Top Scientist:: Fukushima Meltdown Could Trigger Atomic Explosion
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A British professor and expert on the health effects of ionizing radiation told Alex Jones today evidence points toward a nuclear explosion occurring at the Fukushima Daiichi complex. Two explosions at the plant in March were described as hydrogen gas explosions by Japanese officials and the corporate media.
Forget the INfo Wars link.
Forget the INfo Wars link. Here is the interview with RT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbje3ub5Dio
Some observations from the above referenced article:
[1] While Prof. Busby explains that he believes actual criticality HAS occurred at at least one Reactor at Fukushima, and may in fact be continuing, he also clarifies: Although "the damaged reactors at Fukushima “are now continuing to fission.... It is hoped that there will be no separation of plutonium and possible nuclear explosion. I feel that this is unlikely now.”
[2] THERE IS A PRECEDENT for "the dire scenario now unfolding...a nuclear explosion at a plutonium production reprocessing plant in the former Soviet Union in 1957." And, IT'S ONE THE WORLD SURVIVED, and in fact SCARCELY NOTICED: "The incident at the Mayak facility was the second-worst nuclear accident in history after the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion released 50-100 tonnes of high-level radioactive waste and contaminated a huge territory in the eastern Urals. The Soviets kept the explosion secret for 30 years. According to a report on the accident, about 400,000 people in the region were irradiated following the explosion and other incidents at the plant." However, note the comparative scale of that 1957 event... It may have been FAR less dangerous / damaging than the current situation.
[3] Further: "Busby...notes that the surface contamination and of dose rates 60 kilometers out from the Fukushima site on March 17 exceeded that released at Chernobyl." That would seem to argue for the worst-case scenario that has been posited in this Forum.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
972-746-8575
What ifs, what ifs...
Important to remind oneself that these are speculations...
Yes. Agreed.
...Though I would argue that, in the absence of hard, consistent, rigorously vetted, thoroughly analyzed, convincing data, EVERYTHING is "speculative", at this point, and is likely to be for the foreseeable future. We are all trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle not only without having any idea what the overall picture is supposed to look like, but in the dark and without any time to concentrate.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
972-746-8575
Rick, FYI, Infowars is
Rick,
FYI, Infowars is hoping for a worst case scenario on a daily basis. Alex Jones has been fear mongering since he was a toddler. Don't listen or believe everything you read and definitely take Inforwars.com with a grain of salt. I'm certainly not discrediting information here, but I can't stand that guy because all he preaches is negative end of the world crap that he conjures up. Is this world in deep trouble? Of course, but we don't need some idiot preying on the paranoid to get business.
It's a Good Point, AND It's a Fair Point. Thanks...
I'm familiar with Infowars, and you're right about what you say. It is a LITTLE reassuring that with all the whacked-out, hysterical, proven activist doomsayer fruitbats out there, from Art Bell to Rob Reiner to Al Gore and all the way back again (and those, btw, are the MOST responsible, learned and even-keeled of the bunch -- and, also, let me say this: I'm not even sure they're WRONG, anymore), that there's only a handful who, in the midst of this crisis, are actually SAYING, "The sky is falling!". I mean, this is EXACTLY the moment, PRECISELY the opportunity, SPECIFICALLY the forum that all manner of environmentalists, energy activists, and, most especially, anti-nuclear protesters have been practically DREAMING of for DECADES. But even THEY aren't really saying much... Which is... Weird. As always, I try to boil things down to a handful of possibilities:
> There really ISN'T much "there" there, and people like me, in our ignorance, fear, and confusion, are managing to lose our heads when even the total drooling panicky Froot Loops are keeping theirs;
> There is, against ALL odds, logic, or practicality, a vast, global conspiracy between nuclear power industry, various governments, AND an international assortment of raiment-rending loons, to cover up and deny the "truth" they all know, or suspect, about "how bad" all this REALLY is, or will be;
> All the people and organizations and authorities I mentioned above KNOW "the truth", but somehow they're currently all shocked into inaction; or
> EVERYBODY'S WRONG... And I'M RIGHT.
