Published: August 26th, 2011 at 7:29 am ET
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Fukushima caesium leaks ‘equal 168 Hiroshimas’, AFP, August 25, 2011:
[...] The amount of caesium-137 released since the three reactors were crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami has been estimated at 15,000 tera becquerels, the Tokyo Shimbun reported [...]
That compares with the 89 tera becquerels released by “Little Boy” [...]
The estimate was submitted by Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s cabinet [...]
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Published: August 26th, 2011 at 7:29 am ET
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But these are ‘smiley’ Hiroshimas so they cause no damage as long as you smile back.
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Actually, TEPCO and the Japanese Government have officially renamed x-ray photons to “funtons”. Please use this nomenclature moving forward.
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Keep On Smiling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY
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Dust in the wind, Kansas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hzv0TSSDgU
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The comparison is interesting on a data basis as it gives something people can grasp. 168 atomic bombs gives validity to the dangers, but nuclear plant releases don’t dissipate as quickly so despite very few immediate deaths, the soil will kill people slowly for decades and produce mutated future generations. So sad.
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Just trying to put this into perspective…wouldn’t that be millenniums to come, and all generations to come starting with the present?
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Perhaps it may be put to future generations that many of their genetic defects and diseases e.g. lukemia, thyroid problems, etc., are hereditary.
“Oh, these things run in families. . .”
Basically the ball is back with you the sick or handicapped person.
Problem solved.
No, I’m sure it won’t be. I’m just a cynic.
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“The government, however, argued that the comparison was not valid.”
They’re right, but it’s this disaster that will ultimately prove far worse in the years and decades to come.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF12h19h5uo
Great little diddy by Japanese gent – Rankin
Perhaps this is the level of communication that todays minds will more readily engage with.
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Wow, look at that. I figured at least 110 but I was being conservative.
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The Japanese govt and TEPCO tend to use powers of 10 to hide and disguise issues. Since 168 is a very precise number, let me guess that their actual calculation is 1680 which comes very close to an early 2,000 nuke equivalent estimate.
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168 hiroshima bombs enough to wipe out whole of japan.
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@radegan – You are right about the power of 10 nuclear fakeout.
Quoting Hot Tuna:
http://enenews.com/300000-bqm-radioactive-iodine-deposited-areas-tokyo-march-japan-study-only-includes-131-map
“Based on new ‘lower estimates’ released by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency yesterday, Cs-137 was about 2% and I-131 about 9% of the total radioactive material released between 3/11 and 4/5. I haven’t heard what the other 89% might be.”
If the 168 Hiroshima bombs were based on the radioactive cesium alone, and if the radioactive cesium was 9% of the total radioactive release, the real horrifying number is closer to our estimate of 2000 Hiroshima Bombs.
1,866 Hirohsima bombs according to my calculations.
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8,400 Hiroshima bombs.
I used 9% insted of 2% in my calculation, my bad.
Someone please tell me I’ve got it wrong.
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So can I finally feel somewhat justified in having taken my family and left Japan (Tokyo) shortly after 3-11?
I did not trust the government or TEPCO and I knew that the food contamination issue would arise. I imagine that things will get much worse before they get better. I believe the long term impacts to Japan and the world from this are not anywhere near being understood yet.
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You are totally justified! And very wise. I only wish more people in Japan were in a position to follow your example.
No, we are no where near being able to understand the impacts of this to Japan, to the rest of the world, or to the world economy. I usually ask people at the university where I work what they think of the Fukushima accident…most people even at university think it happened in March, that is is over now, and no one so far has remembered a mainstream news article that tells them all three reactors melted down. I believe the majority of Americans are still unaware of this. They are certainly unaware that the damage is ongoing, and that man made radioactive isotopes are still being released and bioaccumulating throughout Japan. The world’s economy will be lost without Japanese products like Toyota, but the rumor mill has it that many companies have stopped exporting because of the danger their now radioactive product will get turned back at the borders of the countries they are exporting to.
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Here (again) are my notes from an important (and courageous) Dr. Chris Busby interview. He makes several excellent and important points and suggestions.
http://enenews.com/researcher-frightened-closer-
100-km-meltdowns-after-radiation-levels-ive-quite-shocked-amount-video
Researcher too frightened to get closer than 100 km from meltdowns after seeing radiation levels — “I’ve been quite shocked by the amount” (VIDEO)
August 23rd, 2011 at 11:41 AM
Notes are accurate to best of my understanding/ability. Responsibility for any errors is mine.
