[Dateline: George Washington's blog keeps folks up to date]
Radiation is freely flowing out of Fukushima.
Too bad that news is not flowing as freely.
It seems that there's a government coverup going on, and wishful thinking
is helping that happen. Nobody wants to think about what the disaster will
do to the planet.
So, Japan has banned one of its most highly-trained nuclear scientists from researching
the Fukushima disaster. So, he quit. His name: Shinzo Kimura
He had been to Chernobyl, and studied the government response.
So, he went to the evacuation zone in northern Japan with Masaharo Okano,
the big nuclear guru of Japan, to find and distribute information on the
types and amounts of radiation, at great risk to themselves.
Ghost-towns abound on this video:
Warning: the English voices are annoying, but they're likely gaijin who live there.
It sounds like a 1970s documentary about pet cats, but don't be disuaded.
The first 25 minutes have history of Bikini and footage of Chernobyl.
[the danger zones are in red. orange, yellow and green are less dangerous]
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if you want updated maps of the radiation, go to:
http://arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/2011/07/japan-radioactive-contamination-map.html
[Click the link under the map]
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George WASHington's BLOG
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen notes that there are currently lethal radiation levels at Fukushima, that even higher measurements are to still come, and that the nuclear core has leaked out and is on floor like a pancake working its way down.
NHK notes that scientists have found radiation levels in Japan higher than any found in the contaminated zone in Chernobyl called Red Forest:
And nuclear regulators only thought about worst case scenarios involving a single nuclear plant. They totally ignored the fact that power loss to complexes of nuclear reactors - like the cluster of 6 reactors at Fukushima - could lead to multiple simultaneous meltdowns.
And then there's a cluster of cover ups.
... Meltdowns at three of Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors went officially unacknowledged for months. In one of the most damning admissions, nuclear regulators said in early June that inspectors had found tellurium 132, which experts call telltale evidence of reactor meltdowns, a day after the tsunami — but did not tell the public for nearly three months.
