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今日のニュース 10/1/2012

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Mochizuki
Mochizuki
The writer of Fukushima Diary.
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  1. Would love a transcript of the videos. I’m in a developing country; the internet connection is poor and we can’t watch videos.

  2. The automatic transcript in Japanese is way off.
    I made an English translation, which may not be entirely faultless, but I hope it may contribute to the blog.

    Sorry that I cannot add this to the video as subtitles, but please feel free to do so if you like.

    [Translation]
    “Good day,

    This is Mochizuki, writer of the FUkushima-Diary blog.
    Today too, I’m going to do this report while the computer screen reflects in my glasses.
    So, then, today’s keywords are 1) earthquake and 2) typhoon.

    First the earthquake: on October 2nd, at 3:40 AM Japan time, there was a M5.2 earthquake in Fukushima prefecture.
    ABout 3 hours after that, at 6:27 AM, a M4.4 in Ibaraki prefecture.
    And about 1 hour after that, around morning going-to-work time, 7:22 in Sanriku, a M6.3 in Iwate prefecture.
    So there were 3 consecutive major earthquakes around Fukushima.
    And especially this M6.3 one, the depth was only 10km, so very shallow.
    It has been reported until now that the Spent Fuel Pool of Fukushima Unit 4 should be able to withstand quakes up to magnitude 6,
    but this applies to vertical shockwaves. But what about when horizontal shocks occur for a long duraction? There has not been a report saying that the unit could withstand this so far.
    So, still, earthquakes are one of my concerns.

    Besides that, September 30th, typhoon number 17 of this year, and Fukushima Unit 4 is open to the air, but it seems Unit 3 is so also.
    The level of the Skimmer Surge Tank, which collects overflowing water, moves up at the same time there is precipitation, so isn’t rain simply soming inside, is the question.
    So that’s why I’m worried about typhoons just as much as I am with earthquakes.

    About one year ago, when I was still in Japan, a typhoon came at September 21st 2011, and at the same time radiation levels went up all over the place.
    I remember that in Kawasaki, the radation level measured in the air went from 0.05uSv/hr up to 0.1uSv/hr.
    In FUtaba, Fukushima prefecture, radation measurements rose to 2.1uSv/hr.
    And after this typhoon, rooftop [?] radation levels also rose, so I don’t know if typhoons and radiations have a connection,
    but around the place where I lived in Yokohama, a lot of plants withered.
    I had some goya [bitter cucumber-like plants] myself, but they became like little pickles, is what I remember.
    Well maybe it was because the plants were kept outside [instead of inside a greenhouse?], that’s what most people in the neighborhoud were saying, but still.
    And several kinds of trees too were probably dying.
    I wasn’t taking any pictures of this last year, but yesterday, I was going to Calgary, and in a place where nature was beautiful, and pretty far from the Pacific Ocean as well.
    But in that place, the trees were showing the same symptoms, I don’t know if it’s related though. And not all the trees, but looking out of the car, they were looking yellow-ish and red-ish.
    And last year too, right after the FUkushima accident, from half March until beginning of APril 2011, there was a video where from Calgary fresh water, I think 0.2uSv/hr, probably in gamma rays, was measured from the surface.
    It’s not impossible that it could be related.

    So this time, after the typhoon, I monitored radiation levels in Japan, but this time they weren’t noticably up higher after.
    Well, since I’m not in Japan right now I don’t know the state of the foodstuffs and so. If there’s someone who knows this and can inform me, it would greatly help.

    There are two other things on my mind.

    The first is the radiation level measured from Osaka’s tap water.
    It’s the Beta type radiation that’s the worry, and that’s being measured from the water.
    Since this October 1st, it has jumped higher, this time 0.45Bq/liter, still within the set limits.
    But the level had dropped from 0.3Bq/L late last year and hadn’t moved about 0.1Bq/L since then. late last year.
    So now it suddenly jumped to 0.45Bq/L this October 1st, and it got my attention.
    The Ministry of health decided that the level strontium-90 is OK up to 10Bq/L.
    But looking at this data from Osaka, I don’t know which element it is.
    Maybe it’s no strontium but tritium, which is in the water. Which beta-nucleide would be in the water?

    And the second issue is that the temperature inside Fukushima Unit 1 is rising, and I’ve been observing it.
    It didn’t use to be above 60 degrees Celcius, but since September 26th, it jumped up to 65.8 degrees Celcius.
    So from September 24th to 26th, temperature went up by about 10 degrees Celcius.
    Around the same time, Tepco was working on Unit 1, making a hole and putting a camera inside and so, and I thought this work could be related to the rise in temperature.
    But then from September 26th to 29th, the temperature dropped about 5 degrees Celcius to around 60 degrees Celcius.
    It’s still higher than the 55 degrees Celsius from before, but it was stable for a little while.
    THen on October 1st, the measurment from 11 AM shows a sudden increase by 2 degrees Celcius again.
    I don’t know what the impact of the typhoon was, but directly after the typhoon left, temperature rose, that’s my observation.

    That’s it for today. THank you very much.”

      1. Dear Mochizuki,

        Many thanks to you for the blog and all the information.

        After following the blog since last year, it’s my pleasure to finally contribute something.

  3. Hi, I live in Tokyo.
    At the present day, most Japanese don’t want to know the truth. Maybe they think “If I know that, I have to change everything about my life”. They are really really REALLY afraid about it.
    After 311, I lost many friends. That’s because I was tell them about radioactivity risks.
    They can access internet and they can read international media, but they don’t want to. They believe their wish like “Some day, the radiation will gone and everything will be OK”.

    こんにちは。東京在住です。
    311以降感じている事ですが、ほとんどの日本人は真実を知りたがりません。多分彼らは『真実を知ってしまうと、人生全てを変えなくてはらない』と思っているからだと思います。それは恐怖以上の感情のようです。
    311以降、私は多くの友人と縁が切れました。私が放射能リスクを伝えたからです。
    友人達はネットに接続出来る環境を持ち、いくらでも国外のメディアから情報を得られますが、確かめようともしません。いつかは放射線が消えて何も心配無く生活できると信じたいようです。

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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