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Three Years later, Japan Finally Tells The Truth: More Fuel Melted At Fukushima
After years of obfuscation and, simply put, lies; TEPCO has admitted in a new report that more nuclear fuel had melted at the Fukushima nuclear reactor than previously stated. While this is dreadful news, it gets worse, as the report further confirms that despite Abe's promises and TEPCO's state-funded efforts to build ice-walls, it may miss an important deadline binding it to clean radioactive water stored inside the Fukushima nuclear plant. Bloomberg reports officials commenting "we are doing everything we can do," but it appears, that is not enough as tens of thousands of tons of toxic water are expected to remain at the site by the imposed deadline.
As NHK reports, the meltdown was far more significant that originally publicly stated...
Tepco finds meltdown of the fuel at Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 3 nuclear reactor began at about 5am on March 13, 2011, five hours earlier than co. previously estimated, NHK reports, citing co.’s latest findings.
Most of the fuel may have melted through the base of the reactor into the containment vessel by 6am the next day: NHK
And now we find that TEPCO's clean-up plans are failing...
TEPCO's attempt at removing toxic cancer-causing substances from the reactor's waters may exceed the stated deadline. Earlier, TEPCO's president pledged to terminate the filtering process by the end of March 2015.
The country’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga confirmed the deadline to journalists. The official, though, did not clarify the penalties TEPCO face if it failed to meet the target date.
The isotope Strontium-90 is believed to cause cancerous diseases. It has a half-life of about 30 years and can be deposited in fish bones. The fear of the radioactive substance's presence in the water has already become the reason for South Korea’s ban on seafood imports from Japan.
As of July 29, the site had more than 370,000 tons of water contaminated with radiation, with its levels rising at a rate of 400 tons a day. The measures taken by TEPCO included the launch of the so-called ALPS filtration system, capable of cleaning about 500 tons of water daily. The system is set to be expanded to process more than 600 tons a day additionally starting September. Also, another system to filter about 425 tons daily is to be launched in October.
However, even with the use of additional facilities, such as the U.S.-based Kurion Corporation’s truck-mounted filtration system, Bloomberg expects tens of thousands of tons of toxic water to remain at the site by the imposed deadline. Familiar with Bloomberg’s data, TEPCO's spokesperson has said: "We are doing everything we can do."
And then there's this...
Police have arrested four people on Saturday on suspicion of defrauding Tokyo Electric Power Co. of ¥12 million in nuclear compensation.
The four included a 42-year-old former official of a Tokyo nonprofit organization that does paperwork on behalf of clients for claiming damages from TEPCO from harmful rumors related to the March 2011 nuclear accident at the company’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
They are suspected of filing false claims in April and May 2012 that an event company, based in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, faced a raft of cancellations from its customers due to concerns over radiation exposure.
The company was not actually operating, according to the police.
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We anxiously await Shinzo Abe's statement of calm and that everything's ok...because he has been so honest so far. But we leave it to TEPCO to conclude:
"We have been saying that we cannot say when the (restart) will be," a TEPCO spokesman said.
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Isn't anybody going to cry on television??
FUKUSHIMA : A Nuclear Catastrophe of Epic Proportions
It's okay, most of the nuclear fallout goes to America and it kind of shields Europe from the dangerous stuff.
thank god...
So don't worry! We'll be fine!
Thanks, zh. If it wasn't for you, I'd still be eating Pacific seafood.
If dophins were as shitty as people they would be laughing their little asses off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_dolphin_drive_hunt
Karma is a bitch. Let the Japs eat all their seafood.
pods
" I'd still be eating Pacific seafood. "
I'm still eating salmon from Alaska (at least, that's what is written on the packages)....
I still have only 2 balls....... for the time being.
Hope you're using a Geiger counter before putting that crap in your body.
Not to mention the mercury.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/07/millions-sea-creatures-dying-pacific-c...
Canary in a coal mine.
As if all the pink slime, wood pulp, and feces in the food that's been served throughout the US for years is any better. Then there's contrails, fluoride in the water... the list goes on. There's no escaping exposure to toxins. If you have a garden none of that matters. Fruits and veggies will always be superior to pharma. Sure the contrails are putting aluminum in the soil and killing the bees, but once Alzheimer's sets in you won't care. For those who don't know, berries and greens can cure cancer. It's not rocket science. _____ in, _____ out.
