ENVR FUKUSHIMA KEEPS GETTING WORSE. Sardine fishery in total collapse on West coast of US, #217
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bw
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DannyBoy
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Doomer Doug
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Bye, Bye Free Willy. Despite the ongoing media censorship and information black out, the actual results continue unabated. The Orca Killer Whales will be EXTINCT once the living ones die off. The Orca Whale reproduction rate is now ZERO. Of course, this has nothing to do with Fukushima radiation, since the powers that be tell us this is true. LOL
http://enenews.com/experts-100-deat...pregnant-mother-dies-decomposing-stillborn-fu
http://enenews.com/experts-100-deat...pregnant-mother-dies-decomposing-stillborn-fu
Melodi
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My feeling on this is that if things are that bad, I would be behind a captive breeding program, they did this with condors when they got down to three breeding pairs and they are making a comeback; of course Orcas are highly intelligent animals (possible sapient) and might not be easy to "re-wild" without the pod culture. Also they are actually dolphins, so it might be possible to cross them if the numbers got too low, I am pretty sure this has already happened by accident at least once (in captivity). In general I am NOT in favor of keeping these animals captive, though another last ditch try to save them might be moving at least one group to say the waters around Greenland? It might fail but if they are doomed anyway, it might be worth a try.
The best thing would be to crack the language code (I am perfectly serious here) which we are on the verge of with Dolphins and Whales though like humans they may speak a number of languages making the whole process a lot harder. But if we could get some actual communication going we could explain the situation and ask the Orcas what THEY want; to continue the rest of their lives in the same area, knowing their tribe is doomed or to attempt to live in another ocean for a few hundred years and see if they can get a colony going there. A lot depends on if the damage is already done or is being done to the pregnant females/babies near birth; if the damage is already done then there may not be a lot of hope for the adults. Again, cracking the language code could allow for easier testing if they were willing and no, I am not crazy but I have following the break through information on Dolphins, Orcas and Whales for years and while I think there may be difference between species (different types may be more intelligent than others) a human level of understanding would not surprise me in the least, but the cultural gap is going to be very wide and that also makes finding coming language harder.
kittyluvr
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Link to Japan Radiation meter (S0 had this link)
http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
S0 on youtube link https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
http://jciv.iidj.net/map/
S0 on youtube link https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers
CRodgers
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This^^
Doomer Doug
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The radiation is not making every gallon of the Pacific Ocean radioactive. It is contaminating the food chain, starting with the plankton and krill, all the way up to the Orcas.
We saw the same thing with mercury contamination of Swordfish in the 1970 era.
Fukushima is going to eventually make every single species/mammal contaminated, assuming they don't go extinct from being unable to reproduce. The issue of human DNA changes, and the impact on human reproduction, is also out there. I think it will take another decade or so before humans start to have reproductive issues, but it will happen.
Doomer Doug notes that the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in 2011, which was the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I find it ironic Japan has attacked the USA a second time. It is also interesting the means for that attack was a poorly designed nuclear reactor by the American Company General Electric. GE knew the design was defective, but they sold it anyway.
Given the fact the 70th anniversary for the US nuclear bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is in August 2015, my spidey sense is telling me something related to nukes and Fukushima is going to happen in 2015 as we approach the 70th year date.
It would be seriously strange if Fukushima began a total nuclear release in August in sync with the original attacks by the USA on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The irony of GE being the instrument of that reverse nuke attack on the USA is beyond strange.
We saw the same thing with mercury contamination of Swordfish in the 1970 era.
Fukushima is going to eventually make every single species/mammal contaminated, assuming they don't go extinct from being unable to reproduce. The issue of human DNA changes, and the impact on human reproduction, is also out there. I think it will take another decade or so before humans start to have reproductive issues, but it will happen.
Doomer Doug notes that the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened in 2011, which was the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I find it ironic Japan has attacked the USA a second time. It is also interesting the means for that attack was a poorly designed nuclear reactor by the American Company General Electric. GE knew the design was defective, but they sold it anyway.
Given the fact the 70th anniversary for the US nuclear bombing of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki is in August 2015, my spidey sense is telling me something related to nukes and Fukushima is going to happen in 2015 as we approach the 70th year date.
It would be seriously strange if Fukushima began a total nuclear release in August in sync with the original attacks by the USA on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The irony of GE being the instrument of that reverse nuke attack on the USA is beyond strange.
Doomer Doug
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This is an excellent article giving a very good general explanation of the technical issues, the types of actual radiation involved, as well as how this will play out.
Doomer Doug keeps posting this stuff, not because I think it makes any difference now, especially after the FASCIST ABE WAS ELECTED AGAIN, but merely to document the final phase of the human experience on planet earth. We are nearing the four year anniversary of the 3-11-2011 tsunami in Japan. Despite the single most large scale and effective disinformation and campaign of deceit, the reality is what it is. Granted, the ongoing toxic radiation releases continue unchecked so it really doesn't matter much at this point.
We are now, as individual humans, as a species, and as "preppers" faced with a global situation so far beyond our ability to deal with, much less prepare for, the lies of the elite are entering into the farce phase.
My personal opinion is 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the August, 1945 bombing of Japan and that will release certain spiritual echoes causing "something" to happen with Fukushima in August of 2015. Yep, the powers that be can lie all they want until it becomes clear how bad things with Fukushima really are.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fukushima-endgame/5420188
The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 17, 2014
Nuclear radiation resulting from the March 2011 Fukushima disaster –which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the tabloid gossip reports on Hollywood celebrities.
The shaky political consensus both in Japan, the U.S. and Western Europe is that the crisis at Fukushima has been contained.
The truth is otherwise. Known and documented, the ongoing dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination.
This water contains plutonium 239 and its release into the Ocean has both local as well as global repercussions. A microgram of plutonium if inhaled, according to Dr. Helen Caldicott, can cause death:
Certain isotopes of radioactive plutonium are known as some of the deadliest poisons on the face of the earth. A mere microgram (a speck of darkness on a pinhead) of Plutonium-239, if inhaled, can cause death, and if ingested, radioactive Plutonium can be harmful, causing leukemia and other bone cancers.
“In the days following the 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant explosions, seawater meant to cool the nuclear power plants instead carried radioactive elements back to the Pacific ocean. Radioactive Plutonium was one of the elements streamed back to sea.” (decodescience.com).
It would appear that the radioactive water has already penetrated parts of the Japanese coastline:
Environmental testing of shoreline around the nuclear plant (as well fish, especially Tuna) showed negligible amounts of Plutonium in the seawater. The Plutonium, from what little is reported, sank into the sediments off the Japanese coast.” (Ibid)
A recent report suggests that the Japanese government is intent upon releasing the remaining radioactive water into the Ocean. The proposed “solution” becomes the cause of radioactive contamination of both the Japanese coastline as well as the Pacific Ocean, extending to the coastline of North America.
While the chairman of the Nuclear Radiation Authority recognizes that the water in the tanks is heavily “tainted”, a decision has nonetheless been taken to empty the tanks and dump the water into the Ocean:
The head of Japan’s nuclear watchdog said contaminated water stored at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant should be released into the ocean to ensure safe decommissioning of the reactors.
Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, made the comment Dec. 12 after visiting the facility to observe progress in dismantling the six reactors. The site was severely damaged in the tsunami generated by the 2011 earthquake.
“I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of tanks (holding water tainted with radioactive substances),” Tanaka told reporters, indicating they pose a danger to decommissioning work. “We have to dispose of the water.”
With regard to expected protests by local fishermen over the discharge, Tanaka said, “We also have to obtain the consent of local residents in carrying out the work, so we can somehow mitigate (the increase in tainted water).”
Tanaka has said previously that to proceed with decommissioning, tainted water stored on the site would need to be released into the sea so long as it had been decontaminated to accepted safety standards.
“While (the idea) may upset people, we must do our utmost to satisfy residents of Fukushima,” Tanaka said, adding that the NRA would provide information to local residents based on continuing studies of radioactive elements in local waters.
The inspection tour was Tanaka’s second since he became NRA chief in September 2012. He last visited in April 2013.
During his visit, Tanaka observed work at a trench on the ocean side of the No. 2 reactor building, where highly contaminated water is being pumped out. He also inspected barriers set up around the storage tanks to prevent leaks of tainted water.
Tanaka praised the completion in November of work to remove all spent nuclear fuel from the No. 4 reactor building, as well as changes to work procedures that he said allows for the completion of the work at the No. 2 reactor trench. Hiromi Kumai , NRA Head Signals Massive Release of Tainted Water to Help Decommission Fukushima Site Asahi Shimbun December 13, 2014
The contradictory statements of the NRA chief avoid addressing the broader implications, by giving the impression that the issue is local and that local fishermen off the Fukushima coast will be consulted.
Additional articles and videos on Fukushima and Nuclear Radiation are available at Global Research’s Dossier on The Environment
TEXT BOX
Nuclear Radiation: Categorization
At Fukushima, reports confirm that alpha, beta, gamma particles and neutrons have been released:
“While non-ionizing radiation and x-rays are a result of electron transitions in atoms or molecules, there are three forms of ionizing radiation that are a result of activity within the nucleus of an atom. These forms of nuclear radiation are alpha particles (α-particles), beta particles (β-particles) and gamma rays (γ-rays).
Alpha particles are heavy positively charged particles made up of two protons and two neutrons. They are essentially a helium nucleus and are thus represented in a nuclear equation by either α or . See the Alpha Decay page for more information on alpha particles.
Beta particles come in two forms: and . particles are just electrons that have been ejected from the nucleus. This is a result of sub-nuclear reactions that result in a neutron decaying to a proton. The electron is needed to conserve charge and comes from the nucleus. It is not an orbital electron. particles are positrons ejected from the nucleus when a proton decays to a neutron. A positron is an anti-particle that is similar in nearly all respects to an electron, but has a positive charge. See the Beta Decay page for more information on beta particles.
Gamma rays are photons of high energy electromagnetic radiation (light). Gamma rays generally have the highest frequency and shortest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. There is some overlap in the frequencies of gamma rays and x-rays; however, x-rays are formed from electron transitions while gamma rays are formed from nuclear transitions. See the Gamma Rays for more” (SOURCE: Canadian Nuclear Association)
“A neutron is a particle that is found in the nucleus, or center, of atoms. It has a mass very close to protons, which also reside in the nucleus of atoms. Together, they make up almost all of the mass of individual atoms. Each has a mass of about 1 amu, which is roughly 1.6×10-27kg. Protons have a positive charge and neutrons have no charge, which is why they were more difficult to discover.” (SOURCE: Neutron Radiation)
“Many different radioactive isotopes are used in or are produced by nuclear reactors. The most important of these are described below:
1. Uranium 235 (U-235) is the active component of most nuclear reactor fuel.
2. Plutonium (Pu-239) is a key nuclear material used in modern nuclear weapons and is also present as a by-product in certain reprocessed fuels used in some nuclear reactors. Pu-239 is also produced in uranium reactors as a byproduct of fission of U-235.
3. Cesium (Cs-137 ) is a fission product of U-235. It emits beta and gamma radiation and can cause radiation sickness and death if exposures are high enough. …
4. Iodine 131 (I-131), also a fission product of U-235, emits beta and gamma radiation. After inhalation or ingestion, it is absorbed by and concentrated in the thyroid gland, where its beta radiation damages nearby thyroid tissue (SOURCE: Amesh A. Adalja, MD, Eric S. Toner, MD, Anita Cicero, JD, Joseph Fitzgerald, MS, MPH, and Thomas V. Inglesby MD, Radiation at Fukushima: Basic Issues and Concepts, March 31, 2011)
Doomer Doug keeps posting this stuff, not because I think it makes any difference now, especially after the FASCIST ABE WAS ELECTED AGAIN, but merely to document the final phase of the human experience on planet earth. We are nearing the four year anniversary of the 3-11-2011 tsunami in Japan. Despite the single most large scale and effective disinformation and campaign of deceit, the reality is what it is. Granted, the ongoing toxic radiation releases continue unchecked so it really doesn't matter much at this point.
