Published: January 12th, 2012 at 12:00 am ET
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Fukushima’s Impact on the Ocean Analyzed, IEEE Spectrum by Prachi Patel, January 12, 2012:
[...] cesium-137 concentrations have stayed at near constant levels since July, implying that radioactive water is still being released, either directly from the reactors or indirectly from groundwater [...]
Ken Buesseler, a marine chemist at Woods Hole who is involved with researching ocean radiation off of Fukushima
“I’m convinced there are ongoing leaks” [...]
“Even if you plug all leaks and shut down reactors, groundwater keeps leaching into the ocean and these waters and contaminated sediments can be a long-term source of cesium-137 for decades to a century” [...]
Accumulation of radionuclides in marine sediment is the main concern, says Buesseler. [...]
Organisms that live in or on sediment, such as worms, shellfish, and bottom feeders, could be exposed to high radionuclide concentrations. “For a population that eats a lot of seafood, this is certainly of concern,” Buesseler says.
Read the report here
See also:
- Scientists: Radioactivity in sea NOT falling off -- Hypothesis says Fukushima groundwater is leaking radiation
- New Study: 'Fuel rod materials' may have been released when acid seawater interacted with ruptured fuel rods, carrying radioactive materials into ground -- "Full magnitude of release has not been well documented"
- Groundwater a likely source for continued flow of radiation into ocean -- "Complete melt through" so "not surprising" discharges continue, says study
Published: January 12th, 2012 at 12:00 am ET
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What about plutonium?
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Plutonium is not very water soluble.
The coriums must some day be “picked up” but for the most part the MOX fuel and some of the used fuel with plutonium was launched in the building 3 explosion and aerosolized to a great degree, so that cat is already out of the bag, you don’t need to further worry about ocean leaching of Pu.
Launch data here.
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/2012/01/uranium-in-air.html
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Cesium levels at Chernobyl haven’t decreased as expected. The expectations don’t seem based on reality.
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You are right Anne, the expectations are based on SMILES! People haven’t been smiling enough!
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Yes, at least try Dr. Yamashita’s remedy. Everyone together, let’s all smile and tell jokes. What’s your answer to this one:
How many TEPCO employees does it take to reach cold shutdown ‘conditions’?
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This contamination will hand off to one generation after another after another. If man the species can survive it may never know a clean radiation free environment for a thousand years. And that’s if all ongoing pollutions were to cease now.
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Hi Anthony
Unfortunately, I think as long as there is money to be made, it won’t cease.
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Exactly. Boycott energy!!!!! Take the stairs! Read by a window, do something everyday that cut consumption, and boycott GE industry products. Consumer might makes a difference!
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“I’m convinced there are ongoing leaks” [...]
“I’m convinced TEPCO is moving in the right direction.
“I’m convinced the government of Japan is steadfast in their resolve.
“I’m convinced the EPA is honest.
“I’m convinced the NRC is forthright.
“I’m convinced that ALL government funded agencies support the people.
“I’m convinced those who created the problem will solve it.
“I’m convinced this will end soon.
“I’m convinced this will not happen again.
“I’m convinced our leaders do not accept bribes.
“I’m convinced this will only be resolved when Jesus kick’s ass.
AMEN
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Jesus helps those who kick ass themselves, capiche?
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Jesus wants to borrow your boot with your foot in it…
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Amen, I’m convinced!
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Well if the son of god has to come back and kick some ass, I sure hope it turns out like this!……. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKS-ngwU0jA&feature=related
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11 January 2012
“…they were not allowed to enter the waters within 30-kilometers of the coast”
“Strontium, which has a 30-year half-life similar to cesium’s, can accumulate in bones and is linked to bone cancer. Small fish that are eaten with their bones could be a source of exposure.”
“But there isn’t much data on the sediment yet”
“For a population that eats a lot of seafood, this is certainly of concern,”
“A few fish exceeding the Japanese government’s safe limit of 500 Bq of cesium-137 per kilogram of seafood have been found in waters off Fukushima, prompting a fishing ban in a 20-km radius around the plant.”
“Strontium, which has a 30-year half-life similar to cesium’s, can accumulate in bones and is linked to bone cancer. Small fish that are eaten with their bones could be a source of exposure.”
