UNIT 4 REACTOR BUILDING, FUKUSHIMA, 2012
BELOW, THE REACTOR COVER OF UNIT 4, 2012.
16 months after the disaster, the above aerial views show the damaged No. 4 reactor building at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (Photo credit, AP)
Notice in these 2012 aerials that they haven't touched the debris on the east side of #4 or the north side of #4 - that debris is presumably too radioactive to remove.
They have not touched the structure of Unit 3.
They built a platform around it, and everything is clearly visible in basically the SAME state that it was in March,2011, after the reactors exploded.
TWO YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS AND THIS IS "PROGRESS"?
AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME THESE WERE MADE PUBLIC, TEPCO SAID IT HAD STABILIZED BUILDING #4 AND NO EARTHQUAKE WOULD SHAKE IT DOWN.
COMPARE THE ABOVE PHOTOS WITH THE ONES FROM DAYS AFTER THE DISASTER, FOUND FURTHER DOWN THE PAGE BELOW.
WE ALSO LEARNED THROUGH JAPANESE NEWS SOURCES THAT RADIATION LEVELS WERE FOUND IN 2015 THAT EXCEEDED ANY PREVIOUSLY SEEN, BY 50 TO 70 TIMES AS MUCH.
TEPCO HAD LIED...AGAIN.
FEW REALIZE THAT TEPCO, OWNER OF THE CRIPPLED FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT IN JAPAN, WAS PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF FALSIFYING DATA.
IN A 2002-2003 SCANDAL, TEPCO WAS PROVEN TO HAVE DONE EXACTLY WHAT TEPCO IS DOING NOW...WHICH IS, OBVIOUSLY, LYING TO THE PUBLIC.
"The reactors at the KASHIWAZAKI-KARIWA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ON THE COAST OF THE SEA OF JAPAN were shut down one by one after the discovery of deliberate falsification of data. The first one was taken offline September 9, 2002, and the last one was taken offline January 27, 2003."
SEE: WISE/NIRS Nuclear Monitor; UPDATE ON TEPCO SCANDAL
2016, HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF.
FEBRUARY 10, 2016, ABC NEWS, PHOTO CAPTION:
FEBRUARY 10, 2016, ABC NEWS, PHOTO CAPTION:
"A radiation detector held by a Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) employee measures the radiation level of 213 microsievert per hour in front of
the No. 2, left, and No. 3 reactor buildings."
SO, WAS JAPAN TIMES GIVING FALSE INFORMATION WITH THE READING OF UNDER 10 MICROSIEVERTS PER HOUR, OR DO THEY JUST NOT KNOW HOW MUCH HIGHER IT IS TODAY?
LOOKS LIKE ABC OR THE PHOTOGRAPHER INTENTIONALLY BLURRED THE PHOTO OF THE UNIT 1 BUILDING AT
SO, WAS JAPAN TIMES GIVING FALSE INFORMATION WITH THE READING OF UNDER 10 MICROSIEVERTS PER HOUR, OR DO THEY JUST NOT KNOW HOW MUCH HIGHER IT IS TODAY?
LOOKS LIKE ABC OR THE PHOTOGRAPHER INTENTIONALLY BLURRED THE PHOTO OF THE UNIT 1 BUILDING AT
http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/photo-36836352
IT'S IN SHAMBLES...
AND IN A PHOTO THAT SAYS A MAN IS LOOKING AT REACTOR BUILDING 4, THEY JUST SHOW A PHOTO OF THE MAN LOOKING FORWARD AS THE BUS PASSES ANOTHER BUILDING.
NO REACTOR 4 BUILDING IS SHOWN...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/photo-36836300
IN LATE 2015, FROM 'JAPAN TIMES', "Deadly radiation levels of up to 9.4 Sieverts per hour have been recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant – enough to kill a person in less than an hour if directly exposed.
Although details surrounding the high radiation levels remain scarce, the highest contamination was detected near the floor of the building, according to the company.
IT'S IN SHAMBLES...
AND IN A PHOTO THAT SAYS A MAN IS LOOKING AT REACTOR BUILDING 4, THEY JUST SHOW A PHOTO OF THE MAN LOOKING FORWARD AS THE BUS PASSES ANOTHER BUILDING.
NO REACTOR 4 BUILDING IS SHOWN...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/photos/photo-36836300
IN LATE 2015, FROM 'JAPAN TIMES', "Deadly radiation levels of up to 9.4 Sieverts per hour have been recorded at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant – enough to kill a person in less than an hour if directly exposed.
Although details surrounding the high radiation levels remain scarce, the highest contamination was detected near the floor of the building, according to the company.
Extremely high radiation levels and the inability to grasp the details about melted nuclear fuel make it impossible for the utility to chart the course of its planned decommissioning of the reactors at the plant."
"ACCORDING TO THE COMPANY"... THAT'S A WORN-OUT PHRASE BECAUSE THE COMPANY AND THE ABE GOVERNMENT JUST WOULD NOT ALLOW OTHERS IN THERE IN THE BEGINNING AND CAREFULLY SCREENS THOSE WHO ENTER THERE NOW.
ANY INDEPENDENT REPORTS OF MUCH HIGHER RADIATION READINGS ARE ATTACKED BY JAPANESE OFFICIALS AND THEIR REPORTS RIDICULED.
TEPCO ONCE HAD A "DECOMMISSIONING PLAN" READILY AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING.
WE CAN STILL ACCESS THOSE WILD PROMISES BY USING THE TRUSTY "WAYBACK MACHINE".
WE CAN SEE WHAT WAS "PLANNED" HAS NOT COME TO PASS, AND WON'T.
