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Japan is Poisoning Other Countries By Burning Highly-Radioactive Debris
Fukushima to Burn Highly-Radioactive Debris
Fukushima will start burning radioactive debris containing up to 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. As Mainchi notes:
The state will start building storage facilities for debris generated by the March 2011 tsunami as early as May at two locations in a coastal area of Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, Environment Ministry and town officials said Saturday.
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About 25,000 tons of debris are expected to be brought into the facilities beginning in the summer, according to the officials.
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If more than 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium are found per kilogram of debris, the debris will be transferred to a medium-term storage facility to be built by the state. But if burnable debris contains 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium or less, it may be disposed of at a temporary incinerator to be built within the prefecture, according to the officials.
Within the 20-km-radius no-go zone spanning across Naraha and five other municipalities along the coast, debris caused by the magnitude 9.0 quake and the subsequent tsunami has amounted to an estimated 474,000 tons, much of remaining where it is.
How much radiation is that? It is a lot. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has said that much lower levels of cesium - 5,000-8,000 bq/kg (20 times lower than what will be allowed to be burned at Fukushima) - would be sent to a special facility in the United States and buried underground for thousands of year. See this and this. It is comparable to the levels of radioactivity found within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. See this and this. And even the Japanese - who have raised acceptable levels of radiation to absurd levels - would normally demand that material with this radioactivity be encased in cement and buried:
According to plans by the Ministry of Environment, if the radioactive cesium concentration is less than 8,000 Bq/kg, then it is possible to dispose of it by burying it. Rubble that has 8,000 ~ 100,000 Bq must be encased in cement in order to prevent contact with water before being dumped. For rubble that exceeds 100,000 Bq, it must be encased in concrete walls and stored temporarily. The disposal place must be approved of by the Prefectural Governor.
In addition, some allege that debris surpassing 100,000 bq/kg of cesium will be burned, after being mixed with less-radioactive materials. And many of the incinerators are located smack dab in the middle of crowded cities, and are not equipped to contain radiation.
Other Parts of Japan Are Also Burning Radioactive Debris
And it's not just Fukushima. Tokyo and many other areas in Japan are burning radioactive debris as well. And see this.
Burning to Continue for for Years
Mainichi reports that the radioactive debris will be burned for years ... through at least March 2014.
Poisoning Other Countries
Burning radioactive debris does not destroy the radioactivity. It merely spreads it. Gundersen says that radioactivity from the burnt debris will end up not only in neighboring prefectures, but in Hawaii, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and California. Gundersen said that burning radioactive debris is basically re-creating the Fukushima disaster all over again, as it is releasing a huge amount of radioactivity which had settled on the ground back into the air. Steven Starr – Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who has advised numerous countries on issues of nuclear non-proliferation – writes:
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. Raising “acceptable” levels of radioactive fallout is a false solution to a serious problem. It is possible for the government authorities to do this because radiation is invisible to us, and at lower doses, the consequences of exposure do not manifest themselves for some time . . . thus it is a poison that is easy to hide and ignore. Sadly, the children of Japan will be those most seriously affected by this man-made environmental catastrophe.
It is bad enough that radiation from Fukushima is spreading across the Pacific to the United States through air and water, that the Japanese are underplaying the enormous threat posed by the spent fuel pools, and that the Japanese have engaged in a massive cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima crisis. But intentionally burning radioactive debris to try to cover up the problem - and spreading radiation worldwide in the process - is an entirely separate affront. Postscript: In addition to burning radioactive debris, Japan intends to build tents over the leaking Fukushima reactors. While this sounds like a way to contain the radiation, it would actually funnel it straight up and spread it globally:
My reaction [to the announcement that the Fukushima nuclear operator would build giant tents over the reactors] was hope that the tents would at least keep radiation from spreading worldwide through the air, even if they didn’t do anything to prevent contamination of Japan’s groundwater or the Pacific Ocean.
But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that the tents – while helping to protect workers at Fukushima – will actually increase the dispersion of radioactive gases. Specifically, Tepco will pump radiation out through stacks, which will push radiation up to a higher elevation, dispersing it even further around the world.
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Yeah and doing storm trooper raids on raw milk producers.
Yeah and doing storm trooper raids on raw milk producers.
With over 89 million USED to be employed US workforce citizens on the dole,out of work, or making peanuts, and getting worse.
