Yellow Rain In Tokyo

on Wednesday 24 march a Yellow Rain was sen over Tokyo , the government claims it is pollen this does not make sense first of all because it is winter over Japan and there are no pollen at this time of year as it is still snowing , the yellow rain is probably caused by radioactive materiel leaking from the reactors in Fukushima , many experts now admits that this Japanese nuclear tragedy is worse

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Yellow Rain Falls In Tokyo? Pollen Excuse Exact Same As Chernobyl Yellow Rain Lie

The Intel Hub
March 24th, 2011

While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply “pollen,” many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Almost on que, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned citizens.

The ‘‘yellow rain’’ seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday, reported the Japan Times.

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'Yellow Rain' Falls In Tokyo... Same Exact 'Pollen' Lie Told When Yellow Rain Fell on Chernobyl

While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply “pollen,” many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Almost on que, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned citizens.

The ‘‘yellow rain’’ seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday, reported the Japan Times.

That’s right, according to so called experts, enough pollen to cause hundreds to report their findings, rained down on Tokyo at the same time as a devastating nuclear disaster has released high levels of radiation at least 20km from the nuclear plant.

This explanation has reminded many of the yellow rain that hit after the Chernobyl disaster.

Similar to the explanation in Japan, government officials claimed that the yellow radioactive rain that fell in Gomel, Belarus was merely pollen and nothing to worry about. We now know that was a bold faced lie.

Remembering Chernobyl – Yellow Rain:

“We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. … You don’t see (it in) the air, it doesn’t materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation,” Sergieff said.

The accident was originally caused by a small testing error that resulted in a chain reaction in which highly pressurized steam literally blew the top off of a nuclear reactor.

The result was the release of 100 more times radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to the United Nations issue brief on Chernobyl.

Among the unstable elements released were iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239. Scientists say that exposure to such elements, especially in such high doses, impairs critical cellular functions and damages DNA.

When these elements first reached Sergieff 20 years ago, they came in the form of yellow rain.

It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn’t simply “pollen” – which is what government officials assured them, she said.

Whether or not the yellow rain now falling in Japan is 100% radioactive remains to be seen.

With that being said, history DOES repeat itself and the way that Japan has covered up this disaster and used the exact same excuses as the ones used in Chernobyl indicates that we may be facing a much bigger disaster than Japanese officials are willing to admit.

Suspected Pollen Fall Stokes Radiation Jitters in Kanto

March 24, 2011 - IntelHub

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Should Residents Of Tokyo Be Preparing For Massive Radiation Exposure? 12 Disturbing Facts To Consider

Does anyone really know what is going on at the Fukushima nuclear complex?  When problems at the facility first surfaced, authorities promised that no significant amounts of radiation would be released.  Then we were told that only those living within 20 kilometers of the complex needed to take precautions.  After that we were told that radiation was showing up in many different types of vegetables all over northern and central Japan but that it was not a major concern.  Now we are being told that the tap water in Tokyo is unsafe for infants to drink.  So what are they going to tell us next?  Should residents of Tokyo be preparing for massive radiation exposure from this disaster?  Tokyo is only 150 miles away from the Fukushima nuclear complex.  If a worst case scenario plays out at Fukushima, exactly what would that mean for the over 30 million people that live in and around Tokyo?

Sadly, so far the authorities in Japan have not been very transparent about this crisis.  But what should we expect?  Internationally, standard operating procedure during a nuclear crisis is to keep the public from becoming too alarmed.  The real scope of the danger is always downplayed in order to avoid a panic.  We saw this at Chernobyl and we are seeing this now.

Not only that, but in a world where legal liability plays such a key role, there is a huge incentive for TEPCO executives not to admit everything that they know.  Admitting something now could potentially cost them massive amounts of money later.

Right now airborne radiation in Tokyo is four times the normal level, but Japanese authorities do not seem too concerned yet.  They still insist that everything is going to be okay.

