Thom Hartmann: Fukushima - Could 85 Times More Cesium than Chernobyl be Released?

[thomhartmann]

More bad news coming from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. While speaking to Swiss lawmakers last month - Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, warned that if the building housing reactor four at the plant were to collapse - as many officials fear might happen - then it would lead to a global catastrophe like the world has never seen before. As Reader Supported News reports - a former official with the U.S. Department of Energy commented on the consequences of a building collapse around reactor four saying, "If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident." And if that fire were to consume the thousands of other radioactive spent fuel rods at the Fukushima plant - then the radiological event could be 85-times greater than the Chernobyl disaster. So just how dangerous is the situation still at the Fukushima plant - and what are the consequences for the United States? Kevin Kamps if back - he is the Nuclear Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear.


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[90-percent]

1. Confirms my bumper sticker

Our institutions are infested with greedy corrupt sociopaths.

The people we got running the world are HACKS!

They're base venal non-spiritual mean selfish utterly unwise ungenerous MONSTERS.

And the most public and open face for this POWERS THAT BE is Mitt Romney.

It's remarkable to observe what a shell of a man he is. He seems to have the empathy of a robot. Spiritually bankrupt. A lifetime of entitlement would not be my first choice for happiness in life. If such a lucky sperm life would turn me into the likes of human pink slime Mitt.

The world would be better if all nuclear power was run by the mafia, or Hells Angels, or Mexican Drug Cartels. They are all smarter and more compassionate than our decrepit PTB.

-90% Jimmy

[NoMoreWarNow]

3. so true and so sad

but we gotta have some optimism-- and keep working for positive change

[NoMoreWarNow]

2. Oh my god, that is end times kind of stuff

humanity has to keep that from happening

[Overseas]

4. Wow. K&R.