Cesium fallout spikes every 40 days

 

Cesium concentration and fallout in Fukushima go higher than average every 40 days regardless of the wind direction.
Prof. Watanabe from Fukushima university analyzed the data to publish at Meteorological society of Japan on 5/29/2012.
The data is about cesium fallout from March 2011 to April 2012, detected at environmental radioactivity monitoring center of Japan.

The trend has been very clear especially since January of 2012.
In the daily conference of 5/31/2012, Tepco stated they are not going to corporate with the researcher to figure out the mechanism.

 

↓ Tepco’s daily conference. 19:50 ~

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大気中のセシウム、40日周期で増加…原因不明

福島原発
福島県内の大気中の放射性セシウム降下量と濃度が約40日周期で高くなる傾向があることが、福島大の渡辺明教授(気象学)の調査でわかった。

茨城県つくば市で29日に開かれた日本気象学会春季大会で発表された。渡辺教授は「放射性物質が濃淡を持って大気中に存在し、動いているのか、大気の運動として放射性物質を集める仕組みがあるのかなど、現時点ではわからない」としている。

渡辺教授は、福島県が昨年3月から今年4月まで、原子力センター福島支所(福島市方木田)で計測した放射性セシウム降下量のデータについて解析した。

その結果、時間の経過とともに数値自体は下がっているが、東京電力福島第一原発からの風向きなどにかかわらず、平均値より高い数値がほぼ40日ごとに規則的に見られた。特に今年1月以降は傾向が顕著だったという。

(2012年5月29日20時44分 読売新聞)
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  1. Not sure whether you mean that the cesium increases every forty days, and then falls again, only to rise forty days later; or whether you mean that in a time frame of forty days, one sees an increasing trend, and that the cesium is always increasing – and does not fall back to where it was before.

    Your first meaning is implied by the last sentence, where one is left wondering about the mechanism of the observed phenomenom.

    1. agreed , language difficulties sometimes, if he means the average is creeping up slowly each 40 days thats showing that the continual loss of containment is continuing to raise the level of cesium in the area greater than is disperses, which is logical . a cyclical up down shows intentional releases to the environment with rapid dispersal , which sounds to me a little less probable if we were talking about anyone but Tepco in charge here

    2. FYI:
      —–
      The Japanese version says that the figures are falling but have a spike (roughly) every 40 days.

      時間の経過とともに数値自体は下がっている
      ——
      Professor Watanabe says “We don’t know whether there are localised concentrations (of radioactivity material) which are moving around, or whether the atmospheric motion has the effect of causing accumulations of radioactivity material”

      「放射性物質が濃淡を持って大気中に存在し、動いているのか、大気の運動として放射性物質を集める仕組みがあるのかなど、現時点ではわからない」
      ——
      The Japanese version does not mention “the daily conference of 5/31/2012”
      ——

      I’d like to see the graph and interpret the data for myself.

  2. FUKUSHIMA DIARY – Les retombées de césium augmentent tous les 40 jours
    Par Mochizuki le 31 mai 2012

    Les concentrations et retombées de césium à Fukushima augmentent plus vite qu’en moyenne tous les 40 jours sans tenir compte de la direction du vent.
    Le pr Watanabe de l’Université de Fukushima a analysé le 29 mai 2012 les données à publier par la Meteorological society of Japan.
    Ces données portent sur les retombées de césium de mars 2011 à avril 2012 détectées au centre de surveillance de la radioactivité dans l’environnement du Japon.

    Cette tendance a été très claire, en particulier depuis janvier 2012.
    Dans sa conférence de presse quotidienne du 31 mai 2012, Tepco affirme qu’ils ne vont pas s’associer avec les chercheurs pour en trouver la raison.

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