This is a reprint of Akio Matsumura’s open letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations. It can be found here at his website. Mr. Matsumura is:

- Former Special Advisor to the United Nations Development Program
- Founder and Secretary General of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human Survival
- Secretary General of the 1992 Parliamentary Earth Summit Conference in Rio de Janeiro
- Organizer, World Assembly on Reconciliation hosted by Prime Minister Rabin and Chairman Arafat, at Jericho
- First Secretary-General, International Green Cross
- Secretary-General, Global Forum Conference hosted by President Gorbachev at the Kremlin

Dear Secretary General Ban Ki-moon:

Yours truly,
Akio Matsumura

I have a host of autoimmune diseases, including psoriatic arthritis. I am ordinarly hypersensitive to medications. About a month after Fukushima Daiichi blew up, everything went through the roof.

A pituitary adenoma suddenly developed. The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, is an endocrine gland that is at the base of the brain.

It is the size of a pea. It eventually blew up to the size of a softball.

It threatened my vision… but worse, it increased the hypersensitivity to extreme levels, which is the last thing you want in a radiation crisis. The inflammation, joint pain, and skin symptoms were overwhelming.

This tumor secretes prolactin and thyroid-stimulating hormone. Prolactin makes dopamine go away, and is highly pro-inflammatory. It also causes hypogonadism and bone loss. I was also getting hyperthyroid symptoms, like a goiter.

Things have gotten better. And it is not because the radiation went away, I think that is worse than ever.

So I just wanted to share some of the things I have tried, to alleviate the autoimmune and radiation symptoms.

Air filter – IQAir Health Pro Plus. Expensive but worth it. It has really made a big difference.

Reverse osmosis water filter – I stopped drinking from it in Nov. 2011… but still rinse dishes with it, and use it in washing.

Charlie’s soap & borax – My clothes were accumulating radionuclides… not sure if it was from the water, detergent, or both. Charlie’s soap contains washing soda. Borax removes fluoride… I have to avoid fluoride like the plague, because I was poisoned with uranium. Mix them together, you get uranium tetrafluoride, a highly corrosive substance. The last thing I need is my bones dissolving like acid. Plus it turns uranium into a neutron emitter like plutonium. Charlie’s and borax is working well.

Sunlight exposure – I have gotten 6 days of sunshine from laying out this year so far. Raises dopamine levels. I have psoriatic arthritis, so I need the UV-B light.

UV-B light device – I got this for my psoriasis. It works… not perfect. 72 people are documented to have died from psoriasis. I could have been one of them. That’s how bad it got.

Fuyunhon Australian 10% urea cream – Works pretty good, not contaminated. For skin symptoms.

Nelson’s calendula – Good for what it is. My skin symptoms need something with more kick, though. Not contaminated.

Zinc oxide baby powder – Helps with fungus a little.

Desert Essence tea tree castile body wash – I like it.

Tuck’s medicated pads – Contaminated, as far as I can tell.

Fish oil – Ultrapurified omega-3 fish oil, from fish caught off Peru. This was definitely positive. But it was too expensive, and I switched to Norwegian cod liver oil. I like the Vitamin A. Not contaminated, as far as I can tell.

Gingko biloba – I have only tried a little of this. Pre-Fuku stock. Should be very positive, but not determined yet.

Curcumin – Everything says this should be ideal. Did nothing for me. Not contaminated.

Peony root – See curcumin.

Walmart pomegranate – Contaminated.

Pomegranate seed oil – From Europe… I use it both topically and put it in drinks. Helps with both joint pain & skin symptoms. Not contaminated.

Spanish solera brandy – Aged for years in oak barrels. Oak contains ellagitannins like pomegranate does. I wish I could find uncontaminated oak bark. Nothing in the world soaks up radiation like it, plus it has the wonderful anti-inflammatory and anti-tumor properties.

Lutein & bilberry – For my eyes. Seems to works some, though my vision is getting worse. Not contaminated.

