Understanding Fukushima

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Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:25 am

Collaborating to create a radioactive fallout contamination map.

I knew it was bad there but I didn't know it was that bad. What a sad movie.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:43 am

According to this report, Fukushima was already in melt down crisis immediately after the earth quake because of cracks in the cooling pipes. Fukushima would have been a disaster even without the tsunami.

The explosive truth behind Fukushima's meltdown:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 38819.html
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:08 am

I just dug this up and haven't watched it yet.

In this special documentary, NHK interviewed more than 200 people including government and TEPCO officials, experts, and engineers.

While reluctant, they agreed to speak with NHK. Some of the rather candid comments confirm that TEPCO, nor the Japanese government where adequately prepared for a disaster of this magnitude. The Economy, Trade, and Industry Minister, Banri Kaieda even made a rather damning remark (around the 4m30s mark in clip 1-A) that he could not deny there was a myth of safety regarding the nuclear power plants and that probably somewhere in their minds, they always felt that measures against emergency situations were unnecessary because such situations would never occur. This 1 hour video is split into 4 parts and hosted on Dailymotion (so you'll need to put up with the advertisements automatically displayed) since it is blocked on YouTube.

Editorial note: At least to me, this wreaks of extreme overconfidence and arrogance and puts into context the sort of thought processes which were occurring early on until those involved finally realized the gravity of the crisis being beyond anything they could realistically imagine (and just how much officials underestimated the problems from the beginning).
http://www.nippon-sekai.com/main/articl ... is-part-1/



This is the 2nd part of a nuclear crisis documentary by NHK, where the impact of radiation contamination is found to be growing.

4 months after the March 11th quake and tsunami, researchers and scientists now have a far clearer picture of the events surrounding the Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and the amounts of radioactivity released into the environment. As noted in part 1, officials severely underestimated the crisis at the power plant and were essentially complicit in their failure to act in a more decisive and urgent manner. Furthermore, the reported amounts and spread of radioactive fallout were also underestimated.

Scientists are now beginning to understand how radioactive contamination spread after they were released from the power plant and the picture is not proving to be pretty. Further monitoring is uncovering radioactive hotspots throughout the Tokyo metropolitan area. This special documentary looks further into the growing impact of radiation from the Dai-ichi nuclear power plant by starting out from the areas adjacent to the crippled power plant, then out to a 100km (62 miles) radius, and then areas beyond where some of these hotspots have been found.

This 50 minute video is split into 4 parts and hosted on Dailymotion (so you'll need to put up with the advertisements automatically displayed) since this video is blocked on YouTube.

Editorial note: I've been critical of NHK in the past for essentially being a mouthpiece of the government (since they are Japan's public braodcaster) where they essentially "towed the line". After the events of March 11th, there has been a growing critical tone in some of NHK's reporting surrounding the nuclear crisis; something which is quite evident in this special documentary.
http://www.nippon-sekai.com/main/articl ... is-part-2/



This is the 3rd part of the nuclear crisis coverage by NHK, where a panel discusses whether or not nuclear energy is really needed in Japan.

The discussions were originally aired on July 9th and 10th. Section 1 is 75 minutes while Section 2 is 80 minutes. Both sections are split into 2 parts and once again, hosted on Dailymotion since these are blocked on YouTube (and as usual, Dailymotion inserts advertisements into these longer videos so you'll need to put up with them). Pro-tip: if you use Safari (Mac or Windows) and install the Click2Flash extension, the video will load via HTML5 and no annoying advertisements will interrupt the stream.
http://www.nippon-sekai.com/main/articl ... is-part-3/
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:48 am

Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks. The cooling system at the plant failed after the devastating tsunami hit Japan in March, sparking a nuclear crisis. But new evidence suggests that Fukushima reactors were doomed to cripple even before the massive wave reached them.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:34 am

According to this article the Japanese government had detailed maps within 15 mins of where the radiation was going to blow and withheld that information to the public causing them to be exposed needlessly.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/wall ... anese.html
Before long, a Tokyo Electric employee arrived in a company car wearing full protective gear and toting a dosimeter, according to two people who were there. It beeped steadily, indicating high levels of radiation, these people say. He told the evacuees that they were safe because they were outside the official evacuation zone, they say. He left after a few minutes. A Tokyo Electric spokesman confirmed the incident.

the system offered useful information for planning evacuations, but that "nobody wanted to be associated with such fearful decisions."
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:39 am


Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent criticality) continued to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.

In a second area of concern, Fairewinds disagrees the NRC's latest report claiming that all Fukushima spent fuel pools had no problems following the earthquake. In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than 1 mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors. If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves. Such a failure of the containment system certainly necessitates a complete review of all US reactor containment design and industry assurances that containments will hold in radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. The evidence Fairewinds reviewed to date continues to support its April analysis that the detonation in the Unit 3 Spent Fuel pool was the cause of plutonium found off site.

Third, the burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

And finally, the Japanese government has yet to grasp the severity of the contamination within Japan, and therefore has not developed a coherent plan mitigate the accident and remediate the environment. Without a cohesive plan to deal with this ongoing problem of large scale radioactive contamination, the radioactivity will continue to spread throughout Japan and around the globe further exacerbating the problem and raising costs astronomically.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:15 am


Date: 8/26/2011

New TEPCO data measured on August 19 & 20 shows severe damage to the spent fuel in Fukushima Daiichi Units 1, 2, and 3. The adjacent TEPCO table posted on the front page shows incredibly high levels of Cesium 137 and Cesium 134 in all three spent fuel pools of Units 1, 2, & 3. This TEPCO data clearly contradicts and refutes the July assertion by the NRC the Fukushima Daiichi spent fuel pools were not damaged in this tragic accident. Crytome (cry to me) has a new high resolution photo, also uploaded, that shows the extensive damage of the Unit 3 spent fuel pool and the reactor building. Check it out.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:35 am

This is one you might want to watch.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Mon Aug 29, 2011 6:44 am


In the meantime, some garbage incinerators and sludge incinerators at waste processing plants and sewage treatment plants in cities in Kanto have become so radioactive that they have to be shut down. (More later.)

The entire country is to become the nuclear waste disposal site, because of one wrecked nuclear power plant. Talk about socializing the cost.

link: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/japa ... allow.html
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:21 am


Environmental experts in Japan are warning of new fallout from the country's nuclear crisis.

Radioactive waste is piling up at several sewerage plants, well away from the crippled Fukushima reactor.

Months after the tsunami and earthquake that triggered the nuclear meltdown, the government still has no policy on what to do with the waste.
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Fri Sep 02, 2011 6:24 am

Simulation Map of Cesium-137 Deposition Across the Pacific by CEREA Shows Contamination in US Greater Than That of Western Japan
Link: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/map- ... cross.html
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Re: Understanding Fukushima

Postby surfsteve » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:16 am

Proof Of Fukushima Weapons Program

By Yoichi Shimatsu
Former editor of The Japan Times Weekly,
Studied At UC Berkeley Graduate School Of Journalism.
9-8-11


Soon after Japan's triple disaster, I suggested that an official cover-up of a nuclear-weapons program hidden inside the Fukushima No.1 plant was delaying the effort to contain the reactor meltdowns. Soon after the tsunami struck, the Tokyo Electric Power Company reported that only three reactors had been generating electricity on the afternoon of March 11.. (According to the initial report, these were the older GE-built reactors 1,2 and 6.). Yet overheating at five of the plant's six reactors indicated that two additional reactors had also been operating (the newer and more advanced Nos. 3 and 4, built by Toshiba and Hitachi). The only plausible purpose of such unscheduled operation is uranium enrichment toward the production of nuclear warheads...

Rest of article at: http://rense.com/general94/proof.htm
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