FUKUSHIMA; HIGH RADIATION FOUND AT 2020 OLYMPIC SITES. OLYMPIC FOOD SAFETY QUESTIONED.

IT'S NOT JUST THAT TEPCO AND THE ABE REGIME HAVE BEEN BUSTED LYING AT LEAST 100 TIMES, IT'S THAT THEY KEEP ON LYING, EVEN THOUGH STUDIES PROVE FUKUSHIMA IS AN ONGOING HAZARD TO HUMAN BEINGS. 

"An ongoing research project and paper by Marco Kaltofen documents radioactive 'hot particles' from Fukushima.
In the 2017 paper they found more than 300 such hot particles from Fukushima Daiichi in Japanese samples. A hot particle was found in a vacuum cleaner bag from Nagoya, over 300 km from the disaster site.

“300 individual radioactively-hot particles were identified in samples from Japan; composed of 1% or more of the elements cesium, americium, radium, polonium, thorium, tellurium, or strontium.
Some particles reached specific activities in the MBq μg− 1 level and higher.”

[NOTE on that MBq μg− 1 : Trying to understand radiation measurements can drive one to drink. I'm about to open another bottle here.
I truly believe the nuclear industry has so many different measurements in order to keep us in the dark and confuse us. Or maybe they buy stock in the liquor industry?

1 kBq = 1000 Becquerels (Bq), 1 MBq = 1000 kBq, 1 GBq = 1000 MBq.
μg means mictograms.

One becquerel (1Bq) is defined as the radioactivity in which one nucleus decays per second. 

It seems to me that it'd simplify things a LOT if they just stated radioactivity amounts by something like, "This amount will fry all your DNA in about a second, this much will take an hour, etc." Or maybe, "Run! Run like hell is after you, or, just sit still and wait to die, running is useless."
Or, "On a scale of 1 to 10, here's your chances of not dying from this within the next 10 years."

A nice article to make it a little less maddening, sort of, can be found <HERE>. 
It's still a whole bunch of bulls--t.]

The study found americium 241 in two house dust samples from Tokyo, 230 km south, and in one from Sendai, 100 km north of the disaster site. The sample set collected in 2016 showed a similar instance of highly radioactive hot particles compared to the 2011 samples.

This appears to show that the threat from these reactor ejected hot particles has not gone away. A majority of the collected samples were from locations declared decontaminated by the national government.

SO, ABE HAS LIED YET AGAIN. THINGS ARE NOT 'UNDER CONTROL'. NOBODY CONTROLS RADIATION. 
BUT, HEY, I KNOW, LET'S SEND OUR YOUNG ATHLETES TO JAPAN ANYWAY!
MAYBE THEY WON'T INHALE ANY MICROPARTICLES OR HIT A "HOT SPOT" OR GET RADIATED MEALS OR DRINK ANY GLOW-IN-THE-DARK "FUKU WATER".
 LETS JUST SEND THEM AS TOKEN SACRIFICES TO GOOD OLD SHINZO ABE AND THE DON'T-GIVE-A-DAMN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE BOYS.
LET THE GAMES BEGIN!


Radiation 'hot spots' near Olympic torch relay in Fukushima.

Environmental group Greenpeace said on Wednesday (Dec 4, 2019) it had detected what it called radiation "hot spots" near the starting point for the upcoming Olympic torch relay in Fukushima, north-eastern Japan.

Japan's environment ministry said the area "in general" was safe but added it was in talks with local communities to survey the region ahead of the Games that open on July 24.

Greenpeace urged fresh radiation monitoring and continued cleanup efforts, saying its surveys had shown areas of high readings near J-Village, a sports complex located about 20km from the nuclear plant damaged in the 2011 tsunami.

Greenpeace said it had detected some spots with radiation levels as high as 1.7 microsieverts per hour when measured 1 meter (3.28 feet) above the surface.

This compared with the nationally allowed safety standard of 0.23 microsieverts per hour, and a normal reading in Tokyo of around 0.04 microsieverts per hour.

The hot spots showed a reading of 71 microsieverts per hour at the surface level, Greenpeace said.

Greenpeace said it had relayed its findings to the Japanese government as well as local and international Olympic organisers.


South Korea still doesn't trust the Abe regime or TEPCO to provide honest readings and will take their own equipment to monitor radiation for their athletes.

South Korea is also pushing for independent radiation checks at Olympic venues and proposing a separate cafeteria for their athletes, citing concerns about contaminated food.

South Korean officials have also drawn up a plan to run a separate cafeteria exclusively for their athletes, to ensure they don't eat food from Fukushima, Lee said.

[Japan has previously announced that it WILL serve food grown in Fukushima Prefecture to athletes and visitors to the Olympics.]

"I'm concerned that Japan may respond emotionally, because the Olympics are seen as very important," said Hiroyuki Kishinev, a former trade official turned professor at Keio University in Yokohama, adding that the dispute would probably continue "or get worse".

Senior diplomats from the two countries held consultations on Tuesday, at which both sides urged the other to ensure the safety of their citizens, according to a statement from the South Korean foreign ministry.

Now, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings is preparing a 1 million tons release into the Pacific Ocean from on-site storage tanks (containing used radioactive cooling water).

South Korea summoned a Japanese diplomat on Monday, with the Foreign Ministry urging Tokyo to look into international organisations' views on the matter and be more transparent about its plans.

[THEY MAKE A GOOD POINT.
Environmentalists say Fukushima water is too radioactive to release. 

"Leaked TEPCO documents show that varying amounts of SIXTY-TWO, 62 radionuclides  including strontium, iodine, cesium and cobalt — have NOT been removed from the water.

The company has also been criticized for refusing to permit independent organizations to test the water that is being stored at the site.
WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE?]

Separately, the Korea Sport and Olympic Committee is set to make an official request that international organisations such as Greenpeace monitor radiation at Tokyo Olympic venues, the committee's press officer, Lee Mi-jin, said.

The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee declined to comment on requests from other countries' organising committees."


DEC. 4, 2019, by 'INDEPENDENT', UK:   
South Korea‘s Olympic committee plans to buy radiation detectors and ship homegrown ingredients to Japan for its athletes at the Tokyo Games because of worries local food may be contaminated by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The Korea Sports & Olympic Committee (KSOC) plans to ship red pepper paste, a key ingredient in Korean dishes, and other foods, and check for radiation in meat and vegetables that can only be sourced locally due to stringent quarantine rules, a KSOC meals plan report shows.

Apparently, ingredients and food will be transported from South Korea as much as possible, possibly including canned food,” Shin Dong-keun, a ruling Democratic Party member of the parliamentary sports committee who was recently briefed by Ksoc, told Reuters in an interview.

“For this Olympic games, food is our team’s main focus so they can provide safe meals for the athletes to erase radiation worries, as opposed to in the past, food was meant to play the supplementary role of helping with their morale.”

The official said South Korea was preparing a separate meals plan due to concerns from the public and politicians over food safety, unlike the United States and Australia whose athletes will mainly eat food provided by the host country, Japan.

Seoul has banned imports of seafood from Japan’s Fukushima region since the nuclear disaster, prompting Tokyo to launch a World Trade Organisation complaint." 

 Japan Times, 26 NOV 19, FUKUSHIMA
Should Fukushima food be served at the Olympics?

“We have requested the Olympic organizers to provide objective data verified by an independent third body,” the South Korean Sports and Olympic Committee said in a statement earlier this year.

“Since Japan repeatedly said its food from Fukushima is safe, we have demanded they provide statistics and data to back up their claims,” an official with the committee said.

The position underlines a long-running problem for Japan: While it points to its extensive, government-mandated checks as proof of safety, many abroad feel the government is not an objective arbiter…….

The International Olympic Committee has said it is still weighing how to handle the matter."

IF THEY GAVE A DAMN ABOUT THE HEALTH OF ANYONE ATTENDING THOSE 'GAMES', THEY'D MOVE IT ALL AWAY FROM JAPAN.


To Make the Olympics Look Good Japanese Government Wants Evacuees To Return To Fukushima.
"While Japan might want to make the Olympics look good, – internationally the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), nuclear nations and global nuclear industries want the Olympics to make the nuclear industry look good.

