Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 6:56 pm ET
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Title: Safety checks to begin at Fukushima Daiichi plant
Source: NHK
Date: Feb 3, 2012
Japan’s nuclear safety agency will begin inspecting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from Monday to see if it can safely remain in a state of cold shutdown.Officials from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plan to check equipment and contingency preparations by examining manuals and interviewing workers during their three-week inspections.
Among the seven types of equipment to be checked is a reactor cooling system that recycles decontaminated water from the facility.
Another is a nitrogen-injection system to prevent hydrogen explosions within the disabled reactors. [...]
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Published: February 3rd, 2012 at 6:56 pm ET
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The government officials are going to go and personally tour the Fukushima 1 and 2..
They are going to take the press and a small fleet of concerned scientists..and show us the immaculate CONTAINMENT in all reactors…
Right?…wrong…
The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency..are going to try and snowball the Japanese public…with lies.
They too… are guilty of Crimes Against Humanity..and I hope they rot in hell for it…
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They are Frozen now right ?
They should pass till they defrost !
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too funny !!
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They will put on their gowns or uniforms and report everything is okay from the outside. Everyone must shave as to establish a clean environment. Seriously though, this is what the Japanese are best at. Putting on a show and making everyone feel better is what they do. Every audit I have been involved in Japan is just the same.
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PS..May their child and children curse their names….
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LOL, don’t drink and ENE.
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The press has to know what to ask….this is the key…press for correct answers….
Ask TEPCO to prove “cold shutdown”…prove the radiation levels are safe …prove it ..
PROVE it..
Put the burden of proof on TEPCO.
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The press needs to ask …exactly how was the damage from the original explosions was repaired…..
Let’s see… inside reactor 1…2 ..etc…who did the repairs?..what was the timetable?…All 4 reactors are repaired and in cold shutdown in less than a year…NA.
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…WHERE ARE THE NUCLEAR MATERIALS?. what is the state of these materials?..exactly what materials and what amounts were at Fukushima?..and WHERE are they now?
..In REAL science..”things” do not just disappear…
PS..I correct my post above.
May their children and grandchildren curse them..may their ancestors curse them….
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“not my department”.
May dragons browse on their ancestors’ graves.
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I can tell you are angry. I am too. Its not the press that will save the day. Sometimes things are just too f*** up. We all know it, but no one wants to talk about it. Lets just hope we get through this.
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Someone posted a video about Black March which seems like a good idea if everyone was awake and on board. That is a big “if.”. They day of infamy in Japan came and went.
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should be interesting!!
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TEPCO tell us how you got cold shutdown…out of this…
http://www.satimagingcorp.com/galleryimages/worldview-2-fukushima-daiichi-031711.jpg
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I’ve seen it take the Highway Dept..longer to build a highway over pass…are we really expected to believe that all this amount of damage can be repaired in this short of time…?
Commonsense says …NO..
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I’ve been watching the Susan Komen thread today and someone just posted these Stats:
Cancer deaths (2010) by type, followed by annual NCI research funding (2010):
Lung: 157,000 deaths :: $246 million
Colon: 51,000 deaths :: $264 million
Breast: 39,000 deaths :: $599 million ****
Pancreatic: 36,000 deaths :: $89 million
Prostate: 32,000 deaths :: $293 million
Leukemia: 21,000 deaths :: $220 million
NH Lymphoma: 20,000 :: $130 million
Liver: 19,000 deaths :: $70 million
Bladder: 14,000 deaths $25 million
Ovarian 13,000 deaths $110 million
Wonder how many of those deaths were caused by Nuclear PP’s?
Probably ALL.
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Many im sure. Its terrible what they are doing. I share your anger.
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WHAT A JOKE THEY DO NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THE CORE MATERIAL IS LOCATED
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If I was a journalist that would be the first question I would ask. Here is the definition of cold shutdown but includes knowing where the fuel is……. Explain please.
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We must realize this truth when we talk in English, they are talk this matter with Japanese language..
Not only fuel disappeared, but there is no more nuclear reactors, it is now a alive nuclear volcano,the dirty bombs explosive daily , continuously in Fukushima,which will last few tens of thousands ,should be till end of this earth.
But for Japanese people, the words of nuclear reactors, cold shot down, or meltdown, when the talk in Japanese language ,it just give another totally different image on the minds of Japanese.
Remember they call “surrender” as “sift of position”.
