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Christina MacPherson posted: "Experts: Shock during first trip to
Fukushima — Radiation levels so high far away from reactors that full
protection suit would be used in U.S., yet people were walking around
— “Contamination far more widespread than most understand”
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Radiation levels high – 45 miles from Fukushima nuclear reactors

by Christina MacPherson

Experts: Shock during first trip to Fukushima — Radiation levels so
high far away from reactors that full protection suit would be used in
U.S., yet people were walking around — “Contamination far more
widespread than most understand”
http://enenews.com/experts-shock-during-first-trip-to-fukushima-radiation-levels-so-high-far-away-from-reactors-that-full-protection-suit-would-be-used-in-u-s-yet-people-were-walking-around-contamination-far
Title: Cleanup From Fukushima Daiichi: Technological Disaster Or
Crisis In Governance?
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Author: Art Keller
Date: June 13, 2013
[...] Shortly after arrival on their first trip to Japan, the group
headed for Shirikawa, a city 45 miles west and a few miles south of
the Daiichi nuclear plant. [Sam Engelhard, an industrial hygenist and
certified radiation protection technologist,] was shocked as soon as
he unpacked his radiation sensor gear and turned it on. Here they were
almost 50 miles from the accident site and in the opposite direction
of the prevailing winds, and the crew’s radiation alarms immediately
started going off.

“The radiation levels we were seeing were 1,000 times background,
higher in spots,” Engelhard said. “If we had been working on a site
this contaminated in the US, we would have been fully suited up in
radiation protection suits, gloves, and respirators. Yet people were
walking around and going about their business, with no idea of how
contaminated everything around them was.” [...]

[Kevin Wang of Califonia-based company PowerPlus] believes the
Fukushima radiological contamination far more widespread that most
Japanese understand. “One thing I heard so often during my trips to
Japan that it became a mantra, was that ‘Fukushima is a Japanese
problem and we have to fix it ourselves.’  So far, I haven’t seen any
evidence that the government is taking the right steps to fix things.
Instead, the wounded pride of government officials, and a lack of
understanding at the urgency of the problem, prevented Japan from
taking the steps they needed to.” [...]

Christina MacPherson | June 14, 2013 at 8:02 am | Categories:
Fukushima 2013 | URL: http://wp.me/phgse-dqP

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