Rutin – Antioxidant for ITP & bleeding. Comes from Brazilian plant. Not contaminated.

Cat’s claw – Una de Gato, from Amazon region. Just started this, undetermined yet. Not contaminated.

Sea buckthorn – Very interesting berry, should be useful for both radiation and autoimmune. I didn’t take enough to tell if it helps. Not contaminated.

Horny goat weed – Got this for bone resorption… the prolactin from the tumor is causing osteoporosis. From Europe (supposedly). Contaminated… Fuku or Chernobyl, I don’t know.

Tongkat Ali – Also for bone resorption. From Laos or somewhere near there. I just ordered it.

Jatoba – Antifungal from the Amazon. Haven’t tried it yet.

Turbina corymbosa – These seeds saved me from going blind. They contain ergot alkaloids… they are hallucinogenic, and are used by shamans in Mexico to induce trance states. However, the dose I took was never more than 5% of the hallucinogenic dose. Called “Seed of the Virgin.” Contains ergometrine, which causes muscle cramping, so this is unsuitable to use long-term. It shrank the tumor enough to where I could see… not more.

Hydergine – Co-dergocrine mesylates, ergoloid mesylates, dihydroergotoxine. Nonhallucinogenic, active principle of seeds above. Dopamine agonist used to shrink the pituitary tumor. Also has anti-aging properties, is a strong antioxidant, and is a nootropic. Worked better than I expected. I haven’t gotten metal mouth from food since I started taking it. Moved me from stage 2 radiation sickness to stage 1 (see Fukushima AIDS, part 2: Chronic radiation sickness).

Vitamin D-2 – Not D-3. I like this better. For my kidneys and bones. Less toxic than D-3, also D-2 is produced from UV radiation of ergot alkaloids (see above).

Cannabis – Thousands of studies indicate that cannabis and cannabinoids should be in the front line in the war against Fuku’s destruction of our health. THE US GOVERNMENT SAYS THAT IF YOU SMOKE MARIJUANA, YOU ARE A BAD PERSON, AND SHOULD BE LOCKED IN A CAGE WITH MURDERERS AND RAPISTS. THE US GOVERNMENT ALSO THINKS THAT PLUTONIUM IS GOOD FOR YOU.

An article has come out in Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Temporal variation of monthly 137Cs deposition observed in Japan: Effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. It appears that monthly cesium-137 depositions in 7 Japanese locations dropped after March 2011, but started to rise again in November.

The third graph refers to resuspension of cesium by month. This refers to cesium deposited on to leaves and trees entering the atmosphere by fire, wind, etc. As you can see, this happens at low levels in November and December.

You might remember the situation in late October 2011 with Abnormal smoke from reactor 2. This was followed shortly by 110 micro Sv/h in Setagaya may be caused by a flown piece of control rod. In Setagaya, Tokyo, not only was there very high radiation detected, but europium-152 was found, which could only have come from a piece of control rod, criticality event, or nuclear explosion.

And this entry for November 1, Breaking News: fission restarted at reactor 2. Xenon was detected (as also happened recently), which confirmed fission was occurring. Of course, Tepco denied it and said it had something to do with curium (which is no picnic either).

In November 2011, the IAEA stated that iodine-131 was detected over Europe (blamed on a Hungarian lab), and in February 2012 they announced it was detected again over northern Sweden (also blamed on Hungarian lab very far away).

So it all adds up to a criticality, the effects being isotopes circling the globe for several months. This time period, especially November thru January was subjectively bad for me, much worse than March-April 2011.

Fukushima Diary has a story where the CTBTO (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization) radiation monitoring station in Takasaki, Japan has measured elevated levels of xenon-133 and xenon-131m. They say it is due to a North Korean nuclear test on February 12.

The Huffington Post quotes a Reuters story on this detection. Quoting the CTBTO,

“Two radioactive isotopes of the noble gas xenon were identified, xenon-131m and xenon-133, which provide reliable information on the nuclear nature of the source,” it said.

