See also:
– Former Japanese PM Hatoyama: #Fukushima Reactor 3 Nuclear Explosion Likely (EX-SKF, Dec. 16, 2011):
It turns out that former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had more than just the recriticality back in March and April to talk about in his Nature article that was published on December 15, a rather awkward day it must have been for the Noda administration who was going to declare the end of the Fuku I Nuke Plant accident.
Even though the original English version of the Nature article is only available to the subscribers, Nature Asia has the full translation made available to anyone.
In the article, he and his co-writer Tomoyuki Taira talk about the possibilities of recriticality (chlorine-38 detection), nuclear explosion of Reactor 3, and melt-through of the corium contaminating the groundwater.
No wonder Yomiuri Shinbun, when writing about Hatoyama’s article in Nature magazine, decided to only mention TEPCO nationalization and recriticality in March/April – a subject safe enough to talk about now.
In concluding that it may have been a nuclear explosion at Reactor 3, Hatoyama forgoes the mechanism of how a nuclear explosion could have happened and focuses on the evidence of transuranic elements scattered far outside the plant, saying a hydrogen explosion wouldn’t be powerful enough.
The original was English, and the translation (by Nature Asia?) was edited by Mr. Taira, according to Nature Asia website. The following is my quick translation back into English from the Japanese translation of the portion about Reactor 3 nuclear explosion. As such, it will be probably nowhere near the original English in terms of expression.
From “Nuclear energy: Nationalize the Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant” by Tomoyuki Taira & Yukio Hatoyama (translation into English from the Japanese translation of the original English):
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Possibility of Nuclear Explosion
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We need to answer the question of what caused the series of explosions at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. Initially, they were reported as hydrogen explosions, i.e. explosions as the result of chemical reaction at a high temperature between the alloy in the cladding and the water vapor in the reactor core. However, this is not conclusive. Other possibilities exist, and they are nuclear explosions and gas explosions other than hydrogen gas.
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How much, and what kind of radioactive materials were dispersed by the explosions, and how far did they spread? What is the condition of spent nuclear fuel stored in the Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 3? To answer these questions, it is imperative that we know one way or the other if a nuclear explosion took place. From two observed facts, we believe a nuclear explosion is more likely. First, several transuranic elements have been detected several tens of kilometers away from the plant. Second, the steel trusses in the upper part of the reactor building of Reactor 3 are twisted as if they had been melted.
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According to the reports by the Ministry of Education and Science, curium-242 (242Cm) has been detected at a location 3 kilometers from the plant, and plutonium-238 (238Pu) has been detected at a location 45 kilometers from the plant. These are extremely toxic, and if ingested they will cause internal radiation. 242Cm’s half life is short (about 163 days), and the deposition of 238Pu around the plant is far greater than normal, leading the Ministry of Education and Science to conclude these are not the radioactive fallout from the past atmospheric nuclear testing but that they were emitted from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. If that’s the case, pieces of broken spent nuclear fuel rods may have been scattered around the plant, and it is extremely dangerous.
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These transuranic elements are not carried by the radioactive plume like much lighter cesium or iodine. Therefore, they must have been blown out by an extremely large force. It is not known to us whether a hydrogen explosion is powerful enough to disperse transuranic elements this far. It is unlikely that a hydrogen explosion generated a high enough temperature that would melt steel. TEPCO initially announced that there was a white smoke from Reactor 3 explosion. However, the later investigation has revealed that the smoke was black, and a hydrogen explosion is not considered to generate such a black smoke. Our conclusion therefore is that it [explosion of Reactor 3] may have been a nuclear explosion. It is equally important to investigate whether a different explosive gas [other than hydrogen gas] was being generated at that time.
Hatoyama, as a former prime minister and a high-ranking official of the Democratic Party of Japan, has had access to more detailed information about the accident from both the government source and TEPCO, in addition to the data from nuclear experts that he invited to his study group on the Fukushima accident, though he complains in the Nature article how he was frustrated with the slow response from TEPCO. (He is referring to the 99% blacked out operation manual from TEPCO.)
More info:
– Latest Military Decontamination Technology Out Of Japan: HANDS
– Near Tokyo: 348 Bq/Kg Of Strontium Detected In Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture
– New Leak At Fukushima Nuke Plant: 230 Tonnes of Radioactive Water – TEPCO Calls It A ‘Puddle’
– Latest Video of Destroyed Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video – Dec. 14/15, 2011)
– Why There Are No Severely Malformed Babies In Japan – Even After Fukushima (Video)
– Japan Declares Fukushima Nuke Plant Has Reached Stable State Of ‘Cold Shutdown’ (SURE!)