WHAT WE CAN'T ACCESS IS THE WHOLE TRUTH, BECAUSE, AS YOU WILL SEE DOCUMENTED QUITE WELL BELOW, TEPCO AND ALL INVOLVED IN THIS ONGOING, 5-YEARS-LONG DISASTER ARE SIMPLY COVERING UP THE FACTS....EVEN OUR OWN MAINSTREAM NEWS AGENCIES, WHO, ONCE UPON A TIME, WERE VERY, VERY CONCERNED..AS THEY SHOULD BE NOW.
THE TRUTH IS, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO DO, HOW TO STOP THE CONTINUAL LEAKS INTO THE AIR, SOIL, FRESH AND OCEAN WATERS, INTO HUMAN AND ANIMAL AND PLANT BODIES, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE CORIUM IS OR HOW TO EXTRACT IT SHOULD THEY SOMEHOW DISCOVER ALL OF IT.
PLUTONIUM FROM DAIICHI IS STILL BEING DISCOVERED ALL OVER JAPAN, IN PLACES IT SHOULD NOT BE.
FROM THE ARCHIVES, WHAT TEPCO STATED:
"Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was attacked by a huge tsunami caused by Tohoku Pacific Ocean earthquake on March 11 2011."
"ATTACKED BY A TSUNAMI"?
NO MENTION THAT TEPCO WAS FOUND GUILTY OF NEGLECTING PREVIOUS WARNINGS, GUILTY OF NOT EVACUATING RESIDENTS SOONER, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY.
TO THE RIGHT OF THE MAIN PAGE IS A CONSTANTLY SCROLLING LITTLE BOX THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GIVE MONITORING DATA.
PLEASE NOTE, IN ALMOST EVERY SLOT FOR VALUES IS THE NOTATION "ND", NO DATA!
NO MONITORING RESULTS!
THE TRUTH IS, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO DO, HOW TO STOP THE CONTINUAL LEAKS INTO THE AIR, SOIL, FRESH AND OCEAN WATERS, INTO HUMAN AND ANIMAL AND PLANT BODIES, AND NOBODY KNOWS WHERE THE CORIUM IS OR HOW TO EXTRACT IT SHOULD THEY SOMEHOW DISCOVER ALL OF IT.
PLUTONIUM FROM DAIICHI IS STILL BEING DISCOVERED ALL OVER JAPAN, IN PLACES IT SHOULD NOT BE.
FROM THE ARCHIVES, WHAT TEPCO STATED:
"Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station was attacked by a huge tsunami caused by Tohoku Pacific Ocean earthquake on March 11 2011."
"ATTACKED BY A TSUNAMI"?
NO MENTION THAT TEPCO WAS FOUND GUILTY OF NEGLECTING PREVIOUS WARNINGS, GUILTY OF NOT EVACUATING RESIDENTS SOONER, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY.
TO THE RIGHT OF THE MAIN PAGE IS A CONSTANTLY SCROLLING LITTLE BOX THAT IS SUPPOSED TO GIVE MONITORING DATA.
PLEASE NOTE, IN ALMOST EVERY SLOT FOR VALUES IS THE NOTATION "ND", NO DATA!
NO MONITORING RESULTS!
TEPCO TELLS US THE "ND" SIGNIFIES "Below the detection limits."
THE TEA ROOM CALLS "BS, BS, BS!"
THE ABE GOVERNMENT, TEPCO AND THE IAEA ARE ALL STILL SUPPRESSING THE WHOLE TRUTH.
WE HAVE A NIFTY MAP PROVIDED TO US TO SHOW THOSE NON-MONITORING MONITOR SITES.
SUPPOSEDLY, ONE CAN CLICK ON EACH OF THOSE TABS TO GET THE REPORTS...BUT CAN WE?
NO.
IN ALMOST EVERY CASE, THERE'S NO DATA OR THOSE "ESTIMATED" LEVELS THAT TEPCO HAS HAD TO ADMIT WERE SOMETIMES FAKED!
THEY'VE ALSO BEEN CAUGHT MORE THAN ONCE SHIELDING AND "CLEANING" THOSE ELUSIVE MONITORS.
LOOK AT FEBRUARY, 2015:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150220071551/http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/index-e.html
HONEST MONITORING IS NOT SOMETHING TEPCO WANTS MADE PUBLIC.
NOR DOES ABE...HE MIGHT STILL LOSE OUT ON HOSTING THOSE OLYMPIC GAMES IN 2020.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150219204035/http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/planaction/removal-e.html
(Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan)
March 24, 2011, damaged Unit 3, left, and Unit 4, right . (Air Photo Service Co. Ltd., Japan)
[SPECIAL NOTE: I SEARCHED AND SEARCHED AND CAN FIND NO RECENT PHOTOS OF REACTOR BUILDING #4 AFTER LATE 2013. IF ANYONE HAS A LINK TO SUCH, PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT POINTING US TO THAT.]
WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER REACTOR BUILDINGS?
ACCORDING TO TEPCO:
Unit 1~3
- Since the fuel melted into a state called debris, it became difficult to apply conventional measures to remove it.
- To deal with this situation, we are planning to conduct the task in parallel with the development of tools and devices for removal, etc. during the decommissioning process, over the next 30 to 40 years.
Unit 5~6
- Having been spared from the worst effects of the earthquake and tsunami, these units’ fuel remains stored in a stable condition under a cooling system in the nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools.
- The decision to decommission these units was taken in December 2013.
They will be utilized for full scale mock-up tests (demonstrations using actual equipment) for research and development in the areas of remote-controlled decontamination of reactor buildings, investigation of the inside of primary containment vessels, and devices to remove fuel debris. The work will be carried out in cooperation with research institutes including the International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning (IRID) and manufacturers.
