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IN BRIEF
- The Facts:Dr. Helen Caldicott is considered by many to be one of the foremost experts on Nuclear Radiation. Here she shares her thoughts on the Fukushima disaster nearly a decade after it happened.
- Reflect On:How many incidents need to occur before the human race changes? Why are we still using nuclear energy when there are several other solutions that are more harmonious with the planet and all life on it?
Despite humanity’s increasing levels of intelligence, if you were an extraterrestrial looking down on our planet, you may conclude that we are one of the dumbest species in the universe. We have so much potential, yet we cling to our archaic ways that destroy our planet and do not operate in harmony with this planet and all life on it.
Energy generation is one of many great examples–we don’t have to use nuclear power, oil, or any other Earth-disrupting method to meet our energy goals and needs. There are a number of ways we can generate energy without harming our planet, and they were discovered decades ago.
This reveals a very important point about humanity and where we are at today. The issue is not finding and discovering solutions to our problems, because the solutions already exist. The issue is acknowledging and identifying what prevents us from implementing these solutions. The problems are red tape, human greed, ego, profit, money, and power. It’s a shame we have yet to dismantle these qualities and characteristics when we are sitting on so many of the solutions to the world’s problems.
The Fukushima disaster is a great example. The three meltdowns and at least four big core explosions at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant’s six American-designed Daiichi reactors in March 2011 still constitute the world’s worst nuclear nightmare thus far, surpassing even the Chernobyl #4 reactor’s explosion and meltdown of April 1986.
According to Global Research:
The eight year anniversary of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility passed mostly without comment in mainstream media circles. In spite of ongoing radiological contamination that will continue to spread and threaten human health for lifetimes to come, other stories dominate the international news cycle. The climate change conundrum, serious though it may be, seemingly crowds out all other clear and present environmental hazards.
Energy generation is one of many great examples–we don’t have to use nuclear power, oil, or any other Earth-disrupting method to meet our energy goals and needs. There are a number of ways we can generate energy without harming our planet, and they were discovered decades ago.
This reveals a very important point about humanity and where we are at today. The issue is not finding and discovering solutions to our problems, because the solutions already exist. The issue is acknowledging and identifying what prevents us from implementing these solutions. The problems are red tape, human greed, ego, profit, money, and power. It’s a shame we have yet to dismantle these qualities and characteristics when we are sitting on so many of the solutions to the world’s problems.
The Fukushima disaster is a great example. The three meltdowns and at least four big core explosions at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant’s six American-designed Daiichi reactors in March 2011 still constitute the world’s worst nuclear nightmare thus far, surpassing even the Chernobyl #4 reactor’s explosion and meltdown of April 1986.
According to Global Research:
The eight year anniversary of the triple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility passed mostly without comment in mainstream media circles. In spite of ongoing radiological contamination that will continue to spread and threaten human health for lifetimes to come, other stories dominate the international news cycle. The climate change conundrum, serious though it may be, seemingly crowds out all other clear and present environmental hazards.
According to Harvey Wasserman (“14,000 Hiroshimas Still Swing in Fukushima’s Air,” The Free Press, October 9, 2013), the situation on the ground was still rather catastrophic more than two years after the disaster, because
“Massive quantities of heavily contaminated water are pouring into the Pacific Ocean, dousing workers along the way. Hundreds of huge, flimsy tanks are leaking untold tons of highly radioactive fluids. At Unit #4, more than 1300 fuel rods, with more than 400 tons of extremely radioactive material, containing potential cesium fallout comparable to 14,000 Hiroshima bombs, are stranded 100 feet in the air.”
New readings at Fukushima have recorded the highest radiation levels seen on site.
Readings inside the containment vessel of reactor no. 2 are as high as 530 Sieverts per hour, a dosage that would be fatal dozens and dozens of times over if a human were to be exposed to it. The previous high was a still very fatal rate of 73 Sieverts per hour.
