Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Magda Hassan]

On the 19th of July 2011, people in Fukushima had a meeting with government officals from Tokyo to demand that the government evacuate people promptly in Fukushima and provide financial and logistical support for them. Also, they brought urine of children to the meeting and demanded that the government
test it.

[Jan Klimkowski]

On the 19th of July 2011, people in Fukushima had a meeting with government officals from Tokyo to demand that the government evacuate people promptly in Fukushima and provide financial and logistical support for them. Also, they brought urine of children to the meeting and demanded that the government test it.

Fascinating snippet of life on the ground in Fukushima, with the Tokyo bureaucrats quite literally fleeing from ordinary people asking reasonable questions, and refusing to test the urine of local children.

Japan has a strong culture of deference and obedience to authority. That deference and obedience is breaking down as a direct result of government lies and contempt for their people.

[Jan Klimkowski]

And still it belchs...

Tepco Says Highest Radiation Detected at Fukushima Dai-Ichi

Bloomberg. Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) --

Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, said it detected the highest radiation to date at the site.

Geiger counters, used to detect radioactivity, registered more than 10 sieverts an hour, the highest reading the devices are able to record, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility, said today. The measurements were taken at the base of the main ventilation stack for reactors No. 1 and No. 2

More at link.

[Peter Lemkin]

Ahhhhh........10 Seiverts/hr. is a HUGE dose.....and cumulative for those who live, eat, breathe, drink, sleep, work and exist there - whether fighting the plant's collapses, or just having the misfortune of living there.....first the quake, then the tsunami, then the radiation leaks and now......all of the above, with the Big Lies.

[Magda Hassan]

Please click on "cc" button to show English subtitles. Journalists Takashi Hirose and Shojiro Akashi announced at a press conference on July 15 that they had pressed criminal charges against 32 people including TEPCO management, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisors including Shunichi Yamashita.

17 people are charged with "bodily injury through negligence in the conduct of occupation", including Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisor, Ms. Shizuyo Kusumi, member of Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan and specialist in radiation
biology, and Mr. Yoshiaki Takagi, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and some other specialists in radiation.

15 people are charged with "death through negligence in the conduct of occupation", including Chairman Katsumata and Ex-President Shimizu from TEPCO, and Dr. Haruki Madarame, Nuclear Safety Commission Chief.

If you want to know more about Dr. Shunichi Yamashita and how they did "brainwashing" in Fukushima, please visit EX-SKF blogposts: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/search/label/...0Yamashita

Tanslation by Ex-SKF blog and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.

[Peter Lemkin]

And still it belchs...

Tepco Says Highest Radiation Detected at Fukushima Dai-Ichi

Bloomberg. Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) --

Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, said it detected the highest radiation to date at the site.

Geiger counters, used to detect radioactivity, registered more than 10 sieverts an hour, the highest reading the devices are able to record, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility, said today. The measurements were taken at the base of the main ventilation stack for reactors No. 1 and No. 2

More at link.

Way to GO JAPAN, TEPCO, et al!......Highest radiation levels to date...you certainly have things well under control :rofl: In fact, they don't even know [or apparently care] why the levels are now higher than ever before...certainly a sign of continued meltdown and containment vessel degradation.It has NO place to go, but into the environment and is spreading rather faster to distant places than had been thought. Meat now several hundred Km from the plant is contaminated, as is the air, water, soil, and people, animals, more......congratulations on the Hiroshima/Nagasaki simulation in miniature :joystick: Maybe could make some money with a radioactive theme park run by Disney...has possibilities....:what:

[Jan Klimkowski]

More on the deadly radiation levels at Fukushima:

Lethal levels of radiation detected at Fukushima

Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.

4:09PM BST 02 Aug 2011

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) reported on Monday that radiation exceeding 10 sieverts (10,000 millisieverts) per hour was found at the bottom of a ventilation stack standing between two reactors.

On Tuesday Tepco said it found another spot on the ventilation stack itself where radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead to incapacitation or death after just several seconds of exposure.

The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device's maximum reading is 10 sieverts.

While Tepco said the readings would not hinder its goal of stabilising the Fukushima reactors by January, experts warned that worker safety could be at risk if the operator prioritised hitting the deadline over radiation risks.

"Radiation leakage at the plant may have been contained or slowed but it has not been sealed off completely. The utility is likely to continue finding these spots of high radiation," said Kenji Sumita, a professor at Osaka University who specialises in nuclear engineering.

"Considering this, recovery work at the plant should not be rushed to meet schedules and goals as that could put workers in harm's way. We are past the immediate crisis phase and some delays should be permissible."

Workers at Daiichi are only allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts of radiation per year.

Tepco, which provides power to Tokyo and neighbouring areas, said it had not detected a sharp rise in overall radiation levels at the compound.

"The high dose was discovered in an area that doesn't hamper recovery efforts at the plant," Tepco spokesman Junichi Matsumoto told reporters on Tuesday.

Although it is still investigating the matter, Tepco said the spots of high radiation could stem from debris left behind by emergency venting conducted days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that crippled the plant.

[Peter Lemkin]

Workers at Daiichi are only allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts of radiation per year.

