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Radioactive Dust From Japan Hit North America Days After Disaster ... But Governments "Lied" About Meltdowns and Radiation
I started warning the day after the Japanese earthquake that radiation from Fukushima could reach North America. See this, this and this.
Mainichi Daily reports today:
Radioactive
materials spewed out from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power
Plant reached North America soon after the meltdown and were carried
all the way to Europe, according to a simulation by university
researchers.
The computer simulation by researchers at Kyushu
University and the University of Tokyo, among other institutions,
calculated dispersal of radioactive dust from the Fukushima plant beginning at 9 p.m. on March 14, when radiation levels around the plant spiked.
The
team found that radioactive dust was likely caught by the jet stream
and carried across the Pacific Ocean, its concentration dropping as it
spread. According to the computer model, radioactive materials at a
concentration just one-one hundred millionth of that found around the
Fukushima plant hit the west coast of North America three days later, and reached the skies over much of Europe about a week later.
According
to the research team, updrafts in a low-pressure system passing over
the disaster-stricken Tohoku region on March 14-15 carried some of the
radioactive dust that had collected about 1.5 kilometers above the
plant to an altitude of about 5 kilometers. The jet stream then caught
the dust and diffused it over the Pacific Ocean and beyond.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen notes that Seattle residents breathed in an average of 5 "hot particles" a day in April:
Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
(No, the levels of radiation are not safe.)
I also have repeatedly pointed out that Tepco, the Japanese government and governments around the world covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis. See this, this, this and this.
Now even the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Meteorological Organization are complaining
that they were unable to obtain necessary information from Japan about
Fukushima, which led to difficulties projecting how radioactive
materials would spread around world.
However, this is somewhat disingenuous given that the IAEA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission knew within weeks that there had been meltdowns.
Indeed, as the prestigious scientific journal Nature notes:
Shortly
after a massive tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant on 11 March, an unmanned monitoring station on the outskirts of
Takasaki, Japan, logged a rise in radiation levels. Within 72 hours,
scientists had analysed samples taken from the air and transmitted
their analysis to Vienna, Austria — the headquarters of the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
(CTBTO), an international body set up to monitor nuclear weapons tests.
It was just the start of a flood of data collected about the accident
by the CTBTO's global network of 63 radiation monitoring stations. In
the following weeks, the data were shared with governments around the world, but not with academics or the public.
The attempted cover up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster is nothing new. Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years, and the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked on Navy submarines ... and produced plutonium for the military. (Indeed, the government's response to every crisis appears to be to try to cover it up.)
Finally, I've previously noted that the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernyobyl.
Arnie Gundersen has said that Fukushima is the worst industrial accident in history, and has 20 times more radiation than Chernobyl.
Well-known physicist Michio Kaku just confirmed all of the above in a CNN interview:
In the last two weeks, everything we knew about that accident has been turned upside down. We were told three partial melt downs, don’t worry about it. Now we know it was 100 percent core melt in all three reactors. Radiation minimal that was released. Now we know it was comparable to radiation at Chernobyl.
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We knew it was much more severe than they were saying, because radiation was coming out left and right. So in other words, they lied to us.
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In
New York City, you can actually see it in the milk. You can actually
see it has iodine, 131, actually spiked a little bit in our milk in New
York City, but it is very small.***
Realize Chernobyl was one core’s worth radiation causing a $200 billion accident and it is still on- going. Here we have 20 cores worth of radiation. Three totally melted, one damaged and the [rest in] spent fuel pumps, 20 cores worth of highly radioactive materials.
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Because there isn't shit "the authorities" can do about it. Since it doesn't benefit them, they ignore it for now. Also, by hiding info, they are helping to maintain 'calm and order' so that a mass panic doesn't destabilize society, upsetting their rule.
NA - Because there isn't shit "the authorities" can do about it.
I think the Japanese gov. could have started entombing the sites a long time ago. Why are they waiting? Are they still projecting the meme that they'll get it all fixed an running again and everything will go back to normal?
that seems a reasonable question. when does discretion become dithering?
I don't mind the affects being here in Oregon, my future child will be able to type faster with 6-fingers anyways...Of course, as for not having a nose and sprouting a tail, I'm still working on turning those into a positive
Shithead, your headline should read:
"A <i>computer simulation</i> shows that radioactive particles may have hit the US".
