"worship the Father in spirit and in truth" - (History through the 3/11 Disaster)

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(Photos taken by EEE Reporter)


History through the 3/11 Disaster

If you had been living in New York on September 10, 2001, you might have come to feel like writing a history on Truth of the 9/11 Terror.

If you had been living in New York on September 14, 2008, you might have come to feel like writing a history on Truth of the 2008 Lehman Shock.

As I have been living around Tokyo, taking so many pictures of the Capital of Japan, I feel like writing a divine history of the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.


http://kukkuri.jpn.org/boyakikukkuri2/log/eid990.html



CHAPTER I: Fukushima Daiichi Time-Line for March 11

March 9, 2011

11:45 - An M7.3 earthquake happened in the North Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of Honshu Island, Japan, causing 55-cm high tsunamis to shores of prefectures north of Tokyo.




March 10, 2011

14:37 - The Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported that the number of Japanese deaths in the earthquake of Christchurch, NZ, of February 22, 2011, has become seven while other 21 were still missing.

15:03 - The Japanese version of Chinese Xinhuanet reported that an M5.8 earthquake happened in Yunnan Province, south China or near Myanmar, killing 22 and injuring 207. This region has suffered 1000 earthquakes, each larger than Magnitude 5.0, in these two months.

March 11, 2011

13:00 - PM Kan attended a session of the Upper-House budget committee in the National Diet, Tokyo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYs_rUAgboU&feature=related

14:45 - An M9.0 earthquake was set off under the Pacific Ocean 150 km northeast of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Plant on the shore; emergency power sources and external electricity supply to Fukushima Daiichi were lost, but one second after the tremor all the working reactors automatically stopped their operation with control rods moved in between fuel rods.

14:50 - The budget committee recessed amid a big quake; PM Kan immediately returned to PM Office.

15:10 - A 7.3-meter-high tsunami arrived at Fukushima Daiichi; seven times more in subsequent 6 hours. One tsunami was 14 or 15-meters high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7awgDekObHc&feature=related

15:30 - A vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation started to fly to Fukushima Daini (No.2) by helicopter from the Tokyo main office of TEPCO.

16:36 - It became impossible to pour water into the 1st and 2nd reactors of Fukushima Daiichi.

19:03 - Gov. issued the Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency Situation for Fukushima Daiichi.

19:05 - Japan Meteorological Agency sent a radioactive-material diffusion forecast map to IAEA.

19:09 - A cabinet meeting was held to discuss nuclear safety.

19:23 to 19:41 - A cabinet meeting was held to discuss the ongoing disaster.

20:50 - Gov. issued an evacuation order to residents living within 2 km of Fukushima Daiichi.

22:30 - TEPCO sent a vehicle equipped with a power generator to Fukushima Daiichi.


March 12, 2011

00:00 - Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry arrived at Fukushima Daiichi.

00:15 - PM Kan talked with US President Obama by phone.

01:20 - TEPCO reported to Gov. an abnormal pressure rise inside the 1st reactor's pressure vessel (requesting authorization of opening the valve for releasing radioactive vapor).

01:30 - Gov. agreed or ordered to open valves of a ventilation system to release vapor out of the vessel.

01:40 - PM Office delivered a memo to the media stating the "vent" starts at 27:20.

02:00 - PM Kan decided to go and inspect Fukushima Daiichi.

03:00 - Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano ordered TEPCO to delay the "vent" till Gov. announcement.

03:12 - Secretary Edano started to hold a midnight news conference, announcing the "vent" to be done soon.

04:00 - TEPCO was trying to connect the power generator through cables to the reactor units in Fukushima Daiichi.

05:44 - PM Kan ordered evacuation from a 10-km zone of Fukushima Daiichi　

06:00 - TEPCO held a press conference, admitting having a trouble in connecting the provisional power source in Fukushima Daiichi.

06:08 - PM Kan accepted a standing interview by reporters at the entrance of PM Office.

06:14 - PM Kan left for Fukushima Daiichi 220 km northeast of Tokyo by helicopter from PM Office. Chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission Madarame accompanied PM Kan.

06:50 - Gov. officially ordered TEPCO to perform the "vent"

07:11 - PM Kan arrived at Fukushima Daiichi to meet the TEPCO's vice president.

07:45 - Gov. issued the Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency Situation for Fukushima Daini (No.2) Plant.

08:04 - PM Kan left Fukushima Daiichi for inspection of tsunami-hit areas.

09:04 - TEPCO started to open one of two valves needed to be opened for the "vent."

09:11 - The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered TEPCO to conduct the "vent."

10:17 - TEPCO started to open the second valve for the "vent."

10:47 - PM Kan flew back to PM Office from the aerial inspection of Miyagi Prefecture, etc; PM Kan reportedly said to his aids that the nuclear reactors in Fukushima Daiichi would not explode.

11:13 - Pressure in the 1st reactor's pressure vessel dropped.

13:00 - TEPCO started to pour water into the 1st reactor.

14:30 - The troubled second valve of the 1st reactor was finally opened.

15:29 - A radiation level monitored at the border to the Daiichi Plant indicated 1015 micro-sieverts or almost 1 milli-sieverts per hour.

15:36 - Hydrogen explosion occurred in the 1st reactor unit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXIa8nlyUd8
Then, mayhem started as the world came to know it very soon.

In addition, Chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission Mr. Haruki Madarame said, later in a Diet session, that he followed PM Mr. Kan to Fukushima Daiichi as the prime minister wanted to go there to study a nuclear power plant.