We are now, as individual humans, as a species, and as "preppers" faced with a global situation so far beyond our ability to deal with, much less prepare for, the lies of the elite are entering into the farce phase.
My personal opinion is 2015 will be the 70th anniversary of the August, 1945 bombing of Japan and that will release certain spiritual echoes causing "something" to happen with Fukushima in August of 2015. Yep, the powers that be can lie all they want until it becomes clear how bad things with Fukushima really are.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fukushima-endgame/5420188
The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, December 17, 2014
Nuclear radiation resulting from the March 2011 Fukushima disaster –which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the tabloid gossip reports on Hollywood celebrities.
The shaky political consensus both in Japan, the U.S. and Western Europe is that the crisis at Fukushima has been contained.
The truth is otherwise. Known and documented, the ongoing dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination.
This water contains plutonium 239 and its release into the Ocean has both local as well as global repercussions. A microgram of plutonium if inhaled, according to Dr. Helen Caldicott, can cause death:
Certain isotopes of radioactive plutonium are known as some of the deadliest poisons on the face of the earth. A mere microgram (a speck of darkness on a pinhead) of Plutonium-239, if inhaled, can cause death, and if ingested, radioactive Plutonium can be harmful, causing leukemia and other bone cancers.
“In the days following the 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant explosions, seawater meant to cool the nuclear power plants instead carried radioactive elements back to the Pacific ocean. Radioactive Plutonium was one of the elements streamed back to sea.” (decodescience.com).
It would appear that the radioactive water has already penetrated parts of the Japanese coastline:
Environmental testing of shoreline around the nuclear plant (as well fish, especially Tuna) showed negligible amounts of Plutonium in the seawater. The Plutonium, from what little is reported, sank into the sediments off the Japanese coast.” (Ibid)
A recent report suggests that the Japanese government is intent upon releasing the remaining radioactive water into the Ocean. The proposed “solution” becomes the cause of radioactive contamination of both the Japanese coastline as well as the Pacific Ocean, extending to the coastline of North America.
While the chairman of the Nuclear Radiation Authority recognizes that the water in the tanks is heavily “tainted”, a decision has nonetheless been taken to empty the tanks and dump the water into the Ocean:
The head of Japan’s nuclear watchdog said contaminated water stored at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant should be released into the ocean to ensure safe decommissioning of the reactors.
Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulation Authority, made the comment Dec. 12 after visiting the facility to observe progress in dismantling the six reactors. The site was severely damaged in the tsunami generated by the 2011 earthquake.
“I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of tanks (holding water tainted with radioactive substances),” Tanaka told reporters, indicating they pose a danger to decommissioning work. “We have to dispose of the water.”
With regard to expected protests by local fishermen over the discharge, Tanaka said, “We also have to obtain the consent of local residents in carrying out the work, so we can somehow mitigate (the increase in tainted water).”
Tanaka has said previously that to proceed with decommissioning, tainted water stored on the site would need to be released into the sea so long as it had been decontaminated to accepted safety standards.
“While (the idea) may upset people, we must do our utmost to satisfy residents of Fukushima,” Tanaka said, adding that the NRA would provide information to local residents based on continuing studies of radioactive elements in local waters.
The inspection tour was Tanaka’s second since he became NRA chief in September 2012. He last visited in April 2013.
During his visit, Tanaka observed work at a trench on the ocean side of the No. 2 reactor building, where highly contaminated water is being pumped out. He also inspected barriers set up around the storage tanks to prevent leaks of tainted water.
Tanaka praised the completion in November of work to remove all spent nuclear fuel from the No. 4 reactor building, as well as changes to work procedures that he said allows for the completion of the work at the No. 2 reactor trench. Hiromi Kumai , NRA Head Signals Massive Release of Tainted Water to Help Decommission Fukushima Site Asahi Shimbun December 13, 2014
The contradictory statements of the NRA chief avoid addressing the broader implications, by giving the impression that the issue is local and that local fishermen off the Fukushima coast will be consulted.
Additional articles and videos on Fukushima and Nuclear Radiation are available at Global Research’s Dossier on The Environment
TEXT BOX
Nuclear Radiation: Categorization
At Fukushima, reports confirm that alpha, beta, gamma particles and neutrons have been released:
“While non-ionizing radiation and x-rays are a result of electron transitions in atoms or molecules, there are three forms of ionizing radiation that are a result of activity within the nucleus of an atom. These forms of nuclear radiation are alpha particles (α-particles), beta particles (β-particles) and gamma rays (γ-rays).
Alpha particles are heavy positively charged particles made up of two protons and two neutrons. They are essentially a helium nucleus and are thus represented in a nuclear equation by either α or . See the Alpha Decay page for more information on alpha particles.
Beta particles come in two forms: and . particles are just electrons that have been ejected from the nucleus. This is a result of sub-nuclear reactions that result in a neutron decaying to a proton. The electron is needed to conserve charge and comes from the nucleus. It is not an orbital electron. particles are positrons ejected from the nucleus when a proton decays to a neutron. A positron is an anti-particle that is similar in nearly all respects to an electron, but has a positive charge. See the Beta Decay page for more information on beta particles.
Gamma rays are photons of high energy electromagnetic radiation (light). Gamma rays generally have the highest frequency and shortest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. There is some overlap in the frequencies of gamma rays and x-rays; however, x-rays are formed from electron transitions while gamma rays are formed from nuclear transitions. See the Gamma Rays for more” (SOURCE: Canadian Nuclear Association)
“A neutron is a particle that is found in the nucleus, or center, of atoms. It has a mass very close to protons, which also reside in the nucleus of atoms. Together, they make up almost all of the mass of individual atoms. Each has a mass of about 1 amu, which is roughly 1.6×10-27kg. Protons have a positive charge and neutrons have no charge, which is why they were more difficult to discover.” (SOURCE: Neutron Radiation)
“Many different radioactive isotopes are used in or are produced by nuclear reactors. The most important of these are described below:
1. Uranium 235 (U-235) is the active component of most nuclear reactor fuel.
2. Plutonium (Pu-239) is a key nuclear material used in modern nuclear weapons and is also present as a by-product in certain reprocessed fuels used in some nuclear reactors. Pu-239 is also produced in uranium reactors as a byproduct of fission of U-235.
3. Cesium (Cs-137 ) is a fission product of U-235. It emits beta and gamma radiation and can cause radiation sickness and death if exposures are high enough. …
4. Iodine 131 (I-131), also a fission product of U-235, emits beta and gamma radiation. After inhalation or ingestion, it is absorbed by and concentrated in the thyroid gland, where its beta radiation damages nearby thyroid tissue (SOURCE: Amesh A. Adalja, MD, Eric S. Toner, MD, Anita Cicero, JD, Joseph Fitzgerald, MS, MPH, and Thomas V. Inglesby MD, Radiation at Fukushima: Basic Issues and Concepts, March 31, 2011)
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
So, solution? Dump it in the ocean---"out of sight, out of mind." It will somehow just 'magically' go away.
Tanaka has said previously that to proceed with decommissioning, tainted water stored on the site would need to be released into the sea so long as it had been decontaminated to accepted safety standards.[/QUOTE]
...the definition of "acceptable" being revised to accomodate WHATEVER level of radiation that water ALREADY has....
Countrymouse
Country exile in the city
I am careful to only buy what is labeled as "ATLANTIC" tuna---I HOPE they are not LYING to me about its origins...
bw
Fringe Ranger
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
We are now at the point where the ENTIRE PACIFIC OCEAN FOOD CHAIN IS SHOWING SOME LEVEL OF NUCLEAR CONTAMINATION from Fukushima. This is an ongoing, multi decade, generational issue of unchecked release of toxic radiation.
I have not eaten Pacific Ocean tuna for at least three years. The food chain has now been exposed to fukushima radiation from the krill, plankton level, all the way up to the Orca Killer Whales now dying off. I have personally seen at least ONE DOZEN stories related to various types of "strange diseases" killing off everything from Starfish to Sea Lions. One of the FIRST effects of radiation exposure is degrading your immune system. It has been the choice and ability of the mass media and governments to ignore clear signs of radiation exposure. And you know what, they get to do that, keep lying and lying: RIGHT UP TO THE POINT ALL PACIFIC OCEAN MAMMALS AND FISH AND SHELLFISH GO EXTINCT.
Be patient, gang: we will see mass extinction of sea life, documented, rotting on the beach in front of little tommy with his plastic shovel to build a sand castle, in the 2 to 10 year range from now. Yep, there won't be any discussion about Fukushima by 2020 since the rotting bodies scattered all over the tourist beaches will end the debate.
I have not eaten Pacific Ocean tuna for at least three years. The food chain has now been exposed to fukushima radiation from the krill, plankton level, all the way up to the Orca Killer Whales now dying off. I have personally seen at least ONE DOZEN stories related to various types of "strange diseases" killing off everything from Starfish to Sea Lions. One of the FIRST effects of radiation exposure is degrading your immune system. It has been the choice and ability of the mass media and governments to ignore clear signs of radiation exposure. And you know what, they get to do that, keep lying and lying: RIGHT UP TO THE POINT ALL PACIFIC OCEAN MAMMALS AND FISH AND SHELLFISH GO EXTINCT.
Be patient, gang: we will see mass extinction of sea life, documented, rotting on the beach in front of little tommy with his plastic shovel to build a sand castle, in the 2 to 10 year range from now. Yep, there won't be any discussion about Fukushima by 2020 since the rotting bodies scattered all over the tourist beaches will end the debate.
For links see article source.....
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http://www.adn.com/article/20141229/us-west-coast-will-likely-see-peak-fukushima-radiation-2015
US West Coast will likely see peak of Fukushima radiation in 2015
Pete Spotts
December 29, 2014
Scientists keeping tabs on the eastward voyage of radioactive byproducts from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power-station disaster in Japan suggest that radioactivity from the byproducts should peak off the US and Canadian coasts by the end of next year. After that, they are expected to begin a gradual decline to background levels.
The chief concern: Radioactivity from cesium-137, the longest-lived of two forms of cesium released in the disaster, which ocean surface currents have carried east. At its peak, levels of radioactivity from cesium-137 will still fall far below levels that the U.S. and Canadian governments deem safe for drinking water, according to data in a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The nuclear power station lost emergency power when it was hit by a tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9 earthquake offshore on March 11, 2011. As a result, the plant couldn't keep reactors cool or spent-fuel pools filled. Three of four reactors partially melted, while hydrogen explosions wracked buildings containing the reactors. The event released significant amounts of radiation, including leaks of radioactive water to the ocean.
Combined with background levels of cesium-137 radiation that remain from above-ground nuclear-weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and '60s, the additional cesium-137 from Fukushima is projected to push the isotope's watery radiation levels back up to where they were in the 1980s, the study indicates. At that time, radiation from cesium-137 in fish tissue was so low that people were far more concerned about mercury in tuna than cesium.
The PNAS study builds on research described at an ocean-sciences meeting in Hawaii last February. The work relied on data gathered between 2011 and 2013 from a string of 26 sampling sites that began at the Juan de Fuca Strait and stretched westward for more than 1,000 miles.
The team looked for cesium-134 to herald the arrival of Fukushima's cesium-137. Nuclear reactors produce both, but cesium-134 loses half its radioactivity every two years. Cesium-137, with its 30-year half life, is the more worrisome of the two forms isotopes. If researchers detected only cesium-137, they knew they were looking at the post-nuclear-testing background. If they saw both forms of cesium at the same time, they knew Fukushima's cesium-137 had arrived and could estimate its contribution beyond background cesium radiation levels.
Cesium-137 from Fukushima reached the western end of the sampling string in 2012, and by June 2013 had reached sampling sites on the continental shelf, noted John Smith, a chemical oceanographer at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, at the time.
The new study includes additional data taken in February 2014, data that the team finished processing during the summer, writes Dr. Smith in an e-mail.
