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We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis
Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk
We’ve long said that the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima.
The Japanese nuclear agency recently green-lighted the removal of the spent fuel rods from Fukushima reactor 4′s spent fuel pool. The operation is scheduled to begin this month.
The head of the U.S. Department of Energy correctly notes:
The success of the cleanup also has global significance. So we all have a direct interest in seeing that the next steps are taken well, efficiently and safely.
If one of the pools collapsed or caught fire, it could have severe adverse impacts not only on Japan … but the rest of the world, including the United States. Indeed, a Senator called it a national security concern for the U.S.:
The radiation caused by the failure of the spent fuel pools in the event of another earthquake could reach the West Coast within days. That absolutely makes the safe containment and protection of this spent fuel a security issue for the United States.
Hiroaki Koide – a nuclear scientist working at the University of Kyoto – says:
I’m worried about whether Tepco can treat all the 1,331 [spent-fuel] assemblies without any problem and how long it will take.
Award-winning scientist David Suzuki says that Fukushima is terrifying, Tepco and the Japanese government are lying through their teeth, and Fukushima is “the most terrifying situation I can imagine”.
Suzuki notes that reactor 4 is so badly damaged that – if there’s another earthquake of 7 or above – the building could come down. And the probability of another earthquake of 7 or above in the next 3 years is over 95%.
Suzuki says that he’s seen a paper that says that if – in fact – the 4th reactor comes down, “it’s bye bye Japan, and everyone on the West Coast of North America should evacuate. Now if that’s not terrifying, I don’t know what is.”
The Telegraph reports:
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant … will begin a dry run of the procedure at the No. 4 reactor, which experts have warned carries grave risks.
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“Did you ever play pick up sticks?” asked a foreign nuclear expert who has been monitoring Tepco’s efforts to regain control of the plant. “You had 50 sticks, you heaved them into the air and than had to take one off the pile at a time.
“If the pile collapsed when you were picking up a stick, you lost,” he said. “There are 1,534 pick-up sticks in a jumble in top of an unsteady reactor 4. What do you think can happen?
“I do not know anyone who is confident that this can be done since it has never been tried.”
ABC notes:
One slip-up in the latest step to decommission Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant could trigger a “monumental” chain reaction, experts warn.
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Experts around the world have warned … that the fuel pool is in a precarious state – vulnerable to collapsing in another big earthquake.
Yale University professor Charles Perrow wrote about the number 4 fuel pool this year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
“This has me very scared,” he told the ABC.
“Tokyo would have to be evacuated because [the] caesium and other poisons that are there will spread very rapidly.
Perrow also argues:
Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.
Former Japanese ambassador Akio Matsumura warns that – if the operation isn’t done right – this could one day be considered the start of “the ultimate catastrophe of the world and planet”:
(He also argues that removing the fuel rods will take “decades rather than months.)
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen and physician Helen Caldicott have both said that people should evacuate the Northern Hemisphere if one of the Fukushima fuel pools collapses. Gundersen said:
Move south of the equator if that ever happened, I think that’s probably the lesson there.
Harvey Wasserman wrote two months ago:
We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Should the attempt fail, the rods could be exposed to air and catch fire, releasing horrific quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and possibly explode. The resulting radioactive cloud would threaten the health and safety of all us.
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A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries.
Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says full-scale releases from Fukushima “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”
Even Japan’s Top Nuclear Regulator Says that The Operation Carries a “Very Large Risk Potential”
Even the head of Japan’s nuclear agency is worried. USA Today notes:
Nuclear regulatory chairman Shunichi Tanaka, however, warned that removing the fuel rods from Unit 4 would be difficult because of the risk posed by debris that fell into the pool during the explosions.
“It’s a totally different operation than removing normal fuel rods from a spent fuel pool,” Tanaka said at a regular news conference. “They need to be handled extremely carefully and closely monitored. You should never rush or force them out, or they may break.”
He said it would be a disaster if fuel rods are pulled forcibly and are damaged or break open when dropped from the pool, located about 30 meters (100 feet) above ground, releasing highly radioactive material. “I’m much more worried about this than contaminated water,” Tanaka said
The same top Japanese nuclear official said:
The process involves a very large risk potential.
BBC reports:
A task of extraordinary delicacy and danger is about to begin at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station.
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One senior official told me: “It’s going to be very difficult but it has to happen.”
Why It’s Such a Difficult Operation
CNN notes that debris in the fuel pool might interfere with operations:
South China Morning Post notes:
Nothing remotely similar has been attempted before and … it is feared that any error of judgment could lead to a massive release of radiation into the atmosphere.
