have been a sun watcher for many years, and know it was very unusual for such small solar events in 2011 to produce such Northern Light displays, so far south. These unusual Northern lights displays indicated to me that the electrical dynamics of the upper atmosphere had been changed by the large radioactive releases from the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
Reports from what would be considered relatively weak solar storms have recently been causing more electrical equipment failure and transformer fires around the world.
What does this mean?
The combined effect of a weaker magnetic field, and the atmospheric ionizing radiation damage from Fukushima, now means that a much much smaller solar event, one significantly smaller than a “Carrington Event”, could wipe out large parts of earth’s electrical infrastructure!
Here is a research paper below, and a report, to support my view that the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe has damaged the upper atmosphere. The research paper only covers the atmospheric damaging effects of Krypton-85. It doesn’t take into account the atmospheric damage caused by the thousands of other ionizing isotopes released into the atmosphere by the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe!
Article:
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE WATCH
Extract: (The extract is from the bottom of page 56.)
“Importance Krypton-85 (85 Kr) is a radioactive noble gas which decays with a half-life of 10.76 years, emitting mainly β -particles of mean energy 251 keV. The main sources of Krypton-85 are the nuclear fuel reprocessing plants and various nuclear reactors.
The nuclear weapons tests in 1945-1963 contributed about 5% of the total Krypton-85 in the atmosphere, whereas its natural sources can be neglected. Radioactive decay is practically the only mechanism of Krypton-85 removal from the atmosphere.
The present background concentrations of Krypton-85 in the atmosphere are about 1 Bq/m 3 and are doubling every 20 years. At this level, Krypton-85 is not dangerous for human beings, but the air ionization caused by Krypton-85 decay will affect atmospheric electric properties.
If Krypton-85 continues to increase, changes in such atmospheric processes and properties as atmospheric electric conductivity, ion current, the Earth’s magnetic field, formation of cloud condensation nuclei and 57 aerosols, and frequency of lightning may result and thus disturb the Earth’s heat balance and precipitation patterns.”
Fukushima Diary – Update: 25th May 2015 – Still 960,000Bq Cs-134/137 and 2,336,000,000Bq noble gas discharged from reactors to the air every single hour
Extract:
Regarding noble gas (such as Kr-85), PCV (Primary Containment Vessel) gas control system detected 2,336,000,000 Bq of gas discharged from Reactor 1-3 every hour this April. Tepco states noble gas passes by as radioactive cloud to cause only external exposure so the exposure dose caused by the discharged noble gas should be significantly small.
@vital1: This is absolutely fascinating information. Earthquake science is one of the ‘newest’ sciences so major theories buttressed by facts are very exciting. We’ve been keeping an eye on the Sun since Lights Out in 2014 and a CME space quake causing earthquakes does make sense theoretically. It doesn’t help predicting quakes as CMEs aren’t the only cause nor does it seem possible to pinpoint where they’d happen. The quartz theory seems right on target as well. Here in Southern California, quakes seem to be swarming and we are way overdue for a real mega-disaster. The Southern California Earthquake Center and Southern California Seismic Network are excellent sources of information reminding everyone here to be ready to be self sufficient for three months post said Quakecalypse assuming survival from resultant destruction and fires. Thank you vital1 for this terrific new knowledge.
A number of powerful earthquakes have rocked the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto and regions, located on the southern island of Kyushu. I and many others have been keeping an eye on all the Southern Japanese radiation monitoring systems, and at present we have nothing to report. There was a small general up tick reported on the island of Kyushu on the NETC Monitoring network, but we have also seen these small background up ticks like this on this monitoring network, before the earthquake.
Sendai nuclear power plant is the only one operating on the Island at present. Crazy that they even turned it back on after Fukushima!
Everything is still very unstable as an earthquakes swarm is going right through the centre of the island of Kyushu. So it is worth keeping an eye on those Japanese radiation monitors, and news reports.
You can find a list of the Japanese radiation monitoring stations here, so you can keep an eye on the situation yourself.
One of the greatest things about the Internet is that as an individual you can have access to some of the latest research information. Years ago this type of information would only have been available to top scientists in their field.
NASA scientists have proposed a new theory on the cause of major Earthquakes. If the magnetosphere is hit by Solar flares and CME (Coronal Mass Ejections) from the Sun, of a great enough intensity, it can cause what they call a space quake. This is equivalent to a earth quake of 5 or 6 on the Richter scale.
The theory goes that the solar flare, or CME of sufficient magnitude strikes the Earth’s Magnetosphere, this places pressure on the Earth’s tectonic plates and can cause Earthquakes. The Magnetosphere is a naturally formed magnetic field around the Earth created by the Earth’s iron core, it protects the Earth against Solar flares and CME radiation.
Here is an analogy. Imagine that the Earth is like a a boiled egg that you have dropped. When you pick it up the egg shell is broken into many pieces. If you gently squeeze that egg, the shell, representing the Earth’s tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust, will move against each other. So when the solar flare or CME hits the Earth’s magnetosphere, it squeezes it, which in turn puts pressure on the Earth’s crust.
Both the recent New Zealand and Japanese Earth Quakes in 2011 occurred during an X chase solar flare activity which also caused a geomagnetic storms in the earth’s magnetosphere. During the Japanese quake it was reported that the Earth’s magnetosphere was also hit by a CME at the same time the X class flare hit.
Here is a site where you can monitor solar flare activity in real time.
If this theory is correct, this info is great because it will give an idea when something may happen, it just won’t indicate accurately where or when.
New discoveries suggest where and when may be able to be predicted. One study has found that satellites have been recording variations in ULF or VLF radio signals (Ultra/Very Low Frequency) signals from where Earthquakes were about to occur. Also slight increases in earth crust levels can be an indicator. So these two satellite projects are exploring these indicators to see if they can give an early warning of where an Earthquake may occur.
Another study has found that major earthquakes usually occur where there are large quartz deposits in the rock formations on fault lines. There appears to be more water in quartz deposits which allows more slippage in the crust at those points. This would also explain why electrical disturbances can appear before an Earthquake. Lights in the sky or animals who use magnetic field information to navigate becoming confused or dying, plus domestic pets acting strange. Think of the old crystal quartz radios. Quartz and mineral crystals in bed rocks under a lot of pressure would generate an electrical signal giving an indication of an impending quake.
So there appears to be significant advancements in in Earthquake predicting technologies. Putting it all together as an accurate predictor may be closer than we think.
A survey of 1000 survivors from 311. Voices and opinions too.
“…more than 80 % say either that no progress is being made or that reconstruction is going more slowly than expected.”
When asked, “Do you still feel mental and physical affects?”
“Even five years after the disasters, as many as 60 percent of sufferers say they still feel effects. The number of those who say they still feel depressed, unmotivated or affected in many other ways tends to INCREASE yearly in annual surveys. Ten percent of respondents say it’s painful to keep on living. ”
Comments such as…
“When my grandson who was in kindergarten was living in an emergency shelter, he lost all his hair. When he painted pictures, he used only black. I was worried. I think it was because our family separated after the nuclear accident.” (Anonymous, Minamisoma, Fukushima)
I wonder why we never saw photos of this kind of direct radiation sickness?
“Many survivors say they will not or cannot return to their hometown.”
When asked, “What do you think of the restarting of Nuclear Power Stations?”
72% said Unacceptable 😐
22 % said Inevitable
6% said necessary
What will things be like in another 5 years as the TRIPLE MELTDOWNS continue and the FALLOUT spreads and accumulates? They failed to ask the survivors that question.
Well, March 2016 had the highest March month average since records have been kept here. March and February this year have seen the highest March and February month averages since Fukushima. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia from the Northern tropics. The last two months have seen a lot of Eastern equatorial winds drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed up the East Coast of Australia.
Caloundra March month average year comparisons.
2016 39% above average
2015 33% above average
2014 31% above average
2013 32% above average
2012 24% above average
Cairns March 2016 Report – “Daily average radiation readings for last month March 2016 for Cairns (red) compared to your readings (orange). Readings were fairly steady, with a minor bump around the 20 – 24th of the month, which was associated with hot weather.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Given the emergency in India, I don’t want to post “cute” animal stories. However, given the fact that hunting and eating wild boar in Germany is still heavily regulated because of Chernobyl fall out and contamination of the boars’ forage, it is interesting to see that the abandoned towns around Fukushima are being over run with wild boar as well. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/rampaging-radioactive-wild-boars-causing-7705006
There has been a Nuclear event at the Kakrapar Nuclear Plant in India. It has been going on for nearly three weeks now. I have posted two reports below by Dr. Gadekar, a renowned physicist, based in Sampoorna Kranti Vidyalaya, Vedchhi, Gujarat. He appears to be the only reliable independent source of information on this event at present.
If anyone knows of any publicly available radiation monitoring stations or networks, that are available in India, please post the links here.
12 March 2016 – Kakrapar Nuclear Plant Is Likely Undergoing A Loss-Of-Coolant Accident: Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan
Extract:
Till 7.00 PM on March 12,2016 , the DAE officials have no clue as to where exactly the PHT leak is located and how big is the rate of irradiated heavy water that is leaking into the reactor containment . However, some reports indicate that the containment has been vented to the atmosphere at least once , if not more times , which I suspect indicates a tendency for pressure build up in that closed space due to release of hot heavy water and steam into the containment housing . If this is true, the leak is not small , but moderately large , and still continuing. No one confirms that any one has entered the containment (in protective clothing) for a quick physical assessment of the situation , perhaps it is not safe to do so because of the high radiationfields inside . When NPCIL officials state that the reactor cooling is maintained , I believe what they may be doing is to allow the heavy water or light water stored in the emergency cooling tanks to run once-through the system and continue to pour through the leak into the containment floor through the break.
Comment:
It is unclear how serious the situation is, because of a lack of information from Indian authorities. Everyone should keep an eye on this one.
25th March 2016 – Nuclear Accident in Gujarat Enters Third Week, Lethal Gamble Continues
Extracts:
The PHWR design that is the mainstay of the Indian nuclear programme is a derivative of the Canadian CANDU design. It uses natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as both the coolant as well as the moderator.
LOCA is serious in any nuclear reactor, but in a CANDU it can be catastrophic. Unlike a PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) (Koodankulam) or a BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) (Tarapur), CANDUs have a positive void reactivity coefficient. What this jargon means is that as the temperature rises in the absence of cooling following a LOCA water begins to boil. Voids are created. In a light water reactor like at Tarapur or Koodankulam, this means that not many neutrons get slowed down. In the absence of slow neutrons to cause further fission, the chain reaction automatically stops. This is an example of a passive safety system that does not need any active intervention on part of the operators. However, in a CANDU, the slowing down of neutrons is done by the moderator heavy water which is separate from the coolant heavy water. A loss of coolant accident here, does not affect the slowing down of neutrons. The chain reaction continues unless it is actively interupted. These reactions are taking place in timescales of nano to micro seconds and human reaction times are too slow for effective action. The RBMK type of reactor that exploded at Chernobyl also had a positive void coefficient of reactivity although it used graphite instead of heavy water for moderation.
19th March 2016 – It’s Not Just Cancer! Radiation, Genomic Instability and Heritable Genetic Damage
Extracts:
The radioactive contamination of the planet has killed tens of millions of babies, caused a huge increase in infertility, and increased the genetic burden of the human race and life on earth.
Using evidence ranging from Chernobyl to the nuclear Test Veterans to the offspring of radiographers we showed clearly that a dose of 1mSv from internal contamination was able to cause a 50% increase in congenital malformations. This identifies an error in the ICRP model and in the current legislation of a factor of 1,000.
It’s official – genetic damage in children is an indicator of harmful exposures to the father
Comment:
This excellent fact based article points out a very little discussed result of radioactive contamination exposure, Genomic instability. Genetic damage caused by radioactive contamination in the first generation, can be expressed in multiple generations of the offspring. One Russian study I read found up to 22 generations and counting, could be affected. This is a very important consequence of radiation contamination exposure that is not discussed.
Well, February 2016 had the highest month average since records have been kept here. This was a surprise to say the least considering the wind direction. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia, from the Northern tropics. Interestingly, most of the late February increases occurred when the wind direction was coming from South or SSE. Equatorial winds this year were drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed it up the East Coast of Australia. The East Coast of Australia surface wind direction for the later part of February is shown clearly at 2 minutes and 54 seconds into this Suspicious0bserver video.
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCujdCaI0dI
Caloundra February month average year comparisons.
2016 – was 41% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2015 – was 30% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2014 – was 40% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2013 – was 39% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2012 – was 37% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
Cairns February 2016 Report – “My previous baseline used to be 0.125. Last month some readings were below the 0.120 mark. There were no extremes, both curves behave in a similar parallel fashion. Yesterday we had high temperatures and inland wind with thunderstorms, that increased the readings.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart. Cairns is red in this comparison chart, and Caloundra is yellow.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
18th March 2016 – Shocking health effects in Fukushima nuclear workers found under the official radiation dose limits
Extracts:
The First male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of 50mSv. “I suffered damages to kidneys, heart, etc. — all important organs in my body.”
The second male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of 56mSv. He said
“I went to such a severe accident site and worked at the risk of my life, but all I’ve got was this cruel reality and treatment!” I suffered thyroid damage, and had all my stomach removed.
The third male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of just 19.2mSv. He was diagnosed as having acute myelogenous leukemia.
My doctor said that “70% of the cells in your bone marrow were occupied by cancer. Without any treatment, you will die for sure.”
In my opinion it is criminal that large populations of Japanese men, women and children have been left to live in such contaminated areas. After so many nuclear catastrophes it is madness to allow the nuclear industry to carry on as normal, plus also allow it to expand by building new nuclear plants worldwide. We should be winding back the Nuclear industry as quickly as possible, and using renewable technologies which are much more efficient, and safer.
The nuclear industry and it leaders should be hell accountable for the untold number of lives that have been cut short by numerous nuclear accidents and the wide spread nuclear contamination, plus the enormous environment destruction they have wrought on the world and all living things.
This civilization sees itself as technologically advanced and enlightened, but will be remembered as the cause of one of the worst dark ages in human history.
Yahoo News story today, which you all [may] pick apart, concerning attempts at retrieving remains of fuel rods at Fukushima. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fukushimas-ground-zero-no-place-man-robot-003153046–finance.html Contrast that part of the news story with your memories of stories of men actually digging out broken fuel rods at the sodium reactor at Rocketdyne Area IV using hand tools. Given his comment here on 3/6/16, Vital will get a chuckle at reporter’s claim that ambient radiation in some areas around Fukushima is only as bad as that in Tokyo.
South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station near Tres Palacios Bay south of Galveston on Texas Coast, built using GE design. Nobody living nearby with any level of sophistication to keep watch on the plant, except for the plant employees. Most locals living around the plant are low income rural residents who would not be watching or listening to word about troubles at the plant like the folks at San Ononfre did.
While the average Texas working man/technical employee prides himself on his knowledge and skill with sophisticated equipment (such as Texans needed to plug the gas well at Porter Ranch) I worry that no one independent is watching what goes on at the plant. I see the plant from the air every time I fly into/from Houston Hobby, and I worry about the Houston Metro area because it’s downwind from the plant. Houstonians are friendly and helpful, so if any Radiation Conversation II commenters learn anything about problems at the South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station please post them here so I can get the word out through my Houston relatives.
6th March 2016 – Tokyo was on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, admits former prime minister
Extracts:
He said he considered evacuating the capital, Tokyo, along with all other areas within 160 miles of the plant, and declaring martial law. “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” he said. “Something on that scale, an evacuation of 50 million, it would have been like a losing a huge war.”
Mr Kan admitted he was frightened and said he got “no clear information” out of Tepco, the plant’s operator. He was “very shocked” by the performance of Nobuaki Terasaka, his own government’s key nuclear safety adviser. “We questioned him and he was unable to give clear responses,” he said.
“We asked him – do you know anything about nuclear issues? And he said no, I majored in economics.”
The article and posts below, clearly lay out how serious the present situation is in Tokyo.
Tokyo Contaminated & Not Fit for Habitation, Doctor Says
Extract:
All 23 districts of Tokyo contaminated with radiation, worse than at Chernobyl after the accident, and blood cells of children under ten are showing worrying changes; the WHO, the IAEA & the Japanese government cannot be trusted.
Anecdotal evidence posted by matty1, on enenews.com, on March the 6th 2016.
Post 1:
“Tokyo is a thousand times more contaminated than belarus. 85% of the children in belarus have heart defects. Mita and Bove’ give Tokyo 5 years. Do not go to Tokyo. Nothing like this has ever happened. There is a tipping point going on. Tokyo is clamped like an iron fist. A no-persons city. It is criminal to even allow people to go there. People are dying mostly from being immunocompromised , stroke, cardiac arrest. Cancer explosion. There is an explosion of abortions and miscarriages there. Also birth defects.”
Post 2:
“The playground number of 480 msv is not anomolous. Enough rads in 2 hours for 1 year. I was on a train and it had to stop 3 time for ill people. People are living in a dream land.”
29th February 2016 – 3 ex-TEPCO execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster – report
Extract:
The three top officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were indicted on charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday. The officials are Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, who was chairman of TEPCO in 2011, and two former vice presidents, Sakae Muto, 65; and Ichiro Takekuro, 69, the report added.
Comment:
There should be a lot more people indicted over the handling of this catastrophe!
The background levels here went up significantly in late January 2016. There was 2.47 times as much rainfall in January 2016 (133.6 mm), compared to December 2015 (54mm). Even with the increased rainfall, the amount of Pb-210 captured for January and December in the rain water filter, was approximately the same.
Pb-210 is the end product of radon daughter decay. There was more Beryllium-7 detected in January 2016. This was probably created from spallation in the upper atmosphere, by recent solar storm activity. No detectable Cesium is being detected in the rain water filter tests.
It is important to understand that when you look at a scintillator test chart like the one above, the peak highs can be deceptive.
The Scintillator device used for testing the rain water filter, is less sensitive with increasing isotope energy.
For example the scintillator may have ~50% efficiency near the low energy Pb-210 peak and ~7% efficiency near the mid energy Be-7 peak. So the maths tells us, that more Be-7 was detected than its peak high would indicate!
At best, the above chart is showing what was detected, it does not quantifying the amount.
This is false impression and, frankly, a pretty dumb one. The IAEA team “had not observed any Russian military deployment inside the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant” BECAUSE PUTIN’S INVADERS EVACULATED IT BEFORE DETONATING IT AT THEIR OPTION.
Watch this video that shows “RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE MOVING AWAY FROM ZAPORIZHZHIA NUCLEAR PLANT!”
The IAEI looks daft for actually thinking this malarkey and then serving it up publicly. Most observers we’ve read aren’t that stupid, thank goodness. The only hope, at this point, is that the Ukrainians can find and disable any left explosives before they blow up the largest nuclear complex in Europe, courtesy of war criminal and soon-to-be-deposed Putin.
30th June 2023 – IAEA saw no evidence Moscow planning attack on Zaporizhia nuclear plant, but ‘anything can happen’ (9 minutes 26 secs)
Extract:
The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi spoke to FRANCE 24 from Vienna and stated that his teams had not observed any Russian military deployment inside the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, despite Ukrainian authorities claiming that Moscow was preparing to attack the plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bUPlKZbK-c
Russia and Ukraine On The Brink!
Russia and Ukraine are presently both accusing the other of planning to orchestrate a major nuclear event.
The Ukrainian’s are claiming that Russian’s have have placed mines in the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear plant spent fuel cooling pools and is presently evacuating staff in preparation for blowing up the facility.
The Russians claim that the Ukrainians have secretly collected nuclear material from one of the Ukrainian nuclear reactors, and that this will enable them to make a dirty bomb, or nuclear bomb.
“In the fog of war the truth is the first casualty!”
Let us to all pray that is madness is averted.
There will be no winners if an event like this were to occur. It would also have serious health affects on multiple future generations in multiple countries as the radiation will spread far and wide. The nuclear plant site and surrounding landscape would also become so contaminated it would become another radioactive exclusion zone, just like the Ukraine Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exclusion zone, created after it’s reactor 4 melted down in 1986.
Link to Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant radiation monitoring stations.
https://www.saveecobot.com/en/platform/chnpp
The SaveEcoBot site link has been added under the Ukraine and Belarus country headings on EnviroReporter’s International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations. You will also find other radiation monitoring system links listed under the Ukraine and Belarus country headings there. The local monitoring stations on SaveEcoBot measure background radiation levels in Nano Sievert per hour nS/hr. Most of the local background stations in Ukraine and Belarus outside the Chernobyl exclusion zone are presently showing around 100 to 200 nS/hr. Thirty seven years after the Chernobyl reactor 4 meltdown, the exclusion zone is still showing very high background radiation levels. The highest level being 5300 nSu/hr.
If you are new to this, 100 to 200 nS/hr will be the present local background reference level for you on SaveEcoBot.
SaveEcoBot raw link:
https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps#10/49.4163/27.1204/gamma
If you see levels increasing above this on multiple monitoring sites in Ukraine and Belarus near each other, then it likely means a significant nuclear event has occurred, and you will need to start looking for live surface wind direction and weather patterns so you can determine whether a radioactive cloud is heading in your direction. This will help you make a decision on whether to evacuate or shelter in place. Links to live wind and weather monitoring resources are also provided on the EnviroReporter’s International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations page.
You need to learn how to use the wind, weather and radiation monitoring systems before a major nuclear event occurs. Otherwise you will be fumbling around in the dark, trying to figure out how everything works.
If it is headed outside the boarders of Ukraine and Belarus you can then go to EnviroReporter’s “International list of Radiation Monitoring Stations”, to look up other countries radiation monitoring stations.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2022/10/international-list-of-radiation-monitoring-stations/
In the present world environment, owning a Geiger counter and knowing how to use it, could be a potential life saver. If you have questions about how to use a Geiger counter, or how to test food for radiation, please leave questions in the EnviroReporter radiation conversation comment section here.
Also feel free to share your knowledge on the subject.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2014/04/radiation-conversation-ii/
Get a feel for your Geiger Counter. Knowing what is the average background level you would expect for your local area is important. You need to build up a knowledge base of your local weather and local background radiation levels. Then you have a baseline from which to work.
I have provided a screenshot below from the Khmelnytskyi monitoring station in Ukraine. It is showing a increase in local background Gamma dose. This is not a huge increase, but an increase was detected.
This increase in background level seems to be confined to the local area at present. I have not been able to find any other regional monitoring stations showing an increase like this during this period of time.
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“A colossal explosion was heard at the main weapons and ammunition storage facility supplied by NATO in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine. Repeated large detonation explosions occurred after being hit by the missiles, as the depots stockpiled very large quantities of fuel and ammunition for Ukrainian forces’ planned offensive operation.”
I was investigating this massive explosion in real time (video report below), and keeping an eye on the European Ukraine radiation monitoring stations just in case there had been a nuclear component to these explosions. There may have been British depleted uranium anti tank munitions stored there.
At the time nothing above normal background levels were showing up in any of the EU monitoring stations located in Ukraine. I would pop back every now and then to see if there were any significant detections.
Around 7.30 pm my time I found the entire country wide Ukrainian monitoring system had gone down. At around 8pm, all stations came back online again, showing no changes in background levels. Fishy?
This explosion created a massive 3.4 magnitude seismic event at ground level! See screenshot below.
There maybe a significant radioactive event happening that is being covered up.
Can’t say until we have more evidence.
Colossal explosion heard at NATO supplied ammunition facility in Khmelnytskyi (2 minutes 30 secs)
Extract:
A colossal explosion was heard at the main weapons and ammunition storage facility supplied by NATO in Khmelnytskyi, western Ukraine. Repeated large detonation explosions occurred after being hit by the missiles, as the depots stockpiled very large quantities of fuel and ammunition for Ukrainian forces’ planned offensive operation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkr5Q0aadXk
Ukraine Khemelnytskyi 3.4 earthquake from massive explosion 13th May 2023.png
On 10/6/2022 the New York Times reports: “A day after the Kremlin announced that it would “nationalize” the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant it has seized in Ukraine, the United Nation’s top atomic energy official said on Thursday that he could not recognize any change of ownership of the plant, which he described as unlawful and destabilizing. And he said a nuclear accident there is “a very, very clear possibility.”
Europe or Ukraine
Here is a basic guide to quickly find out if a significant radiological event is occurring in Europe or Ukraine.
The link I provide below takes you to the EURDEP radiation monitoring web site.
Extract:
“EUropean Radiological Data Exchange Platform () network for the exchange of radiological monitoring data between participating countries almost in REAL TIME. Monitoring information are collected from automatic surveillance systems in 39 countries. These data reflect essentially the natural radiation background, if NO radiological events occur.”
The EURDEP site link I have provided will take you to their advanced map radiation monitoring page. When you first go to this page scroll down the page and click on the blue button that says, “Open the map, I understand and consent”. If a box appears asking you to allow cookies, you must allow cookies if you want to see the map, and all their radiation monitoring stations.
The radiation monitoring station location dots on the map are colour coded. You can zoom in and out of the map with your mouse wheel. The different colours indicate the radiation level range that is presently being detected at that monitoring location. Purple being the highest and light aqua is the lowest levels being detected.
Once the map view opens you will see a box on the top right of the map area. This box contains layered coloured rows, you will also see a number to the right of each row. This indicates the number of radiation monitoring stations in their system detecting at that level of radiation.
Place your mouse cursor over the coloured bar showing the radiation levels you are interested in, and click.
Once you do this it will filter out all the other monitoring stations on the map that are not in this detection range.
You can use this feature to quickly filter and see what are the highest radiation detections across Europe and Ukraine.
At present there is only one radiation station that is detecting radiation in the 300 to 500 nSv/h range and zero stations in the levels above it. This is a site located in Belarus which was significantly contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown in 1986. Zoom in and you will see that this monitoring station is located just north of the Ukraine border.
If you see more than that one monitoring station showing at this level, you will know there is potentially a major nuclear event in progress.
Note: All monitoring systems are subject to malfunctions at times. Two or more monitoring stations in close proximity indicating an increase in background level is more statistically an indication of a genuine event.
If you click on the monitoring station location dot, a chart will pop up, showing you the radiation levels over time.
https://remap.jrc.ec.europa.eu/Advanced.aspx
If you do see a significant detection, knowing the location’s wind direction at the time will be very important, particularly if you live in Europe.
Wind direction is an important factor in determining where the radiation will go.
The Nullschool 3D Earth wind map service allows you to see wind direction worldwide at different heights. You can rotate the map by holding down your mouse on the map, and dragging. If you use your mouse scroll wheel you can zoom the map location in and out.
If you click on the “Earth” item at the lower left corner of the Nullschool map page, a menu will pop up, that allows you to select different wind height data.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-336.91,51.77,851
The Russians keep shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine, like they did five times today, Thursday August 11, 2022.
This is the largest nuclear reactor in Europe and one of the ten largest in the world. Should it be destroyed, the consequences are going to be massive.
“This is a serious hour, a grave hour and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] must be allowed to conduct its mission to Zaporizhzhia as soon as possible,” the agency’s chief said at an emergency meeting of the UN security council Thursday night.
EnviroReporter.com recognized the need for accurate US RadNet radiation information being available 24/7/365 soon after the still-ongoing triple meltdowns began at Fukushima Japan March 11, 2011. Millions have seen EnviroReporter.com radiation monitoring ever since because it’s easy and free to use.
There are 142 EPA RadNet stations across America monitoring gamma and beta radiation levels and gamma exposure rates displayed. As of August 11, 2022, there are 483 live graphs continuously streaming though some stations can cut out for periods of time.
Gamma Gross Count Rate and Gamma Gross Count Rate by Channel Range as well as Gamma Exposure Rate and Beta Air Filter Results are graphed continuously courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EnviroReporter.com organized this vital data for ease of use.
Should the “grave hour” become the unthinkable, know that the radiation from any kind of meltdown, fire, explosion or any combination therewith, the air plume would blow over eastern Ukraine but mostly Russia first.
But what glows around goes around and soon enough it could reach North America. That’s when to turn to EnviroReporter.com’s RadNet Air Monitoring.
Florida local TV stations are on the internet. You can watch them, commercials and all, in California or even in Story City, Iowa.
Gavin Newsom is running personal, self promotional advertisements on local Florida television stations. We’ve seen 6 of them so far, and estimate that there are at least 3 variations, which represents a lot of cash outlay in terms of production costs.
In each of the ads, a smiling active Gavin directs his comments to Florida voters, telling them that the Florida elected officials are doing bad things. On his commercials Gavin Newsom promotes California and invites Floridians to move there.
Obviously, Gavin Newsom is really promoting himself, because he doesn’t mention a single Florida Democrat candidate or ask that people vote for them to make people’s lives better in Florida. The focus is just on Gavin’s smiling face.
Its crystal clear that Gavin Newsom is going to take a shot at running for President in 2024. I am betting Boeing has orally promised to make contributions to him.
Boeing panders to whoever is in office, and donated $1 Million to the Democratic Party committee which was sponsoring the Biden/Harris inaugural ball, after the inaugural ball, even after it was cancelled. Boeing did that after having been loyal supporters of Trump when he was in office.
Gavin Newsom has to understand, loudly and clearly, that whatever primary he will be in, his opponents, the local press and local voters are going to hear about his making a sweetheart deal with Boeing, so they [Boeing] don’t have to clean up their toxic mess at Santa Susana Field Lab which has been instrumental in making children and adults sick with cancer.
The Santa Susana Field Lab and the affected people living and dying within 5 miles of it are what stands in the way of Gavin Newsom’s quest for the Presidency.
By the time the Democratic Primary season ends in 2024, the whole of the U.S. electorate will know Gavin Newsom is in Boeing’s pocket and his deal-making in California is killing children as well as adults.
EnviroReporter.com will continue its unique, award-winning work covering the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, aka Rocketdyne, and its associated issues including Runkle Canyon, Brandeis-Bardin and Ahmanson Ranch, which was as good as protected as parkland once our “Rocketdyne Ranch” cover story hit the stands in December 2002. The 2,783 acre “Upper Las Virgenes Open Space Reserve” has thousands of ancient oaks, rolling savannahs, red-legged frogs and mountain lions. The bucolic place has hiking trails, mountain biking, horseback riding, picnicking and even a splendid ranch house for weddings. What you won’t find, however, are the 3,050 luxury homes stopped by our reporting and the community. It’s the perfect staycation destination and you Californians own it in perpetuity!
June 3, 2022
2:40 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 55.3 CPM OR 47.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND^^ which is negligible and a substantial drop since the last measurement in identical conditions just over two months ago on March 30, 2022.
2:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.4 CPM^^
Monthly milestone radiation readings at EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station Stats and Special Radiation Station Tests show no indications of additional airborne radiation resultant of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, though that is to be expected considering no significant nuclear event has been detected.
Likewise our Eat Me! food testing and RadNet Air Monitoring have not picked up any additional radiation.
There are at least two factors to remember when nothing unusual is detected in this case. First, the source. EnviroReporter.com‘s 11 years of extensive radiation testing across the United States numbers over 10,000. Our Eat Me! food and drink monitoring has checked thousands of consumables for telltale beta radiation with an Inspector Nuclear Radiation Monitor.
The RadNet Air Monitoring has testing for beta and gamma radiation across America and really keeps a close eye on the big picture of possible radioactive events impacting the country regardless of their source or national origin. There are 142 EPA RadNet stations, with 483 live graphs, organized here testing for Gamma Gross Count Rate and Gamma Gross Count Rate by Channel Range as well as Gamma Exposure Rate and Beta Air Filter Results that are live-graphed continuously courtesy of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
EnviroReporter.com‘s organization of these data makes it easier to monitor the radiation situation with current normal conditions, and how they look on the graphs, versus anything extraordinary and/or disastrous that may happen in the future. This is an invaluable resource in case of nuclear emergency.
March 30, 2022
9:35 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 95.9 CPM OR 2.3 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
9:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.3 CPM^^
February 21, 2022
6:45 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 92.3 CPM OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
6:25 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 38.5 CPM^^
January 17, 2022
2:15 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 44.9 CPM^^ or normal background
2:00 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.5 CPM^^
December 30, 2021
2:30 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 74.7 CPM^^ OR 1.7 TIMES BACKGROUND WHICH IS LOW
2:00 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 44.3 CPM^^ – Normal background thereby not contaminated by external event(s)
1:45 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.1 CPM^^
https://www.saveecobot.com/en/radiation-maps?s=09
Here is the link to the map
The gamma radiation around Chernobyl increased by an average of 300%. See under Radiological maps in Ukraine
The U.S. Department of Energy has undertaken another profoundly dishonest operation, in shipping “hot” nuclear waste to the Nevada Test Site, which is something forbidden under the Federal law the late Senator Harry Reid got enacted and which is still in effect:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/idaho/articles/2022-01-12/us-acknowledges-shipping-idaho-radioactive-waste-to-nevada
It’s worth noting that the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has opined in the SB 990 case that the Secretary of Energy is the Federal regulator in charge of nuclear waste from reactor meltdowns, which is what happened at Santa Susana Field Lab and is what happened at Idaho Falls. Even the radioactively contaminated dirt is classified as “nuclear waste” under the Secretary of Energy’s jurisdiction, according to that opinion, which the U.S. Supreme Court sustained without hearing a case.
Former Governor of Michigan, Corporate Democrat, Harvard Law Grad Jennifer Granholm, she of the immaculate bleached blond hairdo which is so phony at her advanced age, is the Secretary of Energy these days, even though from her resume it appears she had no experience for that job other than being a loyal Biden supporter.
Such a person we can all admire, Jennifer Granholm. She shafts the sick and dying kids around the Santa Susana Field Lab by not ordering Boeing to remediate the radioactive waste, and she also allows her dishonest employees to mislabel nuclear waste and deliver it to Nevada, where Federal law bars her from disposing of it.
And Even More Unbelievable, the DOJ Lead Criminal Prosecutor on the Boeing Case Mentioned in Earlier Links Has Become a Partner in the Huge Law Firm Representing Boeing in the Case She Prosecuted:
https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/lead-boeing-prosecutor-joins-boeing-corporate-criminal-defense-firm-kirkland-ellis/
Follow-up to comment on JDSupra news story and court opinion on conduct of Boeing Directors and senior officers:
News about Deferred Prosecution Agreement Boeing reached with Trump Administration DOJ’s Criminal Division, coincidentally as announced by DOJ on the day after the Capitol Riot:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/boeing-charged-737-max-fraud-conspiracy-and-agrees-pay-over-25-billion
One can assume that Boeing’s executives and lawyers were anxious to “get the deal done” to avoid the potential criminal prosecution carrying over into the Biden Administration.
Even more important news about families of victims in the 2 Boeing 737-Max crashes asking a Federal court to set aside the Deferred Prosecution Agreement which DOJ entered into with Boeing:
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2021-12-16/737-max-crash-relatives-ask-court-to-rescind-boeing-criminal-prosecution-immunity
The families’ request for a set-aside of the non-prosecution agreement brings to light the fact that the dollar amount of the “fine” paid by Boeing is remarkably similar to the amount Sherwin Alumina’s Officers & Directors Insurance policy paid to settle the breach of fiduciary duty case as described in my other December 2021 comment.
The online lawyer magazine JDSupra tells the tale of a lawsuit filed on behalf of Boeing’s shareholders/owners against the members of Boeing’s Board of Directors for allowing a climate of abject recklessness on aircraft safety issues which caused the two disastrous crashes of Boeing’s 737-Max airliners and grounded the production of the company’s most valuable cash income producing product line. According to JDSupra the Directors were portrayed in a highly unflattering light in the case. The members of the Board of Directors were covered by Officers & Directors Insurance, which is purchased by corporations to protect their shareholders from events of Director misconduct. https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/boeing-s-board-agrees-to-237-5-million-3235085/
The case settled recently for $237.5 Million which will be paid by the insurance company to the shareholders, as theoretical compensation for the Boeing Board of Directors’ errors and misconduct which led to decreases in value of Boeing stock owned by the shareholders. Because the money will be paid under a Settlement Agreement the members of Boeing’s Board of Directors will admit no liability for wrongdoing or negligence, and none will immediately lose their seats on the Board as a direct consequence of the lawsuit or its settlement.
What was particularly interesting about the JDSupra article is that it disclosed and linked to a formal opinion written by a judge of the Delaware Chancery Court which is the court with jurisdiction to rule on misconduct and negligence by the Boards of Directors and corporate officers of most of America’s large corporations, which are fairly uniformly incorporated in Delaware. (In Delaware Chancery Court judges are called “Chancellors” and “Vice Chancellors” but the title doesn’t change their judicial role in terms of issuing binding opinions.) The judge’s opinion is a real eye-popper and can be read here: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=324120 Because the case settled, the lawyers for the Boeing Directors won’t have the opportunity to erase or invalidate the judge’s opinion.
Readers of Enviroreporter who follow the travails of the people who live around the Santa Susana Field Lab might recognize the alleged conduct by the Boeing Board of Directors in the article, and as recounted and characterized by the Delaware Chancery Court judge’s Opinion and might think the allegations and characterizations have a familiar ring to them.
In the third in a continuing series of groundwater remediation lawsuits which the Whittaker-Bermite Community Advisory Group in Santa Clarita got rolling, by intensely lobbying their local water agencies to “sue the polluter” way back in 1999-2000, on FRIDAY 12/4/21 a U.S. District Court jury in LA rendered a $75 Million money damages verdict against Whittaker Bermite Corp. (a subsidiary of the British industrial giant Meggitt) payable to Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency, the drinking water provider in the Santa Clarita Valley of California. What did Whittaker do? Leaked VOCs into the ground water and refused to pay to remediate them starting 21 years ago when the first lawsuit was filed. There is yet more litigation to be done by the water agency’s lawyers (Nossaman Guthner) on that case, to try to get even more money out of Whittaker’s insurance company or Whittaker themselves, to pay for the cost of “cleaning up the source of 50+% Santa Clarita’s drinking water” but the verdict shows progress. What is fascinating is that the jury members were young, and they “totally got it” in terms of who should pay to clean-up environmental contamination.
Just like with Rocketdyne, justice for the public takes a long time, but it does happen if people are persistent. Take heart about that point, and share the victory in terms of feeling good!
Las Virgenes Open Space Preserve Officially Opens 18 Years Ago Today!
November 24, 2021
5:45 pm PT INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 164.2 CPM OR 4.4 TIMES BACKGROUND^^
5:30 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.5 CPM^^
November 23, 2021
12:55 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST VACUUM ONLY: 49.6 CPM OR 49.6 OR BACKGROUND^^
12:40 pm PT INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.1 CPM^^
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-climate-goals-hinge-on-440-billion-nuclear-power-plan-to-rival-u-s?utm_campaign=bn&utm_medium=distro&utm_source=msn
What could possibly go wrong?
