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“My leg is cramping up!” Some of paralysis and seizures are caused by cranial nerve disorder…?

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:48:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/102693773.html

There has been an increase in the number of paralysis and seizures. Some of them are caused by cranial nerve disorder…?

My friend told me that he saw young workers at a construction site screamed “My leg is cramping up!” or “My hand is cramping up!” He asked me that those cramps would be a warning sign of heat exhaustion because it was hot day. Also he told me that their cramps lasted about for 10 minutes.

About 10 years ago, I was riding my bike for 6 or 7 hours in the midsummer heat and my leg cramped up at last. As I noticed that was caused by shortage of water and mineral, I went to a convenience store by pedaling a bike just with one foot and bought a sports drink. After drinking it and taking a rest for half an hour, I completely recovered and went back home.

Above workers could not have poor mineral because they drank water regularly before that and they recovered just after taking a rest. Of course some of their cramps could be blamed on the heat. However I suspect that would result from another cause because I heard that they had experienced the same cramps many times before, and also they lived in Matsudo-city and ate home-vegetables grown by their relatives.

Marshaling back data about “symptom caused by radioactivity” and “search keywords” in my blog, I realized that the symptom of poor control of his limbs was increasing.

I heard that limbs paralyzed and butterfingers had set up since quite early of Fukushima nuclear accident. I received many reports from people living in Tokyo who would have been deeply exposed to the initial radiation caused by the plume. One of them was admitted to a national hospital and resulted in unknown cause. There is almost no doubt that some doctors know such symptom is increasing.

The followings are symptoms I know lately;
・ left foot temporary paralysis, border between Tokyo and Kanagawa, male, early 60s (comment)
・ Suddenly I experienced a sharp pain with one foot and it was too painful to walk in July 2014, early 50s male living in Aichi prefecture (comment)
・ 60's, cramp in my leg, I can't stop coughing, feel sluggish (search keyword)
・ Suddenly I cannot move my lower body. (search keyword)
・ Suddenly he was completely paralyzed from the neck down and died several days later. (search keyword)
・ paralysis of the right side of the body, diminish the length of right arm (symptom of sailors who were exposed on The Reagan in Operation Tomodachi ("Friendship"))

Twins rode on the polluted car and were exposed… I am very sorry that their legs were paralyzed. I got this news in December 2011, quite early on. I was so surprised that I strengthened radioactivity avoidance.

There is a well-known fact in Chernobyl affected area that accumulated internal and external exposure cause nervous system abnormalities. I heard the case that one doctor who was involved in medical care around Chernobyl had his central nervous system damaged, and his words in medical records did not make any sense.

In the first place, gamma-ray energy is several orders of magnitude more powerful than human neurogenic electrical energy. For example, you might as well be in a house where many lightnings per second were around. If lightning struke you, nerve signal would completely stop for 10 to 20 seconds. You would lose mobility in your feet and arms.

In this case, sometimes your limbs would recover if there was no organic problem with nervous system. On the other hand, you would never move your limbs if there was organic problem with nervous system caused by internal exposure.

There is a case that a Japanese pro baseball pitcher could not stay on the mound because of general paralysis. (Daily Sports, July 26, 2014)

I think dizziness is on the increase. This may be caused by nerve abnormality because dizziness is a sign of stroke. I received the report that one person saw a doctor because of awful dizziness. The electrocardiography revealed that he had heart irregularity.

・ I am in my 30s suffering from terrible dizziness, Iwaki-city. I am wondering this may be caused by radiation exposure…? (search keyword)

Weak grip and butterfingers are on the increase in recent days. The first case I knew was tweets about his own physical symptom sent by one cartoonist.

Furthermore, one thing I recently hear is a decrease in brain function. The following comment was sent just a year and a half after Fukushima nuclear accident. Search keywords like “memory loss” and “persistent forgetful” suggest escalation of the situation.
・ I often misdirected of package just a year and a half after Fukushima nuclear accident. I am worried that I am out of my mind… (comment)
・ I am so forgetful in my office, 2014, Tokyo (search keyword)
・ In adult, intelligence diminution, personality disorder, lack of motivation (search keyword)

I saw many tweets about symptoms which may be almost the same disorder as above ones.
・ My husband came back home late at night from Tokyo. He told me “I've got a rash”. So I told him to see his own dermatologist the next day. Then he said “I have never been to see dermatologist here before. Where is dermatologist around here?” I was very surprised because he went there once a month last year!!! What's been going on with him…? (tweet, July 25, 2014)
・ My husband lost his memory just after moving from Sendai-city to Kitakyusyu-city. I felt panic very, very much. He did not notice his memory loss and even now he cannot get his damaged memory back. Now then, it has not been going to happen since we came here Hiroshima-city. However I am still worried and I have to remember that this can happen to me, too. (tweet, July 26, 2014)

We never notice such memory loss if it happen to us. Especially people living alone and have little direct contact with, please pay attention!!! Also unfilial child who never call their living alone parents will suffer great misfortune. They will be questioned by police for a long time because of their wretched parents…

By the way, I will notice whether I develop brain damage or not by checking the number of my blog access. Once I write incoherent and meaningless things in my blog, many readers would leave. After that, the number of access would dramatically increase when someone pointed out that I was a typical example of brain center disorder…

“I am feeling that many young people walk with a cane, ranged to 40s, Higashimurayama-city, Tokyo” (tweet, July 31, 2014)

They say that the soil in Japan has a lot of uranium in the first place…Was I wrong? My final attempt

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:45:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/105919793.html

October 15th, 2014

Recently I have been looking everywhere for information on uranium. There isn’t a lot to find but I found some that seemed reliable.

The Japan Health Physics Society gives the following description on their website:

“There is in average 1-10 g of naturally occurring uranium in 1 t of soil in Japan just like anywhere else in the world. 1 g of uranium being the equivalent of nearly 10.000 Bq, it means that there is about 10.000-100.000 Bq of uranium in 1 t of soil.”

If we follow this, there could be anything between 12.4 and 124 Bq of uranium-238 in 1 kg of soil in the world. And it would be perfectly natural. (Since 1g of uranium-238 has 12,444.8 Bq and Uranium-238 is the most common natural uranium isotope making up 99.284% of them.)

So in that case it isn’t surprising at all to find a total of 33 Bq/kg of uranium-238/235 in the soil in Japan, as they did in the joint soil survey of the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (USA) carried out after the nuclear accident in Fukushima. Nor would it be a surprise that 60 Bq/kg of uranium-238 was found in the soil of the Canadian Embassy in Akasaka, Tokyo, reported in the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry (treated in ENENEWS on 22/3/2013).

The following two sources also say that there was between 2-29 Bq/kg in the soil of Japan anyway. One of the two is Professor Hiroaki Koide of the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute who wrote in his dissertation published in 2004 that there was 29 Bq/kg of the uranium series in the soil in his institute.

The second is the Environmental Radiation Database of Nuclear Regulatory Agency who provides readings of uranium in the soil of Yokosuka city. They detected 2-13 Bq/kg on 01/09/2010 and 2-15 Bq/kg on 04/03/2011. So the reading of the joint DOE/NNSA survey for Yokosuka of a similar 13.4 Bq/kg shouldn’t be alarming at all?

Was I making a mistake saying that uranium was released by the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and was scattered over Eastern Japan? Is the US soil survey revealing nothing new?

I went back to their survey and the uranium readings. What’s new is that I calculated the total and ratios. And two very important things emerged out of this.

The first was the presence of uranium-232. Uranium-232 is an extremely rare nuclide. You don’t just find it in soil somewhere on earth. According to the web dictionary ATOMICA it is only produced as the concentrated uranium fuels are burnt in a light-water reactor. In other words it is a fission product. ATOMICA writes: “Uranium-232 is not a nuclide that can be included among naturally occurring ones. It has a short half-life and by producing highly radioactive daughter nuclides (Tl208 and Bi232) it builds up the dose rate of the reprocessed uranium, nearly tripling in 10 years”. How come that such a fission product is so prominent in the US survey?

The other thing that caught my attention was the ratio of uranium-235 over uranium-238. Japan Chemical Analysis Center describes in a report of uranium contents in soils of sea beds that the ratio of naturally occurring uranium is always found in a constant ratio, which is U235 / U238 = 0.0073 and that this ratio is used to tell whether there is more or less uranium in a sample than naturally. Now in the calculation above this ratio (⑦) is constant but at 0.046, more than tenfold of the natural ratio. This is because there was concentrated uranium-235 of nuclear fuels.

As much as the amount of uranium found in soil samples after the accident might seem natural on its own, the presence of uranium-232 and the ratio of U235 / U238 are nothing but the proof that these nuclides came from within a nuclear reactor or from spent fuels. Highly dangerous uranium was released and scattered, at least in the places where the surveys took place.

Finally, let me introduce you to a comment by an academic that was posted on Masataka Ota’s site. Masataka Ota is a councellor of the city of Yokohama.

“Unfortunately, the DOE/NNSA soil survey tells that uranium-232 fell all over the metropolitan area of Tokyo and contaminated the soil at about 70 Bq/kg. Uranium-232 can be found in a tiny amount in spent fuels. So parts of spent fuel rods came flying over as the reactors exploded. 70 Bq/kg… is the equivalent of over 4000 Bq/m2, which should be rated a radiation controlled area (by legal definition a radiation controlled area starts at 40.000 Bq/m2, however because the danger of alpha nuclides is 10 times more than that of beta and gamma ones, in practice an area is treated as a radiation controlled one starting from 4000 Bq/m2). People should move to the western part of Japan. No human can live in a radiation controlled area.”

From the US Soil Survey: Depleted Uranium and Uranium 238

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:40:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/102226696.html

April 30th, 2013

There are people who think that the uranium 238 detected in the soil survey that was conducted by the National Nuclear Security Administration (USA) could be linked to the March 11th explosion and fire at a Tokyo Bay oil refinery. A reader of this blog posted a comment saying that the uranium 238 could have come from the adjacent depleted uranium storage facility that burnt at the same time.

I don’t think that the uranium detected in the soil survey came from the fire at these plants on Tokyo Bay.

Looking at the survey by the NNSA, uranium, strontium and plutonium were only found in the 6 samples shown in the table below.

The highest amount of uranium 238 was found in Naraha-machi (Fukushima), followed by Natori city (Miyagi) and Iwaki city (Fukushima). Compared to these places, the figures in Yokosuka (Kanagawa) and in Gotenba (Shizuoka) are relatively low. Although the amount of uranium 232 is pretty much the same everywhere, Naraha-machi again has by far the highest amount of uranium 233 / 234.

Apart from the strontium 90 the sample of Naraha-machi has the highest amount of strontium as well. As the highest concentrations of cesium and iodine are also found in the towns of Fukushima prefecture, I would say that the radioactive matters detected in this survey would mainly come from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Even if there were depleted uranium scattered from the fire on Tokyo Bay it can’t have exceeded the amount of Naraha-machi.

This hints at an answer to my question raised in the article “What were the alpha and beta sources that fell in Tohoku? ”. Considering that the main elements which are sources of alpha radiation are uranium, plutonium, americium and radon, and looking at the amount of uranium on the table above, it would be natural to think that the main alpha source that fell in the Tohoku region was indeed uranium.

