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TOKYO — The situation surrounding Japan’s earthquake-damaged nuclear power infrastructure grew more serious Saturday, as the Japanese government declared states of emergency at four more nuclear reactors and prepared to issue an unprecedented order to release radioactive vapor from a fifth to ease building pressure.

Concern on Friday had been focused on the No. 1 reactor at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, which lost power after a massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeast coast, unleashing a deadly tsunami that killed hundreds and caused widespread devastation.

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...posted in HOTI2 also...


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Are there any reliable truthful updates on this news?

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Japanese Nuclear Meltdown Confirmed
As we accurately reported earlier today, the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was the result of a nuclear meltdown of the reactor core at the facility.

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Rincon wrote:Maybe all governments lie to the citizens, not just ours.
Question I have is do we start taking our potassium iodide tablets...???

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From Alex Jones Inofwars.com we have this: "TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core."

We are counting on the above information that melt down did occur, but we have no other source, all news agencies deny it. How do we know who is telling lies?

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Stratfor: Japan Government Confirms Meltdown

Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said March 12 that the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core, Japanese daily Nikkei reported. This statement seemed somewhat at odds with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano’s comments earlier March 12, in which he said “the walls of the building containing the reactor were destroyed, meaning that the metal container encasing the reactor did not explode.”

NISA’s statement is significant because it is the government agency that reports to the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy within the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. NISA works in conjunction with the Atomic Energy Commission. Its role is to provide oversight to the industry and is responsible for signing off construction of new plants, among other things. It has been criticized for approving nuclear plants on geological fault lines and for an alleged conflict of interest in regulating the nuclear sector. It was NISA that issued the order for the opening of the valve to release pressure — and thus allegedly some radiation — from the Fukushima power plant.

NISA has also overseen the entire government response to the nuclear reactor problems following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It is difficult to determine at this point whether the NISA statement is accurate, as the Nikkei report has not been corroborated by others. It is also not clear from the context whether NISA is stating the conclusions of an official assessment or simply making a statement. However, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant, also said that although it had relieved pressure, nevertheless some nuclear fuel had melted and further action was necessary to contain the pressure.

If this report is accurate, it would not be the first time statements by NISA and Edano have diverged. When Edano earlier claimed that radiation levels had fallen at the site after the depressurization efforts, NISA claimed they had risen due to the release of radioactive vapors
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IAEA Refutes Reactor 3 Cooling Problems, Provides Fukushima Status Update; Credibility Schism Developing In Japan

Contrary to earlier reports that cooling at Reactor 3 at Fukushima has failed (as per CNN and Reuters) and there is now a state of emergency for three reactors at the site, the IAEA has released a report refuting these rumors. It appears that there is a split in news reporting in Japan: on one hand we have the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency which seems to present a downside case, while the government is obviously spinning news in a favorable direction. While the Japanese government is likely not to be trusted much with truthful data dissemination, jumping the shark on rumor spreading is probably not in anyone's favor either. That said, with the government losing credibility (see prior Stratfor post), the question is just whom can the public trust, if not the Japanese government and media? Furthermore, if there is another accident at Fukushima, and the government's credibility is completely destroyed, what happens next: after all the BoJ needs as much "market faith" as it can muster ahead of its decision on Monday to flood the money markets with JPY2 trillion (sound familiar). If the government eats up all the street cred of Shirakawa, the BOJ rush to action may end up doing far more bad than good.

From the IAEA:

Japanese authorities have informed the IAEA that Units 1, 2, and 4 at the Fukushima Daini retain off-site power but are experiencing increased pressure in each reactor. Plant operators have vented the containment at each of the three units and are considering further venting to alleviate the increase in pressure.

Daini Unit 3 is in a safe, cold shutdown, according to Japanese officials.

Japanese authorities have reported some casualties to nuclear plant workers. At Fukushima Daichi, four workers were injured by the explosion at the Unit 1 reactor, and there are three other reported injuries in other incidents. In addition, one worker was exposed to higher-than-normal radiation levels that fall below the IAEA guidance for emergency situations. At Fukushima Daini, one worker has died in a crane operation accident and four others have been injured.

In partnership with the World Meteorological Organization, the IAEA is providing its member states with weather forecasts for the affected areas in Japan. The latest predictions have indicated winds moving to the Northeast, away from Japanese coast over the next three days.

