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How do you put a smiley face on the worst nuclear meltdown ever? I guess you can start by misinformation and denial. But for all the denial in TEPCO, nothing can stop the ongoing meltdown of four nuclear reactors from spreading into the ground water for the island. The reactor at Fukushima is located at the edge of the ocean, this means that both the water and the winds are running directly out to sea. That translates into contamination for the ancient fishing grounds which has fed that nation for thousands of years.
I know you were told that Chernobyl was worse than Fukushima. Actually what happened at Chernobyl was worse than what happened at Fukushima... in the short run. 250 lbs of fuel rods exploded at Chernobyl, half of it went sky high in a cloud of radiation that roamed around eastern Europe. That's your worst nightmare for a nuclear meltdown. But it did its damage and it was over in a week. It did a lot of damage.
The Fukushima Daichi plant was the largest nuclear plant and had more spent fuel rods onsite, than any plant in the world. Funny how that little tidbit was never mentioned by the media. A total of four cores melted down, 7000 lbs of fuel rods; three cores were active (#1, #2, and #3) and all three melted through their containment; which means they continue to sink into the island, the only consolation being that they will bury themselves deep into the rock, but they will continue to be wells of radiation for centuries. Ground water will get an active stream of radiation and this will build up in the area; everything inside that 50 mile perimeter will eventually go deader than dead, its just a matter of time.
But the biggest headache at Fukushima happened when the hydrogen explosion at reactor building #3 ripped the sides off the holding pool for reactor #4. As dumb luck would have it, they had loaded core #4 that winter and then offloaded the fresh rods into the holding pool, where the spent rods are held. The explosion drained the pool, the rods overheated and caught fire, and this was about to repeat Chernobyl - only this time there was 2000 lbs of fresh fuel rods, nestled amongst roughly 90,000 pounds of spent fuel rods (that are still radioactive) - so the Japanese dumped water back into the pools, pumping into the bottom half of the pool that still holds water, over flowing the sides, all the while the core fuel rods went into meltdown and boiled the water into radioactive steam, which blows out to sea, then falls into the ocean.
So, while 250 lbs of Chernobyl melted down, only half of those fuel rods remained for the long haul (they covered the whole site with a concrete dome) Fukushima is living with 7000 lbs of fresh fuel rods and 90,000 lbs of spent fuel rods, all in melt down. And while Tokyo is 160 miles to the south, eventually Tokyo will be a ghost town, quite a few people have already left the island for Okinawa, quite a few people that have remained are already filling clinics with radiation health issues. There is no containment. Radiation pours directly into the environment and will continue to do so for centuries. Expect disaster, because once you get 7-8 years into this mess, people will be falling dead like flies.
I know you were told that Chernobyl was worse than Fukushima. Actually what happened at Chernobyl was worse than what happened at Fukushima... in the short run. 250 lbs of fuel rods exploded at Chernobyl, half of it went sky high in a cloud of radiation that roamed around eastern Europe. That's your worst nightmare for a nuclear meltdown. But it did its damage and it was over in a week. It did a lot of damage.
The Fukushima Daichi plant was the largest nuclear plant and had more spent fuel rods onsite, than any plant in the world. Funny how that little tidbit was never mentioned by the media. A total of four cores melted down, 7000 lbs of fuel rods; three cores were active (#1, #2, and #3) and all three melted through their containment; which means they continue to sink into the island, the only consolation being that they will bury themselves deep into the rock, but they will continue to be wells of radiation for centuries. Ground water will get an active stream of radiation and this will build up in the area; everything inside that 50 mile perimeter will eventually go deader than dead, its just a matter of time.
But the biggest headache at Fukushima happened when the hydrogen explosion at reactor building #3 ripped the sides off the holding pool for reactor #4. As dumb luck would have it, they had loaded core #4 that winter and then offloaded the fresh rods into the holding pool, where the spent rods are held. The explosion drained the pool, the rods overheated and caught fire, and this was about to repeat Chernobyl - only this time there was 2000 lbs of fresh fuel rods, nestled amongst roughly 90,000 pounds of spent fuel rods (that are still radioactive) - so the Japanese dumped water back into the pools, pumping into the bottom half of the pool that still holds water, over flowing the sides, all the while the core fuel rods went into meltdown and boiled the water into radioactive steam, which blows out to sea, then falls into the ocean.
So, while 250 lbs of Chernobyl melted down, only half of those fuel rods remained for the long haul (they covered the whole site with a concrete dome) Fukushima is living with 7000 lbs of fresh fuel rods and 90,000 lbs of spent fuel rods, all in melt down. And while Tokyo is 160 miles to the south, eventually Tokyo will be a ghost town, quite a few people have already left the island for Okinawa, quite a few people that have remained are already filling clinics with radiation health issues. There is no containment. Radiation pours directly into the environment and will continue to do so for centuries. Expect disaster, because once you get 7-8 years into this mess, people will be falling dead like flies.
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