{"id":185083,"date":"2011-10-17T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/17\/oh-sh-4\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T00:59:00","slug":"oh-sh-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/10\/17\/oh-sh-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Sh%$!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/13\/world\/asia\/japan-radiation\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\">found radiation spikes in Tokyo neighborhoods<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo&#8217;s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,&#8221; Hosaka told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just Tokyo, as authorities &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204002304576626700579171010.html\">detected 40,200 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of sediment collected from one part of a roadside ditch<\/a>,&#8221; over 8x the limit for rice fields.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ritholtz.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/tokyo-hit-with-fukushima-radiation\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29\">Barry Ritholtz<\/a>, who also notes the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The Japanese government\u2019s response? <a href=\"http:\/\/fukushima-diary.com\/2011\/10\/breaking-news-the-measurement-of-plutonium-was-abandoned-in-japan\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"To stop testing for plutonium, and to tell people they shouldn\u2019t use geiger counters to test for themselves\" rel=\"noopener\">To stop testing for plutonium, and to tell people they shouldn\u2019t use geiger counters to test for themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese government has been caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enenews.com\/professor-in-kyoto-japan-govt-blatantly-under-reporting-radiation-data-it-will-become-common-knowledge-that-the-contamination-has-come-far-beyond-what-is-being-reported-in-the-media-video\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"blatantly under-reporting radiation levels in general\" rel=\"noopener\">blatantly under-reporting radiation levels in general<\/a>, and Japanese professors are <a href=\"http:\/\/enenews.com\/professor-believe-going-nightmare-im-afraid-dealt-fatal-blow-japan-japan-lost-future-video\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"starting to fear for Japan\u2019s future\" rel=\"noopener\">starting to fear for Japan\u2019s future<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling <b>so<\/b> much better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ve found radiation spikes in Tokyo neighborhoods: An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said. Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo&#8217;s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1078,1188,1163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster","category-japan","category-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}