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More Obstacles Impede Crews In Japan Nuclear Crisis

Posted by Cheryl Nelson on March 27, 2011 at 1:30pm

OMG!!! HOMER SIMPSON IS IN CHARGE OF JAPAN'S NUCLEAR SITES!

Boy, this article reeeaaally ticked me off..... 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake

"The day began with company officials reporting that radiation in leaking water in the Unit 2 reactor was 10 million times above normal, a spike that forced employees to flee the unit. The day ended with officials saying the huge figure had been miscalculated and offering apologies.  "The number is not credible," said Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Takashi Kurita. "We are very sorry."

[Uh, we, the world's population, are very sorry, but we don't think your information is credible!]

 

"A few hours later, TEPCO Vice President Sakae Muto said a new test had found radiation levels 100,000 times above normal — far better than the first results, though still very high."

[A 100,000 times ?!?!?  "Far better"?????????]

 

"But he ruled out having an independent monitor oversee the various checks despite the errors."

[Uh, since they are having some "slight technical difficulties" in computing radiation levels perhaps they should forget an "independent monitor" and GET SOMEONE COMPETENT ON THE JOB!!!!]

 

"Officials acknowledged there was radioactive water in all four of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex's most troubled reactors, and that airborne radiation in Unit 2 measured 1,000 millisieverts per hour, four times the limit deemed safe by the government."

[Let's see, the gov't raised the limit from 100 mSv per hour after the disaster began to 250 mSv per hour.  So, in reality, the radiation is ten times the limit originally deemed safe by the government.  Let's face it, why was it suddenly okay to raise the limit after the disaster hit, except to be able to downplay the numbers and try to avoid wrongful-death litigation in the future?  And the MSM is going along for the ride.]

 

"Those high airborne readings — if accurate — would make it very difficult for emergency workers to get inside to pump out the water."

[No kidding.  The reality is they are NOT getting inside to pump out the water.]

 

"Workers have been scrambling to remove the radioactive water from the four units and find a place to safely store it. Each unit may hold tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water, said Minoru Ogoda of Japan's nuclear safety agency."

[So, where does one SAFELY store tens of thousands of gallons of radioactive water times 4 or 6 or however many reactors we're talking about?  I bet the answer is nowhere unless they build new facilities which would take a lot of time and money.]

 

It gets even better....

"Safety agency officials had been hoping to pump the water into huge, partly empty tanks inside the reactor that are designed to hold condensed water.  "Those tanks, though, turned out to be completely full, said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency."

[And they didn't know this?!?!?!]

 

"Meanwhile, plans to use regular power to restart the cooling system hit a roadblock when it turned out that cables had to be laid through turbine buildings flooded with the contaminated water."

[Again, they didn't know this?  Was this just a lick and a promise, a stalling tactic?]

 

"The problem is that right now nobody can reach the turbine houses where key electrical work must be done," Nishiyama said. "There is a possibility that we may have to give up on that plan."

[Really!?!  Ya think?]

 

"Despite Sunday's troubles, officials continued to insist the situation had at least partially stabilized.

 

"We have somewhat prevented the situation from turning worse," Edano told reporters Sunday evening. "But the prospects are not improving in a straight line and we've expected twists and turns. The contaminated water is one of them and we'll continue to repair the damage."

[Partially?!?!?  Somewhat?!?!?  Pretty wriggly modifiers, I say.  In what ways is this situation partially or somewhat mitigated?  (Not surprisingly, they don't say.)  With a "low" reading of 100,000 times the radiation, how can they claim anything positive?!?!?]

 

"Just outside the coastal Fukushima nuclear plant, radioactivity in seawater tested about 1,250 times higher than normal last week — but that number had climbed to 1,850 times normal by the weekend."

[Wouldn't you think anything that is 1,250 to 1,850 times normal would by now start to affect human health?  Wouldn't you think the winds would be spreading it?  And what about the ocean currents?]

 

You would think...but what did they say?

"Nishiyama said the increase was a concern, but also said the area is not a source of seafood and that the contamination posed no immediate threat to human health."

[Ah, notice the word immediate.  So there is a threat to human health, it's just not right this second, or minute, or hour.  But be assured...it's coming!  Could it be the area is not a source of seafood because it has all died or moved out of the area because of the radiation? Or has seafood just naturally avoided that area (which could be true because of the presence of nuclear reactors, even when operating in a normal mode.  That tells you something.)  If radiation is contaminating the sea water, then wouldn't the ocean currents spread it as well as the wind?  At first it would be diluted, but as this epic tragegy is allowed to continue it will build up, with those coastlines closest to Japan being hit the hardest.  (Think Hawaii and other islands.)

And let's not forget those lovely mile-high neutron beams, 13 of them at last count, that are the result of a meltdown.  According to the Natural News article posted earlier, they "... may be evidence that uranium and plutonium have already been released from the plant's damaged reactors and fuel rods as spent nuclear fuels allegedly release such beams through nuclear fission."  Nice.  And a mile high to boot.  I'm sure they caused no problems at all, just lovely to look at.  (Pfffffffttttt!)

 

And to be sure we all know there is nothing to worry about the Kyodo newspaper poll "shows" the approval rating of the Prime Minister has gone up since the accident. You really think the Japanese people are feeling favorable toward the government with them stranded, freezing, hungry, abandoned, etc.? 

 

Then you gotta love the numbers.  It appears that the Japanese government, Tokyo Power Co. and the Kyodo newspaper are mathmatically challenged...

"About 58 percent of respondents in the nationwide telephone survey of 1,011 people said they approved of the government's handling of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but a similar number criticized its handling of the nuclear crisis."  (58% + 58% = 116%)

[58% of 1,011 = 586 approved.  Then, a "similar number" criticized.  However, 42% of 1,011 = 424.  You can't have two groups of 58% add up to 100%, so what are they really saying here?  They give the 58% number (which is specific and will stick in people's minds that a majority approve) while saying in the same article that the group was basically divided in half, yet if you do the math the numbers show the critical group is less (if you can believe any of the numbers).  I guess they believe most readers are idiots or just too lazy to run the numbers.

 

"The death toll from the disasters stood at 10,668 Sunday with 16,574 people missing, police said. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless."

[I wonder how many of the homeless were asked to participate in the poll?]

 

Okay, so what lessons have we learned? 

0.  Homer Simpson is in charge of all nuclear reactors on the planet!

1.  DO NOT TRUST any government or big business.  They LIE, they COVER-UP the truth.

2.  Get your own geiger counter.  You can buy one or make your own.  The instructions to make your own are in the Nuclear War Survival Skills manual at http://www.oism.org/nwss/.  It might be good to go this route so you will know how to repair it should it break.

3.  Build your fallout shelter!  Don't wait for a radioactive cloud to be just down the block.  It takes a full weekend of able-bodied people to dig it.  (This shelter should or could be made to also withstand many types of earthchanges.)

4.  Stock it with food, water, heat, light, medicines, all the essentials you will need.  Figure out a separate shelter for your pets.  You do not want them in the same shelter with you, for obvious reasons.

5.  DO IT NOW!

 

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