– Living with Fukushima City’s radiation problem (Greenpeace, Dec. 8, 2011):
While walking through the highly contaminated outskirts of Fukushima City last week, I suddenly realized that this capital of the prefecture is as far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site as my hometown is from Borssele where the only Dutch nuclear power plant in the Netherlands is located —about 60 km. While people in the 20 km exclusion zone around the Fukushima disaster site have been evacuated, the residents of this densely populated city have already waited nine months for decontamination of their houses, gardens and parks without getting any official government support for relocation, not even for children and pregnant women.
We spent four days in Fukushima City doing a radiation survey in the neighbourhoods of Watari and Onami. People there have been left to cope alone in a highly contaminated environment by both the local and national governments. Our radiation experts found hot spots of up to 37 microSieverts per hour in a garden only a few meters away from a house and an accumulation of radioactivity in drainage systems, puddles and ditches. Overall, the radiation levels in these neighbourhoods are so high that people receive an exposure to radiation just from external sources that is ten times the annual allowed dose. How high their internal exposure is from eating contaminated food and inhaling or ingesting radioactive particles remains unknown, since no government program is keeping track of this.
Parks are the most contaminated areas in Fukushima City. Some are marked with signs: “Due to radioactive contamination, don’t spend more than one hour per day in this park.” Even on sunny days last week, the parks where empty. Mothers are smart enough to not let their children play on the playgrounds in these parks, not even for an hour. Even inside their houses, they have to worry about radiation. We measured the rooms of an elderly lady’s house who is expecting her grandchildren for Christmas. She wanted to know what the safest place was for her grandchildren to sleep.
People in Fukushima City are worried about their health, especially families with children and pregnant women. We walked around with dosimeters and radiation detection equipment and were aware of what we are exposed to and of the risk we were taking. The residents of Fukushima City had one government survey at their house last July, if any at all. Detected hotspots where left unmarked, no instructions were given on how to behave in a radioactive environment. Since then, only 35 of the thousands of houses that need to be decontaminated have been cleaned by the government.
The decontamination done by the local authorities is both uncoordinated and thoroughly inadequate. The subcontractors they are using are badly instructed, risking their own health and spreading the radioactive contamination instead of removing it. We found radioactive run-off water from a decontamination process leaking directly into the environment. And because there is no storage site for radioactive waste from decontamination work, the waste is buried directly on people’s property, sometimes only a few meters away from their houses.
The Japanese government doesn’t know how to deal with the massive contamination caused by the nuclear disaster. Instead of protecting people from radiation, they are downplaying the risks by increasing the allowed radiation levels far above international standards. And professors like Dr. Yamashita, who make statements like ‘If you smile, the radiation will not affect you’ are being employed as official advisors on radiation health risk.
In short, it is clear that the situation in Fukushima is rapidly spinning out of control, and if the national government does not take full responsibility for the protection of its population, the people affected by the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi will continue to suffer for a long time to come.
Ike Teuling is a Greenpeace radiation expert
More info:
– Japan Public Enemy Prof. Hayakawa From Gunma University Told To Shut Up Or Face Disciplinary Action
– Professor Yukio Hayakawa of Gunma University Is Under Attack (Video)
– Fukushima: TEPCO Wants To Pump Radioactive Water Into The Ocean (Spiegel, Dec. 8, 2011)
– Fukushima: TEPCO Wants To Pump Radioactive Water Into The Ocean (Spiegel, Dec. 8, 2011)
– Fukushima: TEPCO Admits Radioactive Strontium-90 ‘Leaked Into Pacific’
– Fukushima Government Only Checks 2.9% Of Rice For Radioactivity
– Highly Radioactive Fallen Leaves In Tokyo
– Fukushima Water Purifying System HAS NEVER WORKED!
