Standingstones
Celestial
The Japanese government has been covering this up since day one. They don’t want to spoil their plans for the 2020 Olympics. As a matter of fact, certain events are to take place just miles from Fukushima. You only have to read the reports of dead sea life floating up in the Pacific coast shores to know something evil has taken place. We all will be paying a heavy price in the future.
AD1184
Celestial
Fukushima isn't going to doom the planet. Saying "x amount of radioactive water has leaked out of the plant into the ocean" is not useful. You must specify the types of radionuclides contained in that water and their concentrations in order to gain an understanding of the potential for damage. Anti-nuclear groups reporting on leakages leave these figures out, because the picture would not be so terrifying if they did mention them.
The most damage Fukushima caused, and will cause, is the raised mortality rate amongst the displaced people due to the Japanese government's overzealous evacuation protocols following the accident. Many who are now dead would be alive, or would have lived longer, if the government had a more limited evacuation policy.
The great tragedy of Fukushima is that it completely eclipsed the broader devastation cause by the tsunami--and the suffering of its victims--in the global imagination because of the media frenzy surrounding the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant.
The most damage Fukushima caused, and will cause, is the raised mortality rate amongst the displaced people due to the Japanese government's overzealous evacuation protocols following the accident. Many who are now dead would be alive, or would have lived longer, if the government had a more limited evacuation policy.
The great tragedy of Fukushima is that it completely eclipsed the broader devastation cause by the tsunami--and the suffering of its victims--in the global imagination because of the media frenzy surrounding the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant.
nivek
As Above So Below
People can recover quicker and safer from a tsunami than radiation that does not go away...Do you think radioactive cores in the ground is not as serious a matter than a tsunami?...Did I miss your point?...
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AD1184
Celestial
I don't think you missed my point. The Fukushima plant meltdown hasn't killed anyone directly, but the tsunami which led to the problem killed around 18,000 people.
nivek
As Above So Below
That we know of but we know the meltdown is being covered up extensively...The tsunami was a catastrophe and the loss of life great, future generations will be still dealing with the meltdown though and the damage to the earth is unknown at this time...
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Shadowprophet
Truthiness
I dunno, I had some sort of similar thing happen to me on twitter. according to some nameless guy who claimed to be in an actual submarine studying the Fukushima fallout, " Yeah I know it sounds totally sketch" But the guy claimed the radiation only had a 30-year half-life and after that point it would be like it never happened, And while it sounds unbelievable for some reason, even though we all remember that the waste spilled right into the ocean, This man claimed that there is virtually no trace of the radiation in the waters near Fukushima. honestly, the guy was ready to argue these points with me, While I tend to think there is no way the radiation could be that weak by this point.
I'm forced to admit, radiation itself would be drawn to the atmosphere rather than the ocean.
Maybe it's some kind of cover-up based upon how much seafood we get from the oceans surrounding Japan.
Honestly, though, Most people I have spoken to, who claim to actually be legit marine biologists claim the problem just isn't as severe as people fear it to be, I'm up in the air about it. But, You would be hard pressed to find any data showing that the radioactivity is at dangerous levels anywhere in Fukushima other than ground zero.
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If you guys want I can dig up those old posts from this marine biologist. But, his story is no different than the thousands of others we have heard.
Personally, It just seems like the radioactivity would be dangerous. But they claim it's really not.
Overall the bottom line I get from all of this is, The Fukushima thing is being monitored by scientists worldwide. So there is at least the comfort of knowing the situation is being intensely monitored.
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nivek
As Above So Below
Food and Health emergency: Highly radioactive fish caught near Fukushima have five times the permitted radiation levels of dangerous cesium
Radioactive cesium five times above permitted levels in Japan has been detected in black rockfish caught in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture, according to a Feb. 22 announcement by a local fishing association. Some 500 becquerels per kilogram of cesium was found in black rockfish caught at a depth of 24 meters about 8.8 kilometers off the town of Shinchi, exceeding the national standard level of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations has since halted distribution of the fish until it can confirm their safety. The voluntary suspension of seafood shipments by the fishing body marks the first time since October 2019, when 53 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in a white sea perch, exceeding the standard level set by the group at 50 becquerels per kilogram.
The fishing association has been conducting test fishing since June 2012 on a limited scale. After shipping restrictions on common skate were lifted in February 2020, shipment of all fish was permitted. The fishing body aims to resume full fishing operations in April.
It’s been 10 years since Japan’s worst nuclear accident, which was triggered by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country and a massive tsunami that wiped out everything in its path. Yet the aftershocks from the devastating March 11 disaster continue to rattle these parts — the most recent occurring only a week ago, when a M7.3 earthquake hit on February 13, 2021.
