Published: January 24th, 2012 at 8:48 am ET
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Title: Radioactive release from Fukushima plant rises
Source: NHK WORLD English
Date: January 24, 2012 11:04 +0900 (JST)
[... Tepco] attributes the rise to increased human activities onsite. [...]
Readings continued to decline, and in November and December dropped to 60 million becquerels per hour. That is about one 13 millionth the initial level.
But the company says the levels were slightly up to 70 million becquerels per hour in January.
The company says that radioactive materials around the No. 2 reactor, the surrounding of which is still highly contaminated, were stirred up by a number of workers going in and out of the building. [...]
Watch the report here
Published: January 24th, 2012 at 8:48 am ET
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Seriously, "groundwat er", think, pacific ocean, tides, twice daily......
sending...
Slightly up? Well I guess when you’re talking about another 10 mil vs 60 mil it could be considered slight but it just shouldn’t be period http://youtu.be/IkYx–x9wa0 Marvin Gaye said it all many many moons ago how much more abuse can mother earth stand.
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When the 4.5 quake hit..the camera showed the shock..and then little fires flared around..red fire, green, blue. The red..was a flame..no way to hide that. So..guess that was invisble workers kicking up the dirt? First TEPCO said Reactor 3 debris cause the rise..now Reactor 2..if anyone believes its the main cause, we have a bridge in brooklyn you can purchase. Does anyone think its funny a SECOND JAPAN City for 50,000 Japanese Special People (JSPs) is being built in South Korea. Rats leaving the ship..the radiation is NOT from a little debris being removed..
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I am very curious about these JSP cities and this is not the first time I’ve heard about them.
Do you have a link where I can learn more? THANKS!
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I believe this is the original source:
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/japanese-government-build-remote-japan-india/
It is allegedly in India though, rather than South Korea.
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I posted one somewhere here last week that a city would be built in India ! 5×5 km size 100 thousand people,
I’ll see if I can find it in Comment forum !
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bincbom, here you go, found it !
xdrfox
January 15, 2012 at 12:31 pm · Reply
A place for the Japanese wealthy to go !
Japan’s Government-Industrial Complex to Create Small “Japan” in Southern India
…The accompanying residential area will be 2 square kilometers. The “resort city” with the expensive condominiums facing the Indian Ocean will be developed starting 2013. Japanese shopping center, golf course, and hospitals with permanently-stationed Japanese doctors will also be built. The plan is to create a high-quality city where Japanese expatriates can live with their families. …
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/japans-government-industrial-complex-to.html
http://enenews.com/forum-discussion-thread-jan-10-16-2012
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriate
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I understand the implications of governments telling the truth as it would cause not only mass panic but bring down the global economy and thus a domino effect would ensue, simplistically stated. Don’t misunderstand I’m not condoning just looking at both sides.
Does anyone know if they are still dumping Boron into the reactors or depleted uranium to stop fissioning? I would hope they would be throwing everything, even the kitchen sink to stop criticality. There were so many things they could have done prior to this state which makes this even more frustrating. JMHO http://youtu.be/QRrRMp9FUx4
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They don’t know where the corium is, so how can they dump boron on it? They can put in in the reactor, it will go down the hole, but who knows where the corium has moved. It’s probably not straight down.
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I don’t think 400 tons of corium could get that far away and what could it hurt at least it’s something.
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Yes the coriums have not gone far unless Arti Lauri is a soothsayer savant.
But… and it’s a big but… The coriums are far deadlier to carbon-based life forms trying to contain their migration. Massive radiation in the vicinity of these blobs… Deadly to humans. The blobs have a hard outer layer of debris resistent to cooling efforts.
Yes millions of tons of boron/borax brought from Death Valley (apropos name) and a concrete dome over (and under) the entire island might save Japan and the world. But there isn’t a superpower that is capable or solvent enough (except possibly China) that has the ten trillion dollars and manpower to pull off that Herculaneum feat. So we all slowly die…the Japanese much faster.
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Typo… Arto Lauri
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The spent fuel rods were blow all over the general area… it is more than just the fuel left in the corium in the reactors.
Think of the amount of nuclear material in the sediment off shore…as well.
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Blown…tons of nuclear material mixed with concrete…to which they added water…seawater.. MADNESS….
