Storage tanks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is set to dump over 1 million tons of cooling water mixed with toxic tritium – a radioactive form of hydrogen found in nuclear reactors and weaponry. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that tritium “moves easily through the environment just like water,” and when ingested “goes directly into soft tissues and organs. Tritium is excreted through the urine within a month or so after ingestion.”
However the EPA whitewashes these effects by stating that, “People are exposed to small amounts of tritium every day, since it is widely dispersed in the environment and in the food chain,” and “it disperses quickly” if ingested.
But the Nuclear Information and Resource Center (NIRC) warns of the very serious health effects caused just by tiny amounts of tritium in the water, noting that it “cannot be removed from the environment once it is released,” and “it will [remain] dangerous for at least 120 years.”
The NIRC warns:
The public is only now becoming aware of the magnitude of tritium’s hazards. Most studies indicate that tritium in living creatures can produce typical radiogenic effects including cancer, genetic effects, developmental abnormalities and reproductive effects.
Tritium can cause mutations, tumors and cell death. Tritiated water is associated with significantly decreased weight of brain and genital tract organs in mice and can cause irreversible loss of female germ cells in both mice and monkeys even at low concentrations.
Studies indicate that lower doses of tritium can cause more cell death, mutations and chromosome damage per dose than higher tritium doses. Tritium can impart damage which is two or more times greater per dose than either x-rays or gamma rays.
There is no evidence of a threshold for damage from 3H exposure; even the smallest amount of tritium can have negative health impacts. Organically bound tritium (tritium bound in animal or plant tissue) can stay in the body for 10 years or more. While tritiated water may be cleared from the human body in about 10 days, if a person lives in an area where tritium contamination continues, he or she can experience chronic exposure to tritium.
Tritium from tritiated water can become incorporated into DNA, the molecular basis of heredity for living organisms. DNA is especially sensitive to radiation. A cell’s exposure to tritium bound in DNA can be even more toxic than its exposure to tritium in water.
Needless to say, the effects are detrimental.
But that is not stopping Japan from dumping over a millions tons of this contaminated water into the ocean.
The Trends Journal reports that the tanks used to cool the fuel at the plant have reached max capacity and must be emptied, purportedly over fears that if another earthquake or disaster occurs the damage would be terrible, after the plant was greatly damaged in 2011 after the earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation.
Fishermen are furious at the news and have pushed against the government for allowing this to occur, as they are still trying to recover and overcome the reputational damage from the last accident.
The dump will happen next year, and it was officially approved by Gustavo Caruso, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Department of Nuclear Safety and Security.
‘He told reporters that he does not have the authority to tell Japan what it should do vis-à-vis the release or if it does not fully follow international safety standards,’ The TJ added.
The TJ notes that other European nations are pushing to further up their nuclear power supply per their green climate agendas. However The WinePress reported that the European Commission faces a lawsuit for trying to pass off nuclear as a “green” sustainable energy source.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Gee, thanks Japan…
I remember for years in public school we were taught how terrible nuclear was for the environment, but now it is being pushed as a “green” energy source! Nevermind Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and more…
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
Revelation 11:18
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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What a wicked devilish agenda. Whatever you do, don’t eat the fish, sushi included.
Japan is a Christ-rejecting nation like you wouldn’t believe!
Psalm 7:15-17
15 He made a pit, and digged it,and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
17 I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
They surely have a purpose to poison loads of us for sure.
Refuse to buy Japanese – hit them in the pocket and they will seek and alternative solution