The radioactive cloud will reach Tokyo later today it was said and then of course time for a commercial message. Last night on Fox New’s the Hannity Show one .05er from something called the Heartland Institute said I see no problem and another person on the show a nuclear scientist just had this strange look on his face as the heartland person said this. Then the punk Hannity give the heartland person the last word. Beck was worried about the bond market on his show and so it goes. So how do we get food and water to Japan staying off shore a hundred miles or so isn’t going to get it. Come in from the Southeast will China help or do we hear well if the United States help’s we will help and the United States will say if China help’s we will go shopping eat what we want and lose weight at the same time. McConnell and Boehner were on CNBC yesterday and both it seems are insane or mad if you like. Cup of coffee nice game of checkers.

by Yoshie Furuhashi 14.03.11

“From the beginning of the Great East Japan Earthquake, I have followed Japanese-language media closely, to see what they have to say about Japan’s nuclear reactors. It is clear that the Japanese people were under a virtual information blockade [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/ucs110311.html], regarding the severity of the problems and their potential health consequences, due to the Japanese media’s failure to challenge their government’s lack of transparency and accountability. The possibility of a complete meltdown was frequently raised in international media from Day 1, but the Japanese media were silent on the worst case scenario at least for the first 24 hours. That information blockade has begun to be breached, especially since the explosion at Unit 1 of Fukushima 1, but even now the Japanese media’s performance is woefully inadequate. More can and must be done to inform the public. Tell the Japanese what they need to know to save as many lives as possible in the event of a complete meltdown. It’s in your power to do that.”

[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/furuhashi140311.html]

The Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Nuclear Plants

What Happened, Why, and What Might be Next

By ARUN MAKHIJANI

March 14, 2011

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“One hopes that the spent fuel pool in Unit 1 can be kept full of water and the various reactors can be kept cool enough to prevent much more serious consequences than have already occurred (there has been serious worker exposure and some public radiation exposure already, according to news reports[9]). But the accident makes clear that there is ample information and analysis that very grave consequences are possible from lighter water reactors – which are the designs used in Japan, the United States, and most of the rest of the world. Spent fuel pools special vulnerabilities that are different in different specific designs, but all possess some risk of severe consequences in worst-case accidents or worst-case terrorist attacks (which were studied by the National Academies in their 2006 report).

The United States should move as much spent fuel out of the pools as possible into hardened and secure dry storage. The tragedy in Japan is also a reminder that making plutonium and fission products just to boil water (which is what a nuclear reactor does) is not a prudent approach to electricity generation. While existing reactors will be needed to maintain the stability of electricity supply for some time (as is also evident from the earthquake-tsunami catastrophe in Japan), new reactor projects should be halted and existing reactors should be phased out along with coal and oil. It is possible to do so economically in the next few decades, while maintaining the reliability of the electricity system and greatly improving its security, as I have shown in my book Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy published in 2007, and in subsequent work that can be found on the IEER website, [www.ieer.org.] Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free can be downloaded free [http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pdf].”

[http://www.counterpunch.org/makhijani03142011.html]

The book is worth looking at.

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“TOKYO – Japan’s nuclear safety agency said an explosion Tuesday at an earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant may have damaged a reactor’s containment vessel and that a radiation leak is feared.”

[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110315/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_crisis]

We still don’t have the technology to make nuclear power safe. Continuing on with this way of generating power is playing Russian roulette with our world being the head the gun is pointed at.

Through Tuesday, EDT, winds in the area of the two nuclear power plants will vary from northerly through easterly, implying some onshore component to the wind. During this time, a hypothetical radiation release into the lower atmosphere would likely affect heavily populated land near and southward from the site of the plants.

An added threat is that with higher elevations just about 4 miles inland from the power plants, if a temperature inversion sets up in the atmosphere, radiation could be trapped near the ground.

Authorities have warned residents to keep windows and doors closed and air-conditioning fans switched off to eliminate the intake of air from outside.

By early Wednesday, EDT, a strong offshore flow in the lower atmosphere will set up, lasting through Thursday.

Onshore low-level flow could resume late in the week. Accuweather

{http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/update_japan}

On Earth – when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass – the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm’s way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another – particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.
Douglas Adams

TOKYO — The U.S. Seventh Fleet said Monday it had moved its ships and aircraft away from a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant after discovering low-level radioactive contamination.

The fleet said that the radiation was from a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant, where there have been two hydrogen explosions since Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100 miles (160 kilometres) offshore when its instruments detected the radiation. The fleet said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month’s normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment. The Associated Press (CP)

The inner containment shell surrounding the Unit 3 reactor was intact maybe just missing a few part’s that is if you don’t live on Zenon.

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“I don’t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy,” McConnell said. Huffington post

Oh! what a tangled web we weave; When first we practise to deceive. And yes America is the king of coal no environmental catastrophe there just dig safely with style and grace.

