We’ve Opened the Gates of Hell

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Preface: we’ve written thousands of articles on Fukushima and radiation. But this post will spotlight recent articles from EneNews … with which we have no affiliation of any nature whatsoever.

The American media hasn't covered Fukushima for a long time. But that doesn't mean there hasn't been any news. It just means that the  U.S. and Japanese governments have worked hard to cover it up.

Here’s a roundup of recent news (links to EneNews; click through to see original source material ... that's how the web WORKS):

Radiation

• Experts: Fukushima ‘globally enhanced’ cesium-137 levels in air by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude — Radioactive plume that reached Europe “contaminated the land, and as a consequence the whole food chain” — Concentrations greatly underestimated

• 200,000,000,000,000 becquerels/kg in fuel rod materials found near Tokyo… “the material spread globally” — Composed “major part” of worst Fukushima plume — Persists for long time in living organisms — Must reconsider disaster’s health effects (PHOTOS)

• Nuclear fuel found 15 miles from Tokyo suburbs — Fukushima uranium in ‘glassy’ spheres transported over 170 km — Structural materials from the nuclear reactors also present (PHOTOS). Previously: Scientists: ‘Spheres’ of radioactive material from Fukushima reported for first time — Ball-like particles composed of cesium, iron, zinc — Solid and insoluble in water — Impact on human health needs to be examined (PHOTOS)

• Official: “Unfortunately, the fuel itself is exposed” at Fukushima

• Gov’t: Fuel melted “much deeper” into concrete at Fukushima reactor than revealed — Triple the depth of original estimate — Tepco: “Impossible for us to evaluate potential impact”

• Gov’t Expert: Fukushima hot particles can’t be dissolved, even with hot nitric acid! — Huge amounts of fallout are still bound to organic material… “we have very little knowledge about this” — “Reaction is irreversible” (PHOTO)

• ‘Increasing alarm’ at Fukushima: Trenches filled with thousands of tons of plutonium contaminated liquid leaking into ocean — ‘Biggest risk’ at plant — ‘Exceptionally difficult’ problem — ‘Constant flow’ in and out of trenches — ‘Racing to stop’ more from coming in (PHOTO)

• New report estimates 278 trillion Bq of plutonium released from Fukushima reactors — Over 200 times higher than amount reported by Tepco — “Highly radiotoxic when incorporated into human body” as it decays

• Study: Plutonium from Fukushima went further than Chernobyl — Researchers ‘surprised’ their most plutonium-contaminated sample was from site farthest from Fukushima plant — Concern material is flowing into Pacific Ocean from land

• ‘Shock’: Water underneath Fukushima reactors to be dumped in ocean — Attempts to deal with problem have ‘failed’ — Officials: It’s better than radioactive substances just “spilling directly into the ocean” like it is now (VIDEO)

• Fox: Fukushima radioactive material still being found in U.S. soil — Japan Gov’t: The disaster “posed radiation threat to human society”… In 4 days “detectable all across northern hemisphere” — Denmark: Fukushima clearly had widespread consequences, not limited to borders (VIDEOS)

• Professor: Fukushima scaring ‘bejesus’ out of everybody in world… still flowing in ocean, radiation levels unknown — Clearly detectable in tuna at California coast… We focus a lot on bio-accumulation — Japan: Reactor leaks “may have gathered as a lump and drifted offshore, we need to continue monitoring it” (VIDEO)

• Researchers: Radioactive materials detected off California, levels spike to 400% normal — Crew then discovers ‘island’ of tsunami debris — Never seen so much garbage in ocean before — TV: “Disturbing new images from Pacific… looks like islands of plastic” 1,000 miles from coast — 7 tons and 80 ft. long, can walk on it as if land (VIDEO & PHOTOS)

• Video: Fukushima debris “waist high” on Canadian island; “Catastrophic death” trapped in nets, it’s horrifying; 15-mile long lines of floating trash — Journalist: Radioactive tsunami debris found far from Fukushima plant — Global concern over spread of contamination

• Japan TV: Injecting water into Fukushima reactor accelerated meltdown — Nuclear fuel rods had “reaction generating large amounts of heat” — ‘Restricted’ Data: Monitoring post measured nearly 1,000,000 microSv/hr; Within hours radiation dose spiked 30,000% far away from plant (VIDEO)

• Tokyo Professor: Surges in airborne radioactive releases have gone on for years at Fukushima — Exceeded 25,000 times normal level — Radiation alarms sound for hours at plant — ‘Extensive’ areas being impacted (VIDEO)

• Study: Multiple surges of radioactive substances detected far from Fukushima Daiichi — Over 10,000 times usual levels at plant — Mayor: Gov’t knew but never told us, they can’t be trusted — Worst may be yet to come; Risk of ‘much broader’ contamination — CBS: “Many miles away… spike in cesium detected this week”

Coincidental Wildlife Death and Injury?

