Fukushima still spewing massive radiation plumes; America in ‘huge trouble,’ says nuclear expert.
Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
May 1, 2012

During a recent Congressional delegation trip to Japan, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden witnessed with his own eyes the horrific aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, which we have heard very little about from the media in recent months. The damage situation was apparently so severe, according to his account, that he has now written a letter to Ichiro Fujisaki, Ambassador of Japan, petitioning for more to be done, and offering any additional support and assistance that might help contain and resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

The letter, which many experts see as the ominous writing on the wall for the grave severity of the circumstances, offers a disturbing glimpse into what is really going on across the Pacific Ocean that the mainstream media is apparently ignoring. While referencing the fact that all four of the affected reactors are still “badly damaged,” Sen. Wyden seems to hint in his letter that Reactor 4, which has reportedly been on the verge of collapse for many months now, could be nearing catastrophic implosion.

Imminent collapse of Reactor 4 could create a mass extinction event of both humans and animals

According to Christina Consolo, an award-winning biomedical photographer and host ofNuked Radio, Reactor 4 has remained in such bad shape that even a very small earthquake could quickly level the building, sending the fuel from more than 1,500 unused fuel rods into the environment. And with Reactor 4 still filled with the highest levels of radioactive MOX and other fuels, the consequences of this potential collapse could be far worse than anything that has happened thus far as a result of the earthquake and tsunami.

“[S]itting at the top of [Reactor 4], in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1,565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them ‘fresh fuel’ that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11 when the earthquake and tsunami hit,” writes Consolo. “If they are MOX fuel, containing six percent plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89billionpeople.”

Sen. Wyden is also asking U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Gregory Jaczko to assess how much additional assistance their agencies might be willing to provide to help Japan, and the entire world, avoid a nuclear catastrophe of Biblical proportions.


“The scope of damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected and the scope of the challenges to the utility owner, the government of Japan, and to the people of the region are daunting,” wrote Sen. Wyden in his letter, dated April 16, 2012. “The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance.”

That sucks. MSM is staying way away from this one.

Got a question.

I know what the first part means. Any clue as to the definition of shima?

shima means "you all".

Yea, it's worse than we have ever been told...
Our state (Oregon) is very concerned about it.

We are expecting huge piles of debris to wash up on our coast
and the Japanese tuna fishing industry is already contaminated.
I wouldn't be eating any of the tuna from there...

Yea, some expert said that radiation has been found in tree pollen on the west coast.

Yea, I've heard that to.
There was some wash up further north, in Canada.

Japan is rocking every single day..they are ready to blow.

Wonder if all that junk will sell as well as the ash from Mt St Helen sold?

The situation isn't near as bad as the article would indicate. There is no chance of a Mass extinction event or even close. The plant is still leaking radiation because the containment walls are cracked but as long as they keep the rods under water, another meltdown won't happen.

They need to move the rods from the cracked containment area to one that isn't cracked. They could just remove them altogether and send them back to the reprocessor.

There isn't any way to poison the world with the plutonium.

Building nukes adjacent to the ring of fire was a dumb thing to do.

Here is an article that is not as "fear mongering" as to the current conditions.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/28/fukushima-reactor-radiation-levels

or this,

Well the radiation leaking from Fukushima is going throughout the
world but at extremely low concentrations due to dilution in the
environment. Not anywhere near the mass extinction level though....

Interesting Guardian article update.

Agree that they have a long road ahead but that it certainly looks
like the reactors are still in cold shutdown and are reasonably well
contained. Much less impact to people than say the Kyshtym disaster
which (although less well known) certainly impacted a much larger
population with the worst nuclear poisoning and health effects ever
recorded in terms of number of people affected...and it is still
going on of course...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

Kyshtym could arguably still be called the worst overall nuclear
disaster we have ever experienced despite the usual rating of it
behind Fukushima and Chernobly.

alleoops

Always with all them negative waves, alleoops!
Don't hit me with the negative waves so early in the morning.

Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuStsFW4EmQ

ok, how's this.

Cosmic smashup predicted, but Earth will survive.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit — in 4 billion years.

That's good news!

The actual inventor of the "Jell-O Shot"

http://youtu.be/oMdmWysEp5w

or as they say in southern Japan, Y'all.