Fukushima: The Most Likely Solution Is To Encapsulate Entire No. 1 Unit, ‘Because Of High Radiation Construction Will Take Many Months, May Stretch Into Years’

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Flashback:

– Nuclear Expert: Suicide Crews ‘Facing 100-Year Battle’ At Fukushima

– UPDATE 2-Fukushima reactor has a hole, leading to leakage (Reuters):

U.S. nuclear experts said that the company may have to build a concrete wall around the unit because of the breach, and that this could now take years.

“If it is assumed the fuel did melt through the reactor (And it did: See this and this.) then the most likely solution is to encapsulate the entire unit. This may include constructing a concrete wall around the unit and building a protective cover over it,” W. Gene Corley, senior vice president of CTL Group in Skokie, Illinois, said on Thursday.

“Because of the high radiation that would be present if this has happened, the construction will take many months and may stretch into years,” Corley said.

Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Real Severe Problem Cooling Unit No. 3 Reactor, Hydrogen Explosion Possible – TEPCO Admits Unit 4 Leaning, Could Collapse – All 3 Nuclear Containments Leaking

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Added. 13.05.2011

Gundersen says Fukushima’s gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated.

With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area school children outside the exclusion zone receiving adult occupational radiation doses, the situation continues to worsen.

TEPCO needs a cohesive plan and international support to protect against world-wide contamination.

Japan Minister Banri Kaieda On Fukushima: It Is A Fact That The Meltdown Created Hole(s) At Reactor No. 1

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– TEPCO to review No. 1 reactor plan (NHK – May 13, 2011):

Tokyo Electric Power Company is being forced to review its strategy for stabilizing the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after announcing that one of its reactors is in a state of “meltdown.”

TEPCO revealed on Thursday that most of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor are believed to have melted and fallen to the bottom of the reactor.

The company said the coolant water in the reactor had dropped to a level that would completely expose fuel rods.

TEPCO believes the fuel at the bottom has cooled down, judging from the surface temperature of the reactor.

On Friday, workers brought in equipment for connecting a circulating cooling system to the reactor, in line with a plan TEPCO decided last month.

Under the plan, the utility was to fill the No. 1 reactor containment vessel with water. A cooling system was to be set up that would circulate this water through a heat exchanger.

But this system will only work if the water in the containment vessel is at least 5 meters deep.

TEPCO says it does not know the current water level, but is hoping to quickly establish a way to find out.

Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda said it is a fact that the water injected into the No.1 reactor leaked away because of a hole or holes created by the meltdown.

He said this is the main reason why TEPCO’s plan needs to be reviewed.

Prince William And Kate Middleton Wedding: Fairy Tale Illuminati Programming!?

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Seems that Brits love to work their ass of for their German Royals and so do the Dutch.

History:

The British Royals since 1714 are coming from the House of Hannover and the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Royals are ‘really’ Germans.

The royal family’s official name, or lack thereof, became a problem during World War I, when people began to mutter that Saxe-Coburg-Gotha sounded far too German. King George V and his family needed a new English-sounding name. After considering everything from Plantagenet to Tudor-Stuart to simply England, the king and his advisors chose the name Windsor.

Related information:

– FKN NEWZ: Royal Wedding Pre Crime Special – UK Fascism (04/30/2011)

– Prince William and Kate Middleton Royal Wedding Date Is On The Wedding Anniversary Of Adolf Hitler And Eva Braun (!):

The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be a joyous occasion but it also marks the 66th anniversary of the bizarre and macabre union of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun as the Third Reich collapsed.

The Nazi dictator married his long-time mistress deep in the Fuehrer’s bunker below Berlin as the Russians closed in. The pair committed suicide together the next day.

– UK Government Orders Information Blackout On EU Farming Subsidies For The Royal Family

– The Royal Family To Be Granted Absolute Protection From Public Scrutiny (Here are some of the stories they didn’t want us to know.)

– Queen Tried to Use State Poverty Fund to Heat Buckingham Palace

It’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With A Nuclear Meltdown – Pool Of Radioactive Lava Could Be Melting Its Way Out

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The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a grave meltdown.