It prevent people access the truth and facts, and reaction on the right time and right way.
The good sign is that MSM, such as NHK is talking about the negative side of the story, even almost 1 year later now.
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Thank you that makes better sense now to me. So specifically, in a Japanese framework what does cold shutdown simply mean?
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i don’t believe there is anything safe there,unless it’s a actual safe.i’d bet dollars to doughnuts it’s not safe either.
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One defition; it does not seem to ‘fit’… How did they manage to cram FUKU into this definition?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_(nuclear_reactor)
Maybe I am looking in the wrong place? Let me try NRC website..NRC website says;
“The term used to define a reactor coolant system at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature below 200 degrees Fahrenheit following a reactor cooldown.”
Since there is NO REACTOR CORE, how can it be shut down in a coolant system that no longer exists, because the fuel LEFT THE BUILDING?
Arnie Gunderson says; “But I don’t know why they choose to say cold shutdown because that’s an affront to those in the industry who really know what the term means,” he said. “That nuclear core is still in a configuration where the center is extraordinarily hot.”
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-19/fukushima-dismantling-to-start-as-cold-shutdown-announced.html
What he did NOT say, is that these ‘experts’ do not even KNOW where these MULTIPLE molten, out of control, radiation spewing 65 ton blobs of corium are… They might be 10 or 1,000 feet underground and going down further, with unpredictable outcomes.
Also, what is the temperature of the spent fuel pools, measured at the center of the molten fuel blobs at the bottom of them? Are they emitting radiation, and if so, how much?
The very nature of these molten corium blobs which are ALL spewing radiation is counter to the claim of ‘cold shutdown’.
I don’t care for the fox guarding the henhouse, and a lot of eggs and chickens seem to be disappearing these days.. The fox keeps saying; everything is fine…
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From A Green Road Blog
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3086605
“The Japanese authorities stated last Friday that Fukushima is in a state of “cold shutdown. This is not true. At first glance, the announcement that the stricken nuclear reactors are now “stable”sounds like some rare good news from the disaster zone. Not at all. As we all know, first impressions can be deceptive”…. Read the rest of the story at;
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/redefining-cold-shutdown-doesnt-hide-the-trut/blog/38482/
The definition of cold shutdown according to the authorities; every part of the Fukushima complex, including all reactors, are below the boiling point of water. Then why is it that when they went into #2, they found steam and dripping water from steam condensing at the top? Boiling water creates steam. Cold water below the boiling point CANNOT CREATE STEAM!
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/tepco-uses-endoscope-to-look-inside-fukushima-nuclear-reactor
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Posted at HP AGROAD. EXCELLENT points!
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Gee 65 tons? I thought it was 100 tons per reactor for a grand total of…. 300 tons but that’s not counting the spent fuel pool debris or Reactor 4… Ahh, what’s it matter. They won’t panic the public or do anything that could jeopardize the election here in the US. Plus there are so many intricacies that we don’t know and probably never will.
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< 65 tons of fuel?
Perhaps... Referring to fuel only in the reactor chambers:
• Reactor No. 1: 50 tons of nuclear fuel
• Reactor No. 2: 81 tons
• Reactor No. 3: 88 tons
• Reactor No. 4: 135 tons
• Reactor No. 5: 142 tons
• Reactor No. 6: 151 tons
• Also, a separate ground-level fuel pool contains 1,097 tons of fuel; and some 70 tons of nuclear materials are kept on the grounds in dry storage.
The reactor cores themselves contain less than 100 tons of fuel, Resnikoff noted.
Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-fuel-fukushima
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Thanks Sickputer for the clarification.
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I think you are one of the most insightful posters I have ever come across since everything went to he// in a hand basket. Very insightful.
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Spent fuel pellets are waste in one person’s eyes and gold in others.
Japanese mob provides workers for Fk-1, may have stolen several tons of spent fuel rods by now.
Perhaps a meltdown test beds have already been established. Iodine 131 found in Japanese sewage plant sludge may be originating from melt down experiments.
Melt down device? Pellets. Four bags of cement. A couple buckets of salvaged vermiculite insulation. Use a basket ball inside plastic tote box as a mold.
Pour the ‘refractory cement’ in around the basketball. Burn the ball out, then dump reactor pellets in. Fasten an oxyacetylene torch aimed at the pile of pellets.
Pellets form the spherical ‘geometry’ as they melt, start as a sub-critical mass and goes spontaneous criticality with the added heat; wouldn’t blow up, but melts rock under foot.
