Fukushima: BEYOND URGENT... BUSTED!

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our lives and the lives of our children and future generations are in danger the Fukushima nuclear accident is the biggest threat that humanity have ever faced and long before the fish die they will become too radioactive for human consumption right now more than 300 tons of the most radioactive contaminated water to ever be analyzed are being dumped into the Pacific Ocean every single day that's right 300 tons a day and we currently have no method to stop it and we really don't all know all know also what this radioactive water is doing in the Pacific Jenna I think a lot of people are very concerned about that but this wasn't even in the mainstream press days like Fukushima is gonna blow up to you the u.s. is gonna be evacuated Japan everyone in Japan food chain remains contaminated for hundreds or thousands of years and we'll start seeing lung cancer leukemia I think two to five years from now this catastrophe is killing the life on the Seas and is polluting with radiation the planet Earth every day since the accident began six years ago 300 to 400 tons of water has poured into the Pacific is it possible that the Pacific could become devoid of fish as bigger fish eat smaller fish and transfer their onboard caesium-137 load if there's another earthquake and building four collapses which contains the cooling pool with fresh fuel I'm going to evacuate my family from Boston approximately 300 tons of water was filtering through the site until early this month becoming laced with radioactive materials and then seeping into the sea and he was saying if just one more earthquake 7.0 or higher happens and he said there's a 95% chance that it will happen over the next three years then Fukushima would just absolutely meltdown and the US would have to be evacuated the only thing I can do if this really blows up is I've got to go to the southern hemisphere oh boy Fukushima is been hitting the viral bottom again with such great headlines as Fukushima beyond urgent and Fukushima nuclear meltdown covered up radiation high ever recorded 300 tons into the Pacific daily and other crank merchants like this Fukushima third of sea life dead February 6th 2017 and so it goes on humanity and other life and this planet is in danger and mainstream media as usual don't say a word about this important issue and keep us distracted with irrelevant things ah yes the evil mainstream media it's such a good thing too this alternative media to tell us the truth like Alex Jones and the Young Turks right and don't move people back in when there's radioactive bores on the loose I know wars are aggressive to humans without the radioactive expert but they are I mean I know people want to move home and all that but that's yeah just yet but all the cases of thyroid cancer on all of the different mutagenic which means the mutant causing effects even in children along the west coast entire dialogue coming from Fukushima has been a lie it is probably the most most detrimental and dangerous environmental disaster of all time if you can go back to Sam Cohen the former defense secretary the ability to generate everything from earthquakes to tsunamis is a given and I'm trying to think when it was but anyway shows like blue beams going into the heart of the reactor now what do you believe in neutron flux or not what it indicates is somebody even after generating the tsunami or the earthquake that generated the tsunami wasn't satisfied with that so they had to go and basically kick in a little extra help oh yes that's a first-rate alternative media or you could ask someone who actually works with ionizing radiation and uses that knowledge to keep his own ass safe came in Geiger counters on I suppose it's normal background radiation the kind you'd find in any will maintain nuclear facility playgrounds and hospitals all on a plane okay so here we are on the ground background radiation [Music] [Music] but why am I not freaking out that I'm giving 30 times the background radiation on this plane already ation it's a bit odd like that the more of it you get exposed to the higher your chances of getting cancer so you can see all these people tell me why - oh my god you're 30 times more likely to get cancer if you spend your life on a plane well yes but 30 times bugger all is still bugger all the easiest way to understand these risks is to just compare them to the risk of say dying while driving again there's this kind of linearity to it the more you drive the more likely you are to die on the roads it turns out that about a year's worth of background radiation gives me about the same chance of dying from cancer it's driving about 1,000 miles and seeing as your average American drives some 10,000 miles per year that means that you're about ten times more likely to die in a car accident on the roads then you want to die from cancer from the background radiation or another way of looking at it you could live your whole life in an area with ten times the normal background radiation and even at that you would only have comparable chances of dying from cancer from the background radiation as you do from driving your car you see the remarkable thing about radiation is you can