Fukushima Three Years On. Devastating Environmental and Health Impacts | Global Research

Fukushima Three Years On. Devastating Environmental and Health Impacts | Global Research

The third anniversary of the Fukushima meltdown will occur on March
11th. The news is that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and major Japanese
corporations want to re-open the 50 other nuclear power plants
that closed when Fukushima blew up, calling them a friendly economic
source of cheap power.

Will this end up with business as usual? We were recently asked if we
thought that Fukushima could ever be cleaned up. We have to say “no,”
based upon what we know of the biology, chemistry and physics of
nuclear power and isotopes and the history of nuclear development.
Chernobyl melted down in 1986 and is still releasing radioisotopes.

Not all life systems were examined around Chernobyl, but of those
that were – wild and domestic animals, birds, insects, plants,
fungi, fish, trees, and humans, all were damaged, many permanently, thus
what happens to animals and plants with short-term life spans
is predictive of those with longer ones.

Worldwide, some 985,000 “excess” deaths resulted from the Chernobyl
fallout in the first 19 years after the meltdown. In Belarus, north
of Chernobyl, which received concentrated fallout; only 20% of children
are deemed to be “healthy” although previously 80% were considered well.
How can a country function without healthy and productive citizens?
Notable in the U. S. is the Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State,
built some 70+ years ago by 60,000 laborers, and currently leaching
radioisotopes into the Columbia River. DuPont was the
original contractor, but since, multiple corporations, each paid mllions
of dollars and have yet to contain the leaking radioactivity.

Every nuclear site is also a major industrial operation, contaminated
not only with radioactive materials, but multiple toxic chemicals, such
as solvents and heavy metals.