U.N. nuclear agency to help Japan for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced Thursday that it will help Japan in "enhancing nuclear security measures" for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

Would have been nice to have the IAEA around helping a hell of a lot sooner!

The IAEA seems to be interested in helping manage domestic Japanese problems, after they were held at arm's length for so long over Fukushima. But the government, afraid to have mud on its face, is twisting it into the usual 'nuclear threat from NK'. TIJ.

While the agreement is not directly related to a nuclear threat from North Korea, "the uncertainty exists and we must use all means necessary to eliminate this uncertainty", he added.

WTH? Why the hell was this slipped in? And what does it even mean? Sigh...

Maybe they can help Japan finish the mess in Fukushima (people, housing, contamination, etc) FIRST.

as a blogger who checks radiation levels, Kanto and Tohoku are not safe. Japanese govt can lie to its sheepish citizens, but when the media focus comes here, any journalist can bring a geiger counter and walk around tokyo and discover the 3.5x abnormal levels.

as i said i have a geiger counter and monitor.

Reading: 0.7149μSv Futuba, Fukushima (福島)

Location: Futuba temporary decontamination storage (双葉町) Road 288, Fukushima, @3cm

Date: 12/12/2014 16:16pm. Weather: overcast 2°C 

NB: soil was stored in covered plastic. External reading only.

0.7149μSv (time=2min, α-, β- and γ-)

6.267mSv/per year (at this rate)

Reading: 0.3259μSv Koriyama (郡山) Fukushima

Location: Koriyama Shinkensen St.(郡山), Fukushima, @1cm

Date: 12/12/2014 13:00pm. Weather: overcast/breeze 5°C 

0.3259μSv (time=3min, α-, β- and γ-)

2.8573mSv/per year (at this rate)

Reading: 0.3153μSv Tokyo Station (東京)

Location: Tokyo JR Station , Tokyo @1cm

Date: 14/12/2014 18:20pm Weather: light rain

0.3153μSv (time=3min, α-, β- and γ-)

One year at this rate = 2.7638mSv per year

need more? i can take a train and get todays levels if you want. it is why i live in Kansai.

that was more than three years ago.

Just curious Zichi, how long would it usually take radiation levels to subside if they were at those high levels? And does the radiation just dissipate, or does it get carried away in winds and waters to another location? I remember reading somewhere that radiation takes many decades to return to normal levels. How does this all factor in with Tohoku and surrounding areas?

What a colossal waste of money! Japan is already at risk from its decaying nuclear infrastructure, lack of staff training (mixing fissionable elements in a bucket!) that sparked a contamination scare,siting nuclear plants over seismic fissures, burning radioactively contaminated substances to allow air contamination and thereby spreading radiation.

we don't have to wait until 2020!This is the reality now....

Considering nucs, can civil and military use be separated? A question of last century?

I sent data to safecast after the nuclear melthrough and it was rejected. I spent over $1500 on my Geiger counter, studied a lot and spent my own money and time. Facts are facts. Why they don’t trust data?