Fukushima

[mbrownn]

Averaged over a year that's 173 times more radiation than I was allowed to be exposed to as a nuclear worker in one year. In other words a years dose in two days, Under the old US standards I think it's a years dose in 6 days. Time to evacuate.

I missed that Fairwinds report so thanks for that. I don't think people understand the ramifications of all this, how hard can you blow the whistle before people will wake up? As a result of this life on this planet will be irreversibly changed and things are getting worse.

[blackchisel97]

Cesium from Fukushima plant fell all over Japan

Cesium from Fukushima plant fell all over Japan, AJW by The Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 26, 2011:

Radioactive substances from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant have now been confirmed in all prefectures, including Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, about 1,700 kilometers from the plant, according to the science ministry.

The ministry said it concluded the radioactive substances came from the stricken nuclear plant because, in all cases, they contained cesium-134, which has short half-life of two years. [...]

But the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s survey results released on Nov. 25 showed that fallout from the Fukushima plant has spread across Japan. [...]

The ministry also said Nov. 25 that it will conduct aerial measurements of cesium accumulations in soil in regions outside the 22 prefectures starting next year. That is because small amounts of cesium have been detected in dust deposits in Hokkaido and western Japan.

Survey details:

* Included the cumulative densities of radioactive substances in dust that fell into receptacles from March – June.
* No figures were available for Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, where the measurement equipment is said to have been not operating.
* Only one measurement station was used for each of the other 45 prefectures.

Gov’t Survey: Shinjuku, Tokyo has third highest cesium levels of all testing locations throughout Japan — “Large amounts of radioactive dust fell in Tokyo”

Cesium from Fukushima plant fell all over Japan, AJW by The Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 26, 2011:

[...] the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s survey results released on Nov. 25 [...]

The highest combined cumulative density of radioactive cesium-134 and cesium-137 was found in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, at 40,801 becquerels per square meter. That was followed by 22,570 becquerels per square meter in Yamagata, the capital of Yamagata Prefecture, and 17,354 becquerels per square meter in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. [...]

Large amounts of radioactive dust fell in Tokyo, but a separate survey has detected relatively low accumulations of cesium in the soil. [...]

Note: Figures were not available for Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures; Just one measurement station was used for each of the other 45 prefectures


Journalist dies of acute lymphocytic leukemia — Was living inside 30 km zone to support Fukushima

Another man died of acute lymphocytic leukemia, Fukushima Diary, Nov. 27, 2011:

Mr. Abe Hiroto, 23-years-old

* Died from acute lymphocytic leukemia
* Wrote columns for a fishing magazine Rod ＆Reel
* Featured on Rod ＆Reel’s upcoming January issue, sold on Nov. 26
* Was supporting Fukushima by eating Fukushima fish
* Was living in 30 km area, eating fish from the rivers and ocean
* Grandfather was from Fukushima

Mainichi: Decontamination workers not showing up, worried about health — Went from 33 companies down to 2 — Radiation levels persisting — Expected to take much longer

Decontamination work at homes in Fukushima not going well as radiation lingers, The Mainichi Daily News, Nov. 25, 2011 (Emphasis Added):

* Work to decontaminate homes and yards in a district here is not proceeding as hoped, as radiation levels persist and decontamination workers worried about their health stay away.
* The city began decontamination work in the Onami district [57 km / 35 mi. from Fukushima meltdowns] on Oct. 18.
* Originally, there was a plan to complete decontamination work on all 367 households in the district by the end of the year, but decontamination work is now expected to take much longer.
* Thirty-three companies were originally planned to take part, but due to fears about worker safety, most canceled and only two companies joined the work when it started in October.
* A man in his 60s who lives in the area said, “I was hoping decontamination work would finish before the snow fell. There’s been no explanation of why things have been put off, and I’ve become more distrustful.”

Six homes were monitored where decontamination was carried out There was an average drop of:

* 70 percent for front of entrances
* 70 percent for gravel parking spots
* 30 percent drop for roofs
* 25 percent drop for asphalt in the yard
* 22 percent drop for second floor interiors

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[blackchisel97]

Tokyo may have to evacuate...

