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Why doesn’t Tepco analyze fishery products for Strontium-90 ?

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/02/why-doesnt-tepco-analyze-fishery-products-for-strontium-90-%E2%86%92-tepco-because-its-how-its-supposed-to-be/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29

Tepco – “Because it’s how it’s supposed to be”

Posted by Mochizuki on February 19th, 2014

The reason why Tepco doesn’t analyze fishery products for Strontium-90 is only because it’s the rule. Tepco stated in the press conference of 2/19/2014.

Having highly contaminated water leaking to the sea, the biological concentration of marine products is one of the most important issues.

However, they don’t analyze the samples for Strontium-90, which is accumulated in bone to cause human consumers leukemia. Like ordinary food test of the government, they only analyze them for Cesium-134/137.

Among tens of the test results, they release Strontium-90 data only about a couple of the samples, once in a few months.

Tepco doesn’t have the plan to analyze the samples for Strontium-90 and other nuclides more frequently, and the reason to refuse the proposal wasn’t announced either.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

Downplay it in the beginning, and quietly add more information so nobody notices it. All for not letting the cattle escape. This is their strategy.

Strontium 89 in Fukushima Fallout – references

http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/strontium-89-in-fukushima-fallout-references/

“The ministry announced Tuesday that strontium-89 and strontium-90 were found in its analyses of soil samples collected during the two days from March 16 from two locations in Namie of Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located, and one place in Iitate in the same prefecture.

The three locations are outside but close to the 30-kilometer zone around the stricken plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. .

The analyses showed that the soil samples contained up to 260 becquerels of strontium-89 per kilogram and 32 becquerels of strontium-90, the ministry said.

The ministry also said it found plant samples collected on March 19 in the Fukushima Prefecture municipalities of Otama, Motomiya, Ono and Nishigo had up to 61 becquerels of strontium-89 per kilogram and 5.9 becquerels of strontium-90. The sampled plants are not edible vegetables.”

Maximum detected strontium-89 in Namie or Iitate’s soil in March 2011: 260 becquerels/kilogram = 7.02 picocuries of Sr89 per gram of soil

Maximum detected strontium-90 in Namie or Iitate’s soil in March 2011: 32 becquerels/kilogram = 0.8 picocuries of Sr90 per gram of soil

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MEXT reported on measurements of strontium-89 (half-life: 50.5 days) and strontium-90(half-life: 28.8 years) in three samples taken in one village in the Fukushima prefecture on 16 March. The activities in soil for Sr-89 ranged from 13 and 260 Bq/kg and for Sr-90 between 3.3 and 32 Bq/kg. Sr-90 was also distributed globally during nuclear weapons’ testing in the atmosphere, typical global levels of Sr-90 in surface soils are in the order of one to a few becquerel per kg. Strontium was also measured in plant samples in four others villages, with values ranging from 12 to 61 Bq/kg for Sr-89 and 1.8 to 5.9 Bq/kg for Sr-90.

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Thu, 2011-04-14 13:23

It has been reported that Strontium has been detected in other countries as well but this is the first confirmation that it has been found that I could find outside the grounds of the Daichi plant (meaning it must have been in the initial blasts and/or gas vented)

Once again the failure of ANYONE to be testing for this is really troubling.

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3007

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Pourquoi Tepco ne recherche pas le strontium 90 dans les produits de la mer ? → Tepco : “Parce que c’est supposé être comme ça”

La raison pour laquelle Tepco ne recherche pas le strontium 90 dans les produits de la mer est seulement parce que c’est la règle. Tepco l’a affirmé au cours de la conférence de presse du 19 février 2014.

A cause des fuites d’eau extrêmement radioactive dans l’océan, la re-concentration biologique dans les produits pêchés est une des inquiétudes les plus importantes.
Néanmoins, ils n’analysent pas le strontium 90 de leurs échantillons, strontium qui s’accumule dans les os des consommateurs et y induit des leucémies. Ils ne recherchent que les césium 134/137, comme dans les contrôles courants du gouvernement sur les aliments.

Ils ont publié des données sur le strontium 90 pour seulement un couple d’échantillons, sur les dizaines de résultats d’examens et ce une seule fois en plusieurs mois.
Tepco ne prévoit pas de rechercher le strontium 90 et d’autres nucléides dans les échantillons de façon plus fréquente, leur raison du rejet de cette demande n’a pas été donnée non plus.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

Le minimiser au début et ajouter tranquillement de nouvelles information pour que personne ne le remarque. Tout pour que le troupeau ne s’échappe pas. C’est leur stratégie.

February 22, 2014 - Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized