Gov’t: Radioactive strontium detected at 2 more locations in Yokohama, 250km from meltdowns — Approaching levels of most contaminated area in Fukushima (TEST RESULTS)

Published: October 14th, 2011 at 11:49 am ET
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Yokohama, Oct. 14 — Officials announced the discovery of radioactive strontium at two more locations in the city of Yokohama, according to a report by Mochizuki posted on the Fukushima Diary website.

129 Becquerels per kilogram (Bq/kg) of Strontium was detected in a sample from a street gutter in Okurayama, Kouhokuku, Yokohama.

59 Bq/kg of strontium was measured in dirt from an out of use fountain in Shinyokohama Kouhokuku, Yokohama.

“They also re-tested on the roof where the first strontium was found too, but they concealed the result. ‘We did not get the permission of the management association of the apartment,’” reports Mochizuki.

“To convert from ‘per kilogram’ to ‘per square meter’, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission uses the factor of 65.” (SOURCE)

The 129 Bq/kg Yokohama street sample is equivalent to 8,385 Becquerels per square meter of radioactive strontium.

The original detection of strontium from a roof top in Yokohama is reported to contain 195 Bq/kg or 12,675 Becquerels per square meter

Of any place in Japan, the highest level of radioactive strontium detected by the government was 22,000 Becquerels per square meter of soil inside the evacuation zone. (Mainichi Daily News)

Yokohama is about 250 km south of the meltdowns in Fukushima.

“Sr-89 and Sr-90—are among the most dangerous products of nuclear fission to human and animal health. Both are ‘bone-seekers,’ chemically similar to calcium, that collect in bone and marrow, where they are known to cause cancer. They are particularly dangerous to the growing bones of fetuses and children.” (Forbes)

SOURCE: Breaking News: Strontium was found at two more different locations

SOURCE: Yokohama Gov't (via Mochizuki)

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67 comments to Gov’t: Radioactive strontium detected at 2 more locations in Yokohama, 250km from meltdowns — Approaching levels of most contaminated area in Fukushima (TEST RESULTS)

  • suzie-Q

    STRONTIUM=bone tumors I have seen children suffer with bone tumors and this is a terrible thing to have happen to any family. It’s not right to ask people to expose their loved ones to this substance in any amount.


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  • The emergency meeting better call for the dismemberment of the japanese ministry and a total evacuation of tepco.

    Otherwise its all rhetoric.


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    • 35 million is the population of Tokyo metro. 1000 W demand per household and ten million households means 10000 megawatts electricity for air conditioners and refrigerators. This is using vapor compression. If one uses vapor absorption cooling electricity consumption would come down by 70 percent and that means the demand would be only 3000 MW. The 35 million population at 100 W human power means 3500 MW! Thus human power can be enough to meet cooling demand. See how we can plug ourselves in at http://www.econvergence.net
      We human beings can return all energy we use back! And the wastes and mother earth will accept it to keep soil fertile! At the end of our lives we return to the soil and again mother earth is happy!
      See the possibilities for handloom cloth making by using pedal power at
      http://isothermalengines.blogspot.com/
      Nuclear must be banished now, with the authorities making efforts to store the nuclear remains and wastes safely from generation. Right now an indefinite fast is ongoing in Tamilnadu in India to scrap the 2000 MW nuclear monsters there. And it’s populationis 72 million! And the possibilities are at least 7000 MW of electricity at 1.2 volts shock less and flexible! Mahatma Gandhi we promise to go normal soon!


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      • “Nuclear wastes from be banished now,with the authorities making efforts to store the nuclear remains and wastes safely insulated from the biosphere from generation to generation” should be the sentence in the last para. Thanks.


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      • Inspiring Ramaswami!!

        Thank you for sharing about the fast!!!!


