Fukushima Station Entrance...
Fukushima Station Mall...all three days ago.
(Photos taken by EEE Reporter; click to enlarge.)Learn Fukushima!
(Updated in January 2012)
How many people in the world had been working or living in Chernobyl before the 1986 nuclear accident in the former USSR town?
How many people in the world have any significant memory about Chernobyl before the 1986 nuclear accident?
I have some memory of having worked or lived in Fukushima Prefecture well before the 2011 nuclear accident in the Fukushima Daiichi (First) Nuclear Plant. And I think the memory is significant, indeed.
Fukushima was like any other places in the world with nice people and bad guys. And at the same time, Tokyo was full of bad guys and with some nice people, in my memory, at the time.
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster led to the fall of the evil empire of the Soviet Union eventually.
The 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is leading to the fall of some evil force in Japan, so hopefully.
PART I: Fukushima vs. Tokyo
It is true that amounts of radiation measured in Fukushima City and Koriyama City are 20 times larger than the recorded value in Tokyo.
Both the two cities in Fukuhsima Prefecture are situated about 70 km west of Fukushima Daiichi. Though it is between one to two micro-sieverts per hour they are exposed to in the two major cities of Fukushima, the total amount in a year can reach more than 15 milli sieverts, if the radioactive situation continues. It is globally recommended that ordinary people should not be exposed to radioactivity of more than 20 milli sieverts in an accumulated dosage during a year.
Accordingly, in some elementary schools in Koriyama City, children are now forbidden to play in the athletic ground of the schools. The municipal authority plans to exchange surface soil of the grounds.
From Fukushima Daiichi to the Tokyo Station is about 220 km or 137 miles.
Yet, the range within a 70 kilometer radius of Fukuhsima Daiichi mostly includes rural and farming areas. But, the range within a 70 kilometer radius of the Tokyo Station comprises 35 million population. Any Japanese internationally notable, probably, live or work in this range or have important business associations therein.
In other word, a small nuclear bomb blasted around the Tokyo Station could have strong radioactive influence on citizens living within a 70 km radius on the Kanto Plain.
(Note: Immediately after the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi accident following the 3/11 tsunami, the US Government requested US citizens in Japan to evacuate the 80 km [50 mile] zone from the Daiichi plant.)
PART II: Okuma Town
Fukushima Daiichi Plant should be renamed Okuma Plant, since the nuclear plant is located actually in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture.
It is just part of the prefecture, but due to the name of "Fukushima" Daiichi, all the population in the Fukushima Prefecture are suffering harmful rumors about their health and their products.
Okuma is a town located near Futaba District, Fukushima, Japan.
As of 2010, the town has an estimated population of 11,511 and a density of 146.26 persons per km². The total area is 78.70 km². In March 2011 the town was evacuated by government order due to the Fukushima I nuclear accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckuma,_Fukushima
http://www.town.okuma.fukushima.jp/
All the residents in Okuma Town left the place as evacuees, but town office manages its web site for emergency use.
PART III: Abandoned Livestock
Farmers who lived within a 20 kilometer radius of Fukushima Daiichi were forced to leave their livestock. But, some released cows and pigs before compulsory evacuation.
http://fotgazet.com/news/000078.htmlThere are reportedly 3000 cows and oxes and 30,000 pigs abandoned by their owners who were forced to leave their homes as they are situated within a 20 kilometer radius of Fukushima Daiichi.
Anyway, it is so impressive that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant with six reactor units, four of which are crippled, are surrounded by so many roads, structures, houses and buildings.
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In 1969, a launching ceremony was conducted for Japan's first, and only nuclear-powered ship Mutsu.
The reactor was completed on 25 August 1972, and fuel was loaded on 4 September.[2] When officials announced that the first test run was to be run at the pier in Ohminato, local protests forced them to reconsider.[2] Eventually it was decided to test the ship in the open ocean, 800 kilometres (500 mi) east of Cape Shiriya.[2] The ship departed Ohminato on 26 August 1974, and the reactor attained criticality on 28 August.[2]
As the crew brought the reactor up to 1.4% of capacity at 5pm on 1 September 1974,[2] there was a minor leak of neutrons and gamma rays[1] from the reactor shielding.[2] Westinghouse had reviewed the design and warned of this possibility, but no changes were made to the design.[2] There was no significant radiation exposure, but it became a political issue, with local fisherman blocking her return to port for over fifty days...
Following an overhaul, the Mutsu was completed in February 1991.[2] She then completed her original design objective of travelling 82,000 kilometres (51,000 mi) in testing, and was decommissioned in 1992.[2] Over 25 years, the programme had cost more than 120 billion yen (~US$1.2bn).[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutsu_(ship)
Mutsu is very symbolic in that it did not meet expectations of the Japanese people on nuclear energy. If a nuclear energy-based engine cannot be safely, economically, and progressively applied to a ship, how can it be so safely, economically, and progressively applied to electricity generation?
(In 1969, mankind landed on the moon. Everybody thought we reached the top of history though war in Vietnam was being fought in real. But, everybody thought we reached the top of history, which is not necessarily so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWRypqz5-o)
Luk 4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.