Jack Napier
Greenhouse and water filtration.
Pretend you are in orbit.
Which in reality; we are.
You said it. Don't forget the herbs and nuts too. Most herbs are ridiculously easy to grow and many will overwinter and even thrive during the cold season in most places.
What isn't mentioned enough is the food quality. Nothing else comes even close. With a nice garden, you eat like a king every night for pennies.
How are your gardens doing ZH?
Mine is really making me happy this year. Bumper year for peppers, squash, toms, pears, and maize in my area. We start canning jellys and jams this week.
One of the mildest summers we have had in a while thanks to the occasional arctic blast that seems to come along just when it's starting to really heat up.
Winter is going to be a bitch though.
All the more reason to put up another greenhouse. It's nice always having a project to work on.
" Canary in a coal mine. "
I guess I, too, will play that role.
Thanks for the link.
Seek_Truth -- consider this:
http://www.modifilan-seaweed-extract.com
Works great with heavy metals (I had mercury poisoning [from giant amounts of tuni sashimi] and other mishaps), but there is an art to using it correctly. Take too much and it will start removing good minerals like zinc, copper, and even iron. I was turned onto the product by a biochemist. Does NOT remove aluminum, so if you're getting pre-Alzheimer's brain fog, lay off the processed food (their salt has aluminum) and exercise till you're sweaty or use a steam room.
Dandelion root tea is a good chelating agent. The leaves can be eaten as salad too.
Free, grows everywhere and it works. That's why you don't hear about it on the tube.
my fish monger told me last week they no longer get anything from AK or west coast.
" my fish monger told me last week they no longer get anything from AK or west coast. "
In Switzerland, when I buy wild salmon, according to what is written on the package, it comes from AK.
When I eat salmon now, there's an atlantic source called duck trap.
It's some of the best i've had. Can we believe in the labels with so much food fraud?
" Can we believe in the labels with so much food fraud? "
Probably not, you are right. I don't even know if it's really "wild salmon" in fact.
Sincerely try Scottish Salmon, as it is not grain fed, fish fed, and is far superior to US Atlantic salmon.
I have worked the AK fishing boats and chefs line is 4 star resturants, Scottish takes the cake.
Convinced local sushi resturant to try... they are hooked.
I am glad they did get hooked, as I do not eat Pacific fish, especially Japanese fish.
No more cohada & friends. :(
Duck Trap is Atlantic salmon and is 25 miles from... right here.
I will continue to buy Scottish.
Why are world governments tolerating this asinine behavior. Damn Japanese pride! They look like fools.
Because it can't be fixed. It can't be contained. The genie can't be put back in the bottle.
That only leaves one thing to do: lie.
How could you misspell the punchline?
The "L" is not even on the same side of the keyboard as "D."
pods
Wow -- that is so dark. I love it.
p.s. I think I need help.
"tens of thousands of tons of toxic water are expected to remain at the site by the imposed deadline."
Na I expect it will be drained into the sea on an ongoing basis. If the Japs would just fuck up Japan, it would be their own affair. But this is polluting the rest of the world. This is incompetence of the highest degree, and it suggests there is no competence to decide upon new nu-clear power stations.
This makes the issue international and the rest of the world should be able to block nuclear development of this nature in Japan.
"tens of thousands of tons of toxic water are expected to remain at the site by the imposed deadline."
Dasani's new business opportunity....."H2Glow"
Back in Chernobyl when they found the molten slag of the reactor core, they discovered that after a few years it started to deteriorate and break down to a fine dust of plutonium and other crap, now imagine these mofos washing this stuff into the ocean and our food supply.
I dont care how big the Pacific Ocean is, it still is a finite body of water, and four reactors worth of plutonium and uranium just might be the end of the world's oceans as we know it.
check out how they used boron.
3 mg a day keeps the dr. away.
Holy-crap! For-real Nuka-Cola!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuka-cola#In_games_2
"Why are world governments tolerating this asinine behavior(?)" -
Because they do what they are told by their corporate overlords(Wall St/ Fortune 500).