The new record at Fukushima of 530 Sieverts per hour is 70% higher than that of Chernobyl. The 530 Sievert reading was recorded some distance from the melted fuel, so in reality it could be 10 times higher than recorded, said Hideyuki Ban, co-director of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center. (source)
Most of this radiation is being washed out to sea and it is destroying the Pacific Ocean and much of the life in it. Huge amounts of radiation were released into the atmosphere and it circled around the globe especially in the northern hemisphere.
How come we haven’t heard more about Fukushima?
Is it because authorities figure, “What’s the point? There is nothing we can do”? Although that is probably not true, as there are multiple solutions and steps that can be taken, like using hemp to clean up the radiation, for example.
Dr. Helen Caldicott is an author, physician and one of the world’s leading anti-nuclear campaigners. She helped to reinvigorate the group of Physicians for Social Responsibility, acting as president from 1978 to 1983. Since its founding in 2001, she served as president of the US-based Nuclear Policy Research Institute, later called Beyond Nuclear, which initiates symposia and educational projects aimed at informing the public about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and nuclear war. And she is the editor of the 2014 book, Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe.
She is also a Nobel Peace Prize nominee and holder of 21 honorary doctorate degrees.
On the week marking the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima meltdowns, the Global Research News Hour radio program, hosted by Michael Welch, reached out to Dr. Caldicott to get her expert opinion on the health dangers posed by the most serious nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl event.The Interview
Global Research: Now the Japanese government is preparing to welcome visitors to Japan for the 2020 Olympic Games, and coverage of the 8th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster is hardly, it seems to me, registered given the significant radiological and other dangers that you cited and your authors cited in your 2014 book, Crisis Without End. Now it’s been more than four years since that book came out. I was hoping you could update our listenership on what is currently being recognized as the main health threats in 2019, perhaps not registered in the book, that you’re currently looking at in relation to the Fukushima meltdown.
Helen Caldicott: Well it’s difficult because the Japanese government has authorized really only examination of thyroid cancer. Now thyroid cancer is caused by radioactive iodine and there were many, many cases of that after Chernobyl. And already, they’ve looked at children under the age of 18 in the Fukushima prefecture at the time of the accident, and … how many children… 100…no 201 by June 18 last year… 201 had developed thyroid cancer. Some cancers had metastasized. The incidence of thyroid cancer in that population normally is 1 per million. So obviously it’s an epidemic of thyroid cancer and it’s just starting now.
What people need to understand is the latent period of carcinogenesis, ie the time after exposure to radiation when cancers develop is any time from 3 years to 80 years. And so it’s a very, very long period. Thyroid cancers appear early. Leukemia appears about 5 to 10 years later. They’re not looking for leukemia. Solid cancers of every organ, or any organ as such appear about 15 years later and continue and in fact the Hibakusha from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are still alive are still developing cancers in higher than normal numbers.
The Japanese government has told doctors that they are not to talk to their patients about radiation and illnesses derived thereof, and in fact if the doctors do do that, they might lose their funding from the government. The IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency interestingly set up a hospital – a cancer hospital – in Fukushima along with the Fukushima University for people with cancer, which tells you everything.
So there’s a huge, huge cover up. I have been to Japan twice and particularly to Fukushima and spoken to people there and the parents are desperate to hear the truth even if it’s not good truth. And they thanked me for telling them the truth. So it’s an absolute medical catastrophe I would say, and a total cover up to protect the nuclear industry and all its ramifications.
GR: Now, are we talking about some of the, the contamination that happened 8 years ago or are we talking about ongoing emissions from, for example–
HC: Well there are ongoing emissions into the air consistently, number one. Number two, a huge amount of water is being stored –over a million gallons in tanks at the site. That water is being siphoned off from the reactor cores, the damaged melted cores. Water is pumped consistently every day, every hour, to keep the cores cool in case they have another melt. And that water, of course, is extremely contaminated.
Now they say they’ve filtered out the contaminants except for the tritium which is part of the water molecule, but they haven’t. There’s strontium, cesium, and many other elements in that water – it’s highly radioactive – and because there isn’t enough room to build more tanks, they’re talking about emptying all that water into the Pacific Ocean and the fishermen are very, very upset. The fish already being caught off Fukushima, some are obviously contaminated. But this will be a disaster.
