Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Status

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HAKEN

Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:31 AM

The fallout map below is false.

You can read the Snopes Info regarding it.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/technology/fallout.asp

As a result, I renamed this thread so that we can track the status of the Fukushima reactors.

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, March 13, 2011 12:31 PM

Oh that is not good.

I got some interesting phone calls recently asking if any of my surplus-disposal or other former military contacts might know where aircraft with heavy lift capacity might be found in a hurry - fortunately there is an american subdivision of Sikorsky which has at least some heavy lift S&R choppers which might be useful, so I put them in touch...

Apparently they're shorthanded on carrier based heavy lift Search and Rescue, choppers are ideal for that, especially given the situation, and the Navy diverted one craft to Korea to collect up "everything they had", and cleaned them out completely - those were CH/MH-53's I think, which ought to be on site now and I hope they're useful.

How you doin in the islands, Haken ?
I hear it wasn't as bad as feared, and I winced at the thought of you getting swamped.

-Frem

PIZMOBEACH

Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:43 PM

Sheesh - That's the kind of graphic that can start mass hysteria. It would be nice to know the source so we could have a sense of who is saying that. AND it would be nice to know how flipping dangerous that really is. Answers.com - a very questionable source - says: "About 500 to 1000 RADS is enough to kill a human. it takes between 1-5 days for the radiation to kill all the cells in a human body."

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DMI

Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:54 PM

Found an identical map where the logo had changed and all the numbers in the legend had been divided down by about 150. I also found a lot of websites calling the map a hoax, but none were reputable news sources themselves.

I wouldn't lose any sleep over this one yet.

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I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

DMI

Sunday, March 13, 2011 2:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by beatupplenty:
You are using common sense to ruin everyone's drinking and fornicating before they get vaporized. In nine months there are gonna be a lot of newborns named Fukushima.

I think I name mine Fuk U. Shima

I hope the 'U' stands for Uhura.

-----------------------------
I pray for one last landing,
on the globe that gave me birth.
Let me rest my eyes on the fleecy skies
and the cool, green hills of Earth.

BYTEMITE

Sunday, March 13, 2011 4:41 PM

It's a hypothetical, as far as I know they've only measured high radiation levels within certain buildings, not outside in the environment for widespread dispersal.

But wind patterns would absolutely carry the fallout across the ocean and hit the US.

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, March 13, 2011 5:23 PM

Have you bought your potassium iodate today?

PIZMOBEACH

Sunday, March 13, 2011 6:01 PM

fwiw from the Nuclear Energy Institute

UPDATE AS OF 12:30 P.M. EDT, SUNDAY, MARCH 13:

NEI has created a new fact sheet, "Radiation and the Japanese Nuclear Reactors," which describes the events at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plants in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami nearby. Also a description of radiation dose limits and exposures to workers and the public in the United States, with a placeholder for radiation doses at the affected reactors in Japan.

http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/safetyandsecurity
/factsheet/radiation-and-the-japanese-nuclear-reactors

UPDATE AS OF 8:30 A.M. EDT, SUNDAY, MARCH 13:

Tokyo Electric Power Co. continues to implement emergency cooling and pressure relief operations at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. In addition, at Fukushima Daini, three reactors remain shut down. They have electrical power available at Daini, but the suppression water pools used for reactor cooling are saturated at both sites.

Fukushima Daiichi: There is a state of emergency declared at Fukushima Daiichi 1, 2 and 3. The company is venting containment structures at reactors 1 and 3. Reactor 3 uses mixed-oxide fuel. Electrical power is not available at any of the reactors at this site and there is not backup power available at Units 1, 2 and 3. TEPCO has been pumping seawater into reactors 1 and 3 to maintain cooling and there is some uranium fuel rod damage suspected at both reactors. Public evacuation has been ordered and executed in a 12-mile radius and there have been low levels of radiation released into the environment as a result of venting and the explosion at Unit 1 secondary containment. The maximum reported dose at the site is 128 millirem per hour, which is less than the annual average dose for commercial airline flight crews and far less than the radiation the average American is exposed to per year from all sources (see the the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Web page on radiation protection). One worker at the site has received a radiation dose of 10.6 rem.

Fukushima Daini: There is a state of emergency at Units 1, 2 and 4 and evacuation has been ordered and executed for 2.5 miles around the plant. There has been no radioactive release reported at the site. There is electric power available at all four reactors at the site, but there is limited use of cooling water pumps at Units 1, 2 and 4 due to damage from the tsunami. The suppression pools are saturated at all three reactors.

Comments from Japanese officials:
The company is providing seawater and boron for core cooling at Fukushima Daiichi units 1 and 3 and is venting containment at the reactors, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yukio Edano, said on Sunday. Officials are acting on the assumption that a meltdown could be underway at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3. "Unlike the No.1 reactor, we ventilated and injected water at an early stage," Edano said.

Authorities are preparing to distribute iodine to protect people from radioactive exposure.

NEI has created a new fact sheet, "Radiation and the Japanese Nuclear Reactors," which describes the events at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear plants in Japan following the earthquake and tsunami nearby. Also a description of radiation dose limits and exposures to workers and the public in the United States, with a placeholder for radiation doses at the affected reactors in Japan.

http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/safetyandsecurity
/factsheet/radiation-and-the-japanese-nuclear-reactors

Radiation and the Japanese Nuclear Reactors
March 2011

Key Facts

An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the northeastern coast of Japan on March 11, triggering a tsunami. Along with the loss of life and damage, Japan also faces the challenge of stabilizing nuclear power plants in the hardest-hit region.
After the earthquake, all the operating reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear plants shut down automatically, as they are designed to do. However, due to the loss o

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, March 13, 2011 6:41 PM

Quote:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.quake/index.html?hpt
=T1&iref=BN1

Quote:
Tokyo Electric, battling to avoid a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant, faces “severe” rebuilding costs and Toshiba’s nuclear business may see increased scrutiny, said Minoru Matsuno, president of Value Search Asset Management Co. in Tokyo.

Radiation levels near the Fukushima plant, located 135 miles (217 kilometers) north of Tokyo, rose above Japanese limits after an explosion yesterday destroyed the walls of the reactor building. Nippon Steel Corp., Suzuki Motor Corp. and Canon Inc. today joined the growing number of companies saying their operations were hurt following the 8.9-magnitude earthquake on March 11 that rocked Japan and triggered tsunamis.

“For Tokyo Electric and anything nuclear-related, it’s going to be pretty bad,” said Makoto Kikuchi, chief executive officer at　Myojo Asset Management Japan Co., a Tokyo-based hedge fund advisory firm. “The biggest fear I have is what will happen at the nuclear power plant as it would be a real disaster if the situation deteriorates into another Chernobyl.”

Disruptions at Shin-Etsu and Sumco Corp. account for about 60 percent of the world’s electronic wafers, will undermine global supply, which may benefit the No. 3 producer, Wacker Chemie AG’s Sitronic, according to Klaus Ringel, an analyst at Credit Agricole Cheuvreux.

Dennis Chan, an analyst at Yuanta Financial Holding Co., wrote March 11 that Sony, which has factories in Fukushima-ken and Tochigi-ken in northern of Japan, may be affected. The company makes about 10 percent of the world’s laptop batteries, according to Chan. The company said today that it’s halting production at eight factories that make products ranging from Blu-ray discs, magnetic heads and batteries.

Toyota, Nissan Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. said thousands of new vehicles were damaged. Toyota will suspend production at its dozen factories in Japan and its body makers on March 14, while Honda said it will stop production at factories in Sayama, Mouka, Hamamatsu and Suzuka.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-13/tokyo-electric-toshiba-east-j
apan-rail-may-be-among-most-hurt-by-quake.html

Quote:
Japan battles to stop nuclear catastrophe

Prime minister Naoto Kan said Japan faced its “worst crisis” since the second world war as the nation grapples with the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami and the increasingly serious situation at two nuclear reactors reports the Financial Times.

His warning came as fears grew that the death toll from the devastating tsunami would ultimately be measured in the tens of thousands.

I believe that by coming together as a nation we can overcome this crisis,” Mr Kan said in a televised news conference.

While rescue workers worked around the clock to find survivors of the tsunami along Japan’s north-east coastline, nuclear experts were trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown at an atomic plant in Fukushima, some 240km north of Tokyo.

Earlier on Sunday, Yukio Edano, the chief government spokesman, said there was a “significant chance” that radioactive fuel rods had partially melted in two reactors [Number One and Number Three] at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility.

More than 24 hours after engineers began pumping seawater into the Number One reactor, the water level inside its containment vessel and that of the Number Two reactor, remained significantly below levels needed to cool their uranium fuel and prevent a full nuclear meltdown.

Seawater injection at the second reactor began early on Sunday morning, but nuclear safety officials said the water level was not rising as intended. Olli Heinonen, former deputy head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the Japanese authorities were “having tremendous trouble”.

“As they long as they can maintain a reasonable level of cooling at the affected reactors, they can avoid partial or full meltdown,” said Mr Heinonen. “But if they fail t

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WHOZIT

Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:09 PM

California has had;

Earthquakes

Mud slides

Flooding

Riots

Wildfires

Pea soup fog

The Donner Party

Now nuclear fallout, they can't catch a break.

DREAMTROVE

Sunday, March 13, 2011 10:26 PM

It's their long term plan to pay us back for the rads we gave them.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

WISHIMAY

Sunday, March 13, 2011 11:11 PM

Would now be an appropriate time for an "Oh god, oh god- We're all gonna die" reference??? Or would that come off as a little flippant?...

HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:04 AM

Military Crew Said to Be Exposed to Radiation, but Officials Call Risk in U.S. Slight

NYTIMES.COM - The Pentagon was expected to announce that the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, which is sailing in the Pacific, passed through a radioactive cloud from stricken nuclear reactors in Japan, causing crew members on deck to receive a month’s worth of radiation in about an hour, government officials said Sunday...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/14plume.html?_r=1&src
=tptw

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HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:17 AM

Fukushima Reactor 3 exploding.

Like number one, the explosion is caused by the hydrogen buildup as a result of the attempted cooling process.

http://about.me/haken

HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:28 AM

Feed and Bleed: Fukushima Reactor Cooling Still Dicey

In a maneuver called “feed and bleed” Japanese engineers are performing a hail Mary style attempt at cooling the troubled Fukushima reactor that has at least partially melted down...

http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/03/feed-and-bleed-fukushima-reac
tor-cooling-still-dicey/

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HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 9:17 AM

A bit more academic, but very informative.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7638

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PIZMOBEACH

Monday, March 14, 2011 1:03 PM

Who do you trust on this info? Japanese nuclear agencies have a history of misrepresenting "occurances" in the past according to cnn (brave).

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html

"Japan Earthquake Update (14 March 2011, 07:00 CET)
Japan´s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has provided the IAEA with further information about the hydrogen explosion that occurred today at the Unit 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. A hydrogen explosion occurred at unit 3 on 14 March at 11:01 am local Japan time.

All personnel at the site are accounted for. Six people have been injured.

>>> The reactor building exploded but the primary containment vessel was not damaged.<<<< The control room of Unit 3 remains operational.

The IAEA continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities and is monitoring the situation as it evolves.

Japan Earthquake Update (14 March 2011, 05:15 CET)
Based on information provided by Japanese authorities, the IAEA can confirm the following information about the status of Units 1, 2, 3 and 4 at Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant.

All four units automatically shut down on 11 March. All units have off-site power and water levels in all units are stable. Though preparations have been made to do so, there has been no venting to control pressure at any of the plant´s units.

At Unit 1, plant operators were able to restore a residual heat remover system, which is now being used to cool the reactor. Work is in progress to achieve a cold shutdown of the reactor.

Workers at Units 2 and 4 are working to restore residual heat removal systems.

>>> Unit 3 is in a safe, cold shutdown. <<<

>>> Radiation dose rate measurements observed at four locations around the plant´s perimeter over a 16-hour period on 13 March were all normal. <<<

Japan Earthquake Update (14 March, 2011, 04:00 CET)
Japan´s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has informed the IAEA that there has been an explosion at the Unit 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The explosion occurred at 11:01 am local Japan time.

The IAEA is seeking further information on this development.

Japan Earthquake Update (14 March 2011, 01:30 CET) - Clarified
Based on information provided by Japanese authorities, the IAEA can confirm the following information about the status of Units 1, 2 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Unit 1 is being powered by mobile power generators on site, and work continues to restore power to the plant. There is currently no power via off-site power supply or backup diesel generators being provided to the plant. Seawater and boron are being injected into the reactor vessel to cool the reactor. Due to the explosion on 12 March, the outer shell of the containment building has been lost.

Unit 2 is being powered by mobile power generators on site, and work continues to restore power to the plant. There is currently neither off-site power supply nor backup diesel generators providing power to the plant. The reactor core is being cooled through reactor core isolation cooling, a procedure used to remove heat from the core. The current reactor water level is lower than normal but remains steady. The outer shell of the containment building is intact at Unit 2.

Unit 3 does not have off-site power supply nor backup diesel generators providing power to the plant. As the high pressure injection system and other attempts to cool the reactor core have failed, injection of water and boron into the reactor vessel has commenced.
>>> Water levels inside the reactor vessel increased steadily for a certain amount of time but readings indicating the water level inside the pressure vessel are no longer showing an increase. The reason behind this is unknown at this point in time.<<< To relieve pressure, venting of the containment started on 13 March at 9:20 am local Japan time. Planning is underway to reduce the concentration of hydrogen inside the containment building. The containment building is

GEEZER

Monday, March 14, 2011 4:52 PM

The map's bogus.

It shows the logo of Australian Radiation Services, an actual company, but they have this disclaimer up on their website.

Quote:
DISCLAIMER: Australian Radiation Services is aware of information about radioactive contamination being spread from the Japanese nuclear reactor incident released under the ARS logo and name. We wish to be clear that this information has not originated from ARS and as such distance ourselves from any such misinformation.

http://www.australian-radiation-services.com.au/

"Keep the Shiny side up"

GEEZER

Monday, March 14, 2011 4:53 PM

The map's bogus.

It shows the logo of Australian Radiation Services, an actual company, but they have this disclaimer up on their website.

Quote:
DISCLAIMER: Australian Radiation Services is aware of information about radioactive contamination being spread from the Japanese nuclear reactor incident released under the ARS logo and name. We wish to be clear that this information has not originated from ARS and as such distance ourselves from any such misinformation.

http://www.australian-radiation-services.com.au/

"Keep the Shiny side up"

BYTEMITE

Monday, March 14, 2011 5:59 PM

In Japanese, those names actually are significantly different: they're numbers. Daiichi is one, daini is two.

Why the US isn't bothering to translate them when it would help make reporting clearer is beyond me.

BYTEMITE

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:01 PM

I wouldn't call it bogus. It actually does illustrate a possible scenario. What's bogus about it is the numbers - we don't know where the contamination numbers came from or how or who did the time lapse modeling, if anyone did.

HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:53 PM

Just a quick update.

Fukushima I reactor 2 seems to be damaged. Valves normally used to vent off pressure is damaged. To compound the problem, there seems to be a leak in reactor 2 and workers are having difficulty maintaining the water level which led the fuel rods being exposed to air twice.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-earthquake-fukushima-nuclear
-reactors-deteriorate-explosions-fuel/story?id=13131123

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HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 6:58 PM

Under the current circumstances, I wish the Japanese wouldn't be so Japanese.