"The conclusions haven't changed," he writes, referring to projections that even at its peak, radiation from cesium-137 should remain far below levels that are deemed a threat to human health or to the environment.
The background level runs about 1 Becquerel -- the decay of one cesium-137 nucleus each second -- per cubic meter of water. At its peak, the radiation level is expected to reach about 3 to 5 Becquerels per cubic meter of water. By contrast, Canada's drinking-water standard for cesium-137 is 10,000 Becquerels per cubic meter.
If the added data haven't altered the team's basic conclusion, they have helped sift among competing projections offered by other research teams. In one projection, cesium-137 levels were slated to begin rising in late 2014 with a peak around 2017. The other had an earlier onset to the increase, with the peak coming in late 2015.
Data available last February were too sparse to provide a reality check on the models. With the additional data, however, the second projection seems the most likely, providing "greater certainty in future projections of the Fukushima radioactivity signal in the eastern North Pacific Ocean," Smith writes.
Meanwhile, Fukushima's cesium-137 also has appeared off the northern California coast, Ken Buesseler, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, reported in early November.
Dr. Buesseler and colleagues have enlisted citizen scientists to gather water samples for analysis in a monitoring project that uses crowd-sourced funding to underwrite the effort.
The sample was collected in August about 100 miles west of Eureka. It contained cesium-134, whose radiation was recorded at 2 Becquerels per cubic meter of water, more than 1,000 times less than the US Environmental Protections Agency's maximum level for drinking water.
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http://www.adn.com/article/20141229/us-west-coast-will-likely-see-peak-fukushima-radiation-2015
US West Coast will likely see peak of Fukushima radiation in 2015
Pete Spotts
December 29, 2014
Scientists keeping tabs on the eastward voyage of radioactive byproducts from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power-station disaster in Japan suggest that radioactivity from the byproducts should peak off the US and Canadian coasts by the end of next year. After that, they are expected to begin a gradual decline to background levels.
The chief concern: Radioactivity from cesium-137, the longest-lived of two forms of cesium released in the disaster, which ocean surface currents have carried east. At its peak, levels of radioactivity from cesium-137 will still fall far below levels that the U.S. and Canadian governments deem safe for drinking water, according to data in a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The nuclear power station lost emergency power when it was hit by a tsunami triggered by a magnitude-9 earthquake offshore on March 11, 2011. As a result, the plant couldn't keep reactors cool or spent-fuel pools filled. Three of four reactors partially melted, while hydrogen explosions wracked buildings containing the reactors. The event released significant amounts of radiation, including leaks of radioactive water to the ocean.
Combined with background levels of cesium-137 radiation that remain from above-ground nuclear-weapons tests conducted in the 1950s and '60s, the additional cesium-137 from Fukushima is projected to push the isotope's watery radiation levels back up to where they were in the 1980s, the study indicates. At that time, radiation from cesium-137 in fish tissue was so low that people were far more concerned about mercury in tuna than cesium.
The PNAS study builds on research described at an ocean-sciences meeting in Hawaii last February. The work relied on data gathered between 2011 and 2013 from a string of 26 sampling sites that began at the Juan de Fuca Strait and stretched westward for more than 1,000 miles.
The team looked for cesium-134 to herald the arrival of Fukushima's cesium-137. Nuclear reactors produce both, but cesium-134 loses half its radioactivity every two years. Cesium-137, with its 30-year half life, is the more worrisome of the two forms isotopes. If researchers detected only cesium-137, they knew they were looking at the post-nuclear-testing background. If they saw both forms of cesium at the same time, they knew Fukushima's cesium-137 had arrived and could estimate its contribution beyond background cesium radiation levels.
Cesium-137 from Fukushima reached the western end of the sampling string in 2012, and by June 2013 had reached sampling sites on the continental shelf, noted John Smith, a chemical oceanographer at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, at the time.
The new study includes additional data taken in February 2014, data that the team finished processing during the summer, writes Dr. Smith in an e-mail.
"The conclusions haven't changed," he writes, referring to projections that even at its peak, radiation from cesium-137 should remain far below levels that are deemed a threat to human health or to the environment.
The background level runs about 1 Becquerel -- the decay of one cesium-137 nucleus each second -- per cubic meter of water. At its peak, the radiation level is expected to reach about 3 to 5 Becquerels per cubic meter of water. By contrast, Canada's drinking-water standard for cesium-137 is 10,000 Becquerels per cubic meter.
If the added data haven't altered the team's basic conclusion, they have helped sift among competing projections offered by other research teams. In one projection, cesium-137 levels were slated to begin rising in late 2014 with a peak around 2017. The other had an earlier onset to the increase, with the peak coming in late 2015.
Data available last February were too sparse to provide a reality check on the models. With the additional data, however, the second projection seems the most likely, providing "greater certainty in future projections of the Fukushima radioactivity signal in the eastern North Pacific Ocean," Smith writes.
Meanwhile, Fukushima's cesium-137 also has appeared off the northern California coast, Ken Buesseler, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, reported in early November.
Dr. Buesseler and colleagues have enlisted citizen scientists to gather water samples for analysis in a monitoring project that uses crowd-sourced funding to underwrite the effort.
The sample was collected in August about 100 miles west of Eureka. It contained cesium-134, whose radiation was recorded at 2 Becquerels per cubic meter of water, more than 1,000 times less than the US Environmental Protections Agency's maximum level for drinking water.
bw
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I'll buy that. The byproducts from the 2011 disaster will taper off. No problem.
The byproducts from the 2015 disaster, when the storage pools fail and the fuel burns, well, that's another story.
This phrasing is always wrong. It isn't 1000 times less, it is 1/1000th as much.
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Doomer Doug
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The fact many different species are dying off on the West Coast is being reported in the typical globalist, slanted, and censored way. The vast number of species deaths is said to be from "unknown causes," or is "mysterious." It is Fukushima radiation causing immune system damage leading to opportunistic diseases. The media coverup will go on until all species in the Pacific Ocean have vanished "mysteriously." This is a Japanese newspaper source by the way even though the story is from Oregon.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150104p2g00m0in018000c.html
North American Pacific Coast sea bird die-off puzzles scientists
In this Saturday, July 8, 2006, file photo, a Cassin's auklet chick is displayed at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, in San Francisco. Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
In this Saturday, July 8, 2006, file photo, a Cassin's auklet chick is displayed at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, in San Francisco. Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- Scientists are trying to figure out what's behind the deaths of seabirds that have been found by the hundreds along the Pacific Coast since October.
Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds known as Cassin's aucklets have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, California.
It's normal for some seabirds to die during harsh winter conditions, especially during big storms, but the scale of the current die-off is unusual.
"To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented," Phillip Johnson, executive director of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, told the Salem Statesman Journal. "It's an interesting and somewhat mysterious event."
The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don't believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
But why the birds can't find food is a mystery.
Researchers say it could be the result of a successful breeding season, leading to too many young birds competing for food. Unusually violent storms might be pushing the birds into areas they're not used to or preventing them from foraging. Or a warmer, more acidic ocean could be affecting the supply of tiny zooplankton, such as krill, that the birds eat.
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin is conducting additional necropsies on dead birds, researchers said.
Robert Ollikainen of Tillamook, Oregon, found 132 dead birds on the beach there, including 126 Cassin's auklets on Dec. 26. "It was pretty dramatic," Ollikainen said.
January 04, 2015(Mainichi Japan)
PR情報
今、年収600万〜1000万円の求人が増加中。1・2・3月入社をお考えの方は必見
＜突然ペラペラ！英語苦手がペラペラに？＞驚きの声続出で今バカ売れの教材
「高めの血圧、放置の代償は…」後悔する前に始める血圧管理法
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150104p2g00m0in018000c.html
North American Pacific Coast sea bird die-off puzzles scientists
In this Saturday, July 8, 2006, file photo, a Cassin's auklet chick is displayed at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, in San Francisco. Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
In this Saturday, July 8, 2006, file photo, a Cassin's auklet chick is displayed at the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge, in San Francisco. Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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SALEM, Oregon (AP) -- Scientists are trying to figure out what's behind the deaths of seabirds that have been found by the hundreds along the Pacific Coast since October.
Mass die-offs of the small, white-bellied gray birds known as Cassin's aucklets have been reported from British Columbia to San Luis Obispo, California.
It's normal for some seabirds to die during harsh winter conditions, especially during big storms, but the scale of the current die-off is unusual.
"To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented," Phillip Johnson, executive director of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, told the Salem Statesman Journal. "It's an interesting and somewhat mysterious event."
The birds appear to be starving to death, so experts don't believe a toxin is the culprit, said Julia Burco, a wildlife veterinarian for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
But why the birds can't find food is a mystery.
Researchers say it could be the result of a successful breeding season, leading to too many young birds competing for food. Unusually violent storms might be pushing the birds into areas they're not used to or preventing them from foraging. Or a warmer, more acidic ocean could be affecting the supply of tiny zooplankton, such as krill, that the birds eat.
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin is conducting additional necropsies on dead birds, researchers said.
Robert Ollikainen of Tillamook, Oregon, found 132 dead birds on the beach there, including 126 Cassin's auklets on Dec. 26. "It was pretty dramatic," Ollikainen said.
January 04, 2015(Mainichi Japan)
PR情報
今、年収600万〜1000万円の求人が増加中。1・2・3月入社をお考えの方は必見
＜突然ペラペラ！英語苦手がペラペラに？＞驚きの声続出で今バカ売れの教材
「高めの血圧、放置の代償は…」後悔する前に始める血圧管理法
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Doomer Doug
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Fukushima, as an extinction level event, ELE, is rocking and rolling right along as we head towards year 4 on March, 11th, 2015. I guess when they can't find a single bird left alive, like with the Passenger Pigeon, "they" will finally admit reality.
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-ma...mine-telling-scrambling-figure-whats-going-ec
Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies — Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this… We ignore it at our peril… Canary in the coalmine for us… Scrambling to figure out what’s going on with ecosystem (VIDEOS)
Published: January 8th, 2015 at 7:33 pm ET
By ENENews
Statesman Journal, Jan 2, 2015 (emphasis added): Why is the beach covered in dead birds?… “I’ve never seen that many before”… a mass die-off [is] going on along the entire West Coast… “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” [said Phillip Johnson of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition].
Oregonian, Jan 6, 2015: Dave Nuzum, a wildlife biologist… said his office continues to field calls from concerned beach-goers who come across a grisly scene: Common murres and Cassin’s auklets dead on the beach in great numbers… Oregon is the cataclysm’s epicenter… He doesn’t expect the crush of deaths to let up any time soon… [It's] up to 100 times greater than normal annual death rates.
Prof. Julia Parrish, Univ. of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Science, Jan 6, 2015: This is the worst wreck of cassins auklets that we’ve ever seen on the West Coast… Certainly we are concerned… Is it that there’s less of their food, or perhaps that food has changed its distribution?… How many cassins may actually be suffering in this particular mortality event? We’re working with oceanographers and atmospheric scientists to try and discover whether there’s something in the environment which is signaling a difference, signaling a change. >> Full broadcast
Prof. Parrish #2, Jan 6, 2015: We’re seeing some adults wash up… The bumper crop [born this year] can’t quite explain [this]… We’re easily seeing tens of thousands, if not actually more… Normally [they] can exist out in the N. Pacific [far] from the coastline over the winter. We think that the population for some reason has snugged up to the coast… Unfortunately the cassins are the canary in the coalmine for us, so they’re telling us something is going on. To put it mildly, we’re still scrambling to figure out what’s going on with the ecosystem… Of course, everybody always wants to point the finger at climate change. The thing about climate change is it’s a very slow, steady change. >> Full broadcast
CBC, Jan 7, 2014: More than 100,000 carcasses… have been found… up to 100 times the normal number are washing ashore… “It’s a tragic event… We have never seen a die-off of Cassin’s like this, so that in and of itself says something” [said Parrish].
CBC News excerpts, Jan. 6, 2015:
CBC: It is a West Coast mystery — a mass die-off.
Prof. Parrish: [It's] certainly indicating to us that there is something wrong.