AEC chairman warned people within 170 km of Fukushima plant might need to relocate, Mainichi, Dec. 24, 2011.
Japan Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Shunsuke Kondo

Head of the government’s nuclear energy panel
Warned in March
All residents in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant might need to be relocated in a worst-case scenario
Made the warning in a report numbering about 20 pages
Compiled on March 25
Submitted it to then Prime Minister Naoto Kan
Kondo admitted having compiled the report

‘Actual’ Scenario

At the time, the plant had lost its reactor core cooling functions due to the loss of all external power, hydrogen explosions had ripped through the plant’s No. 1, 3 and 4 reactor buildings, and radioactive substances were leaking from the No. 2 reactor due to a meltdown. [...]

‘Worst-case’ Scenario (See below)

Another hydrogen explosion could occur in the No. 1, 2 or 3 reactor buildings, raising radiation levels
Continuing aftershocks would prevent workers from cooling down the reactors for an extended period
All fuel in a pool for spent nuclear fuel in the No. 4 reactor building pool would melt

Contamination Levels

Kondo estimated the level of radioactive cesium per square meter of soil in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the plant would surpass 1.48 million becquerels — as high as that around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant shortly after the crisis there broke out.

Tokyo and Beyond

[H]e estimated areas within 250 kilometers from the plant, including Tokyo and Yokohama, would be contaminated with radioactive substances to a degree that residents would have to be evacuated at least temporarily.

Prime Minister

In an interview with the Mainichi in September, Kan said, “All residents would have to be evacuated in areas 100, 200 or even 300 kilometers from the plant if the leak of radioactive substances can’t be stopped.” He apparently made the remark with Kondo’s worst-case scenario in mind.

Though there were no additional hydrogen explosions, three reactors did have meltdowns, melt-outs and possible melt-throughs — as well as possible nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3.

The main claim of those who argue the worst case did not occur would likely be the lack of melted fuel in Spent Fuel Pool No. 4… though a recent international study appears to indicate damage to the pool’s fuel did occur:
Top scientists refute Japan gov't: "Copious quantities" of radioactivity leaked from Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 -- A "significant part" of overall cesium release.


In Japan, Radiation Fears Reshape Lives, NPR, December 24, 2011 [Emphasis Added]:

[...] While Fukushima Prefecture in the northeast was hardest hit, radiation “hot spots” keep turning up in neighborhoods far from the accident. The latest was at a school, minutes from where I live in Tokyo. [...]

Some terrified moms now cook only with bottled water and ingredients sourced from distant regions of Japan or overseas.

While many are scared, some are downright paranoid. Kaori Umezu is a young white-collar worker. Since 3/11, she has become a virtual recluse, leaving her house only for work. [...]

The bottom line is that no one really knows how much this ongoing exposure is going to raise our risk of cancer. The true impact is still unknown, yet to be learned as the world watches. The legacy of 3/11 is to turn us all into a nation of guinea pigs.

And what of other health and developmental problems in addition to cancer? (DNA damage, circulatory disease, heart attacks and strokes, brain development, many others).
In Japan, Radiation Fears Reshape Lives : NPR

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[Aaron]

support relief efforts

Donation link for anyone that still wants to support the relief efforts.

Japan Earthquake & Tsunami | Donation

[mbrownn]

It is a fact that the entire world is effected by Fukushima, the greatest single man made disaster on earth. Over time the deaths from this are likely to to be 100s or even 1000s of millions although it would be impossible to prove. We have shortened the lifespans of everything on the planet and we should close ALL nuclear facilities as quickly as it can be done. Now is the time to apply pressure on out out of control governments who use the waste from such plants in acts of genocide against Arab nations. It is the same governments that force us to have GMOs as food and all the other bad things happening to us.

