33mSv/y measured at over 26 schools in Fukushima and it’s concealed

 

 

 

Following up this article..Koriyama board of education stops decontamination of schools

Over 14 elementary schools, 7 junior high schools and 5 nursery schools in Koriyama city of Fukushima measured higher than 3.8μSv/h (33mSv/y) in January, which is beyond the yearly safety limit of 20mSv/y. This measurement was ordered by the board of education in Koriyama city but they concealed this fact until a citizen’s organization requested for information disclosure, announced on 5/6/2012.

According to the disclosed information, Koriyama city board of education ordered each school to measure radiation at 8 points in street gutter, hedge and drain of rain water back in January.
In the radiation measurement of April, 20.4μSv/h was measured from a street gutter of a junior high school.

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郡山の学校に「ホットスポット」 情報公開で判明
2012年5月6日 23時45分
福島県郡山市の市民団体「安全・安心・アクションin郡山」などは6日、郡山市教育委員会への情報開示請求などの結果、市内の少なくとも14小学校と7中学校、5保育所で、年間被ばく線量で20ミリシーベルトに相当する毎時3・8マイクロシーベルトを超える「ホットスポット」があったと発表した。
開示資料によると市教委が1月、市内の小中学校に対し、定期的に測定している校庭や教室を除く、側溝や生け垣、雨水の排水口など敷地内8カ所の空間放射線量の測定を依頼。4月の測定結果では、地上1センチの高さで、中学校では側溝で毎時20・4マイクロシーベルトなどを計測した。
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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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