By arevamirpal::laprimavera24 June 2011 There they go. Dr. Shunichi Yamashita must be thrilled for the prospect of a research of a lifetime! Fukushima Prefecture decided to fit ALL kindergartners, elementary school and junior high school children in Fukushima Prefecture, 280,000 of them, with what NHK World called “dosimeters” to monitor the radiation level as experienced […]
NODA, Chiba, June 23 (Mainichi Japan) – The municipal government here independently set a 1.0 millisievert maximum annual radiation dose for children, and will take anti-exposure measures should doses at schools in the city exceed that figure, it was announced on June 22. Noda and other municipalities in northwest Chiba Prefecture, where radiation levels are […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera22 June 2011 […] There is this news that has been reported widely in Japan as something “good”: Cities and towns in Fukushima Prefecture are fitting children – kindergarteners, elementary school children, and junior high school children – with radiation monitoring badges to keep track of the external radiation that they will receive. I […]
June 22 (Asahi Shimbun) – All residents forced to evacuate or remain indoors because of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant will receive at least 100,000 yen ($1,230) a month for mental distress, a government panel said. “All evacuees have suffered similar pain and suffering in terms of having their daily lives greatly […]
By Takao Yamada, Expert Senior Writer, Mainichi Japan20 June 2011 […] One figure who has entered the public spotlight in the wake of the nuclear crisis is 61-year-old Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute and a controversialist in the anti-nuclear debate. A specialist in nuclear power, Koide has garnered […]
By Marga Ortigas, AlJazeera English 19 June 2011 The nuclear plant at Japan’s Fukushima may be leaking radiation, but people are still going there daily to look for employment where about 2,200 of the 2,500 working there are subcontractors. In the last three months, at least eight workers have been exposed to high levels of […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera18 June 2011 According to TEPCO’s handout for the press for June 18, TEPCO stopped the entire water processing system manually when the surface radiation at the “skid” for removing oil and technetium exceeded 4 millisievert/hour, the limit set for replacing the zeolite cylinders (which TEPCO calls “vessel”) inside the skid. That “skid” contains […]
June 18 (Asahi Shimbun) – The Asahi Shimbun has obtained TEPCO documents that provide a timeline of events from 2:46 p.m. on March 11 when the magnitude-9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake struck, and includes the explosions that occurred at the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors until March 15. Despite the orders of Masao Yoshida, […]
By Shigeru Sato, Sachiko Sakamaki, and Tsuyoshi Inajima13 Jun 2011 Makoto Tonami starts his workday by slipping on a white surgical face mask and then drives around with a borrowed Geiger counter, taking radiation readings. Three months ago, he was sorting garbage claims in Minami Soma, a city north of the Fukushima nuclear plant. “It’s […]
By FishOutofWater, for Japan Nuclear Incident Liveblogs16 June 2011 […] A map of citizen-measured radiation levels shows radioactivity is distributed in a complex pattern reflecting the mountainous terrain and the shifting winds across a broad area of Japan north of Tokyo, which is in the center of the of bottom of the map. Radiation limits […]
