FUKUSHIMA
The Ongoing Fukushima Disaster (2019)
The disastrous meltdown of three nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, occurred just eight years ago and the world appears to have forgotten about it. Even the Japanese are attempting to pretend the situation has improved as they prepare to host the world Olympics in 2020. But the thing about deadly radiation . . . it hangs around for a very long time. And the Fukushima site is still generating radioactive water and air, spewing it off into the Pacific Ocean and the air just as if the melt-down occurred yesterday.
The disastrous meltdown of three nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, occurred just eight years ago and the world appears to have forgotten about it. Even the Japanese are attempting to pretend the situation has improved as they prepare to host the world Olympics in 2020. But the thing about deadly radiation . . . it hangs around for a very long time. And the Fukushima site is still generating radioactive water and air, spewing it off into the Pacific Ocean and the air just as if the melt-down occurred yesterday.
Radioactive Nightmare
Claims GE Knew Fukushima Plants Were Unsafe
Former nuclear engineer and whistleblower Arnold Gundersen recently told The EnviroNews USA that engineers for General Electric Company knew the Mark 1 boiling water nuclear reactor they were designing in the 1970’s was flawed but were unable to stop the company from marketing the system to Tokyo Electric Power Company and 34 other buyers throughout the world. A total of 23 Mark 1 plants are currently operating in the United States.
Former nuclear engineer and whistleblower Arnold Gundersen recently told The EnviroNews USA that engineers for General Electric Company knew the Mark 1 boiling water nuclear reactor they were designing in the 1970’s was flawed but were unable to stop the company from marketing the system to Tokyo Electric Power Company and 34 other buyers throughout the world. A total of 23 Mark 1 plants are currently operating in the United States.
Can Fukushima Radiation Be Stopped?
The earthquake and tsunami that destroyed three of five nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 has strayed from the news recently, but the disaster is still there and getting worse by the day, Japanese officials say. Scientists at the Daiichi nuclear plant this week declared a state of emergency after information gained from a robot revealed that one of the reactors has apparently burned its way through the bottom of the containment core and may be falling into the rock formations and possibly the ocean waters under the plant. The disaster is somewhat comparable to a runaway atomic bomb that no human manufactured device is capable of bringing under control.
The earthquake and tsunami that destroyed three of five nuclear power plants at Fukushima, Japan, in 2011 has strayed from the news recently, but the disaster is still there and getting worse by the day, Japanese officials say. Scientists at the Daiichi nuclear plant this week declared a state of emergency after information gained from a robot revealed that one of the reactors has apparently burned its way through the bottom of the containment core and may be falling into the rock formations and possibly the ocean waters under the plant. The disaster is somewhat comparable to a runaway atomic bomb that no human manufactured device is capable of bringing under control.
Radiation In the U.S. Is Scary
After watching a review of John Oliver’s warning about the effects of accumulated nuclear waste during a recent Sunday night television show, I decided to take a new look at Bob Nichol’s website Radiation This Week. Nichols report is technical but if you study it, it is scary as hell. He not only backs what Oliver had to say, he suggests that our situation is so bad we may have unwittingly allowed for our own looming extinction.
After watching a review of John Oliver’s warning about the effects of accumulated nuclear waste during a recent Sunday night television show, I decided to take a new look at Bob Nichol’s website Radiation This Week. Nichols report is technical but if you study it, it is scary as hell. He not only backs what Oliver had to say, he suggests that our situation is so bad we may have unwittingly allowed for our own looming extinction.