Japan Nuclear Fuel Pool Boiled Dry - Rods Exposed to Air *NEW PHOTOS*

Radiation Experts Determine 200,000 Cancers Likely from Fukushima -
Initial Analysis from Risk Model of the European Committee on Radiation Risk ECRR
Report at: http://www.fairewinds.com/content/health-outcome-fukushima-catastrophe-initia...

Japan says no plan to expand evacuation zone around nuclear plant

The Japanese government said Thursday that it had no immediate plans to expand a 20-kilometre evacuation zone around a damaged nuclear power station that is leaking radiation, dpa reported.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Tokyo would instead reinforce radiation monitoring of soil after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suggested overnight that the country consider evacuating Iitate village, about 40 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, after the agency found amounts of radioactive iodine in the soil there that exceeded its health limits.

The village is not only outside the evacuation zone around the plant, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but it is also beyond the 30-kilometre zone in which people have been advised to stay indoors.

"The first assessment indicates that one of the IAEA operational criteria for evacuation is exceeded," senior IAEA official Denis Flory told reporters.

IAEA experts found radioactivity from iodine-131 at 25 megabecquerel per square metre of soil in Iitate, more than double the agency's evacuation threshold of 10 megabecquerel, an IAEA source said.

It was the highest level measured among nine communities located 25 to 60 kilometres away from the reactors, which are located 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo.

"They should really think about evacuating," the source said.

http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1853237.html

RADIATION READINGS NEWS FOR THE U.S.
http://enenews.com/cesium-137-forecast-shows-high-altitude-radiation-cloud-co...

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/11/japan-nuclear-radiation-hawaii-mi...




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[Daddyo930]

@harrypalms1112 There is no "safe" place to build a nuclear reactor. 1) There is no such thing as a safe dose of radiation. 2) All we are talking about is boiling water. There has to be a better way to boil water. 3) Nuclear power cannot exist without taxpayer guaranteed money. 4) In the event of a disaster, the consequences last for hundreds of years. THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY TO BOIL WATER!!

[ZiggUfo]

@harrypalms1112 I wonder how bad it is now.. I dont believe we know half the truth...

[harrypalms1112]

@ZiggUfo Really? The japanese don't have experience fighting big fires. The problem was bureaucracy and the need for the IAEA to hide what was going there in the interest of maintaining a false belief in the safety of nuclear plants. There are places you should build nuclear plants. The northeastern coast of Japan is not one of them.

[harrypalms1112]

@SlayerofFiction How many one in a million chances of horrible death are you willing to admit before the odds aren't so good and we have to say no more?

[whiskerchild]

@crackorjackzors

But do we 'turn out' OK?  You know they have more cancers (nuclear industry workers).

[AFAskygoddess]

@crackorjackzors ... How dare you call ME stupid. You are lazy and stupid. If you had a brain in your head and an ounce of motivation, you would see from the EURAD CAESIUM DISPERSON MODEL that the cesium has reached North America at several altitudes they monitor. This information was available when you made your inane and ignorant comment. Go back to playing your Xbox. You obviously are in denial of the truth.

[AFAskygoddess]

@crackorjackzors ... That really, really tired arguement about eating bananas is so lame. It is right up there with calling someone who thinks logically and critically as a "conspiracy theorist".

I have posted a great deal of information about the CURRENT RATES of radioactivity in fish and plants, and the danger levels to human life. You will find them either in the videos or the description box below them. Now is NOT THE TIME to be a PARROT for CNN and FOX.

[crackorjackzors]

@whiskerchild You probably are being irradiated at a higher rate than before but I speculate that it will be of a negligible amount. How is it that a person can work within a nuclear power plant and live out their lives? How is it possible that we can eat a banana (they're radioactive, in fact, many foods are with the top radiation producer being the brazil nut I believe) and be okay? The question is if the level reaching anywhere is tolerable for life. I don't know the current rate.

[crackorjackzors]

@AFAskygoddess Have you looked at a map of the earth? Are you aware of how far away we are from hawaii and has it occured to you that the radiation would dissipate over such a distance? I don't understand how you could possibly be as stupid as you are.

[SlayerofFiction]

@mbbugi dumping water on the nuclear plant via typical firefighting equipment is retarded at best, a nuclear plant typically has a backup system of pumps which can flood in the amount of several hundred thousand gallons per minute. What the japanese did was essentially like you standing in front of a forest fire and pissing on it.