Plutonium
Plutonium was detected recently in Iitate village 45 km from the Fukushima Daiichi power generation plant.
Specifically, they measured Plutonium-238 at 0.82 becquerels per square meter, and a total of Plutonium-239 and Plutonium-240 at 2.5 becquerels per square meter. These doses were so small that the Japanese Government announced that there was no fear of harm on human bodies.
It is truly a crime to contaminate the beautiful village with the abundant nature.
The specific location at which Plutonium was detected is as follows:
http://tanakaryusaku.jp/2011/10/0002968
But what countries possess plutonium which be easily applied to production of nuclear weapons?
Table 2: Holdings of Plutonium by Country, end 2002, in tonnesa
| Country | ____________Civil____________ | Military | Total | |||
| Irradiated | Unirradiated | Excess | Total | |||
| Argentina | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Armenia | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 | |||
| Belgium | 22 | 1.8 | 24 | 24 | ||
| Brazil | 1.9 | 1.9 | 1.9 | |||
| Bulgaria | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.8 | |||
| Canada | 130 | 130 | 130 | |||
| China | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 9.1 | ||
| Czech Republic | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | |||
| Finland | 11 | 11 | 11 | |||
| France | 182 | 47.9 | 230 | 5 | 235 | |
| Germany | 64 | 25.6 | 90 | 90 | ||
| Hungary | 7.1 | 7.1 | 7.1 | |||
| India | 12 | 1 | 13 | 0.36 | 13.36 | |
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 0.56 | 0.56 | ||
| Italy | 4.1 | 2.4 | 6.5 | 6.5 | ||
| Japan | 106 | 38.6 | 145 | 145 | ||
| Kazakhstan | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | |||
| Lithuania | 9.2 | 9.2 | 9.2 | |||
| Mexico | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | |||
| Netherlands | 1.2 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 3.3 | ||
| North Korea | 0 | 0 | 0.03-0.04b | 0.03-0.04 | ||
| Pakistan | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.04 | 0.94 | ||
| Romania | 2.2 | 2.2 | 2.2 | |||
| Russia | 83 | 37.8 | 50 | 171 | 95 | 266 |
| Slovakia | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | |||
| Slovenia | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.5 | |||
| South Africa | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.3 | |||
| South Korea | 41 | 41 | 41 | |||
| Spain | 24.7 | 0.5 | 25 | 25 | ||
| Sweden | 39 | 0.83 | 40 | 40 | ||
| Switzerland | 13 | 2 | 15 | 15 | ||
| Taiwan | 21 | 21 | 21 | |||
| Ukraine | 38 | 38 | 38 | |||
| United Kingdom | 39 | 70.8c | 110 | 3.2 | 113 | |
| United States | 388 | 52.5d | 440.5 | 47 | 487.5 | |
| Total (rounded) | 1291 | 231 | 102.5 | 1625 | 156 | 1780 |
http://www.isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/plutonium-watch-tracking-plutonium-inventories/17
Japan is the fourth largest owner of plutonium in the world, following the U.S., Russia, and France as of 2002. However, Japan is the only nation that does not develop nuclear weapons among major plutonium countries.
Anyway, the following amounts of Plutonium were discharged from each reactor unit of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as made public by the Japanese Government:
............No. 1 Unit........No. 2 Unit........No. 3 Unit........Total
Pu-238... 5.8×10^08 1.8×10^10 2.5×10^08 1.9×10^10
Pu-239... 8.6×10^07 3.1×10^09 4.0×10^07 3.2×10^09
Pu-240... 8.8×10^07 3.0×10^09 4.0×10^07 3.2×10^09
Pu-241... 3.5×10^10 1.2×10^12 1.6×10^10 1.2×10^12
(Unit: Bq)
http://www.meti.go.jp/press/2011/08/20110826010/20110826010-2.pdf
For reference, the atomic bomb blasted in Hiroshima in 1945 discharged 8.9×10^13 Bq of Cs-137.
In addition, according to the Japanese Government, most of plutonium is inside the site of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
If plutonium detected this time outside Fukushima Daiichi should stay there for 50 years, the radiation doses people might receive are very small:
Pu-238...0.027 milli sieverts
Pu-239 + Pu-240...0.12 milli sieverts
It is said that 20 milli sieverts of doses per year is harmful to man,
Though thousands of school children left Fukushima Prefecture from the fear of an radioactive influence, the major cities of the prefecture, Fukushima City and Koriyama City about 70 km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, recently receive 1 micro sieverts per hour of radiation, which is less than 1 milli sierverts per year.
So, generally speaking, though it is not very safe living within 70 km of Fukushima Daiichi, it is not so disastrous, while tens of thousands of people are evacuated from a range within 20 to 30 km of the plant.
But, the Japanese Government should have transferred children living within the 70 km range in early days of the incident to other regions and prefectures. So, former Prime Minister Mr. Kan had to resign in early September to be taken over by. Mr. Noda.
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