Circolazione di alimenti radioattivi nella UE: i mirtilli

MIRTILLI CONTAMINATI

COMUNICATO STAMPA DI MONDO IN CAMMINO

LA CONTAMINAZIONE RADIOATTIVA NON HA CONFINI… E NEMMENO CONTROLLI!

Un’indagine autonoma condotta dal giornale giapponese Shukan Asahi (poi confermata dall’autorità sanitaria giapponese) ha verificato la presenza di contaminazione da Cesio 137 nella confettura di mirtilli “Fior di frutta” confezionata dall’azienda Rigoni di Asiago.

I mirtilli, riporta l’articolo, sono di provenienza bulgara e viene evocata l’incidenza del fallout di Chernobyl.

Questo riscontro pone degli inquietanti interrogativi sulla circolazione degli alimenti radioattivi nella Comunità Europea e, ancor di più, a livello intercontinentale.

Il paradosso è che mentre ci preoccupiamo della eventuale provenienza di pesce contaminato dall’Oceano Pacifico giapponese sulle nostre tavole, una contaminazione supplementare va invece ad aggravare la situazione radioecologica dei cittadini giapponesi nel campo della catena alimentare, direttamente sui loro deschi.

E’ necessario capire come la circolazione di alimenti contaminati possa avvenire così liberamente e come dalla raccolta al confezionamento non ci siano controlli o come questi, eventualmente, possano essere aggirati.

In secondo luogo, indipendentemente dai valori – qualora questi fossero ricompresi in quelli di norma radioattiva previsti dalla leggi della Comunità Europea o qualora la dose di confettura per contaminarsi fosse “elevata” sulla base delle norme comunitarie ed internazionali -  è doveroso ricordare che il Cesio 137 non esiste in natura, essendo un prodotto dell’attività umana.

Sempre di più, quindi, – oltre ai controlli e alla verifica del rispetto delle norme e delle procedure correlate al trattamento e alla circolazione degli alimenti – è doveroso, necessario ed impellente, nei casi di riscontro di contaminazione da Cesio 137, analizzare il rateo fra Cesio 137 e Cesio 134 per capire se la contaminazione alimentare è riferita a fallout pregressi, o più recenti, senza doverla sempre ricondurre superficialmente o frettolosamente a Chernobyl (che diventa la panacea per tutti i fallout)  o senza correre il rischio (voluto o no?) di potere inavvertitamente rilevare o rivelare fallout più recenti e/o riferiti ad altre cause (come, forse, potrebbe essere per i cinghiali radioattivi o per situazioni più gravi o silenziate come il fallout “ignorato” di Rovello Porro del 1989 (vedi:http://www.progettohumus.it/public/forum/index.php?topic=2101.0).

E’, inoltre, scientificamente risaputo, che il danno da contaminazione è correlato all’azione costante delle basse dosi di radiazione nel tempo e che, quindi, il problema non è fissare a livello comunitario e internazionale delle norme di soglia massima, ma porre delle norme e dei controlli che assicurino una verifica altrettanto costante e puntuale dello stato radioecologico degli alimenti circolanti, ponendo soprattutto particolare attenzione alla selvaggina, ai funghi, ai frutti di bosco, ai prodotti caseari e della pesca correlandoli ad una attenzione ancor più rigorosa dei luoghi di provenienza, sulla base delle mappe delle ricadute globali o a macchia di leopardo, dei fallout di cui si ha certezza, come quello di Chernobyl o altri (Three Mile Islands, Sellafield, Cheliabynsk, Vandellos, Tricastin, Fukushima, ecc.).

Ne va della salute di tutti i cittadini, a livello mondiale.

I riferimenti all’articolo del Shukan Asahi sono a questo link:http://www.progettohumus.it/public/forum/index.php?topic=2154.0

Massimo Bonfatti

Presidente di Mondo in Cammino

Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean

Radioactive Water From Fukushima Is Systematically Poisoning The Entire Pacific Ocean

August 9, 2013   Environment, News Articles, Special Interests, Toxins, US News,World News

 http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/radioactive-water-from-fukushima-is-systematically-poisoning-the-entire-pacific-ocean/#

Right now, a massive amount of highly radioactive water is escaping into the Pacific Ocean from the ruins of the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan.  This has been going on all day, every day for more than two years.  The enormous amounts of tritium, cesium and strontium that are being released are being carried by wind, rain and ocean currents all over the northern Hemisphere.  And of course the west coast of the United States is being hit particularly hard.  When you drink water or eat seafood that has been contaminated with these radioactive particles, they can stick around for a very long time.  Over the coming years, this ongoing disaster could potentially affect the health of millions upon millions of people living in the northern hemisphere, and the sad thing is that a lot of those people will never even know the true cause of their health problems.

For a long time, the Japanese government has been trusting Tepco to handle this crisis, but now it has become abundantly clear that Tepco has no idea what they are doing.  In fact, the flow of radioactive water has gotten so bad that authorities in Japan are now calling it an “emergency”…

Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country’s nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters.

The amount of water that we are talking about is absolutely enormous.  According to Yahoo, 400 metric tons of water is being pumped into the basements of destroyed buildings at Fukushima every single day…

The utility pumps out some 400 metric tons a day of groundwater flowing from the hills above the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant into the basements of the destroyed buildings, which mixes with highly irradiated water that is used to cool the reactors in a stable state below 100 degrees Celsius.

Tepco is trying to prevent groundwater from reaching the plant by building a “bypass” but recent spikes of radioactive elements in sea water has prompted the utility to reverse months of denials and finally admit that tainted water is reaching the sea.

And of course all of that water has to go somewhere.  For a long time Tepco tried to deny that it was getting into the ocean, but now they are  finally admitting that it is…

Tepco said on Friday that a cumulative 20 trillion to 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium had probably leaked into the sea since the disaster. The company said this was within legal limits.

Tritium is far less harmful than cesium and strontium, which have also been released from the plant. Tepco is scheduled to test strontium levels next.

40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have gotten into the Pacific Ocean?

And that is what they are publicly admitting.  The reality is probably far worse.

And all of that tritium is going to be around for a very long time.  You see, the truth is that tritium has a half-life of about 12 years.

But strontium is even worse.  Strontium can cause bone cancer and it has a half-life of close to 29 years.

And now Tepco is admitting that extremely dangerous levels of strontium have been escaping from Fukushima and getting into the underground water.  And of course the underground water flows out into the Pacific Ocean…

Tepco said in late June that it had detected the highly toxic strontium-90, a by-product of nuclear fission that can cause bone cancer if ingested, at levels 30 times the permitted rate.

The substances, which were released by the meltdowns of reactors at the plant in the aftermath of the huge tsunami of March 2011, were not absorbed by soil and have made their way into underground water.

Subsoil water usually flows out to sea, meaning these two substances could normally make their way into the ocean, possibly affecting marine life and ultimately impacting humans who eat sea creatures.

Cesium has an even longer half-life than strontium does.  It has a half life of about 30 years, and according to samples that were taken about a month ago levels of cesium at Fukushima have been spiking dramatically…

Samples taken on Monday showed levels of possibly cancer-causing caesium-134 were more than 90 times higher than they were on Friday, at 9000 becquerels per litre, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) revealed.

Levels of caesium-137 stood at 18 000 becquerels per litre, 86 times higher than at the end of last week, the utility said.

“We still don’t know why the level of radiation surged, but we are continuing efforts to avert further expansion of contamination,” a Tepco spokesperson stated.

When cesium gets into your body, it can do a tremendous amount of damage.  The following is an excerpt from a NewScientist article that described what happens when cesium and iodine enter the human body…

Moreover the human body absorbs iodine and caesium readily. “Essentially all the iodine or caesium inhaled or swallowed crosses into the blood,” says Keith Baverstock, former head of radiation protection for the World Health Organization’s European office, who has studied Chernobyl’s health effects.