According to CNN:

[1:48 p.m. p.m. ET Monday, 2:48 a.m. Tuesday in Tokyo]
The Japanese government has formally requested the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency's assistance in responding to the situation at its nuclear power plants.

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PIZMOBEACH

Monday, March 14, 2011 7:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
In Japanese, those names actually are significantly different: they're numbers. Daiichi is one, daini is two.

Why the US isn't bothering to translate them when it would help make reporting clearer is beyond me.

"Hurry, we need to get to Fukushima 2!"
"Which one is that??"
"Not 'one' 'two!'"
"Too? We have to go to both?"
"No, we need to get to the number 2 Fukushima!"
"OK! On the map, which one is number 2?"
"It's the North one... I think."
"Then why didn't they call it Fukushima North for God's sake?!"
"God's Sake???"

There's an art to naming things.

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GEEZER

Monday, March 14, 2011 8:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
I wouldn't call it bogus. It actually does illustrate a possible scenario. What's bogus about it is the numbers - we don't know where the contamination numbers came from or how or who did the time lapse modeling, if anyone did.

Considering that it was not made by the folks whose logo appears on it, it has no associated information about where the figures it shows come from or how they're derived, and it shows radiation levels (from other comments I've seen) higher than those at Chernobyl ground zero, It seems a thoroughgoing fraud created by someone to stir up concern.

If folk were going to do real modeling and publish it, you would think they would claim it, and not use someone else's logo as identification. I suspect they used ARS's logo to make it look more 'official'.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

PIRATENEWS

Monday, March 14, 2011 8:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by HAKEN:

The Japanese government has formally requested the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency's assistance in covering up the situation at its nuclear power plants.

Fixed it.

Jap nuclear crisis highlights history of 'cover-ups'
"They had to shut down 17 plants in 2003 because they'd been falsifying the records about what had been happening at them."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/14/3163785.htm

Cute how those giant chunks of machinery shoot 1,000s of feet into the air, past the top of the giant mushroom cloud. TODAY.

BYTEMITE

Monday, March 14, 2011 9:09 PM

Sure. And I just said we don't know how they did the modeling and the numbers are suspect and have no basis, unless 3000 rad was what they've measured in the contaminated buildings on site.

But don't discount the idea of fallout hitting America, because that's actually plausible. Like I said, we get pollution in the western US from Beijing. Check out where Beijing and Japan are relative to each other.

Quote:
The impact of all this extends far beyond China’s borders. Taken as a group, its coal-fired power plants emit the world’s highest levels of sulfur dioxide (a major element of acid rain) and mercury, both of which rise high into the atmosphere and hitch a ride on air currents circling the globe. One study, published last year in the Journal of Geophysical Research, calculated that three-quarters of the black carbon pollution in the atmosphere over the western United States originates in Asia. It is estimated that as much as 35 percent of all the mercury pollution in the western United States comes from abroad, and China is most likely the main culprit.

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/china2019s-syndrome

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JD007632.shtml

PIRATENEWS

Monday, March 14, 2011 9:21 PM

Fuck You #3 exploded today, blast 10 times bigger than the explosion Saturday of Fuck You #1.

Fuck You #2, Fuck You #4, Fuck You #5, Fuck You #6 are burning, fuel rods splitting open and melting.

The cleanup crew will be buried in 30 days. Dirt nap with baby Jesus.

Nothing to worry about...

Japan's nightmare gets even WORSE: All THREE damaged nuclear reactors now in 'meltdown'
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365781/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-All-
3-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-reactors-meltdown.html

America on nuclear alert from Jap fallout
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Amer
ica-nuclear-alert-Fukushima-explosion.html

Funny how V predicted this nuke disaster last week, how sabotage of "Blue (Sun) Energy" would destroy confidence in the world use of Blue Energy, such as wiping out a city like New York...or Tokyo.

HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 11:07 PM

Latest status of reactors.

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HAKEN

Monday, March 14, 2011 11:57 PM

Latest update: an explosion was heard at the location of the suppression pool of reactor number 2. Workers are currently being evacuated from the plant. There is a possibility that the suppression pool may have been damaged because pressure within the chamber went down with radioactivity went up in the surrounding area. The suppression pool is part of a last line of defense to prevent radioactive material from leaking to the outside.

You can listen to the live press conference here:

http://www.livestation.com/channels/123-nhk-world-english

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RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 12:01 AM

Thanks to everyone for posting info about the nuclear situation in Japan. I agree with Byte that it is physically possible for us to get radiation if something goes wrong, but I don't think we need to be too concerned yet. I think people are doing their best to take care of the situation over there, hopefully it will get resolved as soon as possible.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:34 AM

Deadly alpha radiation can only be measured by tissue sample SUCKERS!

My potassium iodide is good to go...unless it has a short shelf life.

About 2,000 bodies found on coast of Japan's Miyagi-Kyodo
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/idUSL3E7EE09320110314

HAKEN

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 2:17 AM

Latest updates:

Prime Minister of Japan has asked for calmness while telling people that they should all evacuate further out from the nuclear power plants and stay in their homes.

Additionally, there is now a fire with reactor number 4, which contains spent nuclear material and might be burning.

Furthermore, the containment unit for reactor 2 has been confirmed damaged and possibly might be leaking.

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:18 AM

Look at the pretty pretty MOX PLUTONIUM rocket ship...

Much bigger hole than Chernobyl, plus MOX PLUTONIUM...

Breathe ONE dust speck of "Demon" plutonium and you are DEAD, then you spontaneously combust
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 4:51 AM

A run on iodine in CA.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 5:57 AM

PN, being prepared is always a good thing.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:00 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by dreamtrove:

A run on iodine in CA.

KI DIY FAQ and WARNINGS (it can kill you faster than the radiation)
http://www.ki4u.com/index.html
http://www.ki4u.com/faq-part-2.htm
http://www.ki4u.com/products1.htm

Earth's day length shortened by Japan earthquake
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/13/scitech/main20042590.shtml

Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsuna
mi.earth/index.html?hpt=T1

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:05 AM

What a mess, a really scary situation in Japan, the earthquake is hard enough without this whole nuclear situation. I'm watching the news right now to learn more about newest developments.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

HAKEN

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 7:24 AM

Latest Updates:

Via the BBC:

Quote:
Japan has told nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, of a fire at the Fukushima plant and that radioactivity is being released directly into atmosphere.

Via CNN:

Quote:

CNN -- U.S. Navy personnel are taking precautionary measures after instruments aboard an aircraft carrier docked in Japan detected low levels of radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the Navy said Tuesday.

The USS George Washington was docked for maintenance in Yokosuka, about 175 miles (280 kilometers) from the plant, when instruments detected the radiation at 7 a.m. Tuesday (6 p.m. ET Monday), the Navy said in a statement.

Personnel will limit outdoor activities and secure external ventilation systems there and at a nearby air facility in Atsugi.

"These measures are strictly precautionary in nature. We do not expect that any United States federal radiation exposure limits will be exceeded even if no precautionary measures are taken," the Navy said.

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PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 8:32 AM

Just keeps getting worse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html?_r=1&hp

Japan Faces Potential Nuclear Disaster as Radiation Levels Rise

“We are on the brink. We are now facing the worst-case scenario,” said Hiroaki Koide, a senior reactor engineering specialist at the Research Reactor Institute of Kyoto University. “We can assume that the containment vessel at Reactor No. 2 is already breached. If there is heavy melting inside the reactor, large amounts of radiation will most definitely be released.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-web-20
110315,0,7521768.story

The U.S. government mobilized emergency resources to help Japan grapple with the developing nuclear crisis, dispatching a team of Nuclear Regulatory Commission experts late Monday, activating an atmospheric radioactivity monitoring center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area and rushing additional Navy ships to the region.

