후쿠시마: 거의 5년이 지난 후

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 후쿠시마 쓰나미 이후 원자력 발전소들로부터 흘러나온 방사능물질들이 주로는 태평양 지역에 퍼지게 된 것으로 보입니다.

이로 인해 기형 물고기들이 많이 발견되며 일본내 오염지역에 기형아 출산이 증가했다는 것등이

발표되고 있습니다.

일본은 이런 문제에 대해서는 쉬쉬하고 조용히 하는데 있어서 상당히 단결이 잘된다고 믿어집니다.

2015. 12. 8 하토브

Fukushima: Almost 5 Years Later And Look At What’s Still Happening

Dec 07, 2015 by admin in MIDDLE EAST & WORLD

As most of you reading this already know, 2011 bore witness to one of the darkest days of human environmental history. That year, a nuclear disaster occurred at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after a massive 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami, resulting in the nuclear meltdown of three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors.

Again, this is one of the (if not the) most disastrous environmental incidents in the history of the human race. You could argue that the BP oil spill of the year prior was on the same level, but it doesn’t matter; these types of catastrophes happen every day on our planet, and the corporations responsible do their best to cover up the facts and influence the public into thinking that it’s not as bad as it looks. But it is far worse than we even realize, and these events serve as a great opportunity for us to wake up and realize that the time for change is here.

Or do we need yet another lesson?

With Fukushima, we are talking about serious radioactive water leakage. Just a couple of months ago, the facility’s operator, TEPCO, announced that contamination levels have spiked up to 70 times over regular readings. This was happening because of a gutter that pours rain and ground water from the plant to a nearby bay. (source)

Furthermore, in that same time period TEPCO also announced that a staggering 750 tons of contaminated rainwater have escaped the plant. (source)(source)

This is one of many examples of continual contamination of the Pacific Ocean, and the entire planet. It’s no secret that TEPCO has had a very hard time dealing with this, and they also recently announced that they would miss their toxic water cleanup deadline.

A recent report by UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) stated that Japan had made significant progress, but there is still a radioactive threat, and a “very complex” scenario at Fukushima. (source)

This type of thing has been happening since the earthquake first occurred. The Japanese government made it clear in 2013 that a minimum of 300 tonnes of contaminated water has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean every single day. That means that approximately 300,000 tonnes (minimum) of contaminated water made its way into the Pacific Ocean by March of 2013. Just imagine what that number is now. (source)

It’s also noteworthy to mention that TEPCO had to dump 3 million gallons of contaminated water into the Pacific to make room in its storage ponds for water that was more heavily contaminated, which they needed to pump out of the damaged reactors to try and get them under control. (source)

Again, these are minimum amounts, as TEPCO has spent a great deal of time denying the truth and trying to conceal information.

Even after the immediate crisis eased, scientists continued to find radioactive contamination in the waters off the plant.

As Nation Geographic reports:

“Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has analyzed thousands of samples of fish from the area, said he’s continued to find the high levels of cesium-134, a radioactive isotope that decays rapidly. That indicates

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인간의 편의에는 항상 위험이 수반되어 있는데 자신에게는 항상 '설마..'하는 안전기피증이 문젭니다.
애꿏은 동물들이 불쌍합니다.

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한국쪽이 아니라는 것이 얼마나 하나님께 감사한지 모르겠습니다. 처음부터 일본을 저렇게 만드신 거죠.

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한국쪽이 아니라 감사할 것은 아닌것 같습니다. 저기 오염 지역의 물고기를 한국에서 엄청 수입하는 것으로 알고 있습니다