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Government & Corporate Incompetence: 80% of people near Fukushima contaminated with Iodine!

This is the result of the Japanese government, and the power company TEPCo,  dragging their feet regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster: 80% of the people that used to live near the General Electric designed disaster reactors are contaminated with iodine!

The contamination was discovered after researchers tested their thyroids.  At least five people have 50 millisieverts of contamination, and one person has 87 millisieverts.  This study looked specifically at iodine contamination.

In February the government of Fukushima released their study, which looked at over all radiation contamination, it wasn’t good.

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Global Food Crisis: Increase in number of Fish from Japan testing positive for Radiation Contamination, proof that Fukushima is spewing even more radiation!

“The frequency of radiation detection appears to be rising as two reactors at the Fukushima plant are currently leaking radiation.”-unnamed South Korean official

March 8, 2012, South Korea’s Animal, Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency says fish from Japan are still contaminated with radiation, almost one year after the March 2011 nuclear disaster.

Korean officials say they’ve detected cesium in 32 recent shipments of fish from Japan.  They say that’s a 50% increase from tests done on 21 prior shipments!

South Korea has been constantly monitoring fish shipments from Japan, ever since the March nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.  They say radiation levels are still under international “safe” limit guidelines, however, it has increased in the past few months of 2011!

 

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Government Incompetence: Japan finally starts decontamination of roads!

Almost a year after the March 11, 2011, Mega Quake that led up to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government has finally started decontamination of roads around the GE designed disaster reactors!

On March 8, workers began spraying down a road around Naraha Town Hall.  Observers say the radiation levels immediately dropped by 80%!

So why did the government wait so long to do it?  IDK, but probably the real reason why they finally started the decontamination was to stop the exodus of people from that area.  Japanese media reports say the government is hoping their late in coming decontamination efforts will convince people to return to their homes!

Last year, out of desperation several local governments tried to decontaminate on their own, but ran into funding and staffing issues.  They appealed to the national government for help.

 

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 11: More than 10,000 earthquakes hit Japan in the past year! Japan Islands shift Eastward!

Japan’s Meteorological Agency reporting that in the past 12 months, Japan has been hit with 10,119 earthquakes!

70% are considered aftershocks to the March 11, 2011 Mega Quake.  The agency includes quakes that are weak but can still be felt by humans.

Japan’s Geospatial Information Authority reported that the main islands of Japan have shifted eastward. Yamada Town, in northeastern Iwate Prefecture, moved about 76 centimeters (more than 2 & half feet) to the east.

The scientists say massive crust movements are still taking place, and they warn people to be prepared for more big quakes!

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 10: NEW MEGA QUAKE PREDICTED FOR TOKYO BAY

 

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 10: New Mega Quake predicted for Tokyo Bay

After five years of research, a team of scientist, some from the University of Tokyo, have concluded that Tokyo Bay is set to experience a Mega Quake.

The research caused the geologists to realize the fault line, running under the Kanto area of Japan, is actually 10 km (6 miles) closer to the land’s surface, than first thought.  They have upped the expected earthquake on the fault from a Japanese magnitude 6 to magnitude 7.  Magnitude 7 is the maximum on the Japanese quake intensity scale!

But wait, there’s more!  The research does not include any data for the March 11, 2011, Mega Quake. The researchers say they are now updating their five year study with that data.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 9: MARCH 11, 2011 MEGA QUAKE CAUSED 80 SEPERATE EARTHQUAKES WITHIN 15 MINUTES

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 9: March 11, 2011 mega quake caused 80 seperate earthquakes within 15 minutes

Masatoshi Miyazawa, an associate professor at Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute, says that after almost a year of study, he has concluded the March 11 Mega Quake caused a record number of  ‘induced’ earthquakes.

He says that within 15 minutes of the magnitude 9 earthquake, at least 80 quakes were triggered on different fault lines all over Japan.  From islands north of Hokkaido to islands south of Kyushu.  One quake was 1,300 km (807.8 miles) away from the magnitude 9 Mega Quake.

The magnitudes of the 80 earthquakes ranged from 2 to 4.7.

Miyazawa says many of the induced earthquakes occurred near volcanoes, and he suspects the record number of ‘induced’ quakes was the result of a radical shift in the power balance between tectonic plates.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 8: NEW STUDY SAYS FUTURE TSUNAMIS A BIGGER THREAT THAN FIRST THOUGHT

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Japan Modern Day Atlantis round 8: New study says future Tsunamis a bigger threat than first thought

Officials with Japan’s Land Ministry have issued new warnings about the dangers of tsunamis.  They revised their estimations of tsunami damage, based on what happened on March 11, 2011.

They concluded that earthquakes of magnitude 8.4 or greater, just off Japan’s Pacific coastline, could generate huge tsunamis.

On the Pacific side of Japan, tsunamis could reach 12 meters (39 feet) high, and destroy eight of Japan’s 19 Pacific ports. Officials say the existing tsunami walls are not sufficient to protect the ports.

JAPAN MODERN DAY ATLANTIS ROUND 7 & WHAT ECONOMIC RECOVERY? PEOPLE FLEEING NUCLEAR DISASTER IN JAPAN DESTROYING THE LOCAL ECONOMY AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

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Government Incompetence: 5 People starved to death at Fukushima!

Local officials have revealed that not everyone was evacuated out of the 20km (12.4 miles) “No-Go” zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

Officials have revealed that at least five bodies were found that showed signs of starvation.  Most of them were old people.  One man was trapped on the second floor of his home after the tsunami destroyed the first floor. He was found only two weeks after the March 11, 2011, disasters.   A woman was trapped because she could not walk, she was found in April 2011.

 

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Corporate Incompetence: Hokkaido Nuclear Plant fails to pass new safety tests!

On 29 February 2012, Japan’s Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency said Hokkaido Electric Power Company (HEPCo) failed to comply with new nuclear plant stress test rules.

Japan’s government officials have even more reason to get tough on nuclear safety, as an investigation into the Fukushima disaster revealed gross government incompetence.

The new stress tests are designed to force nuclear power plant operators to take into consideration major natural disasters regarding the reactor’s safety.  The  Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency said HEPCo failed to consider fault lines running under and around their Tomari nuclear power plant.

HEPCo only considered fault lines that were 40km (24.8 miles) away!  Government officials also say the new stress tests require consideration of fault lines as far out as 150km (93 miles).

 

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Experts say you can’t rely on Federal Government or Coporations in times of Nuclear Disasters!

A panel of experts, in Japan, have released recommendations for future nuclear disaster, and one of those recommendations is: Do not rely on corporations or national governments for help!

After investigating disaster response, regarding the ongoing General Electric designed Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, experts say local governments should have full control of things like evacuations, and radiation monitoring, among other things.

An existing off site (off nuclear plant property) disaster response center failed, because it was overwhelmed with radiation contamination! The expert panel say in the future off site nuclear disaster response centers must be hardened against radiation contamination (you would’ve thought that was a no brainer).

The panel also recommends two radiation response centers; one located some distance from any nuclear plants, to act as a command & control center, and one near nuclear plants to act as a front line radiation monitor and to direct evacuations.

The panel says the response centers should be under control of local governments, not national/federal governments!  Also, local governments should have total authority, and not be reliant on nuclear power corporations for disaster response advice!  Months of investigations have revealed that corporations are grossly incompetent in that regard!

Already the national government of Japan, and Tokyo Electric Power Company, are downplaying the advice from experts.