Posted on 10/23/2011 8:34:35 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011
Science ministry reverses government claims after on-site survey finds high amouts of cesium
Kashiwa hot spot linked to Fukushima
Kyodo, Staff report
CHIBA — The science ministry said Sunday the high radiation detected on city-owned land in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, is emanating from cesium that was probably ejected by the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant, contradicting earlier government claims.
When the Kashiwa Municipal Government first received a report about an airborne radiation reading of 57.7 microsieverts per hour at the site, it said the radiation was unlikely to be related to the Fukushima disaster because it was coming from such a tiny area.
On Sunday, the science ministry and the city government found a side ditch near the reported hot spot during a joint survey and said it is highly likely that rain tainted with fallout from the Fukushima plant was running into nearby soil.
Earlier surveyors who dug deeper into the soil at the hot spot recorded higher levels of radiation, leading some experts to speculate that the contaminated soil came from elsewhere and might have been deliberately buried there.
But the ministry has confirmed that rain water is leaching out of the ditch and into the soil at the spot, ministry officials said at a new conference Sunday.
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President Obama, We do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAqiGSp29c
Scary :/ Kashiwa is roughly 10 miles from me >.<
Absolutely. I’d be very worried.
I’ve heard a lot of people are leaving Japan. Is that true?
I’m sure it’s worse than anyone is reporting; the Japanese are lying so as not to be blamed for radiation all over the place. I wonder if there’s any way to get the truth on this ( ie not including wing-bat conspiracy stuff)
If the liar in chief said it, then it’s a bald faced lie.
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