The Amount of Radiation in Japan is NOT Safe

Yellow rain in Tokyo

While the Japanese government continues to say that the yellow rain seen in Japan was simply "pollen," many have been reminded of a very similar occurrence after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Almost on que, the Japan Meteorological Agency has confirmed the rain to be pollen after receiving hundreds of calls from concerned citizens.

The ''yellow rain'' seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried, the Japan Meteorological Agency said Thursday, reported the Japan Times.

That's right, according to so called experts, enough pollen to cause hundreds to report their findings, rained down on Tokyo at the same time as a devastating nuclear disaster has released high levels of radiation at least 20km from the nuclear plant.

This explanation has reminded many of the yellow rain that hit after the Chernobyl disaster.

Similar to the explanation in Japan, government officials claimed that the yellow radioactive rain that fell in Gomel, Belarus was merely pollen and nothing to worry about. We now know that was a bold faced lie.

Women and children actually played in the puddles of yellow rain after the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl. Remembering Chernobyl - Yellow Rain:

"We all jumped in the puddles with the yellow stuff. ... You don't see (it in) the air, it doesn't materialize. But when you see the yellow dust, you see radiation," Antonina Sergieff said.

The accident was originally caused by a small testing error that resulted in a chain reaction in which highly pressurized steam literally blew the top off of a nuclear reactor.

The result was the release of 100 more times radiation than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to the United Nations issue brief on Chernobyl.

Among the unstable elements released were iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239. Scientists say that exposure to such elements, especially in such high doses, impairs critical cellular functions and damages DNA.

When these elements first reached Sergieff 20 years ago, they came in the form of yellow rain.

It was not long after that residents in her hometown knew it wasn't simply "pollen" - which is what government officials assured them, she said.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23959


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bond_trad3r,

In my view people who publish this "yellow radioactive rain" nonsense are beneath contempt. They do so entirely for their own political purposes and show utter disregard for the unnecessary distress and fear that this sort of baseless scare mongering promotes.

Let's get one thing absolutely clear about radiation - it is incredibly easy to detect. Radiation counters are a dime a dozen - in universities, hospitals, industry, tech colleges etc etc. You can buy them for a hundred bucks on ebay. If there was "yellow radioactive rain" falling on Tokyo, there would be absolutely no way that it could be covered up. To maintain otherwise is to indulge in ridiculous conspiracy theories. Japan in 2011 is not Chernobyl in the 1980s.

I already posted a link to the measured radiation levels in the prefectures adjacent to Fukushima.

The Japanese government has announced that it will start to publish readings from inside the 20km exclusion zone around the NPP. That will be interesting and give us a better idea of how much contamination there is.

 

Things are getting better and the market is over it.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/update-on-japans-nuclear-crisis/

 

Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.

As the Japan Times reports today, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has “more than doubled its estimate of the radioactive material ejected into the air in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis”.

(Written June 4th 2011) According to the Japan Times, The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported that radiation levels in the air around Reactor 1 were at 4000 millisieverts per hour, an exposure level equivalent to approximately 40,000 chest x-rays. TEPCO says it has no plans to send workers into the area because of its dangerously high radioactivity.

Yuck. There are all types of interesting links throughout the article.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/0...stimate-of-radiation-released-after-accident/

 

Untill the wind changes direction. Then you're stuffed.

 

and in a couple years...the XMEN will be born
from all the mutation caused by this radiation leak

 

Japan doubles Fukushima radiation leak estimate

Inquiry launched into nuclear disaster as studies reveal contamination more widely spread than first thought

The amount of radiation released by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the 11 March tsunami could have been more than double that originally estimated by its operator, Japan's nuclear safety agency has said.

The revelation has raised fears that the situation at the plant, where fuel in three reactors suffered meltdown, was more serious than government officials have acknowledged.

In another development that is expected to add to criticism of Japan's handling of the crisis, the agency said molten nuclear fuel dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel in the No 1 reactor within five hours of the accident, 10 hours earlier than previously thought.

By the end of last week, radiation levels inside the reactor had risen to 4,000 millisieverts per hour, the highest atmospheric reading inside the plant since the disaster.

The agency also speculated that the meltdown in another reactor had been faster than initially estimated by the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco).

It is not clear whether the revised account of the accident, the world's worst since Chernobyl in 1986, would have prompted Tepco to respond differently at the time.

But it is expected to raise questions about the ability of Japan's nuclear authorities to provide accurate information to the public.

According to the latest estimates, 770,000 terabequerels – about 20% as much as the official estimate for Chernobyl – of radiation seeped from the plant in the week after the tsunami, more than double the initial estimate of 370,000.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/07/japan-doubles-fukushima-radiation-leak-estimate

 

Cesium detected in Shizuoka tea

Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit was detected in tea made in a factory in Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the most famous tea producing areas in Japan.

A tea distributor in Tokyo reported to the prefecture that it detected high levels of radioactivity in the tea shipped from the city. The prefectural government confirmed the contamination on Thursday, detecting 679 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium. The legal limit is 500 becquerels.

The prefecture ordered the factory to refrain from shipping out the product.

After the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, radioactive contamination of tea leaves and processed tea has been found over a wide area around Tokyo.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/10_01.html

 

Japan to shut down all their reactors??


http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/idINIndia-57576920110608