On June 10th, 2011, I have a school trip in the course of Comparative Studies on the historical development of sciences under the supervision of Prof. Masanori Kaji and Dr. Yakup Bektas.
Our class went to Shin-kiba Station (新木場駅) to visit Daigo Fukuryu-maru Exhibition Hall.
It is an exhibition hall of Daigo
Fukuryu-maru (第五福竜丸) or "Lucky Dragon V".
Daigo Fukuryu-maru is a ship with 35 km height and 250 km width.
It was 160km far from center of atomic testin
g.
On March 1st, 1954, at 6.45 a.m., ship crews saw it like the second Sun from the west side.
They already knew about this test, so they though it was safe.
However, there was no official announcement about the schedule.
7-8 minutes later after they heard the sound, they pulled out the instruments and tried to go away. After 2 hours there was rain, actually it was not they rain but ashes.
The real ashes is shown in the hall.
The tunas were sold out in the market. The next one of the newspaper reported on the incident. It was first report in Japan about it. Then people in other parts of Japan threw out the tuna even in Tsukiji market in Tokyo.
The government checked the tuna at that moment.
The price of tuna and fish went down.
After 2 months people detected radioactive in the rain.
It was not only march 1st testing but also other experiment. The fifth effected japan because of the wind.
There were 856 ship fishing the tuna, 485.75 tons, got radioactive tuna.
Blood production function and Leukemia.
US paid 2 million US Dollar and Japan stopped making any further processes.
The 70% of paid was sent to fishing industry. But, in fact, they suffered three times more than that amount.
20,000 nuclear weapons are still around the world.
Marshall island and people who conducted the experiments also effected.
And because of that, the level of radioactive increased.
Thank you very much for the Official guide of the hall, Prof. Masanori Kaji, Dr.Yakup Bektas, and everyone in the class.
Ref.
[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Government, No.5 Fukuryu-maru Exhibition Hall.
On March 1st, 1954, at 6.45 a.m., ship crews saw it like the second Sun from the west side.They already knew about this test, so they though it was safe.
However, there was no official announcement about the schedule.
7-8 minutes later after they heard the sound, they pulled out the instruments and tried to go away. After 2 hours there was rain, actually it was not they rain but ashes.
It took 4-5 hours to get out from there due to the large size of the instrument. They did not know about t
he situation at all.Their bodies received the radioactive. Even though they washed their bodies by sea water, in the evening, they got ill.
After they came back, they got more symptoms.
The crews got the same level as the Hiroshima-2-km-surrounding-area-of-atomic-bomb victims.
It was helpful that the washed themselves immediately, but the ship was also radioactived and they had to inside the ship for 2 weeks.
When they arrived, they got experiment in the hospital.
There were 28 crews.
After they came back, they got more symptoms.
The crews got the same level as the Hiroshima-2-km-surrounding-area-of-atomic-bomb victims.
It was helpful that the washed themselves immediately, but the ship was also radioactived and they had to inside the ship for 2 weeks.
When they arrived, they got experiment in the hospital.
There were 28 crews.
The real ashes is shown in the hall.
The tunas were sold out in the market. The next one of the newspaper reported on the incident. It was first report in Japan about it. Then people in other parts of Japan threw out the tuna even in Tsukiji market in Tokyo.
The government checked the tuna at that moment.
The price of tuna and fish went down.
After 2 months people detected radioactive in the rain.
It was not only march 1st testing but also other experiment. The fifth effected japan because of the wind.
There were 856 ship fishing the tuna, 485.75 tons, got radioactive tuna.
Blood production function and Leukemia.
US paid 2 million US Dollar and Japan stopped making any further processes.
The 70% of paid was sent to fishing industry. But, in fact, they suffered three times more than that amount.
20,000 nuclear weapons are still around the world.
Marshall island and people who conducted the experiments also effected.
And because of that, the level of radioactive increased.
Memorial of Maguro (Tuna)
Koboyama last word
"Please make sure I will be the last person who affected by atomic bomb."
"Please make sure I will be the last person who affected by atomic bomb."
Engine inside the ship
Nuclear Explosion Test Affected the World
Messages from children
Thank you very much for the Official guide of the hall, Prof. Masanori Kaji, Dr.Yakup Bektas, and everyone in the class.
Ref.
[1] Tokyo Metropolitan Government, No.5 Fukuryu-maru Exhibition Hall.