Fukushima is particularly bad press for GE.
Pssst.... Dont eat the Fukisushi rolls...
Boehner's too busy with the lawsuit.
I recall people tripping over themselves saying how "this is no chernobyl."
They were right - because long term it will be far worse. Between the Japanese government and their pathological insecurity, and the international community looking at their shoes - long term we will have Japan as a wasteland and much of the world enjoying radioactive seafood ( if we're lucky ).
Is this really the whole truth?
So help me Budda
Confucius say no.
A Special Report On the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
How The Hard Science PhDs Have Wrecked The World
Good question, since we haven't had the truth so far
So, it wasn't just "a tiny leak" like the Japanese PM told his people?
As Fukushima Goes, So Goes Japan
ebola, war, radiation, drought, what's next?
hordes of wild-eyed rapture-tards
But I made $9500 last month by pimping my GF down on the corner... Life ain't that bad...
Let's see after ebola and the drought it would be something much worse, more of Nuland's cookies, Nuland is set to make a re-appearance in Eastern Europe with more cookies.
More propaganda, more suspension of civil liberties, more militarization internationally and domestically, more cronyism, more inflation...wait, what was the question?
Hell, it doesn't matter. The above covers most questions these days.
Well I DID put up the locust netting around my house last week, so.....
Do the Seven Seals still apply if their flippers are fused together?
With enough genetic mutation, can we call it the 7 mermaids?
Actually, upon re-reading that - it wasn't funny or clever at all. just down arrowed myself.
The last World War.
Only if nukes are involved, which by the assertion of some, no longer work...
Who needs a Nuclear World War when you got Fukushima
No longer work? They never existed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo7Ytg9ckC0
;)
not exactly the one I was looking for. I like the guy who says that the stars have to be aligned just right for the nukes to work.
HOLLYWOOD!
Not one tinseltown blockbuster about Fuckushima in the works.
QE 17
Hillary
MOAR War, MOAR radiation, with smoking holes in the ground... accompanied by famine and ebola.
Japan sanctions Prosecutor General of Crimea
http://rt.com/news/178020-crimea-prosecutor-japan-sanctions/
After the 2nd A-bomb, Japan should have asked "Is that all you got?" and have found out that the answer was "Yes". Ever since that horribly tragic and War Crime event, Japan has been Ameri-El's "bitch".
That won't change until there is more de-Dollarization, and the USD loses its GRC status: "<50% of world trade in USD" will be the trigger event. Bitchez.
There is almost something gut wrenching to observe a nation that was once bombed by atomic bombs now having to confront an atomic nightmare of its own making.
This just in: Tepco states that no "nuclear events" took place in Hiroshima or Nagasaki in the mid 1940s.
And furthermore... "NO War Crimes were committed in targeting vast civilian populations without regard, in the non-use of non-WMDs."
Civilians are ALWAYS the targets of war... ( even if you don't directly blow them up )... War brings them under heel... to not admit this is just silly.
The thing is that only since WWII have we become in such a way as to not admit this.... WWII was a war fought for survival... We seem to be willing to bring whole countries down and say we target only military targets... We fight these new political wars by proxy or even directly for only political or monitary gain and justify it because we only target the resistance.... and then we put the whole country under our heel.... It's not more compassionate... it's less compasionate and allows even more lawlessness.
And what's even worse is that if ( you pick the country ) was rolling down my street, wouldn't you be part of that resistance anyway?
I think the US can take most of the blame via its shitty reactor design.
I don't know, building four along an earthquake fault on the shores of a tsunami zone must count for something.
You forgot cyclones.
Those Japs are geniuses, I tell ya!
Oh, the irony...
South Korea’s ban on seafood imports from Japan
Someone should let South Korea know that radioactive waste in the ocean tends to move with currents and isn't bound by sovereign claimed water area. Glad those people on the US west coast enjoy their sushi and salmon. Me personally, I've avoided all seafood and stick to fresh water for my fish since the accident. Been getting worried about fruits and vegetables grown in California since it’s the moisture from the Pacific that waters it, but then mother nature stopped that problem
I've heard that if you wrap sushi in tinfoil and microwave it all the radiations cancel each other out.