Iodine is rapidly absorbed by the thyroid, and leaves only as it decays radioactively, with a half-life of eight days. Caesium is absorbed by muscles, where its half-life of 30 years means that it remains until it is excreted by the body. It takes between 10 and 100 days to excrete half of what has been consumed.

And it is important to keep in mind that it has been estimated thateach spent fuel pool at the Fukushima nuclear complex could have 24,000 times the amount of cesium that was produced by the nuclear bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War 2.

Overall, the Fukushima nuclear facility originally contained a whopping 1760 tons of nuclear material.

That is a massive amount of nuclear material.  Chernobyl only contained 180 tons.

And of course the crisis at Fukushima could be made even worse at any moment by a major earthquake.  In fact, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit northern Japan on Sunday.

This is a nightmare that has no end.  Every single day, massive amounts of highly radioactive water from Fukushima is systematically poisoning the entire Pacific Ocean.  The damage that is being done is absolutely incalculable.

Please share this article with as many people as you can.  The mainstream media does not seem to want to talk about this, but it is a matter that is extremely important to every man, woman and child living in the northern hemisphere of our planet.

Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and has a law degree and an LLM from the University of Florida Law School. He is an attorney that has worked for some of the largest and most prominent law firms in Washington D.C. and who now spends his time researching and writing and trying to wake the American people up. You can follow his work on The Economic Collapse blog, End of the American Dream and The Truth Wins. His new novel entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available onAmazon.com.

Fukushima, TEPCO: it is too difficult to pay for cleanup

Documents show government tacitly accepts TEPCO’s refusal to pay for cleanup
October 27, 2013

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310270048

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the embattled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, declared early this year that it will not repay radioactive cleanup costs in Fukushima Prefecture, forcing taxpayers to shoulder the burden, The Asahi Shimbun has learned.
The government, which did not release TEPCO’s statement, apparently accepts the refusal, in a tacit understanding to prevent the cash-strapped utility from being driven into bankruptcy.
Documents obtained by The Asahi Shimbun through a freedom of information request showed that TEPCO in February made clear its intention not to pay the full cleanup costs.
Under a special measures law designed to deal with radioactive waste, TEPCO is required to pay back costs involved in the decontamination operation that the government shouldered. The government is decontaminating areas around the plant that are highly polluted with radioactive substances.
The Environment Ministry, which is in charge of the cleanup, has asked TEPCO to repay a total of 40.4 billion yen ($415 million).
The utility has repaid 6.7 billion yen to date.
In a document dated Feb. 21 sent to the ministry, TEPCO declined to pay most of the first invoice in November last year.
“The company reached a conclusion that it is too difficult to pay,” the paper stated.
In a reply to the ministry’s request for further explanation on the utility’s refusal to pay, TEPCO listed reasons why it is not repaying the money, totaling 7.4 billion yen for 95 projects, in a document dated Feb. 27.
The total sum the ministry asked the company to pay in that instance was 14.9 billion yen, including the figure in a second bill, involving 118 projects.
TEPCO also suggested that the ministry should consider settling their disagreement over the payment at the science ministry’s center for alternative dispute resolution. The mechanism was set up to mediate between parties that failed to settle compensation claims for damages from the nuclear disaster.
One of the payments TEPCO declined to make is 105 million yen to fund an Environment Ministry preliminary survey ahead of the construction of interim storage facilities to hold radioactive soil removed and other waste in the decontamination effort.
The company refused to pay, saying, “A preliminary survey and other studies are part of the projects that the government should undertake in accordance with its policy line.”
TEPCO also refused to pay 440 million yen for an experimental program that assesses the effectiveness of new decontamination technology and 960 million yen for public relations efforts.
“These steps are not based on the special measures law,” it said.
The Environment Ministry argued in a paper dated March 1 that, “How to interpret the special measures law is within the jurisdiction of the government, and TEPCO has the responsibility of paying.”
But the ministry has yet to take any steps to settling the dispute at the science ministry’s center for alternative dispute resolution. According to one estimate, the cleanup cost will total more than 5 trillion yen.
But TEPCO’s refusal so far to pay the full amount involved in cleanup, and the government's failure to force the payment, showed that there is a tacit understanding between the two parties to prevent the utility from going into bankruptcy.
TEPCO crafted its rebuilding plan on the premise of receiving up to 5 trillion yen in financial assistance from national coffers. But the plan has effectively fallen apart.
The company expects to pay a total of 3.8 trillion yen in damages to affected residents. As of the current fiscal year alone, the government has set aside 1.3 trillion yen for the decontamination operation.
Many experts say they suspect that TEPCO is waiting for the government to finally decide to inject taxpayer money into the decontamination operation by continually refusing to repay the costs the government covered.
Meanwhile, some lawmakers within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are now calling on the government to pick up the cleanup tab on behalf of TEPCO. The industry ministry welcomes the proposal.
On the other hand, the Finance Ministry wants the utility to pay the decontamination costs out of its revenues from increasing electricity rates.
(This article was written by Shinichi Sekine and Toshio Tada.)
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

