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Fukushima: Playing With Nuclear Fire

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/21/2015 22:00 -0400

Three years after the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, citizens and the international community are left wondering if Japan really does have the situation in Fukushima under control... "TEPCO's own engineers are clueless... nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean."

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Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:04 | 5813779 Joebloinvestor

NO FUCKING SHIT.

The island is poisoned.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:26 | 5813835 NoDebt

The solution to pollution is dilution, apparently.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:01 | 5814056 Fish Gone Bad

The solution to pollution is dilution

This has now been changed to just controlling the media. Anyone reporting (bad) news gets killed.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:08 | 5814182 Lin S

Nail guns.

They're not just for roofing anymore.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:03 | 5814268 Rubbish

nobody knows how much [radiation] is washing into the ocean.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:25 | 5814362 oooBooo

Nobody knows how much radiation there is.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:50 | 5814386 The Black Bishop

Three years and this shit is still oozing... I wish the so called environmental movements could stop their CO2 bullshit crusade and start looking at the REAL environmental issues, among which Fuck-U-shima is on the top right now. Also, they should start geting more conscious about what is put into human food (starting with what is put into livestock food, which is passed on to us).

But then I guess nobody gives a shit about the Goyim anway. We -are- the cattle, and the tribe stays a long way from Nippon.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:04 | 5814684 MarketAnarchist

Absolutely right bishop. Co2 doesnt even cause warming, SOLAR FLARES do.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:56 | 5814774 overmedicatedun...

I have a friend at one of our nations nuke facilities out in the west of america..he says they have seen no incr in radiation that is high enough to cause immediate health issues on our pacific coast. they have very accurate monitors and it just ain't there. FWIW.

if he sees a threat he will let me know.

(i do not want to be too specific about where he is as there be those who would like to know and they ain't our friends)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:08 | 5815056 Rubbish

Import Alert #99-33 instructs FDA field personnel to detain shipments from Japan if the food is likely to contain radionuclide contamination. The FDA’s Import Alert #99-33 website contains a long list of seafood species from the Fukushima prefecture that the Japanese Prime Minister has ordered to be restricted from distribution into the export market, including:

Alaska Pollock, ayu, barfin flounder, black cow-tongue, black rockfish, braddblotched rockfish, brown hakeling, salmon (landlocked), common carp, conger eel, crucian carp, fat greenling, flathead, flathead flounder, fox jacopever, goldeye rockfish, gurnard, halfbeak, black porgy, dace, eel, sandlance, seabass, littlemouth flounder, long shanny, marbled flounder, nibe croaker, northern sea urchin, ocellate spot skate, olive flounder, pacific cod, panther puffer, poacher, red tongue sole, ridged-eye flounder, rockfish (sebastes cheni), sea raven, spotted halibut, slime flounder, spotted halibut, starspotted smooth-hound, starry flounder, stone flounder, surfperch, venus clam, whitespotted char. (FDA 2014)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is monitoring levels of radiation in air and precipitation through its RadNet program (EPA 2013). Ocean monitoring of Fukushima radiation has received much less attention from U.S. government agencies. Neither the U.S. government nor the state of California has an ongoing testing program for Fukushima-derived radiation off of the California coast (California Coastal Commission 2014).

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Inspector General Faults EPA Radiation Monitoring

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/04/27/inspector-general-fau...

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Your buddy has no idea what he is putting in his mouth or his children's mouth. Sure you won't die today unless you are foolish enough to walk near units 1,2 or 3 at Fuky. A bunch of shills are monitoring what's happening and it won't be for decades that people start dropping dead from causes that "could" be associated to radioactive poisoning.

Not one ship was ever able to be decontaminated during the decades of nuke testing, fitting the $6 Billion USS Reagan will be docked at Yokosuka Japan.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:27 | 5814715 Wile-E-Coyote

Lets see them hide the birth defects.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:54 | 5814767 cossack55

The best place to hide is in plain sight. They will be appointed to high gubmint office.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:31 | 5815254 kill switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRPmxQqn3tg

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:12 | 5814180 Jim in MN

The solution to pollution is delusion.

Fixed it for ya.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:01 | 5814261 zorba THE GREEK

The problem with Fukashima is that it was handled by politicians. That is the problem with everything else

in the world.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:53 | 5814340 Money Boo Boo

Paging Dr. David Suzuki !!!

Where the fuck are you!!! enviro-fraudster extraordinaire!!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:38 | 5814854 Drachma

Sorry boo. Dave is not home. Dave is too busy promoting poisonous CFL bulbs as a 'solution' to a problem that doesn't exist. Remember, do what he says or else. Meanwhile...