THE EXTREMELY BRIEF PAGE, WITH BASICALLY NO REAL INFORMATION AND CERTAINLY NO DATA, ON "STABILIZATION OF THE NUCLEAR UNITS" IS A JOKE.
ON THEIR EQUALLY LUDICROUS PAGE ON THEIR "ROBOTICS", TEPCO FAILS TO TELL US THAT ALL THEIR ROBOTS HAVE FAILED, FAILED REPEATEDLY, FAILED BECAUSE NOTHING CAN WITHSTAND SUCH HIGH RADIATION LEVELS.
NEW ROBOTS CAPABLE OF SURVIVING IN SUCH A PLACE ARE "UNDER DEVELOPMENT", SAYS TEPCO.
WHAT ABOUT PAID COMPENSATIONS?
TEPCO HAS NEVER REALLY ADMITTED ITS FAULTS THAT LED TO STRUCTURE AND CONTAINMENT FAILURES BEFORE THE TSUNAMI/EARTHQUAKE, NOR IS IT LIKELY TO DO SO.
THE LAST PUBLIC REPORT I COULD FIND ON PAID COMPENSATIONS POSTED BY TEPCO WAS FROM NOVEMBER, 2014.
LOOKS LIKE TEPCO GOT ALL THE BIG "COMPENSATION" AND CONTINUES TO FIGHT PAYING INDIVIDUALS OUT OF THIS GENEROUS FUND PROVIDED TO THEM BY THE OLYMPICS-CONCERNED ABE ADMINISTRATION.
HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS MIGHT TEPCO HAVE TO COMPENSATE IF ABE HAD NOT INTERVENED?
HOW MANY ARE EXPECTED TO DIE FROM RADIATION?
THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN OVER 2,000 "SUICIDES".
THERE ARE ABOUT 4,000 "MISSING" WORKERS.THEY AREN'T COUNTING ABORTED FETUSES.
THEY AREN'T DOING AUTOPSIES ON ANYONE WHO DIES.
A death toll of up to 600,000 is estimated in a study conducted for the Nordic Probabilistic Safety Assessment Group which is run by the nuclear utilities of Finland and Sweden.
AS WE'LL SEE, OTHER ESTIMATES ON FUTURE DEATHS AS A RESULT OF THE UNSTOPPABLE LEAKS ARE EVEN HIGHER.
WE CAN READ THAT STATEMENT ON MANY SITES OF THE TIME..."SHROUD REPLACEMENT AND REFUELING", ON NOVEMBER 29th, NOT NOV. 30th.
THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY CHANGED THAT TO IT BEING SHUT DOWN BECAUSE... "planned maintenance outage on 30 November 2010. After the outage, all fuel from the reactor was transferred to the spent fuel pool.
WHY CHANGE IT?
BECAUSE IF THE SHROUD AROUND THE CORE ON UNIT 4 WAS FAULTY, IF IT NEEDED REPLACEMENT PRIOR TO 3/11, THIS COMPOUNDS THE CONCERNS ABOUT THE CURRENT SAFETY OF UNIT 4 AND ALSO POINTS SOLIDLY TO THE DISTINCT POSSIBILITY THAT THE CORIUM IN UNIT 4 IS LONG GONE AND WON'T BE BACK.
THAT WOULD MEAN THAT TEPCO WAS AGAIN AT FAULT FOR ANY FUTURE "ACCIDENTS" AT UNIT 4, SUCH AS A CRITICALITY EVENT, YES?
Units 5 and 6 were SAID TO BE shut down at the time of the earthquake. Unit 5 was shut down as of 3 January 2011. Unit 6 was shut down as of 14 August 2010.
Both reactors are currently loaded with fuel.
UNDERSTAND THAT: "Reactors 5 and 6 were also shut down when the earthquake struck although, unlike reactor 4, they were still fueled."
THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD THEN.
Supposedly, FEWER than 550 fuel rods were stored in UNIT 4's 'spent fuel' pool, but the pool was designed to hold just over 1300 rods.
HOW WAS IT HOLDING 1533 or 1535 RODS?
WHERE DID THE OTHER ALMOST 1000 FUEL RODS COME FROM IN THE 2 YEARS AND 7 MONTHS SINCE TEPCO TOLD THE WORLD THERE WERE ONLY ABOUT 550 RODS IN THAT POOL?
INITIALLY, WE WERE TOLD THERE WAS A FIRE IN UNIT 4, BUT NO EXPLOSION, BUT IN THAT SAME VOICE OF AMERICA ARTICLE, WE READ:
"He (General Manager Masayuki Ono) explained that because the entire reactor 4 building was destroyed by a hydrogen explosion, TEPCO had to reinforce the structure.
This happened during the first year and that new building is now strong enough to stand another earthquake, he added.
That hydrogen explosion - one of the iconic images of the Fukushima accident - left the inside of the pool littered with debris."
BUT IN THAT REPORT, THE SITUATION OF UNIT 4 WAS CHANGED TO SAY IT WAS SHUT DOWN BRIEFLY FOR ROUTINE INSPECTIONS BEFORE THE QUAKE/TSUNAMI HIT.
"This reactor was closed for periodic inspections when the earthquake and tsunami hit, therefore did not undergo a rapid and sudden shutdown."
WHEN DID A HYDROGEN EXPLOSION IN UNIT 4 HAPPEN?
UNIT 1 BLEW ON MARCH 12, 2011, UNIT 3 BLEW ON MARCH 14, AND UNIT 2 BLEW ON MARCH 15.
