Fukushima: Find the corium? Maybe in a few thousand years or so
by Christina Consolo
Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of Nuked Radio
April 28, 2012
So another week or so has gone by since I wrote my first piece on Fukushima for End the Lie, and still no progress has been made at Fukushima, although they did throw a sheet over the spent fuel pool of Reactor #4.
They are talking about building a 100-foot long wall under the reactors and digging some wells on the property to deal with the radioactive water problem. For now, it just pours into the ocean, 24/7 and keeps steaming out of the ground after which it is carried into the air which then sends it blowing around the planet.
Of course none of the things Tepco did in the past week brought them any closer to containing, circumventing, repairing, or fixing the rickety structure that is Reactor #4 (see photos).
In the past thirteen months, a lot of what Tepco has done has failed miserably. For example, the machines brought in to “clean” the radioactive water kept breaking because the radiation is so high. The robots sent in the reactor buildings to assess the situation also kept breaking, because the radiation is so high. The drone they tried to fly over the site to take air measurements crashed into the roof of Reactor #2 last year, because the radiation is so high.
Humans can’t get near the reactors and/or corium either, because… yeah, you guessed it, the radiation is so high.
So, what is corium?
Corium is a lava-like molten mixture of portions of nuclear reactor core, formed during a nuclear meltdown, the most severe class of a nuclear reactor accident.
It consists of nuclear fuel, fission products, control rods, structural materials from the affected parts of the reactor, products of their chemical reaction with air, water and steam, and, in case the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room.
In the case of Fukushima, the corium melted out of the reactors, probably the first day. It has been estimated to be 30-40 ft under the reactors, although this topic has been extensively debated.
There are 3 corium blobs, between 100-150 tons in size, at a temperature of approximately 3000 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course no one really this precisely, since humans/robots/cameras can’t get near it without dying or breaking.
With our current level of technology, we should know in a few thousand years. With new, as of yet non-existent technology, we might know sooner.
In fact, all that Tepco has seemed to be able to do is to keep pouring tons and tons of water on everything and monitor the gauges they have left (which they just say are broken when they read too high). And of course lie, lie and lie some more about everything.
The lying part is actually something that the so-called “powers that be” surrounding nuclear accidents all seem to get right, probably because they have had some practice (i.e. Chernobyl, Three-Mile Island).
But when a nuclear accident like Fukushima happens, which has the potential to kill everyone on the planet, the lying just isn’t acceptable anymore.
In fact, there is a little thing called “Crimes Against Humanity,” usually reserved for the likes of evil dictators and lying degenerates who conduct mass murders.
The management of Tepco certainly qualifies for this designation, as well as certain government officials in Japan, Canada, the US, and Europe. The list keeps spreading like a nuke plant evacuation zone, enveloping not only government leaders but the groups and/or agencies below them.
You know, the ones created to “keep us safe.” In the US, the taxpayers fund these agencies and programs, buy their equipment (which they often end up giving to domestic law enforcement agencies when they get tired of it), and pay people to run it.
In fact, we also generously provide those people with top quality health care, dental, day care, travel, tuition reimbursement, vacation time and retirement. In some cases we continue many of these benefits for the rest of their lives after they work for one of these bureaucracies.
The corporate controlled mainstream media, which is supposed to report on important news that can affect our lives, also qualifies under the label just as Tepco does.
Their lack of attention to this is inexcusable. It is their job to investigate. This includes our beloved weather reporters, who should have been researching and reporting on the fallout and radiation levels in their forecasts, for the past 13 months (instead of a few concerned people on YouTube).
The research was already done for them by the Civil Defense in the 1960s, when we were worried about getting nuked from Russia during the Cold War. In a future article I will name names for the Fukushima Crimes Against Humanities List, but I’m going to need a lot of space, and I want to make sure I don’t leave anyone out.
So in the meantime, what do we do?
We have to talk about this. We have to circumvent these government officials, useless agencies, and corrupt corporations in order to do our own research. We must ignore the establishment media. We must make our health a priority. We must become citizen journalists. We must use our common sense. We must avoid exposure as much as possible.