The IAEA continues to liaise with the Japanese authorities and is monitoring the situation as it evolves.
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IWAKI, Japan – A partial meltdown was likely under way at a second nuclear reactor, a top Japanese official said Sunday, as authorities frantically tried to prevent a similar threat from nearby unit following a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.

Some 170,000 people have been ordered to evacuate the area covering a radius of 12 miles (20 kilometers) around the plant in Fukushima near Iwaki. A meltdown refers to a very serious collapse of a power plant's systems and its ability to manage temperatures. A complete meltdown would release uranium and dangerous byproducts into the environment that can pose serious health risks.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said operators released slightly radioactive air from Unit 3 Sunday, while injecting water into it as an effort to reduce pressure and temperature to save the reactor from a possible meltdown.

Still, a partial meltdown in the unit is "highly possible," he told reporters.

"Because it's inside the reactor, we cannot directly check it but we are taking measures on the assumption of the possible partial meltdown," he said.

Meanwhile, the government doubled the number of troops pressed into rescue and recovery operations to about 100,000 from 51,000.

Teams searched for the missing along hundreds of miles (kilometers) of the Japanese coast, and thousands of hungry survivors huddled in darkened emergency centers that were cut off from rescuers and aid. At least a million households had gone without water since the quake struck. Large areas of the countryside were surrounded by water and unreachable. Some 2.5 million households were without electricity.

Powerful aftershocks continued to rock the country, including one Sunday with a magnitude of 6.2 that originated in the sea, about 111 miles (179 kilometers) east of Tokyo. It swayed buildings in the capital, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.
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As we accurately reported earlier today, the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was the result of a nuclear meltdown of the reactor core at the facility.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) confirmed the meltdown Saturday afternoon. Fukushima is one of the 25 largest nuclear power stations in the world. The NISA is affiliated with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

High levels of cesium and iodine, by-products of nuclear fission, are being reported and providing more evidence that a nuclear meltdown is currently underway.

It is now certain Japan is experiencing a Chernobyl event. “At this point, events in Japan bear many similarities to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Reports indicate that up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) of the reactor fuel was exposed. The reactor fuel appears to have at least partially melted, and the subsequent explosion has shattered the walls and roof of the containment vessel – and likely the remaining useful parts of the control and coolant systems,” Stratfor explains.

“Given the large quantity of irradiated nuclear fuel in the pool, the radioactivity release could be worse than the Chernobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe of 25 years ago,” said Kevin Camps, a nuclear waste specialist.

Prior to the explosion of the containment structure, exposure rates outside the plant were at about 620 millirems per hour. Radiation exposure for the average individual is 620 millirems per year. Virtually any increase in ambient radiation can raise long-term cancer rates, and authorities distributed iodine, which helps protect against thyroid cancer, The Oregonian reports.

As the image above illustrates, the prevailing jet stream moves from Japan to the United States across the Pacific Ocean. Airborne radiation would work its way into the jet stream and reach the United States in less than 36 hours. Jet streams flow from west to east in the upper portion of the troposphere.

Bt downplaying this serious disaster, the Japanese government is not only endangering its own people, but also millions of people in the United States and Canada.

The cover-up by the Japanese government provides more evidence that government cannot be trusted to safeguard the lives of its citizens.
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Cooling system fails in second Fukushima reactor
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Second Fukushima reactor heats up, thousands flee
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The Japanese Nuclear Plant Which Is Melting Down Is Old - Built 6 Years Before Chernobyl - and Was Built by General Electric
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Video of Explosion at Japanese Nuclear Reactor
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Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet, shifted Earth's axis
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Death toll, nuclear meltdown fears rise in Japan
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Japan battles partial nuclear meltdown
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Thousands evacuated as Japan fears nuclear meltdown is imminent following blast at plant

Then, as workers struggled to avert catastrophe and officials downplayed the peril, cooling systems failed at a second reactor at the same plant north of Tokyo.

The government confirmed that radiation had leaked and tens of thousands of people around the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, about 170 miles north of Tokyo, were being evacuated.

The government planned to hand out iodine tablets to ward off thyroid cancer. Three bedridden patients at a hospital near the reactor had already been poisoned by radiation.

Heart-stopping footage of the plant blast aired on Japanese TV, showing the roof flying off, walls crumbling and a plume of thick white smoke overhead.

The explosion leveled the concrete exterior walls but not the 6-inch-thick stainless steel walls around the actual reactor, officials said.

Workers rushed to protect fuel rods from exposure to the air and later began pumping sea water into the reactor unit to cool it down and forestall a meltdown.