“Detection of radioactive noble gas more than seven weeks after an event is indeed unusual. We did not expect this and it did not happen in 2009,” the CTBTO added, referring to the reclusive country’s previous nuclear test.

Yes, it certainly is unusual to detect the xenon seven weeks after the event. The story posted on the CTBTO website has a graphic, using a depiction of the atmospheric dispersion of these gases. You can see it starting in North Korea on April 7, getting to Takasaki a day later.

WHAT MADE THESE GASES JUST SIT AROUND FOR SEVEN WEEKS?

Of course, what is really going on is that the release of xenon gas signifies a MAJOR FISSION AND CRITICALITY EVENT at Fukushima.

Going back to the Enenews webcam thread to the period April 7 or so (Japan time):

ChasAha
April 6, 2013 at 12:20 pm Log in to Reply
Close up of…

TEPCO cam
2013-04-07 20:44 jst

And so on. Here is a youtube video of the JNN/TBS Fukushima cam around this time.

Radiation has been bothering me more the last two weeks than anytime since last June. And I believe that was a skinny rogue plume. This looks more like a major cloud over the northern hemisphere.

Mutated cone flower in Alabama, April 2013

The tree damage seen last year has not abated. Mutated plants continue to appear as more low-level radiation streams over from Japan. From Dr. Satoshi Mori’s blog (poorly translated by Google):

Fertilization, reproductive plant one year cycle should have been done twice. Assuming the laws of Mendelian genetics is applied simply to morphogenesis of some species, after which drew strong radiation, such as I-131, Cs134, Cs137 immediately after the TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded The first year, mutations would have entered the DNA in the repair process by the DNA repair enzyme chromosome has been hit.

Mutated trillium in Oregon, April 2013

Mutant dandelion in Ohio, April 2013

However, it would not in only one of the two strands of DNA maybe. Recessive may not appear to be hidden dominant DNA because it is heterozygous at this stage yet. However, morphological malformations certain as recessive phenotype homo, maybe might come out from the second year. I already mentioned before that, such as dandelion huge leaves have been reported.　So, malformation of vegetation would not begin to be observed this year from around soon. Do not forget that the chromosome is cut beaten by gamma rays of cesium constantly even at low doses subsequent course.

This is now the second full year of plant growth after Fukushima. Much of the genetic damage has happened in recessive genes, so many mutations will start to come out this year.

Damaged cedar in Fukushima prefecture

Widespread damage to trees and plants was noted last year (1-7) . This is partially due to Fukushima, but also due to ozone and volatile organic chemicals emitted from the Bayou Corne sinkhole and the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (3 years ago today). This destruction is continuing.

The tree damage can be seen in Iceland, western Europe, Indonesia, Fiji, the Maldives, India, Canary Islands, Madagascar, and recently in Australia. But it seems to be the worst in the USA and Canada.

The growth of fungus and mold is promoted by radiation (8-12). What is happening is that Fuku, the oil spill and sinkhole emissions are weakening the trees. Fungi enter the weakened tree, encounter radioactive substances, and then grow like crazy.

A fungal meningitis outbreak of injectable drugs prepared at the New England Compounding Center has killed 53 people. Injectable products have been recalled from Med Prep Consulting, Biotest Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Pallimed Solutions Inc., and Hospira Inc., due to contamination with fungus.

Widespread problems with mold occurred after Hurricane Sandy. Mold is endemic. Some people have mushrooms growing on their carpets.

Fungi are now killing all the frogs and bats.

The government is now spraying fungus from helicopters (1:38) in order to “save trees.”

Stimulation of fruit and grain yields is also promoted by radiation, and we have seen bumper crops for some species. But when radiation is increased beyond the amount that stimulates, it shuts off the growth of fruit and grain. Increase it further, and it kills the plant, like in the Red Forest after Chernobyl. Some of the trees in the Red Forest won’t even decompose, because there is so much radiation that fungi and microoganisms can’t survive to do the decomposition.

