•Former
Minister for Internal Affairs Haraguchi Kazuhiro has alleged that radiation
monitoring station data was actually three decimal places greater than the
numbers released to the public. If this is true, it constitutes a “national
crime”, in Nishio’s
words. He follows with, “Giving us the truth once is much more important than
saying ‘hang in there Japan!’ a million times.”
•Matthew
Penney Jul.
01, 2011. Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation http://japanfocus.org/events/view/100
More data:
Japan Times reported
on August 27 that Fukushima’s “Cesium Leak Equal to 168 '45 A-Bombs.”[i]
As of September 2011, the situation at Fukushima continues to worsen. Dr. Chris
Busby reported on the Russian television network RT on August 17 that air filters from Tokyo are showing levels of
Cesium-137 that are 1000 times higher than the levels of that radionuclide
found in the air at the peak of atmospheric atomic weapons testing in 1963.[ii]
Busby also stated that plant emissions were reported to the Japanese Prime
Minister by Tepco to be 10 to the 13 becquerels per hour.[iii] Likewise, during an interview with Dr. Helen Caldicott, broadcasted
online in September of 2011, Arnie Gunderson stated that he had been told that
Fukushima was currently emitting a gigabecquerel per day (gigabecquerel or GBq 109 Bq), in radiation,
which he described as over 2 billion decays per second a day.[iv] This
radiation is contaminating Japan and the entire northern hemisphere as it is
swept away by the Jet Stream. The latest data from Japan as of September 2011
has found 2,000 square kilometers to have radiation contamination levels at or
in excess of 1 microsievert per hour at a measured height of .5 o 1.0 meter,[v]
leading an annual external exposure rate of 8.76 millisieverts from soil
contamination alone.
[i] “Cesium Leak Equal to 168 '45 A-Bombs: NISA Compares Contamination to Hiroshima Blast,” Japan Times (2011, August 27): http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110827x3.html.
[ii] Dr. Christopher Busby interviewed by
Russia Today (RT) and uploaded to YouTube “Christopher
Busby: Chernobyl-like radiation found in Tokyo,” [RussiaToday] YouTube (uploaded 2011, August 17):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzDg4O9dkw.
[iii] Ibid
[iv] Helen Caldicott interviews Arnie
Gunderson: “Arnold Gundersen with a Fukushima update,” If You Love This Planet (2011, September): http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=4952.
[v] “Up to 1/7 of Fukushima May Be
Contaminated,” Mainichi (2011,
September 15): http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110915p2g00m0dm114000c.html.
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