In the best-case scenario, the situation at the damaged reactors will take weeks, if not months, to stabilize, U.S. nuclear experts said.

"They do not have the situation under control," said Robert Alvarez, a nuclear expert at the Institute for Policy Studies and a former Energy Department official.

The company's acknowledgement that a "suppression pool" at the bottom of Unit 2, designed to serve as a last line of defense against a meltdown, was believed to have been breached could represent a major escalation of the crisis, said Victor Gilinsky, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

"If that is true, then there is a path to the control room, the workers and the outside environment," he said.

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TWO

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 1:54 PM

The Union of Concerned Scientists’ All Things Nuclear blog http://allthingsnuclear.org/ is a useful source of informed information, including the fact that the level of radiation leakage at Fukushima Dai-Ichi considerably exceeds the design limitations imposed by the American Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC itself also has a blog http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/ where they’re doing updates that may be of interest.

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HAKEN

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:16 PM

Reactor 4 in Flames at Fukushima Daiichi.

ABCNEW.GO.COM - The company that operates the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said firefighters are trying to put out a fire at Reactor 4 at the plant. It was just the latest setback in the effort to stabilize the plant, which has already suffered three reported explosions at its six reactors...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-earthquake-radiation-leaking
-fukushima-reactors-containment-vessel/story?id=13136890

HAKEN

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:19 AM

Possibly a bad development.

Large amounts of smoke is billowing from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. No official press release as to the cause.

Speculation is that it could possibly be another hydrogen gas explosions from either Reactor 3 or Reactor 4. Either way, not good. Although not active, Reactor 4 contains 20 years worth of spent fuel rods that can ignite if exposed to air.

You can watch the NHK Live broadcast here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv

KAREL

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:40 AM

What of the rain falling through all of that radioactive material? That can't be good.

ZEEK

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 1:58 PM

So, you guys have followed this more than me. Maybe you know the answer to this. I keep reading that the backup generators were damaged. So, the plants couldn't pump fresh water in to cool the reactors.

So, in all these days of the crisis we couldn't get some new generators shipped in? There must be another problem there, but I haven't seen anything more than the generators being the base cause of the issues.

PIZMOBEACH

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Zeek:
So, you guys have followed this more than me. Maybe you know the answer to this. I keep reading that the backup generators were damaged. So, the plants couldn't pump fresh water in to cool the reactors.

So, in all these days of the crisis we couldn't get some new generators shipped in? There must be another problem there, but I haven't seen anything more than the generators being the base cause of the issues.

That is the official, somewhat simplified story, but no doubt on the scene it's much more complicated than that (like the tsunami broke things beyond just hooking up another generator). I have been on and off the story and pretty much always feel like no one quite knows exactly what's going on beyond the 50 people still on site.
And - maybe more importantly considering the Japanese Nuclear track record of misinformation, cover ups and cultural sensitivities to admitting mistakes - I can't say I trust anything that is related to the media outlets. If dangerous levels of radiation were streaming into the Japanese countryside right now I wouldn't be surprised if they'd put a lid on it thinking it's better to apologize tomorrow than admit failure today. It may be years before we really know.

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AURAPTOR

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 3:13 PM

Posted this on the RWED thread as well... Seems fairly informative.

3 separate cooling systems failed. The newer generation designs have cooling systems which would have kept working under these exact same scenarios.

Costly lesson to learn. Hopefully not a deadly one.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:00 PM

I did some math on this. According to Fick's Law, the flux of the concentrations and the diffusivity being the same, the only factor between the concentrations seen in surrounding regions after Chernobyl and the concentrations seen in the US after a theoretical containment failure like Chernobyl at these Japanese reactors should be the difference in distance. I calculated the first of the fallout would hit us eight days after the event, based on a report that it took 36 hours for the contamination to reach Sweden. I read that fallout 1000 km away from Chernobyl they found radiation in some boars at about 40000 Becquerels per kilogram, and from that I estimated the radiation in air about 48400 Becquerels per meters cubed. The distance between Japan and the US is 6000 km, so a good estimate for the fallout in America would be reduced to 1/6 of that, or about 7260 Becquerels per meters cubed. So we might end up with maybe 7260 Bq/kg in our system compared to the about 4400 Bq/kg which is normal.

So in Germany, where I pulled the Chernobyl fallout number from, there was about a nine month increased incidence of kids with Down Syndrome after Chernobyl, but they were getting six times the dose we'd be getting, which is twice our normal dose. This is still pretty minor, as calculating the dose-rate units from the activity rate for Iodine 131 here we get about 0.04 rad per hour. No where near the levels on the map.

Used a lot of fuzzy math for that, though, so don't quote me on that.

HAKEN

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 7:21 PM

NEWSCIENTIST.COM - The situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has become extremely unnerving. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has now admitted that the spent fuel rods could go critical - that is, a nuclear chain reaction could restart...

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/nuclear-cr
isis-radioactive-fue.html

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HAKEN

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:50 PM

For those who haven't seen the updates on television:

HAKEN

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 8:54 PM

Latest radiological data:

http://about.me/haken

AURAPTOR

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:21 PM

I hear there's no water left in the # 2 (?) reactor, and that if they don't get the power wired up to the cooling systems.....well.

As to the spike and drop in radiation....what's that about ?

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by HAKEN:
NEWSCIENTIST.COM - The situation at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has become extremely unnerving. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has now admitted that the spent fuel rods could go critical - that is, a nuclear chain reaction could restart...

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/03/nuclear-cr
isis-radioactive-fue.html

That's...

Fail. Just, fail. Not only do you blow up the containment, but this will take out the other reactors too. We're not even talking about radiation along the lines of an atomic bomb or Chernobyl anymore. We're talking about six or more Chernobyls.

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 9:28 PM

Quote:
As to the spike and drop in radiation....what's that about ?

The instruments I can only assume are inside the power plants. The spikes are associated with hydrogen explosions as the zirconium casing for the rods melted off, leaving the rods bare to each other.

The explosions then released radiation into the environment, which is the only reason I can think of why the readings would drop down again. So far, it's done this without fully breaching containment as far as I know, which is why the whole reactor cores aren't exposed yet (which would result in all the water flash vaporizing and kaboom and much more radiation which will not go away).

HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:37 AM

Latest updates:

Operation to use helicopters to dump seawater into the reactors are underway. Due to radioactivity levels, the helicopters can't hover and can't fly very low. Most of the water is being dispersed rather than hitting the intended targets.

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PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:43 AM

Obama fiddles while Japan burns
http://www.infowars.com/obama-fiddles-while-fukushima-burns/

600,000 "spent" (radioative plutonium) fuel rods are stored at Fukushima...ON TOP OF THE CONTAINMENT BUILDINGS THAT EXPLODED SKY HIGH...

The rest of the 40 years of fuel rods are stored in pools of water...THAT ARE BOILING...

I wonder why the US Navy FINALLY got the Hell out of Japan...

NRC Says Spent Fuel Pool at Unit Four Lost Massive Amounts of Water, Reports Oprah's Girlfriend
http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-nuclear-crisis-rising-radiat
ion-levels-halt-fukushima/story?id=13146516

Fukushima nuke plant situation ‘worsened considerably’
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78374.html

Jap nuke plant a dirty bomb waiting to go off
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-in-japan-a-dirty
-bomb-waiting-to-go-off/

US refusing to evacuate US citizens from Japan
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-my-sister-get-out-of-Sendai-America
n-Citizen/196145560420420?v=info

Radiation Contaminated Wind to Blow Toward U.S.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110316/ts_nm/us_japan_quake_wind_1

Workers abandon nuke plant, Japan’s nuclear crisis spinning out of control
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS
20110316

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by HAKEN:

12,000 micro sieverts is how many rem?

