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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Fukushima Fires Continue with Lightning and Thunder

I did not watch the livecam yesterday of the Fukushima Nuclear Plant that close. But today looking at the videos taken there is a few things that I need to point out.

The last ☢ UPDATE 3 ☢ about the fires going on, I was talking about the possibillity that TEPCO is now burning the radioactive waste on the site causing the fires and smoke that we see on the livecam. Tell me what you think about that. The reason for this is to try and get rid of the more deadly radioactive hotspots on site so that the workers can continue to do what is needed.

There were alot of flashes on the livecam going on yesterday Aug. 8 2011 watching the live cam. So bright that it light up the sky and entire area. At first I thought that this was explosions caused by the fires but then I saw lightning on the webcam so I think that this is what was going on at the time. Now there was one thing that caught my eye. There seems to be another light source coming from the left. It's bright enough to cast a shadow on reactor 1. But then after a while it went out. Have a look at the red circle drawn.


There were alot of smoke coming from the fires this time also. You can't see it on the pictures but it's there on the live cam. I don't know if there were any reported thunderstorm on Aug. 8 2011 in the Fukushima area. So this is my take on the things going on now. I can be totally wrong, but hear me out.

Have you ever seen a erupting volcano? If you have you might have noticed lightning going on in the ash cloud. This is a fenomena not really understood. 

How lightning forms in general is still debated among scientists, and volcanic lightning is even less well understood. What is mostly agreed upon is that the process starts when particles separate, either after a collision or when a larger particle breaks in two. Then some difference in the aerodynamics of these particles causes the positively charged particles to be systematically separated from the negatively charged particles. Lightning is the electrical flow that results when this charge separation becomes too great for air to resist the flow of electricity.


This photo of lightning going on in the volcanic ash cloud from Redoubt Volcano were taken by Bretwood Higman. The camera was mounted under the yurt where he lives in Seldovia, Alaska, and was set to automatically take a 30 second photo every two minutes. Seldovia is 80 miles from the volcano, on the far side of Cook Inlet.

So what if the continuing fires and smoke with radioactive fallout going up into the air at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant are causing this same fenomena? Instead of volcanic lightning caused by ash we get nuclear lightning caused by the radioactive dust. I could be way off so I would really appreciate some input. Comment or come and chat with us.

And if you happen to live in the Fukushima area or Japan for that matter, please come in and chat with us. Many people including me would be very grateful if you do.

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Geiger Counters - Radiation Detection Meters - Handheld Radiation Detector



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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