ENENews.com – Energy News. Fukushima isn’t Chernobyl? By SARAH D. PHILLIPS The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused the deaths of approximately 16,000 persons, left more than 6,000 injured and 2,713 missing, destroyed or partially damaged nearly one million buildings, and produced at least $14.5 billion in damages. The earthquake also caused a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s eastern coast. After reading the first news reports about what the Japanese call “3.11,” I immediately drew associations between the accident in Fukushima and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 in what was then the Soviet Union.
This was only natural, since studying the cultural fallout of Chernobyl has been part of my life’s work as an anthropologist for the past 17 years. But as reporting on the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP unfolded, an unsettling story of stonewalling and sloppiness emerged that was eerily reminiscent of the Chernobyl catastrophe. No one knows what really happened here” RadNet Laboratory Data | Japanese Nuclear Emergency: Radiation Monitoring.
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Top of page Precipitation About precipitation laboratory data Milk About milk laboratory data Drinking Water All Results Precipitation Results. Video - Home of Fukushima catastrophe mayor testifies about humanitarian crisis - National Human Rights. Human rights violations escalate imid Fukushima catastrophe As hair falls out of a Fukushima victim's head, a new German study reports that North America’s West Coast will be the area most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years, an "order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan, according to a new German study followed by a former New York Times journalist going inside the no-entry zone and reporting radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco’s data.
"After most citizens evacuated, I evacuated, too," testified Mr. Idogawa, Mayor of Futaba Town where Fukushima Daiichi is located. "I didn’t know still some people remained in the town. "One of them told me, 'My hair fell off,' with tears in her eyes. Hair falling out is one of the most common of the eight signs of radiation poisoning. "When debris fell from the sky, I thought it might be the end," Idogawa continued. "My heart is full of anger.
" New study indicates severe West Coast impact. Website. Fukushima Diary. Japan Earthquakes 2011 Visualization Map. YokosoNews - Japanese Culture, Lifestyle and Entertainment.