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Title: Assessment and characterization of radionuclide concentrations from the Fukushima Reactor release in the plankton and nekton communities of the Northern California Current
Delvan Neville (Oregon St. Univ.), Richard D. Brodeur (NOAA), A. Jason Phillips (OSU) and Kathryn Higley (OSU)
Fisheries researcher Jason Phillips bleeds a just-caught albacore tuna
into a collection bag. The blood, along with all of the animal's
skeletal, organ and muscle tissue, will be tested for traces of
radiation. Photo by Cisco Werner, Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
The incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant released a substantial radioactive contamination into the environment. With the predominant wind and current flow in this part of the North Pacific, these radionuclides will gradually spread to the US West Coast waters after a suitable period of time, with the possibility of affecting food quality throughout the food web (including humans). In addition to the passive transport by currents and winds, the migratory pathways of large pelagic fish extend from Japan to the Northern California Current. These organisms can serve as transport vectors for these nuclides, especially given their capacity to concentrate radionuclides from surrounding waters and prey. [...] By predicting the radio-biologic stress (if any) for a managed species as more Fukushima-related radionuclides are uptaken, appropriate action may be taken before significant population effects have occurred. Determination of natural background concentrations and high quality transport models produced from these data also aid in management in the event of a future accidental release, and in regulating safe activity releases.
Oregon State University Press Release, Oct. 24, 2012:
[...] Phillips spent this summer collecting more fish at sea, off Oregon and Washington, as well as from scientists, fishermen and other sources along the West Coast. [...] As more fish were tested, the results were consistent with the initial findings: No Cs-134 in fish caught before the disaster, but traces of the isotope in a significant number of fish caught since. “This is what we’ve seen after testing about 70 pounds of tuna,” Neville said. [...]
No mention of the actual cesium levels detected in the tuna, only that it’s safe to eat.
(Reuters) - The situation at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant has been stabilized but is still precarious, more than a year and a half after disaster struck, a senior Japanese regulatory official said on Wednesday.
In the world's worst nuclear accident in a quarter of a century, reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima facility after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sent radiation spewing over large areas, forcing more than 160,0000 people to flee.
"Overall, the conditions there have been maintained rather in a stable condition ... but there is no denying that the whole situation remains precarious of course," said Kenzo Oshima, a commissioner at Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), has taken extra safeguards and reinforcement measures concerning the spent fuel pool of Fukushima's No. 4 reactor in order for it to withstand any new earthquake, Oshima said.
"A lot of precaution, a lot of care, a lot of attention is still very much needed," he told reporters after meeting U.N. nuclear agency chief Yukiya Amano in Vienna.
In April, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said after visiting the site that Japan, with assistance from the U.S. government, needed to do more to move spent fuel rods out of harm's way.
The NRA started operations in September, replacing two regulators that had been widely criticized for being too close to the industry they were supposed to monitor.
When a Reuters journalist went to the plant this month, workers were seen putting together water filtration systems and shifting equipment near the reactors, two of which remain capped by twisted steel and damaged concrete.
NRA head Shuichi Tanaka last week said it would impose tighter safety standards for nuclear plants. Japan's 50 reactors were shut after the disaster.
Oshima said the NRA would soon conduct an in-depth risk assessment regarding the Ohi nuclear facility, where two reactors were restarted this year despite warnings by some geologists of dangerous fault lines running beneath the plant.
Asked whether the plant could be shut as a result, he said: "It depends upon the findings, of course."
The regulator will abide by a government rule of a 40-year lifetime for reactors, even though it can be extended under certain circumstances by up to two decades, Oshima said.
"But basically I think the government has indicated its intention to have this rule applied as strictly as possible," he added.
(Reporting by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Jane Baird)
The presidential election here at home is neck and neck. The Real Clear Politics average of the popular vote puts Gov. Mitt Romney 0.6 percent ahead of President Obama.
But if the world had its say, this election would be a blowout favoring the incumbent.
That's according to a BBC World Service poll taken in 21 countries. It found for the most part, foreign countries preferred Obama. The only exception was Pakistan where more people said they preferred Romney.
Wildlife officials say a disease spread by biting flies has killed about 130 white-tailed deer in the state. Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife officials reported that the outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease started about 6 weeks ago.
