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Japan Gives Residents All Clear To Return To Fukushima Disaster "Hot Zone"
As we reported last night, Japan's economy may once again be relapsing into a slowing phase, perversely well in advance of the dreaded sales-tax hike which many expect will catalyze Japan's collapse into another recession as happened the last time Japan had a tax hike, but that doesn't mean its population should be prevented from enjoying the heavily energized local atmosphere buzzing with the hope and promise of imminent paper-based "wealth effects" for those long the daily penNikkeistock rollercoaster.... and just as buzzing with copious gamma rays of course. Which is why for the first time in over three years, since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, residents of a small district 20 km from the wrecked plant are about to be allowed to return home. Because if the honest Japanese government says it is safe, then so it must be.
But how is this possible?
Just recall, as we reported in December citing SCMP, that the incidence of Thyroid cancers had surged among Fukushima youths. It took the government a few days of contemplation before spinning this deplorable revelation as one which blamed not the coverup surrounding the Fukushima fallout, but - get this - the fact that children were getting sick because they were not going out enough!
Mindboggling as it may be, this is precisely the kind of ridiculous propaganda one would expect from a flailing authoritarian regime, with a crashing economy, and a demographic collapse with no credible options left except to goose the manipulated market higher... The kind of propaganda that is now being used to give the "all clear" to move back to Fukushima!
From Reuters:
The Miyakoji area of Tamura, a northeastern city inland from the Fukushima nuclear station, has been off-limits for most residents since March 2011, when the government ordered evacuations after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple meltdown at the power plant. Tuesday's reopening of Miyakoji will mark a tiny step for Japan as it seeks to recover from the Fukushima disaster and a major milestone for the 357 registered residents of the district - most of whom the city hopes will go back.
Because children need to be outdoors, mingling with the high energy radiation, to avoid the dreaded consequences of being locked indoors of course. Still, not everyone is a complete idiot:
But homesick evacuees have mixed feelings about returning to Miyakoji, set amid rolling hills and rice paddies, a sign of how difficult the path back to normality will be for those forced from their homes by the accident. Many families with young children are torn over what to do, one city official acknowledged.
"Young people won't return," said Kitaro Saito, a man in his early 60s, who opposed lifting the ban and had no intention of going home yet.
"Relatives are arguing over what to do" and friends disagree, he said, warming his hands outside his temporary home among rows of other one-room trailers in a Tamura parking lot. "The town will be broken up."
Saito said he wanted to go back to his large hillside house in Miyakoji, but thinks the government is using residents as "guinea pigs" to test whether larger returns are possible.
Japan? A terminal Keynesian regime in its death throes? Experimenting with its population? Perish the though...
The 2011 crisis forced more than 160,000 people from towns near the Fukushima plant to evacuate. Around a third of them are still living in temporary housing scattered over Fukushima prefecture, their lives on hold as they wait for Japan to complete decontamination work.
Japan's $30 billion cleanup of radioactive fallout around Fukushima is behind schedule and not expected to achieve the long-term radiation reduction goal - 1 millisievert per year - set by the previous administration.
What next: cash-strapped Ukraine makes Chernobyl's Pripyat a global tourism hub? So just why again are people coming back to what is a nuclear disaster zone? Oh who cares. Let's just go with the propaganda.
Across Fukushima prefecture, hundreds of workers are still scraping the top soil off of the ground, cutting leaves and branches off trees and hosing down houses with water to lower radiation levels.
Radiation levels in selected monitoring spots in Miyakoji ranged from 0.11 microsieverts to 0.48 microsieverts per hour, according to Tamura city's February results. This was higher than the average 0.034 microsieverts per hour measured in central Tokyo on Monday, but comparable to background radiation of about 0.2 microsieverts per hour in Denver. A commercial flight between Tokyo and New York exposes passengers to about 10 microsieverts per hour.
Populations exposed to radiation typically have a greater chance of contracting cancers of all kinds after receiving doses above 100 millisieverts (100,000 microsieverts), according to the World Health Organisation.