– Japan Government To Use Tokyo Residents As Guinea Pigs
– AND NOW: ’40 Years Estimated To Scrap Fukushima Plant’ (NHK)
– Report: Biggest Radiation Dose Outside Fukushima Exclusion Zone
– Russian Expert: Fukushima Situation Far From Stabilizing
– 2 Tokyo High School Students Die Of ‘Heart Attacks’
– Dr. Helen Caldicott: ‘After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough’ (New York Times)
– Studies Prove: Fukushima Safety Level NOT SAFE! (Video)
– Tokyo: Iodine-131 Detected In Several Garbage Facilities (350 Bq/Kg At Kita Facility)
– Confirmed: Decon Worker In Date City, Fukushima Found Dead In Company Car
– Confirmed: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Is Falling Apart, Wall Was Lost On The South Side (Video, Photos)
– US And Japanese Scientists Detected Cesium-137 At 50 Million Times Normal Levels In Ocean
– Outrage As Japan Uses Tsunami Victims’ Cash To Shield Whalers From Activists
– MAD Japan PM: Fukushima Nuke Plant Stable By Year’s End
– ‘Decontamination’ For 2012 Fukushima Cherry Blossom Festival
– And Now: Wild Monkeys To Measure Fukushima Radiation
– Tepco Forced To Back Down From Plans To Dump Radioactive Water Into The Sea
– Radiation Expert: The Situation In Fukushima Is Rapidly Spinning Out Of Control
– Japan Public Enemy Prof. Hayakawa From Gunma University Told To Shut Up Or Face Disciplinary Action
– Professor Yukio Hayakawa of Gunma University Is Under Attack (Video)
– Fukushima: TEPCO Wants To Pump Radioactive Water Into The Ocean (Spiegel, Dec. 8, 2011)
– Fukushima: TEPCO Admits Radioactive Strontium-90 ‘Leaked Into Pacific’
– Fukushima Government Only Checks 2.9% Of Rice For Radioactivity
– Highly Radioactive Fallen Leaves In Tokyo
– Fukushima Water Purifying System HAS NEVER WORKED!
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Leaks Large Quantities Of Highly Radioactive Water
– Japanese Scientists Call For Dumping Radioactive Soil Into Sea
– Japan Government To Approve Exports Of Nuclear Technology Worldwide
– Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (‘China Syndrome’) Closer Than Thought
– TEPCO And NHK Obfuscation Of Fukushima Reactor No.1 Corium Into The Concrete
– Institute of Applied Energy: Corium Could Be 2 Meters Deep Into Concrete
– And Now: Rice Burgers Made From Radioactive Fukushima Rice
– Japan: Abukumagawa River Cesium Levels Hit 50 BILLIONS Becquerels Per Day
– Russian Roulette In Japan: 15% Of Fukushima Bagged Rice SEVERELY Radioactive
– 50 More Locations In Tokyo Over Radiation Limit
– Tokyo Will Burn Miyagi’s Disaster And Radioactive Debris in Incineration Plants in 23 Special Wards
– 14,600 Bq/Kg In Fukushima Wild Boar
– Mongolia Bans Importing Cars From Japan
– TEPCO: Radioactive Substances Belong To Landowners, Not Us
– Fukushima Prefecture Hospital Staffing Crisis
– Insane Japan: Radioactive Debris Burning Emits 19 Microsieverts/Hour Over Shinagawa, Tokyo
– Fukushima Worker: ‘There Is Nothing Left We Can Do’
– TEPCO Had Dust Sampling Data from March 11, Didn’t Tell The Rest Of Us Until November 24
– Japanese TV Star Suffers From Acute Leukemia After Eating Fukushima Produce (Video)
– Japan Government: 8 Percent Of the Country Is Contaminated By Radiation
– Radioactive Strontium Found in Central Tokyo!
– Highest Reading Yet At Fukushima Reactor No. 3: 1.6 Sieverts Per Hour!
– Cesium-137 Deposition Simulation Shows Massive Ocean Contamination
– Radioactive Koriyama City (Sakabuta Park): Deadly 33.53 MicroSieverts/Hour
– Radioactive Suwa Elementary School In Yokosuka Nov, 17 2011 (Video – Slideshow)
– Radiation In Japan: ‘Blowing In The Cold Autumnal Wind’ … or … How F****** Stupid Can They Get?
– Japan Residents Running Out Of Safe Food
– Japan Finally BANS Fukushima Rice
– Fukushima Fallout Fears Over Japan Farms (BBC)
– Up To 220,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Japanese Conifers (Needles)!