Early reports said radiation levels inside the plant were 1,000 times higher than normal. And Japanese media said the number of people exposed to radiation would be at least 90.

She said she had come through something "like a scene from a disaster movie."

"The road was moving up and down like a wave. Things were on fire and it was snowing," she said. "You really come to appreciate what you have in your everyday life."

In districts around the Fukushima nuclear plant, the danger still seemed imminent.

"Everyone wants to get out of the town. But the roads are terrible," said Reiko Takagi, a middle-aged woman standing outside a taxi company.

"It is too dangerous to go anywhere. But we are afraid that winds may change and bring radiation toward us."

In Tokyo, some worried that the government and the plant's operator were minimizing the threat.

"I don't think TVs are telling the whole truth," said Kenichi Wakaki, 42, a bar worker.

"I suspect the real situation is a lot worse. Some horrible things are actually happening."
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Explosion hits Fukushima nuclear plant
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Japan Fights Nuclear Meltdowns In Deepening Quake Crisis

TEPCO said it was preparing to vent steam to relieve pressure in the plant's number three reactor, where a meltdown would probably be more serious than in other reactors because it uses both uranium and plutonium for fuel. Speaking at a news conference in Tokyo, Japanese Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano warned of a rise in radiation during the procedure.
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Nuclear alarm as toll soars

JAPAN is battling a widening nuclear crisis, with presumed partial meltdowns at two crippled reactors and serious cooling problems at three more, while the death toll from Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami continued to soar.

In the small port town of Minamisanriku about 10,000 people - more than half the population - were unaccounted for. Police and the military yesterday found groups of hundreds of bodies at several locations along the ravaged coastline.

The country's top government spokesman warned of the risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo, where reactor 1 had exploded on Saturday.

Yesterday, cooling failed at another reactor - No. 3 - and core melting was presumed at both, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. Cooling had also failed at three reactors at a nuclear complex nearby, Fukushima Daini, although Mr Edano said conditions there were considered less dire.

With high pressure inside the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi hampering efforts to pump in cooling seawater - an extreme step, as it is likely to leave the plant permanently disabled - plant operators had to release radioactive vapour into the atmosphere. Radiation levels outside the plant, which had declined overnight, shot up to 1204 microsieverts per hour, more than twice Japan's legal limit, Mr Edano said.

American nuclear experts warned that pumping seawater to cool the reactor was an ''act of desperation'' that might foreshadow a Chernobyl-like disaster. Robert Alvarez, who works on nuclear disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies, said, ''I would describe this measure as a Hail Mary pass.''

Peter Bradford, former head of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said that if the cooling attempts failed, ''at that point it's a Chernobyl-like situation where you start dumping in sand and cement''.
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In one of the articles posted....they said radiation with current jet stream....could hit in less than 36 hours.

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Cooling system fails at third Japanese nuclear plant

A third nuclear power plant is now facing debilitating failures to its cooling system after an earthquake and tsunami rocked the eastern coast of Japan on Friday.

Tokyo's Kyodo News agency is reporting that the cooling system pumps have stopped at the Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in the Ibaraki prefecture.

The news follows closely on the heels of a state of emergency being called at another nuclear plant in the Miyagi prefecture, one of the areas hit hard by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

The UN's atomic watchdog said the Onagawa nuclear facility went into a state of emergency on Sunday after excessive radiation levels were recorded.

Japanese officials have been struggling for three days with the failed cooling systems in three reactors at another nuclear power complex closer to Tokyo, and that may be the more dangerous situation.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Sunday that a hydrogen explosion could occur at Unit 3 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, where the reactor could be melting down.

That would follow an explosion the day before in another unit at the same power plant, taking down the walls around Unit 1.

Edano told reporters Sunday that operators at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant have been trying to reduce pressure and heat inside Unit 3, but a partial meltdown in the unit is "highly possible."

"Because it's inside the reactor, we cannot directly check it, but we are taking measures on the assumption of the possible partial meltdown," he said.

Officials haven't said how high the temperature has risen inside the troubled reactor. If it reaches 4,000 degrees, the uranium fuel pellets inside the reactor's fuel rods will start to dissolve, the beginning of a meltdown.

A complete meltdown would release uranium and other toxic nuclear byproducts into the environment.

As work continues too cool down Unit 3, authorities are also trying to stop a meltdown in Unit 1. Saturday's explosion destroyed the building housing the reactor, but not the actual steel envelope encasing the reactor.

