Published: July 29th, 2011 at 6:43 am ET
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TEPCO to extract air from troubled reactors, NHK, July 29, 2011
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it will extract air from troubled reactors at the plant to measure the amount of radioactive substances. [...]
The operation is intended to obtain accurate data on what kind of radioactive substances are being released and in what quantity.
The air extraction is expected to begin later on Friday for the No.1 reactor and in early August for the No.2 unit. No plans have been decided for the No.3 reactor due to high radiation levels in part of its building.
NHK mentions that TEPCO doesn’t know where the melted fuel is inside the reactors or the actual level of radioactive particles still being released:
- TEPCO hopes the findings may also help the company grasp the extent of leakage of nuclear fuels into the containment vessels.
- Up to around one billion becquerels of radioactive substances are believed to be released every hour from reactors No.1, 2 and 3. It is not known how accurate this figure is because it was worked out by taking readings of the air on the plant’s premises.
Published: July 29th, 2011 at 6:43 am ET
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Oliver Hardy: “Now where DID I put it?”
Stan Laurel: “Have you felt in all your pockets?”
Oliver Hardy: “That’s a good idea. Have I…What do you MEAN, Have I felt in all my pockets? Will you stop annoying me?”
Stan Laurel: “Well, I couldn’t help it.” (cries)
With these guys, it was funny. With TEPCO, it isn’t.
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The moral response would have been to take air samples on 12 March so that all would know the danger.
In any event the data should be interesting. The concern is – how do we know what the real numbers are given the obvious cover-up and dumbing down factors of a 100 or a 1,000 these fools apply; like the cover-up murderers’ at 3MI pulled off.
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Sad news. Many people in Fukushima are committing suicide out of hopelessness. The people who should be doing so, are not.
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“No plans have been decided for the No.3 reactor due to high radiation levels in part of its building.” That is very sad to hear. Sounds like radiation so high they can’t even formulate a plan to measure the air inside. Are they still on schedule for their road to recovery?
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Sure they are. They will just redefine “radioactive recovery”.
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It probably means that the spent fuel pool crashed down into the core and we now have the corium from hellllllll..
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This is possible, A guest on the http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm show the first of the week suggested the 4 pool had crashed down and causing mayhem !
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apropos radioactive particles …
does anybody know if it would be possible to put up some pylons which are connected with strings and charge them up, so that they would attract the particles leaving the reactor buildings ? I mean a similar system is used in airfilter systems to attract the dust . . . just an idea
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Good to hear an idea since TEPCO and the Japanese Gov don’t have any, or even a clue.
Here is my thought. First, put together a remote control front end loader or similar that has an infrared detector to gather chunks of rods blown out of the pools and drop them into bins. Surely a country that is so hot on robotics could do that.
Other remote control heavy equipment to start dismantling the ruble that was the buildings with the goal of eventually getting to the molten core. The ruble would hinder ANY effort to contain the radiation emitted, and surely isn’t doing any good in the condition it is in now.
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Yes. Radioactive inventory time series of the biosphere. Thats why all the monitors worldwide if they were all operative, the simultaneous global measurements would have built a total picture of all radioactivity and indeed of the true nature of the events. I do hope the rulers of the world will regain their senses and together with all Jap readings that must be taken they will transparently put up progress of the work of reconstruction of the ongoing man made disaster on an internationally available website which cannot be hacked. The sites must be situated with differing encryptions in all the countries! By the way where can we get the reactor 4 story apart from stone’s theory, the iranian jap and israeli interconnects. Its truly a black(!) hole right now and slanted.
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They can’t NOT have readings. America has planes that can take those readings from high altitude, if not space. I believe they’re not letting us KNOW the readings because the news is so bad.
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Heres some interesting perspective…
Japan…
Knew first hand that there were three full on melt downs…
Global Response:
Silence… (immediate disinformation campaign)(Accompanied with Blacking out global media; And raising safe radiation limits for its citizens…Tepco has now been caught paying more to date in ‘Hush’ money then actual Restitution to the victims and evacuees of the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis)…
Canada…
Probably also knew there was three meltdowns…
Global Response:
Took down radiation networks…
United States…
Knew there was three meltdowns…
Global Response: Raised safe radiation levels (without a scientific boards approval). Took down radiation network. Paid top dollar to help hush the nuclear crisis Our Leader / President: Obama Lied to us all Live on the News). While leaving the country… “Coincidentally Along With all of congress”)… Both the e.p.a. & n.r.c.; Are involved currently in blacking out information and taking advanced radiation site maps of the united states west coast… (but theres no concern over seattle’s levels???
Germany…
Unknown their level of communications on the situation…
Global Response:
Have now officially responded by taking down their own radiation networks….…
Europe:
Raised Radiation rates… And also banned their radiation networks…
EU Energy commissioners response… ” Its BIBLICAL. ”
fear =’s
This isn’t and never was a only effecting the continent of JAPAN situation…
Don’t you all get it?
Were all literally losing our lives now… People globally are now being exposed to higher background radiation levels… There is no end in sight!
Not only is this a higher level than previously recorded… The Radiation is a far more dangerous variety than ever has polluted our planet throughout humanity in its entire history…
Is it Really just a coincidence, that every government involved is strategically making the situation more difficult to access?
Just a coincidence they all took down their radiation networks???
News flash…
China syndrome = Global DESTRUCTION…
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Yes we know. What the heck do you think any of us can do? Realistically? If it’s ELE then see ya mother fucker! Like I said before, stock up on your absolutely favorite high-end booze or demph and when your teeth fall out, party till you die. SImple plan, simple to execute.
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/22/fukushima-2000-atomic-bombs/
(Article is from Veterans today… Who would know more about the situation than them anyways lulz)
FUKUSHIMA =’s Over 2,000 Atomic Bombs!!!
Killer Contamination Spreads Worldwide Without Opposition
(San Francisco) – Radioactive contamination equivalent to the Fukushima, Japan disaster in terms of the hated “Mushroom Cloud” Atomic Bombs is two thousand (2,000) 500 Kiloton Atomic Bombs.* Each 500kt Atomic Bomb is 33 times bigger than the American Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Beautiful, eh? France detonated this nuke in the South Pacific 7-3-70 Scientific American Sygma
President G. Bush often referred to the well known “mushroom cloud” as a terrorist signature. Nope, just standard operating procedure (SOP) in the stationary nuclear weapons biz-ness, otherwise known worldwide as “Nuclear Power Reactors.” Except, in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Weapons, the biggest ever, the “mushroom” portion is invisible and has engulfed the whole world with 70 Billion Radioactive Lethal Doses* – so far. There’s more on the way.’
Truly, it is as if the entire world is At War! The dreaded all-out nuclear war that would happen if Russia or the United States accidentally “Pressed The Button” is going on right now; it is a done deal. Imagine that! The same thing as detonating 2,000 big Atomic Bombs and not even one “BOOM!” Not a shot fired, yet we could all die!
No giant forest fires, no burning cities creating their own hellish, uncompromising firestorms. None of that; but, every bit of the radioactive contamination such an Atomic World War would create; and probably more. For unbelievably, there are more Japanese reactors about to blow. It’s a chain reaction.
Yea, this is what VeteransToday is talking about, radiation from 2,000 kill-you-dead nukes.
It remains a thinly veiled secret of the nuclear powers that it only takes about 300 One Megaton nukes to target the entire world. Typically, the world’s nuclear weapons arsenals were originally built with a 350 year shelf life for major components.
In fact,
the radioactive materials are “safer” locked away securely in heavily guarded Atomic Bombs, than in loosely managed reactors run by utility companies for supposedly “peace time” purposes. The worldwide nuclear war we’ve got is not the war we feared.
For now, we all wait and try to avoid the 10 radioactive particles set free for each of us on Earth, from Fukushima’s triggered stationary nuclear weapons. Feel free to figure out how to dodge lethal, airborne particles you can’t see.
So far, the Fukushima disaster for Planet Earth is by no means resolved. The Powers That Be at TEPCO (the Tokyo Electric Power Company) and General Electric, makers of the reactors that created this killer, worldwide, invisible mist, say that they might get a handle on the situation in “six to nine months.[1]”
2,000 of these B-83 Nukes would do the same contamination Fuku has done already. There are more reactors set to blow up.
The seven billion people on Earth don’t have “six to nine months.” Every single day that goes by the radioactive Fukushima Volcano slaughters more of us – silently with deadly radiation now or, years from now, with the inevitable cancer pandemic that will follow.
The ten thousand trillion counts of radiation gushing forth per hour bring mortal illness to many of us. Aye, maybe even for most of us our own deaths are written on the Fukushima Radioactive Volcano Wind.
