Fukushima Is Leaking Massive Amounts of Radioactive Water into the Pacific

by Robert Wilkinson

Speaking of Japan and nukes, it turns out that “highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an ‘emergency’ that the operator is struggling to contain.” It seems this discharge is “exceeding legal limits.”

From a Reuters story by Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito being reported at NBC titled Radioactive water seeping into Pacific from Fukushima is 'emergency,' official says we read that Tepco (Tokyo Electric Power Co.), which allegedly is managing the situation, has no solution, no clue, and no sense of what a nuclear “crisis” is, according to the head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force. And it seems that at least one “expert” asserts it’s nyet problema for the US, the Pacific Ocean, and the rest of the world, even though radioactive discharges turned up in water, milk, and crops in the initial phase of this nuclear disaster.

By all means go check out the article via the link, since it turns out that extremely radioactive water is still reaching the Pacific, and that Tepco has no idea what to do except more of the same which hasn’t worked so well since the disaster. That would seem to conform to Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

But then to speak of nuclear insanity is to repeat a redundancy. No more nukes! In any way, at any time, for any reason. Nuclear anything is bad for all life on Earth. Something to remember on the anniversary of Hiroshima.

© Copyright 2013 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Robert]

Hi all - Thanks to a friend of the site over at FB, we have a link to a story by the UC Berkeley Dept of Nuclear Engineering titled Alarming report of Fukushima fallout harming U.S. infants. This also seemed to be buried quickly by the US media. From the ABC story, "In a study of states in the West Coast and in the Pacific, infants born soon after the nuclear disaster were 28 percent more likely to develop congenital hypothyroidism, which can lead to stunted growth. In California, that number jumped to 39 percent."

Also from the link quoting MSN, "A new study suggests what many worldwide have feared — that the devastation from the traveling radiation has in fact sickened infants in other countries, including babies born shortly after the incident in Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. The study, conducted by scientists with the Radiation and Public Health Project, found that babies born shortly after the incident were 28 percent more likely to suffer from congenital hypothyroidism than were children born in those states during the same period one year earlier."

Just more nuclear insanity. I guess where profits are concerned, massive lies, denial, and dissembling is okay even if it destroys human life. Nuclear anything is bad for human everything.

[Robert]

Hi all again - I just read over at an FB article that "the EPA wants to increase the acceptability of exposure to nuclear poison. They want to move the limits from the longstanding 1 in 10,000 person cancer rate to a rate of 1 in 23 persons exposed over a 30-year period." The California Radiation Report: Japan Finds Radioactivity in More Foods From California

Then there's the official EPA site that states There is no firm basis for setting a "safe" level of exposure to radiation. The link gives a haunting chart of diseases associated with various levels of radiation exposure.

[Dovnflt50]

Is there a way to post this article to facebook?

[Robert]

Hi Dovnflt50 - It's already posted over at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aquarius-Papers/133846025775

Of course feel free to share it however you want.

[Elah]

What exactly are we to do, Robert? The insanity that prevails in the governments of the world as well as the corporate empires, precludes any common sense that the public offers. It's all about profit, money, power and control. We who share the belief of Oneness know that each action affects all. Those who have power do not appear to care about the effects of their actions. The evidence is clear and has been for many decades. Nuclear energy is dangerous and we are not capable of preventing disasters or containing the contamination of radiation. Yet, the lobbying power of the nuclear power industry is huge...and the ugly saga continues.

[Robert]

Hi Elah - Well, millions of us united in the late 70s and early 80s and stopped the industry cold in 1982 when a million people marched the UN and stomped their feet in Central Park and roared. Then they came back via the neocons, and were about to launch a long term nuke building program when Fukushima stopped that momentum. It won't take much more to kill it forever, especially if the new solar tech breakthroughs I reported on a few weeks ago take hold.

[Robert]

Hi all - It's now the next day, and some things are finally being discussed. Here's the latest: Wrecked Fukushima nuke plant leaking 330 tons of contaminated water a day

[Robert]

Hi all - To bring a dialog over here from FB, as much as I do not like to report such things, I believe we must stay aware of just how incompetent the system is. Reassurances from elected officials and "experts" fall flat in the face of facts like the ones being reported in these stories.

The problem of the nuclear menace is an important issue for me. I awakened to the nuclear menace when I was 11 living near a SAC base in Florida that was the original ground zero in the Cuban missile crisis. We were told that if the Russians launched, we were 8 minutes away from nuclear annihilation.

As part of the "duck and cover" generation, we had seen the pictures of what happens to things when they're nuked. Very quickly my Pluto rising got very clear that nuclear anything is bad for life on Earth.