September 27, 2013
On September 18, 2013, the Japan Meteorological Agency scientist, Michio Aoyama, told the audience at the IAEA 2013 Scientific Forum "The Blue Planet - Nuclear Applications for a Sustainable Marine Environment," that 60 GBq of Cesium-137 & Strontium-90 directly go out to the ocean outside of the Fukushima Daiichi port daily, contradicting the Japanese Prime Minister Abe's words about the contaminated water being blocked from going beyond the port.It turns out that Fukushima Daiichi's undamaged Unit 5 and 6 take up the Fukushima Daiichi port water for cooling and release the contaminated effluent north of the port, directly into the Pacific Ocean. This fact, by default, invalidates the Prime Minister Abe's infamous "total block" statement.
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*How a Scientist Was Censored by the Japanese Government After the Fukushima Accident
The
following was written on September 20, 2013, for an e-mail
communication on some mailing lists, based on the information from
the Japanese news and a Japanese blog that summarized a series of
Asahi Shimbun articles, called Prometheus Trap: Order to Suspend
Radiation Monitoring, published in February 2012. Although the
English version of this Prometheus series is available online, only a
limited number of articles can be accessed without monthly payments.
Michio
Aoyama, a senior scientist at Geochemical Research Department of
Meteorological Research Institute, Japanese Meteorological Agency,
and a long-time researcher of environmental impact of radioactivity,
had his research censored by the government shortly after the
Fukushima accident. First, his team was deprived of funding to
check environmental radioactivity almost immediately after the
accident and ordered not to take any measurements. (His team
learned of the explosion on TV and immediately began taking samples
to take measurements. The radiation levels were so high that
their instruments were not able to take proper measurements, so they
were in the middle of making adjustments to enable the necessary
measurements when the order came not to take any measurements).
But Aoyama's team ignored the order and continued the measurements
with the underground support by other research institutes. Then
Aoyama was told not to release his research findings, co-written by
Ken Buesseler and slated to be published in Nature, which stated that
the Fukushima oceanic contamination was several orders of magnitude
higher than that from the past nuclear testing and at least one order
of magnitude higher than the contamination in Black Sea and Baltic
Sea due to the 1986 Chernobyl accident. His superior said to
take this part out, which was actually written by Ken Buesseler.
Aoyama could not publish this study due to the Meteorological Agency
not giving him permission.
IAEA's
Scientific Forum this year happened to be on radiation and ocean, and
Aoyama mikght have seized the moment ot reveal the truth.
References
IAEA
2013 Scientific Forum Program PDF
Japanese
blog covering the summary of the Prometheus Trap series.
The
Prometheus Trap: Order to Suspend Radiation Monitoring (a series of
15 stories)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201202060076
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