3 million tones of the debris are drifting to the west coast

Japan and the US government are discussing what to do with the debris from Japan.
The earthquake caused 25 million tones of the debris and 3 million of them have drifted to Pacific ocean.
In September ,a russian boat found the debris from Japan around Midway,where is 3,100 km away from Japan. They were the small boats and electric appliances marked “Fukushima”.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimated the debris will arrive at the north west part of Hawaii in 3/2012 at the soonest ,and they are assumed to arrive at west coast of USA in 3/2013.
The radioactive debris may cause severe contamination and damage sightseeing industry ,also transportation.
Japanese government has made 70,000,000 JPY of budget to simulate how and where the debris floats,which was outsourced to Kyoto university.
Currently there is no international rules about floating debris.US government is concerned about the situation ,offering to collaborate with Japanese government to avoid international lawsuit.

 

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漂流がれき日米協議へ 300万トン、費用や汚染懸念
2011年12月30日 07時05分

日米両政府が、東日本大震災で太平洋に流出した大量のがれきによる海洋汚染や、米国漂着時の処理をめぐり、年明けから本格的な協議に着手することが二十九日分かった。複数の日米両政府関係者が明らかにした。
国立環境研究所などの推計では、震災で発生したがれき約二千五百万トンのうち、約三百万トンは太平洋に流出。九月、日本から約三千百キロ離れた北太平洋の米ミッドウェー諸島付近で、「福島」との表示がある小型船や家電製品が大量に浮いているのがロシア船によって見つかった。
米海洋大気局(NOAA)によると、これらは海流に乗って、早ければ来年三月にも米ハワイ北西部に漂着。その後、米本土の西海岸にも漂着する可能性が高い。
米政府は、大量のがれきが船舶の運航障害や観光産業への打撃となる上、放射性物質を含んだがれきによる環境被害も起きかねないと懸念している。
日本政府も、がれきの位置や量、今後の動きを人工衛星などで正確に計測・予測するため、情報収集費約七千万円を二〇一一年度第三次補正予算に計上。京都大に委託してシミュレーションに着手している。
米側の懸念を受け、国際問題に発展する事態を避けるため、日米で連携して本格的な対応をとることにした。
外務省によると、外国に漂着したがれき処理をめぐる国際条約はない。日米協議では、がれきが漂着する場所や量を正確に分析した上で、処理方法や費用負担について実務者が検討する見通し。(東京新聞)

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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