Now some people suspect that PM Mr. Kan's visit to Fukushima Daiichi in the early morning of March 12 forced TEPCO workers in the plant to postpone their actions for releasing radioactive vapor out of the first reactor unit, thus leaving the pressure reactor without water input for too long and allowing for generation of too much hydrogen which eventually led to explosion.



CHAPTER II: Energy, Systems, and Welfare

In order to promote welfare of mankind, suitable systems are needed since people live in society.

Various rules, arrangements, and agreements need to be formulated and put into practices.

Through experiences, people will come to dream of having more power for expansion in terms of quality and quantity of the systems to realize welfare. But, without physical sources of power, people cannot multiply their power. Accordingly, timber, coal, crude oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy are found, and their applications are developed.

However, nuclear energy suggests a need for changing systems in order to be applied to promotion of human welfare. But, as the extent of the required change is so big that welfare expected and obtained gets deteriorated.

If mankind abandons the nuclear energy, the story might not become so full of vicissitudes. The whole scenario of progress of mankind will be however peaceful.

But, as mankind would not abandon the nuclear energy, the story would be all the more full of vicissitudes.

It also tells that mankind does not simply obtain energy and set up systems for realization of welfare. Each member of mankind is selfishly abusing energy and systems for pursuit of his or her irresponsible desire. In that case, the whole scenario must be changed from the beginning. And the end of the scenario cannot be peaceful one.

The reason why mankind today should be regraded as living in the time for fulfillment of the Apocalypse lies in this context. And the symbolic element is nuclear energy.

The 9/11 Terror indicated that systems in this world cannot be trusted at all.

The 9/15 Lehman Shock indicated that welfare is not pursued but selfish desire by members of mankind.

The 3/11 Disaster of Japan has indicated that mankind might be fatally harmed by a type of energy they are adhered to for the use to win beefed-up power.


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http://wallstny.exblog.jp/m2011-03-01/

Japan has been the second largest economy, next to the U.S., for 30 years.

(China's figure and contents of GDP are yet to be tested along with its society and politics in the open stage of history.)

Its influence on the global market, industry, and business in addition to the humanitarian field is deep, complicated, and large.

Yet, first of all, the Japanese people appreciate compassion, aid, and friendship all the people in the world have extended to Japan since March 11, 2011.

Of course, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism are, in fact, useless to prevent the occurrence of this Disaster.

Anyway, without energy, systems, and welfare of Japan based on which prior-training, education, and preparation have been conducted for a possible dangerous tsunami in the affected areas in these decades, the number of casualties of the 3/11 Disaster should have been ten times larger, that is, 300,000 almost identical with the Haiti case or the Sumatra case.



Joh 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Joh 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

"they immediately left the ship and their father" - (Nuclear Touchstone)

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Nuclear Touchstone


An old man older than 90 years told that this is the worst situation since he came back from the military service to the Empire of Japan after WWII, since his village is situated within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

The rise and fall of the nation Japan might be now at stake due to crippled four reactor units in Fukushima Daiichi.

But, how was it started in the peaceful evening of March 11, 2011?



PART I: A Professor

In the wake of the outbreak of the Fukushima nuclear crisis in northeast Japan, many experts and professors were invited to TV programs and news shows. They mostly explained to the Japanese audience how safe the situation was.

A professor of the University of Tokyo said on TV that the current radiation level was not dangerous while intensity of radiation in Fukushima City was 200 times stronger than in Tokyo.

But, when he returned his office in the University from a TV station, he issued a circular letter requesting his staff and students to halt an air ventilation system and stop use of a draft in his laboratory. The professor tried to prevent radioactive material from coming into his office in Tokyo from Fukushima Daiichi.

Yet, he said on TV that Fukushima City was perfectly safe from the nuclear accident in Fukushima Daiichi, since the city received only 20 micro-sieverts (at the time) while one chest x-ray check uses 600 micro-sievert radiation.

The professor of the University of Tokyo suggested that Tokyo was safer than Fukushima City, since the radiation level in Tokyo was 200 times smaller than that of Fukushima City.

Yet, he ordered his staff and students to halt an air ventilation system and stop use of a draft in his laboratory of the University. The professor tried to prevent radioactive material from coming into his office in Tokyo from Fukushima Daiichi.

And, it is widely known that the Japanese nuclear expert community is governed by industrial experts and leaders, academic bosses, and conservative politicians who mostly graduated from the University of Tokyo.



Though Fukushima City of Fukushima Prefecture is exposed to a higher radioactivity of 4 micro-sieverts per hour or 1.5 milli-sievert per month, Tokyo is under a 1/60 radiation. Leaving Tokyo for fear of radiation now might be tantamount to having left Paris due to the Chernobyl accident in 1986, in my feeling.



PART II: At 27:20 of March 11

There is an argument that PM Mr. Naoto Kan is responsible for the hydrogen explosion that happened around 3:30 p.m. on March 12, 2011.

March 11, 2011

13:00 - PM Kan attended a session of the Upper-House budget committee in the National Diet, Tokyo.

14:45 - An M9.0 earthquake was set off under the Pacific Ocean 150 km northeast of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Nuclear Plant on the shore; emergency power sources and external electricity supply to Fukushima Daiichi was lost, but one second after the tremor all the working reactors automatically stopped their operation.

14:50 - The budget committee recessed amid a big quake; PM Kan immediately returned to PM Office.

15:10 - A 7.3-meter-high tsunami arrived at Fukushima Daiichi; seven times more in subsequent 6 hours. One tsunami was 14-meters high.

15:30 - A vice president of Tokyo Electric Power Corporation started to fly to Fukushima Daini (No.2) by helicopter from the Tokyo main office of TEPCO.

