The World Must Take Charge at Fukushima

[zorgon]

The Nuclear Disaster America Wants You To Forget[/center]

Appears I don't have a page on that one yet...

[ArMaP]

Deleted or inaccessible... result is the same

Yes, the result is the same, the intention is not.

Can they not just split the thread like we do here?

No.

[zorgon]

Here is what I have so far on Fukushima...  Not in order..

Canadians return from Japan relieved, exhausted
CBC Toronto News Posted: Mar 13, 2011 5:26 PM ET

David Ayotte confirms reactor #1 lost containment BEFORE the tsunami hit. It cracked open and fuel was exposed. He and crew got out BEFORE the Tsunami hit  so there was NEVER any containment

"We were evacuated on Friday morning because they lost cooling in the core," said Ayotte. "There's about four feet of fuel exposed. Sendai, that town is just gone."

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41earth_sciences/03files/Fukushima_Melt_Down.html#Canadians


And this:

Naoto KAN, Former Prime Minister of Japan
Apology and Explanation

Full admission that all three reactors were in meltdown just 8 HOURS after the quake

[zorgon]

THIS is the work page from the Fukushima thread att ATS  I have lots more but this was as far as I got. I had intended to use that ATS thread to put it in chronological order and there were some important posts from othere working that thread... All I have is mine and Thor's stuff

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Endangered_Earth_Japan_Nuclear_Emergency_2011_01.html

As for the quake and Tsunami that was at the start of that thread I do have a lot

Japan 2011
   Subduction Zones - Japan
   Japan's Tsunami: How It Happened (1 of 5)
   Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis
   Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis -By Kevin Voigt, CNN
   The 2011 Japan Tsunami Was Caused By Largest Fault Slip Ever Recorded
Earthquake 9.0 and Tsunami
   Quake Moved Japan Coast 8 feet; Shifted Earth's Axis - March 12, 2011
   Article and Video Links
   The Human Side
   Huge Blast at Japan Nuclear Power Plant #1
   Thousands undergo radioactive screening after explosion in nuclear power station
   Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
   Earth Quake, Honshu, Japan 9.0
   Shinmoedake Erupts - January 31, 2011
   Russia's Zhirinovsky calls on Japanese to move to Russia
   Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant Reactor #3 explosion - March 14, 2011

Still have to check all those

[zorgon]

Found ONE old post from ATS so far  Its an early one and important info in it. The links are intact on the webpage... din't take time to paste them all

March 14th, 2011
Originally posted by okiecowboy ATS Post ID 10805818

Ok I am not as good providing well written and explained posts as Zorgon or TheRedneck so bear with me..

The Big picture as I see it

I am going to ignore the reactors themselves for a bit and talk about the storage of the spent fuel rods and possible fire of same...

In Japan the spent fuel rods are stored mainly at the plant, with a portion sent to another plant to reprocess... without posting the diagrams that have been posted many times before... spent fuel is stored within the reactor building in a swimming pool-like concrete structure near the top of the reactor vessel.

    This spent fuel must be kept underwater to prevent severe releases of radioactivity, among other reasons. A meltdown or even a fire could occur if there is a loss of coolant from the spent fuel pool. The water in the spent fuel pool and the roof of the reactor building are the main barriers to release of radioactivity from the spent fuel pool.
    Source

Notice it said water and the roof are the main barriers...we have plants missing the roof and lack of water has been mentioned many times. Now the reason for the missing roof has been explained as a hydrogen build up due to venting from the steam to release pressure in the reactor.

    Hydrogen is generated in a nuclear reactor if the fuel in the reactor loses its cover of cooling water. The tubes that contain the fuel pellets are made of a zirconium alloy. Zirconium reacts with steam to produce zirconium oxide and hydrogen gas. Moreover, the reaction is exothermic – that is, it releases a great deal of heat, and hence creates a positive feedback that aggravates the problem and raises the temperature.
    The same phenomenon can occur in a spent fuel pool in case of a loss of cooling water.
    Source

So how much fuel are we talking here. it's hard to get the exact number but;

    The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods.  Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings.  One "common pool" is at ground level in a separate building.  Each "reactor top" pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies.  The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies.  [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.]  Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods.  This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods
    Source

and;

    Japanese commercial nuclear power plants began operation in 1970. Currently there are 53 nuclear power plants in operation. To date close to 20,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel has been generated by Japan's nuclear power program

