Schools relocated from near Fukushima nuke plant reopen in Iwaki

Children are seen at a joint enrollment ceremony for three schools and a kindergarten relocated from Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, to the prefectural city of Iwaki, in this picture taken in Iwaki on the morning of April 7. (Mainichi)

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April 07, 2014(Mainichi Japan)

IWAKI, Fukushima -- Three schools and a kindergarten relocated from a town hosting the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant have reopened here for the first time since the outbreak of the nuclear disaster in March 2011.

Eleven students and children attended the joint opening ceremony for the institutions -- one junior high school, two elementary schools and one kindergarten from the Fukushima Prefecture town of Futaba -- held in the prefectural city of Iwaki on April 7. Two other students are scheduled to begin attending the relocated schools in May.

All students and children -- two kindergartners, five elementary school students and six junior high students -- will study under one roof, inside a two-story bank building. Kindergarten and elementary school children will occupy the first floor, while junior high students will use the second floor.

Elementary school students will further be divided by partitions based on their grades -- two first-graders, one fifth-grader and two sixth-graders.

"I will study hard," said Sora Yokota, 6, a first-grade boy who is living in a temporary housing unit in Iwaki, after attending the enrollment ceremony on April 7.

A total of 26 teachers will educate the 13 children, providing meticulous support to them. The 13 are part of the 674 students and children evacuated from Futaba to elsewhere in the prefecture or outside the prefecture due to the nuclear disaster.

April 07, 2014(Mainichi Japan)

(Original: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140407p2a00m0na005000c.html)

Letters from Taiwan

Taipei Times cartoon depicting the Ministry of Education trying to scare students back to class.  #佔領立法院 #SunflowerMovement

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 Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou said on Saturday student protests over a controversial trade pact with mainland China will not affect the potential for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. 

News report from Reuters

In other words, “I’m full steam ahead to collect my Nobel Peace Prize for contravening the 1948 UNDHR and ignoring the wishes of the Taiwanese people for self determination and their consistent and measured desire not to become a part of a ‘reunified China’.  My legacy and reputation in Chinese history is more important than the declared wishes of 23 million people."

http://lettersfromhttp://lettersfromtaiwan.tw/tagged/Taiwan

http://lettersfromtaiwan.tw/post/80250126300/excellent-analysis-of-taiwanese-economic-politics

Fukushima 3 Years

Fukushima fallout 3 years after, US advised to shut down nuclear plants -experts

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                             March 11th will mark the third year since the Fukushima meltdown occurred and experts on nuclear disasters Janette D. Sherman, MD and Joseph Mangano are warning the US to shut down its dangerous nuclear power plants.

The two specialists teamed up to give their analysis on Japan’s region that has been left in such a perilous state.

News has come out that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and huge Japanese corporations have their eyes set on reopening the 50 other power plants that shut down because of the Fukushima fallout. The other nuclear facilities have been called a source of cheap power. 

( Read More...http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_03_05/Fukushima-fallout-3-years-after-US-advised-to-shut-down-nuclear-plants-experts-1770/  )

External Links: 

Japan Mulls Nuclear Revival Not Even 3 Years After Fukushima  

http://time.com/9684/japan-mulls-nuclear-revival-not-even-3-years-after-fukushima/

Asahi Shimbun:  THREE YEARS AFTER: Quake or tsunami? Panels at odds over cause of Fukushima nuclear disaster  http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/analysis/AJ201403050061

REUTERS: Japanese film "Homeland" tiptoes into Fukushima nuclear debate  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/05/us-japan-fukushima-idUSBREA2407E20140305

Global Research: Fukushima Three Years On. Devastating Environmental and Health Impacts
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-three-years-on-devastating-environmental-and-health-impacts/5371907

 Americans Are ~ Pentagon/Fukushima/Big Nuke ~   MilqueToasts, *Except Kevin Blanche*

Project Camelot: Jim Stone - Ex NSA Whistleblower

Obama's Clean, Green 2013 Fukushima Plumegate Machine II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YIqA999fBsQ 


 

Has Fukushima Popped Your DNA's Cherry, Yet?

"I have not seen anyone die yet from Fukushima..." and "I don't know anyone who has gotten cancer..." 

Both of those idiot, ignoramus statements ignore the obvious. Let's digress... 