On Sunday it was unclear what was happening in the Unit 1 reactor, and if the fuel rods were melting. When asked, Edano said: "There is that possibility. We cannot confirm this because it is in the reactor. But we are dealing with it under that assumption."

Engineers were pumping in seawater to Unit 1 to control the overheating. International experts say seawater is a measure of last-resort.

Meanwhile, the cooling system at Fukushima Dai-ichi's Unit 2 has also failed, but is less affected in the crisis. Three other reactors at the facility are in a safe, shut-down state.

Japanese officials have announced plans for rolling blackouts starting on Monday due to a severe power shortage caused by the inoperable nuclear power plants. The affected plants are responsible for providing as much as 25 per cent of the country's power capacity.

Japanese authorities say they are making preparations to distribute iodine pills to residents in the area of both plants. The pills can help protect against thyroid cancer, since they inhibit the thyroid's absorption of radioactive iodine from the atmosphere.

'Nobody knows how to shut off radioactivity'

Gordon Edwards, with the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, says a meltdown is always possible when a nuclear reactor loses its cooling system.

"You cannot shut a nuclear reactor completely off. Because even when it's shut down totally, there's still 200 megawatts of heat being generated just by the radioactivity alone, and nobody knows how to shut off radioactivity," he explained to CTV News Channel Saturday evening.

"So unless you cool the core of the reactor for days after it's shut down, it's going to suffer an increase of temperature, which will cause a melting of the fuel rods at 5,000 degree Fahrenheit, which is more than twice the melting point of steel."

The French Embassy in Japan said although scientists were indicating that the crisis would pose little risk to Tokyo, it also urged its citizens to leave for several days, in case the worst happened and a "radioactive plume" headed for the area.

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The Japanese government said on Sunday that cooling systems had failed at two reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant belonging to Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO).

"There is the possibility of an explosion in the third reactor, as in the case of the first reactor," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a televised press conference, but he added that reactor three could withstand it as reactor one did a day earlier.

Radiation levels around the plant have reportedly risen above the safety limit, but Edano said there was no immediate threat to the health of nearby residents.

Kan said there would be rolling power outages beginning on Monday and urged citizens to conserve energy. Almost two million households are already without power, with 1.4 million without running water.

Reports say around 300,000 people have fled the devastation caused by the quake and the tsunami. More than 1,400 emergency camps have been set up in five Japanese provinces.

Technicians are using sea water to try and cool down the reactor and prevent a meltdown. Experts claim the use of this method shows how desperate the situation is, as sea water damages the reactors to such an extent that they can not be turned back on.

Japanese news reports said the cooling water levels in the reactor have dropped so much that up to three meters of the fuel rods were exposed, making overheating a real threat.
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The enormity of the humanitarian crisis facing Japan became apparent on Sunday evening as nearly 400,000 people left homeless and dazed by the earthquake and tsunami bedded down in makeshift emergency shelters in the Miyagi and Iwate prefectures.

Temperatures dropped to near freezing, and with no electricity in much of the region, survivors in more remote areas were struggling without heat, food and, in some cases, clean water. Telephone networks remained severely disrupted, hampering efforts to account for more than 90,000 people.

In the region’s main city of Sendai, which has a population of 1m, there were long queues for fuel and food everywhere. Several people said all they wanted to do was get supplies, fill up their cars and head south to stay with relatives.

But many were disappointed when they found they could only receive a maximum 10 litres of fuel. In supermarkets and convenience stores, the shelves were virtually empty.

On Sunday night, Tokyo district were bracing for power cuts. Tokyo Electric Power Company, which is grappling with the escalating nuclear disaster at its Fukushima nuclear plants, urged residents and companies to save energy and said it would cut power to Tokyo and other areas on Monday to try to conserve energy after the closure of its plants in Fukushima.

Torches and batteries quickly ran out and by Saturday night, shoppers were buying up candles and lighters in preparation for power cuts.

On Sunday, more aftershocks triggered further panic-buying in Tokyo and other big cities.

Many convenience stores throughout the city sold out of bottled drinks, ‘bento’ boxed meals and other supplies. One salesman in an AM/PM convenience store in Azabu said that he had never seen anything like it. “As soon as we fill the shelves, they empty out – and our delivery systems have been greatly slowed down due to the earthquake”.
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Radiation Network

This is a web site where you can see what radiation levels are anywhere in the USA at any time…..

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Toto wrote:Radiation Network

This is a web site where you can see what radiation levels are anywhere in the USA at any time…..

