The Catastrophic Disaster That Never Ends

Why are the radiation levels rising in areas of Fukushima Prefecture? 

I'm going to site some headlines from Fukushima Diary as evidence of rising levels.

Fall-out level increasing in Fukushima city from 12/18/2012

Posted by Mochizuki on December 22nd, 2012 

Cs-137 in Sub-drain water marked the highest reading in these 2 months

Posted by Mochizuki on December 22nd, 2012

 

What is going on at the plant?

                                                                     
Fukushima Diary has an explanation, ongoing fissioning of fuel. Mochizuki also notes that the temperature of the common spent fuel pool has been rising here:

[Column] 3 facts to support the hypothesis that fractured nuclear fuel is in individual stages of nuclear reaction

Posted by Mochizuki on December 20th, 2012

 

 

I keep remembering what a poster at Enenews wrote. He identified himself as a retired UK physicist:

The Blue Light. April 6, 2012 at 11:54 pm · Reply

http://enenews.com/former-un-advisor-ive-been-told-maybe-50-years-to-contain-radiation-if-no-4-pool-collapses-during-50-years-continual-you-cannot-contain-video/comment-page-1#comment-230541

As I pointed out in another thread several physicists and I worked out how much ceasium137 is contained in spent fuel at Fukushima. We took into account average burn up of the fuel and decay since the fuel was removed from the reactors and several other factors.

The estimates for the amount of ceasium137 that has been released into the environment so far has been independently calculated to range from 10 to 60 kilograms. The spent fuel on site contains between 12500 to 16300 kilograms of ceasium137. A more accurate figure was impossible to calculate due to a lack of available data from TEPCO.

When all the other radionuclides are taken into account then life in places like Hawaii could become impossible, even a short term exposure could be fatal. This could also be true for any fallout hot spots in north america.

Countries like the United kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden which are connected to Japan by the northern jet stream would also be gravely effected.

Within a year, global background radiation levels would rise by as much as a factor of thirty.

This would truly be a global disaster.