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North Road<p>QGIS 3D Globe is coming in QGIS v3.44 - Available in the nightlies now! <br>Built by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@lutraconsulting" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lutraconsulting</span></a></span> and North Road - Thanks to the Cesium Ecosystem Grant. <br><a href="https://youtu.be/e80VkZHKhrQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/e80VkZHKhrQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Want to sponsor more 3D in QGIS? Check out our current&nbsp;crowdfunder ➡️ <a href="https://www.lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfunding/qgis-3d-for-open-source-digital-twins" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lutraconsulting.co.uk/crowdfun</span><span class="invisible">ding/qgis-3d-for-open-source-digital-twins</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3D</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/QGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QGIS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss4g" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss4g</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/osgeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osgeo</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sig</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/digitaltwins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitaltwins</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a></p>
The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑<p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/NIST" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIST</span></a> — The <a href="https://me.dm/tags/NationalInstitutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalInstitutes</span></a> of <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Standards</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p><p>…❛❛ <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/fountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fountain</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/clocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clocks</span></a> are the most accurate &amp; stable operational clocks the world has ever seen. The best are so good that if one had been running since the time of the <a href="https://me.dm/tags/dinosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dinosaurs</span></a>, it would have lost or gained less than 1 second. These are the clocks used to realize the official <a href="https://me.dm/tags/second" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>second</span></a> ❜❜…</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.nist.gov/atomic-clocks/how-do-we-know-what-time-it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nist.gov/atomic-clocks/how-do-</span><span class="invisible">we-know-what-time-it</span></a> 21 Oct 2024<br>🔗 <a href="https://mstdn.social/@reshmi/113358574370721995" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@reshmi/113358574</span><span class="invisible">370721995</span></a> 23 Oct 2024<br>🔗 <a href="https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">Wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standa</span><span class="invisible">rd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/Community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Community</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravel</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>MAKS23</span></a></span> for those who want to read a bit more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium</span></a> 137 in northern <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/nuclear-safety/2024/09/traces-radioactive-cesium-137-measured-along-norways-border-russia" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebarentsobserver.com/en/nucl</span><span class="invisible">ear-safety/2024/09/traces-radioactive-cesium-137-measured-along-norways-border-russia</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>What’s being done now about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWater</span></a> that threatens the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaRiver</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonState</span></a>?</p><p>by Annette Cary<br>Tue, July 9, 2024 </p><p>"A major <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> contamination threat to the Columbia River should be removed at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hanford</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> site before the end of summer.</p><p>"Hanford workers have started to pump contaminated water from the final basin of the nuclear reservation’s nine reactors along the Columbia River.</p><p>"'This effort will eliminate the risk of a leak of contaminated water to the groundwater about a quarter-mile from the Columbia River,' said Andy Wiborg, the Department of Energy acting deputy assistant manager for river and plateau cleanup."</p><p>[...]</p><p>"The K West and K East Reactor basins were the last to be used, after storing irradiated fuel from N Reactor that was not processed following the end of the Cold War. Before the fuel was removed in 2004, it <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corroded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corroded</span></a> underwater, contributing to a highly <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveSludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveSludge</span></a>.</p><p>"In 2019 the last of the sludge was removed, leaving draining the water the next major task to reduce risk from the basins.</p><p>"The nearby K East Reactor basin was emptied first.</p><p>"Then in June, the first tanker truck with basin water pulled away from the K West Reactor.<br>About 60 tanker trucks have been filled with filtered water to remove radioactive contamination from the K West Reactor basin as it is being drained. The work will protect the nearby Columbia River.<br>About 60 tanker trucks have been filled with filtered water to remove radioactive contamination from the K West Reactor basin as it is being drained. The work will protect the nearby Columbia River.</p><p>"About 400,000 gallons have been pumped out of the basin so far, which is the equivalent of six residential swimming pools, said Heather Dale, DOE Hanford assistant manager for the river and plateau. About 60 tanker trucks have been filled with basin water.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"They also installed a system to pump out and then filter the contaminated water before it it loaded into tanker trucks.</p><p>"The filtering system removes particles and also uses an ion exchange system to remove radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strontium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strontium</span></a> from the water. The initial resin used in the ion exchange system DID NOT WORK WELL, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said in January.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Some of the contents of the vertical pipe units in the K West Reactor basin may be required to be sent to the nation’s repository for transuranic radioactive waste in New Mexico for disposal [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WIPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WIPP</span></a>].