Greenpeace Japan Tests: 50x safety limit, Iodine-133 leakage, marine life soaking up radiation

[flamingdem]

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/marine-life-soaking-up-radiation-along-fukush/blog/34979

Two week’s ago we released preliminary results from our marine radiation monitoring work off the coast of Japan, near the melted-down and leaking Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. These results showed worrying levels of radioactive contamination in seaweed – a staple of the Japanese diet.

After having difficulties finding a lab in Japan to do detailed analysis, we sent samples of seaweed, fish, and shellfish collected by our radiation monitoring teams both onshore and on the Rainbow to professional labs in France and Belgium. The results of the details analysis are back – and we can say that the situation in the ocean along the Fukushima coast is worse than we originally thought.

The new data shows that some seaweed contamination levels are not only 50 times higher than safety limits – far higher than our initial measurements showed – but also that the contamination is spreading over a wide area, and accumulating in sea life, rather than simply dispersing like the Japanese authorities originally claimed would happen.

Other samples showed lower than expected concentrations of caesium, but much higher levels of iodine than expected, which raises serious concerns that contaminated water is continually leaking from the nuclear plant. MORE AT LINK

[ClarkUSA]

1. Just yesterday, I saw a photo depicting the recent harvesting of edible seaweed.

It turned my stomach to think that the Japanese PM hasn't banned the practice yet, given what he must know. It's criminal negligence to allow this practice to continue. The fisherman doing it aren't being terribly responsible, either.

[flamingdem]

3. They are in denial unfortunately nt

[nebenaube]

2. Japan is dead...

They won't be able to feed their population.

[PearliePoo2]

4. Is anyone surprised? Look up FUBAR in the dictionary..it's right before Fukushima.

The sea water that was sprayed on this molten mess was a pathetic last ditch effort. The evaporating sea water left everything salt-encrusted, which acts like an insulation, deterring efficient cooling.
The reactor's containments are leaking water like a sieve. It's going into the ground and into the ocean. Their feeble attempt to pump the radioactive hot water out and store it is a joke. Their holding storage pools are FULL. Now what geniuses?
DILUTION has NEVER been the SOLUTION.
Tepco and the Japanese government are fucking GLOBAL criminals.

[flamingdem]

5. I'm glad Greenpeace is shedding light on future implications

The Japanese fishing industry is fubar once the real information gets out.

The world needs to step up to stop the ocean contamination, we all share it and apparently it is not the great so great at dilution as the pro-nuke folks would like us to believe

[kristopher]

6. K&R

[ZombieHorde]

7. We have to quit using nuclear energy.

Trusting people to not cut corners is not working out very well. Humanity is not wise enough for nuclear power plants.

[madokie]

8. So very true n/t

[Nihil]

9. Sadly, I've come to agree with that point ...

> Trusting people to not cut corners is not working out very well.
> Humanity is not wise enough for nuclear power plants.

Greed, corruption, short-termism, selfishness ... humanity needs
to grow up before it can be trusted with such things.

Unfortunately, those failings have already led to the current devastation
by fossil fuels and have ingrained the "goodness of profit above all"
into the psyche of the decision-makers so it's looking like a bit of
a dead end: some people can see the "right thing to do" alright but it's
a different subset of the population than the ones who can make the kind
of wide-ranging yet rapid (and expensive and inconvenient) changes that
need to be made.

:-(