As well, during refueling, the pressure vessels must be opened releasing huge volumes of radioactive gases – Studies have shown that children who live within 50 kms of a reactor have a higher incidence of leukemia. Women who live within 100 miles of a nuclear plant have a higher risk of dying of breast cancer.
If you choose to live close to a nuclear power plant, it is important to know how to quickly find out which direction the winds are blowing at any time so that if there is a serious event, you can find out easily and, if you choose to leave your home and evacuate, you will not be driving into the radioactive plume.
One of the good sites for weather and wind direction is:
天候と風向きを知るのに良いサイトの1つがこれです。
Click picture to open the website. Select continent, country and province and date/time of forecast that you want to see. If you click the red spot then you can see further weather and wind forecast for that area.
Wind direction is reported by the direction from which it originates. So if you read or hear that the wind is SE, and you are in Vancouver, you can be sure that the wind is coming up from the South East corner of WashingtonState i.e. coming from the Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant.
There is a chance that it will be a storm and an electricity black out that will cause the problem at the nuclear power plant, so be sure to buy a hand-crank emergency radio and learn which channel will give you weather and wind directions on a regular basis. In Vancouver, the Weather Band 2 on your emergency radio has wind directions on channel 162.42
If you choose to live close to a nuclear power reactor,the following are things you have to think about:
Be sure you:
もし、原発近くに住むことを選ぶのであれば、真剣に以下のことを確認してください。
-know where the local evacuation centre is.
避難所の場所を知っているか。
-know the local traffic patterns and figure out ahead of time how you would get out of the area if everyone in your community got on the roads to evacuate at the same time.
-find out if your community has a concrete and feasible evacuation plan established.
地元社会で、確実に実行可能な避難計画が構築されているか確かめましょう。
Click picture to see the website. (The picture in case of Hanford) These radioactive plumes from severe nuclear accidents were calculated by NRDC based on the actual weather patterns of March 11-12, 2011. The result on any given day will vary according to the type of reactor accident and on the prevailing weather patterns at the time. 写真をクリックすると、ウェブサイトを開きます。（この写真はハンフォードの場合）これらの汚染予測は、2011年3月11日の実際の天候を元にＮＲＤＣが重大事故の場合の放射性プルームを計算したものです。結果はその日、その時の事故のタイプ、天候により異なります。 (1rad =0.01 Gy/Sv=100mSv）
-find out what kind of compensation is planned for if a major accident will force you away from your home permanently.
Remember, you have to keep yourself informed daily as to what is happening – in an emergency there is a good chance you will not be informed quickly enough to help you evacuate properly. Know that you have only yourself to count on.
Accept now, that if you live near a nuclear power plant and there is a serious event, you will lose your land, your home, possibly your animals and all the money that you have tied up in your property.
So, THINK about where you live now and decide if it’s the best place to be. This thought process has to be carried out before any disaster occurs and while you have the luxury of time to make an informed decision.
Warren Buffett, the legendary investor and one of the wealthiest men inthe world, has attributed his success to“intellectual persistence, prudent thinking and the ability to see and act on warning signs.” ウォーレン・バフェット氏は、伝説的な投資家で、世界で一番裕福な者の１人ですが、彼の成功は、「執拗な知識の追求、賢明な思考、そして、警告の兆し見つけ、行動する能力」に帰していました。
Following mainstream news or the vast majority of the crowd will not get you out of the next disaster in good shape. 主流のニュースや膨大な群集の大多数を追う事では、次の災害から、自分を良い状況に持っていく事は出来ないでしょう。
We need to accept that no one else is going to tell us what to do.We all need to think about everything we read in "Keep Yourself Informed" and think for ourselves. 私たちは、何をすればよいのかを他の誰も教えてくれないということを受止める必要があります。私たちは皆、「Ｋｅｅｐ Ｙｏｕｒｓｅｌｆ Ｉｎｆｏｒｍｅｄ」からの読んだ情報を全て考え、自分たち自信のために考察する必要があります。
We need to decide for ourselves what it all means. それら全てが何を意味するのか、自分たち自身で決断する必要があります。
We have to find the truth in the overwhelming information out there. 世に溢れている圧倒的な情報の中から、真実を見出さなければならないのです。
