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Dear all,

Thank you all for visiting, reading and sharing the news with me on the Fukushima Appeal Blog. I’ve kept it running since February 2012. Unfortunately, I will need some break now to attend to some of my health issues.

I would like to thank this blog and its supporters for giving me an opportunity to become a part of the slowly awakening global community during this very important time of global change. I had zero knowledge of nuclear before the Fukushima disaster, and was and still am a just normal citizen. It’s been hard to see Japan becoming a criminal, immoral and authoritarian country since the Fukushima Disaster. So it’s been a huge awakening and healing process to have a platform to speak out instead of feeling powerless, angry and sad about it. With the new secret law that is going to be introduced in Japan soon, Japanese people will need more help than at any other time in its history from foreign bloggers, doctors and scientists. Please remember Fukushima. I hope that the more difficulties we may encounter, the stronger and connected we will become to fight against injustice and be able to act from our heart space. (Mia)

日本の皆さん、がんばってください。 再稼動反対、子供を守れ! 1mSv/yの約束を守れ!

For more Fukushima update go to: www.nuclear-news.net, http://fukushima-diary.com/, https://www.facebook.com/fukushima311watchdog, http://enenews.com/, http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/, http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/ http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/

Petition: Support Mari Takenouchi and Radiation Protection

日 本の皆様へ、個人的な感情面から、竹ノ内真理さんのことを批判したい方は、すでにそうしたのだから、これからは、その時間とエネルギーをエートス批判に向 けるべきではないでしょうか? そしてボランテイアで、海外に向けて、英語発信する真理さんは、海外の情報源にとって、貴重な存在だと思います。 (Mia)

(English) https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Office_of_the_Prosecutor_Iwaki_Branch_Fukushima_Japan_Support_Mari_Takenouchi_and_Radiation_Protection/?pv=4

(Japanese) https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Fu_Dao_Xian_Jian_Cha_Ting_Dian_ziyanarisutonoZhu_Ye_Nei_Zhen_Li_Shi_Save_Kids_JapanwoQi_Su_sinaidekudasai/?pv=8

Urgent Petition: ttp://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/ask-japanese-government-promise-for-necessary-aid-for-children-who-are-still-exposed-radiation-more-than-1msv-year-3


National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation

I hope that every child in Japan is given comprehensive thyroid blood testing including at the minimum TSH, Free T4, Free T3 and thyroid antibodies. Their thyroid function should be regularly tested on an ongoing basis. “ By Dana Trentini http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/thyroid-testing-for-japanese-children.html

*latest Fukushima Thyroid examination results released on Nov 12. (Complete English translation) (Source) http://fukushimavoice-eng2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/thirteenth-prefectural-oversight.html
National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation

*Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario In November, TEPCO set to begin to remove fuel rods whose radiation matches the fallout of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/24-3

*Kashiwazaki Nuclear Plant: Fukushima Governor stands in the way to stop restarting! 柏崎原発:再稼動させないよう立ちはだかる新潟県知事泉田氏 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/kashiwazaki-nuclear-plant-fukushima.html

*Statement: Japanese civil society requests that the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima be revised 日本の64の市民団体が福島事故に関しての国連科学の報告内容を改訂するよう要請 www.http://hrn.or.jp/eng/a tivity/area/worldwide/japanese-civil-society-requests-that-the-reports-of-the-united-nations-scientific-committee-on-fukus/

Anand Grover, Esq., UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, criticizes UNSCEAR report on Fukushima -10/24/2013 (1 of 4)国連「健康に対する権利」の特別報告者のアナンド・グローバー氏: 国連科学の報告を批判 Video - http://vimeo.com/78483070 October 24, 2013 (NYC, NY)

*Medical experts criticize UNSCEAR report for playing down consequences of Fukushima nuclear accident ドイツの専門家が国連科学の報告書を、「福島事故の影響を過小評価している」と批判! http://www.save-children-from-radiation.org/2013/11/05/medical-experts-criticize-unscear-report-for-playing-down-consequences-of-fukushima-nuclear-accident/

*Frightening Report from the UNSCEAR (The United nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation UNSCEAR-国連科学委員会による、恐るべき報告http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/frightening-report-from-unsear-united.html

*Heavily Criticized Recent WHO Report on Health Risk Assessment from the Fukushima Disaster 厳しく批判された最近の福島事故による健康被害についてのWHO報告 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/who-report-on-health-risk-assessment.html

*UN Report – Japanese Delegation to The UN Spreads Lies and Deception! 国連報告書2013年4月  国連への日本政府代表団のうそとごまかし! 抗議締め切り517日! http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/un-report-japanese-delegation-to-un.html

*まとめ:国連報告書2013年4月  国連への日本政府代表団のうそとごまかし! 抗議締め切り517http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/un-report-japanese-delegation-to-un.html

*A letter to all young athletes who dream of coming to Tokyo in 2020 東京オリンピックを目指している若い選手の方々へ Some Facts You Should Know About Fukushima 0.086Bq/kg was normal amount of ionizing radiation in fish before the Fukushima accident. Now it is 100Bq/kg 1160times more radioactive. http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/a-letter-to-all-young-athletes-who.html

