Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

It is a total ROUT! The helicopters yesterday morning were especially lined with lead and the crew wearing radiation suits, but the radiation was too high for them to hit their targets [get close enough]...so it was abandoned. For two days they have tried to move in water cannons, but they now admit that the ground they'd have to cover is too radioactive for anyone but a robot to work in...and no such robot exists. It is now released that three [they had been saying one] reactors spent fuel rod pools are uncovered [and contain NO water]...... Spent fuel rods are MORE radioactive than the 'new' fuel rods in the reactor proper!!!...and more dangerous and more apt to overheat and meltdown. At least three reactors are cracked and one seems to have had its bottom melted through by molten nuclear fuel [which will slowly heat up to 5000C...at which time NOTHING [absolutely nothing!] can stop it...and it will melt down into the Earths Mantle [through the crust of the Earth like a hot knife through butter!]. While [a bit late] the head of the IAEA is coming today, as are some American Nuclear Experts, I think - I'm sorry to say - it is all too late now..... this is a catastrophe now and the only unknown is how bad.....I believe they will raise the level to 7 [the highest and worst] on the international scale. I presume they will soon increase the exclusion zone to 50 or more Km....but even that is useless, the winds will bring it to all Japan and, in fact, the whole World. The only question is how much - due to a variety of scenarios that can play out...but humans will not be making the decisions - Nature will. I see it as 'Blowback' - a term usually used for things deep political - but here hubris over Nature.

The ONLY card they now have to play [short of evacuating the Planet] is their fight to bring in new electric lines....which should have been done from the start - BUT I rather doubt that the motors are working; the pipes are intact and that the last connections are even possible, due to the high radiation - now at levels that can make a person weaken in a matter of hours or minutes [they are NOT telling the correct levels and may not even know - the main meters were blown up in the hydrogen explosions!]....although very simple hand-held or robot moved meters exist - so the fact they are not fully telling is 'telling'. If, as in the article just above, they have been calling milli-Seiverts micro-Seiverts, then they have been purposely lying about the levels of radiation by a factor of 1,000! Stunning, if true! Anyway you 'slice' it, it is now a disaster of epic proportions and will go down in radioactive books alongside Three Mile Island; but closer to Chernobyl, I fear.