The Internet Is Overreacting About Fukushima's Radiation, Here's Why

Over 6 years later, new readings from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant show that radiation levels are still very high, but should you be worried?
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"The radiation levels inside Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor No. 2 have soared in recent weeks, reaching a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, a number experts have called 'unimaginable'. Radiation is now by far the highest it has been since the reactor was struck by a tsunami in March 2011 - and scientists are struggling to explain what's going on."
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"Tepco also announced that, based on its analysis of images taken by a remote-controlled camera, that there is a 2-meter hole in the metal grating under the pressure vessel in the reactor's primary containment vessel. It also thinks part of the grating is warped. The hole could have been caused when the fuel escaped the pressure vessel after the mega-quake and massive tsunami triggered a station blackout that crippled the plant's ability to cool the reactors."
Five Years Later, Cutting Through the Fukushima Myths
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"March 11, 2011 was a day of unimaginable tragedy in northern Japan, a tragedy exacerbated by the reactor meltdowns and release of contamination. But the nuclear part of this horrible day was, if the longest-lasting, certainly the least lethal event. Yet it's the part that still engenders so much fear. With the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima accident upon us this month, let's take a look at where things stand today with recovering from this calamity, and what might be happening next."
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[@markus-d]

I'm more concerned on where I can get that shirt.

[@zwiebeldogs]

A www.amazon.com/Shirt-Woot-Games-Thrones-T-Shirt-Asphalt/dp/B00R1SZJ4Q

[@flacco6462]

A he litteraly gave you the link to buy the shirt im speechless;-;

[@zwiebeldogs]

I don't know if you're really speechless, but you're definitely dirty, dan

[@TheMegalusDoomslayer]

Doggo the Great No, I'm Dirty Dan.

[@eveningstar7812]

All right, which one of you fellas is the REAL dirty dan

[@andrewevenson7798]

I think that nuclear power should definitely still be used, we just need to be much more careful to protect it. Put it inland in a place that is not prone to earthquakes or severe storms. Hopefully we can utilize some safer options for power in the future. I don't know how much pollution is caused mining the resources to power the nuclear power, but the power plant itself produces no pollution, and that's a win in my book.

[@Cryptonymicus]

Putting nuclear power in the hands of for-profit corporations is a prescription for inevitable disastrous consequences.

[@arcanehero1247]

Andrew Evenson it's severely inefficient

[@Unchainedmaple888]

Problem is that nuclear fission reactors need water, so they always put them close to bodies of water. We need fusion reactors and we need them now lol

[@MG-cu6ny]

They just need to use thorium salt reactors, instead of the high pressure water reactors.

[@zygot3060]

They have made vast improvements of Nuclear power plants. New plants make the same stuff last several times longer and have fail safes implemented in them that Fukushima didn't that would have made that plant not fail. Unfortunately the failures of the early products of Nuclear power has scared people off of it. As of right now, it's the safest least pollutive way we have to make power on an on demand basis.

[@Master_Therion]

"The Internet Is Overreacting..." when there's a problem at a nuclear *reactor* that is also an "Overreaction." ;)

[@schadenfreudebuddha]

i'm curie-ous how you don't see your jokes will lead to a lot of fallout. that fusion of insensitivity and puns is going to really cause some meltdowns.

[@Master_Therion]

schadenfreudebuddha Yep, sometimes I cause a comment-chain-reaction.

[@schadenfreudebuddha]

only solution is a religious experience to change your ways. you need to attend a critical mass.

[@Master_Therion]

schadenfreudebuddha I love going to critical mass, it always gives me a warm glow, teaches nuclear family values and the sermons are the bomb.

[@schadenfreudebuddha]

sounds pretty RAD, but talking religion could be a GRAY area in a science channel. maybe just drink some STRONG TEA, M. hope you don't mind being called "m"

[@delfinorowe]

what government paid you?

[@kk346592]

This comment section is pure gold.

[@peterandthemagicegg]

Why is Fukushima still off limits then? Why did that robot fry in less than an hour? Why were surrounding areas RE-Evacuated just last week?

[@EuanTodd]

Twilight Sparkle because Fukushima is in a state of decay I.e it's dangerous due to the state of the building. because they were in direct contact with the radiation source. and it wasn't.

[@pieluver1234]

The evacuation zone is 20km from the reactor, which is pretty close. The radiation level there surrounding the reactor is not that high, but the government just doesn't want to take risks by keeping people there. The robot was fried inside the reactor near the radiation source, so obviously it would fry within an hour.

[@scottfree6479]

Because there's a big difference between being 100m from something and being 100km from something. Dilution is real, and nuclear waste isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is so long as you take the proper precautions. It doesn't act like ebola.

[@tanweeralam1650]

Yes. Exactly. Why we need Nuclear power when we ve our Sun.

[@scottfree6479]

Because Solar is much less efficient than nuclear fission at the moment, and in order to provide enough power for our entire planet we maybe alter the reflective qualities of the planet sufficiently to disrupt the environment. Solar is a fine power source, but it isn't enough to be a solution to our problems. Not yet, anyways. We NEED to stop pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, and the only way we can do that is with massive implementation of modern nuclear reactors ASAP.

[@MrPathorock]

Will you eat veggies growing in the contaminated soil? If you do, then I will believe you.

