A VIDEO FROM 2014 TO HELP 'DOUBTERS' COMPREHEND THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF A REAL, OR LASTING "CLEANUP".
(IT IS CLOSED-CAPTIONED WITH A TRANSCRIPT.)
"In Fukushima, massive amounts of radioactive soil and debris are still piled up in residential areas. The government has asked the head of local authorities to accept intermediate storage facilities."
TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE ONGOING RADIOACTIVITY'S EFFECT ON HUMAN BEINGS, MEASUREMENTS BELOW ARE IN MILLISIEVERTS (mSv).
1000 msV = 1 SIEVERT.
THIS ONE REACTOR AT FUKUSHIMA IS EMITTING 11,000 mSv PER HOUR, IF WE DARE BELIEVE TEPCO WHO HAS BEEN BUSTED NUMEROUS TIMES FOR LYING ABOUT AND/OR HIDING HIGH READINGS.
11,000 mSv PER HOUR IS ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT CHERNOBYL EMITTED THAT KILLED WORKERS THERE WITHIN ONE MONTH.
11,000 mSv PER HOUR IS ALMOST DOUBLE WHAT CHERNOBYL EMITTED THAT KILLED WORKERS THERE WITHIN ONE MONTH.
COMPARE THE ABOVE TO THE DATA BELOW, WHAT EPA ALLOWS, SEE THE DIFFERENCES?
IT'S ALL IN HOW DATA IS MANIPULATED AND THE NIUCLEAR INDUSTRY IS EXPERT AT MANIPULATION AND DOWN-PLAYING THE HAZARDS OF GOOD OLD NUCLEAR ENERGY.
Below are different levels of massive radiation exposure in a single dose — all measured in millisieverts — and their likely effects on humans, as published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency:
- 50-100: changes in blood chemistry
- 500: nausea, within hours
- 700: vomiting
- 750: hair loss, within 2-3 weeks
- 900: diarrhea
- 1,000: hemorrhage
- 4,000: possible death within 2 months, if no treatment
- 10,000: destruction of intestinal lining, internal bleeding and death within 1-2 weeks
11 SIEVERTS PER HOUR, NOT MILLISIEVERTS, BUT SIEVERTS, AND THIS IS AFTER 8 LONG YEARS AND ABE SWEARING TO THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE THAT EVERYTHING IS UNDER CONTROL.
THE HELL IT IS!
CANCEL THE RADIOACTIVE TOKYO OLYMPICS!
December 15, 2019
"Lethal radiation levels but no melted fuel found in Fukushima reactor water Tainted water inside a reactor containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shown a radiation level enough to kill a person within 40 minutes, according to TEPCO, the power plant‘s owner.
The level of radiation was measured by a special robot on Sunday at a point about 30cm (one foot) from the bottom of the containment vessel of Reactor 1, the Japan Times reported on Tuesday.
The current radiation level is 11 sieverts per hour, the highest detected in water inside the containment vessel. A person exposed to this amount of radiation would likely die in about 40 minutes, the Japan Times reports.
Sunday’s probe also revealed sandy substances building up at the bottom of the vessel. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) officials, however, dismissed the idea that it might be melted nuclear fuel.
Experts have been looking for the melted fuel, which they believe has been accumulating in tainted water.
In March 2011, a 9.1 earthquake and the 15-meter tsunami that followed disabled the cooling system of Fukushima’s three reactors, causing the worst nuclear incident since the 1986 Chernobyl incident in Ukraine.
In February, a robot sent to explore Reactor 2 broke down because of the “unimaginable” levels of radiation, close to 650 sieverts per hour. This was the first time a robot entered this reactor since the plant’s meltdown in 2011.
Previously, the highest radiation level was recorded one year after the disaster and went up to 73 sieverts per hour.
TEPCO has promised to extract the hazardous material stuck in the plant’s second reactor, its president Naohiro Masuda said, according to the Japan Times.
In December, TEPCO nearly doubled the estimated cost for the Fukushima clean-up to $188 billion.
A zone of more than 300 square miles around the plant is currently uninhabitable due to the continuing radiation."
JUST A WEEK AGO, ANOTHER ROBOT MISSION HAD FAILED.
December 8, 2019
A “scorpion” robot sent into a Japanese nuclear reactor to learn about the damage suffered in a tsunami-induced meltdown had its mission aborted after the probe ran into trouble, Tokyo Electric Power company said Thursday.
TEPCO, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, sent the remote-controlled device into the No. 2 reactor where radiation levels have recently hit record highs.
The “scorpion” robot, so-called because it can lift up its camera-mounted tail to achieve better viewing angles, is also designed to crawl over rubble inside the damaged facility.
But it could not reach its target destination beneath a pressure vessel through which nuclear fuel is believed to have melted because the robot had difficulty moving, a company spokeswoman said.
