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Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1903599/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1903599/</a> Fukushima clean-up workers fret over radiation, stress at wrecked Japan nuclear plant <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/decommissioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decommissioning</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fukushima</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Namie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Namie</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NuclearContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearContamination</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiation</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RadiationLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadiationLevels</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TokyoElectricPowerCompanyHoldings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TokyoElectricPowerCompanyHoldings</a>

DoomsdaysCWSpeaking of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fukushima</a>... Editorial: Unresolved disposal of Fukushima <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuke</a> disaster soil a barrier to full recoveryJanuary 10, 2025"The recovery of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaPrefecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FukushimaPrefecture</a> cannot be considered complete until the disposal of soil generated from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/decontamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decontamination</a> work after the 2011 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FukushimaDaiichi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPlant</a> triple-meltdown is resolved."The nuclear accident released vast amounts of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactive</a> material over a wide area. The decontamination efforts in residential and agricultural areas across Fukushima Prefecture resulted in the collection of approximately 14 million cubic meters of contaminated soil. This soil has been transported to interim storage facilities built in the towns of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Futaba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Futaba</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Okuma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Okuma</a>, where the power plant is located."Local communities only agreed to the construction of these facilities on the condition that the soil would eventually be disposed of outside the prefecture. By law, final disposal must be completed by March 2045, 30 years after storage began. To meet this deadline, the Japanese government held a meeting involving all Cabinet members late last year. The goal is to draft a concrete timeline for disposal by this summer."The government has also proposed reusing soil with radiation levels below a certain threshold. The plan envisions using the soil for public projects across the country, including road embankments and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farmland</a> development."In Fukushima Prefecture, pilot projects are underway to confirm that reusing the soil is safe. In September 2024, the International Atomic Energy Agency (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAEA</a>) concluded that the government's plan complies with its safety standards. However, scientific assurances on safety alone have not been enough to advance the plan. Concerns about potential health risks and local reputational damage remain unresolved."In 2022, the Ministry of the Environment attempted to reuse the soil at three facilities it manages, including Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo, but the plan was derailed by strong opposition from residents. To this day, there is no clear timeline for implementation."Additionally, about a quarter of the removed soil is still too highly contaminated to be reused. This portion will require final disposal outside Fukushima Prefecture, but no schedule or location has been determined."Public understanding of the issue remains insufficient. A December 2023 survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment revealed that over 70% of people outside Fukushima Prefecture were unaware of the plans for reusing or disposing of the soil."The electricity generated by the Fukushima Daiichi plant was primarily consumed in metropolitan areas, especially the Tokyo region. Dealing with the waste soil is a responsibility that must be acknowledged by those who benefited from that power."Meanwhile, the decommissioning of the plant is behind schedule, and those displaced from their hometowns around it are growing increasingly anxious. It is the government's responsibility to urgently present a clear path forward to address the aftermath of the nuclear disaster."Source: <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-xl/science/environmental-science/editorial-unresolved-disposal-of-fukushima-nuke-disaster-soil-a-barrier-to-full-recovery/ar-BB1rg7Dt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-xl/science/environmental-science/editorial-unresolved-disposal-of-fukushima-nuke-disaster-soil-a-barrier-to-full-recovery/ar-BB1rg7Dt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TEPCOLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IAEALies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IAEALies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RethinkNotRestart</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bioaccumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bioaccumulation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearContamination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a>

