JAPAN allowing residents to return to contaminated Tamura city 田村市, Fukushima 福島県

To report this story, I have chosen two articles as a source. The first one is by Asahi Shimbun (by the numbers and accurate report) and the second is from the clueless AFP/CNN/ABC mass garbage etc … . Feel free to compare the two. Special thanks to Christina Consolo and Kitagawa Takashi. (see my notes regarding the AFP report further below, as well as Christina’s and Takashi san’s take on the situation)

by Asahi Shimbun

by ABC/AFP 

Hundreds of Japanese people will soon be allowed to return to their homes, two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced them to leave.

A 20 kilometre exclusion zone was declared around the nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a reactor meltdown in March 2011.

From April 1, 350 people from Tamura city will be allowed to head back to their homes permanently, according to Japan’s Reconstruction Agency.

Over the next two years, up to 30,000 people will be allowed to return to their homes in the original exclusion zone, thrown up in a bid to protect people from the harmful effects of leaking radiation.

Officials say once the evacuation order is lifted, people will be free to choose whether or not to return home.

Those who return home will continue to receive compensation for property and job loss, but will no longer receive the $US980 a month payment for emotional stress.

“But the monthly pay of 100,000 yen ($980) to address emotional distress caused by the accident will end if residents decide to return home,” he said.

Residents are divided whether to return or not – many are concerned over the presence of low-level radiation, despite decontamination efforts.

The government says the levels are safe.

Under government guidelines, areas are declared suitable for habitation if someone living there is exposed to a maximum of 20 millisieverts of radiation per year.

Officials have said they would like to get radiation exposure down to one millisievert a year.

The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends a dosage limit of one millisievert per year from all sources of radiation, but says exposure to less than 100 millisieverts per year presents no statistically significant increase in cancer risk.

A single CT hospital scan delivers around 10 millisieverts, according to the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan.

NOTE from Nelson

The exclusion zone keeps on shrinking. The clueless media keeps on referring as if there still was a 20km radius exclusion zone . The truth is that this “red circle” has vanished a long time ago. check here

Either the media (excluding Asahi for the moment) are knowingly misinforming the mass or they are simply omitting to do a little bit of research, before their usual “copy and paste” from AFP.

Furthermore, parts of Tamura city were already destined to “re open” along parts of Minami Soma and three other municipalities, under former DPJ Minister of Environment and sociopath Goshi Hosono. This is just a continuation of an ongoing madness going unabated, regardless of the political parties in power.

The AFP is ending this report by a single phrase (which of course the international media happily played along with)

A single CT hospital scan delivers around 10 millisieverts, according to the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Japan.

… strongly implying that the potential return of the 1 300 people returning to Tamura City is completely safe, because the government guarantees less than 20 millisivierts a year.

Once again, in case you are not yet aware of those dirty little propaganda tricks, let me just point out that a CT scan is 10 millisieverts of “controlled induced radiation exposure” and that more importantly, this is “external radiation” instead of “internal radiation”. When you get a CT scan, you do not inhale or ingest dangerous particles inside your body, your bones, your organs and tissues. A CT scan does not threatens to lodge particles of Cesium 137, Iodine 131, Strontium 90, Cobalt 60 or even worse Plutonium inside your children fragile little bodies. So that little propaganda crap ending this article is destined for people unaware or just hoping that they are telling the truth.

OTHER PROPAGANDA YOU WILL MOST DEFINITELY SEE WHEN YOU READ AN ARTICLE ON FUKUSHIMA BY THE MASS GARBAGE

compiled by Christina Consolo  (I added a few more, feel free to participate)

• ”safer than eating a banana”
• “larger dose from flying on an airplane”
• “sleeping next to someone gives you a larger radioactive dose”
• “It’s nothing compare to a CT scan”  (as seen in this AFP article  😉  )
  
• “you can eat Plutonium without worries”
• “20 millisieverts is safe”  (as seen in this AFP article  😉  )
• “50 miilisieverts is safe”
• “100 millisieverts is safe”  (as seen in this AFP article  😉  )
• “1000 millisieverts is safe”  (Dr Wayde Alisson)
  
  • ”within safe limits”
  • ”part of background”

