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Bloomberg: Single Tokyo ward has 13 schools with radiation levels above safety standard

Published: October 13th, 2011 at 12:57 pm ET
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SOURCE: Wikipedia

SOURCE: Tokyo, Yokohama Expand Checks After Radiation ‘Hot Spots’ Found, Bloomberg, October 13, 2011:

[...] Other areas in Tokyo and Yokohama have reported radiation readings requiring further investigation, with most originating from local residents using personal dosimeters.

Setagaya adjoins Ota ward where radiation levels exceeding the ward’s own safety standard of 0.25 microsieverts per hour were detected at 13 schools, the Ota ward board of education said today. The tests are continuing at the schools. [...]

*Ota Ward should not be confused with the city of Ota in Gunma Prefecture, where ENENEWS has been ranked the #5 overall site for several weeks now, according to Alexa:

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Published: October 13th, 2011 at 12:57 pm ET
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31 comments to Bloomberg: Single Tokyo ward has 13 schools with radiation levels above safety standard

  • TheWorldIsBlind
    October 13, 2011 at 1:33 pm

    no need to worry, just some left over radiation from bottles that were left in the trash can

    silly gooses.

    couldnt possibly be from fukushima, i mean its not like 3 nuclear reactors had their fuel melt out of their containments and melt their way through the ground.

    you are all silly silly people ;)

  • xdrfox
    October 13, 2011 at 2:17 pm

    Japanese officials should be spending their time asking for aid from other countries in evacuating the children and immediate families !

  • reVivre
    October 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm

    so what ?
    Assuming these readings wouldn’t have been caused by the fallout from the obvious reason – where do they derive from ?

    Wouldn’t this mean that already the ‘safe’ usage of nuc-power polluted the land over the time – and wouldn’t this be an even more scary evident/argument to prove mans incapability to handle nuclear booty ?

  • Darth
    October 13, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    0.25 mcSv/hr = 365x24x0.25 = 2.2mSv/year

    What’s the beef? Japan’s safety standard is 20 mSv/year.

    Nothing to see here. Move along. Baseless rumors.

  • arclight arclight
    October 13, 2011 at 4:03 pm

    according to dear sweet alexa were all being read by pensioners…lol….how do you all feel about that?

    admin …new advert bar please for zimmer frames and colastamy bags…. :)

  • red red wine
    October 13, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    Its only Tokyo.

    …Hardly anybody lives there…

    red red wine

  • arclight arclight
    October 13, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    a bit more seriously..
    “The district in the western part of the capital said earlier today it will expand tests in 258 locations after a local resident alerted authorities to a radiation spike that required partially blocking off a sidewalk to the public.”

    once again it was a citizen with a personal detector coming upon some contamination….

    for the last god knows how long (see rad monitor thread) i have been driving around south england and have discovered varied contamination situations…not too many but enough for me to know that a simple equipe of mopeds armed with instant responce gieger counters at ground and at 1 meter above ground, add a gps locator and send 100 of these bikes around tokyo…alarms could be set for hot spots so that another team armed with superior equipment and man power can move in and confirm the contamination…both air and ground….this is a mamoth task but the technology is there… tried and tested by me recently…it works and it would be a start!!

    hope someones listening…

  • xdrfox
    October 13, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    (UPDATED) New Twist on 4.7 Microsieverts/Hr Radiation in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo: Radon??

    (UPDATE: They say it was most likely radium-226, the surface radiation was 600 microsieverts/hour.)

    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-twist-on-47-microsievertshr.html

  • catweazel
    October 13, 2011 at 6:15 pm

    when people start to look strange things do appear all of a sudden, some even never looked for.
    maybe they do a story of a dirty bomb gang hiding strange bottles for years ……. and now with all looking it is not fuku, no, it is the gang ……

    • ChasAha ChasAha
      October 13, 2011 at 7:44 pm

      Troll Alert or ‘Sock Puppet’ City I’m not sure?

      You deserve a medal or a hug or something! The style with which you handle those clowns, which is literally what they are, is very smooth. Get ‘em …with the data!

  • Whoopie Whoopie
    October 13, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    Whoa….I remember this story about Litvinenko very well.
    New Developmen­ts?
    BBC News – Alexander Litvinenko murder was ‘London nuclear terror’http://bbc.in/nU4uLc and there is ‘Fukushima nuclear genocide’ ongoing

  • Bobby1
    October 13, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    In Funabashi (a few miles away) civic groups found 5.82 uSv/hr.

    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20111013-OYT1T00678.htm (Japanese)

    They measured 0.91 uSv in the same spot on April 13. That will give you an idea of how much radiation has accumulated since the plant became “under control”.

  • catweazel
    October 13, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    there was a village in germany with houses from 1600 something. pretty houses till the inhabitants detected that mercury was produced there 300 years ago. they noticed when renovating the groundfloor, under the wood was a small mercury sea….. and they wondered about their health issues all those years.

    Only to point out that funny things lay around in mass. like the sharp bomb used as schoolbell elsewhere in africa.

  • kintaman kintaman
    October 13, 2011 at 10:57 pm

    I wish the people of the affected areas of Japan would leave and migrate to the far south as soon as possible. My heart cannot handle this much longer. It is really too much.

    Japan has been nuked a 3rd time (after Hiroshima, Nagasaki) but the people do not even know it. People fear the explosion from a nuclear bomb but it is what is spread from the blast that is deadly for those who escape the initial blast. Fukushima is many, many times worse than the previous nuclear attacks on Japan and yet the people sit there and try to forget what is happening right before them. Also the world sits by and does nothing. Please, oh please someone fix this all.

    • Clocka
      October 14, 2011 at 4:36 pm

      There was a Frenchman who saw world war 2 was coming, and decided to move. He went to an island nobody has heard about before, and its name was – Guadalcanal.

      A tale familiar to all Japanese.

  • Clocka
    October 14, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Setagaya is the high income district of Tokyo, no prole town.

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