Eyewitness report – inside the wreckage of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor, Telegraph, Nov. 12, 2011:
SOURCE: Kyodo via AP
Our buses drove between the reactors and the sea. I noticed a 13 feet sea wall built with rocks in black nets, which TEPCO said was a makeshift defence against future tsunami.
A glance at my radiation reader revealed the levels were 300 microsieverts per hour – the highest reading of my visit.
Published: November 12th, 2011 at 7:22 pm ET
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That must be a defective meter. There is no ‘excessive’ radiation around Fukushima anymore.. It is all ‘safe’ and ‘nonharmful’.. Even if there is radiation, Ann Coultier says the more radiation, the better your health will be, so not to worry. Never mind even bringing a radiation meter… Those are all false readings of space and background radiation, all natural by the way, nothing to do with Fukushima or the multiple nuclear explosions, or the raging, MULTIPLE, out of control nuclear fires still happening..
The government and nuke industry are encouraging people to move back in to within 12 or 20 Km of the plant. Nothing to see, nothing to worry about. Just drink hearty from the glowing mixture in the basement, now being sprayed over the countryside, after running through ‘purifiers’. Eat hearty from the ‘safe’ food growing around the plant…
Never mind the ‘safe’ levels of radiation in food and water, etc, have all been raised by a huge amount.. including uranium and plutonium… those are just part of the daily required vitamins now, according to the government and nuclear industry.
The kids have almost stopped growing, and are complaining about fatigue, bleeding noses, nausea, and flu like symptoms, but do not worry about any of that either.. The docs say it is all just ‘not enough protein’, or ‘stress’. It could not be radiation, no way…impossible, improbable, never in this world or the next could radiation cause any health problems whatsoever.
So says the Grinch, and pay up by the way, we need more money to clean up this toxic, radioactive mess. The nuke industry certainly cannot be expected to pay, when taxpayers can cough it up.
So start coughing..
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Yep
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What would they see if they had sonars to scan the underground? See the article on the Geology of Fukushima at:
http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/
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+100 Wow…that summation about irreparable ground water contamination sinks in…we knew it and he states it so well. Keeper link.
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That’s really an excellent article and an informative blog! Great find!!
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So what is the total amount of radiation released underground?
Again, as with everything else, NO SPECIFICS FROM ANYONE..
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Take a look at the gear the reporters get to wear..and compare with the workers we see “runnning the gauntlet” from the webcam to Reactor 1. Remember the poor guy with the oversized rubber boots? The one who had to walk more like a duck than a person due to the fit? And see the resperators the reporters are wearing..very very different than the ones worn by any workers WE have seen.
So a great MEDIA opportunity for TEPCO..oh whoops..300 Microsieverts an hour near the sea wall on one reporters device! Is it a “hot spot”..or is it the OCEAN WATER where all the fuel rods may have been dumped? And the reporters mention a control center..lots of window dressing..and LOTS OF WEBCAMS. We only get one view..and its as obscure as possible.
Have a great day…
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As we reached Tomioka, it rose to 0.9, and then soon it was 1.5. In Tomioka, we passed a former welcome centre for nuclear plants operated by Tokyo Electric Power Station (TEPCO), operators of Fukushima Daiichi. By now, the warning buzzer on my radiation detector was going off constantly: I watched the radiation levels rise quickly, from 2.7 microsieverts to 3.7 to 4.1. When we arrived in a place called Okuma, the reading was 6.7 microsieverts
inside the bus measurements!!
coming from the north the giegers went up about 2-3 km from the reactors?? which way was the wind blowing?? presume they came from fukushima? and only checking for gamma?? sounds like a giuided tour in a hepa filtered bus , if you ask me!!
and
“Our buses drove between the reactors and the sea. I noticed a 13 feet sea wall built with rocks in black nets, which TEPCO said was a makeshift defence against future tsunami.”
dumped nuclear waste anyone covered in rocks and nets???? taken picture of it from the hepa van tour!!