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaks Large Quantities Of Highly Radioactive Water
– Japanese Scientists Call For Dumping Radioactive Soil Into Sea
– Japan Government To Approve Exports Of Nuclear Technology Worldwide
– Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (‘China Syndrome’) Closer Than Thought
– TEPCO And NHK Obfuscation Of Fukushima Reactor No.1 Corium Into The Concrete
– Institute of Applied Energy: Corium Could Be 2 Meters Deep Into Concrete
– And Now: Rice Burgers Made From Radioactive Fukushima Rice
– Japan: Abukumagawa River Cesium Levels Hit 50 BILLIONS Becquerels Per Day
– Russian Roulette In Japan: 15% Of Fukushima Bagged Rice SEVERELY Radioactive
– 50 More Locations In Tokyo Over Radiation Limit
– Tokyo Will Burn Miyagi’s Disaster And Radioactive Debris in Incineration Plants in 23 Special Wards
– 14,600 Bq/Kg In Fukushima Wild Boar
– Mongolia Bans Importing Cars From Japan
– TEPCO: Radioactive Substances Belong To Landowners, Not Us
– Fukushima Prefecture Hospital Staffing Crisis
– Insane Japan: Radioactive Debris Burning Emits 19 Microsieverts/Hour Over Shinagawa, Tokyo
– Fukushima Worker: ‘There Is Nothing Left We Can Do’
– TEPCO Had Dust Sampling Data from March 11, Didn’t Tell The Rest Of Us Until November 24
– Japanese TV Star Suffers From Acute Leukemia After Eating Fukushima Produce (Video)
– Japan Government: 8 Percent Of the Country Is Contaminated By Radiation
– Radioactive Strontium Found in Central Tokyo!
– Highest Reading Yet At Fukushima Reactor No. 3: 1.6 Sieverts Per Hour!
– Cesium-137 Deposition Simulation Shows Massive Ocean Contamination
– Radioactive Koriyama City (Sakabuta Park): Deadly 33.53 MicroSieverts/Hour
– Radioactive Suwa Elementary School In Yokosuka Nov, 17 2011 (Video – Slideshow)
– Radiation In Japan: ‘Blowing In The Cold Autumnal Wind’ … or … How F****** Stupid Can They Get?
– Japan Residents Running Out Of Safe Food
– Japan Finally BANS Fukushima Rice
– Fukushima Fallout Fears Over Japan Farms (BBC)
– Up To 220,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Japanese Conifers (Needles)!
– Japanese Emperor To Remain In Hospital – Radiation Anyone?
– Journalists Touring Fukushima Nuclear Plant Told To Put Cameras Down (Video)
– Radioactive Japan: 60,000 Bq/kg Cesium in Riverbed Soil in Fukushima
– 630 Bq/Kg Cesium In Rice From Fukushima City (NHK)
– Fukushima Worker Shoes ‘Melted Immediately’
– TEPCO Opens Fukushima Nuclear Plant To Journalists – Prof. Hiroaki Koide: ‘Nobody Knows Where Exactly The Fuel Is, Or In What Condition’
– TEPCO: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 ‘Air Duct’ Explosion On 4th Floor
– Japan (Radioactive) Tsunami Debris Could Reach B.C. In Days: Oceanographer
– Japanese Radiation Experts Blast Government Decontamination Efforts
– Another Radiation Hotspot In Tokyo At 7.356 Microsieverts/Hour
– Average Weight Increase In Fukushima Children: 3.1 Kg In 2010 Versus O.8 Kg In 2011
– Silent Death – Horror Scenario Awaits Japan (The Low-Level Radiation Myth Exposed)
– Prof. Chris Busby: Ongoing (Out Of Control) Fission At Fukushima
– German Radiation Expert Warns Of Possibility Of Nuclear Explosion At Fukushima
– 21.44 MicroSieverts/Hr At Koriyama School 60 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video)
– CRIMINALS: Koriyama City in Fukushima To Feed 2011 Rice To School Kids
– 2.22 Microsieverts/Hour In Front Of Junior High School In Tokyo Area (Video – Nov. 3, 2011)
– Acute Leukemia Cases Spiking In Japan
– Radiation In Tokyo Bay 15 Times Higher Than Limit Set By Nuclear Safety Commission
– Cesium-134 And Cesium-137 From Fukushima Already 95% Of Chernobyl
– Fukushima Reactor 2 CV Gas Analysis: 100-Fold Increase in Krypton-85 In One Day
– Nuclear Fission At Fukushima Reactor 2
– Japanese Physician’s Diagnose Radiation As Cause Of Unusual Changes In Children (Video)
– Japanese Government Official Drinks Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water!
