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Date: February 07, 2017 at 11:55:07
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: YOUTUBE: Radiation at Fukushima at highest level since meltdown (NT) |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNTYP69TT4 |
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Date: February 07, 2017 at 12:53:57
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily basis’ |
URL: https://www.rt.com/op-edge/376607-leakage-radiation-fukushima-japan/ |
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FULL LINK QUOTE: "Published time: 7 Feb, 2017 16:56
There are many shoes still to drop at Fukushima Daiichi, said Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste monitor at Beyond Nuclear. If something goes wrong with the radioactive waste storage pools, there could be a release of high-level radioactivity into the air, he added.
RT: Can you explain what is likely going on here?
Kevin Kamps: This catastrophe that is ongoing is nearly six years old at this point. The fuel, the melted cores have been missing an action. TEPCO doesn’t know where they are; the Japanese government doesn’t know where they are; nobody knows where they are. What could have happened is these probes, these cameras, these robots, these radiation monitors that are being sent in by TEPCO to try to figure out what is going on, may have encountered the closest they have come yet to these melted cores. They may even have come upon melted fuel that is not under water, and water serves as a radiation shielding. So if this is an open area and there is no water – that could explain.
But what you’ve got are melted reactor cores. Of course, human beings can’t be in operating atomic reactors. They also can’t be in this area where there is a meltdown. There is also imagery – it looks like a melt through of a metal grade. It all stands to reason that the cores melted through the reactor pressure vessels and down into the containment structures right through that metal grating.
It is not unexpected, but we still don’t know where the cores are. There are claims that “it’s all contained, don’t worry about it.” It is indisputable that there is a daily flow of radioactively contaminated groundwater into the ocean. The figures something like 80,000 gallons per day of relatively low-level radioactive waste water. Then you’ve got those storage tanks – we’re talking 800,000 tons of highly radioactive water stored in tanks. Every day they pour a hundred tons of water on each of these three melted down cores. Sometimes they lose those tanks. They leak, they overflow – it is an ongoing catastrophe.
RT: So the contamination, in this case, could leak out, couldn’t it?
KK: There is some leakage on a daily basis. Then they try to capture as much as they can and contain it in the storage tanks, which they sometimes lose, whether during a typhoon or through human error - they have had overflows. So many shoes can still drop at Fukushima Daiichi. One of the ones is the high radioactive waste storage pools that aren’t even inside radiological containment. They don’t have all of that spent nuclear fuel transferred to a safer location in a couple of the units still. If something were to go wrong with that – those would be open air releases of very high-level radioactivity.
RT: Going back to this specific leak: how does this complicate the cleanup efforts there? Is it possible even to get something in there right now to examine what is going on?
KK: State of the art robotic technology – Japan is a leader in robotics – can only last so long, because the electronics get fried by the gamma radiation, and probably neutron radiation that is in there. That is the situation deep in there. They are already saying it will take 40 years to so-called decommission this, but that may be optimistic.
RT: Also in December the government said it is going to take twice as much money – nearly twice as much as they originally thought – to decommission that. Does this make matters ever worse – this leak? Or is this just kind of the situation to expect at this point?
KK: It just shows how dire the situation is. The figures of $150 billion to decommission – I have seen figures from a think tank in Japan sided by Green Peace Japan up to $600 billion. If you do full cost accounting: where is this high-level radioactive waste going to go? It is going to need a deep geological depository. You have to build that and operate it. That costs a hundred billion or more. So when you do full cost accounting, this catastrophe could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to recover from. We’re just in the
RT: Going back to this specific leak: how does this complicate the cleanup efforts there? Is it possible even to get something in there right now to examine what is going on?
KK: State of the art robotic technology – Japan is a leader in robotics – can only last so long, because the electronics get fried by the gamma radiation, and probably neutron radiation that is in there. That is the situation deep in there. They are already saying it will take 40 years to so-called decommission this, but that may be optimistic.
RT: Also in December the government said it is going to take twice as much money – nearly twice as much as they originally thought – to decommission that. Does this make matters ever worse – this leak? Or is this just kind of the situation to expect at this point?
KK: It just shows how dire the situation is. The figures of $150 billion to decommission – I have seen figures from a think tank in Japan sided by Green Peace Japan up to $600 billion. If you do full cost accounting: where is this high-level radioactive waste going to go? It is going to need a deep geological depository. You have to build that and operate it. That costs a hundred billion or more. So when you do full cost accounting, this catastrophe could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to recover from. We’re just in the beginning." End quote.
