FUKUSHIMA Updates : Your Front Row Seats To The End Of The World........

[GOD IS MY DOG]

meanwhile at Fukushima..................


Inside Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors 1-3 the pipes (which had circulated cooling water) are broken, which caused a meltdown. This means the nuclear fuel overheated, melted, and continued to melt anything it touched. Thus it melted through the bottom of the reactor, and then through the concrete floor of the building, and sank into the ground for two and a half years. TEPCO workers have been desperately pouring water into the reactor, but irradiated water is leaking onto the surface of the ground around the reactor. But deep under the surface the ground water is also being irradiated, and the ground water flows out to sea and mixes with the seawater through sea-bottom springs. It is too late to do anything about this.


“The quality of work is mediocre because the management asks us to work fast, but the guys aren’t experienced enough,” explains the supervisor of a radioactivity inspection company, in charge of 50 workers. “Sometimes they don’t even know the names of the tools — these deficiencies partly explain the contaminated water leaks that have increased considerably over the last few months. The people we are speaking to say the leaks been there for a while, but no one talked about them.”


Japan’s government admit this week that the radiation cleanup near Fukushima nuclear plant is way behind schedule........a former worker said it was a futile task. “We’d decontaminate around a house,” he said, “but if it rained, more contamination from outside the perimeter would pour right in.”


Worker at Fukushima nuclear power plant tells CNN they are not treated well. Workers are forbidden to talk to the media. “We only know the facts when we watch TV news and read the newspapers the next day. There is no explanation about what is happening and how dangerous it might be. Excessive cost-cutting is making workers suffer in terms of payments and health.”

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Oct. 24, 2013: Highest radiation level detected in water found in drainage ditch at Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive strontium and other beta ray emitting substances measuring 140,000 becquerels per liter were sampled. TEPCO officials said the high radiation level taken on Oct. 22 were 59,000 becquerels per liter.

Oct. 23, 2013: Tepco Says Rains Causing Spikes in Fukushima Radiation Readings as water samples from another ditch had readings of 15,000 becquerels of beta radiation, higher than the record 2,200 becquerels in an Oct. 1 sample from the same site.

 

[bryanlim1972]

if there really isn't a solution, then we're really running out of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards#Concord_.28Concordia.29

Oct. 24, 2013: Highest radiation level detected in water found in drainage ditch at Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive strontium and other beta ray emitting substances measuring 140,000 becquerels per liter were sampled. TEPCO officials said the high radiation level taken on Oct. 22 were 59,000 becquerels per liter.

Oct. 23, 2013: Tepco Says Rains Causing Spikes in Fukushima Radiation Readings as water samples from another ditch had readings of 15,000 becquerels of beta radiation, higher than the record 2,200 becquerels in an Oct. 1 sample from the same site.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

any of the Fushima 50 or 500 still alive boh......................?

 

[bryanlim1972]

any of the Fushima 50 or 500 still alive boh......................?

so far as i know, only the lead manager died. he is a hero. i think he died 1-2 years after the incident. some believe he might have been the catalyst that saved Tokyo.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Head researcher “is sounding the alarm” over striking changes in killer whales off Canada and Alaska since 2011 — “Unusually high mortality rate” and “odd behavior” — “Experts fear something’s wrong with the environment”

There have been some puzzling changes in the behaviour of northern resident killer whales that live off the north-central coast of British Columbia and Alaska, says a marine mammal scientist from the Vancouver Aquarium. “They weren’t vocalizing, and that was quite a striking change after years and years of being very familiar with how noisy they are.” Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard said the team also noticed an unusually high mortality rate among pod matriarchs, with seven or eight deaths in the past two years instead of one or two deaths per year. The alarming observations come on the heels of a study revealing that the number of killer whales in Puget Sound is dwindling – especially among reproductive age males.


Between Sept 2011 and Sept 2013, over 44.9 terabecquerels of radioactive contamination were released to the sea and the air from Fukushima Daiichi. This is an underestimate since these numbers do not include all types isotopes or types of radiation. This does not include the initial releases from the plant during the worst of the disaster. The number was estimated by taking the daily sea release estimates done by Michio Aoyama. Aoyama’s estimates are for cesium 137 and strontium 90 only but these are not the only contaminants leaking out to sea. For the air releases we took TEPCO’s admission in July of 2012 that the reactors were leaking 10 million becquerels per hour.

 

[bryanlim1972]

i think they should nuke the whole place.