Noisy as it starts it’s journey through the moist top layers of soil. Smokes rats out of their burrows, too.
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Not to mention that the scattered fuel pellets that are spread out over a two mile area from the plant; these are prime targets for terrorists who may want to build a dirty bomb, (or anyone with a grievance who just wants to hold a city hostage until they pay up) with these cute little ‘mushrooms’ of fuel pellets, ready to just pick up off the ground. I wonder if they have done ANYTHING to collect these?
The fact that they are MOX fuel pellets, just makes them about 1,000,000 times more dangerous than just the standard uranium fuel pellets.
Forget about nations attacking us… Nuclear power plants are one of the soft underbelly areas of any nation, and the authorities and experts know it..
Studies have been done, which are part of the public record. They KNOW terrorists can just walk in and steal nuclear fuel anytime they want to.
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Yeah. Uh huh. The workers are stealing spent fuel rods by the ton. Right. They’re putting them in their lunchpails and taking them home.
What a load. Get real. And your ridiculous “spherical geometry” and “critical mass” crap is assinine. Please, don’t infect ENENEWS with your BS. We try to deal with reality here.
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It’s possible… People do risky things. If a person will strap a nail bomb to their torso then picking up a free WMD lying nearby Daiichi is not that farfetched.
Read Alas Babylon by Pat Frank… The uneducated criminals steal and wear hot (really hot) jewelry from a bombed city. They suffered deadly burns.
I never presume people will do the rational thing. Expect the unexpected.
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Your life expectancy, even NEAR spent fuel, would be measured in hours, if not minutes.
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Pellets, one has to accumulate spent fuel in one spot to start getting a lot of emissions. Dust coming of spent fuel is a big contamination risk, but individual pellets irradiating enough energy probably wouldn’t happen.
Lunchboxes? I think the mob is powerful enough to make truckloads of things they want to steal and sell, would be allowed to drive right out the front gate.
Obvious the Japanese government have relinquished control of this situation, and the local populations see there is no recourse to win justice from the nuclear industry or government.
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Yep. They just pick up those spent fuel rods and throw ‘em on a flatbed and haul ‘em out the gate. The fact that they emit deadly alpha, beta and gamma rays is no problem at all. Right?
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Just put a bucket underneath to catch the melting stuff. No worries.
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We had a problem with workers stealing and eating Americium sources. There was a rumor that they worked like Viagra (before Viagra was on the market) Hundreds of sources were eaten before we found out. Some of the workers distrusted us and thought that we were keeping their virility enhancing capacity to ourselves and ate them like M&M’s.
When our building was sold to a school supply distributor, we were told to seal cracks in floor to keep the dropped Americium, Radium, Uranium and other old sources from being swept up. That is all the remediation that the corporation that bought us and moved the operation out of the US did.
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“When our building was sold to a school supply distributor, we were told to seal cracks in floor to keep the dropped Americium, Radium, Uranium and other old sources from being swept up. That is all the remediation that the corporation that bought us and moved the operation out of the US did.”
Snork, did you inform the media back then??
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WAIT!… WAIT!
Officials from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plan to check equipment and contingency preparations by examining manuals and interviewing workers during their three-week inspections.
SO!? This means they shall examine the paperwork, and talk to a few people… they NEVER SAID they would even LOOK inside the DAMNED BUILDINGS!
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Did they even say which manuals they were going to check? I do not know of any manuals that deal with how to cool down MULTIPLE melted 65 ton corium blobs that have probably ALL left the buildings?
Did they even say that they were going to visit the plants?
Maybe they are going to check the manuals about how to properly color the grass green with cesium water?
Or, maybe they are going to check the manuals that talk about how to safely decontaminate bananas, before eating them?
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Agree ^^. There are no manuals for this situation, because the Nuke Industry has told us for over 40 years that this situation ‘could never happen.’ Why take the time to write a manual for something that can never happen?
And if you DID write such a manual, how could you explain its existence? “Oh, this is just in case?” But wait, you just told me this could never happen…
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Would you go in there?
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NISA watching over TEPCO/JAPAN? Ahahahahhahahaha! Fox watching the henhouse! It’d be a joke except how deadly serious this is….
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they will be holding classes in how one says something positive about the current site situation. While… at the same time saying what we DO see… is perfectly normal operations, and was expected/planed for… nothing to be worried about.