[@ThatShyGuyMatt]

UM... talk about fake news. You do realize in 2016 that radiation from the plant finally reached California's shores right? I mean sure its not going to transform lizards into Godzilla but it still should show the dangers of how far the radiation can spread, even if only a little.

[@jacobrichardson3494]

Stfu

[@andrewevenson7798]

SonOfAKing how do you know what you read/watched wasn't fake news? Did you measure the radiation your self. I'm not saying you are right or wrong, but you sure don't have the evidence to prove them wrong in your comment.

[@jareda.1353]

SonOfAKing Uhm, yeah, radiation is natural, we can manage it pretty well at a distance. Besides U.S nuclear power plants have very strict protocols which would have prevented a disaster like this beforehand.

[@GottaLoveDepecheMode]

Sources?

[@peterpan4038]

"The radiation reached US" doesn't mean anything. What matters is: how much. But this question is never really answered by those news that want to profit from your fear. ;)

[@beardedba]

I actually worked in nuclear power 20 years ago helping restart 2 closed reactors in NRC violation status and 1 reactor decommissioning as a document control specialist. Learned a lot there and don't fear Nuclear done right, but am not a degreed scientist; information is power however. When rules are followed, accidents don't happen unless design flaws are built-in. Problem One was being located under a giant aquifer in an earthquake zone...never should have operated in that location. Problem Two is making reality fit here: fission is still uncontained with no practical way to end or minimalize 5 years running...a crisis worse than Chernobyl, but doubt the 'global catastrophy' hype. Very much doubt the 'axis retilt' theory caused by the explosions and tsunami as well; 'it ain't no giant asteroid smacking the Pacific Pond'. Blame rests with Japanese Bureaucrats and Designers (GE and its connected build technologists) too eager to make money and power without considering consequences. As for no one dying, doubt seriously the area's body count was all about the big wave alone...we are talking radioactive release here...short and long term effects generations to come in the rad zone remains an inescapable truth.

[@VickiTakacs.]

beardedba Thank you. You are the first person to ever say the big wave probably didn't cause all of the deaths, and I have been studying this since it happened. As a girl growing up in the 50's, that duck and cover bullshit just pissed me off. If over 5 million deaths are down to Chernobyl, what is Fukushima's going to be? Right after it happened, a whole shipment of Nissans in Russia was found to be so radioactive they had to be gotten rid of. Other countries also had this happen. Why didn't it happen here and why was Hillary in charge of accepting food and goods from Japan?

[@LSuschena]

Radioactive release. Can I remind you there were 2 other radioactive releases in Japan which were far worse that the amount of radioactive materials released for these plants, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Not everyone in Japan or the world died as a result of those events. The US, Soviet Union and other countries did above ground testing of nuclear bombs that released much more radioactive materials into the air and water, yet the world is still here. Working a few years in document control does not a nuclear expert make. I worked 40 years in operations construction and design, this is a significant event, but not an extinction event.

[@gavinbeacom3251]

Ok

[@kristinwood8884]

Jesus Christ wtf kind of propaganda hell have I stumbled upon?

[@FrainBart_main]

It really isn't. Try reading scientific literature and looking at some actual measurements taken instead of believing fear-mongering news stories.

[@hyomin.j1456]

If this guy eats fukushima foods in random places around Fukushima without hesitation and editing I will believe in this fake video

[@joshisnot11]

@@hyomin.j1456 You do realize he said "If you DON'T live in the immediate area..." He literally admits up front that being in the area around a nuclear disaster is dangerous. I don't understand how that goes over ones head.

[@Awakemeplz]

the water becomes irradiated and flows everywhere on the planet......yea no problem,you can trust them, go back to sleep

[@rollog1248]

Awakemeplz You are an idiot, the irradiated water can't mix with regular water. Go to school before you start conspiracies.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

Awakemeplz Even of it did, by the time the radiation reaches Comifornia it would be so weak your granite counter top will give off more radiation!

[@rebecarenovato610]

then how the "normal water" get polluted with radiation? just asking tho

[@ReddwarfIV]

+Rebecca Renovato Either fissile material from the reactor escaped, or radiation emitted by the reactor turned individual water molecules into something like Low-Level Waste. These aren't going to turn more water radioactive, and they will themselves decay.

[@00maniacmanny00]

He literally disproved that in the video

[@jackhenderson1039]

"You provide evidence against me so therefore you are wrong." Comment section in a nutshell.

[@dawndavidson8733]

follow the crumbs....

[@puncheex2]

"follow the crumbs"? No - get yourself an education.

[@puncheex2]

Tigro: A mere list of fission products doesn't prove anything. In particular, there is no proof that the majority of them are even present, let alone present in dangerous quantities, at Fukushima. Some of the things on the list aren't even fission products, like the americium, uranium and thorium, for example. It is obvious you don't know what they are or what the various numbers (or lack of them) means. The list is not "a few random" species, it is pretty well an exhaustive list of the possibles. Beyond proving a certain facility with cut/paste, what are you demonstrating here?

[@DagaanGalakticos]

Tigro del Norte - Thanks for posting the list of radioactive materials. Is this what was/ is actually being released by Fukushima? Thanks!

[@DagaanGalakticos]

puncheex2 - Do you know of an actual list of the radioactive materials being released from Fukushima? Or how to find one? Thanks!

