Anti-Nuke Discussion
So far, no victims of radiation from the Fukuhima Daiichi Plant in Japan except a few emergency workers on site in the Plant.
Nobody in Tokyo Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Fukushima Prefecture has suffered radiation injury.
In this context, all the not-well-informed foreigners have left Japan and Tokyo; all the not-well-informed foreigners have cancelled their plan to visit Japan and Tokyo.
Yet, it is true that 300 to 700 emergency workers per day who are engaged in emergency work in Fukushima Daiichi might be sacrificing something for an ordinary level of wages, unbelievably.
(A certain subcontractor is recruiting part-time workers for Fukushima Daiichi in conditions of work hours of 3 hours per day and at a wage of 30,000 yen or 353 dollars per day.)
CHAPTER I: Anti-Nuclear Governor Arrested and Judged
Former Governor of Fukushima Prefecture was arrested and judged to be guilty for vague allegation against him for bribery in 2008 at the first trial and in 2009 in an appeal court.
Mr. Eisaku Sato, the former governor, claims that he was regarded as an enemy for TEPCO and thus conservative politicians who received big money from TEPCO's executives, since Mr. Sato came to take serious position to management of Fukushima nuclear power plants where many mistakes and breaches had been made according to some exposures from within he received.
Former Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato also sees a likeness between Fukushima Daiichi and Chernobyl. But the similarities that strike Mr. Sato, known as much for his opposition to Japan's nuclear policy as for the fall from grace that ended his nearly two-decade gubernatorial tenure, are in the ways the two governments—Japan's and the Soviet Union's—dealt with the crisis. It's not a flattering comparison.
"The situation that we see in Japan now with nuclear power policy is very similar to what happened with Chernobyl," said Mr. Sato Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Japan, apologizing if he offended anyone in the audience who was involved the Chernobyl accident. "In other words, it's almost as though we are in a fascist country where information is hidden from the public. I believe that this is time for Japan to wake up and see what the situation is."
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"There is this inflexible mindset of one absolute following another, carried onto its extreme consequences," said Mr. Sato. “Those who say that nuclear power is dangerous, like myself, are then treated as state enemies.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/18/how-sato-sums-up-governments-nuclear-response-soviet/
CHAPTER II: Incomplete Technology
It can be said that it is stupid to apply the nuclear fission to electricity generation.
A by-product of nuclear power generation, radioactive material, is so dangerous and hazardous for human beings.
There are other means to generate electricity, while each method has advantage and disadvantage, according to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
Type....Unit Cost (yen/kWh)....Utilization (%)....Risk ($bn/100 years)
Hydraulic...-...8.2 to 13.3...-...45...-...1
Coal...-...5.0 to 6.5...-...70 to 80...-...5
Crude Oil...-...10.0 to 17.3...-...30 to 80...-...5
Nuclear...-...4.8 to 6.2...-...70 to 85...-...100
Solar...-...46...-...12...-...0
In my rough estimation, the hydraulic power station can damage the environment, causing damages of $1 billion in 100 years.
The coal/oil power plant can damage the environment, causing damages of $5 billion in 100 years.
The nuclear power plant can damage the environment, causing damages of $100 billion in 100 years. Or to realize complete safety around a nuclear power plant, $1 billion is needed for every year during its life cycle of max. 100 years.
Until mankind invents technology to completely contain radioactive contamination, the nuclear power plant must not be treated as a main option for electricity generation.
CHAPTER III: Radiation Effect on a Living Thing
A clear piece of evidence of an influence of radiation on a living thing presented by a Japanese lawmaker who checked towns and villages around Fukushima Daiichi Plant:
http://twitpic.com/4m9jji
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Due to the 3/11 Great Tsunami, total 410,000 cars were lost in the affected areas of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures. So, now needs for used cars are very high among evacuees and victims.
Authorities of the related prefectures plan to build and provide more than 62,000 temporary homes for evacuees and victims. In other words, at present, more than 130,000 people do not have their houses since they lost it in the tsunami.
Yet, the Fukushima Daiichi Plant holds 1000 tons of nuclear fuel while Hiroshima was destroyed with 50 kilograms of Uranium in August 1945. Potentially, tens of millions of people around Tokyo are still under a threat of a nuclear hazard.
In conclusion, no one blames foreigners leaving Japan and Tokyo in haste, whether well informed or not well informed.
Radiation Level:
Beijin...0.064 micro-sieverts per hour on March 13, 2011
Tokyo....0.075 micro-sieverts per hour on April 18, 2011
New York...0.095 micro-sieverts per hour on average between March 24 and 31, 2011
So far, Tokyo is as safe as Beijing and New York.
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.