23 April 2015 (09:17 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Ordibehesht 1394/04 Rajab 1436/05 Geng Chen (3rd month) 4713
Massive wild fires in Siberia, Russia, have been smoking out the Pacific Northwest of North America for days now. The smoke is now reaching the Atlantic Coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the majority of North America is blanketed by the smoke.
The wild fires started about a couple of weeks ago, and have killed dozens of people in Siberia. If the smoke is already covering most of North America in less than two weeks, then imagine the massive radiation contamination that is still spewing from Japan’s exploded Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors! The same wind currents that bring the smoke from Siberia are bringing radiation from Fukushima. Of course, U.S. and Canadian environmental administrators have denied that high levels of radiation from Fukushima has reached North America.
Japanese news media reported that four years after the explosions at Fukushima new data has been released by the U.S. Department of the Navy. The data shows 75% of the initial radiation contamination released after the explosions actually took place several days afterward, and was released for much longer than first thought. Researchers learned that a metal used to make fuel rods, zirconium, continued overheating even after thousands of tons of water was poured into the reactors. It turns out the water actually acted as a catalyst and could have contributed to what looks like a slow burn China Syndrome, that is still ongoing.
To prove that radiation contamination is still ongoing, administrators with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) revealed yet more airborne and waterborne leaks, and admitted they knew about one leak a year ago! TEPCo says airborne radiation levels inside reactor building 1 (Fukushima #1) are so high they will kill you in one hour! They determined this after two robots sent into the building were disabled by the radiation levels.
The most recent water leaks happened this week, when all the water pumps failed. An unknown amount of contaminated water went into the Pacific Ocean.
Then there’s the leak TEPCo knew about one years ago, but said nothing until now. TEPCo described the contaminated water leak as “highly radioactive” and said it’s been pouring into the Pacific Ocean, from reactor building 2 (Fukushima #2), since April 2014!
In a possibly related story, the residence of the neo-imperialist Japanese prime minister was found to have a highly radioactive RC drone on the roof! Security personnel say nobody had been on the roof for the past month, and they don’t know how it got there. The drone was carrying a container of liquid contaminated with cesium that comes from nuclear reactors. The drone was marked with radiation warning labels.
In Takahama, a Japanese court judge has blocked the re-start of two reactors at the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. The judge reviewed data and declared the reactors to be unsafe, and that the new national government regulations for nuclear factory safety to be insufficient. Even government administrators admit a catastrophic accident could still occur even with the new regulations. It turns out the Takahama nuke reactors, operated by Kansai Electric Power Company, are built over three earthquake fault lines!
The Journal of Ornithology has published a study that shows radiation is killing off Japanese birds. The journal Environmental Indicators published a study saying the radiation levels around Fukushima are far worse than Chernobyl.
In the U.S. state of New Mexico radiation problems continue at the Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP). The DoE accuses the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory (LANL) of causing the explosions inside WIPP by improperly packing mixed nuke waste in 55 gallon drums. The DoE investigation confirmed that at least one drum exploded.
The contractor running the site has been hit with $7.3-million USD in fines! The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) effectively accused Nuclear Waste Partnership of failing across the board, from lack of maintenance programs to outright violations of DoE regulations!
To try and remedy their failed operations at WIPP, Nuclear Waste Partnership has selected a new manager to run WIPP. He was in charge of the plutonium facility at Idaho National Laboratory, and also worked at the Savannah River Site.
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has also been accused of contributing to the WIPP disaster, as it is one of the users of WIPP for nuke waste storage. Now the INL is now asking for permission to receive 2-hundred pounds of spent nuclear fuel, for the purpose of researching new ways to store and/or recycle nuke waste. Former Idaho governors Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus condemned the proposal, pointing out it would violate a 1995 deal banning nuke waste shipments into The Gem State.
Nobody can trust anything administrators say at the INL, it turns out there was a nuclear accident there six months ago, but only now was made public! It was revealed by the DoE during a local public hearing. Back in October 2014, at least one employee was contaminated during the re-packing of nuclear waste. It shutdown the New Waste Calcining Facility for several weeks.
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