Water comes down from the mountains behind the reactors, flows underneath the reactors into the sea and always has. And when the reactors were in good shape, the water was fine, didn’t get contaminated. But now the three molten cores in contact with that water flowing under the reactors and so the water flowing into the Pacific is very radioactive and that’s a separate thing from the million gallons or more in those tanks.
They put up a refrigerated wall of frozen dirt around the reactors to prevent that water from the mountains flowing underneath the reactors, which has cut down the amount of water flowing per day from 500 tons to about a hundred and fifty. But of course, if they lose electricity, that refrigeration system is going to fail, and it’s a transient thing anyway so it’s ridiculous. In terms… So over time the Pacific is going to become more and more radioactive.
They talk about decommissioning and removing those molten cores. When robots go in and try and have a look at them, their wiring just melts and disappears. They’re extraordinarily radioactive. No human can go near them because they would die within 48 hours from the radiation exposure. They will never, and I quote never, decommission those reactors.
They will never be able to stop the water coming down from the mountains. And so, the truth be known, it’s an ongoing global radiological catastrophe which no one really is addressing in full.
GR: Do we have a better reading on, for example the thyroids, but also leukemia incubation—
HC: No they’re not looking–well, leukemia they’re not looking for leukemia…
GR: Just thyroid
HC: They’re not charting it. So the only cancer they’re looking at is thyroid cancer and that’s really high, and you know it’s at 201, some have already been diagnosed and some have metastasized. And a very tight lid is being kept on any other sort of radiation related illnesses and leukemia and the like. All the other cancers and the like, and leukemia is so… It’s not just a catastrophe it’s a…
GR: …a cover up
HC: Yeah. I can’t really explain how I feel medically about it. It’s just hideous.
GR: Well I have a brother who’s a physician, who was pointing to where we should be, the World Health Organization is a fairly authoritative body of research for all of the indicators and epidemiological aspects of this, but you seem to suggest the World Health Organization may not be that reliable in light of the fact that they are partnered with the IAEA. Is that my understanding…?
HC: Correct. They signed a document, I think in ‘59, with the IAEA that they would not report any medical effects of radiological disasters and they’ve stuck to that. So they are in effect in this area part of the International Atomic Energy Agency whose mission is to promote nuclear power. So don’t even think about the WHO. it’s really obscene.
GR: So what would… the incentive would be simply that they got funding?
HC: I don’t know. I really don’t know but they sold themselves to the devil.
GR: That’s pretty incredible. So there’s also the issue of biomagnification in the oceans, where you have radioactive debris, hundreds of tons of this radioactive water getting into the oceans and biomagnifying up through the food chain, so these radioactive particles can get inside our bodies. Could you speak to what you anticipate to see, what you would anticipate, whether it’s recorded by World Health authorities or not, what we could expect to see in the years ahead in terms of the illnesses that manifest themselves?
HC: Well number one, Fukushima is a very agricultural prefecture. Beautiful, beautiful peaches, beautiful food, and lots of rice. And the radiation spread far and wide through the Fukushima prefecture, and indeed they have been plowing up millions and millions of tons of radioactive dirt and storing it in plastic bags all over the prefecture. The mountains are highly radioactive and every time it rains, down comes radiation with the water. So the radiation – the elements. And there are over 200 radioactive elements made in a nuclear reactor. Some have lives of seconds and some have lives of millions of years or lasts for millions of years will I say. So there are many many isotopes, long-lasting isotopes – cesium, strontium, tritium is another one – but many, many on the soil in Fukushima.
And what happens is – you talked about biomagnification – when the plants take up the water from the soil, they take up the cesium which is a potassium analog – it resembles potassium. Strontium 90 resembles calcium and the like. And these elements get magnified by orders of magnitude in the rice and in the plants. And so when you eat food that is grown in Fukushima, the chances are it’s going to be relatively radioactive.
