Japanese mention words "cumulative" and "accumulated"

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2011-04-11 03:51

Apparently they aren't just irrelevant terms.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said villages and towns outside the 20 km (12 mile) evacuation zone that have had more accumulated radiation would be evacuated. Children, pregnant women, and hospitalized patients should stay out of some areas 20-30 km from the Fukushima nuclear complex, he added.

The decision to widen the evacuation band around the Fukushima plant was "based on data analysis of accumulated radiation exposure information", Edano told a news conference.

"These new evacuation plans are meant to ensure safety against risks of living there for half a year or one year," he said. There was no need to evacuate immediately, he added.

Japan had resisted extending the zone despite international concerns over radiation spreading from the six damaged reactors at Fukushima, which engineers are still struggling to bring under control after they were wrecked by the 15-meter tsunami.

Residents of one village, Iitate, which is 40 km from the Fukushima Daiichi plant, have been told to prepare for evacuation because of prolonged exposure to radiation, a local official told Reuters by phone. It has a population of 5,000.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/217495/world/japan-expands-nuclear-evacuatio...

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You can't ever know your cumulative exposure

Submitted by Webworker (not verified) on Mon, 2011-04-11 07:43.

Alright kiddies...get out your abacus, TI calculator or scratch pad and try to figure out the cumulative exposure for your state, for your city, for your neighborhood....

And I do mean neighborhood. Just as weather can be different just a mile or two away, so can dispersal patterns. Until here are as many working monitoring stations on the west coast as Starbucks there is no way to know of localized dispersion of radioactive materials.

AND Unless you have been wearing a personal dosimeter unit since the earthquake on March 11th you can't even get an idea as to personal cumulative exposure.

Berkely's results reflect the levels at the exact location where the sample was taken....period.

Little late. It is so sad

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-04-11 03:55.

Little late. It is so sad that these people have been needlessly exposed to this crap.

This is exactly what I was

Submitted by LisaT (not verified) on Mon, 2011-04-11 04:26.

This is exactly what I was thinking. They were advised to extend the evacuation zone before, and resisted, only now to realize that this needs to be done. Those poor people that were exposed to the higher radiation levels. I guess, in some sense, many of them will feel just as bad leaving their homes.....