Leben mit der Katastrophe

 

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http://www.nordsee-zeitung.de/Home/Region/Bremerhaven/Leben-mit-der-Katastrophe-_arid,608727_puid,1_pageid,16.html

 

Leben mit der Katastrophe

 

Bremerhaven. Alle paar Tage bebt wieder die Erde. Alle paar Tage sucht Söhnchen Mion Schutz auf Papas Arm. Alle paar Tage kommen im Fernsehen die neuen Radioaktivitäts-Werte. Und jeden Tag proben Andreas Sug und seine Familie so etwas wie Alltagsnormalität. „Man verdrängt die Angst. Sonst könnten wir nicht dort leben“, sagt der Bremerhavener, der rund 150 Kilometer südlich von Fukushima ein neues Zuhause gefunden hat. Von Susanne Schwan 

 

Als im März die Katastrophen über Japans Ostküste hereinbrachen, war der 44-Jährige daheim in Hokota, 15 Kilometer von der verwüsteten Küste. Dort saß er fest, konnte den 85. Geburtstag seiner Mutter in Bremerhaven nicht mitfeiern. Das holt er nun nach – für ein paar Tage ist Sug wieder hier, „ohne meine Frau Shinobu und meinen Sohn Mion“.
Hokota war nicht so schwer vom Beben getroffen wie nördlichere Gemeinden, dennoch: „Unser Holzhaus hat Risse, die Straßen erst recht. Es sind zwar überall Straßenbauarbeiter unterwegs. Aber es sind noch zwei große Beben um Stärke sieben herum angekündigt. Gerade hatten wir eines mit 5,5.“

Kein Vertrauen in Regierung

„Anders als viele Japaner traue ich den beruhigenden Durchsagen der Regierung im japanischen Fernsehen nicht.“ Radioaktivität – ein diffuses Schreckgespenst. „An jeder Schule ist ein Lehrer mit täglichen Messungen der Luft und der schuleigenen Pools beauftragt und hat das Gerät ständig auf der Brust“, berichtet der Englischlehrer, der an zehn Grundschulen unterrichtet, seit die amerikanischen und englischen Lehrer von dort abgezogen worden sind.Hoffnung ist zum Dauerzustand geworden: „Dass wir vielleicht wirklich keine Strahlung abbekommen. Ich gucke alle zwei Tage auf die Werte in der offiziellen Mess-Station – 20 Kilometer nördlich – für Leitungswasser. Das ist angeblich okay.“ Gebadet wird daheim. Doch getrunken wird nur abgefülltes Wasser. „Auch Milch aus Flaschen, wir kaufen alle Nahrungsmittel, Obst, Gemüse, Reis, Geflügel nur aus den entfernten Südprovinzen. Fisch überhaupt nicht, das Meer soll ja überall verseucht sein.“
Schlimm seien die Folgen für die Landwirte, sagt Sug: „Die Farmer werben, dass alles in Ordnung sei, aber sie bleiben auf der Ernte sitzen – denen droht der Ruin, weil keiner den Ausfall zahlt.“ Auch das Gewerbe am Strand nahe Hokota liegt brach, erzählt Sug: „Sonst ist es um diese Zeit proppenvoll mit Touristen und Surfern aus Tokio. Jetzt ist nichts los.“

Artikel vom 03.08.11 - 16:00 Uhr

 

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...

Quelle:
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.' ''

 

Fukushima people seek science savvy on skepticism of government

Ｄａｓ ist genau was in Japan los ist.

Quelle:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/news/20110802p2g00m0fe093000c.html

Fukushima people seek science savvy on skepticism of government

FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- A radioactivity measurement station set up in the city of Fukushima by a civic group draws people who are skeptical about government data related to the nuclear plant crisis and keen to quickly know if food products they have are safe.
The station in the city, some 50 kilometers from the crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, offers a German measuring machine as part of projects ongoing in Fukushima aimed at helping people get scientific information of their own.
Takenori Chiba, a machinery company employee from Miharu, around 40 km from the plant, brought 500 grams of potatoes and 500 grams of onions to the station asking the staff to test them for radioactivity level.
"I cannot sit around waiting for the government or the municipal authority to do something for us. I wanted to act on my own," Chiba, 37, said. "The station is very helpful because even though I was concerned about the contamination around my house I didn't know what to do."
After an hour, Chiba was told that his vegetables measured 32 and 28 becquerels per kilogram, respectively, well below the government-set limit of 500 becquerels per kg.
Chiba refrained from immediately evaluating the figures but said, "I'm glad I could get access to the data and for free of charge."
An 11-member group led by Tokyo chiropractic therapist Aya Marumori launched the station in mid-July as they thought the claim by the government that "the current radioactivity levels do not pose immediate risks on human health" seemed unconvincing.
Marumori, 44, head of the Citizens' Radioactivity Measuring
Station and the mother of a 9-year-old boy, said, "Rather than using our time waiting and protesting against the government, we need to measure radioactivity by ourselves and take actions based on our judgments."
She said the group, which includes citizens of Fukushima, aims to become an independent third-party organization such as the Commission for Independent Research and Information about Radiation in France, which helped the group open it by providing equipment and expertise.
Marumori became involved in the project of opening the measuring station as she found there was little consensus even among scientists over the effect of low-dose radiation on human health while she was studying the potential risks of radiation in the wake of the nuclear crisis.
Shunichi Yamashita, a leading researcher on the effects of radiation fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl accident, was among academics at the center of the scientific dispute.
Yamashita was appointed as a health risk adviser to Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato after the March 11 tsunami and earthquake crippled the plant.
Yamashita, now vice president of Fukushima Medical University, said low doses of radiation equal to below 100 millisieverts per year pose no immediate threat to human health. But some other experts on radiation say that even small amounts of radiation pose risks in the form of internal radiation exposure.
"When Mr. Yamashita came to Fukushima as an adviser, people saw him as a savior as they were confused and worried due to a lack of information," said Seiichi Nakate, head of a Fukushima-based group to protect children from radiation.
"Mr. Yamashita said there's no need to worry and you can let your children play outside as before," Nakate said.
But as the possible risk of radiation level, even below the 100 millisievert mark, became known to the public, many began to doubt Yamashita's position. Six groups, including Nakate's, urged Yamashita to step down as the health risk adviser.
Meanwhile, another group is working on helping people in
Fukushima who have difficulties accessing the Internet to gain access to information about radiation risks and possible evacuation other than that provided by authorities.
"All the information that comes from the government is, 'It is safe.' But there are needs for other information such as on how to minimize radiation contamination and where to evacuate. I wanted to help them get access to them," said Hiroshi Ueki of the group.
Ueki and other group members published a newspaper on information about how to minimize radiation contamination and distributed 100,000 copies of the first edition at 35 sites in Fukushima and Niigata prefectures including Fukushima, Koriyama and Date, and the town of Nihonmatsu as they have logged relatively high radiation levels.
Ueki, 40, who has sons aged 2 and 4 said, "I've also heard of a case where an argument over whether to evacuate has led to a divorce. I hope the newspaper will be one opportunity to bond the Fukushima people back together."

(Mainichi Japan) August 2, 2011

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