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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Fukushima Update 2/23

Today's Fukushima Commentary...
Japan needs to stop wasting money on radiation fears
It seems Tokyo is content to continue throwing away big bucks in the desire to soothe the radiation fears of a numerically-significant minority in the population. Tokyo is decontaminating homes as far away as 200 kilometers from F. Daiichi that have detectible Cesium levels. Deconning most of these 103,000 homes will make them no safer than without the expensive cleansing. Tokyo should shift the funding from this politically-expedient boondoggle, and put it where it is really needed – the reconstruction of the Tohoku communities forever lost to the 3/11/11 tsunami.
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary.html

Japan’s Greenpeace and Press call science a government “ploy” (Feb. 19)
Japanese researcher Kazuo Sakai said, “Since the accident in Fukushima, no health effects from radiation have been observed." But Greenpeace calls this a government ploy and says Japan should carry out frequent health checks all over Japan "even if there is no comparative epidemological data" to support it. The Japanese constitution says the public has a right the right to live in peace, free from fear. Greenpeace’s fear-mongering is a moral crime against the people of Japan.
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-commentary.html

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