Published: November 28th, 2011 at 5:52 pm ET
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High Radiation Levels in Kashiwa Linked to TEPCO N-Plant, Jiji Press, Nov. 28, 2011:
The Ministry of Environment said Monday that high radiation levels detected in soil in Kashiwa, northeast of Tokyo, in October are likely to be from radioactive cesium released from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima [...]
The ministry said it believes that the contamination was caused by rainwater containing radioactive cesium [...]
The ministry detected up to some 450,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive substances in the soil in Kashiwa, higher than the levels of up to 276,000 becquerels found in the city’s research. [...]
To compare these soil contamination levels to those after the Chernobyl meltdown, a conversion from becquerels per kilogram to becquerels per square meter is used.
“To convert from ‘per kilogram’ to ‘per square meter’, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Commission uses the factor of 65.” (SOURCE)
Therefore, 29,250,000 Bq/m² of radioactive substances were in the Kashiwa soil.
At Chernobyl, cesium contamination above 1,480,000 Bq/m² required migration, 555,000-1.48 million Bq/m² was for temporary migration.
Published: November 28th, 2011 at 5:52 pm ET
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So, a city of 400,000 people has levels of cesium almost 20 TIMES the mandatory Chernobyl evacuation limit, and it hasn’t been evacuated?
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Rainwater contamination from ongoing fallout.
Why isn’t TEPCO actively monitoring/reporting radiation leakage into the atmosphere at the plant?
This amount of accumulation if allowed to go on for 10-20 more years will kill us all.
This dirty bomb is more deadly than exploding and releasing the radiation as heat.
NUKE em before they finish us off.
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Everyone say a prayer. This is the end isn’t it.
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It’s hell on earth and no one wants to spill the beans. Just you wait until 3 months from now when the 1 year levels of exposure will start to show up at the hospital. I was hoping there was more time but with levels like this there is no denying there is a crisis situation that is being completely ignored. Millions of Bq is no joke to human health considering 5 thousand Bq can start to cause tissue damage. Here comes the silent death.
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YES it is Maaa.
Theses levels are only the beginning.
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Dpl
I think your optimistic with10-20 years. parhaps the Mayans thing ain’t so crazy.
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entropy
+1
It should now be clear that fukushima is the biggest disaster in the history of earth.
Only preceded by the extinction of the dinosaurs.
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Oh, Mensch. This is really, really bad.
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0.5 million Bq/kg from Chiba
In Kashiwa,Chiba, where they measured 270,000Bq/kg of Cesium in the ground,Ministry of the Environment measured 450,000Bq/kg of cesium from 5~10 cm deep underground.
Measurement was conducted on 1,2/11/2011 ,result was …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/0-5-million-bqkg-from-chiba/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_Prefecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashiwa,_Chiba
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Kashiwa is around 30km from Tokyo centre – surely the Japanese must now evacuate Tokyo!
Either the official levels to date have been extremely misleading, or something very serious has happened recently at the plant.
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evendine,
Welcome, yes it is getting worse all the time and huge populations are being affected ! Others swore to protect sold their souls for greed an age old disease of want in multiples !
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JP Gov rejects learning from Chernobyl
Although a Fukushima team went on a study trip to Chernobyl and all members were shocked by the reality they found there, they are not trying to learn anything
“Both Ucraina and Belarus, having as a goal the …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/jp-gov-rejects-learning-from-chernobyl/
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Hi xdrfox – great site – have been following the news here from the beginning…
Does anyone have a list of soil rad levels over time around Tokyo since 3/11?
Would be interesting to try to figure out when the levels jumped so much.
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Just spotted this on EX-SKF – clearly this isn’t the first serious hotspot found in Kashiwa:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/kashiwa-citys-radioactive-dirt-276000.html
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evendine, hi hi
I am sure there are a number of sites that have kept records, or daily reports !
Here is one: To go back each day click previous at bottom of the page !
Daily radiation levels in eastern Japan
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html
Let me know if you find anything interesting or discrepancies !
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evendine,
Oh, to speed things along or to jump to specific date you may type in/change the numerical numbers in the http: bar and go to the date you type in, it must be correctly done, just backup and redo date if you mistype a date !
Good luck in your quest !
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Thx
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Quarter of world’s landmass ‘highly degraded’: UN
“The UN food agency warned Monday that a quarter of the world’s landmass is “highly degraded,” making it difficult to meet the food needs of a booming population.
“Humankind can no longer treat these vital resources as if they were infinite,” said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) based in Rome.
“The time for business as usual is over,” Diouf told reporters, calling the FAO’s assessment of the planet’s resources, a first for the organisation, a “wake-up call”……..”
The survey found that 25 percent of the world’s land is “highly degraded” and 44 percent is “moderately degraded,” while only 10 percent was classified as “improving”.”
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/un-food-agency-warns-worlds-farmland-risk-143322040.html
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Breakdown of world land degradation: graph
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/newsroom/docs/land-status.pdf
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Now that’s a big bummer.
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**The report said land degradation was worst down the west coast of the Americas, across the Mediterranean region of southern Europe and north Africa, across the Sahel and the Horn of Africa and throughout Asia.**
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@ admin three moderated comments.. only need the first one!!
must be something i said? 
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Tokyo; Is It Safe From Fukushima Radiation?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3076288
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didnt see this represented for instance!!
http://homebrewedtheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/chernobyl_fallout.jpg
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