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Japan Prepares To Release Thousands Of Tons Of Fukushima Groundwater Into The Pacific

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A few days ago, with over a three year delay, Japan finally admitted what was clear to most from day one: the consequences of the Fukushima disaster have been far, far worse than officials had reported, and not only is the containment effort out of control, but that more nuclear fuel had melted at the Fukushima nuclear reactor than previously reported, suggesting that neither TEPCO nor the government have had any success in mitigating what is now the worst - and ongoing - nuclear disaster in history.

So now, perhaps to celebrate its truth-telling ways, TEPCO has announced that it is planning to release thousands of tons of radioactive groundwater from the Fukushima disaster site into the ocean. Actually scratch that: officially the water dumped into the Pacific will be "decontaminated", because TEPCO has that rare habit of "telling the truth." It will also do so only after getting permission from local fishermen, who apparently have a choice: whether to catch five-eyed tuna after giving TEPCO "yes" for an answer, or merely catching five-eyed tuna, period.

As NHK confirms, TEPCO "is seeking approval from fishermen to discharge decontaminated ground water into the ocean."

The spin: dumping "decontaminated" water into the ocean is an improvement because Fukushima is already leaking some 200 tons of contaminated ground water per day into the ocean. So why not slap a "treated" sticker on the water and just dump it all. It's not as if the idiotic plan lifted straight from Game of Thrones, which Japan came up with last year to encase Fukushima in a frozen sarcophagus had any chance of working. So now it is straight to what anyone with a functioning frontal lobe said would happen anyway: thousands if not millions of tons of radioactive water will enter the Pacific anyway. Only this time TEPCO is at least pretending to care about the truth and/or the environment.

More from NHK:

Highly radioactive water at the plant is seeping into the earth and mixing with ground water. Experts estimate around 200 tons of contaminated ground water are leaking into the ocean each day.

 

Engineers with Tokyo Electric Power Company are building an iron barrier along a coastal embankment in a bid to contain the problem.

 

TEPCO officials say they plan to pump the water and remove radioactive substances using a decontamination system they are building. They say the barrier and the decontamination system will be in place in September. But they have limited capacity in storage tanks at the plant, and want to discharge the decontaminated water into the ocean.

In other words, to avoid dumping radioactive water into the Pacific, Japan has to... dump radioactive water into the Pacific. Brilliant.

The officials say they explained the plan to the Fukushima prefectural fisheries association, and they will seek approval from the local fisheries cooperative.

And if the fishermen say no, because guess what: selling glow in the dark toro tartare just happens to cut into the radioactive top and bottom-line, well... tough.

They say they also want to decontaminate ground water collected at wells near reactor buildings before releasing it into the ocean. They will apply to the government to build drainage pipes and other facilities to do so.

But the officials say they will not go ahead without the consent of the fishermen. They say their plan is an improvement on the current situation, as contaminated water is spilling directly into the ocean.

So to summarize: TEPCO will politely ask the local fishermen if it is allowed to dump thousands of tons of "decontaminated" radioactive water into the ocean, and if it doesn't get the green light, it will continue to dump thousands of tons of contaminated radioactive water into the ocean.

Surely some Keynesian professor in some radioactive Tokyo ivory tower has found a way that this idiocy will add to GDP.

 

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Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:48 | 5071400 kaiserhoff
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You mean, that's not the way Japanesy pussies really look?

Oh my god.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:56 | 5071580 Super Hans
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I just noticed that today while jerking off!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:32 | 5071365 Buster Cherry
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This is not new.

It was reported day 1 that the fuel rods were damaged. A nuke plant is only so big and has only so much storage.

Nothing was designed for this scenario. Of course they are and have been dumping the water into the ocean.

I told the wife no more tuna or salmon within a week of the earthquake.

At this point, any fingerpointing is moot, because this is irreversible....

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:37 | 5071378 cpnscarlet
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Just like public opinion - irreversible.

