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Fukushima "Cleanup" Has Contaminated Rice Crops 20 Kilometers Away
Remember when Japan and Tepco lied it was in control of the Fukushima disaster recovery, when it lied radiation exposure was manageable (when concerned about radiation exposure, just raise the minimum safe dosage), or when it lied that it had any clue what it was doing when it proposed building an "ice wall" to freeze the radioactive ground water below the damanged plant? Turns out it also lied about the impact of Fukushima's radiation not only on locally produced food (which was served to a government official to "prove" its safety), but also on food as far as 20 kilometers away.
According to Japan's Asahi, cleanup work at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in summer last year "may have" contaminated rice harvested from 14 locations in Minamisoma city, more than 20km north of the reactors, Asahi newspaper reports, citing examinations by the Agriculture Ministry. Cesium levels of the rice harvested in Minamisoma and 5 other locations last autumn within the 20km evaculation zone were above the benchmark of 100 becquerels/kg: Asahi.
Japan Times adds that "debris cleanup at Fukushima reactor may have contaminated rice crops"
Debris cleanup work by Tokyo Electric Power Co. at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have led to the contamination of rice crops in nearby areas, agriculture ministry officials said Monday.
Radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit of 100 becquerels per kilogram was detected in rice crops from Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, last year, including areas located more than 20 km from the crippled nuclear plant.
Farm ministry officials said they could not deny the possibility that radioactive dust was stirred up when Tepco cleaned up debris at the No. 3 reactor last August and that the dust could have made its way north to Minamisoma.
The ministry told Tepco in March to take measures to prevent dust dispersal, according to the officials.
A Tepco spokesman said the company does not deny the possibility that its cleanup work is to blame but added it isn’t clear whether that was the direct cause of the contamination.
The tainted rice was tested by the Fukushima Prefectural Government and never made it to market.
Because this time they are telling the truth. In the meantime, Japanese population continues to ingest rice and who knows what other irradiated food under the assumption that all is safe.
And to think that several years ago we joked (or so we hoped) that in order to fix its demographic bubble, in which Japan finds itself having the oldest average population of any country in the world, was merely to feed said population radiation. It appears that this "proposal" was taken a little too seriously by the local administration.
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Throw this rice at a wedding couple you dont like lol
double that
Dear Americans,
Nuclear fission is the safe, cheap, and green energy of the future. Now stop burning coal. That stuff is bad for the environment don't you know? And don't even THINK about a wood stove in your home.
Sincerely,
EPA
NICE... Tell The Lemings About It 8 Months Later...
Please Feed The Politicos MORE "SAFE" Fuku Rice...
The hot particle ("fuel flea") featured in the video below was found more than 300 miles from Fuku.
It came from the nuclear fuel of one of those reactors. How did it get so far away? Was it the nuclear explosion seen at Fuku #3?
http://www.fairewinds.org/hottest-particle/
Not to worry...these geniuses are going to "freeze" the ground deep down and all the way around to contain the massive core meltdown and bejillions and whatthefuck-tillions of whatevers of massive, deadly radiation that's spewing into the air and burning deep into the earth and into the ocean.
Ice wall...yeah, that'll fix it. Did they get the "ice wall" idea from Game of Thrones or some other fantasy show?
Japan is dead already and the death has already spread far, deep and wide into the Pacific. I won't eat another thing out of that poor ocean. It's Fuk'd.
Uncle Benwa's Instant X-Ray Rice
It's never good when I see the three-eyed fish on ZH.
no, have someone you don't like throw the rice at the couple you don't like.
Too late. Already sold to the round eyes.
Blinky is some sort of super fish,just ask Mr Burns!
poor Blinky....
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men
+1 for BOC quote
BOC aka Soft WHite Underbelly
To allow anything to be grown within a 30km radius around Fukushima is criminal neglect by the government.
30?
Feed it to starving Eboli victims.
Just more goddamn eco-trrrsss propaganda. A little radiation never hurt anybody. Are the Chinese all dead? No they AREN'T. And you know why? Because polution isn't a problem. There's 1.5 billion goddamn Chinese happily living better lives because polution is WORTH the higher standard of living, that's what these goddamn eco-socialists won't tell you! Look, if we want progress we've just got to accept that polution and - yes - radiation are just part of the cost of success and we don't need these goddamn eco-socialists trying to destroy capitalism by scaring people about polution and radiation!
