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US gov’t analysis says Fukushima is more serious than ‘China Syndrome’ — Destroyed reactors suffered worst type of containment failure (PHOTOS)

Published: October 8th, 2014 at 8:35 am ET By ENENews Email Article 160 comments

US Department of Energy, September 2013 (emphasis added): A severe earthquake and tsunami… caused significant damages on the reactors in Fukushima… [including] containment damage… and intensive radioactivity release… This paper reviews and compares a typical BWR SPAR Level 2 model with [what] occurred in Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3. It shows that the SPAR Level 2 model… could very reasonably describe the accident progression for a real and complicated nuclear accident… SPAR Level 2 model predicts that the containment integrity of Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3 would be compromised by overpressure failure prior to or at core damage, which would be further impaired by drywell shell melt-through after vessel failure… The fission product release categories of Daiichi Units 1 to 3 are all classified as large early release in SPAR model… This work was sponsored by the NRC…
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Early Releases (pdf): Generally, the most severe [containment] failure modes are ones that occur early in time (before or during reactor vessel failure) so that there is little settling or other retention of radionuclides in the containment… ruptures are more likely to lead to severe consequences… [T]he worst failures are failures that occur early and allow rapid, unscrubbed transit of radionuclides out of the containment…
NRC on Containment Failure Due to Drywell Shell Melt-through (pdf): There are two basic types of meltthrough to consider. First is the possibility of basemat meltthrough (the China Syndrome)… This failure mode is not generally catastrophic, because of the long time available for emergency response actions and the possibility of some retention in the soil. The second type of meltthrough is most applicable to Mark I BWR containments [All 3 Fukushima reactors used Mark I boiling water reactor containments]. In this case, molten material can exit the area beneath the reactor and flow across the floor, directly contacting the steel liner and causing it to fail. This type of failure… can happen much more quickly than basemat meltthrough and can lead to more serious consequences… A phenomenon of importance primarily for Mark I BWRs is shell (liner) meltthrough… The Mark I drywell floor area is small and the drywell shell is within ten feet of the pedestal doorway…
NRC on Containment Failure Due to Overpressure (pdf): Overpressure can theoretically lead to either leakage or large rupture… Steel containments are susceptible to rupture [if] the containment continues to pressurize. Given sufficient pressure, a crack in a steel containment can propagate catastrophically… a large rupture of the containment can lead to rapid transport of radionuclides to the environment with minimal retention.
NRC on Mark I BWR Containment Failure (pdf): [I]n general, Mark I containments are more likely to fail during a severe accident… However, the ranges of predicted failure probabilities are quite high for all BWR containment designs… BWR containment groups found a significant probability of early or late structural failure, given core damage.
See also: French Nuclear Experts: Did corium pierce steel liners of Fukushima reactors? How deep did it erode concrete? (VIDEO)

Published: October 8th, 2014 at 8:35 am ET

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Professors: Fukushima has emerged as global threat — Major health concerns along west coast — Bioaccumulation expected to keep rising for decades — Gov’t failing to inform public of looming long-term radioactive hazard… Instead, official gives tips on how to disguise radiation levels from public (PHOTO)

Published: October 8th, 2014 at 7:56 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 234 comments

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) 35th Annual Meeting — The Fukushima Legacy, Nov. 13, 2014: In the face of lack of knowledge and data from regional governments regarding potential risks of Fukushima-associated radiation in the Pacific Northwest [there's a] need to conduct lines of research and monitoring aimed to understand baseline data and bioaccumulation potential of radionuclides and radiation risks… Fukushima… emerged as a global threat for the conservation of the Pacific Ocean, human health, and marine biodiversity… Despite the looming threat of radiation [there's a] lack of radiation monitoring [in] Canada and United States. This is unfortunate, as the potential radioactive contamination of seafoods through bioaccumulation of radioisotopes in marine and coastal food webs are issues of major concern for the public health of coastal communities. Particularly vulnerable are First Nations that rely strongly on… seafoods and fish… The effects of radioactive contamination are likely to affect other top predators, including fish-eating marine mammals inhabiting offshore and coastal habitats of the region… concerns and questions remain about the long-term exposure and bioaccumulation of radioactivity in marine food webs…
SETAC — Prof. J. Alava and F.A. Gobas, Simon Fraser Univ., Nov. 13, 2014: [T]o track the long term fate and bioaccumulation of 137Cs in marine organisms… we assessed the bioaccumulation potential of 137Cs in a North West Pacific food-web… [Specifically, the] marine mammalian food web… outcomes showed that 137Cs can be expected to bioaccumulate gradually… [The] magnification factor for 137Cs [was] from 5.0 at 365 days of simulation to 30 at 10,950 days. From 1 year to 30 years of simulation, the 137Cs activities predicted in the male killer whale were 6.0 to 182 times 137Cs activities in its major prey [Chinook salmon]… This modeling work showed that in addition to the ocean dilution of 137Cs, a magnification of this radionuclide takes place in the marine food web over time.
SETAC — Dr. Erica Frank, Univ. of British Columbia, Nov. 13, 2014: [Fukushima Daiichi is causing] ongoing radioactive contamination of coastal waters, and eventually the Pacific Ocean. This has spurred worldwide concern around conservation of marine plants… animals [and] human health… [The] accident has important implications for public and environmental health policy in North America… there is the lingering question of the effects of long-term exposure, bioaccumulation of 137Cs in marine food webs, and potential health effects on human populations. Despite all of these concerns, there is currently a paucity of [gov't] monitoring…
Ali Hamade, Alaska’s Environmental Public Health Program Director (pdf), 2014:

