Month: October 2013

Hello World! #Fukushima: Truth or Propaganda?!? “TRICK OR TREAT?” “MOCK & KILL?”

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Fukushima Beyond FB; Meltdowns Since 3.11.11

7 'spent fuel pools/pits', 6 reactors here and 6 reactors down the road also in exclusion zone, 4 explosions, 3 confirmed meltdowns... and lots of lying and deceptions since March 11 2011. ASK MORE QUESTIONS...

7 ‘spent fuel pools/pits’, 6 reactors here and 6 reactors down the road also in exclusion zone, 4 explosions, 3 confirmed meltdowns… and lots of lying and deceptions since March 11 2011. ASK MORE QUESTIONS…

HERE’S A COLLECTION OF NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT #FUKUSHIMA from around the world.

#Fukushima:Truth or Propaganda?!?

Fukushima Beyond FB; Meltdowns Since 3.11.11

“TRICK OR TREAT?” “MOCK & KILL?”

http://paper.li/LucyOccupy/1375656764#

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH doh

READ AND THINK.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

FUKUSHIMA: Truth or Propaganda? Can YOU Tell the Difference?!

FUKUSHIMA: Truth or Propaganda? Can YOU Tell the Difference?!

Draw your own conclusions! http://paper.li/LucyOccupy/1375656764#

As you read the headlines and the stories, from known and unknown sources around the world, THINK THINK THINK.

How can you tell if it’s truth or nuclear propaganda??

Start with a simple set of questions…..nuclear gravy train

TRUTH FIGHTS IT’S OWN BATTLES!!!

Does the article discuss the MELTDOWNS of reactors #1, #2 and #3? Does it harp about #4 and alleged impending dangers?? Does it discuss the on-going dangers to all of humanity? Does it discuss the harsh and horrible realities that we, the people of the planet face, all together now? Does it question ‘official versions’ of the on-going nuclear deceptions or does it support the nuclear lies and deceptions?

HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI FUKUSHIMA

Does it refer to the 1,946 known lethal isotopes, or does it minimize with references to just a few ‘better known’ scary isotopes such as cesium, strontium, and a little tritium? How about the plutonium, americium and allllll of the lethal isotopes contaminating the planet since 3.11.11??

Who else knows??

Who else knows??

Does it focus only on #4, clearly omitting other clear and present dangers??Does it future tense dangers from #Fukushima to a certain set of ‘what if’ this or that happens? Does it claim dangers tomorrow, next week, next month, or in two or three months? Does it claim it will be very expensive and take a lot of time to ‘remediate’ the contamination (while ignoring the ON GOING NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS).

Does it talk about the ‘spent fuel pools/pits’ AS IF THEY STILL EXIST??

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Does it blame Japan and absolve the rest of the nuclear states from responsibility to have acted in 2011, when it would have made a difference? Does it ask you to sign petitions, sing songs or and carry signs? Does it encourage you to believe the UN will be of any help, when they already weighed in with the Nuclear States IN SILENCE since 2011??  Does it mention how the Secretary of State handled the #Fukushima events at the UN in 2011?

Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks on Nuclear Safety and Security
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njcdb9OH4GA

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Uploaded on Sep 22, 2011
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a UN high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security at the United Nations in New York, New York on September 22, 2011. [Go to http://www.state.gov/video for more video and text transcript.]

UNPLEASANT TRUTHS

 Does it call for #Fukushima-Gate investigations in the USA, including all complicit in the cover up and alleged collusion with TEPCO shareholder bailouts?

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Does it discuss the nuclear states working together to eliminate nuclear power from the planet, and hold all responsible parties–around the globe–accountable for the #Fukushima Fiasco, News Censorship and Propaganda Deceptions? Does it suggest the Southern Hemisphere is somehow safer from the 1,946 known lethal isotopes, and if you cannot escape Japan or anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, stay inside for a few days (use duct tape?) Does it suggest entombing the reactors?

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Does it suggest ‘cold shut’ again, for sometime in the future, like maybe in 2 years, ala Dr Strangelove? Does it suggest #Fukushima rads are as safe as eating a banana? Does it suggest that the big problem is the leaking of nuclear waste into the ocean or does it address the actual REACTOR MELTDOWNS?? Does it address the no-longer existent ‘fuel pools’…. ALL SEVEN OF THEM?

