Japan Encourages a Wider Evacuation From Reactor Area, New York Times, March 25, 2011:
New signs emerged on Friday that parts of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are so damaged and contaminated that it will be harder to bring the plant under control soon. …
Concerns about Reactor No. 3 have surfaced before. Japanese officials said nine days ago that the reactor vessel may have been damaged. …
A senior nuclear executive who insisted on anonymity but has broad contacts in Japan said that there was a long vertical crack running down the side of the reactor vessel itself. The crack runs down below the water level in the reactor and has been leaking fluids and gases, he said.
The severity of the radiation burns to the injured workers are consistent with contamination by water that had been in contact with damaged fuel rods, the executive said.
“There is a definite, definite crack in the vessel — it’s up and down and it’s large,” he said. “The problem with cracks is they do not get smaller.” …
I have written about the Mox Fuel Reactor 3, it is 2 million times worse than a regular uranium nuclear reactor.
Now the officials are saying it is breached and releasing radioactive material.
A high-level radiation leak detected Thursday at one of six troubled reactors at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant indicates possible damage to the reactor's vessel, pipes or valves, the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said Friday.
Three workers at the No. 3 reactor's turbine building, connected to the reactor building, were exposed Thursday to water containing radioactive materials 10,000 times the normal level, with two of them taken to hospital due to possible radiation burns to their feet, the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
I have to say I have been amazed (not in a good way) how all the news sites online have taken Japan off their front pages besides MSM cable news do not mention Japan anymore. Yet it is something that will affect the whole world.
The lack of mention explains why all the dozens of stories about the life of Liz Taylor is all we now see from main street media. Nothing to see here, move on.
ReplyDeleteAnother great reporting job by the lame stream media.
ReplyDeleteOnce the majority of folks soon to be effected get the extent of the lengths the common media outlets have gone to minimize this serious disaster, The damage they are helping to increase, The lives lost to crappy reporting i think the masses just might be ready to kick some tail, Take some names and tan some asses.
Nuclear disaster is a plaything for the banker set and until the many being attacked with that radioactive nightmare come to and do something to end the threat the Ooops sessions will just keep a coming.
Seek a path to end the threat or become a victim.
They sought a path to contaminate YOU. Proof is all over the place IF you care to LOOK and THINK.
Time to work for everyone's benefit like your life depends on it because trust me it does!