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Miyagidad
Nandakandmanda, good point, there are all kinds of isotopes lying around everywhere, cesium is the most prelevant as far as we are aware - I recieved a letter from TEPGOvts lawyers that there is no proximate cause for us to have removed our family from an area 5-10km from one of the compulsory evacuation zones. Actually I am quite shocked that TEPGOvt is allowing the US anywhere near this - a few months ago their lawyers were arguing that the ownership of radioactive particles was transferred once released from the reactors - if it lands in your lungs or land, you own it - breathtaking!!
I have been out of southern Miyagi for a couple of months now and it sounds like things have not improved - they are trying to shrink the evacuation zone, while there are reports of new leaks, mysterious black powder on the streets in some of the towns just outside. Tokyo has had at least 2 waves of high radiation flow over it - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?.
Random samples of earth taken back to the US by Arnie Gunderson were tested recently and would be classed as nuclear waste in the US - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
This makes this type of initiative vital. however the real question should be - WHY are we decontaminating at all when the likelihood of RE-CONTAMINATION is huge.
The spent fuel pools on top of reactors, 3 and 4 contain enough irradiated fuel to make a good part of the country uninhabitable if the water drains from the damaged containers - very real problem that even prompted a senior Japanese diplomat, ex ambassador to Switzerland to send a letter to Ban Ki Moon about his fears for a global catastrophe http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
The disgraceful situation has been brought in front of the people of the US, Senator Ron Wyden after his tour of the plant decried the incredibly weak defences against another tsunami, a few backs of rocks and raised the spent fuel pools issue, these pools have no back up pumping systems, they are listing, will crack in a M7 earthquake, would potentially release 85 times the amount of Chernobyls cesium - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
I hope, pray that this change will be a real one, but we have been shafted so many times that I doubt that - all the while TEPGOvt keep telling us it is safe and we will be able to return to decontaminated areas soon.
Posted in: American engineers design plan to help Fukushima clean-up
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Miyagidad
So, they are bringing in an outsider??? and he will be replacing the head of the turkey, and this classes as news in Japan. I have been out of southern Miyagi for a couple of months now and it sounds like things have not improved - they are trying to shrink the evacuation zone, while there are reports of new leaks, mysterious black powder on the streets in some of the towns just outside. Tokyo has had at least 2 waves of high radiation flow over it - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?.
Random samples of earth taken back to the US by Arnie Gunderson were tested recently and would be classed as nuclear waste in the US - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
The spent fuel pools on top of reactors, 3 and 4 contain enough irradiated fuel to make a good part of the country uninhabitable if the water drains from the damaged containers - very real problem that even prompted a senior Japanese diplomat, ex ambassador to Switzerland to send a letter to Ban Ki Moon about his fears for a global catastrophe http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
The disgraceful situation has been brought in front of the people of the US, Senator Ron Wyden after his tour of the plant decried the incredibly weak defences against another tsunami, a few backs of rocks and raised the spent fuel pools issue, these pools have no back up pumping systems, they are listing, will crack in a M7 earthquake, would potentially release 85 times the amount of Chernobyls cesium - where are TEPGOvt talking about that?
I hope, pray that this change will be a real one, but we have been shafted so many times that I doubt that - all the while TEPGOvt keep telling us it is safe and we will be able to return to decontaminated areas soon.
Good luck Shimokobe-san
Posted in: Shimokobe to become TEPCO chairman
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Miyagidad
From what I have been reading online, the hydrogen levels have been rising over the last 2 weeks, as of yesterday registering 4 times higher and the temperature was at 103%, but this article says differently. There was a radiation spike detected over Tokyo (Adachi-ku and Shinagawa-ku monitors) reading 3 times the 'normal' level at about 2230 on March 25 - this would suggest a venting of the radioactive gases to avoid another explosion - nothing from the govt or TEPCO - maybe we can graft those together because they are pretty much the same thing - TEPCOvernment.
I have joined my family in the UK now, our thoughts are with all of our family and friends we left behind in Ishinomaki, Marumori, Sendai and Tokyo - be safe!!!
Posted in: TEPCO says Fukushima No. 2 reactor water level only 60 cms from bottom
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Miyagidad
The timeline for the Fukushima explosions was not 4 days, but within 24 hours of the tsunami, plenty of time to heavily contaminate a lot of debris being swept back into the sea.
1st explosion Saturday afternoon, c.1530, 12th March - Reactor 1
Posted in: Fishing boat lost in tsunami spotted off western Canada
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Miyagidad
Farm - Ibaraki Factory farming - bad Eating meat - environmentally unfriendly Dead pigs from fire - full insurance cover Pigs unfit for human consumption due to radiation - virtually no compensation
Expectation - more fires in the future, more suicides of organic farmers in the region
Posted in: 500 piglets burn to death in blaze
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Miyagidad
Elbuda, you make a good point, but my point here is less than 5% of students in Sendai - you can see the tsunami area from the classroom windows. Also the survey question was not on the ground volunteering, it was any assistance/volunteering of any kind, anywhere, anytime. Elsewhere, the numbers were much lower.
The common answer to what they were doing to help was to simply continue shopping to support all of the chain stores in the city providing minimum wage jobs -- very poor response.
Posted in: Volunteers still needed in Tohoku
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Miyagidad
I worked up in the Ishinomaki area for over half a year and saw volunteer numbers drop off dramatically up to about a month ago when I left Japan. I also did an unscientific survey of over 1,000 students in Sendai universities and was shocked to find that less than 5% of them had volunteered any time from Mar 11,2011 until Feb 2012. From what I understand this is not unusual, this was a great concern and we initiated volunteer seminars and info centre in the city.
If the youth of Japan have not been spurred into action by the Tsunami and nuclear incident, I wonder what calamity can ever drag them away from the nightly dross on TV, their keitai or the web.
Posted in: Volunteers still needed in Tohoku
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Miyagidad
Squidbert, marcelito,
I appreciate your comments, it is difficult not to feel terrible as I pack up everything and say final goodbyes. The shame is of course upon the powers who be, but I feel I am abandoning people we care about, I know that is a deep vein of feeling among the locals we are leaving behind.
In reply to nisegaijin, simple answer here - if Tokyo people want reactors, they should be built in Tokyo, not in Tohoku - they have exported all the risk and filth up to us here - our safety was less important than theirs (less human?) . Also, who gave them the right to call the plants 'Fukushima' - this has tainted an entire prefecture that will never recover it's name - these plants are 'Tokyo' plants and should have been named thus.
Have a referendum with those issues on the table. Then the % of voters who say yes to reactors should equal the % of contaminated waste that is delivered to Tokyo for disposal or storage.
Posted in: Tokyo activists demand nuclear power referendum
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Miyagidad
Hi Yasukuni, thanks for heart felt comments - you are right that we put a lot into the area, we have some lovely memories and met wonderful people. However I think it is time we tried somewhere new. My wife is from Ishinomaki and mum and dad and much of our family/friends were in the ship building/breaking business - unfortunately their lives were devastated on 3.11. There seems a very different reaction among the thousands of people I have met as a volunteer and program coordinator in the tsunami areas and the officials and people's reactions to Fukushima. Miyagi and north has always been classed as the Tsunami area, a clean disaster that warrants an outpouring of goodwill, however the fact Fukushima was hit by the tsunami and there was huge loss of life and property is very much secondary and the whole Fukushima disaster is seen as dirty disaster, one where so many people are complicit that people are very guarded about their response.
Who has suffered - the children, I have heard a third of children tested recently are showing lumps in their thyroids, fatigue, nosebleeds and other conditions are rising. There are more kids that have been exposed than people who signed this petition - once again I have to say that I am incredibly disappointed in the people of Japan, the parents who turn their backs on this and as for the way of doing business/government, a fully believable situation where no one takes responsibility for this man made tragedy and noone will be held to account.
We love Okinawa, maybe one day in the distant future that could be an option, but I will wait for all of my kids to turn 20 (another 14 years) and they can make up their own minds.
I leave with a very heavy heart and feel a deep sense of shame at leaving our community, and the people we came to share our lives with, but our connections will carry on and good luck with the referendum, if it ever actually takes place.
Posted in: Tokyo activists demand nuclear power referendum
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Miyagidad
Took 2 months to collect a paltry 250,000 signatures, should have taken 2 days. Goes to show that Tokyo/Kanto residents don't give a (%#!% about anyone except themselves. I hazard a guess the names are mainly from the older sections of society - the youth are pitifully disinterested. I was asked yesterday to please tell the world about what is continuing to happen up here, my retort was that the world doesn't show much interest any more because the Japanese people have failed to hold anyone to account. In 10 months , no criminal investigation, no politician dragged into court, no single national figure has stood up to champion the Fukushima people and the cause of denuclearisation.
I for one have had enough, we have decided to abandon our life, new house and friends in southern Miyagi, not a penny of help, less of official sympathy - the people of Fukushima have been, and continue to be treated like animals and this pathetic turn out shows few people care enough to simply add a name to a lousy petition.
Just reread this post, looks rather bitter, can't be helped - just hope any kind of poll has some positive effect - doubt that very much though.
