Only THREE days left for the world to work together...
...before the radioactive waste water containers will be full and hundreds of tons of extremely contaminated water will have to be pumped into the pacific ocean.
Extremely sad to see that the whole world doesn't care that this cataclysmic catastrophe - releasing the equivalent amount of radioactive isotopes of 50,000 (fifty thousand) Hiroshima bombs into the pacific ocean - is a mere few days away and the world community can't come up with some water containers to store the stuff in.
Our last chance to prevent the contamination of the entire worlds' oceans for the next million years is from now until Thursday, May 26.
Everywhere on the news for those interested in hearing about it. See e.g. here:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Nuclear-Inspectors...
It will never stop. This is
It will never stop. This is only the beginning. I bet they have a deal with the Japanese government to let the stuff flow into the Pacific so they don't have to take care of it in Japan. It'll go directly to Northern America with the prevailing ocean currents. Done.
The ocean is the biggest
The ocean is the biggest contributor to the hydrological cycle. Pollute it and you pollute the rain falling down on your land.
Not good research indicates we are being lied to
People once assumed that the ocean was so large that all pollutants would be diluted and dispersed to safe levels. But in reality, they have not disappeared - and some toxic man-made chemicals have even become more concentrated as they have entered the food chain.
Tiny animals at the bottom of the food chain, such as plankton in the oceans, absorb the chemicals as they feed. Because they do not break down easily, the chemicals accumulate in these organisms, becoming much more concentrated in their bodies than in the surrounding water or soil. These organisms are eaten by small animals, and the concentration rises again. These animals are in turn eaten by larger animals, which can travel large distances with their even further increased chemical load.
Animals higher up the food chain, such as seals, can have contamination levels millions of times higher than the water in which they live. And polar bears, which feed on seals, can have contamination levels up to 3 billion times higher than their environment.
People become contaminated either directly from household products or by eating contaminated seafood and animal fats.
Evidence is mounting that a number of man-made chemicals can cause serious health problems - including cancer, damage to the immune system, behavioural problems, and reduced fertility. http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/blue_planet/problems/pollution/
Data on bioaccumulation in norway seas
http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/33/036/33....
Japan is bad but wow our ocean is a sewar/ dump already holy crap read this report.
Study
Pg 25 has a nice chart indicating ocean food chain.Pg 29 take notice
Sons of bitches. This was
Sons of bitches. This was the real news obscured by endless media nonsense about anything and everything stupidly trivial.
Posting this short video.
Posting this short video. For some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCxBDDk4Y-M
Much love.
I am contacting the Bill and
I am contacting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Any other big-moneyed philanthropist organizations you can suggest?
Ocean dumping
When will it stop, they can't keep doing this to the ocean !!!!!
TEPCO needs to get their act together and the IAEA needs untangled from the puppet strings too!! did anyone read the IAEA conclusion from their recent visit to Japan ?
My message to TEPCO keep your dirty water to yourselves. I would like to remove all my backyard soil and send to them, so they can figure out where to store that too.
Store it in another basement really yes yes
TEPCO to use additional facilities to store water
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which is struggling to remove radioactive water, says it may use 2 additional buildings inside the compound as storage.
Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Wednesday that water levels are rising in underground tunnels extending from the No. 2 and 3 reactors and the basements of their turbine buildings. It said the levels rose for 24 hours through Wednesday evening.
The water in the tunnel of the No. 2 reactor is now 30.6 centimeters below ground level, and 25.2 centimeters at the No. 3 reactor. The levels are causing concerns that the water may overflow from the shaft in the event of heavy rain.
TEPCO hopes to use the two buildings, but with just one basement floor each they can hold only a limited amount of radioactive water.NHk
Radiated Water at Fukushima Plant May Breach Storage Trenches in Five Days june 1 article
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-01/radiated-water-at-fukushima-pla...
“There is still the risk of radioactive water leaking into the sea,” Hikaru Kuroda, an official at the utility known as Tepco, said yesterday in Tokyo. The company is seeking additional storage space to move the water from trenches to reduce the risk, he said.Tokyo Electric Power Co. has been manually pumping water into overheating reactors after cooling systems broke down and much of that has overflowed into basements and trenches. The water is rising at a rate that means it will overflow as early as June 6, Bloomberg calculations from the company’s data show
What happened to this idea
Tepco to Use Temporary Tanks to Store Radioactive Water
By Tsuyoshi Inajima - Apr 23, 2011 4:07 AM PT
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will use temporary storage tanks, with a combined capacity of 31,400 metric tons, to store radioactive water at its crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant by early June, general manager Junichi Matsumoto said at a briefing today.
The company has ordered the addition of 20,000-cubic-meter tanks at the atomic station every month starting June, he said, without giving details.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-23/tepco-to-use-temporary-tanks-to...
I feel sick tepco is allowed to continue this horse s--- game they have known about this radioactive water problem from march on and continue to fail at finding storage for it it is very sad and telling of there crisis and failure of managing it.
What happened to this
What happened to this idea?
That even if they managed to install all those additional tanks they still need more storage to contain the contaminated water, which increased with the last typhoon/tropical storm and is going to increase more during the rainy season.