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A spokesman for Tepco … admitted, however, that it was not clear whether any of the rods were damaged or if debris in the pool would complicate the recovery effort.
The Wall Street journal notes:
Among the risks [Hiromitsu Ino, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the University of Tokyo] and other experts cite is the possibility that a container being used to move the units falls and breaks apart, exposing the fuel to the air.
Similarly, Edwin Lyman – a nuclear expert and the chief scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists notes:
The biggest risk with Unit 4 pool unloading is that a spent fuel cask might drop and damage the pool, causing a leak that could expose some fuel and cause overheating.
Professor Richard Broinowski – former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Central American Republics and Cuba – and author of numerous books on nuclear policy and Fukushima, says some of the fuel rods are probably fused.
Murray E. Jennex, Ph.D., P.E. (Professional Engineer), Professor of MIS, San Diego State University, notes:
The rods in the spent fuel pool may have melted …. I consider it more likely that these rods were breached during the explosions associated with the event and their contents may be in contact with the ground water, probably due to all the seawater that was sprayed on the plant.
Fuel rod expert Arnie Gundersen – a nuclear engineer and former senior manager of a nuclear power company which manufactured nuclear fuel rods – recently explained the biggest problem with the fuel rods (at 15:45):
I think they’re belittling the complexity of the task. If you think of a nuclear fuel rack as a pack of cigarettes, if you pull a cigarette straight up it will come out — but these racks have been distorted. Now when they go to pull the cigarette straight out, it’s going to likely break and release radioactive cesium and other gases, xenon and krypton, into the air. I suspect come November, December, January we’re going to hear that the building’s been evacuated, they’ve broke a fuel rod, the fuel rod is off-gassing.
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I suspect we’ll have more airborne releases as they try to pull the fuel out. If they pull too hard, they’ll snap the fuel. I think the racks have been distorted, the fuel has overheated — the pool boiled – and the net effect is that it’s likely some of the fuel will be stuck in there for a long, long time.
In another interview, Gundersen provides additional details (at 31:00):
The racks are distorted from the earthquake — oh, by the way, the roof has fallen in, which further distorted the racks.
The net effect is they’ve got the bundles of fuel, the cigarettes in these racks, and as they pull them out, they’re likely to snap a few. When you snap a nuclear fuel rod, that releases radioactivity again, so my guess is, it’s things like krypton-85, which is a gas, cesium will also be released, strontium will be released. They’ll probably have to evacuate the building for a couple of days. They’ll take that radioactive gas and they’ll send it up the stack, up into the air, because xenon can’t be scrubbed, it can’t be cleaned, so they’ll send that radioactive xenon up into the air and purge the building of all the radioactive gases and then go back in and try again.
It’s likely that that problem will exist on more than one bundle. So over the next year or two, it wouldn’t surprise me that either they don’t remove all the fuel because they don’t want to pull too hard, or if they do pull to hard, they’re likely to damage the fuel and cause a radiation leak inside the building. So that’s problem #2 in this process, getting the fuel out of Unit 4 is a top priority I have, but it’s not going to be easy. Tokyo Electric is portraying this as easy. In a normal nuclear reactor, all of this is done with computers. Everything gets pulled perfectly vertically. Well nothing is vertical anymore, the fuel racks are distorted, it’s all going to have to be done manually. The net effect is it’s a really difficult job. It wouldn’t surprise me if they snapped some of the fuel and they can’t remove it.
The Japan Times writes:
The consequences could be far more severe than any nuclear accident the world has ever seen. If a fuel rod is dropped, breaks or becomes entangled while being removed, possible worst case scenarios include a big explosion, a meltdown in the pool, or a large fire. Any of these situations could lead to massive releases of deadly radionuclides into the atmosphere, putting much of Japan — including Tokyo and Yokohama — and even neighboring countries at serious risk.
Reuters notes:
Experts question whether it will be able to pull off the removal of all the assemblies successfully.
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No one knows how bad it can get, but independent consultants Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt said recently in their World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013: “Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool, without any containment or control, could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date.”
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Nonetheless, Tepco inspires little confidence. Sharply criticized for failing to protect the Fukushima plant against natural disasters, its handling of the crisis since then has also been lambasted.
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“There is a risk of an inadvertent criticality if the bundles are distorted and get too close to each other,” Gundersen said.
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The rods are also vulnerable to fire should they be exposed to air, Gundersen said. [The pools have already boiled due to exposure to air.]
