Tokyo soil so contaminated with radiation it would be considered nuclear waste in US

Natural News ^ | 5/24/2012 | Ethan A. Huff

[JohnKinAK]

Radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster continues to show up at dangerously high levels in the city of Tokyo, which is located roughly 200 miles from the actual disaster site. According to an analysis of five random soil samples recently taken by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, the soil around Tokyo is so contaminated with Fukushima radiation that it would be considered nuclear waste here in the U.S.

During a recent trip to Tokyo, Gundersen collected soil samples from a sidewalk, a children's playground, a rooftop, a patch of moss by the side of a road, and the lawn of a judicial building. After sending those samples in for testing, it was revealed that each one had high levels of radioactive cesium-134 (CS134) and cesium-137 (CS137), while three of the samples contained high levels of cobalt-60 (CO60). One of the samples also tested positive for uranium-235 (U235).

"[W]hen I was in Tokyo, I took some samples [...] and sent them to the lab," said Gundersen in a recent video report. "And the lab determined that all of them would be qualified as radioactive waste here in the United States and would have to be shipped to Texas to be disposed of."

You can view the complete report here: http://www.fairewinds.com

Despite the fact that radioactive plumes from Fukushima have largely drifted seaward based on wind patterns, a considerable amount of this radiation traveled southward towards Tokyo and elsewhere. The findings also confirm the reality that Fukushima radiation has likely had significant global spread as well, which confirms earlier reports of samples taken on the U.S. West Coast

[justa-hairyape]

Anyone who expects truth out of government, deserves what they get. The EPA is not even monitoring what is going on within the US. Their radiation network, at the time of the accident, had so many problems it was more or less irrelevant. They could not even determine what normal levels were before the accident, since a few of the sensors were down and some were being operated by volunteer workers.

[rottndog]

High readings compared to what? You can find radiation almost any where you look...just because you can detect something, does not make it a high radiation level.

And again, anything that would be blown up to the jet stream and across the ocean, thousands of miles, would be so dispersed as to represent virtually no risk of significant exposure downstream.

[justa-hairyape]

That was not the main thrust of that report. They have identified Fukushima radiation products in US beef, and that is okay with you ?

So one must assume that you expected to see low levels of Fukushima products in US beef ?

[GOPJ]

I have an idea - why don’t we give California to the Japanese - on the condition they clear out the illegals and assume California’s debt.

It’s a win-win.

The Japanese would make wonderful neighbors and friends - AND California won’t pull down the rest of the country into a deep depression...

[justa-hairyape]

It is from a radiation network that has been monitoring for many months. They know what false readings are. They have had them in the past. This one looks legit, which is why the POTR blog released the alert.

[GOPJ]

The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.3 years - not 300... Annoying, but livable...

[JimSEA]

Another article from Natural News (Real News from Real People, Naturally). I don’t know about the fate of the doomed Japanese, but I now know seven foods that will cleanse my liver and a weird Chinese herb that will keep my hair from falling out and a bunch of other great things.

[razorback-bert]

Yes, my cousin’s wife went home, because their apartment was damaged and no base housing was availible.

[tdscpa]

Japan is so radioactive, their economy is so bad, and anyway their population should be immune to radiation poisoning, thanks to the two WWII nukes, that they should dedicate the islands to the storage of nuclear waste.

The could become what Nevada does not want to.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

According to an analysis of five random soil samples recently taken by nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen, the soil around Tokyo is so contaminated with Fukushima radiation that it would be considered nuclear waste here in the U.S.

Gee, you'd think people in Japan would be fleeing Tokyo in droves. Arnie Gundersen is a fairly well known nuclear alarmist and sensationalist, which makes him a "nuclear expert" as far as network news is concerned but lends no credibility to anything he says.

[TigersEye]

Or does it mean that what nuclear waste standards in U.S are silly?

That's what I was wondering. In California background radiation is considered an unacceptable risk. The Earth is in violation of statute law.

[Casie]

Nice! I’m in Louisiana. Ping me if I ever need to be concerned about Fukushima fallout? K, thx! ;)

[justa-hairyape]

We do not want to send the Japanese more radioactive debris. They will have their hands full for decades. And, they are burning some radioactive debris.

[Oztrich Boy]

If Grand Central Station was a nuclear power one, it would be shut down.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank goodness.

After reading this report, I thought for a moment there that I was dead. I guess I'm not after all. Not even glowing.

Really. The CRAP allowed on the internet these days, and even here at FR. It's sad.

[justa-hairyape]

Yeah.
Like the reactors that could not possibly explode.
Or the reactors that could not possibly melt down.
Or the reactors that could not loose containment from the RPV.
Or the reactors that had achieved cold shutdown.
Now that was all bull crap with plenty more to follow no doubt. Latest news is from the WHO, nothing to worry about. Of course they fail to mention that Japan personally lobbied the WHO to demand it change its report simply because it might make Japan look bad.

[snowsislander]

This is a stupid hoax.

Believe me, the Japanese popular press would be full of lurid accounts of any such widespread radiation. You should have seen the press pandemonium when there was actually a bit found in Tokyo last year. Think the "Daily Mail" on steroids.

Here's the latest WHO exposure summary chart (which, by the way, the Japanese government doesn't agree with, saying that the chart overstates the spread of radiation):

Image courtesy of Asahi.com