Published: December 5th, 2011 at 8:14 am ET
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Fukushima plant springs new water leak, Japan Times by MINORU MATSUTANI, Dec 5, 2011:
The water is believed to have high concentrations of strontium, which can cause bone cancer if ingested. The decontamination system Tepco is using to stablize the crippled reactors mainly removes cesium, but does little to mitigate strontium.
Noteworthy Reporting
- Somehow, the L.A. Times report on leak fails to mention the word strontium, only cesium: Radioactive water found leaking from Japanese nuclear plant
- In the above Japan Times report, the opening sentence says, “Some 45 tons of highly radioactive water leaked Sunday.” Then the report quotes an expert who says, “Even if all 300 liters reached the sea, the radiation would be diluted, and the amount that escaped is tiny compared with what has already leaked into the sea.”
Tepco Press Release, Dec. 5: At 11:33 am on December 4, workers found that there was puddle water inside the barrier around the evaporative condensation apparatus (estimated volume of water was approx. 45 m3 [1 cubic meter of water = 1 metric ton or 1.1 tons]).
Tepco makes it clear the amount was 49 tons, while not mentioning 300 liters anywhere.
See also: WSJ: New Leak Detected at Fukushima Plant -- Asahi: Strontium at 1,000,000 times gov't limit?
Published: December 5th, 2011 at 8:14 am ET
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Scientists call for dumping radioactive soil into sea http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201112050004
When will an Adult take over and STOP THIS BS?!?!
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I guess they don’t know what or where else to put it, thus just toss it in the ocean, I’m sure it will dilute in the ocean. Yeah right, what a species.
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Scientists NO LESS! How can they say this with a straight face. Poison the Ocean even worse than it is? Where’s our Gov on this? Where in the hell is the U.N.
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Not scientists as you and I know them! Perhaps politics has more to do with who works in a university than it should.
“best way to get rid of the radioactive soil is to place it in noncorrosive, pressure-tight vessels and dumping them at least 2,000 meters deep near Japan.”
At least they aren’t talking about dumping loose soil. Anyone got a few million noncorrosive, pressure tight nuclear wessels that T3PC0 can use for a hundred thousand years?
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Like Greg Palast told some friends who went to see him.
“Just Follow the money” Dont go down any Rabbit Hole (conspiracy theory). FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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I think this is probably the best and only reasonable solution in the worst and most unreasonable circumstances. The issues in my mind are so much what they will do going forward at fukushima, those people have no credibility in my mind. what is the rest of the world doing to ensure this never happens again?
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Maybe your right. I really dont know what the answer is.
It wont ever happen again if we SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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Bmurr,
I wonder about the hubris it takes to ask about what people are doing to prevent the next tragedy, when it’s entirely unclear that there has to be another tragedy to doom us all.
I seriously don’t intend to exaggerate, but some of the information that I’ve been reading for only the past three months would make me conclude that Fukushima is the shit, it’s real, and a game-changer.
Time will tell, but the way it seems to me there will not be available water for humans, let alone contaminated soil and food within the coming year and beyond for those who can’t afford it.
I don’t have a science degree, but to some extent the writing is on the wall, is it not? It’s at least three, full-blown melt downs, with perhaps six troubled nuclear reactors or fuel pools, plutonium has been blown all over the northern hemisphere (?) and the kicker is there’s mention that it’s not just Daiichi that’s suffering but something called Daiini (sorry about the spelling). Then, to top it all off, it seems either TEPCO is keeping quiet about their attempts to bore a tunnel beneath all the melt-downs to stop it from hitting the water table, or TEPCO is doing nothing. If you ask me, TEPCO is doing nothing.
To sum it up, it’s entirely unclear if humans, or perhaps many life forms, will survive this negligent disaster. That might be high drama, but is there any encouraging news? If there is, I’d like to see it.
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From the Japan Times:
“Tepco used sandbags Sunday to contain the water, 300 liters of which escaped from a concrete machine building through a crack, Tepco spokesman Hiroki Kawamata said.”
This was probably added later if ENENEWS didn’t see it the first time. However, they also said this:
“Beta rays do not travel far and are easily stopped by thin material, including clothing.”
