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Updates From Fukushima and the Gulf
Covering the Leaking Reactors At Fukushima With Tents Will Only INCREASE Global Exposure to Radiation
When I first heard that Tepco will place large tents over its leaking Fukushima reactors, I reacted with derision, as did Tyler Durden:
Artist's impression of this latest Japanese venture:
My reaction a couple of weeks later - after seeing an actual artist's rendering of what the tents would actually look like - was hope that the tents would at least keep radiation from spreading worldwide through the air, even if they didn't do anything to prevent contamination of Japan's groundwater or the Pacific Ocean.
But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that the tents - while helping to protect workers at Fukushima - will actually increase the dispersion of radioactive gases. Specifically, Tepco will pump radiation out through stacks, which will push radiation up to a higher elevation, dispersing it even further around the world.
Gundersen says that Fukushima is still emitting huge quantities of radiation.
Along with the widespread Japanese practice of burning materials irradiated by Fukushima - which is sending another wave or radiation worldwide - the tents and stacks will only worsen the global exposure to Fukushima's radiation.
Despite The Ongoing Efforts To Cover Up The Scope Of The Disasters, New Videos Prove That All Is Not Well At Fukushima ... Or The BP Oil Spill Site
Despite the ongoing efforts to cover up the scope of the disasters, new videos prove that all is not well in Fukushima ... or the BP oil spill site.
A strange flash was observed at the Fukushima nuclear power plant:
And a new 10-mile oil slick was spotted in the area of BP gulf oil spill:
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Japan wasn't alone when they built reactors on or near fault lines. Planetary alignments might affect earthquakes too. Anyone can go here:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C%2F2010%20X1;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb
Look at the planetary alignments, and then go back in time to compare those alignments with recent quakes. Check out the date of the large Japanese quake, and then look at the one in Virginia recently. Now, whether those alignments had anything to do with the quakes is of course debatable, however there were alignments that match the dates of the quakes. The next alignment? It's around September 29th when Mercury, the sun, Elenin, and the Earth all align.
If you're really interested, read this document on the subject:
http://lanl.arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1104/1104.2036.pdf
"Love thy neighbor as thyself."
"...the tents and stacks will only worsen the global exposure to Fukushima's radiation."
"...the tents and stacks will only worsen the global exposure to Fukushima's radiation."
I'm wondering how melted corium blobs that have escaped/blown out of secondary containment can still have functioning suppression chambers and hence vent through a stack? Hmm...quite the mystery.
Clearly, those flashes are flash light of photo camera's from tourists visiting the stricken reactors.
No, they are packing liquidified sushi out of soylent green...quid-su-shi-ma.
What's the big deal? Somebody just opened a can of tuna for lunch. Move along now...
dogs will actually eat their own shit to keep their personal environment clean
when a dog has puppies it will eat their shit until they are old enuf to move out of the 'nesting' area to do their business
would anyone care for some gulf shrimp, or fuku sashima or sushi?
I feel sorry for the NW Canadians in the path of the fallout, but not for the Mexifornicans. Will the last American leaving the Golden State please unplug the entitlement generator?
Don't forget the Schwarzenegger bobble head
Every time I see a comment like this, I understand better STRATFOR and like more my dog.
Amazing. This is everyones planet. Something we all share. And, like the economy there are a few fucking assholes who think that it is permissibale to fuck it up for their own financial gain.
Fucking morons, especially the pieces of shit that tell us their doing God's work after fucking with our families.
Morons? Once again, the word is "criminals." Until everyone gets this straight, things will only get worse. Simply put, "government" is synonymous with "mafia," as it is the most orgainized form of crime.
Criminals? Perhaps the word is "pathalogical". Gone beyond criminal a long time ago.
see: http://www.amazon.com/Ecotechnic-Future-Envisioning-Post-Peak-World/dp/0...
also available at Powell's for all those tinfoilers who see Bildeebooger's reflection in the Amazon:
http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=trade+paper:new:9780865716391:18.95&P...
I agree.. but it will be too late to do anything before we start marching. We always wait til the last minute, don't we.. ;(
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would ever get done at all. This is because human beings are not very good at dealing with a problem, but we're very good at dealing with a crisis.