For example, when you hear that the government says there is "no immediate threat to health" then you have at least one warning sign. That kind of reassurance from a government that is controlled by the nuclear industry, sells nuclear materials and stands to lose money if the nuclear industry ends, is an empty reassurance. Unless there is a very high level of radiation causing immediate death, then of course there is no immediate threat to health. But there is definitely a longer term threat. The fact that they don’t tell this to the public means they are covering something up and are not warning you. And that is because they have something to lose if the public starts to believe nuclear power is not safe. 例えば、政府が「健康に直ちの影響を及ぼす恐れはない。」と言うのを聞いたとき、少なくとも１つの警告の兆しがあります。原子力業界にコントロールされ、核物質を輸出し、原子力業界が終わってしまったら富を失なってしまうような政府からのこの種の安心させようとする言葉は、全く中身のないものです。非常に高いレベルの放射能が直ちの死をもたらす他は、もちろん健康に直ちの恐れはありません。しかし、確かに長期にわたる（健康被害への）恐れがあるのです。このことを公言しないという事実が、何かを隠し、警告をしていない、ということを意味します。そしてそれは、もし、人々が原子力が安全でないと考え始めてしまったら、彼らが失うものがあるからなのです。
Here is a typical example still happening in Japan.
Press conference by Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano
Power plant went out of control, and fuel rods were exposed. One worker died and two missing.
"There is No immediate problem."
No. 1 reactor exploded. 4 workers got injured.
"There is No immediate problem."
No. 3 reactor exploded. 11 workers and evacuees were exposed to radiation.
"There is No immediate problem."
No. 2 exploded! No.4 also exploded!
"There is No immediate problem."
PM Kan sent a helicopter to dump water, but they totally missed the target.
"There is No immediate problem."
A squad brought a high pressure water tank truck, but gave up and returned right away.
"There is No immediate problem."
The Defense Force sprayed water but the water did not go in.
"There is No immediate problem.
Radioactive materials were detected in vegetable and milk in Fukushima.
"There is No immediate health risk."
Higher level of radioactive Iodine than allowable limit for infant was detected in drinking water in Tokyo.
"There is No immediate health risk."
I131 and Cs were detected in Yamagata, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama prefectures, and I131 was detected in Iwate, Akita,Fukushima, Chiba, Kanagawa, Niigata, Yamanashi prefectures.
"There is No immediate problem."
Radioactive materials were detected in vegetables from Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi prefectures!
"There is No immediate health risk."
Three TEPCO contract workers were exposed to high level of radiation, and two of them who’s feet were soaked in radioactive water were brought to National Institute of Radiological Sciences.
"There is No immediate problem."
1250 times higher radioactive Iodine was detected in sea water from Fukushima!
"There is No immediate problem."
It will always be safer to rely on information given out by someone who has nothing to gain from his/her statement. I would believe Arnie Gunderson of Fairewinds and Associates, Dr.Helen Caldicott Hiroaki Koide or Dr. Shuntaro Hida over something a government agency said. 発言することから何も得るもののない人からの情報に頼るのが、常に安全です。政府機関が言ったことに対しては、アーニー･ガンダーセン、ヘレン・カルディコット博士、小出裕章助教、肥田舜太郎医師などの言葉が信じられるでしょう。
As you study the nuclear news and learn who is who, you will find who stands to benefit from statements and who has nothing to gain. That will help you in your decisions. 核関連のニュースを読み、誰が誰なのかを学ぶうちに、誰が、その発言から利益を得るのか、誰が何も得るものがないのかが分かるでしょう。それが、あなたが判断する助けになるでしょう。
Studying the history of all the nuclear disasters in the world will also tell you a great deal and let you understand any new catastrophe with the perspective of what happened and how people were affected– both in the short term and in the long term. Reading about how governments dealt with previous disasters will clarify that they are continuing in the same manner with a new catastrophe. 世界中の原子力災害全ての歴史を学ぶこともまた、あなたに多くのことを語り、新しいどのような惨事が起こっても、何が起きて、人々がどのような影響を受けるのかという、短期的、長期的両方の見通しが理解できるようになるでしょう。過去の災害に対して、政府がどのように扱ったかを読むことで、新しい惨事についても同じような方法を続けているかどうかを見定めることができます。
A couple of links to help you study past disasters, give some perspective, and provide a jumping off point for further research: ここに、過去の原子力災害を知り、見通しを立て、更なるリサーチに直結できるリンクを２つ紹介します。
When, with continuous reading and information gathering, the warning signs are loud and clear to us, only then we will be able to decide what actions to take. 常に読み、情報収集することで、私たちにとって、その警告の兆しは大きく明らかになり、自分がどのような行動に出ればよいのかを決断することができるのです。
Pacific Nuclear Awareness Group (Japanese translation is done by a Vancouver Food Raditaion Monitoring Volunteer)
Step 2 Keep yourself informed and “watch like a hawk”
ステップ２常に情報を収集し、鷹のように目を凝らしましょう
You need to have your news sources set up and be in the habit of checking them daily. Arnold Gunderson says he tells his friends on the west coast to “watch Unit #4 at Fukushima Daiichi like a hawk” – because if Unit #4 collapses we may not be able to stay in North America.
