Fukushima Wastewater Will Be Released Into the Ocean, Japan Says

The government says the plan is the best way to dispose of water used to prevent the ruined nuclear plant’s damaged reactor cores from melting.

As reported by the New York Times.

The New York Times also ran a companion piece, focused on the official international protest of the ocean dumping, as by the neighboring governments of South Korea, China, and Taiwan.

The Washington Post has also reported on this story.

Thom Hartmann interviewed Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps on his national radio show ("Fukushima Nuclear Fish Coming to Your Plate, Happy?"). Here is the write up:

More nuclear waste is about to be released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima. Where it will be absorbed by plants, eaten by small fish, who are eaten by bigger fish, and concentrated through a process called "bioaccumulation." Pretty soon those fish end up on your plate... Looking forward to a swim off the west coast? Enjoying your fish?

Here is the link to the recording of the interview.

[Corrections: The actual volume of radioactive wastewater to be dumped in the ocean is currently enough to fill around 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools; the dumping is not set to begin until a couple years from now, not before the Tokyo Olympics.]

CANCER CONNECTION?

"Study: Elevated cancer deaths in Monroe may be result of nuclear plant," by Tyler Eagle, Monroe Evening News/USA TODAY NETWORK, March 12, 2021.

Watch a recording of the press conference here, posted at WTVG/ABC-13's website. (The first three minutes of the recording are microphone checks, so fast-forward to the 3 minute mark of the recording, where the press conference begins.) The press conference features: Michael Keegan of Don't Waste Michigan, a Monroe native; Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, and author of the newly published cancer fatality rate study focused on Fermi 2; and Christie Brinkley, also a native of Monroe, and board member of the Radiation and Public Health Project.

Here is the Radiation and Public Health Project's postings related to this newly published report focused on Fermi 2.

Update on March 10, 2021 by admin

See the press advisory put out by Don't Waste Michigan and the Radiation and Public Health Project.

Update on March 13, 2021 by admin

DTE (formerly Detroit Edison), owner/operator of Fermi 2, responded to Mangano's report, as reported by the Monroe Evening News.

MEDIA ADVISORY -- Zoom Press Conference: Health Studies Near Fermi Nuclear Plant, Monroe County, Michigan

Source:  Beyond Nuclear http://www.beyondnuclear.org/ NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR For immediate release Contact: Joseph Mangano 484-948-7965 Michael Keegan 734-770-1441

MEDIA ADVISORY

Zoom Press Conference: Health Studies Near Fermi Nuclear Plant, Monroe County, Michigan

[MONROE COUNTY, MICHIGAN – March 11, 2021 -- Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, ten years on] -- When: Thursday, March 11, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (US and Canada)   What: Zoom press conference on the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown, announcing: 1. Release of a new report showing Monroe county cancer death rate increase since Fermi 2 nuclear plant [largest Fukushima Daiichi twin design on Earth, General Electric Mark I Boiling Water Reactor] startup; 2. Announcement of new effort to collect baby teeth near Fermi, to be laboratory tested for levels of radioactive Strontium-90.   Who: Speakers include: Joseph Mangano, Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project Author of new report on cancer;   Christie Brinkley, Board member, Radiation and Public Health Project Native of Monroe County, Michigan;   Michael Keegan, Co-Chair, Don’t Waste Michigan.   Endorsed by:   Alliance to Halt Fermi 3 (ATHF3), Beyond Nuclear, Citizens Resistance at Fermi Two (CRAFT), Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes (CNFGL), Don't Waste Michigan (DWM) and Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP).   Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/97493583442?pwd=MWFPYTQ4bXVkMTU4Skp5dVY2MHlsdz09   Meeting ID: 974 9358 3442 Passcode:  FPC   One tap mobile +19292056099,,97493583442#,,,,*466750# US (New York) +13017158592,,97493583442#,,,,*466750# US (Washington DC)   Dial by your location         +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)         +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)         +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)         +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)         +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)         +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)   -30-

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Beyond Nuclear on RT, re: new Greenpeace report about Fukushima as the 2020 Summer Olympics approach

Beyond Nuclear's radioactive waste specialist appeared on RT's "The News with Rick Sanchez."

The Fukushima coverage begins at the 4 minute 45 second mark, and ends at the 11 minute 15 second mark.

Much of the discussion revolves around a new report by Greenpeace International, entitled "Radioactivity on the Move 2020: Recontamination and Weather-related Effects in Fukushima."

Here is the show's write up:

Rick Sanchez: Japan accused of lying about radiation

High levels of radiation in the area around Fukushima, Japan have been discovered at locations intended for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Is the international sporting event in danger? RT America’s Michele Greenstein explains the lasting impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Then Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear, joins Rick Sanchez to share his expertise.

Navajo women, babies, have uranium in their bodies

Image courtesy of Radiation Monitoring Project Early findings from a government-funded study reveal that almost a quarter of 781 Navajo (Diné) women examined have high levels of uranium in their bodies. Newborns continued to have these high levels in their bodies as well, for at least the first year of their life. This discovery by the University of New Mexico researchers is occurring decades after uranium mining for cold war atomic bombs has ended, meaning that living in a contaminated environment is to blame.

Uranium and its decay products travel throughout the body and have been associated with a whole host of diseases including cancer, and peri-and post-natal impacts. Uranium is used not just for atomic bombs, but atomic reactors as well.

The study results were revealed at a hearing in Albuquerque and according to U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland -- an enrolled member of Laguna Pueblo -- they force "...us to own up to the known detriments associated with a nuclear-forward society." Women and children are particularly susceptible to damage from exposure to radiation and they will pay the highest health price for our continued use of nuclear weapons and power. More