Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 12:30 pm ET
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Title: More leaks found at crippled Japan nuclear plant
Source: AP
Author: MARI YAMAGUCHI
Date: February 3rd, 2012 at 10:20a ET
Leaks of radioactive water have become more frequent at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant less than two months after it was declared basically stable.The problem underlines the continuing challenges facing Tokyo Electric Power Co. as it attempts to keep the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant under control [...]
Workers spotted a leak Friday at a water reprocessing unit which released enough beta rays to cause radiation sickness, TEPCO spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said. He said no one was injured and the leak stopped after bolts were tightened on a tank. [...]
Cold winter weather has also caused water inside pipes to freeze elsewhere at the plant, resulting in leaks in at least 30 locations since late January, Matsumoto said. [...]
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Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 12:30 pm ET
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Whats the worry ? It’s in cold shutdown….
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Yea, The rumor is that if the plant is in cold shutdown, then the water coming from the rapidly increasing number of leaks (first it was 6, then 14, then 20, then 25, now 30) is no longer radioactive or hazardous. It can be safely put in ‘natural’ corium heated swimming pools (they need no lighting as they glow green) being built on site for tourists. The overflow from all of the other leaks will go to fill natural ponds that will serve to provide ‘radiation enhanced’ drinking water for wild birds.
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More radioactive water stories!!!
THE ISSUE ISN’T RADIOACTIVE WATER – IT’S ONGOING OPEN NUCLEAR REACTIONS!!!!
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LOVE THE USE OF THE TERM BETA…
strontium, uranium?? take your pick!! strontium is the most likely candidate i feel… what say you enenewsers???
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I think they don’t know what they’re f*cking talking about. There’s no such thing as “beta rays.” There are beta particles and they are nasty business when they get inside you.
And whoever the sub-genius was who thought “beta rays” would keep the water from freezing over the winter in all those glorified dryer hoses they’re using to pipe grossly contaminated water should be assigned to the unit-4 “observation crew” whose job it is to stand on the beam and look at all the pretty colors coming from the spent fuel pool.
[/snarky grumbling]
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enough to give acute radiation poisoning?? beta? ouch! thats alot of bq/l….
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oh and i believe the strontium or whatever has gone airborne.. doesnt beta have a low travel distance??
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Beta can travel as far as anything else. Loose in air they’re just fragments of atomic nuclei. Un-emitted (yet), they’re just unstable isotopes of this element or that, to be produced and released whenever the unstable atom decides to decay. Which may also release alpha and gamma. Gamma, by the way, IS a ‘ray’.
Tritium, for instance, is hydrogen with an extra neutron. Lighter than air. Any of it can be blowing in the wind…
Once a beta particle hits an object, it discharges its energy within just a few microns. So it’s “non-penetrating” compared to gamma or neutrons, which go right through and impart energy to atoms here and there on their way. But beta is MORE penetrating than alpha. Which discharges ALL of its energy on the spot whenever it hits another particle/atom. Can destroy cells point-blank.
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Do you happen to have a source for this info? I have never heard any of this until today and would like to learn more.
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Explanation of the Different Types of radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation
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“The Perils of Tritium”
Tritium decays to helium-3 through beta minus decay and the release of an antineutrino particle http://www.texasradiation.org/decay.html
The antineutron is the antiparticle of the neutron with symbol n. It differs from the neutron only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite sign… Since the antineutron is electrically neutral, it cannot easily be observed directly. Instead, the products of its annihilation with ordinary matter are observed. In theory, a free antineutron should decay into an antiproton, a positron and a neutrino in a process analogous to the beta decay of free neutrons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-neutron
Could you explain the perils (if any) of an anti neutrino within the body, and what happens to cells containing tritium, when tritium decays to helium inside the body?
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Yeah but…Matsumoto sez, “no one was injured!” Give Matsumoto the Three Stooges award. Isn’t it amazing miraculous just how non injurious acute radiation poisoning can be.
But first place still goes to the PR spokescritter who said the worker who fell into the pool at SONGS (San Onofre) was wearing a “life preserver.” Ja sure, drowning is more to be expected than being irradiated, even if he swallowed some of it.
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Heh. Well, it was probably a lead life preserver. To protect his vital parts and all… §;o)
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my bad joy
thanks for clarifying! i meant that the beta particle must be air borne unless they had a swim in the leaking water.. so the water is hot and hits the cold air…..
peace
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http://globalcooperative.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/radiation-map-analysis-europe-australasia/
Remember when they just stopped providing updated imaging of the spread of the radiation from Fukushima – that Norwegian institute just stopped/was shut down? I don’t think good imaging has been available since then, or accurate record of the totals the various parts of the world have been exposed to.
That imaging was showing that we in the No. Hemisphere were being doused with radionuclide ‘soup.’ Now a year has passed & we still are being doused.
In one article, I recall the writer/speaker saying that if you have a SINGLE particle of plutonium in your lungs you are ‘married to cancer.’ (plutonium most toxic/harmful when inhaled.)
I just watched the old move ON THE BEACH, about nuclear Armageddon/the end of all life on the planet. Of course in some ways it was dated, flawed, but still it stays in the back of my mind. The characters in Australia, waiting for the ‘cloud of death’ to reach them, knew with certainty that they were going to die soon.
Now – it is pretty ominous that the word came down from above to stop the accurate reporting on radionuclide levels.
And it seems pretty clear that the orders DID come down from above not to make this information publicly available. I’ve said before that it is highly likely that we’re being governed under not just national but GLOBAL emergency – most governments are probably functioning under emergency & this gives them total dictatorial powers to do whatever is necessary ‘to PRESERVE THE PUBLIC PEACE’ – INCLUDING LYING TO THE PEOPLE. The only ‘law’ is the DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY – which states that ‘necessity knows no law.’
What I am saying is obvious, I guess – we are like the characters in ON THE BEACH. In fact, one of the characters, whose family in the USA was already nuked & dead, would talk about them as if they were still alive – was in denial, that is to say…
in denial… hmmm…
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In denial … hmmm… are we? Even we here on enenews? Do we, like that American whose family was dead, along with the entire population of the No. Hemisphere, do we here on enenews flicker in and out of denial?
(Hint: the answer is probably not ‘No.’)
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@bleep_hits_blades if I did not slip in & out of denial I would be in a rubber room.
I understand how bad it is but I can not just keep quiet. I have to go down fighting. We DO have them worried. They spend so much time trying to find a way to twist the facts & deny because they know that the more we learn & share the stronger & louder we become.
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