16:36 - It became impossible to pour water into the 1st and 2nd reactors of Fukushima Daiichi.

19:03 - Gov. issued the Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency Situation for Fukushima Daiichi.

19:05 - Japan Meteorological Agency sent a radioactive-material diffusion forecast map to IAEA.

19:09 - A cabinet meeting was held to discuss nuclear safety.

19:23 to 19:41 - A cabinet meeting was held to discuss the ongoing disaster.

20:50 - Gov. issued an evacuation order to residents living within 2 km of Fukushima Daiichi.

22:30 - TEPCO sent a vehicle equipped with a power generator to Fukushima Daiichi.


March 12, 2011

00:00 - Vice Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry arrived at Fukushima Daiichi.

00:15 - PM Kan talked with US President Obama by phone.

01:20 - TEPCO reported to Gov. an abnormal pressure rise inside the 1st reactor's pressure vessel (requesting authorization of opening the valve for releasing radioactive vapor).

01:30 - Gov. agreed or ordered to open valves of a ventilation system to release vapor out of the vessel.

01:40 - PM Office delivered a memo to the media stating the "vent" starts at 27:20.

02:00 - PM Kan decided to go and inspect Fukushima Daiichi.

03:00 - Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano ordered TEPCO to delay the "vent" till Gov. announcement.

03:12 - Secretary Edano started to hold a midnight news conference, announcing the "vent" to be done soon.

04:00 - TEPCO was trying to connect the power generator through cables to the reactor units in Fukushima Daiichi.

05:44 - PM Kan ordered evacuation from a 10-km zone of Fukushima Daiichi　

06:00 - TEPCO held a press conference, admitting having a trouble in connecting the provisional power source in Fukushima Daiichi.

06:08 - PM Kan accepted a standing interview by reporters at the entrance of PM Office.

06:14 - PM Kan left for Fukushima Daiichi 220 km northeast of Tokyo by helicopter from PM Office. Chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission Madarame accompanied PM Kan.

06:50 - Gov. officially ordered TEPCO to perform the "vent"

07:11 - PM Kan arrived at Fukushima Daiichi to meet the TEPCO's vice president.

07:45 - Gov. issued the Declaration of a Nuclear Emergency Situation for Fukushima Daini (No.2) Plant.

08:04 - PM Kan left Fukushima Daiichi for inspection of tsunami-hit areas.

09:04 - TEPCO started to open one of two valves needed to be opened for the "vent."

09:11 - The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered TEPCO to conduct the "vent."

10:17 - TEPCO started to open the second valve for the "vent."

10:47 - PM Kan flew back to PM Office from the aerial inspection of Miyagi Prefecture, etc; PM Kan reportedly said to his aids that the nuclear reactors in Fukushima Daiichi would not explode.

11:13 - Pressure in the 1st reactor's pressure vessel dropped.

13:00 - TEPCO started to pour water into the 1st reactor.

14:30 - The troubled second valve of the 1st reactor was finally opened.

15:29 - A radiation level monitored at the border to the Daiichi Plant indicated 1015 micro-sieverts or almost 1 milli-sieverts per hour.

15:36 - Hydrogen explosion occurred in the 1st reactor unit.

Then, mayhem started as the world came to know it very soon.

In addition, Chairman of the Nuclear Safety Commission Mr. Haruki Madarame said, later in a Diet session, that he followed PM Mr. Kan to Fukushima Daiichi as the prime minister wanted to go there to study a nuclear power plant.


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Nuclear energy is not a conventional type of power sources mankind has been familiar with for these 2000 years.

But, technology to handle this energy is based on the conventional paradigm of engineering. There is a big mismatching.

People of the Stone Age cannot handle well crude oil as an energy source. People of today cannot handle well the nuclear energy.

It is because a natural disaster that can happen only once in thousand years in the Japanese Archipelago can easily disable the nuclear power plant. If mankind does not have an engineering paradigm that can cope with a natural disaster that can happen once in thousand years, he should not try to use nuclear energy.

Indeed, it is more difficult for mankind today to refrain from using nuclear energy than mankind of the Stone Age tries to use crude-oil power.

And what energy can you use so exclusively?



(Local hometown is the place where Japanese city workers always long for. A seaside village of Fukushima must be a good place to reminisce about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffeg2j7x4kM&feature=related)




Mat 4:22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

"This day is this scripture fulfilled" - (Another Source of Crises)

Tokyo
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Another Source of Crises

TEPCO's sales is about 5 trillion yen or $60 billion.

But, it is calculated that TEPCO has to pay 8.3 trillion yen or $100 billion as compensation for damages to evacuees from the area affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accidents.

Yet, Tokyo Electric Power Corporation is the only utility company that provides electricity in Kanto Region, including Tokyo, where 40 million people or one third of the Japanese population live.

However, TEPCO must concentrate on the emergency situation still going on at the Fukushima No.1 (Daiichi) Plant. They have to prevent exacerbation of the state in the plant. Otherwise, it might cost 83 trillion yen eventually.



PART I: Accumulated Radiation in Fukushima Cities

In one month since the hydrogen explosion of Fukushima Daiichi, some cities in Fukushima Prefecture have accumulated a higher level of radiation received.



From March 15 to April 19
City....+.....Accumulated Radiation (micro-sieverts)
-------+------------------------
Fukushima....3746.96

Koriyama...2789.96

Shirakawa...1002.84

Aizu-wakamatsu...246.26

Minami-aizu...76.83

Minami-soma...1135.66

Iwaki-Taira...788.49
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Especially, the capital city of the prefecture, Fukushima City, has already taken 3.7 mili-sieverts.