detect incredibly small amount of it now a guy could count like this will set you back a couple of hundred dollars now a gamma-ray spectrometer is a little more exotic they start at about five hundred dollars but with something like that you can very easily quantify what radioactive elements are present now detecting a radiation from a nuclear power plant is even easier because many of the nuclear isotopes you're looking for do not occur naturally in any real quantity so everything that you detect is contamination so for instance if you want to run a nuclear reactor what you'd first do is you mine all of this naturally occurring uranium out of the ground you actually mine the radioactive material to begin with and then you bust up these uranium-235 nuclei in a reactor now those two fragments can be one of a variety of elements and they're typically radioactive but the most important fragments that we can look at a caesium iodine and strontium now even though it's the radiation from these that you're worried about how these get into your body is a matter of regular chemistry and we'll come to that shortly so something to bear in mind is some of these fragments that you get a screamingly radioactive others hardly radioactive at all generally if something's got a half-life of about four billion years about the age of the earth this is the case with the Iranian isotopes meaning that in the entire age of the earth only about half of the nuclei have emitted a radioactive particle that's probably not going to be emitting much radiation it's not something that you have to worry about too much however other isotopes can have very short half-lives like for instance ID and 1:31 or its half-life is only eight days which means that it is screamingly radioactive it's putting out radiation about a billion times faster than uranium but in two months it's almost all decayed it's only got about 1/2 a percent of its initial activity so it turns out that many of the nasty isotopes are the ones with intermediate range half-lives so this is something that is almost entirely glazed over with most of the conversations about radioactive waste is there things with short half-lives they don't sound so dangerous you know it's got a half-life of eight days or something meaning that it's almost entirely gone within a year that doesn't scare people although those are the ones which really pack the punch people are generally much more scared if you say it's gonna be radioactive for a billion years radioactive iodine-131 it's half-life is seventeen million years plus strontium plus cesium plus tritium and I could go on and on and on even though the very material that you dug out of the ground to begin with twenty make the nuclear reactor has been radioactive for billions of years so iodine-131 is almost entirely gone after about a year strontium 90 and cesium-137 probably the nastiest of the decay products now strontium is particularly nasty because it can bio accumulate and the reason it does this is because it is chemically very similar to calcium which means that if you eat the stuff it can get absorbed into your bones where basically it sticks which means the most of what you eat you will actually get the dough strong now none of this is a great problem for humans in that we can very easily detect strontium-90 and choose not to eat the stuff likewise with animals we don't generally eat their bones but let's just say take for instance an example of bioaccumulation in the sea where it would end up in an apex predator like a killer whale or something and shaul sooner or later that killer whale is gonna die most likely it won't be from the radiation as you'll see it it's quite hard to eat enough radiation to kill you and when it dies its bones sink and take all of that strontium with it the bottom line is things that bioaccumulate tend not to be very mobile in the environment they kind of speak so another example of bioaccumulation would be iodine and sure a dean bio accumulate in seaweed I think the i-beam was first discovered in seaweed but let's be real in the five or so years since Fukushima isn't a single undecayed nucleus of iodine-131 left no that will stop freaks like alex jones from trying to sell you a cure for this is what I've shared when I've talked about the nation iodine that we've produced and we shall cuz all the scientists doctors say this is the best thing for protecting your thyroid but I guess I'll tell the crew come with me if you want to go and we're gonna have to like try to I mean this is like unbelievable this is unbelievable bioaccumulation when it doesn't even exist anymore becomes kinda irrelevant the Seas you mind however is chemically kinda similar to sodium and potassium you know so sodium chloride potassium chloride cesium chloride okay so that's sodium chloride when you're putting your chips no french fries which is kind of salty this guy ham is potassium chloride which cheese looks exactly the same as salt is this guy whose season Troy and yeah while I do actually do different things in the body they're all kind of see me in their behavior in that it would be expected that the cz man would go through your body at a similar rate to that that sodium does you eat this stuff you piss it out in fact all