核、放射線の危機：日本は、高レベルの核瓦礫焼却によって、他国を汚染している
Global Research, April 9, 2012
2012年4月9日グローバルリサーチ
Fukushima to Burn Highly-Radioactive
Debris
福島で高レベル核瓦礫の焼却
Fukushima will
start burning radioactive debris containing up to 100,000 becquerels of
radioactive cesium per kilogram. As
Mainchi notes:←（管理人注：毎日新聞 英語版） 予備
福島は、10万Bq/ｋｇ以上のセシウムを含んだ瓦礫の焼却を始めるつもりだ。
（毎日新聞 英語版）
The state will start building storage
facilities for debris generated by the March 2011 tsunami as early as May at two
locations in a coastal area of Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, Environment
Ministry and town officials said Saturday.
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福島県楢葉町の海岸沿いの2箇所で、2011年3月の津波で発生した瓦礫を早ければ5月に、貯蔵施設の建設を開始すると、福島県、環境省、（楢葉）町職員が土曜日に発表した。
About 25,000 tons of debris are expected to be
brought into the facilities beginning in the summer, according to the
officials.
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約25,000トンの瓦礫は、当局者によれば、夏に稼動の施設に持ち込むことが期待されている。
If more than
100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium are found per kilogram of debris, the
debris will be transferred to a medium-term storage facility to be built by the
state. But if burnable debris contains 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium or less, it may
be disposed of at a temporary incinerator to be built within the prefecture,
according to the officials.
もし放射性セシウム10万Bq/kg人以上の瓦礫が見つかったら、建設される中期貯蔵施設に送られます。可燃ゴミが含まれている場合、放射性セシウムが10万Bq/ｋｇ以下ならば、当局によると、県内で構築される仮設焼却炉で処分されることがある。
Within the 20-km-radius no-go zone spanning
across Naraha and five other municipalities along the coast, debris caused by
the magnitude 9.0 quake and the subsequent tsunami has amounted to an estimated
474,000 tons, much of remaining where it is.
海岸沿いの楢葉町と他の5つの自治体にまたがる20キロ半径立入禁止区域内では、マグニチュード9.0の地震とそれに続く津波によって引き起こされる瓦礫は、約474000トン、はるかに多い量が他にある（他地域のことを指しているのでしょうね）。
Ｈow much radiation is that?
It is a lot.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has said that
much lower levels of cesium – 5,000-8,000 bq/kg (20 times lower than what will
be allowed to be burned at Fukushima) – would be sent to a special facility in
the United States and buried underground for thousands of year. See this and
this.
It is comparable to the levels of
radioactivity found within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. See this and
this.
And even the Japanese – who have raised
acceptable levels of radiation to absurd levels – would normally demand that
material with this radioactivity be encased in cement and buried:
According to plans by the Ministry of
Environment, if the radioactive cesium concentration is less than 8,000 Bq/kg,
then it is possible to dispose of it by burying it. Rubble that has 8,000 ~
100,000 Bq must be encased in cement in order to prevent contact with water
before being dumped. For rubble that exceeds 100,000 Bq, it must be encased in
concrete walls and stored temporarily. The disposal place must be approved of by
the Prefectural Governor.
In addition, some allege that debris
surpassing 100,000 bq/kg of cesium will be burned, after being mixed with
less-radioactive materials.
And many of the incinerators are located smack
dab in the middle of crowded cities, and are not equipped to contain
radiation.
Other Parts of Japan Are Also Burning
Radioactive Debris
And it’s not just Fukushima.
Tokyo and many other areas in Japan are
burning radioactive debris as well. And see this.
Burning to Continue for for Years
Mainichi reports that the radioactive debris
will be burned for years … through at least March 2014.
Poisoning Other Countries
Burning radioactive debris does not destroy
the radioactivity. It merely spreads it.
Gundersen says that radioactivity from the
burnt debris will end up not only in neighboring prefectures, but in Hawaii,
British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and California. Gundersen said that burning
radioactive debris is basically re-creating the Fukushima disaster all over
again, as it is releasing a huge amount of radioactivity which had settled on
the ground back into the air.
Steven Starr – Senior Scientist, Physicians
for Social Responsibility, and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science
Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who has advised numerous
countries on issues of nuclear non-proliferation – writes:
Burning radioactive debris will only serve to
further randomly spread radiation across Japan, as well as the rest of the
world. Not only will this lead to more morbidity and mortality within Japan, but
it will further complicate epidemiological studies of the Fukushima disaster.
Raising “acceptable” levels of radioactive fallout is a false solution to a
serious problem. It is possible for the government authorities to do this
because radiation is invisible to us, and at lower doses, the consequences of
exposure do not manifest themselves for some time . . . thus it is a poison that
is easy to hide and ignore. Sadly, the children of Japan will be those most
seriously affected by this man-made environmental catastrophe.
It is bad enough that radiation from Fukushima
is spreading across the Pacific to the United States through air and water, that
the Japanese are underplaying the enormous threat posed by the spent fuel pools,
and that the Japanese have engaged in a massive cover-up of the severity of the
Fukushima crisis. But intentionally burning radioactive debris to try to cover
up the problem – and spreading radiation worldwide in the process – is an
entirely separate affront.
Postscript: In addition to burning
radioactive debris, Japan intends to build tents over the leaking Fukushima
reactors. While this sounds like a way to contain the radiation, it would
actually funnel it straight up and spread it globally:
My reaction [to the announcement that the
Fukushima nuclear operator would build giant tents over the reactors] was hope
that the tents would at least keep radiation from spreading worldwide through
the air, even if they didn’t do anything to prevent contamination of Japan’s
groundwater or the Pacific Ocean.
But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that
the tents – while helping to protect workers at Fukushima – will actually
increase the dispersion of radioactive gases. Specifically, Tepco will pump
radiation out through stacks, which will push radiation up to a higher
elevation, dispersing it even further around the world.
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