Japan Discovers Plutonium Far From Crippled Reactor

[ensho]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576604013365441594.html


Trace amounts of plutonium were found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, the first time that the dangerous element released from the accident was found outside of the immediate area of the plant.

The science ministry report issued Friday comes just as the government lifted one of its evacuation advisories, underscoring the difficulty of restoring normalcy and assuring the safety of residents around the crippled plant.

The government also reported a rare detection of strontium, another highly dangerous element, far from the crippled reactor, in one spot as far away as 50 miles.
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the dead forever zone gets bigger all the time

[MoonRiver]

1. And yet Japan has the means to continue it's illegal poaching of whales

in the Southern Ocean. Can't let Sea Shepherd "win," doncha know. :eyes:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. what the fuck does one have to do with the other?

talk about pulling shit out of your ass...

sP

[MoonRiver]

8. Japan needs to put every cent it has toward protecting its citizens from nuclear disaster.

It shouldn't be wasting taxpayer money on something that is not only a losing proposition, profitable only to the mafia that backs it, but is barbaric and cruel.

[RC]

3. You can find those same trace amounts of plutonium and strontium in places here in the United States

Does that mean Fukushima is killing the Earth over here too? No, it means open air atom bomb testing during the 50's.
It seems to me there were a couple of open air test in Japan in the mid 40's that we did.

[Harmony Blue]

4. I don't agree at all

The trace amounts being found in Japan is unusual and not consistent with open air atom bombing.

[ThomWV]

5. You're part right and part wrong.

They very well may be consistent but that's not the point. The poster is right that there are places, quite a few of them actually, where the levels are abnormally high here too. You ever hear of Hanford or the Savannah River site, the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, or the Nevada test site? There is a place not 30 miles from the center of Denver, CO that although "completely decontaminated" by the Department of Energy is so hot that no rational human being would ever set foot on it.

For whatever its worth our country has lost more plutonium in the pipe lines while processing it than has ever existed in the country of Japan.

[Harmony Blue]

6. The difference is

we know of those hot sites. Expect more "surprises" to come in the coming months out of Japan. The poster tried to paint a picture that is normal, which it clearly is not. If it was, it wouldn't come as a surprise.

[madokie]

7. The dead forever zone keeps growing is right

It hasn't been that long ago that I was reading that there wasn't either released. Sounds like we've been lied to again

[Harmony Blue]

10. I really, really want to believe that this recent find

has nothing to do with the disaster from last spring, but it doesn't seem that way.

[PearliePoo2]

9. Now, in order to get rid of the radioactive rubble, they are going to BURN it.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110929p2a00m0na010000c.html

From the article:
There is far more rubble in areas hit by the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant than local bodies can dispose of. Moreover, due to radiation fears, little progress has been made in efforts to dispose of such waste.

The metropolitan government intends to transport approximately 500,000 metric tons of rubble to facilities in the capital and dispose of them over a 2 1/2-year period from this coming October to March 2014.

Here's what Arnie Gunderson has to say about the BURN plan:

Lots of serious ramifications from burning of nuclear waste
Material from Fukushima that was on the ground is now going airborne again
Towns now getting cesium redeposited on them by the burning of nuclear material
Clouds of radiation recontaminating areas deemed clean or low
Continues across to the Pacific Northwest
We are basically recreating Fukushima all over again.