Nuclear fallout? / Media blackout?

stuar · 12-04-2012 02:56PM

shedweller wrote: »

How much of an ordeal would it be to remove the spent rods and store them elsewhere?

Re: the increasing strength of the earthquakes. Has anyone seen the video of quakes last year? It's over in a thread in after hours about the recent quake. It really shows how active the earth is.

It seems what's required has never been done before and will be "Charting in unknown waters", so that option seem's a long way off.

I asked top spent-fuel pools expert Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, for an explanation of the potential impact of the 11,421 rods.
I received an astounding response from Mr. Alvarez [updated 4/5/12]:
In recent times, more information about the spent fuel situation at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site has become known. It is my understanding that of the 1,532 spent fuel assemblies in reactor No. 304 assemblies are fresh and unirradiated. This then leaves 1,231 irradiated spent fuel rods in pool No. 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18 Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.
The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks.. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters. Despite the enormous destruction cased at the Da–Ichi site, dry casks holding a smaller amount of spent fuel appear to be unscathed.

It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor. This is confirmed by most reliable experts like Dr. Arnie Gundersen or Dr. Fumiaki Koide.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/the-largest-short-term-threat-to-humanity-the-fuel-pools-of-fukushima.html

Nuclear Expert: Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 likely to shatter or collapse onto its side in a M7.0 quake.
http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-spent-fuel-pool-4-shatter-collapse-m70-quake-audio

MSNBC on Reactor No. 2: It is beyond human capability, “problem gets worse and worse and worse” — The really bad news is this is the good news, as they can’t even determine what is going on at Reactors No. 1 and 3.

Transcript Summary At 5:30 in

You want the fuel to be covered with water to keep it cool and shield radiation
Expected 33 feet, only 2 feet of water in reactor
That’s very, very bad
A symptom that something is very wrong
It is also a cause of yet more going wrong there… There’s nothing shielding the radiation that’s coming out of that fuel
The current plan is to invent something new that doesnt exist yet
The thing that does not exist that can allow us to even try to fix this problem
The thing that we could imagine might be useful to fix this problem, we’re going to have to invent
While the problem gets worse and worse and worse
It is beyond human capability
The really bad news is this is the good news… can’t even get near
They can’t even go near No. 1 and 3 to inspect
Nuclear problems are problems we don’t know how to fix

http://enenews.com/msnbc-on-reactor-no-2-it-is-beyond-human-capability-problem-gets-worse-and-worse-and-worse-the-really-bad-news-is-this-is-the-good-news-as-they-cant-even-determine-what-is-going-on-at-rea/comment-page-1

Radioactive Fuel Fires: Not Just a Japanese Problem

The spent fuel pools at Fukushima are currently the top short-term threat to humanity.
But fuel pools in the United States store an average of ten times more radioactive fuel than stored at Fukushima, have virtually no safety features, and are vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks.
http://singstock.com/world/pool-near-u-s-city-contains-more-radioactive-cesium-than-released-by-fukushima-chernobyl-and-all-nuclear-bomb-tests-combined/

stuar · 13-04-2012 12:34AM

A 5.6 mag just off Fukishima at 3:50pm today (Irish time). A little stronger and worse case scenario could have played out. This is far from over, I'd go as far and speculate "we ain't seen nothing yet".

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.php

Run_to_da_hills · 13-04-2012 09:33PM

stuar wrote: »

A 5.6 mag just off Fukishima at 3:50pm today (Irish time). A little stronger and worse case scenario could have played out. This is far from over, I'd go as far and speculate "we ain't seen nothing yet".

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40.php

5.6 wouldn't be considered too big on the scale but going by reports on the state of NO 4 it would not want to go too much higher than that.

Plutonium From Fukushima Has Now Circled The Planet.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/plutonium-from-fukushima-has-now.html

stuar · 21-04-2012 05:25PM

Yea true, but here's a video of a 5.2, off the coast of Fukishima theres a flurry of earthquakes some a little over some a little under, like a sledge hammer will take a few smacks to to take a half decent wall down, where a JCB will domolish it one go.

