Japan tsunami debris lands on US coast

It has been more than two years since a tsunami devastated parts of Japan's east coast - but debris is still washing up on beaches in North America. Alaska has thousands of kilometres of coastline, and is likely to get most of it. Al Jazeera's Allen Schauffler reports from Alaska.

[neverfearchrisishere]

Normal in cornwall. It's only expensive to have it for your kitchen counter because it is so hard to cut and shape. If you just use uncut stone and mortar then it is a cheap material - cheaper than bricks (and it looks nicer)
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Living in a Granite house gives you the equivalent radiation of a mammogram each year.

[VS]

Not just US. Most of the radioactive debris are landing on Canadian shores as well!!!

[ARGENTINAADOLF]

if tons of debris appeared there, waste (lighter) MUST be there too...interesting...property prices shold be down 99% for the next....1000 years?

[MsColdCanada]

Who builds a home out of granite? At the very most I have heard of having a granite kitchen counter top, but a whole home, I'd like to see that picture.

[MsColdCanada]

In the "new world" houses are not usually meant to be considered generational anymore. They are to last at least the life of one owner and then they are not very sought after. They are looking to tear down rather than gut and redo some lovely old buildings we have that are made of stones. Too much out with the old in with the new I suppose.

[neverfearchrisishere]

Yes. It is. And that isn't propaganda, it is fact. The radiation levels are incredibly low unless you are actually around the broken reactor. Even in Japan it is a completely trivial amount compared the amount of natural radiation you are exposed to anyway.
And many times as many people HAVE died because of accidents involving hydroelectric plants compared to nuclear plants.
Many people have almost no knowledge about the radiation beyond Hollywood movies.

[neverfearchrisishere]

even at its source, aka before time reduced it and it got watered down in the oceans, most of the 'radioactive waste' from fukoshima was less radioactive than granite (which is used to build homes from!)
Far less people have died from nuclear accidents than have died because of accidents involving hydroelectric dams - people just see 'radiation' and panic. You are exposed to large amounts of natural radiation every day.

[neverfearchrisishere]

Look up 'Cornwall stone house' on google images. Lol at plastic houses by the way - in the UK houses are almost all brick or stone - lasts longer and the basic building is pretty much indestructible.

[MsColdCanada]

I'd like to see what that looks like. Do you know where I could search for it? I don't think I have ever seen that in Canada, unless some of our oldest buildings are constructed that way. Our homes are mostly built of wood and have plastic siding in this area... as termites are not widespread.

[marsCubed]

watch?v=jHoFSXh9Ejk
Fukushima "radiation map" showing pollution in the Pacific, streams of radioactive material fanning out to USA coasts.

Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013: “Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool[...] could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date."
"There is a risk of an inadvertent criticality if the bundles are distorted and get too close to each other"

It's far from over, international community should come together for
tech. solution ASAP IMO.

[Itsdakronic]

Some of us do some productive work. Well done :-)

[judassss]

god bless these clean up guys! I'd like to see if the stuff is radioactive?