[From Michael Collins: To answer Another Simi Mom, rhetorically yet realistially, everything. EnviroReporter.com‘s coverage began in 1998 of the worst partial nuclear reactor meltdown in U.S. history which happened above Simi Valley at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory’s Sodium Reactor Experiment in 1959. Our reporting on this site, commonly known as Rocketdyne led to the creation of adjacent Ahmanson Ranch as preserved open space in 2003.
Now comes the film version which will bring this story to massive audiences from MSNBC Films with their first documentary feature film called In the Dark of the Valley.
The documentary’s trailer takes tragedy and makes art and sense of it for all sorts of folks who will be entertained and outraged.
Here’s what MSNBC Films has to say about their documentary:
A Southern California mother discovers that the Santa Susana Field Lab, the site of one of the largest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, is located only 7 miles from her home. Concealed from the public eye for 20 years and never fully cleaned up, she grapples with the idea that the site may be responsible for exposing her daughter and community to cancer-causing radioactive waste. The feature documentary, directed by Nicholas Mihm, airs Sunday, November 14th at 10 p.m. ET on MSNBC.
The Chinese people should be made aware of what their totalitarian government is getting into. Would translated, dubbed or subtitled versions of this potent and illuminating film benefit the Chinese people? Would, say, 150 translated copies of this piece be distributed on DVD there every year for 15 years? The power of the Internet puts that decision in your hands, not the iron fists of the Chinese government.
Look at what EnviroReporter.com has done since it began 15 years ago. Gifting the Chinese people the terrifying truth of nuclear power gone wrong would be the greatest present one could give this august and ancient peoples. It worked here. It can work there.]
October 4, 2021
5:35 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.6 CPM^^ or normal background
5:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.0 CPM^^
August 20, 2021
12:55 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 69.3 CPM OR 65.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND.^^
12:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.8 CPM^^
Texas legislators are, once again, being hypocrites. Two nuclear power plants are located in Texas, but apparently even spent fuel rods from those reactors are just too dangerous for Texan sensibilities:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/23/texas-nuclear-waste-storage-site-legislature/
CHINA NUCLEAR EVENT UPDATE
Comment:
Since my last post I have found that the whole Hong Kong Observatory radiation monitoring site has been given a complete make over.
The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province is located 85 miles west of Hong Kong.
You can now find the up to date hourly average ambient radiation dose rate information in Hong Kong, here.
https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/radiation/monitoring/index.html
20th June 2021 – As Chinese Nuclear Incident Unfolds, Expert Falls Off Building & Dies
Extract:
Ministry of Ecology and the Environment, responsible for news around nuclear power plants, also said no leak into the environment had occurred. “At present, monitoring results of the radiation environment around the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant show that there is no abnormality in the radiation level around the nuclear power plant,” the statement said.
The housings of about five of the more than 60,000 fuel rods in the Number One reactor are estimated to have been damaged, accounting for less than 0.01 percent of the total number, far lower than the assumed maximum damage proportion of 0.25 percent in the design for the reactor, it said.
With the jet stream able to transport radioactive particles and gases far from their source, people around the world are continuing to keep their eye on whatever is unfolding at the nuclear power plant. While China admitted that a leak of radioactive gas did make it into the environment in April, they say no radioactive gas or matter has escaped into the environment in this latest incident. During April 9 incident, the Taishan facility leaked what officials described as a “small amount” of radioactive gas. The Chinese National Nuclear Safety Administration said that event was a “Level 0” event that lacked safety significance.
Nevertheless, scientists continue to track wind movement for any potential cloud of suspicious gas rising from the nuclear power plant.
https://weatherboy.com/as-chinese-nuclear-incident-unfolds-expert-falls-off-building-dies/
Current Leak at Nuclear Power Plant in China (Not Japan):
This is a situation to watch closely, in no small part because governments have a strong tendency NOT to be truthful with the public about health and safety risks members of the public face:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html
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Not Surprising, the Commenters on the Washington Post Do Not Believe What Chinese Gov’t Has to Say About Taishan Plant Troubles:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/14/china-nuclear-plant-leak/
14th June 2021 – Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility
Extracts:
The company, mainly owned by Électricité de France (EDF), a French utility company, then submitted an operational safety assistance request on June 3, formally asking for a waiver that would allow them to address an urgent safety matter, to the Department of Energy, warning American officials that the nuclear reactor is leaking fission gas.
Framatome reached out to the US government for assistance, the document indicates, because a Chinese government agency was continuing to increase its limits on the amount of gas that could safely be released from the facility without shutting it down, according to the documents reviewed by CNN.
“If they do have a gas leak, that indicates some of their containment is broken,” Rofer said. “It also argues that maybe some of the fuel elements could be broken, which would be a more serious problem.”
Comment:
China has hardly any publicly available monitoring stations available on the Internet, so unless the radioactive gas release flows in an easterly direction offshore, it may be hard to get any publicly reliable detection information.
For those who are interested, you could keep an eye on the situation by using the list of International monitoring stations located here.
https://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Note: The Hong Kong monitoring station in this list does not appear to be working anymore, as the last readings were in late November 2018.
Taiwan does have a very good publicly available radiation monitoring system, so if there was any offshore release that headed in their direction, their system would very likely detect it.
Article:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in rollerskating popularity in 2020, which is fantastic. Now, just in time for Summer 2021, EnviroReporter.com shares the first of three inline skating articles that explore the world of 1) the best recreational skate path in Los Angeles; 2) some of the most insane and challenging long distance skate “jaunts” in Southern California; and 3) where to find the best downhill skate slaloms in the Southland.
Here’s our first piece called “SMOOTH SKATING” featuring inline speed skater “Derby” (aka Denise Anne Duffield, Editor of EnviroReporter.com)
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/other-environmental-stories/smooth-skating/
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There is nothing more liberating after a punishing pandemic than a sixty mile inline speed skate on a “jaunt.” This is extreme long distance speed skating on beautiful routes throughout Southern California that are nearly as fun to imagine as to actually skate. Check out “ROLL ON!”
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/other-environmental-stories/roll-on/
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Long distance speed skater Derby knows the dangers of going down. Hard. That’s why she wears protective gear and knows which hills to slalom. You will too reading “BEST STREET SKATING SLALOMS”
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/other-environmental-stories/best-street-skating-slaloms/
May 25, 2021
2:15 pm PDST INT RSSMC DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 68.9 CPM OR 67.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND.^^ Did the May 15, 2021 Pacific Palisades Fire impact this reading? Unlikely.
2:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA CALIFORNIA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.2 CPM^^
May 10, 2021
4:00 pm PDST EXT INTERSECTION RUNKLE HAUL ROAD/ALBERTSON FIRE ROAD: 60.5 CPM^^
2:30 pm PDST EXT RUNKLE CANYON PARK – SOUTH PARKING LOT: 48.3 CPM^^
At Chernobyl: Nuclear reactions, located in inaccessible part of the plant, discovered to be smoldering like a barbeque:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chernobyl-explosion-nuclear-radiation-ukraine-b1845672.html
Below is a story of seemingly left wing political behavior in Texas. The politics in the story is very obnoxious to me, having traveled throughout rural Texas and read their little local newspapers which spew right wing politics while at the same time ranting about the risk to Texans of the transport of high level nuclear waste on U.S. 20 anywhere near Texans’ beloved Dallas/Fort Worth or their holyland, the area where the Permian Oil Basin is located, surrounding Midland/Odessa.
https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2021/05/05/bill-cut-fees-texas-radioactive-waste-dump-operator-derailed/4921796001/?utm_source=caller-Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_briefing&utm_term=hero
I’ve been to the dry desert county in West Texas where storage of spent nuclear fuel rods is proposed. Geographically, it’s closer to San Diego than to Houston and the Sabine River forming East Texas’ border. It’s called Andrews County and is due east of the far southeast corner of New Mexico where WIPP is located and where parts for nuclear bombs are manufactured every day. That’s where the proposed nuclear waste disposal site in Texas is proposed, as referred to in the newspaper story linked above.
I find it more than hypocritical that even though Texas has two fully operating nuclear power reactors, and even though Texas politicians are the most obnoxiously “business friendly” folks you’re ever going to meet, in the minds of Texas politicians every part of Texas must be held sacrosanct from being spoiled by the disposal of Texas’s own nuclear garbage, let alone anyone else’s.
As shown in the article linked above, Texan politicians and the state’s large land/ranch/farm owners would much rather Texas’ own high level nuclear waste be disposed of “somewhere else”, such as in Nye County Nevada, where local politicians and business people would rather “make a buck” by putting their own people a physical risk of harm from shipment of high level nuclear waste from all over the USA.
The article linked above from a “mainstream” Texas newspaper owned by Hearst illustrates that while there are many Texans who support “Texit” it’s unlikely the Texit politicos and zealots will be willing to bear the burden of “nationhood” and store Texas’ own nuclear waste from their own nuclear power plants.
12th April 2021 – Japan Decides To Dump One Million Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water Into The Pacific; IAEA Approves
Extract:
But wait… we thought that “scientists” said it was safe: does China and South Korea practice a different “science” – one where a million tons of radioactive water getting dumped into the ocean is actually – gasp – dangerous.
Could it be that we have two “scientific” camps, one of which is motivated by things far more mundane than the scientific method to reach its conclusion. Things such as money?
Of course, for Japan which prints trillions of said money every months, it’s not a concern, and that’s music to the “scientists” ears. Suga said the IAEA and other third parties will be involved in the plan, ensuring it is carried out with transparency. We can only assume that the “third parties” will also receive copious amounts of money to find that nothing is wrong here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/japan-decides-dump-one-million-tons-radioactive-fukushima-water-pacific-iaea-approves
There is much more than radioactive tritium in that water!!!
23rd October 2020 – Greenpeace Warns ‘Potential Damage to Human DNA’ at Risk With Japan’s Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean
Extracts:
According to the report,
If the contaminated water is discharged to the Pacific Ocean, all of the carbon-14 will be released to the environment. With a half-life of 5,730 years, carbon-14 is a major contributor to global human collective dose; once introduced into the environment carbon-14 will be delivered to local, regional, and global populations for many generations.
Contrary to the understanding of the Japanese government, water that contains large quantities of radioactive carbon-14 (as well as the other radioactive isotopes including strontium-90 and tritium) can only be described as contaminated.
Comment:
It is important for the health of the whole planet that this radioactive contaminated water must be prevented from being released into the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government want to use the already stressed Pacific Ocean as a cheap dump for the environmental disaster waste they are responsible for. They have been running a public relations campaign for years now claiming that this radioactive water only contains tritium, when in fact it contains a radioactive soup of different harmful isotopes.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/23/greenpeace-warns-potential-damage-human-dna-risk-japans-plan-dump-fukushima-water
Tritium is much more dangerous than they want the public to know!!!
04.12.2011 – Radioactive Berkeley: No Safe Dose
Extracts:
The video also expressed a public concern over children visiting the Lawrence Hall of Science to exposure to tritium emissions from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) National Tritium Labeling Facility.
Comment:
This video brings up a lot of independent research on the biological effects of radioactive Tritium releases. That Tritium is something to be very concerned about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf4G0NRBfqY
Despite having 2 operating nuclear power plants called Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant and South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, officials of the State of Texas are proposing to outlaw disposal of high-level nuclear waste in their state. Property owners in Andrews County Texas have proposed using naturally occurring subterranean caves for that purpose. Andrews County is due east of and directly adjoining Hobbs, NM which has several nuclear processing and storage facilities.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/08/nuclear-waste-texas-ban/
March 10, 2021
1:50 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.5 CPM^^ or normal background
1:15 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.8 CPM^^
March 3, 2021
11:00 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 57.4 CPM^^ or 26.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND
10:45 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 45.5 CPM^^
January 28, 2021
7:30 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 45.3 CPM^^ or normal background
7:15 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.7 CPM^^
POSTED MARCH 8, 2021
19th February 2021 – Water leaks indicate new damage at Fukushima nuclear plant
Extract:
Cooling water levels have fallen in two reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant since a powerful earthquake hit the area last weekend, indicating possible additional damage, its operator said Friday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Keisuke Matsuo said the drop in water levels in the Unit 1 and 3 reactors indicates that the existing damage to their primary containment chambers was worsened by Saturday’s magnitude 7.3 quake, allowing more water to leak.
Meanwhile, the Tokyo High Court on Friday held the government as well as TEPCO accountable for the 2011 nuclear disaster, ordering both to pay about 280 million yen ($2.6 million) in compensation to more than 40 plaintiffs forced to evacuate to Chiba, near Tokyo, for their lost livelihoods and homes.
Comment:
After nearly ten years the government and TEPCO have been found accountable. The victims are still suffering, and the disaster is ongoing! In my opinion, that is extremely poor compensation for all the pain and suffering those people have been through, because of this disaster. Plus there are still large numbers of victims who have not been compensated at all!
https://apnews.com/article/water-leaks-fukushima-new-damage-a7ecf765d0233b1cad7332ff9fed5ffe
2nd January 2021 – Fukushima Radiation Levels: ‘Worse’ than Previously Thought
Extracts:
A massive amount of radioactive materials “attached to shield plugs of the containment vessels in the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors,” according to Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
The finding poses an “extremely serious” challenge to the shutdown process NRA has been attempting at the site, part of an overall decommissioning of the plant.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14071742
December 14, 2020
11:30 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 79.9 CPM^^ OR 78.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
11:15 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.7 CPM^^
November 13, 2020
4:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 70.1 CPM^^ OR 68.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:35 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.5 CPM^^
October 12, 2020
2:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 58.6 CPM^^ OR 37.6% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:05 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
September 7, 2020
7:50 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 51.3 CPM^^ OR 29.9% ABOVE BACKGROUND
7:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 39.5 CPM^^
July 20, 2020
6:10 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 44.5 CPM^^ or background
5:55 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
July 6, 2020
1:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 45.1 CPM^^ OR 19.3% ABOVE BACKGROUND
1:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 38.3 CPM^^
June 29, 2020
9:30 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 54.2 CPM^^ OR 31.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
9:15 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.1 CPM^^
June 23, 2020
12:45 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 47.7 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
12:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 43.6 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere November 2020 Background Level Report
Station location.
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
November 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)
November did not see as many ups and downs in local background as October, it was a much dryer month, with fewer storms.
November 2020 Background Level Chart
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
A serious emergency situation, at around 1 pm (12 noon CET) on December 10th, in Block 2 of the the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant on the western coast of Finland resulted in a reactor shutdown. The plant operator Teollisuuden Voima reported that the radiation levels within the nuclear power unit have increased, but no radioactivity has leaked out.
Southern Hemisphere October 2020 Background Level Report
Station location.
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
October 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)
October saw rather volatile swings in local background levels. This is our storm season, and when storms pass through during this time of the year, local area radon levels tend to increase. These radon increases occur when we get northern tropical air flows off the Pacific Ocean. I have set up a local live Radon detector, and I can see all this happening in real time, as the storms pass through the area.
October 2020 Background Level Chart
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-October-2020.jpg
A page has been set up on the Sunshine Coast Computer Club Inc., web site so members can view the local live radiation monitoring station information. This local live radiation monitoring station is publicly available.
https://sccc.org.au/monitoring/sunshinecoast-monitoring-station.html
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
JAPAN
23rd October 2020 – Greenpeace Warns ‘Potential Damage to Human DNA’ at Risk With Japan’s Plan to Dump Fukushima Water Into Ocean
Extracts:
According to the report,
If the contaminated water is discharged to the Pacific Ocean, all of the carbon-14 will be released to the environment. With a half-life of 5,730 years, carbon-14 is a major contributor to global human collective dose; once introduced into the environment carbon-14 will be delivered to local, regional, and global populations for many generations.
Contrary to the understanding of the Japanese government, water that contains large quantities of radioactive carbon-14 (as well as the other radioactive isotopes including strontium-90 and tritium) can only be described as contaminated.
Comment:
It is important for the health of the whole planet that this radioactive contaminated water must be prevented from being released into the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese government want to use the already stressed Pacific Ocean as a cheap dump for the environmental disaster waste they are responsible for. They have been running a public relations campaign for years now claiming that this radioactive water only contains tritium, when in fact it contains a radioactive soup of different harmful isotopes.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/23/greenpeace-warns-potential-damage-human-dna-risk-japans-plan-dump-fukushima-water
Southern Hemisphere September 2020 Background Level Report
Station location.
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Local background has been stable here, nothing significant to report.
September 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-September-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Southern Hemisphere August 2020 Background Level Report
Station location.
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
August 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
All is stable here. The background radiation levels for August was within season norms.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-August-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Southern Hemisphere July 2020 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
July 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
All is stable here. The background radiation levels for July are within season norms.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Southern Hemisphere June 2020 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
June 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
June average monthly background levels here are showing the usual seasonal variation. We see background levels drop here at this location in the southern hemisphere, during the winter months. The reason for this is that more seasonal winds start coming from the southern ocean air circulation, rather than from the tropics.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-June-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Did they already do it (again)?
Russia’s ‘doomsday drone’ prepares for testing.
One year after the fatal accident with a nuclear-powered missile in the White Sea, Russia’s weapon designers say a test launch for the Poseidon nuclear powered underwater drone will take place this fall. We don’t know yet.
What we know:
While iodine-131 is only measured in the north, in the Kirkenes area and at Svalbard, Swedish and Finnish radiation authorities inform about other isotopes blowing in the skies over southern Scandinavia.
“We found 0,9 microBq/m3 at Svanhovd and 1,3 microBq/m3 at Viksjøfjell.”
Finland’s Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) detected on June 16 and 17 small amounts of the radioactive isotopes cobalt, ruthenium and cesium (Co-60, Ru-103, Cs-134 and Cs-137).
All these isotopes indicate that the release comes from a nuclear-reactor. Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8 days, and given the small amount measured in the north, this isotope could be gone before the radioactive cloud reached the southern parts of Finland and Sweden a week after the first measurements in the north.
They say the radionuclides came from the direction of Western Russia.
27th June 2020 – Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says
Extracts:
VIENNA (Reuters) – Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday.
One of its stations scanning the air for radionuclides – telltale radioactive particles that can be carried long distances by the wind – detected unusually high levels of three radionuclides earlier this week: caesium-134, caesium-137 and ruthenium-103.
Comment:
The detections were on the 22nd and 23 of June. We are just hearing about it now, four days later!
This free community resource was created after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, so people could quickly locate International radiation monitoring stations, in the event of a major nuclear accident. It is regularly updated and includes a lot of private as well as government monitoring stations.
https://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Article:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-particles-baltic/sensors-detect-rise-in-nuclear-particles-on-baltic-sea-global-body-says-idUSKBN23X2TN
UPDATE to PhoneGate Alert!
Two new smartphones have just been sanctioned for exceeding the SAR level: the Xiaomi Redmi 7 and the Gigaset plus. This is a new advance in our alert action!
However, we have been waiting since last October for the Government to deliver on its promise to update the excessive SAR levels of several hundred mobile phone models. We demand that the commitments made following the recommendations of the French National Health Agency (ANSES) be fulfilled.
The Covid19 crisis does not justify such a delay. The Phonegate scandal is also a real health emergency!
See here the list of the 23 smartphones sanctioned to date:
https://www.phonegatealert.org/en/list-of-mobile-phones-with-non-compliant-sars-removed-or-updated-in-france
See also the list of hundreds of models awaiting government intervention :
https://www.phonegatealert.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Dossier-de-presse-liste-des-mod%C3%A9les-%C3%A0-risques-28-juin-2018.pdf
Please share widely around you until we get the same thing all over Europe and internationally. Together we can do it!
The Phonegate Alert team
PhoneGate Alert!
Large numbers of mobile phones in use are emitting microwave frequency radiation way above the regulatory limit, when placed against the body. For safety reasons it would be wise to check if you are, or a family member is using one of these mobile phone models.
Independent scientific experts around the world have been saying for decades that the SAR’s regulatory limits are already set far to high to protect public health, and particularly children!
25th May 2020 – Withdrawal of the Razer Phone 2: not seeing the forest for the trees!
Extracts:
Since then, in two years, thanks to our action, 23 different smartphone models controlled by ANFR have been found to have SAR levels for the head and body above the regulatory limit of 2 W/kg during ANFR inspections. Four have been withdrawn from the French market. The others have only had their SAR level “updated” (reduced by updating).
However, tests conducted by both ANFR and the journalist Sam Roe for the Chicago Tribune have shown that the local body SAR level is multiplied by a factor of 3 to 4 when measured either at direct skin contact or at 2mm. That of the Razer Phone 2 could reach over 10 W/kg at direct contact with the skin.
“that the representative of the European Commission is hiding behind a staggering technocratic cynicism. His non-reaction shows the extent to which the mobile telephony industry lobbies have knowingly silenced the European authorities. We demand that this new health scandal, Phonegate, be treated with seriousness and a sense of responsibility. The health of hundreds of millions of Europeans citizen is at stake”.
https://www.phonegatealert.org/en/press-release-withdrawal-of-the-razer-phone-2-not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees
Further information can be found at the PhoneGate web site.
https://www.phonegatealert.org/en
Southern Hemisphere May 2020 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
May 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
Local background radiation levels for May have been stable.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 18, 2020
8:45 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 41.7 CPM^^ or normal background
8:15 am PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.7 CPM^^
It is very likely that large numbers of people around the world are now suffering from vitamin D deficiency, after being confined to their homes for months. Even before the pandemic, large numbers of people were already vitamin D deficient.
Below is a link to a recent medical management protocol for COVID-19, released by the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) in the US. It points out that vitamin D deficiency could be a significant contributing factor leading to a serious outcome if one were to contract COVID-19. Also, on page three, there is a list of suggested supplements that may have a role in the prevention / mitigation of COVID-19.
EVMS CRITICAL CARE COVID-19 MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
Developed and updated by Paul Marik, MDChief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VAMay 5th, 2020
Extracts Page 3:
Prophylaxis
While there is very limited data (and none specific for COVID-19), the following “cocktail” may have a role in the prevention/mitigation of COVID-19 disease. While there is no high-level evidence that this cocktail is effective; it is cheap, safe and widely available.
• Vitamin C 500 mg BID and Quercetin 250-500 mg BID [1-5]
• Zinc 75-100 mg/day (acetate, gluconate or picolinate). Zinc lozenges are preferred. After 1 month, reduce the dose to 30-50 mg/day.[1,6-9]
• Melatonin (slow release): Begin with 0.3mg and increase as tolerated to 2 mg at night [10-13]
• Vitamin D3 1000-4000 u/day [14-20]
• Optional: Famotidine 20-40mg/day [21]
Extract Page 12:
Furthermore, Vitamin D insufficiency exacerbates the cytokine storm and likely increases the risk of death.
Document:
This EVMS document also contains information on suggested treatments if an infected person progresses into a more serious condition, where they need medical care.
https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf
(Note: If you are currently taking prescribed medications any self-medication should not be used without your doctor’s knowledge and approval. Non prescribed medications may have unwanted side effects, change the way prescription medicines being used work in your body, interact with alcohol and other drugs or treatments, Always check with your doctor first — especially if you have any health conditions.)
May 11, 2020
6:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 42.5 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
6:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 44.5 CPM^^
May 4, 2020
2:30 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 57.3 CPM^^ OR 35.5% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:10 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.3 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere April 2020 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
April 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)
Local background radiation levels for April were stable, with nothing significant to report.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-April-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Just In Time Supply Lines Breaking!
The Coronavirus pandemic and worldwide economic collapse is breaking the “just in time” supply lines for food growing, processing and delivery in many countries. All the indications are that food inflation and shortages are on the way. If you took notice of my previous article on earth changes, pointing to worldwide crop losses, that were occurring before Covid-19, you would have already set up a home garden. Your locality or country may be spared the worst of this, even so in the present world environment it would be very advisable to have a garden or microgreen system up and running, to supplement your families food requirements. If you are just getting started there are articles below that can help you, even if you are finding it difficult sourcing seeds at present.
Here is a recent article pointing to food inflation and food shortages. This is just one of numerous recent articles on this subject.
19th April 2020 – Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil
Extracts:
The real takeaway here is that the supply chain for American staples was badly damaged by the outbreak, with the damage more extensive and stubborn than government officials have really acknowledged. Two months on, and millions of Americans are still having trouble finding toilet paper and sterilizing wipes. A comprehensive list of products in perpetual short-supply would be quite lengthy, at this point.
If closures like these continue, it could add further strain on the supply chain. Everywhere you look, you see experts talking about an overabundance of food thanks to the closure of restaurants, which has resulted in unprecedented levels of food waste. But sadly, thanks to the way our food distribution is set up, if there’s no way to process the products, package them and then distribute them to markets around the country, due to staff in lock down, then the food will spoil before it’s eaten.
Bottom line: Thanks to the surprising complexity of food supply chains, there’s a scenario where farmers are dumping milk and other product, factories and farms are closing or rolling back activity, causing the number of products getting to the shelves to fall, leading to instantaneous upward pressure on prices.
Article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/price-meat-climbing-quickly-more-food-processing-plants-close
Today the ABC in Australia has published an excellent article on planning a vegetable patch that produces all year round. Gardening is a great way to get fresh air and exercise. It is productive and a cost saving activity you can do during the lock down. Gets you away from all those device screens and is also excellent for the mind, body and soul.
Planning a vegetable patch that produces all year round.
https://www.abc.net.au/life/how-to-eat-from-your-garden-vegetable-patch-all-year/11096242
If you are having trouble sourcing seeds at present, the ABC also has this article.
How to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs from scraps
https://www.abc.net.au/life/growing-new-veggies-from-scraps/12128496
Tips For Building A Garden While Renting
https://www.curbly.com/17226-how-to-tips-for-building-a-garden-while-renting
Growing Microgreens
For those off you who are new here or who haven’t yet started a garden, microgreens are a very quick and efficient way to grow nutritious food. You can get a crop in a week to ten days instead waiting a month or more to get a crop from a home garden. It also takes up very little space. You can also use specialized indoor lighting to grow them if you need to. Here is some basic practical information to get you started.
https://www.livingsmartqld.com.au/posts/getting-started-with-microgreens
Good practical advice on how grow microgreens easily and efficiently.
https://youtu.be/TugmbvCIx38
There are also lots of great Youtube videos with excellent gardening and microgreen growing tips.
USA
10th April 2020 – Terrified Atomic Workers Warn That the COVID-19 Pandemic May Threaten Nuclear Reactor Disaster
Extracts:
Of critical importance: every 18-24 months each reactor must shut for refueling and repairs. Itinerant crews of 1000 to 1500 technicians travel to 58 sites in 29 states, usually staying 30-60 days. They often board with local families, or in RVs, hotels, or Air B&Bs.
Industry-wide the pandemic has brought working conditions to the brink of collapse. At Pennsylvania’s Limerick Generating Station, workers say they are “terrified” that the plant has become a “breeding ground…a complete cesspool” for the coronavirus. “I’m in a constant state of paranoia,” one technician told Carl Hessler, Jr., of MontcoCourtNews.
The industry is now using the coronavirus pandemic to rush through a wide range of deregulation demands. Among them is a move to allow radioactive waste to be dumped into municipal landfills.
Comment:
The Covid-19 pandemic is going to affect nuclear power plant safety worldwide. As nuclear workers become infected and taken out of the workforce all those countries with operating nuclear reactors will be facing the similar staffing and maintenance problems. Let’s pray and hope that governments around the world are capable of making very good decisions on how to deal with skilled nuclear worker shortages.
Article:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/10/terrified-atomic-workers-warn-covid-19-pandemic-may-threaten-nuclear-reactor
Southern Hemisphere February & March 2020 Background Level Reports
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
March 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
Local background radiation levels for March were stable.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2020.jpg
February 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 109 cpm)
Local background radiation levels for February were stable.
https://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
“The radioactive cloud will reportedly reach Kyiv and parts of Kyiv Oblast adjacent to the exclusion zone on April 10-11. But it does not pose any risk to public health since the concentration of Caesium-137 is very low, Ukraine’s State Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center said in a statement on April 10. ” https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/fires-rage-in-chornobyl-zone-but-no-radiation-risk-nuclear-agency-says-photos
10th April 2020 – Chernobyl fires: Radiation fears as firefighters struggle to contain blazes in radioactive zone
Extracts:
A senior environmental official, Egor Firsov, said at the weekend that radiation in the area was detected at 16 times higher than normal background levels.
A 27-year-old resident of a settlement near the exclusion zone is under investigation on suspicion of having started at least one of the local fires.
Comment:
Fires in the Chernobyl nuclear plant fallout contamination zones are always of concern, because they often release large amounts of radioactive fallout contamination back into the atmosphere.
These recurring fire events place the firefighters and local communities at risk of being exposed to significant radiation exposure.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/chernobyl-fires-radiation-concerns-radioactive-ash-nuclear-disaster-zone/3d363469-536e-4f57-b224-1b6e27810315
The fires in the contaminated forests around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant are still not under control. The Ukrainian civil protection agency said that the fire spread to the surrounding grass areas. Three planes and three helicopters are in the air to help fight the fire. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412014002608?via%3Dihub
After the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, large amounts of radioactivity leaked out. The area directly around the nuclear power plant was hardest hit. The pine trees standing there, caught some of the radioactive particles and built them into their wood. Thats the problem now. A study from 2014 came to the conclusion that If around half of the forest in the exclusion zone burned down, we would have a renewed radioactive precipitation.
Two forest fires broke out on Saturday and spread over 250 acres in a forested area near the Chernobyl power plant. Firefighters in Ukraine are battling to extinguish the forest fires.
A Doctor Explains How to Make the Safest Face Mask
It utilizes a HEPA filter, which is much, much better than a cotton mask.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6d3twpHwis
Directions for making masks: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fW_Qrv_1J26Lgd1kawSWqqyKvbYOY2Fu/view
Mask patterns: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gaiM3yZLalU1_7mlMeLR-3967A8cEu5H/view
Reusing Manufactured Medical Masks
1. It was found that dry heat disinfection (heating at 70 ℃ for 30 minutes) had the least effect on damaging the filtering mechanism, and the filtering effect could be maintained above 95%.
2. The disinfection method of spraying alcohol on the mask will destroy the electrostatic absorption of the mask, causing filtering efficiency of the mask lowering below 95%.
3. Other methods such as steamer damp heat method and high-pressure high temperature sterilization methods also made the filtering efficiency of the mask lower than 95%.In addition, high temperature and high-pressure method makes the mask seriously deformed.
4. The new coronavirus is sensitive to ultraviolet rays, and ultraviolet disinfection does not affect the filtration efficiency of respirators. However, the inactivation effect of viruses in mask fibers, which cannot be directly observed, is unknown. Therefore, it is not recommended.
Article:
https://www.imcclinics.com/english/index.php/news/view?id=83
Other DIY Mask Alternatives
Instructional video for sewing the Olson mask (COVID-19)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1024&v=ZnVk12sFRkY&feature=emb_logo
Updated pattern and more information can be found at: https://www.unitypoint.org/cedarrapids/sewing-surgical-masks.
Just want the PDF of the pattern go here: https://www.unitypoint.org/cedarrapids/filesimages/Coronavirus/003902oo-1%20Olson%20Mask%20V07.pdf
How to make your own mask: Hong Kong scientists reveal temporary solution for those unable to get protective gear because of panic buying and price-gouging
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3050689/how-make-your-own-mask-hong-kong-scientists
I’m very happy to see stats at RSSM still active during the coronavirus emergency. And, it’s also encouraging that radiation levels are going in the downward direction. Hopefully, all are well at RSSM. I have been self-isolating these past 10 days due to mild symptoms. Looks like I either have something else or it’s just a mild case. In any event, having read the advice on this website for the past six years, I feel adequately prepared for the current emergency. Not so much in terms of hand sanitizer or toilet paper mind you, but I am ready to bunker-up for an extended time for emergencies in general. Thank you to Michael Collins and Enviroreporter.com for keeping us informed and helping us to get ready for whatever may be coming our way. Stay safe and do try to stay indoors as much as possible.
March 23, 2020
6:00 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 53.2 CPM^^ OR 1.4 TIMES BACKGROUND which is considerably less than the previous period’s reading. This is due in part to the sealing of RSSM in light of the Coronavirus pandemic reducing outside particulates and the exterior reduced human activity which has greatly improved the air and diminished the dust. The radiation above background is just one sixth (1/6) that of the last assessment March 6, 2020.
5:40 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 37.8 CPM^^
If implemented early, Social Distancing can potentially significantly lower the fatality rate off patients and medical staff during a pandemic.
13th March 2020 – Coronavirus fears prompt health officials to ask Australia’s leaders to ban events with more than 500 people.
Extract:
A senior West Australian doctor has called for all schools to be closed soon and for there to be no crowds allowed at events as the coronavirus spreads, declaring he wants his colleagues to stay alive. Coronavirus claims Coast event as others hang in balance
WA Australian Medical Association (AMA) president Andrew Miller posted on social media: “You want to go to the footy? I want my colleagues to stay alive.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-13/coronavirus-scott-morrison-coag-premiers-cancelling-events/12053382
Why, in this article, are these doctors saying they want their colleagues to stay alive?
This is why?
Look to Italy as an example. They have one of the best hospitals systems in the world. Their hospitals are well equipped, and they were prepared. The Italian public were also told everything was fine. They had two cases a month and a half ago.
On the 30th January 2020, had two Chinese tourists who tested positive for COVID-19.
By 24th February 2020, Italy had 229 confirmed cases and 6 fatalities.
On the 8th March 2020, Italy lock down a region with a population of 16 million people. By this time the number of confirmed cases had risen to 6,387 and deaths had risen to 366.
By 9th March 2020, Italy went into whole country lock down.
On 10th March 2020, there were 10,149 confirmed cases and 631 deaths.
Their hospitals systems are now completely overloaded because the viruses infection rate is exponential. Their staff are exhausted. They can’t treat all the patients. In situations like this, medical staff contract the virus. If you look around the Internet, top Italian medical doctors are telling everyone please don’t make the same mistakes we made.
If you don’t implement social distancing early in an outbreak, a country’s hospital systems can become totally overwhelmed very quickly. This means the fatality rate will increase by a factor of five to ten times or more.
If you implement social distancing in the very early stages of the outbreak, the hospital system has a chance. It spreads the load of infected patients over a longer period of time. This means that the hospitals and staff have a better chance to treat everyone effectively.
Social distancing means a lot more people and medical staff end up surviving the contagion, because many more people were able to get good medical care. See chart below.
https://media.juancole.com/images/2020/03/social-distancing-what-it-is-and-750×422.jpg
During a pandemic you don’t need to wait for a government directive to implement proper social distancing, start implementing it immediately. The sooner social distancing is implemented, the more lives will be saved. Watch this 6.29 minute video. This is what we all need to do. Our personal actions can potentially save a lot of lives.
16th March 2020 – Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSQztKXR6k0
March 12, 2020
12:20 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA RAIN: 47.7 CPM^^ or normal background
12:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 42.0 CPM^^
Three robust High Efficiency Air Particle (HEPA) filter air-cleaning and negative ion generating machines have kept EnviroReporter.com‘s Radiation Station Santa Monica air clean and refreshing since the advent of the ongoing triple meltdowns in Fukushima Japan in 2011 as we wrote in Eat Me! that year. One of our machine removes “99.97% of as small as 0.3 microns contaminant particles like pet dander, mold, viruses, bacteria and pollen,” according to a review of the Honeywell 17000-S Air Purifier. “The HRF-AP1 pre-filter has Activated Carbon filter in it. This will both help adsorb VOCs, gases, odors and trap larger particles such as dust, lint, fibers, pet hair & fur.”
EnviroReporter.com‘s air cleaners ‘harvest’ much of the dust and debris that we test for radiation (by vacuuming it off first). The air cleaners also remove viruses like the Coronavirus (COVID-19) making them potentially very effective in rooms in buildings where air is circulated and shared. Aston An added benefit is that HEPA machines filter out the radiation we regularly test for and find, as shown below. This latest test finds the dust/debris sample testing at 230% of background, which is actually a decrease from the previous period’s testing. The following reading is below the California Highway Patrol’s limit of 3.0 times background before a substance is considered hazardous requiring HAZ-MAT protocols.
March 6, 2020
1:00 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 79.1 CPM^^ OR 2.3 TIMES BACKGROUND
12:40 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 35.0 CPM^^
This recent study shows how very important regular hand washing with soap and water is in preventing infection, and preventing the spread of a global pandemic!
There should be way more up front and visible public education on the importance of hand washing. Watch the educational video Germ Smart, how to wash your hands properly in the post below.
23rd December 2019 – Hand‐Hygiene Mitigation Strategies Against Global Disease Spreading through the Air Transportation Network
Abstract Extracts:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) consider hand hygiene as the most efficient and cost‐effective way to limit disease propagation.
Here, we use epidemiological modeling and data‐driven simulations to elucidate the role of individual engagement with hand hygiene inside airports in conjunction with human travel on the global spread of epidemics. We find that, by increasing travelers engagement with hand hygiene at all airports, a potential pandemic can be inhibited by 24% to 69%.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/risa.13438
Coronavirus COVID-19, first line of defense!
It is my opinion, as the Coronavirus virus spreads around the World, a number of governments will hide the true infection numbers. They will do this to shield their economies against the resulting economic shock that would result by them revealing the true numbers. This could work if the infected numbers remain manageable.
If they lose control, and the infection numbers dramatically increase all of a sudden, you could find your everyday life turned upside down. Within a a very short period of time large parts of your country, towns or districts could be placed under quarantine.
This may not happen in your location. Lets hope it doesn’t. If it does, having the proper knowledge, skills and equipment on hand will greatly improve your family’s chances of of avoiding infection. Do research, bookmark, printout, and download instructional information that will provide your family with the necessary knowledge and skills.
Example, lets start with preventing infection, your family’s first line of defense!
As the Coronavirus spreads Worldwide large numbers of people are purchasing, goggles, gloves, masks, sanitizers and disinfectants etc.
That maybe a great idea, but next to useless exercise if you don’t know how to sanitize, or use the equipment correctly!
The skills provide in the instruction videos below could significantly improve your family member’s chances of avoiding infection.
It is better for all the members of your family to practice and master these techniques now, than wait until the last minute. Remember, for this to work, all the family members will need to work together as a well oiled team.
Don’t just rely on the information presented here, do more research, as there is much more you will need to know.
Firstly and most importantly keep your hands away from your face!
You think you have been washing you hands correctly all these years? Well sorry to say the vast majority of you haven’t been!
Germ Smart – How To Wash Your Hands
I would also suggest that you stop wearing hand jewelry, watches, false nails or nail varnish, plus keep your nails as short a possible. Doing this will significantly improve the effectiveness of using this hand washing technique.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riApbjnhLfc
Medical Respirators N95 Fitting Instructions
To get a good seal of a facial mask like this, it will be important for men to remove facial hair.
There are detailed written instructions in the “Show More” description area under the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05wyH1-mLGk
Face Mask vs Respirator Comparison by 3M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdsy_sZnBZg
Eye Protection
With the potential for COVID-19 to infect through the eyes, it will be import to use whatever eye protection you have available, goggles, wrap around safety glasses, sunglasses, ordinary glasses etc.
