FUKUSHIMA ECOCIDE UPDATE - AUGUST 16, 2013

This past week's developments on the Fukushima disaster -  a true ecocide of the Pacific Ocean that will continue to get worse over the next months, years, and decades. 

 

Unfortunately, neither Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and now Fukushima can dampen the Japanese nuclear industry's enthusiasm for the construction and operation of more of those infernal machines - in a country plagued by earthquakes and tsunamis, and a culture where deference to authority trumps the need for health and safety.

 

Here are some of this week's headlines by ENENEWS. 


Click on the following items to read the articles or watch the videos.

 
Japan TV reveals cover-up of radioactive ‘black rain’ data — Doctor: “This is really surprising” — A-bomb Survivor: “I feel nothing but resentment” (VIDEO)
 
Highest contamination levels yet in seawater off Fukushima plant — 3,800 Bq/liter of tritium
 
Asahi: Radioactive cesium in Fukushima water now 8 times higher than when disaster began
 
Bloomberg: Tepco now in talks to cover Fukushima reactors with concrete for next 75 years — Officials reviewing plan in U.S.
 
HuffPost: They covertly let water from Fukushima reactors flow into Pacific Ocean — Remains unclear what’s happened to melted cores — World’s worst atomic catastrophe is very far from over
 
Nuclear Experts: One century before Japan tries to deal with Fukushima’s melted cores? — “More likely what’s left of reactors will be left in situ for 100 years or more” (VIDEO)
 
Bloomberg: Much more than 300 tons of contaminated water a day entering Pacific from Fukushima? Data’s been “cooked” all along — It’s polluting North Asia — Oceans have no boundary
 
Tepco: “Significant density” of Alpha radiation leaking from Unit 3 at Fukushima — Steam seen at reactor building “likely to be leaked” from containment vessel
 
Ex-Fukushima Worker: High risk they’ll break fuel rods in Unit 4 pool — Gundersen: Moving fuel risks nuclear chain reaction; You can’t stop it, no control rods to control it — Consultants: World’s most serious radiological disaster by far is possible
 
Reuters: Corrosion is weakening Unit No. 4 at Fukushima — Concern quake to ‘topple’ bulging structure — “May have tilted” — Holds 14,000 Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137
 
Japan Reporter: Engineers only have ‘vague idea’ where Fukushima nuclear fuel is after world’s first triple meltdown — “A vast experiment” — Problems are enormous (AUDIO)
 
Tokyo Professor on CBC: Latest Fukushima crisis is threatening public health — Gov’t response “totally abysmal” (AUDIO)
 
NHK: Groundwater levels continue rising at Fukushima plant — Gov’t warns Tepco about typhoons — “We can’t do anything” if rainfall overwhelms pump — Contaminated water could overflow and move “extremely fast” into Pacific (VIDEO)
 
TV: They are turning ground into quicksand at Fukushima plant — Engineers warn reactor units may topple (VIDEO)
 
Tepco “deeply apologizes for mistake” — Admits ‘sprayed’ Fukushima workers actually exposed to 5 times ‘safe’ radiation limit — Radioactive dust to blame, not water spray? — Just In: Worker taken urgently to hospital in ‘bad condition’ (VIDEO)
 
NHK Special Report on Fukushima: “We are still in an emergency… Not much time left… We can’t afford to wait” — Asahi: Fear of contaminated water overflowing from well that’s nearby trench leaking 3 billion Bq/liter into ground (VIDEO) 
 
AP: ‘Time bomb’ in leaking Fukushima trenches — If Tepco removes extremely contaminated water as planned, it will only make more flow in since reactor buildings connect to trenches
 
Over 15 quadrillion becquerels of radioactive substances suspected in trench that Tepco now admits is leaking into groundwater at Fukushima
 
 Fukushima Workers: Another accident is inevitable — There’s always risk of another explosion, I fear that a lot (AUDIO)
 

More ENENEWS reports on Fukushima - http://enenews.com/category/location/japan

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Interesting article for readers who have not been following this issue for a while:

FUKUSHIMA RETURNS

Fukushima was never properly brought under control. There are many reasons for this, but the most fundamental one is that the Japanese government left the job to the owner of the site, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

However, TEPCO was not the victim of an unforeseeable event – although the earthquake was exceptionally strong – but rather was guilty of a long list of blunders, encompassing planning, design and, especially, maintenance, through to poor response to the actual event.

It was incapable, from every point of view, of dealing with the aftermath, as should have been obvious at the time, and many observers said as much. But the incompetent Japanese government left the incompetent Japanese utility company in charge of dealing with a mega-disaster that should have become a global effort, but it couldn’t, because then the Japanese would “lose face.”

Read more:  http://www.jpost.com/Business/Commentary/Global-Agenda-Fukushima-returns-322534

Hat tip to:  http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/news/13-august-2013/

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