CBC: Necropsies show no disease, no viruses, no bacteria.
Parrish: Tens of thousands of birds dead on the beach is something that we just can’t ignore — we ignore that at our peril.
Full broadcast here
Published: January 8th, 2015 at 7:33 pm ET
By ENENews
TV:: ‘Zombie’ starfish found along Pacific coast — Experts: “Much spookier than in past” — Babies “die so quickly… they just disappear” — Change in seawater could have activated deadly pathogen — Worries about creation of ‘superbug’ — Serious ecosystem changes now appearing (VIDEO) September 2, 2014
Gundersen: I’m now not eating Pacific Ocean fish — Bio-accumulation of Fukushima nuclear waste concerning — Effects of lower-level radiation worse than predicted (VIDEO) January 9, 2014
Experts: Disease explosion in West Coast sea stars — “Extinction event” is pretty close — “Epidemic of historic magnitude… threatens to decimate entire population” of species in Oregon — Sudden 50-fold increase in recent weeks — Entire ecosystem could be disrupted — “We have no clue” (VIDEO) June 11, 2014
TV: “The largest disease outbreak that we know of ever in the oceans” now hitting West Coast — Potential for “global extinction” — “Affects over 20 species… causing catastrophic mortality” — Expert: One of history’s largest wildlife die-offs… signal in ecosystem that something’s not right (VIDEO) June 16, 2014
TV: Scientists have found nuclear waste off San Diego coast — Fukushima’s problems now being felt in our local ecosystem — Professor most worried about finding ‘pools’ of cesium — “Time will tell how this plays out” (VIDEO) February 4, 2014
January 8th, 2015 | Category: Audio/Video Clips, California, Canada, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, US, West Coast
TV: Record level of “flesh-eating bacteria” cases in Japan — Spike began around 2011 Fukushima disaster — Now at 400% normal rate — US Gov’t: Radiation from nuclear accident greatly reduces ability to fight this infection — Officials: We don’t know what’s triggering it; Seek immediate help if symptoms develop (PHOTOS & VIDEO) »
http://enenews.com/unprecedented-ma...mine-telling-scrambling-figure-whats-going-ec
Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies — Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this… We ignore it at our peril… Canary in the coalmine for us… Scrambling to figure out what’s going on with ecosystem (VIDEOS)
Published: January 8th, 2015 at 7:33 pm ET
By ENENews
Statesman Journal, Jan 2, 2015 (emphasis added): Why is the beach covered in dead birds?… “I’ve never seen that many before”… a mass die-off [is] going on along the entire West Coast… “To be this lengthy and geographically widespread, I think is kind of unprecedented,” [said Phillip Johnson of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition].
Oregonian, Jan 6, 2015: Dave Nuzum, a wildlife biologist… said his office continues to field calls from concerned beach-goers who come across a grisly scene: Common murres and Cassin’s auklets dead on the beach in great numbers… Oregon is the cataclysm’s epicenter… He doesn’t expect the crush of deaths to let up any time soon… [It's] up to 100 times greater than normal annual death rates.
Prof. Julia Parrish, Univ. of Washington School of Aquatic & Fishery Science, Jan 6, 2015: This is the worst wreck of cassins auklets that we’ve ever seen on the West Coast… Certainly we are concerned… Is it that there’s less of their food, or perhaps that food has changed its distribution?… How many cassins may actually be suffering in this particular mortality event? We’re working with oceanographers and atmospheric scientists to try and discover whether there’s something in the environment which is signaling a difference, signaling a change. >> Full broadcast
Prof. Parrish #2, Jan 6, 2015: We’re seeing some adults wash up… The bumper crop [born this year] can’t quite explain [this]… We’re easily seeing tens of thousands, if not actually more… Normally [they] can exist out in the N. Pacific [far] from the coastline over the winter. We think that the population for some reason has snugged up to the coast… Unfortunately the cassins are the canary in the coalmine for us, so they’re telling us something is going on. To put it mildly, we’re still scrambling to figure out what’s going on with the ecosystem… Of course, everybody always wants to point the finger at climate change. The thing about climate change is it’s a very slow, steady change. >> Full broadcast
CBC, Jan 7, 2014: More than 100,000 carcasses… have been found… up to 100 times the normal number are washing ashore… “It’s a tragic event… We have never seen a die-off of Cassin’s like this, so that in and of itself says something” [said Parrish].
CBC News excerpts, Jan. 6, 2015:
CBC: It is a West Coast mystery — a mass die-off.
Prof. Parrish: [It's] certainly indicating to us that there is something wrong.
CBC: Necropsies show no disease, no viruses, no bacteria.
Parrish: Tens of thousands of birds dead on the beach is something that we just can’t ignore — we ignore that at our peril.
Full broadcast here
Published: January 8th, 2015 at 7:33 pm ET
By ENENews
TV:: ‘Zombie’ starfish found along Pacific coast — Experts: “Much spookier than in past” — Babies “die so quickly… they just disappear” — Change in seawater could have activated deadly pathogen — Worries about creation of ‘superbug’ — Serious ecosystem changes now appearing (VIDEO) September 2, 2014
Gundersen: I’m now not eating Pacific Ocean fish — Bio-accumulation of Fukushima nuclear waste concerning — Effects of lower-level radiation worse than predicted (VIDEO) January 9, 2014
Experts: Disease explosion in West Coast sea stars — “Extinction event” is pretty close — “Epidemic of historic magnitude… threatens to decimate entire population” of species in Oregon — Sudden 50-fold increase in recent weeks — Entire ecosystem could be disrupted — “We have no clue” (VIDEO) June 11, 2014
TV: “The largest disease outbreak that we know of ever in the oceans” now hitting West Coast — Potential for “global extinction” — “Affects over 20 species… causing catastrophic mortality” — Expert: One of history’s largest wildlife die-offs… signal in ecosystem that something’s not right (VIDEO) June 16, 2014
TV: Scientists have found nuclear waste off San Diego coast — Fukushima’s problems now being felt in our local ecosystem — Professor most worried about finding ‘pools’ of cesium — “Time will tell how this plays out” (VIDEO) February 4, 2014
January 8th, 2015 | Category: Audio/Video Clips, California, Canada, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, US, West Coast
TV: Record level of “flesh-eating bacteria” cases in Japan — Spike began around 2011 Fukushima disaster — Now at 400% normal rate — US Gov’t: Radiation from nuclear accident greatly reduces ability to fight this infection — Officials: We don’t know what’s triggering it; Seek immediate help if symptoms develop (PHOTOS & VIDEO) »
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HORROR " Pacific Ocean Now Dead From Fukushima Radiation "
Streamed live on 10 Aug 2014
http://www.thenuclearproctologist.org/ The entire 200 kilometers we checked of Canadian Pacific Coast Line was devoid of all life except 4 main species and they are very patchy and we a found several other species like limpets and snails etc in tiny insignificant spots never in groups , . When a rational person considers the reality of the 5500 species that are missing from the tidal area that is also the nursery of the pacific ocean itself ,recovery seems highly unlikely because Fukushima can not be stopped . The bigger marine animals like salmon fish crabs etc will not last much longer and because people are ignoring 5500 missing species it seems almost impossible to have a debate with that closed compartmentalized irrational mind set . This presentation will be followed tonight with a Q & A session at 8 pm pacific Canada time on this same site beautifulgirlbydana . Watch the live presentation Aug 10th 2014 at 1 pm BC Pacific time in Canada on beautifulgirlbydana
it will show up at this link https://www.youtube.com/user/Beautifu...
Sunset stroll in the Inter Tidal Zone (ITZ) Tofino B.C a few days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HYC...
Low tide zone info
http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/...
https://www.crd.bc.ca/education/in-yo...
B,C, parks Over 5000 species PDF file download
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/cons...
Streamed live on 10 Aug 2014
http://www.thenuclearproctologist.org/ The entire 200 kilometers we checked of Canadian Pacific Coast Line was devoid of all life except 4 main species and they are very patchy and we a found several other species like limpets and snails etc in tiny insignificant spots never in groups , . When a rational person considers the reality of the 5500 species that are missing from the tidal area that is also the nursery of the pacific ocean itself ,recovery seems highly unlikely because Fukushima can not be stopped . The bigger marine animals like salmon fish crabs etc will not last much longer and because people are ignoring 5500 missing species it seems almost impossible to have a debate with that closed compartmentalized irrational mind set . This presentation will be followed tonight with a Q & A session at 8 pm pacific Canada time on this same site beautifulgirlbydana . Watch the live presentation Aug 10th 2014 at 1 pm BC Pacific time in Canada on beautifulgirlbydana
it will show up at this link https://www.youtube.com/user/Beautifu...
Sunset stroll in the Inter Tidal Zone (ITZ) Tofino B.C a few days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20HYC...
Low tide zone info
http://ibis.geog.ubc.ca/biodiversity/...
https://www.crd.bc.ca/education/in-yo...
B,C, parks Over 5000 species PDF file download
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/cons...
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What I'd like to know it, Have any of the folks here who have a Nukalert ever bought an Alaskan or other Pacific labeled salmon, and tested it for radiation?
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
I think we are coming up on two critical dates regarding Fukushima. The first is the 4th anniversary of the tsunami on March 11th, 2015. The second is the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th, 2015.
http://enenews.com/outright-failure...lic-thinks-worst-could-be-further-truth-video
Engineer: Outright failures continue to plague Fukushima plant — “Public may think worst is over… Nothing could be further from the truth” — Japan TV: New method failing to stop flow of highly contaminated water — Experts: ‘Diluting’ radiation in ocean adds to danger; Spreading it out only makes health damages worse (VIDEO)
Published: January 12th, 2015 at 10:24 am ET
By ENENews
Dr. Steve Elwart, professional engineer and expert for Dept. of Homeland Security, Dec 14, 2014 (emphasis added): With most of the media silent about the cleanup, the public may think the worst is over [at Fukushima Daiichi]… Nothing could be further from the truth… [Radioactive water is] leaking out into the ocean, allowing it to spread… around the world through ocean currents [and this has] prompted grave concerns over the impact on sea life in the area and around the world. [Officials] decided to build an “ice wall” around the reactor site… TEPCO conceded defeat and announced the efforts to construct the plug failed… As if things couldn’t get worse, less than two months ago, TEPCO once again came out with an announcement that it was having problems with the ice wall [and] was going to cease operations on the ice wall and pour cement… TEPCO President Naomi Hirose stated officials “will never give up” on the wall… debate continues over how to stop water from leaking into the ocean… outright failures continue to plague the Fukushima cleanup efforts.
NHK Transcript, Dec 26, 2014: TEPCO is still struggling to deal with contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
NHK, Dec 26, 2014: New method for contaminated water may be failing — [TEPCO] has indicated that a new method aimed at tackling a large volume of highly radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has not been entirely successful. TEPCO gave a progress report on its work to a panel of experts at the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday. The utility last month began pouring cement into underground tunnels filled with the contaminated water from the reactor buildings to stop the water inflow. The water is believed to be leaking into the sea… officials said that when they pumped water up from one of the pits, the water level at another pit changed. That suggests that gaps exist in the concrete-filled tunnels.
Documentary featuring radiation experts (at 6:30 in):
Dr. Alice Stewart, physician and epidemiologist: All recommendations say one big hit is more dangerous than just a little one… It’s the basis of the control of nuclear waste — if you dilute it enough, it will be safe. Well, we say dilute it and it will add to the dangers.
Jan van de Putte, radiation safety specialist: There’s a philosophy called the dilution philosophy, which means if you dilute something, then it doesn’t give any harm. But with all the knowledge we have today, we must say radiation is inducing health damage regardless of how little the doses of are. If you dilute radiation… all the health effects will only be more widely distributed. This is the only effect of this dilution philosophy.
Dr. Richard Piccioni, biophysicist: Whether you have put it all in one place or have spread it out, the total irradiation of human beings… is the same. In fact if what some researchers like Dr. Stewart are saying is true, it will be even worse.