[@MGNetwork868]

is he for real over 300 tons of radioactive water is dumped into the sea everyday since 2011 and tuna is ok hahahahahahhaha

[@sonyapeach]

Marcus Gonzales Network. MGN His lie would be funny if it weren’t killing people.

[@Leakproject42]

Dont forget about the wonderful MOX Mixture with Plutonium.. That stuffs gonna be around longer than most meat suits.

[@clarencekeith228]

What the... i thought this was discovery channel. Change your logo its confusing.

[@dainironfoot5198]

It's part of Discovery channel.

[@BluntedWax]

Boy ol boy, how much money did they pay you to say the Fukushima radiation isn't that bad???

[@TraceDominguez]

Zero dollars. Because it's not, unless you've spent a lot of time close to the reactor.

[@FMChimera]

That comment is actually correct...so far as it goes. The problem is, of course, that it stops long before we get to the issue of the Pacific Ocean. But that is where their denial kicks in. "Water? What water?" "Water? The water is pure as the driven snow" "Water, it's an ocean it can absorb endless radiation with no ill effects...but we really really gotta stop polluting cuz...plastic!" Damned ignorant fools.

[@dawndavidson8733]

if it can absorb endless radiation with no ill effects, why are the fish contaminated with radiation? An ocean is an ecosystem, and we humans (and the planet need it healthy and thriving to survive).

[@BluntedWax]

Agreed

[@KeeKiddProd1]

Patrick Erickson hahaaa right?

[@junbug1love]

Guys this video is completely incorrect. I swear on everything I love

[@xxfalconarasxx5659]

"I swear on everything I love" Is that your source? Swearing on everything you love?

[@carlelg5001]

This comment section is so full of trolls. Simply amazing

[@bryandepaepe5984]

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. It's time to rename the comment section to Mos Eisley.

[@DragonsGemstone]

Lies! You could have enlightened people to the truth. So much radiation has been pumped in the sea. If not fukishima then the sinking eketewan atoll.

[@joshgreen7612]

When the government says don't worry, then it's time to worry.

[@manuel21863]

omfg fake news propaganda!!!!!

[@IWantToStayAtYourHouse]

how is this fake.

[@scientistsbaffled5730]

Jokez nothing to see here folks just move along

[@manuel21863]

Jokez same tactics as mainstream. Drown out the truth. Muddy the waters. Make it close to impossible for non researchers to get the truth. Ridicule the truth

[@manuel21863]

Harsha Boyilla exactly...

[@manuel21863]

Harsha Boyilla so they can't get a robot close enough to fix a 1200hour job because it dies in 1 hour.. so how is this not a catastrophe? Fake news and paid trolls on this channel

[@hellcat1988]

people are freaking out after you put a video out saying dangerously high rad levels have been detected as a click bait tile for a video? imagine that.

[@oscarmanzano4017]

I hope Godzilla eats this guy first

[@isagt57]

Overreacting? Even this week, New Zealand authorities have said they will move the carcasses of hundreds of whales that died, first time 300 and then in Thursday 400 more whales, and the increase deaths of other animals that are dying, in masses, everyday, since 2011, perhaps, they are all Overreacting, and, coincidentally, in the Pacific Ocean.

[@MuhammadIrfan-ye5zf]

I've seen a lot news of mass sea creatures die off in past few months, especially around Pacific Ocean like Australia. I feel you man for this planet tragedy.

[@camusunder]

none of which have shown, as far as I know, symptoms of radiation poisoning....have you heard of coincidence before? It's a thing.

[@tarotaro6933]

Just because hundreds more whales dying this year means it is cause by the radiation? Are these whales dying because radiation poison? If not, then yes it is coincidence or cause by some other reason but not what you think it is.

[@paulmobleyscience]

Taro Taro Ok I've seen enough of your comments I must say something on this and bedore you respond read all my other comments in here. There are 2 species on this planet that have the least amount of cancers and also some of the longest living animals on the planet. The elephant and the whale. They have extra chromosomes that produce cells that protect and help move cancerous cells out of their body. So they are tough I will say that. But it isn't their health causimg these massive dieoffs and the cause can be found in countless mass dieoffs since 2011. Most of these dieoffs of marine animals are do to starvation. They are emaciated and completly exhausted. Their food is what holds the key. Salmon numbers this year throughout the planet are fraction of estimates as they go to sea for 5-6 years and return to spawn. What happened 5-6 years ago? Hmmm. Also a very unknown fact is what happened to the starfish. A melting disease?No, in fact starfish absord 1000 × more plutonium than most of all the animals in the ocean. They are literally going extinct on the west coast of the US and tide pools that were explosions of life before fukushima are now deserts with only invasive species mainly taking over. The great barrier reaf is now done for. New video of sea lion grabbing a young girl off a pear and dragging her into the water and meaning to do it because its starving to death. Sea lions all over the place coming well inland in search for food. This is also what is happening with the whales.

