Where Is the OUTRAGE? TEPCO Had A Fallout Projection Map On March 12 And Faxed It To The Government!

Once you were warriors, but now if it were not for concerned mothers (at least that instinct could not be totally suppressed with mind-control) there would be no protest at all.

Just guess what mother bear would have done if you would have endangered her young like TEPCO and the Japanese government have endangered your children with lies, cover-ups and propaganda?

Fukushima: Three Million of Millions of Potential Lethal Doses

Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation

That would have been a very short fight.

And I am not suggesting you should become violent here, but take over your government PEACEFULLY NOW and evacuate your brothers and sisters and listen to the real nuclear experts.

Fukushima City (Over 290,000 People) Is In Danger: Greenpeace Detects Cobalt-60 And High Radiation ‘Hot Spots’ – Children Should Be Evacuated Immediately

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University On The UGLY TRUTH About The Nuclear Disasters Of Chernobyl And Fukushima (Video)

A peaceful revolution is the only option left in many countries right now:

Former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Revolution is the Only Answer (For Greece, Ireland etc.)

And the governments around the world do everything to turn those protests violent:

How Greek Policemen Provided ‘Weapons’ (For Undercover Cops) To Provoke Violence At Syntagma Square (Video – 06/15/2011)


#Fukushima I Nuke Accident: TEPCO Created Radiation Dispersion Simulation Maps on March 12 (EX-SKF, June 25, 2011):

TEPCO faxed them to the government, Fukushima Prefecture, and two towns where Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is located. The government and Fukushima Prefecture didn’t bother to tell anyone else.

TEPCO’s Tokyo headquarters did the simulation clearly using their own software, faxed the results back to the plant who then faxed those maps, along with the plant status data and radiation monitoring data (as much as they could get at that time) to:

  • The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry;
  • Governor of Fukushima Prefecture;
  • Mayors of Ookuma-machi and Futaba-machi.

The simulation is in the 11,000 documents that the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, regulatory agency for the nuclear industry under the METI, suddenly decided to dump onto the public on June 24, after NHK somehow obtained part of the documents and made a news story out of it on June 22. (The news story linked is in Japanese. More later.)

TEPCO was assuming the release of noble gas (xenon, krypton, probably) and iodine. This map is one of the several that was sent out by fax, and the simulation date and time was March 11, 2011 at 11:50PM, assuming the release of radioactive materials from the exhaust tower for the Reactors 1 and 2. This map is on page 10 of the March 12 file that NISA dumped on June 24.

The release of radioactive materials was based on the assumptions as follows (handwritten note on page 6 of the March 12 file released by NISA):

Read moreWhere Is the OUTRAGE? TEPCO Had A Fallout Projection Map On March 12 And Faxed It To The Government!

TEPCO: Fukushima Nuclear Plant Decontamination System Not Working

Plant decontamination not working (NHK, June 22, 2011):

The Tokyo Electric Power Company is looking into why a system for decontaminating radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is not working as expected, delaying resumption of the system’s full-scale operation.

The firm on Wednesday published data showing the amount of radioactive materials that had been removed from contaminated water during a test run of the US-made system.

The data show that density of Cesium-13 and Cesium-137 dropped to only one-100th of initial levels.

Read moreTEPCO: Fukushima Nuclear Plant Decontamination System Not Working

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: Molten Cores Gone Through Bottom Of Containers, Sinking Into The Earth – We Have To Build Subterranean Dam To Prevent Groundwater Contaminated With Radioactive Materials From Leaking Into The Ocean

… but the project is in limbo because of opposition from TEPCO.

See also:

The Massive Fukushima Media Cover-Up – ‘There Has Been Massive Entry Of Radiation Into The Groundwater In Fukushima And That Will Simply Spread Throughout The Water Table In The Area Of Northern Japan’ (Video)


Preventing radiation contamination more important than TEPCO’s stock prices (Mainichi, June 20, 2011):

One figure who has entered the public spotlight in the wake of the nuclear crisis is 61-year-old

Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at the Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute and a controversialist in the anti-nuclear debate. A specialist in nuclear power, Koide has garnered attention as a persistent researcher who has sounded the alarm over the dangers of this form of energy without seeking fame.