“…they were not allowed to enter the waters within 30-kilometers of the coast”
“But contaminated seafood could easily move out of that zone and be caught, Fisher points out.”
October 20, 2011
isotopes released,”
“but thus far there are no published models that include Fukushima ocean data for comparison”
“and thus likely other Fukushima-derived radionuclides that have not yet been reported”
“Also specific pathways such as preferential uptake of 90Sr (not yet measured)”
“With respect to the oceans, however, the impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl”
“it will take some time before results are available to fully evaluate the impacts of this accident on the ocean.”
“do not have sufficient field data to estimate the ocean radionuclide inventories, the full range of isotopes released, the aerial extent of contamination, the fraction delivered as coastal runoff vs atmospheric fallout, the sedimentary burden near the Dai-ichi NPPs, and the biological uptake in the marine food chain beyond a limited number of plankton samples and monitoring of the food supply”
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es202816c
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i reckon buessler mentioned strontium briefly because the chinese have widely publisied it!!!
they said that 200 scientist studied this!! LOL!!!
how much did the 200 scientists find out!!!
nada
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i can wonder if enenews or buessler will get to the data of the chinese second “illegal” testing of the pacific ??
because thats the only place your going to find the truth… info due out soon!…unless the IAEA has been chomping on a bit of chinese sausage, if you know what i mean!!….
“nukey noda” was NOT a happy bunny, i can tell you!!!
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Whats up with that illegal testing?
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the japanese had a diplomatic bust up and threatened the chinese! the chinese sent six ships!! testing done!! buessler and other western scientists and a few japanese are awaiting the results!!
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scratch that.. alot of japanese are awaiting the results!
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Thanks
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Arc:
http://www.myweathertech.com/2011/08/19/china-finds-100000-sq-miles-of-radiation-in-pacific-ocean-up-300-times-higher-than-normal/
On topic post…
The oceanic contamination was detected on march 28th.
30km seems like a pretty minimal zone seeing how 100tons of water is released into the ocean daily Keep in mind the water contains a level of contamination so significant that a single litel would kill 500 men.
They mention the isotopes cesium and iodine. Enough said…
To anyone reading that is new to nuclear.
Imagine you have a 6ft above ground swimming pool. It is made of glass…
Inside the pool is 2000+ different colored marbles (each one representing a different type of radionuclide)…
Note: There is a million marbles of each color in the pool. so 2,000,000,000 So 2 billion total…
Now imagine that you broke the glass…
What the government is telling you, is this:
After our study Only two colors of marbles were found.
All Common sense has been thrown out the window.
We have been thrown under the bus.
Likewise:
Read my posts on the last thread. It was full of shilling information.
To redirect my article to the forum topic. That is why CHINA. IS Pissed.
That is why im afraid…
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China’s Department of Environmental Protection also warned “Cesium-137 and strontium-90 both have half-lives of about 30 years, making it more likely they will eventually enter the food chain and affect the health of consumers.”
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* note there is an error above: The oceanic contamination was detected on march 28th.
Line should read: The oceanic contamination was detected in the port of olympia on march 28th.
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* litel = liter
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I am signing off for the obvious reason: too little sleep / leading to unedited angry rants…
Take care guys!
Emmy
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take a break and know that your work is appreciated.
I am trying to figure a way reach the MSM crowd, around here we are pretty much preaching to the choir
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night taco!!
peace
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Hi TacoBelle
Night. Thank you for all you write and making it easy for an old lady to understand.
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@TacomaGroove, Hi, you’re amazing, and re Fuku contamination found in Port of Olympia 3/28, where did you see that? I didn’t find it in the linked article. Thank you –
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@Pacific.
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/radioactive-seaweed-detected-in-puget-sound-but-no/nD4tr/
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Radiation+from+Japan+reactor+detected+seaweed+rainwater+risk+humans/4516888/story.html
http://enenews.com/nuclear-friendly-professor-surprised-radioactive-seaweed-south-seattle-guess-assuming-wouldnt-reach
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread688254/pg1
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A century of contamination?
try
THREE centuries of contamination (dependent on silt and water conditions [cold water and silt at the bottom will EXTEND the half lifes!])
