China and South Korea have also criticised Japan's handling of the nuclear crisis, with Seoul calling it incompetent, reflecting growing international unease over the month-long atomic disaster and the spread of radiation...
(au.news.yahoo)
april 9
...
The government also moved to
ban the planting of rice in soil containing too much radioactive material, which has been released from the Fukushima Daiichi plant in the weeks since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.
Sales of some milk, vegetables and fish have been prohibited because of contamination, but the new measures affect the nation’s staple crop, a foundation of its culture as well as its diet.
The new policy on rice will ban planting of the crop in soil that has more than 5,000 becquerels of cesium-137 per kilogram of soil.
So far, radiation testers have found only two spots in northeastern
Japan, both in the town of
Iitate, 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, that has had cesium levels that high. Cesium-137 can damage cells and lead to an increased risk of cancer.
The national and prefectural governments are now hurriedly performing broader soil surveys to identify which areas would be off limits to planting.
With planting about to begin, “we don’t have so much time,” said Sumito Yasuoka, an official in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, who said farmers pressed the government to let them know if they could plant their crop. The government also wants to assure consumers that the rice they eat will be safe.
The level of 5,000 becquerels per kilogram was chosen because rice grown in such soil would be expected to end up with about 500 becquerels of cesium 137 in the rice. That is the existing limit for vegetables and some other foods, Mr. Yasuoka said.
Fukushima Prefecture is the nation’s fourth-largest rice producer, and rice is its biggest crop, so any ban on planting would cause financial hardship.
“It hurts terribly,” said Yoshinori Sato, an official of an agricultural cooperative in Fukushima Prefecture with 13,000 households as members. Mr. Sato said that about half the rice acres his co-op’s members hoped to plant this year might be off limits, either because of radiation or because of tsunami damage.
Mindful of the sensitivities,
Michihiko Kano, the minister of agriculture, visited Iitate on Saturday and promised that farmers who were not allowed to grow rice because of soil contamination would be compensated. (
NYT)
april 6
http://newamericamedia.org/2011/04/is-japans-elite-hiding-a-weapons-program-inside-nuclear-plants.php
Is Japan's Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?
Yoichi Shimatsu
Confused and often conflicting reports out of Fukushima 1 nuclear plant cannot be solely the result of tsunami-caused breakdowns, bungling or miscommunication. Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) seem to be driven by some unspoken factor.
The smoke and mirrors at Fukushima 1 seem to obscure a steady purpose, an iron will and a grim task unknown to outsiders.
The most logical explanation: The nuclear industry and government agencies are scrambling to prevent the discovery of atomic-bomb research facilities hidden inside Japan's civilian nuclear power plants.
A secret nuclear weapons program is a ghost in the machine, detectable only when the system of information control momentarily lapses or breaks down. A close look must be taken at the gap between the official account and unexpected events.
related post:
japan should go nuke
Conflicting Reports
TEPCO, Japan’s nuclear power operator,
initially reported three reactors were operating at the time of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Then a hydrogen explosion ripped Unit 3, run on plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (or MOX). Unit 6 immediately disappeared from the list of operational reactors, as highly lethal particles of plutonium billowed out of Unit 3. Plutonium is the stuff of smaller, more easily delivered warheads.
A fire ignited inside the damaged housing of the Unit 4 reactor, reportedly due to overheating of spent uranium fuel rods in a dry cooling pool. But
the size of the fire indicates that this reactor was running hot for some purpose other than electricity generation. Its omission from the list of electricity-generating operations raises the question of whether Unit 4 was being used to enrich uranium, the first step of the process leading to extraction of weapons-grade fissionable material.
The bloom of irradiated seawater across the Pacific comprises another piece of the puzzle, because its underground source is untraceable (or, perhaps, unmentionable). The flooded labyrinth of pipes, where the bodies of two missing nuclear workers—never before disclosed to the press— were found, could well contain the answer to the mystery: a lab that none dare name.
Political Warfare
In reaction to Prime Minister Naoto Kan's demand for prompt reporting of problems, the pro-nuclear lobby has closed ranks, fencing off and freezing out the prime minister's office from vital information. A grand alliance of nuclear proponents now includes TEPCO, plant designer General Electric, METI, the former ruling Liberal Democratic Party and, by all signs, the White House.
