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The USS Ronald Reagan was only a mile away from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and became contaminated with radiation during the Fukushima Disaster 2011. Since then many of the sailors have become ill and are showing Radiation Sickness.
How in the world can a state of the art ship that was made to withstand battle not even protect the crew against radiation. USS Ronald Reagan was sitting in a nuclear plume for five plus
hours, how is it possible that they suck up nuclear contaminated waste into the water
filtration system and think for one minute that there’s no health risk
to the sailors!
"Lindsay Cooper who was on the
deck, it started to snow and then she tasted this metallic taste in her
mouth, and so did the others."
The USS Ronald Reagan crew show signs of Radiation Sickness, Radiation Madness, Radiation Burns, all from the fallout from Fukushima. But no doctors will admit to it, and they are left outside of the system. All along "Nuclear Experts" are saying everything is fine, dont worry!
Could it be that they have been all deceived by bananas?
There seems to be a lot of "Nuclear Experts" around these days that say the radiation you get from eating bananas is equal to man made Radioactive Uranium and Plutonium waste. Tim Worstall said so, he even goes on to say that we all now can run our Nuclear Reactors on bananas! That and "The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Will Kill No One"..
You can look for yourself, here's his article on Forbes!
So how many bananas do you need to eat to get a metallic taste in your mouth?
"One medium banana packs about 422 milligrams of potassium, about 11 percent of the 4,700 milligrams adults should aim to get daily."
Could it really be that the human body and most living things on earth can handle potassium!
Iran Super Top Secret Banana Centrifuge Program
Or should we be alarmed over the fact that the middle east have gotten their hands on banana centrifuges. These pictures taken of the Super Top Secret Iran Banana Centrifuge program leaked recently, show that they are hard at work to weaponize bananas!
Paul C. Garner, attorney for Navy sailors exposed to Fukushima radioactive contamination: They’re out there in the elements breathing it in, soaking it in. According to Lindsay Cooper who was on the deck, it started to snow and then she tasted this metallic taste in her mouth, and so did the others. And they were having snow ball fights and joking around about it, until they were warned that it was radioactive and they should not be doing that.
At 9:45 in
Garner: They were considered to be too highly radioactive [...] The Reagan sailed around for weeks before they could find a friendly port to land in. By that time the people on board were pretty well toast. And the Reagan itself became contaminated. After that the Reagan spent a year and half in Bremerton, Washington for what they considered to be routine maintenance, but it was anything but routine. They decontaminated the vessel as best they could, and they shipped the contaminated debris over to Hanford.
Radioisotopes in the Pacific Ocean. What's There? How Much? How Long?
The release of radioisotopes from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 amounts to the largest ever accidental release of radiation into the ocean. The explosions initially released radioisotopes in the form of iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137 from the reactors. All of these Nobel isotopes cause health problems.
In the weeks after Fukushima nuclear disaster, Ken Buesseler a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, organized an expedition with scientists from different fields and institutions to investigate radioisotopes from the damaged nuclear plant that ended up in the ocean and marine life. They used nets to sample organisms and instruments to collect more than 1,500 water samples in 30 locations off Japan. Water and biological samples were sent to 16 labs in seven countries to detect levels of a variety of radioisotopes. The concentrations measured in early April 2011 were all the more alarming.
In June 2011, Buesseler led a quickly organized expedition aboard the research vessel Ka' imikai-o-Kanaloa that took a comprehensive look at the fate of the Fukushima radiation both in the open ocean and in marine life. Beginning 600 kilometers offshore and coming within 30 kilometers of the crippled nuclear plant, the research team sailed a sawtooth pattern, gathering water samples from as deep as 1,000 meters, and collecting samples of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and small fish. They also released two dozen drifters to track currents. These instruments move with to ocean currents over months and report their positions via satellite. Like their Japanese colleagues, Buesseler's team measured elevated levels of both cesium-137 and the telltale cesium-134 in the water they collected.
Please also note that the report here have excluded 296.100 tons of radioactive reactor water that have leaked into the Pacific Ocean since this disaster began at the amount of 300-400 tons per day and which continue to leak to this very day.
So 100.000 times more Cesium-137 reported is on the LOW SIDE.
Fukushima Released 100.000 Times more Cesium-137 Than Chernobyl or Nuclear Weapons Testing
The strong tropical storm Man-yi is expected to approach Japan's northeastern Fukushima Prefecture on Monday but already we are seeing heavy rain and winds at the Fukushima Plant. And we are following this event live here at the chat.
I have added another livecam to the show and if you also turn on the TBS JNN livecam stream you will get the audio of the wind blowing and heavy rain. The new Futaba livecam is showing us the situation outside Fukushima. You can see the powerlines going to the Fukushima plant when the camera is facing away from the intersection.
And already we see how the trees are blowing. There have been cars going by from time to time. I guess this is either workers or personel in the area trying to keep the water out of certain areas. There have been reports of that they have been increasing patrols to make sure contaminated water does not overflow in the heavy rain.
At Sep. 15, 2013 - Updated 20:16 UTC they said
Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have placed weights on large cranes used to move debris around the reactor building to keep them from being toppled by strong winds.
They also attached ropes to outdoor piping and pumps that are used to inject water into the reactors.
The operators are strengthening patrols to prevent rain from entering and overflowing the basement of turbine buildings and the underground tunnel where highly contaminated water has accumulated.
They found water overflowing from a fence around storage tanks near the Number 4 reactor on Sunday afternoon. TEPCO officials are inspecting the leaked water to determine if it's contaminated.
The workers are dismantling a wastewater tank from which highly radioactive water is suspected to have leaked last month.
TEPCO says it plan to continue the work on Monday, but may decide to stop if the weather worsens.
The ground under Fukushima could turn liquid if another M7.0 earthquake hit the region due to the already massive amounts of water being pumped into the site. If that happens, all those buildings with their spent fuel pools would come tumbling down, the spent nuclear fuel would go critical and it would be all over when more than 300 tons of nuclear fuel go up in smoke all at once.
The corium molten nuclear fuel that have breached the containment long ago now have no problem moving in the soft earth and is going even further down into earth giving humanity no chance at stopping the contamination of the Pacific Ocean.
Thanks to David who took Radiation measurements during an domestic flight on a 737 going from Townsville to Brisbane on 8 Aug, 2013 we now have evidence that show that people flying are not only getting the normal dose of atmospheric background radiation when flying.