Dr. Bein, as always keeps me somewhat grounded, logical and honest. Mutation pictures are, to the best of my knowledge, from Fukushima and surrounding area, past couple of years. In another life, I used plant hormones with names like B-Nine (kills cockroaches, that toxic), Giberellic Acid, Colchicine, Maintain A, Stop-Gro, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), alpha-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA), etc. My initial and overall impression (Turtle, Tomato, Eggplants made lasting impression) is these are severe mutations. Most of the chemicals above can make mutations, which wear off, frequently. Truly perplexing to me is the severity of the mutations without plant death. Most agricultural hormones, if over or mis-applied, kill the plant. In the photos, one may guess the mutations were from still-alive plants. Would love to know if (Peach, Persimmon) the mutations did not wear off. Did the Turtle eventually have one forward-facing head?

(Read More....http://olivebiodiesel.com/altnews/10242013.html )

Nuclear Hotseat#104: SAN ONOFRE SHUTDOWN SPECIAL! » Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Hotseat#104: SAN ONOFRE SHUTDOWN SPECIAL! » Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Hotseat#102: NUCLEAR GANDHI - Nonviolent India Rebels Against Nuclear; w/Kumar Sundaram » Nuclear Hotseat

Nuclear Hotseat#102: NUCLEAR GANDHI - Nonviolent India Rebels Against Nuclear; w/Kumar Sundaram » Nuclear Hotseat

Fast Breeder Reactor Monju's Coolant Heating System Accidentally Switched Off

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Fast Breeder Reactor Monju's Coolant Heating System Accidentally Switched Off for 30 Minutes, No Effect on the Environment, Says JAEA

JAEA again, this time on the fast breeder reactor Monju that this agency "operates" (if it can be called "operating").

Coolant for Monju, sodium, is supposed to be kept at 200 degrees Celsius.

So what's the excuse this time?

Their manual was not well written!

Do you trust these people to run a nuclear reactor, not to mention fast breeder reactor that uses liquid metal that explodes on contact with water and ignites on contact with air?

Do you trust these people to export nuclear reactors all over the world, claiming the superior technology and know-hows, including know-hows from "lessons learned from the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident"?

Good luck, Czech Republic. Good luck, India, Vietnam, and Turkey.

From Kyodo News (6/8/2013):
もんじゅ、ヒーター停止　ナトリウム一時保温できず

Monju's heater stopped, sodium wasn't kept warm enough temporarily

　日本原子力研究開発機構は７日、高速増殖炉原型炉もんじゅ（福井県敦賀市）で２日、電源設備の点検作業中に、２次系冷却材ナトリウムの温度を保つヒーターを誤って約３０分間停止させたと発表した。手順書の不備による作業ミスなどが原因とみられる。

Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) announced on June 7 that at Fast Breeder Reactor Monju (Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture) the heater to keep the secondary coolant, sodium, warm was switched off accidentally for about 30 minutes during the inspection of electric systems on June 2. The cause is attributed to human error due to poor instructions in the manual.

　一部の配管で、ナトリウムは本来の２００度から約４０度下がったが、環境や原子炉への影響はなかったとしている。ナトリウムの融点は９８度程度。

In certain part of the pipe, the temperature dropped 40 degrees Celsius from the normal 200 degrees Celsius, but there was no effect on the environment or the reactor, according to JAEA. Melting point of sodium is about 98 degrees Celsius.

　原子力規制庁や福井県、敦賀市には３日に通報した。公表が遅れた理由について原子力機構は「内規で通報が不要な軽微以下の事案だったため」としている。

JAEA reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Agency, Fukui Prefecture and Tsuruga City on June 3. The reason for the delay in reporting was, according to JAEA, because "it was the very minor incident that didn't require reporting, according to our internal [i.e. unofficial] rules".


So they blame the manual for the incident, but abide by the other, unofficial manual and decide they don't need to report it.

If they didn't notice the heater was off for another hour, they would have been in a big trouble (assuming the temperature drop is linear).

The footage of 1995 sodium leak accident is still there on the net, despite TV Asahi's copyright claim.

The Nuclear Regulatory Authority has already ordered JAEA to stop all the work for preparation for the restart, as 10,000 parts and equipments weren't maintained according to the schedule.

