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From: mr bopp, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
URL: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/29/is-fukushima-getting-worse/
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Straight Disaster by ROBERT HUNZIKER The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there’s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns. On June 19th Tepco reported the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were 1,000,000 Bq/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near water intakes for Reactors 3 and 4. Tepco has not been able to explain the spike up in readings. The prior highest readings were 700,000 Bq/m3. (Source here). Strontium-90 is a byproduct of nuclear reactors or during the explosion of nuclear weapons, e.g., it is considered the most dangerous component of radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon (Source: HyperPhysics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University). It is a cancer-causing substance because it damages genetic material (DNA) in cells. Strontium-90 is not found in nature. It’s a byproduct of the nuclear world of today, e.g., strontium-90 was only recently discovered, as of August 2014, for the first time ever, by the Vermont Health Department in ground water at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Source here). Coincidentally, Vermont Yankee, as of December 29, 2014, is being shut down. When a fission chain reaction of uranium-235 or plutonium-239 is active in a nuclear power station containment vessel, it produces a vast array of deadly radioactive isotopes. Strontium-90 is but one of those. So, somewhere in Fukushima Dai-ichih a lot of atoms are splitting like crazy (meanwhile Einstein e=mc2 turns over in his grave) and ergo, a lot of strontium-90 pops out and hangs around for decades upon decades. This is not a small problem. Which may be why Einstein famously said, “Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.” For example, a large amount of strontium-90 erupted into the atmosphere from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion (1986), spread over the old Soviet Republics and parts of Europe. Thereby, strontium-90, along with other radioactive isotopes, kills and maims people, a lot of people, to this day, more on this later. Farming in Fukushima Because of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, farmers in the greater area have had a tough go of it. For example, on June 6, 2013 Japanese farmers met with Tepco and government officials, including the official in charge of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Source here). The 13-minute video of the farmers’ meeting with officials shows farmers testifying about contaminated food that, “We won’t eat ourselves, but we sell it… I know there is radiation in what we grow. I feel guilty about growing and selling them to consumers.” Well, sure enough, officials from New Taipei City’s Department of Health (Taipei, Taiwan), and other law-enforcement authorities, seized mislabeled products from Japan. It seems that “more than 283 Japanese food products imported from the radiation-stricken areas near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster were found to be relabeled as having come from other areas of Japan and sold to local customers,” Stephanie Chao, 283 Mislabeled Japanese Food Products Originated Near Fukushima, The China Post, March 25, 2015. Meanwhile, within a couple of months of the illicit underhanded devious mislabeling incident, Taiwan Enforces Stricter Controls on Japanese Food Imports, J.R. Wu in Taipei and Ami Miyazaki in Tokyo, Reuters, May 15, 2015, as Taiwan draws a line in the sand for Japanese foodstuff. Not only that but on the heels of Taiwan’s discovery of the mislabeling gimmick, and only three months later, Japan Asks China to Ease Food Import Restrictions Introduced After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, South China Morning Post, June 25, 2015. Previously, China banned food imports from ten prefectures in Japan, including Miyagi, Nagano, and Fukushima. Now, this past week, Japanese authorities are asking China to remove the restrictions. Japan would be wise to suggest China first consult with the United States because confidently, audaciously, imperturbably Secretary of State Hillary Clinton allegedly signed a secret pact with Japan within one month of the meltdown for the U.S. to continue importing Japanese foodstuff, no questions asked, Deborah Dupre, Radiating Americans: Fukushima rain, Clinton’s Secret Food Pact, Examiner.com, August 14, 2011. Meantime, Chancellor Merkel (PhD, physics) ordered a shutdown of nuclear power plants throughout Germany, hmm. Fukushima and Our Radioactive Ocean according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Video- March 2015: “When Fukushima exploded, radioactive gases and particles escaped into the atmosphere. Most fell nearby on land and in the ocean. A smaller amount remained in the air, and within days, circled the globe… in the ocean close to Fukushima, levels of cesium-137 and 134, two of the most abundant radioactive materials released, peaked at more than 50,000,000 times above background levels.” Nevertheless, according to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: “Scientists who have modeled the plume predict that radioactivity along the West Coast of North America will increase, but will remain at levels that are not a threat to humans or marine life.” To date, based upon actual testing of water and marine life in the Pacific Ocean by Woods Hole, radioactive levels along the North American West Coast remain low, not a threat to humans, not a threat to marine life, so far. Fukushima and its Ocean Impact, according to Dr. Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, March 11, 2015, cesium uptake in the marine food web is diluted, for example, when Bluefin tuna swim across the Pacific, they lose, via excretion, about one-half of the cesium intake that is ingested in Japanese waters. Expectantly, there are no commercial fisheries open in the Fukushima-affected areas of Japan. On a continual monitoring basis, no fishing is allowed in contaminated areas off the coastlines. When contamination levels of fish in Japan are compared to fish along the coast of North America, the levels of radiation are relatively low in Canada and in the U.S. As a result, according to studies by Woods Hole, eating fish from the U.S. Pacific region is okay. Not only that, but rather than categorical acceptance of U.S. government statements about safety from radiation in ocean currents, Dr. Buesseler established a citizen’s network called “How Radioactive is Our Ocean?” where individuals contribute by voluntarily taking samples. Every sample from the West Coast had cesium-137, but the numbers are low and at levels harmless to humans, thus far. But, on a cautionary note, Dr. Buesseler is the first one to admit the situation requires constant monitoring. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s findings are not sufficient to dismiss health concerns for many reasons, among of which Fukushima is white hot with radioactivity, tenuously hanging by a thread, extremely vulnerable to another earthquake or even an internally generated disruption, who knows? It is totally out of control! The California Coastal Commission issued a report that agrees with the low levels of Fukushima-derived radionuclides detected in air, drinking water, food, seawater, and marine life in California; however, “it should be noted that the long-term effects of low-level radiation in the environment remain incompletely understood….” Report on the Fukushima Dai-ichih Nuclear Disaster and Radioactivity along the California Coast, California Coastal Commission, April 30, 2014. “The risk of long-term exposure to low-level radiation is unclear. Studies of radiotherapy patients and others indicate that there is a significant increase in cancer risk if lifetime exposure exceeds 100,000 microsieverts, according to the World Health Organization. A person exposed daily to radiation at the high end of the levels now seen at Miyakoji [a village in Fukushima Prefecture] would reach that lifetime exposure level in fewer than 23 years,” Patrick J. Kiger, Fukushima Return: At Nuclear Site, How Safe is Safe? National Geographic, April 2, 2014. Current Status of Fukushima Nuclear Site, according to Dr. Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who travels to Japan to measure radiation levels: The site continues to leak radioactive materials. In fact, release of strontium-90 has grown by a factor of 100 when compared to 2011 levels. In other words, the situation is worsening. One hundred times anything is very big, especially when it is radiation. Strontium-90 is acutely dangerous, and as it happens, highly radioactive water continuing to spew out of the Fukushima Dai-ichih facilities is seemingly an endless, relentless problem. The mere fact that strontium-90 has increased by a factor of 100 since the disaster occurred is cause for decisive sober reflection. Furthermore, nobody on the face of the planet knows what is happening within the nuclear containment vessels, but apparently, it’s not good. More likely, it’s real bad. According to Dr. Helen Caldicott: “There is no way they can get to those cores, men die, robots get fried. Fukushima will never be solved. Meanwhile, people are still living in highly radioactive areas,” (Helen Caldicott, Speech at Seattle Town Hall, Sept. 28, 2014.) Comparison analysis of Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011): The world’s three most recent nuclear disasters are dissimilar in many respects. However, all three are subject to the same adage: “an accident is something that is not planned.” Thus, by definition, in the final analysis, the risk factor with nuclear power is indeterminate. Fukushima is proof. Three Mile Island’s containment vessel, in large measure, fulfilled its purpose by containing most of the radiation so there was minimal radiation released. As such, Three Mile Island is the least harmful of the three incidents. By way of contrast, Chernobyl did not have an adequate containment vessel and as a result, the explosion sent a gigantic plume of radioactive material blasting into the atmosphere, contaminating a 70 square kilometer (approximately 30 sq. mi.) region, a “dead zone” that is permanently uninhabitable, forever unlivable. To this day, tens of thousands of people affected by Chernobyl continue to suffer, and die, begging the question of whether Fukushima could be worse. After all, the incubation period for radiation in the body is 5-to-40 years (Caldicott). As for example, it took 5 years for Chernobyl children to develop cancer (Caldicott), and Fukushima occurred in 2011. “Fukushima is not Chernobyl, but it is potentially worse. It is a multiple reactor catastrophe happening within 150 miles of a metropolis of 30 million people,” claims John Vidal. Whereas, Chernobyl was only one reactor in an area of 7 million people. John Vidal, environmental editor, The Guardian newspaper (UK), traveled to Chernobyl: “Five years ago I visited the still highly contaminated areas of Ukraine and the Belarus border where much of the radioactive plume from Chernobyl descended on 26 April 1986. I challenge chief scientist John Beddington and environmentalists like George Monbiot or any of the pundits now downplaying the risks of radiation to talk to the doctors, the scientists, the mothers, children and villagers who have been left with the consequences of a major nuclear accident. It was grim. We went from hospital to hospital and from one contaminated village to another. We found deformed and genetically mutated babies in the wards; pitifully sick children in the homes; adolescents with stunted growth and dwarf torsos; fetuses without thighs or fingers and villagers who told us every member of their family was sick. This was 20 years after the accident, but we heard of many unusual clusters of people with rare bone cancers… Villagers testified that ‘the Chernobyl necklace’ – thyroid cancer – was so common as to be unremarkable,” John Vidal, Nuclear’s Green Cheerleaders Forget Chernobyl at Our Peril, The Guardian, April 1, 2011. There’s more: “Konstantin Tatuyan, one of the ‘liquidators’ who had helped clean up the plant [Chernobyl], told us that nearly all his colleagues had died or had cancers of one sort or another, but that no one had ever asked him for evidence. There was burning resentment at the way the UN, the industry and ill-informed pundits had played down the catastrophe,” Ibid. And still more yet: According to “Alexy Yablokov, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and adviser to President Gorbachev at