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        • Thanks Majia. It’s a crucial fast – unprecedented 100 plus people fasting and another thousand waiting for relay to fast. You on the faculty in Arizona if your discussion many weeks before I remember correctly. When I was in Chandler last I enjoyed Chinese mushrooms bamboo shoots vegetables chow chow at Abacus there. Hope you can still safely eat out there regardless of jet stream or imported mushrooms. Hope it remains so. Palo Verde was threatened by possible loss of grid power due to forest fires this summer. Palo Verde gets it’s cooling water from treated sewage fully. This suggests availability of ammonia there from sewage. Which means cooling can be done by vapor absorption and sunlight which reduces electricity requirements to almost nothing…Regards


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  • pure water

    Have you ever met a person with leukemia or a bone cancer? I used to know one. Everyone dies, but why should anyone suffer like that?! Pro-nukes should be placed as caretakers for such people. Just to watch is enough if the person has something human inside.


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

    I’ve observed for a couple of weeks that on the Mainichi Daily News site there are lots of articles / news regarding Fuku.
    And it gives me hope to see that 5 of 5 “most read articles” deal with radiation issues (see box on the right bottom of the front page).
    http://mdn.mainichi.jp/


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  • Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted – our destinies have changed.


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  • StillJill StillJill

    This is the thing,….how are ‘we’ at watching innocent people, and/or loved ones,…suffer? Are you prepared to help ease their pain?

    I used to say that I didn’t mind alcohol killing me,….it was the ‘living with it’, and dying S L O W L Y that I broke out in cold-sweats over! Same as radiation killing me. I only pray it is fast.

    Bone pain,…bone cancer,….skeletal pain in ANY form,…is a BAD way to go, you are right! :-(


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  • Grampybone Grampybone

    Heart carving Cesium for the kids and Strontium bone disease for everyone else. Sounds like a nuclear nightmare to me. I don’t know how quickly these radioactive elements will start affecting health, but from the data I have seen 1 year of exposure seems like a reasonable timetable to start seeing damage to human health. I am still baffled about how all these radioactive particles made it too Yokohama considering the winds after 3/11 were headed north. I am guessing these new reading are caused by the August critical situations reported. I wonder what you guys think. Do you think the latest readings of Sr-90 are from August fission events or from 3/11?


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      Hi Grampybone, my guess is from both and all the time inbetween….and probably still ongoing. I remember a massive plume over Tokyo and beyond on 3/15, and I remember a horrible night around 6/21 when you could see massive steam billowing out reactor 3 over hours, with wind blowing inland…as icing on the nuked cake the typhoon on 9/21, which probably brought lots of stuff down….


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    • Bobby1

      94% of the radiation at Funabashi was deposited there after April 13. This has been ongoing since 3/11.

      The winds in Japan have been mostly from the east the last few months, but this is changing quickly, and the particles will be blowing directly towards the USA again until next June or so.


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    • TraderGreg

      Japan has very complex climate with ever changing wind patterns. It is true that in March through May the winds were blowing mostly West or North, but later the winds were varied blowing in all directions. There were many, many instances when the winds were blowing directly towards Tokyo. Also the wind may blow West directly over Fuku, but once over Pacific it may turn in the counterclockwise fashion back to Japan.

      Btw – I remember that all goverment admissions (retractions of lies) in the March to May time frame occured when wind was blowing directly toward Tokyo. Strange coincidence, isn’t it?

      A lot of radioactive fallout over Tokyo occured during the spring time, but the Japanese goverment propaganda tried to ridicule these who tried whistle blowing. Instead of decisively dealing with the disaster, the Tokyo goverment was fighting the free press. Now they are paying the price for all this bullshit.


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    • Steven Steven

      They dumped a pretty big load of kak in the ocean. Some of that must have evaporated and come back to haunt them by now, and probably the rest of us too, at least eventually if not already.


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  • Clocka

    Wake me up when the Imperial family relocates.

    The last time they actually relocated (to oversee the Sino-Japanese war on 1895), they went to a city named Hiroshima.

    The bomb wiped out the temporary palace they had built for that purpose.


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    • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter

      …But until then:
      “Imperial autumn garden party”
      Mayor Katsuya Endo of Tomioka town in Fukushima prefecture also attended. The town’s entire population was evacuated following the nuclear power plant accident nearby.
      The Emperor expressed concern about radioactive contamination in the town.
      Endo replied that he will do his best for the decontaminating effort so that residents can return home as soon as possible.

      The Emperor said it was encouraging that people have been working together. He said he hopes good reconstruction will be done.

      http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/13_43.html
      /sarc


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  • Clocka

    I haven’t heard much about Hisahito, the only male Imperial heir available, since the quake.

