Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Status
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UPDATED: Monday, December 22, 2025 19:24
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My friend is over there now. I hope she'll be okay.
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CNN.COM -- Radioactive iodine at more than 3,000 times the normal level has been found in ocean water near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are struggling to keep reactors cool and prevent radioactive water from entering the Pacific...
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.nuclear.reactors/ind
ex.html?hpt=T1
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Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima, told the Guardian on Tuesday workers at the site appeared to have “lost the race” to save the reactor.
“The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell,” Lahey said.
Fukushima Nuke Plant Now in Full Meltdown
Radioactive core melts through containment vessel
Japan Considers Entombing Nuclear Plant as Workers Fight to Stop Radiation
http://www.naturalnews.com/031894_Fukushima_meltdown.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/record-high-levels-of-radiati
on-found-in-sea-near-crippled-nuclear-reactor.html
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-nuke-plant-now-in-full-meltdown/
Threats Claim Nuclear Bombs Hidden All Over U.S.
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/03/29/threats-claim-nuclear-bombs-hid
den-all-over-u-s/
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They probably should have entombed it right when explosions started removing parts of the containment buildings. This goes back to my idea of why don't they build nuclear power plants underground, possibly dug into the bedrock. Pipe in groundwater from outside the bed rock, then, if it goes haywire, evacuate everyone via mine shaft or elevator then collapse it.
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Originally posted by Bytemite:
They probably should have entombed it right when explosions started removing parts of the containment buildings. This goes back to my idea of why don't they build nuclear power plants underground, possibly dug into the bedrock. Pipe in groundwater from outside the bed rock, then, if it goes haywire, evacuate everyone via mine shaft or elevator then collapse it.
Prevention is worth a trillion-dollar cure...
Once meltdown starts it cannot be entombed in concrete, because the nuclear reaction will continue and explode.
Only cure after meltdown is to detonate a bomb inside each reactor building, to throw the fissile material so far apart it cannot react.
Chernobyl was a dry reactor with an explosion which stopped the reaction. Fukushima is a wet reactor where meltdown never stops...
When The Fukushima Meltdown Hits Groundwater
http://rense.com/general93/whent.htm
400 Fukushima Nuke Workers Drowned, TEPCO Suicide Squads Die After 5 Hours Work, TEPCO Stocks Collapse, TEPCO to be Nationalized with Losses Paid by Taxslaves, TEPCO CEO Jailed in Loonybin
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8415515/Japan-ear
thquake-president-of-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-company-admitted-to-hospital.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/suicide-squads-paid-huge-
sums-amid-fresh-fears-for-nuclear-site-2256741.html
Obama evacuates 200,000 soldiers from Japan
(to be sent to Libya, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan)
http://www.kirotv.com/news/27248974/detail.html
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Yeah, but at least if it's in the bed rock and you collapse it you limit impact to groundwater and air. It's why when someone tests a nuke they drill into granite stock to detonate. The only concern you have there is if the blast triggers an earthquake on a nearby fault, but that's easily solved by something else I've been saying: don't build in earthquake zones.
As I see it the possible impacts are worse than the meltdown itself, so you ought to build your plant right off to limit that impact. Put in all the safety measures you want to stop the meltdown, fine. But nature and Murphy's law will find a way, so when you're designing and building treat it like it WILL happen, even if the risk is low.
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I've decided that we don't have any business messing with nuclear anymore, I was open to it before this, thought maybe we could make it work, after all France does it fine. But I've changed my mind. I understand our curiosity and experimentation with it back when, we didn't know what would happen and wanted to figure it out. But we know now that it is a force beyond our control, it is a powerful and, quite frankly, twisted force. Having your face melt off and not even feeling it? That's twisted. I've made my decision, we checked it out, we used it, we learnt what it could do, and now I want us to be done and not mess with stuff beyond our control, because we really can't control it, we thought we could but we just can't. Sounds extreme I know, but that's the conclusion I have come to for myself. I guess if someone thinks its safe then they can do it, but I will have no part in encouraging it.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Radioactive Iodine-131 from Fukushima in Pennsylvania rainwater sample is 3300% above federal drinking water standard
http://enenews.com/radioactive-iodine-131-in-pennsylvania-rainwater-sa
mple-3300-above-federal-drinking-water-standard
Sooooo.........