We could have had Americium batteries that lasted 10+ years, and air-blown reactors that would safe themselves if power was lost, but noooooo.... GE had to push boiling water reactors since that was what the Navy paid them to develop. And here we are --- the lights will be out eventually. 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:34 | 5071683 PrintemDano
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The US Navy uses Pressurized water reactors...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:40 | 5071699 Buster Cherry
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I know americium 241 is in most smoke detectors, but Ive never heard of even the idea of an Am battery. I'd be  interested in a link to that info.

One thing to note: This Americium isotope has a half-life of 240,000 years but I think its radiation is low energy and can only hurt you if ingested. Im not sure if its a by product of fission.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 07:24 | 5072226 onthesquare
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We have had Americium smoke detectors for over 30 years.  Now most are in the landfills and still radiating.  I imagine some have made their way into recycling at the steel plants and can be found in our new appliances from China.

 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:39 | 5071380 logicalman
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Reading lamp sales will go down when we all glow in the dark.

 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:39 | 5071381 Karaio
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Know how to find a Japanese at the airport? 

Turn off the light, cut power. 

All that glitter is Japanese. 

hehe. 

- Fuck the politically correct, the joke is good Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:49 | 5071549 Limbs Akimbo
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O.K. WEST COAST!!!!

 

In unison now......' .....turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so...'

-By 'The Vapors' in case some of you don't remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbobaz8nn4

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:16 | 5071995 Seek_Truth
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Somebody needs to redo the video to that song-

Show people with tumors, hair falling out.

Would be a big hit with morbid humor fans.

 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:48 | 5071385 Rattling Bones
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Why don't they just pour it over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, those people must be immune to this type of thing by now?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:43 | 5071387 logicalman
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.

Old, but prescient.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:45 | 5071390 Yen Cross
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  Just mix all that contaminated water with all the yen they've printed over the last (2) years and that should absorb all the radioactive particles.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:46 | 5071391 roadhazard
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ah, so solly, Anjin San.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:46 | 5071392 Cognitive Dissonance
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Well........if the swimming pool is big enough no one will mind if I pee in it a little lot.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:51 | 5071403 kaiserhoff
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Why is that so damn funny/comic/tragic?

Maybe because we only have one planet?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:05 | 5071436 Cognitive Dissonance
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I noticed there is no discussion in Japan about trucking all this radioactive water to the nearest inland lake for dumping. I wonder why?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:42 | 5071530 Hulk
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You can pee in the pool as much as you like, provided you did not have asparagus for dinner !!!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:00 | 5071583 Tall Tom
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Ok....So you will not mind if I ejaculate in the pool?

 

How about leaving a shit in the pool?

 

It will dissapate. Trust me.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:13 | 5071623 Tall Tom
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I do not want TEPCO to use the Pacific Ocean as their toilet.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:35 | 5071687 cpnscarlet
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Like I said before....

"And your solution to the problem is?...."

crickets

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:31 | 5072012 Seek_Truth
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Solution? What solution?

I mean,

Windscale Fire, UK, who knew?

Three Mile Island, No big deal.

Kyshtym, Russia,oopsy daisy!

Chernobyl, Phhht!

Fukushima, stuff happens!

And why dispose of any of those spent fuel rods? Just leave 'em suspended above the reactor, I sez!

I mean, look, WIPP in New Mexico is leaking, but it's not in my backyard.

Neither is Hanford, WA.

So it's no biggy.

Not until an earthquake, a tsunami, a hurricane, tornado, flood, drought, EMP, power grid failure, mudslide, etc.

In other words, no worries.

There are no solutions once a Chernobyl or Fukushima happens.

Pandora is out of the Box.

And we ain't seen nothin' yet.

 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:16 | 5071458 Rubbish
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Correction, "Had" one planet. 10,000 years of this leaking is a long long time.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 20:47 | 5071394 Bossman1967
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How about these fools that take fish oil for cholesterol. Hey here is some cancer with your thick blood no problems. sushi anyone. Not 1 mention in the news period.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:03 | 5071431 Peter Pan
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Why release it into the ocean when you can tanker it across to some uninhabited areas of the Sahara desert and make it bloom?