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Does it distract and deceive and confuse? Does it skew the numbers for radioactive isotopes. Does it skew comparisons to Hiroshima bombs to-date and in the future with unsupported undocumented numbers, just pulled from radiation contaminated air? Does it distract with dangers of ‘chemtrails’…suggesting they are more lethal than the radiation from #Fukushima?  Same for GMO foods?  (Which kill faster, unabated radiation poisoning or stuff we have been exposed to repeatedly and increasingly for many years?)

Lessons Learned? Hardly!

Lessons Learned? Hardly!

Does it suggest that the dumping of radioactive waste is a) new information and b) more dangerous than the on-going spewing of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere?  Does it use ‘tiny’ little minimizing words to discuss the tonnes and tonnes of radioactive waste already dumped into the ocean, since early 2011, and call it ‘leaks’ and blame TEPCO for bolted nuke waste containers, AS IF THAT’S THE BIG DEAL PROBLEM HERE??!!! D’oh!

Does it ever mention the burning, incinceration of radioactive waste, further expediting the contamination of the planet?  Does it suggest that the ‘radioactive tsunami debris may reach YOUR shores in a few years? (With apparent lapse of cognition about ocean currents!)

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Does it deny the EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT that is in full swing, claiming lives of unborn children, maiming and killing living living creatures of all species with ‘mystery illnesses?? Does it focus more on ‘possible’ future tensed cancers and thyroid issues, minimizing the #1 threat, heart diseases?  Does it suggest the plausibility of Tokyo 2020 Olympics?

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Does it attempt to sell you snake oil, a book, or just an opportunity to be in the streets or and give money to keep them going, so they can continue to tell half-truths? Are any/all of the ‘leaders’ SELF-PROCLAIMED PROPONENTS OF THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY, or and those who make a living telling tales on behalf of the nuclear industry with future tenses minimizations of the horrors we collectively face?

DOES IT SUGGEST THAT ‘NOBODY HAS DIED FROM #FUKUSHIMA, AND NOBODY WILL?’

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DOES IT SUGGEST THAT SMILING OR AND PRAYING OR AND MEDITATING PEOPLE DON’T GET RADIATION POISONING???!!!

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You might compare and contrast to the information you have found in these resources. Then, tell your friends and tell your neighbors; your governments already know.

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WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.  SO BE IT.

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ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW
http://askboutfukushimanow.com/

ALL NUCLEAR REACTORS LEAK ALL THE TIME
http://allreactorsleakallthetime.com/

LUCY OCCUPY SAYS
http://lucyoccupysaid.com/

Lucy Occupy & Friends
NUKES FRAUDS AND MORE, ASK AND TELL
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BOB NICHOLS – VETERANS TODAY
http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/bobnichols/

Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/09/11/fukushima-equals-6000-hiroshima-bombs-today-more-tomorrow/

“You are going to have to make your own choices. You will live a little longer, or, die sooner by these choices, as will I. No one is exempt…

tell your friends and neighbors your governments already know
STERILIZE THE PLANET
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/19/sterilize-the-planet/

Sterilize the Planet
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
http://www.veteranstoday.com/…/03/08/i-spit-on-your-grave/

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who were you with

Think locally. Act Globally. Occupy Virtually.

#Fukushima Radiation is EVERYWHERE!

Remember Remember.... November.... WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW

Remember Remember…. November…. WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW

WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW, SO BE IT.

FUKUSHIMA: To Infinity and Beyond.... since 3.11.11

FUKUSHIMA: To Infinity and Beyond…. since 3.11.11

Hello World! “In the theory advanced here, to recapitulate—” Discuss this #Fukushima #Nuclear situation TODAY with your SMART FRIENDS

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Contaminated air mass over the United States.

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Bravo for the Info, not for the additional #Fukushima Rads in the air, everywhere!!  As recently referenced in LUCY OCCUPY SAYS, 

Something BIG and #Nuclear has Happened AGAIN!!! Who knows more??!!

http://lucyoccupy.com/2013/10/22/something-big-and-nuclear-has-happened-again-who-knows-more/

Pass the Duct Tape! Sure looks like it was a nuke event at Fukushima.

Triple Nuclear Meltdowns SINCE MARCH 11, 2011.

Triple Nuclear Meltdowns SINCE MARCH 11, 2011.

ADVANCING ELE, Extinction Level Event!  

