Fukushima: Radioactive Water release continues. Have we already forgotten?

by Haton Bongiovanni-

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. ZHANG XIAOYU / XINHUA NEWS.

March 11th.of this year marked the 13th anniversary of the magnitude 9.1 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed, generating a catastrophe that left more than 22,000 dead and missing, thus triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which reached the 7th level of severity according to the International Scale of Nuclear Accidents of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) and the worst since Chernobyl (Ukraine) in 1986.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi and Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi gesture during their meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, Japan, March 12, 2024. Eugene Hoshiko/Pool via REUTERS

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Argentine Rafael Grossi, began a visit to Japan on Tuesday, March 12th. this year to closely follow the controversial discharge into the sea of contaminated and treated water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which began on May 23rd. , 2023. According to data from Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), more than 31,200 tons of treated contaminated water have been discharged into the sea since that date, emptying about 30 tanks at the site, which contains 1,073 tanks with a total capacity of 1.34 million tons of radioactive water to be treated and discharged into the sea over the next few decades. (the equivalent of 500 Olympic swimming pools).

To realize the alarming environmental emergency we are talking about, it is necessary to ask ourselves two questions: 1) how was it possible to accumulate this incredible amount of radioactive water?; 2) How dangerous is Fukushima’s radioactive water?. We will answer to both.

On March 12th., 2011, after the meltdown of reactors 1, 2 and 3, with the liquefaction of fuel rods containing uranium and recycled plutonium, to avoid further overheating of the highly radioactive liquefied fuel, and therefore potential explosions with the leakage of radioactive material, Tepco technicians began pumping sea water on the molten cores of the 3 reactors. In this way, the sea water was contaminated with radioactive material, and they continue to pump it to this day, because the cores of the three reactors are still melted.

According to National Geographic, after more than 12 years, the ongoing cooling process still produces more than 130 tons of contaminated water per day. Here is the answer to the first question. We must therefore add that the problem of the meltdown of the 3 reactors has not yet been solved , it is only being kept under control, at least for the time being, but at what price? The answer to the second question, asked just before, will eliminate all the unknowns and give rise to inquisitives that, in a few more years, could take away our sleep.

Tanks for contaminated water from Fukushima (AFP)

The radioactive water is sucked in by pumps and then filtered in a process called the ‘advanced liquid-processing system’ (‘Alps’) and then stored in tanks of one thousand cubic metres each. Since the day of the accident, twelve years ago, 1,073 units have been filled. Tepco knows perfectly well that it will soon no longer be used for the storage of these tanks, hence the decision to start pouring the treated radioactive water from last year. But let’s get to the point: how dangerous is this contaminated water?

The melted reactors at the Fukushima plant produce 64 radioactive elements, also known as radionuclides or radioisotopes. The most worrisome, according to The Conversation, are those that could pose a threat to human health: carbon-14, iodine-131, cesium-137, strontium-90, cobalt-60 and hydrogen-3, also known as tritium. Some of these radionuclides have a short half-life (i.e. decay time) and have already decayed in the 12 years since the disaster. But others take longer to decay; Carbon-14, for example, has a half-life of over 5,000 years! The same would be for carbon-14 in tanks, which according to Tepco «currently has a concentration of about 2 percent of the regulatory upper limit, which will be further reduced by dilution of sea water.» However, the researchers say there is little data available on the distribution, behaviour and potential effects of tritiated water and organically bound tritium, and therefore assessing the overall risks is almost impossible.

An article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology concludes that not enough is known about the long-term impacts of tritium (the main radionuclide present, with a half-life of 12.6 years) to determine whether the release of more than one million tons of water can be considered safe or not. However, the Japanese government’s decision to begin releasing the radioactive water stored inside, a decision approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has generated a scientific and public debate, given its potential to cause environmental damage in the coming decades. As a result of new research in this regard, led by the University of Plymouth, assurances are being sought that regular monitoring will be carried out on different components of the region’s ecosystem to examine the possible impact that the release could have on the environment .

The new study includes a review of the existing literature on tritium’s behaviour in the environment and studies assessing its impact on individual species. This includes studies that have shown how tritium can be absorbed into sediments and soil, raising concerns about its possible transfer into the water cycle and food chain. There is also research showing that tritium can cause DNA damage to certain species of fish, which could affect their physical and reproductive fitness and, ultimately, the genetic diversity of a population. Further investigations, it is clear that radioactive isotopes in marine waters can be transported by currents, accumulate on phytoplankton and in the bodies of animals that feed on them and their predators, and bind to microplastics present in the sea. The main stream that runs along Japan is the Kuroshio, or «black current.» It is the second largest ocean current in the world, and travels clockwise from Japan to North America and then descends south along its shores.

