Menu
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Vault
Time Travel Schematics
T.E.C. Time Archive
The Why Files
Have You Seen...?
Chronovisor
TimeTravelForum.tk
TimeTravelForum.net
ParanormalNetwork.net
Paranormalis.com
ConspiracyCafe.net
Streams
Live streams
Featured streams
Multi-Viewer
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
General Discussion Forum
General Discussion
Breaking World News
New Fukushima radioactive leak 'serious': West Coast of No. America to Be Hit Hard by Radiation
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 73838" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 22px">This is serious! Radiation is coming to the shores of America (read my Post #2 below), but it's not in the Mainstream News, because it will decrease the surplus population.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fukushima-radioactive-leak-serious-141500268.html;_ylt=A2KJjb2.6hRSsUsAF6nQtDMD" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>New Fukushima radioactive leak 'serious'</strong></span></a></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fukushima-radioactive-leak-serious-141500268.html;_ylt=A2KJjb2.6hRSsUsAF6nQtDMD" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">More than two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the embattled operator is stuck in damage-control mode.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Japan" target="_blank">Japan</a><span style="color: #ccff99">’s watchdog Nuclear Regulation Authority announced Wednesday that a radioactive water leak at the crippled </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Fukushima+Daiichi" target="_blank">Fukushima Daiichi</a> <span style="color: #ccff99">Nuclear power plant was magnitudes more severe than previously thought, further eroding faith in the capacity of the plant owners and government to deal with safety breaches in the aftermath of </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0705/Japanese-panel-Fukushima-a-man-made-disaster-video" target="_blank">a disaster there two years ago</a><span style="color: #ccff99">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">The NRA increased the severity level of the crisis – which began when a leak was discovered in a storage tank Monday – from a level 1 “anomaly” to a level 3 “serious incident” on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Each number on the scale represents a 10-fold increase in severity, with a level 3 event signaling exposure that exceeds ten times the limit for workers, according to the </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+Nations" target="_blank">UN</a><span style="color: #ccff99">'s</span> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/International+Atomic+Energy+Agency" target="_blank">International Atomic Energy Agency</a><span style="color: #ccff99">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">"I don't know if describing it this way is appropriate, but [<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Fukushima" target="_blank">Fukushima</a>] is like a haunted house and, as I've said, </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-japan-fukushima-severity-idUSBRE97K02B20130821" target="_blank">mishaps keep happening one after the other</a><span style="color: #ccff99">," NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said to reporters, according to Reuters. "We have to look into how we can reduce the risks and how to prevent it from becoming a fatal or serious incident." </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">The announcement came as workers at the plant frantically hauled sandbags to the site of the leak to stem the flow of contaminated water. But</span> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tokyo+Electric+Power+Co.+Inc." target="_blank">Tokyo Electric Power</a><span style="color: #ccff99">, or Tepco, which runs the hobbled plant, acknowledged to </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+New+York+Times+Company" target="_blank">The New York Times</a> <span style="color: #ccff99">that </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/world/asia/300-tons-of-contaminated-water-leak-from-japanese-nuclear-plant.html" target="_blank">much of the leaked water had already found its way into the surrounding soil</a><span style="color: #ccff99">, and could eventually reach the ocean.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">This is the latest in a series of major crises that have befallen Fukushima since March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown at the plant – the worst disaster of its kind since the 1986 incident at </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Chernobyl" target="_blank">Chernobyl</a><span style="color: #ccff99">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">Last month, the NRA declared an emergency at the plant after it was discovered that hundreds of tons of radioactive groundwater </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0806/Fukushima-s-new-emergency-radioactive-water-leaks-video" target="_blank">were leaking into the ocean</a> <span style="color: #ccff99">from the plant each day. And last week, the plant announced that</span> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0813/Fukushima-nuclear-emergency-stands-2-years-after-quake" target="_blank">10 workers had been unwittingly sprayed with a mist</a> <span style="color: #ccff99">– used to cool parts of the building – that had high levels of radiation.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">Tepco has been repeatedly criticized for its bungled handling of these crises, and many observers worry the latest leak is a harbinger of further disasters to come. As the Times reports,</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">Tepco had assumed the tanks would last at least five years. But the tank that leaked could have been in place no more than two, and workers previously found smaller leaks from similar tanks at least four times. And Hiroshi Miyano, an expert in nuclear system design at </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Hosei+University" target="_blank">Hosei University</a><span style="color: #ccff99"> in </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tokyo" target="_blank">Tokyo</a><span style="color: #ccff99">, said that the tanks would be vulnerable to earthquake or tsunami, with the potential for a huge spill.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">Meanwhile, the company has not yet identified the precise source of Monday’s leak, which was uncovered when workers found large puddles near a 1,000 ton tank. By the time they identified the problem, some 300 tons of water had already spilled out.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99">As </span><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/FOX+News+Network+LLC" target="_blank">Fox News</a> <span style="color: #ccff99">reports, the spill will contribute to a cleanup effort that is already projected to take decades, and</span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/21/japan-to-upgrade-radioactive-water-leak-at-fukushima-to-serious-incident/#ixzz2cbiniljQ" target="_blank">that has left the area around the plant devastated</a><span style="color: #ccff99">.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99"><em>The Japanese government recently allowed international media to travel inside the uninhabited zone around the plant, on the nation's northeastern coast. Villages appear frozen in time, deserted, with everything left as it was when residents were evacuated. The crippled nuclear plant, whose reactors have still not cooled, is situated on a hill overlooking what were once beautiful beaches now littered with vehicles and debris from the tsunami.