Radioactive Mud on the Seafloor 124 Miles from Fukushima

13 09 2012

From RSOE –

A significant quantity of radioactive cesium, likely from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has turned up in subsea mud about 200 kilometers away, near the mouth of the Shinanogawa River on Japan’s northwestern coast. Scientists said samples taken in 2011 at Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, contained concentrations of up to 460 becquerels per kilogram of dry mud, a level comparable to that detected at a river mouth in Tokyo Bay last year. Some isotopes of cesium are heavily radioactive. . . . (more)

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_summary&edis_id=ED-20120911-36532-JPN


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Massive levels of radioactive cesium detected at quarry near Fukushima plant

18 02 2012

Tests detected up to 214,200 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram of gravel

FUKUSHIMA — Massive levels of radioactive cesium have been detected from gravel at a quarry near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, after high radiation was detected at buildings using gravel from the same quarry, prefectural officials said. . .  . (more)

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120216p2a00m0na006000c.html

News Flash: 

 ” Trade and Industry Ministry held an expert panel meeting to consider standards for shipping gravel from quarries in the prefecture. [ maybe sometime in the distant future]

Noting that extraordinarily high levels of radiation were detected from only the Namie quarry, the experts[sic] said they recommended [ not binding, of course, just a suggestion ] that the ministry only set standards for areas in Fukushima Prefecture where radiation levels remain high. [ let’s not get hasty and check radiation EVERYWHERE]

The ministry will work out the standards in March. [ or maybe April or August or when this story fades ]“


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Fukushima disaster contaminated ocean with 50 million times normal radiation, leaks ongoing

17 01 2012

What has hit the mainstream media, however, is a report entitled Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants on Marine Radioactivity, authored by Ken Buesseler, Michio Aoyama, and Masao Fukasawa (link).

This report, published in Environmental Science & Technology, reveals that levels of radioactive cesium reached 50 million times normal levels in the ocean water off the coast of the Fukushima Dai-ichi facility. Even more concerning, the abstract of this paper concludes, “…the concentrations through the end of July remain higher than expected implying continued releases from the reactors or other contaminated sources, such as groundwater or coastal sediments.”

This, of course, contradicts mainstream media reports which for the most part stated that the radiation was “contained” and was not leaking directly into the environment. Only the alternative press has covered the real story on Fukushima, which has now become the worst radiological accident in the history of human civilization. . .  (more)

http://www.naturalnews.com/034395_Fukushima_cesium_radiation.html

— found on Reality Check


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Japan is just burying radioactive ash from Fukushima (debris burning)

28 09 2011

sick –

Radioactive ash from metropolitan area has nowhere to go

Incinerator ash containing high levels of radioactive cesium is piling up in some municipalities around Tokyo as Kosaka, a town in Akita Prefecture that has one of the largest private-sector ash landfills in Japan, has shut its doors to ash from the metropolitan area since July.

 Kosaka adopted the tough stance after it was revealed that ash containing levels of cesium exceeding the government-set limit shipped from the city of Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, had been buried at its landfill without notice. . . .

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ2011092211569

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