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Now it begins….
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/2-high-school-students-died-in-tokyo/
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Majia’s Blog has a very interesting article concerning the FDA and how corrupt they are and you should see the allowable limits for Cesium they allow in the US. Wow, unreal. Thanks for all the hared work Majia which I hope everyone here reads as it is truly worth it.
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Their limits are for Cesium, NOT the radioactive isotope Cesium 137!
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Today I heard a 17 year old girl here in California died the same way.. She just keeled over after saying she did not feel well, and died right there. No disease, no long illness, nothing diagnosed.
I wonder if anyone is counting these ‘strange’ deaths of kids and infants, for unexplained reasons.
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Japanese reggae anti-nuke song….
Trying to embed video, but I don’t know how, so here goes…
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poor daddy? think big daddy!!
excellent post!! great find;; looking for suitable words to express my surprise! … here goes…
FUCKING ADA!
yes that just about does it.. pithy but accuratly represents my surprise and joy!
on a side note have you thought of writing a song using some of orwells poetry?? that would be cooool! what say you?
we need more protest songs like this and yours.. keep coming aceoss you on the blues tube
@whoopie.. pllease make this go viral!! or at least watch it!
im off to spread it around a bit myself…
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The lyrics in Japanese are great. They did a great job.
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Morning all. EXCELLENT ARC! Posted to HP! Trolls have been EERILY QUIET these days. Wonder why the Cat has THEIR tongue…SOMETHING BAD in the wind.
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I have a feeling today will be a bad day. My nose bled for the third time since March.
39 days to the anniversary of 311. The nuclear proponents know better than most the impending catastrophe that looms at Daiichi. The Sword of Damocles is rapidly unraveling at Reactor 4.
Despite my education I have always had a lingering superstition/phobia of the number 4. Everybody has a quirk, yes?
. Chernobyl was Unit 4. Fukushima has 4 reactors in dire distress and Number 4 is the one Arnie fears will decimate 37 million people in Tokyo if the fuel rods collapse in a building that makes the Leaning Tower of Pisa look like the Astrodome in comparison.
I will be glad when the 4th day of February is over in Japan in just several hours.
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Hi arc……or-well has graciously given me permission to use any of his poetry, or pieces thereof in a song. Haven’t been doing much music lately, but when it happens, enenewsers will be subjected to it!
I liked the simplicity of the lyrics and the musical energy of that Japanese Reggae song too.
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Rhetorical Analysis:
“To remain safely in a state of cold shutdown”
OR:
“To remain unsafely in a state of cold shutdown”
TEPCO is preparing us for what we all know.
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They want to know the public is in Cold Shutdown mode for how much longer.
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See this? From Yesterday
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so the investigation remit stops at…
looking through some manuals?? no intranet??
talking to the workers?? no intranet?
and the guy looks worried!! hmmm!
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WE should ALL be worried. http://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/no-exit-for-bilderbergers-why-a-plague-will-not-save-the-bankers/ This piece touches on everything, from Fuku to EVERYFUCKINGTHING. Oh the horror we’ll be seeing in the next few years.
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I want to know why EVERYONE…from Arnie, Helen, Busby and the rest are SO QUIET THESE DAYS!! There are ZERO Pro-nukes at HP too. WHY THE SILENCE THESE DAYS?!?!?
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Hi Whoopie! Thank you for what you do here! Your inspiring. Helen, Busby, and the rest are probably exhausted. The Pro Nukes found out their wrong. So spending time with the kids and family grew more important.
Sarcasm, ….uncomfortably. I ask the same question.
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Morning CB. No!! Thank ALL OF YOU for what YOU GUYS DO!! I’m mostly hang…but read comments everyday. What you guys dig up and DISSECT IS NOT ignored by me. SMART FOLKS HERE.
As for those guys mentioned: TIME IS NOT ON ANYONE’S SIDE!! If we have to double down and get LOUDER, then let’s do it!! (speaking to Arnie ect) PLEASE LETS DO IT…
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+1
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@Whoopie – there’s just a hand full of pro-nuke trolls and right now they’re busy trying to spread propaganda about the San Onofre NPP shut down.
Thought I recognized some of their hoofprints in comments on articles on San Onofre.