In a TV Asahi program on June 16, Koide made the following comment:

“As far as I can tell from the announcements made by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the nuclear fuel that has melted down inside reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant has gone through the bottom of the containers, which are like pressure cookers, and is lying on the concrete foundations, sinking into the ground below. We have to install a barrier deep in the soil and build a subterranean dam as soon as possible to prevent groundwater contaminated with radioactive materials from leaking into the ocean.”

His comment captured public interest and when I asked a high-ranking government official about it, the official said that construction of an underground dam was indeed being prepared. But when I probed further, I found that the project was in limbo due to opposition from TEPCO.

A must-see:

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University On The UGLY TRUTH About The Nuclear Disasters Of Chernobyl And Fukushima (Video)

Major Japanese MSM Paper Questions TEPCO’s Ability To Bring Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Under Control

“It is also not clear what officials mean when they refer to stability of the plant, when we have not only a meltdown in the inner containment vessels, but the possibility of melted fuel having made its way to the outer containment vessels.”

Mountain of problems still remains before Fukushima plant brought under control (Mainichi, June 18, 2011):

One cannot help but wonder how far efforts being made by the national government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) to bring the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant under control have progressed.

Two months have passed since TEPCO first unveiled a roadmap for bringing the crippled plant under control, but various problems that have occurred since then show the roadmap was overly optimistic.

Uncertainty over the current state of the power plant and when it could be brought under control continues to disrupt the lives of locals. Many people probably wonder whether the wisdom and power of Japan and the rest of the world are effectively being brought together and applied in the ongoing efforts at the plant.

Read moreMajor Japanese MSM Paper Questions TEPCO’s Ability To Bring Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Under Control

Japan Cabinet Approves $100 Billion Fukushima Compensation

Cabinet agrees estimated $100bn-plus payout package after reactor meltdown but political maneuvering could delay payments


Fukushima nuclear disaster: Trucks drive past piles of rubble collected after the tsunami and nuclear disaster. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

Japan’s government has approved a plan to help the owners of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant provide trillions of yen in compensation, but political maneuvering could delay payments to tens of thousands of victims of the country’s nuclear crisis.

The cabinet’s approval of the scheme on Tuesday came after the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], said a further six workers had exceeded the annual legal dose of radiation, underlining the risks they face as they struggle to stabilise overheating nuclear reactors by early next year.

Read moreJapan Cabinet Approves $100 Billion Fukushima Compensation

Fukushima: ‘Excessive Levels Of Highly Toxic Strontium Detected In Seawater And Groundwater’ (Wall Street Journal)

High Level of Toxins in Water at Japan Plant Raises Risks (Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2011):

TOKYO—Excessive levels of highly toxic strontium have been detected in seawater and groundwater at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, the plant operator said Monday, a development that suggests an increased risk of radioactive contamination further entering the food chain.

Also underscoring the difficulties of trying to stabilize the stricken facility, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said six more workers have received more than the permitted annual emergency levels of radiation exposure.

Read moreFukushima: ‘Excessive Levels Of Highly Toxic Strontium Detected In Seawater And Groundwater’ (Wall Street Journal)

TEPCO Finally Releases FIRST Photo Inside Of Reactor No. 4: Pipes And Walls Are Charred Black, Rubble Covers The Floor

TEPCO releases photo showing damage to No. 4 reactor building (Mainichi, June 13, 2011):

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has released a photograph showing the damaged inside of the building housing the No. 4 reactor at its crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant.

In the photo, which was released on June 11, the pipes and walls near a power generator inside the structure are charred black, and rubble covers the floor.

Read moreTEPCO Finally Releases FIRST Photo Inside Of Reactor No. 4: Pipes And Walls Are Charred Black, Rubble Covers The Floor

Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Hot Particles From Tokyo To Seattle Virtually Undetectable When Inhaled Or Swallowed – Metallic Taste In Mouth As A Sign Of Radiation Exposure


Added: 12.06.2011

Original estimates of xenon and krypton releases remain the same, but a TEPCO recalculation shows dramatic increases in the release of hot particles. This confirms the results of air filter monitoring by independent scientists.

Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen explains how hot particles may react in mammals while escaping traditional detection. Reports of a metallic taste in the mouth, such as those now being reported in Japan and on the west coast, are a telltale sign of radiation exposure.