Even the so called "pro nuclear" people accept that Fukushima is not an acceptable price to pay. Lets see if they remain pro nuclear when we send them in to clean up the mess and give them the same protection and conditions that they have given us. We can feed them 100% GMO's too in bisphenol A containers and fluoridated water. I could go on and on but I think you get my point.

[blackchisel97]

More bad news...

Fairewinds: Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl — Japanese face tragedy of a magnitude world has never experienced

2011 Fairewinds Fundraiser, Maggie Gundersen, Founding Director Fairewinds Energy Education Corp, Dec. 27, 2011:

Email Excerpts

As we wrap up 2011, we want to thank all our friends and supporters who have sustained and inspired us as we told the truth about the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident in Japan.

The collusion between nuclear regulators and the nuclear industry to cover-up the truth have led many children in Japan continue to receive exposures to radiation levels more than 10 times higher than that of the average nuclear power plant worker in the US, and, children are much more sensitive to radiation exposure than adults. [...]

The on-going nuclear accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant site in Japan is the worst industrial accident the world has ever faced and the Japanese people are facing an ever unfolding and expanding tragedy of a magnitude the world has never experienced. [...]

Fairewinds and its team of volunteers will continue to raise its voice to tell the truth about the Fukushima accidents, which dwarf the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents, in the ongoing tragic exposure to children in Japan and around the world. [...]

Interview with Arnold Gundersen, Five OClock Shadow Radio by Robert Knight on WBAI, Dec. 27, 2011:

Arnold Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates, Nuclear Engineer

Transcript Summary

At 5:20 in

Quake cracked the foundations of reactor buildings
Groundwater is coming in and radiation is going out into the soil
Tepco building dyke on ocean side, but not building it on the land side
If it [radioactive water from Fukushima reactors] goes inland, Robert, I think we’re looking at a hundred years where people will not be able to use that groundwater....

Water underground is contaminated, Fukushima Diary, Dec. 26, 2011:

Ministry of the Environment measured cesium from well water at 4 locations in Minamisoma [25 km north of Fukushima plant]. It was about 1.3~14.7 Bq/kg, it was for drinking. The samples were taken in October and November. [...]

WBAI Archives for Five OClock Shadow


AP: Radiation-contaminated groundwater feared moving toward 4th largest river in US — Over 200 miles inland — Posing danger to fish, people

New concerns about Hanford nuclear waste plant, AP, Dec. 12, 2011:

CAPTION: The H reactor is one of nine nuclear reactors at Hanford, where it is feared that contaminated groundwater is moving steadily toward the Columbia River and posing a danger to fish and the people who eat them

[...] But the worst of the waste is still decades away from being completely removed. Millions of gallons of a highly radioactive stew — enough to fill dozens of Olympic-size swimming pools — are stored in aging underground tanks. Some of those tanks have leaked, threatening the groundwater and the river. [...]

[T]wo Hanford workers filed suit as whistleblowers, claiming they were targeted for reprisals after raising safety concerns. The largest of the safety complaints deal with specifications for the process by which the waste would be mixed. The whistleblowers say, as specified, it could result in dangerous gas concentrations as well as a settling of waste within the mixing vessels.

Those issues largely center on a pretreatment building where the worst waste will be funneled [...] Any problems there would be significant because workers will not be able to enter certain areas once operations commence because of high levels of radioactivity. [...]

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America [and] fourth-largest river in the U.S., and it has the greatest flow of any North American river draining into the Pacific (Wikipedia)

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[Mad Scientist]

Ah but don't worry the government is going protect the environment by calling for the shutting down of old coal fired generating plants.

With politicians like this who needs enemies?

[blackchisel97]

NHK starting to broadcast truth

ICRP underestimated the low dose symptom risk by 85%, Fukushima Diary, Dec. 30, 2011 - ICRP underestimated the low dose symptom risk by 85% | Fukushima Diary

The report also notes that the ICRP is supported by

Nuclear Regulatory Commission USA: 250,000 USD
Commission of the European Communities : 130,455 USD
Department of Nuclear Safety Germany : 115,021 USD
Japan Atomic Energy Agency : 45,000 USD
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission : 40,000 USD
etc..
Total : 617,168 US

Can Web-savvy Activist Moms Change Japan?