Make no mistake about it. Many of us will die from the Fukushima Nuclear Weapon. Go ahead; try to read the wind. You must have a Radiation Monitor to even start. A good one costs $400.00. The price excludes most of us.
About $400.00, give or take, is the price of admission to the exclusive club that will be able to chart the disaster at home, and take measures accordingly to protect themselves as much as possible.
The oft foretold Nuclear World War just happened; many of us are walking dead already. Do you want to take an action before you or someone you know is dead from the Fukushima Nuclear Weapon?
Theoretical Physics Professor and noted author Dr. Michiu Kaku already told CNN and the world what the solution is to the Fukushima disaster. It is pretty simple really, not rocket science. After all, it is already completely worked out, we have seen this before. It is Chernobyl on a grand scale.
If you control an Army or Air Force, “Kaku the Reactors!” Yea, count on it, those people do read VeteransToday.
If you are just a working stiff waiting your turn to do the Fukushima Nuclear Shuffle off this planet, then tell your neighbors:
“Let’s Make Them Chernobyl the Reactors!”
Remember, as Albert Einstein famously said “There are no secrets.” The facts of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima are all known. There is no mystery; there are no excuses; in short, there is no other way. Bomb the fuck out of The Fukushima Killing Machine. Get off your asses and do it. It takes aircraft, sand, boron, water, concrete, and the simple will to “Chernobyl the Reactors.
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Politicians world wide will either kill the reactors or they won’t. Talk is cheap. Life is even cheaper. We must kick their asses at the first and every opportunity; we must punish them and not let up until we see the reactors dead.
Go for it.
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Thanks for posting this again Tacomagroove..
This still remains the best estimate IMHO.
I reread my comment to this article… I continue to stand behind them…..
The folks at Veterans Today…are true defenders of our country…..
Blog them …tell them how you feel..
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… resulting releases of hazardous materials caused thousands of people to evacuate and some earthquake search and rescue operations to be abandoned.1 Despite the growing risks of such combined disasters, few countries are adequately prepared to deal with the kinds of cascading impacts, complex health effects, and special challenges that such natural-technological disasters pose.
The situation in Japan also reminds us that all radiation emergencies are ultimately international. In an age where commerce and tourism are globally integrated, an accident like the one in Fukushima inevitably involves people, commerce, governments, and healthcare systems from many nations. The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster demonstrated this, but even a smaller event such as the 2006 poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko with radioactive polonium meant that health authorities in countries thousands of miles away had to organise screening programmes for their citizens who had visited London.2 3 4 5 Consequently, radiation emergencies mean that health authorities everywhere need to be prepared for a flood of questions; demands for guidance; and the possibility of having to identify, screen, and follow up potentially affected citizens. Equally, nations must be able to provide rapid, accurate, incident related information to health officials in other countries.
Another key lesson is that however serious the radiation related effects of a nuclear accident …
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d1968.full
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STRONG FLARE: Sunspot AR1261 unleashed a brief but strong M9-class solar flare on July 30th at 0209 UT. Probably, because of its brevity, the eruption did not hurl a substantial CME toward Earth, but this is not yet a firm conclusion. Stay tuned for updates.
CHANCE OF FLARES: Sunspot 1260 has developed a delta-class magnetic field that harbors energy for powerful X-class solar flares. Such an eruption today would be Earth-directed as the sunspot turns to face our planet.
http://spaceweather.com/
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/22/fukushima-cover-up/
Fukushima Cover Up Continues Amid Looming World Health Crisis
“Fukushima Radioactivity is Everywhere All Over Northern Hemisphere and Every One is Already Contaminated to Some Degree
by Allen L Roland”
Recently President Obama ordered a complete news blackout of the flood ravaged crippled Fort Calhoun, Nebraska nuclear plant which is a symptom of the ongoing world wide cover up ‘of the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind’ ~ Fukushima.
It’s an election year and President Obama is determined that no bad news or a looming nuclear crisis will undermine his re-election as president in 2012. But the truth has a way of undermining the best of the worst deceptions.
For example, a shocking report prepared by Russia’s Federal Atomic Energy Agency (FAAE) on information provided to them by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) states that the Obama regime has ordered a “total and complete” news blackout relating to any information regarding the near catastrophic meltdown of the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant located in Nebraska.
According to the report “US Orders News Blackout Over Crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant“, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant suffered a “catastrophic loss of cooling” to one of its idle spent fuel rod pools on 7 June after this plant was deluged with water caused by the historic flooding of the Missouri River which resulted in a fire causing the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) to issue a “no-fly ban” over the area.
But that’s small potatoes compared to the on going Fukushima cover up for the Fukushima deception continues unabated and a world wide health crisis is looming.
Here are the facts:
According to the highly credible investigator columnist Dahr Jamail, scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public.
- “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera-English. “Fukushima has three nuclear reactors exposed and four fuel cores exposed,” he said,
“You probably have the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactor cores because of the fuel cores, and they are all in desperate need of being cooled, and there is no means to cool them effectively…. Independent scientists have been monitoring the locations of radioactive hot spots around Japan and their findings are disconcerting.
- “We have 20 nuclear cores exposed, the fuel pools have several cores each, that is 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl,” said Gundersen.
“The data I’m seeing shows that we are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man’s-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor. You can’t clean all this up”.
- “We still have radioactive wild boar in Germany, 30 years after Chernobyl”
In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.
The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster.
” There is and should be concern about younger people being exposed and the Japanese government will be giving out radiation monitors to children,” Dr MV Ramana, a physicist with the Programme on Science and Global Security at Princeton University who specializes in issues of nuclear safety, told Al Jazeera.” Read “Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think”
Gundersen’s assessment of solving this crisis is grim.
“Units one through three have nuclear waste on the floor, the melted core, that has plutonium in it, and that has to be removed from the environment for hundreds of thousands of years,” he said. “Somehow, robotically, they will have to go in there and manage to put it in a container and store it for infinity, and that technology doesn’t exist. Nobody knows how to pick up the molten core from the floor, there is no solution available now for picking that up from the floor.”
Gundersen believes it will take experts at least ten years to design and implement the plan.
“So 10 to 15 years from now maybe we can say the reactors have been dismantled, and in the meantime you wind up contaminating the water,” Gundersen said. “We are already seeing Strontium [at] 250 times the allowable limits in the water table at Fukushima. Contaminated water tables are incredibly difficult to clean. So I think we will have a contaminated aquifer in the area of the Fukushima site for a long, long time to come.”
Note that GE, the maker of the Fukushima plant, owns something like 49% of NBC, which in turn is linked to msnbc.com. And then we have Westinghouse, another nuclear contractor, who owns CBS. My point is, the nuclear industry and the big news houses are interlinked and are not about to rock the boat (especially with their hired hand, Obama, running for re-election.). Remember, Obama received large contributions from the nuclear Industry and in turn has offered up a $50 billion stimulus package for nuclear construction.
Note also that the article “Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think” is from Al Jazeerra-English and not the American Main stream press which is not only in bed with the corpocracy but purposely looking the other way. But we can’t afford to look the other way ~ for this looming world health crisis is already upon us.
Bob Nichols, a columnist for Veterans Today, confirms the same toxic Fukushima radiation aftermath in his article titled “Fukushima: How Many Chernobyls Is It?”.
Dr. Helen Caldicott described what’s happening at Fukushima as “kind of like a nuclear war with no explosion.” She believes the release of nuclides from Fukushima is much higher than has been reported by officials and could, over time, cause millions of cancers. She says
“We’re talking about random compulsory genetic engineering for the rest of time. And almost all mutations are deleterious. They cause diseases like cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and dwarfism – there are over 2600 genetic diseases – I could go on and on. So what we are doing is just the most ghastly experiment, not just on the human species but on 30 million other species that cohabit the planet with us.”
Let’s make it simple. Fukushima radioactivity is all over the Northern Hemisphere and each and every one of us is already contaminated to some degree ~ particularly on the West Coast where I reside.
Fukushima Equals 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses
Dr. Michio Kaku pointed out on CNN March 18, 2011 that Chernobyl involved one reactor and only 57.6 Tons of the reactor core went into the atmosphere. In dramatic contrast, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster immediately involved six reactors and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN Agency) documented 2,800 Tons of highly radioactive old reactor cores.
Looking at the current Japanese meltdown as more than 50 Chernobyls is one way some people are beginning to estimate the disaster.
