{"id":162612,"date":"2015-06-29T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=162612"},"modified":"2015-06-29T14:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:08:21","slug":"fukushima-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fukushima-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fukushima Getting Worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there\u2019s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns.<\/p>\n<p>On June 19th TEPCO <a href=\"http:\/\/fukushima-diary.com\/2015\/06\/1000000-bqm3-of-sr-90-detected-in-seawater-of-fukushima-plant-port-highest-in-recorded-history\/\">reported<\/a> the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were 1,000,000 Bq\/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near water intakes for Reactors 3 and 4. TEPCO has not been able to explain the spike up in readings. The prior highest readings were 700,000 Bq\/m3.<\/p>\n<p>Strontium-90 is a byproduct of nuclear reactors or during the explosion of nuclear weapons; e.g., it is considered the most dangerous component of radioactive fallout from a nuclear weapon. It is a cancer-causing substance because it damages genetic material (DNA) in cells. Strontium-90 is not found in nature. It\u2019s a byproduct of the nuclear world of today; e.g., strontium-90 was only recently discovered, as of August 2014, for the first time ever, by the Vermont Health Department in ground water at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nuclear-news.net\/2015\/02\/11\/for-the-first-time-radioactive-strontium-found-in-vermont-yankee-nuclear-plant-groundwater\/\">Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station<\/a>. Coincidentally, Vermont Yankee, as of December 29, 2014, is being shut down.<\/p>\n<p>When a fission chain reaction of uranium-235 or plutonium-239 is active in a nuclear power station containment vessel, it produces a vast array of deadly radioactive isotopes. Strontium-90 is but one of those. So, somewhere in Fukushima Dai-ichih a lot of atoms are splitting like crazy (meanwhile Einstein e=mc2 turns over in his grave) and ergo, a lot of strontium-90 pops out and hangs around for decades upon decades. This is not a small problem.<\/p>\n<p>Which may be why Einstein famously said, \u201cNuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2015\/06\/is-fukushima-getting-worse\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukushima multiple nuclear disasters continue spewing out hot stuff like there\u2019s no tomorrow. By all appearances, it is getting worse, out-of-control nuclear meltdowns. On June 19th TEPCO reported the highest-ever readings of strontium-90 outside of the Fukushima plant ports. The readings were 1,000,000 Bq\/m3 of strontium-90 at two locations near water intakes for Reactors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-162612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}