I know this sounds crazy but it has at least some beneficial effect rather than dumping it into the ocean and killing all oceanic life.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:40 | 5071520 Matt
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Your proposal would cost tremendous amounts of energy. Letting water flow downhill is pretty easy in comparison.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:37 | 5071693 PrintemDano
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All Oceanic life is doomed?  You are a realist I see.....lay you 100,000 : 1   Name your price, how many years you want?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:36 | 5072020 Seek_Truth
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The second angel sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea; and a third of the sea became blood,  and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died - Revelation 8:9

The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died. - Revelation 16:3 

Already started:

http://www.end-times-prophecy.org/animal-deaths-birds-fish-end-times.html

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:53 | 5072332 Wild tree
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Seek,

Knock and it shall be open unto you. You have found what many seek; those who are weak will leak before this time is done.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 12:11 | 5072718 varnelius
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Actually about the best idea I've heard yet on what to do with the stuff.

I still think we should have leased Japan Detroit for 100 years to house the evacuees (imposing a 1% tax on everything).  Like what the brits did with Hong Kong, only sort of in reverse.  Imagine what the japs could do with a somewhat non radioactive area and a freshwater port.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:03 | 5071433 SilverRoofer
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Godzilla!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:53 | 5071566 himaroid
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Kickin' Godzillas ass would be the easiest thing a roofer did all day.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 03:03 | 5072075 Ms. Erable
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History shows again and again

how nature points out the folly of men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T65rW_SIzg0

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:06 | 5071437 yogibear
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Special on radioactive sushi. The tuna set off the radiation detectors.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:11 | 5071447 lolmao500
Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:31 | 5071495 Urban Redneck
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So they can now blame the drop in German production on:
A) Ebola
B) Russia
C) Weather

But never:
D) The EUSSR Axis in Brussels/London/Washington
E) The ECB

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:33 | 5071506 Smuckers
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This October, come to Ebolafest, where the beer is free if the barmaid sloughs her stomach lining into your pint.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:45 | 5071538 Jack Burton
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Ebola in Germany, infected are doing just what I said they would. Fearing infection, and while still well enough, they will travel to any Western European nation to await the illness. Knowing that the world's best care will be delivered free of charge. Think about it. You fear you can in contact with Ebola. Do you wait in some shit hole African city, or hop the first plane to the EU where all care will be taken to save you? It makes sense that many infected will figure this out and fast!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:48 | 5071548 himaroid
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Deep, cold water may kill it   ???

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:52 | 5071557 himaroid
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Rod Stewarts twin partied with us in the early 80's down here. On nights just like this. He left his old Southern Gal and went back home to England for his fini. We still talk about that voice and guitar. Oops, cancer.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:13 | 5071449 The Phallic Crusader
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I don't think the average bear really understands what radioactive means.  Or how the affects are cumulative.  I think the canary in the coal mine for people might be Seattle.  Anyone on here from around there?  Let's see geiger counts after rain storms over the next 12 months and see if there's a trend.

Tell people that it's where Starbucks is from. 

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:57 | 5071870 Terminus C
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Canary in the coal mine is the near complete lack of seagulls on the ferry to and from Vancouver Island... no fucking seagulls, used to be hundreds of them...

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:53 | 5071943 Ginsengbull
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If they get indigestion, you can feed them alka seltzer.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:18 | 5072001 blackbeardz
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shortly after 3-11 Canistan stopped testing for radiation. thanks harper.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:53 | 5071941 Ginsengbull
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Seattle has been going to shit ever since the mid 80's, with "grunge rock".

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:14 | 5071450 Smuckers
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With all this dancing around on the planet breaking atoms, fracking the ground, blowing shit up - no wonder Mother finally decided to burp up some Ebola spores and fuck us right back. 

Next thing you know, it will jump to be naturally hosted in the every day pigeon, and then the fun really starts.
One smeary blob of pigeon shit on the car hood and it wipes out a neighborhood.