Again, good luck Czech Republic, India, Vietnam, Turkey. And many others, no doubt, now that Japan's Prime Minister Abe and President Francois Hollande of France have formed a formidable team to sell nuclear plants all over the world...

http://ex-skf.blogspot.fr/2013/06/fast-breeder-reactor-monjus-coolant.html?m=1

UK – Shocking increase in respiratory problems due to Nuclear incidents from Fukushima and The Budapest Medical Isotope Inst.

UK – Shocking increase in respiratory problems due to Nuclear incidents from Fukushima and The Budapest Medical Isotope Inst.

Posted by arclight2011

http://nuclear-news.net/2013/04/23/uk-shocking-increase-in-respirtory-problems-due-to-nuclear-incidents-from-fukushima-and-the-budapest-medical-isotope-inst/

英國 — — 呼吸問題從福島和布達佩斯醫用同位素研究所核事故觸目驚心增加
發表于 arclight2011

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=&to=en&a=http://nuclear-news.net/2013/04/23/uk-shocking-increase-in-respirtory-problems-due-to-nuclear-incidents-from-fukushima-and-the-budapest-medical-isotope-inst/

281 Anti Nuke Gallery

Official 281 Anti Nuke Documentary teaser - Now on the festival circuit.

Controversial Japanese street artist, 281 Anti Nuke (Kenta Masuyama) is being called the Japanese Banksy. He splits his time between, Tokyo, London and NYC. His works have been featured in; The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times and Giant Robot. While he has been interviewed by Japan Rolling Stones magazine and the french news network Channel 24 (All between August & September 2012).
His works bring a message. When you see his works, like Banksy, it usually takes you a few moments to realise the true message of his works. However they are always based around politics and real issues of the time. 
Ai WeiWei, Banksy and 281 Anti Nuke are all trying to do the same thing. Creating awareness of an issue, through art.
Interview which aired on Channel 24 in France

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281 Anti Nucke GALLAERY

 http://www.281antinuke.com/gallery/

Lessons From Fukushima For San Onofre | KPBS.org

Lessons From Fukushima For San Onofre | KPBS.org

TEPCO finds groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium

Title: TEPCO finds groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium
Source: Kyodo
Date: June 3, 2013

TEPCO finds groundwater contaminated with radioactive cesium
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday that it has detected radioactive cesium in groundwater samples taken from the premises of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, reversing an earlier announcement that any contamination was negligible.
The announcement came as TEPCO is trying to secure the understanding of local fishermen over the dumping in the Pacific Ocean of groundwater that has been pumped out from wells at the site [...]

http://enenews.com/kyodo-tepco-reverses-position-admits-fukushima-plants-groundwater-is-contaminated-with-radioactive-cesium-wanted-to-dump-it-into-pacific-ocean

Fukushima Radiation Contamination Map Pacific Ocean 10YR Model

Fukushima Pacific Sea Radiation Contaminated Map 10YR Model

福島太平洋海輻射污染的地圖 10年 圖像

http://thegic.org/video/10-fukushima-pacificsea-radiation-contaminatedmap-in10ys#ixzz2KLqOS5jW

 By the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima, large quantities of radioactive material were released. A major part of it came through the atmosphere, but partly also by direct discharge into the Pacific Ocean, including long-lived isotopes, such as the highly soluble in seawater cesium-137. Using detailed computer simulations, researchers at the GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel investigates the long-term expansion. "In our models, we have placed great emphasis on a realistic representation of finer details of the flows," said team leader, Prof. Claus Böning, "because the material spread not only through the main current, the Kuroshio, but mainly by intense and highly variable eddy dominated. "
"May have been through this strong turbulence, the radioactive water spreads already has nearly half the North Pacific According to our model calculations," said graduate oceanographer Erik Behrens, lead author of the international scientific journal "Environmental Research Letters" published study. "In addition, winter storms have mixed the water to depths of 500 meters." The attendant dilution in the model bill provides for a rapid decrease of cesium concentration.
The effect of the wide ocean mixing is particularly evident when comparing the model simulated the time course of radiation levels in the Pacific with the situation in the Baltic Sea. "That was in March and April 2011 in the Pacific flowed amount of radioactivity at least three times as large as the one registered in 1986 as a result of the Chernobyl disaster in the Baltic Sea," said Boening. "Nevertheless, we simulated the radiation levels in the Pacific are already lower than the values ​​that we have today, 26 years after Chernobyl, in the Baltic Sea will."
After the simulation model should spur of the first strip about contaminated water in the fall of 2013, the Hawaiian Islands, reaching two to three years later the North American coast. Unlike at the sea surface floating debris, which are also distributed by the wind, the radioactive water is transported solely by the currents beneath the ocean surface. The other concomitant dilution is slow now, but clearly, as the oceanic eddy in the eastern Pacific is much weaker than in the Kuroshio region. Therefore, even for years, the radiation levels in the North Pacific, significantly higher than those before the disaster.
Would be very interested Claus Böning us his team on a direct comparison measurements. "Then we could immediately see whether we are right even if the absolute values ​​of the concentrations," says Prof. Böning. Such data are currently available for the Kiel scientists but not available.