The second largest city Koriyama has suffered 2.8 mili-sieverts.

They will surely exceed the international standard of 20 mili-sieverts per year by March 2012.

Accordingly, students and children in the two cities are now not allowed to have physical education outside a gymnasium.

(Click to enlarge.)
http://expres.umin.jp/fukushima/new.pdf

Anyway, this is a fact and reality of the state of radiation in Fukushima Prefecture.

However, Tokyo, 200 km south of Fukushim Prefecture, is not under influence of radioactive leakage from Fukushima Daiichi Plant.


In the Chernobyl accident, those who were living within 200 km of the nuclear plant reportedly died within two years after the greatest man-made accident of April 1986.

If the Fukushima event developed to the Chernobyl level, millions of people living north of Tokyo Central might lose their lives within two years, which is the worst case thinkable in this Fukushima event.

However, so far, 20 mili-sieverts per year are only expected in cities and villages 200 km north of Tokyo, though 5 mili-Sv/year was applied for forced evacuation in the Soviet Union.




PART II: Hamaoka Nuclear Plant

The wind flows on the path in the air from the west to the east on the Japanese Archipelago.

It blows from the Asian Continent to the Pacific Ocean. So, winds follow the direction from Tokyo to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, in most of time of a year.

But, the wind blows from the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant to Tokyo, though the plant is just prepared for a 6 meter-high tsunami while Fukushima Daiichi was attacked by a 14-meter high tsunami a month ago.


http://www.chuden.co.jp/energy/hamaoka/index.html

The Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant of Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc. is almost 200 kilometers west-southwest of Tokyo.

(Click to enlarge.)

However, Chubu Electric Power Company has recently decided to invest $360 million in reinforcement work of the plant. They plan to set emergency power sources on a 20-meter-high hill behind the plant and build a 12-meter plus-high breakwater between the Pacific Ocean and the plant.


http://www.chuden.co.jp/energy/hamaoka/hama_jishin/hama_tsunami/index.html


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One gram of uranium-235 has 2560000000000000000000 = 2.56 x 10^21 atoms.

When this one gram undergoes fission in 24 hours, it generates 900 kilo watts of electricity.

When it is blown off to the air, diffusing evenly over a 1000 km x 11000 km belt (from Tokyo to New York), every one square meter area on the belt receives 2.3 x 10^8 (2.56 x 10^21 divided by 1.1 x 10^13) atoms.

Every one square meter area on the belt from Tokyo to New York receives 230 million uranium atoms.

If each uranium-235 is split into other types of radioactive atoms, every one square meter area on the belt from Tokyo to New York could receive more than 460 million radioactive elements.

When one gram of uranium-235 is broken and released into the air from a nuclear plant near Tokyo, such as Fukushima Daiichi, one square meter plot in Manhattan could be covered by more than 460 million radioactive atoms of some sorts, very roughly speaking.

It is time to curb the trend of commercial and military use of nuclear energy.





Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Luk 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

"Our fathers worshipped in this mountain" - (Nuclear Effect)

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Nuclear Effect


Kuwait provided 5 million barrels of crude oil for free for Japan as emergency aid. It costs $490 million dollars if purchased on a business basis.

China provided 10,000 tons of gasoline and sent 15 rescue workers to the affected area of Japan.

But, it was a surprise that Chinese President said in an international conference on other day that China led the emergency service activities since the occurrence of the 3/11 Disaster of Japan.

It is the U.S. that led the emergency aid with one aircraft carrier fleet and tens of thousands of soldiers being stationed off northeast Honshu Island.

So, it is hard to understand why Chinese President said that China led the emergency service activities since the occurrence of the 3/11 Disaster of Japan, which was not true.

Rather, when China tested its nuclear weapons in the past decades, radioactive material generated from the tests flew to Japan like yellow dusts from inlands of China.

And, China should stop requesting ODA money from Japan and invasion of the Senkaku Islands under authority of Japan and Okinawa/Ryukyu in these hundreds or thousands years.


PART I: Radiation in Hong Kong

A dangerous level of radiation is observed only in some part in the 20% area of Fukushima Prefecture, 200 km northeast of Tokyo.

Tokyo is so far as safe as Hon Kong, London, and New York.

April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Typical amounts of radiation in Hong Kong exceed those in Tokyo even as workers struggle to contain a crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, indicating concerns about spreading contamination may be overblown.

The radiation level in central Tokyo reached a high of 0.109 microsieverts per hour in Shinjuku Ward yesterday, data from the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health show. That compares with 0.14 microsieverts in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Observatory said on its website. A person is exposed to 50 microsieverts from a typical x-ray.

Many countries have naturally occurring radiation levels that exceed Tokyo’s, said Bob Bury, former clinical lead for the U.K.’s Royal College of Radiologists. A 30-fold surge in such contamination in Tokyo prompted thousands of expatriates to leave Japan after the March 11 tsunami knocked out power at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, triggering the crisis. Radiation in Tokyo is barely above levels in London and New York even now, analysts said.

