Published: February 15th, 2012 at 12:00 am ET
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Title: Faulty Thermometer Behind Temperature Rise at Fukushima Daiichi
Source: Wall Street Journal
Author: Phred Dvorak
Date: February 15, 2012, 10:59 AM JST
[...] a faulty thermometer at No. 2 raises troubling questions. With all the punishment Fukushima Daiichi’s equipment has gone through –- nuclear meltdowns and explosions, not to mention the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami that started everything off – it’s no wonder things are breaking down.
But radiation levels are still so high around many of the reactors that the equipment can barely be checked, let alone replaced. [...]
Tepco says it usually checks up on, and adjusts, such gauges every 13 months at routine inspections. But those won’t be possible at Fukushima Daiichi, where experts expect it’ll take six years just to plug leaks in the reactor buildings and 10 years before people can start the process of removing melted fuel. [...]
Read the report here
Published: February 15th, 2012 at 12:00 am ET
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"experts expect it’ll take six years just to plug leaks in the reactor buildings and 10 years before people can start the process of removing melted fuel."
That sums it up right there. There simply isn't anything they can do but try to keep pouring water…for 10 years?!?
Found this, look at picture 6, snow covered ground, more doubt that we are seeing current videos at the reactors. Or is it too hot?
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/02/15/picture-japan-ice-blessing-valentines-sweets-recycling-debris/
Also note image #4 & look at what those workers are wearing, hardly enough protection to be handling that debris. And they are going to recycle it~!!!~ I want to scream at them & tell them to LEAVE..sigh.. More walking dead.
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Ohh sorry picture numbers are 4 & 5
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May be the site is too hot and the snow just melts away.
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Story says it all…..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2100901/Stricken-Fukushima-Daiichi-nuclear-plant-dire-risk-massive-new-earthquake-scientists-warn.html
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Thanks for the link Laterlukemayb
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It seems this info is now getting into the main creek media but no one can add 2+2. They need to be spoon fed as what to think.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the WSJ is at least mentioning Fukushima, but damn near anybody that has spent more than an hour on Enenews for the last 11 months knows more about this disaster than these guys do. They are still just reading press releases. WHERE ARE THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS? Woodward? Moyers? Anybody out there?
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They've all been spellbound by Madonna and Nicki Minaj's recent occult rituals!
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aka the Superbowl Halftime Show and the Grammys.
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Uh oh, I think I may have figured out the purpose of those performances, after seeing confirmation from other sources. (See Discussion thread for this week.)
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That's right PoorDaddy where are they? They Woodward, Moyers, etc.. probably are under the impression that they will live longer if they don't put themselves out there in the quest for truth, but the reality is that the TRUTH is going to find THEM sooner than they think!
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=npac_250
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P.S. PoorDaddy, don't forget to post the link for your music video from time to time. Loved it, just loved it, great job!
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Thanks luke. Ya know, I'm missing or-well. Far as I know, he hasn't heard it yet and they're his words! Show up, my brother!
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I think these reporters are part of the establishment. The very second the Rachel Maddow stopped talking about this (one day), I gave up on so-called journalists. The will get to the truth but after it is too late. Too late was months ago.
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I can't believe the relatively insignificant stuff they talk about on the news, since I started watching TV again!
They completely ignore the topic of Fukushima, while we angst over every detail of the reactor with all these amazing contributors to the site to analyze things in a way that puts the MSM to shame.
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Watching tv does make one stupid. I used to not think so, but see it in my kids. People lose the ability to think after a certain point. If you knew me you would know this is not what I thought a year ago.
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1978) is a book written by Jerry Mander which argues that there are a number of problems with the medium of television. Mander argues that many of the problems with television are inherent in the medium and technology itself, and thus cannot be reformed…
The author argues that far from being "neutral," television predetermines who shall use it, how they will use it, what effects it will have on individual lives, and, if it continues to be widely used, what sorts of political forms will inevitably emerge.
The four arguments are:
1. While television may seem useful, interesting, and worthwhile, at the same time it further boxes people into a physical and mental condition appropriate for the emergence of autocratic control.
2. It is inevitable that the present powers-that-be (or controllers) use and expand using television so that no other controllers are permitted.
3. Television affects individual human bodies and minds in a manner which fit the purposes of the people who control the medium.