    The quantity of fission products (spent nuclear fuel) produced each year at a full-sized commercial nuclear power plants is massive. A total of approximately 50,000 times the fission products of the Hiroshima bomb are created by Japanese nuclear power plants each year, and this for the most part is cumulative, in other words the material remains radioactive. Most of this waste is being temporarily stored at nuclear power plant sites and must remain segregated from the natural environment
    Source

Starting to get a warm fuzzy feeling yet? Now remember one of these reactors is using MOX fuel. which has been explained several times... Mox is a fuel that contains plutonium. Okay so what if we have a spent fuel fire, how bad can it be? Well this type of thing has been studied before, just not in Japan. We have some U.S. studies we will use;

    If a fire were to break out at the Millstone Reactor Unit 3 spent fuel pond in Connecticut, it would result in a three-fold increase in background exposures. This level triggers the NRC's evacuation requirement, and could render about 29,000 square miles of land , according to Thompson. Connecticut covers only about 5,000 square miles; an accident at Millstone could severely affect Long Island and even New York City

    A 1997 report for the NRC by Brookhaven National Laboratory also found that a severe pool fire could render about 188 square miles uninhabitable, cause as many as 28,000 cancer fatalities, and cost $59 billion in damage. (The Brookhaven study relied on a different standard of uninhabitability than Thompson.) While estimates vary, "the use of a little imagination," says Thompson, "shows that a pool fire would be a regional and national disaster of historic proportions."
    Source

Also from the same article;

    Several events could cause a loss of pool water, including leakage, evaporation, siphoning, pumping, aircraft impact, earthquake, accidental or deliberate drop of a fuel transport cask, reactor failure, or an explosion inside or outside the pool building. Industry officials maintain that personnel would have sufficient time to provide an alternative cooling system before the spent fuel caught fire. But if the water level dropped to just a few feet above the spent fuel, the radiation doses in the pool building would be lethal.
    Source

Again this study did not factor in MOX fuel and another article says;

    The consequences of severe spent fuel pool accidents at closed U.S. reactors were studied by the Brookhaven National Laboratory in a 1997 report prepared for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. According to the results, the damages resulting from such accidents for U.S. Boiling Water Reactors could range from $700 million to $546 billion, which would be between roughly $900 million and $700 billion in today's dollars. The lower figures would apply if there were just one old spent fuel set present in the pool to a full pool in which the spent fuel has been re-racked to maximize storage. Other variables would be whether there was any freshly discharged spent fuel in the pool, which would greatly increase the radioactivity releases. The estimated latent cancer deaths over the years and decades following the accident was estimated at between 1,300 and 31,900 within 50 kilometers (30 miles) of the plant and between 1,900 and 138,000 within a radius of 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the plant.

    The range of consequences in Japan would be somewhat different from those outlined in the Brookhaven report, since the consequences depend on population density within 50 and 500 kilometers of the plant, the re-racking policy, and several other variables. It should also be noted that Daiichi Unit 1 is about half the power rating of most U.S. reactors, so that the amount of radioactivity in the pool would be about half the typical amount, all other things being equal. But the Brookhaven study can be taken as a general indicator that the scale of the damage could be vast in the most severe case.
    Source

So what if we have a spent fuel fire at plant number one?

    "That would be like Chernobyl on steroids," said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1
    Washington Post

So let's pretend for a minute it does happen... and let's pick a number from the above listed report of 1000 square miles  ( report said up to 29,000 miles... I went with a lower figure just cuz) Now to me uninhabitable means... Not Habitable ..ie.. get the heck out.. so a wide area becomes a ghost town.

But wait a minute... we have important things in that area that have to be tended to and monitered right? Another nuke plant nearby right? And a plant at Onagwa that is already showing trouble... we can's just up and leave. Anyone remember the Tokai plant? It is a small reconversion plant with a little fame already.

