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[Column] Wisdom to realize our own ignorance
Fukushima accident is full of something unknown. What to do, how it is going to be settled, what is going on, and what really happened in the first week.
NHK reported the unusual increase of the radiation level monitored at 12km south to Fukushima Daiichi on 3/16/2011. Because there was no explosion reported on that day, it suggests something explosive happened and concealed in the morning of 3/16/2011.
We don’t even know why reactor4 building is so crippled and what really caused the explosion.
Last Autumn, unusual amount of radioactive lead was measured from the soil of Yokohama, where is 250km from Fukushima plant. This was almost not reported after Chernobyl.
Also, the highly radioactive bacteria called “black substance” was not seen in Chernobyl. One of the acquaintances of mine got a beta burn on his hand by touching it, but obviously it causes the same burn in your lungs when you breathe it in. It is not known if it contains plutonium or for how long it remains on the ground.
After Chernobyl, it is told that thyroid problems started appearing 4 years after the accident but they already figured out 43.7 % of the Fukushima children have thyroid nodules or cysts, and 2 of them got thyroid cancer, which is as double as before 311.
Because nobody has ever gone through the accident, it’s full of the new things we have never encountered.
Strange symptoms are reported around in Tokyo. Series of musicians and famous people got sudden deafness, celebrities are dying of cardiac insufficiency or pneumonia. Mycoplasma pneumonia is reported the most in the last 10 years and flu is also spreading even during the summer. Children are having nosebleed and they are having food poisoning like symptoms after school lunch, which contains contaminated food. They reported bears died of diarrhea and bloody feces in Akita prefecture too.
They deny all the possible connections between these things and radiation. The reason is because the current radiation level is too low to cause serious symptoms.
However, we don’t fully understand the causal relationship between the symptoms and radiation either.
Firstly, the conversion rate called effective dose from Bq/Kg to μSv/h is not studied enough.
The government impose the safety limit of “1mSv/y” on people. Bq/kg represents the radioactivity, and Sv represents how much you are affected by it. They evaluate the damage to organs caused by the radioactivity but the converting formula is made by ICRP, which is known to be corrupted by nuclear industry. No matter how much Bq you take, the effect can be extremely underestimated.
This “conversion rate” must be the most controversial point but very few people talk about it for some reason and they keep analyzing the Bq/Kg of food. However, while the conversion rate is manipulated, no matter how much data they submit to the government, it would not change anything.
Secondly, they only analyze cesium-134 and 137. Fishery products must be more contaminated by strontium and Ag-110m, but it’s really rare for them to analyze them and publish the data.
When it comes to plutonium, it’s almost nobody to analyze and I haven’t seen anyone analyzing tritium (H3O) from tap water or rain water though these nuclides are more serious than Cs-134/137.
Lastly, it’s not only radioactive particles blasted from Fukushima plants. Particles of heavy metal, mercury, hydrazine, and other materials that must have been blown from Fukushima plant have never been analyzed. Heavy metal can also cause allergic reactions and it can be very serious.
We are not fully understanding what really came from Fukushima and what is still coming.
After 311, tones of amateur physicists came out and they hold lectures for money. People want someone to follow, so these radiation gurus are always in demand. They teach people how to remove radiation from food, what is the remedy, how much people can resist radiation.
However, the reality is they haven’t checked if they stay still healthy in 30 or 40 years. Time machine is not invented yet.
These gurus in bubble should be aware that they don’t know the entire things about the effect of nuclear accident as well as the people who deny all the connection between radioactive contamination and the symptoms seen frequently recently.
We should be wise to realize our own ignorance.
Iori Mochizuki
2012-11-20 15:45:16
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