Watch the documentary here
http://enenews.com/outright-failure...lic-thinks-worst-could-be-further-truth-video
Engineer: Outright failures continue to plague Fukushima plant — “Public may think worst is over… Nothing could be further from the truth” — Japan TV: New method failing to stop flow of highly contaminated water — Experts: ‘Diluting’ radiation in ocean adds to danger; Spreading it out only makes health damages worse (VIDEO)
Published: January 12th, 2015 at 10:24 am ET
By ENENews
Dr. Steve Elwart, professional engineer and expert for Dept. of Homeland Security, Dec 14, 2014 (emphasis added): With most of the media silent about the cleanup, the public may think the worst is over [at Fukushima Daiichi]… Nothing could be further from the truth… [Radioactive water is] leaking out into the ocean, allowing it to spread… around the world through ocean currents [and this has] prompted grave concerns over the impact on sea life in the area and around the world. [Officials] decided to build an “ice wall” around the reactor site… TEPCO conceded defeat and announced the efforts to construct the plug failed… As if things couldn’t get worse, less than two months ago, TEPCO once again came out with an announcement that it was having problems with the ice wall [and] was going to cease operations on the ice wall and pour cement… TEPCO President Naomi Hirose stated officials “will never give up” on the wall… debate continues over how to stop water from leaking into the ocean… outright failures continue to plague the Fukushima cleanup efforts.
NHK Transcript, Dec 26, 2014: TEPCO is still struggling to deal with contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
NHK, Dec 26, 2014: New method for contaminated water may be failing — [TEPCO] has indicated that a new method aimed at tackling a large volume of highly radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has not been entirely successful. TEPCO gave a progress report on its work to a panel of experts at the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday. The utility last month began pouring cement into underground tunnels filled with the contaminated water from the reactor buildings to stop the water inflow. The water is believed to be leaking into the sea… officials said that when they pumped water up from one of the pits, the water level at another pit changed. That suggests that gaps exist in the concrete-filled tunnels.
Documentary featuring radiation experts (at 6:30 in):
Dr. Alice Stewart, physician and epidemiologist: All recommendations say one big hit is more dangerous than just a little one… It’s the basis of the control of nuclear waste — if you dilute it enough, it will be safe. Well, we say dilute it and it will add to the dangers.
Jan van de Putte, radiation safety specialist: There’s a philosophy called the dilution philosophy, which means if you dilute something, then it doesn’t give any harm. But with all the knowledge we have today, we must say radiation is inducing health damage regardless of how little the doses of are. If you dilute radiation… all the health effects will only be more widely distributed. This is the only effect of this dilution philosophy.
Dr. Richard Piccioni, biophysicist: Whether you have put it all in one place or have spread it out, the total irradiation of human beings… is the same. In fact if what some researchers like Dr. Stewart are saying is true, it will be even worse.
Watch the documentary here
Doomer Doug
TB Fanatic
Eat, drink, and be merry, for we die soon enough. 2015: the year we find out what the synergy of disaster really is.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150112181319.htm
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An analysis of 727 studies reveals that there have been more instances of rapid, catastrophic animal die-offs over the past 75 years. These mass kills appear to have hit birds, fish and marine invertebrates harder than other species.
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An analysis of 727 mass die-offs of nearly 2,500 animal species from the past 70 years has found that such events are increasing among birds, fish and marine invertebrates. At the same time, the number of individuals killed appears to be decreasing for reptiles and amphibians, and unchanged for mammals.
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Such mass mortality events occur when a large percentage of a population dies in a short time frame. While the die-offs are rare and fall short of extinction, they can pack a devastating punch, potentially killing more than 90 percent of a population in one shot. However, until this study, there had been no quantitative analysis of the patterns of mass mortality events among animals, the study authors noted.
"This is the first attempt to quantify patterns in the frequency, magnitude and cause of such mass kill events," said study senior author Stephanie Carlson, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
The study, published Monday, Jan. 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by researchers at UC Berkeley, the University of San Diego and Yale University.
The researchers reviewed incidents of mass kills documented in scientific literature. Although they came across some sporadic studies dating back to the 1800s, the analysis focused on the period from 1940 to the present. The researchers acknowledged that some of their findings may be due to an increase in the reporting of mass die-offs in recent decades. But they noted that even after accounting for some of this reporting bias, there was still an increase in mass die-offs for certain animals.
Overall, disease was the primary culprit, accounting for 26 percent of the mass die-offs. Direct effects tied to humans, such as environmental contamination, caused 19 percent of the mass kills. Biotoxicity triggered by events such as algae blooms accounted for a significant proportion of deaths, and processes directly influenced by climate -- including weather extremes, thermal stress, oxygen stress or starvation -- collectively contributed to about 25 percent of mass mortality events.
The most severe events were those with multiple causes, the study found.
Carlson, a fish ecologist, and her UC Berkeley graduate students had observed such die-offs in their studies of fish in California streams and estuaries, originally piquing their interest in the topic.
"The catastrophic nature of sudden, mass die-offs of animal populations inherently captures human attention," said Carlson. "In our studies, we have come across mass kills of federal fish species during the summer drought season as small streams dry up. The majority of studies we reviewed were of fish. When oxygen levels are depressed in the water column, the impact can affect a variety of species."
The study found that the number of mass mortality events has been increasing by about one event per year over the 70 years the study covered.
"While this might not seem like much, one additional mass mortality event per year over 70 years translates into a considerable increase in the number of these events being reported each year," said study co-lead author Adam Siepielski, an assistant professor of biology at the University of San Diego. "Going from one event to 70 each year is a substantial increase, especially given the increased magnitudes of mass mortality events for some of these organisms.
This study suggests that in addition to monitoring physical changes such as changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, it is important to document the biological response to regional and global environmental change. The researchers highlighted ways to improve documentation of such events in the future, including the possible use of citizen science to record mass mortality events in real time.
"The initial patterns are a bit surprising, in terms of the documented changes to frequencies of occurrences, magnitudes of each event and the causes of mass mortality," said study co-lead author Samuel Fey, a postdoctoral fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale. "Yet these data show that we have a lot of room to improve how we document and study these types of rare events."
Funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation helped support this research.
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Samuel B. Fey, Adam M. Siepielski, Sébastien Nusslé, Kristina Cervantes-Yoshida, Jason L. Hwan, Eric R. Huber, Maxfield J. Fey, Alessandro Catenazzi, and Stephanie M. Carlson. Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414894112
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An analysis of 727 studies reveals that there have been more instances of rapid, catastrophic animal die-offs over the past 75 years. These mass kills appear to have hit birds, fish and marine invertebrates harder than other species.
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An analysis of 727 mass die-offs of nearly 2,500 animal species from the past 70 years has found that such events are increasing among birds, fish and marine invertebrates. At the same time, the number of individuals killed appears to be decreasing for reptiles and amphibians, and unchanged for mammals.
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Such mass mortality events occur when a large percentage of a population dies in a short time frame. While the die-offs are rare and fall short of extinction, they can pack a devastating punch, potentially killing more than 90 percent of a population in one shot. However, until this study, there had been no quantitative analysis of the patterns of mass mortality events among animals, the study authors noted.
"This is the first attempt to quantify patterns in the frequency, magnitude and cause of such mass kill events," said study senior author Stephanie Carlson, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.
The study, published Monday, Jan. 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by researchers at UC Berkeley, the University of San Diego and Yale University.
The researchers reviewed incidents of mass kills documented in scientific literature. Although they came across some sporadic studies dating back to the 1800s, the analysis focused on the period from 1940 to the present. The researchers acknowledged that some of their findings may be due to an increase in the reporting of mass die-offs in recent decades. But they noted that even after accounting for some of this reporting bias, there was still an increase in mass die-offs for certain animals.
Overall, disease was the primary culprit, accounting for 26 percent of the mass die-offs. Direct effects tied to humans, such as environmental contamination, caused 19 percent of the mass kills. Biotoxicity triggered by events such as algae blooms accounted for a significant proportion of deaths, and processes directly influenced by climate -- including weather extremes, thermal stress, oxygen stress or starvation -- collectively contributed to about 25 percent of mass mortality events.
The most severe events were those with multiple causes, the study found.
Carlson, a fish ecologist, and her UC Berkeley graduate students had observed such die-offs in their studies of fish in California streams and estuaries, originally piquing their interest in the topic.
"The catastrophic nature of sudden, mass die-offs of animal populations inherently captures human attention," said Carlson. "In our studies, we have come across mass kills of federal fish species during the summer drought season as small streams dry up. The majority of studies we reviewed were of fish. When oxygen levels are depressed in the water column, the impact can affect a variety of species."
The study found that the number of mass mortality events has been increasing by about one event per year over the 70 years the study covered.
"While this might not seem like much, one additional mass mortality event per year over 70 years translates into a considerable increase in the number of these events being reported each year," said study co-lead author Adam Siepielski, an assistant professor of biology at the University of San Diego. "Going from one event to 70 each year is a substantial increase, especially given the increased magnitudes of mass mortality events for some of these organisms.
This study suggests that in addition to monitoring physical changes such as changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, it is important to document the biological response to regional and global environmental change. The researchers highlighted ways to improve documentation of such events in the future, including the possible use of citizen science to record mass mortality events in real time.
"The initial patterns are a bit surprising, in terms of the documented changes to frequencies of occurrences, magnitudes of each event and the causes of mass mortality," said study co-lead author Samuel Fey, a postdoctoral fellow in ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale. "Yet these data show that we have a lot of room to improve how we document and study these types of rare events."
Funding from the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation helped support this research.
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Samuel B. Fey, Adam M. Siepielski, Sébastien Nusslé, Kristina Cervantes-Yoshida, Jason L. Hwan, Eric R. Huber, Maxfield J. Fey, Alessandro Catenazzi, and Stephanie M. Carlson. Recent shifts in the occurrence, cause, and magnitude of animal mass mortality events. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414894112
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Mark, buy some whiskey and enjoy. My gut feeling is the 70th anniversary of nuking Japan is going to be when Fukushima goes critical mass and spends a fiery shoot of explosive nuke stuff 50,000 feet into the air.
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We are on track for a 4 year anniversary-3-11-2015 highly visible, no longer able for the powers that be to deny what is really going on type of event.
http://enenews.com/huge-radiation-s...ctive-material-flowing-ocean-cesium-7500-week
Huge radiation spike detected at Fukushima plant — Multiple records set near workers trying to stop nuclear waste flowing into ocean — Cesium up 7,500% this week
Published: January 14th, 2015 at 4:02 pm ET
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Press Release, January 12, 2015 (Google Translation):
For pumping water groundwater observation hole No.1-12 taken on January 12, cesium 134, cesium 137, cobalt 60 and total beta value is higher as compared with the previous value, the maximum value previously is detected.
Cesium-134: 140 Bq/L [~7,500% above Jan. 5 level; new record high]
Cesium-137: 470 Bq/L [~7,500% above Jan. 5 level; new record high]
Cobalt-60: 1.9 Bq/L [Quadruple previous record high set in 2013]
β (all beta): 15,000 Bq/L [~6,000% above Jan. 8 level; ~1,300% above previous record high]
Note that observation hole No. 1-12 is near the Unit 2 trench which is filled with thousands of tons of highly radioactive water. Tepco is attempting to seal the trench, but has failed to do so. According to page 2 of Tepco’s presentation to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority on Dec. 26, 2014 the only part of the trench that has been blocked is right next to No. 1-12 (see map on right).
From Monday: Engineer: Outright failures continue to plague Fukushima plant -- "Public may think worst is over... Nothing could be further from the truth" -- Japan TV: New method failing to stop flow of highly contaminated water -- Experts: 'Diluting' radiation in ocean adds to danger; Spreading it out only makes health damages worse (VIDEO)
Published: January 14th, 2015 at 4:02 pm ET
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Huge radiation spike detected at Fukushima plant — Multiple records set near workers trying to stop nuclear waste flowing into ocean — Cesium up 7,500% this week
Published: January 14th, 2015 at 4:02 pm ET
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Tokyo Electric Power Company Press Release, January 12, 2015 (Google Translation):
For pumping water groundwater observation hole No.1-12 taken on January 12, cesium 134, cesium 137, cobalt 60 and total beta value is higher as compared with the previous value, the maximum value previously is detected.