Fukushima, Yale professor: all of humanity will be threatened

Yale Professor: Fukushima Unit 4 pool in perilous condition — “All of humanity will be threatened for thousands of years” if not able to be kept cool — Danger of collapse during storm or while attempting removal of fuel rods

Published: September 20th, 2013 at 5:26 pm ET
By ENENews 

Title: Fukushima Forever
Source: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (via Huffington Post)
Author: Charles Perrow, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Date: Sept 20, 2013

[...] Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years. [...]

Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario

Published on Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Common Dreams

Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario

In November, TEPCO set to begin to remove fuel rods whose radiation matches the fallout of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs

- Andrea Germanos, staff writer

An operation with potentially "apocalyptic" consequences is expected to begin in a little overtwo weeks from now - "as early as November 8" - at Fukushima's damaged and sinkingReactor 4, when plant operator TEPCO will attempt to remove over 1300 spent fuel rods holding the radiation equivalent of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs from a spent fuel storage tank perched on the reactor's upper floor.

Fukushima Reactor 4While the Reactor 4 building itself did not suffer a meltdown, it did suffer a hydrogen explosion, is now tipping and sinking and has zero ability to withstand another seismic event.

The Japan Times explained:

To remove the rods, TEPCO has erected a 273-ton mobile crane above the building that will be operated remotely from a separate room.

[...] spent fuel rods will be pulled from the racks they are stored in and inserted one by one into a heavy steel chamber while the assemblies are still under water. Once the chamber is removed from the pool and lowered to the ground, it will be transported to another pool in an undamaged building on the site for storage.

Under normal circumstances, such an operation would take little more than three months, but TEPCO is hoping to complete the complicated task within fiscal 2014.

A chorus of voices has been sounding alarm over the never-been-done-at-this-scale plan tomanually remove the 400 tons of spent fuel by TEPCO, who so far has been responsible for mishap after mishap in the ongoing crisis at the crippled nuclear plant.

Arnie Gundersen, a veteran U.S. nuclear engineer and director of Fairewinds Energy Education, warned this summer that "They are going to have difficulty in removing a significant number of the rods," and said that "To jump to the conclusion that it is going to work just fine is quite a leap of logic."  Paul Gunter, MD, Director of the Reactor Oversight Project with Takoma Park, Md.-based Beyond Nuclear, also sounded alarm on Thursday, telling Common Dreams in a statement that "Given the uncertainties of the condition and array of the hundreds of tons of nuclear  fuel assemblies, it will be a risky round of highly radioactive pickup sticks."  Gundersen offered this analogy of the challenging process of removing the spent fuel rods:

If you think of a nuclear fuel rack as a pack of cigarettes, if you pull a cigarette straight up it will come out — but these racks have been distorted. Now when they go to pull the cigarette straight out, it’s going to likely break and release radioactive cesium and other gases, xenon and krypton, into the air. I suspect come November, December, January we’re going to hear that the building’s been evacuated, they’ve broke a fuel rod, the fuel rod is off-gassing. […]

I suspect we’ll have more airborne releases as they try to pull the fuel out. If they pull too hard, they’ll snap the fuel. I think the racks have been distorted, the fuel has overheated — the pool boiled – and the net effect is that it’s likely some of the fuel will be stuck in there for a long, long time.

