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Inside The Fukushima Radioactive Wasteland: A Trip Through The "Exclusion Zone"
One month ago, we showed an eerie, drone's-eye-view of the radioactive wasteland that is Fukushima, courtesy of the following video clip showcasing the toxic area located just 200 miles away from the venue of the 2020 summer Olympics.
But while the scenery from above was dramatic, what about life on the actual ground? Because just like with Chernobyl, the world may have been eager to move on and leave the wasteland on its own, the empty ghost towns that neighbor ground zero remain stuck in time. This is the "exclusion zone," and it’s one of the most radioactive places on Earth.
Inside the zone, chunks are ripped out of buildings, totaled cars lie on the street, and clocks are stopped at the moment the tsunami struck. Nature is slowly taking over the houses and possessions of those who once called this place home.
"I feel like I’m in a parallel world," says Norikatsu Nakazato, who is only rarely allowed to visit his family’s 110-year-old house. "I don’t think I’ll be able to live here again in this lifetime."
Fusion’s Tim Pool took a trip to the heart of the exclusion zone in October to talk with Nakazato and other survivors who refuse to leave, one of whom gives the following poignant answer when asked why he won't leave and whether he is scared. He answer is no, because "I just gave up."
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That Fukushima radiation is pounding the West Coast but the EPA has shut down its radiation monitoring gear.
A nice donation to the Clinton camp and Obama's library of Hitler/Marx unity works magic on the radiation levels don't ya know. Besides Yellen the troll needs Japan printing Yen full time.
TEPCO has been lying their teeth off about this from the get-go.
The US does not want to acknowledge the long term effects on us here.
When I first heard about Fukushima I said that this had the potential to be an unbelievably serious situation.
I also said that I hoped I was wrong.
The half-life of Ce-137 is 30 years, so maybe the USG figures it still has plenty of time to react? Like perhaps AFTER the cancer rates on the West Coast, especially SoCal have been "noticed"?
And let's hope that the BOJ can also print Tuna?
what's the difference between an El Nino year and a Fukushima induced spike in Pacific Ocean temperatures?
We will sure as fuck find out when cancer rates spike on the US West Coast.
Those 70 degree ocean waves you're surfing in, on yeah, totally normal, totally healthy... is what Wait What told his peers just a few weeks ago.
Fucking environmentalists!
/s
“Those 70 degree ocean waves you're surfing in”
Nothing like surfing off of Santa Cruz in October without a wet suit and having that warm feeling inside.
There's nothing wrong with Fukishima. I've eaten lots of fish from Japan. So far, no ill effects. Screw the Enviro-nazis.
Maybe with all that radiation, the Californians will mutate back to normalcy.
This is the end, I knew it when it happened.
It was Neptune final degree of Aquarius and month later it came home to Pisces.
I said "the revenge of the fishes" and plutonium began to flow into the ocean.
Billings Montana was highest radiation in the nation several months in a row.
you know I never bought into the Aquarian Age, the zodiac ends with Pisces and we have been in
the Picean age for 2000 years, these have been the end times and the final age of man.
Jesus was what he said he was the alpha and omega.
The age of Pisces, the age of faith, the age of truth...that which can not be changed.
That is God.
amen
i never understood how aquarius could be after pisces, when they're the opposite in the months. aquarius is basically february, and pisces is basically march; so how would the age of aquarius arrive after pisces anyway?
The ages travel in reverse, before this was the age of Aries when the Jews blew the Rams horn while facing the horizon at sunrise.
The down votes above indicate how little faith exists anymore.
Sad for you, the next years will be terrible in your condition.
I live in Seattle and took my own readings little over a month ago. There was no elevated radiation levels present.
Maybe they are a minute amount increased but I don't know that as I don't have baseline readings from before
the incident to compare to.
What I did see is readings that looked perfectly normal.
Try doing so before and after it rains.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/japanese-reactor-radiation-foun...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absol...
At current levels there's little problem.
The issue is what will stop the levels of less dangerous but more persistent irradiating isotopes from continuing to rise.
As the site continues to bleed several kinds of radioactivity into the water you can absolutely count on increasing bg levels.
