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I have recently received a new sophisticated radiation monitor sent from London, which has now had its first outing in the field. You can point it at things and it tells you how many "counts per second" of radiation the object is giving off.
Inside reactor building four the readings were constantly low - not surprising when you remember that reactor four had no meltdown. The reactor was offline when the tsunami struck. That is not true with reactors one, two and three.
As our bus left reactor four and drove along the sea front, I pointed my new monitor out of the window towards reactor building three. Suddenly the needle started to spike - 1,000 counts per second, then 2,000, 3,000, finally it went off the scale.
There, outside the bus, just a few dozen meters away is the real dead zone, a place where it is still far too dangerous for anyone to go. No human has been inside reactor three since the disaster. To do so would be suicide. No-one knows when it will be possible to go in.
When I asked the same experts how long it would be until reactors one, two and three could be dismantled, they shook their heads. When I asked them where they thought the melted reactor cores were, they shook their heads again.
Tokyo Electric Power Company was happy to show us reactor four, but please do not ask what they intend to do with reactors one, two and three.
Off The Scale
The odds of an earthquake the size of the one that hit Japan were astronomically against. So was the resulting Tsunami, and the meltdown of more than one reactor at the same time.
The likelihood of a mega earthquake hitting Japan does not have odds, it was always going to happen and will happen again and again.
pheonix358
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The odds of an earthquake the size of the one that hit Japan were astronomically against. So was the resulting Tsunami, and the meltdown of more than one reactor at the same time.
As I understand it, Fuky was designed to withstand a 7.0 or a 7.5, I can't recall which. That is woefully inadequate for anything on the ring of fire.
The US is expecting a huge quake on the West Coast. It is a certainty that it will hit. There are no odds. The odds only come into play when you consider 'will the plant be there when it happens?'
These plants were all designed for a life cycle but they keep on extending the approvals and thus stuffing up the odds.
Let's face it. Keeping decades of waste material on site is just asking for trouble.
Quite frankly the approval for Fuky to only withstand a moderate quake was and always will be foolish. The JApanese should have known better especially with there experience at extreme quakes.
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I hope purplechive and aircooled will be back - your presence is missed
Silverlok
Human0815
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The Cooling Water is not "that" Radioactive
prove it
Silverlok
reply to post by Human0815
if you cannot find the time to read MASSIVE amounts of evidence that have proven to be true ( in the original thread ) ....you are not doing science.
edit on 6-11-2013 by Silverlok because: a llitle loss of why
I thought they said, "Go Nuclear,,its the Way too the Future!,,Energy too Free Mankind,,from the slavery of,,"limited Power",,, gentlemen,, the ATOM!. Mankinds answer too, everything!
intrptr
Sorry if that is has already appeared here. Interesting thoughts on risk assessment therein.
The odds of an earthquake the size of the one that hit Japan were astronomically against. So was the resulting Tsunami, and the meltdown of more than one reactor at the same time. Plus the mega oil spill in the Gulf of BP.
All those occurring in the same year are beyond comprehension.
But the government’s air dose rate has often been three to seven times higher than exposure levels checked by individual residents with dosimeters, according to a survey conducted by municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture.
Published on Nov 8, 2013
www.agreenroadproject.org... The 'new normal' is the response of any government and the nuclear industry to a nuclear accident. Their only response is NO response. They just raise the radiation limits to the new higher radiation contamination level and call it 'safe' and 'normal'. Japan raised their radiation limits from 1 to 100, but then due to huge pressure from activists, lowered it to 20. Voila, the new normal is now 20 milli Sieverts instead of just 1.
Who cares if children are getting tired, nauseous, getting sick a lot, having nosebleeds, ADHD, ADD, dropping dead from heart attacks or strokes caused by that radiation, etc? Who cares if the birth defects such as Downs Syndrome and stillbirth rate goes up to 90%? That is now the new 'normal'.
We must protect the nuclear energy machine and the military industrial complex that counts on the plutonium coming out of nuclear reactors at all costs, even if we have to sacrifice seventy future generations of our children to radiation poisoning.
You will not see this truth on the mass media 'programming' TV channels. Only corporate friendly news is allowed there. You must believe the propaganda on this mass media hypnosis machine.. You must believe!