Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima meltdown could last 250,000+ years

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Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima Meltdown Could Last 250,000+ Years
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No matter how many experts keep coming out warning people you will always have deniers who think thier liberal college taught them go back to sleep it's all ok.

 

[westwall]

Yes, and the Sun "could" go supernova in 10 years. There's no evidence to support the prediction, but it "could". That's the problem with that magical word. It is used by charlatans all over the world to cover themselves for their lack of evidence, and their lack of predictive accuracy. "We only said it could...not that it would". That has been the mantra of the global warmists for over 30 years now.

 

[DGS49]

So, the real question is, What do this mean w/r/t human health?

Nothing.

Expense? A bunch. But we knew that already.

 

[MisterBeale]

There are remediation technologies that could clean this up.

The ruling elites know about them, at present, it is in their interests to just let the planet die though.

 

[MindWars]

So, the real question is, What do this mean w/r/t human health?

Nothing.

Expense? A bunch. But we knew that already.

Keep telling yourself that :


Fukushima Child Thyroid Cancer Issue

Fukushima Child Thyroid Cancer Issue (updated)

(The following are the facts with Fukushima Prefecture’s child thyroid anomalies. It is a synopsis of reports posted in Fukushima Updates and Fukushima Commentary on this website between March, 2011 and January, 2014. Updates of through 3/7/16 are posted at the end. The record shows the reported thyroid cancers with Fukushima Children have nothing to do with the nuclear accident.)

On October 8, 2011, Fukushima University doctors began checking the thyroids of children in Fukushima Prefecture. The examinations, on a scale that medical officials called unprecedented, came amid concern that the cancer rate among Fukushima Prefecture’s children could surge due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. Dr. Shinichi Suzuki of the university's medical school predicted it would take several years to carry out preliminary examinations because of the large number of those 18 and under, and the voluntary nature of the study. Suzuki said it would take several years for any irregularities in the children’s thyroids to manifest as cancer. He pointed to the fact that an increase was seen four-to-six years after the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown in Ukraine, but not before. In the international news media, a few critics contended that a longer period of latency should be considered before drawing firm conclusions because of a controversy concerning the biological effects of low level radiation exposure.
Fukushima Prefecture | Child Thyroid Anomalies | Thyroid Cancers
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Disturbing thyroid cancer rise in Fukushima minors

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Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster - Wikipedia

 

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Discharge to seawater and contaminated sealife[edit]
Results revealed on 22 March from a sample taken by TEPCO about 100 m south of the discharge channel of units 1–4 showed elevated levels of Cs-137, caesium-134 (Cs-134) and I-131.[103] A sample of seawater taken on 22 March 330 m south of the discharge channel (30 kilometers off the coastline) had elevated levels of I-131 and Cs-137. Also, north of the plant elevated levels of these isotopes were found on 22 March (as well as Cs-134, tellurium-129 and tellurium-129m (Te-129m)), although the levels were lower.[101] Samples taken on 23 and/or 24 March contained about 80 Bq/mL of iodine-131 (1850 times the statutory limit) and 26 Bq/mL and caesium-137, most likely caused by atmospheric deposition.[95] By 26 and 27 March this level had decreased to 50 Bq/mL (11)[164] iodine-131 and 7 Bq/mL (2.9)[164]caesium-137 (80 times the limit).[165] Hidehiko Nishiyama, a senior NISA official, stated that radionuclide contamination would "be very diluted by the time it gets consumed by fish and seaweed."[134] Above the seawater, IAEA reported "consistently low" dose rates of 0.04–0.1 μSv/h on 27 March.

By 29 March iodine-131 levels in seawater 330 m south of a key discharge outlet had reached 138 Bq/ml (3,355 times the legal limit),[166][167] and by 30 March, iodine-131 concentrations had reached 180 Bq/ml at the same location near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 4,385 times the legal limit.[167] The high levels could be linked to a feared overflow of highly radioactive water that appeared to have leaked from the unit -2 turbine building.[97] On 15 April, I-131 levels were 6,500 times the legal limits.[168] On 16 April, TEPCO began dumping zeolite, a mineral "that absorbs radioactive substances, aiming to slow down contamination of the ocean."[169]

Seawater radionuclide concentration on 29 March 2011:[170]
Nuclide Concentration (Bq/cm3) Regulatory limit (Bq/cm3) Concentration / Regulatory Limit
99m
Tc
0.16 40 .0004
131
I
130 0.04 3250
134
Cs
31 0.06 517
136
Cs
2.8 0.3 9.3
137
Cs
32 0.09 356
140
Ba
5.0 0.3 17
140
La
2.5 0.4 6.3
On 4 April, it was reported that the "operators of Japan's crippled power plant say they will release more than 10,000 tons of contaminated water into the ocean to make room in their storage tanks for water that is even more radioactive."[171] Measurements taken on 21 April indicated 186 Bq/l measured 34 km from the Fukushima plant; Japanese media reported this level of seawater contamination second to the Sellafield nuclear accident.[172]

On 11 May, TEPCO announced it believed it had sealed a leak from unit 3 to the sea; TEPCO did not immediately announce the amount of radioactivity released by the leak.[173][174] On 13 May, Greenpeace announced that 10 of the 22 seaweed samples it had collected near the plant showed 10,000 Bq/Kg or higher, five times the Japanese standard for food of 2,000 Bq/Kg for iodine-131 and 500 Bq/kg for radioactive caesium.[174]

In addition to the large releases of contaminated water (520 tons and 4,700 TBq[68][86]) believed to have leaked from unit 2 from mid-March until early April, another release of radioactive water is believed to have contaminated the sea from unit 3, because on 16 May TEPCO announced seawater measurements of 200 Bq per cubic centimeter of caesium-134, 220 Bq per cubic centimeter of caesium-137, and unspecified high levels of iodine shortly after discovering a unit-3 leak.[175][176]

Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster - Wikipedia