The most dangerous “cliff”: A fuel pool hanging 100 feet above the ground in Fukushima!

January 4, 2013

 

By Mark Goldes

“No matter where we are on this planet, our lives are still threatened every day by a Unit 4 fuel pool left hanging 100 feet in the air. At any moment, an earthquake we know is coming could send that pool crashing to the ground.” Harvey Wasserman Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

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A massive near-term release of radioactivity may threaten billions of humans — perhaps every person living in the Northern Hemisphere.

An M8 aftershock, based on historical Japanese major quake data, has an 80% weight of occurring today, with that weighting reaching 100% by September 2016.   Based on ANSS data – the Earthquake Hazards Program of the USGS. 

An earthquake with a magnitude of eight or over could soon strike the country.”   Japan’s Defense Science and Technology Institute. The Japanese Earthquake Agency has recently confirmed a Magnitude 8 Aftershock Alert.

“Another earthquake 8.0 or higher at Fukushima-Daiichi could topple the spent fuel pool sitting 100 feet in the air on top of the damaged building of Unit 4. This would start an unquenchable nuclear fire, forcing evacuation of the entire site. Within a week or two the other 3 reactors would heat up and explode. The resulting release of radioactivity would equal 40 Chernobyls, which, according to some sources would be enough to render Japan, the U.S. west coast, and perhaps the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable.” Carol Wolman M.D.    OpEd News    December 20^th, 2012

Almost the entire ground-level of the Northern Hemisphere was covered in radioactive fission product 20 days after the March 11 earthquake. A map on the Aesop Institute website shows the concentration of Xe-133.

   ENENews January 1^st, 2013

The radioactivity already emitted into the atmosphere could total 10% of the Chernobyl accident releases for I-131 and Cs-137.

Chris Canine, Chemist and Radiation Safety Instructor and former Fukushima Daiichi Worker: “I believe (Japan) will be evacuated if No. 4 fuel pool collapses’ — “Should be hundreds or thousands of people working furiously every day’.   The fuel rods in the pool need to each be safely lowered to the ground with cranes as fast as is humanly possible.

“With one more (major) earthquake “Japan will cease to exist. The resulting destruction will take half the planet along with it.” Jake Price   The Guardian (UK)

The #3 and #4 reactors at Fukushima contain roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident . The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daiichi site contains nearly half of the total amount of Cs-137 estimated to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants.

 

5 times more Cesium-137 than Chernobyl would destroy our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.

Fukushima fuel pool #4 is the top near-term threat to humanity and a little recognized major National Security issue for the USA.   A massive release of radioactivity is a ticking time bomb.

Paths toward a Solution: Maximize pressure on decision makers!

To get started, you can take these actions, and perhaps come up with your own.

Email the Prime Minister of Japan, His Excellency Yoshihiko Noda, and ask him to accept help from other countries:   https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html

Write to Goshi Hosono, Nuclear Disaster Minister, also PM Noda’s Minister of the Environment, at: http://goshi.org/contact/ 

 

Write to The Ministry of the Environment, Minister of the Environment; English message form:   https://www.env.go.jp/en/moemail/

Email TEPCO at their headquarters and ask them to accept help from other countries:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/other/contact/general-e.html   Address it to either: Attn: Tsunehisa Katsumata, Chairman    or, Attn: Naomi Hirose, President.

Message President Obama: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

Contact your Prime Minister or Nations leaders, wherever you are, asking them to intervene swiftly to avoid disaster. Survival is a powerful motive. Governments must quickly take necessary steps to insure safety. The facts need to be widely understood.

Please take whatever positive steps you can. The lives you may help to save can literally include your own, as well as those of your family and friends!

For more information: http://www.aesopinstitute.org

Submitters Bio:

Mark Goldes is Co-founder of Chava Energy and Chairman of Magnetic Power Inc. (MPI) in Sebastopol, California. Chava is acquiring assets of MPI. Earlier, he founded SunWind Ltd. and began the non-profit Aesop Institute. He previously was CEO of a financial and economic consulting firm. Once a student of Electrical Engineering, he earned BA and MA degrees at San Francisco State University, and later served two years on active duty with the USAF, culminating as a Senior Director of the Berlin Corridor control radar in Germany. Afterwards, from 1956 thru 1958, he earned a second Master’s degree and was a Fellow in the Graduate Program in the History of Ideas, at Brandeis University. In 1960, he founded Emerson College of the Monterey Peninsula, and later initiated the free university movement, which spread to at least 600 locations worldwide.