The extreme levels of radiation detected during the flight show us that the Fukushima disaster have reached way down to Australia now. And anyone flying is getting high doses of airborne radiation in various forms along with hot particles that are constantly released from the nuclear plant.
With the radiation detector showing spikes of up to 945 CPM that are almost 5 times the normal exposure in the cabin during the flight it shows just how much fallout this nuclear disaster really have and still is producing.
Cabin air is normally filtered very well, however even so the high levels of radiation entering the cabin during high altitude flight still poses a grave danger to the health of passengers. There have been numerous reports of flight attendants having radiation sickness like symptoms these past years after Fukushima, but the delusion is so strong that the "regulators" and airlines have dismissed that there could be any connection to Fukushima at all.
Quoted from David
"Published on 8 Aug 2013
same flight town to bris 08.08.2013
inspector EXP highest read out was 945 CPM during mid flight this is a
hazmat situation and all airlines are aware of this and are for all
intent purposes criminal negligent on not informing the public and air
crew of the dangers and at the very lest providing masks to mitigate in
some small way the exposure! YES I'M MAD AS HELL that our government
statutory agencies and departments are doing nothing ! time to get a
lawyer and start the legal process !"
Quoted from David
"Published on 8 Aug 2013
how about this i wonder if all those
frequent flyer politicians are breathing nice and heavy every time
they get a flight at tax payers expense! this reading should be closer
to 200 CPM not 929 CPM and max mid flight CPM was 945 thank god i had a
activated disposable mask!"
Well it's happening again, massive amounts of steam / fog covering the reactor buildings at Fukushima. Good thing there are people in the chat that brings it to attention when it happens. I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the boiling reactor buildings.
I also looked at some old pictures I had taken two years ago in August 2011 and if we have a look at those pictures things have not really changed at all. Sure there might be less fires and spectacular lightning going on now, probably due to the fact that the melted reactor fuel corium have now gone very deep underground. But there still is the steam events taking place on a regular basis over at Fukushima.
This is an old video from 2011.08.04 showing some of the events going on. Notice how Tepco turn the camera to black and white at the 1 minute mark to hide away the things taking place. It really starts to pick up at about 1:40 min into the video.
I have to say that anyone who claim the contamination taking place (about 400 tons of radioactive water per day into the Pacific Ocean) that comes directly from molten nuclear fuel corium in contact with groundwater that say somehow it is "diluted and safe" is a MADMAN!
The following is a short but informative video about Plutonium. It explains the alchemy behind it and the process in nuclear plants.
And also gives us an understanding about how toxic this element Plutonium PU-242 with it's atomic number 94 is to humans and all living creatures on this planet.
The following is a letter found at http://www.ccnr.org/max_plute_aecb.html (CCNR is a not-for-profit
organization, federally incorporated in 1978. It is dedicated to
education and research on all issues related to nuclear energy, whether
civilian or military -- including non-nuclear alternatives -- especially
those pertaining to Canada.)
How much plutonium does it take to overdose a person? Letter from the Atomic Energy Control Board (followed by comments from CCNR)
re: Maximum Permissible Intake of Plutonium by Inhalation
September 30 1999
Ms. Kristen Ostling
National Coordinator
Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout
1200-1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa Ontario
K1N 7B7
Subject:
Quantity of Plutonium that an Atomic Radiation Worker and the Public may Inhale to Reach their Respective Limits
Dear Ms. Ostling:
The Atomic Energy Control Board (AECB) does not set maximum permissible
quantities of radionuclides for workers or the public. Regulatory
protection criteria are expressed in terms of effective dose limits.
In this context, we understand your question to mean: "What is the
quantity of plutonium oxide, if inhaled, would give rise to an effective
dose of 50 mSv [ millisieverts ] to a worker or 5 mSv to a member of
the public?"
As the result of an intake, these doses will be received over 50 years
by a worker and over a period ending at age 70 by a member of the
public. These calculations have been made for insoluble (in lung fluid)
plutonium oxide of 1 micrometer size. These assumptions are very
conservative (restrictive); in other words the worst case scenario has
been assumed.
workers:
1.4 micrograms for 50 mSv committed effective dose (over 50 years after intake)
public:
0.1 microgram for 5 mSv committed effective dose (up to age 70)
If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at (613) 996-5637.
Yours truly,
M. P. Measures, Ph.D.
Director
Radiation and Environmental Protection Division
Comments from CCNR
Foreword
Plutonium is a highly toxic material. Attempts to deny or to obscure this fact are, we feel, irresponsible.
Some spokespersons for AECL and for the Government of Canada have
suggested that there is no danger involved in MOX transport worthy of
anyone's serious consideration.
We feel compelled to point out that, although the probability of a
severe accident that would release plutonium to the atmosphere is
admittedly small, the potential health and environmental consequences of
such an accident can be serious due to the extraordinary toxicity of
plutonium when inhaled.
It is for this reason alone that the United States of America has made
it illegal to transport plutonium by air in US territory. Such a
prohibition does not exist for any other radioactive material.
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited has admitted, in documents submitted to
Transport Canada, that in four out of eight categories of serious road
transportation accidents, the MOX containers would be completely
destroyed and a plume of plutonium dust would be spread downwind to a
distance of about 80 kilometers.
Transport Canada has stated -- not once, but several times, in its
response to public commentaries about AECL's plans for MOX transport by
road -- that transporting MOX by air is much more dangerous than doing
it by road because of the health dangers of inhaling plutonium dust
following an accident.
Industry and government spokespersons have insisted that120 grams of
plutonium is too small an amount to raise legitimate health and
environmental concerns. They have made the irrelevant observation that
120 grams of plutonium is about the size of two A-A batteries.
Such remarks are manipulative in nature; they do not help people to
weigh the risk. The important quantity is not the VOLUME or MASS of
plutonium, but its TOXICITY. Based on data supplied by AECB (see letter
above) we can address the toxicity question as follows:
In principle, using AECB's regulatory limits, how many ''civilians'' can be overdosed by 100 grams of plutonium?