– Tokyo’s High Radiation Supermarket: It’s Radium Again, Emitting 40 Millisieverts/Hr Radiation
– The Fukushima Melt-Outs: Chernobyl Versus Fukushima – An Overview
– Japanese Government Still Refusing To Evacuate Fukushima Children (Video)
– Cesium-137 Flow Into Ocean 30 Times Greater Than Stated By TEPCO: Report (Kyodo)
– AND NOW: 110 Volunteers and Residents to ‘DECONTAMINATE’ High Radiation Area in Fukushima City
– Fukushima Beef Now Officially Banned (BBC News – Video)
– AND NOW: 110 Microsieverts Per Hour Detected At Tokyo Supermarket
– France’s IRSN Estimate Of Radioactive Cesium-137 Leaked Into The Pacific Ocean: 27,100 Terabequerels = 20 Times TEPCO’s Estimate!
– AND NOW: Burned Radioactive Sewage Sludge Dumped In Tokyo Bay (Video)
– Japan Considers Building New Capital In Case Of Emergency (Telegraph, Oct. 27, 2011)
– If Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Fuel Rods Spill On The Ground Tokyo And Yokohama Will Be Lost
– 80-120 Microsieverts Per Hour in Koriyama City, 60 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant
– Fukushima: Water Containing 2,600 Bq/Liter Tritium Sprayed In Plant Compound
– BBC Report: Fukushima Engineer Warns Of Nuclear Power Nightmare (Oct. 24, 2011 – Video)
– AND NOW: Japanese Government BURNS HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE SOIL In New Experiment To Remove Radioactive Cesium (!!!)
– Extremely High Levels Of Radiation Detected At 2 Schools In Chiba Prefecture
– Total Insanity: ‘Decontamination’ In Japan (Video)
– 58 Microsieverts Per Hour Detected In Used Car At Japanese Port
– AND NOW: Dangerously Radioactive Second-Hand Cars Haunting Japan
– AND NOW: Radioactive Concrete At 2.5 Microsieverts Per Hour Sold In Japan Home Center Store
– Fukushima Re-Criticality Neutron Feast – Dancing With The Devil In North America (VIDEO)
– Kashiwa City’s Radioactive Dirt: 276,000 Bq/Kg of Cesium!!!!!
– High Internal Radiation Exposure Found In Japanese Children
– Germany’s ZDF ‘Heute Show’ Making Fun Of TEPCO & Japanese Government Criminals
– Radiation in Fukushima Rivers, Wells Soars
– Over 50% Of Tested Seafood Samples From Japanese Supermarkets Contain Radioactive Cesium
– Neutron Ray From Uranium Detected In Tokyo (Video)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant: 450 Tonnes of Groundwater Per Day Seeping into Reactor/Turbine Buildings
– Japanese Communities Detect Chernoblyl-Level Radiation (ABC News – Video)
– TOKYO: 29 Out Of 30 Teas Contaminated With Radioactive Cesium, 3 Exceeding Provisional Safety Limit
– Local Government Official Oyama Koichi Tells Young People To Leave Japan
– Prof. Chris Busby Update On Supplements To Block Fukushima Radiation (Video)
– Radioactive Debris In Japan: Government To Municipalities: Don’t Tell Anyone – Don’t Say No
– Massive Amounts Radioactive Ash And Sludge Pile Up In Japan
– Tokyo: 3.60 Microsieverts Per Hour In Roadside Mud (Video – Oct. 16, 2011)
– 20 Radiation Hot Spots Around Tokyo
– High Concentrations Of Radioactive Cesium Found In PLANKTON (NHK, Oct. 15, 2011)
– Japan Nuclear Agency Secretly Calculated Fukushima Meltdown Risks
– Radioactive Fukushima Rice Headed For Restaurants And Schools … And Consumers In Tokyo!