“The situation in Japan looks set to follow the pattern of Chernobyl, where fear of radiation did far more damage than the radiation itself,” Bury said in an e-mail referring to the 1986 accident in the former Soviet Union, the world’s worst nuclear disaster. “Whatever the radiation in Tokyo at the moment, you can be fairly sure it is lower than natural background levels in many parts of the world.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-04-01/hong-kong-radiation-exceeds-tokyo-even-after-nuclear-crisis.html

PART II: State around Fukushima Daiichi

It is a zone within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Plant that receives more than 10 micro-sievert radiation per hour.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,756749,00.html

4/13/2011
The World from Berlin
'Japan Could Have Recognized Scope of Fukushima Disaster Weeks Ago'

..."Perhaps it is part of the Japanese mentality to include something positive and a ray of hope in any piece of bad news. Hence there was talk of the level 7 classification only being 'temporary,' implying that the situation could improve significantly and lead to a downgrading. But this hope is likely to prove illusory. According to official Japanese estimates, 10 percent of the amount of radioactive substances that was released at the time of Chernobyl has already entered the environment as a result of Fukushima. That total can not decrease -- it can only grow larger."

If one receives safely less than 1-mili sievert radiation per year, it must be less than 0.11 micro-sievert per hour in addition to receiving radiation naturally from the environment.

In this context, a zone within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Plant that receives more than 10 micro-sievert radiation per hour is still dangerous.

Yet, the zone is 200 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.

And, that 10% of the amount of radioactive substances that was released at the time of Chernobyl was discharged from Fukushima Daiichi when hydrogen explosions occurred in the first and the third reactor units, a small explosion occurred in the second unit, and a fire started in the fourth unit all between March 12 and 15. After these accidents, not much radioactive material was released at one time.


PART III: Fukushima to the U.S.

It is well known that Japanese rice fields were contaminated by radioactive material released by nuclear weapon tests having been conducted by the Soviet Union, the U.S., France, etc. after WWII and especially in 1950's and 1960's.

However, the level was not so high. The Japanese people ate rice harvested from those fields without health troubles.

Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk
Apr. 9 2011 - 8:15 am

[UPDATED 4/11 with FDA's Derived Intervention Level]

Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk—in Montpelier, Vermont—for the first time since the Japan nuclear disaster began, according to data released by the Environmental Protection Agency late Friday.

Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted by EPA, the data shows. The Phoenix sample contained 3.2 picoCuries per liter of iodine-131. The Los Angeles sample contained 2.9. The EPA maximum contaminant level is 3.0, but this is a conservative standard designed to minimize exposure over a lifetime, so EPA does not consider these levels to pose a health threat...

In most of the data released Friday the levels of contaminants detected are far below the standards observed by EPA and other U.S. agencies.

But the EPA drinking-water data includes one outlier—an unusually, but not dangerously, high reading in a drinking water sample from Chatanooga, Tennessee...The 1.6 picocures per liter reported by the EPA on Friday is slightly more than half the maximum contaminant level permitted in drinking water, but more uniquely, it is many times higher than all the other drinking water samples collected in the U.S.

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/09/radiation-detected-in-drinking-water-in-13-more-us-cities-cesium-137-in-vermont-milk/

It is very unlikely that the Fukushima Daiichi accidents would cause excess deaths among the U.S. population, though the horrible phenomenon was observed once due to nuclear bomb tests by the U.S. and the USSR.


PART IV: Excess Deaths by Nuclear Bomb Tests

Nuclear bomb tests having been conducted after WWII have resulted in excess deaths among the American population.

The number of them is estimated to be 19,300,000 between 1950 and 1999.


http://fujiwaratoshikazu.com/2011disaster/



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Approval Rating for Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan, Japan:

Media...Approval...Disapproval
-----------*----------*--------------
Asahi....*...21%....*....60%
Mainichi...*...22%....*....54%
Nikkei...*...27%...*....67%
Nippon TV...*...24%....*....61.6%

To our surprise, at this time of a national crisis, the approval rating for the prime minister of Japan is just 23.5% on average.

It is a real crisis of governance capacity in the political sector of Japan.

My recommendation to PM Mr. Naoto Kan is just to step down immediately after the first supplementary budget for the disaster recovery is passed in the National Diet, which is expected in a few weeks.

Approval Ratings for Political Parties in Japan by NHK:
Ruling DPJ...19.2%
Opposition LDP...23.3%




Joh 4:19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

Joh 4:20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Joh 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

"To preach the acceptable year of the Lord" - (Anti-Nuke Discussion)

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Anti-Nuke Discussion

So far, no victims of radiation from the Fukuhima Daiichi Plant in Japan except a few emergency workers on site in the Plant.

Nobody in Tokyo Prefecture, Chiba Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Fukushima Prefecture has suffered radiation injury.

In this context, all the not-well-informed foreigners have left Japan and Tokyo; all the not-well-informed foreigners have cancelled their plan to visit Japan and Tokyo.

Yet, it is true that 300 to 700 emergency workers per day who are engaged in emergency work in Fukushima Daiichi might be sacrificing something for an ordinary level of wages, unbelievably.

(A certain subcontractor is recruiting part-time workers for Fukushima Daiichi in conditions of work hours of 3 hours per day and at a wage of 30,000 yen or 353 dollars per day.)


CHAPTER I: Anti-Nuclear Governor Arrested and Judged

Former Governor of Fukushima Prefecture was arrested and judged to be guilty for vague allegation against him for bribery in 2008 at the first trial and in 2009 in an appeal court.

Mr. Eisaku Sato, the former governor, claims that he was regarded as an enemy for TEPCO and thus conservative politicians who received big money from TEPCO's executives, since Mr. Sato came to take serious position to management of Fukushima nuclear power plants where many mistakes and breaches had been made according to some exposures from within he received.

Former Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato also sees a likeness between Fukushima Daiichi and Chernobyl. But the similarities that strike Mr. Sato, known as much for his opposition to Japan's nuclear policy as for the fall from grace that ended his nearly two-decade gubernatorial tenure, are in the ways the two governments—Japan's and the Soviet Union's—dealt with the crisis. It's not a flattering comparison.