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Those excuses that the government uses, as per your examples, are in fact anti-democratic. Without the truth, democracy cannot take place as the information the public needs to make decisions is being withheld. Once again, the government is shielding the nuclear industry from the real effects it has on society. I would rather the economy “collapse” and all the other negative scenarios play out if it means we get the truth.
Same can be said about America and the government covering up the private companies accidents. If people knew the true impact, not one person would support NPP. Sounds like a bank bailout to me. lol Privatized profit, socialized risk.
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Just like boys, they’re leaving the door open too long and letting the air out.
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What/ ..they have a barn dance in there?
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Maybe the workers kicked up Plutonium dust?
According to the report linked below, Plutonium was released from Unit 2 on March 15.
“Unit 2 appears to have suffered primary containment damage, radioactive decay products (cesium, iodine) and plutonium released into environment.”
Page 14:
http://enformable.com/2011/11/what-happened-in-fukushima-a-technical-perspective/
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“a number of workers going in and out of the building” – I believe this is a reference to their bucket-brigade approach to drilling the peek-a-boo hole a few days ago. Was it 60 workers in teams of 4 (from memory)?
If so, then the release is a direct result of one of their decisions, and one for which they apparently did not predict or anticipate the consequences. As far as we know so far, they made no effort to prevent these extra releases from occurring.
Their decision processes are completely opaque, even after almost a year, and with the whole world trying to watch them (or at least the whole world that isn’t busy with other diversions).
With every passing day, they demonstrate why this technology should not be implemented by fallible humanity.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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Just kicking up a little dust? If this activity kicked up this much radioactivity, how is it that the workers did not keel over instantly and die?
The figures are insane anyway, because Bq are measured in per second amounts, not per hour, so this is another case of TEPCO doublespeak, spin and creating confusion.
Why not report in straightforward language that is not confusing?
They admitted that these are only estimates as well, because they are NOT measuring anything.
So why guess? Why not install some remote radiation meters over all spent fuel pools, all reactors, on the vent stacks and DOWNWIND of the plant?
Well, if they actually MEASURED things, they would have to tell the TRUTH, and that does not work for this company.
And if people knew the truth, they would shut nuclear down, because it is nothing more than Pandora’s Box with multi headed poisonous biting thousand headed hydras coming out, and they all live for millions or billions of years.
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Exactly, Bq are a disint per second. So they are babbling in doublespeak and the reporters have been told to take it and not question, not that any current MSM reporter would have the ability, knowledge or drive to pursue this enough to even vaguely understand what they’re saying. Bunch of useless parrots. Worse than useless.
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Who let the rads out?
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Hi all, while driving today I heard an interview with a Californian university scientist discussing the effects of seawater on overheated fuel rods during the panic cooling efforts in March.
She explained that the sodium in the seawater increased the level of spontaneous corrosion (quite obvious), and this corrosion leads to a much higher “flushing” of uranium out of the fuel rods.
She said that the amount of uranium which has leaked into the ocean via “seawater cooling” needs much more investigation.
*I agree.
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Yup
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“Yesterday’s M5.1 quake in Fukushima . . . give a more precise idea of the timing of the radiation spikes measured throughout the Tokyo area. [quote extract cross-posted from: http://enenews.com/radiation-spikes-thoughout-tokyo-area-after-yesterdays-quake-charts.
What they don’t want coming out, is that the corium ‘blob’ is being ‘destabilized’ with each-and-every geological event. This means that massive burst of radiation will be belching-forth for hundreds-and-hundreds of years!
They’d rather come up with some bogus theory that the worker’s are inadvertently venting the gases to the outside. To paraphrase (AGreenRoad) another, these workers would be keeling-over from this much localized radiation exposure.
All of this obfuscation – on the part of these TEPCO executives and others within the Japanese government – will ultimately become grounds for punitive damages; crimes against humanity and the environment. Seems every word that comes from their mouths will only add years to the sentences.
The dead – dried-up – housefly on my windowsill, could do a better job of hiding the truth…
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+1000 aftershock
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Thats what I think is happening too Aftershock. It seems logical. I further propose the loose coriums perhaps are initiating the geological activity; thereby completing a truly vicious radioactive circle.
