What is most interesting is that no one is writing about this or talking about
it. This poison is spreading through the Pacific Ocean and will, at some point,
come ashore on our coasts and our people will suffer the consequences. Our
government knows this. The scientists know this. No one is doing anything or
saying anything about it.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 12:35 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Fukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years
of Meltdowns
We've let the Evil Genie out of the bottle, and we don't know how to put him
back in.
If I had a magic wand, I'd wave it and all nuclear devices, along with the
knowledge to build them, would vanish.
Carl Jarvis
On 2/13/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Boardman writes: After a week of limited coverage of 'unimaginable levels'
of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima (see
below), Nuclear-News.net reported February 11 that radiation levels
are actually significantly higher than 'unimaginable.'"
IAEA fact-finding team examines devastation at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant in May 2011. (photo: IAEA/Greg Webb)
<http://readersupportednews.org/>
Fukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
By William Boardman, Reader Supported News
12 February 17
Even Fox News reports radiation at "unimaginable levels"
After a week of limited coverage of "unimaginable levels" of radiation
inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima (see below),
Nuclear-News.net
<https://nuclear-news.net/2017/02/10/radiation-level-in-fukushima-no-2
-react or-measured-higher650-sieverts/> reported February 11 that
radiation levels are actually significantly higher than
"unimaginable."
Continuous, intense radiation, at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is
a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017 - as if
this were a new phenomenon. It's not. Three reactors at Fukushima
melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011,
and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of
control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email
February 10:
Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation
reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2
atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago.. As
Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because
groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel)
at Fukushima Daiichi.
What's new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgement
of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of
seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012).
The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an
hour. What this all means, as anyone paying attention well knows, is
that the triple-meltdown Fukushima disaster is still out of control.
"Sievert" is one of the many terms of mystification
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert> used to prevent most people
from fully understanding radiation. A "sievert" is roughly equivalent
to a "gray," as each represents a "joule" per kilogram (not to be
confused, for example, with "Curie" or Bequerel," or with "rem," "rad," or
"roentgen").
In
the International System of Units (SI), a "joule" is the "unit of work
or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its
point of application moves one meter in the direction of action of the
force, equivalent to one 3600th of a watt-hour." Got that? The jargon
doesn't much matter as far as public safety is concerned. All ionizing
radiation is life-threatening
<https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/lethal-dose-ld.html> .
The more you're exposed, the more you're threatened. As Physics Stack
Exchange
<http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/169304/lethal-dose-of-gys-
grays>
illustrates the issue:
The dose [of radiation] that kills a tumor is deliberately aimed at
that tumor. If, instead of using a collimated beam, you put a person
in a wide beam for radio "therapy", you would be treating their entire
body as a tumor and kill them.
Radiation levels at Fukushima are comparable to a nuclear explosion
<http://lunaticoutpost.com/thread-735130.html> that doesn't end.
That's one reason that TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. that owns
Fukushima, keeps trying to reassure the world that little or no
radiation escapes from Fukushima. This is not true, radiation in
large, mostly unmeasured or undocumented amounts pours into the
Pacific Ocean all the time, without pause. One reason this release is
out of control is because no one apparently knows just where the three
melted reactor cores have gone. TEPCO says it thinks the melted cores
have burned through the reactors' inner containment vessels, but are
still within the outer containment walls. They keep looking as best
they can.
On February 3, 2017, the Guardian reported
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/03/fukushima-daiichi
-radia
tion-levels-highest-since-2011-meltdown> the high radiation levels
discovered by a remote camera sent into the reactor on a telescopic arm.
