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If you view the video, you'll see piles of debris. The Japanese government is now burning that debris. If you don't believe that radioactive particulate matter will get up in the atmosphere and circulate around the world, then you're silly. Incidentally, I was a strong pro-nuclear energy supporter up until around 20 years ago. I felt that the people who opposed nuclear energy were "nutters." I was wrong. They were right.
Maybe this is good news. Now we won’t have to worry about global economic meltdown, lack of jobs, general malaise, the middle east, and rioting in the streets.
There is always a bright side to everything.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
[b]Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama is the head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo. On July 27, he appeared as a witness to give testimony to the Committee on Welfare and Labor in Japan's Lower House in the Diet.
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When we measure the radiation injury/sickness, we look at total amount of radioactive materials. But there is no definitive report from TEPCO or the Japanese Government as to exactly how much radioactive materials have been released from Fukushima. So using our knowledge base at the Radioisotope Center, we calculated.
Based on thermal output, it is 29.6 times the amount released by the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In uranium equivilant, it is 20 Hiroshima bombs. What is more frightening is that whereas the radiation from a nuclear bomb will decrease to one-thousandth in one year, the radiation from a nuclear power plant will only decrease to one-tenth.
In other words, we should recognize from the start that just like Chernobyl, Fukushima I Nuke Plant has released radioactive materials equivalent in the amount to tens of nuclear bombs, and the resulting contamination is far worse than the contamination of a nuclear bomb.
A meltdown is not the same as a flood, hurricane, or earthquake. The Fukushima debris that the Japanese burn will get into the atmosphere and spread worldwide. Even the furniture that they make from this contaminated wood will be radioactive. My prayers to the Japanese people.
OKYO – Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country next year, in an attempt to boost the tourism industry which has been hit by the ongoing nuclear disaster, a report said Monday.
The Japan Tourism Agency plans to ask would-be travellers to submit online applications for the free flights, detailing which areas of the country they would like to visit, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said.
The agency will select the successful entrants and ask them to write a report about their trip which will be published on the Internet.
