"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

Mit fortschrittlichen Methoden untersucht Natalia Mayordomo Herranz, wie sich das langlebige Spaltprodukt #Technetium-99 in der Umwelt verhält. Was sie dabei persönlich antreibt und wo sie ihre Disziplin in den nächsten Jahren sieht, verrät die #HZDR-Forscherin im Interview mit Helmholtz Energy.
▶️ https://energy.helmholtz.de/wissenschaftler/-in-des-monats/mai-heidi-u-heinrichs/august-natalia-mayordomo-herranz/

#OnThisDay #SpaceShuttle #Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere (2003) resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.

Birth Anniversary of Emilio Segrè (1905) - #NobelPrize winner and group leader for the #Manhattan Project. He discovered the elements #Technetium and #Astatine.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/news