My peach and pear tree went wild with fruit in 2011, but didn’t produce any in 2012. The peach tree now has its bark falling off, and is covered with fungus and lichen. But leaves have appeared now on about 25% of it… I had thought it was dead. My walnut tree went wild in 2012, and Vgirl’s plum tree went crazy with fruit last year also. It remains to be seen what kind of fruit we will see in 2013 from these trees.

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(1) Dying trees.
(2) Carbon-14, tritium and plants.
(3) Biosphere effects of Fukushima and the BP oil spill (part 2).
(4) Biosphere effects of Fukushima and the BP oil spill (part 1).
(5) Plant destruction in my backyard.
(6) Iodine found in leaves of damaged trees.
(7) Preliminary thoughts on the global tree die-off.
(8) Radiation-eating fungi. They kill trees and they kill people.
(9) Deadly meningitis outbreak in 2002 also caused by radiotrophic fungus.
(10) Fungi from Japan transported into USA, in spring 2011.
(11) Black substance destroying Hawaii’s largest barrier reef.
(12) Radioactive black fungus in Japan, blowing to the US.

Lightning struck the LaSalle nuclear power plant in Illinois Wednesday during a thunderstorm. The plant lost offsite power and venting of radioactive isotopes was commenced. Potrblog has posted a video, and apparently radioactive rain leaked into his basement and caused elevated Geiger counter readings indoors.

There is a cold front moving across the eastern part of the country, with associated rain and thunderstorms. It is likely that radioisotopes from this nuclear release have been caught up in this cold front.

Stay out of the rain!

The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is spinning out of control. All underground storage tanks are leaking contaminated water into the Pacific. Groundwater is flooding into the reactor buildings, creating 400 tons of radioactive water per day, which leaks into the sea. The alleged spent fuel pools repeatedly have their cooling shut down, which leads one to think that the pools are either leaking like sieves, or all the contents of the pools are on the floor, and they are dumping water on them in a vain effort to keep it cool.

The entire contents of the plant are leaking into the ocean. And, as noted here previously, the radioactive materials into the ocean do not all stay in it, but move into the atmosphere and come down as rain over the North American continent. The ocean phytoplankton, which supply 50-70% of the Earth’s oxygen is going away, sea lions are washing up on the west coast, the ocean is rapidly dying.

In the midst of this unparalleled catastrophe, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published guidelines in the Federal Register which dramatically relax the guidelines of radioactive contaminants which are allowed in water and food.

After years of internal deliberation and controversy, the Obama administration has issued a document suggesting that when dealing with the aftermath of an accident or attack involving radioactive materials, public health guidelines can be made thousands of times less stringent than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would normally allow.

However, while the new guide will be subject to a 90-day public comment period once it formally is published in the Federal Register, it has been labeled for “interim use,” meaning it is effective immediately.

Not that it really makes a difference, the government is literally doing nothing to prevent radioactive contamination of our air, water, and food. But it’s “official” now.

According to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER),

Issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the radiation guides (called Protective Action Guides or PAGs) allow cleanup many times more lax than anything EPA has ever before accepted. These guides govern evacuations, shelter-in-place orders, food restrictions and other actions following a wide range of “radiological emergencies.” The Obama administration blocked a version of these PAGs from going into effect during its first days in office. The version given approval late last Friday is substantially similar to those proposed under Bush but duck some of the most controversial aspects:

Despite the years-long internal fight, this is the first public official display of these guides. This takes place as Japan grapples with these same issues in the two years following its Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Don’t look to the US Government for any protection from radiation, any action to fix the situation at Daiichi, or anything, except to promote the radioactive poisoning of Americans.

The Australian Enenews contributor vital1 has analyzed a sample of black fungus (black substance) that was originated in Minamisoma, Japan.