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/11/the-two-suzukis-theres-saint-suzuki...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:58 | 5815663 logicalman

Dilution is no solution if you are high up the food chain.

Bioaccumulation undoes the dilution.

Given how high up the food chain humans are, this might be a problem.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 23:30 | 5813990 calltoaccount

The threat is far greater than most of you realize.

As ill and uninformed as most here think the US public about matters financial- their ignorance of the Fukushima death star is at least equally threatening to their health.

Except at the above-cited http://enenews.com where you get daily-updated credible REAL NEWS, ugly as it is, on this MSM dumb and dumber topic. I dare anyone to spend 10 minutes over at http://enenews.com--and come away laughing (or craving some rad hamachi).

We aren't told the truth about Fukushima's exponential risk to life because obsessively venal, ouroboros-like mil-indus-nuke complex thugs control that slice of the crony capitalist pie. They have lied through their teeth to American people since mid 1940's about the risks of all things nuclear-- and only concerned about bombs and bucks. And the gall put US taxpayers on the hook for when their malfeasance turns deadly.

But greed having surpassed science at Fuku, nobody knows how to cage the monster. So they just keep lying about it-- instead of trying to marshal the best brains of the world in a concentrated search for a solution.

Another example of how little Japan or US.gov actually cares about the health and welfare of their people.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:15 | 5814082 thamnosma

If we don't know about it, it goes away. Don't you know that by now?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:14 | 5814179 old naughty

Oh, they (all) know. They succeed in introducing and installing them all over.

They just don't tell us...

and they "live" on it.

When the last of us liquify, the planet will be their sole habitat, as planned.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:10 | 5814188 Jim in MN

ZH was all over this from Day One. If you'd like 20+ pages of serious analysis, by all means be our guest:

http://jopy.org/jimn.pdf

We know. But, the snark is strong in us as well. So expect whatever whimsical combo of fatalism, bitter invective or faux boredom the Fight Club gang fancies this evening.

Spray and pray

Is still the way

At Fuku

(Ironic Light Jazz)

At Fuku

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:52 | 5814445 Septicus Maximus

you are delusional...

I an growing crops 100 miles from Fukushima, cancer-free and radiation free... moron..

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:59 | 5814456 Skateboarder

In traditional Internet speak, "pics or gtfo".

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:19 | 5814536 Aussiekiwi

He is right, bumper crops this year, sweetcorn 3 feet long, peas the size of basketballs, just what Japan needs, an export lead recovery.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:48 | 5814759 quasimodo

More info moron, or just another useless fucking troll?

I love it when these trolls show up making a statement, then it's the chirping of crickets anytime someone calls them out on it or asks for more credible info.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:38 | 5814311 Buck Johnson

Our whole ocean is being irradiated and we won't be able to eat any fish from it in the future.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:46 | 5814441 Septicus Maximus

awww poor baby, you scared?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:36 | 5815610 PhilofOz

Here 4 years and 34 weeks and suddenly this issue has woken you from your slumber? I've heard of sleepers before but they might have to call you a deep sleeper.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:15 | 5816428 w a l k - a w a y

NSA has everyone's password.

They simply find an abandoned ZH account and take it over.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:05 | 5814687 mattgallis

Have you seen the toxic sludge coming out of south east asian factories? Fukashima is just the top of the iceberg.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 09:02 | 5814681 Shropshire Lad

The whole of the west coast of North America is poisoned -- many of the sea birds annd animals have gone, either to safer places or just died. Effects on children too recorded in Washington State.

If you want to track this story as it unfolds, www.rense.com has new info every week.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:00 | 5814901 MarlasBack

Do you enjoy eating sushi? Or anything else from the pacific rim....

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:39 | 5814996 robertsgt40

Japan never had a "solution". Multiple reactors in total meltdown.... into thr Pacific. Airborne and water-borne fallout have been spewing since day one. Nothing has changed for the better. It can't.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:05 | 5813781 JustObserving

6000% Increase in Cancer Rates at Fukushima Site

Global Research, February 06, 2015

As reports from individuals like Chieko Shiina, a supporter of the Fukushima Collaborateive Clinic talk about exploding rates of thyroid cancer in children, as well as an epidemic of leukemia, heart attacks, and other health problems, the Abe-led government and US continue to sweep the fall out of the Fukushima disaster under the rug.

Cancer rates have exploded at an increase of almost 6000% in areas near the reactor meltdown. Aside from people-on-the-street interviews that a rare media outlet like “Hodo station” will report on, mainstream media stays completely silent. One Japanese resident, Carol Hisasue, laments that as the incident has disappeared from the media, it has also disappeared from people’s consciousness.

