Published: December 1st, 2011 at 8:01 am ET
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Fukushima Meltdown in Japan May Have Been Worse Than Thought, New York Times by Hiroko Tabuchi, Nov. 30, 2011 (Emphasis Added):
[...] Some nuclear experts have warned that water from a makeshift cooling system now in place at the plant may not be able to properly cool any nuclear fuel that may have seeped into the concrete.
The new simulation may call into question the efforts to cool and stabilize the reactor, but the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, says it is not worried more than eight months after the accident. [...]
Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor of physics at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
I have always argued that the containment is broken, and that there is the danger of a wider radiation leak.
Published: December 1st, 2011 at 8:01 am ET
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Look at all this stuff, they must’ve decided at that 11/30 meeting to let the world know officially what has happened. That would’ve been good six months ago since they knew the answer hours after the quake. There has obviously been an official decision to change course and gently let humanity in on the dimensions of the problem. In short: Japan to world – “Help!”.
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TEPCO isn’t worried. Why should we be? Grrrrrrrrr!
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TEPCO is the Alfred E. Newman of the nuclear industry….
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Yep we had the cesium/fish story on the MSM here in Australia today, I was mildly suprised to first hear the name ‘Fukushima’ then somewhat more nonplussed when they mentioned fish with 30X legal limit rads, contaminated seabed and no hope of a cleanup. They went on to say the radiation would work it’s way up the food chain and that the ocean contamination was huge compared to Chernobyl.
That said, if you look out the window here you won’t see anyone running around screaming in the sudden terror of realisation. Their delaying tactics have succeeded, few would care now – it’s old news.
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well, even wider… after 8-9 months of seeping they warn it may get worse……
totally useless blablabla crap.
just fix the holes noone knows by now. just a hint: some guess there are already a few holes……
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I think the NRC is really sweating it! They dont have a Clue on what to do. They didn’t even have anything written up on what to do in case of a large EQ or Tsunami. Read it all here. It will BLOW YOUR EVER LOVING MIND: http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1117/ML11175A278.pdf
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hi everyone. i have been reading this blog since shortly after 3/11. now it is time to post. i live in South Korea and we just had a massively radioactive rain out. i have an inspector alert and got readings from a car hood wipe. 20 microsieverts/hr!!! i have vids i would like to share (i hope this will show up):
file:///home/joytek/Videos/Fuku%20vid/2011nov30part1.flv
file:///home/joytek/Videos/Fuku%20vid/2011nov30high.flv
i compressed them a lot so the quality is poor. (i can repost if bigger files are allowed)
i took the samples from a car hood in the parking lot on the way to work and then measured again some 6 hrs later … NO radiation was left in the samples. A thing to note is that all the cars were coated in a fine gray-brown powdery substance. at this point it has been raining for two days already.
in Korea i have noticed an up tick in background rads but never such a drastic reading. the average background rads are around 0.45 microsieverts/hr outside, 0.35 in my home and about 0.25 – 0.3 in some indoor locations. a few weeks ago the wind seems to have been carrying radioactive dust since the outside air readings would spike up to a bit over 1 microsievert/hr.
now after the rain the readings are a slight bit higher (almost 0.5 microsieverts/hr) at some spots.
i will be leaving here in a few short months … needless to say.
thanks for being there guys!
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20µSv/hr! Jeeze Louise. Can you double post and put your info on the thread for posting your readings? Take care and thanks for posting. Godspeed. Get out of there. Let’s all meet up in Antartica.
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well I guess the vids did not inbed. can someone tell me how to do it please.
thanks.
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Highlight Link Address. Does that help?
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i will try this tag thingie:
file:///home/joytek/Videos/Fuku%20vid/2011nov30part1.flv
file:///home/joytek/Videos/Fuku%20vid/2011nov30high.flv
i hope this works. sorry, i am new to this.
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nope … i need help posting these vids.
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I’ll let someone else help you. BTW Welcome! So glad you posted!
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what do u mean by highlight it? i tried the “em” tag and then dragged and dropped the vid into the body of the message. that did not work of course:-)
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What is your site link? Post that then I can point it out.