Fukushima Petitions ☢ Please Sign and Share! Japan needs Worldwide Help NOW! Stop Fukushima Radiation – UN Action Needed

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/STOP_FUKUSHIMA_RADIATION_UN_ACTION_NEEDED/

Mobilize the U.N. Security Council to declare Fukushima a global emergency;
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mobilize-the-un-security

*Tokyo radiation is worse than Gomel - Mika Noro’s speech on the impact of radiation in Japan http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tokyo-radiation-is-worse-than-gomel.html

*Police arrest animal rescuers inside Fukushima evacuation zone — “They cannot be contacted and are being charged with crimes” http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/police-arrest-animal-rescuers-inside.html

Resistance posted by Ian Thomas Ash, a director of Fukushima Documantary Film "A2-B-C"

As one does not train with weight that is too light,….. And as I write this, I realize something for the first time: the more I embrace the resistance, the more I am becoming it. http://ianthomasash.blogspot.jp/2013/11/resistance.html

*福島原発で働く皆さんへ、世界からの暖かいメッセージ http://nuclear-news.net/2013/12/01/to-the-fukushima-workers-we-support-you-address-to-j-village-supplied/

(Japanese translation)http://goo.gl/re5822

*Fukushima Farmers negotiate with Japanese Government/Tepco 福島農家の若者、政府と東電に対して勇気ある発言 http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/fukushima-farmers-negotiate-with.html The current government limit is 100Bq/kg... 0.1Bq/kg for cesium in rice before the Fukushima disaster. … We feel guilty about growing it and selling it...

*Atomic bombs survivors received fair compensation, not so in Fukushima!

広島・長崎の被爆者援護法:追加1ミリ被曝で被曝者認定、福島事故被害者にも認定を、するべき

The Japanese Gov recognizes radiation related illnesses! http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/atomic-bombs-survivors-received-fair.html


Tuesday 17 September 2013

Farmers’ radiation-tainted straw remains in limbo 東北農家:行き場のない放射能汚染した麦わら。。


(Source) http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000586109
The Yomiuri Shimbun
Bundles of straw and pasture grass tainted with radioactive substances are kept in a pasture in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture.
Little progress has been made in the disposal of straw and pasture grass contaminated with radioactive materials from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, which was crippled by the Great East Japan Earthquake about two and a half years ago.
Among 10 prefectures, 68,000 tons of such straw and grass has yet to be disposed of, according to the results of The Yomiuri Shimbun’s research on the work conducted by local governments.
While other radiation-contaminated materials such as incinerated ash and sewage sludge have been stored at facilities under local governments, the burden of most tainted straw and pasture grass has been left to individual farmers. “How long are we supposed to keep it?” said one such farmer.
A farm in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture, has 170 bundles of tainted straw and pasture grass wrapped in white sheets. Each weighs 300 to 400 kilograms and was originally intended to be feed for livestock.
“I have to keep my cattle away from them, and now I’m concerned about harmful rumors,” a 50-year-old farmer said.
Tome has so many livestock farmers that there are 5,000 tons of tainted straw and pasture grass in the city.All the straw has been designated as specified radioactive waste as it contains more than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive materials per kilogram. It has been stored at temporary collection centers and individual farms. Meanwhile, pasture grass has been kept by about 180 farmers as it contains less than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive substance per kilogram.
In September 2012, the government announced a policy that waste containing over 8,000 becquerels of radioactive materials per kilogram must be wrapped in sheets or other materials and kept on farmers’ properties or publicly owned land plots. Those containing 8,000 becquerels or less per kilogram can be incinerated and buried by local governments in a manner similar to ordinary waste disposal, according to the policy.
Under the Law on Special Measures Concerning the Handling of Pollution by Radioactive Materials, local governments must dispose of specified radioactive waste, which contains high concentrations of cesium or other radioactive materials. Meanwhile, the central government is responsible for constructing permanent disposal sites for such waste with contamination levels higher than the 8,000-becquerel limit.
However, no progress has been seen for the past two years in the construction of permanent disposal sites.
Since local residents often oppose bringing waste containing less than 8,000 becquerels of radioactive materials per kilogram to temporary storage centers, such waste has been stored in plastic greenhouses or buried in farmland.
In Nasu Shiobara, Tochigi Prefecture, about 180 tons of straw and pasture grass exceeding the limit have been kept by 50 farming households. An agriculture and livestock department official of the city government said, “Some farmers are concerned that their property will become the permanent waste disposal sites.”
Miyagi prefectural government initially requested that municipal governments in the prefecture keep waste with contamination levels exceeding the 8,000-becquerel limit for about two years until this autumn. In June, however, it asked that the storage period be extended.
“Many local governments have been giving explanations [on waste containing more than 8,000 becquerels] over and over again to the residents,” said an official of Iwate prefectural government. However, a few local governments have actually incinerated such waste.

(Editor's note: In the wake of the Fukushima disaster the Japanese Government relaxed the safety limit for ionizing radiation in debris including straw and pasture grass up to 8,000BQ/kg from 100Bq/kg in July, 2012, allowing normal incinerators to incinerate radioactive material below 8,000Bq/kg in the same way as normal material.

The Japanese Government Wants to Spread Radioactive Debris Throughout Japan.

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/japanese-government-wants-to-spread.html



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