#Fukushima radiation fears are linked to increase in #obesity among children | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/dec/27/fukushima-radiation-child-obesity-fears
Lingering fears of radiation have turned children from Fukushima into the most obese in Japan, according to a government study, as parents and schools continue to restrict the amount of time they spend outdoors.
Le poisson radioactif de #Fukushima | Nature
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/10/fukushima-fish-still-hot.html
plots of radioactivity in fish around the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (...)
There’s a couple of things the graph tell us: first, there is enough radioactivity in the fish in Fukushima prefecture to seriously hinder commercial fishing. Second, the radioactivity doesn’t seem to have declined in the first year after the accident.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/files/2012/10/Fukushima-fish-large.jpg
Christmas in the Radiation Zone | The Indypendent
http://indypendent.org/2012/01/03/christmas-radiation-zone
It’s the first thing you notice. Electric orange, ripe and luscious persimmons hang from every bough. As we drive through the country and over the glittering, snow-specked mountain range from Fukushima city to Soma on the northeast coast of Japan, we pass many persimmon trees dotting the landscape, all laden with fruit, ready for harvesting.
But this year, the persimmons of Fukushima prefecture will remain untouched. Bounty only for microbial decomposers, they are a silent reminder of the slow-burning, far-reaching menace of a nuclear accident.
Since March 11, local people, long skilled in farming this verdant and fertile region, have added expertise about the effects of radiation to their library of stored knowledge. The persimmons are deemed unsafe, irradiated by the releases from the stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima-Daiichi, 15 miles south of here. I am told the persimmons, which, when peeled and dried by a traditional process, are called hoshigaki, were a local specialty. Now, they have particularly high levels of radioactive contamination.
As we drove through the glistening mountains, I watched the readings of the omnipresent dosimeter dangling casually from the rearview mirror of the car first oscillate, then grow alarmingly. Arriving in front of a children’s summer camp and quietly handed a face mask, there is an ominous beeping sound as the readings—corroborated by a second dosimeter brought to check the calibration—peaked above 1 microsievert per hour. We pass an old local incinerator at work burning refuse, and the numbers spike again.
The people of Fukushima prefecture have become amateur radiologists, tracking radiation from place to place as wind and rain transport it in random patterns across the local landscape. Worried and angry because they have not received accurate information from the Japanese government about the radiation threat, and because they want the government to evacuate more affected areas, the people of Fukushima have had to take matters into their own hands.
Inside Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Station
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/11/14/inside-japans-fukushima-nuclear-reactor/5085
Associated Press photographer David Guttenfelder, along with other reporters, was allowed inside the Fukushima nuclear power station to witness the devastation, for the first time, caused by Japan’s March 12th earthquake and tsunami.
The Unit 4 reactor building at the crippled Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station is seen through a bus window in Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. Tepco is struggling to contain the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Photographer: David Guttenfelder/Pool via Bloomberg
#Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-26/fukushima-desolation-worst-since-nagasaki-as-population-flees.html
What’s emerging in Japan six months since the nuclear meltdown at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. plant is a radioactive zone bigger than that left by the 1945 atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While nature reclaims the 20 kilometer (12 mile) no-go zone, Fukushima’s $3.2 billion-a-year farm industry is being devastated and tourists that hiked the prefecture’s mountains and surfed off its beaches have all but vanished.
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The bulk of radioactive contamination cuts a 5 kilometer to 10 kilometer-wide swath of land running as far as 30 kilometers northwest of the nuclear plant, surveys of radiation hotspots by Japan’s science ministry show. The government extended evacuations beyond the 20-kilometer zone in April to cover this corridor, which includes parts of Iitate village.
voir aussi la #carte de la radioactivité :
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/ja/distribution_map_around_FukushimaNPP/0002/11555_0830.pdf
#Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think - Features - Al Jazeera English
http://aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/201161664828302638.html
Gundersen, a licensed reactor operator with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, managing and coordinating projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the US, says the Fukushima nuclear plant likely has more exposed reactor cores than commonly believed.
“Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed,” he said, “You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively.”
Fukushima entombed: Nuclear firm reveal how it plans to put a covering shield over reactor to stop leaks | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003901/Fukushima-entombed-Nuclear-firm-reveal-plans-covering-shield-reactor-st
The is the first picture of the giant polyester cover Japanese nuclear scientists hope will shield the doomed #Fukushima reactor No.1.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/15/article-2003901-0C917F8100000578-575_306x423.jpg
#nucléaire
Mais enfin, le problème principal maintenant n’est pas par « en dessus », mais par « en dessous » !!!!
Ces coeurs qui ont fondus, ils se sont « échappés » de l’enceinte de confinement. Ils n’ont pas explosés comme à Tchernobyl, mais insidieusement, ils glissent vers l’intérieur, prennent les failles, ruissellent avec l’eau, se dispersent par la terre, l’eau...
Quand au sarcophage, l’expérience de Tchernobyl monte qu’on ne trouve pas les financements... Et ce n’est pas faute de le vouloir, n’est-ce pas Martin Bouygues.
Fukushima - Hiroshima III | Agnès Lebot (Là-bas si j’y suis)
http://www.la-bas.org/article.php3?id_article=2175
Les autorités japonaises ont annoncé que la fusion du réacteur de deux centrales nucléaires était en cours - tsr.ch - info - monde
http://www.tsr.ch/info/monde/3011731-les-autorites-japonaises-ont-annonce-que-la-fusion-d-un-reacteur-d-une-c
L’agence de sécurité nucléaire et industrielle a indiqué samedi qu’une fusion pourrait être en cours dans deux centrales atomiques du pays, suite aux dommages causés par le séisme vendredi. Une fusion serait apparue à Daichii et à Fukushima, où la compagnie exploitant la centrale tente de faire remonter le niveau d’eau pour refroidir le réacteur Du césium radioactif a par ailleurs été détecté non loin de cette même installation. Une élévation de la pression avait été auparavant détectée, déclenchant la libération de vapeur radioactive. La population a été évacuée dans un rayon de 10 km aux alentours.
Japan fears nuclear plant meltdown
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/asia-pacific/2011/03/20113124353222667.html
Japanese nuclear authorities say there is a high possibility that nuclear fuel rods at a reactor at the Daiichi plant in Fukushima prefecture may be melting or have melted.
The cooling system of the plant was damaged in the massive earthquake that struck norteastern Japan and triggered a tsunami, killing at least 703 people.
Kyodo News agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium had been detected near the plant, citing the Japanese nuclear safety commission.