Enrollment at grade schools in Fukushima Prefecture are down 70%.
Before the March 2011 nuclear disaster began at Fukushima Daiichi, there were 54 elementary and junior high schools in the Prefecture. Now only 42 schools are open, and they are operating in rented areas away from their original locations.
School officials say many families have moved away permanently.
A city 140 km (87 miles) from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is offering radiation checkups for residents.
Utsunomiya City, north of Tokyo, started the service because of demands from taxpayers.
The city says they can check up to five houses per day, inspecting up to three specific areas requested by the inhabitants, such as the entry way or bedroom, etc.
Inspections done so far show radiation levels below the official safe limits. This is a limited time offer ending in September.
Last year the Japanese government said all farm animals within the 20 kilometer (12.42 miles) radiation no go zone, around Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, had to be killed (if they weren’t already dead).
Now the government says those animals that are still alive can live, provided the farmers do not ship them off to food markets.
This comes after farmers refused to follow through with the order to cull radioactive animals. Turns out about 700 farm animals are still alive within the no go zone.
Farmers must not breed the animals, or allow them to mingle with new animals that are not contaminated.
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ONE YEAR LATER: JAPANESE BAMBOO NOW RADIOACTIVE, 124 MILES AWAY FROM FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI!
April 5, 2012, Tokyo Electric Power Company is admitting that even more strontium 90 is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
TEPCo officials say at least 12 tons of contaminated water poured into the ocean overnight. They blame it on the usual suspect; leaking pipes!
Around 02:00 the morning of April 5, workers found a joint in a waste water pipe had been disconnected, causing the huge leak. It took them half an hour to fix it.
This is the third major strontium leak reported by TEPCo, since December 2011.
About one year ago, Japanese government officials swore to the refugees fleeing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, that they’d be returning home soon.
Not only did that turn out to be a lie, but one official now says some towns will never be inhabitable.
On April 4, 2012, Japan’s reconstruction minister, Hirano Tatsuo, told the Governor of Fukushima Province, and the Mayor of Futaba Town, that because of the storage of highly radioactive waste coming from Fukushima Daiichi, the areas around that waste can never be lived in.
There are areas of Fukushima Province, being used to store hundreds of tons of contaminated water (left over from trying to keep the disaster reactors cool), that are being irradiated by the deadly levels of radiation in the water.
The Japanese media is pointing out that Hirano’s opinion runs counter to the official statements of the government. The Japanese government continues to promise the nuclear refugees that they will be able to return to all their homes.
Here’s a thought: It’s been proven that Fukushima Daiichi is worse than Chernobyl, and yet, how many people have been allowed to return to Prypiat, the town next to the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 26 years later? Zero!
Prypiat had nearly 50,000 people prior to the Chernobyl explosion in 1986. Now it’s a city full of vacant and ghostly skyscrapers.
The Japanese government has set new cesium contamination limits for food, but even with the new limits hundreds of inspections have revealed highly contaminated food products.
The new limits on non-dairy food products will be allowed to contain up to 100 becquerels of cesium per kilogram, baby food and milk will be permitted to contain 50 becquerels, and drinking water 10 becquerels.
But wait, what most people don’t know is that immediately after the March 2011 nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the Japanese government temporarily raised the maximum cesium limit in food to 500 becquerels!!!
What that means is that it’s almost guaranteed that the people of Japan have been eating radioactive food!
Between January and March, 2012, a total of 600 cases have been found with more than the new 100 becquerels limit. That includes salmon, flounder and raw shiitake mushrooms. Local governments are supposed to stop the shipments of such contaminated food.
28 March 2012, finally, after one year, Tokyo Electric Power Company is taking radiation readings from Fukushima Daiichi disaster Reactor 2.
They placed a dosimeter into Reactor 2’s containment vessel. It is emitting 72.9 sieverts, or 72,900 millisieverts, or 72,900,000 microsieverts of radiation per hour!!!
At that rate the radiation will kill a human in seven minutes!
TEPCo admits that the lethal radiation levels, and the recently discovered lack of cooling water indicating a huge leak, are setbacks for their plans to decommission the reactor.
200 kilometers (124 miles) away from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke factory, bamboo plants grown for food are turning up radioactive!
On bamboo shoot farms in Chiba Prefecture, samples have turned out to be contaminated with as much as 250 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram!
Not only that, the latest samples are higher in cesium than samples taken more than one week ago. Officials think cesium absorbed by the parent bamboo plants is being passed on to the young bamboo shoots.
Bamboo farmers have been told not to ship their product to market.
ONE YEAR LATER: FINALLY, JAPANESE OFFICIALS SAY SEA BASS ARE TOO RADIOACTIVE, FISHING BAN NOW IN PLACE!
March 28, 2012, one year after the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant melted down, Japanese fisherman are now being told their catches are indeed contaminated.
For the first time, Miyagi Prefecture has banned Sea Bass fishing, because of radiation contamination!
Prefectural officials say cesium levels are so high, they’re higher than the new stricter limits due to go into effect next month. As much as 360 becquerels of cesium is being found in Sea Bass catches! The new stricter limit is 100 becquerels.
Officials say two other types of fish are also exceeding the 100 becquerels limit! This backs up what Russian and South Korean fish inspectors have been saying all along about contaminated fish from Japan!
The scary thing is that up ’till now fishing has been allowed near the disaster reactors of Fukushima Daiichi!
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March 27, 2012, Tokyo Electric officials say strontium 90 is pouring into the Pacific Ocean, from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant!
The latest leak was discovered March 26. It’s coming from above ground tanks, which are holding radioactive water. They also admit leaks are coming from pipes connecting the water tanks.
On March 26, TEPCo detected 0.25 becquerels per cubic centimeters of strontium beta particles in the Pacific Ocean.
It turns out this happens often. TEPCo admits the first strontium leaks, from pipes and water tanks, happened in December 2011, and have continued since then!