Up to 1,000 Bodies Left Untouched Near Troubled Nuke Plant

[tekisui]

Source: Kyodo News

Radiation fears have prevented authorities from collecting as many as 1,000 bodies of victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami from within the 20-kilometer-radius evacuation zone around the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, police sources said Thursday.

One of the sources said bodies had been ''exposed to high levels of radiation after death.'' The view was supported by the detection Sunday of elevated levels of radiation on a body found in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, about 5 km from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

The authorities are now considering how to collect the bodies, given fears that police officers, doctors and bereaved families may be exposed to radiation in retrieving the radiation-exposed bodies or at morgues, according to the sources.

They initially planned to inspect the bodies after transporting them outside the evacuation zone, but the plan is being reconsidered due to the concerns over exposure.

more: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/82200.html

[Poll_Blind]

1. Those bodies will be food for the birds and they will fly all over Japan and...

...depending on the species, much, much farther away. The food chain is diverse and, unfortunately, corpses of any animal work their way into the bottom of it and then eventually it works its way back up to man, poisoning everything inbetween.

PB

[gimama]

2. nightmare just gets worse

Few years ago, I watched a documentary called "After the A-bomb",incredible footage of the devestation in Nagasaki & Hiroshima..I was amazed, that within 3 days, the Survivors had so organized themSelves, they created HUGE tent hospitals, kitchens, sleeping shelterts..I watched this months after Katrina, & was so angry at America's lack of recovery in NOLA & other affected Coastal areas. Anyway, I need to watch it again, to compare this current manmade nightmare/aftermath with that nightmare.

I'll try to post a link to the doc, if I have a chance.

On another note, Dr. Masaru Emoto (What the Bleep do We Know, etc.)
has asked that People Worldwide say a "Water prayer" Blessing today, noon local time..

"Water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant,
We are sorry to make You suffer.
Please forgive us.
We thank You, and we love You."

Please share.

[Dash87]

3. That's the difference between the Japanese and Americans

The Japanese have always had a sense of community and know how to band together. Americans, on the other hand, hate each other and worship material goods and money. Notice - no looting in Japan. If such an event happened in America, on the other hand, they would still be fighting in the cities because of looters and gangs of thugs running around robbing everybody and shooting at the rescue crews. The Japanese are well rounded (except for some cultural problems), while Americans can get insane and would never cooperate on the level that the Japanese did during a natural disaster (or be even close - they would panic, steal TVs, loot, rape, and kill - even the people trying to rescue their families often).

This goes from communities all the way up into the government. That's why the government screwed up Katrina so bad - they just didn't care. It was the "I have mine, so FU" mentality. If there was oil in New Orleans, on the other hand, it would have been cleaned up in the first month. The only set of morals America has is money. If there's money in it, America will go right away. However, since the hard-hit areas by Katrina were poor, the government didn't care because the only thing they care about is money. Japan on the otherhand... Exact opposite. That's why Japan is doing so well.

[deaniac21]

5. My father spoke often of the Japanese spirit of community.

Starting April 9, 1942 he was part of an absolutely amazing prisoner relocation at Bataan. Until his death in 2005, he spoke of it often.

[Snoutport]

4. High levels? But the pronukes say it is all perfectly safe!

Be ready for a bunch of insults about being wrong and scare mongering. I got lambasted for even daring to speculate that radiation isn't good for you.