Radioactivity on the move 2020: Recontamination and weather-related effects in Fukushima. Tokyo, Japan – Greenpeace Japan’s latest extensive radiation survey has found evidence of recontamination caused by 2019’s Typhoon 19 (Hagibis) and Typhoon 21 (Bualoi), which released radioactive caesium from the forested mountains of Fukushima Prefecture. The survey, which was conducted over three weeks in October and November of 2019, observed concentrated radiation levels throughout Fukushima Prefecture. These localised areas were where radioactivity was observed at higher levels than in previous years, as well as a reduction in levels in some areas, and recontamination elsewhere. The survey identified high-level hotspots throughout Fukushima Prefecture, including in Fukushima City. This ongoing and complex radiological emergency in parts of Fukushima Prefecture runs directly counter to the narrative of the Japanese government which continues to push its propaganda of normalization in Fukushima and the effectiveness of its massive decontamination program.
Notes: Contacts: Dying robots and failing hope: Fukushima clean-up falters six years after tsunami | World news. Barely a fifth of the way into their mission, the engineers monitoring the Scorpion’s progress conceded defeat. With a remote-controlled snip of its cable, the latest robot sent into the bowels of one of Fukushima Daiichi’s damaged reactors was cut loose, its progress stalled by lumps of fuel that overheated when the nuclear plant suffered a triple meltdown six years ago this week. As the 60cm-long Toshiba robot, equipped with a pair of cameras and sensors to gauge radiation levels was left to its fate last month, the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), attempted to play down the failure of yet another reconnaissance mission to determine the exact location and condition of the melted fuel.
Even though its mission had been aborted, the utility said, “valuable information was obtained which will help us determine the methods to eventually remove fuel debris”. The device, along with other robots, may also have been damaged by an unseen enemy: radiation. Fukushima Frozen Wall Up in Smoke. Kimimasa Mayama / AFP / Getty Images More than a half-billion dollars of Japanese taxpayer money has been wasted in the struggle to contain and clean up the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster, according to a government audit. Japan’s Board of Audit reported that TEPCO, the company nominally in charge of the crippled facility, along with other construction and utility giants, had operated an insular and insufficiently transparent process that resulted in a lengthy list of massive expenditures on untested tactics and shoddy equipment. The biggest ticket failure was apparently a $270 million water decontamination system from French nuclear behemoth Areva.
Designed to remove radioactive cesium from water gushing from Fukushima Daiichi’s three destroyed reactors, the machine was never fully operational, functioned only three months and processed only 77,000 tons of liquid — in total — a minute fraction of the 300,000 tons of contaminated water flowing from the site (and into the sea) each day. Panel: TEPCO’s ‘ice wall’ failing at Fukushima nuclear plant：The Asahi Shimbun. Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s “frozen wall of earth” has failed to prevent groundwater from entering the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, and the utility needs a new plan to address the problem, experts said. An expert panel with the Nuclear Regulation Authority received a report from TEPCO on the current state of the project on Aug. 18.
The experts said the ice wall project, almost in its fifth month, has shown little or no success. “The plan to block groundwater with a frozen wall of earth is failing,” said panel member Yoshinori Kitsutaka, a professor of engineering at Tokyo Metropolitan University. “They need to come up with another solution, even if they keep going forward with the plan.” One big problem hampering work at the nuclear plant, which was hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in 2011, has been the tons of groundwater entering the buildings housing the No. 1 through No. 4 reactors every day.
Fukushima: Scary Mutant Fruits & Vegetables. Posted Categories: Food Unusual and even frightening mutations of flowers and vegetables appeared in the area of the damaged Japanese nuclear power plant “Fukushima”. Five years after the catastrophic accident, the things in Japan are not well. A brave photographer has shown that there are some unusual and frightening mutations in their nature. From the pictures is clearly seen the unusual and unknown change. Plants have changed under the influence of radiation, and such changes are enormous. Dahr Jamail | Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Leaking Into the Pacific.
The Ikata Nuclear Power Plant, which was idled after the 2011 disaster in Fukushima, in the Ehime prefecture of Japan, January 23, 2014. (Photo: Ko Sasaki / The New York Times) Truthout will never hide stories like this behind a paywall or subscription fee. Help us continue publishing free and uncensored news by making a donation today! "Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Truthout shortly after a 9.0 earthquake in Japan caused a tsunami that destroyed the cooling system of Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan. While this statement might sound overdramatic, Gundersen may be right. "The fuels are now a molten blob at the bottom of the reactor.