Head researcher “is sounding the alarm” over striking changes in killer whales off Canada and Alaska since 2011 — “Unusually high mortality rate” and “odd behavior” — “Experts fear something’s wrong with the environment”

There have been some puzzling changes in the behaviour of northern resident killer whales that live off the north-central coast of British Columbia and Alaska, says a marine mammal scientist from the Vancouver Aquarium. “They weren’t vocalizing, and that was quite a striking change after years and years of being very familiar with how noisy they are.” Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard said the team also noticed an unusually high mortality rate among pod matriarchs, with seven or eight deaths in the past two years instead of one or two deaths per year. The alarming observations come on the heels of a study revealing that the number of killer whales in Puget Sound is dwindling – especially among reproductive age males.


Between Sept 2011 and Sept 2013, over 44.9 terabecquerels of radioactive contamination were released to the sea and the air from Fukushima Daiichi. This is an underestimate since these numbers do not include all types isotopes or types of radiation. This does not include the initial releases from the plant during the worst of the disaster. The number was estimated by taking the daily sea release estimates done by Michio Aoyama. Aoyama’s estimates are for cesium 137 and strontium 90 only but these are not the only contaminants leaking out to sea. For the air releases we took TEPCO’s admission in July of 2012 that the reactors were leaking 10 million becquerels per hour.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

There are 3 major problems at Fukushima:


3 missing reactor cores
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Occasional steam eruptions beneath the reactors indicate the cores are still hot and have entered the aquifer below the plant, contaminating a much larger area and requiring Tokyo, to be evacuated.

Another concern is the missing cores in the aquifer could create a super-heated pressurized steam reaction beneath a layer of caprock causing a major ‘hydrovolcanic’ explosion.



Radiated water has been leaking from the plant in mass quantities for 2.5 years
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Large reserves of groundwater which is coming in contact with the missing cores is migrating towards the ocean at the rate of 4 meters per month with an estimated 300 tons of contaminated water is flowing into the ocean daily.

TEPCO has 330,000 tons of water stored in 1,000 above-ground tanks and an undetermined amount in underground storage tanks. Each day TEPCO injects 400 tons of water into the destroyed facilities for cooling; about half is recycled, and the rest goes into the tanks. They are constantly building new storage tanks for this radioactive water but they were put together rapidly and are already leaking. They expect to have 800,000 tons of radioactive water stored on the site by 2016 but these unstable tanks are at risk from earthquakes or storms.

The FDA announced it had stopped testing fish in the Pacific Ocean for radiation. But, independent research showed every bluefin tuna tested off California has been contaminated with radiation.

On October 11, 2013, TEPCO disclosed the radioactivity level spiked 6,500 times at a Fukushima well.



11,000 spent nuclear fuel rods stored at the plant with 1,533 in very precarious and dangerous position
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1,533 spent fuel rods are in a pool 4 floors above Reactor 4, stored 100 feet in the air in damaged racks. They weigh 400 tons and contain radiation equivalent to 14,000 times of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

The building in which these rods are stored has been damaged and is buckling and sagging, vulnerable to collapse if an earthquake or storm hits the area. Additionally, the ground under the building is saturated with water and could cause it to tilt.

The fuel rods are clad in zirconium which can ignite if they lose coolant or if rods break or hit each other. There are 11,000 fuel rods in the plant, 6,000 in a cooling pool less than 50 meters from the sagging Reactor 4. If a fire erupts in the spent fuel pool at Reactor 4, it could ignite the rods in the cooling pool and set off an unstoppable chain reaction.

Since seawater was used as coolant, it causes corrosion because the rods were never meant to be in salt water. The condition of the rods is unknown. There is also debris in the coolant which may have damaged the fuel rods as the roof has fallen in, which further distorted the racks, noting that if a fuel rod snaps, it will release radioactive gas which will require evacuation of the plant.


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A Japanese farmer said 16 out of his 30 horses had died in mysterious circumstances within weeks. Autopsies on the horses found no evidence of disease and tests revealed cesium levels at 200 becquerels per kilo – 4 times higher than the government-set safety limit.


60% of sea stars species are sick or dying near Canada and USA.......they're melting and turning into goo.........there would be an apparently healthy one in really close proximity to a sick one with no concentration of sick ones or healthy ones.

 

[Force 136]

"The real work at Fukushima Daiichi is being done by the general contractors, with the smaller companies picking up the crumbs," Yoshikawa said. "They outbid each other for contracts and so end up with less money to pay their workers. They have no choice but to hire cheap labour."

Conditions for Tepco workers living in J Village – a football training complex just south of Fukushima Daiichi – have only recently improved.

For two years after the disaster, those living in prefabricated units at J Village had to walk hundreds of metres to use communal toilets at night. Tepco belatedly installed private toilets earlier this year after the firm's incoming president, Naomi Hirose, heeded health experts' warnings that the lack of facilities was compromising employees' health.

"The managers at Tepco headquarters have little idea of how their Fukushima Daiichi employees live," said Tanigawa, the public health professor. "The company's management is focused on the compensation problem and doesn't want to be accused of only looking after its own when there are still evacuees who haven't been compensated."

