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 Fukushima still spewing massive radiation plumes; America in 'huge trouble,' says nuclear expert

Is it really this bad?

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

  (NaturalNews) During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which we have heard very little about from the media in recent months. The damage situation was apparently so severe, according to his account, that he has now written a letter to Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan, petitioning for more to be done, and offering any additional support and assistance that might help contain and resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

 The letter, which many experts see as the ominous writing on the wall for the grave severity of the circumstances, offers a disturbing glimpse into what is really going on across the Pacific Ocean that the mainstream media is apparently ignoring. While referencing the fact that all four of the affected reactors are still "badly damaged," Sen. Wyden seems to hint in his letter that Reactor 4, which has reportedly been on the verge of collapse for many months now, could be nearing catastrophic implosion.

 Imminent collapse of Reactor 4 could create a mass extinction event of both humans and animals

According to Christina Consolo, an award-winning biomedical photographer and host of Nuked Radio, Reactor 4 has remained in such bad shape that even a very small earthquake could quickly level the building, sending the fuel from more than 1,500 unused fuel rods into the environment. And with Reactor 4 still filled with the highest levels of radioactive MOX and other fuels, the consequences of this potential collapse could be far worse than anything that has happened thus far as a result of the earthquake and tsunami.

 "Sitting at the top of [Reactor 4], in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1,565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them 'fresh fuel' that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11 when the earthquake and tsunami hit," writes Consolo. "If they are MOX fuel, containing six percent plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people."

 
Sen. Wyden is also asking U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory Jaczko to assess how much additional assistance their agencies might be willing to provide to help Japan, and the entire world, avoid a nuclear catastrophe of Biblical proportions.

 
"The scope of damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected and the scope of the challenges to the utility owner, the government of Japan, and to the people of the region are daunting," wrote Sen. Wyden in his letter, dated April 16, 2012. "The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance."

 Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035731_Fukushima_radiation_America.html#ixzz1tjKFPV3f

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[Alada]

Its sure looks worrying, and as the article points out there's very little coverage of it in the main stream media, perhaps a sign in itself?

[Aya]

It is a disaster - Unless we are all a lot more careful, the people who have suffered from the accident so far will be just the tip of the iceberg.
Japan has not been done much solving the accident (just creating more problems by doing something unintelligent), leaving this planet's fate to destiny.

[Foxx]

Yeah I've been wondering how bad it is exactly for a little while now.  I'm curios why they're not sure if it's MOX fuel and whether that can be confirmed.  I don't know how much deadlier than other forms of fuel (or what the other forms of fuel are) MOX fuel is.  I'm also not sure how they decided one MOX fuel rod could kill nearly 3 billion people and how that's related to its expected dispersion method (as in, I imagine a MOX rod could be divided into 2.89 billion lethal doses if directly ingested, but how does that relate to them burning and entering the atmosphere?).

What a mess with the near certainty for a significant global disaster that no one's really doing anything about. 

[Muxel]

I'm also not sure how they decided one MOX fuel rod could kill nearly 3 billion people and how that's related to its expected dispersion method (as in, I imagine a MOX rod could be divided into 2.89 billion lethal doses if directly ingested, but how does that relate to them burning and entering the atmosphere?). 

Yeah, real life is messier. There's the jet stream, fishes eating radioactive algae, containment attempts by humans, etc. But with near-eternal half-lives, there's plenty of time for radiation to get to everyone eventually. We're lucky the Wave is coming. Then we don't have to see an alternate future where Japan's full of deformed children with leukemia.

Oh, and Clif High talked about a possible "Japanese exodus" in his latest Wujo.
A nuclear winter maybe?

[Foxx]

Yeah, real life is messier. There's the jet stream, fishes eating radioactive algae, containment attempts by humans, etc. But with near-eternal half-lives, there's plenty of time for radiation to get to everyone eventually. We're lucky the Wave is coming. Then we don't have to see an alternate future where Japan's full of deformed children with leukemia.

Oh, and Clif High talked about a possible "Japanese exodus" in his latest Wujo.
A nuclear winter maybe?

Who knows what we'll see.  It does seem quite reasonable to me that we'll wake up one morning and hear about another earthquake in the same region and uncontrollably burning fuel rods.

I also don't take anything Clif High says seriously and stopped following him a while ago.  Considering his relation with Jay Weidner, his propaganda for vegetarianism, his numerous predictions that didn't manifest, his strange barely or completely nonsensical ramblings, and other nonsense I don't consider him to be a remotely reliable source, FWIW.

[Jason (ocean59)]

We're lucky the Wave is coming. Then we don't have to see an alternate future where Japan's full of deformed children with leukemia.

Hi Muxel, I'm having a hard time understanding the above comment. Could you (or someone) help me to know what it means?

[Muxel]

We're lucky the Wave is coming. Then we don't have to see an alternate future where Japan's full of deformed children with leukemia.

Hi Muxel, I'm having a hard time understanding the above comment. Could you (or someone) help me to know what it means?

I was expressing my primary fear when it comes to nuclear accidents: kids getting leukemia or born malformed due to radiation poisoning.