Cesium-134: 140 Bq/L [~7,500% above Jan. 5 level; new record high]
Cesium-137: 470 Bq/L [~7,500% above Jan. 5 level; new record high]
Cobalt-60: 1.9 Bq/L [Quadruple previous record high set in 2013]
β (all beta): 15,000 Bq/L [~6,000% above Jan. 8 level; ~1,300% above previous record high]
Note that observation hole No. 1-12 is near the Unit 2 trench which is filled with thousands of tons of highly radioactive water. Tepco is attempting to seal the trench, but has failed to do so. According to page 2 of Tepco’s presentation to Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Authority on Dec. 26, 2014 the only part of the trench that has been blocked is right next to No. 1-12 (see map on right).
From Monday: Engineer: Outright failures continue to plague Fukushima plant -- "Public may think worst is over... Nothing could be further from the truth" -- Japan TV: New method failing to stop flow of highly contaminated water -- Experts: 'Diluting' radiation in ocean adds to danger; Spreading it out only makes health damages worse (VIDEO)
Published: January 14th, 2015 at 4:02 pm ET
By ENENews
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TEPCO racing against time to process 280,000 tons of tainted water at Fukushima plant
January 19, 2015
By TSUYOSHI NAGANO/ Staff Writer
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will likely fall short of fulfilling its pledge to process all highly radioactive water stored at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by the end of March.
Another key TEPCO deadline in March is also on shaky ground because of technical failures and other issues at the site.
Contaminated water has been a persistent problem since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, triggered the triple meltdown at the plant. Every day, tons of groundwater becomes highly radioactive after seeping into the basements of the reactor buildings where melted nuclear fuel remains.
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Fukushima site in September 2013, TEPCO promised to process all of the tainted water by the end of March this year to eliminate the possibility of radioactive water leaking into the surrounding sea.
On Jan. 15, 280,000 tons of radioactive water remained in storage tanks on the plant’s premises.
In spring 2013, TEPCO began running the multi-nuclide removal equipment called ALPS (advanced liquid processing system) to accelerate processing of the contaminated water. But several malfunctions in the system have prevented TEPCO from proceeding with its originally planned operations.
The company introduced additional ALPS systems last autumn to treat up to 1,960 tons of radioactive water a day. The maximum processing capability was still insufficient to complete procedures by the end of March 2015, so TEPCO later in autumn introduced equipment that only removes strontium, which accounts for a large portion of all radioactive substances in the water.
TEPCO has since been working to meet the target date by regarding strontium-free water as being “processed,” even if other radioactive substances remain.
The utility has argued that it will be able to process all of the contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant by the end of March by using the strontium-removal systems.
Under its latest plan, TEPCO will eliminate strontium from 1,800 tons of water daily with the help of an extra strontium-removal device that began operations on Jan. 10. Two additional strontium-removal systems are scheduled to be started by the end of this month to achieve that figure.
The utility intends to complete the tainted water purifying procedure as scheduled by simultaneously operating the ALPS systems at full capacity.
But even if TEPCO had started using both ALPS systems and the strontium-removal equipment to the full on Jan. 16, it would still not be easy for TEPCO to process all 280,000 tons of tainted water by the end of March, according to calculations.
In fact, the newly introduced ALPS equipment has also experienced a number of problems.
As of Jan. 18, both ALPS systems and the strontium-removal equipment had yet to start full operations.
TEPCO is under no legal obligation to keep its promise with Abe.
Although tons of radioactive water will likely remain at the site after the deadline, the water-purifying process will help to reduce radiation exposure of employees working around the storage tanks.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority in February last year ordered TEPCO to lower radiation levels derived from tanks storing contaminated water to below 1 millisievert by the end of March 2015.
Even after the highly contaminated water is processed, low-level radioactive water would remain on the premises.
And the problem of highly radioactive water generated every day at the plant will continue unless TEPCO’s plans to deal with the issue bear fruit.
The company has set another March deadline in resolving the problem of accumulated contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
The utility is proceeding with work to create an underground frozen wall of soil to divert clean groundwater away from the reactor buildings toward the ocean.
TEPCO aims to start freezing the soil around reactor buildings by March. But preparations have yet to be completed at some locations because of delays in the work schedule.
By TSUYOSHI NAGANO/ Staff Writer
TEPCO racing against time to process 280,000 tons of tainted water at Fukushima plant
January 19, 2015
By TSUYOSHI NAGANO/ Staff Writer
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will likely fall short of fulfilling its pledge to process all highly radioactive water stored at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant by the end of March.
Another key TEPCO deadline in March is also on shaky ground because of technical failures and other issues at the site.
Contaminated water has been a persistent problem since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, triggered the triple meltdown at the plant. Every day, tons of groundwater becomes highly radioactive after seeping into the basements of the reactor buildings where melted nuclear fuel remains.
When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Fukushima site in September 2013, TEPCO promised to process all of the tainted water by the end of March this year to eliminate the possibility of radioactive water leaking into the surrounding sea.
On Jan. 15, 280,000 tons of radioactive water remained in storage tanks on the plant’s premises.
In spring 2013, TEPCO began running the multi-nuclide removal equipment called ALPS (advanced liquid processing system) to accelerate processing of the contaminated water. But several malfunctions in the system have prevented TEPCO from proceeding with its originally planned operations.
The company introduced additional ALPS systems last autumn to treat up to 1,960 tons of radioactive water a day. The maximum processing capability was still insufficient to complete procedures by the end of March 2015, so TEPCO later in autumn introduced equipment that only removes strontium, which accounts for a large portion of all radioactive substances in the water.
TEPCO has since been working to meet the target date by regarding strontium-free water as being “processed,” even if other radioactive substances remain.
The utility has argued that it will be able to process all of the contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant by the end of March by using the strontium-removal systems.
Under its latest plan, TEPCO will eliminate strontium from 1,800 tons of water daily with the help of an extra strontium-removal device that began operations on Jan. 10. Two additional strontium-removal systems are scheduled to be started by the end of this month to achieve that figure.
The utility intends to complete the tainted water purifying procedure as scheduled by simultaneously operating the ALPS systems at full capacity.
But even if TEPCO had started using both ALPS systems and the strontium-removal equipment to the full on Jan. 16, it would still not be easy for TEPCO to process all 280,000 tons of tainted water by the end of March, according to calculations.
In fact, the newly introduced ALPS equipment has also experienced a number of problems.
As of Jan. 18, both ALPS systems and the strontium-removal equipment had yet to start full operations.
TEPCO is under no legal obligation to keep its promise with Abe.
Although tons of radioactive water will likely remain at the site after the deadline, the water-purifying process will help to reduce radiation exposure of employees working around the storage tanks.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority in February last year ordered TEPCO to lower radiation levels derived from tanks storing contaminated water to below 1 millisievert by the end of March 2015.
Even after the highly contaminated water is processed, low-level radioactive water would remain on the premises.
And the problem of highly radioactive water generated every day at the plant will continue unless TEPCO’s plans to deal with the issue bear fruit.
The company has set another March deadline in resolving the problem of accumulated contaminated water at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
The utility is proceeding with work to create an underground frozen wall of soil to divert clean groundwater away from the reactor buildings toward the ocean.
TEPCO aims to start freezing the soil around reactor buildings by March. But preparations have yet to be completed at some locations because of delays in the work schedule.
By TSUYOSHI NAGANO/ Staff Writer
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“The cleanup of Fukushima, if you compare it to Hanford, is on the same scale: tens of billions of dollars,” McCormick said. “And it’s going to take many decades to complete.”
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015/01/18/3520793_us-nuclear-cleanup-specialist.html?rh=1
TOKYO — Working in Japan and with his family still living in Richland, Wash., Matthew McCormick has one of the longest commutes in the world.
“I don’t make it very often, only when family calls or the lawn needs to be mowed, that kind of stuff,” he joked.
But McCormick, 55, wouldn’t have it any other way: After working at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state for 12 years, he’s helping to lead the cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which melted down in March 2011.
“It’s a personal commitment,” McCormick said in a recent interview at his office in Tokyo’s Shimbashi district. “When the accident happened, it was just a terrible thing. I had a personal connection with the people of Japan. And my heart just went out to them.”
McCormick, whose wife is half Japanese, spends most of his time at the Fukushima plant, “getting my fingernails dirty and actually handling equipment.”
With radiation levels still high, he wears anti-contamination clothing, covering all of his skin. He said he felt well-protected and had no fears for health or safety.
McCormick and his crew stay at a hotel an hour away, leaving each morning at 6 a.m., driving through an area that’s still evacuated.
“It’s kind of eerie. There’s no people around,” he said. “Houses are vacant. And you drive by. And your heart goes out to the people who were affected by the evacuation and had to leave their homes.”
It all strikes very close to home for McCormick.
His wife, Shirley Olinger, is the daughter of a Japanese woman who met and married an American serviceman in the 1950s.
When President Harry Truman bombed Japan in 1945, marking the end of World War II, it killed tens of thousands of people in Nagasaki, the city where McCormick’s mother-in-law was born.
Decades later, McCormick became a top U.S. official in charge of cleaning up the waste at Hanford, the site that produced the plutonium that destroyed Nagasaki. He headed one of the Department of Energy’s two management offices at Hanford.
McCormick retired last June, ending a 32-year career with the federal government.
“It was a good job and good work at Hanford, but it was just time to move on and see what else was in store for me,” he said.
It didn’t take long for McCormick to get an answer: He landed in Tokyo the very next month.
McCormick said he knew his life marked a full circle of sorts, having worked at nuclear sites in both the U.S. and Japan.
And it’s something he thinks about often.
“It’s gratifying and it’s motivating – very much so,” he said.
McCormick made his first trip to Japan in 2008 when he and his wife, who also worked as a manager at Hanford, went to Nagasaki to visit relatives and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.
He can’t speak Japanese, relying on an interpreter to do his work at Fukushima, but he said he quickly developed a love affair with Japan.
“I love the people and the culture and the food. You cannot find a bad restaurant in Japan,” McCormick said.
But it’s the work that drives him, using American technology to help the Japanese people deal with the catastrophe at Fukushima.
McCormick works for Kurion Inc., a company headquartered in Irvine, Calif., that focuses on managing nuclear and hazardous waste. The company built a mobile processing system that’s helping to remove radioactive strontium from 400,000 tons of contaminated water stored near the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
McCormick said the company was the only U.S. firm to win a contract from the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is overseeing the entire cleanup project.
Choosing to do the initial work in a nuclear-free environment, Kurion designed and built the treatment system in Washington state’s Tri-Cities area and shipped it to Japan on a cargo plane. It arrived in July and began operating in October, after a series of tests.
“Our contract was to build it in America, using American nuclear standards that are equivalent to the Japanese standards,” McCormick said.
As McCormick does his work, he’s avoiding the public debate over whether Japan should restart some of the 48 nuclear plants that were shut down after the Fukushima disaster.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his administration said it was safe to begin reopening the plants this year, as long as they met higher safety standards put in place as a result of the disaster.
But a recent poll found that most Japanese citizens want the plants to remain closed, fearing another catastrophe.
“We don’t even know the final disposal place of the Fukushima waste. We should discuss this after we decide where to dispose of the waste,” said Hatsuhiko Aoki, an artist from Gifu Prefecture.
Yoshitaka Mukohara, the president of a publishing company and the secretary-general of the Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network, said the Abe administration was acting irresponsibly.
“There are some places that are not decontaminated, but the government is sending people back,” Mukohara said. “What they are doing is acting like nothing ever happened.”
McCormick has no interest in weighing in on the controversy.
“It’s really a decision that the Japanese people have to make, in terms of how they get their energy,” McCormick said. “I’ve been focused on the cleanup.”