• TV: “Mysterious die off of young salmon” in Pacific Northwest — “Healthy… and then they die” heading out to sea — “Far less plankton than normal… There are too many questions” — Researchers now testing for plankton and Fukushima contamination off West Coast (VIDEO)

• Alaska: “Scientists alarmed by new mystery disease” — Pacific Northwest: “Alarming changes” — “Couldn’t believe my eyes” — “Scientists really stumped… It’s kind of an alien thing” — “Gotten much, much worse… a horror show… could wreak havoc on entire ecosystems from Mexico to Alaska” (VIDEO)

• TV: Huge increase in dead and sick sea mammals on California coast — Unprecedented numbers, annual record broken in 7 months — Starving, drooling, brain damaged, suffering seizures — Sea lions ‘mysteriously’ vanishing on other side of Pacific — Experts: We don’t know what’s happening (VIDEO)

• TV: Mounds of millions of jellyfish-like creatures wash up on Pacific beaches across multiple states — “They lined entire Oregon Coast” — Seen for first time in a great many years — Official: “They just covered the sea surface… as far as we could see” — Thought to mix with ones from Japan (VIDEO & PICS)

• CBS: This is really disturbing, sea stars dying by the millions on West Coast — Like the Black Death, only faster and deadlier — ‘Mystery plague’ affecting 20+ species — TV: Disappears from Orange County coast over 2 week period — Expert: “Largest epidemic ever in ocean… Something has changed in marine environment to lead to this” (VIDEO)

• AP: Marine birds disappearing in Pacific Northwest — Significant ecological shift, crashes in many species — “Something’s happening on a big level, but what is it” — Herring problem may be far worse than revealed… result of contamination? Mexico suddenly bans bluefin tuna fishing, US may be next

• Officials in U.S. report “very rare mutations” in Pacific sea life — “Never seen anything like this” — Photos show red crabs completely white, “shockingly bright blue… almost unnatural”, or with yellow legs — Environment “could play a role” — Also observed recently by Japan (VIDEO)

• Gov’t reports “big, big decline” in Alaska caribou — “Mortality very high” after Fukushima releases began — “Low survival rate” for calves also in 2011 and 2012 — Official: “Worrisome” how quickly this happened… In truth, we don’t have an answer why (AUDIO)

• Report: “Worst he’s ever seen” says Alaska boat captain — Fishermen “talking about Fukushima… convinced it has something to do with it” — Salmon “not showing up… many have lesions or worms and parasites” — Crabs “more easily damaged… a lot of dead catch” — Herring, cod, halibut, pollock catches “dropping off cliff”

Impacts On Human Health?

• California Newspaper: Health effects in U.S. from Fukushima radiation? Stanford Professor: “Am I concerned? Yes I am, that’s because I know radiation … there’s increased risk … avoid radiation as much as you can” — UC Berkeley Nuclear Prof: “Everyone is really scared of it … that’s what the big problem is”

• Physician: U.N. whitewashing Fukushima catastrophe, yet their report reveals “more than 9,000 will die of cancers”… number likely much higher if correct data used — Professor: “It’s brainwashing… an infamous lie… an abuse of science… their own data contradicts their public conclusion” (VIDEO)

• Guardian: Abnormal blood in monkeys linked to Fukushima disaster — Study: ‘Epidemic infectious disease’ could occur — “We cannot find other reasons except radiation” — Concern about strontium-90 & other radioactive materials besides cesium — “Potential direct relevance to humans”

• Japan Doctor: “Tokyo should no longer be inhabited” — Everyone here is a victim of Fukushima — People truly suffering — Bleeding under skin, urinary hemorrhaging — Children’s blood tests started changing last year — Time running short… up to physicians to save our citizens and future generations

Comments

[Jano]

Those few bomblets, which will be flying soon between Russia and America, will be just asmall ditch...on the dotp of FDNPP.

[Duffy Duck]

GW - good stuff, thanks for taking time to do something on Fuku given all the other news competing for bandwidth!

