I’m not seeing too much on the mainstream media about the crisis in Japan. I guess it wasn’t doing enough for their ratings. Washington’s Blog and Zero Hedge consistently keep the truth coming. The situation is clearly not improving. I’m no expert, but it seems to be getting worse.
As radioactive water is pumped into the ocean and is turning up in rainwater in the US, the government response is to tell you that the levels are not dangerous to your health. If it isn’t dangerous to pump 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean, then why didn’t they always pump radioactive water into the ocean? The reason we have acceptable levels of radiation measurements is because if the levels exceed those levels, there is danger to human beings. Now that the levels exceed these standards, the government says they are not really dangerous. Were they lying before, or are they lying now? Why have danger levels if they aren’t really dangerous. The governments are caught in their own web of lies.
Tepco Dumps 11,500 Tons of Radioactive Water Into the Pacific
Kyodo news reports:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Monday took the unprecedented measure of dumping 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water in the Pacific Ocean from a facility at its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex to make room for the storage of more highly contaminated water, which is hampering restoration work at the plant.
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Nishiyama also said that it had become necessary to release 1,500 tons of groundwater, also containing radioactive materials, found near the Nos. 5 and 6 reactor turbine buildings out of concern that the water could drown safety-related equipment.
Of course, the government said there was “no major health risk”, even though:
The level of radioactive substances in the water is up to 500 times the legal limit permitted for release in the environment.
Fukushima Radiation Literally Off The Charts
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/05/2011 09:06 -0400
And so with each passing day the veil of lies at Fukushima is being lifted. For all those who had been scratching their heads how it is possible that Fukushima would have a (very high to begin with) radiation level in the millisieverts if indeed the plant had experienced a Chernobyl style meltdown and “inadvertent recriticality“, when it should have been far higher, here is your answer. According to NHK, “a radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation.” Unfortunately for the workers present, the monitor is not being metaphoric: “The monitor told NHK that no one can enter the plant’s No. 1 through 3 reactor buildings because radiation levels are so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless. He said even levels outside the buildings exceed 100 millisieverts in some places.” Perhaps it is time for the discredited Japanese government to form a committee to investigate whether TEPCO, with or without the complicity of the NHK, was counterfeiting radiation reading over the past month, and thus sacrificing the lives of the 50 brave TEPCO workers who are committing an act of suicide by continuing to stay at the plant. Who knows: maybe they would have a different opinion if they actually knew their presence there is a guaranteed death sentence.
From NHK:
Pools and streams of water contaminated by high-level radiation are being found throughout the facility.
The monitor said he takes measurements as soon as he finds water, because he can’t determine whether it’s contaminated just by looking at it. He said he’s very worried about the safety of workers there.
Contaminated water and efforts to remove it have been hampering much-needed work to cool the reactors.
The monitor expressed frustration, likening the situation to looking up a mountain that one has to climb, without having taken a step up.
At this point we are growing increasingly more confident that soon we will see a tipping point among the so far very peaceful and complacent population, which will result in unrest and possibly worse, demanding a government that will stop sacrificing people’s lives to the “greater good” of market stability.
Reverse Engineer says:
Besides sacrificing lives or evacuating Honshu Island, what other choices do they have?
RE
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5th April 2011 at 11:52 am
StuckInNJ says:
Don’t worry about it.
Wiki answers says one cubic mile of sea water weighs about 4,594,563,274 pounds. 11k tons isn’t even a drop in the bucket.
But I wouldn’t eat any sardines that weigh more than 10 pounds.
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5th April 2011 at 12:01 pm
Colma Rising says:
An old quote comes to mind:
“Just eat plenty of stir fly lice…”
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5th April 2011 at 12:07 pm
So Very Doomed says:
@RE
Good to see you back.
Now that your main critics/detractors/abusers have had the decency to deny us of their opinion, can we look forward to your posts returning to their full industrial strength length?
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5th April 2011 at 12:28 pm
newsjunkie says:
I just thank goodness that we aren’t supplying the Japanese with any humanitarian aid at this time. They certainly don’t need to be bombed on top of all they’ve suffered so far.
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5th April 2011 at 12:40 pm
Surly1 says:
More good news. When you don’t like the facts, change the argument.
So what to do? If you’re the United States Environment Protection Agency, there’s only one option: Declare radiation to be safe!
Yes indeed, friends, we have reached a moment of comedic insanity at the EPA, where those in charge of protecting the environment are hastily rewriting the definition of “radioactive contamination” in order to make sure that whatever fallout reaches the United States falls under the new limits of “safe” radiation.
http://www.naturalnews.com/031963_radiation_exposure.html
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5th April 2011 at 12:48 pm
KaD says:
http://www.naturalnews.com/031963_radiation_exposure.html
EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors
(seem suspicious?)
There was no “background radiation” for caesium-137 before above-ground nuclear testing and nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl. These isotopes and radioactive iodine do not exist in nature which is why making a comparison to normal background radiation is like apples to oranges. The MSM is doing everything they can to spin this.
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5th April 2011 at 12:48 pm
Reverse Engineer says:
@DVD
The rants will return when I get back to Alaska.
RE
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5th April 2011 at 12:51 pm
Axel says:
Ah, hell. The radioactive iodine MIGHT cause an increase in thyroid cancer, (which rarely kills), and this increase in cancer rates MIGHT turn up twenty-five years from now–when the world has already gone to shit, according to the opinion of most TBPers.
So, in my mind, if that makes sushi cheaper, because scared sheeple are avoiding Japanese restaurants, then it doesn’t bother me. I’d eat it.
And, BTW, I take out thyroids for a living.
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5th April 2011 at 1:59 pm
Old Silverttp says:
RE , , , look foreward to your safe and sage return.
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5th April 2011 at 2:16 pm
Axel says:
In fact, grab your sushi while you can–the greater danger is inability to obtain fresh fish in the future when it costs too much for fishing vessels to purchase fuel, and it costs too much to deliver their catch to far flung places, (like here, in Las Vegas).
It gets damn tiring reading all the news about disasters that are supposedly earth-changing, only to find out that, except for people local to the event, there really is little effect for everyone else.
So…Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill, Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor radiation leak, Tunisian/Egyptian/Libyan/Syrian (etc) unrest, economic collapse of the PIIGS, all make wonderfully riveting news, but for us sheltered Americans, its pretty much continued slouching toward a slow death from mediocrity.
In a perverse way, people almost want some type of emergency to shake them from their stupor, to rise up to an occasion, to live life with the heart pumping under the stimulation of the stress hormones released by the type of stress for which they were designed to respond.
They want Tyler Durden to bring them to a local Fight Club. They want not only to cast off the shackles that bind them, to shed their (Jamie) Demons, but also to be able to prove their mettle.
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5th April 2011 at 2:18 pm