Translated from french by Hervé Courtois (D’un Renard)
A massive amount of radioactive water is stored on the grounds of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant site ravaged by the tsunami of March 2011.
December 24, 2019
The decision is not expected to be announced before the Tokyo Olympics next summer, given the diplomatic risk. Japan is expected to face strong opposition.
Releasing the radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the environment (in the sea or in the air) is the only option left since experts have ruled out long-term storage, Japanese officials say.
“The option of simple long-term storage is no longer being considered,” said a state official who wished to remain anonymous. And to clarify that the government’s ambition is to make room for Fukushima Daiichi: once the reactors are demolished and the site cleaned, there should be nothing left, including no water tanks still containing at least tritium.
A massive amount of radioactive water is stored within the confines of this site devastated by the tsunami of March 2011. It comes from rain, groundwater or injections necessary to cool the hearts of reactors that have melted. Filtered several times, it ‘should’ ultimately be rid of a large amount of radionuclides, except tritium, ‘considered’ less dangerous for the environment and living beings.
A water still heavily loaded
Long-term storage, which was recommended by environmental organizations like Greenpeace, being no longer validated, three options remain considered the most feasible, from a technical and economic point of view: dilution at sea, evaporation in the air or a combination of the two.
Experts, including those from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been pushing for dilution at sea for years. But this is not feasible at the moment because, as recognized by the company Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), a large part of this water is still heavily loaded with radioactive elements dangerous for the food chain.
Tepco estimates, however, that the tanks will be full in 2022.
A final decision should not be made before the Tokyo Olympics in the summer of 2020, given the diplomatic risk. A government subcommittee responsible for the file is thus studying not only the technical implications, but also the potential damage to the country’s image abroad.
Japan is set to face strong opposition, already expressed, from fishermen and farmers in the region, as well as from environmental groups and neighboring countries, starting with South Korea. Seoul did not digest a previous decision to dump radioactive water packages into the sea immediately after the Fukushima accident, without asking its advice.
Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 
Nasty wildfires are common in moist industrial areas now. Especially in nucleoape countries. In popluated areas on the coasts of Australia, where people in cars burn masses of hyrocabons, with uranium, radium and thorium traces in them. and there arw chemical factories petroleum refineries.
In the French Riviera and Greece. California. Scandanavia. China. Chernobyl. Japan.
There is also a great amount of uranium residue in the environment from fracking.
Most reactors are on bodies of water. They emit pyrophoric radionuclides in places like Palos verdes in arizona.
There is also uranium mining, nuclear fuel production depleted uranium and isotope production, from nuclear waste. Massive flintlocks for drought and climate change related wildfires. Methane release in the arctic with tracw radionuclides.
Most common around nuclear reservations in Russia and the USA. No one will talk about it.
^ DOE | Office of Health, Safety and Security | Nuclear Safety and Environment | Uranium, retrieved 3 September 2013; archived on 24 August 2010.
^ DOE | Office of Health, Safety and Security | Nuclear Safety and Environment | Plutonium, retrieved 3 September 2013; archived on 28 September 2010
Charles J (1966). “The Reaction of Pyrophoric Lead with Oxygen”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 70: 1478–1482. doi:10.1021/j100877a023.
Phosphine, PH3 is only pyrophoric if impure, with P2H4 present.
^ GHS, seventh revised version. https://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_rev07/English/ST_SG_AC10_30_Rev7e.pdf
^ N. Pradeep Sharma, Dictionary Of Chemistry
^ a b c Angelo & Subramanian (2008), Powder metallurgy: science, technology and applications, p. 48, Powders of aluminium, iron and magnesium are highly pyrophoric in nature
^ C.W. Corti et al. / Applied Catalysis A: General 291 (2005) 257
^ Pyrophoric lead composition and method of making it
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Pyrophorics can ignite spontaneously. They burn white hot, like the thorium, in the old mantle lanterns. Radionuclides are by far and above, the strongest pyrophorics known to man. They include most classes of radionuclides: actinides like thorium, uranium, transuranics like plutonium, alkali metals like cesium 137. They are highly reactive, in trace amounts. No media attention about it at all, except in episodic incindents like WIPP and the plutonium fires ar Rocky Flats. No mention of pyrophorics at Santa Susana or INL.
Nasty wildfires are common in moist industrial areas now. Especially in nuclear countries. In populated areas on the coasts of Australia, where people in cars, burn masses of hyrocabons, with uranium, radium and thorium traces in them. They also mine and export large amounts of Uranium in Australia. There are chemical factories, petroleum on the coast of Australia Refineries that create natural radioclide waste with, high concentrations of heavy metals and the natural radionuclides thorium, uranium, radium.
In the French Riviera and Greece. California. Scandanavia. China. Chernobyl. Japan. Wildfires that are serious threats to populations.
There is also a great amount of uranium residue, in the environment from fracking.
There are fires around reactors and other nuclear facilities. There was a major fire in the Ukraine, by a hi-level nuclear waste-containment facility.
There was a fire, at an Idaho low-level nuclear waste facility, not associated with INL.
That facility was recently closed down. There was a similar fire in an eastern Washington low level nuclear waste processing facility, that closed it down.
You do not hear much about radionuclide-pyrophoricy and fires or wildfires.
Reactors emit pyrophoric radionuclides in water starved deserts like Palos verdes in arizona.