I was sent this resin encapsulated sample of black fungus like material. It has reportedly come from somewhere in the Minamisoma area Japan. A contact in Japan sent this sample to a friend. This is my test chart of it. For those of you who have not looked at a scintillator test chart like this before. The position of the peaks in a the chart indicate what isotopes are present… This black fungus started growing on the concrete, and rock surfaces in Japan after the Fukushima Nuclear disaster. It appears to be bio-accumulating Cesium.

Correcting for the weight of the sample, it appears to be highly radioactive, perhaps over 500,000 Bq/kg of cesium. The sample contains cesium-134 and cesium-137 isotopes, and also the sample peak at 795 keV for cesium-134 has shifted to the right. This is likely due to the presence of cobalt-58, which has a peak at 810.8 keV. Cobalt-58 was previously detected in the black substance in Japan.

Cobalt-58 is generated by neutron irradiation of nickel. The metal nickel is used extensively in nuclear power plants, in tubing and alloys. It is likely that large amounts of nickel are present in the molten coriums. The neutrons necessary for transmutation of nickel to Co-58 would have come from either re-criticalities in the coriums, or the presence of neutron emitters like plutonium, curium and californium.

It was shown in a previous post here that an astounding amount of fungi were transported across the Pacific from Japan to the US in spring 2011. It is springtime again, and this is the season for fungus transport.

It is likely that fungi are growing on the spent fuel pools and underground coriums. Tepco announced that they are adding hydrazine to the pools in order to control the growth of microorganisms. But these fungi are highly radioresistant, and probably can tolerate toxic chemicals also. They are almost certainly mutated by radiation.

Vital1 has also detected high amounts of radon isotopes in an Australian rain swab. Background radiation in Australia and New Zealand has increased by 20%-40% since Fukushima. Radon is a radioactive daughter product of uranium. Very small uranium particles on the surface emit a much larger amount of daugher isotopes by weight, than large deposits of uranium miles underground.

If Australia is being showered with uranium dust from Fukushima, it must be much worse in Japan and the USA. Uranium would have been released in the initial melt-throughs, but continuing releases of uranium would be coming from the underground coriums turning into powder, and being released into the atnosphere and sea… or alternatively by fungus spores growing on these coriums. If this is true, there must be significant amounts of plutonium present in the fungi also.

A growing body of scientific literature now indicates that cannabinoids reverse the Pavlovian fear-inducing response in animals. Recently, cannabinoids including THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) have been shown to induce the fear extinction response in humans.

A first-line approach to treat anxiety disorders is exposure-based therapy, which relies on extinction processes such as repeatedly exposing the patient to stimuli (conditioned stimuli; CS) associated with the traumatic, fear-related memory. However, a significant number of patients fail to maintain their gains, partly attributed to the fact that this inhibitory learning and its maintenance is temporary and conditioned fear responses can return. Animal studies have shown that activation of the cannabinoid system during extinction learning enhances fear extinction and its retention. Specifically, CB1 receptor agonists, such as D9-tetrahydrocannibinol (THC), can facilitate extinction recall by preventing recovery of extinguished fear in rats. However, this phenomenon has not been investigated in humans… These results provide the first evidence that pharmacological enhancement of extinction learning is feasible in humans using cannabinoid system modulators, which may thus warrant further development and clinical testing.

This has vast implications for the millions that suffer from excessive anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Fear extinction is a decline in conditioned fear responses, which arise when the memory of a traumatic event is recalled. These events may include physical and emotional trauma from auto accidents, war, childhood sexual abuse, sociopathic spouses, and so on. From the article Mechanisms of Fear Extinction:

Excessive fear and anxiety are hallmarks of a variety of disabling anxiety disorders that affect millions of people throughout the world. Hence, a greater understanding of the brain mechanisms involved in the inhibition of fear and anxiety is attracting increasing interest in the research community. In the laboratory, fear inhibition most often is studied through a procedure in which a previously fear conditioned organism is exposed to a fear-eliciting cue in the absence of any aversive event. This procedure results in a decline in conditioned fear responses that is attributed to a process called fear extinction.

