Published: September 20th, 2012 at 12:48 am ET
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A Japanese source has written into ENENews with the following information:
People’s experience
A. Denim which were kept in a drawer in a Tokyo flat for about 9 months after the Fukushima accident.
She wore these for about 10 days in Tokyo, and then evacuated to Kyushu. She washed these about 10 times but the radiation level was still high so she disposed them.
The same person [...] left a boxful of children’s clothes for about half a year in a dusty room in her Tokyo flat. She washed them about five times but still the radiation level was 0.4μSv/h so she disposed them.
B. A lady in Saitama city found her husband closet was the highest level of radiation. (April this year)
C. Somebody’s friend in Fukushima says that the wardrobe is the highest in radiation in a room.
More from the source:
The message is, if one goes out of area with higher radiation level, one needs to decontaminate oneself and belongings otherwise one either spreads radioactive contamination in the lower radiation areas, or can not escape from radioactive materials. My understanding is hair, clothing especially the ones not often being washed such as jacket, coat, jumper, fleece, as well as trousers (upper thigh area, hem area). Your other belongings as well, like a bag, wallet, paper, anything.
These are important even one is not Japanese, but holiday makers to Japan when going back to one’s own country.
Published: September 20th, 2012 at 12:48 am ET
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I would think shoes would be the worst contaminated.
There was a report earlier this year about the high radiation on the courseway of train stations.
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We should all know and probably be following 'basic' mitigation techniques.
Such as… Shoes off! (good point SP)
Washing of clothing and ones self is also supposed to help.
But, this part of the comment contradicts my understanding. (?)
– "She washed them about five times but still the radiation level was 0.4μSv/h so she disposed them."
NOTE: However, she IS the one with the cloths and if they are not coming 'rad' clean, then disposing was appropriate. So maybe a good 'self reminder' is that just because they're washed does not necessarily mean they are radiation free.
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"In addition, from winter to spring, there were unusual increases in all types of infectious diseases, such as an explosive spread of influenza, food poisoning such as E. Coli O-157 in rainy season, rubella, mycoplasma pneumonia, chlamydial pneumonia. (Refer to the Infectious Disease Surveillance Center at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases. http://www.nih.go.jp/niid/en/) It is possible to attribute an increase in infectious diseases to depressed resistance, but on the other hand, these symptoms could be attributable as early symptoms of leukemia. It is a pathophysiological fact that Merkmal of leukemia includes fatigue, cold-like symptoms, and bleeding tendency such as easy bruising and epistaxis. If the recurrent cold-like symptoms since last year are due to changes in white blood cells, the number of future leukemia cases might be beyond our imagination. Already there are many reports of abnormalities in white blood cell count and neutrophils…"
http://optimalprediction.com/wp/. Many thanks to Bobby1 for your work. This is going to be the telling of a gruesome tale of human decline due exclusively to utility greed and nuke industry evil. End nuke power now!
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Radiation causes cancer.
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These closets-full of contaminated clothing are not a problem. Just contact the local authorities, who will pick them up and send them to be incinerated.
The incinerators are operated by TEPCO subsidiaries, and TEPCO could really use the money that more business will bring them.
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If the world only knew the truth.
This radiation contamination problem is now found everywhere around each of us.
This form of radioactive contamination is now found inside buses, hotel rooms, taxis, planes, motel rooms, timeshares, restaurants and even inside our homes etc. and its now simply spreading everywhere we go and all of this radiation contamination is invisible.
Thus the hidden health nightmare being brought into all of our daily lives through this 60 year old Nuclear Technology Folly. Many people are now profiting nicely behind the scenes.
Few of us human's are truly aware of this nuclear dark plague now spreading across the entire globe and which is now silently and secretly affecting all of our daily lives.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030125_thyroid_cancer_radioactive_iodine.html
Weep for all of us…
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I wonder if the media reports concerning mercury in tuna and arsenic in rice are not in fact cesium and the MSM has been instructed not to use the word radiation. Things that make ya go hmmm.
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This is mind boggling that these people need to think in this context!
And how many "holiday makers in Japan" will there be? I thought it terribly brave of the Gundersens to travel to Japan…haven't seen Helen Caldicott or Leuren Moret go there and probably won't: being female and bio experts, these women know about 3 times the radiation sensitivity as men, as we are now hearing reports of here in the thyroid malformation rates among Fukushima children.
My tools are not sensitive enough to read the plutonium levels in my attic dust here in the Northeast, so I have no elevated geiger readings except occasionally in the air or rain, never more than 1 1/2 times background…I think a pretty safe place to live, for now, till the next meltdown or SPF4 goes, whichever comes first.
I do know that this single event has forever changed my views about my govt's ability or desire to protect my health and safety!
Attn: All Washington Officials – Keep the radionuclides away from our bodies and our food, water and air, this is to be your Primary Function…don't worry so much about when al qiada might invade in their primitive boats with their primitive weapons, or pass the TSA screeners by posing as their boss, I and my family will take care of them at our driveway, just like Americans have always done…Spirit of 1776 style.
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