ちょっと前に取り上げたんだけど、中国で塩の買占めが社会問題化してた話...。
やっぱり報道に関しても、バランス感覚がモノ言うんだって、つくづく考えさせられる。
知人の話では、中国で内外の情報を取り込もうとした場合、最低限ひとつで構わないから、自身で他国メディアによる報道との突き合わせ検証ができないと、道を誤り易いと言うのだ。
今回の日本の原発事故に関して言えば、中国語メディアの中には、基準値に関する報道が根付かぬ内に、２０倍とか１００倍とかいう数値が踊ってしまっていたと聞く。
「海水が汚染され、塩が不足する」
ここまでくると、笑える誤報に近いが、情報源と頼む先が「これ」しかない場合、どう動くべきかってのは一概に判断できる話じゃない。
例えは悪いが、今回の震災に当たって、日本に残ったメディアが、いわゆる夕刊紙（ゲン●イとか●ジね...）だけになって、その信憑性が異様に高まったような状態だ。
何か判断下せるもんでもないか...。
そう言えば、米も中国もメディアのTOP扱いのネタは、リビア問題に移行した...。
検証になるとも思えないが、今日救出された避難民の話題は、たまたま開いた米Yahoo!のニュースで最初に知った...。
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Japan's efforts to ease nuke crisis hit setback
By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press – 30 mins ago
FUKUSHIMA, Japan – An unexpected spike in pressure inside a troubled reactor set back efforts to bring Japan's overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that as-yet minor contamination of food and water is spreading.
The pressure increase raised the possibility that plant operators may need to deliberately release radioactive gas, erasing some progress in a nuclear crisis as the government continued its halting response to a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that savaged northeast Japan on March 11.
A teenage boy's cries for help led police to rescue an 80-year-old woman from a wrecked house in a rare rescue after so many days.
Beyond the disaster area, an already shaken public grew uneasy with official reports that traces of radiation first detected in spinach and milk from farms near the nuclear plant are turning up farther away in tap water, rain and even dust. In all cases, the government said the radiation levels were too small to pose an immediate risk to health. Still, Taiwan seized a batch of fava beans from Japan found with faint ― and legal amounts ― of iodine and cesium.
"I'm worried, really worried," said Mayumi Mizutani, a 58-year-old Tokyo resident shopping for bottled water at a neighborhood supermarket to give her visiting 2-year-old grandchild. "We're afraid because it's possible our grandchild could get cancer." Forecasts for rain, she said, were an added worry.
Troubles at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex threatened to spread more radiation. While all six reactors saw trouble after the disasters knocked out cooling systems, officials reported progress in reconnecting two units to the electric grid and pumping seawater to cool overheating reactors and replenish bubbling and depleted pools for spent nuclear fuel.
But pressure inside the vessel holding the reactor of Unit 3 rose again Sunday, forcing officials to consider the dangerous venting. The tactic produced explosions during the early days of the crisis. Nuclear safety officials said one of the options could release a cloud dense with iodine as well as the radioactive elements krypton and xenon.
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., temporarily suspended the plans Sunday after it said the pressure inside the reactor stopped climbing, though at a high level.
"It has stabilized," Tokyo Electric manager Hikaru Kuroda told reporters. Kuroda said temperatures inside the reactor reached 572 Fahrenheit (300 degrees Centrigrade), and the company wants to minimize radiation releases. The option to release the highly radioactive gas inside is still under consideration if pressure rises, he said.
The higher reactor pressure may have been caused by a tactic meant to reduce temperatures ― the pumping of seawater into the vessel, Kuroda said.
Using seawater to douse Unit 3 and the plant's other reactors or storage pools ― Unit 4 was sprayed again Sunday ― was a desperate measure. Seawater is corrosive, and so is damaging the finely milled machine parts of the plant, rendering it ultimately unusable.
The government acknowledged Sunday that the entire complex would be scrapped once the emergency is resolved. "It is obviously clear that Fukushima Dai-ichi in no way will be in a condition to be restarted," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
Growing concerns about radiation add to the overwhelming chain of disasters Japan has struggled with since the 9.0-magnitude quake. The quake spawned a tsunami that ravaged the northeastern coast, killing more than 8,100 people, leaving 12,000 people missing, and displacing another 452,000, who are living in shelters.
Fuel, food and water remain scarce for a 10th day in the disaster. The government in recent days acknowledged being caught ill-prepared by an enormous disaster that the prime minister has called the worst crisis since World War II.
Bodies are piling up in some of devastated communities and badly decomposing even amid chilly rain and snow.