Right, but only if you keep your head in the microwave while you eat it.
How's the Federal Reserve print-till-your-currency-is-dead experiment working?
Fukupussy
This is years crab fisheries on the wa. Coast was a complete failure, boats basically gave up 2 months before the end. Old timers tell me they've never seen it even close to being this bad. Crab off the boat went as high as 10.50lb when its normal price around that particular time would be around 4.00lb and boats still wouldn't fish because they couldn't catch enough to pay for fuel and crew and make a profit.
Crabby season.
Because... Fukushima, Obama, or over-crabbing?
Not over fishing, fisheries dept. Keeps tight reins on the fisheries now after the disaster in ak. With the opillio crab a decade ago. Actually quotas have been reduce quite a bit from previous years.
You're obviously mistaking global warming for a nuclear disaster. OBVIOUSLY, this calls for a carbon tax. If we tax carbon you'll have your crabs back.
Coincidence, I'm sure.
Why? Is the question:
http://enenews.com/report-worst-hes-ever-seen-says-alaska-boat-captain-s...
Out here on the Chesapeake Bay, it's from overfishing:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-chesapeake-bays-blue-crab-nee...
Had The Last Samurai known the extent and depth of the coming Treachery and Treason, he would have committed suiced much sooner.
or maybe he should have slain the emperor and his western advisors
A trend worth watching:
http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/fukushima.html
The same people who deny Nanking are covering up Fukishima? I'm Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Cesium 134 & 137, Iodine 131, Strontium, Cobalt... and now we are just learning about the scope and breadth of Plutonium 241 being released into the air. It's already made its way to Denmark. Pu 241 breathed or ingested means certain death for any and all creatures and organisms. It's no longer a local 'situation'. We most likely have already crossed our event horizon. Meanwhile nary a word from the Jewish-controlled media or our governments and world health organizations. I guess the good thing is it's not going to be selective about who it kills.
http://enenews.com/new-report-estimates-278-trillion-bq-of-plutonium-rel...
"Fuck. Irradiated Blood Zombies."
"At least you can see them in the dark, Willie."
"How much ammo left, Joe?"
"About 4 mags."
Well the Media Bosses and their brethren in Wall Street WANT Whites DEAD, GONE, and THAT is their primary mission statement, not even their own survival but ELIMINATING Whites. That is the ONLY explanation for what they have done whether opening the borders of white nations to 3rd world invasion, or installing Affirmative Action, Government Set asides, bringing in diseased people, or having their mulatto puppet authorize 9 new nuclear power plants after Fukushima blew, well they may end up cheering a world that they have exterminated all life from, even as they, themselves are killed.
It can't be that bad, or everyone would have already died from all the releases from the 1950s through 1970s.
Check out Sellefield, that Russian lake that is so radioactive nothing can live near it and people die within like an hour, check out how there are already 50 Fukushimas worth of Cesium-137 in the Pacific from all the nuclear weapons tests.
they have a deadline?
I used to love Cali, the state, not the people, now the whole west coast is fucked, and getting worse by the day.
"Unknown to scientists, the two dangerous elements combined, creating....Fukobola!"
that is funny, that's my next screen name after I get banned....
Fukobola?
They are spinning Rabbit Fever as the next peasant supply and demand health crisis.
It doesn't get any better than this.
That fish looks like one Homer caught below the plant.
Storm Halong will hit soon. Cleaning up the problem is of BOJ high hopes. The invisible hand to elevate Dow Jones under carry trade must prevail.
/sarc
I thought the Japanese are/were Honorable people? Guess they're Lying Sacks of Shit just like average Americans.
The older generations committed suicide. The new just sucks off the government in a State of social media alliance.
Depends on your code of honor. Apparently, genocide, sex slavery and starving prisoners to death is part of that code of honor, so maybe it is a good thing if that code has died out.
There was a time I respected the Chinese and Japanese, but that was out of ignorance. The more I learn about them the more I realize that we, in the West are a different species.
China exporting RADIOACTIVE "consumer" goods to the US, Japan exporting radioactive food to the US, and Japan has been dumping nuclear waste in the Pacific Ocean for decades.
