[Breaking]Japan May Become Uninhabitle, NEW EXCLUSION ZONE, Mass Burials, NRC reveals

[link to enenews.com]

---Ozawa: We may not be able to live in Japan someday — Radiation is going to be flowing out for a long period of time

Some day we may not be able to live in Japan. There is the possibility that the power plant can reach the state of criticality again. If it explodes, it’s a huge matter. Radiation is being leaked in order to keep the reactors from exploding. So, in this sense, it’s even worse than letting the power plant explode. Radiation is going to be flowing out for a long period of time. This is not a matter of money, but of life and death for the Japanese. If Japan cannot be saved, then the people of Japan are done for. We can always print money. Ultimately the people will have to bear the burden. Government must be determined to put a stop to radioactive pollution no matter what it takes, money or otherwise. The Japanese people must understand the situation.


---Reuters reports:

"The towering waves that splintered thousands of Japanese homes and lives has forced the country to rethink one of its most sacred Buddhist practices: how it treats the dead.

Desperate municipalities are digging mass graves, unthinkable in a nation where the deceased are usually cremated and their ashes placed in stone family tombs near Buddhist temples. Local regulations often prohibit burial of bodies.

The cremation process would put a lot of smoke into the air. that air could be considered pollution. Also the smoke could contain radioactive particulates.


[link to www.nuclearfreeplanet.org]

---"Once again the cost of allowing the industry to regulate itself has proven far too high. That NISA would take the industry on faith that they were prepared for a severe tsunami based on a one page document proves that they weren't looking for confirmation that that was true. That they have admitted they didn't even look into the accuracy of that one page document speaks volumes.+

"As with the NRC, it seems more and more that safety is determined in back room deals, not at the reactor sites, not based on information but on expediency and the cutting of costs to the industry. What the industry is protecting is their bottom line, what we should be protecting is the actual safety of the environment, human health, and the biosphere."

"TOKYO — Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago."

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"This is all we saw," said Masaru Kobayashi, who now heads NISA's quake-safety section. "We did not look into the validity of the content."

"The memo has Japanese text, boxes and numbers. It also has a tiny map of Japan indicating where historical earthquakes are believed to have struck. TEPCO considered five quakes, ranging from 8.0 to 8.6 magnitude, in northeastern Japan, and a 9.5 magnitude across the Pacific near Chile, as examples of possible tsunami-causing temblors."

"In the next nine years, despite advances in earthquake and tsunami science, the document gathered dust and was never updated."

"There was an attitude of disrespecting nature," said Kobe University professor emeritus Katsuhiko Ishibashi, who has sat on government nuclear safety advisory panels.+

Mods, this next is a huge transcript.

[link to www.nytimes.com]
---The NRC finally reveals its powers and emergency status.

"NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko is using the rarely used status, allowing for the transfer of certain commission decisionmaking powers to himself, because of concerns that the tsunami spawned by the quake could hit the United States. Though that threat subsided within 48 hours, the emergency status continues, according to an email the NRC's Office of Congressional Affairs sent to a senior staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

"The chairman has been exercising his emergency authority since that time," the April 4 email said, noting Jaczko had such authority under Section 3 of the Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1980. "The agency will return to a non-emergency status when the situation warrants."

"NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko is using the rarely used status, allowing for the transfer of certain commission decisionmaking powers to himself, because of concerns that the tsunami spawned by the quake could hit the United States. Though that threat subsided within 48 hours, the emergency status continues, according to an email the NRC's Office of Congressional Affairs sent to a senior staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee."

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"'But Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says the chairman's decision could be limiting crucial input from other commissioners. "This action may have reduced the contributions of your experienced colleagues in monitoring the event and in decision-making," Inhofe wrote in an April 6 letter to Jaczko."

A senior agency official said at least one NRC commissioner was not aware of the "emergency" declaration for at least a month. That commissioner, who refused to be named, has questions about how the chairman is using the emergency authority and whether he has assumed the policy function to make decisions on behalf of the entire commission, the official said.'

Jaczko raised eyebrows when he recommended that Japanese officials evacuate people living within 50 miles of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Japanese officials at the time were maintaining an evacuation area of 12 miles around the reactor complex.


Finally some information about the quake, which should come as a surprise to most.
[link to www.washingtonpost.com]
---Japanese scientist: Fukushima meltdown occurred within hours of quake.

"Nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant began melting just five hours after Japan’s March 11 earthquake, a Japanese nuclear engineer told a panel of U.S. scientists Thursday.

About 11 hours later, all of the uranium fuel in the facility’s unit 1 reactor had slumped to the bottom of its inner containment vessel, boring a hole through a thick steel lining, the University of Tokyo’s Naoto Sekimura told a committee of the National Academy of Sciences."


Exclusion ZONE for Americans, Russians, Australians.
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Last Edited by Goodbye2You on 05/28/2011 07:43 AM