Fukushima day 981 Update. 11/15/13

[DeSwiss]

MsMilkytheclown1·Published on Nov 15, 2013

Spent Fuel Pool at reactor #4 at Fukushima Daiichi "ready" to remove bent, cracked dangerous fuel rods beginning this Monday.

Japan (and the rest of this earth) is unable to find a nuclear waste site... and if they DID find a nuclear waste site, How would it be "protected"... Chris Busby has a Great answer... but the fuel pools are suspended in cracked, tilting, sinking, liquifaction, irradiated melted fuel blobs.

Decontamination ineffective (duah)

Expert believes Large Damage in Reactor unit 1, and most likely 2 and 3.

Tainted water is going to cost them more than they expected...

Ohi Nuclear Power Plant has a FAULT LINE UNDER THE PLANT declared NOT ACTIVE, BUT... BUT.... The Tsuruga plant DID HAVE AN ACTIVE FAULT UNDER IT!

Fukushima farmers resume production of persimmons. Wait by the door for your fruit basket.

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Latest Headlines: http://enenews.com/

Gundersen: Health effects from Fukushima are being hidden — Japan not publishing data on stillbirths, spontaneous abortions, cancers, and more since 3/11 — Indicates they're afraid to release it (VIDEO)

Nuclear Engineer: New footage shows Reactor 1 has "ruptured" containment structure, most likely from the explosion — Water to cool "what's left of core" flowing into environment (VIDEO)

Experts: Fukushima plume headed to West Coast isn't just going to pass by like smoke, plant continues to spew into ocean; Pacific to be full of contamination, it's a gigantic experiment — Host: Amazing how many people are in denial (VIDEO)

Gundersen: Fuel already "very close to going critical" at Unit 4 — Must be extraordinarily careful about starting chain reaction (VIDEO)

Photographer: No sign of life in Fukushima exclusion zone, only a few birds (PHOTOS)

Fox News: 'Video points to serious damage' to Fukushima Reactor No. 1 — Nuclear Expert: Size of leak indicates 'large damage' — Caused by explosion? (VIDEO)

Nuclear Engineer: Borated rubber between fuel is damaged in Unit 4 pool; Increased risk of criticality — The Economist: Rods can explode if they collide — Tepco VP: Recriticality 'highly improbable' (VIDEO)

Damaged fuel rods are cracked and leaking radioactive gases in Fukushima Unit 4 pool; Wire appears trapped in racks — Another assembly bent when "mishandled during a transfer"

TV: Fukushima workers "fear for their own safety" — "The truth is astonishing... I don't dare wash my hands, even after using toilet" (VIDEO)

US Gov't Headline: Alaska island "appears to show impacts from Fukushima" — "Significant cesium isotope signature" detected — Scientists anticipate more marine life to be impacted as ocean plume arrives (VIDEO)

NHK: Holes near bottom of containment vessel identified for first time at Fukushima plant — "Gushing out" of Reactor No. 1 — Similar damage suspected at Units 2 and 3 (VIDEO)

Multiple assemblies 'deformed' in Fukushima Unit 4 pool — One "bent at a 90-degree angle" — Tepco: Mistake occurred when handling the fuel... 25 years ago

Nuclear Professor: Centuries before attempting any work on Fukushima molten fuel? — Concern over "potential phase separations" in corium

More cancers in Fukushima children — Mother: We don't know what's actually going on, I can't trust gov't — TV: Private hospital finds cysts after 'official' tests were all clear (VIDEO)

Reuters: Fukushima Unit 4 is "buckled and tilted and could collapse" — Bloomberg: "Engineers have been examining stability" of building, checking for "new vulnerabilities"

Ex-Fukushima Worker: "This is the end!" I thought when seeing explosion at plant... "I knew how much fuel was there" — NHK: Reactor 3 blast "like being lifted up off floor" at home several miles away, I thought plane crashed outside (VIDEOS)

Magazine: The Fukushima Crisis Comes to the U.S. — Professor: "New and improved version of the original atomic plague is spreading"; The truth is so incomprehensible it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist

Scientists 'Alarmed' and 'Puzzled': Hundreds of sea turtles washing up dead on Pacific coast — Dogs "stopped breathing and died almost instantly" when eating them — Researchers analyzing toxicity — Many with reproductive problems

Scientists "Especially Worried": "We don't know how the pathogen is doing this" — Sea star broke in half, walked away, then turned to goo — 'Environmental factors' to blame? — Hundreds wash up dead in Seattle (VIDEO)

songs by Chris Busby called Strontium Wombles
and Humble Horse called Alternate Reality

PS: I still cannot reply to comments.

[defacto7]

1. no words........................................

just sorrow............ for the earth......... and all it's inhabitants............



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[tblue]

2. What do we do????!

Nobody can answer that, I guess. I am so freaked by this. My kid wants to go to Japan next year. Oy!

[DeSwiss]

7. ''...we do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the U.S.''

- I'm sure if there were any problems over there they'd tell us, right?

[jtuck004]

3. Take the time to watch this...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=159078

and then think about the bent and twisted fuel rods in Reactor #4, the fact that no one yet knows what is underneath in the core, or even where that material really is, the water supply for Tokyo and its 40 million inhabitants that runs underneath this, and how the West coast of the U.S. could easily be in line for clouds from that site.

Think about what Gunderson is saying above about pulling out the fuel rods, and the likelihood of another earthquake doing the same thing before this can get handled.

Hug the kids, 4 legged or otherwise. And call people you've been meaning to get in touch with for awhile, but just haven't had the time. Just in case.

And hope like crazy that this doesn't turn into a game of regret and excuses for why the international community didn't insist on stepping into this.

[newfie11]

4. The stupidity of humans

We created this monster for war (as usual).
Being humans, greed and power, as well as corruption came into the picture.
Ironic the country we used 2 nuclear bombs on is now the one spewing radiation coming back to our shores.
Think strontium isn't in the milk in this country, guess again. Cesium oh yeah.
I have no active thyroid, neither did my mom, dad, 2 sisters. I'm a downwinder and so is everyone now!
This genie is out and not going back in the bag. If you think your government is telling you the truth, wake up!

[DeSwiss]

6. ....

[Wilms]

5. ^