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Winds are dispersing radioactive material from Japan's quake-crippled nuclear power plant over the Pacific Ocean, away from Japan and other Asian countries, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.
But the United Nations weather agency warned that although winds had blown nuclear particles offshore so far, weather conditions could change and it was closely monitoring satellite and other data in case the patterns shifted over land.
"At this point, all the meteorological conditions are offshore so there are no implications inshore for Japan or other countries near Japan," Maryam Golnaraghi, chief of WMO's disaster risk reduction division, told a briefing on Tuesday. www.reuters.com...
Originally posted by kylioneXsushi
Far from perfect. Way too elaborate and costly. Simply cause ONE Earthquake on the New Madrid or California fault lines near the many reactors we have in those areas and be done with it. It's then localized. No elaborate schemes to get the Jet stream to carry it where it has a chance of falling into the ocean, thinning, and "fizzling" out before it hits America.
Originally posted by Styrge
I'd like to post what Dr. Gordon Edwards writes on e-mail. Before this one he addressed that spent fuel bay releases radiation into atmosphere more rapidly than a reactor if it catches fire. (I guess it has done so again as there is no cooling.)
The phrase "no immediate danger" refers to the fact that radiation sickness -- with nausea, vomiting, headache, fever, and possibility of death within a few weeks -- can only result from very large radiation exposures.
But people who are not getting radiation sickness are still eating, drinking, and breathing dozens of radioactive materials into their bodies, where they will concentrate in various organs and irradiate the living cells for months years or even decades to come. So at this lower level of exposure, great harm is being done NOW which is irreversible and which will cause a great many health problems in future. (Radiation-induced cancer for example typically takes 5, 10, 20 or more years to become manifest -- the British Columbia Medical Association describes it as "a gradually flowering crop of radiation-induced cancers".)
Infants and children, including fetuses, are much more sensitive to radiation damage than adults are and they require very special protection because they represent the future of Japan. To the extent that the children's health is compromised by events happening now, the future of Japan will be comrpomised as well.
In addition to moving all pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children as far away as possible from the Fukushima site -- much further than 30 km -- there should be a public warning to stop using fresh milk, which is one of the most important vectors for getting radioactive iodine into the bodies of young children. Nursing mothers should stop nursing. Powdered milk should be used -- if it was prepared before the time of the radioactive releases.
Like ordinary, non-radioactive iodine, radio-iodines concentrate in the thyroid gland -- especially in children. Interference with the functioning of the thyroid can cause mental retardation, stunted growth and other developmental problems in children suffering from a dose of radioactive iodine in the thyroid. This should be a priority. Iodine pills are a good idea to limit the uptake of radioactive iodine but cutting fresh milk and fresh milk products out of the diet is an equally important hygienic measure.
In addition, locally grown fruits and vegetables should be avoided in favor of canner or preserved substitutes for the duration.
Gordon Edwards. www.abovetopsecret.com...
Its going to get worse before its over. I was totally freaked when last night on the news...
They were highlighting the West Coast, and predicting the next big Quake in CA, San Fran or
Los Angeles.
If Mother Nature does not do us in, I guess they could always use HAARP.
Originally posted by burntheships
If Mother Nature does not do us in, I guess they could always use HAARP.
Originally posted by hillynilly
Even the Sadie's are using a HAARP type machine to bring rain
to their desert land.....
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by hillynilly
Even the Sadie's are using a HAARP type machine to bring rain
to their desert land.....
Have a link on that? I don't have that in my list
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by hillynilly
Even the Sadie's are using a HAARP type machine to bring rain
to their desert land.....
Have a link on that? I don't have that in my list
Fears that America could be hit by the nuclear fallout from the Japan earthquake have dramatically increased as workers prepared to abandon a reactor crippled by the earthquake and tsunami last night in the face of what is set to become the world's second worst nuclear disaster - topped only by Chernobyl.
Damage at the number two reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex is worse than thought, the Japanese government admitted tonight, sparking fears for human health both in Japan and the U.S.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has admitted it is 'quite possible' the fallout could reach America.
Concern over a possible radioactive hazard from Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant has prompted a formal warning from airspace monitors.
London Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre has issued a nuclear emergency message covering 10 flight information regions.
Among them are airspace zones in China, Korea, Russia and the USA.
experts interviewed by AlterNet cautioned that the events taking place in the Fukushima No. 1 power plant are simply unprecedented, and noted that the situation appears to be deteriorating.
On March 13, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a statement confidently assuring the American public that because of “the thousands of miles” separating us from the site of several crippled reactors at the Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear power plant, “Hawaii, Alaska, the U.S. Territories and the U.S. West Coast are not expected to experience any harmful levels of radioactivity.”
The announcement was widely reported, but seems to have been premature. “NRC's statement was so absurd,” Kevin Kamps, a radioactive waste specialist, told AlterNet. “They made that statement when we certainly didn't know how bad it would get, and it has gotten much worse in the past days.”
But, he said the crisis is “not getting better, and it's actually getting worse.” He wouldn't speculate how bad a worst-case scenario might get on the distant shores of the U.S., because he was still “trying to get my head around how much [radioactivity] would be released in terms of multiple reactor meltdowns.”
Kamps agreed that a number of factors would have to play out in order for the catastrophe 5,000 miles away to pose a threat to public health in the U.S. It would “depend on the direction of the wind, the nature of the radioactive clouds, and if they were able to maintain their concentration and not disperse.” But that “has happened,” he warned. “It happened at Chernobyl, with fallout of a very high level of concentration falling hundreds of miles. www.alternet.org...
The emergency message is timed at 03:00UTC on 15 March, and is open-ended.
It identifies the affected flight information regions as Fukuoka - the extensive region which encompasses Japanese airspace - plus Manila, Taibei, Shanghai, Incheon, Pyongyang, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Anchorage.www.flightglobal.com...
When asked, his spokeswoman said his prediction of a catastrophe in the hours ahead was not based on any specific privileged information.
He said the nuclear site was "effectively out of control
"The cooling systems did not work, and as a result we are somewhere between a disaster and a major disaster," he said.af.reuters.com...
The government's nuclear safety agency said the radiation levels briefly reached 10 millisievert per hour at the plant's entrance at 10:40 am local time, but added that it was possibly due to radioactive substances emitted from the No. 2 reactor.www.business-standard.com...
nuclear accident specialist Iouli Andreyev, who helped with cleanup in the aftermath of Chernobyl, said on March 16,......put the blame on corporations and United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, saying they had "willfully ignor[ed] lessons from the world's worst nuclear accident 25 years ago to protect the industry's expansion." He condemned the nuclear industry for ensuring Chernobyl was not studied properly.
www.opednews.com...