#fukushima — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fukushima, aggregated by home.social.
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Quinze ans après la catastrophe de Fukushima, notre photographe Jean-Patrick di Silvestro revient sur les lieux et nous offre un reportage photo exclusif.
🖋️ Un reportage photo de Jean-Patrick di Silvestro à lire sur notre site 🔽
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Quinze ans après la catastrophe de Fukushima, notre photographe Jean-Patrick di Silvestro revient sur les lieux et nous offre un reportage photo exclusif.
🖋️ Un reportage photo de Jean-Patrick di Silvestro à lire sur notre site 🔽
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Quinze ans après la catastrophe de Fukushima, notre photographe Jean-Patrick di Silvestro revient sur les lieux et nous offre un reportage photo exclusif.
🖋️ Un reportage photo de Jean-Patrick di Silvestro à lire sur notre site 🔽
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Quinze ans après la catastrophe de Fukushima, notre photographe Jean-Patrick di Silvestro revient sur les lieux et nous offre un reportage photo exclusif.
🖋️ Un reportage photo de Jean-Patrick di Silvestro à lire sur notre site 🔽
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✭Gauche Révolut°R✭ Nucléaire et capitalisme : une bombe !: La sécurité nucléaire à court, moyen et long terme ne peut être conditionnée à des objectifs de profits financiers. Tchernobyl (1986) et Fukushima (2011) en sont de… ✭GR #nucléaire #capitalisme #sécuriténucléaire #Tchernobyl #Fukushima
Nucléaire et capitalisme : une... -
Sortir du nucléaire☢ Vivre à l'abri de l'exposition aux radiations : un droit humain fondamental: Akiko Morimatsu a témoigné en 2018 au Conseil des droits de l'homme de l'ONU sur la vie des "déplacés internes" de Fukushima.… #Fukushima #DroitsHumains #Radiations #DéplacésInternes #Nucléaire
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https://www.wacoca.com/tour/1075620/ 【福島旅行】飯坂温泉『飯坂ホテルジュラク』宿泊記 〜ジュラク、フリーフロー始めました〜 【IIZAKA HOTEL JURAKU】 #buffet #FreeFlow #fukushima #HotSprings #Iizakaonsen #japan #japanhotel #JapanTravel #vlog #アベレイジTV #カルピスじゃぐち #ジュラク #バイキング #ビュッフェ #フリーフロー #ホテルジュラク #東北地方 #東北地方ツアー #桃食べ放題 #温泉旅行 #福島旅行 #福島県ツアー #福島観光 #花ももの湯 #露天風呂 #飯坂ホテルジュラク #飯坂温泉
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐇🐗 Researchers at #Fukushima University documented how unregulated tourist feeding on #Okunoshima Island allowed rabbit populations to exceed natural carrying capacity.
The overgrazing stripped local vegetation while tourist #foodwaste attracted wild #boars that began scavenging carcasses and hunting live #rabbits.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-bunny-tourism-hidden-consequences-unregulated.html
#wildlife #ecology #japan #tourism #ecotourism #conservation #ecosystem #animals #mammals #science
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐇🐗 Researchers at #Fukushima University documented how unregulated tourist feeding on #Okunoshima Island allowed rabbit populations to exceed natural carrying capacity.
The overgrazing stripped local vegetation while tourist #foodwaste attracted wild #boars that began scavenging carcasses and hunting live #rabbits.
👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-07-bunny-tourism-hidden-consequences-unregulated.html
#wildlife #ecology #japan #tourism #ecotourism #conservation #ecosystem #animals #mammals #science
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A 17-year-old high school student has been killed in a microbus crash in Fukushima Prefecture, while the driver of the vehicle has been arrested. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/08/japan/crime-legal/fukushima-bus-crash-driver-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #fukushima #koriyama #trafficaccident #niigata #highschools
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40 Jahre Tschernobyl - auch Gefahren aus der Schweiz, deshalb: "Atomenergie abschalten!"- fordert Dr. Schmid von der IPPNW.
