[ RadSafe ] New Claim - Cesium near Fukushima now 10 times higher than prev

[Peter Bossew]

List,

It is credible, but as Dan suggested, such values are not representative
for larger areas. Such concentrations occur in accumulation zones such as
sinks and pockets. Still they can be of rad. relevance.

I myself took soil and moss samples in a children's playground in
Fukushima City (65 km from the NPP), originating from the foot of a
hillslope where probably run off water has accumulated. The conc were not
that high, and the patches not very large - some 10 m^2 perhaps -, but
still enough to produce several uSv/h locally. Also children tend to play
with soil and mud and even swallow it. (The conc. were high enough that
even Fukushima-borne Pu could easily be identified - article in press).

Another hot spot I found next to a bush right at the pedestrian crossing
into town in front of the main gate of Fukushima city railway station. 

Yet another location of the kind was a drainage channel in Koriyama city,
ironically next to containers where evacuees from the Fukushima zone were
temporarily relocated.



Peter Bossew



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>Friends on RADSAFE, is there any credibility to this claim or is it
>just more anti-nuclear hype being spread by so-called "nuclear news"
>that only posts anti-nuclear "news and conjecture" and ignores
>anything that does not agree with nuclear power being the potential
>end of life as we know it?
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Cesium near Fukushima now 10 times higher than previous highest
>measurement
>
>by Christina MacPherson
>
>Over 1,000,000 Bq/kg of cesium near Fukushima plant — 10 times higher
>than highest measurement in prior soil survey
>http://enenews.com/1000000-bqkg-cesium-fukushima-plant-10-times-higher-highest-reading-prior-soil-survey
>  January 12th, 2013
> Environment Ministry’s radioactive monitoring in Fukushima with summary
>translation by Fukushima Diary:
>http://www.env.go.jp/jishin/monitoring/result_pw130110-1.pdf
>Soil sampled on Oct. 25, 2012 from beside an reservoir in Okuma
>
>Cs-134 : 400,000 becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg)
>Cs-137 : 650,000 Bq/kg
>Combined Cs-134, -137: 1,050,000 Bq/kg
>Nikkei’s report on the monitoring says the highest t reading was 96,000
>Bq/kg of Cs-134 and -137 during last summer’s research, detected in soil
>from a reservoir in Namie.
>
>Christina MacPherson | January 14, 2013 at 6:56 am | Categories: Fukushima
>2013 | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-9p0
>
>http://nuclear-news.net/2013/01/14/cesium-near-fukushima-now-10-times-higher-than-previous-highest-measurement/
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