the time of Chernobyl: ‘When you hear no immediate danger [from nuclear radiation] then you should run away as far and as fast as you can’… At the end of 2006, Yablokov and two colleagues, factoring in the worldwide drop in births and increase in cancers seen after the accident, estimated in a study published in the annals of the New York Academy of Sciences that 985,000 people had so far died and the environment had been devastated. Their findings were met with almost complete silence by the World Health Organisation and the industry,” Ibid. The environment is devastated and almost one million dead. Is nuclear power worth the risks? Chancellor Merkel doesn’t seem to think so. Of the three major nuclear disasters, Fukushima has its own uniqueness. The seriousness of the problem is immense, far-reaching, and daunting as its containment vessels are leaking radioactivity every day, every hour, every minute. How to stop it is not known, which is likely the definition of a nuclear meltdown! The primary containment vessels at Fukushima may have prevented a Chernobyl-type massive release of radioactivity into the atmosphere in one enormous explosion. Even though, Fukushima did have four hydrogen explosions in the secondary containment structures, and as previously mentioned, according to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, “When Fukushima exploded… levels of cesium-137 and 134, two of the most abundant radioactive materials released, peaked at more than 50,000,000 times above background levels.” But, more significant, troublesome, and menacing the primary containment vessels themselves are an afflictive problem of unknown dimension, unknown timing, unknown levels of destruction, as the nuclear meltdown left 100 tons of white-hot radioactive lava somewhere, but where? “Hell is empty and all the devils are here,” William Shakespeare The Tempest. Postscript: “Quietly into Disaster” is an alluring, exquisite, handsome full-length film that examines the consequences of nuclear fission, Produced by: Holger Strohm, Directed by Marcin El. http://holgerstrohm.com/?q=node/136 Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at roberthunziker@icloud.com |
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From: nancyvreuls, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
| I can't believe that Fukushima Flowers won the Nikon Photo contest. Talk about propaganda! |
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From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
| Those stills are really nice! What some will do to continue not thinking about what's right in front of their noses, invisible, and deadly. |
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From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Is Fukushima Getting Worse?
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Yep on the getting worse. Thermal graphs shown on Fukushima Diary show that R2 has very little fuel in it now, less than R5 that also melted down (in case ya hadn't heard). The amount of actual radiation figures, published by the MSM (usually an echo of some Japanese apologist science outfit or TEPCO) is microscopic compared to the damage to marine habitats and the slow accretion in the food chain, that humans, at the top of the food chain can expect to hit them, eventually. You simply cannot put your finger in the air or in a puddle near the shoreline, measure the radiation, and call your 'scientific study' done, mind you, for Cesium and Strontium only. I'd like to rip up their science degrees, that is, the guys like 'kelp boy' Ken Buessler, for bending over for politics instead of doing proper marine chemistry studies of the ocean. Fuku is pretty much a global cr*p fest now. The radioactive Strontium levels are already killing every marine life form with calcium and/or bone in it's body. By end of next year, the entire West Coast molluscs and crustaceans will be GONE, not to mention the line up of advanced species higher on the food chain. Who could imagine 4 plus 1 partial reactors in meltdown, let alone any of the other 14 reactors that lost power on 3-11 in Japan, that we haven't heard about yet? Japanese have a way of letting out the truth, slowly, bit by bit, anywhere from two weeks to a year, after the fact. Bottom line is our genetics and the environment are under severe threat, likely to impact the food supply more severely in a few more years. People are still eating tuna and salmon, still swimming in the Pacific amidst all the dead stuff around them. It seems like the zombie apocalypse is well on it's way. Meanwhile steam releases continue to happen ad nauseum, without much mention by any official news streams. I guess it's convenient for most to not know what is happening and of those that do know, the deniers are thick as a brick. Imagine the run on geiger counters if everyone knew what the counts meant and the latency period of radiation to have health effects, e.g., 10 to 20 years from now! |
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From: Candace/Denver, [DNS_Address]
Subject: NO
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The rods and all that were removed by fleet and dropped in the sun... and its been clearly said before that both the waste and the rods are not there. And even if the waste and rods sunk deep into the ground they are rendered in active and also cooled and rendered inactive if they are in the ocean water... thus the whole story is bullshit and is used to cover up what is really going on.... the gamma rays from the center of the Milky Way and the waste dumping in the western pacific... and the underground volcanism and dumping from fracking is also a cause of some of the radiation being reported. None of it is FUKU.. which has become the leading FUCK YOU story. And as to stories.. CERN is another make believe story to hide earth changes too and man's irresponsibility. |
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From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: green cheese color complemented by magenta and yellow (NT)
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From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: NO ... fuel rods taken to the moon and set up as permanent light show (NT)
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From: DebbyS/AbqNM, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Or maybe...
