Osaka agrees with Iwate Prefecture about the acceptance of radioactive debris

Original Text from August 3 at 6:37 local time Japan by NHK http://www3.nhk.or.jp/lnews/osaka/2004032831.html

Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City officially agreed with Iwate Prefecture today.

Osaka will accept high limit of 36 000 tons of inflammable materials like wood wastes until March 2014.

Osaka Prefecture and Osaka City accept the debris for the support to reconstruction and took the policy to participate to the disposal of broad areas and allowed the necessary budget last month in the prefecture assembly and city assembly.

According to this, Matsui, Governor of Osaka, Hashimoto, Mayor of Osaka and Tasso, governor of Iwate Prefecture signed a statement of mutual agreement about the disposal of broad areas today.

In the statement of mutual agreement, the high limit of 36 000 tons of inflammable materials like wood wastes will be accepted in Osaka and the debris will be transported by Osaka Prefecture by ship. The Mayor Hashimoto said: "I want to protect the safety of citizens in Osaka and make efforts for the reconstruction of Iwate Prefecture" and the Governor of Iwate Prefecture Tasso thanked him. "It will be a great mental support for the victims in Iwate Prefecture who are working hard for the reconstruction".

Osaka CIty will dispose the debris at the incineration facility inside the city and they will landfill the ashes in the artificial island at Osaka Bay Areas inside the city.

In November this year they will do the test incineration and after they make sure of the security, they will start full scale incineration in February 2013.

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Please also read what happened after test incineration in Shimada City in Shizuoka Prefecture and in Kitakyushu City

In Kitakyûshû City, the cases of suspected damages on health caused after incineration test of disaster debris from Ishinomaki http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.be/2012/07/in-kitakyushu-city-cases-of-suspected.html

Stop spreading radioactive waste from Fukushima! Shimada (Shizuoka) marks the extremely high level of radiation. http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.be/2012/07/stop-spreading-radioactive-waste-from.html

High level of radiation detected in waste incineration in Akita. 7 workmen taken to a hospital http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.be/2012/07/high-level-of-radiation-detected-in.html

 Please check out the video of Shizuoka Broadcasting : Translated text in English on Youtube 

A project to resurrect Fukushima's agriculture in Australia

Original text from FNN news

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00226003.html

About 10% of ecological entity is said to live in Australia. It's abundant in natural resources such as iron ore or natural gas, and it has the vast national territories and a low population density. There is an enormous project going on in a city called Eyre in north east Australia to resurrect Fukushima's agriculture. 

June 7, a man who returned to Japan took out rice grains from his suitcase and said, "This is the future of Fukushima." 

Eyre, a city in Queen's land, has a population of about 9.000 and its beach is popular with tourists during winter. 

Takemi Shirado, 51-year old, moved from Iwaki to Eyre to resurrect Fukushima's agriculture. He began to grow rice in the city by himself. 

"It's a tough job", said he.

He is from Iwaki (Fukushima), and a leader of NPO Iwaki World Tanbo Project (IWTP). 

He grows "Koshi Hikari" (a Japanese rice brand) experimentally in a state center. 

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Mr. Shirado is trying exceptional 4 crops a year. (Rice is usually one-cropped in Japan). 

He said, "I've realized that I can grow good rice here. Eyer is a good place for rice growing." 

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"I should continue to grow rice with dreams and hopes to resurrect Fukushima's agriculture." 

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He had to abandon his land in Iwaki, hit hard by radioactive contamination and harmful rumors. It's hard for the farm families to continue farming in Fukushima. 

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Dry rice cultivation is usual in Australia, but he sticks to wet rice cultivation, which has some other merits like benefit of flood control or mitigating the temperatures. 

He has much expectation on the local crop industry, Blue Ribbon Rice. The spokesman of the company said, "His project is so exciting. It makes a perfect sense." 

The company makes business all over the world, especially China is the key account. A stable market will be developed by exporting Japanese high-grade rice for which demands are increasing. 

3 month after the planting, many local people came to his lecture on cropping, including some members of the network, staffs of the crop company and local officials. 

A local official of Queen's land said, "We might be able to support the people of Fukushima. It's a chance for us to expand the rice growing business too." The local government of Queen's land expects to export Japanese rice in future. 

Local media takes a strong interest in the project as well.  

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A tasting party was held in Iwaki after his return to Japan. Apart from NPO members and farmers, young people who study agriculture came to taste Koshi Hikari grown in Australia. They said, "It's tasty", "sweet". 

A NPO member said, "It meets japanese taste. We have to market it as Koshi Hikari from Australia." 

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Good feedbacks motivate farmers to continue farming.

Mr. Shirado said, "I really hope I can go to Australia together with the farmers from Fukushima to grow good rice" . 

His challenge has just begun. 

Follow Mr. Takemi Shirad on Facebook and Twitter.

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High level of radiation detected in waste incineration in Akita. 7 workmen taken to a hospital

2012 July 10 from Yahoo Japan NEWS http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20120710-00000608-san-soci

3 out of 7 workmen who was taken to a hospital from the waste incineration in Akita City suffers cardiopulmonary arrest, according to Kyodo News Service. 2 of them recovered consciousness. 

Later, Kyoto corrected the number of workmen who was taken to a hospital was 9. 

In the incineration, the high level of radiation was detected in the lead container in a scrap about a month ago, according to Mainichi Shimbun. 

"June 8, Akita City announced the high level of radiation was detected in the lead container in a scrap, which the City's Environmental Center had sold to a scrap business operation "Akita Rinko".
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According to the city's environment department, the container measured 48.86 microSV/h. The measurement from 1-meter distance was 2.02 microSV. The container was sealed and content hasn't been identified. It is possible it contains radioactive material of some thousands Bq. " 

According to Akita Sakigake Shimbun, about 16:30 on July 10, the workmen fainted and the city's environmental center called ambulance. 

The local police said that the workmen fell down on the floor when they wiped off the soot on the 6th floor of facility in the center. 

According to an article of Akita Sakigake Shimbun of June 16, the waste incineration carried out fusion test of the radioactive rubbles from May 19 to 22. 272 tons of rubbles from Nodamura were processed in the facility.  

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According to Dr.Shuntaro Hida's tweet (by The daily olive news),  recently published Russian lucubration says that Cesium 137 is not slow-acting, but immediately damages the heart muscle. "I came to consider this can be associated with the cause of death of the workman who died of cardiac infarction. He was one of the first workmen who worked at the accident site, and died after 2 days."

( http://twitter.com/#!/olivenews/status/222663145074868224 )

25,000 Bq detected from a wild boar in Nihonmatsu

Original Text from 2012 July 4. Fukushima Minyu News

http://www.minyu-net.com/news/news/0704/news6.html

The prefecture published the examination results of measuring the radiation level of 14 wild animals (wild boars and Asiatic black bears) captured in Fukushima. 12 samples were found to have the higher radiation level than the new food-safety standard (100 Bq/Kg). 

One of the boars captured in Nihonmatsu was found to have 25,000 Bq of Cesium, which marked the highest level so far. 

Also, 280 Bq of Cesium was detected from an Asiatic black bear captured in Minami Aizu Machi. According to the prefecture, it was the first time black bear meat exceeds the food-safety standard.