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no the vids are not posted on any site … i tried to open a youtube account but i have no phone (as in none … no land line … no cell … it’s been like that for years) so google did not let me open an account.
the vids are on my pc.
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Incredible readings there! Wow!
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Love Wm.Shatner. What a picture!
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i am opening a free vimeo account … the vids should be up in half an hour … then i will try to link to them here.
yeah the readings gave me a heart attack!!! i decided to post them … this will be the first time ever i post anything on-line in more than a decade of lurking and reading … this is serious and needs to be seen by others.
thank u for the welcome, i have been reading all your posts Whoopie.
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So glad to hear you’ll be posting them. I’ll help spread the LINK AROUND!! So sorry about the radiation. God damn, we’re all getting MURDERED, slowly and imo deliberately!!
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Whoopie, thanks for doing my cussing for me.
I’d like to do a poll here and see how many of us have filtered our water over the years. No fluoride heads here.
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Morning Au. Polls? That’s actually a good idea.
1000,000000 VOTES TO SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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+ 1000,000000
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Tepco isn’t worried…because they are morons.
..and evenif they are a teenie weenie worried..it concerns if the lies have been told well enough.
How they “nickel and dime” it…..
They talk about the reactors separately…
Why don’t they just admit…that there has been a melt-through in all 4 reactors …perhaps include the truth about 5 and 6?
Why don’t they just admit….massive amounts of corium is being produced…it is burning downwards…filling up all available area…broken pipes..etc…? and this point..is one huge gob-stopper…sinking into the earth
Your PR work isn’t going to work this time ..Tepco…
This is not just a so-called local problem….like the BP oil spill.
What you have done is going to affect the whole world….
You are guilty of Crimes Against Humanity..
You’ll get “yours”…someday….
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Must watch from yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIM-e3pECbM&feature=uploademail
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I am not exaggerating when i admit that hearing that a-hole from the IAEA and his lies made me actually think about tying this guy to a table (like the 11 year old getting his thyroid gland cut off) and make him eat poison. Creepy Jospeh Mengele mother-effer.
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here is the first vid:
http://vimeo.com/32970297
the sound seems to be missing … I will try to re-upload tomorrow.
the second one is taken after I readjusted the sensor over the tissue a bit and it shot up to 20 microSv/hr:
http://vimeo.com/32970540
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Hello DN4E,
Wow!
Like, that is really high!
Good work filming it.
Did you check this hours after the initial measurement?
What was your report after?
Also, we have the permanent radiation monitoring thread here. Please post your reports on it there.
http://enenews.com/post-radiation-monitoring-data
May I suggest you try again to get a U-tube account. It is really easy to do. You usually do not have to give it a ph number unless you want the extended time. Try giving it a fake number if you do not have one. That is what I did.
When you click on the “share” button, there is another one that says “show options”. Click that and then the “long link”. Copy and paste that into the message box here to post the video.
Please try it again to get on u-tube so you can join the Circle of Wagons we are forming there for all of us who have counters.
Great work. Ask for support on the monitoring thread and it will come to you.
Bless.
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your GC is clicking faster than a bushman in a speed reading contest.
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burning,burning,burning.
killing, killing,killing.
what a murderous agenda.
and here in london we have in westminster murderers in slightly cheaper suits..
giving the sheep more nuclear medicine,if we like or not that is not important.
that is why the us,uk and france are killing people around the world for democracy.
the right to ignore and kill the people.
mox is good..mox is good…did you see x factor last night..mox is good.
here about the footballer that killed himself.did you here about jeremy clarkson saying those bad things..mox is life.mox is good.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-plans-convert-plutonium-mox-fuel-145645316.html
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Is Alfred E Newman working for TEPCO now?
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kanes says:
“GIVEN THOUSAND GOOD THOUSAND PLANTS, THOUSAND QUICKLY LEARN TO USE THOUSAND WELL PLANTS
THOUSAND NOVEL HABITS THOUSAND QUICKLY ADOPTED
THOUSAND QUICKLY HEALTH PROBLEMS AVOIDED
THOUSAND LESS PROBLEMS TO HEAL”
I like this part. What is the plant called?
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