Not to worry....so they get 4 x their yearly dose in an hour......hey, these are the men who made the movie Godzilla!...they can take it! No problems...and if the radiation keeps getting stronger, and the capacity of the meters has been matched, well, we can just sacrifice them as was done at Chernobyl.....ten minutes per week [and they still died like flies....]. What someone there seems to not grasp is they have a very big problem that is not going to go away until someone first admits there is a big problem; and then immediately takes drastic action to deal with it on both a short-term and permanent basis. For now, they MUST bury that entire 8 reactor plant as was done at Chernobyl in a sarcophagus. Long-term, Japan has to think about a non-nuclear future...as does the rest of the Planet. The nuclear industry is trying to minimize the whole thing....as they are wont to. They also played down Minimata Bay in Japan [chromium poisoning] and even declared there was no 'radiation sickeness from the atomic bombs'. The one reporter who wrote about it was blackballed and essentially removed from investigative reporting on any newspaper/magazine at the time. The truth will set you free [often free from a paycheck].

[Magda Hassan]

City resorts to secret dumping to deal with piles of radioactive dirt

August 05, 2011

FUKUSHIMA--Deep in the mountains, a 4-ton dump truck unloads burlap bags that land with a thud in a hole shaped like a swimming pool 25 meters long and more than 2 meters deep.

Another dump truck soon arrives, also filled with burlap bags.

The two male workers in the first truck wash off the tires and then rumble off.

The Fukushima city government has not made this place known to the public, even to residents living near the area. That's because it is the dumping site for huge amounts of radioactive sludge and dirt collected by city residents cleaning up and decontaminating their neighborhoods.

"(If we did make the site public), garbage from other residents might come flooding in," a Fukushima city official said, emphasizing that the disposal site is only "temporary."

The Asahi Shimbun was not the only witness to this secret dumping operation. A 74-year-old man who lives near the site with six family members, including his two grandchildren, said he has seen many dump trucks coming and going.

"I am strongly opposed to them bringing such a large amount of radioactivity-contaminated dirt here," he said. "Even if authorities say it is a 'temporary' dumpsite, can they tell what they will do next?"

The answer, for now, is "no."

Municipal officials say they are also frustrated because the central government has made no decision on a final disposal site for the contaminated sludge and dirt.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency's decontamination manual released in July says municipalities can bury such waste if radioactivity levels are 8,000 becquerels or less per kilogram. But the manual does not mention final disposal sites.

"We are aware of the need to show our policy," a NISA official said. However, the agency does not appear to be close to deciding on where the contaminated waste will end up.

That delay has led to the secrecy among municipal officials.

"It would be difficult to gain the consent of residents when we try to secure a waste disposal site," a Fukushima municipal official said. "The national government does not mention anything about how we can specifically cope with the situation under such circumstances."

The situation is expected to worsen.

The site where the dump trucks buried the burlap bags on July 28 was about 8 kilometers from the final collection point in Fukushima city. On that day, the first dump truck was filled with bags of radioactive dirt in just 20 minutes.

Fukushima Prefecture is encouraging citizens to rid their neighborhoods of radioactive substances that spewed during the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. It offers subsidies of up to 500,000 yen ($6,370) per neighborhood association for that purpose.

But as the clean-up efforts increase, the radioactive sludge and dirt pile up.

At 6 a.m. on July 24, as many as 3,753 residents and cleaning company workers in Fukushima city's Watari district started clearing gutters and ditches of radioactive dirt.

The district, located opposite the Fukushima Prefectural Office across the Abukumagawa river, has recorded higher levels of radioactivity than most other parts of the city.

The volunteers used shovels to put the unwanted dirt into burlap bags.

One woman in her 60s involved in the effort complained, "Tokyo residents benefit from the nuclear power plant, but we're forced to clean gutters because of the radioactive fallout."

After four hours of cleaning, 5,853 bags of dirt were piled high. Radiation levels dropped to half in some areas, an official said.

The 67-year-old leader of the neighborhood association glanced at a dosimeter and said, "As we had feared, the figure has passed the (permissible) level."

It was 9.9 microsieverts of radiation, the maximum measurement of the dosimeter.

One resident asked the neighborhood association leader where the bags would go.

"I asked that to a city official once," the leader said. "I was told not to ask this particular question since it's not that simple."

(This article was written by Noriyoshi Otsuki and Satoru Murata.)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaste...1108055290

[Jan Klimkowski]

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency's decontamination manual released in July says municipalities can bury such waste if radioactivity levels are 8,000 becquerels or less per kilogram. But the manual does not mention final disposal sites.

"We are aware of the need to show our policy," a NISA official said. However, the agency does not appear to be close to deciding on where the contaminated waste will end up.

That delay has led to the secrecy among municipal officials.

"It would be difficult to gain the consent of residents when we try to secure a waste disposal site," a Fukushima municipal official said. "The national government does not mention anything about how we can specifically cope with the situation under such circumstances."

The Japanese people need to abandon their deference to authority and start stopping this shit.

Unless they want large swathes of their largest island to become a Forbidden Zone.