FFS, stop this shit.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:15 | 5071453 db51
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Pump it and Dump it in Iraq in those ISIS Hot Zones.   Maybe use those fire fighting jumbo jets.   No need for night vision goggles to see the goat fucking assholes....they'll be lit up like glow sticks at a birthday party.  

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:40 | 5071525 therevolutionwas
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And their off spring will come back at night with 57 eyes and 6 arms to saw off your sorry head.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:15 | 5071455 Government need...
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Largest environmental catastrophe in the history of mankind and how many press releases has the EPA released?  Those bastards are nothing more than petty tyrants.  I'd like to hear (just once) those bozos admit that what has happening in Fukushima is FAR worse for OUR environment than the cumulative release of a century's worth of US coal, oil, and natural gas consumption.  You freaks want me to pay a carbon tax, yet you say NOTHING to denounce TEPCO and Japan's failure to adequately address their crisis?  Better bring a few MRAP-equipped teams.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:19 | 5071645 Amish Hacker
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When it gets serious, you have to lie.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:16 | 5071457 Mike in Tokyo Rogers
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You folks just seem not to "get it." If we treat the radioactive water, then we can count it as an energy export... It's the 4th arrow of Abenomics.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:46 | 5071543 himaroid
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Which of our fine contributors explained how people that were not alarmed were the mentally unstable? I am desperately clinging to that.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 21:56 | 5071579 NoWayJose
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The answer for this is simple - just leak a story that scientists have discovered that drinking a gallon of Fukushima water keeps you from getting Ebola! (Of course, you might not actually live long enough to catch it...)

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:00 | 5071588 ThirdCoastSurfer
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Why would you need to store decontaminated water when there is so much contaminated water available?

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:23 | 5071656 Amish Hacker
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Decontamination is pure BS. TEPCO wants people to think that radionuclides can be removed by something like a giant Brita filter, but no such technology exists.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:09 | 5071609 spanish inquisition
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Sorry for jacking the thread on what is clearly an OT subject - Has anyone been checking the problems with fish dying, birds not reproducing, deep sea creatures washing up on shore and star fish melting in the North Pacific? Government scientists all over the world are baffled as to the cause.....

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:21 | 5071803 Aussiekiwi
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Things die, things stop reproducing and occasionally sea creatures get lost and end up washed up on shores, star fish commit suicide etc, all very very natural, nothing to get concerned about.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:40 | 5071848 CheapBastard
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As the levels of radiation rise, they keep telling us this new, higher level is also safe. So the fish are showing increased radiation but MSM says, "Oh yeah, that [higher] level is safe too....:

 

Radiation Tripled In Some Pacific Tuna Since Fukushima Meltdown

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/radiation-tripled-some-pacific-tuna-fukushima-mel...

 

Since I have a healthy skepticism of MSM and Gubmnint data, I simply avoid eating anything from Pacific and the West Coast if at all possible.  It's just common sense to me. The latest cancer research from Hopkins cites "pesticides" as the #1 cause of cancer these days. I wonder what univeristy is following the cancer rate, thyroid problems, etc on the West coast? I'd like to see those studies.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:01 | 5071875 Terminus C
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Seagulls are strangely 'absent' around Victoria and Vancouver.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:32 | 5072013 Sambo
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Deported for not holding proper visas or green cards.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:58 | 5072337 Absinthe Minded
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I upvoted you to balance out your -1. Who the fuck would downvote you for an obvious joke? Hopefully it was a fat finger.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:35 | 5072480 Gadfly
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Is it possible they know something we don't know?  Like "Don't eat the fish."

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:35 | 5072627 Aussiekiwi
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Glowing in the dark could be handy for a seagull.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:21 | 5072593 Aussiekiwi
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lol, Sarcasm....you either get it or you don't

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:42 | 5072026 Seek_Truth
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"Government scientists all over the world are baffled as to the cause."

Why, I think I've found a clue, Sherlock!