    The Tokaimura nuclear accident (東海村JCO臨界事故, Tōkai-mura JCO-rinkai-jiko?, "Tōkai Village JCO Criticality Accident") was at the time Japan's worst civilian nuclear radiation accident. It took place on 30 September 1999 at a uranium reprocessing facility located in the village of Tōkai, Naka District, Ibaraki. The accident occurred in a very small fuel preparation plant operated by JCO (formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co.), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co
    Wikipedia

Remember all that MOX fuel we talked about before, that may or may not be in storage at the plant? Well within a not so far area of the plant that may or may not be dumping radiation out is Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant;

    The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (六ヶ所村核燃料再処理施設, Rokkasho Kakunenryō Saishori Shisetsu?) is a nuclear reprocessing plant with an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium or 8 tons of plutonium
    Wikipedia

    Rokkasho-mura has the world largest cooling pool (Fig. 4). Spent nuclear fuel transported to the reprocessing plant is stored here and it is ultimately expected to hold 3000 tons of spent fuel
    Source

Rokkasho has a Spent fuel storage pool that has already had trouble in the past;

    Other safety problems have plagued Rokkasho. Last year, the cooling system of its spent nuclear fuel storage pool temporarily failed. The ventilation system in the fuel storage building had problems. Last month, the fuel pool, which at that point contained more than 1,000 nuclear fuel assemblies, leaked coolant from a loose valve; it took workers more than 15 hours to identify and fix the problem
    Source

Does this sound like a area people can just up and walk away from? And this is just a partial list of man power critical list. So as this story unfolds and the evacuation zones keep expanding, think about what people may have to walk away from.

[zorgon]

THIS ONE I had to dig up from Wayback machine

Fukushima was found DEFECTIVE in JULY 2001

https://web.archive.org/web/20110317152430/http://www2.jnes.go.jp/atom-db/en/trouble/individ/power/g/g20010706/index.html

[zorgon]

June 21, 2016, 8:28 AM
Fukushima meltdown apology: "It was a cover-up"

TOKYO -- The utility that ran the Fukushima nuclear plant acknowledged Tuesday its delayed disclosure of the meltdowns at three reactorswas tantamount to a cover-up and apologized for it.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose's apology followed the revelation last week that an investigation had found Hirose's predecessor instructed officials during the 2011 disaster to avoid using the word "meltdown."

"I would say it was a cover-up," Hirose told a news conference. "It's extremely regrettable."

Japanese woman breaks silence on Fukushima-related cancer
TEPCO instead described the reactors' condition as less serious "core damage" for two months after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, wrecked the plant, even though utility officials knew and computer simulations suggested meltdowns had occurred.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fukushima-tepco-power-japan-nuclear-meltdown-apologizes-cover-up/

[The Seeker]

 AP June 7, 2016, 5:46 AM
Japanese woman breaks silence on Fukushima-related cancer

KORIYAMA, Japan -- She's 21, has thyroid cancer, and wants people in her prefecture in northeastern Japan to get screened for it. That statement might not seem provocative, but her prefecture is Fukushima, and of the 173 young people with confirmed or suspected cases since the 2011 nuclear meltdowns there, she is the first to speak out.

That near-silence highlights the fear Fukushima thyroid-cancer patients have about being the "nail that sticks out," and thus getting hammered.

The thyroid-cancer rate in the northern Japanese prefecture is many times higher than what is generally found, particularly among children, but the Japanese government says more cases are popping up because of rigorous screening, not the radiation that spewed from Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.

To be seen as challenging that view carries consequences in this rigidly harmony-oriented society. Even just having cancer that might be related to radiation carries a stigma in the only country to be hit with atomic bombs.

"There aren't many people like me who will openly speak out," said the young woman, who requested anonymity because of fears about harassment. "That's why I'm speaking out so others can feel the same. I can speak out because I'm the kind of person who believes things will be OK."

She has a quick disarming smile and silky black hair. She wears flip-flops. She speaks passionately about her new job as a nursery school teacher. But she also has deep fears: Will she be able to get married? Will her children be healthy?

She suffers from the only disease that the medical community, including the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, has acknowledged is clearly related to the radioactive iodine that spewed into the surrounding areas after the only nuclear disaster worse than Fukushima's, the 1986 explosion and fire at Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Though international reviews of Fukushima have predicted that cancer rates will not rise as a result of the meltdowns there, some researchers believe the prefecture's high thyroid-cancer rate is related to the accident.

The government has ordered medical testing of the 380,000 people who were 18 years or under and in Fukushima prefecture at the time of the March 2011 tsunami and quake that sank three reactors into meltdowns. About 38 percent have yet to be screened, and the number is a whopping 75 percent for those who are now between the ages of 18 and 21.