So to split the baby a bit - levels now are low and will be low for a while. But in the longer term, years (decades) from now unless the ongoing flow is stopped there will surely be serious problems. To claim otherwise is frankly batshit crazy.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/23/fukushimas-radiation-gusher/
In 1975 my family hosted a Japanese exchange student for a year while we went to high school. It's been a while, but I think his name was Ozuki Ijitiwa. And he was from Fukushima Prefect. He was a farm kid, so ranch life didn't phase him so much. Though he did freak a bit over skinning and eating a rattlesnake. Nice guy, my age, around 14 or 15, and he was pretty sharp, mentally. Spoke english fairly well with just a trace of that japanese accent. I did my best to teach him how to say "fuck you" with a perfect California Accent, a Beaner Accent, a goatroper accent, and an eastern accent. Taught him a few choice spanish words "hijo de puta!", and introduced him to some of the looser girls on campus. He was exotic enough to be a rock star next to a chore-slave like me.
Last correspondence was back in 1989, when we moved back to California from Florida I lost the address.
Looking at that first video, it's almost easy to forget that the town was hit by a sixty foot wave. That car sitting between the railroad tracks is testament to the power of it. The damaged houses are testiment to it. But it's easy to think that all that devastation was caused by neglect or by the radiation from the Nuclear Plants. The devastation from them is invisible. But it is weird to see trees, bushes and grasses continuing on without any seeming damage.
Give me dat Fricassee, watasi wa radioactive and if you live in the violent communist state of California then your good as dead.
What, Oregon and Washington are immune?
All you need to see is somebody with a radiation detector scanning food in a farmer's market in Oregon to understand the public reaction to our times...
Stater Brothers banned me from scanning meats and seafood. They said it frightened the other customers.
It scared the shit out of me!
Fox Biz moderators doing a nice job. Every candidate doing well in explaining their positions (even if some positions are not right).
Why is the Ohio Gov. a republican? He should be sucking Hillary's dick.
How does a country with a 300% debt to GDP ratio develop infrastructure for an Olympics? No money is made on these events.
Just another way to shear the sheople.
One they'll go along with, without question.
National pride is priceless
'that's gold, jerry!'
kuroda called it peter pan economy himself
japans economy is an unicorn from scratch
it did never exist from the beginning
Remember the system's life depends on ever increasing debt.
Moar printing is always the answer.
Been nothing on the major media, not even National Geographic or The Learning Channel.
So this must be pretty much under control.
They should be able to move back in another 10 or 20 thousand years.
Plutonium has a half life of about 80 million years.
After 10 half lives, it's pretty much all gone away.
MOX - Uranium and Plutonium.
Full breach of containment.
Safe to move back in 800 million years.
There's never been a better time to buy in this improving neighborhood! Just think about how much home values will be 800 million years from now!!!
-National Association of Realtards
You won't even have dandilions in your yard.
All the dandilions will be diddledlions! Those are priceless, and they're all at discounted lows!
This fixer-upper just needs four walls and a roof, at the low price of $14 million it could all be urine.
Most of the Plutonium goes away much faster than that.
Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years.
Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
Plutonium-240 has a half-life of 6563 years.
Plutonium-241 has a half-life of 14 years.
Plutonium-242 has a half-life of 373,300 years.
Plutonium-243 has a half-life of 5 hours.
Plutonium-244 has a half-life of 80 million years.
Most of it should be 239 and 240 - probably like 70% and 29%. There is only about 9 grams of natural Plutonium-244 in the Earth's crust. Plutonium-244 is not produced in quantity in reactors, only sometimes when a atomic bomb is detonated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
And cesium? Two very distinct isotopes there, right?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/23/fukushimas-radiation-gusher/
A million cancers may occur:
Arnie Gundersen, chief engineer at Fairewinds, Nov 4, 2015: “It’s been almost 5 years from the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, and the news from Japan is still not good. Two reports recently released in Japan, one by Japanese medical professionals and the second from Tokyo Power Corporation – TEPCO – acknowledged that there will be numerous cancers in Japan, much greater than normal, due to the radioactive discharges from the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi… I believe, as do many of my colleagues, that there will be at least 100,000 and as many as one million more cancers in Japan’s future as a result of this meltdown… [T]he second report received from Japan proves that the incidence of thyroid cancer is approximately230 times higher than normal in Fukushima Prefecture… So what’s the bottom line? The cancers already occurring in Japan are just the tip of the iceberg. I’m sorry to say that the worst is yet to come.
http://enenews.com/nuclear-experts-1000000-cancers-could-result-fukushim...
Arnie is an industry shill
oh, you gottta be sniffing glue or you work for TEPCO
More likely works for that fuckin' Obama Regime...where's violent regime change where it's really needed?
If this is what that shill Gundersen admits to, the reality is exponentially worse.
Just I think Fox or Breitbart must have told some of our fellow 'Hedgers that radioactivity is as wholesome and good as Sean Hannity's haircut.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-19245818
As noted, when people dont really grasp the ongoing and cumulative nature of radioactivity they consequently dont grasp why a lack of severe and widespread effects now... Does not mean there will not be later.