Aktuell stecken in Stuttgart Grüne und CDU in Koalitionsverhandlungen. In einem Brief an Cem Özdemir von den Grünen und Manuel Hagel von der CDU sowie deren Verhandlungsteams weist die Organisation „Internationale Ärzt*innen für die Verhütung des Atomkrieges“, kurz IPPNW, auf die drohenden Atomgefahren aus der Schweiz für Baden-Württemberg hin.
Die IPPNW fordert, auch anlässlich des 40. Jahrestages der Atomkatastrophe von Tschernobyl, von der künftigen Landesregierung, sich gegenüber der Schweiz und der Bundesregierung für ein baldiges Ende der Schweizer Atomanlagen einzusetzen.
Über den Brief der IPPNW an die (künftige) @RegierungBW in Stuttgart, die atomaren Risiken und was diese mit politischer Verantwortung zu tun haben, sprach ich heute für @RDL mit Dr. Jörg Schmid von den IPPNW.
https://rdl.de/Interview_Dr_Schmid_IPPNW_Tschernobyl_AKW_Schweiz_26_April_2026_RDL
#tschernobyl #akw #NoAKW #ippnw #schweiz #baden #badenwurttemberg #stuttgart #ozdemir #Grüne #cdu #grunebw #grünebw #CemÖzdemir #energiewende #erneuerbareenergien #erneuerbare #beznau #schweiz #basel #kantonargau #atom #atomkraft #fukushima #atomkraftneindanke #baden #sudbaden #hochschwarzwald #breisgau #breisgauHochschwarzwald #freiburg #freiburgimBreisgau
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Pas la première fois qu'on revient dessus, mais à chaque fois c'est la sidération. C'était pas le premier et ce ne fut, malheureusement pas le dernier accident nucléaire. Capitalistes et bolcheviques ont détruit des milliers de vies, humaines et non humaines. Bousillés autant d'hectares de terres. Et aujourd'hui encore y a des partisans de cette saloperie de nucléaire #NucleaireNonMerci #tchernobyl #fukushima #threemileisland https://youtu.be/nNFKMte0mXQ?is=D8D8waL7pSmimdsA
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自転車で感じる福島の魅力 ふくしまDCに合わせ『サイクルトレイン』運行開始 風光明媚な浜通りを走る https://www.bikingjp.com/917523/ #Fukushima #いわき #ニュース #事件 #事故 #会津 #東北地方 #東北地方サイクリング #災害 #社会問題 #福島 #福島県 #福島県自転車に乗る #郡山 #防災
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Il monaco che sognò il Buddha dentro la conchiglia. E costruì una doppia elica per onorarlo
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=44193#strutture #architettura #storia #pagode #templi #giappone #costruzioni #scalinate #sacro #buddhismo #religione #shintoismo #samurai #restaurazionemeiji #shogunato #tokugawa #Fukushima #aizuwakamatsu #luoghi #viaggi #struttura #elica #conchiglie
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RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@ausgestrahlt/116201067616553373
Das Erinnern ist so kurzlebig, die Sucht nach #Scheinlösung:en (und nebenbei: Profitmaximierungs-Techniken für einzelne zu Lasten der #Allgemeinheit) so groß! #ErinnernHeisstMahnen! Die #nuklear:en #GAU von #Fukushima + #Tschernobyl haben dieses Jahr tragische Jahrestage, 15a und 40a sind sie her. Die #Strahlung überdauert noch Jahrtausende!
#Endnuclear #AtomkraftNeinDanke #AlleAKWabschalten #AtomkraftNieWieder -
It's not enough that #Fukushima #RadioactiveWaterDumping will continue for years (centuries?), now #Japan wants to mine the #DeepSea and kill even more #OceanLife? WTF!
