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Fukushima Radiation Now Equal To At Least 50 Chernobyls.
conspiracy yes….theory no,
ugly truth is that those with all the money control everything from government to education, what you buy, food you eat….the pills you take, the gas you use…it all filters up to a conglomerate, your master who only cares about what they can take from you
This stuff is old news now
Fukishima the gift that just keeps giving
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/tepco-urged-to-protect-ocean-as-groundwater-contamination-rises.html
Yup.
Totally nothing to worry about.
Not like the unthinking majority even knew that it was a 6 reactor site and 4 are broked.
People should really learn to google random things like fault lines and nuclear reactor sites.
Oh yeah, so the Pacific is hooped b/c of Fukushima and the GoM and the sinkhole in the parish will take care of the Atlantic.
How about this awesome weather though?!
protect tom mcdonald at all costs
Korean girl sent me a link the other day: http://m.pann.nate.com/talk/318738839
summary: Northern Japan is pretty much fucked.
Looks like Mount Fuji is getting ready to blow soon, too. ("soon" geologically speaking, anyway: could go tomorrow or 100 years from now…)
She's been saying that lots of Japanese have been buying up the relatively empty countryside in SouthWest Korea.
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International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised
Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant
- Jon Queally, staff writer
In the most serious action since the nuclear plant was first damaged in 2011, Japan's Nuclear Regulatory Authority is on the verge of raising the international alarmand the official threat levelover the spiraling crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
By elevating the severity status from level 1 to level 3 on the eight-level International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES), the NRA has made a clear indication that the situation is worsening more than two years after the initial disaster and following recent reports of newly discovered leaks of highly radioactive water from several sources.
As Reuters reports, the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday it viewed the situation at Fukushima "seriously" and was ready to help if called upon, while nearby China said it was "shocked" to hear contaminated water was still leaking from the plant, and urged Japan to provide information "in a timely, thorough and accurate way".
Shunichi Tanaka, head of the NRA, told reporters that the plant has become an amusement park's house of horror, with newly discovered leaks and and repeated failings by the plant's owner TEPCO to make meaningful progress in the cleanup.
"I don't know if describing it this way is appropriate, but it's like a haunted house and, as I've said, mishaps keep happening one after the other," he told reporters. "We have to look into how we can reduce the risks and how to prevent it from becoming a fatal or serious incident."
As the Japan Times reports:
The NRA said about 300 tons of highly radioactive water has leaked from tank No. 5 in the H4 area of the damaged plant. In total, it said, the nuclear materials released into the environment has been estimated at several thousand terabecquerels, converted into radioactive molybdenum 99.
This is comparable to level 3, given the standards for the radiation barriers and management of a facility, the NRA said in a document released Wednesday.
Raising the severity rating would be one of the most serious actions taken since the March 11, 2011, mega-quake and tsunami led to three reactor meltdowns.
Im concerned most about how such tanks with high levels (of radioactive water) are increasing rapidly, said Tanaka, referencing more than 1,000 water storage tanks now spread out around the crippled facility.
Though TEPCO said earlier this week, that newly discovered leak in one of the temporary storage tanks was an anomaly, other experts worry that it could be happening on a much larger scale.
According to the Japan Times, Tanaka warned that if another large tsunami were to hit the area, many of the tanks would be destroyed at once.
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International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised
Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant
…while nearby China said it was "shocked" to hear contaminated water was still leaking from the plant, and urged Japan to provide information "in a timely, thorough and accurate way".
:lol: oh China is now the global model of transparency?
Why slag free swag?:rolleyes:
ummm, as your doctor i recommend against riding with a scaphoid fracture.
Here's a slightly more reputable source of information - National Geographic.
While about two-thirds of Fukushima's storage tanks are welded steel vessels, the leaking tank is one of about 350 improvised temporary tanks that TEPCO has employed to augment its capacity. The temporary tanks are made of steel plates bolted together with plastic packing materials to seal the seams, and apparently are more vulnerable to leaks.
More vulnerable to leaks, who would have guessed?
More than 50 of these?!?
Contrast this to petroleum, coal and gas which have never caused any harm to people or the environment …
Worse than they thought:
Fukushima radiation levels '18 times higher' than thought
Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned.
Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground.
It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure.
The plant was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisieverts an hour.
However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 millisieverts.
The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1,800 millisieverts an hour.
The new reading will have direct implications for radiation doses received by workers who spent several days trying to stop the leak last week, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reports from Tokyo.
In addition, Tepco says it has discovered a leak on another pipe emitting radiation levels of 230 millisieverts an hour.
The plant has seen a series of water leaks and power failures.
The 2011 tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down.
The damage from the tsunami has necessitated the constant pumping of water to cool the reactors.
This is believed to be the fourth major leak from storage tanks at Fukushima since 2011 and the worst so far in terms of volume.
After the latest leak, Japan's nuclear-energy watchdog raised the incident level from one to three on the international scale measuring the severity of atomic accidents, which has a maximum of seven.
Experts have said the scale of water leakage may be worse than officials have admitted.
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Tepco said that a tablespoon of water leaked (which is enough to give a high reading) and that they've cleaned that up.
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Tepco said that a tablespoon of water leaked (which is enough to give a high reading) and that they've cleaned that up.
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