Published: March 9th, 2012 at 2:08 am ET |
Follow-up to: Just-Published Study: Plutonium being found away from Fukushima is from nuclear fuel fragments blown out after explosions
Title: Plutonium near Fukushima plant poses little risk, study says
Source: Los Angeles Times
Author: Amina Khan (Ralph Vartabedian contributed to report)
Date: March 8, 2012
Emphasis Added
More reports of fragments of nuclear fuel on the ground:
Title: Plutonium near Fukushima plant poses little risk, study says
Source: Los Angeles Times
Author: Amina Khan (Ralph Vartabedian contributed to report)
Date: March 8, 2012
Emphasis Added
[...] In the area around the Fukushima plant, preliminary testing hadn't turned up signs of new plutonium isotopes in the soil. Unlike cesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes, plutonium can't vaporize and travel through the air. But it's possible the force of the hydrogen explosions blew out a little plutonium in the form of particulate matter.Robert Alvarez, a former senior policy adviser in the U.S. Energy Department
[...] near Fukushima, the researchers found that the ratio of plutonium-241 to plutonium-239 was much higher than expected. They said it was a clear sign that fresh plutonium must have been deposited in the area. [...]
Lead author Jian Zheng of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences in Chiba, Japan
- "They were irradiating plutonium in Unit 3, which experienced the biggest explosion"
- The explosion was so massive that investigators found fuel rod fragments a mile away, leading to speculation that a supercritical fission event may have also occurred
- Much remains unknown one year after the disaster
- Authorities can't say exactly where breaches occurred in the reactor vessels and spent fuel pools that caused contaminated water to flood the plant's lower levels
The amount of plutonium-241 released from the power plant was about 1/10,000th that from the 1986 Chernobyl accident in Ukraine.Dale Klein, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman
Read the report here
- "Fukushima was no Chernobyl"
- [Klein is] co-author of a report on Fukushima for the American Nuclear Society. That report says the long-term health risks of the radioactive fallout probably would be minimal.
More reports of fragments of nuclear fuel on the ground:
- Just-Published Study: Plutonium being found away from Fukushima is from nuclear fuel fragments blown out after explosions March 9, 2012
- Gov't Memo: "One or more of the building explosions ejected radioactive material around the site" at Fukushima March 7, 2012
- 4 Months Later: NRC says radiological material dispersed in 'various forms' around plant -- Most likely from inside reactors -- Isotopes indicative of core damage March 5, 2012
- Japan/US map showed 100 milliSv/hr "line" along the roadway west of reactor -- "This stuff is spread everywhere" March 5, 2012
- NRC: There's got to be fission products or pellets in parking lot outside Fukushima plant March 5, 2012
- Top US nuke official in Japan: Take it slow "without just running the military in there to kill people" for us to feel better -- Wait so it's "without a lot of loss of life" -- 300 millisieverts per hour OUTSIDE reactors before bulldozing 'rubble' March 5, 2012
- "There is spent fuel and pellets and whatever all over the place around the plant" -NRC's Top Man in Japan -- Trying to clean it up, but dose still going to be incredible March 5, 2012
- NYTimes flashback: Broken pieces of nuclear fuel rods found outside Reactor No. 2, says nuke executive -- Covered up by bulldozers February 25, 2012
- Watch BBC Clip: US video suggests flakes of nuclear fuel were scattered around Fukushima reactors -- Secret plans to evacuate citizens from Japan (VIDEO) February 24, 2012
- Mag: Curium and plutonium outside Fukushima plant indicate nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 -- Broken spent nuclear fuel rods may have been scattered December 17, 2011
- US nuke industry report: Explosions at Fukushima Units 1, 3, 4 may have caused inventory (nuclear rods) to be lost from spent fuel pools -- "Debris" on ground near Unit 3 was extremely radioactive after blast November 11, 2011
- Nuclear engineer: NRC now says reactors and containments have breached and released plutonium off-site -- "Much worse" than if from spent fuel pools (VIDEO) August 22, 2011
- Report: Nuclear fuel fragments found over a mile away were "ejected from the reactor cores in those explosions" not spent fuel pools, according to NRC (VIDEO) August 18, 2011
- NYTimes: Broken pieces of nuclear fuel rods found outside Reactor No. 2, says nuke executive -- Covered up by bulldozers April 7, 2011
- NYTimes on "Ejection of Nuclear Material": Confidential US doc suggests pieces of fuel blown up to a mile away -- Some between two units bulldozed over April 6, 2011
Published: March 9th, 2012 at 2:08 am ET |
Related Posts
- Just-Published Study: Plutonium being found away from Fukushima is from nuclear fuel fragments blown out after explosions March 9, 2012
- Report: Nuclear fuel fragments found over a mile away were “ejected from the reactor cores in those explosions” not spent fuel pools, according to NRC (VIDEO) August 18, 2011
- Japan Expert: It was a nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 — I believe fuel rods were blown out of spent fuel pool December 13, 2011
- Mag: Curium and plutonium outside Fukushima plant indicate nuclear explosion at Reactor No. 3 — Broken spent nuclear fuel rods may have been scattered December 17, 2011
- Japan Times: It is now a “grave situation” at Fukushima — “Plutonium fission” mentioned for first time — “Criticality is very likely to have occurred” November 3, 2011
"Unlike cesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes, plutonium can't vaporize and travel through the air."