Which is why we can't have nice things.
Hey, radioactivity makes things all bright and shiny and glowy...It's like a unicorn sneeze, fart, burp and hiccup all at the same time. Magical things happen!
Is a /sarc necessary here?
is Radiation the new "Brawndo?"
I am glad that we have "best and brightest" taking care of the following in the USA also:
"Low Level Radioactive waste" fire 100 miles from Las Vegas
WIPP storage fire in New Mexico
Underground fire burns near radioactive waste dump in St. Louis area
and these are just some more recent ones, unfortunately.......
Rubio already knows he has GOP primary backing
Is anyone streaming the Republican debate?
FOX opened up the debate to most cable companies. Just log into foxbusiness.com and click on the link, or screen.
Maria "milkduds" Bartiromo, is hosting it.
Or steal it. ;-)
I thought Tyler was going to have some drinking games? :-D
Moderators did a nice job. Big differences came out on military and Middle East and Russia. Everyone is cutting taxes so that is a blur. Some differences on trade agreements and banking rules. Kasich came across as loud and obnoxious. Bush was tepid. Rand had good points but was a little repetitious and limited. Fiorina did good. Cruz did good. Rubio was loud and slick sounding. Carson and Trump did not dominate the stage but both did fine. Battle is in to see if Jeb or Kasich drop out first.
Thank You for taking the time to reply.
Things got a bit dicey at times, but the moderators were pretty good at keeping the candidates on topic.
No one wants to give up their ACE card, so it's a fine line between promises and reality.
For this one I hit 'ignore'.
I could really give a shit. They're all pretty much the same vermin, owned by the same owners, with the exception of the former democrat, Trump, who I have a really hard time believing.
Not one has called out to End the Fed. Not one has called out the ownership of our entire whorehouse government. Not one has called out the deep state that actually runs the shitshow. Not one has identified what they will do when the dollar collapses.
I've watched this circus from three different rings. And I don't find the clowns amusing.
I Agree. Rand Paul said the IRS , and Fed should be abolished.
He just generalized, and didn't give any ideas.
Marco Rubio is just too young and un-experienced. he sounds like a child.
He confuses Spanish and English, and over speakes himself.
Marco Rubio, is the dog you left at home all day, while you were selling ice cream.
Obviously I could go into the other candidates.
Kasich looked like he was coming off a bender/
So you work FOR, OR HOLD STOCK IN, TEPCO?
Nice try to divert attention away from the issue of the RADIATION FROM FUKUSHIMA.
As for the bullshit Red Team/Blue Team drama...who in the hell cares?
It makes no difference.
What do you call an organism that not only destroys its own environment but all others with copius amount of ego and arrogance? Homo Sapiens, (the evolved ones)
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. GOJIRA!
Oh boy!! You are predicting another huge meteor strike.
You are also attributing it to your religious dogma.........because that never happens naturally.
9/11 and Fukushima are collateral damage for the greater good , God's Work!
Spokesperson, Goldman Sachs
The only thing we have to fear is, Zero Hedge itself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isnt-the-real-r...
I'm thinking about arranging dinner cruises on Love canal, who's in?
RSVP- confirmed
I'll be wearing the double breasted, biohazard~ blue suit.
Excellent YC! We'll start the night with a nice chemical cocktail, a halogenated organic salad, DDT souffle, and PCB mousse for dessert. Night cap will be shots of Round up, aboard the SS Monsanto.
We should have our drinks out on the observation deck so we can smoke these Asbestos blunts I roll that will get you so high your eyes will bleed... gasp, hhh#*, wheeze...
The salad wouldn't be complete without some toasted Ortho® croutons.
Guess who owns Ortho? MONSANTO> Part of the Scotts®, Miracle-Gro®, subsidiaries.
In all honesty, I use round-up to kill the weeds on my driveway. It breaks down pretty fast, 72-96 hours, as long as it's not sprayed on food crops.
Hey Klink, we have a fantran> Isn't that what we call everyone in Amercania?
I can't kill weeds on my driveway, but my children can be killed by lack of knowledge and indoctrination.
I don't know but all those who follow Caitlyn are Tranfans.
All we have left in this pathetic prison is , multi syllable acronyms.
The drive~thru @ your local eatery,will solidify my comment.
The drive thru at my local eatery usually liquifies my "comment" on that matter.
