Fukushima!
(Click to enlarge.)War around Fukushima Daiichi
The energy of the 3/11 "Northeast Japan" Great Tsunami completely destroyed the world largest breakwater (underwater depth 63 meters, above-water height 8 meters, thickness 20 meters, and width 2000 meters [1.2 miles]) installed in Kamaishi Bay, Iwate Prefecture of Japan.
The energy that destroyed this gigantic breakwater was calculated to be equal to that delivered by 250 Jumbo Jet planes (Boeing 747s) flying at 1000 km/h. (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/science/news/20110320-OYT1T00777.htm)
A branch of the 3/11 "Northeast Japan" Great Tsunami" also attacked the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 200 km south of Kamaishi Bay, with presumably a similar amount of energy.
So, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered from the tsunami on March 11, 2011, as if attacked by 250 Jumbo Jet planes (Boeing 747s) flying in at 1000 km/h.
Accordingly, some experts and parties concerned say that it was an accident beyond expectation.
Yet, we are talking about reality: how to fix Fukushima Daiichi with four reactor units damaged so badly by hydrogen explosion and fire.
SECTION I: Fukushima vs. Moscow
A few weeks ago or more than a month after the Fukushima Daiichi explosion, the Russian embassy in Tokyo checked the radiation level around the embassy to find that a radiation dosage in Tokyo is smaller that the one in Moscow.
Accordingly, an official recommendation of voluntary restraint to travelling to Tokyo was cancelled by the Russian Government.
However, the radiation amount in Fukushima City is around 1.5 micro-sieverts/hour nowadays. If this situation continues for a year, residents will suffer 13 milli-sievers of radiation while 20 milli-sieverts are now adopted for the allowable limit of an exposed dose for children by the Japanese Government. And, in some schools of Fukushima Prefecture they are trying to exchange the current soil on a play yard with uncontaminated soil.
SECTION II: No Tokyo Tap Water Contaminated
The Japanese Government set water radiation standards more than 100 times larger than the world standards. But, actual measured values conform to the world standards, so little.
Data on the Radiation Level at Water Purification Plants of Tokyo Waterworks
*1 Sampling time：6:00 A.M.
*2 We have emphasized quick announcement of radiation level on purified water thus far.
Under the recent situation that the radiation level remains equal or less than 20Bq/kg, we shifted the emphasis to precision and extended the testing time from April 15, 2011. We announce the detection result with the detection limit.
*3 Testing institute
・Kanamachi Purification Plant, Asaka Purification Plant, and Ozaku Purification Plant: Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute
・Higashi-murayama Purification Plant: Tokyo Metropolitan University
*4 ND (Not detectable) Detection Limit is the lowest concentration that is detectable
http://www.waterworks.metro.tokyo.jp/press/shinsai22/press110324-02-1e.pdf
On May 3, iodine 131 concentration measured in tap water at Shinjyuku, Tokyo, was 0.10 Bq/Kg.
The related standards are as follows:
WHO...1 Bq/Liter
Germany...0.5 Bq/Liter
USA...0.111 Bq/Liter
Note that water 1 liter has a weight of 1 Kg.
SECTION III: State of Global Radiation Dose
As of May 2011, there are many spots in the world receiving a higher radiation dose than Tokyo, such as New York and London.
(Click to enlarge.)http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/edge/radiation/Amount%20of%20radiation%20around%20the%20world%20may%201,2011%20JP.pdf#search='世界 各地 放射線'
SECTION IV: Fukushima Daiichi to USA
The U.S. is a neighboring country for Japan over nothing but the great Pacific Ocean and the jet-stream circulating layer of air.
Effects of Radiation from Fukushima Daiichi on the U.S. Marine Environment
Eugene H. Buck
Specialist in Natural Resources Policy
Harold F. Upton
Analyst in Natural Resources Policy
April 15, 2011
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It does not appear that nuclear contamination of seafood will become a food safety problem for consumers in the United States. Among the main reasons are that:
• damage from the disaster has limited seafood production in the affected areas,
• radioactive material will be diluted before reaching U.S. fishing grounds, and
• seafood imports from Japan are being examined before entry into the United States.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), because of damage from the earthquake and tsunami to infrastructure, few if any food products are being exported from the affected region.
For example, according to the National Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations, the region's fishing industry has stopped landing and selling fish.
U.S. fisheries are unlikely to be affected because radioactive material that enters the marine environment will be greatly diluted before reaching U.S. fishing grounds. However, some advocate vigilance, especially for seafood from areas near the damaged nuclear facility. It has been suggested that cesium-137 may move up the food chain and become concentrated in fish muscle or that radiation hot spots may occur.
The Fisheries Research Agency (Japan) has tested samples from areas south of the damaged nuclear facility, and it has been reported that radiation levels are far below the standards set by Japan’s health ministry.
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http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41751.pdf#search='Fukushima Daiichi dose May'
So, the U.S. is safe from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident like Tokyo is.
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Except the Mediterranean area and Iceland, Europe never experiences big earthquakes, volcano eruption, and tsunami.
Except around California, Alaska, and Hawaii, the U.S. never experiences big earthquakes. volcano eruption, and tsunami.
But, Japan is at any time under these natural threats, while Tokyo is surrounded by 20 or so nuclear reactors within the 250 km radius range of it.
So, Japan is unique and Tokyo is something.
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Mat 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Mat 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.