So why does Fukushima continue to be a see no evil, hear no evil event?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/6000-increase-in-cancer-rates-at-fukushima-...

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:09 | 5813793 Bumbu Sauce

Comment thread full of batshit insanity in 3...2....1....

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:14 | 5813811 itstippy

It's just such an easy target!

"Please do not worry. We will construct a giant underground ice wall to contain the radioactive wastewater. Everything will be OK" - official TEPCO press release.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:35 | 5813853 Bay Area Guy

So you're saying everything is hunky dory at Fuku?

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 23:55 | 5814045 Miggy

It has to be. They are going to drag hundreds of athletes from around the world to take part in the Olympics in a few short years. The world has gone mad.

John 3:16

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:16 | 5814534 Aussiekiwi

I bet the swimmers will set some new world records.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:18 | 5815074 markar

In a few short years it will be clear to everyone Japan is uninhabitable. There will be no Olympics in Japan

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:15 | 5814532 Aussiekiwi

If 'Hunky Dory is Japanese for 'O My God!' , then yes, all Hunky Dory.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:15 | 5814533 Dugald

So you're saying everything is hunky dory at Fuku?

Sure it is, just don't eat the Dory.....

oh, yes, almost forgot </sarc> for you really literal types

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:16 | 5814084 thamnosma

Thanks for making it clear I can ignore any of your future posts.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:03 | 5815673 logicalman

You mean you are planning more posts???

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:11 | 5813801 NoWayJose

More than likely, Fukushima is the cause of Oklahoma earthquakes, Climate Change, Malaysian Airliner crashes, Putin invading Ukraine, and the failure to find positive evidence of Bigfoots.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:14 | 5814527 Aussiekiwi

Your evidence is a bit thin on the Bigfoots part.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:24 | 5813806 kowalli

TESCO's own engineers didn't construct or planed these plants so they don't know a shit about them and they have 0 knowledge about radiation

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 07:13 | 5814575 Parrotile

Think you mean TEPCO chum.

TESCO is rather more concerned with the UK Retail environment (worked there as a humble student, stacking shelves during the graveyard shift . . . .)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 08:47 | 5814667 Wile-E-Coyote

Oh I don't know Tesco's is rather toxic at the moment.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:48 | 5815637 Parrotile

Same story as the US / EU / everywhere else in "The West" - retail overcapacity, stalking the ever-poorer "consumer". Just another example of capital misallocation, fuelled by wildly overoptimistic expectations.

Too much retail, too much "choice" (same product, different label), not enough circulating money.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 08:36 | 5814656 Bendromeda Strain

Don't worry, GE knows plenty about them and they already profited!

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:13 | 5813808 wendigo

I'm more afraid of radiation from things that go boom.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:14 | 5813810 Government need...

Government needs you to pay taxes's picture

I'm surprised our EPA hasn't billed Japan for all the nuke credits needed to pay for the leak.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:15 | 5813815 Cautiously Pess...

www.enenews.com

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:31 | 5813823 Creepy A. Cracker

Umm... Do not build nuclear reactors in the paths of tidal waves. Do not build nuclear reactors on earthquake fault lines. Do not build nuclear reactors in low-lying banks of regularly flooding rivers.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:49 | 5813877 Hobo Sapien

Umm... Do not build nuclear reactors until you figure out how to safely dispose of nuclear waste.

But your proposals have merit as well.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:11 | 5814281 Lore

Another note to self: Use technology that won't melt down (Thorium, PBMR etc.).

There's no NEED for conventional nuclear technology except as means for psychopaths to build weapons.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:13 | 5814283 Hobo Sapien

Sad but true.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:00 | 5814054 Gaius Frakkin' ...

Don't build them in the middle of prime farmland either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Illinois

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:22 | 5813827 Zgangsta

Thank you for sharing this one year old story.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:26 | 5813838 Son of Captain Nemo

So why is it again this Country hasn't been nuked yet for what they did in Fukushima 4 years ago because the Japanese government was ready to make deals with China and Iran including provisions to help Iran with it's fuel supplies to it's commerical reactor(s)?...

For North and South Korea, Russia and China this is nothing less than an "act of war"!

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 22:48 | 5813874 Dre4dwolf

The entire pacific ocean is dead and everytime someone brings it up they try and blame it on global warming and climate change instead of fukushima fuku-uping shamu.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:51 | 5814157 Scritchy

The radiation dissipates in 30,000 years, so on the bright side we only have 29,997 years to go until the ecosystem starts to recover. No reason to be so negative.