It is hard to be optimistic, but remember, we're talking about a species that came up out of the ocean and learned to live on dry land. Adapting to glowing in the dark should be easy by comparison.
funny stuff but I'm willing to bet that a parasite can kill its host
Obama and Co. running cover for big oil after taking huge payoff. Might be time for some more payola BP.
Well, there is an election coming up.
Fukushima: testament to the awesome power of the state (to endlessly lie, fuck up and destroy).
Indeed. Fission plants exist because of massive government subsidies (such as exemption from liability, tax incentives, etc.). I suppose that this is because they are a source of weapons material, but there are probably other reasons as well.
I agree entirely. The liability backstop is so irrational on the part of the government that it begs the question why this technology was so important to TPTB. Maybe they deluded themselves into thinking the technology was "controllable," but after Fukushima, I think that myth has forever been put to rest.
I've been thinking for many years about the "other reasons" you mention. I've come to the conclusion that governments/corporations (is there a difference?) are effectively addicted to POWER, and that's what a nuclear reactor produces. I know we often think in terms of political or economic power, but the source of all this power is the real kind, Watts. Or BTUs in the case of oil. It can have different forms, but energy is the master resource. Would The-Powers-That-Be be if it weren't for the power?
Actually, government can be viewed as a "refined" variation of the mob. An Individual in a mob loses his sense of individual responsiblity/accountability. He becomes one of the swarm and loses any inhibitions.
In governments, workers lose their sense of individual responsiblity. Thy have no direct skin in the game, except those at the very top, who have everything to gain (read camapign contributions) and other various sources of money, and nothing to lose, since they never produced any useful work or value added on their own anyway.Therefore , they really don't have anything to lose. The disarray and confusion of the street violence cloaks the indivdual. The layers of bureaucracy cloak the individual's mistakes, laziness, or lack of productivity.
Is Tepco a state company now? No? Then why are you crying to "the state" to clean up their messes?
Snowball, I usually love your stuff. I started to give you a knee jerk thumbs down and then parsed your paragraph a bit better. Yes this is a corporate accident, but just as in the case of BP the state has aided and abetted and dare I say SPEARHEADED the effort to hide the extent of the damage caused by a powerful corporate actor. I believe it's the states responsibility as regulator (sorry we need SOME regulation lest they put arsenic directly into local watersupplies etc.) to draw attention to and force action on the part of the corporation who is culpable. Instead, just as in the case of the BP spill, we see the state deflecting blame and minimizing a horrific environmental and social disaster. So yes it IS Tepco's fault, BUT it's the state's responsibility to hold accountable these negligent corporate actors. Instead the state exacerbates the problem by lying to the populace.
Interestingly the recently resigned PM of Japan was worried that this disaster would render Tokyo itself unihabitable: http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/kan-feared-tokyo-would-become-uninhabitable-due-to-nuclear-crisis
Perhaps THAT is why he was forced to resign. He might have been getting crazy thoughts in his head, like telling the truth...
It is a utility with a government granted monopoly, so it might as well be. In practice, thee is almost no difference between facism and socialism.
Further, Japan is looking to outright nationalize Tepco.
Of course, gotta socialize those losses. It's the fascist/socialist/statist way right?
Not directed at you Tmosley as I know you know this, but an extension of the discussion: Corporations can and DO form partnerships with states. If stormtroopers are responsible for their actions as individuals, eg no Nuremeberg defence, then corporate actors are responsbile for their contracts with oligarchacal states (eg Xe/Blackwater).
Like Blackwater, Tepco is so intimately tied with the government's desperate measures to hide a failed energy policy and the dangerous, criminal and incompetent solutions, that our public officials, put there to protect us, should go down harder than any private actor.
Fukushima baby
glowing in the night
please baby don't say maybe
'cause i love that you're so bright
http://thepeakoilpoet.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukashima-baby.html
Welcome back, Georgie.
Looks like BP and the Coast Guard have done a bang-up job of deflecting attention and keeping the Gulf story under wraps for the time being. I doubt it'll last much longer.
don't ever understimate the mendacity of media and the stupidity of the american populace.
Well, Japan comes in as a close second.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill