By Akiko Okazaki / The Asahi Shimbun / February 29, 2012 / A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 1…
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via CEREA: Atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides from the Fukushima-Daichii nuclear power plant CEREA, joint laboratory École des Ponts ParisTech and EdF R&D Victor Winiarek, Marc Bocquet, Yelva Roustan, Camille Birman, Pierre Tran Map of ground…
Continue readingvia ex-SKF / November 17, 2011 / Yomiuri Shinbun may have made a fool of itself by summarizing the finding by a university researcher regarding the biological half-life of radioactive cesium in a very exaggerated (and inaccurate) way. If you read the a…
Continue readingCesium-137 deposition and contamination of Japanese soils due to the Fukushima nuclear accident Teppei J. Yasunaria,1, Andreas Stohlb, Ryugo S. Hayanoc, John F. Burkhartb,d, Sabine Eckhardtb, and Tetsuzo Yasunarie aUniversities Space Research Associati…
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