this is a useful site which has most of the data collected. use google translate.
http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
after translating click on " The amount of radiation in a nuclear reactor" just below "State of the reactor" heading above the chart.

for 4 days there were readings of 200 Sv/hr (and as high as 215 Sv/hr) in the drywell of rector 1. for reference the peak reading at chernobyl was 300 Sv/hr just after the explsion of a reactor at full power. [note that is 200,000 mSv/hr or the same as having 20,000 chest CTs every hour -- whatever that would mean]

to be sure, if these readings are accurate (and there is no reason to believe otherwise), I cannot think of any source other than a reactor core (or relocated core in this case) that can produce that much radiation.

why has it dropped back to 45 Sv/hr? Burn baby burn, we may have Brazil syndrome; the corium has left the drywell.

the site also has radiation readings from all over the country and ocean. enjoy -- or not...

I'm sure he did. I have worked for the Japanese for many years and they love their word games. If challenged about the truth of that statement he'd just tell you that's not how HE meant it or make some very weak semantic excuses.

When this disaster first happened I said it would be CYA the whole way until they were forced to tell the truth because their cover-up and lies made them look ridiculous and they'd start losing face.

My time spent with my Japanese co-workers has shown me we often have completely different views on communication, interpersonal ethics and etiquette. The Japanese don't like telling people things they know those people don't want to hear. Words of truth are often prefaced with an apology. They will piss on you, tell you it is raining and believe they are doing you a favour by doing so.

It is a very obstinate culture. Perhaps the world is getting a better understanding of that now?

why not? After all, they own it.

Remember Rachel Maddows video that explained how the zirconium in the fuel rods can explode when it hits water.

DANCING: While I wonder if the radiation leaking into the Ocean could lead to massive extinctions within the sea, can you please explain your certainty about a big blow up? Would that, in your estimation, be due to a lack of water cooling the exposed radioactive rods?

I was concerned about a chain reaction back in April, but began to think this matter had defused, and ws no longer a DIRECT threat?

"A magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the massive tsunami that followed killed about 24,000 people and knocked out the Fukushima plant on March 11, triggering the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl."

"... the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl..."

Media stenographers need to stop repeating "since Chernobyl." Fukushima is the world's worst nuclear accident. Period, full stop.

As with so many truths about the world we inhabit, most of the people i live and work with are not paying any attention to what has happened / is happening in Fukushima. i have warned my co-workers about the possibility of the "big BLOW" explosion you are alerting. Essentially, no response.

i think most of us are mentally and emotionally overwhelmed by the multiple traumas to Earth and life that our human systems are producing. We live in and identify with and rely on these human systems, so the "cognitive dissonance" of the plain truth that these systems are killing everything is simply overwhelming for our awareness.

We are all suffering from traumatic stress reaction. Our reactive defensive consciousness cannot allow itself to grasp reality.

i agree that official silence and lies contribute to our ability to "not see" reality, but i assert that this reality is nonetheless very available to us. It is our innate human capacity for defensive traumatic stress reaction that enables official lies to have the power that they do.

Our task is to see reality, to feel the traumatic stress, to learn to see the cognitive dissonance, and to reach conclusions regarding the human systems that we inhabit, that we identify with, that sustain us, that are killing everything...

i assume DB is referring to steam explosions upon full breach of all containment when melted cores hit the water table. My assumption could be wrong. DB?

Well, radiation from Fukushima has been going around the Northern Hemishpere. Remember dairy in Vermont and Washington state are too radioactive to consume?

Well said. It strikes me, as I've been talking to my family in Joplin, as they have been relating their own stories, and stories of neighbors and friends (surviving), of how many people in Joplin are using the nuclear bomb comparison, as it is the only thing that seems to fit. Of course there is no radiation, and of course, a nuclear bomb would have much more devastation, and the people there know that. However, when people are standing at their pile of rubble, there is an angle of view – either along the path, or across the path, and for some in all directions - where the complete devastation is as far as they can see.

A friend of our neighbors, now staying next door because her home was leveled, told my mom her story. She lived in an old house near St. Johns in our old neighborhood, and she went to the basement, but didn't have a chance to gather her 3 Basset hounds, as they had already scattered in their big back yard because of the high winds already hitting. When the horrible roar had finally passed, she ascended the stairs from the basement, to find it covered with boards, etc. She managed to climb her way through, and was greeted by all three of her dogs doing what they do best, following her scent. They were all howling, and then of course wagging their tails furiously. Only one was injured, with a sprained hip.