    If he is not in Tokyo, then maybe, the kids of lesser people should quit it too.


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  • Doesnt matter what any of them do. They are all toast. Corium still in transit and NO way to stop it- and its still just the beginning.


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    • Yes, I am waiting to see if any news comes forth about steam releases or jet’s of steam from around Fuka, cracks and fissures, possibly in the ocean floor near there, new one must be being made by heat and steam expansion, the steam being made from these masses is phenomenal and #1 story of late showed videos of no steam coming from that site, so it has to be raising it’s deadly poisons else where, may be even great distance’s from the site, cities and farmlands miles from the site, death from above and below !


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  • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

    DID A TEST…I invented it myself. I took a large plastic bag, removed all the air from it and put the Geiger counter inside (I’ve been testing all day, it seems to be working normally now)…then I repearedly exhaled into the bag to see what the levels of radiation are in my lungs. Not sure how accurate it is, because it may detect the air around the bag, but just wanted to see…so far 0.33 uSV per hour, which is about the average of what I detect lately, not just outside, but inside where I work, etc.

    To me this seems on the high side, especially for indoors, and in my lungs! It’s not high or dangerous levels, but it is not low, either. A high reading is 0.40, I think. A low reading would be below 0.20.

    Update…now the reading is 0.42, High radiation!! Indoors, inside of a plastic bag. Scary. I am going to continue to do this test, on me and everyone I know, to see what we get…


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  • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

    The best way to do this would be to hold the bag in the air continuously, so it doesn’t touch anything else, I think. Hard to do if you’re busy moving, like me…but I’m trying.

    Still measuring high…I wonder if this can detect traces of internal radiation.

    Despite all this, I feel fairly healthy at the moment. Would anyone like to try this, and report what they get? Or let me know if they think it might be telling, or not? I’m an amateur here…


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  • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

    So far I’ve measured 0.25, 0.29, 0.33, and 0.42, from my exhalation into a plastic bag…none of this is low.

    Radiation is not low in my room, either. I am going to try decontaminating everything with baking soda.

    I admit I have slipped up lately and started smoking on occasion, maybe half of a natural cigarette every day. Because of job stress; it’s why I moved. I also bike a lot; sometimes I cover my nose, sometimes not. But it’s likely I’ve inhaled some hot particles for sure…


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    • Whoopie Whoopie

      As you continue to do this, please keep us posted WCG. TY


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    • NoVictimNoFraudNoCrime

      WCG, did you control for environmental radiation? Are the readings actually going up after you breathe into the bag?
      Seems to me you could be breathing perfectly pure air into the bag and still get those readings if it’s coming from the bag or the ambient environment.
      See if it changes any significant amount after you breathe.


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      • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl

        NVNC, my conclusion now is that my geiger counter is having calibration issues after being in the rain…it seemed like today it was working fine all day, and measuring about what I usually get, although a bit on the high side…but then I put new batteries in, and it started measuring 0 again. It started working again, but measuring lower.

        Does anyone know how to get a geiger counter recalibrated? I would really like to have accurate info. And I think if the plastic bag is a thicker one, and the geiger counter is not in contact with anything else, this could be a pretty good test. Maybe not totally accurate, but telling at least something of what is in your lungs. I could be wrong, though.


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    • At this juncture of where we are, I hardly think cigarette will be atop the list for concerns !
      I’ll smoke one with ya ! Lite them, if you got them !

      : |


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  • Cindy

    Hi, All

    I just went from ENE news to Ex-SKF

    and my computer was attacked, by a high security threat.

    Fortunately my product stopped it … be aware ,guys !!


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    • ocifferdave ocifferdave

      Thanks Cindy, will watch out.


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    • I’ve been having massive IE problems where it shuts down all the time. At first I thought it was something effecting everyone, but now I know it is just me (at least in my environment).

      I’m getting suspicious because it doesn’t impact me on my office computer, just my home one, despite going to similar sites on both machines.


