This week a new secrecy law was passed in Japan.
There was uproar as the act went through the Diet.
The effect of this new law will be to gag journalists, or anyone else, who reports any information about what’s really going on at Fukushima,
This is one law which the Japanese people should be breaking.
Not Covered.
There is a remark I keep hearing while talking with people about Fukushima and the radioactive pacific:
‘ I’ve not heard about that before now’.
This is no surprise as very little is being published in the worlds media about the ongoing disaster at the plant.
Yet should this come as a surprise to most of us ?
Not Known.
I’ve not seen any reports coming out of North Korea about the issue, and just don’t expect to see any.
Neither have I seen any reports coming out of China, or the Russian Federation.
Logically: –
– If the damaging effects of radioactive exposure are being felt around Alaska, then something similar should be going on along the coasts of Eastern Siberia.
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– I would also assume that similar biological damage is happening around the earthquake pron coasts of the Kuril Islands.
So where are these reports to be seen?
Mapping it Out.
I’ve been looking at a lot of maps of late.
These are the maps which show the sea currents which goes up though the Bering strait, in to the Chukchi sea, and around the Antarctic Ocean.
Looking at these maps it would seem logical that some of the radioactive material from Fukushima is or has entered in to this region of the world.
This being so: –
Then a part of it will soon start to flow south in to the North Atlantic.
What Comes Next?
We just don’t know.
Yet consider the following: –
The ice in the Antartic is melting as a result of climate change, and many new sea routes are being opened up.
This sea melting might well start to effect ocean currents, and thus the global circulation of radioactivate material from Fukushima.
As to the when and how of this: –
We just don’t know.
What I do know is that there is a lot more which we need to know, both in order to find out just what is going in the North Eastern Pacific, and thus the Antartic Ocean.
All else can only be educated guesses and speculation.
Pacific Problems.
The effects of the radiative leaks in to the sea from Fukushima are spreading, and very few people seem to be aware of just how major problem this has become.
Only in a few places such are we finding any attempts to monitor just how this radioactivity is effecting marine life.
Yet think on —-
– Plankton, & Krill.
– Big Fish eat smaller fish.
– Birds and mammals eat fish.
It goes right up the food chain.
Now we are reading about polar bears becoming sick in Alaska.
The Pacific Ocean is dying and very few people seem to be aware of it.
Global Problems.
Think on a little more —-
Just how will this build up of radiation effect seaweed ?
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How will the death of so much carbon absorbing sea life effect global warming ?
We just don’t know.
– The scientific data does not exist.
– There has never been such global disaster in the whole of human history.
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It is a much bigger disaster than anything which has gone before now.
A Global Effort.
Thus there is an urgent need to establish a global monitoring and analysis body to study just what is and will happen as a result of the continuing disaster at Fukushima.
The key to this monitoring study will be just how much longer will there be large amounts of radiation flowing in to the Pacific.
In order to do this we will need to monitor the situation with the combined efforts of the following: –
Marine Biologists.
Oceanographers.
Human Biologists.
Ornithologists.
Radiologists.
Climatologists.
Doctors.
Zoologists.
Agrarians.
and
Statisticians.
Then the longer term social effects will need to be looked at by both sociologists and economists.
Only then will we just about start to appreciate the long term problems which we face.
Something strange is happening along the pacific coastline.
This has been happening from Alaska southwards to California.
Now we are starting to get the same sort of reports from Guatemala, Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Both fish and marine mammals are being washed up dead, or reported to be suffering from horrific diseases.
Meanwhile: – Fukushima is a major global threat to all living flora and fauna .
All these reports would seem to indicate that life in the Pacific Ocean is dying.
Just read these reports and you will know why many of us are extremely worried about the continuing disaster at Fukushima.
Update.
I’ve just spent some time updating this blog, and deleting many of those news stories which are now covered elsewhere.
Many of those stories were about Fukushima, which you can find out more about via the links which I’ve just added.