But things at Fukushima seem to be taking a turn for the worse again.  Today, thick black smoke was belching from Unit 3.  Unit 3 is considered the most dangerous of the reactors because it contains plutonium.  If a large scale release of plutonium were to take place that would be absolutely catastrophic.

But plutonium is far from the only significant danger.  For example, cesium isotopes have a half-life of about 30 years.  All of the cesium that is currently being released at Fukushima will be highly radioactive for decades.

So how much cesium is being released at Fukushima?  Well, nobody knows for sure, but Keith Harmon Snow is estimating that each spent fuel pool at the Fukushima nuclear complex could have 24,000 times the amount of cesium that was produced by the nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War 2.

Yes, this is a very, very serious crisis.

But up to this point many in the mainstream media have been doing their best to play down the potential dangers.

In fact, some prominent scientists have really done a disservice to the public by putting out blatant falsehoods.

For example, in a disgraceful article published just a few days after the tsunami, Dr. Josef Oehmen of MIT promised that there would not be "any significant release of radioactivity" from the damaged Fukushima nuclear complex....

I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.

By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.

You know, a lot of people actually believed Dr. Josef Oehmen when they read this nonsense.  We are supposed to be able to depend on our top scientists to tell us the truth.

Sadly, these days it is hard to know who you can depend on for the truth.  The following are 12 facts about the crisis in Fukushima that should have all of us deeply concerned....

#1 The Kyodo News Agency is reporting that radiation levels around the Fukushima nuclear facility are now up to 1,600 times the normal level.

#2 According to The Daily Mail, 5 of the now famous "Fukushima 50" are believed to have already died.

#3 Tokyo government officials have announced that radiation levels in Tokyo tap water are now so high that it is unsafe for infants to drink.  In fact, CNN says that tests show that the amount of radioactive iodine in the water is twice what is considered safe for infants....

Government samples taken Tuesday night found 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine per kilogram of water -- two times higher than the limit that the government considers safe for infants.

#4 Elevated levels of radiation have been found in 11 different types of vegetables grown in the vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear complex.

#5 The government of Fukushima Prefecture is instructing residents that they should not eat any leafy vegetables that have been grown in the prefecture recently.

#6 Government officials have ordered all dairy farms within 18 miles of the Fukushima nuclear complex to suspend all shipments.

#7 Over 100 km south of Fukushima, Spinach containing radioactive iodine 27 times the legal limit has been discovered.  The level of cesium found in the same spinach was 4 times the legal limit.

#8 25 miles from the Fukushima complex, one batch of a leafy green vegetable known as kukitachin was recently discovered to contain 11 times the legal limit of radioactive iodine and 82 times the legal limit of cesium.

#9 The U.S. government has now put in place import alerts on milk products and fresh produce from any of the prefectures surrounding the Fukushima nuclear complex.

#10 25 foreign embassies have already either shut down or moved temporarily out of Tokyo.

#11 Radiation levels in one city north of Tokyo, Utsunomiya, were recently reported to be 33 times above normal levels.

#12 It is also being reported that there were over 600,000 spent fuel rods stored at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex.  Each one of those 600,000 spent fuel rods is a potential "dirty bomb".

Some of the best information that I have found on what is really going on at Fukushima comes from an interview recently posted on Counterpunch with nuclear energy expert Hirose Takashi.  He says that spraying water on the reactor buildings in Fukushima is like "sprinkling water on a desert", and he says that if a worst case scenario does play out a deadly cloud of radiation could cover all of Japan in a matter of days....

As you know, of the six reactors at Daiichi, four are in a crisis state.  So even if at one everything goes well and water circulation is restored, the other three could still go down.  Four are in crisis, and for all four to be 100 percent repaired, I hate to say it, but I am pessimistic.  If so, then to save the people, we have to think about some way to reduce the radiation leakage to the lowest level possible.  Not by spraying water from hoses, like sprinkling water on a desert.  We have to think of all six going down, and the possibility of that happening is not low.  Everyone knows how long it takes a typhoon to pass over Japan; it generally takes about a week.  That is, with a wind speed of two meters per second, it could take about five days for all of Japan to be covered with radiation.  We’re not talking about distances of 20 kilometers or 30 kilometers or 100 kilometers.  It means of course Tokyo, Osaka.  That’s how fast a radioactive cloud could spread.