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      • arclight arclight

        maja
        the facts that we are tracked by our relevant security agencies…

        well my phone was intercepted and it was connected to me posting on enenews… they were trying to find out why i was at a major national daily newspaper..so they just intercepted my call….

        as i said it was connected to a particular posting session and they were able to intercept the phone as i called out at 5.00am!!

        one thing that is guaranteed here people is that you and i are all on a list sonewhere…depending on your specific government you will be watched to some degree or other…especially to do with nuclear!! a hangover from the cold war that is being manipulated for 21st century pro nuke purposes////

        i find it hard to believe given the resources that the security services hav that they couldnt create software trojans that were undetectable… 21st century an all….they managed to infect iran and thats a pretty clued up country in terms of computers! what chance we?? behind our ever so safe firewalls???….

        what protects us….so far, the rule of law and probaly more iMportantly the rules of PR!

        JUST MY TAKE!!


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      • IE problems where it shuts down, ME TOO !!!! tonight !

        Web Master !!!!!!


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  • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky

    Hey Cindy, I was just shut-down browser-wise, and had to wait
    to reboot.


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  • Anthony Anthony

    Radioactive Hot Spots in Tokyo Point to Wider Problems

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/world/asia/radioactive-hot-spots-in-tokyo-point-to-wider-problems.html

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    Radium, not Fukushima, Source of Western Tokyo Radiation Spike

    Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — Radioactive radium-226 was the source of a high radiation reading in Tokyo’s Setagaya district yesterday, officials said, ruling out the possibility it may have come from the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors.
    http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LT1IZD1A74E901-3F6BKH993FLK676ITUE04A1OJT
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    Students to receive radiation info booklets

    The Yomiuri Shimbun
    http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111014005505.htm
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    Further contamination fears across Japan
    Justin Mccurry
    October 15, 2011

    Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/further-contamination-fears-across-japan-20111014-1lp4w.html#ixzz1anmFrstk

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    IAEA urges Japan to be less conservative in nuclear cleanup
    Fri Oct 14, 2011 12:47pm GMT

    http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE79D2FM20111014


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  • Elenin Velikovsky Elenin Velikovsky

    Hey Tacoma…amazing link, I read Fast (Thank You Jesus!), and
    I went down the postings there. That Joe Wein is either unbelieveably
    Brave and/or Ignorant, saying he has gone hiking around,
    in the wet weather, in the foothill regions, with constant dangerous readings.
    If Anyone, and I think Students and Faculty ought to just download these enenews
    strings and project them to the classroom, let everybody go to
    the different links and SAVE DOWN EVERYTHING to Hard Copy, even…
    A Wealth of info and bright folks here, sorry any who’re suffering.
    Emmy Tacoma, I recommend some Budski rather than Tobacco….
    but I am unemployed, broke, not near successful, wearing out my
    welcome. Wish I had a Healthy Bold Blessed Survival Outlook….
    also, Tacoma….huggies! Those of us with an Interplanetary Bent will
    appreciate this:
    :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBkuu-Tck6E

    So, Timing Is Everything, Emmy, If I may be so Familiar,
    There’s No Bizzness Like Show Bizzness!
    I don’t know that I. personally, am worthy to try to survive,
    if it means preferring to feed myself instead of a young one…?
    Is that Me talking?
    Emmy, I’m such a Skeptic. I personally have no telescopes, and
    no trust in Propagandists, even suspicious of myself in my broke-ass
    state. So…do we have Nibiru? Do we have Fulfillment of Biblical Prophecy?
    I read Velikovsky, should read those books again, but with hundreds of
    pages of new stuff here on the net to consume….
    Anyway, Huggies. I was gonna repeat Get Off the Sound, and the Coast,
    but I have nothing to offer at 6,000 sparse feet in NM, and little
    hope For This World…Huggies! and waggy waggy pubby doggies…


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    • Bobby1

      The Budski that is being harvested now is mostly grown in a highly contaminated area of northern California. Look for hydroponic.


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      • StillJill StillJill

        Bobby1-The Feds delivered 38 shut down notices in Cali,…a week ago yesterday. My club is being shut down,…Wed. is their last day. I get only indoor. That is over. My cancer will come back without the oil. They are killing me.
        They are threatening to confiscate even the land owner’s property,….armed cops,….day 45 was already well spent before we got our ‘letter’. I was to go before TV cameras yesterday,…but the paper backed out of the interview.
        We are re-set for Wed., the closing farewell to free access to God’s med!

