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Okinawa snow events halted after Japan radiation fears
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17125111

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Officials in Japan's Okinawa prefecture have been forced to cancel two children's snow events amid residents' fears the snow was radioactive.

About 600kg of snow had been flown into Naha city from north-eastern Japan.

Reports say that residents expressed fears the snow had been contaminated in the wake of the crisis at the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant.

But officials said the snow was from an area 400km (248 miles) from Fukushima and had undergone several safety tests.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was badly damaged by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami. It is now in a state of "cold shutdown".

"We explained that the snow was good to play with because we checked for contamination multiple times in Aomori and Okinawa, too," a Naha city official is quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

Japan's Mainichi Daily News reported that some of the concerned residents were evacuees from the Tohoku area, which was hit by the earthquake and tsunami last March.

A Naha city official is also quoted by the paper as saying: "The snow was found to be safe in checks and we are sorry for the children who waited for the snow, but we considered the worries of evacuees".

One of the cancelled events was due to take place on Thursday, at a children's hall in the Matsuo area of the city, with the second scheduled for Friday.

The snow events have become a traditional fixture in the Okinawa prefecture, which has a sub-tropical climate. Air force soldiers who go for training in Japan's northern Aomori prefecture bring the snow back with them.
 
Fukushima increases risk of cancer - but not by much

Radiation from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will lead to deaths from cancer - but so few that proving a link with the nuclear accident could be impossible.

In the wake of last year's partial meltdown at the plant, a United Nations inquiry concluded that exposure levels to radiation were too low to pose a serious health risk.

However, the consensus on radiation exposure is that "even at a very low concentration, there will be a health effect", says Mark Jacobson of Stanford University in California.

Using data on how much radiation was emitted and a model of the atmospheric conditions at the time, his group determined how many people would be exposed to radiation through water, food and air, and at what concentration. The team then calculated the likelihood that this exposure would cause terminal cancer.

They conclude that there will be 180 cases of cancer and 130 deaths worldwide. Not surprisingly, these are most likely to occur in Japan and the surrounding area. But because the radiation spread around the world, even North America could experience up to 30 cancer-related deaths due to the Fukushima accident.

Most of the radiation blew over the ocean rather than across land, which lowered the predicted death rate. The quick move in Japan to stop the consumption of food produced in the affected area prevented humans from being exposed through livestock and their milk, also helping to lower the potential death toll.

The number is so low we will never be able to link a single cancer case to Fukushima, says Kathleen Thiessen of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. "In an epidemiological study, it's unlikely you'd be able to see a difference even if there is one," she says.

The paper isn't unreasonable, says David Brenner of Columbia University in New York, but "literally dozens of assumptions have been made, both to estimate the doses, and then to estimate the cancer risks from the doses". That makes these estimates even more uncertain than the authors propose, he says.

The biggest source of uncertainty, Thiessen adds, is the reliability of the emissions data from Japan, which still contains inconsistencies.

Still, the value of this model is to put the accident in perspective, says Iulian Apostoaei, also at Oak Ridge. "We believe that in their lifetimes, 3 billion people will develop cancer. This accident added 100 more to this fold."

Journal reference: Energy & Environmental Science, DOI: 10.1039/c2ee22

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this is a fantastic documentary, if you get Dana Durnfords' perspective, he is really on a mission!


 
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Japan's Nuclear Industry was corrupt and moribund. Tepco in particular hadn't made any major infrastructure upgrades to its plants since they were built in the 1960s. You would think that Japan would have a squad of repair robots that they could send in to fix things, but no such luck. The Tepco execs didn't even have the decency to commit suicide; instead, because it might bring past decisions into question and threaten the "Wa", they all get off scot free and the rest of the world has to carry the costs. Shameful.
 
I have to admit disasters don't really get to me as long as they are somewhere else,
but even I find this a bit worrying, you would think that those in charge would have at
least had the decency to fall on the ceremonial sword.
 
Fukushima is SO BAD.. in this next video you can see what the real problem is at fukushima, apart from the fallout from hydrogen explosions damaging the mox fuel cores, now the main problem is contaminated water leaking into the ocean.. these leaks are considered lethal and will cause radiation related diseases, worldwide, before scientists that SURVIVED can measure the severity of contamination by the amount of increase of cancer in humans (like the 126 million japanese population)..

 
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I don't think mr.yates is lying.. after all the research that was done in the last 7 years, only now he mentions it could as well have been 'weapons-type' plutonium that blew up in fukushima-daiichi.. also, physical 'contrast-scans' may seriously effect your health and japan is exporting hazardous food products around the world today
 
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Hasn't this rice undergone radiation testing and an official certification been obtained confirming its safety?
 
Here's a handy radiation dosage chart courtesy of Randall Munroe (XKCD.com)

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only 5 percent of the rice got tested, so I've heard, plus after the disaster the international standards of what should be considered 'safe' levels altered, because in numerous intances the levels were far too high.. probably they will mix it with the same type of rice that has no contamination, untill they reach a 'safe' level of dillution or they feed it to animals, instead, or even worse, repackage it and sell it to third world countries that don't monitor for radiation

 
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it gets mixed with normal rice, untill the meter is below the unsafe-limit

So, following that logic, the contaminated water will mix with the uncontaminated ocean water until it is safe.

INT21
 
I guess nature can bring water to every place on the planet, and water can split any rock (given plenty of time), so because MOX in Fukushima is no longer contained, the entire ecosystem is exposed to 'dangerous levels of radiation' and will end life on Earth before it learns how to cope.. in march 2011, humanity had about 10-12 days to contain the crisis, ever since that limit isn't met, it's too late for the starfish.. I see, INT21 has the exact opposite point of view, but we could also collectively change the safety-limits of exposure, to the same level that animals and sea-creatures are exposed to man-made nuclear garbage, like hey, you can have an 2020 Olympiad in Fukushima, no problem, now everything is washing away into The Pacific, in a few years of time, everybody and everything on this world will be about equally exposed. (this is the 'fukushima-fallout will turn into background-radiation theory', that relaxes the public when politicians explain)
 
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I guess nature can bring water to every place on the planet, and water can split any rock (given plenty of time), so because MOX in Fukushima is no longer contained, the entire ecosystem is exposed to 'dangerous levels of radiation' and will end life on Earth before it learns how to cope.. in march 2011, humanity had about 10-12 days to contain the crisis, ever since that limit isn't met, it's too late for the starfish.. I see, INT21 has the exact opposite point of view, but we could also collectively change the safety-limits of exposure, to the same level that animals and sea-creatures are exposed to man-made nuclear garbage, like hey, you can have an Olympiad in Fukushima, no problem, now everything is washing away into The Pacific, in a few years of time, everybody and everything on this world will be about equally exposed. (this is the 'fukushima-fallout will turn into background-radiation theory', that relaxes the public when politicians explain)
What doesn't die immediately may adapt to the high levels of radiation.
Mould on the ISS is now so hardened to radiation, it can't be killed easily. Animals near Chernobyl have adapted and are able to survive.
 
Homeopaths would say that all of the oceans are now as radioactive as the water originally around Fukushima.
 
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