Fukushima Sludge Estimated To Contain 100 MILLION BECQUERELS Per CUBIC CENTIMETER of Radioactive Substances

Sludge from contaminated water would be packed with radioactive substances: TEPCO (Mainichi, June 10, 2011):

Sludge that will be generated in the process of treating radioactive water at the tsunami-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is estimated to contain 100 million becquerels of radioactive substances per cubic centimeter, the plant operator said.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) made the estimation in a report on the water treatment system submitted to the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).

Read moreFukushima Sludge Estimated To Contain 100 MILLION BECQUERELS Per CUBIC CENTIMETER of Radioactive Substances

TEPCO Shares Plunge Another 20% To New All-Time Low

Before:

Tepco Shares Close Down Record 27.6% After Talk Of Bankruptcy (Business Insider, June 6, 2011)


Japan’s TEPCO shares plunge 20% to new low (AFP, June 8, 2011):

TOKYO — Shares in Japan’s TEPCO hit an all-time low Thursday, falling 20 percent on uncertainty over government plans to ensure the company can meet compensation bills over the crisis at its nuclear plant.

Shares of the embattled Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) fell to 160 yen by noon, after hitting a new intraday low of 159 yen.

The shares have lost more than 90 percent of their value since the day before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, which crippled cooling systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, triggering reactor meltdowns.

Read moreTEPCO Shares Plunge Another 20% To New All-Time Low

Tepco Shares Close Down Record 27.6% After Talk Of Bankruptcy

Before:

S&P Cuts TEPCO’s Credit Rating To Junk (Likelihood Of A Default Increased To 53 Percent)


Tepco Closes Down 27.6% — Its Worst Day Yet — After Talk Of Bankruptcy (Business Insider, June 6, 2011):

Tokyo Electric shares fell a record 27.6 percent today on talk of bankruptcy. Since the March 11 earthquake, Tepco shares are down 90 percent.

The head of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Atsushi Saito, was quoted as saying he thought Tepco should go through a court-led restructuring. An exchange spokesman explained that this was Saito’s personal opinion, according to Reuters.

With Tepco crashing, the Nikkei average closed at an 11-week low.

Meanwhile more trouble at Fukushima. Radiation jumped to record levels at reactor No. 1 and pools of radioactive water are on the verge of flooding.

Fukushima: 100,000 Tons of Highly Radioactive Water, May Leak by June 15

Update:

Another ‘Level 7?: 720,000 Terabecquerels of Radioactive Materials in 100,000 Tonnes of Contaminated Water at Fukushima


#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: 100,000 Tonnes of Highly Contaminated Water, May Leak by June 15 (Ex-SKF, June 3, 2011):

Often, you could tell what’s going on by looking at the information that is withheld. One such piece of information was the water level at the trenches from the Fukushima I’s Reactors 2 and 3.

On May 28 and 29, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) uploaded the information on the trench water levels at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, as the typhoon No.2 was heading north. Then, that information stopped on May 30. I found it very peculiar, and was about to write a post.

Now the news comes that the amount of highly contaminated water is over 100,000 tonnes, and it would start to leak by June 15 on a heavy rainfall.

Southern Tohoku that includes Fukushima Prefecture enters the rainy season (“tsuyu ??”) around June 12 in a normal year, and the rainy season lasts for about a month and a half till late July. Kanto has already entered the rainy season since May 27, 17 days earlier than last year.

From Kyodo News Japanese (6/3/2011):

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TEPCO announced on June 3 that the total amount of highly contaminated water in the buildings at Fukushima I Nuke Plant is estimated to be 105,100 tonnes at the end of May. Assuming that the water being injected into the Reactor Pressure Vessels for the Reactors 1, 2 and 3 is leaking into the reactor buildings, TEPCO said the highly contaminated water may leak outside by June 15 if there is a heavy rainfall.

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TEPCO plans to start operating the water treatment system to remove radioactive materials in the contaminated water after June 15, but the system may not come in time. According to TEPCO, the rainfall at the end of May exceeded 100 millimeters, causing the water level [the article doesn’t say where] to rise by more than 50 millimeters.

