Fukushima cesium contamination widespread but less than Chernobyl

[kristopher]

Source: Asahi Shimbun

An extensive area of more than 8,000 square kilometers has accumulated cesium 137 levels of 30,000 becquerels per square meter or more after the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Asahi Shimbun estimates.

The affected area is one-18th of about 145,000 square kilometers contaminated with cesium 137 levels of 37,000 becquerels per square meter or more following the 1986 Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union.

The contaminated area includes about 6,000 square kilometers in Fukushima Prefecture, or nearly half of the prefecture. Fukushima Prefecture, the third largest in Japan, covers 13,782 square kilometers.

...The Asahi Shimbun calculated the size of the contaminated area based on a distribution map of accumulated cesium 137 levels measured from aircraft, which was released by the science ministry on Sept. 8....



Read more: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201109130348.html

[defendandprotect]

1. Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000?

Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000?

Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the archipelago, deep into the ocean and around the globe---including the US. It will ultimately impact millions, including many here in North America.

The potentially thankful news is that Fukushima's three melting cores may have not have melted deep into the earth, thus barely avoiding an unimaginably worse apocalyptic reality.

But it's a horror that humankind has yet to fully comprehend.


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/13

[proverbialwisdom]

2. Look at these sites, also, for daily updates.

http://enenews.com/

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/

[chervilant]

3. hmph!

"...but less than Chernobyl"?!?!

Insanity--doing the same thing over, and over, and over, and over, expecting different results.

(The 'relocated' people of Fukushima are just as displaced, and just as vulnerable to radiation illnesses, as the people who used to reside near Chernobyl.)

[MahayanaLotus]

4. And if "they" told you

Wolverines make good house pets would you have one?

[closeupready]

5. Nuclear shills will seize upon this as support for misinformation, "Fukushima: A Success Story!"

You watch. They did it with 3-Mile Island, and they'll do it with this, too, telling us all that fewer people have been killed or harmed than COULD have been killed or harmed.