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Only two of the 59 municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture have set up temporary storage locations for soils and other debris removed during the decontamination process. The other 57 districts are literally in a state of paralysis, refusing to designate storage locations out of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) fears voiced by their citizens. The most-voiced fear is belief that the Cesium in the waste will get into the Prefecture's drinking water and pollute everyone. (Asahi Shimbun) How is removing the Cesium-laced material and storing it in a safe location worse than leaving everything where it is...unconstrained...spread everywhere...seeping into the soil...? Or, are we confusing the issue with facts?

Distrust of the Tokyo government concerning nuclear energy issues continues at a high level. An NHK World survey of 29 Prefectures and the municipalities hosting nuclear power plants, using a detailed questionnaire, shows that 60% feel gaining local support should be the prime criteria for restarting idled reactors, while only 17% say passing stress tests should be the most critical requirement. In addition, only 41% have confidence in the stress tests now being given to idled plants, while 14% did not, and 45% are undecided on the issue. The most-stated reason for the low vote of confidence is because the Tokyo government's mandated the stress tests without local government input. This indicates the testing is not helping to win official trust toward resuming operations. In all, 79 percent of the prefectures and municipalities said they want to be careful about timing with respect to resuming reactor operations in order to allay public concerns. Given the current political atmosphere, 27 of the local governments say they have no intention of allowing restarts according to Tokyo's current schedule, regardless of stress test results. However, two villages (not identified) say they want to restart their reactors as soon as possible, even before stress test results are established. It should be noted that Fukushima Prefectural municipalities were not included in the survey.

Largely due to bureaucratic complacency and a national arrogance with respect to their technological skill, Japan felt a severe nuclear accident was impossible. As a result, the government regulatory bodies neglected to set radiological standards for the public. Further, there was no effort to educate the public about radiation and its biological effects. This generated a radiologically ignorant society and produced what is perhaps the world's most fertile ground for superstitions of radiological doom. This condition also extends to the Japanese government and most of their academic community-at-large. Now, Japan is paying the price for its history of informational inactivity. A significant fraction of Japan's public is generally in a state of phobic fear, not because they are actually at risk from Fukushima, but because they have succumbed to the natural human condition known as fear of the unknown. Fear of radiation has lain dormant in the national subconscious since the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It has suddenly erupted into a powerful psychic barrier unnecessarily restricting Japan's recovery from their worst-ever natural disaster. Japan has become the world's most poignant example of the psychological damage caused by the Hiroshima Syndrome run-amok.

@dean trying catch up

@dean yup they got everything in place or the tepco bailout but the people well they get zilch

I wish we could figure out a way to contact an entomologist to see what they have discovered for genetic defects in bugs in and around the plants, also rodents and plants

@dean there are studies. i will look for it. a swiss woman made some.

wasn't there the rodent that died on the tepco cam we look at/

@dean yup I recall that

@dean Study of insects around Chernobyl shows mutations by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger www.beyondnuclear.org

@Edano.. ty

Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity BBC

even a link from TMI

@dean i think you could contact Cornelia Hesse-Honegger.

@Ian i guess she was not alone on her trips, she must have been with entomologist at her side. it seems they made no quantifying study or any statistic, but i have not searched deeper. it might be connected to such a study.

as always, we have to ask german wikipedia: de.wikipedia.org

"Künstlerisches und Wissenschaftliches Werk [Bearbeiten]

Ab 1967 malte Cornelia Hesse-Honegger mutierte Frucht- und Stubenfliegen, die im Labor vergiftet oder bestrahlt worden waren, um Mutationen zu erzeugen. Sie wurden für sie «zu Prototypen, zu Visionen einer zukünftigen menschgemachten Naturform. 1968 malte ich die erste Wanze Heteroptera, weil ich sie sie schön fand.»[1]

Seit diesen ersten Begegnungen mit Insekten und der künstlerischen Auseinandersetngen mit ihnen sammelt sie Insekten in verschiedenen Biotopen und malt sie. 1987, ein Jahr nach dem Unfall von Tschernobyl, begann sie damit, systematisch Wanzen zu sammeln. Sie sammelte in Gebieten, die von der Wolke von Tschernobyl radioaktiv verseucht worden waren und im Umfeld von Atomanlagen. Die gesammelten über 16 000 Insekten untersuche sie mit Hilfe von Binokularlaren. Dabei unterschied sie zwischen «morphologischen Schäden» und «allen Schäden». Zu den morphologische Schäden zählen Deformationen am Körper wie ungleichlange Flügel, fehlendes Segment im Fühler oder kürzerer Fühler oder zusammengewachsene oder deformierte Abdominalsegmente, asymmetrischer Thorax, oder Deformationen an Beinen und Füssen. In der Kategorie «Alle Schäden» dokumentiert sie morphologischen Schäden, sowie dunkle Flecken, Pigmentveränderungen, Löcher, Fehlbildungen des Materials (Chitin). Die Schädigungsrate in allen untersuchten Gebieten beträgt nach ihren Angaben bei «morphologischen Schäden» 22 Prozent, bei «allen Schäden» 30 Prozent. Um die Schäden vergleichen zu können, sammle sie per Untersuchungsstandort 50 oder 65 Wanzen. Diese Wanzen sammle sie in intakten Biotopen und narkotisiere sie für die äussere Untersuchung. Sie lebte von 1968 bis 1989 in der Nähe von Zürich und sammelte dort Wanzen , genauso in Ghana und Costa Rica. Diese intakten Biotope nutzte sie als Referenzbiotope, da dort keine Wanze morphologische Schäden aufwies. Während der Feldstudien erstellt sie Farbskizzen, aus denen sie später im Atelier minutiöse Aquarelle macht.