What exactly is a meltdown, you might ask? There’s a lot of confusion as to what constitutes a “full” or “partial” meltdown—neither is a strictly technical term, though in the popular usage of the word, today’s revelation leans more towards the former. David Brenner, director of the Columbia University Center for Radiological Research, describes a “partial meltdown” as “fuel that’s been damaged and partially melted. Some of the fuel has probably been oxidized and breached and melted at the top of the core where the heat rises.”

Read moreIt’s Official: Fukushima Was Hit With A Nuclear Meltdown – Pool Of Radioactive Lava Could Be Melting Its Way Out

BREAKING NEWS! EMERGENCY: Norwegian Institute For Air Research (NILU): ‘ZARDOZ’ Files Show Radiation At VERY HIGH Levels Over The US And Canada (05/12/2011)

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A MUST-SEE!!!

In this video you are going to see radiation forecasts from NILU, that just has officially stopped its radiation forecasts.

ZARDOZ? Just another coincidence, right?

– Urgent: Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) Ends Public Radiation Forecasts Just As Map Shows Large Radiation Clouds (Videos) Over The US And Canada

– Watchdog criticizes Feds: ‘With the Japanese nuclear situation still out of control and expected to continue that way for months and with elevated radioactivity continuing to show up in the U.S., it is inexplicable that EPA would shut down its Fukushima radiation monitoring effort’

– Canada Joins US In Cutting Back Radiation Reporting, Testing Of Milk

– Nuclear Expert Horrified That Feds Abandon Extra Radiation Monitoring of Milk And Water

– Radiation Forecast Overview And Update: Cesium-137 Buildup, Xenon In The Air On West Coast

– Fairewinds’ Founder Maggie Gundersen Interviews Environmental Scientist Marco Kaltofen: Radiation In Food Is Going To Be A Nationwide Problem In The US!

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and here is the information on ZARDOZ .. the post apocolyptic NUCLEAR FALLOUT world where Sean Connery plays a “mutant” .. and human reproduction is considered bad.

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Read moreBREAKING NEWS! EMERGENCY: Norwegian Institute For Air Research (NILU): ‘ZARDOZ’ Files Show Radiation At VERY HIGH Levels Over The US And Canada (05/12/2011)

Historic Mississippi River Flood Destroys Millions Of Farmland Acres With Highly Polluted, Pesticide-Ridden Flood Waters

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(NaturalNews) As record-breaking Mississippi River flood waters crested this morning near Memphis, Tenn., many other towns and cities along the river are awaiting record-breaking flood levels expected to arrive later this week and early next week. The Washington Post has reported that three million acres of mostly farmland have already been flooded in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi — and much of this water is highly polluted with chemicals, pesticides, and other dangerous pollutants that are now surging down towards the Gulf of Mexico (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs…).

Flood waters continue to rise all along the Mississippi, including in Natchez, Miss., which today saw its portion of the river rise to 58.3 feet, breaking the all-time 1937 record of 53.04 feet. Vicksburg, Miss., Baton Rouge, La., and New Orleans, La. are all expected to see record-breaking crests late next week, some far exceeding previous record flood levels. And the US Army Corps of Engineers may release several more levees in Louisiana within the next few days.

“I really can’t compare it to anything,” said Andy Prosser, head of marketing at the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC), to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), concerning the flood damage that has already occurred (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100…). “This is unprecedented territory.”

Read moreHistoric Mississippi River Flood Destroys Millions Of Farmland Acres With Highly Polluted, Pesticide-Ridden Flood Waters

Japanese Officials Admit For The First Time Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant

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See also:

– TEPCO Admits ‘Reactor Rupture’: ‘There Must Be A Large Leak’ In Reactor No. 1 – Similar Ruptures In No. 2 And No. 3 Reactors Possible

– Fukushima Reactor No. 1: Water Level ‘More Than 5 Meters Below The Top Of The Fuel Rods’ And ‘Unmeasurable’, TEPCO To Cover Building With Synthetic Cloth To Prevent Radioactive Materials From Further Escaping Into The Atmosphere

– The Great Fukushima Deadly Radioactive Smoke-Out (11 May 2011)

– New MIT Study: Chain Reactions Must Have Been Burning At The Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Long After The Disaster Unfolded

– TEPCO: Fukushima Reactor No. 3 IS LEAKING – Radioactive Cesium At 620,000 Times Above Limit (05/11/2011)

One of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant did suffer a nuclear meltdown, Japanese officials admitted for the first time today, describing a pool of molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor’s containment vessel.