Their treatment of animals in the East and in Mexico etc are an abomination. Frankly it is only people like us who have ANY sense of environmental conservation and humane treatment of animals. But to state it so clearly one is called RACIST and etc.
Well TRUTH then, is racist and politically incorrect.
But the TRUTH is what it is.
I don't think these concepts of conservation and animal treatment are genetic. These are cultural norms that we in the west have not even really had as near universal values for very long. It was not so long ago when people here threw garbage on the ground rather than in bins, and only maybe 70 years since Walt Disney and Hollywood used to harm and kill animals in the making of motion pictures for entertainment.
."The more I learn about them the more I realize that we, in the West are a different species."
Stormfront had a podcast about that exact topic about 2 months ago.
>>>>>>Their treatment of animals in the East and in Mexico etc are an abomination. Frankly it is only people like us who have ANY sense of environmental conservation and humane treatment of animals.
You could use a new pair of glasses. Guess you missed the downer cows getting zapped with cattle prods to be fed to the school lunch program.
Or how about those dead deformed GMO piglets fed to diarhea stricken sows. Yum, yum.
Truth?
* didn't know they turned the original mess off - good to know *
"We have been saying that we cannot say when the (restart) will be," a TEPCO spokesman said.
Thus proving Junker's addage once again: when it gets serious, you have to lie.
Happy Olympic games in Japan!
Why you afretes have rookeemia?
So solly.
Preese no wolly.
Home grorwn carrots in Japan,
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/07/japanese-citizen-home-grown-carrots-s...
A massive collapse has happend in the Pacific and nobody is talking about it except the fishermen.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/29/1317631/-Alaska-Fisheries-In-Mi...
"You can never tell with the Jappos. They're all six faced and three hearted."
Vasco Rodrigues - Shogun
Enough already. If anything can be done to improve the situation let other countries who actually give a damn about the future of the planet get in there and get things done with the Japs paying all monetary costs. Fuck their sovereignty!
So they admit to this stuff, but what else are they hiding? You know there is even worse information being hid from the public. Because Tepco and the Japanese government aren't exactly known for telling the truth on this mess.
My cousin traveled to Japan and spent a week about 50 miles from Fukushima this summer. I told her she was right out of her mind. She had never heard of Fukushima, and thought I was nuts to be worried about it. Well, I tried, my concious is clear.
SF bay area is f*cked by radiation from Fuku. August 3rd, a windy low cloud day, my geiger counter briefly read 12 usv/h at Capitol Express and Monterey Highway. Yesterday another low cloud day, geiger briefly ready 12 usv/h at Lawrence Express and Quito road. In my bedroom when window closed geiger read 0.11 usv/h. So if you drive on highway, you may experience 100 times radiation(of background) at some spots. On the section of highway 880 between milpitas and fremont, geiger read 1.7 to 2.4 in the morning of August 3rd.
Save yourself and your family. After Chernobyl the EU funded R&D on removing radiation from the body. Vitapect which removes 63% of the main radionuclides released by Chernobyl and Fukushima was developed. Www.vitapect.org
Orange peels and apple peels will provide the same chelation properties. It's the pectin that does it. Right now there isn't much else other than digging a bomb shelter and planning on moving underground for the next thousand years or so
Unfortunately there are several types of radiation hitting us - alpha, beta, and gamma ray, and it's difficult to quantify toxicities or levels of absorbtion, mostly because:
1. the nuclear industry has muddled the equivalency terms for each, in other words one rad of alpha particles is 20 times more dangerous than one rad of beta or gamma - the oximoronic term the nuclear industry uses is the quality of rads - there are many terms that are difficult to correlate.
(This fellow Michaël Van Broekhoven has done an outstanding job of simplifying it for us laypeople: http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/radioactivity/radiation_units/ and http://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/radioactivity/radiation_exposure_...)
2. how cumulative and life threatening the exposure is - it's also dependent on how we are exposed - irradiation, ingestion, breathing - incidentally 5,000 mrem/hour, bend over put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye - it is generally considered fatal.
3. Different kinds of elements affect different organs in our bodies. For example strontium settles in our bones.
This gets zero attention while the world is awash in Ebola Fever. Hmmm...
Have they apologised?