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@Anthony: strange you should be thinking that. That same thought was in the back of my mind. Reading a report from January 9th, 2012 (see below URL) about shock-waves being felt by the remaining Fukushima population, made me wonder if the heat from corium ‘blob’ could be inducing geological shifting of adjacent strata.
It’s my understanding that anyone of this blob could be composed on tons of uranium/MOX fuel. Such mass, coupled with temperature extremes and water could – conceivably – contribute to what we’re being told are ‘earthquakes’. I agree that if this were the case, we’re – indeed – looking at a “vicious…cycle”!
Doubtless, others within this group can develop this subject further…
Tweets from Fukushima-area say recent quakes feel different than usual [ http://enenews.com/tweets-fukushima-area-recent-quakes-feel-different-usual-like-exploding-underground ]
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The groundwater may be SO contaminated that when the activity happens it may crack the layers in a way leading to venting of the built up steam etc. Because we really cant verify anything we have to look at whats in place. I wouldnt expect NO consequences if a loose nuclear corium was under my house foundation.
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@Anthony: I might suggest that pressure’s being induced into the adjacent strata from super-heated water. (The condition of the water is irrelevant to the process, but can be detrimental if it’s carrying radionuclides.) Throughout each cycle, the strata expands again and periodically buckles; becoming what is being described as an ‘earthquake’…
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A ray of sunshine….. Uranium supply is drying up.
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72103?oid=143915&sn=Detail&pid=102055
Now, do they go to the extremes of deep mining to get it in the future? Or do we fall into a reprocessing nightmare? Or, maybe, just maybe, do we give it up because of the expense?
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Hi dosdos, interesting! Just today I read that the Netherlands postponed their planned nuclear newbuild for 3 years. Yay!
And also that 4 Areva people have been kidnapped in Niger last week, from where France gets 30% of its uranium. Areva has two mines there and was planning a 1.2 billion investment to open a third one. France has sent special forces down there to find the Areva guys (should be easy, I guess they glow in the dark).
*we will win, no nukes!
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http://wallstreetsectorselector.com/2012/01/china%E2%80%99s-climate-report-spurs-nuclear-energy-fxi-chie-gex-tan-fan-nlr/
Saw yesterday, China is full steam ahead, and by 2030, will have more nuclear generating capacity then, the United States. They are building 28, of the 62 reactors under construction around the world. That makes 435 operating reactors around the world, with 62 more planned. Still some work to be done.
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Multiple wrongs do not make a right.
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Perhaps, you should preach this to the people that operate these plants and, not me.
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jdotasswipe- Bet ur proud of that NEW NUKE Plants in China make u feel good u twisted nuke sucker??. Remain on ur nees it will help with ur final act
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@dosdos: not disputing this report. However, I would caution the reader as they’ll put out such reports of shortages, to generate market interest; sort of a pump-and-dump scenario. In this case, they’re in a lot of backroom dealing over-how the long-term market responses will be to the Fukushima catastrophe. The big money crowd’s likely to flee, way before other investors. In the interim, they’ll keep up business as usual, until they’ve determined the extent of liability and losses. Thanks for the flag.
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Not the first I’ve heard of this, been discussed before, but this is the most pessimistic (soonest) that I’ve seen. I’m afraid that this will become a big issue, and force the US government to allow commercial interests to mine the Grand Canyon.
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/09/144923156/mining-industry-contests-grand-canyon-moratorium
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The specially created “Department of Confuse-em”
TEPCO obviously has staff whose entire job is to come up with ‘spin’ explanations. It matters not how preposterous – just Something/anything to throw out there to confuse ‘em’. A whole bunch of zeros can be good – impressive, ya know. Right away, the mind backs off, thinks, Whoa, this is beyond me…
Motto of the Department of Confuse -em “Let the &*^%$# SOB’s chew on THAT for a while.”
Mission statement of the Department of Confuse-em:
Keep the baying wolves of public ‘We been had’ outrage from storming their castle and… well, it could be … uh … not pretty.
Good thing for them that the public is functionally brain-dead (when it comes to all save the auto-pilot functions) and multiply-addicted. Not to mention sweating the tanking economy, i.e. frightened and thus with the Denial Blinkers (issued at birth, continuously programmed, updated, refined) functioning at peak efficiency.