CONCLUSION =PR
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TEPCO’s powerlant is still in critical states not yet states for anyone to know but their top executives. They know how much radiation is on the ground from uranium dusting. Those journalists just got blurped with a healthy dose of radiation waves. That must suck.
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Subsequent to the Fukushima reactor complex accident that was ostensibly caused by the Tsunami damage, Three nuclear reactors are in at least partial meltdown and have contaminated the island of 127 million people at levels that render their future untenable, at best. However, the danger they are in is escalating and their governmental representatives are taking counterproductive measures towards evacuation. It is known that the releases of ionizing gases and particulates to land and sea to date will by themselves cause much death and further catastrophe. However, even this is a human-scale disaster.
But what is now happening is beyond a human-scale disaster. We need alien, or divine, intervention, positive intervention, now, because the melted reactor cores are melting through the concrete floors into the earth beneath the three reactors, and the multi-hundred ton masses of uranium, plutonium, and heavy radio nuclides are melting towards the groundwater. A catastrophic detonation can be expected, should even a small fraction of the large molten mass reach this groundwater.
Any rational evacuation plan must include at least 50 million Japanese people from their main island. Thus, I reiterate, we humans will require help from more evolved and capable aliens, or deities, that you can contact on our behalf.
Sincerely,
Thomas Dean Harter
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I’ll Fan and Fav that comment Thomas. Spot on.
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Thanks for telling us what we already know!
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Well spoken and welcome to Enenews TDH.
What is good is more and more great input is coming in around this issue and there now comes more light shined which really makes the big picture brighter…well sorta.
We all should hope and pray for some kind of intervention from anyone that could actually fix this comes. One wonders if Arnie G still thinks this can be fixed?
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Do you suppose the propaganda concept can work in reverse? Maybe if we say this enough times someone will actually hear us. Thanks Thomas
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tom harter said:
because the melted reactor cores are melting through the concrete floors into the earth beneath the three reactors, and the multi-hundred ton masses of uranium, plutonium, and heavy radio nuclides are melting towards the groundwater.
Which reactor exactly is he (are you) talking about?
And second: Could someone provide some picture of what Tom mentioned (the melted reactor cores are melting through the concrete floors into the earth beneath the three reactors).
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Not to worry ben, the gauges are reading cooler each day. Cold shutdown by Christmas. Big New Years Eve party to celebrate on the grass in front of TEPCO livecam, all enenews readers welcome. BYO dosimeter and facemask.
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Steven,
where is the fuel?
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Isn’t that the $64,000 question? Or was that $64 Billion? I certainly don’t know, but guess that some of it is floating around the planet, depositing here there and everywhere… the rest is probably either in puddles under the RPV’s or else cooking it’s way through the concrete/dirt/rock whatever looking for mischief.
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Steven,
from what i know it is confirmed that fuel rods melted, yes?
If so: where is this material now, is it inside pressure vessel or not?
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picture:
http://3dciencia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bwr-boiling-water-reactor-pressure-vessel-scheme-fukusima.jpg
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Sorry…my iPhone ate my reply earlier while I was adding links…I will try again on my laptop, much more powerful for collating.
You ask: “where is the fuel”?
SP: As Steven says that is the 64 Billion dollar question, maybe the 64 trillion dolalr question with all at stake for the future of the nuclear mafia cabal.
Tepco has imaging equipment and knows the depth and probably t some extent the size of the nuclear lava.
Frackers made such a great living in the past seven years from deep well horizontal drilling (at enormous impact on the environment) is because the sonar devices are now light years improved from the first seismic Schlumberger thumper trucks I witnessed in person in 1982.
Tepco teased us with some small slips (corium estimated at 37 meters deep from one release we heard about 6 weeks ago).
Hiroko Tabuchi, a every sharp NYT investigative reporter had an excellent piece 10 days ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/asia/bursts-of-fission-detected-at-fukushima-reactor-in-japan.html?_r=1&ref=hirokotabuchi
I am afraid it may be her last Fukushima article for a bit as the cabal probably did not care for her frank assessment.
excerpt:
“….company and government officials declared it was unlikely that any meltdowns had occurred. They finally conceded that melted fuel had likely breached containments in three reactors, and that it was likely pooled at the bottom of the vessels.”
