Radiation reading on weather forecast of Fukushima

Nice..  Fukushima Diary:

This tweet grabbed my attention.
In Fukushima, NTV reports radiation level on weather forecast like precipitation.
Look at this carefully. It’s weather forecast, but not precipitation. This is how Fukushima is at this moment.

I'm sure this is nothing.  If it was, wouldn't American media be reporting this too, as opposed to what Brad Pitt's dumbass mom says?

[Photos] Demonstration of 200,000 people occupied official residence against nuclear restart

From Fukushima Diary.  The Japanese are waking up and finding their voice.  45 thousand people came out for the last demonstration, 11 thousand the time before.  Let's go!-Ja-pan!!  Excerpts, with photos at the link:

The organizer states 200,000 people joined the demonstration. People who joined commented it was more than 4 times as before. Last time, 45,000 people joined.



Actually, most of the people collected information from the internet to join the demonstration, it was very difficult to count how many people took part in.


It's kind of hard for the Japanese media to ignore 200 thousand of their fellow screaming countrymen, isn't it?

Record radiation levels detected at Fukushima reactor

If we have yet to invent technologies that can effectively demolish, decontaminate, and contain nuclear disasters, shouldn't we admit that nuclear power is beyond our scope of control?  Accordingly, shouldn't we be working on those technologies before we build any more reactors or utilize this Pandora's Box of death?  Don't forget:  It's all done to boil water.  Terra Daily, via The Extinction Protocol:


June 28, 2012 – JAPAN – TEPCO, the operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor number 1, further hampering clean-up operations. TEPCO took samples from the basement after lowering a camera and surveying instruments through a drain hole in the basement ceiling. Radiation levels above radioactive water in the basement reached up to 10,300 millisievert an hour, a dose that will kill humans within a short time after making them sick within minutes. The annual allowed dose for workers at the stricken site is reached in only 20 seconds. “Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition,” said TEPCO. The Fukushima operator said that radiation levels were 10 times higher than those recorded at the plant’s two other crippled reactors, number two and three. This was due to the poor state of the nuclear fuel in the reactor compared to that in the two others. The meltdown at the core of three of Fukushima’s six reactors occurred after the March 11, 2011 earthquake and ensuing massive tsunami shut off the power supply and cooling system. Demolition of the three reactors as well as the plant’s number 4 unit is expected to take 40 years and will need the use of new technologies.  (As yet un-invented technologies..)

40 years?  Do you really think we have that much time?  I doubt it..  All to boil water..

Deformed fish is served at Japanese Sushi bar(s?)

You're cute; I'm gonna call you Blinky!  Coming to a downscale restaurant near you..  Fukushima Diary.  Excerpts(and video):

Mr. Homma [Twitter], a Japanese fisher in South Chiba talked on a Ustream radio on 6/2/2012.  He has been fishing offshore of Chiba cape and Tokyo Bay for 4 years and a half.



He talked, he fished deformed fish at least twice a week.


Especially, deformation of fish living in or on seabed can be observed frequently, such as flatfish.


Deformed Japanese sea bass and Japanese amberjack, which are on the top of the food chain can be seen often too.
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He also states, those deformed fish are highly contaminated. He measured near 700 Bq/Kg from bass last Monday.

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When fish is distributed, the name of fishing port is concealed. He warns his friends about fish from Kanto area, but because a lot of people live on fishing, he can not announce the details of the problem.



From his explanation, deformed fish are sold unusually discounted. Discount Sushi bars called Kaitenzushi buy them to serve.


Image of Kaitenzushi. (Conveyer belt Sushi bar) Kaiten means rotate. Sushi is rotating on the belt and guests pick up and eat them. Because the Sushi is not fresh in the system, it is known to be cheap Sushi restaurants.


Mr. Homma is afraid of being fired, but he doesn’t want to conceal the actual situation.



He commented, we must face the truth.

This fish tastes like purple!  Maybe the ever optimistic Japanese will create new recipes around these new types of "nature's bounty."  Pass the wasabi, please!  I want superpowers!