"Sea Radiation from Fukushima Seen Triple Tepco Estimate"

Good to have it confirmed. No surprises there. "Shutdown by January" - as if that's impressive.

So long, and sorry about the fish....

(with apologies to Douglas Adams)

How will this affect the West Coast of the US and will our seafood be routinely scanned for radiation?

Direct democracy

According to US Government sources, nothing that happens in Fukushima can possibly affect the United States. They are so certain of this that they stopped monitoring for radiation.

Independent researchers and laboratories have found significant contamination in grass, foodstuffs, animals, milk, etc., but the government says that doesn't count, is due to mis-measurement, etc.

I'm sure that it will not be too long before our seafood is contaminated, too. Remember, the ocean current that keeps us temperate flows north along Japan, then bends up near the Aleutians and comes down the North American coast.

But, what's a few billion becquerels when it comes to profits?

I suppose the next thing will be for the government and the nuclear shills to start saying, "Well, now that we are contaminated, a little more won't matter. Let's build more reactors, extend the life of the current ones and increase their output."

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It's really hard to know what to believe anymore, except that officials will lie to you. They lie to keep their paychecks and we accept the lies to keep ours. Meanwhile the world dies.

The article is double speak bullsh*t, almost every word. It's in the ground fools (officials), from the day it happened but no one bothered to say so. The quake did the damage not the wave. It's been absolutely critical ever since. I curse the industry. I guess none of these people have kids. No, they just have no respect for their kids or anyone else for that matter. They just want the power and to line their pockets...Not to mention 'nose in the air', pissy attitudes.

..but...but...but what would the MIT "expert" Josef Oehmen and the "experts" in the MIT nuclear engineering department say?

Oehmen is the guy who told us all there was nothing to worry about -- that there would be no significant radiation released to speak of.

And the MIT nuclear "experts" are the ones who neglected to even mention (in their report on Fukushima) the possible (indeed probable) damage to the cooling system from pipe breakage caused by the earthquake.

They attributed the cooling system failure to the power outage when the evidence actually indicates the failure occurred BEFORE the tsunami which flooded the backup generators.

MIT used to be a top notch university in physics and engineering.

Used to be.

Most tellingly of all, for the first time in its history, MIT has a President with no background in either physical science or engineering.

It shows.

This catastrophe is genocide, committed by the Owners of our society against all of us. And just like with Deepwater Horizon, they have plausible deniability. They dream of days, in the distant future, where their descendents thrive in a world flush with resources, and the benefits of nano-techology. It's only a matter of riding out this rough patch of peak oil, austerity, and the global wars to come. But that's what the bunkers in Patagonia are for!

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips

Here's the EPA site that monitors radiation around the US.

Enter the parameter, location and date range. Sometimes some dates are missing in the results though. Check for "Beta" in your location. That's the stuff in milk and water. Any reading under 50 is considered "normal".

https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/query.do

TEPCO offiicials say they may have it under control by January of 2012... They will not have it under control until the three melted down reactor's cores have stopped fission and no more poisons are emitted. How long? __ Years!

TEPCO is building steel containment building around the destroyed reactors. That will not stop radiation from entering the water table and the mile distant ocean waters' and the steel containment buildings would have to be totally air tight when completed... Hmmm?__ Only one of those steel buildings is currently under constructed at unit number one and they have a very long way to go.

TEPCO has hired an additional 20,000 laborors and they can work for 20 to 30 minutes at a time and after a few weeks cannot work there until a year passes. The workers wear (protective) white suits made of paper and good masks. The radiation readings outside of the suits is about 2 MsVs more than the radiaton inside of the "protective" suits. The workers are unaware of that unless they have meters, which they don't have... In other words, the "protective" suits are almost worthless.

After one use the suits are burned... The masks are heavy, hot and restrict normal breathing and so many of the workers just take them off now and then... Most of the men hired for security at the plant have just quit so there is little security there now. Those men decided the pay wasn't enough to cover their funeral expenses.

I wonder what happens when the highly trained and skilled construction workers', , crane operators, welders, electricians, pipe fitters, laboror foremen, engineers, have used up their alloted annual "safe" radiation contamination? Will there be enough skilled idiots in Japan who have a death wish to replace them?

The photos of the constuction of the steel building I have seen, there were no workers present... There was a large steel beam hanging high from a crane but no one in the crane's cab and no other workers in sight... Maybe it was Sunday, or tea time?

The deadly radioactive isotopes of cesium 134 and 137 which are arriving here and accumulating daily are "harmless". Our EPA officials and nuker shills' have said so. Those microsopic isotopes arrive here via the Jet Stream, so they obviously are able to travel in the air and can be picked up by wind currents and fly anywhere the wind takes them.

The deadly isotopes are not horribly hazardous, unless one should (inhale) any of the radioactive isotopes. Paper or cloth masks will not trap those microscopic isotopes.

Tell your children to hold their breath and don't drink any milk. Coconut or mother's milk is probably alright... My wife says there are enough nuts in our house so guess I'll try the mother's milk... But she is armed and considered to be dangerous.

"Tepco edged closer this week to its near-term goal of bringing the reactors to a state of cold shutdown by January, with the temperature at the second of three damaged units falling below boiling point."

If the core has melted through the containment vessel and the cement floor beneath it, and is melting its way down to the earth's core, wouldn't the temperature in the now empty reactor go down?

As the core goes through the layer of ocean fed groundwater, wouldn't the water become highly radioactive?

If so, doesn't the good news of falling reactor temperatures mean the situation is, once again, much worse that they are admitting?

And to think that there are still those who obstinately believe in the goodness of nuclear power. How many more Fukushimas have to happen before these people finally admit that their way of thinking is wrong and deadly?

According to E. Sternglass the dose response relationship describes a supralinear curve as opposed to the linear relationship our regulatory agencies tout . That is to say exposure to low level radiation is almost as bad as exposure to high levels. Once again, the U S will become the dumping ground for radioactive food as was the case after Chernobyl trashed eastern European farmlands. Radioactive preserves, cheeses, meats, wines were no longer consumed in aspiring second world countries, but were sold at 'bargain prices ' all across the U S . This time it will include lots of west coast products that we will be unable to export . Look for big jars of grape jelly at remarkable discounts. Also look for unusually large produce.