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B: Fukushima Dai-ichi Timeline

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3/11/11      9.0 magnitude earthquake Japan
           Knocked the Earth off it's axis 4 degrees
           Tsunami: Japan, Hawaii, California
3/22/11      Air monitoring stations in California reporting fallout
3/30/11
Fukushima Daini Nuclear power plant located 10 miles north of
            Fukushima Dai-ichi
            White smoke
            No radiation
Cesium 137    Found in Chiba near Tokyo
   Trace in anchovies
Plutonium      Pools around Fukushima Dai-ichi
            A radioactive metal with atomic number 94
            Man made. Created from uranium in nuclear
            reactors by bombarding special fuel rods
            containing uranium with neutrons
            When uranium 238 absorbs a neutron it becomes
            uranium 239, which ultimately decays to
   plutonium 239.
   The process for recovering plutonium use only
            remote controlled equipment
            People may inhale plutonium as a contaniment in
            dust
           May lodge in the lungs, move out with phlegm, or
            pass into the bloodstream
            Once in the bloodstream, plutonium moves
            throughout the body and into bones, liver, or
   organs
  Plutonium that reaches body organs generally
            stays in the body for decades and continues to
            expose the surrounding tissue to radiation
            Tests can reliably measure the amount of
            plutonium in a urine sample, even at very low
            levels
Massachusettes Trace I-131 air monitoring stations
             As in California/Colorado/Hawaii
3/25/11       From Associated Press:
Spokane WA 300 miles east of coastline
             I-131 Trace milk samples
             EPA Post: 0.8 pCi/L Iodine 131
     FDA has said it expected no risk to the US food
   supply from radiation
5000 times below level of concern
             Spokane Regional Health District preparing to
       issue a statement to 208,000 residents on EPA
             report "This is not a major health concern"
http://www.    Daily summaries of RadNet data
epa.gov/japan   DPA increasing level of nationwide
2011/data-     monitoring of milk, precipitation, and
updates.html    drinking water
            EPA is beginning to receive verbal reports of
     elevated but trace levels of radioactive iodine in
             precipitation samples analyzed by State
           inspectors
4/2/11
Radiation       from Fukushima prefecture I-131
in beef        Acceptable levels are:
             Tapwater 100 becquerels infant
                     300 becquerels adult
    beef     500 becquerels
             On 4/2/11 510 becquerels beef
water 361 yards 4,385 times above normal
off shore Japan  3,355 last week, 3/25/11
             140% increase
C 137         527 times standard in seawater
4/5/11
from Europe     On April 2 seawater near reactors contained 7.5
newsservice     million times the legal limit for radioactive iodine
             On April 4 seawater near reactors contained 5
             million times the legal limit.
             Findings signify a drop in iodine levels
             Japanese government sets the first radiation
             safety standard for seafood
             Cesium 137 can build up over time.
             Site releases 3 million gallons of radioactive
             waste into sea
4/9/11        Reports that there are 2 reactors that cannot be
             accessed because radiation levels are too
             extreme for workers to be allowed near
             AP wire service states that radiation levels are
             so high at the site that monitors cannot measure
             The levels are over the chart
4/11/11    Japanese government has widened the
             evacuation zone to 20 miles from site
May 2         Government head of task force for site quits
             over issue of acceptable radiation levels for
   schoolchildren, stating these are unacceptable
             levels.
May 6       Report that robots are entering reactor 1 for the
           first time since the earthquake. Radiation levels are
May 20
June 18