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See Richard Wilcox’s photo journal of Fukushima’s forbidden land

Forbidden Land Of Fukushima – A Photo Journal Richard Wilcox, Ph.D. http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/forbidden-land-of-fukushima-photo.html
Activist Post  In July of 2013, journalist Yoichi Shimatsu and I made a trip to the vicinity of the wrecked reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plant no. 1 (FNPP#1). We traveled through the area which had been devastated by the March 11, 2011 tidal wave and subsequent nuclear meltdowns that occurred at FNPP#1. We were as close as nine or ten kilometers away from the actual reactors and I measured over 0.5 microsieverts per hour background radiation on my dosimeter……

On the way to the beach where radiation is irreversibly deposited in the coastal sediments:

Most of radiocesium in the coastal sediments is incorporated into lithogenic fractions, and this incorporation is almost irreversible. Accordingly, the biological availability of sedimentary radiocesium is relatively low, but continuous monitoring of radiocesium inmarine biota is highly recommended because significant amounts of radiocesium have been accumulated in the sediment…….

Near Hirano we saw thousands of huge sacks of low level radioactive waste piled under a bridge……..

October 11, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual