Radiation in food: Radish Boya to Set Its Own Cesium Standard | EX-SKF.
The bottom line is forcing more and more businesses to take matters into their own hands instead of relying on the government. The rice farmers of Fukushima, judging by this unconfirmed but unfortunately not implausible story, apparently don’t need to worry about the bottom line. Radish Boya, an online grocer who first alerted Shizuoka Prefecture [...]
よくある質問Q&A：X 市公式ホームページ X-City Official Homepage
Alerted by EX-SKF blog, I found my city in a list of cities (published by AERA magazine, the list is replicated here – in Japanese only – with cities that have since withdrawn from the scheme highlighted in red) that had accepted a government request (back in April) to accept debris from the earthquake/tsunami area. [...]
How dangerous to human health is radioactive cesium?
On March 25th, 2011, Lewis Page wrote, nobody has ever been able to show that this isotope [caesium-137] has any health consequences at all: huge amounts were emitted from Chernobyl, but no discernible illnesses have resulted. However, Page is perhaps not a reliable source of information. A commenter on this blog wrote, It seems Mr. [...]
Unpopular cargo: Radioactive waste shipload coming | The Japan Times Online
The freighter Pacific Grebe set sail from Britain on Aug. 3 with more than 30 tons of radioactive waste on board. The cargo, Japanese spent fuel reprocessed in the U.K., is returning sealed in 76 stainless steel canisters packed into 130-ton containers. It is set to arrive early next month at Mutsu-Ogawara port in Aomori [...]
Radioactive Rice to Come? Rice Growing in a Rice Paddy with 35,000 Becquerels/kg of Radioactive Cesium? | EX-SKF
The transfer factor from the soil to rice is considered to be about 0.1. 35,000 becquerels/kg in soil may result in 3,500 becquerels/kg of harvested rice, 7 times the provisional safety limit which is already far too loose for the staple like rice. I’ve found the video clip for this part. It’s the rice paddy [...]
Radioactive waste worries local governments / Officials seek guidance from central authorities on how to permanently dispose of sludge, ash : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE The Daily Yomiuri
Many local governments are troubled over how to handle waste containing radioactive cesium, including sludge discharged from water and sewage treatment plants, and ash.According to surveys by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and The Yomiuri Shimbun, more than 120,000 tons of such radioactive waste is being stored in Tokyo and 13 prefectures in the [...]
#Radioactive Compost Has Been Sold in 23 Prefectures | EX-SKF
So you thought caesium in beef was the worst there is to worry about? Silly you! It’s attracting far less attention, but the radioactive leaf compost is getting to be like the radioactive beef.First, it was 20,000 bags sold in Akita. Then, an unknown number of bags sold in Tottori link in Japanese. Now it [...]
