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Title: Japanese PM Signals 'Maximum Alert' Over Fukushima Nuke Crisis
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URL Source: http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView.aspx?Id=1585607
Published: Mar 29, 2011
Author: RTT Staff Writer
Post Date: 2011-03-29 18:02:58 by Hondo68
Keywords: traces of highly toxic plutoni, high-level radiation leaked, a state of maximum alert
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Comments: 14
(RTTNews) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has said his government is in a state of maximum alert over high-level radiation leaked from the quake-wrecked nuclear power plant in the country's northeast. Speaking at the House of Councilors Budget Committee on Tuesday, Kan said the situation at the plant "continues to be unpredictable" and that the government "will tackle the problem while in a state of maximum alert." He gave the assurance to the parliamentary committee after traces of radioactive water as well as highly toxic plutonium were detected outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Kan told the House that he planned to present a quake-relief budget by the end of April, and proposed a possible tax hike as the government struggled to secure funds. Kan said he would be seeking advice from nuclear experts if it was necessary to extend the evacuation zone around the plant. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said they had detected seepage of radioactive water in the tunnel linked to the plant's reactor number 2 on Monday. Although the tunnel is only about 55 meters from the shore, TEPCO insisted that there was no evidence that the contaminated water had reached the sea. It later admitted that traces of highly toxic plutonium, a byproduct of atomic reactions and also used in making nuclear bombs, have also been found in soil at five locations at the plant. Claiming that the traces of plutonium found outside the reactor buildings were too small to threaten human health, the company stressed that the discovery would not suspend the ongoing efforts at the plant to avert a nuclear meltdown. Experts suspect that leakage of plutonium may have been from the spent fuel rod storage at the plant or from reactor number 3, the only one among the plant's six reactors to use plutonium as fuel. Meanwhile, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said radioactive water that had been filling up underground trenches of the plant had not been confirmed to have overflowed into the Pacific Ocean. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that the situation at Fukushima was very serious, and said that the government was doing its best to control the damage. Engineers are battling to restore power and restart the cooling systems at the power station, which was shut down following radiation leak caused by explosions and fires triggered by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. Several countries, including the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, China and Australia, have banned food imports from radiation-hit areas of Japan. Japan has already suspended exports of milk, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and turnips after the nuclear plant, located 250 kilometers northeast of Tokyo, released radioactive materials. Japanese government estimates that it would cost up to 25 trillion yen ($309 billion) to reconstruct the country ravaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left more than 27,000 people dead or missing across a swath of northern Japan.
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#1. To: mcgowanjm (#0)
traces of plutonium found outside the reactor buildings were too small to threaten human health The PM of Japan thinks there's a problem. Seems to still be a lot of nasty stuff oozing out of that place.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... How about a little reality? How many people died in Japan because of the earthquake or Tsunami? 25,000. How many people died in Japan because of the resulting nuclear disaster? ZERO. But of course, the propagandistic news media leads every story with the nuclear disaster and then shows pictures of dead bodies.
That's a very premature tally...
How many people died because of Three Mile Island (the largest nuclear disaster in the history of the U.S.)??? ZERO.
I don't get the comparison.
They are both nuclear "disasters". Three Mile Island was the catalyst for shutting down the nuclear industry in the U.S. since the 1970s. Japan may be the catalyst for continuing it's demise in the U.S. and hasting its demise in Europe.
He has no idea. "Seems to still be a lot of nasty stuff oozing out of that place." "Guardian Reports Core At Reactor 2 May Have Melted To Concrete Floor, Radioactive Lava Next? Suggest Pin Quote [+] Your Ad Here And another update from Fukushima on its route to the concrete dome, irradiated ground water, and a 100 km "no live zone" from the Guardian: The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site." Notice we've never seen vids of Reactor 4 exploding? Or heard from Onagawa and their reactors? OR #5 and #6 doing great after seawater? Amazing that rule. there is something to numerology. But oil will be gone by 2013. MENA and the Reactors. Catton wrote:In precisely Mills's sense, the conversion of a marvelous carrying capacity surplus into a competition-aggravating and crash-inflicting deficit was a matter of fate. No compact group of leaders ever decided knowingly to take incautious advantage of enlargment of the scope of applicability of Liebig's law, or subsequently to reduce that scope and leave a swollen load inadequately supported. No one decided deliberately to terminate the Age of Exuberance. No group of leaders conspired knowingly to turn us into detritovores. Using the ecological paradigm to think about human history, we can see instead that the end of exuberance was the summary result of all our separate and innocent decisions to have a baby, to trade a horse for a tractor, to avoid illness by getting vaccinated, to move from a farm to a city, to live in a heated home, to buy a family automobile and not depend on public transit, to specialize, exchange, and thereby prosper. Are we yeast? Are we no different than any other part of the Planet. How do you know where a fault line is? There's a Reactor there. * Top * Delete post * Report this post * Reply with quote * Edit post
Tokyo the Largest City in the World is dead. How much more do you want? "Guardian Reports Core At Reactor 2 May Have Melted To Concrete Floor, Radioactive Lava Next? Suggest Pin Quote [+] Your Ad Here And another update from Fukushima on its route to the concrete dome, irradiated ground water, and a 100 km "no live zone" from the Guardian: The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site. 150 miles from Tokyo. 6 reactors with 10 X more fuel than Tchernobyl are now becoming 6 piles/holes of Thermonuclear Rubble.
