Fukushima - the continuing saga

[Daniel808]

Because it's a puppet regime. If the west accuses a puppet, it's the same as accusing themselves.

I'm surprised how people are extremely tolerant to Japan. Think about this, what would happen if the radiation pollution was made by China, not Japan.

The Reason is :
Because they ENVY with China's Achievement.

If I am become one of them, and see all China's Achievement until today. I would become ENVY too

 

[C130]

This is why i have always opposed nuclear energy. All nuclear reactors should be dismantled and nuclear know how must be destroyed and erased or else Mankind is sowing its own destruction.

Nuclear energy is not that bad when you compare it to coal

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/asia/china-coal-health-smog-pollution.html

Take away nuclear you going to have to replace it with coal,natural gas, or renewable energy which takes decades to transistion too.

This is pretty much why the US stopped building new nuclear power plant reactors about 25 year ago (one recently got approval). Too dangerous (and we don't build them for other countries either). Building natural gas power plants instead until fusion is figured out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_and_incidents

Considering how long Nuclear has been around it's been pretty safe to human lives and the environment. Only two level 7 accidents in 60 years, and new nuclear plants are being built that are a lot safer than the older ones.

China is building dozens of these new nuclear power plants and decommissioning coal plants that kill 100,000s of thousands of Chinese a year.

 

[艹艹艹]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/magnitude-7-earthquake-strikes-fukushima-japan-tsunami-warning-issued/
Large earthquake strikes off Fukushima in Japan
Last Updated Nov 21, 2016 11:23 PM EST

TOKYO --An earthquake with magnitude of 6.9 struck Tuesday off the coast of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

However, a preliminary magnitude 7.3 earthquake was recorded, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Both agencies put the depth at just over 6 miles.

The powerful earthquake off the northeast Japanese shore sent residents fleeing to higher ground and prompted worries about the Fukushima nuclear power plant destroyed by a tsunami five year ago.


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Earthquake hits off coast of Japan
All tsunami warnings and advisories have been lifted in Japan, seven hours after a powerful offshore earthquake triggered a series of moderate tsunami waves.

The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of waves of up to 10 feet soon after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake and urged residents on sections of the Pacific coast to evacuate to higher ground.

The first tsunamis were recorded about one hour later. The largest one of 4.6 feet in height reached Sendai Bay about two hours after the earthquake.

The tsunami warnings were lifted first, but advisories of possible smaller tsunamis had remained in place until 12:50 p.m.

Waves of around three feet were observed in Soma port in Fukushima, according to Japanese media.

There were reports of minor injuries and damage, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. The earthquake shook buildings in Tokyo, 150 miles southwest of the epicenter.

NHK also showed one person’s video of water rushing up a river or canal, but well within the height of the embankment. It was eerily reminiscent of the 2011 disaster, when much larger tsunamis rushed up rivers and overflowed, wiping away entire neighborhoods.

Two operators of potentially affected nuclear plants reported no initial signs of damage.

A map showing the epicenter of an earthquake recorded off Japan on Nov. 21, 2016. The rings show the diminishing power of the tremor.

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The Pacific Tusnami Warning Center said ina statementfaraway places like Hawaii aren’t expected to experience any tsunami affects.

In 2011,a magnitude 9.1 earthquake in the same regiontriggered a massive tsunami and led to almost 16,000 deaths. The temblor and tsunami led toa nuclear disaster at the power plant in Fukushima, which is still causing problems to this day.

The operator of the plant said there were no abnormalities observed at the plant, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said.

Reuters reported that as a result of the 2011 disaster, all nuclear plants on the coast threatened by the tsunami are shutdown in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. Only two reactors are operating in Japan, both in the southwest of the country, far away from the tsunami warning.

© 2016 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

[AndrewJin]

Hope everyone safe

 

[Jugger]

I predict the casualities to be less than the recent train crash victims in India.
Japanese know that their country is vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis , so they have made adequate arrangements.

 

[ahojunk]

Good news.

My local TV news said that there are no casualties but some minor injuries.

Thank goodness for that.

 

[onebyone]

Japan Fukushima Cost Seen Almost Doubling to $188 Billion
by Stephen Stapczynski and Ichiro Suzuki
December 8, 2016 — 8:41 PM EST December 9, 2016 — 4:58 AM EST

Cleaning up the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the world’s worst atomic accident since Chernobyl, will cost almost twice as much as originally expected as decommissioning expenses increase, according to Japan government estimates.

Total costs will rise to 21.5 trillion yen ($188 billion), up from a previous estimate of 11 trillion yen, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in a statement given to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. The cost of decommissioning the reactors will increase fourfold to about 8 trillion yen, while compensation payments will rise to 7.9 trillion yen.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc., operator of the stricken atomic plant, will be responsible for 15.9 trillion yen of the cleanup, the ministry said. The shares of Tepco, as the utility is better known, fell as much as 4.7 percent in Tokyo after the release and closed 3 percent down at 521 yen.

