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Japan to Dump Radioactive Water into Pacific

Posted April 05, 2011 3:31 PM

From Discovery News - Top Stories:

Officials claim dumping four Olympic-sized pools-worth of radioactive water in the ocean will have no adverse effects.

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Re: Japan to Dump Radioactive Water into Pacific

04/05/2011 10:06 PM

Guess it's time for my little pal here to wake up from his long nap again......

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04/06/2011 12:15 AM

The officials are probably right.

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Re: Japan to Dump Radioactive Water into Pacific

04/06/2011 7:01 PM

Posters (3), (4) & (5) are good examples of the problem we have getting sensible debate..

The Prophet - There is already radiation in the natural environment (including the oceans). Presumably HE does want it there (whoever HE is)

jtd405 - A few days after the reactor water is dumped there'll be no measurable trace left, that sounds even better than all the material handling that would be necessary to move it and concentrate it at a dry land site.

ds - There's a selection of interesting ideas including ".. formed into dry ice .." and "..windfarm .. blades used as a Toxin removal device..". I can't really comment

If it wasn't for the media beat up this would be considered an unfortunate but benign industrial shutdown.

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Re: Japan to Dump Radioactive Water into Pacific

04/06/2011 5:26 AM

When Will Mankind Stop Poisoning And Destroying Our Planet? People Should Be Screaming At Their Politicians To stop This As A Little Bit Of Contamination Here And A Little There All Adds Up. If The Lord G-D Would Have Wanted Radiation To Be In Our Water, HE Would Have Placed It There To Begin With! When Will he People Wake Up? I Think Never! As It Stands Today They Are Happy With The Government Taking Care Of Them!

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04/06/2011 9:36 AM

Golly', this is a gob to 'swollower', at one time. If the contaminated water is to be no problem to the fish,the beach crowd, the vacationers and the people to the east who will have to enhance their stories to get their tourism industry back in order, why don't they dump the water on the dry earth they have already distroyed. at least it will be filtered before it reaches the sea. and the radiated earth can be turned into gardens and grow onions the size of watermelons.

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04/06/2011 10:13 AM

Why not load it into a Tanker ship and see if the contaminated Water could be accu-frozen or formed into Dry Ice to be removed or placed on a frozen continent in Frozen Blocks and covered with Volcanic Ash and placed in a storage locker. Accu-freeze uses This method for saving the shutting down of Oil pipelines so that they might be Repaired only at point of leakage.

2 The chemicals used to dilute Water Dumped Liquid Nitrogen now ,has had eco -friendly apps. such as adding bicarbonates to it to remove the carbon imprint.Japan could try using the Milk that showed a radiation level to dilute it rather than just wasting the milk.

I was worrying about the affect of nuclear atoms in water on floating and Ships .

The reported release of nuclear waste particles in the Air might be Test Collected off of the windfarm wind energy Blades and then the Blades used as a Toxin removal device using esters that Dilute plutonium during its enrichment processes to Control Air safety..Adding a wind cupping attachment coated with a larger amount to protect and stabilize the Atmosphere now, while its still floating around in smoke clouds.

There is an Eco-Coating paint distributed by HIS paint that is similar to one being used in Tokyo by the Toyota Factory there that somehow protects the air from released toxins or it doesnt release toxins itself I wasnt sure what they were pin-pointing about the affects of this coating but supposedly it made a big difference on air quality .

The use of recycled Windshields at the base or nearby the Wind Turbines might be used as a remedy to warn birds that Danger is there so as not to hit Birds that are flying through .ds

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