If reactor 4 is in the state some claim all these 4-6 mags close by have to be weakening it little by little until the straw that broke the camels back arrives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcBKlSUoscM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_40_eqs.php

Run_to_da_hills · 24-04-2012 10:58AM

If it reports this in mainstream things must be bad.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57419529-503543/some-japanese-towns-to-stay-dangerously-radioactive-for-at-least-a-decade/

nyarlothothep · 04-05-2012 01:31AM

Totally freaked out by this

http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/27/fukushima-hanging-by-a-thread/

I just really hope it doesn't end up as an end of the world scenario. The Japanese government and TEPCO have proven themselves beyond incompetent and the reigns of this operation should be taken over by an international organisation set up specifically to handle this immediately.

hooradiation · 04-05-2012 10:41AM

nyarlothothep wrote: »

IThe Japanese government and TEPCO have proven themselves beyond incompetent

I do not believe that's even close to begin accurate.

humanji · 04-05-2012 11:21AM

nyarlothothep wrote: »

Totally freaked out by this

http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/27/fukushima-hanging-by-a-thread/

I just really hope it doesn't end up as an end of the world scenario. The Japanese government and TEPCO have proven themselves beyond incompetent and the reigns of this operation should be taken over by an international organisation set up specifically to handle this immediately.

In fairness there's a billion different ways that humanity can be wiped out. There's little reason to worry about one more when there's nothing you can do about it. If this doesn't kill us, it'll be a supervolcano exploding, or a meteorite hitting us, or nanobots gone wild, or a virus out of control, or one of the many imminent wars getting out of hand, or global warming finishing us off, or the LHC creating a stable blackhole that can't be contained, or a robot uprising etc.

And if you survive all that, you're still going to die anyway. So don't worry about it.

nyarlothothep · 04-05-2012 12:15PM

humanji wrote: »

In fairness there's a billion different ways that humanity can be wiped out. There's little reason to worry about one more when there's nothing you can do about it. If this doesn't kill us, it'll be a supervolcano exploding, or a meteorite hitting us, or nanobots gone wild, or a virus out of control, or one of the many imminent wars getting out of hand, or global warming finishing us off, or the LHC creating a stable blackhole that can't be contained, or a robot uprising etc.

And if you survive all that, you're still going to die anyway. So don't worry about it.

Well yeah but still, this one is imminent plus the very worst part is that it's the direct outcome of government/corporate stupidity. They've lost the right to handle this situation, the operation should be taken over by an international body that can and will do what's necessary irrespective of petty human vested interests which are irrelevant and obsolete in such cases, the human race>diplomacy. The second great depression is a storm in a teacup compared to what nature is going to unleash. It's farcical how seriously people believe in maintaining a failed status quo and an illusionary crisis based in their minds when an actual, real crisis is waiting to happen.

Supervolcanos/meteorites? Well that's nature, nothing much we can do about it.
Nanobots/LHC/robot uprising? All in the name of science, we were trying to further our knowledge so it's noble and therefore ok.
War/weaponised plague? Both equivalent to Fukushima, therefore really bad.
Ordinary Plague? Nature is a bitch then.

stuar · 05-06-2012 09:39PM

Another 6.2 off the coast, very shallow at 6 miles down a little over an hour ago.

There's been a few lately, can't be very good for reactor 4, wonder what they're still not telling?.

2 headed worm found in Tokyo a few weeks ago, I'd reckon a few more mutations occurring in the area.

el diablo · 05-06-2012 09:46PM

stuar wrote: »

Another 6.2 off the coast, very shallow at 6 miles down a little over an hour ago.
There's been a few lately, can't be very good for reactor 4, wonder what they're still not telling?.

2 headed worm found in Tokyo a few weeks ago, I'd reckon a few more mutations occurring in the area.

Any links?

gbee · 05-06-2012 09:50PM

stuar wrote: »

2 headed worm found in Tokyo a few weeks ago, I'd reckon a few more mutations occurring in the area.

Forgive me but this is just too funny.

stuar · 05-06-2012 10:06PM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/us-quake-japan-idUSBRE85415820120605

http://fukushima-diary.com/tag/deformation/

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/double-headed-worm-in-miyagi/

Sorry wasn't Tokyo

stuar · 05-06-2012 10:12PM

gbee wrote: »

Forgive me but this is just too funny.

Your forgiven, won't be too funny when women have to push 2 headed babies though!

gbee · 05-06-2012 10:24PM

stuar wrote: »

Your forgiven, won't be too funny when women have to push 2 headed babies though!