They’ve been diluting radioactive rice with non-radioactive rice to make it seem a bit better. Now, into the ocean go these isotopes as well, and the algae bio-magnify them by – you know -ten to a hundred times or more. And then the crustaceans eat the algae, bio-magnify it more. The little fish eat the crustaceans, the big fish eat the little fish and the like. And tuna found in – off the coast of California some years ago contained isotopes from Fukushima. Also fish, being caught on the west coast of California contained some of these isotopes. So, it’s an ongoing bio-magnification catastrophe.
And the thing is that you can’t even taste, smell or see radioactive elements in your food. They’re invisible. And it takes a long time for cancers to occur. And you can’t identify a particular cancer caused by a particular substance or isotope. You can only identify that problem by doing epidemiological studies comparing irradiated people with non-irradiated people to see what the cancer levels are and that data comes from Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many, many, many other studies.
GR: Chernobyl as well, no?
HC: Oh, Chernobyl! Well, a wonderful book was produced by the Russians, and published by the New York Academy of Sciences, called Chernobyl with over 5000 on the ground studies of children and diseases in Belarus and the Ukraine, and all over Europe. And by now over a million people have already died from the Chernobyl disaster. And many diseases have been caused by that, including premature aging in children, microcephaly in babies, very small heads, diabetes, leukemia, I mean, I could go on and on.
And those diseases which have been very well described in that wonderful book, which everyone should read, are not being addressed or identified or looked for in the Fukushima or Japanese population.
May I say that parts of Tokyo are extremely radioactive. People have been measuring the dirt from roofs of apartments, from the roadway, from vacuum cleaner dust. And some of these samples, they’re so radioactive that they would classify to be buried in radioactive waste facilities in America. So, that’s number one.
Number two, to have the Olympics in Fukushima just defies imagination. And some of the areas where the athletes are going to be running, the dust and dirt there has been measured, and it’s highly radioactive. So, this is Abe, the Prime Minister of Japan, who set this up to – as a sort of way to obscure what Fukushima really means. And those young athletes, you know, who are – and young people are much more sensitive to radiation, developing cancers later than older people – it’s just a catastrophe waiting to happen.
GR: Dr. Caldicott…
HC:They’re calling it the radioactive Olympics!
GR: (Chuckle). Is there anything that people can do, you know, whether they live in Japan or, say, the west coast of North America to mitigate the effects that this disaster has had, and may still be having eight years later?
HC: Yes. Do not eat any Japanese food because you don’t know where it’s sourced. Do not eat fish from Japan, miso, rice, you name it. Do not eat Japanese food. Period. Fish caught off the west coast of Canada and America, well, they’re not testing the fish so I don’t know what you’d do. I mean, most of it’s probably not radioactive but you don’t know because you can’t taste it.
They’ve closed down the air-borne radioactive measuring instruments off the west coast of America, but that’s pretty bad, because there still could be another huge accident at those reactors.
For instance, if there’s another large earthquake, number one, all those tanks would be destroyed and the water would pour into the Pacific. Number two, there could be another meltdown, a release – huge release of radiation, from the damaged reactors. So, things are very tenuous, but they’re not just tenuous now. They’re going to be tenuous forever.
The Takeaway
The takeaway here is to simply learn from our mistakes. To keep pushing for change and awareness and to hammer home the idea that we must continue to speak up. The Fukushima disaster is one of many great examples of how humanity cannot ignore the “negatives” and only focus on the positives. We have to confront our issues, face them, acknowledge them, and understand them.
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Media blackout over “unimaginable” radiation levels detected at Fukushima
Media blackout over “unimaginable” radiation levels detected at Fukushima…
By Mike Adams on February 8, 2017
Fukushima reactor 3: radioactive steam pours out after the intial explosion
There are times when I’m convinced humanity is a suicidal cult of complete idiots whose only real achievement is figuring out increasingly obscene ways to distract themselves from reality. While everyone was busy watching Lady Gaga channel Satanic symbolism and occult imagery in front of 100 million viewers at the Superbowl, the Fukushima nuclear accident just got a whole lot worse.