Asahi: Top Japan radiation expert instructed by gov’t not to go to Fukushima — “Do not take any unauthorized action”

Shinzo Kimura, 44, a researcher and an expert in radiation hygiene at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health involved in studies on the radiation exposure of physicians and nurses, and on-site investigations of the Chernobyl accident

[...] The next day, March 12, was a Saturday. He was able to see his family and went shopping with his 3-year-old son in the afternoon. When he returned home, his wife told him, “There’s been an explosion at the nuclear power plant.” Kimura flew into action. He changed into a suit and told his son, “Daddy will be gone for a while.” [...]

While hurriedly getting ready, Kimura sent e-mails to the four researchers he most trusted, Tetsuji Imanaka and Hiroaki Koide, both at Kyoto University; Toshihiro Takatsuji at Nagasaki University; and Satoru Endo at Hiroshima University. [...]

Kimura [...] received a mass e-mail on his cellphone from the institute, which is an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The message stated, “Although there are many actions that can be taken, such as measuring radioactivity and other substances, please abide by the instructions given by this ministry and the institute. Do not take any unauthorized action.”

Kimura was the only expert on radioactivity at the [National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health]. He was sure the e-mail was meant for him. He understood that it was sent out to stop him from going to the site.

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[Aaron]

20,000 US deaths due to Fukushima?

Study Authors: Now 20,000 excess U.S. deaths after Fukushima, not 14,000? Follow up article looking at age groups, cities (AUDIO) « Enenews.com

20,000 US deaths due to Fukushima?

[blackchisel97]

Nuclear scientist/Nagasaki survivor canceled Fukushima press conference

Mainichi: Nuclear scientist/Nagasaki survivor canceled Fukushima press conference because gov’t officials worried about causing widespread fear

A-bomb survivors’ dark experiences must not be repeated for Fukushima crisis victims, Mainichi Japan, January 14, 2012:

Terumi Tanaka [...] was exposed to radiation from the atomic blast on Aug. 9, 1945, when he was enrolled at Nagasaki Junior High School. [...]

After graduation, Tanaka became a materials engineering researcher at Tohoku University and helped develop nuclear reactor materials. Many science and engineering students at the time were drawn to nuclear power and several of his classmates became experts in the field. “I didn’t want to be just victimized by nuclear energy. I wanted to utilize it positively,” he said in a speech to the Japan National Press Club last year. [...]

Tanaka and other members of Nihon Hidankyo [Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Suffers Organizations] wondered how lessons learned from the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be used to deal with the Fukushima crisis. They visited the national government and the Fukushima Prefectural Government in late May 2011, 2 1/2 months after the meltdowns, and asked that residents near the nuclear plant be given disaster victim certificates and health management books, and undergo regular health checkups throughout their lives. [...]


No News is Good News

Tanaka had initially intended to hold a news conference after visiting the Fukushima Prefectural Government, but prefectural officials balked at the idea for fear that a visit by atomic bombing survivors might illicit widespread fear. In response, Tanaka and his companions abandoned the news conference idea. It brought home to him how difficult it is to join hands and share information with victims of the nuclear crisis.


Learning From the Past?

[T]he long dearth of information and assistance following the atomic bombing caused pain to those who should have been helped, and hid what had happened to them. The problems drag on still. Class action lawsuits brought by atomic bombing survivors demanding that their health problems be recognized as atomic-bomb related diseases were all only finally resolved last year, and a new distribution map of nuclear fallout-laden black rain was released recently. The entire picture of damage caused by the atomic bombings is far from being clarified.

[B]Japan Official: Fukushima nearly as serious as being attacked by nuclear weapons — If facts were known all citizens might have left Tokyo[B]

Title: The Culprit Edano’s Self-Defense: “I Said ‘There Is No Immediate Effect’ Only 7 Times” (Nov.8, 2011)

Upload Date: Jan 12, 2012

Description: This video clip is part of the questions and answers at the Lower House’s Budget Committee on November 8, 2011. The questioner is Mr. Seiichiro Murakami, MP, LDP, and the answerer is Mr. Yukio Edano, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.

For more on Edano, see the recent Asashi article: Yukio Edano among 10 lawmakers most favored by Tepco in buying tickets to their fund-raisers.

h/t Translation by Ex-SKF blog & tokyobrowntabby and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.

Murakami at 1:53 in:

Chairman, please tell him [Edano] to stay focused. Your answer is completely off the mark.
I am asking why you didn’t tell the truth to the public when you knew it.
Let me make this point clear.
If Japan was attacked by nuclear weapons, the government would immediately tell it to the public, wouldn’t it?
This accident is nearly as serious as that.

[...More talk from Edano...]

Murakami at 3:54 in:

You’re still off the mark. Let me tell you this.
I have a friend whose wife works for a French company in Japan.
I heard from him that as early as March 13 through 15, Embassy of France told its staff to escape to Kansai or the areas further west.
The Embassy also instructed French companies’ employees to do the same.
In addition, as written in this material, the U.S. government wanted American citizens living within 80km radius of the nuclear plant to evacuate out.
But if U.S. Embassy had given such an direction, all the citizens in Japan might have fled to Nagoya or Osaka, leaving Tokyo, and a panic would have ensued.
So they decided not to do it, simply because they didn’t want to spoil the amicable relationship with Japan.
Let me ask you straight. Why didn’t Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary know about the grave situation when the U.S. and France knew it?

Murakami at 5:21 in:

Sadly, in 7 or 8 months from the accident, no effort to investigate the cause has been done and no clear information on the effort has been announced.

The Culprit Edano's Self-Defense: "I Said 'There Is No Immediate Effect' Only 7 Times" (Nov.8, 2011) - YouTube

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[blackchisel97]

Too Much Radiation to Cover Up

The New York Times notes:

The government inspectors declared Onami’s rice safe for consumption after testing just two of its 154 rice farms.

Then … more than a dozen [farmers] found unsafe levels of cesium. An ensuing panic forced the Japanese government to intervene, with promises to test more than 25,000 rice farms in eastern Fukushima Prefecture, where the plant is located.

The repeated failures have done more than raise concerns that some Japanese may have been exposed to unsafe levels of radiation in their food, as regrettable as that is. They have also had a corrosive effect on public confidence in the food-monitoring efforts, with a growing segment of the public and even many experts coming to believe that officials have understated or even covered up the true extent of the public health risk in order to limit both the economic damage and the size of potential compensation payments.

Critics say … the government can no longer pull the wool over the public’s eyes, as they contend it has done routinely in the past.

“Since the accident, the government has tried to continue its business-as-usual approach of understating the severity of the accident and insisting that it knows best,” said Mitsuhiro Fukao, an economics professor at Keio University in Tokyo who has written about the loss of trust in government. “But the people are learning from the blogs, Twitter and Facebook that the government’s food-monitoring system is simply not credible.”


“No one trusts the national government’s safety standards,” said Ichio Muto, 59, who farms organic mushrooms in Nihonmatsu, 25 miles northwest of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The Japan Times reports:

The government buried a worst-case scenario for the Fukushima nuclear crisis that was drafted last March and kept it under wraps until the end of last year, sources in the administration said Saturday.

After the document was shown to a small, select group of senior government officials at the prime minister’s office in late March, the administration of then Prime Minister Naoto Kan decided to quietly bury it, the sources said.

“When the document was presented (in March), a discussion ensued about keeping its existence secret,” a government source said.

In order to deny its existence, the government treated it as a personal document of Japan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Shunsuke Kondo, who authored it, until the end of December, the sources said.

It was only then that it was actually recognized as an official government document, they said.

“The content was so shocking that we decided to treat it as if it didn’t exist,” a senior government official said.

Major Japanese broadcaster NHK purportedly stopped a reporter in mid-sentence on March 12th as he was discussing the exposure of the nuclear fuel rods above the cooling pool, telling him: "They say you mustn’t read this draft".