</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/news/being-done-now-radioactive-water-181740119.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.yahoo.com/news/being-done</span><span class="invisible">-now-radioactive-water-181740119.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FutureGenerations</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNuclearWeapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNuclearWeapons</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HanfordNuclearSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HanfordNuclearSite</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Highly Radioactive Leak At Hanford Came From Spent Fuel Experiments</p><p>July 1, 2023</p><p>"A recent admission that contaminated soil at the 324 Building at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hanford</span></a> National Lab site was much worse than previously estimated raised concerns this week. A ballpark conversion of the radiation level cited in the article was roughly 1,780 sieverts per hour.</p><p>"How did this defunct building at Hanford end up with such <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> soil contamination beneath it? The 324 Building housed hot labs including the B Cell. This large hot lab did various experiments including using liquified highly radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Strontium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Strontium</span></a> 90 and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> 137 extracted from high burnup spent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> fuel. This highly radioactive liquid was used in vitrification experiments, a technology to isolate nuclear waste. The B Cell had a history of spills, fires and equipment failures that lead to significant contamination of the facility and ground beneath it.</p><p>"The Department of Energy cites that the waste sump for this hot cell was found to have a breach in it that likely allowed waste to leak out of the facility. There also was a history of spills of this highly radioactive liquid extract of spent fuel."</p><p><a href="https://simplyinfo.org/2023/07/highly-radioactive-leak-at-hanford-came-from-spent-fuel-experiments/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">simplyinfo.org/2023/07/highly-</span><span class="invisible">radioactive-leak-at-hanford-came-from-spent-fuel-experiments/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonState</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>Toshihiro Wada, an associate professor of fish ecology at <a href="https://noc.social/tags/FukushimaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaUniversity</span></a>, said of the heavily contaminated <a href="https://noc.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a>, "It's likely that <a href="https://noc.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> was concentrated within the fish from the food chain, confined as it is by the inner breakwater where radioactive substances have accumulated from the drainages flowing into the port." <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> </p><p>Cesium 180 times limit found in fish at <a href="https://noc.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> nuke plant 12 years after disaster - The Mainichi<br><a href="https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230718/p2a/00m/0na/019000c" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mainichi.jp/english/articles/2</span><span class="invisible">0230718/p2a/00m/0na/019000c</span></a></p>
PhoenixSerenity<p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> owner of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Tanco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tanco</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Manitoba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manitoba</span></a>&nbsp;revived&nbsp;talk of draining a lake to extract more <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> from one of the world's few&nbsp;deposits of the mineral.<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SinomineResourceGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SinomineResourceGroup</span></a>&nbsp;is musing about long-term redevelopment of its mine; purchased in 2019 along shores of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BernicLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BernicLake</span></a> - a small <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CanadianShield" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianShield</span></a> body of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>&nbsp;located between Whiteshell &amp; Nopiming provincial <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/parks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parks</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6897808" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">cbc.ca/amp/1.6897808</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Sagkeeng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sagkeeng</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Treaty3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treaty3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Anishinaabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anishinaabe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NativeLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLands</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CanPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>180 times much as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> detected in fish from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> plant port</p><p>via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDiary</span></a></p><p>"On the 5th of June, 2023, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tepco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tepco</span></a> announced they detected 18,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive cesium from Black rockfish collected in the port of the crippled nuclear plant of Fukushima. </p><p>"This is 180 times much as the current food safety standard (100 Bq/Kg). </p><p>"Moreover, the detected 18,000 Bq/Kg of radioactive cesium consists of Cs-134 and Cs-137.</p><p>"The half-life of Cs-134 is up to 2 years, nevertheless this black rockfish contained 380 Bq/Kg of Cs-134. Tepco has not publicly made an announcement regarding the detection of Cs-134."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fukushima-diary.com/2023/06/180-times-much-as-radioactive-cesium-detected-in-fish-from-fukushima-nuclear-plant-port/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fukushima-diary.com/2023/06/18</span><span class="invisible">0-times-much-as-radioactive-cesium-detected-in-fish-from-fukushima-nuclear-plant-port/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>But yeah, we should believe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a> and govt of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> when they tell us the "treated" <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaDaiichi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaDaiichi</span></a> water is safe, eh?