“Liquid releases” of nuclear material into ocean will continue for years and years at Fukushima Daiichi — Already 10 times Chernobyl

 but they’ll continue for years and years into the future.

We already know that the liquid releases are ten times Chernobyl.

‘Direct discharge’ going from Fukushima Daiichi reactors into Pacific — Underground flow of contaminated water also indicated 

Study: Up to 900 trillion becquerels of strontium-90 into ocean from Fukushima plant — “Direct discharges of cooling water”

From  http://enenews.com/

Hanford Nuclear Tank Leaking Radioactive Waste

 New high-level radioactive leak will reach Columbia River, says scientists — Fourth largest river in U.S. 

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The long-delayed cleanup of the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site became the subject of more bad news Friday, when Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced that a radioactive waste tank there is leaking.

The news raises concerns about the integrity of similar tanks at south-central Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation and puts added pressure on the federal government to resolve construction problems with the plant being built to alleviate environmental and safety risks from the waste.

The tanks, which are already long past their intended 20-year life span, hold millions of gallons of a highly radioactive stew left from decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Energy said liquid levels are decreasing in one of 177 underground tanks at the site. Monitoring wells near the tank have not detected higher radiation levels, but Inslee said the leak could be in the range of 150 gallons to 300 gallons over the course of a year and poses a potential long-term threat to groundwater and rivers.

From;  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/16/hanford-nuclear-tank-is-l_n_2701197.html?utm_hp_ref=green

 “Staggering number of cancers, illnesses, and birth defects” linked to nuclear waste? Over 700 cases found in only four square miles — “There’s something very wrong” (Excerpts From Video)

Anchor: There are radioactive secrets beneath the banks and waters of a north St. Louis County creek that may be linked to a staggering number of cancers, illnesses and birth defects. In four square miles, there are three reported cases of conjoined twins and cancer rates that one data expert says is statistically impossible. […]

Janell Wright, class of ’88 McCluer North High School, Accountant and former auditor: “There’s something very wrong.” […]

Leisa Zigman, Reporter: At first she found 30 cases. Within two months, she had data on 200 cases. Now, her maps have more than 700 cases in four square miles […]

Wright: “The children usually came down with brain cancer in the first 15 years of life, in addition, leukemia. In my peer group’s children, there were several children who had to have their thyroid removed before they were 10-years-old.”

Zigman: In the 1940s, Mallinckrodt Chemical Works in downtown St. Louis purified thousands of tons of uranium to make the first atomic bombs. […] 21 acres of airport land became a dumping site where a toxic mixture of uranium, thorium, and radium sat uncovered or in barrels. In the 60s, government documents noted contents from the rusting barrels were seeping into nearby Coldwater Creek. And by the 90s, the government confirmed unsafe levels of radioactive materials in the water. […]

From;  http://enenews.com/tv-staggering-number-cancers-illnesses-birth-defects-linked-nuclear-waste-700-cases-found-only-4-sq-miles-video

Tokyo Bay cesium even higher than levels reported off Fukushima — Nearly entire sea floor contaminated by 2014 

From; http://enenews.com/tokyo-bay-cesium-even-higher-than-levels-reported-off-fukushima-nearly-entire-sea-floor-contaminated-by-2014-video

Photo; Map of Cesium contamination collecting in the deepest recess of Tokyo Bay right in downtown Tokyo.

Enormous quantities of decommissioned Russian nuclear reactors and radioactive waste were dumped into the Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia over a course of decades, according to documents given to Norwegian officials by Russian authorities and published in Norwegian media.

The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radioactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel.

From; http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/08/russia-announces-enormous-finds-of.html

Wild mushrooms contaminated with radioactive cesium in Japan have highest ‘official’ measurement ever

According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, it is the highest level exceeding the amount detected in Lactarius volemus harvested in Tanakura-machi in Fukushima Prefecture in September last year, which measured 28,000 Bq/kg. The Tochigi prefectural government says, “We believe the cesium absorption was largely from the soil, but radioactive materials from the surrounding trees may also have affected it.”

From; http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/08/wild-mushrooms-contaminated-with.html

10 Tons of Mushrooms From Ukraine Contain High Levels of Cesium 137

25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, residual radiation continues to contaminate the food supply. Ukrainians had certified the shipment as safe.

Health authorities in Zurich recently destroyed 10 tons of Ukrainian mushrooms after determining that the wild fungi contained unacceptable levels of radiation,

From; http://catastrophemap.com/blog/?p=3874

From; http://enenews.com/

1) Ultimate Irony? Prime Minister: Japan must restart nuclear reactors for “survival of society”

Japan’s prime minister said on Friday that two idled nuclear reactors in western Japan must be restarted to protect jobs and ensure the “survival of society”, risking a voter backlash given safety fears more than a year after the Fukushima crisis

wotfigo; I have posted previously on the energy crisis in Japan. The country cannot sustain its previous economic & social level with the decrease in power generation with the loss of its nuclear reactors. Japan is in energy powerdown & there is nothing they can do about it. Japan’s costs for importing energy (coal & NG) are also crippling the economy. Japan is in very serious economic decline.

2) Truly Frightening”: Higher and higher radioactivity levels expected to continue for years in bluefin tuna

It still had body burdens of cesium that were surprisingly high for a fish that had only been near Fukushima for a couple of weeks.

And what’s been going on since then? We know cesium is being continually released via ground water and as well as being deposited from these plumes.

It’s likely that the next catch is going to be worse than the tuna they caught.

Every one of these tunas had high levels of cesium 134 and 137

From; http://enenews.com/scientists-absolutely-every-one-of-bluefin-tunas-tested-from-s-california-was-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation-we-were-definitely-surprised-to-see-it-at-all-and-even-more-surprised

Reuters: Cesium remains dispersed throughout water column “from the surface to the ocean floor”

unlike some other compounds, radioactive cesium does not quickly sink to the sea bottom but remains dispersed in the water column, from the surface to the ocean floor.

Fish can swim right through it, ingesting it through their gills, by taking in seawater or by eating organisms that have already taken it in, [Study author Daniel Madigan of Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station]

Scientists: “Absolutely every one” of bluefin tunas tested from S. California was contaminated with Fukushima radiation — “We were definitely surprised to see it at all – and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured”

Pacific bluefin tuna migrating last year from coastal Japan to the waters off Southern California contained radioactive cesium isotopes from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, scientists reported Monday.

The tuna packaged it up and brought it across the world’s largest ocean,” said marine ecologist Daniel Madigan at Stanford University, who led the study team. “We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”

[“We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium-134 and cesium-137,” said marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York state, who was part of the study group