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[Here is a visual tour of Fukushima's fuel pools, along with graphics of how the rods will be removed.]
Tepco confirmed the Reactor No. 4 fuel pool contains debris during an investigation into the chamber earlier this month.
Removing the rods from the pool is a delicate task normally assisted by computers, according to Toshio Kimura, a former Tepco technician, who worked at Fukushima Daiichi for 11 years.
“Previously it was a computer-controlled process that memorized the exact locations of the rods down to the millimeter and now they don’t have that. It has to be done manually so there is a high risk that they will drop and break one of the fuel rods,” Kimura said.
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Corrosion from the salt water will have also weakened the building and equipment, he said.
ABC Radio Australia quotes an expert on the situation (at 1:30):
Richard Tanter, expert on nuclear power issues and professor of international relations at the University of Melbourne:
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Reactor Unit 4, the one which has a very large amount of stored fuel in its fuel storage pool, that is sinking. According to former prime Minister Kan Naoto, that has sunk some 31 inches in places and it’s not uneven.
And Chris Harris – a, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer – notes that it doesn’t help that a lot of the rods are in very fragile condition:
Although there are a lot of spent fuel assemblies in there which could achieve criticality — there are also 200 new fuel assemblies which have equivalent to a full tank of gas, let’s call it that. Those are the ones most likely to go critical first.
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Some pictures that were released recently show that a lot of fuel is damaged, so when they go ahead and put the grapple on it, and they pull it up, it’s going to fall apart. The boreflex has been eaten away; it doesn’t take saltwater very good.
Nuclear engineers say that the fuel pool is “distorted”, material was blown up into air and came down inside, damaging the fuel, the roof fell in, distorting things inside.
Indeed, Fukushima documents discuss “fuel that is severely damaged” inside cooling pool, and show illustrations of “deformed or leaking fuels”.
The Urgent Need: Replace Tepco
Tepco is severely downplaying the risks involved in removing fuel rods. For example, Tepco’s head of the Fukushima plant, Akira Ono, says:
We have removed spent fuels many times. Therefore, we don’t think we are going to be doing anything that is very dangerous.
That is idiotic given that (as shown above) this is anything but a normal fuel removal operation.
Tepco is incompetent and corrupt, and has been in cover-up mode since day one. As such, it is the last company which should be in charge of the clean-up.
Top scientists and government officials say that Tepco should be removed from all efforts to stabilize Fukushima. They say that an international team of the smartest engineers and scientists should instead handle this difficult mission.
Bloomberg notes:
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is being told by his own party that Japan’s response is failing. Plant operator [Tepco] alone isn’t up to the task of managing the cleanup and decommissioning of the atomic station in Fukushima. That’s the view of Tadamori Oshima, head of a task force in charge of Fukushima’s recovery and former vice president of Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party.
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[There's] a growing recognition that the government needs to take charge at the Fukushima station…. “If we allow the situation to continue, it’ll never be resolved” [said Sumio Mabuchi, a government point man on crisis in 2011].
Because the U.S. controls Japanese nuclear policy, Americans should demand of our political representatives that they pressure Japan to kick Tepco off the job ... and let an international team of scientists and engineers take over.
Postscript: As challenging as removing the fuel rods from the pool at unit 4 will be, it will be even harder at units 1 through 3. Specifically, it's too radioactive for Tepco to even get a look at what's going on in those 3 reactor pools, and they have no idea how to do it. Indeed, the technology does not even exist to approach those reactors, as the high radiation levels quickly destroy even robots.
Nuclear fuel rod expert Gundersen says the pool at unit 3 is in much worse shape than at 4:
Unit 3 is worse [than No. 4]. Mechanically its rubble, the pool is rubble. It’s got less fuel in it [than unit 4, but] structurally the pool has been dramatically weakened. And, god nobody has even gotten near it yet.
Tepco's not up to it ... we need a focused, well-funded international effort to fix this mess.
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Since the cuban missile crisis? Those missiles didn't exploded but reactors 1, 2, 3 did.
There weren't melted coriums going down the Earth but now they are.
We hadn't tons and tons of radioactive waters pouring into the Pacific Ocean. Now we have, 24/7 since march 11, 2011.
And...
"Jebus (Enenews)
November 8, 2013 at 11:29 pmThe truth is that Rokkasho is lit.
Japan Nuclear-Fuel Plan Stirs Worry in U.S., Asia
May 2, 2013
TOKYO—Japan is preparing to start up a massive nuclear-fuel reprocessing plant over the objections of the Obama administration, which fears the move may stoke a broader race for nuclear technologies and even weapons in North Asia and the Middle East.