S&P Cuts TEPCO’s Credit Rating To Junk (Likelihood Of A Default Increased To 53 Percent)

Tepco debt swaps facing 53% chance of defaulting (Japan Times, Bloomberg, June 2, 2011):

The cost of protecting Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s debt shows the likelihood of a default increased to 53 percent after the utility’s credit rating was cut to junk status by Standard & Poor’s.

The contracts to insure ¥6.85 trillion in bonds and loans of Tepco for five years jumped to as much as 913.5 basis points Tuesday, or ¥91.35 million per year to protect ¥1 billion of the debt, according to data provider CMA. That’s pricing in a 53 percent chance of default by 2016, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Read moreS&P Cuts TEPCO’s Credit Rating To Junk (Likelihood Of A Default Increased To 53 Percent)

Russia Expert In Nuclear And Radiation Security: TEPCO ‘Is Concealing The Information About The Amount Of Pollution Of The Environment’

Fukushima’s operators at loss but don’t show it (Voice of Russia, May 30, 2011):

The operating company of the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, “Tokyo Electric Power”, will not be able to liquidate all the consequences of the catastrophe by the end of this year. This was revealed by the company’s high-ranking representative who preferred to remain unnamed.

Earlier, the company announced that it planned to stop the largest leakages of radiation by July and to lower the temperature in the three reactors which suffered most down to 99º Celsius in another half a year. This would have allowed bringing them into the state of so-called “cold stop”.

Meanwhile, the task turned out to be more difficult than it had seemed at first. It turned out that in all these tree reactors, the nuclear fuel had melted because of lack of refrigeration. It burnt through the reactors’ body frames and damaged their outer shells. This means that the system is no longer leak-tight – if one tries to put them out with water, it will pour out.

In an interview to the Voice of Russia, an expert in nuclear and radiation security Maxim Shingarkin commented on the situation in Fukushima:

“In fact, this statement came with a big delay. The operating company deliberately concealed this information. The explanation is simple – the company is afraid that any checking by competent experts would reveal its inability to save the situation. Only recently, foreign experts founded a consultative body for the clean-up of the accident’s consequences. Moreover, the company is concealing the information about the amount of pollution of the environment.”

However, “Tokyo Electric Power” still pretends that it knows quite well how to clean-up after the accident. It plans to build water-purifying units at the Fukushima plant, which will cost $ 650 mln. But the cost can turn out to be even higher, because the water has been infected with radiation several times and may need a more complicated purifying.

Read moreRussia Expert In Nuclear And Radiation Security: TEPCO ‘Is Concealing The Information About The Amount Of Pollution Of The Environment’

High Levels Of Radioactive Iodine Found In Fukushima Nuclear Workers

Fukushima workers exposed to high radiation (ABC News, May 30, 2011)

High radioactivity found in Japan nuclear workers (AFP, May 30th, 2011):

TOKYO — Two workers from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have been contaminated by high levels of radioactive iodine, the operator said Monday, prompting fears over their long-term health.

The workers, reportedly men in their 30s and 40s, may have already been exposed to radiation levels higher than the recently boosted official annual limit, Japanese media suggested.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said it had been measuring the internal exposure to radiation of all employees involved in emergency work at the Fukushima Daiichi plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Internal exposure occurs when people take radioactive substances into their bodies through tainted air or food and drink.

Read moreHigh Levels Of Radioactive Iodine Found In Fukushima Nuclear Workers

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Hit By Explosion And Oil Spill

Japanese nuclear plant hit by explosion and oil spill (Guardian, 31 May, 2011):

An oil spill and a small explosion have caused limited damage, but no further radiation leaks, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in north-east Japan, the plant operator has said.

Workers at the crippled plant found an oil spill on Tuesday in the sea near reactors 5 and 6, which were shutdown when the earthquake and tsunami struck on 11 March, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said. The spill was contained by an oil fence, a Tepco spokesman, Taichi Okazaki, said.

An explosion workers heard at reactor 4 on Tuesday was likely to have come from a gas tank and did not cause any additional radiation leaks, Okazaki added. The cause was being investigated.

Read moreFukushima Nuclear Plant Hit By Explosion And Oil Spill

Fuji Television Network Poll: 80 Percent of Japanese Voters Do NOT Trust Government Information About Nuclear Crisis

Poll: Most Japanese distrust gov’t on nuke crisis (AP, May 29, 2011):

TOKYO — A new poll showed Monday that more than 80 percent of Japanese voters do not trust government information about the country’s nuclear crisis.

