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Clusterfukushima
There have been a cluster of earthquakes near Fukushima. Just yesterday, there was another 6.0 earthquake.
There have been a cluster of meltdowns at Fukushima. For example, Asahi reports today:
A second meltdown likely occurred in the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a scenario that could hinder the current strategy to end the crisis, a scientist said.
In that meltdown, 10 days after the March 11 Great East Japan Earthquake, the fuel may have leaked to the surrounding containment vessel, according to a report by Fumiya Tanabe, a former senior researcher at what was then the government-affiliated Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
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Under Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s road map to deal with its crippled nuclear plant, reducing temperatures at the bottom of the core pressure vessel is one objective for bringing the accident under control. But if the fuel burned through the pressure vessel surrounding the No. 3 reactor and dropped into the containment vessel, that plan would be affected.
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Around 11 a.m. on March 14, the reactor building was hit by a large hydrogen explosion that was likely caused by a core meltdown, which led to fuel falling to the bottom of the pressure vessel.
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Tanabe also estimates that the second meltdown led to the release of large amounts of radioactive materials, and that much of the fuel fell through the pressure vessel to the surrounding containment vessel.
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Kunihisa Soda, a former commissioner at the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan who is a specialist on severe accidents at nuclear plants, said the possibility of a second meltdown could not be ruled out.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen notes that there are currently lethal radiation levels at Fukushima, that even higher measurements are to still come, and that the nuclear core has leaked out and is on floor like a pancake working its way down.
NHK notes that scientists have found radiation levels in Japan higher than any found in the contaminated zone in Chernobyl called Red Forest:
And nuclear regulators only thought about worst case scenarios involving a single nuclear plant. They totally ignored the fact that power loss to complexes of nuclear reactors - like the cluster of 6 reactors at Fukushima - could lead to multiple simultaneous meltdowns.
And then there's a cluster of cover ups.
As the New York Times reports:
“From the 12th to the 15th we were in a location with one of the highest levels of radiation,” said Tamotsu Baba, the mayor of Namie, which is about five miles from the nuclear plant. He and thousands from Namie now live in temporary housing in another town, Nihonmatsu. “We are extremely worried about internal exposure to radiation.”
The withholding of information, he said, was akin to “murder.”
In interviews and public statements, some current and former government officials have admitted that Japanese authorities engaged in a pattern of withholding damaging information and denying facts of the nuclear disaster — in order, some of them said, to limit the size of costly and disruptive evacuations in land-scarce Japan and to avoid public questioning of the politically powerful nuclear industry. As the nuclear plant continues to release radiation, some of which has slipped into the nation’s food supply, public anger is growing at what many here see as an official campaign to play down the scope of the accident and the potential health risks.
Seiki Soramoto, a lawmaker and former nuclear engineer to whom Prime Minister Naoto Kan turned for advice during the crisis, blamed the government for withholding forecasts from the computer system, known as the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information, or Speedi.
“In the end, it was the prime minister’s office that hid the Speedi data,” he said. “Because they didn’t have the knowledge to know what the data meant, and thus they did not know what to say to the public, they thought only of their own safety, and decided it was easier just not to announce it.”
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Meltdowns at three of Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors went officially unacknowledged for months. In one of the most damning admissions, nuclear regulators said in early June that inspectors had found tellurium 132, which experts call telltale evidence of reactor meltdowns, a day after the tsunami — but did not tell the public for nearly three months. For months after the disaster, the government flip-flopped on the level of radiation permissible on school grounds, causing continuing confusion and anguish about the safety of schoolchildren here in Fukushima.
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The timing of many admissions ... suggested to critics that Japan’s nuclear establishment was coming clean only because it could no longer hide the scope of the accident.
The mayor of Namie also said the government's justifications for withholding information are nonsensical.
And in related news:
It's a clusterfukushima.
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This data is old (not updated), but last Sv readings for #1 - 266 Sv/hour in Drywell.
http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1
8 Sv/hr is lethal !
Wow.
For a monment I thought you had misread for millservits.
Thanks GW.
Until absolutely confirmed alternatively, multiple physical science types that I have spoken with state that a wise investor is best advised to proceed as if the entire island will be generally accepted as uninhabitable. Confirmation of geometrically increased leukemia rates will be initially noticed around 180 days from March 11th and reported upon as case studies at about 1-year. Peripheral to human suffering, the healthcare costs involved are simply stated, incalculably staggering.
Thank you to GW for being one of the very few to keep the consequences of this horrific disaster updated and now, back to Desperate Housewives! I am genuinely sorry for all of the poor souls so catastrophically affected. “Why must it be this way!”
jse111,
EX-SKF has a post that supports your comment:
"Tweets from a nurse in a large hospital in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture on August 10:
Increasing number of patients with unexplainable decrease in white blood cells, headache, nausea. They are diagnosed for existing illness and undergo treatment, but they don't respond to the treatment at all. I've seen those cases in my hospital. I'm not saying they are all because of the radiation exposure, but I'm telling you what I'm seeing.
When we wash their hair, it comes off in a clump. It is really scary. "
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/decrease-in-white-blood-cells-headache.html#comments
TY Whoa for the post. What is described here is ACUTE radiation toxicity similar to the Litvinenko affair. The isotope involved is not polonium and the symptoms are less intense but the result will be identical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
The ignorance of the reality in place is far beyond egregiously, criminally mindboggling!
That is fucking speaking volumes. They are IRRADIATED!!!!
GET THEM CONTAINED away in quaritine fast.
I think/worry about Fukinshambles daily. That said, I call bullshit. Tweets are 140 characters max.
Alea,
EX-SKF has translated the Tweets from Japanese. There is also a link on his posts to the original Japanese Twiiter page.