But McCormick said part of the work in Japan would involve building public support for the cleanup and convincing people that it was a long-term project.
It’s a skill he used at Hanford, lobbying Congress to include cleanup money in annual appropriation bills.
“The cleanup of Fukushima, if you compare it to Hanford, is on the same scale: tens of billions of dollars,” McCormick said. “And it’s going to take many decades to complete.”
(Hotakainen traveled to Japan in October as part of a reporting fellowship sponsored by the International Center for Journalists and funded by the U.S.-Japan Foundation. Email: rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter:
Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015...ar-cleanup-specialist.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
“The cleanup of Fukushima, if you compare it to Hanford, is on the same scale: tens of billions of dollars,” McCormick said. “And it’s going to take many decades to complete.”
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015/01/18/3520793_us-nuclear-cleanup-specialist.html?rh=1
TOKYO — Working in Japan and with his family still living in Richland, Wash., Matthew McCormick has one of the longest commutes in the world.
“I don’t make it very often, only when family calls or the lawn needs to be mowed, that kind of stuff,” he joked.
But McCormick, 55, wouldn’t have it any other way: After working at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state for 12 years, he’s helping to lead the cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which melted down in March 2011.
“It’s a personal commitment,” McCormick said in a recent interview at his office in Tokyo’s Shimbashi district. “When the accident happened, it was just a terrible thing. I had a personal connection with the people of Japan. And my heart just went out to them.”
McCormick, whose wife is half Japanese, spends most of his time at the Fukushima plant, “getting my fingernails dirty and actually handling equipment.”
With radiation levels still high, he wears anti-contamination clothing, covering all of his skin. He said he felt well-protected and had no fears for health or safety.
McCormick and his crew stay at a hotel an hour away, leaving each morning at 6 a.m., driving through an area that’s still evacuated.
“It’s kind of eerie. There’s no people around,” he said. “Houses are vacant. And you drive by. And your heart goes out to the people who were affected by the evacuation and had to leave their homes.”
It all strikes very close to home for McCormick.
His wife, Shirley Olinger, is the daughter of a Japanese woman who met and married an American serviceman in the 1950s.
When President Harry Truman bombed Japan in 1945, marking the end of World War II, it killed tens of thousands of people in Nagasaki, the city where McCormick’s mother-in-law was born.
Decades later, McCormick became a top U.S. official in charge of cleaning up the waste at Hanford, the site that produced the plutonium that destroyed Nagasaki. He headed one of the Department of Energy’s two management offices at Hanford.
McCormick retired last June, ending a 32-year career with the federal government.
“It was a good job and good work at Hanford, but it was just time to move on and see what else was in store for me,” he said.
It didn’t take long for McCormick to get an answer: He landed in Tokyo the very next month.
McCormick said he knew his life marked a full circle of sorts, having worked at nuclear sites in both the U.S. and Japan.
And it’s something he thinks about often.
“It’s gratifying and it’s motivating – very much so,” he said.
McCormick made his first trip to Japan in 2008 when he and his wife, who also worked as a manager at Hanford, went to Nagasaki to visit relatives and the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum.
He can’t speak Japanese, relying on an interpreter to do his work at Fukushima, but he said he quickly developed a love affair with Japan.
“I love the people and the culture and the food. You cannot find a bad restaurant in Japan,” McCormick said.
But it’s the work that drives him, using American technology to help the Japanese people deal with the catastrophe at Fukushima.
McCormick works for Kurion Inc., a company headquartered in Irvine, Calif., that focuses on managing nuclear and hazardous waste. The company built a mobile processing system that’s helping to remove radioactive strontium from 400,000 tons of contaminated water stored near the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
McCormick said the company was the only U.S. firm to win a contract from the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is overseeing the entire cleanup project.
Choosing to do the initial work in a nuclear-free environment, Kurion designed and built the treatment system in Washington state’s Tri-Cities area and shipped it to Japan on a cargo plane. It arrived in July and began operating in October, after a series of tests.
“Our contract was to build it in America, using American nuclear standards that are equivalent to the Japanese standards,” McCormick said.
As McCormick does his work, he’s avoiding the public debate over whether Japan should restart some of the 48 nuclear plants that were shut down after the Fukushima disaster.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his administration said it was safe to begin reopening the plants this year, as long as they met higher safety standards put in place as a result of the disaster.
But a recent poll found that most Japanese citizens want the plants to remain closed, fearing another catastrophe.
“We don’t even know the final disposal place of the Fukushima waste. We should discuss this after we decide where to dispose of the waste,” said Hatsuhiko Aoki, an artist from Gifu Prefecture.
Yoshitaka Mukohara, the president of a publishing company and the secretary-general of the Anti-Nuclear Kagoshima Network, said the Abe administration was acting irresponsibly.
“There are some places that are not decontaminated, but the government is sending people back,” Mukohara said. “What they are doing is acting like nothing ever happened.”
McCormick has no interest in weighing in on the controversy.
“It’s really a decision that the Japanese people have to make, in terms of how they get their energy,” McCormick said. “I’ve been focused on the cleanup.”
But McCormick said part of the work in Japan would involve building public support for the cleanup and convincing people that it was a long-term project.
It’s a skill he used at Hanford, lobbying Congress to include cleanup money in annual appropriation bills.
“The cleanup of Fukushima, if you compare it to Hanford, is on the same scale: tens of billions of dollars,” McCormick said. “And it’s going to take many decades to complete.”
(Hotakainen traveled to Japan in October as part of a reporting fellowship sponsored by the International Center for Journalists and funded by the U.S.-Japan Foundation. Email: rhotakainen@mcclatchydc.com; Twitter:
Read more here: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015...ar-cleanup-specialist.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
This right here is the truth of it. knowing that, we have to take fear out of the equation. Always remember this also
Psalm 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life; you stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
It is just time. If it weren't this time, then the world would be so full of evil not a Christian could be left in a very short amount of years. I don't believe I ever wanted to live in the end times, but I believe we do so IMO lets just believe in the word of God and chill on the fear thing. It does no good anyway.
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We normally buy farmed salmon fillets from a place on the west coast of BC. They ship it to a supplier here in Alberta. I asked the supplier that question. He ASSURED me they test the salmon through Canadian Government Regulations.... I thought about testing the fillets with the Nuk Alert (dont have one and cant afford the price - a nice to have) when picking up my salmon.... dont know what id tell the guy if the Nuk alert started to chirp like crazy... that would definately be interesting discussion.
Will be holding off for a bit. I let you know if the salmon guys stop shipping their salmon to Alberta.
From my understanding of it you can't use a NukAlert that way, to test for very low levels of radiation. The salmon would probably have to be practically glowing to set off a NukAlert. As far as I know it's designed to test for levels of radiation that pose a more immediate health threat. As in death or very serious effects within hours, days, or at most a month from exposure. The point of the NukAlert is to warn you that the environment itself is dangerous to stay in -- the more chirps, the faster you should be elsewhere (always remembering that it will also chirp at abrupt temperature changes). If you want to measure lower levels of radiation (like what would probably be found in fish from the Pacific near Fukushima) you need a more sensitive meter -- for example, the NukAlert-ER, the more sensitive CD meters, or something along those lines.
But if you have doubts that I might be wrong, Shane is always good in replying to questions about his products.
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A Nukealert is not nearly sensitive enough to detect the small amounts of Fukushima contamination found in most affected foodstuffs. You would need things like pancake tube Geiger counters, scintillators and computer interfaces with special data logging softeware to detect emission rates over time.
Tiny amounts of ionizing radiation can (and does) do damage over time in amounts which are difficult or impossible to detect with common hand-held devices. This is not to say that such devices are not worthwhile, but only to point out that they will miss a lot of potentially harmful material. As an example, a minute particle of dust could be contaminated with an even smaller amount of Plutonium 239 and float in the air of a room. The chances of detecting it with even a very sensitive detector would be remote, yet this particle, if inhaled and lodged in the lung, could easily be fatel. Additionally, virtually all foods are self-shielding when they contain alpha-emitting radioisotopes. In other words, the same hypothetical Pu-239 particle could be entrained in fish flesh and yet if it was only a millimeter or so beneath the animal's skin even the most sensitive handheld detectors would not find it. The animal's flesh itself would be shielding the alpha particles from detection.
Examples like this represent part of the frustration of dealing with radioactive contamination. There are various types of ionizing radiation energy which different types of detectors respond differently (or not at all) to. This is compounded by the fact that, as in my fish example, radioisotopes react differently in different types of contaminated materials.
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Doomer Doug
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The looming 4th anniversary of Fukushima, 3-11-2015, is allowing a tidal wave of very disturbing "something is very, very wrong, but we don't know what is causing it," type of stories to be seen on the Internet. A few are even starting to make it into the mainstream media, even though the systematic censorship, especially in Japan, is ongoing.
The primary cause of all this, the underlying cause, is radiation from Fukushima damaging immune systems that then results in various types of secondary symptoms and diseases. The "experts" then tell us "we don't know" when asked at the staggering amount of die offs, health issues among multiple species along the US West Coast.
We may very well have to wait until ALL life on the US West Coast is extinct before we get "official confirmation" of Fukushima. We are now FOUR YEARS INTO AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER THAT WILL GO ON IN PHASES FOR FORTY YEARS, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, AND THEN FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.
http://enenews.com/tv-like-scene-ho...y-serious-species-die-always-unsettling-video
The primary cause of all this, the underlying cause, is radiation from Fukushima damaging immune systems that then results in various types of secondary symptoms and diseases. The "experts" then tell us "we don't know" when asked at the staggering amount of die offs, health issues among multiple species along the US West Coast.
We may very well have to wait until ALL life on the US West Coast is extinct before we get "official confirmation" of Fukushima. We are now FOUR YEARS INTO AN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER THAT WILL GO ON IN PHASES FOR FORTY YEARS, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS, AND THEN FOUR THOUSAND YEARS.
http://enenews.com/tv-like-scene-ho...y-serious-species-die-always-unsettling-video
Good point. The Georgia Guidestones, though in the US, likely represent the thinking of the evil elite leaders in all nations of the world, who are trying to wipe out the citizens in any countries they can.
Doomer Doug
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My gut is still saying we are going to see a tidal wave of negative, truthful info about Fukushima as the 4th anniversary gets closer on March 11th, 2015.
http://enenews.com/study-fukushima-...licates-radiological-hazard-distances-overloo
tudy: Fukushima plume spread worldwide, far exceeding the hundreds of miles mentioned previously — 100 Quadrillion becquerels of Cs-137 released tops Chernobyl — “Implicates radiological hazard at distances otherwise overlooked”
Published: January 21st, 2015 at 12:17 pm ET
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (pdf), University of Florida College of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College, etc. (2014):
The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident is an example of a contemporary nuclear plant accident with serious implications.
The Fukushima NPP accident has had health implications due to the high levels of radiation released and vast area over which the radiation has disperse.
The significant radiation release, as likened to Chernobyl, reflects the context and severity of the Fukushima accident.
The level of 137Cs that was released is likened to Chernobyl levels, with 100,000 TBq released.
Radioactive plume dispersion occurs worldwide, far exceeding 300 miles previously mentioned. This should implicate radiological hazard at distances otherwise overlooked.
Potassium Iodide Distribution
Radioactive plumes from the Chernobyl accident containing 131I caused benign and malignant thyroid nodules to develop, especially in children within a 310 miles radius of the incident.
The current recommendation is for KI [potassium iodide] availability to people 200 miles from a NPP. Plume radii for nuclear events have been shown to exceed 300 [miles]. Extension of KI availability to 300 miles only further underscores the inadequacy of current preparedness plans.
In regard to KI prophylaxis, TEPCO utilized 17,500 KI tablets for 2,000 onsite workers… with one individual receiving and taking 85 tablets.
Radiological plumes containing 131I cause benign and malignant thyroid nodules to develop within a 300 mile radius… This necessitates KI pre-distribution to all schools, hospitals and other of-interest sites extending 300 miles from any nuclear reactor. Evacuation or sequestering is impossible in congested urban areas… There is currently virtually no compliance with [the] 20 miles radius KI pre-distribution law, section 127 of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. In fact, there is little compliance with the 10 miles Ki pre-distribution radius law in the United States.