Ask More About Fukushima Now https://askaboutfukushimanow.com/

Ask More About Fukushima Now https://askaboutfukushimanow.com/

Bobby1 found it and tied it to a Rad surge with a section of a Tepco 24 hour film of the site. It showed the characteristic surge of fog like steam everywhere.  

The timing is right for the Cesium reading in the Seaweed.  

Thanks Bobby1 and Friends!

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WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW.  

Moving: “MIC CHECK!!!”

In the theory advanced here, to recapitulate…

1. Tepco had workers clear out debris from Units 1 and 3 in August,
2. While this was happening, the two camera sites were running fake re-run footage from the past.
3. The operation caused dust alarms from Unit 3 to go off.
4. The dust alarm was eventually turned off.
5. The piles of debris went critical.
6. Radionuclides were emitted into the atmosphere. Later, heavy rains and a typhoon leaked the radiation from this debris into the groundwater and into the sea. This was not only the original radiation from the debris, but also the radioisotopes which resulted from the criticality.
7. This was not a matter of Tepco passively standing by as the situation grew out of control. Tepco’s Three Stooges incompetence caused it in the first place.

I don’t know if this theory is true, but it fits the facts.

Fukushima to infinity and beyond

“And the “Blog of Waiting Chan” asserts  http://ameblo.jp/misininiminisi/entry-11649267610.html from an embedded video that the recent gigantic increases in contamination of underground water, which have been attributed to leaks from the tanks, have actually been due to Tepco clearing debris from Units 1 and 3. This occurred August 12 through Aug. 19. Fukushima Diary confirms that the dust alarms from Unit 3 were going off at this time. The dust alarm was eventually turned off. Also radiation spikes occurred in Fukushima prefecture at this time, and it appears that a criticality occurred. Check out this nuckelchen video from Aug. 20.”

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“So the surges in contamination would have been from heavy rainfalls swamping the piles of debris, wherever they put them, and releasing large amounts of cesium, strontium and tritium. And it is possible that Tepco caused the August criticality. Two typhoons are on the way to Fukushima Daiichi….”

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Possible dual criticalities at Fukushima Daiichi.

Posted on October 10, 2013

“There are multiple things going on at Fukushima right now. I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get some rhyme or reason as to what is happening there recently. It’s pretty baffling.”

Radiation What Radiation

Don’t buy the #PDP-L stats and stories…

Public Delusion Physics – Livermore.

Know there are 1,946 KNOWN lethal isotopes….shorts AND longs…. D’oh!

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THINK LOCALLY. ACT GLOBALLY. OCCUPY VIRTUALLY.
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HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI FUKUSHIMA

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In retrospect:  Remember this??!!

#Radiation Alert???!!

FUKUSHIMA EQUALS 6,000 HIROSHIMA BOMBS TODAY, MORE TOMORROW.  NO PLACE TO ESCAPE.

Talk about it! Tell your friends and tell your neighbors, and tell them to tell their friends and neighbors. Today.

Talk about it! Tell your friends and tell your neighbors, and tell them to tell their friends and neighbors. Today.

“~~~Answer. Ask what is the published lethality of the all of the released isotopes and do not let the Empire paid trolls fool you by using radioactivity numbers; it is the LETHALITY that counts.

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When you find the radiation numbers for the two Cesium Twins multiply by 14 for the Total radiation in a single release from an active reactor core. Multiply the combined Cesium137/134 radioactivity numbers by 5 for the Total radioactivity in a single release for old fuel rods.  Those will give you a rough idea of the radiation released for that instance.”

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Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow.

Short URL:http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=268591

See more on nuclear situations: http://www.veteranstoday.com/author/bobnichols/

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HELLO WORLD! Fukushima Equals 6,000 Hiroshima Bombs Today, More Tomorrow.

https://askaboutfukushimanow.com/2013/09/18/hello-world-fukushima-equals-6000-hiroshima-bombs-today-more-tomorrow-no-place-to-escape/

FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS STAY IGNORANT!

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Hello World! 60,000+ views, AROUND THE PLANET!! Another AAFN milestone! Tell your friends and neighbors!! Thank YOU!

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60,000+ VIEWS of ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW   “AAFN”

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WE DID THIS, ALL TOGETHER,

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LET’S KEEP MOVING……AAFN!