Almost no media outlets in the United States even mentioned the alarming news, either. As The Guardian reports, radiation levels have reach what experts call an “unimaginable” intensity inside the containment structure of reactor No. 2, clocking in at 530 sieverts per hour.
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Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean
Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean
Right now, a massive amount of highly radioactive water is escaping into the Pacific Ocean from the ruins of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. This has been going on all day, every day for more than two years. The enormous amounts of tritium, cesium and strontium that are being released are being carried by wind, rain and ocean currents all over the northern Hemisphere. And of course the west coast of the United States is being hit particularly hard. When you drink water or eat seafood that has been contaminated with these radioactive particles, they can stick around for a very long time. Over the coming years, this ongoing disaster could potentially affect the health of millions upon millions of people living in the northern hemisphere, and the sad thing is that a lot of those people will never even know the true cause of their health problems.
For a long time, the Japanese government has been trusting Tepco to handle this crisis, but now it has become abundantly clear that Tepco has no idea what they are doing. In fact, the flow of radioactive water has gotten so bad that authorities in Japan are now calling it an “emergency”…
Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country’s nuclear watchdog said on Monday.This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters.
The amount of water that we are talking about is absolutely enormous. According to Yahoo, 400 metric tons of water is being pumped into the basements of destroyed buildings at Fukushima every single day…
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Effects of the reactor disaster in Fukushima
Large quantities of radioactive material were released, both in the air and also in the sea water. As a direct result of the reactor disaster, the population in an area of 30 km around the nuclear power plant had to be evacuated. An exclusion zone was set up.
Größere Kartenansicht
2 years after the disaster, Fukushima is mostly disappeared from daily press.
It is difficult – especially without in-depth knowledge- to get an objective overview of the current radiological situation in the region of Fukushima or in general for Japan. By evaluating several kinds of information from the Internet, we have tried to create a clear overview, basing ourselves as much as possible on facts and abstaining from political comments.
From our point of view,
the radiological situation can be summarized as follows:
In the surrounding prefectures, the average value was approx. 180 Bq/kg, in western Japan approx. 70 Bq/kg.
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Tuhoutuneesta voimalasta vuotaa edelleen radioaktiivista cesiumia
Fukushiman lähivesillä elävät, japanilaisessa ruokavaliossa hyvin arvostetut vihersimput ovat säteilevien kalojen maailmanennätysten haltijoita.
Maaliskuun 11. päivänä 2011 Japanissa maanjäristyksen ja sitä seuranneen tsunamin vaurioittaman Fukushima Daiichi -ydinvoimalan lähivesiltä pyydetyistä merikaloista mitatut säteilyarvot nousevat toistuvasti uutisiin. Noin vuosi onnettomuuden jälkeen japanilaistutkijat ilmoittivat rannikkovesistä pyydettyjen kalojen korkeimpien säteilytasojen yltäneen yli puoleen miljoonaan becquereliin kilogrammassa (Bq/kg). Tämä säteilymäärä ylitti Japanissa elintarvikkeena käytettäville kaloille asetetun ylärajan 5 100-kertaisesti (Kaloissa ennätyksellisen korkeita säteilytasoja Fukushiman tuhoutuneen ydinvoimalan lähivesillä. Tiedebasaari 3.3.2013;https://tiedebasaari.wordpress.com/2013/03/03). ”Ennätystehtailu” ei kuitenkaan päättynyt noihin huippulukemiin.
Voimalan lähivesien jatkuvissa seurannoissa aikaisemminkin korkeita radioaktiivisen cesium-alkuaineen pitoisuuksia keränneen vihersimppulajin (Hexagrammos otakii) uusimmista näytteistä mitattiin jälleen uusi maailmanennätys: 740 000 becquereliä kilossa, kertoi Japanin toiseksi suurin sanomalehti Asahi Shimbun 16.3.2013. Tämä simppulaji on etenkin japanilaisessa ruokavaliossa erittäin arvostettu herkku, mutta Fukushiman lähivesiltä pyydettyä kalaa ei tietenkään saa myydä tai käyttää elintarvikkeeksi. Japanissa suurin sallittu ruokakalan säteilytaso on 100 Bq/kg. Euroopan unionin säädöksissä myyntiin toimitettavien elintarvikkeiden korkein sallittu säteilytaso on 600 Bq/kg.