As the fallout from a meltdown at CGS would be even worse than Fukushima, and we are much much closer, you need to stay on top of the news at the Hanford Reservation as well. If you hear there has been a major earthquake, first check your sources to find out if CGS has been affected.
The Personal Lessons I Learned from Fukushima that helped me come up with:
福島から学んだ教訓から分かったこと
It was March 2011 when the triple meltdowns and explosions occurred at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. This catastrophe has not been brought under control. Incredible amounts of radioactivity continue to be released into the atmosphere and oceans from the reactors. This radiation gets into the jet stream and ocean currents and comes directly over to us in North America.
Many articles have been written about the “Lessons Learned from Fukushima”.These are all about the lessons the nuclear industry, the nuclear power plants, the nuclear regulators etc. learned by studying what went wrong at Fukushima.
These reports and articles all provide valuable information. However, it has occurred to me that there are also many lessons that I, an ordinary citizen of Canada, have learned from following what has transpired as the disaster has continued to unfold and get worse.
Initially I spent hours of time writing to all levels of government asking them the many questions that arose:
当初私はあらゆるレベルの政府機関に湧き上がってきた多くの疑問を問うために何時間も費やしました。
¨“have we been contaminated with radioactive fallout?”
「私たちは放射性降下物で汚染されていないのか？」
¨“are you checking our air, food and water for radioactivity?”
「政府は空気、食物、水の放射性物質をチェックしているのか？」
¨“what foods are safe to eat?”
「どの食物が食べても安全なのか？」
¨“could you please help to evacuate the children in Japan who are living in highly radioactive areas”?
「放射線の高い地域に住む日本の子どもたちを避難させる手助けをし てくれないか？」
¨“could you please work with the international community to help shutdown this ongoing disaster?”
「この進行中の災害を収めるために国際社会と共に働いてはくれないか？」
¨“could you launch an international effort to take the fuel rods out of the Fukushima reactor Unit #4 that poses the gravest threat to all of Japan and the 4 billion people who live in the Northern Hemisphere?”
Any answers I got back were simply attempts to reassure me that all was well and therefore they wouldn’t even try to monitor our food or water.They said it “wasn’t necessary” – but how could they know if they didn’t’ test?! Why aren’t they concerned that the greatest threat to the survival of humanity is not being adequately dealt with by the Japanese government?
It bears repeating - the Fukushima nuclear power plant (NPP) has not been brought under control and the fallout continues to contaminate the oceans and atmosphere on a daily basis. At this writing(Sept 2012), the atmospheric releases are estimated at 10 million becquerrels per HOUR. 繰り返し言う必要があります。福島原発は収まってなどいず、降下物は、海を、大気を毎日汚染し続けています。これを書いている今（２０１２年９月）、大気への放出は１時間当たり１千万ベクレルと見積もられています。
The situation is getting worse.Radioactivity at the Fukushima NPP is higher now than it was even two months ago. Radioactive fallout is bioaccumulating.Although TEPCO, the company that runs the nuclear plant, have removed “test’ fuel rods, they will not even attempt to remove all the 1532 fuel rods from Unit #4 until December 2013.