"The recent bodies, we can't show them to the families. The faces have been purple, which means they are starting to decompose," says Shuji Horaguchi, a disaster relief official setting up a center to process bodies in Natori, on the outskirts of Sendai. "Some we're finding now have been in the water for a long time, they're not in good shape. Crabs and fish have eaten parts."
Before the disasters, safety drills were seldom if ever practiced and information about radiation exposure rarely given in Futuba, a small town in the shadow of the nuclear plant, according to 29-year-old Tsugumi Hasegawa. In the aftermath, she is living in a shelter with her 4-year-old daughter and feeling bewildered.
"I still have no idea what the numbers they are giving about radiation levels mean. It's all so confusing. And I wonder if they aren't playing down the dangers to keep us from panicking. I don't know who to trust," said Hasegawa, crammed with 1,400 people into a gymnasium on the outskirts of Fukushima city, 80 miles (50 miles) away.
Another nuclear safety official acknowledged Sunday that the government only belatedly realized the need to give potassium iodide to those living within 12 miles (20 kilometers) of the nuclear complex.
The pills help reduce the chances of thyroid cancer, one of the diseases that may develop from radiation exposure, by preventing the body from absorbing radioactive iodine. The official, Kazuma Yokota, said the explosion that occurred while venting the plant's Unit 3 reactor last Sunday should have triggered the distribution. But the order only came three days later.
"We should have made this decision and announced it sooner," Yokota told reporters at the emergency command center in the city of Fukushima. "It is true that we had not foreseen a disaster of these proportions. We had not practiced or trained for something this bad. We must admit that we were not fully prepared."
Contamination of food and water compounds the government's difficulties, heightening the broader public's sense of dread about safety. Consumers in markets snapped up bottled water, shunned spinach from Ibaraki ― the prefecture where the tainted spinach was found ― and overall express concern about food safety.
Experts have said the amounts of iodine detected in milk, spinach and water pose no discernible risks to public health unless consumed in enormous quantities over a long period of time. Iodine breaks down quickly, after eight days, minimizing its harmfulness, unlike some other radioactive elements which remain in the environment for decades.
The governor of Fukushima, where milk contaminated with iodine was found at one farm Friday, urged dairy farmers across the prefecture to halt all sales ― just short of a ban in consensus-driven, if polite, Japan.
Edano, the government spokesman, tried to reassure the public for a second day running Sunday. "If you eat it once, or twice or even for several days, it's not just that it's not an immediate threat to health, it's that even in the future it is not a risk," Edano said. "Experts say there is no threat to human health."
No contamination has been reported in Japan's main food export ― seafood ― worth about $3.3 billion a year, less than 0.5 percent of its total exports.
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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo, as did Associated Press writers Elaine Kurtenbach, Tim Sullivan, Joji Sakurai, and Jeff Donn.
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福島原発、電源引き込み作業完了・機器点検急ぐ(読売新聞) - goo ニュース
まずは、現場でがんばってくださった方々には、心底敬意を表したい。
まぁ全て完了って訳でもないんで、引き続き、気を引き締めて対応頂ければ...と思う。
俺にとっては、よく分らんシステムだけど、こんなモン作るってのは、国民の抱く「安心感」と引き換えなんじゃないの？
あんまりお勧めできる話でもないけど、米国同様、鳴り物入りのシステムで計算した結果、避難は20KmでOK！って言われりゃ、相応の納得もできるってもんだ...。
現場の放射線量の遷移から言っても、大きな問題は発生していないものとは考えられるが、今日中の完了を予定していた２号機の電機系の復旧作業は、間違いなく足止めを食った訳で、決して事態が好転しているとは言えない状態なのだし...。
サーチナの報じ方では、陳さんの話へのフォローなのかどうか、陳さんの事件自体取り上げられていないので何とも言えないが、日本においても、災害発生直後には、チェーンメールへの注意が叫ばれていたはず...。今後、放射能汚染絡みの報道は、さらに増えるだろうし、まずは、迂闊な情報に踊らされない、消化の過程での検証を、自身心がけたいと思う...。
枝野さんの発表が唐突過ぎて、もう少し危険性のない論拠を示すなりして、落ち着くよう言い含めてから発表すべきだった...との話もあるが、この点については、結果同じだったのでは？と思う。 確かに何でも公表さえしておけば、後々の責任回避につながる...程度の見識ならば、なかった方が良かったのだろうが、包み隠さず早めに公表して、個々人の落ち着いた対応を促す基盤としておくことが、現時点では得策と思える。
まずは、落ち着くことなのだろう。