Workers pour concrete into a pit to stop contaminated water leaking from the reactor building Photo: TEPCO/AFP/Getty Images

Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core’s 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down.

Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged.

Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak.

“We will have to revise our plans,” said Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tepco. “We cannot deny the possibility that a hole in the pressure vessel caused water to leak”.

Tepco has not clarified what other barriers there are to stop radioactive fuel leaking if the steel containment vessel has been breached. Greenpeace said the situation could escalate rapidly if “the lava melts through the vessel”.

Read moreJapanese Officials Admit For The First Time Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant

Urgent: Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) Ends Public Radiation Forecasts Just As Map Shows Large Radiation Clouds (Videos) Over The US And Canada

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Just a coincidence, right?

– Watchdog criticizes Feds: ‘With the Japanese nuclear situation still out of control and expected to continue that way for months and with elevated radioactivity continuing to show up in the U.S., it is inexplicable that EPA would shut down its Fukushima radiation monitoring effort’

– Canada Joins US In Cutting Back Radiation Reporting, Testing Of Milk

– Nuclear Expert Horrified That Feds Abandon Extra Radiation Monitoring of Milk And Water

– Radiation Forecast Overview And Update: Cesium-137 Buildup, Xenon In The Air On West Coast

– Fairewinds’ Founder Maggie Gundersen Interviews Environmental Scientist Marco Kaltofen: Radiation In Food Is Going To Be A Nationwide Problem In The US!

– Fukushima (NILU):

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TEPCO Admits ‘Reactor Rupture’: ‘There Must Be A Large Leak’ In Reactor No. 1 – Similar Ruptures In No. 2 And No. 3 Reactors Possible

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Coolant is escaping through a newly discovered opening in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s No. 1 reactor pressure vessel, a development that could slow efforts to prevent potential further radiation releases from the Japanese facility, Reuters reported on Thursday (see GSN, May 11).

Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power learned the container held less water than previously believed following repairs to monitoring equipment this week; the tank’s fluid quantity was roughly 16 feet short of the depth required to fully submerge atomic fuel if the material had remained in its intended position. The six-reactor site was severely damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left more than 20,000 people dead or missing in Japan.

“There must be a large leak,” Tokyo Electric Power official Junichi Matsumoto said to reporters on Thursday. “The fuel pellets likely melted and fell, and in the process may have damaged … the pressure vessel itself and created a hole,” he said.

Ongoing water transfers have successfully curbed the escaped fuel’s temperature, though, and workers would keep pumping fluid into the system, Matsumoto said. The container’s water quantity suggests the rupture is likely several centimeters across, indicating the fuel might have made contact with the air early in the crisis, he said. The vessel’s surface heat level has since been contained between 100 and 120 degrees Celsius, he noted.

The plant operator would explore the option of pumping fluid into the reactor at a faster rate in an attempt to more fully submerge nuclear material in the vessel, Matsumoto said.

The reactor has received just under 10,400 metric tons of water to date, and the destination of the escaping fluid was uncertain, he said, adding powerful radioactivity complicated a possible direct inspection of the area by plant personnel (Yuto Kubota, Reuters, May 12). Much of the fluid could have moved to the reactor’s outer containment vessel, Kyodo News reported (Kyodo News I/Mainichi Daily News, May 12).

Similar ruptures might have developed in the plant’s No. 2 and No. 3 reactors if their nuclear material had heated to the point of losing its structure, Reuters quoted Matsumoto as saying. The firm was planning similar cooling efforts for those systems.

