"The press have repeated a statement initially peddled by #TEPCO, that this contaminated water only includes #tritium. This is untrue, and tritium is not without its own risks. The water being discussed has been through the various filtration systems on site used to remove #radioactive #isotopes. Each system removes some of the radioactive elements in the water. ALPS is the last of these systems. It can remove much of the remaining contamination but not all of it, some radioactive contamination remains in this water.

"We [SimplyInfo] documented back in 2018 that this water contains other problematic radioactive elements including:

#Plutonium (238, 239, 240)
#Americium
Iodine 129
#Technetium 99
Cobalt 60
Curium 244
Niobium-94
#Europium (152, 154)
#Cesium 137
#Strontium 90
Selenium 79
Nickel 63
Tin 126 (aka: Sn-126)

"As of 2018 the stored post ALPS water contained 200 billion becquerels of iodine 129, #ruthenium 106, and technetium 99. As stored water increases, so does the total volume of contamination within that water.

"TEPCO and the Japanese government have tried to ease concerns by claiming the water will be diluted before it is dumped into the Pacific ocean. This is a meaningless step. The total amount of radioactive contamination is still dumped into the ocean, you just dumped some additional water beside it at the same time."

https://simplyinfo.org/2021/04/tepco-gains-permission-to-dump-contaminated-water-what-you-need-to-know/

#Japan #JapanGovernment #TEPCOLies #FukushimaDaiichi #Fukushima #FukushimaWater

Fish near #fukushima has 180 times legal #radioactive #cesium levels. #nuclear
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/24/fukushima-fish-with-180-times-legal-limit-of-radioactive-cesium-fuels-water-release-fears

#Fukushima #fish with 180 times legal limit of #radioactive #cesium fuels water release fears

Black rockfish caught in May close to disaster-hit #NuclearPower station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/24/fukushima-fish-with-180-times-legal-limit-of-radioactive-cesium-fuels-water-release-fears

Highly Radioactive Leak At Hanford Came From Spent Fuel Experiments

July 1, 2023

"A recent admission that contaminated soil at the 324 Building at the #Hanford National Lab site was much worse than previously estimated raised concerns this week. A ballpark conversion of the radiation level cited in the article was roughly 1,780 sieverts per hour.

"How did this defunct building at Hanford end up with such #radioactive soil contamination beneath it? The 324 Building housed hot labs including the B Cell. This large hot lab did various experiments including using liquified highly radioactive #Strontium 90 and #cesium 137 extracted from high burnup spent #nuclear fuel. This highly radioactive liquid was used in vitrification experiments, a technology to isolate nuclear waste. The B Cell had a history of spills, fires and equipment failures that lead to significant contamination of the facility and ground beneath it.

"The Department of Energy cites that the waste sump for this hot cell was found to have a breach in it that likely allowed waste to leak out of the facility. There also was a history of spills of this highly radioactive liquid extract of spent fuel."

https://simplyinfo.org/2023/07/highly-radioactive-leak-at-hanford-came-from-spent-fuel-experiments/

#WaterIsLife #ColumbiaRiver #WashingtonState

Toshihiro Wada, an associate professor of fish ecology at #FukushimaUniversity, said of the heavily contaminated #fish, "It's likely that #cesium was concentrated within the fish from the food chain, confined as it is by the inner breakwater where radioactive substances have accumulated from the drainages flowing into the port." #Japan

Cesium 180 times limit found in fish at #Fukushima nuke plant 12 years after disaster - The Mainichi
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230718/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

#Chinese owner of #Tanco #mine in #Manitoba revived talk of draining a lake to extract more #cesium from one of the world's few deposits of the mineral.
#SinomineResourceGroup is musing about long-term redevelopment of its mine; purchased in 2019 along shores of #BernicLake - a small #CanadianShield body of #water located between Whiteshell & Nopiming provincial #parks

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6897808

#Sagkeeng #FirstNation #Treaty3 #Anishinaabe #Ecocide #Canada #NativeLands #CanPoli #environmental

@YourAnonRiots I read the RFPs submitted to #TEPCO. They rejected many for being "expensive" or "unproven". At what cost contaminating the #PacificOcean with not only #Tritium, but #Cesium, #Cobalt and other #radionuclides!

Neat find on #Lemmy: https://mander.xyz/post/645678

extremely high pressures change #chemistry as we know it, such as totally screwing with #electronegativity, and thus bonding and conductivity properties: https://phys.org/news/2022-03-weird-world-high-pressure-chemistry-simple.html

this in turn allows the formation of such unusual compounds such as compounds of #lithium and #cesium, which may be useful #superconductors when cooled

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-counterintuitive-lithium-compounds-route-high-temperature.html

180 times much as #radioactive #cesium detected in fish from #Fukushima #nuclear plant port

via #FukushimaDiary

"On the 5th of June, 2023, #Tepco announced they detected 18,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive cesium from Black rockfish collected in the port of the crippled nuclear plant of Fukushima.

