Land around Fukushima now radioactive dead zone;

Resembles target struck by atomic bomb 


(NaturalNews) It is nothing short of astonishing that the nuclear catastrophe we've all been told was "no big deal" has now escalated into the worst nuclear disaster in the history of human civilization. It's so bad now that soil samples taken fromoutsidethe 12-mile exclusion zone (the zone considered safe enough by the Japanese government for schoolchildren to attend school there) arehigherthan the 1.48 million becquerels a square meter limit that triggered evacuations outsideChernobylin 1986.

In other words, theradiationlevel of the soil12 miles fromFukushimais now higher than the levels consideredtoo dangerous to live innear Chernobyl. This is all coming out in a new research report authored by Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization ofJapan. That same report also reveals that radiation from Fukushima has spread over230 square miles.

What we're facing here, folks, is aFukushimadead zonewhere life will never return to its pre-Fukushima norms.

Radiation levels similar tonuclearbomb test site

Bloomberg is now reporting, "Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further." (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...)

Onesoilsample taking 25 kilometers away from Fukushima showedCesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter. This level, of course, makes it uninhabitable by humans, yet both the Japanese and U.S. governments continue to downplay the whole event, assuring theirsheeplethat there's nothing to worry about. By their logic, since all thepeopleare sheeple anyway, as long as the area issafeenough for sheep, it's also safe enough for the human population.

Both Japan and the U.S. have made huge efforts toraise the limits of allowed radiation exposurein foods and beverages. This was, of course, a deceitful tactic to try to reclassify radiation contamination as somehow magically being "safe" by redefining it.
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Fukushima Debacle Risks Chernobyl ‘Dead Zone’ as Radiation in Soil Soars

Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture. Source: Air Photo Service via Bloomberg

Residents who lived within a 20km area of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, hold flower bouquets to offer prayers for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Namie, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. Source: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images

Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded.

Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant measured more than 1.48 million becquerels a square meter, the standard used for evacuating residents 

Radiation from the plant has spread over 600 square kilometers (230 square miles), according to the report. The extent of contamination shows the government must move fast to avoid the same future for the area around Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant as Chernobyl, scientists said. Technology has improved since the 1980s, meaning soil can be decontaminated with chemicals or by planting crops to absorb radioactive materials, allowing residents to return.

“We need to finish this treatment as quickly as possible, within three years at most,” Tetsuo Iguchi, a specialist in isotope analysis and radiation detection at Nagoya University in central Japan, said in a telephone interview. “If we take longer, people will give up on returning to their homes.”

Soil Samples

Soil samples showed one site with radiation from Cesium-137exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter about 25 kilometers to the northwest of the Fukushima plant, according to Kawata’s study. Five more sites about 30 kilometers from Dai- Ichi showed radiation exceeding 1.48 million becquerels per square meter.

When asked to comment on the report today, Tokyo Electric spokesman Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.

Japan’s government introduced a mandatory exclusion zone 20 kilometers around the plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out power leading to three reactor meltdowns. Kawata’s study didn’t include samples from inside the exclusion zone, where only government and Tokyo Electric staff may enter.

The government in April ordered the evacuation of towns including Iitate, Katsurao and Namie that are outside the 20- kilometer zone after finding high levels of radiation.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/japan-risks-chernobyl-like-dead-zone-as-fukushima-soil-radiation-soars.html

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