So all America needs is more radiation? Are you being a putz deliberately? Bet you've never even been to China. For every action, there is an opposite reaction. For every enriched urban center with pretty glass buildings and sumptuous buffets with pretty waitresses, there is an expanse of utter shithole factory towns filled with sickly laborers subsisting on noodles as their bodies waste from disease.
You're just another eco-trrrsss, green on the outside and a pinko-commy on the inside. Polution is good, it toughens up the society. That's why Americans are so weak now, no polution!
Go drink deeply from the Yangtze.
For clearity: radiation breaks DNA forever, your decendents will carry that mutation and pass it on to their children (if they can have children).
For your reading pleasure.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120809/srep00570/full/srep00570.html
Unless there's some way to make radiation contamination visible, nobody's going to care. It will be like any other low-level health issue - easy for officials to ignore, negative impacts lost in a muddle of statistics that the propagandists and their media lackeys can gloss over as insignificant.
We live in seriously fucked up times, where the broader public has apparently been rendered totally devoid of common sense reasoning, attention spans reduced below that of your average squirrel.
Just make sure the next time you have a chest X-Ray, you get to sneak a peek.
Those little sparklers in there are real fireworks.
The real question to be asked is 1) what are the contamination levels compared to background and 2) what specifically is the contaminant. Without those 2 pieces of info this can't be properly judged as problem or noise.
3 fucking reactors melted down 3 years ago. Since then, next to nothing has been done to address the issue. It's only the easy generation of bullshit propaganda, given a veil of legitimacy by 'experts' that keeps anybody from intuitively understanding that this cannot be anything other than a big fucking problem.
I wonder how many of those contaminated cars have been melted down and reused in exported cars and other manufactured goods.
Dig a huge deep hole next to Fukushima. Let the ocean in. Controlled blast the whole complex into the huge deep hole. Doze the surrounding hillsides over the top to form a lid. Push out for a quarter mile into the ocean too. Forgive, forget, and move on.
One last big boom of blowing cesium everywhere before poisoning the ocean? Are you in Government Planning by chance?
If the SFPs get uncovered, which looks like a significant probability, it all goes in the air in a hurry. Better for the jumbled SFPs and the reactor coriums to be covered in water connected to the ocean where they won't spontaneously combust. Then cap the area with rock, and sand so the ocean water isn't freely flowing and is inhibitited from mixing with it. Sedimentation may end up as a good cap over the long run. Got me know?
"If the SFPs get uncovered, which looks like a significant probability, it all goes in the air in a hurry."
Yes. So, let me get this right......... your solution to the SPF criticality risk is to set some explosions off right next to them?
A Controlled. Explosion. At Fukushima? A place, lest we forget, where the best idea so far for containment is to build a fucking ICE WALL? The same guys who accidentally dropped a CRANE into one of the fuel pools. And some iron girders. You want those guys doing that?
And you're just going to shove it all in a hole and let is poison the shit out of the Tokyo aquifer - above which, if I recall correctly, is the most populated metropolis on the planet?
And it's never going to leak into the sea. Through porous material. On the top of a tectonic subduction zone. On an island made out of a volcano. That gets hit by tsunamis. And typhoons. And earthquakes. Big ones. Right next to the beach.
Uh huh.
Well, my best and other idea was to form a crater below it to drop it into, using some unconvential technology and make sure the crater connects to the sea immediately so little or no exposure time to the air occurs, then doze rock on top of the crater to fill it and keep dozing until the rock is 80 feet or so above sea level. Air and surface contamination I reckon are worse than some possible aquifer contamination. After all, being so close to the ocean, I suspect any flow will be to it and not to some aquifer. If water flowed from the ocean to the aquifer, then the aquifer would be salty, which I don't think it is. As far as tsunami's go, if covered under rock at a dept greater than 40 feet below sea level, I don't think a tsuami would scour it out. Tsunamis can move a lot of sand at the surface level, but not rock for the most part, especially with 80 feet of above sea level ridge for a wave to bounce off of or go around.