In addition, Takashi says that the media is not telling us the truth about the true danger that radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear complex poses....

Around Fukushima Daiichi Station they measured 400 millisieverts – that’s per hour.  With this measurement (Chief Cabinet Secretary) Edano admitted for the first time that there was a danger to health, but he didn’t explain what this means.  All of the information media are at fault here I think.  They are saying stupid things like, why, we are exposed to radiation all the time in our daily life, we get radiation from outer space.  But that’s one millisievert per year.  A year has 365 days, a day has 24 hours; multiply 365 by 24, you get 8760.  Multiply the 400 millisieverts by that, you get 3,500,000 the normal dose.  You call that safe?  And what media have reported this?  None.  They compare it to a CT scan, which is over in an instant; that has nothing to do with it.  The reason radioactivity can be measured is that radioactive material is escaping.  What is dangerous is when that material enters your body and irradiates it from inside.  These industry-mouthpiece scholars come on TV and what to they say?  They say as you move away the radiation is reduced in inverse ratio to the square of the distance.  I want to say the reverse.  Internal irradiation happens when radioactive material is ingested into the body.  What happens?  Say there is a nuclear particle one meter away from you. You breathe it in, it sticks inside your body; the distance between you and it is now at the micron level. One meter is 1000 millimeters, one micron is one thousandth of a millimeter.  That’s a thousand times a thousand: a thousand squared.  That’s the real meaning of “inverse ratio of the square of the distance.”  Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion.  Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.

Are you alarmed by what Takashi is saying there?

I know that I was alarmed when I first read it.

The truth is that radioactive material is nothing to mess around with.

Hopefully the authorities in Japan can get this situation under control, because no rational person wants to see a worst case scenario play out.

Let us pray for Japan and the Japanese people.  What they have been through already is nightmarish beyond all imagination, and the last thing they need right about now is a full-blown nuclear catastrophe.

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Foreign bankers flee Tokyo as nuclear crisis deepens

By Nachum Kaplan and Denny Thomas

(Reuters) – Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan’s nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities in the region.

BNP Paribas , Standard Chartered and Morgan Stanley were among the banks whose staff have left since Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, and now a nuclear plant disaster, according to industry sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Expatriate staff at most foreign banks in Tokyo make up a small portion of the total, by some estimates less than 10 percent. But many are often in senior positions so their departure can have a significant impact.

And while Japan’s investment banking market is famously tough, it’s an essential place for large banks to be and can produce hefty fees.

“The foreign banker presence on the ground in Tokyo now is very thin and depending on how long it takes them to return there could be lasting implications of that,” said one banker. “Every time there’s a washout of foreigners in Japan they never quite return in the same numbers.”

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Rats leaving a sinking ship.

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Mass evacuations begin from N. E. Japan, Tokyo

Russian military prepares for nuclear fallout

As the scale of the nuclear disaster unfolding at the stricken Fukushima’s nuclear plant begins to be finally realised, despite the Japanese government’s continued underplaying of the situation, mass evacuations are are underway with people fleeing Tokyo and North Eastern areas of the country in order to avoid a toxic cloud of radiation heading their way.

China became the first government to issue a mass evacuation order of all its citizens from the entire north east of Japan late last night.

Citing “the seriousness of and uncertainty surrounding the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant at present”, the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo announced that it would be sending buses to evacuate all Chinese nationals from the Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures.

There are thought to be over 22 thousand Chinese nationals working in those areas. Those that are bussed out will be flown out of the country via China Southern Airlines on huge 272 seater jets.