Japan hauls rare earth-rich mud from deep sea in bold test mission
Story by BeckhamLangford
Feburary 3, 2026"Japan’s own planners acknowledge the uncertainties. Jan briefings on the test mining plan stressed that, However, key aspects remain unknown, including the quality of the minerals and the economics of lifting and processing such vast volumes of mud. Mining the mud had previously been seen as too expensive compared with land-based deposits, and even with new technology, the cost of pumping, dewatering and refining the material at scale is still an open question. Analysts also point out that any move toward commercial production will face intense scrutiny from environmental regulators and coastal communities, who want clearer evidence on how sediment plumes, noise and habitat disruption will affect #DeepOcean #ecosystems around the site."
#OceansAreLife #JapanPol #NoDeepSeaMining #NoOceanDumping #FukushimaIsntOver #RecycleMetals #BuildTechnologyThatLasts #OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife #LeaveItInTheOcean #DeepSeaMining
#NoDeepSeaMining #RecycleCopper
#LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #DeepSeaLife #OceansAreLife #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed #NoisePollution #SedimentPlumes -
#Japan's #Fukushima #nuclear wastewater 'pose major #environmental, #HumanRights risks' - UN experts
20 May 2025
"The United Nations (UN) human rights experts have written to the Japanese government to express their concerns about the release of more than one million metric tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the #PacificOcean.
"In August 2023, Japan began discharging wastewaster from about 1000 storage tanks of contaminated water collected after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that caused the meltdown of its Fukushima nuclear plant.
"In the formal communication, available publicly, UN Human Rights Council special rappoteurs addressed the the management of Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS)-treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) by the Japan government and TEPCO (Tokio Electric Power), and the ongoing discharge of such waters into the Pacific Ocean.
"They said 'we are alarmed that the implementation of contaminated water release operations of into the ocean may pose major environmental and human rights risks, exposing people, especially children, to threats of further contamination in Japan and beyond.'
" 'We wish to raise our concern about the allegations of the failure to assess the consequences on health of the release of wastewater against the best available scientific evidence,' the special rappoteurs write.
" 'Against this backdrop, we would like to highlight that the threats to the enjoyment of the right to adequate food do not concern only local people within the borders of Japan.
" 'Given the migratory nature of fish, their contamination represents a risk also for people living beyond the Japanese borders, including Indigenous Peoples across the Pacific Ocean which, according to their culture and traditions, mainly rely on seafood as their primary livelihood.'
"The letter follows a complaint submitted by Ocean Vision Legal in August 2023 on behalf of the Pacific Network on Globalisation (#PANG) and endorsed by over 50 civil society groups in the Pacific and beyond.
"In a statement on Tuesday, PANG hailed it as "a landmark move for #OceanJustice and #HumanRights'.
"The organisation said that the destructive legacy of nuclear #contamination through #NuclearTesting is still strongly felt across the region.
"It said this legacy is marked by severe health impacts across generations and the ongoing failure to properly clean up test sites, which continue to contaminate the islands and waterways that Pacific peoples depend on.
" 'As Pacific groups, we remain disappointed in the Japanese Government and TEPCO's shameless disregard of the calls by numerous Pacific leaders and civil society groups to hold off on any further release,' PANG's coordinator Joey Tau said.
" 'Their ignorance constitutes a brazen threat to Pacific peoples' livelihoods, safety, health and well-being, and the sovereignty of Pacific nations,' he added.
"Japan has consistently maintained that the release is safe.
"The UN human rights experts have asked for further information from Japan, including on the allegations raised, and on how the Radiological Environmental Impact Assessment has been conducted according to the best available scientific evidence.
"This communication sends a clear message: Ocean issues must be understood as human rights issues, requiring precautionary and informed action aligned with international environmental law to safeguard both people and the marine environment.
"#OceanVisionLegal founder and CEO Anna von Rebay said while the communication is not legally binding, it is a crucial milestone.
" 'It informs the interpretation of human rights and environmental law in response to contemporary threats, contributing to the development of customary international law and strengthens accountability for any actor harming the Ocean,' she said.