Radiation this week, highest is Little Rock Arkansas
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/07/your-radiation-this-week-no-29/
Its OK...obamacare will give you chemo treatments while making cannabis oil illegal...u will be fine
Looking forward to my mutant superpowers.
The only 'mutant' superpower I have is a shrinking dick. *sigh*
(Used to reach my knee when angry. Now barely clears the hair. Oh, wait, I'm old, I'm told that's normal. Nevermind.)
just wait til they get around to testing the flesh of bering sea crab and fish... if you eat anything from the Pacific Ocean you're going to get the Oprah experience of YOU GET CANCER! YOU GET CANCER! YOU GET CANCER! EVERYONE GETS A CAAAAAAANCER!!! But have no fear seasonaly-adjusted numbers will say you're all healthy under obamacare.
I take great satisfaction that I can eat anything, smoke anything, drink anything...and it's not, at my age, going to have any great impact on my lifespan.
Now, you poor fuckers at age 30 or so....you can watch and envy me.
People who minimize the danger here neither understand the cumulative and amalgamating affects of radioactivity nor the food chain.
It's not as bad as some said, and out of the woodwork come people who have no relevant education to opine on matters about which they know nothing.
You cant have this ongoing leak of radioactive elements into the air and ocean and not get serious deleterious impact to organic matter to include dna.
We are merely on the far left hand side of the hockey stick.
Hedge accordingly.
Raymond, I deeply enjoy your antagonisms.
I love the way you conflate radioactivity with chemical reactive life cycles.
I eat the food that I grow! I use weed killers in certain areas, during the dry season, to isolate the salts. (carrying mechanisms)
Round-Up was never meant to be used the way it was/is. During the 70's the EPA was given special powers, that were tied into the department of land management.
I'm just exposing the roots, and you micro~sensitive Collegiates will expose the cause. >History Repeats<
Well gosh, YC, I'd just love you to explicate what you mean by your second sentence and relate it to what I wrote.
Really. :0)
Well geeshe Raymond, you're awefully quick to extrapolate an opinion?
A 'no' would have sufficed.
Conflating the effects and compilations of Round-Up vs Gamma Decay is stretching it a bit Raymond.
I didn't downvote you.
I didnt mention roundup.
Not even a little.
And ditto. finn here exacts his revenge on me for my antizionism by auto junking. As you can imagine it hurts my feelings very much.
Raymond. I think we work on similar mental tangents.
I've never downvoted you. I rather enjoy your sarchastic way of proving your point.
If I wanted to mentally banter, I'd just say so.
Keep up the good work. ;-)
Holy cow, I used to opine "cant" was written as "can't", with the little thingy up there in the middle, impressive vocabulary, however
Sorry I could not resist...
:-D
Give us some love, El Capitain Obvious, boiler room ectradordinaire.
"People who minimize the danger here neither understand the cumulative and amalgamating affects of radioactivity nor the food chain."
Yeah, but that's why you're here right ? When not studying the theory of mesonic field in nuclear forces or other subjects related to your PhD in Nuclear Physics at Caltech, you come here among us, mere mortals, to enlighten us on the danger of radiation. Thank you !
Why ZH doesn't cover this story?
Goldman's BRIC Era Ends as Fund Folds After Years of LossesThe BRIC era is coming to an end at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The bank’s asset-management unit folded its money-losing BRIC fund, which invests in Brazil, Russia, India and China, and merged it last month with a broader emerging-market fund. Goldman Sachs pulled the plug on the nine-year-old product because it doesn’t expect “significant asset growth in the foreseeable future,” according to a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Fourteen years after former Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the acronym that ushered in an unprecedented investment boom, the biggest emerging markets are now sputtering. Russia and Brazil have fallen into recessions. China, long an engine of the world’s growth, is poised for its weakest expansion since 1990.
The downfall of the BRIC fund, which had lost 88 percent of its assets since a 2010 peak, also underscores how the strategy of bundling disparate countries into a single investment theme is losing its appeal among investors.
“The promise of BRIC’s rapid and sustainable growth has been challenged very much for the last five years or so,” said Jorge Mariscal, the chief investment officer of emerging markets at UBS Wealth Management, which oversees about $1 trillion. “The BRIC concept was popular. But nothing is eternal.”
The BRIC fund is being swallowed up by the Emerging Markets Equity Fund as part of Goldman Sachs’s efforts to “optimize” its assets and “eliminate overlapping products,” the New York-based bank said in the Sept. 17 filing.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-08/brics-finally-broke-goldman-pul...
Dick.
Thanks!
BTW will in future - you will continue to sign your comments with your name in the end?
