Published: April 6th, 2012 at 6:25 pm ET
|
The crisis at the Fukushima-Daiichi power plants has not ended. While the first three reactors contained fuel and presented a serious threat since March 11, 2011, they have largely been contained. Reactor 4 contained no fuel when the earthquake hit. Instead, the spent fuel rods had been moved to a cooling pool on the second floor of the containment unit. [...] If another high level earthquake hits the area, the building will certainly collapse. Japanese and American meteorologists have predicted that such a strong earthquake is indeed likely to hit this year.
The meltdown and unprecedented release of radiation that would ensue is the worst case scenario that then-Prime Minister Kan and other former officials have discussed in the past months. He warned during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos that such an accident would force the evacuation of the 35 million people in Tokyo, close half of Japan and compromise the nation’s sovereignty. Such a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe is unimaginable. [...]
Title: Fukushima Reactor 4
Uploaded by: christopherjamescote
Date Uploaded: Mar 8, 2012
Description: Akio Matsumura talks about nuclear power plants, spent fuel pools, and the trouble with Reactor 4 at Fukushima.
At 2:30 in
Matsumura: People said to me more than 50 years it might take to contain radiation. So during 50 years radiation continue on… During 50 years continual, you cannot contain.
Throughout his long career at the United Nations and other organizations he has brought together the unlikeliest of people: Arafat and Rabin, Chinese government o fficials and the Dalai Lama, and many more.
SOURCE: worldbusiness.org
Published: April 6th, 2012 at 6:25 pm ET
|
sending...
This will be in addition the the current on going rad releases
The consequences of nuclear fallout we already know for sure
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,152.0.html
Report Comment
Typo- in addition 'to' 3+ reactors melting down and other spent fuel pools.
Report Comment
will also cause and affect other close by reactors and FP's will suffer the same fate, and may continue across the islan,….world in time !
Report Comment
"Japanese and American meteorologists have predicted that such a strong earthquake is indeed likely to hit this year."
Well now, there is a happy thought……
Report Comment
We better get ready…. A big storm is coming soon… guaranteeeeeeedddd.
Super Solar Storm To Hit Earth In 2013 'Carrington Effect'; Year Long Power Outage? via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/super-solar-storm-predicted-to-hit-2013.html
Fukushima Reactor 4; Life Extinction Event If It Collapses; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-reactor-4-life-extinction.html
Report Comment
Another source agrees… CIA trained team;
Remote Viewers Predict HUGE SOLAR STORM COMING
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/remote-viewers-predict-huge-solar-storm.html
Report Comment
Why are they, after a year of silence, now willing to talk about the risk? Why did they need this time? What did they do from then until now?
Report Comment
people are now more likely to accept the unacceptable. It is a political move. Also I guess that the opposition to the nuclear industry activites could have had time to organise and build strenght enough to emerge without fear of retaliation from the nuclear industrials.
Report Comment
all good points dka…
Report Comment
Yeah dka. Your points are well taken here.
Report Comment
Remember, way back at the beginning of this shit TEPCO, and by inference the Government of Japan, stated they would only release info when THEY thought people were ready for it and could handle it. Look it up in the archives of this site.
Report Comment
ruth,
We were told, articles right here in March 2011, the worse case scenario a FP on fire !
The last thing we would want to see happen !
Report Comment
One thing is for sure..thay can't hide it forever..it isn't like the BP oil disaster…at the bottom of the sea…
This time it is on land…
Report Comment
That was still killing, even hidden !
Report Comment
Land, air and sea. All of it is being contaminated at the same time. World over.
Report Comment
YES they can.
As it happen, the Japanese will dump everything into the sea by one direction bomb.
Report Comment
Bombing tons of nuclear material….I don't think that's a good idea…
Report Comment
If SP4 collapses "bombing" will be the only option to flood the scene. It would require an underground nuclear explosion be set off underneath the Fukushima nuclear plant site, creating like this a bowl shaped cavity into which the entire facility will sink and perhaps ocean water will flow and cover up the mess. Shuts down airborne vector – but then the sea is polluted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1f6vbiuUt0&feature=youtu.be
Report Comment
Big ass tsunami at North America, no?