Translation: Gubmint posers bribed/threatened/blackmailed into keeping their mouths shut if they know what's good for them.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 09:24 | 5072365 general ambivalent
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There was one suggestion that sea lions and other large sea mammals were taking to seizures due to something toxic in algal blooms. So likely accumulative effects of a destroyed environment with all the floating chemicals, or perhaps these algal blooms are exploding due to radioactive waste. They may attack it just as cells attack a virus. Seems to be something happening in Japan similar, with the black fungus that is extremely high in radioactive material.

Low water, heat, drought/overfertilisation, and other environmental factors are accumulative, but this disaster has sent us into the future with its millions of years of destructive power.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 14:01 | 5072993 Wooden Tiger
Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:16 | 5071630 Limbs Akimbo
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O.K. WEST COAST!!!!

 

In unison now......' .....turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese I really think so...'

-By 'The Vapors' in case some of you don't remember.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbobaz8nn4

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:18 | 5071638 wanderintheland
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This is all depressing...

Time to catch up on my Walking Dead season 4 download...

C'mon Apolcalypse.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:21 | 5071651 Salsipuedes
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So if they build the Canal that will gut Central America once and for all in Nicaragua, we can share the water of death, the horror that has a name, Fukushima, with the Carribean! Night cruises will be insane! Glowing cyclops octopussys that look like Lloyd Blankfein!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:45 | 5072028 Seek_Truth
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"we can share the water of death, the horror that has a name, Fukushima,"

In death, water has a name. Its name was Fukushima, its name was Fukushima, its name was Fukushima...

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:42 | 5071700 JuliaS
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Japan went to war because it realized it didn't have enough fuel to sustain demands of its industrial economy. That was 70 years ago. How do you think they're doing now? You think they're building nuclear reactors few feet from open water because they're got energy to piss away? They do it because they have limited options.

If they weren't opposed advancing South-West across Eurasia, they'd have direct pipelines to Saudi Arabia by now. They'd also be burning gas and coal, like other nice nations (ie. China).

As for radioactivity - they got irradiated once. Now they're simply returning the favor. It's to save lives, you know. Japanese lives.

I'm going to go out and enjoy one last round of sushi and inquire what cancer coverage I have.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:45 | 5071710 q99x2
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What's the difference. We are all doomed anyway. Faulty pre-designed existence strategy unless of course people create and activate the singularity before destroying themselves.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 22:58 | 5071738 Aussiekiwi
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What exactly is "decontaminated" radioactive water", has anybody asked, does this mean that I can drink it?, that a Geiger counter passed over it will not even blink? and exactly how do you de-contaminate radioactive water? what chemicals or process is used and what happens to the radiation? and lastly why was it never thought of before, why not after the disaster when they were leaking radioactive water didn't someone just say, hey! no problem we will just de-contaminate it!  

I smell a  large radioactive rat.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:26 | 5071820 Bemused Observer
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They throw some chlorine tablets into it and spray the surface with Febreeze.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:03 | 5071877 Salsipuedes
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Corexit, kitty litter and a splash of vermouth!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:21 | 5071806 boeing747
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Moment ago my geiger counter read 0.44 usv/hour in my backyard, that means a cloud carrying fuku radiation just past by (san jose, california). Normally it shall read 0.11 usv/h. In early evening hour, marine air flows inland, that's when my geiger counter quickly goes up.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:25 | 5071814 Aussiekiwi
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No worries, we will just raise the allowable normal safe background level, problem solved.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:27 | 5071823 Limbs Akimbo
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Meh....prolly just some wind change from Livermore. LOL

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:22 | 5071808 Aussiekiwi
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Its a pity Japan can't just build a pipeline and dump it all somewhere else, I bet they have thought about it though.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:40 | 5071922 Amish Hacker
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The quantity of contaminated water that TEPCO has stored in the tanks (and is now releasing) is tiny compared to the huge quantities of water that naturally move through the underground aquifers and into the ocean every day. The problem is that this water flows over, or near, three nuclear cores somewhere underground before it flows into the ocean. There is currently no technology that can find and retrieve those cores, or even get close to them. Nor is it possible to stop the flow of groundwater on its way to the Pacific. New technologies will take decades to be discovered and implemented, and meanwhile the Pacific Ocean will get more radioactive, hour by hour. This is what "they" don't want you to know.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:23 | 5071810 Spastica Rex
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My 18 year old son believes his own bullshit, too.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:39 | 5071847 boeing747
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Now jumps to 0.67 usv/h from 0.11.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:12 | 5071890 Aussiekiwi
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Get your finger off it.!