0.1 micrograms
can overdose
one civilian
multiply by one million
0.1 grams
can overdose
one million civilians
multiply by ten
1 gram
can overdose
ten million civilians
multiply by one hundred
100 grams
can overdose
one billion civilians
600 grams
can overdose
six billion civilians
If there is a serious accident involving 120 grams of plutonium (in the form of MOX), how many civilian overdoses could, in principle, result?
if NONE of the plute is safely contained
there is a potential for
one billion two hundred million civilian overdoses
if 90 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
one hundred and twenty million civilian overdoses
if 99.9 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
one hundred and twenty thousand civilian overdoses
if 99.999 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
one thousand two hundred civilian overdoses
In principle, using AECB's regulatory limits, how many ''atomic radiation workers'' can be overdosed by 140 grams of plutonium?
1.4 micrograms
can overdose
one atomic worker
1.4 grams
can overdose
one million workers
14 grams
can overdose
ten million workers
140 grams
can overdose
one hundred million workers
560 grams
can overdose
four hundred million workers
If there is a serious accident involving 600 grams of plutonium (in the form of MOX), how many worker overdoses could, in principle, result?
if NONE of the plute is safely contained
there is a potential for
four hundred twenty-five million worker overdoses
if 90 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
forty-two and a half million worker overdoses
if 99.9 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
forty-two and a half thousand worker overdoses
if 99.999 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
four hundred and twenty-five worker overdoses
If there is a serious accident involving 600 grams of plutonium (in the form of MOX), how many civilian overdoses could, in principle, result?
if NONE of the plute is safely contained
there is a potential for
six billion civilian overdoses
if 90 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
six hundred million civilian overdoses
if 99.9 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
six hundred thousand civilian overdoses
if 99.999 percent of it is safely contained
there is a potential for
six thousand civilian overdoses
Afterword
The
probability of a serious accident involving MOX transport is small, but
the consequences can be severe. They can also be very long-lived: since
plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years, plutonium contamination
can be permanent. It is a betrayal of public trust to pretend that
these risks do not exist. Unlike most shipments of radioactive materials, plutonium shipments are
attractive targets for criminals or terrorists, because plutonium is the
primary nuclear explosive material from which atomic bombs can be made. Any attempted hijacking can only increase the risks of unintended releases of plutonium to the atmosphere.
Arnie Gundersen came out with a new video talking about the danger of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 and it's Spent Fuel Pool. I am sure that the most of you have already heard that if / when Unit 4 collapses it will bring on the evacuation of Tokyo and probably all of Japan as we know it. The reason why this is so, is that in the Fuel Pool at Unit 4 the combined amount of old and new Fuel Rods stored there are so great that if the rods hit the ground and they will catch fire, they will spew out more Cesium 137 than all the Atomic Bomb test's that have been done in the entire history of mankind. Try and imagine this, only if we were detonate 800 Nuclear Bombs at Fukushima we would achieve the same level of contamination.
Arnie say something very important in the beginning of this video, he talks about that once the rods catch fire they can't be put out anymore. And no amount of water will extinguish the flame, in fact water would make it worse!! And they will continue to burn. This would become an even bigger ongoing contamination of the entire world, but to make matters even worse it would be impossible to stop.
When I see these things happening to Japan and think about their past I can't shake the feeling how all this have changed their culture. After WW2 with the destruction caused by nuclear weapons on the Japanese people, this was the first use of Atomic Bombs and no one had ever seen anything like it. The destruction, the defeat was so great their culture changed. Their way of thinking and looking at the world changed.
Have you ever seen young boys and girls that are from war zones paint? They don't draw happy images, their imagination most of the time goes to something much more darker than other kids.
This can be clearly seen if you watch some Japanese Movies. Godzilla comes to mind, the big creature that comes up from the sea and destroys everything in it's path. It's very different from Hollywood if you start to think about it. But it all works out in the end.. Somehow.. But this time, I'm not so sure..
OK back to the video. For you that can't watch the video below is the transcription for you to read, I included pictures from the video also. And you can also watch this video on the Fairewinds site along with the transcript.
Transcribed - The Truth and the Future -
Maggie Gundersen: Hello Mr. Hirose and hello people of Kansai. I am Maggie Gundersen. I am the President and the founder of Fairewinds Associates and the founding director of Fairewinds Energy Education non-profit.
I am here today with Arnie Gundersen, my husband, and Chief Engineer for Fairewinds Associates. We are here today to talk to you about the triple meltdown at Fukushima-Daiichi. We hope to answer all your questions. I wish we could have joined you in person, but I thank you for watching this video and please send us any follow-up questions. We will be happy to answer them. Now let's bring Arnie into this conversation. Arnie, how dangerous is the situation now at Fukushima-Daiichi Unit 4, particularly in Japan with its continuous danger of earthquakes and seismic activity and chance for an additional tsunami.
Arnie Gundersen: Unit 4 has always been my biggest concern. If you watched our website on the very first week of the accident I was saying that if Unit 4 were to catch fire, you would have to evacuate Tokyo. As a matter of fact the book that we wrote talks about that a lot. It is really important and it remains the biggest concern that I have about the Fukushima site. Unit 4 has more fuel in it than any of the other units in the complex, but more importantly it has the most recently used nuclear fuel. And all of that fuel is outside of the containment. So that would make it dangerous enough. Except that also, of course, Unit 4 has had a series of explosions and is weakened structurally. Before it might have withstood a 7.5 earthquake. I believe that the structural damage to Unit 4 is so great that if there is a 7.5 earthquake, it will not withstand it.
Here is what would happen if Unit 4 were to crack and the water were to drain out of the nuclear fuel pool. The fuel is hot enough that it needs to be water-cooled.If air is all there is cooling the fuel, it will burn. It will burn the zircaloy cladding on the fuel, (and) will react with the oxygen to create a fire. And it is a fire that once it starts, cannot be put out by water. Water would make it worse. So the nuclear fuel would have to burn completely before the fire would ever go out.
In the process, all that radiation would go up into the atmosphere and blow all over Japan and all over the world.
There is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's. All of the above ground testing has less cesium in it than is in the reactor pool at Fukushima 4 right now. So it is a grave situation. I don't believe that the Japanese Government is moving fast enough. If there is no earthquake, the plan to remove the fuel slowly is going to be adequate. But we cannot wait on Mother Nature. We have to quickly move that fuel out of that pool and onto the ground. The key here is quickly. The Japanese Government finally just this month came up with a plan to build a building around the fuel pool building and begin removing the fuel in 2013 or 2014.
I said that that is what they needed to do on the Fairewinds site in an interview with Chris Martenson a year ago. These things have been evident, but TEPCO is not moving fast enough and the Japanese Government is not pushing TEPCO to move fast enough either. I think the top priority of TEPCO and the top priority of the Japanese Government should be to move the fuel out of that pool just as quickly as possible. And in the meantime, they need to strengthen that pool to make sure that it can withstand an earthquake. Remember, that pool is not in a containment. You can look down in a satellite and see the nuclear fuel. The roof is blown off. And that is what makes it dangerous.
In America, we had the Brookhaven National Laboratory do a study to examine what would happen in a fuel pool fire. Brookhaven National Labs determined that there would be 187,000 people who would develop cancer from a fuel pool fire. It is a serious concern and I do not believe that Tokyo Electric and I do not believe that the Japanese Government is taking it seriously enough. For the last year I have been working with Akio Matsumora and finally it appears that the world community is listening to Akio Matsumora's concerns about the pool. We need to tackle this as a concerned world community and encourage the Japanese Government and encourage Tokyo Electric to solve it quickly.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie you mentioned cesium in your earlier discussion. Why is it important? What is the health effect of cesium and are there any other radioactive isotopes that would have been released during the triple meltdown?
Arnie Gundersen:Cesium is one of many radioactive isotopes that are created in a nuclear reactor. It has got a 30 year half life which means that it hangs around for 300 years and biologically it mimics potassium. You might remember that if you have a muscle cramp, you eat a banana and it goes to your muscles and relieves the cramp. Well, cesium also goes to your muscles. It is called a muscle seeker. When it goes to your muscles, it can cause cancer, but it can also cause a variety of other illnesses.
The Brookhaven study only looks at cancer. It does not look at all the other things that radioactive cesium can do. In young children with rapidly developing muscles, especially their heart muscle, it can create something called Chernobyl Heart which is damage to the heart muscle, which once it is damaged, never ever recovers for the life of the child. So cesium is just one of many isotopes, but it is relatively easy to measure and also biologically causes almost the most damage of any of the other isotopes that are in that reactor.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie, you have said that you believe the explosion at Unit 3 was a prompt criticality. What is a prompt criticality and why do you believe that?
Arnie Gundersen: I developed my concern about a prompt criticality because of the nature of the explosion in Unit 3. Unit 1, when it exploded, blew sideways and with relatively low energy. You can measure the rate at which it moves and it moves less than the speed of sound. And that is called a deflagration. It does not do anywhere near as much damage. When I looked at the explosion on Unit 3, however, it was entirely different. You can see it, it is not hard to see. It is called a detonation. The speed at which Unit 3 exploded was faster than the speed of sound. And the important thing is not how Unit 3 exploded. What is the most important thing is that it exploded with a detonation, not a deflagration. The nuclear industry is not paying attention to this now, but it should be, because a nuclear containment can handle the slow moving deflagration, but it cannot handle the fast moving detonation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the international community are absolutely ignoring the fact that a detonation occurred in Unit 3.
Well how did a detonation occur? That was the question I asked myself. I checked with chemists and atmospheric pressure and hydrogen will not create a detonation. Like on Unit 1 it will only create a deflagration. So I needed to figure out how a detonation could occur. But there are a couple of other clues here. One clue is that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission way back in March of last year, wrote a report that is on our website, that talks about nuclear fuel being deposited on the site and nuclear fuel being discovered as far away as two kilometers.
How can nuclear fuel get blown out of a nuclear reactor? The fuel that is inside the reactor is also inside the containment and there is no indication of a massive containment failure and a massive reactor failure that could have thrown the nuclear fuel out. So I had to come up with a reason that the nuclear fuel could have been released in pieces, not little fine atoms, but in pieces which is what the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says was discovered.
The only way that could happen is if the explosion occurred in the fuel pool at Unit 3. Now if you look at the video of Unit 3, the very first frames show the explosion occurring on the side of the building and that is the side of the building that has the nuclear fuel pool. It started on the nuclear fuel pool side and then worked it's way up into the massive cloud that you see. So what could have caused that? That is the question. Hydrogen would have been above the nuclear fuel, it would have been a gas above the nuclear fuel and if it had exploded, it would have pushed the nuclear fuel down.
That is not what happened. Remember, we have fuel fragments found off-site. Something had to lift the nuclear fuel up. The only thing I could determine is that it was a criticality in the fuel pool that caused the fuel to lift up. The division I ran built nuclear fuel racks for boiling water reactors exactly like Fukushima. The dense fuel racks that are now in every reactor everywhere are very close to becoming critical anyway. And in the accident situation where there was seismic event and explosions occurring, it is likely that they were very near to becoming critical. And what that means is that they were very near to becoming a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Way back in college 40 years ago, we watched a movie called the Borax Experiment. You can find it on the web today. The explosion at Borax was a prompt moderated criticality. It looks almost exactly like the explosion in Fukushima unit 3. So an image I had from 40 years ago led me to conclude that the same thing happened in Unit 3. That a criticality occurred in the fuel pool and it pushed some of the nuclear fuel up into pellets and the pellets wound up scattered around the site.
Now, the criticality is called prompt moderated criticality. It is not a bomb. A bomb is a prompt fast criticality. This reaction occurs slower than a bomb, but faster than what occurs inside a nuclear reactor. The Borax experiments were designed to test just how violent that reaction could be. I think if you look at Borax and compare it to Fukushima Unit 3, you will see that there are an awful lot of similarities.
Again this is a theory, but it is the only theory that accounts for the explosion occurring on the side where the fuel pool is, and it is the only theory that creates the uplift force that caused the fuel particles to be thrown about the site and discovered as far as 2 kilometers away.
Well there is one more piece of evidence and that is that the roof over the fuel pool has been totally destroyed whereas the roof over the nuclear reactor and the containment, collapsed downward. We talk about that in a video on the site as well and I think that is another important indication that whatever it was that caused the fuel to lift occurred on the fuel pool side of the building, and not in the middle where the nuclear reactor was.
The videos after the accident and after the explosion show containment leaks as well. You will see in the weeks afterward, steam coming from the center of the building. And I believe that the containment lid lifted on Unit 3 and never went back down straight, so it has lifted and twisted sideways and radioactive gasses are lifting from that containment lid. But there is not enough evidence to say that that is what caused the explosion that we saw during the accident. The jury is still out and will be for 10 years until we get inside the Fukushima reactor to see what the damage is. But right now, I think my theory accounts for the damage, the speed of the shock wave, and also the fact that the contamination has been found as far away as 2 kilometers.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie, let's talk about the Unit 4 spent fuel pool. There have been a lot of questions about that and a lot of concerns right now. Was there a hydrogen explosion at the Unit 4 spent fuel pool and if there was, what is a hydrogen explosion and why would it have occurred there?
Arnie Gundersen: One of the biggest mysteries at Fukushima is how did Fukushima Unit 4 explode? There are a couple of very, very grainy videos that clearly show it did explode. It was a different type of explosion and perhaps a fire and an explosion that went on for a period of days. So exactly how it did explode is one of the big questions about the Fukushima accident.
There are 3 competing theories. Tokyo Electric says that the radioactive gasses over in Unit 3 went through a pipe that connected Unit 4 and entered Unit 4 causing Unit 4 to explode. So Tokyo Electric's position is that the radioactive hydrogen that was created in Unit 3 went through a pipe, entered Unit 4, and there it exploded. There is one piece of evidence that supports that. There is some contamination in some filters in Unit 4 that would indicate that gasses did come from Unit 3.
So that is a possibility, but I do not think it is accurate because I believe that the containment was so damaged on Unit 3, that there was no pressure to push those gasses into Unit 4. I can't understand how the gasses, what the mode of force was to push those gasses into Unit 4. I think the hydrogen explosion came from something in side Unit 4 itself. There are two possibilities there.
One is by Dr. Gen Saji and it is an excellent analysis. He believes that the hydrogen in the water in the pool that was dissolved because of the radiation in the pool over months and months and months, was enough to cause the building to explode. As the water got hot in the fuel pool, it liberated the hydrogen that was in the water and that hydrogen was enough to cause the explosion.
The second possibility, and this is my theory, early on in the accident, there is some video that is up on our site, that shows that the top of the fuel racks were exposed to air. I am not suggesting that the entire fuel pool ran dry. But the top of the nuclear fuel I believe was exposed to air and I think the photos show that. So if the top of the fuel was exposed to air, it is possible that a reaction could have occurred at the top of the fuel that would have created enough hydrogen to blow the building up.
Dr. Saji and I agree that the hydrogen came from the Unit 4 fuel pool. He believes it was dissolved in the water. I believe it came from the fuel. Only time will tell when we get in to analyze the reaction. But there is an important lesson here that the nuclear industry is not taking into account. And that is the fuel pool temperature. The fuel pool is a large pool and it can boil locally. And that is something the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the international community is not looking at. You can get local boiling in a pool even though the bulk temperature of the pool may be at 80 degrees Celsius. In portions of the pool, it can be boiling. That supports Dr. Saji's comment that as it boiled it would liberate hydrogen, even though the bulk temperature never ever exceeded boiling.
My theory is that I do believe that the entire pool had drained to the point where there was boiling occurring. But the real issue here is that the nuclear industry is not looking at the fact that localized boiling can occur even though the bulk temperature might be less than 100 degrees centigrade.
That is an important distinction moving forward. We have about 23 of these Mark I reactors in the United States and there are another 10 or so around the world. I think that we need to design these pools so that the hydrogen generated by dissociation can be accommodated without exploding the building. No one ever designed for that because no one ever anticipated it happening. But it did happen at Unit 4 and we need to prevent that in the future. Not just on these Mark I reactors but on the 400 reactors that all have fuel pools that are all susceptible to that identical type of failure.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie, I want to follow up with a few more questions. In your discussion of Unit 4, you have talked about its hydrogen explosion. Is there any chance of a prompt criticality or a hydrogen explosion now at Unit 4? Would anything cause it to release more fuel or more radioactivity?
Arnie Gundersen: The fuel in the fuel pool at Unit 4 has now been cooled for about a year after the accident and it had been removed a couple of months before that. So the fuel is becoming cooler. It still needs to be water-cooled for another 2 years, but it is much cooler than it was at the beginning of the accident. So the chances of hydrogen generation are much, much lower now than when the accident occurred. So I do not believe that we are going to see an explosion in the pool now, no matter what happens.
My biggest concern is that if the pool loses water, then it is an entirely different story. So if there is a large seismic event that causes the building to topple, or the pool to crack and the water to drain out, there is not enough cooling in the air of that fuel, and it will start to burn. Now the consequences of that are depending on which way the wind is blowing, it could mean the evacuation of Tokyo as a worst case. It could also mean cutting Japan in half so that the northern part is separated from the southern part by a band of contamination. So this is a very serious accident waiting to happen and we just all have to pray that an earthquake does not happen before that fuel is removed.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie, compared to the accident at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, how dangerous are the radioactive releases from the four reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi?
Arnie Gundersen:Three Mile Island was a level 5 accident and Chernobyl and Fukushima are level 7 accidents. That means roughly that Three Mile Island was a 100 times less than the accident at Chernobyl and the accident at Fukushima. People did die as a result of the accident at Three Mile Island. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says no, no one died, on their web page. But the evidence is clear that there was an increase in cancer. I refer you to Dr. Steve Wing's report that is also on our site that talks about it. And in addition some reports coming out of the University of Pittsburgh indicate just now that we are beginning to see leukemia as a result.
So while Three Mile Island was much less than either Chernobyl or Fukushima, people did die as a result of the radiation released. At Fukushima-Daiichi the evidence tells us that at least three times more radiation in the form of noble gasses were released from Units 1, 2 and 3 than from Chernobyl. We have seen radioactive gas clouds, noble gas clouds to the northwest, that are much worse than we ever anticipated to have been released. So we know that the noble gasses were larger than Chernobyl. Now iodine, which is another gas that is released, and also cesium and other gasses, seem to be roughly on the same level as the releases from Chernobyl.
There are 2 issues here. As terrible as it is, it would have been much worse but for 2 things. The first is that most of the time the wind was blowing out to sea. And of course Chernobyl was surrounded by land, so whatever way the plume meandered after Chernobyl, it contaminated the land. So when we compare Fukushima to Chernobyl, the total releases from Fukushima are likely higher than they were at Chernobyl, but because most of it blew out to sea, that is a good thing for the Japanese people.