Writing this made me shudder. I would love to believe that the tragedy of Fallujah wouldn’t be repeated in Japan…

Fukushima Foods for Tokyo Olympics Athletes – Endo Olympics Minister says

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:25:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/162224968.html
Fukushima Foods for Tokyo Olympics Athletes – Endo Olympics Minister Expressed His Willingness

Toshiaki Endo Olympics minister at the Japan Press Club in Tokyo

July 25, 2015 09:40

Toshiaki Endo Olympics minister attended a press conference held at the Japan Press Club in Tokyo on July 24, and expressed his idea to introduce cooking ingredients produced in Fukushima prefecture for consumption in the athletes' village of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. His aim is regarded as boosting efforts for recovering crippled economy of the prefecture after the nuclear disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March, 2011. He also stated again his willingness to hold some of competitions in the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

“We can also use foodstuff from Fukushima prefecture in the athletes’ village. We are eager to strengthen our bonds with the disaster-affected areas in many varies ways,” Endo said.

According to the state Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games Headquarters Secretariat, cooking ingredients consumed at the athletes' village are to be decided by the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic andParalympic Games before the competitions kick off. The government, while studying the introduction of food products from Fukushima prefecture in order to assist its recovery and to wipe off reputational damages, is expected to persuade the Tokyo Organising Committee to do so.

Endo also discussed about holding competitions in the affected areas, and underlined his willingness to hold the preliminaries (first-round tournament) of the additional events, decided hereafter, in Fukushima prefecture, telling, “If possible, we want to have the trial heats there.”

-- Translated from the Japanese-original article of Fukushima Minpo, “東京五輪で本県食材　遠藤五輪相が導入意向” at;
https://www.minpo.jp/news/detail/2015072524293 and/or
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20150725-00000004-fminpo-l07.

Fukushima makes pitch for 2020 baseball, and local food
By AFP
PUBLISHED: 05:37 GMT, 3 March 2015 | UPDATED: 05:37 GMT, 3 March 2015

Fukushima, stricken by one of the world's worst-ever nuclear disasters in 2011, wants to host baseball and softball games at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics -- and hopes to convince athletes to eat the local food.
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"Fukushima has suffered a lot of financial damage caused by misinformation," he said. "We would like to be able to sweep away those harmful rumours. Fukushima has venues capable of hosting these games."

Fukushima prefecture, situated some 150 miles (240km) north of Tokyo, is also keen on holding Olympic training camps and wants overseas athletes and fans to eat locally produced food, despite concerns over radiation levels. Fukushima city is just 60km away from the crippled nuclear reactors.

"Fukushima's produce is safe and will be safe," insisted Kuwajima. "Of course we would like athletes and visitors from overseas to eat our food."

Experience of a mother who moved from Fukushima to Niigata in January 2013

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:19:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/83036278.html

In January 2013, with my 4-year-old child, I evacuated from Fukushima to Niigata. I left my grandma, father, mother and older brother in my hometown.

Where I grew up is about 60 km from Fukushima Daiichi [Nuclear Plant]. It is located near Mt. Adatara, set on the gentle fan-shaped plain.

My hometown thrived on farming, mainly rice and vegetables, taking advantage of the abundant clear spring water, fresh air, and warm sunshine. Unusual for that region, the population was growing steadily although slightly. I was very proud of my hometown. But it is now one of the most contaminated areas.

What I'll tell you today is just my personal opinion. I understand there will be other interpretations.

I knew little about nuclear power plants or radiation. But maybe I was a little more aware of them than others since my boss from when I was working was against nukes. That boss often told me, 'You know it's dangerous when you hear the word 'vent,' [then] run away right away!' I heard that word, however, a few months after the accident.

The first time I thought about moving was when I watched on TV a helicopter spraying water on Reactor #3 on March 17, 2011. Then I felt more scared when I heard that they would try to stop contaminated water with sawdust. But when we had no water or gas after the earthquake, we went outside [without thinking/knowing about radiation].

From the15th to the 25th of March [2011], I evacuated to my relative's house in Gunma prefecture. I remember the eerie feeling I had when I saw Mt. Akagi was yellow. Later I heard that cedar pollen grows big when exposed to radiation. Radiation traveled that far. [Gunma is about 120 miles from Fukushima city, Fukushima.]

I still regret thinking why I didn't move right then. I feel guilty thinking I wouldn't have had my child exposed to radiation if I moved then.

I couldn't decide right away because I was going through a yearlong at-home job training for my work. I needed income because I'm a single mother. I had fear of radiation, but at the same time I wanted to deny it and thought I would stay and continue [the training] at least one year.

However, my child started to become sick. When I took my child to a hospital, the diagnosis was a cold. But the coughs didn't stop and, looking sluggish, my child seemed to be worse.

One time, a decontamination worker said, "This area is very highly contaminated. I would never live here." The municipal office lent out dosimeters. A municipal worker told me, "Hold it more than one meter above the ground, and stay there more than 30 minutes [to measure the radiation]." He also said it would just be a rough indication, not an accurate measurement.

My younger sister and her husband had already moved. When I called her she said, "Move here right away." On the other hand, my grandma, parents and brother said, "It will be O.K. Don't be nervous."

Since I caused trouble for them when I became a single mother, and since I had promised them I would return the favor to them, I started to feel I couldn't talk about my fear for radiation. Particularly, my grandma was looking forward to taking care of my child, like walking to and from the kindergarten bus stop everyday. I felt I was deceiving both.

In my hometown, I felt more and more uneasy about talking about radiation. One time I carelessly talked about it and my friend scolded me saying I was a wimp. I felt my friendship would be destroyed. The central government promotes decontamination, but it only works if you have a lot of vacant land to keep the removed contaminated dirt. My family doesn't have such extra land, so they don't do decontamination. When the wind was strong, the number on our dosimeter jumped up.

My child likes to play outside--he likes acorns, plants, pebbles, and so on. It was very hard to tell him not to play outside.

My family grows all the vegetables we eat at home and they love to feed them to my child. I saw disfigured dandelions around our fields. 50 to 60 plants grew at one spot and their stems were all put together into one gigantic wide stem, with huge, huge flowers. It was very weird. I had never seen anything like that. Tons of millet suddenly grew in the fields. It never happened before. Disfigured vegetables appeared.

[My family] gave my child peaches, tomatoes, corn, bamboo shoots, and huge shiitake [they harvested]. They fed us dried persimmons, too. Some families stopped growing vegetables and shifted to flowers, but my family stubbornly kept growing food.

There was a town meeting about getaway travel and in that meeting they told us it's better not to eat dried persimmons because they can be contaminated with radiation. That was the first time I felt that it's O.K. to be concerned about radiation. I didn't know why, but I started to cry. So, I brought our disfigured vegetables to the municipal office for radiation testing. I was yelled at there, "Don't you understand? We say it's safe! Mothers must not act like that!" They never tested my vegetables.

It got harder and harder to talk about radiation. At the kindergarten they encouraged children to go out to play and to my disbelief, they used local food for school lunch.

My child had cold symptoms all the time. He had frequent nose bleeding. He was always scratching his itchy body. At the Sakura Festival [cherry blossom fest--probably in April], my child put his barefoot in a puddle of water. After a few days, his foot was swollen. The doctor said it was not a cold symptom, but I couldn't ask about radiation effect. I felt that people would laugh at me if I'd say anything about radiation at the hospital.

On Christmas day, I was feeling dizzy and [at the hospital] I was told I had gastroenteritis. I found that something was wrong with my child's eyesight. The doctor diagnosed it as ametropic amblyopi [reduced visual acuity]. From then on, my child has been using thick eyeglasses.

I heard a story about a mother whose baby had cesium detected in its urine. It felt as if mother's happiness was taken away. My friend who works at the water company told me that they detected cesium in beef stew in May, and all the children who drank milk threw up in September, and so on.

They are told not to tell those stories, but even if I try not to hear, I can't block out all of them. A person who hatches beetle larvae every year said all the beetles were disfigured and died. Stories like a person in his fifties who had a polyp or a hole in intestine... I'm certain that the number of people who got sick rose.

The number of funerals rose, too--totally healthy people suddenly died of heart attack and so on. My mother had a heart attack, too. She never had any heart problem before. Now she has a pacemaker. It made sense when I heard Dr. Bandazhevsky talk about radiation effects on heart diseases.

I myself experienced health problems. I had been outside without a mask. I felt weak and couldn't get up. I felt very sleepy when I worked. I had nausea. I found myself spaced out sitting in my car at a parking lot.

The doctor said I was depressed and prescribed a medicine, but it didn't work at all. On the contrary, my condition got worse. It felt as if a little electricity was running in my body all the time and I couldn't figure out how to do simple tasks. Trying to refresh my feeling, I went shopping and I couldn't remember what I was doing, and stood in the store for hours. Sometimes I wanted to die. Other times when I heard music I just wanted to dance. I couldn't make decisions. I didn't know what I was doing.

It was just as if the film I watched. In that film hamsters whose brains were damaged by radiation just kept running in circles until they died. I took one month off from work, but my symptoms just got worse.

That's why I moved. TEPCO paid 700,000yen [about $7,000] at first and that was soon gone to pay for moving and everyday living. TEPCO then paid another 170,000yen [about $1,700]. I also got cash by cancelling my life insurance.

After we moved, our health recovered tremendously. I had to call my hometown about paperwork and they interrogated me [about moving]. So I moved my registry. I do not intend to go back.

People are nice, but I feel a vague sense of guilt. For example, when I park my car with Fukushima license plates, I feel guilty so I park it where it's hard for people to see. Same thing when we go out to eat. I feel someone will talk behind my back when I [do everyday actions like I] buy clothes. There is strained atmosphere among evacuees [different living situations causing envy--e.g. some have job, some don't, etc.].

I try to behave cheerfully, but I feel totally hopeless when I think about our future.

Discussion about “search words”

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:16:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:　http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/101702183.html
“Many people recently die. It is the result of the radioactivity?”,“Sudden death is connected with radiation exposure?”, “Will many people die this year?”

I would answer to these questions with confidence, “That is sure” .There are many individuals who get access to my blog by typing “radioactivity” or “health damage” into a search engine. The following is search words and the number of searches in June 2014.

Since they find that they could no longer rely on the doctors or government, they would have no choice but to search Internet for the information.

The followings are the search words of serious situation since the middle of Dec 2012. Recently there are wide variety of illnesses in search words like “disorder of eyes” and “toothache”.

“leukemia, died in 3 days”
“age of 52, subarachnoid bleeding”
“wake up and suddenly die”
“suddenly being unconscious, feel cold”
“myocardial infarction, keel over and die”
“I woke up in the morning and found my brother had died”
“So many people recently die. It is because of radioactivity?”
“Does radiation exposure have something to do with sudden death?”
“My co-workers died after another”
“Why do many old people die?”
“Healthy people die unexpectedly of leukemia, why?”
“I have a sense of dread that I have a child”
“My husband suddenly died, subarachnoid hemorrhage”
“My husband is beginning to be concerned about radioactivity only recently”
“blindness, infant”
“radioactivity, dental pain”
“Will I die of exposure in the future if I continue to live here Tokyo?”
“north Kanto (around Tokyo), crematorium, 3 weeks wait”
“My acquaintance suddenly looked pale and died”
“Five-year-old child suddenly died”
“Although I am suffering from leukemia, bioclean room is always full”
“Sometimes I have an excruciating pain in my Adam's apple, what should I do?”
“I am butterfingered”

Young women, who were not interested in radiological problem, begin to see the abnormal changes around them and think that “Something is wrong…”. As no one let them know, they have no choice but to search Internet. I wish they could notice the danger of radioactivity much earlier… I can't help it.

Referring to population change of Ukraine after Chernobyl accident, the birth rate had been decreasing from the following year first. On the other hand, the mortality rate had been increasing slightly for an initial duration of 3 years. But, it had been increasing significantly after 4 years of Chernobyl accident.