Putting on Sterile Gloves
Again, I would also suggest that you also stop wearing hand jewelry, watches, false nails and keep your finger nails as short a possible. These sharp items can puncture the gloves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH_cyaqdT3k
Proper Disposable Glove Removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gyNAsPCbU
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Obviously, most of you will not be wearing a full PPE kit. It is still very important to know in what order and how to remove the equipment that you are wearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwzg7Vixsw
Cleaning and Sanitizing (Food Preparation Areas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn07bsfaIkI
How to Properly Disinfect Surfaces to Kill Germs
This is a commercial product video, I have put it in this list because it provides important information.
Look around your environment for those surfaces that are frequently touched by people. They are the surfaces that will need to be sanitized often. Some surfaces can be damaged by some cleaning and sanitizing chemicals, particularly electronic devices, so do your research first before applying!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jhHEbNlgAw
Important
6 Cleaning Products Combinations To NEVER Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQMTfuwsOY
Phone Soap Tested on Discovery Channel
With just about everyone addicted to their mobile phone, it would be a very good idea to learn how to sanitize it properly. These devices can be a significant vector in the spread of a contagion. Use speaker phone, texting and avoided placing it on your head or face. Stop using it, or limit its use to absolutely essential calls if possible.
If you touched the outside of the Phone Soap device with your hands as you placed the phone into the device, you will then need to also sanitize the outside of the Phone Soap device, and your hands before removing the phone. There are a number of other phone and tablet sanitizing systems out there that are based on wipes and cloths, that you could research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zB73z8B9AQ
Toilet Seat
Put the toilet lid down before flushing the toilet. This will help contain potential aerosol contaminated water droplets from entering the home, or business environment.
RUSSIA
This Reuters article provides detailed information on the likely source of the recent 60x background level radiation detection in Moscow. The report is in English.
11th December 2019 – Russians protest over plans to build road near Soviet-era radioactive waste site
Extracts:
The 34-km (21-mile) road, which city authorities say is safe and will help ease traffic, is set to pass the Moscow Polymetal Plant and a fenced-off site where it disposed of radioactive substances decades ago.
“The thing is, the presence of this nuclear waste dump and its danger are not being acknowledged by the people in charge of construction,” she said. “But it’s obviously not safe for the people living here.”
Article:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-nuclear-waste-idUSKBN1YE202
February 19, 2020
12:45 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 101.1 CPM^^ OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND
12:25 pm PST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.9 CPM^^
February 2020 – Moscow recorded a 60-fold excess of radiation levels in the area of the new highway. Ministry of Emergencies denies everything Evgenia Malyarenko, Natalya Telegin
Extracts:
Local residents and activists who are on duty on the slope of the Moscow River, where authorities are planning to build a new expressway – the Southeast Chord, recorded five surges in radiation over the past weekend in this area. They reported this to Open Media. The highest level – 18.06 microsievert per hour – the FSUE Radon sensor on the slope showed on the evening of February 9. The corresponding video on his Facebook page was published by the municipal deputy from the Pechatniki District Sergey Vlasov. He noted that the recorded indicators are 60 times higher than the norm.
A radiation repository in the construction area of the new highway New Highway – the Southeast Chord, which, according to city authorities, should connect the Enthusiasts Highway and the Warsaw Highway, is being built in the south of the capital near the Kolomenskoye Park. The project received wide publicity last summer, when activists found that the construction zone of the chord passes through a radioactive repository.
Quote:
“After that, the leadership of Radon arrived on the slope urgently, the parliamentarian said. Representatives of the enterprise suggested that such jumps were caused by “electrical interference”, the deputy explained. Later, the director general of the Radon Federal State Unitary Enterprise Alexey Luzhetsky explained officially the failure of high radiation rates in the capital. “Since the sensor is still in setup mode, the readings may be confused.”
Was the detection equipment malfunctioning?
This type of radiation detection equipment is already calibrated and tested, before it is located at a site.
Article: (In Russian, so you will need to use Google translate.)
https://openmedia.io/news/n1/aktivisty-zafiksirovali-60-kratnoe-prevyshenie-urovnya-radiacii-v-rajone-novoj-avtostrady-mchs-vsyo-otricaet/
I have an acquaintance in Santa Clarita named Carl Goldman. He and his wife Jeri own a local radio station. They are passengers on the Diamond Princess, the ship which is quarantined in Yokohama. Carl has been writing a daily diary which is posted on his radio station’s website, telling his friends what is happening with the quarantine.
Traveling with the Goldmans are a couple with the last name Jorgenson. They used to live in Santa Clarita. I don’t know them. Apparently on Friday Mrs. Jorgenson (also named Jeri) was taken away by Japanese government officials because she “tested positive” for the new corona virus. Her husband did not test positive, so he is being shipped home to the USA today, for quarantine here.
Incredibly, the Japanese government is sending the latest coronavirus patients to a hospital in Fukushima!
What an outrage.
Update on Dimitrovgrad radiation leak in Russia.
8th February 2020 – What is known about the institute where the radioactive release occurred
Extracts:
The Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SSC RIAR) is located in the Ulyanovsk Region in the city of Dimitrovgrad, which residents themselves call the “atomic capital.”
According to experts from the Business Online publication, the greatest danger to the Middle Volga region is the BOR-60 fast neutron reactor operating in NIIAR. And one of the main dangers lies in its coolant, which is sodium.
So, the summer of 1997, when an increased release of radioactive iodine-131 began at one of the NIIAR facilities, lasting almost three weeks. Moreover, on some days, the limit level for the emission of iodine-131 in the RIAR exceeded 15-20 times. Local residents continue to sue the university so far and require official documentation of what happened.
In April 2000, an emergency occurred at the VK-50 reactor, which threatened to turn into a “Chernobyl” catastrophe: one of the three emergency protection cassettes spontaneously plunged into the active zone due to a break in the lower thermal insulation of the actuator that fell on the emergency protection working body. The Gosatomnadzor inspection then suspended the VK-50 reactor.
In 2011, information on radiation emissions at the institute was already appearing on the network. Concerned residents called the city hall, saying that an accident had occurred at the RIAR base. But then the press service of the institution told Interfax that there was no accident.
In 2017, RBC wrote about the contamination of part of Russia with the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106. Then Europe suffered from it, which also received a dose of ruthenium. Experts argued that the production of ionizing radiation sources based on ruthenium-106 is in Dimitrovgrad.
On February 3, 2020, in Dimitrovgrad, on the territory of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (SSC RIAR), radioactive pollution of snow was recorded. Now the background radiation level is also normal, according to the institution. Journalists investigating this case found that minor pollution with radium-226 is present only at site No. 1 of the institute itself, where the release occurred. Radium-226 is formed during the decay of uranium. The half-life of radium-226 is 1,600 years.
Comment:
With this type of history, this site is just an accident waiting to happen!
“Now the background radiation level is also normal, according to the institution. Journalists investigating this case found that minor pollution with radium-226 is present only at site No. 1”
Which Journalist, and what news organisation do they represent?
This appears to be the usual nuclear industry propaganda, that is disseminated to calm the population.
Article: (In Russian, so you will need to use Google translate)
https://inkazan.ru/news/incident/08-02-2020/chto-izvestno-ob-institute-gde-proizoshel-radioaktivnyy-vybros
Southern Hemisphere January 2020 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
January 2020 day average background chart. (Month Average 110 cpm)
At this location radiation levels have been very stable, compared to the wild swings detected just after 3/11.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-January-2020.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
RUSSIA
4th February 2020 – In Dimitrovgrad, radiation leaks occurred. Residents bought up drugs with iodine
(Below is a Google translation of this report.)
Extacts:
There is information that yesterday there was a slight pollution of the snow due to the leakage of a radioactive substance. However, employees of the enterprise report that the radiation level is not exceeded. Yesterday, city residents were asked not to leave their homes. Today, due to an emergency, some of the employees in RIAR did not go to work, Khvorov described the situation.
The Ulyanovsk media also reported that yesterday, due to the leakage of radioactive substances at RIAR, the children were not allowed to leave the city on time. According to official data, now the radioactive background in RIAR itself and beyond does not exceed the norm.
Comment:
Here is the google map location of Dimitrovgrad in Russia, zoom out to see the world map.
[Editor: Here is the location of the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors (NIIAR) in Dimitrovgrad]
If I find anymore information I will post it here.
Article:
https://www.idelreal.org/amp/30416600.html
February 9, 2020
2:30 pm PST INT RSSMC OFFICE RAIN SAMPLE: 79.5 CPM^^ or 66% ABOVE NORMAL BACKGROUND
2:10 pm PST INT RSSMC OFFICE BACKGROUND: 47.9 CPM^^
January 16, 2020
11:40 pm PST INT RSSMC OFFICE RAIN SAMPLE: 40.6 CPM^^ or normal background
11:25 pm PST INT RSSMC OFFICE BACKGROUND: 41.8 CPM^^
January 2, 2020
8:45 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR SNOW SAMPLE: 38.4 CPM^^
8:30 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 44.1 CPM^^
11:00 am EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROU 36.0 CPM^^
December 30, 2019
8:45 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR SNOW SAMPLE: 95.0 CPM^^ OR 120.9% OVER BACKGROUND
8:10 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 43.0 CPM^^
7:00 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 45.2 CPM^^
December 29, 2019
10:25 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR RAIN SAMPLE: 54.2 CPM^^ OR 21.8% OVER BACKGROUND
10:10 pm EST INT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ROOM FIRST FLOOR BACKGROUND: 44.5 CPM^^
The location of the radiation monitoring equipment used for the December 2019 radiation report below, is not located anywhere near the major fires affecting the East Coast of Australia.
At present the smoke from those fires have not affected this location.
Southern Hemisphere December 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
December 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 111 cpm)
This December, our summer, we saw a small increase in local background levels compared to the winter months.
Overall, the 2019 local background radiation levels were very stable, compared to other years since 3/11.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-December-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Another Simi Mom reports:
This article describes the Russian missle and nuclear warhead combination which crashed into the White Sea in northwest Russia earlier this year, releasing radiation into the sea and air and killing Russian nuclear scientists and technicians. While it’s intellectually satisfying to have the mystery of the nuclear accident and radiation release solved by a formal press release, the details of the nuclear weapon delivery system are sobering to say the least.
https://apnews.com/597e7f2b20b21af959e4c6983b255c37
On Thursday the19th of December 2019, the floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonossow was put into operation as the first of its kind in the Russian Far East. The facility, designed and built in Russia, symbolically illuminated the central Christmas tree in the city of Pewek, Russia. The Russian group Rosenergoatom, which operates the nuclear power plant, described the commissioning as a historic event not only for the Russian, but also for the global atomic energy industry. This is reported by RIA Novosti. Akademik Lomonossow is not only the first floating but also the northernmost nuclear power plant worldwide. According to Rosenergoatom, the thermal power plant has a high safety factor. It is equipped with two KLT-40S reactors, which are used in nuclear icebreakers. Together they can generate up to 70 MW electrical energy and 50 Gcal / h thermal energy. This is said to be able to supply electricity to a city with around 100,000 inhabitants. https://ria.ru/20191219/1562573532.html Let’s pray it stays afloat.
Potential 110 Times Regulatory Limit Exposure For Children!
Supreme Court Rejects Cell Phone Industry Challenge To Berkeley Ordinance
Extracts:
“The court agreed that our precious First Amendment guarantees that we have the right to know that cell phones emit radiation and that levels can be exceeded when phones contact the body. Astonishingly, the industry argued that compelling them to provide information about tested distances set for large adults denied their right to keep this information hidden as part of their right to free speech.
Investigations at FCC accredited labs by the Chicago Tribune, the law firm of Fegan Scott, and CBC Broadcasting, as well as tests of hundreds of phones by the French government disclosed that the Berkeley advice may well understate exposures. Some of the most popular smartphones emit up to 11 times as much radiation as permitted under outdated FCC radiation exposure guidelines when tested against the body.”
https://www.ibtimes.com/supreme-court-rejects-cell-phone-industry-challenge-berkeley-ordinance-2882980
Comment:
Extract from page two of a research article, link below:
“The use of cell phone in children is dangerous due to the closer proximity of the mobile phone to their brain compared to adults; the average RF exposure from its use is higher by a factor of 2 in a child’s brain and by a factor of 10 in the bone marrow of the skull.
Brain and bone marrow have a higher conductivity in children than in adults and receive a higher energy deposition from RF sources. With age, the bone marrow progressively incorporates more fat, and the bone itself increases in thickness, hardens, and loses water over time, thus making the tissues less vulnerable.”
The statement of 11 times the radiation exposure limit if used against the body, in the Berkeley Ordinance article, is for an adult sized body. This means the child dose equivalent above the regulatory limit would be much much greater, because their body size and head size is smaller than an adults.
Extrapolating from the information provided in the research paper, it would mean that the brains of children, using some of the most popular smartphones, would potentially be exposed to,
an equivalent of 11 X 2, or 22 times above the regulatory limit for their brains,
and
11 X 10, or 110 times greater for their skull bone marrow!
Every parent should be socked by this revelation!!
Research Article Link: (The full article can be downloaded as a PDF if you click the download PDF button, at the top left of the page, under the article heading.)
http://www.journal-ina.com/article.asp?issn=2394-2916;year=2018;volume=5;issue=1;spage=1;epage=5;aulast=El-Ham
November 28, 2019
11:45 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK RAIN: 74.1 CPM^^^ OR 1.9 TIMES PRIOR BACKGROUND
11:30 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK BACKGROUND: 37.6 CPM^^^
November 27, 2019
1:10 pm PST EXT FURNACE CREEK DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK HEADQUARTERS PARKING LOT BACKGROUND: 34.9 CPM^^
12:55 pm PST EXT FURNACE CREEK DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK HEADQUARTERS PARKING LOT RAIN: 100.8 CPM^^ OR 2.9 TIMES SUBSEQUENT BACKGROUND NEAR THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL’S THRESHOLD OF THREE TIMES BACKGROUND TO INITIATE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROTOCOLS.
This hot rain reading pales in comparison to rains we sampled and tested in situ in Death Valley in 2013 where we found rain sizzling at up to 31.5 times background as reported in Boreas Storm Packs Radioactive Punch. That said, 2.9 times background is hot indeed. According to documentation reported on by EnviroReporter.com, the California Highway Patrol considers any material or situation over 3.0 times background to be the triggering level for a hazardous materials incident.
11:30 am PST INT STOVEPIPE WELLS DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK: 42.2 CPM^^^
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Multiple multi-media radiation tests – air, precipitation, potable & non-potable water, food (See Eat Me!), flora, urban, wild lands, freeways, roads, oases, desert, mountains, coast
October 30, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Santa Ysabel, Ramona, San Pasqual Battlefield, Vista, Agra, San Onofre, Fountain Valley, Signal Hill, Carson, Santa Monica – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 29, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Vallecito, Mortero Wash, Anza-Borrego State Park – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 28, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Oasis, Sonoran Desert badlands, Agua Caliente, Sweeney Pass, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 28, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Julian, Banner, Scissors Crossing, Great Southern Overland Stage Route, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 27, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles, Industry, Pomona, Chino Hills, Alberhill, Terra Cota, Temecula, Radec, Wynola – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
October 27-30-7, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Multiple multi-media radiation tests – air, precipitation, potable & non-potable water, food (See Eat Me!), flora, urban, wild lands, freeways, roads, oases, desert, mountains, coast
Southern Hemisphere November 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
November 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 110 cpm)
In the warmer months more tropical air flows to this location compared to the colder months. This November, our spring, we saw a small increase in local background levels compared to the winter months. Spring and summer up ticks in local background have become the new normal here since Fukushima. For comparison, this July’s month average was 107 CPM.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Hello,
My name is Carolyn Tyler, and I firstly want to thank you for your dedication to this issue of environmental toxins.
I lived in Northridge, six miles from the SSFL and Rocketdyne, from 1956 to 1975. I lost five members of my family to cancer, and my one remaining family member (middle sister) has survived thyroid and breast cancers, starting when she was 20 in 1971. So far, despite testing with high levels of cesium, thallium, cobalt, vanadium, and rubidium in my system, I thankfully remain cancer-free.
When I first read about the meltdown in 1959, I was stunned, but it explained the cancer in my family (grandmother, mother, father, sister, niece, and brother-in-law) , and my neighbors’ families all around me. When I received my heavy-metal toxicity tests in 2014, I discovered that I also had extremely high levels of MANGANESE in addition to the radioactive isotopes, which stymied my doctors, since this element only stays in the body through inhalation of vapor or dust during welding or mining.
Through diligent sleuthing, one immunology researcher I met at a detox clinic in Bangkok found a third source of environmental manganese poisoning–rocket testing. He asked about my lifelong severe and chronic depression, which was noted in my chart, and said that “treatment-resistant chronic and severe depression, bipolar II”, along with Parkinsonism, dementia, and a host of other neurological disorders are associated with high levels of manganese, which migrates from the lungs to the brain. He recommended 2-5 years of intense chelation therapy using EDTA and zeolite clay solution to remove the heavy metals which included lead, arsenic, mercury, as well as the radiation. I added daily infrared sauna treatments, and was down to normal levels by 2016. As the doctor suggested, I weaned myself off antidepressants and have been depression-free for almost four years. This is clear proof to me that my depression was caused by toxic chemicals from Rocketdyne, since there was no other source or opportunity for exposure.
I am hoping you can help get the word out to people who lived in the Valley during the exposure years who may be suffering neurological problems and autoimmune disorders needlessly. I don’t think anyone else has figured out that particulate fallout from spent rocket fuel causes neurological problems including depression–at least I have not found anything online suggesting this, so this is very important news.
Please feel free to write to me with comments or questions at: carolyntyler@gmail.com, and please join my Facebook group: San Fernando Valley Secrets: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You for updates and info on how to get help.
Sincerely, Carolyn Tyler
20th October 2019 – Russia covered up explosion of Skyfall nuclear superweapon
Extracts:
“The explosion was caused by the Skyfall experiencing a criticality accident, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction that released a burst of radiation while Russian personnel retrieved it from the seafloor,” Mr. DiNanno said in an interview with The Washington Times.
The blast was set off after the fuel in the missile reactor was no longer cooled by seawater.
In the interview, Mr. DiNanno revealed further details about the incident. As part of the cover-up, he said, Moscow cut off the data gathered by a Russian nuclear monitoring station near the blast. That information is supposed to go to the International Monitoring System, a technical group based in Vienna that operates as a unit of the Comprehensive Test-Ban-Treaty Organization.
Article:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/20/skyfall-nuclear-cruise-missile-explosion-covered-r/
Comment:
“From what I understand, the actual radiation cloud was not dangerous per se,” Mr. DiNanno said.
Here we have a reported nuclear criticality event that sent a radioactive cloud over populated areas in Russia.
“The reactor exploded Aug. 8 off the coast of the northern Russian town of Nenoska, killing seven Russians on a barge in the White Sea as they were overseeing the recovery of a sunken Skyfall.”
There was a twenty times background radioactive cloud detection at the distance of around 30k or 18 miles from Nemoska, in the Russia city of Severodvinsk at the time. This indicates that a significant amount of airborne radioactive contamination was released.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-10/chernobyl-style-cover-run-iodine-pills-after-isotope-power-source-explosion-russia
Logic and evidence tells us the radiation cloud was dangerous!
Beta radiation in west Los Angeles Basin air doubles in half the time of last testing period.
October 17, 2019
6:35 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 77.7 CPM^^ OR 82.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
6:20 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 42.6 CPM^^
A Federal task force issued its report on 10/11/19 concerning the F.A.A.’s failure to adequately supervise Boeing and its new 737 MAX airliner. As we’ve seen so often with respect to Rocketdyne aka Santa Susana Field Lab, Boeing simply crushes its regulators.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/business/boeing-737-max.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Business
Update: Video footage from a beach near weapon testing area Nenoksa [Russia] shows helicopters, excavators and men in protection gear involved in the removing of radioactive debris from last month’s nuclear accident.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/09/nuclear-cleanup-coast-white-sea
Unclear if the barges hold the damaged small-size reactor or isotope source.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/10/wreak-barge-nenoksa-accident-ends-kola-radioactive-scrap-site
Southern Hemisphere September 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
September 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 110 cpm)
There has been a slight increase in month average background level for September. This seasonal variation in local background levels has become a normal trend here since Fukushima. As we get more tropical air flows at this location in the warmer months, the local background increases, and then drops back down again in winter.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-September-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
The “Western Governors Association” has complained to the U.S. Department of Energy about DOE employees making final plans for shipping nuclear waste across the country without getting input from each State’s employee/experts on that topic:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/western-governors-states-not-consulted-on-nuclear-waste/2019/10/04/c7150526-e6e4-11e9-b0a6-3d03721b85ef_story.html
As to any shipment across Nevada, the routes have already been closely studied by the state and that information has been ignored:
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2019/oct/06/state-official-lists-old-new-reasons-why-yucca-mou/
September 25, 2019
11:40 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES + VACUUM DUST/DEBRIS: 65.8 CPM^^ OR 37.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
11:30 am PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 47.9 CPM^^
Throughout its 40+/- year history of involvement with the Rocketdyne property in Ventura County south of Simi Valley, the parent company of the property owner, Boeing, has been managed with a culture of arrogance and impunity which extended to the Rocketdyne property which Boeing renamed the “Santa Susana Field Lab” when it sold the rest of the Rocketdyne company to unrelated investors.
As Californians too many of us separated our ire at the owner of the Santa Susana Field Lab from our willingness to fly on Southwest Airlines, which flies an all Boeing fleet. In 2018 I flew on a brand spanking new Boeing 737 MAX 8 without any fear at all. I sat at the front of the cabin and was able to overhear a discussion between 3 Southwest Flight Attendants about the “new” internal features of the latest Boeing planes purchased by Southwest in comparison to earlier versions of the 737. Obviously those Flight Attendants had no idea there was anything wrong with the new 737 MAX 8.
After the new Boeing 737 MAX 8’s were grounded by the FAA, in comment sections at the bottom of the Washington Post’s news stories on the new 737 MAX 8, I would spot comments clearly written by airline pilots and aeronautical engineers which were emphatic in their criticism of Boeing’s senior managers. I would roll my eyes and say to myself “What they are seeing in the design and manufacturing of airliners is, in a sense, the same as what we have been seeing Boeing’s managers, officers and directors decide and do with the Santa Susana Field Lab and the “allegation” that radioactive fallout spread from the Field Lab property throughout the communities surrounding it continuing after 2000.
So far, the “national press” has not made any connection at all between alleged “regulatory capture” of the FAA by Boeing in connection with the FAA airworthiness certification process and the regulatory capture by Boeing of the California DTSC, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (which is supposed to regulate L.A. and Ventura County property owners) and other California State agencies, as well as EPA, NASA and U.S. Dept. of Energy, all in connection with radioactive contamination on and around the Santa Susana Field Lab.
On September 18, 2019 “The New Republic” published the important report by Maureen Tkacik, linked below, about the relationship between Boeing and FAA and Boeing’s management arrogance. See:
https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-manageriaSl-revolution?utm_source=pocket-newtab
That story of Boeing’s management decision making concerning the Boeing 737 MAX 8, as described in The New Republic story, is going to seem very familiar to Californians who follow the Santa Susana Field Lab story. Well down in The New Republic story the author and editors say “Indeed most of the Boeing response to the MAX disasters involved disseminating a kind of misinformation and doubt that makes the crashes look more complex than they really are.”
Conducting a disinformation campaign concerning a big problem. No surprise there.
After the second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash, I spent some time looking at Boeing’s Income Statements and Balance Sheets which they had filed with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission. Those official financial records showed that at the time of the second crash Boeing was sitting on more than $1 Billion in cash. Of course they have some sort of liability insurance as well, though I haven’t found the amounts of the policy limits or deductibles. Since I’m familiar with the shorthand thinking of air and rail disaster plaintiff’s lawyers I figured that Boeing had more than enough cash and insurance to litigate their way through two airplane crash lawsuits, the thought that Boeing might be financially endangered by the occurrence of the the two crashes didn’t cross my mind.
Then came the grounding of the 737 MAX 8 airplanes, all of them.
In some jurisdictions, but not all, when there is a lawsuit between a large corporation and the family of a human being who was killed by the corporation’s negligence, the lawyers for the plaintiffs can explore through document production demands, document production subpoenas to third parties, written questions and “demands for admissions” which the defendant company must answer, and deposition testimony of the company’s line employees and management as well as independent witnesses, about what other negligent or wrongful acts the company’s senior management has been accused of engaging in during the recent past. A lot of that wrongful acts/repeated negligence evidence is used in connection with punitive damage claims relating to a defendant corporation’s “course of conduct” over many years and analogous circumstances.
If I were Boeing’s lead lawyer, I would advise their Board of Directors to pay and settle all of the claims of the families of the dead arising out of the two 737 MAX 8 crashes NOW. I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directorss to pay and settle, RIGHT NOW, all of the money claims of domestic and foreign airlines for their money damages arising out of the “defects in the 737 MAX 8s causing them to be considered by a jury to be defective products”, leading to the U.S. and foreign governments grounding of all of the 737 MAX 8s the airlines recently purchased. Making those settlements immediately would “shut the door” to statute and judge-compelled discovery concerning the Boeing Board of Director’s and managements policies in analogous circumstances.
I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directors to make those payments and settlements RIGHT NOW, even if Boeing’s liability insurance carriers are/were/would refuse to allow the settlements under the terms of Boeing’s insurance policies. I would advise immediate settlement even if those insurance companies would “deny coverage” if the settlements were made without the insurance companies consenting to the settlements. I would advise Boeing’s Board of Directors to ay those settlement amounts to minimize Boeing shareholders’ long term risk arising out of a 19+ year course of regulatory-capture conduct by the corporation’s senior management.
Boeing’s course of conduct in dealing with California and Federal agencies regulating the Santa Susana Field Lab and in dealing with the FAA concerning the Boeing MAX 8 appear to be nearly identical. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewLM0zkoXFM
If the national/world press and the plaintiffs’ lawyers examining the crashes and grounding of the “new” Boeing 737 MAX 8s focus on Boeing’s long history of regulatory captures, such as the ones involving the Santa Susana Field Lab, “Katie Bar the Door”.
Condolences to Ralph Nader for the death of his grand-niece in the crash of the new Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Ethiopia. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/05/23/ralph-nader-the-faa-is-a-consulting-firm-for-airlines-not-a-regulator.html and https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/ralph-nader-says-boeing-737-max-should-never-fly-again.html
Southern Hemisphere August 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
August 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
The last few months have been relatively quiet, with relatively low background levels. This has been the historical norm for the cooler winter months here.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-August-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
More news from Arctic Russia near Finland. The nuclear accident there this summer might NOT have occurred during the testing of a nuclear powered missile. It may turn out that the missile was test fired, ended up at the bottom of a bay in the White Sea, and that the scientists who died from primary exposure to radionuclides were NOT exposed during the test firing.
Instead there’s a possibility the scientists were exposed as part of efforts by the Russians to pull the test missile up from the bottom of the White Sea. That news was reported by 3 reporters from Radio Free Europe. See:
https://www.rferl.org/a/angry-villagers-beached-pontoons-irradiated-flotsam-more-clues-to-mysterious-russian-explosion/30144751.html
https://www.rferl.org/a/angry-villagers-beached-pontoons-irradiated-flotsam-more-clues-to-mysterious-russian-explosion/30144751.htm
Rachel Maddow has become interested in the stories about the nuclear accident at the White Sea. If you go on the internet and look for MSNBC’s broadcast of her show on 9/5/19 calling attention to the work of those 2 reporters you’ll find her discussion of the nuclear accident about 15 minutes into her show.
“According to three of the doctors, including both senior sources, one of the doctors flown to Moscow was found to have Caesium-137 — a radioactive isotope that is a byproduct of the nuclear fission of uranium-235 — in their muscle tissue. One of the sources said the affected doctor had told him so directly, though he was not informed about the amount or concentration of the isotope found. …….Last Friday, Aug. 9, the Baza news outlet, which has close ties to Russia’s security services, reported that men injured during the blast had been brought to a Moscow clinic for radiation sickness treatment. The outlet published a video of a convoy of police cars and ambulances travelling through the Russian capital.
According to three of the doctors, two of the three patients that were treated at the Arkhangelsk Regional Clinical Hospital didn’t even reach Moscow, dying en route to the airport. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/08/exclusive-russian-doctors-say-they-werent-warned-patients-were-nuclear-accident
13th August 2019 – Deadly Explosions Aside, Kremlin Says Putin’s Nuclear-Powered Missile Far Ahead Of US Technology
Quote:
“The maximum reported level of radiation would be harmless and on a par with a dental x-ray, according to Jonathan Cobb, a spokesman for the World Nuclear Association. ”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/russia-says-radiation-levels-reached-16x-norm-in-aug-8-accident
Comment:
The radiation release was from a large explosion. This means that people exposed to this radioactive cloud as it passed through their area, would have breathed in radioactive contaminated dust and gases. Some of this material would also have been deposited as dust!
The external radiation dose levels reported do not represent the real health risks to the exposed populations. In a radioactive cloud event like this, the microscopic radioactive material potentially breathed in, is far more dangerous than any detected external dose level would indicate!
The 20x background detection only informs us that a significant radioactive cloud passed through. Other downwind communities would also have been exposed to this hazardous airborne radioactive material. Also, the toxic chemicals released from this type of explosion would add a significant multiplier of toxicity to this exposure.
By way of disclosure, I am 1/4 Norwegian. My great grandparents moved from Norway to Iowa in 1866. I have no relatives who are from Finland or Russia. My husband’s paternal grandparents emigrated from Brody and Sambir, in the Austrian Crown Province of Galicia (which had a Tsarist Russian eastern border) around 1905. All of the relatives who were left behind in 1905 died at the hands of the Soviets and the Third Reich. Today both of those small cities are in Western Ukraine, near the much larger formerly Austrian city of Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg, all of them being west of Chernobyl. Neither of us, or our children are employed or politically active in any manner having to do with Russia or Ukraine. However my grandson Oleksei, age 7, does have a beautiful blond Russian girlfriend at his elementary school in Las Vegas, which has a reasonably large Russian and Ukrainian immigrant population, and from time-to-time a good Russian restaurant.
THE MOOD OF THE RUSSIAN/SOVIET PEOPLE DURING A NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
I was alive during the Chernobyl nuclear emergency. I took particular interest in the trials and tribulations of the ordinary Soviet people who lived near that nuclear power plant, or down-river heading towards Kiev. If you are interested in experiencing the mood of ordinary Soviet people in the aftermath of the accident and the meltdown, I suggest finding the novel called “Chernobyl Murders” written by Chicago based Ukrainian Michael Beres. Beres’ book is very atmospheric and moody. It tells the story of a woman scientist and her Kiev resident boyfriend as they try to avoid being herded into a displaced persons camp for the residents of Pripyat. Towards the end of the story, the Soviet law enforcement officials stop to have a good meal in a foreign cuisine at a Polish restaurant in Sambir, the same beautiful little Austrian-style city where my inlaws lived in 1904.
Also read Martin Cruz Smith’s novel “Wolves Eat Dogs” which is set in the forest surrounding Chernobyl and Pripyat many years after the nuclear accident. Cruz Smith is famous for writing “Red Square” and other succeeding books with the same character, a Soviet/Ukrainian policeman Arkady Renko, the son of a famous ethnic Ukrainian General in the Soviet Army who led a major group of Soviet forces during World War II. Cruz’s books about Ukraine and Russia are very moody and cosmic.
WHAT HAS LEAKED OUT ABOUT THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO THE EMERGENCY
As to the current status on the ground in the area around this 2019 accident site, the Russians are proceeding much like the Soviets did in the days after the Chernobyl accident. The first responders, including medical personnel, have been flown to Moscow for specialized medical treatment at one or more hospitals with medical experts on nuclear accidents. Many first responders quickly died, in Moscow, in the days after the Chernobyl accident.
The area around the nuclear accident site in 2019 has been cordoned off by Russian government officials. Russian scientists in the appropriate nuclear discipline are investigating what happened while others are trying to figure out what to do with the raw radioactive materials which have been released into the White Sea at Dvina Bay, onto the soil and trees in Karelia and into the ambient air.
Two days ago, Russian officials told the residents of the village nearest to the nuclear accident site, Nenoksa, that they were going to be evacuated “just for a few hours”. However the evacuation was cancelled a few hours later. Perhaps the village residents understand what happened to the residents of Pripyat and the villages immediately around and downstream from Chernobyl: They were told they had to evacuate “just for a few days”, but they were never allowed to return to their apartments and cottages to “get their stuff”.
USING MAPS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON WHERE IN TERMS OF LOCAL HISTORY BEFORE AND AFTER THIS 2019 NUCLEAR ACCIDENT
Take a look at the map posted at the bottom of my August 14 comment on Radiation Conversation II below. I read in Al Jazeera online last night (8/14/19) that the Russians are trying to keep people and boats away from Dvina Bay which is the SOUTHERN-MOST bay which is part of the White Sea. Dvina Bay is also the southern shoreline where the White Sea – Baltic Canal begins. According to Al Jazeera the Russian government has “closed” Dvina Bay for at least a month.
Dvina Bay is the part of the White Sea where Russian nuclear scientists were conducting their experiment on a “platform” floating in the sea, a distance away from the shoreline. The explosion which killed the 7 scientists happened on the platform, which was near a little Russian village called Nenoksa on Dvina Bay’s south shore. (When I ran a search for Nenoksa through Google Maps, the program put up a map showing the village location. If you choose “satellite” while looking at Nenoksa you can see that the surrounding land is barren but not snow covered at this time of the year.)
Nenoksa is the village which the Russian government had decided to evacuate before they changed their minds. The New York times speculated that what was left of the nuclear reactor which was on that platform fell into the White Sea after the explosion, along with the Russian scientists. We can’t see the particular spot where all of them and what remained of their experiment can be said to have fallen into Dvina Bay in particular, but we know it is offshore from Nenoska.
While you’re looking at Nenoksa on Google Maps, also look for Severodvinsk, a small city with about 134,000 people. That’s where the Russian government has set up operations to deal with the consequences of the rocket explosion which occurred some time during daylight around August 8, 2019.
Al Jazeera also reported that the dead scientists had been taken to Sarov, the city where their families reside and where the main nuclear weapons research facility in Russia is located. Sarov is in the Russian region called Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, which is a long, long way away from Dvina Bay. Knowing that long distance one can conclude that the Russian scientists thought it was far too dangerous to test the missile/rocket near Sarov or other populated areas in Russia
Also take a look at the map of the area of Russia where this latest nuclear accident occurred,on the map from Wikipedia Commons in my other comment below. You’ll see Finland’s current eastern border. The vast majority of the land on the Russian side of that border, going all the way to the White Sea is called “Karelia”. It’s the same Karelia which was part of Finland in 1940, populated by so many Finns that they represented 1/3 of the Finnish economy that year.
However, in 1940 the Soviet Army invaded Karelia on the pretext that it was needed to stage Soviet troops to protect Leningrad (formerly and now St. Petersburg) from invasion by the Germans. The Finnish Army put up a good fight, using modern weapons like machine guns, trying to fight off the Soviet military. (There’s a good history of the Winter War on Wikipedia.) The Finns lost in what is now called the “Winter War” in 1941.
At that time of the Winter War, there was a dramatic exodus of Karelian Finns towards Helsinki, because they didn’t want to live under Soviet rule. After World War II the Soviets did not give Karelia back to the Finnish people and their government. While the Soviets tried to repopulate Karelia with their own people, the population of Russian Karelia is much lower today than it was in 1940, which is a good thing in terms of a large group of Finns not living smack-dab-up-against the part of the White Sea where the 2019 nuclear accident occurred. Unfortunately, in Karelia and Finland the winds often blow from the north east, meaning that the “Down Winders” from this latest nuclear accident are likely to be Finns as well as Russian residents of Karelia.
That down wind risk in 2019 is nothing new for Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes and the Sami people of Lapland, all of whom have lived down wind, since the late 1940’s, from the Soviet/Russian version of the Nevada Nevada Test Site, called the Novaya Zemlya Test Site, located on the gigantic, two-island, mountainous Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, which is crescent shaped, gigantic “arc”island located in the part of the Arctic Ocean called the Barents Sea, to the north east of Norwegian and Russian Lapland, and not too far, as the wind blows, from Karelia.
The Novaya Zemlya Archipelago looks remote, almost uninhabited and cold, given its location in part of the Arctic Sea. The archipelago was first land-surveyed by Russians in 1930 and a Russian village settlement was built in the 1870’s.
The archipelago is made up of two main islands: Yuzhny Island to the south and the much larger Severny Island to the north. The seas around Novaya Zemlya were the sites of serious naval battles during World War II, far too interesting to write here. See Wikipedia for a quick summary of what happened is the sea there.
Severny Island is where the Russians’ outdoor nuclear test site is located on the west side of the island on the Sukhoy Nos Peninsula, which adjoins Mityshikha Bay, part of the Barents Sea. Unlike the treatment of the Pai people, the Navajo and the southern Utah Mormon down-winders, the Soviet government was gracious enough to move-out the local indigenous people, called the Nenets, in 1957, before the Russian outdoor nuclear tests began. By western intelligence at least 224 nuclear bomb tests occurred at the Novaya Zemlya Test Site on Severny Island. (Of those 224 nuclear bombs explosively tested, 2 were American nukes. Wouldn’t it be interesting to learn the details of that Russian-American joint experiment.)
The Novaya Zemlya Test Site is where, as part of experiments and military training, some of those 224 nuclear bombs were detonated in the open air, including the largest outdoor nuclear bomb explosion in history-to-date called the Tsar Bomba, which was exploded on October 30, 1961, nine (9) miles inland from Mityushikha Bay.
Other outdoor and underground nuclear bomb detonations and other nuclear experiments occurred throughout Severny and Yuzhny Islands through the 1990’s.
In September 1961 the Soviets shot 2 “propelled nuclear warheads” TOWARDS the Novaya Zemlya Test Site, which covers most of the two islands. Those nuclear warheads were shot from two places on the Soviet mainlands: (1) one called Salekhard (on the Russian mainland) and (2) one from a military airfield called Vorkuta Sovietsky which was located in the Komi Republic of the Soviet Union, located due south of Novaya Zemlya. It is said that after those two tests, the launch missile was moved by the Soviets to Cuba.
Interpreting the Russians’ actions in 2019, some in the nuclear industry suspect that the test missile which exploded in Dvina Bay was being tested there, rather than on Novaya Zemlya, as an attempt to obscure what the scientists from Sarov were doing. I doubt that is true.
While the Winter War of 1940-1941 caused great sorrow among Finns, at least in 2019 Finnish citizens are not living along Dvina Bay where the accidental ‘nuclear’ explosion occurred.
