Tokyo Hit With Fukushima Radiation

Washington’s Blog
October 14, 2011

CNN reports today:

An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said.

Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.

“We are shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told reporters.

But the tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.

Officials searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK.

“We suspect these bottles in basement could be the cause of the high radiation reading and we are hastily working to confirm it,” he said.

Radiation experts are now checking what contaminated the bottles, a Setagaya ward official told CNN, declining to be named in line with policy.

Perhaps it is just some random contaminated bottles.

But as the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:

Japanese researchers discovered high levels of radioactive material in concentrated areas in Tokyo and Yokohama, more than 241 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as increasingly thorough tests provide a clearer picture of just how far contamination has spread and accumulated ….

In Tokyo, a sidewalk in Setagaya ward, in the western part of the city, recorded radiation levels of 2.707 microsieverts per hour, about 50 times higher than another location in Setagaya where the ward regularly monitors radiation levels….

In Yokohama, the local government said last month that it detected 40,200 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of sediments collected from one part of a roadside ditch….

Yokohama is investigating another spot on an apartment rooftop where tests conducted by a local private research institute detected more than 60,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per a kilogram of sediments.

The Journal also notes that these radioactive hotspots were not found through routine tests, but only because some residents walked around with geiger counters:

Both Setagaya Ward and Yokohama discovered those concentrated spots after residents carrying their radiation measuring devices noticed such spots and reported it to local officials.

The Australian noted today:

Strontium 90, a highly dangerous radioactive isotope, has reportedly been found atop an apartment building in Yokohama, fuelling fears that fallout from the Fukushima disaster has affected the greater Tokyo area.

Yokohama, a city of 3.6 million people, effectively adjoins the Japanese capital, and sits about 250km from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. […]

And ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) reported yesterday:

Elevated levels of radioactive strontium, which can cause cancer, have been found 250 kilometres from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant.

The find in the city of Yokohama has heightened fears that radiation has spread further than the Japanese government has acknowledged.

As I’ve previously noted, Japanese government officials and high-level scientists have considered evacuating Tokyo. I hope and pray that these high readings are not the start of worse to come.

In related news, plutonium was found 28 miles from Fukushima and:

The latest discovery is a potentially disturbing turn, as it shows that people relatively far from the plant could be exposed to more dangerous elements than had been previously disclosed.

The Japanese government’s response? To stop testing for plutonium, and to tell people they shouldn’t use geiger counters to test for themselves.

The Japanese government has been caught blatantly under-reporting radiation levels in general, and Japanese professors are starting to fear for Japan’s future.






 
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11 Responses to “Tokyo Hit With Fukushima Radiation”

  1. Yep, some one is trying to wipe out the Japanese. It’s that simple people.

    • perhaps it’s because the Yen is getting too strong ?

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  4. trillions and trillions of becquerels. 150 plus trillion per day cesium-147 and iodine-131. 3 types of plutonium found in all samples, 76 trillion becquerels, curium-242, 243 and 244, strontium-90 yokohama everywhere, americium-241..

  5. Received this news this Tuesday
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    Free tickets to Japan from the Japanese government

    from dannychoo.c o m – Your portal to Japan

    Announced today – the Japanese ministry of tourism is going to invite 10,000 foreigners to Japan – and pay for your travel.

    Applications will be done through the internets and folks will be invited during 2012. Applicants need to submit their travel plans for when they are in Japan and if the government thinks that you truly intend to visit (and not overstay as an illegal immigrant) then they will pay for your return ticket.

    The Japanese governments strategy for this plan is that they expect travelers to blog and use social media to spread the word about their experience in Japan which should hopefully lead to more folks visiting Japan.

    The amount of foreigners visiting Japan since the earthquake and nuclear accident has decreased a ton – some prefectures like Yamagata have experienced up to 80% drop in overseas visitors.

    The Japanese government is spending 11 billion yen on this project.
    I already work with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and I’m meeting the Japanese tourism board later this month at the Tokyo International Anime Festival later this month where I’m due to be giving a talk. I want them to choose you first – leave your travel plans for Japan below – where will you visit and where you plan to stay. Also when in 2012 would you like to come? if you have not done so already, put your country down in your profile settings too.

    Obviously I cant promise anything and all I can do is give a recommendation though but if you leave enough info then hopefully we can convince them together ^o^

  6. i’m finding out infowars and pp allow censor as bad as anyone does….or worse. if you read this, come back in a few minutes and it will have been erased. who know’s..I could be imagining every time I make a point about a certain….”noun” I come back later and it’s gone. Oh well, I better stop talking about their sacred cows.

  7. Well, the Japanese people shouldn’t care about their health, that is the government’s job. This thing has been blown way out of proportion, I mean people actually testing with their own geiger counters….give me a break. The Japanese government should just hire Ann Coulter to teach the people how wholesome radiation is.

  8. Because they know Tokyo is experiencing serious fallout and is now irradiated. They don’t want to cause a massive panic, Tokyo has around 36 million people living in it. They are most likely in the stages of planning to evacuate. They won’t give the order until they’re forced to. It isn’t only Tokyo that’s getting plastered, America is getting fallout also.

  9. Fukushima and Occam’s Razor have absolutely nothing on the smoking gun of “glass bottles in a cardboard box”. As the radiation levels rise over a wider area, will more glass bottles in cardboard boxes be found?

  10. Why do you supposed this is not on the main stream news anymore? it was a big deal when it happened! so why now do we not get updates???

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