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AP Photographer: I could fell a “buzzing” in air when in Fukushima, how do you show that in a picture? — Gov’t Experts: Fukushima radiation affected telescopes used to detect space weather; Thought to be related to decay of plutonium (VIDEO)

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F. Jansen, D. Stiefs, T. Brandt, P. Winkler (German Aerospace Center), C. Timmermanns (Experimental High Energy Physics, Radboud University, The Netherlands), S. Pospisil (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Republic), K. Kudela (Institute of Experimental Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences), 2013: Dedicated Cosmic Ray Measurements For Space Weather And Educational Purposes (emphasis added)– This paper describes the Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN) data applied to Tohuku earthquake and Fukushima nuclear power plant failure… Figure 2 shows hints of about 1% cosmic ray muon anisotropy during the earthquake and the first week of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant failure… Enhanced anisotropies correlates with the time of the earthquake, explosions and ventings… The enhancements are only caused by the NST datanot measured in the four other GMDN telescopes [located in Australia, Brazil, Germany, and Kuwait]… The 1% enhancement of NST muon counts are visiblein all muon incoming directions… The daily cosmic ray variation is not the reason for the enhancement and NST was operating normally and had no malfunctions during these days… During the power plant failures 239Pu →235U →131I respectively and 239Pu →235U →236U→137Cs. The β- decays of 131I and 137Cs produced additional electrons, which produced via secondary

cosmic ray positrons and Z0 additional μ- μ+… Therefore, the time correspondence of the comic ray variations observed at Nagoya muon telescope with the Tohuku earthquake respectively Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant failure requires further investigations before the causal conclusion can be deduced…

Jansen et al., Space Weather Workshop 2012, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: Observations: between 11 to 16 March 2011 only 1 of 5 GMDN [Global Muon Detector Network] telescopes measured increase in CR muon counts => this is the Nagoya Scintallator Telescope (NST has about 600 km distance from Fukushima-Daiichi (FD) nuclear power station (NPS))… Hints for correlations in time between Fukushima events and Nagoya muon measurements… No correlations in time between Fukushima events and Hobart /SaoMartinho [Australia and Brazil]… Big question: physics behind additional NST μ‘s from FD NPS? … explosions / ventings: ΔIμ ~ 1-2% (NST cosmic ray muon anisotropy)… Hypothese about correlation of GMDN / NST and FD data

David Guttenfelder, Associated Press photographer, 2013: “You’re trying to show that the place is contaminated and radiation is invisible, so you had to rely on mood, you had to rely on — you felt like the place was buzzing when you were there, but how do you show that in a picture? That was a real challenge… Just an emptiness, and you’re feeling afraid and anxious and your radiation meter is beeping, and how do you show that in a picture… and make you feel like this is a poisoned place?”

Watch the interview with Guttenfelder here

 
Published: July 1st, 2015 at 10:21 pm ET

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