Probably much higher, just pegged the meter.

HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by piratenews:

12,000 micro sieverts is how many rem?

Probably much higher, just pegged the meter.

1 sieverts = 100 rems. 12,000 would be 120 rems.

Here is the effects it'll have on the body in rems.

5-20 Possible late effects; possible chromosomal damage.

20-100 Temporary reduction in white blood cells.

100-200 Mild radiation sickness within a few hours: vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue; reduction in resistance to infection.

200-300 Serious radiation sickness effects as in 100-200 rem and hemorrhage; exposure is a Lethal Dose to 10-35% of the population after 30 days (LD 10-35/30).

300-400 Serious radiation sickness; also marrow and intestine destruction; LD 50-70/30.

400-1000 Acute illness, early death; LD 60-95/30.

1000-5000 Acute illness, early death in days; LD 100/1

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:40 AM

Question is, how close to the radiation source were measurements taken, 10 miles away or at the wall of the containment building?

Walking Dead: The "Fukushima 50"
Jap PM: "What the hell is going on? I'm 100% certain the company will collapse."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/15/fukushima-50-workers-nucle
ar-plant
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366670/Japan-earthquake-tsuna
mi-French-claim-scale-nuclear-disaster-hidden.html

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission reports "extremely high" radiation, "containment destroyed" and "no water in spent fuel pool"
"This is a situation where people may be called in to sacrifice their lives"
U.S. military will not allow troops within 50 miles of the plant
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/japan.nuclear.reactors/?hp
t=T1

US says Jap plant's spent fuel rods boiled dry
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110316/D9M0JG800.html

Wikileaks: Japan warned over nuclear plants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8384059/Japan-eart
hquake-Japan-warned-over-nuclear-plants-WikiLeaks-cables-show.html

U.S. Supplies of potassium iodide gone…. Government takes control
http://offgridsurvival.com/potassiumiodidesupplies/

"Nothing to see here. Move along. Watch some basketball, smoke some weed, a little blow when you can get it. All is well."
-Barry Hussein Obama Soetoro

BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:59 AM

120 rem seems right, considering accounts of most people potentially exposed doing all right so far, but with some scattered cases of sickness. That is assuming they're not hiding the truly sick.

That's bound to get higher in the near-ish future.

HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:08 AM

Latest update:

Efforts to cool down the reactors using helicopters to drop water was abandoned after 8 flights due to water being dispersed in the air before reaching its target. A total of nearly 200 flights were required, but was never made.

Efforts to cool down the reactors using 5 fire trucks armed with water cannons have also failed. The water failed to reach the intended target and the fire trucks have pulled back due to high radiation levels.

Efforts is now being made to restore power to the plant by running new power lines from the electrical grid. However, even with the restoration of power, the water pumps will have to be repaired first due to damages.

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PIZMOBEACH

Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:35 AM

The helicopters... what a Fail. That seems so desperate an attempt for the very reason it didn't work - comparatively low volumes of water for the task, slow delivery, hard to focus, and off shore winds - that it has to be a big red flag that they would even try it. They are reaching.

The NYTimes this morning is even less optimistic. Today's paper focuses on how much worse US nuclear experts think the problem is than do the Japanese.

“We believe that radiation levels are extremely high, which could possibly impact the ability to take corrective measures,” Mr. Jaczko said (chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission).

His statement was quickly but not definitively rebutted by officials of Tokyo Electric, the plant’s operator.

“We can’t get inside to check (!!!!!!!!!!), but we’ve been carefully watching the building’s environs, and there has not been any particular problem,” Hajime Motojuku, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric, said Thursday morning in Japan.

Later, a spokesman for Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Yoshitaka Nagayama, was more equivocal, saying, “Because we have been unable to go to the scene, we cannot confirm whether there is water left or not in the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 4.”

Sss - what? So where's their optimism coming from?

My favorite cluster fuck quote of the day:

"General Electric said it will send about 10 (they don't even know the number) gas turbine generators to Japan to help replace lost power generating capacity. >> Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for the company, said that the operators of the damaged plant had requested generators, but he did not know what they would be used for. <<

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HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:16 PM

Latest spreadsheet containing the status of the Fukushima Power Plant.

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300350525P.pd
f

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HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:23 PM

What I don't understand is why they can't fly a remote control helicopter into the place to visually verify the status of the water level in the spent fuel rod pool. Something as simple as a Dragonfly would work or numerous others used by various film makers.

http://www.draganfly.com/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/helicam-combines-toy-helicopter
-and-camera-for-hd-videos/

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PIZMOBEACH

Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:59 PM

I was going to post that very thing! It's the land of robots after all! But I didn't because I think there are too many doors to go through - even with the blasts it's not an open wound, or I believe they would have.

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PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by HAKEN:

What I don't understand is why they can't fly a remote control helicopter into the place to visually verify the status of the water level in the spent fuel rod pool. Something as simple as a Dragonfly would work or numerous others used by various film makers.

Corporate News is reporting that USAF/CIA "may" publicly fly a Global Hawk robot over the Jap nuke plant today.

Privately They've probably been doing that since Day 1, and keeping the radiation measurements Top Secret.

Sleep safe tonight, USA is here to help.

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:

My favorite cluster fuck quote of the day:

"General Electric said it will send about 10 (they don't even know the number) gas turbine generators to Japan to help replace lost power generating capacity. >> Michael Tetuan, a spokesman for the company, said that the operators of the damaged plant had requested generators, but he did not know what they would be used for. <<

I live 10 miles from a nuke plant, that I can see outside my window. 5 years ago when the dam hydro plant next door CAUGHT ON FIRE AND "COULD NOT BE EXTINGUISHED" the nuke plant had a "little emergency", due to loss of electricity for cooling water. THERE WERE NO BACKUP POWER GENERATORS FOR THE NUKE PLANT IN USA... AN IRANIAN CITIZEN WAS IN CHARGE OF BUILDING THAT NUKE PLANT IN USA, until last year when he cheated on his wife and tried to hide his paychecks from US divorce court by wiring dollars to his bank account in Iran.

My local nuke bomb factory at ORNL is the world's largest nuke waste site, where Commie Russia and LIBYA sends its nuke waste, where THOUSANDS of foreign citizens work stealing USA's Top Secrets. Even the director of ORNL was an illegal alien who could not leave USA or Border Patrol would not allow him to re-enter USA (hahaha laughed the local Bohemian Grover News Corporation).

We are frakked.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:05 PM

There's a lot of unknowns listed on the most damaged reactors... I suspect they figure they're beyond saving and aren't bothering with situation updates anymore.

also worrisome: temperatures in the water in the reactors thought secure are increasing.

HAKEN

Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:05 PM

It has been confirmed that workers have re-connected power lines to the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant beginning with Reactor 2.

http://about.me/haken

BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:42 PM

Whooo... Will they be able to get the backup pumps for cooling online again? Here's hoping.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:49 PM

Post of news feed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-asia-pacific-12779512

HAKEN

Friday, March 18, 2011 1:08 AM

Okay, I perfectly understand what's going on now. It all comes down to poop and farts.

Note: You may need to watch the video over at YouTube if you can't see the translation.

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HAKEN

Friday, March 18, 2011 11:15 AM

Status of quake-stricken reactors at Fukushima nuclear power plants

Quote:

TOKYO, March 18, Kyodo

The following is the known status as of Friday evening of each of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and the four reactors at the Fukushima Daini plant, both in Fukushima Prefecture, which were crippled by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the ensuing tsunami on March 11.

Fukushima Daiichi plant

-- Reactor No. 1 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Saturday by hydrogen explosion, roof blown off, seawater being pumped in.

