Fukushima: The End Of The World?
Fukushima is unequivocally one of the worst man made ecological disasters ever to afflict the world. The melt down of multiple reactors, the release of radioactive materials, and probably a century of cleanup should make us think twice about using fission as a source of generating electricity. Yes, due to the disaster people will get cancer and die. How many? That answer is very tough to project. Will Fukushima poison the Pacific and be the precursor to end of the world? No. As I said in Part 1 of this series I am going to look at this in a logical manner. If you read this and continue to believe in your conspiracy theory’s that is your prerogative.
Fukushima has been the source of misinformation since day 1. The first piece of misinformation that appeared on the Internet and in social media was the above graphic. When I saw this graph for the first time my heart skipped a beat. Could it be true? A few seconds after scanning the graph I noticed one peculiarity; they were measuring the radiation in RAD’s. I thought it odd that it wasn’t in Sieverts (Sv). You wouldn’t predict a future total exposure. A RAD is a method of measuring the total absorbed dose of radiation, a Sievert is the measurement of radiation occurring at a point in time. Sievert can be measured, RAD has to be calculated. This is what tipped me off it wasn’t real.
People’s misunderstanding of radiation and its effects started to cause a panic. I even considered selling my stock of Potassium Iodide as prices on Ebay hit $500 per box. But let’s consider for a second that this graphic were true. We’d have to make an assumption about how long it would take for a person to accumulate 750 RAD’s of exposure and let’s say that time period was a day. A whole body dose of 750 RAD (7.5Gy) would probably lead to the death of every man, woman, and child in the United States within a month. Since the event would be ongoing your total dose would be more than 7.5Gy thus hastening the effects. This obviously never happened, not even close.
So what did happen? Well, after the SCRAM and when containment was breached radiation levels near the reactors rose to 400mSv/Hr. Standing near the reactor would give a person their yearly limit of radiation exposure for a nuclear worker in about 15 minutes. Such a large dose in a short period of time will increase the risk of cancer in their lifetime. In two and a half hours the person’s body would begin to show clinical symptoms of Acute Radiation Syndrome such as Leukopenia. If they left at this point their lifetime risk of cancer is 1 in 20. There would also be a very slight risk of dying of radiation exposure (<1%). Staying near this source of radiation any longer than 2.5 hours would guarantee ARS. 12.5 hours near the reactor for 10 hours would have a 50% chance of death within a month. This obviously poses an issue for plant workers and cleanup. These initial radiation levels left TEPCO and its employees with their hands tied. They could only risk working for very short periods near the reactor.
One thing you have to understand about radiation exposure is radiation falls as a square to distance from the source. At the same time the readings from the reactor were 400 mSv/Hr, readings at the main gate were 11mSv/Hr. A 50% lethal dose would require exposure for 19 straight days, assuming that radiation levels were constant, but they are not. Radiation levels continued to drop until through March 30th when levels dipped below .1mSv/R at the main gate.
Remember, I am writing this to put things into perspective. Fukushima is a colossal disaster, no doubt, but for a moment we should crack open the history books and look at another disaster, Chernobyl, just to compare. The Chernobyl accident involved only one reactor. The accident occurred after a safety test went awry and the end result was the entire contents of the reactor exposed to and burning in the atmosphere. Soviet reactors did not and do not have containment buildings like the one at Fukushima. They have a biological shield that protects workers from direct radiation and nothing else. Think of western reactors as a box within a box. If the inner box is breached you still have the outer box. In a Soviet reactor you have just the box. On April 26th, 1986 a steam explosion blew off the biological shield to reactor number 4 at Chernobyl. This exposed the entire contents of the reactor to the world. Radiation levels near the reactor were 300,000 mSv/Hr or about 750 times that near the Fukushima reactors. Nuclear fuel had been blown out of the reactor and onto the roof of the turbine hall. Levels here were 150,000 to 200,000 mSV/Hr. Fires had started on the roof and the fire brigade was called in to extinguish them. While it is somewhat questionable as to whether these brave men knew the dangers they faced up on the roof they went. Lethal doses were received in by these men in under 5 minutes. All of them died.
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so many responses to articles at BIN on Aliens, monsters, and related horse caca. but to truly worthy info such as this ? No audience. Pathetic people. Will pay the price for their shallow selfish worship of entertainment and titillation- and soon. Gestation period for cancers shortens as it accumulates.