• ”definitely not caused by radiation”
• ”we can rule radiation out as the cause”
• ”no need to test”
• ”harmless”
• ”hydrogen explosion”
• “because you cannot prove that the disease was caused by a specific radiation, the information is not valid until proven by the scientific method.”
• “nuclear is safe because they have backup power”
• “nuclear is safe because background radiation is high, so don’t worry about a little more”
• “the radiation from that release is in ‘the noise’ of the background radiation”
• “it’s green and clean”
• “nuclear is the only thing that can save the climate from excess carbon”
• “nuclear plants have pooled insurance”
• “The NRC makes nuclear industry safe by regulating them”
• “The IAEA regulates the worldwide nuclear industry”
• “No deaths caused by nuclear radiation”
• “Just keep smiling and radiation will not hurt you”
• “Thorium reactors are completely safe”
• “depth in defense safety at nuke plants means that a major accident should only happen about every 2000 years.”
• “All the nuclear waste in the world could fit in a football field”
• “the solution for nuclear waste is a single permanent repository”
• “nuclear power emits ZERO CO2”
• “Reactors cannot blow up like nuclear bombs”
• “No radiation from japan will reach the USA”
• “Below the threshold”
• “If it were that bad it would be on the news”
• “mental health”  (as seen in this AFP article  😉  )
• “radio-phobia”
• “Denver is higher than Tokyo”
• “Brazil is higher than Tokyo”
• “Fukushima to become a touristic destination for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics”

GREENPEACE ON TAMURA CITY   February 2014  See pictures right here

国が初めて、憲法に基づいた、「人権」を主張。

「避難指示は憲法２２条の居住の自由を阻む例外的な規制で、
我々は帰れる方の権利を守りたい」

by Kitagawa Takashi

とのことで、4月1日に避難解除し、帰還してよいとし、
「住民の人権」”居住の自由”を守る、との意向だそうだ。

福島県田村市での出来事。まるで、国会お得意の、緊急動議-強行採決の手管を見るようだ。

こういうことをする、官僚は、「頭が良い」のだそうだ。

「　「４月１日解除」の政府判断は突然、あっけなく住民に言い渡された。福島県田村市船引町で２３日開かれた都路地区東部の住民に対する「避難指示」の解 除をめぐる住民説明会。会合が２時間を過ぎようとした時、それまで黙っていた官僚たちがせきを切ったように一斉に「４月解除」を語りだし、再考の余地なし という構えを住民に示した。会の流れを経済産業省の職員はこうふり返った。「ま、官僚は頭がいいんですよ」

政府と市側の計１４人が居並び、それに対する形で住民約１００人が会場に詰めかけた。冒頭、冨塚宥暻（ゆうけい）田村市長と赤羽（あかば）一嘉（かずよ し）・原子力災害現地対策本部長（副経産相）がこれまでの経緯を話し「住民の方々のご意見を拝聴したい」と口をそろえた。

説明会が始まって１時間半も過ぎたころ、昨年夏から長期宿泊している住民が「心配はいろいろあるけど、このまま帰れないと心が壊れる。国、東電にお 任せして（今後の対応を）信じるしかない」と発言。「帰還派」の声が相次いだのを見計らうように司会役が「では解除の時期について」と意見を住民に求め た。すると、小滝沢地区の副区長が「私の地区では５人が田植えを予定しており、（１月に）４月解除が望ましいと提案したら、別の住民に脅しともとれる言わ れようをした。この際、国の判断を」と提案した。

これを受けるかのように、黙り通しだった原子力災害現地対策本部の熊谷敬・副本部長が一気に「４月解除」の方針を言い切った。　【「避難指示は憲法２２ 条の居住の自由を阻む例外的な規制で、我々は帰れる方の権利を守りたい」と、これまで一度も触れられなかった憲法を初めて持ち出した。】」

環境省：「再度一律に面的な除染を実施することはいたしません」と住民が求める再除染を却下。

飲み水の安全のため住民が強く望んだ井戸の掘削についても「検査で１リットル当たり１０ベクレルを超えるケースについては個別に賠償する」という対応で却下。

住民代表：小滝沢地区の副区長が「私の地区では【５人が田植えを予定】しており、（１月に）４月解除が望ましいと提案したら、別の住民に脅しともとれる言われようをした。この際、【国の判断を】」と提案

まるで、国会お得意の、緊急動議-強行採決の手管を見るようだ。

安倍首相：「一日も早い復興を実現したい」
とはこういうことか・・・

原発だけでなく、住民も「冷温停止」というワケか・・・
汚染水だけでなく、住民も「完全ブロック」というワケか・・・

＞【５人が田植えを予定】
田村市の米が、全国に回るのか・・・

Source: ” 避難解除:「官僚は頭がいいんです」”
http://mainichi.jp/select/news/20140224k0000e040240000c.html

写真：グルな田村市長
「福島県田村市都路地区の避難指示解除をめぐる住民説明会であいさつする冨塚宥暻市長（中央）。右は赤羽一嘉・原子力災害現地対策本部長＝田村市で２０１４年２月２３日午後１時３２分、須賀川理撮影

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