Durch ihre Untersuchungen kam sie zum Schluss, dass der radioaktive Niederschlag aus Tschernobyl in Schweden und in der Schweiz morphologische Schäden bei Wanzen der Gattung Heteroptera, Drosophila-Fliegen (Fruchtfliegen) sowie Pflanzen verursacht hatte. Von Naturwissenschaftlern wurden ihre Aussagen kritisierten in ihrer 1988 erschienene Publikation kritisiert. Die radioaktive Strahlung aus Tschernobyl sei in Westeuropa zu niedrig, um morphologische Schäden bei Insekten hervorrufen zu können. Weil Schweizer Atomkraftwerke niedrigere künstliche Radioaktivitätsdosen als der Tschernobyl Fallout emittierten, folgerte Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, dass Wanzen Heteroptera, die in der Umgebung von Schweizer Atomkraftwerken leben, gesund sein müssten. So untersuchte sie 1988 Heteroptera (Wanzen) und Pflanzen im Umfeld von Schweizer Atomkraftwerken und internationalen Atomanlagen wie Sellafield (UK), La Hague (Frankreich), Krümmel (Deutschland), Gundremmingen (Deutschland), Three Mile Island (Nevada, USA) und dem Atomtestgebiet Hanford. Aufgrund dieser Studien folgerte sie, dass sowohl «normal funktionierende» Atomkraftwerke, Atomaufbereitungsanlagen und andere Atomanlagen morphologische Schäden bei Wanzen Heteroptera verursachen.

Ihre Feldstudien in der Schweiz, Europa und den USA, die unzähligen Funde von verkrüppelten und geschädigten Wanzen Heteroptera und Pflanzen und die daraus entstandenen Bilder (Aquarelle) und Publikationen belegen nach ihrer Meinung eindrücklich, dass die künstliche Radioaktivität, die durch Atomanlagen in die Umwelt gelangt, eine zu wenig ernst genommene Gefahr für Mensch und Umwelt darstellt. Cornelia Hesse-Honegger setzt sich dafür ein, dass dieses Problem erkannt und unabhängig untersucht wird, sowie dass alternativen zur Atomenergie gesucht werden. Abgereicherte Uranwaffen, wie sie im Kosovo und in Bagdad eingesetzt wurden, müssen anch ihrer Meinung endgültig verboten werden und die betroffene Bevölkerung sollte untersucht und betreut werden.[2]"

google translation:

"Artistic and scientific works [edit]

Painted from 1967 Cornelia Hesse-Honegger and fruit flies that had been poisoned in the laboratory or irradiated to produce mutated mutation. They were for her "to prototype, to visions of a future man-made and natural form. In 1968 I painted the first bug Heteroptera, because I found them beautiful. "[1]

Since those first encounters with insects and with them the artistic Auseinandersetngen she collects insects in different habitats and painted them. In 1987, one year after the Chernobyl accident, they began systematically to collect bugs. They gathered in areas that had been contaminated by the radioactive cloud from Chernobyl and the environment from nuclear facilities. The collected over 16 000 insects they investigate with the help of Binokularlaren. They distinguished between "morphological damage" and "all damage". Among the morphological damage to the body as deformations are of unequal length wings, missing segment in the sensor or sensors or less grown together or abdominal segments deformed, asymmetrical thorax, or deformities of the legs and feet. In the category "All the damage" they documented morphological damage and dark spots, pigmentation changes, holes and malformations of the material (chitin). The injury rate in all investigated areas is as they claim to "morphological damage" 22 percent, with "all damage" 30 percent. To compare the damage, they can collect by survey location 50 or 65 bugs. These bugs they collect in intact habitats and anesthetize them for the external examination. She lived from 1968 to 1989 near Zurich where she gained bugs, as in Ghana and Costa Rica. These intact habitats used it as a reference habitats, because there had not bug morphological damage. During field studies they created color sketches, from which she makes later in the studio meticulous watercolors.

Through their studies, they concluded that the fallout from Chernobyl in Sweden and Switzerland morphological damage in Heteroptera bugs of the genus, Drosophila flies (fruit flies) and plants had caused. Of scientists have criticized their statements were criticized in their recent publication in 1988. The radiation from Chernobyl in western Europe was too low to be able to cause morphological damage in insects. Because Swiss nuclear power plants emitted lower doses of artificial radioactivity as the Chernobyl fallout, concluded Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, that would Heteroptera bugs that live in the area of ​​Swiss nuclear power plants to be healthy. So they examined 1988 Heteroptera (bugs) and plants in the environment of Swiss nuclear power plants and international nuclear facilities such as Sellafield (UK), La Hague (France), Krummel (Germany), Gundremmingen (Germany), Three Mile Iceland (Nevada, USA) and the Hanford nuclear test site. Based on these studies, they concluded that cause both "normal functioning" nuclear power plants, nuclear processing plants and other nuclear facilities morphological damage in Heteroptera bugs.

Their field studies in Switzerland, Europe and the USA, the countless discoveries of crippled and injured bugs Heteroptera and plants and the resulting images (watercolors) and publications demonstrate impressive in their opinion that the artificial radioactivity, which passes through nuclear plants in the environment , represents a serious enough of a risk to human health and the environment. Cornelia Hesse-Honegger is committed to ensuring that this problem is identified and studied independently, and that alternatives be sought to nuclear energy. Depleted uranium weapons, as they were deployed in Kosovo and Baghdad must anch their opinion be banned permanently, and the affected population should be studied and cared for. [2]
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so she made some kind of study at least, 16,000 bugs is a lot, but of course not on an orderly scientific base.

be back later...

@Peter @Edano rockhopper message for you yumi has translated the docs - summarized the doc in German Peter found. Fantastic! I would tweet them in JP later. Thank you yumi-san!