" "Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed," Gundersen said. To see more stories like this, visit "Planet or Profit? " Dr. Dr. Massive Releases of Radiation Solution? Fukushima’s Children are Dying. Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal. More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating. More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. The nuclear industry and its apologists continue to deny this public health tragedy. Some have actually asserted that “not one person” has been affected by Fukushima’s massive radiation releases, which for some isotopes exceed Hiroshima by a factor of nearly 30.
The numbers have been analyzed by Mangano. Nearby children are not the only casualties at Fukushima. Pages: 1 • 2. The Fukushima children who have to play indoors – in pictures | Environment. Daily News. Atomreaktor Fukushima: Wandert verseuchtes Wasser in Richtung Pazifik? 24.08.2013, 21:10 Uhr | t-online, AP/dpa Die Spezialisten am AKW Fukushima wirken nach dem Super-GAU weiterhin ratlos.
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Fukushima ersäuft in verseuchtem Wasser: Nachdem bekannt wurde, dass täglich etwa 300.000 Liter kontaminiertes Wasser im havarierten Atomkraftwerk aus einem Kühltank austreten, fürchten Experten aktuell ein weit größeres und gefährlicheres Problem. Fukushima: Radioaktives Leck entdeckt Die Experten sind besorgt, dass sich das verseuchte Kühlwasser durch Risse in den Tanks unterirdisch mit dem Grundwasser vermischt hat. Kontaminierung an Reaktoren und Turbinen Unsere wichtigsten Themen Tanks bereiten Sorgen. Fukushima (Japan) nuclear power plant situation. Japan aims to exit nuclear power completely by the 2030s: report. Tokyo (Platts)--13Sep2012/411 am EDT/811 GMT The Japanese government's new energy strategy for the 2030s calls for the shutdown of all nuclear reactors and rely more on power generated using fossil fuels, the Nikkei reported Thursday. The cabinet led by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is expected to approve a final version of the strategy as early as next Wednesday, the newspaper reported, citing a draft on mid-term energy strategy that it had obtained.
The draft aims for "a society not reliant on nuclear power as soon as possible," the report said. Article continues below... In line with recommendations by the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, the draft lays out three basic principles: a 40-year limit on reactor operation to be strictly enforced; only reactors deemed safe by the new nuclear regulatory commission can resume operations; and no new nuclear reactors to be built, the daily reported. --Takeo Kumagai, takeo_kumagai@platts.com --Edited by E Shailaja Nair, shailaja_nair@platts.com. Japanese parliament report: Fukushima nuclear crisis was 'man-made' NEW: The report makes recommendations to avoid a repeat of the 2011 catastropheThe report criticizes the plant's operator, regulators and the Japanese governmentIt attributes the cause of the failings to Japan's culture of "reflexive obedience"It is one of several investigations into the nuclear crisis that displaced thousands Tokyo (CNN) -- The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan was a "man-made disaster" that unfolded as a result of collusion between the facility's operator, regulators and the government, an independent panel said in an unusually frank report Thursday.
The report by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission outlines errors and willful negligence at the plant before the earthquake and tsunami that devastated swaths of northeastern Japan on March 11 last year, and a flawed response in the hours, days and weeks that followed. Nuclear disaster spreads to houses, food Japan still grapples with disaster Japan: One year later. Fukushima gets mixed radiation report from WHO | Environment. Radiation exposure caused by last year's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was below levels thought to increase the risk of cancer in almost all parts of Japan, according to a World Health Organisation report. But in its preliminary estimate [pdf] released on Wednesday, the WHO said infants in one town near the plant could be at a greater risk of developing thyroid cancer after exposure to radioactive iodine-131.
