Fukushima TEPCO LIES, Meltdown Mayham 5/17/11

The Japanese Government widened the evacuation zone surrounding the melted down Fukushima nuclear plant. More than 5,000 people left their homes on Sunday after being exposed to high levels of radiation. It is now known that a nuclear meltdown did occur inside 3 reactors at the plant. There are currently over 3,000 tons of highly radioactive wastewater underneath reactor one that shouldn't be there - and Japanese officials are scrambling to figure out a way to get it out of there. So what do these new developments mean for Japanese officials who were hoping to have the disaster contained in the coming months? Joining Thom Hartmann is Paul Gunter, Reactor Oversight Project. Original link here. (The last clips are from NHK World News in Japan.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBuRNmxOlI
SORRY, DUE TO TIME LIMITS, I COULDN'T ADD THE USUAL SARCASM.

Nuclear plant cooling system manually shut down

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers may have manually shut down the No.1 reactor's emergency cooling system in order to prevent damage to the reactor. It says pressure inside the reactor had dropped sharply after the earthquake struck the plant on March 11th.

Tokyo Electric Power Company on Monday disclosed records of its operations at the plant.

They show that the reactor automatically halted operations after the earthquake.

The emergency cooling system was automatically activated but stopped about 10 minutes later and remained off for about 3 hours until after the tsunami arrived.

TEPCO says plant workers may have manually shut down the cooling system because pressure inside the reactor had dropped sharply from 70 to 45 atmospheres.

The system is designed to cool the reactor even if all external sources of power are lost, but the move to shut it down temporarily means that it did not fully function.

TEPCO says the decision may have been made based on a manual to prevent damage to the reactor.

It says if the system had worked, it may have had more time until the meltdown, so it will investigate developments leading up to the decision to turn it off and whether the move was correct.


Note: Single radiation dose of 2,000 millisieverts (200,000 millirems) and above causes serious illness. See also exposure list below.
Half-life of some radioactive elements

[NOTE: Half-life is the time taken for a radioactive substance to decay by half.] * Cesium-134 ~ 2 years * Cesium-137 ~ 30 years * Iodine-131 ~ 8 days * Plutonium-239 ~ 24,200 years * Ruthenium-103 ~ 39 days [Ruthenium is a fission product of uranium-235.] * Ruthenium-106 ~ 374 days * Strontium-90 ~ 28.85 years [Strontium-90 is a product of nuclear fission and is found in large amounts in spent nuclear fuel and in radioactive waste from nuclear reactors.] * Uranium-234 ~ 246,000 years * Uranium-235 ~ 703.8 million years * Uranium-238 ~ 4.468 billion years


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[manekinekotattoo]

China had those floats, because they "secretly" carry fresh water from the great lakes to replenish their aquifers in China...why didnt they think of using those floats before? that being said, where are the floats going to go? and can they really contain the radiation, or will it be reported that the float loses water somewhere near the US and Canada?

[MsMilkytheclown]

@manekinekotattoo those are very valid concerns. I wonder if they will develop a "leak" that could easily go unreported purposely.

[grizzzlyjoe]

Why don't they get as descriptive as they WOULD BE if we could SEE radiation ... THIS IS A FREAKIN' man-made, endlessly erupting VOLCANO of Radiation.

If they could just give the radiation a visible color, let's say "RED" ... we'd all be scared shit-less.

[MsMilkytheclown]

@grizzzlyjoe /watch?v=mTg3D1PoyUE&feature=c­hannel_video_title

this may blow you away!

[goddamnedbush]

Die (Tepco) Söhne Japans haben ihre Ehre verloren, und jetzt töten sie ihr eigenes Volk.

Arbeiter werden unter menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen und ehrlosen Geldbeträgen zur Reinigung der Reaktoranlagen verbrannt.

Die Führung unternimmt nichts.

Der Kaiser ist nur noch eine tote Marionette.

[olga2415]

@tyoungos It sure looks like the evil empire is winning a few rounds lately. All because people never seem to learn from history. Each country probably thinks it could not happen to them like it did to other countries dealing with the Rothschilde empire and its cantral banking network.

[tyoungos]

@olga2415 Poor Japs need to eat shits if they think their American masters (actually London-based Zionist Rothschild Cabal snakes) would not double-cross their Japanese servants and bring on a crisis there with a HAARP-induced earthquake to cause enormous problems for them.The Rothschild Cabal has already done to the Germans (WWII in the 20th century), the Russians (Russian Revolution in 1917), the French (French Revolution in the 1790s), and will do to the Americans (the coming WWIII). #LOL

[olga2415]

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[HoodwinkedbyanAngel]

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[olga2415]

@HoodwinkedbyanAngel I've been complaining about the whole nuclear reactor project for 50 years. Mankind is not emotionally evolved enough to handld nuclear reactor power plants, and everything taking place right now was predicted by one or the other of us "conspiracy nuts" for at least 50 years. The ruling class disregarded all the real experts on the dangers. All that's left for us to do now is use the worse cuss words we can think of and find a way to die with dignity.THE FUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HoodwinkedbyanAngel]

ohhhhhh boooy What a crock of crap... This clown calls this a human rights violation but the JOOS murdering the Palestinians by the thousands is not news worthy...

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Fucking JOO MEDIA MOGALS ...ANYTHING BUT THE TRUTH

[HoodwinkedbyanAngel]

Yea im nutz but if you look at the date I posted this video

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you will see if I am actually part psychic or partially psychotic relatively easily by looking at the prepositions and conjecture that I made on March 19 in that this would be the biggest catastrophe in the history of the world and that there was a cover-up going on. When in fact all of my conjecture has proven to be true ~ !

[polygamous1]

@manekinekotattoo dead right the "mainstream news media is Anything but real news" shame that we now have to watch anything alternative to learn what really matters yet most BS media is yapping away at what celcbrities do never mind that if all 4 reactors melt down we are ALL in serious troubles n now with their BS "free london papers" free at selling our freedom of information in the end them free papers will Only print what theor advertising paymasters want them to SCARY