Cabinet ministers in charge of communication and national emergencies recently lambasted METI head Banri Kaeda for acting as both nuclear promoter and regulator in charge of the now-muzzled Nuclear and Industrial Safety Commission. TEPCO struck back quickly, blaming the prime minister's helicopter fly-over for delaying venting of volatile gases and thereby causing a blast at Reactor 2. For "health reasons,” TEPCO 's president retreated to a hospital ward, cutting Kan's line of communication with the company and undermining his site visit to Fukushima 1.
Kan is furthered hampered by his feud with Democratic Party rival Ichiro Ozawa, the only potential ally with the clout to challenge the formidable pro-nuclear coalition
The head of the Liberal Democrats, which sponsored nuclear power under its nearly 54-year tenure, has just held confidential talks with U.S. Ambassador John Roos, while President Barack Obama was making statements in support of new nuclear plants across the U.S.
Cut Off From Communications
The substance of undisclosed talks between Tokyo and Washington can be surmised from disruptions to my recent phone calls to a Japanese journalist colleague. While inside the radioactive hot zone, his roaming number was disconnected, along with the mobiles of nuclear workers at Fukushima 1 who are denied phone access to the outside world. The service suspension is not due to design flaws. When helping to prepare the Tohoku crisis response plan in 1996, my effort was directed at ensuring that mobile base stations have back-up power with fast recharge.
A subsequent phone call when my colleague returned to Tokyo went dead when I mentioned "GE.” That incident occurred on the day that GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt landed in Tokyo with a pledge to rebuild the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant. Such apparent eavesdropping is only possible if national phone carrier NTT is cooperating with the signals-intercepts program of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
The Manchurian Deal
The chain of events behind this vast fabrication goes back many decades.
During the Japanese militarist occupation of northeast China in the 1930s, the puppet state of Manchukuo was carved out as a fully modern economic powerhouse to support overpopulated Japan and its military machine. A high-ranking economic planner named Nobusuke Kishi worked closely with then commander of the occupying Kanto division, known to the Chinese as the Kwantung Army, General Hideki Tojo.
Close ties between the military and colonial economists led to stunning technological achievements, including the prototype of a bullet train (or Shinkansen) and inception of Japan's atomic bomb project in northern Korea. When Tojo became Japan's wartime prime minister, Kishi served as his minister of commerce and economy, planning for total war on a global scale.
After Japan's defeat in 1945, both Tojo and Kishi were found guilty as Class-A war criminals, but Kishi evaded the gallows for reasons unknown—probably his usefulness to a war-ravaged nation. The scrawny economist’s conception of a centrally managed economy provided the blueprint for MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry), the predecessor of METI, which created the economic miracle that transformed postwar Japan into an economic superpower.
After clawing his way into the good graces of Cold Warrior John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's secretary of state,
Kishi was elected prime minister in 1957. His protégé Yasuhiro Nakasone, the former naval officer and future prime minister, spearheaded Japan's campaign to become a nuclear power under the cover of the Atomic Energy Basic Law.
American Complicity
Kishi secretly negotiated a deal with the White House to permit the U.S. military to store atomic bombs in Okinawa and Atsugi naval air station outside Tokyo. (Marine corporal Lee Harvey Oswald served as a guard inside Atsugi's underground warhead armory.) In exchange, the U.S. gave the nod for Japan to pursue a "civilian" nuclear program.
Secret diplomacy was required due to the overwhelming sentiment of the Japanese public against nuclear power in the wake of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.
Two years ago, a text of the secret agreement was unearthed by Katsuya Okada, foreign minister in the cabinet of the first Democratic Party prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama (who served for nine months from 2009-10).
see:
Gov't to admit existence of secret pact on nuke introduction
Many key details were missing from this document, which had been locked inside the Foreign Ministry archives.
Retired veteran diplomat Kazuhiko Togo disclosed that the more sensitive matters were contained in brief side letters, some of which were kept in a mansion frequented by Kishi's half-brother, the late Prime Minister Eisaku Sato (who served from 1964-72). Those most important diplomatic notes, Togo added, were removed and subsequently disappeared.
These revelations were considered a major issue in Japan, yet were largely ignored by the Western media. With the Fukushima nuclear plant going up in smoke, the world is now paying the price of that journalistic neglect.
On his 1959 visit to Britain, Kishi was flown by military helicopter to the Bradwell nuclear plant in Essex. The following year, the first draft of the U.S.-Japan security was signed, despite massive peace protests in Tokyo. Within a couple of years, the British firm GEC built Japan's first nuclear reactor at Tokaimura, Ibaragi Prefecture. At the same time,
just after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the newly unveiled Shinkansen train gliding past Mount Fuji provided the perfect rationale for nuclear-sourced electricity.
