Japan - 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami -Reactor Status, 2011 #6

[hockeymom]

this is not about Japan,but as of yet,not sure it deserves a whole thread. Canary Islands have had 720 small earthquakes in the last week. Supposedly,if some piece of the land breaks off it would cause a massive tsunami for the eastern US seaboard and southen England.

http://www./forum1/message1579555/pg1

 

[doubt]

consider the source, please.

baseless information like that could very easily cause a kind of panic that genuinely harms someone....or many.

 

[hockeymom]

consider the source, please.

baseless information like that could very easily cause a kind of panic that genuinely harms someone....or many.

The earthquake part I believe is true.(lots of them),the part about the tsunami..definitly consider the source.

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;zFjdEWMccuw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFjdEWMccuw[/video]
While many radioactive cattle have been discovered large distances from Fukushima, what is more important is where their feed is coming from. "It's not only about the radioactive cattle in Fukushima Prefecture; its also about the radioactive straw the cattle eat that was grown elsewhere". Straw found 45 miles from Fukushima is highly contaminated with radioactive cesium, which is an indication that radiation has contaminated large portions of Northern Japan. More than half a million disintegration per second in a kilogram of straw are comparable to Chernobyl levels. This proves that the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission was correct when it told Americans to evacuate beyond 50 miles and that the Japanese should have done the same. An Ex-Secretariat of Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission blames this contamination on "Black Rain". Rather than minimize the information the Japanese people receive, Gundersen suggests minimizing their radiation exposure.
‪Lethal Levels of Radiation at Fukushima: What Are the Implications?‬‏ - YouTube
TEPCO has discovered locations on the Fukushima plant site with lethal levels of external gamma radiation. Fairewinds takes a close look at how this radiation might have been deposited and how similar radioactive material would have been released offsite.
http://www.youtube.com/user/fairewindsenergy

http://www.fairewinds.com

 

[dsntslp]

Lord Hutton: Fukushima 'changed the game' for nuclear

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9559767.stm

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;70TYXGWeZhg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70TYXGWeZhg[/video]
Published on Aug 9, 2011 by AssociatedPress


AP IMPACT: An Associated Press investigation has found that Japanese government officials ignored radiation forecasts from their own monitoring system, failing to keep residents near a crippled nuclear plant from a predicted plume.

 

[Quiche]

Proof of what we already suspected--


Radioactive Chemicals in California Tracked to Fukushima Meltdown

Radioactive sulphur signal adds to evidence of catastrophe.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=radioactive-chemicals-in-california-fukushima

 

[essies]

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Uploaded by RussiaToday on Aug 17, 2011


Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks. The cooling system at the plant failed after the devastating tsunami hit Japan in March, sparking a nuclear crisis. But new evidence suggests that Fukushima reactors were doomed to cripple even before the massive wave reached them. RT's Anissa Naouai talks to Dr. Robert Jacobs, a Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute.

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;XNzDg4O9dkw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzDg4O9dkw[/video]
Uploaded by RussiaToday on Aug 17, 2011


Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures. They also say pipes and at least one reactor were seriously damaged before the tsunami hit the area in March. RT talks to Christopher Busby of the European Committee on Radiation Risks.

 

[essies]

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Uploaded by TheYoungTurks on Aug 12, 2011


A Rolling Stone article by Jeff Goodell shares shocking facts about the dangerous state of many nuclear power plants and lack of oversight in America. Is a Fukushima type meltdown inevitable in the United Sates? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss

America’s Nuclear Nightmare
The U.S. has 31 reactors just like Japan’s — but regulators are ignoring the risks and boosting industry profits
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By Jeff Goodell
April 27, 2011 9:00 AM ET
The Davis-Besse nuclear generating station in Ohio, where a football-size hole overlooked by NRC inspectors nearly caused a catastrophe in 2002Entergy Nuclear via the NRCFive days after a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, triggering the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, America's leading nuclear regulator came before Congress bearing good news: Don't worry, it can't happen here. In the aftermath of the Japanese catastrophe, officials in Germany moved swiftly to shut down old plants for inspection, and China put licensing of new plants on hold. But Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, reassured lawmakers that nothing at the Fukushima Daiichi reactors warranted any immediate changes at U.S. nuclear plants. Indeed, 10 days after the earthquake in Japan, the NRC extended the license of the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor — a virtual twin of Fukushima — for another two decades. The license renewal was granted even though the reactor's cooling tower had literally fallen down, and the plant had repeatedly leaked radioactive fluid.


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/america-s-nuclear-nightmare-20110427

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;YoUIYAd1Vog]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoUIYAd1Vog[/video]
Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent criticality) continued to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.

In a second area of concern, Fairewinds disagrees the NRC's latest report claiming that all Fukushima spent fuel pools had no problems following the earthquake. In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than 1 mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors. If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves. Such a failure of the containment system certainly necessitates a complete review of all US reactor containment design and industry assurances that containments will hold in radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. The evidence Fairewinds reviewed to date continues to support its April analysis that the detonation in the Unit 3 Spent Fuel pool was the cause of plutonium found off site.

Third, the burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

And finally, the Japanese government has yet to grasp the severity of the contamination within Japan, and therefore has not developed a coherent plan mitigate the accident and remediate the environment. Without a cohesive plan to deal with this ongoing problem of large scale radioactive contamination, the radioactivity will continue to spread throughout Japan and around the globe further exacerbating the problem and raising costs astronomically.
http://www.youtube.com/user/fairewindsenergy?blend=9&ob=5
http://www.fairewinds.com

 

[dsntslp]

I am wondering about any Nuke facilities in the path of Hurricane Irene

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;wsF-WLE6alo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsF-WLE6alo[/video]
Rice farmer 80km from reactors finds levels higher than deemed acceptable for an entire year for a nuclear worker. Tepco offers no help to farmers or concerned citizens interested in testing, saying they are only responsible for what happens inside the reactors, not what happens to the environment or people.:banghead:

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;PUx_iY4uxQc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUx_iY4uxQc[/video]
Last 2 minutes of video is not Fukushima related-commentators news views!!:innocent:

 

[coastal]

Thanks so much for staying with this for us, essie!

 

[essies]

[video=youtube;-aBW-5atBus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aBW-5atBus[/video]
Cancer won't kill people if heart attacks kill them first:maddening:
Japan Has New MAP of Fukushima Radioactive Fallout on 6 month Anniversary 9/11/11 - YouTube
Way beyond the "Exclusion Zone!"
enough said.:banghead:

 

[OneLove]

Thanks so much for staying with this for us, essie!

Yes, thank you, thank you, thank you! I ran short on words long ago trying to contain the sheer horror. I GREATLY appreciate the updates. We must not forget, we MUST NOT repeat. <3

 

[coastal]

Fukushima Medical Catastrophe - Helen Caldicott - YouTube
Last 2 minutes of video is not Fukushima related-commentators news views!!:innocent:

Transcribed from first few seconds of the clip:

Not buying into the Japanese government's efforts to downplay the crisis, Dr Caldicott issued a stern warning to the Japanese people living in North Japan and around the Fukushima reactors to "get the hell out of the area".

This sounds like excellent advice to me!

 

[coastal]

Everything's fine?

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/patrick-concerns-japan-understandable-14533218

Patrick Says Concerns About Japan Understandable
MOTEGI, Japan September 16, 2011 (AP)

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Danica Patrick doesn't understand why a fuss is being made over her expressing concerns about racing this weekend near a nuclear reactor crippled by the earthquake and tsunami in March...

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..."Having concerns about coming here is completely understandable," Patrick said Friday. "Now that I'm here, I've eaten the food, I go out running in the morning so I'm doing the things I normally do here and it seems like everything is fine..."

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[essies]

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