“Support by eating” campaign caused children internal exposure

Following up this article..13 of 21 children had urine test positive

The citizen’s group “Association to think about aging Fukushima plants”held a press conference on 3/7/2012, announced the lowest reading was 0.79 Bq/L (Cesium 134 + 137) of a 9 years old boy living in Miyagi, and the highest reading was 3.89 Bq/L of a 17 years old boy in Fukushima.
A 4 years old boy in Chiba was positive too (1.47 Bq/L) to prove the distance from the Fukushima plants have nothing to do with internal exposure.

From their hearing research, those children who had cesium measured from urine turned out to have eaten local vegetables or domestic farming vegetables. After they changed it to vegetables from western Japan or Hokkaido, the cesium amount decreased drastically.

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検出されたセシウム134、137の合計中、最小値は宮城県伊具郡9歳男児の0.79ベクレル/ℓ で、最大値は福島県福島市17歳男子の3.89ベクレル/ℓ 。(ACROの検出限界は0・3ベクレル/ℓ)

ホットスポットの千葉県柏市では4歳の子供の尿から1・47ベクレル/ℓが検出されている。福島第一原発からの距離と空間線量がすべてではないことがわかる。

『同測定プロジェクト』の聞き取り調査によると、セシウムが検出された子供たちは地元産や自家農園の野菜を食べていた。西日本や北海道で取れた野菜に切り替えたところ、セシウムは激減した。食生活パターンの改善である程度内部被曝を減らすことができるという。

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
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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