• p.15: Possible Consequences of Misinformation on Radiation — Not eating healthful… foods; Losses [of] jobs, money; Undue stress
• p.16: Data..delivers WRONG message
• p.17: Same data with public health concern reference level…delivers RIGHT message especially after seeing first graph.. and this… flattens to.. This!
• Note: Some text is hidden on p. 16-17. Try ‘select all’ then copy & paste.

See also: Seafood off west coast predicted to exceed gov’t radioactivity limit — High priority threat to global ocean from Fukushima

Published: October 8th, 2014 at 7:56 pm ET By ENENews

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Gov’t failing to inform public of looming long-term radioactive hazard… Instead, official gives tips on how to disguise radiation levels from public

Wow... no big surprise here and there are lots of useful idiots who will parrot the governments mis information.....unfortunately.....my Granddad said there is a fool born every minute and I tend to believe him...

PBS: Plague along West Coast has biologists fearing extinction of species — Experts: Take your kids to beach and see them before they’re gone; Worst outbreak ever known in the oceans; Catastrophic losses nearly everywhere we’ve been (VIDEO)

Published: October 15th, 2014 at 6:22 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 13 comments

PBS Newshour, Oct. 14, 2014:

• Sea stars have been vanishing from the Alaska shoreline. Pete Raimondi is one of the lead scientists studying an alarming epidemic that’s been killing starfish by the millions.
• Raimondi: “Almost everywhere we looked in the last year we’ve seen catastrophic losses”
• Melissa Miner, UC Santa Cruz scientist: “Nope, I haven’t seen any [juveniles]… They get lesions and their internal organs start to spill out… that can happen within 24-48 hours”
• Sea star wasting syndrome affects almost every species of west coast starfish. The plague has hit so hard over the last year, that biologists fear that some species could even go extinct.
• Drew Harvell, marine epidemiologist at Cornell University: “This is the largest outbreak that we know of ever in the oceans in terms of the numbers of species affected, in terms of the geographic scale, and in terms of the mortality… This is what we call a wide host range pathogen… it affects many different species — those are the most dangerous in wildlife disease, in terms of a potential risk of extinction… I’m expecting that in the next two weeks, we will lose virtually all the stars at this site”
• And that’s exactly what happened. All the star fish that were here are now gone… Back in Sitka {Alaska], trouble is on the horizon.
• Raimondi: “Without knowing the cause of these outbreaks, it’s impossible to tell whether the epidemic is nearly finished or whether another mass die-off is just getting started… this event is really frustrating — kind of scary”
• After leaving Sitka, Raimondi and Miner began receiving disturbing reports. The healthy looking starfish they carefully counted just days before were suddenly losing arms and wasting away.
• Watch the broadcast here

Taylor White, Sitka Sound Science Center aquarium manager: “Every day I come in and I see more and more legs all over the tanks,” White says. “It’s upsetting to see them just flip of a switch start to crawl away from their bodies… We’ve been telling people to take their children out to low tide to see the starfish before they’re not there anymore.”
Dr. Richard Ambrose, UCLA marine ecologist (at 7:00 in): When it hits, it seems to go through really, really fast. There were hundreds of thousands of sea stars, intertidal and sub-tidal. The scope… just is mindboggling. All the sea star species seem to be affected — even though it’s different species in British Columbia compared to the species we have here, and it’s in the sub-tidal and it’s in the intertidal. So it makes it much harder to track down. If it was temperature you might expect that in the intertidal they would be more affected because it gets warmer in the intertidal when it’s exposed. But we don’t see that. We see it just across sea stars in general, so whatever it is seems to have not be as specific as the diseases that have affected the sea stars in the past. >> Watch the video here
Dr. Mike Schaadt, Cabrillo Aquarium director (at 4:30 in): The animals have been compromised so much so, that the water-vascular system… dissolves to the point where none of it works… There’s been multiple events… none of them as big as this one…I’ll say again, I can’t remember any — from an area point of view or a devastating point of view — this seems to be the worst. >> Watch the video here
Watch video of the seafloor littered with sea star body parts here

