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By ENENews, on August 22nd, 2016
CCTV (Channel 17 in Burlington, Vermont), published Jun 20, 2016 (emphasis added):
Margaret Harrington, host: I know you mentioned Arnie Gundersen, the chief engineer at Fairewinds, and he said that he measured the radiation there, too. Could you talk about that a little bit? Maggie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education founder and CEO: He’s working . . . → Read More: TV: “Astronomical amounts of radiation” found in downtown Tokyo… Directly outside gov’t building — ‘Horrific’ readings where kids playing in Fukushima, ‘extreme’ levels found where food is grown for elementary school lunches — Nuclear expert shocked, upset by discovery (VIDEO)
By ENENews, on April 24th, 2015
AFP, Apr 24, 2015 (emphasis added): Officials deny Fukushima link after extreme levels of radiation detected in Tokyo playground… Officials were made aware of the contamination after a local resident reported it on Monday and say they do not think it is connected to the disaster at Fukushima… Many families in eastern Japan continue . . . → Read More: AFP: Extremely high radiation levels detected in Tokyo — TV: 500 microSv/hr at playground, would get yearly limit in 120 minutes — “Fragment of unknown object dug up” — Reviving concern about Fukushima contamination — Officials downplay link: “Will not have adverse effect on health”
By ENENews, on September 21st, 2014
Dr Ronald McCoy, MD, physician, Sept. 18, 2014 (emphasis added): Experts say that the Japanese government will soon be left with no choice but to release radioactive water into the ocean… The truth is that no one in the world really knows how to deal with the Fukushima accident… Murphy’s Law is inexorable: If . . . → Read More: VIDEO: Radioactive material now flowing toward Tokyo and contaminating their water supply; Problems “actually only getting worse” — “Truth is no one in world really knows how to deal with Fukushima” — Gov’t Expert: Tepco “should give up’ making ice walls
By ENENews, on September 8th, 2014
Mainichi Daily News, Sept. 5, 2014 (emphasis added): Radioactive plumes spread cesium a week after Fukushima disaster — A second wave of radioactive material from the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant disaster spread over the Tohoku and Kanto regions… analysis of radiation readings [by the Nuclear Regulation Authority and the Ministry of Environment] . . . → Read More: Japan Gov’t: Tokyo area hit with ‘unnoticed’ wave of Fukushima radioactive material — Newspapers: “Heavily contaminated… High-concentration radiation” — Prime Minister: “We were right on the verge” of evacuating 50 million people (AUDIO)
By ENENews, on August 10th, 2014
Fukushima Diary, Aug 9, 2014: NHK admitted pieces of fuel rods and reactor vessels blasted to at least Ibaraki to contain Uranium & Zirconium [...] NHK announced that pieces of nuclear fuel [...] were blasted to at least 130km away from Fukushima nuclear plant. It was 2μm diameter particle. The ball-looking shape proves it . . . → Read More: Nuclear fuel found 15 miles from Tokyo suburbs — Fukushima uranium in ‘glassy’ spheres transported over 170 km — Structural materials from the nuclear reactors also present (PHOTOS)
By ENENews, on July 17th, 2014
Dr. Shigeru Mita’s essay published in the newsletter of Association of Doctors in Kodaira (Tokyo), translated by WNSCR, July 16, 2014: Why did I leave Tokyo? To my fellow doctors, I closed the clinic in March 2014, which had served the community of Kodaira for more than 50 years, since my father’s generation, and . . . → Read More: Japan Doctor: “Tokyo should no longer be inhabited” — Everyone here is a victim of Fukushima — People truly suffering — Bleeding under skin, urinary hemorrhaging — Children’s blood tests started changing last year — Time running short… up to physicians to save our citizens and future generations
By ENENews, on February 23rd, 2014
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 20, 2014: On March 18, 2011, an official from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission named Chuck Casto called together the NRC delegation on assignment with him in Tokyo. “We’re in never-never land,” he told them. [...] “Never-never land” barely did justice to the situation. Casto and his team had been . . . → Read More: LA Times: Top NRC official in Japan compared Fukushima to ‘never-never land’ — At same time, US warned France about publishing ‘extremely high’ radiation doses for infants in Tokyo
By ENENews, on February 14th, 2014
Excerpts from an interview with Tokyo-based physician Shigeru Mita, Nelson Groom for Vice.com, Feb. 14, 2014 (h/t anonymous tip):
The Threat
I’ve done examinations on more than 1,500 patients. [...] I run blood work and conduct thyroid ultrasound examinations. [...] I’ve mostly tested patients living in Tokyo, and I’ve found a lot of harmful . . . → Read More: Japan Physician: Parents should evacuate children from Tokyo; Danger from Fukushima radiation — “The threat has seemed to be spreading” — “I’ve seen a lot of patients badly affected”