[@tarotaro6933]

@Paul Mobley all of your claim is just partial or base on your own believe. There is so many factors that can cause die-off, if you think the die-off is caused by whatever reason you thing then give us your proof. I can also claim the die-off is just cause by navigation since it is in fact one of the most frequent reason that cause massive die-off. All you people that claiming the radioactive substance travel all over the pacific you have no proof to support your claim. In fact the monthly IAEC report on Fukushima have data log that monitor all the Fukushima surrounding water's quality and radioactive substance level drop dramatically above the 10 miles zone. And to this day there is no report indicate any extra radioactive activity at anywhere around the pacific except within the Fukushima area. All this report you can check it on IAEC website.

[@danieltrevino8855]

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Then show somewhere there is a lie in the video.

[@RichardStJohn-zz8or]

"... and now a message from our sponsor, TEPCO!" Stupid is, as stupid says.

[@djmadhattertv4959]

I'm surprised the discovery channel hasn't come after you with that logo

[@SuperCakeKing]

Its almost like its owned by them

[@sdouglas9690]

How about radioactive isotopes of strontium? Somehow they always fail to mention about it.

[@morrowen]

shura zero Sure, they didn't mention it, but compared to the ocean, the tiny amount of Stronium-90 that leaked is so insignificant it may as well not be there

[@sonyapeach]

Not Alex yeah tell that to all the dead ocean like being beached and the dying coral reefs.

[@shawnnoyes4620]

Rarely goes farther than site boundary except Chernobyl.

[@pyrosimba2014]

Suddenly, everyone on KZbin is an engineer at a nuclear power plant or a scientist who has been monitoring the ocean since they were in their diapers. huh.

[@chrisryan8923]

This guy is just like TEPCO. Lying and downplaying the situation.

[@prestongarvey2119]

This is fucking propaganda.

[@damienscullytoo]

because you lack the understanding of basic nuclear science? Ignorance is bliss.

[@Willaev]

Nope.

[@highdough2712]

Do you have any evidence to back up your claim of propaganda, or are you just naturally prone to irrational beliefs?

[@scottfree6479]

Actually, the Fukushima and Nuclear Alarmists are generating the real propaganda. Big Oil financed anti-nuclear protests in the 20th century in order to prevent a more efficient energy source (fission) from displacing coal/oil.

[@BassManBobBassCovers]

yeah it is

[@DaniG._.German]

Remember when former Pres. Obama was a guest host on this channel? DNews' bank account remembers.

[@TraceDominguez]

Do you know how government works? Or how private business works? Or how their funding models work?

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Omg the evolution of the Brahmin has begun!

[@TheStainlessFish]

huh, what do you mean by that? (I have not watched vid yet)

[@andrewevenson7798]

thepinkfish19 It's a reference to the video game series "fallout."

[@rubinchavarria622]

this guy had drank too much radiation

[@tehanureaver4299]

Respect, we need nuclear more than ever.

[@Vikas.03]

make a video on how actually radioactive materials alters our body

[@templarkiller2926]

vikas tiwari It's nothing crazy like giving you new limbs

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

tushar gupta only?

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

vikas tiwari How much? Unless in high doses our bodies can handle radiation quite well.

[@00maniacmanny00]

Radiation CAN cause mutations

[@TraceDominguez]

We did! "What Does Nuclear Fallout Do To The Body?" you can find it on our channel. 😁

[@JerkyNero]

Why not build nuclear power plants in areas least susceptible to natural disasters?

[@lukefrance9558]

JerkyNero they are it's just that Japan a small country with small amounts of recourses. Needed energy

[@djc4446]

Like the New Madrid Fault Line right down the middle of the US.. Why do they do that?

[@robert2935]

JerkyNero The nuclear power plant location was good but they put the back up generators in a poor location so when they flooded out nothing was supplying electricity to pump coolant. We all know what happened after that.

[@baqcasanke]

because not just remote safe places need electricity ....

[@truthboom]

Nah it intentional to bring doom to humanity

[@supermagicalcookie2400]

Just pop some rad-x

[@speedy01247]

I wonder what a material that is super attractive to radioactive molecules which can stabilize them would actually do to the body. (what I would assume Rad-x to be)

[@SeanLKearns]

Did anyone else feel like this guys is secretly terrified because he knows the truth, but his soul belongs to discovery channel. So just gonna downplay the apocalypse.

[@TheRantinghick]

I didn't hear him mention the weapons grade material that was also scattered by the melt down. Just the isotopes that have a short half life. No one who knows any thing was worried about the cesium. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,110 years and is way more damaging than cesium to living things.

[@MuhammadIrfan-ye5zf]

That's what I think too. I always wonder which one is lying Dnews or the fact that Fukushima reactor carry some Plutonium in risk of potential meltdown.

[@puncheex2]

Might I say here, that it doesn't make a damn's worth of dfference how many line up behind you to repeat that stupid thing the Ranting Hick had to say? You're all wrong. Plutonium is just about as safe a thing to have beside you as plate steel. Check out this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald_Ranch_House#/media/File:Trinity_Test_Plutonium_Core_(uncropped).jpg The man is carrying a plywood box with a thin magnesium sheet liner and rubber baby buggy bumpers on it, containing half of the pit used in the trinity test - 5 kg of pure plutonium metal, with a thin nickel plating. The radioactivity from plutonium is rather mild intensity alpha; It never got past the plywood in the box. A gram of cesium-137 in that same box would make a person with a 5 minute exposure as shown quite ill. The longer the half-life the worse it is, huh? Well, the oxygen you breathe has an infinite half-life - it must be scary for you, that. If you still believe, see this graph of the radiation at Chernobyl and contemplate the fact that plutonium and uranium, especially, are not even mentioned: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#/media/File:AirDoseChernobylVector.svg

[@TheRantinghick]

How dumb are you? That test was done after a bomb blast not a melt down and the graph was about atmospheric radiation. As well plutonium and uranium are in fact mentioned in the article. You actually proved my point. Chernobyl is still radioactive. The difference is the core is contained not being exposed to the ocean. Way to attempt to select specific information to make a point. You failed because i can read and know better. Go hug the elephants foot at Chernobyl if you think its safe.

