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RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED BUILDINGS
DISCUSSION OF PROBLEMs WITH REGARD TO Taiwan’s
RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED BUILDINGS
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By Smith Ssu-Ming HSU (Sam HSU,³\«ä©ú),
Secretary General
RADIATION SAFETY AND PROTECTION
ASSOCIATION TAIWAN (RSPAT)
RADIATION VICTIMS
ASSOCIATION TAIWAN (RVAT)
Some surprising local news came to light recently:
A 200 Micron Sievert/per hour HEAVILY RADIOACTIVELY CONTAMINATED
VILLA WAS FOUND IN TAIPEI CITY, BECAUSE OF STRUGGLING ON ITS
POSITION PROMOTION IN ATOMIC ENERGY CONCIL (AEC). Disclosed by
a Taiwan’s well known local newspaper reporter, eight (8) years ago.
A large number of in northern Taiwan (particularly Taipei)
have found themselves involuntarily and without their
knowledge of consent to be involved within a
terrible/unbelievable situation over the years. These innocent
people residents with radioactively contaminated (rad. cont.)
apartments, were told, only within the last few years, of the
radioactively rebar (steel bar) with their walls which has, in many
cases, been presented within the walls since1982.
By the date of this writing, a total of over 183-building and
1,555-house(apartments)
contaminated with (radioactive) Cobalt-60 have been located.
The injured population due to this Co-60 contamination numbers
over 15,000 (person). Radioactive contamination includes rebar with
office buildings, apartments, National Building Bureau built
apartments, factories, government-owned offices, universities, middle
schools, kindergartens, nurseries, etc.
As part of our investigation on this situation, RADIATION
SAFETY AND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION TAIWAN, obtained secret
information from anonymous sources with in the ATOMIC ENERGY
COUNCIL concerning on the original sources of these radioactively
contaminated materials.
It appears, from this information, that HSIN JONG IRON AND
STEEL MFG. CO., LTD.(=HSIN JONG) made a serious mistake, in
that HSIN JONG bought a substantial amount of radioactively
contaminated steel and wasted pipe connections from a Nuclear
Power Plant of Taiwan Power Co., Ltd.
Our investigation found that the total weight of Rad.Conta
PROCESSED steel bar may total as much as 20,000-Ton during the
period from 1982 to 1984. However, until now, we estimated that the
Rad. Cont. steel bars weight amounted to 7,000-Ton only; and
the location of the remaining 13,000-Ton of Rad. Conta.
steel bars for house builders is still unknown to us.
This tonnage of contaminated steel does not include contaminated
steel that may have been used in Chung-Li Wan Nien Engineering
College (¸U¦~¤u±M) which was built in 1991.
It still remains a GREAT SECRET (we have an evidence that the
wasted scrap were coming from Nuclear Power Plant) where the Rad.
Cont. steel came from and where it is currently located within
Taiwan’s buildings/apartments or offices. AEC officers always state
publicly that their ability to trace this Rad. Cont. steel ends to
the steel mill (avoiding to mention that the high Rad Conta. wastes
are coming from Nuclear Power Plants etc. for recycling purposes).
Presently, these Rad. Conta. Buildings materials are mixed into:
iron steel bars, steel angles, round steel bars, iron doors,
iron windows, water pipe fittings, and even within Taipei City
Government made sewer road-iron covers which was made and found in
1987.
The contaminated areas include, Taipei City, Taipei Hsien,
Keelung, Taoyuan, Chang-Hwa and now seems as well to include middle
of southern areas of this beautiful Taiwan Island.
Finally, we, RADIATION SAFETY AND PROTECTION ASSOCIATION TAIWAN,
have located within HSIN JONG STEEL AND IRON MFG. CO., LTD.
sales BALANCE SHEET FIGURES, notations regarding 604.15-Ton of
WASTE IRON SCRAP which in turn, was resold by NUCLEAR POWER PLANT of
TAIWAN POWER COMPANY on Oct. 29, 1982.
In late Nov. 1982, HSIN JONG began to manufacture Rad. Cont.
STEEL BAR (rebar) for local housing/apartment buildings for
construction use.
Our statistics show that this Rad. Cont. steel rebar (bar)
has been sold to many local builders for housing construction
including: Min Sheng Villa (¥Á¥Í§O¹Ö) Chang Shah Street, Yen-Chiou-
Yuan Rd., Taipei Enterprises Building , Chia-Kuei-Lin, Chung-Li
Tai Power Business Division, Nan-Kang Tai-Fertilizer Apartment,
Taoyuan Juei-Hen Electronic Co., ICBC’s Chia-Shan Steel Mill.,
etc.
It is clear that Taiwan Power Company is selling off their
Nuclear Power Company’s wasted Rad. Conta. Scrap, old machinery
parts, etc. Until 1991, during almost every year, they continuously
disposed of their wasted scraps. This wasted radioactive scrap was
found in Ku-Ting District Office road-sewer-covers in 1987.
Wan-Nien Engineering College building’s Rad. Conta. steel iron
bar was mixed with heavy Rad. Conta. Bars coming from Nuclear
Power Plant of Taiwan Power Company’s wasted Rad. Conta. Scraps.
We suspected all the captioned facts, that it is possible
that AEC are always pretended ignorant but only for their
employees’ welfare benefits purposes, so called recycling/disposal
for wasted scrap.
This is evidence that Taiwan’s security offices have failed
to protect its citizens against radiation contamination problems.
We, the people of Taiwan, within 15,000 residences and 1.555-
house have suffered in this way a terrible disaster and as a
result, many of these victims are faced with bankruptcy.
Their apartments are still mortgaged to Banks for installment
basis. These people cannot afford to relocated. If they were to
have move out from their residences, their financial condition would
be very bleak, indeed.
Seven or more years have passed, except a few places, yet
relevant government officials/organizations have never taken an
appropriate action or initiated settlement with the victims of these
problems.
The Rad. Conta. Material is not only contained within
domestic steel bar but it is also showing up within U.S. pipe
fittings and its connections which were made in Taiwan for
export to the U.S. in earlier 1984.
It is our understanding that refused, Rad. Conta. Pipe fittings
and connections were resold by our domestic merchants again without
relevant organization oversight.
We believe that there still are many home hardware items,
instruments, iron doors, round iron bars, screw, bolts, nuts,
vehicle parts and other items exported to the foreign countries
including Europe, the U.S. , Japan, and Asian countries containing
Rad. Conta. Materials.
By means of this report, its is hoped that the relevant
officers/organizations and individuals within developed foreign
countries will be made aware of this difficult situation, and see fit
to assist us in the resolution of these cruel, health-devastating
problems as quickly as practicable.
Furthermore, we sincerely hope that ADVANCED COUNTRIES will
stop producing NUCLEAR POWER PLANT/WEAPON, and come to the
aid of radiation exposure victims.
Your advanced MEDICAL TREATMENT INTERVENTION for Rad. Conta.
VICTIMs and related technical assistance/guidance etc, would also be
greatly appreciated.
Tel. 001-886-2-2713-
6180
Fax. 001-886-2-2719-0366
Email:
{ HYPERLINK "mailto:a6180@ms3.hinet.net"; }a6180@ms3.hinet.net
Radiation Problems on
Taiwan
2001-05-01
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Director, Technical Extension 2306
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