(sarc)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:11 | 5814522 Aussiekiwi

Your kind of an 'eco-system half full' sort of guy Scritchy...I like it.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 23:05 | 5813933 JLM

Thats why you build these things near big pools of water. It all disappears in them. Hey wait, we (Ontario-Canada) have three of these stations sitting on the edge of 25% of all the fresh water in the world (Great Lakes). They are even building a supposed low waste facility under ground on the edge of Lake Huron.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:55 | 5814448 PersonalRespons...

ugh

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:10 | 5814518 Aussiekiwi

Relax, what could possibly go wrong with 3 nuclear plants and a low waste facility on the edge of 25% of the worlds fresh water, I'm sure there will be an OHS guy to stamp the proper forms.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 23:32 | 5817155 MDP

Luckily, the Great Lakes lie almost dead-center of the North American plate i.e. about as far from major seimic activity as possible.

Sat, 02/21/2015 - 23:15 | 5813957 A Lunatic

I thought by not reporting it the issue would just kind of go away on it's own. No....??

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:06 | 5814067 Fish Gone Bad

Nuclear meltdown is often confused with pregnancy. Pregnancy goes away in about 9 months.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:08 | 5814517 Aussiekiwi

No, things don't go away after 9 months, they just get messier and more expensive.....perhaps it is like a nuclear meltdown?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:47 | 5814556 GoldSilverBitcoinBug

Divorce and forced child support is the equivalent of the explosion of the reactor's roof.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:17 | 5814087 thamnosma

That's my take. But, but, but...ISIS

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:09 | 5814074 robnume

Yeah, you can't just expect that the ocean will dilute 4 years worth of massive radioactivity without any ecological consequences. I know many people who belive that the Pacific can dilute this much strontium, caesium, etc. being poured consistently into it. They're idiots.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:44 | 5814438 Septicus Maximus

So cute to see people who can't count get upset about math problems...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:07 | 5814516 Aussiekiwi

Idiots or ZOMBIES?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:21 | 5814537 Dugald

Not an happy thought.....much of my life is spent below the waterline.....

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:53 | 5815323 One of these is...

One of these is not like the others..'s picture

They don't call 'em heavy metals for nothing.

Maybe, they'll sink to the bottom...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:24 | 5814099 lawton2

Is Hawaii or California getting any problems from that radiation?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:36 | 5814133 serotonindumptruck

www.enenews.com

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:55 | 5814164 lawton2

I am glad I am in Florida looking at that.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:23 | 5814208 calltoaccount

you better check the jet stream.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:53 | 5814447 PersonalRespons...

Florida got nailed from the jetstream bringing it right over.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:06 | 5814515 Aussiekiwi

'Is Hawaii or California getting any problems from that radiation?'

Frigging Zombie population is exploding!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 00:57 | 5814166 rsnoble

More like "no one knows how much longer it will be until ALL of the radiation is washed into the ocean". That's the plan. There are no other plans. Just like anything else........lie and dilute.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:09 | 5814185 Miffed Microbio...

Some lies are really becoming Onionesque. Amid all this, a few days ago there was an article here stating Japan was prepping for war. I guess they learned from us how to distract.

Miffed

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It's Putin's fault.

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Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:05 | 5814276 Bumbu Sauce

wow, what a faggot.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:39 | 5814314 Rock On Roger

Fuck You

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:55 | 5814393 Money Boo Boo

Fuck You

^{and the haggis he rode in on}

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:04 | 5814513 Aussiekiwi

'He made me mute!'

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:36 | 5814219 zebrasquid

Pearl Harbor wasn't as effective as taking out us American round eyed bastards as this.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 01:50 | 5814250 Make_Mine_A_Double

Your already seeing massive changes in the fisheries in NE & SE Asia. Partially this was already factory dredging/harvesting, but something else is happening - coastal areas of Thailand & Vietnam are barren.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:38 | 5814312 Rock On Roger

Actually it is four years since March 2011.

I'll be old when the earth dies.

Thanks be to the Red Shield for burning down our house.

Those fucking bankster assholes killed us.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:42 | 5814320 Rock On Roger

At least the Russians could stop the reaction.