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Ask About Fukushima Now,  WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. Working like ANTS, with STAR Power!

More resources, tell at least ten friends today,

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Hello World!  60,000+ views, AROUND THE WORLD!!

Another AAFN milestone!   Tell your friends and neighbors!!

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2011 Thoughts on 3.11 and 9.11

POSTED ON JULY 27, 2013

99 BLOGS!!  MILESTONE:  55,000 VIEWS!!!  WE DID IT.  Ask About Fukushima Now!!! Tell your friends and tell your neighbors. Tell them to tell their friends and neighbors. #Fukushima triple nuclear meltdowns are still in progress.  NO EFFORTS TO CONTAIN. WE are the Media Now.  Over the Course, WE have succeeded in reaching and touching many […]

Hello World! Nearly 40,000 blog direct views 1st year: ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW….. WE did it! WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW….

POSTED ON DECEMBER 8, 2012

On December 8, 2011, the first issue of ASK ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NOW was ‘published’ having been watching and posting and shouting about the unfolding global catastrophe since 3.10.11. The triple-meltdowns were first seen reported on 3.12.11.  No actions have been taken to interrupt the ELE. Together, this year, WE achieved nearly 40,000 direct views, and […]

Hello World! 25,000 views!!! WE DID IT! Ask About Fukushima Now!!! Let’s keep moving!!

POSTED ON JULY 4, 2012

25,000+  VIEWS!!!  YESSSSSSS!!!   Who else did YOU tell about Fukushima today?  Who will you tell tomorrow?  XOXO Wake Up World!  WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW. think LOCALLY! act GLOBALLY!  occupy VIRTUALLY! March 11, 2011 — 3+ NUCLEAR REACTOR MELTDOWNS REPORTED…. Fukushima reactors #1,2,3 with severe damage to many others, including Reactor #4…. as well as […]

“Oh where oh where have the spent fuel pits of ‪#‎Fukushima‬ gone, oh where oh where could they be.”

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“…Truly, the affair at Fukushima is an Extinction Level Event…”

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All nuke reactors leak All the time …

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Radiation What Radiation

TO DO LIST….Remember: ‘There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don’t know that they don’t know; those who know that they don’t know; those who don’t know that they know; and those who know that they know.’

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#Fukushima Lessons Learned Multiple reactor Meltdo

On Nuclear including but not limited to Fukushima

http://allreactorsleakallthetime.com/2013/10/12/on-nuclear-including-but-not-limited-to-fukushima/

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Hello World! #Fukushima Update: The Russians are Coming! The French are, too!! Uncle Sam??

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Russia Offers Fukushima Cleanup Help as Tepco Reaches Out

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-25/russia-offers-to-help-clean-up-fukushima-as-tepco-calls-for-help.html

“In our globalized nuclear industry we don’t have national accidents, they are all international,” Asmolov said

“…Russia repeated an offer first made two years ago to help Japan clean up its accident-ravaged Fukushima nuclear station, welcoming Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)’s decision to seek outside help…”

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Meanwhile in the un-invited USA, a prominent US nuke expert and anti-nuke guru is quoted with the following bits of advice:

“… if the fuel pools at reactor 4 collapse due to an earthquake – people should get out of Japan, and residents of the West Coast of America and Canada should shut all of their windows and stay inside for a while……”

[Was the obvious omission of the USA to the international assistance due to the allegations of the 21,000 extra pounds of Plutonium in Fukushima Reactor #3???  Was it ever found??? Who knows. ]

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‘Oh where, oh where have the SEVEN #Fukushima old reactor #fuel pits gone, oh where oh where could they be……’

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“Tap Experts    Japan can tap experts in France and the U.S. as well as Russia to help it tackle the situation at Fukushima, he [Asmolov] said.”

