Here is a radio interview with Leuren Moret in which she gives more details about Fukushima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARLfnfvt ... ideo_title
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by Peachtree Pam » Sat May 28, 2011 7:04 am
by crikkett » Sat May 28, 2011 9:07 am
Peachtree Pam wrote:Here is a radio interview with Leuren Moret in which she gives more details about Fukushima.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARLfnfvt ... ideo_title
by Peachtree Pam » Sat May 28, 2011 9:15 am
by Peachtree Pam » Sat May 28, 2011 9:52 am
by winsomecowboy2 » Sun May 29, 2011 2:28 am
by Peachtree Pam » Sun May 29, 2011 9:58 am
by crikkett » Sun May 29, 2011 10:18 am
Peachtree Pam wrote:I think she is basically trying to wake people up to what is deliberately being done to them.
by eyeno » Sun May 29, 2011 3:09 pm
by eyeno » Mon May 30, 2011 8:01 pm
by hanshan » Tue May 31, 2011 3:08 pm
Two public drinking water systems in Montgomery County have been reported as being contaminated with radiation.
Long-term exposure to the radionuclide contaminants within the water has been linked to an increased risk of cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Hulon Lakes Subdivision and Vista Verde Water Systems, both near Lake Conroe, have exceeded the Maximum Contaminate Levels (MCL) as regulated by the EPA.
by seemslikeadream » Tue May 31, 2011 3:13 pm
by hanshan » Tue May 31, 2011 4:03 pm
Radioactive soil in pockets of areas near Japan’s crippled nuclear plant have reached the same level as Chernobyl, where a “dead zone” remains 25 years after the reactor in the former Soviet Union exploded.
Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant measured more than 1.48 million becquerels a square meter, the standard used for evacuating residents after the Chernobyl accident, Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, said in a research report published May 24 and given to the government.
Radiation from the plant has spread over 600 square kilometers (230 square miles), according to the report. The extent of contamination shows the government must move fast to avoid the same future for the area around Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant as Chernobyl, scientists said. Technology has improved since the 1980s, meaning soil can be decontaminated with chemicals or by planting crops to absorb radioactive materials, allowing residents to return.
by hanshan » Tue May 31, 2011 4:58 pm
Minuscule levels of radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant incident have been detected in a widening number of U.S. states, but the Environmental Protection Agency reaffirmed this week that the levels represent no threat to public health.
"To date, data from EPA's real-time radiation air monitoring networks continue to show typical fluctuations in background radiation levels," Jonathan Edwards, director of the EPA's Radiation Protection Division, said in a statement Monday. "The levels we are seeing are far below any levels of concern."
At least 15 states reported detecting radioisotopes in air or water or both. No states have recommended that residents take potassium iodide, a salt that protects the thyroid gland from radioactive iodine.
by seemslikeadream » Tue May 31, 2011 5:19 pm
Stricken Fukushima nuke plant leaking oil
By KAZUAKI NAGATA
Staff writer
Oil was leaking into the sea from heavy oil tanks for reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, adding the spill may have been ongoing since the March 11 quake and tsunami.
Tepco said workers at the site saw an oil slick floating on the sea at 8 a.m. Tuesday near the intakes of units 5 and 6.
The oil slick is believed to be 200 to 300 meters long.
The total amount of oil that has leaked is still unknown, and the utility plans to set up a boom to prevent the slick from spreading.
According to the utility, the two tanks, whose capacity is 960,000 liters each, were hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the tanks themselves or pipelines sustained damage, probably causing the oil spill.
Tepco spokesman Junichi Matsumoto said the utility believes the leak probably started on or shortly after March 11, noting the tsunami moved the tanks more than 10 meters to the north.
When the tsunami hit, a tanker was refilling the tanks and they were nearly full, Matsumoto said during a news conference at Tepco headquarters.
After the tsunami, workers visually checked the tanks from the outside, and did not conduct a detailed inspection, Tepco said.
Akio Koyama, a professor at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute and an expert on managing radioactive waste, said heavy oil floating on the sea is unlikely be contaminated with radioactive materials released from the crippled nuclear plant.
Radioactive materials such as ionic cesium usually dissolve in water. Water and oil are immiscible, so radioactive materials in the water rarely get absorbed by oil, Koyama said.
Radioactive materials in the air might stick to the oil, but the amount would be less compared with what's in the seawater, he added.
by hanshan » Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:07 pm
Nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant began melting just five hours after Japan’s March 11 earthquake, a Japanese nuclear engineer told a panel of U.S. scientists Thursday.
About 11 hours later, all of the uranium fuel in the facility’s unit 1 reactor had slumped to the bottom of its inner containment vessel, boring a hole through a thick steel lining, the University of Tokyo’s Naoto Sekimura told a committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sekimura’s assessment further damages the credibility of the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco). This week, the company admitted for the first time that nuclear fuel in three of the plant’s reactors had melted — a conclusion that independent scientists had reached long ago.
And in a rare insight into internal deliberations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees U.S. power plants, Commissioner George Apostolakis said that NRC staff members “thought the cores were melting” early in the Daiichi crisis. This conclusion — and the lack of information from Japanese authorities — drove the commission’s controversial recommendation to evacuate Americans within 50-mile radius of the facility, an area far larger than the 12.5-mile evacuation zone then enforced by the Japanese government.
“The 50 miles was very conservative,” Apostolakis told the academy scientists. “You can’t say someone was right or wrong in this situation.”
In what is being considered as a “worst case scenario” Japan power company authorities have now confirmed that three of the Fukushima nuclear reactors have actually melted down. The news follows onsite investigation by volunteer plant workers who were able to observe the damage from the March 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that flooded the reactors with sea water, which resulted in radiation levels in the seas near the plant of up to 1,250 times above normal levels. With this fact in mind, many people began to fear that a meltdown of the reactor fuel rods in even one of the damaged reactors will seriously affect the world environment for years to come.
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