State of Radioactivity (État de la radioactivité)
No one has got panics in Japan despite the 3/11 Disaster accompanied by the Fukushuima Daiich nuclear accidents.
However, everybody looks like keeping low profile.
Generally speaking, just in the same manner as Americans behaving after the 9/11 Terror, pious people would be more pious and evil ones will be more evil in the wake of a great shock given to society without advance notice.
It is as if the God were screening people. But, for what? To accelerate a process for the Last Judgment? Or to make the world continue a little longer by having evil ones invoke curses on them fast and strengthening pious ones for advancement into the Kingdom of God?
The answer is always in history. People who study history in the 22nd century will surely find an answer.
SECTION I: Radioactivity in Europe and Japan
In 1960's, hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs (nuclear bombs) were tested frequently and in a large scale all over the world by the U.S., the USSR, France, the U.K., and China.
Consequently, water and soils on the earth were largely radioactively contaminated.
Before 1963
Average yearly radioactivity in rain in Central Europe: 740 Bq/Kg
Surface water radioactivity in Central Europe: 444 Bq/Kg
Surface sea water radioactivity of the North Atlantic Ocean: 22.2 Bq/Kg
In 1963/1964
Average yearly radioactivity in rain in Central Europe: 222,000 Bq/Kg
Surface water radioactivity in Central Europe: 166,500 Bq/Kg
Surface sea water radioactivity of the North Atlantic Ocean: 1,850 Bq/Kg
In 1979
Average yearly radioactivity in rain in Central Europe: 9,250 Bq/Kg
Surface water radioactivity in Central Europe: 7,400 Bq/Kg
Surface sea water radioactivity of the North Atlantic Ocean: 555 Bq/Kg
(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/longtonelongtone/20110518/1305716915)
In the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011, radiation levels around Tokyo Prefecture and Fukushima Prefecture have increased as follows.
Soil radioactivity in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo: 1,904 Bq/Kg...(April 10)
Soil radioactivity in Koto Ward, Tokyo: 3,201 Bq/Kg...(April 10)
Soil radioactivity in Chiba City, Chiba: 1,327 Bq/Kg...(April 11)
Soil radioactivity in Kamisu City, Ibaraki: 455 Bq/Kg...(April 20)
Soil radioactivity in Fukushima City, Fukushima: 27,650 Bq/Kg...(March 19)
(http://d.hatena.ne.jp/chamuchamu/20110520/1305848220)
So, the current radioactive situation around Tokyo or even around Fukushima Prefecture is far better than that around Berlin and other European cities from the middle of 1960's to 1970's.
(Note: One becquerel or 1 Bq means that one atom per second collapses radioactively emitting nuclear radiation.)
SECTION II: 20 Milli Sieverts for Children?
In Fukushima Prefectures there are 600 elementary schools. But, some of them are under an influence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
According to the Government, a radiation dose up to 20 milli sieverts per year can be accepted for children, so that no evacuation of children from schools is planned and practiced.
For example, a radiation dose in Fukushima City, some 75 km from Fukushima Daiichi, is about 1.5 micro sieverts per hour. It is 30 micro sieverts per day or 1 milli sierverts per month. Consequently, children in Fukushima City receive radiation of 12 milli sieverts per year.
But, in the play ground of some school, the radiation level is higher than than 1.5 micro sieverts per hour. The Kan Cabinet simply tells that the school management should not let children play in the exercise ground.
Is this limit of 20 milli sieverts for good health of children right and reasonable?
Or should the Government hire 5000 buses to move children everyday to other schools or facilities in a safer zone to have children take lessons in class rooms?
This is a serious issue that might decide the fate of the Kan Cabinet, since they might be causing future health problems inside the bodies of children.
It will cost just $200 million or so to use 5000 buses everyday for long distance school attending by children in affected areas of Fukushima Prefecture. It can be essily covered by the Japanese Government.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Nov 1997
No Dose Too Low
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Both sides agree that studies of Japanese bomb survivors show strong evidence of adverse effects at a dose of 200 milliSieverts for adult survivors and 100 milliSieverts in the case of children. Below that, the Health Physics Society says, there is an "inability to detect any increased health detriment."
But most others disagree. They cite Alice Stewart's pioneering Oxford studies, which revealed that children whose in utero exposures were as little as 10 to 20 milliSieverts had 40 percent more childhood leukemias than those who were not exposed – a statistically significant increase in risk at low doses. Although Stewart's work, published in 1970, was long attacked by nuclear industry proponents, subsequent studies have supported its main findings and government radiation authorities now quote the Oxford studies without caveat.
In addition to Stewart's work, a 1995 study that pooled the results of seven epidemiological investigations showed a statistically increase in the incidence of human thyroid cancer in groups that received doses of between 10 and 100 milliSieverts.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20002094.html
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After the 9/11 Terror, it is said that America has changed. First, nationalism went mainstream, helping President Mr. George W. Bush get reelected. Then, acquisitive attitudes got intensified among citizens leading to the subprime loan problem. Finally, a showdown came with the fall of the financial sector and the bankruptcy of GM. But, a new era started with new president Mr. Barack Obama who finally took on Osama bin Laden. And, Wall Street and American big enterprises, including GM, came back on the old track. Though it is a little difficult to clearly indicate how Americans changed in this decade, they look at least a little educated. Conversely, America has become less dangerous to the world. It will not invoke another 9/11 or Lehman shock. Americans are going to behave a little more modest.
However, after the 3/11 Disaster of Japan, it is still unclear how Japan will change, and how China, South Korea, Taiwan, and North Korea will be influenced by change in Japan.
Anyway, as 2000's began with the 9/11 Terror in the world, 2010's began with the 3/11 Disaster for some countries in the world.
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.