        The very next day,…DLife, (diabetes) sent me an article about medical marijuana’s proven help for blood sugar control. They are already trumping the horn of the FDAs soon coming synthetic marijuana. They will get their ‘cut’,…with or without the voters agreeing,…period!


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  • Whoopie Whoopie

    OT
    New one to me. Cost of Bush Tax cuts:
    http://costoftaxcuts.com/
    Hope you saw this too.
    Send to your Republican Friends (like many in my family)
    Robert Reich – 7 Lies
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mM5Ep9fS7Z0


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  • mancer mancer

    A general (OT) note to all.

    I see a few people mentioning their browser’s are being attacked.

    This certainly seems to be going on. Not just ex-skf.. other fuku watching sites I’ve been to have issues.

    I strongly recommend you at least download, install, run, update, scan with malwarebytes.org and do it NOW! I can’t stress that enough.. you may think you’re safe but in fact you’re carrying a trojan.

    SCAN NOW !

    If you have been seriously compromised, you may have to reboot in ‘safe mode’ (press F8 when booting to see the options).

    One way to tell if you have big problems is when malwarebytes stops unexpectedly.

    You may need to make a copy to USB or CD, then run from that in ‘safe mode’

    Now the other tool that may save you from really heavy infection is TDDSsKiller from kaspersky.com

    If you have been around this circuit of fuku websites you are most likely infected. SCAN NOW!


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    • anne anne

      Get a firewall as well.


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      • mancer mancer

        that’s very true.

        a software firewall if you must have a modem directly attached to your computer.

        but i highly recommend you should have a router between your modem and pc, this creates a hardware firewall and is much safer and makes a software firewall redundant.

        i had wondered if a cyber attack may happen to the blogsphere.. there is evidence (anecdotal) that this is on the horizon.

        reinforce your cyber security. scan every time you start your pc or when something unusual/unexpected occurs.


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    • Sickputer

      Slightly offtopic, but public service announcement as a followup to mancer’s excellent advice…Not only scan with Malwarebytes (at http://www.malwarebytes.com) but also if you can swing it get the Pro version for $25 to protect your PC proactively.

      Combine that with a hardwire firewall router. I recommend a great combo wireless and 4-port hardwire router from Netgear that is here and failry inexpensive:

      http://www.walmart.com/ip/NETGEAR-WGR614-Wireless-G-54Mbps-Broadband-Router/2304416

      Rock solid and inexpensive and easy to setup. I have installed many for friends, relatives, and clients. Has an easy CD wizard to get you going quickly on DSL and cable. Have used it on dialup networks also years ago for peer-to-peer networks.

      Add in Microsoft Security Essentials which is free (I don’t use AVG since MSE came out 3 years ago). MSE in my opinion is better thaan any of the name brand AVs.

      Why? Because I come behind and clean up the infections and the name brand AVs have 95% of the infections and MSE machines are 5%. Microsoft engineers are also the only folks who actually know the secret Windows coding and they know exactly how Windows can be breached by attacks. They do not share that information with the commercial AV companies.

      I have many anecdoctal stories of how MSE stopped web attacks (and also Malwarebytes) while other machines running the highly vaunted antivirus programs fell victim. Convinced me from the first week Micrrosoft released MSE.


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  • teamplayer

    Strontium In Yokohama: Citizen Threatened For Breaking The News:

    “He took down his blog overnight which had a ton of useful visual information regarding radiation contamination, and restricted access to tweets after he and his family were anonymously “threatened” after the disclosure of strontium discovery in Yokohama City.

    He says, “The whole purpose of my studying the radiation and radiation contamination and sharing information has been to protect my family, especially our young daughter. There is no point in doing so if my family’s safety is threatened because of it. Please understand.”

    Yes, it’s so “yesterday’s news”, isn’t it, when a citizen is threatened for breaking the news that part of his city has been heavily contaminated by the radioactive fallout from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant? Time to move on. If you don’t see, don’t say, don’t hear anything, it doesn’t exist.”
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/


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