Women are a long way from worms and fish AND we do have 60 years of childbirth from Southern Japan and eastern USA where fall out from dirty bombs was been absorbed for generations.

So we really do know what to expect, even if Fukushima Dai-ich 4 does it's worst, we know what WILL happen.

stuar · 05-06-2012 10:29PM

gbee wrote: »

Women are a long way from worms and fish AND we do have 60 years of childbirth from Southern Japan and eastern USA where fall out from dirty bombs was been absorbed for generations.

So we really do know what to expect, even if Fukushima Dai-ich 4 does it's worst, we know what WILL happen.

Deformed Chernobyl babies!

Doctors Blame Chernobyl For Birth Of 2-headed Baby
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-08-24/news/9308240944_1_chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-moldova-explosion-at-chernobyl
August 24, 1993
Doctors Monday said the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster was probably responsible for the birth of a two-headed baby in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. Doctors at the maternity hospital in Kishinyov said the girl was born Aug. 18 with two heads, two hearts, two sets of lungs and two spinal cords, although she had only one set of limbs. The mother previously had given birth to three normal children. Her doctors said it was Moldova's worst mutation linked to the radiation from the explosion at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine. Doctors said the baby had almost no chance of survival.

http://www.google.com/m/search?client=mobile-skyfire&q=chernobyl+child+deformities&site=images&tab=wi&ei=13nOT5iJJLCa0QX3xQE&sa=N&ei=13nOT5iJJLCa0QX3xQE&ved=0CAMQ1wY

gbee · 05-06-2012 10:35PM

stuar wrote: »

Deformed Chernobyl babies! ]

Not denying, but in relation to your statement?

Run_to_da_hills · 06-06-2012 08:52AM

"Even if the Japanese gov’t goes into bankruptcy, it still won’t be enough to compensate all the damages that will be produced’ from Fukushima Daiichi."

A recent Tepco press conference on No 4, look at all the empty seats on the bottom picture. :eek:

Run_to_da_hills · 15-06-2012 11:47AM

Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1

Frightening stuff you won't see in the mainstream media.

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/06/15/fukushima-daiichi-from-nuclear-power-plant-to-nuclear-weapon-2/

Monty Burnz · 15-06-2012 11:49AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

A recent Tepco press conference on No 4, look at all the empty seats on the bottom picture. :eek:

They all died!

Run_to_da_hills · 15-06-2012 12:27PM

Monty Burnz wrote: »

They all died!

Too soon for that.

Jonny7 · 15-06-2012 03:14PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1

Frightening stuff you won't see in the mainstream media.

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/06/15/fukushima-daiichi-from-nuclear-power-plant-to-nuclear-weapon-2/

If "alternative media" printed a story that the moon was made of cheese would you believe it because it wasn't in the mainstream?

I wouldn't worry about any of the stories from that site, they just tie random world current events together to make exagerated fear-mongering stories that their readers lap up.

Run_to_da_hills · 15-06-2012 03:44PM

Jonny7 wrote: »

If "alternative media" printed a story that the moon was made of cheese would you believe it because it wasn't in the mainstream?

I wouldn't worry about any of the stories from that site, they just tie random world current events together to make exagerated fear-mongering stories that their readers lap up.

We will know soon enough whose telling the truth when we start to see stuff like this appearing.

shedweller · 15-06-2012 03:50PM

Jonny7 wrote: »

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon #1

Frightening stuff you won't see in the mainstream media.

http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/06/15/fukushima-daiichi-from-nuclear-power-plant-to-nuclear-weapon-2/

If "alternative media" printed a story that the moon was made of cheese would you believe it because it wasn't in the mainstream?

I wouldn't worry about any of the stories from that site, they just tie random world current events together to make exagerated fear-mongering stories that their readers lap up.

Dont be silly, the moons not made of cheese!!!!

Jhonny7, are you saying that the nuclear material that used to be in the reactor building and cooling pool but is now all over the ground and in the waters offshore are safe? Sure, why did they bother with all the expensive shielding then? The nuclear industry could have saved billions by not having to make expensive shielding!
And lets not forget that DU is waste material left over from the manufacture of nuclear fuel. The fuel part of uranium is less than one percent so there is a lot of DU stored. You tell me some uses for DU and tell me if we are still wrong to criticise the nuclear industry.

hooradiation · 15-06-2012 03:58PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

We will know soon enough whose telling the truth when we start to see stuff like this appearing.