– Tokyo’s Setagaya Officials: Radiation Spike Unlikely From Fukushima (Sure!)
– ALL Fukushima Rice All Cleared For Shipment … Radioactive Or Not!
– Fukushima Journalist Takes On TEPCO
– Prof. Hirotada Ohashi, One Of The ‘Plutonium Brothers’, Was A TEPCO Employee!
– NHK Caught Manipulating Truth About Radiation Danger Again
– High Radiation Dose Readings Marked In Spots In Tokyo, Chiba
– How Kindergartens and Elementary Schools Enjoy Radioactive Autumn in Japan!
– TEPCO Uses Low-Level Radioactive Water To Spray Fukushima Nuclear Compound
– 300,000 Bq/m² of Radioactive Cesium at Okutama Region Where Tokyo’s Drinking Water Comes From
– Tokyo Tap Water In Crisis, Comes From Chernobyl-Like Contaminated Area (100,000 – 300,000 Bq/m2):
However, Okutama area, where Tokyo tap water comes is as dangerous as “contaminated area” in Chernobyl.
According to the data above, 100,000 ~ 300,000 Bq/m2 was measured in Okutama area.
– Casualties Mount in Japanese Radiation War – Fukushima on Facebook
– Osaka: Fukushima Made Bridge Girders Read 700 Microsieverts
– Senior Fukushima Nuclear Engineer: ‘It’s Endless, Endless’ – ‘The Task Will Never End’
– Incinerator Near Tokyo Shut Down, High Levels Of Radioactive Cesium Detected In Ash
– CRIMINALS OF THE WORST KIND: Japanese Government Will No Longer Measure PLUTONIUM (The Deadliest Substance On The Planet)!!!
– Japan: New Government Maps Show Wide Dispersion of Plutonium and Strontium
– Whistleblower Prof. Kenichi Matsumoto: Japan’s PM ‘Isolated, Out Of His Depth’ (Video)
– Tokyo To Burn Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Debris From Tohoku
– Japanese PM Considered EVACUATION of Tokyo (ABC News)
– Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki As Residents Flee
– Fukushima Evacuation-Ready Zone To Be Abolished On Sep. 30, 2011
– Radioactive Train In Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Over 10 Microsievert/Hour Inside Train (Video)
– 105,600 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium Found On Apartment Bldg Rooftop in Yokohama City
– BBC Fukushima Propaganda Debunked (Video)
– Fairewinds: Safety Problems In All (Mark I) Reactors Designed Like Fukushima – Introducing A Japanese Language Edition
– Tokyo: 60,000 Rally Against Nukes
– Radioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
– Japan: Area Of More Than 8,000 Square Km Accumulated Cesium-137 Levels Of 30,000 Bec/Sq Meter
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
– Prof. Chris Busby On Children Suffering Heart Attacks In Fukushima
– Geiger Counter Measures 0.378 Microsieverts In Tokyo Train Station 1 Meter Above Ground!!!