That being said, anyone can Twiiter anything they want to-- doesn't mean it's true. But keep in mind some of the most tin foil seeming info on Fukushima has later turned out to be correct.
I wonder what that sounds like?
Hmmmm. . . Maybe textbook radiation poisoning?
Any nurse on Earth should be able to identify those symptoms. Unexplainable my ass.
TY George, if you didn't keep digging, it wouldn't get told.
One aspect of this is really scary. US nuclear facilities store a lot more spent fuel rods on the property. Unfortunately, the US has a very fragile power grid and we are in a very active solar flare cycle. We just witnessed a masive solar flare, but fortunately it missed us. Hey, no problem, right?
Nuclear power is a dance with the devil.
Somebody here quoted Einstein as saying that it was "a hell of a way to boil water." Understatement of a lifetime.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-11/toshiba-u-s-reactor-advances-at-nrc.html
Fukushima is a distant memory to the NRC
When black swans are circling way up high, they look just like vultures.
And more SILIENCE
WTF, what about the Japanese? Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sh@#$ is just not going away in our lifetimes. Who would live there? Talk about whistling in line at the slaughterhouse.
Our lifetimes? Maybe the planet's lifetime.
http://swiftspeech.blogspot.com/2011/03/plutoniums-half-life-is-24000-years.html
shit george ! by the time that shit melts it's way through the earths crust and core, and starts bubbling up in Tampa Bay, me and my gold will be long gone. this is old news, "dancing with stars" is on now, don't miss it.........
Meanwhile back at the ranch, my government (cleverly disguised as a pool table) was racking his balls trying to come up with yet another scheme to increase his bottom line...
"A new rule being proposed by the federal Department of Transportation would require farmers to get commercial drivers licenses.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which is a part of DOT, wants to adopt standards that would reclassify all farm vehicles and implements as Commercial Motor Vehicles, officials said. Likewise, the proposal, if adopted, would require all farmers and everyone on the farm who operates any of the equipment to obtain a CDL, they added.
The proposed rule change would mean that anyone who drives a tractor or operates any piece of motorized farming equipment would be required to pass the same tests and complete the same detailed forms and logs required of semi-tractor trailer drivers.
Drivers would keep logs of information including hours worked and miles traveled. Vehicles would be required to display DOT numbers. A CDL in Virginia costs $64 for eight years, or $8 per year, not including the cost of an instructional class and the written test."
http://www.gazettevirginian.com/index.php/news/34-news/3739-proposed-rule-on-farms-called-absurd
These people have waaay too much time on their hands. I just found yet another downsizable department in government, its like they just throw themselves in front of on rushing trains or tractor or sumfin ;-)
CDL for farming?
Crazy.We are already walking away from our own CDL's.
DOT has been getting out of control for years, they have kept dropping the weight classifications, and now my one ton pickup needs a DOT #, and they want logs / hours / bullshit paperwork. They are officially out of their minds.
Aww, relax, nmewn, no one cares about this stuff except Alex Jones, and he is MAD AS HELL!
mp3 with ads removed here: http://wp.alexjonespodcasts.com
Ranting on this topic in Friday 8-12-2011 show
as l9ong as it's not a tax on the wealthy, a decrease in corporate tax loopholes, a tobin tax, or tax in private equity then it's good for the economy.
That's going to be difficult to enforse. During planting and harvest seasons, you can be on your tractor for 16 to 18 hours a day, which is definitely against transportation regulations.
WTF? My tractor is easier to "drive" than my car! It stays on my property! I see this as being pushed by the insurance industry, pretty clear to me: yeah, govt has its hands out for a few bucks, but it's almost a certainty that the insurance companies are pushing this spear tip so that they can then come along and charge you for some mandatory insurance!
Self-propelled lawn mowers are next. The Lizard of Omaha can probably insure your lawn mower for 50 bucks a month or so. A bit more for the riding variety. Ain't civilization great?
Nuclear powered lawn mowers will be exempt since the Lizard wants nothing to do with them.
Fools will play ball they can't stop us all
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193528.html
Amidst a financial and economic crisis, Congress has reached its summer recess and many representatives are going to Israel.
Altogether, 81 Congressmen and women have announced their one-week trips, paid for by the American Israel Education Fund, a non-profit affiliate of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=israel&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11&searchButt.x=0&searchButt.y=0#1650
http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=jewish&sa=Search&cx=010677907462955562473%3Anlldkv0jvam&cof=FORID%3A11#1650
wonder if al-queada is aware of this? Hey ! a guy can hope can't he?
All well and good but is the radiation still falling on all the health nuts on the West Coast of the USA?
How about Hawaii? They were getting a nice "glow in the dark" bath of Fuki-Shine before.
We're catching it right now. For anybody who's interested, here's an interactive map:
http://stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=npac_250
Thanks HK. No wonder my sushi and seaweed are still glowing.
Hey, why all the panic? It's healthy, it's good for you. You will develop the Southern California Tan with no effort. This stuff is non-toxic and will kill toxins in your body. Just ask John Wayne.
Or Ann Coulter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rci3ElYLs4U
Just to show you that truth is stranger than fiction, and even a blind neocon skank occasionally finds something to say that may not be complete BS, have a look at this:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
"blind neocon skank"
If you even add the phrase "narrow-assed"-- I'd still tickle her twinkie.
What is the latest on our US reactors that were at risk of flooding?
great news, all of the flood waters are turning to steam before they reach the cores. unexpected benefit of american ingenuity and engineering.
ignorant post. Thanks. We are all much dumber now.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Keep on the hunt George, information is hard to find. Let us know.
not that hard actually
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110814a2.html
No worries, it's the heaylth radiation and as long as one keeps a positive outlook, all is well.