Published: September 23rd, 2012 at 12:02 am ET
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0.581μSv/h at an athletic field in Tamura, Fukushima, where children run and breathe the contaminated air. twitter.com/GuciYama/statu…
— FRCSR(@FRCSR)
0.581 microsieverts per hour * 24 hours in a day * 365 days in a year = 5089.56 microsieverts per year or 5.09 millisieverts per year. The Japanese government’s radiation dose limit for the public is set at 1 millisievert per year -Yomiuri
See the children paying near the radiation detector here
Published: September 23rd, 2012 at 12:02 am ET
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Add to that the dark suited workers and other anomalies...
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Oh Please, don't remind them. They'll only raise the limit:
"""The Japanese government’s radiation dose limit for the public is set at 1 millisievert per year"""
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You're absolutely right, dharmasyd!
In microsieverts, the limit would be 1,000 per year.
And as we know, the limit should be ZERO.
A new report says Futaba was the town "worst hit by Fukushima fallout."
It was "exposed to 1,590 microsieverts per hour before first explosion at nuke plant."
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120923a3.html
Futaba's 6,900 residents were evacuated, and ex-skf reported that over 200 are still living in classrooms partitioned with cardboard:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/radioactive-japan-over-200-evacuees.html
Presently, the Japanese gov't considers 0.23 mSv an hour safe. So at that rate, the children of Tamura are getting over twice the amount of radiation considered "safe."
In April, the Japanese gov't lifted the ban on Tamura and said it was safe to live there.
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I wonder where the kids live of the people who have set the limits..
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Bikini Atoll tops out at 4.5 millisieverts per year
Bikini Atoll has been permanently evacuated and is considered uninhabitable to this day.
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All for ''World Peace''..
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Remember the 'too cheap to meter' promise?
Who is going to pay the bill for the cleanup?
Certainly not the people or the industry making all of those promises of clean, cheap and green…
nope, not them…
Any bets?
Taxpayers will end up footing the bill, (if they live long enough) and the nuclear industry will keep on spinning their media releases..
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The numbers of radiation exposure should not be underreported. Yet remember these kids don't play 24 hours a day on that field. In Japanese homes they remove shoes so they should get much less inside their home. There is still great danger from food and water sources contaminated to various degrees.
Continuing this topic….Consider airline workers in flight…they receive 3 to 5 microsieverts per hour while flying just from the standard cosmic radiation. Their annual exposure usually maxes out above the limit for nuclear workers.
So does the airline provide dosimeters. Rarely. And the cheaper ones won't catch the biggest danger in flying.. neutron particles. For a good explanation check this short article:
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/20/how-much-radiation-are-you-exp.html
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