Simple division tells us there are at least 48.6 Chernobyls in the burning old reactor cores pumping fiery isotopes into the Earth’s atmosphere. Some are calculating that this all adds up to three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation ~ meaning there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell. Learn more at Natural New’s “Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” >>>
It appears that Orwell is correct ~ for it becomes exceedingly apparent during these days of universal deceit and corporate deviousness that telling the truth is not only a revolutionary act but, in this case, perhaps the only means for human survival.
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Fukushima Equals 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses
Dr. Michio Kaku pointed out on CNN March 18, 2011 that Chernobyl involved one reactor and only 57.6 Tons of the reactor core went into the atmosphere. In dramatic contrast, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster immediately involved six reactors and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN Agency) documented 2,800 Tons of highly radioactive old reactor cores.
Looking at the current Japanese meltdown as more than 50 Chernobyls is one way some people are beginning to estimate the disaster.
Simple division tells us there are at least 48.6 Chernobyls in the burning old reactor cores pumping fiery isotopes into the Earth’s atmosphere. Some are calculating that this all adds up to three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation ~ meaning there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell. Learn more at Natural New’s “Fukushima Nuclear Disaster” >>>
It appears that Orwell is correct ~ for it becomes exceedingly apparent during these days of universal deceit and corporate deviousness that telling the truth is not only a revolutionary act but, in this case, perhaps the only means for human survival.
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http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/01/lies-damn-lies-and-safe-nuclear-power/
Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power
In any form, nuclear power is inherently unsafe. For decades, nuclear expert Helen Caldicott warned it must be abandoned, saying:
“As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced.”
Anti-nuclear activist/expert Professor Karl Grossman agrees, calling “Atomic Energy: Unsafe in the Real World” in his June 29 article, saying:
“Nuclear power requires perfection and no acts of God” to avoid accidents that may become catastrophes. Humans and technology aren’t perfect. Natural and other type disasters happen. “(W)e can’t eliminate them. But we can – and must eliminate atomic energy” or it will eliminate us.
On March 18, Bloomberg said Japan’s Fukushima disaster “follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risks in Japan’s atomic power industry.”
The same is true in America and elsewhere – governments, regulators, and power companies suppressing vital truths, instead of shutting down inherently unsafe plants, making all of them ticking bombs.
Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island exploded. Others as bad or worse are assured, irradiating vast parts of the earth disastrously. On June 22, kinetictruth.com headlined, “US heading toward nuclear disaster,” saying:
“After a yearlong investigation, AP concluded that many of the nation’s facilities are still (operating) because the safety standards that they are held to have been repeatedly weakened as regulations (for the world’s most hazardous industry became) more and more lax.”
After reviewing tens of thousands of government and industry studies and documents since the 1970s, it concluded that the industry-run Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) falsified arguments, saying “safety margins could be eased without peril.” As a result, not only are Americans endangered, so is one-fifth of the nation’s electricity supply.
Many problems AP found could trigger a nuclear disaster, including broken seals and nozzles, rusted pipes, aging facilities past their useful life, and numerous examples of shoddy maintenance and management laxity. Nonetheless, NRC officials rubber stamp license extensions, including 66 facilities over 25 years old re-licensed for another two decades, instead of responsibly shutting them down.
Vermont Yankee is perhaps the most notorious. Licensed to begin operating in 1972, Vermont’s Senate voted 26 – 4 against re-licensing in February 2010, citing radioactive tritium leaks, falsified management statements, a 2007 cooling tower collapse, among other problems, proving the facility is a disaster waiting to happen.
Nonetheless, on March 21, 2011, the NRC extended its life for another 20 years until 2032. Moreover, Entergy, Vermont Yankee’s owner and America’s second largest nuclear generator after Exelon, sued to revoke a state law, giving it legislative authority to suspend operations when its current license expires next March.
The plant, in fact, has the same GE Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor design as Fukushima’s Units 1 and 2. According to Citizens’s Action Network’s Bob Stannard:
“It’s unimaginable to think that the NRC would declare this plant safe when (it) houses 640 tons of spent fuel in an unprotected fuel pool with no containment vessel. In Japan, the plant that’s in the worst shape has only 80 tons.”
If Vermont Yankee blows, perhaps all Vermont and New England go with it, and given its deplorable state, it may if it’s 20 year extension isn’t stopped.
Mid-America Threatened
In Missouri, record floods threaten two nuclear plants – the Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station, yet little about either is reported, especially on television where most people get news. In early June moreover, the FAA issued an indefinite “no-fly hazards” restriction over the facilities to conceal the worst of what’s happening.
Both plants issued low level “unusual event” alerts that may rise to catastrophic ones. On June 30, the Omaha World-Herald reported that both plants store spent fuel rods in open casks. As a result, if Missouri River flood levels rise enough, they’ll “overflow them and carry contaminated water downstream.”
Both plants “use outdoor, above-ground entombment (called dry cask storage) for its oldest fuel,” kept in welded shut steel canisters placed “inside concrete bunkers that rely on outside air flowing” to dissipate residual heat. Allegedly, bunkers and canisters can withstand flooding. They may soon get a chance to prove it.
On June 15, Rense.com contributor Tom Burnett headlined, “Ft. Calhoun Spent Fuel In Ground Pools, Flooded Already?” saying:
“Ft. Calhoun is the designated spent fuel storage facility for the entire state of Nebraska….and maybe for more than one state.” It’s stored in ground-level pools underwater but open on top. “When the Missouri River pours in there, it’s going to make Fukushima look like an x-ray. But that’s not all. There are a LOT of nuclear plants on both the Missouri and Mississippi and they can all go to hell fast” if flood waters or other natural disasters threaten them.
Ft. Calhoun’s spent and recently removed fuel are stored “OUTSIDE the reactor waiting to wash away or explode – which will destroy about 15,000 square miles of what used to be the corn belt,” besides the potential human toll.
In fact, “Calhoun may already be spewing radiation into the flooding Missouri.” However, an information blackout keeps the public uninformed, including about an NRC report effectively saying it’s unprepared “to protect the intake structure and auxiliary building against external flooding.”
Nonetheless, Omaha Public Power District CEO Gary Gates told AP:
“There is no possibility of a meltdown. The floodwaters are outside of Ft. Calhoun, not inside,” AP adding:
“Fort Calhoun is the subject of more public concern because the floodwaters have surrounded that plant and forced workers to use raised catwalks to access the facility.” Cooper Nuclear Station “is more elevated, so the floodwaters aren’t as close to the facility.” But the facility is by no means out of danger.
NRC chairman Gregory Jaczko also claims flooding endangers neither plant, words he may later eat if levels keep rising. In fact, Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum believes conditions are dangerous, saying:
“We’re inches away from (Calhoun) nuclear plant being flooded. It’s already an island. And we still have a very real possibility of flood levels rising….There’s always the possibility of the situation escalating, especially when we don’t control all the variables. That’s what happened in Japan.”
“There’s no question that there’s significant concern about the threat that rising flood waters pose to flooding certain operations of the plant that could disable certain critical safety features, including cooling systems.”
Cooper may also be endangered, he added, saying:
“We wouldn’t be having this conversation if this were a wind farm or if this were a solar power installation. Nuclear power inherently poses enormous risks to our communities. We really have to start questioning whether (it) should be a viable part of our 21st century energy mix.”
Any sane person would call that a no-brainer.
In addition, conditions appear worse, not better, after a protective Calhoun facility water-filled berm collapsed on June 26 after being struck by some heavy equipment. As a result, “(m)ore than 2 feet (60 cm) of water rushed in around containment buildings and electrical transformers,” according to Reuters.
Most disturbing is that very likely the worst of what’s happening is suppressed. Moreover, it’s standard practice for all major industries to protect their bottom line priorities, aided by complicit regulators, government officials, and media bosses, dismissive of public safety concerns.
As a result, the official IAEA Chernobyl death count was 4,000 when, in fact, a New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) study concluded numbers approaching one million and counting. Moreover, little information explained how BP destroyed America’s Gulf and gravely harmed the health and livelihoods of millions of area residents.
In early June, the Nuclear Energy Institute, a US industry lobbying group, claimed:
“No health effects are expected among the Japanese people as a result of the events at Fukushima.” In fact, weeks after the March 11 disaster, two distinguished nuclear experts, Christopher Busby and Marion Fulk, publicly said northern Japan (one-third of the country) is uninhabitable and should be evacuated. By now perhaps most or all Japan is affected, as well as many other parts of the world, including American air, water, soil and food contaminated by hazardous radiation levels.
America’s Southwest On the Edge
In late June, the Las Conchas fire began in New Mexico’s Sante Fe National Forest, 12 miles southwest of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). It’s America’s largest nuclear weapons research center, storing huge amounts of nuclear waste, including a reported 30,000 55-gallon drums of plutonium, the most toxic substance known.
