Erst gestern ist es bekannt, dass Fukushima AKW teilweise die Dosis mit 10 Sievert pro Stunde hat! Mit 7 Sievert sterben Menschen 99%! Da anscheinend niemand der Regierung von der Gesamemenge der verstrahlten Radioaktivität veröffentlicht, muss sogar eine Oma mit einem Geigerzähler messen...

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http://www.smh.com.au/environment/grandmother-has-tokyos-measure-on-radiation-20110801-1i85v.html

Grandmother has Tokyo's measure on radiation

KIYOKO Okoshi had a simple goal when she spent about $US625 ($A568) for a dosimeter: She missed her daughter and grandsons and wanted them to come home.
Local officials kept telling her that their remote village was safe, even though it was less than 32 kilometres from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. But her daughter remained dubious, especially since no one from the government had taken radiation readings near their home.
So starting in April, Mrs Okoshi began using her dosimeter to check nearby forest roads and rice paddies. What she found was startling. Near one ditch for sewage, the meter beeped wildly, and the screen read 67 microsieverts an hour, a potentially harmful level.
Mrs Okoshi and a cousin who lives nearby confronted elected officials, who did not respond, confirming their worry that the government was not doing its job.
Some mothers as far away as Tokyo, 240 kilometres south of the plant, have begun testing for radioactive materials. And when radiation specialists recently offered a seminar in Tokyo on using dosimeters, more than 250 people showed up, forcing organisers to turn some away.
Even some bureaucrats have taken the initiative: a radiation expert with the Health Ministry who quit his job over his bosses' slow response to the accident is helping city leaders in Fukushima do their own monitoring. But it is the citizen activism that has proved crucial.
''They don't riot and they don't even demonstrate very much, but they are not just sitting on their hands, either,'' said Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a long-time Japan expert.
''What the dosimeter issue reveals is that people are getting more nervous rather than less about radiation dangers.''
It did not help that the government recently had to backtrack on the acceptable exposure levels for schoolchildren after a senior government adviser quit in a tearful news conference, saying he did not want children to be exposed to such levels, and parents protested.
Mrs Okoshi is an unlikely activist. A lifelong farmer, she lives with her 85-year-old mother and one of her daughters. After her tests continued to show high levels of radiation, her cousin Chuhei Sakai, a farmer in the area, went with several other villagers to show her data to the mayor. He did not respond, Mr Sakai said.
Since then, she has earned a reputation for her monitoring. ''Every time I have mentioned my name at meetings recently, city officials there say, 'Ah, you are the one who measured the radiation,' '' she said.
The dynamics of the fight began to shift with the arrival of reinforcements. One was Kazuyoshi Sato, a councillor who has long opposed the nuclear industry, an unpopular stance in a city where many people were employed at the No.1 plant.
Although dosimeter measurements taken by amateurs are considered crude because they only measure one kind of radiation emission and do not account for how long a person may have been exposed to it, Mr Sato suspected Mrs Okoshi's fears were founded after he saw a map of airborne and soil readings made by the US Department of Energy and the Japanese government.
It showed bright yellow right over her village of Shidamyo, an indicator of high levels of radioactive caesium-134 and caesium-137.
Mr Sato recruited Shinzo Kimura, the radiation expert who quit the Health Ministry. Dr Kimura has since tested extensively to see if Mrs Okoshi's readings were right. He says they are. Soil samples from one farm in Shidamyo show levels of radioactive materials Dr Kimura says are as high as those found in the evacuation zone around the Chernobyl nuclear accident site in Ukraine.
Mrs Okoshi takes no comfort in having been proved right, but feels she has made a difference. A friend to whom she apologised for making a fuss assured her it was not necessary.
''She said, 'No, no.' '' Mrs Okoshi recalled. '' 'I would have no information if you didn't measure.' ''