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Fukushima tells world radiation is down, exports up after nuclear crisis

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With the recent news that 80% of the radiation counters were busted I wonder where he gets his info.

Wasnt this incident supposedly larger than Tsjernobyl? Everyone from the j-gov keeps saying that its safe its safe. I dont believe it until they bring some solid untampered proof from a 3rd or 4th party that is not bribed.

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Just the small matter of the occasional discharge of tritium-laden decontaminated water from the filtration system, when the 1,000 tanks start getting to capacity again.

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Amazing!

It only takes 7 years to recover from several reactors melting down and the melted fuel vanishing from sight.

‘Recovery proclamations’ do not explain where the radiation is, the strength,the present effects etc.

Gov Uchibori is either simple minded or hopelessly mislead........

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^^^^And there it is. Total disregard of one's health. Seems very Japanese to dismiss what can't be seen.

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Because that sounds much better than 'radiation up and exports down'.

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He can say whatever he likes, but until an independent international organization inspects radiation levels and gives the ok on any produce from Fukushima I will not believe anything any Japanese politician says.

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I still avoid anything from Fukushima.

I do not trust the government.

Waiting for the next mislabeling scandal though.

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Zichi - I know of these groups, but they are also trying to promote their own produce and/or promote their businesses in the area. Of course they are less likely to lie, but they are also more likely to disguise the truth. One of my friends sold his house in Tonegawa (about 100k south/west of the fukushima plant) because he had alarming radiation levels in the gutters of his house and in the open drains in the street. The spread of radiation from this disaster is far more widespread than the government, the media and public groups are prepared to admit. And, cesium takes hundreds of years to breakdown in the environment. - I’m not saying they are lying, but they are definitely protecting their own interests.

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I'm the kind who WANTS to buy Fukushima products. But I also say, trust, but verify. I need to make sure stuff is safe, then I buy.

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Zichi partly answered that above, mmwkdw, by pointing out that despite three meltdowns, much of the radioactivity was blown out into the Pacific. (Fukushima luckily sits on the coast with SW trade winds.)

Chernobyl is landlocked, and the radiation blew all around Europe. Some hotspots in Finland, Scotland etc., even today make agriculture inadvisable.

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Yeah it's them petabecquerels that's got me worried.

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I would like to know why the meltdown has not continued. Shouldn't the material have been consumed by the mantle already?

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Haruka, there are no sensors down there, so no-one can say exactly how far the meltdowns went and if they have actually stopped moving completely or not. A Muon sensor was brought in to try and form a shadow of where the corium might be located in No.1 reactor vessel.  The corium in 1, 2 and 3 seems to have melted firstly through the RPV reactor pressure vessels, and then dropped and eaten partway through the concrete casing, the PVC primary containment vessel. I guess the fact that they are underwater has helped keep them cool.

See Wiki for a detailed history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

"Core meltdowns. The amount of damage sustained by the reactor cores during the accident, and the location of molten nuclear fuel ("corium") within the containment buildings, is unknown; TEPCO has revised its estimates several times."

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Zichi:

Citizen groups are important, but are they not from japan? The co-op has a vested interest. Where is the UN radiation team and their equipment to verify?

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There are hot particles all over Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu-the report showing this can be bought from:

Sciencedirect.com

it shows a significant amount of radioactive contamination over all of Japan......

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Wasn't Fukushima supposed to have been way bigger a disaster than Chernobyl ?

All I know about Chernobyl is what a recent BBC documentary showed, basically that no one lives there, its a Ghost town. So why not Fukushima ?

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But Fukushima is not over.

Chernobyl was covered with lead and concrete but Fukushima’s melted fuel is still not contained and if ever collected, where is it to be stored?

Wait!

There are presently amazing plans afoot to use radioactive debris for road building.

We’ll just need thicker shoe soles and watch where We’re walking....

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Can't we discuss this after the Olympics are over?

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Yes, Chernobyl has been covered but is still radioactive.

However, Fukushima is not contained and every time it rains more and more nuclear material is spewed into the sea.....

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Outside the reactor buildings and some parts of the TEPCO-terrain, it is normal.

Some of the clean-up was too much.

They thought of giving comfort, but in most minds it turnedto it must be bad then.

This is mostly psychology, the opinion of random or anti are more excepted then science and technical explanations.

Only the reactorbuilding are not yet a fully stable area, with care and time to make it workable.

There where 3 meltdowns, 2 buildings had collapsed roofs through hydrogen explosions.

That actually counts to the effectiveness of a 50 year old design that was underperformed by TEPCO's stupidity of the tsunami wall and some other advices that would have helped.

It withstoods the gigantic earthquake, not the tsunami unscaved.

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Well I guess everything is back to normal again. "Oh did you see the 2-headed pig walking around my house the other day?"

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Believe nothing this government tells you. It is all lies!

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The spread of radiation from this disaster is far more widespread than the government, the media and public groups are prepared to admit.

Yeah, and your proof for that is? Nowadays every Jack and Jill can purchase a very good radiation measurement device and try to prove the government wrong. And many people do it. Where are their parallel sets of measurements demonstrating this catastrophic radiation spread?

There are also circles with strong interests in spreading fake news about Japan, with the hope of damaging its economy (China nad S. Korea agricultural. exporters is one example). Are you sure you're not part of them?

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Here, suck on this candy for a while:

http://www.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp/edge/radiation/Amount%20of%20radiation%20around%20the%20world%20sep%2008,2011%20EN.pdf

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Also, many people don't know, but the background radiation levels in many Asian and European countries was historically significantly (many times) higher than what it is now in Fukushima. Think about this for a second.

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There are many citizen groups measuring the radiation levels. The largest group is SafeCast.

Oh, let's forget about them and keep complaining about no independent testing while repeating ad nauseam "I don't trust the government"...

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I love the peaches. I do not care if they contaminate me. I will continue to buy them.

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