Fukishima

[Weedygarden]

http://www.newsweek.com/fukushima-nuclear-waste-dumped-ocean-japanese-protests-637108

Yes, it is from last summer, but I am just seeing this. None of this surprises me. What options do they have?

FUKUSHIMA'S NUCLEAR WASTE WILL BE DUMPED INTO THE OCEAN, JAPANESE PLANT OWNER SAYS
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 7/14/17 AT 2:31 PM

A member of the media uses a Geiger counter at Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan, February 23. The site includes hundreds of tanks containing about 777,000 tons of water laced with tritium that TEPCO has decided to dump into the nearby sea, despite opposition from local fishermen.TOMOHIRO OHSUMI/REUTERS

Updated | Toxic waste produced by one of the world's worst nuclear disasters will be dumped into the sea, according to the head of the Japanese company tasked with cleaning up the radioactive mess, despite protests from local fishermen.

Takashi Kawamura, chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), told foreign media that nearly 777,000 tons of water tainted with tritium, a byproduct of the nuclear process that is notoriously difficult to filter out of water, will be dumped into the Pacific Ocean as part of a multibillion-dollar recovery effort following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. That year, an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, killing more than 15,000 people and leading to a series of meltdowns at the TEPCO-owned Fukushima No. 1, or Daiichi, nuclear power plant, causing it to spew radiation that has plagued the region ever since.

While much progress has been made to clean the area, the company has yet to deal with the water that was used to cool the plant's damaged reactors, causing it to become tainted with tritium.

 

[Amish Heart]

Don't eat fist from the west coast. Easy for me, because I don't like fish.

 

[Weedygarden]

I haven't bought any tuna since Fukishima blew. I love tuna, but may never eat it again. Same with salmon.

 

[Caribou]

Salmon runs for chum and sockeye are almost gone and king salmon will not be allowed to be kept till June or July in order to allow escapement. The only salmon left are the humpies (pink) and the coho (silver).

I just got back from Ketchikan where my family and friends were commercial fishermen. Conversation about the disappearance of starfish, seabirds, feed, and other marine life came up regularly.

 

[Sourdough]

Generally I can get real Pee'ed off and still discuss a subject.

But......Fukishima and all the "NOT" disclosed to the public accidents in America, just put me on the edge of rage.

 

[Sentry18]

Easy for me, because I don't like fish.

I knew I liked you for a reason.

However most fish consumed in America is likely not what it is reported to be and most of it is grown in fish farms.

 

[Weedygarden]

I knew I liked you for a reason.

However most fish consumed in America is likely not what it is reported to be and most of it is grown in fish farms.

I agree. I think this is very true.

My daughter worked in corporate for a nationally known restaurant company. She told me about the things that were sold as one thing were really something else. This was mainly in meat cuts.

 

[Sourdough]

. She told me about the things that were sold as one thing were really something else.

Reminds me of being single and Friday night at a singles nightclub. Especially an hour before "Last Call".

 

[Rick]

I dont even know where to begin.
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I know many here dont know these subjects well ,but you know firearms.
Think about the incompetence and alarmism the mainstream media covers firearms.

Now imagine how they cover issues that are even more nuanced than firearms and you get things like this article which isnt even as bad as some.

 

[Patchouli]

I dont even know where to begin.
.
I know many here dont know these subjects well ,but you know firearms.
Think about the incompetence and alarmism the mainstream media covers firearms.

Now imagine how they cover issues that are even more nuanced than firearms and you get things like this article which isnt even as bad as some.

@BlueZ Please explain further. I do not follow what you're saying.

 

[Caribou]

The ocean currents in the northern hemisphere are in a clockwise rotation. That means that the contamination from Fukushima goes north, clocks around the coast of Alaska, and moves south. As it moves it is absorbed by plankton which are consumed by small fish to whales. As those small fish go up the food chain everything is affected.

 

[viking]

I have fished the salt waters of the Pacific Northwest for many years and it saddens me that Fukishima is so heavily contaminating the ocean with tons of radioactive water every day, not only does it come across the ocean to our shores, the tuna and salmon migrate throughout the ocean coming by Japan. My wife and I no longer eat Pacific coastal fish unless we check it with a Geiger counter. I've been told by someone who lives out on the coast that crabs are having black meat in their legs and starfish have been dying in mass and I've seen before and after pictures of beaches that are now dead of the natural seaweed and other creatures, basically bleached looking. Norway fish is still good and that's where we get our fish oils from.

 

[Weedygarden]

I have fished the salt waters of the Pacific Northwest for many years and it saddens me that Fukishima is so heavily contaminating the ocean with tons of radioactive water every day, not only does it come across the ocean to our shores, the tuna and salmon migrate throughout the ocean coming by Japan. My wife and I no longer eat Pacific coastal fish unless we check it with a Geiger counter. I've been told by someone who lives out on the coast that crabs are having black meat in their legs and starfish have been dying in mass and I've seen before and after pictures of beaches that are now dead of the natural seaweed and other creatures, basically bleached looking. Norway fish is still good and that's where we get our fish oils from.

Unless or until there is another reactor meltdown that affects the Atlantic.

 

[Weedygarden]

I wonder who the genius was who got Nuclear plants approved in the first place? Where was the first plant? Russia!

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obninsk_Nuclear_Power_Plant

 

[SheepDog]

The first nuclear reactor was built under the west stands of Stagg field at the University of Chicago in 1942. It was designated CP-1 (Chicago Pile 1) and operated for 3 months before being disassembled and moved. It was renamed CP-2 after being rebuilt.
The genius was Enrico Fermi and it was built with help from the university and the federal government. On its maiden firing it produced about 100 watts of power at its minimum sustainable level.