The poll conducted by Fuji Television Network also found that nearly 85 percent of respondents said the utility that operates the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is dealing with the crisis poorly.

Read moreFuji Television Network Poll: 80 Percent of Japanese Voters Do NOT Trust Government Information About Nuclear Crisis

TEPCO Believes Stabilizing Fukushima Reactors By Year-End Impossible (Kyodo News)

TEPCO = Endless lies!

The truth is more than painful:

Prof. Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University: ‘No One Knows How Fukushima Could Be Wound Down’ – Corium May Be Melting Through the Foundation

TEPCO’s ‘Cold Shutdown’ Lie And What They ‘Forgot’ To Tell You About Fukushima (Hawaii News Daily:

TEPCO says they are planning a “cold shutdown” of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants in 6 to 9 months.

Cold shutdown” means the reactor cores – and the used fuel pools – decrease in temperature through 100 degrees C and continue to go down after a couple of days without additional cooling.  If that doesn’t happen within 48 hours, it isn’t going to.  E-V-E-R. The reactors are still ‘in service’ – which means the fuel is still reacting.  It hasn’t happened at Fukushima and it never will.

Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation (Veterans Today)


Kyodo News: “TEPCO believes stabilizing Fukushima reactors by year-end impossible” (EX-SKF, May 29, 2011):

Oh what a surprise.

TEPCO believes stabilizing Fukushima reactors by year-end impossible (Kyodo News; full article by subscription only; 5/30/2011):

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is coming to the view that it will be impossible to stabilize the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by the end of this year, senior company officials said Sunday, possibly affecting the timing for the government to consider the return of evacuees to their homes near the plant.

The revelation that meltdowns had occurred at the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the plant, most likely with breaches to pressure vessels encasing nuclear fuel, has led the officials to believe that ”there will be a major delay to work” to contain the situation, one of them said.

The plant operator, known as TEPCO, announced on April 17 its road map for bringing the troubled reactors at the plant into a stably cooled condition called ”cold shutdown” in six to nine months.

Well, as late as May 17 when the revised “roadmap” was disclosed, TEPCO said there would be no change in the target time-frame for the “cold shutdown”.

The Kyodo Japanese article has a bit more information “leaked” by the TEPCO execs:

  • One executive said “6-9 month time-frame is only a target to strive for, and not a binding one.” [So the “roadmap” is a wish-list.]
  • About the Reactor 1 whose Containment Vessel is now found to be leaking water, “We have to find the leak and stop it. If we don’t know the extend of the damage to the Containment Vessel, we don’t know how long it takes to stop the leak.”
  • Another exec says “it will take 1 or 2 additional months” to bring the reactors in “cold shutdown” because of the bigger cooling system now envisioned.
  • Yet another one says “the works at three reactors [1, 2, 3] are not progressing simultaneously, as planned. We’ll have to ask workers to work during the New Year holidays.”

These executives are no doubt from the TEPCO’s Tokyo headquarters and probably the same ones who ordered a fancy “roadmap” at the government’s request, not people at Fukushima I Nuke Plant trying to contain the on-going crisis for the past 2 and a half months.

“Cold shutdown”, as Kyoto University’s Koide has repeatedly said, assumes the Reactor Pressure Vessel intact, and the fuel rods intact. There is no word for bringing the broken reactor with totally melted fuel into a stable condition so that it won’t emit any more radiation. There is no established process to do that, particularly when the melted jumble, corium, is possibly eating away the concrete beneath the Containment Vessels.

As long as TEPCO (headquarters) and the Japanese government are fooling around with the impossible idea of “cold shutdown” of the reactors that are broken, with the corium already outside the Reactor Pressure Vessels, or Containment Vessels, there will be no end in sight, I’m afraid.

NHK: Cooling Systems Restored For Spent Fuel Pools Of Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Reuters: Cooling System Restored At Tepco’s No.5 Plant

Cooling systems restored for fuel pools (NHK, May 29, 2011):

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has now successfully restored cooling systems to the spent fuel pools of reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4.

On Saturday, TEPCO injected about 5 tons of water to the spent fuel pool of reactor 1 on a test basis. It was the last system to be restored.