Zero Hedge articles seem to fly by, sometimes...got caught a conversation over an article I missed (due to a work day or being busy) and made to feel like an idiot. (Don't worry, I'm used to it.)
There are days were ZH articles seem to be stuck in molasses, then there are days that shit flys by so fast you don't even realize you missed something important.
Alright, not bad, a little lame, but that's a good burn...Mr. Threadjack, I presume?
On the bright side, we will probably get another S.T.A.L.K.E.R. sequel in a couple years!
Hey sunshine.
That's my daily dose of radiation.
Don't worry....planet Earth is becoming an "exclusion" zone.
I trust the Nuclear Proctologist, Dana Durnford, when he says the west coast of Canada is a barren wasteland...
maybe i am just a sick bastard but i think fukushima and chernobyl are prettier now without all the people.
A dove gets zapped .... flying through a solar reflector farm focus .... an eagle builds a nest on a windmill generator .... a barn owl builds a nest on a Wal-Mart sign .... caribou thrive near heated oil pipelines .... shell fish thrive near Fukushima ?
You know we are fast approaching "the end of dayz" when what should be one of the more important reads on Zerohedge (this story on the worst commercial nuclear disaster in history) get only 102 comments... while a story on a University of Missouri Communications professor getting videoed banning interviews from the media for what is taking place with that school's President and his "racial integrity" get well over 600 comments...
Not sayin the other story doesn't have value but...
I guess perhaps because they are Japanese and it's in Japan it's there problem, even though the reactor(s) in Fukushima were made by GE and the physical security managed by Israel's Magna BSP and the catastrophic lies, lives and environment being lost have no equivalent with the exception of course to the U.S. govewrnment's misadventures in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.!!!
Let us prey!!!
The thing that really bothers me about Fukushima, other than it eventually killing the planet, is the non-fucking-stop reporting of Cesium-137, Iodine-131 and Strontium-90 levels. Does everyone fully understand what exactly MOX reactors are and the life ending isotopes spewing out of that place 24x7x365? I got news for you sheep out there, Cesium-137, Iodine-131 and Strontium-90 are but 3 of the THOUSAND radionuclides on the loose with half-lives in the hundreds of thousands/millions/BILLIONS of years.
Well.. cessium-137 is the least of your worry. There are a lot of decayed isotopes from that plant.
U-234 decayed products
http://www.periodictable.com/Isotopes/092.234/index.full.html
U238 decayed products
http://www.periodictable.com/Isotopes/092.234/index.full.html
Pu-239 decayed products
http://www.periodictable.com/Isotopes/092.234/index.full.html
Especially Strontium-90. I mimics calcium. If you ingested this? It will be carried by blood to your bones. Where it stays there releasing Beta radiation to surrounding body tissues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90
Next is Iodine isotopes. It collects in Thyroids. And it goes through Beta decays also. Tough it half live is short. The problem in Fukushima is, the nuclear fuels has gone criticals (uncontrollable fission chain. Which overheat and melted these fuels and also melted the containment vessel also). That's why TEPCO dousing the basements reactor with massive amount of water. Unfortunately dousing that many waters? You'll have LEAKS everywhere!! And that's why you see news about waters leak from this site. And that will bring FRESH deadly isotopes to wherever that contaminated waters flows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-131
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I done regular training near that Fukushima (tochigi-ken prefectures) mostly once every 2 years (tough sometimes 2x/year). The city i trained located near Fukushima (about 160 km's by road. 100 km's straight). My Japanese friends gives me info which i can eats or shouldn't eats there. And in the factories there are many points where you can see how much the radiation level at that day (which is laughable. Cause we know WHERE they put the sensor is. And there's no indications of WHAT ENERGY LEVELS those display shown are).
And don't believe about radiation readings. I worked at medical fields working with radiations (company is registered with IAEA to get license to handle radioactive materials). Dose meter? Is daily routines. The company has dose meter for all kinds of ENERGY LEVEL (X-Ray, Alpha, Beta, Gamma). You don't use 1 detector to cover everything. And if you need to? They also have absorptions rates/dose meters for that purpose. Don't kid yourself using those "cheap" meters.
Do understand, radiations? Goes EXPONENTIALLY HIGHER with distance. You really wants to play with these stuff? DON'T. If you don't know how to handle these stuff's. At 20 MeV energy? A 7 (SEVEN) meters of hardened concretes, with additional 13 (THIRTEEN) layers of soft iron shield protections for the main beam target? You still see your radiation meter readings goes UP, when the machine turns on.
However, the pays is handsome... ;-)
After WW3 , living with radiation will become the new normal