Report Comment
Unintended consequences could be many.
Perhaps it triggers another mega quake in Japan.
Perhaps it triggers a huge steam explosion.
Perhaps…
Report Comment
And what happens if the entire site hits prompt criticality as the fuel/water/etc mix descends into the crater?
Report Comment
"…the first three reactors…have largely been contained." Well, if he means within the fractured crust of earth, then I guess you could say the three coreums are 'contained'. Talk about double-speak! Is there no end to the denial?! His statement deserves the 2012 Darwin award. Let's just hope we're still here in 2013, to give it to him…
Report Comment
i reckon number 3 looks the most contained
certainly, information about 1,2 and 3 (and 5 and 6, and daini) have been contained.
Report Comment
Thank you AFTERSHOCK,….I was about to throw-up in my shoe!
"Basically contained",….. "a little pregnant",….sounds the same to me.
Report Comment
Seems to me that all 4 spent fuel pools (well 3 probably left the arena) are at danger and sitting within "open air" containment's.
Report Comment
This past week we have had unprecedented revelations about this global disaster. If this happens, if that happens, subterfuge and vagaries about this or that.
It's all fuku hogwash!
IT already happened, a global catastrophe.
The spent fuel in #4 already burned some.
#1 and #2 melted through and melted out! Left the building!
But, the one thing that they will not talk about is #3.
We are being conditioned to believe that the worst did not happen yet!
Put a little after disaster drama into it, everyone will forget about #3. Skew the facts, adjust the numbers, polish the letters and everyone will stand there and just blink.
The fact is #3 blew sky high releasing MOX (PLUTONIUM) fuel into the environment. Into the jetstream!
How much? This is the real story.
For those who are falling for this recent drama scene, I refer you back to this thousand word video….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7naSc81WSqA
Use your gift of sight and think with your brain while watching.
Report Comment
this is true. the official 'chatter' has started to increase in regularity and gravitude.
for whatever reasons.
Report Comment
.. incrementally. no exact ground shaker yet.
Report Comment
It's picked up (chatter) because there's no denying the reality of what's about to happen. They're beginning to understand that simple denial of reality doesn't do diddly-swat to change it! They're still thinking that this can be contained with media spin. I can picture these guys showing-up at the Fukushima catastrophe planning center with TV remotes in hand. It's why I said long-ago, they're suffering from the "Fuehrer's Bunker" mindset. And not unlike that 'thousand year' regime, they're about to experience the consequences of that same hubris…
Report Comment
This is said to be only 9% of the actual video of what happened at reactor #3.
Report Comment
Local official suggested there’s more footage of Reactor No. 3 explosion, after bringing up MOX — ‘Videos of explosion are not allowed to be seen’ (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/local-official-suggests-more-footage-of-reactor-no-3-explosion-exists-videos-of-explosion-are-not-allowed-to-be-seen-video
I remembered the 9% wrong. According to this report 9% of the fuel was MOX. This is more than the 6% we've heard about and much more than the only 30 bundles of MOX that were reported.
Report Comment
I meant to say that MOX is 6% plutonium.
Report Comment
“9/22/2010 6:08 Fukushima-Daiichi (1) #3 Reactor is started
(after regular maintenance: 148 / 548 fuel bundles were replaced, 32 new bundles are MOX fuel)”
http://bnrc.berkeley.edu/latest/chronological-outline-of-the-nuclear-accidents-in-japan
Report Comment
Yes 3 is gone, both pool and reactor…
but will 4 be the step over the edge…?
are we already plummeting?
Report Comment
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.
Within a year, global background radiation levels would rise by as much as a factor of thirty.
This would truly be a global disaster.