SOME SAY THE REPORTED EXPLOSION OF UNIT 3 WAS ACTUALLY AN EXPLOSION AT UNIT 4, BUT NOT ONE SURVIVING REPORT BY THE IAEA MENTIONS EVEN A FIRE AT UNIT 4, ALTHOUGH THEY SURELY MENTIONED IT MARCH 15, 2011:
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) did confirm that the fire had taken place in the used fuel storage pool. The Japan Atomic Industry Forum's status report said the water was being supplied to make up for low levels."
NAOTO KAN, THEN JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, EVEN SAID THERE WAS A FIRE.
"Kan's spokesman Noriyuki Shikata said that there had been "a sign of leakage" while firefighters were at work, "but we have found out the fuel is not causing the fire." The fire is now reported extinguished."
EVEN LATER, FROM THE MINUTES OF THE KYOTO CONFERENCE, WE SEE THE WORD "EXPLOSIONS" AT UNIT 4, PLURAL, MORE THAN ONE EXPLOSION.
ABOUT THE DEBRIS IN UNIT 4, DID DEBRIS INCLUDE ANOTHER 1000 FUEL RODS SOMEHOW?
IF , AS THE VOA ARTICLE STATED, THE "ENTIRE UNIT 4 BUILDING WAS DESTROYED", WOULDN'T THAT INCLUDE THE TOP FLOOR WHERE THE SPENT FUEL RODS WERE SITTING IN THAT POOL?
THE VOA PIECE GOES ON TO QUOTE A JAPANESE EX-AMBASSADOR:
"Mitsuhei Murata, Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland and an anti-nuclear campaigner, said a series of incidents over the past 30 months - including radioactive water leaks - have called into question TEPCO’s ability to carry out this critical operation.
“The Unit 4 contains 10 times more Cesium-137 than Chernobyl. So in case the worst occurs, a total withdrawal [from the site] will be imposed, which means this can be considered as the beginning of the ultimate catastrophe of the world and the planet,” said Murata.
Professor Hiroaki Koide, Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute, in "Welcome to Fukushima" (2013):
"In the fuel pool of Reactor No. 4 there is still 4,000 times the amount of fuel in Hiroshima [BOMB].
Even now there are still aftershocks at Fukushima.
Murata said the Fukushima crisis requires the world’s best scientific minds. “The two-and-a-half years of struggling by the state and by TEPCO have proven that nuclear accidents cannot be coped with by electric companies or by a single state. That’s why Japan should ask for international cooperation.”
CAN WE SAFELY ASSUME ONO WAS LYING?
IS IT LOGICAL TO ASSUME TEPCO DID NOT RENDER THAT LEANING, SINKING UNIT 4 BUILDING "EARTHQUAKE-PROOF"?
THE REACTOR POOL IS ABOUT 100 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND...NOT SAFE, NOT IMMUNE TO QUAKES, AND WITH ITS ROOF BLOWN OFF, CERTAINLY NOT IMMUNE TO THE MONSOONS, TYPHOONS AND FREQUENT RAINSTORMS SINCE 03/11.
"Inspectors from Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority have approved TEPCO’s planned operation to remove the fuel from Reactor 4. The process is scheduled to begin in November (2013) and will take up to 18 months."
Hiroshi Suzuki from Tokyo, 15 OCT. 2013:
"The radioactive water leaks into the ocean have never stopped. A state of emergency should now be declared throughout the world community. Japan needs international control, Tokyo can’t manage it on its own. As of today, the radiation levels around the plant are so high that staying there for four hours would be lethal for a person.
Neither Japan, nor the International Atomic Energy Agency is capable of controlling the situation.
Background radiation is 400 times the normal levels in towns just 10 kilometers away from the crippled nuclear plant. "
IN MARCH, 2014, 3 YEARS AFTER THE DISASTER, THE IAEA WAS CALLED OUT FOR REPEATED LIES ABOUT THE EXTENT OF DAMAGE AND RADIATION LEVELS IN SEVERAL ARTICLES FROM THAT ANNIVERSARY MONTH.
ONE SUCH ARTICLE PULLED FEW PUNCHES WHEN IT STATED:
"With the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe coming next week, the attempted Giant Lie about the disaster continues—a suppression of information, an effort at dishonesty of historical dimensions.
It involves international entities, especially the International Atomic Energy Agency, national governmental bodies—led in Japan by its current prime minister, the powerful nuclear industry and a “nuclear establishment” of scientists and others with a vested interest in atomic energy.
Keeping the public in the dark was deemed necessary by the promoters of nuclear power if it was to succeed.
Those in government, science and private industry who have been pushing nuclear power realized that if people were given the facts, if they knew the consequences of nuclear power, they would not stand for it.”
“Fukushima is an eerie replay of the denial and controversy that began with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” wrote Yale University Professor Emeritus Charles Perrow in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last year.
“This is the same nuclear denial that also greeted nuclear bomb tests, plutonium plant disasters at Windscale in northern England and Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains, and the nuclear power plant accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States and Chernobyl in what is now Ukraine.”
The difference with Fukushima is the scale of disaster.
With Fukushima were multiple meltdowns at the six-reactor nuclear plant site.
There’s been continuing pollution of a major part of Japan, with radioactivity going into the air, carried by the winds to fall out around the world, and gigantic amounts of radioactivity going into the Pacific Ocean moving with the currents and carried by marine life that ingests the nuclear toxins.
Leading the Fukushima cover-up globally is the International Atomic Energy Agency, formed by the United Nations in 1957 with the mission to “seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world.”
Of the consequences of the Fukushima disaster, “To date no health effects have been reported in any person as a result of radiation exposure from the accident,” declared the IAEA in 2011, a claim it holds to today.
Working with the IAEA is the World Health Organization. WHO was captured on issues of radioactivity and nuclear power early on by IAEA.
