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nobby started the forum topic Radioactive pizza in the group Tokyo current events 1 week, 6 days ago

I read this about an Okinawa pizza shop using Fukushima cesium laced firewood in its pizza ovens… Hot Pizza! 1260~8060 Bq/Kg of cesium from ash from ovens.

My wife was telling me just yesterday Okinawa would […]

marcos replied to the forum topic Hot apartments in the group Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 1 day ago

That is shocking. even if it is a small test reactor, having nuclear material in such a built up area is madness.
Here is more frightening reading. Not Japan but China.

China denies nuclear accident […]

nobby replied to the forum topic Hot apartments in the group Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 1 day ago

Well you find that hard to believe, I find it hard to believe that a functioning test nuclear reactor is in close proximity to Haneda airport! (Ukishima, Kawasaki city), Despite a protest movement by residents […]

marcos started the forum topic Hot apartments in the group Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 1 day ago

I still cannot believe the stories on TV about radioactive concrete used in perhaps 100 new apartment building going up. What were they thinking!? The lower basement levels had the highest […]

admin replied to the forum topic This mornings Fuji quake. in the group Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Yes Frank, the radiation page showed a;
■M 5.2, eastern Honshu, Japan, Depth 26.40 km, Time Sat 07:43:15 (JST), Lat: 35.5424, Long: 138.9598
■M 4.9, eastern Honshu, Japan, Depth 31.60 km, Time Sat 07:39:44 […]

Frank started the forum topic This mornings Fuji quake. in the group Tokyo current events 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Was in the bathroom at the time, sure felt it in Tokyo!
Just checked radiation page for earthquake data, I see the two quakes match data reported on NHK. 739am & 743am.

It’s a worry to have quakes close to […]

Frank started the forum topic Largest Solar Radiation Storm in Six Years Headed Toward Earth in the group Tokyo current events 4 weeks, 1 day ago

this hits Tokyo 11pm tonight! (24th) I am tempted to ask the admin to point the geiger towards the sky for one night to see it on the radiation plot, but that may cause some confusion. I will be checking the […]

Frank replied to the forum topic Radioactive snow in Tokyo? in the group Tokyo current events 1 month ago

I read on a different Japanese site that snow samples at Lake Okutama tested normal with the radiation
level of 0.08uSv/h. Its hard to know what is accurate test measurement from the many Japanese test blogs I see.

marcos started the forum topic Radioactive snow in Tokyo? in the group Tokyo current events 1 month ago

http://ameblo.jp/bq-tokyo/entry-11140771497.html

The above Japanese blog is interesting, if you get someone to translate it for you it says this person tested the snow that fell in Hachioji last night (20 […]

Frank started the forum topic Radioactive Grasshoppers! in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 1 week ago

What next!

“With a Geiger counter in his pocket, Mr. Fugo, along with two students, in October went to Iitate, a village located over 30 kilometers away from the nuclear plant and where hot spots of high […]

allan replied to the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 1 week ago

Am waiting on a shipment of contaminated Fukushima rice that has been lab tested. Will test in the home setup.

Now testing some Kombu from local supermarket that is suspect. Just waving the geigercounter over […]

lentildude replied to the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Your mushroom results will be interesting.
The govt limit is 500 becquerels per kilogram which seems very high to me.

“The Fukushima prefectural government says 1,770 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive […]

allan replied to the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Just processing some food for testing
Hakusai (Motomiyashi)
White Rice (Motomiyashi)
Moyashi (from Nigata )
Shitake (Iwaki shi)

Drying the Shitake in the oven, house stinks!

allan replied to the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 3 weeks ago

A collegue just emailed me furhter comments on this.
“Cosmic radiation has a diurnal cycle, but it isn’t completely in phase with sunlight. The magnetic field of the earth bends many of the rays (but not […]

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allan replied to the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Here is the result of 4 calibration runs with the pancake tubes in the lead
shield with lid on – each at 1 hour.
run 1: 2256 counts
run 2: 2262 counts
run 3: 2152 counts
run 4: 2184 counts

Run 1 and 2 were […]

admin started the forum topic Testing Food in the group Tokyo current events: 1 month, 3 weeks ago

You cannot simply point a geiger counter at a plate of food and expect to find anything, you really need a lab to test with far more sensitive equipment and procedures.
Fellow longterm expat, Allan, has been determined to find a way to do this cheapily. Will post some info soon on his progress.

marcos started the forum topic Former PM comments Reactor 3 Nuclear Explosion Likely in the group Tokyo current events: 2 months ago

It may have been a nuclear explosion at Reactor 3, Former PM Hatoyama explains the mechanism of how a nuclear explosion could have happened and focuses on the evidence of transuranic elements scattered far outside the plant,

Amazing read, translation here;

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/12/former-japanese-pm-hatoyama-fukushima.html

admin posted on the forum topic Radioactive dust Chiba, Ibaraki in the group Tokyo current events: 2 months ago

After reading that article have put our plotting geiger ontop of the Dyson vacuum collector after a very quick carpet vacuum in Meguro. Look at todays plot 10:30 – 11:00am. You can see a definate increase!! Examining results will post more soon…

Frank started the forum topic Radioactive dust Chiba, Ibaraki in the group Tokyo current events: 2 months, 1 week ago

Just one to two hours drive from Tokyo, Check out the findings from Japanese journalist who tabulated soil and dust samples. Ibaraki total was 6,264.74 Bq/Kg!!

http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/6264-74-bqkg-from-house-dust-in-ibaraki/

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