Obama's EPA to raise Radiation Limits 10-MILLION %
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/epa-to-help-mainstream-media-obscu
re.html
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"12 years ago workers were exposed to such a criticality, and 2 were dead within 7 months. The workers now are not being supplied with dosimetry meters...But we at Fox News have been issued one."
Neutron Blue Beams Shooting From Fukushima Reactor
By Gary Jacobucci
4-4-11
Neutron 'blue beams' can now be seen shooting from one of the damages reactors night and day.
"International nuclear experts believe that melted fuel is causing a small, uncontrolled chain reaction there sending out a burst of heat, radiation and a blue flash of light what the nuclear industry calls a localized criticality. From what we understand, this is not good news for the workers trying to prevent a nuclear meltdown there."
One person gave this reflection on blue beams He was a medical student when the nuclear reactor was installed at UT. The joke on campus was that the good news was that they had an ultraviolet detector that could pick up this type of radiation leak - the bad news was that if you were in a position to detect these 'blue beams' that you were going to be dead in a few weeks.
Besides improvements in nuclear power generation like supercharging the uranium fuel in the reactors with plutonium (MOX fuel), radiation is finding more applications in medicine.
In addition to irradiating parts of the body where cancer is found, one fellow here in town had radiation injected into his blood stream for a diagnostic from a high tech piece of equipment at the Elko Hospital. He was told it would be fine, but to stay away from his children for a few days. When they couldn't get the machine to work right for the diagnostic, they told him he would have to go through the procedure again (he said no).
The FDA pushing for the irradiation of food to keep us safe of course.
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/03/codex-alimentarius-irradiated-food
.html
The FDA acknowledges the fact that irradiation changes the makeup of food when it says in the same proposal that "Irradiation has various effects on foods that may cause changes in the characteristics of the food. Such changes may occur in the food's organoleptic, nutritional, or functional properties that would not be noticeable at the point of purchase but could be apparent when consumed or cooked."
The USDA allows irradiation of food and calls it "electronic pasteurization" so as not to alarm consumers. An official with the USDA who helped to ease food radiation restrictions now is with the UN doing the same with international guidelines. Many scientists believe that irradiation causes genetic and molecular changes that increase the risk of cancer in those who consume the food.
Then there are nuclear weapons. There are the heavy bombs and the ideology of M.A.D. (mutually assured destruction) which also keeps us safe.
And now we have the use of depleted uranium. Prior to the War on Terrorism, it was thought to be a crime against humanity to spread nuclear waste on an enemies nation due to the long term toxic effect it would have on future generations.
But when it was found that the elements in depleted uranium could penetrate armor like nothing else, the toxic effects were no longer a concern.
DU ignites upon firing, filing the air with microscopic irradiated particles on both the giving and receiving end of the munitions.
Aside from destroying the health of the soldiers, the DNA mutations are passed into the womb...
http://www.tetrahedron.org/articles/gulf_war_syndrome/uranium_infantic
ide.html
The use of nuclear, atomic, radiological, etc. is M.A.D. and will be our demise on this planet if we continue down this path.
http://rense.com/general93/blue.htm
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Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan began dumping thousands of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Monday, an emergency move officials said was needed to curtail a worse leak from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
In all, about 11,500 tons of radioactive water that has collected at the nuclear facility will be dumped into the sea, officials said Monday, as workers also try to deal with a crack that has been a conduit for contamination....
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/04/japan.nuclear.reactors/ind
ex.html?hpt=T2
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