The second important thing that happened that was lucky, if we can call it luck in such a severe accident, was that it happened on a Friday and not on a weekend. There were a thousand people at the Daini site and at the Daiichi site, because it was a weekday, who could respond to the accident. If it had happened on a weekend, there would have been a small crew of people there and the accidents at both sites would have been much much worse. Now that has an implication worldwide, because on weekends and in the evenings, we have very small crews at these nuclear reactors. And should there be a major accident, there is no way to respond quickly enough with the small crew of people that are working on the shifts, other than the main shift in the middle of the day.
The international community needs to look at that and it is not a matter of well, we can get people there in a half a day. That is too late. The staff on site has to be larger at the beginning of the accident to mitigate the potential for a serious accident. But yet it all boils down to money. The utilities that run these power plants really do not want a large staff because they have to pay for it. But in fact, it was the large staff at Daiichi and the large staff at Daini that likely saved the world. So the important take-away here is that the releases from Fukushima are as serious if not more so than Chernobyl. And that they would have been much worse if the accident had happened on a weekend.
Maggie Gundersen: Arnie, thank you. How significant is the danger of hot particles and why?
Arnie Gundersen: I am really concerned about the hot particles that were released after the Fukushima accident. Now a hot particle is more than just a single atom. An atom of cesium decays once and it is over, it is no longer radioactive. A hot particle though, contains thousands or hundreds of thousands of atoms of cesium or other radioactive material and they, of course, decay for many, many years and decades.
So if a hot particle is lodged inside you, either in your lung or in your liver or in your gastrointestinal tract, it can cause a constant bombardment of radiation over a long period of time to a very small localized part of your tissue. And that is exactly the conditions that can cause a cancer.
So we have seen in Mr Kaltofen's analysis to the American Public Health Association: he shows what an air filter looked like in a car in Fukushima and what an air filter looked like in a car in Tokyo. Those air filters are no different than our lung, our lung acts as an air filter, and that causes that radiation to get trapped in our lungs or in our livers or elsewhere in our bodies, and will constantly, over decades, cause cellular damage. It is particularly a concern in young children because they have a longer life, and because their cells are rapidly developing. So it is important that we monitor the children at Fukushima and throughout Japan over the next 3 or 4 decades to make sure that they do not develop cancers as a result of the hot particles that were released from Fukushima-Daiichi.
Maggie Gundersen: So Arnie, in closing, what do you want people to remember from your review of the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi?
Arnie Gundersen: About a month before the accident, we were walking and we were talking about an accident and where it might occur. And I said I did not know where it would occur, but I thought it would occur in a boiling water reactor of the Fukushima design, I said a Mark I reactor. And it turned out to be true.
But I think the bigger lesson from Fukushima is that this is a technology that can destroy a nation. After Fukushima I was reading Mikolai Gorbachov's memoirs and he says it was the Chernobyl accident, not Perestroika, that destroyed the Soviet Union. So we had that information for 30 years but yet we really did not realize that it could happen elsewhere. So we know that the accident at Chernobyl was a cause in the factor of the collapse of the Soviet Union. And we know that the cost alone from the Fukushima-Daiichi accident will easily go to a half a trillion US dollars over the next 20 years. That is enough to bring Japan to its knees.
Japan is at a tipping point. You have an opportunity here to change the way we use energy. Or Japan can go back and turn on all its nuclear reactors again and continue business as usual and of course risk another accident. So you have a choice, you have the opportunity to change the way you use energy and to change the way you distribute energy. You can create smart grids that share power from the north to the south and from the east to the west, where the frequencies are different. We can distribute our generation, instead of having massive power plants in locations like Fukushima-Daiichi and Fukushima-Danai. We can distribute those power plants throughout Japan, throughout the world, with windmills, with solar power, with conservation and with distributed small sources of generation.
Those are all one way of doing it compared to the other which we are presently using, which is central station power. We needed central station power in the 20th century. Now with computers, we do not need central station power anymore. We can do it another way. And Japan can lead the way if it chooses to. If it leads the way, it will have an export commodity that the rest of the world will want desperately. You have an opportunity here to change your country. And you also have a business opportunity here to sell to the rest of the world a product that we all desperately need.
So the Fukushima-Daiichi accident is the worst industrial accident in history: it is a half a trillion dollars. But it also can be an opportunity for Japan to change the way it does business and to create the economy for the 21st century and beyond with distributed generation and smart grids. I hope you choose that choice. Japan is at a tipping point and it is your choice to make.
Today a year has past since the Fukushima disaster, and in that time the earthquake activity in the area have gone up some 24 times from the recorded average in the area. 231 earthquakes above M4 have hit since the devastating earthquake with numerous M5 quakes recently centering in around Fukushima. Some of us look at the recent solar activity and solar storms and see a direct connection.
This don’t sound good for us that continually follow the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster. With real experts doing all they can to try and educate the masses and bring attention to the severity of this disaster as we get headlines like..
“If Unit 4 gets a crack from quakes and leaks, it would be the end for Tokyo.”
While I’m at it, describing to you how much earthquake activity has gone up (24 times). It will surprise some of you, probably living in caves somewhere.. That a few weeks ago the radiation levels reported in Tokyo, many parts of it, has in fact radioactive levels 25 times higher than the mandatory evacuation zones around Chernobyl!!
There is really a treat here. Still people don’t really care about. They do go on that everything is fine, like it’s already over. They draw parallels to Chernobyl and say, “look at that place, people still live there and are doing just fine..” It’s nothing new that TEPCO and the Japanese government have been less than forthcoming since the beginning of this disaster, lies upon lies.. Some don’t question but the Japanese people are getting more and more angry, and they know they are being told lies and half truths. The Japanese people are more and more opening their eyes and start to see TEPCO the clown with the curly hair and painted face denying everything saying it’s a “wardrobe malfunction”.
“Report: Records of human deformations and still births after Fukushima yet to be published”
In 1986 some magazines and pro-nuclear articles went out and said nuclear power is as safe as a chocolate factory, a few weeks later Chernobyl blew up. 25 years later, the movement and “educated” thinking among experts and the schooled children growing up after started to go back to normal. Normal being that nuclear power is cheap and safe, however this time the disaster was the greatest nuclear disaster in the history of the world, and it’s still going. Anyone who have the guts to look at a Chernobyl documentary and see how that nuclear disaster have affected the children would never say something like it’s safe and fine. It’s not fine, Fukushima is not fine, it’s not over, it’s ongoing.
