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And as long as that decay heat is being produced, it will drive the temperature up and up, unless the heat can be removed as rapidly as it is being produced. For that you need pumps, and for those you need power.
So when the tsunami wiped out the backup electrical generators, and the batteries on hand became exhausted, the stage was set for the three reactors to undergo complete core meltdowns, at temperatures in excess of 2800 degrees C (5000 degrees F).
Even now, and for some years to come, heat must be removed from
the radioactive mass in the core of each reactor by flushing water through it at a tremendous rate. But that act pollutes the water with debris from the damaged core and with radioactive materials. Cooling the core automatically flushes out those radioactive materials on an ongoing basis — and then you have enormous volumes of radioactively contaminated water that has to go somewhere. And, of course, despite industry efforts to deny the danger, these materials are all superb carcinogens and mutagens….
Question of the day: What do you do with millions of gallons of highly radioactive water? And how do you persuade people that “everything is under control” . . . when it isn’t?
Gordon Edwards.
February 29, 2012
Beyond Indignation: New Media, Anti-Nuclear Activism, and the Abandoned People of Fukushima
March 1, 2012
“Demonic” reality of Fukushima, versus absurdity of NRC
March 1, 2012
Helen Caldicott on Fukushima 1 year later
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2012-03-01%20Helen%20Caldicott.mp3
March 1, 2012
Plume-Gate: Media Silent Over Feds Fukushima
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/01/plumegate-media-silent-feds-fukushima-coverup-88832/
March 2, 2012
Tokyo starts to burn Onagawa debris in earnest at 23 household garbage plants
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-starts-to-burn-onagawa-debris-in.html
March 3, 2012
California Dept Health air/milk tests last quarter 2011
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/ca-dept-health-4th-qtr-air-milk-testing-results.2012-03-02
March 5, 2012
From their research, 8 of 17 children (0~13 years old) living in Kashiwa, Misato, Tokatsu areas, where are known to be hotspot turned out to have abnormal peripheral blood lymphocyte.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/8-of-17-children-have-atypical-lymphocyte/
March 5, 2012
The World is Powerless Against Fukushima Fallout
http://www.asianweek.com/2012/03/05/the-world-is-powerless-against-fukushima-fallout/
March 6, 2012
Radiation Readings Soar at Rocketdyne
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/radiation-readings-soar-at-rocketdyne/
March 6, 2012
Yokohama City stopped using zeolite to absorb radioactive Cesium 137 after only one month at it’s final disposal site on Tokyo Bay
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/yokohama-city-stopped-using-zeolite.html
March 6, 2012
Fukushima anniversary: B.C. looks south to closest nuclear plant.
March 7, 2012
Highest Radiation in L.A. Air Yet
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/03/highest-radiation-in-l-a-air-yet/
March 8, 2012
Planetary Genocide”: Fukushima One Year Later : The Poisoning of Planet Earth by Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29658
March 8, 2012
Map shows what a U.S. Fukushima could have looked iike
http://grist.org/list/map-shows-what-a-u-s-fukushima-could-have-looked-like/
March 8, 2012
Remembering Fukushima One Year Later –
Sane view for sure
http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2012/03/08/remembering-fukushima-one-year-later/
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29658
March 9, 2012
Human Rights Watch said
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/09/japan-year-after-fukushima-response-falls-short
March 9, 2012
More and more often children complain of circulatory disturbances, tiredness, dizziness after Fukushima (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJYlV67ioE&feature=source_vide
March 9, 2012
Despite Fukushima, South-east Asia still eyes nuclear energy
March 9, 2012
Fukushima Anniversary: How Climate Change Endangers Nuclear Safety
March 9, 2012
Fish imports from Japan turning up radioactive
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120309a2.html
March 9, 2012
How Fukushima is leading towards a nuclear-free Japan
Tokyo hopes to restart some reactors, but hardening public attitudes may rule out even modest return to nuclear power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/09/fukushima-reactors-nuclear-free-japan
March 9, 2012
Fukushima Never Again – documentary
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-never-again-trailer/“>http://fukushimaupdate.com/fukushima-never-again-trailer/
March 9, 2012
Look what everyone is doing with the global March Against Nuclear Madness Calendar
March 11, 2012 must watch!!
Children of the Tsunami
Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:00 PM ET on CBC News Network
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Watch the promo or the full episode . Please note: This film is available for 30 days after the last broadcast.
http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episode/children-of-the-tsunami.html
March 11, 2012
Is Helen Caldicott’s Nuclear Madness still relevant?
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article2982278.ece
March 11, 2012
Records of human deformations and still births after Fukushima yet to be published — Preparing data for public release (VIDEO)
March 11, 2012
Vancouver B.C. Conference Fukushima One Year Later with keynote speaker Arnie Gunderson (audio on Radio Eco-Shock)
http://64.250.116.201/downloads/ES_120314_Show_LoFi.mp3
March 11, 2012
Protesters link arms around the world to decry nuclear power
http://www.france24.com/en/20120311-protesters-link-arms-around-world-decry-nuclear-power
March 11, 2012
Japanese honour victims of tsunami, quake disaster
March 11, 2012
Gundersens on TV: Went to Japan to tell people the truth about Fukushima — Cold shutdown impossible — Japanese poised to become energy innovators (50 MINUTES)
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-daiichi-accident-waiting-happen
March 11, 2012
RALLY AT SAN ONOFRE MARKS JAPAN QUAKE, TSUNAMI MORE THAN 200 RALLY AT SAN ONOFRE NUKE PLANT
Activists try to call attention to risks of nuclear power
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/12/tp-rally-at-san-onofre-marks-japan-quake-tsunami/
March 11, 2012
Fukushima triggers ‘nuclear safety renaissance’
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/63cd3612-6b88-11e1-8337-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ov1SAuJA
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@what the; The US is not assisting in this because GE is a USA company and therefore would have to admit to being a huge part of the problem. And we have several type of reactors made by GE on line in the USA. Admitting fault would be a financial disaster for both GE and the government. And even the best scientists who can assist are held hostage from the arms of the corporate government. Sad, but I believe, true.