Report Comment
Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata has given us an opportunity to do something here. He has CREDIBILITY !! Let's use that to help spread his message. Send the link to his webpage to every newspaper and news website and TV news outlet you can find. Help give his message "legs", rather than whining about armageddon, get up and rage against the dying of the light.
Here's the link, get working.
http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
Report Comment
agreed InfoPest. I'll pull your link up tomorrow and circulate it. Thanks for keeping a positive attitude…
Report Comment
WoW! Spreading that far and wide Infopest!! Good job!!
LET'S GET HIS MESSAGE OUT THERE!!!
Report Comment
GOING TO POST YOUR GREAT IDEA TO F311WATCHDOGS! 3000 PLUS MEMBERS AND GROWING! I WILL CREDIT YOU WITH THIS EXCELLENT IDEA…AND LET'S GET TO WORK!!
I AM SO GAME ON THIS!!!
Report Comment
God, I love the Picture of Mitsuhei Murata Infopest! I CAN SEE HIS SOUL…HE CARES! You got a wonderful Idea with that! I mean…who wouldn't listen if we all BOMBARD MSM with this info?!?
I AM ON IT LIKE A FLEAS ON A DOG OR "WHITE ON RICE" (i hate that saying…but!)
Report Comment
Posted here too http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/japan-nuclear-power_n_1408097.html
Report Comment
Oops! Forgot to post the LINK I FOUND to email all the MSM!! http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111
Report Comment
Awesome – I agree – I read these two articles to my friend today and her eyes were wide as saucers listening.
Report Comment
Thank you. Yeesh! It's about time they FINALLY did something to wake up TPTB. This is going out to everyone on my e-mail list, whether they like it or not. I'm even sending it to the person who said I was "fearmongering" by talking about it last year.
It would end civilization as we know it …. That's a pretty strong statement.
I don't know if I feel better or worse now, having read those words.
Report Comment
The "see I told you so" has never sounded so hollow to me, in my entire life. Pryrrhic justification.
Here's an interesting tidbit. Apparently BRAWN has their knickers in a knot and a skew in their skivvies because they can't figure out who is behind enenews!
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4608
Report Comment
Pyrrhic in the sense there is no joy in knowing I was right about the seriousness of Fukushima. None at all. No joy in the telling. I just felt duty bound to do it. Someone has to tell the truth. Thanks to all of you here for helping to give me courage. I feel I've probably just made myself "persona non gratis" with several people I know.
Report Comment
Hi HoTaters, good find! I liked some of the comments, this one in particular: "who is behind enenews? ???!?!?!? SORRY ??? BUT????@@@!!
How about who is behind SILENCING the MEDIA on CONTAMINATION of our FOOD and WATER and MILK ??"
Indeed.
Report Comment
Ain't it grand?
Report Comment
Well, InfoPest, I've just become an info pest! I just sent the link to the article and a quote to everyone on my e-mail list plus a few institutions to boot.
Now I'm going to sit back and see if anyone tells me to bugger off.
If they do that person probably won't hear much from me in the future, considering I just told him/her the most important piece of information he/she is likely to hear in his/her entire life.
"This could mean the end of civilization" from Robert Alvarez' own lips.
Report Comment
I wrote to Drudge and someone at Infowars, too.
Report Comment
BTW, the Drudge Report has been ignoring me on this issue for over a year. For some reason they don't find Fukushima to be an important issue. Let's see what they do with this tidbit of information (the link to the article quoting Robert Alvarez).
Report Comment
Does enenews Admin have a copy of this link? If not, would you please send it to Admin? Very important article!
Report Comment
Already there.
Report Comment
With ten reactors and their spent fuel pools within sight of ground zero, one has to ask: who would/how will they continue cooling the other facilities?
What is the total tonnage of fuel involved with all ten? For how many years would all this require cooling?
Report Comment
GE designed spent fuel pools, like diamonds and herpes, are forever. There is a process of encasing the used rods for dry storage, but GE has convinced the world's reactor builders and managers of the wisdom and cost saving of 2nd floor pooled storage, the accumulated worldwide amount of which is now both staggering and vulnerable to earthquakes, tsunamis and CME or other long-term power outages, as well as terrorist aerial attacks.