The young woman said she came forward because she wants to help other patients, especially children, who may be afraid and confused. She doesn't know whether her sickness was caused by the nuclear accident, but plans to get checked for other possible sicknesses, such as uterine cancer, just to be safe.

"I want everyone, all the children, to go to the hospital and get screened. They think it's too much trouble, and there are no risks, and they don't go," the woman said in a recent interview in Fukushima. "My cancer was detected early, and I learned that was important."

Thyroid cancer is among the most curable cancers, though some patients need medication for the rest of their lives, and all need regular checkups.

The young woman had one cancerous thyroid removed, and does not need medication except for painkillers. But she has become prone to hormonal imbalance and gets tired more easily. She used to be a star athlete, and snowboarding remains a hobby.

A barely discernible tiny scar is on her neck, like a pale kiss mark or scratch. She was hospitalized for nearly two weeks, but she was itching to get out. It really hurt then, but there is no pain now, she said with a smile.

"My ability to bounce right back is my trademark," she said. "I'm always able to keep going."

She was mainly worried about her parents, especially her mother, who cried when she found out her daughter had cancer. Her two older siblings also were screened but were fine.

Many Japanese have deep fears about genetic abnormalities caused by radiation. Many, especially older people, assume all cancers are fatal, and even the young woman did herself until her doctors explained her sickness to her.

The young woman said her former boyfriend's family had expressed reservations about their relationship because of her sickness. She has a new boyfriend now, a member of Japan's military, and he understands about her sickness, she said happily.

A support group for thyroid cancer patients was set up earlier this year. The group, which includes lawyers and medical doctors, has refused all media requests for interviews with the handful of families that have joined, saying that kind of attention may be dangerous.

When the group held a news conference in Tokyo in March, it connected by live video feed with two fathers with children with thyroid cancer, but their faces were not shown, to disguise their identities. They criticized the treatment their children received and said they're not certain the government is right in saying the cancer and the nuclear meltdowns are unrelated.

Hiroyuki Kawai, a lawyer who also advises the group, believes patients should file Japan's equivalent of a class-action lawsuit, demanding compensation, but he acknowledged more time will be needed for any legal action.

"The patients are divided. They need to unite, and they need to talk with each other," he told AP in a recent interview.

The committee of doctors and other experts carrying out the screening of youngsters in Fukushima for thyroid cancer periodically update the numbers of cases found, and they have been steadily climbing.

In a news conference this week, they stuck to the view the cases weren't related to radiation. Most disturbing was a cancer found in a child who was just 5 years old in 2011, the youngest case found so far. But the experts brushed it off, saying one wasn't a significant number.

"It is hard to think there is any relationship," with radiation, said Hokuto Hoshi, a medical doctor who heads the committee.

Shinsyuu Hida, a photographer from Fukushima and an adviser to the patients' group, said fears are great not only about speaking out but also about cancer and radiation.

He said that when a little girl who lives in Fukushima once asked him if she would ever be able to get married, because of the stigma attached to radiation, he was lost for an answer and wept afterward.

"They feel alone. They can't even tell their relatives," Hida said of the patients. "They feel they can't tell anyone. They felt they were not allowed to ask questions."

The woman who spoke to AP also expressed her views on video for a film in the works by independent American filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash.

She counts herself lucky. About 18,000 people were killed in the tsunami, and many more lost their homes to the natural disaster and the subsequent nuclear accident, but her family's home was unscathed.

When asked how she feels about nuclear power, she replied quietly that Japan doesn't need nuclear plants. Without them, she added, maybe she would not have gotten sick.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/japan-fukushima-thyroid-cancer-patient-is-first-to-speak-out/&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1531572699789000&usg=AFQjCNFS6kALZf7t7Ii4BDkN4JLMLqHS5Q

[zorgon]

It occurs to me that there really isn't a lot of point pulling up ALL the old Fukushima material as most orf it was stuff happening at the moments and updates to status where continous.

Since TEPCO was lying to its own Government and had no admitted that,  most of what was published at the time was conjecture and expert guesses from outside  as there was little real info to be had,

TEPCO would say one thing, but photos showed the opposite.  So its only a matter of collecting key information for historical purposes.

There is ONE I found in the pile I have been sorting through that is very important. It's from Reuters... pretty much covers everything really.