In 1959, the IAEA and WHO, also established by the UN, entered into an agreement—that continues to this day—providing that IAEA and WHO “act in close co-operation with each other” and “whenever either organization proposes to initiate a program or activity on a subject in which the other organization has or may have a substantial interest, the first party shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter by mutual agreement.”
The IAEA-WHO deal has meant that “WHO cannot undertake any research, cannot disseminate any information, cannot come to the assistance of any population without the prior approval of the IAEA…WHO, in practice, in reality, is subservient to the IAEA within the United Nations family,” explained Alison Katz who for 18 years worked for WHO."
ALL THOSE QUOTES ABOVE ARE NOT FROM "CONSPIRACY NUTS", FOLKS.
As for the nuclear industry, the “Fukushima accident has caused no deaths,” declares the World Nuclear Association in its statement “Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors…Updated October 2013.” The group, “representing the people and organizations of the global nuclear profession,” adds: “The Fukushima accident resulted in some radiation exposure of workers at the plant, but not such as to threaten their health.”
AND THEN WE READ ABOUT 4,000 "MISSING" NUCLEAR WORKERS, MISSING, AS IN EVEN THEIR OWN FAMILIES CANNOT ACCOUNT FOR THEM.
THEY ARE "DISAPPEARED".
WE'VE ALSO READ INTERVIEWS WITH WORKERS WHO SAID THEY NEVER HAD DOSIMETERS.
[THE FIRST TWO ARTICLES BELOW ARE FROM JAPANESE NEWS SOURCES.]
Fukushima workers report groups clocking in with no dosimeters ... Tepco knew lead shields were made to cover dosimeters of Fukushima workers.
HOWEVER, ON TEPCO'S "STATUS REPORT" FROM 2011, WE READ:
"Call center for the non-contacting persons who didn't take an examination of internal exposure in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Workers",
"Among those who engaged in the emergency works at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in the period from March to June, there are some people whose internal exposure doses have not been measured and who we cannot contact (10 people as of December 17, 2011).
It needs for security and relief of identical person to evaluate the radiation exposure. If you know something about the person who can't get communication, please contact to our call center. Phone Number] 03-6373-1111"
AND WE READ OF SPONTANEOUS ABORTIONS PROBABLY LINKED TO HIGH IN-UTERO RADIATION DOSES, AND WE READ OF PREGNANT JAPANESE WOMEN GETTING ABORTIONS, NOT WANTING TO RISK GIVING BIRTH TO DEFORMED OR FATALLY ILL BABIES... WORDS WRITTEN OR SPOKEN BY JAPANESE WOMEN THEMSELVES.
WE READ OF THE SO-CALLED "UNUSUAL NUMBERS OF SUICIDES" BY THOSE EVACUATED FROM THE FUKUSHIMA AREA.
WE READ OF THE SUPPRESSION BY THE ABE GOVERNMENT OF DOCTORS AND HOSPITAL STAFF WHO ONCE WERE FREELY SPEAKING OF THE BIRTH DEFECTS, CHILDREN SICK WITH RADIATION POISONING, OF THE SUPPRESSION OF STORIES WE INITIALLY READ ABOUT KIDS GETTING RADIATION BURNS FROM PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT OF FROM GOING BAREFOOT.
YEAH, NOTHING WRONG HERE, MOVE ALONG, RIGHT?
According to Oceanus Magazine, the total amount of cesium-137 that has been released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than the amount released into the oceans by the Chernobyl disaster or by the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the 1960s.
It has also been estimated 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.
AGAIN, LET'S RECALL THAT, ON MARCH 15, 2011, WE SAW WHAT WAS CALLED A "FIRE" AT UNIT 4 AT THE DAMAGED JAPANESE DAIICHI NUCLEAR FACILITY FOLLOWING THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI THERE ON MARCH 11, 2011.
"A fire breaks out in the unit 4 reactor building. Japanese authorities believe that the spent fuel storage pool is burning, releasing radiation into the atmosphere. Radiation readings taken near the plant show emissions of up to 400 millisieverts per hour, compared with the average person's exposure rate of 2.4 millisieverts per year. (A sievert is a unit of ionizing radiation equal to 100 rems; a rem is a dosage unit of x-ray and gamma-ray radiation exposure.) Officials ask residents within 30 kilometers of the plant to stay indoors, and some Fukushima Daiichi staff are evacuated."
"On 18 March, it was reported that water sprayed into the spent fuel pool was disappearing faster than evaporation could explain, suggesting leakage."
IN APRIL, 2011, THE NUMBER OF FUEL RODS CHANGES AGAIN AND THERE IS ADMISSION THAT MANY ARE INDEED DAMAGED.
"Analysis of spent fuel pool water collected on 12 April suggests that while some of the 1535 fuel assemblies stored there may have been damaged, the majority of the stored fuel assemblies are intact based on measured radiation levels."
JUNE, 2011
On 11 June, it was discovered that the water level in the spent fuel pool was only one third of normal, and only part of the fuel rods were covered with water. This was probably the cause of the high radiation levels measured. This pool has also been used to dump equipment.
On 18 March 2013 at 6:57 p.m., the cooling system for the spent fuel pools of the No. 1, 3 and 4 reactors stopped, after the electricity instantaneously went out at the plant's accident response center.
'SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN' HAS A TIMELINE WITH PHOTOS AT http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/multimedia/0312-fukushima-timeline/
JUST CLICK ON ANY MONTH AT THE TOP, MARCH 2011 TO MARCH 2012.
IN OCTOBER OF 2012, WE WERE TOLD THAT UNIT 4 OF THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WAS SINKING AND ITS BUILDING IN DANGER OF TOTAL COLLAPSE.