The Japan Times adds:

Removing the fuel rods is a task usually assisted by computers that know their exact location down to the nearest millimeter. Working virtually blind in a highly radioactive environment, there is a risk the crane could drop or damage one of the rods — an accident that would heap even more misery onto the Tohoku region.

As long-time anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman explained, the

Spent fuel rods must be kept cool at all times. If exposed to air, their zirconium alloy cladding will ignite, the rods will burn and huge quantities of radiation will be emitted. Should the rods touch each other, or should they crumble into a big enough pile, an explosion is possible.

"In the worst-case scenario," RT adds,

the pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and cause an explosion many times worse than in March 2011.

Wasserman says that the plan is so risky it requires a global take-over, an urging Gunter also shared, stating that the "dangerous task should not be left to TEPCO but quickly involve the oversight and management of independent international experts."

Wasserman told Common Dreams that

The bring-down of the fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 may be the most dangerous engineering task ever undertaken.  Every indication is that TEPCO is completely incapable of doing it safely, or of reliably informing the global community as to what's actually happening.  There is no reason to believe the Japanese government could do much better.  This is a job that should only be undertaken by a dedicated team of the world's very best scientists and engineers, with access to all the funding that could be needed.  

The potential radiation releases in this situation can only be described as apocalyptic.  The cesium alone would match the fallout of 14,000 Hiroshima bombs.  If the job is botched, radiation releases could force the evacuation of all humans from the site, and could cause electronic equipment to fail.  Humankind would be forced to stand helplessly by as billions of curies of deadly radiation pour into the air and the ocean.   

As dire as Wasserman's warning sounds, it is echoed by fallout researcher Christina Consolo, who told RT that the worst case scenario could be "a true apocalypse." Gunter's warning was dire as well.

"Time is of the essence as we remain concerned that another earthquake could still topple the damaged reactor building and the nuclear waste storage pond up in its attic," he continued. "This could literally re-ignite the nuclear accident in the open atmosphere and inflame it into hemispheric proportions," said Gunter.

Wasserman says that given the gravity of the situation, the eyes of the world should be upon Fukushima:

This is a question that transcends being anti-nuclear.  The fate of the earth is at stake here and the whole world must be watching every move at that site from now on.  With 11,000 fuel rods scattered around the place, as a ceaseless flow of contaminated water poisoning our oceans, our very survival is on the line.  

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Fukushima: Health effects systematically underestimated

IPPNW press release of 25.10.2013

Doctors: Health effects are systematically underestimated

UNSCEAR report to Fukushimafolgen

http://www.ippnw.de/startseite/artikel/cc6f4c8bd1/aerzte-gesundheitliche-auswirkungen.html

25.10.2013

Today's report by the United Nations Committee on the Consequences of Radiation (UNSCEAR) systematically downplayed the true extent of the health consequences of the Fukushima catastrophe. There is a specific failure information to the public. The criticize IPPNW doctors from Germany, the USA, Switzerland, France, Italy, Nigeria, Malaysia, Egypt and the Netherlands in their analysis of the report.

UNSCEAR indicates that "was to be expected no apparent increase of cancer in the affected population, which may be associated with radiation exposure." Doctors complain that the members of UNSCEAR in its report primarily on information from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), support the operating company TEPCO and the Japanese nuclear authorities. UNSCEAR it blindly relies on the dose to the power plant operators and ignores the numerous reports of manipulations and inconsistencies of these measurements. Neutral, independent institutes and research facilities that assess the critical events in Fukushima and out of higher doses of radiation are ignored.

Instead of taking the accounts of WHO as the basis for dose calculation, the UNSCEAR refers to little reliable whole-body measurements of individual isotopes and thus expects the total dose to the population small. The increased radiosensitivity of the unborn child is not taken into account in the calculations as recent radiobiological and genetic findings on the medical consequences of low-level radiation. UNSCEAR confirmed that it will lead to increased cancer cases indicates, however, that this will not be noticeable in the statistics and can not be clearly linked to the radioactive fallout - a strategy for how they pursued the cigarette corporations and the asbestos industry for decades.