The Japanese have no couth. Fuckng wanksters.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 02:44 | 5814321 pine_marten

Dilution does not work with radionuclides. One gram of cesium 137 has more atoms in it than all the grains of sand on all the beaches on this planet. A small particle of it will have trillions of atoms that will bombard your cells until cancer developes. Nasty, nasty shit. Fukushima could very well be the end of life on this planet.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:40 | 5814367 idontcare

Very good post Pine! There was an article in 2013 about dying Pacific sea life (I believe it was titled "The Ocean is Broken" & was originally published in an Aussie paper) which received a day's fanfare even on the US evening broadcasts just to be forgotten within the next 24 hrs by the media. Since then, there are weekly reports of mass die offs of one oceanic species or another, yet the scientists consulted by media continue to tow the party line that none of these are related to Fukushima. I would not be surprised to find out that there is a huge under-reporting of thyroid related problems along the Pacific coasts of the US & Canada along with increases in cancer in the past 3 years due to the initial spread of airborne radiation one year prior. Moreover, should cesium get into the food chain, loads of problems will ensue for a good deal of the population dependent on food supplied by 3d parties. Best option for those in areas not in areas like the W. Coast would be to grow their own food and raise their own protein sources to avoid what most certainly will be a wave of early deaths due to people eating contaminated food. Fukushima may not be the end of ALL life on the planet, but a lot of people have contracted/will contract cancers proximately caused by the disaster and a lot of those people will die earlier than they would have without cancer.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:25 | 5814414 MEAN BUSINESS

Yup. The reality is that the tragedy of FUKU will be with us for about two generations while the tragedy of runaway global warming would likely last orders of magnitude longer and affect >90% of all species on Earth. FUKU would barely register on the 6th mass extinction spiral.

Dr. Soon & Senator Inhofe are the joker "zzzzzzzzzz" in town today.

LULZ

(h/t to above commenter that recommended 10 minutes at enenews)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:09 | 5815694 logicalman

Look on the bright side.

Big pharma will make a fortune 'treating' all those cancers.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 03:43 | 5814373 MEAN BUSINESS

Is there a comparison between the total amount of 137 ever released, mainly from atmospheric testing and Chernobyl, and what the total, either to date or expected, is from FUKU? I would expect to see that there is definitely a spike as a result of FUKU, and I don't doubt it's mega-nasty for those that suffer as a result of elevated exposure, but, with a half-life of thirty years and that apparently we can excrete it from the body through urine, I'm not seeing that it will result in the end of 7+ billion humans and "life on this planet".

Is FUKU going to belch THAT much more 137?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:46 | 5814554 pine_marten

It is not just the c137. There is strontium 90, uranium and plutonium and hundreds of others. 300 tons of melted fuel that continues to fission. Fuel pools that burned. It is orders of magnitude worse than all the testing combined. Because a clean device which used about 100 kilos of material converts most of that to heat in an instant whereas FD is a slow dirty burn that will last for centuries. By now every single person in the Northern hemisphere has taken in these hot particles through food, water or breathing. There are literally thousands of billions of leathal doses loose in the biosphere now. Lastly, any comparison to "man made" climate change is disingenuous at best.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 07:22 | 5814576 MEAN BUSINESS

No, it isn't disingenuous, but regardless, what I want to know is the feasibility of evacuating the people and dropping nuclear bombs on FUKU. Would that put a stop to it? Fight fire with fire???

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:22 | 5814422 hibou-Owl

Why is all the finger pointing towards Tepco, didn't GE & EBASCO design it.

If someone dies or is harmed there's normally liability on the designer, unless your American.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 05:31 | 5814489 Free_Spirit

Agree, Tepco were just the contractors running it, and yeah there were stupid decisions like putting the batteries and electricals in a basement , but these fucking silly "boiling water reactors" were doomed 50 years ago to just this sort of incident. These things take a WEEK to scram down. In comparison something like Sizewell B's PWR in the UK can scram to complete shutdown in 7 seconds, has 4 redundant diesel backups a huge air fan system for emergenccy cooling and passive hudrogen recombination catalysers. The US who designed and built these Fukushima water bombs should be sued for criminal negligence.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:52 | 5814559 MEAN BUSINESS

YES, they should be sued, and the funds distributed to the victims. Problem is, the court case will drag on for most of the half-life of the 137 and in the end it's mostly the lawyers that got the money : (

From now on, the NUK power plants come with a military strength maintenance agreement... the real (political) fallout from FUKU

Mon, 02/23/2015 - 03:02 | 5817559 Kprime

no point. FEDs will just print money and bail them out, cause you know, national security.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:23 | 5814423 honestann

How can anyone watch videos like the two above, and still believe fictitious entities like "government" and "corporation" are necessary, appropriate or acceptable? Cannot everyone see that virtually all enormous, widespread disasters are caused by predators-DBA-government and predators-DBA-corporations?

I just don't understand human beings. Why do most of them actually support the domination and destruction of mankind by human predators just because they pretend to be some absurd fiction? Makes no sense.

