bottled radioactive radium

Yesterday headline was  brand-new hot spot  in Tokyo, radioactively-hot, of course.
This hot spot was located on public road, narrow side walk where many resident including children have been passing through every day.

And it was determined that the source of radiation was the bottled radioactive radium which was found under the floor of adjacent old house. It was said that the bottles looked very old and no one was living in the house.

Some ppl were said to ask to the government to check this hot spot before 311, but the government payed no attention to residents voice.

It might be bright side of Fukushima accident that we Japanese (including public officials) have become more careful about radioactive materials. I am saving money to purchase a dosemeter :)

strange roses

I found these photos recently, they were taken  May, 2011

in Tokyo
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/nya0/20110508/p4

in Fukushima
http://country-season.asablo.jp/blog/2011/05/29/5888269



By the way, highly radioactive contaminated hot spot ( 2.707 μSv/h) was found in Setagara ward in Tokyo. It was footway on which many ppl have been passing every day.
The number 2.707 μSv/h looks strange. It is too high. This number is higher than home zone in Fukushima.
I wonder which is scarer, one version;  Tokyo (and Japan) has so many  hidden hot spots like this, and they only have not found yet, Or.. the other version;   someone  dumped  highly radioactive  contaminated thing here,  it is very easy to get such hazardous materials in Japan.

contaminated beef(2)

Technically speaking, the cows were checked, but too unreliable way.  The cows were checked if radioactive materials were sticked to their skin or not, and hearing investigation was conducted. The farmer who sold the cows told to the investigator that they obey the guideline. I have to think Japanese government  must have no idea that  not-potician citizen can tell a lie and cows can be showered.

Anyway a lot of cows' images have appeared on tv monitor, news site, etc.etc. Watching living cows going to become meat is disgusting.
I have not eaten cows more than 15 years intentionally. It is not easy to avoid eating cow. Cows are used in many foods. Beef fat, gelatin etc. etc are used in many cooking.

The each reason is quite different but I don't want to eat radioactive food as well as dog, cat, cow, etc. etc. etc.
I am sorry Japanese children have to eat radioactive food and cows through their school lunch.

contaminated beef

Meat of cows fed in Fukushima was found to be contaminated by radioactive cesium.

Radioactive material were said to be ingested through hay. The hay were left outside until April (the explosions were happen in March 12th, 14th, 15th.).

The farmer sold other unchecked cows already and the cows were brought to the prefectures which were very far from Fukushima. 

Contaminated foods are being spread to all over the Japan like this.

Japanese government are planning to screen all the cows in this area before sipped.

Almost all Japanese are wondering why the unchecked beef from these area can be sold.

how to cook cesium-contaminated foods

A news program featured how to cook radioactive-cesium-contaminated foods other day.

vegetable which leaves we eat
1) wash
2) boil
3) pickle them in vinegar.
Cesium dissolves in water, much better in acid.

root vegetable
1)wash
2)peel, especially peel deeply pit or scar.

meat
slice and boil

fish
remove gut and skin and scale
boil

Radioactive cesium half-life time is about 30 years. But eaten cesium is said to decrease to half in 100 days  in the human body through egestion, thank you poo. TV man said that to egest smoothly, high-fiber food was good. Hey,  wait a minutes, does eating high-fiber food mean another cesium ingesting?  Where can we get cesium free foods?



I am realizing I have to have foods contaminated by radioactive material.
I have been so nervous about them, and struggling to find vegetables gathered in places as far as Fukushima, to find imported foods.
It is not practical way of life,
I have spent more than twice money on food and tons of hours. And have been spending months with no pepsi, no coke, no restaurant because they may use something gathered near Fukushima, or may be bottled near Fukushima. I may lose my friends.
I feel like myself as dingy scavenger.

Japanese cesium tea leaves were exported and found in France

Some raw tea leaves grown in Shizuoka prefecture were found to have excessive level of radioactive cesium. What is worse Shizuoka is/(was?  already) famous for excellent tea.

The tea farmers insisted that dried tea leaves should NOT to be analyzed. Because it is very clear that much more dried tea leaves would be found to be excessive level. Shizuoka prefectural governor, Kawakatu Heita said boiled tea would have weakened amount of cesium.

well, i might change myself to kind of bitch mode, but what kind of moron the prefectural governor is?  They killed tea leaves including low-level of cesium too.  And,  they exported tea leaves including high-level of cesium??

well.. some agricultural product have been found to be exported with deceptive labeling of origins. Their label said that they were made in the prefectures which located far from Fukushima, but actually they were gathered in the prefectures very near Fukushima or Fukushima, and contained a lot of cesium.

I don't know the truth about this tea area yet.  But either way, this is shame.

Tea leaf farmers don't accept dried leaf analysis

Excessive levels of radioactive cesium was detected in the tea leaves.  Main of the tea leaf growing area is lying to the west of Tokyo, opposite side to Fukushima. As the area is farther from Fukushima than Tokyo, some people looked to be shocked. (A lot of farm products grown in the area between Fukushima and Tokyo are sold because their analysis showed under levels)
One of the most shocked people are tea leaf farmer.
Monitored tea leaves are raw. Government told dried leaves should be monitored too.
But tea leaf farmers don't accept dried leaf tea analysis.
When making dried leaves,  leaves lose their moisture but they don' lose radioactive things. So it is very clear that analysis of dried leaf will show higher radioactive than raw leaf.
They insist boiled up tea will show lower level than guideline.