It is not clear whether the radioactive substances in the offshore fish have been affected by the recent earthquake in the sea near Fukushima. But one thing is clear… Leaks and pressure drops have been reported in containment vessels after the quake.
Increase in radiation
The company’s errors have immediate implications, as monitoring equipment installed at sea off the plant detected a small increase in highly radioactive caesium in the days after the earthquake, indicating that water had indeed escaped from the site and was dispersing into the ocean. And that coincided with the announcement that a black rockfish caught off the prefecture by a fishermen’s collective had caesium levels five times above the government’s permitted levels.
The revelations surrounding TEPCO’s latest problems is unlikely to reassure the public that produce from much of northeast Japan is safe to buy and eat.
Fukushima’s earthquake problems
The fallout from that incident was worsened after a serious earthquake on February 13 shook northeast Japan, including the Fukushima nuclear plant. Seismologists said the magnitude 7.3 tremor was the largest to strike Japan since April 2011 and was actually the latest aftershock from the Great East Japan Earthquake nearly a decade ago.
TEPCO admitted a short while later that seismometers installed in two of the reactor buildings broke down last year and had not been repaired.
In addition, a report to the NRA confirmed that the earthquake caused radioactive water to slosh over the edges of containment tanks at the site, while the water level around two of the reactors has fallen. That could indicate that the tremor enlarged existing fissures in the surrounding concrete or created new ones, enabling the escape of water that is needed to keep the reactors cool and prevent the release of more radioactivity into the atmosphere.
The incident “raised doubts” about TEPCO’s “fitness to operate nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, the utility must thoroughly reexamine every conceivable issue and raise its workers’ safety awareness to prevent missteps, once and for all.
Fukushima radioactive water problem
And how do you remove a million tonnes of contaminated water? All of the water that touches the highly radioactive molten fuel also becomes contaminated.
Although the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) removes more than 60 different types of radioactive materials from the water, it doesn’t completely purify it. The radioactive element, tritium, remains inside all of the stored water, albeit at “low” levels
Currently, 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water is stored in more than 1,000 tanks spanning the entire power plant facility. But by the end of next year, the tanks and the site will be full. The Japanese government is now weighing up what to do next. Experts have recommended disposing of it in the ocean as the most practical option as opposed to releasing it into the air.
Meanwhile, tritium water from nuclear plants is discharged all around the world… And Japan’s nuclear disaster site is still a hive of activity. TEPCO has spent the last 10 years trying to cool and stabilise the three reactors so that they can eventually start to remove the 800 tons of molten radioactive fuel debris that sits inside them.
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Radioactive cesium five times above permitted levels in Japan has been detected in black rockfish caught in northeastern Fukushima Prefecture, according to a Feb. 22 announcement by a local fishing association. Some 500 becquerels per kilogram of cesium was found in black rockfish caught at a depth of 24 meters about 8.8 kilometers off the town of Shinchi, exceeding the national standard level of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations has since halted distribution of the fish until it can confirm their safety. The voluntary suspension of seafood shipments by the fishing body marks the first time since October 2019, when 53 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium was detected in a white sea perch, exceeding the standard level set by the group at 50 becquerels per kilogram.
The fishing association has been conducting test fishing since June 2012 on a limited scale. After shipping restrictions on common skate were lifted in February 2020, shipment of all fish was permitted. The fishing body aims to resume full fishing operations in April.
It’s been 10 years since Japan’s worst nuclear accident, which was triggered by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country and a massive tsunami that wiped out everything in its path. Yet the aftershocks from the devastating March 11 disaster continue to rattle these parts — the most recent occurring only a week ago, when a M7.3 earthquake hit on February 13, 2021.
It is not clear whether the radioactive substances in the offshore fish have been affected by the recent earthquake in the sea near Fukushima. But one thing is clear… Leaks and pressure drops have been reported in containment vessels after the quake.
Increase in radiation
The company’s errors have immediate implications, as monitoring equipment installed at sea off the plant detected a small increase in highly radioactive caesium in the days after the earthquake, indicating that water had indeed escaped from the site and was dispersing into the ocean. And that coincided with the announcement that a black rockfish caught off the prefecture by a fishermen’s collective had caesium levels five times above the government’s permitted levels.
The revelations surrounding TEPCO’s latest problems is unlikely to reassure the public that produce from much of northeast Japan is safe to buy and eat.
Fukushima’s earthquake problems
The fallout from that incident was worsened after a serious earthquake on February 13 shook northeast Japan, including the Fukushima nuclear plant. Seismologists said the magnitude 7.3 tremor was the largest to strike Japan since April 2011 and was actually the latest aftershock from the Great East Japan Earthquake nearly a decade ago.
TEPCO admitted a short while later that seismometers installed in two of the reactor buildings broke down last year and had not been repaired.
