Livsmedel från Fukushima säljs åter i Japan

Tillåtet att sälja livsmedel

från Fukushima igen

RR 28.06.2012           (Bilder i illustrativt syfte)
I Japan har livsmedel från orten där kärnkraftverket Fukushima ligger, åter börjat säljas över hela landet.



Detta blev på nytt tillåtet efter att Japanska regeringen nu officiellt förkunnat att området och miljön runt omkring det havererade kärnkraftverket inte längre är farligt för hälsan.

Hittills efterfrågas dock mestadels speciella exotiska livsmedel från Fukushima-området. Delikatesser som havssniglar och bläckfisk anses också vara de minst radioaktivt kontaminerade varorna från katastrofområdet.

Nu säljs de här delikatesserna fritt ännu en gång och även till ett reducerat pris vilket medför en strykande åtgång, enligt den lokala pressen

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http://swedish.ruvr.ru/2012_06_28/79583643/

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Fukushima-olyckan

Fukushima-olyckan (福島第一原子力発電所事故 fukushima daiichi genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko^?) avser en serie haverier och utsläpp av radionuklider vid kärnkraftverket Fukushima I som följde på jordbävningen vid Tōhoku och tsunamin den 11 mars 2011.

Tre av verkets sex block var vid tillfället i drift och snabbstoppades, då jordbävningen slog ut det yttre elnätet. Den tsunami, som följde 56 minuter efter jordbävningen, slog ut de reservgeneratorer som användes för reaktorernas kylning.

Endast batterikraft återstod då och ungefär 50 minuter senare upphörde nödkylsystemet att fungera i block 1 och 2 och efter ytterligare 1,5 dygn även i block 3. Därefter saknade såväl härdar som bränslebassänger kylning, vilket ledde till partiella härdsmältor med vätgasexplosioner och utsläpp av radioaktiva ämnen som följd.

Vad som utmärker olyckan är att tre systemtekniskt separata reaktorer totalhavererade med avseende på samtliga barriärer avsedda att hindra radioaktivt läckageunder de två dygn som följde. I en långsam process utdragen över flera dygn skedde detta på ett mycket spektakulärt sätt med kraftiga explosioner, som en efter en totalt ödelade reaktorhallarna i block 1, 3 och 4 och allvarligt skadade den i block 2.

När detta skett, torrkokade till slut även det kärnbränsle, som lagrats i öppna bränslebassänger i närheten av reaktorerna.

Japanska dagstidningens Asahi Shimbun vetenskapsredaktör, Mariko Takahashi, har i efterhand summerat vad som hände under Fukushimakatastrofens första månad. /WIKI

Läs mer på WIKI: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima-olyckan

Over a third of Fukushima children

at risk of developing cancer

RT 2012-07-19
Over a third of children in Japan's Fukushima region could be prone to cancer if medics don’t apply more effort in treating their unusually overgrown thyroid glands and commit to international health aid and consultations, according to a new report.

­The shocking new report shows that nearly 36 per cent of children in the nuclear disaster-affected Fukushima Prefecture have abnormal thyroid growths. This is an extremely large number of abnormalities – some of which, experts say, pose a risk of becoming cancerous.

After examining more than 38,000 children from the area, medics found that more than 13,000 have cysts or nodules as large as 5 millimeters on their thyroids, the Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey states.

In comparison, a 2001 analysis by the Japan Thyroid Association found that fully zero per cent of children in the city of Nagasaki, which suffered a nuclear attack in August of 1945, had nodules, and only 0.8 per cent had cysts on their thyroids, reports the Telegraph.

Radiation enters the body and is distributed through soft tissue, especially in muscle, and then accumulates in the thyroid. It is this accumulation that can potentially lead to cancer.

"Yes, 35.8 per cent of children in the study have lumps or cysts, but this is not the same as cancer," says Naomi Takagi, an associate professor at Fukushima University Medical School Hospital, which administered the tests.

"This is an early test, and we will only see the effects of radiation exposure after four or five years" she added.

But some doctors are outraged that the results are not being sufficiently publicized.

"The data should be made available. And they should be consulting with international experts ASAP. And the lesions on the ultrasounds should all be biopsied, and they're not being biopsied. And if they're not being biopsied, then that's ultimately medical irresponsibility.

Because if some of these children have cancer and they're not treated, they're going to die," says pediatrician Helen Caldecott, as cited by Business Insider.

The World Health Organization warns that young people are particularly prone to radiation poisoning in the thyroid gland. Infants face the direst consequences, as their cells divide at a higher rate.

Children who were under 18 when the nuclear disaster struck last year will be subject to continuous thyroid examinations every two years until they reach 20 years of age, and after that, every five years for the rest of their lives.

It is also believed that some children were exposed to "lifetime" doses of radiation to their thyroid glands, says a report by Japan's Institute of Radiological Sciences.

Since the last year’s tragedy, Japanese authorities and TEPCO officials have repeatedly faced accusations that they withheld vital information about the radiation leak levels in the area and downplayed the real scale of danger.

Nor have the long-term consequences of the radiation's spread been estimated yet. The latest research suggests that in a matter of five years, highly-contaminated ocean water from the area could reach the West Coast of the US.

http://www.rt.com/news/fukushima-children-radiation-exposure-abnormalities-632/

 
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Fukushima på RT:

Cesium-137 contamination: Fukushima amounts to four Chernobyls

TEPCO’s new estimates suggest that its Fukushima reactor has released more than quadruple the amount of radioactive cesium-137 leaked during the Chernobyl disaster. But the method used to measure the damage may undervalue the hazard even further.

US West Coast to receive dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation

­It’s been over a year since natural disaster ravaged a nuclear plant in Fukushima and interrupted the lives of millions of Japanese. Scientists now fear though that contaminated water is on course to America, and it could be more toxic than thought.

Russian customs stop 300 radioactive cars at Japanese border

Russian customs officials have stopped the smuggling of nearly 300 radioactively contaminated cars at the Japanese border as part of an ongoing operation monitoring imports following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant last year.

Japanese tsunami victim remains to wash up on US coasts

North American beach-goers could soon be finding human bones washed up in the wake of the March 2011 Japanese tsunami, experts say. For some in Japan, these could be the only traces they ever find of their missing relatives.

Radiation blowback: 10 times lethal level registered at Fukushima

A recent examination at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has revealed radiation levels up to ten times the fatal dose. The news alarmed thousands of people who have been living in constant fear of radiation exposure for over a year.

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