We must mitigate against the harmful effects of radiation. We must document what is going on right now. We must take pictures of mutations. We must write, post, meet, and brainstorm.
We need every single person that cares about the future of humanity in our effort. If you can even do just one of these things, it will help. We must become the solution. And the solution is to help each other.
I see more potential for dealing with the radiation problems than I see for fixing our political and economical problems. Many of them don’t even seem solvable, unless we start with a clean slate.
But there will be no clean slate for Fukushima. It will require adaptation, at the very least. There has never been a nuclear accident even close to Fukushima’s severity. And for right now, it is a disaster with no end in sight, that at any moment could become a million times worse.
But if we work together to find solutions, and share love, caring and concern for our fellow man, then regardless of the outcome, it will be okay.
Geomagnetic monitoring and random event generators showed the outpouring of concern, sympathy, and empathy after 9/11 was the highest ever recorded worldwide. Do you believe in the Global Consciousness? Science has proven that it exists.
Einstein was continually perplexed by his observations, where electrons from the same organic matter, when separated, continued to react together without delay and without an observable, physical connection to each other.
This has yet to be thoroughly explained, and represents a serious puzzle amongst the physics community. There has never been a better opportunity to activate this, whatever it is, than right now.
Do you believe that one person can make a difference? We need to find that one person. We are in uncharted territory, and although much of this is outside of our control, you can control how you react to it. Knowledge is a powerful thing, even for the powerless. And so is love.
Just because our leaders are acting like evil degenerates doesn’t mean we have to follow their example. When faced with a global threat the likes of which have never been seen before, we need innovative and creative ways of dealing with it. Nuclear power may have been a mistake, but it will never be a mistake to care for one another.
Please send mutation images to christinax4@yahoo.com. Shoot at the highest resolution possible, and include your name, location, and date the mutation was found, for proper credit if the images are published. If it is from store-bought produce, include the location where it was grown and purchased. The more information you provide, the better you will be helping the rest of us.
Please help Christina purchase a spectrometer in order to get the most accurate radiation readings and thus get you the most precise information possible by shopping through her Amazon link or donate directly via PayPal to fukushimafacts@gmail.com. Keep in mind, this is expensive equipment and it is the only way that specific isotope readings can be obtained from food items.
Minor editing by Madison Ruppert
Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing; a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors, Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society; A peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography; She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmogy for the past 24 years; She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12-1:00 pm EST on the Orion Talk Radio Network.
For more info including mitigation for radiation exposure, please visit FukushimaFacts.com, where you can sign up to receive Fallout Forecasts on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Fukushima May Yet Wipe Out Life on Earth: An Interview with Prof. Tony Hall [video]
The Truther Girls
May 11, 2012
The Truther Professor returns to discuss Fukushima: how and why this plant was set up the way it was, why it was a disaster waiting to happen from the beginning, why it hasn’t been fixed, and why it poses a catastrophic threat to humanity and all life on earth. Anthony Hall is a professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.
To read his article on Fukushima, which was published last year only weeks after the Fukushima disaster began, go here:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/28/from-hiroshima-to-fukushima-1945-2011/
To read his articles on election fraud, see these links:
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/05/fixing-elections-through-fraud/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/08/election-fraud-media-deception-and-th…
End the Lie Radio with Madison Ruppert – Episode 15 [audio]
End the Lie Radio with Madison Ruppert – Episode 15
May 7, 2012
End the Lie Radio with guest host, Jules sitting in for Madison Ruppert and special guest, Christina Consolo aka RadChick discussing Fukushima and the dangers of spent fuel pool 4, sheltering in place, preparing emergency food and water rations, building a fallout shelter and how you can begin to prepare mentally and physically to save your loved ones if spent fuel pool 4 collapses.
Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing, a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors of the Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society, a peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography. She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmology for the past 24 years. She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12:00 -1:00 PM EST on the OrionTalkRadio.com.
