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Incineration facility gets full of radioactive material, has to restart incineration

 

Radiation keeps getting accumulated in the environment. Even incineration facility is getting full, they are going to incinerate radioactive material.

Incineration facility restarted incinerating radioactive material in Kashiwa Chiba. Kashiwa is known to be one of the worst hotspot. (cf. 13,299 Bq/Kg from home-grown rosemary in Kashiwa)

Nambu clean center in Minamimasuo, Kashiwa city has been storing incineration ash and pieces of plants unprocessed because they detected high level of radiation since last September. It’s been repeating to operate on and off but because they are having pieces of plants over capacity, they decided to restart the facility as of 8/20/2012. Radioactive pieces of plants are incinerated with normal garbage.

This is the third restart with radioactive material. They stock 1500 drums of radioactive incineration ash and 1500 tones of radioactive plants pieces but they have no place to move them for now.
Chiba prefecture is looking for a temporary disposal site in north-west area and also Japanese government is seeking the place for the final disposal site in Chiba.

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<Settlement report 8/25/2012>

This is how much donation I received today. Thank you very much for your support.

The 40 USD (CAD) of the expense is for my dilation test of my detached retina. I had it in June too but medical care is expensive in US, and I won’t have a chance to have a proper one for a while so I wanted to get it done before I leave Canada.

See also

Settlement report 8/25/2012

 

Settlement report 8/25/2012 2

 

 

Mochizuki
Mochizuki
The writer of Fukushima Diary.
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6 Comments

  1. For every action there is an equal reaction. Unfortunately, one of the reactions of burning nuclear fuel is a waste product that belongs nowhere on earth.

  3. Japan should know as much as, if not more than, any country on Earth about the dangers of radioactivity. Is there a hidden agenda behind the mishandling of this whole situation? I’m baffled. I read that it’s a combination of cultural inclinations and what is seen as acceptable, and criminal involvement. How do you people see it? What’s behind this apparent insanity.

  4. Mochizuki-san you are leaving Canada already? You should try and stay longer (permanently?) as the US is not as safe as Canada. Also far more expensive. Anyway, good luck!

  5. Long-lived radioactive isotopes, such as Cesium-137 and Strontium-90, are millions of times more toxic than more familiar chemical poisons. Long-lived radionuclides, which can create disease and lethal genetic mututations at the atomic or molecular level, *cannot be diluted*.

    Burning radioactive waste only creates more fallout over Japan and the rest of the biosphere.

    Steven Starr
    Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility

  6. Mike S.
    I’ll puff myself up and attempt a concise set of answers.
    Quoting Mike S.:
    ;Japan should know as much as, if not more than, any country on Earth about the dangers of radioactivity. Is there a hidden agenda behind the mishandling of this whole situation? I’m baffled. I read that it’s a combination of cultural inclinations and what is seen as acceptable, and criminal involvement. How do you people see it? What’s behind this apparent insanity.
    —
    We in USA have been programmed with pictures of the ultra-efficient,
    super-smart Japanese economy and people.
    But, like the reality of the USA, there is an intentional
    separation of society so that there is an expendable, uneducated,
    labor-force such that they are fed into the toxic industries,
    have short, drunken, hard-working lives. Just like Home.
    Yes,
    Yes, there is a hidden agenda behind the mishandling of Fukushima.
    Now, the reality is unfathomable, unfixable, untenable,
    and this is Biblical prophecy made Big-Time REAL for All to see.
    Admiral Hyman Rickover told them, screamed at them.
    Rickover designed the submarine-reactor for USS Nautilus.
    He Told them not to, NOT TO Upscale that design for GE to sell as power-plant.
    He quit/was fired, etc.

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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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