Good thing there's never been an aberration born in circumstances other than the ones your predicting here.

I mean, we can't have nature itself undermining your prediction.

Monty Burnz · 15-06-2012 07:52PM

hooradiation wrote: »

Good thing there's never been an aberration born in circumstances other than the ones your predicting here.

I mean, we can't have nature itself undermining your prediction.

Wait, where did that photo come from!! :eek: You know you're in trouble when the future is so radioactive it sends photos backwards through time!

stuar · 08-12-2012 09:18AM

I was wondering where this thread had gone, I think it will become active again after yesterday's 7.3 off the coast of Fukushima and prediction by a Mr. Nagai from Japanese Meteorological agency who warned that a bigger earthquake of M8.0 is expected.

All the news of yesterdays quake mainly says everything is ok, no major tsunami, no deaths, Fukuishima plant ok, etc........although they had to release some air because there was a build up of pressure in reactor 1 building, never said how much "air" they released or which way it blew, but everything ok at Fukushima!
http://fukushima-diary.com/category/dnews/

The media black-out of what's going on in reactor 4 is continuing, a Japanese ambassador has confirmed that the ground under reactor 4 is sinking, yet when I do a google news search I get this:

Your search - fukushima reactor 4 sinking - did not match any news results.

Suggestions:
Make sure all words are spelled correctly.

Try different keywords.

Try more general keywords.

Try fewer keywords.

A web search throws up a bit about it.

Gundersen: Japan ambassador confirms Fukushima Unit 4 is sinking unevenly — Building “may begin to be tilting” (AUDIO)

http://enenews.com/gundersen-fukushima-unit-4-sinking-confirms-japan-ambassador-building-begin-be-tilting-audio

Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse

http://www.naturalnews.com/037556_Fukushima_power_plant_collapse.html#ixzz2ERb1QKQT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIdDCWyy-Es

Then you have this:

Fukushima safety scientists paid by nuclear operators

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10852528

So considering TEPCO have lied and played down this from day one, I'd imagine yesterday's quake has caused yet more damage and danger than is being said and continuing the media blackout.

Then the fact that:
The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4

An Urgent Request on UN Intervention to Stabilize the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Nuclear Fuel

Hasn't and isn't going away, is sinking and if the predicted M8.0 does arrive (seeing that yesterday's M7.3 had the same characteristics as the March 9, 2011, M7.2 foreshock, which occurred 2 days before the M9.0 that started all this to begin with)
then we just might be fecked.

Run_to_da_hills · 08-12-2012 12:11PM

The Disastrous Status Of Fukushima Daiich

Workers can't work in Buildings 1, 2 and 3 because the radiation is too intense. Steel is corroding from saltwater, threatening pipes and pumps which cool the remains of three destroyed reactors.

Radiation is crumbling concrete onto dust.

Zirconium cladding is so corroded from seawater that it is doubtful that SFP 1, 2, 3 and 4 can ever be emptied. Corium under Building 4 has cracked the foundation and the building is sinking unevenly.

Ground water contacting corium in the mudrock below Buildings1, 2 and 3 becomes highly contaminated, and flows directly into the Pacific Ocean, killing the Pacific Seafood Industry.

Hawaii milk is so comtaminated that farmers are feeding boron to their cows.
Two US cities on RadiationNetwork.com right now measure over 60cpm of radiation in the air.

TEPCO seems to have lost track of the corium from 3 nuclear plants. And then there are the two earthquakes of 6.2 and 7.3 which hit just offshore since midnight...

From Richard Wilcox, PhD
By PhilipUpNorth
12-7-12

Probably one of the best up to date truth sites on Fukushima..,

Jonny7 · 08-12-2012 02:55PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The Disastrous Status Of Fukushima Daiich

Workers can't work in Buildings 1, 2 and 3 because the radiation is too intense. Steel is corroding from saltwater, threatening pipes and pumps which cool the remains of three destroyed reactors.

Eh, can someone confirm this? also what the hell is that site? (www.rense.com)

08-12-2012 03:42PM

Jonny7 wrote: »

also what the hell is that site? (www.rense.com)

It's a dumpping ground for crank news stories. It's somewhere where people can spread their imaginings and lies as if they were news without the pesky annoyances like fact checking and being honest.

Nuclear fallout? / Media blackout?

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