The Rokkasho reprocessing facility, based in Japan's northern Aomori prefecture, is capable of producing nine tons of weapons-usable plutonium annually, said Japanese officials and nuclear-industry experts, enough to build as many as 2,000 bombs, although Japanese officials say their program is civilian.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB30001424127887324582004578456943867189804
And we have sanctions on Iran, lol…
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As I said many times before, we may deserve extinction.
Reactors 1,2,3 did NOT explode like a nuclear bomb, but the nuclear fuel rods inside the reactors apparently melted into a very serious situation that will probably be impossible to clean up.
As said above, "melted coriums".
Highly radioactive very large metallic blobs that cannot be removed, while continually experiencing radioactive decay product generation which leaks into the environment.
On the other hand, the fuel rods in the spent fuel cooling pools above the reactor hopefully have not melted or been damaged, despite all the worst case fear mongering, if, if, if.
Recent Photos looking down into the fuel rod cooling pools would be helpful to determine any fuel rod damage or risk in moving the fuel rods.
However, if the cooling pool collapses, all bets are off.
http://enenews.com/reactor-designer-it-was-a-nuclear-explosion-at-fukushima-unit-3-plutonium-was-scattered-after-blast-abc-theres-willful-denial-and-lying-going-on-here-even-at-the-highest-levels
Reactor Designer: “It was a nuclear explosion” at Fukushima Unit 3; Plutonium scattered after blast — ABC: “There’s willful denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels” (AUDIO)The alternative to reprocessing is MOAR spent fuel assemblies just lying around in pools all over Japan waiting for the next earthquake and tsunami.
The monkey-in-chief thinks that is the wisest course of action? Perhaps that gives Barry and his devotees too much credit for intellectual capacity, and is actually an insult to monkeys. If he and Harry Hemorrhoid were offering to take all that fuel off their hands and bury it at Yucca mountain, that would be one thing... but they're not.
How to survive the collapse with four words. "I got shit paper". What do you want? Ammo? PMs? Women? Let folks spend a month with chapped, caked asses, you're gonna be Tony Montana, Prince of the City......the world is yours baby!
Well, maybe that, after all, the NWO won't take the shape some people thought it would .
"FUKUSHIMA : A Nuclear Catastrophe of Epic Proportions"
http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=4000
“The nuclear industry and a compliant public have created a fire-breathing monster that cannot be forced back into its cave. Only one year after the accident, it was estimated that 30,000 workers had been exposed to “significant” radiation at the FNPP(24). Tepco is so desperate for workers they now have plans to require their 100,000 employees to work two to three times a year at the FNPP(25). This policy is being proposed just as it is learned that deteriorating conditions at the site are causing present workers to quit.(26)”
Nice link of cosmicconvergence, but some of it is merely fear-mongering and exageration.
A Fuel rod merely touching another fuel rod will not cause an explosion.
At most, it would merely increase radioactive heat generation and radioactive decay activity.
Normal fuel rod design and fuel rod removal from reactor pools or cooling pools would never be designed to be so dangerous as the fear-mongers claim.
No power utility would accept such a dangerous design as the fear-mongers claim, for a process that routinely occurs thousands of times in normal reactor operations.
On the other hand, the total risk of nuclear power generation is much greater than the utilities had known, as I attempted to say to my employer many years ago when I worked as an engineer in the nuclear power industry.
GW, you should at least include some of the less hysterical analysis, like the stuff from Forbes.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/11/07/the-fukushima-fuel-rods-will-not-explode-on-contact-with-air/
The author of this article cut some corners or overly edited some of the cocerns.
The zic won't burst into flames when exposed to air unless in a power form.
But the author states the water never got too hot to oxidize nor were they ever exposed. He stated 'we know that didn't happen'.
Really?
And what the hell do you think salt water does to metal over time?
Not to mention that it has not been stated anywhere (except in this article) that the material inside the 'rods' is cool enough now to not cause so much heat as to burn thru the casings.
Again...a lot of opinion mixed with half truths to make it sound like fact.
And do remember people...there is a LOT at stake here. Fishing industry, real estate...etc.etc. Just the perception of impending danger could result in a global economic collapse due to the failure of just the two items mentioned.
Think they will tell everyone just how risky it will be?
Ah, yes, Forbes, the assholes who said that Fukushima is like bananas, causing dozens of scientists to have to write reports showing they were off their rocker.
