BUT …
– Fukushima Evacuation-Ready Zone To Be Abolished On Sep. 30, 2011
The Japanese government truly is a criminal organization of the worst kind.
– Prof. Chris Busby: Help Save Children Of Fukushima From Radiation! (Video Exposing The Evil Japanese Government)
More below.
– Global resources needed to combat radiation levels (Statesman Journal, Sep. 25, 2011):
This month marked the half-year anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami, and TEPCO and the Japanese government remain unable to control the nuclear emergency that continues to unfold.
Radiation levels exceed the Chernobyl disaster and now reach a level that is unknown to humans or machines. Radiation leakage from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was so high in August it exceeded the monitoring equipment’s maximum measuring capacity.
Radiation experts estimate that more than 1 million people will die from Fukushima’s radiation. According to Dr. Tatsuhiko Kodama, the director of Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo, the amount of radiation released thus far is equivalent to more than 29 “Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.”
Despite these life-threatening levels of radiation contamination, the majority of pregnant women and children in Fukushima have not been evacuated and they occupy facilities that are unsafe. Their exposure to unhealthy levels of radiation places them at higher risks of cancer and other medical conditions, including death. It is time for the international community to become more involved.
Last month, half a dozen Japanese non-governmental organizations petitioned the United Nations Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate the widespread violation of children’s rights in the Fukushima region. Fukushima prefecture is approximately the size of Connecticut with a population similar to Houston (just over 2 million residents).
Prior to the earthquake and tsunami in March, 385,940 Fukushima residents were children and teenagers. Today, these children are facing widespread discrimination that risks their lives and health.
Children are much more vulnerable to radiation exposure than adults and fetuses have the greatest vulnerability of all. Radiation is a process by which energy travels. High-energy radiation can ionize atoms. Essentially, an electron is knocked out of its electron shell and the atom is left with a net positive charge. This can damage cells. Damage to the DNA in cells is especially harmful and can lead to an increased risk of cancer.
Both because of their size and because their cells are rapidly changing, children are more likely to be harmed when exposed to radiation than adults.
Radiation exposure occurs throughout our lives all around the world. We are exposed to radiation when we sleep next to another human being, when we fly on airplanes, when we stand on the ground, when we are next to granite, and, of course, when we have x-rays, mammograms or CT scans. That is why the International Atomic Energy Agency has developed nuclear safety standards that set individual radiation exposure at one millisievert per year.
Japan adopted that standard and applies it to all regions in the country except Fukushima. Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, the radiation exposure standard for the residents of the Fukushima prefecture was raised to 20 times the standard set for the rest of Japan, from one millisievert per year to 20 millisieverts per year. This standard applies to adults and children alike.
What is a millisievert? Millisieverts are one of the units used to measure a dose of radiation. To provide comparison, 20 millisieverts is the current maximum permissible dosage for radiation workers in most countries. It is 10 times the level of radiation exposure from a mammogram, 250 times the average dose to people living within 10 miles of the Three Mile accident, and 4,000 times the exposure from dental x-rays.
What does this mean for the children of Fukushima? It means that if they are exposed to 20 millisieverts of radiation within a year, they will have a 1 in 200 risk of getting cancer. If the exposure lasts for two years, the risk is increased to one in 100.
Despite these risks, insufficient efforts have been made to thoroughly decontaminate children’s schools, homes and playgrounds. In fact, measurements of radiation in the Fukushima schools are so high that if the schools were governed by Japan’s workplace laws, children would not even be permitted to enter the facilities, let alone occupy them day after day. Despite these high levels of radiation on school grounds, Fukushima schools opened on April 5 without proper decontamination.
Japan should be praised for trying to normalize children’s lives as much as possible. It also is admirable that the government is working to respect children’s right to education. However, this right must be balanced with children’s other rights — including the right to survive, the right to achieve the highest attainable standard of health and the right to non-discrimination. These rights are recognized in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Japan is a party. Japan’s domestic laws also reinforce these rights.
Japan has been a vocal and active leader on children’s rights on the international stage, providing humanitarian assistance to the children of numerous countries during times of crisis as well as stability. It is time for the international community to return Japan’s generosity and provide greater support to end the nuclear crisis, decontaminate the affected regions and ensure that the rights of Japan’s children are respected in the process.
The United Nations Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights should accept the invitation to investigate the violation of children’s rights in Fukushima, but that investigation alone will not solve the problem. The international community must assist Japan in widening the evacuation zone, giving priority to families with children and increasing support for all evacuees.
We also must provide financial and technical support to decontaminate the region effectively, beginning with those places most frequently occupied by children and pregnant women. Finally, and most important, we must pool our global expertise and resources to contain the radiation emanating from the nuclear plant once and for all.
Warren Binford of Salem is an associate professor of law at Willamette University College of Law where she teaches international children’s rights. She previously lived in Tokyo, Japan.
More:
– 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
– Japanese Government To Send Seafood, Goods Made in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate As AID To Developing Nations
– 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 Official Numbers?