" 'Ultimately, it paves the way towards a future where the Ocean's health is fully recognised as fundamental to human dignity, justice, and intergenerational equity.' "
#OceansAreLife #WaterIsLife #Radiation #TEPCOLies #NoFukushimaDumping #FukushimaIsntOver #TEPCOLies #NoDumping #Tritium #PacificOcean #WaterIsLife #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #FukushimaDaiichi #Fukushima #ALPS #RadioactiveContamination #HormesisIsBullShit #Bioaccumulation #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies
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HT @btschumy
And this is why we need to #RethinkNotRestart and #ShutDownAllNuclearPlants -- especially the aging ones! This article outlines a very possible #Doomsday scenario -- but it could be a number of things, including a large #SolarFlare...2030 Doomsday Scenario: The Great #Nuclear Collapse
A timeline of the #EndGame for human civilization
"Humanity has constructed a doomsday Deadman switch that threatens civilization. Climate destruction will make it increasingly difficult to avoid the looming global nuclear catastrophe we've created.
"Here's how our future might unravel:
Late 2020s: Climate Red Alert and Infrastructure Strain"By the late 2020s, Earth’s climate is in unprecedented turmoil. Global average temperatures are consistently 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Each year brings record-breaking heatwaves, “freak” floods, and droughts that batter infrastructure. Coastal cities flood more frequently, roads buckle in extreme heat, and power grids strain under surging demand for cooling.
"This cascade of climate disasters sets the stage for a systemic collapse: as societies grapple with runaway warming, the resilience of #Criticalnfrastructure (power, water, transit) erodes.
"Energy systems enter a crisis even before 2030. Nuclear power, which in 2025 still provided about 9% of the world’s electricity from ~440 reactors, becomes increasingly unreliable. Many nuclear plants struggle with climate stresses: cooling water sources heat up in summer, forcing reactors to reduce output or shut down to avoid unsafe temperatures. For example, a 2028 European #heatwave pushes river and sea temperatures above 25 °C, triggering emergency shutdowns at multiple reactors that cannot be cooled effectively.
"At the same time, stronger storms and floods threaten reactor safety. Dozens of reactors worldwide are unprepared for #ExtremeFlooding, meaning a dam failure or #StormSurge could lead to a Fukushima-scale accident. Worrisome reports emerge of power plants in #floodplains and #coasts where defenses are overtopped by #RisingSeas and torrential rains.
"By 2029, global carbon output remains high, and natural feedback loops are kicking in. In the Arctic, permafrost thaws and releases methane creating a vicious warming cycle where initial warming triggers more emissions, leading to even more warming. Scientists caution that a tipping point is near, beyond which climate change becomes self-perpetuating (a true “runaway” scenario).
"Society approaches 2030 in a precarious state: aware of looming catastrophe yet unprepared for its speed. The stage is set for the coming collapse, with power grids and nuclear facilities - the backbone of the industrial world - already under severe strain.
Early 2030s: Blackouts and the First Reactor Crises
"2030 marks the breaking point.
"A confluence of climate catastrophes collapses power grids across multiple continents. A severe global heatwave in the summer of 2030 brings record electricity demand while many power plants (nuclear and coal alike) are derated or offline due to overheating coolant water.
"Then powerful Category 5 storms strike in succession: one hurricane inundates the U.S. Eastern seaboard, while an unprecedented typhoon swamps Southeast Asia. These #disasters knock out transmission lines and flood key substations, leading to prolonged blackouts in dozens of major cities. Emergency systems are overwhelmed. With communications down and transportation paralyzed, manpower shortages become acute - many operators and engineers cannot reach their stations.
"Nuclear power plants are among the first to feel the emergency. Grid failure triggers automatic reactor SCRAMs (rapid shutdowns) at plants from Florida to France. Control rods halt the fission reactions, but decay heat in reactor cores still needs cooling for days to prevent meltdown.
"Normally, backup diesel generators would power the cooling pumps, but the scale of the #blackout means diesel resupply is uncertain and some generators fail in flooded facilities. In a grim reflection of 2011’s Fukushima disaster, several coastal reactors lose all power as storm surges drown their backup generators.
"Within hours to days, the first meltdowns occur.
"In 2031, a reactor in South Asia becomes a flashpoint: its cooling pumps falter after the grid collapse, leading the core to overheat. The reactor’s heart melts through containment in a matter of days, releasing a plume of radioactive steam and debris.
"Nearby, an even greater danger unfolds: the plant’s spent fuel pool, packed with years of highly radioactive spent rods, boils dry without cooling. Exposed to air, the zirconium cladding of the fuel ignites, triggering a fire that belches long-lived radioisotopes directly into the atmosphere. This nightmare scenario - once narrowly avoided at #Fukushima by heroic ad-hoc measures - now plays out in full."
Read more:
https://www.collapse2050.com/2030-doomsday-scenario-the-great-nuclear-collapse/#NoNukes #RenewablesNow #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Radiation #NuclearMeltdowns #Polycrisis #NoMoreFukushimas #NoNukesForAI #CivilizationCollapse #NuclearFuture #ARadioactiveWorld
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Hoy es el aniversario de muchas cosas*. Y con mi empanamiento habitual, me acabo de dar cuenta a 20 minutos de que acabe el día.
* 11M
** La OMS declara pandemia
*** Fukushima
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#Japan's #TEPCO halts preparations to remove #nuclear debris from #Fukushima plant
By Reuters
August 22, 2024TOKYO, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Japan's Tokyo Electric Power has suspended preparation work for the test removal of #NuclearFuel debris from the tsunami-stricken #FukushimaDaiichi plant, a company spokesperson said.
The preparatory work was suspended due to an error in the installation of the extraction equipment and it is unclear when the work, the first of its kind since the accident in 2011, may resume, he added.
The work was initially planned to start in 2021, but was pushed back due to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the spokesperson."The debris, which consist of nuclear fuel and parts of the plant's infrastructure, is estimated to weigh around 880 tons and is still #radioactive, said public broadcaster NHK which first reported the news on Thursday."
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@thejapantimes Calling #nuclearpower a #cleanenergy is totally ignoring the costs of disposing spent #nuclearfuel &, in the worst possible case, the oft unfathomable costs of cleaning a #nuclearmeltdown.
#Bloomberg is so full of industry hawks peddling biased pseudo-journalistic articles like this. After witnessing public Japanese taxpayers footing the billions of dollars expense to cleanup the #Fukushima #nuclearwaste fiasco, why does #JapanTimes still think it apt to syndicate such propaganda? -
My comments in brackets.
A small drone flies into a damaged #Fukushima #nuclear reactor for the first time to study melted fuel
by MARI YAMAGUCHI
Updated Wed, February 28, 2024 at 8:20 AM EST
"A drone small enough to fit in one's hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at #Japan's #FukushimaDaiichi #NuclearPowerPlant Wednesday in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel debris in areas where earlier robots failed to reach [the radiation fried some of them].
"Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings also began releasing the fourth batch of the plant’s treated and diluted #radioactive #wastewater into the [#PacificOean] Wednesday. The government and TEPCO, the plant's operator, say the water is safe [BULLSHIT] and the process is being monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency, but the discharges have faced strong opposition by fishing groups and a Chinese ban on Japanese seafood.
"A magnitude 9.0 quake and tsunami in March 2011 destroyed the plant's power supply and cooling systems, causing three reactors to melt down. The government and TEPCO plan to remove the massive amount of fatally radioactive melted nuclear fuel that remains inside each reactor — a daunting decommissioning process that's been delayed for years and mired by technical hurdles and a lack of data.
"To help on data, a fleet of four drones were set to fly one at a time into the hardest-hit No. 1 reactor’s primary containment vessel. TEPCO plans to probe a new area Thursday.