[monoloco]

I don't know where that report from Alaska came from, but I've been here in SE Alaska for the last 5 months and the king salmon and coho runs have been spectacularly good with fishermen bringing in a bumper catch. I personally have probably handled several hundred fish this season and haven't seen one abnormality, and not one of the 20 salmon trollers or half dozen fish buyers/tenders that I speak to on an almost daily basis has said one thing about seeing an abnormal fish. I know Fukushima is a complete clusterfuck but the report about the salmon seems like complete bullshit from my observations. 

[Village-idiot]

But, when everything is normal...that's not news.

[boeing747]

If dust storms from Northern China can reach SF Bay Area (in last two winters), why not radiation clouds from Fuku (on the same route)? "Scientists" shall pull their heads out of cold pacific ocean, most of radiations are airborne, riding Pacific Jet Streams (trade wind?) into Bay Area. Testing sea water just 'bark the wrong tree'.

[Jim in MN]

This is not over.  In fact it's barely begun.  How many multiples of Pacific background radiation (including all the prior nuclear testing and Chernobyl fallout) are 'safe'?  Because the effects of Fukushima will be measured in that background doubling....or tripling....or.....who knows.  And no one is AT ALL interested in concentration mechanisms, including bioaccumulation.  There is no upper limit to cesium bioaccumulation.....as anyone who bothers to read the peer-reviewed science would know.

[Perimetr]

There is a lot more where that came from.

Each US spent fuel pool contains at least a couple times more long-lived radionuclides than was released by all atmospheric nuclear weapon tests combined.  And the pools are all located *outside* primary containment.

Slightly more than one gram of cesium-137, made into an aerosol and distributed evenly over a square mile, will make that square mile uninhabitable for more than a century.  Most US spent fue pools have a million or more grams of cesium-137 within them.

A single EMP over the US East Coast would cause dozens of US reactors to melt down, and their fuel pools to boil-off to the point where the rods would be exposed, overheat, rupture and possibly ignite. 

But remember, nuclear power is safe and clean.

[Ocean22]

Yes the brainwashed nuclear proponents need their collective heads checked.  Amazing myopitc insight.  Solar and wind for all!!

Its too late, the end is coming.  Only a matter of time...the stupid have won.

[dreadnaught]

I think pro-nuke types are mentally deficient.....they are still living in the 1950s comic-book reality of "The wonders of Nuclear Energy: Safe, clean and too cheaply produced to even charge for (meter)!"  (actual comments made back then)LOL

[Jim in MN]

I was like that...when I was twelve years old and a kindly old tutor taught me nuclear physics.  I thought it was totally awesome, and it is.  It's just that pesky radiation.....which I figured out when I was fourteen.  Oh well.

That fuel cycle should never have been taken out of the ground.

[TeethVillage88s]

Here is a good video presentation... a bit on the long side and repetitive for his radio audience.

Basically he is showing you what was once Pristine Sea Coast that was teaming with life... now it looks like what you might find anywhere close to Industrial Sites. Canadian Park Land, sea coast line, protected by outer islands, but enjoys the crashing of the ocean & tides that bring Oxygen.

He is Life Time Diver & Visitor to the area, looks like he is disabled in Wheel Chair and had Buddy take the pictures of current conditions.

He says life is barely hanging on. You see a few snails, a few Muscles, Whelps, Purple Star Fish, Lettuce Kelp, Kelp weed, a few barnacles, and that is it. This was done at low tide when there should have been 100s of kinds of life. You see remnants or remains of shell fish.

Shocked by the Trip. All the Sea Anemones are gone. All the insects are gone. All the birds are gone. No Kelp Forests. Tidal Pools are empty. Mud Flats Empty. No Crabs. No Limpets. This is what remains of the Nursery of the Ocean, the Tide Line.

600 species of algae gone, No 94 species of Sponges. Many species of Star fish reduced to just one. 60-70 Species of Sea Anemones are missing.

9 Days of Pictures and covered 40 Km in Boat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ol0npV3Mx8 (Lower Audio Volume, after 16 minutes you can skip around)

http://www.thenuclearproctologist.org/new-index-1/#/page-13-over-200-kil... (***Take a long time to load the Pictures***)

http://www.vancouvertrails.com/articles/smugglers-cove/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltery_Bay_Provincial_Park
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Coast_%28British_Columbia%29
http://www.sunshinecoastcanada.com/

[dontgoforit]

While we didn't scuba while there, we were on the coast of Vancouver Island and traveled down to the coast off Portland, OR a three weeks ago and everything we saw looked good.  Plenty of seals, birds and the tides revealed a bevy of life.  I'm not discounting this man's experience - and I'm not a marine biologist - just sharing what we saw.