Kishi uttered the famous statement that "nuclear weapons are not expressly prohibited" under the postwar Constitution's Article 9 prohibiting war-making powers. His words were repeated two years ago by his grandson, then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. The ongoing North Korea "crisis" served as a pretext for this third-generation progeny of the political elite to float the idea of a nuclear-armed Japan. Many Japanese journalists and intelligence experts assume the secret program has sufficiently advanced for rapid assembly of a warhead arsenal and that underground tests at sub-critical levels have been conducted with small plutonium pellets.
Sabotaging Alternative Energy
The cynical attitude of the nuclear lobby extends far into the future, strangling at birth the Japanese archipelago's only viable source of alternative energy—offshore wind power. Despite decades of research, Japan has only 5 percent of the wind energy production of China, an economy (for the moment, anyway) of comparable size. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a nuclear-power partner of Westinghouse, manufactures wind turbines but only for the export market.
The Siberian high-pressure zone ensures a strong and steady wind flow over northern Japan, but the region's utility companies have not taken advantage of this natural energy resource. The reason is that TEPCO, based in Tokyo and controlling the largest energy market, acts much as a shogun over the nine regional power companies and the national grid. Its deep pockets influence high bureaucrats, publishers and politicians like Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, while nuclear ambitions keep the defense contractors and generals on its side. Yet TEPCO is not quite the top dog. Its senior partner in this mega-enterprise is Kishi's brainchild, METI.
The national test site for offshore wind is unfortunately not located in windswept Hokkaido or Niigata, but farther to the southeast, in Chiba Prefecture. Findings from these tests to decide the fate of wind energy won't be released until 2015. The sponsor of that slow-moving trial project is TEPCO.
Death of Deterrence
Meanwhile in 2009, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) issued a muted warning on Japan's heightened drive for a nuclear bomb— and promptly did nothing. The White House has to turn a blind eye to the radiation streaming through American skies or risk exposure of a blatant double standard on nuclear proliferation by an ally. Besides, Washington's quiet approval for a Japanese bomb doesn't quite sit well with the memory of either Pearl Harbor or Hiroshima.
In and of itself, a nuclear deterrence capability would be neither objectionable nor illegal— in the unlikely event that the majority of Japanese voted in favor of a constitutional amendment to Article 9. Legalized possession would require safety inspections, strict controls and transparency of the sort that could have hastened the Fukushima emergency response.
Covert weapons development, in contrast, is rife with problems. In the event of an emergency, like the one happening at this moment, secrecy must be enforced at all cost— even if it means countless more hibakusha, or nuclear victims.
Instead of enabling a regional deterrence system and a return to great-power status, the Manchurian deal planted the time bombs now spewing radiation around the world.
The nihilism at the heart of this nuclear threat to humanity lies not inside Fukushima 1, but within the national security mindset. The specter of self-destruction can be ended only with the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan security treaty, the root cause of the secrecy that fatally delayed the nuclear workers' fight against meltdown
Yoichi Shimatsu, a Hong Kong–based environmental writer, is the former editor of the Japan Times Weekly.
april 5
The operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said Tuesday that it had found
radioactive iodine at 7.5 million times the legal limit in a seawater sample taken near the facility...On Monday, officials detected more tha
n 4,000 bequerels of iodine-131 per kilogram in a type of fish called a sand lance caught less than three miles offshore of the town of Kita-Ibaraki. The young fish also contained
447 bequerels of cesium-137...On Tuesday chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano said the government was imposing a
standard of 2,000 bequerels of iodine per kilogram of fish, the same level it allows in vegetables. Previously, the government did not have a specific level for fish. (
LA times/McClatchy)
april 4
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_10.html
Govt did not reveal high level radiation estimate
It has been learned that the
Japanese government withheld the release of computer projections indicating high levels of radioactivity in areas more than 30 kilometers from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.The estimates were made on March 16th following explosions at the plant by an institute commissioned by the government using a computer system called SPEEDI. The system made its projections on the assumption that radioactive substances had been released for 24 hours from midnight on March 14th, based on the available data.
But the government was reluctant to reveal the SPEEDI projections, and did not release them until March 23rd.The released data showed that higher levels of radioactive substances would flow over areas to the northwest and southwest of the plant.
