from a rather alarmed blogger in Hawaii. Now it does not sound too far-fetched.
I would like some shill to explain what is wrong with his assumptions leading to his doomsday suggestion:
Will Fukushima’s Next Earthquake Start A Global Extinction Event?
May 9, 2011
By Tom Burnett
Those of you who have been following me at HawaiiNewsDaily or on my blog may not have been thrilled with my initial assessments back in March – and ongoing – that Fukushima isn’t going away.
The reactors can NEVER be placed in ‘cold shutdown‘ because the cores are partially melted together. We are talking about hundreds of tons of fissile material inside reinforced concrete containment vessels. The containment vessels are cracked. They are releasing radiation. Fission excursions are still occurring and no one can go inside those containments for hundreds of years – even if they could get to the fuel.
They continue to pour water on them and drain it off into the ocean because there is nothing else they can do. If they stop pumping water, the genie comes out. If they keep pumping water, it has to go somewhere and that somewhere is the ocean. It is still a stop gap. Those reactor cores cannot be put into ‘cold shutdown’ or dismantled or entombed. Ever.
They cannot treat as much radioactive water as they have to keep pumping in. No one can. So the radiation is going to come across the Pacific and impact the US and, certainly, Hawaii. Yes, I read that they are going to start treating it or storing it, but the task is impossible. Reactor cores have to be maintained in a ‘clean room’ environment or the water picks up particles – which then become radioactive – which then irradiate the reactor plumbing – and, eventually, become fuel. That’s why they have to keep pumping fresh water in and dumping it out. They cannot recirculate it, even if they manage to get new plumbing installed. The next major earthquake there will begin an extinction event...
http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/05/will-fukushimas-next-earthquake-start-a-global-extinction-event/Vessels cracked: check
Cold Shutdown impossible: check
Release of radiation continues unabated into ground, into ocean, into air: Check
Water poured into reactors is leaking out, no solution: Check
These reactors cannot be entombed ala Chernobyl: Check
We will continue to experience radiation leaks that will migrate radiation to the US West Coast: Check
Can you hear me now?
Local extreme enviroweenie biased claptrap spewing radical here, signing off for now. (that is what DUer called me on March 11)
rdb