Black substance found in Chiba

Following up this article ..Video of black substance

Similar substance found in Toukatsu Chiba.

Black substance found in Chiba

 

The radiation level is 0.36 microSv/h at 10cm from the substance.

The person who found this tweeted like this below.

 

Momoiro_Usagi
‏ @momousagi2011

現時点では同じものかどうかわかりませんが、今の家に約10年住んでいて一度も見たことのない真っ黒な埃で、普通の埃は風で舞いますがべっとりとしていて黒い雨を連想しました。Source

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Now I don’t know if it’s exactly the same thing as in Minami soma, but I haven’t seen such black “dust” though I’ve been living here for 10 years. Normal dust flies by the wind but this black substance is wet and greasy. It reminds me of black rain after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Prof.Hayakawa from Gunma university talks, it’s everywhere in Toukatsu, and even in Tokyo.

  1. 0.36 microsieverts per hour translates to about 3.2 millisieverts per year. Depending on the baseline this may be normal or somewhat elevated. However, it is, globally speaking, a rather normal reading even in the absence of a nuclear disaster.

    The radiation level near the subtance is low enough to eliminate any need for immediate alarm. It needs to be confimed how much the substance contributes to the radiation dose rate. If can be confirmed that bringing the Geiger counter near the substance does increase the reading, it would obviously be a good idea to try and collect the substance and wash off the surfaces it is attached to. It would also be a good idea to analyze the substance. It could be something natural such as lichen, mold or volcanic dust or, for instance, something produced by an industrial process.

    What the substance is very likely *not* to be is particles of nuclear fuel or its decay products. It would be intensively radioactive if that were the case. A fraction of a microsievert per hour would not be the expected reading in this case. However, we can’t know anything for sure before the substance has been analyzed.

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