But if you're not looking for the increasing structural storage problem, you won't see the cataclymic danger coming.
Report Comment
The thing we have to think about, if this dominoes effect rolls out, SFP4 – then the large outside pool 50 meters away, sadly and probably the nearby humans maybe extinguished or incapacitated from the toxins.
I think if this happens it will kill the Japanese people and possibly anyone who tries to approach the vicinity.
Report Comment
oh yah ! The other set of reactors are just north of these 3 left !
Report Comment
It's a
*or die trying*
situation.
Report Comment
And then not only would Fukushima Daichi be unapproachable, but Daini too because it's in fairly close proximity, right? And by extension if Japan is toast, so are all their reactors.
ELE, end of story. Civilization. Toast.
Report Comment
What we have been saying for over a year, domino affect !
"They all fall down !"
Report Comment
The next closet plant near these 2 facility's is about 8 klm away from them and burning FP's and exploding reactors will engulf them with enough radiation to kill workers or have them abandon plant causing more burns and explosions of reactors and so on across Japan, because many are in cold shut down, they still need maintaining and personnel to address the needs but if no man can live in the environment of blowing winds or fallout they too will go by the Way of China syndromes and burns, explosions across the board, we spoke of these things before they started shutting down reactors last year !
Report Comment
This last year should have seen Japan *shoring up* her other paused plants – dry casking and moving rods to a secured and safer spot away from the dangers of Fukushima.
Report Comment
Let's be clear, there is one catastrophy and it is the fact that people are now living literally through hell because they have been exposed and living in, for more than a year now, smogs of radioactive particules. This is a trememdeous catastrophy, what can happened is another possible one.
Report Comment
Rachel Maddow show had a short, but fairly accurate blurb on her show this afternoon. It was tied in with sinking the "Ghost Ship" and some super rich dude, name of Harold Simmons, in Texas that has a privately owned nuclear waste dump there. It is sitting on top of a huge fresh water aquifer, and this guy has gotten the PTB in Texas to move the location of the aquifer on maps so he can store more radioactive shit there.
I sent her an email thanking her for showing that Fuku hasn't stopped yet. Here's the email:
Hi Rachel and staff…..
I appreciated the short blurb on the TRUTH about Fukushima reactors. As you know, this story has been ignored, lied about and virtually hidden by the mainstream media.
I know you just used it to slap the zillionaire jerk that has given so much money to grease the wheels of NRC and right leaning pols to lie about the safety of storing nuclear waste and make more zillions, but any light shining on the fact that we know how to boil water and make electricity with atoms and have no idea whatsoever how to deal with the millions of tons of death spewing waste produced by the nuke power industry is a breath of fresh air.
Nuclear is the most dangerous way to produce power in my opinion. If everything ALWAYS goes right, it is still leaking radiation by it's very design. When it goes wrong, it has the potential of taking out the whole human race and most other living things.
Always looking forward to more…
Report Comment
It can't hurt to let these folks know that we're paying attention and appreciate the coverage.
Report Comment
Thank you PoorDaddy.
Report Comment
Agreed
Report Comment
The aquifer supplies NINE STATES with water.
Report Comment
Well said, PD, thanks.
Report Comment
I'm one of those face to name type people…and when I look into the faces of the people that are willing to lie..I see mouths moving..eyes dead.
THIS… Mr. Matsumura is a lie.
"While the first three reactors contained fuel and presented a serious threat since March 11, 2011, they have largely been contained."
Report Comment
In this instance I suspect he has been repeating exactly what he has been told. He asked & asked to learn & what he learned was what they wanted him to know, only that. I do not believe he has done any independent research & as a result he has swallowed the *party line.
He may indeed be quite surprised to learn the truth…
Report Comment
I tone my statement.
It's a very well groomed interview. And whether blatant lie or the words of the uninformed…the very statement I posted above serves as grand disinformation..
