Posted on 02/08/2017 5:55:27 PM PST by Tours
Radiation inside one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power facility has reached an “unimaginable” level according to experts. Because so much nuclear material from Fukushima escaped into the Pacific Ocean, there are many scientists that believe that it was the worst environmental disaster in human history, but most people in the general population seem to think that since the mainstream media really doesn’t talk about it anymore that everything must be under control. Unfortunately, that is not true at all. In fact, PBS reported just last year that “it is incorrect to say that Fukushima is under control when levels of radioactivity in the ocean indicate ongoing leaks“. And now we have just learned that the radiation level inside reactor 2 is so high that no human could possibly survive being exposed to it.
According to the Japan Times, the level of radiation inside the containment vessel of reactor 2 is now estimated to be “530 sieverts per hour”…
The radiation level in the containment vessel of reactor 2 at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant has reached a maximum of 530 sieverts per hour, the highest since the triple core meltdown in March 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. said.
Tepco said on Thursday that the blazing radiation reading was taken near the entrance to the space just below the pressure vessel, which contains the reactor core.
The high figure indicates that some of the melted fuel that escaped the pressure vessel is nearby.
It is hard to find the words to convey how serious this is.
If you were exposed to a radiation level of just 10 sieverts per hour, that would mean almost certain death. So 530 sieverts per hour is simply off the charts. According to the Guardian, this recent measurement is being described by scientists as “unimaginable”…
The recent reading, described by some experts as “unimaginable”, is far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts an hour in that part of the reactor.
A single dose of one sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea; 5 sieverts would kill half those exposed to it within a month, and a single dose of 10 sieverts would prove fatal within weeks.
And the really bad news is that there appears to be a 2 meter hole that was created by melted nuclear fuel “in the metal grating under the pressure vessel in the reactor’s primary containment vessel”. The following comes from Bloomberg…
New photographs show what may be melted nuclear fuel sitting under one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima reactors, a potential milestone in the search and retrieval of the fuel almost six years after it was lost in one of the worst atomic disasters in history.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest utility, released images on Monday showing a grate under the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 2 reactor covered in black residue. The company, better known as Tepco, may send in a scorpion-like robot as soon as February to determine the temperature and radioactivity of the residue.
If that isn’t frightening enough, one Japanese news source is reporting that this melted nuclear fuel “has since come in contact with underground water flowing from the mountain side”…
The melted fuel has since come in contact with underground water flowing from the mountain side, generating radioactively contaminated water every day. In order to dismantle the reactor, it is necessary to take out the melted fuel, but high radiation levels inside the reactor had hampered work to locate the melted debris.
If this disaster was just limited to Japan, the entire northern hemisphere would not be at risk.
But that is not the case.
Most of the nuclear contamination from Fukushima ended up in the Pacific Ocean, and from there it was literally taken around the rest of the planet. The following was reported by PBS…
More than 80 percent of the radioactivity from the damaged reactors ended up in the Pacific — far more than reached the ocean from Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. Of this, a small fraction is currently on the seafloor — the rest was swept up by the Kuroshio current, a western Pacific version of the Gulf Stream, and carried out to sea where it mixed with (and was diluted by) the vast volume of the North Pacific.
We don’t know if there is a connection, but it is extremely interesting to note that fisheries up and down the west coast of the United States are failing because of a dramatic decrease in fish populations. Just check out the following excerpt from a story that was posted on January 18th…
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today determined there are commercial fishery failures for nine salmon and crab fisheries in Alaska, California and Washington.
In recent years, each of these fisheries experienced sudden and unexpected large decreases in fish stock biomass or loss of access due to unusual ocean and climate conditions. This decision enables fishing communities to seek disaster relief assistance from Congress.
Things are particularly bad up in Alaska, and biologists are “stumped” as to why this could be happening…
In 2016, the pink salmon harvests in Kodiak, Prince William Sounds, Chignik and lower Cook Inlet came in woefully under forecast and stumped biologists as to why.
The estimated value of Kodiak’s 2016 haul was $2.21 million, compared to a five-year average of $14.64 million, and in Prince William Sound the ex-vessel value was $6.6 million, far less that the $44 million five-year average. The total state harvest was the smallest since the late 1970s.
Although state biologists weren’t ready to declare a cause for the poor pink salmon performance, the Commerce Department press release attributed the disasters to “unusual ocean and climate conditions.”
Further south, it was being reported last month that millions of dead sardines are washing up on the shores of Chile.
I could go on and on with a lot more examples like this, but hopefully you get the point.
Something really strange is happening in the Pacific, and a lot of people believe that there is a link to Fukushima.
Not too long ago, I wrote about how the elite of Silicon Valley are “feverishly prepping“, but the truth is that all of us should be. If you need some tips on how to get started, you can find my prepping book right here. Our planet is becoming increasingly unstable, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster is just one piece of the puzzle.
But it is definitely a very important piece. The nuclear material from Fukushima is continuously entering the food chain, and once that nuclear material gets into our bodies it will slowly irradiate our organs for years to come. The following is an excerpt from an absolutely outstanding opinion piece by Helen Caldicott that was published in the Guardian…
Internal radiation, on the other hand, emanates from radioactive elements which enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption. Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans). After they enter the body, these elements – called internal emitters – migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, where they continuously irradiate small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years, can induce uncontrolled cell replication – that is, cancer. Further, many of the nuclides remain radioactive in the environment for generations, and ultimately will cause increased incidences of cancer and genetic diseases over time.
Are you starting to understand the gravity of the situation?
Sadly, this crisis is going to be with us for a very, very long time.
