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Leaking Japanese Nuclear Complex Owner: Radiation May End Up Exceeding Chernobyl

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Tepco is finally admitting what has been obvious for some time: that Fukushima could end up being worse than Chernobyl.

As Reuters notes:

The
operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said
on Tuesday that they are concerned that the radiation leakage could
eventually exceed that of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

"The
radiation leak has not stopped completely and our concern is that it
could eventually exceed Chernobyl," an official from operator Tokyo
Electric and Power told reporters on Tuesday.

 

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Tue, 04/12/2011 - 12:00 | 1161804 destiny
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They're waiting to tell the truth once they'll be certain that everyone will get his fair share of this radioactive shit (just a wild crazy guess)...It's beyond incompetence, we're not talking about the Peter Principle here....they knwo damn well the stakes and outcomes of this.  No need to ionize food anymore...it's being gamma energized at minima, compliments of the TEPCO executives and the complicit governments worldwide.  

 

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 08:09 | 1161022 the not so migh...
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Mitsubishi bank estimate at least 1 trillon USD a few days after the great earthquake, that was being conservative.

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 08:03 | 1161008 John Law Lives
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That should be good for +100 on the Dow Jones in this FUBAR world we live in these days.

HAL 9000 directive:  Print cash and pump the markets and tell everyone things are fine...

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:27 | 1160921 ParisianThinker
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Our owners cannot control the consequences of their insanity.

Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams" shows a group of survivors standing by radioacitve fog which is floating by. Death is all that awaits thanks to the Profit system.

Gulf of Mexico spill kills off our food supply, and now this. Japanese Finance Minister asks us to have faith in the YEN. If the people are killed, and they cannot eat, what is the value of the YEN?

I want to go where there is no nuclear power.

France can never tell the truth. All of her vested interest are in maintaining this and selling it to as many countries as possible. 

The world is doomed.

 

 

 

 

Wed, 04/13/2011 - 00:47 | 1164176 RichardP
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Quiet yourself for a minute and think of all the problems that the minds of men have solved (for now, ignore the problems they have also caused).  It will take time, but I'm sure someone will figure out how to entomb the reactors so as to contain the radiation.  What I'm not so sure of is the political willingness to implement the solution.

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:37 | 1160935 Bicycle Repairman
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"I want to go where there is no nuclear power."

The southern hemisphere is a good bet.  For now.

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:27 | 1160920 ivars
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Short summary with data and table why Fukushima moved into 7 and how 10% of Chernobyl has been calculated. Actually, Cs-137 with 30 years half life is has been already leaked at amounts =20% of Chernobyl total. And its reactor 2 which has been and still is responsible.

 

http://www.saposjoint.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=2657&start=300#p31744

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:18 | 1160897 Rastadamus
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It's not just falling, Babylon is glowing.

 

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:02 | 1160874 Gmpx
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They forgot to say that it will exceed Chernobyl 5000 times.

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 05:59 | 1160835 benburnyanki
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In case u wonder why world all of a sudden got so fuked up. Its cause the donut eatin LAWwomen posin' as crime fighters are all crimechickens and won't stop the insidius corruption by the Yakuza of TEPCO and the Rusky Israeli Mafia who control D.C. and E.U. and Exxon/BP and who are the hitmen for the Rothschild Bankers who own the Fed.

See NYC banker/ Rusky Mafia connection in book link: http://robert-friedman-red-mafiya.blogspot.com/

lets see this proves amazon.com,ebay.com,google.com and facebook.com is run by Jew Mafiya if this book had to be given away. or we might find out Cheney=Mafia

What is real scarey, is how fukin worthless this proves all the NSA wiretapping our asses has been for the last 30 years. This kinda even implicates the USA intel agencies as being in on the take maybe by kikbaks and so the USAF can corner the Afghan heroin runs without gettin kilt by Mafiya. nsa must be usin wiretaps to get ones who see what they a doin' eh? This proves the equation NSA=STASI

But what pisses me off about bankers in the Mafiya most is not CDO's and TARP, but this nuke raining on us was caused due to JPMoron BankErupting Tesla who would have plugged us in to the Earth Battery right over our fuking sheep heads that we not see cause we sheep look down in grass.

