Published: April 21st, 2012 at 3:24 pm ET
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Title: Chernobyl expert takes a look at Tohoku’s trees
Source: The Japan Times
Author: WINIFRED BIRD
Date: Sunday, April 22, 2012
[...] Where the contamination was highest, some trees died and others grew in abnormal shapes. Starting about 5 to 10 km from the plant, however, [Dr. Sergiy Zibtsev the Ukrainian
forest ecologist who is visiting Japan for the first time] says the forests appear normal — if unusually rich in wildlife, due to the absence of humans. Nevertheless, the contamination remains. [...]“The approach has been to let the ecosystem work. Fungi is much more effective than millions of people (at containing contamination),” Zibtsev said. He is skeptical of proposals in Japan to decontaminate parts of the forest by removing leaf litter, undergrowth and tree branches, because such measures could undermine forest health.
“It’s like if your body is functioning, and you decide, why don’t I remove my liver to clean it? And then you realize you can’t live without it,” he says, with characteristic black humor. “People in Japan want the forest to be clean. They want to rewind before 3/11. (But) we’re living in a new reality.” [...]
No Strontium or Plutonium from Fukushima?
The situation around Chernobyl was complicated by the wide range of radionuclides emitted during the disaster.
Whereas in the long term Japan faces mostly radiocesium contamination, Ukraine also has to deal with contaminants including radiostrontium and, near the plant, plutonium.
The Trouble with Clay
Yet the lessons, he says, cannot easily be transferred to Japan. Radionuclides move differently through the environment depending on tree type, climate and topography (Fukushima Prefecture is mountainous; the Chernobyl exclusion zone is mostly flat).
Also, radiocesium binds strongly to clay soils (common in Japan) but washes easily out of sandy ones (common in Ukraine).
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Published: April 21st, 2012 at 3:24 pm ET
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Oh so all the clay is going to bond up the cesium for a nice long life time never to miss package of death and radioactive potency higher than that of Chernobyl by measures of millions. How awesome is that? Now the Japanese people get to have this hot steaming waste for longer than expected with no real solution but mass deforestation. Maybe they can build a city in the cleared land for bank executives to vacation at. Although owning the worlds largest private radioactive prison complex sounds more fun.
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“The approach has been to let the ecosystem work. Fungi is much more effective than millions of people (at containing contamination),”
Okay, but do any of you have an idea how the Fungi Solution works?
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Yes, see the video, "Six ways mushrooms can save the world" with mycologist Paul Stamets. A bit of an odd fellow but very brilliant.
The beginning of an explanation, anyway.
http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html
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Just be careful, because mushrooms picked from radioactive soil can give you a toxic dose of radiation.
Mushrooms concentrate radiation.
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Huh! radiocesium binds to clay, interesting, just like the Pacific Hwy in Australia…
Vomiting road workers hospitalized after exposing mysterious nuclear waste
The material, said to include cesium, is believed to have been buried after a truck carrying radioactive isotopes from Sydney's Lucas Heights nuclear reactor crashed in the area in December 1980, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph reported. The isotopes are believed to have been destined for the US.
The upgrade's project manager, Bob Higgins, said the workers became sick after unearthing a strange clay-like material, according to Australian Associated Press.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/18/vomiting-road-workers-hospitalized-after-exposing-mysterious-nuclear-waste/
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Plutonium binds to clay too, in a manner and degree that scientists haven't figured out yet.
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So when will Japan finally acknowledge that they are fucked? Japan had so much pride in the past about their produce and food being the best in the world…Japanese rice, beef, fish, etc but now it is all contaminated forever. The nation is a disastrous mess. The pride of Japan is destroyed forever. There is NO coming back, there is NO decontamination that can fix any of this. Only time, 10's of thousands of years at least. But before that the damage to the people and their offspring is ongoing thanks to the further idiocy of the government.
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Too good is not for good, some people say. And pride makes people blind. But I still hope people in Japan will take care for their future, preserving the genetics. This is the nation, not the land! Children and young people who will have children have to be taken away from the contaminated zones.
I understand your anger. If someone is forcing people to eat radioactive food, and distributes the waste to new teritories, anger is the normal thing. You are a very good example how a person must take resposibility for the life, the health and the future of his family! Governments just do not this. They seem to operate in economic and power terms, and sometimes these strongly contradict with values of life and culture. (Technology overgrowing and dominating culture becomes a killer. We have been told this from the start of industrial revolution.)
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Those being fucked are the Japanese in Japan and don't worry a lot of rich Japanese are oversea.
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I'll get that tome machine out for you !
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*On Now* Rense Radio "Jeff Rense Program" here's the App, live feed for …
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/livefeeds/16k.asx
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Awesome 15 year old speech/song about Japan and nuclear issues… wowser
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/and-earth-cried.html
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