Decontamination is a huge earning source for big corporations and nuclear power group

The Fukushima authorities and central government want citizens to return to live in the highly-radioactive areas, saying that decontamination will make these areas safe.  “Decontamination” was discussed when Fukushima government invited IAEA and hosted an international ministerial meeting about the atomic energy security in Kooriyama-city in Fukushima prefecture in the mid December last year.  “Decontamination” was presented as if it would make the level of radiation low therefore it’s going to be safe for citizens to come back and stay in Fukushima prefecture even after the level 7 disasters.  Now this theory is admittedly crumbling.

Why doesn’t Japanese government take account of the reports from Chernobyl where decontamination was not effective enough for evacuees to come back and live?  Twenty six years passed after the disaster, there is no one living in the area more than 5mSv/y unless they want.  In Japan citizens are forced to live in the area up to 20mSv/y or more.  Besides huge amounts of radiation are still leaking from the crippled Daiichi Nuclear Power plants, and once out it keeps on circulating around, accumulating in the environment.  There is no way to eradicate it by technologies that are available so far except for a few experiments.    

Recent revelation suggests that there are difficulties to deal with decontamination in Fukushima prefecture.  Even if decontamination companies deal with it in a way they supposed to do, there is a doubt about decontamination itself.  Japanese government announced last year that they were going to aim to reduce the level of radiation down to 1uSv/h (=8.76mSv/y) in 2 years after decontamination.  Let me remind you that 1mSv per year is a legal limit of ionized radiation dose in Japan before the Fukushima disaster.

Also even if decontamination companies deal with it in a way it’s supposed to do, it’s only moving them to somewhere else.  It’s only a temporarily solution for localized area.  Now workers commented that there was not enough space to store even temporarily therefore they had to throw them into the river.  

It seems that the only benefit of decontamination is to provide big corporations with an endless supply of work so they can go on generating massive profits.

Evacuation is the only way to save children.  Instead of paying billion yen to big corporations for decontamination, the government should spend on group evacuation for Fukushima children.  Also people in the west and south of Japan are offering places to stay.  I’m sure more families could get out of Fukushima prefecture if the government supports them financially. 

(Reference)http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/crooked-cleanup-1-radioactive-waste.html
http://mainichi.jp/feature/20110311/news/20130105dde041040006000c.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIMoMVOujPM&feature=related

 *New Petition to evacuate Fukushima
May all the children of the great nation of Japan be safe from radiation.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Protect_the_children_of_Japan_against_radiation_exposure/