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  • My knowledge is most probably worse than yours from what i've read of your stuff .

    What I understand is he is in a state, mostly for the sake of the children and the pregnant women.
    One of the only valid points in recent history where we can actually say "Think of the Children!" and not do so as a funny phrase.

    He really believes that the younger children, and the unborn are going to have severe repercussions because of this. Their cells divide much quicker than in fully grown adults (over the age of 28 to be on the safe side). They would therefore be subject to more malformations and DNA corruption than the older of us.
    I think he also states that no real work has been done on this, bar what happened in Chernobyl, where a lot of the data was 'covered' as something else, and so becomes scientifically invalid, or very hard to decipher.

    I am very grateful for this dude, whose blog is (was) mainly about financial investments and the such, but has now become a hotbed for local/national Japanese info about Fukushima.

    Over here, we barely hear about it anymore, once a month they may say something, but the facts are that the ionized gases have been spewing more or less since day 1, and to the Japanese Gov't, " All if fine, go away and let these people get on with their lives as if nothing has happened.".
    Fukushima is set to become a testbed for radiation sickness treatment, and radiation cleanup. they are looking at this as a good thing, they can set up a new industry for the safety of Nuclear Power.

    Knowing now, that Uranium and plutonium reators are basically the birthplaces of Nuclear weapons, and that other options for Nuclear power were not followed due to their incapacity to produce weapons grade material makes me a bit sick.
    We've all seen these "Hippies" protest Nuclear Power for F-ing ages, but only now do I fully understand what the hell they were protesting about. Maybe if we didn't always have pictures of unclean dreadlocked tree-huggers things could have been different. But then again, the free press died a long time ago.

    How long do you think the environs of Fukushima are going to be inhabitable ?
    Chernobyl has quite a huge No-Go area, and so should Fukushima. they are just a bit more stretched for place there, and so they are going to shrink the No-Go area to as small as is possible.

    As one of the guys said, what the F--k is going to happen when the rice harvest time comes ?
    A large part of the Japanese's staple diet comes from rice!
    Mixing with old, unradiated rice will probably be the solution, so you'll have one grain of highly irradiated rice within lots of non-irradiated rice.
    Russian Roulette.
    Maybe we should rename it to Japanese Roulette ?

    Maybe the whole Gov't should relocate to Fukushima to prove the point that it is safe ? If they don't it would prove something anyway

    edit : and they just had a 6.4 earthquake off the coast, but no damage at the plants (so it is said, but we might never be told).
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    • I also think that the different radiation reading like Becquerel, Rem, and Sieverts, per Kg, M^2, per Hour, per year, or whatever aren't helping the population, they are more misleading than anything.

      From what I see (and I am very good at seeing the negative side of things) the Japanese are going to be importing a LOT of food for the foreseeable future.
      The Japanese will lose faith in their own food production, if they haven't already, which is very bad for their economy.

      [not serious}I think they should install a "Battle Royale" law for those responsible, and make them live on an island together where they only have the "Safe" food to eat. And if that doesn't work, they should then proceed to kill each other until there is only one left [/not serious}

      Make Takeshi Kitano (aka Beat Takeshi) the new PM. No one would dare F--k with him, and he is very, very well known in Japan.
      If Ronald Reagan could make it in the US, maybe he can make it in Japan.
      edit : In the first month, he openly criticized PM Kan for his lack of 'responsability'. (I can't find any text of any suggestions he may have made about what to do in the aftermath).

      edit2 : Piccy of the reactions to the 6.4 earthquake, USGS hasn't got anything yet:
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      • Originally posted by Brian Ellis View Post
        Interesting. I had a look at his publications on PubMed: I found exactly 1,928 of them, covering all aspects of medical research. I tried to narrow it down to where his name was early in the list (better chance of being involved in the actual research and not just a referee) and found a few reviews that he had signed solo. I admit that many of the titles were above my head and, unfortunately, were published in Japanese (my vocabulary of which is confined to perhaps 25-50 words). Very few were involved with radiation and those that appeared more often dealt with radiotherapy, a different kettle of fish.

        He is obviously a very prominent member of the faculty and is head of the radioisotope treatment centre. Are his major academic qualifications sufficient to justify this angry tirade where he likens Fukushima, with no radiation deaths, to 20 Hiroshima bombs which would result in millions of deaths, or is this hyperbole? He obviously feels strongly, but has emotion overcome scientific fact? I don't know. Unfortunately, I have not come across a paper on the subject, which might be more easily evaluated than an oral presentation with political content.