Deadly health damages that occur in a short time after exposure are considered to be cardiac muscle damage and cerebral vascular disease. In Japan, I saw an upsurge in myocardial infarction so far. Cerebral infarction and subarachnoid hemorrhage are　also , but they are relatively rare cases. Recently leukemia cases are increasing, and deaths from interstitial pneumonia, lung cancer, leukemia and brain tumors are likely increasing.

We can not do anything to cancel initial exposure now. You will develop these serious diseases sooner , if you do not make efforts to avoid exposure. I desire you to avoid internal exposure caused by contaminated food and drink. For you and people who rely on you.!

Fieldwork 10 or Appearance of Rashes at a Hot Spot

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:38:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/100082829.html

May 25th 2014

Fieldwork 10 or Appearance of Rashes at a Hot Spot

I am becoming reluctant to go for a walk because I keep measuring high air dose rates one after another. It is a problem as I would like to profit from the good season and get some exercise outside, to sweat a healthy sweat. I’d also like to lose a bit of weight. I guess I just have to keep measuring the air dose rate (including the beta sources) wherever I go walking and choose where it seems relatively safe.

The following is the result of my field trip on May 25th. This time I went with a friend who would be my survey assistant. As usual the figures of the readings on my survey meter are not totally reliable due to lack of calibration but can be used in comparison to its own previous readings, i.e. to judge if radiation levels in one place are higher or lower than another as the same instrument has been used for the measurement.

First we measured the dirt accumulated in a small dip at the entrance of a bridge over a motorway.

80 cpm (photo below). This reading is a little high. There was about 2 cm between the end of the tube-shaped detector and the ground. It was 13:53. We measured several spots after this one that looked like dried up puddles with accumulation of substances but none of them exceeded 80 cpm.

We moved on to the park that had been built next to the motorway. My friend was reading the measurements while I walked around holding the detector in a bag at close to ground level. Suddenly my friend told me to stop. The needle of the monitor had jumped. So we changed the range to up to 1000 cpm and the monitor showed 150 cpm (photo below). 15:18.

As we measured around that spot we found even hotter ones. The scale limit being 3000 cpm, the following photo reads 700 cpm. 15:25.

This is the photo of that spot. There is no visible accumulation of dark substances. You can see the feet of my friend and I who were standing there in shock and couldn’t help gazing at the spot. What’s in the plastic bag is the detector.

We moved on further. My assistant called for another stop. 15:29. The Air Counter showed 0.13μSv/h (photo below).

This is the spot of this measurement (photo below). Again there was nothing that would indicate hot radiation (I had the impression that it was hotter closer to the shrub). 15:29.

The limit of the range was 10.000 cpm, which means that here we had 1500 cpm (photo below). 15:32.

At this spot we had high readings even with the detector lifted higher, so there was probably not just beta but also gamma radiation. I presume that there was an air current that carried plentiful radioactive matter with it although the readings on the Air Counter weren’t especially high at this time (question of different reaction time between the instruments?).

At this point my friend started to complain about itching arms. It was 15:37. Rolling up his sleeves we saw that his arms had become red.

This friend has a history of getting rashes after eating sausages of uncertain origin and the Pacific saury, a certain type of fish that is eaten commonly in Japan. On that day we both had eaten some rice balls 90 and 30 minutes before this redness appeared but I didn’t think that there was anything suspicious in it. I didn’t have any reaction.

We decided to stop the survey because of these rashes and left the place promptly. When we had a rest at the exit of the park the Air Counter showed a high reading but the survey meter read 35 cpm (photo below). 15:42.

This park is close to a station. It showed 16:04 on the clock of the platform when I took the following picture.

Actually I had had high air dose rates in the past in this park. And in my opinion there are three facilities nearby that could be considered the source. I decided never to go to this park again.

I want to stress that we are grown-ups. Some might even call us old. And grown-ups such as us get rashes on their arms when attacked by a highly radioactive current. Needless to say what could happen if a child breathes in this kind of air for a long while. It could vomit. It could have a diarrhea. Aren’t many cases of what is diagnosed as food poisoning without clear cause cases like this?

One thing is clear. The area I live in and the area where I often went walking are not suitable for living any more. This is the heavy conclusion that I have reached through my fieldwork trips.

Fieldwork 7 or 1.15μSv/h in a Vegetable Field near Tokyo

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:46:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/100066627.html

On May 11th in the afternoon, I went for a walk for some exercise. This time I just took my Air Counter with me and left my heavy survey meter at home.

At around 2.30 pm, my reading went up to 1.15μSv/h in the middle of a vegetable field. It is more or less the same as the 1.1μSv/h measured at the Okumamachi Fureai Park (only 4 km away from The Fukushima Daiichi plant) on the same day! Now this was a shock.

The following is the record on the dosimeter. I had started to measure the air dose rate from about 1 pm and at 2 pm had measured around 0.3μSv/h.

(時刻　time)

1.15μSv/h is the highest reading that I had had during the 1 1/2 years of use of this dosimeter.

As you can see it was just for a short while that I measured such a high dose rate. As I moved about I still had high readings. I presume that there was an air current that carried radioactive substances near the ground. 1.15μSv/h is the equivalent of 300.000 Bq/m2 of cesium in the soil.

According to the following map the spot was at altitude 25.5m, in an area with mostly vegetable patches where urbanization is restricted.

松戸駅　Matsudo station

測定地点　location of measurement

船橋駅　Funabashi station

江戸川河口　mouth of Edogawa river

They were burning something in a home-use incineration unit nearby but the wind wasn’t coming from there. The wind was coming from the south and wasn’t strong.

The following spot was quite far away from the previous one. The altitude is about 14m lower. The readings are not much different.

Where do the radioactive substances come from? It could be radon but would it rise so much on a plateau? There are incineration plants and waste recycling centres of Funabashi city in Sanbanse near the mouth of the Edogawa River. They are 8 km south of where I measured. If the chimneys of these plants are high then I guess the emission could travel quite far. It wouldn’t be unnatural to think that the emissions would have an impact on the surrounding environment in a radius of 8-10 km. I shudder to think that there are plants that release radioactive gas of 1μSv/h everywhere though.

I do not like the idea of taking a walk in a place where I can measure more than 1μSv/h. This is a dose rate where I literally should be running away from.

So on May 11th I was irradiated. These days, every time I go out to the countryside I get irradiated. I am starting to have the feeling that I cannot live near Tokyo any more.

Radiation Dose Estimates according to the US Department of Defense

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:37:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog: http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/101771049.html

June 20th, 2014

The Unites States Department of Defense (USDD) has uploaded a report on radiation dose estimates for American civil servants that were in Japan at the time of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant accident.

Operation Tomodachi Registry

a summarised table of radiation dose estimates for all locations and all age groups

According to the USDD the estimates were calculated based on the assumption that one spent “24 hours outdoors, having a constantly high physical activity level and associated breathing rates, and being exposed to the radiation measured in the air, water and soil over the entire 60- day period” from March 12th to May 11th 2011.

Let’s have a look at the adult estimated radiation dose. The left axis is for the thyroid dose estimates and the right axis for the whole-body estimates. N.B. the scale for the right axis is a tenth of the left.

Estimated Radiation Dose for Adults

The second chart gives the estimated radiation dose for non-adults. Here I typically used the case of Hyakuri Air Base but the trend is followed more or less at all locations of the survey. The unit used here is mSv.

The thyroid radiation dose is highest in the age group of 1-2 yrs and then declines in the order of 0-1 yr, 2-7 yrs, 7-12 yrs, 12-17 yrs. The adults’ estimate is more or less the equivalent of that of the 12-17 year olds. As I mentioned before, this trend can be observed at the other locations of the survey. The whole-body radiation doses follow the same pattern as well.

＜THYROID ESTIMATE: HIGHEST IN HYAKURI＞

We know from independent reports that at Yokosuka Naval Base measures were taken to insulate the houses from the outside air. In the Atsugi Base families were evacuated from March 17th onwards. On March 21st the aircraft carrier George Washington left Yokosuka as an emergency reaction. However, in Hyakuri, Oyama and Sendai the adult estimated dose rates for the thyroid are even higher than in the before-mentioned bases around Tokyo (4 mSv) with Sendai being the highest (12 mSv). If you include the children, you get the exceptionally high measure of 27 mSv for the 1-2 year olds of Hyakuri Air Base.

The Hyakuri Air Base is a highly contaminated zone. On March 15th and 21st, a radioactive plume passed the nearby city of Hokota.

The following graph that shows the estimated thyroid radiation dose of all the age groups (in mSv) stresses the exceptionally high dose rate for Hyakuri as well.

Thyroid Radiation Dose, All Age Groups

Personally I have doubts about how accurately a radiation dose expressed in Sv can reflect the damage done to the human body. Sv is used to indicate how an object heats up by receiving energy from a radioactive source. It does not indicate the damage that was caused in human cells, their DNA and tissues. Strontium, cesium or radioactive iodine each act differently in the human body and hence have different effects on the organs. I therefore think that it is difficult to predict the scale of health damage simply using figures in Sv.

However, some experts say that concerning the thyroid its dysfunctions occur in proportion to the received radiation dose. If this is true, considering the high radiation dose of the toddlers in the Hyakuri Air Base, I fear that the health deterioration might become very serious there. The toddlers in Hyakuri received more than twice the radiation dose the toddlers in Tokyo or Yokosuka did, places where the radiation dose was considered too high for American civil servants to stay. This thought breaks my heart.

＜SENDAI: CONTRADICTIONS＞

In Japan there has been little information available on the air dose rate of Sendai and when there is, the dose rates are relatively low. Compared to those figures, the thyroid estimates of the USDD for Sendai seems disproportionately high.

A US sailor has filed a lawsuit against Tepco along with 71 other sailors of the Operation Tomodachi. The health damage that he has been suffering from as a result of his mission measuring the contamination at Sendai airport (Natori city and Iwanuma city) doesn’t seem to match the relatively low air dose rate of the city of Sendai published by the Tohoku University.

There is too little information on Internet about the rural areas and it has therefore been difficult for me to grasp the state of health deterioration there but looking at the adult thyroid estimates one can only predict at least as much, if not much more, health deterioration than in Tokyo for Oyama and Sendai.

＜THE OTHER USE OF THE DATA＞

I presume that the USDD mainly used the raw readings of radioactive iodine to calculate the thyroid estimates of each location. Cesium would have been taken into account as well, since it could cause thyroid dysfunction, yet I can imagine that they would have done it in a conservative way. On the other hand, the whole-body estimates would have been calculated based on the readings of gamma rays in general, like those of cesium, iodine and other nuclides. This assumption enables us to estimate the amount of radioactive iodine and gamma nuclides that the USDD had at each location.

It looks like the USDD applied the estimates of certain places to the nearby cities. So I did the same and created the following maps using their estimates.

Health problems may rise in the whole North hemisphere

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:30:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/101570148.html

This shows the readings of the global monitoring stations of CTBTO, copied from “Survey of Man-made Radionuclides in the Atmosphere using IMS by CTBTO,” a report by Chusiro Yonezawa and Yoichiro Yamamoto.

Here are main monitoring posts indicated on a CTBTO map. Radionuclides originated from Fukushima were detected all over the northern hemisphere.

This is a screen shot taken from “Global deposition of Cs-137 radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.” by CYI VISLAB of the Cyprus Institute. To make it easy to see, colors were adjusted.

