Published: April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 pm ET
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Title: Japanese government criticized for downplaying nuclear disaster
Source: Deutsche Welle
Author: Ulrike Mast-Kirschning / sb
Editor: Shamil Shams
Date: 18.04.2012
[...] Of Japan’s 54 nuclear power plants, 15 of them are currently shut down due to damage. All of the others, aside from one, are being inspected. But to the dismay of the anti-nuclear protesters, it does not appear as though they will all be kept off the grid. The Japanese government wants to get the nuclear power plant in Ooii up and running again. But the governor of Fukui prefecture has to agree first, Takashi Uesugi, a journalist, points out.He says according to Twitter, around 60,000 people gathered outside the government building in Tokyo out of protest. “But the Japanese media don’t talk about such protests,” he complains. [...]
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Published: April 18th, 2012 at 9:34 pm ET
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Go figure !
We knew some others had been affected, Nice to have a number if it is accurate ?
Quakes may add more to the numbers, even thou shut down they are all still hot and can go critical at any time during a quake or other event outside the plant !
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All I can say is OMFG.
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More confirmation of more denial…how deep do they go, how far back?
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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/14-nuclear-reactors-at-4-japan-sites.html
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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/fukushima-lies-movie-part-i-and-ii.html
Fukushima Tsunami Explosion Coverup? via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/fukushima-tsunami-explosion-coverup.html
Fukushima; Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
Fukushima Leaking Radioactive Water Into Ocean Plume; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-leaking-radioactive-water.html
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They won't be turned on. Everyone is fed up with radiation everywhere. Time to get serious.
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You are optimistic to the point of naïveté TBP. I'm not trying to alienate you I just want you to realize how utterly powerful and despotic the nuclear industry and government are. Orwell's 1984 was, unbelievably, OP TIMIsTiC….
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NOTICE: NEW THREAD http://huff.to/JK6Pu4
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So true…. Will they start up nuke plants again in japan with no insurance at all?
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The Psychopathy Of Corporations; "I Am Fishhead"
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Classified, Top Secret, Classified, Top Secret; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/classified-top-secret-classified-top.html
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'around 60,000 people gathered outside the government building in Tokyo'
wtf ? and no media coverage … you're kidding me.
60,000 people .. either that figure is a lie, or the media is so in the pockets of the nuke industry. which is it ?
60,000 is a lot of people.
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The latter
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DrHCaldicott #Noble Prize winner brings case against #nuclear energy to campus http://t.co/3QWujivK via @badgerherald
tomorrow is another day for me. Night all.
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#Fukushima: OMG!! Reid Goes Nuclear http://huff.to/JK6Pu4 via @huffingtonpost
Still night all. Pls WEIGH IN!!
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NO MODERATION!!
GO GET 'EM FOLKS!!
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THE COMMENTS ARE IDIOTS!! DAMN I WISH I WASN'T SO BEAT!
NIGHT.
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posted… may a few minds be opened.
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Hang in there Whoopie man
In the words of the great George Carlin.
"The planet is 4.5 billion years old. The planet aint going nowhere ….we are."
In the event of a serious event at Fukashima.
First thing that would happen would be world financial collapse.
Next most countries would be out under Martial Law.
Next An unprecedented program would be unleashed to get containment of a serious radiation outbreak at Fukashima under control. Meanwhile there will be a huge amount of disruption, relocation and probably many fatalities while the containment is being carried out.
The resultant fallout of the economic crisis would probably do more damage than the overall radiation problems.
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Fukushima; Today's Titantic and Costa Concordia; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html
Just like many large disasters, there was a cover up.
Not an exception to the rule, just a rather MUCH LARGER version of it.
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Which Reactors, and specifically what is damaged in each? What preventive measures and maintenance activity are included in the damaged reactors?
Are these damages caused by the 3/11 Tsunami, EQ? Are the damages downplayed, and are the workers responsible for maintenance qualified to repair and replace parts? Are they still using duct tape? Are the Fukushima reactors included into this? Takoi?
Each of the 15 reactors has the capacity to be as catastrophic as Fukushima! What are the capacities and spent fuel pools on site of the damaged reactors? What is the number of rods on each site? What threats other than spent fuel pool #4 are being underestimated, undermined, understated, and unreported? This report makes spent fuel pool 4 look like an x-ray in my opinion.
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CB Do it! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/harry-reid-nrc-commissioner_n_1436088.html
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Whoopie, I see a propaganda campaign, possibly a premeditated move on their behalf.. not ours, but on all the people of the world. The nuclear industry has been a perfect killing machine sense its birth.
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I did, I must follow my folks.
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I smell a snake.
The slow increase in the release of information by mainstream media has gotten my attention. The authorities super computers must have reevaluated the current conditions and assessed the new threats.
