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Japan
2012-02-26 Lessons
from Fukushima: The Power of Denial and the Optimismm of Youth,
majiasblog.blogspot.com
2012-02-26
Report: All 20 calves born at farm were stillbirths —
60km from Fukushima plant, enenews.com
2012-02-27 4
quakes M4.0 and higher hit Japan in last 4 hours — Chiba,
Miyagi, Iwate, enenews.com
2012-02-27 Weekends
off at Fukushima: Not one plant worker could be seen says Asahi
— Operational equipment lay idle — A cold eerie
quietness, enenews.com. [Ed. Note: This is another
topic for special comment during the March 19, 2012 Jeff Rense
interviews of Michael Collins and Yoichi Shimatsu, who I also
allude to in the 3 March entry above. If the spent fuel pool
in building 4 topples over, it is goodbye most of Japan for
sure. The building is sagging, yet no serious effort is apparently
being made to adequately prop it up. Intense radiation eats
through concrete and even steel support beams over time. How
can anyone afford to take weekends off during a grave continuing
national emergency like this?]
 Title:
Aerial
photos of Fukushima nuke plant an eerie sight
Source:
Asahi, Date: February 27, 2012
A
cold eerie quietness envelops the stricken Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant. There is no activity among the snow-dusted
buildings, and reminders of the devastation caused by last
year’s Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami are everywhere.
That
was the scene that greeted an Asahi Shimbun team that flew
to the site on a company helicopter on Feb. 25 [...]
Because
it was the weekend, there was no activity. Not one plant worker
could be seen and operational equipment lay idle. [...]
It
was an eerie sight, made bleaker by the undisturbed thin carpet
of snow covering the ground.
2012-02-28 (for this day) Report:
Massive smoke between Reactors No. 2 and 3 — Can NOT be
observed on Tepco webcam, only TBS/JNN, enenews.com,
Feb 29, 2012
2012-02-28 Video
of Fukushima Units 3 and 4, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Watch
the video and pause it at 49 seconds.
Look
to the left of unit 3 (which is featured). Unit 4 is in the
background.
An
Enenews commentator believes that the black flow visible in
the background between unit 3 and the crane is melted corium
from unit 4's spent fuel pool. [correction: unit 3]
[correction:
the enenews commentator who posted this has corrected my representation
of what he said: He wrote this comment: Majia, just a brief
correction to your description above. I did not claim you are
looking into corium from the SFP4, but that you are looking
directly into the corium for SFP3 - which lost it's water in
early December and I believe burned for two months]
I
have no idea what it is, but I thought viewers more educated
than I might be able to decipher what they are seeing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/nuckelchenblogde?ob=0&feature=results_main#p/u/14/gsAQeOUGvUA
Today
the New York Times has an article, "Japan Weighed Evacuating
Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis," about a new report documenting
the chaotic early days of the crisis. The NYT states that authorities
were very concerned about the spent fuel pools. The report indicates
that the pools were subsequently found to be safe.
[excerpt
from the NYT article] "The report also describes the panic
within the Kan administration at the prospect of large radiation
releases from the more than 10,000 spent fuel rods that were
stored in relatively unprotected pools near the damaged reactors.
The report says it was not until five days after the earthquake
that a Japanese military helicopter was finally able to confirm
that the pool deemed at highest risk, near the No. 4 reactor,
was still safely filled with water...."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/world/asia/japan-considered-tokyo-evacuation-during-the-nuclear-crisis-report-says.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
The
article goes on to state that the US government "overreacted"
because it thought that one of the spent fuel pools (unit 4)
was burning:
[excerpted]
"The report seems to confirm the suspicions of nuclear
experts in the United States — inside and outside the
government — that the Japanese government was not being
forthcoming about the full dangers posed by the stricken Fukushima
plant. But it also shows that the United States government occasionally
overreacted and inflated the risks, such as when American officials
mistakenly warned that the spent fuel rods in the pool near
unit No. 4 were exposed to the air and vulnerable to melting
down and releasing huge amounts of radiation..."