By ENENews, on February 8th, 2014
Bloomberg, Willianm Pesek in Japan, Feb. 6, 2014: [...] Anyone who lived through Tokyo’s near-Chernobyl experience in 2011 may recall how poorly NHK performed even then. The network downplayed risks at every turn to avoid panic. Many of us learned about explosions at Fukushima from CNN, BBC and U.S. military news conferences, not Japan’s . . . → Read More: Professor: U.S. personnel destroyed thousands of documents to prepare for evacuation of Japan after 3/11 — Bloomberg: “Near-Chernobyl experience” for Tokyo even though 200+ kilometers from Fukushima
By ENENews, on December 3rd, 2013
Korea Times, Dec. 2, 2013: More than two and a half years have passed since the “meltdown” at Fukushima nuclear power plant but the exact extent of the damage remains uncertain. Worse, it has been left unrepaired. Thus, experts and citizens worry about the catastrophic impacts on health and safety. [...] Kim Ik-joong, a . . . → Read More: Professor: “It’s true that about 70% of Japan’s territory is polluted” by Fukushima radioactive material; Tokyo contaminated with highly toxic radiation — “Experts worry about catastrophic impacts on health”
By ENENews, on November 11th, 2013
Source: Mama Revo Magazine (Mom’s Revolution) Translated by World Network For Saving Children From Radiation Date: Nov. 11, 2013
Children
Dr. Shigeru Mita, Mita Clinic in Tokyo: Our patients mostly come from Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and other Northern Kanto areas.
The pediatricians’ general textbook says that reference value of neutrophil [the most abundant . . . → Read More: Japan Physician: I hope adults will leave Tokyo, not just children — Strange things happening — Medications don’t seem to work — Rare diseases increasing dramatically (VIDEO)
By ENENews, on October 30th, 2013
Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan: The “Act on Special Measures Concerning the Handling of Radioactive Pollution” was enacted in August 2011, in response to the unprecedented situation of radioactive pollution after the accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. [...] a new policy framework for the off-site decontamination has been arranged . . . → Read More: Japan Gov’t: “Unprecedented situation of radioactive pollution” from Fukushima disaster — “Intensive Contamination Areas” designated near downtown Tokyo, and officials there say health assistance for kids and pregnant women is needed (MAP)
By ENENews, on October 29th, 2013
World Network For Saving Children From Radiation, Oct. 26, 2013: [...] A case like this is just a tip of iceburg [...] IKKO is a Buddhist monk. His life is ending. He is only 34 years old and lives in Hiwada town [near Koriyama] in Fukushima. He had a heart attack two days ago, . . . → Read More: Tokyo Mother: “Total media blackout” in Japan, lots of people developing symptoms related to Fukushima disaster (VIDEO) — “Many cases of sickness and death among young generations” not reported
By ENENews, on October 22nd, 2013
Overview of active cesium contamination of freshwater fish in Fukushima and Eastern Japan, Scientific Reports 2013 (h/t Anonymous tip): [...] The serious accidents of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant have been contaminating a vast area in eastern Japan, home of 60 million people. Consumption of freshwater fish is an important part of the aquatic pathway . . . → Read More: Japan Study: “Contamination levels are possibly higher than Chernobyl” from Fukushima disaster — Human health must be carefully and continuously monitored — Highly contaminated river soil in Tokyo metropolitan area
By ENENews, on October 11th, 2013
Title: Elevated radiation claimed at Tokyo 2020 Olympic venues Source: South China Morning Post Author: Julian Ryall in Tokyo Date: Oct. 12, 2013
A citizens’ group in Tokyo has found elevated levels of radioactivity at sporting facilities that will be used in the 2020 Olympic Games and is warning that competitors and the hundreds . . . → Read More: Report: Olympic athletes and tourists warned they will be in danger from Tokyo’s elevated radiation levels — Cesium found at almost every venue tested
By ENENews, on October 8th, 2013
Title: High radiation levels found at possible Olympic sites; Tokyo dismisses data Source: Asahi Shimbun (Weekly Aera) Author: Shoji Nomura Date: October 8, 2013
A citizens group said it measured high radiation levels at candidate venues for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, but the metropolitan government disputes the data and the International Olympic Committee has . . . → Read More: Asahi: High radiation levels found at possible Olympic sites — Japan Professor: Radioactive materials have spread throughout greater Tokyo; Region remains in “emergency situation”?