Finally, the Economist and Boing Boing note that a Canadian journalist was grilled about who he spoke with at Fukushima, and held, threatened, and shaken down for bribes before being detained without counsel or a phone call. He says he was eventually deported, though not before being ordered to sign a falsified confession and being threatened by an official at gunpoint.

(Many journalists and nuclear experts are alleged to have been monitored, harassed or blocked by the Japanese government.)

Tepco admits radiation levels from Fukushima increasing — Now releasing 70,000,000 Bq/hr — Reactor 3 leaking most

Title: TEPCO Notes Rise in Radioactive Leaks from Damaged Reactors
Source: Jiji Press
Date: Jan 23, 2012

[Tepco] on Monday reported an increase in radioactive materials leaking from damaged nuclear reactors [...]

The total amount of radioactive cesium that leaked from the containment vessels of the No. 1 to No. 3 reactors reached 70 million becquerels per hour, up 12 million becquerels from the December level [...]

It seems that radioactive dusts were stirred up because plant workers went inside reactor buildings and removed rubble [...]

Last month, the leaked amount was put at 10 million becquerels each for the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors and 40 million becquerels for the No. 3 reactor.

Title: Amount of radioactive materials released from Fukushima plant up Kyodo News
Source: Kyodo
Date: Jan. 23, 2012

[... Tepco said] that the increase is attributable to displacement of radioactive materials that had settled on facilities and equipment, as a result of work conducted near the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors there.

The operator, known as TEPCO, has recently probed the inside of the container vessel at the No. 2 reactor with an industrial endoscope and conducted scrap work around the No. 3 reactor. [...]

*Google Translation*
Title: Construction of the house operations で? Fukushima First, the radioactive material released
Source: Yomiuri
Date: Jan 23, 2012

TEPCO 23, a radioactive substance emitted from Unit 1-3 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, has announced the most recent value of 1.07 becquerels per hour.

Increased from 60 million as of November and December Becquerel. TEPCO, along with the work, such as endoscopic examination under the Unit 2 containment vessel, which was seen on the dance because the radioactive material in the reactor building.

By Unit, the Unit 1 becquerel per hour 2,000,000 has been established to cover the building. Increasing by about 10 million Becquerel Unit 2 and Unit 3 was the same, as Becquerel 20 million, respectively, had the same 50 million becquerels. The site boundary due to additional emission Traced (Exposure) Estimated that the dose of 0.12 mSv per year.

Radiation dose spikes in Ibaraki northeast of Tokyo after last night’s 5 intensity quake — Highest level measured since April — Double average

Source: HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION, KEK
Date: Jan 24, 2012

Measured at: Oho 1, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan [50 km northeast of Tokyo, 150+ km from Fukushima]
Detector: GM counter (photo)

M4.5 quake @ 20:18
M5.1 quake @ 20:49

Below, the spike appears to begin around 20:00 on 1/23 and reaches almost 0.2 microSv/h, about twice the normal level:

Dose at Tsukuba(KEK)

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[blackchisel97]

Title: Frozen water blamed for leaks at Fukushima plant
Source: NHK
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2012 23:42 +0900 (JST)

Tokyo Electric Power Company has found water leaks in 14 locations at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
Leaks apparently occurred after frozen water ruptured the pipes
[Tepco said] leaked water did not contain any radioactive materials
[Tepco] said about 40 liters of water leaked from a cooling system for a spent fuel pool at the No.4 reactor
Leak forced the system to stop for one hour and 40 minutes, but the pool’s temperature did not rise
Tokyo Electric said 7 tons of water had leaked from the No.6 reactor
Ruptured pipes caused 3 water leaks on the previous day
[Tepco] official Junichi Matsumoto admitted that the utility failed to take sufficient steps to prevent frozen pipes.

Average people do remember to winterize their RV's.