Worthy info? He is basing his assessments on the faulty data that TEPCO and the Japanese Government released. That fatally taints all of his conclusions. The only way to gauge this disaster is to watch very closely the health effects on people in the radiation stream. That is IF we ever get real data. http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com
Yes, the government created the “Tin Hat Ranch” Facebook page and Youtube channel and hired me to run them. Our primary purpose is to spread misinformation. Every article and video on either site is based on flawed principles to confuse the average small minded citizen. I am actually not native to this planet, when I am from you wouldn’t understand. My powers allow me to lead thousands of people away from the events that are truly happening in this time line. You’ve caught me red handed, I don’t know how you figured me out. My cover is blown.
What is your issue Tin Hat Ranch? Thou Protest Too Much.
EXACTLY!
SO GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AS THE SONG GOES!
AND HEY GO TO GYM AND EAT BETTER.
THE PROBLEM REMAINS THAT ALL WILL SOON BE AT 2x to 3x MORE $$$ SO YEAH THIS WILL BE A PROBLEM!
Obvious solution are riots but they know that so the armored cars come in!
Once again, well done Tin Hat Ranch for providing fact-based information
PS Are you Liberty Steve from the YouTube videos?
Yes, “Liberty’s Teeth” am I, LOL.
You have other identities too, don’t you? Well, don’t you? Everybody be wary of this “source”. I smell a Government Troll.
WeBeDoomed you mean “fact based” in the sense that Hollywood uses it? As in, almost all fiction?
The article departs from reality in the following ways:
(1) It speaks of containment at Fukushima, though reactor 3 was blasted into the sky, and reactors 1 and 2 melted into the ground.
(2) It says that radioactive iodine is no longer a problem, though it is still being produced by the completely uncontained corium of reactors 1 and 2.
And by whatever fuel did not get blasted into the sky of reactor 3, as evidenced by the steam we see from the building, off and on, all these years.
And radioactive iodine is being found, as in August of 2013:
http://enenews.com/govt-radioactive-iodine-detected-in-6-seaweed-samples-by-south-korea-concerns-over-fukushima-contamination-after-tepco-admits-plant-is-leaking-into-ocean
There is a time-delay in the release of strontium 90 as i’m sure the author knows. And, now, we’re seeing it.
We do not know how much radioactive cesium was released into the environment. The peak level NEAR Japan was after the explosions and spent fuel fire. The amounts in North American food and water concern several hundred million of us.
Plutonium and uranium burn in air, and they produce toxic, radioactive dust. And that has been carried around the world, and we’ve been breathing it.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/03/plutonium-admission-by-epa.html
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4718 quoting blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/19/nuclear-physicist-plutonium-mox-fuel-nuclear-fallout-drop-22822/
“Compared with the average density of the past 20 years from 1991 to February 2011, Plutonium 239 in California 18 times, Uranium 238 in Alaska 17 times, Uranium 234 in Hawaii 30 times, and Uranium 238 in also Hawaii 50 times were detected all after March 11, 2011.”
Here is a review of a book, “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment,” was compiled by authors Alexey Yablokov of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko of the Institute of Radiation Safety, in Minsk, Belarus.
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-26-01.html << about the million or so people who have died from Chernobyl so far.
Here is an article quoting Japanese sources about the spent fuel blasted 30 kilometers away from Fukushima, probably by the nuclear explosion that annihilated reactor 3.
http://enenews.com/japan-expert-second-explosion-more-like-a-bomb-at-fukushima-nuclear-fuel-flew-30-kilometers-away-pellets-collected-by-japan-military-should-have-evacuated-300-kilometer-zone-150-years-t
And here is some more: http://enenews.com/fukushima-farmer-plutonium-detected-all-village-professor-terrible-dreadful-happening-radiation-levels-high-mayor-please-dont-residents-video
And here you will find links to high-resolution photographs of Fukushima, post-catastrophe,
showing that reactor 3 did not exist after the explosion.
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html
When the reactor 4 building exploded, Japan said there was a spent fuel fire going on.
Because you see, reactor 4 had no fuel in it and didn't melt down.
So, Tin Hat Ranch, why don't you (1) get a clue and (2) gather some actual facts,
and get back to us. It's tedious to find links for you, but I'll do it.
