Re-Review of Fukushima Daiichi
The amount of radioactive material, namely cesium 131 and iodine 131, existent in the reactor units No.1 to No.3 of Fukushima Daiichi Plant is larger than that in the No.4 unit of the Chernobyl Plant.
But, the amount of the material released to the air from the Fukushima Daiichi units is estimated to be smaller than that from Chernobyl.
However, more xenon 133 is estimated to have been discharged from Fukushima than from Chernobyl.
Ratio of Released Cesium, etc. to Those Left within Reactors
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Fukushima 0.27 to 5.8%
Chernobyl 20 to 40%
(http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%96%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E4%BA%8B%E6%95%85%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AE%E6%AF%94%E8%BC%83#.E7.A6.8F.E5.B3.B6.E7.AC.AC.E4.B8.80.E5.8E.9F.E7.99.BA.E4.BA.8B.E6.95.85.E3.81.A8.E3.81.AE.E6.AF.94.E8.BC.83)
Amount of Radioactive Material Discharged to the Air
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Fukushima 770,000 x 10^12 Becquerels
Chernobyl 5,200,000 x 10^12 Becquerels
(Estimation by the Japanese Government, http://genjitsu.jp/archives/324)
However, here radioactive materials leaked to the sea and into the underground are not included.
Radioactive State of Farmland Soil around Fukushima
The soil contamination density of 5,000 Bq/Kg corresponds to that of the contamination-designated area in Chernobyl. The Japanese Government put regulation on use of farmlands with a radiation density of 5,000 Bq/Kg or more.
(Shade in the map is population density, most probably; dots are measured points.)
Tokyo in 2011 and Munich in 1986
When the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred in 1986, Munich, Germany, suffered some unusual radiation doses.
So, some Japanese blogger compared doses in Tokyo after the Daiichi accident with those of Munich after the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
..................................Iodine 131 Doses (Becquerels )........
Munich in 1986 92,000
Tokyo in 2011 10,000 to 100,000 ...........................Cesium 134.......136......137 Doses (Bqs)........
Munich in 1986 10,000 4,200 19,000
Tokyo in 2011 10,000+ 10,000+ 10,000+(http://tokyopastpresent.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/%E3%80%8E%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%96%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%81%AE%E9%9B%B2%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%8B%E3%80%8F%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E3%83%89%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84%E3%81%A8%E6%9D%B1/)
As a conclusion, Tokyo after the Daiichi nuclear accident looks a little worse than Munich after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, but not so different.
How Fukushima Daiichi Workers Live & Work
(to be continued...)
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Now even in Japan, TV news programs are reporting that Mr. Moammar Gadhafi was captured and killed.
So, in this year, two big Arab figures were gone: Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi. This year will be long remembered.
A Japanese female journalist/activist who met Mr. Gadhafi more than ten times said that he had looked like a young leader with a great vision for future of Libya when he was much younger.
From a wider historical point of view, now Greece is in a big financial trouble, and North Africa is undergoing big changes. On the analogy of ancient days, we had better expect another big incident in Italy, since the Roman Republic gained power after the decline of ancient Greece and the fall of Carthage. Or something significant might happen in the Vatican or the EU, since each of them can be regarded as a successor of the Roman Empire even in remote association.
From Saddam Hussein to Moammar Gadhafi, those Arab or Islamic leaders who recently fell were no so Islamic. So, it can be another step forward to New Islam. Indeed, the two major Islamic nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran, still keep their stability and governance. But, Islam itself must be focused on. It is so, since what this era requests is New Islam, in my interpretation of history.
Joh 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
Joh 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Joh 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
From a wider historical point of view, now Greece is in a big financial trouble, and North Africa is undergoing big changes. On the analogy of ancient days, we had better expect another big incident in Italy, since the Roman Republic gained power after the decline of ancient Greece and the fall of Carthage. Or something significant might happen in the Vatican or the EU, since each of them can be regarded as a successor of the Roman Empire even in remote association.
From Saddam Hussein to Moammar Gadhafi, those Arab or Islamic leaders who recently fell were no so Islamic. So, it can be another step forward to New Islam. Indeed, the two major Islamic nations, Saudi Arabia and Iran, still keep their stability and governance. But, Islam itself must be focused on. It is so, since what this era requests is New Islam, in my interpretation of history.
Joh 10:19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
Joh 10:20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Joh 10:21 Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?