Officials say some 74 dead deer were found in Redden State Forest. Hunters and farmers are asked to report any dead deer to the Division of Fish and Wildlife.
Biohazard name: Epizootic hemorrhagic disease, cervids Biohazard level: 2/4 Medium Biohazard desc.: Bacteria and viruses that cause only mild disease to humans, or are difficult to contract via aerosol in a lab setting, such as hepatitis A, B, and C, influenza A, Lyme disease, salmonella, mumps, measles, scrapie, dengue fever, and HIV. "Routine diagnostic work with clinical specimens can be done safely at Biosafety Level 2, using Biosafety Level 2 practices and procedures. Research work (including co-cultivation, virus replication studies, or manipulations involving concentrated virus) can be done in a BSL-2 (P2) facility, using BSL-3 practices and procedures. Virus production activities, including virus concentrations, require a BSL-3 (P3) facility and use of BSL-3 practices and procedures", see Recommended Biosafety Levels for Infectious Agents.
A solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics
Observatory (SDO) in the 131 Angstrom wavelength. This wavelength of
light is used for observing solar material heated to 10 million degrees
Kelvin, as in a solar flare. The wavelength is typically colorized in
teal, as it is here.
(Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard)
Active Region on the Sun Emits Another Flare
10.23.12
The sun emitted a significant solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, peaking at
11:17 p.m. EDT. The flare came from an active region on the left side of
the sun that has been numbered AR 1598, which has already been the
source of a number of weaker flares. This flare was classified as an
X1.8-class flare.
"X-class" denotes the most intense flares, while the number provides
more information about its strength. An X2 is twice as intense as an X1,
an X3 is three times as intense, and on. An X-class flare of this
intensity can cause degradation or blackouts of radio communications for
about an hour.
Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a
flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans
on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the
atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel.
This can disrupt radio signals for anywhere from minutes to hours.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, which is the United
States government's official source for space weather forecasts and
alerts, categorized the radio blackout associated with this flare as an
R3, on a scale from R1 to R5. It has since subsided.
By observing the sun in a number of different wavelengths, NASA's
telescopes can tease out different aspects of events on the sun. These
four images of a solar flare on Oct. 22, 2012, show from the top left,
and moving clockwise: light from the sun in the 171 Angstrom wavelength,
which shows the structure of loops of solar material in the sun's
atmosphere, the corona; light in 335 Angstroms, which highlights light
from active regions in the corona; a magnetogram, which shows
magnetically active regions on the sun; light in the 304 Angstrom
wavelength, which shows light from the region of the sun's atmosphere
where flares originate.
(Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard)
Increased numbers of flares are quite common at the moment, since the
sun's normal 11-year activity cycle is ramping up toward solar maximum,
which is expected in 2013. Humans have tracked this solar cycle
continuously since it was discovered in 1843, and it is normal for there
to be many flares a day during the sun's peak activity. The first
X-class flare of the current solar cycle occurred on Feb. 15, 2011 and
there have been 15 X-class flares total in this cycle, including this
one. The largest X-class flare in this cycle was an X6.9 on Aug. 9,
2011. This is the 7th X-class flare in 2012 with the largest being an
X5.4 flare on March 7.
This flare did not have an associated Earth-directed coronal mass
ejection (CME), another solar phenomenon that can send solar particles
into space and affect electronic systems in satellites and on Earth.
Non-Lethal Missile Kills Computers And Electronics With EMP Burst
The Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project
(CHAMP) Joint Concept Technology Demonstration (JCTD) recently executed
the flight-test Pointing Demonstration. This test demonstrated the
navigational and pointing accuracy of the CHAMP aerial platform, as well
as the ability to correctly trigger the payload with great timing
accuracy. CHAMP provides the warfighter a non-lethal, low collateral damage
capability that can be used against targets currently on the kinetic
restricted target list. The technical requirements for the CHAMP system
came directly from warfigher-provided inputs. CHAMP supports Combatant
Commands faced with increasing operational limitations by providing an
option to achieve mission needs while keeping collateral damage and
post-conflict reconstruction costs to a minimum. Cruising fast over the Western Utah Desert, a lone missile makes history
at the Utah Test and Training Range. The missile, known as CHAMP, or
Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project may one day
change modern warfare, by defeating electronic targets with little or no
collateral damage. On Oct. 16th at 10:32 a.m. MST a Boeing Phantom Works team along with
members from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed
Energy Directorate team, and Raytheon Ktech, suppliers of the High Power
Microwave source, huddled in a conference room at Hill Air Force Base
and watched the history making test unfold on a television monitor.