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28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried with Nuclear Radiation from Fukushima
By Michael Snyder Global Research, December 30, 2018 The Truth 21 October 2013
Note: 7 years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, we bring to the attention of our readers this piece originally published in October 2013. The situation today is far more serious that what is described in this article.
The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center.
It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain.
Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima…
1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores…
Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses.
The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement.
2. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline…
At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.”
3. Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low. Many are blaming Fukushima.
4. Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.
5. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast.
6. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years.
7. Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.
8. One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
9. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
- 73 percent of mackerel tested
- 91 percent of the halibut
- 92 percent of the sardines
- 93 percent of the tuna and eel
- 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
- 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
10. Canadian authorities are finding extremely high levels of nuclear radiation in certain fish samples…
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/2019/03/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html
The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center.
It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain.
1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores…
Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses.
The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement.
At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.”
- 73 percent of mackerel tested
- 91 percent of the halibut
- 92 percent of the sardines
- 93 percent of the tuna and eel
- 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
- 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/2019/03/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html
Effects of the reactor disaster in Fukushima on the globally linked economy - WEBCAMS
Effects of the reactor disaster in Fukushima
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Fukushima – 2 years after the disaster
On March 11th, 2011 a heavy earthquake followed by a tsunami ruined large areas of the Japanese east coast. As a consequence of this environmental disaster, 4 of 6 used nuclear power plant blocks of the NPP site Fukushima-Dai-ichi were badly damaged and/or extensively destroyed.Large quantities of radioactive material were released, both in the air and also in the sea water. As a direct result of the reactor disaster, the population in an area of 30 km around the nuclear power plant had to be evacuated. An exclusion zone was set up.
Größere Kartenansicht
2 years after the disaster, Fukushima is mostly disappeared from daily press.
It is difficult – especially without in-depth knowledge- to get an objective overview of the current radiological situation in the region of Fukushima or in general for Japan. By evaluating several kinds of information from the Internet, we have tried to create a clear overview, basing ourselves as much as possible on facts and abstaining from political comments.
From our point of view,
the radiological situation can be summarized as follows:
Ambient dose rate
The ambient dose rate is mainly determined by the Cesium nuclides plated out in the ground (Cs-134, Cs-137). Before the reactor disaster, the background radiation (terrestrial and cosmic radiation) in the region of Fukushima was approx. 72 nSv/h (hint: On our homepage you find the current background radiation value at our site in Dülmen). In the autumn of 2012 – i.e. 1.5 years after the disaster – the dose rate in the same region was 192 nSv/h, that corresponds to an increase of 120 nSv/h. In comparison, the increase in western Japan was approx. 70 nSv/h.Foodstuff
The radiation in foodstuff is strongly supervised. In Japan, the limit values were decreased again in September 2012. Looking at the prefecture (district) of Fukushima, the average value of contamination in foodstuff is approx. 300 Bq/kg.In the surrounding prefectures, the average value was approx. 180 Bq/kg, in western Japan approx. 70 Bq/kg.
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Webcam and Weather in Fukushima, Japan:Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
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Effects of the reactor disaster in Fukushima
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Fukushima – 2 years after the disaster
On March 11th, 2011 a heavy earthquake followed by a tsunami ruined large areas of the Japanese east coast. As a consequence of this environmental disaster, 4 of 6 used nuclear power plant blocks of the NPP site Fukushima-Dai-ichi were badly damaged and/or extensively destroyed. Large quantities of radioactive material were released, both in the air and also in the sea water. As a direct result of the reactor disaster, the population in an area of 30 km around the nuclear power plant had to be evacuated. An exclusion zone was set up.
2 years after the disaster, Fukushima is mostly disappeared from daily press.
It is difficult – especially without in-depth knowledge- to get an objective overview of the current radiological situation in the region of Fukushima or in general for Japan. By evaluating several kinds of information from the Internet, we have tried to create a clear overview, basing ourselves as much as possible on facts and abstaining from political comments.