Title: Counting the Costs: Three Mile Island
Source: Listener’s Choice from CBC Radio
Date: June 6th, 2008

Gwen Anderson was only twenty-three years old when she first heard “Counting the Costs: Three Mile Island” on CBC Radio. Now it’s twenty-three years later, and Gwen earns a living doing the same kind of work that the men at Three Mile Island did. She requested this Ideas documentary from Winnipeg. It originally aired on October 13th, 1986.

Transcript Summary

Reports we are getting say infant mortality rates doubled
More important is the enormous increase in cancer deaths in children in the four counties surrounding TMI compared to the numbers previous to the accident that the health department listed even on say leukemia
Animals and plants damaged substantially
We have done an in-depth report on plant life
We are seeing many mutations
We saw the leaves the first year
All the birds on the farm disappeared
The trees, it looked like winter
Not only did we see complete defoliation, we saw trees defoliated at different levels.

Full broadcast here - Listener's Choice - June 6th, 2008 - Counting the Costs: Three Mile Island on Listener's Choice from CBC Radio | DailySplice

Report: Containers of dead babies and body parts found at radioactive waste site — “Even their amputated limbs and fetuses posed a danger to others”

Title: 29 Fetuses Found at Uranium Site
Source: Moscow Times
Date: 26 January 2012

Workers uncovered three large jugs filled with the bodies of 29 fetuses as well as other assorted body parts and organs while excavating a radioactive waste site in Kazakhstan, newspaper Express K reported Wednesday.

More Information

Found by factory workers at the Ulbinsky Metallurgical Factory
Investigators located patient records at a medical facility on the factory’s premises
Contents [...] included stillborn, aborted and abandoned babies, amputated limbs and removed organs
Doctors at the facility told police that the burial practice began after it was discovered that workers had been exposed to unsafe levels of uranium
Even their amputated limbs and the fetuses posed a danger to others.
That discovery prompted the medical facility to begin sealing the fetuses and surgically removed body parts in jugs and burying them.

True Stories: After The Apocalypse (Nuclear Testing Effects) - YouTube

Description: During the Soviet era, the people of Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan were used as human guinea pigs in the testing of nuclear weapons. Today they live with the consequences. Whilst sheep graze in radioactive bomb craters, many in the population believe that the testing is the reason why one in twenty children are born with birth defects. [...]

At 20:35 – 21:00 in

Dr. Boris Gusev, Semipalatinsk Institute of Radiation Medicine:

“We knew precisely where the radiation was.”
“We knew precisely how much of the different types of radiation that people were being exposed to.”
“What dose the population was receiving.”
“We knew everything.”

At 46:30 – 47:10 in

Dr. Boris Gusev, Semipalatinsk Institute of Radiation Medicine:

“Over the last 15 years we have thoroughly analyzed all the material in these archives.”
“We have made our conclusions and published our research, and at the same time we have continued our planned research of the population.”
“Now a huge new group has appeared of 250,000-270,000 people.”
“These are the children of parents who have been irradiated.”
“We thought that everything would go smoothly, that chromosonal damage and genetic effects would be confined to the generation of people who were irradiated and they could not be inherited by future generations.”
“But it turned out that this was wrong.”

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[mbrownn]

As I said before this is the biggest disaster in history, note that little of this information makes it to the mainstream media and when it does it is played down

[blackchisel97]

Business as usual...

Title: Japan finds water leaks at stricken nuclear plant
Source: Reuters
Date: Jan 29, 2012

Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant has leaked more than 600 liters of water, forcing it to briefly suspend cooling operations at a spent-fuel pond at the weekend [...]

“The leakage is believed to have been caused by freezing due to cold weather, and the leaked water included radioactively contaminated water that has been purified,” the Nikkei said in its online edition, quoting Tepco.

“The contamination level is low.”

See also my post above: Tepco: Frozen water ruptures pipes at Fukushima plant -- Cooling system stops at Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 — Tepco said “leaked water did not contain any radioactive materials”

How much radioactive material remains after cesium ‘purification’? “In December, contaminated water containing strontium whose concentration level was 1 million times higher than the government’s safety standard leaked into the sea” -Asahi

Tepco Press Release:

- At 8:49 am on January 29, since a gradual decline was confirmed in the amount of treatment at the second Cesium adsorption apparatus (sally), we temporarily stopped this facility in order to conduct reverse wash of the filter.

