{"id":3811,"date":"2011-03-15T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2018-09-21T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:07:56","slug":"nuclear-radiation-soaring-in-japan-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2011\/03\/15\/nuclear-radiation-soaring-in-japan-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Radiation Soaring in Japan + Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doubtless you have heard about the continued explosions at Japan’s troubled nuclear power plants.\u00a0 I am sorry to report that the radiation levels are soaring in the vicinity of the plants and the winds are now northward – meaning that the radiation is blowing toward Tokyo.\u00a0 This is a horrible set of circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Specifically, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant radiation levels were reported to be 163 times previous levels at the number 2 reactor.\u00a0 Meanwhile, at the number 3 reactor radiation levels were reported to be 400 times the “annual legal limit” of radiation parts per million.\u00a0 At another plant, Fukushima Daini, a fire started at the number 4 reactor which was put out, only to be followed by an explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Any time you hear of an explosion at a nuclear power plant it is usually a sign that there is a leak of cooling systems that have subsequently allowed for the radioactive fuel rods to heat to too high a temperature.\u00a0 In turn, that causes steam and gasses to build up, which leads to the explosion.\u00a0 If the cement containment structures are breached then there is a radiation leak.\u00a0 That is clearly what has happened at both of these plants.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the wind is blowing this radiation leakage southward toward one of the most populated cities on the planet, Tokyo.\u00a0 Just east of the mega city, Chiba prefecture (think: county) saw radiation levels 2-4 times normal.\u00a0 Barely north of Tokyo, Utsunomiya-Tochigi prefecture is enduring radiation levels 33x normal.\u00a0 Perhaps worst of all, just south of Tokyo, Kanagawa prefecture is reporting radiation 9x worse than normal.\u00a0 Since radiation is flowing from north to south, for radiation levels to be this high south of Tokyo is a strong indication that Tokyo itself is sitting in a radiation soup at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In fact, the government has not stated what level radiation Tokyo is at right now but they have said that radiation levels are now hazardous to human health.\u00a0 Clearly it is only a matter of time until the health effects of the radiation exposure begin to affect folks.\u00a0 At this moment the people of Japan are at the mercy of the winds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The only encouraging thing at this moment is that at the nuclear power plants affected by the earthquake meltdown has still not occurred.\u00a0 Or, if it has happened, it has not been stated to have happened.\u00a0 Meltdown would result in a disaster on par with Chernobyl back in Russia in the 1980s.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In terms of the Intuitive Assessment of the Japanese Disaster<\/a> I did this past weekend…<\/span><\/p>\n

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