The crisis at Fukushima has converted me to the cause of nuclear power. But Monbiot shows—as does this map—that even world-class disasters can inspire optimism rather than despair. Skate, a variety of ray, that was caught over 180 feet deep, was found with 161 Becquerels-per-kilogram of radioactive cesium-137, exceeding the allowable limit of 100. Likewise in the United States, in April 2014 the Oregon Statesman Journal reported on a study by Oregon State University that found that Fukushima radiation in albacore tuna caught off the Oregon coast tripled after the 2011 meltdown. How did Fukushima … Radiation levels … The most problematic marine organisms were those found in the harbor near the plant, but the levels of radioactivity in that area reduce exponentially as one moves away from the area. As this map suggests, we've lost the greatest body of water to radioactive pollution—a loss too great to contemplate.As the latest installment in climatological apocalyptica—a genre so dystopian that some still insist it should be classified as fiction rather than fact—the report merely added to the long list of dismal dispatches from the front line of our losing war with the future. Storage tanks for radioactive water are seen at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Nov. 13. "Full map, with legend specifying the nature of the data: wave amplitudes from the tsunami.Join Maria Konnikova live at 11am EDT tomorrow on Big Think!Scientists used CT scanning and 3D-printing technology to re-create the voice of Nesyamun, an ancient Egyptian priest. "I just keep asking myself: Why don't I care about this?
Ocean Monitoring - In late 2015, ocean monitoring by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), a marine research organization, detected very small amounts of radioactivity from the 2011 Fukushima incident 1,600 miles west of San Francisco. Maybe divine intervention? The reactors began to explode and melt down. Greenpeace issued a report Jan. 22, 2019 condemning the plan, reminding the public that the owners/operators of Fukushima — Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) — admitted in 2018 that its waste water treatment system (the Advanced Liquid Processing System or ALPS) had failed. The radioactivity levels are rarely a cause for concern.A: When you talk about radioactivity, people get nervous. ... Talk naturally turned to the Pacific Ocean, and to the drastic and long-term effects of radiation, Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, all the nuclear reactors that sit on rivers here and elsewhere, subject to earthquake, and flood. It is in the soil, it is in concrete, which is in our building walls, it is in the food—wherever we are, there is potassium and a small fraction of that is radioactive potassium. “The Pacific Ocean is an enormous place,” said Norman, who found radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power in California rainwater, milk and plants soon after the earthquake and tsunami. I think it's because they keep telling us we're going to lose everything. I have been thinking in the back of my mind about this….geez the world is dying and not much we can do about it either. The magnitude-9 earthquake, and the tsunami it caused on March 11, 2011, left more than 27,500 people dead or missing in northeast Japan, and triggered the largest release of radioactivity to the ocean in history. The Japanese fishing community and nuclear watchdog groups are raising alarms over government plans to dump into the Pacific over 1-million tons of highly contaminated waste water from three devastated nuclear reactors at Fukushima. “In late September [2018], Tepco was forced to admit that around 80% of the water stored at the Fukushima site still contains radioactive substances above legal levels…” the Telegraph said. TEPCO has admitted for example that in several of the storage tanks, levels of deadly, long-lived strontium-90 are 20,000 times the allowable limit levels set by the government. There are also other naturally occurring radioactive isotopes that have been on planet Earth long before life occurred.Science X Network offers the most comprehensive sci-tech news coverage on the webA: Yes, but again, it is important to understand the contaminant and the situation. How bad was the radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster in Japan? "The so-called Holy Fire at Elsinore Lake in California, September 2018.The map surfaced in 2013, when Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) warned that highly radioactive water from the destroyed nuclear plant at Fukushima was seeping into the Pacific Ocean, creating an emergency that operator Tepco seemed unable to contain.Humanity is the proverbial frog in the pot. I’m amazed people on the west coast still eat from their ocean.So it came as no surprise to me when I saw this post in my newsfeed this, morning. Media representatives were invited in to the facility for the first time since the incident just this past November, as Fukushima University researchers measured radiation levels inside.