– Japan ‘Misstated’ Radiation … ‘And So Exposed People Unnecessarily’ (WSJ)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Back Into Recriticality
– Fukushima: Radioactive Release Into Sea Estimated Triple
– More Cover-Ups: TEPCO’s Extreme Blackout (Submits Almost Entirely Redacted Documents – Video)
– Former Japan PM Kan: TEPCO Wanted To Abandon Fukushima! … ‘NOBODY MIGHT LIVE IN TOKYO NOW’
– Mystery Flash At Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video – Sep. 5, 2011)
– 4 Above Limit Radioactive Cesium Tea Products Reach Market
– 28,000 Becquerels/Kg Of Radioactive Cesium In Wild Mushrooms in Fukushima
– Fukushima Released 76 TRILLION Bequerels Of Plutonium 239
– DOOMED: Japan Gov. To Allow All RADIOACTIVE Material To Be Burned And Buried
– Fukushima Cesium-137 Leaks ‘Equal 168 Hiroshimas’
Fukushima City should have been evacuated a long time ago:
– Japanese Government To Finally Admit Forced Indefinite Long-Term Depopulation Of Fukushima Communities
– Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation
How about Tokyo?
– ‘Severely Contaminated Hotspots’ Found In Tokyo
Here is what the Japanese and all the other elite puppet governments are really doing here:
TREASON! GENOCIDE! RADIATION EXPERIMENTS!
Watch these Japanese officials just walk away from begging Fukushima citizens:
– This Is Outrageous: Japanese Government Killing Its Own People In Fukushima (Video)
The Japanese people are used as guinea pigs:
– Wall Street Journal: How the Japanese Government Failed Residents of Namie, Fukushima
– Japan’s Nuclear Agency Hides Children Radiation Results
– AND NOW: Japanese Government Sets 100 Millisieverts As New Lifetime Standard
… these are not “dosimeters” but “glass badges” that passively collect radiation information. It won’t help these children or their parents to avoid high-radiation areas and spots, it won’t tell them how much radiation they will have been exposed unless they are sent in to a company to interpret the data.
This is outrageous and it is called mind-control:
– AND NOW … Meet The 3 Japanese Scientists That Say: ‘Plutonium is Not That Dangerous’ (Video)
There are no safe levels of radiation:
– Prof. Karl Grossman: ‘Radiation Hormesis An Incredible Lie’
– Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation: ‘I Just Cannot Feel Any Hope For Japan’s Future’
– IAEA Admits: There Is No Such Thing As ‘Safe’ Levels Of Radiation
– Dr. Helen Caldicott On The Japan Nuclear Disaster – The Truth MSM Won’t Tell You! (Video)
– Dr. Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation
– Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation
– Are There Safe Levels of Radiation? How Much Radiation Is Safe? (Must-read!!!!!)
Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.
Yo: So making comparisons with X-rays and CT scans has no meaning. Because you can breathe in radioactive material.
Hirose: That’s right. When it enters your body, there’s no telling where it will go. The biggest danger is women, especially pregnant women, and little children. Now they’re talking about iodine and cesium, but that’s only part of it, they’re not using the proper detection instruments. What they call monitoring means only measuring the amount of radiation in the air. Their instruments don’t eat. What they measure has no connection with the amount of radioactive material.
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):
You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative … that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days.”
Bizarre:
Big Brother Japan:
Radiation is now everywhere:
– 27,000 Becquerels/Kg Found At Kindergarten Over 200 Miles From Fukushima Nuke Plant
– 4,000 Potentially Radioactive Cows Shipped from One Farm in Namie-Machi, Fukushima
– Japan Government To Lift Ban On Sales And Shipment Of Radioactive Fukushima Beef
– Fukushima: 186,000 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City
– Japan: Radioactive Beef Served in 296 Schools in 12 Prefectures
– Japan: Radioactive Compost Has Already Spread Wide
– Radioactive Fukushima Eggs: 60 Becquerels/Kg Cesium (Ukraine Safety Limit Is 6 Becquerels/Kg)
– And Now Over 2,600 Meat Cows Suspected Of Being Fed With Radioactive Rice Hay!
– And Now: Government To Survey Half Of Japan For Soil Contamination
– Radiation in Fukushima City Order of Magnitude Higher Than Offifficial Numbers?