According to the Los Alamos Study Group (LASG), a LANL site called “Area G” houses a nuclear dump, 19 miles from Sante Fe Plaza. “It’s Growing. And It’s Ours Forever:”
– larger than the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, NM;
– permanent waste is kept “in shallow unlined pits and shafts covered with dirt;”
– enough’s there to “fill 1.4 million 55 gallon drums – plus (another 60,000 drums) of temporarily-stored waste;”
– weapons testing and production adds another 54,000 drums annually;
– “two other mesas (will also be used) for dump sites;”
– regulatory oversight is entirely absent; and
– most waste “is entirely unnecessary.”
In fact, weapons development, testing and production way exceeds Cold War levels, even after America’s 2010 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia. It was an agreement more in name than substance, given Washington’s determination to pursue nuclear superiority by replacing old weapons with new, improved, more destructive ones.
As a result, LASG said LANL weapons design and testing continue. “Production of plutonium bomb cores has begun. A second plutonium plant is planned. Many more tons of plutonium are needed for the bomb factories. Huge new facilities for weapons testing and or novel kinds of nuclear processing – which will produce even more waste – are planned.”
Everything is dangerous and secret. LASG worries most about:
– increasing US Southwest drought, creating conditions for raging fires; and
– natural or engineered “unexpected events,” causing “unthinkable” nuclear catastrophes, including one affecting LANL, surrounding areas, and potentially much of America’s Southwest because bad enough nuclear accidents are unforgiving.
Whether current Los Alamos fires qualify isn’t known. On June 28, AP said midday flames were “as close as 50 feet from the grounds.” LANL safety assurances aren’t reliable, nor is information about potential widespread contamination if containment doesn’t work.
In Los Alamos, Senator Tom Udall (D. NM) said, “We are throwing absolutely everything at this that we’ve got.” As a precautionary measure, the city’s entire 11,000 population was evacuated.
According to Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety executive director Joni Arends:
“The concern is that (drums of plutonium) will get so hot that they’ll burst. That would put this toxic material into the plume. It’s a concern for everybody.”
She also worries that fire may affect LANL nuclear-contaminated soil. With a staff of about 15,000, the facility is huge, including 2,000 buildings, covering over 36 square miles on nearly four dozen sites.
It’s been around since WW II as part of the Manhattan Project. Thereafter, it evolved into a major scientific and nuclear research facility, developing, testing and producing state-of-the art weapons, as well as multidisciplinary work in various fields, including national security, space, renewable energy, medicine, nanotechnology, and supercomputing.
About one-third of its technical staff are physicists, one-fourth engineers, one-sixth chemists and materials scientists, and the others involved in mathematics, computational science, biology, geoscience, and other disciplines. Along with Alameda County, CA’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, it’s one of two Department of Energy facilities designing nuclear weapons and related activities.
Because of fire, lab facilities were shut for days. Moreover, 30 or more of its structures were destroyed, yet LANL claims its buildings were constructed to meet strict nuclear safety standards. In Japan, Tokyo Electric (TEPCO), regulators and government officials gave similar nuclear safety assurances, even after disaster struck, and still suppress vital information millions of Japanese citizens need to know. America’s NRC does it notoriously.
Why expect LANL to operate otherwise, especially given its sensitive work and large amounts of stored nuclear waste, including plutonium, perhaps vulnerable to ignite and spread over a wide area disastrously, despite officials calling the exposure risk small. Maybe they’re right, maybe not but won’t say. On June 30, Los Alamos County Fire Chief Douglas Tucker said the fire could double or triple in size before it’s checked, adding:
“We have fire all around the lab. It’s a road away.”
On June 29, the Sante Fe Reporter said nearly 93,000 acres were consumed. Its feature story headlined, “Flash Point: The West is burning. Is global ‘weirding’ to blame? saying:
Another 60,748 acres are ablaze, threatening LANL. It’s not one big fire. Since last July, nearly 1,000 ignited around the state, most in the past few months because of tinderbox dry conditions. They’re also across the West from Texas to California, as well as north to Colorado and Utah. In nearly a year, over 711,000 New Mexico aces were lost.
In a separate report, writer Chip Ward said Arizona and Texas are burning besides New Mexico and other states. However, residents close to Los Alamos live in fear, worried that smoke plumes might contain deadly radiation, especially plutonium if it ignites. Unless prevented, “the West is ours to lose,” and perhaps a whole lot more.
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LIES from every “official mouthpiece”
monitoring of the radioactive releases from Fukushima has been stopped by a number of institutions around the world. There are various claims being made to justify the sudden end of such a critical service that provides essential and life-saving information to the public. An almost identical wording is found in the claims made by two of the most prominent organisations who have been monitoring the radiation releases from Fukushima. In the USA, the EPA claims that there is a “consistent decrease in radiation levels across the country” [1] and in Germany, the Rhenish Institute for the Environment claims that there is a “clear decrease of the worldwide radioactive concentrations outside of Japan” [2] – however, both these statements are outright lies, as will be easily shown in this article….
http://globalcooperative.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/lies-from-every-official-mouthpiece/
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TPTB know exactly what is going on….this includes our State Dept…DOE..etc…
They all know..the City of London…all the nuclear energy commissions.
They all know….and that is why LIES..ridiculous lies are being told…official lies….lies that look like official lies…. LAME.
Is it bad enough that their greed and incompetance..enrages the people…why do we have to listen to their BS.
Listen..folks in charge of the PR surrounding Fukushima…….you sound like MORONS.
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One piece of good news. 24-hour news channel RT has become the first to reach 500,000,000 YouTube clicks. I’m sure much credit goes to their reporters in Japan, especially Sean Thomas who goes repeatedly where others dare not tread. At least one news channel is not beyond the pale.
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odylan, I’ll have a good laugh when Al-Jazeera will be second….(not too unlikely, probably)
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Pretty sad that we have to get our news from Russia, but yes at least that’s some good news.
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By the way, I flew over Moscow once and that city is ringed by nuke plants. I counted around ten in pretty close proximity.
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Lesson learned (NOT)
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The new CTBTO radioactive isotope data is in.
http://www.cpdnp.jp/pdf/110729Takasaki_report_Jul26.pdf
July 25-26 had the highest amount of cesium-134 & cesium-137 since June 12. Here is a video of the Fukushima smoke of that night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC-I16OF41s
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Can’t read Japanese, but I see lots of I-131 and Te-132 on some of those charts.
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Now, THAT is interesting news. Thanks for posting, Bobby1! I don’t know who of you remembers the night of horrors around June 12, which some of us shared here watching tepcocam. The releases obvoiusly were massive.
Thanks again, bobby.
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* save copy as
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This video pisses me off anew.
In my opinion it depicts the shared spent fuel pool on fire and spewing into the atmosphere. I don’t remember exactly, but the shared pool contains many times the nuclear fuel that the rest of the facility does combined.
If that observation is accurate, then the situation, if not the site has been abandoned – and with it, all future in Japan is snuffed out – and I’m very worried about the rest of the world.
The very first thing that should have been done is to empty the fuel out of that pool and move it to a safer location. I read that this fuel store should be defended at all costs – and it obviously has not.
Did I mention that I’m pissed?
You folks who mention Tepco are naive. It no longer exists. It simply is a name now used as a shield for the Japanese government to hide behind.
Of course the Japanese government is in a precarious situation as well. They are likely out of money. They have millions of increasingly angry people to move and the lies are getting more and more difficult to maintain.
They have billions of dollars in rebuilding to do, and they have a looming food shortage, and their exports are all contaminated, and orders are probably being canceled daily.
They are like a wounded and now dying animal sitting in the corner and we are all watching them from a distance in the beginnings of their death throes all hoping that we don’t catch it.
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On the same NHK link at the top of this article there’s news about 104,000 tonnes of radioactive sludge.
50,000 tonnes has been tested tested and found to contain radioactive cesium (of which 76% is stored at water treatment plants).
1,500 tonnes of this sludge is too radioactive to be buried – i.e. it contains more than 8,000 becquerels per kilo
The sludge in Koriyama City, Fukushima, contained up to 89,697 becquerels per kilo.
54,000 tonnes of sludge not yet checked.
The Health Ministry plans to study how to dispose of the sludge.
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It’s always a good idea to wait four months before testing to let as much radiation as possible vent into the environment and melt through to the water table. That way there’s the best chance to have lower readings.
With this much corium, though, TEPCO will eventually get found out, sadly only after the enormous, irreparable damage has been done.
