【政治経済】平成床屋談義 町の噂その399
By going to the catastrophe zone, I wanted to send a signal and show the Japanese that they haven't been completely
abandoned. Had I worried about my health, I wouldn't have traveled to Japan. But the radioactivity released is so low
that you're safe 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from Fukushima. The amounts of plutonium that have been detected are low.
It's possible that this plutonium was released in the 1950s and 1960s, when nuclear weapons were tested in the Pacific
Ocean near the area.
カタストロフ・ゾーンに行ってみたのだが、放射線量は低く、20キロメートル地点でも安全である。検出されたプルト二ウムは
大変微量で、これは1950年代や1960年代の核実験のものである可能性もある。
Very Different from Chernobyl
チェルノブイリとは全く違う
Chernobyl was different. Thirty-one people were killed by the explosion or from the consequences of acute high-dose
radiation exposure. The explosion released huge amounts of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-134 and -137, which
contaminated about 195,000 square kilometers (ca. 75,000 square miles). The radioactive plume was ejected up to the
lower troposphere, dispersed by high-altitude winds and brought back down to earth by rains. One of the several reasons
why so much radioactivity could escape was that, owing to its size and shape, the core of the Soviet reactor had no
containment structure. In Fukushima, the reactor cores are considerably smaller and -- similar to German nuclear power
stations -- housed within two containment structures.
チェルノブイリ事故では爆発による高放射線量の被爆で31人が死亡した。爆発は高濃度のiodine-131、cesium-134 and -137を放出し
195000平方ｋｍの地域を汚染した。放射性の火炎が対流圏の下層に放出され高層の気流に運ばれて雨によって降下した。これほど
多量の放射性物質が放出されたのはソビエトの原子炉コアが格納構造を持っていなかったためである。福島原発のコアはドイツの
原子力発電のそれと同じように小型で二重の封じ込め構造になっている。
At the time, I traveled to Kiev as the head of the international medical team (along with my three young children, by the
way). Health-related consequences were most easily detected in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. About 6,000 excess cases of
thyroid cancer were detected, mostly among the young. These cases of thyroid cancer were caused by 131-iodine in milk and
dairy products.
当時私は国際医療チームの団長としてキエフに行って（ついでに私の3人の子どもと一緒だったが）ウクライナ、ベラルース、ロシア
における健康問題は容易に検知できた。（平時に比べて）6000人の甲状腺癌が追加的に生じて、多くは小児であった。これらの甲状腺癌
はミルクや食品の131-iodineが発生させたものであった。
abandoned. Had I worried about my health, I wouldn't have traveled to Japan. But the radioactivity released is so low
that you're safe 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) from Fukushima. The amounts of plutonium that have been detected are low.
It's possible that this plutonium was released in the 1950s and 1960s, when nuclear weapons were tested in the Pacific
Ocean near the area.
カタストロフ・ゾーンに行ってみたのだが、放射線量は低く、20キロメートル地点でも安全である。検出されたプルト二ウムは
大変微量で、これは1950年代や1960年代の核実験のものである可能性もある。
Very Different from Chernobyl
チェルノブイリとは全く違う
Chernobyl was different. Thirty-one people were killed by the explosion or from the consequences of acute high-dose
radiation exposure. The explosion released huge amounts of radioactive iodine-131 and cesium-134 and -137, which
contaminated about 195,000 square kilometers (ca. 75,000 square miles). The radioactive plume was ejected up to the
lower troposphere, dispersed by high-altitude winds and brought back down to earth by rains. One of the several reasons
why so much radioactivity could escape was that, owing to its size and shape, the core of the Soviet reactor had no
containment structure. In Fukushima, the reactor cores are considerably smaller and -- similar to German nuclear power
stations -- housed within two containment structures.
チェルノブイリ事故では爆発による高放射線量の被爆で31人が死亡した。爆発は高濃度のiodine-131、cesium-134 and -137を放出し
195000平方ｋｍの地域を汚染した。放射性の火炎が対流圏の下層に放出され高層の気流に運ばれて雨によって降下した。これほど
多量の放射性物質が放出されたのはソビエトの原子炉コアが格納構造を持っていなかったためである。福島原発のコアはドイツの
原子力発電のそれと同じように小型で二重の封じ込め構造になっている。
At the time, I traveled to Kiev as the head of the international medical team (along with my three young children, by the
way). Health-related consequences were most easily detected in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. About 6,000 excess cases of
thyroid cancer were detected, mostly among the young. These cases of thyroid cancer were caused by 131-iodine in milk and
dairy products.
当時私は国際医療チームの団長としてキエフに行って（ついでに私の3人の子どもと一緒だったが）ウクライナ、ベラルース、ロシア
における健康問題は容易に検知できた。（平時に比べて）6000人の甲状腺癌が追加的に生じて、多くは小児であった。これらの甲状腺癌
はミルクや食品の131-iodineが発生させたものであった。
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