Cracked Fukushima: Radioactive steam escapes danger zone, RT, August 17, 2011: Host: Workers at Japans Fukushima plant say the ground underneath the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the cracks [...]
Dr. Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute: Its a very serious and alarming development because this started to happen specifically after two large earthquakes in the last few weeks, there was a 6.4 on the 31 of July 31 and a 6.0 on August 1283; [...]
Its an indication that radioactive material is moving under the ground [...]
When you have a fragile structure thats already suffered a great deal of damage and when you have continual aftershocks at the level of six-point, or theres been some even higher, what we have now is we have the radioactive core that has melted down into the basement, into the bottom of the containment vessel of these reactors, and if the radiation level is going down, where its been monitored inside the buildings, and if the water pressure is going down, and the temperature is going down, its not that the radiation is just suddenly going away, it means that the radioactive material, the melted core, is simply moving further away from where its been measured. And it may have as a result of these aftershocks be moving down out of the building itself. [....]
Breaking News: #Fukushima splashing steam from the cracks in the ground, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki, August 15, 2011:
In early August, an actual Fukushima worker emailed to his friend
A lot of the cracks came up in the ground,massive steam is coming up from there.Its too smoggy here,cant see a thing.It seems like nuclear reaction is happening underground.Now we are evacuating.Watch out for the direction of wind.
Whistle-blower in the govt
Ive heard that steam is coming up from the cracks in the ground.We are afraid of it.
Another Fukushima worker
Near the reactors,there are a lot of the cracks in the ground,steam splashed out from there sometimes.and we have detected 10Sv/h at 6 places unlike govs announcement.
h/t Anne, Anonymous tips
UPDATE: Report: Govt source says Ive heard about the steam coming out from the ground, and I am concerned Some kind of reaction may be occurring underground writes plant worker
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