Status Update : RE: The Management of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster : the Blind leading the Blind

November 26, 2011

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It started out bad and has only gotten worse.  The Government of Japan continues to show that it is inept in its management of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster.  A change in their Prime Minister did not  produce any tangible change in their management of this disaster. This can only be illustrated with the Japanese government’s first response after finding out about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant accident.  And, the Government of Japan refusing any international assistance to manage this disaster, relying on TEPCO, the company that was responsible for the disaster, by falsifying safety records.

IMMEDIATELY after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th that crippled reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, all but one of the devices to measure radioactive matter in the area were knocked out. So the authorities in Tokyo sent up a vehicle stuffed with gauges to assess how dangerous the leakage was. Bewilderingly, says Goshi Hosono, a politician recently appointed to oversee Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO, the utility that runs the plant), the vehicle got stuck in traffic. It then ran out of petrol at a time when the tsunami had led to a nationwide shortage of fuel. Because of this, the government abandoned the mission. Later, the government declared the Fukushima incident to be on the same level of seriousness as the accident at Chernobyl 25 years ago. Yet it had taken what Mr Hosono says was seven to ten days before the government could get reliable data on the amount of radioactive matter pouring out. During that period it became clear that a partial meltdown had taken place in at least one of the six reactors. http://www.economist.com/node/18621529

The evacuation of the Fukushima citizens for their safety and the denial of pet owners to evacuate with their pets.  Despite news agencies reporting:

When nuclear disaster struck Fukushima, Japanese officials had no contingency plan for evacuating animals. People were forced to leave quickly, and ordered to leave their animals behind. For the first few weeks, residents and rescuers were allowed to enter the evacuation zone at their own risk to provide care for animals, but they could not bring any animals out of the zone.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/activists-urge-govt-to-allow-animal-rescue-groups-into-fukushima-no-entry-zone

This was not the case:  There were guidelines in place but the Government officials despite all the plans and practicing of disaster situations, failed to follow the guidelines.

ALIVE News March 18th 2011

The companion animals in the affected areas are also victims of this disaster. ALIVE would like to introduce some of the guidelines for animal rescue in disasters that have been established by various government agencies.
http://www.alive-net.net/english/en-action/Earthquake/Earthquake3.html

The Government of Japan rid itself of one Prime Minister that they felt was not effective in his management of the nuclear disaster.  The ruling party politicians subsequently replace him with a member of the removed prime minister’s cabinet. And, the new Prime Minister is from Finance.  The Ministers that would have vital roles in handling the nuclear disaster and subsequent problems were retained, even though they were part of the old Prime Minister’s cabinet that lost the confidence of the people.

Post-disaster reconstruction minister Tatsuo Hirano and nuclear crisis minister Goshi Hosono retained their posts. Hosono also serves as environment minister.

Former vice health and welfare minister Yoko Komiyama is the health and welfare minister. Agriculture minister Michihiko Kano retained his post. The party’s former Diet affairs chief Yoshio Hachiro is the trade and industry minister.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/02_23.html

The failure by Prime Ministers, the old and the new, to name Cabinet ministers that were competent to handle this nuclear crisis, instead of the current Ministers, has resulted in the disaster expanding and not being adequately managed.   The special Nuclear Law that the Diet passed could have also made accommodation to have nuclear scientists that were not party members take the Ministry positions.  However, protection of their power base was more important than the safety of their citizens.

The issues that have been addressed to the satisfaction of the citizens of Japan regarding the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis are none.  The radiation is still spreading.  The debris is still there and accumulating.  The animals that were abandoned are either dead or denied rescue.

Japan’s science ministry says 8 per cent of the country’s surface area has been contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

It says more than 30,000 square kilometres of the country has been blanketed by radioactive caesium.

The ministry says most of the contamination was caused by four large plumes of radiation spewed out by the Fukushima nuclear plant in the first two weeks after meltdowns.         http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-22/japan-land-contaminated-by-radiation/3686324/?site=melbourne

The 4 large plumes that spewed out in the first 2 weeks of the disaster.  This should take you to the first  part of this article and what the Government of Japan actions were.