“It feels like the market is fully pricing in the fact that Fukushima costs are doubling, despite it coming as no surprise that these costs would be increasing,” said Andrew Jackson, head of Japanese equities at Religare Capital Markets in Singapore. “It also had a huge move over the last few days of about 20 percent on the Japan government raising their credit line to the company, so I’m not surprised to see some profit taking.”

The new estimates underscore the complexity of the challenges at Fukushima after an unprecedented triple meltdown more than five years ago. Tepco continues to struggle to manage hundreds of tons of radiation-contaminated water pouring into the facility daily. In the years ahead, the utility also faces the task of removing the melted fuel in the reactor buildings using technology still to be invented.

“We have never experienced a disaster as big as Fukushima. So with our limited knowledge, it was very difficult to make the previous forecast,” METI Chief Hiroshige Seko told reporters on Friday. “But as the situation became clearer, we decided it was necessary to secure more funding.”

Credit Line

As part of the new estimates, Japan’s government will increase its credit line to Tepco to 13.5 trillion yen, up from 9 trillion yen. The shares had rallied earlier this week after Kyodo News reported that it could be expanded to as much as 14 trillion yen.

A METI panel suggested on Monday that the nation’s new power retailers assist in paying for costs related to Fukushima. More than 300 companies have registered to sell electricity in Japan’s recently liberalized power market.

In order to support new power retailers, METI proposed that the nation’s regional utilities supply new entrants with electricity produced from coal-fired facilities and nuclear plants, the cheapest form of power generation.

Tepco will be strapped with clean-up costs rising to several hundred billion yen annually from the current 80 billion yen, Japan’s industry ministry said in October. Water management and reactor stabilization alone will cost more than 1 trillion yen in the 10-year period ending March 2025, Tepco saidearlier this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ost-seen-nearly-doubling-to-21-5-trillion-yen

 

[ahojunk]

"Fingerprint" of Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster detected in North America
2016-12-11 09:50 | Xinhua | Editor: Feng Shuang

Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, was measured in seawater samples from the west coast of the United States and a salmon sampled from Canada, researchers said.

Releases from the Fukushima reactors have included dozens of radioactive elements, but with regard to materials released into the ocean, most of the attention has been on three radioactive isotopes released in large amounts: iodine-131, cesium-137, and cesium-134, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

Iodine-131 from Fukushima decaying quickly is no longer detectable in the environment. Cesium-137 has a relatively long half-life (30 years), but it is also present in the ocean as a result of nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and the 1960s. Because of its short half-life, cesium-134 can only have come from Fukushima.

Cesium-134 was measured, for the first time, in seawater samples from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in the U.S. northwest state of Oregon, the Statesman Journal newspaper reported, citing the WHOI.

Cesium-134 has also been detected in a Canadian salmon for the first time, the Fukushima InFORM project, led by University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen, reported in November.

Samples, in both cases, indicate that radiation from the nuclear disaster at extremely low levels is not harmful to humans or the environment.

Each of the seawater samples taken in January and February of 2016 and later analyzed measured 0.3 becquerels per cubic meter of cesium-134. And the level in a single sockeye salmon, sampled from the Okanagan Lake in the summer of 2015, was more than 1,000 times lower than the action level set by Health Canada.

Radiation contamination at Fukushima was "unprecedented" for the oceans, Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the WHOI told Xinhua earlier this year.

"While in total Chernobyl was a bigger source of human-made radioactivity, most of the Fukushima releases entered the ocean, more than 80 percent, so for the oceans this was a bigger source," Buesseler said.

Buesseler, who called for more efforts to make environmental and health assessments of the Fukushima accident, said even when radiation levels become lower than any safety standards, people can still learn something about the fate and transport of radioactive compounds in this way.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake -- one of the largest ever recorded -- struck the eastern coast of Japan. The tsunamis caused by the quake badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, eventually causing four of the six reactors there to release radiation into the atmosphere and ocean.

Emergency crews used seawater to cool the damaged reactors at the power plant. Because of the plant's location along the coast, much of the water was washed into the Pacific, resulting in the largest accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history.

 

[onebyone]

Fukushima radiation reaches United States shores for first time

Members of Japan's Ground Self Defense Force decontaminate at the city office of Tomioka Machi, 5 1/2 miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on December 8, 2011. The earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. For the first time, radiation reached North America earlier this year. File photo by Keizo Mori/UPI
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CAPE COD, Mass., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- For the first time since the nuclear disaster in 2011, radiation from Japan's Fukushima plant has reached the West Coast of the United States, according to a researcher.

It's a minuscule amount -- less than one-thousandth the standard for drinking water or a dental X-ray. But it's notable considering the amount was detected 5,000 miles from Japan five years after the disaster.

