http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/07/05-7#comment-1868385
This article cogently summarizes how the mainstream press has selectively reported industry-biased opinions on radiation safety. Thank you.
Hat tip poor daddy at e-news.
Industry View on Radiation Prevails: Health experts unheard on health effects of Fukushima
by Steve Rendall and Patrick Morrison
(excerpted) "U.S. media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility.
In place of a discussion informed by experts on these risks, journalism largely conveys vague, industry-friendly reassurances, frequently including no sources with expertise on the health effects of radiation on humans...."
My question is how much radiation was really released by Fukushima?
Bob Nichols reported a few weeks ago that Fukushima Daiichi Equals 50 Plus Chernobyls
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/28/fukushima-how-many-chernobyls-is-it/
(excerpted) "As Dr. Michio Kaku, a world renowned CUNY theoretical physicist pointed out on CNN March 18, 2011, Chernobyl involved one reactor and only 57.6 Tons of the reactor core went into the atmosphere. In dramatic contrast, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster immediately involved six reactors and a whopping IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN Agency) documented 2,800 Tons of highly radioactive old reactor cores
Simple division tells us there are at least 48.6 Chernobyls in the burning old reactor cores pumping fiery isotopes into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is no stretch to say Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors and the dry holding pools for old reactor cores are equal to more than 50 Chernobyl disasters..."
MAJIA HERE: My current goal is to figure out how much fuel was in reactor 3 and spent fuel pools #3 and #4 since we know those have burned and/or were vaporized. I'll post what I find.
In other news....
Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power by S. Lendman
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/01/lies-damn-lies-and-safe-nuclear-power/
Mid-America Threatened
(excerpted) "In Missouri, record floods threaten two nuclear plants – the Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station, yet little about either is reported, especially on television where most people get news. In early June moreover, the FAA issued an indefinite “no-fly hazards” restriction over the facilities to conceal the worst of what’s happening.
Both plants issued low level “unusual event” alerts that may rise to catastrophic ones. On June 30, the Omaha World-Herald reported that both plants store spent fuel rods in open casks. As a result, if Missouri River flood levels rise enough, they’ll “overflow them and carry contaminated water downstream.”
Both plants “use outdoor, above-ground entombment (called dry cask storage) for its oldest fuel,” kept in welded shut steel canisters placed “inside concrete bunkers that rely on outside air flowing” to dissipate residual heat. Allegedly, bunkers and canisters can withstand flooding. They may soon get a chance to prove it..."
This article cogently summarizes how the mainstream press has selectively reported industry-biased opinions on radiation safety. Thank you.
Hat tip poor daddy at e-news.
Industry View on Radiation Prevails: Health experts unheard on health effects of Fukushima
by Steve Rendall and Patrick Morrison
(excerpted) "U.S. media coverage of the nuclear disaster in Japan contains vanishingly little serious discussion of the human health risks posed by the radiation escaping from the Fukushima nuclear facility.
In place of a discussion informed by experts on these risks, journalism largely conveys vague, industry-friendly reassurances, frequently including no sources with expertise on the health effects of radiation on humans...."
My question is how much radiation was really released by Fukushima?
Bob Nichols reported a few weeks ago that Fukushima Daiichi Equals 50 Plus Chernobyls
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/05/28/fukushima-how-many-chernobyls-is-it/
(excerpted) "As Dr. Michio Kaku, a world renowned CUNY theoretical physicist pointed out on CNN March 18, 2011, Chernobyl involved one reactor and only 57.6 Tons of the reactor core went into the atmosphere. In dramatic contrast, the Fukushima Daiichi disaster immediately involved six reactors and a whopping IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN Agency) documented 2,800 Tons of highly radioactive old reactor cores
Simple division tells us there are at least 48.6 Chernobyls in the burning old reactor cores pumping fiery isotopes into the Earth’s atmosphere. It is no stretch to say Fukushima Daiichi’s six reactors and the dry holding pools for old reactor cores are equal to more than 50 Chernobyl disasters..."
MAJIA HERE: My current goal is to figure out how much fuel was in reactor 3 and spent fuel pools #3 and #4 since we know those have burned and/or were vaporized. I'll post what I find.
In other news....
Lies, Damn Lies, and Safe Nuclear Power by S. Lendman
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/01/lies-damn-lies-and-safe-nuclear-power/
Mid-America Threatened
(excerpted) "In Missouri, record floods threaten two nuclear plants – the Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station, yet little about either is reported, especially on television where most people get news. In early June moreover, the FAA issued an indefinite “no-fly hazards” restriction over the facilities to conceal the worst of what’s happening.
Both plants issued low level “unusual event” alerts that may rise to catastrophic ones. On June 30, the Omaha World-Herald reported that both plants store spent fuel rods in open casks. As a result, if Missouri River flood levels rise enough, they’ll “overflow them and carry contaminated water downstream.”
Both plants “use outdoor, above-ground entombment (called dry cask storage) for its oldest fuel,” kept in welded shut steel canisters placed “inside concrete bunkers that rely on outside air flowing” to dissipate residual heat. Allegedly, bunkers and canisters can withstand flooding. They may soon get a chance to prove it..."
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