Read moreTEPCO Admits ‘Reactor Rupture’: ‘There Must Be A Large Leak’ In Reactor No. 1 – Similar Ruptures In No. 2 And No. 3 Reactors Possible

Tony Blair Received £400,000 From A Fund For Disadvantaged Children To Set Up An Office In A Five-Star Hotel

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TONY Blair received £400,000 from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel.

Prime Minister David Cameron revealed the money came from the Department for International Development (DfID) and is meant to fund humanitarian work in developing countries.

But it was spent on rooms at the exclusive American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem, where Mr Blair spends one week a month in his role as peace envoy to the Middle East. The 19th century hotel near the old city of Jerusalem is one of the most exclusive in Israel. A suite costs £550 a night.

Read moreTony Blair Received £400,000 From A Fund For Disadvantaged Children To Set Up An Office In A Five-Star Hotel

Fukushima Reactor No. 1: Water Level ‘More Than 5 Meters Below The Top Of The Fuel Rods’ And ‘Unmeasurable’, TEPCO To Cover Building With Synthetic Cloth To Prevent Radioactive Materials From Further Escaping Into The Atmosphere

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(UPDATE: MBS News has been updated (12:04PM JST) and it includes this bit of new information from TEPCO’s press conference that just ended:

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To prevent radioactive materials from further escaping into the atmosphere, TEPCO will start work on May 13 to cover up the Reactor 1 reactor building with cloth made of synthetic cloth.

As to the water level, it is “more than 5 meters below the top of the fuel rods” and “unmeasurable”. (So, “more than 5 meters below the top of the fuel rods” is just an estimate.)

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Murphys have never left Fukushima I Nuke Plant, and they are coming out from their hiding places.

After the workers braved the very high radiation inside the Reactor 1 reactor building and repaired the pressure gauge and the water gauge inside the Containment Vessel and the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV), TEPCO is finding out that the number they’ve been reporting on the level of water inside the RPV that houses the nuclear fuel rods was very, very wrong, and there’s hardly any water inside the RPV.

It also turns out that there is little water in the Containment Vessel that houses the RPV.

There goes the “water entombment” scheme. All the water that has been poured into the reactor has gone somewhere. Both the RPV and the Containment Vessel of the Reactor 1 have been breached.

From MBS Mainichi News (latest revision at 8:31AM JST 5/12/2011):

Read moreFukushima Reactor No. 1: Water Level ‘More Than 5 Meters Below The Top Of The Fuel Rods’ And ‘Unmeasurable’, TEPCO To Cover Building With Synthetic Cloth To Prevent Radioactive Materials From Further Escaping Into The Atmosphere

Prefecture Just South Of Tokyo: Radioactive Cesium In Tea Leaves Above Maximum Limit

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TOKYO—A prefecture just south of Tokyo said it had detected higher-than-permissible amounts of radioactive material in tea leaves, in a reminder that Japan’s radioactive-contamination problems are far from over.

The contamination—the first case in nearly a month that an agricultural product has been found tainted outside Fukushima Daiichi’s home prefecture—is also the first time that any agricultural item from Kanagawa Prefecture, which includes Yokohama, was found to contain an excessive level of radioactivity.

Read morePrefecture Just South Of Tokyo: Radioactive Cesium In Tea Leaves Above Maximum Limit

Illinois Lawmaker Proposes A ‘Fat Tax’ For Obese Children

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Slim hopes: Senator Shane Cultra proposed a ‘fat tax’

Obesity levels have risen sharply in the past 20 years in the U.S. and one Illinois lawmaker thinks he has the solution – force parents of chunky children to lose their tax breaks.

One in four people in a staggering 33 states are obese and State Senator Shane Cultra says that hitting people in their pockets is the way to slim-down the country.

‘It’s the parents responsibility that have obese kids,’ he said yesterday. ‘Take the tax deduction away for parents that have obese kids.’

Read moreIllinois Lawmaker Proposes A ‘Fat Tax’ For Obese Children

Absolute Madness: Babies Given Anti-Obesity Drugs In The Womb

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Babies to be given diet drug in the womb to stop them being born overweight in trial described as ‘disturbing’ by weight loss groups.


