Fukushima Reactor 4: Life On the Planet May be in the Balance

[Makalakumu]

http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-reactor-4-life-on-planet-earth-in-the-balance/

Containing radiation at the crippled facility will be not small feat, Alvarez explained. “Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks,” Alvarez told Matsumura.


He then said the 11,138 spent fuel assemblies stored at the Fukushima plant contain “134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection.”


“It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet,” he concluded.


Matsumura admits this is an astounding number and one difficult to comprehend. He wrote that 85 times more Cesium-137 than released at Chernobyl “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”

I wish this story would make it's way back into the corporate news cycle. Thoughts?

 

[granfire]

http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-reactor-4-life-on-planet-earth-in-the-balance/



I wish this story would make it's way back into the corporate news cycle. Thoughts?

ah, but nuclear plants are so clean and safe.....

No fires, no news......if you can't see it (or even if you can, like a huge oil slick) it's a communist conspiracy.....

need to go clean my kitchen now... still got eggs to boil.....