Fuku is already leaking into the water table. In Japanese press today it was described as a radioactive swamp. If you want to go the crater route, or big hole, or something, you're better off tapping underground lava. If we were further down the road with biotech, we might be able to make use of some of the recent lab grown algae that can filter out radiation quite easily. But there is no answer. That's why you don't build nuclear power stations on one of the most natural disaster prone parts of the world. There are precisely zero ways in which we can realistically unfuck ourselves.
Underground lava? You tap into that and it comes above ground, spewing back at ya. That shit's under pressure. And with no active volcano in that area, it's probably 20,000 feet down at least. And under the current situation, Fuku is an open sore, constantly leaking into the sea, so it's already going out to sea probably more than it would be if in some crater with rock layers above.
so what OTHER crops are grown around there that *didn't* make it to market? Or what animals were they fed to before butchering?
"what animals were they fed to before butchering?"
Sent to China to feed the little piggies Chiina sends to USA?
What does it matter anyway? Every truck carrying food goods into USA from elsewhere is irradiated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are plane and pharmaceutical cargoes also irradiated? Are trucks moving with food and pharma cargoes within the US irradiated?
and they're sending it Singapore! Yum!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/05/31/national/singapore-lifts-ban...
Newest addition to the local sushi offerings: Fukusashimi...significantly more kick than the spicy tuna roll.
Good thing I do not eat Rice...
Why are Japanese killing their own people? They must leave 50-100 km area from plant station at least
The vicious lies you hear about radiation....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VKzqAefBVY
bob, zionists know all about lies. spinning and spinning.
UNCLE BORON'S RICE. WITH TEN NEUTRON'S FOR EXTRA HEALTH!
bismuth is also a radioactive isotope starting with letter b but i thought boron was a better b sounding name than bismuth.
UNCLE BISMUTH'S!
The reality is, unfortunately, that the inhalation or ingestion of just a small amount of cesium will produce eventual cancer. Anyone born today in the Northern Hemisphere will be unlikely to reach 50 without experiencing some form of cancer. This does not bode well for the millions of North Americans who are exposed daily to the unstoppable Fukushima radiation.
People in government lie??
What What Whaaat?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3PUu88nOcw&feature=kp
I went long rice a few months ago (stacker way). Cheapest i can find now is 10% more expensive then what I paid.
Similar with some other products. Sugar is cheap. Wheat is cheap but there is nearly no wheat for sale. The harverst is in a month os so. If "something happened" within a month (currency-banking-bail-in-problem, military around the field, expensive on unavailible oil, weather) there is no wheat for next year. I can only guess the price of egg, or for example ANY vegetable seeds for that matter. All veg seeds that are for sale where I live are made by big firms - when banking goes "freeze mode" or some companies go bankrupt there might be very little seeds for sale, or expensive, or none at all for the next season. Who knows? I use my own seeds from previous year and it works just fine, but most people don't. St. John put the price on wheat in The Revelation. Assuming u have any silver to pay for it, it is still expensive to pay one denarius for a little bit of wheat. An ounce buys me what? A bucket of wheat? This implies that silver really is money acording to what The Lord showed him. But on the other hand it is only money. Sometimes it cannot buy all you need. Go long what you really need. The rest of it is noise. Do what needs to be done.
Here's in detail what is going on:
http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/messages/all-messages/
Goose fat.
The X-ians, in long lines, will be getting their heads lopped off soon enough.
We’ll code word the meat and eat them. Can’t be much worse than pink slime.
By the sounds of that mad book of theirs, it's us or them.
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and tell all those who heard him to lay their hands on his head. Then let the entire community stone him to death." Leviticus 24
I suppose if I had a frame of reference of what a "kilometer" was, I'd be concerned. #USCustomaryUnitsForever
I looked it up; a kilometer is just over 90 feet. And a kilolitre is around 50 hogsheads.
Dear TEPCO - so where else could the Cesium have come from? Another one of your nukes with issues you haven't revealed?
That fission rice is available in Hollywierd too by now. Whether you want it or not.
A lot of fuss over nothing. Just keep smiling and everything will be ok.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gHvVZTw-f4Q
no pwobwem
sell at a discount to china
GE: We bring good things to life! like you wife's new penis! Show that commercial with those idiot employees line dancing again. The company polluted half an ocean with no consequence. unbelievable