And instead of the 5 orders of magnitude less than Chernobyl we get 1/10,000th.
So what is the real deal with the plutonium? I have never been able to get clear info on that.
http://enenews.com/fukushima-meltdowns-caused-plutonium-be-evaporated-spread-around-gas
http://enenews.com/explosions-occurred-early-3-reactor-very-similar-chernobyl-several-hundred-pounds-plutonium-ejected-video
http://enenews.com/journal-aerosolized-plutonium-from-fukushima-detected-in-europe-spent-fuel-indicated
http://enenews.com/plutonium-238-239-240-detected-fukushima-playground-august-15-tepco-admits-consider-be-triple-meltdown
http://enenews.com/nhk-internal-radiation-exposure-damages-dna-plutonium-hot-particle-seen-in-cell-avoid-touching-the-death-ash-video-wsubtitles
http://enenews.com/mag-curium-and-plutonium-outside-fukushima-plant-sign-of-nuclear-explosion-at-reactor-no-3-broken-spent-nuclear-fuel-rods-may-have-been-scattered-around/comment-page-1
No shit? What else is new? Like I've said before; Anyone who thinks that the explosion at reactor 3 was simply hydrogen is either stupid or delusional.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/has-japan-run-out-cans-kick
Good 'ole covert organizations (the U.S. has 18 of them in government) are very hard at work attempting to undermine our momentum. It is hoped that we respond as disappointed rats in a Skinner experiment, and stop trying. I think the powers that be have their work cut out for them; but that's what martial law, as far as the established power elite are concerned, is for. Will we have the courage to persist once that boom is lowered, once that other shoe has dropped? Most in here will, I believe.
and 1 year old news presented as astonishing find (not by ene but by msm)
makes bitter feelings for the ones reading that BS
We have had a whole bunch of discussion here on this issue. Ranging from one poster who is adamant that micro particulates from MOX is at the centre of a massive coverup driving shills on this site, to 'plutonium is to heavy to travel great distances.'
Then this post saying it cannot vapourize and travel at all.
We do know that depleted uranium from wars in the middle east have traveled great distances.
The point is, there are facts and there is a whole lot of obfuscation.
Highly respected journals publishing studies that seem to be blatantly manipulated to support the downplaying of these issues and couched in language that ensures it is supportive of the official story.
I could go on and on.
