Nuclear meltdown
(Video) ‘One Million Fukushima Cancers’
by Nick Glossop on April 25, 2012
…we see that the Fukushima accident was on the verge of causing the evacuation of Tokyo. And had the wind been blowing the other way, across the island instead of out to sea, Japan would have been cut in half and destroyed as a functional country. So, this is a technology where perhaps accidents don’t happen every day, but when they do, they can destroy a country.
The other things
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(Video) Happy Birthday, Fukushima
by Nick Glossop on March 12, 2012
Contamination Fears Linger For Japanese Children, Workers One Year After Fukushima Meltdown
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Fukushima at One Year–”What, me worry?”
by Matthew Payne on March 10, 2012
From Gregg Levine at Firedoglake:
One year on, perhaps the most surprising thing about the Fukushima crisis is that nothing is really that surprising. Almost every problem encountered was at some point foreseen, almost everything that went wrong was previously discussed, and almost every system that failed was predicted to fail, sometimes decades earlier.
Yup. One of the most fascinating, if predictable, aspects about the Fukushima disaster …
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Fukushima Update–The Zone to Be Declared Uninhabitable
by Matthew Payne on August 22, 2011
This New York Times’ headline, “Large Zone Near Japanese Reactors to Be Off Limits,” is so redolent of the Chernobyl’ disaster that it undoubtedly sounded better in the original Russian. Somehow that Russian word, zona, has been lurking behind the Fukushima fiasco for months and now it appears the government is about to declare the obvious and note another large chunk of the globe has been made …
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Fukushima–The China Syndrome?
by Matthew Payne on August 18, 2011
UPDATE (8/19): Gregg Levine at Fire Dog Lake does an admirable job of summarizing all the news on Fukushima no one is talking about and what it tells us about our nuclear vulnerability. Watch the clip, which is devastating in a “more in sorrow than anger” sort of way, to get the lowdown and where we are right now in the Fukushima Nuclear catastrophe.
ORIGINAL (8/18): As Thom Hartmann points out here, the almost …
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Fukushima Update–Fatal Doses of Radiation and Fatal Doses of Ignorance
by Matthew Payne on August 6, 2011
While the world’s attention has been on other meltdowns, such as the debt ceiling kabuki in Washington or the Greek flu hitting Italy, the real meltdowns at Fukushima have fallen off the front pages. This gives the mistaken impression all is well on the east coast of Japan. It is not.
Just this week we learned of two very high radiation readings at Reactor One (h/t Gregg Levine at Fire …
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Fukushima Update–Rattlin’ and Rockin’
by Matthew Payne on July 10, 2011
The Fukushima Daiichii Plant survived a follow-up earthquake of 7.0 yesterday without incident. Whew! The “tsunami” of this quake was a mere 4 inches and did not hit the plant’s immediate coastline. Of course, TEPCo could be lying here but it is a great relief to know that the cooling pond at Unit 4 did not simply come crashing through the ceiling with its tons of MOX fuel and spent …
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Fukushima Update–Lies, Damned Lies and the Big Lie (Updated)
by Matthew Payne on July 3, 2011
Update:
The post below discusses what I see as the all-pervading mendacity surrounding the Fukushima accident, but The Atlantic Wire has an extremely important story, based on eye-witness interviews, that finally breaks TEPC0′s and the various governments’ blockades on what precipitated the accident (h/t to Joieau at Daily Kos for highlighting this story). We now know the standard story, that of a recovering plant being knocked out by a …
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The Kamikaze Of Fukushima
by Nick Glossop on June 20, 2011
The nuclear plant at Japan’s Fukushima may be leaking radiation, but people are still going there daily to look for employment where about 2,200 of the 2,500 working there are subcontractors.
In the last three months, at least eight workers have been exposed to high levels of radiation and removed from duty but this has not deterred others.
It’s a vocation with little job security, few benefits and no insurance
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Fukushima Update–Crowd Sourcing the Apocalypse (Updated)
by Matthew Payne on June 18, 2011
UPDATE (6/18): So much for hoping the clean up of radioactive water could get underway. TEPCo has suspended efforts to decontaminate this water as radiation levels spiked to dangerous levels. This unexpected event probably indicates the water is much more radioactive than previously considered (which for me indicates hinky things are happening in the melted cores). “Feed and bleed” may go down as the worse method to control a …
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