[mayhem_korner]

The notion that Fukishima has opened the gates of Hell is to not understand what Hell is.

^{Oh where do we begin?  The rubble or our sins? - Bastille, Pompeii}

[Mr. Ed]

But what if the radiation causes some little sea horse or lizard to become GODZILLA!  ROAR!  STOMP!  STOMP!

Japanese movie-goers love their sea monsters... must be very exciting for them.  You know, the anticipation... the waiting... any minute now, out there, beyond the shore... OH MY GOD!!!!!

[MGA_1]

Well... fukushima isn't necessary related to these animals deaths, but it would certainly be nice to see the govt test for the byproducts of fukushima (cesium and strontium).

[TVP]

Radiation can only hurt those who are fearful of it, we have proven this through animal tests.  So smile, and the radiation cannot hurt you! :D

[Aussiekiwi]

Take a couple of doses of Iodine and your fine, radiation poisoning no worse than a cold I understand.

[George Washington]

For those who don't get the joke ...

One of the main advisors to the Japanese government on Fukushima announced:

If you smile, the radiation will not affect you. If you do not smile, the radiation will affect you.

This theory has been proven by experiments on animals.

[dreadnaught]

kind of the same mind-level of that cute cheerleader who stands on streetcorners in Tokyo chanting "The economy is good! Goooooooooo  Economy! Rah! Rah! Economy!!! Beleive in our Economy! and yourself-you will have a job!" (she wont say when)

[jacship]

Chernobyl was the warning

Fukushima is still pouring Rads. into the ocean

3 years, 6 months later

full melt down

and no environmentalists

or gov. will talk about it

No bunker

No Problem

[Mr. Ed]

Well, you know environmentalists have been too busy lately with important things like the endangered Mojave desert tortoise (on the Clive Bundy ranch) to worry about Fukushima.

[cougar_w]

Thank you for your continued attention to this, GW.

[Whitehall]

Complete bullsh#t.

Articles like this put Zerohedge.com in the same slop bucket with ThinkProgress and Media Matters.  The few decent pieces hardly offset the disinformation like this article.

[LH101]

Well done.   This journalist crap will be handed back to GW and ZH.  It denigrates the entire site and the editors are too dump to realise.   BTW To the editors of ZH "denigrate" means pull down.  

[LH101]

Well done.   This journalist crap will be handed back to GW and ZH.  It denigrates the entire site and the editors are too dump to realise.   BTW To the editors of ZH "denigrate" means pull down.  

[Duffy Duck]

no matter what, it's def not complete bullshit - are you insane, ignorant, a troll, or a combination thereof?

Do you understand that this isn't like air pollution - it's cumulative, and the radioactivity gets worse and worse and starts crossing tipping points all along the food chain, as well as as to organic matter?

[smokescreen]

so tell us the truth then...

[Salsipuedes]

'FUCK OFF IDIOT!'

[omniversling]

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[omniversling]

Your ignorance almost prompted me to tell you to 'FUCK OFF IDIOT', but I'll force myself to better character and post you some reference links:

http://enenews.com

http://www.fukushima-diary.com 

http://uhohjapan2.wordpress.com

http://agreenroad.blogspot.com.au

http://enformable.com

http://majiasblog.blogspot.com.au

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com.au

http://nukepimp.blogspot.com.au

http://www.fairewinds.com

http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com

http://nuclear-news.net/

http://www.nirs.org/home.htm

http://www.simplyinfo.org

Happy reading dead man walking...

(PS, you are not alone, fraid we've screwed the pooch on this one, and unless the geniuses who bought us this catastrophic contamination of the THE VERY SAME ENVELOPE that protects us from space radiation, or others or ETs, come up with a way to resequester the DNA-destructive hyper-charge of these small particles, there's not long left. Bonus read: Atomic Suicide by Walter and Lao Russel, and The Secrets of Light. The Good book and/or the Original Koran may also be useful for the 'End Game'. )

Atomic Suicide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/85626193/Atomic-Suicide-Walter-and-Lao-Russell

Russell was an artist who had '40 days of streaming consciousness'. His illustrations of his revelations are fabulous: electric universe, consciousness, perception, living the 'dream of god'...

