The demand for a global take-over at Fukushima has hit critical mass

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-demand-for-a-global-ta-by-Harvey-Wasserman-Critical-Mass_Fukushima-Meltdown_Media_Radiation-131002-229.html



The demand for a global take-over at Fukushima has hit critical mass
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/2/2013 at 12:25:42
By Harvey Wasserman (

More than 48,000 global citizens have now signed a petition at http://www.nukefree.org asking the United Nations and the world community to take charge of the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. The petition was first linked at Nukefree.

~snip~

For decades the atomic industry claimed vehemently that a commercial reactor could not explode. When Chernobyl blew, it blamed "inferior" Soviet technology.

But Fukushima's designs are from General Electric (some two dozen similar reactors are licensed in the US). At least four explosions have rocked the site. One might have involved nuclear fission. Three cores have melted into the ground. Massive quantities of water have been poured where the owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), and the Japanese government think they might be, but nobody knows for sure.

As the Free Press has reported, steam emissions indicate one or more may still be hot. Contaminated water is leaking from hastily-constructed tanks. Room for more is running out. The inevitable next earthquake could rupture them all and send untold quantities of poisons pouring into the ocean.

[Paper Roses]

1. Please go to the link and read the whole article.

It will scare the pants off you.
Pay attention to the last paragraph on page 2.

What have we done that we have built these huge disasters without knowing that any of them may end our life as we know it?

[Mnemosyne]

3. Chilling. nt

[madokie]

4. Here is the last two paragraphs you mention

Let's all hope that this operation proves successful, that the site be neutralized and the massive leaks of radioactive water and gasses be somehow stopped.

As former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata has put it: full-scale releases from Fukushima "would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival."

I'm sure the usual suspects will be along soon to tell us all how full of shit I and the rest of us who are concerned by this are

[snagglepuss]

5. Do any experts anywhere have a plan that is different from what TEPCO is now doing?

[madokie]

7. I don't know

I'm sure they'd have to have a lot more information than they get from TEPCO's lies in order to develop a plan.
Between you and I I'm not so sure there is much that can be done that hasn't already been tried. This is all uncharted territory.
This is a perfect example of why I'm against nuclear power plants no matter where they are.

[madokie]

2. Its definitely past time to be taking this serious

This is all uncharted territory. I'm surprised that the Japanese government as well as TEPCO haven't called for help yet. How important is it to go it alone for them anyway

One would think that the water table isn't that far down due to the fact this site is right on the ocean. These cores make it to the water table and all hell could break loose.

[lonestarnot]

6. This is a total cluster fuck. Freaking death.

[truebrit71]

8. We've been hearing about those spent fuel rods for a while now

...does anyone know the actual situation re: the impending collapse?

[miyazaki]

9. Wasserman probably can't even pass high school chemistry

Get a chuckle every time he's brought into the mix as the go to guru hero
for all anti-nuclear fanatics. Got a couple of outright laughs when he had
his ass handed to him a couple of times arguing with a real scientist.
He couldn't care less about the twenty thousand plus who died
in a moment of terror.

[madokie]

10. When you can't refute the message

go for the throat of the messenger. Pro nuke folks are all alike

Now you're going to tell me you aren't pro nuke? go ahead and give me a laugh will you. I could sure use on about now

Link us to the ass handing if you would, please. I'd like to see that

[PamW]

12. Wasserman is an IDIOT!

Wasserman has been "totally reamed" by good scientists.

See if you can find an MP3 of the program a couple years ago when Wasserman was on the KGO radio program of scientist Dr. Bill Wattenburg.

Wasserman told Wattenburg that wind and solar could do it all. When Wattenburg asked what you do at night when the sun isn't shining and your solar plants are down, Wasserman said that we would be "guaranteed" wind power would cover it.

Wattenburg pointed out that you can't "guarantee" anything about the wind blowing.

Wattenburg really trounced Wasserman. No great feat, Wattenburg is doctoral level scientist and former professor at University of California - Berkeley, and as stated above, Wasserman couldn't even pass high school level science courses.

PamW

[PamW]

11. FRAUD!! FRAUD!!! FRAUD!!!

The original post is a clumsy FRAUD attempting to be perpetrated on the DU readers.

That picture is NOT FUKUSHIMA. It's a chemical plant that caught fire after the earthquake.

Here's a picture of Fukushima courtesy of Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fukushima_I_by_Digital_Globe.jpg

Now does that look anything like the picture from Wasserman's article? NO! Wasserman caught again in a DAMN LIE.

Of course, this is the typical LIES and OBFUSCATION that one gets from the likes of Harvey Wasserman.

If people haven't learned to ignore the UNMITIGATED CRAP that Wasserman writes; then they are intellectually hopeless.

PamW