Fukushima Update: Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly

Posted on October 22, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog

… And May Begin Tilting

The spent fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4 is the top short-term threat to humanity, and is a national security issue for America.

As such, it is disturbing news that the ground beneath unit 4 is sinking.

Specifically, Unit 4 sunk 36 inches right after the earthquake, and has sunk another 30 inches since then.

Moreover, Unit 4 is sinking unevenly, and the building may begin tilting.

An international coalition of nuclear scientists and non-profit groups are calling on the U.N. to coordinate a multi-national effort to stabilize the fuel pools. And see this.

Given the precarious situation at Unit 4, it is urgent that the world community pool its scientific resources to come up with a fix.

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  • Gil

    Another feather in the cap that oil and coal are the safest and viable energy sources?

    • elmo

      Now that’s really dim reasoning. Thanks to big oil and Haliburton, gulf seafood is now inedible, unless you don’t mind the carcinogens, shrimp with no eyes, deformed crabs, etc. And how about all the mercury pollution in the air and water from burning coal?

      • http://twitter.com/majordomo majordomo

        They have scrubbers on the coal plants (in the U.S. anyway). Then they take that, re-label it “fluoride” and sell it to your local water district “for your teeth”.

      • http://www.facebook.com/bud.b.east Bud Back East

        My brother-in-law is a Louisiana shrimper for over 30 years. He says that the shrimp this years appear normal, get tested by the government regularly, and pass every inspection. He is there and knows shrimp intimately, while you sit at a computer somewhere else reading alarmist reports. Go there, ask any shrimp boat captain, and then you’ll actually know what you are talking about.

        • Satariel

          I’ll trust the scientists over bubba gump, thanks.

          • soe schmoe

            scientists kinda got us into this mess. i’m not knocking science, just the hubris that accompanies many “scientists”.

          • InnerCynic

            Oh! Great… The man who actually lives and dies with his profession is the ignoramus while the one who gives opinions and runs away to his ivory tower is “god”.

    • CAmbullrun

      Everyone knows the safest energy is renewable. But we can’t tax air for wind power, or sell solar rays for solar power, so it’s kept in the dark. BS

  • http://www.facebook.com/thehippychef Alan Riner

    The technology does not exist yet to handle this situation. Japan will be a wasteland and we are powerless to do anything about it. The whole world will suffer for the greed of just a few.

    • Bev

      The technology would exist to add supports or perhaps to build the needed adjacent container that the water and fuel rods in the existing, collapsing container could “fall” into. I am not an engineer, but I bet this would be an easier task than many that have to be solved associated with Fukushima.

    • Bradtastic

      Exactly. but with the best and brightest minds collaborating on this I have no doubt they can make an adequate band-aid at the very least.

  • Bev

    This feels like a crossroad. We get this corrected is the only road to take. And, since Debt Money, lack of money, has stood in the way of all that is needed to concentrate all best efforts, the following is also a crossroad, and the one we should take fast.

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    via:
    http://maxkeiser.com/2012/10/22/imfs-paper-the-chicago-plan-continues-stir-opinions/

    IMF’s Paper on The Chicago Plan Continues to Stir Opinions

    Posted on October 22, 2012 by Mark OByrne

    Should governments just wipe away all debt & create a new monetary system?

    ……

    via: Jesses cafe

    http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12202.pdf

    ….

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    By
    Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

    2:31PM BST 21 Oct 2012

    743 Comments

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    ….

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  • http://www.facebook.com/bob.jarrett2 Bob Jarrett

    And Nagasaki will glow for a thousand years? The sky is falling.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1058076108 Mark Eccles

      Tell me the reason governments agreed to stop above ground nuclear testing?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Ervin-Holderbaum-Bachmann/1701195474 Arthur Ervin Holderbaum-Bachma

    They have scrubbers on the coal plants (in the U.S. anyway). Then they take that, re-label it “fluoride” and sell it to your local water district “for your teeth”. Is that correct ?

    • http://www.salescopywriter.net/ Alan

      Pretty much, though most fluoride is a waste product from aluminium plants

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1058076108 Mark Eccles

        Fluoride works on the surface of the teeth. You are not supposed to swallow it.

        • LordOrlock

          They mean water fluoridation. Theyre talking about the small traces of flouride purposely and dubiously put into the water supply, ostensibly to help societies teeth…

          • derp

            They’re after your precious bodily fluids as well!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Grant/866085636 Jason Grant

    How about no new startups until they do have the tech? Is that something that can be done Alan? Pussies arent gonna fix it either.

    • soeschmoe

      how about no nukes? there are much cheaper and safer ways to boil water.

  • http://www.facebook.com/thomas.harsley Thomas Harsley

    Yeah if those fuel rods become exposed they will irradiate an area the size of NY State. Pollute water off the coast of California and Alaska and sicken the people in and around reactor for decades Oh and for your information Nagasaki has the HIGHEST rates of incurable cancers in the world second is the people evacuated from Chernobyl

 

 

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