Christina’s article on EndtheLie.com – Which will collapse first, the economy or the spent fuel pool at Fukushima? – http://EndtheLie.com/2012/05/06/which-will-collapse-first-the-economy-or-the-…
For more Fukushima information, visit http://FukushimaFacts.com
Please help Christina purchase a spectrometer in order to get the most accurate radiation readings and thus get you the most precise information possible by shopping through her Amazon link or donate directly via PayPal to fukushimafacts@gmail.com. Keep in mind, this is expensive equipment and it is the only way that specific isotope readings can be obtained from food items.
FALLOUT FORECAST & SUNSPOT ALERT 5.09.2012 [audio]
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Depleted Uranium Contamination: A Crime against Humanity
by Dr. Arun Shrivastava
Global Research
March 26, 2012
This article is part of a longer essay on Depleted Uranium weapons, nuclear reactors and their environmental health impacts.
In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed. Afpak region is being bombed daily and the cold blooded murder of nine kids out of the seventeen killed is just a small blip when billions are done in.
The world needs a public trial of political leaders for war crimes and genocide.
Depleted Uranium or DU [1] encased bombs that have been used since 1991 by US and NATO forces knowing well that the use of DU weapons is illegal being weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and amounts to War Crimes. These weapons were used in Gulf War 1 against Iraq, then in the Balkans and later, after 9/11 events, in Afghanistan, Iraq, North Africa, Libya and now being used in Drone bombings in Pakistan.
“When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away.”Fidel Castro Ruz – March 21, 2012
Which will collapse first, the economy or the spent fuel pool at Fukushima?
by Christina Consolo
Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of Nuked Radio
May 6, 2012
It’s been two weeks since I wrote my first piece for End the Lie about Fukushima being a possible mass extinction event, and still no progress to report.
[Editor’s note: it is worth pointing out that the attention Christina’s article received was unprecedented in the history of End the Lie.]
Although, there was a somewhat promising appeal made on April 30, when seventy-two Japanese Non-Governmental Organizations sent an urgent request to the United Nations and Japanese government urging immediate action to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel. The letter was also endorsed by numerous nuclear experts.
The letter warned the UN and Japanese government that if an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain, a catastrophic radiological fire could ensue.
The letter urged the United Nations to organize a Nuclear Security Summit to take up the crucial problem.
The letter stated that the United Nations should establish an independent assessment team, and coordinate international assistance to stabilize reactor 4′s spent fuel pool in order to prevent a radiological release with potentially catastrophic consequences.
Letters were sent to both UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the latter asking that Japan ask immediately for the UN’s help.
So that’s good news.
Now, we just have to wait for the UN to have a meeting about it, form some committees, investigate, send a team to Japan, schedule another meeting, go over the committee results, then maybe form some more committees, go over more results, then send a response, and then finally implement a plan of action, if that is what they even decide to do in the end.
And of course all that is dependent on if the spent fuel pool hasn’t fractured, fallen, caught fire, or exploded by then.
For a “downwinder” of a spent fuel pool fire or explosion and large scale radiological release (or in the case of Fukushima, a “northern hemisphere resident”) you will need anywhere from 2 weeks to a 2 year supply of food, water, toiletries, medications, diapers, pet food, and a designated area for pets to go to the bathroom inside your shelter, among many other things.
The amount of time spent sheltering in will vary greatly on a wide array of variables, such as, how long it takes to put the nuclear fuel fire out, or burn itself out.
That being said, nuclear fuel is essentially “a fire that never stops burning.”
Don’t worry about stockpiling gas, you won’t be going anywhere. That is of course if you lack the financial resources to leave everything behind and bug out to the southern hemisphere.
It may be advisable to have weapons in case your neighbors run out of supplies, and want yours.
So essentially, you will need all the same things you would for a collapse of the economy, it’s just that you won’t be able to go outside.
As a downwinder, one of the only differences in your “shelter” will be the further down you go into the ground, the better off you will be due to gamma rays.