Humans are a totally failed species.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:38 | 5814436 Ghordius

domination is not necessarily destruction. in fact, I generally want to preserve what I dominate

most support what you call fictitious because... it works for them, remember? and solves some of their problems, real or imagined

ask the ants or the bees why they support their queens. aks wolfes why they allow one pair to dominate and lead the pack. we are social animals. hence this chat on a blog

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 05:12 | 5814472 honestann

No, it doesn't work for them... at least in the sense that they'd live a much happier, healthier life if these human predators did not dominate mankind.

Yes, domination is not destruction. But you need to be extremely careful with these concepts. You can't just yank them out of context and justify them wholesale. For example, as an engineer and product developer, I absolutely want to "dominate" atoms, and make them conform to the configurations I choose.

However, you can't just take that observation, then say "hey, look, domination is good", because you've totally perverted the concept by pretending that "just because one implementation of domination is okay or good, therefore all implementations of domination are okay and good". That's a complete perversion of the mental-units that are fundamental to the operations of any advanced consciousness (which humans pretend to be).

The terms "social" and "social beings" are great examples of UTTERLY corrupted concepts. The fact is, "social" doesn't exist. What does exist is more than one individual. Just because you can find more than one physical object that looks similar (multiple rocks, trees, sheep or humans) does not create a new entity.

To be sure, there are more than one "rock" in the universe, more than one "tree" in the universe, more than one "sheep" in the universe, and more than one "human" in the universe. But that means nothing. 100% of ALL actions are taken by individuals. And just because (to choose an example) two humans can carry some heavy object that one cannot carry alone does not change the fact that 100% of ALL actions are taken by individuals. If you doubt that, just see what happens when ONE individual drops his end of the box of nitroglycerine.

All this emphasis on "society" is nothing more than a sith mind trick to scam individual humans into allowing human predators take control of their lives. Period. If you want to accept being scammed in this way, you obviously can do so. Nothing you can or will ever say can make my accept the con, or accept being dominated by others. All it takes is one finger of one individual to pull the trigger, and that's what I will do if any other individual tries to tell me I must do this or that, or not do this or that, because "humans are social beings", and therefore now I must obey some human predator (yet another individual, even if he or she hides behind a bunch of fictional titles).

I am not a social animal.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:31 | 5814544 MEAN BUSINESS

But you are an animal, correct? By definition you are a predator, robbing and enforcing that as you go. Social or anti-social are just labels, or FALSE fundamental dichotomies. Behold your socializing on Zero Hedge.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:11 | 5814797 honestann

!!!!! BULLCRAP !!!!!
!!!!! BULLCRAP !!!!!
!!!!! BULLCRAP !!!!!

Apparently you are so brainwashed by the predators-that-be and their agents, you cannot distinguish producer from predator. Well, I'm sorry you are that confused, but obviously there is nothing I can do at this point to untangle the chaos in your consciousness.

By definition I'm a predator. What nonsense.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:44 | 5815285 One of these is...

"I am not a social animal."

You appear to be MY kind of animal though... :c)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 23:52 | 5817231 RichardParker

Honestann:

During the Age of enlightenment, I believe they referred to the emphasis on "society"/sith mind trick as "Social Contract". Your label is way more accurate.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:44 | 5814439 MEAN BUSINESS

Because they're not an "absurd fiction" when they murder your family/neighbours/ or you?

Because they're brought up to want to be part of the in-group?

Agreed, it seems illogical.

Humans are a wildly successful species well on the road to making themselves a victim of their own success and taking most of the other species down with them.

One more melt to Paris...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 04:59 | 5814455 honestann

Oh, the predators are real, totally real. As are their weapons and paid thugs. What is an "absurd fiction" is "government" and "corporation". Which is why they are, "officially" (in fundamental law) called "fictitious entities".

Which is why I say "predators-DBA-government" and "predators-DBA-corporation".

The predators are totally real. But think about it. When a pack of predators (all real) slaps a label with ink smeared into the shape of letters "USA" or "Haliburton" or "Monsanto" onto the pieces of paper they soil... no new entity popped into existence. The predators are real, their weapons are real, the destruction they cause is real... and that's the problem.

What is not real is the pretend fiction called "government" or "corporation". They are just made up vaporware and nothingness. Only the predators exist. Or if honest, ethical, productive, benevolent indivuduals slap a label on themselves (say, "Organic Goodies"), they too exist, but their fiction doesn't exist. Only they do.

So what's the problem? The problem is, humans are brainwashed to accept endless abuse from predators who hide behind a fiction label. Crazy? Yes. Insane? Yes. But true.