5 Terawatt Hours per hour of pure electricity is flowing from just a few hundred meters right over our heads in to the Ground and we use exactly Zero Hedge fucking Watts of it?

Every single major Industrial Revolution cornerstone in Electricity and Magnetism was invented by Tesla:

  1. AC Electricity Tesla Invented to Tom Edison's horror and arguement since it made Edison look like a hobbiest.
  2. Brushless Electric Motors. Edison only had US powered on DC brushed motors that always needed new brushes. Oh and DC cannot be sent more than one mile by wire before it looses all power!!!
  3. Radio. No Marconi was sued and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tesla Invented THE RADIO!!!
  4. FREE ELECTRICITY: Tesla had a huge tower and a big copper coil on it that could pull electricity out of thin air. It blew the westinghouse generators at the main power co's gen houses. Tesla had to go rewind all the copper in the gens. But since Tesla invented the AC gens in the first place, he had little trouble complying.
  5. NEON Lights
  6. RADAR
  7. Vacuume Tubes
  8. TV Tubes
  9. ROBOTS
  10. and 'drum roll' the infamous Number Ten is actually his most important: THE TESLA COIL!!!!!! HELL EVERY CAR IN THE WORLD USES HIS TESLA COIL TO FIRE THE PLUGS. Except of course for a diesel which only uses a glow plug and only at startup until diesel ignition occurs due merely to heat and compression mixed with of course fuel and oxygen.

So why u think they basically left Tesla out of kiddie history books and put Einstein and electrical hobbyest Tom-ass Edison so hi up? Hint: it wasn't cause Tesla was not Jewish

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 02:49 | 1160731 Peak Everything
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Japanese Emperor's speech to his people after surrenduring at the end of WWII: "The war has not gone entirely in Japan's favor."

Now you know what "The radiation leak has not stopped completely" means.

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:36 | 1160941 vast-dom
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+1

excellent analogy.

And TEPCO had essentially no choice to not so much come clean but align themselves with world scientific consensus as they leverage this new admission for international aide ;)

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 09:20 | 1161228 Zero Govt
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Belgium has operated for 300 days now without a national Govt ...apparently Belgium citizens are not upset or missing anything ...how much better off Japan (and everywhere on the planet) would be without this corrupt incompetent clown show

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 02:19 | 1160711 infiniti
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"Not stopped completely".

Are we talking about a destroyed nuclear reactor site, or a fucking bathtub?

 

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 07:07 | 1160881 dark pools of soros
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same crew works on both

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 01:58 | 1160688 Ted Celeste
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Tepco is finally admitting...Fukushima could end up being worse than Chernobyl.

It's one thing to be a smart-ass, looking at history, and thinking how "dumb" people were.  It's another thing to live it and see how "dumb" people are is also due in part to spin.

**

Thanks so much for staying on top of this GW.

 

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 11:48 | 1161769 destiny
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+1

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 09:08 | 1161180 Zero Govt
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well CNBC reported this morning that Japans Govt had admitted Fukushima was at Chernobyl radiation levels.... just now however a CNBC reporter said Fukushima "would not be a Chernobyl" then said "though a 7.7 is at Chernobyl levels"

Presumably CNBC is confused between its reporting side and its GE ownership side... and turnng into a bit of a clown show during this journalistic 'conflict'

Wed, 04/13/2011 - 05:14 | 1164436 Dejean Splicer
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Oh to be a MSM journalist. You must be able to completely surrender.

Meanwhile at ~11pm last night a magnitude 7.2 hits just offshore in the general vicinity(Miagi prefecture).

Japan is sinking. We should start to see some intense volcanic activity there soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8lnjzJ1Q0o

Tue, 04/12/2011 - 08:36 | 1161082 Rider
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Chernobyl exclusion zone was  1,100-square-miles —roughly the size of Yosem­ite.

This was not that much wasted land for a country of Russia's size, however is a good chunk of land for Japan.

How to contain sea water? I bet sea exclusion zone should be a lot larger than land.

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