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Whoopie,
I’ve read silence is consent but in this case I think this is soooo very serious and the lack of accurate info about the actual conditions at Fukushima makes it rather precarious for anyone with a scientific background to speak as chemists like analysis, tests, etc before making a presentation. Basically this is beyond anything man has ever faced and there is no solution at this juncture. They gave us the basics on what may or may not happen and their thoughts but they are also just like us, spectators on a dark ride. JMHO
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Right Moon. FUKUSHIMA: THE GAME CHANGER I’m overwhelmed this a.m. Your right, Japan is UNPRECEDENTED, NEVER BEFORE SEEN CATASTROPHIC EVENT!
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One reason could be they may have shouted themselves hoarse, much like most of us did to friends, spouses, neighbors and anyone within hearing distance and we are pooped!
The pro-nukes are turning sheepish, I suspect because MSM has been a tad more forthcoming (albeit too late!) with information that alternative sources have been providing.
Possibly an ‘Uh oh’ moment when one comes face to face with one’s mortality.
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Yep Alice. So horrific all of it.
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@Whoopie, “EVERYFUCKINGTHING.” Oh the horror, (sick) I can’t stop Laughing! I can relate and were on the same page! It’s a circus for sure. The Theory of “EVERYFUCKINGTHING”……by Whoopie. You are awesome!
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Heads Up CB. Front page at HP just now:
ROMNEY ON THE COCK BROTHERS DONATING:
“AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT $10 MILLION”
AND
Indiana election chief found guilty of voter fraud
You know, that’s what worries me more than anything:
DIEBOLD
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What the hell am I saying?!?!?! EVERYFUCKINGTHINGWORRIESME!
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Hmm, Whoopie,
E-F-T-W-M right now,
SOPA, GMO’s
Monsanto and Dow,
W-M-D and W-O-T
W-H-O, IAEA aieee!
AIPAC and AfPak
Fuku and SONGS,
it’s TEOTWAKI!
‘course I could be wrong
and we can change course,
turn things around
and ride a fresh horse,
we still have choices
to combine our voices
and make mighty noises
and defeat the bad boyzes.
Hi Whoopie, just warming up!
(more coffffffffiiiieeee)
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OR-WELL! “YOU GOT TALENT”
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Money, Government, President, and Leadership has no control over the cascading affects of Fuku. No Control. Separate the personal relationship between the two and the GRAVITY of the disaster reveals itself.
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The public misleading perception of the disaster will have 0% affect on the true Consequent of the disaster. Nature will of course take its course.
The Japan and US government actions only adds to the sum of the victims of the catastrophic disaster. Their lack of preparedness is self evident. The absence of moral and ethical values will kill Billions. 16 Billion years of evolution canned, extinction level tsunami imminent.
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7 microSv/h in Yokohama
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/02/7-microsvh-in-yokohama/
Councilor of radiation is led by a pharmaceutical company and ICRP …
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/02/councilor-of-radiation-is-led-by-a-pharmaceutical-company-and-icrp/
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Thoughts on Reactor 4, I’m wondering how old the fuel is in the SPF and where is the new core they were going to replace it with? Anyone know
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MSB typed these pixels of light:
“Thoughts on Reactor 4, I’m wondering how old the fuel is in the SPF and where is the new core they were going to replace it with?”
SP: Unit four is the single Hitachi-built unit (GE built 3 and Toshiba 2).
Unit 4 has fuel dating to January 28, 1978.
33 years of rods that are poised to fall on the ground and kill the population of Japan. Some may be in the Common Spent Fuel Pond, and a few in the dry cask area. A nuclear engineer like Arnie could tell us how often this unit has refueled over 33 years and at what time intervals. I have read it is 12 to 18 month cycles that leads to the “expended” fuel which remains highly dangerous for millennia to humans, but no longer deemed viable for steam production.
We have heard numerous accounts on the state of the reactor fuel assemblies on 311. Was the fuel out for maintenance or was it in the torus ready to start when the earthquake cracked the building? In any case the building is a massive thermonuclear dirty bomb waiting to drop burning to the ground.
When that happens everyone outside Japan needs to seal their houses for several weeks and try to survive the global fallout.
In Japan things will be exponentially worse for much longer.
Got your water yet?
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So following your thoughts… with others stating the pool HAS dropped now…
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“thermonuclear dirty bomb”
“Dirty bomb”? Yes.
“Thermonuclear dirty bomb”? Nope.
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OT?
Josh Fox, ‘Gasland’ Director, Talks Of Capitol Hill Arrest
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/josh-fox-arrest-gasland-republicans_n_1251275.html
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