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FUKUSHIMA: How desperate Tepco hires desperadoes to put the destitute to work in radioactive areas.

BY JOHN WARD DECEMBER 30, 2013 ABE GOVERNMENT & TEPCO USING JAPANESE GANGSTERS AS PRESS-GANGS DAN HANNAN IS AN IDIOTFROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO BROUGHT YOU PEARL HARBOR.... HOMELESS POOR BEING WORKED TO DEATH TO CLEAN UP FUKUSHIMAMILTON FRIEDMAN WAS A PRICK

Shizuya Nishiyama. 57, homeless

Is this the bottom of the barrel at last?

I'm sure you will all be relieved to know that the situation at the Fukushima site is now so completely safe, nobody wants to work on cleaning it up, perhaps on the grounds that there's no point in cleaning something up when it's already clean.
Except that not even those on the dole will work there, because they'd rather take their chances any chances than work at Fukushima. Nobody believes the Tokyo government's reassurances. And so Tepco is now hiring bounty hunters to search the streets and ditches for homeless people. Tepco is paying them $100 a mug and the homeless victims themselves below the minimum wage because only those on the verge of starvation will do it.
Recent gangland arrests have in turn revealed that members of Japan's three largest criminal syndicates Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai and Inagawa-kai have set up black-market recruiting agencies under Obayashi one of twenty sub-contractors hired by the government to effect the clean-up of the harmless. Reuters last week found five firms working for the Ministry of Environment that could not be identified: no construction ministry registration, no listed phone number or website, no corporate registration disclosing ownership, and no record of the firms in the database of Japan's largest credit research firm, Teikoku Databank.
Tepco is cleaning up the worst nuclear contamination in history by using the underworld to dragoon the destitute. These people are, literally, being worked to death.
So to sum up, a mess started by dishonestly neoliberal, accountant-brainwashed General Electric (and then exacerbated by a lying owner regulating himself) was first of all hidden from the IOC by the Abe government, which action is in turn slowly killing 75 US sailors and hundreds of homeless people…in a grubby alliance with gangsters. This government has now passed the most draconian anti-Free speech law since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
But then, this is the nation that invented Endurance.
This globalist cock-and-cover-up isn't quite the way it sounds when Dan Hannan is burbling on about neoliberalism brainlessly, but I can only repeat: Milton Friedman thought deregulated, shareholder-rewarding neoliberalism was a good idea because he had no grasp whatsoever of what the sociopathic élite will do when things aren't going their way. Mr Friedman was an academic who is lauded by Dan Hannan, another academic. You see, there are Fluffies on both Left and Right. Or more accurately, useful idiots.
I have seen the future, and it is full of jerks.

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Fukushima meltdown? Mystery steam rising over Reactor 3

Oliver Tickell
31st December 2013

Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima's Reactor Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?

Fukushima's Reactor Building 3 exploded on 13th March 2011 as a result of a hydrogen buildup, breaching the building's containment and emitting a huge plume of radiation. The reactor itself is in meltdown.
And now fresh plumes of steam have been seen coming out the structure. These have now been confirmed by Tepco, the owner of the nuclear plant, from 19th December onwards. The company believes the steam is coming from the fifth floor of the building.
However it does not know the cause of the steam. Lethal levels of radiation and the physical damage to the structure have so far made entry and inspection impossible.
Possibility 1: a meltdown is taking place
The Reactor 3 fuel storage pond still houses an estimated 89 tonnes of the plutonium-based MOX nuclear fuel employed by the reactor, composed of 514 fuel rods.
Ever since the explosion Tepco has been concerned that if the spent fuel storage pond dries out, the intensely radioactive spent fuel rods would melt down and produce further significant radioactive emissions.
One possibility is that this process may now be taking place. In the event of water loss from the pond, the water would begin to overheat and produce clouds of steam, prior to a complete meltdown. If this is the case then a second major nuclear disaster at Fukushima is in the making.
This explanation appears to be relatively improbable, however the Turner Radio Network is advising people on the West Coast of North America to "prepare for the worst" in case a meltdown of the waste fuel is in fact commencing.
No official warnings have been released on either side of the Pacific.
Possibility 2: 'corium' has reached groundwater
Reactor 3 itself contained 566 fuel rods, and has experienced a complete meltdown. The location of the molten fuel, known as 'corium', is unknown, but it may have burnt its way through the reactor base and entered the underlying soil.
This would also produce steam as the hot corium came into contact with groundwater, while also releasing radioactive contamination to make its way into the Pacific Ocean.
Possibility 3: rainwater on stray fuel elements / Reactor
An alternative explanation is that the steam plumes could be caused by stray fuel pellets and reactor rod fragments - which themselves produce significant amounts of heat - coming into contact with rainwater percolating through the damaged and roofless structure.
And of course the same water could be reaching the hot reactor vessel. According to aFairewinds Energy Education posting on Facebook, the reactor is currently producing about 1 MW of heat, equivalent to 1,000 1KW electric fires, so enough to produce plenty of steam.
This would provide the least worrying explanation for the steam, in that as the radioactivity continues decline so will the heat production and the volume of steam produced. If this explanation is correct, there is no reason expect any catastrophic outcome.
However the steam is carrying considerable amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and represents an ongoing radiation hazard.

WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS


By: Turner Radio Network.
NEWS FLASH URGENT - December 28, 2013 11:00 PM EST (TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com ) Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America. Steam photo, full details and suggested methods to protect yourself appear below.
The announcements from TEPCO (in Japanese) can be viewed HERE(12/27), HERE (12/25) and HERE (12/24). You can use Google Translate to convert to English.
On December 28, 2013, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admitted steam was seen billowing out of reactor building #3, saying the steam appeared to be coming from what's left of the fifth floor of the mostly-destroyed building. It is widely known that persons cannot get inside Reactor Building #3 because it is severely damaged and highly radioactive, so TEPCO cannot state for certain what is happening in that building or why. TEPCO admits they do not know why this steam is being generated, but matter-of-factly revealed today (December 28) the steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again on December 24 and again on December 25.
Nuclear energy experts have told TRN that the ONLY way this could be happening is if radioactive material previously ejected from the reactor explosion in March, 2011 has mixed together with other materials and has begun its own self-sustaining reaction(s), also known as a "criticality." Put simply, another "meltdown" may be taking place.
There are basically two possibilities if another meltdown is in progress:
1) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected when the reactor exploded, have mixed together and "mini" meltdowns are taking place with those small clumps of pellets. This would not be a horrific problem and may be manageable, OR;
2) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected when the reactor exploded, went into the spent fuel pool located above the reactor and have begun melting down so seriously they are boiling off the water in the spent fuel pool.
Since steam is visible, experts tell TRN that Scenario #2 above is is the most likely scenario and if so, it would be an absolute nightmare WORSE than the original Fukushima disaster! The Spent Fuel Pool was situated on the fourth floor above Reactor #3, and if this is the source of the steam, the situation could escalate rapidly out of control.
(Click on diagram to enlarge) As shown in the diagram at left, the spent fuel pool is not a contained structure; it is literally a "pool" filled with water, to keep old fuel cool. (The metal radioactive fuel, once removed from a nuclear reactor, remains hot enough to melt itself for two to three YEARS after being removed from a reactor.) The experts tell TRN that if steam is coming out of reactor building #3 this could very well be the start of a much worse radiation release because once the spent fuel pool begins its own reactions, all of it will be uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
(Click on chart to enlarge) To provide insight into how much trouble this could be, the chart below proves that, according to TEPCO, reactor #3 was loaded with 566 fuel assemblies. The spent fuel pool in reactor building #3 contains 514 assemblies; about 89 TONS. If that "goes critical" there's nothing to contain the radiation which will go directly into the air.
The video below was taken several months ago by TEPCO. It shows that the roof is totally blown off reactor building # 3 and shows a robotic crane being operated by remote control, trying to clear debris from the Reactor # 3 spent fuel pool. TEPCO is forced use robotic cranes operated by remote control because the area is so contaminated, anyone entering the area would die from radiation within one hour.
Imagine, now, 89 tons of nuclear fuel boiling away that spent fuel pool water and releasing 89 tons of deadly radioactive fuel directly into the air. Two to three days later, the west coast of north America would be "fried" by levels of airborne radiation and "hot particles" which could kill.
DO NOT PANIC - - PLAN

Magda Hassan Wrote:Good to see no expense spared. ::face.palm::

Toll of U.S. Sailors Devastated by Fukushima Radiation Continues to Climb

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