Devvy - Read: Fukushima: "We are in big trouble." Apr 22, 2012
From: Devvy's Email Alerts<[email protected]> Date: Apr 22 Subject: Read: Fukushima: "We are in big trouble." By Devvy Kidd Links are generally posted at my web site http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/845193027039/ ______________ http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/844217706628/ "Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there. "What he saw was horrific. "And now he is saying that we are in big trouble. "See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC’s Chairman Gregory Jaczko here. "But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011. March 17th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California. "And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between. "Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since. "The scientists most upset are those who have studied the effects of radiation on health. I’ll say it again, so its really clear: we are in big trouble." Rest at link Where is the media in this country? The above article is not hyperbole. After Chernobyl, the Russian government did what had to be done: http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/120770621624/ "Chernobyl is to be laid to rest at last. The radioactive mess at the site of the world's worst nuclear accident - which last week was named as one of the 10 most polluted places on Earth (see opposite) - will be encased in steel and made safe. "On 26 April 1986, one of the four reactors at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine exploded. A concrete sarcophagus was hastily built over the wreckage, but it is starting to crumble and has been leaking radioactivity. Now President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine has signed a $505 million deal with the French construction firm Novarka to encase the whole lot in a massive steel vault to halt these leaks. "The arched structure, called the New Safe Confinement (NSC), will be 150 metres long and 105 metres tall - big enough to allow the existing sarcophagus and the wrecked reactor to ..." Rest at link above. There is no saving Fukushima; containment is a complete failure. Fukushima was built on landfill. It was sheer insanity to build a nuclear power plant near the water smack dab in the middle of the largest earthquake zone on this planet. That 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami were the perfect storm that finally happened. Now, TEPCO says they don't have the money to fix the problem. Asahi TV show airs photos of mutated plants in Tokyo — Same program to feature dire situation at No. 4 fuel pool: http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/287442105907/ Their problem is here and it will worsen. What's going to happen to our fishing industry when seafood is sufficiently contaminated? Won't happen? Mutant fish are being found in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP spill: Fish Deformities, Gulf Of Mexico Alarms Scientists http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/248654261190/ http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/234443100626/ The fallout from Fukushima is even more serious. SF Bay Area Milk Radioactive - 2x Over Allowed EPA Limits http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/675412521087/ April 8, 2012 UC Berkeley plutonium testing was 200-300 times less sensitive than US gov’t — University researchers still “may consider” performing more precise analysis for alpha particles — EPA detected Uranium-238 in San Francisco http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/330688043925/ The Radiation Warnings You Won’t Get from the Mainstream Propaganda Machine (April 3, 2012) http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/115921716028/ The mainstream media and the federal government will soon have the blood of the world on it’s hands. "Radiation from the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster in Japan is now actively in the ecosystem all along the North American west coast… even the sea weed is now radiated. The Vancouver Sun reported one year ago that the seaweed tested from waters off the coast of British Columbia were 4 times the amount considered safe. No further test results were released after the initial report. "The governments of the United States and Canada are not conducting tests for radioactivity – at least not to the knowledge of the public. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has agreed to continue purchasing seafood from Japan, despite the fact that the food is not being tested for radioactive contamination. "Last November, independent testing in Japan showed 65 per cent of the catches tested positive for cesium (a radioactive material). Instead of refusing to purchase the poisoned fish, food safety agencies in both the United States and Canada have simply raised the “acceptable level of radiation.” We can’t go offending the Japanese after promising to buy their tainted goods, now can we? "After the North American governments refused to fund testing, oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass, along with Nicholas Fisher, a marine sciences professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and other concerned scientists, managed to secure private funding for a Pacific research voyage. The results? "Cesium levels in the Pacific had initially gone up an astonishing 45 million times above pre-accident levels. The levels then declined rapidly for a while, but after that, they unexpectedly levelled off.In July, cesium levels stopped declining and remained stuck at 10,000 times above pre-accident levels.This means the ocean isn’t diluting the radiation as expected. If it had been, cesium levels would have kept falling.The finding suggests that radiation is still being released into the ocean long after the accident in March, 2011." http://devvy.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/alerts/844217706628/ Rest at link above. None of this is good news. People should be very, very careful about what they're eating and drinking. ______________ -- To join RichsRants, send email to: [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/richsrants?hl=en
