Radioactive iodine 1,250 times limit in sea off Japan plant

Source: Straits Times (Singapore)

Mar 26, 2011
Radioactive iodine 1,250 times limit in sea off Japan plant

OSAKA - THE operator of Japan's disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant has detected radioactive iodine 1,250 times the legal limit in Pacific Ocean waters nearby, the nuclear safety agency said on Saturday.

In a test by the Tokyo Electric Power Company, 'radioactive iodine-131 at 1250.8 times the legal limit was detected several hundred metres offshore near reactor number one,' the agency official told AFP.

The readings were taken about 300m offshore, public broadcaster NHK said.

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Read more: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_649553.html

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This is about ten times the level of radioactive iodine found in the tests a few days ago, and this test was done at three times the distance offshore (the earlier test was at 100 meters).

to bury that som'bit*h.

radioactive materials into the ocean. The USSR dumped entire reactors with fuel into the sea. The Navy trace emitting amounts of secondary coolant.

In addition to this multimegaton nuclear tests were carried out over the oceans and even below the surface.

I assure you with all honesty that the health of the ocean system is not at risk.

:rofl:

So says the anonymous poster who recently joined DU for almost the sole purpose of spreading pro-nuclear industry propaganda.

Kinda hard to believe that's just some workaday guy/gal.

Consult for a few hours a month but that's it.

buy MREs and prepare for the apocalypse. Fuck a pro agenda, I'm pro science. It does not take Steven Hawkings to realize that the accumulated dose from the incident is not going to kill the goddamn ocean.

You are just as anonymous as me.

I can't stand when people on DU look at somebody's join date as if it were a check on their validity as a poster.

-recycled right wing talking points- in this thread it's the "the ocean can heal itself" talking point used by Hannity, Hume, Limbaugh, and others to minimize public reaction to the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster

-nearly 300 posts within a few days of joining aimed at discrediting anyone suggesting the situation with the Japanese nuclear facilities might, just possibly, be a teensy bit of a problem

-using classic message board tactics of one with the intent of spreading FUD (this is most often seen on forums related to stock trading, for obvious reasons)

I could say more, and provide links, but I promised myself I wouldn't waste any more time with this particular poster. I have never, in my ten years here, called anyone out until now. But, this issue is important, so I call bullshit on this one...

edit: okay, I'll add a few more- it's also the faux expertise, the attempts to quickly discredit any opposition...and please don't take this as any kind of "attack" on you, psychopomp

YOU assure us? I'm sure Tepco probably assured its workers who are hospitalized after stepping in radioactive water 10,000x the limit that all was "safe," too.

The very huge volume of water in the ocean makes that certain.

Even if you just shoved all six reactors into the ocean without further ado, all you would get is localized contamination.

Still, at those levels seafood and plant life will pick up a lot of radioactive molecules and will be unsafe to eat. How far will the coastal contamination spread? Only time will tell.

If I had to pick any place on Earth to be contaminated, the open ocean would be my first.

Because after all very few people or animals eat fish from the ocean.

The oceans and our atmosphere are divided by a thin line.

And we know the atmosphere is changing for the worse.

And the oceans are not what they used to be.
So any assurances from those telling us it will all be fine are to be shunned.
They lie. Or they are honestly just stupid as all get out.

Continental shelf, etc.

Stop settling for a dead planet. :grr:

pro-nukers on Du would have us believe.

Panties in a twist over nothing.....

:sarcasm:

No one has been fishing in or near the exclusion zone. But these levels mean that they are going to have to start checking for radiation levels from harvested seafood and seaweed much further out.

Source: BBC

Levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are 1,250 times higher than the safety limit, officials say.

The readings were taken about 300m (984ft) offshore. It is feared the radiation could be seeping into groundwater from one of the reactors.

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The plant's operator says the core of one of the six reactors may have been damaged.

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Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the situation was "very unpredictable".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12869184

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Do we really need a disaster here to stop nuclear power? I hope not.

It has happened again. Here is a picture of the village election house near Chernobyl (what is left of it that is).



:dem: :kick:

or pay later. What's it gonna be???

Don't worry.








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1250 times normal, came out evenly. Not 1249 or 1251 for example. Now is this science or journalism?

The Radiation levels are far worse than anyone has stated...
Today measurements at the site are steady at over 40REMS per hour..
This has accumulative effects.. That is why time is a factor...
This means that Workers who are put to work at the site will start to get very sick after only a few hours...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#42278544

mostly of those that understood the language....because Chernobyl means Wormwood in the Ukraine.
And why Wormwood?...because of a prophesies in Revelations about the end times....Here at Revelations 8-11

<11> And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

The scary part to me is that It could do that if the wormwood were to get into the sea.

Once the warranty period runs out, TEPCO is responsible for the plant's operation and consequences of that operation. The Japanese government is responsible for regulations pertaining to the plant's operation and parameters. Contrary to what some around here seem to suggest, GE is not run by somebody like Rush Limbaugh and never has been.

The reactor design is 40 years old.

That's the way it is on the planet these days, unfortunately, with our global-military-industrial-nuclear-fossil fuel-corporate-congressional clusterfuck culture.