[@MetroVerse]

This video was sponsered by: all the world leaders

[@JeffChr]

The radiation is not confined to the reactor. The fuel has melted the reactor. Radiation is sleeping into the ground water and into the ocean.

[@lockenessmotorsports818]

And the ocean is a dillutor it was severe in the immediate area, it's impossible to pollute the entire ocean

[@danielpaskoful]

Your "its super interesting" comment was in very poor taste. there is no redeeming or positive side to this disaster. I can't believe your down playing the significance of this catastrophe.

[@taokuoh6805]

Green Wave, why do you post the same shit in every comment on this video?

[@atomicchimichangas7666]

Taokuoh beacuse a lot of people is spreading bullshits

[@FalloutConspiracy]

The major underlying issue that needs to be addressed, and is not being addressed neither in this video, nor by anyone else in the media, is not the risk of external contamination posed by living in close proximity to the exclusion zone; rather it's the risk of internal contamination that occurs as a result of consuming radioisotopes that have bioaccumulated in the food supply. It's the risk of the inhalation of water-insoluble, glassy cesium microparticles that can get lodged in your muscle tissue and go on to inflict genetic damage at the cellular level over an extended period of time. Isotopes that were released as a result of the of hydrogen explosions that sent large deposits of radioactive fallout across large areas of Japan and are still detectable in certain food products that are brought to market and sold to the general public in that country. Furthermore, the U.S Government has not conducted and refuses to conduct any significant clinical diagnostic testing of fish that are caught through commercial fishing expeditions in the Pacific Ocean. So there is a real possibility that people in the United States are consuming, albeit at low levels, fish that has been contaminated. Not to mention the neverending stream of contaminated groundwater that, at a rate of 70- 300 tons per day, has been flowing from the Daiichi site into the Pacific Ocean since March of 2011. An ocean that serves as a giant marine habitat for a plethora of life forms that will undoubtedly experience genetic damage and chromosomal translocations that will adversely affect their evolutionary trajectory for years to come.

[@weldrocks]

I saw a show years ago where Germany created a ceramic coated uranium pellet that couldn't melt down even without coolant. Why wasn't that ever used? Also when given the choice to use Molten Salt reactors using Thorium or Straight Uranium we used the latter because you can't make weapons from Thorium reactors. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@FrainBart_main]

Ceramic UO2 fuel is used basically everywhere in the world (was used in Fukushima Daiichi too), I'm not familiar with the one created in Germany. You are right about the cause of using uranium over thorium. You can produce weapons-grade U-233 with molten-salt reactors but it's a lot harder to produce a U-233 critical mass due to U-232 poisoning (daughter products from U-232 produce powerful gamma rays which are easily detectable and could damage the electronics of the nuclear bomb).

[@Asian_Connection]

Man he must got paid a lot for this. I want to him prove it by taking a quick dip in the ocean.

[@AngelLestat2]

*You are saying that is all ok, that we just need to learn about it.. but it seems that you did not learn nothing.* Keeping radiation aside and health issues with long term consequences that can not be related with certainty. Lets understand that Japan now is the country with more debt of the world (by far), and they were lucky that the wind those days was blowing to the sea and not towards Tokio, in that case financing speaking, Japan would cease to exist. *The cost of the whole earthquake and tsunami was 250 billions, from those 200 billions was the cost due the nuclear meltdown alone to see it in perspective!* Then you need to add all that huge land that can not be used to live or grow food anymore. This all taking into account that the nuclear company does not have to pay nothing of that.. So what we need to learn about it? How to improve new nuclear reactors? *Why??? they already cost twice than wind energy!* this without adding cost of disasters or future danger due radiation waste storage. Japan already learned, because now they will focus on 100% solar and wind with a base of hydrogen economy for storage. Now... is the turn for the rest of the world to really learn this lesson.

[@VickiTakacs.]

Actually I read the Japanese people came out in droves to protest this one nuclear plant being turned back on, but the government turned it back on anyway. Also I have read you can be jailed for speaking out about how bad the radiation is in Japan. The gov't doesn't want anything to stop their hosting of the Olympic Games. I hope the fool that made this video buys a Nissan 2011.

[@TheArizonaSkies]

MICHIO KAKU is to be believed. Not you.

[@edt11x]

Really good video! It's so hard to have any intuition about invisible threats like radiation.

[@chrisnicula6256]

We're not worried about fish, because they are all dead.

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

Show this. I can still buy wild Pacific salmon online.

