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Mainichi: “The melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground”

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:59 am ET
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Dilution of radioactive materials at sea is no solution to nuke-plant crisis, Mainichi, June 27, 2011:

[...] The reason for the situation comes from politicians’ delusion, grounded in their idea that the nuclear crisis is somehow being brought under control, and that the effects from radioactive material are minimal. But the fact is, the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant isn’t returning to normal. And we still don’t know just how much damage environmental pollution from the crisis will inflict on people and their DNA. [...]

Some of the reactors at the nuclear power plant have melted down, and the melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground. An underground barrier is needed to stop water that becomes contaminated from flowing into the sea. Experts have pointed out the urgency of the situation and the government supports the idea, but Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crisis-hit nuclear plant, is saying “wait.” [...]

Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:59 am ET
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59 comments to Mainichi: “The melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground”

  • tomb1
    June 27, 2011 at 11:02 am

    What if a substantial fraction of our most important ressource — seafood — gets destroyed?


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  • BreadAndButter BreadAndButter
    June 27, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Though the news are bad, I think it’s great that Japanese MSM is finally starting publishing critical reports. It’s about time.


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    • Savvy
      June 27, 2011 at 3:38 pm

      Long past time, in fact. Calling the Japanese MSM “great” at anything except lying and deceit seems exceedingly generous, based on the 3 1/2 months of lies that will surely result in a much greater death toll than if they had of spoken the truth from the get-go.

      So, these Japanese MSM are on the whole the same criminals that are in the MSM all over the world. And I certainly don’t thank them for anything, just as I’m sure the millions of Japanese people who are now suffering radioactive poisoning don’t thank them for anything.


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  • SteveMT
    June 27, 2011 at 11:27 am

    What is TEPCO waiting for: a shareholders meeting or saving the world? Priorities?

    “The government therefore has a weak spot that forces it to listen when TEPCO comes crying about measures to prop up its share prices.”

    “The response lay within the scope of a set of answers that TEPCO had prepared as it braces itself for a general shareholders’ meeting.”


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  • why
    June 27, 2011 at 11:29 am

    what’s happening there? again large vapors? why? they’re pumping out boiling contaminated water into the sea?


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 27, 2011 at 11:32 am

    More involvement ..less time between criticalities… Me thinks.


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  • Heart of the Rose Heart of the Rose
    June 27, 2011 at 11:50 am

    Yes..the meaning of core-down..groundwater comtamination …something old Heart discussed last week.. while waiting on Arnie for the expert nod.


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  • Mark
    June 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm

    Mainichi: “The melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground”

    Kudos to our friend Ms. Tacomagroove who was talking about this months ago.

    I keep comparing the Fukushima crisis to that of Cher noble. Japan is US sponsored democracy the people being freed after WW2 by the benevolent US gov VS Rusian USSR “evil communist totalitarian iron curtain cold war western world fighting the good fight etc etc etc.

    Posted this before, USSR sent in military reserves who at least had as part of their job title the possibility of dying for their country, but more to the point Russia didn’t screw around they did what they had to do to fix the problem VS

    Japan gov standing at arms length watching inept TEPCO private enterprise screw around with drugged up alcoholic Temp. staff lie to everyone, dump into ocean and air while worrying more about stock prices then anything else. Draw your own conclusions.

    They should have been building barrier to ground water months ago. Ms Tacomagroove an event planner predicted this obviously TEPCO nuclear scientists and management knew.
    US has many nukes built on earthquake zones flood plains etc.
    My Canadian gov not testing water milk etc worried about not being able to export uranium.

    Both supporting Nuclear Energy selling us a bill of goods “We need the energy we have no choice”

    So what freedom do we have when we see the spectacle of government sanctioned poison being released upon the population?


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  • Whoopie Whoopie
    June 27, 2011 at 12:08 pm

    Did you guys see this? Wow!
    Return our dogs, TEPCO demands
    Now they are saying it’s THEIR DOGS that that Japanese Man rescued recently!
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/return-our-dogs-tepco-demands/story-e6frg6so-1226083034104
    We all know why their doing this. They don’t want anyone testing the dogs for radiation. You betcha.


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  • Mark
    June 27, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    Surprised your surprised Whoopie


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  • Ariana
    June 27, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    Thank you, Mark! These are the same thoughts I have had for weeks now, and no one wants to listen. Why are people so ignorant, and so determined to stay that way?! All of my friends think I’m cracking up when I say that we are being fed a bunch of lies, and that the USSR did a much better job of controlling a horrible situation than the Japanese are doing. I am truly starting to suspect that they do not want this crisis to end. Thank you for making me feel like I’m not the only person on Earth who feels this way!


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    • tony wilson
      June 27, 2011 at 12:24 pm

      mainstream media lied about evil russia.
      look what they did they screwed up big time.
      then for the sake of humanity they put a lid on the building.
      a million deaths probably but saved hundreds of millions.
      these japanese fuckwits need to be forced to drink the waters then tied to a post near a criticality nuclear steam vent.
      so we can see how safe nuclear really is.


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      • Terranigma1 Terranigma1
        June 27, 2011 at 2:13 pm

        MSM is a completely sick joke. tony, I clicked on one of your videos from the BBC about a reception at buckingham palace and within less than a second, as fast as the speed of light, the video of the reception starts rolling on my computer screen. It was hilarious! Talk about instant access.


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  • irradiated californian
    June 27, 2011 at 12:28 pm

    i know you all love tacoma groove here, but they were not the first ones i heard say that the fuel was leaking into the ground. i heard plenty of others discussing this possibility, on the physics forum, for example, and on LOP. this idea was not new, hell even a guy on cnn said that ‘could’ happen (yeah yeah the msm i know, just throwing it out there), so are you saying those people all got their idea from tacoma? no, tacoma was just saying what a lot of people knew was a possibility.