As if that were not concern enough, we, in Vancouver, B.C., live just 260 miles downwind of the Columbia Generating Station Nuclear Power Plant (CGS) at HanfordWashington. That is the same type of aging boiling water reactor that failed three times at Fukushima. The CGS is also on an earthquake fault. If the 1836 fuel assemblies at Hanford were exposed to the air (as would happen in an earthquake that would cause the cooling water to drain from the pool), then the radioactive contamination that would fallout would exceed the amount released at Fukushima.
There is absolutely no question that WE ARE IN THE NUCLEAR HOTSEAT. If Unit #4 loses it’s ability to cool the fuel pool, or if we get a big earthquake that could cause our local reactor at Hanford to meltdown, we will all need to be prepared.There will not be time to get everything you need in place once either of those events happen.
Step 1. STUDY the following information you need to know and accept. These facts will not change.Accepting the facts and moving to step 2 will save you a lot of time and could save your life.
a.Your government will not warn you. In fact the government will even downplay the situation.The Japanese government did not tell the Japanese people for three months that there had been a triple meltdown at Fukushima. Eventually news was leaked that the British government worked closely with the nuclear industry after Fukushima to devise a plan to “show the safety of nuclear”!
The official line of the Canadian Government was that there was nothing to be concerned about. And while we’re on it, have you ever heard of Rocketdyne or Chelyabinsk? – these were huge nuclear accidents and contaminations that are to this day affecting the health of many people – but the cover-ups are near perfection.
and you will see the city where 700,000 people still live in a highly contaminated place and many of their children are sick. In all, 6 million people continue to live in contaminated environments due to the catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986.
Over 32 million people still live in Tokyo where the official governmentline is thatlevels of radiation are low – but many studies show that Tokyo is now highly contaminated.
The sad fact is that the people of Fukushima, Belarus, Chernobyl, Chelyabinsk and Rocky Flats, who relied on their governments to warn them, are being poisoned on a daily basis by the radioactivity in their areas.
b.Your government will not test your air, food, soil or water for signs of contamination. They will not be testing for contamination because they will not have in place any regular system for testing food and water. They will not inform you if their air monitoring (Test Ban Treaty Organization) systems shows anything. Just check their website and you will see for yourself that they are not reporting to the public.
The fact is that it took 10 months after the Fukushima disaster before it was revealed that our government did not release data from a Calgary Health Canada monitoring station that showed levels of radioactive Iodine 131 in rainwater that was above the Canadian guideline for drinking water. This radioisotope also showed up in Winnipeg and Ottawa.(The American government was more transparent. When they found levels of Iodine 131contamination in Virginia that were lower than those found in Calgary, they issued a "don't-drink-rainwater" advisory.) 実際に、雨水に含まれる放射性ヨウ素１３１のレベルが、カナダの飲料水のガイドラインを越えたことを示していたカルガリー・ヘルスカナダのモニタリングステーションのデータを、カナダ政府が発表しなかったことが明らかになったのは、福島惨事の後、１０ヶ月経ってからのことでした。この放射性核種はまた、ウィニペグとオタワでも見られました。（アメリカ政府はまだ透明性がありました。バージニアでヨウ素１３１の汚染レベルを発見したとき－カルガリーより低いレベルでしたが－「雨水を飲まない」よう勧告を発したのです。）
The fallout from Fukiushima had to travel past Vancouver Island, Vancouver and southern B.C. before it reached Calgary.In Vancouver the rain water falls directly into our three open drinking water reservoirs. 福島からの降下物は、カルガリーに到達するまでに、バンクーバー島、バンクーバー、ＢＣ州南部を通過しました。バンクーバーでは雨水が３つの野外貯水場に直接降り注ぎました。
In May of 2011 Iodine 131 had been found in the rainwater on Burnaby mountain. In Sydney B.C. the government air monitoring systems detected radioactive Iodine 131 in the air 300 times above background – but did the government warn us? NO. ２０１１年３月にヨウ素１３１は、バーナビー･マウンテンの雨水で発見されました。ＢＣ州、シドニーで、政府の大気モニタリングシステムは、バックグランドの３００倍の放射性ヨウ素１３１を検出しました。政府は私たちに警告しましたか？いいえ、しませんでした。
This is why Rod Marining, co-founder of Greenpeace International, moved his family from the SunshineCoast up to the Cariboo where they could be supplied by in -ground well water. He said he remembers the water in Vancouver’s three watersheds being contaminated during the Chernobyl disaster. (Did anyone warn us then? No and they didn’t warn us this time.Without a doubt, they will not warn us next time. This is an important lesson to learn and accept) これが、グリーンピース・インターナショナルの共同創設者、ロッド・Marining氏が、彼の家族をサンシャインコーストからカリブーへ移動させた理由です。そこには地下水を汲める井戸があるのです。彼は、チェルノブイリ災害の間、バンクーバーの３つの分水嶺が汚染されたのを覚えている、と話しました。（その時、誰か私たちに警告しましたか？いいえ、このときも彼らは私たちに警告しませんでした。疑いもなく、次も警告はしないでしょう。このことが、学び、受け入れなければならない重要な教訓なのです。）
"In effect, Health Canada has not allowed Canadians to take any preventative steps to reduce our exposure to this radiation.”
