10km is pretty shallow; thanks for the info!
Magnitude 9.1 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN - March 11, 2011

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Sunflowers May Heal Fukushima’s Radioactive Soil
by Nancy R.
July 10, 2011
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/sunflowers-may-heal-fukushimas-radioactive-soil.html#ixzz1Rn5ZNPsX
Activists are asking people to plant and grow sunflowers with a goal of decontaminating soil made radioactive in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. A group of young entrepreneurs and civil servants are asking volunteers to grow sunflowers, then send the seeds to the Fukushima area where they will be planted next year to help clean the soil of contamination.
Fast Company magazine reports that entrepreneur Shinji Handa has sold some 10,000 packets of sunflower seeds to Japanese people at a cost of $6.00 apiece to launch the project. “We will give the seeds sent back by people for free to farmers, the public sector and other groups next year,” said Handa. Besides decontaminating the soil, the organizers hope that the project will promote concern for the afflicted area, as people see a sea of yellow blooms and support the victims of the catastrophe.
Besides the entrepreneurial campaign, Japanese scientists led by a space agriculture professor have already conducted a test by growing sunflowers in the contaminated soil on farmland near the nuclear plant. On July 2 the scientists confirmed that the sunflowers had sprouted. Once the plants have grown and if it is confirmed that they have absorbed significant quantities of cesium, scientists will employ bacteria to decompose the plants, and the result will be treated as radioactive waste.
The process of extracting contaminants from the soil via plants is called phytoremediation. While animals can move away from pollutants or other toxics (if they’re lucky), plants have evolved ways to live with the toxics and eventually extract them from the soil. The downside is that the concentrated pollutants, such as radioactivity or lead, can then pass along the food chain if not disposed of properly. Sunflowers were used to suck up radioactive cesium and strontium in a pond at the Chernobyl nuclear accident site in 1994 and to remove uranium from contaminated springs near the Oak Ridge (TN) National Laboratory in 1996.
Fungi, bacteria and plants have remarkable properties that can help clean up the messes that we humans create. While no one solution will solve the problem of irradiated soil and the struggling farmers, it’s always wise to look to nature first for the processes that can heal the land.
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I am not sure that things just disappear once consumed by other things. I cann't see anywhere in the article that the sunflowers are not radioactive. So what to do with the Sunflowers??????

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lawlessline wrote:I am not sure that things just disappear once consumed by other things. I cann't see anywhere in the article that the sunflowers are not radioactive. So what to do with the Sunflowers??????
That's what the article says Tom :
Once the plants have grown and if it is confirmed that they have absorbed significant quantities of cesium, scientists will employ bacteria to decompose the plants, and the result will be treated as radioactive waste.
It looks like it may be a way to clean the soil but one would still have to deal with the radioactive waste that transferred from soil to the plants.
Phytoremediation :
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Ah yes. Sorry about that. SHould pull out of skim reading mode. I just saw something about the transfer into the food chain??
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2011 07 06 45% of kids from Fukushima survey had thyroid exposure to radiation.
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Radioactive Food Supply (Japan) JAIF 13 July 2011
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NHK news regarding status of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
yesterday and today.
(Fukushima NPP Site)
●New cooling devices set for Fukushima fuel pools
●Decontamination system fails again
●TEPCO restarts decontamination system
(Other news)
●Fukushima Prefecture to inspect all cattle farms
●On-site inspection of cattle farmers begins
●Hosokawa indicates tests on all beef cattle
●Checking internal radiation of people begins
●Moms set up network to protect kids from radiation
●Kyoto governor calls disaster response slow
●Governors criticize PM's handling of disaster
●Operators of 2 reactors to apply for final tests
●Over 100 involved in Kyushu Power's e-mail scam
●Kan to propose reduced dependence on nuclear power
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1310526965P.pdf
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yesterday and today.
(Fukushima NPP Site)
●New cooling devices set for Fukushima fuel pools
●Decontamination system fails again
●TEPCO restarts decontamination system
(Other news)
●Fukushima Prefecture to inspect all cattle farms
●On-site inspection of cattle farmers begins
●Hosokawa indicates tests on all beef cattle
●Checking internal radiation of people begins
●Moms set up network to protect kids from radiation
●Kyoto governor calls disaster response slow
●Governors criticize PM's handling of disaster
●Operators of 2 reactors to apply for final tests
●Over 100 involved in Kyushu Power's e-mail scam
●Kan to propose reduced dependence on nuclear power
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GLOBAL 2000 warns: Fukushima has "time bomb" in the basement!
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/07/14/environmental-organisation-global-2000-warns-fukushima-has-time-bomb-in-the-basement-99-million-liters-of-highly-radioactive-water-are-now-threatening-to-leak/
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Rense & Rifat - Fukushima - The End of the West as We Know It
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Geiger counters in Japan post-Fukushima: The disturbing discoveries made by those living here
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The Japanese response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis: Forgetting the history of Hiroshima
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Fukushima Warning (Translated) w/ Chris Busby
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This is my transcript of Dr. Christopher Busby, on a teleconference call to Japan. THIS IS NOT WORD FOR WORD & SOME PORTIONS I COULD NOT MAKE OUT VERY WELL (terrible audio quality). I believe this to be a fairly accurate summary of what Dr. Busby said.
The levels of radio activity that you are measuring with geiger counters, which I understand it to be about 1 microsievert per hour - they convert into a contamination in the surface of the ground, of levels which are on the border (or approximating) those of the Chereynobyl exclusion zone - and which should be illegal under the European law.
Under the European law, The real problem is that these limits are already wrong. For these kinds of exposure, The IPRT ? MOdel is completely incorrect...
The situation is, these internal radionucleotids substances, like plutonium, strontium 90, like Tritium, a whole range of other substances, including uranium... which is very dangerous - existing in the form of particles - these substances carry an enormously high risk of causing ill health in your children, and in parents, in pregnant women, and in all animals that live in this area that is contaminated.
The people there will know that most of their children there will be getting sick.
These sicknesses that you get are a result of inhaling and eating substances that are contaminated with uranium, plutonium and other radioactive substances.
NONE OF THESE SUBSTANCES CAN BE DETECTED WITH GEIGER COUNTERS... When you measure one microseivert per hour, you do not include any of these substances in that one microseivert per hour. We know that these substances are there, because I have in my laboratory, and my colleagues have measured in other laboratories the contents of the car air filters, we have analyzed these.
When we put the elements from the air filter next to x-ray film and we develop the film we see different light sources and flashes of light. These are called HOT PARTICLES. They are very small, you cannot see them - they are almost like a gas. If they are in the car filters, because cars breathe air - then they are inside of people, inside the lungs, inside the nose, inside the guts... and they will be causing significant harm.
Japanese scientist ... ... would have done these experiments as well, but they have not told the people the answer.
So, people who live in this area, who are ingesting and inhaling these substances have to take their children to a safe area ASAP. This is a very serious matter.
In the last twenty years, an enormous amount of scientific evidence has emerged from people who were exposed to the Cherynobyl radiation, which is very similar to the Fukushima radation. The evidence shows the Risk Model that is being used now is wrong by a factor of more than one thousand times.
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Radioactive Mushrooms & Typhoon eyes Fukushima 7/17/11
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SOS Again from Minamisoma, Fukushima
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