Clearly, Steve Martin's dog (ala The Jerk)...
should know better...
dont be a baby Duncan, say "da da"
its been measured in automotive airfilters
Not just simulations, real particles from air filters;
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/AirSamplingResults
I take it you don't watch the weather forecasts either, since they're also computer simulations.
This strikes me as an incredibly disingenuous comment. Are you suggesting radioactive particles haven't hit the US? What is your point?
Jesus
Trying to track of all the different things the government is lying about or witholding from us is just killing me with A.D.D.
try this....assume EVERY single thing they say is a lie
assume everything true is being withheld
and keep in mind, that we are one shape shifting reptilian handing out ameros at roswell away from every single conspiracy known to man being proven to be truth
hope that helps with your A.D.D.
and by the way, cigarette smoking helps prevent radioactive dust from sticking to your lung tissue
Thanks... I'm better now.
Most of my conspiracy theories are going stale.
You got more info on those shape-shiftin reptilians???
these three specimens appear to be having difficulty with maintaining their human camouflage, reptilian features are beginning to manifest themselves.
http://njnnetwork.com/njn/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/George-Soros.jpg
http://dvmx.com/lee_raymond_lg.jpg
http://www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2010/02/19/news/photos_stories/cropped/l...
Great post tamboo. Lucky Larry looks especially bad, which he should. Maybe he doesn't sleep well at night? That must be some large load of destructive guilt after participating in the slaughter of 3,000 innocents and launching a set of pointless wars in the process, killing another several hundreds of thousands of people.
Reptilian indeed.
reptiles protest. as is well known, only humans kill so many not to eat.
You rang? :-)
Dreams of a glowing future: http://www.colonyworlds.com/2011/03/raising-radiation-resistant-planets-...
(I don't subscribe to those ideas, FWIW.)
"cigarette smoking helps prevent radioactive dust from sticking to your lung tissue"
Cite, please ...
The theory works like this: Tar builds up in your lungs from smoking, the radioactive isotopes stick to the tar and are prevented from coming into contact with your lung wall and your blood stream.
The catch is that the tar causes cancer.
How many tumors can you have and still be healthy?
Smoking cures cancer. The mechanism is as follows:
Smoking causes cancer.
Cancer kills its host. Death causes disintegration of lung tissue.
Cancer cannot survive after the death of the host creature.
And radioactive dust will not stick to the lung tissue of a dead person.
QED
Now I need a smoke.... :)
poetic
"one shape shifting reptilian handing out ameros at roswell away
from every single conspiracy known to man being proven to be truth"
Happy days are here again...la la la la
"Seattle residents breathed in an average of 5 "hot particles" a day in April"....I wonder how many hot particles of King County Metro Transit bus-smog they snorted on the same day in April. Just a thought.
I don't put too much stock in the results of computer simulations; after all, those computer models are the ones that fail to predict tomorrow's weather accurately, day after day.
I'm not saying Fukushima isn't a big deal, but right now I've got all I can handle worrying about trillions of Bernanke particles being dumped into the financial system without worrying about the stray microsievert here and there. Let's just shut down all the nuclear plants, coal burners, Ngas peakers and hydroelectric plants and go back to the Amish Age.
Oh, and tear down all those ugly-ass windplants that pollute the I-20 view in Texas. I guess maybe we could leave a few solar panels in place, but really, we don't need no stinkin electricity. Just ask Thoreau.
If you watch Gunderson's videos you will see that the hot particle claims are from air filters scientists setup and checked each day in Seattle. This is real, hard evidence, not a computer simulation.
Sound's impressive if you forget that there are hot particles naturally occurring also (C14 etc.). So that "5 a day" statement is pretty useless without a comparison to normal levels.
Your comment is mind bogglingly ignorant (I get that it was deliberate). Hot particles are EXTREMELY dangerous: you're way better off smoking a pack of asbestos cigarettes a day. They put a very large dose into a very small amount of tissue in your lung, which can easily lead to lung cancer.
The computer models aren't trying to predict what temperature its going to be a week from now (hard), only the what general flow patters were due to jet stream MEASUREMENTS. Accurate enough to know we should all probably be wearing masks.
However, I share your disaster overload syndrome.
I don't like your attitude, English! We Amish may be without electricity from the grid, but that in nee way means GOtta! Run Father's Home!