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They waited 4 years after dropping Little Boy and Fat Man. What an improvement is 4 months considering that Fuku is eqt to 2k atomic bombs of 100 kt each!
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Came through a Tweet
Very Interesting Story Recounting Experience
At Airport Right After EQ and Tsunami
http://angrygaijin.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/fukushima-airport/
Stories like this make it PERSONAL and REAL. I enjoyed reading it – thought you would too.
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thank you Whoopie. I wonder what happened to them…
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Don’t know. Hope they got the hell outta Dodge.
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Thanks Whoppie. I have left my comments trhere. Very poignant indeed-the helplessness.
See a similar story here:
Nuclear Fundamentalism:
http://nuclearfunda.blogspot.com/
Take care.
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Thanks for the link Ram. That is a wonderful contribution! You are a great writer – placing the reader right THERE with you. TY. Hope you do some more…maybe you have. Thanks again.
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I updated my northern Canada readings with a jetstream animation and tropopause animation. They correlate with my 1.02 uSv/h from the 27th. No radiation over here, just ask the government. Happy people don’t get radiated.
New link again :/
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjvE9T8Q
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Thanks vaporlock. I’ll post that to HP.
Good to know STUFF.
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Thank you, appreciate it. I’ll update the link whenever it goes “missing” again. I think Majia’s link on her blog is incorrect if anyone can let her know. This weekend I am driving north up the Alaska highway to take some readings on the north side of the mountains in the forests.
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Beautiful country – but probably seeing alot of Rad’s there too. Hope you have a good time, even though your INTENT is readings. I had never seen your readings before so it’s getting bookmarked right now. HP is weird with those Photo links. They never appear RIGHT – so you have to do a Tinyurl…which I did. (Forgot I needed to do that)
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Thanks vaporlock. This is interesting work. I appreciate your hard work. Where in Northern Canada-sorry I forgot your previous posting. Is it near the uranium mining areas? Please once again elaborate. Thanks again.
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You are more than welcome. I’m between Fort St John and Dawson Creek. BC has a ban on uranium mining (or so they say). Tumbler Ridge is the mining area, but that is to my NE. About and hour or so drive. Been up there too, readings were lower than my area. I’m nosy.
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Holy Cow look at these readings. I think it is from Fukushima.EPA radnet 7/29 745 am pacific time https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/monitorView.do
Kansas city 0 beta
Wichita under review
Omaha 118 beta
Lincoln NE 125 beta
Pierre SD 315 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rapid City is under review
Bismark ND 207 beta
Duluth MN 0 beta
Seattle WA 0 beta
Spokane WA 116 beta
Madison WI under review
Milwauke WI under review
Chicago IL under review
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* jaw drops
Majia, thank you so much for sharing your findings! That’s indeed horrible! Do you know if it rained in Pierre SD, which might have caused even higher readings??
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Posted to HP. Outrageous readings in SD. TY
Under Review = Coverup
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The cam at fukushima has caught some really gross bursts this morning. At about 48 seconds into it another cloud, from the backside of the camera passes over. Bummer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIi5p6jq6GI&feature=feedu
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That “cloud” could be from #5 and/or #6.
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I wonder about the status of 5 and 6 daily..
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According to TEPCO’s own reports, Fukushima Daini has three reactors that are rated at the same rate as #4 at Fukushima Daiichi. We can see with out own eyes what a mess #4 is. Some of these large earthqakes are closer to Fuku Daini than to Fuku Daiichi.
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The layer coming over the camera Is a FOG Layer at 48 seconds. Remember at night just like in California the fog rolls in.
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I guess that “under review” is not very good news.
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I have updated my previous article. The number of excess deaths in the US following Fukushima now stands at 24,937.
http://freepdfhosting.com/7349a34a13.pdf
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TY Bobby. Posting to HP. Interesting the numbers are dropping – but that won’t LAST as we all know. EXCELLENT WORK! REally…you have done a great job here. Glad you posted.
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My counts drop until the wind direction changes, which it is doing this morning. The counter was at 1.77 uSv/h this morning when I left for work. Air temp has dropped by 6 – 8 degrees this am, wind is pushing from the NNW again. Supposed to rain, thats when the counts go up even higher. Been dry for over a week.
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Rain expected – readings will rise whereby sickness and deaths will too. Again ty for your report. You’ve done a great service by watching this. Guess I missed your reports before.
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Quite welcome. My uploads have a nasty habit of disappearing due to technical errors, aliens, sunspots etc. If they do, they will be back in a day.
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That will teach me to HANG AROUND MORE. I’ve been so bummed lately about this mess we’re in. I know you guys have too. Pissed off and bummed. One bit of good news:
More and more are MOVING TOWARDS GREEN. Just NOW it was reported:
http://www.energyboom.com/policy/us-military-holds-key-green-energy-push
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I haven’t the time to go in to this properly…
See biofuels ..algae technology..
http://www.naval-technology.com/news/news100536.html
This works so well for the GOM…make an oil spill..through in synthetic algae.(CARBON EATING..aren’t we made of carbon?) .continue drilling and make fuel from the algae…a win-win for the military machine…NEAT.
The “green people” …duped.
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Wonder if your readings will go down as wind is changing direction? Of course it might blow to China but will still drift up to jetstream and head back to us.
http://www.dwd.de/wundk/spezial/Sonderbericht_loop.gif
In case someone here hasn’t seen this yet. Apparently link from main page has disappeared but actual page is still up. Supposed to be taken down today
This story is more Bu**S**t. How can they not know how much radiation is coming out? Does it matter? Its a F**k of a lot. New action plan is to take air samples? Oh great I guess it will all be fixed soon. How silly of me to be worried.
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THANKS HEART. I hear you and will REBUT my comment at HP with what you posted.
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Threw it in…typo….they threw an untested synthetic algae into the Gulf..
Meet Synthia…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnJ8OkJJiss
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thank you very much Vaporlock and Bobby 1
I appreciate all of your links
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Mark I hope the readings go down, but I’m not holding my breath. Fukucam has some ugly stuff this am.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBr3etFWH4&feature=feedu
Jetstream is heading this way, oh yay. Think I’ll have a Bailey’s with some coffee in it.
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A couple of things….not to quibble with the guy as I like him a lot…but Gundersen says the plant complex aquifer would be contaminated.
There is no underground aquifer that extends back into the mainland from geology surveys from when the plant was built. Japan has few aquifers anywhere. Surface water supplies the drinking needs for most Japanese so they are in deep hockey puck from the air pollution. The construction soil may have water in fissures from rain, sea water, and their water cannons, but I don’t know of any aquifer that connects back to the mainland at Fukushima Daiichi.
Second…
No way to put a number on how bad it is compared to Chernobyl because the MOX Reactor 3 can stand alone as being an order of magnitude Chernobyl could never match. My Sickputer Facebook profile photo sign sez 100 times worse….it could well be 1,000 times worse.
How great they are just now going to monitor how much radiation is being produced…this is a sad admission the Tepco naked apes at Fukushima Daiichi have been pulling all previous estimates out of their ass as we well suspected.
Anyway…here’s one of my favorite Nuckelchen offerings that just fits the bleak mood today…from about 10 days ago:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nuckelchenblogde#p/f
Peace out…I am going to go to Subway…but no Fukushima lettuce or spinach (as I call it) for me today (or for the past 4 months). I told the guy he will know it is really bad when I don’t even have pickles on my sandwich…it’s getting damn close.
Chile South America looks awful good today…if I had the money my entire clan would be there already. Wonder how many secret millionaires have already fled south? They might soon if they get a whiff of the danger.
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>Anyway…here’s one of my favorite Nuckelchen offerings that just fits the bleak mood today…from about 10 days ago:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nuckelchenblogde#p/f
Actually that was last night and it’s not bad…I was so ticked off at Tepco I placed the wrong link… here is the older one I meant:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nuckelchenblogde#p/u/0/NVFm95Wd5ck
I also wonder where the fire went….
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@Sickpea,
I read a post on http://www.physicsforums.com at around #8000 or so (about a month ago or longer) that there is an aquifer underneath that entire place. It is feed by mountain runoff but moves very slowly to the sea. Gundersen’s point is that the aquifer empties into the sea and thus the radiation. No one, not even Greenpeace, measures what is going on. You can bet it is all very bad news.
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http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu07_e/images/071105e1.pdf
Eight shallow boring holes for this 2007 survey and they went 10 to 20 meters only to measure water. I wouldn’t call that shallow depth an aquifer-bearing substructure. The construction and underlying dirt is only 50-60 feet to the 800 meter layer of mudstone (sandstone) and then granite for much deeper.