Secrets of Light - Riveting Alternative Explanation of the Omniverse

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29714925/Walter-Russell-The-Secret-of-Light

Here is an 18 part series done by on the Secret of Light which I found more penetrable than the book, which requires much re-reading for a thicky like me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AklvTtKV5g&list=PLF0E48A69E8629A73

[omniversling]

PPS, must see for the impossible task of safely and permanently disposing of spent nuclear fuel at Onkalo Deep Underground Repository, some 250,000 tonnes of which are in open pools around the planet. Called 'Into Eternity', it's a truly stunning (as in silencing and numbing) film by Micheal Masden about the coffin we've turned the planet into. See this, then come back and discuss your fate. Been following what's going on at WIPP, and Hanford?: 

http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194612/

[Mr. Ed]

Dudes, better start learnin how to grow your own food ... IN A CAVE, if you don't want your base pairs scrambled.

[Bunders]

"insoluble in water" What like the mercury in minemata bay?

[Salsipuedes]

Silence is deadly and the cat's got the Polcrats' tongues. Good luck John Q. You're on your own.

[Minnalousha]

They've been irradiating fruit for years now.

My gay friends and I just thought this would save our loved ones some money on funeral expenses since we wouldn't have to be embalmed.

I am SO teed off!

[Buster Cherry]

Its one thing to.be irradiated, quite another to injest radioactive contamination.

That irradiated fruit is fine. Id eat it. Its no more contaminated than you are by an xray.

Now if it came from a garden 10 miles.downwind of Fukushima, then yeah, its contaminated shit.

[mendigo]

They irradiated some folks.

[Aussiekiwi]

'They irradiated some folks'

But not admitting responsibility or legal consequences, just one of those unavoidable mistakes.

[Minnalousha]

Does this mean I won't mold as quickly?

[tony bonn]

the excuse that we don't know what is causing this, we are baffled, etc etc are disgusting lies. we know precisely what is causing the problem - it is fukushima.

of course the real story is that fukushima was a man made disaster caused by the bush crime syndicate and ziocon nazis were caused the tsunami because of japan's drifting away from the us dollar and military hegemony....the rothschild satanists are the mass murderers, the vials of wrath of revelation.

[IndianaJohn]

Did you hear the one about the Babushkas? No Chicken Littles are they.  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/babushkas/the-babushkas-of-chernobyl-0

[TeethVillage88s]

IndianaJohn; Thanks. I think we might need more info about what produce to grow in the US Midwest Region Very Soon.

Project is Fully Funded. Interesting Story, Photographers, Women, and Human Spirit.

[Matt]

Old women. Get some small children in there, and wait a few generations, then come back with some stats.

[IndianaJohn]

And for those who need more details; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA

[Mi Naem]

Perhaps this will enable a peaceful settlement of the territorial disagreements between China and Japan, with the Japanese archipelago to become a big, vacant, glow-stick. 

[Limbs Akimbo]

In response to "The answer is 42" posting. (love the 42 reference btw)

Hmmm,

So I read this FAQ.

It sounds quite reasonable. But...

1)he does not address the cumulative effect of the radiation in the food chain

2) he only talks about ceissium and iodine [mentioning the other particles only in passing]

3) indicates the comtamination is on site while it has been stated and acknowledge that particles from Fukashima have been found around the world

4) his description of the radioactive plume is much smaller and benign than what has been displayed on other maps.

He words seem solid but the whole article seems rather shallow.

[rsnoble]

If you can't see it then it's not a story.  And they have plenty of lies and alternate news stories to dilute the subject. Doesn't mean it's any less important they just don't need anything (else) disrupting this massive economic recovery that we are in at the expense of quadrillions.

[Comte d'herblay]

Improper use of pronouns is a sign of either lazy thinking or ignorance.

"WE"  didn't do any such thing.

"THEY" did.

[George Washington]

Who reads ENE News?“I rely pretty heavily on ENENews, a great news aggregator” -Arnie Gundersen, former nuclear industry executive and engineer

“I check it on my phone all the time -- ENENews... from the beginning did an incredible job of gathering all these news sources” -Matt Noyes, professor at Meiji University in Tokyo

“I invite your readers to go on the internet and check out Energy News” -Paul C. Garner, attorney for U.S. military personnel taking on Tepco

More importantly, Ene links to original source material.  So check it for yourself:  Are ENE's descriptions accurate or inaccurate?  I find them to be 99.9% accurate, which is why I like them.

Fukushima Diary and ex-SKF are good sources, as well ....

[omniversling]

Thanks for all yr work GW...