The power company is also working to install new water-circulating systems that will more efficiently cool all the fuel pools. The new systems for reactors 1 through 4 are scheduled for completion by July.

Cooling system restored at Tepco’s No.5 plant (Reuters, May 29, 2011):

(Reuters) – Tokyo Electric Power has restored the cooling system of the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at the No. 5 unit of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant in northeastern Japan, an official of the plant operator said on Sunday.

Tokyo Electric, know as TEPCO, said the cooling facility restarted at 12:49 p.m. (0349 GMT) and was expected to lower temperatures which had risen at the reactor and fuel pool after the cooling system stopped working late on Saturday.

The temperature at the nuclear reactor at the No.5 unit was up to 87 degrees Celsius (188 degrees Fahrenheit) at 8:00 a.m. (2300 GMT) from about 68 degrees before the cooling system stopped operating, the official said.

Read moreNHK: Cooling Systems Restored For Spent Fuel Pools Of Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4 – Reuters: Cooling System Restored At Tepco’s No.5 Plant

Fukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation

(San Francisco) – The world’s second big nuclear disaster occurred at Chernobyl Reactor No. 4 in the Ukraine on Apr 26, 1986. Simply tagged as “Chernobyl,” it is what the next big and well known nuke disaster, after the American Three Mile Island, on March 28, 1979 came to be called. “Chernobyl” ejected 30% of one 192 ton, three month old reactor core. That’s 57.6 radioactive tons thrown into the air by fire and explosions.

The tiny radioactive and burning smoke particles traveled around the world many times since 1979, killing an estimated one million people to date from radiation caused illnesses and cancers. This is according to Editor Dr Janette Sherman’s exhaustive and widely acclaimed book on 5,000 Chernobyl scientific papers recently published by the New York Academy of Sciences [1].

Fukushima Daiichi Equals 50 Plus Chernobyls

Read moreFukushima Now Equal To 50 Plus Chernobyls & 3,000 Billion Lethal Doses Of Radiation

Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant (Bloomberg)

See also:

Super Typhoon With 195 Mph Winds Approaching Fukushima


Typhoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant (Bloomberg, May 27, 2011):

Typhoon Songda strengthened to a supertyphoon after battering the Philippines and headed for Japan on a track that may pass over the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant by May 30, a U.S. monitoring center said.

Songda’s winds increased to 241 kilometers (150 miles) per hour from 213 kph yesterday, the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center said on its website. The storm’s eye was about 240 kilometers east of Aparri in the Philippines at 8 a.m. today, the center said. Songda was moving northwest at 19 kph and is forecast to turn to the northeast and cross the island of Okinawa by 9 p.m. local time tomorrow before heading for Honshu.

The center’s forecast graphic includes a possible path over Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, which has been spewing radiation since March 11 when an earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems. Three of six reactor buildings have no roof after explosions blew them off, exposing spent fuel pools and containment chambers that are leaking.

“We are still considering typhoon measures and can’t announce detailed plans yet,” Takeo Iwamoto, a spokesman at Tokyo Electric Power Co., said by phone when asked about the storm. The utility known as Tepco plans to complete the installation of covers for the buildings by October, he said.

Read moreTyphoon Strengthens, May Hit Fukushima Nuke Plant (Bloomberg)

WSJ Interview: Japan Senior Political Figure Ichiro Ozawa: ‘Some day we may not be able to live in Japan.’

WSJ Interview: Japan Senior Political Figure Ichiro Ozawa: ‘If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl. This is a terrible situation. The government doesn’t tell the truth and people live in a happy-go-lucky…’:

“Some day we may not be able to live in Japan.”
– Ichiro Ozawa

WSJ Interview: Japan Senior Political Figure Ichiro Ozawa: ‘If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl. This is a terrible situation. The government doesn’t tell the truth and people live in a happy-go-lucky…’

Not to forget the huge amount of plutonium!


Transcript of Interview With Ichiro Ozawa (Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2011):

The following is a partial transcript from The Wall Street Journal Interview with Japan senior political figure Ichiro Ozawa, who is calling on Prime Minister Naoto Kan to step down. Ozawa is a long-time rival within the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and is facing charges of improprieties over his fund-raising organization.

