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Fukushima: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4”
We reported in 2011 that the International Atomic Energy Commission knew within weeks that Fukushima had melted down … but failed and refused to tell the public.
The same year, we reported in 2011 that the U.S. knew within days of the Fukushima accident that Fukushima had melted down … but failed to tell the public.
We noted in 2012:
The fuel pools and rods at Fukushima appear to have “boiled”, caught fire and/or exploded soon after the earthquake knocked out power systems. See this, this, this, this and this.
Now, a declassified report written by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on March 18, 2011 – one week after the tidal wave hit Fukushima – states:
The source term provided to NARAC was: (1) 25% of the total fuel in unit 2 released to the atmosphere, (2) 50% of the total spent fuel from unit 3 was released to the atmosphere, and (3) 100% of the total spent fuel was released to the atmosphere from unit 4.
NARAC is the the U.S. National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center, located at the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. NARAC “provides tools and services that map the probable spread of hazardous material accidentally or intentionally released into the atmosphere“.
The fuel pools at Units 3 and 4 contained enormous amounts of radiation.
For example, there was “more cesium in that [Unit 4] fuel pool than in all 800 nuclear bombs exploded above ground.”
39 Comments on "Fukushima: “100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4”"
ghung on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 3:23 pm
Pretty much solves the disposal problem.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 7:47 pm
Humanity … death by suicide.
twocats on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 7:50 pm
Davy talked about the multi-point variables of stress and their global nature. When growing up we were afraid of a nuclear attack fallout (do you want to play a game) and sure there was three mile island, but going forward there are a shit-ton of nuclear power plants that are in distress. Apneaman – lets see some posts about Hanford and Indian Point.
I’ll get the ball rolling:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hanford-nuclear-cleanup-problems/
How does this relate to peak oil? The eventual decomissioning of these sites is going to take massive amounts of energy in the form of trucks, equipment, ice-walls, and concrete tombs. Not to mention the lost productivity from cancer. Luckily we have a massive labor surplus.
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 7:59 pm
twocats, if it wasn’t for the myriad of environmental problems, I might agree with another decade (reduced). Not really accurate to separate the various issues though as they all fall under the heading of overshoot.
PUMPED DRY
THE GLOBAL CRISIS OF VANISHING GROUNDWATER
http://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/groundwater/
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 8:50 pm
I did a news search and low and behold, no MSM story from any western countries. Just RT.
https://www.rt.com/news/325663-fukushima-nuclear-report-declassified/
twocats on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 8:55 pm
I hear you Apnea – sorry to get you all worked up earlier. Trust me, every day I wake up and look out the window and almost scratch my head that everything isn’t on fire. And I agree that overshoot is essentially the source. The scary thing about nuclear is that even if 50% of the global population magically disappeared tomorrow (taking a lot of pressure off overshoot in general), the nuclear issues would remain just as tenuous.
Apneaman on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 9:19 pm
no apologies necessary twocats, I was born worked up – still working on dialing it down 😉
Go Speed Racer on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 10:23 pm
put a hydrogen bomb in the middle of the fukushima disaster site. Light fuse and get away. Only under adult supervision.
Ka Blammo, the whole thing disappeared, no fuss, no mess, even your driveway was automatically swept clear, crack open a cool one, its Miller time.
Wait a short 20 years, and you can go scuba diving off your speedboat in the nice blue lagoon.
Go Speed Racer on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 10:24 pm
ya know why we don’t do it that way? cause hundreds of thousands of gubbamint workers would rather pretend to clean it up over the next 80 years. makes a good welfare check.
twocats on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 10:27 pm
Well when you got Boat, Ennui, and Marmico floating around – I wonder why they bother. I mean we have to deal with the stupidity of the world every day, and I go to cites like Peak Oil to remind myself I’m not the crazy one, and then you got for the most part jackasses that are essentially trying to rile you up every second. It’s a drag and I probably shouldn’t encourage any of them. Scorn is about all they deserve.
GregT on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 10:38 pm
The only thing that really matters in the end twocats, is the truth. Everything else is nothing more than confused background noise.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 11:17 pm
Go, and what about the billions of tons of radioactive dirt blown into the air to settle out in the oceans, fall over your house and gardens and in the air you and yours breathe for the next 100,000 years? Or didn’t you get that far in your thinking? Most here never get beyond the ‘flash bulb’ stage in their ideas. It is obvious that that is where their brilliance ends.
makati1 on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 11:27 pm
GregT, you have to remember that to many here, what they spout is the truth … as they see it or have been indoctrinated to believe over their lifetime.