I guess the bottom line is this. The way humans are wired (have been brainwashed), if a pack of predators was even 1% as revolting and destructive as the predators who hide behind the fictitious labels "government" and "corporation", other humans would lock, load and blow them away. But given the brainwashing, they have essentially free reign to destroy everything good. Which, as you point out, is precisely what they're doing.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 05:14 | 5814477 Skateboarder

"Authority" is the wickedest of concepts. Whatever gods made this world do not intend for someone to submit to an 'authority' other than they.

When did sapience and honor decouple?...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:11 | 5814523 MEAN BUSINESS

"authority" would fall flat when faced with a well educated population. Paris is a lesson everybody will learn. Teach it.

"In this world, the gods have lost their way" - YES/Magnification/Spirit Of Survival/2001

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 05:51 | 5814505 MEAN BUSINESS

honestann that's what I'm saying when I say all roads lead to Paris. The governments and corporations, ultimately represented by the United Nations and the Bank of International Settlements, are facing annihilation. Some humans have had enough. Free reign isn't free afterall.

"power isn't all that money buys..." RUSH

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:18 | 5814808 honestann

I never heard the expression "all roads lead to Paris", so I missed (and still miss) any implications that expression carries. But that's okay.

I have a feeling "governments" and "corporations" and other nefarious "organizations" will only face annihilation when... humans vanish from existence.

I don't see any signs these predators-DBA-fictions are in danger.

So please explain what you mean by that.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:01 | 5815037 lakecity55

I think we tend to fail in our responsibilities; we have too many opportunities in the hi-tek world of today for diversion.

Everyone should try to keep their own store front clean; we have not done due diligence as citizens and have allowed grifters to take control.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:12 | 5814524 Jimmy Twinkle

I find great comfort in the possibility that fukushima is indeed an extinction level event, that the radiation leakage is now uncontrollable, that no engineering solutions are possible and that we all are walking dead. The fact that the story has been buried from the msm and the largest and most challenging engineering project the world has ever known has not already started is telling as i believe this suggests a preliminary study may have already concluded that we are fucjed. Unless some of the loonier elements are right and the elite have already established a mars colony i find it very comforting to know the oligarchs will fare no better than the rest of us and that at least i will meet my maker relatively innocent.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:41 | 5814550 MEAN BUSINESS

Get a grip. And an avatar.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:08 | 5814926 pine_marten

Well jimmy, the end of the world has always been when you die. Funny thing about the oligarchs -- they have a childish fear of death. A characteristic of their flavor of psychopathology I guess.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 06:12 | 5814526 tuttisaluti

Geiger counters will be banned in 3..2..1.....

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 08:06 | 5814625 scatha

Next month will be 4 years since Fukushima disaster.

Quick recapitulation:

Two of four reactors suffered complete melt down, one partial meltdown and fourth which was not operational at that time still has big spent fuel problem which cannot be removed, posing threat of explosion if another disaster hits.

In four years what they accomplished was merely pouring water on cores of melted reactors and pumping it into hundreds of storage tanks build in the vicinity of NPP while having no clue what to do with it.

Because, guess what, the vessel containment of melted down reactors has failed, developing concrete cracks as well damage of pressure tubing during disaster and in aftermath. Through those fissures highly contaminated water’s pouring massively into ground water system. The fact of bridging containment vessel (prelude to China syndrome) alone leads to horrifying conclusions that the problem is unfixable at all short of currently impossible task of removing all melted nuclear fuel from vessel. The truth that anyone involved in mitigation of this disaster wouldn’t even utter.

On the top of it after four years TEPCO does not have good account of state of melted down reactors or complete list of damages, since supposedly world leading powerhouse robotics nation cannot produce one dammed good robot that would work in such extreme conditions. Several attempts to deploy robots have been proven complete failure.

It is shocking but they simply do not know what to do. They are in loss, confusion and panic. There is neither plan, nor technology invented yet to tackle the problem. In desperation thousand retired workers indebted to Japanese mafia are being sent there into these reactors, for two minutes each, to senselessly die on orders of Japanese Oligarchs. It is that bad.

Since rate of process of removing radiation from highly contaminated water is many times lower that rate of pumping newly contaminated water into new, freshly built storage tanks, the whole effort is hopeless from engineering point of view. All this is just Sisyphus work, which lead to nowhere since they have to keep pumping water to cool and moderate fission material inside leaky damaged reactors so they will not blow up again.

Now many those tanks are also leaking profusely back to ground water adding to chaos. All the contaminated water leaked from reactor vessels and storage tanks ends up in the ocean continually bleeding radiation and all frantic attempts of preventive measures such as “ice wall” utterly failed.

Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011.

The official talk about Fukushima NPP decommission process planned for about four decades supposedly already started is a cruel fairy tale in context of utterly hopeless situation on the ground. The apparent inertia and indifference of the government, busy destroying Japanese economy with QE, cannot be explained in any other way than deliberated criminal, genocidal act against Japanese nation and world community unless you believe in fairy tales.

For Japanese failed policies regarding Fukushima and wider context:

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wasnt/

Situation at some US nuclear power plants:

https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/devils-good-intentions/

and propaganda lies about renewable and nuclear energy at:

https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/engineering-renewable-delusions/

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:06 | 5814789 trader1

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/fresh-nuclear-leak...

TOKYO (AFP) - Sensors at the Fukushima nuclear plant have detected a fresh leak of highly radioactive water to the sea, the plant's operator announced Sunday, highlighting difficulties in decommissioning the crippled plant.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already-high radioactive status seen at the plant campus.

TEPCO said its emergency inspections of tanks storing nuclear waste water did not find any additional abnormalities, but the firm said it shut the gutter to prevent radioactive water from going into the Pacific Ocean.

The higher-than-normal levels of contamination were detected at around 10 am (9 am Singapore time), with sensors showing radiation levels 50 to 70 times greater than usual, TEPCO said.

Though contamination levels have steadily fallen throughout the day, the same sensors were still showing contamination levels about 10 to 20 times more than usual, a company spokesman said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the original spike of the contamination and its gradual fall, he added.

"With emergency surveys of the plant and monitoring of other sensors, we have no reason to believe tanks storing radioactive waste water have leaked," he told AFP.

"We have shut the gutter (from pouring water to the bay). We are currently monitoring the sensors at the gutter and seeing the trend," he said.

The latest incident, one of several that have plagued the plant in recent months, reflects the difficulty in controlling and decommissioning the plant, which went through meltdowns and explosions after being battered by a giant tsunami in March 2011, sparking the world's worst nuclear disaster in a generation.

TEPCO has not been able to effectively deal with an increasing amount of contaminated water, used to cool the crippled reactors and molten fuels inside them and kept in large storage tanks on the plant's vast campus.

Adding to TEPCO's headaches has been the persistent flow of groundwater from nearby mountains travelling under the contaminated plant before washing to the Pacific Ocean.

The International Atomic Energy Agency recently said TEPCO has made "significant progress" in cleaning up the plant, but suggested that Japan should consider ways to discharge treated waste water into the sea as a relatively safer way to deal with the radioactive water crisis.

Regime change is coming to Japan.

Just like with the Soviet Union after Chernobyl...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:08 | 5814791 Last of the Mid...

another fukishima story? Jeffrey, Jeffrey, que the GE we bring good things to live line dancing employee commercials..

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:10 | 5814795 Fix It Again Timmy

This is tragic, sad and ultimately will end horribly for humanity; prudent use of nuclear fisson is beyond humanity's pay grade...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:17 | 5814806 Last of the Mid...

Humanity, no, corrupt politicians selling government/private enterprise bull shit for their own personal gain yes. You want to get rid of a snake. lop it's head off quickly, careful of the fangs.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 10:56 | 5814894 Gadfly

Hundreds of baby seals are washing up on the California coast. Saw two myself last night on a short walk down the beach. These two were still alive but were very sick. One died overnight. Don't know what's causing it but it's strange and unprecedented.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:35 | 5814990 Fix It Again Timmy

Last of the Middle Class,

Ah! Good point, I agree wholeheartedly...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:46 | 5815012 lakecity55

What I fail to see is why they did not make up some concrete and air drop it over the site, unless that would have caused the cores to explode in storage.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 11:57 | 5815032 razorthin

Keep eating that Pacific Salmon!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:07 | 5815051 ChargingHandle

I worry about this all the time. Perhaps it is because the debris washes up in front of my home often and lately there have been massive die offs of Auklets and other coastal life. I'm talking hundreds of dead animals on the beach. In the back of my mind I cannot help but correlate the two.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:29 | 5815091 lakecity55

Hmmm

Too much evidence piling up from Fuck-O-Shima.

Another poster made a great point- there is complete suppression of this in the Khazar Media. I would think if it was containable, we would see containment stories. My suspicion is there is no solution!

I have seen countless NatGeo programs from years ago where the reefs around Hawaii were clear water and zillions of fishes. New videos posted now show...nothing.

So, a war between ZATO and Russia may be the leat of our worries!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:37 | 5815267 TurdOnTheRun