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    • anne anne
      June 27, 2011 at 12:41 pm

      Thanks irradiated californian. Some responders are part of a group and they praise each other. I think they are working for another blog site. Tacomagroove won’t say that she is against nuclear energy. That makes her an industry shill in my opinion.

      Lots of disinformation. Read intent: to study bloggers and to recommend psy ops against the population to make us docile and give up.


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      • PoorDaddy PoorDaddy
        June 27, 2011 at 1:06 pm

        Wow, I don’t know where to start. I guess at the beginning.
        1. “Some responders are part of a group and they praise each other. I think they are working for another blog site.” I for one have never met anyone in person that posts here, have not had contact, internet or otherwise except enenews with any poster, even Tacoma.
        2. “Tacomagroove won’t say that she is against nuclear energy. That makes her an industry shill in my opinion.”
        IMHO, anyone who ISN’T against nuclear energy at this point is just plain fucking crazy. Anything that is extremely radioactive and can’t be safely shut down in minutes is the pure definition of insanity.
        3. “Lots of disinformation. Read intent: to study bloggers and to recommend psy ops against the population to make us docile and give up.”
        Tacoma has never disseminated disinformation. Everything he has posted has been his opinion after studying as much info as possible. Has he always been right? Probably not. Have his posts been proven correct? Many times.
        anne, you are welcome to your opinion, but your post sounds to me like a conspiracy within a conspiracy theory laced with a touch of pique that many of us hate this nuclear shit. Of course we do. It is slowly killing us all.
        ir cal’s post just sounds like a silly ego issue…who knew it first? nanner, nanner!


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      • NoNukes NoNukes
        June 27, 2011 at 1:40 pm

        Anne, Arnie Gundersen and others, including many here, also called attention to the R4 SFP, and the melt-through-down-to groundwater issues, but it was Tacomgroove’s apocalyptic forecast that really grabbed my attention as the UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Dept was lulling me to sleep with their optimistic tests, and woke me up again.

        I am not part of any group. I have never read a forum with so many intelligent posts by so many people, especially you. Enenews is amazing.

        Arnie Gundersen, Leuren Moret, and others keep suggesting the Southern Hemisphere, and I worry about that. I can’t believe that the Obamas are in South Africa right now, it makes me really uneasy.


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    • tony wilson
      June 27, 2011 at 12:52 pm

      no some of us scared by seeing Mikhail Gorbachev in the chernobyl documentary along with nuclear scientists stating if the core hit the water table it would destroy europe.
      they did not mention china syndrome but they had a nice video animation showing the fuel eating it’s way through concrete.
      what we objected to was the scumbag meatheads working for a killer industry stating it was all rubbish what tacoma said.
      anyone who believes anything a nuclear spokesman says is an idiot.
      if areva or obama or exelon nuke corp say the world is more round shaped and not flat,i will believe the world is flat.
      based on passed lies.
      you cannot trust a person or an industry that lives a life in constant denial and filthy lies.


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    • StPaulScout StPaulScout
      June 27, 2011 at 2:28 pm

      tacomagroove has a pretty good record concerning this catastrophy so far. Emmy has been pretty much spot on all the way down the line so far.


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    • anne anne
      June 27, 2011 at 4:21 pm

      This statement by Tacomagroove doesn’t in my opinion sound like some one who is against depopulation or someone who has concern for the people suffering and in pain on this plnnet:

      Tacomagroove
      June 22, 2011 at 10:21 am •
      I feel the oceans will eventually recover but a large proportion of the population too will fall from over exposure to radiation
      http://enenews.com/they-lied-to-us-radiation-release-comparable-to-chernobyl-total-core-meltdown-in-all-3-reactors-worst-industrial-catastrophe-in-world-history-cnn-video


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  • PoorDaddy PoorDaddy
    June 27, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    “no, tacoma was just saying what a lot of people knew was a possibility.”

    And thank God he did. It got alot of people to this site and got alot of them to pay attention.
    The beauty of Tacomagroove is that he is just another human, a human that gives a shit. If “just another human” can figure this shit out, there is always hope.
    Thanks, Taco!


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    • Whoopie Whoopie
      June 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm

      I give all of you credit for waking people up. Along with the Japan Huffers. Amazing what has been found out by Bloggers and their members…more than the MSM will ever admit. Heros all of you.


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  • alasanon
    June 27, 2011 at 2:16 pm

    Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crisis-hit nuclear plant, is saying “wait.” [...]

    WE ALREADY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOREVER!!!


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  • StPaulScout StPaulScout
    June 27, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    It os obviuos that it DID have fuel in it. Arne explains how the hydrogen is created in the reactor. Fuel rods must have been present and must have gotten very hot.


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  • arclight arclight
    June 27, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    alex video 27 june…he should be out of japan now
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dk8mWZvTEo


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  • JNiner
    June 27, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    (Insert Face-Palm Slap Here) (mumbles…)

    Thanks for all those who’ve prvided info and perspective on the human condition, what should be common sense, and commiseration with all of us who feel abandoned, betrayed and left holding the global wtf-bag…..
    Been reading and watching since the March madness began, and finally made time to get online.


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  • JNiner
    June 27, 2011 at 8:11 pm

    Did Noah, or others, get any farther on that water filter, I’ve been looking into it myself and what could maybe be built…. maybe a team effort across this site could help us all.


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  • risabee risabee
    June 27, 2011 at 9:06 pm

    What is past is prologue.

    http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/media/vsc/en/ch/16/uc/images/minamata1.jpg

    The people of Minamata suffered, and are still suffering, greatly from industrial pollution for which the corporation, in collusion with government, refused to take responsibility.


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