Fukushima To Dump 770,000 Tons Of Deadly Nuclear Waste Into Pacific Ocean

[rangerrebew]

Fukushima To Dump 770,000 Tons Of Deadly Nuclear Waste Into Pacific Ocean

July 16, 2017 Sean Adl-Tabatabai News, World 0

Fukushima will dump 770,000 tons of deadly nuclear waste into the ocean, which experts have warned will cause “apocalyptic” numbers of people to die.

According to Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) chairman, Takashi Kawamura, the decision has already been made to put the lives of millions of fish, humans and animals at risk by dumping the radioactive material from the Fukushima plant into the Pacific ocean – despite strong opposition from fisherman.

Rt.com reports: “I’m very sorry that Tepco has been prolonging making a decision,” the new chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) Takashi Kawamura told reporters on Thursday, reported Reuters. “We could have decided much earlier, and that is Tepco’s responsibility.”

http://yournewswire.com/fukushima-dump-nuclear-waste-ocean/

[Just_Victor]

Don't do it!!!

[XenaLee]

Don't do it!!!

Aww.... go ahead.  Let's see what happens.  I'm a little bored.

[Wingnut]

Aww.... go ahead.  Let's see what happens.  I'm a little bored.

Godzilla and Rodan and Mothra, oh my

[anubias]

How does the radiation dose from nuclear power-related tritium compare to the dose a person receives from natural background radioactivity or from medical procedures?

Tritium is present naturally in the environment and the radiation produced by natural tritium is identical to the radiation produced by tritium from nuclear power plants.

The tritium dose from nuclear power plants is much lower than the exposures attributable to natural background radiation and medical administrations.

Humans receive approximately 50% of their annual radiation dose from natural background radiation, 48% from medical procedures (e.g., x-rays), and 2% from consumer products. Doses from tritium and nuclear power plant releases account for less than 0.1% of the total background dose (NCRP, 2009) As an example, drinking water for a year from a well with 1,600 picocuries per liter of tritium (comparable to levels identified in a drinking water well after a significant tritiated water spill at a nuclear facility) would lead to a radiation dose (using EPA assumptions) of 0.3 millirem (mrem).

That dose is:
at least 2,000 to 5,000 times lower than the dose from a medical procedure involving a full-body computed tomography (CT) scan (e.g., 500 to 1,500 orem from a CT scan)

1,000 times lower than the approximate 300 mrem dose from natural background radiation
50 times lower than the dose from natural radioactivity (potassium) in your body (e.g., 15 orem from potassium)

12 times lower than the dose from a round-trip cross-country airplane flight (e.g., 4 orem from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles and back)

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/tritium-radiation-fs.html

I suggest we setup Pacific desalinators in Kali to solve their water problems.  Stat.