アメリカの大学で化学の教鞭をとっている友人が、授業で水俣病の話をするためWikipidiaなどで下調べをしたのだが、日本語のサイトは同病の情報がとても少なく、英語のサイトの方が情報が沢山あるのが印象的だったと言っていた。
このように、海外で報道されている情報と国内で得られる情報の差を改めて実感したのが、先日東電が正確に発表した福島原発事故に関する数値だ。確か国の発表では、福島よりもチェルノブイリの方が多くの放射性物質を放出していて、福島は広島型原発の170発分だったはずだが、この発表によると、広島型原発の4023倍、チェルノブイリの4倍の放射能を放出したという。しかし、日本国内ではこの最悪な事態をまったく報道されない。
新聞やテレビだけの情報に頼ってしまうと、子供達の将来を守ることはできないという事実を受け入れざるおえない。
下記の記事は東電が世界に発表した数値である。↓
On Wednesday, TEPCO released estimates of the amount of Cesium leaked from Fukushima that are 24 times higher than previously thought and equal to 4,023 Hiroshima bombs.
Last August the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) estimated 15,000 tera becquerels of cesium radiation had leaked from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
One tera becquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.
At that time, the Telegraph reported the estimated cesium release was ‘equal 168 Hiroshima bombs’ as the atomic bomb atomic bomb dropped on Japan during World War II had only released 89 tera becquerels of cesium.
On Wednesday, TEPCO released revised estimates of the amount of radiation leaked from Fukushima.
The new estimated calculated the level of cesium released to be 360,000 tera becquerels.
That is 24 times higher than last August’s estimate and represents a cesium leak equal to 4,023 Hiroshima bombs.
The estimate is also more than 4 times Chernobyl which is estimated to have released 85,000 tera becquerels of cesium radiation into atmosphere.
TEPCO’s newly revised estimates of the Fukushima leak are also not all-inclusive and do not cover the entire date range from the start of the disaster.
The estimate of the total atmosphere release is based on data collected from between March 12 to 31, 2011,
TEPCO states the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere in April and during the following months is likely to be only 1% of the amount released in March.
That amount is considered to be ‘insignificant’ and is not included in the new estimate.
The estimated amount of radiation leaked into Pacific Ocean was extrapolated from data collected from March 26 to September 30, 2011.
TEPCO warned this data was collected from a ‘small amount of data acquired in a limited area’ and further warned ‘further data still needs to be collected to review the validity’ of their estimates.
The new estimate also did not provide figures for the amount of radiation leaked into the water pits that run beneath the Fukushima’s nuclear reactors or for radiation leaked into contaminated water that TEPCO has collected into storage tanks.
Last June, TEPCO estimated the amount of radiation leaked into the underground water pits to be up to nearly to two times higher than the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere.