This morning many of us awoke to find a thread pinned about a fire at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
But do we really understand what the implication of this fire were.
You can see in this picture take last night,
IMAGE ( [link to i844.photobucket.com] )
That there was a large column of black smoke seen billowing from Reactor 4(images 1 and 2 on the right). The smoke blanketed the plant and was the most significant release since the "hydrogen explosions", but what did we witness.
We witnessed a Spent Nuclear Fuel Fire last night. This was a worst case scenario for TEPCO and the Japanese Government.
"If the water evaporates and the rods run dry, they could overheat and catch fire, potentially spreading radioactive materials in dangerous clouds."
If any of the spent fuel rods in the pools do indeed catch fire, nuclear experts say, the high heat would loft the radiation in clouds that would spread the radioactivity.
“It’s worse than a meltdown,” said David A. Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer at the Union of Concerned Scientists who worked as an instructor on the kinds of General Electric reactors used in Japan.
[link to www.nytimes.com]
The Japanese government knew this was coming and gave fore warning.
[link to enenews.com]
Obviously May 8th came and went and the situation was not under control so we can only assume the worst has happened.
Live feed went down last night and then came back up. Would the Japanese Government and TEPCO have the ability to cut and loop a feed??
Remember last week when a high ranking Japanese official resigned from office because he knew he was lying to the public and could not take anymore???
[link to www.nytimes.com]
Or remember how TEPCO and the Japanese government with held information from the public because "they felt if would cause panic"
[link to www.nytimes.com]
Why would they begin to tell us the truth now?
I am under the assumption that the Japanese Government and TEPCO lost control of the situation a long time ago, the only question is how much longer is the public's health going to suffer.
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