"TEPCO has sent a number of probes — including a crawling robot and an underwater vehicle — inside each reactor but was hindered by debris, #HighRadiation and the inability to navigate through the rubble, though they were able to gather some data. In 2015, the first robot to go inside got stuck on a grate.
"Wednesday’s drone flight comes after months of preparations that began in July at a nearby mock facility.
"The drones, each weighing 185 grams (6.5 ounces), are highly maneuverable and their blades hardly stir up dust, making them a popular model for factory safety checks. Each carries a front-loaded high-definition camera to send live video and higher-quality images to an operating room.
"In part due to battery life, the drone investigation inside a reactor is limited to a 5-minute flight.
"TEPCO officials said they plan to use the new data to develop technology for future probes as well as a process to remove the melted fuel from the reactor. The data will also be used in the investigation of how the 2011 meltdown occurred.
"On Wednesday, two drones inspected the area around the exterior of the main structural support in the vessel, called the #pedestal. Based on the images they transmitted, TEPCO officials decided to send the other two in Thursday.
"The pedestal is directly under the reactor’s core. Officials hope to film the core’s bottom to find out how overheated fuel dripped there in 2011.
"About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted #NuclearFuel remain inside the three damaged reactors. Critics say the 30- to 40-year cleanup target set by the government and TEPCO is overly optimistic. The damage in each reactor is different, and plans need to accommodate their conditions.
"TEPCO's goal is to remove a small amount of melted debris from the least-damaged No. 2 reactor as a test case by the end of March by using a giant robotic arm. It was forced to delay due to difficulty removing a deposit blocking its entry.
"As in the past three rounds of wastewater discharges which started in August, TEPCO plans to release 7,800 metric tons of the treated water through mid-March after diluting it with massive amounts of seawater and sampling it to make sure radioactivity is far below international standards [by using faulty dosimeters].
"China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Wednesday accused Japan of risking the whole world with '#NuclearContaminated water' and demanded it stop 'this wrongdoing.' Mao urged #Japan to cooperate in an independent monitoring system with neighboring countries and other stakeholders [rather than bribing the #IAEA]."
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/small-drone-flies-damaged-fukushima-051008732.html#WaterIsLife #FukushimaIsntOver #TEPCOLies #RethinkNotRestart #NoNewNukes #RenewablesNow #ThermalSprings #TidalEnergy
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Susumu Kitano hat das #AKW #Suzu mit verhindert und streitet mit einer Klägergemeinschaft für den Rückbau des AKW #Shika. An Neujahr hätte es in beiden zum Super-GAU kommen können. Ein Porträt aus dem neuen .ausgestrahlt-Magazin.
https://www.ausgestrahlt.de/blog/2024/02/20/wir-w%C3%A4ren-alle-gefangen-gewesen/
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#Japan announces date for #Fukushima #radioactive #water release
August 2023
"As of 8 June 2023, there were 1,335,381 cubic meters of radioactive wastewater stored in tanks, but due to the failure of the #ALPS (Advanced Liquid Processing System) processing technology, approximately 70% of this water will have to be processed again. Scientists have warned that the #radiological risks from the discharges have not been fully assessed, and the biological impacts of #tritium, #carbon14, #strontium90, and #iodine129, which will be released in the discharges, have been ignored.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) endorsed Japan’s plans for discharge. However, the IAEA has failed to investigate the operation of the ALPS, has completely ignored the highly radioactive fuel debris that melted down which continues every day to contaminate ground water – nearly 1000 cubic meters every ten days. Furthermore, the discharge plan has failed to conduct a comprehensive Environmental Impact Assessment, as required by its international legal obligations, given that there is a risk of significant transboundary harm to neighboring countries. The IAEA is not tasked with protecting the global marine environment but it should not encourage a state to violate it."
