Kashiwa stops operation of incinerator again as radioactive ash fills up storage – The Mainichi Daily News
The Municipal government [in Kashiwa] suspended the operation of one of its main incinerators again on Jan. 5 as a storage facility at the waste disposal factory was filled up with incinerated ash contaminated with radioactive substances emitted from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant
- The operation of the city’s Nambu (south) Clean Center had previously been suspended for about two months from last September
- [Now] storing about 200 metric tons (about 1,049 waste drums) of incinerated ash whose radiation levels are higher than the national limit of 8,000 becquerels per kilogram for landfill
- There is also about 30 tons of incinerated ash left in the incinerator
- Radiation levels in the city are higher than those in surrounding areas, and therefore up to 70,800 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram — higher than the national limit — have been detected
- Municipalities around the city of Kashiwa are also storing massive quantities of incinerated ash contaminated with radiation
- Chiba Prefectural Government proposed to its neighboring cities of Abiko and Inzai that they store incinerated ash temporarily
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This feels like a prepatory article for another rise in government limits on radioactivity.
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Spread the poison equally to everyone. WTF are they doing to themselves? And to think, I just bought a house, May 5th, 2011, in Northern California. 1300 ft. elevation near one of the worlds oldest lakes. Do you think radiation will have an effect on algae blooms?
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Effects of Radiation on Aquatic Organisms
[read first couple of paragraphs]
http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JDsrAAAAYAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA96&dq=ionizing+radiation+effect+on+algae&ots=gY1wzWihhh&sig=43wUEhrjzvkJaRnGEyTcrIWXQ9g#v=onepage&q=ionizing%20radiation%20effect%20on%20algae&f=false
Also:
Spectroscopic investigation of ionizing-radiation tolerance of a Chlorophyceae green micro-alga
http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/20/10/104216;jsessionid=2F82FB4D795D80255F7E4AB64C2F8F1F.c1
Micro-organisms living in extreme environments are captivating in the peculiar survival processes they have developed. Deinococcus radiodurans is probably the most famous radio-resistant bacteria. Similarly, a specific ecosystem has grown in a research reactor storage pool, and has selected organisms which may sustain radiative stress. An original green micro-alga which was never studied for its high tolerance to radiations has been isolated. It is the only autotrophic eukaryote that develops in this pool, although contamination possibilities coming from outside are not unusual. Studying what could explain this irradiation tolerance is consequently very interesting. An integrative study of the effects of irradiation on the micro-algae physiology, metabolism, internal dynamics, and genomics was initiated. In the work presented here, micro-algae were stressed with irradiation doses up to 20 kGy (2 Mrad), and studied by means of nuclear magnetic resonance, looking for modifications in the metabolism, and on the IN13 neutron backscattering instrument at the ILL, looking for both dynamics and structural macromolecular changes in the cells.
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Had no idea, thank you so much. You are on top of it…
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Organisms and plants usually concentrate radiation by a factor of 2-10, depending on the specific living organism…
The lower on the food chain one eats the better, when it comes to radiation.
But then again, around Chernobyl they found VERY HIGH radiation levels in berries, mushrooms and milk.
“In a report released Monday, Greenpeace said samples of milk, berries, potatoes and root vegetables in two Ukrainian regions show unacceptably high levels of the radioactive isotope cesium-137 from the 1986 blast. The regions are in northwestern Ukraine, outside the so-called “exclusion zone” around the plant, where residency is generally prohibited.”
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/04/25-years-chernobyl-food-unacceptably-high-levels-radiation-13927/
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They will need to Burn All of Japan then they will start again dumping the ash into the sea !
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Bye Bye Tokyo!
http://enenews.com/?%C2%ADp=21822
and
http://wp.me/pSjep-1Zx
and
http://is.gd/KwMCKY
Ask yourself, why are ALL the radionuclides N☢T being measured and data given out?
Then move South while you are trying to decide if it makes sense!
http://enenews.com/?p=21070
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uziEgRan2G8
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Tokyo; Is It Safe From Fukushima Radiation?
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3076288
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What happens when they run out of room?
Is this why they are starting to burn it up and dump the ashes in the Bay? You can only pile up highly radioactive sewage for so long.. and then you get buried in your own radioactive S#*#.
Desperate times, desperate measures.
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Why did the video I posted get switched? Here is the link to it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mKUcdwoVfQ
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