But as concern grows over Tepco's ability to address the myriad technical challenges facing Fukushima Daiichi – starting next month with the removal of 1,300 spent fuel assemblies from the top of reactor No 4 – the unfolding human crisis is being largely ignored.

There is still no full-time mental health counselling available at the plant, said Shigemura, whose team visits about once a month to talk to workers and administer pharmacological treatments. "That amazes me," he said.

"Tepco workers worry about their health, but also about whether Tepco will take care of them if they fall ill in the future. They put their lives and their health on the line, but in the years to come, they wonder if they will just be discarded."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/15/fukushima-nuclear-power-plant-cleanup

 

[tonychat]

http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress...eing-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation/

Fukushima: 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation…

The map above comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain.

Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima…

1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores…

Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses.

The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement.

2. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline…

At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.”

3. Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low. Many are blaming Fukushima.

4. Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.

5. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast.

6. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coastcould double over the next five to six years.

7. Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.

8. One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.

9. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…

• 73 percent of mackerel tested
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

10. Canadian authorities are finding extremely high levels of nuclear radiation in certain fish samples…

Some fish samples tested to date have had very high levels of radiation: one sea bass sample collected in July, for example, had 1,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium.

11. Some experts believe that we could see very high levels of cancer along the west coast just from people eating contaminated fish…

“Look at what’s going on now: They’re dumping huge amounts of radioactivity into the ocean — no one expected that in 2011,” Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear policy lecturer at the University of California-Santa Cruz, told Global Security Newswire. “We could have large numbers of cancer from ingestion of fish.”

12. BBC News recently reported that radiation levels around Fukushima are “18 times higher” than previously believed.

13. An EU-funded study concluded that Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere.

14. Atmospheric radiation from Fukushima reached the west coast of the United States within a few days back in 2011.

15. At this point, 300 tons of contaminated water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.

16. A senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute says that “30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium” are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.

17. According to Tepco, a total of somewhere between 20 trillion and 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have gotten into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima disaster first began.

18. According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.

19. It has been estimated that up to 100 times as much nuclear radiation has been released into the ocean from Fukushima than was released during the entire Chernobyl disaster.

20. One recent study concluded that a very large plume of cesium-137 from the Fukushima disaster will start flowing into U.S. coastal watersearly next year…

Ocean simulations showed that the plume of radioactive cesium-137 released by the Fukushima disaster in 2011 could begin flowing into U.S. coastal waters starting in early 2014 and peak in 2016.

21. It is being projected that significant levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean by the year 2020.

22. It is being projected that the entire Pacific Ocean will soon “have cesium levels 5 to 10 times higher” than what we witnessed during the era of heavy atomic bomb testing in the Pacific many decades ago.

23. The immense amounts of nuclear radiation getting into the water in the Pacific Ocean has caused environmental activist Joe Martino to issue the following warning…

Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over.

24. The Iodine-131, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 that are constantly coming from Fukushima are going to affect the health of those living the the northern hemisphere for a very, very long time. Just consider whatHarvey Wasserman had to say about this…

Iodine-131, for example, can be ingested into the thyroid, where it emits beta particles (electrons) that damage tissue. A plague of damaged thyroids has already been reported among as many as 40 percent of the children in the Fukushima area. That percentage can only go higher. In developing youngsters, it can stunt both physical and mental growth. Among adults it causes a very wide range of ancillary ailments, including cancer.

Strontium-90’s half-life is around 29 years. It mimics calcium and goes to our bones.

25. According to a recent Planet Infowars report, the California coastline is being transformed into “a dead zone”…

The California coastline is becoming like a dead zone.

If you haven’t been to a California beach lately, you probably don’t know that the rocks are unnaturally CLEAN – there’s hardly any kelp, barnacles, sea urchins, etc. anymore and the tide pools are similarly eerily devoid of crabs, snails and other scurrying signs of life… and especially as compared to 10 – 15 years ago when one was wise to wear tennis shoes on a trip to the beach in order to avoid cutting one’s feet on all the STUFF of life – broken shells, bones, glass, driftwood, etc.

There are also days when I am hard-pressed to find even a half dozen seagulls and/or terns on the county beach.

You can still find a few gulls trolling the picnic areas and some of the restaurants (with outdoor seating areas) for food, of course, but, when I think back to 10 – 15 years ago, the skies and ALL the beaches were literally filled with seagulls and the haunting sound of their cries both day and night…

NOW it’s unnaturally quiet.

26. A study conducted last year came to the conclusion that radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster could negatively affect human life along the west coast of North America from Mexico to Alaska “for decades”.

27. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete.

28. Yale Professor Charles Perrow is warning that if the cleanup of Fukushima is not handled with 100% precision that humanity could be threatened “for thousands of years“…

Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.

