Japanese nuclear plant may only have a few hours....

[Brian4Liberty]

Cover-up: Japanese nuclear reactor broke down before tsunami

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/d...lear-reactor-broke-down-tsunami#ixzz1RHtJTtxL

The whistle-blowers say Fukushima’s cooling and recirculation pipes broke apart and at least one reactor cracked after the earthquake — not after the “unique, unforeseeable” tsunami that struck 40 minutes later.

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/d...lear-reactor-broke-down-tsunami#ixzz1RI3nhAyS

Wouldn't be terribly surprising.

 

[XNavyNuke]

I pour it over my cereal and eat it for breakfast every day.

Hey, me too! What a coincidence.

Bowl of Bran Flakes - 155 picocuries K-40
Soaked in Low fat milk - 285 picocuries K-40
A diced up banana with a whopping 358 picocuries K-40
and a glass of apple juice to wash it down - 229 picocuries K-40

I reckon that 1 picocurie of Cs-147 found in Vermont dairies is slightly drowned out.

XNN

 

[devil21]

I pour it over my cereal and eat it for breakfast every day.

You're probably more right than you realize. California is the largest milk producing state in the country.

 

[MozoVote]

This reminds me of the stories from New Orleans a month after Katrina ... where we learned the levees were already failing from the wave action, before the storm actually landed.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Excessive cesium found in 21 cows
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110709003236.htm

Excessive cesium found in 11 cows shipped from Fukushima Prefecture to Tokyo

The Yomiuri Shimbun
Radioactive cesium beyond the legal limit has been detected in the meat of 11 cows shipped to a meatpacking plant in Tokyo from a farm in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, the Tokyo metropolitan government said Saturday.

On Friday, the metropolitan government found that meat of one of the 11 cows shipped from the farm to the meatpacking plant in Minato Ward, Tokyo, contained radioactive cesium measuring 2,300 becquerels--4.6 times the provisional legal limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram.

On Saturday, the metropolitan government conducted similar inspections on the remaining 10 cows and found they were contaminated with radioactive cesium at three to 6.4 times the legal limit.
Meat from the 11 cows was not distributed to the market.
On Friday night, the Fukushima prefectural government asked Minami-Soma to refrain from selling beef cattle.

It is the first time radioactive cesium beyond the limit set by the Food Sanitation Law has been found in meat, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
A ministry official downplayed the danger of the beef, saying, "Even if people eat the meat with an excessive level [of radioactive cesium], the radiation dose is very small and won't affect human health."

The ministry has started backtracing six cows that were shipped from the Minami-Soma farm between May 30 and June 30.

The farm is in an area between 20 and 30 kilometers from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that is designated as an emergency evacuation preparation zone.
In April, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry informed the Fukushima prefectural government that cows raised in the planned evacuation zone and emergency evacuation preparation zones can be shipped if the surfaces of their bodies are checked for radioactive substances and the safety of their forage and water is confirmed.

The 11 cows from the Minami-Soma farm Friday were judged safe following testing by the Fukushima prefectural government. However, an excessive level of radioactive cesium was found in the meat of one of the cows when the Tokyo government conducted a sample test later that day.
(Jul. 10, 2011)

 

[squarepusher]

Excessive cesium found in 21 cows
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110709003236.htm

doesn't cesium help build strong bones?

 

[KingRobbStark]

Its been a couple of days, what has happened now? lol

 

[KingRobbStark]

doesn't cesium help build strong bones?

Its a metal. How can it possibly help build strong bones?

 

[Dark_Horse_Rider]

Some interesting info in nuclear power plants and TEPCO.

Obama invites tepco to build plant with taxpayer funds...

http://www.gregpalast.com/no-bs-inf...build-us-nukes-with-taxpayer-funds/#more-4497

 

[ds21089]

We're all gonna die!! >.>

 

[Carehn]

Iv heard they have three at full melt down. True?

 

[acptulsa]

Iv heard they have three at full melt down. True?

Depends on what you mean by 'full'. Yes, though if any of them have melted through their containment no one is letting on...

They're trying to set up a nitrogen cooling system to prevent another hydrogen explosion in Number Three. They're behind schedule, according to HHK.