Because we all know TEPCO would never misreport the radiation surrounding Fukushima. Oh wait: "From April to September of 2013 TEPCO admits that levels of radiation measured from water samples around the destroyed Fukushima nuclear reactor were "significantly undercounted." But that was all, TEPCO swears - this time will be different. And it is certainly "counting" radiation correctly now, when it has given people the all clear to go back to the disaster zone.
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Let's see Tepco and the Japanese government set up offices there and hold multi-day overnight board meetings there...
the good news is there is no longer a need for nite lites in your home
I wrote this in September 2010:
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/nuclear-revelation-a-bomb-ind...
Most of us could see it coming a mile away....
Article isn't available.
Well, somebody has to harvest that rice.
So turns out not playing outside enough can result in "sudden nosebleeds among the children"...
Disturbing...
Isn't it?
@ Silver is King: Article: http://namastepublishing.co.uk/global-implications-of-sellafield/
What could go wrong?.....
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=12...
Now let's see,
Cesium 137 has a half life of 37 years
Cesium 134 has a half life of 2 years
Strontium 90 has a half life of around 29 years
So, besides the radioactive iodine, only a very small percentage of total isotopes have decayed. This news is really mind blowing.
In true Japanese style, it is all swept under the rug.
And just like that, it's gone.
Much thanks for letting us older baby boomers who were little kids when the US was popping off an above ground nuke bomb test every week that out levels of radio-active Cessium and Strontium are now almost depleted.
So I guess we all better move to Fukishima for a recharge!
I bet the sushi glows really nice there too!
Keep on glowing!
Denver was built on old uranium mines, so why are we using it as a standard of comparison?
Well, you do have the enriched uranium that'll be hot for around 10 billion years, so that and the plutonium that'll be hot for well over 100,000 years will make sure nothing survives.
One microgram (one millionth) of plutonium will kill. Several thousand tons were exploded and burnt into the atmosphere.
200 years, tops.
Worked fine for me.
Actually it gets even tripppier.
Please check out this post, from 3/4/2011 and tell me it does nto portend a nuclear disaster on 3/11/2011
Am I reaching?
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/astrological-and-other-deep-i...
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Yeah, maybe. If you reach that hard to pat yourself on the back, you might strain yourself.
Ah, population thinning via radiation- brilliant way to jack up your per capita GDP- Abenomics, Part Deux- "Walk towards the light....."
Why stop there? Why not show the world how safe it is and host the upcoming Olympics in Fukushima.
Chernobyl any one?
Don't be such a Debbie Downer. Look at it as a place where you can get a liitle total body radiation treatment for your meastatic cancer. Just turning a bad situation into a positive.
The timeshare business will be booming because of the turnover.
Iodine pills - CHECK!
Lead-walled housing - CHECK!
Just glad to get out of LA
Lead-lined underwear. Check.
Cheap Real estate, BITCHEZ.
No.
Let us send OUR government there. The EU can meet in Pripyat, since they have this thing for the Ukraine anyhow.
<-- Fukushima Prefecture
<-- Detroit
<-- Jersey Shore
<-- Mogadishu
"What are four awesome summer vacation destinations?"
Nope; best hothouse tomatoes from best to worst.
And let their kids go outside and play in the yard.....yeah right...eat some dirt and worms...and you will glow....they must not have trial lawyers in Japan...no Love cannal here
Hopefully every Japanese citizen is smart enough to strap a radiation detector to their body.
Oh, that's genius.
"What does my radiation detector say?"
"It says you'll be dead in 3 hours!"
"Sweet!! May as well upsize this meal!"
enenews.com
Tour exciting Carlsbad Caverns. Sadly, the "lights out, pitch black" tour option is no longer available. One can still stay and eat at nearby Carlsbad, NM. Lovely this time of year.
Water ski Love Canal.
Climb Mt. St Helens.
Carlsbad Caverns is a most wonderous place.
I skoff at your association of the Caverns with Love Canal or the Mt St Helens tradegy.
