[ RadSafe ] Der Spiegel - Fukushima nuclear catastrophe changed the world...

[KARAM, PHILIP]

Obviously, there's a difference between being "detectable" and being environmentally significant. It's almost too bad we are so good at detecting such low levels of radioactivity - it's hard to convince people who don't know the science (or who refuse to learn the science) that just because we can detect something doesn't mean that it's dangerous.


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Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Der Spiegel - Fukushima nuclear catastrophe changed the world...

Roger,
 
     More Christina MacPherson.  Germany does not  appear to be very pro-nuclear.  The Green party is in place.
 
     Joe Preisig
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 2/18/2015 2:35:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, rwhelbig at gmail.com writes:

Is Der  Spiegel known for campaigning against nuclear power?    This
article certainly does not appear to be based on sound journalism  or reporting.

Roger Helbig

Fukushima nuclear catastrophe  changed the world

by Christina MacPherson

Magazine: 'Fukushima  catastrophe changed the world'; Worst nuclear accident in history, like two  Chernobyls; 'Poisoned entire landscapes for centuries' -- Study: Fukushima  'overwhelms' the peak radioactivity from nuclear bomb testing in ice core  samples; 'Affected the  global
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Spiegel  Online International (Der Spiegel, German news magazine), Feb.
5, 2015  (emphasis added): [It's] the worst accident in the history of civilian  atomic power... The Fukushima catastrophe changed the world.
Nuclear  reactors melted down on live television and twice as much radioactive  material was released as during the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The  disaster... poisoned entire landscapes for centuries and killed hundreds of  thousands of farm animals... Fukushima is more than just a place-name, it  is an historical event...

Scientists from the Chinese Academy of  Sciences, University of Venice, and Nanjing University, Feb 6, 2015: The â  radioactivity of snow-pit samples collected in the spring of 2011 on four  Tibetan Plateau glaciers demonstrate a remarkable peak in each snow pit  profile, with peaks about ten to tens of times higher than background  levels. The timing of these peaks suggests that the high radioactivity  resulted from the Fukushima nuclear... The released radioactive  nuclear substances not only polluted Japan... but also spread to other  areas of the Northern Hemisphere via atmospheric circulation and  ocean currents, affecting the hemispheric and even global environment. As  an overdose of nuclear radiation may seriously threaten human health  and wildlife survival, this nuclear accident has caught the attention  of the world. The radioactive fallout [was] detected in the  atmosphere, soil, surface water, and pastures in the low-altitude regions  of North America... Much of the radioactive material was transported by  the westerlies, resulting in the fallout over North America... [T]o  reach the Tibetan Plateau, material transported by the westerlies has  to first circle much of the globe... In May 2011, snow-pit samples  were collected on the Gurenhekou Glacier... Dongkemadi Glacier...  Muztag Glacier and Yuzhufeng Glacier... In 2005 and 2007, we drilled ice  cores...
Tanggula ice core [and] Yuzhufeng ice core... Clearly, the peak  â radioactivities in the snow pits... are much higher than that in  the corresponding local ice cores, and even overwhelm the peak  â radioactivities caused by past atmospheric thermonuclear tests in  the early 1960s... The peak â radioactivities... are 11.0 and 92.4  times larger than their local average background levels... attributed to  the Fukushima radioactive fallout... The Fukushima nuclear accident...  created a radioactive horizon that can be used as independent age markers  in snow and ice cores in the Northern Hemisphere... providing a  direct record of the impacts of human activities on the Earth's  environment...

See also: VIDEO: New data shows Fukushima radiation  release exceeds Chernobyl

Christina MacPherson | February 18, 2015 at  6:50 am | Categories:
Fukushima 2015 | URL:  http://wp.me/phgse-iTy

http://nuclear-news.net/2015/02/18/fukushima-nuclear-catastrophe-changed-the
-world/
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