A bit of good news – Radioactive Cesium-137 diminishing in 2 Fukushima rivers, after close to 8 years

Survey finds concentration of radioactive cesium-137 rapidly decreasing in 2 Fukushima rivers,

http://www.the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005504609 January 26, 2019

The Yomiuri ShimbunThe concentration of radioactive cesium-137, which was spread about following the accident at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, has been rapidly decreasing in river waters in municipalities near the facility in Fukushima Prefecture, according to a survey by the Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

Compared to the speed at which the radiation of cesium-137 naturally decreases, the concentration in the rivers is decreasing at a speed tantamount to 10 times that, said the JAEA, a national agency for research and development.

The JAEA assesses that cesium on top of the ground is carried into rivers by rain but as the radioactive substance seeps underground, among other possible factors, the volume flowing into rivers might have decreased.

Following the March 2011 nuclear accident, radioactive materials were dispersed and fell onto the earth. Among these materials was cesium-137, which has a relatively long half-life of about 30 years and is releasing radiation even now.

From April 2015 to March 2018, the agency examined two rivers in the prefecture — the Ukedogawa river in Namie and the Otagawa river in Minamisoma. It sampled the waters in a 20-kilometer area around the nuclear power plant and precisely measured the concentration of cesium-137 in them.

Results showed the concentration in the Ukedogawa river was around 0.2 becquerels per liter at the start of the study, but had dropped to around 0.1 becquerels in March 2018, indicating the concentration was decreasing 10 times faster than normal. The Otagawa river also showed a similar trend, according to the agency.

Takahiro Nakanishi, a senior researcher at the JAEA, said, “If the concentration in river waters relied on for agricultural purpose decreases, the result could help local people resume their agricultural activities.”

January 29, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Fukushima continuing

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The real killers, the strong beta and gamma-emitting, high level radionuclides like 90Sr, 137Cs, 99Tc and 129I , cobalt 60, Iridium are present in the soil in concentrations, hundreds of times higher than , what they are saying are in very high concentrations across Japan to tokyo. That is not just the cesium 137.
An absorbed bolus of 80 billionths of a gram of any one of these beta-gamma radionuclides, causes acute systemic poisoning and radiation poisoning. The results can be either acute death or prolonged agony and death. There will be death If there is a massive bolus ingested. These are the most poisonous and dangerous substances on earth.
If 1 ounce of any of these radionuclides- substance were dumped on a group of people it would be like the cesium 137 exposure in Brazil or worse.
If any one of these radionuclides :90Sr, 137Cs, 99Tc and 129I Irridium, cobalt 60 was diluted in an inert powder for example, that diffused the RADIONUCLIDE onto 10,000 people, gathered for a festival or event , 3 quarters of them would die horrible deaths in 2 weeks and the rest would have tumors and organ damage that would kill them in a few months.

Obviously the sailors on board the Ronald Reagan did not get such a dose but it came close for some of them.

Radioactivity decreases, with the square of distance. Chronic ionized radiation-wave exposure is dangerous but , those the high level of those and other RADIONUCLIDEs present do not bode well for Japan in the concentrations that exist from fukushima to tokyo that have been recorded by Busby and kaltofen.

Nucleoapes like to keep the eye off the lethal radionuclides that are actually emitting the radiation.

There are also the highly potent alpha emitting, uranic and Transuranic alpha emitters like u235, u238, plutonium, AMERICIUM and actinides like Californium that are destroying the human genome in Japan. The beta-gamma emitters do too, but are not as effective and as potent, as mutagens and acute carcinogens because of their solubility and other chemical properties.
The Uranics, transuranics, actinides, are causing lung cancers, pancreatic cancers and sharp increases in birth defects from mutagenesis, and teratogenesis across Japan now.

A great deal of Japan’s water supply is probably heavily contaminated with tritium by now. TRITIUM is a strong teratogen, that is known to substantially increase incidence of leukemia. Tritium actually covalently bonds to DNA, protein, fat tissue and muscle tissue, unlike other radiinuclides . tritium acts exactly like hydrogen does in th body and the body is constantly doing chemical conversions of proteins using hydrogen and tritium ions in metabolic, acid-base, and enzyme reactions in the body.

The nucleoapes have gone out of their way to obscure the deadly, insidious-effects of tritium on the human genome, chromosomes and the human body.
We are bags of mostly saline water solutions, proteins, fat, with some bone in us. When we ingest radionuclides they are sometimes diluted enough by our water and protoplasm, to not cause recognizable or apparent damage and acute symptoms . it is so with the highly water soluble saline analogs like rcesium and rstrontium.

The Uranics, transuranics, actinides are not so soluble because they are heavy metals but particles of these radionuclides, that get stuck in the lungs and gi tract are particularly deadly. Many of these radionuclides can be biotransformed or chemically transformed into sulfates and organometallics that are easily absorbed into the body.

Then there are the evil-monkeys that says that radionuclides increase our resistance to RADIONUCLIDE exposure and bioccummulation. Don’t ya know radioactive tritium does not increase incidence of leukemia, as has been shown in rigorous studies and case studies, its hormetic!

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