Through fear extinction, the memory of the event itself does not go away, but the paralyzing emotional response to the memory does go away. Consumption of marijuana is a pharmacological enhancement of this undoing of the fear response. This is just another of the amazing medical benefits of the cannabis plant.

It should be easy to see why cannabis remains illegal in the US (except for a gray area in some states). The US government is a sociopathic entity that perpetuates its existence by inducing fear, trauma, and PTSD among its citizens. An example would be the phony & staged 9/11 attacks. Repeated images of the World Trade Center collapses were shown to induce fear. A boogeyman Osama bin Laden was raised up in the minds of Americans to traumatize them further. Even though he died in December 2001, he was kept alive by the government and media until 2011. Marijuana is an antidote to this kind of mental slavery.

Additionally, it has been shown that stimulation of the serotonin 2A receptors also induces fear extinction. This opens up the possibility that many plants and pharmaceutical compounds would be helpful here.

Of course, care should be taken. Cannabis grown outdoors in the USA is likely to be contaminated with radioactivity. Indoor, hydroponic, and foreign-grown varieties are preferred.

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The self-appointed Fukushima expert, manufactured anti-nuclear hero, and Fukushima minimizer Arnie Gundersen is now saying 20% to 30% of the cesium at the destroyed units 1, 2 and 3 of the Daiichi plant has escaped containment. According to Gundersen, this is a “game-changer” and maybe Fuku is almost as bad as Chernobyl now.

Well, forgetting the absurdity that Chernobyl is in any way comparable to Fukushima in scope, with enormous cesium contamination reported in Japan, with the entire North Pacific ocean polluted with radioactivity, sea lions dying and washing up on the west coast, Australia reporting 20% to 40% increases in background radiation two years after the catastrophe started (where Chernobyl was barely detectable there), we should note that everyone with at least half a brain knows there have been three melt-throughs at the plant, not a little dribble of corium that has escaped containment. Gundersen is denying the obvious, and is pretending to say something meaningful, in that his estimate far exceeds Tepco’s estimate that 1% of the cesium escaped, which is even more absurd.

On April 19, 2011, I published this note on The Japan Earthquake scribble:

Radioactive isotope concentrations from Takasaki CTBTO station http://www.cpdnp.jp/pdf/110408Takasaki_report_Apr2.pdf

xxxxxxxxx Ba-140  Cs-134   Cs-136   Cs-137     I-131      I-132     La-140    Te-129  Te-129m   Te-132 
3/15-3/16 312725  6921136   857713   5644666   14680552   11156850   1770189  2127038  22588878 27094139  

(from Neeb, The Radiochemistry of Nuclear Power Plants With Light Water Reactors, pp. 518-519), The SFD 1-4 test was performed… “high-burnup fuel heated to high temperatures in a steam-starved environment”, “a small-break initiating event with limited steam supply to the fuel bundle was simulated”, “the post-test damage state of the bundle… appeared to be quite analagous to that of the damaged TMI-2 core”. If a TMI-style meltdown occurred, using Dr. Saji’s inventory figures (below), there would have been a 23:1 ratio of I-131 to Te-129m released. The Takasaki figures indicate a 1:2 ratio. The data do not support this scenario.

Species	Half-lives	Fukushima 1F2-5
Ru-103	39.3d	2805(PBq)
Ru-106	368d	640
Sr-89	50.5d	2649
Sr-90	29,12y	171
Kr-85	10.72y	21
Te-129m	33.6d	774
Te-132	3.26d	3333
I-131	8.04d	2292
I-133	20.8h	4985
Xe-133	5.25d	4844
Cs-134	2.06y	126
Cs-136	13.1d	82
Cs-137	30.0y	193
Ce-141	32.5d	4130
Ce-144	284d	2917

So it was obvious early on that there had been a molten corium-concrete reaction in units 1-3. The conclusions were based on CTBTO measurements, independent of Tepco, whose (faked) measurements Gundersen has been mostly using. Arnie is still denying any significant interaction with corium and concrete.

