Tokyo Hit With Fukushima
Radiation
Japanese Nuclear Meltdown
EMF Radiation Protection
Magnetic Field Meters
October
14, 2011
CNN reports today
An
extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one
spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday,
prompting the local government to cordon off the small area,
local officials said.
Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward than
in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant,
according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.
“We are
shocked to see such high radiation level was detected in our
neighborhood. We cannot leave it as is,” Hosaka told
reporters.
But the
tsunami-struck Fukushima plant may not be the source of the
radiation, Hosaka said later on state television.
Officials
searching for the cause found “glass bottles in a cardboard
box” in the basement of a house in the neighborhood which
sent radiation detectors off the charts, he said on NHK.
“We suspect
these bottles in basement could be the cause of the high
radiation reading and we are hastily working to confirm it,”
he said.
Radiation
experts are now checking what contaminated the bottles, a
Setagaya ward official told CNN, declining to be named in
line with policy.
Perhaps it
is just some random contaminated bottles.
But as the
Wall Street Journal reported yesterday:
Japanese
researchers discovered high levels of radioactive material
in concentrated areas in Tokyo and Yokohama, more than 241
kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as
increasingly thorough tests provide a clearer picture of
just how far contamination has spread and accumulated ….
In Tokyo, a
sidewalk in Setagaya ward, in the western part of the city,
recorded radiation levels of 2.707 microsieverts per hour,
about 50 times higher than another location in Setagaya
where the ward regularly monitors radiation levels….
In Yokohama,
the local government said last month that it detected 40,200
becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of sediments
collected from one part of a roadside ditch….
Yokohama is
investigating another spot on an apartment rooftop where
tests conducted by a local private research institute
detected more than 60,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium
per a kilogram of sediments.
The Journal
also notes that these radioactive hotspots were not found
through routine tests, but only because some residents
walked around with geiger counters:
Both
Setagaya Ward and Yokohama discovered those concentrated
spots after residents carrying their radiation measuring
devices noticed such spots and reported it to local
officials.
The
Australian noted today:
Strontium
90, a highly dangerous radioactive isotope, has reportedly
been found atop an apartment building in Yokohama, fuelling
fears that fallout from the Fukushima disaster has affected
the greater
Tokyo area.
Yokohama, a
city of 3.6 million people, effectively adjoins
the Japanese capital,
and sits about 250km from the stricken Fukushima nuclear
plant. [...]
And ABC News
(Australian Broadcasting Corporation) reported yesterday:
Elevated
levels of radioactive strontium, which can cause cancer,
have been found 250 kilometres from the stricken Fukushima
nuclear plant.
The find in
the city of Yokohama has
heightened fears that radiation has spread further than the
Japanese government has acknowledged.
As I’ve
previously noted, Japanese
government officials and high-level scientists have
considered evacuating Tokyo. I hope and pray that
these high readings are not the start of worse to come.
In related
news, plutonium
was found 28 miles from Fukushima and:
The latest
discovery is a potentially disturbing turn, as it shows that
people relatively far from the plant could be exposed to
more dangerous elements than had been previously disclosed.
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