fukushima is causing havoc again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23776345

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/21/world/...r-leak-warning

http://enenews.com/

1. The severity of the problems at Fukushima were raised from level 1 to level 3 yesterday. .

2. The contamination is likely to spread to the Tokyo aquifer, forcing Tokyo to be abandoned.

3. Fukushima holds more than 10 times as much radioactive nuclear material as Chernobyl and 4 of Fukushima's reactors are dangerously damaged wherase as Chernobyl had just one

5. The thyroid cancer rate near Fukushima is out of control

6. Alaskan seals are showing signs of radiation poisoning (although researchers tried to deny it.)

 

Japan's honor and national pride kept it from pragmatically addressing the situation and dealing with it. They resisted outside help and did not listen to Michau Kaku the Japanese American physicist who said they had to pour boric acid on those Fukushima plants ASAP.

The human race should not be using nuclear uranium based nuclear plants. If they need nuclear power they should turn to thorium.

Thorium is harder to weaponize, and takes more effort to go critical mass.


California, USA needs to pay attention to Fukushima and shut down and decommission it's uranium nuclear plants immediately before a big earthquake hits along with a tsunami.

They have the same power plant design and similar geographical location as Fukushima.

It's too late for the Japanese, this just impacts their already declining birthrate pre-fukushima.

 

I saw an article about butterfly mutations near Fukushima. They are all messed up with rolled up, mismatched wings, mismatched antennae, etc.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19245818

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/14/fukushima-mutant-butterflies_n_1777180.html

 

My grandmother told me that in the 1970s she flew to the USA to protest nuclear power. No one sane wanted this rubbish but that for some unknown reason everyone just gave up protesting.

 

What I Never Understood About The Design Of The

Fukushima Power Plant Is, Who In Their Right Mind Would Place So Many

Reactors Side By Side, When One Blows, They All Blow, Commonsense

Would Say Build Single Plants 20 Miles Apart Up And Down The

Coast, And Place Them On Higher Ground.

Yes I Realise The Economics Meant That Placed Together They Could Share

The Same Cooling Pumps And Other Infrastructure.

But, As The Old Saying Goes, NEVER PLACE ALL YOUR

EGGS IN THE SAME BASKET And Japan Has Learn't This

Lesson The Hard Way...



Cheers Glen.

 

Nobody has a method for dealing with this type of damage... I doubt this will ever be contained.

 

Having trouble finding these points mentioned in the sources you provided. Where did you get this information?

 

I agree that Thorium is a very, very enticing alternative to uranium based reactors. Still, there is a lot more research and effort left to do to determine if it really is a feasible alternative.

 

I was one of the Seabrook (NH) demonstrators in the late 70s. Remember the No Nukes Concert?

 

Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of long-lived radioactivity. About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP). The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site contains nearly half of the total amount of Cs-137 estimated by the NCRP to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants (~270 million curies or ~9.9 E+18 Becquerel).

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/2...mes-more-cesium-released-chernobyl-—-“it-woul

 

I didn't go to any of the No Nukes shows but I remember them happening. MUSE is still active I think.

 

Let me add to this.

No country has learned this lesson, and America is next to face this problem, specifically the West Coast.

When it comes to business interests, economics of scale, which would create an industry and jobs, and therefore political votes wins out over safety.

The only way something would happen is if there was a mass strike and protests like we saw in the Civil Rights movement in every sector of the economy along Washington, Oregon, and California and any other state in danger of a meltdown like Japan had.

 

I don't know if you know this, but National Public Radio did a report not that long ago that said we actually did have a WORKING Thorium nuclear plant in the 1980's but it was decommissioned without a given reason.


The technology is there, but I suspect that the military-industrial complex LIKES the constant supply of depleted Uranium for military ammo and other weapons.

 

The havoc wreaked by Fukushima hasn't even began to be understood. There has never been a nuclear catastrophe of this magnitude to use as a precedent. Some of the radioactive isotopes that are being released have a half life of 16 million years.

 

humans are stupid.