"This is 180 times much as the current food safety standard (100 Bq/Kg).

"Moreover, the detected 18,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive cesium consists of Cs-134 and Cs-137.

"The half-life of Cs-134 is up to 2 years, nevertheless this black rockfish contained 380 Bq/Kg of Cs-134. Tepco has not publicly made an announcement regarding the detection of Cs-134."

#TEPCOLies #WaterIsLife #WaterPollution

https://fukushima-diary.com/2023/06/180-times-much-as-radioactive-cesium-detected-in-fish-from-fukushima-nuclear-plant-port/

NUCLEAR FALLOUT EXCLUSIVE: We tested 28 #waterfilters in the lab for their ability to remove #CESIUM… and these six outperformed all the rest

https://food.news/2023-06-15-nuclear-fallout-lab-tested-water-filters-remove-cesium.html

#NUCLEAR #FALLOUT EXCLUSIVE: We tested 28 water filters in the lab for their ability to remove #CESIUM… and these six outperformed all the rest

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-15-nuclear-fallout-lab-tested-water-filters-remove-cesium.html

Wood pellets ash – radioactive contamination and cesium 137 measured values

"In the event of a #nuclear accident in which radionuclides are released into the biosphere, radioactive contamination of forests can become a significant potential source of public radiation exposure. #Cesium 137 and #strontium 90 remain in the upper soil layers in forest ecosystems for a long time. These #radionuclides get into the wood via the roots and can thus store radioactivity and represent a potential radiation exposure for humans. We provide an overview of our radioactive measurements as well as a literature review on wood, pellets and ash with a focus on cesium 137

"Two of these accidents – the #Kyshtim accident in the Urals in the USSR (now the Russian Federation) in 1957 and the #Chernobyl accident in the USSR (now Ukraine) in 1986 – resulted in significant contamination of thousands of square kilometers of forest land with radionuclide mixtures, including long-lived fission products such as Cs 137 and Sr 90. Measurements and modeling of forest ecosystems after both accidents have shown that after initial contamination, the activity concentration of long-lived radionuclides in wood gradually increases over one to two decades and slowly decreases over the following decades Period. The longevity of contamination is due to the slow migration and persistent bioavailability of radionuclides in the forest soil profile, leading to long-term transfer into wood through the tree root system.

"The transfer of cesium-137 from the soil into the wood of trees is relatively low. Wood from Germany is radiobiological harmless to humans. In the ashes, however, the radiocesium activity can be up to 100 times higher than in wood."

https://www.umweltanalysen.com/en/radioactivity/wood-pellets-ash/

#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NoWar #AirQuality #AirPollution #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #Climate #Environment #Radiation

What's in that #wildfire smoke? There might be more than just #particulate matter. There's something about the soil in the Northeastern US (and perhaps Canada) that allows trees to take up more Cesium-137 (and other radionuclides), which are bound up into the wood until it is burned, which releases radiation into the air.

Paper: #Cesium-137 in Wood Ash Results of Nationwide Survey

Andrew Hodgdon, et al., July 1991

"Data from 11 New England ash samples (Cs-137 mean measured at about 12,000 pCi/kg, K-40 mean measured at 80,000 pCi/kg) suggest Cs~l37 levels in trees are significantly higher than other regions of the United States. General ambient soil concentrations in New England are approximately 480 pCi/kg Cs-137 and 11,000 pCi/kg for K-40. This indicates a general New England ash to soil ratio of about 7 for K-40 and 25 for Cs-137, implying a Cs-137 uptake of 3.5 times that for potassium. Factors which affect cesium uptake and uptake factors for use in radiological modeling are reviewed."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281207579_Cesium-137_in_Wood_Ash_Results_of_Nationwide_Survey

#AirQuality #AirPollution #NoNukes #NoWar #NoNewNukes #ClimateCrisis

EXCLUSIVE: These SIX water filters achieved near 100% #CESIUM removal... #FALLOUT #SURVIVAL MUST WATCH

https://www.brighteon.com/ce1332b1-6a74-4904-a666-f1c1ac18ceff

Allez cette semaine on tente de sortir une version 1.8.7 de #Duniter qui règle certains problèmes de lenteur sur la #G1 !

Vivement la v2 quand même :)

#monnaielibre #cesium #cesiumduniter #june

But yeah, we should believe #TEPCO and govt of #Japan when they tell us the "treated" #FukushimaDaiichi water is safe, eh?

