Japan mother may be jailed for “tweet critical of nuclear lobbyist”

[DeSwiss]

Fukushima police travel 1,000 miles to interrogate her, examine computer — Officer: We only go outside prefecture for “potentially dangerous criminal” — “May be held without bail… without right to see lawyer”

VICE, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky, May 11, 2014: Mari Takenouchi [...] wrote a tweet critical of a nuclear lobbyist. Takenouchi may go to jail [...] Prosecutors confirmed they will be flying to Okinawa [...] to question her on May 13.

Police have already traveled from Fukushima to Okinawa to interrogate her [...] [She] fled her hometown of Tokyo with her infant son days after the disaster, hoping to avoid fallout from Fukushima. [...] Takenouchi said police came to her apartment in Okinawa and examined her computer.

[...] The prosecutor’s office will decide by July whether to indict [...] she may be held without bail [...] without a right to see a lawyer or have one present during questioning.

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- So a word to the wise: ''If you're traveling to Japan leave your ''FREE SPEECH RIGHTS'' at home. You can't use them there under penalty of imprisonment.

''U.S. experts continue to support Japan’s ongoing efforts to deal with the challenges associated with Fukushima.'' ~President Barack Obama, March 9, 2012

[Mnemosyne]

1. K&R for more visibility. nt

[DeSwiss]

3. Gratias.

[Mnemosyne]

8. very welcome, important nt

[FBaggins]

2. An interesting twist of title

More accurate to say that a fringe activist left the bounds of reasonable debate to accuse another woman of being one of two "criminals of the century" for running "human experiments".

I think she's Chris Busby's translator in Japan... so of course we can expect a little nuttiness (and of course... videos).

[Octafish]

4. Nuclear Power. Must. Be. Protected.

From democracy.

[DeSwiss]

5. Nuclear Power. Is. Protected.

By arrogant idiots.

[Octafish]

6. Twoo. Twoo.

The police probably already know there's more radiation spewing from a banana than from three melted-through primary and their exploded secondary containment vessels, one of which was running MOX fuel before melting down. Other than that, all is well.

[RobertEarl]

7. The only non-coverup are those destroyed buildings

Everything else about Fukushima is having concrete and excrement poured on it. But the exploded shells of containment are free as a bird! Of course those cores are too hot to have anything but free-flowing water poured on them. So that is a good excuse, I guess, for not putting a cover up.

They do have a good excuse for covering up all the Truth. Their billion$ are at stake.

[Octafish]

9. So very, very twoo.

Plutonium got spread worldwide.


Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2012 Dec;114 1-80. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2011.12.004. Epub 2011 Dec 27.

Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: measurement and modelling approaches.

Lujanienė G1, Byčenkienė S, Povinec PP, Gera M.

Abstract
Analyses of (131)I, (137)Cs and (134)Cs in airborne aerosols were carried out in daily samples in Vilnius, Lithuania after the Fukushima accident during the period of March-April, 2011. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs ranged from 12 μBq/m(3) and 1.4 μBq/m(3) to 3700 μBq/m(3) and 1040 μBq/m(3), respectively. The activity concentration of (239,240)Pu in one aerosol sample collected from 23 March to 15 April, 2011 was found to be 44.5 nBq/m(3). The two maxima found in radionuclide concentrations were related to complicated long-range air mass transport from Japan across the Pacific, the North America and the Atlantic Ocean to Central Europe as indicated by modelling. HYSPLIT backward trajectories and meteorological data were applied for interpretation of activity variations of measured radionuclides observed at the site of investigation. (7)Be and (212)Pb activity concentrations and their ratios were used as tracers of vertical transport of air masses. Fukushima data were compared with the data obtained during the Chernobyl accident and in the post Chernobyl period. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs were found to be by 4 orders of magnitude lower as compared to the Chernobyl accident. The activity ratio of (134)Cs/(137)Cs was around 1 with small variations only. The activity ratio of (238)Pu/(239,240)Pu in the aerosol sample was 1.2, indicating a presence of the spent fuel of different origin than that of the Chernobyl accident.

Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206700