Tech | May 25, 2011 | 17 comments

Is Fukushima now ten Chernobyls Into the sea?

source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/24/979021/-Is-Fukushima-Now-Ten-Chernobyls-Into-the-Sea

New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are ten times higher than those measured in the Baltic and Black Seas during Chernobyl. “When it comes to the oceans, says Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, "The impact of Fukushima exceeds Chernobyl."

Fukushima's owner, the Tokoyo Electric Power Company, has confirmed that the fuel in Unit One melted BEFORE the arrival of the March 11 tsunami.

This critical revelation reveals that the early stages of that melt-down were set in motion by the earthquake that sent tremors into Japan from a relatively far distance out to sea.
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  • covelogibbs
  • ArchDruid
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    • ArchDruid:

      One of the sad and insidious things about Fukushima is that, while no one has reportedly died from the radiation yet, the death toll in the long run may equal or even exceed that of Chernobyl's 1 to 1.4 million.

      Oh yeah, and Fukushima is not over yet. There is a beginning to a nuclear accident of this magnitude, but there may be no end (in terms of a human timescale anyway).

    • 1 year ago
  • futuregen
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    • 136669757/energy-secretary-chu-kids-can-save-money-when-families-go-green

      Chu refuses to face radioactive contamination reality and plows ahead with nuclear power. They have no right to kill future generations but that is exactly what has happened. It's pre-meditated murder and insanity.

    • 1 year ago
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  • sue4e3
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    • ArchDruid:

      yes but it's my understanding that while plutonium was found in very small amounts just outside the plant it wasn't found any where else. and also not to keep comparing this to chernobyl,but that there was a much larger array of different types of radiation than at fukushima ,I could be wrong .It seems the info changes and I may have missed something

    • 1 year ago
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    • http://www.nonukes.org/

      Read here:

      Fukushima's Apoalyptic Threat
      By Harvey Wasserman, 5/20/2011, Reader Supported News. Fukushima may be in an apocalyptic downward spiral. Forget the corporate-induced media coma that says otherwise ... or nothing at all. Lethal radiation is spewing unabated. Emission levels could seriously escalate. There is no end in sight. The potential is many times worse than Chernobyl. Containing this disaster may be beyond the abilities of Tokyo Electric or the Japanese government. [CALL YOUR CONGRESS PEOPLE -- DEMAND MORE ACTION] more

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      No to nuclear power Open letter from Nobel Peace Laureats

      On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, April 26 - and six weeks after the devastating nuclear disaster in Japan - ten Nobel Peace Laureates called upon world leaders to invest in safer and more peaceful future by committing to renewable energy sources. The Laureates sent an open letter to 31 heads of state whose countries are currently heavily invested in nuclear power production, or are considering investing in nuclear power.
      Read the open letter written by the ten Nobel Laureates.

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      Unsafe at any dose. Dr Helen Caldicott on the Consequences of Fukushima
      NY Times 4/30/2011

    • 1 year ago
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    • POWER

      Give me the warm power of the sun,
      Give me the steady flow of a waterfall,
      Give me the spirit of living things
      as they return to clay.
      Just give me the restless power of the wind,
      Give me the comforting glow of a woodfire,
      But please take all your atomic poison power away!

      Everybody needs some power I'm told
      To shield them from the darkness and the cold.
      Some may seek a way to take control
      When it's bought and sold.
      I know that lives are at stake,
      Yours and mine and our descendants in time.
      There's so much to gain and so much to loose,
      I say everyone has to choose.

      Just give me the warm power of the sun,
      Give me the steady flow of a waterfall,
      Give me the spirit of living things
      as they return to clay.
      Just give me the restless power of the wind,
      Give me the comforting glow of the woodfire,
      But please take all your atomic poison power away!

      Won't you do this for me?

      Take all your atomic poison power,
      Take all your atomic poison power,
      Take all your atomic poison power AWAY!

      From No Nukes Album Doobie Brothers with Jon Hall and James Taylor
      ( I believe this was originally written by Jon Hall)

      http://www.amazon.com/No-Nukes-Various-Artists/dp/B000002H48

    • 1 year ago
  • futuregen
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      futuregen  

    • "But since Fukushima is right on the Pacific Ocean, burying it in concrete would not necessarily stop leakage into the ocean.

      As Reuters reports, Gundersen might have a better – although technically difficult – approach:

      TEPCO should consider digging a trench around reactors 1-3 all the way down to the bedrock, which is about 50 feet below the surface, said Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associates Inc of Burlington, Vermont, who once worked on reactors of similar design to the Fukushima plant.

      He said this should be filled with zeolite, which can absorb radioactive cesium to stop more poisons from leaking into the groundwater around the plant."

      http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/13/nuclear-containment-vessels-leaking-...

    • 1 year ago
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    • http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110527n1.html

      Friday, May 27, 2011

      Fukushima No. 1 eyed as site for nuke fuel graveyard
      Bloomberg

      The Atomic Energy Society of Japan is discussing a plan to make the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant a storage site for radioactive waste from the crippled station.

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      Right next to the sea! With predicted three feet rise in sea level. Perhaps they could consult with their neighbors, i.e. sealife and West Coast inhabitants. This foolishness has to stop.
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      http://www.amazon.com/Hot-Living-Through-Fifty-Years/dp/0618826122/ref=sr_1_1?s=...

      HOT: States Tokyo has low lying waterfront. Predicted 3 foot sea level rise in 50 years, 2 meters or 6.5 feet sea level rise by 2100.

    • 1 year ago
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    • http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/flashnews/

      5/27/2011

      Leaders from the Group of Eight nations at a summit in Deauville, France, agreed Friday international nuclear safety standards need to be better defined.

      The government has learned Tokyo Electric Power Co. did not fully disclose radiation data from its damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

      Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency toured the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant Friday as part of a fact-finding mission on the crisis.

    • 1 year ago
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