Japan's TEPCO 'exaggerates' #nuclear wastewater safety with faulty dosimeter

October 2022

"The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) has been exaggerating the safety of treated nuclear wastewater with a dosimeter that fails to detect certain radioactive substances at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, local media has reported.

"When demonstrating the safety of treated nuclear wastewater, the company uses a dosimeter that fails to detect radioactive #tritium, but only responds to high-concentration cesium emitted by gamma rays, the Tokyo Shimbun reported.

"During tours at the plant, TEPCO staff put a dosimeter that detects only gamma rays near a bottle containing treated water, as a demonstration that the treated water is safe, according to the newspaper.

"However, the water contained tritium which is about 15 times the amount of the release standard, it reported.

"The gamma rays, which may affect the human body due to external exposure, are generated by the radioactive #cesium contained in the radiation-tainted water."

#Fukushima #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoMoreNukes #RethinkNotRestart #Nucleare #SaveThePlanet

Read more:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-10-09/Japan-s-TEPCO-exaggerates-nuclear-wastewater-safety-1dYZJ8xoz1C/index.html

Will Japan release Fukushima water into the Pacific?

Officials in Japan have claimed that water exposed to radiation in the Fukushima nuclear disaster is now safe to dump into the Pacific. Environmentalists say the water is too contaminated.

by Julian Ryall , November 20, 2019

"#TEPCO and the government [of #Japan] have long believed that the best way to dispose of the water is to simply release it into the #ocean. They claimed until this year that contaminated water had been cleansed by a so-called advanced liquid processing system to the point that virtually all the radionuclides had been reduced to 'non-detect' levels.

"Leaked TEPCO documents, however, show that varying amounts of 62 radionuclides — including #strontium, #iodine, #cesium and #cobalt — have not been removed from the water.

"The company has also been criticized for refusing to permit independent organizations to test the water that is being stored at the site.

"Nevertheless, environmentalists fear that preparations are under way to release the water into the environment.

"'Even a year ago, when the first report on options for disposing the treated water was presented to the committee, it seemed clear to me even then that the preferred option was to release it into the ocean,' said Azby Brown, the lead researcher for Tokyo-based nuclear monitoring organization #Safecast Japan. Other options included #evaporation and burying the water.

"'My take on this is that they have already reached a decision and that all these discussions now on the options are purely theater.'"

#FukushimaWater #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #TEPCOLies #OpTEPCO #PacificOcean #FukushimaAnniversary #NoNewNukes #AtomkraftNeinDanke #AntiAtom

https://www.dw.com/en/japan-environmentalists-say-fukushima-water-too-radioactive-to-release/a-51331676

Somewhere in my archives, I have a link (or possibly the full-text) for the whole story. But here's a good summary...

Science News: The Weekly Newsmagazine
A Science Service Publication
Volume 140, No.6, August 10. 1991

Wood Ash: The unregulated radwaste

"While cleaning ashes from his fireplace two years ago, Stewart A. Farber mused that if trees filter and store airborne pollutants, they might also harbor fallout from the nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s. On a whim, he brought some of his fireplace ash to Yankee Atomic Electric Companies' environmental lab in Boston, Mass., where he manages environmental monitoring. Farber says he was amazed to discover that his sample showed the distinctive #cesium and strontium 'signatures' of #nuclear fallout-and that the concentration of radioactivity 'was easily 100 times greater than anything (our Lab) had ever seen in an environmental sample.'

"Since then, he has obtained wood-ash radioactivity assays from 16 other scientists across the nation. These 47 data sets, representing trees in 14 states, suggest that fallout in wood ash 'is a major source of radioactivity released into the environment,' Farber says. With the exception of some very low California readings, all measurements of ash with fallout-cesium exceeded - some by 100 times or more - the levels of radioactive cesium that may be released from nuclear plants (about 100 picocuries per kilogram of sludge). Ash-cesium levels were especially high in the Northeast - probably because naturally high levels of nonradioactive cesium in the soil discourage trees from releasing fallout-derived cesium through their roots, he says. [Plus the soil in the Northeast is more acidic, which makes the trees more likely to absorb radioactive cesium. I'm sure acid rain has made that a lot worse since 1991]

"Industrial wood burning in the United States generates and estimated 900,000 tons of ash each year: residential and utility wood burning generates another 543,000 tons. Already, many companies are recycling this unregulated ash in #fertilizers. The irony, Farber says, is that federal regulations require releases from nuclear plants to be disposed of as radioactive waste if they contain even 1 percent of the cesium and strontium levels detected in the ash samples from New England. If ash were subject to the same regulations, he says, its disposal would cost U.A. wood burners more than $30 billion annually."
#Fukushima #FukushimaWater #NoNukes #NoDumping #NoNewNukes #AtomkraftNeinDanke #AntiAtom

Source:
https://burningissues.org/radwaste1.html

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