Ultimately it will be interesting to see if the Russians create a new Exclusion Zone in Karelia like the exclusion zones which exist around Chernobyl in modern day Ukraine encircling the former city of Pripyat, where the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and accident were located, and the exclusion zone encircling Fukushima Japan. Clearly the Finnish government and its people will be very unhappy, if the new exclusion zone extends all the way into Finland’s current sovereign territory.
If you’re the praying kind, say a prayer for protection of the health of the people of Scandinavia and Karelia.
Norway finds minor radioactive substances in air near border to Russia
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/ecology/2019/08/norway-finds-radioactive-substances-air-near-border-russia
Seven people died at the incident Nyonoksa. “Five representatives of nuclear power company Rosatom, and two people from the Russian Armed Forces, reportedly lost their lives while working with technical support of the isotope power source in a liquid propulsion system.”
It’s tough to write a comment for Americans concerning a significant event in modern Russia without starting with a geography and history lesson. Likely 99% of Americans have no clue where Lake Ladoga is in Russia, just as 99% of Russians have no idea where Lake of the Ozarks is here. Fortunately Wikipedia Commons has published a map of the Baltic area of Russia which we are free to copy and study. It is located below.
Early in the Russian people’s history Russia was essentially landlocked, with no access to navigable seas in Winter. In 1697 Tsar Peter I toured western Europe for 18 months. Among other things, Tsar Peter realized that European sovereigns with access to the sea for a navy and commercial shipping were substantially more affluent than rulers of landlocked countries.
Until 1703 the entire U shaped eastern coast of the Gulf of Finland (on the map below) was occupied by Swedes who were call Ingrians. On May 1, 1703 Tsar Peter’s army captured control of Ingria’s most strategic places, the Swedish fortress of Nyenschantz and the City of Nyen on the Neva River. The 40,000 Swedish Ingrians had no way to physically get back to Sweden where they would have been safe in the hands of the Swedish king. As a result Tsar Peter I turned those captured Swedes into serfs and worked them to death building the grand city of St. Petersburg 3 miles in from the Gulf of Finland (Part of the Baltic Sea) under the supervision of German and Dutch engineers he hired. Tsar Peter I designated St. Petersburg as the capital of Russia.
The Baltic Sea coast City of St. Petersburg was nurtured, improved and embellished by subsequent Tsars who kept it as the Russian capital. Access to the sea, and to world trade through the Baltic Sea allowed affluent Russian businessmen to increase their wealth through world trade.
After Tsar Nicholas II was deposed in 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin took control in the October Revolution,and Lenin moved Russia’s capital back to Moscow.
Historically Russia has had seaports on its northern coast abutting the Arctic Sea. However the winter weather being what it is, during his tenure as leader of the Soviet Union prior to World War II, Joseph Stalin decided to have Soviet laborers dig and build a ship canal from the White Sea (on the map below) to the Baltic Sea. The route chosen took advantage of naturally occurring lakes and rivers, and passed near urban Leningrad before entering the Baltic Sea. That “White Sea – Baltic Canal” was completed in 1933 and Soviet ship traffic began.
According to Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that White Sea-Baltic Canal was constructed by forced labor of 126,000 Soviet gulag prisoners thousands of whom died during the construction process. The route of that White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal is shown on the red line on the map above. The Soviet/Russian people paid a very high price to create their White Sea – Baltic Canal.
History has proven that the bad consequence of man-made canals is that they allow unstoppable movement of chemicals, marine life and plants from one body of water to another.
That’s why the Great Lakes now have lampreys, a snake shaped garbage fish from the Atlantic who swam up the St. Lawrence Seaways canals and locks, and who feed by attacking fish of economic and sporting value like lake trout.
Canals connecting formerly disconnected bodies of water, like the Great Lakes and the canals and rivers that are located in the Great Lakes states are at risk of being invaded by the huge nuisance fish called the Asian carp. The carp got into the Mississippi River and have entered a man made canal connecting the Mississippi to Lake Michigan at Chicago. A massive effort is continuously being made in Congress and on the Great Lakes to stop the Asian carp from populating the lakes and killing off traditional lake fish.
In the late 1960’s fresh water chemists conducted extensive water tests from the Niagara River, attempting to determine the kinds of industrial chemicals in that drinking water source, and those chemicals’ locations of origin. The fresh water chemists found a cornucopia of chemicals identified as having traveled from as far away as Chicago and Milwaukee’s industrial areas as a result of the “natural” flow of water.
As we know from Enviroreporter’s extensive writing on water contamination in the Pacific Ocean near California, and in its fish used as human food, radionuclides are found in the fish and in the water which can be identified as being consistent with water run-off from the melted down nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan which sit at the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
On August 8, 2019 news reporting started to appear in the West indicating that there had been a nuclear accident next to or on the White Sea, near Arkangel’sk, shown on the map below. Later news stories indicated that the accident was caused when a large rocket, fueled by a nuclear reactor inside it, had exploded on a barge or dock in the White Sea.
That’s where the White Sea-Baltic Canal presents a big risk to the health and safety of Russian people, if radionuclides in the water of the White Sea enter the canal and head for the lakes and rivers forming the canal leading to the Baltic Sea. On route, those hypothetical radionuclides will contaminate the lakes and rivers incorporated into that canal. Worst case, radionuclides which have traveled through that canal will enter the Baltic Sea.
Russia’s neighbors around the Baltic Sea, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will not be very happy if they discover Fukushima style reactor melt down radionuclides contaminating their beloved and economically important Baltic Sea and its fish.
On August 13th the New York Times speculated that the nuclear reactor could have fallen into the White Sea and that the Russian government may plan to try to retrieve it in no small part to protect the waters of the White Sea from nuclear contamination like the seawaters off Fukushima.
Locals are told to leave nuclear testing area Nyonoksa
They will be taken away from the settlement located near Arkhangelsk by train. The evacuation is not related to the recent missile engine explosion, military authorities say. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2019/08/locals-are-told-leave-nuclear-testing-area-nyonoksa
Below is the map location of Nyonoksa and Severodvinsk in Northern Russia. Reportedly Nyonoksa is where the Russian experiment rocket exploded. Severodvinsk, where the 20x background detection occurred, is east of Nyonoksa. This indicates that the wind direction was westerly, at the time of the explosion.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Nyonoksa,+Arkhangelsk+Oblast,+Russia,+164526/@64.605536,39.256264,9.75z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x44187b02480aee51:0xba867af3a567f21f!8m2!3d64.622572!4d39.18022
The Russian press have played down the event, stating in one article that Finland’s monitoring system did not detect anything, thus implying that the event was insignificant.
Quote from RT Article: (https://www.rt.com/russia/466238-russian-rocket-blast-sea-rosatom/)
“The claims of a radioactive cover-up have not been supported on the ground, and neighboring Finland has not registered any deviations from normal levels.”
The detection evidence indicates that the wind was heading Westward away from Finland. A twenty times background, at the distance of around 30k or 18 miles between Nyonoksa to Severodvinsk, indicates that a significant radioactive release occurred.
With several days of delay, the Russian authorities have revealed some details of the nuclear accident that occurred at a military base on the White Sea. At least five people lost their lives, with atomic radiation of up to 2.0 microsieverts per hour. The accident occurred on a platform in the sea. Rosatom said his employees had been tasked with running the “isotopic energy source” for a rocket that was being tested on the platform Some questions remained unanswered. For example, the authorities did not clarify whether Rosatom’s confirmed five deaths by its own employees must be supplemented by two deaths from specialists who were announced by the army shortly after the disaster. In addition, there were varying levels of atomic radiation levels – leading to panic buying of iodine tablets in the affected region. While normal background is around 0.11 µSv/h (microsivert per hour), the levels measured at the monitor on the Lomonosov Street near Lake Teatralnoye peaked at 2 µSv/h, nearly 20 times higher gamma radiation than normal.
Southern Hemisphere July 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
July 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 107 cpm)
July background was slightly lower than June.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
In a disaster on a military site in northern Russia apparently radioactivity was released. Seven people died. The information is sparse.
Below is a link to a National Academy of Sciences published article on a significant leak of Ruthenium 106 into the environment in September 2017 “from” the multi-purpose Russian nuclear site called “Mayak” which is located in the countryside outside of the City of Ozyorsk, Oblast (State) of Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Where is Ozyorsk Russia? It is just 150 km south southeast of the City of Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were executed at Ipatiev House in July 1918.
Ozyorsk and Ekaterinburg are far east of Moscow in the Ural mountain region, and due north of Kazakstan.
A cloud of Ruthenium 106 is said to have been released at Mayak in September 2017. In the Soviet era, Mayak was also the site of a major nuclear accident called the “Kyshtym Disaster” in 1957.
The cloud which traveled to Europe in 2017 was made up of Ruthenium 106, a byproduct of nuclear fission with a half-life of 374 days. During the “reprocessing” of “spent” nuclear fuel, the isotopes of Ruthenium 106 usually are separated from the radioactive plutonium and uranium taken from nuclear power reactors and kept in long-term storage with other radioactive waste byproducts.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/25/1907571116
https://www.newsweek.com/secret-russian-nuclear-accident-caused-huge-radiation-cloud-blanket-europe-scientists-claim-1451691
July 29, 2019
4:15 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER MACHINES: 69.8 CPM^^ OR 78.5% ABOVE BACKGROUND
4:15 pm PDST INT RADIATION STATION SANTA MONICA BACKGROUND: 39.1 CPM^^
July 2-3: LAX to O’Hare to Kalamazoo Airport, Michigan- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 4: Kalamazoo-area home and vicinity- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 5-6: Grand Haven, Michigan- Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 7-10: Mears, Michigan – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 10-13: St. Ignace, Michigan (Upper Peninsula including Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Canada) – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 13-16: Traverse City, Michigan – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 16-20: Southwest Michigan home and vicinity – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
July 20: Kalamazoo Airport to O’Hare to LAX – Food + Environment test normal for radiation
In Majak’s Russian nuclear facility in the southern Urals, a serious nuclear accident was believed to have occurred in September 2017, according to an international team of experts from 47 leading institutes. This reports the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. She refers to a report published by 69 scientists under the leadership of radio-ecologist Georg Steinhauser from the University of Hanover and French atmospheric researcher Olivier Masson in the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). PNAS is one of the world’s leading science journals.
The accident, to which the researchers now allude, had led to a sudden appearance of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in the atmosphere in large parts of Central and Eastern Europe.
Southern Hemisphere June 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
June 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
Local background levels have been relatively calm over the last few months, nothing significant to report.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-June-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Community event will call for the promised full cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and include a memorial in honor of workers and community members harmed by exposure to the site’s contamination
On Saturday, July 13, community members who live near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL) will hold an event to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the site’s partial nuclear meltdown and to rally in support of its long overdue cleanup. The event will take place from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. at Rancho Tapo Community Park, 3700 Avenida Simi, Simi Valley, CA at the pavilions near the ballpark.
SSFL is a former nuclear reactor and rocket-engine testing facility located in the hills above the Simi and San Fernando Valleys. On July 13, 1959, power began to rise rapidly in the core of the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE). Operators barely managed to shut it down, but a few hours later, without determining the cause of the incident, inexplicably started it up again and let it run for 10 more days. By the time the SRE was finally shut down, a third of its fuel had experienced melting. Because it had no containment structure, radioactivity was released directly into the environment.
The SSFL meltdown was kept secret for two decades, until it was discovered by UCLA students and their instructor, Dan Hirsch, who brought it to public attention. Hirsch, now retired director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz and President of the nuclear policy organization Committee to Bridge the Gap, said a lack of candor and disregard for public safety has characterized much of the site’s operations.
“The Atomic Energy Commission issued a news release weeks after the accident merely saying that a ‘parted fuel element’ had been observed,” said Hirsch. “They didn’t admit that 13 out of 43 fuel rods melted, or that they’d intentionally vented radioactivity into the air for weeks. This kind of reckless continued for decades, with little concern for workers and nearby communities. Such disregard continues to this day, with the contamination still not cleaned up.”
SSFL remains contaminated with dangerous radionuclides including strontium-90, cesium-137, plutonium-239 and toxic chemicals such as trichloroethylene (TCE), perchlorate, dioxins and heavy metals. Federally-funded studies indicate increased cancers among site workers, elevated cancer rates in the nearby community associated with proximity to SSFL, and that contamination migrates off of the site over EPA levels of concern.
“Exposure to contaminants that are known to exist at SSFL can cause cancers and leukemias as well as developmental, genetic, neurological, and immune system disorders,” said Dr. Robert Dodge, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, a public health advocacy group that has worked for a full SSFL cleanup for over 30 years.
In 2010, the California Dept. of Toxic Substances Control signed agreements with the U.S. Dept. of Energy and NASA to fully clean up their parts of SSFL by 2017. The Boeing Company, which owns most of the site, is similarly bound by a 2007 Consent Order to have completed cleanup by 2017. However, the promised SSFL cleanup has not even begun, and the parties responsible for the contamination are now pushing to leave about 98% of the contamination not cleaned up.
“Since when do polluters get to decide how much of their mess they clean up?” said Marie Mason, Simi Valley resident and co-founder of the Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, which has been fighting for full cleanup since 1989. “They don’t, it’s illegal. But the SSFL cleanup has been one broken promise after another, and all the while contamination comes off that hill and into our neighborhoods. Just last fall, the Woolsey Fire started at and burned most of the site, risking increased exposures to SSFL’s pollution. It’s got to get cleaned up.”
Newer activists like Melissa Bumstead, a West Hills resident whose daughter has twice survived a rare leukemia and who has mapped over 50 other rare pediatric cancers near SSFL, are bringing fresh energy and new voices into the cleanup fight. Bumstead’s Change.org petition has now been signed by over 650,000 people and she is hoping the July 13 event will help galvanize the community to fight for the full, promised cleanup.
“As we look back at the meltdown anniversary, we also have to look forward and get more people involved in fighting for the cleanup. Rock the Cleanup will be a family friendly event, with informative speakers, games, and fun activities like rock-painting, We’ll use those rocks to create memorials to those harmed by SSFL. We have seen some positive steps from our elected officials recently, but more – many more – people have to speak out if we are ever going to get the 100% cleaned up that we were promised.”
Photos and B-roll related to meltdown can be downloaded at http://committeetobridgethegap.org/ssfl/sre-meltdown-anniversary/
# # #
Parents vs. SSFL is a grassroots group of concerned parents and residents who demand compliance with cleanup agreements signed in 2010 that require a full cleanup of all radioactive and chemical contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
The Rocketdyne Cleanup Coalition, or RCC, is a community-based alliance dedicated to the cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), commonly known as Rocketdyne.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA) works to protect public health from nuclear and environmental threats and has worked for the full cleanup of SSFL for over 30 years.
The Committee to Bridge the Gap is a non-profit nuclear policy organization focusing on issues of nuclear safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and disarmament.
Denise, many congratulations on being awarded the prestigious “Bill Mitchell Grassroots Activist Award” from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Well deserved!
Our superb editor and website maven, Denise Duffield, is an amazing person who really rocks the house, this time in Washington D.C. lobbying for the full – and promised – cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and spearheading the Back from the Brink campaign to abolish nuclear weapons in all its many facets. Adding to her many accomplishments is her being awarded the prestigious Bill Mitchell Grassroots Activist Award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability for her superb work, past present and future! Here’s to the best editor (and wife for that matter) this journalist will ever have!
Southern Hemisphere May 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
May 2019 day average background chart. (Month Average 108 cpm)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 24, 2019
7:45 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND- 38.4 CPM^
7:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – RSSMC dust from 3 HEPA filters: 66.5 CPM^ which is 73.2% above subsequent background
May 22, 2019
3:05 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California THUNDER LIGHTNING THEN RAIN– 62.0 CPM^ OR 35.4% ABOVE BACKGROUND
2:50 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND – 45.8 CPM^
RAIN ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AT BACKGROUND
May 18, 2019
10:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN- 40.6 CPM^ below background
9:30 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – 42.7 CPM^
Southern Hemisphere April 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
April 2019 Report. (Month Average 108 cpm)
As we move into the cooler months here in the Southern hemisphere, the month average background levels decrease. This seasonal variation in background happens every year as we get more southern ocean air flows in the cooler months. In the warmer months we get more tropical air flows.
April 2019 day average background chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-April-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
April 29, 2019
12:30 am PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN- 41.5 CPM^ below background
12:20 am PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – 45.2 CPM^
April 13, 2019
7:15 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BACKGROUND- 41.0 CPM^
7:00 pm PDST INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California – RSSMC Spring Cleaning dust from 3 HEPA filters and vacuumed in-structure dust and fine particulate matter: 56.1 CPM^ which is 36.8% above subsequent background
April 4-7, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Multiple multi-media radiation tests – air, precipitation, potable & non-potable water, food (See Eat Me!), flora, urban, wild lands, freeways, roads, oases, desert, mountains, coast
April 7, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Santa Ysabel, Ramona, San Pasqual Battlefield, Vista, Agra, San Onofre, Fountain Valley, Signal Hill, Carson, Santa Monica – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 6, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Vallecito, Mortero Wash, Anza-Borrego State Park – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 5, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Oasis, Sonoran Desert badlands, Agua Caliente, Sweeney Pass, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 5, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Julian, Banner, Scissors Crossing, Great Southern Overland Stage Route, Sonoran Desert – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 4, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Los Angeles, Industry, Pomona, Chino Hills, Alberhill, Terra Cota, Temecula, Radec, Wynola – NO RADIATION ABOVE BACKGROUND DETECTED
April 4-7, 2019
EXT/INT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA – Multiple multi-media radiation tests – air, precipitation, potable & non-potable water, food (See Eat Me!), flora, urban, wild lands, freeways, roads, oases, desert, mountains, coast
Southern Hemisphere February & March 2019 Background Radiation Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
March 2019 Report.
We finally received around 300mm of rain in March, decent rain after an exceptionally dry period.
Towards the latter part of March, around when the rain started, a number of very short detection spikes showed up in the 24 hour charts.
Below are examples of a couple of the larger spike detections.
It is normal to occasionally get background spikes, three times background or less. These detections were less than three times background, so are probably not anything to be concerned about.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-180319.jpg
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-310319.jpg
March 2019 day average background chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2019.jpg
February 2019 Report.
February was exceptionally dry. February is usually one of our wettest months here.
February 2019 day average background chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
A noteworthy KCRW news feature by veteran Jenny Hamet has hit the airwaves and online. “Families affected by cancer want state officials to lead cleanup of Santa Susana” has heartbreaking interviews and provides an excellent introduction to the sordid environmental history of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Boeing, NASA and the Dept. of Energy all declined taped interviews but issued grandiose statements despite estimates that they will leave 98% of the radioactive and chemical contamination at the future “Glow in the Dark Park.” SSFL cleanup activists are a fearless and inspiring lot in this most capable multimedia piece.
March 20, 2019, 2019
9:55 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN SAMPLE: 46.7 CPM^^ OR 16.2% ABOVE NORMAL BACKGROUND RADIATION
9:40 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 40.2 CPM^^
March 5, 2019, 2019
10:50 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California RAIN SAMPLE: 43.0 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
10:35 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 45.3 CPM^^
February 23, 2019
09:30 pm INT RSSMC PACIFIC OCEAN/SANTA MONICA BEACH SAMPLE: 41.2 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
09:15 pm INT RSSMC BG: 40.0 CPM^^
February 14, 2019 walking gamma inspections of rain in Santa Monica yield no radiation over background.
February 13, 2019
01:15 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 38.0 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
01:00 pm INT RSSMC BG: 42.9 CPM^^
February 10, 2019
01:50 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 47.5 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
12:55 pm INT RSSMC BG: 50.0 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere January 2019 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Note: As of 2019, day local background average will now be charted in Counts Per Minute (CPM), not uSv/hr. The new monitoring equipment now being used is a SBT-10 pancake probe, it generally averages 110 CPM. This is around ten times greater CPM sensitivity than the old GammaScout Geiger counter that was previously used for background monitoring here.
January 2019 Report.
It was a hot, dry, and sometimes humid January here. We generally get significant rain in January, and January is usually the start of our wet season. This January ended up being the driest on record, with an insignificant 0.4mm of rainfall. There are no radiation events to report, all calm and stable.
January 2019 day average background chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-January-2019.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
February 3, 2019
11:50 am INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 44.0 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
11:35 am INT RSSMC BG: 42.1 CPM^^
February 2, 2019
12:35 am INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 40.4 CPM^^ OR NORMAL BACKGROUND
12:20 am INT RSSMC BG: 39.3 CPM^^
January 31, 2019
12:10 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 54.7 CPM^^ OR 34.1% ABOVE BACKGROUND
11:50 am INT RSSMC BG: 40.8 CPM^^
15th January 2019 – “Nuclear: Dangerous, A Failed Technology” – Former Nuke Regulatory Chief Greg Jaczko Goes Rogue
Extracts:
Greg Jaczko, the former Chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has published an explosive new book: Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator. In it, he gets honest with the American people about the dangers of nuclear technology, which he labels “failed,” “dangerous,” “not reliable.” He particularly comes down against nuclear as having any part in mitigating the problems of climate change/global warming.
In this extended Nuclear Hotseat interview, Jaczko brings us inside the NRC’s response to Fukushima, the “precipice” on which nuclear safety balances, his own growing doubts about how safe nuclear reactors are in the United States, and how, ultimately, it was that concern with safety that probably brought him down.
Comment:
I can not see how anyone could call multiple nuclear meltdowns and explosions at Fukushima, a controlled cold shutdown of the nuclear reactors. Another fairy tale put forward by the nuclear industry to make it appear to the public that they have the situation under control at Fukushima.
http://nuclearhotseat.com/2019/01/16/rogue-nuclear-regulator-jaczko/
MEDIA WITHHOLDS VITAL INFORMATION!
The nuclear industry is spreading a fairy tale on the Internet and in main stream media, that no one has died from, or contracted cancer, as a result of Fukushima.
Below is a quote from a recently published Forbes article on the 22nd January 2019. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/01/22/former-u-s-nuclear-safety-regulator-withheld-vital-aid-during-fukushima-crisis-says-top-official/amp/)
Quote:
“There were 2,202 disaster-related deaths in Fukushima, according to the government’s Reconstruction Agency, from evacuation stress, interruption to medical care and suicide; so far, there has not been a single case of cancer linked to radiation from the plant.
That is prompting a shocking reassessment among some scholars: that the evacuation was an error. The human cost would have been far smaller had people stayed where they were, they argue.”
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FACT, a huge number of thyroid cancers, injuries and fatalities have resulted from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Here we have a large list of reports from independent sources that do not have a financial interest in nuclear. These reports tell the true story, not an industry created fairy tale!
http://technologypals.com.au/fatalities-and-injuries-resulting-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-catastrophe
Please use the technologypals reports to educate your friends and relatives.
Defying explanation, EnviroReporter.com detected hot snow in Southwest Michigan at 5.7 times natural radiation background over the holidays that wasn’t from radon progeny, the likely ‘burps’ of periodic nuclear power plant gas releases or radioactive remnants from coal-fired plants on Lake Michigan. This extremely high reading, the highest taken in any media since EnviroReporter.com began measuring Midwest radiation in 2010, would seem to come from an extremely short-lived isotope we can’t identify with a half-life of about 84 minutes. This head-scratcher leaves us little to impart to our readers other than to say it is unlikely anyone made snow cones out of this hot frozen precip so there seems little to worry about from a public health perspective.
January 2, 2019
5:00 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SNOW: 91.9 CPM^ or 143% OVER BACKGROUND
4:45 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.9 CPM^
December 31, 2018
11:25 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN: 61.7 CPM^ or 70.9% OVER BACKGROUND
11:10 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 36.1 CPM^
December 29, 2018
9:50 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room FRESH SNOW FROM SECOND SNOW OF DAY/NIGHT: 67.9 CPM^ or 76.8% ABOVE BACKGROUND
9:20 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 38.4 CPM^
10:30 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room NEW & OLD SNOW: 37.4 CPM^ or background
9:50 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room NEW SNOW: 33.7 CPM^ or background
9:35 am EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 32.8 CPM^
December 28, 2018
7:40 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SNOW: 211.4 CPM^ or 5.67 TIMES BACKGROUND, NEARLY DOUBLE THE CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL’S THRESH HOLD OF THREE TIMES BACKGROUND TO INITIATE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS PROTOCOLS.
7:25 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.3 CPM^
5:35 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room SLEET: 70.9 CPM^ or 92.1% OVER BACKGROUND
5:30 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 36.9 CPM^
12:30 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 37.6 CPM^
December 27, 2018
6:15 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN: 40.6 CPM^ or background
6:00 pm EST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room background: 39.0 CPM^
December 26, 2018
4:20 pm EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 32,8 CPM^
11:05 am EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 34.1 CPM^
December 25, 2018
11:35 pm EST St. Joseph Michigan 6th floor room background: 31.6 CPM^
Southern Hemisphere December 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
December 2018 day average background chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-December-2018.jpg
More short duration background radiation spikes were detected here in December. The evidence below points to a couple of possible sources.
A. Cosmic ray burst?
At times during some of these detections the planetary Kp index levels were at near zero, or at zero levels. This means at these times there were very low solar wind levels and potentially high cosmic ray activity, pointing to a possible cosmic ray source.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Planetary-K-index-14th-to-16th-Decemebr-2018.png
B. Hot particle passing by the sensor or noble gases that were undergoing decay?
The wind maps below show that during each detection the surface wind was coming off the Pacific Ocean. In each instance, upper atmosphere high pressure system air was being draw down into the low pressure systems. This points to upper atmosphere radioactive contamination, possibly being drawn down to the surface.
2nd December
Originally suggested that this December 2nd spike was from a local fire event, the most recent evidence points to other possibilities.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Caloundra-1st-to-2nd-Dec-chart-011218.jpg
Wind direction at the time. (This location on these wind maps is marked by the green dot.)
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/12/02/0100Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-215.71,-23.47,1343/loc=153.174,-26.901
14th December
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-141218.jpg
Wind direction at the time.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/12/14/2100Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-215.71,-23.47,1343/loc=153.174,-26.901
16th December
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-161218.jpg
Wind direction at the time.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/12/16/1700Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-215.71,-23.47,1343/loc=153.174,-26.901
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
January 7, 2019
4:55 pm INT RSSMC HEPA FILTER DUST FROM 3 MACHINES FOR 18 DAYS: 165.4 CPM^^ OR 4.39 TIMES BACKGROUND. Over 6 times higher on per day average than previous HEPA dust measuring period.
4:20 pm INT RSSMC BG: 37.7 CPM^^
January 5, 2019
7:35 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 46.1 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
7:15 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.8 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere November 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
November 2018 day average background chart. Caloundra November 2018 month average, 16% above pre-Fukushima average.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2018.jpg
Until the unit here became unreliable in mid September 2018, the GammaScout Geiger make of Geiger counter was used for local background monitoring. It was replaced with a different make and model of detection equipment, with different tube sensitivities.
Spike in Background
The chart screen shot below is from the Caloundra Australia monitoring station, from the 1st December to the 2nd December 2018.
This significant spike in background radiation level occurred just after midnight on the 2nd December.
Note: The chart vertical axis is in nSv/hr, so divide by 1,000 to get uSv/hr. The peak is close to 0.375 uSv/hr, Which is around three times the average background for this location.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Caloundra-1st-to-2nd-Dec-chart-011218.jpg
There were major fires burning North of here at the time. This Nullschool wind map below shows the wind direction and particulate overlay at the time. The green dot on the map marks the approximate location of the detection.
Here are three possibilities that have been put forward for the source of this local spike in background.
A. Fire North of here.
B. Cosmic ray burst.
C. Hot particle passing by the sensor.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/12/02/0000Z/particulates/surface/level/overlay=pm10/orthographic=-206.51,-26.01,1821/loc=153.152,-26.814
Monthly and yearly average charts from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Continued appreciation for the ongoing reporting.
I have exited the foothills of central California. Hopefully for cleaner air. I felt I had to exit as my friends all seemed to be getting ill from a lot of various stuff, like Valley Fever. Weakened immune systems is my guess.
The problem as I see it is that you can run but you can’t hide from the insidious spread of radioactive contamination and it’s potential damage to future generations of all living things.
December 5, 2018
6:55 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 47.7 CPM^^ OR BACKGROUND
6:35 pm INT RSSMC HEPA FILTER DUST FROM 2 MACHINES FOR 26 DAYS: 75.5 CPM^^ OR 77.2% ABOVE BACKGROUND
6:05 pm INT RSSMC BG: 42.6 CPM^^
MORE RADIATION MULTI-MEDIA READINGS AT Radiation Station Stats & Special Radiation Station Tests. Comprehensive food and beverage testing at Eat Me!
The November 2018 Rocketdyne fire burned through Ahmanson Ranch as reported in Smoke Screen – Woolsey Fire Contamination Cover-up. SgtPepprz produced the video Upper Las Virgenes Canyon and Open Space Preserve showing Ahmanson Ranch before and after the fire. The ecosystem survived the fire and will thrive evermore, saved from rapacious development and 3,050 homes that were never built thanks to the investigative reporting of Michael Collins.
The living laboratory that is Death Valley has provided EnviroReporter.com a great place to test for radiation and this Thanksgiving holiday was no different. All air, water and food readings, documented here and in Eat Me! came in normal. That’s not always the case. Radioactive rains in the national park were staggeringly hot in 2013 as we exposed in Boreas Storm Packs Radioactive Punch:
The rare sustained precipitation tested over 31.5 times normal background radiation levels outside of the park’s visitor’s center in Furnace Creek November 23. Earlier in the day, rain radiation in Stovepipe Wells 24 miles northwest of Furnace Creek registered 29.7 times background. Boreas rain tested November 22 at the same Stovepipe Wells location in the morning came in at 4.6 times normal. Over 40 miles to the south that same day, the rain came in over 26.7 times the background of the area which is at 282 feet below sea level and called, appropriately enough, Badwater.
Luckily, the temperate 2018 radiation readings didn’t dampen the excitement of being in the hottest place on Earth.
November 25, 2018
10:05 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 34.4 CPM^^
November 24, 2018
10:15 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 36.6 CPM^^
November 23, 2018
11:30 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 41.3 CPM^^
November 22, 2018
11:15 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 39.8 CPM^^
November 21, 2018
11:40 am INT DEATH VALLEY STOVEPIPE WELLS [14′ above sea level] BG: 36.2 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere October 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
October 2018 day average background chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-October-2018.jpg
Caloundra October month average, year comparisons.
2018 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
Monthly and yearly average charts from 2007 to 2018.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
https://www.dailynews.com/2018/11/09/state-says-no-toxic-risk-from-woolsey-fire-that-burned-old-nuclear-site-in-simi-valley/
“The state agency says it will check out the air monitoring equipment around the defunct lab as soon as fire department officials allow access.”
I was there at 3:30PM Friday. The Fire department was not blocking access to anyone.
Then the claim we updated to state that over the weekend that the samples came back clean.
Let me get this right with you all. If the samples came up bad it was already too late. The fire had already burned to the coast and exposed everyone. Yet, many people returned to clean up the ash and mess shortly after.
So, if there was an issue, it would not of been prevented and if it was hidden exposure risk was actually increased.
Perhaps all those people with the money that were affected will care now?
1. Are you suggesting that if you can no longer smell it, then the possible toxic particles are no longer in the air?
2. If I hose down everything outside my house, that water still goes somewhere. So if I hose off the swingset for the kids, all of the water and possible toxic particles ends up in the dirt. What do you do about that? OR if I hose off a side of the house, all of those potentially toxic particles ends up in my driveway, etc. etc.
3. Are you suggesting that if I grow fruits/vegetables outside then I can simply wash it with warm warm to be safe? I was planning to never eat another lemon, orange, etc. from my trees. Am I being too cautious?
4. Who would I even contact to do testing on my property to check for all of the possible toxic contaminants that might be there?
Thanks!
@Noel Wauchope: Pure hooey. How can one discern no level of radiation unless sealed in a lead box? There is always background radiation, something the creators of this ‘all’s safe’ don’t seem to know. Do not trust statements like this.
There is an ongoing Woolsey Fire Contamination Coverup that EnviroReporter.com is in the process of exposing. Stay tuned.
Who to believe? https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/11/13/santa-susana-field-laboratory-woolsey-fire/ SIMI VALLEY (CBSLA) — Local, state and federal agencies have inspected the Santa Susana Field Laboratory and found that the nuclear Superfund site was not impacted by the Woolsey Fire.
The U.S. Department of Energy, its contractors and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control inspected the site on Sunday, Nov. 11 and determined that Area IV and the Northern Buffer Zone was untouched by the fire.
santa susana Officials: Santa Susana Nuclear Site Safe From Woolsey Fire
View of Area IV and DOE buildings which remain undamaged from fire. (DOE)
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health also performed an assessment of the site and found “no discernible level of radiation in the tested area.”
@kat: Working backwards, we’ll address safety then length of threat. While we’re in the process of building a post-Rocketdyne Fire decontamination resource, a few quick ideas. If you can smell it outside still – and you probably can if within several miles of the burn – then wear an N95 mask outside (kids too). Avoid outside activity and kids stay inside. Clean up around house exterior and yards by hosing down everything from the top down to remove soot ONLY IF THERE IS PLENTIFUL WATER and there probably isn’t yet. Careful when sweeping to keep soot from cleanup clothes out of home/office. Drive with recirculation air ON and get car ionizer for air cleaning. Wash all fruit and vegetables grown and harvested outside in warm water and do it well. More on this to come so stay tuned but that will get you started.
“How long do all the toxic elements stay in the air?” is a good question. About 6-7 weeks tops HOWEVER this same dust get recirculated up into the air again and again. We wrote about the science of this in No Place to Hide – Fukushima Fallout Findings Widespread:
According to a 2007 University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering health physics report, “radioactive particulate matter is carried in air within dust particles.” Once a particle or aerosol is suspended in the air at any elevation it can be removed, altered or destroyed but can’t remain in the atmosphere indefinitely, according to Dr. James Dorsey of the University of Manchester where Dorsey earned a PhD in Atmospheric Physics in 2002. “Clearly the lifetime of any particular particle depends on its size and location,” Dorsey wrote. “Larger aerosol settle out of the atmosphere very quickly under gravity, and some surfaces are more efficient at capturing aerosol than others.”
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In dry environments, where very small radioactive particles have no effective path to deposition over land or water bodies, nanoparticles join together in a process known as coagulation. These tiny particles, smaller than 100 nanometers, collide into each other due to forces that include electrostatic attraction, phoretic effects like that of heavier particles on lighter ones and transport of a particle due to temperature gradients where the particle moves from a high temperature to a low one. There is also Brownian diffusion which is the effect of thermal random motion on these particles.
Though complicated, these methods are how particles combine and fall to earth. Indeed, the drier the environment, the easier it is for particles to stick together because they don’t have to ‘squeeze’ the water molecules out first to join together. “In the kinetic regime, coagulation is always enhanced due to the absence of viscous forces,” according to Dorsey. That means Fukushima fallout would better bind with spewing aerosol trails better in drier climes like the desert than wet ones.
How long do all the toxic elements stay in the air? Does it eventually get blown all over the valley and somehow dissipate? Does it remain on everything it lands on,, the plants, streets, dirt, etc.? Trying to figure out how long a mask may be necessary and if everything getting hosed off around my house may help or if there is anything that can be done to make my house and yard safer for kids? Thanks.
@Crystal lane: Yes, for the region. Check out Los Angeles, CA RadNet readings. Note that the gamma graph reflects a significant bump during the fire days though that isn’t proof it was caused by the fire.
There will be a collection of potentially radioactive soot from downwinders for testing – keep an eye on EnviroReporter.com for further details.
Does anyone have any radiation readings downwind from the fire so we have some kind of definitive numbers to give to people for preparing them to do what they can do for protection ?
There is no one you can force to test the air. You can deduce that if we say it contains toxic fumes, it does, as do most wildfires especially one that just roared through Rocketdyne.
Who can we contact to force an analysis of the Air for contamination to confirm if the air contains toxic fumes?
It has burned before – SSFL in 2005
KTLA’s coverage shows the fire above Brandeis-Bardin burning through Area III with Area IV catching fire. Wind is blowing strong to the southwest carrying toxic smoke towards Ahmanson Ranch, the 101 Freeway, Liberty Canyon, Conejo Valley, Santa Monica Mountains and Malibu, potentially. This is a very dangerous event. All people who can smell the smoke from this fire should get themselves, their children, and pets inside and immediately close windows and use filtered air conditioning if possible. Masks should be worn and extreme care dealing with ash and embers. This is not a drill – ACT NOW
Television coverage showed the fire sweep through Areas II, III and nuclear Area IV. Since it is called the “Woolsey Fire,” it suggests it started there and probably burned Area I too in its march to the Pacific Ocean. If you are fortunate enough not to have lost property in this disaster, and live anywhere near this area of the fire and can still smell smoke and/or char over the next few days, MASK UP with at least an N95 mask and be very careful cleaning up the soot and ash once the fire is over. Do NOT let kids do the dirty work considering the potential pollutants in this fire soot, ash and debris. YOU do it AFTER the fires are fully out.
THIS FIRE IS STILL ACTIVE IN THE SSFL AREA AND SIMI HILLS. Mask up, keep kids and pets inside, use HEPA filters in air conditioners or stand alones and OFFER HELP TO YOUR NEIGHBORS. N95 MASKS FOR EVERYONE ON YOU!
ACTIVE FIRE ATTACKING AREA I OF SSFL – Christina Walsh’s video from about an hour ago shows the fire going up “IEL fault canyons” which is at the Area I entrance to SSFL. This area has had massive contamination and, on fire, is especially dangerous. Area residents must AVOID SMOKE, FIRE, EMBERS AND ASH and use N95 masks.
Unsubstantiated reports say Sage Ranch is on fire. Television helicopters shots seemed to indicate that Wayne Fishback’s former Ventura County dump property was burned.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), longtime advocates for the complete cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, issued a Nov. 9, 2018 PSR-LA press release called Woolsey Fire Burns Nuclear Meltdown Site that State Toxics Agency Failed to Clean Up. The two-time Nobel Peace Prize winning group minced no words.
Dr. Robert Dodge, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, shares the community’s concerns. “We know what substances are on the site and how hazardous they are. We’re talking about incredibly dangerous radionuclides and toxic chemicals such a trichloroethylene, perchlorate, dioxins and heavy metals. These toxic materials are in SSFL’s soil and vegetation, and when it burns and becomes airborne in smoke and ash, there is real possibility of heightened exposure for area residents.”
Dodge said protective measures recommended during any fire, such as staying indoors and wearing protective face masks, are even more important given the risks associated with SSFL’s contamination. Community members are organizing a campaign on social media to demand that DTSC release a public statement revealing the potential risks of exposure to SSFL contamination related to the fire.