Goodbye Japan
Posted in: Tokyo activists demand nuclear power referendum
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Miyagidad
understandable and emotive call from local people traumatized by these events, however it is the duty of officials to protect the people and this is a total failure to do that. The risks of further large earthquakes are very high. The reality of total melt throughs, steam explosions, continued releases of radioactivity and hot particles, secondary contamination from burning or pollen and ground water pollution have not been assessed yet or have only been assessed with less than 10 months of data.
Local officials do not have the capacity or training to make these decisions, even in consultation with central govt as they can't grasp the full picture or access and understand independent sourced information. My wife and I know our local nuclear incident 'expert', he was put in place by our local govt to serve our local area of 16,000 residents many wirthin 40-50kms of the plants and some within 10km of IItate mura, a farmer with no knowledge of the science or incident - in fact we have been consulted and asked to provide information for them, rather than the other way round - this also true of all of the areas that were evacuated.
Tepco and the govt have admitted they have no model for forecasting the effects of the disaster, until they do local officials are simply leading their people back into harms way, but then the trauma that has been caused by the criminal acts of the major players here is clear for all to see.
I fear for the future of my friends here.
Posted in: Mayor of village near Fukushima plant urges residents to return to homes
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Miyagidad
Ok, the govt has shirked responsibility - no shock there.
Now, set up a voluntary fund that has shares of contribution matching the amount of money the company, organisation, political party, consumer has benefited from nuclear energy, TEPCO ties, cheap electricity, here is the twist - set the rates and then any party who refuses must state its reasons, apply publicly to be exempt, meet with the families of the children etc.
that will allow to work out exactly which companies, organisations etc. to boycott in the future - name and shame them.
Posted in: Gov't says no to free medical care for children under 18 in Fukushima
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Miyagidad
P.S. lets not forget that the tourism industry has been compensated upto 80% for their losses, while farmers and home owners covered by the radioactive filth have been barely compensated within Fukushima and not at all if you live in Ibaragi, Miyagi or elsewhere, curious?
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Miyagidad
anybody shocked by this has been asleep over the past 10 months
Posted in: At least 10 groups dealing with disaster kept no detailed records of meetings
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Miyagidad
huge increase in fossil fuel imports. The alternatives are proven, clean and readily available - the debate is over but the vested interests and our power hungry lifestyles won't permit a sustainable future.
Posted in: Chugoku Electric shuts Shimane No. 2 reactor, leaving Japan with only 3 reactors online
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Miyagidad
come on - tourists are sensible, they don't believe a single word of reassurance from a criminally negligent government, and what in the past 10 months has proved them wrong?
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Miyagidad
So, see if I understand this ---we lost our house due to excessive levels of radiation ---TEPCO and govt has refused compensation of any kind due to location a breath inside Miyagi on the Fukushima border ---they destroyed the local environment---but if I use money I don't have---they use my taxes-----to give me eco-points---to bring my family back ---so they can live in an eco-nightmare----get sick---then use medical services paid for by taxes again.
Great, now I am clear on that, it all makes sense ---find me a builder.
Posted in: Japan starts eco-point program for housing
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Miyagidad
fair comment Nicky, some peers have come out against it - using this logic most stats coming out of govt would therefore be similarly unreliable as they are funded by the pronuke lobby.
My point is where are the baseline stats for Japan in this regard and how much research has been done since. Children in our villages just 15km from the evacuation zone have been tested once, over 2 months ago and results have yet to be released. Nosebleeds, blackend eyes, severe fatigue, metallic taste in the mouth and lack of concentration - the kids are suffering and this flu will probably be even worse than usual
Posted in: Flu cases increasing rapidly across Japan; Tokai hard hit
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Miyagidad
Still not sure why releases about TEPCO and the government's handling of the nuclear crisis are not under the Crime heading on this site?
Posted in: Plan calls for TEPCO to be nationalized for at least 10 years
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Miyagidad
I hope this will end up being a standard flu season, rather than something else. However we should consider the real possibilitiy that the effects of Iodine and Xenon gas exposure, even at low levels depresses our immune systems - that is what the thyroid gland is all about.
The peer reviewed, reported statistical analysis in the US of between 14,000-20,000 additional deaths of the immune system compromised (babies,Aids,aged) caused by Fukushima fallout should be considered here. On one of the radio shows, the researcher wondered aloud whether the Japanese govt has even been tracking these types of stats - unfortunately past experience leads us to believe that is a no. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdow_6pN6jY
Vaccinations, from all accounts that I have read over the years, they do give excellent cover for the flu strains selected, however they depress the immune system for other conditions, other strains of flu, common colds and possibly pnumonia etc.
Everyone take care and I hope compassion for our fellow man will shine through in the coming years, unlike over the last 9 months of nuclear crisis.
Posted in: Flu cases increasing rapidly across Japan; Tokai hard hit