The estimates showed that the radiation would exceed 100 millisieverts in some areas more than 30 kilometers from the nuclear plant if people remained outdoors for 24 hours between March 12th and 24th.That is 100 times higher than the 1 millisievert-per-year long-term reference level for humans as recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.The Nuclear Safety Commission says it did not release the projections because the location or the amount of radioactive leakage was not specified at the time.
Professor emeritus Shigenobu Nagataki of Nagasaki University, says the government should release more data about the dangers of possible radiation exposure and draw up evacuation plans and other measures together with residents.
Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that
radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is
4,385 times the level permitted by law. (
Al Jazeera)
march 31
http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualite/planete/20110330.OBS0513/non-dits-et-secrets-omerta-sur-le-nucleaire-francais.html
Guillaume Malaurie
Non-dits et secrets: omerta sur le nucléaire français
Symbole de notre indépendance militaire et énergétique, le nucléaire est une affaire d'Etat. Plongée au cœur du lobby de l'atome.
C'est formidable, le hasard.
Quelques jours après le début de la catastrophe de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima, une brochette de personnalités a priori très différentes les unes des autres ont toutes prononcé la même petite phrase : « Si les Japonais avaient eu un réacteur EPR français, ça ne serait jamais arrivé !» Un argument massue invérifiable, contestable, mais efficace. Parmi ces porte-parole, il y eut dans le rôle de l'expert
Thomas Oudré, haut responsable de l'Agence de Sûreté nucléaire, côté élus, les députés
Philippe Daubresse (UMP) ou
Christian Bataille (PS), mais aussi
Henri Guaino, conseiller de Sarkozy, le multicarte
Claude Allegre, et même l'éditorialiste
Eric Zemmour dont on ignorait jusque-là les compétences en physique nucléaire.
Précisons tout de même que cet EPR 100% antichoc et antifuite n'existe en vrai nulle part au monde et est toujours en chantier en Finlande où il accuse quatre ans de retard sur l'agenda initial pour des problèmes de sécurité : il aura fallu ajouter 25% de ferraillage dans le béton de l'enceinte à la demande des Finlandais. Mais peu importe : pour les supporters de l'EPR, il s'agit d'une grande cause nationale. Il faut donc marteler l'argument de l'excellence atomique française. Mobiliser les hussards de l'atome un peu désorientés, les amis hésitants, les obligés récalcitrants et donc organiser les relais d'opinion. Question : qui est à l'origine de la version originale de la petite phrase sur l'EPR reprise en choeur ? Le 16 mars,
Anne Lauvergeon, la patronne d'Areva, en donne une version impeccable devant les députés : « S'il y avait eu des EPR à Fukushima, il n'y aurait pas de fuites possibles dans l'environnement, quelle que que soit la situation. » (...)
Intérêts économiques et stratégiques
Depuis un demi-siècle, les intérêts économiques et stratégiques du nucléaire civil sont si vertigineux qu'ils se confondent avec l'intérêt supérieur de l'Etat. Cela peut se concevoir... A condition toutefois que la puissance publique inspire confiance et puisse rassurer l'opinion quand survient un pépin ou un accident dans une centrale. Or,
depuis des lustres, le grand bond de l'énergie nucléaire repose sur des non-dits, des silences, des secrets. Il aura fallu Tchernobyl et la fable du nuage radioactif bloqué aux frontières du Rhin pour que l'imposture soit révélée : «La crédibilité des organismes officiels liés au nucléaire demeure aujourd'hui faible, voire très faible », note Frédérick Lemarchand, sociologue du risque à l'université de Caen. Le cataclysme en cours à Fukushima n'arrange rien... Alors
le lobby, qui sent bien que le pacte avec les Français se dégrade, se réfugie dans la communication. Exemple très récent : dès le début de la crise, surgissait sur toutes les chaînes de télévision un
« expert » jusque-là inconnu et réputé indépendant. Son nom :
Francis Sorin. Présenté comme « directeur du pôle information de la Société française d'Energie nucléaire », il affiche une
neutralité de bon aloi. Sauf que sa « société savante » n'est, à y regarder de plus près, rien d'autre qu'une filiale associative de la filière nucléaire, qui relaie donc très fidèlement sa doctrine. (...)
Menace de Bruxelles
(...) Des voix s'élèvent, à l'intérieur de ce microcosme, pour réclamer un aggiornamento
. "Si c'est toujours la même main qui gère et qui contrôle, ce n'est pas rassurant. On ne peut plus laisser le débat sur les énergies à la discrétion des seuls techniciens !", estime Michel Destot, député-maire PS de Grenoble et ancien chercheur au CEA. Mais lorsque Bertrand Pancher, député UMP de la Meuse, propose qu'un organisme indépendant organise ce très large débat public à la manière scandinave, le groupe UMP se rebiffe.