Minutes ago, a fire flare up along Alpha Road in Area II was spotted by us on excellent KABC Eyewitness News coverage. We captured it via a screen shot save, below. What it shows is that a new flare-up is near the middle of SSFL which cannot be good. Also not good was what wasn’t in any of the video of briefly flying over part of the lab – fire engines.
EnviroReporter.com‘s Denise Duffield joined 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winner Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) in thanking LA City Councilmember Paul Koretz for his leadership in introducing a resolution in support of the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which passed unanimously in August. And she brought her Nobel Peace Prize medal with her!
This auspicious event came after the Los Angeles City Council voted to support the U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty which led to California voting for it as well, and to restrict Presidential authority for a nuclear strike. Duffield has been at the forefront of these initiatives and EnviroReporter.com salutes her.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Kortez, who has proven to be a remarkable and courageous leader, noted the historic occasion on Facebook:
“Beatrice Fihn, 2017 Nobel Laureate, brought her medal to City Hall this week to thank me for introducing a resolution this August that called upon our federal leaders to spearhead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first and ending the President’s sole, unchecked authority to launch a nuclear attack. In addition, it asks for a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. I introduced the resolution that was also signed by Mayor Eric Garcetti on the same day that he honored Hiroshima A-bomb survivors. My Director of Environmental Affairs Andy Shrader and I were joined at City Hall by Denise Duffield of Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles and Rick Wayman, Deputy Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. — with Denise Duffield, Paul Koretz, Andy Shrader, Rick Wayman and Beatrice Fihn in Los Angeles City Hall.”
For more Radiation Station Santa Monica California radiation test results:
Special Radiation Station Tests and Radiation Station Stats
Southern Hemisphere September 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
The reference monitoring station’s GammaScout Geiger counter died on the 12th September 2018, RIP. The last full day average it recorded was on the 11th September 2018. The GammaScout was used as a reference up until now, because all the data recorded here prior to Fukushima was using a GammaScout.
Will be trialling different equipment for the local monitoring station, a SBT-10 pancake, using Theremino Geiger counter software. I worked out how to transfer the logged data for this new setup into the charts I created for the GammaScout logged data. Because this is completely different monitoring equipment, the long term data reference will not be as accurate.
September’s 2018 month average is based on the 29 days of collected data.
September average background here tends to vary a lot from year to year. September marks the seasonal change from winter to spring and wind direction at this location during this seasonal change can swing wildly between tropical to southerlies. The more tropical wind we get for September, the higher the background, the more Southerly, the lower the background.
September 2018 day average background chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-September-2018.jpg
Caloundra September month average, year comparisons.
2018 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 27% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns September Report – A slight increase around the middle of the month, but otherwise close to average. The Cairns monitoring station has two GammaScout Geiger counters.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cairns-September-2018.jpg
Monthly and yearly average charts from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Default Pacific USA time zone unless otherwise indicated
September 16, 2018
Sept 2018 Midwest rad testing – harbor
4:45 pm INT TERMINAL 4 BAGGAGE CLAIM LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 47.8 CPM^
11:50 am CDST INT OHARE AIRPORT CHICAGO: 37.5 CPM^
6:10 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 35.3 CPM^
September 15, 2018
8:45 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 32.8 CPM^
8:00 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 30.0 CPM^
September 14, 2018
11:15 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 39.0 CPM^
7:35 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 34.7 CPM^
September 13, 2018
Sept 2018 Midwest rad testing – dunes
10:30 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 34.3 CPM^
7:15 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 32.2 CPM^
September 11, 2018
10:00 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 37.1 CPM^
10:30 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room ST JOSEPH RIVER MOUTH AT LAKE MICHIGAN WATER SAMPLE: 24.5 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND BETWEEN PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT 20 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST ALONG THE LAKE SHORE AND D.C. COOK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 10 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST
8:05 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 30.3 CPM^
September 10, 2018
11:40 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 36.9 CPM^
9:10 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room LAKE MICHIGAN WATER SAMPLE: 28.7 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND UP CURRENT OF PALISADES NUCLEAR PLANT 20 MILES TO THE NORTHWEST ALONG THE LAKE SHORE. AND DOWN CURRENT OF THE D.C. COOK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 10 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST
7:25 am EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 31.2 CPM^
September 9, 2018
Sept 2018 Midwest rad testing – pier
10:35 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 35.6 CPM^
8:10 pm EDST St. Joseph, Michigan 2nd story room: 32.9 CPM^
7:45 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 34.0 CPM^
September 8, 2018
9:35 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room RAIN SAMPLE: 30.3 CPM^ OR BACKGROUND WITH NO SIGN OF RADON PROGENY PER USUAL IN THIS AREA
9:15 pm EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 32.8 CPM^
11:20 am EDST Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 31.8 CPM^
6:00 am CDST INT OHARE AIRPORT CHICAGO: 33.1 CPM^
September 7, 2018
11:45 pm INT TERMINAL 4 LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: 45.7 CPM^
The historic flooding now occurring after hurricane Florence poses the most serious threat to the local nuclear plants. Brunswick is just one of a number of nuclear power plants in the area that could be affected.
Here is a list of International Radiation Monitoring Stations for those who want to monitor, and keep an eye on the situation. This list includes private as well as government run monitoring stations.
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Notification Date: 09/15/2018 Power Reactor Event Number: 53609
Facility: BRUNSWICK
Region: 2 State: NC
Unit: [1] [2]
Extract:
UNUSUAL EVENT DUE TO SITE CONDITIONS PREVENTING PLANT ACCESS
“A hazardous event has resulted in on site conditions sufficient to prohibit the plant staff from accessing the site via personal vehicles due to flooding of local roads by Tropical Storm Florence.”
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/2018/20180917en.html#en53609
Sent earlier today to EnviroReporter.com from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Press Release
No: II-18-033 September 13, 2018
NRC Expands Nuclear Power Plant Monitoring During Hurricane Florence
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will staff its incident response center in Atlanta around the clock beginning this evening as it expands its monitoring of Hurricane Florence and its effects on nuclear power plants and other NRC-licensed facilities.
The NRC will continue 24-hour staffing as conditions require. NRC staff members will continue to monitor the path of Hurricane Florence while remaining in contact with plant operators, NRC on-site inspectors, the NRC’s headquarters operations center and state emergency officials.
Duke Energy notified the NRC that the company is shutting down both units at the Brunswick nuclear plant south of Wilmington, N.C., as that site is facing hurricane-force winds, major storm surges and heavy rain. This week, NRC inspectors have reviewed storm preparations, including protection against the amount of rain and flooding that might be expected. NRC inspectors are on site at the Brunswick plant and will remain there through the storm.
Officials at the Global Nuclear Fuels plant near Wilmington have also notified the NRC that they have shut down operations and secured equipment in advance of the storm.
Other nuclear plants in the projected storm path have prepared for high winds and heavy rainfall. NRC inspectors also will remain at those sites as conditions require.
Sent earlier today to EnviroReporter.com from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – Press Release
No: II-18-032 September 12, 2018
NRC Preparing for Hurricane Florence
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission resident inspectors at nuclear plants in the Carolinas and Virginia are reviewing the plant operators’ preparations in advance of Hurricane Florence, currently projected to make landfall in the Southeast later this week.
The NRC is also sending additional inspectors to those plants and will activate its regional incident response center in Atlanta, to provide around-the-clock staff support during the storm.
Duke Energy’s Brunswick nuclear plant south of Wilmington, N.C., could face hurricane-force winds, major storm surges and heavy rain. Other plants near the storm’s projected path are also taking precautions.
Nuclear plant operators would declare an emergency if conditions are expected that would require that declaration.
Plant procedures require operators to shut down the reactor well before hurricane-force winds arrive on site. In preparing for Hurricane Florence, the staffs at Brunswick, Surry in southeastern Virginia, Harris near Raleigh, N.C., Robinson near Hartsville, S.C., and some other plants are working through their severe weather procedures, including ensuring that all loose debris and equipment have been removed or secured, and conducting walk-down inspections of important systems and equipment.
NRC inspectors are verifying that all preparations have been completed, and the plants’ emergency diesel generators are available with ample fuel if the storm affects off-site power.
The NRC has also been in touch with officials at the Global Nuclear Fuels-America facility near Wilmington, N.C., the research reactor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and other NRC licensees in the area to verify their preparations for the storm.
From the NRC Region II incident response center in Atlanta, NRC staff members will monitor Hurricane Florence while remaining in contact with plant operators, NRC on-site inspectors, the NRC’s headquarters operations center, and state emergency officials in the Carolinas, Virginia and all potentially affected states.
The additional NRC inspectors will remain at the nuclear plant sites and the incident response center will remain staffed as long as conditions require.
Southern Hemisphere August 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Since the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe, the long term August month averages are showing a gradual increase background levels.
August 2018 day average background chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-August-2018.jpg
Caloundra August month average, year comparisons.
2018 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns August Report – “All pretty level, no significant peaks.” The Cairns monitoring station has two GammaScout Geiger counters.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cairns-August-2018.jpg
Monthly and yearly average charts from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
JAPAN
6th September 2018 – Japan nuclear plant’s power restored after quake triggers Hokkaido blackout
Extracts:
Power was restored to a nuclear energy plant in Hokkaido, northern Japan on Thursday after a strong earthquake left it relying on emergency generators for 10 nervous hours, but it may be a week before lights are back on all over the major island.
In another echo of the 2011 disaster, Hokkaido’s situation was compounded by difficulties in receiving supplies from neighboring regions that remain dominated by separate utilities with their own grids.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-quake-nuclear/japanese-nuclear-station-on-emergency-power-after-quake-revives-fukushima-memories-idUSKCN1LM031
Quantum Pendant Scalar Technology
Someone provided a Quantum Pendent to test, it uses Quantum Scalar Technology.
What is a Quantum Pendant you ask?
It is a wearable pendant around 5cm in diameter, made from specialized Japanese lava based compound and plant extracts like Hemp protein. Claims are that it protects the wearer from EMF radiation emitted by Wifi devices, cell phones, power lines etc., and has positive benefits for your health.
The Youtube video below, indicates there are fake versions of Quantum Pendants being sold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDRjP3BIFU
There are a large number of different styles of Quantum Pendants being sold on the Internet, much more than referenced in this video. There is a lot of debate on the Internet over which versions are actually the fake version of the Quantum Pendant. We have no idea which product is the official version. Ebay prices varied wildly from hundreds of dollars to a couple dollars.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=quantum+pendant
Below are the Pancake Geiger counter and Scintillator test results of the pendant that was provided for testing. Yes, you are supposed to wear this pendant to get the energy benefits! It turns out for some strange reason, that the person who provided it for testing doesn’t want it back, and said I could have it!
The Pancake Geiger result minus background was 2170 Counts Per Minute (CPM), or around eighteen times the local background here.
(Note: This test is a log chart.)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ThereminoGeiger_2018_07_31_12_23_39-1024×770.jpg
The scintillator Gamma radiation test result minus test chamber background was 230 CPM. The test chart shows the decay daughters of Thorium-232. This pendant does make an excellent peak calibration test source for the scintillator test equipment here.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Quantum-Pendant-Japanese-Technology-TV7.2-18c-5100.png
In my opinion the one provided for testing was significantly radioactive! I can only say that the one provided for testing had radioactive material in it. Are other Quantum Pendants this radioactive? I have no idea, you would need to have them tested to find out.
Here is what the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), has to say about these pendants.
https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/radiation-sources/more-radiation-sources/pendants
Anti-Proton tested one in 13 January 2013 and detected Uranium and Thorium decay daughters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxX3ZWY4nw
By the way, I definitely will not be wearing this pendant!
It has been put to good use. It is stored in a lead lined container and used for radioactive peak calibration of scintillator test equipment here.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on here without further research.
Southern Hemisphere Spike Detections Update, & July 2018 Southern Hemisphere Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Spike in Background Levels in Tasmania 4th and 6th July, and Caloundra on the 7th July 2018
Very surprised to find this significant detection showing up on the Caloundra 24 hour chart for the 7th of July. There had been an up tick in background at the beginning of July compared to June 2018, but the 52% above day average detection was a shock. Wind direction at the time was from inland Australia, which was also very surprising. We had a very light short shower in the morning. The live Radon monitor here showed nothing significant, levels were relatively low, around 0.2 pCi/l.
We have looked around the World wind maps to try and determine the source of these significant background spikes, but have been unable to pinpoint a definitive source. One suggestion put forward is the possible venting of volatile radioactive gases from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney that were blown around in the local atmosphere.
I went to the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), monitoring station web site. Their monitoring station is located near Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney Australia. This was to see if their monitoring station had picked up any spikes in July background radiation levels. What I found was the notice below. A strange coincidence ????
Radiation monitoring
“The environmental radiation station will not be operational in July due to repairs and maintenance of the system.”
http://www.ansto.gov.au/Resources/Localenvironment/Atmosphericmonitoring/Radiationmonitoring/index.htm
Interestingly there were reports of a breakdown at the Lucas Height nuclear reactor in late June 2018.
28th June 2018 – Breakdown at Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney sparks fears of medical supplies shortage
Extract:
The facility’s production of 10,000 doses of technetium-99m per week for Australian patients has come to a halt. The products are used in nuclear imaging and are a vital diagnostic tool used in scans for heart, lung and musculoskeletal conditions, cancer and many other medical conditions.
Engineers were not yet able to “physically attend to the conveyor” an ANSTO spokesman said, although they had been working on fixing the mechanical fault over the weekend.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-27/lucas-heights-nuclear-reactor-breakdown-medical-supply-shortage/9915242
Nullschool 7th July wind chart for Caloundra
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/07/07/1400Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-217.66,-32.79,1247
Caloundra 24 hour 60 second sampling chart for the 7th July.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-070718.jpg
A few days before the Caloundra detection, a contact in Tasmania informed me of spikes in their local background. Spikes in background in Tasmania were detected on two separate detectors. On the 4th July the Tasmanian wind direction source was also off the Australian mainland.
Nullschool 4th July wind chart for Tasmania
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/07/04/0600Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-209.76,-28.21,815/loc=146.465,4.276
Tasmania, 4th July Background chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Tasmania-4th-July-2018.png
Tasmania, 6th July Background chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Tasmania-6th-July-2018.png
The Tasmanian monitoring station happened to have an air filter which was sent to me for testing and arrived a few day later.
Below is the Tasmania filter test chart minus background tested using new Theremino PMT adapter equipment. If there was anything present it is below the resolution of the equipment here.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Tasmania-filter-test-110718-TV7.2-16c-161387.png
Caloundra Water Tank Filter test
Here is the latest Caloundra local water tank filter test of 45 grams of fine organic material minus background. The two prominent isotope peaks are for the isotopes of Lead-210, from Radon-222 decay, and Berryllium-7, from upper atmosphere spallation.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Tank-filter-of-organic-mater-45-grams-210718-TV-7.2-103180-text.png
Conclusion
The Caloundra and Tasmanian filter tests did not show anything significant, which points to radioactive short life volatile gases passing through. The most likely source of short life volatile radioactive gases in Australia would be the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney Australia. The circumstantial evidence points to venting occurring at the Lucas Heights facility, to fix the broken conveyor used in the production of Technetium-99m.
Other possibilities are,
Another source on the Australia mainland.
An event somewhere else in the World or at Fukushima.
A secret device test in Australia.
Were the Caloundra and Tasmanian detections just coincidental?
Any suggestions or relevant information regarding these detections are welcome.
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July is winter here in the Southern Hemisphere. Since the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe in 2011, long term local data collection is showing an increase in winter local background levels.
Caloundra 24 hour day average chart for July 2018
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2018.jpg
Caloundra July month average, year comparisons.
2018 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
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International Radiation Monitoring Station Updated
Sites that were no longer operating have been removed, and new monitoring stations added.
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
August 1, 2018
6:45 pm INT RSSMC CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 55.1 CPM^^ OR ONLY 27.3% ABOVE BACKGROUND in six weeks aggregate.
6:30 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.3 CPM^^
“Government officials originally estimated it would take about 40 years and $50 billion to clean up the plant, decontaminate the surrounding area, and compensate the disaster’s victims. In December 2016, they more than TRIPLED that estimate to $188 billion. “We have never experienced a disaster as big as Fukushima,” Hiroshige Seko, the head of Japan’s Ministry of Economy…”
“Human beings couldn’t go into the heart of Fukushima’s reactors to find the missing fuel, though—at least not without absorbing a lethal dose of radiation.”
First documentation of melted fuel – July 2017
“Then, something startling appeared on the monitors.”
“What is that?” said Matsuzaki.
“Everyone began talking at once and pointing to what they saw on the screens: murky glimpses of what appeared to be stalactites of something dripping like candle wax from the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel. They’d found the first signs of the missing fuel.”
No job for humans –
https://www.wired.com/story/fukushima-robot-cleanup/
Videos here –
The Little Sunfish Robot
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/26/16030222/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-robot-radioactive-fuel-tepco-little-sunfish
😐 What a mess!
Spikes detected on Australian monitoring stations located in Tasmania and Caloundra.
Very surprised to find this significant detection showing up on the Caloundra 24 hour chart for the 7th of July. There had been an up tick in background at the beginning of July compared to June 2018, but the 52% above day average detection was a shock. Wind direct at the time was from inland Australia which was also very surprising.
See Nullschool 7th July wind chart for Caloundra.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/07/07/1400Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-217.66,-32.79,1247
Caloundra Station location:
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
Caloundra 24 hour 60 second sampling chart for the 7th July.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-070718.jpg
A few days before the Caloundra detection, a contact in Tasmania informed me of spikes in his local background. These spikes in background in Tasmania were detected on two separate detectors. On the 4th July the Tasmanian wind direction source was also off the Australian mainland.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/07/04/0600Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-209.76,-28.21,815/loc=146.465,4.276
Tasmania, 4th July chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Tasmania-4th-July-2018.png
Tasmania, 6th July chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Tasmania-6th-July-2018.png
Caloundra day average chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2018.jpg
What the chart colour codes mean.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Questions:
What is the source of these significant Australian winter detections?
Was there an event or release on the Australia mainland?
Has a significant unreported nuclear event occurred somewhere in the world?
Were these detections unrelated and just coincidental?
Suggestions and information related to these detections are welcome.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Southern Hemisphere June 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
June is winter here in the Southern Hemisphere. The long term June data is showing a gradual increase in winter local background levels, since the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
June 2018 day average background chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-June-2018.jpg
Caloundra June month average, year comparisons.
2018 11% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
@Peter March
Here are four significant factors that are now contributing to higher radiation detections during plane flights.
1. There was a significant amount of radioactive contamination blown into the upper atmosphere by the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. When planes fly through this, some of the radioactive fallout cloud is sucked into the cabin of the aircraft.
Depending on wind pattens at the time of the catastrophe, flying in the Northern hemisphere between Japan and the USA was particularly hazardous. The radioactive particulate material getting into the aircraft was a significant risk to human health. It is still a risk, but just after Fukushima the risk was much greater. The Southern Hemisphere was not as severely affected by this new hazard.
This article by Michael Collins, EnviroReporter.com, documents a flight across America on December 23rd 2011.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/01/seasons-readings/
2. Yes, it is normal to be exposed to greater amounts of radiation during flights at high altitudes, more so if the flight is closer to the poles. This is because at higher altitudes the earth’s atmosphere is much thinner and offers less protection from incoming solar and cosmic radiation. Look at this chart, Radiation verses Altitude, from Spaceweather.com. The radioactive particulate from Fukushima increases the risk.
http://spaceweather.com/cosmicrays/2015/22oct15/pfotzer_22oct15.png?PHPSESSID=3q7uq3akrjtubspjrfh1jbov40
3. A weaker Sun is now a third factor. The Sun is becoming far less radiant and is going into one of its quiet periods. Less Sun radiance means it’s heliosphere becomes much weaker. The heliosphere is a bubble-like region of space dominated by the Sun’s solar wind and magnetic field. It normally extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Plasma blown out from the Sun’s heliosphere acts as a shield, protecting the solar system and Earth from incoming intergalactic and galactic cosmic rays.
A much weaker heliosphere means more cosmic rays strike Earth’s upper atmosphere. Spaceweather.com have been conducting high altitude cosmic ray detection tests since 2015.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56530521e4b0c307d59bbe97/t/59512da6c534a573ac254b21/1498493389471/
4. The Earth’s magnet field is weakening. The Earth’s magnetic field also acts as a protective shield against solar wind and storms, and cosmic rays.
The Earth’s magnetic field has weakened by 20% already, and appears to be weakening by around 10% per decade, plus this weakening may accelerate in the coming years.
Read the “Earth Changes” report on EnviroReporter.com, to gain a better understanding of the dynamic changes that are occurring to our planet’s environment.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/fukushima/earth-changes/
Hi, recently I flew from Cairns, Australia to Brisbane and on to Auckland New Zealand and my geiger counter went from 12cpm at ground level up to 2,500cpm at cruising altitude on both legs of the flight. I turned on the counter a number of times during both flights and the reading continued to stay at 2,400 – 2,400 cpm. Once a lower altitude was reached coming in to land, the level dropped back to normal. Is this normal for radiation levels at 30,000 feet, or are there elevated atmospheric levels in the upper atmosphere because of Fukushima?
EnviroReporter.com friend and international nuclear relations expert Dr. Bennett Ramberg has a timely piece on the North Korea/USA summit in Singapore that should be required reading for those in the Trump Administration that can.
The following NBC News OpEd provides the most comprehensive published examination of how layered security assurances can promote a durable North Korea nuclear deal:
Trump and North Korea: Kim Jong Un will need clear security assurances to agree to a nuclear deal
Trump has spoken about his willingness to guarantee Kim Jong Un’s survival. How he proposes doing that will be critical to any agreement.
Southern Hemisphere May 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
A nice quiet month without any significant background events. As most of the air flows here during this season come from a southerly direction, May local background levels were much lower than the summer months
May 2018 day average background chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2018.jpg
Caloundra May month average, year comparisons.
2018 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 30, 2018
8:15 am INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 36.6 CPM^^ or normal background.
8:00 am INT RSSMC BG: 42.9 CPM^^
May 29, 2018
6:00 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California (RSSMC) CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 93.0 CPM^^ OR 2.4 TIMES BACKGROUND in seven weeks aggregate.
5:45 pm INT RSSMC BG: 38.9 CPM^^
From our friends at Fight for the Future who are behind the “RED ALERT FOR NET NEUTRALITY” campaign you’ve seen, and hopefully signed, on the pages of EnviroReporter.com:
“We won! The U.S. Senate just voted to overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality!
Even better, your work helped win the votes of TWO undecided senators who swung our way at the last minute, giving us a 52-47 margin and huge momentum. That’s game-changing.
Now the fight moves to the House of Representatives—and with the FCC scheduled to end net neutrality on June 11th unless Congress stops them, the stakes are higher than ever…
Comcast, Verizon, and the rest of Big Cable thought sure they could beat us with all the millions they spent on lobbyists and campaign contributions.
But for months, the Internet has been on fire. You called. You rallied. You protested. You did whatever it took. You didn’t give up. And today, the Senate passed the resolution overruling Ajit Pai and restoring net neutrality in a historic upset!
The key to winning in the Senate was mobilizing so much grassroots pressure that it was impossible for undecided senators to ignore us. And that will be even more true in the House of Representatives, where every member is already looking ahead to November and trying to figure out how to keep their seats in what is predicted to be an incredibly close election…
No one thought we’d get this far, but this is just the first step. Now we need to pass the same resolution in the House of Representatives.”
Southern Hemisphere April 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
This month the GammaScout Geiger Counter used for data logging local background, developed a fault. I managed to get it working again, but in the process lost some day average logging data, hence the gap in the chart.
April month averages tend to vary from year to year by a significant amount. As the Southern Hemisphere winter approaches, air flows here swing a lot between Northern Tropic air to Southern Ocean air flows. If we get more tropical air in April the background goes up. If there are more Southern Ocean air flows, the month average goes down. Since Fukushima, this has become a dynamic of the local background monitoring. If you look at the charts on the yearly average background page, link below, you can clearly see an annual winter background dip showing up in the year and month background charts.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
April 2018 day average background chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-April-2018.jpg
Caloundra April month average, year comparisons.
2018 24% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 11% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Cairns April Report – Fairly level, without any spikes. (Cairns has two monitoring Geiger counters.)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Cairns-April-2018.jpg
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
May 5, 2018
10:20 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA PACIFIC OCEAN SAMPLE FROM SANTA MONICA BAY IN PACIFIC PALISADES: 44.6 CPM^^ or normal background.
10:00 pm INT RSSMC BG: 39.3 CPM^^
May 1, 2018
4:35 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 40.1 CPM^^ or normal background.
4:20 pm INT RSSMC BG: 37.1 CPM^^
It’s been a while since I looked at the TEPCO Fukushima NPP live web cams.
Over the last year or so,
– A sarcophagus has been built over Reactor 3. Shaped somewhat like the one at Chernobyl.
– A room has been built on stilts and is attached to the west wall at Reactor 2.
– Some new wall pieces have been placed on the open hole of what was Reactor 1.
Unit 4 view:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
Unit 1 view:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index2-e.html
When I see the sunrise at Fukushima I can’t help but see the beauty. Thanks to the Nuclear Power Industry that spectacular spot on our planet has been forever changed. No dollar value can be placed on that. 🙁
AUSTRALIA
16th April 2018 – Out-of-control Sydney bush fire spreads towards nuclear reactor and army ammunition warehouse as residents in surrounding suburbs are told ‘it’s too late to leave
Extracts:
Out-of-control Sydney bush fire spreads towards nuclear reactor and army ammunition warehouse as residents in surrounding suburbs are told ‘it’s too late to leave.
A spokesman for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Lucas Heights said there is no current threat to the reactor, but safety measures had been taken.
‘ANSTO always works with local emergency services, and the Rural Fire Service has advised no risk to ANSTO as a result of the fires in the vicinity of our Lucas Heights campus,’ said the spokesperson.
Article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5617263/Sydney-bushfire-spreads-nuclear-reactor-army-base-residents-nearby-evacuated.html
Comment:
Below is a screen shot from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) local live radiation monitoring station at Endagine. Endagine is located East of the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor.
https://www.whereis.com/nsw/engadine-2233
The live ANSTO radiation monitor shows a significant spike in radiation.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Australia-Sydney-ANSTO-Monitoring-site-15th-to-16th-April-2018.png
What caused this spike in local radiation?
Did the fire release local radioactive contamination?
Reactor venting?
Fault in equipment?
Their rainfall monitor shows it definitely was not raining at the time, so it was not a Radon washout event.
ANSTO live monitoring station,
http://www.ansto.gov.au/Resources/Localenvironment/Atmosphericmonitoring/Radiationmonitoring/index.htm
Here are notes from the ANSTO monitoring site page.
Gamma radiation is a penetrating form of short wavelength electromagnetic radiation, similar to X-rays.
The environmental radiation graph (above) shows measurements in nanoGrays (nGy) which are units of absorbed radiation dose commonly used in environmental monitoring. A nanoGray is one billionth (one thousand millionth) of a Gray.
A temporary rise in environmental gamma radiation is often detected when it rains. This occurs because rain affects the behaviour of naturally occurring radionuclides, such as the gas radon. These radionuclides can be absorbed by rain drops and temporarily concentrated near the ground. Also, radon naturally builds up in air spaces in the soil and can be released when rain soaks into the ground.
“Spikes” in the environmental radiation graph (above) may occur during the regular calibration checks (see below) of the instrument that are needed to ensure accurate data. Gaps appearing in either graph are usually associated with delayed radio transmission of data from Engadine.
April 9, 2018
4:05 pm INT RSSMC CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 87.0 CPM^^ OR 2.1 TIMES BACKGROUND in five weeks aggregate.
3:40 pm INT RSSMC BG: 41.9 CPM^^
Southern Hemisphere March 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
The stats are in, and March 2018 had the highest recorded March background ever recorded here, at 46% above average. What is creating these Southern Hemisphere increases? Fukushima atmospheric contamination? Increases cosmic rays? Radon releases, or combination of all off these?
Alert Caloundra 27th March 2018 – In the morning the GammaScout Geiger counter started to alarm on and off very quickly. One visual observation showed a spike of 0.625 uSv/hr. Looking at all the very short duration high detections I have been seeing recently, it suggests to me that I am detecting lots of hot particles in the atmosphere. If I didn’t have 60 second sampling and a 0.30 uSv/hr alarm setting in place, I would probably have missed these detections. They would have been hidden in the averages, because they are of such a short duration.
The 24hr 60 second logging chart shows numerous short duration peaks between 8.30 am and 11.30 am.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-270318.jpg
At the time we had one low pressure system sitting off the East coast plus another in North Queensland, look at the wind map link below. The wind map shows the local air mass at the time was coming off the Pacific Ocean. The main source appeared to be a high pressure system situated East of New Zealand. The air from it was being drawn into these two lows. This air flow was passing over this location at the time. My present theory is that contaminated air was drawn down from the upper atmosphere to the surface, by this high pressure system.
The wind direction at the time was South Easterly, off the Pacific Ocean! It was an overcast, but a fine day.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/03/27/0600Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-192.66,-35.51,1343/loc=146.465,4.276
On the 27th March Radon levels where relatively low.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ThereminoGeiger_2018_03_27_21_16_00.png
March 2018 day average background chart, (What the bar chart colour codes mean.)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2018.jpg
Caloundra March month average, year comparisons.
2018 46% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 38% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 31% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 24% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Default Pacific USA time zone unless otherwise indicated
March 22, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM SECOND MAJOR BAND OF “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 42.1 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:00 pm INT RSSMC BG: 44.4 CPM^^
March 21, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 38.5 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:50 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.0 CPM^^
March 21, 2018
4:10 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE FROM “PINEAPPLE EXPRESS” STORM: 38.5 CPM^^ or normal background with no radon progeny per usual.
3:50 pm INT RSSMC BG: 43.0 CPM^^
Well, it appears that my suspicions about this not being Californium were well founded.
21st March 2018 – “Nuclear” mystery solved in Ankara”
Extracts:
The mystery behind the seizure by Turkish police of a substance that had been believed to be the extremely rare nuclear chemical Californium in a poor area of Ankara has been solved after Turkey’s nuclear authority identified it instead as an organic resin, economy-focussed newspaper Dünya said .
Analysts were baffled when pro-government broadcaster NTV announced that 1.4 kg of Californium had been found in the Ankara suburb of Pursaklar, with some pointing out that that amount would represent around 4,000 years of global production of the element at present rates.
https://ahvalnews.com/californium/nuclear-mystery-solved-ankara
Information on Californium.
This would make quite an interesting espionage documentary & film.
Quotes from: https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-element-californium-cost-27-millions-dollars-a-gram
“Californium is known to be one of the most expensive materials on the earth due to its cost of transportation, limited availability, and expensive production process.”
“Only a handful of facilities are capable of producing Californium including the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia. As little as 0.25g of the element might be produced in a single year. This means that it is extremely scarce and has limited availability.”
If as little as 0.25g of the element might be produced in a single year, then 441 grams would take 1764 years to produce!
Another Quote:
“Thirdly it is an element that is not easily transported. Despite its microscopic size, Californium must travel in specialized heavy duty containers that prevent the release of radioactive material. You may think that a single gram of Californium could be carried in a small container? In reality, that single gram would require a huge shipping cask that is specifically designed and built to transport the element.”
In this article, they are showing multiple glass vials and a plastic bag of highly radioactive Californium, out in the open.
There is far more to this story than a first read would indicate!!!
Is it Californium in these vials?
If not, what is it?
Maybe this story has another agenda!!!
Quote from: https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/10/californium-the-element-that-kickstarts-nuclear-reactors/
“Usefulness came later, when bombarding plutonium-239 with single neutrons produced microgram-sized samples. More important than the increase in size was the change in isotopes. Early experiments produced californium-245, which has a seven minute half life. Californium-252, produced during the later experiments, has a half life of around two and a half years. During much of that time, a microgram-sized sample is giving off 170,000,000 neutrons per minute.
This makes it a very useful substance. Nuclear reactors work by getting neutrons shot into them, which causes some of the atoms to split, giving off more neutrons and perpetuating the reaction. The famous inanimate carbon rod can be used to soak up those extra neutrons, slowing the reaction down. When the reaction gets too slow, though, you need a neutron source to start it up. This is where californium-252 comes in. It’s a tiny, effective neutron emitter that can jump-start a nuclear reactor.”
TURKEY
I used Google translate to get the extracts from the Turkish article.
19th March 2018 – US $ 70 million nuclear material operation in Ankara
Extracts:
In an automobile search in Ankara, one kilogram of 441 grams of nuclear “californium”, worth 70 million dollars in market value, was seized.
Turkey Atomic Energy Agency (TAEK) to the authorities, security officials, “californium” substance is generated only in the United States and Russia.
Comment:
International smuggling and theft of nuclear material is a huge problem. Weight for weight some nuclear isotopes can be worth way more than gold. Who was going to purchase this californium, and what was it going to be used for?
https://aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/ankarada-70-milyon-dolarlik-nukleer-madde-operasyonu/1093216
EnviroReporter.com‘s prescient exposés over the years showing how vulnerable our aged and dangerous nuclear power plant should have been a wake-up call to toughen up standards and security. Now it may be too late with Russia having penetrated America’s critical and nuclear infrastructure according to today’s Ides of March U.S. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) ALERT.
Original release date: March 15, 2018
Systems Affected
Domain Controllers
File Servers
Email Servers
Overview
This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. It also contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and technical details on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Russian government cyber actors on compromised victim networks. DHS and FBI produced this alert to educate network defenders to enhance their ability to identify and reduce exposure to malicious activity.
DHS and FBI characterize this activity as a multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors who targeted small commercial facilities’ networks where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks. After obtaining access, the Russian government cyber actors conducted network reconnaissance, moved laterally, and collected information pertaining to Industrial Control Systems (ICS)…[MORE]
EnviroReporter.com‘s work exposing these nuclear power plant vulnerabilities is more pertinent than ever. It is never too late to at least try to defend these ‘in-place nuclear weapons’ from Russia and other bad actors.
Southern Hemisphere February 2018 Background Level Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
A contributing factor to the day average increases near the end of February would have been the 10 pCi/l + Radon spikes that were detected on the 23rd, 24th and 25th. The Radon spike detections were possibly a precursor to an up tick in earthquake and volcanic activity on the Pacific rim, as the surface wind was coming off the Pacific Ocean at the time.
Even so, the elevated Radon levels would not account for all the month day average background increases.
Chart of Radon Spike on the 25th
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Radon-spike-25th-February-2018.png
February 2018 day average background chart,
What the bar chart colour codes mean. http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2018.jpg
Caloundra February month average, year comparisons.
2018 49% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 37% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
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March 14, 2018
12:20 am INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 44.3 CPM^^ or normal background.
12:05 am INT RSSMC BG: 42.5 CPM^^
🙁 3/11 March 11, 2011
I was watching CBS news tonight and they mentioned the 2011 Japanese Tsunami and gave about 20 seconds at the end to mention Fukushima’s Nuclear issues, except to say there were 3 ‘partial’ meltdowns and that the plants were still in cleanup that could take 30 to 40 years. [paraphrased]
CBS video
https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20180312021228-japan-remembered-the-more-than-18000-lives-lost-in-the-2011-tsunami/
Some may say “No news is good news”, but I have to wonder about that when it comes to Fukushima and other radioactive contamination disasters/debacles. (Being ‘fed’ misleading or inaccurate bias’ might also be included.)
IMO: I guess ‘No News’ is not ‘Fake News’, but it is ‘Negligent News’ regardless.
I remember the first day I found this site. I was searching for someone with a Geiger counter several days after the Fukushima meltdowns and I found the Ustream of EnviroReporter’s Inspector Detector. I quickly became fascinated by the implications of Fukushima. Not only understanding of radiation, but how the understanding/misunderstanding came about. I also found it odd that the mainstream media seemed to present a different picture of Fukushima and would ‘seem’ to control the broadcast feed making sure not to alarm the public.
The amount of IMPORTANT knowledge I have found here over the last seven years is immense when I think about it. There were a lot of page views during the first year and then it dropped off to what it is now. But what I know is this, it’s highly likely that another meltdown or radioactive disaster will occur sooner or later and people will again do research and come to this site. If they take the time to read through the historical archives here, at least a quick scan, they will learn quickly and be amazed.
Here’s just a few of things I’ve learned in 7 years.
1. Radiation in ANY amount is not good for you.
2. The Nuclear Industry has been a scam since it’s inception.
3. News and data/information regarding all things Nuclear are lopsided.
4. That governments have failed us and lied to us regarding Nuclear. (ongoing)
5. The planet is at grave risk and not enough people know about it, yet.
6. ‘Acceptable Risk’ is is a misnomer.
Thanks again to EnviroReporter.com for keeping the information coming.
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March 10, 2018
6:30 pm INT RSSMC SANTA MONICA CA RAIN SAMPLE: 41.1 CPM^^ or normal background.
6:10 pm INT RSSMC BG: 39.4 CPM^^
Slighty elevated readings in rare rain on the border of the Sonoran Desert and the Coastal Ranges of Southern California:
March 4, 2017, 2018
9:00 am INT Building in Sonoran Desert: 44.2 CPM^^
12:25 am INT Building: 50.0 CPM^^ or 18.8% more than immediate prior background. This exceeds the Inspector’s +/- margin of error of 15%. While possible, it is unlikely that radon gas had much to do with the elevated reading as it was very windy and this part of California has low potential for significant radiation.
12:05 am INT Building in Sonoran Desert 40 miles north of Mexico BG: 42.1 CPM^^
February 27, 2017, 2018
12:25 am INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 38.1 CPM^^ or 16% less than normal background which can happen when radon-free rain water is tested.
12:05 am INT RSSMC BG: 45.3 CPM^^
Ever since Fukushima’s triple meltdown began March 11, 2011, EnviroReporter.com has recommended robust air filters. Here’s more evidence of why that’s a good recommendation:
February 26, 2017, 2018
6:25 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California CHECKING FOR BETA TESTING DUST AGGREGATE FROM 3 HEPA FILTER IONIZING AIR CLEANERS: 143.3 CPM^^ OR 3.2 TIMES BACKGROUND in seven weeks aggregate. California Highway Patrol considers three times background for a toxic substance to be the threshold for initiating Hazardous Materials Protocols.
6:00 pm INT Radiation Station Santa Monica California BG: 44.4 CPM^^
MEXICO
10th February 2018 – Massive alert in Mexico after radioactive device stolen
Extracts:
Mexico’s interior ministry has issued an alert across seven states following the theft of a radioactive device.