...And those are in descending order of probability, btw. Even I get that.
[Shrug] Someone asked me the other day: Cromack, do you REALLY WANT to be RIGHT about all this? It's a pretty damned good question, you know.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
972-746-8575
Rick - I've been lurking on
Rick - I've been lurking on here for a few days trying to get information. I'm panicking a bit as a mother of a young child living on the California coast and I know enough about our corporate controlled media to not believe a thing they say. I'm still shaking my head trying to figure out why we entrust the safety of the planet to private companies like BP and TEPCO. WTF?? Anyway, in my effort to get real news, this site has been helpful. I just wanted to thank you for working so hard to "out" the truth and for trying, the best way you can, to piece together information.
You are a true global patriot.
You're Welcome...
...And thanks, that's very kind of you. I'll be honest with you: I'm not sure if I -- or anyone else for that matter -- is having ANY real impact, here, except for, as you say, perhaps helping a few folks to become better informed and to start digging for information relevant to their and their families' protection, themselves. But one thing I'm sure of: The vast, overwhelming majority of people are just asleep, either deliberately or as a result of normal pop-culture / modern-society apathy, who can tell.
It's frustrating.
...You know, here's the bottom line: WE JUST DON'T KNOW how this is all going to shake out. I think there's a better-than-reasonable "chance" that the BRAWM guys and ladies, and all manner of experts and highly educated scientists and highly placed authorities, have it right: Yes, there WILL be some long-term impacts, but it WON'T be a "disaster". My issue is: I'm sick of all the bulls---. I want ANSWERS, not platitudes; DATA, not generalities; CONTEXT, not chaos; ACTION, not apathy. It makes me sick to realize that the United States of America, wealthiest, most capable, most multifaceted bureaucracy on the Earth, can't rouse itself to do SOMETHING when faced with exactly the sort of potential emergency it was supposedly designed, staffed, funded, and expected to deal with.
Unbelievable... To think it's all basically WORTHLESS, and that at the end of the day, WE'RE ON OUR OWN.
DON'T panic. Get informed. Stay current. Take actions as you see fit. Apologize for nothing. And get ready to pass judgment on the weak, the wishy-washy, and the woefully inadequate. Because a reckoning is coming, folks, I guaran-damn-tee it. And I'm NOT talking about the ballot box, either.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
http://www.infowars.com/
You are right about the corporate media. They had to stop reporting on Fukushima so they could cheerlead the new war.
No one should trust anything they read out of hand. That being said, www.infowars.com is a valuable source of info for me.
Go back to March 11, read some of their archived articles. Alex Jones was telling people that this is a serious thing when the corporate experts were still parroting the "It could never happen" line of crap that they have spoon fed the public since before the quake/tsunami.
Here is another awesome article
http://www.infowars.com/mainstream-media-regurgitates-exact-same-news-on...
Rick, You are probably one
Rick,
You are probably one of the most informed people tracking everything going on. You have definitely taken a bit more of an informed approach as of late. I think we were all just looking for information initially and believed anything we heard. Now I can see you are doing a great job of piecing things together. And most of us appreciated what you are doing.
None of us knew how this would play out or where to go from here. We see Geiger Counters like the one today in Briggs, ID that are off the charts and calibrated specifically for Cesium 137 and yet we still don't know what the high numbers really constitute. Are we all just fear mongering ourselves or do we have the right to be concerned? Everyone around us thinks we are crazy, so we take two steps back, just to be normal like the rest of world.
This will affect us all in one way or another, but since this is invisible, it's simply a matter of faith. We either choose to believe in God and his existence or we don't. Those that do, have faith that he's there. Similar to radiation, we believe it's there, but there's no proof yet. It will take many deaths before anyone agrees that Fukushima has impacted the United States and beyond. And that my friend is why America and the EPA can do what they do.
You know...
...The more "informed" I am -- and I scarcely think I apprehend one percent of the totality of this, and perhaps much, MUCH less -- the more I wish I wasn't.