I'd like a second opinion on that one.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... I've been to Japan 25+ times. Mostly to Tokyo. Japan is a great country. The Japanese are a great people. They will survive this. However, they may not be able to survive their own brain dead politics, that has discouraged young women from marrying and having babies, and also has put the country into a rolling recession for 20 years.
I'd like a second opinion on that one. LMFAO BWAHAHA ....BUWAHAHHA Like the people of Tohoku, eh? # # Tohoku region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The TMhoku region (81;Ô71;ß20;41;, TMhoku-chihM) is a geographical area of Japan. The region occupies the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of ... Points of interest - See also - References - External links en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMhoku_region - Cached - Similar Let's see. As Nuclear Science is as Exact and Quantum as we can get, you CAN try this experiment at home. Imagine the closest Nuke to you. I'm sure there's at least one w/in 150 miles. Imagine 6 Reactor Cores are turning into Corium (a mixture of the Demon Core and concrete as the core hits the floor). You know there will be at least a 100 mile Exclusion Zone. Plus, at least, 1/4 th of your cities Metro Statistical Area/Countryside will be affected. This will last for 20 000 years. What would you do?
They will survive this. In the Southern 1/2 of the state. What part of Corium Lava and groundwater are you not getting? What part of 20 000 year N E Honshu Island is not happening? A human dies with exacting amounts of radioactive particles: This is from Wiki: Symptoms of acute radiation (within one day): 0 – 0.25 Sv (0 - 250 mSv): None 0.25 – 1 Sv (250 - 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged. 1 – 3 Sv (1000 - 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured. 3 – 6 Sv (3000 - 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated. 6 – 10 Sv (6000 - 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
You're comparing human error to the vulnerabilities of a natural disaster. You're also truting the Japanese to be telling us the truth. I worked for them for a decade. They have no issue when it comes to lying or being fooolish when it comes to saving face.
What are the odds of the following happening at Two different plants on the same day: Press Release (Mar 30,2011) Smoke generation from the turbine building at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2 (2nd Release) On approximately 5:56 pm, March 30th 2011, TEPCO employee discovered smoke generation from power panel (*) at the turbine building Unit 1 (Reactor cold shoutdown). On 5:57 pm, March 30th 2011, TEPCO immediately reported this incident to the fire department. Subsequently the fire department consisting of TEPCO employee inspected the area. On approximately 6:13 pm, March 30th 2011,we confirmed the smoke generation stopped after interrupt electrical supply to the power panel. Smoke at second Fukushima plant finished - nuclear safety agency, Reuters, March 30, 2011 at 6:18 am EDT: Smoke seen at a second power plant in Fukushima was from a so-called electrical distribution board and has dispersed, Japan's nuclear safety body said on Wednesday. Reuters Flash, March 30, 2011 at 6:11 am EDT: Smoke seen from Fukushima Daini No.1 reactor's turbine building - Jiji What are the odds that the EXACT SAME thing occurred on the SAME day.
TEPCO insisted that there was no evidence that the contaminated water had reached the sea
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#3. To: jwpegler (#2)
How many people died in Japan because of the resulting nuclear disaster? ZERO.
#4. To: war (#3)
That's a very premature tally...
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#5. To: jwpegler (#4)
#6. To: war (#5)
(Edited)
I don't get the comparison.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#7. To: hondo68 (#1)
The PM of Japan thinks there's a problem.
#8. To: jwpegler (#2)
How about a little reality?
#9. To: mcgowanjm (#8)
Tokyo the Largest City in the World is dead.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
#10. To: hondo68 (#9)
I'd like a second opinion on that one.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."-- Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899
#11. To: hondo68 (#9)
(Edited)
Tokyo the Largest City in the World is dead.
#12. To: jwpegler (#10)
Japan is a great country. The Japanese are a great people.
#13. To: jwpegler (#6)
Three Mile Island was the catalyst for shutting down the nuclear industry in the U.S. since the 1970s.
#14. To: war (#13)
They have no issue when it comes to lying or being fooolish when it comes to saving face.
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