From our point of view,
the radiological situation can be summarized as follows:
On March 11th, 2011 a heavy earthquake followed by a tsunami ruined large areas of the Japanese east coast. As a consequence of this environmental disaster, 4 of 6 used nuclear power plant blocks of the NPP site Fukushima-Dai-ichi were badly damaged and/or extensively destroyed. Large quantities of radioactive material were released, both in the air and also in the sea water. As a direct result of the reactor disaster, the population in an area of 30 km around the nuclear power plant had to be evacuated. An exclusion zone was set up.
2 years after the disaster, Fukushima is mostly disappeared from daily press.
It is difficult – especially without in-depth knowledge- to get an objective overview of the current radiological situation in the region of Fukushima or in general for Japan. By evaluating several kinds of information from the Internet, we have tried to create a clear overview, basing ourselves as much as possible on facts and abstaining from political comments.
From our point of view,
the radiological situation can be summarized as follows:
It is difficult – especially without in-depth knowledge- to get an objective overview of the current radiological situation in the region of Fukushima or in general for Japan. By evaluating several kinds of information from the Internet, we have tried to create a clear overview, basing ourselves as much as possible on facts and abstaining from political comments.
From our point of view,
the radiological situation can be summarized as follows:
Ambient dose rate
The ambient dose rate is mainly determined by the Cesium nuclides plated out in the ground (Cs-134, Cs-137). Before the reactor disaster, the background radiation (terrestrial and cosmic radiation) in the region of Fukushima was approx. 72 nSv/h (hint: On our homepage you find the current background radiation value at our site in Dülmen). In the autumn of 2012 – i.e. 1.5 years after the disaster – the dose rate in the same region was 192 nSv/h, that corresponds to an increase of 120 nSv/h. In comparison, the increase in western Japan was approx. 70 nSv/h.
The ambient dose rate is mainly determined by the Cesium nuclides plated out in the ground (Cs-134, Cs-137). Before the reactor disaster, the background radiation (terrestrial and cosmic radiation) in the region of Fukushima was approx. 72 nSv/h (hint: On our homepage you find the current background radiation value at our site in Dülmen). In the autumn of 2012 – i.e. 1.5 years after the disaster – the dose rate in the same region was 192 nSv/h, that corresponds to an increase of 120 nSv/h. In comparison, the increase in western Japan was approx. 70 nSv/h.
Foodstuff
The radiation in foodstuff is strongly supervised. In Japan, the limit values were decreased again in September 2012. Looking at the prefecture (district) of Fukushima, the average value of contamination in foodstuff is approx. 300 Bq/kg. In the surrounding prefectures, the average value was approx. 180 Bq/kg, in western Japan approx. 70 Bq/kg.
Basic nuclides in foodstuff are Cs-134 and Cs-137. These nuclides have different half-lives:
For Cs-134 it’s 2 years, for Cs-137 it’s 30 years (physical half-life). Due to different effects during release and plate-out of the radioactive substances (wetter situation, geological structures,…), both the values of ground contamination and the radiation values in foodstuff are partially very different. Furthermore, different kinds of food also show very different contamination levels. The previously mentioned values are orientation values.
Particularly in Japan, fish is a very important part of food. Several weeks after the disaster, large quantities of radioactive water were still flowing into the sea. Even if the sea’s enormous volume guarantees an intensive blending and dilution, increased activity levels are detected in fish. Flatfish living on the sea ground contains approx. 300-400 Bq/kg. Predators contain even higher values.
The radiation in foodstuff is strongly supervised. In Japan, the limit values were decreased again in September 2012. Looking at the prefecture (district) of Fukushima, the average value of contamination in foodstuff is approx. 300 Bq/kg. In the surrounding prefectures, the average value was approx. 180 Bq/kg, in western Japan approx. 70 Bq/kg.
