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19,507 Bq Radioactive Cesium from a Man in Fukushima Who’s Been Eating Shiitake Mushrooms with More Than 140,000 Bq/kg of Cesium

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/19507-bq-radioactive-cesium-from-man-in.html

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012

“…Mind-boggling numbers, but I’m sure they will be dismissed as “no effect on health” because the man is in his 70s.

Another man was found with 11,191 becquerels. Their wives were also found with high levels of radioactive materials in their bodies.

Why? They have been eating food that they grow.

From Mainichi Shinbun (8/22/2012; link added) reporting the news that the health section at Asahi Shinbun reported in early August:….”

And this..

“….The husband and wife in Kawamata-machi have been eating shiitake mushrooms they grow on the logs from Namie-machi [in Fukushima Prefecture], bamboo shoots harvested near their home, and dried persimmons. From the mushrooms, over 140,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive materials [cesium] was found. The couple in Nihonmatsu City has been eating the vegetables given by the couple in Kawamata-machi.

Shiitake logs from Namie-machi… It seems no one bothered to tell them that Namie-machi is probably more heavily contaminated than some of the towns closer to the Fukushima plant. Being in their 70s, their news sources are likely to be the traditional media such as newspapers and TV.

Kawamata-machi is located just west of Iitate-mura, another heavily contaminated location in Fukushima.

Dr. Tsubokura says in the original Asahi article that these levels of internal radiation exposure are seen in Belarus.

However, one of the strange things I’ve noticed since April 1 this year when the new safety standard of 100 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium was put in place is thatpeople in general don’t care much about food contamination any more. It was a big deal, literally up until March 31, the last day under the provisional 500 Bq/kg safety level. If a food item was found with double-digit cesium per kilogram, people were worried….”

More interesting observations on this story on the EXSKF link and some more observations on this story here..

https://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/23/mainichi-almost-20000-becquerels-of-cesium-detected-inside-fukushima-man-this-is-not-a-level-that-would-affect-health-equals-less-than-1-millisievert-per-year/

August 23, 2012 - Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized