Title: Evacuees may move due to radioactive concrete
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Date: January 16, 2012
Concrete with high radiation levels was likely used for the foundation of an apartment building in Fukushima Prefecture, forcing the builder to find new homes for some of the tenants, which include many evacuees from the nuclear accident. [...]
“We cannot move immediately,” said a 63-year-old woman who lives on the second floor of the apartment building in Nihonmatsu with her husband and two grandchildren. “I wonder whether radioactive materials can be removed.” [...]
The three-story apartment building was completed in July. The woman moved in from Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, due to the nuclear accident.
Many others have also evacuated to the apartment building due to the accident. [...]
Read the report here
See also:
- NHK: Radioactive homes being built in Japan -- Gov't admits no radiation standards set (VIDEOS)
- Trapped? 3 children living in radioactive apartment built with tainted cement, dose over 10 millisieverts/yr -- Nuclear Official: Not an amount where evacuation is warranted -WSJ
- Mom escapes radiation by moving into radioactive apartment: "I have no words -- I just feel so awful for my kids -- I feel like I’ve failed as a parent" -ABC News
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Trapped is right. Oh the horror! These people have no means to get out! 3/11 took away everything!
Japan: Radioactive Buildings & Other Nuclear Updates, January 12-15 2012
Uploaded by rumorecurioso on Jan 15, 2012
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
NHK is Japanese mainstream media — critical thinking is strongly advised!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjvfM-4qxR4&feature=related
What amounts of radiation are they exposed to?
“However, he said annual radiation levels at the apartment building are below 20 millisieverts, standards used for issuing evacuation instructions. It is estimated that a person will be exposed to about 10 millisieverts over a year if he or she stays in a ground-floor unit for 24 hours a day. Radiation levels of 1.16 to 1.24 microsieverts per hour were detected at a height of 1 meter in a ground-floor unit, more than 0.7 to 1 microsievert outside the building. In second- and third-floor units, radiation levels ranged between 0.10 and 0.38 microsievert.”
First; measuring radiation in the air reduces the radiation measurement by a factor of up to ten or more. So the REAL radiation measurement is much higher than what they say here. In other words, if kids are playing and sleeping on the FLOOR, where the radiation is highest, they are getting a HUGE dose of radiation.
Anyone feel like estimating what the reading would be if the Geiger Counter were to touch the concrete? And then what that would translate into int terms of radiation exposure compared to Chernobyl victims in evacuation zones?
This is another example of how to minimize something and make it look a lot better than it actually is.
The scary thing about this is that MANY BUILDINGS were constructed this same way with the same material, all new ones.
What a waste.. what a tragic horror story.
Remember the push cart owner in Tunisia who set himself on fire and started revolutions that have moved throughout the Arab world? When people have had enough it will just take one last thing for them to say they have had enough. When will the time come for the Japanese to hit the streets and demand their rights to not be irradiated?