Sunday, December 1, 2019

Radioactive Water Leaks Ongoing at Fukushima Daiichi



Yan, Li (2019, November 29). Possible radioactive water leak at Japan's crisis hit Fukushima nuke plant. ECNS. Available: http://www.ecns.cn/news/society/2019-11-29/detail-ifzrhrks8237089.shtml
The operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan said Thursday that radioactive rainwater may be leaking into the ground through an exhaust stack.  According to Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), rainwater leaving the ducts of one of the crippled plant's 120-meter tall exhaust stacks contains high levels of radioactive materials.

Below find an example of the type of exhaust pipe at issue:



Fukushima Daiichi is an ongoing nuclear disaster.


No doubt it is for this reason that so many religious leaders condemn nuclear power. It is antithetical to life, as illustrated here:
Wells, Christopher (2109). Pope to victims of Japan’ s ‘triple disaster’: We are part of one another. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2019-11/pope-to-victims-of-triple-disaster-we-are-part-of-one-another.html
Pope to victims of Japan's "triple disaster": We are part of one another.

Pope Francis meets with victims of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that struck the Japanese city of Fukushima in 2011.... Reflecting especially on the accident at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Pope Francis said that in addition to scientific and medical concerns, “there is also the immense challenge of restoring the fabric of society”. This, he said, raises the issue of concerns about the continued use of nuclear power; and he noted the Japanese Bishops call for the abolition of nuclear power plants. In an age that “is tempted to make technological progress the measure of human progress”, he said it is important to pause and reflect on “who we are… and who we want to be”.



3 comments:

  1. Ukrainian Nazis in Hong Kong Victory or Valhalla
    CHINA, HONG KONG, UKRAINE December 4, 2019
    Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement


    https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/04/ukrainian-nazis-hong-kong-protests/#more-17393

    HONG KONG SEPARATISTS HAVE SET PEOPLE ON FIRE . SHOT PEOPLE WITH BOWS AND ARROWS. SET OF BOMBS. BURNED CARS.  NOW THEY HAVE NAZI MILITIAISTS FLYING IN FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.

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  2. Good article. Now they want to saturate us with 5 G.
    Organophosphates irreversibly bond to brain tissue. Other form free radicals like ionizing radiation does. The 5 G will also catalyze chemical reactions in peoples bodies and in the environment. Insane!

    Numerous studies showing pancreatic cancer and uranium, thorium, polonium in the the usa.
    https://www.clarku.edu/search/?q=pancreatic+cancer+uranium

    pdfs on radionuclides and pancreatic cancer


    plutonium in denver. Think drinking water. Uranium places. Nuclear complexes. Fracking. Nuke reactors. Bomb test sites. Depleted Utanium fon army sites. LANL by Santa Fe. Hanford. San Onofre. Paducah, Rocky Flats. The west Usa and all the reactors on the others side of the Mississippi

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  3. Now that we know that at least 170 million people in the USA are exposed to sigificant amounts of uranium and radium in drinking water. Probably accounts for surges in female reproductive problems. Especially Uterine Fibroids and menopausal complications.

    https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.9910
    Vol. 115, No. 12 Research
    Drinking Water with Uranium below the U.S. EPA Water Standard Causes Estrogen Receptor–Dependent Responses in Female Mice

    Stefanie Raymond-Whish, Loretta P. Mayer, Tamara O’Neal, Alisyn Martinez, Marilee A. Sellers, Patricia J. Christian, Samuel L. Marion, Carlyle Begay, Catherine R. Propper, Patricia B. Hoyer, and Cheryl A. Dyer
    Published:1 December 2007
    https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.9910
    Cited by:44
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    Abstract

    Background
    The deleterious impact of uranium on human health has been linked to its radioactive and heavy metal–chemical properties. Decades of research has defined the causal relationship between uranium mining/milling and onset of kidney and respiratory diseases 25 years later.

    Objective
    We investigated the hypothesis that uranium, similar to other heavy metals such as cadmium, acts like estrogen.

    Methods
    In several experiments, we exposed intact, ovariectomized, or pregnant mice to depleted uranium in drinking water [ranging from 0.5 μg/L (0.001 μM) to 28 mg/L (120 μM).

    Results
    Mice that drank uranium-containing water exhibited estrogenic responses including selective reduction of primary follicles, increased uterine weight, greater uterine luminal epithelial cell height, accelerated vaginal opening, and persistent presence of cornified vaginal cells. Coincident treatment with the antiestrogen ICI 182,780 blocked these responses to uranium or the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol. In addition, mouse dams that drank uranium-containing water delivered grossly normal pups, but they had significantly fewer primordial follicles than pups whose dams drank control tap water.

    Conclusions
    Because of the decades of uranium mining/milling in the Colorado plateau in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest, the uranium concentration and the route of exposure used in these studies are environmentally relevant. Our data support the conclusion that uranium is an endocrine-disrupting chemical and populations exposed to environmental uranium should be followed for increased risk of fertility problems and reproductive cancers.

    Uranium, the heaviest naturally occurring element, is valued for its radioactive properties. Development of nuclear weapons in the 1940s fueled the U.S. government’s desire to become independent of foreign sources of U (Ball 1993; Moure-Eraso 1999; Panikkar and Brugge 2007). The U “boom” in the southwestern United States lasted from the early 1950s until the market collapsed in 1971, when the U.S. government ceased being the sole purchaser of U ore (Brugge and Goble 2002).

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