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Just reading the news online I see this article...
http://www.mintpressnews.com/2-robo...s-radiation-leaking-fukushima-daiichi/225183/
2 Robots Crippled By Record Levels Of Radiation Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi
Chernobyl was bad but this thing is now way worse.
Then I read this article...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...-ngo-report-warning-high-radiation-level.html
Japan says Fukushima residents can return home, despite NGO report warning of high radiation level
The village mentioned is 26 miles north of the nuclear plant.
The govt. has been compensating the 6000 people that were evacuated since 2011 while they did their cleanup around the village and now they are saying it is safe again...All clear to return home.
Most believe this is all about money.
Nobody around the world believes this place is safe, independent testing shows there is much more radiation there than Japan says there is.
The numbers are scary...really scary.
"On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, quietly released a statement regarding the discovery of a hole measuring 2 meters in diameter within the metal grating at the bottom of the containment vessel in the plant’s No. 2 reactor.
Though news of this hole is indeed concerning, even more shocking was the associated jump in radiation detected in the area. According to estimates taken at the time of the hole’s discovery, radiation inside the reactor was found to have reached 530 sieverts per hour, a massive increase compared to the 73 sieverts per hour recorded after the disaster. To put these figures in perspective, NASA’s maximum amount of radiation exposure permitted for astronauts over their entire lifetime is 1 sievert.".
"The Japanese government has set a long-term decontamination target of 0.23 µSv/h, which would give a dose of 1 millisievert (mSv) per year, or the maximum limit recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection. The sievert is a derived unit that measures the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.
Greenpeace measurements outside on Anzai’s house, however, found that level to be 0.7µSv/h, which would equal 2.5 mSv per year. Inside his home the numbers were even higher, with values coming in at a range between 5.1 to 10.4 mSv per year.
“It is still relatively unsafe to live there,” Vande Putte said. “If thousands of people go back it will be a bad situation and it’s just not wise to go back.”
The radiation levels, experts contend, are even more dangerous outside of the village and the area the government has allegedly decontaminated. Iitate is primarily an agricultural community and 75 percent of the 77-square-mile area is mountainous forest, where Greenpeace contends that radiation levels are comparable to the exclusion zone around Chernobyl."
What is the exclusion zone around Chernobyl you might ask?
"The Exclusion Zone
Entrance to the zone of alienation around Chernobyl
An area originally extending 30 kilometres (19 mi) in all directions from the plant is officially called the "zone of alienation". It is largely uninhabited, except for about 300 residents who have refused to leave. The area has largely reverted to forest, and has been overrun by wildlife because of a lack of competition with humans for space and resources. Even today, radiation levels are so high that the workers responsible for rebuilding the sarcophagus are only allowed to work five hours a day for one month before taking 15 days of rest. Ukrainian officials estimated the area would not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years."
All this despite the alarmingly high radiation happening in that plant now which could get even worse.
What happened in Flint Michigan was horrible.
This is mind boggling unconscionable.
Read both articles and then wonder what the heck is happening in this world.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/2-robo...s-radiation-leaking-fukushima-daiichi/225183/
2 Robots Crippled By Record Levels Of Radiation Leaking At Fukushima Daiichi
Chernobyl was bad but this thing is now way worse.
Then I read this article...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...-ngo-report-warning-high-radiation-level.html
Japan says Fukushima residents can return home, despite NGO report warning of high radiation level
The village mentioned is 26 miles north of the nuclear plant.
The govt. has been compensating the 6000 people that were evacuated since 2011 while they did their cleanup around the village and now they are saying it is safe again...All clear to return home.
Most believe this is all about money.
Nobody around the world believes this place is safe, independent testing shows there is much more radiation there than Japan says there is.
The numbers are scary...really scary.
"On Feb. 2, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, quietly released a statement regarding the discovery of a hole measuring 2 meters in diameter within the metal grating at the bottom of the containment vessel in the plant’s No. 2 reactor.
Though news of this hole is indeed concerning, even more shocking was the associated jump in radiation detected in the area. According to estimates taken at the time of the hole’s discovery, radiation inside the reactor was found to have reached 530 sieverts per hour, a massive increase compared to the 73 sieverts per hour recorded after the disaster. To put these figures in perspective, NASA’s maximum amount of radiation exposure permitted for astronauts over their entire lifetime is 1 sievert.".
"The Japanese government has set a long-term decontamination target of 0.23 µSv/h, which would give a dose of 1 millisievert (mSv) per year, or the maximum limit recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection. The sievert is a derived unit that measures the health effect of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body.
Greenpeace measurements outside on Anzai’s house, however, found that level to be 0.7µSv/h, which would equal 2.5 mSv per year. Inside his home the numbers were even higher, with values coming in at a range between 5.1 to 10.4 mSv per year.
“It is still relatively unsafe to live there,” Vande Putte said. “If thousands of people go back it will be a bad situation and it’s just not wise to go back.”
The radiation levels, experts contend, are even more dangerous outside of the village and the area the government has allegedly decontaminated. Iitate is primarily an agricultural community and 75 percent of the 77-square-mile area is mountainous forest, where Greenpeace contends that radiation levels are comparable to the exclusion zone around Chernobyl."
What is the exclusion zone around Chernobyl you might ask?
"The Exclusion Zone
Entrance to the zone of alienation around Chernobyl
An area originally extending 30 kilometres (19 mi) in all directions from the plant is officially called the "zone of alienation". It is largely uninhabited, except for about 300 residents who have refused to leave. The area has largely reverted to forest, and has been overrun by wildlife because of a lack of competition with humans for space and resources. Even today, radiation levels are so high that the workers responsible for rebuilding the sarcophagus are only allowed to work five hours a day for one month before taking 15 days of rest. Ukrainian officials estimated the area would not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years."
All this despite the alarmingly high radiation happening in that plant now which could get even worse.
What happened in Flint Michigan was horrible.
This is mind boggling unconscionable.
Read both articles and then wonder what the heck is happening in this world.