Xenon 400,000 times normal found in Chiba air immediately after Fukushima nuke accident

Mainichi Shimbun ^ | 12/02/11

[TigerLikesRooster]

Xenon 400,000 times normal found in Chiba air immediately after Fukushima nuke accident

CHIBA -- Radioactive xenon-133 some 400,000 times normal levels was detected in the atmosphere here immediately after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, a radiation survey organization said.

It took three months before the volume of radioactive substances returned to normal levels.

The Chiba-based Japan Chemical Analysis Center made the announcement during a radiation research session in Tokyo on Dec. 1, organized by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.

Keisuke Isogai from the center denied that the high concentration of radioactive substance posed a health hazard.

[TigerLikesRooster]

It is not the Xenon per se which is the problem, but what it indicates. This only confirms our suspicion that whole lot of alarming information is withheld as we speak. We have to believe things are much worse now than media reports indicate.

[TigerLikesRooster]

P!

[hinckley buzzard]

Interetsing. I recall in the early 60's hearing about unranium -xenon-flouride compounds being studied at Argonne National Laboratory. It was exciting at the time because Xenon had been considered a nonreactive "noble gas."

[hinckley buzzard]

Interesting. I recall in the early 60's hearing about uranium-xenon-flouride compounds being studied at Argonne National Laboratory. It was exciting at the time because Xenon had been considered a nonreactive "noble gas."

[GeronL]

Just because the rice or water is radioactive doesn’t mean its bad.... I mean here, we’ll give it to schoolkids to show you its okay.

heh

[billorites]

[count-your-change]

Xenon, the Warrior Princess?

[MAexile]

It was exciting at the time because Xenon had been considered a nonreactive "noble gas."

It is a Nobel gas, but under certain circumstances it will react. Lighter Nobel gases will not react at all.

[donozark]

More likely those bright white headlights that blind you as they roar past at 90MPH.

[Razzz42]

The radioactive fallout was airborne until rainy weather a few days later began washing it out of the sky onto Japan esp. Tokyo. What didn’t wash out was blown towards South Korea and elsewhere east, the remainder was blown west over the Pacific Ocean onward around the world.

Where radioactive readings were minimal to nonexistent in most of Japan before the Great Quake, the levels of safe exposure to fallout have been raised to avoid panic with the latest readings found after the quake on the ground, in the air and water including the oceans along with food crops.

[count-your-change]

Yeah, love those, the other driver can see me swerving into his lane.

[little jeremiah]

Thank you. I wish the truth were made public.

[bgill]

What else are they not telling? We know.