Japan - 8.9 Earthquake - Fukushima Meltdown

[HiThere]

Thank you for writing this Aya. Your words and experiences makes it possible for me to understand - in a small way - the horror your countrymen live in.

 

[Ca.]

Recently i noticed that at the local supermarché was the sale (and discounted) of a bio- grade beef (expensive) from Ireland. It caught my attention, usually the store sells locally produced, and available grass fed beef, lamb, pork, and etc.

My first thought was if this product had been compromised, and was radioactive. Hmmmm on sale, and from an area that i've never seen offered before. Maybe a Red flag.

Kagoshima Japan Nuclear update 3/21/12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E97Mu6Zea&feature=Gall&context=G22a2d16FAAAAAAAAZAA

 

[Kaigen]

The link is not opening, there is some error. c.a.

 

[Ca.]

The link is not opening, there is some error. c.a.

Hey Kaigen, Looks like google server might have taken it down already, as i could not find it again. Notice that it did not say removed by user. It was a compilation by a u-t blogger of different article's of the continued compromised situation of the 3-11 event.
i will keep searching.

 

[Ca.]

A photojournalist Munesuke Yamamoto went to tsunami, and earthquake hit areas in Miyagi, Iwate, and Fukushima along with those places heavily affected by the nuclear disaster in early March.

Jong notebook of complement-March 20, 2012 (Tues.) 日本語のWebページを参照してください。
Decontamination: the priest began to volunteer that could withstand decontamination and country irresponsibly TEPCO Yamamoto,
http://asama888.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

1 year since then.
What does in the disaster area has changed? (A year after 3/11, has anything changed in the great tunami & Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster-hit area.?)
あれから1年が経ち、被災地にでもいない限り、国難の事態がつい昨日起きたことを私たちは忘れてしまいそうなほど、大震災前の日常を取り戻そうとしている。自戒をこめ、東日本大震災と原発事故から1年、現場で撮影した写真を通じて忘れてしまうことに抗いたい。

 

[Kaigen]

Japan Atomic Industrial Forum in English.
Let's see what they have to say. I see here daily reports on the situation in Fukushima.
I see also Informations about the situation in Japan.

as taken from the map

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/index.php

from the latest report:

NHK news regarding status of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station
yesterday and today.
(Fukushima NPP Site)
●TEPCO: Strontium leaked into the sea off Fukushima
●TEPCO: Just 60cm of water in Fukushima reactor
(Other news)
●Scientists to study mechanism of Tohoku earthquake
●Prefecture expands nuclear accident zone
●Nuclear Security Summit to adopt communique
●Leaders start Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul

 

[bngenoh]

From bad to worse at Fukushima:

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Tuesday that the radiation dose inside the crippled No. 2 reactor stood at an extremely high level between 31.1 and 72.9 sieverts per hour, underscoring the existence of radioactive substances from the melted fuel inside the structure.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. measured the radiation level by inserting a long dosimeter into the round-bottomed, flask-shaped primary containment vessel, where fuel is thought to be accumulating at the bottom following the nuclear accident last year.

Human beings could die within one month once exposed to 7 sieverts and within several days once exposed to 20 sieverts or more. Usually, when an ordinary reactor is not operating, the radiation level is low enough for workers to enter inside, according to the utility known as TEPCO.

Source: _http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/03/149258.html

 

[Esote]

Here is a Japanese video (with English subtitles when clicking on "cc" button at the bottom right of the YouTube window):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJi-o4F8eOo

Where Dr. Koide, a lecturer at the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University, explains why a new serious earthquake (and not that big!) in the next coming years would be the end for part of Japan...

 

[bngenoh]

Wow Eoste,

Thanks for the link. It seems like Fukushima is an unmitigated disaster that only grows worse by the day, it is almost a near certainty that Japan will be hit by many more earthquakes between now and December of next year. The consequences of which are almost unimaginable.

That there are some government officials wanting to resume nuclear power plant operations is astounding, are they brain dead or something? Nuclear power, of the kind that is most prevalent around the world is not just stupid, it is criminal osit.

On a side note, Japanese is a beautiful language to me.

 

[Ca.]

From EnviroReporter.com
http://www.enviroreporter.com/
Link to read article below 4-3-12
_http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/l-a-rain-radiation-over-five-times-normal/
L.A. Rain Radiation Over Five Times Normal 3-31-12
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8LZRQrAtsT0#!

An imperfect storm swept into Southern California on, perhaps appropriately enough, April Fools weekend creating the conditions that tested EnviroReporter.com's scientific hypothesis that radioactive "buckyballs" and other fission radionuclides from the triple Fukushima Japan meltdowns are already impacting the region. Sure enough, a rain composed primarily of sea mist formed over a choppy ocean with high winds tested higher than any other Los Angeles Basin rain since Radiation Station Santa Monica began fallout radiation tests March 15, 2011, four days after the unabated meltdowns began. The rain, not impacted by so-called "natural" radon progeny, came in at a whopping 506% above normal, more than high enough to qualify as a hazardous material situation for the California Highway Patrol. This is the hottest L.A. rain detected with our Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor in the over 1,500 radiation tests we've taken since last year's Ides of March.

 

[mabar]

Found this on Global Research's website:
The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30207

From the editor's note at the beginning of the article and so what it says in the article seems more real serious threatening what is happening at reactor number 4 at Fukushima, rather than the Japanese youtube video above from my point of view (I had this bizarre feeling that among all the colors and forms displayed in the set did not match with the information being presented, it did not helped that they even questioned themselves to continue or not with nuclear operations ???? ... it was weird to me.