Russia Offers Fukushima Cleanup Help as Tepco Reaches Out

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-25/russia-offers-to-help-clean-up-fukushima-as-tepco-calls-for-help.html

By Yuriy Humber & Jacob Adelman – Aug 26, 2013 12:39 AM CT
Russia repeated an offer first made two years ago to help Japan clean up its accident-ravaged Fukushima nuclear station, welcoming Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501)’s decision to seek outside help.
As Tokyo Electric pumps thousands of metric tons of water through the wrecked Fukushima station to cool its melted cores, the tainted run-off was found to be leaking into groundwater and the ocean. The approach to cooling and decommissioning the station will need to change and include technologies developed outside of Japan if the cleanup is to succeed, said Vladimir Asmolov, first deputy director general of Rosenergoatom, the state-owned Russian nuclear utility.
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A worker checks radiation levels near the No. 10 storage tank in the H3 tank area at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, in this handout photograph taken on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. Source: Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Bloomberg
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Vladimir Asmolov, first deputy director general of Rosenergoatom, is seen in this 2007 photo. “It was clear for a long time that Tepco was not adequately coping with the situation,” Asmolov said. “It looks like Tepco management were the last to realize this,” he said. “Japan has the technologies to do this, but they lacked a system to deal with this kind of situation.” Photographer: Dmitry Beliakov/Bloomberg
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Japan’s nuclear watchdog members, including Nuclear Regulation Authority members in radiation protection suits, inspect contaminated water tanks at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture on Aug. 23, 2013. Source: Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images
“In our globalized nuclear industry we don’t have national accidents, they are all international,” Asmolov said. Since Japan’s new government took over in December, talks on cooperating between the two countries on the Fukushima cleanup have turned “positive” and Russia is ready to offer its assistance, he said by phone from Moscow last week.
After 29 months of trying to contain radiation from Fukushima’s molten atomic cores, Tokyo Electric said last week it will reach out for international expertise in handling the crisis. The water leaks alone have so far sent more than 100 times the annual norms of radioactive elements into the ocean, raising concern it will enter the food chain through fish.

‘Last to Realize’

The latest leak of 300 metric tons of irradiated water prompted Japan’s nuclear regulator to label the incident “serious” and question Tokyo Electric’s ability to deal with the crisis, echoing comments made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month. Zengo Aizawa, a vice president at Tepco, as the Tokyo-based utility is known, made the call for help at a press briefing in Japan’s capital on Aug. 21.
In addition to the leak, Tepco today announced that one of its two filters treating contaminated water was taken offline on Aug. 8 because of corrosion and will be shut until at least next month. The lost layer of filtration adds to the contamination levels of water in the storage tanks.
“It was clear for a long time that Tepco was not adequately coping with the situation,” Asmolov said. “It looks like Tepco management were the last to realize this,” he said. “Japan has the technologies to do this, but they lacked a system to deal with this kind of situation.”
The Fukushima accident of March 2011 is the world’s biggest nuclear disaster since the Soviet Union faced the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986.
So far, Tokyo’s solution to cooling melted nuclear rods at Fukushima that otherwise could overheat into criticality, or a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, has been to pour water over them. That’s left more than 330,000 tons of irradiated water in storage tanks at the site so far. The water is treated to remove some of the cesium particles in it, which in turn leaves behind contaminated filters.

‘Vast Volumes’

The sheer quantity of water used is the most at a nuclear accident since the 1972 London convention banned the dumping of waste and radioactive water into the sea, said Peter Burns, formerly Australia’s representative on the United Nations scientific committee on the effects of atomic radiation.
“Until they figure out how to deal with such vast volumes of water, how to manage it, the problem” including of leaks will persist, Burns, a retired radiation physicist, said from Melbourne.
Retaining thousands of tons of radioactive water in tanks was the wrong strategy from the start and Tepco’s handling of the task is a “textbook picture of a failure of management,” Michael Friedlander, who has 13 years of experience running nuclear stations in the U.S., said in an interview with Bloomberg TV in Hong Kong.

Pumping Water

The idea of pumping water for cooling was never going to be anything but a “machine for generating radioactive water,” Asmolov said. Other more complex methods such as the use of special absorbents like thermoxide to clean contaminated water and the introduction of air cooling should be used, he said.
Russia’s nuclear company, Rosatom, of which Rosenergoatom is a unit, sent Japan a 5 kilogram (11 pound) sample of an absorbent that could be used at Fukushima almost three years ago, Asmolov said. It also formed working groups ready to help Japan on health effect assessment, decontamination, and fuel management, among others, Asmolov said. The assistance was never used, he said.
“Since the arrival of the new Japanese government, the attitude’s changed,” he said. “So far the talks have been on a diplomatic level, but they are much more positive. And we remain open to working together on this issue. To follow developments I monitor Fukushima news every morning.”

Tap Experts

Japan can tap experts in France and the U.S. as well as Russia to help it tackle the situation at Fukushima, he said……

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