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Plutonium Detected, Japan on Maximum Alert … EYE Report
Wikipedia says that the worst nuclear accident to date was the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in 1986 in Ukraine.
The accident killed 56 people directly, and caused an estimated 4,000 additional cases of fatal cancer, as well as damaging approximately $7 billion of property.
Radioactive fallout from the accident was concentrated in areas of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
Approximately 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas soon after the incident. Recent estimations say that between 400,000 and 500,000 inhabitants (when including unborn children) near Kiev province had been exposed to a comparatively high dose of radiation, and there's a possibility of developing cancer, leukaemia and DNA malformation in the next 10 to 40 years.
But we are suppose to find comfort in the facts that Paul Scherrer Institute found in separate studies that during the period from 1970 to 1992, there were just 39 on-the-job deaths of nuclear power plant workers worldwide … while during the same time period, there were
6,400 on-the-job deaths of coal power plant workers
1,200 on-the-job deaths of natural gas power plant workers and members of the general public caused by natural gas power plants
and 4,000 deaths of members of the general public caused by hydroelectric power plants.
And find comfort in facts stating that coal power plants are estimated to have killed 24,000 Americans per year, due to lung disease as well as causing 40,000 heart attacks per year in the United States.
And that according to Scientific American, the average coal power plant emits more than 100 times as much radiation per year than a comparatively sized nuclear power plant in the form of toxic coal waste known as fly ash.
It seems we are suppose to find comfort in the fact that men, women and children are suffering and dieing because of greed associated with the negative elite … while clean and free energy technology such as the Tesla wireless electricity …. has been suppressed for years and years and years ….
Such a technology could have saved all those lives … to me I see this as nothing less than crime against humanity … murder to say the least …
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Photo : bbc.co.uk Article found HERE
Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor building.
Officials say the priority remains injecting water to cool the fuel rods.
Mr Kan told parliament the situation at the quake-hit plant “continues to be unpredictable”.
The government “will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert”, he said, adding that he was seeking advice on whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant.
Meanwhile National Strategy Minister Koichiro Gemba said the government could consider temporarily nationalising Tepco, the company running the plant.
On Monday shares in the company dropped to their lowest level in three decades.
‘Utmost efforts’
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, in another press briefing, described the situation at Fukushima as “very grave”.
“We are doing our utmost efforts to contain the damage,” Mr Edano said.
“We need to avoid the fuel rods from heating up and drying up. Continuing the cooling is unavoidable… We need to prioritise injecting water.”
But he said work to safely remove contaminated water was also a priority.
On Monday highly radioactive water was found for the first time outside one of the reactor buildings at Fukushima plant.
The leak in a tunnel linked to the No 2 reactor has raised fears of radioactive liquid seeping into the environment.
Plutonium – used in the fuel mix for one of the six reactors – has also been found in soil at the plant, but not at levels that threaten human health, officials say.
Correspondents say the government has been accused of indecision and delay in tackling the crisis.
Tepco, meanwhile, was criticised by the government after issuing incorrect radiation readings.
On Sunday it said radiation levels at reactor No 2 were 10 million times higher than normal, before correcting that figure to 100,000 – something the government called “absolutely unacceptable”.
It has also been accused of a lack of transparency and failing to provide information more promptly.
Regional fallout
Officials in China, South Korea and the United States say they have recorded traces of radioactive material in the air.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said it had detected traces of radiation in rain water in the north-east of the country.
It said these were consistent with the Fukushima nuclear accident and also said they did not constitute a health hazard.
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has said that “extremely low-level” doses of iodine-131, a radioactive material, have been found in coastal areas including Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong and Guangxi.
It had already reported traces of the radioactive material in the air above the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
However, the doses were so small as to not pose a threat to public health and no measures against it were necessary, the agency statement said.
Water and food is being tested for radiation; bans on some imported Japanese foodstuffs remain in place.
In Vietnam, the Thanh Nien newspaper has reported that Vietnamese scientists have found small amounts of radiation in the air.
The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety said it had detected traces of iodine-131 in Seoul and seven other places across South Korea.
However, an agriculture ministry official told AFP that “no trace of radiation has been found so far either in our own fish or those imported from Japan”.