[@alanstheschmitt6772]

B.s. I have been doing regular geiger counts for the last year and I am showing DOUBLE the max background counts per minute (cpm). What about the mass die-offs around the whole pacific basin and the collapse of many of the pacific fisheries? Oh, they also forgot to mention that cesium 137's 30 year half life has to be multiplied ×10 so 300 years not 30. Don't forget the 4.7 BILLION year half life of the Uranium (the vast majority of the 200 ton core ×3 cores plus the millions of pounds of spent fuel). Yup, everything's fine go back to sleep sheeple.

[@morrowen]

Alan Schmitt OH WOW, DOUBLE? Well, 2*0 is a huge number, I guess I better go hide in my bunker, and what mass die offs? Just because a few wildlife died doesn't mean that it was because of Fukushima, it could've literally been ANYTHING else. Perhaps the fact that the oceans have been warmer due to global warming?

[@morrowen]

Alan Schmitt Oh and don't forget the Caesium, why are we multiplying the half life by ten? To spread false information? It sure sounds like it.

[@atomicchimichangas7666]

Alan Schmitt no , it doesn't need to decay all of it

[@BenJamin-rt7ui]

Where you wearing a tin foil hat at the time? Almost certainly the source.

[@tracycopen5263]

So no big deal. unheard of radiation but probably going to be ok. Highest readings ever recorded in history but rapidly dropping, and just because you don't care about your balls irradiated, doesn't make you an expert on things never before seen, still to this day 400 tons of radiation with the highest levels of contamination ever seen but levels are dropping, storage tanks already hastily substandard built leaking and deteriorating, all sitting uphill earthquake zone. You love your voice or your a propaganda video, which is why you at the top of list.

[@BassManBobBassCovers]

Exactly!

[@baqcasanke]

Bam, exactly. This is bad folks. Wake up please

[@DingStiing]

Tracy Copen It doesn't make you an expert either yet you're quick to start insulting people on the Internet.

[@tracycopen5263]

Craig haha no likes 4u, and it wasn't a quick decision.

[@mikem6049]

People do need to wake up. The levels of radiation measured is not reflected in any publication. Tokyo Electric is essentially making things up as they go to reduce panic.

[@WadcaWymiaru]

Smart people LAUGH hearing about "fukushima radiation"... I'm wise and i already know SAFE radiation level (in 53 µSv/h)

[@DJM.I.A.]

Id expect this type of downplay from the worst "accident" since Chernobyl, they downplayed that as well

[@danadurnfordkevinblanchdebunk]

But no one has died from Fukushima radiation. Many did from Chernobyl.

[@away69]

Finally someone who's not afraid of saying the truth

[@jasonmurawski126]

Notice how nobody in the comments against this has no proof but people who believe this video (including myself) have actual evidence

[@chuckschenck3045]

What if they don't care if you know?

[@spaghetti5914]

*I SEE NO EVIDENCE*

[@spaghetti5914]

And I am here chilling having no idea about what happened to fukushima

[@scorchedcore4357]

wth,no offence but this guy cant be for real right?

[@ch_dn]

Melt through and melt out is nothing to overreact? ok

[@johndurant8687]

nothing more delicious than a tuna melt!

[@ScienceByMike]

Doesn't the internet always overreact?

[@theb166-er3]

FAO 71-77 and FAO 61-67 always check the fishing zones where the fish comes from! And Japanese agricultural products like rice or peaches are a NO-NO Why is geothermal energy not discussed? Because it is free energy?

[@FrainBart_main]

Because it is by far too expensive to exploit in most places of the Earth.

[@thomasfrazier2090]

this is dangerous nonsense! I worked and trained around nuclear reactors and "special weapons". I was one of four in my section trained as rapid response team member (aka suicide squad) in case of any type of casualty/ alarm. The only reason i mention that qualification is because i understand what is going on here, what has happened and what is going to happen in the coming months and beyond. These levels of radiation are absolutely unimaginable high levels. And to make it as bad as jt can get. The core has melted thru its containment and straight out the bottom. It is in the earth below the powerplant. It is radiating the earth and sea around it with enough radiation to kill the entire pacific ocean and no way to contain it. This is absolutely devistating for japan. Even worse, the entire pacific ocean is going to become a nuclear wasteland. It will take several years for the south pacific to feel the harmful effects. But it will be a hundred years before anything will live. A thousand years to look like an ocean again and 10,000 years before it forgets what happened. Everything along the ocean currents that ride the north pacific straight over to alaska and down the west coast will die nasty exposure deaths. Or depending on how dilute the contamination. Maybe everything else will just get cancerous tumors and longer lingering deaths. If you live on the west coast. Sell and move now!!! I am not a fearmonger. This is not conspiracy or far fetched talk. Radiation monitors all along the west coast and inland are already registering high levels of radiation. Please, by all means, dont take my word for fact. If this effects you, please look up this information and xomment below. You can always wait and see what the government says. Or wait for the mainstream media to pick up on this. But based on what the power company has admitted to and what i know from my training and experience, about exposure to radiation. And a missing nuclear reactor core that haz gone critical. And the unimaginable level of radiation it left behind in the empty breached containment vessel. Its time tk say goodbye to the west coast. Or stay and suffer the consequences. If you have children it will be criminal for you to stay any longer than absolutely necessary.

[@hrthrhs]

Soz but you lost me when you said the entire Pacific ocean will become a wasteland.