Japan did not utilize KI for prophylaxis of the general public, acknowledging it was not prepared to act accordingly.
See also:
Study: Daily release from Fukushima of 100+ Quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 early on in crisis “seems reasonable” — Chernobyl total release was ~70 Quadrillion Bq of cs-137
Canadian officials estimated Fukushima cesium-137 release almost double Chernobyl -- Based on the "most conservative and credible" projections
EU-funded Research: Fukushima atmospheric release of 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 used as upper bound in simulation -- Chernobyl estimated at 70 to 85 quadrillion
Marine Chemist in Jan. 2014: Latest numbers I have are Fukushima has released 80 Quadrillion Bq of cesium-137 (Chernobyl estimated at 70 Quadrillion) -- "The radioactive plume itself has actually arrived... it’s already here" on west coast of N. America (AUDIO)
Gov't Report: Fukushima released up to 181 Quadrillion Bq of cesium, Chernobyl was 105 Quadrillion -- Radioactive material to flow from Japan "for years to come" -- Fukushima radionuclides have now spread "throughout N. Pacific"
http://enenews.com/study-fukushima-...licates-radiological-hazard-distances-overloo
tudy: Fukushima plume spread worldwide, far exceeding the hundreds of miles mentioned previously — 100 Quadrillion becquerels of Cs-137 released tops Chernobyl — “Implicates radiological hazard at distances otherwise overlooked”
Published: January 21st, 2015 at 12:17 pm ET
By ENENews
Email Article Email Article
151 comments
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (pdf), University of Florida College of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College, etc. (2014):
The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident is an example of a contemporary nuclear plant accident with serious implications.
The Fukushima NPP accident has had health implications due to the high levels of radiation released and vast area over which the radiation has disperse.
The significant radiation release, as likened to Chernobyl, reflects the context and severity of the Fukushima accident.
The level of 137Cs that was released is likened to Chernobyl levels, with 100,000 TBq released.
Radioactive plume dispersion occurs worldwide, far exceeding 300 miles previously mentioned. This should implicate radiological hazard at distances otherwise overlooked.
Potassium Iodide Distribution
Radioactive plumes from the Chernobyl accident containing 131I caused benign and malignant thyroid nodules to develop, especially in children within a 310 miles radius of the incident.
The current recommendation is for KI [potassium iodide] availability to people 200 miles from a NPP. Plume radii for nuclear events have been shown to exceed 300 [miles]. Extension of KI availability to 300 miles only further underscores the inadequacy of current preparedness plans.
In regard to KI prophylaxis, TEPCO utilized 17,500 KI tablets for 2,000 onsite workers… with one individual receiving and taking 85 tablets.
Radiological plumes containing 131I cause benign and malignant thyroid nodules to develop within a 300 mile radius… This necessitates KI pre-distribution to all schools, hospitals and other of-interest sites extending 300 miles from any nuclear reactor. Evacuation or sequestering is impossible in congested urban areas… There is currently virtually no compliance with [the] 20 miles radius KI pre-distribution law, section 127 of the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. In fact, there is little compliance with the 10 miles Ki pre-distribution radius law in the United States.
Japan did not utilize KI for prophylaxis of the general public, acknowledging it was not prepared to act accordingly.
See also:
Study: Daily release from Fukushima of 100+ Quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 early on in crisis “seems reasonable” — Chernobyl total release was ~70 Quadrillion Bq of cs-137
Canadian officials estimated Fukushima cesium-137 release almost double Chernobyl -- Based on the "most conservative and credible" projections
EU-funded Research: Fukushima atmospheric release of 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 used as upper bound in simulation -- Chernobyl estimated at 70 to 85 quadrillion
Marine Chemist in Jan. 2014: Latest numbers I have are Fukushima has released 80 Quadrillion Bq of cesium-137 (Chernobyl estimated at 70 Quadrillion) -- "The radioactive plume itself has actually arrived... it’s already here" on west coast of N. America (AUDIO)
Gov't Report: Fukushima released up to 181 Quadrillion Bq of cesium, Chernobyl was 105 Quadrillion -- Radioactive material to flow from Japan "for years to come" -- Fukushima radionuclides have now spread "throughout N. Pacific"
Doomer Doug
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I want whatever drugs they are using!
Seriously, the "plan" is to dump all the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean?
Sheesh, I mean just Sheesh.
http://enenews.com/tv-govt-approves...move-all-hundreds-radioactive-materials-video
TV: Gov’t approves plan to ‘drain’ Fukushima nuclear waste into ocean — Professor: Monitoring necessary to detect ‘worrisome signals’ — Expert: “It’s completely unsafe… impossible to remove 100s of radioactive materials” — 1,200 radionuclides, only 62 reduced — Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco” (VIDEO)
Published: January 21st, 2015 at 10:43 pm ET
By ENENews
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NHK, Jan 21, 2015 (emphasis added): Regulators approve Fukushima wastewater drainage — Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved a plan by [TEPCO] to drain filtered wastewater from the firm’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea… The firm also plans to reduce the level of radioactive material in the water before releasing it into the nearby Pacific. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority approved TEPCO’s plan to install drainpipes and a pumping system and to reduce the level of radioactive cesium-137 to less than one becquerel per liter.
NHK Transcript, Jan 21, 2015: Japanese regulators have approved a controversial plan by [TEPCO]. They say TEPCO officials can flush filtered waste water into the ocean… Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco… If they proceed with their plan the situation will surely go back to how it was before. I’m worried the government and Tepco will act to suit themselves.”
Wall St Journal, Jan 21, 2015: Japan’s nuclear regulator has officially called on [Tepco] to work toward discharging low-level contaminated water… just two days after a worker fell into [a tank] used to store contaminated water… Tepco is using a processing system [that] is unable to take out the tritium [and] is reluctant to release it into the ocean to avoid… criticism from neighboring countries and some nations with a Pacific Ocean coastline… there is no detailed study about tritium’s long-time effect on animal genes. Mamoru Takata, a Kyoto University professor and expert on radiation’s long-term effects, said monitoring would be necessary to detect any worrisome signals.
TEPCO: [ALPS] is designed to remove most remaining radioactive contaminants
TEPCO (pdf): (ALPS) — Removal capacity: Reduce 62 nuclides below the density limit
Asahi Shimbun in Jan. 2012: “To prevent a further contamination of the sea [Tepco] plans to remove about 1,000 kinds of radioactive materials from water”
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (pdf), Feb 2014: TOPICS Fukushima — [W]e carried out detailed calculations… for 1,200 radionuclides, and the results were incorporated into a database.
Dr. Gordon Edwards, court-certified nuclear expert, Aug 8, 2014 (50:00 in): It can’t be dumped into the ocean, because it’s completely unsafe because of these fission products. They have built over 1,000 large tanks, huge tanks… that contain this very, very radioactively contaminated water. At the moment they’re trying to filter out these fission products… It’s impossible for them to remove all those hundreds of radioactive materials. They know how to remove about 62 of them, but there’s other ones that they cannot.
Watch NHK’s broadcast here
Seriously, the "plan" is to dump all the radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean?
Sheesh, I mean just Sheesh.
http://enenews.com/tv-govt-approves...move-all-hundreds-radioactive-materials-video
TV: Gov’t approves plan to ‘drain’ Fukushima nuclear waste into ocean — Professor: Monitoring necessary to detect ‘worrisome signals’ — Expert: “It’s completely unsafe… impossible to remove 100s of radioactive materials” — 1,200 radionuclides, only 62 reduced — Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco” (VIDEO)
Published: January 21st, 2015 at 10:43 pm ET
By ENENews
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225 comments
NHK, Jan 21, 2015 (emphasis added): Regulators approve Fukushima wastewater drainage — Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved a plan by [TEPCO] to drain filtered wastewater from the firm’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea… The firm also plans to reduce the level of radioactive material in the water before releasing it into the nearby Pacific. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority approved TEPCO’s plan to install drainpipes and a pumping system and to reduce the level of radioactive cesium-137 to less than one becquerel per liter.
NHK Transcript, Jan 21, 2015: Japanese regulators have approved a controversial plan by [TEPCO]. They say TEPCO officials can flush filtered waste water into the ocean… Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco… If they proceed with their plan the situation will surely go back to how it was before. I’m worried the government and Tepco will act to suit themselves.”
Wall St Journal, Jan 21, 2015: Japan’s nuclear regulator has officially called on [Tepco] to work toward discharging low-level contaminated water… just two days after a worker fell into [a tank] used to store contaminated water… Tepco is using a processing system [that] is unable to take out the tritium [and] is reluctant to release it into the ocean to avoid… criticism from neighboring countries and some nations with a Pacific Ocean coastline… there is no detailed study about tritium’s long-time effect on animal genes. Mamoru Takata, a Kyoto University professor and expert on radiation’s long-term effects, said monitoring would be necessary to detect any worrisome signals.
TEPCO: [ALPS] is designed to remove most remaining radioactive contaminants
TEPCO (pdf): (ALPS) — Removal capacity: Reduce 62 nuclides below the density limit
Asahi Shimbun in Jan. 2012: “To prevent a further contamination of the sea [Tepco] plans to remove about 1,000 kinds of radioactive materials from water”
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (pdf), Feb 2014: TOPICS Fukushima — [W]e carried out detailed calculations… for 1,200 radionuclides, and the results were incorporated into a database.
Dr. Gordon Edwards, court-certified nuclear expert, Aug 8, 2014 (50:00 in): It can’t be dumped into the ocean, because it’s completely unsafe because of these fission products. They have built over 1,000 large tanks, huge tanks… that contain this very, very radioactively contaminated water. At the moment they’re trying to filter out these fission products… It’s impossible for them to remove all those hundreds of radioactive materials. They know how to remove about 62 of them, but there’s other ones that they cannot.
Watch NHK’s broadcast here
Doomer Doug
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http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/01/...etected-jacopever-inner-fukushima-plant-port/
from Jacopever inner Fukushima plant port
Large mammals die in rapid succession in Ueno Zoological Gardens from tumor, heart failure etc..
Significant size of thyroid nodule / cyst found from citizen in Matsudo city
129 dead tunas found to have broken spine / Experts “can be caused by stress and mass hysteria”
Meteorological Agency “Eruptive activity is becoming intense at Mount Aso. Volcanic tremor continues 24h/day”
Over 80% of Tuna died since December in a major Tokyo aquarium
223,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from Jacopever inner Fukushima plant port
January 21, 2015
On 1/20/2015, Tepco announced they detected 223,000 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 from Jacopever fished inner Fukushima plant port.
The sampling date was 12/18/2014. Other nuclides are not tested.
Soon it’s going to be 4 years since 311 took place, however contamination level still remains high among marine creatures and also Tepco’s ill nature to try to downplay the actual contamination hasn’t been changed at all.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/fish01_150120-j.pdf
Iori Mochizuki
from Jacopever inner Fukushima plant port
Large mammals die in rapid succession in Ueno Zoological Gardens from tumor, heart failure etc..
Significant size of thyroid nodule / cyst found from citizen in Matsudo city
129 dead tunas found to have broken spine / Experts “can be caused by stress and mass hysteria”
Meteorological Agency “Eruptive activity is becoming intense at Mount Aso. Volcanic tremor continues 24h/day”
Over 80% of Tuna died since December in a major Tokyo aquarium
223,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from Jacopever inner Fukushima plant port
January 21, 2015
On 1/20/2015, Tepco announced they detected 223,000 Bq/Kg of Cesium-134/137 from Jacopever fished inner Fukushima plant port.
The sampling date was 12/18/2014. Other nuclides are not tested.
Soon it’s going to be 4 years since 311 took place, however contamination level still remains high among marine creatures and also Tepco’s ill nature to try to downplay the actual contamination hasn’t been changed at all.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2015/images/fish01_150120-j.pdf
Iori Mochizuki