“It‘s not immediately clear if that‘s because of radiation or obstacles,” she said, adding that TEPCO is checking what data the robot was able to obtain, including images.
IT'S WORSE THAN 8 YEARS AGO.
MARCH 27, 2011
Operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said radiation levels were over 1,000 millisieverts per hour at Reactor No. 2 and evacuated workers from the turbine building there. Japan’s nuclear safety agency has said that as emergency workers, they are allowed to be exposed to 250 millisieverts per year.
Maninichi Daily News
3 August 2011 "Radiation dosages of 5 sieverts per hour were detected indoors on the second floor of the No. 1 reactor."
[TEPCO states that] the level may have been higher than the measured amount of 10 sieverts per hour as it exceeds the capacity of measuring equipment."
TWO YEARS IN A ROW IN FEBRUARY, 2017 AND 2018, SKY-HIGH RADIATION LEVELS.
2 Feb, 2018
"Lethal radiation amounts still detected at crippled Fukushima plant 7 years after disaster.
A remote-controlled inspection detected 42 Sieverts (Sv) per hour of radiation outside the foundations of the crippled Unit 2 of the plant, according to a newly-released report. And that’s a lot, as just one Sv is enough to cause acute radiation syndrome.
Sieverts are used to measure radiation in terms of its potential harm and the cancer risk begins already at doses of radiation as low as in between 50-100 mSv, the World Health Organization says.
Since the disaster, numerous studies and reports have emerged showing the operator’s failures in handling the now-crippled plant. In January this year, a Japanese government research group revealed that nine years before the tragic incident, TEPCO had rejected the advice of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) to carry out a tsunami simulation. The company cited a lack of evidence regarding a tsunami threat.
According to research carried out by the University of Southern California back in 2015, the tragedy was preventable. The scientists claimed that design problems, negligence and inadequate pre-tsunami surveys all contributed to the failure that led to the catastrophe.
Back in December 2016, the Japanese government admitted that the costs related to the nuclear accident had significantly grown to $188 billion (21.5 trillion yen).
IN 2017, FORBES REPORTED...
Feb. 3, 2017
"Exposure to only one sievert is enough to result in infertility, loss of hair and cataracts.
According to the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, exposure to a mere four sieverts of radiation would typically be lethal for one out of every two people.
The highest level of radiation detected previously at the Fukushima reactor was 73 sieverts per hour in Unit 2 in 2012. .
According to the Japan Times, the reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the reactor core. The extremely high radiation levels suggest that some of the melted fuel that escaped the pressure vessel is nearby.
TEPCO had planned to deploy a remote-controlled robot to assess conditions inside the containment vessel. But, considering the extreme radiation levels, it is unclear whether it will be able to do so.
The robot is designed to withstand exposure of up to 1,000 sieverts. Based on the calculation of 73 sieverts per hour, the robot could run for more than 10 hours, but 530 sieverts per hour means it would be rendered inoperable in less than two hours."
FEB. 2, 2017
An analysis of the images found that the radiation was up to 530 sieverts per hour at a concrete cylinder supporting the reactor.
Radiation levels of up to 530 Sieverts per hour were detected inside an inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex damaged during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami catastrophe, Japanese media reported on Thursday citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
A dose of about 8 Sieverts is considered incurable and fatal.
PRIOR FAILURE TO REPORT HIGH RADIATION DOSES IN CHILDREN
FROM ASAHI SHIMBUN, JAN. 22, 2019
"An 11-year-old girl who evacuated from the town of Futaba after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster was likely exposed to radiation levels near the government-set standard, despite assurances that no children were exposed to such high doses.
The girl is said to have been exposed to a radiation dose of about 100 millisieverts, the threshold for enhanced risk of cancer, following the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
The previously undisclosed case, which was reported to The National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) after the disaster, contradicts the central government's statement that "there has been no confirmed cases of children exposed to radiation doses of 100 millisieverts or higher."
According to the NIRS, the case was not disclosed at the time because the institute considered that the estimate was based on information from the site using a simple monitoring instrument and that the figures were not calculated precisely.
The NIRS shared the information on the case among its staff members and left memos indicating the dose that the girl may have been exposed to a radiation dose of around 100 millisieverts.
Children are said to be particularly vulnerable to thyroid gland cancer due to radiation exposure."
BUT THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE IS SENDING THEM IN ANYWAY?
NO!
[REMEMBER, ABE'S REGIME DEMANDED A GAG ORDER WITH THREATS OF POSSIBLE PRISON IF SUCH THINGS WERE LEAKED TO THE PRESS BACK THEN.
GUARDIAN, DEC. 5, 2013
" Japan whistleblowers face crackdown under proposed state secrets law.
Officials who leak 'special state secrets' and journalists who seek to obtain them could face prison if bill is approved this week."]
