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Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?

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Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.

What he saw was horrific.

And now he is saying that we are in big trouble.

See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC’s Chairman Gregory Jaczko here.

But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011. March 17th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California.

And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between.

Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since.

The scientists most upset are those who have studied the effects of radiation on health. I’ll say it again, so its really clear: we are in big trouble.

The most preliminary reports of soil contamination are starting to come in from the USGS, who has seemed reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado, so far have the highest radioactive particle contamination out of the entire US.

That being said, every single city tested across the country showed contamination from Fukushima. What is even more alarming, however, about the numbers coming in, is that they are from samples taken April 5th, of last year.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has only recently confirmed that there were three meltdowns, and they have been ongoing, unabated, for thirteen months, and no effort has been made to contain them.

Technology has to be developed/invented to deal with the melted out corium under the reactors. Until then, they will keep doing what they have been doing.

TEPCO just keeps dumping water on them, after which they let it pour into the ocean, and steam up through the ground, every second of every day. The jet stream, and a highly dynamic portion of our atmosphere called the troposphere, have been swirling around massive amounts of radioactive particles and settling them out, mostly in rain, over the entire northern hemisphere, especially the west coast of North America, from Alaska down to Baja and even further.

Iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium, and a host of other fission products have been coming directly from Japan to the west coast for thirteen months.

Maybe you have heard about sick seals, polar bears, tainted fish, mutations in dandelions and fruits and vegetables, possibly even animals already, and seaweed. In fact the kelp from Corona del Mar contained 40,000,000 bcq/kg of radioactive iodine, as reported in Scientific American several weeks ago.

If you don’t know your becquerels, its a lot. That’s what your pacific fish feed on. And that was only ONE isotope reported. There were up to 1600 different isotopes that have been floating around in our air, pouring out of the reactors, and steaming out of the ground, every second of every day, for 13 months.

And there has been silence from our mainstream media, for which the depths of depravity are so severe I will devote an entire article just to the “why” at a future time.

But back to the research: reports in the past week indicate the pollen in southern California is radioactive now too, and it is flying around, and if you live there and go outside, you are breathing it in. And so are your children.

Along with fission products blowing over from Japan. And radiation in your drinking water. And in your rain. And in the fish you are eating. And your vegetables. And the milk supply. And its happening every second, of every day. For 13 months. Are you starting to see a problem here?

Problem is, that’s not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is what Senator Wyden is all bent out of shape about, even though independent researchers and nuke experts have been warning about this for a year.

And that is that the Reactor #4 building is on the verge of collapsing. Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1565 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 11th when the earthquake and tsunami hit.

If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods.

That is, if we aren’t in one already. Nuke experts like Arnie Gundersen and Helen Caldicott are prepared to evacuate their families to the southern hemisphere if that happens. It is that serious.

So now you know, if you didn’t before. We are in big trouble.

Get informed. Start paying attention to this. Every single statement in this article is verifiable, and I will continue to verify and validate the seriousness of this situation at every opportunity I have.

This may be the most important thing you ever pay attention to, for the sake of your family, friends, your neighbors, every one you know and meet, all of humanity.

It’s been thirteen months, you have some catching up to do.

Please help Christina purchase a spectrometer in order to get the most accurate radiation readings and thus get you the most precise information possible by shopping through her Amazon link or donate directly via PayPal to fukushimafacts@gmail.com. Keep in mind, this is expensive equipment and it is the only way that specific isotope readings can be obtained from food items.

Minor editing by Madison Ruppert

Christina Consolo is a former clinical researcher supervisor with NIH credentialing; a former Member-at-Large for the Board of Directors, Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society; A peer reviewer for the Journal of Ophthalmic Photography; She has written, published, and contributed to numerous scientific research in retinal imaging and ophthalmogy for the past 24 years; She is also an award-winning biomedical photographer and maintains several websites to teach people about radiation, mitigation, and other nuclear issues. She is also the host of “Nuked Radio” Tuesdays & Thursdays from 12-1:00 pm EST on the Orion Talk Radio Network.

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11 Comments on "Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?"

  1. Charlie Bucket on Wed, 23rd May 2012 1:03 pm 

    I always knew we would fuck ourselves good and proper! I have known it pretty much my whole life. Damn it, I hate it when I am right. I wonder how the housing market is in Bueno Aires? Cheers! Time to get busy living!

  2. diemos on Wed, 23rd May 2012 1:59 pm 

    Gods above. What a hysterical recycling of every fantasy that’s been floating around out in the infosphere.

    I’m surprised she didn’t mention the “surge in dead babies on the west coast” myth.

