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  1. #291
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    Pumping of Fukushima Groundwater Begins

    April 9, 2014


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    from NHK World / April 8, 2014 / The government and Tokyo Electric Power Company will begin pumping up groundwater at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday. The water is expected to be released into the sea next month.
    This will mark the start of one of several key measures to reduce the increasing volume of radiation-contaminated water at the facility.
    According to the plan, clean groundwater that flows from the mountains near the plant will be pumped up before it can mix with highly contaminated water in the basements of the reactor buildings. The groundwater will then be released into the ocean.
    The government and TEPCO decided to move ahead with the operation after fishery cooperatives in Fukushima Prefecture consented to the project on Friday.
    The fishermen gave their approval on condition that the released groundwater meets strict environmental safety standards. They also require a third party to be involved in the inspection and discharge process.
    TEPCO says it will take about one month to analyze the groundwater quality in detail. If there are no problems, it will begin releasing the water into the sea in May.
    The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations says decisions on whether to allow the groundwater discharge can be made only after stringent analysis of its radiation levels.
    http://fukushimaupdate.com/pumping-o...dwater-begins/

  2. #292
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    #Fukushima: Massive Leaks and Radioactive Fallout Continuing On a Daily Basis…For Years On End


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    via Washington’s Blog
    Is Fukushima Leaking … Or Are the the Reactors Wholly Uncontained?
    You may have heard that TEPCO – the operator of the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plants – announced a large leak of radioactive water. You may have heard that the cooling system in the spent fuel pools at Fukushima has failed for a second time in a month.
    This is newsworthy stuff … but completely misses the big picture. Japanese experts say that Fukushima is currently releasing up to 93 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium into the ocean each day. How much radiation is this?
    A quick calculation shows that it is about ten thousand times less than the amounts released by Chernobyl during the actual fire at the Russian nuclear plant. But the Chernobyl fire only last 10 days … and the Fukushima release has been ongoing for more than 2 years so far.
    Indeed, Fukushima has already spewed much more radioactive cesium and iodine than Chernobyl. The amount of radioactive cesium released by Fukushima was some 20-30 times higher than initially admitted.
    Fukushima also pumped out huge amounts of radioactive iodine 129 – which has a half-life of 15.7 million years. Fukushima has also dumped up to 900 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium-90 – which is a powerful internal emitter which mimics calcium and collects in our bones – into the ocean. And the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl … and so could keep leaking for decades, centuries or millenia.
    TEPCO graphics of the Fukushima plants even appear to show water directly flowing from the plant to the ocean. See this and this.
    The bottom line is that the reactors have lost containment. There are not “some leaks” at Fukushima. “Leaks” imply that the reactor cores are safely in their containment buildings, and there is a small hole or two which need to be plugged. But scientists don’t even know where the cores of the reactors are. That’s not leaking. That’s even worse than a total meltdown.
    So what are the consequences for people living outside of Fukushima itself?
    http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-massive-leaks-and-radioactive-...

  3. #293
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    Gov’t model shows airborne radioactive plume covering entire west coast of US & Canada on Mar 22, 2011… 10 times more radioactive than plume coming from Fukushima plant on same day — Radiation levels in plume had no discernible decrease afer crossing entire Pacific (VIDEO)

    Published: April 8th, 2014 at 8:16 am ET
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    Fukushima Radioactive Aerosol Dispersion, NOAA: The [HYSPLIT] model was developed by NOAA to follow the transport and dispersion of pollutants in the atmosphere. In HYSPLIT, the computation is composed of four components: transport by the mean wind, turbulent dispersion, scavenging and decay. A large number of pollutant particles, which by convention are called “particles” but are just computational “points” (particles or gases), are released at the source location and passively follow the wind. [...] March 11th [...] by 16:36 a nuclear emergency was reported. By the early morning hours of March 12th, radioactive emissions were occurring [...] the simulation from NOAA’s HYSPLIT model shows a continuous release of tracer particles from 12-31 March at a rate of 100 per hour representing the Cesium-137 emitted from Fukushima Daiichi. Each change in particle color represents a decrease in radioactivity by a factor of 10.
    Notable Features

    • Particles with the highest radioactivity were released around March 15th [See also: UN: Fukushima Unit 2 reactor “burst” on March 15th after fuel melte...]
    • Particles caught in clockwise circulations are embedded in fair weather high pressure systems and their radioactivity will persist for longer periods
    • In general, radioactivity reaching the United States showed air concentrations over 1000 times smaller than areas near Japan

    The March 22, 2011 NOAA model (above right) shows the West Coast of US and Canada covered in red particles, while the Fukushima site — and all of Japan — are under orange particles. According to the NOAA above a “change in particle color represents a decrease in radioactivity by a factor of 10
    Watch NOAA’s Fukushima airborne plume simulation here
    http://enenews.com/govt-model-shows-radioactive-plume-entire-west-c...