Basic nuclides in foodstuff are Cs-134 and Cs-137. These nuclides have different half-lives:
For Cs-134 it’s 2 years, for Cs-137 it’s 30 years (physical half-life). Due to different effects during release and plate-out of the radioactive substances (wetter situation, geological structures,…), both the values of ground contamination and the radiation values in foodstuff are partially very different. Furthermore, different kinds of food also show very different contamination levels. The previously mentioned values are orientation values.
Particularly in Japan, fish is a very important part of food. Several weeks after the disaster, large quantities of radioactive water were still flowing into the sea. Even if the sea’s enormous volume guarantees an intensive blending and dilution, increased activity levels are detected in fish. Flatfish living on the sea ground contains approx. 300-400 Bq/kg. Predators contain even higher values.
Basic nuclides in foodstuff are Cs-134 and Cs-137. These nuclides have different half-lives:
For Cs-134 it’s 2 years, for Cs-137 it’s 30 years (physical half-life). Due to different effects during release and plate-out of the radioactive substances (wetter situation, geological structures,…), both the values of ground contamination and the radiation values in foodstuff are partially very different. Furthermore, different kinds of food also show very different contamination levels. The previously mentioned values are orientation values.
Particularly in Japan, fish is a very important part of food. Several weeks after the disaster, large quantities of radioactive water were still flowing into the sea. Even if the sea’s enormous volume guarantees an intensive blending and dilution, increased activity levels are detected in fish. Flatfish living on the sea ground contains approx. 300-400 Bq/kg. Predators contain even higher values.
Decontamination
In many areas around the reactor site Fukushima, a decontamination i.e. cleaning was made to reduce the radiation level. Part of the decontamination measures consists of digging contaminated ground. As a result, large plastic containers with contaminated material are stored everywhere. A radioactive interim stock in the open !
In many areas around the reactor site Fukushima, a decontamination i.e. cleaning was made to reduce the radiation level. Part of the decontamination measures consists of digging contaminated ground. As a result, large plastic containers with contaminated material are stored everywhere. A radioactive interim stock in the open !
Situation in and on the destroyed reactor blocks
The current situation at the destroyed reactor blocks and in the fuel element storage areas cannot be determined by us.
We expect that an objective determination of the radioprotection situation for those areas in which a meltdown has taken place will not be possible now or in the medium term.
Also in future there will be areas around Fukushima which cannot be populated anymore.
Many inhabitants of the prefecture of Fukushima have lost their homes. Like the reactor disaster of Chernobyl, the reactor disaster of Fukushima will put a strain on us for many decades.
As a manufacturer of radiation measuring instruments, we have delivered lots of measuring instruments (CoMo 170 contamination monitor, ANNA and EL-25 foodstuff counters) to Japan. In this way we have enabled governmental institutions, fishing cooperations, industrial companies as well as private persons to carry out their own, independent measurements. Our Japanese partners have supported us intensively in this. Thank you very much.
With this short summary we would like to give a small overview. In daily newspapers, only single headlines appear 2 years after the disaster. The Internet offers lots of information.
http://www.sea-duelmen.de/en/fukushima/fukushima.html
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/p/webcam-and-weather-in-fukushima-japan.html
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We expect that an objective determination of the radioprotection situation for those areas in which a meltdown has taken place will not be possible now or in the medium term.
Also in future there will be areas around Fukushima which cannot be populated anymore.
Many inhabitants of the prefecture of Fukushima have lost their homes. Like the reactor disaster of Chernobyl, the reactor disaster of Fukushima will put a strain on us for many decades.
As a manufacturer of radiation measuring instruments, we have delivered lots of measuring instruments (CoMo 170 contamination monitor, ANNA and EL-25 foodstuff counters) to Japan. In this way we have enabled governmental institutions, fishing cooperations, industrial companies as well as private persons to carry out their own, independent measurements. Our Japanese partners have supported us intensively in this. Thank you very much.
With this short summary we would like to give a small overview. In daily newspapers, only single headlines appear 2 years after the disaster. The Internet offers lots of information.
http://www.sea-duelmen.de/en/fukushima/fukushima.html
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/p/webcam-and-weather-in-fukushima-japan.html
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