It was probably also in the milk in B.C. at that time as well, but no one tested for it.
その時ＢＣ州のミルクにもおそらく含まれていたでしょうが、誰も検査しませんでした。
The fact is that in June 2012, Arnold Gunderson, a nuclear engineer with 40 years experience with the nuclear industrysaid that we, on the west coast of North America should have been taking Potassium Iodide pills after Fukushima!WHAT!!!! 1 ¼ YEARS after Fukushima – we hear this??No public health department in our city, province or country gave us any warning that we should have taken Potassium iodide tablets to protect our thyroid glands from developing cancer.??!!! 実際に、２０１２年６月に原子力業界で４０年の経験を持つ原子力技術者であるアーノルド・ガンダーセン氏は、私たち、北米の西海岸の人間が、福島の後、ヨウ化カリウム剤を飲むべきだったと言うのです。なんということでしょう！１年と１/４が経って、このことを耳にするのです？？私たちの市、州、あるいは国の衛生機関は甲状腺癌を防ぐためにヨウ化カリウム剤を飲むべきだと警告など一切しませんでした。
c.All levels of government(federal/provinclal/ municipal levels) will only respond to queries of concern with platitudes.
連邦政府、州、市の政府機関はどこも、ただ、決まり文句で懸念に対する問い合わせに答えるだけです。
d.Your mainstream media sources will not report it. How many articles have you seen in the mainstream media, telling you about the ongoing Fukushima problem.How many articles have you read about the contamination of our food supply?To get a good idea about why this is, listen to this interview on Nuclear Hotseat with Karl Grossman in which he explains why is it so impossible to bet the mainstream media to cover what is the most serious problem in the world.
f.Once found out, your government may apologize . It took 15 months after the disaster started before the Japanese government even discussed the possibility of giving an apology to their people that they didn’t report the radiation maps given to them by the US when the accident began. But does that apology in any way protect the people whom they did not inform about which direction the plume was going in – so that some people evacuated directly into the path of the radioactive plume?
g.Many people will not want to talk about it – the nuclear issue is more of a taboo than sex.
多くの人々はこのことについて話したくありません。核問題は、性についてよりもタブーなのです。
So if, there is another meltdown – at CGS at Hanford, at San Onofre in California, at any of the restarted nuclear reactors in Japan , at any of the 435 nuclear power plants in 30 countries of the world, or if Unit #4 at Fukushima collapses (resulting in a release of radiation 85 times worse than at Chernobyl) you need to be very clear that there will be no testing, no informed advice, no easily accessible news, no warnings and what information you do get may be false.