Doctors hope it will prevent the birth of oversized babies, thereby reducing the need for caesarean sections Photo: ALAMY

One hundred obese mums-to-be will be given Metformin as part of a three-year study to tackle obesity rates and reduce the number of difficult births.

Patients at Liverpool Women’s Hospital will be given the drug to reduce the food supply to their unborn babies, although it will not help the mums themselves to lose weight.

Leading the trial, senior lecturer in obstetrics, Dr Andrew Weeks, said: “It is about trying to improve outcomes in pregnancy for women who are overweight.

“The problem is babies tend to be larger and many of the downsides of being overweight during pregnancy relate to the birth.”

Read moreAbsolute Madness: Babies Given Anti-Obesity Drugs In The Womb

Matt Taibbi: The People vs. Goldman Sachs (Rolling Stone)

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We will always remember this:

– Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein: I’m doing ‘God’s work’.

And doing God’s work is rewarding:

“Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman’s chief executive, for example, has cashed in a total of $93.8 million in shares since 1999, a number that captures both known stock sales since he became an officer at Goldman, and sales not individually reported since before he was required to disclose such transactions.

In the eight years since becoming a senior executive in 2002, Mr. Blankfein has sold $42.5 million, roughly 45 percent of the total over the years.

As of August, Mr. Blankfein and his family owned 2.03 million shares worth about $355 million if they had been cashed out on Jan. 14.”

A Senate committee has laid out the evidence. Now the Justice Department should bring criminal charges


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Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and CEO of The Goldman Sachs Group, is sworn in while testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on April 27, 2010 in Washington, DC.

They weren’t murderers or anything; they had merely stolen more money than most people can rationally conceive of, from their own customers, in a few blinks of an eye. But then they went one step further. They came to Washington, took an oath before Congress, and lied about it.

Thanks to an extraordinary investigative effort by a Senate subcommittee that unilaterally decided to take up the burden the criminal justice system has repeatedly refused to shoulder, we now know exactly what Goldman Sachs executives like Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks lied about. We know exactly how they and other top Goldman executives, including David Viniar and Thomas Montag, defrauded their clients. America has been waiting for a case to bring against Wall Street. Here it is, and the evidence has been gift-wrapped and left at the doorstep of federal prosecutors, evidence that doesn’t leave much doubt: Goldman Sachs should stand trial.

Read moreMatt Taibbi: The People vs. Goldman Sachs (Rolling Stone)

TEPCO: Fukushima Reactor No. 3 IS LEAKING – Radioactive Cesium At 620,000 Times Above Limit (05/11/2011)

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– DAMAGED JAPANESE POWER STATION HAS NEW RADIOACTIVE LEAK (AGI News):

(AGI) Tokyo – Reactor 3 at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power station is leaking, a TEPCo spokesman announced. It is not confirmed whether the radioactive water has gone from the holding tank into the ocean. TEPCO, the company that manages the power station, is conducting tests. A similar leak happened last month at Reactor 2 and was plugged with a mixture. . .

– Radioactive water found in No.3 reactor pit (NHK):

Tokyo Electric Power Company says water containing radioactive material has been found flowing into a pit outside of the No.3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The flow was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon at a pit linked to a utility tunnel near the reactor’s water intake.

Workers could not confirm whether the water was leaking out into the sea, but they reported seeing froth near the water intake.

TEPCO says the concentration of radioactive Cesium in water sampled from the pit was 620,000 times higher than the safety limit set by the government. The utility also says it detected 1.5 milli-sieverts per hour of radiation on the surface of water in the pit, which indicates contaminated water may be leaking into the sea.

The White House Talks About 9.0 Magnitude Earthquake in the US

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– Understanding Earthquakes and Their Impacts: Part I (The White House):

Posted by Tammy Dickinson and David Applegate on May 10, 2011 at 10:46 AM EDT

Ed. Note: This is the first of a two-part blog focusing on the science and aftermath of earthquakes. Part I focuses on the science of a high-magnitude earthquake and whether one could happen in the United States. Tomorrow, Part II will focus on What We Can Do About It.