Let me ask you two really simple questions.
1.) When reactor 3 was “destroyed by a nuclear weapon disguised as a large camera” and was blown sky high. Did it pass through the roof trusses in another dimension or did they carefully reconstruct the roof to look like just a regular old hydrogen explosion occurred? Taking a look at your Jimstonefreelance photo I just happened to wonder about that little issue. Secondarily, even if a very small “nuclear weapon” were to be detonated from inside the reactor building, guess what? there would be NO reactor building left. In fact, there would be no reactor 1, 2, 3, OR 4. Maybe even 5 and 6. You see, even a small weapon like Trinity or Hiroshima will produce a nuclear fireball a few hundred meters wide. Nothing could withstand the heat, not even roof trusses. In fact, reactors 2 and 4 would have become part of the fireball themselves. The pressures would be enormous, leaving the rest of the structures, admin buildings, turbine halls just outside of the fireball to be flattened to nothing.
2.) When the 195 TONS of plutonium were scattered about did they construct another set in Hollywood to film workers as if they actually were onsite? I’m sorry, but an explosion that ripped open the reactor would be very bad, so bad it would scatter fuel about and radiation levels might be similar to another disaster that might be a hoax, Chernobyl. Levels might be on the order of 100,000 mSV/Hr to over 300,000 mSV/Hr. This would also register levels of something like 1,000 mSV/Hr+ outside the facility. The people that shot the video of the explosion? They would have seen their measurements jump instantly. So would have any media in the area. It’s gamma radiation baby, slices through the air like a hot knife through butter. But the media wasn’t even there, where they? Those reports were all fabricated. It’s not real. It is the cover up of the millennium. If so, what is the end game?
BTW, I know a guy that has 100 times more money than he had this morning. He must be rich, right? Too bad he started the day with a penny.
Are you honestly so confused? The Trinity bomb was 18-22 kilotons, depending on whose estimate you like. The Hiroshima bomb was 13-18 kilotons.
And guess what, the steel frame of a steel framed building survived at Hiroshima ground zero.
There are reasons for that. Frame pieces present a small cross-section to the blast. They don’t experience as much force as a sheet of metal in a roof, or a solid wall does.
Here you go, Hiroshima ground zero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h69oUWS3Lxo
Those bombs were more than a thousand times more powerful than the smallest-yield bombs deployed by the US of A. Those were 10 ton yields. Tons, not kilotons.
You can see the explosion of reactor 3 on video. I didn’t invent that. Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOwM98-dTyI
And guess what? plutonium burns spontaneously when exposed to air. It’s not lying around because it burned in the air, making that yellowish cloud, and the particles were carried away from Fukushima by the wind. The uranium and the plutonium fuel.
The SPENT fuel was scattered over a large area, as explained in the links above.
And no you did NOT see people standing around at Fukushima, amidst fuel rods lying on the ground. It is still fatal within minutes to be close to those buildings, as Tepco itself admits.
Here’s one example from last year:
http://enenews.com/tv-highest-ever-radiation-levels-detected-outside-reactor-buildings-at-fukushima-people-exposed-to-it-would-die-in-20-minutes-video
And that is the radiation flux we’re talking about, not hot particles in our lungs or swallowed.
The bombs Israel planted at Fukushima had yields measured in tons, not kilotons.
The buildings did blow up. The reactor 4 building blew up, even though the reactor did not melt down, was not running, had no fuel in it even.
And the reactor 4 building and subsequent spent fuel fire — you must have seen this on television when it happened, it was called a spent fuel fire — took place when the wind was blowing toward Tokyo. This is what massively contaminated Tokyo.
Gamma rays? Please. (1) There were several feet of concrete in the walls of those buildings and (2) the NHK videos of the explosions were made from 18 miles away. That’s absorption by concrete, absorption by air, and the inverse square law, “baby.”
It is not the “cover up of the millenium.” Tepco/Japan has been caught lying so many times in this matter, it’s hardly a cover up at all. Anyone who knew anything about nuclear power plants and meltdowns understood TO BEGIN WITH that the stories we were being told were not correct.