About 70 days after the accident:

This simulation result matches the fact that the reading in Florida was about the same as the West Coast in CTBTO’s survey.

In North America, some health problems are reported to be linked to the contamination.

ENENEWS2014/6/24

Birth defect deaths in West Coast state hit record levels during 2011 － Spiked 60% statewide, then returned to normal in 2012 － New gov’t document lists ‘Fukushima release along west coast of US’ as possible factor in birth defect cluster

ENENEWS2011/12/22

After Fukushima, there has been an increase in deaths in the United States － This has been corroborated by findings of deaths, particularly of children younger than 1 year in British Columbia

U.S.Nuclear Authorities publicly stated that only a tiny amount of radionuclides from Fukushima fell on North America. If that’s true, it’s possible that considerable levels of internal exposure occurred.

Research institutes in Vilnius, Lithuania and Spitsbergen (Norway) reported that radionuclides such as cesium from Fukushima have been found.

A simulation (conducted by a French government institution Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics) indicates the plume reached South East Asia, Philippines, and Indochina.

Modelling the global atmospheric transport and deposition of radionuclides from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear accident (pdf)

The Cyprus Institute's simulation suggested the same.

It is difficult to prove the effect of radiation exposure on health problems, but data showed increases in the numbers of sudden deaths and cancers after the Chernobyl accident.

If indeed the number of health problems rose in North America, the same may happen in other areas in the whole North hemisphere. In Japan it is getting harder to receive appropriate medical support. There are countries without adequate medial system in South East Asia. This is a source of concern.

People living overseas damage their health after brief stay in Japan.

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:22:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/100080574.html

There are several comments posted by Japanese people living overseas, and they said that they upset their health after coming back temporarily to Japan. In addition, I heard a few stories about that foreign citizens upset their health, or were strongly suspected of internal exposure to radiation during their stay in Japan.

The followings are just a few of cases.

Case 1 　 A Japanese nationals living in West Coast stayed in Tokyo for a few months a year for these 3 years. She had the last checkup and found its TSH value near 30, then started to take the drug immediately. During her stay in Japan at midsummer in 2013, she shivered from cold and wore borrowing sweater. She purveyed her meals from Japanese supermarket in West Coast.

Case 2 　A Japanese nationals living in Australia was at some place in Japan near the Sea of Japan with her daughter when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. They went to Toyama prefecture for safety in Mar.14. After that, they went to Haneda Airport by air in Mar 17 and went to Narita Airport by land soon. Then they departed to Australia around 21 o’clock on the same day. After going back to Australia, she suffered from menstrual problem and hair loss those she rarely experienced before. After a while, she came back to Japan twice about for 10 days each. During the first stay in Japan, she had pain and nagging feeling in her eyes. Just after the second stay in Japan, she felt chilly and suffered from severe iron deficiency. Although she recovered from iron deficiency by taking drugs, she still suffers from chill, pain and nagging feeling in her eyes and visual loss. In Australia, she ate foreign meals except Japanese seasonings like soy sauce and miso. According to her story, her Japanese friends in Australia cannot go back to Japan without falling sick, heart pain, fever and eye pain.

Case 3 　 A Japanese nationals living in Europe stayed at Kyoto for a month from Oct, 2011. She/he found blisters in her/his forehead during the second week. After that, her/his nose was runny for a while. After going back to Europe, she/he had got a big bruise upper back of the leg twice, and also suffered from cold-like symptoms for 2 weeks in 2013. Finally she/he developed cystitis in 2014.

Case 4 　 An American woman in her 20s participated in a study abroad program in Kyoto for three months, from the end of August through the end of November, 2011. During the penultimate week of her stay in Japan, she spent one week in Tokyo, Nikko and Sendai. She ate Sushi near Tsukiji Uoichiba in Tokyo, but she did not eat any fish in Nikko and Sendai. Also she did not eat any dairy during her short trip. While in Nikko, where she went hiking through forests of colorful maple leaves, she began experiencing strange headaches and fatigue. As she traveled by bullet train to Sendai, the train stopped in Fukushima. Her headache that was lingering for the past three days suddenly magnified into a piercing migraine. By the time she arrived in Sendai, her pain had completely dissipated. For the next three days, she felt fine. In mid-November she returned to Kyoto, where she spent her final week in Japan. During the last four days, she experienced a migraine again. She flew from Osaka to Tokyo and then from Tokyo to the U.S. During the entire transpacific flight, she felt unexplainable stabbing pains in her stomach, nausea and delirium. By the time she arrived back home, she felt relieved that her pain was gone. The following morning she woke up with a bloody nose. During the next month, she experienced daily nosebleeds, headaches and dizziness. She felt chronic fatigue and weakness. During the second week of December, she vomited for two days straight, uncontrollably purging all of the liquids from her body. On those days, she could not consume food. Her body became weak and drained of energy. She continued to have nosebleeds halfway into January. Since mid-January 2013, these symptoms have stopped.

Case 5 　 An unidentified foreign student came to Japan to study in April, 2011. She/he measured her/his exposure through WBC, which resulted in certain internal exposure caused by radioactive iodine. Then she/he was very surprised and went back to her/his home country immediately.

The followings are my guesses those are guided by these cases.

1. After Mar 15, 2011 in the area around Tokyo, there were still many radioactive substances in the air (indoors or not) after the radioactive plume had left. The inside of transportation is polluted. So did everything like clothing, furniture and bedding. Additionally people in Tokyo were exposed to the radiation by breathing polluted air.

2. Agricultural products have kept on being strongly polluted by radioactivity since Mar, 2011. Polluted agricultural products were distributed in large quantities in restaurant industry.

3. Food products around Kansai area (Kyoto and Osaka) in the autumn of 2011 seemed to be appreciably polluted by radioactivity. Since there is a high possibility that people living in Kansai area were exposed to the radiation by breathing polluted air, they are in danger of damaging their health for a long time.

4. I guess that American student in case 4 would have been exposed to the radiation since she was already in Kyoto. She ate polluted food in Kyoto, and was exposed to the radiation ever so much in Tokyo, Nikko and Tohoku district. For this reason she was plagued by ill health for a while even after returning home.

5. With regard to case 1 and 2, you would see that the more they came back to Japan, the stronger their body reacted to internal exposure. What we can learn from this is that it is possible for the people, who have been in Japan since Mar, 2011 and damage their health, to have even worse health problems especially after eating strongly polluted food.

Discussion about “search words”

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:16:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog:http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/101702183.html

“Many people recently die. It is the result of the radioactivity?”,“Sudden death is connected with radiation exposure?”, “Will many people die this year?”

I would answer to these questions with confidence, “That is sure” .There are many individuals who get access to my blog by typing “radioactivity” or “health damage” into a search engine. The following is search words and the number of searches in June 2014.

Since they find that they could no longer rely on the doctors or government, they would have no choice but to search Internet for the information.

The followings are the search words of serious situation since the middle of Dec 2012. Recently there are wide variety of illnesses in search words like “disorder of eyes” and “toothache”.

“leukemia, died in 3 days”

“age of 52, subarachnoid bleeding”

“wake up and suddenly die”

“suddenly being unconscious, feel cold”

“myocardial infarction, keel over and die”

“I woke up in the morning and found my brother had died”

“So many people recently die. It is because of radioactivity?”

“Does radiation exposure have something to do with sudden death?”

“My co-workers died after another”

“Why do many old people die?”

“Healthy people die unexpectedly of leukemia, why?”

“I have a sense of dread that I have a child”

“My husband suddenly died, subarachnoid hemorrhage”

“My husband is beginning to be concerned about radioactivity only recently”

“blindness, infant”

“radioactivity, dental pain”

“Will I die of exposure in the future if I continue to live here Tokyo?”

“north Kanto (around Tokyo), crematorium, 3 weeks wait”

“My acquaintance suddenly looked pale and died”

“Five-year-old child suddenly died”

“Although I am suffering from leukemia, bioclean room is always full”

“Sometimes I have an excruciating pain in my Adam's apple, what should I do?”

“I am butterfingered”

Young women, who were not interested in radiological problem, begin to see the abnormal changes around them and think that “Something is wrong…”. As no one let them know, they have no choice but to search Internet. I wish they could notice the danger of radioactivity much earlier… I can't help it.

Referring to population change of Ukraine after Chernobyl accident, the birth rate had been decreasing from the following year first. On the other hand, the mortality rate had been increasing slightly for an initial duration of 3 years. But, it had been increasing significantly after 4 years of Chernobyl accident.

Deadly health damages that occur in a short time after exposure are considered to be cardiac muscle damage and cerebral vascular disease. In Japan, I saw an upsurge in myocardial infarction so far. Cerebral infarction and subarachnoid hemorrhage are　also , but they are relatively rare cases. Recently leukemia cases are increasing, and deaths from interstitial pneumonia, lung cancer, leukemia and brain tumors are likely increasing.

We can not do anything to cancel initial exposure now. You will develop these serious diseases sooner , if you do not make efforts to avoid exposure. I desire you to avoid internal exposure caused by contaminated food and drink. For you and people who rely on you.!

The Imperial General Headquaters again? A notice too simplistic ; the cesium contamination of Minamisoma might be amplified during removing the rubbles.

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:58:00 +0900

Original text from Blog of Koichi Oyama in Minamisoma City : http://mak55.exblog.jp/20907679/

http://news24.jp/nnn/news8656707.html

'Sources recently learned that the radioactive fallout wasn't from the time of the accident'

What? I had to question the wording of this NHK report, as radio-contamination of rice stalk planted in 2013 is obviously not of the accident in 2011.

Moreover, it concluded definitively that it was radiation spewing from Unit 3 during demolition work without suggesting other possibilities, and then just issued an irresponsible alert over the contamination.

The NHK report didn't give either details on the detected radioactive materials or microgram.

Neither did it mention the 'black thingy', which turned out to be bioaccumulation, or radioactive bird droppings.

From what basis was the cause decided to be air dose of Unit 3 during the demolition work, when the radioactive materials came out in clusters?

I felt 'oh no, not again'.

Radioactivity has been dispersed not only over the monitored rice paddy 23km away from the accident site but everywhere.

Death ashes obviously fell across the cities and roads, which keep being disturbed by the traffic.

Mass media brainwashing

I am going to contact Akaba vice minister of economy and industry, director of Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, city mayor and chairman of Minamisoma tonight to provide evidence to the pollution dispersion.

NHK ducked the issue by asserting that 'one of the causes' is the demolition operation.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20140714/k10015992301000.html

Death ashes are even attaching to the clothes...
NHK just made the whole story that the detected contamination was due to the demolition work and avoided the pollution dispersion issue. We call it information manipulation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqCM5toMv6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYL4Ot68FXw

In Support of Young Mothers

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 19:38:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/99503681.html

--- Contribution by a reader in her 50s ---

In Support of Young Mothers

I feel it's hard to talk about what I do to avoid [internal] exposure because some people may be in the situation where they can't actually perform all that I suggest--because of the time, physical and economic constraints, among others.

For example, a young full-time working mother who puts her baby in a daycare is one of the first people who must detoxify from radionuclides she already took in and avoid internal exposure, but is it easy to do?

I feel I'm lucky, and somewhat guilty, that I can select what I eat to avoid produce from certain areas. I'm also afraid that I may confuse people or make people feel uneasy by suggesting something that doesn't guarantee safety or that is difficult to do.

Most Japanese people, I think, never doubted what's reported in the paper and on TV [before Fukushima]. Most politicians, we believed, spent their lifetime to serve for the country and its people. We believed that intelligent bureaucrats worked to improve our country. I believed so.