According to Bloomberg, they are not even going to start removing melted nuclear fuel from these reactors until 2021, and it is being projected that the overall cleanup “may take as long as 40 years”…
Decommissioning the reactors will cost 8 trillion yen ($70.4 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Removing the fuel is one of the most important steps in a cleanup that may take as long as 40 years.
The unprecedented nature of the Fukushima disaster means that Tepco is pinning its efforts on technology not yet invented to get the melted fuel out of the reactors.
The company aims to decide on a fuel removal procedure for the first reactor during the fiscal year ending March 2019, and to begin removing fuel in 2021.
A lot of people that end up dying as a result of this crisis may never even know that it was Fukushima that caused their deaths.
Personally, I am convinced that this is the greatest environmental crisis that humanity has ever experienced, and if the latest reading from reactor 2 is any indication, things just took a very serious turn for the worse.
Hmmm, that pic of “Chernobyl” when was that taken? Certainly not recently, because if that shit has been sitting their since 1986 it wouldn’t look like that.
A sievert is a measure of radiation. It is not a radioactive material.
This is all scare tactics. It there were elevated levels of radiation in the Pacific, it would be easily measured.
We are not told how much in the way of radioactivity is getting into the Pacific. From another article, the number given was 300 tons of “radioactive water” per day.
How much radiation is that? How far about background radiation?
1 m Sievert = 1 pCi (but that is conflating dose in a human with radiation levels, so it is not precise.)
http://people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH/Rosenhoeft/index5.htm
Background radiation in the Oceans is about 330 pCi/Liter.
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
Ocean water is naturally radioactive, as is the ground, as is the air. What we would like to know, is how much more radioactive is the water that is going into the Pacific from the damaged nuclear plants, than the natural background level.
That is the critical measure that we are not being told.
If it a trillion times as radioactive, it might be a problem. Currently, they say 300 tons of the water is going into the ocean every day. That is about 300 cubic meters of water. The Pacific has a volume of about 6.549 x 1017 m3 cubic meters of water. To double the background radiation in the Pacific, if the water going in were a trillion times as radioactive, as ocean water, it would take six years of that output.
We do not see anywhere near that level of radioactivity rise in the oceans, so the water going in must be much, much less radioactive than a trillion times as much as the natural background.
How much is it above background levels? Double? Triple? A million times? A billion times? At even a billion times, it would raise the background level only .01 percent in six years.
The numbers are important.
Math done quickly, but I think the numbers are close.
The particular radioactive isotopes and their half lives are likely far more important.
Background radiation levels on land vary by at least 10X, and there is no detectable difference in disease levels.
It is unlikely that even a 10X increase in ocean radiation would cause measurable harm.
I suspect that the radioactive levels of the water close to Japan are being monitored closely, so we should see if anything detectable happens to the sea life.
Yeah...funny...
My Geiger counter hasn’t twitched a bit.
Didn’t say they were always wrong, just that FR has always had them.
I see...(I haven’t paid much attention to any of this since NBC Warfare School in 1968...)
Wow! The Northern Hemisphere. That’s where I live. At least it’s not as bad as the propaganda I was subjected to in my youth (in the ‘60s). Then we had the movie “On the Beach”. After the Northern Hemisphere was destroyed, the destruction moved to the Southern hemisphere, until ALL was lost. I survived that, too.
OK...Thanks...What is the half life of a seivert?
Is it classified as alpha, beta or gamma?
(this is the first time I ever heard of “seiverts”)
Seiverts refer to dosage, so there are different numbers for alpha, beta, and gamma. 1 Seivert = 100 Rem
As I am sure you know, half lives are specific to various isotopes.
Gotcha...Thanks...
“...On the same page there is a note about the high value of 530 Sv/h reported for point number 2: although a direct comparison is not 100% correct, if one was to measure the radiation right on the surface of a fuel bundle one day after the stopping of the nuclear reaction, the dose rate value would be of the order of several tens of thousands Sievert per hour. (This certainly helps put things in perspective.)”
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/japan-earthquake-nuclear-plants-part-2.711577/page-56
These guys have been the best source for info on Fukushima.
Mostly nuke plant operators and students to be operators participate.
Your figures assume the radiation will dissolve uniformly throughout the entire Pacific. That’s not how it works.
“But of course, the MSM and the Goverment always tell the full and complete truth. No families, clans, tribes, religions or nations every conspire against others.”
Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Straw man! Crap. Go flush the toilet, Tours. It’s getting stinky in here.
I learned that too, though, being from Minnesota, we were told it was only unsafe if the radiation turned it yellow. (Or something like that).
Can they not find a way to get a siphon into the plant and then flood and separate the water? Something doesnt make sense here. I think this is serious but the end of the world hype is being used for propaganda.
How about a low yield neutron detonation at the site?
That is not a plot of radionuclide concentration. It is a plot of maximum wave amplitudes from the tsunami. Passing it off as having anything to do with contamination is dishonest.
Are we talking alpha or beta particle,or gamma waves? A plane flying overhead would detect any gamma radiation and even a couple inches of concrete will still 100% of all alpha and beta particles. It seems the containment building was poorly constructed.
One sievert—the international measurement of radiation exposure—is enough to cause radiation sickness, infertility and cataracts. Exposure to 10 sieverts will lead to person’s death within weeks,
That action would disperse more radioactive material than it would destroy. That would be bad.
It is possible to place neutron emitters and moderators around the hot zone to increase the flux and the rate of burn. That might reduce the half-life of the most severely contaminated areas. Or it might not.
We will find out one way or another. The natural processes of rainfall and underground water tables containing dissolved minerals will introduce neutron emitters and moderators into some of the contaminated areas. That will cause intermittent flaring of the radiation levels followed by steam venting.
The deadly stuff coming out of the melted cores is gamma radiation - the worst.
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