TV: Radiation in ocean off Fukushima at highest levels in years — Out of control leakage coming from plant — ‘Big spikes’ in radioactivity observed — “Surprising… Concerning… Crisis” — 1,000s of tons of contaminated liquid being released — Scientists: Japan gov’t covering up situation (AUDIO)

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KGW (NBC channel in Portland, OR), Mar 7, 2016 (emphasis added): Crisis continues 5 years after FukushimaRadiation in the Pacific Ocean near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is at levels as high, or higher, than has been measured in the past three years, as the crippled plant continues to bleed contamination into the sea, new results from a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research cruise show. “We think it’s related to the ongoing leaks,” said Ken Buesseler, a Woods Hole chemical oceanographer… “It’s a little surprising and contrary to claims they’ve stopped all flow. So we’re not out of the woods yet.”… Unlike Chernobyl, however, this crisis played out slowly, and continues today, on both sides of the Pacific… In October 2015, Buesseler’s team took new samples from as close as a half-mile away from the nuclear power plant. Levels there remain elevated, he said, confirming continued releases from the plant… “The fact that it’s still leaking is always of concern.”

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mar 7, 2016: Fukushima Site Still Leaking After Five Years, Research Shows… Buesseler [sampled off Fukushima] in October 2015… his analysis of cesium and strontium indicate releases from the plant are not yet “under control,” a statement that has been used by the Japanese government to describe the situation… [C]esium levels have remained relatively constant… “we are not seeing the steady decrease we would expect to see off Fukushima if all sources had stopped; rather, we are finding values are still elevated, which confirms that there is continued release from the plant.”… The highest level of cesium Buesseler’s team found in a sample taken off Japan in October 2015 measured 200 Becquerels per cubic meter… Strontium, too, is not falling as expected… [Scientists] have found that strontium is not decreasing as fast as cesium. Whereas there was approximately 40 times more cesium than strontium in the waters off Japan in 2011, by 2013, there was approximately 10 times more cesium than strontium The concern lies in the thousands of tons of strontium still stored in tanks at the nuclear power plant and accumulated in buildings and soils, some of it still leaking into the ocean.

Scientific American, Mar 8, 2016: Crippled Fukushima Reactors Are Still a Danger… [M]ajor questions still loom today… [S]ome scientists are complaining that important questions about the disaster’s impact are not being addressed. Authorities, they suspect, are subtly discouraging certain kinds of scientific research, possibly because they fear findings that could further alarm the public… This February, the company reported a spike in strontium levels at the plant site… Remarkably, research on Fukushima’s impact on the marine ecosystem is even more scarce [than on land]—even though the disaster represented the single largest pulse of radioactivity ever injected into an ocean… [T]he cesium concentration… many kilometers off Fukushima remains well above pre-accident levels… Another concern is radioactive strontium. Scientists say levels in seawater near the plant are not declining, possibly because of recurrent leaks from the on-site tanks. “You could actually see in the ocean when one of these tanks would leak—you’d get a big spike in Strontium-90,” Buesseler notes… Indeed, unanswered questions abound… The Japanese government seems to be cutting off funds for monitoring radionuclides in water alongside Fukushima, Buesseler says… [A]nother Japanese scientist, who asked not to be named, claimed that whereas grants are readily available for researchers whose projects are unlikely to discover significant impacts from the disaster, they are exceedingly scarce for others… Buesseler reports [an] experience [when Japanese scientists who aided in research asked not to be credited in its published papers, fearing adverse impacts on their careers]…

CapeCod.com, Mar 8, 2016: Buesseler says that releases of radioactive cesium from the plant are still not under control…”we are finding values are still elevated, which confirms that there is continued release from the plant.”

NY Times, Mar 10, 2016: Fukushima has become a place… where they struggle to control radiation-contaminated water and must release it into the sea… [T]he plant also releases 2,000 tons of the water into the ocean every week after a process that removes most, but not all, of the radioactive particles… it is a public-relations nightmare for the government…

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334 comments to TV: Radiation in ocean off Fukushima at highest levels in years — Out of control leakage coming from plant — ‘Big spikes’ in radioactivity observed — “Surprising… Concerning… Crisis” — 1,000s of tons of contaminated liquid being released — Scientists: Japan gov’t covering up situation (AUDIO)

  • Nick

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/anonymous-releases-donald-trumps-personal-7578375

    As an atheist I still like to say

    YTIAG.

    But also…don't overlook:

    http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/

    (since he ain't really a politician, I ain't politicking!)


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    • razzz razzz

      I didn't see the old US post office in Washington DC shown in his holdings. That one is going to open at the end of this year as an upper end hotel, completely refurbished. Completion will be two years early and under budget including using more expensive marble instead of originally calling for travertine stone.

      Interesting that Trump doesn't drink or smoke but owns a vineyard plus manufactures his own brand of vodka to supply all his hotels and country clubs.

      Claims if president he will remodel the White House with a proper ballroom at his own expense and not draw his government salary either (like he needs it).

      Of course Hitler was supposedly a vegetarian and served no meat at his gatherings so who knows what the future will be.

      New York was refurbishing a public skating rink which was millions over budget and years behind schedule. Trump had to beg the city to allow him to complete it, all at his own expense. Only wanted the concessions derived from operating the rink saying it would all go toward charities. He finished in about three months and under budget with a large portion spent on demolition of the uncompleted rink so it could be done properly. Found an adviser from some Canadian hockey team to redesign the cooling coils under the ice for the project.

      Trump seems to lack knowledge on anything nuclear and needs to be educated. Nukes are a money losing proposition, I am sure he would understand that much.


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    • razzz razzz

      One night (mid 70s?) my pals call wanting me to go a wrestling match at the local sports aroma where Andre the Giant is the main match and attraction.

      Around 7' 4" and about 500lbs, he was huge. Stories of him, Wilt (the Silt) Chamberlain and Hulk Hogan dining together once where Hogan surreptitiously paid the full bill when he knew that Andre always insisted paying the tab, made Andre mad. Outside he picked up Hogan under the pits like a little child and set him on top of a car.

      Anyway back to wrestling, Andre is doing his thing in the ring during the match and falls against the ropes laying almost horizontal. I swear all four poles bent over and pointed at him and the first 10 rows cleared out fleeing for their lives as they thought surely they were going to be crushed by the falling big man. All part of the show.

      Afterwards Andre is walking thru the crowd back to the dressing rooms and one of my pals (about 6'6" and looked like a bean pole next to Andre) is slapping him on his back as hard as he can leaving red hand prints saying, "Good job Andre, way to go!". Andre only looked back over his shoulder and sneered at him.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant


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  • Nick

    Our ignorance about Fukushima is echoed in the political realm.

    DC is a cluster fuck.

    Trump ain't gonna help things either.

    Time for a real change.

    Like some dark horse that no one thinks of.

    All I see is bogus to date.


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  • Nick

    So….Nick what do you propose?

    N: I suggest that we all rethink our place in the cosmos, that we rise above petty differences and learn to live and let live.

    It is called waging peace folks.

    I realize too few of you have a clue.

    So be it.


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  • Nick

    Tell me again the point of standardized tests when…

    http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/mind-boggling-17000-new-jersey-children-to-be-tested-for-lead-poisoning/

    ??

    How about a national database that focuses on toxins in school students' blood streams?

    Wouldn't that be a better indicator of teachability? (sic)


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  • rogerthat

    This made me laugh:

    '' … [S]ome scientists are complaining that important questions about the disaster’s impact are not being addressed. Authorities, they suspect, are subtly discouraging certain kinds of scientific research, possibly because they fear findings that could further alarm the public. …''

    '' … Remarkably, research on Fukushima’s impact on the marine ecosystem is even more scarce [than on land]—even though the disaster represented the single largest pulse of radioactivity ever injected into an ocean…''

    ''… unanswered questions abound… The Japanese government seems to be cutting off funds for monitoring radionuclides in water alongside Fukushima, Buesseler says… ''

    ''… [A]nother Japanese scientist, who asked not to be named, claimed that whereas grants are readily available for researchers whose projects are unlikely to discover significant impacts from the disaster, they are exceedingly scarce for others…''