The Japanese government has already ended subsidies for those “voluntarily” evacuated, meaning that they weren’t in the immediate evacuation zone but left because they lived in Fukushima prefecture and were worried about the radiation levels and the environmental fallout.

One of those evacuees, Kazuko Nihei, told Agence France Presse that she refuses to return to Fukushima City with her daughters even though she’s enduring financial hardship since the government ended her housing subsidy. The reason she refuses to return is because she’s concerned about long term health impacts.

The Japanese government insists that it is safe to return, but as the article notes, they’ve moved the goalposts a bit when it comes to acceptable radiation levels:

It changed the level from 1 millisievert (mSv) a year to 20 millisieverts and says that level of exposure carries far lower cancer risks than smoking or obesity and “can be comparable to the stress from evacuation”.

[THAT IS SIMPLY A LIE. 20 mSv PER FIVE YEARS IS THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED FOR ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WORKERS. THE MAXIMUM FOR AVERAGE CITIZENS IS SET AT 1 mSv PER YEAR. 

"Tokyo University Professor Kosako Toshiso, a specialist on radiation safety, has resigned his position as Special Advisor to the Cabinet. The reason was that Shinzo Abe allowed that 20 mSv per year for Japanese CHILDREN, knowing the harm that would do them. Read his scathing indictment ** of the Japanese government in a PDF found <HERE>.]

The Japanese government plans to end all financial assistance to evacuees in 2021, which will mark a decade since the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown.

Noriko Matsumoto, another evacuee, is critical of the government for eliminating subsidies while at the same time spending a lot of money to prepare the area for the Games. “I think there are other things that should be done before hosting the Olympics,” she said.

Why IS Japan spending money on the Olympics when they have much more important ways to spend their limited resources? 

41 cracks were found in facilities built to contain radiation at Fukushima plant. 
A recent report (Nov. 2019) by the Tokyo-based 'Yomiuri Shimbun' revealed that 41 cracks have been found in the plant's concrete floors, allowing radiation from beneath, from the constantly-emitting missing corium, and the radioactive run-off flowing from the mountains behind the plant underneath the structures, to keep running downhill into the Pacific, leaving a trail of radioactivity behind it. NO ONE has yet determined how much this has affected the natural aquifer that the plant was built on, bilt despite warnings NOT to put it there. 

"The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, appears to have neglected the facilities, with inspectors discovering weeds growing through the concrete,... clearly indicating the cracks have been around for a while. 

While underground reactors continue to [n]eed water to cool nuclear fuel [rods]... rainwater which has been seeping through the cracks is increasing the amount of contaminated water.

Inspectors have raised the issue with TEPCO, requesting maintenance work,... but the Japanese government has constantly insisted there are no issues.

[ MY RETIRED MILITARY UNCLE USED TO SAY, "A SHARP BLADE AND A PAIR OF PLIERS TO GRIP THE TONGUE HAVE CURED A LOT OF LIARS."]

Following a massive typhoon that struck Fukushima last month,... bags containing radioactive waste were found floating in a nearby river. 

Despite what the Japanese government might say,... environmentalists say it's becoming increasingly more difficult not to be concerned about such a serious situation."   

(by Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News)

[THERE WERE ALSO SEVERAL RUMORED LEAKS AT THE FAILED PLANT, BUT WE'LL NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH OF THAT. ABE AND TEPCO DON'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF TRUTH.]  
AS I'VE SAID FOR 8 YEARS NOW, FUKUSHIMA IS NOT 'OVER', NOR WILL IT BE IN OUR LIFETIMES. 

THERE ARE  MANY OTHER PROBLEMS COMING FROM THAT "ACCIDENT". 


Dangerous radioactive hot particles span the globe.    
November 17, 2019

Citizen scientists are uncovering risks that governments would rather cover up.

Citizen and scientists collaborations show us that radioactive microparticles are a worldwide problem. Yet action by public health advocates and government officials has been slow to nonexistent in recognizing this danger, much less working to protect people against exposure from it.

Detecting radioactive microparticles is extremely difficult, in part because detecting them and proving their danger requires specialized techniques and equipment. But this is no excuse for governments to ignore the problem altogether as they continue to do.