"Je me suis fait siffler, confie-t-il, meurtri. C'est n'importe quoi, on ne va pas pouvoir continuer comme ça !" Il faut dire qu'à l'Assemblée, les gardiens du temple nucléaire tous partis confondus, de
Claude Gatignol (UMP) à
Christian Bataille (PS), veillent toujours au grain. Mais jusqu'à quand ? C'est maintenant de Bruxelles que vient la menace la plus sérieuse pour la technocratie nucléaire française.
Le commissaire européen chargé de l'énergie, l'Allemand Günter Oettinger, avait déjà exaspéré Nicolas Sarkozy quand il avait utilisé le mot "apocalypse" pour évoquer la catastrophe de Fukushima. Et voilà que le même commissaire demande la semaine dernière que l'on procède à des tests de résistance sur toutes les centrales nucléaires de l'Union européenne. Pire : il précise que les expertises doivent être indépendantes. Le lobby nucléaire français se mobilise pour que l'Elysée mette son veto à l'ingérence. Finalement les nucléocrates français ont obtenu que les autorités nationales - et non européennes - procèdent à ces tests. "La position de Paris était intenable, explique Michèle Rivasi, députée Europe Ecologie à Strasbourg. Comment expliquer à la population qu'on refuse en France des inspections sérieuses qui vont aussi concerner, en Europe centrale, des réacteurs vieillissants et donc dangereux ?"
march 30
http://www.naturalnews.com/031878_radiation_protection.html
...The Swedish Government monitored the radiation level of foods following the Chernobyl disaster. They found that
most animal based foods including meat, dairy, and fish had higher levels of radioactive substances than fruits, vegetables, grains, and potatoes.
Eating plant based foods can reduce exposure to radioactive substances by avoiding concentrations of these substances in animal fat and tissues. A plant centered diet in the midst of radiation exposure provides lower levels of radioactive substances as well as fiber, antioxidants, and phytochemicals that have the potential to reduce cancer rates associated with radiation exposure.
A study evaluating over 30,000 atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki found that those with the highest consumption of fruits and vegetables had a 13% lower risk of dying from cancer over the twenty year study period than those who consumed fruits and vegetables less than once per week. Sulfur-containing antioxidants found in cruciferous vegetables, such as
broccoli, kale, and cabbage, have been found to provide protection against radiation exposure through their detoxifying properties.
Pectin in fruits has also been shown to reduce levels of the radioactive substance Cs-137. Plant based foods provide protection against free radical damage and they can reduce the absorption of radioactive substances.
A study published in Russia reviewed the protective nature of dietary fiber against radiation.
Researchers used concentrates of dietary fiber from lemon peel and beet root among other plants and found that the fiber did have radioprotective properties. The authors concluded that concentrated dietary fiber can be used in human nutrition to accelerate the elimination of nuclides or radioactive elements.
IAEA Briefing on Fukushima Nuclear Emergency (
news center IAEA Fukushima)
20,
21,
22,
23 march
IAEA map of depositions and plume 16-22 march
Fukushima/radiation in food: EU tolerance limits for radiation in food imports less strict than Japan; Greens demand revision
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General Food
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Milk and dairy
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Infant food
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Water / Liquid foodstuff
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EU
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Japan
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EU
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Japan
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EU
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Japan
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EU
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Japan (b)
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Iodine
I-131
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200
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200 (a)
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500
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300
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150
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100
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500
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300
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Cesium
Cs 134 - 137
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1250
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500
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1000
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200
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400
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n.a
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1000
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200
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Plutonium and transuranic elements
Am, Pt
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80
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10
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20
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1
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1
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1
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20
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1
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Strontium
Sr-90
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750
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n.a
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125
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n.a
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75
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n.a
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125
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n.a
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Comparison: maximum permitted levels of contamination of foodstuff EU-Japan - values in bq/kg or bq/l
For vegetables except root vegetables and tubers - does not include grains, meat and fish as the EU value
(b) For drinking water - not specified for other liquid foodstuff
Source EU Values:
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station. This regulation to values under Council Regulation (Euratom) No 3954/87 of 22 December 1987 laying down maximum permitted levels of radioactive contamination of foodstuffs and of feedingstuffs following a nuclear accident or any other case of radiological emergency.