This has frankly annihilated my family life. Most of my friends won't talk to me any more. Most of my neighbors think I've gone off the deep end. I have DAILY fights with my wife and child, and we used to have a peaceful, tranquil house and life. I am being consumed by this. I don't eat; I rarely sleep. I have lost thirty pounds in the last month. I am stressed-out and scared and anxious all the time.
I genuinely feel that I may be losing my mind.
God and radiation: You just have to have faith. That's probably the weirdest juxtaposition I've ever read; and yet, I can hardly refute it.
I think you're right, that it WILL take people dying, and "inexplicably", before we have ANY idea what's really going on, here. I wish I could believe otherwise -- smart people tell me I ought to, I need to. But with all that I'm seeing, or at least THINK I'm seeing... It's frankly a bigger "leap of faith" than believing that this is going to be an IMMENSE, IMMEDIATE, and INESCAPABLE tragedy of simply mind-boggling proportions for the United States, and the world.
Your information about that Geiger counter is startling. Is that from Radiation Network?
At the end of the day, despite all my researching and drum-beating and wake-up-attempting, I'm back to square one: This is going to be, what it's going to be, and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Even if I had the money, the storage capacity, to fill entire rooms with pre-Fuke frozen and canned goods... To install a full-house filtration system that takes out everything BUT the H2O, itself... To take ALL the precautions I deem necessary to protect myself and my family... What then? Do I tell my daughter she can't participate in cheerleading any more, because it's on grass? That she can't get an ice cream cone from McDonald's? That she can NEVER AGAIN be out in the rain, splash in puddles, get dirty?
[Shrug] All my adult life, all I ever really wanted to go was protect, nurture, and love my family. Now my family pretty much despises me, because I don't let them do anything and I'm constantly asking worrisome questions and demanding they wash their hands and such. My home is a very tense place, now. Daddy's worried, all the time, and never smiles, and he used to be a real cut-up. And as it turns out: I can't protect them from a thing.
It's a helluva time we life in, folks. But you're right: I'm placing my faith in God. No man can assure me we're "safe"; I can't guarantee anything. It's all in His hands, now. And, you know what? ...It always was.
Thanks for your kind words.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
thank you, Rick
Rick, thanks to your posts, I finally wrote to Sen. Boxer, so you are doing good work.
If you listen to a local radio show I heard yesterday, you will get lots more good information: http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/radioshow.php It will be available online for a week. They do talk about what people in the US should do, and they did influence what I wrote Sen. Boxer:
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THANK YOU Sen. Boxer, please do not believe those who promote complacency and say "the US is going to stay safe" from the developing disaster in Japan or from potential disasters w US nuclear facilities.
The problem is not some level of radiation that can be called "safe," it is "internal emitters," radioactive particles that fall from the sky and are inhaled or ingested and then stay in the body and radiate from the inside, permanently, causing cancer and genetic damage. Plus particles falling on the earth and being incorporated into the foodstream. The longer the disaster goes on, the more particles we will accumulate, and they do not go away, ever.
Thank you for your sensible concern and for fighting for us. Please give 'em hell. I am so glad you won that election, I knew you would.
See what you can do to pry the President away from the forces of insanity, before it is too late for life as we know it.
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Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, U.S. Rep Lois Capps, and Republican California State Senator Sam Blakeslee, who holds a PhD in geophysics, pressed for a halt to plant relicensing pending new seismic studies. All three have the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, near San Luis Obispo, within their districts.
Pacific Gas & Electric Company, operator of the plant, recently withdrew its request for license renewal.
Boxer questioned EPA Administrator Jackson about her agency’s ongoing monitoring of radioactive fallout in the U.S.
“We know that low levels of radiation have been detected in the United States,” Boxer said. “Experts say we’re okay right now. I want to probe that, I want to make sure of that.”
Jackson replied: “EPA has not seen and does not expect to see radiation in our air or water reaching harmful levels in the United States. While radiation levels are slightly elevated in some places, they are significantly below harmful levels.”