– Japanese Emperor To Remain In Hospital – Radiation Anyone?
– Journalists Touring Fukushima Nuclear Plant Told To Put Cameras Down (Video)
– Radioactive Japan: 60,000 Bq/kg Cesium in Riverbed Soil in Fukushima
– 630 Bq/Kg Cesium In Rice From Fukushima City (NHK)
– Fukushima Worker Shoes ‘Melted Immediately’
– TEPCO Opens Fukushima Nuclear Plant To Journalists – Prof. Hiroaki Koide: ‘Nobody Knows Where Exactly The Fuel Is, Or In What Condition’
– TEPCO: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 ‘Air Duct’ Explosion On 4th Floor
– Japan (Radioactive) Tsunami Debris Could Reach B.C. In Days: Oceanographer
– Japanese Radiation Experts Blast Government Decontamination Efforts
– Another Radiation Hotspot In Tokyo At 7.356 Microsieverts/Hour
– Average Weight Increase In Fukushima Children: 3.1 Kg In 2010 Versus O.8 Kg In 2011
– Silent Death – Horror Scenario Awaits Japan (The Low-Level Radiation Myth Exposed)
– Prof. Chris Busby: Ongoing (Out Of Control) Fission At Fukushima
– German Radiation Expert Warns Of Possibility Of Nuclear Explosion At Fukushima
– 21.44 MicroSieverts/Hr At Koriyama School 60 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video)
– CRIMINALS: Koriyama City in Fukushima To Feed 2011 Rice To School Kids
– 2.22 Microsieverts/Hour In Front Of Junior High School In Tokyo Area (Video – Nov. 3, 2011)
– Acute Leukemia Cases Spiking In Japan
– Radiation In Tokyo Bay 15 Times Higher Than Limit Set By Nuclear Safety Commission
– Cesium-134 And Cesium-137 From Fukushima Already 95% Of Chernobyl
– Fukushima Reactor 2 CV Gas Analysis: 100-Fold Increase in Krypton-85 In One Day
– Nuclear Fission At Fukushima Reactor 2
– Japanese Physician’s Diagnose Radiation As Cause Of Unusual Changes In Children (Video)
– Japanese Government Official Drinks Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water!
– Tokyo’s High Radiation Supermarket: It’s Radium Again, Emitting 40 Millisieverts/Hr Radiation
– The Fukushima Melt-Outs: Chernobyl Versus Fukushima – An Overview
– Japanese Government Still Refusing To Evacuate Fukushima Children (Video)
– Cesium-137 Flow Into Ocean 30 Times Greater Than Stated By TEPCO: Report (Kyodo)
– AND NOW: 110 Volunteers and Residents to ‘DECONTAMINATE’ High Radiation Area in Fukushima City
– Fukushima Beef Now Officially Banned (BBC News – Video)
– AND NOW: 110 Microsieverts Per Hour Detected At Tokyo Supermarket
– France’s IRSN Estimate Of Radioactive Cesium-137 Leaked Into The Pacific Ocean: 27,100 Terabequerels = 20 Times TEPCO’s Estimate!
– AND NOW: Burned Radioactive Sewage Sludge Dumped In Tokyo Bay (Video)
– Japan Considers Building New Capital In Case Of Emergency (Telegraph, Oct. 27, 2011)
– If Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Fuel Rods Spill On The Ground Tokyo And Yokohama Will Be Lost
– 80-120 Microsieverts Per Hour in Koriyama City, 60 Km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant
– Fukushima: Water Containing 2,600 Bq/Liter Tritium Sprayed In Plant Compound
– BBC Report: Fukushima Engineer Warns Of Nuclear Power Nightmare (Oct. 24, 2011 – Video)
– AND NOW: Japanese Government BURNS HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE SOIL In New Experiment To Remove Radioactive Cesium (!!!)
– Extremely High Levels Of Radiation Detected At 2 Schools In Chiba Prefecture
– Total Insanity: ‘Decontamination’ In Japan (Video)
– 58 Microsieverts Per Hour Detected In Used Car At Japanese Port
– AND NOW: Dangerously Radioactive Second-Hand Cars Haunting Japan
– AND NOW: Radioactive Concrete At 2.5 Microsieverts Per Hour Sold In Japan Home Center Store
– Fukushima Re-Criticality Neutron Feast – Dancing With The Devil In North America (VIDEO)
– Kashiwa City’s Radioactive Dirt: 276,000 Bq/Kg of Cesium!!!!!