ENERGY & OIL NEWS  MARCH 29, 2011 / 8:38 PM / 7 YEARS AGO
CORRECTED-SPECIAL REPORT-Japan engineers knew tsunami could overwhelm Fukushima plant
Reuters Staff

Diesel pumps at No. 2 ran out of fuel, allowing water levels to fall and fuel to become exposed and overheat. When the Fukushima plant suffered its second hydrogen blast in three days the following Monday, Tokyo electric executives only notified the prime minister's office an hour later. Seven workers had been injured in the explosion along with four soldiers.

An enraged Prime Minister Naoto Kan pulled up to Tokyo Electric's headquarters the next morning before dawn. "What the hell is going on?" reporters outside the closed-door discussion reported hearing Kan demand angrily of senior executives.

Errors of judgment by workers in the hot zone and errors of calculation by plant managers hampered the emergency response a full week later as some 600 soldiers and workers struggled to contain the spread of radiation.

On Thursday, two workers at Fukushima were shuttled to the hospital to be treated for potential radiation burns after wading in water in the turbine building of reactor No. 3. The workers had ignored their radiation alarms thinking they were broken.

Then Tokyo electric officials pulled workers back from an effort to pump water out of the No. 2 reactor and reported that radiation readings were 10 million times normal. They later apologized, saying that reading was wrong. The actual reading was still 100,000 times normal, Tokyo Electric said.

The government's chief spokesman was withering in his assessment. "The radiation readings are an important part of a number of important steps we're taking to protect safety," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters. "There is no excuse for getting them wrong."   

VENTS AND GAUGES
Although U.S. nuclear plant operators were required to install "hardened" vent systems in the 1980s after the Three Mile Island incident, Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission rejected the need to require such systems in 1992, saying that should be left to the plant operators to decide.

A nuclear power plant's vent represents one of the last resorts for operators struggling to keep a reactor from pressure that could to blow the building that houses it apart and spread radiation, which is what happened at Chernobyl 25 years ago. A hardened vent in a U.S. plant is designed to behave like the barrel on a rifle, strong enough to withstand an explosive force from within.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded in the late 1980s that the General Electric designed Mark I reactors, like those used at Fukushima, required safety modifications.

The risks they flagged, and that Tokyo did not heed, would come back to haunt Japan in the Fukushima crisis.

First, U.S. researchers concluded that a loss of power at one of the nuclear plants would be one of the "dominant contributors" to the most severe accidents. Flooding of the reactor building would worsen the risks. The NRC also required U.S. plants to install "hard pipe" after concluding the sheet-metal ducts used in Japan could make things much worse.

"Venting via a sheet metal duct system could result in a reactor building hydrogen burn," researchers said in a report published in November 1988.

In the current crisis, the failure of the more vulnerable duct vents in Fukushima's No. 1 and No. 3 reactors may have contributed to the hydrogen explosions that blew the roof off the first and left the second a tangled hulk of steel beams in the first three days of the crisis.

The plant vents, which connect to the big smokestack-like towers, appear to have been damaged in the quake or the tsunami, one NISA official said.

Even without damage, opening the vulnerable vents in the presence of a build-up of hydrogen gas was a known danger. In the case of Fukushima, opening the vents to relieve pressure was like turning on an acetylene torch and then watching the flame "shoot back into the fuel tank," said one expert with knowledge of Fukushima who asked not to be identified because of his commercial ties in Japan.

Tokyo Electric began venting the No. 1 reactor on March 12 just after 10 a.m. An hour earlier the pressure in the reactor was twice its designed limit. Six hours later the reactor exploded.

The same pattern held with reactor No. 3. Venting to relieve a dangerous build-up of pressure in the reactor began on March 13. A day later, the outer building - a concrete and steel shell known as the "secondary containment" — exploded.

Toshiaki Sakai, the Tokyo Electric researcher who worked on tsunami risk, also sat on a panel in 2008 that reviewed the damage to the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. In that case, Tokyo Electric safely shut down the plant, which survived a quake 2.5 times stronger than it had been designed to handle.

Sakai and the other panelists agreed that despite the successful outcome the way the ground sank and broke underground pipes needed for firefighting equipment had to be considered "a failure to fulfill expected performance".

Japanese regulators also knew a major earthquake could damage exhaust ducts. A September 2007 review of damage at the same Tokyo Electric nuclear plant by NISA Deputy Director Akira Fukushima showed two spots where the exhaust ducts had broken.

No new standard was put in place requiring vents to be shored up against potential damage, records show.

