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Dr. Michio Kaku : Fukushima : From Fashpoint 05-09-12 : Reactor 4

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They want to spin the safe and clean aspect. The reality is nuclear power can be extremely hazardous, and when things go wrong, it can wreak havoc for many many years.

The mind numbing thing here is the scale. You will be able to measure the length of time in generations. 20, 30, 50 generations or is it just forever? Unless a miracle technology is developed, Fukushima never goes away.
 
I agree trainedobserver. I meant to add on top of the effects of nuclear disasters lasting many years, the negative results can also be on a global scale.
 
As the sovereign debt crisis in Europe dominates media coverage of both financial and main street news, Washington’s deliberate cover up of a far more serious threat to the global economy stemming from the continuing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant (beginning on Mar. 11, 2011) is now seeping out more rapidly from sources outside the captured and complicit mainstream news outlets.
“You can’t stop the truth from leaking out about Fukushima, and [President] Obama actually came out with a statement at the start of this disaster and said that their nuclear experts did not feel that harmful levels of radiation would reach our shores,” Nuked Radio host Christina Consolo told TruNews.

Due to increasing reports of nuclear contamination found in pollen across the U.S. West Coast, babies with elevated becquerel levels of nearly 10 times normal (presumably from mother’s milk), and a statistically unusual number of children with flu-like symptoms who won’t respond to conventional medical protocol, the truth about Fukushima could easily break out into a national panic significant enough to trigger an economic collapse of the U.S. economy and dollar, according to Consolo.

That’s “what we found from Freedom of Information Act requests . . . transmissions between the U.S. government, the Chinese, the Russians and the Japanese from the beginning of the disaster until now, and that includes NRC (National Regulatory Commission) transcripts of phone calls,” Consolo explained.
“They were well aware of how high the levels were, and that they were coming over here,” she added. “In fact, infants in California were exposed to 40,000 becquerels (symbol Bq: the human body has 4,400 Bq, on average, from decaying potassium) of iodine 131—that causes thyroid cancer—from Mar. 17 to the beginning of April.”

And the threat to U.S. national security as well as the implications to the global economy a nuclear contamination multiple-times more devastating than Chernobyl poses to America may have been the impetus for President Obama’s rapid-fire signing of the Executive Orders of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in January and the National Defense Resources Preparedness Act (NDRPA) in March, possibly suggesting that President Obama’s motives for these pair of politically catastrophic actions (during an election year) were, in a sense, mischaracterized as a executive branch power grab by media instead of an unpredictable dialogue that could trigger an immediate crisis of panic if the rational for an obvious abrogation (suspension) of the Constitution were made public.

In essence, complaints that an Executive Order of the magnitude of the NDAA going much beyond an old-standing EO exception to the rights granted the American people by the U.S. Constitution (only in times of nuclear war can the U.S. Constitution be suspended) may be surprisingly unreasonable, if, in fact, Fukushima’s nuclear radiation contaminating U.S. soil was indeed the reason for such a politically inflammatory act by a sitting U.S. president. The debate, then, would be: do the American people still have the right to know if that right would include the likelihood a dangerous and unpredictable level of panic?

“And there was an actual letter that came from the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) telling physicians in California not to put people on potassium iodide (KI),” Consolo continued. “And the only thing that I can draw from that is they didn’t want to panic people; they didn’t want them to know how bad the situation is. But the problem is that the situation is ongoing.

From the U.S. FDA Web site.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that all children internally contaminated with (or likely to be internally contaminated with) radioactive iodine take KI, unless they have known allergies to iodine. Children from newborn to 18 years of age are the most sensitive to the potentially harmful effects of radioactive iodine.

Consolo also noted that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suddenly stopped testing rainwater, soil and milk for contamination two weeks following the disaster. But private tests conducted after the EPA stopped its testing, including ones performed by the University of California at Berkeley, in particular, reported “in November, that the levels of cesium in cow’s milk are actually 150 percent higher than they were in April of last year,” she paraphrased.

Consolo intimated that the EPA stopped testing because its reports would eventually become available to the public through the inevitable Freedom of Information requests, giving rise to the speculation for the stoppage among many others in the nuclear community as a possible reason for the EPA’s withdrawal and the progressively worsening data it would need to conceal through time.

“Those reactors are steaming constantly. . . They’re dumping nine tons of water on each reactor and spent fuel pool all day long and that water is going into the ocean.” Consolo continued. “Our storms are generated out of this huge radiation slick off the coast of Japan and this all gets rained out over the West coast of Canada and the United States.”

She goes on to say that rumblings within the nuclear safety community include strong recommendations for enacting the protocol of evacuation of Tokyo and other major cities of Japan. With a total population of approximately 35 million people affected by an evacuation within the world’s third-largest economy, the already-highly-fragile global economy would immediately drop to free fall as currency and bond traders would predictably sell their holdings at any price to get out of the way of a total collapse of the financial system.