The item in question is a nuclear densometer which is used in geotechnical engineering to measure density. It contains radioactive material and there are fears such material could be used to make a “dirty bomb.”
https://www.rt.com/news/418408-radioactive-device-stolen-mexico/
Southern Hemisphere January 2018 Background Report
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra 2nd January 2018 – Another massive Radon spike was detected and reached up to 10 pCi/L.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Radon_Info_ENG.pdf
At the peak of this spike it was very humid, but not raining, and the local Radon monitor was in a wooden building with the door and some windows open. Under these environmental monitoring conditions, this is a very large spike in local Radon levels. The wind direction during the event was from the tropics.
Radon Event Chart:
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ThereminoGeiger_2018_01_02_21_29_19.jpg
Caloundra January month average, year comparisons.
2018 45% above pre-Fukushima average
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 52% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
On the 15th January there was a marked drop in background levels, as the wind direction changed to a Southerly from the Southern Ocean. This dynamic has been constant since Fukushima. Whenever Southern Ocean air flows reach here, we get a significant drop in background levels.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2018/01/15/0600Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-204.25,-20.02,1344/loc=146.465,4.276
January 2018 day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-January-2018.jpg
What the bar chart colour codes mean.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Cairns North Queensland January background Report – Fairly flat, the little spikes were coincidental with some thunderstorms and good rainfalls.
The Cairns monitoring station has two GammaScout Geiger counters.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Cairns-January-2018.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2018.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
NORMAL RADIATION IN GREATER LOS ANGELES BASIN LIGHT RAIN OFF THE PACIFIC:
January 25, 2017, 2018
11:00 am INT RSSMC BG: 46.0 CPM^^
10:45 am INT RSSMC LIGHT RAIN SAMPLE: 53.3 CPM^^ or normal background
LOS ANGELES AREA RAINS REGISTER NORMAL BACKGROUND
January 9, 2017, 2018
7:00 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 41.9 CPM^^ or normal background
6:45 pm INT RSSMC BG: 40.8 CPM^^
January 8, 2017, 2018
4:35 pm INT RSSMC RAIN SAMPLE: 42.3 CPM^^ or normal background
6:25 pm INT RSSMC BG: 44.7 CPM^^
Yearly Report, Multiple Records Broken! Some of these background increases were not Fukushima related.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
2017 was a record breaking year. Contributing factors to this year’s background increases were, Radon from earthquake activity in the Pacific, the Sun going into a quiet period, and from Northern to Southern equatorial air flow break through. These were in addition to the recorded Fukushima increases since 2011. Detailed 2017 monthly reports can be found here, http://sccc.org.au/daily-local-background-radiation-levels-and-advisories-for-2017
1. March 30th saw the highest day average background ever recorded here, at 0.215 uSv/hr.
On March 29th, the day average was 51% above average. On the 30th, the low pressure system left over from cyclone Debbie came through, and the local background 24 hour day average spiked even more. Background peaked at 0.215 uSv/hr which is ~115% above average for this location. Yes, there was a spike in Radon levels on that day,but it wasn’t significant enough to account for this amount of increase in local background.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ThereminoGeiger_2017_03_30_21_51_41.jpg
At the time Cyclone Debbie had turned into a low pressure system but was drawing in tropical air.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2017/03/30/0600Z/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-201.37,-12.32,495/loc=146.465,4.276
March 30th day average chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2017.jpg
March 30th 24 hour 60 chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-300317.jpg
2. February, June, July, August, September and December had the highest recorded background month averages since Fukushima. June water tank filter testing detected mainly Lead-210, the a decay daughter of Radon, and Beryllium-7. Beryllium-7 is created by cosmic ray spallation in the upper atmosphere. Although Pb-210 and Be-7 may have contributed to the background increases the amounts detected where not significant enough to account for this significant increase in local background.
Water tank filter test.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Tank-filter-organic-mater-34-grams-240617-TV-7.2-89849-text.png
3. On the 3rd December 2017 a massive radon spike was detected that reached up to 8 pCi/L. At the time of the event it was very humid but not raining. The local live Radon monitor was in a wooden building with the door, and some windows open. Under these environmental monitoring conditions, this is a very large spike in local Radon levels. The wind direction during the Radon spike was easterly off the Pacific Ocean.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ThereminoGeiger_2017_12_03_21_10_11.png
4. 2017 had the highest year average background level ever recorded here at 27% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima average. Some of the local background increases in October, November, and early December occurred during Easterly air flows. These Easterly air flows brought Radon gas releases to this location from a massive earthquake swarm and volcanic activity that appeared in the New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Soloman Islands and Fiji regions of the Pacific Ocean, at that time.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/November-2017-Eastern-Pacific-Earthquake-Swam.png
2007 to 2017 year average background level comparison.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Caloundra-yearly-average-background-radiation-levels.jpg
5. The Monitoring GammaScout Geiger counter alarmed numerous times on the mornings of the 30th and the 31st December. These alarms were for short duration spikes in background, as wind direction changed to a Northern tropical direction. The last time we saw spikes like this was after Fukushima. These where very short duration events, less than 60 seconds, which suggest hot particles were passing through the monitoring Geiger counter environment.
Background spike detected on the 31st December 2017. (Visual observation at the time saw the GammaScout Geiger counter spike at 0.725 uSv/hr.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-311217.jpg
Background spike detected on the 30th December 2017. (Visual observation at the time saw the GammaScout Geiger counter spike at 0.650 uSv/hr.)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-301217.jpg
Caloundra December month average, year comparisons.
2017 45% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 35% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
December day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-December-2017.jpg
What the bar chart colour codes mean.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-meanYear and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
Update… Plant Vogtle Georgia will continue
Dec 21, 2107 12:35 p.m.
“Georgia Power is praising the decision to allow construction of a multibillion-dollar nuclear plant to continue in east Georgia.”
“The PSC agreed Thursday to let construction continue on the two new nuclear reactors, despite massive cost overruns for the multibillion-dollar project.”
“The project has been plagued by delays and spiraling costs, compounded when the main contractor filed for bankruptcy. Westinghouse Electric Co., the U.S. nuclear unit of Japan’s Toshiba Corp., filed for bankruptcy in March.”
article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-latest-sierra-club-slams-georgia-nuclear-plant-vote/2017/12/21/bbfe3710-e674-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html
IMO: The cost overruns to humanity cannot be measured.
How many solar panels, windmills, etc… could be built with ‘mutibillions’ of dollars?
Side note: I’m trying to do my part. I bought an all Electric Vehicle, zero emissions. Loving it. (Fiat 500e, used but like new) My old fossil fuel car got about 20 miles to a gallon. At an average cost of $3/gal (currently). I was paying a minimum of $200 in fuel on a monthly basis for a regular commute. Now, my EV charging cost is slightly less than $20 for the entire month. No more smog check, no more oil change, no more radiator/water pump issues, etc… There are less than 10 moving parts to an electric motor compared to over 300 on a gas engine. Maintenance costs are no brainer, no comparison. btw – The term ‘range anxiety’ must have been made up by the oil industry. I wake up every morning with a full tank, so to speak, my house is my gas/charge station. If I really need to drive a couple of hundred miles in a day, I’ll just rent a car with the money I saved commuting with my EV. Driving is fun again, it’s like sailing in the wind. 😉
😐
The fate of America’s only nuclear plant under construction will be decided this coming Thursday.
Plant Vogtle in Georgia.
“This cost estimate is nearly double the company’s original projection, and the timeline is five years behind schedule. The cost of the project for Georgia Power and its co-owners exceeds $20 billion.”
“…a commission made of five elected officials, all Republicans, will vote on whether to permit Georgia Power’s new plan for the project,…”
“In July, South Carolina utilities announced it would cancel a separate plan for two nuclear reactors in the state because of cost overruns after Westinghouse, also the reactor’s designer for that project, went bankrupt.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-fate-of-americas-only-nuclear-plant-under-construction-will-be-decided-thursday/article/2643697
The above article says ‘carbon free emissions’ at least 5 times, but not once does it mention the risk to all living things or the deadly costly waste that nobody really knows what to do with.
In my opinion the following word best sums up the Nuclear Industry since day one.
➡ boondoggle
noun
1. work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
“writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature”
“a public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft.”
“they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the great boondoggle”
verb
1. waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects.
Southern Hemisphere November 2017 Background Report. (32% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Caloundra November 2017 – The elevated background level increases at the end of November 2017 chart have also coincided with a significant increase in Radon detection in the local atmosphere.
The elevated Radon detections over the last couple of months seems to have been a precursor to the outbreak of a very large earthquake swarm in the Eastern Pacific.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/November-2017-Eastern-Pacific-Earthquake-Swam.png
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake at 86km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia occurred on the 19th November.
The recent Radon increases would have been a contributing factor to the November elevated background levels, but not the only factor.
The third chart down on this page is the local live Radon monitoring chart.
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/sunshinecoast-monitoring-station.html
Caloundra November month average, year comparisons.
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 37% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 29% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 31% above pre-Fukushima average
November day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2017.jpg
What the bar chart colour codes mean.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
21 November 2017 – Russia confirms ‘extremely high’ radiation levels in toxic cloud
Extracts:
Russian authorities have confirmed reports of a spike in radioactivity in the air over the Ural Mountains.
The Russian Meteorological Service said it recorded the release of Ruthenium-106 in the southern Urals in late September and classified it as “extremely high contamination”.
France’s nuclear safety agency earlier this month said that it recorded radioactivity in the area between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains from a suspected accident involving nuclear fuel or the production of radioactive material.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153998-russia-confirms-extremely-high-radiation-levels-in-toxic-cloud/
27th October 2017 – Video shows illegal dumping of toxic liquids at Hanford
Extracts:
Workers at the Hanford Site violated multiple state laws and regulations in August when they dumped thousands of gallons of contaminated water straight into the soil.
Videos and internal records obtained by the KING 5 Investigators document three separate incidents where liquid was dumped from large metal boxes that were marked as containing radioactive materials.
Decades of plutonium production at Hanford left behind significant amounts of radioactive and chemical waste, making it the most contaminated spot in the Western Hemisphere and prompting a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar clean-up effort.
http://www.king5.com/news/local/hanford/video-shows-illegal-dumping-of-toxic-liquids-at-hanford/486466640
Southern Hemisphere October 2017 Background Report. (32% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Caloundra October 2017 – The elevated background level increases we are seeing in the October 2017 chart have also coincided with a significant increase in Radon detection in the local atmosphere.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Radon_Info_ENG.pdf
The amount of Radon detected locally has increased significantly since September 2017. In September Radon levels stayed below 0.1 pCi/l for the majority of the month.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ThereminoGeiger_2017_09_16_21_57_37.jpg
At times in October it has reached up into 3 pCi/l.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/ThereminoGeiger_2017_10_04_21_39_06.jpg
During this period there was a high pressure system sitting between Australia and New Zealand. It was bringing air flows from the West coast of New Zealand and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, to this location. This suggests the Radon source is from the recent volcanic activity in Northern New Zealand, and earthquake releases in the Eastern Pacific.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Surface-wind-direction-20-10-2017.png
The recent Radon increases would have been a contributing factor to the October elevated background levels, but not the only factor.
Caloundra October month average, year comparisons.
2017 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
October day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-October-2017.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
There are lots of unanswered questions about the Americium-241 contamination of these banknotes that need answering!
Were the banknotes intentionally contaminated?
They detected a high level of radioactivity on the banknotes.
This suggests the Americium-241 is in a dust form!
“a highly toxic radioactive substance.”
So how did Americium-241 end up on these banknotes?
“This was the first time that banknotes severely contaminated by radioactivity were found at a Shanghai port, the bureau said.”
Important keywords, “banknotes severely contaminated by radioactivity.”
You certainly would want to avoid handling these contaminated banknotes!
Everything that a person touched after handling these banknotes smartphones, clothing, etc., would need to be carefully decontaminated.
CHINA
17th October 2017 – Contaminated Banknotes
Extracts:
The cash triggered an alarm when passing through the radioactivity monitoring system inspection process at Pudong International Airport on October 10. The notes contained a high level of radioactivity. They were being carried in the bag of a male passenger. They were found to contain Americium-241 – a highly toxic radioactive substance, according to the Shanghai Airport Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau. Americium-241 has a half-life of 433 years.
Furthermore, it promotes the formation of cancer cells because of its radioactivity. If cash is contaminated by radioactivity, it poses a serious threat because banknotes are circulated quickly, bureau officials said. It is also difficult to track the source of contamination during circulation and users are usually unaware of the risks, the officials added.
Comment:
Americium-241 is mainly an alpha radiation emitter, and is a significant health risk if ingested or inhaled. Americium-241 is the decay daughter of Plutonium-241. Detecting it on bank notes should be raising alarm bells!
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20171017-60249-CHN
There has been a spike of airborne radioactivity in Europe. Ruthenium-106. The highest amount was found in Austria, at 42 millibequerel per cubic meter. Its comming from the direction of the Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus area.
EUROPE (Multi country radiation detections)
6th October 2017 – Environment Pollution in MultiCountries
Extract:
German officials say that a spike in radioactivity has been detected in the air in Western and Central Europe but there’s no threat to human health. The Federal Office for Radiation Protection said Thursday that elevated levels of the isotope Ruthenium-106 have been reported in Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and France since Sept. 29.
Spokesman Jan Henrik Lauer told The Associated Press the source of the Ruthenium-106 isn’t known but calculations indicate it may have been released in eastern Europe. Ruthenium-106 is used for radiation therapy to treat eye tumors, and sometimes as a source of energy to power satellites.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=ED-20171006-60088-MLC
Southern Hemisphere September 2017 Background Report. (27% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Caloundra September 2017 – In the last few months there has been a steady increase in month averages at this location in the Southern Hemisphere. The months have been very dry. The September rainfall total was 15mm and the wettest day was the 23rd, with 13mm. Radon levels have been low, so it did not contribute significantly to the day average increases we have seen through September.
I have been trying to work out why there has been an unseasonal increase in background here in winter, on top of the normal Fukushima increase.
So what created these recent increases?
Here are some theories.
1. There has been more mixing of Northern and Southern hemisphere tropical air flows, allowing more radiation from the Northern hemisphere to enter the Southern Hemisphere.
2. Research is showing that more cosmic rays are now reaching the Earth because the Sun’s heliosphere is decreasing in intensity.
(2017 chart of Cosmic Ray increases.)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56530521e4b0c307d59bbe97/t/59512da6c534a573ac254b21/1498493389471/
This is part of a normal Sun cycle that occurs approximately every 420 years.
https://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2017/6/26/1200-pm-cosmic-rays-continue-to-rise-as-solar-cycle-approaches-next-minimum
Could a significant part of the Winter background uptick here be from increased cosmic radiation and
by-products reaching the earth’s surface?
Cosmic ray muon creation in the upper atmosphere could also be a significant part of this increase.
http://cosmic.lbl.gov/SKliewer/Cosmic_Rays/Muons.htm
If this is the case, we would expect there to be an uptick in background radiation detection by Geiger counters, even at the surface of the Earth.
Most people don’t go to the trouble of collecting day average and month average radiation background levels, using 60 second sampling. My system of data collection will show changes that would be missed by others.
3. The Monitoring Geiger Counter is malfunctioning.
I haven’t been able to find any evidence that this is the case. Ruled out the possibility of dust contamination as the area around monitoring counter was cleaned of dust, plus the Geiger counter was also inspected and cleaned of any dust build up. The background levels have continued to climb, even after the clean.
The GammaScout Geiger counter battery level is still at the normal operating 3.6 volts.
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My conclusion at this point is that the increased cosmic ray activity, plus the Fukushima increase, are both contributing to the local background levels we are now seeing.
Caloundra September month average, year comparisons.
2017 27% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
September day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-September-2017.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
We’re on the way to Albuquerque, so I looked in on their newspaper this evening to see if anything interesting was happening. The Albuquerque Journal just let everyone know that there was another serious “human error” at Los Alamos National Laboratory:
http://www.abqjournal.com/1067835/report-criticality-event-occurred-at-lanl-plutonium-facility-html
When I think about the founding of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1942, I shake my head at the arrogance of Robert Oppenheimer and his pals in deciding that the people of the Pueblo tribes in the valleys surrounding the lab simply didn’t matter. The Pueblo people had lived in the region since 1200 B.C. according to archaeologists, but the area’s original residents were deemed expendable in the event of an accident with widespread consequences.
This page should be one of the most visited on the internet. Fukushima is still cooking away, and will only get worse. Much worse? How much worse, we don’t know, since professional liars and poltroons (i.e., Tepco) are managing the cleanup.
Meanwhile, the “muh coal mining job” types are literally boiling the oceans. As the comment below points out, methane emissions are poised to surge. We’re going to need Categories VI, VII, VIII for the megahurricanes that are about to ensue.
But at least our leaders understand the magnitude of the issue. That’s why they take private jets for short trips, and that’s why our president spends his time fretting about whether he’ll get Steph Curry’s autograph. We’re fucked, folks, and I’d like to personally thank Trump voters for being so suicidally dumb.
This is the very definition of “climate change” which is a nice way of saying that humans have toasted the planet. There’s no going back from this as the methane released by not-so-permafrost worldwide will make CO2 emissions look like a mere nuisance in comparison.
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes 200 miles east of Fukushima nuke plant. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-earthquake-today-latest-updates-fukushima-damage-tsunami-warning-news-a7958111.html Nevertheless I pray there is no further damage to the site. What an unimaginable disaster this is.
JAPAN
24th August 2017 – Japan’s Tepco gets slapped with new U.S. lawsuit over Fukushima
Extracts:
Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings said on Thursday it has been hit with another lawsuit filed in a U.S. court seeking $5 billion for compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second filed against the utility in a U.S. court.
The suit filed by 157 individuals is seeking that amount to set up a compensation fund for the costs of medical tests and treatment they say they need after efforts to support the recovery from the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tepco-fukushima-lawsuit-idUSKCN1B40TG
EUROPE
6th September 2017 – MEPs to raise alarm on Fukushima food imports
Extract:
The draft resolution, seen by EUobserver, said “there are sufficient reasons to believe that this proposal could lead to an increase in exposure to radioactive contaminated food with a corresponding impact on human health”.
In a briefing which Green MEP Rivasi gave to journalists last July, according to a summary provided by her office, the French politician implied that the proposal on Fukushima was a bargaining chip in the negotiations for the FTA, and called it a “scandal”.
https://euobserver.com/environment/138902
Update to above report,
14th September 2017 – EU parliament opposes bid to reduce testing of Fukushima food imports
Extract:
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, wants to reduce the list of foods subject to radiation tests before they can be imported into the bloc, which currently includes rice, mushrooms, fish and other seafood.
A resolution passed by a large majority of MEPs called on the commission to withdraw its proposal, saying it was “very difficult to verify whether the measures proposed are sufficient” to protect European consumers and there was reason to think it “could lead to an increase in exposure to radioactive contaminated food.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/14/national/politics-diplomacy/eu-parliament-opposes-bid-reduce-testing-fukushima-food-imports/
Southern Hemisphere August 2017 Background Report. (17% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Caloundra August 2017 – Radon levels have been low and would not account for the month average increase. There was only 24 mm of rain for August. Significant day average increases coincided with Eastern Pacific air flows.
Caloundra August month average, year comparisons.
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
August month day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-August-2017.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
14th largest solar flare ever recorded released from the Sun. Reports suggest it has the potential to damage parts of the electrical grid. So we have this major solar flare occurring at the same time as an unprecedented hurricane.
Great Solar Flare | September 6, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQXu4JmbvzU
Current Solar Data (from NOAA). At preset there is an X-class flare event, an electron, and proton storm, plus a major disturbance showing on the Magnetometer.
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html
International list of real time Radiation monitoring stations can be helpful in tracking radiation events worldwide.
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Two nuclear power plants are in the probable path of Hurricane Irma “the largest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean”. Most coastal power plants are “Built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane.” Their owner FPL aka Florida Power & Light is not telling the press in Florida exactly when the plants will be shut down, but the owner’s P.R. man Peter Robbins says the reactors “will be shut down well in advance of the storm making landfall” in Florida.
There is no “Category 6” on the Saffir Simpson Scale to measure hurricanes, but that’s the number being thrown around on hurricane afficionodo chat-websites. We’ll likely get to see how much of a structural cushion for a really big Category 5 was built into these FPL plants.
The first plant the strongest hurricane winds, and perhaps the eye, will reach is the one south of Miami called Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station. The plant is located in Homestead Florida. You’ll read that it’s on the south side of Biscayne Bay, but realistically the bay is simply a mild curve on the shoreline directly on the Atlantic. The tiny barrier island east of the plant provides no protection from storm surge.
The other nuclear plant in the path of the hurricane is St. Lucie Power Station which is much farther north, on a narrow barrier island right on the Atlantic called Hutchinson Island. Between the ocean and the actual structure containing the reactor is a very narrow beach, about 600′ of mangrove swamp and a normal sized parking lot. I’ve been on that beach and it’s incredibly narrow. If you want to see the plant on a satellite photo type in Port St. Lucie FL which is the nearest town.
From Federal public records available on the internet, dating to 2010 and 2011, it appears that spent fuel rods are stored in casks on site at both of the oceanside plants.
If you want to keep track of what’s going on at these nuclear plants in the storm I’ve found that Alex Harris reporting for the Miami Herald is keeping track of what is going on with them.
The uradmonitor private monitoring system has a number of active stations in Texas. On the opening page it is important to select radiation monitoring from the drop down “Sensor” box at the top left of the screen, or you will be seeing temperature readings instead.
https://www.uradmonitor.com
Been keeping an eye on the Texas radiation monitors. As the flooding has increased the number of online local radiation monitoring stations has been decreasing significantly!
International list of real time Radiation monitoring stations can be helpful in tracking radiation events worldwide.
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Coast with 130 mile per hour winds, with the eye wall hitting Rockport Texas with winds measured by storm chasers at 150 mph. Rockport is called the “Texas Riviera”. Rockport is the city of many Texans’ fond youthful memories, because of its pristine Blue Wave beach, the most popular in Texas for children safely wading and swimming in Aransas Bay, which is protected from big waves which constantly hit Texas’ barrier islands.
Rockport had both extremely wealthy as well as poor and working class residents, 4 museums, 6 boat harbors, elegant restaurants and many private art galleries, antique stores, and chic boutiques. Unfortunately due to Hurricane Harvey, Rockport and its surrounding Aransas County lost 60% to 70% of its homes, which ranged from trailers and old houses inhabited by the poor to million dollar houses with boat docks for weathy retirees and weekenders from San Antonio and Austin. The State of Texas has bused off to San Antonio the poor people who relocated to a hurricane shelter in a Rockport school, but roughly 40% of the 10,000 person population, plus first responders from out-of-town, remain.
Once Hurricane Harvey left Rockport, it violently thrashed several other communities to the northeast along the Texas Gulf Coast, and caused severely damage to their housing supply: Port Lavaca, Palacios, Matagorda, Bay City, Freeport and Lake Jackson, actually on estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico and the City of Victoria which is inland.
Outside of these Texas Gulf communities are miles and miles of beautiful green farms, marshes and oak woodlands. Now the people remaining there after the hurricane may end up with additional stress caused by allegations that there is a risk of an accident at the 7,000 acre cooling pond/lake for 2 nuclear reactors at the South Texas Project (STP) 80 miles up the Coast from Rockport, north east of Palacios Texas.
On August 29, 2017 the nuclear/public safety group “Beyond Nuclear” sent out a press release [http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2017/8/29/groups-call-for-immediate-shutdown-of-south-texas-nuclear-po.html] describing the fact that the nuclear plant is still being operated at full capacity despite the following: The nuclear plant does not have “cooling towers”. Instead the plant is cooled by a 7,000 acre man made lake which sits between the nuclear plant and Matagorda Bay, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Nuclear explains in their press release the threat of collapse of the earthen walls of that manmade lake because of intense flooding on Texas’ own Colorado River, which is 1.5 miles east of the nuclear plant. The owners and operators of the STP nuclear plant put out a counter-statement to Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-harvey-arkema-idUSKCN1B92J9
The problem is that the 7,000 acre cooling lake for the nuclear plant is on “private property” behind fences, and no members of the public or the press can get inside to independently verify the stability of the “dirt walls” surrounding the lake.
You can find the South Texas Project nuclear project site by typing the following address into Google Maps: 12090 FM Road 521, Palacios, TX 77465. The reactors are due north of the round-shaped man made lake which is easily findable even when you adjust the scale of the map outwards to take in the surrounding communities.
Beyond Nuclear’s concerns expressed in their press release are based on the intense flooding which is occurring outside and beyond natural river banks on land to the north, almost all the way to Dallas. Most rain which falls on “Central Texas” drains southward through coastal communities and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Thus the worst flooding in a massive storm occurs in coastal areas.
During the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident the Soviet government initially evacuated people in an 80.5 kilometer (50 mile) area around the nuclear plant. During the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident the Japanese government initially evacuated people in a 20 kilometer (12 miles) area around the nuclear plant. During the Three Mile Island nuclear accident (which was far less serious than Chernobyl or Fukushima) the State of Pennyslvania ultimately evacuated people in a 20 mile radius of the nuclear plant. Each government substantially reduced their evacuation zones several months after the accident.
Here’s a chart naming the small cities surrounding the STP nuclear reactors on that manmake lake north east of “Downtown Palacios” on Matagorda Bay of the Gulf of Mexico.
City Name/ Population #/ Distance to STP Reactors
Palacios 4,700 10 miles
Matagorda 36,800 10 miles
Bay City 18,000 15 miles
Port Lavaca 12,400 38 miles
Freeport/Lake Jackson 39,700 40 miles
Victoria 67,800 50 miles
Rockport 10,000 80 miles
Houston Metropolitan 5,628,000 80 miles from Inner Beltway 610
Port Lavaca and its environs and Freeport are the location of 10+ huge, isolated petrochemical plants whose operations are complex and which should not be abandoned during a nuclear emergency evacuation.
The South Texas Project nuclear power plant is owned by NRG Energy (44%), Austin Energy (16%) and CPS Energy (40%) and operated by STP Nuclear Operating Company. A few days ago, STP Nuclear Operating Company put out this hard to read news release, as Hurricane Harvey first entered Houston:
http://www.stpegs.com/storm-information/?view=mobile The news release said the nuclear power plant was still operating at full capacity.
Forbes magazine also published an online article lauding the continued full-tilt operation of the STP nuclear plant’s 2 reactors in the wake of the hurricane, failing to mention the physical condition of the earthen walls of the 7,000 acre man made lake/cooling pond as flood waters on Texas’ Colorado River overflowed their banks 1.5 miles to the east.
Say a prayer for the people of the Central Texas Coast, from Freeport to Rockport, that the earthen walls of that massive round-shaped cooling pond/lake stay intact despite the flood waters around it.
Hurricane Harvey, expected to be a very slow moving Category 3 hurricane, with winds at 120+ mph, is expected to hit the Texas Gulf Coast on 8/25/17 in the late evening. Currently the eye of the storm is expected to hit the coast in Matagorda County. The hurricane winds will be the strongest east of the eye. Wind driven storm surge flood water is expected to be 12 feet high along the coast and a few miles inland.
South Texas Nuclear Generating Station is located in Matagorda County, north east of the city of Palacios, Texas. The nuclear generating station relies on a 7,000 acre circular cooling pond south of the reactors which will be subject to those hurricane force winds. The reactor buildings and control room are said to be built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. Press releases concerning past hurricanes say that the nuclear plant’s operators shut down 2 hours before a hurricane is scheduled to hit.
Hopefully those emergency plans will work.
40 years later and this NBC News documentary on Nuclear Waste could have been recorded yesterday.
Danger! Radioactive Waste — Full Program
NBC originally aired in 1977 and was produced by Joan Konner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d_edy11XIM
Nothing has changed!
IMHO: This piece of HISTORY documentary is COMPELLING and clearly spells out the future and shows some of the negligent waste dumping of the past. (I’m guessing currently too, if not the USA then there’s all the others.) The out of control waste issue is building by the minute. The only thing I could compare this issue to, is a snowball in Hell.
🙁 I wish everyone could see this NBC documentary.
It’s a solid piece of evidence that proves they knew the risks. Thank you Joan Konner.
Southern Hemisphere July 2017 Background Report. (17% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Caloundra July 2017 – The local background level increase on 7th July coincided with an increased detection of Radon gas in the air. This increase in Radon levels would not account for all of the day average increase. There were no significant rain washout events. The wettest day was the 6th, with 14mmm of rain. What created the significant background increases for June and July this year?
Caloundra July month average, year comparisons.
2017 17% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
July month day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2017.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
From Radiation Station Stats
Midwest’s Upper and Lower Michigan peninsula’s and eastern Wisconsin, except for one elevated rain, test normal for radiation throughout July 2017 as does the food and drink as reported in Eat Me!
Default Pacific USA time zone unless otherwise indicated
July 27, 2017
8:30 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 37.2 CPM^
July 24, 2017
8:20 pm EDST INT 4TH STORY ROOM PETOSKY MI: 30.0 CPM^
July 24, 2017
2:00 pm EDST EXT FORMER BIG ROCK NUCLEAR PLANT AREA WEST OF PETOSKY MI: ~24 CPM^
July 21, 2017
10:25 pm EDST INT MACKINAW CITY MI 2ND FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE ABOVE LAKE HURON: 29.2 CPM^
July 20, 2017
8:00 pm EDST INT MUNISING MI 3RD FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE ABOVE LAKE SUPERIOR: 33.4 CPM^
July 16, 2017
12:16 am EDST INT MANITOWOC WI 3RD FLOOR ROOM RAIN SAMPLE: 81.8 CPM^ OR 55% ABOVE BACKGROUND. WAS NOT RADON DECAY AS ENVIROREPORTER.COM “BETA WATCH” MAP OF U.S. RADON DISTRIBUTION SHOWS.
12:01 am EDST INT MANITOWOC WI 3RD FLOOR ROOM LAKESIDE: 52.9 CPM^
July 14, 2017
NOON EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 35.7 CPM^
July 10, 2017
7:30 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 35.1 CPM^
July 8, 2017
8:00 pm EDST INT Southwest Michigan 1st floor room: 36.1 CPM^
7:55 am CDST INT O’HARE INT AIRPORT: 31.9 CPM^
Southern Hemisphere June 2017 Background Report. (20% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
Alert Caloundra June 2017
There was a steady increase in background levels in early June, that increased to alert levels towards mid June.
What do the Alert levels here mean?
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
As this event started in early June, the bench area around the monitoring GammaScout Geiger counter was cleaned, and the GammaScout was also cleaned to eliminate the possibility of dust contamination. This has made no difference, as background levels remained higher than usual. This is the Southern Hemisphere winter. Until now, no June pre or post Fukushima background has been higher than 7% above average. We have 10 years of local records to refer to.
It was mostly dry for the month, with only 20mm of rain for the whole month. The local live radon monitor did detect small increases in local Radon levels that coincided with recorded background radiation level increases. These Radon level increases would have been a contributing factor to the background level increase, but not significant enough to be the only factor.
Caloundra June month average, year comparisons.
2017 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
June month day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-June-2017.jpg
The June 2017 Cairns Caloundra comparison chart, shows that Cairns did not experience the background swings that Caloundra did.
http://technologypals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-June-2017.jpg
2017 month day average chart so far,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Local-daily-background-radiation-monthly-averages-2017.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Water Tank Filter Test
Here is a test of 34 grams of organic material caught in a local water tank inlet filter.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Tank-filter-organic-mater-34-grams-240617-TV-7.2-89849-text.png
The main isotopes detected were Beryllium Be-7 and Lead Pb-210. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay.
The scintillator device used for testing loses sensitivity with increasing isotope energy (keV). Taking the difference in sensitivity into account, the Be-7 peak is around 14 times higher than than the chart indicates. The Pb-210 would be around twice as high as show on the chart.
That is a lot of Be-7 in 34 grams of material. Would the levels of Pb-210 and Be-7 detected in the organic material collected from the water tank filter be sufficient to explain the significantly elevated local background levels here in June?
My Theory
There must have been a significant amount of cosmic ray spallation happening in the upper atmosphere recently, to produce this much Be-7.
The sun is becoming far less radiant. The sun is going into one of it’s quiet periods. These occur approximately every four hundred years. Less radiance means the sun’s heliosphere is much weaker. The sun’s heliosphere acts as a shield, protecting the Earth from in coming cosmic rays. A much weaker heliosphere means more cosmic rays strike the upper atmosphere, which results in more atmospheric spallation, hence more Be-7 is detected in the water tank filter test.
I notice that when the elevated detections occurred in June, the wind was mostly coming from an easterly direction, off the Pacific Ocean. This suggests that volcanic and earthquake releases of naturally occurring Radon-222 into the atmosphere, was also a contributing factor.
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
The detection of cesium-137 from the primary Fukushima Pacific ocean plume has been measured and is increasing.
“The coastal average concentration of cesium-137 is now at 2.7 Bq per m3 according to data from samples collected in October through December 2016 which are now available. The highest concentrations were sampled from Winter Harbour in December which, at 4 Bq per m3 is our second highest measured activity to date, after the initial detection back in February 2015.”
https://fukushimainform.ca/
https://fukushimainform.ca/2017/06/09/june-2017-informal-update/
➡ Cesium-137 will be hazardous to life for over 300 years!
I am sure, if there’s cesium, there’s a lot of OTHER kinds of radioactive contamination too. The media and the Nuclear Industry don’t seem to talk about that much, if ever.
Combine these tests/readings and the dust test readings consistently done by EnviroReporter.com along with other readings from user vital1 that also show increases or consistency over time. This tells me the contamination is indeed, obviously, global and continuing.
Long term projections or discussions for what the Fukushima TRIPLE MELTDOWN is ‘really’ going to do to us all, just don’t seem to happen and if they did, would people read them or believe them. (?)
Four workers exposed to high levels of plutonium powder inhalation at Ibaraki nuclear facility.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/07/national/five-workers-exposed-radioactive-materials-ibaraki-nuclear-facility/#.WTn8vmjyvcs
This accident shows the potential risk faced by nuclear workers everywhere. It appears at least two failures occurred to expose the workers to inhalation of long half-life alpha emitters. First, a torn plastic bag containing powdered plutonium, and second, the failure of filtration masks to stop the powdered plutonium from reaching the workers lungs. Whether due to faulty masks, or seepage around the seal of the masks on the face, the consequences for these workers are dire.
Long half-life emitters, once released into the environment are a long term risk for anyone coming in contact with them. If the medicines used to help expel the radioactive particles fail to substantially reduce the contaminate load in the workers lungs, they will be looking at a significantly elevated risk of cancers for the remainder of their. lives. Even people nearby them will experience elevated risk if exposed to radioactive particles shed from lungs. Hopefully, there will be a medical intervention that can clear the bulk of the contamination from their bodies. I wish these workers and their families well. It is a tragic accident and hopefully they will be able to receive treatment to save their lives.
Certainly, procedures to reduce the risk of future accidents of this type need to be developed.
JAPAN
6th June 2017 – Seven more Fukushima residents diagnosed with thyroid cancer
Extracts:
Seven more Fukushima Prefecture residents who were aged 18 or under at the time of the 2011 nuclear accident have been found to have thyroid cancer, the prefectural government said Monday.
The number of Fukushima residents suffering from thyroid cancer now totals 152, the prefectural government said in a meeting of an expert panel.
Comment:
In the light of all the overwhelming evidence, just deny the facts! The comment by the official is laughable.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/06/06/national/seven-fukushima-residents-diagnosed-thyroid-cancer/
Southern Hemisphere May 2017 Background Report. (7% above Average)
Station locations
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Reports
Cairns May 2017 Report – “Glad to see, it was all pretty flat again.”
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-May-2017.jpg
Caloundra May 2017 – May was another quiet month, with mainly Southern Ocean air flows reaching this location.
Month day average,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2017.jpg
Caloundra May month average year comparisons.
2017 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels from 2007 to 2017.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Nukpro’s Shelter-in-Place in a Radiation Emergency, or just any old Run of the Mill emergency.
If you print it out you can use the check list provided. It also has a notes section with links to free resources to enable you to do more research on the subject.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Nukepro-Shelter-In-Place.pdf
Southern Hemisphere April 2017 Background Report. (10% above Average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Reports
Cairns April 2017 Report – “Fairly flat, no major events.”
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-April-2017.jpg
Caloundra April 2017 – This April saw a lot more Southern Ocean air flows reach this location. As we have seen numerous times, Southern Ocean air flows cause a drop in local temperature, and radiation levels.
Month day average,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-April-2017.jpg
Caloundra April month average year comparisons.
2017 10% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
5/15/2017
East Los Angeles, CA external background at 9:26 pm
9 uR/h (microroengens)
USA
9th May 2017 – “Emergency Alert” Declared At Nuclear Facility In Washington; Evacuation Ordered, No-Fly Zone In Place
Extracts:
As Breaking911 reports, some workers were being evacuated while others were advised to shelter-in-place. The Hanford Fire Department is on scene and updates will be posted as they are available. Workers in the vicinity are still being sheltered as a precaution.
Actions taken to protect site employees include:
Facility personnel have been evacuated
As a precaution, workers in potentially affected areas of the Hanford Site have gone indoors
Access to the 200 East Area of the Hanford Site, which is located in the center of the Hanford Site, has been restricted to protect employees
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-09/emergency-alert-declared-hanford-nuclear-facility-washington-evacuation-ordered
USA
3rd May 2017 – Nuclear Reactor Wastewater Will End Up In Your Drinking Water
Extracts:
The council voted four to two in favor of the decision to process 70,000 gallons of nuclear reactor wastewater in its public sewer system. La Tour voted against the measure.
“Apparently Beaver Lake is so big it doesn’t matter, but it just makes me uneasy to know we are putting our waste in our drinking water supply,” La Tour said.
Comment:
Tritium will be in the nuclear wastewater they intend to dump into the Fayetteville Arkansas community water supply. They have been told it will be safe. Here is a video that reveals independent research on the biological effects of radioactive Tritium. Tritium is something to be very concerned about!
04.12.2011 – Radioactive Berkeley: No Safe Dose
Extracts:
The video also expressed a public concern over children visiting the Lawrence Hall of Science to exposure to tritium emissions from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) National Tritium Labeling Facility.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf4G0NRBfqY
Article:
http://www.nwahomepage.com/news/nuclear-reactor-wastewater-will-end-up-in-your-drinking-water/706080335
Are the source of these background increases from the Namie forest fires in Japan?
Japanese radiation monitoring stations indicating background increases in the last 24 hours.
There are small spikes in radiation levels showing up on the Japanese ATMC monitoring network. Start with the Kitaibaraki and Takahagi monitoring stations South of Fukushima, and work your way down the East coast of Japan. Some Eastern in land stations are also showing a spike in background levels.
http://new.atmc.jp/#p=083792bfd72c8a9071
The spikes are also showing up on the ATMC Tokyo monitors. When I looked last night, Australian time, the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Centre Tokyo monitors were also showing a background increase.
If you click the Animate button at the left bottom of the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Centre map, you will see the 24 hr background level increases reflected in the number of stations showing elevated levels over a 24 hour period.
