Diablo Canyon officials admit to recently discharging more tritium than Fukushima

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Report: Fukushima nuclear waste will merge with radiation from U.S. reactors when washing up on West Coast — “Startling amounts” released from operating plants — Diablo Canyon officials admit to recently discharging more tritium than Fukushima (VIDEO)

Published: February 4th, 2014 at 10:00 am ET
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Bloomberg News, Feb. 3, 2014: Fukushima-US radiation runoff will merge on West Coast — The runoff from the Japanese plant will mingle with radiation released by other atomic stations such as Diablo Canyon in California. Under normal operations, Diablo Canyon discharges more radiation into the sea, albeit of a less dangerous isotope, than the Fukushima station [...] [There's] startling amounts that are released into the environment by the 435 nuclear power plants operating worldwide [...] Diablo Canyon plant in San Luis Obispo discharged 323 million liters of water into the Pacific in 2012, or about 870 tons a day, according to data from [its operator PG&E] [...] That water contained 3,670 curies of tritium, or 136 trillion becquerels, according to the company, almost three-and-a-half times the amount released from the Fukushima plant into the ocean in the period starting May 2011. The plant also discharged cesium-137 and strontium-90 [...]

Colin Hill, associate professor of radiation oncology at USC, Feb. 3, 2014: [Tritium can] contaminate sea creatures that encounter the isotope in high levels.

PG&E spokesman Blair Jones, Feb. 3, 2014: Total liquid discharges from Diablo Canyon in 2012 were 0.0165 percent of what the NRC allows. “Tritium is produced when a reactor is operating [...] Fukushima is not operating so naturally the tritium levels are lower.”

Arjun Makhijani, President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Oct. 19, 2013 (at 26:15 in): [The releases are] not continuously monitored. In my opinion, the NRC is not looking very closely over the shoulder of the companies. For instance, tritium is released periodically, but I’m not sure when the measurements are made, and that’s not documented in the environmental reports. Are the water measurements made during the release? How are the averages reported? How are the totals calculated?

Dr. Donald Moiser, professor at The Scripps Research Institute (Department of Immunology) and member of Del Mar city council in California, Oct. 19, 2013 (at 27:15 in): The problem with the data is tritium releases are episodic, so they’ll have a release of tritium one day a month when they report that to the NRC they’ll say this is the amount of tritium we released over the year. You have 5 days of release but you divide that by 365 days it doesn’t look like so much tritium, but if you’re sitting right next to the plant on the day of release, it’s quite a bit. There’s some data from Europe that says the spikes are dangerous. There’s no data in the U.S. that you can interpret.

Watch the Symposium featuring Makhijani and Mosier here

Published: February 4th, 2014 at 10:00 am ET
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TV: Scientists have found nuclear waste off San Diego coast — Fukushima’s problems now being felt in our local ecosystem — Professor most worried about finding ‘pools’ of cesium — “Time will tell how this plays out” (VIDEO)

Published: February 4th, 2014 at 5:02 am ET
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Former Japan Prime Minister: Seals, polar bears dying after Fukushima radiation exposure (VIDEO)

Published: February 3rd, 2014 at 7:50 pm ET
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japanCRUSH, Feb. 3, 2014: ‘Fukushima Radiation Killed Polar Bears’ Says Mayoral Candidate — Tokyo Metropolitan Governor election candidate Hosokawa Morihiro has gained publicity from claiming to have access to a Russian top secret document. He claims that this has revealed evidence of radiation from Fukushima killing polar bears and other animals in the Arctic Ocean.

EXSKF, Feb. 3, 2014: Tokyo Gubernatorial Candidate and Former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa: “Polar Bears, Seals Dying Because of #Fukushima…” — Mr. Hosokawa on a net-based TV on January 22, 2014 [...] “[P]olar bears, seals and other animals are dying in large numbers in the Arctic Ocean and other places and it is precisely due to the Fukushima accident.”

January 25, 2014: Scientists present links between unusual Alaska seal deaths and Fukushima fallout — Skin lesions, hair loss, lethargy — ‘Pulsed release’ when built-up radionuclides were set free as ice melted — “Wildlife health implications” from radiation exposure discussed (PHOTOS)

January 28, 2014: Alaska Professor on Radio: Fukushima fallout a suspected factor in 'unusual mortality' of seals and walrus -- We couldn't test for plutonium (AUDIO)

Watch Hosokawa’s interview here (at 18 minutes in)

Published: February 3rd, 2014 at 7:50 pm ET
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