Power is cut to a room of computers after being hit by a high-powered
microwave pulse from a Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile
Project.
CHAMP approached its first target and fired a burst of High Power
Microwaves at a two story building built on the test range. Inside rows
of personal computers and electrical systems were turned on to gauge the
effects of the powerful radio waves.
Seconds later the PC monitors went dark and cheers erupted in the
conference room. CHAMP had successfully knocked out the computer and
electrical systems in the target building. Even the television cameras
set up to record the test were knocked off line without collateral
damage.
“This technology marks a new era in modern-day warfare,” said Keith
Coleman, CHAMP program manager for Boeing Phantom Works. “In the near
future, this technology may be used to render an enemy’s electronic and
data systems useless even before the first troops or aircraft arrive,”
In all, seven targets were hit using CHAMP’s high power microwaves in
the one-hour test that degraded and defeated the electronics inside the
test buildings.
James Dodd, vice president of Advanced Boeing Military Aircraft, part of
Phantom Works said there is a real need for a weapon that can defeat a
target and not cause harm to people and structures.
“We know this has some capabilities and some impact, we’re really trying
to engage the customer to see if there is a way we can actually get
this fielded and implemented sooner than later,” Dodd said.
Coleman, who led the Boeing team in the historic test flight, says the
team is currently analyzing data and telemetry from the test that many
consider a big step in modern non-lethal warfare.
“Today we turned science fiction into science fact,” Coleman said.
The Air Force Research Laboratory, Directed Energy Directorate's High
Power Microwave Division, is developing a multi-shot and multi-target
aerial, high-power microwave (HPM) demonstration system to Deny,
Disrupt, Degrade, and Destroy an adversary's electronic systems.
The
CHAMP JCTD will develop and test a counter-electronics capability that
integrates a HPM source into an aerial platform. HPM beams disrupt or
damage targeted electronic circuits and components through various
physical avenues. Through several years of testing, AFRL has proved
these counter-electronics HPM effects. Several tests are being performed
to demonstrate the capability; one major testing milestone is the
Pointing Demonstration.
I'm glad it's over! Romney was, as usual, babbling his rhetoric, and twisting history while lying through his teeth... ...He wants to remove Assad, but does not want the American Military involved AT ALL... ummm So... he will wave a magic wand and remove him that way?
He "will not" cut military spending.... Where will he get the money for that? Oh yeah.... he has a magic wand!!??
It seemed that no matter what he was talking about, he always swung it back to jobs in America; trying to put the blame for this on Obama, killing the Health Care Program; although he LOVED the 'SAME' Health Care program for HIS state, taking Obama's words and twisting them, (Bush was not quite that adept) interrupting, and being pushy, bla bla bla ad nauseum.. He really is just another Bush Dubya, that happens to be a wee bit more intelligent, and has a bit more class, with a MUCH sharper, and cutting tongue. He is full of dates, percentages, and figures, but has no solutions to specifically show how he would handle the MESS that the Bush administration created. Gov Romney is the epitome of an oxymoron.
The people forget... this whole economy crash was created by the Bush ((REPUBLICAN)) Administration. It will take years to repair the Bush Dubya damage to America, as well as the whole world; if repairs can ever really be made. It cannot be fixed over night, OR in only 4 years!
It's a HUGE Mess, and I, for one, am sick of it! "We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."— Excerpted from the Declaration of Independence of the original thirteen united states of America, July 4, 1776
Well, I've about had enough of this whole system, and see that the only solution is to demolish the house, including the foundation, and start to build again; fresh, new, and DEFINITELY NOT as a Corporation, as the United States IS! - Incorporated in Delaware, in 1871. This United States Corporation is owned by FOREIGN BANKERS... Now just try to wrap your minds around that... God help us... Full Third and Final Presidential Debate Transcript HERE Full debate below, in 5 parts:
As things are beginning to speed up with the elections at hand, and corruption running rampant, I felt the need to share the episode of Gov Jessie Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory," that ultimately got him kicked off air. He hit the nail on the head, and made too many suit collars uncomfortably too tight.
Banned Episode: Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura - Police State