"The situation that we see in Japan now with nuclear power policy is very similar to what happened with Chernobyl," said Mr. Sato Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Japan, apologizing if he offended anyone in the audience who was involved the Chernobyl accident. "In other words, it's almost as though we are in a fascist country where information is hidden from the public. I believe that this is time for Japan to wake up and see what the situation is."
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"There is this inflexible mindset of one absolute following another, carried onto its extreme consequences," said Mr. Sato. “Those who say that nuclear power is dangerous, like myself, are then treated as state enemies.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/04/18/how-sato-sums-up-governments-nuclear-response-soviet/

CHAPTER II: Incomplete Technology

It can be said that it is stupid to apply the nuclear fission to electricity generation.

A by-product of nuclear power generation, radioactive material, is so dangerous and hazardous for human beings.

There are other means to generate electricity, while each method has advantage and disadvantage, according to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.

Type....Unit Cost (yen/kWh)....Utilization (%)....Risk ($bn/100 years)
Hydraulic...-...8.2 to 13.3...-...45...-...1
Coal...-...5.0 to 6.5...-...70 to 80...-...5
Crude Oil...-...10.0 to 17.3...-...30 to 80...-...5
Nuclear...-...4.8 to 6.2...-...70 to 85...-...100
Solar...-...46...-...12...-...0

In my rough estimation, the hydraulic power station can damage the environment, causing damages of $1 billion in 100 years.

The coal/oil power plant can damage the environment, causing damages of $5 billion in 100 years.

The nuclear power plant can damage the environment, causing damages of $100 billion in 100 years. Or to realize complete safety around a nuclear power plant, $1 billion is needed for every year during its life cycle of max. 100 years.

Until mankind invents technology to completely contain radioactive contamination, the nuclear power plant must not be treated as a main option for electricity generation.



CHAPTER III: Radiation Effect on a Living Thing

A clear piece of evidence of an influence of radiation on a living thing presented by a Japanese lawmaker who checked towns and villages around Fukushima Daiichi Plant:


http://twitpic.com/4m9jji


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Due to the 3/11 Great Tsunami, total 410,000 cars were lost in the affected areas of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima Prefectures. So, now needs for used cars are very high among evacuees and victims.

Authorities of the related prefectures plan to build and provide more than 62,000 temporary homes for evacuees and victims. In other words, at present, more than 130,000 people do not have their houses since they lost it in the tsunami.

Yet, the Fukushima Daiichi Plant holds 1000 tons of nuclear fuel while Hiroshima was destroyed with 50 kilograms of Uranium in August 1945. Potentially, tens of millions of people around Tokyo are still under a threat of a nuclear hazard.

In conclusion, no one blames foreigners leaving Japan and Tokyo in haste, whether well informed or not well informed.

Radiation Level:
Beijin...0.064 micro-sieverts per hour on March 13, 2011
Tokyo....0.075 micro-sieverts per hour on April 18, 2011
New York...0.095 micro-sieverts per hour on average between March 24 and 31, 2011

So far, Tokyo is as safe as Beijing and New York.



Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

"And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee" - (Tokyo the Most Dangerous City)

Tokyo




Tokyo the Most Dangerous City in the World

Since the state of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant started to be widely reported a month ago, many foreigners have left Japan and less and less foreign tourists have came to Japan.

Even Secretary Mrs. Clinton stayed only for five or six hours in Tokyo yesterday.

As northeast Honshu Island of Japan turned to be another Sumatra, Tokyo could be rather another Port-au-Prince of Haiti.

Yet, no Japanese think about relocation of the capital of Japan, since no one knows when and how a big earthquake will hit Tokyo.



CHAPTER I: State of Surface of Subsoil of Japan

Fukushima Prefecture where the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant is situated comparatively based on the stable surface of the subsoil. However, east Japan including Tokyo has not so solid basement as west Japan, since the continental plate each region of Japan resides on is different.
(Click to enlarge.)
http://www.bousai.go.jp/oshirase/h17/yureyasusa/zenkoku.pdf

The above map shows an alarmingly weak state of the ground on which Tokyo lies. The resisting strength to an earthquake and temblor caused by it is surprisingly small around Tokyo.


CHAPTER II: Earthquake Forecast around Tokyo

What will cause a devastating impact on Tokyo is not only possible (no matter how unrealistic) radioactive contamination by the Fukushima Daiichi Plant but also an M7 class earthquake to happen in the vicinity of Tokyo Central.
http://www.bousai.go.jp/syuto_higaisoutei/pdf/higai_gaiyou.pdf

There are many scenarios about possible occurrence of an earthquake directly around Tokyo. In either case, the number of possible deaths of Tokyo citizens are estimated to be thousands.



CHAPTER III: Tokyo The Most Dangerous City

Nobody living in New York or London thinks that there is a possibility that his or her life ends under a collapsed or crushed home or building.

But, those living in Tokyo sometimes do.

Under the natural hazard risk index, the Tokyo-Yokohama conurbation is tops with a score of 710, followed by San Francisco at 167, Los Angeles at 100, and the Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto area at 92.

Given that such megalopolises as Tokyo-Yokohama are "vulnerable to natural perils, technological risks, terrorism and environmental hazards," there is a need for more risk awareness on the part of all parties concerned, Munich Re Group said.