NOTES:
Japanese govt. is criminally wrong not to evacuate kids & possibly adults from high contam. areas.
War crimes – people responsible for decisions (in govt.) can be so charged. Like Nazi govt.
Trial and long jail time could result.
ICRP constraints – Jap. govt. has permitted higher exposure, and is ‘completely out of order in making the decisions that have been made.’ If it continues in this, it is criminal and should be brought to justice.
ICRP doesn’t work. Was set up in ’52. DNA not discoverd untli ’53. Hazardous new substances were being developed right and left and standards had to be set up. Physcists did it. Treated humans as a bag of water. injected radioactive materials, set levels based on temperature increase in human-sized bag of water. (the point: totally outdated ‘shot in the dark’ ‘safety’(sic)standards still being used.)
ICRP’s function, originally, was as apologist for and defender of industry. IAEA – responsible for radiation related health issues. Blatantly obvious big conflict of interest.
ICRP is there to control the definitions of risk of internal radiation.
Busby has been in several court cases brought by people harmed by internal radiation. People living near nuclear sites, etc. In US and UK., veterans exposed to radioactive testing etc. and developed leukemia. Busby says,”In all of those cases, we succeeded. Findings in favor of ECRR, not ICRP. ICRP could find no expert witnesses to support its standards. In fact its standards are wrong.”
Coriama case, he would testify but only by video, won’t go near it – is frightened to go closer than 100 km to Fuk. and even nervous about being that close, says has been quite shocked by the high levels of radiation.
People acting business as usual in Tokyo, and close to the Fuk. site, but actually there are levels there than can kill you. Invisible but can kill you. Get inside you and kill you. “A lot of my colleagues are dead. They went to Chernobyl.”
Car filter analysis – 5 car air filters. All Fuk. show higher levels but Chiba City one is still high, all contain gamma emitting isotopes, radiation from the plant. One was tested for and did contain at least one alpha emitting particle. Still being analyzed. 1000 times higher – cesium 137 than in nuclear testing in 1933 (which was high).
Radiation is not uniformly distributed, more like a leaf shape, tends to go along river valleys.
People should leave high concentration areas – especially children who are 10 times more affected. Should get out asap.
Also – Govt. must urgently overfly the area and produce accurate radiation density maps which it could do. Old technology. People need to have the info. Info is just not there. Should be made publicly available so people can decide where to go. Along lines of Chernobyl exclusion zones – people should be evacuated.
People who have to remain in lower concentration areas should be compensated. They have been assaulted by deadly substances. Nuclear industry should pay. Japanese and international nuclear industry.
We need to ‘throw as much money as the world has’ to sequester these reactors. All of No. Japan will be unliveable forever if this is not done. It is a global problem, radiation is getting all over, hugh amounts of radionuclides coming out every minute!
Should be a ring of monitors. Monitoring for all the radionuclides. They are not not doing that.
Was horrible – deformation results in Faluja, from uranium. It is very dangerous. Should be monitoring for it.
Science-based threats – suddenly this unimaginably serious consequences accident has been big wake-up call. We cannot trust these ‘experts,’ these so-called ‘scientists’ who are today bought and sold by big business/govt. and have no integrity or dedication to truth.[which is the first guiding principle of scientific inquiry.] It is a kind of jungle.
Nuclear power is a perfect icon of where we have gone wrong, gone astray.
We are now all living in some sort of madhouse in which we are told what to do by these compromised scientists (and our fate is literally in their and their “corporate masters’” hands).
This is not new situation. Has been developing slowly for a long time. Now is almost like an ‘explosive mass.’
He hopes this [biggest nuclear/environmental/ industrial disaster in the history of the planet] will catalyze a reappraisal of this whole area, and not just nuclear – cell phones, GMO foods, toxic pesticides, etc.
His message is that these scientists are telling lies. Science needs to be value free. Now is not. We are on the deck of the titanic and being steered by false, flawed information.
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TEPCO Wants To Restart Units 5 & 6 At Fukushima Daiichi
Aug 25, 2011
This is no joke but it sure sounds like one. TEPCO has been quietly planning to restart units 5 & 6 at the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. As some of the workers pointed out, all of the support services and administration facilities for those reactors are destroyed.
In TEPCO’s current working plans has been …
http://houseoffoust.com/group/?p=2363
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