Masashi Goto, a former nuclear engineer who has turned critical of the industry, said he believed Tokyo Electric and regulators wrongly focused on the parts of the plant that performed well in the 2007 quake, rather than the weaknesses it exposed. "I think they drew the wrong lesson," Goto said.

The March 11 quake not only damaged the vents but also the gauges in the Fukushima Daiichi complex, which meant that Tokyo Electric was without much of the instrumentation it needed to assess the situation on the ground during the crisis.

"The data we're getting is very sketchy and makes it impossible for us to do the analysis," said David Lochbaum, a nuclear expert and analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "It's hard to connect the dots when there are so few dots."

In fact, Japan's NSC had concluded in 1992 that it was important for nuclear plant operators to have access to key gauges and instruments even in the kind of crisis that had not happened then. But it left plans on how to implement that policy entirely to the plant operators.

In the Fukushima accident, most meters and gauges were taken out by the loss of power in the early days of the crisis.

That left a pair of workers in a white Prius to race into the plant to get radiation readings with a handheld device in the early days of the crisis, according to Tokyo Electric.

They could have used robots to go in.

Immediately after the tsunami, a French firm with nuclear expertise shipped robots for use in Fukushima, a European nuclear expert said. The robots are built to withstand high radiation.

But Japan, arguably the country with the most advanced robotics industry, stopped them from arriving in Fukishima, saying such help could only come through government channels, said the expert who asked not to be identified so as not to appear critical of Japan in a moment of crisis.   (Scott DiSavino was reporting from New York; Additional reporting by Kentaro Sugiayama in Tokyo, Bernie Woodall in Detroit, Eileen O'Grady in New York, Roberta Rampton in Washington; Editing by Bill Tarrant)


https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN1K31JP-OZATP?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

[zorgon]

There is also THIS...

A point paragraph format record of all that happened:

Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log

Done by these guys



This is from Day one March 11, 2011  to June 2o11  the early months

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/fukushima-nuclear-accident-update-log-51

[thorfourwinds]

Atomic Wounds

At 89, Doctor Hida, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima, continues to care for some of the other quarter of a million survivors. « Atomic Wounds » retraces the journey of this charismatic and committed man and draws attention to the lessons that still need to be learned 60 years after Hiroshima and 20 years after Chernobyl.

Using rarely seen archival footage, « Atomic wounds » shows the existence of ABCC, a laboratory that was set up in 1946 by American scientists on the spot of the disaster, to study the effects of the bomb on thousands of survivors.

Dr Hida then travels to the United Nations in order to have the real medical consequences of the bomb officially recognized, as they had been denied by both the American and Japanese governments.

The film shows how the terrible danger of radiation was minimized by successive American administrations in the 50's - 70's so that nuclear power be freely developed, with no concern for public health.

[thorfourwinds]

Greetings:

This will/might make you think. 



Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is A Mass Extinction Event Can We Survive

Published on May 23, 2018

[thorfourwinds]

"In the future, the consequences of nuclear energy will be devastating.
The atrocities of Stalin and Hitler will completely fade against them."

Dr. Wladimir Tschernoussenko
(Scientific director for the clean up work in Chernobyl, who died of multiple cancers)


https://www7.tepco.co.jp/responsibility/decommissioning/index-e.html
Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Project

"TEPCO is doing everything in its power to fulfill our responsibilities in regards to the Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning work." 


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110407121343.htm
Fukushima-related radioactive materials measured across entire Northern Hemisphere

April 7, 2011
Source:
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty Organization

Summary:
Since the double disaster of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that affected hundreds of thousands of people and seriously damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in Japan on 11 March 2011, minute traces of radioactive emissions from Fukushima have spread across the entire Northern Hemisphere. A monitoring network designed to detect signs of nuclear explosions picked up these traces from the stricken power plant. To date, more than 30 radionuclide stations that are part of the International Monitoring System have provided information on the spread of radioactive particles and noble gases from the Fukushima accident.

Dispersion of radioactivity after the damage to the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in Japan on 11 March 2011.
Credit: German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources


http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/library/archive-e.html?video_uuid=sv84l484&catid=6179
Fuel Removal Roof Cover Installation on Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi

TEPCO Press Release
15 October 2015


http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=15146
WHOI Erases Fukushima Pacific Contamination Data

Nancy Foust/SimplyInfo.org
November 10, 2015

The Woods Hole "Our Radioactive Ocean" project has erased years of Fukushima Pacific contamination data from their website. The website originally contained data from their 2011 monitoring voyage and data for each year up to 2015.