“There are a lot of people who have left Tokyo and they’ve moved with their children and one spouse has stayed behind to work,” Consolo said.
“We’re talking about an end to a nation,” TruNews host Rick Wiles interjected.
“Yeah, which I think is part of the reason, like I said from a global economic prospective is, why it’s not being talked about,” Consolo continued. “It’s a very serious situation that’s going to have very serious ramifications for Japan” and the world.


Read more: http://www.beaconequity.com/fukushima-washington-hides-black-swan-of-economic-collapse-2012-05-25/#ixzz1wPy2E3zi
 
The Japanese may need to resort to becoming mass emigrants to china. The chinese will render them into a style of slavery. The union of these two powerful Asian countries could mean 200,000,000 foot soldiers within a couple days fly and walk of the Stans.

I moved to Latin America in the southern Hemisphere ages ago.
 
what you are seeing in this video is the fog created by the water being pumped into the reactor to cool it. As it is dumped out to sea it mixes with the cold ocean water and comes back as fog.I do not need to explain to any of you here the gravity of this situation.... RIP marine environment.

 
what you are seeing in this video is the fog created by the water being pumped into the reactor to cool it. As it is dumped out to sea it mixes with the cold ocean water and comes back as fog.I do not need to explain to any of you here the gravity of this situation.... RIP marine environment.

I thought they were storing the water and processing it. Has that effort halted? I did not think they were still dumping raw untreated water into the ocean again.

How much of that type of heavy fog is natural for that area I wonder?
 
I thought they were storing the water and processing it. Has that effort halted? I did not think they were still dumping raw untreated water into the ocean again.

How much of that type of heavy fog is natural for that area I wonder?

I am not sure so I should look into it... I have to wounder how much you can fix even by filtering the water.. What happens to the filters after is another thought?
The stuff has to go some place so even if it is not dumped into the ocean the toxic crap has to go some place... land fill? storage? It is called robbing Peter to pay Paul, in the end it comes back around.

How much fog would one expect in summer is the question.
 
I am not sure so I should look into it... I have to wounder how much you can fix even by filtering the water.. What happens to the filters after is another thought?
The stuff has to go some place so even if it is not dumped into the ocean the toxic crap has to go some place... land fill? storage? It is called robbing Peter to pay Paul, in the end it comes back around.

How much fog would one expect in summer is the question.

The filtration and storage they set up quickly reached capacity but I haven't really seen anything else about it since last year.

Fog is one thing. Geysers of steam would be another. If any of the melted cores burn down to water a great deal of steam is going to be generated. I don't think that will roll in and out but would just be a constant presence there. That would be some scary business. They have dumped so much radioactive water and material into the ocean now I don't know how anyone can bring themselves to eat anything coming out of the ocean over there now, much less stick their toes in the Pacific ocean at this point.
 
The filtration and storage they set up quickly reached capacity but I haven't really seen anything else about it since last year.

Fog is one thing. Geysers of steam would be another. If any of the melted cores burn down to water a great deal of steam is going to be generated. I don't think that will roll in and out but would just be a constant presence there. That would be some scary business. They have dumped so much radioactive water and material into the ocean now I don't know how anyone can bring themselves to eat anything coming out of the ocean over there now, much less stick their toes in the Pacific ocean at this point.

Agreed... I have stopped eating Tuna etc as the Blue fin come down this way and we do get fresh Tuna so no way I am going to eat it now.
As for the steam .. Question how much small radioactive dust particulates would be in it? Get the feeling it would not be good to be exposed to it over an extended time.
 
There has actually been an issue with radioactive products out of china for years, but this story raises the point yet again, is the next cheap washing machine from walmart you buy going to be "hot"

#Radioactive Scrap Metal Shipped from Chiba Stopped at China's Ningbo Customs | EXSKF

Basically radioactive scrap metal gets smelted down and turned into new products


And its not just china

Wide range of Chinese imports found to contain radioactive metals

"In 2006 in Texas, for example, a recycling facility inadvertently created 500,000 pounds of radioactive steel byproducts after melting metal contaminated with Cesium-137, according to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission records.

"In Florida in 2001, another recycler unintentionally did the same, and wound up with 1.4 million pounds of radioactive material.

And in 1998, 430,000 pounds of steel laced with Cobalt-60 made it to the U.S. heartland from Brazil."

But a true picture regarding the magnitude of the problem is difficult to perceive because there are no state or federal agencies responsible for oversight and metal recyclers are not equipped to check for radioctive metal. "Nobody’s going to know—nobody—how much [radioactive metal] has been melted into consumer goods," said Ray Turner, an international expert on radiation with Fort Mitchell, Ky.-based River Metals Recycling. Acording to Wolf, Turner "has helped decontaminate seven metal-recycling facilities that unwittingly melted scrap containing radioactive isotopes."

"It’s your worst nightmare," Turner added.

The importation of goods containing radioactive metal is not confined to Chinese exports. "Reports are mounting that manufacturers and dealers from China, India, former Soviet bloc nations and some African countries are exporting contaminated material and goods, taking advantage of the fact that the United States has no regulations specifying what level of radioactive contamination is too much in raw materials and finished goods
 
I wonder what the best deal on a good meter is out there? The only thing to do seems to buy a damn meter of some kind and learn how to properly use it.
 
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