Children in Fukushima stopped growing last year, it’s widely known and reported on by doctors in the area, children should not do that if there was nothing very wrong.
Yet today a English documentary went on to say they are still unsure about the health effects on children. I guess they are still waiting for that report?
But that's not all, what about all the Radiation Sickness Symptoms showing up all over. Like people loosing hair, teeth and getting all kinds of illnesses. Watch this video of a High School teacher about how the radiation destroy her health. I know about 90% of the school teachers eat the same food they serve the children during the school day. Now what damage do you think this does to young children that are growing when it wrecks adults like this?
In March 2012 Yoichi Shimatsu talked about a young woman who had only traveled to Japan, what happened to her is disturbing to say the least. She had only been there a short period of time and ate the food.. Read more about that and listen to the Must Hear 2012 audio collection below.
Jeff Rense: Don’t suppose there will be a big tourist push this season into Fukushima..?
Yoichi Shimatsu: Well the Japanese government is pushing tourism like crazy and people are foolish enough to visit. My travel agent in Hong Kong told me that a lot of people gone over, only to Osaka to southern part of ??? Island and one lady went over there. She was very careful about the diet and all that but you know enjoyed Japanese food, she came back, she’s about 26 years old, office worker.
She came back, this is what my travel agent told me. She wasn’t felling very good, stomach wasn’t felling too good, her head was woozy, went to the doctor and the doctor told her, you can’t have a baby for the next 3 years.. That was his diagnosis.
Jeff Rense: That’s a smart doctor..
Yoichi Shimatsu: Japanese government inviting people over there where they’re eating the food, drinking the water, breathing the air and they are coming down with conditions where women can not have babies for many years...
Jeff Rense: Fukushima radiation as it has covered and continues to cover and impact north of America and the northern hemisphere. Hello MC and welcome back.
Michael Collins: Why thank you JR, I am pleased to be back and last week we did talk about some of these testing that we have been doing and here in Los Angeles we spoke about how the test that we have of the air here have not been impacted by Radon, that Radon progeny is not an issue here and we found very high amounts of Alpha and Beta radiation in the two test that you just posted.
Jeff Rense: They will be up in a couple of minutes, right.
Michael Collins: That’s right, and our theory we where talking about well if the rain isn’t bringing it here to southern California because of the 42 day period that we used those two HEPA filters a Westing house and Kenmore Plasma Wave. There was no rain and yet we got 538 percent above normal in the dust itself. The dust’s hot you can see it yourself folks it’s like.
Jeff Rense: OK 538, that means 5 times over normal or 4 times above normal a total of 5 anyway OK.
Jeff Rense: And we are back, “it’s a hot time in the old town tonight” probably a song that the Japanese don’t know but it would certainly serve their purposes and many of these cities on the main Island of Honshu, because radioactivity, radio nuclides are spreading all over nonstop. 70 Million Bequarels An Hour being released from the wrecked destroyed Fukushima plant.
Reactor building 4 leaning it’s traditional 15 degrees and starting to look more like the leaning tower of Pisa all the time. The Japanese are doing nothing to try and prop that building up, nothing substantial, they cant get near it.
The activity being generated by the spent fuel pool and of course the ruined reactor which was NOT as TEPCO told us empty. And being refueled, it was full, it was triggered in fact to start back online the very morning of 03-11. They had to stop it because there was a broken pipe, just then the earthquake hit and all hell broke lose. And it is hell on earth.
Meanwhile reactor 2 has continually seen it’s temperatures go up, it went up 5 degrees.. 3 degrees? 3 degrees Celsius in 5 hours yesterday, it is very hot and getting hotter and they the authorities don’t know what’s causing it. Let me tell you though that reactor building 4 with it’s destroyed spent fuel pool the SFP, 3 stories, 4 stories up in the air. When that comes crashing down it is full of destroyed fuel rods, these fuel roods of course some are brand new, some are used. The used rods pose more of an danger than the new ones, so when the SFP at reactor building 4 hits the ground it will go critical immediately. It will literally turn into a nuclear pier of death, it will spew unbelievable amounts of Plutonium and everything that you can, probably 100s of different Radioisotopes will be thrown into the air. Into the ocean and according to one worker at the plant within one year that building is coming down, no more than that.
Because the neutron activity is literally destroying the structural integrity of the building. It’s weakening everything, it’s degrading it, it will fall. And when it does, he said the entire east coast of Japan that’s facing us and the west coast of the United States will become uninhabitable.
How will it become uninhabitable? It will become uninhabitable because of all along the shoreline the wave action creates vapor, aerosolized droplets of nuclear death. That also of course brings the issue of evaporation which turns into clouds, which moves in storm systems across the ocean and on to the land depositing it’s deadly cargo there. So when building 4 goes down, and that spent fuel pool goes critical, folks you better start wearing masks all the time and you still got time to get covers for your gardens or you wont be the one to garden out there…
Yoichi Shimatsu: Hello Jeff, hear you had some problem with people ?? on your reporting on Fukushima which mystifies me because it’s one of the most consistent and full coverage out there with a very wide diverse range of opinion so, don’t know what they are complaining about. But I’m afraid it wont have any basis really in anything factual.
Jeff Rense: No it really doesn’t and we have mentioned virtually every scenario I can go back to Benjamin Fullford appearance on the program here, and what Ben proposed was that two nuclear warheads from the submarine Kursk.. The submarine Kursk? Yes, under the nose of the Russian navy where stolen and brought to Japan and dropped down the bore hole pipe 10 inches in diameter of a drilling ship off Fukushima. That’s one. Another person suggested the US navy went there with a submarine and dropped down a couple of nukes in the trench and lit them off. Another person suggest it was the Israeli who went over in one of their German Diesel Electric Submarines and lit off a nuke down there to get even with Japan for some fantasized crime or other. Look folks, Japan is the known earthquake capital of the known universe, OK. Earthquakes happen all the time. Anyway Yoichi, yeah a very small number of people like a handful or less decided to make a big issue of this and rather than approach it journalistically it has been done in such a way as to clearly be liableness and character deformation of the most ugly variety but that’s the way of the internet and you know we do our best.