I said this in another post, but I think it bares repeating. This level of coverup is indicitive of, in my opinion, a very, very, very serious situation. It seems to me they may well being going through such great lengths because the reality of the matter could be far more horrifying than many of us here dare to imagine. (except the few who use ELE type language.)
http://enenews.com/experts-contamination-fukushima-worse-chernobyl-many-2051-goal-unrealistic-given-scale-catastrophe-will-be-alive-when-completed/comment-page-1#comment-173761
http://enenews.com/oregon-paper-radiation-fukushima-exceeds-chernobyl-level-unknown-humans-machines-august-leakage-maxed-measuring-equipment
http://enenews.com/fukushima-twice-as-bad-as-thought-japan-govt-more-than-doubles-estimate-for-amount-of-radiation-released-after-meltdown
http://enenews.com/report-air-in-tokyo-270-times-higher-level-of-cesium-137-than-global-weapons-fallout-peak-video
I am also looking for other how many "times" worse than Chernobyl links if any has them. I seem to remember 164x or so, but can't seem to find it now
February 29, 2012 by Mikkai
妊娠中の日本人女性の避難すぐ
“IAEA (pro nuclear eugenic devil) says, Chernobyl 4 released 50 Million Curie = 1,850,000,000,000,000,000 Becquerel (1.85e+18) http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/every-year-twice-chernobyl/
“Fukushima 1 released 40,000 trillion becquerel of Radio-Cesium which are: 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 becquerel: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201202290025
“Keep in Mind this is “only” for Radio-Cesium. Only ONE radionuclide group. Here as an example for ALL radionuclides in a reactor CORE: http://www.life-upgrade.com/DATA/inventory-reactor-beznau2.jpg
“The 40,000 Trillion are also TOO low.
“50 million Chernobyl curies? IAEA? “The pro-nuclear Time magazine reported in 1989 that perhaps “one billion or more” curies were released, rather than the 50 to 80 million estimated by Russian authorities.” Source: http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/Chernobyl@10p2.html
Chernobyl: Radiation emission was no less that 80% of the core (with a total of 192 tons) – If we divide the figure by the population of the whole earth then we get 1 Curie per person – or 37 billion becquerel. http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/ChernobylIftI.html
“50 million killed 1 mio to 1,8 million people so far: http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf and: http://www.ratical.org/radiation/Chernobyl/C1Mcasualties.pdf
“I wouldn’t believe in 50 million. It’s more than 5 billion Chernobyl curie.
“Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois: 9 Billion Curie
“Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California: 4,5 Billion Curie
“Mikola Karpan: 90% were released by Chernobyl, 10% remain…”
http://tekknorg.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/fukushima-rector-1-21000-times-chernobyl/
Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 11, 2011
Radiation levels almost 90 times Chernobyl evacuation limits found in unevacuated Fukushima school zone at a level so high it is lethal to 100% of the population within 15 years.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/11/chernobyl-evacuation-limit-5000-usvyr-394200-usvyr-detected-fukushima-school-zone-25951/
http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/namie-machi-fukushima-is-33-times-worse-than-chernobyl/
http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2012-03-01%20Helen%20Caldicott.mp3
“As Dr. Michio Kaku, a world renowned CUNY theoretical physicist pointed out on CNN March 18, 2011, Chernobyl involved one reactor and only 57.6 Tons of the reactor core went into the atmosphere. In dramatic contrast, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster immediately involved six reactors and IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN Agency) documented 2,800 Tons of highly radioactive old reactor cores.
“Quote:Simple division tells us there are at least 48.6 Chernobyls in the burning old reactor cores pumping fiery isotopes into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is no stretch to say Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors and the dry holding pools for old reactor cores are equal to more than 50 Chernobyl disasters.
“Further clarification is needed, of course, and it is being worked out now by independent physicists. Note that the lethality of radioactive reactor cores goes up the first 250,000 years they are out of the reactor – not down.
"Quote:This much is known.
“All radioactive exposures are cumulative for each human, animal and plant. What’s more, mutated genetic codes are passed on to offspring forever. This means all Japanese and all Northern Hemisphere inhabitants are suffering internal radioactive contamination from Fukushima Daiichi reactors already.”
http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-fukushima-equals-3-000-billion-lethal-doses-429-lethal-doses-for-each-of-us
“Dr Paolo Scampa, a widely know EU Physicist, single handedly popularized the easily understood Lethal Doses concept. “Lethal Doses” is a world wide, well understood idea that strips Physics bare and offers a brilliant, understandable explanation for all the physics gobbledygook Intelligence agencies and their respective governments use to disguise the brutal truths of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.