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I posted around 10 very high resolution photos on my blog. Check it out.
Clearly, there is no “reactor” (yellow lid) at building 3, although a few pieces can be seen in the rubble.
From the damage pattern it is also clear that it was the reactor itself that blow up, not likely to be the fuel pool. See the nearby turbine building with huge holes in it from 20 ton chunks of concrete hurled 1500′ into the air.
That was no hydrogen explosion
Check it out here
Drop a comment on the home page
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/pictures-high-quality.html
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The turbine building with the holes in the ceiling is the place where one would find the missing reactor cap. Everything from concrete went aerosol after that explosion, but the massive metal reactor cap fell right down through that ceiling. You can see it when looking close in the video of the explosion.
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good call… I have never seen it but will look closer now. I figured it was something of some size that did it, the reactor cap, maybe a partially full fuel rack or even a piece of primary containment or the structure.
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More fish showing signs of toxic exposure (lesions).
http://www.myallcoastnota.com.au/news/local/news/general/mystery-fish-disease-causing-concern/2416192.aspx
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/01/dauphin_island_fish_show_up_wi.html
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Hey, you are back at it already! OK Ganbatte!
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Australia: Corexit EC9500 and Corexit EC9527A Used, Activists Claim 8 Deaths, Fish Kills Linked to the Dispersant’s !
To Gulf Oil Spill on Wednesday, November 03, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/248/637/Australia:_Corexit_EC9500_and_Corexit_EC9527A_Used,_Activists_Claim_8_Deaths,_Fish_Kills_Linked_to_the_Dispersants.html
In 2009 there was a 74 day oil spill in Timms sea were Corexit was used ! Could be the problem ?
At bottom of my MAD or report about deaths from Oil gusher and corexit use there and many sick fish stories !
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/by/0000000000004882
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Anyone see this image?
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/4513811.bin
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I did now, can’t see no yellow reactor cap. Gone bye-bye
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The reactor cap at 4 was in its stored position but the cap at 3 would have been in its in-use position? Are you sure we would be able to see it if it was there under all the rubble?
I’m still not getting why TEPCO would fake pressure readings for a week and then fake readings that look like an explosion and containment failure one week later. Especially as we have never been shown any video of the events one week later other than the still webcam images during daylight the next few days.
TEPCO Webcam 23rd March 5pm
And reactor data http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/EXPORT/projects/fukushima/plots/cur/out/plot-un3-t-I-full.png
What happened on the night of the 20/21st that caused heavy smoke and steam for days? Note that Core Press A goes off scale and above design limits and Core Press B goes offscale impossible low.
And what was the black rain hitting the webcam all day 21st March?
TEPCO Webcam 21st March 4pm JST
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That is a drop of water on the second pic !
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Take a look at the rest of the day. That’s one of the clearest images of the day. I downloaded all the images back at the time. Think they are still on the TEPCO website somewhere though.
21zt March 10am
21st March 11am
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Bigger drop of water on lens and suns light angle !
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Yes there is certainly water there. What it looks like to me is that as the smoke is blown towards the camera, “stained” rain seem to hit the camera. As the day progresses these spots are washed off by cleaner rain later.
There is no other day in months of images that I have watched in fast forward slide show mode where simple rain on the lens looks like it did on 21st March
The Vancouver Sun Image linked by Tacomagroove above was taken on the 21st (according to cryptome) and the smoke is heading roughly south or south-east in the general direction of the still webcam.
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should be south or southwest I meant above
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Here’s the 21st March Vacnouver Sun/Cryptome image just to show in more context what was happening at 3 on that date.
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wow….
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Not sure but I think that is a photo taken after the “event” of the 20th/21st probably on the 21st or 23rd March. The Vancouver Sun article is dated 29th March and says “A photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) a week ago”
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Yes, it was published in the Cryptome series on April 9th.
There’s also another picture (the 26th from above) where one can actually see quite clearly the torus-shaped dark steaming / smoking RPV without its lid – sitting in the middle of the pile of rubble, under the framework bar.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp3/daiichi-photos3.htm
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