There is uranium mining, nuclear fuel production depleted uranium and isotope production, from nuclear waste. Massive flintlocks for drought and climate change related, wildfires.
Some of the recent, worst, wildfires are common around nuclear reservations in Russia, siberia and the USA. The wildfires in those areas, put large amounts of radionuclides into the air .
Santa Susana
Mayak
Siberia
Central Idaho
Idaho National Laboraory 900,000 square mile wildfire
Australian coasts
Chernobyl wildfires in 2013
South of France
China
Alaska
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[PDF]Ecological Considerations of Depleted Uranium Munitions
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1972 hanswn
excerpt from pdf
DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS IN TER-
RESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
A. Wildfires During Military Exercises
The pyrophoric properties of DU make it extremely
effective in combat use where the ecological consequences
of wildfire are hardly a consideration. A similar philos-
ophy probably exists for training purposes, although fire
control is a greater concern near populated areas or where
arid conditions produce flammable environments.
Fire is a most important limiting factor in ecosystems
of forest and grassland regions of temperate zones and in
tropical areas with dry seasons. Fire is a major hazard, and
has been for centuries, of the normal climate in most of
the terrestrial environments of the world. This has
produced biotic, fire-adapted communities uniquely
suited to a region, such as the long-leaf pine forests on the
coastal plain of the southeastern United States.3
Manage-
ment of controlled environments by prescribed burning
has been intensively investigated in this southeastern
area.” Control of vegetative cover by fire is only one
consideration in the total ecosystem response. Animal
populations respond in various ways to such procedures,
as shown in studies of wild turkey management.5
In
southeastern US pine forests, controlled fire is an indis-
pensable tool to maintain and manage turkey populations;
however, it must be used wisely to ensure that associated
animal populations are not jeopardized and thai all popu-
lations achieve a balance. Differing responses of various
species to habitat fires are found in all ecosystems, such as
soil insects and their vegetative cover in desert steppe
vegetation,6
caribou and their crucial lichen winter ranges
in arctic areas,7
and muskrats and waterfowl in various
marsh habitats.8
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Less obvious effects of fire include the
induction of mortality factors in aquatic situations,
mostly due to chemical changes in the water produced ‘<y
burned vegetation.10
The above examples recognize the ecological con-
sequences of fires caused by the pyrophoric properties of
DU munitions. The degree of importance these con-
sequences attain will depend upon the situation (wariime
or training), the bio£'ographic region(s), climate, season
of the year, and several other factors. Each situation must
be judged independent
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Why does’nt anyone care about pyrphoricity and the speading of unquenchable wildfires in populated areas, in industial Counties Herve’? Especially around large nuclear complexes like INL, Hanford, Mayak? Fukushima and Chernobyl?
The current wildfires in ustralia are the worst catastrophe in History. I have been reading about Uranium and rare earth mining, close to the Amazon. The mining and contamination of areas around and, in the Amazon maybe more important factors in the wildfires there, than climate change.
The human encroachment via clearing of forests, heavy metal mining, rare earth mining and uranium mining are certainly important factors.
There is a 70 percent chance that there will be another major nuclear reactor accident, in the world, in the next 2 years. So far they have been occuring on an average of about every 10 to 15 years. They have become much worse.
Most reactors are well beyond their initial licensing dates. More than 30 years old. Corroded, embrittled, cracked with poor to no backup. Poor supervision in countries like the USA, Ukraine, and eastern Europe.
The reopened Japanese reactors are old and damaged. Many are in earthquake zones. Accelerated climate change is significantly increasing the risk of nuclear reactor catastrophe.
ONE OR TWO major nuclear explosions, meltdowns and fuel fires, probably will occur in the USA or europe in the next 2 years.
They will spread, an unimanigable swath of pyrophoric and highly toxic, hi level radionuclides across the USA or in europe. Wildfires in populated swaths of the USA will surely accelerate dramatically within a few yeara, of nuclear reactor catastrophes in the USA . The large areas that burned at Santa Susana and INL fires sent radionuclides across Socal from Santa Susana and 6 states, from the 900,000 acre INL fire. These fires occured in the past 2 years. They have been all, but ignored.
FROM government PDF on Uranium PDA
Uranium metal can be melted by any of several different techniques. However, because
uranium is very reactive when heated in air, melting must be done either under a protective inert
atmosphere or in a vacuum.17
Uranium and its alloys are considered difficult to machine and almost
all machining of uranium results in some sparking or burning because of its pyrophoricity.
Health and safety considerations must be carefully considered when using uranium because of its
high toxicity and pyrophoricity. The main hazard to health occurs where finely divided particles can
become airborne and inhaled. For this reason, vents and fume hoods should be used, or the workers
should use respirator equipment to avoid inhalation.
Uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element that exists in recoverable amounts,
averaging about 4 ppm in the earth’s crust
The use of pyrophoric phosphorus to fire bomb dresden, in world war 2 killed 120,000 people and burned Dresden to the ground. Guess what, Uranium is more pyrophoric than phosphorus and takes much less to start fires and keep them burning. The government will not talk about it. Nobody will talk about it primarily because of the implications for storage of nuclear waste, what can happen after nuclear catastrophes, and because of the militaries ongoing uses of depleted, pyrophoric and radioactive uranium.
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