Radioactive cesium blankets 8% of Japan's land area - Modern day manifestation of Kamikaze?

[kristopher]

"How should we deal with the risk that nuclear power might cause our country to perish? This question is what led me to propose the creation of a society free from dependence on nuclear power." -Naoto Kan Sept 2011, Prime MInister of Japan During Fukushima Multiple Meltdowns


Most people are familiar with the "Kamikaze" suicide attacks by the Japanese during WWII. Slightly less familiar is the true story behind the selection of that name by the Japanese.

From Wiki:
"The Kamikaze (神風, Japanese for divine wind), were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan. These fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. Due to growth of Zen buddhism among Samurai at the time, these were the first events where the typhoons were described as "divine wind" as much by their timing as by their force."

Looking at these maps I can't help but think that once again, the existence of the Japanese nation as a functioning entity was preserved by a "divine wind".

Radioactive cesium blankets 8% of Japan's land area
November 21, 2011

By HIROSHI ISHIZUKA / Staff Writer

Some 8 percent of Japan's land area, or more than 30,000 square kilometers, has been contaminated with radioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

Spanning 13 prefectures, the affected area has accumulated more than 10,000 becquerels of cesium 134 and 137 per square meter, according to the science ministry.

The ministry has released the latest version of its cesium contamination map, covering 18 prefectures.

Radioactive plumes from the Fukushima No. 1 plant reached no farther than the border between Gunma and Nagano prefectures in the west and southern Iwate Prefecture in the north....



http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201111210014

That is certainly bad enough, but there is more. Compare that government produced map with this one from Japanese academic researchers as published by the US National Academy of Science....

Cesium-137 Deposition Simulation Shows Extensive Ocean Contamination Even in Japan Sea

I wrote on Monday November 14 about the paper by the international team of scientists on cesium-137 deposition simulation after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, from March 20 to April 19.

In the English paper that I linked, there was a map of cesium-137 deposition simulation in much wider area of Japan, which I showed in the post.

But then, in the press release by Nagoya University (one of the scientists is from this university), I realized I should have linked the different map of cesium-137 deposition simulation on land and on the ocean. A whole lot of radioactive materials may have fallen on the ocean, the Pacific Ocean AND the Japan Sea. (Remember, this is a simulation map, not the actual measurement.)...

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/11/cesium-137-deposition-simulation-shows.html

See also:

"Now They Tell Us" Continues: Government Research Institute Says Radioactive Cesium in Marine Snow 5K Meters Deep
in the ocean, as far as 2,000 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) did the survey back in April. They decided to tell us now, after 7 months, and they did on November 20 in a symposium titled:
"Emergency Survey on Big Higashi Nihon Earthquake and Disaster - Reporting the result of the emergency survey and the future prospect"

The symposium announcement was made on October 28,2011. Some "emergency" with urgency.

About what they had to say in the symposium, here's Asahi Shinbun (11/20/2011):
The survey by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) reveals that radioactive cesium released from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant reached the ocean 2000 kilometers from the plant and 5000 meters deep one month after the accident. It is considered that airborne cesium particles fell on the ocean surface, and sank as they were attached to the bodies of dead plankton. The survey result was announced in a symposium held on November 20 in Tokyo....

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/11/now-they-tell-us-continues-government.html

[midnight]

1. K&R

[sce56]

2. How do you know the Nuke people are Lying to you? They open their mouths! A Big K&R

[kristopher]

3. It is amazing, isn't it?

Corporate greed is bad enough, but when it is combined with the quasi-religion that is part of the belief system in that industry, it becomes a downright threat.