The study is the first by a UN agency since the Fukushima plant was hit by a 14-metre (46ft) tsunami following a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on 11 March last year. The wave knocked out the facility's back-up power supply, causing three of its six reactors to suffer meltdown. Infants in Namie were thought to have received thyroid radiation doses of between 100 and 200mSv a year. "That would be one area because of the estimated high dose that we would have to keep an eye on," WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Reuters. Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare | timshorrock.com. Part One: Japan, Democracy, and the Globalization of Nuclear Power (Updated throughout 3/20/2011) Part Two: Nuclear Gypsies (posted 3/20/2011) Update: My interview about the Japanese nuclear crisis on RT’s Alyona Show on 3/18/2011. Since I woke up last Friday, I’ve been monitoring the terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan and watching with horror as the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s nuclear complex in Fukushima transformed a natural catastrophe into an environmental crisis of the first order.
It’s been a painful experience because I grew up in Tokyo , have a Japanese step-mother, and have many friends, both American and Japanese, living there. Because of that experience, I was quite familiar with TEPCO, the world’s third-largest utility, and its long history of falsifying records and playing down the dangers of atomic power and radiation. Many of these articles were published in AMPO , PARC’S news and research quarterly, and other movement publications (“AMPO” is short for the U.S. Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare (Part Two) | timshorrock.com. Nuclear Gypsies – The subcontractors who do the dirty work As the six reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima power complex have burned out of control over the past week, both the foreign and Japanese press have been full of stories about the “Fukushima 50″ – the several hundred workers who have valiantly, in shifts of 50, struggled to contain the fires and in the process exposed themselves to serious risks of radiation.
They have been rightly hailed as the unsung heroes of Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe, as noted by the London Guardian: [In Fukushima], plant workers, emergency services personnel and scientists have been battling for the past week to restore the pumping of water to the Fukushima nuclear plant and to prevent a meltdown at one of the reactors. On Wednesday, the government raised the cumulative legal limit of radiation that the Fukushima workers could be exposed to from 100 to 250 millisieverts. On Location: Japan Fukushima October 2011. 5 Months After Meltdown, Fukushima Citizens Still Face Radioactive Risks. After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown | Environment | The Observer. Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident.
It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care worker from the city of Koriyama in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, was celebrating her 35th birthday. Her husband Kenji decided to surprise her. On the way home from his job at the post office, he picked up the biggest cake he could find. It was filled with whipped cream and decorated with pink roses. "I couldn't help myself," recalls Aiko. "Kenji had a huge smile on his face, but the first words that shot out of my mouth when I saw the cake were: 'Is the cream safe? '" Since March 2011, when a triple meltdown occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant 56km from their home, the Nomuras have avoided buying dairy and other foodstuffs produced in their region. It is almost two years since the colossal earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan that killed 20,000 people and caused the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.
Aiko and Kenji Nomura agree. 日本, 福島県双葉郡浪江町. Fukushima: It's much worse than you think - Features. "Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japan's 9.0 earthquake on March 11 caused a massive tsunami that crippled the cooling systems at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) nuclear plant in Fukushima, Japan.
It also led to hydrogen explosions and reactor meltdowns that forced evacuations of those living within a 20km radius of the plant. Gundersen, a licensed reactor operator with 39 years of nuclear power engineering experience, managing and coordinating projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the US, says the Fukushima nuclear plant likely has more exposed reactor cores than commonly believed. "The problem is how to keep it cool," says Gundersen. Even though the plant is now shut down, fission products such as uranium continue to generate heat, and therefore require cooling. "The fuels are now a molten blob at the bottom of the reactor," Gundersen added. Fukushima radiation alarms doctors - Features. Radiation in Ocean. Fukushima - emissions of radioactivity. Fukushima: Mehr radioaktives Xenon als bei Tschernobyl: Größte Belastung bereits unmittelbar nach dem Erdbeben - vor dem Tsunami - Fukushima, Xenon, Erdbeben, Tsunami, Cäsium-137, Freisetzung, Atomkraftwerk, Japan, ABklingbecken, Reaktorkern, Tokyo, Tsche.
Impact of radiation. Schilddrüsenkrebs in Fukushima. Fukushima Women Demand Better Protection for Children Exposed to Radiation. Startseite - ZDF Mediathek. Fukushima, die Massenmedien und die sich formierende Stimme des Volkes - The Intelligence. Fukushima: Fukushima: So werden die Menschen für dumm verkauft. Totgeburten und Nasenbluten: Fukushima ist nicht überstanden. Radioactive cesium blankets 8% of Japan's land area. Highly Radioactive Rice, Hydrogen Checks, Burning Radioactive Waste Fukushima Update 9/25/11.