4. Television has no democratic potential. The technology itself places absolute limits on what may pass through it. The medium, in effect, chooses its own content from a very narrow field of possibilities. The effect is to drastically confine all human understanding within a rigid channel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Arguments_for_the_Elimination_of_Television
The entire book is here: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1978-09-01/Subliminal-Messages-From-TV.aspx
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Jerry Mander?? Wish he'd "re-district" TV!
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Bob Woodward appears to be not a true journalist, but a CIA operative.
I am reading a book right now by Russ Baker – Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's invisible government,and the hidden history of the last fifty years.
In the book, it connects many dots, uncovers unbelievable "coincidences" and makes the case that he is a CIA operative, or the tool of the CIA. The book lays out just how rotten politics and covert-ops are tied and dirty. Disturbing stuff to say the least. Interestingly there is a tie to nukes in all of it.
BTW: Hello everyone, I've been a daily lurker since last April. I've finally decided to get an account and join the conversation. I'm in Florida.
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Welcome aboard mate! The more the merrier.
As you know, this place is one of a kind!
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Writing in the New York Times, world expert on the health effects of radiation, Dr Helen Caldicott, explains how the nuclear industry has been able to continue on, despite the massive risks the industry obviously entails, and the damage and loss of life it has actually caused in Fukushima, Chernobyl and elsewhere:
"The nuclear power industry has been resurrected over the past decade by a lobbying campaign that has left many people believing it to be a clean, green, emission-free alternative to fossil fuels. These beliefs pose an extraordinary threat to global public health and encourage a major financial drain on national economies and taxpayers. The commitment to nuclear power as an environmentally safe energy source has also stifled the mass development of alternative technologies that are far cheaper, safer and almost emission free — the future for global energy."
"When the Fukushima Daiichi reactors suffered meltdowns in March, literally in the backyard of an unsuspecting public, the stark reality that the risks of nuclear power far outweigh any benefits should have become clear to the world. As the old quip states, “Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.”
"Instead, the nuclear industry has used the disaster to increase its already extensive lobbying efforts. A few nations vowed to phase out nuclear energy after the disaster. But many others have remained steadfast in their commitment. That has left millions of innocent people unaware that they — all of us — may face a medical catastrophe beyond all proportions in the wake of Fukushima and through the continued widespread use of nuclear energy."
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/health/despite-continuing-disaster-at-fukushima-us-approves-new-nuclear-reactors/
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You know what she says is correct but it is not the direction the global elite intend to move on. She literally is telling the truth when the world is in chaos.
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I agree!
Seen this: http://is.gd/Yk2ITV
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In his article, "Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Power Plants" by John LaForge http://is.gd/7FlPx4 he points out that "French researchers have confirmed that childhood leukemia rates are shockingly elevated among children living near nuclear power reactors. Closer to San Diego, Joseph Mangano MPH MBA and Janette Sherman MD have now agreed to do a similar study about California reactors. It which should be done in early March, once funding is finalized. As of January 31, 2012 it’s Proposed title is:
ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION RELEASES FROM CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS AND POTENTIAL HEALTH HAZARDS
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Something positive:
"In response to the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, Japanese Catholic bishops issue a joint statement condemning nuclear power and urging the closure of all Japanese nuclear power stations."
Abolish Nuclear Plants Immediately
"In the message “Reverence for Life”, we, Japanese bishops could not go so far as to urge the immediate abolishment of nuclear plants. However, after facing the tragic nuclear disaster in Fukushima, we regretted and reconsidered such attitude. And now, we would like to call for the immediate abolishment of all the power plants in Japan."
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/health/japanese-bishops-urge-end-to-nuclear-power/
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Oh brother! **hits head on keyboard.
The whole nuclear BS is faulty. The human brain wiring is faulty.
Get past that ill-logic (emphasis on 'ill') and maybe, just maybe, we might regain some semblance of sanity.
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More people are waking up !! Good, we all can work harder to get the word out …
People who I talk to about Fukushima, have never even heard of it , or need reminding … Many think it is only a problem for Japan. It is really shocking that so many people are unaware . The whole thing is sad …
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An amazing bunch of folks just think quake, tsunami, reactor problem last year……….must be over. Never hear it on the mainstream news!
But you're right, more people are waking up!
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New Quake near Fuku coast…sorry if someone already posted!