Austria followed suit by announcing it would be moving its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka, over 250 miles (400 kilometers) away, due to radiation concerns. France and Finland have also urged their citizens to leave Tokyo and either move to the South of Japan or get out of the country altogether.

The Czech military has reportedly sent in planes to evacuate its nationals, While Russia says it is preparing to remove all of its soldiers and civilians from the Kuril islands, which are disputed with Japan.

Inside Russia, in the Far East of the country, military units are reportedly preparing to evacuate towns on concerns of nuclear fallout, while residents are rushing to buy iodine pills.

The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo has issued a warning to Americans saying they “should avoid travel to Japan at this time.” Several other European countries have done the same.

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UPDATE: New Maps; Radiation in Perspective; Tokyo Faces Fallout; US Under Threat; Live Gieger Counter; Financial Panic

UPDATE: March 15, 2011 11:45 CST

…Japanese stock market down 2000 points in less than a week.

…World financial markets in panic – commodities, stocks, precious metals all down significantly in single day trading

…situation in Japan is escalating

…Over half a million evacuated. Prime Minister of Japan urges residents within 19 miles of reactors to flee or bug in

…Princeton Physicist: “It’s way past Three Mile Island already.”

…Tokyo radiation levels rising (200 miles from reactor site)… Live Geiger Counter

…Radiation levels around Japanese cities in real time (Link) *Note, due to an extremely large volume of traffic, this web site may not be accessible.*

…Secondary source: Latest real-time radiation level screen capture (source):

…While earlier posted fallout map showed innaccurate “RAD” level count, wind patterns remain intact… Radiation set to cross Pacific

…Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre: “Right now it’s quite possible that there could be some radiation floating over the United States“

…Radiation threatens California agricultural region (Map)

…Perspective on Radiation Levels:

Here’s a chart showing the range of radiation levels in milli sieverts (mSv). Currently up to 400mSv per hour are being recorded in the immediate vicinity of Fukushima. Remember, although these figures may suggest that the level of radiation being recorded at Fukushima is not extremely high, the danger is constant exposure over a period of time. For this reason, people within the 20km evacuation zone are at high risk of serious harm.

7,000-10,000mSv – Person dies from radiation poisoning. (Full body exposure).
1,000mSv – Nausea and vomiting (Full body exposure).
500mSv – Decrease of lymphocytes in peripheral blood (white blood cells that defend your body) (Full body exposure).
200mSv – No clinical conditions confirmed below this number
10mSv – 1 year’s worth of natural radiation (Brazil)
6.9mSv – CT scan
2.4mSv – 1 year’s worth of natural radiation (world average)
1mSv – Limit of one’s year’s exposure to non-natural radiation (excluding medical examinations)
0.6mSv – Stomach X-ray
0.2mSv – A return air trip from Tokyo to New York
0.05mSv – Chest X-ray (or the level of radiation expected around a nuclear power plant – in practice it is much lower than this)

…more updates to come as information becomes available

UPDATE: March 12, 2011 15:30 CST

…Japanese officials say nuclear disaster averted; but new reactor is now in danger

…Millions currently without power, gas

…Report from Mito, Japan:

In Mito, another town in the area, long lines formed outside a damaged supermarket as hundreds waited for medicine, water and other supplies. Supplies ran low as people stocked up, not knowing how long it would take for fresh goods to arrive.

“All the shops are closed, this is one of the few still open. So I came to buy and stock up on diapers, drinking water and food,” Kunio Iwatsuki, 68, told Reuters.

