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Update From Fukushima
Radiation Expert: Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released from Fukushima ... And Radiation Levels In Some Parts of Tokyo Are Higher than In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released By Fukushima
Radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby says that huge quantities of radiation - 1013 or 10 trillion becquerels per hour - are still being released from Fukushima.
This is down slightly from some of the radiation levels observed in March, which - as I noted in April - exceeded levels pumped out at Chernobyl during the week-long fire.
But given that the Fukushima crisis has continued for months, Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl in terms of radiation released. See this and this.
Very High Radiation Levels Found in Tokyo
Busby brought sophisticated radiation testing equipment to Japan, and says that the radiation from one sample from Tokyo was higher than existed inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
Report: Workers Say Ground Under Fukushima Plant Is Cracking and Radioactive Steam Is Being Released
According to wide-spread but unsubstantiated rumors, Fukushima workers say that the ground under the plant has cracked, and radioactive steam is being released from the cracks:
We'll update this post with confirming or debunking information as it develops.
U.S. Knew Within Days that Fukushima Had Melted Down
I noted in May that that International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks of the Japanese earthquake that the reactors had melted down ... but the public was not told for a month and a half.
I pointed out in June:
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; and see this.)
Today, Yomiuri Shinbun reports (Google translation) that the U.S. knew within days that Fukushima had melted down:
The subject of evacuating the US citizens was raised in the early hours on March 16 (local time). The US ... already knew about the unusually high temperature of the reactors from the Global Hawk data, and determined that “the fuel has already melted”.
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The US high-ranking officials wanted to evacuate the US citizens [Tokyo] but the local officials including Maher objected, as “it would severely undermine the US-Japan alliance”
(The Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial aircraft).
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China can rent a few ghost cities to Japan's refugees....
hell consult the record. i have been talking about this since day one. i was talking about mass evacuations of japan and where they would go? japan is finished as a country forever. the ramafications of this event have not sunk in yet in the population there. but it will. due to the lying by their own government, there can be no denying that there appears to be some sort of conspiracy afoot to destroy the japanese people.
The desire to commit national seppuku, rather than tell anyone the truth, is rooted in their ancient Samurai beliefs. Not that the general population does, but the government has made the choice for them.
A Japanese version of Masada, so to speak. Next up, the American version . . .
What are you talking about, this is the answer to the foreclosure crisis! Freddie and Fannie are gonna have GS sell all the underwater mortages to the japanese for all the T-Bills they hold, and shazam, Ponzi 2.0, now with better quality control, and sushi. I hear Detroit will be the new Tokyo, with GM merging with Toyota, $1 houses for all the imported workers, and the Yakuza merging with the local street gangs. Go long big racked blondes.......
The Yakuza are very traditional. They despise Africans. There is no chance in hell they would merge with the Black Gangster Disciples..
I'm puzzeled as to why there are no reports of radiation poison or deaths of the workers exposed. This is what causes me to think that what is actually happening is not being told. If the radiation leaks were truly that bad, is the sickness/death being covered up or are the leaks really not that bad?
many tepco workers have received radiation exposure, to say the least. i am sure the dying will start soon. i am not sure if they will publish any data on this however. the government has clamped down on any discussion of this information , in the press etc.
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fukushima-workers-missing-%E2%80%93-143-cannot-be-located/5853
They all run away and hide. Edit: Maybe they are being dissapeared. Sent to a luxurious island with umbrella drinks and dancing girls.
George, many thanks for your work covering this issue.
George Washington, thank you for your service. When you have updates on radiation-induced illness in Japanese or other people in relation to Fukushima, please let us know. Here is my plug for thorium-based nuclear power. Thorium cannot be weaponized, that's why it was ignored when the Cold War leadership was picking material that could produce power and plutonium for bombs. A thorium plant is safe enough to use in a small facility right in your neighborhood. It can't melt down. It's also a plentiful element on Earth with large deposits in Australia and India. Oak Ridge ran a working thorium plant for more than 10 years. Check out "Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor" LFTR tech talks on YouTube and elsewhere.
Well, we all know alliances, to governments at least, are always far more important than people's lives. har har
Why worry about radioactive Fukushima when you can worry about radioactive Toronto?
http://enenews.com/highest-rain-toronto-canada-measures-20000-cpm-square-meter-crazy-hot-video
Also reported high concentrations of radioactive sulpher in California after the initial reactor explosions. But this is not a problem - the sulpher just concentrates in the testicles. No cause for worry in CA.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/16/wheres-that-radioactive-sulfur-now-possibly-in-your-pants/
If you want to fear-monger, you'll need to do better than that.
The radioactive sulphur is just one of hundreds of radioactive compounds that have flown across the Pacific since March, and is still ongoing. Will be for many, many years. Rather than just pick one of the least dangerous compounds to focus on (to divert attention from the worser ones) just focus on the plutonium hot particle spread. According to Gunderson and Busby, I've got hundreds of them in my lungs right now. And so do a few hundred million of my best friends. So unless those two international experts in nuclear contamination are completely lying through their teeth . . .
Racial equality - very soon we'll all be black on the inside.