I apologize, but I am going to have to respond to you again with some mathematical facts. First, you liken the survival of the Genbaku Dome to the intact roof trusses at Reactor 3. You state that “frame sections provide a small cross section to the blast”. Well, the Genbaku dome was 2,010 feet from the epicenter of the Hiroshima detonation, more importantly it was BELOW the blast. The structure survived because the nuclear fireball did not reach it. Upon detonation the fireball began to rise away from it. The Genbaku Dome was subject to the radiated thermal effects and overpressure of the blast, not the nuclear fireball itself. Keep in mind it was almost half a mile away.
When a structure is directly exposed to the fireball itself it is completely incinerated. The Trinity device sat atop a 100 foot tower. This was all that was left of the tower after the detonation: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Med/Oppgrov2med.jpg
Your next rebuttal is that a 10 TON nuclear device weighing over 1,000 pounds was hidden as a “camera”. Riddle me this, you compare this “device” to that of the W54 warhead deployed by the US. Why would a 50lb warhead need to be cloaked in a “1,000 lb” “camera”? Look son, I’ve been in more nuclear facilities than you’ve ever seen. If you bring a near critical mass of uranium into a facility, they are going to figure it out. Period. What was the extra 950lbs? Depleted Uranium shielding? Until you’ve set foot in a station, please don’t comment.
The towers visible in the explosion video at Fukushima, they are about 750 feet apart. Using these towers as a reference I’ve never seen the cloud from the explosion rise more than about 2,300 feet in any video I’ve ever seen of the reactor 3 explosion. So, again, lets assume there was a nuclear weapon that dispersed the 195 tons of fuel in the reactor. If it only reached 2,300 feet, how far away from the explosion did the contents of the reactor fall, even if all of it “burned”?
Also, lets get back to the “Hollywood” theory. I see news crews all of the time shooting videos at the plant. Where is this staged mock up located? How are all the news people kept in check? I don’t disagree that there can be localized intense areas of radiation. At Chernobyl the whole reactor area and turbine area was lethal in just a few minutes, not just a few pipes.
Lastly, any sudden increase of radiation would result in a subsequent increase of radiation elsewhere. If the reactor was shielded by several feet of concrete and that concrete either a.) went missing as the result of a “nuclear explosion” or b.) the rising cloud of “burning plutonium” from the exploded reactor no longer had several feet of plutonium between it and radiation monitoring equipment…where are the readings?
You really are that confused.
Steel frames withstand blast effects. Yes?
The bombs involved are not the big bombs you imagined. Tons, not kilotons, of yield, yes?
The first thing the bomb does is vaporize the several hundred pounds of shielding around it, yes?
You realize the cameras did exist, and the reason they weigh so much is, the electronics inside are shielded from radiation and heat. Yes?
You realize that is the whole point of the Magna BSP cameras, the whole explanation for them, that they are shielded and protected, so they would operate in a disaster? They look through a periscope, which serves as a baffle. The sensitive parts are shielded in the base.
So gamma rays and other “rays” don’t fry them as they fry Tepco’s robots.
And that’s how you get a small bomb into a containment structure. And why it doesn’t melt down just from being there. It’s shielded.
Now you have a plain old explosion. It blows the metal roof off, in each case. It blasts holes in the thick concrete walls, in each case. It disintegrates the reactor 3 concrete walls. Yes?
Walls at least 4 feet thick per design specifications. Yes?
And your gamma rays don’t even make it through the concrete, let alone the 18 miles of air to the NHK cameras, yes?
And you want the heat of the nuclear bomb to melt the steel ? For the sake of argument, say they were hydrogen fires and not nuclear bombs. Why didn’t the hydrogen fires melt the steel?
The heat was quickly dispersed, is the reason why.
Those plants are right on the ocean. And winds pushed the particles of burned fuel in the direction of the ocean. How much of it fell near the plant, we don’t know. We do know it fell around the Pacific and in North America. And no doubt beyond.
The concrete is missing. The roofs are missing. Parts of the concrete walls are missing in all four cases. ALL the concrete walls of the reactor 3 building are missing, turned to dust and blasted into the sky. That is not a disputed fact.
The fact that reactors 1 and 2 melted into the ground is not a disputed fact. Tepco admitted that, within a couple of months of the explosions.
Where are the READINGS? Oh good grief, the instruments maxed out. They cannot measure above a certain level.
