650,000,000 Bq/m2 in Minamisoma
Posted by Mochizuki on May 16th, 2012 · No Comments
Following up this article..240,000 Bq/Kg at 5km from Imperial Palace
Mr. Oyama, Minamisoma city councilor measured 10,000,000 Bq/Kg of cesium from soil in Kodakaku Minamisoma city Fukushima.
Detailed locations or ratio of cesium134/137 are not announced yet.
He warns power tiller of farmers blows up the dust and causes serious internal exposure by breathing.
Comparing this result to the black substance found in Tokyo, and the mandatory evacuation limit of Belarus in this way,
this area in Minamisoma is 220 times more contaminated than Belarus, and 42 times more contaminated than Tokyo.
TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012
Osaka's "Third Way" to Conserve Electricity in Summer: Citizen Informants
The boy-wonder mayor of Osaka City, who wants to teach "the next generation" a lesson on electricity conservation by having them experience rolling blackouts, proposes his "third way" to combat electricity consumption during the peak hours in the hot summer days.
(As a reminder, the first way is to restart Ooi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture, and the second way is to have the rolling blackouts.)
What's his third way? Mainichi Shinbun says it is to turn the residents into the informants for the local government who will rat out businesses that look like using too much electricity.
From Mainichi Shinbun evening paper for Osaka (part; 5/15/2012):
(As a reminder, the first way is to restart Ooi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture, and the second way is to have the rolling blackouts.)
What's his third way? Mainichi Shinbun says it is to turn the residents into the informants for the local government who will rat out businesses that look like using too much electricity.
From Mainichi Shinbun evening paper for Osaka (part; 5/15/2012):
一方、大阪府市エネルギー戦略会議は１５日、独自の節電策を提示した。照明が明るすぎるオフィスや店舗を住民が見つけて通報し、中小事業者に節電を促す「節電通報窓口」の設置や、真夏の午後に役所を閉めて節電するなど、家庭や事業者、官公庁などを対象に計約１１０万キロワットの節電を目指す。
On the other hand, the energy strategy conference of Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City proposed its own plan to save electricity on May 15. It includes setting up the "electricity saving informing counter" where the residents report offices and stores whose lighting is too bright, encouraging electricity saving among medium- and small-size businesses. The plan also calls for shutting down the government offices in the afternoon during the middle of summer. Overall, 1.1 million kilowatt saving is being targeted from households, businesses, and government offices.
I don't see why it should stop at reporting the seemingly wasteful businesses. Everybody against everybody else, like the life under the Stasi, except the Japanese are probably better at it than East Germans. After all, 250 years of peace during the Edo era (until the Black Ships appeared) were partly maintained by the "group of 5 households" in which people watched their 4 other neighboring households for suspicious behaviors, for mutual assistance, and for collective responsibility. That system was resurrected as the "neighborhood group" in the Showa era before the World War II, and it continues today as "voluntary" neighborhood association all over Japan, though without collective responsibility or mutual watch for suspicious behaviors.
and......
Kepco raises power bill double
Posted by Mochizuki on May 15th, 2012 · No Comments
Following up this article..Power company “Even if we have enough power, we need to restart nuclear plants.”
On 5/15/2012, Kepco announced they are going to raise the electricity price as double for this summer.
They are going to increase the price from 20~ yen to 50 yen per kWh between 13:00 and 16:00, when the power consumption becomes the highest.
They are going to increase the price from 20~ yen to 50 yen per kWh between 13:00 and 16:00, when the power consumption becomes the highest.
and.....
http://enenews.com/magazine-headline-radioactive-black-dust-striking-tokyo-metropolitan-area-ive-told-everywhere-city-reporter
May 15, 2012 report in the Nikkan Spa by Rei Shiva translated by EXSKF:
It was this February when the super-radioactive and mysterious ‘black dust’ found in Minami Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture was in the news.
[...] it was considered to be specific only to Minami Soma. However, I’ve been told that ‘black dust’ exists everywhere in Tokyo.[...] about 10-minute walk from the JR Hirai Station. We found the ‘black dust’ on the playground near the public housing. There were several drifts near the fence, and they looked like just ‘black soil’. When I took a closer look, they were revealed to be something like a dried moss or mold.[...] Shukan Spa that will go on sale on May 15 has the article ‘Radioactive black dust striking the Tokyo Metropolitan area’, which will report on the danger of the substance [...]
Ayako Ishikawa, head of citizens’ group in Tokyo
- We found something that looked like ‘black dust’ near the Hirai JR station in Edogawa-ku. We collected the sample and and asked Professor Tomoya Yamauchi of Kobe University to measure the radiation. The result was that it had the maximum 243,000 Bq/kg
- If you look carefully, ‘black dusts’ are everywhere in Tokyo
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