the studies that I've seen they reckon that League need a bio accumulation of about 100 times in sea life but even at that let's just take that number and roll with it now remember what I said about you can measure very small quantities of radioactivity well it turns out they've actually done that on several seawater surveys I'll leave the link to the site below you see as there is essentially no naturally-occurring cesium-137 any detectable quantity is multiples of background which is how people usually like to state it even if that quantity is almost not detectable I mean just look at that giant red spot off the coast of America between February 2014 and February 2015 the fukushima 137 cesium signal doubled again to levels in excess of four becquerels per cubic meter in the upper 200 meters North American coast will likely attain maximum values of at least five becquerels per cubic meter by 2015 to 2016 which of course means this is going to destroy the wildlife populations how many that's why but with Chernobyl and Fukushima right no quite so much turns out the nuclear disasters like this are fantastic for the wildlife you see it turns out but wild life flourishes in a region where people have been excluded yeah wildlife Flores is there even with the immediate disadvantage of having something like 30 times the natural background radiation or about the radiation levels you'd get on a commercial jet at altitude now don't get me wrong 30 times background sounds horrible on a Geiger counter but hey doesn't stop billions flying per year it's not that big of a deal so yes indeed they have detected cesium 137 off the coast of America and the only place that could have come from is Fukushima but what is the actual measured value of cesium 137 well it's producing a couple a beccarose that's a disintegration per second per cubic meter and at that point this whole thing becomes an absolute joke a cubic meter of water weighs about a ton so let's say it's about the same weight is 10 people so a human sized piece of water in about 100 kilos 200 pounds that sort of thing we'd give off 1/10 of a baccarat and now guess how many barrels a typical human put out just from the naturally occurring radioactive isotopes in their body about 10,000 the concentrated radiation would be starting to pile up along the west coast of the US and Canada and we really don't all know all know also what this radioactive water is doing in the Pacific you know I think a lot of people are very concerned about that you're about 100,000 times as radioactive as the radiation in the Pacific from Fukushima please even if this was a thousand times worse you would still be looking your natural background radiation just from your body would still be 100 times more radioactive than the Pacific would be from Fukushima but what about the fish didn't the bio accumulate this of course the the seafood not only does the oceans currents bring the radioactivity this but also the sea life itself the bluefin tuna migrated from Japan to North America and carried the radioactive cesium in its flesh over here the food chain remains contaminated for hundreds of thousands of years and will start seeing lung cancer leukemia I think two to five years from now well let's give our fish 200 times the cesium radiation level of the water so one ton of fish would contain about two hundred becquerels of radiation from cesium two hundred disintegrations per second all locked up another way eating just one kilogram of fish one thousandth of our two pounds of fish would give you an amazing radiation dose of point two Bakkar out versus your natural background radiation levels of ten thousand back rolls more people die from not chewing their food properly if you're looking for a hazard the fish in the Pacific it's choking on their bones here is a simulation model of the path of the caesium-137 released end of the Pacific from Fukushima over a 10-year period two years after the first releases at Fukushima a fish was caught close to the plant that had seven thousand four hundred times the government limit for safe human consumption cool so let's take that example the most radioactive fish found the most and it's seven hundred forty thousand becquerels per kilogram so if you were to eat an entire kilogram of that fish you would become about 100 times more radioactive now given that they 10,000 or so barrels that your body emits is about a tenth of the total background radiation though your body's exposed to that means that eating one kilogram two pounds of the absolute most contaminated fish found at Fukushima would give you about the same radiation dose as flying on a plane at altitude and you would experience that dose until you excreted the sea so let's just make a first-degree approximation that cesium is biologically similar to sodium so there are studies that have looked at the biological half-life of sodium in the body that's basically how quickly your body turns over this iron and it turns out you would extreme about half of that cesium in about a month that means that eating the most radioactive fish at Fukushima would probably give you a lifetime dose of something along the lines of choosing to be an airline pilot but you know what we didn't eat those fish and they're