“Further, some experts believe some of the fuel has escaped the vessels and is in spaces underneath.”
“Mr. Koide holds that the nuclear fuel at the three reactors probably melted through containments and into the ground”
SP: The plant is a monster out of control…
BTW… Archlight…here’s a picture of the beautiful Hiroko for your Betty Grable pinup collection:
Hiroko Tabuchi In the white shirt:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/-7Q8B4jNtCjE/Szz6gFRXg9I/AAAAAAAACo8/4gpTZ56DYOs/IMG_5529.JPG
Hope she gets out of Tokyo…
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“That lack of clarity is one of the most resonant lessons of the Fukushima disaster, when those trying to guide the response and assess the danger had to operate by what amounted to educated guesswork. ” from article
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/03/world/asia/bursts-of-fission-detected-at-fukushima-reactor-in-japan.html?_r=1&ref=hirokotabuchi
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WHERE IS FUKUSHIMA REACTOR 3? – REACTOR SEEMS TO BE MISSING!
http://youtu.be/0ZBYQ5opMLs
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from the author of norwegian wood!
Nuclear Disaster Was of Our Own Making, Murakami Says
Written By: Website Administrator11-10-2011
“Novelist Haruki Murakami on Fukushima and nuclear energy use in Japan: “this time no one dropped a bomb on us… we set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.”
What Haruki Murakami said is absolutely correct, and not just of Japan. People of the world have constantly failed to speak out, failed to live within our planetary means, failed to feel an appropriate level of fear for the consequences of our collective actions, and failed to insist we end the use and production of nuclear energy and weapons. Now we have run out of time. We must speak out now or it will be pieces, not peace, we will hold forever. We have safer energy production technologies. Japan has safer energy production technologies available to them. We start using them now or risk losing everything……”
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/articles/nuclear-disaster-was-of-our-own-making-murakami-says.html
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Folks,
Follow the link provided by this article, specifically:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-202_162-10010212-14.html?tag=page
Then look at picture #14 which shows a close capture of reactor 4 from the side (you can see number 4 written on the wall in the upper left hand side). In plain view are the last two floors of that building which, on that side, have no longer any walls. Is that **THE** dreaded fuel storage pool we are staring at through the opening ?
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hi strat
looks like the fuel pool is at an angle if it is!!
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Fukushima manager expected to death during Japan’s nuclear crisis
By Toru Fujioka, Bloomberg November 12, 2011 9:05 PM
Masao Yoshida, manager of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, said he repeatedly expected to die in the days after an earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.
“Several times during the first week of the crisis, I thought I would soon die,” Yoshida was quoted as saying by the Japan Times newspaper.
Yoshida spoke yesterday as reporters were allowed for the first time since the March 11 disaster to visit the Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear plant, 220 kilometers (137 miles) north of Japan’s capital.
Reactors at Fukushima Dai-Ichi are stable and nearby residents needn’t fear further deterioration, Yoshida said, according to local media reports. Workers at the plant still face daily risks, so it’s not yet completely safe, he said.
“Radiation levels in the compound are still quite high,” the Japan Times quoted him as saying. “It remains dangerous.”
After explosions damaged containment facilities at the plant, Yoshida worried that the reactors might get out of control and began to spew large amounts of radiation. The situation finally calmed down from July, he said according to the Asahi newspaper….
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Fukushima+manager+expected+death+during+Japan+nuclear+crisis/5702919/story.html
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And picture #6 here which also shows reactor 4 from a little distance:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-202_162-10010212-6.html?tag=page
Ohh man, you can almost see through that building, not much left from it. If the green structure is indeed the SFP, then it is true that it’s completely open to the sky.
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Blah blah blah blah blah……barf!
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111113a1.html
I am getting ill from reading the rash of TEPCO’s pablum, parroted by the mainstream media in the last few days. Everything is alright, as rosy as it can be.