When experts tell us what our risks are from radiation exposure, risks from these microparticles remain unaccounted for in every country in the world. Speculation swirls around these particles and whether the rapid-onset cancers occurring in Japan are possibly due to their presence.

[NOTE: A radioactive hot particle is a microscopic piece of radioactive material that can become lodged in living tissue and deliver a concentrated dose of radiation to a small area for a very long time. A "controversial theory" proposes that hot particles within the body are vastly more dangerous than external emitters delivering the same dose of radiation in a diffused manner. 


Let's ask ourselves two logical questions: (1) Is a cyanide pill swallowed more dangerous than one lying near us on a table?  (2) Can one move away from the pill once it's swallowed?]


Fukushima Microparticles, An Unrecognized Threat

What are microparticles ?

These microscopic bits of fuel and other materials from the reactor meltdowns have been found around Japan since soon after the disaster. 
Citizens with hand held radiation meters first discovered them as highly radioactive fine black sands on roadsides and gutters.
These substances eventually caught the attention of researchers who determined they are tiny fused particles of vaporized reactor fuel, meltdown byproducts, structural components of the reactors and sometimes concrete from the reactor containments.

The Fukushima microparticles are similar to “fuel fleas” or “hot particles“. Hot particles or fuel fleas have been found at operating nuclear reactors that had damaged fuel assemblies. These fused particles found around Japan are different in that they are a byproduct of the reactor meltdowns.

The small size of these microparticles, smaller than 114 μm ["μm" stands for micrometer. It is a unit of length].makes them an inhalation risk. 
 Other studies have also confirmed the size is small enough to inhale.
These microparticles have been found near Fukushima Daiichi, in the evacuation zone, outside of the evacuation zone and as far away as Tokyo.


How microparticles were created at Fukushima Daiichi.

The heat of the meltdown processes reached temperatures high enough to cause the nuclear fuel and other materials to break down into small particles. The uranium in the fuel further oxidized and then volatilized once temperatures reached 1900K. As these materials broke down into nanoparticle sized components of the fuel melt process, this set up the conditions for them to condense. As these materials cooled the fused microparticles were created. Newer studies call these microparticles “CsMPs” (Cesium bearing micro particles). A 2018 study of how these microparticles were created gives a plain language explanation of the process.
June 28, 2015 - NASA Experts: Southeast U.S. hit by “anomalously high” levels of polonium.

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, W. Yang and L. Guo, NASA Stennis Space Center and Univ. of Southern Mississippi Dept. of Marine Science, 2012

"To date, excess 210Po in the atmosphere was only reported for high temperature activities such as volcanic eruptions or degassing…

Therefore, the anomalously high 210Po/210Pb ratios observed in the southern U.S. were mostly derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant explosions

STILL CIRCLING THE GLOBE, STILL FALLING FROM THE ATMOSPHERE AS IT WILL FOR HUNDREDS TO THOUSANDS MORE YEARS.  

"The basic framework of radiological protection established by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is based on scientific knowledge and data as well as societal and economic considerations. ICRP Publication 103 states: "the primary aim in the Commission’s Recommendations is to contribute an appropriate level of protection for people and the environment against the detrimental effects of radiation exposure without unduly limiting the desirable human actions that may be associated with such exposure."

The ICRP dose limits are intended to serve as a boundary condition that will prevent deterministic effects and limit the probability of stochastic effects. Radiation health effects are generally divided into two categories: deterministic effects and stochastic effects.

Deterministic effects are often of an acute nature, are mostly the result of death or malformation of somatic cells following radiation exposure, and only appear if the radiation dose exceeds a threshold value.

Stochastic effects are cancer or heritable effects involving the development of cancer and may occur in either mature somatic cells or through the mutation of germ (reproductive) cells. Current ICRP recommendations, for radiation protection purposes, are based on the conservative assumption that there is no safe level of exposure. In other words, even the smallest exposure has some probability of causing a stochastic effect, such as cancer.

Moreover, based on that assumption, the ICRP endorses the general philosophy of not only keeping exposures below the dose limits but also maintaining all exposure levels "as low as reasonable achievable" (ALARA).

The limit of an average of 20 mSv y-1 over five years for the occupational dose limit and 1 mSv y-1 for the public are "standard acceptable dose limits."