By ENENews, on October 1st, 2013
Title: An Interview with 281_Anti Nuke Source: The New Yorker Author: Roland Kelts Date: Oct. 1, 2013
The stickers went up a few months after Japan’s triple disaster in 2011 [...] in downtown Tokyo [...]
[...] a young girl in a raincoat above the caption “I hate rain” [...] On other stickers, silhouettes of . . . → Read More: The New Yorker: Anti-nuke street artist is ‘Japanese Banksy’ — Cult phenomenon in Tokyo — “I love the American people… I want them to help save Japan… We need foreigners to save us from ourselves” — Featured in upcoming film (VIDEO)
By ENENews, on October 1st, 2013
Title: Slight rise in birth defects in post-meltdown Japan; more study needed Source: Jake Adelstein Date: Sept. 26, 2013
[...] This week the Weekly Asahi (週刊朝日）published a report that in urine samples from children living in Kanto, 70% of those tested, contained cesium, a radioactive element that results in internal exposure [...]
@richardpolhill Cesium . . . → Read More: Weekly Asahi: 70% of children tested in Kanto (a region that includes Tokyo) have radioactive cesium in their urine -Journalist #Fukushima
By ENENews, on September 23rd, 2013
Title: Concentration of Strontium-90 at Selected Hot Spots in Japan Source: PLoS ONE Authors: Steinhauser G, Schauer V, Shozugawa K Date Published: March 7, 2013
Southern wind directions and rainfall explain the relatively high activity levels in the remote hot spot in Kashiwa and Yokohama, which are located close to Tokyo. Accordingly, also local . . . → Read More: Study: Contamination in Tokyo suburb 3 times higher than area 1 mile from Fukushima Daiichi — Nuclear Scientist: Significant contamination in Tokyo, a serious problem (AUDIO)
By ENENews, on September 8th, 2013
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Sept. 7, 2013: “It has never done and will never do any damage to Tokyo. There are no health-related problems until now, and nor will there be in the future — I make the statement to you in the most emphatic and unequivocal way.”
More from Abe: “I explained . . . → Read More: Japan Prime Minister’s Fiction vs. Fact: Fukushima contamination has never done any damage to Tokyo; Radioactive water at plant was “blocked” — Study: Tokyo was contaminated — Experts: Radioactive water is constantly flowing out to sea and almost impossible to stop
By ENENews, on April 27th, 2013
Title: 環境放射線測定結果 – １か月毎の降下物の放射能調査結果 Source: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health Date: April 2013 h/t Fukushima Diary
See also: Japan Study: Fukushima fallout “unlike the past nuclear accidents” — Radioactive silver prominently observed
By ENENews, on March 22nd, 2013
Title: The ambient gamma dose-rate and the inventory of fission products estimations with the soil samples collected at Canadian embassy in Tokyo during Fukushima nuclear accident Source: Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry Author: Weihua Zhang, Judah Friese, Kurt Ungar Date: April 2013, Volume 296, Issue 1, pp 69-73
In this study, soil samples . . . → Read More: Study: Fukushima fallout at Canadian embassy in Tokyo was 225,000 Bq/m² — Far in excess of limit set for radiation control zones
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