"All but 20 percent of the radiation it emits is halted by the dead layer of skin at the surface of the human body,"
Suppose you inhale it? How does it do once it is permanently lodged in your lungs? Anything other than sulphur to consider?
You missed this para in your copy/paste.
It is one para below where you stopped:
Sulfur-35 is absorbed by the entire body but is of particular concern to men because it tends to concentrate in the testicles, according to a Nuclide Safety Data Sheet from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Beta radiation occurring there could damage neighboring cells.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/16/wheres-that-radioactive-sulfur-now-possibly-in-your-pants/
Nothing important going on in the testicles. Oh wait, nevermind.
pods
Nothing like selective Cut n Pastin. Good drills Sushi
@Twat777 - FAIL
This disaster is about as bad as could have been imagined even if it has completely fallen off the media's screen (too busy smearing whichever Obama opponent appears to be in the lead........)
But - as I said at the beginning - it would appear GW's hyperventilating rants about the need to buy Iodine in California may have been a TEENY bit overdone.................................
Hope the lemmings enjoyed wasting their money.
Wasting your money? KI supplements are almost free.
Do you have insurance?
What do you pay for it? And what is the value that you are insuring?
West Coast of the US is a no brainer on buying KI. We have it due to being downwind of a nuke plant here. Shit, Walmart carries it.
Peace of mind for 10 bucks? I would not call that a waste. I just paid 10 bucks to keep the local high school football kids raising money to get off my porch.
pods
"Hope the lemmings enjoyed wasting their money."
How's the radiation where you are? Have you checked? Any hot particles in your neck of the woods? What is the EPA telling you?
Give it a rest, man. The green conspiracy is propped up everytime the economy drops.
It guilts people into throwing out all of their stuff in order to encourage consumption.
Everytime, everything needs to be revamped, retooled, ... replaced to save the world.
Deep. /sarc
The Japanese....suffer and die in silence. It amazes me that the rest of the world is looking away.
I'm not sure the ROW is looking away but the noise floor of bad news is pretty high.
Pictures of defomed babies will not be ignored. Most importantly by ANY Japanese female pregnant or even thinking about it.
When pregnant women abandon the place, it's over. Mammals with 2-3 litters/year will take over
Ron Paul, bless his soul, talks about the sanctity of life. At what point of deformity does the delivering obstetrician decide to terminate the life of the child? A few siamese twins now and then, but no stories/pics of three eyed or four armed children, ever. Well, there was that one child goddess in India . . . but that's it.
I agree with RP's economic platform, but what is his stance on the upcoming waves of cancers and infant mortality rates, natural or otherwise? Or any of the politicians running for any office, for that matter?
Not for long.
It amazes me that the rest of the world is looking away.
Who's reporting it in MSM?
Steam out of cracks....seems easy to verify
Will it pass the smell test?
So what's the god damned bottom line here? Enough of this he said she said crap. If it's a meltdown it will go on for hundreds of years - RIGHT? Let's have some freakin answers people.
You go first.
The island of Honshu a wasteland within 5 years. Japan ceasing to be a nation state at some point, probably within 3 years. Increasing incidents of cancer, with higher rates in the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. Think 5% increases every 5 years for the next 50+ years.
Japan committing national seppuku as we speak. Whether the population wants it or not.
If infant mortality rates have gone up 31-45% in the US since March, what are they like in Japan?
Not just the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. Rain in Midwest and East all radioactive. Snowpack in entire US and Canada radioactive. Wait until it finishes melting. How soon before the world doesn't want our radioactive crops? We'll have to eat it ourselves . . . oh, wait, we are.
And then the rain over the coming years from the radioactive ocean water, circling the globe.
5% increases every 5 years seems a bit mild, considering the plutonium that disappeared from the Plant #3 explosion, and whatever entered the atmosphere from Los Alamos. A lot of plutonium there, too. Deadliest substance known to mankind.
We're all fucked, just fucked. I'm not going long anything. I'm going to enjoy the few years I have left before I take the pill.
On The Beach, Bitchez!
And for my soundtrack:
Down With The Sickness!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LTT0xwdfw&ob=av3e
When the Japanese islands are completely irradiated and the Japanese CB moves their printing press to western Canada, will the yen continue to appreciate versus the $? Is it bullish for the Nikkei?
U got a line on Shimano derailers don't ya BR? DON'T YOU!!!!
Shimano manufactures outside of Japan. So I will not be offering any radiation discounts on them or the new line of leadlined bicycle shorts.
The bottom line is a radioactive "old Faithful"...3 of them. The melted blob will stop at the water table and every few minutes ground water will boil and shoot out of the ground.
Will water keep getting replenished as fast at it gets vaporized? Nice visual!
This is the ultimate water cooling system!
It's 200 meters from the Pacific Ocean...YES!
Please see also:
Prof. Kodama Angry about Japanese Gov.'s Gross Negligence (Part 1)http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&feature=player_embedded&v=Dlf4gOvzxYc
Prof. Kodama Angry about Japanese Gov.'s Gross Negligence (Part 2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlEOmcALwQ
(for English transcript hit the "cc" bottom next to "360p button)
Thank you George, and God bless us all, every one.
I'm a bit confused as I thought the media had successfully ignored this problem away.