The Neutroneconomy blog has an update on Dose Readings in Japan.and provides some analysis of the plumes and their detection. Also via the Neutroneconomy blog, R.C Hoetzlein provides a very nice timeline.
Having a good timeline should allow us to make a better comparison with the Texas A&M simulations and readings on the ground. To the untrained eye it looks like there is only one set of sensors. However, the fog of data is fed from are several sensor networks. There are:
- The MEXT ( SPEED! network ) via Marian Steinbach's effort on the Japan Radiation OpenData
- Geiger Crowd network (contribute data and software here)
- Local prefecture networks as featured in this site.( Radiation Levels for Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Yamagata, Miyagi, Iwate )
- RDTN.ORG, uses SPPED! data and other networks
- Radiation Crowd Map.
- TEPCO readings (Thanks NeutronEconomy) only in Japanese it seems.
- Citizen centered networks linked to the internet through entities like Pachube (Pachube also get information from the SPEED! network thanks to Marian Steinbach's effort). This last network has issue on its own when it comes to getting peoples's sensors to the network. It includes the need for getting digital information from analog Geiger counters.
We have updated a google maps featuring the MEXT data and some other data we mentioned in the blog before:
View Fukushima Plume (Sensors and Measurements) in a larger map
The Radiation data from the SPEED! network can also be found on this map.
With regards to the source term, the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Cheryl Rofer has a take on the white smoke coming out of the plant:
Marian Steinbach has started putting the readings she obtained from the SPEED! network into a small video. This is outstanding. If we could include all the data from all the sensor networks and have a similar video from the plumes, I am sure we could begin to infer somethingThe puffs of smoke that have caused temporary evacuations of the control rooms have not been accompanied by increases in radiation. A gray or black color could indicate a fire, while white “smoke” is more likely steam.
From the FEPC reports, the spent fuel pools at Units 2, 5, and 6 are at acceptable temperatures. Water is being added to the pools at Units 3 and 4, but no temperature is given. The reactor cores in Units 1, 2, and 3 remain partially uncovered by water, but the fact that their containment is holding pressure suggests that there are no large breaches.
Here is the SPEEDI Radiation Data Animation - Draft (Mar 20, 00:00 to Mar 23, 15:20 UTC)
As I was looking at the trajectory computations by the fine folks at Texas A&M and the aerial assessment provided by DOE yesterday, I am in need of an explanation: Namely, if you look at the DOE measurements, there is red corridor going up on the left of Fukushima Dai-ichi:
yet when one check the Texas A&M simulations, only a period of potentially six hours provided this region to the exposure to the plume.namely:
The three days worth of simulation by Texas A&M and covered by the DOE survey are:
Saturday, March 19
• 2011-03-19 18Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-19 12Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-19 06Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-19 00Z - analysis + forecast
Friday, March 18
• 2011-03-18 18Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-18 12Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-18 06Z - analysis + forecast
• 2011-03-18 00Z - analysis only
Thursday, March 17
• 2011-03-17 18Z - analysis only
• 2011-03-17 12Z - analysis only
• 2011-03-17 06Z - analysis only
• 2011-03-17 00Z - analysis only
Finally, here are the new Texas A&M forecast for today and tomorrow (times are in GMT).
Friday, March 25
• 2011-03-25 12Z - forecast only
• 2011-03-25 06Z - forecast only
• 2011-03-25 00Z - forecast only
Thursday, March 24
• 2011-03-24 18Z - forecast only
• 2011-03-24 12Z - forecast only
• 2011-03-24 06Z - forecast only
• 2011-03-24 00Z - forecast only
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