Published: March 29th, 2011 at 5:45 am ET
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Japan nuclear: PM Naoto Kan signals ‘maximum alert’, BBC, March 29, 2011:
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
Plutonium has been detected in soil at the facility and highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor building. …
Mr Kan told parliament the situation at the quake-hit plant “continues to be unpredictable”.
The government “will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert”, he said, adding that he was seeking advice on whether to extend the evacuation zone around the plant. …
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Published: March 29th, 2011 at 5:45 am ET
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The discovery of plutonium, released from fuel rods only when temperatures are extremely high, confirms the severity of the damage, Nishiyama said.
Plutonium is a highly toxic substance which breaks down very slowly, remaining dangerously radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years.
“If you inhale it, it’s there and it stays there forever,” said Alan Lockwood, a professor of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine at the University at Buffalo and a member of the board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility, an advocacy group.
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TUESDAY UPDATE:
PROTECTION FROM RADIATION – ARTICLE IN 2 PARTS
by Dr. Len Horowitz
March 13, PART I:
http://www.healthyworldmessage.com/archive.php?id=134
March 16, PART II:
http://www.healthyworldmessage.com/archive.php?id=135
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@xdrfox
Actually, TEPCO claim they they found only minutes amount of plutonium in 2 soil spots out of 5 at Fukushima NPP (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11032812-e.html)
Thus there are 3 possible causes:
- As you mention, could be a leakage of uranium fission byproducts?
- Could be particles coming directly from the fuel rods at reactor #3, as this reactor uses a special combustible (MOX) containing 7% plutonium?
- Could be some results of past human activities (nuclear test explosions in the Pacific area)?
They don’t seem to really know of yet…
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- Could be some results of past human activities (nuclear test explosions in the Pacific area)?
EPA may use that ! I’ll pass it on to them . LOL
Articles I have read say it could ONLY come from fusions in a reactor core, the beams that have been reported from the time of explosions make me think it was not a hydrogen explosion but a small amount of the core exploding. This is so much like Chernobyl more then not. Did you see the Documentary ? Very familiar ! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319#
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