Read more: http://thegic.org/video/10-fukushima-pacificsea-radiation-contaminatedmap-in10ys#ixzz2VClSscXI

SRNL, PNNL respond to Fukushima cleanup challenge

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
For Dr. Jeff Griffin of DOE's Savannah River National Laboratory, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station represents “almost every remediation challenge we’ve seen in the Environmental Management complex, all within three and a half square kilometers.”

Griffin, SRNL’s Associate Laboratory Director for Environmental Management, along with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Wayne Johnson, are leading a joint SRNL/PNNL effort to provide the Tokyo Electric Power Company – owner of the tsunami-damaged plant – with recommendations related to many of the highest priority technical issues associated with the initial cleanup process in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

SRNL and PNNL have a contract with TEPCO that grew out of a series of discussions and visits in 2011-12. Most recently, Griffin and Johnson and a joint technical team visited Japan in late October to get an additional look at conditions at the facility, and to begin to develop recommendations in seven overall areas. The SRNL/PNNL collaboration offers a portal for TEPCO to access broad science and technology talent made available throughout the entire DOE national laboratory system.

The seven primary areas of emphasis are:

Control of groundwater—Fukushima Daiichi needs effective strategies for protection of the area’s groundwater resources and the ocean, and treatment of contaminated water that has accumulated at the site. Both PNNL and SRNL possess tools and techniques for groundwater contamination control, monitoring, and safety assessment and evaluation. For example, the Subsurface Transport Over Multiple Phases (STOMP) computer model provides multidimensional analysis capabilities for modeling subsurface flow and transport phenomena.

Grouting—Grout is a promising option to stop water leakage that’s occurring between reactor and turbine buildings at Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor units, and could be a key step toward facilitating decommissioning of units 1-4. SRNL has extensive experience in grout development and also has operating experience with grouting components reactors and other facilities.

Sample analysis and laboratory capability—A sample analysis laboratory—or perhaps multiple laboratories—sited adjacent to Fukushima-Daiichi, is needed for sampling tasks associated with radiological waste processing and fuel debris characterization. Because of various challenges at the site, an innovative approach for establishing laboratory capabilities is required. SRNL and PNNL are known for their analytical chemistry capabilities and can provide the Fukushima site with both methods development and specification of equipment and facilities spaces.

Waste treatment and disposition—Solutions are needed for the handling, treatment and disposition of multiple radioactive waste types with varying contamination levels. PNNL’s support to cleanup at the Hanford Site’s K Basins has led to methods for the effective retrieval, processing, containerization and storage of damaged spent fuel and sludge—knowledge that’s transferable to Fukushima Daiichi. Also, PNNL’s GIS-based “Phoenix” tool, developed over the past year, offers significant advances in the identification and inventorying of waste and waste sites, and may have applications for this activity. Similarly, SRNL has developed rapid waste composition analysis techniques that should facilitate waste characterization efforts at Fukushima. SRNL has also developed performance assessment methodologies that identify key radioactive species as they relate to environmental risk to support cost efficient waste disposition.

Water treatment—Contaminated water treatment at the site is a significant challenge, as large volumes of process water have accumulated over the past 18 months. Cesium removal efforts have been successful, but because of the presence of other radionuclides, the process water must be stored until additional treatment steps are brought online. Another concern is the presence of sodium chloride in the water. SRNL possesses a rotary micro-filter technology that, combined with a salt crystallization plant, allows for the selective extraction of salt from contaminated water. PNNL also offers capabilities that can simulate contaminated water characteristics, facilitating the testing and creation of water treatment processes and technologies.