This has been on going since March 11, 2011.
Purposely the government of Japan and others have kept the horrific reality of this potential ELE out of the news.
Many might argue it is not a potential ELE, that's fine. How can we know with so little information. And what we have been told are obviously lies, after lies, covered with more lies.
Most of us will be long dead before what is happening and will continue to happen becomes a full reality.
Just think about it: this radiation has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean since 2011. Radiation has been constantly released into the air since then. All of it coming our way first, btw.
I'm sure you know radiation kills, right? What it doesn't kill can and does often mutate.
Think about it the next time you hear of a two headed kitten being born or sea life "unexpectedly" dying off the West Coast. Sure those oddities can happen but watch the numbers go up and up and up. If they're even reported.
Or if you hear of a friend dying of cancer. Quit smoking, sure. When will they tell us to stop breathing the radiation filled air?
The whales will die and so will we.
The technology does NOT exist to contain this catastrophe. It is questionable whether such technology can be developed.
When will they tell us nothing can be done about Fukushima?
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Date: February 07, 2017 at 15:50:56
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily... |
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I felt this since began...got extra here in FL of nucleated water with a sink
hole result of too much digging.
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Date: February 07, 2017 at 16:16:28
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily... |
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Eve,
I just posted on your link about the sink hole.
Do you have any more info on that?
I used to live near there.
It looks huge.
That's an awful lot of water and radioactive to boot.
Six months ago?
I've seen nothing, nada, about it until your post!
Cripes, they're telling us nothing.
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Date: February 07, 2017 at 17:01:08
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily... |
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Hi Shirley,
I just finished providing a couple more links for you on envirowatchers...I
can find more later if you like.
It ain't pretty that's for sure and the feel is putrid. I think to myself when
I go to shower...oh my...time for another nucleated shower...no wonder
my nose bleeds so much.
This is second time this occurred...back in August last year the second
time...first time in 1994. So much going on in the world I guess it got
scooted under the rug...and golly I/we had pesticide skies all summer
with Naled (nailed what an ironic name, don't hear a peep about that
supposed disease they excused the purpose for to spray us about
anymore) ...talk about nervous system freak out I had it....first was 1994.
I only still here by the grace of my good Lord and savior. Just waiting on
him for to bring that sweet chariot swinging low for to carry me home
when my number is called.
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Date: February 08, 2017 at 00:01:34
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily... |
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Eve,
Thank you, again, for all of your information.
I saw your posts on the Florida sinkhole and commented there.
I'll follow up on the Florida stuff.
I've wondered though about that huge sink hole in Louisiana that got so much press back a year or so ago.
BTW I almost got on that chariot this past summer and am happy it passed me by - for now anyway.
In retrospect it all was a great gift as I really see things differently.
I learned one major thing more deeply: every moment is precious.
Little things that used to upset me just don't anymore.
And big things that I can not change do not disturb me as now I seem to more fully grasp that all things are passing.
Finally I better understand "All is dukkha."
"All is impermanence."
I so appreciate this EarthBoppin' online community because I can see and share the changes with others.
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Date: February 07, 2017 at 22:32:58
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: PRINT LINK: 'Fukushima catastrophe ongoing: Leakage on a daily... |
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Okay here...succumbing to a perfectionist moment and editing my
response and reposting below this message. I was so drained earlier
when I penned the prior one...now I know why.....We just has a freaky
storm from who knows where?...Power was out for over an hour. Sheets
and sheets of rain, thunder lightning...so long since the later has come
when it was the norm for years. It's just strange that it was violent
enough to take the power down as that rarely ever occurs where I
abide...not even when major hurricanes have come through here. ~Eve
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Edited:
At February 07, 2017 at 17:01:08, Eve wrote:
Hi Shirley,
I just finished providing a couple more links for you on envirowatchers...I
can find more later if you like.
It ain't pretty that's for sure and the feel is putrid. I think to myself when
I go to shower...oh my...time for another nucleated shower...no wonder
my nose bleeds so much.
This is second time this occurred...back in August last year the second
time...first time was in 1994. So much going on in the world I guess it
got scooted under the rug...and golly I/we had pesticide skies all summer
with Naled (nailed what an ironic name, don't hear a peep about that
supposed disease they excused the purpose for to spray us about
anymore) ...talk about nervous system freak out I had it.
I only still here by the grace of my good Lord and savior. Just waiting on
him for to bring that sweet chariot swinging low for to carry me home
when my number is called.
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