Wednesday, August 17, 2011
U.S. Knew Within Days that Fukushima Had Melted Down
I noted in May that that International Atomic Energy Agency knew within weeks of the Japanese earthquake that the reactors had melted down ... but the public was not told for a month and a half.
I pointed out in June:
Today, Yomiuri Shinbun reports (Google translation) that the U.S. knew within days that Fukushima had melted down:As the prestigious scientific journal Nature notes:
The attempted cover up of the severity of the Fukushima disaster is nothing new. Governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for 50 years, and the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked on Navy submarines ... and produced plutonium for the military.Shortly after a massive tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on 11 March, an unmanned monitoring station on the outskirts of Takasaki, Japan, logged a rise in radiation levels. Within 72 hours, scientists had analysed samples taken from the air and transmitted their analysis to Vienna, Austria — the headquarters of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an international body set up to monitor nuclear weapons tests.
It was just the start of a flood of data collected about the accident by the CTBTO's global network of 63 radiation monitoring stations. In the following weeks, the data were shared with governments around the world, but not with academics or the public.
(Indeed, the government's response to every crisis appears to be to try to cover it up; and see this.)
The subject of evacuating the US citizens was raised in the early hours on March 16 (local time). The US ... already knew about the unusually high temperature of the reactors from the Global Hawk data, and determined that “the fuel has already melted”.(The Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial aircraft).
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The US high-ranking officials wanted to evacuate the US citizens [Tokyo] but the local officials including Maher objected, as “it would severely undermine the US-Japan alliance”
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the basic design for nuclear reactors was not chosen for safety, but because it worked on Navy submarines ... and produced plutonium for the military.
ReplyDeleteIn the US, the selection of power reactor designs had nothing to do with their ability to produce plutonium. All US weapons-grade plutonium came out of either LWGRs at Hanford or HWRs at Savannah River, not PWRs or BWRs.
The Global Hawk (a cool glider with a jet pack) surveillance of Japan and the jet stream for nuclear radiation contamination would be the smart thing to do.
ReplyDelete“According to an article in the March 2010 issue of Scientific American (p. 25-27), the Global Hawk aircraft belonging to NASA were in use for testing purposes as of October 2009, with science missions expected to start in March 2010. Initial science applications included measurements of the ozone layer and cross-Pacific transport of air pollutants and aerosols.” (Global Hawk link)
Yeah, the US government knows all about how much radiation is being emitted from Fukishema and where the contaminants are going.
The question is, will the US fascist Oligarchy government inform the public or will they continue to ignore the problem and lie about it?
And people like Alex Jones were called 'fear mongerers' when in fact he was only stated the obvious. Meanwhile, the mainstream was silent.
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