Isn’t a shame that the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs. Burns

Population:
126,475,664 (July 2011 est.)
country comparison to the world: 10

Age structure:
0-14 years: 13.1% (male 8,521,571/female 8,076,173)
15-64 years: 64% (male 40,815,840/female 40,128,235)
65 years and over: 22.9% (male 12,275,829/female 16,658,016) (2011 est.) world fact book CIA

Tokyo about 37 million

Washington, DC July 30, 2005 The National Academies of Science released an over 700-page report yesterday on the risks from ionizing radiation. The BEIR VII or seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation report on “Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation” reconfirmed the previous knowledge that there is no safe level of exposure to radiation—that even very low doses can cause cancer. Risks from low dose radiation are equal or greater than previously thought. The committee reviewed some additional ways that radiation causes damage to cells.

Among the reports conclusions are:

There is no safe level or threshold of ionizing radiation exposure.

Even exposure to background radiation causes some cancers. Additional exposures cause additional risks.

Radiation causes other health effects such as heart disease and stroke, and further study is needed to predict the doses that result in these non-cancer health effects.

It is possible that children born to parents that have been exposed to radiation could be affected by those exposures. NIRS

A new tsunami targets Japan’s coast Mar 14, 2011 05:49 Moscow Time

[http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/14/47352112.html]

Blast at Fukushima nuke plant, the reactor undamaged Mar 14, 2011 06:15 Moscow Time

[http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/14/47352121.html]

Alan Weisman notes:

“…Used nuclear fuel, some of it decades old, languishes in holding tanks. Oddly, it is up to a million times more radioactive than when it was fresh. While in the reactor, it began mutating into elements heavier than enriched uranium, such as isotopes of plutonium and americium. That process continues in the waste dumps, where used hot rods exchange neutrons and expel alpha and beta particles, gamma rays, and heat.”

Fukushima Neclear Accident: Sobering Reflections

By S.G.Vombatkere

13 March, 2011

[http://countercurrents.org/vombatkere130311.htm]

Yoichi Shimatsu

March 13, 2011

(video summary)

“Following a high-level meeting called by the lame-duck prime minister, Japanese agencies are no longer releasing independent reports without prior approval from the top. The censorship is being carried out following the imposition of the Article 15 Emergency Law. Official silencing of bad news is a polite way of reassuring the public.

USA: The White House sent in a team to consult withe US-friendly Naoto Kan government. Instead of dispatching in experts from the Department of Energy, Nuclear Safety Agency and Health Department, President Obamas sent representatives of USAID, which is cover for the CIA.

The presence of these paranoiac bumblers only confirms suspicions of a top-level cover up. Why would the Agency be worried about the disaster? There are security considerations, such as regional “enemies” Pyongyang, Beijing and Moscow taking advantage of the crisis. To the contrary, China and Russia have both offered carte blanche civilian aid.”

[http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2011/03/cover-over-japans-nuclear-catastrophe]

“We are getting into the time of year where onshore winds occur most often,” said Andrews.

This is not good news, since an onshore direction would blow most of the radiation toward populated areas. An added threat is that with higher elevations just about 4 miles inland from the power plants, if a temperature inversion sets up in the atmosphere, radiation could be trapped.

Authorities have warned residents to keep windows and doors closed and air-conditioning fans switched off to eliminate the intake of air from outside. Accuweather

Nevertheless the amount of radiation detected at the site boundary reached 500 microSieverts per hour – exceeding a regulatory limit and triggering another set of emergency precautions. It also meant the incident has been rated at Level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) – an ‘accident with local consequences’.

A seriously injured worker was trapped within Fukushima Daiichi unit 1 in the crane operating console of the exhaust stack and is now confirmed to have died. Four workers were injured by the explosion at the same reactor and have been taken to hospital. A contractor was found unconscious and taken to hospital.

Two workers of a ‘cooperative firm’ were injured, said Tepco; one with a broken bone. A Tepco employee who was unable to stand and grasping his left chest was taken to hospital.

At Fukushima Daiini unit 3 one worker received a radiation dose of 106 mSv. This is a notable dose, but comparable to levels deemed acceptable in emergency situations by some national nuclear safety regulators.

The whereabout of two Tepco workers remains unknown.

Researched and written

by World Nuclear News

{http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/}

plutonium 239 is dangerous for a quarter-million years, or 12,000 human generations. The half-life of strontium 90 is 28 years; of cesium 137, about 30 years; and iodine 131, eight days. roanoke times

Ira Helfand, member of Physicians for Social Responsibility writes that, “After one year of operation, a commercial nuclear reactor contains 1000 times as much radioactivity as was released by the Hiroshima bomb. From a public health perspective, the most important isotopes are short-lived isotopes of iodine (like Iodine-131), Cesium-137, Strontium-90, and possibly Plutonium-239. Radioactive iodine caused thousands of cases of thyroid cancer in children after the Chernobyl accident. Forbes

Critical Mass in the the present Global Economic Order — capital G, capital E, capital O — isn’t sustainable. It’s pathological. It works at cross purposes to everything small g, e and o — “geo,” everything earthy. In particular, the GEO works at cross purposes to Life. Ellen

Reason, focus, work together, known knowledge not illusion could be helpful. Wheel of fortune just came on got to go, give me a G ok like to buy a vowel an E like to buy anther vowel an O. Like to solve the puzzle, Global Economic Order. That’s correct and you just won a trip to Disneyland for two and a set of new golf club’s and this “NEW CAR”. Have fun and your total winnings is one planet third one from the Sun.