Japan. So that problem is all solved right?

Or I guess its just really minor compared to the Royal Wedding, Trump, and Bin Laden. Haven't seen an update in about a week.

What is it going to serve writing about it every day if nothing has changed either way?

A month of radiation pouring into the ocean at never before recorded levels in some cases, maybe it's worth more than, say, celebrity gossip.

For that matter, why write about anything. Most of its bullshit, exaggeration, and propaganda. Why not give us the boring details on what's actually going on in the world for a change?

and I haven't seen any royal wedding non-comedic threads in quite a while.

Radiation levels south of the reactors have leveled off. For example, radiation levels in the Tsukuba-Tsuchiura area, about 100 miles of the reactors, have been stable for several weeks, and are essentially at normal levels.
http://rcwww.kek.jp/norm/

Farmers in southern Ibaraki, 70 miles and farther south of the reactors*, have been planting their fields, as they always do at this time of year.

All produce grown in Ibaraki Prefecture, on the southern boundary of Fukushima Prefecture, has been deemed safe for consumption, with the possible exception of spinach.

Tourism in Ibaraki Prefecture during the recent week-long holiday period declined dramatically compared to last year. For example, attendance at Hitachi Seaside Park, which is one of the big tourist attractions of Ibaraki that is about 60 miles south of the reactors, was said to be only about 25% of what it was last year at this time. Tourism at Mount Tsukuba, another popular Ibaraki destination, is off by even more than that.

The prevailing winds in the reactor area are blowing from the SE, so the areas to the immediate NW of the reactors are in deep doodoo right now. But Iwaki City, to the immediate south, is not in bad shape-- for the time being.

Small fish caught off the coasts of Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures have been detected with relatively high levels of radiation, and there are therefore prohibitions against their sale.
Large fish that eat these smaller fish and migrate southward have been caught off the coast of Choshi/Kashima, a little more than 100 miles south of the reactors. The national government claims the radiation levels are safe in these big fish, but I was talking to a man last night who said he is not going to be eating fish for a while "because fish aren't supposed to be radioactive". There seems to be increasing interest in beef, and I have noticed more beef from the US and Australia being sold in local Ibaraki grocery stores.


*The 70-mile figure is the extent of my personal observations, and information I have obtained from Ibaraki residents. I'm sure that fields north of that area are also being planted as in regular years.

this before, I think it might be newsworthy that some of these solutions are made public and discussed.

Sure, they raised the Level at Fukushima to 7, the same as Chernobyl, but the Fukushima plants just barely "qualified" (if that is the word) for that dubious distinction, while the amount of radiation released at Chernobyl went well above the threshold. There was no containment structure at Chernobyl #4, while all the units at Dai-ichi did have containment structures. Also, there were major graphite fires at Chernobyl, and a total meltdown, while there have "only" been partial meltdowns at some of the Fukushima reactors and no graphite fires.

Saying that, it is still very much a delicate situation, which a chemical engineer colleague has told me will take weeks-- months-- even years to totally resolve. That means that in the meantime, summer typhoons and shifting winds, not to mention another major earthquake that could occur in the area, have the potential to increase the danger. So it's a case study in the making.

or the MSM would still be covering the story, no?