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Fukushima radiation nearing West Coast

Tracy Loew, Statesman Journal10:31 a.m. PDT October 17, 2014


(Photo: Tillamook Estuaries Partnership )

Radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster is approaching the West Coast, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is reporting.

A sample taken Aug. 2 about 1,200 kilometers west of Vancouver, B.C. tested positive for Cesium 134, the Fukushima “fingerprint” of Fukushima.

It also showed higher-than-background levels of Cesium 137, another Fukushima isotope that already is present in the world’s oceans from nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s.

The sample is the first of about 40 offshore test results that will be made public next month, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at Woods Hole.

Further results, which Buesseler will release at a conference Nov. 13, will show offshore Fukushima radiation down the coast into California, he said, including some samples that are closer to shore.

Buesseler emphasized that the radiation is at very low levels that aren’t expected to harm human health or the environment.

“I’m not concerned,” he said.

And no samples from West Coast shorelines have found Fukushima radiation.

“There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now,” Buesseler said. “It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”

Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from Fukushima following a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Radioactive water has continued to leak and be released from the complex.

No state or federal agency is testing Pacific waters for radiation from the crippled Japanese nuclear plant.

So earlier this year Buesseler launched a crowdfunded effort to collect surf samples to be tested at his lab in Massachusetts.

Processing was completed on about 30 of those samples, from the Bering Strait to San Diego, including one from Oregon. More samples are awaiting testing

Then, last summer, the captain of a research vessel out of Moss Landing Marine Lab in California offered to collect offshore samples down the entire coast in conjunction with other research work he was doing.

Buesseler said he hesitated at first, because analyzing those samples would cost about $30,000 his lab didn’t have.

“We decided to send him the containers anyway,” Buesseler said.
Buesseler was able to use a $12,000 donation from U.K.-based Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics to begin processing the samples.

He’s still looking for funding to make up the difference.

The Aug. 2 sample is the project’s first to identify Fukushima radiation.

The sample was collected at a depth of 25 meters.

It showed levels of cesium 134, the Fukushima fingerprint, at 2.2 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m3).

Levels of cesium 137 were 3.9 Bq/m3. Background levels range between 1 and 2 Bq/m3.

Scientist expect the radiation to reach West Coast beaches this year or next year.

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Just In: Fukushima nuclear waste detected off U.S. West Coast, from California to Canada — “There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now” — Test results will not be revealed to public for several weeks (VIDEO)

Published: October 17th, 2014 at 4:02 pm ET By ENENews Email Article 44 comments

Statesman Journal, Oct. 17, 2014 at 1:31p ET (excerpts):

• Headline: Fukushima radiation nearing West Coast
• Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from Fukushima… Radioactive water has continued to leak and be released from the complex
• No state or federal agency is testing Pacific waters for radiation
• A sample taken Aug. 2 about [750 miles] west of Vancouver, B.C. tested positive for Cesium 134, the Fukushima “fingerprint” [and] Cesium 137
• Further results… show offshore Fukushima radiation down the coast into California… including some samples that are closer to shore
• The captain of a research vessel… offered to collect offshore samples down the entire coast
• About 40 offshore test results… will be made public next month, said Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer at Woods Hole… at a conference Nov. 13

Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: “I’m not concerned… There is definitely offshore Fukushima cesium now… It’s not on the beaches, but it’s offshore.”
Only details from the one sample taken Aug 2 off Vancouver were disclosed:

• Depth = 25 meters
• Cesium-134 = 2.2 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m3)
• Cesium-137 = 3.9 Bq/m3

4 days ago a new video was uploaded by Woods Hole: Radioactive contaminants from Fukushima are carried across the Pacific Ocean… and spread along the West Coast of North America by complex coastal processes. Models predict that radionuclides from Fukushima will begin to arrive on the West Coast in early 2014… >> Watch the video here

Published: October 17th, 2014 at 4:02 pm ET By ENENews

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