(Click to enlarge.)Another Source of Crises
TEPCO's sales is about 5 trillion yen or $60 billion.
But, it is calculated that TEPCO has to pay 8.3 trillion yen or $100 billion as compensation for damages to evacuees from the area affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents.
Yet, Tokyo Electric Power Corporation is the only utility company that provides electricity in Kanto Region, including Tokyo, where 40 million people or one third of the Japanese population live.
However, TEPCO must concentrate on the emergency situation still going on at the Fukushima No.1 (Daiichi) Plant. They have to prevent exacerbation of the state in the plant. Otherwise, it might cost 83 trillion yen eventually.
PART I: Accumulated Radiation in Fukushima Cities
In one month since the hydrogen explosion of Fukushima Daiichi, some cities in Fukushima Prefecture have accumulated a higher level of radiation received.
From March 15 to April 19
City....+.....Accumulated Radiation (micro-sieverts)
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Fukushima....3746.96
Koriyama...2789.96
Shirakawa...1002.84
Aizu-wakamatsu...246.26
Minami-aizu...76.83
Minami-soma...1135.66
Iwaki-Taira...788.49
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Especially, the capital city of the prefecture, Fukushima City, has already taken 3.7 mili-sieverts.
The second largest city Koriyama has suffered 2.8 mili-sieverts.
They will surely exceed the international standard of 20 mili-sieverts per year by March 2012.
Accordingly, students and children in the two cities are now not allowed to have physical education outside a gymnasium.
(Click to enlarge.)http://expres.umin.jp/fukushima/new.pdf
Anyway, this is a fact and reality of the state of radiation in Fukushima Prefecture.
However, Tokyo, 200 km south of Fukushim Prefecture, is not under influence of radioactive leakage from Fukushima Daiichi Plant.
In the Chernobyl accident, those who were living within 200 km of the nuclear plant reportedly died within two years after the greatest man-made accident of April 1986.
If the Fukushima event developed to the Chernobyl level, millions of people living north of Tokyo Central might lose their lives within two years, which is the worst case thinkable in this Fukushima event.
However, so far, 20 mili-sieverts per year are only expected in cities and villages 200 km north of Tokyo, though 5 mili-Sv/year was applied for forced evacuation in the Soviet Union.
PART II: Hamaoka Nuclear Plant
The wind flows on the path in the air from the west to the east on the Japanese Archipelago.
It blows from the Asian Continent to the Pacific Ocean. So, winds follow the direction from Tokyo to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, in most of time of a year.
But, the wind blows from the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant to Tokyo, though the plant is just prepared for a 6 meter-high tsunami while Fukushima Daiichi was attacked by a 14-meter high tsunami a month ago.
http://www.chuden.co.jp/energy/hamaoka/index.html
The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant of Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc. is almost 200 kilometers west-southwest of Tokyo.
(Click to enlarge.)However, Chubu Electric Power Company has recently decided to invest $360 million in reinforcement work of the plant. They plan to set emergency power sources on a 20-meter-high hill behind the plant and build a 12-meter plus-high breakwater between the Pacific Ocean and the plant.
http://www.chuden.co.jp/energy/hamaoka/hama_jishin/hama_tsunami/index.html
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One gram of uranium-235 has 2560000000000000000000 = 2.56 x 10^21 atoms.
When this one gram undergoes fission in 24 hours, it generates 900 kilo watts of electricity.
When it is blown off to the air, diffusing evenly over a 1000 km x 11000 km belt (from Tokyo to New York), every one square meter area on the belt receives 2.3 x 10^8 (2.56 x 10^21 divided by 1.1 x 10^13) atoms.
Every one square meter area on the belt from Tokyo to New York receives 230 million uranium atoms.
If each uranium-235 is split into other types of radioactive atoms, every one square meter area on the belt from Tokyo to New York could receive more than 460 million radioactive elements.
When one gram of uranium-235 is broken and released into the air from a nuclear plant near Tokyo, such as Fukushima Daiichi, one square meter plot in Manhattan could be covered by more than 460 million radioactive atoms of some sorts, very roughly speaking.
It is time to curb the trend of commercial and military use of nuclear energy.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.