Reader Supported News
<http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/41788-radiation-a
t-fuku
shima-spikes-to-highest-levels-since-2011> carried the story from
shima-spikes-to-highest-levels-since-2011> EcoWatch
on February 5. Essentially the same story
<http://www.miragenews.com/record-high-fatal-radiation-levels-hole-in-
reacto r-detected-at-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-facility/> was
reported on February 6 by Smithsonian.com, on February 7 by
ZeroHedge.com
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-07/new-radiation-level-fukushim
a-dwar
fs-highest-peak-chernobyl> , and on February 8, Fox News reported
<http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/08/unimaginable-levels-radiation-f
ukushi
ma-pacific-ocean-leaks> that "radiation levels at Japan's crippled
Fukushima nuclear power plant are now at 'unimaginable' levels." There
have apparently been no such reports on CBS, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC. On
February 9, ABC ran an AP story
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cleaner-robot-pulled-fu
kushim
a-reactor-due-radiation-45369788> about pulling a robot out of Unit 2
because of "high radiation," without specifying a level and adding:
"TEPCO officials reassured that despite the dangerously high figures,
radiation is not leaking outside of the reactor." (PJMedia.com
<https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/10/relax-that-scary-fukushima-he
adline -was-fake-news/> calls the Fox story "fake news," relies on ad
hominem argument, trusts TEPCO on keeping track of the irradiated
ocean flow, and accepts US EPA standards for "safe" drinking water -
without actually discrediting the story.)
On February 12, Pakistan Defence ran the AP story
<https://defence.pk/threads/fukushimas-record-high-radiation-broke-a-c
leanin g-robot-after-two-hours.477388/> of February 9, but included
the new level of radiation at 650 sieverts that fried a robot
<http://www.miragenews.com/fukushima-reactor-s-radiation-levels-killed
-a-cle
aning-robot/> 's camera, adding:
The high levels of radiation may seem alarming, but there's good news: ;
it's contained, and there are no reports of new leaks from the plant.
That means that the radiation shouldn't affect nearby townships.
Higher levels of radiation could also mean the robot is getting closer
to the precise source of radioactivity to properly remove the melted fuel.
All this coverage relates only to Unit 2's melted reactor core. There
is no reliable news of the condition of the melted reactor cores in
two other units. Last November, in a half-hour talk reviewing the
Fukushima crisis <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwb8sRnTMU> , Arnie
Gunderson of Fairewinds Energy Education <http://www.fairewinds.org/>
discussed the three missing reactor cores and what he suspected was
the likelihood that they had not been contained within the reactor.
The ground water flowing into, through, and out of the reactor is
contaminated by its passage and is having some impact on the Pacific Ocean.
The US, like other governments, is ignoring whatever is happening,
allowing it to happen as if it doesn't matter and never will. In
Carmel, California <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvwqvELmGE> ,
local residents are finding that tide pools, once vibrant with life,
are now dead. They blame Fukushima
<https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062883448> .
Whatever is actually going on
<http://akiomatsumura.com/2017/02/the-potential-catastrophe-of-reactor
-2-at- fukushima-daiichi.html> at Fukushima is not good, and has
horrifying possibilities. It is little comfort to have the perpetrator
of the catastrophe, TEPCO, in charge of fixing it, especially when the
Japanese government is more an enabler of cover-up and denial than any
kind of seeker of truth or protector of its people. It took private
researchers
<https://phys.org/news/2016-06-radioactive-cesium-fallout-tokyo-fukush
ima.ht
ml> five years to figure out that Fukushima's fallout of Cesium-137
<http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/37768-scientists-
find-n
ew-kind-of-fukushima-fallout> on Tokyo took a more dangerous, glassy
ew-kind-of-fukushima-fallout> form
that wasn't cleaned up effectively.
The US and most of the rest of the world have chosen not to take
Fukushima more seriously than a multi-car Interstate pile-up. The
policy is one more roll of the dice, saving money now and gambling the
future. But now we have Rick Perry heading up the US Department of
Energy and Scott Pruitt slated to take over the Environmental
Protection Agency - so we can expect big changes, right?
Actually there has been one big change already at the Energy Dept.,
which uses more contractors
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article8
967408 2.html> than any other US agency. The Government
Accountability Office
(GAO) found that the Energy Dept. failed to protect whistleblowers
<http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/678332.pdf> who raised legitimate
nuclear safety and other concerns. In response, the Energy Dept.
prepared a new rule protecting whistleblowers from contractor
retaliation. That rule was blocked from going into effect by President
Trump
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/20/memorandum-hea
ds-exe
cutive-departments-and-agencies> 's regulatory freeze on January 20.
In a sense, Fukushima is perhaps a metaphor for the current American
moment.