…Tour of grocery store in earthquake/Tsunami stricken area – Shelves just about empty:

…Grocery store in Tokyo – supplies of basic goods, non-perishables dwindling:

UPDATE: March 12, 2011 12:06 CST

…Status of nuclear plant is unconfirmed… Reports vary… some suggest plant has melted down… others suggest plant is intact

…Tens of thousands missing in Japan

…Thousands being evacuated in potential nuke fallout zone… 12 mile radius

…Explosion in building housing reactors (video)

…Chernobyl-like meltdown possible (video)

…Fuel rods may have melted

…West coast residents on alert in the event of a nuclear meltdown

…Wind may carry radiation across Pacific to West coast of North America…. 180 Hour Wind Forecast Model

…Unofficial fallout map (Note that this map has not yet been legitimately sourced, thus the estimated “Rad” levels are as of yet unconfirmed, though the wind patterns match those of the 180 hour forecast above):

***This Nuclear Fallout Map below has been identified as a hoax. As mentioned in our original posting, the source was not confirmed. We chose to publish this map to demonstrate the fallout pattern in the event high levels of radiation were released in Japan. ****

…As of yet, the estimates for radiation release levels in the event of meltdown as measured in Rads/Greys is unknown, therefore Rem/Microrem biologically effective doses cannot be measured accurately…

…radiation level outside the reactor became elevated to 1,015 microsievert—the equivalent of being exposed to the maximum allowable level for a full year in a single day. The level has since come down sharply.

…Survival / Alternative News forums go ballistic

…General Radiation Absorption ESTIMATES (source):

0-50 rads – No obvious short-term effects
80-120 rads – You have a 10% chance of vomiting and experiencing nausia for a few days
130 -170 rads – You have a 25% chance of vomiting and contracting other symptoms
180-220 rads – You have a 50% chance of vomiting and having other severe physical effects
270-330 rads – 20% chance of death in 6 weeks, or you will recover in a few months.
400-500 rads – 50% chance of death
550-750 rads – Nausia within a few hours ; no survivors
Greater than 1000 rads – immediate incapacitation and death within a week or less.

…Japanese emergency officials are planning to distribute iodine to those in nuclear radiation zones:

Japanese authorities are making plans to distribute stable iodine, a treatment to prevent radiation poisoning, to residents near two damaged nuclear plants, the International Atomic Energy Agency says.

…FDA has historically recommended Potassium Iodide (KI) within 3 – 4 hours of radiation exposure

…Retail provider of KI

…Related SHTFplan articles:

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons

Survive Anything: Nuclear Attack

UPDATE: March 11, 2011 19:45 CST

…88,000 Reported Missing, Hundreds dead

UPDATE: March 11, 2011 17:00 CST

…California: 1 Confirmed Dead, 2 Swept out to sea as they watched incoming Tsunami

…Oregon: 4 Swept out to sea, rescued by Coast Guard

UPDATE: March 11, 2011 16:30 CST

…Reports that Fukushima nuclear reactor is at 2.1 times normal pressure

…Radiation reportedly at 1000 times normal and rising; no evacuations of plant or surrounding areas as of yet.

The following just released video from PBS Newshour documents just how powerful the Japanese Tsunami was. It completely demolishes an entire village in under a minute:

The Sakurajima Volcano on Southern Tip of Japan has begun erupting:

ORIGINAL STORY POSTED March 11, 2011 09:00 CST:

…An estimated 8.9 magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Japan sent Tsunamis across the Pacific, striking Japan with waves reportedly as high as 33 feet.

…Other Southeast nations have also been struck.

…Hawaii was inundated with a Tsunami earlier this morning.

…Oregon closes schools…California on alert…expect waves potentially as high as 5 feet around 11am EST

…Canada on alert

Videos from Japan

Massive Tsunami wave races inland…tons of debris…burning fires atop waves…boats, cars, buildings uprooted:

Tsunami overwhelms Japan port city:

Tsunami causes whirpool:

Japan Tsunami: Cars, Debris thrown around by water like children’s toys:

Tsunami Reaches Hawaii:

Wave’s reportedly not unusually high. Officials warn waves may get as high as 6 feet:

The scene at a local grocery store in Hawaii as residents anticipate the Tsunami:

Tsunami in Open Sea – Headed towards other south east Asian countries…Almost all of Pacific Basin on alert:

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