“Three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation means there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell. This is up from about 70 Billion Lethal Doses March 23, 2011. It is getting worse everyday without any intervention by the US and the other nuclear powers.”
http://www.realistnews.net/Thread-fukushima-equals-3-000-billion-lethal-doses-429-lethal-doses-for-each-of-us
“Three thousand billion (3,000,000,000,000) Lethal Doses of Radiation means there are 429 Lethal Doses chasing each and every one of us on the planet, to put it in a nutshell.
“This is up from about 70 Billion Lethal Doses March 23, 2011. It is getting worse everyday without any intervention by the US and the other nuclear powers.”
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/11/24/namie-machi-fukushima-33-times-worse-than-chernobyl-49400000-bqm2-22km-from-fukushima-nuke-plant/
fukushima aerosolized 640 pounds plutonium; takes 200 to kill ecosphere; enough hot particles to kill everyone 4000 times over Topic Started: Feb 6 2012, 09:52 PM (138 Views) necramericanomicon Feb 6 2012, 09:52 PM Post #1
“There are enough hot particles from Fukkushima Daiichi alone to kill every person on earth 4,000 times….”
http://s6.zetaboards.com/Free_Thinkers/topic/8798802/1/
"What can you say about Japan’s disaster? Because it is on porous sedimentary rock and landfill, they can’t even stop the radiation with a sarcophagus. Some of the fuel is MOX fuel, containing plutonium, which is 2,000,000 more deadly than uranium. And there is 400 times as much fuel as Chernobyl. And, are there even more meltdowns in Japan? There are enough hot particles from Fukkushima Daiichi alone to kill every person on earth 4,000 times….”
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3069802
This post also has much more info. and documentation and links.
April 26, 2011
“Busby said the explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 was also a nuclear explosion. The Chernobyl nuclear accident dispersed large quantities of radioactive fuel and core materials into the atmosphere. Busby told RT the crisis at Fukushima is far worse than Chernobyl.
“He said the explosion did not originate in the reactor core, but the tanks where spent plutonium MOX fuel rods are stored. MOX fuel contains plutonium blended with natural uranium, reprocessed uranium, or depleted uranium. The explosion vaporized the plutonium rods and ejected a large amount of radiation into the atmosphere….”
http://www.infowars.com/busby-fukushima-explosion-was-nuclear/
05 August 2011
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/health/2011/08/05/416.html
I think Roberta Flack said it best, re Tepco and the lads:
"Killing me softly with his song."
[quote]
* FUKUSHIMA & PLUTONIUM: “The most common (Plutonium) isotopes -- & those found at Fukushima – are plutonium 238, with a half-life of 88 years; plutonium 239, with a half-life of 24,000 years; & plutonium 240, with a half-life of 6,500 years.” (Another plutonium isotope is plutonium-241, with a half-life of about 14 years.) “According to (the Fukushima nuclear) plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), soil at five sites at the Fukushima plant was found to have plutonium. At least two of these sites had isotopes where there was a ‘high possibility' of a connection to the (nuclear) accident(s).” (4)
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http://www.countercurrents.org/hamer130411.htm
(Howdy @AGreenRoad...been trying to find you. Would love if you would link your blog to your Ene profile. Your info is stellar and should be accessible to everyone here, even if you are only commenting without links. Thank you!
....while I am here ...@anne... might you please consider starting a blog from where you can also post and warehouse your highly valuable info? No commentary necessary unless you'd like. Always (and also bows to eneveryone!) you make the research much easier and clear.
...hey howdy, SJ! Caldicott is my hero!
http://enenews.com/controversy-after-govt-estimate-showed-40000-microsievert-thyroid-dose-california-infants-after-fukushima-very-high-doses-children-releasing-info-public
Play it all down, shovel more shit, cover up the truth.
Kill nukes before they Kill you.
Its a crime against humanity and its forseeable future.
"Fukushima was no Chernobyl"
[Klein is] co-author of a report on Fukushima for the American Nuclear Society. That report says the long-term health risks of the radioactive fallout probably would be minimal.
Send this guy and he family to live in Fukushima for one year than I believe in that he is really believe it is safe. Although he is wrong.
Corruption Perceptions Index 2011
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/
[they obviously don't have Japan right - should be red]