1,000 US High School Students to Do Volunteer Cleanup, Tree-Planting in Fukushima

Full TItle: 1,000 US High School Students to Do Volunteer Cleanup, Tree-Planting in #Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, Ibaraki and Observe Japan's Recovery

Following the footsteps of the students from Middle Tennessee State University, 1,000 high school students from across the United States will be volunteering in the disaster affected Tohoku, in Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Ibaraki Prefectures. Activities will include clean-up and planting trees, according to the Japanese government foundation who invited them.

Around 1,000 high school students and youths from the United States will visit the Tohoku region in three groups from Sunday to carry out volunteer work in four disaster-hit prefectures at the invitation of the Japan Foundation.

Each group will stay in the country for a fortnight and engage in various exchanges with locals in Iwate, Miyagi, Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures, according to the foundation, which specializes in cultural exchanges.

Participants in the program will come from 40 schools across the United States, including areas affected by natural disasters in the past, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The last group will arrive in late July.

Some of the students are from the former schools of two young American teachers killed by the March 2011 tsunami — Taylor Anderson from Virginia and Montgomery Dickson from Alaska — who were teaching English at schools in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, and Rikuzentakata in Iwate. Those students will visit both cities, which were devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

All those taking part will also visit Kobe to witness the city's recovery from the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

The above Japan Times article doesn't say much about the students' activities beyond "cultural exchanges", but the Foundation's press release does.

Nuke workers VISITING the area (no gear) said to be safe for citizens were scanned for radiation and had surprisingly high amounts of contaminants in their lungs.

Well, duh. They were outside of a controlled area, wearing no protection. They didn’t get the exposure from working at Fukushima. I’m talking about nuke workers working at a nuke plant.

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Well duh...citizens LIVE there on the assurances that it is safe. Nuke workers were contaminated by brief visits. But wait..citizens just don’t matter to nuke shills.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/229006-Thousands-of-Nuclear-plant-workers-suffer-internal-radiation-exposure-after-visiting-Fukushima

“Thousands of Nuclear plant workers suffer internal radiation exposure after visiting Fukushima”

“People are deemed to have had internal exposure if whole-body counters detect over 1,500 cpm of radiation from them. If more than 100,000 cpm of radiation is detected from body surfaces, decontamination is said to be necessary. “

“Nobuaki Terasaka, head of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, told the House of Representatives Budget Committee on May 16 that there were a total of 4,956 cases of workers suffering from internal exposure to radiation at nuclear power plants in the country excluding the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, and 4,766 of them involved workers originally from Fukushima who had visited the prefecture after the nuclear crisis. “

“In 1,193 cases, workers had internal exposure to radiation of more than 10,000 cpm. “

Two things about nuke testing:

First, if you’ll remember, we were in the Cold War in a rapid nuclear weapons buildup race. The government was (understandably so) very reluctant to reveal info that could be used by the Soviets, and so they kept as much info classified as they could.

Second, in the early days, they did not have a complete grasp of the effects of nuclear detonations. They did not have a complete grasp of the effects of radiation and contamination from nuclear fallout. That was the reason for the testing. That’s the reason testing went underground when they started to understand what the effects of open air testing were.

US Nuclear industry corrupt and incompetent...my my. Six decades of reactor plant operations...over a hundred reactor plants...one accident which did not result in exposure of the general public to fission products and which had fewer fatalities than the back seat of Ted Kennedy’s car....corrupt and incompetent. Yup.

From your link:

Most of the workers who had internal exposure to radiation visited Fukushima after the nuclear crisis broke out following the March 11 quake and tsunami, and apparently inhaled radioactive substances scattered by hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

Again...this was in the immediate aftermath of the crisis, not what they are doing NOW.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it received the data from power companies across the country that measured the workers' internal exposure to radiation with "whole-body counters" and recorded levels of 1,500 counts per minute (cpm) or higher. In 1,193 cases, workers had internal exposure to radiation of more than 10,000 cpm. Those workers had apparently returned to their homes near the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant or had moved to other nuclear power plants from the Fukushima No. 1 and 2 nuclear power plants.

Their exposures resulted from staying unprotected in an area in close proximity to the plants after the reactor buildings exploded. This is completely understandable given the chaos of the situation. Within a short period of time later, no one was allowed to stay in that area.

According to Kakizawa, one worker at the Shika Nuclear Power Plant operated by Hokuriku Electric Power Co. in Ishikawa Prefecture returned to his home in Kawauchi, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 13 and stayed there for several hours. He then stayed in Koriyama in the prefecture with his family for one night before moving out of Fukushima. On March 23, he underwent a test at the Shika Nuclear Power Plant that showed his internal exposure to radiation had reached 5,000 cpm. He was thus instructed by the company to remain on standby. The radiation reading dropped below 1,500 cpm two days later, and then he returned to work.

Again, someone being in an unsafe area in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Note how quickly his the internal contamination decayed...two days and he was back to within acceptable levels. He's going to be just fine.

you have no proof that anyone is going to be just fine. The results of radiologic exposure take time to show themselves and at that point - shills like you demand proof that illness resulted from exposure. There’s always a slimy way out.

