Radiation screening in high demand in Fukushima, Asahi, June 17, 2011:
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The Iitate village government had displayed the results of radiation measurements in front of the government building but had to temporarily stop the announcements because the results were different from tests conducted by the prefectural government.
According to officials of K.K. Alpha Tsushin, the Tokyo-based company that provided the radiation testing equipment to Iitate, radiation levels on May 30 were about 8.9 microsieverts per hour. The results released by the prefectural government for that area had levels of 2.8 microsieverts.
Company officials reduced the number of radiation types tested and raised the height of the counter to the 1-meter level used in testing by the prefectural government. That produced a result of 3.8 microsieverts per hour.
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When “they” make a Hollywood movie about the Fukushima disaster (You know they will!), I wonder what the title will be.
Maybe “100 years of lies and Yellow Rain”
or …..
I thought the detector was related to danger to CHILDREN.
So, it was located properly and produced accurate readings.
But the accurate readings were higher than those provided by the local government.
Two choices: which one to get fixed.
The one with the BIGGER readings of course!
This will make everybody happier and children will be more immune to radiation as a consequence.
Ha Bloody Ha where’s their damn moral compass?
Maybe the compass too radioactive to use?
How do these cretins sleep at night??? Does their cultural ‘honor code’ honestly obscure their sense of right and wrong. The Japanese are not an unintelligent society, highly skilled in science and mathematics, and yet the actions of their leaders and those in corporate positions exhibit a complete disregard for the effects of Fukushima on the precious lives of their citizens. How can they live with themselves knowing they are only pretending to care.
That the government is not providing pregnant women with the means to evacuate a hotspot is a sign of their “moral compass”.
The Geiger Club: Mothers Bust Silent Radiation Consensus
June 17, 2011, 10:42 AM JST
By Mariko Sanchanta
When explosions started to rock the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex in mid-March, spewing radioactive particles into the air, there was an exodus of pregnant women and mothers with young children from Tokyo to other parts of Japan, such as Osaka.
Reuters
A pregnant woman is tested for possible nuclear radiation exposure at an evacuation center in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture in April. Some mothers and pregnant women living in “hot spots” with higher-than-usual radiation levels far away from the Fukushima Daiichi plant have invested in their own geiger counters.
Some, who were due in March or April, gave birth overseas or as far away from Tokyo as possible. Most expat wives and their young kids left Japan, leaving their husbands here.
But for the vast majority of Japanese families, leaving their homes was simply not an option.
Yuka Sasaki, who is 28 years old and has a four-year-old son, lives in Kawashi in Chiba prefecture, which has been designated as a “hot spot” with higher-than-usual radiation levels – even though it’s 200 kilometers away from Fukushima. She says she can’t afford to move. Instead, she has invested in a dosimeter, which she’s waiting to be delivered.
She says a rift has developed between the group of mothers in her community who are concerned about the radiation levels and the other mothers – who comprise the vast majority – who are going about their lives as normal. “Parents and teachers and doctors all say Kashiwa is fine,” says Yuki Osaku, her friend and also a mother of two. Ms. Osaku says that her children now play with different friends due to the divide.
Japan has long been a country that values consensus – and thus it’s particularly trying for mothers who are speaking out against the very system that’s responsible for educating their children. Most have invested in their own dosimeters, as the local government is not providing daily radiation readings.
“We joke that it’s our Geiger club,” says Ms. Sasaki, referring to the most widely known radiation meter. When asked if she wants more children, she says: “Not right now. I couldn’t have another child when the situation is like this.”
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Lack of will on implementing Fukushima nuclear lessons Vienna, June 17, 2011
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article2112284.ece
Fukushima’s emergency power failure traced to U.S. design
BY KAZUO YAMAGISHI STAFF WRITER
2011/06/17
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TEPCO starts cleaning highly radioactive water
English.news.cn 2011-06-17 20:31:57
TOKYO, June 17 (Xinhua) — A key system to clean highly radioactive water started operation on Friday at the troubled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, operator said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co.(TEPCO) announced a revised version of a road map for bringing the ongoing crisis under control and aimed at realizing stable cooling of all the spent nuclear fuel pools in one month. But it did not change its target of bringing the reactors into a condition known as “cold shutdown” by around January.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-06/17/c_13936229.htm
PREVIEW-IAEA states to launch global nuclear safety drive
Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:45am GMT
* IAEA safety meet biggest such event since Fukushima crisis
* Russia wants mandatory rules; others sceptical
* Strengthened expert review missions may offer way forward
By Fredrik Dahl and Sylvia Westall
VIENNA, June 17 (Reuters) – About 150 nations will launch a push next week to improve nuclear safety after Japan’s atomic crisis but differences on how much international action is needed may hamper follow-up efforts to avert any new disaster.
In the biggest such gathering in the wake of the Fukushima emergency, ministers and regulators from across the world meet in Vienna to begin drafting a strategy to help address mounting public concern about the risks posed by nuclear energy.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE75F0D720110617
8.9 Microsieverts per hour equals how many CPM? Is 14.8CPM correct?