Since yesterday, the wind direction has changed to a northerly direction, so in the animation you see the elevated levels moving from the southern stations to the northern stations on the NETC animation map.
Nuclear Emergency Tracking Centre
http://netc.com/
Present Wind Direction
https://www.windy.com/?2017-05-05-00,40.581,151.128,5
JAPAN
30th April 2017 – Fukushima authorities ask troops to help deal with forest fires near crippled nuclear power plant
Extracts:
Fukushima prefecture has asked the Japanese Self-Defense Forces for help in handling forest fires that have swept areas near the crippled Fukushima power plant, local media report. Strong winds are hindering the firefighting efforts, however.
The forest fires broke out near the town of Namie, some seven kilometers from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday evening, Japanese NHK broadcaster reported.
Comment:
There is no mention in this article of the potential for the re-dispersal of radioactive contamination downwind, by the fire and strong winds. Anyone downwind should be closely monitoring the situation!
The present wind direction indicates potential contamination could blow South East and then inland.
https://www.windy.com/?38.307,142.603,6
List of International Radiation Monitoring Stations
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Article:
https://www.rt.com/news/386662-fukushima-forest-fires-soldiers/
Our gift to the Planet Saturn. Plutonium!
Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn.
(with 73 lb – of plutonium-238 and some cameras)
➡
“Had there been any malfunction causing the Cassini space probe to collide with the Earth, NASA’s complete environmental impact study estimated that, in the worst case (with an acute angle of entry in which Cassini would gradually burn up), a significant fraction of the 33 kg[26] of plutonium-238 inside the RTGs would have been dispersed into the Earth’s atmosphere so that up to five billion people (i.e. almost the entire terrestrial population) could have been exposed, causing up to an estimated 5,000 additional cancer deaths[40] (0.0005 per cent, i.e. a fraction 0.000005, of a billion cancer deaths expected anyway from other causes; the product is incorrectly calculated elsewhere[41] as 500,000 deaths), but the chance of that happening were less than one in one million.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens#Plutonium_power_source
I wonder who makes the final decision to GAMBLE with literally everything and on behalf of what?
I know I certainly didn’t get to vote on it. 😉
Plutonium-238 is a very powerful alpha emitter.
Plutonium-238 has a decay rate, half-life of 87.7 years.
“On December 22, 2015, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory reported that its researchers had successfully produced 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of Pu-238.”
“After an analysis of this sample, production of 300 to 400 grams (11 to 14 oz) of the material per year is planned to begin and then, through automation and scale-up processes, production will increase to an average of 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb) per year.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238#U.S._production_ceases_and_resumes
On the state of Civil Defense and the re-emerging threat of nuclear war.
Writing about the unthinkable. Most would choose to ignore, even ridicule the thoughts. It may help a few readers, so I offer the following.
The potential for a rogue state / North Korea confrontation is greater now than ever. Preparedness is thought of as unfashionable, and the general state of denial of actual danger creates even more danger.
Everyone will do precisely the wrong thing in reacting to an attack. There will be no warnings issued, most countermeasures will fail, people will leave safe locations for unsafe ones. That mushroom cloud in the distance? Their first thought will be… “What a great selfie this will make!” Don’t forget your SPF 1,000,000 sunblock kids.
No Civil Defense shelters (except for the elites). No stockpiles of food, water, or radiation detectors. No drills for where to go, what to do, and for how long. Answers: Stay inside, away from windows, preferably underground for at least two weeks, breathe filtered air, drink emergency stocks of water, eat canned goods, keep fallout out. If you must be briefly outdoors, don Tyvek outer clothing then rinse off, strip off, and crawl back underground. And, get used to the dark when the batteries run out.
That’s why I’ve been working on my bucket list. Everyday I savor the (mostly) blue skies, fresh air, and a walk in the woods. I’ve updated my emergency supplies, and water stores. Plenty of plastic tarps and duct tape for sealing windows and doors.
I know I’m an amateur, not a real Prepper. And no one thinks “it” will ever really happen. At times, I feel it is ridiculous to even try to be prepared. But, at least I’ve thought about it, and I won’t make the mistake of rushing towards the windows to see what is happening when the flash goes off.
I knew someone who survived a nuclear attack. She was just one kilometer from the hypocenter of the blast.. Sheltering underground, she, and others, waited only a few hours before leaving the shelter. They walked around in the fallout, helping survivors for several weeks. Amazingly, just 15 years old, she survived the ordeal and lived to be 80. No special preparation, special clothing, or access to personal emergency stocks of food and water. She survived because she was in the right location at the right time, avoiding the initial blast and radiation. Then she and others eventually moved out away from the immediate area of destruction, and lived to tell about it.
Should we just hope to be one of the fortunate ones, to be sheltered by chance at the right time? Or should we choose to be ready?
International Radiation Monitoring Networks
The world is very tense at present, all the reports are indicating a major war could break out, so it would be a good idea to be prepared. Hopefully common sense will prevail, and conflict will be avoided.
A large number of people were desperate to find radiation monitoring station locations after Fukushima. They found this to be difficult because there was no comprehensive International list, plus some monitoring systems were difficult to find.
This free community resource was created after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe so people could quickly locate International radiation monitoring stations in the event of a major nuclear event. It is regularly updated.
In the event of a major nuclear disaster or war, this site may become overloaded, so it is suggested that you download the PDF version of this list onto your personal device, laptop, mobile phone etc from this site. This way you can access the International Radiation Monitoring Station list from your personal device. Check this site for future updates to the list and download the latest version. Let people know this free resource is available.
List of International Radiation Monitoring Stations
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Wind direction
Wind direction is an important factor in determining where the radiation will go. Under the “Helpful Tools and Services” item at the top of the page, you will find a link to the Nullschool 3D Earth wind map service.
This service allows you to see location wind direction at different heights. You can rotate the map by holding down your mouse on the map, and dragging. If you use your mouse scroll wheel you can zoom the map in and out.
If you click on the “Earth” item at the lower left corner of the Nullschool map page, a menu will pop up, that allows you to select the wind height.
Free Guides
These free guides can also be downloaded from the top of the International list page.
Free Geiger Counter Use Guide
http://technologypals.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Using-a-Geiger-Counter-to-test-food-for-Radioactive-Contamination.pdf
Free DIY food testing lab guide
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/How-to-set-up-a-home-or-community-food-testing-lab-for-radioactive-contamination.pdf
TEPCO’s Timeline ➡
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommissiontraject/index-e.html
IMHO:
Fancy intro.
Still ‘claim’ cold shutdown. (?)
Nice clock.
The future part of the timeline does not extend nearly far enough!
TEPCO’s timeline does not show how many lives will be forever altered because of this insane nuclear debacle either.
Southern Hemisphere March 2017 Background Report.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report
On Thursday the 30th March 2017, the Sunshine Coast Australia was bracing for a torrential downpour from remnants of ex-Cyclone Debbie. The South East was going into shut down, schools and businesses closed. As the rain fronts came down the east coast of Australia, we saw spikes in local background levels.
On the 29th, the day average was 51% above average. On the 30th when the main weather system, left over from Debbie, came through, the local background 24 hour day average spiked even more. The day average was 0.215 uSv/hr which is ~115% above average for this location!
Day average chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2017.jpg
What do the chart colour Alert codes mean?
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
24 hour 60 second logging chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-300317.jpg
A part of this increase in background radiation level was probably caused by an increased amount of atmospheric Radon gas. More Radon gas is forced out of the ground during heavy rain events. The increase in Radon levels is seen in the live Radon monitoring chart, screen shot below. In my opinion not all this significant increase in background levels on the 30th, can be attributed to an increase in Radon levels.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ThereminoGeiger_2017_03_30_21_51_41.jpg
We had a similar rain event occur here in March 2012. These lows suck moisture in from the tropics and then bring it down the east coast of Australia.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-29/cyclone-debbie-big-picture-view-from-space/8396684
The same advisory suggestions for March 2012 apply whenever one of these tropical rain events occur, as they did in 2012.
Report from March 5th 2012
Average background up to 8.30am 0.145uSv/Hr, 24 hr average 0.185 uS/Hr elevated – Advisory Issued
It may be wise to stay out of the rain. I am getting indoor peaks up to 0.63 uS/hr on the Geiger Counter, as this rain event moves through. It suggests it may be radioactively hotter outside. Maybe worth letting your local friends know. If you or a child gets wet in it, have a good shower when you can. I have no idea what isotopes are in the rain, only that my Geiger counter is registering 6x higher than our normal background radiation, in peaks. These peaks are only lasting for a very short period of time.
Month day average,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2012.jpg
24 hour 60 second logging chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/24-hour-background-radiation-chart-05032012.jpg
Caloundra March month average year comparisons.
The March month average data indicates a steady in crease in Southern Hemisphere local background levels has occurred over the years, since Fukushima. If we are getting background increases here in the Southern Hemisphere, it suggests that areas in the Northern Hemisphere would be greater.
2017 38% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 31% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 24% above pre-Fukushima average
Year and month average local background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
17th March 2017 – In first, government and Tepco found liable for Fukushima disaster
Extracts:
A court in Japan has ruled for the first time that the government and the operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant were responsible for failing to take preventive measures against the March 11, 2011, quake-triggered tsunami that killed scores and forced tens of thousands from their homes.
The district court ordered the two to pay damages totaling ¥38.55 million to 62 of 137 plaintiffs from 45 households located near the plant, which suffered a triple meltdown caused by the tsunami, awarding ¥70,000 to ¥3.5 million in compensation to each plaintiff.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/03/17/national/crime-legal/first-government-tepco-found-liable-fukushima-disaster/#.WMy4hJTiDtQ
Comment:
The case of the USS Reagan Sailors has draw on for years now. Most Americans are not aware of the injustice these servicemen and women have been subjected to! Some have already pasted away, and others as well as being sick themselves now have sick children. A large number of US military personnel have become seriously ill, after being exposed to Fukushima fallout during the 2011 earthquake relief effort in Japan.
These brave members of the US services should be supported, but there has been a news blackout! Their case has constantly been delayed. Look at how many views the video below has had since July 2015.
21st July 2015 – USS Reagan Sailors Sue for Nuclear Justice
Extract:
Attorney Charles Bonner gives an update on his class action litigation on behalf of military personnel harmed by exposure to Fukushima fallout during an aid mission. The suit targets the plant operator and its manufacturers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zGbG2dTvo&feature=youtu.be
Be aware I’m not an American citizen. I’m Australian.
Six years of ongoing nonstop Nuclear Meltdowns.
When immune systems fail, heart muscles weaken and a doctor informs you that you have two types of rare cancer, then, not a lot else matters. A close relative of mine gave me this news not too long ago. She cried and said she should have listened to me when I advised her not to drink the milk after Fukushima. What do you say to that? I tried to console her with well, maybe it’s from when you lived in Simi Valley in the early 80’s or perhaps the fact you have lived within 2 miles of the Landfill in St. Louis for 20 years. I don’t think that helped much. 🙁
From my personal observation this scenario IS playing out more and more. To a faster and a far greater extent than we may all realize. Perhaps exponentially, but we’ll never know it.
IMHO – The Fukushima’s MELTDOWNS should be treated as an act of war. A war against our planet and the existence of every living thing as we know it. Japan, along with all countries and academics in the world really need to come together and be transparent. Organizing our knowledge base toward survival of this insane nightmare should be priority one.
My simple prediction is that, avoiding radiation, (mitigation), should/will become the rule of the day. Anything less will just be haphazard or foolish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#The_Seven_Ten_Rule
What if the FALLOUT is ongoing and accumulating?
… 6 YEARS, with no real plan and no end in site!
Southern Hemisphere February 2017 Background Report.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Report for February 2017. (42% above average)
The Caloundra monthly average charts for February 2012 and 2013 showed wild fluctuations (Charts Below). Now the charts show less volatility, but the average background is higher. This suggests to me that everything is now more evenly mixed in the atmosphere. Even so, background levels have still increased. Interestingly, we had very little rain in February this year, compared to previous years.
Caloundra February month average year comparisons.
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 39% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 37% above pre-Fukushima average
February 2017 had the highest recorded February month average background since Fukushima!
Month average chart for February 2017
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2017.jpg
Month average chart for February 2013
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2013.jpg
Month average chart for February 2012
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2012.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
ALERT. Iodine 131 found in wide areas across Europe. No one knows why or the source of the contamination.
http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-02-22-nuclear-accident-cover-up-radioactive-iodine-131-detected-across-europe-no-one-knows-why.html
EUROPE
13th February 2017 – Iodine 131 just reported by European Agency. Incident happened in January 2017!
Extracts:
As usual, we are warned after the fact.
And of course, the IRSN will carefully avoid telling us who is responsible for this pollution. Iodine-131, a radionuclide of artificial origin, was detected in January 2017 as traces in air at ground level in Europe.
Comment:
The largest detection seems to have been in Poland, from the 9th to the 16th of January 2017.
https://nuclear-news.net/2017/02/15/iodine-131-just-reported-by-european-agency-incident-happened-in-january-2017/
MALAYSIA
14th February 2016 – Stolen radioactive material found in Malaysian apartment building
Extracts:
Iridium-192, a substance which can potentially be used in a dirty bomb, has been found at a Malaysian apartment complex prompting fears that residents there may have been exposed to the hazardous material.
South Klang district police said residents needed urgent health checks after two stolen radioactive canisters were found with their seals broken, exposing people to the dangerous substance.
Humans are capable of receiving 20 millisieverts of gamma rays a year, however, these canisters had the gamma ray capacity of up to 300 millisieverts per hour, according to the ALEB.
Comment:
Worldwide, the theft of highly radioactive material happens much more frequently than the general public are aware off.
https://www.rt.com/news/377355-stolen-radioactive-material-malaysia/
JAPAN
3rd February 2017 – Record radiation level detected inside damaged Fukushima reactor
Extracts:
TOKYO —
A record radiation level has been detected inside the No. 2 reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, with the estimated reading of up to 530 sieverts per hour, the plant operator said Thursday.
The new radiation level, described by some experts as “unimaginable,” far exceeds 73 sieverts per hour, the previously highest radiation reading monitored in the interior of the reactor.
An official of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences said medical professionals have never considered dealing with this level of radiation in their work.
Comment:
We don’t have the technology available to deal with these extremely high radiation levels! Neither man nor machine can withstand these levels of radiation. It has been nearly six years now, and the buildings are structurally deteriorating, and are located in an earthquake zone, another disaster waiting to happen!
https://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/record-radiation-level-detected-inside-damaged-fukushima-reactor
Southern Hemisphere January 2017 Background Report.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra day average chart for January 2017. (42% above average)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-January-2017.jpg
Caloundra January month average year comparisons.
2017 42% above pre-Fukushima average
2016 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 40% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 41% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 52% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
January 2017 saw the usual post Fukushima, seasonal increase in background level, as warmer air flows from the tropics reach this location.
Year and month average local background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
From our friend and environmental activist Gene Stone of Residents Organized For a Safe Environment (ROSE) which was instrumental in the shuttering of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS):
My dear Environmental and politically concerned friends,
An action alert for your consideration. As a member of the resistance to trump’s fascist and racist coup of our government I would like to suggest we make a concerted effort to let corporations and their CEOs know that we will not tolerate their support of trump’s attack on our environment or women’s rights/human rights, civil rights or our freedom of religion and that means any religion. We also stand with our native brothers and sisters at Standing Rock and in solidarity of native Sovereign lands. If they expect us to buy their products we expect them to support these rights.
Everytime I see a senator or representative (state or federal) make a tweet, I Tweet back to them and suggest strongly if they want my support in 2018 they will stand strong with the people against the trump agenda. I am also doing this whenever I see a tweet from any Corporation and let them know that if they expect me to spend my shopping dollars with them that I will not do business with companies or corporations that support his fascist agenda. My wife and I started by calling L.L.Bean and letting them know that we would never buy from them again. They had gotten quite a number of calls and tried desperately to let us know they wanted our business. We told them we wanted their support for freedom. We have been using all types of social media, emails and the telephone. After seeing on the news how many of the large corporations acquiesced immediately when they thought their bottom line would be affected, I believe this to be a sound and important strategy and defense of Human Rights and the rights of the people to demand the government work for us and not the corporations.
“Once or twice in every generation a line is crossed so egregiously that where you stood on the issue will forever define you.” Kara Vallow
If you agree with this action please share it with your list and Friends, thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Gene Stone
Residents Organized For a Safe Environment (ROSE)
949-XXX-XXXX, On twitter @gene_stone
http://residentsorganizedforasafeenvironment.wordpress.com/
http://partofthearth.blogspot.com/
Southern Hemisphere Year Background Report For 2016.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra day average chart for December 2016. (36% above average)
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-December-2016.jpg
Caloundra December month average year comparisons.
2016 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 35% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 36% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 43% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
Even thought December 2016 had a lower December month average background compared to December 2012, the 2016 year average background level was the highest recorded here since Fukushima. The 2016 year average was 25% above pre-Fukushima recorded year average. At this Southern Hemisphere location, the local year average background has seen an increase in local background levels since Fukushima (see chart below). If we are seeing a steady increase in year averages here in the Southern Hemisphere, it suggests that locations in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing much greater yearly increases.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Caloundra-yearly-average-background-radiation-levels.jpg
Year and month average local background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
JAPAN
23rd December 2016 – Fuel removal at Fukushima reactor again faces delay
Extracts:
But the clearing work took longer than expected due to contamination being more widespread than previously thought, forcing TEPCO and the government to again put off the retrieval.
Radiation levels have now dropped as almost all of wreckage at the site has been cleared, TEPCO said. The government and TEPCO have said fuel retrieval at the No. 1 and No. 2 reactor buildings will start in fiscal 2020 or later.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201612230043.html
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For November 2016. (32% above average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra day average chart for November 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-November-2016.jpg
Caloundra November month average year comparisons.
2016 32% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 37% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 29% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 30% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 31% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
November 2016 had the the second highest month average local background since Fukushima. At the beginning of the month warm tropical air flows reached this location, this created the initial spike in local background levels. Background levels dropped for the rest of the month, as more Southern air flows reached this location, from the Southern Ocean.
Yearly average background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
JAPAN
11th December 2016 – Mutated Blood Found In Humans In Japan — From Fukushima Radiation
Extract:
New blood types called Langereis and Junior, to distinguish them from traditional classifications. According to scientists, this phenomenon is associated with the leakage of radioactive substances resulting from the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
According to doctors, is to be expected in the near future to see additional changes. What scientists are saying in the future there will be at least another 15 new blood groups.
https://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/mutated-blood-found-in-humans-in-japan.html
[Editor: We sourced this back to CCTV which gives no sources of its own other than “scientists” therefore this is not confirmed by EnviroReporter.com and is speculative.]
@ Another Simi Mom
“If you believe this news story I’ve got a bridge to sell you:”
Correct, just posted this report into “Radiation Food Lab.”
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/02/radiation-food-lab/#comment-311327
8th December 2016 – Tokyo increases Fukushima operator’s interest-free loan limit to $123bn
Extracts:
The extra 5 trillion yen ($44 billion) loan on top of the original 9 trillion yen ($79 billion) is destined to cover the costs of compensation and decontaminating areas around the plant, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The government plans to have TEPCO and other utilities pay back the loans, Japan’s NHK World reported, as part of the cost will pass to consumers through higher electricity rates.
Last month the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said that the combined costs of paying compensation for the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the decommissioning of the plant will almost double the initial estimate and will cost over 20 trillion yen ($176 billion).
Comment:
The Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe cleanup costs just keep skyrocketing, with no end in sight!
https://www.rt.com/news/369574-japan-tepco-loan-ceiling/
If you believe this news story I’ve got a bridge to sell you:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201612060039.html
24 November 2016 – Missing Bushehr Radioactive Device Raises Concerns
Extracts:
Tamimi told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), there are concerns of negative impact of the Iranian nuclear program that could pollute the waters of the Arabian Gulf.
The chairman said most Gulf countries depend on the desalination of sea water and the matter is very critical especially if the contamination reaches desalination stations.
Comment:
The device went missing after the vehicle transporting it was stolen. How many times have I heard this same story over the years? So much for the nuclear industry’s radioactive material safety claim.
http://english.aawsat.com/2016/11/article55362750/missing-bushehr-radioactive-device-raises-concerns
Here’s some live video in real time of the latest earthquake off the coast of Fukushima. The shaking lasted for at least 90 seconds.
EQ vids:
http://caferadlab.com/thread-1549-post-3053.html#pid3053
Screenshot of Unit 3 belching heavy pink emissions in the hours following the quakes.
http://caferadlab.com/attachment.php?aid=925
I’ve seen several news reports about the quake and it’s stated that all is okay and of no concern at the Nuclear Plants in Japan. I would disagree.
My question to ALL is where does the ‘fake’ news get separated from the so called real news and who gets to make that decision? Is leaving out important information just as improper?
(referring to Mark Zuckerberg talking about controlling fake news on Facebook.)
http://www.today.com/video/mark-zuckerberg-details-facebook-s-new-plans-amid-fake-news-concerns-813545027735
EPA proposing massive allowable increase in radiological contamination of our drinking water. Please oppose this now!
https://www.nirs.org/
Click on Take Action tab. Thanks.
21st November 2016 – Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami
Extract:
The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake. TEPCO said it managed to restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure.
https://www.rt.com/news/367714-fukushima-reactor-cooling-earthquake/
Magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Fukushima Japan today. Tsunami warning issued.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/21/japan-earthquake-73-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-fukushima/
(Video) 16th November 2016 – Giant radiation shield built to cap Chernobyl’s damaged nuclear reactor
Extract:
A giant radiation shield is being manoevered over the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the final phase of a €1.5 billion (US$1.6bn) project to prevent the leaking of further radioactive material from the damaged reactor.
Comment:
Look at the size of this structure that they are moving into place, it is 350 feet tall and more than 530 feet long. This very expensive temporary cover will also need to be replaced in a 100 years!
Video of structure being moved
https://www.rt.com/in-motion/367148-giant-radiation-shield-chernobyl/
Wikipedia extract:
The total cost of the Shelter Implementation Plan, of which the New Safe Confinement is the most prominent element, is estimated to be around €2.15 billion (US$3.09 billion).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For October 2016. (22% above average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra day average chart for October 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-October-2016.jpg
Caloundra October month average year comparisons.
2016 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 14% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 25% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 19% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
There has been another up tick in background levels at this location for October 2016. This is the second highest October month average since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Mom Lung Cancer, Dad, BLADDER Cancer, Brother, Rectum, large Tumor, sister, female Cancer,
STEP Mother, Cancer, Aunt BLADDER Cancer! Next Door Neighbor Cancer! All these Cancers, people who lived in Simi Valley from 1962-1980’s
Parts of WIPP in New Mexico will never reopen:
https://www.abqjournal.com/868005/part-of-wipp-closing-over-employee-safety-concerns.html
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For September 2016. (12% above average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Caloundra day average chart for September 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-September-2016.jpg
Caloundra September month average year comparisons.
2016 12% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 15% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 13% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
There has been a small up tick in background levels at this location for September. September 2013 and 2012 were the only years that had higher background levels here, since the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe.
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
@Another Simi Mom @all
Note:
Los Alamos county New Mexico is near the top of highest incomes of any county in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States#2010_Census
I guess the health and safety of the people who work and live around Los Alamos is more important than the health and safety of people who live around the Santa Susana Field Lab aka Rocketdyne:
https://www.abqjournal.com/846975/report-details-scope-of-los-alamos-nuclear-waste-cleanup.html
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For August 2016. (8% above average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing, http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
Caloundra day average chart for August 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-August-2016.jpg
Caloundra August month average year comparisons.
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Evidence of HIGH RAD readings at Fukushima.
* 187 uSV microsieverts
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=187+microsieverts
Inside Fukushima’s Time Bomb (Aug 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcLo51IZnos
This ‘tour’ of the Fukushima plant was cut short.
Time Distance = Dose
Four inch sheets of lead line the roads, didn’t seem to help.
This video does cover some touchy, usually not mentioned topics. However, it leaves out some important ones too. Such as, how badly the ocean is being contaminated.
Screen Shots: 155 & 187 uSv
http://caferadlab.com/thread-317-post-2233.html#pid2233
It will never be the same. What’s the cost of that? 🙁
JAPAN
28th August 2016 – Public cost of Fukushima nuclear accident cleanup topped ¥4.2 trillion as of end of March
Extracts:
The public cost of dealing with the aftermath of the March 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s stricken Fukushima No. 1 plant topped ¥4.2 trillion by the end of fiscal 2015, it was learned Sunday.
According to the study, a total of ¥2.34 trillion was disbursed for decontamination of affected areas, disposal of contaminated waste and an interim storage facility for tainted soil. The expense was shouldered by the government, mainly through affiliated Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corp.
Tepco and six other power utilities charged their customers at least ¥327 billion in electricity rate hikes after Japan’s worst-ever nuclear accident.
Comment:
¥4.2 trillion (around $628 billion) is an astronomical amount of money. This was the clean up cost up to the end of the 2015 fiscal year! What is the total cost now?
A very important point not mentioned in this report is the staggering costs involved in cleaning up the other seriously damaged Japanese nuclear reactors, that have been conveniently forgotten about by the mainstream media!
The Japanese Government admitted in May 2011 that there were a lot more nuclear reactors seriously damaged, not just the 4 at the Fukushima Nuclear disaster site. We have no real information on what has been happening at those other nuclear disaster sites, because of the news blackout.
Quote:
“According to Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), the earthquake and subsequent tsunami affected fourteen nuclear reactors at four sites along the eastern coast the Fukushima Daiichi site (six reactors), Fukushima Daini site (four reactors), the Ongawa site (three reactors) and the Tokai site (one reactor). The most serious damage occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.”
Article:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/28/national/public-cost-fukushima-nuclear-accident-cleanup-topped-%C2%A54-2-trillion-end-march/
Photo array from San Ononfre showing where storage units are soon to be built and installed: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/nuclear-727227-fuel-storage.html
I was the fourth child in my family and the only one born in Grand Junction, CO. I was diagnosed with CMT1A. It is a neuro muscular disease. I also have neuropathy. Is there anyone else who has been diagnosed with this disease? No one else in my family has this disease, including my parents. I did not inherit it and I am curious if uranium deposits etc. had anything to do with it.
Linda
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For July 2016. (8% above average)
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing, http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
Caloundra day average chart for July 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-July-2016.jpg
Caloundra July month average year comparisons.
2016 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 5% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 6% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 9% above pre-Fukushima average
Report:
At this location in the winter months, air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens, local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. You can clearly see this seasonal variation in the yearly average background report, link below.
Yearly average background radiation levels
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
19th July 2016 – San Onofre Nuclear Leak Caused by Pushing Generator Limits, Watchdog Group Says
Extracts:
The cause of a leak in 2012 that led to the permanent shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station was steam generators being deliberately run too hot, too hard and too fast, according to a report released Tuesday by an independent watchdog organization.
“Edison knew they were pushing San Onofre’s steam generators past the original design limit, but did it anyway for the sake of short-term profits and to correct other design deficiencies as a result of SCE’s unverified analytical assumptions,” Arora alleged.
http://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/san-onofre-nuclear-leak-caused-pushing-generator-limits-watchdog
Alert level detection, with a peak of up to ~ 19 uSv/hr showing on a Romanian Carie private monitoring station on the,
http://www.uradmonitor.com private monitoring network.
Screen Shot:
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Romania-Carie-on-uradmonitor-230716-19-uSv-hr.png
Quote from this report:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=UEV-20160721-54185-UKR
“MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) has said that on July 16 a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP), while the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom denied the information.”
The surface wind direction is coming from the Ukraine to this Romanian location at present.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-334.38,44.44,3000/loc=31.675,48.987
This maybe a coincidence, or a malfunctioning station. It is the only private monitoring station in Romania showing very high peak detections at present. No official Ukrainian background monitoring stations are showing any significant background increase.
Tools you need to keep an eye on this, can be found on the International Radiation Monitoring Station list page,
http://sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Non-categorized event in Ukraine on July 21 2016 10:29 AM (UTC).
Extract:
MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) has said that on July 16 a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (NPP), while the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom denied the information. “I learnt from reliable sources that the government is hiding the seriousness of the accident occurred on July 16 at reactor one of Khmelnytsky NPP with the depressurization of the reactor primary circuit and leakage of radioactive coolant to the nuclear steam generator. In addition, nuclear fuel leaked, which is a critical situation,” he wrote on his Facebook page. He said that on Monday a meeting with participation of Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion and Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk was held on Monday to discuss the issue and one more government meeting is scheduled for Thursday. The press service of Energoatom told Interfax-Ukraine that information of Artemenko is not true. He took it from unknown and unverified sources and misinformed citizens, they said. “On July 16, reactor one of Khmelnytsky NPP was disconnected from power grid as there was leakage at nuclear steam generator one, and Energoatom informed about it quickly on its website. This is not leakage of nuclear fuel… Radiation level on the industrial site and adjacent areas have not changed.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=UEV-20160721-54185-UKR
Fifty powerful nuclear bombs sitting under airbase in Turkey guarded by American soldiers in NATO uniforms. This scenario may not end well.
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/07/20/turkeys-nukes-a-sum-of-all-fears/
Southern Hemisphere June 2016 Local Background Level Report, (7% above average)
Stations Location Map,
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
What the chart colour codes indicate in the charts.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Report:
At this location in the winter months air flows tend to come from the Southern Ocean, rather than from the tropical North. When this happens local background levels tend to drop significantly, so compared to the summer months, winter local background levels approach pre-Fukushima levels. There was a small background level spike on the 19th of June. This occurred as a significant rain event passed over the area.
Caloundra day average chart for June 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-June-2016.jpg
Caloundra June month average year comparisons.
2016 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 3% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 3% above pre-Fukushima average
Long term local background information can be found here,
http://sccc.org.au/archives/2630
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented on this web site, without further research.
New EPA proposal could make American’s drinking water THOUSANDS of times more radioactive.
http://www.naturalnews.com/054526_water_pollution_radiation_EPA.html
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!!
Southern Hemisphere May 2016 Rain Water Testing Results
Station location:
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern, and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing,
http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
May 2016 down pipe rain water filter test report
There was 123 mm of rainfall in May, at this location.
Small amounts of Pb-210 and Be-7 where detected, plus a very small detection of a possible 77 X-ray from Lead Pb-212, which is the decay daughter of Radon-220. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay. Both Be-7 and Pb-210 can also be released from nuclear power plants, and nuclear accidents. The detection of the Pb-212 77 keV X-ray probably indicates the presents of a small trace of volcanic ash in the air.
May 2016 rain water filter test chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Down-pipe-May-paper-filter-020616-TV7-18c-84600-B-text.png
Entergy’s FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant on Lake Ontario near Syracuse, NY is scheduled to be permanently closed in early 2017. However, the U.S. Coast Guard noticed a problem today, with an unknown fluid seemingly coming from the power plant and leaving a sheen on the lake: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/2690081/sheen-lake-ontario
A brief story has been posted by AP and other news sources are picking it up: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_LAKE_ONTARIO_SHEEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-06-26-22-18-53
As EPA’s political appointee staff prepares to go out of office, they’re apparently positioning themselves to help their friends, including vastly increasing the allowable radioactivity in drinking water:
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/watch-out-for-a-possible-increase-in-radioactivity-in-your-drinking-water#.V2N0XArviZA.email
The tweet from SafeCast on their twitter is not just lame, it’s frightening.
SAFECAST @safecast Jun 15
“Readings were 1 day 6 mos ago. Likely xray machine or person getting radiation”
A pregnant woman walking down the street that day in New York did not have a clue. A major RADIOACTIVE EVENT may have occurred according to Safecast’s data. Those Safecast numbers were very high.
IMO – Could be doing more damage than terrorists with guns or explosives and nobody will know… therefore, nobody will care.
What sort of evil exists within governments that wish to keep this sort of information from becoming publicly known. It is the government’s #1 responsibility to PROTECT it’s people. Any so called government that is not doing so, or is actively removing technology that can protect us, must be held to account. This is evil and it is madness! Raising levels of acceptable exposures to radioactivity internally or externally is an abomination, not rooted in any science whatsoever. It makes one think our own government is trying to kill us. What other conclusion can you come too???
@Michael, This whole exercise shows there is no system in place to investigate this type of detection, by private or government organizations.
“We are down to 9 (NINE) working beta stations out of 130 sites. Beyond outrageous.”
The USA government monitoring system is being dismantled, at the same time they are raising the acceptable amounts of radiation exposure to ridiculous levels. They are still using the outdated dose model. Anyone who has done any research understands this antiquated model has no baring on the serious health effects that are caused by the internal ingestion of artificial isotopes.
Mind you, this is also happening in other countries. There seems to be a concerted worldwide effort through regulatory capture, to increase the acceptable toxic load populations will accept. These sick bastards don’t care about human populations, your children or grand children, their only objective is profit margins.
Look at the latest EPA Draft Protective Action Guide (PAG) for Drinking Water after a Radiological Incident,
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-06/documents/epa_drinking_water_pag_fr_notice_6-1-16r_pre-pub.pdf
The deadlines for comment submission is the 25th of July, and people can submit comments here.
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/10/2016-13786/notice-of-availability-draft-protective-action-guide-pag-for-drinking-water-after-a-radiological
@vital1: That really is pathetic. Do individual operators on these systems keep records? Six month lag is not acceptable. Out of the New York sites Buffalo‘s beta and gamma graphs work. Inspecting both reveals that the beta and gamma increases don’t correspond very closely meaning all these RadNet gamma graphs are very helpful, if at all. Thank you vital1 for being our One Man International Radiation Station!
Update on the New York detection.
I requested permission to publish the Safecast’s representative’s email reply. They pointed me to the Safecast Twitter account, as Safecast does not publicly comment or advocate, it simply collects and publishes data.
Here is Safecast’s Twitter reply to my query on the New York detection.
A couple of quotes,
“Normal, not error, not a concern.”
“Reading were for 1 day 6 mos ago”
Full details here.
https://twitter.com/safecast/status/743090247517360129
Personally I feel that Twitter is a very poor way to communicate.
@Chase: We are down to 9 (NINE) working beta stations out of 130 sites. Beyond outrageous.
EPA Radnet contract renewal.
“Total estimated cost: $2,478,647 (per year), includes $2,338,804 annualized capital or operation & maintenance costs.”
(Only 9 out of 130 rad detectors working… where’s that maintenance money going?)
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2016/06/15/2016-14177/proposed-information-collection-request-comment-request-radnet-renewal
Proposed Information Collection Request; Comment Request; RadNet (Renewal)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection (EPA).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2003–0041, online using http://www.regulations.gov (our preferred method), by email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460.
“EPA’s policy is that all comments received will be included in the public docket without change including any personal information provided, unless the comment includes PROFANITY, threats, information claimed to be Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. ”
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-06-15/pdf/2016-14177.pdf
@Michael, I have contacted Safecast through their web site contact form.
This was sent to Safecast.
Very elevated background New York detection on the Safecast monitoring network. In some locations it is above 3.99 uSv/hr. Not sure how often Safecast refreshes the maps, so there is some uncertainty how recent this detection is.
Is this a genuine detection that would need investigation by local authorities?
I don’t live in the USA, so someone needs to contact the relevant local authority if it is.
Hopefully you can quickly establish if this detection is a result of equipment malfunction, or something to be concerned about.
http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=40.7448&x=-73.9798&z=15
@vital1: There is no relevant local authority in a country now down to just 9 out of 130 working beta monitors. Safecast could be contacted by you should you want to investigate. One beta machine works in New York state and shows moderate increase. Gamma is active in NYC.
I don’t live in the USA, so someone needs to contact the relevant local authority.
Hopefully they will quickly establish if this detection is a result of equipment malfunction, or something to be concerned about.
A very elevated background New York detection is showing on the Safecast monitoring network. The map shows detections above 3.99 uSv/hr in some locations. Not sure how often Safecast refreshes their maps, so there is some uncertainty how recent this detection is.
Is it a genuine detection? That would need investigation by local authorities.
http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=40.7448&x=-73.9798&z=15
If I’m not mistaken the entire town of Grand Junction, Colorado was built using nuclear waste. The sidewalks and streets are made of it.
@Chase
“One of the main things I learned here is that we ARE disposing of radioactive waste from Nuke plants. The ways we are disposing and using this stuff will amaze you. It’s in products and building materials etc”
Yes, they turn the waste into a product, that way you can make a profit out of it, and you don’t have expensive disposal costs. It doesn’t matter about the suffering, pain, and environmental damage you cause, when money is your God!
@vital1
I think they got the crazy road building idea from the USA.
(see Note 2 below)
from the EnvoroReporter Comments Archive:
_________
Chase says:
July 9, 2011 at 9:35 pm
Regarding Fukushima:
“We are at an exposure level that should not be there!”
“No way to contain it, no way to clean it up… they do NOT realize the extent of the problem.”
“Do we have a world wide problem? YES!”
“Are we prepared? NO!”
– Dr. Doug Rokke (pronounced rocky)
DR Rokke is a Depleted Uranium Expert: (specializing in clean ups)
bio: http://www.thepowerhour.com/news3/doug_rokke_bio.htm
Radio interview at the University of Illinois by Roger Cooper located at this link –
47 minutes: http://www.podomatic.com/profile/rogercooper99
(note: link no longer working, I am glad I wrote down at least a couple of these things.)
I learned a tremendous amount from this interview. One of the main things I learned here is that we ARE disposing of radioactive waste from Nuke plants. The ways we are disposing and using this stuff will amaze you. It’s in products and building materials etc… Such as airplane ballasts, golf clubs and more… if these things burn in a crash or fire… then uh oh.
Note 1: DU – Depleted Uranium – DEPLETED does not mean depleted is this case. It’s a word that is used specifically to deceive.
Note 2: Interstate 40 near St. Louis, MO has concrete made with DU. The workers who built that freeway are very sick.
__________
I can also remember seeing Safecast readings of a very ‘hot’ Santa Monica freeway. If you get stuck on the freeway there it’s ‘sort of like’ getting an unnecessary free x-ray. I am pretty sure this ‘stuff’ has been ‘dumped’ and ‘mixed’ into all kinds of stuff that most are unaware of. 🙁
7th June 2016 – Radioactive soil to be used in base layer for new roads
Extract:
The Environment Ministry on Tuesday drew up a basic plan to use soil contaminated with radioactive substances from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant to build roads.
Under the basic plan, tainted soil with relatively low radioactive cesium concentrations of up to 5,000 to 8,000 becquerels per kilogram will be used to form the base layer of roads.
Comment:
Madness!!!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/06/07/national/radioactive-soil-to-be-used-in-base-layer-for-new-roads/#.V1jswvnAPtS
Southern Hemisphere May 2016 Local Background Level Report, (20% above average)
Stations Location Map,
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
What the chart colour codes indicate in the charts.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Day average chart for May 2016
There were a couple of significant day average spikes a the beginning of May 2016. From then to the end of May, day average background levels dropped significantly, from a high of 47% above average to 6%, a near pre-Fukushima normal background.
This significant drop in background over the month occurred as less tropical air, and more Southern Ocean air flows reach this location. May, April, March and February this year have seen the highest May, April, March and February month averages since Fukushima.
Caloundra May month average year comparisons.
2016 20% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 4% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 13% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 7% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 7% above pre-Fukushima average
May day average chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2016.jpg
Cairns May 2016 Report – “My readings taken with my old Gamma Scout have been surprisingly flat. I have recorded the readings of the newly received second Gamma Scout as well, which appear on the left side of the graph, not on the right, as they should be.”
May background comparison chart, Cairns (red) compared to Caloundra (orange).
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-May-2016.jpg
For comparison, long term average background level yearly and monthly charts from 2007 to 2016, can be found here.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Long term local background information can be found here,
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/fukushima/radiation-station-sunshine-coast-australia/
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
There is a high detection showing at Boston’s Logan International airport terminal B building, on the Safecast community monitoring network. It is ~ 3.99 uSv/hr!
http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=42.36062&x=-71.02174&z=16
Possibilities:
a. Someone may have taken their Safecast Geiger counter through a TSA scanner?
b. Some sort of food or goods irradiating quarantine facility?
c. Malfunctioning detector?
Is it something to be concerned about?
I have looked around at a number of International airports on Safecast. At present Bostons Logan International airport is the only one showing a large radiation detection at a terminal building.
I suggest someone in the US makes inquiries to eliminate if it is something to be concerned about, or not.
Also, another high detection is showing up on what would have to be a ship, ferry, or boat off the coast of Boston, on the Safecast community monitoring network. From the colour of the detection marker, it looks like around ~ 0.87 uSv/hr.
Ship, ferry, or boat?
http://safecast.org/tilemap/?y=42.292&x=-71.354&z=9
Thanks vital 1 for the information. FYI there is a website dedicated to shielding products and sensors relating to EMF exposure. There are ways of lessening the exposure to microwaves in our homes and on our persons. Here is a link to the site; http://www.lessemf.com/
In a world of increasing toxic load, it is important to reduce anything that may cause biological stress to the body. There is ample research showing that Mobile phone and WiFi technologies that are based on microwave radiation, can potentially be harmful.
Page two of this free Wifi Safety Guide provides a list of practical things people can do to reduce their family’s exposer to WiFi radiation.
http://sccc.org.au/wifi/microwave-safety-chart.pdf
A local newspaper has also based this article on these practical ideas.
Top tips on how to reduce radiation exposure.
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/top-tips-on-how-to-reduce-radiation-exposure/3033107/
RT is reporting today, 5/24/16, that the decomissioning chief at Fukushima, a Mr. Naohiro Masuda, has reported that 600 tons of melted fuel is “missing”. RT also says in sum and substance that following the tsunami and explosions 3 reactors gained critical temperature and burnt through the respective reactor pressure vessels, concentrating fuel somewhere on the lower levels of the station currently filled with water.
Masuda supposedly said that while all the melted fuel from Reactor 1 poured out completely, an estimated 30% to 50% of the fuel from Reactors 2 and 3 remained in and around the reactors. Masuda supposedly estimated that approximately 200 tons of fuel debris lies within each unit, which makes in total about 600 tons of melted fuel mixed up with metal construction elements, concrete and whatever else was “down there”.
Matsuda supposedly said “It’s important to find it [the fuel] as soon as possible,” that Japan does not yet possess the technology to extract the melted fuel. “Once we can find out the condition of the melted fuel and identify its location, I believe we can develop the necessary tools to retrieve it.”
RT claims that TEPCO hopes to locate and start removing the missing fuel by 2021. RT said that TEPCO’s decommissioning plan implies a 30-40 year period before the consequences of the melt downs are “fully remediated”. Among the remediation projects are some 10 million plastic bags full of contaminated soil concentrated in gigantic waste dumps scattered around the nuclear facility.
So that’s what TEPCO will admit as this time. TEPCO had been planning on building a commercial power generating reactor on leased land near Palacios TX, a plan which TEPCO seemingly abandoned after the Fukushima accident…As they say in Texas “Thank the lord for that.”
19th May 2016 – Former Prime Minister Koizumi backs U.S. sailors suing over Fukushima radiation
Extracts:
“I learned that the number of sick people is still increasing, and their symptoms are worsening,” he told the news conference.
The group of about 400 former U.S. Navy sailors and Marines alleges the utility did not provide accurate information about the dangers of radioactive material being emitted from the disaster-struck plant.
According to lawyers for the group, seven of its members have died so far, including some from leukemia.
Comment:
Most Americans are not aware of the hell these former marines and sailors from the Ronald Reagan task force have been through since Fukushima. The numbers who have become ill has been continually increasing. Some of their children born after the event have also suffered serious health issues. It should have been front page news at the beginning, but there has been a considerable effort to hide their plight from public view!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/19/national/former-prime-minister-koizumi-backs-u-s-sailors-suing-over-fukushima-radiation/#.V0FwTJ7APtT
Southern Hemisphere April 2016 Local Background Level Report, (33% above average)
Stations Location Map,
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
What the chart colour codes indicate in the charts.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Day average chart for April 2016
Well, April 2016 had the highest April month average since records have been kept here. April, March and February this year have seen the highest April, March and February month averages since Fukushima. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia from the Northern tropics. The last few months have seen a lot of Eastern equatorial winds drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed up the East Coast of Australia.
In 2015 the year average background level dropped, to the lowest post Fukushima level. So what is creating the present up tick in background?
Caloundra April month average year comparisons.
2016 33% above pre-Fukushima average
2015 8% above pre-Fukushima average
2014 22% above pre-Fukushima average
2013 9% above pre-Fukushima average
2012 12% above pre-Fukushima average
Caloundra April day average chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-April-2016.jpg
Cairns April 2016 Report – “The readings were fairly flat throughout April. My baseline has slightly diminished from former 0.125 to 0.120 uSv/hr or even less.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-April-2016.jpg
For comparison, long term average background level yearly and monthly charts from 2007 to 2016, can be found here.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Long term local background information can be found here,
http://sccc.org.au/archives/2630
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
I was shocked recently when a gentleman walked into the radiation station monitoring room here, and set all the Geiger counter alarms off! At first I though a major nuclear event was occurring. 🙁
After the computer based Geiger counter also stated to alarm, I picked up the GammaScout Geiger counter, and noted it was reading 2.67 uSv/hr. I was standing ~ 2 meters away from him at this point. I had been a lot closer. 🙁
It turned out he had just come from a CT scan at a Sunshine Coast Medical Centre here in Australia.
He asked if he should leave? I politely said yes.
I spoke to him later outside on the footpath, mind you keeping my distance.
It turned out that the medical center hadn’t told him squat about what they had injected him with, or given him any warnings or post procedural advice!
I was shocked at the levels, and pointed out they should have warned him to stay clear of people, including his wife, and particularly children, for at least 24 hours, plus drink plenty of water for 24 hours to flush it out of his system.
So at one metre he was 5.34 uSv/hr, at half a meter 10.68 uSv/hr, and at quarter of a meter 21.36 uSv/hr! If he just happened to hold his grandchild or a baby in his arms, well you get the picture, it would be probably greater than 80 uSv/hr.
A medical chest X-ray is approximately an instantaneous 100 uSv, but at half a metre, you’re getting a full body X-ray every ten seconds, while in the presence of this gentleman!
This all happened rather quickly as you can see from the recorded chart below. The GammaScout Geiger counter is on 60 second data collection, so it didn’t pick up the full peak of my visual observation.
The medical profession has become far too complacent in its handling of these highly radioactive materials, and are placing their patients and the public at risk, in my opinion.
Detection Chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Medical-Treatment-Spike.jpg
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Here is an article, that just came out in The Western Australian paper on this very subject.
11th May 2016 – Health experts want doctors to consider CT scan radiation risks
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/31566106/app-flags-risk-of-ct-radiation/
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bionerd23 – Insane radioactivity in the nuclear medicine operating room
Uploaded on Feb 19, 2010
tiny, radioactive iridium 192 seeds. 10 Curie. 370.000.000.000 atoms decaying every second. and i left my gamma scout with that intense radiation… making an interesting documentary about the levels of ionizing radiation in brachytherapy (to be precise: prostate cancer afterloading).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJaJUtHO4bI
Latest public detail on plans to move fuel rods from California’s decomissioned nuclear plants to the western-most part of the Texas Panhandle (not West, Texas which is near Waco):
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/article76532967.html
The direct road access to the site can be viewed by doing a map search for Andrews County Texas. It’s due north of Odessa TX which is on U.S. 20, which merges into U.S. 10 east of El Paso. The proposed disposal site also due east of WIPP in New Mexico.
As a result, to get the fuel rods out of California’s populated areas as quickly as possible I would expect them to travel on U.S. 10 to Phoenix, down to Tucson, and on to El Paso merging onto U.S. 20 before Odessa. The other feasible freeway route would be to head towards Kingman Arizona on U.S. 40 and then head due south in New Mexico on U.S. 285 to join up with U.S. 10 east of El Paso.
There appears to be no railroad access to Andrews, Texas.
Note, however, the article claims the fuel rods will not be moved until many years from now.
Fukushima artwork by Tomiyama Taeko. (95 years old)
I personally find paintings #3 and #4 to be very moving.
““JAPAN: Nuclear Power Plant” (Image #4) we see the artist’s interpretation of the wreckage that is Fukushima Daiichi power plant. This image of the bleak, crumbling frame of the plant, a skeleton against an equally bleak landscape, speaks more boldly of the fragility and hubris of this man-made accident than photos or words. “”
“”She describes the growing sense of anger with the folly of building so many power plants in this earthquake-ridden archipelago, as she drove with her friend around the abandoned villages and farmlands in the area. In later reflections on this experience, Tomiyama associates the devastation at Fukushima with Japan’s defeat in WorldWar II. “”
“Revelations from the Sea”: An Artist’s Response to the Disasters of March 11th, 2011
Article by Rebecca Jennison
http://apjjf.org/2012/10/32/Rebecca-Jennison/3806/article.html
7th May 2016 – Spike in radiation levels after toxic waste leak at Washington nuclear site
Extracts:
The recent readings from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) obtained by RT have revealed that a sharp spike in the radiation level had been registered in Richland on the morning of May 5.
The readings show the random jump when the toxic fume rates briefly reached around 410 CPM [counts per minute], nearly the highest possible level.
“When they move that waste, they have a lot more vapors coming out from the stacks. The wind was blowing toward me from that stack. That changed my life and hurt my lungs,” Seth Ellingsworth, who became seriously ill from the fumes, told RT. “It kept getting worse and worse.”
Detection Chart Screen Shoot:
http://twitter.com/Yaro_RT/status/728631832800014336/photo/1
Article:
https://www.rt.com/usa/342142-radiation-washington-nuclear-site/
@ Michael, we also had another day here with higher than normal day average background levels. These are the highest day averages for May recorder here. We have local background radiation levels going back to 2007.
Still, the detection here, is not as high as your Santa Monica detection indicates.
Are the Santa Monica and Caloundra background level increases from a new critically event at Fukushima, or from a another recent nuclear event that has been covered up???
Alert Caloundra 3rd May 2016 – On the 3rd May we had a series of storms come through just after midnight. They dropped torrential rain for about 45 minutes, the rest of the day was fine. Background average for the day was 45% above the pre-Fukushima average. The last few days logging data also suggests the GammaScout is functioning fine, as it showed lower background the day before on the 2nd May.
The wind direction plays a big part in detections here. The background monitoring station here is located on a headland, so East, North East and South East of its location is the Pacific Ocean. Maroochydore, the the closest wind detection station, is about ~20 Km away. By comparing the Maroochydore wind direction information against the background chart, it shows the higher detections on the 3rd, were mainly detected when the wind had an Easterly aspect, off the Pacific Ocean.
The question is, what has been creating the background increases over the last few months? In 2015 the year average background level dropped, to the lowest post Fukushima level. May statistically has traditionally been a quiet month, with lower background levels. We have never detected day averages for May at these high 45% + levels, pre or post Fukushima.
Maroochydore wind direction information,
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94569.shtml
24 hour 60 second data logging chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-030516.jpg
Day average chart for may so far,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-May-2016.jpg
May 4, 2016 Santa Monica mist/rain 3.1 times background HIGHER – California Highway Patrol HAZ-Mat level!
Alert Caloundra 1st May 2016 – Here is the day average and the 24hr charts, showing the spike in background coming through. This spike put the day average up to 47% above the pre-Fukushima average.
We had some heavy rain, the first in a long time. The wind direction was all over the place during the event. The next few days may indicate if there was some Geiger counter contamination present, as the monitoring GammaScout was given a clean out and inspection after this spike came through. Nothing obvious was found to indicate contamination was responsible for the spike in background.
Monitoring Site Location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
Wind direction info,
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94569.shtml
24 hour 60 second data logging chart,
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Caloundra-24-hour-chart-010516.jpg
Long term local background can be found here,
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/fukushima/radiation-station-sunshine-coast-australia/
H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016
…and H.R., Nuclear Utilization of Keynote Energy Policies Act.
Geoffrey H. Fettus Senior Attorney Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
This is how it happens. Our legislators in action.
NOTE: The video doesn’t actually start until about 30 minutes in.
(of course the youtube comments are turned off)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHSDqnozb0
I cannot fathom what these legislators and their friends are doing even though I see it before my very eyes.
– They want to remove hearing requirements for Nuclear Plants.
– Ease all license renewals. etc… etc…
– Lessen payments from the energy companies so they can make more money.
(yes, they actually say that)
– Creating new product options. ie… portable Nuclear Plants
— …hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars are on the line.
These Nuclear Proponents sound more like an infomercial for SAFE CLEAN RELIABLE Nuclear Power.
(Always said with a smile, or is that a smirk?) :rolleyes: Repeated over and over.
IMO – Legislators that don’t know squat are reading from scripts that they don’t really understand yet purport to be factual. It’s a scam! 😡
Southern Hemisphere March 2016 down pipe rain water filter test.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing,
http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
Report
There was a low 96mm of rainfall in March. The rain water testing has been consistent for months now, with the usual Pb-210 and Be-7 being detected, plus the detection of a possible 77 X-ray from Lead Pb-212, which is the decay daughter of Radon-220. Beryllium Be-7 can be created naturally in trace amounts by spallation in the upper atmosphere by cosmic rays. Lead Pb-210 is the decay daughter of naturally occurring Radon-222 decay. Both Be-7 and Pb-210 can also be released from nuclear power plants, and nuclear accidents.
The detection of the Pb-212 77 keV X-ray probably indicates the presence of a small trace of volcanic ash in the air.
March 2016 rain water filter test chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Down-pipe-March-paper-filter-080416-TV7-26c-85760-B-text.png
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Sometimes it takes a look back to peer forward.
While researching California Grizzly Bears, (now extinct), I realized that the last one shot and killed was just several miles from where I now live.
Less than 100 years ago…
“The last hunted California grizzly was shot in Tulare County, California, in August 1922. Later, in 1924, a grizzly known to roam an area of the Sierra Madre Mountains (Santa Barbara County) was spotted for the last time, and thereafter, grizzlies were never seen again in California.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
That got me to pondering… What’s it going to be like 100 years from now? (maybe 10) What will our descendants look back upon and say “That sure was stupid, what were they thinking?” I am certain Nuclear Power and TRIPLE MELTDOWNS like Fukushima will be at the top of that list.
Once a species is gone, it’s gone and it don’t take long.
@Michael, A lot of people are not aware that the earth’s magnetic shield weakened by ~15% in the last 150 years. This is one of the earth’s primary defenses against solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun. The other is the earth’s atmosphere.
I have been a sun watcher for many years, and know it was very unusual for such small solar events in 2011 to produce such Northern Light displays, so far south. These unusual Northern lights displays indicated to me that the electrical dynamics of the upper atmosphere had been changed by the large radioactive releases from the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
Reports from what would be considered relatively weak solar storms have recently been causing more electrical equipment failure and transformer fires around the world.
What does this mean?
The combined effect of a weaker magnetic field, and the atmospheric ionizing radiation damage from Fukushima, now means that a much much smaller solar event, one significantly smaller than a “Carrington Event”, could wipe out large parts of earth’s electrical infrastructure!
Here is a research paper below, and a report, to support my view that the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe has damaged the upper atmosphere. The research paper only covers the atmospheric damaging effects of Krypton-85. It doesn’t take into account the atmospheric damage caused by the thousands of other ionizing isotopes released into the atmosphere by the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe!
Article:
WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE WATCH
Extract: (The extract is from the bottom of page 56.)
“Importance Krypton-85 (85 Kr) is a radioactive noble gas which decays with a half-life of 10.76 years, emitting mainly β -particles of mean energy 251 keV. The main sources of Krypton-85 are the nuclear fuel reprocessing plants and various nuclear reactors.
The nuclear weapons tests in 1945-1963 contributed about 5% of the total Krypton-85 in the atmosphere, whereas its natural sources can be neglected. Radioactive decay is practically the only mechanism of Krypton-85 removal from the atmosphere.
The present background concentrations of Krypton-85 in the atmosphere are about 1 Bq/m 3 and are doubling every 20 years. At this level, Krypton-85 is not dangerous for human beings, but the air ionization caused by Krypton-85 decay will affect atmospheric electric properties.
If Krypton-85 continues to increase, changes in such atmospheric processes and properties as atmospheric electric conductivity, ion current, the Earth’s magnetic field, formation of cloud condensation nuclei and 57 aerosols, and frequency of lightning may result and thus disturb the Earth’s heat balance and precipitation patterns.”
These Krypton-85 induced consequences call for Krypton-85 monitoring.
http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/*/7530
Fukushima Diary – Update: 25th May 2015 – Still 960,000Bq Cs-134/137 and 2,336,000,000Bq noble gas discharged from reactors to the air every single hour
Extract:
Regarding noble gas (such as Kr-85), PCV (Primary Containment Vessel) gas control system detected 2,336,000,000 Bq of gas discharged from Reactor 1-3 every hour this April. Tepco states noble gas passes by as radioactive cloud to cause only external exposure so the exposure dose caused by the discharged noble gas should be significantly small.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/06/still-960000bq-of-cs-134137-and-2336000000bq-of-noble-gas-discharged-from-reactors-to-the-air-every-single-hour/
@vital1: This is absolutely fascinating information. Earthquake science is one of the ‘newest’ sciences so major theories buttressed by facts are very exciting. We’ve been keeping an eye on the Sun since Lights Out in 2014 and a CME space quake causing earthquakes does make sense theoretically. It doesn’t help predicting quakes as CMEs aren’t the only cause nor does it seem possible to pinpoint where they’d happen. The quartz theory seems right on target as well. Here in Southern California, quakes seem to be swarming and we are way overdue for a real mega-disaster. The Southern California Earthquake Center and Southern California Seismic Network are excellent sources of information reminding everyone here to be ready to be self sufficient for three months post said Quakecalypse assuming survival from resultant destruction and fires. Thank you vital1 for this terrific new knowledge.
Japanese Earthquake Swarm
A number of powerful earthquakes have rocked the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto and regions, located on the southern island of Kyushu. I and many others have been keeping an eye on all the Southern Japanese radiation monitoring systems, and at present we have nothing to report. There was a small general up tick reported on the island of Kyushu on the NETC Monitoring network, but we have also seen these small background up ticks like this on this monitoring network, before the earthquake.
Sendai nuclear power plant is the only one operating on the Island at present. Crazy that they even turned it back on after Fukushima!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendai_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Everything is still very unstable as an earthquakes swarm is going right through the centre of the island of Kyushu. So it is worth keeping an eye on those Japanese radiation monitors, and news reports.
You can find a list of the Japanese radiation monitoring stations here, so you can keep an eye on the situation yourself.
http://www.sccc.org.au/international-radiation-monitoring-stations
Technology Predicting Earthquakes.
One of the greatest things about the Internet is that as an individual you can have access to some of the latest research information. Years ago this type of information would only have been available to top scientists in their field.
NASA scientists have proposed a new theory on the cause of major Earthquakes. If the magnetosphere is hit by Solar flares and CME (Coronal Mass Ejections) from the Sun, of a great enough intensity, it can cause what they call a space quake. This is equivalent to a earth quake of 5 or 6 on the Richter scale.
The theory goes that the solar flare, or CME of sufficient magnitude strikes the Earth’s Magnetosphere, this places pressure on the Earth’s tectonic plates and can cause Earthquakes. The Magnetosphere is a naturally formed magnetic field around the Earth created by the Earth’s iron core, it protects the Earth against Solar flares and CME radiation.
Here is an analogy. Imagine that the Earth is like a a boiled egg that you have dropped. When you pick it up the egg shell is broken into many pieces. If you gently squeeze that egg, the shell, representing the Earth’s tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust, will move against each other. So when the solar flare or CME hits the Earth’s magnetosphere, it squeezes it, which in turn puts pressure on the Earth’s crust.
Both the recent New Zealand and Japanese Earth Quakes in 2011 occurred during an X chase solar flare activity which also caused a geomagnetic storms in the earth’s magnetosphere. During the Japanese quake it was reported that the Earth’s magnetosphere was also hit by a CME at the same time the X class flare hit.
Here is a site where you can monitor solar flare activity in real time.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
This site will allow you to monitor Earthquake activity around the world in real time.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
If this theory is correct, this info is great because it will give an idea when something may happen, it just won’t indicate accurately where or when.
New discoveries suggest where and when may be able to be predicted. One study has found that satellites have been recording variations in ULF or VLF radio signals (Ultra/Very Low Frequency) signals from where Earthquakes were about to occur. Also slight increases in earth crust levels can be an indicator. So these two satellite projects are exploring these indicators to see if they can give an early warning of where an Earthquake may occur.
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/satellite-system-provide-earlier-earthquake-warnings
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0720_040720_earthquake.html
Another study has found that major earthquakes usually occur where there are large quartz deposits in the rock formations on fault lines. There appears to be more water in quartz deposits which allows more slippage in the crust at those points. This would also explain why electrical disturbances can appear before an Earthquake. Lights in the sky or animals who use magnetic field information to navigate becoming confused or dying, plus domestic pets acting strange. Think of the old crystal quartz radios. Quartz and mineral crystals in bed rocks under a lot of pressure would generate an electrical signal giving an indication of an impending quake.
So there appears to be significant advancements in in Earthquake predicting technologies. Putting it all together as an accurate predictor may be closer than we think.
A little truth leaks out from a TEPCO employee:
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Another-inconvenient-truth-emerges-over-Fukushima-disaster
I found this NHK, (Japan News Service), survey to be insightful.
The Great East Japan Earthquake 5 YEARS ON
http://www.nhk.or.jp/d-navi/link/shinsai5/en.html
A survey of 1000 survivors from 311. Voices and opinions too.
“…more than 80 % say either that no progress is being made or that reconstruction is going more slowly than expected.”
When asked, “Do you still feel mental and physical affects?”
“Even five years after the disasters, as many as 60 percent of sufferers say they still feel effects. The number of those who say they still feel depressed, unmotivated or affected in many other ways tends to INCREASE yearly in annual surveys. Ten percent of respondents say it’s painful to keep on living. ”
Comments such as…
“When my grandson who was in kindergarten was living in an emergency shelter, he lost all his hair. When he painted pictures, he used only black. I was worried. I think it was because our family separated after the nuclear accident.” (Anonymous, Minamisoma, Fukushima)
I wonder why we never saw photos of this kind of direct radiation sickness?
“Many survivors say they will not or cannot return to their hometown.”
When asked, “What do you think of the restarting of Nuclear Power Stations?”
72% said Unacceptable 😐
22 % said Inevitable
6% said necessary
What will things be like in another 5 years as the TRIPLE MELTDOWNS continue and the FALLOUT spreads and accumulates? They failed to ask the survivors that question.
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For March 2016, (39% above average)
Stations Location Map,
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
What the chart colour codes indicate in the charts.
http://sccc.org.au/what-does-each-step-in-the-alert-level-colour-code-mean
Day average chart for March 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-March-2016.jpg
Well, March 2016 had the highest March month average since records have been kept here. March and February this year have seen the highest March and February month averages since Fukushima. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia from the Northern tropics. The last two months have seen a lot of Eastern equatorial winds drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed up the East Coast of Australia.
Caloundra March month average year comparisons.
2016 39% above average
2015 33% above average
2014 31% above average
2013 32% above average
2012 24% above average
Cairns March 2016 Report – “Daily average radiation readings for last month March 2016 for Cairns (red) compared to your readings (orange). Readings were fairly steady, with a minor bump around the 20 – 24th of the month, which was associated with hot weather.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-March-2016.jpg
For comparison, long term average background level yearly and monthly charts from 2007 to 2016, can be found here.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Long term local background information can be found here,
https://www.enviroreporter.com/investigations/fukushima/radiation-station-sunshine-coast-australia/
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
Given the emergency in India, I don’t want to post “cute” animal stories. However, given the fact that hunting and eating wild boar in Germany is still heavily regulated because of Chernobyl fall out and contamination of the boars’ forage, it is interesting to see that the abandoned towns around Fukushima are being over run with wild boar as well. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/rampaging-radioactive-wild-boars-causing-7705006
There has been a Nuclear event at the Kakrapar Nuclear Plant in India. It has been going on for nearly three weeks now. I have posted two reports below by Dr. Gadekar, a renowned physicist, based in Sampoorna Kranti Vidyalaya, Vedchhi, Gujarat. He appears to be the only reliable independent source of information on this event at present.
If anyone knows of any publicly available radiation monitoring stations or networks, that are available in India, please post the links here.
12 March 2016 – Kakrapar Nuclear Plant Is Likely Undergoing A Loss-Of-Coolant Accident: Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan
Extract:
Till 7.00 PM on March 12,2016 , the DAE officials have no clue as to where exactly the PHT leak is located and how big is the rate of irradiated heavy water that is leaking into the reactor containment . However, some reports indicate that the containment has been vented to the atmosphere at least once , if not more times , which I suspect indicates a tendency for pressure build up in that closed space due to release of hot heavy water and steam into the containment housing . If this is true, the leak is not small , but moderately large , and still continuing. No one confirms that any one has entered the containment (in protective clothing) for a quick physical assessment of the situation , perhaps it is not safe to do so because of the high radiationfields inside . When NPCIL officials state that the reactor cooling is maintained , I believe what they may be doing is to allow the heavy water or light water stored in the emergency cooling tanks to run once-through the system and continue to pour through the leak into the containment floor through the break.
Comment:
It is unclear how serious the situation is, because of a lack of information from Indian authorities. Everyone should keep an eye on this one.
http://www.dianuke.org/kakrapar-nuclear-plant-likely-undergoing-loss-coolant-acc
Latest report:
25th March 2016 – Nuclear Accident in Gujarat Enters Third Week, Lethal Gamble Continues
Extracts:
The PHWR design that is the mainstay of the Indian nuclear programme is a derivative of the Canadian CANDU design. It uses natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as both the coolant as well as the moderator.
LOCA is serious in any nuclear reactor, but in a CANDU it can be catastrophic. Unlike a PWR (Pressurized Water Reactor) (Koodankulam) or a BWR (Boiling Water Reactor) (Tarapur), CANDUs have a positive void reactivity coefficient. What this jargon means is that as the temperature rises in the absence of cooling following a LOCA water begins to boil. Voids are created. In a light water reactor like at Tarapur or Koodankulam, this means that not many neutrons get slowed down. In the absence of slow neutrons to cause further fission, the chain reaction automatically stops. This is an example of a passive safety system that does not need any active intervention on part of the operators. However, in a CANDU, the slowing down of neutrons is done by the moderator heavy water which is separate from the coolant heavy water. A loss of coolant accident here, does not affect the slowing down of neutrons. The chain reaction continues unless it is actively interupted. These reactions are taking place in timescales of nano to micro seconds and human reaction times are too slow for effective action. The RBMK type of reactor that exploded at Chernobyl also had a positive void coefficient of reactivity although it used graphite instead of heavy water for moderation.
http://www.dianuke.org/nuclear-accident-gujarat-enters-third-week-lethal-gamble-continues/
19th March 2016 – It’s Not Just Cancer! Radiation, Genomic Instability and Heritable Genetic Damage
Extracts:
The radioactive contamination of the planet has killed tens of millions of babies, caused a huge increase in infertility, and increased the genetic burden of the human race and life on earth.
Using evidence ranging from Chernobyl to the nuclear Test Veterans to the offspring of radiographers we showed clearly that a dose of 1mSv from internal contamination was able to cause a 50% increase in congenital malformations. This identifies an error in the ICRP model and in the current legislation of a factor of 1,000.
It’s official – genetic damage in children is an indicator of harmful exposures to the father
Comment:
This excellent fact based article points out a very little discussed result of radioactive contamination exposure, Genomic instability. Genetic damage caused by radioactive contamination in the first generation, can be expressed in multiple generations of the offspring. One Russian study I read found up to 22 generations and counting, could be affected. This is a very important consequence of radiation contamination exposure that is not discussed.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/18/ts-not-just-cancer-radiation-genomic-instability-and-heritable-genetic-damage/
Southern Hemisphere Background Report For February 2016.
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern, and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing, http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
Day average chart for Caloundra February 2016
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Caloundra-local-average-background-radiation-levels-February-2016.jpg
Well, February 2016 had the highest month average since records have been kept here. This was a surprise to say the least considering the wind direction. The wind direction this time of the year usually comes down the East Coast of Australia, from the Northern tropics. Interestingly, most of the late February increases occurred when the wind direction was coming from South or SSE. Equatorial winds this year were drawn South from the Eastern Pacific, and then directed it up the East Coast of Australia. The East Coast of Australia surface wind direction for the later part of February is shown clearly at 2 minutes and 54 seconds into this Suspicious0bserver video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCujdCaI0dI
Caloundra February month average year comparisons.
2016 – was 41% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2015 – was 30% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2014 – was 40% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2013 – was 39% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
2012 – was 37% above the 4 year pre-Fukushima local average.
Cairns February 2016 Report – “My previous baseline used to be 0.125. Last month some readings were below the 0.120 mark. There were no extremes, both curves behave in a similar parallel fashion. Yesterday we had high temperatures and inland wind with thunderstorms, that increased the readings.”
Thanks to the Cairn’s station operator for providing this day average Cairns and Caloundra comparison chart. Cairns is red in this comparison chart, and Caloundra is yellow.
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Cairns-Caloundra-comparison-for-February-2016.jpg
For comparison, long term average background level yearly and monthly charts from 2007 to 2016, can be found here.
http://sccc.org.au/yearly-average-background-radiation-levels
Disclaimer: This is an amateur volunteer run service. Human error can provide incorrect information, and equipment malfunction can produce false readings. Do not rely on, or take action upon information presented here, without further research.
18th March 2016 – Shocking health effects in Fukushima nuclear workers found under the official radiation dose limits
Extracts:
The First male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of 50mSv. “I suffered damages to kidneys, heart, etc. — all important organs in my body.”
The second male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of 56mSv. He said
“I went to such a severe accident site and worked at the risk of my life, but all I’ve got was this cruel reality and treatment!” I suffered thyroid damage, and had all my stomach removed.
The third male Daichi nuclear site worker had an official total dose of just 19.2mSv. He was diagnosed as having acute myelogenous leukemia.
My doctor said that “70% of the cells in your bone marrow were occupied by cancer. Without any treatment, you will die for sure.”
https://europeannewsweekly.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/shocking-health-effects-in-fukushima-nuclear-workers-found-under-the-official-radiation-dose-limits/
Comment:
A lot or Fukushima worker deaths and injuries are not reported, so this report is just the tip of the iceberg of worker injury and deaths!
More info on what’s going on in Miami with the leak of reactor cooling water into Biscayne Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article64667452.html
Another Simi Mom,
In my opinion it is criminal that large populations of Japanese men, women and children have been left to live in such contaminated areas. After so many nuclear catastrophes it is madness to allow the nuclear industry to carry on as normal, plus also allow it to expand by building new nuclear plants worldwide. We should be winding back the Nuclear industry as quickly as possible, and using renewable technologies which are much more efficient, and safer.
The nuclear industry and it leaders should be hell accountable for the untold number of lives that have been cut short by numerous nuclear accidents and the wide spread nuclear contamination, plus the enormous environment destruction they have wrought on the world and all living things.
This civilization sees itself as technologically advanced and enlightened, but will be remembered as the cause of one of the worst dark ages in human history.
200 TONS of spent nuclear fuel to be shipped to America for storage.
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/200-tonnes-of-high-level-nuclear-waste-spent-nuclear-fuel-to-be-dumped-on-america-nuclear-fuel-was-96-german-made-oppose-until-11-march-11-59-pm-us-eastern-time-one-minute-to-midnight/
Yahoo News story today, which you all [may] pick apart, concerning attempts at retrieving remains of fuel rods at Fukushima. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fukushimas-ground-zero-no-place-man-robot-003153046–finance.html Contrast that part of the news story with your memories of stories of men actually digging out broken fuel rods at the sodium reactor at Rocketdyne Area IV using hand tools. Given his comment here on 3/6/16, Vital will get a chuckle at reporter’s claim that ambient radiation in some areas around Fukushima is only as bad as that in Tokyo.
South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station near Tres Palacios Bay south of Galveston on Texas Coast, built using GE design. Nobody living nearby with any level of sophistication to keep watch on the plant, except for the plant employees. Most locals living around the plant are low income rural residents who would not be watching or listening to word about troubles at the plant like the folks at San Ononfre did.
While the average Texas working man/technical employee prides himself on his knowledge and skill with sophisticated equipment (such as Texans needed to plug the gas well at Porter Ranch) I worry that no one independent is watching what goes on at the plant. I see the plant from the air every time I fly into/from Houston Hobby, and I worry about the Houston Metro area because it’s downwind from the plant. Houstonians are friendly and helpful, so if any Radiation Conversation II commenters learn anything about problems at the South Texas Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station please post them here so I can get the word out through my Houston relatives.
3/8/16 Tritium leaking from Turkey Point nuke plant south of Miami, potentially screwing up drinking water source for Florida Keys. http://fusion.net/story/278064/turkey-point-leaking-radiation-into-biscayne-bay/
It seems like we’re seeing more and more stories about tritium leaking everywhere, like canaries in coal mines.
6th March 2016 – Tokyo was on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, admits former prime minister
Extracts:
He said he considered evacuating the capital, Tokyo, along with all other areas within 160 miles of the plant, and declaring martial law. “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,” he said. “Something on that scale, an evacuation of 50 million, it would have been like a losing a huge war.”
Mr Kan admitted he was frightened and said he got “no clear information” out of Tepco, the plant’s operator. He was “very shocked” by the performance of Nobuaki Terasaka, his own government’s key nuclear safety adviser. “We questioned him and he was unable to give clear responses,” he said.
“We asked him – do you know anything about nuclear issues? And he said no, I majored in economics.”
Article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/12184114/Fukushima-Tokyo-was-on-the-brink-of-nuclear-catastrophe-admits-former-prime-minister.html?utm_content=bufferbef49&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Comment:
The article and posts below, clearly lay out how serious the present situation is in Tokyo.
Tokyo Contaminated & Not Fit for Habitation, Doctor Says
Extract:
All 23 districts of Tokyo contaminated with radiation, worse than at Chernobyl after the accident, and blood cells of children under ten are showing worrying changes; the WHO, the IAEA & the Japanese government cannot be trusted.
http://permaculturenews.org/2014/09/25/tokyo-contaminated-fit-habitation-doctor-says
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Anecdotal evidence posted by matty1, on enenews.com, on March the 6th 2016.
Post 1:
“Tokyo is a thousand times more contaminated than belarus. 85% of the children in belarus have heart defects. Mita and Bove’ give Tokyo 5 years. Do not go to Tokyo. Nothing like this has ever happened. There is a tipping point going on. Tokyo is clamped like an iron fist. A no-persons city. It is criminal to even allow people to go there. People are dying mostly from being immunocompromised , stroke, cardiac arrest. Cancer explosion. There is an explosion of abortions and miscarriages there. Also birth defects.”
Post 2:
“The playground number of 480 msv is not anomolous. Enough rads in 2 hours for 1 year. I was on a train and it had to stop 3 time for ill people. People are living in a dream land.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-25/2000x-normal-radiation-found-tokyo-playground-officials-deny-any-link-fukushima
Post 3:
“The illusion is becoming less diluted in Tokyo and Yokohama every day.”
Dangerous flaw in the electrical systems of EVERY nuclear plant threatens to shut them all down if not fixed immediately.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-witherspoon/dangerous-flaw-threatens-_b_9382364.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green
It’s a miracle we haven’t had a meltdown due to this obvious design flaw.
Study claims most Japanese seafood safe from Fukushima radiation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seafood-fukushima-radiation_us_56d4f6e6e4b0871f60ec971f
I don’t believe it.
JAPAN
29th February 2016 – 3 ex-TEPCO execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster – report
Extract:
The three top officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) were indicted on charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury, the Kyodo news agency reported on Monday. The officials are Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, who was chairman of TEPCO in 2011, and two former vice presidents, Sakae Muto, 65; and Ichiro Takekuro, 69, the report added.
Comment:
There should be a lot more people indicted over the handling of this catastrophe!
https://www.rt.com/news/333915-fukushima-nuclear-execs-indicted/
Southern Hemisphere January 2016 down pipe rain water filter test
Station location
http://sccc.org.au/monitoring/Australian-Map.jpg
This short animation of Northern, and Southern Hemisphere air circulation, shows why we can get detections so far south.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh011eAYjAA
Roof down pipe filter design for rainwater testing,
http://sccc.org.au/down-pipe-filter-design
The background levels here went up significantly in late January 2016. There was 2.47 times as much rainfall in January 2016 (133.6 mm), compared to December 2015 (54mm). Even with the increased rainfall, the amount of Pb-210 captured for January and December in the rain water filter, was approximately the same.
Pb-210 is the end product of radon daughter decay. There was more Beryllium-7 detected in January 2016. This was probably created from spallation in the upper atmosphere, by recent solar storm activity. No detectable Cesium is being detected in the rain water filter tests.
January 2016 rain water test chart
http://sccc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Down-pipe-January-paper-filter-030216-TV7-28c-84600-Btext.png
It is important to understand that when you look at a scintillator test chart like the one above, the peak highs can be deceptive.
The Scintillator device used for testing the rain water filter, is less sensitive with increasing isotope energy.
For example the scintillator may have ~50% efficiency near the low energy Pb-210 peak and ~7% efficiency near the mid energy Be-7 peak. So the maths tells us, that more Be-7 was detected than its peak high would indicate!
At best, the above chart is showing what was detected, it does not quantifying the amount.