Japan Radiation Data -- Greenpeace
From Greenpeace:
We have found radiation at levels high enough to raise health concerns for the people who continue to live daily with this contamination. We have also shown that the authorities have consistently underestimated both the risks and extent of radioactive contamination. Based on our results we called for a significant extension to the evacuation area, which was later implemented. We advised that until decontamination was completed, children should be held back from their schools to avoid high radiation levels. We have also found that official monitoring stations systematically underestimate the radiation risks for the population.
Our analysis of the threats to public health have given residents an alternative to the often contradictory information released by Japan’s authorities since the Fukushima disaster began.
The teams are made up of Greenpeace radiation experts who have been trained in radiation monitoring and the use of sophisticated measuring devices.
Locations and details of radiation levels to date are shown on the maps below.
Click a flag for details on the levels of contamination found. Raw data as well as sample analyses can be found in spreadsheets further down the page.
Data from past disaster might be indirectly revealing.
ReplyDeleteQuote: “Your previous article seems to show a spike soon afterward” [Chernobyl] “in Japan.”
Reply by nuclearhistory: “Good spot, Dud. Importantly, Japanese scientists recorded the arrival of Chernobyl fallout. And a couple of years later doctors in Japan began to become concerned at an increase in childhood cancers. I will put some source material up in regard to both the arrival of Chernobyl fallout in Japan and the increase in childhood cancer in Japan from the late 1980s and lasted until the 1990s. I will post the material today.”
http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/latent-period-of-childhood-thyroid-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-93
Title: “Incidence and survival trends for childhood cancer in Osaka, Japan, 1973–2001″
http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/incidence-and-survival-trends-for-childhood-cancer-in-osaka-japan-1973-2001/
A look at the graphs shows some obvious spikes post-Chernobyl.
Also see: http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/deposition-of-gamma-emitting-nuclides-in-japan-after-the-reactor-iv-accident-at-chernobyl/
Quote of Brett Stokes: “So the 1986 May 137Cs deposits were more than six times the monthly average during times of atmospheric bomb testing.”
Reply by nuclearhistory: “Brett, someone needs to write a paper about this and the childhood stats which followed.”
http://nuclearexhaust.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/deposition-of-gamma-emitting-nuclides-in-japan-after-the-reactor-iv-accident-at-chernobyl/comment-page-1/#comment-96