I did post a while back about the 1971 document that discussed the bedrock, but the link to the document looks dead now. I may have that document saved. I did the see the thread you mentioned and it was interesting, but the poster’s comments (he wasn’t a geologist…just quoting his friend) contradicted what some of the 1971 geologists mentioned for the subsurface structure.
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=3356008&postcount=9753
I’ll check some more later and see what I can dig up, not that it matters a hill of beans the way things are going.
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>Eight shallow boring holes for this 2007 survey
Correction…looks like 13 for Daichii.
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Just checking that I didn’t miss anything the first time round, confirmed, that this reference is actually a description of what the survey was going to do – /not/ the results [please correct me if any other info has surfaced: I raised a challenge about this to the world nuclear news fanboyz and it was never rebutted].
A recent report on the Japan Times at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x2.html reports that a hill was demolished to leave ground level at the plant at 10m above sea level with the turbine building basements 14m below that, i.e. below sea level.
The deep bore proposal for 1000m looks like BS. What would be the point?
The shallow bore proposals look silly, just silly. There is no attempt to go outside the plant boundary and measure groundwater levels/flows over the whole “made ground” [green] area. Also, groundwater flows are seasonal reaching iirc a max in early spring and then going into a slow decline until November (personal observations, Worcestershire, 1967-8), then a more rapid buildup over the winter. That’s Northern Hemisphere. Check. Japan. Northern. You would need to plan for 2 years obs to get a proper picture so again looks like BS.
BS=proposal knocked up as a response to panic oversight from govt. after event like a seismo nearby- check- my earlier post refers to another PR from tepco at http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu07_e/images/070817e2.pdf
- and this one too tells you more about how to do a geol survey than how to do one at a specific site.
Conclusion, these surveys likely never took place, and unlikely a geologist ever took part in composing said literature.
More crap!
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I tell you what,…I want all of your autographs–HEROS,…..and the God in me salutes the god in you! Jilly
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sorry, God in me salutes the God in you.
Too many hot particles stuck in my craw today.
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Just when you think things just cannot get any weirder. I am mildly concerned though.
I sense that there is going to be widespread panic from October on economically and by Spring of next year everyone will be in the same boat. This is of course barring any more earthquakes or insane rainstorms or floods…
Does anyone have a reasonable perspective about this as I seem to have lost mine.
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I’ve been sitting here trying to think of something positive. The 5.0 and 5.1 earthquakes (aftershocks) within the last two hours off the coast of Honshu haven’t helped. Neither did the big ass cloud from either #5 or #6. I’m very worried for people who don’t have access to going out 20 minutes from town to get a deer or other food. It may get stupid with panic buying and retailers roaching people on prices. The only thing I can see as positive is that we now know what our government is like. Maybe that will force a change in how we vote and what we prioritize, provided we don’t all melt into space muck. Unfortunately the majority of sheeple still think this is bunk. Use that as an advantage to get what you need now while it’s still available. If I come up with a happy thought or two I’ll share them. Peace.
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Here’s something positive–after Fuku-uppy,…one can stop sweating ALL the small stuff, eh?
And,…”Be of good cheer,…I have overcome the world.” Little “w”
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Those are excellent points Vaporlock and StillJill.
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Thanks shaktasna999!
I agree completely with your October assessment. Spring? I don’t think the northern Hemi can last that long,…but I have NOTHING to base that on but a strong spiritual hunch. By that I mean, those left by spring will be alive–but that won’t be saying much for their health,…or ability to not fall prey like all the others.
And, to tell you the truth shaktasna999, I am likewise loosing some ‘abilities’ already. I can no longer write by pen and paper very well at all, critical thinking and putting patterns into sequence,…I start little things I need to get done, then walk away half done like I have AHAD. I spin in circles.
On the good note,…my spiritual eyes are getting stronger. My ‘mouthpiece’ is more sure and fearless,….and my heart feels Him!
It’s ALL good!
Jilly
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That video from today is clearly not of a fire occurring in reactor buildings 1-6.
It is at the precise location of the Shared Spent fuel pool, which looks to be burning brightly and if you look closely you can see pretty regular evidence of gamma radiation hitting the camera.
This, my friends, appears to be the the worst case scenario – dare I say… apocalyptic in nature…
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Thanks dude, I feel way better now
Me thinks I’ll go look at the tropopause prediction for the next few days since you can’t see shit through the cloud of mung at Fukushima.
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From the tropopause prediction it looks like Northern Canada will barely get sideswiped, but it will travel through the upper US. We shall see I guess. If it is the spent pool burning we may just be fuked.
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Sadly what they are admitting “TEPCO doesn’t know where melted fuel is at in reactors or actual level of radioactive particles still being released — About to start checking” is scary. Especially since they have no plan as to how to check #3 due to high radiation.
Then add to that the equation they have consistantly under-reported the situation….
Beer won’t hurt at this point. And a shopping trip.
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StillJill I’m moving more slowly physically but ramping up mentally too. Spiritually I’m mellow as the end may be a bit painful but it all generally works out
The Mother has done this before. She’s a Pro at this.
The coming cold weather,floods, and rain have me thoughtful.
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Already went shopping, Bailey’s run after work.
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Darth typed these pixels of light:
>I read a post on http://www.physicsforums.com at around #8000 or so (about a month ago or longer) that there is an aquifer underneath that entire place. It is fed by mountain runoff but moves very slowly to the sea. Gundersen’s point is that the aquifer empties into the sea and thus the radiation.
SP: I still think the large mudstone/claystone/sandstone/slate layer probably does not hold an aquifer because of the geological forces that created it. I know I read online an official report by Japanese geologists discussing the entire northeastern sublayer. I will have to look for that one again…but…
The Germans agree with me:
“As shown by geological maps and data from drilling, the ground consists of claystone, a fine grained rock from clay minerals and quartz. The slate-like rock originates from clay-like ocean sediments beyond the coast, which was solidified over millions of years by high pressure in the crust of the earth. Claystone is known to be relatively water impermeable.
“The material is apparently homogeneous and originates from the Pliocene two to five million years ago,” says Andreas Küppers of the Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ, German Geo Research Centre) in Potsdam. “The probability is high, that this type of rock is impermeable and will not permit contact to aquifers”, says the geologist, who personally had been working in Japan for several years and also got to know the power plant in Fukushima at the time. The clay layer measures at least 200 m in depth – as evidenced by geological engineering profiles produced ahead of construction of the plant based on drilling. Possibly the clay rock is even much deeper, but the drilling didn’t cover that.”
Source: http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=507369
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>I did post a while back about the 1971 document that discussed the bedrock, but the link to the document looks dead now
Found another online copy and I do have it saved myself. Actually an 1988 article discussing the early years of the plant and the seismic layout. Page 2 has the interesting tidbits about the depth of accelerometers: P14 was set at 143 meters undergound so we know from that drilling Tepco has damn good info about what lies beneath the reactors. They know far more than they tell anyone…if we see them flee we will know the SHTF.
http://www.ianbradshaw.co.uk/multimedia/fukushima/data/General%20Documents/iitk.ac.in/Seismic%20Soil-Structure%20Interaction%20Study%20at%20Fukushima%20Nuclear%20Power%20Plant.pdf
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Good helpful research references. Look at the forcing function today that is in the process of unleashing a series of major/great earthquakes that will have consequences for the nuclear reactors going ablaze one after another. Dams!
I put up the following discussion in the local daily Deccan Herald of 30 July 2011 which has a newsreport regarding twin mine disasters in Ukraine:See
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/180135/24-dead-13-missing-ukraine.html
The cumulative effects of modern civilisation are being felt every few days in the form of man-made disasters and reminds us glaringly of the brilliance of Mahatma Gandhi who more than a century ago in 1908 said: Given enough time modern civilisation will destroy itself. Modern civilisation is founded on a falsehood that things are separate. In fact things are inseparable in their total effects. Thus the glaring lacuna in the way we are all living is being brought into sharp focus by the increasingly deadly mining disasters. Imperfect modern civilisation without a proper energy audit goes on allowing profiteering by the military industrial business corporatocracy by vile ads. The practice is to seduce people into greedy consumerism. Sales force are threatened to sell all produce whatever may be the effect of the products on the health of the planet including its living beings. They externalise all costs outside the few items they desire. This requires enormous water needs and these are being met by transferring groundwater to surface storage. Dams cause friction in the earth causing heat to be produced which cause fires and explosions in mines. And mighty earthquakes and floods. These set buildings and nuclear reactors ablaze spewing radioactivity rendering vast areas uninhabitable by all life for all time. Fukushima and these mine disasters were caused by dams . These frequent occurrences are leading to extinction. See http://justiceinorout.blogspot.com/
We are sitting ducks for another nuclear disaster very soon! Peace!