Going on to p. 533 of the Neeb document, simulations involving corium-concrete interactions are described in more detail. The first step of the molten core-concrete interaction is high-temperature decomposition of the concrete accompanied by the production of gases, mainly H2O and CO2, followed by melting of the concrete materials and their incorporation into the melt. As a consequence, the erosion of the concrete will start with the formation of a cavern, in which the melt separates into two phases, a lower metallic one which is covered by a lighter oxidic phase, with the former containing metallic fission products like ruthenium, technetium, palladium, and the latter containing barium, strontium, and other oxides… The heat production in the oxidic phase of the melt is mainly due to fission product decay heat, whereas in the metallic phase the exothermal metal-water reaction is the main contributor.

Due to the very high temperatures prevailing during this stage of the accident, the molten core-concrete interaction is the principal source of the release of low-volatility fission products to the containment. The volatilization of these elements, such as barium, strontium, lanthanum, and cerium, is strongly supported by the gas bubbles which penetrate through the molten zone… In addition to the comparatively high temperatures, the changed chemical conditions are also responsible for this enhanced aerosol production.

The first table above represents an estimate of the percentage of elements released into air and water, using standard nuclear fuel. Note that less than 0.1% of the strontium (Sr) is released. Now, according to Dr. Saji, there are around 7 times more becquerels of strontium in the fuel inventory than cesium. In a previous post, Strontium-90 in the Pacific, it was found that by June 2011, strontium-90 levels in the Pacific were 2.65% that of cesium-137. This is considerably more than predicted, and indicates a much more severe accident than the authors had simulated.

A study released recently found that large amounts of radioactive silver, Ag-110m, have been detected. According to the table, 3% of the silver would have been released. This also indicates a more severe accident than contemplated before.

The second table indicates simulated radioactive releases using MOX fuel, which was used in unit 3. Here 97% of the silver is released. Also note that 87% of the noble gas krypton-85 is released in this scenario. The entire inventory of the noble gas xenon-133 was released from the plant within the first 5 days of the catastrophe. It was further found that more than 100% of the xenon was released, which begs the question of further meltdowns that we have not been told about. See The mystery of the extra xenon-133.

But the most important thing to notice is that in both simulations, 100% of the cesium is released during the melt-throughs. This means that all of the cesium that has been released from the plant since the early stages of the catastrophe is coming from the spent fuel pools.

Cesium levels in river sediment near Kashiwa jumped by 3,700% in 3 months recently, according to Fukushima Diary. Fog in Tokyo deposited over 4,000 Bq/kg of cesium in one day, recently. Some of the cesium is being resuspended into the atmosphere by the burning of contaminated tsunami debris, but it must be that the vast majority of the cesium released into the air and sea is from the pools.

You have to wonder if this is even possible with semi-functioning spent fuel pools. Maybe some or all of the contents of the pools leaked out of them early on, and what we have here is a slow-motion meltdown event in pools 1-4, and the common pool. SFP 1 and the common pool contain an enormous amount of cesium. Since no independent scientific organization has been allowed into the Daiichi plant (contrary to Japanese law), we have no way of verifying that the pools are actually intact.

The underground coriums are leaking strontium, americium, uranium, and plutonium. Re-criticalities in these coriums are releasing iodine-131, iodine-129, and a host of other isotopes into the air and sea. The ratio of strontium to cesium in seawater, previously at 2.65%, has now reached 44%.

It should be clear that Arnie Gundersen, who by all accounts is a competent nuclear engineer, is deliberately distorting the facts in an egregious manner. Any anti-nuclear persons, organizations, and message boards that support him should also be questioned.