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Radioactive fallout scatters in Japan
The ministry said that the cesium from the stricken nuclear plant has now reached all prefectures including Uruma in Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, Japan’s daily newspaper The Japan Times reported on Friday.
The news comes against a backdrop of unwavering and illegal supports by the Japanese Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano, which have helped prevent the country’s nuclear scandal from being revealed in international circles.
The ministry confirmed the radioactive substances came from the stricken nuclear plant since, in all cases, they contained cesium-134, which has a half-life of about two years.
A destructive 9-magnitude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami struck Japan’s northern coasts on March 11, setting off a nuclear crisis by knocking out power to cooling systems of reactors at the Fukushima plant and causing radioactive leaks.
Before the earthquake, radioactive substances were hardly detectable in most areas.
On November 18, The Japan Times reported that large areas of eastern and northeastern Japan were probably contaminated with concentrations of cesium-137.
2 Comments on "Radioactive fallout scatters in Japan"
James on Tue, 29th Nov 2011 9:03 pm
And we still think Japan is going to continue to be an economic powerhouse? I don’t think so. Over the next few years, there will be a rapid rise in cancers and leukemia. The industrial sector will never come back, and Japan still have a financial debt to deal with that it may never be able to pay back.
Kenz300 on Wed, 30th Nov 2011 4:42 pm
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous. The disaster at Fukishima continues today and is far from over.
Had that been a solar plant or wind farm it would be a cleaned up by now and the people would be moving back to the evacuated areas.