Us as physicians is the health of our patients at heart. Everyone has the right to health and to live in a healthy environment. The residents of the contaminated areas is currently being denied this basic human right. Each case of cancer is one too many, and if, as must be several additional tens of thousands of cancer cases expected by the radioactive radiation in Fukushima, it's cynical and inappropriate to reduce the entitlement concerns and health risks of residents on a statistical problem . now is scientifically accepted that every even the smallest amount of radioactive radiation can cause cancer. There is no threshold dose below which radiation is harmless. Chronic exposure to radioactivity can lead to leukemias, lymphomas and solid tumors, as well as cardiovascular disease, cataracts and autoimmune diseases.

For decades, it is known that children, especially unborn children have a greatly increased radiosensitivity. For this reason, doctors try wherever possible to protect children and pregnant women from unnecessary radiation exposure. Due to the multiple meltdowns at Fukushima large amounts of radiation were set free and distributed by radioactive clouds.Only by good luck and the right wind direction of the metropolis Tokyo was spared a massive radiation. In the surrounding prefectures people but since more than 2 ½ years, increased radiation levels are exposed. The authorities can not protect people adequately.Iodine tablets for prophylaxis were not distributed, increasing the annual allowable radiation exposure limit for children to 20 mSv. Radioactive "hot spots" along school routes and at the edge of playgrounds and schoolyards are only marked with pennants and the consumption of products from Fukushima supported with locally patriotic campaigns - even in school canteens.

And the nuclear disaster is still ongoing: the unprotected power plant ruins still represent a major hazard and must continue to be intensively cooled. By undetected leaks continue to be flushed every day hundreds of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific. It is scientifically dubious, to draw from the data of one to two years, definitive conclusions about the coming decades and to give the all clear how the UNSCEAR report does . Already had to be operated on and treated for thyroid cancer in Fukushima 18 children in 25 other cases, biopsies have also shown a suspicion of cancer. Would be expected in a comparable population of just a single case. A connection with the nuclear disaster seems plausible.The further development (not only of thyroid cancer cases) must be well observed in the next decades. People must have the right to see their medical records and get a second opinion. Both are currently denied them. Also mainly young families and pregnant women need support to learn by themselves due to health concerns, decide to leave the contaminated areas. Instead, they are being encouraged to stay with elaborate campaigns and ineffective decontamination experiments. During the debate on the health consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster is about more than just the principle of independent research, the influence of powerful lobby groups are not leaning. It is also and above all the human right to health and a healthy environment. That's why we put the doctors report the nuclear lobby against our own critical response. IPPNW The full English commentary on the UNSCEAR report is available online Statement by Dr. Angelika Claussen, see Wilmen, spokesperson of the IPPNW, Tel 030-69 80 74-15,

Dr. Alex roses, roses [at] ippnw.de , German Section of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Physicians for Social Responsibility (IPPNW), Körtestr. 10, 10967 Berlin, www.ippnw.de , Email: Wilmen [at] ippnw.de

Fukushima: 100 volte Cernobil

Fukushima, un disastro nucleare superiore 100 volte Chernobyl

http://www.articolotre.com/2013/10/fukushima-un-disastro-nucleare-superiore-100-volte-chernobyl/217930

-Redazione- Il disastro ambientale è senza precedenti ed è in costante peggioramento.

Il Nord America è bombardato dalle radiazioni nucleari di Fukushima con rischio sempre crescente per le popolazioni. Ogni giorno 300 tonnellate di acque contaminata affluisce nell’Oceano Pacifico e i tecnici parlano di almeno quarant’anni per ripulire il disastro nucleare, quarant’anno di esposizione a livelli elevatissimi di radiazioni nucleari. Quel che si dà per certo che le radiazioni sopravviveranno a noi con un margine molto ampio sempre che si abbia la buona sorte di non ammalarsi di cancro.

Queste comunque le conseguenze stimate e la situazione attuale.