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:54 | 5071864 yogibear
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"Moment ago my geiger counter read 0.44 usv/hour in my backyard"

 

The government will not allow the truth to come out about this.  Go ahead and attempt to have a newpaper or televison station monitor it. They won't do it.

Sat, 08/09/2014 - 23:58 | 5071872 Salsipuedes
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Neither will the multi-billion dollar SURF INDUSTRY. Conspicuous by their criminal absence.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 00:10 | 5071886 himaroid
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcKZoq_GcPU

Dedicated to the oily fish.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:04 | 5071955 boeing747
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Seagulls lost their feathers after fly thru fuku cloud. Now I worry those UPS and FEDEX drivers' health in CA, wish them have a happy 'driving' day.

 

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:53 | 5072037 Skateboarder
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You know how that little dose of rain came in earlier in the week? Bet that was radioactive as hell.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 01:22 | 5072004 Sambo
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Does anyone know if they managed to clear the SFP 4? or did TEPCO screw up?

It was supposed to be the most dangerous operation connected with a nuclear plant ever. Thousands of spent fuel rods to be moved to a 'safer' location from the pool that was damaged by debris falling on it.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 17:07 | 5073570 Metal Minded
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The most recent report Google can find on SFP4 is from May 7 2014:

http://fukushimaupdate.com/53-of-spent-fuel-rods-removed-from-reactor-4/

Site claims to be independent neutral reporter.

Nothing newer than 5/7/14 on SFP4? Underwhelming.....

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 02:36 | 5072058 Wild Theories
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I got a question if anyone can answer it:

"Engineers with Tokyo Electric Power Company are building an iron barrier along a coastal embankment in a bid to contain the problem."

Is an iron wall more radiation proof than, say, an ice wall at preventing radiactive leaks carried through water?

If it is how thick does the iron barrier need to be to prevent radiation leakage? and how long can a barrier of iron hold things up before the accumulated radiation in the water starts eating away at the structural integrity of the wall? or is that not a possibility and I'm just getting too far ahead of myself?


I was never a good science student so don't know much about radiactive stuff, appreciate it if anyone with some semi-knowledge can enlighten me.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 04:05 | 5072124 crowd
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Radiated iron near the sea - at least it's better than ice?!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:15 | 5072438 pupdog1
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A barrier of Hello Kitty dolls would be even more effective.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 03:43 | 5072115 crowd
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Brilliant, just decontaminate! Why didn't anyone think of that before?!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 04:18 | 5072129 random999
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long geiger counters

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 04:28 | 5072133 zebrasquid
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Bloomberg and Michelle might say something...I mean, isn't this more fearsome than Big gulps and Oreos?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 04:29 | 5072134 Bioscale
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According to http://enenews.com/ , TEPCO has been releasing radioactive water into the Pacific daily.

They are not preparing anything, it's just propaganda bullshit. Why would they annonce that? For what fucking reason? They have lied constantly from the beginning.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 06:17 | 5072172 All is chosen
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I know I shouldn't laugh/cry/go numb, but unless someone is making this up...? : "The Japanese government plans to provide a subsidy of about three billion dollars over 30 years for regional development in Fukushima Prefecture. The grant is to be offered when local communities agree to build temporary storage facilities for highly radioactive waste"

http://fukushimaupdate.com/japanese-government-to-provide-3-bil-for-fuku...


