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They've Found the Missing Fukushima Nuclear Cores ... Scattered All Over Japan
We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks – that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered up that fact for months.
The next month, we reported that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered something much worse: nuclear melt-throughs, where the nuclear fuel melted through the containment vessels and into the ground. At the time, this was described as:
The worst possibility in a nuclear accident.
But now, it turns out that some of the Fukushima reactors have suffered even a more extreme type of damage: melt-OUTS.
By way of background, we’ve noted periodically that scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are.
And that highly radioactive black “dirt” has been found all over Japan.
It turns out that the highly radioactive black substances are likely remnants of the core.
The Journals Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Environmental Radioactivity both found (hat tip EneNews) that the highly radioactive black substances match fuel from the core of the Fukushima reactors.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees.
Indeed, “hot particles” with extremely high levels of radiation – 7 billion, 40 billion , and even 40 billion billion Bq/kg – have been found all over the Fukushima region, and hundreds of miles away … in Tokyo.
Let’s put this in perspective. The Atlantic notes:
Japanese regulations required nuclear waste with 100 or more bq/kg of Cesium to be monitored and disposed of in specialized containers.
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The new government limit for material headed for landfills is 8000 bq/kg, 80 times the pre-Fukushima limit.
So the hottest hot particle found so far is 5 million billion times greater than the current government limits of what can be put in a landfill.
In other words, the core of at least one of the Fukushima reactors has finally been found … scattered all over Japan.
How did material from the cores get dispersed so far? Remember, there was a huge explosion at reactor number 1 , and an even bigger explosion at reactor number 3.
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It really wouldn't be hard to calculate the density of "hot" particles over the area, make the contour plots, and then calculate the total amount of material ejected from the reactors. My guess is that it's just a tiny, tiny amount of material.
It wouldn't be that hard ...
... Except that Japan passed a secrecy bill which forbids anyone from talking about what's really going on at Fukushima.
And scientists are being gagged ...
And everyone is lying their a@@ off about how much radiation there is ...
You are ignoring the obvious:
If that highly radioactive black “dirt” has been found all over Japan, then anyone with a Geiger counter would be able to measure it (the high radioactivity) and communicate about it.
There are numerous Youtube videos of Japanese people getting very high radiation readings using geiger counters.
But again, the new law is tyrannical, and people there - including Western journalists - are terrried.
Then, it would take no effort for you to link to those YouTube videos. Please prove your contentions.
All you've done is to link to AntiNuke advocacy sites.
I do think "all over Japan" is a bit over the top. I'd agree 100% that parts of the Kanto, Chubu and Tohoku regions have been contaminated with this stuff. I've seen the pics. Smaller radioactive particles could be almost "all over Japan", and by almost, I'm talking about Okinawa.
Yes. The Environmental Research Department, SRI Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius, Lithuania reported in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity:
(“Pu” is short for plutonium.) Fukushima is 4,988 miles from Vilnius, Lithuania. So the plutonium traveled quite a distance.
Worse, it's a magical material. It can travel up wind.
Without further qualification, this proves only one thing:
Measurement technology capabilities is pretty awesome these days!
Following your link brings up these pieces of information:
The activity concentration of (239,240)Pu in one aerosol sample collected from 23 March to 15 April, 2011 was found to be 44.5 nBq/m(3).
If I calculate correctly that would be 44.5 Bq/km(3) so ~44 radioavctive decays per second in a cubic kilometer, from those isotopes alone - unimpressive.
Fukushima data were compared with the data obtained during the Chernobyl accident and in the post Chernobyl period. The activity concentrations of (131)I and (137)Cs were found to be by 4 orders of magnitude lower as compared to the Chernobyl accident.
4 orders of magnitude lower means about 1/10'000th of Chernobyl. Quickly trying to dig up some Chernobyl fallout maps seems to indicate Latvia was at worst on the edge of the main fallout zones of the Chernobyl plume. By travel path, Latvia is about 24 times further away from Fukushima than Chernobyl. But because of travel time, quite a bit of the (131)I had already decayed before arriving, so comparisons are difficult.
Yes, I agree the Pu was vaporized into the jet stream. I guess I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about very VERY small globs of the core if it had melted already, or pieces of the rods, that were thrown from the explosion and carried on the surface wind.
Thanks for keeping this in the news. :)
Am not sure if aliens are real, but if they are, here's a good time for them to make their appearance.
Am not sure if aliens are real
Check out for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk
http://www.vielewelten.at/pdf_en/the%20day%20after%20roswell.pdf
We could sure use some aliens right now.