Source Japanese Values: Notice No. 0317 Article 3 of the Department of Food Safety - 17 March 2011
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Chernobyl killed several hundred thousands
...
A detailed study reveals that 3.8–4.0% of all deaths in the contaminated territories of Ukraine and Russia from 1990 to 2004 were caused by the Chernobyl catastrophe. The lack of evidence of increased mortality in other affected countries is not proof of the absence of effects from the radioactive fallout. Since 1990, mortality among liquidators has exceeded themortality rate in corresponding population groups. From 112,000 to 125,000 liquidators died before 2005—that is, some 15% of the 830,000 members of the Chernobyl cleanup teams. The calculations suggest that the Chernobyl catastrophe has already killed several hundred thousand human beings in a population of several hundred million that was unfortunate enough to live in territories affected by the fallout. The number of Chernobyl victims will continue to grow over many future generations.
...
p.192, Chernobyl:
Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, Alexey V. Nesterenko -
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - Volume 1181 - Blackwell Publishing, Boston, Massachusetts,
2009
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useful links:
2010 Recommendations of the
European Committee on Radiation Risk (
ECRR)
map of Japan in english
updated map of japanese nuclear power plants
Guidance for Radiation Accident Management
Rapid internal external dose magnitude estimation
Radiations: definitions
Types of radiation exposure
Japan Times emergency assistance in english, resources for foreigners residing in Japan
BBC Edited Guide Radioactivity
BBC EG The measurement of radioactivity
UNIT CONVERTERS AND CALCULATORS
Online unit converter
Activity Conversions
Beta Emitter Dose-Rate <--> Activity Calculations
Gamma Emitter Point Source Dose-Rate <-to-> Activity and Shielding Calculations (In Air)
ALARA Calculations (Time, Distance and Shielding)
WISE uranium calculator
About Geiger counter
NEWS SITES in english and french
CRIIRAD France fr
The Low Level Radiation Campaign (LLRC)
Fukushima Green Action Japan en
Nuclear information and resource service en
Peak of oil en
European Committee on Radiation Risk
ECRR Risk Model and radiation from Fukushima
Newswires
Kyodo news agency en
Nikkei en
Jiji Press en (via Google News)
Newspapers
The Manichi Daily News en
The Japan Times en
Yomiuri Shimbun en
The Asahi Shimbun en
Others
World Information Service on Energy (WISE)
Green Action Japan en
Greenpeace Fukushima
Exposure limits in France: http://www.criirad.org/actualites/dossier2011/japon/limites.pdf
International Nuclear and radiological Event Scale ( INES )
map of Japan with significant radioactivity measurments
winds observations for south Tohuku
12 days wind forecast Japan
Global Jetstream Wind
Atlas of Caesium Deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident online. Full Version (English and Russian)
Live and archived radioactivity data:
Fuel rod fires plume map 15 march
Northen hemisphere radioactive plume map 15-18 march
ONAGAWA
PREFECTURE of IBARAKI
TOKYO
TOKAI
USA radioactivity Counts Per Minute (CPM: 1 Bq= 60 CPM) data: http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Atlas of Caesium Deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident online. Full Version (English and Russian)
Bibliography
Contamination radioactives: Atlas France et Europe, CRIIRAD and André Paris, Editions Yves Michel, 2002, ISBN 2913492150.
(1) Atlas of Caesium Deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident, Eur 16733, Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1998, ISBN 92-828-3140-X (PDF) Full Version (English and Russian)
THE OTHER REPORT ON CHERNOBYL (TORCH) , Ian Fairlie, PhD, UK. David Sumner, DPhil, UK, Prof. Angelina Nyagu, Ukraine Berlin, Brussels, Kiev, April 2006 COMMISSIONED BY Rebecca Harms, MEP, Greens/EFA in the European Parliament WITH THE SUPPORT OF The Altner Combecher Foundation
Radioprotection 2003, Vol. 38, No 4, pp. 529-542, ‘The Chernobyl fallout in France, critical review measurement-results obtained at that time and lessons learned for crisis management’, Ph. Renaud and D. Louvat (PDF)
2010
Recommendations of the European Committee on Radiation Risk,
The Health Effects of Exposure to Low Doses of Ionising Radiation, Chris Busby, with Rosalie Bertell, Inge Schmitz Feuerhake Molly Scott Cato and Alexey Yablokov, Green Audit Press, Castle Cottage, Aberystwyth, SY23 1DZ, United Kingdom 2010 (
PDF)
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