Report Comment
Can someone post it to the Florida oil spill law ?
Many truth seekers going there for info… I don't know how to do it there …
Report Comment
We're tired of the radiation, and heads are gonna roll. Serious.
Report Comment
Nuclear catastrophes are the fault of all those in the nuclear industry …and their kids are reading this.
Report Comment
First..
50 years.. Seriously?? Pu can have a 14.4 million year half life..
Folks, if they cant contain it today, they cant contain it tomorrow..
or for a thousand tomorrows..
@ TheBigPicture:
Sadly, because children`s cells divide faster, they will probably outlive their kids…………………
Report Comment
If No. 4 pool collapses, I believe that the US will use a lot of big bombs to put the whole Japan under the sea for cold shut down.
Report Comment
The aquifer I believe is the Edwards Aquifer. San Antonio gets their water from the aquifer. The site you mentioned is in Odessa Tx. I worked there for a while and learned about it in the barber shop. The locals keep real quite about it. Midland Tx is about 10 miles away from Odessa and they boast that Midland is the home W Bush. So you see what you are up against. There is church on every corner in Odessa. It's easier to find a church than gas for your car. I'm not exaggerating.
Report Comment
It's two aquifers, the Dockum and the Ogalla, the latter being the largest that stretches from Nebraska to Texas through seven states:
http://www.texasradiation.org/wcsandrews.html
"The site is at a ranch known as Windmill Hill in Andrews County, Texas. Not only is this disposal site located above two aquifers, (the Ogallala and the Dockum), but there are also aquifer recharge features on the property. The Ogallala aquifer ranges under 7 other states: New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota; demonstrating that opposing the WCS facility is not just a "not-in-my-backyard" stance.
Thier hazardous waste pit, where they have dumped several million cubic feet of toxic waste and low-radioactivity trash, is actually dug into the Ogallala which is around 35 feet below the surface. It has a plastic lining, which historically have been found to leak. The company bought 16,000 acres in it's earlier days and has licensed 1,600 acres for its hazardous waste disposal area."
Good map of Ogalla here:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
SP: The money-hungry whores in Andrews county get 5% of the revenues over the next 35 years so they can buy imported bottled Libyan l water for the next 1,000 years assuming anyone survives the impending worldwide Fukushima Holocaust.
Harold Simmons, 80 years young, will be long gone when his 35-year sweetheart deal ends in Andrews and his company walks away with no liability for…
Report Comment
… the waste.
Plumes move slowly in the aquifers and it will take millennia to fully contaminate the aquifer. It's already got enough herbicide and fertilizer farming chemicals to make Erin Brockovich grimace. The plutonium just adds to the legacy of how mankind craps in its water supply like there is no tomorrow. Some day there will be no tomorrow and no mankind…just angry diseased mutants. The end of the human race as we know it today. Future shock has arrived in 2012 and it's going to be a bumpy ride for the coming generations.
Report Comment
There is an old preacher story about life in the 50's, when children used to sit behind the wheel and drive cars in their driveways. There was no danger because the car wasn't going anywhere, (yes always the strange time the child shifted out of gear and the car rolled, I took out the grape arbor). Preachers told about how ineffective it was to steer a car that wasn't moving… today we are learning that it is much easier to operate a running nuclear plant than it is to attempt to maintain control of a plant in "shutdown". Repairs, adjustments, controls, continually rising radiation levels — just a few of the things to make this process difficult. In addition there is the economic reality — while operating, you spend money to make money — in shutdown you spend money without making money, and there is no projected end. When some of the dangerous radioactive elements have half lives in the millions of years, others just a generation or two, this financial drain never ends. Bankruptcy… doesn't matter… someone else still has to keep up the process. Walk away, can't do it, the radiation spreads throughout the world, it concentrates and moves up the food chain. Might be time to ask ourselves concerning the nuclear industry, "Who profits?" and think about "Who pays… How much… for how long."
Report Comment
+100 dodge
Hope Rachel sees this and gets a soundbite going.