And speaking of gamma rays, in Arnie Gundersen’s recent interview with KGO Radio, he said in regards to spent fuel pool 4:
Gamma rays inside reactor 2
“Let’s assume that it didn’t fall, but went dry a hundred feet in the air, it would be a beacon, but instead of a beacon of light, it would be a beacon of radiation, and bathe the site in high levels of radiation. That’s not something that you want because it would make work on other units darn near impossible…The gamma rays, forget the particles that get caught in your lungs, but the gamma rays would go up and bounce off air molecules and come down as a shine of radiation over the site, and it would go right through those suits and the guys would be exposed from the ‘sky shine’ …”
So let’s talk about that for a minute.
When I wrote my first piece for End the Lie “Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?” I withheld some important information. Sort of like Tepco always does. They feed you little bits of information here and there, because they knew you couldn’t take it all at once.
The real danger with this precarious spent fuel pool situation is not just the spent fuel pool in reactor 4. It’s all the reactors, and all the spent fuel pools, including the granddaddy common spent fuel pool which is only about 50 meters from reactor 4.
If the spent fuel pool goes up, the radiation release would be so high that the workers would have to abandon the site, which means no one is holding the hoses watering down everything and keeping it from going up in one giant fire or explosion or radioactive cloud of death.
If the wind blows south to the Daini Plant, they would have to abandon that site. If blows north to Onagawa, they would have to abandon that site, and so on and so on.
Need some verification of this?
Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident.
Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4.
In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel. Indeed, they are open to the air, which is quite dangerous.
This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced.
He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries.
Ambassador Murata informed us that the total number of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421 (396+615+566+1,535+994+940+6375).
As the eminent German physicist Dr. Hans-Peter Durr said ten months ago, if the spent fuel pool spills, we will be in a situation where science never imagined we could be.
And Former U.N. adviser Akio Matsumura – whose praises have been sung by Mikhail Gorbachev, was told that if the fuel pool at unit 4 collapses or the water spills out, so much radiation will spew out for 50 years that no one will be able to approach Fukushima.
It gets, if you can believe it, just a little worse. Because you see, if no one in the path of this plume can leave their houses, or go to school, or go to work and of course some of us work – you guessed it – at nuclear plants in the United States and in Canada and in Europe.
Well, I’m sure you can see where that is heading.
The other option is, that our wonderful sources of nuclear power could all be shut down in advance, which means you’d be smart to add all the items you could possibly need for 2 weeks to 2 years without electricity to your supply list.
Or, make a reservation at your friendly neighborhood FEMA camp instead. This is the reality of our choice to let nuclear power into our lives. And you thought we were FUBAR just from the one little spent fuel pool?
Albert Einstein said that nuclear power would eventually kill its users. It appears Einstein was right again.
Whatever sense of urgency you had about this situation in the past few weeks, multiply that by 104 or so, if not more.
Call, post, email, protest, and do whatever it takes to get someone to listen.
In the meantime mitigate for radiation exposure, and keep sending pictures of mutated flowers, trees, fruit, and vegetables.
Economic collapse would be a walk in the park in comparison to what humanity is facing with Fukushima. At least, you could have one there if you wanted to. Just don’t pick the mutated dandelions.
Please send mutation images to christinax4@yahoo.com. Shoot at the highest resolution possible, and include your name, location, and date the mutation was found, for proper credit if the images are published. If it is from store-bought produce, include the location where it was grown and purchased. The more information you provide, the better you will be helping the rest of us.
Please help Christina purchase a spectrometer in order to get the most accurate radiation readings and thus get you the most precise information possible by shopping through her Amazon link or donate directly via PayPal to fukushimafacts@gmail.com. Keep in mind, this is expensive equipment and it is the only way that specific isotope readings can be obtained from food items.
Minor editing by Madison Ruppert
Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing; a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors, Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society; A peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography; She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmogy for the past 24 years; She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12-1:00 pm EST on the Orion Talk Radio Network.
For more info including mitigation for radiation exposure, please visit FukushimaFacts.com, where you can sign up to receive Fallout Forecasts on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Source – http://endthelie.com/2012/05/06/which-will-collapse-first-the-economy-or-the-spent-fuel-pool-at-fukushima/
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