Japan To Dump Radioactive Water Into The Ocean

Warning – Japan Intends To Pollute The Pacific Ocean

The Japanese government believes that in 2022 they will no longer be able to store any more radioactive water and will begin dumping it into the Ocean.

Why Do They Have So Much Radioactive Water?

Answer: Tsunami. 

The Japanese' Fukushima nuclear reactor plant was damaged beyond repair by the tsunami of March 2011. This article in The Guardian tells how much radioactive water they have stored and when they will begin releasing it into the ocean.

Who Will Be Affected By The Dumping?

Answer: Billions of Fish; the Fishing Industry; the population of Japan.

The Japanese Fishing Industry is understandably upset that so much contaminated water will be introduced into the ocean. Neighboring South Korea is also very concerned that this dumping will negatively affect their fishing industry as well.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is struggling to deal with the groundwater that is mixing with the water that was used to keep the overheating power plant cores from melting down. Since seawater is not drinkable, groundwater is necessary to maintain a national population and the groundwater is mixing with contaminated water. Japan may not be able to provide water for their citizens in the years to come. Some new technology will need to be employed to create potable water for the Japanese citizenry.

TEPCO also admits that the water that is to be released into the ocean contains contaminates, including some nuclear material.

Is Dumping Unwanted Nuclear Water The Only Solution?

Certainly not! I did a little study and present the following information for consideration.

What Could Be Done?

Answer: Vaporization will remove radioactive materials and other contaminants. 

I found an article about distilling water to remove radiation. This might be able to be done on a large scale thereby vaporizing the water and leaving behind the particulate that includes all the particles of contaminating material.

The remaining nuclear material and all other contaminants can be easily contained in a small fraction of the space required to store the contaminated water.

The problem that remains is Tritium. 

What is Tritium & Why Is It A Problem?

Is Tritium Radioactive?

Tritium is a naturally occurring radioactive isotope of Hydrogen. It is known as Hydrogen-3 and notated as ³H.

Tritium occurs naturally but only in very minute quantities. Tritium is one of the least dangerous radionuclides because it has an extremely weak beta particle. 

A beta particle is the particle released when the half-life of nuclear material has been reached. Although Tritium has a fairly quick half-life of 12.3 years, the particle released when half-life has been reached has only enough energy to move about 6 millimeters (in the air). 

Its weak particle has insufficient energy to penetrate the layer of "dead skin" on the surface of the human body. Therefore the beta particle released in the atmosphere is almost meaningless in terms of radioactive damage. It is so weak it cannot be detected by a Geiger Counter.

Is Tritiated Water Dangerous

Water with Tritium acts almost precisely like water with normal Hydrogen. About 60% of the human adult body is water according to USGS.org in the article The Water In You: Water and the Human Body. Since Tritium occurs naturally, it is certainly in the water of the human body in minute quantities. It is processed out of the body like any water.

Additional Tritium can be introduced into the human body by breathing (vaporous moisture), drinking, or by absorption through the skin (as water) when using water contaminated by excessive Tritium.

Tritiated water is not H₂O. Tritiated water occurs naturally in minute amounts as either a molecule of HTO (1 atom of hydrogen, 1 atom of tritium, and 1 atom of oxygen) or as T₂O (2 atoms of tritium and 1 atom of oxygen). In either case, when the tritiated water has found its way into the human body and reaches its half-life, the released beta particle will cause ionization in the surrounding body material, slightly increasing the possibility of the surrounding tissue becoming cancerous.

According to Health Physics Society [Specialists in Radiation Safety], it is common for Tritium (³H) to exist in the human body. Therefore the danger of releasing stored tritiated water into the ecosphere is that it increases slightly the possibility of the occurrence of cancer in an organ or other tissue in the human body.

Can Tritiated Water Be Removed From Japan's Storage

A research team including 'Professor Tatsuhiko Ihara of Kindai University specializing in inorganic material chemistry, and researchers from Osaka-based Toyo Aluminium K.K. and others, has developed an aluminum filter with extremely tiny holes 5 nanometers or less in diameter each. The filter can stop vapors of tritium water, and the separation rate was "almost 100 percent," according to a team spokesman.'

