Fukushima update and additional radiation information focusing on the Tokyo area....

http://enenews.com/report-tepco-taking-vacation-from-fukushima-for-week-long-holiday

Follow-up to: Weekends off at Fukushima: Not one plant worker could be seen says Asahi -- Operational equipment lay idle -- A cold eerie quietness

Japanese journalist Ryuichi Kino is reporting that Tepco has apparently gone on vacation for Golden Week, according to SimplyInfo:

TEPCO Gone On Vacation

Tweet from (Ryuichi KINO) @ Kinoryuichi
[Press conference] The Tokyo Electric Power, the rest of the GW [Golden Week]. Following after the holidays. According to TEPCO, I rest a press conference “between the GW does not have much work on the premises.” Whether this explanation is true, can not be examined because they can not look in your own. Because the relationship between patrol and maintenance without breaks or contact of broken or leaking is expected to come.

No releases from Tepco since Sunday, April 27:

and since everyone from Tepco is gone on holiday , I wonder who's minding the store....

Massive radioactive gas covering Fukushima plants

Posted by Mochizuki on May 1st, 2012 · No Comments

Massive gas covered Fukushima plants from 2:30 ~ 5:00 AM of 5/2/2012 (JST).

It looks like it came from around reactor 3, 4.

Tepco explained to Japanese comedian / journalist Oshidori that the gas comes up day and night, and it’s radioactive.

RT @yuric117: 福一の夜に出ている煙のような物は何か？と質問した。水蒸気だと。その水蒸気には放射性物質は含まれてないか？と聞いたら、含まれてございますと。しかも昼夜を問わず出てございますと。その後、東京電力10億ベクレル毎時と回答。おしどりマコさん、大阪弁護士会講座

— Bianca Jagger (@BiancaJagger) April 29, 2012

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Oshidori Mako talked at Osaka Bar Association when she asked Tepco , “We see gas coming out from Fukushima plants at night. It looks like smoke. What is that ? ” Tepco replied it’s water vapor. She asked them again, if it’s radioactive. They answered it is radioactive, and it comes out in day time and night time.

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and as far as Tokyo goes , compare with radiation effects from Chernobyl....

2,566,720Bq/㎡ in Edogawa ku Tokyo

Posted by Mochizuki on May 1st, 2012 · No Comments

Following up this article..Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl

39,488 Bq/Kg of cesium (134 + 137) was measured in Edogawa ku in Tokyo. It equals to 2,566,720Bq/㎡.

In the secondary evacuation area in Belarus, it was 555,000 ~ 1,480,000 Bq/m2 of cesium 137.

Even if you consider the data of Tokyo includes cesium 134, still it can be near the maximum limit of the secondary evacuation area in Belarus.

@tokaiama 1/8 江戸川区歩道車道の砂を測定しましたが同じような数値になります。CS134/137合計39488Bq/kg twitter.com/edogawa_aoyama…

— 東京江戸川放射線 (@edogawa_aoyama) January 15, 2012

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On 1/8/2012, we measured the sand of the street in Edogawa ku Tokyo, the result is like on the picture above. 39,488 Bq/Kg of cesium 134 + 137.

and....

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/02/tokyo-is-contaminated-as-the-worst-place-in-chernobyl/

Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl

Posted by Mochizuki on February 22nd, 2012 · 32 Comments

Following up this article..23,300 Bq/Kg of cesium from 4km of filter plant

The contamination level of Mizumoto Park turned out to be the same level of “off-limits zone” in Chernobyl.
The contamination level of the park was 23,300 Bq/Kg.
According to Nuclear Safety Commission, it is converted to be 1.4 ~1.5 million Bq/m2.

In Chernobyl, if the area is more contaminated than 1.48 million Bq/m2, it was labelled as off-limits zone, which was the worst level of the pollution.
Because cesium doesn’t choose Mizumoto park intentionally, at least some parts are contaminated as the worst area of Chernobyl.