The desert museum on the hill is a educational experience, also.
Presumably the education provided does not include a spelling course.
I had a wonderful time at the dessert museum. The interactive displays were both educational and delicious.
You must not be aware of the plutonium ejection at WIPP. I suggest a little study on this:
Enenews.
The whole area is contaminated with the worst nuclear waste existing, and the wind blows east.
"Honest Abe" takes on a whole new meaning in the 21st century.
So, the Eloy got the "All Clear".
How's about an "all clear" on west coast tuna and salmon.
And we know what heppened to them. A time traveler kicked their ass.
GovCo needs to do the right thing ... and ban high school science experiemnts
http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/982233/alberta-students-science-project...
http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/2014/03/25/local-science-project-finds...
http://vernonradiationsafety.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/high-school-studen...
Her next project involves nail guns.
Bastards.
Wait until Godzilla shows up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSrUHoc9LIE
I still like the original 1954 version with Raymond Burr. Everything else is hack meat.
Poor folks is about to get ate by wolves and crapped over a cliff.
Home sweet home
"Do not worry".
Well, that's the great thing about radiation - it's invisible, so it doesn't exist. And any rise in cancer rates or birth defects, etc... in the area afterward can be written off as bad statistics, correlation not causation, etc.... Wonderful thing for the government, not so shit-hot for anybody who returns there.
And the North American continent is downwind at 3,600 mph. Less than a week by ocean current.
So the Russians, even under the old communist regime, have been more responsible, and more respectful to their population than the Japanese.
Well, after the Revolution, the Communists did turn around and kill 50 million Russian Orthodox Christians.
Killing others by the millions is for capitalists. Killing your own by the millions is for communists. Something like that.
Excuse me, but isn't that reator #4 pool still full of fuel rods that could irradiate the whole northern hemisphere if not removed properly?
Ha! Abe wouldn't let that happen......to TEPCO
Or if another earthquake topples the already wrecked building they are still in.
The smarter ones say it all burned. All the pools, including the XXL Common Spent Fuel Pool, but #5 & #6 SPF. The whole biosphere is irradiated at this point, and increasing in strength for a billion years.
Even though nuclear physicists talk about 'half-life' decay, as one isotope decays, it decays into a new radioactive isotope, with it's own half-life. There could be thousands of isotopes created by the meltdown in Fukushima, no one knows. Nothing this size has ever occurred before, and it's all one giant science experiment, with no one able to get close enough to see what's really going on.
And - the big winner - all that shit gets hotter before it starts to cool down. Much, much hotter, for hundreds of thousands of years.
FUCK YOU, SHIMA!!!
BONZAI!
That's where Sheldon got the gold fish light, I want one.
Sounds like a great location for the next Bilderberg meet up.
Bring your fucking iodine pills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No need for Iodine pills, that dies in months. Cesium 137 is the shit.
godzirra
Mission Accomplished?
They should move ALL GOVERNMENT & TEPCO offices there.
It's okay they're growing the Monsanto fallout resistant rice. The ionizing particles actually make the rice more tasty and nutritious.
So THAT'S how they grow fried rice!
So how many tanks of radioactive water are perched on hillsides in the area? How much of a shaking would it take to create a radioactive gully-washer? What do want to bet that there are zero diversion ditches in those tank farms?
The IAEA has already said they want all those tanks dumped into the ocean. That's where it's all going to go, it's just how soon.
All the construction is for show, and even that will slow down, as they are running out of people to work there. And once Dai'ichi is uninhabitable, the next one to go up is Daini. The nuclear armeggedon dominos have started collapsing.
..., to happily die some time after … :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wFfkZ9qDE
...AAANNNND, it's GONE!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-radioactive-cancer-causing-hot-particles-spread-all-over-japan-and-north-americas-west-coast/5376695 Fukushima: Radioactive Cancer Causing “Hot Particles” Spread all Over Japan and North America’s West Coast
More: http://fairewinds.org/whats-leaking-nuclear-waste-isolation-pilot-program/ Carlsbad, New Mexico