After 311 I had to rely on the internet to gather information on the Fukushima accident and internal exposure. While I was looking up what was happening around Fukushima Daiichi, I started to think, 'I never ever want to get killed by wrong information [distributed by the government].'

Luckily reading a lot didn't bother me, so I read hundreds of blogs and articles until I was satisfied. I also went to various lectures.

The first online form I sent from my PC was the application form to attend a lecture by Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University. I had to do it on my own since I was afraid that it would have been filled up right away. I was desperate. I didn't want to wait for my family to come home to help me send the form.

I attended lectures by about ten people, only because I wanted to know what was happening. I wanted to know the truth, and I wanted to hear it in person. I wanted to protect my children.

Here are some of the unforgettable words I heard in those lectures.

Mako Oshidori: Don't trust what others say without questioning--including what I say. After you hear someone talk, please judge on your own. You need to look with your own eyes, listen to with your own ears, and judge according to your feeling and opinions.

Prof. Kunihiko Takeda: Some say that mothers who are worried about radiation are just nervous, but because the mothers are nervous, Japanese infant death rate is low.

What was the most shocking after 311 was that the Japanese government and mass media lied. That the government didn't protect its people and it doesn't have any intention to do so even now. Then I realized that I have the right to live according to my belief.

During the war, who would have thought of staying in a dangerous city only because his next door neighbor stayed. We are here because the earlier generations did everything they could do to protect themselves.

Investigate, think, question, and judge on your own. Be responsible for your own life. Think what you can do to help others. I want to keep telling this to myself and to my children. This is the most valuable thing I learned in these three years.

Is Fukushima Really 'Under Control?'

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:25:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog :http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98910744.html

Radio Forum #70 May 10, 2014

Fumikazu Nishitani interviews Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute

Nishitani: NHK, in April, aired documentaries about the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi. More than three years after the accident, they finally produced programs on the difficulty of decommissioning and expressed that there weren't going to be enough workers. This is nothing new, is it?

Koide: Of course. In Chernobyl, they used 600,000 to 800,000 workers... they were soldiers, former soldiers, workers, and even some prisoners, I heard. That's how they tried to control the accident. In Chernobyl, only one reactor broke. In Fukushima, four broke at the same time and currently the accident is still going on. Of course they need many workers... many experienced workers. But the number of experienced workers is limited from the beginning, and they are forced to be out of the plant after reaching the radiation exposure limit.

Japanese law sets the limit at 100 milisieverst per five years, or 20 milisievert per one year. Many well-experienced workers already reached that limit and they can't work at the site any more. Some get 100 milisievert in one year, so those workers can't go back to the site for five years. This means practically they can't work.

N: Another problem is the low payment for the workers. [The NHK program] said [Fukushima Daiichi] workers switch to decontamination work or they quit.

K: TEPCO pays extra, but as the jobs are handed out through layers of labor brokers, each layer taking a piece of the payments. In the end the extra money won't reach the actual workers.

N: In Chernobyl, they required 2,000 workers per day. Ukraine paid 150% of the normal rate, so they got three times more applicants than they needed. Japan is not handling this well.

K: Not at all. TEPCO doesn't have good control of the situation any more. They just ask other companies to gather workers. Those companies ask the next tier companies and so on. They will not be able to collect enough workers.

N: The problem is that the Japanese government didn't take over the job from TEPCO. TEPCO should have been dissolved, I think.

K: I do think so. The damage is far more than TEPCO could have handled even if they went through several bankruptcies. They should dissolve TEPCO to clearly show the country's plan to take control of the situation, then the country has to take the responsibility.

N: They didn't do that so as not to upset their stockholders--banks, I think.

K: I agree. Big banks are TEPCO's biggest stockholders. I think it's the Japanese government's policy to not to damage those big banks.

N: Since those politicians receive a lagre amount of donations from those big banks and TEPCO.

K: Right.

N: NHK indicated 2,000,000,000,000 yen will be needed for decommissioning. Is it enough?

K: No way. TEPCO's plan requires 40 years for the decommissioning process. I don't think that's enough at all. There will be many, many difficult tasks that they have to face. Two trillion yen is not enough at all.

N: Do you think the Japanese government should take over the process even now? Isn't it too late?

K: Yes. They should take over as soon as possible.

・・・・・・

Radio Forum #72 May 24, 2014

Jiro Ishimaru interviews Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute

Ishimaru: TEPCO announced the launch of 'HAIRO [Decommissioning] Company', its new company to deal with decommissioning. What is your take on this?

Koide: That's a dirty strategy. TEPCO, one of the leading companies in Japan, has been operating Fukushima Daiichi saying its nuclear plants are absolutely safe. Then Fukushima Daiichi had an accident. So, the right thing to do is for TEPCO to take full responsibility for it. Even if TEPCO tries to compensate for the damage, the amount of damage exceeds what TEPCO could offer by going bankrupt many times over. Instead, TEPCO has the Japanese government pay for the damage, while TEPCO itself is trying to survive. Now it created 'HAIRO Company' and let it take full responsibility. At the same time TEPCO continues its profitable operation. That is totally wrong.

I: On the other hand, they say by detaching the decommissioning section from TEPCO, the new company can focus on its mission. Also, it can make the decision process shorter and quicker, so they can deal with various troubles as they rise. Is it effective?

K: TEPCO should make a team within and find a way for it to act swiftly. Making a new company is meaningless. To me, it sounds like a dirty way to escape from the responsibility.

I: About the current progress of decommissioning ...

K: The first thing they need to do is to move all the used fuel rods to less dangerous places from all the Used Fuel Pools that's located at each reactor. In November 2013, they started with Reactor #4 because it was the most accessible pool, and the most dangerous. The floor that housed the Used Fuel Pool in Reactor #4 was hugely damaged and it has been feared that the pool might collapse in any time. This is a very dangerous job. Any scale of accident is possible. But they have to do it. I hope they can complete the job without making the workers get so much radiation.

I: As of May 7, they say they moved 814 rods out of 1533 from the UFP. Is this reasonable?

K: Yes. They moved about half the rods in about half a year. TEPCO hopes they move all the rods [from Reactor 4] this year. If everything goes well, they probably can complete this task by December. I look at TEPCO as a criminal, but I really want to wish them well about this work.

I: On the other hand, they don't even know where the melted fuel is. What is the current situation of the melted fuel?

K: Nothing has been done. I don't think the melted fuel is sitting in one piece as TEPCO and the government imagine. Probably, many pieces are scattered everywhere in the reactor vessel. For example, there are pieces stuck to the wall, I think. If, for example, they somehow can collect 50 pieces of debris they can't collect the other 50; if many workers are forced to be exposed to radiation to do this ineffective job, I think it's better to just contain it like the Chernobyl sarcophagus.

I: It is going to be a long road to decommissioning...

K: The government says it will take 40 years, but that is not going to be enough at all. When they finish, I will have been dead for a long time.

note：小出裕章氏の著述については、翻訳者が同氏から英訳の許諾を得ている。Radio Forumには、「ずくなしの冷や水」から翻訳と掲載の許可を申請中。

Nuclear power won't last（Prof. Hiroaki Koide)

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:18:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98464301.html

日本語原文:　http://actio.gr.jp/2012/03/27113651.html

It was 4.6 billion years ago that the earth was born as a fireball. It was 4 billion years ago that life emerged on the earth. It was just 4 million years ago that humans emerged on the earth. We are a new species on the earth. Humans lived as a part of nature at first, then discovered hunting and farming：the start of human culture.

Just 200 years ago, the Industrial evolution started and since then humans started to consume a large amount of energy. Since then, humans thought that the more energy they use, the richer their lives would become.

Of the whole amount of energy that humans consumed in their entire history, about 60% was consumed within the last 200 years. Because of this, many other species have become extinct.

For quite a while, I have been calling America and Japan 'regressing' countries, not 'advanced.' Countries that destroy the environment and force other animals to become extinct：to me, they are nothing more than regressed.

Many regressing countries want to use more energy than they do today. I myself once thought we needed energy to live enriched lives. However, when I stepped into the world of Nuclear Power research, all my expectations were totally shattered.

Currently there are 55 nuclear power plants in Japan, but none are in big cities like Tokyo and Osaka. They consider nuclear power plants dangerous to build in highly populated areas.

A nuclear power plant of 1000 MW capacity burns 1 ton of uranium per year. The amount of uranium used in the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima is about 1 kg, which equals about 20,000 tons of conventional bombs.

Japan doesn't possess nuclear weapons. However, it has all the core nuclear technologies：nuclear power plants, processing, and recycling. The reason behind this is the country's desire to possess [ability to build] nuclear weapons.

The recycling plant in Rokkashomura in Aomori prefecture started test operation on March 31 last year [2006]. By starting operation on March 31, the last day of the fiscal year, the local government made sure it could receive fiscal year 2006 funds from the central government.

Recycling plants, even without any accidents, will release a large amount of radiation into the environment. There will be serious consequences if we allow this plant to operate.

The Japanese government and electric companies claim that there will be a severe shortage of electricity if they stop nuclear power plants, which provide 30% of country's electricity. This is not true. Other power plants can easily cover the difference even if they stop all the nuclear power plants.

The government and electric companies will then say, "Since we can't reserve　electricity, we need nuclear power plants to provide the peak consumption amount in summer." If you look into the data, however, that is not true either. A few years at the beginning of the 90s, we needed nuclear power plants to cover all the consumption. But after that there was no problem. The peak demand occurs only for a few afternoon hours on about the three hottest summer days. If they really cannot provide enough electricity during that time, we can reduce consumption.

Another point they make is that nuclear power plants are necessary to reduce CO2. Although I think CO2 may be the culprit of global warming, there is no conclusive evidence. Even if CO2 is the reason for global warming, nuclear power plants do not solve anything.

The government and electric companies changed the wording of their press releases from 'nuclear plants do not produce CO2,' to 'nuclear plants do not produce CO2 when they produce electricity.'

It's obvious that the process of nuclear power production produces a large amount of CO2 in their process such as mining and processing uranium, and managing nuclear waste for the next 1 million years.

Moreover, nuclear power plants produce CO2 when they produce electricity. Nuclear power plants are made of a gigantic amount of concrete and iron. It requires a large amount of energy to operate them, so they are producing CO2. Scientifically, the correct wording is that "nuclear fission reaction doesn't produce CO2."

To reduce CO2 emissions, we need to first stop nuclear power plants, which release huge amounts of warm water. Nuclear power plants only use one third of energy they produce to produce electricity. The rest, over 60%, is dumped in seawater, warming up the ocean.

One 1000 MW nuclear plant will warm 70 tons of seawater by 70C [about 120F] per one second. For comparison, flow rate of Arakawa, a large river in Tokyo is probably 30 to 40 tons per second.

55 nuclear power plants in Japan release 100 billion tons of warm water. The amount of precipitation in Japan is 650 billion tons and 400 billion tons of that go into rivers. A quarter of the total amount of water that runs in Japanese rivers is warmed up by 7°C and dumped into the ocean.

When I was in high school, they said that coal supply would be exhausted in 30 years. In 1930, they said that coal would be exhausted in 18 years. In 1940, they said it was 'in 23 years.' That prompted Japan to get into the war in order to secure coal supplies.

In 1950 they said '20 more years,' in the 70s and 80s it was '30 more years,' and in the 90s they said '45 more years.' The most recent estimate is 50 years.

Of course, the coal supply will be exhausted at some point. But nuclear power is not the answer. The amount of uranium the earth has is smaller than the amount of oil, which is even smaller than that of coal. Nuclear power won't last.

