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(NaturalNews) As the famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said on April 4th, "The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one." (http://bigthink.com/ideas/37705). That same article also refers to the Fukushima damage assessment by the NRC's Nuclear Safety Team, which concluded that "cooling to the core of Unit 1 might be blocked by melted fuel and also by salt deposits left over from the use ofsea water."
That's the same seawater, of course, that has been sprayed onto thefuel rodsto prevent them from going Chernobyl. The unfortunate side effect of boiling off tens of thousands of gallons of sea water, however, is thatis leaves behind a lot of salt.Japannow appears to have an abundance ofradioactivesea saltthat's unfortunately caked on top of the spentfuelrods and actually preventing much more water from reaching those rods. In a sense, sprayingsaltwater on spent nuclear fuel rods is sort of like spraying them with a slow-acting insulation. It's only a matter of time, it seems, before that insulation make it impossible for water to keep the rods below meltdown temperatures.
Meanwhile, theMinistry of Economics, Trade and Industryhas mysteriously stopped reporting the dry wellradiationreading in Reactor No. 1. Why would they do that? Because no readings are far more politically correct than extremely high readings, of course. It all happened right after an "off-the-charts"readingof radiation in the drywell of Reactor No. 1, which TEPCO officials quickly dismissed as a broken radiation gauge (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/1110...). Sure, it probably is broken by this point due to its exposure to massive doses of radiation!
The only way a drywell reading can attain such high readings, by the way, is if the nuclear fuel rods have breached their containment core.
Some of the readings coming out ofFukushimaare admittedly "immeasurable," reported NHK World:
"A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichinuclear power plantsays workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation. The monitor told NHK that no one can enter the plant's No. 1 through 3 reactor buildings because radiation levels are so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless. He said even levels outside the buildings exceed 100 millisieverts in some places."(http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english...)
The mainstream media, of course, is blatantly engaged in an effort to suppress any scary-sounding information that might emerge about Fukushima. For example, a Forbes blog entitled"Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137..."which contained the text, "Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted byEPA..." has mysteriously disappeared, leaving just an empty shell of a page in its place. See the following link to find out if they've brought it back yet:http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon...
The story, fortunately, has been preserved over at PrisonPlanet.com:http://www.prisonplanet.com/radiati...
With a few exceptions, the only stories that appear to be allowed to remain online are those that claim current radiation levels are "harmless." For example, this story from AZCentral.com parrots the usual "don't worry about radioactivemilk" line:
Testing of milk samples inArizonashows radiation levels that are thousands of times lower than a federal threshold that would cause authorities to take action, a state oversight agency said Friday. While the Arizona Department of Health Services has logged some concerns from the public following the Japanese nuclear incident, there is no reason to stopdrinkingmilk, a department spokeswoman said. "I don't want to trivialize it, but it is trivial," Laura Oxley said. "It's thousands of times below any action level that we would need to do."(http://www.azcentral.com/business/a...)
There, you'll see a massive Russian cargo plane gulping down a 95-ton "Putzmeister" concrete pumping truck that's being flown to Fukushima in order to spray more water on the nuclear fuel rods which continue to spew deadly radiation. The fuel rods are still indangerof reaching criticality (further meltdown with explosions), so the plan for now is to keep hosing them down with water.
This water, of course, becomes highly radioactive and eventually gets released into the Pacific Ocean. Right now, the amount of radioactive water being released tops50,000 tons(over 12 million gallons). (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english...)
This process of dumping radioactive water into the Pacific will reportedly continue fordecadesunless some other clever solution can somehow be put in place. Alongside all this, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), has mastered the art of Jedi mind tricks, saying, "We cannot say what the outlook is for the next stage... As soon as possible we would like to achieve stable cooling and set a course towards controlling radiation." (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...)
In other words,these are not the droids you're looking for.
Notice, if you read between the lines, he is admitting the radiation is NOT controlled, and stable cooling has NOT been achieved. And really all they're doing ishopingtohave a planon how to somehow achieve that.
In contrast, ABC News (which has probably had the very best reporting among the MSM) recently carried this sentence: "A confidential assessment by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission obtained by The New York Times suggests that the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant is far from stable. The report concludes that the Fukushima plant is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely." (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fukush...)