Fuel debris—Fukushima Daiichi is in particular need of fuel debris treatment technologies. The debris will present significant challenges for decommissioning of reactors at the site. Both SRNL and PNNL possess insights into fuel canister/container technologies for broken fuels and storage, and also can apply at Fukushima Daiichi the knowledge gained through Three Mile Island’s fuel debris treatment and storage activities. Additionally, both labs draw upon expertise gained in cleanup and management of fuel basins.

Community revitalization—The accident at the site resulted in the evacuation of residents within 20 kilometers. The remediation of the Fukushima Daiichi area will be important to enable residents to return and to enable the revitalization of the local communities. Both SRNL and PNNL possess extensive economic revitalization and stakeholder engagement expertise and practical experience that can help to reinvigorate the region around the plant site.

A formal report to TEPCO on recommendations in these areas is expected after the first of the year.

“It’s been particularly gratifying to see the tremendous progress being made despite the very difficult operating environment the workers face on a daily basis,” said Johnson, Division Director, Earth Systems Science, for PNNL. “Being able to bring to bear our collective waste management and environmental remediation capabilities and experiences on such an important global challenge is both satisfying and rewarding.”

“This is a unique arrangement for national labs to provide this level of international assistance,” added Griffin. “From our experience at our respective sites, we and PNNL have a wealth of relevant knowledge about possible options, and an important part of our mission as national laboratories is the sharing of that knowledge within the global community in what is clearly an unprecedented situation.”
Submitted by DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory

Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily Basis … For Years On End

 

By Washington's Blog

Global Research, April 06, 2013

 

You may have heard that Tepco – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water.

You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month.

This is newsworthy stuff … but completely misses the big picture.

Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day.

How much radiation is this?

A quick calculation shows that it is about ten thousand times less than the amounts released by Chernobyl during the actual fire at the Russian nuclear plant.   But the Chernobyl fire only last 10 days … and the Fukushima release has been ongoing for more than 2 years so far.
Indeed, Fukushima has already spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted.
Fukushima also pumped out huge amounts of radioactive iodine 129 – which has a half-life of 15.7 million years. Fukushima has also dumped up to 900 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium-90 – which is a powerful internal emitter which mimics calcium and collects in our bones – into the ocean.

And the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl … and so could keep leaking for decades, centuries or millenia.

Tepco graphics of the Fukushima plants even appear to show water directly flowing from the plant to the ocean.  See this and this.

The bottom line is that the reactors have lost containment.  There are not “some leaks” at Fukushima. 
“Leaks” imply that the reactor cores are safely in their containment buildings, and there is a small hole or two which need to be plugged.   But scientists don’t even know where the cores of the reactors are.   That’s not leaking. That’s even worse than a total meltdown.

So what are the consequences for people living outside of Fukushima itself?
(Original
 http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-massive-leaks-and-radioactive-fallout-continuing-on-a-daily-basis-for-years-on-end/5330096

UN expert says Japan government, nuclear plant operator evading responsibility for disaster

By Associated Press, Published: May 26

TOKYO — A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe.
A report by special rapporteur Anand Grover, posted on the U.N. Human Rights Council’s website, says the government’s takeover of Tokyo Electric Power Co. allowed the utility to evade full responsibility for the nuclear disaster, the worst since Chernobyl. (keep reading....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/un-expert-says-japan-government-nuclear-plant-operator-evading-responsibility-for-disaster/2013/05/26/14ff3348-c5d0-11e2-9642-a56177f1cdf7_story.html#

An Appeal from a Fukushima Woman: A Young Girl Die...

FukushimaVoice: An Appeal from a Fukushima Woman: A Young Girl Die...: From  a weekly protest gathering outside the Prime Minister’s official residence. On April 12, 2013.　 Good evening, everyone. ...

Fukushima Radiation Spreads Worldwide

 Earth Changes http://www.sott.net/article/240352-Fukushima-Radiation-Spreads-Worldwide


California, Finland, Canada, Australia Hit By Radiation

The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits ... and even higher than they were 6 months ago.

Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland.

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed a radiation cloud over the East Coast of Australia.

The West Coast of Canada is getting hit by debris from Japan ... and at least some of it is likely radioactive.