Report Comment
feckin IAEA is behind the coverup….
WE NEED INDEPENDANT ASSESSMENT FROM SCIENTISTS NOT ALIGNED TO THE ONCOLOGY ICRP CAMP!!
i think arnols gunderson is just the man to collate such an assessment team!! hes been fair and balanced throughout (to the point of winding everyone up!
)
but he is analytical and a critical thinker!
NO NUKES NOW!! not even little ones, like the one that was effected by the earthquake on the 4 april 2012 that caused a more than 0.40 mcSv/h spike in gamma! just saying gundie!
turkey reactor radiation earthquake on the 4 april 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ6cPWsNmq4&feature=plcp&context=C483c424VDvjVQa1PpcFNNpxhy7GIedgk2eH4YIn-pXd0muUm4tCk%3D
and the little hungarian medical reactor that the IAEA promised was fixed? playing up again!
iodine 124 lasting 2 years found in the soil according to the criirad report…. looks like criirad will have to keep that 2011 report live!!
oh and criirad acro and the llrc should be part of the assessment team too! they have experience of other contamination sites that would be invaluable, and they have prooved thier integrity too over the last year! in the face of massive censorship! and of course those brave japanese proffessors and health workers attached to the japanese belarus team should definately be taking a leading role !!
the governments have been blinded by the bad science, the biased profit sharing science!
peace!
Report Comment
peace!
Wow arc – adhs / ahds / adsh / whatever striking again?! Lemming on anti-nuke jihad – YES!
Report Comment
hehee!!
Report Comment
The solution to the teetering spent fuel pool might be to build a dam around #4 and fill it with concrete to a depth that supports the pool and fill the rest of the way with water to a depth to submerge the fuel rods.
Report Comment
Repost: From the NRC FOIA documents.
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A108.pdf
Pg 316 ..
Line 15:
NRC Chairman Jaczko: Yes. So ,again,just to repeat,we believe No.4 is dry,and we believe one of the other pools is structurally damaged.
Libne 19:Chuck Casto: That's correct.
Line 23:
Chuck Casto: And we certainly know, I think we absolutely know that pool #4, though the walls have collapsed.
Pg. 319:
Line 1:
NRC Chairman Jaczko: Okay.
Line 2:
Chuck Casto: –on pool No. 4.
Report Comment
More news on number 4 pool: http://youtu.be/ZAvdWSriFhE
Report Comment
"No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make “safe” and which remain an INCALCULABLE danger to the whole of creation for historical or even GEOLOGICAL AGES. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime ever perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on the basis of such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economic affairs of man as if people (all life forms) really did not matter at all.” — E.F. Schumacher
Nuclear Energy is a form of black magic as it breaks down the atomic consciousness not build it up. We will pay the price for allowing such an obscenity.
Report Comment
It truly is a pity that the public follows the prancing, mewling
cretins in elected office, who were supported through a system of corporate bribery and sponsorship disguised as 'news broadcasts'. I sincerely hope that we can trace the creature pushing for the fission electrical power which against all sane advice dating back to 1975 and before lead to the state we are in now. I condemn the voters of the U.S. for their callous attitudes towards others and their cowardice towards those who hold the threat of nuclear war over our heads. The U.S. government freakshow that supervised and licensed the self-destructing and nuked Fukushima facility did two more disasters. The earthquake for Fukushima did not even knock over bicycles, crack stucco or break windows. But that was one GIGANTIC plateau of water that showed up. This criminal cabal was there for the placement of nukes and thermite and nanothermate in the WTCs and the intentional out of control penetration of the high pressure reservoir at the Maconda Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. They owned 40% of Halliburton. This oil well was done to cause the mess. See the U.S. Senate report.
Quit shirking your duty as adults and citizens and research 9-11-2001 and Fukushima behind the scenes activity during 3-11-2011. Or I, personally will advise your placement in a slave labor camp. Try to disprove Jim Stone's Fukushima reports. I can not.
Report Comment