Jeff Rense: Ok and welcome back, it’s time to do our Monday update with Michael Collins of enviroreporter dot com he and Denise running things in Santa Monica trying to keep handle on the situation of Fukushima Radiation coming here continually, either via the Jet stream or the lower altitude air flow currents and moisture bands that come across and of course via the Pacific Ocean. And it’s ocean currents which are like a very sophisticated circulatory system which have brought these materials, all kinds of deadly radionuclides over here for many, many months now. All up and down the west coast, up into the golf of Alaska, will you hear anything from the Environmental “Protection Agency” ? Not a chance. Hello Michael and welcome back.
Jeff Rense: OK and we are back and it’s time to spend an hour of this week with Michael Collins and get a good look at what is happening here and of course over in Japan. The open wound on the surface of the earth which continue to spew radioactive death, unfortunately at a level that is still now being finally understood by the greater portion of the Japanese people and the American people as well.
Jeff Rense: OK and welcome back we are going to spend some time in Japan this hour with Dr. Richard Wilcox he is an extraordinary man who has been doing the very best he can against virtually insurmountable odds to try and make the Japanese people aware of what their government is not telling them. And what it’s not telling them is down right horrific. We saw this story two days ago that Tokyo many parts of it, has in fact radioactive levels 25 times higher than the mandatory evacuation zones around Chernobyl. Think about that. Trainstations, buildings, houses, streets. It does not matter, it’s everywhere to one degree or another but if they are getting readings 25 times higher than Chernobyl’s mandatory evacuation zones, WOW.
There is a lot of talk that the Japanese government in the beginning of the catastrophe a year ago this April the 11th didn’t know what to do. We know that, but what the talk is really suggesting is that the Japanese government was actively considering evacuating the city, I think it’s around 30 million people. Well obviously they should have and still probably should have, these people are just going to get sick and die in many cases. So lets go over to Japan right now and welcome to the program...
Jeff Rense: Ok here we are and lets go over to Hong Kong and say hello to our friend and colleague Yoichi Shimatsu who has contributed so very, very much to our understanding and I think more than that even our empathy to the people and the, well the whole culture that has been decimated and will continue to show more and more signs of imploding, the Japanese culture in the months and years ahead. It is a living tragedy unfolding before our eyes in living color. Unfortunately most of us over here in this country will never get to see it unless you are watching this particular website or listening to this program because of the Zionist nuclear regulatory commission and all the other Zionist entities here block the news out almost entirely. Yoichi hello and welcome back..
Early Fallout Map from March 21, 2011 (Not the one talked about on show)
Jeff Rense: OK and welcome back let me take our weekly look at the ongoing Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, it is an open nuclear bomb spewing death literally around the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere. And if you saw the map that we had up yesterday at rense dot com or the day before, I think it was 3 days all together. You saw the radioactive hot particle that blanketed these formally United States most Americans either inhaled or ate them.
They went into the soil, remember they have long half lives. They were up taken by the plants or they where simply on the plants and people ate them. That’s the worst, you can get them on your arms and wash them off sometimes, but when you inhale or eat them, that sets of in many people a time bomb of death. Many Americans are going to die, millions, maybe 10s of millions. It only takes one particle, you saw the map it was no joke. We have been lied to, deceived, betrayed by our alleged government. We are expendable. Michael Collins is with us tonight..
When it comes to radiation detection meters you really have a wide field of gadgets to choose from, however radiation detectors are the most common to use.
First of all if you need to know what type of radiation you are looking for. There are Alpha, Beta and Gamma radiation detectors. And also there is neutron emission of nuclear radiation. And all these different types of emissions have radiation detectors for a specific type of radiation that you can buy radiation detector for. Some also measure both Alpha and Beta. Others detect Alpha, Beta and Gamma. While others let you measure Beta and Gamma radiation.
What most people have use for though are Dosimeters you can buy a handheld radiation detector pretty cheap that are good addition to a survival kit. There are different kinds that you can use that will detect radiation. There are radiation badges that will tell you when radiation become high. Workers at nuclear power plants use these to inform them of how much radiation they have been exposed to. Now also children in the Fukushima prefecture have each been given a radiation badge so they know if they are exposed to radiation. Some come in the shape of a pen that you can carry in your pocket while other are made more compact so that you can attach them to your keychain. And then you have what is called a personal radiation monitor. These are also called Dosimeters and also normally called Geiger counters. Although not all use the Geiger-Muller Tube for the radiation detection some use a semiconductor instead. These and mostly the older geiger counters seen are pretty big to carry around, so they might not be best suited for a survival situation where you only need to carry the most important things. However if you have land and want to check radiation around the property and drinking water then these are the geiger counters to get because they are very well built units.
These are the once that you normally see people use. They have different units of radiation detection, because when it comes to radiation there are many standards used. some give the measurements in Rads, while other use Sieverts. Some have the maximum radiation value for the measured radioactivity quite low but they will still give you an idea of the amount of radiation in the area. With the units ranging from between background radiation 0.001 mSv/hr all the way up to 10 Sv/h. Normally a dosimeter will measure radiation in micro siverts per hour. If you were to walk into one of the reactor units at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant you probably would get an error reading from your dosimeter because the radiation levels are so high there.
Note that some places outside the exclusion zone in Fukushima that are too radioactive for people to live in have areas where the radiation levels are above 30 Sv/h. So if you are in a area that have high radiation the radiation detectors would also there go off the scale. However Geiger counters or radiation detectors are still favored as general purpose alpha/beta/gamma portable radiation detectors and radiation detection equipment, due to their low cost and robustness. Most come with an LCD Display that show you the radioactivity in the area. Nowdays you will even get alarm sound and the possibility to connect the device to a computer. Either with a Infrared, Bluetooth or USB connection.
So if you look at the radiation detectors for sale that have this, then these radiation detection meters will allow you to make maps of contaminated areas that show where the radiation is high and low. This also will help you to see which areas are becoming more contaminated over time. With several nuclear reactors in the US and around the world located near fault zones that makes it a danger if a big earthquake would hit the area there is always a good choice to have a radiation dosimeter avaliable. I'm sure many in Fukushima would have been grateful to have dosimeters avaliable at the time of the disaster and I am sure you to would be grateful to have a geiger counter handy when you need one.
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