THAT TIMELINE IS NOT AS EXPLICIT AND DETAILED AS OTHER REPORTS, BUT IS A FAIR ORDER OF THINGS.
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF ANOTHER GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI HIT JAPAN, OR A DEVASTATING TYPHOON BORE DOWN SPECIFICALLY ON THE DAIICHI COMPLEX?
WHAT ABOUT UNITS 5 AND 6, THE UNITS THAT WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN OPERATION?
HOW SAFE ARE THEIR FUEL RODS?
"On 22 December 2014, Tepco crews completed the removal of all fuel assemblies, and the spent fuel pool of Reactor 4 no longer contained any stored fuel rods.
The majority of the spent fuel assemblies were moved to the common spent fuel pool while some of the unused fuel assemblies were moved to the spent fuel pool of Unit 6. "
IN A MARCH 15, 2011 REPORT, IT WAS STATED THAT "JAIF reported that temperatures in the cooling ponds at units 5 and 6 are increasing, but the reason for this is not yet available.
REMEMBER THIS...ISSUES WITH COOLING IN UNITS 5 AND 6, BUT AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF FUEL RODS FROM UNIT 4 WERE LATER PLACED IN UNIT 6's POOL.
MAY 5, 2011:
"Workers enter and survey the Unit 1 reactor building, finding radiation levels as high as 700 millisieverts per hour—nearly three times the 250-millisievert annual exposure limit for nuclear industry workers.
THIS WAS ALSO NOT REPORTED BY THE IAEA IN THEIR REPORT FOR MAY 5.
DENIAL COMPOUNDED BY FALSE INFORMATION
It is now widely understood that there is no “safe” level of radioactivity. Any amount can kill. The more radioactivity, the greater the impacts. As the National Council on Radiation Protection has declared: “Every increment of radiation exposure produces an incremental increase in the risk of cancer.”
"There was once the notion of there being a “threshold dose” of radioactivity below which there would be no harm.
That’s because when nuclear technology began and people were exposed to radioactivity, they didn’t promptly fall down dead.
But as the years went by, it was realized that lower levels of radioactivity take time to result in cancer and other illnesses—that there is a five-to-40-year “incubation” period."
Projecting a death toll of more than a million from the radioactivity released from Fukushima is Dr. Chris Busby, scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk who has been a professor at a number of universities.
[PRIOR TO HIS STANCE ON FUKUSHIMA, BUSBY WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED AND CONSIDERED AN EXPERT BY ALL IN THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY.]
“Fukushima is still boiling radionuclides all over Japan,” he said. “Chernobyl went up in one go. So Fukushima is worse.”
From a symposium on “The Medical Implications of Fukushima” held in 2013 in Japan:
“The accident is enormous in its medical implications. It will induce an epidemic of cancer as people inhale the radioactive elements, eat radioactive vegetables, rice and meat, and drink radioactive milk and teas.
As radiation from ocean contamination bio-accumulates up the food chain…radioactive fish will be caught thousands of miles from Japanese shores. As they are consumed, they will continue the the cycle of contamination, proving that no matter where you are, all major nuclear accidents become local.”
“The health impacts to the Japanese will begin to be felt in several years and out to 30 or 40 years from cancers. And I believe we’re going to see as many as a million cancers over the next 30 years because of the Fukushima incident in Japan.”
Every bluefin tuna caught in the waters off California in a Stanford University study was found to be contaminated with cesium-137, a radioactive poison emitted on a large scale by Fukushima. The tuna migrate from off Japan to California waters. Daniel Madigan, who led the study, commented: “The tuna packaged it up [the radiation] and brought it across the world’s largest ocean. We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”
Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the nation’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission has over the past three years consistently refused to apply “lessons learned” from Fukushima. Its chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko, was forced out after an assault led by the nuclear industry after trying to press this issue and opposing an NRC licensing of two new nuclear plants in Georgia “as if Fukushima had never happened.”
Japan’s harsh dictatorial censorship has been matched by a global corporate media blackout aimed—successfully—at keeping Fukushima out of the public eye.
But that doesn’t keep the actual radiation out of our ecosystem, our markets … or our bodies.
But the basic reality is simple: for seven decades, government Bomb factories and privately-owned reactors have spewed massive quantities of unmonitored radiation into the biosphere.
The impacts of these emissions on human and ecological health are unknown primarily because the nuclear industry has resolutely refused to study them.
Indeed, the official presumption has always been that showing proof of damage from nuclear Bomb tests and commercial reactors falls to the victims, not the perpetrators.
And that in any case, the industry will be held virtually BLAMELESS.
When Nobel-winners Linus Pauling and Andre Sakharov correctly warned of a massive global death toll from atmospheric Bomb testing, they were dismissed with official contempt … until they won in the court of public opinion.
When British Dr. Alice Stewart proved (1956) that even tiny x-ray doses to pregnant mothers could double childhood leukemia rates, she was assaulted with 30 years of heavily funded abuse from the nuclear and medical establishments.
But Stewart’s findings proved tragically accurate, and helped set in stone the medical health physics consensus that there is no “safe dose” of radiation … and that pregnant women should not be x-rayed, or exposed to equivalent radiation.
When Dr. Ernest Sternglass, who had worked with Albert Einstein, warned that reactor emissions were harming people, thousands of copies of his Low-Level Radiation (1971) mysteriously disappeared from their primary warehouse.
When the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Chief Medical Officer, Dr. John Gofman, urged that reactor dose levels be lowered by 90 percent, he was forced out of the AEC and publicly attacked, despite his status a founder of the industry.
A member of the Manhattan Project, and a medical doctor responsible for pioneer research into LDL cholesterol, Gofman later called the reactor industry an instrument of “premeditated mass murder.”
