– Professor Yukio Hayakawa Takes a “Radioactive Walk” In a Park in Koriyama City, Fukushima, Finds 9 Microsieverts/Hr “Black Dust” (EX-SKF, April 10, 2012):
Professor Hayakawa went to Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture and walked in Kaiseiyama Park right near the City Hall. Compared to his walk in Edogawa-ku, Tokyo on the previous day, the radiation levels in Koriyama City is markedly higher (no surprise).
This time, the professor is armed only with his personal survey meter that only measures gamma ray. He seems to have a protective case on the survey meter, so I don’t think he is laying down the survey meter “naked” on the grass or dirt. (He’s been doing this for one year now in various locations, after all.)
He took the measurement of “black dust” at 4 locations:
- 3.533 microsieverts/hr
- 9.103 microsieverts/hr
- 7.291 microsieverts/hr
- 6.331 microsieverts/hr (in the City Hall parking lot)
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I live directly next to the park (which is actually called KaiseiZAN) and took readings at almost all the same locations. I obtained slightly lower readings that varied a bit, but for the most part matched his readings.
I have to call BS on the 9 reading because he had to stray out of the park and behind a building and take a reading right above a water drainage gutter to get that reading. I only got a 3 at that location, which was one of the higher ones. My argument is that he must have left the park, which had much lower readings and walked around constantly taking readings until he found a higher reading. The marker on the map shows him being in front of the building, but the drain in the image is located behind it and the parking lot near orange apartment building.
To be fair we were using an air counter. He shows a similar model in a plastic bag in some images. The ground readings were higher than the readings at chest high.
@Ryan McDonald,
It is the readings on the ground that count and even if the air is much, much less contaminated your lungs work like an air filter, similiar to the filter in your car.
Once you inhale (or ingest) one of these tiny hot particles they become internal emitters and outside of your body this might be called a small radiation dose but it is a very high dose inside the body.
Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a TRILLION, inhaling even the tiniest particle!!!
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):
– The Propaganda From The Government And The Nuclear Industry About Low-Level Radiation Is Absolute Rubbish:
About ‘ThisIsFukushima.org’: This WAS Fukushima. Fukushima and Tokyo are finished.
– Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US! (Video)
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/10/2012/03/27/chief-nuclear-engineer-arnie-gundersen-tokyo-soil-samples-would-be-considered-nuclear-waste-in-the-us-video/
– Evacuate Tokyo And All US Forces From Japan! (Veterans Today): ‘Tokyo Radiation Level 25 Times The Fukushima Mandatory Evacuation Zone’
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/10/2012/02/26/evacuate-tokyo-and-all-us-forces-from-japan-veterans-today-tokyo-radiation-level-25-times-the-fukushima-mandatory-evacuation-zone/
– Radioactive Japan: Contamination Detected In Tokyo Equal To Chernobyl Mandatory Evacuation Levels
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/10/2012/02/22/radioactive-japan-contamination-detected-in-tokyo-equal-to-chernobyl-mandatory-evacuation-levels/
It’s DEAD simple!