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Radiation Air-flow Pattern Over Osaka and Kyoto

Kyle Yates — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:53:45 +0000

According to the Norwegian institute for air research, tomorrow is not a good day to go outdoors in the Kansai region or anywhere else in western Japan, unless you don’t mind taking a chance on getting irradiated.

According to them, radiation coming from the Fukushima plant will be passing over the Kansai region starting tonight and throughout the rest of the day tomorrow.

Click this site for the air pattern and map. Radiated Air-flow Map

Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 4 Fire

Kyle Yates — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:25:58 +0000

The number 4 reactor of the Fukushima nuclear power plant caught fire earlier today, but the fire inside the building burned out before employees could enter the building to put it out.

Understanding the Measurements of Radiation Reported

Kyle Yates — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:24:52 +0000

The information below is from Wikipedia concerning radiation, which is something people in Japan are currently learning more about at a rapid pace because of the previous 2 explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

Frequently used SI multiples are the millisievert (1 mSv = 10⁻³ Sv) and microsievert (1 μSv = 10⁻⁶ Sv) or (1 mSv = 0.001 Sv) and (1 μSv = 0.000001 Sv).

The millisievert is commonly used to measure the effective dose in diagnostic medical procedures (e.g., X-rays, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, and computed tomography). The natural background effective dose rate varies considerably from place to place, but typically is around 2.4 mSv/year [2] (pdf).

For acute (that is, received in a relatively short time, up to about one hour) full body equivalent dose, 1 Sv causes nausea, 2-5 Sv causes epilation or hair loss, hemorrhage and will cause death in many cases. More than 3 Sv will lead to LD 50/30 or death in 50% of cases within 30 days, and over 6 Sv survival is unlikely. (For more details, see radiation poisoning.)

Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Has a Much Larger Explosion

Kyle Yates — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:06:45 +0000

At 11:01, another explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant at the #3 reactor occurred. The officials at the site say that the equivalence of 2000 microsieverts were emitted from the explosion, 900 more than the previous explosion the other day.

More Alerts Being Issued

Kyle Yates — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:33:10 +0000

Emergency alerts are now being issued over the TV for Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori areas where a currently registered 6.0 quake just hit off the coast. Tsunami warnings are being issued. Those areas are on high alert.

Continued Quakes

Kyle Yates — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 04:01:36 +0000

Earthquakes varying in size are continuing to rock Japan.

Late this morning an earthquake registering at 6.4 magnitude hit the Fukushima area of Japan.

Further warnings of tsunamis have been issued and are continually being issued as quakes continue.

Other areas further away from the original quake yesterday that took place just outside Tokyo are experiencing earthquakes and aftershocks.