Boxer reacted to reassurances from both administrators by saying she had once heard similar statements from the Japanese.
“It’s eerie to me, because I don’t sense enough humility from all of us here. As some great scientist once said, we think we have all the answers, but Mother Nature might not agree. A lot of what you’re saying is the same thing they said in Japan.”
God Bless you Rick, and your
God Bless you Rick, and your family. The truth is sometimes hated, feared and jeered at. But what alternative is there? It takes real people to speak up in the face of disbelief, and personally, I now see the world as a strange new place, and have a 4 year old son and 6 year old daughter living in Idaho where I read yesterday the tap H2o there is reading the highest Caesium 137 readings in the country. Someone once told me that as a pilot, his father also a pilot, told him, even if it looks like you are going down, you keep on flying and never lose courage or give up. This thing we are facing is faceless, there really is no one to ultimately blame, but maybe ourselves if we fail to accept the facts and do our best with countermeasures. I have found studies on treatment of exposure to radioisotopes on the internet, plenty of the. Bentonite clay, baking soda (military uses it)and glutathione, sodium alginate, Reishi mushroom, lots on internet from history, after Japan was bombed and Chernobyl, survival rates much much higher with certain countermeasures taken. Be informed, stay calm (I pray too)and take all the treatments (safely and sanely of course)you can. I have my son drinking pre-exposure freeze-dried algae, kelp and taking clay internally. It just stands to reason that if we all wait to have 'proof' of how bad it might be, it will be more difficult to deal with. One day at a time, and make sure to laugh and have some fun with family after you all take some delicious wheatgrass or clay. These are challenging times, and what is that old saying, "when the going get's tough?"
greens in powder form
here's a wonderful green powder that should help detoxify.
it actually tastes great, not like the usual lawn-flavored ones.
its called blender culture. look it up. A
Powerful words, thanks...
I appreciate it. I think that, perhaps, as the POTENTIAL -- by no means certain, but ever more possible -- magnitude of this event hits home for some of us, we're starting to move past the initial shock, surprise, and disbelief and more and more of us are moving to seek out, and become, ourselves, encouragers. The days of uncontrolled passions, knee-jerk dismissiveness, and barely reined-in hostility is giving way, slowly, to something more reasoned, more informed and just a little more constructive. I think that's a positive development,and it may help to sustain and enable some of us going forward.
It's like our own little fraternal order: A post- (during-, maybe) apocalyptic combination Lions Club and Toastmasters. Call it The Armageddon Society.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
Stay the course
Rick, You can always repair relationships down the line if everything passes without incident. You can't fix being unprepared for a pending disaster however. Better a false negative than a false positive in this situation. Stay the course.
No... That's For Sure...
...I CAN'T "fix" THIS. More's the pity.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
You gave me some great
You gave me some great advice the other day. After we had our chat I put the phone down and held my girlfriend for the rest of the night while talking about baby names. You told me you regret not having spent more time with your family. Remember there is no smoking man this time. We can't stop what's happened. Might as well love and be loved. This whole thing had destroyed the joy in expecting for me till that night. Don't let this consume you, love and be loved: godbless friend.
Thanks, partner...
...And I'm REALLY glad you and your partner were able to enjoy an evening of hope and joy together, unspoiled by all this that's happening around us (and to some extent, to us). I need to take some of "my" own advice, as my wife is constantly -- and within the last five minutes, actually -- reminding me.
God bless you and yours, too, Danny. We continue to pray for y'all.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
And, btw...
...I'll try not to take the "prey[ing] on the paranoid" comment TOO personally. [Wink] It may be pretty darned accurate, after all. And so might, "gullible", "fearful", "ignorant", "strung-out", and "irrational".
...I'm just sayin'.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
972-746-8575
Probably better not to think
Probably better not to think of the what ifs... oh wait that's how we got here./
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -George Santayana
Actually...
"Probably better not to think of the what ifs... oh wait that's how we got here."