– High Internal Radiation Exposure Found In Japanese Children
– Germany’s ZDF ‘Heute Show’ Making Fun Of TEPCO & Japanese Government Criminals
– Radiation in Fukushima Rivers, Wells Soars
– Over 50% Of Tested Seafood Samples From Japanese Supermarkets Contain Radioactive Cesium
– Neutron Ray From Uranium Detected In Tokyo (Video)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant: 450 Tonnes of Groundwater Per Day Seeping into Reactor/Turbine Buildings
– Japanese Communities Detect Chernoblyl-Level Radiation (ABC News – Video)
– TOKYO: 29 Out Of 30 Teas Contaminated With Radioactive Cesium, 3 Exceeding Provisional Safety Limit
– Local Government Official Oyama Koichi Tells Young People To Leave Japan
– Prof. Chris Busby Update On Supplements To Block Fukushima Radiation (Video)
– Radioactive Debris In Japan: Government To Municipalities: Don’t Tell Anyone – Don’t Say No
– Massive Amounts Radioactive Ash And Sludge Pile Up In Japan
– Tokyo: 3.60 Microsieverts Per Hour In Roadside Mud (Video – Oct. 16, 2011)
– 20 Radiation Hot Spots Around Tokyo
– High Concentrations Of Radioactive Cesium Found In PLANKTON (NHK, Oct. 15, 2011)
– Japan Nuclear Agency Secretly Calculated Fukushima Meltdown Risks
– Radioactive Fukushima Rice Headed For Restaurants And Schools … And Consumers In Tokyo!
– Tokyo’s Setagaya Officials: Radiation Spike Unlikely From Fukushima (Sure!)
– ALL Fukushima Rice All Cleared For Shipment … Radioactive Or Not!
– Fukushima Journalist Takes On TEPCO
– Prof. Hirotada Ohashi, One Of The ‘Plutonium Brothers’, Was A TEPCO Employee!
– NHK Caught Manipulating Truth About Radiation Danger Again
– High Radiation Dose Readings Marked In Spots In Tokyo, Chiba
– How Kindergartens and Elementary Schools Enjoy Radioactive Autumn in Japan!
– TEPCO Uses Low-Level Radioactive Water To Spray Fukushima Nuclear Compound
– 300,000 Bq/m² of Radioactive Cesium at Okutama Region Where Tokyo’s Drinking Water Comes From
– Tokyo Tap Water In Crisis, Comes From Chernobyl-Like Contaminated Area (100,000 – 300,000 Bq/m2):
However, Okutama area, where Tokyo tap water comes is as dangerous as “contaminated area” in Chernobyl.
According to the data above, 100,000 ~ 300,000 Bq/m2 was measured in Okutama area.
– Casualties Mount in Japanese Radiation War – Fukushima on Facebook
– Osaka: Fukushima Made Bridge Girders Read 700 Microsieverts
– Senior Fukushima Nuclear Engineer: ‘It’s Endless, Endless’ – ‘The Task Will Never End’
– Incinerator Near Tokyo Shut Down, High Levels Of Radioactive Cesium Detected In Ash
– CRIMINALS OF THE WORST KIND: Japanese Government Will No Longer Measure PLUTONIUM (The Deadliest Substance On The Planet)!!!
– Japan: New Government Maps Show Wide Dispersion of Plutonium and Strontium
– Whistleblower Prof. Kenichi Matsumoto: Japan’s PM ‘Isolated, Out Of His Depth’ (Video)
– Tokyo To Burn Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Debris From Tohoku
– Japanese PM Considered EVACUATION of Tokyo (ABC News)
– Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki As Residents Flee
– Fukushima Evacuation-Ready Zone To Be Abolished On Sep. 30, 2011
– Radioactive Train In Tokyo Metropolitan Area: Over 10 Microsievert/Hour Inside Train (Video)
– 105,600 Bq/Kg of Radioactive Cesium Found On Apartment Bldg Rooftop in Yokohama City
– BBC Fukushima Propaganda Debunked (Video)
– Fairewinds: Safety Problems In All (Mark I) Reactors Designed Like Fukushima – Introducing A Japanese Language Edition
– Tokyo: 60,000 Rally Against Nukes
– Radioactive Japan: 42,000 Bq/Kg Cesium In Dirt In Yokohama City
– Japan To Promote Use Of Potentially Radioactive Lumber With ‘Eco-Point’ Incentive
– Japan: Area Of More Than 8,000 Square Km Accumulated Cesium-137 Levels Of 30,000 Bec/Sq Meter
– Huge Amounts Of Neptunium 239 Detected 60 Km From Fukushima!!!