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Hypocrites, Liars, and “Emotional Blackmailers” : All part of the Government of Japan’s bag of tricks to justify the killing of livestock

November 26, 2011
Why would anyone believe anything the Government of Japan has to say?  They claim that they have been trying to rescue animals but in reality, is about 500 rescues with 5-7 devoted rescuers the best that they can do?  They have taken in millions of dollars for animal relief, and to date, no one really knows where all that money went.  There has even been a claim that someone embezzled about $600,000 dollars but no charges were issued.  The organization working to have the cattle saved, allowed to live to observe the effects of radiation on them and to test out methods of removing any radiation they may have been exposed to, were lied to about letting the cattle live if they were used as ” research” subjects.  The cattle are being killed.
The study below clearly shows that the scientists have been using the ” culling” of the livestock to gain subjects and material for radiation studies.  It would make you think that this was an excuse used by the Government of Japan to kill the animals so that they could at least produce studies to show that they are ” on top” of the radiation exposure issue.  All of this at the expense of the animals, left behind in the first place by the inability of the Government of Japan’s ability to address all the issues with TEPCO’s nuclear disaster.
The culling of the livestock was only gained after the Government of Japan left the livestock behind and then would not allow the farmers to care for the animals.  The farmers, like pet owners, were denied the ability to return and care for their animals.
Maybe this is what they had planned all along, using the animals for ” living monitors” as to how bad the release of radioactive materials was for those areas.  It would be the cheapest and most economical way of doing things, and that is something that the Government of Japan has clearly made the most  important aspect of this issue.  Cheaper to kill the animals or let them die, than to actually rescue them.
They would like to explain that ” human” life is more important than anything else, but if this were the case, why did they allow TEPCO to falsify their safety documents and those documents pass Government inspections?
Cesium accumulation in muscles of cattle examined tens of blood caution zone

The amount of radioactive cesium was accumulated in the muscles of the calf area of ​​the alert within 20 mile radius from TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the correlation can be seen that 20 to 30 times the amount of radioactive cesium in the blood, Tohoku Univ. and 大阪医科大, Yamagata, Niigata, such as found in the survey. Such as estimating the amount of radioactive material from the blood in the body, it may be applied to humans.

The professor of the study, Aging and Cancer Tohoku Institute Fukumoto (Pathology) from the group. Although culling is underway in the area of ​​feral cattle guard, of the cattle were slaughtered in late August to mid November, and dissected on the consent of the owner of 47 head, muscles and internal organs, examined the radioactive material contained in the blood.

Results, and is measured from the thigh of the ox 1800 Becquerel discovered 60 becquerels per kilogram from the blood, detected radioactive cesium in muscle of blood from 20 to 30 times.Organs such as liver, muscles in about 10 times lower than in the thyroid was seen to accumulate most of the cesium was measured.

Yes,that’s true. They once promised to save the animals, but in fact, they have started to kill the 30 or 60cattles in the fence as an experiment by Kitasato Univ.

The Government of Japan are trying to use as an excuse for not helping the livestock: the killing of farm animals, pigs and cows happens every single day. Kachiku-Otasuke-Tai.org are saying something different : This is not the same as what the Legislators would have you believe. The livestock are the same victimes of nuclear accident by TEPCO like us.

“I know the cows have lost their economic value since they’ve been exposed to radiation. But I think there must be a way to allow them to live. As a cattle breeder, I cannot leave them to die,” he said. “We have to catch them by winter.” And, so the farmers were tricked into capturing the cattle, only to watch them killed ( I will not use the word : euthanize.) or penned and left to starve, denied food and water. And, the ones sent to study? Yamane will kill them for his research.

KORIYAMA, Fukushima — Pursuing research on radiation’s effects on animals has been suggested as a way to keep livestock animals roaming the no-entry zone near the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant from being killed or starving in the harsh winter.

Nearly 2,000 cows and other livestock are estimated to still be in the 20-kilometer radius no-entry zone around the crippled power plant.

The plan is being pushed by members of the citizens’ group “Kibo-no-Bokujo — Fukushima Project” (ranch of hope — Fukushima project). On Oct. 21, around 30 people including local livestock farmers, government legislators and veterinarians met in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to discuss the issue.

Masami Yoshizawa, 57, who has about 330 high-quality beef cow at his livestock farm situated in the no-entry zone, said he cannot bear to abandon the animals.

“I know the cows have lost their economic value since they’ve been exposed to radiation. But I think there must be a way to allow them to live. As a cattle breeder, I cannot leave them to die,” he said. “We have to catch them by winter.”

Meanwhile, a 54-year-old woman who had beef cattle in the no-entry zone said tearfully, “I freed 30 of mycows before evacuating. I believe they’re still alive.”

There have also, however, been reports of cows and pigs that are now living wild making their way into residents’ left-behind homes.

Earlier, in May of this year, university researchers asked the central government to let livestock exposed to radiation in Fukushima Prefecture live for use in research. Senior Vice Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Nobutaka Tsutsui expressed support for the idea, but almost no concrete measures have been mapped out.

http://enformable.com/2011/10/radiation-research-suggested-as-way-to-keep-released-livestock-near-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-plant-alive/

Yoshihisa Yamane, head of the vet association, said, “It is important to make effective use of the animals for research, also from the viewpoint of animal protection, rather than just destroying them.” And, of course, Dr. Yamane would say this. He is an active animal researcher. He is also the president of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association. Can you guess what was behind the denial of animal rescue and feeding? Yamane. He would like to do research on them, of course.