-- Reactor No. 2 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, seawater being pumped in, fuel rods fully exposed temporarily, vapor vented, building housing reactor damaged Monday by blast at reactor No. 3, blast sound heard near suppression pool of containment vessel on Tuesday, damage to containment vessel feared.

-- Reactor No. 3 - Operation suspended after quake, cooling failure, partial melting of core feared, vapor vented, seawater being pumped in, building housing reactor damaged Monday by hydrogen explosion, high-level radiation measured nearby on Tuesday, plume of smoke observed Wednesday and presumed to have come from spent-fuel storage pool, seawater dumped over pool by helicopter on Thursday, water sprayed at it from ground on Thursday and Friday.

-- Reactor No. 4 - Under maintenance when quake struck, temperature in spent-fuel storage pool reaching 84 C on Monday, fire Tuesday possibly caused by hydrogen explosion at pool holding spent fuel rods, fire observed Wednesday at building housing reactor, pool water level feared receding, renewed nuclear chain reaction feared, only skeleton of building survived the fires.

-- Reactors No. 5, 6 - Under maintenance when quake struck, water temperatures in spent-fuel storage pools increased to about 64 C on Thursday.

-- Spent-fuel storage pools at all reactors - Cooling functions lost at all reactors, water temperatures or levels unobservable at reactors No. 1 to 4.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/79398.html

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HAKEN

Friday, March 18, 2011 11:23 AM

This latest bit of news isn't good, but the US was likely right in setting the evacuation zone at a 50 mile radius.

Quote:

High radiation detected 30km from nuke plant

Japan's science ministry says relatively high radiation levels have been detected on 2 consecutive days about 30 kilometers northwest of the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The radiation measured 170 microsieverts per hour on Thursday and 150 microsieverts on Friday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says the government will take appropriate measures if this level of contamination continues in the area for a long period. But he says this would be unlikely.

Radiation was measured for 2 hours from 10AM on Friday at 18 spots in areas 30 to 60 kilometers from the plant in Fukushima Prefecture.

The highest reading of 150 microsieverts per hour was detected at around 1:30 PM local time, about 30 kilometers northwest of the plant. The location is within the zone where residents have been instructed to stay indoors.

Readings of 170 microsieverts were recorded at the same location at 2 PM on the previous day, Thursday.

Experts say exposure to this amount of radiation for 6 to 7 hours would result in absorption of the maximum level considered safe for one year.

The ministry also observed radiation levels of 0.5 to 52 microsieverts per hour at other observation points within a 30 to 60 kilometer radius of the plant. It says these levels are all higher than normal, but not an immediate threat to health.

The government has evacuated residents living within a 20 kilometer radius of the plant, and instructed those in a 20 to 30 kilometer radius to stay indoors.
Friday, March 18, 2011 17:38 +0900 (JST)

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FREMDFIRMA

Friday, March 18, 2011 1:23 PM

The ministry is full of it - Yuriko, despite the protestations of both her family and myself, returned to Japan from Italy, and according to the geiger counter she brought with her, the radiation is both stronger than the ministry is admitting, and has covered a longer range, as she has encountered great difficulty in finding a safe route through the chaos because of this.

Admittedly, she could be reading it wrong, but as smart as she is, I doubt it.

-F

PIRATENEWS

Saturday, March 19, 2011 9:18 AM

600,000 fuel rods on fire...all efforts to prevent China Syndrome have failed...Fukushima turning into a permanent "nuclear volcano" that will never stop burning in our lifetimes...30-million Tokyo residents have full-blown radiation sickness...1,000 nuke bomb blasts in USA killed 1,000s...Chernobyl killed 1-million...Mann Coulter says radiation is good for you...US Govt seized all rations of potassium iodide for its own VIPs...Radiation cloud has hit west coast of USA...Dictator Hussein Obama has fled USA for South America....All is well...Go back to sleep...Love your Jew World Odor...

Project Seal Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=14727

BYTEMITE

Saturday, March 19, 2011 3:11 PM

>_>

Tokyo has only 8 million residents. It's also 150 miles away. Maybe what they really meant was a combination of cities along that north eastern sea front, but said Tokyo instead because it was more alarming and because Americans can't do geography for crap.

Upwards estimates of deaths from Chernobyl, including thyroid cancer, were 200,000, but then again that was from the WHO and greenpeace, so that could be wrong in either direction.

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:

Tokyo has only 8 million residents. It's also 150 miles away.

37M in the metro Tokyo area. Tiny compared to Mexico City.

Chernobyl's Million Dead says New York Academy of Medicine
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-26-01.html
www.counterpunch.org/alvarez08132010.html

Jap food, milk and TAP WATER IN TOKYO contaminated by radiation...food sales banned
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/03/19/japan-radiation.html

U.S AIR PASSENGERS AND U.S. AIRLINERS FROM JAPAN TEST POSITIVE FOR RADIATION IN CHICAGO AND DALLAS
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367125/Japan-tsunami-Fukushima-Fifty
-suicide-mission-battle-nuclear-meltdown.html

Tokyo Electric Power Company Managing Director Akio Komiri cries as he leaves after a press conference in Fukushima

The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people
Deputy director general of NISA admitted they do not know if reactor fires are under control
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Fuku
shima-nulear-plant-radiation-leak-kill-people.html

U.S. government officials decline to give radiation measurements at Japanese nuclear complex, shrouded in "fog of war"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576208840531837
916-search.html

Mainstream media halts accurate reporting on Japan's worsening nuclear catastrophe; disinfo campaign now underway
General Electric (owner of MSNBC) manufactured the exploding reactors in the Fukushima nuke plant
http://www.naturalnews.com/031748_mainstream_media_nuclear_catastrophe
.html

Quote:
"Of course I am angry. I was ignored and then badly misled, and as a result the people were abandoned here to die. But I was the one who told them it was safe to stay, and now I have decided that I must be the last person to leave this city. I have been in my office since last Friday, and I won't go until the last person has left safely."
-Katsunobu Sakurai, Mayor of Minamisoma, 12 miles from Fukushima nuke plant
www.naturalnews.com/031747_nuclear_fallout_disinformation.html#ixzz1H6
qkcKgQ

'We have been betrayed': Mayor of town near stricken Japanese nuclear plant claims his people have been 'abandoned'
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367208/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Mayo
r-claims-people-abandoned.html

Exposed: this shots shows a gaping hole in the building of reactor number four. The green crane, circled, is normally used to move spent fuel rods into a 45ft deep storage pond, just out of shot. But the pool has now boiled dry and the spent rods are heating up and releasing radiation (see below)

Courage of the Fukushima 50: "This is suicide," admit workers trying to reduce catastrophe
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367125/Japan-tsunami-Fukushima-Fifty
-suicide-mission-battle-nuclear-meltdown.html

All is well, as insane Dictator Hussein Obama says so from South America as he declares illegal War On Libya and bombs Libyans into the Stoned Age for the Jew World Odor of the private "Federal" Reserve Bankster counterfeiters that steal all US income taxes from the idiot goy sheeple...
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=18&t=47909

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:19 AM

Jap radiation map...Fukushima data censored
http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=4870

At least 5 of the FU50 are now DOA...

HAKEN

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:10 AM

While the media's attention have shifted to Muammar Gaddafi, here is the latest on what's happening at Fukushima...

CNN.COM - Smoke spewed Monday from two adjacent reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a nuclear safety official said, setbacks that came despite fervent efforts to prevent the further release of radioactive materials at the stricken facility.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/21/japan.nuclear.reactors/ind
ex.html?hpt=T2

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HAKEN

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:22 AM

ABC.COM - Missing Virginia Teacher's Body Located in Japan.

A Virginia couple is mourning the death of their daughter after learning that her body was found in disaster-ravaged Japan, where she had been teaching English.