</p><p>Japan's TEPCO 'exaggerates' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> wastewater safety with faulty dosimeter</p><p>October 2022</p><p>"The Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) has been exaggerating the safety of treated nuclear wastewater with a dosimeter that fails to detect certain radioactive substances at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, local media has reported. </p><p>"When demonstrating the safety of treated nuclear wastewater, the company uses a dosimeter that fails to detect radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tritium</span></a>, but only responds to high-concentration cesium emitted by gamma rays, the Tokyo Shimbun reported.</p><p>"During tours at the plant, TEPCO staff put a dosimeter that detects only gamma rays near a bottle containing treated water, as a demonstration that the treated water is safe, according to the newspaper. </p><p>"However, the water contained tritium which is about 15 times the amount of the release standard, it reported.</p><p>"The gamma rays, which may affect the human body due to external exposure, are generated by the radioactive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> contained in the radiation-tainted water."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fukushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fukushima</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMoreNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMoreNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nucleare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nucleare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThePlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThePlanet</span></a> </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-10-09/Japan-s-TEPCO-exaggerates-nuclear-wastewater-safety-1dYZJ8xoz1C/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.cgtn.com/news/2022-10-09/</span><span class="invisible">Japan-s-TEPCO-exaggerates-nuclear-wastewater-safety-1dYZJ8xoz1C/index.html</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Will Japan release Fukushima water into the Pacific?</p><p>Officials in Japan have claimed that water exposed to radiation in the Fukushima nuclear disaster is now safe to dump into the Pacific. Environmentalists say the water is too contaminated. </p><p>by Julian Ryall , November 20, 2019</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCO</span></a> and the government [of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>] have long believed that the best way to dispose of the water is to simply release it into the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a>. They claimed until this year that contaminated water had been cleansed by a so-called advanced liquid processing system to the point that virtually all the radionuclides had been reduced to 'non-detect' levels. </p><p>"Leaked TEPCO documents, however, show that varying amounts of 62 radionuclides — including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strontium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strontium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iodine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iodine</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a> — have not been removed from the water. </p><p>"The company has also been criticized for refusing to permit independent organizations to test the water that is being stored at the site.</p><p>"Nevertheless, environmentalists fear that preparations are under way to release the water into the environment. </p><p>"'Even a year ago, when the first report on options for disposing the treated water was presented to the committee, it seemed clear to me even then that the preferred option was to release it into the ocean,' said Azby Brown, the lead researcher for Tokyo-based nuclear monitoring organization <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Safecast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safecast</span></a> Japan. Other options included <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/evaporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evaporation</span></a> and burying the water.</p><p>"'My take on this is that they have already reached a decision and that all these discussions now on the options are purely theater.'"</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaWater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopTEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTEPCO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OpTEPCO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpTEPCO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FukushimaAnniversary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FukushimaAnniversary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtomkraftNeinDanke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomkraftNeinDanke</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiAtom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiAtom</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/japan-environmentalists-say-fukushima-water-too-radioactive-to-release/a-51331676" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dw.com/en/japan-environmentali</span><span class="invisible">sts-say-fukushima-water-too-radioactive-to-release/a-51331676</span></a></p>
Possum TV<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@attacus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>attacus</span></a></span> <br>Unlike many other lost source incidents (Goiânia Brazil, Tammiku Estonia, Samut Prakarn Thailand, Li Georgia) which are documented in fascinating detail on the IAEA site, there is very little information available on this particular accident.</p><p>But they do mention the source had a 1800 R/year dose rate. Interestingly, this works out to 2 mSv/hr which is exactly the same as was quoted for the WA source.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/caesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>caesium</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternAustralia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a></p>
attacus<p>The other day, a friend of mine pointed out that the missing cesium capsule in Western Australia is the same kind of capsule as the one that led to the Kramatorsk incident in Ukraine in the 1980s, in case you wanted context on how absolutely dangerous this tiny thing is.</p><p>CW in this article for mentions of deaths, including of children: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_radiological_accident" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramator</span><span class="invisible">sk_radiological_accident</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cesium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cesium</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WesternAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternAustralia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Kramatorsk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kramatorsk</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a></p>