Radiation in Japan (45 posts)

  • Profile picture of pooper pooper said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I found this site for monitoring radiation around Japan.
    http://www.bousai.ne.jp/en

    But conveniently the Fukashima monitor is down!

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I think many questions on units, types of radiation can be found here. Worth reading if you have the time.

    http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/radiation.html

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  • Profile picture of marcos marcos said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I think its going to rain in Fukushima, remember the movie Black Rain!!!

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  • Profile picture of Glyn Meredith Glyn Meredith said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    The book was good … and a funny thing is there are two movies Black Rain … one is a gangster movie.

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  • Profile picture of ThomasJ ThomasJ said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    On the topic of monitoring radiation, I think it is important we find data collecting sources so we can make our own judgments and not depend on the media is obfuscating the reality. Also, the direction of the winds matter matter and http://www.weather-report.jp/com/home/kishomap/fusoku/japan.html may be a useful guide. Lastly, I found following link http://www.radiationnetwork.com/index.htm to be informative. It is worth checking out. May add more links later.

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  • Profile picture of marcos marcos said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Glyn, ref Black rain was talking about the Yakuza/Michael Douglas cop movie and the famous quote about Black rain, refering to sticky black rain that was radioactive fallout, or radioactive rain. Thank goodness nothing like that will eventuate. We were lucky, this could have gone alot worse.

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  • Profile picture of Frank Frank said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Looks like radiation detected in the tap water near Fukushima, also cows milk and spinach. Those farmers not affected will now be hard pressed selling their produce. Produce from that area will have no demand even if they are clear of radiation.

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Iodine 131 apparently detected in Ibaraki.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704021504576209854015156320.html

    Raising concerns over possible contamination from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Japan’s health ministry said Saturday that an abnormal amount of a radioactive material was detected in spinach grown about 110 kilometers (about 70 miles) northeast of Tokyo.
    The ministry also said that an abnormal amount of the material, called iodine-131, was detected in milk from a dairy farm about 50 kilometers away from the plant.

    Also exported broadbeans.

    http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aECO&ID=201103200011

    A batch of broad beans imported from Japan was found to be contaminated with radiation, broad beans, which where produced in Kagoshima in southern Japan, was probably exposed to radiation while being transported to Narita Airport in Tokyo,

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  • Profile picture of lentildude lentildude said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Just watching NHK, Ibaraki spinach contaminated with iodine-131 was distributed in Tokyo but they managed to recall it??? I aint eating spinach!! Also shungiku from Chiba contaminated but I never eat that that stuff anyway.

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  • Profile picture of Ed Ed said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Thanks so much for your site and hard work. Yesterday you sent me a test e-mail letting me no you would e-mail should there be a spike in levels, double thanks. I also am monitoring Micro R in Chiba and in the last hour levels have gone from 6 to 9 over the last couple of days to 50mR/hr ,9:00AM with rain . A level I last saw on the 16th when you were in the 36 range.

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Thanks for the info, What equipment are you using? Thats a nice spike you detected. You should take a picture. Meguro hasn’t gone up though. I checked the chiba geiger u stream but channel is down. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hino-tokyo-geiger-counter-feed
    also checked another. geiger in Azuma which is also normal today. Keep us posted Ed!

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  • Profile picture of Ed Ed said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    I am using a Ludlum model 19. It’s 11:30 and mR @ 21
    Location: Nagaura, about 20 min. south of Chiba City

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  • Profile picture of Akrome Akrome said 1 year, 2 months ago:

    Hi.
    Is it possible to keep some sort of viewable tracking of the data, maybe once every 30-60 minutes instead than every one, that can be consulted freely?
    Because it is unlikely that people will notice not-spiky rises in the values this way, and also they will miss peaks if they are not at pc, and also it would be nice to compare your data with the official ones.
    Also, I read Ed’s post about an email alert, which I would like to subscribe to if possible.

    @Ed,Admin,all the other data collectors:
    If you can email me your datasets, I might be able to standardize them all under a single measurement units and graph them together with their locations for comparison, if you are interested.

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  • Profile picture of H Brumfield H Brumfield said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I am watching the Sendai wind direction at this site:

    http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/47590.html

    Shows a wind arrow so it’s quite clear.

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  • Profile picture of admin admin said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    I have updated the graph link that showed what we detected on the 15th/16th March, (radiation page, left side). I animated graphs across the 24 hours.

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