Japan “lying through their teeth”: Suzuki

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Japan “lying through their teeth”: Suzuki | News1130

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It’s a stark warning from Canada’s most famous environmental crusader about Japan’s damaged nuclear plants: David Suzuki suggests a big chunk of North America might need to be evacuated if Fukushima prefecture is hit by another big earthquake.

At a recent water ecology symposium in Alberta, Suzuki claimed the Japanese government has been “lying though their teeth” about the extent of the disaster caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011.

“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine,” he said, in a video posted on YouTube (posted below).

“Three out of the four plants were destroyed in 2011 and the fourth has been so badly damaged that the fear is that if there’s another earthquake seven or above, that building will go and all hell breaks loose.”

Suzuki says the probability of a magnitude 7.0 or above earthquake in the region within the next three years is over 95 per cent, putting more than 1,300 spent fuel rods at risk in the fourth building at Fukushima.

“They have to be kept in water all the time and they have no way of getting it out. As you know, they are pouring water in and that water is leaking out. Now they have a cockamamie scheme of trying to freeze the soil to form a frozen wall. They don’t know what to do. We need to gather an international group of experts to go in with complete freedom to do what they suggest. Right now the Japanese government has too much pride to admit that,” says Suzuki.

“I have seen a paper which says that if, in fact, the fourth plant goes in an earthquake and those rods are exposed, it’s ‘Bye, bye Japan’ and everybody on the west coast of North America should evacuate.”

Operators of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) announced plans yesterday to begin the painstaking and dangerous process of removing the fuel rods from the crippled reactor.

The Fukushima meltdown in 2011 is the second-worst nuclear accident in history, after Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union in 1986.

The cost of the decontamination efforts so far has surpassed $50 billion US.

 

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More lies from their PM:

Did Abe Lie To Olympic Committee About Fukushima Safety?
by Beth on Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Did Abe Lie To Olympic Committee About Fukushima Safety? - japanCRUSH



This Mainichi Shimbun article, which disputes the authenticity of remarks made by Prime Minister Abe during his final presentation for the Tokyo Olympic bid, where Abe reassured the IOC over the safety of contaminated water leaks from the Fukushima dai-ichi nuclear reactor.

The article was the most shared article on Facebook today, with almost 16,000 shares.

From Mainichi Shimbun:

[Prime Minister Abe] Remarks That Contaminated Water Will Be “Completely Blocked” Shows Difference Of Opinion With TEPCO

There have been doubts that “Abe is not reporting the situation honestly” over the Prime Minister’s remarks on the issue of contaminated water at the Fukushima dai-ichi reactor, where he stated that “[the contaminated water] has been completely blocked” and that “it is under control” during the presentation for the Japanese Olympic bid at the general meeting of the International Olympic Committee held in Buenos Aires on September 7.

At a TEPCO press conference held on September 9, there were a series of questions from the press demanding data to corroborate the Prime Minister’s remarks. After the spokesperson had responded that “we want to stabilise the situation as quickly as possible”, the reply showed a difference in the government’s awareness of the situation, as was made clear by journalists inquiring about the true meaning of Abe’s remarks.

In the harbour (0.3 km square), which is surrounded by a breakwater, a sea-facing impermeable wall has been built in order to prevent the contaminated water from flowing into the sea, and an underwater curtain, known as a “silt fence” has been set-up to prevent a contamination outbreak in the harbour itself. Moreover, improvement works have been instigated to harden the soil in the protective embankment using “waterglass” [sodium silicate], a chemical substance that resembles a sticky liquid.

However, the contaminated water rises above the wall and flows into the harbour. From the water held within the silt fence, radioactive materials such as strontium, which emit beta radiation, were detected as 1100 becquerels per litre, while tritium was detected at 4700 becquerels per litre. TEPCO explained that “The concentration of radioactivity beyond the silt fence is at the most 1/5 of that within the fence”, but about 50% of the sea water within the fenced area, within the harbour, and in the sea itself is mixed each day. Since tritium [probably tritiated water] has a similar chemistry to water, it can pass through the fence. The radiation in the seawater at the harbour entrance and for 3km offshore fell below detectable values; however experts consider that “this is simply due to the fact that it is diluted by a large body of seawater”.

Furthermore, the amount of contaminated water continues to increase because of 400 tons of groundwater per day flowing into the damaged nuclear reactor building. Around 300 tons of highly-concentrated contaminated water has leaked from the above ground storage tanks, and there is the possibility that some of this water has flowed outside the harbour through drainage channels that directly connect to the sea. Problems continued due to insufficient strategies, and even now the risk remains: “It’s difficult to say what is to be controlled, but it is certain that we cannot say that it is technically possible for it to be “completely blocked”. (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)

Prime Minister Abe stated that “The amount of exposure from food products and water is, in all regions, 1/100 (1 milisievert per year)”, and said that this posed no risk to health. According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the level of exposure to radiation from radioactive selenium, including that from foods for domestic distribution, is at most 0.009 milisieverts. However, Kimura Shinzo, associate professor at Dokkyo Medical University, points out that “Even inNihonmatsu, Fukushima [which is a landlocked city a considerable distance from the TEPCO plant], 3% of citizens have internal exposure to selenium from eating vegetables and so on that are grown in their own gardens. We simply cannot determine how much of an effect this will have at this stage”. [Tokui Shimpei, Okuyama Tomomi]

 

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lol Most people are clueless about the lack of danger of nuclear power..
There is lower radiation level outside Chernobyl (worst nuclear meld down ever)than there is outside any coal burning power plants..

You know that burning coal release a lot of harmful radiation right, when you burn coal you are burning a material that contain radon, burning it release a lot of radiation.. Take a radiation detector to any coal plant and you see it go of the chart... The fear of nuclear power is for the uneducated and weak mind... I'm surprise the Japanese highly educated people are falling for this fear mongering crap.

 

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go here to see how TEPCO and the Jap gov't lie:

MsMilkytheclown1 - YouTube