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Radium 'likely cause' of Tokyo supermarket radiation hotspot

National Nov. 02, 2011 - 07:08AM JST ( 15 )

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zichiNov. 02, 2011 - 07:33AM JST

The first reported rad reading was 120 microsieverts per hour
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Elbuda MexicanoNov. 02, 2011 - 08:00AM JST

Thanks! Now I feel so much relief nothing but blue skies and just a tad of radium??
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NetNinjaNov. 02, 2011 - 08:12AM JST

It's in your food. The Emperor isn't wearing clothes.
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gaijintravellerNov. 02, 2011 - 08:28AM JST

Radioactive elements tend to concentrate in places where dust and rain water accumulate such as drains and ditches.

Rain water also accumulates in rice fields during the growing season and reservoirs of drinking water.
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Nicky WashidaNov. 02, 2011 - 08:31AM JST

Where is the supermarket? It just says "Tokyo" - pretty big place! Is it in Setagaya again? And why radium? More bottles buried under the ground?

Kashiwa city in Chiba is hardly a "suburb of east Tokyo".
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zichiNov. 02, 2011 - 08:50AM JST

The high rad area was discovered by a local in the parking area, near the entrance of a supermarket in Setagaya. Was below the tarmac covering.

According to the Ministry of Education and Science, a glass bottle was found 40 centimeters below the surface, which was emitting 40 millisievert/hour radiation. Radium-226 is suspected.

High radiation detected inside the supermarket compound and in the vicinity in Hachimanyama in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo,
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CrazyJoeNov. 02, 2011 - 08:55AM JST

If it were not for the 311 earthquake, all these similar radiation hotspots would probably never have been discovered.
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originalusernameNov. 02, 2011 - 10:12AM JST

I bet this sort of stuff is all over the world. People living on/near radioactive hotspots left by experiments/labs or whatever, and wouldnt know it unless you start scanning for hotspots.
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nigelboyNov. 02, 2011 - 10:23AM JST

If it were not for the 311 earthquake, all these similar radiation hotspots would probably never have been discovered.

Thank god!! Now it explains why Setagaya Ward is ranked ONLY 16th among the top longetivity in all of Japan's city/ward/towns. (sarcasm)
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Nicky WashidaNov. 02, 2011 - 10:40AM JST

zichi - thank you! A little bit more info and suddenly it all makes sense! Still dont think Kashiwa can be considered an "east Tokyo suburb" though!
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Samantha Zoe AsoNov. 02, 2011 - 10:40AM JST

Wow! Think I might start digging up my place....just to be safe!
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Ted BarreraNov. 02, 2011 - 02:11PM JST

So they're gonna blame every hot spot outside of the exclusion zone on radium from now on? Is that the new scapegoat?
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FadamorNov. 02, 2011 - 10:47PM JST

People have been living with these "hotspots" for decades and only discovered it now because of all the amateur detectives with their personal geiger counters checking out the places they frequent. Not necessarily a bad thing to find them, but I laugh everytime somebody immediately equates every discovery to the Daiichi reactors. Some are, but some are not.
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Star-vikingNov. 03, 2011 - 12:07AM JST

Ted Barrera Nov. 02, 2011 - 02:11PM JST

So they're gonna blame every hot spot outside of the exclusion zone on radium from now on? Is that the new scapegoat?

I guess they're going to analyse the hot spots to see what is causing them, no scapegoating.
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WilliBNov. 03, 2011 - 03:48PM JST

There must be thousands of these hotspots around the country. Only now, they are discovered because of the Fukushima panic. Probably a good thing.