Still, it’s a dicey situation for poor TEPCO. And the Japanese government. And the AEC. And actually the USG and – well the “I Lie Professionally for Money” list is a long one…
Just a minute… is that bugles I hear, off in the distance …? by golly it is and I see the flag and it’s — NPR! By gummy, good old NPR, with its bright and polished reputation, coming to the rescue with another artful string of lies delivered in a gentle, cultured, mildly humorous voice – a likeable voice…
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…nice!
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Do we know what is up with the leaning SFP #4? Could it be that the new radiation spikes over a wide area are being caused by its demise?
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+1
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Thanks Aftershock, and Anth.
On reflection, I think TEPCO should change the name to The Department of Public Confuse-em. Has a nice ring to it, in English. Not sure how it would sound in Japanese.
Here’s a short vid worth watching for all the RP supporters here.
Called – The Fix is In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qRPldELzZXA
btw Aftershock I have always liked ur avatar, good choice and also very nice as visual art.
My refuge in time of extreme trouble is …. slightly hysterical laughter. Manic? Who? Me? Manic? No, I’m a depressive. Really a depressive. Really, really, really a depressive, when waiting for an apocalypse… it’s the waiting that gets ya, ya know…
You say one can be both… ?
Well honey I visited both places and give me Manic every time. At least the part of it called Hypo…
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Thanks for sharing Bleep. I do understand…like you I feel things deeply and can get pretty bugged about things. Im wired a little differently than you and my impulse seems to be to get facts and understanding in place then I can look for the positives. But, yes, this crap and the lying is an all time bummer human experience. Its like a holocaust in a way.
You provide lots of facts and perspectives with your posts you know. It must have some therapeutic effect on you I believe.
For what its worth I think Im known by friends and family to have a higher than normal sense of intuition. While I believe Ive dreamt a ‘last days’ scenario…I can honestly say it had nothing to do with Japan or a nuclear plant. I think.
Have a good one
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bleep_hits_blades,
Newt Gingrich money supply Called – The Fix is In video you posted
is in first segment of nightly news last night !
“American Solutions” tax exsept
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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So I think you can count my predictions of what’s happening at Fukushima at least as accurate as Tepco’s.
After all – I’m wrong some of the time, but I’m never, ever intentionally misleading anybody. I don’t lie about the data, or cover up the photos or create something out of thin air to advance my agenda.
In fact, I think you can pretty much assume if Tepco says something, it’s possibly a flat out lie and likely has quite a bit of “fudging” going on.
Here’s what I think is going on at Fukushima – based on 10 months of reading between the lines and extensive observation.
1. The coriums of #1 and #2 are below the building and have been for months. They occasionally send plumes of highly radioactive steam through the ground and up to the surface. These can kill workers unexpectedly. They are still pumping water and nitrogen in, but it isn’t cooling them down.
2. Much of the Mox core of #3 blew out in the explosion on March 14th. Some of it remained in the containment where it had already melted to prior to the explosion. Some of it landed on the north end of the building after the explosion and has melted down into an open China Syndrome pit – that ejects a continuous stream of vapor.
3. The spent fuel pool of #1 is likely still intact – although something burned off a big chunk of the west side of the “tent” two months after they installed it. They’ve photoshopped over the burned material on the webcams (this has been discussed and confirmed on the webcam thread)
4. The SFP2 is likely leaking, and this caused a hole to be formed in the SW corner of the building – which is visible in the cams, but it has been disguised as foliage on the cams.
5. SFP3 was intact after the explosion of the building on March 14, but full of debris. It had been kept relatively cool until on or around December 5th, when it started to collapse and the water ran out. At that time the spent fuel got hot and started openly…
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“burning”. (Tacomagroove hates it when I use that term – because it is normally reserved for oxidizing fires – not nuclear fires – but it works for me) . Since the pool has collapsed completely. They keep a crane parked in the way most of the time, but the corium has spilled directly out of the pool right at the TBS cam view – you can occasionally see it as a “river of black” flowing out of the former SFP area, although they normally photoshop over it – additionally you can see two flames almost continuously there – one from near the SE corner of the building – with flames sometimes reaching 60 feet or more – and one just to the right of the vent tower base on the JNN cam.
This pool has been emitting lots of radiation continuously for two months.