City...Risk Score
Tokyo/Yokohama...710.0
San Francisco...167.0
Los Angeles...100.0
Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto...92.0
New York...42.0
Hong Kong...41.0
London 30.0
Paris...25.0
Chicago...20.0
Mexico City...19.0
Beijing...15.0
Seoul...15.0
Moscow...11.0

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20050113a8.html

So, the Tokyo-Yokohama conurbation was 17 times more dangerous than New York even before the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.

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In one typical town affected by the 3/11 Tsunami, Minami-sanriku-cho, 467 died, 640 were still missing, and 6630 were evacuated from their homes, among 18,000 residents.

As they were prepared for a big tsunami since the last one that had hit the town decades ago with public drills and education, it could be said that the ratio of casualties was comparatively small. Yet, 6% of the local population was lost, while almost half of houses and buildings of the city were demolished by the greatest tsunami that has ever been generated in the North Pacific Ocean off Honshu Island.

Around Tokyo Bay, 1000 times more people are living than Minami-sanriku-cho. It is time for the Japanese Government to think about ultimate safety of Tokyo from any sort of disasters.




Mat 4:18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

Mat 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Such Statements on the 3/11 Disaster

Tokyo Bay
As Large as the Dead Sea of Israel
(But, not bad at all to live on it.)



Such Statements on the 3/11 Disaster of Northeast Japan


Some Japanese TV stations are still reporting, in a non-nonsense manner, the states of the northeast region of Honsyu Island and the Fukushima No.1 (Daiichi) Plant in prime time.

No joking and no laughing, but sharing the feeling of being hit by Heaven.

Indeed, it is a historic experience for any Japanese to have lived and survived March 11.

Traditionally, in East Asia, a big natural disaster was taken as a sign of anger or discomfort of Heaven at some king or political and tribal leader.

Yet, I do not think that Heaven is going to destroy Japan, since I respect Heaven more than anybody on this earth. It is so, since Heaven has M9.0 and more power.



1) Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan expressed his gratitude for the global support for the Japanese people.

Kizuna
- The Bonds of Friendship -

April 11, 2011
[Provisional Translation]
JAPANESE

One month has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, which caused over 13,000 people to lose their lives in the enormous earthquake and tsunamis that struck. Even now, over 14,000 people remain unaccounted for, and about 150,000 people remain forced to take shelter as evacuees. I extend my heartfelt sympathy to all the people who have suffered as a result of this disaster, both Japanese nationals and non-Japanese, and to their families.

We are currently mobilizing all resources to bring the situation at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station under stable control and working to stabilize the situation there at the earliest possible time.

This one month since the great earthquake has been an extremely arduous time for Japan. Yet at the same time, it has been a period during which Japan has once again realized, and once again given thanks, that we stand together with the world.

Thus far, over 130 nations and regions, nearly 40 international organizations, a number of nongovernmental organizations and people from all around the globe have extended their best wishes to us, and moreover they have expressed their support and solidarity through donations and other means. Various countries and regions rushed in rescue workers to swiftly conduct rescue operations in the affected areas swiftly and delivered supplies such as food, medical supplies, and blankets. This assistance also brought wholehearted encouragement to the disaster victims. In addition, we have received thousands of origami paper cranes intently folded by children in distant nations wishing for the reconstruction of the disaster-stricken areas.

On behalf of the people of Japan, I extend my heartfelt thanks for such assistance from all around the world.

There is no doubt that Japan will recover, become vibrant again, and become an even more marvelous country. In living up to the cordial encouragement and solidarity extended to us by the international community, I consider walking down the road to such a rebirth to be incumbent upon us, and the best way for Japan to reciprocate your kind concern. It is my firm conviction that through the fundamental strengths inherent to the Japanese people and the cordial cooperation of the international community, we can achieve this without fail.

I am also determined that Japan will certainly repay, through our contributions to the international community, the cordial assistance we have received from around the world.

To that end, I will work to the best of my ability to realize reconstruction of Japan.

Naoto Kan
Prime Minister of Japan

A friend in need is a friend indeed

http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/kan/statement/201104/11kizuna_e.html

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2) American Embassy in Tokyo keeps strong friendship with Japan.

PRESS RELEASE
U.S. Embassy Marks One-Month Anniversary of Great East Japan Earthquake

April 11, 2011

Ambassador Roos and the entire staff of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo offer their condolences to the people of Japan on the one-month anniversary of the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Despite the horrific devastation of the earthquake and tsunami, the resilience of the Japanese people has served as an inspiration to citizens around the world. The United States will continue to support Japan as it rebuilds from this unprecedented disaster.

Today, the U.S. Embassy will fly the U.S. flag at half-staff and observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. to honor all the victims of the earthquake and tsunami.

http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/p/tp-20110411-02.html

(This emblem was created by a Japanese managing and editing an aviation magazine. He and his wife ordered production of this emblem to a Taiwan maker. He then provided American troops stationed around Tokyo with 1000 emblems for free. American soldiers liked them and asked more for any prices.)

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3) Japanese female politician is expressing her vision toward the future over the 3/11 Tragedy.

The Sun Will Rise Again
Yuriko Koike

2011-04-15

TOKYO – In Japan, memorial services for the dead are normally held 49 days after their passing. The bereaved mourn throughout this period. The number of victims of the earthquake and tsunami that assaulted the Tohoku region of northeast Japan has now reached around 30,000, if those who are still missing are included. This was the largest natural disaster to strike Japan in its history, and the entire nation has been in mourning...

Indeed, the only way truly to honor those who lost their lives is to create a new-model Japan from the tsunami’s wreckage, rather than simply restoring towns and their economies to their previous decadent conditions.

Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former defense minister and national security adviser, is Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/koike17/English#comments

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4) WHO does not encourage people in the world to casually visit and enjoy Japan, especially in the affected area, though radiation contamination is very restricted and limited in the coastal area of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, or specifically within a 20 kilometer zone from the Fukushima Daiichi Plant on the North Pacific Ocean.

WHO SITREP NO 13

Japan earthquake and tsunami
Situation Report No. 13
22 March 2011
As of 14:30 hrs Manila Time
All times stated below are in Tokyo time.


SITUATION SUMMARY
- A 9.0 magnitude earthquake occurred on 11 March 2011 in Japan at 5:46:23 GMT, hitting the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan....

- 73 food samples exceed the provisional regulation value for Iodine-131 and 30 food samples exceed the provisional regulation value for Caesium (200 Bq/kg for milk and 500 Bq/kg for vegetables). Samples which exceeded the provisional regulation values originated from Gunma, Fukushima, Chiba, Ibaraki, Nagano and Tochigi prefectures....

Hong Kong, China has reported that it has tested 214 consignments of imported food from Japan between 12 and 18 March 2011. All results are satisfactory.

Taiwan, China reported imported fava beans from Kagoshima Prefecture (in southern Japan) have low level radiation levels (11 Bq/kg Iodine and 1 Bq/kg Caesium) (media report only; official information has been requested).

Outside of the Western Pacific Region, several countries have also put in additional monitoring procedures, of particular note is the European Commission.

The US FDA is enhancing monitoring of food for radiation (e.g. increasing the number of samplings) and working with the Japanese government. FDA has stated that since produce import from Japan is low and there is already no transport of food products from the earthquake-affected areas, there is no immediate risk (media)....


TRAVEL ADVISORIES

WHO websites (HQ and WPRO) advise travelers who do not have essential reasons to travel to Japan should give careful consideration to deferring travel to any areas where there has been considerable disruption to the normal infrastructure and where authorities are responding to urgent humanitarian needs.

Travelers to Japan are also advised to monitor local media, follow the advice and instructions issued by local authorities and register their travel and location details with their respective embassy or consulate...


http://www.u-tokyo-rad.jp/data/whositrep.pdf

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5) It might be Prime Minister himself that took the Fukushima situation to this crisis.

Prime Minister Kan Caused Nuclear Plant Explosion? Visit to Fukushima Delayed Controlled Release of Vapor

The Yomiuri Shimbun reports that Prime Minister Kan’s visit to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant on March 12th caused workers to delay critical tasks, worsening an already bad situation:

Temperatures and pressures inside the pressure vessels of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors began rising sharply, complicating the injection of cooling water into the reactors. When the level of water in the reactors drops, nuclear fuel rods become exposed, overheat and may start melting, risking damage to the reactor as well as the emission of radioactive substances.

On the night of March 11, TEPCO planned a controlled release of vapor mixed with radioactive substances from the No. 1 reactor, in an operation to decrease pressure in the pressure vessel.

However, the operation was not carried out until 10:17 a.m. the following day, four hours after Prime Minister Naoto Kan left the Prime Minister’s Office to travel to the Fukushima Prefecture plant for an inspection. Also, evacuation of residents in areas within 10 kilometers of the power plant had not been completed at that time.

Then, on the afternoon of March 12, a hydrogen explosion occurred at the No. 1 reactor, destroying the reactor building roof.

Kenzo Miya, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, an expert on nuclear engineering, said the prime minister’s inspection delayed TEPCO’s original plans to vent the pressure vessel.

“Because of the prime minister’s [impending] inspection, the start of the ‘vent’ was delayed. The possibility that the subsequent actions all fell behind can’t be denied,” Miya said.

Haruki Madarame, chairman of the Cabinet Office’s Nuclear Safety Commission, also noted the time-loss disadvantage.

“Work [to conduct the 'vent'] took time to get under way. As a result, several hours were lost before starting to inject seawater [to cool the reactor]. It was a painful incident,” Madarame said, when recalling the situation on the night of March 23.

It would be unfair to blame Kan for what happened, since we do not know if he was told about the importance of venting the gas as soon as possible...

http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/04/03/prime-minister-kan-caused-nuclear-plant-explosion-visit-to-fukushima-delayed-controlled-release-of-vapor/

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On January 1 of this year, I was puzzled that I could not well observe Mt. Fuji from a certain spot.

Last year I could see it well and the year was not so bad, roughly speaking.

But, on January 1 of this year, I was puzzled that I could not well observe Mt. Fuji from a certain spot.

Then, an earthquake occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 20 or 30 Japanese students. It reminded me well of the 2010 Great Haiti Earthquake.

Till March 11, this year, the Japanese media focused on the fate of Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan. It was exposed that PM Mr. Kan received political funds from a Korean resident in Japan, while then Foreign Minister Mr. Seiji Maehara was forced to resign for the same reason. It is illegal in Japan for a politician receives money for political activities from a foreigner. So, it was highly expected that PM Mr. Kan would be compelled to step down without dissolving the parliament.

During a session in the parliament, called Diet in Japan, being televised nationwide, very drastically the M9.0 Earthquake hit the undersea ground 400 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. The TV broadcast on the spot in the Diet was immediately cancelled, and the live coverage of the 3/11 Disaster started so fatefully on March 11, 2011.

So, the story of PM Mr. Kan has been suspended. Either to be shamefully forced to step down from the Japanese premiership or to save the nation acting as a hero in the middle of the 3/11 Disaster looked like his option. And, maybe, time has come that a focus is on Mr. Kan himself. It is so, since all the conservative, nationalistic, and pro-American Japanese want Mr. Kan to step down.