Uninhabitable land area around Fukushima now the size of 17 Manhattans, Strontium levels 240x above - Polidicks

[URL]http://www.naturalnews.com/032751_Fukushima_strontium.html[/URL] [quote](NaturalNews) Representing the first time the substance has been detected at the crippled plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) reported on Sunday that seawater and groundwater samples taken near the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan have tested positive for radioactive strontium. And according to a recent report in [I]The Japan Times[/I], levels of strontium detected were up to 240 times over the legal limit, indicating a serious environmental and health threat. Radioactive [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/strontium.html"]strontium[/URL], which is known to accumulate in bones and eventually lead to diseases like [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html"]cancer[/URL] and leukemia, is one of at least three "hot particles" being continually released by the damaged plant, according to experts. The others include [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/radioactive.html"]radioactive[/URL] cesium and plutonium, both of which are implicated in causing birth defects, cancer, and death. "We are discovering hot particles everywhere in Japan, even in [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/Tokyo.html"]Tokyo[/URL]," said Arnold Gundersen, a former [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/nuclear.html"]nuclear[/URL] industry senior vice president with 39 years of nuclear engineering experience, to [I]Al Jazeera[/I]. "Scientists are finding these everywhere. Over the last 90 days these hot particles have continued to fall and are being deposited in high concentrations. A lot of people are picking these up in car engine air filters." TEPCO has allegedly installed a new [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/water.html"]water[/URL] decontamination system that it claims will eventually help filter dangerous radioactive isotopes from polluted water, and thus limit environmental and human exposure to the poisons. But that system has already run into several problems as flow rates have been lower than intended. "Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four [URL="http://www.naturalnews.com/fuel.html"]fuel[/URL] cores exposed," added Gundersen. "You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively." [I]Al Jazeera[/I] also reports that a nuclear waste advisor to the Japanese government recently explained that roughly 966 square kilometers (km), or 600 square miles, around Fukushima are now uninhabitable due to the unfolding disaster. This massive dead zone area is the equivalent size of 17 Manhattans placed next to each other. Learn more: [URL]http://www.naturalnews.com/032751_Fukushima_strontium.html#ixzz1PrbugQMM[/URL][/quote] tl;dr Fukushima is still fucked. :flaccid:

Don't worry, this isn't a big deal at all. Remember?

[QUOTE=Atlascore;30596195]Weren't you one of the people saying this was nothing to worry about?[/QUOTE] No I was one of the people laughing at the people saying that it's nothing I probably went after people comparing it to a nuclear bomb though, that might be what you're thinking of

So much shit has happened this year. Earthquake, Middle eastern Revolutions, Golden Radio Voice hobo guy, ect. This sucks for Japan though.

December 21st, 2012. The world abandon's the use of country's and all of fellow man unite to begin work on a real future, also World Peace.

[quote]diseases like cancer and leukemia[/quote] in that case. Diseases like cancer and cancer.

inb4 Stalker joke. Also, how bad is the uninhabitable land size compared to Chernobyl?

17 Manhattans. What a strange measurement of space.

[QUOTE=ColdWave;30596751]December 21st, 2012. The world abandon's the use of country's and all of fellow man unite to begin work on a real future, also World Peace.[/QUOTE] This is actually what we're meant to be. [editline]21st June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=T2L_Goose;30597046]17 Manhattans. What a strange measurement of space.[/QUOTE] americuns

[QUOTE=abananapeel;30597039]inb4 Stalker joke. Also, how bad is the uninhabitable land size compared to Chernobyl?[/QUOTE] The article said this is 996km in area. The Chernobyl exclusion zone is 30km in radius so about 2800km in area. So in essence this is 1/3 the size of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;30597046]17 Manhattans. What a strange measurement of space.[/QUOTE] [img]http://scifiblock.com/images/watchmen/dr-manhattan.jpg[/img] I'm quite large thank you very much

[QUOTE=MoarFunz;30597054]americuns[/QUOTE] ahuhuh how clever its funny because you spelled americans wrong and americans are (supposedly) stupid ahuhuhuh

[QUOTE=Lambeth;30597887][img]http://scifiblock.com/images/watchmen/dr-manhattan.jpg[/img] I'm quite large thank you very much[/QUOTE] oh what up blue penis man, you were my favorite phallic character in the movie

It will stay fucked for a while. We have not even seen pictures of the cores yet because they have yet to go that far inside.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;30597046]17 Manhattans. What a strange measurement of space.[/QUOTE] Remember, this is coming from a site that is saying that hypnosis can prevent metastasis of cancer...

I wonder how the place will look after 20 years.

That's horrible, really devastating.

[QUOTE=kimr120;30598456]I wonder how the place will look after 20 years.[/QUOTE] [img]http://pacak-gamalski.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/abandoned_village_near_chernobyl.jpg[/img]

i can't wait for the STALKER spin-offs!

Hearts go out to Japan! <3

That is insane. Japan is one of the most densely populated places in the world, and now this huge swath is completely uninhabitable. On top of that, almost everywhere in the country seems to be testing positive for radiation.

[QUOTE=JerryK;30599706]i can't wait for the STALKER spin-offs![/QUOTE] :frog: Get out of here Stalker.

[quote](NaturalNews)[/quote] For the last goddamn time, NATURAL NEWS IS NOT A VALID SOURCE OF INFORMATION. Seriously, they're so biased against anything remotely related to nuclear power and pharmaceuticals that the bias loops around and slams back into itself. It ranks up there with InfoWars and PrisonPlanet in terms of ass-backward quackery.

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[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;30600438][img]http://i.imgur.com/AQZHx.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [img]http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/9/25/37cb20a5-389f-40ad-803b-c1f64cde64c0.jpg[/img] [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Image macro" - Orkel))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=BLOODGA$M;30600438][img]http://i.imgur.com/AQZHx.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] What the hell is that.

[QUOTE=ChilColdCoolaid;30600577]What the hell is that.[/QUOTE] A radiation-induced mutant with a knife and a libido the size of texas. Also... >Build a coca-cola plant somewhere in that strontium-filled area >FREE NUKA-COLA QUANTUM FOR ERRYBODY! :buddy:

[QUOTE=ChilColdCoolaid;30600577]What the hell is that.[/QUOTE] Must be the effects of the radiation in the area

[QUOTE=ChilColdCoolaid;30600577]What the hell is that.[/QUOTE] the reason i hate japanese games and TV

"Nah we don't need a 30km radius evacuation zone" Yeah, right.