The aircraft carrier USS Reagan crew measured what fell on them. That led to 14 months of decontamination. The US military in Japan measured what fell on them. That led to a hasty evacuation of dependents, not just from Misawa, but also the Tokyo area.
Again, you are not seeing people near the buildings at Fukushima. Tepco’s own information is that humans cannot approach the buildings. Because of the radiation flux.
By the way, look up the Hindenburg disaster sometime and see what a hydrogen fire looks like.
Hydrogen doesn’t explode. It burns, but it’s a fire, not a bomb. Look at the Hindenburg.
And notice also the hydrogen venting tower at Fukushima, to prevent hydrogen buildup in a meltdown.
And notice reactor 4 wasn’t fueled, wasn’t running, didn’t melt down. You realize the hydrogen is produced in a meltdown, by the zirconium cladding reacting with water, yes?
Thus there was no hydrogen in the reactor 4 building.
And no, it didn’t travel from the reactor 3 building. THAT building exploded on March 14.
No more hydrogen, yes?
And the reactor 4 building exploded on March 15. Holes were blasted in the concrete walls, the roof was blown off. The spent fuel caught fire. It was called a zirconium fire by Tepco at the time.
Well, what would a zirconium fire in a spent fuel pool do FIRST? It would consume and boil the water away. You’d have mostly steam. Gone from the pool. Vented by the hydrogen venting system, even.
So, when you have a viable alternative to the forward-positioned nukes explanation, let me know.
Dear Mr LifeIs are you really Jim Stone?
Also, whilst I am not going to spend my day responding to each of your points I am going to mention that the way hydrogen combusts i.e. burns/deflagrates/detonates depends on the hydrogen : air(oxygen) ratio. Please follow the link below to educate yourself in this matter…
http://youtu.be/ptiCFq5YK3Q
WeBeDoomed the way anything combusts depends on its fuel to oxygen ratio.
And what we’re talking about is burning in air. The zirconium-water reaction yields hydrogen gas and zirconium oxide. No extra oxygen.
And we’re not talking about a compressed hydrogen bubble, like the one at 3 Mile Island.
And we are CERTAINLY not talking about propagating a shock wave that is initiated by an explosive.
AFTER you figure out how the spent fuel pool in the #4 building can produce significant hydrogen at all,
AFTER you figure out how hydrogen can accumulate in buildings that equipped to vent it,
AFTER you figure out why the hot hydrogen didn’t burn in air as it escaped the containment vessel,
THEN you can propose an accumulation of hydrogen at the top of those buildings. Which now gets ignited – by something that didn’t ignite it before.
You haven’t given a figure for how much hydrogen you’re talking about, but whatever,
there is NO FIXED RATIO of fuel to air in that situation.
Do you see the problem? At the interface of the hydrogen and air, you’ve got a certain ratio, and a certain speed of combustion. But that is not the speed of your fire OVERALL.
Overall, you have a Hindenburg situation. As the hydrogen part of the mix diminishes. Fast.
You have not, and cannot, refute any statement of fact that I’ve made. And my name is Tim. Not Jim.
I can’t believe i am seeing another Fuku story. What’s done is done. I have friends on the west coast and all is normal, except for the smog. When do these silly reports go away, and focus becomes on real news, before it hits the msm???
If you’d have read the articles you would notice that I am concurring with your statements.
Mmmnnn Indeed.
Nice fact-based article, free of the ridiculous scare-mongering so common on this site. Well done, sir.
This is exactly what BIN *should* be like–providing information that people otherwise wouldn’t know, and not just simply reposting un-sourced, speculative YouTube videos with silly written commentary by science-ignorant “journalists.”
Um, MrAnthony, you really believe that strontium 90 is not a concern to us because the “double containment” at Fukushima will keep it on site?
Or are you concurring with an article you haven’t read ?
Two reactors melted into the ground and are still fissioning. One reactor was blown up.
Spent fuel pellets travelled – that we know of – 30 kilometers.
And the disinformation in the article – one example i just gave you — was known to be false
three years ago.
And in that time many experts have acknowledged that a nuclear explosion occurred — the debate is about how that happened.