Part I:  Could a 9.0 Happen Here?

Four deadly earthquakes in just over a year—Haiti, Chile, New Zealand, and now Japan—have provided sudden reminders of the tectonic forces active beneath our feet. Perhaps more importantly, they serve as reminders that disasters resulting from those earthquakes are not the work of nature alone. Even in the face of such giant forces, societal decisions before and after an earthquake can have a major impact on the amount of damage, lives lost, and other outcomes. So while scientists and engineers share in society’s obligation to help the victims, we have an additional responsibility to learn from these events and share lessons that can be applied to vulnerable communities—not only abroad, but also here in the United States.

Read moreThe White House Talks About 9.0 Magnitude Earthquake in the US

New MIT Study: Chain Reactions Must Have Been Burning At The Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Long After The Disaster Unfolded

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Flashback:

On the day the tsunami hit it was known that there was a meltdown going on and the cover-up is still ongoing:

Listen to the interview with the former editor of the Japan Times Yochi Shimatsu on March 12:

– Japan: Full Core Meltdown Will Send Radiation Over United States

– Japan And US Try To Coverup Nuclear Catastrophe

Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded

Nuclear reactors produce radioactive by-products that decay at different rates. One common by-product is iodine-131 which has a half life of about 8 days while another is cesium-137 with a half life of about 30 years.

When a reactor switches off, the iodine decays more quickly so the ratio between these two isotopes changes rapidly over a period of days. That’s why measuring this ratio is a good way to work out when the nuclear reactions terminated.

There are some complicating factors, however. The most important of these is that the ratio of iodine-131 and cesium-137 to start with depends on how long the reactor has been operating and so is not constant.

Read moreNew MIT Study: Chain Reactions Must Have Been Burning At The Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Long After The Disaster Unfolded

Cellphones To Get Special Government Chips for New National Emergency Alert System

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Federal plan will be launched in NYC, Washington


The Führer speaks. Hail!

WASHINGTON (AP) — After more than five years of planning, a national emergency alert system that will send messages to cellphones during disasters is set to be launched in New York City and Washington by the end of year.

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, said the Commercial Mobile Alert System will direct messages to cellphones in case of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other serious emergency. The plan was approved by Congress in 2006.

Genachowski and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s administrator, Craig Fugate, said the new system will be selective. “These are really focused on the highest levels of alerts, and those that require urgent action,’’ he said.

Read moreCellphones To Get Special Government Chips for New National Emergency Alert System

Watchdog criticizes Feds: ‘With the Japanese nuclear situation still out of control and expected to continue that way for months and with elevated radioactivity continuing to show up in the U.S., it is inexplicable that EPA would shut down its Fukushima radiation monitoring effort’

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See also:

– Canada Joins US In Cutting Back Radiation Reporting, Testing Of Milk

– Fairewinds’ Founder Maggie Gundersen Interviews Environmental Scientist Marco Kaltofen: Radiation In Food Is Going To Be A Nationwide Problem In The US!

– Radiation Forecast Overview And Update: Cesium-137 Buildup, Xenon In The Air On West Coast

An environmental watchdog group is criticizing the federal government for scaling back its radiation monitoring, while simultaneously planning to raise allowable levels of radiation releases in food, water and soil after a nuclear incident.

The group, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, issued a press release yesterday condemning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decisions.

Read moreWatchdog criticizes Feds: ‘With the Japanese nuclear situation still out of control and expected to continue that way for months and with elevated radioactivity continuing to show up in the U.S., it is inexplicable that EPA would shut down its Fukushima radiation monitoring effort’

Dutch Health Authorities Seize 5 Containers From Japan, Hazardous Radiation Exceeds Permissible Levels

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– Containers from Japan seized in Netherlands due to radioactivity (Kyodo News):

BRUSSELS, May 10, Kyodo — Health authorities in the Netherlands said Tuesday they have detected radioactive substances from 19 containers from Japan at a Rotterdam port, of which five have been temporarily seized as the amounts of the hazardous materials exceed the permissible level.