The Kuroshio Current (Source Us National Ocean Service)

Azby Brown, chief researcher at the environmental monitoring group Safecast, criticized the lack of transparency of the Japanese government and Tepco in the New York Times: «The Japanese government and Tepco made the decision to release the water after a process that was neither fully transparent nor adequately inclusive of the stakeholders, both in Japan and abroad. This sows the seeds for what could be decades of distrust and struggle. What’s even more troubling is that Japan is setting a precedent for other governments that may be even less transparent. This is dangerous, especially in Asia, where more than 140 nuclear reactors are already in operation and, thanks to the growth of China and India, dozens more are under construction, in the planning stages or have been proposed. If Japan, a globally respected cultural and economic force, can get away with dumping radioactive water, what can stop other countries?» asks Brown in his editorial.

It is the same concern that we also have as Eugenio Siragusa Studies Centre – Pesolex.

In ancient times, what has already been said so far has already been announced by Eugenio Siragusa: the danger of nuclear energy, which with clear uncontrollable negative effects deriving from the cause that Man has «separated what God has united«; the evident reality of a possible large-scale environmental disaster caused by «a science without conscience«.

We leave it to you to judge by reading the following, if indeed what was described at the beginning had not already been anticipated by the Contactee of the Celestial Powers Eugenio Siragusa:

ACIDIFIED WATER: AN IRREVERSIBLE AND DEADLY CALAMITY, IF YOU DO NOT IMMEDIATELY REPAIR IT

WE HAD ALREADY WARNED YOU FOR SOME TIME BY GIVING YOU EXACT PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE IMPENDING BEFORE IT BECAME REALITY.

THE FAULT IS YOURS, FOR NOT HAVING LENT YOUR EARS TO THOSE WHO REPRESENT US IN YOUR WORLD, TO THOSE WHO ARE AUTHORIZED TO BRING YOU OUR SPEECHES, OUR VALID ADVICE, OUR UNIVERSAL FRATERNAL LOVE.

WE TOLD YOU AT THE TIME THAT IF YOU DIDN’T TAKE THE PROPER PRECAUTIONS, YOU WOULDN’T HAVE WATER LEFT TO DRINK. ARE YOU WORRIED NOW? NOW THAT EVERYTHING IS SERIOUSLY COMPROMISED, IN AGONY?

YOU ARE PERVERSE, IRRESPONSIBLE, SUICIDAL AT ANY COST! THERE IS NO ALCHEMY TO DEFUSE WATER FROM DEATH. REMEMBER WELL THAT THE ELEMENT OF WATER IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PILLAR OF YOUR EXISTENCE; EVEN THE AIR, THE EARTH, ALREADY SATURATED WITH DEADLY POISONS.

YOU ARE HARD-NECKED AND PARTISANS OF DEATH! WE HAVE TAKEN CARE TO WARN YOU ABOUT THE NEGATIVE PROCESSES OF DRUGS, NUCLEAR ENERGY, THE UNBRIDLED MADNESS OF CONSUMISM, THE IMPORTANCE OF “NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE AND THE SUPERFLUOUS FOR NONE”, AND SO MANY OTHER NEGATIVE ASPECTS THAT SERIOUSLY UNDERMINE YOUR SOCIETY, YOUR SURVIVAL ON THIS PLANET THAT YOU HAVE TURNED INTO A SEWER OF FILTH, INTO A HELLISH HABITAT.

YOUR STUBBORNNESS, DEAR TERRESTRIALS, WILL CAUSE YOU MUCH SUFFERING, MUCH TROUBLE! A SERIOUS AND RESPONSIBLE AWARENESS COULD OVERTURN THE CURRENT, PERNICIOUS SITUATION IN WHICH YOU STRUGGLE MORE WITH WORDS THAN WITH ACTIONS AND THE NECESSARY WORKS OF GENERAL WELL-BEING.

AS WE HAVE SAID: THE DETERMINATIONS ARE YOURS, THE CHOICES ARE YOURS.

THE ADVICE IS OURS, THE CLAIRVOYANCE IS OURS. WE CAN ONLY OFFER; NOT TO IMPOSE! WE HAVE SAID THIS MANY TIMES AND CONFIRMED IT.

WHO HAVE EARS, LET LISTEN, AND WHO HAVE EYES, LET SEE.

ME AND THEM

Nicolosi, May 8th.1984.

What else can be added to these words…

The «enzyme» Man, who has now become a «virus» for this «Cell» Planet Earth, if he does not become aware of the evidence that the path he has undertaken will only lead him to self-destruction, will have no chance of saving himself and, as already said at the time, «only what can be saved will be saved«, who will be those who have been able to preserve, cultivate and develop a very specific spiritual quality, worthy of the New Heaven and the New Earth.

HOPE IS ALWAYS THE LAST TO DIE... said Eugenio, but the times have now been enormously shortened…

The Choice is only Ours….

For the Eugenio Siragusa Study Centre – Pesolex

One of the Heirs of the Testimony Solar Program

of the John´s Eagle.

HATON BONGIOVANNI

Sources:

  • National Geographic;
  • Ansa;
  • Infobae;
  • Greenpeace Japan;
  • IAEA – International Atomic Energy Agency;

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