6. SFP4 – which contains more fuel by weight than the cores of 1, 2, and 3 combined – has been leaking and burning since January 1. They have been madly trying to restore cooling to this pool, but so far to no avail. THIS IS THE SOURCE OF THE RADIATION SPIKES IN THE PAST FEW DAYS, and no one offsite can tell whether the pool has collapsed yet or is simply getting hotter and hotter because they can’t keep cooling water in it. There are “fires” in several spots in or around #4 SFP, and emissions from it are clearly visible at times on the cams – although they work hard to keep them invisilble.
7. Common spent fuel pool. This pool contains 6300 spent fuel assemblies (compared to the largest reactor based SFP4 at about 1500 assemblies. It sits physically only a few hundred feet from the #4 SFP. I thought back in July that it has started burning, but I think now I was wrong and they had started burning debris – which threw me off. The CSFP should be a cinch to keep cool, since it is accessible at ground level and doesn’t connect with a reactor core – but nothing at FUKU is a cinch these days – I hope they can keep this one intact. I wish they would move the fuel out of it.
8. Units 5 and 6
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We don’t hear much about 5 and 6 – I assume they did actually get shut down and didn’t melt and their SFP’s are being kept cool. I know assumptions are bad in this situations, but I have no evidence of any real problems there.
As I said above – I think some folks here are able and willing to give more accurate information than either Tepco, the Japanese government or any major media outlet – I’m pretty sure I’m wrong about something I say above, but I’d bet pretty strongly that most of it is correct. I know it is more correct than anything Tepco says about the status.
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James2 you’ve been on target all along! We just have to wait for the truth these days. It no longer a given anymore.
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I agree James2,…I’ll bet you’re right 9 out of 10 times with the eyes, ears, work,…etc,…that you have all done. And all the while, dodging arrows from your dis-tractors!
You have held tepcos feet to the fire,…you and ALL the webcam crowd.
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James2 – very impressive summary; I am largely ignorant of these details/on this level of understanding/analysis; but it sounds like you know what you are talking about.
Thanks very much, I will re-read and copy and paste into an email to save for my own info and send to a few others.
But alas, alas – as I read what you wrote, I got that very bad sinking feeling again. Even those of us with little technical knowledge can clearly see that this is an HORRIFIC,TERRIFYING SITUATION.
It confirms my sense or ‘gut feeling’ that we are in really deep ELE waters.
That old saying, “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die”, comes to mind quite often. I fear all our efforts to minimize our risk might be ‘finger in the dike’ type doomed attempts – laughable, pathetic, ridiculous.
There are very few if any other places I could go to and ‘get it off my chest’ like this, and I am really grateful to admin. and the people who contribute here – for this little community of people who grasp what is ‘coming down’ – literally coming down.
At least I don’t feel quite so alone.
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I, too, would like to thank James, Anne, Tacoma, most other posters, and the administrators of the site for the information. I would rather know what is going on than not know.
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Anthony, ty for the good words/support – much appreciated.
Oh yes, I look and look, read and read, hoping against hope that it isn’t as bad as I felt it was from day one. I so have wanted to be wrong on this one!
For a long time I have been sleuthing into the ‘riding the ragged edge of disaster’ style/doings/modus operandi of the elites, tptb, and fretting and trying to get other people to pay attention.
But I’d shifted the focus of my interests from nuke power/the nuke industry, after learning long ago that they had not solved the problem of what to do with nuke waste and so it was madness to continue on with the nuclear power and weapons arsenal.
So this caught me by surprise. (Armageddon happened when we were otherwise engaged, trying to put out other brush fires.)
So many problems they have created, it has been hard to stay even minimally informed on all of them.
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Some may have noticed I myself come and go from Enenews.
I’m generally as mentally calm and fact-based/non-emotional as anybody I know – however the surmised facts here are so bad that I cannot keep the emotions out on this one.
I find myself wavering between “party like it’s 2012″ mode and “we have to fix this” mode.
I personally do not yet know which is the correct course of action.
I’m pretty sure that we’re flirting with the ELE for life on earth here – which prior to last March I naively didn’t know was possible in this fashion – You always know there are catastrophic natural disasters possible, but not this kind of thing.
But an event like that might take many years to play out. What won’t take many years to play is the ELE at the personal level.
