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Fukushima, Japan Money over mankind, Fukushima vs Chernobyl

Japanese gamble Armageddon in Last Ditch Fukushima Effort, Whiteout Press, August 20, 2013. “……….As if the situation in Japan wasn’t terrifying enough, RT News and nuclear fallout expert Christina Consolo expose a couple additional horrifying revelations regarding the Fukushima meltdowns, subsequent clean-up, and the desperate plan to stop Armageddon. She begins by describing the response by TEPCO and Japanese authorities as “temporary fixes”. The account describes some of the measures taken as the equivalent of duct tape and band-aids.

Consolo warns that cost-cutting and profits will also play an ominous part, “Cost always seems to be an enormous factor in what gets implemented and what doesn’t.” Comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl, the researcher points out that the Chernobyl meltdown involved a single reactor that had no spent fuel rods stored at the facility.

Each of the Fukushima reactors is also four-times the size of the Chernobyl reactor. And whereas no spent fuel rods were stored at Chernobyl, the Fukushima plants house six roof-top storage pools, two of which are structurally damaged from the earthquake and resulting explosions, fire and saltwater corrosion.

Illustrating the problem with cost-driven safety decisions, the report explains that on-site cooling pools used to be only for temporary storage of spent fuel rods and as a temporary option to help in their transfer to permanent facilities. But as documented by various sources, nuclear power plants around the world now store their own spent rods using unsafe methods to avoid the costs associated with their transfer and permanent storage in a safe environment.

Summing up where mankind is right now in the fight to save humanity from global devastation, the report leaves readers with this final warning, ‘We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever barriers TEPCO has put in place so far have failed. Efforts to decontaminate radioactive water have failed. Robots have failed. Camera equipment and temperature gauges…failed. Decontamination of surrounding cities has failed. If and when the corium reaches the Tokyo aquifer, serious and expedient discussions will have to take place about evacuating 40 million people.’

For more information, visit RT News.  http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q32013/japanese-gamble-armageddon-in-last-ditch-fukushima-effort/

August 22, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general