RADIATION SO HIGH IT 'KILLS' ROBOTS.
FROM GUARDIAN, UK, MAR. 8, 2017:
Dying robots and failing hope: Fukushima clean-up falters six years after tsunami
"The device, along with other robots, may also have been damaged by an unseen enemy: radiation. Before it was abandoned, its dosimeter indicated that radiation levels inside the No 2 containment vessel were at 250 sieverts an hour.
In an earlier probe using a remote-controlled camera, radiation at about the same spot was as high as 650 sieverts an hour – enough to kill a human within a minute.
Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist at Greenpeace Germany who is based in Japan, describes the challenge confronting the utility as “unprecedented and almost beyond comprehension”, adding that the decommissioning schedule was “never realistic or credible”.
The latest aborted exploration of reactor No 2 “only reinforces that reality”, Burnie says. “Without a technical solution for dealing with unit one or three, unit two was seen as less challenging. So much of what is communicated to the public and media is speculation and wishful thinking on the part of industry and government.
“The current schedule for the removal of hundreds of tons of molten nuclear fuel, the location and condition of which they still have no real understanding, was based on the timetable of prime minister [Shinzo] Abe in Tokyo and the nuclear industry – not the reality on the ground and based on sound engineering and science.”
Even Shunichi Tanaka, the chairman of Japan’s nuclear regulation authority, does not appear to share Tepco’s optimism that it will stick to its decommissioning roadmap. “It is still early to talk in such an optimistic way,” he says. “At the moment, we are still feeling around in the dark.”
Tepco’s once-vaunted underground ice wall, built at a cost of 24.5bn yen, has so far failed .
Critics of the clean-up note that 2020 is the year Tokyo is due to host the Olympics, having been awarded the Games after Abe assured the International Olympic Committee that Fukushima was “under control”.
Mitsuhiko Tanaka, a former Babcock-Hitachi nuclear engineer, accuses Abe and other government officials of playing down the severity of the decommissioning challenge in an attempt to win public support for the restart of nuclear reactors across the country.
“Abe said Fukushima was under control when he went overseas to promote the Tokyo Olympics, but he never said anything like that in Japan,” says Tanaka. “Anyone here could see that the situation was not under control.
“If people of Abe’s stature repeat something often enough, it becomes accepted as the truth.”
ESPECIALLY TRUE WHEN MAINSTREAM MEDIA KEEPS BACKING UP ABE'S FALSE CLAIMS AND FAILS TO REPORT THE FACTS.
ADD TO THE HIGH RADIATION FROM THE REACTORS, THE RADIATION BEING EMITTED BY MILLIONS OF FLIMSY BAGS OF RADIOACTIVE SOIL, MILLIONS OF TONS OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE WATER IN THOUSANDS OF SHODDILY-BUILT STORAGE TANKS, WATER FLOWING FROM THE HILLS BEHIND THE PLANT AND UNDERNEATH THE REACTORS, CREATING NEW RADIOACTIVE WATER THAT FLOWS ON INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THE UNCOUNTABLE MILES OF MOUNTAINS, VEGETATION AND FORESTS, RIVERS AND STREAMS THAT CANNOT EVER BE "DECONTAMINATED", THE CONTINUED OPEN-AIR BURNING OF SOLID CONTAMINATED WASTE FROM THE DAILY ATTEMPTS TO CLEAN UP THE SITE AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND YOU CAN PERHAPS BEGIN TO SEE WHY SO MANY SAY WE MUST NT SEND OUR ATHLETES TO THOSE GAMES.
JAPAN WANTS TO "RECYCLE" CONTAMINATED SOIL.
GUARDIAN, MARCH 11, 2019 "Eight years after the disaster, not a single location will take the millions of cubic metres of radioactive soil that remain in Japan.
Japan’s government has pledged that the soil will moved to the interim storage facility and then, by 2045, to a permanent site outside of Fukushima prefecture as part of a deal with local residents who do not want their communities turned into a nuclear dumping ground.
But the government’s blueprint for the soil is unravelling: so far, not a single location has agreed to accommodate the toxic waste.
While workers inside the ruined nuclear plant struggle to contain the build-up of more than 1m tonnes of radioactive water, outside, work continues to remove, process and store soil that will amount to 14 MILLION cubic metres by 2021.
The task is expected to take another two years, according to Jiro Hiratsuka, an environment ministry official who is guiding a small group of foreign journalists, including the Guardian, around the interim storage facility.
“We are required by law to find a final storage place outside Fukushima, so it can’t be kept here indefinitely,” Hiratsuka said. “It’s true that we have yet to find an appropriate location, but a lot will depend on how much space we need and the level of radioactivity in the soil.”
There is opposition, too, to the idea of using soil with lower radiation levels – or less 8,000 becquerels per kilogram – as the foundation for roads, embankments and other infrastructure in Fukushima.