The electoral earthquake and tsunami of 11/9 has produced a political
meltdown of unknown and expanding proportions, that continue
unchecked, causing still unmeasured destruction and human suffering
far into a dark and dangerous future.
_____
William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre, radio,
TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years in the
Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers Guild of
America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont Life magazine,
and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work.
Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
<http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize>
Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
IAEA fact-finding team examines devastation at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant in May 2011. (photo: IAEA/Greg Webb)
http://readersupportednews.org/http://readersupportednews.org/
Fukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns
By William Boardman, Reader Supported News
12 February 17
Even Fox News reports radiation at "unimaginable levels"
fter a week of limited coverage of "unimaginable levels" of radiation
inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima (see below),
Nuclear-News.net
<https://nuclear-news.net/2017/02/10/radiation-level-in-fukushima-no-2
-react or-measured-higher650-sieverts/> reported February 11 that
radiation levels are actually significantly higher than
"unimaginable."
Continuous, intense radiation, at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is
a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017 - as if
this were a new phenomenon. It's not. Three reactors at Fukushima
melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011,
and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of
control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email
February 10:
Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation
reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2
atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago.. As
Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because
groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel)
at Fukushima Daiichi.
What's new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgement
of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of
seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012).
The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an
hour. What this all means, as anyone paying attention well knows, is
that the triple-meltdown Fukushima disaster is still out of control.
"Sievert" is one of the many terms of mystification
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert> used to prevent most people
from fully understanding radiation. A "sievert" is roughly equivalent
to a "gray," as each represents a "joule" per kilogram (not to be
confused, for example, with "Curie" or Bequerel," or with "rem," "rad," or
"roentgen").
In
the International System of Units (SI), a "joule" is the "unit of work
or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its
point of application moves one meter in the direction of action of the
force, equivalent to one 3600th of a watt-hour." Got that? The jargon
doesn't much matter as far as public safety is concerned. All ionizing
radiation is life-threatening
<https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/lethal-dose-ld.html> .
The more you're exposed, the more you're threatened. As Physics Stack
Exchange
<http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/169304/lethal-dose-of-gys-
grays>
illustrates the issue:
The dose [of radiation] that kills a tumor is deliberately aimed at
that tumor. If, instead of using a collimated beam, you put a person
in a wide beam for radio "therapy", you would be treating their entire
body as a tumor and kill them.
Radiation levels at Fukushima are comparable to a nuclear explosion
<http://lunaticoutpost.com/thread-735130.html> that doesn't end.
That's one reason that TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. that owns
Fukushima, keeps trying to reassure the world that little or no
radiation escapes from Fukushima. This is not true, radiation in
large, mostly unmeasured or undocumented amounts pours into the
Pacific Ocean all the time, without pause. One reason this release is
out of control is because no one apparently knows just where the three
melted reactor cores have gone. TEPCO says it thinks the melted cores
have burned through the reactors' inner containment vessels, but are
still within the outer containment walls. They keep looking as best
they can.
On February 3, 2017, the Guardian reported
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/03/fukushima-daiichi
-radia
tion-levels-highest-since-2011-meltdown> the high radiation levels
discovered by a remote camera sent into the reactor on a telescopic arm.
Reader Supported News
<http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/41788-radiation-a
t-fuku
shima-spikes-to-highest-levels-since-2011> carried the story from
shima-spikes-to-highest-levels-since-2011> EcoWatch
on February 5. Essentially the same story
<http://www.miragenews.com/record-high-fatal-radiation-levels-hole-in-
reacto r-detected-at-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-facility/> was
reported on February 6 by Smithsonian.com, on February 7 by
ZeroHedge.com
<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-07/new-radiation-level-fukushim
a-dwar
fs-highest-peak-chernobyl> , and on February 8, Fox News reported
<http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/08/unimaginable-levels-radiation-f
ukushi
ma-pacific-ocean-leaks> that "radiation levels at Japan's crippled
Fukushima nuclear power plant are now at 'unimaginable' levels." There
have apparently been no such reports on CBS, NBC, CNN, or MSNBC. On
February 9, ABC ran an AP story
<http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cleaner-robot-pulled-fu
kushim
a-reactor-due-radiation-45369788> about pulling a robot out of Unit 2
because of "high radiation," without specifying a level and adding:
"TEPCO officials reassured that despite the dangerously high figures,
radiation is not leaking outside of the reactor." (PJMedia.com
<https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/10/relax-that-scary-fukushima-he
adline -was-fake-news/> calls the Fox story "fake news," relies on ad
hominem argument, trusts TEPCO on keeping track of the irradiated
ocean flow, and accepts US EPA standards for "safe" drinking water -
without actually discrediting the story.)