- At 9:50 am of January 29, one of our employees, during adjustment works of the water flow to the feed water spray system, found a water leak from near the flow rate detector of the emergency reactor injection pump on the hill (C) which is now at standby. We shut down the valve at the leakage point and at 9:55 am confirmed that the water leak has stopped (amount of leakage under examination). The leakage point is on the hill (at the front of the main office building) and there are traces that show that a certain amount of water has flowed into the drain, and we are examining whether this water has flowed into the ocean or not. The surface radioactivity concentration near the leakage point is as the same level as the atmosphere around (radioactivity concentration near the evaporative concentration apparatus is below measurable limit in all three major nuclides (sampled on 20 December 2011) :I-134: 1.6X10-2Bq/cm3, Cs-134:2.9X10-2Bq/cm3, Cs-137:3.3X10-2Bq/cm3, and 6.0X10-1Bq/cm3 for all beta nuclides (sampled on 29 November 2011).) Water injection to the reactor is maintained by the ordinary reactor injection pump on the hill (A) and (C).

- Around 9:35am on 29 January 2012, an alarm on a system failure (Unit 4 SFP backup cooling system) was given in Unit 4 spent fuel pool backup cooling system. According to the site investigation, a pump (A) to circulate cooling water of a secondary system had been stopped and the water circulation was stopped accordingly (Fuel pool temperature at the time of the alarm: 21°C). After the event, we discovered cooling water leakage from A2 line of air-fin cooler unit (A1-A4 lines) of the A system of the secondary system. We confirmed that the water leakage was stopped by closing valve of the Unit A2 line. The cooling water is from a filtrate tank for fire extinction and doesn’t contain radioactive materials. The stopped secondary pump (A) was restarted at 11:14am and water cooling of the spent fuel pool was restarted accordingly (Fuel pool temperature at the time of cooling restart: 21°C).

Impossible? Worst-case scenario prompted gov’t to send reinforcement to Fukushima plant — “We could not even announce the fact that we compiled such a simulation” -Top Official

Title: Hosono urges towns to aid disposal effort
Source: Kyodo
Date: Jan 30, 2012

Nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono was one of the few lawmakers who was shown the secret worst-case scenario for the Fukushima crisis, which was buried to avoid “confusing” the public. [...]

The scenario said that the Fukushima No. 1 power plant’s damaged No. 1 reactor would explode again and that the spent-fuel pool on top of the No. 4 reactor would dry up and allow the fuel rods to burn, sending more toxic fallout into the atmosphere.

Hosono claims the worst-case scenario “was not a possibility in fact”.

Yet, according to Kyodo, the scenario “prompted the government to brace for unforeseen trouble, Hosono said. For example, the government sent nine concrete pumping vehicles to the No. 4 reactor so it would not dry up“.

Of the preparations prompted by the worst-case scenario, Hosono said, “It was not wrong to prepare for the worst cases, based on the scenario.”

More from Hosono about the secret worst-case scenario:

“If it had been made public at the time, it is likely that no one would have remained in Tokyo”
“It would have caused trouble regarding the government’s handling of the nuclear crisis”
The scenario was examined by only a few key lawmakers in and was not shared even with the Nuclear Safety Commission “because we wanted to prevent gossip from spreading”
“We could not even announce the fact that we compiled such a simulation”
[He] recommended that [Prime Minister Kan] “be prepared for the worst possible scenario, just in case”

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I was talking with three friends today about Fukushima, Can you believe it? One of them, a now 78 year old former worker (almost twice my age) at a nuclear plant the same as me, wanted to fight me because he disagreed with what I said. He believes that the plant suffered hydrogen explosions and all is well now and it isn't as bad as Chernobyl. The level of mind control exerted on the masses by the main stream media is astonishing.