But know this for a fact- no matter where the event occurs, you will be affected.The jet stream is powerful and it transports radioactive fallout around the world in about 7 days.That fallout will continue to circle the globe as long as the catastrophe has not been contained. Fukushima has not been contained and continues to release radioactivity into the atmosphere on an hourly basis, day after day.
h. And there is an excellent chance that on top of the contamination you receive via jet stream and ocean, your area will continue to import foods from the affected area.Very shortly after Fukushima, Hilary Clinton signed a secret pact with the Japanese agreeing to continue to import Japanese food.And sure enough, you can now find radioactive Japanese food at your local food store. The Canadian and American governments are doing very little testing for radioactivity in imported food. All that radioactive fish is also used in fertilizers so it will be spread on farms and gardens and find its way into your food.
i. The radioactivity will spread everywhere. Even if you could convince human beings not to eat fish, David Suzuki’s book, The Legacy, details how everything on our planet is connected.Dr. Suzuki was not writing about radioactivity per se, but if you realize that the salmon he writes about is radioactive, then you can follow the spread of radioactivity as you read his amazing description:
“Through his work tracing nitrogen from the ocean in the soil of the rainforest, University of Victoria biologist Tom Reimchen has shown that salmon are the largest source of nitrogen fertilizer delivered to the forest.After two to five years in the ocean, depending on the species, salmon return to their birthplace rich in marine nitrogen, which can be distinguished from the terrestrial nitrogen.Eagles, wolves, and bears consume the salmon and then spread the marine nitrogen when they urinate and defecate throughout the forest.”
“Reimchen showed that a bear will take over six hundred salmon in a season, hiking up to 150 metres away from the river’s edge to eat in privacy.It eats about half the fish, leaving the rest of the carcass and going back to the river for another.The remains are eaten by ravens, salamanders, insects, and other creatures.Most of the salmon carcass is consumed by fly maggots, which grow to full larval size before dropping into the forest litter to overwinter.The following spring the marine-nitrogen-laden adult flies emerge from the pupal condition just in time to feed birds passing through from South America on their way to their Arctic nesting grounds.”
“It turns out that bears are a major vector for spreading marine nitrogen through a host of other animals and plants. Many of the spawned-out salmon die and sink to the bottom of rivers, where they are soon covered in a thick coat of fungi and bacteria, which in turn are consumed by insects and other invertebrates.When baby salmon emerge from the spawning gravel, the waters are filled with marine-nitrogen-rich food; so in dying, the parents prepare a feast for their off-spring.Salmon, forest, birds and bears, ocean, air and land, northern and southern hemispheres are all inter-connected through a web of interdependence.”
Add to that everyone who continues to eat Pacific fish or seaweed will excrete whatever radioactive isotopes that do not lodge in their bodies and that will go into waste water and recontaminate the oceans or wherever else it goes.
When it rains the fallout will come down into the open drinking water reservoirs and we will be drinking radioactive elements in our water.The radioactive water will go into our cooking, onto our gardens, into our crops and into our bodies.
j. These radioactive isotopes last for a long long time.You have to multiply the ½ lives of the radioisotopes by 10 to find out how long they will stay around.So Cesium lasts for 300 years.Plutonium 239 for over 243,000 years.Strontium 90 for 288 years.This radioactivity will not leave our planet in our lifetime.
k. Don’t expect to be told what you can eat and what you can’t.As the government is not testing, it is up to citizens and scientists to monitor food, air and water.Some especially good citizens (like Potrblog) and reporters , like Enviroreporter will publish their findings on the net. You can see their websites in “Keep Yourself Informed.”
l. Scientific studies take time to come out with the results. It took 15 months before it was reported that 100% of all the tuna caught off the California coast and tested in August 2011 (just 4 months after the accident) hadshowed increased levels of Cesium 137 that were 10 times higher than normal.Scientists did the study. They had no mandate to warn the public and they decided to wait until their paper was published rather than warn the public.So people, unaware, were eating radioactive tuna and other seafood for months and months before the information was made public. And still, to this day, our government has not put any public warning in the newspapers to warn us to not eat Pacific seafood. This is completely irresponsible on the part of the government.
California almonds and prunes have been found to have Cesium 134 and 137 in them – who found that out? An independent Japanese scientist who bought them in Japan after they had been imported from California! But did you read that in the mainstream media? You have to study your alternative sources daily to find out what’s new.
m. You also need to know that the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has determined that there is NO safe level of radiation . Rod Marining said, “Once you start dealing with radiation you’re going to see increasesin cancer, birth defects and it will attack your immune system.”