Japanese nuclear-reactor designer Setsuo Fujiwara: “‘There was an orange flash, which suggests the temperature must have been thousands of degrees centigrade before the explosion.” — “The second piece of evidence is that plutonium was scattered about after this blast. Plutonium is consistent with the mixed oxide fuel [used in Reactor 3]” —”The third point is that the Reactor 3 building was bent like candy, unlike the Reactor 1 building, where the steel framework remained intact. So this could only mean it was a nuclear explosion.”
http://enenews.com/reactor-designer-it-was-a-nuclear-explosion-at-fukushima-unit-3-plutonium-was-scattered-after-blast-abc-theres-willful-denial-and-lying-going-on-here-even-at-the-highest-levels
http://enenews.com/study-nuclear-explosion-may-have-occurred-at-fukushima-unit-3-after-supercritical-condition-sudden-increases-of-plutonium-and-uranium-were-seen-in-u-s-at-several-epa-stations
http://enenews.com/japan-expert-second-explosion-more-like-a-bomb-at-fukushima-nuclear-fuel-flew-30-kilometers-away-pellets-collected-by-japan-military-should-have-evacuated-300-kilometer-zone-150-years-t
I’m sorry if the truth scares you.
Not wanting to confuse anybody — what the reactor designer guy said to the press was about reactor 3 — the reactor itself — having a nuclear explosion.
And I am telling you that the reason for that REACTOR blowing up was a nuclear bomb, just like the ones that blew up the other 4 buildings. Reactor 3′s plutonium-uranium mox fuel exploded from the neutron bombardment.
Reactors 1 and 2 did not explode, they simply melted down. And reactor 4 had no fuel in it.
Nah! How many large Hydrogen bombs have been blaster in the Pacific over the last 60+ years by France, US, Et. Alias?
Part of the answer to your question is here:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Almanac/Testing.shtml
And some of the effects on people downwind here:
http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/nucleartestingandthedownwinders.html
And if you didn’t know, large hydrogen bombs in those days got most of their yield from uranium fission. The purpose of the hydrogen fusion was to generate neutrons, to bombard a uranium casing.
So, they produced a lot of radioactive fallout.
Two things about that. One, the amounts of material released by Fukushima dwarf the amounts used by bomb tests. Each of the three fueled reactors had around 100 tons of fuel inside– and the #3 reactor was fueled with a plutonium-uranium mix. The spent fuel pool of building #4 — part of which burned following the explosion of March 15 — contained 400 tons, and about 100 tons of that was fresh fuel, due to be loaded into the reactor.
We have two reactors melted down, uncontained, uncontainable, fissioning and adding to the contamination of air and water, for years to come.
And one that exploded. Its fuel burned in the air and was deposited around the Pacific and North America, and beyond.
The OTHER thing is, the contamination from the nuclear bomb tests is still with us. And contamination from previous meltdowns. Here are links to some of those:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accidents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and_radioactive_incidents
Be aware that history has been re-written in some cases. For example, people who developed radiation sickness, and whose pets died, in the 3 Mile Island meltdown, are not going be mentioned.
And the uranium from uranium munitions is still with us — the uranium tends to burn in air and spread uranium dust all over the world.
And Fukushima ADDS to all that. More plutonium. More uranium. More tritium. More cesium. More strontium. And more.
ADDS a LOT to.
I’ve worked in more than one Nuclear Plant performing robotic inspections of the core during shutdowns. Anyone who tries to tell me that Fukushima isn’t going to be a nightmare for all mankind is either a blithering idiot or a paid shill. Radiation is cumulative and it’s dangerous. Period.
I can’t say I agree with Lifeis as to what actually happened at the plant. The only thing I know for sure is it was hit by a 60 ft wall of water and lost it’s cooling. But from what I’ve learned by working in the Industry for 30plus years is that I tend to agree alot more with Lifeis on this subject. As for the people who claim all is well… that’s an EPIC FAIL
Fuku will never go away. All Nuclear Plants should be shut downed period!
OH BUT IT WILL GO AWAY AS IN SINK IT!
AS OF CAPTAIN PLANET…MAN THAT SHOW…HE WOULD LIKE TAKE ALL OF JAPAN AND SEND THEM TO THE SUN!
YEAH!
IN RESUME TO MY ABOVE STATEMENT!
JAPAN SHOULD BE SUNK BY CHINA ASAP TO STOP ITS POLLUTION IN THE AIR!
AT LEAST THE CHIMNEY WILL BE STOPPED!