        In fact, I could not help a mental comparison of what he said and how he said it with the events leading up to and after the 11 July catastrophe on this island and the presentations made by numerous experts and politicians. This, of course, also took out a major power station.
        Radiotherapy, or, the ingestion of radioactive materials for medical imaging.
        I think he knows quite a bit about what ingesting radionucleides can do to your internal organs.
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        • Originally posted by Evildead666 View Post
          Radiotherapy, or, the ingestion of radioactive materials for medical imaging.
          I think he knows quite a bit about what ingesting radionucleides can do to your internal organs.
          Don't I know it! I had a course of RT 16 years ago and I still suffer from the side-effects of destroyed tissue. However, I suppose it's better than the alternative; at least others can listen to my complaints!
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          • At least you know what dosage of what radioisotope you got

            Compare that to unknown doses of unknown numbers of radioisotopes.
            I wonder how long it will take before people start to get ill, and if they will be treated as radiation sufferers, or "anything else so we can keep a straight face".

            Everyone here remembers that the Chernobyl cloud officially didn't enter France at all. It stopped at the frontier with Germany, didn't have a passport, and stayed there. I think its still official policy that the cloud didn't go over France.
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            • A Japanese Photographer got unauthorized access to Fukushima I Nuclear plant, and took some pictures.
              He apparently took over 100 pictures, but here are a few on his webpage, and on The Guardian Newspapers website.



              Kazuma Obara became the first photojournalist to gain unauthorised access to the power plant


              Lets not forget that this isn't over yet, and that gases are still leaking out, albeit in a much lower volume, but any volume of gases like that isn't good.
              We also still don't know where the fuel is in the reactors. If its still in the reactors even.
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              • A scientific paper about the deposition of Iodine-131 and Cesium-137 using a computer model.
                Only covers March 11-29.

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                • I'm not sure if they're simulating weather patterns for that time, since we have records of the weather, and that should help greatly to provide deposition data.

                  The USA had the best idea right from the start, 80Km minimum evac area.
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                    Short fictional story. (<5mn) Related to Fukushima, but fictional nonetheless.
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                    • Fukushima was the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Who would still want to work at the plant? And yet, thousands of people go there every day to work at cleaning away the radioactive debris and…


                      France 24's little 16 min video report at Fukushima. In English
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                      • Applies only to lower doses, but still...

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                        • Japans Gov't announced today that the Nuclear Reactors are in "Cold Shutdown", and part 2 of their plan is done. Where is the Corium again ? Oh yeah, we don't know.

                          This opens up certain areas inside the 20Km evac-zone for the return of residents, or more reliably put, the Gov't/Tepco will no longer be paying indemnities to anyone who was living on those zones and was told to evacuate.
                          Either you go home or you stay where you are, but we aren't paying any more.

                          They have also decided to up the annual radiation limit for the population to 20 milli-sieverts, from the previous 1 milli-sievert. "Its safe".

                          They also seem to have announced that the past/present/future leakages of liquids are effectively "Zero", since they happened when the plant was in a state of emergency. Even the 'low-level' radioactive water they released knowingly into the ocean is to be considered "Zero". Even if they release more into the ocean in the future, that will also be considered "Zero".

                          I know many of you dislike this blog http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/ and think its bollocks, but you show me where I can get translations of Japanese print and online media, done reliably, and for free ?
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                          • Lest we forget.

                            One year anniversary on its way, and things aren't looking anywhere near 'fixed' yet.

                            The BBC did a 1hr program on Fukushima last week, which was interesting.
                            BBC - This World : Inside the Meltdown.
                            Its available on iPlayer for those that have UK proxies, or can be found via Google 'elsewhere'.
                            It contains some previously unseen footage.
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                            • Been watching a lot about Fukushima, quakes and tsunamis on NHK lately. Did you know Osaka (pop. 2.7 million) is at high risk of major devastation if a high tsunami occurs? Such has been recorded at an estimated 10-15 m twice in written history and the protection currently (steel walls with gates in places 6 m high) is insufficient, especially if a quake prevents the gates from closing. Various other places as well. They showed a core which was drilled 12 km inland, with a stratum of sand from a tsunami, which they could date at 400-odd AD, from ash from an eruption shortly after. This was in an area where a large part of Japan's rice is cultivated. Yokohama (pop 3.7 million) and Japan's most important port was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake (Kanto) in 1923. The rubble was used to claim land along the waterfront to build an attractive park, over a km long. No major tsunami has ever been recorded there but the possibility exists and there is little protection.
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                                The BBC documentary "Children of Fukushima" in full.
                                Get it before its pulled. Its heart wrenching to hear kids talk about it in their own words.
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