Taylor Anderson, 24, could be the first known American victim in the Japan disaster as authorities continue the daunting task of finding and identifying almost 13,000 people believed to be missing...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13189769

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BYTEMITE

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:25 AM

I heard on the news that someone on the US side of this was saying that this is stabilizing - but I don't see how that can be possible, because they're also saying that they think even if they do restore power that some of the coolant pumps are damaged beyond repair.

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 1:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
I heard on the news that someone on the US side of this was saying that this is stabilizing - but I don't see how that can be possible, because they're also saying that they think even if they do restore power that some of the coolant pumps are damaged beyond repair.

The cooling water has all boiled off, so no more steam explosions...just total meltdown into the underground water table...

HAKEN

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 1:50 AM

Latest update of the Fukushima reactors from REUTERS. I know the Japanese say that we here in the US are hyping everything, but one have to admit. When looking at the report below, it really doesn't look good.

Quote:

TOKYO | Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:54pm EDT
(Reuters) - Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of uncontrolled radiation.

- Nuclear plant still emitting radiation but source unclear, says IAEA. The UN atomic watchdog says Japan has not given some information relating to one reactor.

- Smoke and steam seen rising from two of the most threatening reactors, No.2 and No.3, at the Fukushima nuclear plant on Tuesday, denting hopes of immediate progress in bringing them under control.

- Core of reactor No. 1 also a worry with temperature touching 380-390 Celsius (715-735 Fahrenheit), plant operator says. Reactor built to run at a temperature of 302 C (575 F).

- Engineers have re-established power cables to all six reactors and have started a pump at one of them to cool overheating fuel rods. Lighting had been restored at one of the control rooms, local media said.

* Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says people should refrain from consuming leafy vegetables from Fukushima prefecture and tells the governor of Ibaraki prefecture to hold off on shipments of raw milk and parsley due to the nuclear crisis.

- Japan's health ministry says it has detected above-safety level radiation in 11 types of vegetables from the Fukushima area where the nuclear plants are located, Kyodo news agency reports on Wednesday.

- The World Health Organization said on Tuesday the detection of radiation in food is a more serious problem than first expected, and food contamination is not a localized problem. It says, however, there is no evidence of contaminated food from Fukushima reaching other countries.

- Plant operator TEPCO says a small trace of radiation had been found in the Pacific nearby, but officials stressed the levels were minute and posed no immediate danger.

- Miniscule numbers of radioactive particles believed to have come from the crippled nuclear power plant have been detected as far away as Iceland, diplomatic sources say. But the tiny traces were far too low to cause any harm.

- China and South Korea say they will toughen radioactivity tests on imports of Japanese food, and Japan tells four prefectures near the nuclear plant to halt shipments of spinach.

- Government also bans milk shipments from Fukushima province. Japanese food produced outside the nuclear crisis zone is safe.

- Official death toll from earthquake and tsunami exceeds 9,000, Kyodo news agency reports national police as saying.

- The government estimates the total damage from the quake will reach 15-25 trillion yen ($185-308 billion), the Nikkei newspaper reports.

* TEPCO, the crippled plant's operator, may eventually require more than one trillion yen in financing to help it overcome the disaster, Jiji news says.

(Tokyo bureau; Compiled by World Desk Asia)

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PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 3:41 AM

What They're Covering Up at Fukushima: "You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!" By HIROSE TAKASHI
http://www.counterpunch.org/takashi03222011.html

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Skipped Inspections
http://www.huliq.com/3257/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-skipped-inspec
tions

Tiny traces of Japan radiation spread to Iceland
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/japan-quake-ctbto-radiation-
idUSLDE72L1GU20110322?pageNumber=2

Radionuclide Blankets United States; Authorities Insist Levels Are Harmless
http://www.infowars.com/radionuclide-blankets-united-states-authoritie
s-insist-levels-are-harmless/

Interview with Dr. Paul Kossey, USAF HAARP program director (interview terminated for reasons of National Security after Dr Kossey said "We set the atmosphere on fire...")
http://www.infowars.com/flashback-alex-jones-classic-interview-with-dr
-paul-kossey-haarp-program-directorate/

Nobel Committee asked to strip Obama of Peace Prize
www.digitaljournal.com/article/304909#ixzz1HOGW08rh

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:24 AM

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Quote:
Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plan

Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.

TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant’s No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.

The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.

In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron beams.

In the latest case at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, such a criticality accident has yet to happen.

But the measured neutron beam may be evidence that uranium and plutonium leaked from the plant’s nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuels have discharged a small amount of neutron beams through nuclear fission.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80539.html

Unsafe Water, Black Smoke, and Neutron Beams at Fukushima
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/03/23/unsafe-water-blac
k-smoke-and-neutron-beams

Radiation Level At Fukushima Reactor No. 2 At Its Highest Level Recorded So Far, Neutron Beam Observed 13 Times
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japan-nuclear-agency-radiation-level-
fukushima-reactor-no-2-its-highest-level-recorded-so-fa

Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest
Problems ignored since 1975: USA nuked Fukushima...
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-ca
used-ge-scientist/story?id=13141287

Japan's mafia among the first to organise and deliver aid
http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=18012

Japan quake live blog: Radioactive foods from 4 Japanese prefectures can't enter U.S.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/22/japan-quake-live-blog-toshiba-eng
ineers-sent-to-quake-damaged-nuclear-plant/?hpt=T2

PIRATENEWS

Friday, March 25, 2011 3:50 AM

Illuminati Cards copyright 1995

Waco Clock Tower in Japan

Waco Clock Tower in Japan

Pentagon used Tsunami Bombs against Japan since WW2

Fukushima nukes Made In USA

Copyright 1995

http://dragonaters.blogspot.com/2011/03/made-in-usa-nwo-and-msnbc-kill
-jap.html

PIRATENEWS

Sunday, March 27, 2011 3:17 AM

New horrific video of tsunami bomb:
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1416681/71a8dbc9/nieuwe_tsunami_footag
e.html

Fukushima nuke plant wiped out by tsunami not earthquake, most of the 500 workers are dead, all current workers are from outside Fukushima, massive radiation levels at destroyed plant:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/survivor-remembers-the-co
lleagues-who-were-swept-away-2253508.html

Jap Tsunami was 77 feet tall
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/03/23/134793643/tsunami-was-m
ore-than-77-feet-high-at-its-peak

Fukushima nuke plant builder General Electric MSNBC made $15-billion profit, paid zero tax, got $3.5-billion corporate welfare from taxslaves in 2010:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370001/General-Electric-avoid
s-paying-tax-entirely-dodges-incentives.html

Fukushima fuckup mastermind GE MSNBC CEO Jeffrey Immelt and AllCIAduh Dictator Hussein "Butcher of Bagdad" Obama

HAKEN

Sunday, March 27, 2011 8:12 PM

Latest video of the damages at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. What a mess! With soaring radioactivity and leaks of toxic vapors and water into the environment, which is spreading globally, I just don't see the crisis ending anytime soon.

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PIRATENEWS

Monday, March 28, 2011 3:53 PM

Greetings from Fukushima Japan 2011

Radiation spiked 10-million times the normal levels at Fukushima plant, all workers flee from instant death
Radioactive Iodine in sea water 1,850-times normal levels proves reactor is in full meltdown
Death toll passed 10,000, more than 17,440 people missing
www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Confusion-Over-Radiation-Levels-at-J
apan-Nuclear-Plant-118733894.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12872707
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2011/03/28/elevated_rad
iation_levels_force_plant_evacuation/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/radiation-levels-reach-new-highs-a
s-conditions-worsen-for-workers/2011/03/27/AFsMLFiB_story.html

ALL US nuke plants ready to explode after loss of electricity for 4 hours, just like Fukushima
http://home.myhughesnet.com/news/read.php?id=18405617&ps=1014&srce=new
s_class&action=2&lang=en&_LT=HOME_BUNWC00L2_UNEWS

BYTEMITE

Monday, March 28, 2011 4:02 PM

My friend is over there now. I hope she'll be okay.