When a body ingests or inhales a radioactive particle, that particle releases damaging radiation inside the body over a long period of time.New findings indicate that ongoing low levels of radiation may be even more harmful than one large insult.
There are over 200 radioisotopes coming our way from Fukushima. A brief review of what just three of them can do shows that Strontium 90 lodges in the bone and causes bone cancer and leukemia.Cesium 137 goes to the brain, muscles and heart and wrecks havoc there. Iodine 131 accumulates in the thyroid gland and causes thyroid cancer.
A significant fact I learned was that a fetus is 1000 times more susceptible to the effects of radiation and a young girl is 7 times more susceptible than a 30 year old man.Women are more susceptible than men and girls twice as susceptible as boys.
After the one meltdown in Chernobyl in 1986 in all the areas affected, hundreds of scientific studies have proven that there was a significant increase in heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, diseases of the central nervous system, increase in stillbirth rates, increase in miscarriages, increase in infant deaths, increase in birth defects and a decrease in birth rates. That was from one meltdown brought under control after 18 days.Fukushima was three meltdowns and three hydrogen explosions and still not brought under control.
n. Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl.If the CGS Nuclear Power Plant at Hanford melts down, it will be worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima. You need to know what you are up against in order to be able to be properly prepared.
Remember: The Fukushima disaster is still going on with no end in sight.If Unit #4 collapses, the releases could be 85 times more than Chernobyl. No wonder many experts are saying that this is an issue of human survival.
覚書：福島の災害はまだ続いていて、終わりが見えません。もし４号機が崩壊すれば、チェルノブ
イリの８５倍の放出となります。人類生き残りの問題だと多くの専門家が言う所以です。
And Unit #4 at Fukushima could collapse in the next big earthquake that has been predicted to happen in the near future. This last year alone there have been over 9000 earthquakes in Japan.Did anyone tell you?
Experts have stated that an earthquake of magnitude 7, an explosion or even a storm could cause the building to crumble and the cooling system to be lost.
This would set off a fire in the Spent Fuel Pool that contains 460 tons of fuel.The radioactivity released would be so high that workers would not be able to get close to the other reactor units at the site and so the ongoing work of keeping those units cooled would end. The water in all the units would evaporate and the hot fuel rods in these units would also ignite. The 6291 fuel rods in the common pool on the ground would also be set on fire.
The type of fires that would be created could not be put out by water.The fires would just have to burn until all the stored nuclear fuel was burned up.
In all, the Fukushima Daiichi site holds 10,893 fuel assemblies. Those fuel assemblies hold a total of 3,488,000 lbs of radioactive nuclear fuel including highly toxic Uranium, Plutonium and Cesium 137.
The fires would cause an unprecedented amount of radiation to be released directly into the atmosphere – of the type never ever seen before in the history of mankind.
The nuclear fallout released would be at a level higher than the amount of radioactive Cesium 137 that was released in all the 700 atomic bomb tests ever conducted in the world in the above ground testing that was carried out in the 1940’s, 50,’s 60’s and 70’s.
It would release 85 times more Cesium 137 than was released at Chernobyl in 1986. Chernobyl is still uninhabitable 26 years later.Over one million people died because of Chernobyl and hundreds of thousands more are ill and have a shortened life expectancy.
The fallout would contaminate Japan, cause the evacuation of Tokyo, plus go directly into the jet stream and over to Canada, the United States and all around the Northern Hemisphere.
This catastrophic amount of radiation would affect people’s health for generations. It would cause irreversible contamination of crops, water and land.It would contaminate the Pacific Ocean - to a much greater extent than has been happening over the last year and a half. It would cause great harm to all marine life.
And it would do great harm to all who would remain in the northern hemisphere.
そして、北半球に残っている全ての人々にとっても大変な害となります。
o.We all have a responsibility to watch out for our family and friends and give them essential warnings.But every adult has the right to make his/her own decisions, so if they show disinterest you can respect their right to decide for themselves.
p.It is our responsibility to stand up for the rights of childrenwho are many times more susceptible to the effects of radiation and who will have to rely on responsible adults to provide them with clean air, water, food ,playgrounds and, in the worst case scenario, to evacuate them to safer, cleaner environments.