As of today the website only contains data for 2013-2014 with some of the 2013 data near Hawaii now missing.


https://www7.tepco.co.jp/responsibility/decommissioning/action/spent_fuel/unit3-e.html
Unit 3 Fuel Removal Work

Jan 18, 2016
TEPCO Press Release

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171002161251.htm
New source of radioactivity from Fukushima disaster

October 2, 2017
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Scientists have found a previously unsuspected place where radioactive material from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster has accumulated -- in sands and brackish groundwater beneath beaches up to 60 miles away.

The sands took up and retained radioactive cesium originating from the disaster in 2011 and have been slowly releasing it back to the ocean.

The new study revealed a previously unsuspected pathway for radioactive material to be transported, stored for years, and subsequently released far from the site where it was initially discharged.

[...]

"No one expected that the highest levels of cesium in ocean water today would be found not in the harbor of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, but in the groundwater many miles away below the beach sands," said Sanial.
[...]

Cesium has a long half-life and persists in the environment. In their analyses of the beaches, the scientists detected not only cesium-137, which may have come from the Dai-ichi plant or from nuclear weapons tested in the 1950s and1960s, but also cesium-134, a radioactive form of cesium that can only come only from the 2011 Fukushima accident.

The researchers also conducted experiments on Japanese beach samples in the lab to demonstrate that cesium did indeed "stick" to sand grains and then lost their "stickiness" when they were flushed with salt water.

"It is as if the sands acted as a 'sponge' that was contaminated in 2011 and is only slowly being depleted," said Buesseler.

"Only time will slowly remove the cesium from the sands as it naturally decays away and is washed out by seawater," said Sanial.

"There are 440 operational nuclear reactors in the world, with approximately one-half situated along the coastline," the study's authors wrote. So this previously unknown, ongoing, and persistent source of contamination to coastal oceans "needs to be considered in nuclear power plant monitoring and scenarios involving future accidents."

[thorfourwinds]

Zorgon, here's another for the oldy but goody file. 

L.A.'s Secret Meltdown; Simi Valley, CA (1959) Largest Nuclear Incident in U.S. history

Warren Olney Breaks the SSFL Meltdown Story in 1979

SSFL Work Group
Published on Mar 19, 2014

In 1979 Warren Olney broke the story about the partial nuclear meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Rocketdyne) in Simi Valley.

THOR NOTES:
@ 10:00  nuclear fuel shipped for burial in Beaty, NV (Is it still there?)

@ 17:35  nuclear reactor reactor at Hallam, NB (never heard about this one)

Atomics International reprocessing plant at Santa Susana to receive, process and send back to South Carolina... see next

@ 21:20  by 1990, 3,500 shipments of radioactive fuel per year
(HUH? Whatever happened to those proposed shipments? And just where is that which was to be shipped TODAY?)

Swayze & Landon: Pancreatic Cancer from ROCKETDYNE?

Rad Chick
Published on Apr 13, 2013

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Since this seems to be the place to present items perhaps previously overlooked items of interest pertaining to the environmental crisis we now face with the continuing cover-up by the nuclear cartel, we humbly add this gem.

Nuclear Reactor Meltdown: "SL-1 Accident Briefing Film Report"
1961 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Jeff Quitney
Published on Aug 3, 2017


The SL-1, or Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, was a United States Army experimental nuclear power reactor which underwent a steam explosion and meltdown on January 3, 1961, killing its three operators.

The direct cause was the improper withdrawal of the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the reactor core. The event is the only known fatal reactor incident in the United States.

The incident released about 80 curies (3.0 TBq) of iodine-131, which was not considered significant due to its location in a remote desert of Idaho. About 1,100 curies (41 TBq) of fission products were released into the atmosphere.

The facility, located at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was part of the Army Nuclear Power Program and was known as the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR) during its design and build phase. It was intended to provide electrical power and heat for small, remote military facilities, such as radar sites near the Arctic Circle, and those in the DEW Line.

The design power was 3 MW (thermal). Operating power was 200 kW electrical and 400 kW thermal for space heating. In the incident the core power level reached nearly 20 GW in just four milliseconds, precipitating the steam explosion...

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