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Mayor: “I thought the reading must be a mistake” — AFP: Radiation levels in Tokyo “much higher” than previously reported — Decontamination not working

Published: October 13th, 2011 at 8:30 am ET
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SOURCE: Radiation hotspot detected in Tokyo: reports, AFP, October 13, 2011:

TOKYO — [...] Japanese media said researchers found radiation levels of 3.35 microsieverts per hour along a street in the west of [Tokyo] — 220 kilometres (136 miles) from Fukushima — much higher than previously reported levels. [...]

[...] Radiation levels in the area have not fallen since [Setagaya] ward’s efforts to decontaminate it on October 6, and authorities are instructing children to avoid the walkway as they go to school.

Setagaya Mayor Nobuto Hosaka told TBS: “I thought the reading must be a mistake when I first heard” [...]

Read the report here: AFP: Radiation hotspot detected in Tokyo: reports

Published: October 13th, 2011 at 8:30 am ET
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14 comments to Mayor: “I thought the reading must be a mistake” — AFP: Radiation levels in Tokyo “much higher” than previously reported — Decontamination not working

  • Tacomagroove
    October 13, 2011 at 8:42 am

    interesting thought…

    If this is not the short half life radiation…

    Wouldn’t that mean that…

    __________ and ________ is everywhere; Amongst: ________, __________, ________.

    ect..

    WILL YOU DEMAND AN EVACUATION YET???


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  • Whoopie Whoopie
    October 13, 2011 at 8:52 am

    BBC reporting Radiation Spike not due to Fuk
    Came from a house?!?
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15285843


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    • westcoastgirl westcoastgirl
      October 13, 2011 at 10:52 am

      Although this may sound unbelievable, it could actually be true…I’m saying this because my friend borrowed my Geiger counter, and tested it on a radioactive lens just to see what would happen. The readings were off the charts- 19.0 mvSV per hour, which he thinks was as high as the Geiger counter would read. So it was probably higher than that. This was an old lens from WW 2 I think.

      What makes it seem fishy to me is that they found high levels on the rooftop, but it sounds like the bottles were in the house somewhere. I’ll have to reread the article, but it seems like it would be hard for the radioactivity to make it that far…but I don’t know that for sure.


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  • Bobby1
    October 13, 2011 at 9:23 am

    Maybe if they didn’t burn radioactive sludge in Tokyo it wouldn’t be so bad. What’s the point of decontamination if you’re just gonna contaminate the area again?


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  • catweazel
    October 13, 2011 at 9:32 am

    and still no effort to standardize nor collect public/private measurements to get an accurate map of what did spread where. japan must be flooded with geigers by now.


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  • TheWorldIsBlind
    October 13, 2011 at 9:32 am

    Come on ENEnews we were making progress yesterday. Again this is one step-forward with two steps-backwards. Let’s just get to the admitting. Do the people of the world not deserve to know this information? Hide, hide, hide, but we ALREADY know whats going on there. Tokyo is more contaminated than the people who think its “more contaminated than previously thought”, meaning its doubly more contaminated. I swear the next article better read :

    “Tokyo, Japan – Contaminated – must be evacuated, will remain contaminated for centuries”

    or this website is a JOKE just like all the other MSM’s out there.


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    • pure water
      October 13, 2011 at 9:52 am

      These are the news, and we know that they are strongly filtered. The MSM can afford to create theirs, and repeat them loudly. We need the facts which they hide. I strongly suspect, that emerging reports on the contamination just divert attention from the status of the plants, not reactors, plants!


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  • Tacomagroove
    October 13, 2011 at 9:51 am

    @TheWorldIsBlind

    +100.000.000.000.000.000.000 terabequerrals!


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