By far, the greatest amount of interest in my post, Kelp: A Prophylactic Protocol for Radiation Emergencies, has been from the international community. It is apparent that there is a great deal of concern for the health risks involved for people in North America in the path
Read more →Leave it to FOX News to exaggerate claims in order to sell copy. The network reportedly printed a headline that read, “Japan abandons stricken nuke plant over radiation”. Don’t worry, folks! They haven’t abandoned the site leaving us to suffer the consequences of a meltdown. Yes, radiation
Read more →Kelp And Kids The morning of Day 4 of our kelp regimen seems to have the troops up in arms. Or, at least, up to totally ignoring the kelp in the soup pot. Complaints range from it tastes bad to they’re sick of it to deadpan silence.
Read more →First the good news: The fire at the Fukushima Dai-ichi #4 reactor has been extinguished. The southerly winds bringing radioactive contaminants to the Tokyo area have slowed somewhat. Cooling on reactors #1 and #3 has stabilized. And cooling on reactor #2 continues. Second, the good news: Reactors
Read more →So, you’re sitting there watching the news and the reporter sagely looks at the camera and says, “The current radiation levels recorded at the #2 reactor was measured to be 100 millisieverts”. It sounds bad. The question is, how bad is it really? In the SI system,
Read more →With the southerly wind from Fukushima-ken and more seeming radiation release than originally thought, Tokyo city government officials have announced that increased levels of radiation have been detected in the city. The levels are said to be low enough so as not to be a risk to
Read more →In a dramatic turn of events, the #4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has caught fire. Although the reactor was offline when the earthquake and tsunami hit the area, the core was still hot enough for a reaction to ensue. Initially, it was thought that
Read more →Current measurements indicate that in the last hour, radiation was released between the Fukushima Dai-ichi #2 and #3 reactors equivalent to 8 times what a person would normally experience over the course of a year. So, not an unmitigated disaster yet, but things are looking very bad.
Read more →At 6:10 a.m. this morning, operators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant heard a loud, “strange” sound emit from the #2 reactor. Subsequently, pressure readings apparently normalized between the inner and outer containment chambers. The official statement is that it is likely there has been a significant emission
Read more →This morning at 4:59, my dreams of nuclear reactors and earthquakes were interrupted by … an earthquake. It was a tiny one – only Mag. 4.1 – yet it was notable for its sudden and sharp release rather than for any sense of rolling shake. It was
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