Nuclear Effect
Kuwait provided 5 million barrels of crude oil for free for Japan as emergency aid. It costs $490 million dollars if purchased on a business basis.
China provided 10,000 tons of gasoline and sent 15 rescue workers to the affected area of Japan.
But, it was a surprise that Chinese President said in an international conference on other day that China led the emergency service activities since the occurrence of the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.
It is the U.S. that led the emergency aid with one aircraft carrier fleet and tens of thousands of soldiers being stationed off northeast Honshu Island.
So, it is hard to understand why Chinese President said that China led the emergency service activities since the occurrence of the 3/11 Disaster of Japan, which was not true.
Rather, when China tested its nuclear weapons in the past decades, radioactive material generated from the tests flew to Japan like yellow dusts from inlands of China.
And, China should stop requesting ODA money from Japan and invasion of the Senkaku Islands under authority of Japan and Okinawa/Ryukyu in these hundreds or thousands years.
PART I: Radiation in Hong Kong
A dangerous level of radiation is observed only in some part in the 20% area of Fukushima Prefecture, 200 km northeast of Tokyo.
Tokyo is so far as safe as Hon Kong, London, and New York.
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Typical amounts of radiation in Hong Kong exceed those in Tokyo even as workers struggle to contain a crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, indicating concerns about spreading contamination may be overblown.
The radiation level in central Tokyo reached a high of 0.109 microsieverts per hour in Shinjuku Ward yesterday, data from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health show. That compares with 0.14 microsieverts in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observatory said on its website. A person is exposed to 50 microsieverts from a typical x-ray.
Many countries have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, said Bob Bury, former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists. A 30-fold surge in such contamination in Tokyo prompted thousands of expatriates to leave Japan after the March 11 tsunami knocked out power at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, triggering the crisis. Radiation in Tokyo is barely above levels in London and New York even now, analysts said.
“The situation in Japan looks set to follow the pattern of Chernobyl, where fear of radiation did far more damage than the radiation itself,” Bury said in an e-mail referring to the 1986 accident in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. “Whatever the radiation in Tokyo at the moment, you can be fairly sure it is lower than natural background levels in many parts of the world.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-01/hong-kong-radiation-exceeds-tokyo-even-after-nuclear-crisis.html
PART II: State around Fukushima Daiichi
It is a zone within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Plant that receives more than 10 micro-sievert radiation per hour.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,756749,00.html
4/13/2011
The World from Berlin
'Japan Could Have Recognized Scope of Fukushima Disaster Weeks Ago'
..."Perhaps it is part of the Japanese mentality to include something positive and a ray of hope in any piece of bad news. Hence there was talk of the level 7 classification only being 'temporary,' implying that the situation could improve significantly and lead to a downgrading. But this hope is likely to prove illusory. According to official Japanese estimates, 10 percent of the amount of radioactive substances that was released at the time of Chernobyl has already entered the environment as a result of Fukushima. That total can not decrease -- it can only grow larger."
If one receives safely less than 1-mili sievert radiation per year, it must be less than 0.11 micro-sievert per hour in addition to receiving radiation naturally from the environment.
In this context, a zone within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Plant that receives more than 10 micro-sievert radiation per hour is still dangerous.
Yet, the zone is 200 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.
And, that 10% of the amount of radioactive substances that was released at the time of Chernobyl was discharged from Fukushima Daiichi when hydrogen explosions occurred in the first and the third reactor units, a small explosion occurred in the second unit, and a fire started in the fourth unit all between March 12 and 15. After these accidents, not much radioactive material was released at one time.
PART III: Fukushima to the U.S.
It is well known that Japanese rice fields were contaminated by radioactive material released by nuclear weapon tests having been conducted by the Soviet Union, the U.S., France, etc. after WWII and especially in 1950's and 1960's.
However, the level was not so high. The Japanese people ate rice harvested from those fields without health troubles.
Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk
Apr. 9 2011 - 8:15 am
[UPDATED 4/11 with FDA's Derived Intervention Level]
Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.
Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat...
In most of the data released Friday the levels of contaminants detected are far below the standards observed by EPA and other U.S. agencies.
But the EPA drinking-water data includes one outlier—an unusually, but not dangerously, high reading in a drinking water sample from Chatanooga, Tennessee...The 1.6 picocures per liter reported by the EPA on Friday is slightly more than half the maximum contaminant level permitted in drinking water, but more uniquely, it is many times higher than all the other drinking water samples collected in the U.S.
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/09/radiation-detected-in-drinking-water-in-13-more-us-cities-cesium-137-in-vermont-milk/
It is very unlikely that the Fukushima Daiichi accidents would cause excess deaths among the U.S. population, though the horrible phenomenon was observed once due to nuclear bomb tests by the U.S. and the USSR.
PART IV: Excess Deaths by Nuclear Bomb Tests
Nuclear bomb tests having been conducted after WWII have resulted in excess deaths among the American population.
The number of them is estimated to be 19,300,000 between 1950 and 1999.
http://fujiwaratoshikazu.com/2011disaster/
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Approval Rating for Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan, Japan:
Media...Approval...Disapproval
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Asahi....*...21%....*....60%
Mainichi...*...22%....*....54%
Nikkei...*...27%...*....67%
Nippon TV...*...24%....*....61.6%
To our surprise, at this time of a national crisis, the approval rating for the prime minister of Japan is just 23.5% on average.
It is a real crisis of governance capacity in the political sector of Japan.
My recommendation to PM Mr. Naoto Kan is just to step down immediately after the first supplementary budget for the disaster recovery is passed in the National Diet, which is expected in a few weeks.
Approval Ratings for Political Parties in Japan by NHK:
Ruling DPJ...19.2%
Opposition LDP...23.3%
Joh 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.