 


Sun, 08/10/2014 - 06:59 | 5072200 petaloka
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New show on the Discovery channel - Wicked Tumor!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 07:43 | 5072255 RealityCheque
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SSKI, 1 drop everyday in water. It'll protect your thyroid and some (though not all) of the deadly potential of Fukushima.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:09 | 5072294 pupdog1
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If these pathologically lying Jap terrorists have actually found a way to decontaminate radioactive seawater, then they will win a Nobel prize, since they have just re-written most of modern physics.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:15 | 5072300 TNTARG
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Oh, but the problem isn't that tiny little bit of radiation poisening the Pacific and the air for years now!

The real health issue worlwide is Ebola, didn't you know?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 09:34 | 5072376 logicalman
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Let's hope those making decisions about ebola do a better job than those deciding about Fuck You Shima.

What's been allowed to happen in Japan hardly gives a chap confidence!

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:20 | 5072305 jmcadg
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So right now, it is ACCEPTED practice that contaminated water IS going into the Pacific Ocean. This is not contested and no one really has a problem with this??? We are now discussing nuance??? It's all about the level of contamination right??? Has anyone mentioned what is in the decontaminated water to make it such??? Other toxic waste no doubt. How is this monitored??? This is just a green light to dump all the shit in the Pacific without impunity!!! They won't decontaminate it. Who's going to know. WTF. WTF. WTF.
Our world is being destroyed and there is nothing we can do about it. Fucking depressing.
Bring on the financial collapse, let's have something to smile about!!!

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:52 | 5072330 Last of the Mid...
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Que Jeffrey and the line dancing "we bring good things to life" GE commercial. This is a case study in howTBTF becomes TBTB (too big to blame).

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 08:59 | 5072341 IndianaJohn
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How 'bout some brief and light reading on this Sunday morning, before the bars open. http://www.henrymakow.com/theargumentfukushimasabotage.html

I wonder if Russia employes Israeli security at their Nuclear Powerplants? Like we do. And for those who prefer video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:13 | 5072434 Unstable Condition
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Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:20 | 5072448 Bumbu Sauce
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Dilution is the solution to pollution.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:25 | 5072457 pashley1411
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exactly how is this different than just letting the plant debris and trash run into the sea?    What's the Japanese word for "we tried, dammit!".

The Japanese are taking this depopulation thing seriously, aren't they?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:55 | 5072528 Limbs Akimbo
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Shikata ga mai...'It cannot be helped'

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:29 | 5072470 Gadfly
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At least the Russians marshalled a massive effort and burried their out of control reactor in concrete and got things under control, and thus prevented a local and worldwide enviornmental disaster.  In high contrast, TEPCO, a private company, has done virtually nothing to protect anyone, and now we will all pay the price.  This is insane.  

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:44 | 5072503 Bumbu Sauce
Sun, 08/10/2014 - 10:59 | 5072543 Laddie
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Perhaps my first post on ZH:

"March 12th Obama should have DEMANDED that the reactors were entombed Chernobyl style. He didn't he went off to Brazil and started a war with Libya. The consequences of letting the situation deteriorate in those crucial first hours have yet to be seen, but will be tragic.

Watch the 1959 film ON THE BEACH stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire."

What he also did then was authorize 9 new nuclear power plants for US. 3 for Georgia, 3 for South Carolina and 3 in another state.

Of course I've stayed at ZH because THERE IS NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT on the web. Here FREEDOM OF SPEECH is not just a phrase but a REALITY. And anyone can express their beliefs, information, and ideas WITHOUT the PC POLICE deleting legitimate posts. I think as fine a team as there is at ZH it is the COMMENTS that are really a vital part of this site. The information I've learned, both from Tyler and guest posters but from the COMMENTS has been incalculable.

As far as the Japanese, well I realize that I had bought into the myth of them, the reality is another thing entirely.
Like this fellow:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/exclusive-controversial-us-sci...
Scientist Recreates Pandemic Flu Virus That Killed 500,000 People
Exclusive: Controversial US scientist creates deadly new flu strain for pandemic research
Steve Connor Tuesday 01 July 2014

A controversial scientist who carried out provocative research on making influenza viruses more infectious has completed his most dangerous experiment to date by deliberately creating a pandemic strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.

Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has genetically manipulated the 2009 strain of pandemic flu in order for it to “escape” the control of the immune system’s neutralising antibodies, effectively making the human population defenceless against its reemergence.

Most of the world today has developed some level of immunity to the 2009 pandemic flu virus, which means that it can now be treated as less dangerous “seasonal flu”. However, The Independent understands that Professor Kawaoka intentionally set out to see if it was possible to convert it to a pre-pandemic state in order to analyse the genetic changes involved.

The study is not published, however some scientists who are aware of it are horrified that Dr Kawaoka was allowed to deliberately remove the only defence against a strain of flu virus that has already demonstrated its ability to create a deadly pandemic that killed as many as 500,000 people in the first year of its emergence.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 14:02 | 5072995 pupdog1
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It is reassuring to know that Dr. Kawaoka works in a level 3 1/2 biohazard lab--only half a notch down from state-of-the-art.

Maybe he should be doing this back in his homeland, where a major accident wouldn't really matter all that much.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 15:57 | 5073318 rwe2late
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 Was his research funded by the bio-warfare division of DOD?

similar to:

What were bio-warfare researchers doing in Ebola outbreak zone?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-are-us-biological-warfare-researchers-...

 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:19 | 5072587 nostromo17
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No such thing as a tank(s) to hold the water to be dumped into the Pacific?

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:20 | 5072591 SMC
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In the 1920's... radiation was “good for you” - now governments and their propaganda outlets claim that it will do no harm to the oceans – same quackery different century.

 

 

 

http://www.enviroreporter.com/thathealthyglow

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:53 | 5072677 meatball
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I hope radiation spreads all over the world and wipes out the human race.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 12:12 | 5072725 p00k1e
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Nice.  Kill 'em all!

 

Judas Priest - The Ripper (Live)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lriWlHZAy8A

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 11:57 | 5072686 TradingTroll
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I dont know but this isnt rocket science. For Ebola there is Tekmira. For radiation in the body there is www.vitapect.org

Its the only scientifically proven weay to remove 63% of those radioactive nuclides from your body.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 12:10 | 5072721 p00k1e
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Curiosity!  How are radioactive nuclides removed from the body when that body is immersed in radioactive nuclides? 

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 16:11 | 5073349 Matt
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I recommend you stop swimming in Spent Fuel Ponds.

If you're asking how is it possible to pee underwater, it's a miracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 14:11 | 5073023 jacship
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removing the spent fuel from unit 4,  

is there proof that this pool didn't melt down also?

nrc=tempco, tempco=nrc

better call in the cement fixers, if it's not to late.

Sun, 08/10/2014 - 14:27 | 5073069 hangemhigh77
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In NY if the "check engine" light is on in your car you can't get an inspection sticker because a microscopic spec of dust might be emitted from your tailpipe. But if you own a nuclear power plant and it explodes that's ok.

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 01:34 | 5075121 onmail
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All this will eventually , slowly reach America.

Retribution for Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

 

Mon, 08/11/2014 - 02:11 | 5075187 Flybyknight
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Yea for capitalism it really sorted out the radiation problem in Fukushima (Sarcasm for those who understand everything literally) Funny how the Socialist  USSR reached a much better solution at Chernobyl.

Perhaps pragmatism is a better ideology than either socialism or capitalism

Fri, 08/15/2014 - 15:44 | 5099244 Kelley
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There are several solutions I've seen that could work.

 

 

  • Filter the water through shilajit
  • Treat the water with MirorCore EPF 8 drops per gallon or aproximately 3.8 gallons of EPF per 200 tons to neutralize the water. Separation would still be needed.
  • Treat water with anywhere from .6% to 6% n-butyl alcohol and 3% to 5% glycerol (glycerin) to neutralize the water. Separation of the radioactive material required.
  • Google Patrick Flanagan. He might have an answer for broad neutralization.
  • John Hutchinson might also have answers.
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