A new tactical advantage strategy must be underway. My opinion.
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I agree CB. They ARE 'on the slither'!
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Me too CB. Something smells FISHY WITH ALL THIS SUDDEN ATTN.
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People should go back and listen to the audio transcript of the NRC here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=gtnTnjko5BU&NR=1
[note: This transcript was recorded after members of the team actually visited the plant because at one point they say "When we showed up..."]
They state in the audio that spent fuel pool #4 has lost its walls and cannot hold water.
Chuck says that there has been no mitigation and he expects that all spent fuel pools and reactors will go to the final conclusion.
In the transcripts of the conversations they also suggest that spent fuel pools 5 and 6 have problems– available http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A108.pdf
Michael Collins' recent tests that showed dust from his HEPA filters (collected over 40 days inside in LA) at 7 and 1/2 X background tells me that they expect this cannot be hidden much longer so the news is being broken, in code.
We need to start assembling the data now. I'm working on it. This is scary stuff when you start looking at the amount of Cesium involved in the poos, as recently explicated by Alvarez and Gunderson.
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I'm getting that feeling also CB. I watch this stuff enough to know when there's been an up-tick in information releases.
We can only hope that the general public will be aware and start to listen. Being aware is different that being scared. Take mitigating measures as needed.
Only YOU! Can extend your chances of a longer better life.
Children, on the other hand, will need guidance on this topic.
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Like I just told F311Wdogs! HIT WHILE IT'S HOT GUYS!!
IT'S RUNNING LIKE CRAZY RIGHT NOW! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/harry-reid-nrc-commissioner_n_1436088.html
NO TIME TO WAIT ON THESE THREADS! THEY DIE QUICK!
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Yes, protect your family ChasAha!
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Good point, well said…
But when we are talking multiple global life extinction events, or just 3/4 of one, who cares?
The 1% are digging their fancy nuclear radiation proof underground spider holes, so they can hide from what they are hiding so well.
They KNOW what is coming.
ART AND SCIENCE OF DECEPTION
The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
Radioactive Beach In Guarapari, Brazil; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/radioactive-beach-sand-in-brazil.html
93 Long life Radiation Contaminants; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/93-long-lived-nuclear-elements.html
Tokyo; is it safe to live in or visit? via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-is-it-safe-to-visit-or-live-in.html
Fukushima Lies Movie Part I and II; via A Green Road Blog; via A Green Road Blog
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They need to start decommissioning the fifty four reactors before another problem happens.
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I'm going to be a little alarmist but what I'm seeing 3 disturbing information threads converging :
1. Lots of alarms about spent fuel pool #4 from Japanese diplomats http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
2. NRC audio records and transcripts state this pool was destroyed and that pools 3, 5 and 6 were also damaged. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=gtnTnjko5BU&NR=1 and http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A108.pdf
For status of 3 see also http://enenews.com/developing-asahi-flyover-spent-fuel-pool-reactor-3-sfp-be-center-screen-video
3. Increasing levels of radiation being reported in Japan (see Fukushima Diary's postings of municipal readings) and high levels now being reported in the US in places that normally don't have high levels because they're on the coast (Michael Collins' data http://enenews.com/enviroreporters-michael-collins-discussing-fukushima-radiation-on-well-known-national-tv-program-host-very-very-serious-stuff-i-hope-you-guys-take-it-as-seriously-as-you-should-video-11)
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4. Specific information about how much cesium was at Daichi stored in pools and reactors:
Robert Alvarez was quote as stating the following in Matsumura’s website http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html:
[paraphrasing] unit 4 pool has 10X cesium released by Chernobyl.
Alvarez: On estimates of the total amount at the plant of Cesium-137 (alone) "roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP)"
ALSO
Gunderson: “ There’s enough fuel in that pool, that it’s almost as much cesium as in all of the atom bombs that were ever dropped into the atmosphere, 800 bombs were dropped into the atmosphere, well there’s as much cesium in that one pool as in those bombs. (http://archive.wbai.org/show1.php?showid=fiveshadow)
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THANK YOU ENENEWS FOR YOUR INCREDIBLE WORK ASSEMBLING ALL OF THESE IMPORTANT SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
I think if the truth is too bad it will never be told.
We must act without official acknowledgment.
Recent events suggest that people are starting to act, even if they are censoring what they say about the scope of the disaster.
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+10
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Whaaat? Majia you are an official. Gufus!
I have known no other source of information of accurate data to be more reliable than yours. Your records and efforts have been so accurate, that your comments be without question, and of no contest.
Your remarkable intelligence and sacrifice in your efforts to help have not gone unnoticed!
Your attention to detail and heartfelt warmth of compassion has separated the men from the boys.
You draw the line between reality and perception!
