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Dark forces lurking behind dishonest TEPCO
Updated 22:00, 12-Jun-2023
"Tokyo Electric Power Company (#TEPCO) announced that facilities used to release the nuclear-#contaminated wastewater from the #FukushimaDaiichi #Nuclear Power Plant into the sea will be put into trial operation on Monday, according to local media outlets. The move is widely seen as a pilot for #Japan's formal dumping plan.
"After TEPCO sent seawater into an underwater tunnel designed to dump the nuclear-contaminated water into the #ocean last week, the marine #fish caught in the harbor of the plant were found to have 180 times the maximum limit of the #radioactive element #caesium allowed in Japan's food safety law.
"Despite this worrying result, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) asserted in a report released on May 31 that TEPCO had demonstrated 'capabilities for accurate and precise measurements of the radionuclides present in the treated water stored on site.' The report concluded that no additional radionuclides at significant levels were detected. The contradicting findings make the public even more concerned about Japan's dumping plan."
"In an interview with Chinese media, #ShaunBurnie, an #environmentalist who has stayed in Japan for almost 30 years, straightforwardly expressed his disagreement with the IAEA's report. TEPCO has only tested 20 percent of the #wastewater tanks, Burnie said. In addition, third-party laboratories in the U.S., Switzerland and South Korea have taken the samples of only 25-liter water (before dilution) each, while there's more than 1.3 million metric tons of nuclear-contaminated water stored in the plant. The amount of samples was unbelievably limited."
#WaterIsLife #Fukushima #StopTEPCO #TEPCOLies #NoDumping #FukushimaWater
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Dark forces lurking behind dishonest TEPCO
Updated 22:00, 12-Jun-2023
"Tokyo Electric Power Company (#TEPCO) announced that facilities used to release the nuclear-#contaminated wastewater from the #FukushimaDaiichi #Nuclear Power Plant into the sea will be put into trial operation on Monday, according to local media outlets. The move is widely seen as a pilot for #Japan's formal dumping plan.
"After TEPCO sent seawater into an underwater tunnel designed to dump the nuclear-contaminated water into the #ocean last week, the marine #fish caught in the harbor of the plant were found to have 180 times the maximum limit of the #radioactive element #caesium allowed in Japan's food safety law.
"Despite this worrying result, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) asserted in a report released on May 31 that TEPCO had demonstrated 'capabilities for accurate and precise measurements of the radionuclides present in the treated water stored on site.' The report concluded that no additional radionuclides at significant levels were detected. The contradicting findings make the public even more concerned about Japan's dumping plan."
"In an interview with Chinese media, #ShaunBurnie, an #environmentalist who has stayed in Japan for almost 30 years, straightforwardly expressed his disagreement with the IAEA's report. TEPCO has only tested 20 percent of the #wastewater tanks, Burnie said. In addition, third-party laboratories in the U.S., Switzerland and South Korea have taken the samples of only 25-liter water (before dilution) each, while there's more than 1.3 million metric tons of nuclear-contaminated water stored in the plant. The amount of samples was unbelievably limited."
#WaterIsLife #Fukushima #StopTEPCO #TEPCOLies #NoDumping #FukushimaWater
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Well, well, well -- guess what? There's more than just #Tritium in that water -- just like with #Fukushima! #Corporations like #TEPCO and #Holtec LOVE to DOWNPLAY what's really in the water they want to dump!
#RocklandCounty Passes Resolution Against Dumping #RadioactiveWater in the #HudsonRiver; Second This Week
Published Mar 9, 2023 Categories
"In a 16-0 vote, the Rockland County Legislature unanimously approved a resolution calling on Governor Hochul and relevant agencies to stop Holtec International from dumping #toxic waste into the Hudson River. Rockland became the second county in the Hudson Valley region to oppose Holtec’s polluting plan, just two days after the #Westchester Board of Legislators took similar action.
"Holtec International, the company in charge of decommissioning the #IndianPoint Nuclear Plant, wants to dump one million gallons of toxic wastewater from the plant’s spent fuel pools into the Hudson River. The company’s waste has several contaminants [NOT JUST TRITIUM LIKE HOLTEC KEEPS SAYING] including #tritium, a radioactive isotope that can lead to cancer when inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin in large quantities. Seven communities and over 100,000 people rely on drinking water from the Hudson River.
"Santosh Nandabalan, Senior New York Organizer with Food & Water Watch issued the following statement: 'To allow the immense discharge of toxic, radioactive waste into New Yorkers’ drinking water is to privilege corporate expediency over public health. One by one, Hudson Valley authorities are taking a stand against Holtec’s ludicrously dangerous proposal. Governor Hochul must take immediate action to safeguard public health and stop Holtec’s scheme.'"
#HudsonRiver #HudsonRiverValley #HudsonValley #Fukushima #NewYork #Japan #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #TEPCOLies #HoltecLies
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Fukushima was no accident
March 10, 2023"The 12th anniversary of the Fukushima Nuclear disaster is an excellent moment for the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to take a long, hard look in the mirror. What it will see is an agency that excels at spinning out talking points about Canada’s 'world class' nuclear industry along with hype about new unproven nuclear technologies. What it won’t see is an agency that rigorously demands answers to difficult questions like just what is happening with long-in-the-tooth pressure tube systems inside decades-old reactors.
"Unfortunately, too many of our political leaders listen to the CNSC’s spin instead of examining the agency’s actions. They are oblivious to the fact that the CNSC has allowed its own requirements for assuring pressure tube integrity to be violated, and that its staff see their job as perpetuating the #nuclear industry in #Canada first and foremost rather than truly demanding the 'world class' safety standards the agency pays lip service to in its communications.
"#Japan has important lessons to teach us about what happens when a regulatory system becomes co-opted into propping up an industry instead of examining its fundamental safety. Far from being the result of 'once in a millennium' event, the conditions for the #Fukushima disaster were sown by lax oversight and a far too cozy relationship between the nuclear industry and its supposed regulators, according to the country’s own legislative assessment. The post-accident examination carried out by the Diet (legislature) of Japan found that there was no separation between nuclear regulation and promotion in the country, with the result that the nuclear industry became 'an unstoppable force, immune to scrutiny by civil society.'"
It also found that: “Despite having a number of opportunities to take measures, regulatory agencies and #TEPCO management deliberately postponed decisions, did not take action, or took decisions that were convenient for themselves.” There are some very worrying parallels between that statement and the refusal of the #CNSC to demand real proof from #Ontario Power Generation and Bruce Power that pressure tube systems are operating within safe limits."
#Fukushima #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #CANDU #NoNewNukes #AtomkraftNeinDanke #AntiAtom #FukushimaAnniversary
Read more:
https://www.cleanairalliance.org/fukushima-was-no-accident/ -
#Fukushima Daiichi Water: The World is Watching… or Should Be
Published on May 6, 2021 by Azby Brown
"In late 2018, however, [#TEPCO] admitted that roughly 80% of the water —890,000 of the 1.1 million tons of treated water then in storage— still contained above-limit levels of #strontium 90, #cobalt 60, #ruthenium 106 and many other #radionuclides that the [ALPS] system had failed to adequately remove. Upon learning that this fact had been intentionally concealed by Tepco, the public was outraged. Those supporting the release plan seem to hope that this massive betrayal of trust has been forgotten."
#NoNukes #FukushimaWater #Fukushima #TEPCOLies #StopTEPCO #OpFukushima #WaterIsLifeRead more:
https://safecast.org/2021/05/fukushima-daiichi-water-the-world-is-watching-or-should-be/