Kurt Nimmo

Infowars.com

December 1, 2011



The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) is once again trying to mislead the public on the severity of the situation at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

A worker enters Fukushima reactor containment vessel number 4 in August.

On November 30, TEPCO reported “fuel at the No. 1 reactor may have eroded part of the primary containment vessel’s thick concrete floor” and has “seeped deeper into the floor” more than previously thought, according to the Associated Press.

Another computer simulation by the government-funded Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization said the erosion of the concrete could be worse than TEPCO’s projection. It said the possibility of structural damage to the reactor’s foundation needs to be studied.

On November 17, the architect of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, Uehara Haruo, warned that a “China Syndrome” situation is inevitable at the plant. Haruo said that considering eight months have passed since the tsunami and the crippling of the nuclear plant without any improvement in the condition of the reactors, it is likely melted fuel has escaped the container vessel and is now burning through the earth.

Prior to this, on September 20, Hiroaki Koide, assistant professor at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute, estimated that material from the nuclear fuel rods may be twelve meters deep underground at reactors one and three, far worse than the results of TEPCO’s simulation. Haruo said debris is spreading in Pacific Ocean.

In September, scientists from the Japanese government’s Meteorological Research Institute and the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry announced the findings of a study at a meeting of the Geochemical Society of Japan. They said that some of the cesium release from Fukushima will flow into the Indian Ocean and eventually reach the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Haruo, if the melted fuel reaches an underground water source, it will result in the contamination of water, soil and the sea. More catastrophic, underground super-heated water will ultimately create a massive hydrovolcanic explosion that will eject more radiation into the atmosphere.

Back in July, before the latest developments, Dr. Tatsuhiko Kodama of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo told the Japanese Diet the amount of radiation emitted from the plant was 29.6 times more than the amount of radiation from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Kodama announces the findings of his study in the following video.

TEPCO’s latest public relations effort to underplay the severity of the ongoing crisis at the plant once again reveals that there will be no serious effort to address the grave situation that may soon get much worse if Haruo’s prediction of a hydrovolcanic explosion occurs.

The Japanese government is also actively working to sweep the disaster under the rug. Its Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare recently eliminated Fukushima data from a patient survey it conducts every three years, according to the Fukushima Diary. According to the survey, leukemia cases have increased sevenfold over the last year, the highest rate since 1978 when the ministry first began collecting data.

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