  3. BillT on Wed, 23rd May 2012 3:29 pm 

    diemos…the fantasy is real. you are the one circulating myth. Google “Fukushima” and spend a few hours reading and listening and learning. If you think nothing is happening there, you are either a big stockholder in this corporate death or you are an employee. The third option is that you are just not intelligent enough to understand.

    No, you will not see it on TV or in newspapers. They are owned by the corporate world that is making billions from nuclear on all ends. Nuclear energy, uranium mining, nuclear bombs,
    nuclear plant construction, nuclear ships, subs, etc. and, yes, even cancer and death from radiation. ALL of it adds to the GDP.

  4. Kenz300 on Wed, 23rd May 2012 4:25 pm 

    Nuclear energy is too dangerous and too costly. TEPCO is bankrupt and is being taken over by the Japanese government. The taxpayers will be paying for this disaster forever. The spent fuel storage pools are now seen to be as dangerous as the reactors. Japan has shut down their 54 nuclear reactors and now they need to transition to safe clean alternative energy sources. Wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels made from algae, cellulose and waste are the future.

  5. dsula on Wed, 23rd May 2012 5:13 pm 

    BillT, don’t believe everything you read. Especially this piece of BS.

  6. Hubbertsfreak on Wed, 23rd May 2012 5:23 pm 

    Nuclear waste is dangerous for 10,000 years….so we build hundreds of nuclear reactors all over the world. And we are the most intelligent beings on earth.

  7. Norm on Wed, 23rd May 2012 5:40 pm 

    The article doesn’t provide hard comparative numbers. Radiation in Portland? But at what level? So the fearmongering may be excessive. Its true you could detect the radiation almost anywhere on Earth, but it may be at a low level. Meanwhile the cynic posters should not be so cynical about the spent fuel pool. Oh its BS? Well the notion of a Tsunami taking out a reactor was BS too, until 2011. Its absurd to have so much containment & backup for the reactor, but no containment, and no backup, for the spent fuel pool which has a hundred times the radiation. A radiological fire in a dry pool would be like 100 Chernobyls. The spent fuel pool is the unnacceptable risk, and the ‘system’ (government + corporations + corporate media + corporate welfare worker drones) is a total failure.

  8. Clouseau2 on Wed, 23rd May 2012 6:22 pm 

    I do think the fuel pool in building 4 is a disaster waiting to happen. But this article is full if ridiculous statements. “one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people” — I suppose that’s true if 2.89 billion people take turns holding it?

  9. Rick on Wed, 23rd May 2012 8:03 pm 

    Nukes suck. But, this article sounds a bit over the top. There was another earthquake today in Japan.

    I agree with Clouseau2 “one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people” — that’s not logical. As opposed to one nuclear war head?

    Let’s get real people, and start thinking.

  10. BillT on Thu, 24th May 2012 3:07 am 

    Dusula, I read many sources, over 50. Do you? The truth is, we are being slowly killed by the radiation leaking out of this mess and will be for a long time. If #4 goes, Tokyo will have to be evacuated, maybe permanently. THEN you will believe that this is the worse thing to happen since Hiroshima, and not just for the Japanese.

    It’s too bad that education in the Us has been dumbed down to the point that you cannot understand radioactivity and how it kills for thousands of years. But, that is what your corporate masters want. Dumb, obedient slaves.

  11. gus on Thu, 24th May 2012 9:15 pm 

    Given all the other things we’re doing to the Earth and all the chemicals we poison ourselves with, this can’t help. But the 40 MBq activity rate cited is NOT a huge actual dose by itself. It would be far more useful if the testers has sampled the kelp for as many radioisotopes as possible and listed them all; then we might have a decent picture of actual exposure.

    Based on what they gave: According to the Rad Pro Calculator that amounts to about 2 rems per hour even if EATEN (I used the smallest distance, 1 cm, and assumed it was I-131). Of course, taken internally, it bombards you forever. At 5 feet it’s .0000829 rem/hr.

    The fact they found iodine in that kelp in spring 2012, however, is worrisome. Radioiodine has a fairly short halflife, so it should be nearly undetectable by now if it had been spewed LAST March. That implies it came much more recently, which would support other sources’ allegations of renewed criticality at Fukushima, even if its sporadic.

    That said, I’m a strong supporter of shutting down nuke plants before one of them DOES spew an uncontrollably huge quantity of radiation from burning fuel rods, like this one is in danger of. The problem, though, is doing that won’t stop Fukushima’s ongoing disaster Obviously, radiation doses DO accumulate

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