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[AhMeng]

Japan gov't says safe to release contaminated Fukushima water into ocean
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In this Aug. 1, 2019 photo taken from a Mainichi helicopter, storage tanks for radioactively contaminated water are seen on the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Mainichi/Kaho Kitayama)

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's industry ministry said Monday it would be safe to release water contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the ocean, stressing that the health risk to humans would be "significantly small."

Discharging the water into the Pacific Ocean over the course of a year would lead to between just one-1,600th and one-40,000th of the radiation that humans are naturally exposed to, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told a government subcommittee on the issue.

Water used to cool the melted-down cores and groundwater near the crippled plant contains some radioactive materials, and is currently being collected and stored in tanks on the plant grounds.

But space is fast running out, and the government is exploring ways to deal with the water -- already amounting to more than 1 million tons and increasing every day.

According to the ministry, annual radiation levels near the release point is estimated at between 0.052 and 0.62 microsievert at sea and 1.3 microsieverts in the atmosphere, compared with the 2,100 microsieverts that humans come into contact with in daily life.

One member of the subcommittee called on the ministry to provide detailed data showing the impact of different conditions such as ocean currents and weather.

Another member requested more information on the amount of radiation that people would be internally exposed to depending on how much fish and seaweed they consume.

The water is being treated using an advanced liquid processing system, or ALPS, though the system does not remove the relatively non-toxic tritium and has been found to leave small amounts of other radioactive materials.

The tanks storing the water are expected to become full by the summer of 2022, according to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disabled by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011.

While government officials say that no decision has been made on what to do with the water, local fishermen are opposed to discharging it into the ocean due to worries that it would cause reputational damage and hurt their livelihood.

South Korea has also expressed concern over the environmental impact. In September, Japanese and South Korean officials traded barbs over the issue at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

The same month, then-Environment Minister Yoshiaki Harada aroused controversy by saying there was "no other choice" but to release the water into the ocean.

 

[winnipegjets]

If the Japanese PM and his ministers swim in the waters that will have the contaminated water released, then the world will believe that the contaminated water pose no risk.

If they don't, then Japan should not release the contaminated water to the ocean.

Environmentalists, gather in Tokyo to demand that.

 

[AhMeng]

If the Japanese PM and his ministers swim in the waters that will have the contaminated water released, then the world will believe that the contaminated water pose no risk.

If they don't, then Japan should not release the contaminated water to the ocean.

Environmentalists, gather in Tokyo to demand that.

People in US West Coast should worry first ... Lol

 

[winnipegjets]

People in US West Coast should worry first ... Lol

Water will reach sinkapore before US west coast.

 

[AhMeng]

Statesman Journal
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Fukushima radiation has reached U.S. shores
Tracy Loew | Statesman Journal Updated 2:14 a.m. SST Dec. 10, 2016

Radiation from 2011 Fukushima disaster now reaching U.S.

Scientists have detected radiation from Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster on the West Coast.

USA TODAY NETWORK

For the first time, seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on the West Coast of the United States.

Cesium-134, the so-called fingerprint of Fukushima, was measured in seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in Oregon, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are reporting.

Because of its short half-life, cesium-134 can only have come from Fukushima.

Also for the first time, cesium-134 has been detected in a Canadian salmon, the Fukushima InFORM project, led by University of Victoria chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen, is reporting.

In both cases, levels are extremely low, the researchers said, and don’t pose a danger to humans or the environment.

Massive amounts of contaminated water were released from the crippled nuclear plant following a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. More radiation was released to the air, then fell to the sea.

Woods Hole chemical oceanographer Ken Buesseler runs a crowd-funded, citizen science seawater sampling project that has tracked the radiation plume as it slowly makes its way across the Pacific Ocean.

The Oregon samples, marking the first time cesium-134 has been detected on U.S. shores, were taken in January and February of 2016 and later analyzed. They each measured 0.3 becquerels per cubic meter of cesium-134.

Buesseler’s team previously had found the isotope in a sample of seawater taken from a dock on Vancouver Island, B.C., marking its landfall in North America.

Meanwhile, in Canada, Cullen leads the InFORM project to assess radiological risks to that country’s oceans following the nuclear disaster. It is a partnership of a dozen academic, government and non-profit organizations, including Woods Hole.

Last month, the group reported that a single sockeye salmon, sampled from Okanagan Lake in the summer of 2015, had tested positive for cesium-134.

The level was more than 1,000 times lower than the action level set by Health Canada, and is no significant risk to consumers, Cullen said.

Buesseler’s most recent samples off the West Coast also are showing higher-than background levels of cesium-137, another Fukushima isotope that already is present in the world's oceans because of nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s.

Five years after Fukushima, crisis continues

Those results will become more important in tracking the radiation plume, Buesseler said, because the short half-life of cesium-134 makes it harder to detect as time goes on.

Cesium-134 has a half-life of two years, meaning it’s down to a fraction of what it was five years ago, he said. Cesium-137 has a 30-year half-life.

A recent InFORM analysis of Buesseler’s data concluded that concentrations of cesium-137 have increased considerably in the central northeast Pacific, although they still are at levels that pose no concern.

“It appears that the plume has spread throughout this vast area from Alaska to California,” the scientists wrote.

They estimated that the plume is moving toward the coast at roughly twice the speed of a garden snail. Radiation levels have not yet peaked.

“As the contamination plume progresses towards our coast we expect levels closer to shore to increase over the coming year,” Cullen said.

Even that peak won’t be a health concern, Buesseler said. But the models will help scientists model ocean currents in the future.

That could prove important if there is another disaster or accident at the Fukushima plant, which houses more than a thousand huge steel tanks of contaminated water and where hundreds of tons of molten fuel remain inside the reactors.

In a worst-case scenario, the fuel would melt through steel-reinforced concrete containment vessels into the ground, uncontrollably spreading radiation into the surrounding soil and groundwater and eventually into the sea.

“That’s the type of thing where people are still concerned, as am I, about what could happen,” Buesseler said.

Scientists now know it would take four to five years for any further contamination from the plant to reach the West Coast.

[email protected], 503-399-6779 or follow at Twitter.com/Tracy_Loew

Tracking the plume

Scientists are beginning to use an increase in cesium-137 instead of the presence of cesium-134 to track the plume of radioactive contamination from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster. These figures show the increase in cesium-137 near the West Coast between 2014 and 2015.

Graphic courtesy Dr. Jonathan Kellogg of InFORM, with data from Dr. John Smith, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Dr. Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

Our Radioactive Ocean
Learn more about Ken Beusseler’s crowd-funded, citizen-science seawater sampling project at http://www.ourradioactiveocean.org/.
See test results at http://www.ourradioactiveocean.org/results.html.
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If the Japanese PM and his ministers swim in the waters that will have the contaminated water released, then the world will believe that the contaminated water pose no risk.

If they don't, then Japan should not release the contaminated water to the ocean.

Environmentalists, gather in Tokyo to demand that.

They can also drink it like that woodland fucker MP in the corpse in water tank case

 

[zhihau]

I wonder how many nuclear tests were done in the Pacific by the yankees...

 

[Valium]

They should send the water to India. I'm sure it will clean up Ganges and all the bloody indian swines in it.

 

[sleaguepunter]

If all those who advocate it safe soak in the contaminated water for 24hrs first.

 

[rushifa666]

Waterpear, luncheon meat and honeymelon. All three have ALWYS been from china. We are already dead. Dont bother with anything current. The amount of poisons we took in is too late