Afraid from what will happend if there is another 7 grade earthquake in Japan, in that region almost everyday the earth shakes!!!???

Japan known as the one of the most technological advanced country and had not figure it yet how to do it?, or worst, is affecting other countries and will be far worst, and other countries had not figure it yet? ... perhaps they are distracted from middle east drums of war...

 

[thevenusian]

Found this on Global Research's website:
The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30207

This article was carried on SOTT a few days ago:

https://www.sott.net/articles/show/243791-The-Top-Short-Term-Threat-to-Humanity-The-Fuel-Pools-of-Fukushima

It is a huge problem, something that has never happened before, and a good illustration of pathological short-term thinking.

 

[Cosmos]

Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243900-Tokyo-Soil-Samples-Would-Be-Considered-Nuclear-Waste-In-The-US

While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.

[BEGIN: RIC Conference Footage]

NRC Chairman Jaczko: The events at Fukushima reinforce that any nuclear accident with public health and safety or environmental consequences of that magnitude, is inherently unacceptable. But we focussed on the radiological consequences of this event. I believe we cannot ignore the large social and economic consequences such an event poses to any country with a nuclear facility that deals with such a crisis.

In Japan, more than 90,000 people remain displaced from their homes and land, with some having no prospect for a return to their previous lifestyle in the foreseeable future. While not easy to characterize, these are significant hardships on these people and they are inherently unacceptable. So as we look to the future and we look in a proactive way, we ultimately will have to address the issue of how do we deal with nuclear events that lead to significant land contamination. And displacement, perhaps permanently, of people from their homes and their livelihoods and their communities.

[END: RIC Conference Footage]

Arnie Gundersen: What you have just heard was the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's chairman, Gregory Jaczko, saying that the NRC does not take in to account mass evacuations and people not getting back on their land for centuries when it does a cost benefit analysis as to whether or not a nuclear plant should be licensed.

I am Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds and today I am at the Regulatory Information Conference put on by the NRC in Washington D.C.

So today, I am in Washington D.C. Couple of weeks ago though, I was in Tokyo and when I was in Tokyo, I took some samples. Now, I did not look for the highest radiation spot. I just went around with five plastic bags and when I found an area, I just scooped up some dirt and put it in a bag. One of those samples was from a crack in the sidewalk. Another one of those samples was from a children's playground that had been previously decontaminated. Another sample had come from some moss on the side of the road. Another sample came from the roof of an office building that I was at. And the last sample was right across the street from the main judicial center in downtown Tokyo. I brought those samples back, declared them through Customs, and sent them to the lab. And the lab determined that ALL of them would be qualified as radioactive waste here in the United States and would have to be shipped to Texas to be disposed of.

Now think about the ramifications for the nation's capital, whether it is Tokyo or the United States. How would you like it if you went to pick your flowers and were kneeling in radioactive waste? That is what is happening in Tokyo now. And I think that is the point that Chairman Jaczko was trying to make. When the Nuclear Regulatory Commission does it's cost benefit analyses now, it does not take into account the cost to society if you have to evacuate for generations or if you have to move 100,000 people, perhaps forever.

There is a hundred miles between us and a dozen nuclear power plants here in Washington D.C. Fukushima was almost 200 miles away from Tokyo, and yet Tokyo soil in some places, the ones I just happened to find, would qualify as radioactive waste here in the United States.

How would we feel if our nation's capital were contaminated to that degree? So I agree with Chairman Jaczko, new nukes and old nukes that are being re-licensed should include as a cost in their analysis what we have learned to be happening in Tokyo and in Japan.

Thank you very much and I will keep you informed.

 

[Aya]

Found this on Global Research's website:
The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY
_http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30207

From the editor's note at the beginning of the article and so what it says in the article seems more real serious threatening what is happening at reactor number 4 at Fukushima, rather than the Japanese youtube video above from my point of view (I had this bizarre feeling that among all the colors and forms displayed in the set did not match with the information being presented, it did not helped that they even questioned themselves to continue or not with nuclear operations ???? ... it was weird to me.

Afraid from what will happend if there is another 7 grade earthquake in Japan, in that region almost everyday the earth shakes!!!???

Japan known as the one of the most technological advanced country and had not figure it yet how to do it?, or worst, is affecting other countries and will be far worst, and other countries had not figure it yet? ... perhaps they are distracted from middle east drums of war...

Thank you for sharing this article.

There are quite many people -including some professionals in nuclear industry- warning about radiation exposure, nuclear plant operation and next possible accident from the damage (reactor number 4). But the gov. official-TEPCO-media is "Hear no truth, see no truth, speak no truth"

Reactor 4 is currently in a very bad condition by earthquake, tsunami and explosion from other reactors from the last year. And salt water enters the gap between the cracked concrete of Unit 4, and it causes irons to expand twice as much and makes them fragile for the building itself.

If the nuclear fuel pool collapse and fell on the ground, it will contain fierce heat and will not be cooled down, then what happends is that the amount of radiation that is similar to 4000 Hiroshima bombs will be released in the enviroment around the area. Incidentally, the amount of 168 Hiroshima bombs has released from the accident last year.

It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Dr. Fumiaki Koide.

It is very true and we need to spread this message far and wide.

 

[pstott]

I recall that after the Chernobyl incident steps were taken to seal the site with concrete. Why are they not attempting to seal up the Fukushima plants to prevent the escape of additional radiation?
After all it is not as if thse reactors are salvageable.
It seems like it is being deliberately left exposed.