Which contains a load of horse pucky. Beta particles come in a wide range of energies and can be much more penetrating than alphas, which are stopped by thin material. They usually do not travel more than a meter in air, and are not too dangerous unless they strike massive atoms. This can produce gamma rays.
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well caught no buggy! +100
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Their mouths are moving again !
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geez at this rate they should change the name from Fukushima to Anne Coulter Town. I can see it now… Come and play a round of golf at the Anne Coulter golf course where you and your family can stay at the Anne Coulter Hotel and swim at the fabulous Anne Coulter beach!
Proudly serving Anne Coulter rice and with Anne’s FAMOUS abalone melt! it’s had GLOWING REVIEWS!
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Dangerous casual comment from expert ( a shill for TEPCO?)
“Even if all 300 liters reached the sea, the radiation would be diluted, and the amount that escaped is tiny compared with what has already leaked into the sea.”
–and THIS is to make it okay and us all to feel safe? Think again!
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It’s good to see Tepco using the latest hi-tech technology to stop these leaks:
http://hibi-zakkan.sblo.jp/article/51387648.html
Sawdust, sandbags and newspaper.
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Did they run out of diapers?
Remember back in May, they plugged the leaks using the polymers used in diapers along with what you just mentioned?
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This is apparently what the American news media does to its citizens every day, falsified/doctored/manipulated news.
The government must own it all.
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The LATimes used to be a great paper. Now it’s just good for wiping yourself in an emergency.
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It’s worse than that! The American Media makes a point of distracting the public to issues and stories that have little or no relevance. I’m referring to Michael Jackson’s doctor’s trial, Lindsay Lohan back in court, Herman Cain sexual conquests.
Our population is literally being anesthetized with too much information. The important stories are covered on the back pages or with once every 3 day 3 minute coverage. The people don’t have a chance to focus on what they really should be focussing on.
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I am speaking from personal experiences. I have finally completely stopped partaking of Network Media. It is not very PC.
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I was watching a 1968 episode of Laugh In and they did a skit where 2 reporters (one played by Sammy Davis Jr) change a news story from 15 Russian fishermen rammed by American destroyer off the coast of Labrador to 15 American fishermen rammed by a Russian sub in Boston harbor. It struck me that we haven’t been able to trust Mainstream Media for over a generation. Surprised to hear a little blurb in Vancouver radio news of contaminated water from Fukushima. Doubt I’ll hear a countdown of progress of corium through the last foot of concrete……. Or even a whisper of “Plutonium”.
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Can everyone spell downplay???
Sounds like everything will be alright with the Pacific then?? Oh really??
S-T-R-O-N-T-I-U-M is a forbidden word in American media…they officially changed it to “sunshine” in the early 1950′s, so you wont be hearing it on our “public” airways
They CAN measure it in our food and soil and I bet they still do, but, Shhhhh!
(Whispering) We Don’t Talk About Those Things!
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Hey Guys – Please post comments on the Washington Post article. Great coverage on Huffington Post, it’s been a leg into the MSM. While we need to keep the HP dialog going, the WPost & WSJ articles offer some rare access to others whose primary news sources have been even more mum on this human tragedy, corporate crime and government/media cover-up. Seize the rare opportunity to inform the general public about what’s been going on in Fukushima and downwind (i.e., everywhere).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-stricken-nuke-plant-leaks-radioactive-water-some-may-have-reached-ocean/2011/12/05/gIQAplB7UO_story.html
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I wish i had the time to comment on WP articles, but any reporter ignorant as this of the facts surrounding FukU whom would write “may have contaminated” has not viewed the CEREA projection map for already measurable radioactivity in the ocean and how far it “may” have spread
I do realice however the importance of commenting on these sites however, so I thank you for your service to humanity.
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I find this very confusing since the mixed bed ion exchange mix bed systems that we used would have removed strontium and our systems were the same as some nuclear power plants. My suppliers were also a supplier to the nuclear power plants. What are they using, Britta pitchers? In April, I called the Japanese embassy and they said that there was no need for anyone with expertise in removing radioactive materials from high volumes of water. I guess that they didn’t.
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