TEPCO and Japanese government declared regions SAFE for people -that’s why otherwise well informed nuke workers were there. They suppressed SPEEDI data because it exposed their incompetent management of nuclear power so civilians, including children were exposed for days. They were told to shelter indoors and mayors were specifically instructed to withhold potassium iodide pills (don’t want ‘panic’ now do we - so let them be exposed without protection we promise them when the plants are built!). Only one mayor refused to follow orders and distributed potassium iodide.

They are suppressing health relevant information and services RIGHT NOW and they will continue to do so. They are preventing children from bringing school lunches from home and shipping Fukushima produce and contaminated tea all over Japan and denying medical knowledge of its affects RIGHT NOW. They are denying because countries like the US and Russia have shown them that it’s possible to deny, bat down, and outrun responsibility for decades. They are denying the existance of ‘black dust’ and asking children to clean playgrounds and pools known to be contaminated with radioactive waste RIGHT NOW.
The internet is making it hard on your kind. IMagine if we only had US newspapers to consult.
A citizen simply got in his car and drove around measuring contamination outside the exclusion zone and recorded his data, including the fact that young policemen were stationed at contaminated areas:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/professor-yukio-hayakawa-takes.html
Note the disbelief of his supervisor when the citizen explains the radiation findings RIGHT NOW. Yes - complete disbelief. Excellent! For TEPCO and Japanese government that is - they roll over the population demanding their trust and mocking all concern and it is working. People like you ridicule anything but the party line and when some in this population show obvious signs of radiation damage - deny it! Because it has worked in the past. Just don’t expect respect from the populace, m’kay? Individually and as a group, your industry has credibility in the negative numbers....somewhere in the basement where....the Japanese are guessing the molten cores of Fukushima power plants lie.

The cores at Fukushima haven't been in a molten state for more than a year.

Potassium iodide pills only work to prevent damage to the thyroid...nothing else. Thyroid cancer, which can occur after exposure, is very treatable and almost never fatal.

There is quite a bit of data about radiation exposure and it's effects on the human body. Most people don't understand radiation and its' biological affects, and therefore fear it. Understandable, especially for people like yourself. Again I go back to Chernobyl—the most epidemiologically studied event in medical history. Oh...that's right...there's a world wide conspiracy to keep Chernobyl hush hush.

Did you take your Potassium iodide??? Maybe you should get a Geiger counter and check to see if your tin foil hat is contaminated.

The cores at Fukushima haven’t been in a molten state for more than a year.
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No, that is theoretical speculation/wishful thinking.

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Potassium iodide pills only work to prevent damage to the thyroid...nothing else. Thyroid cancer, which can occur after exposure, is very treatable and almost never fatal.

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No, international studies conducted in the years following Chernobyl document an astonishing rise in ‘agressive’ thyroid cancer in young children that resisted all attempts to treat it. I was hoping this meant ‘given the resources available in the Ukraine’ but the report documented the fact that even western facilities in England and other parts of Europe were unsuccessful. Why should TEPCO/Japan decide that it’s ‘only’ thyroid cancer and withhold potassium iodide from children when these pills are always waved before the public’s watchful eye when the plants are first built “Don’t worry - in the UNLIKELY event that we admit to anything wrong at Fukushima, your cities can give you potassium iodide...’ It wouldn’t prevent the other types of illnesses documented in Chernobyl (suppression of immune system, leukemia, early dementia, cardiac arrest etc.) but why withhold the only hope children had of avoiding radiation induced thyroid cancer??? To avoid accountability, of course. So what if your child gets cancer, at least we didn’t admit to a radiation release sufficient to cause it! Later, we’ll deny it was Fukushima because we claimed there wasn’t enough radiation released! Touche!
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There is quite a bit of data about radiation exposure and it’s effects on the human body.
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yes - dating back to the 50’s at the start of nuclear energy and JOhn GOfman’s research, it has been known to harm human health, even at low doses. The BEIR VII (latest US research) and the resulting report from Chernobyl simply put numbers to the damage which has long been known to result.
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Most people don’t understand radiation and its’ biological affects, and therefore fear it. Understandable, especially for people like yourself. Again I go back to Chernobyl—the most epidemiologically studied event in medical history. Oh...that’s right...there’s a world wide conspiracy to keep Chernobyl hush hush.
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Not world wide, actually. It’s the insurer (government) propping up the industry (nuclear). That’s why the nuke industry is trying to bury legitimate research under fake research put out by the nuke industry. Kinda like the way tobacco companies hired doctors to generate feeble reports purporting to prove that smoking was unrelated to lung health. Oh I read a report by an oil company claiming that oil spills offshore ‘protected’ seaweed anchored to break water rocks from ‘damaging’ waves. Yeah it’s not like shilling has never been attempted before.

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Did you take your Potassium iodide??? Maybe you should get a Geiger counter and check to see if your tin foil hat is contaminated.

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When the data (BEIR VII etc.) is against you (the report from the Ukraine, the latest clean data from Hiroshima) then sneer - it’s the nuclear industry’s ‘strongest’ defense. Just act superior. It doesn’t work anymore but that pretense is all you have so make the most of it.

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