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For those that have been sleeping all week:

Video: Greenpeace Measures EXTREME RADIATION 40KM From Fukushima

I will not discuss the radiation readings mentioned in the video but the camera clearly shows the readings as VERY HIGH.

Expert Says "New Images Reveal Nuclear Fuel Rack Exposed to Air:"

Nothing to see here. Time to move on. And Yada, Yada, Yada

1 posted on 04/02/2011 10:21:52 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: RummyChick; investigateworld; Quix; Joya; M. Espinola; TruthConquers; blam

*Ping* !


2 posted on 04/02/2011 10:23:45 AM PDT by ex-Texan (Ecclesiastes 5:10 - 20)
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So, I guess this means that the entire Japanese population will be moving to Hawaii?


3 posted on 04/02/2011 10:27:10 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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Radioactive seawater.

Two words:

God.

Zilla.


4 posted on 04/02/2011 10:32:33 AM PDT by Hodapp ("O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.")
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They are bringing in a giant concrete machine from the US to pump concrete over the whole place and entomb it I guess like Chernobyl.


7 posted on 04/02/2011 10:34:59 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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RODAN

8 posted on 04/02/2011 10:37:31 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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I hate it when a ‘Rack’, gets exposed to air! :(


10 posted on 04/02/2011 10:40:19 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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We heard the same thing about TMI. How long did it take before they pulled the reactor vessel out of TMI-1 and shipped it to Idaho for tear-down? Six years.

See, this is why I have a hard time taking this crap seriously. We’ve heard it before.

Again and again and again. From the same hysterical hippies and peaceniks, given to the press in dire, somber tones by highly credentialed, Volvo-driving liberals wearing sensible shoes.

Greenpeace’s video was laughable theatre. There are only two explanations for the crap seen in Greenpeace’s video:

1. They’re so ignorant of what proper safety equipment really is for a hot area, that they’ve just caused themselves huge radioactive exposure and ingestion/inhalation of alpha particles, if they’re actually showing off real danger.

2. They’re depending on the ignorance of the segment of public that listens to their codswallop so as to overlook the errors in their little piece of theatre.

Since I’ll NB that physical courage is not the stuff that French environmentalists and Greenpeace are known for, and the environmental movement is rife with duplicity and mendacity, I’ll take choice “2.”


13 posted on 04/02/2011 10:49:30 AM PDT by NVDave
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Do the people whose homes are uninhaabitable in the reactor area get reimbursed for their terrible loss? And if so, by whom?


16 posted on 04/02/2011 11:01:12 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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That gives plenty of time to figure how to build a reactor on the sea coast where the backup power generators can’t be flooded by a tsunami. And maybe even to find some cogernment nuclear power officials who aren’t totally incompetent.


18 posted on 04/02/2011 11:05:30 AM PDT by bigbob (u)
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THe "Experts" at the second link are the hired guns of FairWinds, which, according to their website:
We specialize in environmental and energy litigation and federal and state administrative law, and we strive to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients. Our technical research and paralegal services are thorough and therefore enable our clients to make timely decisions regarding possible intervention, administrative law hearings, or preparation for litigation
I watched his video, and I watched the original video, and I can't tell whether the fuel rack was exposed or not. But since the people at the plant were working so hard to put water in the tank, it certainly was possible that the water level dropped below the rods. And there's been a lot of speculation about that.

But you have to remember that the entire water tank is encased in concrete, and that entire concrete encasement's TOP is below the entire blown-off structure. If you look at the video, and see the green equipment, that is the fuel mover, and it's above the floor, and the entire pond is below that floor, and the floor is intact.

Doesn't mean it didn't crack and leak, or the water didn't boil out. Just that you can't see enough from that video to really tell. Fairwinds has an ulterior motive related to how they make their money.

Greenpeace, on the other hand, there's a really good group. And those numbers were really high. 2043. That's a big number. Wish I knew whether I could trust exactly what they were saying about the units of measure.

27 posted on 04/02/2011 12:04:42 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Media distraction from domestic political and financial crisis


29 posted on 04/02/2011 12:09:46 PM PDT by STD (Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Imam Barrack Hussein Obama Launches a War in Libya)
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How many RADs did we get on the west coast of the US? Is it less than 750?
48 posted on 04/02/2011 5:26:51 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Math is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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"The final thing is that the reactors will have to be closed and the fuel removed, and that is 50 to 100 years away.

All of the damaged fuel was removed from the TMI reactor about 10 years after the meltdown. The scope of damage to the building is something that we did not have to deal with at TMI, but I don't see how this guy is concluding it will take 100 years. That just seem like wild speculation.

But this will be a significantly bigger effort.

75 posted on 04/04/2011 1:49:00 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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