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    National Geographic: Fukushima considered world’s worst nuclear accident — Physician: Fukushima remains a “global health concern” — Kaku: “It’s so bad, they don’t even have a picture of melted core… the agony is unending” (VIDEO)


    Published: April 14th, 2014 at 3:06 pm ET
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    Asian Perspective Vol. 37, No. 4, Tilman A. Ruff, physician and Associate Professor in the Nossal Institute for Global Health at University of Melbourne, Oct.-Dec. 2013: A Public Health Perspective on the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster — The Fukushima nuclear disaster is far from over and remains a global health concern. While evacuations, sheltering, reducing intake of contaminated food, and other measures reduced radiation exposures, both the immediate and longer-term public health responses to the disaster leave major room for improvement. Commercially and institutionally, vested interests have undermined public health and safety. [...]
    National Geographic, Apr. 14, 2014: The meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986 made front-page news and, until Japan’s Fukushima disaster of 2011, was considered the world’s worst nuclear accident. [...] Early estimates by the Associated Press (Dec. 16, 2000) were that the health of 3.4 million of Ukraine’s 50 million people was negatively affected, including 1.26 million children [...]
    Michio Kaku, Mar. 18, 2014 (at 1:18:00 in): The agony of 3 simultaneous meltdowns in Northern Japan […] The accident is not over at all. A small earthquake will send the accident starting all over again. You will realize that the reactor is so radioactive workers cannot even get in for more than just a few minutes at a time. […] The next thing they want to do is insert cameras into the water to see where the melting is. It’s so bad, they don’t even have a picture of the melted core. We know it’s 100 percent melted. […] The agony is unending. […] Japan said we will go nuclear because we have no oil or coal, but there is a price you have to pay — that is, you sell your soul to the devil.
    Watch the discussion here

    http://enenews.com/national-geograph...unending-video

  6. #296
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    Senior Scientist: Cancer increase expected on West Coast from Fukushima exposures; Radioactive particles can bio-accumulate and form hotspots while crossing Pacific — KCRW: Concern California wildlife to be impacted; Sea life can biomagnify nuclear waste, leading to higher levels of radiation (AUDIO)

    Published: April 14th, 2014 at 11:55 am ET
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    NPR affiliate KQED, Mar. 10, 2014 (at 41:00 in):

    • Question: There’s really no evidence that any of this radiation is going to cause additional sickness, cancers, etc. [...] Do we really expect any additional cancers in California?
    • Michael Krasny, host: It’s a question we don’t necessarily have an answer to.
    • Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists’ senior scientist: Well, we do have an answer. The connection between ionizing radiation exposure and increased cancer risk is very well established. We do know that because the accident deposited radioactivity into the environment that wasn’t there before, that it’s going to cause additional radiation doses to people, that will be associated with additional disease. Now the question is, whether that will be a strong enough signal that an epidemiological study will be able to detect and prove causation. That’s a different issue, sometimes people tend to confuse the two. They think if it can’t be detected it’s not there. But simply extrapolating from first principles — there’s radiation in the environment that wasn’t there before, people are exposed, that will cause additional disease. [...] This is a problem, because of the heterogeneous nature of the way these isotopes travel and are bio-accumulated, there are potential hotspots.
    • Full broadcast available here

    KCRW 89.9 FM Los Angeles, Mar. 10, 2014 (at 25:00 in):

    • Warren Olney, host: How concerned are they that there’s going to be health effects?
    • Benjamin Gottlieb, producer: There’s a consensus among scientists and health professionals that the radiation from Fukushima really won’t pose a health risk [...] There is concern this might impact our wildlife. I asked Prof. Steven Manley what he thought [...]
    • Manley: The anticipated amounts [...] are not considered to be human health risks. But, I think it’s important to know actually what is in our environment, how much is there — first of all, to verify that there’s not harmful amounts there — but also so that we know that things that happen thousands of miles away can end up on our doorstep [...] the fact that its entered into the ecosystem should be cause for concern. [...]
    • Gottlieb: There’s a process called biological magnification and that’s a process in which dissolved substance in something like kelp is passed up the food chain. As you know, sea urchins eat the kelp — and our lovely sea otters, they eat the sea urchins. So there’s a concern that by this process, there could be a higher level of radiation in the sea life.
    • Full broadcast available here


    http://enenews.com/scientist-cancer-...wildlife-to-be

  7. #297
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    Vancouver Sun: Scientitsts concerned dolphins on west coast to be negatively impacted by Fukushima nuclear waste — Radiation levels to be increasing for years to come along coast — Canadian gov’t sampling for Iodine-129 in Pacific


