State of Fukushima (Etat de Fukushima)
It would need huge costs if 34,000 children and pupils learning in junior high-schools, primary schools, and kindergartens of Fukushima City should be all evacuated from the city to safer facilities in other cities or prefectures.
It is not only Fukushima City; there are many other cities, towns, and villages in Fukushima Prefecture under radioactive influence from Fukushima Daiichi. (However, children living in a 20 km zone from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were already evacuated with their parents. And, many who lived between 20 km to 30 km zone also left their homes for shelters or new homes outside the alert zone.)
But, in order to save the costs, it is suspected, the Japanese Government seems to raise an allowable limit of radiation received by children to 20 milli sieverts per year, though the allowable standard has been 1 milli sieverts per year for an ordinary citizen in Japan.
It is a kind of crime. The present Kan Cabinet should be changed as soon as possible.
SECTION I: Fukushima Children Internal Irradiation
Children who lived in Fukushima City when the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors that exploded in March were checked to see their levels of internal radiation. All of them, namely ten children, show evidence of internal irradiation from radioactive material having leaked from Fukushuima Daiichi.
Sample's nature : Urines
Reference date : May, 20th 2011
Unit : Bq/l
RESULTS (Bq/l)
ACRO's identification
Sample No.... Sex / Age... Cesium-134/Cesium-137
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100603-GPJ-01 U-1... Male /9... 1.04 ± 0.26 / 1.22 ± 0.28
100603-GPJ-02 U-2... Male/ 16... 0.76 ± 0.21 / 0.78 ± 0.22
100603-GPJ-03 U-3... Male / 6... 0.76 ± 0.27 / 0.62 ± 0.23
100603-GPJ-04 U-4... Female / 8... 0.41 ± 0.20 / 0.43 ± 0.19
100603-GPJ-05 U-5... Female / 9... 0.91 ± 0.23 / 0.93 ± 0.23
100603-GPJ-06 U-6... Male / 6... 0.80 ± 0.27 / 0.88 ± 0.27
100603-GPJ-07 U-7... Male / 7... 1.00 ± 0.27 / 1.30 ± 0.30
100603-GPJ-08 U-8... Female / 8... 1.13 ± 0.34 / 1.19 ± 0.35
100603-GPJ-09 U-9... Female / 8... 0.70 ± 0.20 / 0.90 ± 0.22
100603-GPJ-10 U-10... Male / 13... 1.06 ± 0.29 / 1.22 ± 0.30
http://fukurou.txt-nifty.com/fukurou/files/rap110617ocj01v1.pdf
1 Bq/kg of Cesium-134 is equal to 0.02 micro sieverts per kg. Accordingly, 1 Bq/liter is almost equal to 0.02 micro sieverts per liter.
If an adult takes 1.19 micro siervert per kg of radioactive material for a year to accumulate an amount of total 840 kg, he would receive 1 milli sievert of radiation which is an institutional limit in Japan.
So, those children measured as samples are now not in danger, but it has been proved that they took some radioactive Cesium into their body due to the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
SECTION II: 4 Kilo-Meter Piping in Fukushima Daiichi
Water is being poured into four reactors in Fukushima Daiichi to cool nuclear fuel, though melted down in three reactor units, in the pressure vessel and the containment vessel.
Water is radioactively contaminated and leaked from the vessels to the underground floors of the reactor buildings and annexed turbine buildings. It is then pumped out from the buildings, sent to decontamination facilities, and then returned to the reactor buildings as cooling water again.
The total length of this piping is said to be 4 km (2.5 miles). It has to pass through facilities to take out oil, cesium, other radioactive material, saline matters, and other chemicals from contaminated water. Accordingly, leaking can happen at many connection points and so on. Especially it is a little problematic that the piping is actually made of rubber hoses.
Schematic Map of Water Piping for Water Treatment and Cycling in Fukushima Daiichi:
http://www.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/column/20110618/274766/
When all the nuclear fuel is cooled down to settle at normal temperature taking seven to eight months, the cycling of water will be stopped. Then contaminated water will be further processed into sludge. The amount of all the sludge is estimated to be enough to be contained in 10,000 metallic drums (the volume of each drum is 200 liters).
The problem is that how to dispose of 10,000 drums is not yet decided.
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There is one scientist in Japan who started to go and check a radioactive state around Fukushima Daiichi when the news report alarmed all the Japanese as reactor units in the plant underwent hydrogen explosion in the middle of March.
But, his boss in a public research institute forbade all the scientists and researchers in the institute to go and check a radioactive state around Fukushima Daiichi. So, the scientist quit the job and went to Fukushima Prefecture for his personal investigation.
Yet, his work measuring a radiation level along roads and streets around Fukushima Daiichi was taken up by NHK and broadcast nationwide through its TV channel. And, the scientist has obtained employment in a university.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/etv21c/file/2011/0515.html
Since April, 4325 workers started to be engaged in Fukushima Daiichi on-site jobs. But, among them, 2083 workers have not left records of their exposed doses. And, among them, 1295 are now out of contact by TEPCO. Among 2242 workers whose records are kept, the highest dose is found to be 111 milli sieverts. The Government set the limit of radiation doses emergency workers are allowed to suffer at 250 milli sieverts.
Yet, seven workers who took part in response and emergency measures in March received more than 250 milli sieverts.
(A Fukushima song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQJuAN2BEY&feature=related)
Mat 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.