The authors of the controversial study claiming 14,000 deaths in the U.S. so far from Fukushima are now upping their figure to 20,000. I spoke with nuclear health expert Chris Busby about their study, and he said that mortality figures fluctuate pretty substantially in the normal course, and so it is hard to know at this point one way or the other whether their figures are accurate.

And while there is no evidence linking them to Fukushima, Bed Bath and Beyond has recalledradioactive tissue holders after they set off police radiation monitors aboard a delivery truck This may just be an example of the incredibly lax handling of radioactive materials.

And thyroid cancers are - mysteriously - on the rise in the U.S.

But don't worry: The owner of the Fukushima plant has the plant in cold shutdown, so everything is "under control" ... Although temperatures have apparently jumped inside Fukushima's number 2 reactor, and the Japanese have no idea where the nuclear fuel has gone, so they are drilling a hole into the containment vessel to try to find it. http://www.sott.net/article/240352-Fukushima-Radiation-Spreads-Worldwide

D-tect Systems: Radiation Contamination in Food and Water: What's ...

D-tect Systems: Radiation Contamination in Food and Water: What's ...: As Japanese emergency workers continue to pump out thousands of gallons of contaminated water from the damaged reactors of the Fukushima...radiation contamination in food and water has emerged as a new focus of the international media.....

The “Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team” rejected a second time

Posted on 25 April 2013
The 24 June 2011, parents 14 primary school children in Koriyama City and antinuclear activists have filed a complaint to the District Court to demand their right to study in a healthy environment and thus to organize collective evacuation of children.
The district court rejected their request Koriyama the 16 December 2011.
The plaintiffs appealed to the end of the year 2011 High Court of Sendai.
The complaint asks the Government and the judiciary to take immediate steps to remove children from Fukushima collectively.
Details “save children from radiation”

25 April 2013 – See the reaction of one of the trial lawyers at the bottom of page


24 April 2013

The Sendai High Court has rejected the demand that the city of Koriyama, affected by the impact of the nuclear disaster 2011 evacuates his children.

The plaintiffs argued that the city of Koriyama before the legal responsibility to evacuate school children, to ensure a healthy environment.
The court recognized that the level of radiation in the city was higher than levels considered safe before the disaster. But the government does not bear the responsibility to evacuate the school as requested.
In practice this means the people from themselves if they feel worried.

Toshio Yanagihara, one of the lawyers said that the decision was unfair because “children are victims no responsibility for the nuclear accident“. This judgment is also subject to appeal.
Koriyama est une would 330.000 inhabitants about 60 Km west of the ruined reactors.
Thousands of children suffered from cancer after the Chernobyl disaster, but these cancers do not appear until several years.
It is not known whether children Fukushima are also subject to cancer, expensive le cancer ever since various causes, and radiation affects people differently.
Radioactive contamination is complex, not only taints the air, but also food, soil and water.
De nombreux habitants de Fukushima sont inquiets et ont déménagé.
La façon dont le gouvernement a géré la catastrophe de Fukushima a conduit à la méfiance du public.
Des milliers de personnes ont manifesté dans les rues, exigeant une élimination progressive de l’énergie atomique.
Le gouvernement a exprimé le souhait de relancer les réacteurs après vérification de leur sécurité.

Translation- résumé libre de l’article en anglais de l’ Asahi Sinbum

25 April
VOICI LA RÉACTION D’UN AVOCAT JAPONAIS AU JUGEMENT

C’est sous-titré en anglais facile à comprendre.
J’esaierai de trouver le temps de faire une traduction en français


Note:
Collective evacuation means that the state organizes and finances the evacuation of populations.
To evacuate alone as proposed by the court, must have money, a trade, do not have too much debt on site; must also find a base, a housing, employment…. In addition there are family issues. In many cases, the mother and the children are gone and the husband remains in place because of his work. Those who stay with their children are often worried about their future; especially as the authorities hide the overall results of examinations of the thyroid performed.
The level of radiation considered internationally as “harmless” – or rather not too offensive- est de 1mSv/an (en plus du rayonnement naturel)
Le gouvernement japonais a décidé que les gens pouvaient habiter dans les zones à 20mSv/an
Le niveau naturel au japon est généralement inférieur à 0,10µSv/h.
0,10Sv / hour, cela fait 0,9mSv/an pour une exposition permanente.