Why is this still not a priority in the US (or anywhere?)??????? I know it will hurt business, and it’ll hurt the very thing i’d been putting so much effort into working and supporting – local organic farming. And people i mention it to often act like i didn’t say anything at all, because acknowledging it means completely CHANGING something essential in one’s life, and beliefs, and sense of “security”. Is there even hope for human consciousness to awaken to what’s right in our faces (and in our food and air!!)… let alone to make a significant impact on the way things are going??!! What else can we do about it to express the imminence of the global situation??? The US has the technology to assist in this dilemma, yet it’s not. What else do they know that we don’t???
I agree, Brian – people should be yelling their heads off – but why aren’t they?
Why Aren’t people yelling their heads off?
Last year, J.H. Bartlett wrote a novel called “Last Summer at the Compound”. It’s about a family in Plymouth who meet at their summer compound that is just a few miles from the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The disaster at Fukushima has made them realize how close they are to this Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor and the book is about how they grapple with the decision about selling this summer estate that has been in the family for 5 generations. To quote from the book, the “children, the thirty to fifty year olds were the ones most consumed with safety. Have a Healthy and Safe New Year was the message on their Christmas cards. Merry and Happy were out of fashion, pushed aside by healthy and safe. Accidents, disasters, diseases, even death, could be avoided with sufficient vigilance. Seat belts and helmets were called for, sturdy SUV’s that would not crush on impact were encouraged. Fire alarms and burglar alarms were installed. They enthusiastically lighted up dangerous, dark nights. Regular checkups were made of their bodies, X-rays, MRIs, mammograms, colonoscopies, camera probes were sent down the throat to meet those going up the rear end, blood pressure readings were taken, and electrocardiograms. Some wore gizmos to keep a daily check on heart beat, blood pressure and sugar levels. They had flu shots, took pills to lower cholesterol, relieve arthritis, rejuvenate the blood and thicken the bones. Women took hormones, and then men took Viagra to satisfy their wives’ new hormonal induced sex drive. Dogs were fixed and children were driven to play dates, potholes were filled, roads widened. Smoking was abandoned as was the eating of red meat. Defibrillators were installed at parks, schools and playing fields. There were hand sanitizers inside the doors of most public buildings and bowls of condoms in some.” …”Yet they had little time to do anything about the nuclear plant; they did not show up at meetings or demonstrations or go door to door collecting signatures”….
So people aren’t yelling – but not because they don’t care about health and safety.
A friend of mine says it could be because radiation is so new to human beings. The atom was split in 1917 – less than 100 years ago.
He says “it is truly fascinating, but not too complicated, why most people don’t care or cannot comprehend what’s happening. I think it’s partly the genetic marker. Unfortunately the human race has no genetic marker for radiation. There is nothing for us to latch on to at the instinctive level. So the general public fails to recognize the threat. Can you imagine if Fkushima Daiichi was a biological weapons lab? Now that would get everyone’s attention.”
He goes on to say:
“I think it takes an interdisciplinary mind, background, and personality, an investigative, mentality, interest in earth and life sciences, curiosity, truth-seeking nature (void of politics, religion, belief systems, or any exterior motivations) and the ability to think not only linearly but abstractly and certainly from at least 50,000 feet up as well as down into the microscope to be able to gasp at the epic severity of the situation and to be able to visualize and understand what’s happening. It also helps to be educated in and understand public relations and how things work, so you can laugh at the corporate/govt BS in their mainstream media distraction entertainment money junk science parade. Not many in today’s distraction-based entertainment brainwashed world have those qualifications.”
“For some people, they need to see ‘numbers’ and need to hear from ‘official sources’, they need to be told they should be worried by official sources.”
“The health effects of nuclear power and associated accidents are devastating. Cancer is a side track. Other fallout-related health problems will affect many people first, including heart attack and stroke, before they get to cancer. It’s a cakewalk for the thinktanks and the highest of public relations geniuses to generate misinformation and perception that dismiss all health-related problems. The various forms of disease will not come with a Made in Fukushima tag and good luck proving it in a court of law. Sadly,it is highly likely that the general public will never realize what has happened to them.”
People should be yelling their heads off. It won’t be long before the water off California will be too radioactive to swim in. Reactor 1 is back in fission mode because it is emitting radioactive Krypton and Xenon. Reactors 2 and 3 are putting out isotopes as well. And the Japanese are dumping 1000 tons a day of radioactive water into the Pacific. The plume is reportedly 3500 kilometers out to sea. And if the reactor 4 building collapses? The spent fuel pool will start to burn and the site will have to be abandoned. Do I need to say more?
An excellent timeline historical document!
I clicked on “View All” and just scrolled.
two nuclear bombs. four nuclear power plants. it’s called karma
We would have been better off without the invention as it is so really dangerous unlike anyhing else.Thanks to uranium fluoridation was given boost because nothing was to be allowed to stand in the way of this warlike invention.Still many suffer with the infliction of fluoridation today and without any advantages except as a way to dispose of dangerous fluorides.