[@jacalynbaglieri801]

Yes, nuclear power is a cheap, clean abundant source of energy. We need to be intelligent about nuclear power plants re: location, testing back up systems regularly and building better redundant safety features in new reactors. We now have technology that reduces nuclear waste from the size of a large drum to the size of a beer can. When reactors get old like F was, 40 years, we should think about de- commissioning them, put the fuel rods in new plants and do a complete upgrade to update the old plant to keep up with new technologies and safety measures. Then go on to the next oldest and use that fuel in the newly refurbished reactor. So, you'll always have one reactor empty and being worked on but you'll constantly be upgrading your plants so they'll always be in top shape. From reading about F, I know there were a number of human errors. The main one was not to take into account natural disasters customary in Japan such as earthquakes and tsunamis. In this case it wouldn't have made a difference because of the amount of water but you never put electrical equipment, be it computers or generators in a basement or even the first floor. Anyone who has worked in a data center knows that. Being near a body of water meant that the leaked radioactive water drained into the Pacific Ocean which spread to California. Now that I've thought about this, it's pretty scary how a bunch of intelligent people were basically dumb.

[@garryheywood1]

Jacalyn Baglieri How can you say that nuclear energy is cheap & clean? Nuclear reactors are designed to operate for, at best, around 50 yrs during that time they produce fission products (nuclear waste) in vast amounts, thousands of tons of it and it is intensely radioactive and will remain so for hundreds of thousands of years. The very first nuclear waste was produced way back in 1942 and in all the time since we still haven't figured out what to do with it, it is still classed as nuclear waste! The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of tons of high level waste, vastly more radioactive than the original stuff all of which has no solution for safe disposal, it is toxic to biological life in the extreme. So, NO, Nuclear energy is NOT clean, cheap, or even safe, a nuclear reactor produces electricity for 50yrs and radioactive waste for half a million years, oh and as for it being cheap, our children and theirs will have an enormous price to pay for our greed and ignorance.

[@mccare13]

Hmmm... I just saw Japanese documentary about people who live in that area. Their geiger counters shows any where between 3 to 9 Sv. According to scientist, anything above 1 Sv causes illness very rapidly. I would recommend this dude to live in Fukushima area for 6 moths, of course he has to pay for it. He probably would have third ball by the time he is done.

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

No you idiot those counters were probably showing MICRO SIEVERTS and there are 1000000 Micro Sieverts in a Sievert! 3 Micro Sieverts isn't that much above normal background I'd be worried however if that counter was showing millisieverts but it probably wasn't

[@mccare13]

Yeah, you are right. I just read that it was 10 micro Sv per day. Well they said it is four times high than common legal maximum. I don't know about you and maybe you feel comfortable living there or you are already living there. But I woudn't. I heard it is ghost town and most of former residents do not want to come back there. I wonder why. According to you and other people, it is perfectly safe. Why more people are getting cancers from that area.@@AdamSmith-gs2dv

[@FrainBart_main]

@@mccare13 Geiger counters measure Sv/h, not Sv. "former residents do not want to come back there. I wonder why." - because of fear. It's not perfectly safe, there are areas which are quite a bit higher in radiation than the safe limits. Not one cancer there to this date was attributed to the radiation from Fukushima Daiichi.

[@patrikb1161]

My thought is whether current plants are being evaluated to find out whether modifications are needed in order to avoid future disasters?

[@VickiTakacs.]

No they are not. That was a plant made by GE the same as is here in the USA. Most of ours are very old and they leak. The one is St. Louis has leaked recently. The nuclear power industry has even more money and power than Monsanto. Do we have labeling on our food yet?

[@YamiPoyo]

The people living there are not over reacting the people in tokyo are not over reacting , and you can still see the radiation as far into north america as alberta canada.

[@davejabrony1274]

another youtube nuclear scientist that can read propaganda, bravo. I tilt my hat lol

[@Randomstuffs261]

IS TURNIN DA FRAWGS GAE !

[@baqcasanke]

lmao

[@CivilDistribution]

Wrong.

[@jasonmurawski126]

#Civil Disturbia evidence? No? Ok go on wearing your tinfoil hat.

[@robhertfernanda]

I'm a Hawaii resident for the last 20 years, I have been diving and fishing this waters for 17 years, since 2012 I have noticed a huge reduction in fish and sea life, corals are dying, turtles are full of cancer in their body, there is no doubt in my mind that radiation is all around the pacific,and probably all over the west coast, and even if the level of radiation is small, in the long term I believe heath issues will rise in the near future, our kids are the most affected.

[@thebrownguy79]

The closest Aircraft Carrier that responded to the disaster hasn't deployed since it came back from Japan. It's sitting dockside being worked on. The Sailors and Marines on that ship are still being treated from all the radiation.

[@TheChristafershawn]

And now for your daily Disinformation News.

[@TheChristafershawn]

Iit's super interesting.

[@florantealbarracin1152]

90% percent of the comment section people that say its not safe even tho it is

[@fightingjunkscience4791]

People are stupid... There is a strong anti-nuclear industry making money off Fukushima.

[@minnesotabirdmites]

Dr. Kaku must be overreacting to.

[@donaldmoore9117]

The initial nuclear accident from the Fukushima reactors released several radioactive isotopes, such as iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137. Cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years and remains in the environment for decades.

