Sendai Power Plant
The Fukushima Prefecture has long been battling the contamination caused by the melt down of the Daichi power plant in March 2011. But what are the things that the government hasn’t been telling us? For the safety measures that they should be taking they are surely failing the locals of Fukushima and nearby locations that are affected too. More than the fact that they lobby for the reactivation they lift evacuation advisories when the place is not even habitable. What is Japan trying to do?
According to Jan van de Putte, he thought that the roads already had it bad but as soon as he entered the woods the results drastically escalated. He is a radioactivity safety advisor that represents Greenpeace that also helped in the Fukushima monitoring missions. It is a sad truth that there is no solution to the contamination of the forest simply because on a practical level you cannot decontaminate a vast land: forest.
One of the strong claims of Greenpeace was that the Japan’s Ministry of Environment are belittling the risks that contamination brings. When the spokesperson of MOE faced Al Jazeera, he stated that from the yearly airbone monitoring survey since October 2012 to December 2013, the results decreased significantly speaking. The decontamination process made a difference; by using weathering and physical decay. MOE is denying that they are underestimating the effects of the melt down.
But the critics are continuously finding loopholes to the claims of MOE since the nearby hot spots are just being averaged and do not have individual readings as compared to the field trips that Greenpeace makes from one district to another.
On another note natural radioactive decay exists but it takes over three decades to reduce to 50% of its initial power.
Today, the Kagoshima Prefecture government lobbies for the reactivation of their Sendai nuclear plant after improving their site to a higher criterion. Greenpeace is currently doing their best to oppose this movement by presenting their findings to their government. But the assembly voted last November 7 to push through with the reactivation. There were surveys conducted by the NHK but to no avail.
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