Fuck Forbes.
it's an interesting article SpeakerFTD . But when I read this :
"... the only technology with the proven capability of supplying reliable power anywhere and everywhere on earth without releasing greenhouse gases ..."
I wonder if the guy knows that uranium doesn't grow on trees, but has to be mined .
Coal has to be mined also, and then burned in electric power stations.
Gas and oil extraction requires burning energy also, and then the gas and oil burned in electric power stations.
It is all a combination of processes which have to be added up together to get a total effect.
So its settled then.....there is no danger unless....those in charge of this project are completely inept. So there is nothing to worry about except stupidity and ineptitude. GREAT!
In rod we trust! And just in case anyone is interested, I'd like to provide a link:
"Spent Fuel Transportation Risk Asssessment (NUREG-2125)": http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr2125/
Especially interesting would be appendix E ... ;-)
Butthurt Brainiacs in ivory towers should not be allowed to write such crap as section E.2, it falls into the same trap as dismal economists predicating everything on ceteris paribus, when it's not. There are more risk mitigation options available with rail transport than there are with road transport. Moreover I don't see any coefficients for getting from DOT historical incidents rates to incidents involving materials subject to 10CFR71 regs. Meaning-- you need a very specific step between table E-1 and figures E-1 & E-2 or everything is wrong.
http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=2369
"Tokyo has the largest “greater metro” population in the world at about 34.3 million. Tokyo has the largest GDP of all major cities in the world – larger than both New York City and London. Tokyo is the economic/financial capital of the world’s 3rd largest national economy, as well as the primary economic engine of East Asia."
I wonder if Tepco or the Japanese Government has an evacuation plan and facilities in place BEFORE they begin this operation?
How many millions of people would these arrogant fools murder, if they don't have evacuation plans and facilities in place when/if TSHTF.
Where in the hell could you evacuate 34+ milion people to....who could possibly handle such an inrush of nuclear refugees....China or Africa's ghost cities?
For that matter, who in the hell would want 40 or 50 million demented West/Left Coast Demondung American parasites evacuated into their environs demanding to be clothed, housed, and fed.
God help us.
In the end tepco board will be charged with crimes against humanity snd publicly put to death if they don't suicide first
They have known all along and long decided to swap human lives for money in their pockets assuming that ownership of the Japanese govt would save them..
Corporate Japanese would rape their grandmothers for power and money. ..
Anybody watch Pandora's Promise on CNN last night?
Made some amazing claims.
1) Not only did nobody die at Three Mile Island, but not one person has died from as a result of an accident at a nuclear powerplant in the US.
2) According to the UN, the WHO, only 28 people died at Chernobyl. 27 years after the accident, there have been no significant increases in cancer.
3) They showed people on a beach in Brazil where the background radiation was higher than the area surrounding Fukushyma.
If this was FOX News you would probably take this with a pinch of salt (or potassium iodide just to make sure). However this is CNN - think Ted Turner, Jane Fonda - the left wing shithead network.
True that nobody has died a Fukushyma - yet. However, the tobacco industry told us that there was no proof that anyone died prematurely from smoking cigarettes.
When all is said and done, the only reason that we don't have more nuclear power plants in the US is that Coal Plants are cheaper.
"......Coal Plants are cheaper".....AND SAFER.
Pandoras Promise also disputes this. According to them, Coal is the worst of the lot. Nuclear is rated the second safest - only wind is rated safer (I don't suppose you will be impressed if you are a Condor or Eagle).
From my MEMORY...without even watching GW's documentary, there were at least two deaths from Radiation Poisoning of Pilot and Crew in a Helicopter that flew to Chernobyl to assess damage.
Let's see how good my memory is... If I am wrong I will downvote myself.
double post.
my brother in law was one of the first in after Chernobyl, his brother was a founder of greenpeace and greenpeace and the govt were working together...and my brother in law was an MD specializing in young children. he died of a brain tumour less than 2yrs later.
Our neighbor down the block, a nuclear engineer, went there right after the accident to work on site. He died young of leukemia. Just an anecdote, I know, but a sad one.
And "Ted Turner, Jane Fonda - the left wing shithead network". Sure sign of appeal to the loud and dumb among us.
CNN - fully owned by Time Warner corporate elite. Run by the brown noses for the benefit of the 1%.
Don't fall for this shit. Just that we can never proof that anyone dies from anything other than death itself, means that it is impossible that radiation does even the slightest harm. Those poor bastards died of multiple failure of vital organs. Of course that had absolutely nothing to do with radiation whatsoever. I think you get my drift ....