1. Gli orsi polari, foche e trichechi lungo la costa dell'Alaska sono affetti da perdita di pelo e ferite aperte …

Esperti della fauna selvatica stanno studiando se la perdita di pelo e ferite aperte rilevati in nove orsi polari nelle ultime settimane è diffusa e correlata ad incidenti simili tra foche e trichechi.

Gli orsi, 33 avvistati, sono stati trovati pressi di Barrow, in Alaska, durante il lavoro di indagine di routine lungo la costa artica. I test hanno mostrato che avevano "alopecia o perdita di pelo e altre lesioni cutanee", l'US Geological Survey ha detto in una dichiarazione .

2. C'è una epidemia di leoni marini morti lungo la costa della California. Al rookeries isola al largo della costa della California del Sud, il 45 per cento dei cuccioli nati nel mese di giugno sono morti, ha detto Sharon Melin, un biologo della fauna selvatica per il National Marine Fisheries Service con sede a Seattle.Normalmente, meno di un terzo dei cuccioli sarebbero morti. E 'diventato così pessima la situazione nelle ultime due settimane che la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ha dichiarato un "evento insolito di mortalità."

3. Lungo la costa del Pacifico del Canada e dell'Alaska, la popolazione di salmone rosso è a un minimo storico . Molti stanno incolpando Fukushima.

4. Qualcosa sta causando a molte specie di pesce lungo la costa ovest del Canada il sanguinamento dalle loro branchie, pance e bulbi oculari .

5. Un vasto campo di detriti radioattivi da Fukushima, che è circa la dimensione della California ha attraversato l'Oceano Pacifico e sta iniziando a entrare in collisione con la costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti.

6. Viene previsto che la radioattività delle acque costiere al largo della costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti potrebbe raddoppiare nel corso dei prossimi 5-6 anni.

7. Gli esperti hanno scoperto livelli  molto elevati di cesio-137 nel plancton che vive nelle acque dell'Oceano Pacifico tra le Hawaii e la costa occidentale.

8. Un test in California, ha scoperto che 15 su 15 dei tonni rossi esaminati sono stati contaminati con radiazioni da Fukushima.

9. Già nel 2012, il Vancouver Sun ha riferito che il cesio-137 veniva trovato in una percentuale molto alta dei pesci che il Giappone stava vendendo in Canada …

• 73 per cento di sgombro testato

• 91 per cento del halibut

• il 92 per cento delle sardine

• 93 per cento del tonno e anguilla

• 94 per cento del merluzzo e acciughe

• 100 per cento della carpa, alghe marine, squali e coda di rospo

10. Autorità canadesi stanno trovando livelli estremamente elevati di radiazioni nucleari in alcuni campioni di pesce . Alcuni campioni di pesce testati fino ad oggi hanno avuto livelli molto alti di radiazioni: un campione di branzino raccolto nel mese di luglio, per esempio, ha avuto 1.000 becquerel per chilogrammo di cesio.

11. Alcuni esperti ritengono che abbiamo potuto vedere casi elevati di cancro lungo la costa occidentale solo da persone che mangiano pesce contaminato . Daniel Hirsch, docente di politica nucleare presso l'Università di California-Santa Cruz, ha detto Global Security Newswire . "Potremmo avere un gran numero di tumori da ingestione di pesce."

12. BBC News ha recentemente riportato che i livelli di radiazioni intorno Fukushima sono " 18 volte più elevato "di quanto si credesse.

13. Uno studio finanziato dall'UE ha concluso che Fukushima ha rilasciato fino ad ora 210 quadrilioni becquerel di cesio-137 in atmosfera.

14. La radiazione atmosferica da Fukushima ha raggiunto la costa occidentale degli Stati Uniti nel giro di pochi giorni nel 2011.

15. A questo punto, 300 tonnellate di acqua contaminata si riversano nell'Oceano Pacifico da Fukushima ogni singolo giorno.