Majia
here: Is the report described by the New York Times another
whitewash?
Did
spent fuel pool #4 burn?
If
not, what was that strange, massive, glowing blob that was visible
in the middle of building 4 from the JNN/TBS cam for weeks in
Jan and early Feb?
There
are too many unanswered questions here and too many accounts
of inexplicably high radiation levels still on the US west coast,
as documented by Michael Collins
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/02/beta-watch/
2012-02-28 Photos
from jet show devastated N-plant by Tatsuo Nakajima,Yomiuri
Shimbun Staff Writer (h/t Yomiuri
Jet Flyover: Walls of OTHER structures at Fukushima plant were
also blown away, enenews.com, 28 Feb 2012). Extract
from the article:
The
heavily damaged upper framework of the buildings housing the
Nos. 3 and 4 reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant
were photographed from a Yomiuri Shimbun jet Sunday [...]
Once
the aircraft turned to view the No. 2 reactor building from
the coast, a big opening in the wall was visible despite the
fact that the building had not exploded [...]
Walls
of some other structures located on the sea coast were also
blown away. [...]
The
sight of the plant from the air has seared into our memory the
cruel accident, which destroyed the livelihoods of more than
110,000 local residents.
2012-02-29 Great
Article on Why Be Alarmist on Fukushima, majiasblog.blogspot.com
Japan
Nuclear Disaster Update #43: Why do We Feel the Need to Be Alarmist
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/02/japan_update_43.php
hat
tip Anthony at Enenews http://enenews.com/cesium-spikes-to-highest-level-in-7-months-north-of-tokyo-1000-above-recent-averages-ctbto
2012-02-29 Worrying
Image of Fukushima Steam Release, majiasblog.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijnh36Vr-0&feature=plcp&context=C3ad6107UDOEgsToPDskLbpLaA3WR9qzDiXhC4h3Fg
Pure
Water posted the link at Enenews
http://enenews.com/report-massive-smoke-between-reactors-no-2-and-3-can-not-be-observed-on-tepco-webcam-only-tbsjnn
2012-03-01 (for this day) Doctor:
More and more often children complain of circulatory disturbances,
tiredness, dizziness after Fukushima (VIDEO), enenews.com
2012-03-02 Study:
Fuel damage not ‘major’ at Fukushima Reactors No.
5 and 6 — Emissions from cores and spent fuel pools not
‘large’, enenews.com
2012-03-03 Yomiuri:
Radiation fears more serious than expected — Hosono meeting
almost every day with advertising agencies to discuss strategy
for appealing to public, enenews.com. [Ed. Note:
This is particularly sinister not only because it reinforces
the longstanding policy of denial and cover-up by the Japanese
government regarding the extreme seriousness of the overall
disaster, but also supports the Japanese government policy of
burning radioactive debris all over Japan, thereby
contaminating so much of Japan that almost the entire population
will likely be genocided. As Jeff Rense observed in his 19 March
talk shows with Michael Collins and Yoichi Shimatsu, this "share
the misery" or "we are all in this together collective
struggle" policy (or however this peculiarity of Japanese
society might be interpreted) is tantamount to self-genocide
and national suicide].
Title:
ONE
YEAR AFTER THE DISASTER / Quake-hit areas still struggling with
debris
Source:
Yomiuri, Date: Mar 3, 2012
[...]
The Environment Ministry has not actively explained in detail
about debris from quake-hit areas because it did not want to
agitate residents who oppose accepting the debris. [...]
However,
public fears of radiation were more serious and stronger than
ministry officials expected.
Environment
Minister Goshi Hosono has become increasingly frustrated with
the slow progress ahead of the first anniversary of the March
11 earthquake and tsunami. Hosono has called employees of large
advertising agencies to his office almost every day to discuss
strategy to appeal to the public directly. [...]
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