{"id":9538,"date":"2015-06-29T08:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T13:13:57","slug":"is-fukushima-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9538","title":{"rendered":"Is Fukushima Getting Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Fukushima Getting Worse?<\/a><\/h3>\n
Straight Disaster<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there\u2019s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns.<\/div>\n
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On June 19th<\/sup>\u00a0Tepco reported the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were\u00a01,000,000 Bq\/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near water intakes for Reactors 3 and 4. Tepco has not been able to explain the spike up in readings. The prior highest readings were 700,000 Bq\/m3. (Sourcehere<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Strontium-90 is a byproduct of nuclear reactors or during the explosion of nuclear weapons, e.g., it is considered the most dangerous component of radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon (Source: HyperPhysics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University). It is a cancer-causing substance because it damages genetic material (DNA) in cells. Strontium-90 is not found in nature. It\u2019s a byproduct of the nuclear world of today, e.g., strontium-90 was only recently discovered, as of August 2014, for the first time ever, by the Vermont Health Department in ground water at the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Source\u00a0here<\/a>). Coincidentally, Vermont Yankee, as of December 29, 2014, is being shut down.<\/p>\n

When a fission chain reaction of uranium-235 or plutonium-239 is active in a nuclear power station containment vessel, it produces a vast array of deadly radioactive isotopes. Strontium-90 is but one of those. So, somewhere in Fukushima Dai-ichih a lot of atoms are splitting like crazy (meanwhile Einstein e=mc2 turns over in his grave) and ergo, a lot of strontium-90 pops out and hangs around for decades upon decades. This is not a small problem.<\/p>\n

Which may be why Einstein famously said, \u201cNuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, a large amount of strontium-90 erupted into the atmosphere from the Chernobyl nuclear explosion (1986), spread over the old Soviet Republics and parts of Europe. Thereby, strontium-90, along with other radioactive isotopes, kills and maims people, a lot of people, to this day, more on this later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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