– Prof. Chris Busby On Children Suffering Heart Attacks In Fukushima
– Geiger Counter Measures 0.378 Microsieverts In Tokyo Train Station 1 Meter Above Ground!!!
– Japan ‘Misstated’ Radiation … ‘And So Exposed People Unnecessarily’ (WSJ)
– Fukushima Nuclear Plant Back Into Recriticality
– Fukushima: Radioactive Release Into Sea Estimated Triple
– More Cover-Ups: TEPCO’s Extreme Blackout (Submits Almost Entirely Redacted Documents – Video)
– Former Japan PM Kan: TEPCO Wanted To Abandon Fukushima! … ‘NOBODY MIGHT LIVE IN TOKYO NOW’
– Mystery Flash At Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video – Sep. 5, 2011)
– 4 Above Limit Radioactive Cesium Tea Products Reach Market
– 28,000 Becquerels/Kg Of Radioactive Cesium In Wild Mushrooms in Fukushima
– Fukushima Released 76 TRILLION Bequerels Of Plutonium 239
– DOOMED: Japan Gov. To Allow All RADIOACTIVE Material To Be Burned And Buried
– Fukushima Cesium-137 Leaks ‘Equal 168 Hiroshimas’
Fukushima City should have been evacuated a long time ago:
– Japanese Government To Finally Admit Forced Indefinite Long-Term Depopulation Of Fukushima Communities
– Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation
How about Tokyo?
– ‘Severely Contaminated Hotspots’ Found In Tokyo
Here is what the Japanese and all the other elite puppet governments are really doing here:
TREASON! GENOCIDE! RADIATION EXPERIMENTS!
Watch these Japanese officials just walk away from begging Fukushima citizens:
– This Is Outrageous: Japanese Government Killing Its Own People In Fukushima (Video)
The Japanese people are used as guinea pigs:
– Wall Street Journal: How the Japanese Government Failed Residents of Namie, Fukushima
– Japan’s Nuclear Agency Hides Children Radiation Results
– AND NOW: Japanese Government Sets 100 Millisieverts As New Lifetime Standard
… these are not “dosimeters” but “glass badges” that passively collect radiation information. It won’t help these children or their parents to avoid high-radiation areas and spots, it won’t tell them how much radiation they will have been exposed unless they are sent in to a company to interpret the data.
This is outrageous and it is called mind-control:
– AND NOW … Meet The 3 Japanese Scientists That Say: ‘Plutonium is Not That Dangerous’ (Video)
There are no safe levels of radiation:
– Prof. Karl Grossman: ‘Radiation Hormesis An Incredible Lie’
– Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation: ‘I Just Cannot Feel Any Hope For Japan’s Future’
– IAEA Admits: There Is No Such Thing As ‘Safe’ Levels Of Radiation
– Dr. Helen Caldicott On The Japan Nuclear Disaster – The Truth MSM Won’t Tell You! (Video)
– Dr. Helen Caldicott: How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation
– Dr. Brian Moench: There Is No ‘Safe’ Exposure To Radiation
– Are There Safe Levels of Radiation? How Much Radiation Is Safe? (Must-read!!!!!)
Radiation exposure is increased by a factor of a trillion. Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.
Yo: So making comparisons with X-rays and CT scans has no meaning. Because you can breathe in radioactive material.
Hirose: That’s right. When it enters your body, there’s no telling where it will go. The biggest danger is women, especially pregnant women, and little children. Now they’re talking about iodine and cesium, but that’s only part of it, they’re not using the proper detection instruments. What they call monitoring means only measuring the amount of radiation in the air. Their instruments don’t eat. What they measure has no connection with the amount of radioactive material.
Dr. Helen Caldicott (Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility):
You’ve bought the propaganda from the nuclear industry. They say it’s low-level radiation. That’s absolute rubbish. If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it’s an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that’s true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia. It’s imperative … that you understand internal emitters and radiation, and it’s not low level to the cells that are exposed. Radiobiology is imperative to understand these days.”
Bizarre:
Big Brother Japan:
Radiation is now everywhere:
– 27,000 Becquerels/Kg Found At Kindergarten Over 200 Miles From Fukushima Nuke Plant
– 4,000 Potentially Radioactive Cows Shipped from One Farm in Namie-Machi, Fukushima
– Japan Government To Lift Ban On Sales And Shipment Of Radioactive Fukushima Beef
– Fukushima: 186,000 Becquerels Per Kg Radioactive Cesium in Aizu Wakamatsu City
– Japan: Radioactive Beef Served in 296 Schools in 12 Prefectures