#IAEALies #TEPCOLies #WaterIsLife #FukushimaIsntOver #FukushimaDaiichi #NoDumping #NuclearPowerPlant #RadioactiveWater
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🇯🇵 #Japon : une centrale nucléaire touchée sans gravité par un tsunami de trois mètres, ravivant le traumatisme de Fukushima 📰 https://www.election-politique.com/index.php?display=M
#RevuedePresse #newspaper #politique #politics #international #Japan #Shika #Fukushima
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#Radioactivity
#Kraftwerk music and lyrics
Video footage #Chernobyl 1986https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttuJFlagEgk
#Chainreaction #Contamination
#Fukushima (Japan) #Sellafield (UK) #NuclearWaste #Harrisburg (USA) & #Zaporizhia (Ukraine) ? -
#Fukushima Up Close, 13 Years Later
by Robert Hunziker
October 13, 2023"The world is turning to #NuclearPower as a solution to #GlobalWarming, but it is postulated herein that it is a huge mistake that endangers society. One #nuclear #meltdown causes as much damage over the long-term as a major #war. Moreover, according to Dr. #PaulDorfman, chair of the Nuclear Consulting Group, former secretary to the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Internal Radiation: 'It’s important to understand that nuclear is very likely to be a significant climate casualty.'
"#BeyondNuclearInternational recently published an article about the status of Fukushima as well as an exposé of how the nuclear industry gets away with responsibility for #radiation-caused (1) deaths (2) chronic conditions like #cancer (3) #genetic deformities: A Strategy of Concealment, September 24, 2023, by #KolinKobayashi, who is a Tokyo-born France-based anti-nuclear #activist journalist also serving as president of Echo-Exchange. Kobayashi’s work was posted by CounterPunch under the title: How Agencies That Promote Nuclear Power Are Quietly Managing Its Disaster Narrative.
"The following synopsis, including editorial license that adds important death details which defy the nuclear industry’s bogus claims about nuclear safety, opens closed pathways to what’s really going on.
"After thirteen years, the declaration of a State of Emergency for #FukushimaDaiichi Nuclear Power Plant still cannot be lifted because of many unknowns, as well as ubiquitous deadly radiation levels. The destroyed reactors are tinderboxes of highly radioactive spent fuel rods that contain more cesium-137 than eighty-five (85) #Chernobyls. Cesium-137 in or near a human body erupts into a series of maladies, one after another in short order, depending upon level of exposure: (1) nausea (2) vomiting (3) diarrhea (4) bleeding (5) coma leading to death.
"The spent fuel rods at the Fukushima nuclear reactor site are stored in pools of water on the top floor of compromised reactor buildings 100 feet above ground level, except for Unit 3 which completed removal of its spent fuel rods in 2019, an extremely slow, laborious process that’s highly dangerous.
"Stored spent fuel rods in open pools of water are the epitome of high-risk. 'If the 440 tonne vessel collapses, it could hit the storage pool next to it. If this pool is damaged, even partially, another major disaster could occur.' (Kobayashi) In that regard, there’s significant risk of collapse in the event of a strong #earthquake. And #Japan is one of the most earthquake prone countries in the world. 'The city (Tokyo) government’s experts reckon there is a 70% chance of a magnitude 7, or higher, quake hitting the capital within the next 30 years.' (Source: Japan is Preparing for a Massive Earthquake, The Economist, August 31, 2023)
"If exposed to open air, #SpentFuel rods erupt into a sizzling zirconium fire followed by massive radiation bursts of the most toxic material on the planet. It can upend an entire countryside and force evacuation of major cities. According to the widely recognized nuclear expert Paul Blanch: 'Continual storage in spent fuel pools is the most unsafe thing you could do.' Paul Blanch, registered professional engineer, US Navy Reactor Operator & Instructor with 55 years of experience with nuclear engineering and regulatory agencies, is widely recognized as one of America’s leading experts on nuclear power.