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With all due respect Ram, dams are just manmade lakes. Therefore you are implying that lakes cause earthquakes…. but oceans are much bigger than lakes. Therefore if we follow your hypothesis then we must assume oceans to be the major cause of earthquakes. If true, there’s not much anyone could do about it.
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I agree with Steven. I live in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes. Not far from Lake Superior. NO earthquakes here ever. None in Wisconsin either. Plate tecktonics is what drives earth quakes.
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Just checking that I didn’t miss anything the first time round, confirmed, that this reference is actually a description of what the survey was going to do – /not/ the results [please correct me if any other info has surfaced: I raised a challenge about this to the world nuclear news fanboyz and it was never rebutted].
A recent report on the Japan Times at http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x2.html reports that a hill was demolished to leave ground level at the plant at 10m above sea level with the turbine building basements 14m below that, i.e. below sea level.
The deep bore proposal for 1000m looks like BS. What would be the point?
The shallow bore proposals look silly, just silly. There is no attempt to go outside the plant boundary and measure groundwater levels/flows over the whole “made ground” [green] area. Also, groundwater flows are seasonal reaching iirc a max in early spring and then going into a slow decline until November (personal observations, Worcestershire, 1967-8), then a more rapid buildup over the winter. That’s Northern Hemisphere. Check. Japan. Northern. You would need to plan for 2 years obs to get a proper picture so again looks like BS.
BS=proposal knocked up as a response to panic oversight from govt. after event like a seismo nearby- check- my earlier post refers to another PR from tepco at http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu07_e/images/070817e2.pdf
- and this one too tells you more about how to do a geol survey than how to do one at a specific site.
Conclusion, these surveys likely never took place, and unlikely a geologist ever took part in composing said literature.
More crap from tepco!
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@misitsu i think that to get a plant cleared by the iaea etc they would have had to carry out these tests or would have had to falsify these tests to get around the site pre inspection procedures part of the works! this should be traceable through the iaea or similar possibly! this was my take on the early groundworks! couldnt find anything puplished on the net except what i posted before (not alot) and through discussions esrly on in april about the mudstone etc on the physics forum..pickings are thin…oh and taliking of thin pickings, sea silt movements around japan is a subject not well discussed, unfortunately
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Followin on from Sickputer’s post…
The paper concerned is from the “Ninth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering” held in Japan in 1988, written by 3 Japanese scientists.
I managed to snip a bit from that PDF and then OCR it back into a text as I thought it worth a further look. Here is the Summary from the start of the paper:
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This paper describes seismic soil-structure interaction analyses for
Unit 6 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and
examines the suitability of the finite element method for such analyses and the
adequacy of current design practice. The responses computed by use of the finite
element method were compared with motions recorded during the Miyagiken-oki and
South East Tohoku District Earthquakes . An artificial motion fitting the U. S .
NRC Reg. 1.60 spectrum was also used in order to further study current design
Practice . Good agreement is obtained between computed and recorded responses.
INTRODUCTION
An important aspect of the seismic design of safety related structures
such as nuclear power plants embedded in soil deposits is the evaluation of the
dynamic interaction between the structure and the surrounding soil. The Unit 6
reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in Japan is
one of the very few nuclear power plant structures for which acceleration
responses were recorded at multi-observation points during both strong and minor
earthquakes . Analytical simulations based on the finite element approach
(Refs. 1, 2) have subsequently been performed in order to better understand
dynammic behavior of the reactor building and to examine the adequacy of current
design practice (Refs . 3, 4) .
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FIRST COMMENT on "nuclear power plants embedded in soil deposits"
clearly admits that the plant is not founded on bedrock but, counter to existing claims, is embedded in soil.
SECOND COMMENT on "acceleration
responses were recorded at multi-observation points during both strong and minor
earthquakes"
indicates that this area was known for earthquakes, counter to this earlier claim ["In the past 700 years, Fukushima suffered almost no noteworthy damage from earthquakes ..." concluded a 1966 report attached to the application form Tepco submitted to the government to seek approval for building reactor 1 at the plant.] per http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x2.html
THIRD COMMENT on "The Unit 6
reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex in Japan is
one of the very few nuclear power plant structures for which acceleration
responses were recorded"
lays flat out that virtually nil surveys have been carried out on Nuclear Power Plants in Japan during seismic activity.
SUMMARY
The plant is constructed in soil in a known earthquake area and hardly any seismic tolerance testing has been carried out at all such sites in Japan.
OTHER SUMMARY
Thanks to internet, more fibs exposed.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks Sickputer for the inspiration to dig.
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Good work Misitu. I considered scanning the 1988 document which is apparently a copy machine scan turned into a PDF from the way the font was screwed up at the beginnings of the sentences on page 1. But I read it so many times trying to get a feel for the seismologist language I didn’t do that yet. I still feel it is a very important document for research.
The shaving of the bluff (your second URL which I have read before…very good article) and the 24 meters of construction soil above the bedrock/mudstone does indicate a cavalier attitude the nuclear industry in Japan and other countries probably used at times instead of finding a higher place with better bedrock for the foundation. So two big mistakes that were costly…low site they carved out to save money, and trucked-in soil instead of bedrock for the layers underneath the concrete slab.
By coincidence the 1988 document is mainly about surveys/instrumentation they did around and underneath Unit 6 which has survived so far along with Unit 5. Weird.
Thanks,
SP
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Something much deeper than that-its the rate of change of dam contents in clusters of them that matters. Just see the man analogy at
http://extinctionbynuclear.blogspot.com/
And read critically
http://earthquakescausedbydams.blogspot.com/
and
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.com/
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Earthquakes are caused also by surges in lake contents which cause Rayleigh and Love waves to be generated at the centres of gravity of clusters of water masses behind dams worldide and not necessarily where the lakes sit. Its j not just the pore pressure effect. Ever heard or experienced oceans almost fully emptying in eight months and filling up fully in four months year in and year out? Well lakes behind dams do in the India China Region and elsewhere with differing periods of filling up and emptying depending upon the transference of water from the oceans to the land by rains. The gigantic forces and pressures unleashed measure 100 to 1000 kms/sec of water pressure heads and these cause bending moment surges at fulcrums offered by the earth causing climate change.
Have patience folks to appreciate facts. Not fantasies! Plate tectonics require revision to the ground realities created by man.
By the way folks do you know that the rampant creation of man made lakes in the USA and to a lesser extent elsewhere caused the transference of groundwaters to surface waters and was instrumental in causing the 1918 flu pandemic? Get the story at
http://stopflowcatchflu.blogspot.com/
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coughbulshitcough,
Compared to the tidal forces from the sun, moon, and other large bodies in our solar system, the effect from all the water moving on the earth is miniscule. The tides that are present on this planet are an effect of the gravitational forces of these large bodies. If anything water helps to balance the effect of gravitational forces on this spinning planet. Earthquakes are mostly caused by the tectonic plates interacting against each other and are caused by the gravitational forces of these large bodies in our solar system and the magma movement under the plates. End of story.
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“coughbulshitcough”
I’ve never seen it in print. Thanks! LOLed!
BTW- I concur.
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Pure water has a specific gravity of 1.00
It weighs 62.4 lbs per cubic foot
Sea water has a specific gravity of 1.03
It weighs 64.08 lbs per cubic foot
concrete w/gravel has a specific gravity of 2.40
It weighs 150 lbs per cubic foot
Rolled Steel has a specific gravity of 7.93
It weighs 495 lbs per cubic foot
Therefore I could say that the movement of raw materials from areas afar, concentrated into our concrete and steel cities, most of them located at the edge of our continents, is causing the tectonic plates to tilt, and creating the pressure that is released into earthquakes.
I could also say that all of the billions? of automobiles, trucks, ect moving around on our planet is causing the plates to move around, creating the fulcrum that is releasing the locked plates, causing earthquakes.
The fact is that all the fresh water on this planet, just like all of the moving vehicles, is moving around in too many random directions, negating any effect on the tectonic plates.
The oceans are a different matter altogether, they work in concert with the gravitational forces of our solar system. There is a balance to that. That balance was established long ago when the oceans were formed.
In short, nothing compares to the effect from the gravitational forces of the sun, moon, and the other large bodies in our solar system on the tectonic plates of this planet.
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Speculations! Its not the science of measurements. I have shown by the basic priciples of science and measurements how dams are causing earthquakes and am able to predict the occurrence of earthquakes in given regions.