If you are listening then after you clean up japan and the pacific then go take those war toys away from all the imbeciles within a 1000 miles of Ukraine. Please
I am asking nicely :)
Aliens: "Who do you think I am? Your mother? You made your bed ..."
An experiment on the people. Great....
What the hell do you mean they build it right next to the ocean? Umm... we have these plants on our rivers.
Water is an excellent heat sink. They'll always build these things near water.
Not quite a good enough heat sink for uncontrolled nuclear? Sure, but it still beats the shit out of terra firma.
Of course, any liquid is also an excellent way to spread the radiation around. Whoops.
We have our own Plutonium launch in the USA....at least 20 days WIPP waste facility in NM was pumping plutonium into the air
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/03/wipp-nuclear-disaster-in-20...
So now the more interesting questions:
Who will be allowed to collect cancer data from Japan moving forward?
Will epidemiological studies be censored in the name of Japan's national security?
And can USA's Japanese Sushi bars import fish from Japan and who is regulating and testing these products?
Hey...hang on!...don't you work for City Wok...?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omfO6ooInP4
No, but i think he's been eating the Pacific fish.
Not just japan, 50 to 100 tons of uranium and plutonium were aerosolized in the air, and here is the proof using US EPA data.
Sorry to tell you, but you been dosed. 300 micrograms of Plutonium in your lungs is enough to pretty much for sure kill you. I don't think we all got that high but many did. All Big gov had to stay was stay out of the rain, and shelter in place with HEPA filter.
Instead Obama took his family to Brazil, and went on TV stating "nothing will be coming the the US"
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphe...
Speaking of fission, great resource here, nuke speak required
Permanent and easy to find resource
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/04/how-to-calculate-total-fiss...
And into the lungs and guts of the Japanese people where it becomes an internal emitter
In Washington state there are reactor enrichment wastes, widely distributed on iand now leaking into the Columbia river down to the Pacific. We eat it our fish, it is not contrained in tanks that can control/contain the radioactive wastes. The Japanese may have nothing on us. A few decades ago I was down wind of some A- bomb tests and they tell me not to worry since I am covered by the VA & the ACA and some insurance too secret to give it a name. I asked about it and the VA said yes you do get care, but we have no pain killers or cures, but we have care and encouragement. See? It has all been arranged. Now I am told I am covered by ACA, no fees and no deductions or copays. we may be worrying too much. They are thinking of everything almost. The Japanese probably talked the AEC now Depart of Energy and the VA.
some people have been reporting radiation at the mouth of the columbia for upwards of 25+ years. a few years back, a sailboarder told me that it's common knowledge that the columbia river is radioactive.
bullish Geiger counters
Off topic...
Penn Cove Park says...."go SEAHAWKS".
There, added some sports.
(Starts chainsaw)
(Cuts off Ban KKillers head)
There, fixed it for you.
You don't want to use a chainsaw. It really doesn't work very well at all. Even garden shears would work better. The chain doesn't cut. It grabs and either throws the victim back or gets bogged down in the soft tissue.
Thanks for that information
I suspect it will come in very useful indeed.
Any thoughts on the relative merits of other traditional sharp-edged implements (Machetes, Axes, that sort of thing in general!)??
(just planninig ahead . . . . . .)
Gives "Land of the Rising Sun" a whole new meaning.
North Dakota finds more radioactive oil waste......http://news.yahoo.com/north-dakota-finds-more-radioactive-200209424.html...
I hate to break it to you, but everything on earth, including beer, is radioactive. Oil wells routinely release radon gas. The question is if the material is dangerous enough to hurt anyone. But, that was not disclosed in the article.
We may actually see Godzilla a few decades from now.
no it's there now on film, soon to be released in theatres near you. quite a documentary I hear.
The Japanese are getting reeady to destroy themselves anyhow. Is this really a problem.
MALK! Now with Vitamin R!
Looks like Japan just solved their aging population headache
All the homeless people they hired for clean up must not have wiped their feet off when leaving and tracked the stuff back home......
"Clean up"???? Ha ha ... THAT'S FUNNY!!!!!
The 2020 Olympics are going to be "hot."
I'm expecting the Japanese to dominate with all the 3 legged runners and 3 armed swimmers, or maybe they're the only ones that show up.
The Olympic committee meats to discuss some new rulez...
What i want to know is who discovered them? If it was a random person who came across it, and god forbid handled it, they got their butt massively irradiated. Unbelievable.
Puts a new twist on lead paint.
...pretty soon this might get serious.
Send over John Kerry, or McInsane.
may i bid you a biden for that job? he is always very serious and intelligent and informed with good solutions to any problem.
So should I BTFD on this news or not? /s
jimstone freelance has done detailed reporting on Fukushima;
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html