"#FukushimaDaichi Nuclear Power Plant will remain a high-risk explosive scenario for decades ahead. After all, a program for future decommissioning is unclear and overall radiation guesstimates are formidable. All the structures where decommissioning will take place are highly radioactive and as such nearly impossible for the dangers to worker exposure."
Read more:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/13/fukushima-up-close-13-years-later/#FukushimaWater #WaterIsLife #TEPCOLies
#NuclearPlants #NoNewNukes #ClimateChange #PacificOcean #Pollution
#Bioaccumulation #NoNukes #RethinkNotRestart -
#Fukushima #TEPCO
#日本政府は汚染水放出を中止せよ
#StopFukushimaWaterReleaseNow
#StopReleasingTEPCOWater
#fukushimanuclearwastewater
#FukushimaWaterRelease【 9/15
#Fukushima No1 groundwater monitor pit 1-6
Grossβ=2.2 Mn Bq/L
#Strontium90(β emitter)=1.3 Mn,record high,after 12 yrs
Failed icewall
Tepco in trouble w/filtering more groundwater?
#Japan govt/Tepco can't handle
Int'l fund WANTED for deep wall to shut out gwater
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Articolo molto ben scritto che mi ha aiutato a capire la situazione dell'acqua radioattiva di #Fukushima.
Spaventa la superficialità di chi qui invece straparla di costruire nuovi reattori.
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"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
#iodine129
#Technetium99
#Cobalt60
#Curium244
#Niobium94
#Europium (152, 154)
#Cesium137
#Strontium90
#Selenium79
#Nickel63
#Tin126 (aka: Sn-126)"As of 2018 the stored post #ALPS water contained 200 billion becquerels of iodine 129, #ruthenium106, 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."
#Japan #JapanGovernment #TEPCOLies #IAEA #IAEAFail #FukushimaDaiichi #Fukushima #FukushimaWater
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#Fiji PM’s stance on #Fukushima waste discharge worrisome
by Shania Shayal Prasad, August 8, 2023
"Civil society organizations are urging Prime Minister #SitiveniRabuka to reevaluate his position regarding #Japan’s intentions to dispose of the #FukushimaDaiichi #Nuclear Plant’s waste into the #PacificOcean.
"Rabuka recently expressed contentment with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s report, which appeared to allay worries about potential harm to the #ocean #environment.
"#Climate activist and Pacific Conference of Churches general secretary Reverend #JamesBhagwan says that they been voicing apprehensions about this matter for several years.
"#ReverendBhagwan claims that this situation coincides with Japan’s increased development assistance to the region. Bhagwan asserts that the credibility of the #IAEA report is being contested.
"These organizations are appealing to the government to reconsider its stance and take a firmer position in advocating for the implementation of secure and sustainable solutions for handling Fukushima’s nuclear waste water."
Source and audio snips: https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/pms-stance-on-fukushima-waste-discharge-worrisome/
#NoDumping #FukushimaWater #TEPCOLies #PacificOcean #WaterIsLife #Corporatism #Corruption #JapanGovernment #IAEALies #IAEAFail #TEPCO
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Interview: #IAEA report on #Fukushima nuke wastewater discharge plan wrong, says #nuclear scientist
"The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) report on #Japan's planned dump of nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is wrong, a Pakistani nuclear scientist said.
"Zafar Koreshi, dean of graduate studies at Air University Pakistan, made the remarks in an interview with Xinhua.
"'I think it's a very favorable treatment to Japan by the IAEA,' Koreshi said. 'It ignored the interest of the local people who are affected by this and the regional countries who are going to be affected by this.'
"So it's legitimate for China, South Korea and other regional countries to demand a joint mechanism in order to get their concerns addressed, Koreshi said.
"Koreshi urged Japan to immediately cease this plan and work with neighboring countries to conduct scientific research and simulations to study the potential effects on marine life."
#Fukushima #FukushimaWater #TEPCOLies #IAEAFail #NoNukes #NoDumping #PacificOcean #WaterIsLife