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20120215153317391-151528.html
*morning anyway
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Three quakes now in past 24 hours and they are gaining in intensity.
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Hi ruth, in case you haven't yet, I really recommend to have a look at the report the scientists published, fearing for a new EQ at Fuku, as discussed here yesterday.
The report has some pictures / cross-sections with explanations, it's very much worth having a look at!
http://www.solid-earth.net/3/43/2012/se-3-43-2012.pdf
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X2
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Hi rooks – thanks for answering
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NP
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Thanks for this article. Some scary pictures and diagrams. Japan has one of the world's super volcanoes in Aira Caldera, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyūshū, Japan. If it blows it will cover the world with ash. All of this extreme earthquake activity has to be having a negative effect on this super volcano.
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That's a good find BB. If these articles about increased BIG EQ's in the area are true…which everything is pointing to
http://j.mp/xJABdR goodbye Japan.
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10 j for go inside?( i think more)
10 j watercooling all days 80-120t( 80000l-120000l)/day
half JP must buillt wastetanks in ten j.
how many =????? ///wide range of Watertanks .jp are to small!!
and they make more and more waste..
or in the Pazific…..for them self and the frindly neighbors around the pazific ….Madness³³
it cant go on this way ,why the dont do the right ?
why they dont rescue the Nukes and empty the pools and bring them to a sure place? they go a way without since and brain…brainless.
only one answer is .it is to late and they only need time to sure and rescue themself and the Bucks( $).
hehe
so soon i will take my pumpgun and shoot them a salute for die and say Good bye JP i will remember you
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Morning
Could Fukushima Daiichi Be Ground Zero for the Next Big One? – WSJ (blog) http://j.mp/xJABdR
According to the scientists, the fluids threaten to swim up toward fault zones, where they can soak into the brittle crust of the earth along the fault line, reducing friction, pulling the fault lines apart and triggering another large earthquake.
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"The news prompted a collective sigh of relief that the steadily rising temperatures the thermometer had been logging weren’t a sign that the damaged reactor was once more spinning out of control."
This WSJ piece helps reify Tepco's spin that everything is still in cold shutdown. The "news" is just Tepco's self-serving opinion that the temperature gauge was defective – unverified and unverifiable unless/until more dire events unfold.
Speaking of spin, the phrase "damaged reactor was once more spinning out of control" is really loaded: a "reactor" still exists (rather than one of several unapproachable leaky radioactive vessels); it is damaged (perhaps a fender bender?); it spun out of control in the past but was brought back under control (hah!), and of course the inexcusable notion that it is somehow under control now – we are invited to imagine trained technicians in an immaculate control room pushing buttons and pulling levers to keep that clean, green, reliable nuke power humming – and if it should "spin out of control" again, no doubt the gallant technicians would bring it back under control as they always do.
Wishful thinking? Denial? Propaganda? Truth?… time will tell.
I don't think the mood here at Enenews has been "a collective sigh of relief", rather it's more a wary "what are they up to now?" or "what will today bring?" or "this can't go on without a major new catastrophe".
In some sense I agree with the piece. The "reactor" is indeed out of control of their spin. The public, not so much… yet.
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We are now are being ruled by those in Nuclear Denial*; instead of by Leaders that demand an end to the Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster RISK that Nuclear poses to mankind! The nuclear industry is fighting tooth and nail to maintain it's market share; yet NOW Solar (of all flavors) is far less costly to construct, faster to construct and carries with it N☢ Nuclear radioactive baggage that can kill a Countries economy and or those living nearby!
Ask The Japanese!
*Nuclear Denial
http://is.gd/XPjMd0
The illogical belief that Nature cannot destroy any land based nuclear reactor, any place anytime 24/7/365!
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Yet another MSM "FLUFF" piece about what is really happening in Fukushima!
Think about it, any shaking or Earth movement will cause the 3 “missing corium(s) to restart what I call “The Fuky Effect” and I expect to see increased signs of radiation in Northern Japan as well as additional temperature spikes “in temperature gauges that are not reading properly” at Fukushima!
These EQ's will not help the rumbling Volcano in Southern Japan either…
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More excuses instead of solutions!
Yet more "fluff" background info to hide the real news worthy event, which is the Corium(s) and their interaction with the ground water below the complex…
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