Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to collapse

[JD4570]

Only the newest ones. As a fact the one near me is the newest in the U.S. . Unfortunately most operating now are almost 30 years old and are near the end of their life span. They shut one down in the state of Georgia that was about 45 years old and was already about 15 years past the shut down date. It was one of the early reactors in which Fukushima was based on! And it sat on top of a fault line!

 

[thaiturkey]

These guys pick some good places, don't they?

 

[hemet dennis]

Only the newest ones. As a fact the one near me is the newest in the U.S. . Unfortunately most operating now are almost 30 years old and are near the end of their life span. They shut one down in the state of Georgia that was about 45 years old and was already about 15 years past the shut down date. It was one of the early reactors in which Fukushima was based on! And it sat on top of a fault line!

So whats wrong with a fault line ?

 

[thaiturkey]

So whats wrong with a fault line ?

You're joking, of course!

 

[Lothiriel]

http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/27/blockbuster-foia-documents-reveal-nrc-cover-up-deception/

and Joy Thompson on the website Enformable.com, evidence obtained through an FOIA request reveals a ‘cover-up’ by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in an effort to conceal the severity of the meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan.

The FOIA request was initiated by the Friends of the Earth (FOE), the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and the Nuclear Information and Resource Center (NIRS) in March of 2011. Physicians for Social Responsibility explains the purpose of the request on YubaNet.com:
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“Interaction with DHS and federal agencies, including plume plot, possible exposure models, and monitoring of west coast.”
This information can only lead to one conclusion, stated perfectly by Thompson: “FEMA standing down, don’t expect the plume to hit the west coast that weekend. NRC thinks unit 2 ‘shut down safely.’ [Heh. The direct cite above indicates clearly federal agencies – FEMA, DHS, DOE, EPA – were very much aware that contamination from Fukushima would travel as a plume and that there would be fallout when it reached the U.S. mainland…”
In ‘document 6‘, an ‘Internal email’ from one William Ostendorff, and in reference to a 3:30PM conference call, there is another admission of knowledge of the plume, “4. Keep interacting with DHS on potential plume plots and modeling capability, etc…”.

5. Cover -up: Evidence of an effort to prepare for the inevitable pesky public inquiry can also be found in the internal email of Mr. Ostendorff:“Further develop Q&A as the attention will start to turn to US plants and our level of preparedness/protection from seismic and floods.”
But as Hixon points out, the directives for information control were given the day of the accident indicated in a bulletin from the ‘Operations Center’ dated March 11th at 3:04 PM:
“This is the ‘NOT A DRILL’ notice pictured above the squiggle. It sets the tone for information control with instructions specific to dealing with the international press.
In the first paragraph it identifies where employees may direct the press in order to access the ‘official’ press releases from NRC, and urges any NRC employees who ARE contacted by the media to inform the NRC Office of Public Affairs immediately.”

6. At the highest levels: There is plenty of evidence the White House knew everything and played a ‘lead’ part. In the Osendorff email he clearly states that “NRC posture to hold White House lead for U.S. response, NRC to be support only so as not to focus media attention on NRC-”.
Again, in a March 12th, 12:52 PM email from David Lew, we see White House involvement: “NRC remains in the monitoring mode. Chairman attended a meeting with White House. Marty Virgilio participated by VTC.” (video teleconferencing)
Later that afternoon another email from Mr. Lew states that there is a “Deputies Meeting at the White House with significant focus on the nuclear event.”​

There is little doubt now that the radioactive plume had an effect on American citizens but keep in mind that people were not falling over dead in the street in numbers and the ‘plume’ is an invisible one so unless one had warning, there was virtually no way of detecting its presence.
According to a GlobalResearch.ca article based on research printed in the Journal of Health Services , Internist and Toxicologist Janette Sherman, MD insists we have paid a heavy toll from the fallout:​

“Based on our continuing research, the actual death count here (USA) may be as high as 18,000, with influenza and pneumonia, which were up five-fold in the period in question as a cause of death. Deaths are seen across all ages, but we continue to find that infants are hardest hit because their tissues are rapidly multiplying, they have undeveloped immune systems, and the doses of radioisotopes are proportionally greater than for adults.”​

It seems that the fundamental problem with what Americans are experiencing is not just radioactive fallout but Fascism, the merging of the corporate and the state.
In a fascist state, there is little or no responsible action from the corporations for there is little or no promotion of accountability from the state. The corporations, for all intents and purposes, control the state.
And when the time has come that corporate profits outweigh human safety, has not also the time come, as Americans, to ask ourselves: do we, as a society, even value human life as we once did and if we do what IS the worth of a life?
Perhaps for once, it should NOT be determined in terms of a dollar amount.

Additional Reading: There are over a 1,000 pages of FOIA documents that are being analyzed post haste in an effort to reveal the truth about the Fukushima accident and what authorities did or did not do following the meltdowns to protect U.S. citizens.
The 186 page NRC transcript of conference calls: Lot’s of redacting but on page 153 (lines 24 and 25) and page 154 (lines 1-8) of the document Chairman Jaczco is told by Jack Grob that:​

“They asked for monitoring, both land-based and air-based monitoring. The DOE Radiological Assistance Program teams are on the ground in Japan, and they’ll be providing that monitoring. We have already established a relationship with the Department of Energy, and will get that information in real time, and that will be a huge benefit.”​

Talking Points Memo: NRC talking points as of March 17th, 2011 0600 EDT. Shows radiation plume was headed for the US.
395 pages of NRC Emails and more reveal the inner workings of the cover-up. Includes the emails quoted above.
Report on ‘An Unexpected Mortality Increase In The United States Follows Arrival Of The Radioactive Plume From Fukushima: Is There A Correlation? By Joseph J. Mangano and Janettte D. Sherman.​

 

[hemet dennis]

You're joking, of course!

If it's a small fault line so what. All faults have a maximum energy potential so if you build over that then what's the problem ?

 

[thaiturkey]

If it's a small fault line so what. All faults have a maximum energy potential so if you build over that then what's the problem ?

I'm not a geologist but perhaps you are. It seems to be an unnecessary risk to build a dangerous nuclear plant where there is a possibility of an earthquake. Measured risks don't always work out as hoped, as in Fukushima.

 

[JD4570]

An earthquake is not what I'm concerned about. It's the torsional effects a fault on the containment unit I'm concerned about. It's made of concrete and concrete no matter how thick will crack under continual torsion. The containment unit cracks, cooling water flows out. uhh ohhh!

 

[hemet dennis]

I'm not a geologist but perhaps you are. It seems to be an unnecessary risk to build a dangerous nuclear plant where there is a possibility of an earthquake. Measured risks don't always work out as hoped, as in Fukushima.

There is no place on the planet that is free of the possibility of a quake.

 

[hemet dennis]

An earthquake is not what I'm concerned about. It's the torsional effects a fault on the containment unit I'm concerned about. It's made of concrete and concrete no matter how thick will crack under continual torsion. The containment unit cracks, cooling water flows out. uhh ohhh!

As I said you build for what effects the fault can cause.