There is however a lot about the ongoing disaster on Fukushima which comes down to speculation.
It is also extremely worrying.
What We Do Know.
– That there is a vast amount of radioactive water which is still leaking in to the Pacific. It will continue to do so for a long while in to the future.
– That the Fukushima plant is in an extremely dangerous condition.
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– That an earthquake or typhoon could topple the plant.
What We Don’t Know.
There are many questions about the plant which complicate any actions which might be done to solve all these problems.
For example: –
– Just what is now under the plant?
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– Just where are the melted fuel rods to be found?
What We Need To Know.
– Just how much radioactive matter has gone in the Pacific, and how much more is being added to it by the day?
This will need to be worked on at international level.
– How this has or will effect marine life, and the creatures which feed on them?
There have been a lot of extremely worrying stories about
diseased fish from Canada and the USA of late, but it is very
difficult to get a full picture of what going on right now. I would
speculate that we will soon be reading similar stories from
Mexico.
In order to get that full picture of that we will need to take in to
account both ocean currents, and fish migration patterns.
– Just how unstable the reactor buildings are right ?
In order to do that we will need them to be looked at by both
civil engineers and soil mechanics.
This all needs to be done as a matter of urgency.
It has just been revieled that Toshiba wants to have a majority stack in the UK nuclear consortium NuGen.
Well here is a funny thing the about the company, and its contribution to Fukushima reactors Nos 3 & 5 –
Reactor Supplier:-
Toshiba.
Steam Generator Supplier:-
Toshiba
Architecture:-
Toshiba
While over at Fukushima reactor No 4 we find –
Reactor Supplier:
Hitachi
Steam Generator Supplier:
Hitachi
Architecture:
Hitachi
A full list of all the companies which built the six Fukushima
reactors is to be found at: – http://nuctrans.org/Nuc_Trans/locations/daiichi/daiichi.htm
In 2012 Hitachi acquired Horizon Nuclear Power and plan to develop new nuclear reactors at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire.
Hitachi favours building an advanced Boiling Water Reactor.
So now you know.
The latest news about the TEPCO [ Tokyo Electric Power Company ] owned Fukushima plant does make for some very very scary reading.
The company has at long lost admitted that it has known for the last two years about the water flowing under the plant and in to the sea .
Now there is speculation that because of the water flowing under the reactor buildings, that it has caused the soil to resemble quicksand, and they might well “topple”.
It is currently estimated that some 600 tons of groundwater
enters the Pacific ocean from the plant each day.
Just do the maths on that,
or
Pump and pray.
Safe Jobs for the Directors.
Meanwhile: –
A number of TEPCO directors have recently secured new directorships at TEPCO related organisations, and are now living overseas.
They are: –
– Shimizu, Arai, Takei – Directors of ARABIAN OIL Company’s umbrella companies.
– Katsumata – External Director, the Japan Atomic Power Company.
– Hirose – Part-time Director, the Japan Atomic Power Company.
– Miyamoto – CEO, Nippon Field Engineering.
– Kimura – Vice President, The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan.
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– Fujiwara – External Auditor, Kandenko.
Lucky them!
They have been able to get out of the county,
but most of the population is staying put.
Is it any wonder that the Japanese have become very worried about what’s happening at the plant?
There is no such thing as a safe nukiller power plant,
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there certainly is no easy way to clean up the mess after any
nukiller power disaster.
The word at both Fukushima and Chernobyl is that it’s much
more of a dangerous situation that we face than the last time
anyone looked at what was happening at these sites.
After the Chernobyl Nukiller Power Plant disaster of the 1986 a
sarcophagus was built over the plant.
Now a quarter of a century later there is to be a new sarcophagus,
known as a Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter),
built over the plant.
The reason for this is that plant is currently leaking a lot of
radiation,
while we still don’t know what the full state of the present
sarcophagus might be.
Building the new sarcophagus will be a major civil engineering project.
My only Question is just how long will it be before that in turn
needs to be replaced?