</em></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99"><em>Former residents are allowed to visit sometimes their former homes, but can't stay long and face a vigorous radiation checking procedure every time they leave. The sea, was once famous across Japan for the fish it provided, is bereft of fishing boats. </em></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #ccff99"><em>Recent tests of water from wells in the area show that radioactivity is still hundreds of times above safe drinking levels.</em></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 73838, member: 2770"] [SIZE=6]This is serious! Radiation is coming to the shores of America (read my Post #2 below), but it's not in the Mainstream News, because it will decrease the surplus population. [/SIZE] [URL='http://news.yahoo.com/fukushima-radioactive-leak-serious-141500268.html;_ylt=A2KJjb2.6hRSsUsAF6nQtDMD'][SIZE=6][B]New Fukushima radioactive leak 'serious'[/B] [/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]More than two years after a massive earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the embattled operator is stuck in damage-control mode.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Japan']Japan[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99]’s watchdog Nuclear Regulation Authority announced Wednesday that a radioactive water leak at the crippled [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Fukushima+Daiichi']Fukushima Daiichi[/URL] [COLOR=#ccff99]Nuclear power plant was magnitudes more severe than previously thought, further eroding faith in the capacity of the plant owners and government to deal with safety breaches in the aftermath of [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0705/Japanese-panel-Fukushima-a-man-made-disaster-video']a disaster there two years ago[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]The NRA increased the severity level of the crisis – which began when a leak was discovered in a storage tank Monday – from a level 1 “anomaly” to a level 3 “serious incident” on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale. Each number on the scale represents a 10-fold increase in severity, with a level 3 event signaling exposure that exceeds ten times the limit for workers, according to the [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+Nations']UN[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99]'s[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/International+Atomic+Energy+Agency']International Atomic Energy Agency[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]"I don't know if describing it this way is appropriate, but [[URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Fukushima']Fukushima[/URL]] is like a haunted house and, as I've said, [/COLOR][URL='http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/21/us-japan-fukushima-severity-idUSBRE97K02B20130821']mishaps keep happening one after the other[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99]," NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said to reporters, according to Reuters. "We have to look into how we can reduce the risks and how to prevent it from becoming a fatal or serious incident." [/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]The announcement came as workers at the plant frantically hauled sandbags to the site of the leak to stem the flow of contaminated water. But[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tokyo+Electric+Power+Co.+Inc.']Tokyo Electric Power[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99], or Tepco, which runs the hobbled plant, acknowledged to [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/The+New+York+Times+Company']The New York Times[/URL] [COLOR=#ccff99]that [/COLOR][URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/world/asia/300-tons-of-contaminated-water-leak-from-japanese-nuclear-plant.html']much of the leaked water had already found its way into the surrounding soil[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99], and could eventually reach the ocean.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]This is the latest in a series of major crises that have befallen Fukushima since March 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami caused a nuclear meltdown at the plant – the worst disaster of its kind since the 1986 incident at [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Chernobyl']Chernobyl[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]Last month, the NRA declared an emergency at the plant after it was discovered that hundreds of tons of radioactive groundwater [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0806/Fukushima-s-new-emergency-radioactive-water-leaks-video']were leaking into the ocean[/URL] [COLOR=#ccff99]from the plant each day. And last week, the plant announced that[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0813/Fukushima-nuclear-emergency-stands-2-years-after-quake']10 workers had been unwittingly sprayed with a mist[/URL] [COLOR=#ccff99]– used to cool parts of the building – that had high levels of radiation.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]Tepco has been repeatedly criticized for its bungled handling of these crises, and many observers worry the latest leak is a harbinger of further disasters to come. As the Times reports,[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]Tepco had assumed the tanks would last at least five years. But the tank that leaked could have been in place no more than two, and workers previously found smaller leaks from similar tanks at least four times. And Hiroshi Miyano, an expert in nuclear system design at [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Hosei+University']Hosei University[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99] in [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Tokyo']Tokyo[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99], said that the tanks would be vulnerable to earthquake or tsunami, with the potential for a huge spill.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]Meanwhile, the company has not yet identified the precise source of Monday’s leak, which was uncovered when workers found large puddles near a 1,000 ton tank. By the time they identified the problem, some 300 tons of water had already spilled out.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99]As [/COLOR][URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/FOX+News+Network+LLC']Fox News[/URL] [COLOR=#ccff99]reports, the spill will contribute to a cleanup effort that is already projected to take decades, and[/COLOR] [URL='http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/21/japan-to-upgrade-radioactive-water-leak-at-fukushima-to-serious-incident/#ixzz2cbiniljQ']that has left the area around the plant devastated[/URL][COLOR=#ccff99].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [INDENT] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99][I]The Japanese government recently allowed international media to travel inside the uninhabited zone around the plant, on the nation's northeastern coast. Villages appear frozen in time, deserted, with everything left as it was when residents were evacuated. The crippled nuclear plant, whose reactors have still not cooled, is situated on a hill overlooking what were once beautiful beaches now littered with vehicles and debris from the tsunami.[/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99][I]Former residents are allowed to visit sometimes their former homes, but can't stay long and face a vigorous radiation checking procedure every time they leave. The sea, was once famous across Japan for the fish it provided, is bereft of fishing boats. [/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=6][SIZE=4][COLOR=#ccff99][I]Recent tests of water from wells in the area show that radioactivity is still hundreds of times above safe drinking levels.[/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/SIZE] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
General Discussion Forum
General Discussion
Breaking World News
New Fukushima radioactive leak 'serious': West Coast of No. America to Be Hit Hard by Radiation
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
Accept
Learn more…
Top