    - sounds like the US model is alive and well in Japan


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  • rogerthat

    http://thebulletin.org/commentary/us-response-fukushima-%E2%80%9Cdefense-depth%E2%80%9D-or-%E2%80%9Cdefense-shallowness%E2%80%9D9264

    The US response to Fukushima: “Defense-in-depth” or “defense-in-shallowness”?
    17 MARCH 2016
    Ed Lyman senior scientist Global Security Program, Union of Concerned Scientists

    … The approaches taken by the French nuclear regulator, Autorité de Sûrété Nucléaire (ASN), and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), clearly illustrate differences in philosophy. ASN is requiring nuclear plants to install a “hardened safety core” of backup equipment that is qualified to withstand beyond-design-basis events. Since this equipment will be more robust than the nuclear plants themselves, there is a greater likelihood that it will be available when it is truly needed.

    In contrast, the NRC is allowing nuclear plant owners to rely on portable emergency equipment that could be less robust than the nuclear plants themselves, but that is intended to be more flexible. While greater flexibility has its advantages, this strategy, known as FLEX, simply does not provide the level of protection against beyond-design-basis accidents that is needed to prevent an American Fukushima with high confidence. …


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  • rogerthat

    http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20160316_25/
    Imperial couple visits evacuees in Fukushima

    … The imperial couple arrived in Miharu Town on Wednesday afternoon.

    About 700 people from the village of Katsurao have been living in the town since they were ordered to evacuate. …

    ???


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    Even before Fukushima nuclear disater, scientists said that heavy metals had been found in whales at very high levels.

    http://www.commondreams.org/news/2010/06/24/report-toxins-found-whales-bode-ill-humans

    With the radiation increasing in the ocean from Fukushims — from toxic heavy metals like plutonim, uranium, cesium, etc, ad nauseum HOW DARE Wade Allison and others say "So What" if three nuclear reactors meltdown on the ocean?

    HOW DARE THEY?

    Where is the punishment from academia, or the scientific community? HOW DARE THEY remain SILENT?


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    The issue is not the radiation ..it's rebuilding the infrastructure.
    How is that?
    Roads, buildings,. etc. can be reconstructed.
    What can not be done ..is return the nuclear material back into containment.
    So much talk about the types of geological materials locking the materials in locally.

    "The other radionuclide of concern is Cs-137 which has a 30-year half-life. Fortunately, as Onishi points out, the same island arc geologic setting that caused the tsunami also formed soils in Japan that are high in illite and other micaceous minerals. These minerals chemically sorb and hold Cs tightly in their interlayer sites, as they do the more abundant element K, keeping Cs-137 trapped in the top 2 inches of the soils around Fukushima and preventing Cs from leaching deeper and impacting groundwater."

    This is bullsh%it..
    Sampling from the observation wells have and do indicate groundwater contamination.

    Conca.. a weak 'disinformation toadie'.

    Can Fukushima Ever Recover?
    March 16 2016

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/03/16/can-fukushima-ever-recover/#50ee42324da6


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  • mon ami

    Right on Heart of the Rose


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    Typo..all the days, the many days of hard work.


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  • Jebus Jebus

    Schrodinger's Ocean.

    No one want's to look and see.

    The poison dropped.

    :|


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    "The Japanese government seems to be cutting off funds for monitoring radionuclides in water alongside Fukushima, Buesseler says [...]"

    PM Shinzo Abe told the Olympic Committee that the nuclear plant leaks were under control.

    When questioned, he said that meant that they were monitoring the the situation.

    Well, if they are cutting the monitoring, the water leaks are no longer under control; so cancel the Tokyo Olympics as, even this loose definition of control is not met.

    The Olympics Committee will disqualify an athlete for chemical abuse, and they should disqualify Abe for the same reason


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    Automatic machine guns have as much claim to being carbon free as nuclear power does, when mining, construction, and waste transport are factored in.

    Three ridiculous statements:

    Stop climate change, buy a gun. Look at the CO2 exhaled in a fist fight.

    Drinking and driving kills, stops climate change.

    Nuclear power stops climate change.


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    What a joke. It's not funny though. Spoke with one person today. She told me her ex-husband was diagnosed with cancer and within two weeks – BOOM – dead.


