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re Japan plans to flush Fukushima water 'containing radioactive material above permitted levels' into the ocean

From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:56:03 +0900




Begin forwarded message:

From: "Jess H. Brewer" <jess () jick net>
Date: October 17, 2018 13:11:10 JST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Japan plans to flush Fukushima water 'containing radioactive material above permitted levels' into 
the ocean
Reply-To: jess () jick net

The part about "non-detect" levels is certainly a fabrication.  It is easy to detect radioactivity levels thousands 
of times lower than are worth worrying about, so they would be insane to waste the effort to attempt to make the 
contaminants "undetectable".  Even governments know this.  This renders the entire report suspicious.

On 10/16/2018 05:22 PM, DAVID FARBER wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

*From:* the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff () iconia com <mailto:geoff () iconia com>>
*Date:* October 17, 2018 at 6:39:44 AM GMT+9
*To:* the Interesting Stuff list <is () iconia com <mailto:is () iconia com>>
*Subject:* *IS: Japan plans to flush Fukushima water 'containing radioactive material above permitted levels' into 
the ocean*

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/16/japan-plans-flush-fukushima-water-containing-radioactive-material/
EXCERPT:

   _Water that the Japanese government is planning to release into
   the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear
   plant contains radioactive material well above legally permitted
   levels_, according to the plant’s operator and documents seen by
   The Telegraph.

   The government is running out of space to store contaminated
   water that has come into contact with fuel that escaped from
   three nuclear reactors after the plant was destroyed in the March
   2011 earthquake and tsunami that struck north-east Japan.

   Its plan to release the approximately 1.09 million tons of water
   currently stored in 900 tanks into the Pacific has triggered a
   fierce backlash from local residents and environmental
   organisations, as well as groups in South Korea and Taiwan
   fearful that radioactivity from the second-worst nuclear disaster
   in history might wash up on their shores.

   Tokyo Electric Power Co., (Tepco) which runs the plant, has until
   recently claimed that the only significant contaminant in the
   water is safe levels of tritium, which can be found in small
   amounts in drinking water, but is dangerous in large amounts.

   The government has promised that all other radioactive material
   is being reduced to “non-detect” levels by the sophisticated
   Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS) operated by the nuclear
   arm of Hitachi Ltd.

   Documents provided to The Telegraph by a source in the Japanese
   government suggest, however, that the ALPS has consistently
   failed to eliminate a cocktail of other radioactive elements,
   including iodine, ruthenium, rhodium, antimony, tellurium, cobalt
   and strontium...

[...]

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