[GOFMAN WAS ALMOST A "god" IN THE NUCLEAR ENERGY CIRCLES UNTIL HE CAME OUT AGAINST IT.]
Radioactive harm to farm and wild animals downwind from THREE MILE ISLAND (TMI) has been confirmed by the Baltimore News-American and Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
TMI’s owner quietly paid out at least $15 million in damages in exchange for gag orders from the affected families, including at least one case involving a child born with Down’s Syndrome.
Three Russian scientists who compiled more than 5,000 studies concluded in 2005 that Chernobyl had already killed nearly a million people worldwide.
The U.S. has established no integrated system to monitor Fukushima’s fallout, nor an epidemiological data base to track its health impacts … but it did stop checking radiation levels in Pacific seafood.
A U.S. military “lessons learned” report from Fukushima’s Operation Tomodachi clean-up campaign notes that “decontamination of aircraft and personnel without alarming the general population created new challenges.”The report questioned the clean-up because “a true decontamination operations standard for ‘clearance’ was not set,” thereby risking “the potential spread of radiological contamination to military personnel and the local populace.”
THAT DAMNED SURE DID NOT MAKE THE EVENING NEWS, DID IT?
WE WERE TOLD WHY THE NEWS STOPPED CARRYING THE UNFOLDING EVENTS...
"Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur has admitted that while he was at MSNBC he was instructed not to warn the public about the radiation coming from Fukushima…"
An EU-funded study concluded that Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere...IN THE BEGINNING!
“There is no systematic testing in the U.S. of air, food and water for radiation,” according to University of California (Berkeley) nuclear engineering Professor Eric Norman.
Well-reported devastation among starfish, sardines, salmon, sea lions, orcas and other ocean animals cannot be definitively denied without a credible data base of previous experimentation and monitoring, which does not exist and is not being established.
The fact that “tiny” doses of x-ray can harm human embryos portends that any unnatural introduction of lethal radioactive isotopes into the biosphere, however “diffuse,” can affect our intertwined global ecology in ways we don’t now understand.
The impact of allegedly “minuscule” doses spreading from Fukushima will, over time, affect the minuscule eggs of creatures ranging from sardines to starfish to sea lions, with their lethal impact enhanced by the other pollutants already in the sea.
Dose comparisons to bananas and other natural sources are absurd and misleading as the myriad isotopes from reactor fallout will impose very different biological impacts for centuries to come, in a wide range of ecological settings.
Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, warned that it is a form of suicide to raise radiation levels within Earth’s vital envelope, and that if he could, he would “sink” all the reactors he helped develop.
“Now when we go back to using nuclear power,” he said in 1982, “I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it.”
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."
According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.
BUT ANY ESTIMATE IS BASED MAINLY ON THE FEW PIECES OF DATA THAT TEPCO PROVIDES!
AND TEPCO HAS LIED FROM THE BEGINNING.
There are very alarming reports that new “unexplained plumes of radioactive steam” are rising at Fukushima.
Japanese officials are not able to get inside and see what is causing these plumes.
And if there is a major earthquake or a significant accident during the cleanup at Fukushima, we could actually see huge sections of Japan be evacuated permanently.
It would be hard to overstate just how serious all of this is. But you won’t hear about this from the mainstream media. Their story is that “everything is okay” and they are sticking to it."
THE STUDY TEPCO HATES
According to one recent scientific report, radiation from Fukushima could affect our seafood for “many generations” and ultimately kill more than a million people…
"From March 11th to March 30th (438 hours of available data) the integral dose is about 132 mSv.
The dose should be expressed as 132 mGy, because only
energies delivered to surfaces are measured and not biological effects (more misinformation and cause of confusion)...RELEASES OF RADIATION HAVE NOT STOPPED AFTER THE EVENTS SHOWN IN THESE FIGURES."
THE STUDY GOES ON TO SAY THAT ALL RADIONUCLIDES, THE "FULL SPECTRUM", ARE NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN THE U.N. AND OTHERS PRESENTED LOW ESTIMATES OF HUMAN DEATHS.
OTHER STUDIES ALSO FAILED TO CONSIDER NEW CONTAMINATION OF PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS SINCE FUKUSHIMA WILL BE EMITTING RADIATION FOR CENTURIES TO COME.
ALSO IGNORED IN MOST "CALMING" STUDIES ARE THE EFFECTS OF 'ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME'.
THE VERY FIRST OFFICIALLY RECORDED INSTANCE OF DEATH DUE TO "ARS" WAS A JAPANESE FISHERMAN ABOARD THE VESSEL 'DAIGO FUKUIU MARU' WHICH WAS 65 KILOMETERS FROM THE DETONATION OF THE 'CASTLE BRAVO' BLAST OFF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS IN 1954.
The dose should be expressed as 132 mGy, because only
energies delivered to surfaces are measured and not biological effects (more misinformation and cause of confusion)...RELEASES OF RADIATION HAVE NOT STOPPED AFTER THE EVENTS SHOWN IN THESE FIGURES."
THE STUDY GOES ON TO SAY THAT ALL RADIONUCLIDES, THE "FULL SPECTRUM", ARE NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN THE U.N. AND OTHERS PRESENTED LOW ESTIMATES OF HUMAN DEATHS.
OTHER STUDIES ALSO FAILED TO CONSIDER NEW CONTAMINATION OF PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS SINCE FUKUSHIMA WILL BE EMITTING RADIATION FOR CENTURIES TO COME.
ALSO IGNORED IN MOST "CALMING" STUDIES ARE THE EFFECTS OF 'ACUTE RADIATION SYNDROME'.