Some among us are dying from this right now, and it could as easily be me, or my grandchildren as it is anybody else. But we don’t know it yet. True, every one of us will die sometime, but I had a few plans for the future…
And then there’s the outrageous (to me) belief that we can withstand this radiation just fine. I don’t claim to be knowledgeable enough to say with certainty we can or can’t – but the fact they are covering so much up gives me the feeling that it’s very unsafe.
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You write beautifully blades!
I love your self disclosure,…indeed,…we are all trying to digest what facts we now KNOW to be true.
I have noticed I am doing my ‘frigidity’ things,….I’m a picker.
I find myself in a state of adrenal stress,…even just thinking about HOW TO prepare, ‘prop oneself up’,….FOR what we know is coming. We also know, we don’t know. But, we now know we are ON the conveyor belt,….and there’s no one human who can shut ‘it’ off!
Being alone with this realization, among the ‘ostrich people’,
with no sanity spoken to one,….I fear insanity would set in. I’m half way there from my past roommates, family, and all friends. This is my “safe place”, home base, if you will!
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OK I’m now going to revise my summary above
The radiation spike is coming from either #5 or #6 – which has a gigantic fire going on today.
This video is 15 minutes of seeemingly nonsensical rapid panning and zooming.
I think the cam operator wanted us to see something – if for only the briefest moment.
FAST FORWARD THIS VIDEO TO 8:10 IN – THEN WATCH THE REST OF THE VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ef3BJrUaQ&feature=plcp&context=C3455664UDOEgsToPDskLbpLaA3WR9qzDiXhC4h3Fg
At 8:10 you can just barely make out the reactors 1-4 on the right and 5-6 on the left – 5-6 are burning hard. Flames engulfing the building hard.
Then at 10:23 and 12:23 – you get additional brief views.
Take a look.
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POSTED TO HP Hope it shows James. BTW great summary above and here. Been reading quietly all day…the news is not good.
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The lights do blur as the camera is moved quickly. Otherewise, there is no reason to cry fire. If there is a fire it can not be definitively determined by this video. But stop the video at any point and you will not see flames.
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Anne, for six months you’ve been following my posts on enenews with various versions of “I don’t see any fire”, or “I don’t think it’s burning”, or “it’s not really as bad as you say James2″. And we usually find out months later that it was worse than I said.
I believe my track record speaks for itself, as I believe yours does.
Please feel free to provide some additional information that refutes that #5 or #6 is on fire. If you have another link to another cam. If you can provide eyewitness reports from workers or independent reporters on the ground, etc.. Like every other time when I was right about this sort of thing – I’d be happy to be proven wrong.
However, please do not tell me when to call fire – when I see one – that’s when I’ll call it.
Thanks
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I think the situation is far worse than you do. I think that as many as 25 reactors in Japan have already melted down way below the ground. I think reactors in the US are destroying the air and water and land and some have already melted down.
Do I have visual confirmation? No. And lights don’t equal a fire. There may be a fire, but I can’t see it. You can post what you see or what you think you see. I can’t say there isn’t a fire, but I can say what I see. I don’t see a fire. I did earlier today post some videos of small sporadic flames of fires near the venting tower for Units #5 and #6.
I can post pictures and videos and I can say what I see or what I don’t see. In science there are interpretations of data which differ. The greatest scientists don’t agree with the masses. I am not claiming to be a great scientist, but your trying to change my mind is very juvenile.
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TYPO: I mean Units #3 and #4, not #5 and #6. I only saw lights by #5 and #6, not flames. I only saw flames on the TEPCO time lapse cam which is much closer to the Units #1-4.
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I would be happy to read Ex-Skf or Fukushima Diary or to translate a Japanese tweet if they are talking about Units #5 and #6. Do you have any documentation other than your eyes on a video from a camera miles away from the events. At least 10 or 20 miles away. You are talking solely from your eyes and I can also talk about what I see with my eyes.
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Thanks, StillJill for the good words. Very kind, and means a lot to me.
I feel kind of like a big baby, blubbering here rather pathetically – but it is SO bad, so disturbing – and I feel so alone with it, as most people just don’t want to know, are in denial.
It is nightmare-ish, truly is, to pedal my bike through these sunny streets, go shopping at Chinatown, see all the people, it all looks just the same… and to know how effing doomed we are -or certainly at this point seem to be. The late great planet Earth, etc.
Yes, I like to write – thanks for mentioning that too. In another incarnation I’d have been more of a writer, I think.