In addition, a report to the NRA confirmed that the earthquake caused radioactive water to slosh over the edges of containment tanks at the site, while the water level around two of the reactors has fallen. That could indicate that the tremor enlarged existing fissures in the surrounding concrete or created new ones, enabling the escape of water that is needed to keep the reactors cool and prevent the release of more radioactivity into the atmosphere.
The incident “raised doubts” about TEPCO’s “fitness to operate nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, the utility must thoroughly reexamine every conceivable issue and raise its workers’ safety awareness to prevent missteps, once and for all.
Fukushima radioactive water problem
And how do you remove a million tonnes of contaminated water? All of the water that touches the highly radioactive molten fuel also becomes contaminated.
Although the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) removes more than 60 different types of radioactive materials from the water, it doesn’t completely purify it. The radioactive element, tritium, remains inside all of the stored water, albeit at “low” levels
Currently, 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water is stored in more than 1,000 tanks spanning the entire power plant facility. But by the end of next year, the tanks and the site will be full. The Japanese government is now weighing up what to do next. Experts have recommended disposing of it in the ocean as the most practical option as opposed to releasing it into the air.
Meanwhile, tritium water from nuclear plants is discharged all around the world… And Japan’s nuclear disaster site is still a hive of activity. TEPCO has spent the last 10 years trying to cool and stabilise the three reactors so that they can eventually start to remove the 800 tons of molten radioactive fuel debris that sits inside them.
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AD1184
Celestial
The permitted Japanese level is very low. The allowed limit in the European Union, which has one of the world's strongest, precautionary regulatory regimes, is 600 Bq/kg of combined caesium 134 and 137 activity in non-dairy foodstuffs (including fish), which is six times the Japanese limit, and allows 20% more than is present in the fish mentioned in this article. In Norway, the maximum limit for radioactive caesium in meat is 3000 Bq/kg:
Higher radiation in Jotunheimen than first believed
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nivek
As Above So Below
Only a small portion of the above video discusses the sightings of ghosts, it's blended in well with the factual dialog of the reactor meltdowns...Its astonishing the extent that TEPCO was warned of a disaster of the scale that occurred and they ignored all the warnings, for almost ten years they ignored the warnings...
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nivek
As Above So Below
Isn't there a method to evaporate the water leaving a mash of radioactive waste that can be contained and stored in underground facilities?...I thought I read about this somewhere before but I cannot find it...
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Fukushima to release 1 million tons of ‘radioactive water’ directly into the ocean via undersea tunnel
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Fukushima to release 1 million tons of ‘radioactive water’ directly into the ocean via undersea tunnel
AD1184
Celestial
In this case, tritium is the primary radionuclide. The tritium is bound in water molecules. Heating the water would cause the tritium to evaporate as a chemical constituent of the vapour.
nivek
As Above So Below
Then I assume we humans don't know how to separate tritium from the water safely?...
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AD1184
Celestial
This article indicates that there has been some recent progress on the matter:
Researchers develop technology to remove radioactive tritium from water - The Mainichi
I don't quite know why it is so difficult to perform on large scales. Water can be separated into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis, and hydrogen isotopes can be separated from each other.
Tritium Separation at Nuclear Plants | Hydrogen Separators | P+E
For some reason it is considered uneconomical to remove from the stored Tepco waste water. Maybe it is because the water itself is considered the best form in which to store the tritium, as the tritium cannot be compelled to decay faster than its natural rate, and must be stored by some means.
nivek
As Above So Below
Interesting reads, thank you, it seems the technology has advanced considerably in this regard...An idea came to mind while reading the second article...Instead of using a filtering system I wonder if there is a substance that tritium may be attracted to and bond to better than water...Kind of like using a magnet to pull metal particles from water, something that could be submerged into the water that the tritium will be attracted to and concentrate on that could be removed leaving cleaner water...
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nivek
As Above So Below
Nearly 12 years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant. Now, the plant operator wants to release 1.3 million tonnes of wastewater into the sea. The dump will occur as fast as this Spring.
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nivek
As Above So Below
nivek
As Above So Below
Thousands of tons of dead fish wash ashore in Japan - three months after the nation released treated Fukushima radioactive water into the sea
The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating an unsettling sliver blanket that covered almost a mile of shoreline. Officials could not come up with an explanation for the phenomenon, but Takashi Fujioka, a Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute researcher, posited a number of theories as to why the fish could have died en-masse. He said they may have become exhausted due to a lack of oxygen while moving in a densely packed school in shallow waters, or may have suddenly entered cold waters during their migration and succumbed to shock. There have been several recorded cases of similar phenomena springing up on several parts of Japan's coastline. But this particular phenomenon occurred just three months after Japanese authorities began releasing treated radioactive water back into the sea - a move which angered its neighbours including China and South Korea.
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