Radiation Check in Japan- Extreme radiation difference in the same area, PART 2

After seeing the radiation check videos from our city, i decided to double check. I am measuring for two months, but never got too high levels. But today, i was taken by asuperdry (youtube user living in the same city, who took the mentioned videos) and had chance to see the extremely big radiation hot spots. This second video is from this hot-spots area, in part of Kashiwa situated in much lower area, then places, where most of the people living in this city have to go to.The problem is, my checks around the place, I am leaving in, or in the central city are always normal probably because the altitude is higher here, but if the altitude changes and you go to lower ground spots, you can experience really high radiation. Off course the air is OK everywhere, independent form the altitude. Problem is the soil and ground. Competent offices should act immediately and clean the dirty zones asap, as they did in the kindergarten by the Kashiwa station, where they changed the sand in the playground - btw, thank`s to asuperdry-san wife activities. The kids are playing now in playground with radiation 0.08microsieverts. I know, that this Fukushima radiation level is peace of cake comparing to radiation levels, when the French government (among others) tested their nuclear bomb in the pacific. Bombs create and disperse more critical radionuclide (i.e. uranium, plutonium, strontium, etal) in the air and sea than the nuclear power plant. But event that, we should not ignore any of this problems and do as much as we can, to avoid the worst scenario.

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[jazzflutist]

Tokyo had 6.46 µSv/hour a couple of days ago. (= 56.62 mSv/year). Compare that to 1 mSv/year for the safe limit. For nuclear workers, the limits keep going up--now at 250 mSv/year.

Many thanks Marianka ....(hope I got your name right).

[marianka1980]

@jazzflutist 6.46 µSv/hour is quite high - as in a plane from tokyo to euorope, what is the source of this numbers? can you send me the link, or tags to google it?

[marianka1980]

@jazzflutist ground, or air? which part of tokio was it. i was just doing readings in tokio few days ago, but i got nothing,,,neither ground, nor air...

[firstsuccess]

Kashiwa, Shinmatsudo, Abiko are all high in Chiba. Many Japanese do know about this but we can't do anything about it. By the way, last Saturday, I checked Tokyo Kita-ku, near the big station "Akabane" and it's high on soil, up to 2 μSv/h. The particles are everywhere and no wonder why vegetables and tea leaves get contaminted...

[marianka1980]

@firstsuccess i spoke with ministry for education, where is a "madoguchi" where you can ask about radiation. All i got is, that the possibility to get cancer is high, if you spend longtime in places with 0,1milisieverts-100microsivert­s, i am not really satisfied with that. No idea, what to do with the ground 6.6 microsieverts. The answer from the city hall was typical Japanese, not competent, something like, we are trying to do our best and preparing new steps, we will realize them asap..

[gerbilbastard]

Where in Kashiwa was this video taken? Can you post a Google map link or give more specific info please?

[marianka1980]

@gerbilbastard it`s Akehara 3-choume. I can take to to the place, i f you are in Japan. It is quite near to Kashiwa chugakkou.

[jazzflutist]

Also, radioactive tea grown in Shizuoka Prefecture was found with 679 bq/kg. There have been several stories about radioactive tea far above the limit ---and south of Tokyo. 500 bq/kg is the limit? But, remember, the authorities keep putting these limits higher and higher. They really don't care about YOUR health, they're more interested in controlling mass panic. Sad but true.

[jazzflutist]

@marianka1980 : It looks like a ground reading to me. The video shows the geiger counter sitting on the ground in, or beside, a school playground. Remember there is also the Japanese citizens network---Pachube crowd-sourced radiation monitoring. Google on Pachube and try and find your way to the Japan radiation map. Or go over to enenews and we'll fix you up. Can't post links here.

Posted under username asuperdry on June 20, 2011.

[jazzflutist]

@marianka1980 : Hi Marianka, It is a YouTube video entitled: Playground Radiation in Kashiwa Japan June 20, 2011 by user asuperdry uploaded Jun 20, 2011. Also featured on enenews---dot---com. By the way, enenews is your best bet for breaking information from Japan. All the users there are scouring the web 24 hours a day, and the comments are very helpful. In some Japanese cities it is now the top website.

[Fareast555]

Thanks for posting all these vids. This information being taken by local citizens is the only way to keep the government honest. Well, nothing can keep TEPCO or the government honest in Japan -- but at least you can expose the lies and bullshit and help make us all safer. So thanks for all the time checking and posting. Very much appreciated (I'm a fellow Chiba resident).

[gerbilbastard]

@marianka1980 That's ok.  I also live in Kashiwa, and your information has been really helpful to me. I'm trying to get an idea of where my child can play, relatively safely. The Kashiwa city hall just updated their web site with the readings from all the schools, pre-schools and day cares in the area. I'm not very happy to see how high the readings are coming out.

[firstsuccess]

@marianka1980 problem is that, our government doesn't care about children, citizens. if you take a look at Koriyama City, Fukushima City or Nihonmatsu City, children are studying as usual at places with much much higher radiation. Similarly, when I used to live abroad, I was told by many people to go to U.S. embassy if I get into trouble because Japanese embassy doesn't help Japanese citizens at all...