Thank you George. The reason I posted about Pandora's Promise is because this is what is being propogandized in the mainstream media. I heard from friends who lived near Chernobyl that it is still a ghost town.
I now rank CNN even lower than FOX, which previously I considered the bottom of the barrel.
PP was a shameless piece of pro nuclear propaganda. That network hit a new low.
Hey GW. Thanks for the rebuttal video for waltD. You know that the D in walts name is for?Dumb.
I had watched it before but forgot most of the info. Due tp Dumbs comments I had to re-watch and get back up to speed.
It has more importance now then before due to the miss-information campaigns taking place.
Thanks again for keeping the info out here.
This really pisses me off. Not only is there a chance that this life is ruined, but there is also a chance that my future lives will be ruined.
Do i want to be reincarnated as a three armed mutant with a micro penis?
No.
Fix it please
I've got the micro penis out of the road in this lifetime.
Tepco's Stock is up 430% in the last year. Construction of this plant removed the breakwater that offered some protection from the "WAVE",
Why is this Company still Solvent?
Same question could be asked for half of the s&p 500 or the entire banking sector.
What could go wrong, they've had it under control all along. /S
Notice the oompa lumpas bowing down all dressed in death garb to go put their lives on the line while willie wonka goes and fucks a few hookers and has a $1000 lunch somewhere.
The article is saying one thing and the opposite. It is a mash up of all the worst statements found on the Internet most of which are outlandish.
It is a disgrace for Japan that the management of TEPCO is not in jail but here for once, they are doing the right thing even if too little too late. The pools are already half destroyed and a new quake is likely in the near future so "something" must be done and the sooner the better. That "this something" has some risks is a given but then what, the risk will be there even if we do nothing. By slowly removing whatever can be removed, the risk is reduced so it must be done. Can we trust TEPCO to do this well? That's another question entirely but it must be done.
Depends on how much of a self-preservation instinct the workforce has (not just for themselves, but for their relatives and descendants).
To paraphrase Nelson's famous flag message - "Japan confides that every man will do his duty" (not just Japan, but everyone!!)
The end is near.....and getting closer. The only thing that makes life interesting is not knowing when.
Fuck it im already 2/3 dead what do I care? Funny how people talk like it will never happen to them and/or make plans like they will live forever? Sorry dumbasses you're too poor for transhumanism.
You should have young children. Narcisstic prick.
We have all been dying since birth, as has been the planet. Humans in their need to control and command, not knowing when any of this will end can only reliably speed the process up for if they kill us and/or the planet tomorrow, they feel relatively sure they have taken control. The natural world died for humans centuries ago.
And the a super typhoon just blew below Japan. Imagine if this went over Fukushima ?
Sounds like biblical end times are near. If it happens, the djia will probably have another record up day.
Oh thank God! It's only something to do with Fukushima! I was worried that someone had crossed the contrail streams there for a minute!
Remember, Egan said it would be "bad" if we ever crossed the streams.
The Fukushima fuel pools are a mess. Will there be some unintended release of radiation when they try to clean them up? Almost certainly.
Will millions of people be incinerated in the blink of an eye (as could have happened in the Cuban missile crisis)? No way!
To compare this to the Cuban missile crisis is total hype. Which is GW's specialty.
Captain Nukem (fitting name):
Logic 101: If there has not been a moment as dangerous as now since the Cuban missile crisis - even if the Cuban missile crisis was more dangerous - then by definition:
We’re In The Most Dangerous Moment Since the Cuban Missile Crisis
Howdy hey GW.
You bet your sweet bippy we are in dangerous waters.
You have crazies running the country into the ground. You have warmongers ranting and bantering for moar war on innocent Iran. You have the purposely set up to crash the whole money-god system about to fall, crash, and burn. All as well planned of course.
You have this power grid drill coming up. You have companies preparing their own electric systems. You have multiple lame stream hypings of this kind of an Event. You have chinese troops landing in Hawaii on Tuesday next. Prolly moar hanging out somewhere. And all the while, you have this horrendous nuklear fallout and radiation poisoning of the entire planet continuing unabated day after day getting worse and worse. To top all that off, you have these dortynottyheads knocking on the door of ignorance and paid off denial saying, oh, there is nothing wrong here, go back to sleep little pointed headed sheeples. Hummmm...nice thing for a lizard to say...on a bright sunny day.
What will happen when all the electricity in the country goes off for say oh maybe, 90 days or moar?
Got Light?