[ACCEPTABLE TO WHOM? NOT TO ME!]

THE REALITY OF WHAT WE FACE

“While Chernobyl was an enormous unprecedented disaster, it only occurred at one reactor and rapidly melted down. Once cooled, it was able to be covered with a concrete sarcophagus that was constructed with 100,000 workers.

There are a staggering 4400 tons of nuclear fuel rods at Fukushima, which greatly dwarfs the total size of radiation sources at Chernobyl.” ( Extremely High Radiation Levels in Japan: University Researchers Challenge Official Data, Global Research, April 11, 2011)

“Hazardous radioactive elements being released in the sea and air around Fukushima accumulate at each step of various food chains (for example, into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans).

Entering the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, continuously irradiating small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years often induce cancer”. (Dr. Helen Caldicott, Fukushima: Nuclear Apologists Play Shoot the Messenger on Radiation, The Age, April 26, 2011).


We also now know that “several thousand” becquerels of neptunium-239 was found in Date City.

Neptunium-239 evolves into plutonium-239 which has a half life of 24,200 years.

These findings show that Date City has a significant plutonium contamination that neither TEPCO or the government are admitting.

 It was previously disclosed that Iitate-Mura had the same kinds of heavy plutonium contamination.

This is a big problem; plutonium has some serious health risks and it is being found in large amounts 60km from the plant.

The government and TEPCO have been trying to focus public attention on first iodine-131 and now on cesium-137.

They rarely test for or mention strontium-90 or plutonium-239, two isotopes that are considerably more dangerous. 


Propaganda for 2020 Olympics, and for the nuclear industry is behind lifting evacuation order for irradiated town of Namie

"Four-fifths of Namie’s geographical area is mountain and forest, impossible to decontaminate, still deemed unsafe to return. When it rains, the radioactive cesium in the mountains flows into rivers and underground water sources close to the town.

Greenpeace has been taking thousands of radiation readings for years in the towns around the Fukushima nuclear plant. It says radiation levels in parts of Namie where evacuation orders have been lifted will remain well above international maximum safety recommendations for many decades, raising the risks of leukaemia and other cancers to “unjustifiable levels”, especially for children.

In the rural areas around the town, radiation levels are much higher and could remain unsafe for people to live beyond the end of this century, Greenpeace concluded in a 2018 report.

“The scale of the problem is clearly not something the government wants to communicate to the Japanese people, and that’s driving the whole issue of the return of evacuees,” said Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace.

“The idea that an industrial accident closes off an area of Japan, with its limited habitable land, for generations and longer – that would just remind the public why they are right to be opposed to nuclear power.”

………..many residents say the central government is being heavy handed in its attempts to convince people to return, failing to support residents’ efforts to build new communities in places like Nihonmatsu, and then ending compensation payments within a year of evacuation orders being lifted.


ANY NATION THAT WOULD PUT ANYTHING ABOVE THE WELL-BEING OF ITS CITIZENS IS A 'ROGUE' NATION.

INTO THIS NUCLEAR MESS,THIS RADIOACTIVE ARENA, WE'RE SENDING OUR YOUNG ATHLETES?

WHY? 

THE RISK ISN'T WORTH IT. 






_______________________________________


** Equivalent doses caused by radiation exposure of the thyroid that are based on data related to the submersion of the initial plume, especially those of children, should be made available to the public immediately without hiding anything, and the areas that should be covered here are not just vicinities of 20-30km spheres, but also the whole of Fukushima, Ibaragi, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, as well as all other areas of Kanto and Tohoku.

Furthermore, data from WSPEEDI system (the one which covers much wider spheres of several ten kilometers to several thousand kilometers) should not be hidden at all. It needs to be released to the public, covering equivalent as well as effective doses to the thyroid for the residents not only of Fukushima, Ibaragi, Tochigi and Gunma prefectures, but also of all other areas of Kanto and Tohoku.

We have to note that it is very rare even among the occupationally exposed persons (84,000 in total) to be exposed to radiation of 20mSv per year.

 I cannot possibly accept such a level to be applied to babies, infants and primary school students, not only from my scholarly viewpoint but also from my humanistic beliefs.





//WW