The group will focus on such areas as the distribution of contamination inside the cows, the degree of decline in internal exposure when they are fed with untainted items, and how radioactive materials transfer from soil to pasture and then to the meat of the animals, Ito said.

The key word in the second paragraph is MEAT. They will “sacrifice” or shall I say ” kill” these animals for this study. As soon as Yamane’s name was attached to this study, it meant death to all the animals.

Group to study cattle’s radiation exposure in Fukushima no-go zone

A cow is fed straw at a cattle farm on July 15 in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, which was found to have fed cows radioactive cesium-contaminated straw. (Mainichi)

A cow is fed straw at a cattle farm on July 15 in Asakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, which was found to have fed cows radioactive cesium-contaminated straw. (Mainichi)

TOKYO (Kyodo) — A group of veterinarians and other researchers will soon begin studying cattle’s radiation exposure at farms in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture within a no-go zone near the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, participants said Tuesday.

Many of the roughly 3,500 cattle at farms within the 20-kilometers radius of the plant are believed to be living in the wild after their owners evacuated in March in the wake of the country’s worst ever nuclear disaster. About 70 cows, however, have been recaptured and are now being raised on farms in parts of Minamisoma within the zone, according to the city office.

The group, including radiobiologist Nobuhiko Ito, a professor at Kitasato University, and members of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association will visit cooperating farms on a regular basis and study the extent of cattle’s contamination with radioactive materials, they said.

The study, which they plan to have subsidized by the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry, is expected to offer clues about the impact of internal radiation exposure on humans, as well as help livestock farmers take antiradiation measures in the future, they said.

The group will focus on such areas as the distribution of contamination inside the cows, the degree of decline in internal exposure when they are fed with untainted items, and how radioactive materials transfer from soil to pasture and then to the meat of the animals, Ito said.

The radiation-exposed cattle in Minamisoma have been recaptured since summer as farmers sought to raise them for research purposes despite a government instruction in May to slaughter them, under which about 250 have been culled with the consent of their owners.

Apart from the group’s study, a team of Tohoku University and other researchers is poised to begin a study on decontaminating cattle by the end of this year, they said.

Yoshihisa Yamane, head of the vet association, said, “It is important to make effective use of the animals for research, also from the viewpoint of animal protection, rather than just destroying them.”

(Mainichi Japan) November 15, 2011

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2011/11/15/20111115p2g00m0dm014000c.html

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Will the Government of Japan’s radiation studies on the people exposed to radiation include removing tissue and bone samples after they have died? Will they inform the public or keep it a secret?

November 26, 2011

The citizens that were exposed to radiation from the Fukushima Prefecture have a surprise coming to them.  It won’t matter to them, actually, because this will happen to them after they die.  It is just what has been happening with the animals that have been killed and their bodies examined for cesium levels.  Don’t think that it won’t happen to the Fukushima citizens that have been exposed to radiation.  Those same scientists that are examining the animals will want to examine the people also.  This is where the Government of Japan will either tell people or keep it a secret and just take the samples and hope that no one will notice.  The scientists that are like vultures waiting, will want those samples to see what the levels of cesium are in those people.

If they think that their participation of the research being done by the Government of Japan on their exposure to the radiation is limited to just being monitored, it is not.

If they look at other people who were exposed to radiation and subsequently were monitored by the government, they may find that after the people died, the government took samples from those people.  Not only soft tissue samples but bone samples.   These were removed with or without the consent of that person, who had died.

The Japanese people who think that this will not happen to them should make sure that it is clearly stated in all their medical papers that they do not want their bodies to be autopsied nor do they want samples removed from their bodies.  To be doubly sure, they should make sure that they have someone watching their body at all times, since some governments have been known to ” take” samples regardless of the wishes of that person.

Why did authorities choose bone as the only tissue to monitor? Why go to the bother of concealing bone sample removal if easily extracted soft tissue samples could readily be obtained?

Throughout the period of Atomic bomb testing, a military code-word for atomic fallout was “Sunshine”. Indeed, the global human bone sampling survey took this name.

(Source: Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency Report “Australian Strontium 90 Testing Program 1957-1978″ page 12 Attachment A, which states “The Rand report noted that atmospheric testing had as an unintended side effect, introduced tracers into the world’s eco system. The group recommended that there be a worldwide study of the distribution of strontium 90 from the nuclear detonations that had occurred. The project was called “Project Sunshine”….the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (set up by US president Bill Clinton) detailed the secrecy surrounding the collection of human bones….” verbatim. Myriad civilian books note the use by NATO and allied military forces of the word “Sunshine” as a code name for atomic fallout. e.g. “Men Who Play God.”)

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