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDe2cYqwZY

    Kevin Blanch says he was at the political rallies and Bernie Sanders people did not know what Fukushima is.

    Check out his voice, his throat is raw from telling them what's what. Way to go, Kevin.


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    http://www.nap.edu/read/18289/chapter/3#12

    "To initiate fusion, the deuterium and tritium fuel must be heated to over 50 million degrees and held together for long enough for the reactions to take place."

    If 50 million degrees escape confinement, global temperatures would not be affected, right?

    http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html I'm excited. Mars starts to look life a safer place


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  • The Psychopathy Of Corporations; I Am Fishhead Movie – Exploring Sociopathy and Psychopathy in Huge Global Organizations That Have Unlimited Power, Money And Super Citizenship, Destroying World
    http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/psychopathy-of-corporations.html


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    Radiation exposure and the power of zero
    April 26 2011

    "In 2006 the National Academies' National Research Council published a comprehensive report, "Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR VII – Phase 2)" stating that radiation exposure has a linear relationship to the development of cancer. The report concluded that even low doses of ionizing radiation are likely to pose some health risks; there is no threshold of exposure below which the risk drops to zero."

    http://thebulletin.org/radiation-exposure-and-power-zero-0


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose

    (cont)
    "Unfortunately, minimizing or covering up the potential risks has long been a strategy of the nuclear industry and its government regulators.

    A classic example of this occurred in 1951, when the general manager of the Eastman Kodak Company called the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to complain about high levels of radiation detected at the Kodak plant in Rochester, New York, during a snowstorm. Kodak executives were concerned that radiation could damage their film. The AEC confirmed that a nuclear test had taken place two days earlier in Nevada, and offered to send Kodak warnings before future tests, including maps predicting where the heaviest fallout would occur. Meanwhile, the AEC failed to give any warning to farmers, families with children who would drink contaminated milk, or pregnant mothers — and instead released a statement to the Associated Press that "there is no possibility of harm to humans or animals." Other gross examples include the cover-up of the Kyshtym disaster by the US and the Soviet Union, and the failure to inform the general public of the Chernobyl crisis during the first three days that it was happening."

    MURDERERS..


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    • DUD DUD

      MURDERERS..by any and all definitions..my GC hovers at 37 CPM at the moment.

      Meaning its a good day..someday's it hovers around 50CPM..

      I'm curious , without a few man adding by force artificial radiation unknown/incompatible to life on this planet..wouldent it be much more stable everyday ?

      MURDERERS..


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      • ISeePinkClouds ISeePinkClouds

        Yes. DUD. 21.5 in the mountains of the Big Bend region of Texas. I was told someone had 36 this week. It has been that high here in the past. After WIPP. WIPP is 200 miles North. Counts increased from 11 to 28. All Mean Average,not high counts.

        I know radiation is highly mobile in the environment because I have seen the counts here decrease over two years time. It was blown away by the wind,just like it blew in, only slower.

        Peace


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        • DUD DUD

          And all that fluctuating radiation , is the manmade highly toxic killer stuff..if i i'm correct in assuming the natural baseline from before manmade nuclear era would be pretty stable compared..except for certain solar activity maybe..


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          • ISeePinkClouds ISeePinkClouds

            Yes DUD. The level of contamination from WIPP has gone down. It has not gone down as low as it was before WIPP. In the "background" here is twice pre-WIPP. It went from 11 gamma mean average to 20.5 mean average.
            I had,long ago,radioactive sources I used in geophysical applications. I had to keep records for the NRC. Before I removed a source from it's pig,or after I put it back in it's pig,I took gamma/beta readings for the NRC records. Prior to Chernobyl I saw very little gamma/beta at waist level. In fact,my NRC records all showed zero background prior to '86. Afterward I measured 1 to 3 cpm. That was really exciting.
            I was back to that area year before last. The "background" then was 17,in the Summer,but had risen to over 20 by Winter. The background at my home had come down to 22 cpm by then.

            Radiation Sucks.

            Peace


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  • Sol Man

    The illusion of control is good enough for the boys in the back room, then dagnabbit, it's good enough for all us little folks.

    Now what can be done about dissolving?