probably a lot less radioactive now the simulation shows how cesium 137 released by the meltdown has been traveling across the Pacific for nearly six years now but its impact is just starting to be noticed but let's take a look at the ocean the big ocean the Pacific where it it's been contaminated by this great plume yes well it turns out they're actually being studies done on the CC marvels in the tuna and they can get screamingly radioactive up to 200 quickly Becker ELLs per kilogram that's point two becquerels per kilogram which means kilogram per kilogram that bananas are over a thousand times more radioactive than the tuna from the Pacific yep bananas naturally contain a lot of potassium and potassium is weakly radioactive look there's a very simple reason why the Paroli emergence focus on scary numbers like 300 tons of radioactive water per day but this wasn't even in the mainstream press it's like Fukushima is gonna blow up to you the u.s. is gonna be evacuated Japan everyone in Japan well he's right now more than 300 tons of the most radioactive contaminated water to ever be analyzed are being dumped into the Pacific Ocean every single day rather than the actual measurements of what's actually in the environment and this is one of the reasons why I actually got these gamma-ray spectrometer because guess what this summer I'm actually going to the beaches of California measure for myself what radioactive elements are there because I'm happen to know that those beaches are actually naturally pretty radioactive with things like uranium and thorium so let's take a look at three radiation sources I actually have let's start off with a simple Geiger counter it just measures the high-energy particles that come off this material okay it says well just regular background sounds like there's no radiation sources nearby that's about normal point two point one point two dancers a background so this is for yes to where it's a uranium glaze pottery it just is not very thin layer on the top and people used to eat off this weight [Music] so you know digital radiations where my hands are yeah it's got no real penetrating power this is what uranium or ps2 air is like okay so now we've got some thoriated of welding rods to accept thorium and these walling rods and again forum is a week off for emitter [Music] higher than background backgrounds about someone or something so there it is the dreaded caesium-137 so there's a spark gap so you basically need some ionizing radiation in there to help it sort of get a spark going across the the gap and so so cesium 137 is pretty and what is outing a so that's the Geiger counter them this right here is a gamma-ray spectrometer so in there there is a crystal of sodium iodide I think it is in this one and up here you've got photomultiplier tubes what happens is your high-energy photon comes in here where it hits at some point the sodium iodide crystal gives off a flash of light and that flash of light is of characteristic intensity which is related to the energy of of the gamma ray and seeing as nuclear decays give off characteristic wavelength gammas you can actually identify from the the intensity of that light pulse what the element was that actually decayed so what I'm gonna do now is show you that for my three radiation sources just to show you that you really can quite simply identify these radiation sources okay so what I'm gonna do is first of all is just record a background and do this for a bound a couple of minutes or something so first of all we're gonna do the spark gap okay let's put my spark gap there and we're gonna start off and again instantly you see the caesium-137 yeah that's how easy it is to spot right and this is something that you could barely detect with the Geiger counter yeah and that's how easier this detect gammas from Season one three seven this is what they usually use to calibrate these spectrometers because about Africa is 650 killer electron volts or something have a mega electron volt okay mr. Harry are they thorn a little pulling runs a pocket in should work and you can see the thorn then they're all running which is the thorium here you've another peak down here okay so it's about five minutes so show all sorts of Peaks in here okay so now let's take a look and see what it's like or yeah radium now you're wringing your wardrip Laurel is screamingly radioactive I'm gonna drop that in there and we're gonna start counting again okay it says about five minutes for uranium as you can see all of these things have pretty characteristic spectra to the point where you really really wouldn't have any problem in identifying the caesium-137 and I mean it's that quick that's how quickly you can identify even a relatively weak source of cesium 137 and it would be so much more impact well if these people rather than banging on about how many tons of water of leith if they actually just showed the radiation levels of cesium 137 you know the ones that's currently about one disintegration per second per cubic meter of seawater and if you want to win evil crazy arse projects like this one you can support this channel directly through patreon and I'd be very grateful to have you vs. support [Music] you

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