16. Un ricercatore di chimica marina dell'Agenzia giapponese di Meteorological Research Institute del dice che "30 miliardi di becquerel di cesio radioattivo e 30 miliardi di becquerel di stronzio radioattivo" vengono rilasciate nell'Oceano Pacifico da Fukushima ogni singolo giorno .

17. Secondo la Tepco, un totale compreso tra 20 mila miliardi e 40.000 miliardi di becquerel di trizio radioattivo sono stati riversati nell'Oceano Pacifico dopo il disastro di Fukushima.

18. Secondo un professore dell'Università di Tokyo, 3 gigabecquerels di cesio-137 scorrono nella porta di Fukushima Daiichi ogni singolo giorno .

19. Si stima che, rispetto a Chernobyl,  fino a 100 volte di più di radiazioni nucleari sono state rilasciate in mare a Fukushima rispetto a quanto è stato rilasciato durante l'intero disastro di Chernobyl.

20. Uno studio recente ha concluso che un grande aggregato di cesio-137 dal disastro di Fukushima inizierà a fluire nelle acque costiere degli Stati Uniti all'inizio del prossimo anno . Simulazioni oceaniche hanno mostrato che la massa di cesio radioattivo-137 rilasciato dal disastro di Fukushima nel 2011 potrebbe iniziare a scorre nelle acque costiere degli Stati Uniti a partire nei primi mesi del 2014 con un picco nel 2016.

21. Viene previsto che livelli significativi di cesio-137 si raggiungeranno in ogni angolo del Pacifico entro il 2020 .

22. Viene previsto che l'intero Oceano Pacifico sarà presto contaminato con "livelli di cesio da 5 a 10 volte superiore" rispetto a quello che abbiamo visto durante l'epoca di pesanti prove di bombe atomiche nell'oceano Pacifico molti decenni fa.

23. Le immense quantità di radiazioni nucleari entrati in acqua nel Pacifico hanno indotto l'ambientalista-attivista Joe Martino ad emettere il seguente avviso ."I vostri giorni fatti di mangiare pesce dell'Oceano Pacifico sono finiti."

24. Lo iodio-131, cesio-137 e stronzio-90 che sono costantemente in arrivo da Fukushima stanno andando a influenzare la salute di coloro che vivono nell'emisfero nord per un tempo molto, molto lungo. Basta considerare quello che Harvey Wasserman aveva da dire su questo . “Lo Iodio-131, per esempio, può essere ingerito nella tiroide, dove emette particelle beta (elettroni) che danni tissutali. Una piaga di tiroidi danneggiate è già stato segnalato tra ben il 40 per cento dei bambini nella zona di Fukushima. Tale percentuale non può che andare più in alto. In via di sviluppo tra i giovani, può arrestare la crescita sia fisica che mentale. Tra gli adulti che provoca una vasta gamma di disturbi secondari, tra cui il cancro”.

25. Secondo un recente rapporto di Infowars Planet , la costa della California si sta trasformando in una "zona morta" .

26. Uno studio condotto l'anno scorso è giunto alla conclusione che le radiazioni dal disastro nucleare di Fukushima potrebbe influenzare negativamente la vita umana lungo la costa occidentale del Nord America dal Messico all'Alaska "per decenni".

27. Secondo il Wall Street Journal, la pulizia di Fukushima potrebbe richiedere fino a 40 anni per il completamento .

28.Il professore di Yale Charles Perrow avverte che se la pulizia di Fukushima non viene gestita con il 100% di precisione, l'umanità potrebbe essere minacciata per "migliaia di anni ". "Le condizioni della piscina dell'unità, a 100 metri dal suolo, sono pericolose, e se due aste qualsiasi dovessero toccarsi potrebbero provocare una reazione nucleare che sarebbe incontrollabile. La radiazione emessa da tutte queste sbarre, se non sono continuamente al fresco e mantenute separate, richiederebbe l'evacuazione delle zone circostanti Tokyo. A causa della radiazione presso il sito dove sono contenute 6375 barre nel lotto in comune, se non venissero raffreddate continuamente, le conseguenze potrebbero essere un processo di fissione che minaccerebbe l'umanità per migliaia di anni ".