Are you starting to understand why so many people are so deeply concerned about what is going on at Fukushima?
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[GOD IS MY DOG]

There are 3 major problems at Fukushima:


3 missing reactor cores
----------------------------

Occasional steam eruptions beneath the reactors indicate the cores are still hot and have entered the aquifer below the plant, contaminating a much larger area and requiring Tokyo, to be evacuated.

Another concern is the missing cores in the aquifer could create a super-heated pressurized steam reaction beneath a layer of caprock causing a major ‘hydrovolcanic’ explosion.



Radiated water has been leaking from the plant in mass quantities for 2.5 years
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Large reserves of groundwater which is coming in contact with the missing cores is migrating towards the ocean at the rate of 4 meters per month with an estimated 300 tons of contaminated water is flowing into the ocean daily.

TEPCO has 330,000 tons of water stored in 1,000 above-ground tanks and an undetermined amount in underground storage tanks. Each day TEPCO injects 400 tons of water into the destroyed facilities for cooling; about half is recycled, and the rest goes into the tanks. They are constantly building new storage tanks for this radioactive water but they were put together rapidly and are already leaking. They expect to have 800,000 tons of radioactive water stored on the site by 2016 but these unstable tanks are at risk from earthquakes or storms.

The FDA announced it had stopped testing fish in the Pacific Ocean for radiation. But, independent research showed every bluefin tuna tested off California has been contaminated with radiation.

On October 11, 2013, TEPCO disclosed the radioactivity level spiked 6,500 times at a Fukushima well.



11,000 spent nuclear fuel rods stored at the plant with 1,533 in very precarious and dangerous position
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1,533 spent fuel rods are in a pool 4 floors above Reactor 4, stored 100 feet in the air in damaged racks. They weigh 400 tons and contain radiation equivalent to 14,000 times of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

The building in which these rods are stored has been damaged and is buckling and sagging, vulnerable to collapse if an earthquake or storm hits the area. Additionally, the ground under the building is saturated with water and could cause it to tilt.

The fuel rods are clad in zirconium which can ignite if they lose coolant or if rods break or hit each other. There are 11,000 fuel rods in the plant, 6,000 in a cooling pool less than 50 meters from the sagging Reactor 4. If a fire erupts in the spent fuel pool at Reactor 4, it could ignite the rods in the cooling pool and set off an unstoppable chain reaction.

Since seawater was used as coolant, it causes corrosion because the rods were never meant to be in salt water. The condition of the rods is unknown. There is also debris in the coolant which may have damaged the fuel rods as the roof has fallen in, which further distorted the racks, noting that if a fuel rod snaps, it will release radioactive gas which will require evacuation of the plant.


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seriously, no need to make any long term plans............until the thousands of fuel rods are SAFELY removed.................assuming it can be done..........or it's not already too late..............

 

[JeanGrey]

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[SHA0KAHN]

Clones masturbating in this thread. I should get mine in here too.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Fukushima worker diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2012, now stomach and intestinal cancers found recently — Each developed independently, not from one spreading — Worked at plant for just 4 months in 2011

A 55 year old man who worked at Fukushima Daiichi from July 2011 to October 2011 has filed a claim for workers’ comp, the 4th case involving radiation. He had operated heavy machinery, clearing rubble around the reactors. He had to leave the workplace after 4 months, when his exposure exceeded the 50 msv/year legal limit.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Nuclear Expert: Fuel rods in Fukushima Unit 4 “may not be in their original position” — Concern over “way the spent fuel is sitting in pool”

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Top Canadian nuclear scientist: “Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine” — I’ve seen a paper which says it’s bye-bye Japan and to evacuate N. America’s west coast if Unit 4 goes and rods are exposed.''


NBC News: “Grisly disease decimating starfish populations… from Orange County to Alaska” — Scientists: They are melting away, problem spreading at “scary” rate.

IAEA : Core meltdown risk now around 1,000% higher because of Fukushima — Nuclear disaster “a certainty” over next 30 years in Europe.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Professor: There are fuel rods probably ‘fused’ in Fukushima Unit 4; Pool on bent legs, and lateral supports were not put in when first built — AP: International concern about “catastrophic open-air meltdown” involving 256 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel.

Japanese Diplomat: Fukushima disaster “to go on almost to infinity, I’m afraid it will never be resolved”

Sardine population plummets along U.S. West Coast — AP: Collapse of species feared — “Canadian Pacific fishermen catch no sardines in 2013″

Melting sea stars die off on West Coast — doubled in just a few days.

 

[tonychat]

if this catastrophic is not resolved, the world will be at risk and you can't have any more seafood.

so you guys can start blaming japan for it.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

better stock up on Ayam brand sardines before price go up

 

[tonychat]

better stock up on Ayam brand sardines before price go up

luckily i am a vegetarian.