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Hospital: Fukushima radiation may be eating holes in people’s brains
- Report: Military brought in to hide true radiation levels
- Experts: Officials covering up dire consequences of crisis… Worry over high number of cancers being detected
- Public suffering radioactive-related diseases (VIDEO)
ENENews,
17 August, 2017
El
País Semanal (Spanish
newspaper), May 2, 2016 (emphasis added): Fukushima:
Contaminated lives… Spanish media investigates how the 2011
Japanese tsunami changed the course of the country’s history…
the Fukushima nuclear plant started to leak radiation that seeped
insidiously into the atmosphere, the soil and the Pacific Ocean… Mr
Toru Anzai, 63, wanders around the house he abandoned five years ago
[in] Litate… Two
years ago, he had a heart attack and a stroke… in the hospital they
found a hole in the frontal lobe of his brain that was producing
paralysis down the left side of his body. The doctor said it could
have been caused by absorbing cesium over
a period of time… [After the reactor explosion on] March 14, he
heard a thunderous noise… It didn’t take long for the wind to
bring the penetrating smell of melted iron mixed with sulfur to
Litate as a massive toxic cloud blew towards his home. In spite of
the mayor of Litate’s assurance that there was no risk of
radiation, Mr Anzai bought his first dosimeter on April 18… the
radiation in the room where he and his brothers had been sleeping for
the past month was at six microSieverts an hour – 20 times higher
than the level stipulated by the government for relocating residents…
Xinhua, May 23, 2016: Five years on, Fukushima remains shrouded in untold stories… Some of them suffer from radioactive-related diseases, and some are seeking help but having nobody to turn to. [Since] the Chernobyl nuclear disaster… various investigations and commemorations have never ceased… Yet on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, probes have always been wrapped in an ominous cloak for the past five years… However, concealing the truth will not lead people’s memory to oblivion, but arouse anger… One focal point is the local children’s poor health, especially thyroid cancer… The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, a global organization, sent a message to the Japanese government this January expressing worry over the high incidence of thyroid cancer…
Xinhua,
May 23, 2016: A 2015 research found that children living near the
Fukushima nuclear facilities are significantly up to 50
times more likely to develop thyroid cancer compared
to those children living elsewhere in Japan. Data on radiation levels
collected by Japanese volunteers near the Daiichi nuclear power plant
is 8 to 10 times higher than the official number… Questions over
the Fukushima aftermath have never ceased to pop up… Japan is
concerned with its national image, food security, tourism, nuclear
policy, medical compensation and possibility of public lawsuits…
[none] of them should be the country’s excuse for preventing the
post-disaster situation from being known to the public…
Xinhua,
May 23, 2016: Children
near Fukushima more likely to suffer from thyroid cancer…
More than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture had been diagnosed
with thyroid cancer, including suspect cases… The Fukushima
prefectural government doubted the cases were related to the nuclear
disaster… Some nuclear
experts were surprised by the Japanese government’s irresponsible
and indifferent attitude
Xinhua,
May 23, 2016: Truths
deliberately covered about Fukushima surface over five years —
Facts about the Fukushima nuclear disaster… kept emerging over the
past five years after the mishap took place, revealing the real face
of the disaster. In front of the local government of Iidate Village
in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture [a device reads] 0.38
microsieverts/hour… However, volunteer Yoichi Tao who majored in
physics said the figure of radiation on their own device is 8 to 10
times of the official one. According to Tao, the
government dispatched the military to wipe out the nearby nuclear
radiation on the ground in advance,
so the official figure looks very low. “That’s how the government
did it,” he said…
Xinhua,
May 24, 2016: The improper handling of the Fukushima aftermath by the
Japanese government has had grave
consequences…
a Russian radiation expert has said… Japan followed the suit of the
former Soviet Union in playing
down the disastrous consequences,
said Valery Stepanenko, a leading specialist in medical and
environmental dosimetry and radiation safety… the
Japanese government attempted to hide the truth…
After the disaster, lies and
contradictive information emerged, making it impossible to decide the
level of exposure… ”data of internal exposure were still
left out,” he said… The consequence
is dire… more
than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture have been diagnosed with
thyroid cancer,
including suspect cases…
Japan to “drop tanks” full of Fukushima nuclear waste directly into the ocean
17
May, 2017
Following
a major earthquake in March 2011, a 15 meter-high tsunami ravaged the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Though the reactors
immediately shut down after the quake, the giant wave that hit
Fukushima’s shores disabled the emergency generators that power and
operate the pumps that cool the reactors.
The
insufficient cooling resulted in the nuclear meltdown of the cores of
three reactors, causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. A
nuclear scientist, Neil Hyatt, has told TRT World, an international
news platform of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
broadcasting from Istanbul and London, that the dismantling and
complete cleanup could take up to a hundred years.
Six
years after the disaster, the three crippled reactors are still
leaking water with high levels of radiation into the Pacific Ocean.
Though the Pacific Ocean is a vast stretch of water, Fukushima’s
radiation is reaching the coast of the United States, Canada, and
Mexico, contaminating the fish we eat and the water we swim in.
While
these findings were first considered “fake news” and laughed
away, researchers can no longer deny that Cesium-134, the so-called
fingerprint of Fukushima, has been found in seawater and fish along
the Western Coast of the Americas.
In
TRT’s daily news show “Insight,” hosted by former Sky News
presenter Martin Stanford, the head of international atomic energy
agency has called on the world to help with the cleanup of the
Fukushima site. (RELATED: Find more news about the Fukushima disaster
at FukushimaWatch.com)
Japan
fails to clean up the mess, plotting to discharge nuclear waste into
the ocean
Ever
since the tsunami put the Fukushima plant out of business, one of the
ongoing core tasks has been to cool the reactors and prevent the
release of highly contaminated water leaking from the three units.
Though it has been six years since the disaster, the cleanup is
making slow progress.
Mark
Whitby, chairman and design director of the engineering and
consultancy firm WME Consultants, explained that today about 400 tons
of water go into each reactor to cool it. Part of the highly
radioactive water is recycled to re-cool the reactors, and the rest
goes into big tanks, which are stacking up at a fast rate. As
reported by TRT, Japan is running out of storage space. There are
currently about a 1,000 storage tanks holding 920,000 tons of
contaminated water.
As
if the marine life isn’t struggling enough already by the vast
amounts of plastic in the oceans, the Japanese are now talking about
dumping these tanks with nuclear wastewater directly into the sea
because they cannot keep building and storing these reservoirs,
Whitby told TRT.
Also,
to this day researchers are uncertain whether the melted cores are
still within the containment structures or if they have burrowed
through the vessels, contaminating the groundwater that ends up in
the Pacific Ocean. Since many robots, sent out to assess the damage,
have been destroyed due to the high levels of radiation that melts
their electronics, it is tough to get this information.
Recently,
however, one camera lasted long enough to show that molten core
debris has burned through the bottom of the inner reactor wall. The
radioactive debris is now burrowed deep into the foundations of the
reactor, causing the highest radiation levels measured around the
reactor since the triple core meltdown six years ago. Until these
cores can be retrieved, the reactors will keep leaking radioactive
material into the groundwater.
According
to Japan’s former prime minister, the current Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe is lying about the situation being under control. Abe has also
been criticized for forcing more than 6,000 people to return to their
home in areas that are still highly contaminated zones.
According
to the Japanese government, Japan will be safe by 2020. Therefore, it
will hold the Olympic baseball and softball in the Fukushima area to
show “Japan is cool,” even if their reactors are still posing a
serious threat.
For
more info watch the full Insight episode below.
Sources:
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