Q: By and large, how would you assess the government’s response to the earthquake and nuclear crisis?

A: It’s been two months, actually 70 days, but the situation at the nuclear reactors is still out of control.

The Kan administration’s handling of the situation has been extremely slow. Their understanding of the gravity of the radioactive contamination has been altogether too rosy, or rather they haven’t understood it at all.

The administration hasn’t taken the initiative in making decisions and executing policies. Decision-making equals taking responsibility. So if nobody is taking responsibility, nothing is being decided.

Q: Why didn’t the Kan administration inform the public of the severity of the problems at the nuclear plants? Did they know?

A: Of course the administration knew.

Q: What could the government have done to prevent the flare-up in the nuclear crisis?

A: First of all, it makes no sense to point fingers at Tepco (plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.), given the current situation. There are a lot of arguments going on, blaming TEPCO, blaming this person and that person. They are all meaningless. There is no point in blaming Tepco. I strongly believe the government must take the leadership and take the initiative in determining what to do. In reality, Tepco is no longer capable of doing anything. (By not facing reality) we are moving toward a tragedy, day by day.

Q: Prime Minister Kan set up a task force and has stationed government officials inside Tepco’s offices so they can keep tabs on the company. Is that enough?

A: When Tepco knew what was happening at the nuclear plants, the government must have known it as well. As I said, they can’t go on blaming others. The government must take responsibility and take the lead in coming up with solutions.

Q: If you had been in charge, would you have disclosed all the information about the meltdown in the initial stage?

A: Yes. I would have. There is no use in holding back information. We have to decide what to do, based on the premise of the information we have. This problem may be contained in Fukushima for now, but the contamination may spread outside of Fukushima. Anxiety and frustration are growing. People cannot live in the contaminated areas. These areas are becoming uninhabitable. Japan has lost its territory by that much. If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl. This is a terrible situation. The government doesn’t tell the truth and people live in a happy-go-lucky…

Read moreWSJ Interview: Japan Senior Political Figure Ichiro Ozawa: ‘If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl. This is a terrible situation. The government doesn’t tell the truth and people live in a happy-go-lucky…’

High Concentration Of Radioactive Cesium Found On Seafloor In 300Km Strip Along Fukushima Coast

High radiation found on seabed in 300-km stretch off Fukushima (Kyodo News, May 28, 2011):

TOKYO — Radiation levels up to several hundred times normal have been detected on the Pacific seabed in a 300-kilometer-long area off the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the science ministry said Friday.

The ministry said high-level radioactive materials were detected on the seabed in a north-south stretch ranging from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, to Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and warned the contamination could affect the safety of seafood. The science ministry said it detected iodine and cesium on the seabed at 12 spots 15- to 50-km from the coastline between May 9 and 14.

#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: High Concentration of Radioactive Cesium in the Ocean Soil in 300-Kilometer Strip Along the Coast (EX-SKF, May 27, 2011):

Radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture.

Oh what a surprise. Who could have known?

The Ministry of Education and Science, who did the survey, even goes to contradict the oft-repeated statement by the chief cabinet secretary and says “the marine products may be affected.”

Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano’s favorite refrain whenever a new leak was found at Fukushima I Nuke Plant was: “It will have no immediate effect” on health, on environment, on anything. (These days, he is busy trying to “qualify” his use of “immediate”. Quite funny if the situation is not this dire.)

No word on other nuclides like plutonium, uranium, and strontium.

I’m trying to locate the original survey data at the Ministry’s site.

From Mainichi Shinbun Japanese (1:15AM JST 5/27/2011):

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The Ministry of Education and Science disclosed on May 27 that radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture. The Ministry says “the marine products may be affected”. It is now confirmed that the radioactive materials in the contaminated water released [both intentionally and unintentionally] from TEPCO’s Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant into the ocean have spread far and wide.

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The soil samples were taken from May 9 to May 14 at 12 locations about 15 to 50 kilometers off the coast. Radioactive materials were detected in all samples. The highest concentration of radioactive materials was detected from the sample taken from the ocean floor, 126 meters deep, 30 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima I Nuke Plant. Cesium-134 was 260 becquerels/kilogram, and cesium-137 was 320 becquerels/kilogram.

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