– Deutsche Welle: “Fukushima power plant is far from ‘cold’ “ (EX-SKF, Dec. 21, 2011):
Germany’s Deutsche Welle’s take on PM Noda’s declaration of the “cold shutdown state” at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is more severe than New York Times.
Alexander Freund at Deutsche Welle Asia Desk says it is not the power plant that has been stabilized and controlled:
“The nuclear power lobbyists are the ones who can claim credit for stabilizing their own situation and getting the government under control. “
Enough said.
From Deutsche Welle (12/16/2011):
The Japanese government has claimed to have reached a cold shutdown in Fukushima. But experts are skeptical and believe it could take another 40 years to get the situation under control.
Headlines from Japan surely sound good: Fukushima is under control, the dilapidated nuclear power plant is stable. But these headlines are nothing more than a euphemism. The situation at Fukushima is nowhere near under control.
The Daiichi power plant operator Tepco and the Japanese government had announced at the end of summer to have the situation under control – or a cold shutdown – by the end of this year. For a “cold shutdown,” temperatures inside the reactor buildings need to be below 100 degrees Celsius. But it is just the beginning – the start of a point from which the plant can be disassembled.
Or so it goes in theory. But experts are saying it could take another 30 years before the plant can be levelled. Experts believe parts of the fuel rods burned through the floor of the reactor pressure vessel and are now lying on the ground and that they are far from “cold,” but that they are still around at a temperature of 3,000 degrees Celcius.
Referring to the current situation at Fukushima as a cold shutdown is thus irresponsible. But what else are the government and Tepco to do? They are hoping to pacify the population by talking about a cold shutdown, but it won’t work. The Japanese people are infuriated – nine months after the earthquake and tsunami which led to the meltdown in the Daiichi plant – Tepco was speaking of nuclear fission in reactor 2 just a couple of weeks ago. Nuclear radiation is still extremely high in the Fukushima prefecture and contaminated water continues to flow into the sea. High levels of radiation continue to be found in rice, meat, vegetables, seafood, milk and tea in the region. And thousands of people have been displaced by the nuclear disaster and continue to live in evacuation shelters. They will receive a small amount in compensation – but it will be payed out of the pockets of Japanese tax payers and not out of Tepco’s.
Nothing is under control – an unavoidable fact known to many Japanese people. Their skepticism and distrust have got to a point reached that many take their own measurements using Geiger counters and dosimeters. A number of people have started posting their findings on the Internet. There, on a map of Japan, anyone can see the radiation measurements taken throughout the country. This is important because it is not only those from the Fukushima prefecture who are affected, as measurements have shown. This has shaken a population that traditionally places great importance on respecting authrtiy. And no positive headlines at the year’s end are going to make it better.
Beacause there is no real progress to report. The new Japanese government under Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who has been in office since September, 2011, has not passed the “stress test,“ either. The last PM Naoto Kan had to resign, as his government, which failed in the hour of need, broke under the pressure of crossing swords with the country’s powerful lobbyists for nuclear power and instead made a move towards renewable energy. The nuclear power lobbyists are the ones who can claim credit for stabilizing their own situation and getting the government under control.
I’ve noticed that people in Germany seem to think better of ex-PM Kan than most Japanese, because Kan made overture to anti-nuke policy and alternative energy.
There are many in Japan who hold Kan personally responsible to have caused the explosion of Reactor 1 by insisting on going to Fukushima I Nuke Plant on the crucial day, March 12. He went in, shouting and scolding everyone, and left. The frantic work at the plant to contain the situation had to be stopped until after Kan left. Reactor 1 blew up that afternoon. (Mainichi Shinbun had an excellent series detailing the early days of the accident. I don’t know if they still have it online. If I find it I will post the link here.)
No amount of promise for alternative energy or anti-nuclear policy would ever reconcile him to the Japanese public.
More info:
– Radioactive Rice: Watari District, Fukushima City: 1540 Bq/Kg
– Totally Insane Japan: Nursery School Reopens, Only 25 km From Fukushima Nuclear Plant (Video)
– The Fukushima ‘Cold Shutdown’ Effect (2): No More Joint Press Conferences On The Fukushima Accident
– The Fukushima ‘Cold Shutdown’ Effect (1): ‘Let’s All Visit Fukushima’ Japanese Government Campaign
– Radiation in Japan: Saitama Forces School Children To Gargle With Sayama Tea to Prevent Flu
– Latest Military Decontamination Technology Out Of Japan: HANDS
– Near Tokyo: 348 Bq/Kg Of Strontium Detected In Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture
– Former Japanese PM Hatoyama: It May Have Been A Nuclear Explosion At Fukushima Reactor No. 3
– 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