That quote is taken directly from an article titled Researchers develop technology to remove radioactive tritium from water in The Manichi—Japan's National Daily since 1922.

The Final Note

There is no need to release radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Japan can take measures to ensure the safety of its water table and the safety of the ocean. The nuclear water being stored can be vaporized and filtered to assure the removal of its contaminants. The process may be slow, so implementation should be started as soon as possible.

It is not only a problem to be shouldered by Japan. It is the result of a major natural catastrophe. The nations of the world should be involved together to manage the release of the water used to safeguard the world from the effect of the possible melt-down of the core of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Japan saved us all from the devastation the melt-down of the core would have caused in our ecosphere. Now we must all help Japan clean the water used to prevent that melt-down.

This is our world. Let's work to protect it.

Abraham Lincoln's Supreme Court

Watching the Vice-Presidential debate, I noted Kamala Harris' comments regarding Abraham Lincoln.  She stated that in 1861, Mr. Lincoln advised he would defer a nomination for an empty seat on the Supreme Court until after the impending election.  Putting words in Mr. Lincolns' mouth, according to Ms. Harris  “Honest Abe said, it’s not the right thing to do” and wanted the people to vote first. 

I was puzzled by her statement.  Firstly in 1861 Mr. Lincoln was newly elected to his first term.  There was no "impending election" in 1861.  November 6, 1860 was the date of the previous election.  The next election cycle would not occur until November 8, 1864.  Rather, I am sure she is referring to the vacant seat of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney.  Justice Taney died October 12th, 1864.  

I would like to think if Ms. Harris had done the research herself she would be familiar with these dates.  I suspect someone on her staff provided this as a "talking point", in an attempt to cast a negative light on President Trump.  Implying he is acting in some immoral or unethical way in filling a vacant seat at the end of his term.

It's mentionable that Chief Justice Taney was the author of the infamous Dred Scott decision.  The opinion written by him states that black people "are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States."

One would think that Mr. Lincoln would be eager to fill that vacant seat with a Justice more inclined towards his own policies.  The US was still embroiled in the Civil War, slavery was a very heated topic of the day.

However, according to the website which details the history of Congressional sessions, (https://history.house.gov/Institution/Session-Dates/30-39/) Congress was not in session from July 5, 1864 until December 5th, 1864.  Therefore, President Lincoln was unable to submit any nomination to Congress at the time of Justice Taney's death.  On December 5th President Lincoln nominated his former Secretary of State, Salmon Chase.  The first opportunity Mr. Lincoln had, his nomination was submitted, and Justice Chase was confirmed that very day.  The shortest confirmation in history.

This information, again, shows someone did not do their research regarding the talking point.  It shows a subversive attempt to rewrite history to match the narrative the Progressive Left want us to believe.  This is a perfect example of the selective editing Vice-President Pence accused Ms. Harris of.

Of further note regarding the Supreme Court in Mr. Lincolns' time, was the fear the court was attempting to legislate, rather than interpret the law.  In his own first Inaugural Address President Lincoln stated: I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding in any case, upon the parties to a suit; as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government. And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be over-ruled, and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice. At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties, in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes.

In our current era, that same issue is prevalent.  The Progressive Left are Federalists.  They want the Court to be another Legislative branch.  They worry over the potential reversal of Roe V Wade if more conservative justices are appointed to the court.  This is their justification for "packing the court".  They would appoint more Justices to ensure a Liberal bias in the Court.  What they don't want to admit is that a reversal of Roe V Wade would not make abortion illegal.  It would simply allow each state to make it's own laws regarding abortion.  The Left would have you believe the rights every citizen enjoys are at the behest of the Federal Government.  However, the 10th Amendment states clearly, those rights are at the behest of each State's government.  

Don't buy the rhetoric, research and study on your own.  Find the facts and judge for yourself.  Be fearless and make your own choices, rather than believe the misrepresentations dished up for your consumption. 

Prefab Housing

It is becoming more & more expensive to buy a ready-to-inhabit home. 

Sure, we can buy a "could-be-nice" house for a fairly well-reduced price, but it may be many upgrades away from becoming the "home" we need.

Enter VEEV. Check out their Blog.