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The italian Skynews broadcasted about this ridiculous let-the-journalists-in. Only 40 journalist had been allowed to visit the plant and they all their footages had to be “revised” by Tepco’s staff. That is to say, censorship had been applied to every shot or film taken there. Furthermore, Sky complained about the fact they had been requested to sign a form where they should officially comply with this censorship, so they just gave it up.
Their conclusions were that inside the plant the situation must not be so pinky and fine as the Japanese government pretends…
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excellent catch nukis!!! puts the fukushima interviews etc by the MSM in a new light! YOU WILL COMPLY!! or no story!!
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Hi all, did you already see those pictures from yesterday’s Fuku visit at Cryptome?
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-111211/daiichi-111211.htm
Scroll down, 3rd last picture…”Units five and six of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station..”. What do YOU think they are burying there in those black bigbags???
Btw, unit 4′s roof structure doesn’t look as if it could last another winter. It will go down in the remains of the SFP, methinks.
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And, as if radiation was not enough for these poor people. Look at the massive chemtrailing above them in pictures 3,5,6,7,8,9,10,17,18.
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Damn! Your right Au! Chemtrails all over the place.
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effers!
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Gaaahhhh! I thought the nwo fkrs would give these poor folks a break. Chemtrail spraying has really picked up where I live. One day off, three days on… as if the rads are not enough. Pilots likely have no idea they are flying through and spreading the nuke love about all over the planet in addition to strontium, aluminum and other quite nasty stuff. Still ‘praying’ peeps start looking up asap and say wtf!? Probably just a false flag hope this sh*t show somehow soon halts.
What in the World are They Spraying report from other laypeople also chemtrail curious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA
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A Rescue Squad Member Died from Renal Failure 3 Months After He Was Found with Internal Radiation Exposure
A woman in a public forum asked a question to the two panelists: Why did my friend die?
The event was held in Sapporo City on November 6, 2011.
Her friend was a member of the special rescue unit of the Fire Department (probably in Osaka) who was sent numerous times to the disaster-affected areas in Fukushima and Iwate for the rescue effort. In July, he was found with internal radiation exposure, but he had to
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/11/rescue-squad-member-died-from-renal.html
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High levels of contamination can lead to radiation sickness, which manifests itself with nausea and vomiting
within hours of exposure, with other symptoms including diarrhoea, headaches and fever.
A brief moment of respite among those suffering from radiation sickness may then occur following the first batch
of symptoms, before more serious health issues potentially emerge within weeks.
The biggest long-term radiation risk is cancer, with the lowest exposure level at which scientists have detected
a possible long-term increase in risk as around 100 millisieverts a year.
Residents of Chernobyl were relocated after exposure levels of radiation hit the 350 millisieverts a lifetime
mark, while 400 millisieverts an hour was reportedly recorded at the damaged Fukushima plant at the height of
Japan`s nuclear crisis on March 15.
To counter radiation sickness, experts advise minimising further exposure by removing clothing and gently washing
skin and hair with soap and water.
White blood cell production can also be increased by taking certain drugs in order to counter potential damage to
the bone marrow following exposure.
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Help. Is the Tweet page coming up with new tweets for YOU?
http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/fukushima
It’s STOPPED for me.
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@whoopie loading but got this at bottom of page!
“Loading Tweets seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.”
thats odd!! now its showing 2 hrs ago tweets …no sign of iran article?? interesting
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That is so weird. Oh well. Thanks for replying arc!
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last post is aljazeera iran article 16 hrs ago? but just came up on the screen??
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SOMETHING STRANGE IS GOING ON. BOTH MY TWEET PAGE AND FUK’S STOPPED DEAD IN IT’S TRACKS.
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Ya know, Just look at that picture of the reporters on that short bus.
If I had to don gear like that just to do a report on that NPP, and I had Tepco telling me that everything is fine… Sheesh, those reporters are idiots to not report on the truth. Everything is not just fine, look at them! Freakin idiots they are to believe the lies. They absolutely look like sheep!
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+100. Same thing I thought… But sheeple viewers who saw CBS clip this evening about the reporters will not make the connection…ie that if the plant air is so dangerous then it can drift in the wind to affect the public.
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