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CB
Thank you, but my research has been a collective effort involving everyone here, especially people like you (and many others) who post frequently their thoughts and findings.
I'm trained to assimilate and organize data.
The data are starting to fit together and the pattern is increasingly alarming.
I think the major, pressing problem confronting us is our food and water supplies.
I wonder if anything is being done at all behind the scenes to try and reduce our exposure?
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"…and the pattern is increasingly alarming." – majia
I agree completely.
It's just a matter of time. How long? Days, weeks, months or more… I don't know. Part of the overall severity may be determined by how informed and prepared we are. Uh oh!
I think those expensive bunkers that have been built and maintained at great cost in case our country was ever hammered by nuclear contamination may get put to use in the near future.
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Perhaps many areas of the northern hemisphere will be spared while others will be, and/or already are, significantly contaminated.
As far as I can tell, nothing like this has ever happened before; at least, not at this scale…
as for bunkers:
Bunkers will not keep "you" [i.e., those with them] safe in the long run if your land cannot produce food and your water kills…
Your children cannot live forever in bunkers…
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We have seen the workers in building #4 and the work they have done in removing the crane, the roof and walls. It's possible that the pool has completely burned off already, which would drop the radiation in the building to the point where they can enter it. That would mean the 85x Chernobyl cesium is in the jet stream and is slowly falling down on the northern hemisphere. The warnings about the pool falling over would be PR or a CYA tactic in this scenario.
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Yes that makes sense….
We will probably never know for sure but I think the fallout situation has become bad enough that it will become obvious….
Blue Light had a comment a few days ago that is of relevance here:
The Blue Light. April 6, 2012 at 11:54 pm • Reply
http://enenews.com/former-un-advisor-ive-been-told-maybe-50-years-to-contain-radiation-if-no-4-pool-collapses-during-50-years-continual-you-cannot-contain-video/comment-page-1#comment-230541
As I pointed out in another thread several physicists and I worked out how much ceasium137 is contained in spent fuel at Fukushima. We took into account average burn up of the fuel and decay since the fuel was removed from the reactors and several other factors.
The estimates for the amount of ceasium137 that has been released into the environment so far has been independently calculated to range from 10 to 60 kilograms.
The spent fuel on site contains between 12500 to 16300 kilograms of ceasium137. A more accurate figure was impossible to calculate due to a lack of available data from TEPCO.
When all the other radionuclides are taken into account then life in places like Hawaii could become impossible, even a short term exposure could be fatal. This could also be true for any fallout hot spots in north america.
Countries like the United kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden which are connected to Japan by the northern jet stream would also be gravely effected.
cont Blue Light's comment…
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cont Blue Light's comment:
Within a year, global background radiation levels would rise by as much as a factor of thirty.
This would truly be a global disaster.
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I don't think the pool totally burned up in March 2011, August-October would be the time range. There were huge increases in Potrblog's rain radiation Geiger measurements in August, and the Fukushima U. weather balloon data showed an increase in jet stream radiation to off-the-scale levels in August also.
It would probably take 1-2 years for half of the cesium to come down from the jet stream. There is even more above the jet stream level according to the weather balloon charts, so this would be going to keep increasing for some time.
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that makes sense….
It is also possible that pools 5 and 6 or the common spent fuel pool burned during that period (as James had suggested)
December was when we had our highest reported levels in Phoenix, according to radnet.
I think all radnet readings are now bogus, but the levels reported in December were quite high and alarming.
I was getting seduced by the seeming return of normality before all of the media hype about spfp 4.
Now it seems clear to me that events have spun out of control and the blanket of media censorship is starting, just starting, to crack…
Do you think any testing is happening behind the scenes or are we just going to be allowed to consume it all without any mitigation?
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There was a report last year that America has only 1% of the radiation lab resources needed for a response to a major disaster.
So I'm afraid it will continue to be "Deny, Deny, Deny". The rich and elite probably have their own testing set up and going now, though.
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And the world still does NOT CARE.
No international investigation, assistance, or calls for more information..
JUST COMPLETE UTTER SILENCE..
Yea, kind of like what is coming to a globe named Earth, assuming nothing is done. Their coverup will mimic real life very soon.
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http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/atucha-nuclear-reactor-taken-over-by.html
Fukushima Reactor 4; Global Life Extinction Event If It Collapses; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-reactor-4-life-extinction.html
12 reasons why all nuclear power plants must be shut down; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/12-reasons-why-all-nuclear-power-plants.html
Super Solar Storm To Hit Earth In 2013 'Carrington Effect'; 400 Nuke Plants Melt Down? via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/super-solar-storm-predicted-to-hit-2013.html
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"And the world still does not care"..
This is why we cannot let up ..we must fight fiercely to bring truth to the people.
We must fight the good fight…
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