The fundamental problem is that humans use too much energy.

As Japanese people became able to use 40,000 to 50,000 kCal per day, their average lifespan climbed into the 80s. Today a Japanese person uses 120,000 kCal per day but life expectancy is still in the 80s.

I propose that we reduce energy consumption by half. This is about the same level as 1970s. In the 70s, we already had major electric appliances. Today's eco technology is by far better. So we can live a comfortable life with just 60,000 kCal a day. If we don't waste energy, we can sustain our lives and live a humanly comfortable lifestyle.

Moreover, this consumption level is still above the world average [40,000 to 50,000 kCal]. Three quarters of the whole population on earth live without much energy. 1.1 billion people live with less than $1 per day. Half a billion of them face starvation. A child dies every 2 to 3 seconds.

While many people suffer, Japanese people are trying to build a society where we use even more energy and enjoy the benefit of it.

Kenji Miyazawa said, 'there cannot be happiness for a person until the whole world is happy.' I don't think 'the whole world' just means humans. We are at the point where we won't be able to save the earth unless we think about the whole world.

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from　Translator

Thank you Nukui-san of Actio for allowing me to share this in English. (got permission to put English on FB around July 2012)

This is a gist of the article found in the above site. It's published in ACTIO issued on Sept. 25, 2007.

Foreign visitors in Japan, let's work together to avoid internal exposure!

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:13:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98972069.html
日本語原文 : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98548281.html

You may feel uneasy since you can't find much information on the progress of the clean-up effort at Fukushima accident or food contamination. Here are some information and examples of what Japanese people who consciously try to avoid exposure to radioactivity　do everyday.

1. Contamination in Food

In Japan, the current safety limit for cesium is 100 Bq/kg.

Three years after the Fukushima Nuclear Plant accident, radiation levels in the atmosphere and levels of contamination in food are lower compared to the time shortly after the accident. But contaminated food is still found, for example, more than 100Bq/kg in wild plants.

By looking at which food imported from Japan that America bans we can tell what food is highly contaminated. America has the most detailed list of regulations in the world.

It lists banned food items from each prefecture. For dairy products from the three prefectures including Fukushima, it requires a document that certifies the products clear all the US regulatory numbers. For other food, the U.S. will conduct sampling tests.

Roughly speaking, the more items are restricted, the closer the area is from Fukushima Daiichi. The U.S. uses stricter limits than Japan.

2. Banned Food Items from Each Area

You see a lot of mushrooms, along with rice, beef, vegetables, and soy. Various ocean products are listed too.

3. Mushrooms Prove that the Large Areas are Contaminated

After the Chernobyl accident, it was found that mushrooms condense radionuclides. This map shows the highest readings of cesium in mushrooms measured by various local governments. You can see wide areas in Eastern Japan are contaminated with cesium.

Mushrooms absorb cesium on the surface more than other produce, but in highly contaminated areas rice and legumes are also contaminated.

4 Health Problems from Internal Exposure are Already Observed

When you take in radionuclides with food, you are internally exposed. Radionuclides are mainly heavy metals, so even without radioactivity they are hazardous to human body.

It's not yet known how much damage internal exposure will cause. This is because we can't test this on animals and also because it is usually the case that it takes multiple years for palpable damage to emerge.

However, among the children who had internal exposure through respiration, there is a higher rate of thyroid abnormality including thyroid cancer.

Among people who have been living in Japan since before the Fukushima accident, a number of various health problems is reported, including sudden death and cancer.

Some of the food regularly consumed by Japanese people is highly contaminated. Some try to avoid them, and the others don't care at all.

5. Many Japanese Say that Radioactivity is Not Dangerous, but They Pretend Not to Notice Those Who Have Health Problems.

When you voice your worry about radioactivity, many would say there is no need to worry about. I'm guessing those people will experience health problems in the near future.

Don't feel safe just because many Japanese people say it is safe. It's wise to worry and protect yourselves against radioactivity.

Why many of decontamination volunteers died

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:07:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/99319263.html

“Genpatsu Mondai” wrote a blog article in the May 21, 2014 titled “Joining the volunteer with Fukushima citizens result in sudden death!!! Two of fifteen students in the neighborhood already died from an unknown cause”.

In this article, you can read many dead cases of volunteers who went to Fukushima and worked there. They went to contaminated area and worked for decontamination as volunteers. I am wondering why many of them died…

Suspected causes are as follows;

1. Volunteers stay and work in the area where there is much fallout radioactivity and with a high air dose rate.

2. Volunteers lack equipment against radioactivity. They do not wear Tyvek, just wear easy mask. In fact, they are supposed to wear Tyvek and high-performance mask because they are in highly contaminated area.

3. Volunteers often eat a boxed meal sold at convenience stores and also eat it outdoors.

4. Volunteers cannot always stay at a room with perfectly clean up, low level of air dose rate and air conditioner with air cleaning filter.

5. Sometimes volunteers have to wait outdoors for long time because they have to make a round trip between their accommodations and sites of work. Thus they could be exposed to the radiation internally in addition to external exposure even during off-work period.

Now let’s take this case in a comparison with the case that a doctor goes to contaminated area as a volunteer.

A doctor arrives at a destination and rides on a courtesy car to and from the doctor's accommodation, or takes a taxi for its own traveling. A doctor stays at a luxury hotel with perfectly clean up rooms. And also, a doctor has many choices as for meals.

The lower the air dose rate is, the less you are exposed to the radiation externally. And the less you breathe open air, the less you are exposed to the radiation internally naturally.

I think that he can reduce these risks in case that someone goes to contaminated area on business.

Otherwise, I do not think volunteers take a taxi for each traveling. Basically the purpose of volunteers is to go to the contaminated area where the air dose rate is high and to work there. They are surely exposed to the radiation internally if they spent long time to stay outdoors without wearing a mask.

There are some cases that people in Tokyo suffer an array of health problems after working for decontamination around their houses like roof and yard without sufficient degree of protection against radioactivity. They might well be able to take a bath not so long after such a work for decontamination.

And I guess they should clean up their rooms and take care of not to eat contaminated ingredients because they are enough to clean up outside the house. But they upset their health even in familiar place!!!

You can imagine easily how dangerous it is to work for decontamination in a strange place and to stay unequipped accommodations.

In the first place, it is dangerous to work for decontamination.

And I do not think decontamination works so well. If you would still go there, please pay for the fully-equipment against radioactivity including gas mask!!! Of course you have to replace Tyvek on a daily basis, and also discard all your shoes and clothes before leaving contaminated area.

Unless you can do them, you should not go to work for decontamination as a volunteer.

Construction workers face health deterioration

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:05:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog :http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98624132.html

The cases are going on increasing that workers on the building site die suddenly. Authorities and construction companies must take urgent action!

After Fukushima nuclear accident, I thought that it was possible for workers on the building site and landscaping contractors in areas around Tokyo to damage their health seriously because of radiation exposure.

Although I wrote about the concern in my blog posts again and again, I did not take other steps to call attention to all the concerned parties because I did not find the cases of their health deterioration.

Now I finally got the reliable information that the cases were going on increasing that workers on the building site die suddenly. It was as I suspected… I am disappointed very, very much.

There are cited as possible causes as follows;

1. In Japan, March is the end of a fiscal year and is a busy month for constructive works and public works constructions, and unfortunately, Fukushima nuclear accident occurred in March, 2011. Therefore, there were many workers working outside who might be exposed to the radiation by breathing radioactive plume.

2. Radioactive plume passed directly above areas around Tokyo early in the morning in Mar 15, 2011, and the second plume attacked again in that afternoon. This means that radioactive substances were hanging over the areas around Tokyo for long time.

3. These radioactive substances fluttered to the ground, and stirred up again and again especially at the scene of earthmoving and soil improvement work. Then workers on the building site are likely to be exposed internally to the radiation by breathing the air contaminated with radioactive substances.

4. Of course there is no shielding outdoors; workers are more likely to be exposed externally to the radiation than staying indoors.

5. In case when workers have lunch outdoors, radioactive substances in the air may flutter to their food and they eat it without knowing that.

6. Many workers tend to eat boxed meals from a convenience store for their breakfast and lunch. And it could be that the ingredients in such boxed meals are contaminated by radioactivity.

Although Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare must take measures against radiation exposure prevention in terms of industrial health and safety, they do not do anything about that.

Actually I hardly see that workers on the building site and landscaping contractors wear even a mask at all. And then I also point out that the list of victims will be lengthening in the future as long as authorities will not improve such dangerous work environment.

I need your help, all my readers! I hope you to move into the following actions;

1. Please tell that the cases are going on increasing that workers on the building site die suddenly to your friends and relatives, if they work as building constructors and landscaping workers.

2. In addition, please tell them that boys' baseball coaches and physical-education teachers most often die suddenly who spend long time in the field.

3. Although mask is the best of all to prevent them from being exposed internally to the radiation, it makes no sense if company does not force them to wear a mask as a rule.

I am convinced that authorities must be aware of the changing in death toll patterns of the industry through managing social security. Then authorities never take actions unless we increase public concern over their health damage caused by radiation exposure.

4. However we can take limited defensive measures on an individual basis, the most effective action is not to consume contaminated food and drink. And it is also effective to wash work clothes frequently to keep dust attachment to a minimum.

5. Field superintendents have to do the best to prevent themselves from being exposed to the radiation too. I would like them, especially business managers and persons in charge of subcontractors, to know that these actions prevent themselves from being exposed to the radiation.

6. I think it would be accurate to say that there will be a dramatic increase in health damage and we will learn more about the details as time goes on. We have to take actions against health damage caused by radiation exposure before list of victims will lengthen.

Things You Should Know about Fukushima

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:01:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog :http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98324922.html

1. Leaking of radionuclides from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant continues. Additional fallout of radionuclides is detected even outside of Fukushima, for example in Kanto area. At a Chiba city sewage treatment plant, cesium is still detected, although at a lower level than before.

2. In Kanto, because of the plumes containing a high amount of radioactive materials that were dispersed from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, the effect of internal exposure is big. In addition people have been taking in radionuclides through food. There have been many cases of various health problems.

3. Population statistics show that after the Fukushima accidents, the number of births declined and number of deaths rose in contaminated areas.

4. In Ukraine, the number of births started to decline from the year after the Chernobyl accident, while the number of deaths went up slightly at first and quickly rose starting four years after the accident. In Japan, the number of births has already declined in large areas in eastern Japan. It's likely that the number of deaths will increase.

5. When testing food, the lower limits of detection used in tests done by various local governments and compiled by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare varies site by site. In three quarters of cases, the lower limit of detection was higher than 25Bq/kg, which is too high. Material that exceeds 100Bq/kg is radioactive waste that should be strictly handled and isolated. It is poison, not food.

6. According to the study by 'Safety of Our Food and Life' conducted in Kovalyn Ukraine, health problems become evident at 1.1Bq/kg in food and drink per day.

7. The difference of internal contamination between those who are consciously avoiding radionuclides and those who are not is evident in the results of relatively precise measurements of their urine samples. The former shows the levels around 1Bq/kg and the latter, around 4Bq/kg.

8. Radiation test results collected by a private organization in Western Japan show that food from Western Japan is not completely clean. Average contamination can be calculated as 1.7 Bq/kg. This level is very precise in this kind of test as compared to tests done by various local governments that had an ND limit of 25Bq/kg. For example, the amount of cesium in daily food is calculated as about 2.2 Bq [2.2 Bq per 2kg(average daily food intake) = 1.1Bq/kg]. This is just about the same level at which health problems become evident as reported in the Kovalyn study.

