Fukishima - Forty million Japanese in 'extreme danger', possible evacuation

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Death from the West

More information on Fukushima

Like Arnie Gunderson, Helen Caldicott (the lady in the video) is someone that knows what she's talking about and has the credentials to back it.

Quote from wiki article:

During her time in the United States from 1977 to 1986, Caldicott was the founding president from 1978 to 1983 of Physicians for Social Responsibility (founded originally in 1961 and dormant from 1970 to 1978), and she helped to recruit 23,000 doctors committed to educating the public and their colleagues on the dangers of nuclear energy. She also worked abroad to establish similar national groups that focused on education about the medical dangers of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The umbrella organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She herself received the Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association in 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Caldicott

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When it come to the radiation released into and on the planet, I would remind you for our nuclear past test...

Some of you will have seen this, but for those who have not...


2053" - This is the number of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts of the globe from 1954-1998.

we have a beautiful world . . . no?

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This almost slipped by due to the Holidays...

** NEWS FLASH -- URGENT **
Saturday, 28 December 2013 22:55

STEAM SUDDENLY EMANATING FROM FUKUSHIMA REACTOR # 3 - WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS

Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan


TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America.

Photo and more at link below...

http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt

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This almost slipped by due to the Holidays...

** NEWS FLASH -- URGENT **
Saturday, 28 December 2013 22:55

STEAM SUDDENLY EMANATING FROM FUKUSHIMA REACTOR # 3 - WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS

Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan


TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America.

Photo and more at link below...

http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt

This is not good. We need to monitor more closely the West Coast and this new information.

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Fairewinds Energy Education
December 31, 2013

Steam heat? What is happening at Fukushima Daiichi?

Beginning on Monday December 30, 2013, the Internet has been flooded with conjecture claiming that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is ready to explode. Fairewinds Energy Education has been inundated with questions about the very visible steam emanating from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3. Our research, and discussions with other scientists, confirms that what we are seeing is a phenomenon that has been occurring at the Daiichi site since the March 2011 accident.

It is winter and it is cold throughout much of the northern hemisphere. Hot water vapor has been released daily by each of the four Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants since the accident. We believe that is one of the reasons TEPCO placed covers over Daiichi 4 and 1. Sometimes the steam [hot water vapor] is visible and sometimes it is not. If you have been outside on a cold winter day, you have personally experienced that phenomenon when you see the breath you exhale form a cloud in the cold air. The technical explanation is that hot water vapor becomes visible when it comes in contact with cold air and condenses. During the winter months in the Fukushima Prefecture, the sea air is cold and moist, thus forming the ideal conditions to see the released steam.

Why is there still steam coming from the plants especially since TEPCO says that they are in cold shutdown? As we at Fairewinds have discussed in our many videos, podcasts, and reports, radioactive rubble (fission products) was left in each unit following the triple meltdowns. While the plants are shutdown in nuke speak, there is no method of achieving cold shut down in any nuclear reactor. While the reactor can stop generating the actual nuclear chain reaction, the atoms left over from the original nuclear chain reaction continue to give off heat that is called the decay of the radioactive rubble (fission products). The heat from this ongoing decay of radioactive rubble is constantly releasing moisture (steam) and radioactive products into the environment. The radioactive decay is gradually slowing down, as fission products decay away. The cold moist winter air at this time of year is making steam from the ongoing decay easily visible.

How much radiation is escaping? When Unit 3 was operating, it was producing more than 2,000 megawatts of heat from the nuclear fission process (chain reaction in the reactor). Immediately after the earthquake and tsunami, it shut down and the chain reaction stopped, but Unit 3 was still producing about 160 megawatts of decay heat. Now, 30 months later, it is still producing slightly less than 1 megawatt (one million watts) of decay heat.

What does that figure mean; is it an inconsequential amount? 1 megawatt of decay heat is a lot of heat even today, and it is creating radioactive steam, but it is not a new phenomenon. These hot radioactive releases [not physically hot, but radioactive hot – meaning they contain radioactive fission products] have occurring for the entire 33 months following the triple meltdown. The difference now is that the only time we visibly notice these ongoing releases is on the cold days with atmospheric conditions cold enough to condense hot vapor into steam.

Fairewinds Energy Education would like to thank our viewers and listeners for following our work and supporting our work and sending it important questions like this one. We will continue to keep you informed.

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Other news on Fukushima Daiichi...

http://www.infowars.com/1400-radiati...ancisco-beach/

http://www.infowars.com/missouri-sno...normal-amount/

and a different but still negative kind of fallout...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...-state-secrets

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"After studying a dirt sample in a spectrum analyzer, the substance was found to contain radium and thorium, which are both naturally occurring radioactive elements. No evidence of cesium-137, the fissile material used in the Fukushima reactors, was discovered..."

Obviously the writer is a poorly educated individual: U-235 or Thoruim-? would be a fissile material, while Cesium-137 would be a daughter product of a fission reaction. The Fukushima reactors produced Cesium 137 as a byproduct of uncontrolled fission reactions in the damaged reactors. Irrespective of process, the horror of this accident is a shame in every respect.

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'The ocean is broken'
October 19, 2013

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/th...018-2vs7v.html

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Tracking The Complete Revolution of Surface Westerlies over Northern Hemisphere Using Radionuclides Emitted From Fukushima

Quote from article :

4. Conclusions

The unique global coverage of fallout radiocesium released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, particularly a fresh injection of 134 Cs and 137 Cs to the ground air provided a rare opportunity to observe a complete, uninterrupted revolution of the mid-latitude Surface West-erlies of the northern Hemisphere in late March 2011. This revolution took less than 21 days. This occurrence was verified for the first time based on the simultaneous global surface air measurements of artificial radionuclides, e.g.,131I 134Cs, and 137 Cs, and using the HYSPLIT model.

This work clearly demonstrates how little dissipation occurred during this time due to the nature of the rapid global air circulation system,and the Fukushima radioactive plume contaminated the entire Northern Hemisphere during a relatively short period of time. The westerlies have strengthened and shifted pole ward over the past 50 years probably due to atmospheric warming arising from the increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Anderson et al., 2009;Toggweiler, 2009),therefore a close look at the depositional fluxes of Fukushima released radionuclides over the earth surface would help in providing a better understanding of the dynamics of the northern Hemisphere westerlies.

Read More Here :
http://clasweb.clas.wayne.edu/Multim...0etal_2012.pdf

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Interesting how I never see anything about his in the news here on the West Coast. If someone told me that the PtB were burying this story, I would believe it without hesitation.