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Radioactive ‘pond’ found at Fukushima
Japanese officials have found an Olympic swimming pool-sized pond of radioactive water in the basement of a unit at the Fukushima nuclear plant crippled by the March earthquake and tsunami. The discovery has forced officials to abandon their original plan to bring the No 1 reactor under control. Now they will focus on how to deal with the rising pool that some experts see as a threat to groundwater and the Pacific coast.
Despite the setback, safety officials and the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power, hope to stabilise the plant by January.
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Fukushima Daiichi Reactors 1-6
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Fukushima Japan Number 3 Plutonium Uranium Mox Fueled Nuclear Reactor Likely Leaking
Fukushima Daiichi Reactors 1-2-3-4
The Unimaginable Reality Of Fukushima Daiichi (02.04.11)
This Was Fukushima Daiichi Plutonium (MOX) Reactor No3
New video of Fukushima plant
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No 3 explosion on March 14, 2011
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Reactor No 1 explosion
Unit 3 & 4 Of Fukushima Daiichi
Reactor 4 after hydrogen explosion and several fires. This reactor houses 1564 spent nuclear fuel rods. This is what they are trying to cool down.
From top to bottom: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4 March 20, 2011 aerial photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by AIR PHOTO SERVICE
Reactor 3 (Mox) reactor aerial photo
Fire at Reactor 3 (Mox) Plant
reactors 1-2-3-4 after explosions
Reactors 3 and 4 after explosions and several fires
March 24, 2011 aerial photo taken by small unmanned drone
Reactor No 4 spent fuel Pool Exposed after explosion
In this Thursday, March 24, 2011, photo available Friday, April 1, 2011, inside of the Unit 4 at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is seen in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan. Steam comes out of debris by a crane device, in green, at the unit.
An overview shows smoke rising from the interior of reactor No. 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex in this still image taken from a March 24, 2011 handout video released on April 1, 2011.
Reactor No4 emitting toxic smoke
Reactor 3 fuelled by Plutonium & Uranium mix oxide
Reactor No 3
Reactor No3
Reactor No 3
Reactor 3 and 4 of Fukushima Daiichi
U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids
Monday, May 2, 2011
U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids
Kyodo
Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as “unconscionable” the Japanese government’s safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and junior high schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.
The PSR statement directly challenges Tokyo’s stance that it is safe for schoolchildren to use school playgrounds in the prefecture as long as the dose they are exposed to does not exceed 20 millisieverts over a year.
The PSR view is also in line with that voiced by Toshiso Kosako, who said Friday he would step down as an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the Fukushima nuclear crisis in protest. The University of Tokyo professor urged the government to toughen guidelines on upper limits on radiation levels the education ministry recently announced for elementary school playgrounds in Fukushima.
The U.S. group said in a statement released Friday, “Any exposure, including exposure to naturally occurring background radiation, creates an increased risk of cancer.
“Children are much more vulnerable than adults to the effects of radiation, and fetuses are even more vulnerable,” it said.
The medical experts group is part of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize.
“(Twenty millisieverts) for children exposes them to a 1 in 200 risk of getting cancer. And if they are exposed to this dose for two years, the risk is 1 in 100. There is no way that this level of exposure can be considered ‘safe’ for children,” the statement said.
Fukushima Daiichi – Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up Of Our Time
Amid the deafening silence from both world leaders and main stream media the situation at Fukushima Daiichi remains critical and highly unpredictable. Governments and pro nuclear apologists the world over would have us believe the huge radiation releases from all four reactors is harmless and poses no threat whatsoever to health. Likewise, any one attempting to confront or question the official line can now find themselves facing the risk of being criminalised. Never since the dark ages in our history has information, research, or critical analysis posed such a threat to be classed as illegal. As citizens of the world now is the time to demand the truth. The children of Fukushima are being exposed to abnormal radiation exposure on a daily basis. Now is the time wake up. Together we must act and demand the truth.
The Cesium fallout from Fukushima rivals That Of Chernobyl
An analysis of MEXT’s data by New Scientist shows just how elevated the levels are. After the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the most highly contaminated areas were defined as those with over 1490 kilobecquerels (kBq) of caesium per square metre. Produce from soil with 550 kBq/m2 was destroyed.
People living within 30 kilometres of the plant have evacuated or been advised to stay indoors. Since 18 March, MEXT has repeatedly found caesium levels above 550 kBq/m2 in an area some 45 kilometres wide lying 30 to 50 kilometres north-west of the plant. The highest was 6400 kBq/m2, about 35 kilometres away, while caesium reached 1816 kBq/m2 in Nihonmatsu City and 1752 kBq/m2 in the town of Kawamata, where iodine-131 levels of up to 12,560 kBq/m2 have also been measured
Valve Malfunction at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuke Plant :
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has found an abnormality in one of the valves at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture used to pump cool water to reactors in the event of an emergency.
The People’s News Network 
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