From his lab another 3,000 miles east in Massachusetts, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution chemical oceanographer Ken Buesseler discovered samples of seawater taken in January and February from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in central Oregon contain radiation unique to the power plants. It wasn't until last week that it was reported by a media outlet, the Statesman Journal, which serves the Oregon area where the samples were found.

"Not to downplay it, but the levels we are seeing are quite low," Buesseler told UPI.

He said it wouldn't stop him from eating seafood or swimming in the Pacific Ocean.

Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from the March 2011 meltdown of three power plants after the 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Radiation was released to the air that fell into the sea.

U.S. federal agencies don't monitor the radiation levels in seawater.

So, Buesseler launched a crowd-funded, citizen-science seawater sampling project.

He tracks radiation across the Pacific Ocean sent to him by West Coast volunteers and scientists aboard research cruises. Then he analyzes samples.

Personally, Buessler has made seven trips to Japan to study radiation levels.

The Oregon samples were the first time cesium-134 -- which is a "fingerprint" to the Japanese plant -- was detected on U.S. shores.

Buesseler's most recent samples off the West Coast also show higher levels of cesium-137, another Fukushima isotope than previously was present in the world's oceans because of nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s.

"You can't ever have a radioactive-free ocean," he said. "You have nuclear disasters like this one, testing and naturally occurring radioactivity."

Cesium-134 was also been detected for the first in a Canadian salmon as part of the Fukushima InFORM project, led by University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen. Buesseler's group recently teamed up with InFORM.

Buesseler's team in February 2015 found Cesium-134 in a sample of seawater from a dock on Vancouver Island, B.C., marking the first landfall in North America from the disaster,

"Even if the levels were twice as high, you could still swim in the ocean for six hours every day for a year and receive a dose more than a thousand times less than a single dental X-ray," Buesseler told the Statesman Journal at the time. "While that's not zero, that's a very low risk."

Buesseler is not really interested in the levels, but in seeing how they vary in terms of distance and time from where the radiation was dispersed.

"As a scientist, I want to see how quickly ocean current mixes," he said. "Models are not my specialty."

The ocean patterns could help determine where the radiation is headed if there is another disaster.

Earlier this year, Japan and Russia announced they would team up to study the effects of radiation on the DNA of future generations.

The Japanese government is still dealing with the environmental and economic consequences of the disaster. Koyodo News reported last month the cost of terminating the nuclear power station nearly doubled from the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to about $178.14 billion. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.'s compensation payments are to increase from $48.1 billion to $71.3 billion. Decontamination costs will double to $44.5 billion, according to the report.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016...d-States-shores-for-first-time/8491481288714/

 

[nature is]

I just had a Pacific Tuna fillet yesterday.

 

[neem456]

188 billion dollar ? Damn !
One could just build a first class military out from scratch with that kind of money.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

It would be a economic choice or environmentally safe thing to just simply burry the whole plant under , ton and ton of sand graval and cement. And then detonate it when it is completely submerge in sand pit.

The idea of keeping it operational or allowing water to keep going in and keep seaping out is rediculous and it will kill the oceans becasue the water currents do take the "pollution" in the plant's case radiation across the sea bed and Oceans. When animals swim thru the pockets of this pollution they immediately die or their DNA structure is altered permenently causing mass amount of wild life death in sea. Of these deaths only a small % are detectable by humans when some dead fish reach the shores

 

[onebyone]

 

[onebyone]

Fukushima Five Years After

Fukushima fallout in USA in 2017 1-18-2017 | Organic Slant

Does Fukushima Reactor 3 Fuel Pools Really Exist Anymore ??

 

[onebyone]

High radiation levels at Fukushima reactor is bad, bad news
by Jessica Dolcourt
February 3, 2017 12:48 PM PST

The fatal levels will keep officials from stabilizing the area as we approach the 6th anniversary of the nuclear plant's disaster.

Time to reconsider that trip to the east coast of Japan.

A containment vessel at the destroyed Fukushima No. 1 power plant has reached off-the-chart radiation levels, reported the Japan Times.

The reading of 530 sieverts per hour represents the highest level of radiation the reactor site has seen since three nuclear meltdowns hit the power plant in March 2011 almost six years ago -- and also among the most deadly.

To put the danger to human life into perspective, the 530 sieverts reading is high enough to prove fatal during even brief exposure, compounding the problem of containment for the government and Tokyo Power Electric Company (TEPCO). 4 sieverts would kill one in two people, and 1 seivert could lead to hair loss and infertility, the Japan Times noted, citing the National Institute of Radiological Sciences.

Experts believe that escaped melted fuel can account for the spiked reading.

The Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant suffered a series of meltdowns and explosions after Tsunami-triggered earthquakes crippled Japan's coast. The cleanup is expected to take decades.

Update, 3:24 p.m. PT: Corrects that it's the 6th year anniversary since the Fukushima disaster.


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