The nation’s first underground nuclear waste site is reporting more airborne radiation leaks.
The Department of Energy said Monday they found radiation in air samples collected last week at various monitoring stations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico, and also in some stations outside of the grounds of the Plant.
The Plant’s first confirmed leak of radiation came last week.
The site is the storage location for plutonium-based waste from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and other government nuclear locations.
Scientists and Plant officials insist that the public is not in any danger from the radiation release.
Like a slow-motion train wreck, the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster is still causing damage long after the world’s media has left the news story behind.
Reports are coming in that the North American food supply is already being affected by Fukushima.
Bluefin tuna caught off the San Diego coast is showing evidence of radioactive contamination. This is the first time that a migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity 3,000 miles from Fukushima to the U.S. Pacific coast. It is a nutrition source that accounts for approximately 20,000 tons of the world’s food supply each year.
According to the report published by the National Academy of Sciences, “We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”
Source: WND Health – Japan radiation poisoning America?
Typhoons that strike Japan each year help spread nuclear fallout from the 2011 Fukuskima Nuclear Plant disaster according to a new research study.
Contaminated soil is washed away by high winds and rain and then placed in streams and rivers according to the French Climate and Environmental Science labrator and Japan’s Tsukuba University.
The accident sent radioactive particles into the atmosphere that normally cling to soil. The storms then loosen radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 from surrounding area into rivers and then into the Pacific Ocean.
Researchers say the mild typhoons of 2012 brought moderate levels of radiation into rivers but the violence storms of 2013 showed a significant increase in radioactivity in rivers.
They said people who use rivers to bathe or coastal fishermen are at risk from the radiation.
A day after the Japanese government announced plans to fund an “ice wall” to keep radioactive material from the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor facility from reaching the ocean, officials admitted that radiation levels at the site of a leak is 20% higher than previously mentioned.
The current level around the most recent leak is 2200 millisieverts, enough to give a lethal dose of radiation to a human without hours if they had no protective materials. Continue reading →
After various worldwide news sources discovered the leaking of contaminated water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant was worse than previously known, the Japanese government has pledged to create an “ice wall” that will stop damage to the environment.
The “wall” would be a series of pipes placed in the ground that will contain coolant materials aimed at freezing the Earth around the facility. Government scientists believe this will keep radioactive water from seeping into the groundwater or flowing into the ocean. Continue reading →