THE VERY FIRST OFFICIALLY RECORDED INSTANCE OF DEATH DUE TO "ARS" WAS A JAPANESE FISHERMAN ABOARD THE VESSEL 'DAIGO FUKUIU MARU' WHICH WAS 65 KILOMETERS FROM THE DETONATION OF THE 'CASTLE BRAVO' BLAST OFF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS IN 1954.
OTHER STUDIES DID NOT INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT RADIATION ALSO CAUSES DEATHS FROM CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, CHRONIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES, BIRTH DEFECTS,
ALSO IGNORED...THE ONGOING RELEASES.
DATA GIVEN BY OTHER STUDIES TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION ONLY THE INITIAL "SHOT", THE FIRST "PUFF" OF RADIATION AS THE REACTORS MELTED DOWN, BUT THOSE REACTORS ARE STILL EMITTING AT SUCH HIGH LEVELS THAT EVEN ROBOTS FAIL INSIDE THEM FIVE YEARS LATER, AND HUMANS CANNOT LAST IN THAT ENVIRONMENT LONG ENOUGH TO EVEN DETECT ALL THE DAMAGE!
DATA ON POPULATION DEATH IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS SHOWED THAT WE MUST PROJECT THAT POSSIBILITY TO AT LEAST 80 YEARS AFTER SUCH AN "EVENT", NOT A MERE 50 YEARS AS ALMOST ALL STUDIES FOR FUKUSHIMA USE.
NO STUDIES BEFORE THIS ONE WANTED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE HARM DONE FOR DECADES OR MORE BY INGESTING RADIOACTIVE-CONTAMINATED FISH, MARINE PRODUCE, FOOD CROPS IN AREAS AFFECTED BY "LOW DOSE" FALLOUT.
BUT AGAIN, THE FALLOUT CONTINUES AND SO SHOULD THE MONITORING OF ALL FOOD.
THE RIDICULOUS MYTH OF OCEAN DILUTION...
AS THE STUDY POINTS OUT, IF OCEAN DILUTION IS POSSIBLE, WHY IS RADIATION INCREASING IN WATERS HUNDREDS OF MILES OFFSHORE?
WHY ARE FISH SHOWING EVER-HIGHER LEVELS OF RADIATION?
WHY DON'T OTHER STUDIES ADDRESS BIO-ACCUMULATION UP THE FOOD CHAIN?
HOW CAN RADIATION LEVELS CLEAR ACROSS THE PACIFIC, OFFSHORE OF AMERICA'S WEST COAST, BE CLIMBING IF THAT RADIATION IS JUST GOING TO BE DILUTED AND "DISAPPEAR" ONCE IT HITS THE PACIFIC?
OCEAN DILUTION CANNOT HAPPEN, BECAUSE OF CURRENTS, FOR ONE REASON.
CURRENTS CREATE A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE FOR RE-CONTAMINATION, AS DOES THE STIRRING UP OF SEDIMENTS THAT PERCOLATE RADIATION FROM THE SEABED BACK TO THE SURFACE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN...AND THEN THERE'S THE RAIN, THE CONTINUOUS POLLUTION OF OUR ATMOSPHERE COMING BACK TO HAUNT US IN THE FORM OF PRECIPITATION.
WHY IS RADIATION BEING DETECTED FROM FUKUSHIMA ALL OVER THE GLOBE 5 YEARS AFTER THE INITIAL MELTDOWNS, IN HIGHER LEVELS NOW THAN THEN?
5 DAYS AGO CAME THE NEWS...
Three Tepco executives to face trial over Fukushima incident
Maybe, just maybe, TEPCO and Abe will finally be brought to justice?
Maybe the TRUTH will come out, at last, the WHOLE truth.
YOU WILL DO WELL TO READ THAT ENTIRE PDF...IT'S INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM ALL OF US UNTIL THIS STUDY WAS DONE.
ITS FINDINGS HAVE BEEN ECHOED BY MANY WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY TOUTED AS NUCLEAR EXPERTS, AS LEARNED SCIENTISTS, AS PEERS TO ANY WHO NOW SAY FUKUSHIMA IS HARMLESS, BUT THOSE WHO WERE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT HIGHLY OF BY THEIR PEERS ARE NOW MALIGNED AND RIDICULED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY NOW SAY THAT FUKUSHIMA IS, AT ITS WORST, POSSIBLY AN EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT, AND, AT BEST, AN EVENT THAT WILL CAUSE UNTOLD DEATH AND SUFFERING FOR HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS FOR GENERATIONS .
WE CAN HIDE OUR EYES, COVER OUR EARS AND PRETEND ALL WE WANT TO THAT ALL IS WELL, BUT ALL IS NOT WELL AND ONLY WE CAN FORCE CHANGE.
IT WILL TAKE AN ARMY OF HONESTLY AND DEEPLY CONCERNED, DEDICATED PEOPLE TO FORCE THAT CHANGE, BUT IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE.
OR, WE CAN SIT AROUND OUR COMPUTER SCREENS, POST "WOE IS ME" REMARKS AND DO NOTHING.
AS ALWAYS, WE USE THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE GAINED TO MAKE THINGS BETTER OR WE CHOOSE TO IGNORE IT ALL.
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-AN EYE-OPENING READ:
http://www.npsag.org/upload/reports/00-004/00-004%20Castle%20Meeting%202011%2009%20-%20Paper.pdf
- Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War
- PERHAPS A 2015 PHOTO OF UNIT 4, THE BUILDING COVERED BY A "TAG", BUT THIS WAS MADE BY TEPCO, AS WAS THE ACCOMPANYING VIDEO, SO IT MAY JUST BE SOME "ARTIST'S CONCEPT"???
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TVmtsQIxM40/maxresdefault.jpg
http://1080.plus/TVmtsQIxM40.video
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