Minoru Ikeda, who took part in the decontamination effort, said workers cut corners to meet strict deadlines. “There were times when we were told to leave the contaminated topsoil and just remove the leaves so we could get everything done on schedule,” he said. “Sometimes we would look at each other as if to say: ‘What on earth are we doing here?’”
He was skeptical of official claims that a permanent home would be found the for soil. “I don’t believe for a minute that they will be able to move all that soil out of Fukushima,” he said.
RADIOACTIVE WATER IN RADIOACTIVE STORAGE TANKS.
GUARDIAN, SEPT. 10, 2019
"The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister has said – a move that would enrage local fishermen.
More than 1 million tonnes of contaminated water has accumulated at the plant since it was struck by a tsunami in March 2011, triggering a triple meltdown that forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents.
Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) has struggled to deal with the buildup of groundwater, which becomes contaminated when it mixes with water used to prevent the three damaged reactor cores from melting.One recent study by Hiroshi Miyano, who heads a committee studying the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi at the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, said it could take 17 years to discharge the treated water after it has been diluted to reduce radioactive substances to levels that meet the plant’s safety standards.
Japan has come under renewed pressure to address the contaminated water problem before Tokyo hosts the Olympics and Paralympics next summer.
Six years ago during the city’s bid for the games, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, assured the international community that the situation was “under control”.
Tokyo Starts Burning Radioactive Waste from Other Areas ...
"Burning radioactive debris will only serve to further randomly spread radiation across Japan, as well as the rest of the world. Not only will this lead to more morbidity and mortality within Japan, but it will further complicate epidemiological studies of the Fukushima disaster."
REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS ALL ABLAZE?
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Fukushima Cover Up
"It is literally impossible for the world community to get a clear understanding of, and truth about, the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
This statement is based upon The Feature article in Columbia Journalism Review (“CJR”) d/d October 25, 2016 entitled: “Sinking a Bold Foray Into Watchdog Journalism in Japan” by Martin Fackler.
The scandalous subject matter of the article is frightening to its core. Essentially, it paints a picture of upending and abolishing a 3-year attempt by one of Japan’s oldest and most liberal/intellectual newspapers, The Asahi Shimbun (circ. 6.6 mln) in its effort of “watchdog journalism” of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the end, the newspaper’s special watchdog division suffered un-preannounced abrupt closure.
According to the CJR article, “The Investigative Reporting Section [Asahi] proved an instant success, winning Japan’s top journalism award two years in a row for its exposure of official cover-ups and shoddy decontamination work around the nuclear plant.”
Furthermore, according to the CJR article: “The abrupt about-face by the Asahi, a 137-year-old newspaper with 2,400 journalists that has been postwar Japan’s liberal media flagship, was an early victory for the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which had sought to silence critical voices as it moved to roll back Japan’s postwar pacifism, and restart its nuclear industry.”
“In Japanese journalism, scoops usually just mean learning from the ministry officials today what they intend to do tomorrow,’ says Makoto Watanabe, a former reporter in the section who quit the Asahi in March because he felt blocked from doing investigative reporting. ‘We came up with different scoops that were unwelcome in the Prime Minister’s Office.”
After all, consider this, 30 years after the fact, horribly deformed Chernobyl Children are found in over 300 asylums in the Belarus backwoods deep in the countryside. Equally as bad but maybe more odious, as of today, Chernobyl radiation (since 1986) is already affecting 2nd generation kids.
According to USA Today, Chernobyl’s Legacy: Kids With Bodies Ravaged by Disaster, April 17, 2016:
“There are 2,397,863 people registered with Ukraine’s health ministry to receive ongoing Chernobyl-related health care.
Of these, 453,391 are children — none born at the time of the accident. Their parents were children in 1986.
These children have a range of illnesses: respiratory, digestive, musculoskeletal, eye diseases, blood diseases, cancer, congenital malformations, genetic abnormalities, trauma.”
It’s taken 30 years for the world, via an article in USA Today, to begin to understand how devastating, over decades, not over a few years, radiation exposure is to people.
It is a silent killer that accumulates in the body over time and passes from generation to generation to generation, endless destruction that cannot be stopped."
THEY CENSOR EVEN WEATHER FORECASTS THAT MENTION RADIATION.
Japan Weather Chief Censored Fukushima Nuclear Radiation ...
Jul 24, 2015
"The Mainichi daily news is reporting the chief of the Meteorological Society of Japan, Hiroshi Niino aprofessor at the University of Tokyo, is drawing strong criticism from the academic community in Japan for issuing a gag order to censor Fukushima nuclear radiation forecasts from the public."
JAPAN IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO SEND OUR YOUNG ATHLETES.
I WOULD NOT ALLOW A CHILD OF MINE TO ATTEND, WOULD YOU?
//WW
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