Contamination of food from overseas is not always low either. 2.91Bq/kg of Cs137 is detected from maple syrup produced in Quebec Canada between mid March and April in 2011. Contamination is also detected in European jam.

9. I see a number of cases of sudden death among people who earlier visited a doctor experiencing some health problems but were told there was nothing wrong with them. There is no cure for radiation exposure. Taking supplements or chelate doesn't necessarily protect against radionuclides.

If you experience health problems without any obvious cause, think about radiation. Try not to take in radionuclides and go to a doctor.

But it's useless to ask a doctor about the radiation effects on your health. Doctors can't answer because they don't have knowledge of radiation exposure symptoms or how to treat them. You may just end up insulting him.

There are a small number of doctors you can trust, but they seem to be very busy seeing a lot of patients. In contaminated areas the number of patients is rising and the day is close when the balance of supply [medical service] and demand [patients] will collapse. Then you won't be able to see a doctor when you want.

10. Moving to a non-contaminated area is effective to avoid exposure. Evacuation is the only answer to avoid internal radiation contamination by inhalation.

11. Problems at Fukushima Daiichi haven't been solved at all, rather they are getting worse. It's possible that the buildings will collapse in the event of a big earthquake. We need to keep a close eye on seismic activity.

12. There is a lot of false information that everything is okay. Even a documentary manga that depicted someone experiencing nose bleeding was attacked by a governor and other politicians/government officials [who said the nose bleeding could not be linked to radiation]. This type of excessive response shows that the government plans to deny various health symptoms such as cancer, heart and brain problems, leukemia, etc., that will increase in numbers in the near future.

We can't hope for the current government to improve medical or livelihood support. They hide information and tell people to avoid danger and survive on their own. They will discard the socially weak. They will send those who survived to the battlefield.

13. The number of sudden deaths among celebrities is increasing. Victims are those who are unable to avoid radiation exposure and those who refuse to listen to unpleasant stories.

Ignorant people can only have an ignorant government. The current government was elected by the Japanese people. The future is not bright [if the people don't realize that they are the ones who are responsible for the current government].

14. Foreign media uses the phrase 'hell at Fukushima Daiichi.' Many Japanese people will suffer in the coming years.

Fieldwork 4

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:56:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog :http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98216282.html

April 24th 2014

Back to the hot spot

I went back to the hot spot that I found on my first field trip.

As it is certain that there are highly radioactive substances out there I put on some extra protection. I stuck my feet and trainers into plastic bags and sealed them with masking tape.

The sensor of the survey meter was in the cloth wine bag, the bottom of which was protected by a plastic bag. Like this I should be able to detect gamma and beta rays.

This is the photo of the hot spot that I found on my first field trip. On April 13th it looked like this.

When I came today it had changed like this. The preparation of the rice paddies around had started and tractors had been passing this spot.

7.000 and 10.000 cpm

I started to measure the lumps of soil that were scattered around one by one and found a hot lump just a-turn-of-a-tracor-wheel away.

I raised the range from the very beginning this time as my survey meter has a slow response and I would have to wait for a while if it went off the scale. The limit of the range was 10.000 cpm. Time constant was 30 sec. It read 7000 cpm.

I moved on to measure other lumps. The measurement went over the range.

So I raised the scale to up to 30.000 cpm. The time constant was 30 sec. I detected over 10.000 cpm with the survey meter lying directly on the ground. The highest reading I had ever seen, of course.

The settings:

I repeat that this survey meter is getting on a bit and that the actual figures of the readings may not be very accurate. However, if you consider that usually it only reads 50-60 cpm, it was certainly detecting tremendously high radiation there.

The highly radioactive pieces that made the news in 2013 and which were found near the mouth of the Idegawa river in Narahamachi (Fukushima prefecture) measured 12.000 μSv/h, 4700 μSv/h, 3400 μSv/h and 100 μSv/h each. We were told then that a piece of 3400 μSv/h has a surface radiation contamination of over 100.000 cpm. I remember that these pieces were small but of a substantial size, a size we could visibly see.

In the case of my fieldwork, I cannot tell what exactly is the source of radiation in the lump of soil. But if the reading of my survey meter is accurate, 100.000 cpm is pretty impressive.

Actually I had been planning to report it to the municipality if I detected high radiation today and to provide a detailed indication on the map and the photos of the monitor readings. But seeing how the spot had changed I changed my mind. Rain could simply wash the lump away, or if another tractor passes, it could carry the lump away on its wheels and crush it on the road. The radiation source would be scattered and then lost. If the municipality can’t determine the hot spot they might judge me a false alarmist. I’m not sure if they have the instrument to detect the beta rays anyway. If they just measure with a dosimeter that only detects gamma rays they wouldn’t be able to detect this tremendously high radiation. For example just look at the air dose rate of the area. It is relatively high but not shockingly high.

Chiba is not the only place

I shall never come to this area again. This can’t be the only hot piece that fell here. There must be hot pieces like this all over this place. Since I don’t know what they look like, where they are and how many of them there are, I’d better stay out of here.

But this applies to all of Kanto and the Tohoku region. Just think of the report by an American civil engineer that found 310 Bq in the dust that had been collected from a bag of a vacuum cleaner in Nagoya. Out of all the dust it was one minuscule particle that was radioactive, only 10 microns across. Or 10 one-millionth of a meter across. You only need 100 such particles and you get 31.000 Bq. And Nagoya is 460 km southwest of the accident site in Fukushima, far beyond Chiba or Tokyo.

There was also a tweet by a person who was working in the central market of Osaka at the time of the accident. He said that around March 22nd 2011, huge amounts of vegetables from Kanto were being sold for next to nothing and among them, some measured above 50.000 Bq/kg.

So after all, maybe it is not a surprise that there are hot spots with more than 10.000 cpm in the Kanto region. Even if 3 years have passed after the accident and the short lived radioactive particles have disappeared.

Fieldwork 2

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:49:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog :http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98118813.html

When the wind blows…

Still shocked from the result of my previous fieldwork, I made some improvements to my equipment so I could carry out my survey more easily. I put the detector in a cloth wine bag so I wouldn't need to squat down to hold it close to the ground each time. I first thought of fastening the detector to a stick on a wheel but I thought that the shaking and bumping might just be too much for the poor old thing. For the main body that has the monitor I shall look for a compact and sturdy bag, perhaps something like a tool bag that I can carry on my shoulders.

I went to a nearby park and measured the air dose rate. Maximum 60 cpm. As I am measuring while moving around, there is no correlation between the readings of the Air Counter (stick shaped gamma ray dosimeter) and the survey meter in the bag.

I found out that when I measured gamma and beta rays together, generally the counts were higher on permeable asphalt paving than on grass although sometimes on grass you can find hot places.

When the wind blew the counts went up. One gust brought an extra 5-10 cpm (as compared to 20 cpm on my last fieldwork). If the reading was at 20 cpm before the wind and after it goes up by another 20 cpm, it means that the input has doubled for the time constant of 30 sec. In other words, an increase of 10 cpm recorded over a 30 sec period means that there would have been a single burst of 300 counts over a very short time (1-3 sec).

It is only an instant rise and drops down straight away. But considering those figures perhaps I shouldn't ignore radioactive particles that the wind brings. If they come in a gaseous state they wouldn't settle so wouldn't leave any proof on the ground. However much there could be in the wind, it wouldn't raise the base of the air dose rate of that place. But the danger is there.

Some physically sensitive people mention on the Internet that the alarm of their dosimeter often goes off. If it's a sensitive one that needs little time to get the readings, it will certainly set off the alarm when it suddenly receives 5cps on an average 0.2cps basis. That's how these dosimeters work. But on the public monitoring posts with a time constant of 10 min, it wouldn't show anything at all.

Another hot spot: 150 cpm

So, my survey meter is still sensitive enough to sense these instant differences. Contented to witness that my survey meter is not senile yet (although it's an oldie just like myself) I went from the park to execute some more fieldwork.

I went to a spot that I had been suspecting to be radioactively hot and placed the end of the tube-shaped detector on the ground. There was only a thin plastic bag and a roughly woven textile between the detector and the ground.

The reading shot up. The range was 0-300 cpm. Time constant:10 sec.

I raised the detector by 50 cm.

The same thing happened over and over again. When I stepped away by 40-50 cm from the spot and took a measurement it didn't show as high but if I went back to that spot it rose again. The photo below shows the 4th time I took a measurement. The detector was laid directly on the ground. I had never had such a high constant reading when measuring the air.

I lifted the detector by 50cm.

I think that it is quite consistent.

This is what the soil looked like.

What is it?

Now what was the particle that emitted such a high dose rate? Two hypotheses are possible:

1. There is a lump of cesium 137. If it is a dot source it is natural that the dose rate drops considerably when you move away from it. But would it drop so much just by moving 50 cm away? Even if my survey meter is old and not so sensitive any more?

2. There is a concentration of beta radiation sources. A beta source in this location could only be from the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. Pre-Chernobyl there wasn't residential land here. So could it possibly be strontium?

Then I remembered that there was a mention on Twitter in 2011 by someone who had measured the filter of his indoor air purifier. It said that when he measured with his dosimeter that detects both beta and gamma rays, he detected 4 times as many beta rays than gamma ones.

This observation backs up my experience of having 40 cpm at 50 cm above ground and 150 cpm on the ground. The ratio is roughly 1:4. What is it that's there on the ground? 3 years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, the short-lived particles that were deposited there would have disappeared already. What is it that's still there?

Strontium?

Although it is difficult to determine, I presume that it is strontium. It is more prudent to assume that there is strontium there and try and protect yourself. Whatever the radiation source may be, my two field trips taught me that there are beta radiation sources everywhere. It's just a difference of concentration. And that sometimes, it can be tremendously high.

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April 27th, 2014 Follow up

1. I put a u-shaped resin shield over the end of the detector and measured again with it lying directly on the ground. Time constant: 30 sec. Reading: 45 cpm.

2. Then I measured this time without the shield. Time constant: 30 sec. Reading: 65-95 cpm. I raised the sensor about 3 cm from the ground so as to protect the mica window of the detector from contamination by the particles on the ground. Perhaps that explains the relatively low reading.

So I confirmed that the 0.8 mm thick polyvinyl chloride resin shield nearly shuts off the emission. I also confirmed that a few cm of distance are enough to get a considerably lower reading. This is probably due to the low permeability of the beta rays in the air and that the effective surface of the mica window reduces as you increase distance from the source.

Which means, to avoid damages from beta rays you need to move away as many cm away as possible from the source. Even 1 cm can make a difference. In other words, if taken internally, the damage done by beta rays is likely to be huge.

(first written on April 15th 2014, addition made on April 27th 2014)

ZUKUNASHI'S QUESTION-AND-ANSWER SESSION 1

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Mon, 26 May 2014 20:43:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/98038921.html

Q. I am in my 60's office worker living in the west of Ibaraki prefecture. After 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake, I was less worried about radioactivity effect for a while. At that time, I worked for a company in Tokyo.

The day in March 2011, I got back from a business trip for Kashiwa-city and I crouched down at Kanda station because of a heart pain. After that, I had also a nosebleed.

I simply thought that these were caused by infirmity of old age at first; however my skin was itchy which I had never experienced before.

In recent days, I read your blog and came to think that these might be caused by radioactivity.

A few days ago, I bought a simple Geiger counter and found 0.23μSv/h at home. Now I am anxious to avoid internal radiation exposure. In conclusion, I wish you to put out a wealth of information about radioactive contaminations on your blog. Thank you.

