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Fukushima: 27 Hiroshimas per day, China Syndrome inevitable, Abused Islanders

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Deborah Dupre | Human Rights Examiner
November 21 2011

Fukushima nuclear energy ecocide, ongoing Big Energy human rights abuses

Eight months after 311, a human right to health violation with media blacking out the public health hazards of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the highest radiation to date, the silence was broken Sunday with news that 1600 millisievert per hour at Unit No. 3 reported on Tokyo Broadcasting System, shocking news that the nuclear event is equivalent to 27 Hiroshimas per day. Uehara Harua, architect of Fukushima’s Reactor #3 warned that China Syndrome is inevitable and tons of radioactive contaminated debris is hitting shores of Least Developing Pacific Island nation, Marshall Islands where its Indigenous People’s rights have been gravely violated for years by American scientists studying nuclear weapons on them.

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Cesium Fallout From Fukushima Widespread

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Mizuho Aoki (The Japan Times) | RS_News
 November 18 2011

Simulation determines much of east, northeast likely contaminated.

Shuzi Sato, 48, stands in one of the rice paddies on his farm on the outskirts of Ichinoseki. His family has farmed the same land for 200 years. (photo: EPA)

Radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have reached as far as Hokkaido, Shikoku and the Chugoku region in the west, according to a recent simulation by an international research team.

Large areas of eastern and northeastern Japan were likely contaminated by the plant, with concentrations of cesium-137 exceeding 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of soil in some places, says the study, which was posted Monday on the website of the National Academy of Sciences.

Researchers for the US-based organization said the study, which was based on partial data readings, is the first to estimate potential cesium contamination across the country. But they also played down the incident’s impact on the three distant regions.

“The levels are not something that should raise concerns over agricultural production or human health,” Ryugo Hayano, chairman of the physics department at the University of Tokyo, said in an email interview with The Japan Times.

The simulation indicated that eastern Hokkaido may have been contaminated with up to 250 becquerels per kilogram of cesium-137, while Shikoku and Chugoku were likely tainted with up to 25 becquerels .

The government’s soil contamination limit for growing rice is 5,000 becquerels per kilogram for cesium-137, which has a 30-year half-life, and cesium-134, whose half-life is two years.

Although the study does not cover cesium-134, the results indicate contamination levels were under the limit for most parts of Japan. It’s believed the two cesium isotopes were ejected in roughly equal amounts.

Hayano said that even before the Fukushima disaster, soil throughout Japan contained up to around 100 becquerels of cesium-137 per kilogram due to weapons tests in the Pacific and the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

But the study also confirmed that cesium contamination in eastern Fukushima Prefecture will result in extreme limitations on food production.

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