Man collects rainwater behind dams and uses them sufficiently fast to create climate change as evidenced by persistent hotspots and other persistent effects on the weather and hence the climate change. These water movements are arrested and fixed by the positions of the dams
and water withdrawal for human needs. And because of the nature of nuclear reactor energy audits and the profligacy of modern civilisation and the exhorbitant water greeds dams have proliferated exponentially since 1900.
See the references I have given and see how scientific are the conclusions. I need not go into the basic principles of science which have been well covered by Busby et al for example in the ECRR 2003/2010 Recommendations Recommendations.
Dynamic surges in the dam content changes correspond significantly with earthquake occurrences and their magnitudes. My data
supports this.
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Ramaswami,
With all due respect to the fine work in creating your thesis, and the compelling data you present, it is accepted fact in most scientific circles that gravitational forces from the Sun, Moon, and other large bodies in our solar system, along with plate tectonics cause most earthquakes. I have read many major independant scientific articles attesting to this fact.
The only place I have seen your theory presented, is on the blogs that you posted to, with no other persons independant scientific supporting data or peer review.
Don’t get me wrong, you could be on to something, but until I see it accepted into the scientific community, with peer review, I believe it to be a theory of yours and nothing more. If you believe your theory to be true, you should work harder to get it reviewed and published in a major scientific journal.
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And that, ladies and gentleman, is how to respond to someone ‘overposting’ a pet theory off topic. Nice and soft, but sharp and accurate. Well done Jebus…. (stands and applauds).
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Planet’s shape morphing with earthchanges
July 29, 2011
ANTARCTICA – The Earth was never perfectly round to begin with, due to its spin. Just as an ice skater’s skirt flutters up and away from her skates during her pirouette, water on Earth is more concentrated at the equator than at the poles. As recently as 22,000 years ago, several miles of ice covered much of the northern hemisphere. Since the downward pressure of land-based ice has reduced as the ice melted, the land underneath has “rebounded” causing the Earth to become more spherical, said Steve Nerem, an aerospace engineer at the University of Colorado at Boulder and coauthor of a new analysis of the Earth’s bulge. “It’s a bit like a sponge, and it takes ….
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/planets-shape-morphing-with-earthchanges/
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Dear Jebus:
RK is scientifically correct if he means to imply that the weight of water behind dams contributes to triggering earthquakes. I believe he’s overstating or just inaccurate in the implied scope and scale of his assertion. If RK means that modern dammed water is the sole cause of increased frequency of the worst earthquakes, such as those found at subduction zones–March 11, 2011, Japan 9.0, or they are the sole cause of modern increases in quakes, RK would be wrong, scientifically, categorically on both counts. No one actually knows what all the triggers and causes of earthquakes could be to the point of being to time them. There are, of course, many factors beyond merely weight of liquid water behind modern dams that contribute to triggering quakes that are going to occur one way or the other at some point in time due to the perpetual nature of earth lithosophere and crustal tectonics. One major modern change, related to the weight of water, melting of frozen water in continental glaciers, is likely already much more influential, as a single factor, than the weight of damned water, as another single factor.
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After quake, cracks in Mullaperiyar dam
TNN Jul 29, 2011, 03.25am ISTKOCHI: Three minor cracks were noticed on the top surface of the Mullaperiyar dam after the tremor in Idukki district on Tuesday.
“The cracks are …
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-29/developmental-issues/29828739_1_mullaperiyar-dam-cracks-tremors
Cracks found in Mullaperiyar dam after tremor reported in Idukki district
July 30, 2011
KOCHI, India – Three minor cracks were noticed on the top surface of the Mullaperiyar dam after the tremor in Idukki district on Tuesday. “The cracks are …
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/cracks-found-in-mullaperiyar-dam-after-tremor-reported-in-idukki-district/
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Again, He may be onto something…But
in my view he forgets to realize the ratio of the weight and mass of those tiny bodies of water to the enormous weight and mass of those huge continental plates that they are sitting on.
That would be like me standing on the USS George Bush and running from port to starboard and proclaiming that I am listing that giant aircraft carrier…
Maybe I am, but the displacement is so minor that it is insignificant.
Also those dams do not empty completely and they do not refill in a short enough time to allow the mass of water to create the momentum needed to affect an equal and opposite reaction on the plates they are sitting on.
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@Jebus
July 31, 2011 at 12:10 pm
“Again, He may be onto something…But
in my view he forgets to realize the ratio of the weight and mass of those tiny bodies of water to the enormous weight and mass of those huge continental plates that they are sitting on.
That would be like me standing on the USS George Bush and running from port to starboard and proclaiming that I am listing that giant aircraft carrier…
Maybe I am, but the displacement is so minor that it is insignificant.
Also those dams do not empty completely and they do not refill in a short enough time to allow the mass of water to create the momentum needed to affect an equal and opposite reaction on the plates they are sitting on.”
This is just a sample of the reactions from readers and while I am thankful to them I must say none of the counterpoints are correct. I will give a detailed rebuttal on this important aspect of why dams caused Fukushima etc in a separate blog soon.But just to address one aspect namely ths last sentence above I would request readers to study the simultaneous rates of change of daily water head pressure surges in the URL:
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.com/
which are for 30 large dams in India alone to prove the fallacy of that claim.
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Ram, you ARE convinced of your theory, aren’t you? You’re determined, and I like that!
I must admit, though so far I like many others here find it hard to follow your argumentation, I bookmarked your links and will read more in depth with an open mind during my holidays.
Even though your theory might not convince me in the end, I think it’s great if people think outside the box.
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Just uploaded a quick video to my July Remport. 03:51 JST 6.4 Magnitude earthquake – Off the coast of Honshu. Picked up Fukucam.
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjvE9T8Q
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Sorry “picked up on Fukucam” Dog was cleansing my soul starting with my face.
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Earthquake seen affecting Tokyo.
Oh,ya..everything is just fine in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/user/nuckelchenblogde#p/u/0/qil4Xiwx6LY
To say otherwise one is a traitor….how long until it is that way here?
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@xdrfox ..over at reality check ..I noticed a tweet concerning an oil refinery in Mexico…too tired last night to collect the data …..
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Blast set off fire at 315,000 bpd Tula refinery
* Output not affected, says state oil company Pemex
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/mexico-oil-fire-idUKN1E76T08J20110730
(Reuters) – An explosion ripped through Mexico’s second-largest oil refinery on Saturday, causing a massive fire and killing two workers, though production was not affected, state oil monopoly Pemex said….
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/uk-mexico-oil-fire-idUKTRE76T26J20110730
Explosion at Mexican Oil Refinery Kills Two
31 Jul 2011
…According to Reuters, the number of injured could be higher and a helicopter was being used to airlift workers needing medical attention, said Miguel Garcia, emergency services director for Hidalgo state.
Pemex employees were evacuated from the refinery…
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/explosion-at-mexican-oil-refinery-kills-two/96032/
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@xdrfox…thanks so much..u are always fast as lightning……
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For them, the most important information to be give is probably “production was not affected”.
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…also over there on the main page.. I’ve ask folks there to look at a link for ad-hoc networking…ways to communicate when they start messing with the internet.
I think it’s a worthy discussion.
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…PS..I meant to say.. oil refinery explosion..
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Reality check…has been honed down and is working excellent…….thanks Chemfood and Hx3.
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@BreadAndButter
August 1, 2011 at 4:48 am
“Ram, you ARE convinced of your theory, aren’t you? You’re determined, and I like that!
I must admit, though so far I like many others here find it hard to follow your argumentation, I bookmarked your links and will read more in depth with an open mind during my holidays.
Even though your theory might not convince me in the end, I think it’s great if people think outside the box.”
I like your comment especially that you will study the URLs with an open mind. The difficulty in my view are the specialisations which do not allow an overarching view of truth or otherwise.
Look at what Amory Lovins has to say on public participation and acceptance/rejection of new or troublesome “Faustian Bargain” type technologies(1975): Summarised:Obstacles:1.Too complex and technical for laymen to consider intelligently. More appropriate as a subject for a public relations program to allay public anxiety over issues which in the view of some dirigiste governments, are technically resolved beyond doubt( Democratic decision making leaves no room for such reasoning).
2. Lack of full public information,much of which is non-existent,suppressed,alleged(with varying persuaviveness)to be proprietary, or not conveniently available(consequences of dangers are ignored). 3. Lack of adversarial expertise. 4. Internal pressure within committed institutions. 5. Hence unfamiliarity may lead otherwise competent persons to persist in views that are technically without merit(in the context of modern civilisation).
See Amory B. Lovins and John H. Price.1975. Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for An Ethical Energy Strategy.Harper-Colophon.1980.pp50-51.
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