Even as the EPA is shutting down viable industries, curtailing jobs, and increasing energy costs for the average citizen so Obummer can energize his base so as to be re-elected.
It's a Crazy World after all.
They are tackling the issue the US citizen way.
They have bad consequences to some of their actions and they shift it onto third parties.
Classical US citizenism.
The people running Japan are nothing short of treacherous. Unfortunately the Japanese trait of respecting their seniors decisions seems to mean politicians can literally get away with murder there. No one wants to cause any trouble. The amazing attitude they displayed after the huge earthquake is now backfiring on them horribly. There's a heavy police presence outside of the Tepco headquarters in Tokyo, but unfortunately for no reason whatsoever.
That widely observed Japanese trait of subservience to authority probably plays especially badly in the case of radiation, which I would guess they learned to stoically ignore after WWII, since ruminating about it would have likely been counter-productive.
This situation seems analogous to ours in the US v. the Banksters, though. It's gotta be the money they would lose--and especially WHO would lose the most--that is shaping this debacle, rather than some putative instinct to "save face."
Banksters still walk the streets unmolested here, 4 years later . . . in spite of millions losing their homes, jobs and savings.
They are tackling the issue the US citizen way.
They have bad consequences to some of their actions and they shift it onto third parties.
Classical US citizenism.
AnAnonymous said:
Classical Chinese citizenism way of tackling problems is going downthere to opium parlor wifi hotspot and taking in much of opium smoking intoxication. This is then followed by invading Tibet and Nepal.
No, I think the Chinese, faced with a similar catastrophe, would simply send young men in droves to clean everything up, no matter how many millions of lives it might cost them.
Ultimate kamikaze.
IMHO too high a praise for these honorless scumbuckets.
The burning of radioactive debris is nothing but a decleration of war.
It seems there are no souverign states anymore though, the planet's just a maniac's playpen now.
NOAA: U.S. Records Warmest March Ever, 8.6 Degrees Above NormalThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has revealed last month was the warmest March ever recorded in the United States. Temperatures in the continental 48 states were 8.6-degrees above normal for March and 6-degrees higher than average for the first three months of the year. I looked at those videos from RT etc. over the weekend. It is now clear that Fukishima is even a bigger threat to all of your survival than Climate Change. Can we say Mutant Viruses, Boys and Girls?
NOAA: U.S. Records Warmest March Ever, 8.6 Degrees Above Normal
An anomaly, actually the temperature globally is/has gone down approx 1* over the past ten years of records keeping.
Weather patterns have and are subject to severe deviations............until we show the stats are consitently rising over an extended period the politically correct crew can stuff it.
The Japanese issue is something that CANNOT be allowed.Were the US should step in they WILL NOT.
Makes as much sense as murdering Ghadaffi, and getting Egypts government control to the Muslim Brotherhood( as Radical as they come), and Obama gives them a 1.5 Billion dollars to help them.
Anyone smell rotting fish??.We have a supposed Democracy, w/ a Republican form of gub, setting up a global Caliphate .........................that has VOWED to murder all of us.
Yowza!
We're all goners, just like the submariners in On The Beach.
The US and Canada (or whoever gets impacted by this supposed pollution) can sue Japan for damages. That would sort it out.
If this is all true (a big if, because GW has published alarmist crap before) and those two governments chose no to ask for compensation, then it's a problem of corruption in those two countries and people should protest against their own government.
But the whole piece seems out of proportions.
The only reason nuclear power station exist at all is because governments assume risk in an accident. If power companies were forced to insure themselves in the open market, nuclear power generation (in its current form) wouldn't have even got off the ground.
Now, we're learning exactly why. Fukushima MAY be the straw that breaks the world's back. It's a disaster that isn't going to go away for 10,000 years, and the Japanese tendency to not want to admit the truth certainly doesn't help preparations.
Neither does the Western world's fear of losing all those power plant construction and generation profits. Hello GE/USG. Face the facts, coome clean and shut all those fucking imminent disasters down, and bury all those MOX rods deep underground.
The most important thing is not canceling the Dolphin slaughter. Such an event would obviously lift the nation's spirits when they are down.
Basically, a low level attack on half of the world. Gentlemen, this (should) means war.
we nuked them, now they nuke us. tit-tat bitchez.
/sarc
Sarc? Maybe.
No sweat. The FED is poisoning the whole world by burning thru USDs.
Sigh, here comes death - again. Time to max out all my credit cards. Again.
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Cue Blue Oyster Cult...
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