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Or maybe take/sent to Ceres? In the meantime, anything left (say, in the Pacific Ocean, in the air, over here, over there) will be busy for, say, 0.5 billion years or so... what a legacy! |
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From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: i've got to hand it to "Candace/Denver" ... she's consistent (NT)
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From: Candace/Denver, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: i've got to hand it to "Candace/Denver" ... she's...
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You bet.. the truth is always consistant. And man always attacks those who come to assist the planet in all sorts of ways... most who come to serve leave the planet in distress and disappointment. Man does not want to grow up |
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From: Polydactyl in N. Bay, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NO
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Even if the rods sunk in the ground they are rendered inactive? Really? How do explain Hanford's leaks from underground tanks that slowly make their way into the rivers and aquifers? How do you explain the highest readings EVER off the Fukushima Daichi port, if the melted corium sunk far beneath the plant? The plant sits on hardened sandstone, so it's likely the corium went sideways out to the port through the sandstone and a fault near R4 and or deeper into the sandstone and out into the ocean. The reactivity of the corium remains HOT for a long long time, likely to cause thermal heating of the fault plane underneath Japan, when it reaches that depth. It all depends on whether the corium stuck together or is dispersed into the sandstone in some glasseous form. I find it much more likely it's in the ocean due to the shallow foundation, below sea level, of the plant and the amount of flooding from storms and continuous quakes since 3-11. High on my fantasy wish list is to own a portable scintograph like the professor who measured the Fukushima plant for various isotopes, after the disaster. He would not let one colleague help him carry it at his old age, lol. If the background radiation in water and air and soil continues rising, it will be in your best interest to own an old style survey radiation monitor, in case the radiation gets VERY high. Or, you can continue denying the truth about the persistence of radioactive isotope decay. It's your choice. |
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From: Candace/Denver, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NO
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They are rendered ineffective because they are enclosed by the ground and or water. The waste is rendered inactive by any cooling enough to do so which is why these are built near water in the first place. There is not enough to spread in the ocean currents as is being said. Your problems on the west coast Pacific are do to DUMPING... which still cools the waste being dumped and dilutes it pretty good...and the heating of the ocean its self and all the other dumping that goes on via garbage dumping and all that around there. if there is 10 feet of dirt or water between the radioactive source and you.. you are protected which is the importance in nuclear was of having a rather shallow underground area for survival. You are bombarded each day by far more radiation from the sun than is possible to be released by fuku even if the stupid stories are true. FUKU is used as a coverup for everything ... rather than the truth. We are also in the gamma radiation and god particles which are radiation from the center of the Milky way since oct 2006 which is why there is radiation all over the world. In the maps we used to have after FUKU until they were removed from public view in the United States the radiation did not change at all ... which is why they were taken down from public view.. An insider kept them up for some time until he was caught. In the US of A the radiation is higher inland... and minimal in the coastal areas before of the protection of the water as humidity in the atmosphere. I bring you simple information from Star fleet.. what you do with it is your business as always. What is on the net and MSM is not always truth. I would advise reading PJ #6 called survival is only 10 feet from hell....for a modicum of information |
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From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: "simple information from Star fleet" ... is James T. Kirk on the line?(NT)
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From: Shaky N.Ca, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: NO
URL: Candace Posts
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sometimes, when I read what you say, Candace, I just can't help repeating this video! *sorry Mr. B. I tried being good* lol |
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From: horst graben, [DNS_Address]
Subject: you absolutely nailed it ... she's missing a few screws (NT)
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