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A. Thank you very much for your comment. Now I am surprised very much that you found 0.23μSv/h at home!? That value means a high level contamination comparable in range to Higashi-Katsushika area including Kashiwa-city in Chiba prefecture.

Although I checked air dose rates of your town in the web-site named “Hakatte Geiger”, I did not find such a high value you measured.

I am just guessing that you would live in a single-family house. Now I recommend you checking to see if there are any contaminated spots in doors or not, especially around your house like roof and yard, and also you are in need of a thorough indoor cleaning. Dust cannot help but invading your house especially when there is a field around your house.

I confirmed that radioactive plume passed directly above your town from early in the morning to afternoon in Mar 15, 2011. I guess that just relatively-scarce radioactivity fluttered to your town because it was not raining. However at the same time, it is possible that radioactivity distributed in a patchy fashion around your town.

Although an early examination indicates that some spots have few contaminations in the west of Ibaraki prefecture, I do not think that all areas have always few contaminations, and also radioactivity has moved constantly day by day.

This is my opinion that there is a suspicion of radiation exposure caused by breathing in the case of heart pain and nosebleed occurred in around Mar 15 and 22, 2011.

Would you have been giving a lot of attention to food and drink since those symptoms occurred? I would strongly recommend that you choose the ingredients of low-level radiation. If you would work still now, please stop going out to eat and pack your lunch.

Would your skin is still itchy? Beta-rays can be the cause of itchy skin. I guess you would already know that the United States carried out soil investigation and turned out that there was high level strontium in Kumagaya-city.

If it is itchy skin which touches bed linens, I suspect that beta-rays may make your skin itch. I would also strongly encourage you to consult with a doctor to prevent your health from deteriorating if you would notice certain symptoms. In case of angina, for instance, you would need to be careful not to do exercises stress your heart, and make an effort to lose weight in case of diabetes. Also it is very important that you have to consider moving them to uncontaminated place if you live under the same roof with infant children.

Anyway at the very beginning, you have to specify the spots of contamination and do thorough clean indoor. However, there are important reminders as follows;

1 Please wear a mask and goggle when you clean out the rooms.

2 You have to contrive ways to emit cleaner exhaust into outdoors.

Otherwise you may be exposed to radiation further more by cleaning up your house!

Please feel free to ask me any questions that you may have. Thank you.

Fieldwork 1

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 25 May 2014 01:38:00 +0900

Original Text from Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/87473204.html

As far as my understanding goes, health damage is already serious over a vast area in Japan. My current concern is: how much more serious can this become?

What about the alpha and beta sources?
There is a fair amount of public data available on gamma radiation air dose rate, though not enough. Nowadays, gamma rays can also be easily measured with Geiger-Mueller counters by individuals. But when it comes to alpha and beta particles, we are still pretty much in the dark about the truth.

So I went out to do some fieldwork
I fear that the contamination by these two radiation sources will be the critical factor in the long run. Wanting to get even just a slight idea of the possible state of such contamination I decided to ask my pretty old survey meter to do one last job before its retirement and headed out. I went to an area where I always find a high air dose rate when I go walking. To begin with I measured the air dose rate at more than 1m above the ground. The counts per minute were high.

Off scale
In order to measure the beta sources with my survey meter I need to approach the end of its tube-shaped sensor to within touching distance of the target area (the sensitivity has gone down with age and anyway that's the design).
So I put the end of the sensor to within touching distance of the ground just to test for beta radiation sources which have a short flying distance (to avoid contamination of the sensor, I had covered the totality of it with a thin plastic bag).
The counts jumped up instantly and went off the scale. Because of its age, my survey meter is extremely sensitive to differences in temperature. Thinking that the wind might have cooled it down suddenly, I raised the range of the scale, reset it and waited for it to settle.

Second measurement: It went off the scale again. So I raised the range for the second time and re-measured. Off the scale yet again. One of the photos of the day shows the scale limit at 3kcpm. So the dose rate was above 3kcpm.

I moved elsewhere and put the sensor next to the ground to check if it was just my survey meter acting old. The sensor only reacted sharply when it was within the red circle of the following photo. The dark patch on the ground is my shadow.

I acknowledge that the figures of my survey meter are not totally reliable. As I said its sensitivity is down and it has never been calibrated either. However, I repeat that the phenomenon of going off the scale happened only within this red circle, and it happened on each of the 4 or 5 times that I measured. When I moved away, the dose rate was around 30cpm at 50cm above the ground. Back at home, the dose rate was in the normal range.

I didn't stay long in this hot spot because I was terrified by the noise that my survey meter gave out. It wasn't like the usual low pitched sound but beeping noisily. I am starting to think though that perhaps I should go back and get a sample of the soil and grass of this spot.

Coincidence or ?
I admit that it wasn’t the first time that the readings of this old survey meter went off the scale. It had happened a few times before. Twice it was due to a sudden change in temperature. The other time it happened when a gardener in a park was using a blower and the dust was blown towards me. I imagined that it must be a really rare case to find such a hot spot so easily. It was the first place I tried to measure and without even moving around I just landed on it.

But then at the same time, a scary thought comes to my mind: Maybe there are micro hot spots like this one all over. I had this area in my mind because of the constant high air dose rate but this is not the only spot where I find high air dose rates when I am walking.

I also had the suspicion that this area might have beta radiation sources that do not originate from the Fukushima Daiichi accident: namely the uranium from the depleted uranium storage facility next to Cosmo Oil Refinery (Chiba prefecture) that burned after the earthquake on March 11th. Looking it up I read that uranium 238 has the specific activity of 14.8 Bq/mg. In order to influence the readings of a survey meter that has a background radiation of 30cpm, I would need about 10mg of uranium 238, which would be a huge amount of particles.

I hence conclude that the radioactive particles in the red circle cannot be uranium 238. If you consider that the air dose rate is relatively high in the whole area around the spot it is more natural to think that various different radioactive particles from Fukushima Daiichi fell on the ground and stuck here.

The problem is that this area is not a particularly highly contaminated area according to the air measurement map by MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). If in even a moderately contaminated area you find micro hot spots like this, there could be numerous other micro hot spots in the whole Kanto region.

N.B. it didn't rain here on March 15th, but it did on March 21st 2011.

This reminded me of a soil survey that had been conducted by the US where various samples with high gross-alpha and gross-beta radioactivity were found across Kanto and Tohoku regions. When I saw it I was surprised by the frequency of those hot samples but maybe it is not such a big surprise after all. One should understand that even randomly chosen, you can find hot samples from the soil in Kanto and Tohoku.

We need reliable information
There is a lot of conflicting information published on alpha and beta radiation sources which makes it difficult for individuals to get an accurate idea of the contamination. For instance, I once learned that some soil samples in Kanagawa prefecture had a high dose of strontium, but this was denied later. Since it is technically difficult the government should collect samples and conduct the measurements, but I haven’t heard of anything of that nature being done.

I guess that they just don't want to do it. For it will likely lead to a big scandal if they do.

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Introduction of Zukunashi no Hiyamizu's Blog : http://inventsolitude.sblo.jp/article/92061521.html

Dear readers outside Japan

The writer of this blog (myself) is a Japanese man with a varied professional experience who will turn 70 in a few years: I have worked in a large organization in Japan, have also worked abroad, have gone through redundancy, and worked in a part-time job at close to the minimum wage.

Now that I don’t work any more and that I’m in a fortunate enough situation where I don’t have to shiver from cold or starve, I thought I would use my spare time and experience for something useful for society and started a blog in 2005.

It has been a while since Japanese society stopped caring for the socially weak. The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant has marked the final confirmation of this. We have been deprived of our humble pleasure of eating. Staying healthy has become a struggle. In other words, our right to health or even the right to life are being threatened. Threatened by the government and by some major firms. This angers me and my days are spent trying to fight against this situation so as to help this country go in a better direction.

It would be a great pleasure if I could share my concerns with you and that in doing so I were able to help this world, even if it is only in a small way.

Thank you for reading.

N.B. The graphs and tables in this blog are based on statistics of population dynamics, measurements of radiation in soil and food, and data from monitoring posts, all of which are provided by the government and municipalities. If judged as reliable, information gathered from tweets and blogs is also used for analysis.

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contents in English

The gods of death are lining up

Air dose rate of Tokyo measured by citizens(DISSENSUS JAPAN)

Fieldwork 1

I want to shout for all the people in this world: "Please Please HELP US!"

noreply@blogger.com (Dissensus Japan) — Sun, 25 May 2014 01:04:00 +0900

Original text from Blog of Koichi Oyama in Minamisoma City : http://linkis.com/mak55.exblog.jp/t7Uv6

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Emission of spherical cesium-bearing particles from an early stage of the Fukushima nuclear accident Kouji Adachi,Mizuo Kajino,Yuji Zaizen& Yasuhito Igarashi

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The cause substance have been found.

This is an aggregate of radionuclides which starts with Uranium.

It was made in the blast furnace of a nuclear reactor at more than 5000°C.

This mixed metal contains four different substances, α・β・γ and also have the possibility to radiate neutron ray.

No creature on earth never knew this substance.

We are forced to have those strong substances inside our body without knowing where it exactly stays.

To say that "Cesium has got the same system as potassium and it will be discharged from the body" is just a lie!

The body can't recognize 5% of cesium and other complex substances (mixed metal) so i doubt that our body could badly react.

And this fact can open the closed door of global fallout of nuclear experiences in the 60's and also the hidden history of hot particles contamination of the world.

It also shows the wrong way used by leaders and their methods about the fact of death ash after Hisroshima and Nagasaki.

The conclusion is that anyone who doesn't show the facts about the substance of cause is our enemy.

We are all manipulated by the words "radiation" and "radiation doze" without knowing the real identity of radiation source.

We are not told the real facts of being irradiated and they force us to believe that it's just pure metal and they let us believe in "behavior and extracorporeal elimination" and force us to believe in the myth of security.

On top of all that, they only compare radiation doze and natural potassium contained in bananas and manipulated people as if it was a scientific study.

I really want the scholars patronized by the government to be punished by the rancorous of all children on this earth.

The usual practice of misleading people is to create setters and contractors in many layers.

They let people believe that they are normal person and people who listen to them start to believe them. They are making fans and they lead people distinctly as a result.

They are always avoiding the issue.

The issue is hold in the hands of enemies and when people know the issue, the energy makes a conciliatory move and took them to neutralize the attack of public opinions.

The guilt of global fallout is the corruption of concession groups of the nuclear industry and medical and insurance companies.

They made cancer to increase in a dramatic way and Japan as a nation that was victim of atomic bombs in the world which have medical history of contamination but they don't let us know the substances of death ash in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

And there's more. They were manipulating us from the beginning of the accident by telling us that "95% of the contamination comes from food, 4% from water, only 1 % from aspiration".

An adult person aspirates 20m3 of air per day and in weight it's 20kg.

We take food and water much less than that.

The lung takes varied chemical substances as it takes oxygen from air.

The hot particle size is all １μm.

It's really small so it goes into the blood and into the body. Then the organs take them .

The size of mesh hole of the filter to incinerate debris is also １μm.

The informations say that hot particles were diffused and flied in all directions in Japan.

The particles from hell is flying in the air and people don't protect themselves anymore three years after the nuclear accident and children are aspirating those horrible particles everyday!!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP US!

Please let all people in the world to know the life we are living since the accident, everyday and today.

Spreading the radioactive debris and decontamination that doesn't work is only increasing the number of HIBAKUSHAS without good reason.

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