Fukushima media coverage ‘may be harmful’ – health – 30 August 2011 – New Scientist
One report, in UK newspaper The Independent, quoted a scientist who predicted more than a million would die, and that the prolonged release of radioactivity from Fukushima would make health effects worse than those from the sudden release experienced at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine. “We’ve got to stop these sorts of reports coming [...]
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 [...]
#Fukushima Teacher Pressured to Resign Over His Effort to Protect Children from “Invisible Snake” (Radiation) | EX-SKF
We humans are so susceptible to words. First read this headline (and the article, if you want). Sounds like a clear-cut case, doesn’t it? Teacher tries to warn his students about radiation risks. School authorities don’t like it because it “creates fear/panic” (the big no-no). Teacher “quits”, or was he pushed? Fukushima Teacher Muzzled on [...]
Nuke plant worker mum about own exposure to fallout | The Japan Times Online
The “faceless Fukushima 50″, they’ve been called. They’ve also been banned from talking to the media, although some are obviously defying the ban (or is this a deliberate leak?). I haven’t been keeping a beady eye on non-Japanese media reports about these, so I’m not sure how they have been reported, but no doubt there [...]
In Japan, evacuees direct anger at nuclear-plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. – The Washington Post
Last Thursday, I saw a morning tv show which had as a subtitle “people’s fury”. Japan is the country of guarded language, so when the word “fury” is used, it is not used lightly. “High blood pressure? We’ve all got high blood pressure,” said Maruzoi, a 57-year-old construction worker who now sleeps on a piece [...]
Iodine-131 found in groundwater | The Japan Times Online
This is unbelievable, although not entirely unexpected. I recall those workers who were hospitalized due to excessive radiation: it appeared they had ignored their dosimeters. My foot. They probably did not have dosimeters and the blame was shifted on to them. Tokyo Electric Co. came under further fire Friday after it was revealed that many [...]
2011/04/02 18:06 – Source Found For Toxic Leaks From Japan Nuclear Plant
TOKYO Dow Jones–A source of highly radioactive water escaping into the ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was identified Saturday, but authorities werent able to say if the discovery will stop the ongoing contamination that has already spread 40 kilometers 25 miles into the open seas. Tokyo Electric Power Co. 9501, the operator [...]
Two different sources, two different stories. Which to believe?
Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the mother of one of the men tells Fox News via Japans Nuclear Rescuers: Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks – FoxNews.com. On the [...]
2011/03/31 13:00 – No Immediate Plan To Expand Evacuation Zone Despite IAEA Findings: Edano
(2011/3/31 11:36 is the time stamp for the (original?) Japanese article. Nikkei English articles do not have a time stamp.) TOKYO (Dow Jones)–Japan has no immediate plan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant despite finding higher-than-permitted levels of radiation in a village 10 kilometers away from the current zone, [...]
原発建屋に布、汚染水回収にタンカー案 政府が検討 ：日本経済新聞
Looks like they’re going to go with the tanker plan, according to Edano’s announcement today, March 30th, a.m.: 枝野幸男官房長官は30日午前の記者会見で、東京電力福島第１原子力発電所の事故で建屋が崩壊した１、３、４号機について布で覆って放射性物質の拡散を防ぐ案を検討していることを明らかにした。政府はタービン建屋や外の坑道にたまった放射性物質を大量に含む汚染水をタンカーで回収する案も検討している。 via 原発建屋に布、汚染水回収にタンカー案 政府が検討 ：日本経済新聞. I recommend the following guides: Brett Kelly’s “Evernote Essentials 3.0″, Dan Gold’s $5 guides to Getting Everything Done with Evernote and Springpad, and DocumentSnap Solutions’ Paperless Document Organization Guides. Be sure to try DocumentSnap’s [...]