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Wow, this looks like a good link. I wonder if it will change much over the next few days?

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Is this picture accurate? Can anyone else comment? If so, we'll need to take out the iodide pills...

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Rincon wrote:It's way below the alert level of 130 CPM, no pills needed yet.
True, but considering the likelihood of a severe aftershock under critical conditions, it seems wise to get you’re mitts on a supply YESTERDAY!

Sources for Potassium Iodide tablets - Reduces body absorption of radioactive iodine

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Emergency Essentials

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Of course, you can always look on a search engine for other suppliers. And frankly, I would be looking for a local source, as the best time to start taking it is BEFORE exposure. Considering it might only take 36 hours for radiation to arrive in the U.S., that doesn’t leave a lot of time considering governments have a history of covering up, so it might not be a bad idea to get some TOMORROW.

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You CANNOT wait until there are 'readings' to begin taking potassium iodide. Radioactive iodine will 'fill' your thyroid thus making it impossible to protect it with the harmless potassium iodide.

If you have Lugol's Solution or potassium iodide pills I would recommend beginning your preventative therapy NOW! Children are especially vulnerable to radioactive iodine exposure.

My understanding is that radioactive contamination will arrive on the North American Continent in 36 hours from release in Japan.

If you aren't able to find the potassium iodide pills - which are very expensive in my opinion as you will need between 60-90 days supply of 130 mg per day per person - here is a suggestion for alternative protection:

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Here is a map source for the northern hemisphere jet stream activity:

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NEW YORK/VIENNA - Pumping seawater into troubled nuclear reactors in Japan should keep them from a catastrophic full-scale meltdown, but conditions are still so volatile that it is far too early to declare the emergency over, nuclear experts said.

It is probably the first time in the industry's 57-year history that seawater has been used in this way, a sign of how close Japan is to facing a major nuclear disaster following the massive earthquake and tsunami on Friday, according to the scientists.

Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) workers on Sunday were pouring seawater into two reactor cores at the coastal Fukushima power plant and were considering using seawater on a third.

Authorities have been forced to vent radioactive steam into the air to relieve pressure in the plant and reactors at the company's nearby Daini plant are also troubled.

"I am not aware of anyone using seawater to cool a reactor core before. They must be desperate to find water and the seawater was the only thing nearby," said Richard Meserve, former chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and president of the Carnegie Institution, in an interview on Sunday.

The method being used to regain a semblance of control of the reactors smacks of last-resort desperation, said Robert Alvarez of the Institute for Policy Studies and formerly a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Department of Energy.

"I would describe this measure as a Hail Mary pass, but if they succeed, there is plenty of water in the ocean and if they have the capability to pump this water in the necessary volume and at the necessary rates ... then they can stabilize the reactor," said Alvarez in a press conference on Saturday.

In a sign of how volatile the situation is, the Union of Concerned Scientists said in a statement on Sunday in Washington that it fears the situation "took a turn for the worse as serious problems developed" at the Unit 3 reactor at Daiichi.

It said that statements from Tokyo Electric officials indicate that water levels have dropped so far that approximately 90 per cent of the fuel rods in the core of the reactor were uncovered and that despite pumping in seawater the water level is still well below where it should be.
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buffalo_girl wrote:You CANNOT wait until there are 'readings' to begin taking potassium iodide. Radioactive iodine will 'fill' your thyroid thus making it impossible to protect it with the harmless potassium iodide.

If you have Lugol's Solution or potassium iodide pills I would recommend beginning your preventative therapy NOW! Children are especially vulnerable to radioactive iodine exposure.

My understanding is that radioactive contamination will arrive on the North American Continent in 36 hours from release in Japan.

If you aren't able to find the potassium iodide pills - which are very expensive in my opinion as you will need between 60-90 days supply of 130 mg per day per person - here is a suggestion for alternative protection:

http://nutritionalhealthandwellness.blo ... llout.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/radiation/ki.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This is such great information.. Thanks

Here is a map source for the northern hemisphere jet stream activity:

http://virga.sfsu.edu/pub/jetstream/jetstream/big/1103/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: 5 nuclear reactors now in trouble...

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Rincon wrote:Do experts really think a significant amount of radiation will actually reach the West Coast?
No, a lot of what we're reading on this thread is reactionary and over-the-top. The situation needs to be watched, definitely. Concerns are real. But this bit about taking pills and giving them to children like yesterday is premature and irrational.

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