Damage bad can get worse?
Sorry to say it has already happened for two months.
Radioactive materials found off Miyagi and Ibaraki
Japan's science ministry has detected extraordinarily high levels of radioactive cesium in seafloor samples collected off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures.
Experts say monitoring should be stepped up over a larger area to determine how fish and shell fish are being affected.
The ministry collected samples from 12 locations along a 300-kilometer stretch off Fukushima prefecture's Pacific coast between May 9th and 14th. It hoped to get an idea about the spread of nuclear contamination caused by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Radioactive substances were found in all locations, including those off Miyagi and Ibaraki Prefectures, which had not been previously investigated.
Radioactive cesium 134, measuring 110 becquerels per kilogram or about 100 times the normal level, was found in samples collected from the seabed 30 kilometers off Sendai City and 45 meters beneath the surface.
Samples collected from the seabed 10 kilometers off Mito City and 49 meters beneath the surface measured 50 becquerels or about 50 times the normal level.
Professor Takashi Ishimaru of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology says plankton most probably absorbed the radioactive substances carried by the current near the sea surface, and then sank to the seabed.
He said monitoring must be stepped up over a larger area, as radioactive materials in the seabed do not dissolve quickly, and can accumulate in the bodies of larger fish that eat shrimp and crabs that live on the seafloor.
Saturday, May 28, 2011 22:21 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/28_23.html
More on race to prepare treatment facility note this has never been done on such a scale.
"As nuke workers wait, tainted water climbs"
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110528x2.html
April 4 article old news telling
Reading old articles shows what lies have been told .
The less-radioactive water that officials are purposely dumping into the sea is up to 500 times the legal limit for radiation.
"We think releasing water with low levels of radiation is preferable to allowing water with high levels of radiation to be released into the environment," said Junichi Matsumoto, a TEPCO official.
Workers were pumping more than 3 million gallons of contaminated water from Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear power complex into the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, freeing storage space for even more highly radioactive water that has hampered efforts to stabilize the plant's reactors.
"The measure was to prevent highly radioactive water from spreading. But we are dumping radioactive water, and we feel very sorry about this," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference Tuesday.
Radioactivity is quickly diluted in the ocean, and government officials said the dump should not affect the safety of seafood in the area.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42410274/ns/today-today_news/t/japan-nuke-...
Huh wrong wrong wrong
My guess is they've been
My guess is they've been dumping it into the Pacific since Thursday. There was no mention of a solution to the storage problem anywhere in the news, so presumably they're going the secret route...
Update?
Update?
So what happened?
So what happened?
Crap not good tepco.leaky tank?
TEPCO probes into possible leak at Fukushima
The operator of Japan's troubled nuclear plant is trying to determine where contaminated water from a waste disposal facility is leaking to, after finding that the water level inside the facility has dropped.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been removing highly radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi plant's crippled reactors to the waste disposal facility within the compound.
The utility suspended the transfer from the No.3 reactor on Thursday and checked the water level in its section of the disposal facility.
Engineers learned that the water level had dropped by 4.8 centimeters over a 20-hour period, meaning some 57 tons of water has been lost.
The utility says it inspected inside the disposal facility and found contaminated water leaking to a passageway leading to another building.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/26_34.html
The operator of Japan's
The operator of Japan's troubled nuclear plant is trying to determine where contaminated water from a waste disposal facility is leaking to,
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http://www.asahi.com/english/
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105240141.html
More radioactive water may leak from Fukushima plant
You apparently didn't notice
You apparently didn't notice that this entire thread is about the FACT that they WILL DUMP all extremely contaminated coolant into the Pacific this Thursday, UNLESS the world gives them containers to hold it.
This is completely incomparable to previous releases, which were orders of magnitude smaller amounts of water that was many orders of magnitude less contaminated.
The pacific ocean and all oceans will be wastewater if they don't obtain those containers until Thursday.
They haven't started dumping
They haven't started dumping it yet, but will come Thursday.
I'm amazed by how most threads in this forum are concerned with what has happened, and completely ignore that something much worse is going to happen on Thursday. So far the amount of radioactive isotopes released int the ocean and atmosphere is only a bit above Chernobyl, but starting Thursday it will jump to ten times Chernobyl within a couple of weeks.
Yet the entire world is unable to supply some large steel containers to Japan to store the coolant instead of dumping it right into the ocean.
water dumping
What they are doing is illegal and insane. They need to pull out the TEPCO wallet and buy 800 large water tanks like the ones you see on the hilltop in your local town, and fill up the water in there and keep it on the TEPCO property.
Later they can try to remove the radio isotopes.
They must stop dumping their dirty water in the ocean.
Agreed! This is the last
Agreed! This is the last thing TEPCO and the Japanese government need to do! Stop poisoning the OCean!!!
Germany and Switzerland are
Germany and Switzerland are exiting nuclear energy as we type (bravo!)... but the rest of the world, including the USA???
http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/06/01/fukushima-radiation-found-in-calif...
BUMP.
BUMP.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxXLsMj2cjs&feature=related