Anyway, that is a good story. I've heard a few others not so from my family. Our house is four blocks from the path which at that point is 11 blocks wide. Yes, complete devastation of what used to be nothing but homes and businesses that extend the WIDTH of the path. Then that goes for between 6 and 7 miles.

I'm in San Diego, and can't afford to go back, to take time off of work. It is just incredibly painful to think of how it took away 30 percent of my home town. My elderly parents are lucky to be alive, and are slowly getting word about a few friends that are okay. They still have a few on the list however. But, I can't imagine the scar they feel on the inside for the community that they love so much.

Good post. I notice all this too, only I believe it's worse now than it ever was and continuing in that direction. These fools raping the worlds people and resources don't seem to care that the resources are limited. They just want to get while the getting is good. A friend of mine used to say - "a good parasite doesn't kill it's host." These dopes are killing their host. Their host will do anything to itself to get rid of them.

Fact - What they're doing isn't sustainable - so it will end. The question is how.

I thought it would end in natural disasters but I'm convinced that's not it now. It will end like the French and Spanish revolutions but with many countries you wouldn't have expected before revolting at the same time. The French and Spanish revolutions were inevitable - the rich - nobility/politicians/gov/companies made it unavoidable - there was no other way for the people to get things changed. The current protest are a bit more than protests - they want their leaders out. The protests are contagious - they are spreading through more countries and identifying with each other. The next wave of protests in a few years will be uprisings then rebellions and finally all out revolutions. There's no other way it can go with the super class gap between rich and poor and the super abuses of the rich. I'm positive that's the only direction this is heading - it has to for the host to survive.

Good summation of what's going on, and reflective of my feelings as well. Well done minitrue.

MINITRUE: I lost my reading glasses, did you find them? We seem to be seeing the same exact things?

I agree with your post up to its conclusion. We should never assume that tomorrow will be just like yesterday. For one thing, perturbation happens! Too many prophecies speak of OUR times as THE time of a massive, intended Transition. Most of us in this forum understand all the things that don't work, see through the glass darkly, and closely witness all the graft, corruption, and foul play at play... yet a shift has begun; and as we see the past fade behind us not knowing how the future frames will take shape, it's helpful to consider that "there is a divinity that shapes our ends." (Shakespeare)

To honor the moment is to truly give thanks for our daily bread, as life has become so uncertain that each instant must be prized/valued/utilize to the max. Otherwise, once we cross over, now, or at the point of our natural denouement, we will be sick in our soul(s) with regrets.

It's on Common Dreams now.

What an article! At least one meltdown started before the tsunami and nearly 5000 wokers confirmed with cases of internal exposure to radiation.

From that link:

"But Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, May 16 confirmed some 4,956 cases of internal exposure to radiation among workers at reactors around the country. Of those, 4,766 were originally from Fukushima and had moved to other sites, but had re-visited the prefecture after the 3/11 disaster.

Some of the stricken workers believe they were contaminated when they returned home for their families, even though they may have stayed only briefly. "

Scribe - that was a story I liked very much.

The comment below yours seems to imply we are advocating listening to Hawaiian music instead of doing something more useful?

It would be worthwhile to look up IZ on Wikipedia, where you will find how highly honored he was, and is.

As for something useful, well, I guess the comment below yours missed the point entirely, perhaps understandably.

Hubris, we are told, was thought by the ancient Greeks the most heinous of defects in the human character. Here, on Common Dreams, many are the voices shouting for recognition, and pointing out sin this way and that. I was chided on Robert Koehler's post for having flown to Hawaii too many times, contributing to global warming, which of course is true. As if I knew at the time, in the early seventies, that this was the case - as if it mattered in any case - as if one person could single-handedly stop the march into the future.

While we wring our hands, and try and save ourselves, all the while living comfortably, the planet is sending signals that it is about to change state. Our best scientists, and these are the ones to listen to, tell us that what is probably coming is inimical not only to us, but to perhaps half of the known species extant now upon the Earth, certain bacteria and insects excepted.

My point is this. I have lived the life of a cultural pioneer for over fifteen years now, without knowing it - it just needed to be done. But neither that change, nor any that I can envisage, will alter what is coming - we are too far down 'The Road' for that.

Great artists like IZ, they saw clearly - and could not survive. But before they died, they left us something more important than all the science in the world, than all the good intentions we can muster - they left us their life-force, and an image of how achingly beautiful we can be.

Manysummits
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The corporations are now telling their shills' to have people simply listen to Hawaiian Music?