HAKEN

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:58 PM

CNN.COM -- Radioactive iodine at more than 3,000 times the normal level has been found in ocean water near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are struggling to keep reactors cool and prevent radioactive water from entering the Pacific...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.nuclear.reactors/ind
ex.html?hpt=T1

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PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 4:10 PM

Quote:
Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima, told the Guardian on Tuesday workers at the site appeared to have “lost the race” to save the reactor.

“The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell,” Lahey said.

Fukushima Nuke Plant Now in Full Meltdown
Radioactive core melts through containment vessel
Japan Considers Entombing Nuclear Plant as Workers Fight to Stop Radiation
http://www.naturalnews.com/031894_Fukushima_meltdown.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/record-high-levels-of-radiati
on-found-in-sea-near-crippled-nuclear-reactor.html
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-nuke-plant-now-in-full-meltdown/

Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/29/threats-claim-nuclear-bombs-hid
den-all-over-u-s/

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:10 PM

They probably should have entombed it right when explosions started removing parts of the containment buildings. This goes back to my idea of why don't they build nuclear power plants underground, possibly dug into the bedrock. Pipe in groundwater from outside the bed rock, then, if it goes haywire, evacuate everyone via mine shaft or elevator then collapse it.

PIRATENEWS

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
They probably should have entombed it right when explosions started removing parts of the containment buildings. This goes back to my idea of why don't they build nuclear power plants underground, possibly dug into the bedrock. Pipe in groundwater from outside the bed rock, then, if it goes haywire, evacuate everyone via mine shaft or elevator then collapse it.

Prevention is worth a trillion-dollar cure...

Once meltdown starts it cannot be entombed in concrete, because the nuclear reaction will continue and explode.

Only cure after meltdown is to detonate a bomb inside each reactor building, to throw the fissile material so far apart it cannot react.

Chernobyl was a dry reactor with an explosion which stopped the reaction. Fukushima is a wet reactor where meltdown never stops...

When The Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
http://rense.com/general93/whent.htm

400 Fukushima Nuke Workers Drowned, TEPCO Suicide Squads Die After 5 Hours Work, TEPCO Stocks Collapse, TEPCO to be Nationalized with Losses Paid by Taxslaves, TEPCO CEO Jailed in Loonybin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8415515/Japan-ear
thquake-president-of-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-company-admitted-to-hospital.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suicide-squads-paid-huge-
sums-amid-fresh-fears-for-nuclear-site-2256741.html

Obama evacuates 200,000 soldiers from Japan
(to be sent to Libya, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/27248974/detail.html

BYTEMITE

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:41 PM

Yeah, but at least if it's in the bed rock and you collapse it you limit impact to groundwater and air. It's why when someone tests a nuke they drill into granite stock to detonate. The only concern you have there is if the blast triggers an earthquake on a nearby fault, but that's easily solved by something else I've been saying: don't build in earthquake zones.

As I see it the possible impacts are worse than the meltdown itself, so you ought to build your plant right off to limit that impact. Put in all the safety measures you want to stop the meltdown, fine. But nature and Murphy's law will find a way, so when you're designing and building treat it like it WILL happen, even if the risk is low.

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:02 AM

I've decided that we don't have any business messing with nuclear anymore, I was open to it before this, thought maybe we could make it work, after all France does it fine. But I've changed my mind. I understand our curiosity and experimentation with it back when, we didn't know what would happen and wanted to figure it out. But we know now that it is a force beyond our control, it is a powerful and, quite frankly, twisted force. Having your face melt off and not even feeling it? That's twisted. I've made my decision, we checked it out, we used it, we learnt what it could do, and now I want us to be done and not mess with stuff beyond our control, because we really can't control it, we thought we could but we just can't. Sounds extreme I know, but that's the conclusion I have come to for myself. I guess if someone thinks its safe then they can do it, but I will have no part in encouraging it.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:34 AM

Radioactive Iodine-131 from Fukushima in Pennsylvania rainwater sample is 3300% above federal drinking water standard
http://enenews.com/radioactive-iodine-131-in-pennsylvania-rainwater-sa
mple-3300-above-federal-drinking-water-standard

Sooooo.........

Obama's EPA to raise Radiation Limits 10-MILLION %
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/epa-to-help-mainstream-media-obscu
re.html

PIRATENEWS

Monday, April 4, 2011 9:10 PM

Quote:
"12 years ago workers were exposed to such a criticality, and 2 were dead within 7 months. The workers now are not being supplied with dosimetry meters...But we at Fox News have been issued one."

Neutron Blue Beams Shooting From Fukushima Reactor

By Gary Jacobucci
4-4-11

Neutron 'blue beams' can now be seen shooting from one of the damages reactors night and day.

"International nuclear experts believe that melted fuel is causing a small, uncontrolled chain reaction there sending out a burst of heat, radiation and a blue flash of light what the nuclear industry calls a localized criticality. From what we understand, this is not good news for the workers trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown there."

One person gave this reflection on blue beams He was a medical student when the nuclear reactor was installed at UT. The joke on campus was that the good news was that they had an ultraviolet detector that could pick up this type of radiation leak - the bad news was that if you were in a position to detect these 'blue beams' that you were going to be dead in a few weeks.

Besides improvements in nuclear power generation like supercharging the uranium fuel in the reactors with plutonium (MOX fuel), radiation is finding more applications in medicine.

In addition to irradiating parts of the body where cancer is found, one fellow here in town had radiation injected into his blood stream for a diagnostic from a high tech piece of equipment at the Elko Hospital. He was told it would be fine, but to stay away from his children for a few days. When they couldn't get the machine to work right for the diagnostic, they told him he would have to go through the procedure again (he said no).

The FDA pushing for the irradiation of food to keep us safe of course.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/codex-alimentarius-irradiated-food
.html

The FDA acknowledges the fact that irradiation changes the makeup of food when it says in the same proposal that "Irradiation has various effects on foods that may cause changes in the characteristics of the food. Such changes may occur in the food's organoleptic, nutritional, or functional properties that would not be noticeable at the point of purchase but could be apparent when consumed or cooked."

The USDA allows irradiation of food and calls it "electronic pasteurization" so as not to alarm consumers. An official with the USDA who helped to ease food radiation restrictions now is with the UN doing the same with international guidelines. Many scientists believe that irradiation causes genetic and molecular changes that increase the risk of cancer in those who consume the food.

Then there are nuclear weapons. There are the heavy bombs and the ideology of M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) which also keeps us safe.

And now we have the use of depleted uranium. Prior to the War on Terrorism, it was thought to be a crime against humanity to spread nuclear waste on an enemies nation due to the long term toxic effect it would have on future generations.

But when it was found that the elements in depleted uranium could penetrate armor like nothing else, the toxic effects were no longer a concern.

DU ignites upon firing, filing the air with microscopic irradiated particles on both the giving and receiving end of the munitions.

Aside from destroying the health of the soldiers, the DNA mutations are passed into the womb...

http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/gulf_war_syndrome/uranium_infantic
ide.html

The use of nuclear, atomic, radiological, etc. is M.A.D. and will be our demise on this planet if we continue down this path.

http://rense.com/general93/blue.htm

HAKEN

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:26 AM

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan began dumping thousands of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, an emergency move officials said was needed to curtail a worse leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In all, about 11,500 tons of radioactive water that has collected at the nuclear facility will be dumped into the sea, officials said Monday, as workers also try to deal with a crack that has been a conduit for contamination....

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/04/japan.nuclear.reactors/ind
ex.html?hpt=T2

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