On February 12, Pakistan Defence ran the AP story
<https://defence.pk/threads/fukushimas-record-high-radiation-broke-a-c
leanin g-robot-after-two-hours.477388/> of February 9, but included
the new level of radiation at 650 sieverts that fried a robot
<http://www.miragenews.com/fukushima-reactor-s-radiation-levels-killed
-a-cle
aning-robot/> 's camera, adding:
The high levels of radiation may seem alarming, but there's good news: ;
it's contained, and there are no reports of new leaks from the plant.
That means that the radiation shouldn't affect nearby townships.
Higher levels of radiation could also mean the robot is getting closer
to the precise source of radioactivity to properly remove the melted fuel.
All this coverage relates only to Unit 2's melted reactor core. There
is no reliable news of the condition of the melted reactor cores in
two other units. Last November, in a half-hour talk reviewing the
Fukushima crisis <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwb8sRnTMU> , Arnie
Gunderson of Fairewinds Energy Education <http://www.fairewinds.org/>
discussed the three missing reactor cores and what he suspected was
the likelihood that they had not been contained within the reactor.
The ground water flowing into, through, and out of the reactor is
contaminated by its passage and is having some impact on the Pacific Ocean.
The US, like other governments, is ignoring whatever is happening,
allowing it to happen as if it doesn't matter and never will. In
Carmel, California <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImvwqvELmGE> ,
local residents are finding that tide pools, once vibrant with life,
are now dead. They blame Fukushima
<https://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1062883448> .
Whatever is actually going on
<http://akiomatsumura.com/2017/02/the-potential-catastrophe-of-reactor
-2-at- fukushima-daiichi.html> at Fukushima is not good, and has
horrifying possibilities. It is little comfort to have the perpetrator
of the catastrophe, TEPCO, in charge of fixing it, especially when the
Japanese government is more an enabler of cover-up and denial than any
kind of seeker of truth or protector of its people. It took private
researchers
<https://phys.org/news/2016-06-radioactive-cesium-fallout-tokyo-fukush
ima.ht
ml> five years to figure out that Fukushima's fallout of Cesium-137
<http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/37768-scientists-
find-n
ew-kind-of-fukushima-fallout> on Tokyo took a more dangerous, glassy
ew-kind-of-fukushima-fallout> form
that wasn't cleaned up effectively.
The US and most of the rest of the world have chosen not to take
Fukushima more seriously than a multi-car Interstate pile-up. The
policy is one more roll of the dice, saving money now and gambling the
future. But now we have Rick Perry heading up the US Department of
Energy and Scott Pruitt slated to take over the Environmental
Protection Agency - so we can expect big changes, right?
Actually there has been one big change already at the Energy Dept.,
which uses more contractors
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/article8
967408 2.html> than any other US agency. The Government
Accountability Office
(GAO) found that the Energy Dept. failed to protect whistleblowers
<http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/678332.pdf> who raised legitimate
nuclear safety and other concerns. In response, the Energy Dept.
prepared a new rule protecting whistleblowers from contractor
retaliation. That rule was blocked from going into effect by President
Trump
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/20/memorandum-hea
ds-exe
cutive-departments-and-agencies> 's regulatory freeze on January 20.
In a sense, Fukushima is perhaps a metaphor for the current American
moment.
The electoral earthquake and tsunami of 11/9 has produced a political
meltdown of unknown and expanding proportions, that continue
unchecked, causing still unmeasured destruction and human suffering
far into a dark and dangerous future.
William M. Boardman has over 40 years experience in theatre, radio,
TV, print journalism, and non-fiction, including 20 years in the
Vermont judiciary. He has received honors from Writers Guild of
America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Vermont Life magazine,
and an Emmy Award nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences.
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work.
Permission
to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader
Supported News.
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