Contaminated water threatens to swamp Fukushima site as it rises to surface — Radioactive liquid will continue entering ocean despite attempts to block it Published: August 28th, 2013 at 3:46 pm ET By ENENews Author: Andrew Karam Date: August 27, 2013
‘Radiation safety expert’ Andrew Karam
The great earthquake that caused the tsunami also rattled the reactor plants [...] The shock opened up seams in the reactors and water drained from the cores. [...]
The headlines are dire: Two and a half years after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Dai-ichi, contaminated water is leaking from the plant at a faster rate than most people realized, getting into the groundwater and the Pacific Ocean. [...]
[...] To add to Fukushima’s woes, there have also been reports of contaminated groundwater, blocked from its path to the ocean, rising toward the surface and threatening to swamp the site. [...]
The water that leaked out of the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors sank through the ground until it reached the water table, and then merged with the water there and began flowing to the sea. (This is in addition to manmade flow paths—pipes, culverts, etc.—through which some water has flowed) [...] any attempt to block its path can only be temporary—eventually the water will back up, as water will behind any dam, until it flows around the obstruction or overtops it. This is why contaminated groundwater is rising toward the surface. [...]
http://enenews.com/popular-mec.....an-only-be-temporary [...] while it might be possible to create a barrier to slow the progress of contaminated water, in the meantime radioactivity has entered and will continue to enter the environment. If this radioactivity remains local, then the local marine environs might be damaged, but the larger environment should remain unscathed. On the other hand, if the radioactivity spreads far and wide, the local environment should emerge relatively intact, and even the wider environment should not fare badly [...]
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Radioactive plume to impact West Coast in a year — Not going away after it hits… likely to only get stronger — Fukushima will keep releasing contamination for years to come — Must demand officials test fish and make data public Published: August 27th, 2013 at 11:20 pm ET By ENENews Date: Aug 27, 2013
Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds chief engineer: For the people in Japan and people on the West Coast there is a wedge of radioactivity working its way across the Pacific — called a plume — of cesium-137, strontium, and other isotopes. The plume is about a year away from hitting the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
It’s not over, it’s not like it’s going to hit and go away. The nuclear plant is continuing to leak. That plume is 10 times more radioactive than the ocean was before (cesium in the ocean from bomb testing was the only source of radioactivity) and now it’s 10 times that — and likely to grow — because the Daiichi site is going to continue to leak into the environment for years to come.
I think what we all should demand is #1: Get rid of Tepco… we need a first rate engineering firm in there to do it…
The other thing people on the West Coast should demand is transparent analysis of fish. There’s no state organization that’s sampling the fish, no government is sampling the fish and telling people what the numbers are. If the government’s sampling it, they’re not telling anybody — and I’m uncomfortable with that.
I want to know what the number is, I think as citizens, our government owes it to us — to tell us how radioactive the fish are in the Pacific. We’re not getting that right now. There’s probably good science being done, but Citizens are not allowed to know what the government knows.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
UPI: Fukushima plume to reach U.S. West Coast in months; Measurable increase in radioactive material — Study: Prolonged exposure for California lasting 10 years; Hits Hawaii early 2014… may already be surrounded Published: August 28th, 2013 at 9:27 pm ET By ENENews
UPI, Aug. 28, 2013: Fukushima radioactive plume being tracked toward U.S. West Coast [...] The radioactive plume from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster will reach U.S. shores within 3 years of the date of the incident, Australian researchers say. [...] “Observers on the West Coast of the United States will be able to see a measurable increase in radioactive material three years after the event,” researcher Erik van Sebille said in an ARC release Wednesday. “However, people on those coastlines should not be concerned as the concentration of radioactive material quickly drops below World Health Organization safety levels as soon as it leaves Japanese waters.” [...]
Aug. 28, 2013: [...] [Eddies and giant whirlpools] direct the radioactive particles to different areas along the US west coast. “Although some uncertainties remain around the total amount released and the likely concentrations that would be observed, we have shown unambiguously that the contact with the north-west American coasts will not be identical everywhere,” said Dr Vincent Rossi. “Shelf waters north of 45°N will experience higher concentrations during a shorter period, when compared to the Californian coast. [...] The plume will be forced down deeper into the ocean toward the subtropics before rising up again along the southern Californian shelf.” [...] Eventually over a number of decades, a measurable but otherwise harmless signature of the radiation will spread into other ocean basins, particularly the Indian and South Pacific oceans. [...]
Abstract of Multi-decadal projections of surface and interior pathways of the Fukushima Cesium-137 radioactive plume, October 2013 (print): [...] The simulations suggest that the contaminated plume would have been rapidly diluted below 10,000 Bq/m3 by the energetic Kuroshio Current and Kurushio Extension by July 2011. Based on our source function of 22 Bq/m3, which sits at the upper range of the published estimates, waters with Cs-137 concentrations >10 Bq/m3 are projected to reach the northwestern American coast and the Hawaiian archipelago by early 2014. Driven by quasi-zonal oceanic jets, shelf waters north of 45°N experience Cs-137 levels of 10–30 Bq/m3 between 2014 and 2020, while the Californian coast is projected to see lower concentrations (10–20 Bq/m3) slightly later (2016–2025). This late but prolonged exposure is related to subsurface pathways of mode waters, where Cs-137 is subducted toward the subtropics before being upwelled from deeper sources along the southern Californian coast. The model suggests that Fukushima-derived Cs-137 will penetrate the interior ocean and spread to other oceanic basins over the next two decades and beyond. [...]
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
it appears that the point here is...........why isn't this being reported by our great LAME STREAM MEIDA?
Or has the government put duct tape over their mouths???
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
it appears that the point here is...........why isn't this being reported by our great LAME STREAM MEIDA?
Or has the government put duct tape over their mouths???
YUP! It's just one big conspiracy...Amazing how Bumblers LAME STREAM MEDIA IS COVERING UP! NBC NEWS: Wed., Aug 28, 2013
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Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Wednesday officially raised the severity rating of a new leak of radioactive water at Fukushima to Level 3 on an international scale for such incidents. The move raises the scale of what was Japan's first warning on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) since the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011. Those meltdowns were classified as Level 7, the highest INES rating...
Aug 26, 2013
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Scientists say strontium should be particularly watched for, as it accumulates in bones. TEPCO's monitoring results of sea water show spikes in strontium levels in recent weeks. Suzuki has little faith in the future of his business.
Mon., Aug 26, 2013
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Motegi ordered Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, to replace storage tanks that are at risk of leaking radioactive water. Tepco acknowledged last week that hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water had leaked from one of around 350 tanks that were ...
Aug 23, 2013
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Radioactive Ground Water Under Fukushima Nears Pacific Ocean Most fishing in the area is already banned ... Workers have already spotted two more questionable tanks during inspection Thursday. "It's like a haunted house, one thing happening after another," said Nuclear Regulatory Agency Chairman Shunichi Tanaka ...
From ABC:
Aug 29, 2013
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Japan Regulator Urges Monitoring of Fukushima Sea . TEPCO recently acknowledged the chronic leaking of radiation-tainted underground water ... management by your company has completely fallen apart," Kishi said, as he confronted TEPCO President
Aug 28, 2013
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Japan: Nuke Plant Operator Found Leak Too Slowly with agency officials and experts Tuesday night, TEPCO said radioactivity near the leaky tank ... , regulatory officials said TEPCO has repeatedly ignored their instructions to improve their patrolling
Aug 24, 2013
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Seam Possible Cause of Japan Nuke Plant Tank Leak partially collapsed. The tank's 300-ton leak was found Monday. TEPCO said the tank passed ... degenerated, failing to cushion the tank's possible contortion. TEPCO said that the leaked water seeped
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
The thing is, this will be mentioned briefly, in between stories about whether Miley Cyrus is a slut and how the economy has recovered, but the lead storywill be the President telling some fib and some wacky Republican telling some other fib in response. As if everything that happens in the world boils downto whose side are you on, the libs or the conservatives. Young people tune out of this theater, which has nothing to do with their reality, so the big stories go unwatched. OMG, the Syrians gassed children! We must respond, but the UN would like to, but Putin won't let them! We're the only country in the world that cares! Wait, what? I have to ask Congress? Since when? Okay, I am going to let Congress decide! OMG, the President is hiding behind Congress! Sometimes it'sgood when he follows the Constitution, but this time it's bad! What a bunch of crap.
What a slut Miley Cyrus is. Why would anyone care about anything else in Amerika?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
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