Monkey excrement was tested for radiation and levels of Cesium in the order of 50,000 Bq/kg were measured.

The Japanese government has introduced severe jail penalties for Journalists and scientists who report on the Fukushima nuclear melt down disaster in an unfavourable way.

Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineering consultant  from Fairewinds is currently in Japan and has made some very alarming comments with respect to radioactive contamination in the Fukushima Prefecture.

Well done Arnie - well done mate

Good post Chimp

Fukushima is a terrible disaster.

1 kg of coffee      = 1000 Bq

so 50,000 Bq is 50 times the normal amount you'd find in food.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/safety-and-security/radiation-a...

Bobby. wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 9:16pm:


Thanks Sir Bobby.

Your kind words will be recorded in my diary. Well done.

I noticed that there is no video associated with your post. I looked very carefully, but couldn't find even one reference to a video.

Is everything alright mate?

I hope things are alright. Well done on keeping your chin up.

...and don't eat anything made in Japan.

Cheers mate and congratulations

lee wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 8:54pm:


Oh gee lee you are surely joking with that summary of Gundersen's impressive consultancy career?

I am sure that the good folk of Ozpolitic are aware that Gundersen was a whistle blower and alerted the NRC in the USA about several very serious safety issues in the nuclear power he was working. There was a subsequent cover up of the information he gave the NRC, which resulted in a Congressional investigation. With the assistance of ex astronaut and US senator John Glen, Arnie Gundersen's safety concerns were addressed and actually made the industry safer.

Of course, that didn't stop the partial melt down at Three Mile Island a few years later. The reactor core at Three mile island was less than 30% damaged and didn't breach the primary reactor vessel. Nevertheless, access to the reactor vessel was not possible for 2 years after the "accident". It took a further 20 years to remove the damage core and render it safe in dry storage.

Amazing stuff isn't it lee. There are 3 Full reactor core melt downs, at Fukushima which produced 3 coriums that melted through the 8 inches of steel in the primary reactor vessel and bored through the secondRy containment vessel.

Tepco and the Japanese authorities don't know where the coriums are and their state.

I wonder how long it will take to clean up the Fukushima "accident"?

Do you know lee? It would be great if you could find out mate.

Well done on your humorous post lee. I certainly enjoyed it

Well done lee

lee wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 1:02pm:


good one lee - well done. No come back for me on that front it there lee?

The source of the Cs137/Cs134 is from inside the reactor cores.

There are over 200 radioisotopes produced as the Uranium 235 undergoes fission.

You do realise that a few different isotopes of Plutonium are part of that corium mix?

Plutonium has been detected all over Japan and in the pacific ocean.

Did you know lee, that Plutonium is not a natural element and that all the Plutonium that exists on Earth has been produced synthetically in reactors and used in nuclear power stations and nuclear weaponry?

It will decay away to safe levels though. We just need to wait 250,000 years.

well done lee on exhibiting a level of compassion and caredom not often seen in the Southern Hemisphere

Well done mate. Well done

Chimp_Logic wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 10:21pm:



Thanks to the beloved Chimp.

lee wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 8:54pm:


I understand that he was really good at filing in the short time that he worked for the nuclear industry, and was an ace at operating a model reactor when he was a student. It didn't actually generate any power, but who cares?

He makes a lot more money as an anti-nuclear activist than he ever made as a High School teacher.

John_Taverner wrote on Feb 27^th, 2016 at 4:32pm:


Arnie isn't exactly an anti-nuclear activist. His main platforms are to improve the safety of nuclear power generation as it is phased out from the grid, and to remove corruption from the nuclear industry, government and regulatory bodies. Arnie was a licensed Critical Facility Reactor Operator in the 1970s - a very difficult title to achieve in the nuclear industry.

His whistleblower status in post 1990 doesn't change his expertise in this area.

And it doesnt change the fact that the Fukushima prefecture is contaminated with various radioactive isotopes spewed out by the Fukushima reactor explosions 5 years ago - including Plutonium which has been found in fields and on roadsides.

Japanese families have been sending samples of clothing, air filters etc to the US for testing. One common thing they have been sending are shoe laces.

Apparently children have been playing in school yards and kindergartens and when they tie their shoes laces up, they use their hands which invariably end up in their mouths or when they touch their face and lips. It has been identified as a source of contamination for young children.

Are you looking forward to the 2020 Olympic Games?

Is Tokyo safe?