    Published: April 15th, 2014 at 2:20 pm ET
    By ENENews

    Mission 2013-17 CCGS J P Tully (pdf), Sampling – Rick Nelson of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, June 6 to 25, 2013: Cs-137 and I -129 Sampling [...] large amounts of Cs-137 and other radionuclides [discharged] directly to the Western North Pacific ocean during the months following the [Fukushima] accident. The radioactivity plume was transported northeastward under the influence of the Kuroshio current and was expected to approach the Canadian coastline several years after the accident. A Canadian monitoring program was established to detect the arrival of Fukushima radioactivity in the water columns of the eastern North Pacific and the Arctic oceans. Water samples were collected at stations occupied on the “Line P” missions on the CCGS J P Tully in June of 2011, 2012 and this year 2013.
    Vancouver Sun, April 12, 2014: Sometime in the next few weeks highly diluted, low-level radiation from the Japanese nuclear disaster is expected to reach West Coast shores [...] All along the Pacific coast of North America and as far south as Costa Rica, people with little or no scientific background have volunteered to raise money for the program and collect the sea water samples needed to test for radiation. [...] Cesium levels will increase gradually over the next two or three years as the radioactive plume moves east toward the West Coast [...] cesium-134 and cesium-137 don’t accumulate in fish and animals and become more concentrated up the food chain.*** [...] There is some concern, however, on the impact it could have on orcas [killer whales, the largest of the dolphins] on the coast because of the large amount of food they consume daily. [Ken Buesseler of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution] is concerned about one recent development at Fukushima. Initially in 2011, the amount of strontium-90 was a fiftieth that of cesium. But recently that changed to a one-to-one relationship [...] While strontium isn’t being tested for in the Woods Hole crowdsourcing program, all the sea water samples will be stored in a warehouse in case Buesseler does get funding in future to test them for strontium-90.
    *** Many government researchers have published information directly contradicting the Vancouver Sun reporter’s claim:

    • The French Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety Institute, April 20, 2011: “In the case of caesium, the concentration factors vary from 50 for molluscs and seaweed to 400 for fish. [...] These accumulation phenomena are ample justification for the establishment of radiological monitoring programmes.”
    • Even the banana-comparing Stony Brook University study got this part correctEnvironmental Science & Technology, 2013: “137Cs and 134Cs in [Pacific blue fin tuna has] a dry wt concentration factor in PBFT muscle of 1000, and a wet wt concentration factor of 244, somewhat higher than the value of 100 calculated for generic marine fish.”

    http://enenews.com/vancouver-sun-sci...anadian-govt-s

  8. #298
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    Interview: Navy sailor’s skin inflamed while carrying American flag exposed to Fukushima plume — “Whole left side” of body affected — “They immediately stripped clothes off, hosed him down… it became an extreme emergency” (AUDIO)

    Published: April 15th, 2014 at 1:07 am ET
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    Interview with Charles Bonner, attorney for sickened USS Reagan sailors exposed to Fukushima releases, Linda Moulton Howe’s EarthFiles, Mar. 27, 2014:
    Transcript excerpt starting at 2m 30s in

    • One sailor had been told to go up to the top of the ship and take down the American flag. He went and took the American flag down and folded it up in the triangle way they usually folded up the flag, and put it under his arm, and went all the way down to the bottom of the ship to store it. By the time he reached the bottom of the ship, his whole left side where the flag was had become inflamed. They immediately stripped his clothes off, hosed him down, washed him down with soap. He is naked there in front of all the sailors, men and women, because it became an extreme emergency. Then 17 other sailors were immediately scrubbed down.
    • He had to be discharged, he and his wife — he had ended up marrying a young lady on the ship — they both had to be discharged for medical reasons. She developed major leukemias, uterine cancers, uncontrolled uterine bleeding. And they both received a medical discharge.

    Full interview available here (mp3)

    http://enenews.com/interview-navy-sa...sed-him-down-i

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    It is sad about the sailor and even sadder that many more will suffer due to this ongoing crisis.

  10. #300
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    Quote Originally Posted by AmericanEagle View Post
    It is sad about the sailor and even sadder that many more will suffer due to this ongoing crisis.
    I agree AE the suffering definitely is not over.

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