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One Month After, Japan Readies for Widening Nuclear-Evacuation Zone
TOKYO - Japan has ordered authorities to be ready for a widening of the exclusion zone around a crippled nuclear plant as worries mount over the effects of long-term radiation exposure, officials said on Monday. People living within a 20-kilometre (12-mile) radius of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant have already been ordered to leave, while those living up to 10 kilometres beyond that have been told to stay indoors.
A woman holds her dog as they are scanned for radiation at a temporary scanning center in Japan. Greenpeace on Monday called for high-risk people in Fukushima city, 80 kilometres away to be evacuated, saying children and pregnant women were particularly vulnerable. "We have been told by the government that an evacuation order will likely be given to some districts of the town," said Yoshiyuki Takahashi, an official from Kawamata town, which lies entirely outside of the plant's 30-kilometre zone.
"But we don't know when it will be. One month or three months, we don't know," he said.
Environmental pressure group Greenpeace on Monday called for high-risk people in Fukushima city, 80 kilometres away to be evacuated, saying children and pregnant women were particularly vulnerable.
The organisation also called on the Japanese government to fully evacuate what it called "radiation hotspots", including the towns of Iitate and Namie, after finding "widespread caesium contamination".
"People in the greater Fukushima area could potentially receive radiation exposure of more than five millisieverts per year," said Greenpeace's Rianne Teule.
Greenpeace said its monitoring teams recorded radiation levels of four microsieverts per hour in a playground in Fukushima city, a level it said was high enough to expose people to the maximum yearly dose of radiation in a few weeks.
Before Greenpeace published its findings, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters any increase in the evacuation zone would unlikely be a uniform one.
"It will not be a clear circle. We are taking into account detailed analysis based on data from monitoring and considering contours and geography in the area," he said.
"The government has begun consulting with municipalities concerned based on the results."
Japan's evacuation order is currently issued based on the IAEA standard, under which residents are ordered to leave for at least seven days when the initial exposure level to radiation hits 50 millisieverts.
"The government is now considering reviewing the evacuation standard that should apply to a nuclear accident that continues for a longer period," said an official of the Nuclear Safety Commission.
Under the International Commission on Radiological Protection, exposure levels between cumulative 20-100 millisieverts per year are applied for an evacuation in emergency.
Data have shown higher levels of contamination in some areas outside the current evacuation circle, raising concerns for accumulated exposure risks in municipalities including Kawamata and Iitate village.
Iitate mayor Norio Kanno said he was frustrated by the situation.
"There are places showing high levels and low levels (of radiation) in the village," he told NHK.
"I argued there should be many ways to keep total exposure levels low (while still staying in the village), but unfortunately my request was not accepted," he said.
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Show AllNorth hemisphere radiation cloud spread animation (text in german):
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http://www.bgr.bund.de/cln_151/nn_322882/DE/Themen/Seismologie/Atmosphaer-Transport/Besondere_20Ereignisse/atm__fukushima__inhalt.html?__nnn=true
F - 1 reactor sensor data readings here:
http://www.gyldengrisgaard.dk/fukmon/uni1_monitor.html
includes RPV and DW pressure, temp and water levels
here is some english text that links to the animation above:
http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/highlights/2011/fukushima-related-measurements-by-the-ctbto/fukushima-related-measurements-by-the-ctbto-page-1/
Thank you!
GW NORTH: You're one of the few who can appreciate this. As to Japan potentially not recovering: notice how the stock market does not reflect this awful item as a negative perturbation at all! What this says to me is that the artificial economy constructed by Wall Street's instruments of mass financial deception is ENTIRELY decoupled from ACTUAL reality... that is, the worth of real and genuine (vanishing) resources!
I was trying to convey this to my sister & brother in law yesterday. Because they have always had wealth, they believe in the current model. Let's face it, people with money ARE invested in it. They hear the TV pundits talk about the "improving economy" and what do you know, even Wall Street showing high "numbers," and all appears to be well, on the "road to recovery." I tried to explain to them that the entire model is based on false constructs, those that are being increasingly divorced from what's actually at stake. They answer (the proof in the pudding that I never made mega-bucks) that I do not understand the economy, or how economics works!
This parallels heated debates I had out in California with a few fellows I thought were fairly evolved. It's interesting how they see me as the one who's NOT informed because I don't validate the views they draw from CNN & other "news" sources. So thorough has become the programming that those not in synch with it are seen as the ones who are at a loss!
Was it Rumsfeld who bragged about his little cartel creating its own reality? How well the killers-in-chief and their current followers have succeeded in that dark objective. Those who SEE through the BS and understand the false paradigm are seen as the ones who DON'T know what's going on. Nice little reality inversion thing.
End of the age of Pisces, with fish opposing fish... and only the truth prepared to set free... yet how many can even identify THAT truth? The dis-information campaigns, wedded to their high-paid experts in mind control, quick with their clever use of framing and utilization of just the right sensory cues manage to manufacture consent for all that is dying, coming apart, rendering into misery... and they think THAT is the world! Or "reality." Or means things are getting better!!!!
Hi Siouxrose,
Those who are running things certainly learned from the master's, didn't they?
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”
And:
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels, MiniProp for Hitler’s Third Reich
1897-1945
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country."
Herman Goering to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg, 18 April, 1946
And the hundreds of million$, if not billion$ they have spent perfecting these techniques.
Jefferson definitely had it right:
“The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826
This CNN video from JimboTV was a bit like scifi--Car drives into evacuation zone --A passenger driving through Japan documents the radiation levels and devastation as he approaches the radiation zone.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/04/09/japan.radiation.drive.cnn
Japan just had ANOTHER 7+ earthquake this morning.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/7-1-quake-hits-japan-evacuation-zone-widens-20110411-024143-487.html
Buildings in Tokyo were swaying, power to the crippled Fukushima reactor was cut *again* before being restored, and the first official hospitalization of the 'Fukushima Fifty' was reported.
It's beginning to look very doubtful that Japan will ever recover.
Watch this:
http://vimeo.com/22209827
The phrase you are looking for is: "Oh. Shit."
"The government is now considering reviewing the evacuation standard that should apply to a nuclear accident that continues for a longer period," said an official of the Nuclear Safety Commission."
Following that logic, the NRC is saying that the longer the exposure, the better it must be for you, thus, not to worry as much.
That would be in line with nuclear industry hacks that come on CD, like John Abrams who says he would go to Japan, but doesn't want to get in the way.
and from Japan...
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84721.html
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The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11.
The disclosure prompted the government to consider raising the accident's severity level to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said. The level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale has only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.
The current provisional evaluation of 5 is at the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.
According to an evaluation by the INES, level 7 accidents correspond with a release into the external environment radioactive materials equal to more than tens of thousands terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131. One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.
Haruki Madarame, chairman of the commission, which is a government panel, said it has estimated that the release of 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour continued for several hours.
The commission says the release has since come down to under 1 terabecquerel per hour and said that it is still examining the total amount of radioactive materials released.
The commission also released a preliminary calculation for the cumulative amount of external exposure to radiation, saying it exceeded the yearly limit of 1 millisieverts in areas extending more than 60 kilometers to the northwest of the plant and about 40 km to the south-southwest of the plant
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It's official. They are now at level 7.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake