#nuclear contamination

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Obviously it would have been better if the Chernobyl disaster had never happened. But to see how wolves and other wildlife have adapted to the nuclear contamination and ambient radiation there gives a glimmer of hope that, even if the worst were to happen worldwide, we might still see at least some of the life we know today continue onward. Here's hoping that scientists, both in Ukraine and otherwise, will continue to be able to safely study Chernobyl and its effects.

#Chernobyl #nuclear power #nuclear contamination #radiation #radiation sickness #wolves #wildlife #mammals #animals #ecology #nature #immune systems #cancer #post apocalyptic #nuclear war

[hamburgerbox]

Downwinder

#art #painting #nuclear fallout #radioactive contamination #downwinders #downwinder

[naomiknight-17]

Just had to spend 10 minutes explaining to my husband that the uranium glass I'm buying is not dangerous and is less radioactive than some household electronics I'm not going to fatally irradiate our household i swear

#he wasn't THAT worried tbh but i did have to reassure him some and google some sources to back myself up lol #also went on a small tangent about how cesium is the main contaminant in most nuclear fallout and not the uranium itself #though maybe i was stabbing myself in the foot there since cesium has a half lufe of 29 years and uranium... several hundred billion ha ha #but it's FINE it's FINE REALL #*really #it's not dangerous! #the only reason you're not supposed to eat out of it is in case you accidentally swallow particles of the glass. which could be bad for u #just like you probably shouldn't swallow parts of your phone #anyway #uranium glass #mod post

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

in my heart of hearts koyanskya isn’t a manifestation of tunguska but rather chernobyl

#you could literally keep everything about her the same but it’d make so much more sense 🥺 #literally people were told to abandon their pets and livestock #many of whom died or were shot by soldiers to prevent contamination IT WAS RIGHT THERE #it’s not even the only nuclear disaster where animals are an unfortunate casualty it was just close to russia and v famous #BUT COME ON TELL ME IT WOULDNT MAKE THEMATIC SENSE W HER!!! #LIKE COME ONNNNNN HUMANITY’S IMPACT ON AMINALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT #MANIFESTING AS A RADIOACTIVE BEAST TRYING TO AVENGE THOSE THAT DIED WOULDVE ROCKED #my post

[xtruss]

70 Years After WWII, Japan Brings New Disaster To The World

— Chen Yang | August 24, 2023

Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times

Japan kick starts discharging the Nuclear-Contaminated Water Stored at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant into the sea on Thursday afternoon. This move, prioritizing Japanese government's own interests over the common interests of all humanity, will ultimately lead to Japan's isolation and leave another indelible permanent stain on human history.

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9 earthquake struck off the coast of northeastern Japan, triggering a towering tsunami that caused a nuclear leak at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant. As of now, the amount of nuclear-contaminated wastewater stored in Japan has exceeded 1.3 million tons, and it is increasing by 100 tons per day. In April 2021, the Japanese government decided to dump the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, choosing the most convenient and irresponsible method among various methods of treating the contaminated water. Since the Japanese government plans to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean over a period of 30 years, the impact on the global marine ecosystem and human health and well-being is not temporary, but long-term and enduring.

Since deciding to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, Japan has consistently faced strong opposition from domestic and international public opinion. On Tuesday, the chairman of the National Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations in Japan, Masanobu Sakamoto, reiterated during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, "Nothing will change in our opposition to the release of water into the ocean without the understanding of fishermen and the public."

On July 1, South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party, held a rally in Seoul condemning the Japanese government's plan to dump nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, urging the South Korean government to clearly oppose it.

Cooperation Needed to Minimize Economic Risk Brought by Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping — Hu Weijia! August 23, 2023. Japan's reckless dumping of nuclear wastewater poses a grave danger to Earth. Cartoon: Carlos Latuff

Despite the continuous doubts and opposition to the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean from Japan domestically and internationally, the Japanese government has turned a deaf ear and insisted on pushing forward with the discharge process. This fundamentally reflects that discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean is a selfish act that sacrifices the public health and well-being of its own country and neighboring countries and regions in exchange for short-term benefits.

In fact, one of the main reasons why Japan has insisted on dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean is the tacit approval and tolerance of the US, which has long claimed to be a "defender of human rights."

The US is Japan's ally and has had a wide range of influence on Japanese politics, diplomacy, culture and other aspects. It can even influence Japan's domestic and foreign policies to some extent. In theory, the US should exert its influence to prevent Japan from adopting irresponsible practices in dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean. However, unfortunately, regarding this public issue that poses a threat to the global marine ecosystem and human health and well-being, the US did not criticize or condemn it, worse, it praised the Japanese government for its "transparent efforts" in dealing with the issue and considered Japan's dumpingplan to be "safe."

Fishers Against Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping! Fishers of the South Korea's National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives hold a rally on August 16, 2023, in the coastal area of in Goheung county in South Jeolla Province, to protest against the dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from Japan as Japanese government reportedly is eyeing dumping the contaminated water in late August. Photo: VCG

Perhaps it is precisely because of the support and "double standards" from the US that Japan has the confidence to push forward with the process of discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean without any scruples until a specific date is determined and the discharge is implemented.

During World War II, Japan launched aggressive wars against neighboring countries, bringing great disasters to neighboring countries and regions. Today, the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater can be said to be a new disaster that Japan, which has gone through defeat and surrender for more than 70 years, has brought to neighboring countries and regions.

The ocean is the common property of all humanity, not a dumping ground for Japan's arbitrary disposal. Regarding the issue of nuclear-contaminated wastewater, Japan should recognize its own responsibility, adopt a scientific attitude, fulfill its international obligations, and respond to the serious concerns of its own citizens, neighboring countries and the international community. If it simply ignores these concerns, it will ultimately leave an indelible permanent stain on Japan in human history.

— The Author is a Guest Research Fellow at the Centre for Japanese Studies, Liaoning University.

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[midnightactual]

shock and surprise Bleach is actually anti-nuclear propaganda designed to make the horror of nuclear weapons abundantly clear by showing how bad shōnen characters throwing the equivalent of 2000 lbs bombs and 16" battleship shells at one another is and having it all still pale in comparison to actual extant nuclear arsenals, as brought to you by a guy who was born at most 2 to 3 miles from the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

#Out Of Character #Real World TW #Politics Mention TW #[ ig? I'm only tagging this out of an abundance of caution ] #[ I think there's a fair chance ] #[ that this is actually true tbqh ] #[ excess reiatsu emissions also do the equivalent of ] #[ radiation poisoning ] #[ reincarnation cycle looks like ] #[ nuclear fuel processing ] #[ high reii grade people ] #[ contaminate reishi with their reiatsu ] #[ like nuclear fallout ] #[ the main bad guys of the Bount Arc ] #[ were actually ghost sci-fi nuclear reactors ] #[ how many examples do you want? ]

[champagneoasis]

I made these memes （sorry pedro。。。🤣

#pedro pascal #pedrito #jose pedro balmaceda pascal #i love pedro pascal #pascalispunk #Fukushima nuclear contamination #fukushima #funny memes

[know-news-is-good-news]

What they have failed to mention IS they don't have any other choice ! ! The Japanese politeness would be to act like you tried to ask the world if it's OK knowing the answer but having no other alternative as the containment facilities are full and overflowing.

What you won't want to believe is the company responsible for the uncontrollable contamination of the area and has dumped contaminated fluids into the Pacific already and that have been detected along the Alaskan coast from their first dumps, have already received approval to build 3 more Nuclear Power Plants in Japan ! !

Humans are incapable of learning ANYTHING ! !

#Japan #AKW #Nuclear #Power #Plants #Contaminated #Water #have #NO #CHOICE #they #still #don't #the #situation #under #control #but #can #build #three #more

[0rack6arbie]

I wish i was illegal

#blond girl #blondie #blond jock #buy heroin online #girls who do heroin #kate mess #coca?ne #need for speed #back rooms #teroris #nuclear #contamination

[dragontatoes]

I'm trying not to use "hypothetical" in my peer review of someone's op-ed on nuclear energy but how else do I address: "but how about the elderly person that gets poisoned from growing a carrot in their contaminated ground?  Science at this point has not documented the long-term effects of nuclear energy and has left many questions unanswered."

yeah alright. let's go ahead and use the evidence of no evidence ig

#to be clear their implication is that a nuclear reactor that's running perfectly smoothly is contaminating the surrounding area #which i know sounds very possible to someone that has not studied these things #but we literally had a whole lecture in class about nuclear energy that disproves almost everything they wrote here #but uh. not my problem i'll just do my peer review and uh. mention how there's no sources in the second half of a 1270 word op-ed #reminds me of every time someone says 'well we don't know for sure that this DOESN'T cause cancer' like? how do you think science works #you can't disprove shit like that. you can only somewhat prove that shit DOES cause it. and just being alive causes cancer #ik this isn't interesting im just. ranting here

[pinkyshow]

On Native Land: Pinky & Bunny pull 360 pounds of uranium tailings through Petrified Forest National Park. (2009)

This image is from our On Native Land series. Anyone caught removing even a small piece of fossilized wood from Petrified Forest National Park will get fined $325. But Pinky & Bunny aren't stealing souvenirs, they're just spreading deadly radioactive contamination (okay, that's not real uranium), which must not be a big deal because the U.S. Government and corporations have been doing that in Navajo country for decades and no one's punishing them.

#pinky #bunny #the pinky show #navajo #first nations #native american #u.s. history #settler colonialism #genocide #nuclear weapons #environmental racism #radioactive contamination #uranium mining #nuclear waste

[hyenaswine]

how's the chernobyl book going? well, the author intersperses his chapters about the disaster with his own account of visiting pripyat, which would be fine (other than the moral question of whether it is ethical to visit pripyat at all) except that he keeps mentioning being excited to see scenes from call of duty in real life 🙃

#he's a redditor. his whole foreword was about reddit. #please i literally do not want to know a single thing about you as a person #also he claims all other accounts of chernobyl are too biased but not his! #then gushes about how safe & sustainable nuclear power is #but he only compares it to coal & gas & hydro - it's like wind & solar don't exist #& he's wrong about some of the details of ARS but that's nitpicky #stop saying the ignatenko baby died because of radiation given off by her father! #that's not how ARS works & is unnecessarily stigmatizing to the victims. ARS isn't contagious. #once contaminated material like clothes & dust are removed ARS victims themselves are not radioactive. their bodies aren't.

[caramiaaddio]

had to unfollow someone I really liked cause they support nuclear power and kept ragging on people who didn’t believe in it calling them ignorant and as bad as antivaxxers and it’s like man. I’m not dumb because I disagree with you. Radiation is fucking terrifying, and the idea that being scared of something that will proveably kill you in horrific ways is the same as being scared of proveably safe vaccines that save lives is a cruel mischaracterization.

#radiation is one of my biggest fears #and I’m absolutely anti nuclear power #because three mile island and chernobyl showed us that human error can always override machine safety #and fukishima showed us that even the safest machines can’t survive every natural disaster #like I don’t support fossil fuel power but jesus #like the bp spill was terrible coal accidents are terrible #but oil spills can be cleaned up. you can wash rocks and animals even if it takes a long time #and power plant accidents are tragic but the people that die are confined to the people that die in the immediate incident #nuclear power accidents? oh no it doesn’t work like that #wherever the radiation touches is contaminated #and the highly irradiated areas? unlivable within our lifetimes. within tens of thousands of our lifetimes #and the disaster isn’t just contained to the incident. yeah some people may die immediately from regular causes #some may die from radiation poisoning #but radiation causes cancer. there are people who survived these events who are dying from it now #because regardless of what they’ll tell you — THERE IS NO SAFE AMOUNT OF RADIATION #even the smallest amount WILL change your dna #the smaller amounts are more likely to change junk dna that doesn’t actually code for anything sure #but any amount has the possibility of changing dna that will lead to cancer #and you wouldn’t even know until 40 years later because that’s how long on average it takes the cancer to develop #and even then the disaster can STILL KILL PEOPLE even after the disaster is over!!! #there were russian soldiers in chernobyl who dug up the wrong dirt and got radiation poisoning #the reactor is concealed within two separate containment buildings but the disaster can STILL KILL PEOPLE #it’s not safe there and for all we know all of humanity could be dead before we’d be able to live there again #solar and wind have their problems sure but #nuclear just isn’t worth it because all you need is ONE fuckup for things to go wrong for so many people for so long

[cullenluco1976blog]

#digitalart #ai #aiart #nuclear weapons #environment #nuclear weapon #contamination #radiation #art #mutations #atomic bomb

[debbiklemanblog]

#radiation contamination #ai #atomic bomb #disaster #aftermath #nuclear bomb #nuclear weapon #destruction #digitalart #aiart #art

[alecialuescher1960blog]

#ai #art #digitalart #nuclear weapon #aiart #nuclear radiation #long-term effects #aftermath #contamination #environment #atomic bomb