Others are in deep denial that they are not as ‘exceptional’ as they want to believe or as indoctrinated to believe.
Then there are a few who see the whole picture and are able to express their view in an intelligent, educated, mature manner with references.
Makes it interesting here, doesn’t it? The subject (Peakoil) would be boring if there were not some entertainment and education in the comments. I suspect that the site managers know that and add in those ‘provocative’ articles to create such discourse. I know I would if I were in charge. LOL
GregT on Fri, 11th Dec 2015 11:34 pm
People don’t like to hear the truth mak, when it flies in the face of their indoctrination. I’m still finding that extremely difficult to understand.
onlooker on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 12:18 am
Guys does it not seem to almost like an “Alice in wonderland” or more apt a minefield of intellectual awakening to discover how totally and utterly we have and are wrecking our mutual future. It is as if mankind could not even fathom that such a thing as environmental destruction and devastation could be caused by anything mankind did. The truth as Greg so correctly points out is what matters and the truth is the myriad of environmental tracks leads to a conclusion that humanity will probably be practically extinct by the end of this century. AP maybe you can post something about the Ocean devastation that is ongoing. This from overfishing, warming waters and contamination. Now of course we have to had radiation. As radiation has also been steadily releasing into the ocean from Fukushima. Here is link. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fukushima-endgame/5420188
And a quote by Dr. Caldicott “Dr. Helen Caldicott:
There seems to be no end in sight for this dreadful catastrophe. About
300 to 400 tons of radioactive water per day are pouring into the
Pacific, have been for the last 3 years, and will continue probably for
the rest of time because no one can find out where the molten cores of a
hundred of seethingly hot uranium are. No one can get near them because
they’re so radioactive, and the water will continue to flow over them, I
guess, forever more. I can’t see any other way out of it.”
GregT on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 12:40 am
You have my respect onlooker. You have far more patience than I do, and you always make sense.
Two thumbs up for you.
onlooker on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 1:38 am
Thanks Greg. I think that is all we got left at this point, to chronicle unflinchingly and truthfully our own demise. Why? Maybe we are just like some person who is drowning, screaming in the waning moments to assert our existence to the uncaring cosmos in the face of our extinction.
GregT on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 1:59 am
Keep being yourself onlooker, whether myself or others agree with you, or not. You have a good head on your shoulders. Something that is seriously lacking these days. I always look forward to your perspective.
onlooker on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 2:05 am
I too look forward to your perspectives Greg. Merry Christmas! By the way the way things are looking here in NY area we are not going to have a White Christmas more likely some beautiful spring like weather. Whose complaining not me. Just kind of freakish though in December.
theedrich on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 4:51 am
How nice. This massive contamination, aimed at poisoning North America’s west coast, may be Japan’s unconscious retaliation for America’s nuking of that country in 1945. Of course, the reason FDR engineered Pearl Harbor in the first place was to get us into World War II against the nasty Nazis through the back door. Funny how Gaia/karma works.
ennui2 on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 7:57 am
^^^ Typical tinfoil hatter.
onlooker on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 8:44 am
Here is a confirmation about spread of radiation to North America from the MSM
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: Radiation From 2011 Incident Reportedly Spreads to North America :
http://www.missopen.com/science/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-disaster-radiation-from-2011-incident-reportedly-spreads-to-north-america/
Kenz300 on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 9:42 am
Wind and solar are safer, cleaner and cheaper……..
It is tie to stop destroying the planet by using Nuclear energy or fossil fuels to produce electricity.
Uruguay leading by example…….
Climate change is real….. we must deal with the cause (fossil fuels)
Uruguay Powers Nearly 100% of Electricity From Renewables
http://ecowatch.com/2015/12/04/uruguay-renewable-energy/?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b5a283874c-Top_News_12_4_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b5a283874c-86023917
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 11:20 am
Hi Makita, hope your Saturday is going fantastic. During the Cold War years, there were more than 500 above ground nuclear bombs lit off. http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/atest00.html
So if we need to make that ‘more than 501’ just cause we need to take out the trash over at fukublammo, do ya really think anybody would notice? So what’s the difference between 500 and 501? It’s just 1. And don’t forget to use only under adult supervision. Do not hold in hand. Fun for the whole family. NOW it’s Miller Time.
shortonoil on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 12:02 pm
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/10/mercury-poisoning-global-menace-treaty
http://www.unep.org/gc/gc22/Document/UNEP-GC22-INF3.pdf
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/01/treaty-insufficient-to-reduce-global-mercury-levels/
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ArcticMercury0512.html
Add in lead, cadmium, vanadium, a bunch of very toxic rate earths, and a few hundred tons of radionuclides and you have – Mother Earth meets Lucrezia Borgia!
Apneaman on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 12:20 pm
25 Aug 2011
Fukushima caesium leaks ‘equal 168 Hiroshimas’
Japan’s government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8722400/Fukushima-caesium-leaks-equal-168-Hiroshimas.html
surf on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 12:40 pm
Guy all fuel rods in unit 4 were removed and tansfered to a undamaged holding pool. All fuel rods in unit 4 are acounted for. None were reported missing.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Tepco-completes-unit-4-fuel-removal-2212141.html
frankthetank on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 1:26 pm
Are any fish in the Pacific going to be safe to eat the next 150 years?
Joe Clarkson on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 2:04 pm
Surf,
The Japan times concurs. I guess a lot of folks here will say these stories and images are faked.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/20/national/all-spent-fuel-removed-from-reactor-4-pool-at-fukushima-no-1-tepco-says/#.Vmx8DPkrKhd
The Fukushima reality is bad enough; there is no need to make stuff up. One week after the tidal wave, no one knew anything about the interior status of the spent fuel pools or reactors. The Zero Hedge story is mistaken, to put it mildly.
shortonoil on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 2:35 pm
“U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on March 18, 2011 – one week after the tidal wave hit Fukushima –states:”
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Tepco-completes-unit-4-fuel-removal-2212141.html
Who to believe? Lying NRC , or lying Tepco. It’s the new Russian roulette; it’s played with a hand grenade!
shortonoil on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 2:43 pm
12/12/15 PO News
100% of The Total Spent Fuel Was Released to the Atmosphere from Unit 4
“Are any fish in the Pacific going to be safe to eat the next 150 years?”
Sure, plenty! The good part is you don’t even have to cook them! Just have your thyroid removed before you start feasting.
dissident on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 4:10 pm
Lucky Japanese bastards. Their plant on the east coast was in the perfect place for most of the aerosol released into the atmosphere to be blown over the Pacific Ocean and not over Japan or other countries. The corium does not form dry gases when it boils off, it releases a complex mix of vapours and particles that eventually form a plume of aerosols. Essentially all of these aerosols would be scavenged from the atmosphere by the time the air mass reached the US coast. But the ocean would be contaminated and eventually the waters reached the west coast. But there was a significant attenuation of the radioactivity through dilution and decay of shorter lived components.
So America got spared too.
In the case of Chernobyl the winds blew the corium aerosol over primarily Belorus and the rest of Europe.
roman on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 5:41 pm
I saw a comment about nuking fukushima. Didn’t read the rest of the commnets. I’m not a nuclear scientist nor i want surf wikipedia but the neutrons might convert the toxic shit to inert crap.
alex Marshall on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 7:01 pm
As someone who works in the nuclear industry your article is so full of BS. The only way for the entire unit 4 spent fuel pool to release all of its activity is for it to blew up like a atom or hydrogen bomb taking the whole site with it including the rest of the fuel on site. Quit posting bogus “facts” prove to me you know what your talking about. What’s your degree in, animal husbandry, because all your fact’s are wrong!
makati1 on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 7:29 pm
So, maybe a real Godzilla will emerge from the Pacific and ravage Japan? LOL
Well, the death and destruction will be a bit more subtle and slow. Increasing cancers from the air, food and water will increase. Mutations will occur more frequently and it will just be one more way Mother Nature is killing off this ecology destroyer called humanity.
I wonder if any other species has ever committed slow suicide? We are “Number One!” LMAO
Apneaman on Sat, 12th Dec 2015 7:51 pm
alex, what’s your degree in? Whatever it is, apparently proper spelling and grammar were not required to obtain it.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Sun, 13th Dec 2015 1:49 am
The solution to pollution is dilution.
theedrich on Sun, 13th Dec 2015 2:54 am
Whatever the amount of the release, it simply adds to the poisons already circulating in the biosphere. It doesn’t look like our species is going to slow down the pollution any time soon. If we get to the EPA limits, the solution will be simply to raise the official designation of the limits. Problem? What problem?
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 13th Dec 2015 4:53 am
Hey Roman, yeah I am glad you spotted the answer, it’s nuking fukushima. let’s go into biz. sell ‘Nuke Fukushima T-shirts.