The Japanese Communist Party measured radioactive dose levels in various points in Tokyo Prefecture in May to find that some zones indicate a radiation level at 1 milli sieverts per year, which is the institutional limit for ordinary people in Japan.
Especially, the area along the Edogawa River, at the border to Chiba Prefecture, shows a higher radiation dose.
It is crazy that so many various types of radiation meters are sold in Japan now. Even Tokyo residents are measuring a radiation dose around their homes.
TV programs are teaching viewers how to decrease a radiation level at home.
Children in Fukushima Prefecture go to school but cannot freely play in the play yards of their schools and cannot swim in their outdoor swimming pools. Soil and turf of their playgrounds are taken away to expose to the surface soil several inches deep instead.
It is a crazy world in comparison with that before March 11. However, no citizens are taken to hospitals for radiation disease except some working in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. At most, some residents in Fukushima Prefecture are expected to receive about 10 to 20 milli sieverts of radiation if the radioactive situation continues at the present level for other 9 months. For example, even yesterday the radiation doses in Fukushima City and Koriyama City of Fukushima Prefecture were around 1.2 micro sieverts per hour, respectively. It can be translated about 9 milli sieverts per year. Tokyo's level is more than 10 times less at large.
Nonetheless, it is a crazy world in comparison with that before March 11.
But why has Japan introduced so many nuclear power plants? One secret motivation is plutonium. When uranium is burnt in a reactor unit for generation of electricity, uranium turns to be plutonium which can be used as convenient material for nuclear weapons. Though Japan declares that it will not possess nuclear weapons, some conservative politicians want to keep some potential to be armed with nuclear weapons. It might work as deterrent power against nuclear-armed Russia and China (and even North Korea). Japan has now about 35 tons of plutonium separated from uranium fuel for power generation. It can be used for 9,000 nuclear bombs, since it is said that the U.S. military uses about 4 kg of plutonium for one nuclear bomb.
In order to avoid future nuclear armament of Japan, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident might be truly needed.
Conservative politicians and nuclear industry leaders of Japan must give up their dangerous plan on this occasion.
And, now the big concern in the Japanese politics is that Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan, under strong pressure for forced resignation, might hold a general election in a few months upholding his new policy against nuclear power generation, since he is originally from a socialistic or liberal camp. Yet, there is a suspicion that his poor administration and management in the wake of the 3/11 Tsunami caused the aggravation and expansion of the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
Maybe, still something is crazy in the Japanese politics.