...I think that's a pretty fair comment.
It's helpful to remember (talking very much to myself here: "Self, it's helpful to remember...") that, as far as we know and have been told, the Fukushima Nuclear Plant SURVIVED a 9.0 earthquake just 70 miles away, AND a 40-foot-plus tsunami. Those events, as I understand them, went WAAAY beyond the designed stress maximums (maxima?) of that plant. And this was a plant that was 40-something years old, the earliest parts of it, anyway. That's pretty impressive, and for all our collective frustration about TEPCO, and their apparent decades of fraudulent safety initiatives, and their general cavalier attitude toward the fundamentally dangerous power they were entrusted with, THAT, actually, is pretty doggone impressive.
It was something no one thought of that brought this catastrophe upon them, and all of us: The backup power systems.
As I understand it, there were at least FOUR redundancies built in to Fukushima in terms of power needs.
First, the OTHER REACTORS. If one suffered a critical power loss, other units on-site were designed to feed power to the casualty and help it along.
Second, OFF-SITE POWER. The plant was connected to the grid, naturally.
Third, DIESEL GENERATORS. These were designed to kick in if the first two options weren't available.
Fourth, BATTERIES. But, being batteries, they were only designed to hold a charge for a matter of hours. They were a short-term, truly "emergency" fix ONLY, since it was expected that all three of the previous options would NEVER be completely removed from the equation.
That's a pretty damned good system, folks. I grew up on submarines, and I can tell you: Most of the mission-critical systems WE had, weren't THAT "deep". In this case, it turns out there was one absolutely critical flaw, and ONLY one: The generators. They, unlike the reactors themselves, WEREN'T in hardened, "bulletproof" boxes, and they were either damaged by the quake or submerged by the tsunami, perhaps both. Had they survived intact, it would have just been a matter of making sure Fukushima received regular shipments of diesel to keep those generators -- that were absolutely necessary to continue providing and bleeding off coolant to the reactor cores, spent fuel pools and whatever other nonsense they had requiring managing, there -- going, around the clock, twenty-four / seven.
As it was, the quake "tripped" all the reactors, shutting them down, so they COULDN'T generate power to cool. Outside power lines were knocked out, so they COULDN'T supply backup power to the plant. The diesel generators were useless, perhaps irreparably damaged (we still don't know, I don't believe), so they COULDN'T generate enough emergency power to run the coolant systems. And the batteries, those that survived the quake AND the tsunami, ran out of charge within hours.
All this is by way of saying: It's the things you DON'T think of, that getcha in the end.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
9720746-8575
The best backup systems in
The best backup systems in the world will mean nothing when the primary system is poorly designed. Had this outdated technology been replaced with "safer" technology that does NOT rely on active cooling, there would have been MUCH LESS of a threat.
So, Rick, I think you need to take a Xanax or herbal calming remedy (Valeraian Root, Kava Kava, etc.) and PLEASE try and calm down.
WE can't do much to avoid this situation. We don't have large underground cities to escape to. WE need to deal with what we have. That means watching the numbers from UC Berkely and our local state and educational institutions. Pass along what we know in a calm manner to those we love. Make due the best we can.
I live in the Midwest. I am sure I am breathing small amounts of Radon every day. The upper midwest sits on a large deposit of Uranium. Radon is a decomposition product. I am not saying radiation is safe, but I am sure I have breathed in MUCH more radon gas than I have I-131 so far.
I am more worried about contamination of Food than I am about breathing in radioactive particles. My exposure, I beleive, will be greater from food.
I got all worked up too. I really had a tough time for a good week. Until I learned what NORMAL sources we are exposed to EVERY day and their levels were, I was not able to assess my potential risk.
So while I understand your fear and it is justified, you can not let it consume your life.
It's Good Advice. Thanks...
...And, you know, I think I really, really, really need a "chill pill", too.
Rick Cromack.
Allen, Texas
RichardFCromackJr@gmail.com
Thanks for the info!
Thanks for the info!