 

[Carehn]

I have not heard of people dyeing off over their so maybe its not as bad as i thought. I figured by now many of them would be dyeing but they could also just be covering American Idle and forgot about Japan.

 

[kahless]

If the market decides it wants nuclear power and the plant or waste can no longer be maintained for whatever reason or if there is an accident then the taxpayer is left paying for it. It is a technology that ultimately makes government necessary and ensures tax servitude now and for generations to come.

"Fox McCloud", care to explain why you take issue with this comment rather than your cowardly negative rep that just says "Uhhh no"?

You obviously believe in restrictions and limits to my freedom and private property rights when it comes to the nuclear industry. Nuclear power = perpetual tax enslavement to the industry. There is no getting around it if the company fails. The waste and facility MUST be maintained and if no one is willing to do so WE are forced to do so.

We will never be free from government in our lifetime because of people like you that blindly pledge your allegiance to this industry and support the theft of our income by government to build, support and maintain them.

The only comment here that comes close to making that less of an issue is from Danke.

Government grants corporate status with limited liability for the corporation officers. Take that away, and let the free market reign. See how many in management would then support policies and procedures in their companies that could bankrupt their families and put them in jail.

 

[Dr.3D]

Its a metal. How can it possibly help build strong bones?

Calcium is also a metal and a major material used in mineralization of bones and shells.

He probably was confusing Cesium with Calcium, both are metals, but one isn't radio active.

 

[Kylie]

Guess it's no longer a disaster.

It's been removed from the Emergency and Disaster website. This must have happened today.
It's been on there since the day it happened.

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?lang=

 

[Lucille]

http://www.fairewinds.com/updates

July 19, 2011
>
Hi, I'm Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds and it is Tuesday, July 19th. Today, I plan to talk about the condition of the reactors at Fukushima. And more importantly, the radiation that has been detected throughout Japan, not just on the site. And finally, I want to talk about a condition that the Japanese are beginning to call Black Rain.

The first thing is the condition of the site itself. All 3 Fukushima reactors that were running, I, II and III, and the fuel pool on Unit 4, continue to release radiation. Now, you do not see it in the day because the days are warm now, but you do see it at night. I have gotten many, many emails about this, where people think that the site is blowing up. In fact, it is steam coming out of these reactors and hitting cold air from the Pacific. So they continue to release radiation. But most of the radiation from Fukushima was released in March and in April. At this point, there is a lot less radiation every day than there was in March and April. About 90-95% of the radiation from Fukushima was released in the first 6 weeks of the accident. While it continues to release radiation, there is nowhere near as much on a daily basis. On the other hand, Fukushima may be continuing to release radiation for a long time...

 

[COpatriot]

The thread that wouldn't quit.

 

[Kylie]

No, it won't quit.


And it's back on the Emergency website.





And now...

Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, said it detected the highest radiation to date at the site. Geiger counters, used to detect radioactivity, registered more than 10 sieverts an hour, the highest reading the devices are able to record, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility, said today. The measurements were taken at the base of the main ventilation stack for reactors No. 1 and No. 2. The Fukushima plant, about 220 kilometers (137 miles) north of Tokyo, had three reactor meltdowns after the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami knocked out power and backup generators. Radiation leaks displaced 160,000 people and contaminated marine life and agricultural products. The utility, known as Tepco, tried to vent steam and gas the day after the earthquake as pressure in reactor No. 1 exceeded designed limits. A buildup of hydrogen gas subsequently caused an explosion that blew out part of the reactor building. "I suspect the high radiation quantity was an aftermath of venting done," Matsumoto told reporters in Tokyo. "The plant is not running. I don't think any gas with high radiation level is flowing in the stack." Tepco sent three workers around the ventilation stack today after a gamma camera detected high radioactivity levels in the area yesterday, Matsumoto said. The workers were exposed to as much as 4 millisieverts during the work, he said. The utility will create a no-go zone around the stack and cover the area with protective material, he said.

 

[osan]

Ticker on CNN just said that the radiation levels at Fukushima are the highest since the quake... whatever that means.

It was, however, something of surprising that it got even that much air time.