A great group here all around. So glad I found this website!
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If it’s any consolation, Bleep! I too believe the future may possibly hold a long period of suffering most of us can’t imagine. The day my family and I watched the MOX plant at Fuku #3 explode was the day we thought, “this could be the beginning of the end.” We KNEW the MOX and a lot of the spent fuel could have been vaporized and blown sky high.
We KNEW it was headed Eastward toward the U.S., Canada, and eventually Europe. We watched all Dutchsinse’s videos and the CRIIRAD videos showing the projected path of the clouds of radiation. Even then, we didn’t have any idea how bad it truly was. We discussed the possibility people could begin dying soon. We still know we could become very ill at any time. We have ZERO control over any of this. We’re not in a position to leave California right now. So here we sit, and wonder what’s next. And try not to get depressed. And LIVE although all innocence is forever lost.
We didn’t drop like flies. Perhaps I’m slowly being poisoned. I don’t need to turn my Geiger counter on to know when I get a big, fat dose of radiation. The pain in and swelling in the lymph nodes under my chin lets me know. The funky feeling in the back of my throat, like I swallowed something hot that burned my throat lets me know. The tiny place in my right lung that feels funky now lets me know I inhaled something bad and it probably isn’t going away.
I do lots of detoxification, but have still had to breathe. The exposure is inescapable.
I hope and pray this is not an ELE. Whatever it is, it’s bad. The ugly genie is out of the bottle and it can’t be put back. Pandora’s box is open, and all the nasties inside cannot be put back.
I’m not the one deciding about the time I have left — that is up to God. I thank God I believe in Him! If I had not my faith, I’d be ruined indeed. Now I must go and pray my attitude will change, or I WILL be depressed! As Anne said, “If anything is pure, if anything is noble … think on these…
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…. If anything is of good report, think on these things.
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Sometimes the simplest explanation is closer to the truth of the matter.
Nothing has been contained. Like trying to trap air.
Unless one wants to believe all the workers from day one were jumping on trampolines each time they exited the reactors in order to shake off all the radioactive dust, causing it to disperse into the atmosphere.
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Interesting article:
Nuclear Radiation Levels from Fukushima Are RISING
by Washington’s Blog
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28842
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yes James2, and StillJill – this is hard to take and a lot of the time I feel a sense of unreality about it all – like: this can’t REALLY be happening, can it?
I feel for the young. I have sons, one in his early thirties, one 8 years older. At this most inopportune of times, it looks like I might become a grandmother, sometime around this coming August!
I leave you all to imagine my complex tangle of feelings over that one.
Pretty much all of us here, I would guess, are the kind of people who care, who have empathy, who are idealistic and can see what a great world this could be. There is much beauty, there are wonderful people; you look at a baby’s big beautiful smile and you know how much good there is in people. Animals too – we in our ignorance so under-rate their intelligence, their emotional lives, and above all their capacity to suffer.
Being (now anyway) from Hawaii, having to run off and do some stuff now, I will leave you all with this tear-jerker… listen, enjoy, maybe cry a little. Will do ya good, says Dr. Bleep!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5JicO2bKec&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g56VM_3Z6rA
Aloha with a smile, a sob, and a sniffle…
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Wow that Hawaiian guy can sing. I’ve never heard him before.
Yes, Hawaii is a beautiful place. Like the great Charles Lindbergh, I can’t think of another place I’d rather spend eternity in…
The radiation will only spoil the beauty of the earth temporarily. Well, temporarily on earth terms.
The question is – does beauty remain if there is no one here to enjoy it? I don’t know.
One thing that Fukushima has forced me to do is no longer put things off. If I want to do it, I’m going to do it now, this week is better than next and the next few weeks are better than those following. If my moments are cut short, and those of my family are cut short – we will make the most of those we have left.
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Thank you. I just love Izzy’s version of, “Over the Rainbow.” Somewhere over the rainbow…. He was something special.
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Someday I’ll wish upon a star, wake up where the clouds are far behind … me.
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I’M IN LOVE
atomic-lies at HP.
I’M IN LOVE
Still not with it today. Tomorrow will be better.
Love all you guys…mean that.
EVACUATE JAPAN!
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Thanks for checking in whoop’s,…and letting us know.
Will pray you get healing rest, and that you dream pre-FUKU dreams my friend!
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