DoomsdaysCWScientist: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutonium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contamination</a> still present in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewMexico</a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AcidCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcidCanyon</a>by Roz Brown Friday, August 23, 2024"A scientist who said he found extreme plutonium contamination in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LosAlamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LosAlamos</a>' Acid Canyon believes concerned residents should invest in monitoring equipment for greater peace of mind. "Over a 20-year period ending in 1963, liquid and often <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioactiveWaste</a> was dumped down the canyon."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MichaelKetterer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelKetterer</a>, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, presented findings to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWatch</a> New Mexico about water, soil and plant samples he collected at the site 60 years later. He believes people living nearby should follow his lead."'New Mexicans, you guys can do this too,' Ketterer urged. 'Your state needs a community instrument, not one run by the state or the locals or by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOE</a>, one run by the community. You can do this too.'"Ketterer pointed out the instrument would provide those downstream updated contamination readings. In 1967, the Atomic Energy Commission worked to clean up the area before releasing the land to Los Alamos County without any restrictions on uses. A County Councilor who attended the presentation said they have not received any notification from the federal government about Acid Canyon being <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unsafe</a>."The canyon now features a dirt trail shaded by pines, providing easy recreational opportunities. Ketterer noted the levels of plutonium contamination were the highest he's ever seen in an area without restricted access."'You know this is happening in an area with full public access,' Ketterer emphasized. 'Anybody's child or dog can go down there, contact water, the sediments, the plants. What actions has <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPA</a> taken or should EPA take to stop this?""<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWatchNewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWatchNewMexico</a> is pushing for increased cleanup of legacy waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The group also opposes new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlutoniumPit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PlutoniumPit</a> production proposed near the site and worries future <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildfires</a> in the area could possibly disperse plutonium through falling ash."<a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-08-23/nuclear-waste/scientist-plutonium-contamination-still-present-in-nms-acid-canyon/a91972-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-08-23/nuclear-waste/scientist-plutonium-contamination-still-present-in-nms-acid-canyon/a91972-1</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearContamination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthHazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthHazard</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> Buried <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> Abroad. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> Could Unearth ItA new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> projects in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarshallIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarshallIslands</a>by Anita Hofschneider Science Mar 2, 2024 8:00 AM"Ariana Tibon was in college at the University of Hawaii in 2017 when she saw the photo online: a black-and-white picture of a man holding a baby. The caption said: 'Nelson Anjain getting his baby monitored on March 2, 1954, by an AEC RadSafe team member on Rongelap two days after ʻBravo.’"Tibon had never seen the man before. But she recognized the name as her great-grandfather’s. At the time, he was living on Rongelap in the Marshall Islands when the US conducted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CastleBravo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CastleBravo</a>, the largest of 67 nuclear weapon tests there during the Cold War. The tests displaced and sickened <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> people, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poisoned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poisoned</a> fish, upended <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TraditionalFood</a> practices, and caused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cancers</a> and other negative health repercussions that continue to reverberate today."A federal report by the Government Accountability Office published last month examines what’s left of that nuclear contamination, not only in the Pacific but also in Greenland and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spain</a>. The authors conclude that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> could disturb nuclear waste left in Greenland and the Marshall Islands. '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RisingSeaLevels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RisingSeaLevels</a> could spread contamination in RMI, and conflicting risk assessments cause residents to distrust radiological information from the US Department of Energy,' the report says."In Greenland, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChemicalPollution</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactive</a> liquid are frozen in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IceSheets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceSheets</a>, left over from a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearPowerPlant</a> on a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USMilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USMilitary</a> research base where scientists studied the potential to install nuclear missiles. The report didn’t specify how or where nuclear contamination could migrate in the Pacific or Greenland, or what if any health risks that might pose to people living nearby. However, the authors did note that in Greenland, frozen waste could be exposed by 2100."'The possibility to influence the environment is there, which could further affect the food chain and further affect the people living in the area as well,' said Hjalmar Dahl, president of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InuitCircumpolarCouncil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InuitCircumpolarCouncil</a> Greenland. The country is about 90 percent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inuit</a>. “I think it is important that the Greenland and US governments have to communicate on this worrying issue and prepare what to do about it.'"Read more: <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it-marshall-islands-greenland/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-buried-nuclear-waste-abroad-climate-change-could-unearth-it-marshall-islands-greenland/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalRacism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndigenousPeople</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NuclearContamination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoNukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a>

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