Prognostication about how to proceed to contain Covid-19

Current Status of Covid-19

What is happening in the US at this time (Mar 24, 2020)

• Self-Isolation: If you have been in a public venue, you should isolate yourself for at least 5.1 days [the time for the virus to begin to exhibit symptoms in your body].
• Social Distancing: We are not to be within 6 feet of another person. Maybe there are some caveats:
• If we have been quarantined with that person there is no social distancing
• If there is no evidence of symptoms after 14 days of self-isolation, begin social distancing
• Use your brain to determine how to shop at grocery stores
• Use your computer to shop from home and have your order delivered to your home
• Use Clorox Wipes (or some wipe that claims to kill 99% of viruses) to wipe the outside of the packaging as you open your order
• Wear proper latex gloves to open packaging even while cleaning with "wipes"
• Be aware that the person with symptoms should be wearing a mask to minimize dispersion of the respiratory fluids that pass the virus

What information is available to really inform us

There are certainly a lot of opinions about how to approach the coronavirus Covid-19. I just read a very interesting post on medium.com. The author is Tomas Pueyo. The post is very well researched and its conclusions are heartening. Understand as you read that the author is not giving you his conclusions, but is unfolding the information retrieved from many sources and many contributors

Here is the Link: The Hammer and the Dance

If you understand the presentation and agree with the premise, there is a way you can make your voice heard by our government. "We The People" is a link that receives the White House's attention when a petition presented on the site reaches a critical number of signatures.

What can be done to get us back to work

added: March 29, 2020
We can send the youth without symptoms back to work while they continue to practice social distancing with other workers. If they live in a multi-generational family home, they should self-quarantine to one level of the home (with access to the garage), and have meals delivered at an entrance to that floor by another young person who leaves before the meals are picked up by the self-quarantined individual.

In this way, we may actually save the national economy.

Did Singapore close their economy

Reports are that Singapore did not send their people home from their jobs. It is said they did not even close their schools. It seems that they "hammered" the spread of Covid-19 by serious self-isolation of the elderly and the infirm. Apparently, they kept their economy functioning with the working youth and those of either vigorous health or successful virus recovery. The very young continued to attend school but were isolated from the older generation.

Here is a report that seems to indicate how they proceeded against the spread of the Covid-19 virus.

How Singapore "Hammered" Covid-19

This data is old now, but may still be very relevant.

Just what jobs are actually "essential"

In this list, it may be that some of these jobs do not seem essential to you. Think again [and again].

• medical professionals
• manufacturers
• General Motors and Ford are making new ventilators 
• LVMH (luxury perfume maker) is making hand sanitizer
• Altress (small, made-to-order dressmaker) is making surgical masks


• De Soto Sport (high-end sports apparel) is giving away breathable, adjustable face masks
• LMVH (Louis Vuitton and Dior) has ordered 20 million medical masks from China
• Fashion companies (H&M and Zara) and luxury firms (LVMH, Kering, and Prada) are looking for the proper materials to begin making masks
• Kering (Gucci, Balenciaga, and Yves Saint Laurent) will begin making masks
• ResMed (San Diego based) will maximize the production of ventilators, masks, and other respiratory devices
• delivery personnel UPS & FedEx have been continually making deliveries of needed materials and even food orders to self-isolated groups and families
• gasoline suppliers enable delivery companies
• Amazon & Walmart ship their product line
• these workers need to be on the job to package orders
• drivers need to be available for deliveries
• stockers are obviously required to assemble orders
• Distilleries are manufacturing hand sanitizers
• Brown-Forman (Woodford Reserve & Old Forester Distillery started delivering free sanitizer to first responders
• Neeley Family Distillery is making small batches of hand sanitizer and allowing people to bring their own bottles to fill up for a donation
• Lexington Brewing & Distilling, Rabbit Hole Distillery, and Wilderness Trail Distillery have all announced they intend to produce hand sanitizer

Looking through the "Looking Glass"

1. Let's continue self-isolation for those with symptoms or positive test results
2. Let's continue social distancing because it is good practice to stem the spread of Covid-19
3. Let's put the youth of the workforce back to work in a way that saves our economy
4. Let's review the meaning of 'Essential Jobs"
5. Let's be sensible and logical to move toward containment of this virus without social destruction
6. Let's manage this without extreme hoarding or contentious social disorder