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  • ISeePinkClouds ISeePinkClouds

    Yes. Sol Man. TY. Dagnabbit? Let us observe detachedly. Peace


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  • unincredulous unincredulous

    What were the odd against a giant tsunami slamming Fukushima? Were they greater than the odds of every living thing in the ocean getting some virus and dying at the same time? Were they greater than the odds against three full meltdown right on the pacific ocean having zero impact on the environment?

    I'd like to get a written statement from the nuclear industry on any ill effects they will admit to. Because, I doubt that they will. Even now trying to say people should not be evacuated after a nuclear accident. Even now trying to prevent the visible evacuation that is a PR nightmare. Never admitting that nuclear waste is hazardous. They come to your home and stick a lie in your door so big, you can't close the door. And stick us all with the bill for what goes wrong.

    The nuclear industry would make sense only as a disposable solution for space pirates, but it won't work here. Not here. Get your foot out my door.


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  • razzz razzz

    'Hiker Discovers Roman Gold Coin in Galilee'

    "…This just goes to show that when you write about something you do not know about, and listen to people who do not know either, then you end up with a coin worth $5,000,000 that was there when Christ was walking around Galilee. My offer is $35,000…"
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/ancient-economies/hiker-discovers-roman-gold-coin-in-galilee/


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  • razzz razzz

    'Is it Government or Oligarchs?'

    "…I think what you have to understand is our structure of government being a “republic” rather than a democracy, invites oligarchy. There has never been a single “republic” that has ever proven to work. The admixture or money and power always becomes lethal. This is why I blame government, not the oligarchs. They could not buy politicians if they were non (1) career, and (2) all powerful. Taxes and regulation become the incentive for the oligarchs to buy government. If we eliminate taxes and career politicians, we will solve not ALL, but most of the problem. We then must eliminate “socialism” which at its core is predicated upon the foundation of Marxism which advocated government power by insisting that it was all powerful and COULD alter society by regulation. This serves as a fundamental pillar for taxation…"
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/basic-concepts/is-it-government-or-oligarchs/


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    • Nuremberg type trials for all corrupt criminals, bribe takers, bribe givers


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      • Silverlok Silverlok

        I have always thought;for democracy to work, we must also vote on politicos at the end of their terms also.

        the vote would be to see if they got a :

        1) bonus for great work during their term

        2) a pass or break even for work that didn't break much but also didn't create much

        and

        3)the death sentence for massive corruption.

        I bet exit voting would draw much larger numbers than entrance voting.


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  • flannelman flannelman

    Human nature and greed is the problem. Someone always has to have more than the other guy.

    How long do governments and societies last? Till they fall, that's how long. Anyone make a go of it longer than the Romans managed once upon a time?

    Not so much … Not so far anyway.


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    • penny penny

      I agree, the uglier side of human nature manifests itself in any society, regardless of government type, whenever the population gets too high. The paradox being that those who want power will eventually get it, even though they are precisely the ones who shouldn't have it. And I don't think there's any shortage of potential tyrants out there, having witnessed how people treat their children and pets.


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      • Silverlok Silverlok

        " …the uglier side of human nature manifests itself in any society…The paradox being that those who want power will eventually get it…"

        I don't see that as a paradox. As flannelman noted (sic)(certain) 'elements in human nature' drive specific kinds of people to lust after power over others.

        It is the very essence of this desire that separates and makes them the minority of the populous ( I mean unless we are desperate most of us just want to get along ). By definition, the desire for power over others is sociopathic , because if we all had a desire for power over others then we would all fight all the time , the evolution of such a 'society' would look very much like any hive mind insect colony eventually.
        And if you look at how oligarchy and fascism rise they are preceded buy hive mind philosophies peddled by sociopath individuals that must remain secretive to keep from being devoured by their own creation and or the truth of it's origin.
        The ancient greeks Understood this when they drove their 'elite' to the ocean to drown in their fantasies of ultimate power.

        "…potential tyrants …treat their children and pets."…hmm that sounds like California's "culture"

        the bell shape curve implies for every potential tyrant is a potential hero…and if the IoT has proven anything it's that sociopaths try to have the biggest stick while Hero's speak softly if at all


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