Cesium In Incinerator Dust Across East Japan

[DeSwiss]

Source: The Japan Times (via Common Dreams)

Cesium In Incinerator Dust Across East Japan

Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Japan Times (via Common Dreams)


Cesium levels of dust with 9,740 becquerels
per kilogram was found near the Edogawa
incineration plant In Tokyo.

High levels of cesium isotopes are cropping up in dust at 42 incineration plants in seven prefectures, including Chiba and Iwate, an Environment Ministry survey of the Kanto and Tohoku regions shows.

According to the report, released late Saturday, the highest cesium levels in the dust ranged from 95,300 becquerels in Fukushima Prefecture and 70,800 becquerels in Chiba Prefecture to 30,000 becquerels in Iwate Prefecture. But even the lower levels in the dust exceeded 8,000 becquerels per kilogram in Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Tokyo.

The 16-prefecture survey covered 469 incinerator operators in Tohoku and Kanto from late June, and was reported to a panel of experts at the ministry that is discussing how to safely bury incinerator ash and dust with cesium levels above 8,000 becquerels per kilogram.

Local governments have been instructed to temporarily store their ash and dust at disposal sites until the panel reaches a conclusion. The ministry said it will ask the prefectures to continue monitoring radiation levels in the material.

Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/28-0

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- Meanwhile the NRC continues to lower the regulation standards and extend the usable lifespans of aging and decrepit nuclear reactors exactly like Fukushima's. - - - - When the karmic bill comes due for America, I hope I'm far, far away or already dead........

DeSwiss


Look up! - Coming to a town near you......



"There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all." ~Robert Orben

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. My lord, none could have ever predicted this

really...

:sarcasm:

[DeSwiss]

3. Agreed.

:shrug: - I mean who would have ever thought that putting nuclear reactors on top of active earthquake faults would pose a problem!?!?!

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Who's next?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Hey in the defense of the one in Mexico

Laguna Verde is as far as you can get from an active fault... (but it is on swamp land)

(Mexico)

[boppers]

2. NO data on what normal baseline levels were.

Imagine that.

[drokhole]

5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Tom Lehrer...

Pollution