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Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know
National Geographic ^ | 7 August, 2013 | Patrick J. Kiger

Posted on 08/11/2013 8:50:30 AM PDT by Errant

Tensions are rising in Japan over radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a breach that has defied the plant operator's effort to gain control.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday called the matter “an urgent issue” and ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up, following an admission by Tokyo Electric Power Company that water is seeping past an underground barrier it attempted to create in the soil. The head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority task force told Reuters the situation was an "emergency."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: daiichi; energy; food; fukushima; nuclearplant; nuclearpower; radiation; watersupply
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"3 years for contamination to reach U.S. coast from Fukushima, scientist estimates"

If you can't trust National Geographic, who can you trust?

1 posted on 08/11/2013 8:50:32 AM PDT by Errant
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So. I’m guessing the prudent thing to do is stop all that exotic Sushi crap. Maybe think more about inland farm bred salmon over the ‘wild caught’ stuff. Forget tuna, forget albacore from the pacific.. All those other Hawaii mahi mahi (sp)...I dunno...

If it don’t get hushed up, it’s gonna be one big ecological freakshow for the Greenies - or will it [what’s gonna be in it for them, now?]


2 posted on 08/11/2013 8:54:29 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Errant
Godzilla will be attacking Japan soon !!!
3 posted on 08/11/2013 8:54:55 AM PDT by celmak
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To: Errant

How many Nuclear submarines have been sunk by accident with operating nuclear reactors.With the number of subs that have gone down I don’t see a reason to panic.

How much radiation is being emitted by those reactors is a wild guess but governments have’nt been worrying much.


4 posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:09 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: celmak

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.


5 posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Considering that quite a lot of tsunami flotsam is already here, I would suspect that some of the radiation is, as well. Is our fleet catching radioactive tuna this season?


6 posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:38 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Gaffer

For me, it’s north Atlantic and southern hemisphere salmon. ;)


7 posted on 08/11/2013 8:56:57 AM PDT by Errant
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>>Maybe think more about...

Aquaponics

http://www.foodpatriots.com/farmedhere-aquaponics-system/

http://foodmachine.org/how-it-works/


8 posted on 08/11/2013 8:57:33 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: Rio
Considering that quite a lot of tsunami flotsam is already here, I would suspect that some of the radiation is, as well. Is our fleet catching radioactive tuna this season?


9 posted on 08/11/2013 8:57:57 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Errant

One day soon, this will all approach a “there’s mercury in fish” level...


10 posted on 08/11/2013 8:59:44 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Errant~:" For me, it’s north Atlantic and southern hemisphere salmon. ;)"

All the more reason to push for elgislation for all foods to be labeled with "Country of Origin"

11 posted on 08/11/2013 9:00:29 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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I’m sure thinking that anything wild caught off the west coast will be eschewed. Good luck Seattle Fish Market....


12 posted on 08/11/2013 9:01:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

elgislation = legislation >br>
Not enough coffee reached the fingers yet !


13 posted on 08/11/2013 9:01:45 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ((Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison))
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To: Errant

Russians regularly dump radio water in sands where it gets dissipated. It would be more dangerous as an aerosol like Chernobyle, imo.

If anything distribute tablets of KI .... WHICH THE FRENCH PUBLIC SOCIALIST HEALTH SYSTEM REFUSED TO DO OUT OF INTERNATIONAL DEFERENCE TO THE SOVIETS (AND PREVENTED) MAKING COUNTLESS MILLIONS SICK CUZ THEY DID NOT WANT TO GIVE CREDIT TO US’s SUPPLYING IT TO GERMANS, DESTROYING US MISSION.

... one of the many health scandal/murders of the so called french obamacare (hemophiliac aids scandal and the heat wave are two others, which refused to cooperate with US screening and refrigeration contractors.


14 posted on 08/11/2013 9:02:32 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: puppypusher
How many Nuclear submarines have been sunk by accident with operating nuclear reactors.

Eight: List of sunken nuclear submarines

Not all of them were operating. At least 2 were shut down, but not defueled.

15 posted on 08/11/2013 9:03:56 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
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To: Errant
I seriously doubt it will come anywhere close to the amounts Russian dumped directly into the oceans. Russian Ocean Dumping
16 posted on 08/11/2013 9:05:24 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (sue the DNC for the IRS abuse! Can RICO laws be used against the DNC?)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
All the more reason to push for elgislation for all foods to be labeled with "Country of Origin"

I refuse to purchase any meat that isn't so labeled. The problem though, are they telling the truth. Maybe we just need to strengthen the laws concerning false advertisement. That could be done on state levels with mandatory prison sentences.

17 posted on 08/11/2013 9:07:51 AM PDT by Errant
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To: Gaffer

Adapt or die.


18 posted on 08/11/2013 9:09:25 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Hope you’re right, and that they find a way to contain it ASAP...


19 posted on 08/11/2013 9:11:01 AM PDT by Errant
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To: justlurking

That’s a lot of nuclear material sitting on the ocean floor.


20 posted on 08/11/2013 9:12:57 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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