It continues with:
...though a major leak in a maintenance pit of the plant has been plugged, there is still a great likelihood that significant amounts of radioactive water will continue to be released into the Pacific Ocean; the worldwide Just-In-Time manufacturing cycle has been interrupted; and increased levels of radiation have been detected on the U.S. East Coast.
Remarkably,CNNis now carrying a story that appears to openly acknowledge the Fukushima situation may be all but hopeless. Written by Matt Smith, thearticlesays: (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/a...)
A month into the crisis, the utility acknowledges, there is no end in sight. The problems are so far "beyond the design capacity" of the plant that the Japanese are working in uncharted territory, said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S.nuclear power plants. "No nuclear power plant has ever considered the inability to get on long-term core cooling for more than a week, much less three weeks," Friedlander said.
Murphy laughs at such ignorance. How is two diesel generators better than onewhen they're both fifteen feet under water?
That such a preposterous suggestion is even being considered proves once again just how utterly out of touch with reality the nuclearindustryremains. Why not just pass a government rule thatoutlaws earthquakes?It would have approximately the same effect.
Meanwhile, a citizen video showing anightmarish drive into the Fukushima zoneis making the rounds on YouTube and other sites. We've posted it onNaturalNews.TV for distribution across the NaturalNews articles. Watch it at:http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=2343E...
About the author:Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams co-foundedNaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also launched anonline retailer of environmentally-friendly products(BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded apersonalized mass email software productused to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of theConsumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located atwww.HealthRanger.org
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(NaturalNews) As the famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku said on April 4th, "The situation at Fukushima is relatively stable now... in the same way that you are stable if you hang by your fingernails off a cliff, and your fingernails begin to break one by one." (http://bigthink.com/ideas/37705). That same article also refers to the Fukushima damage assessment by the NRC's Nuclear Safety Team, which concluded that "cooling to the core of Unit 1 might be blocked by melted fuel and also by salt deposits left over from the use ofsea water."
That's the same seawater, of course, that has been sprayed onto thefuel rodsto prevent them from going Chernobyl. The unfortunate side effect of boiling off tens of thousands of gallons of sea water, however, is thatis leaves behind a lot of salt.Japannow appears to have an abundance ofradioactivesea saltthat's unfortunately caked on top of the spentfuelrods and actually preventing much more water from reaching those rods. In a sense, sprayingsaltwater on spent nuclear fuel rods is sort of like spraying them with a slow-acting insulation. It's only a matter of time, it seems, before that insulation make it impossible for water to keep the rods below meltdown temperatures.
Meanwhile, theMinistry of Economics, Trade and Industryhas mysteriously stopped reporting the dry wellradiationreading in Reactor No. 1. Why would they do that? Because no readings are far more politically correct than extremely high readings, of course. It all happened right after an "off-the-charts"readingof radiation in the drywell of Reactor No. 1, which TEPCO officials quickly dismissed as a broken radiation gauge (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/1110...). Sure, it probably is broken by this point due to its exposure to massive doses of radiation!
The only way a drywell reading can attain such high readings, by the way, is if the nuclear fuel rods have breached their containment core.
Some of the readings coming out ofFukushimaare admittedly "immeasurable," reported NHK World:
"A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichinuclear power plantsays workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation. The monitor told NHK that no one can enter the plant's No. 1 through 3 reactor buildings because radiation levels are so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless. He said even levels outside the buildings exceed 100 millisieverts in some places."(http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english...)
The truth gets diluted far more than the radiation
You're not supposed to know any of that, of course. Although themainstream mediaclaims that all the deadly iodine-131 gets dissipated across thePacific Oceanbefore it can reach North America, the greater truth is thatthe facts about Fukushimaare diluted and dispersed long before they reach our shores. The result is an ongoing dangerous cover-up of what's really happening there.The mainstream media, of course, is blatantly engaged in an effort to suppress any scary-sounding information that might emerge about Fukushima. For example, a Forbes blog entitled"Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137..."which contained the text, "Milk samples from Phoenix and Los Angeles contained iodine-131 at levels roughly equal to the maximum contaminant level permitted byEPA..." has mysteriously disappeared, leaving just an empty shell of a page in its place. See the following link to find out if they've brought it back yet:http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffmcmahon...
