22 August 2012
Fish off the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have 258 times the legal limit of radioactive cesium, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said
Tuesday.
The reading for two rock trout, caught about 20 kilometers to the north of the plant, showed 25,800 becquerels per kilogram, the highest yet detected
in surveys conducted after last year's nuclear accident.
Consuming 200 grams of the fish would amount to an internal radiation exposure of 0.08 millisievert for a human. The annual safety limit for radiation
exposure from food products is 1 millisievert per person.
"The reading was way beyond the levels recorded before," said Tetsu Nozaki, who heads the Fukushima Prefectural Federation
of Fisheries Co-operative Associations."It is worrying."
30 August 2012
The central government of Japan has ordered Aomori Prefecture to suspend shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe due to excessive
levels of cesium detected, according to The Japan Times Wednesday.
The central government ordered Aomori Prefecture to halt shipping Pacific cod caught near the port of Hachinohe after excessive levels of radioactive
cesium were, initiating the first such ban for the prefecture because of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Radioactive cesium exceeding the government's allowable safety level of 100 becquerels per kilogram has been detected twice in cod caught off
Hachinohe, the government said Monday…
13 July 2013
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One of the ways that the US tried to calm the furore over the Fukushima disaster, was to help Japan to raise the acceptable radiation levels, so that
any leak of radioactive particles would be deemed less serious.
And ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was thought to have signed an agreement with her Japanese counterpart to promise that the US would continue
to buy seafood from Japan, as proof that all is well, even though the FD has so far refused to actually test the sea-food for any radiation and
determine that it is safe for consumption.
As part of the US’s efforts to keep Japan’s nuclear industry alive, at the end of last month, Mainichi Shimbum, one of the largest Japanese
newspapers, reported that “the Japanese prime ministerial envoy secretly promised to the United States that Japan would resume its
controversial ‘pluthermal’ program, using light-water reactors to burn plutonium, according to documents obtained by the Mainichi.”
The ‘pluthermal’ program mixes
uranium with plutonium, extracted from spent nuclear fuel, to form a mixed-oxide (MOX). The resulting MOX fuel can then be used in light-water
reactors, and provides a useful means of disposing of dangerous plutonium…
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