[@crossofcalvary2212]

So I guess all of the nuclear scientists are wrong and are just overreacting. This must be a leftest idea.

[@back2paranormal]

Who are you trying to kid??

[@MuhammadIrfan-ye5zf]

apparently he is trying to kid people like us who start realizing how hard we are f****d by Fukushima incident.

[@back2paranormal]

He's definitely trying but it's gonna be difficult unless his main audience are MS media junkies...otherwise you can pretty much smell the B.S wafting out of the pc from a distance when he's regurgitating all that mis-info ;)

[@morrowen]

back2paranormal Or you could do your own research and come to nearly the exact same conclusion as all of these "paid shills" that apparently spout nothing but bullshit.

[@back2paranormal]

Alex Chenhall- Thanks for your insight on the subject and just for the record I did research it and obviously did not come to the same conclusion as the "paid shills", and by your comment I'm taking it you haven't done much research on the subject either ? ...as Hitler once said " If you tell a lie big enough and frequently enough, it will be believed".

[@TonyPrime1]

fake news

[@travismeewes7801]

brought to you by Tokyo electric power company

[@guysmiley643]

What about all the missing fuel? Where is it going? Radio active fish are safe and tasty. How can you say this and be ok with it.

[@FrainBart_main]

All food is radioactive. Not only that, even tap water and air is radioactive. You can just deceive and scare people like this. Always provide some data about the amount of radioactivity! You can't just say something is radioactive and have a proper debate.

[@supersendaiseries1021]

I live in the southern part of the Miyagi prefecture right above Fukushima. Things really aren't all that bad around here. I'm glad more people are disproving all these articles floating around with actual facts :)

[@YamiPoyo]

@ 2:17 what does a paper from the 60's have to do with fukushima? and lower does not mean safe, get this straight seeker fukushima is a disaster and its not over.

[@ryanb.1282]

DISINFORMATION NEWS

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

I live near a nuclear power plant. Doesn't scare me at all. That was just a freak accident and rarely happens.

[@Bubs0271]

Now they're using words such as "yikes", "scary", and a "mess". I thought so.

[@mistermagoo9187]

The Internet is NOT over reacting,the people that caused this mess,never thinking about an accident occuring and how to handle it,are UNDER REACTING!!

[@georgegermain3461]

Sorry I'm not buying it!!!!!!!!!!

[@080519581]

Technology to read such high radiation levels was developed in 2014 by the French Space Agency. Although on a stagnant budget FSA donated operational testing hardware in 2016.

[@bluecollarmark]

Everything is ok? Thank you for letting me know. Boy, I was nervous about the situation. I feel much better now.

[@YamiPoyo]

@ 1:47 the core rod melted into the ground water no one was saying the building collapsed , the water holding tanks were built poorly and too fast they leaked radiactive water into the soil.

[@1964mcqueen]

The risk of nuclear disaster is one thing. The real news here is that the internet is overreacting. This needs to be posted on every news site, tweeted and re-tweeted, shared on Facebook and shouted from the digital mountain top. If it wasn't time to panic already, it surely is now.

[@Bookhermit]

The fun part is that, yes, it's detectable almost everywhere, but that's not because there's much of it. It's that our detection technology has gotten so good! We're capable of detecting radiation BILLIONS of times lower than we could back in the 1950s when all the nuke tests were happening.

[@thejunkface]

I've been living in Japan for the past 6 years and while I'd say that everything is fine for the most part, I have a rule of not eating produce from Fukushima and a couple of the other surrounding prefectures.

[@NavelGUNz]

I have no real knowledge of radiation or nuclear reactors. But i read an article on FB and now I know more than experts. It says so on my Google University Diploma.

[@Meathead-10810]

They didn't send the robot into the reactor. That is the problem. The readings are outside of the reactor. Only the damaged building/water is holding it together!

[@alpha1138]

So it was mentioned that we get radiation naturally and that we should not worry about it from this past disaster. How much radiation do we as humans get on average per year? and what that means in relation to our lives.??

[@TheSonic1685]

It's been 6 years if their were a huge problem I'm pretty sure it would've cropped up by now. As in "holy shit my fucking water is 500 sieverts per hour!" type problem cropping up.

[@humanity3.090]

The silver lining of this disaster: "We can study when something goes wrong! Hell yeah!!" I

[@istvanzardai6318]

It is funny how a lot of people simply don't understand that new results don't mean new phenomenon. The radiation was high all along. But it was only precisely measured 2 months ago. It was higher than expected inside the reactor. But it is exactly the same elsewhere. They didn't have issues mesuring it earlier and don't have issues measuring it now. It didn't change just because they were able to take a new reading from the inside of the reactor, since they didn't take the reading from a new event, but of what had already been there all along.

[@sieverts455]

Taylor Wilson suggested for fission plants to have their reactors to be underground and could be easily contained like its nuclear bi-product.

[@Etronax]

The problem is that the cleanup seems more unlikely to succeed the further they progress. And the contaminated water continues to flow to the ocean, and will continue until the melted fuel is removed or isolated from ground water. But that seems very unlikely to happen since not even robots can withstand the radiation. Yes the radiation in the sea might not be absolutely terrible at the moment but the radiation will continue to accumulate in fish over time. And this will keep getting worse and worse for likely centuries.