The story, fortunately, has been preserved over at PrisonPlanet.com:http://www.prisonplanet.com/radiati...
With a few exceptions, the only stories that appear to be allowed to remain online are those that claim current radiation levels are "harmless." For example, this story from AZCentral.com parrots the usual "don't worry about radioactivemilk" line:
Testing of milk samples inArizonashows radiation levels that are thousands of times lower than a federal threshold that would cause authorities to take action, a state oversight agency said Friday. While the Arizona Department of Health Services has logged some concerns from the public following the Japanese nuclear incident, there is no reason to stopdrinkingmilk, a department spokeswoman said. "I don't want to trivialize it, but it is trivial," Laura Oxley said. "It's thousands of times below any action level that we would need to do."(http://www.azcentral.com/business/a...)
Here come the pumping trucks
Have you ever seen an airplane swallow a truck? Check out the photos athttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...There, you'll see a massive Russian cargo plane gulping down a 95-ton "Putzmeister" concrete pumping truck that's being flown to Fukushima in order to spray more water on the nuclear fuel rods which continue to spew deadly radiation. The fuel rods are still indangerof reaching criticality (further meltdown with explosions), so the plan for now is to keep hosing them down with water.
This water, of course, becomes highly radioactive and eventually gets released into the Pacific Ocean. Right now, the amount of radioactive water being released tops50,000 tons(over 12 million gallons). (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english...)
This process of dumping radioactive water into the Pacific will reportedly continue fordecadesunless some other clever solution can somehow be put in place. Alongside all this, Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director-general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), has mastered the art of Jedi mind tricks, saying, "We cannot say what the outlook is for the next stage... As soon as possible we would like to achieve stable cooling and set a course towards controlling radiation." (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011...)
In other words,these are not the droids you're looking for.
Notice, if you read between the lines, he is admitting the radiation is NOT controlled, and stable cooling has NOT been achieved. And really all they're doing ishopingtohave a planon how to somehow achieve that.
Far from stable
Remember when we were told two weeks ago that Fukushima was "on the verge of stabilizing?" How's that for clever spin?In contrast, ABC News (which has probably had the very best reporting among the MSM) recently carried this sentence: "A confidential assessment by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission obtained by The New York Times suggests that the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant is far from stable. The report concludes that the Fukushima plant is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely." (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fukush...)
It continues with:
...though a major leak in a maintenance pit of the plant has been plugged, there is still a great likelihood that significant amounts of radioactive water will continue to be released into the Pacific Ocean; the worldwide Just-In-Time manufacturing cycle has been interrupted; and increased levels of radiation have been detected on the U.S. East Coast.
Remarkably,CNNis now carrying a story that appears to openly acknowledge the Fukushima situation may be all but hopeless. Written by Matt Smith, thearticlesays: (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/a...)
A month into the crisis, the utility acknowledges, there is no end in sight. The problems are so far "beyond the design capacity" of the plant that the Japanese are working in uncharted territory, said Michael Friedlander, a former senior operator at U.S.nuclear power plants. "No nuclear power plant has ever considered the inability to get on long-term core cooling for more than a week, much less three weeks," Friedlander said.
Murphy's Law strikes again
Ah, that pesky Murphy has worked his magic yet again, it seems, interfering with the best-laid plans of arrogant men who stupidly believe they have conquered thelawsof physics by having a backup diesel generator nearby. Now we're hearing announcements out of Japan that all futurenuclear powerplants must have TWO diesel generators on site, not just one.Murphy laughs at such ignorance. How is two diesel generators better than onewhen they're both fifteen feet under water?
That such a preposterous suggestion is even being considered proves once again just how utterly out of touch with reality the nuclearindustryremains. Why not just pass a government rule thatoutlaws earthquakes?It would have approximately the same effect.
Meanwhile, a citizen video showing anightmarish drive into the Fukushima zoneis making the rounds on YouTube and other sites. We've posted it onNaturalNews.TV for distribution across the NaturalNews articles. Watch it at:http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=2343E...
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About the author:Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams co-foundedNaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also launched anonline retailer of environmentally-friendly products(BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded apersonalized mass email software productused to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of theConsumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located atwww.HealthRanger.org
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