{"id":3759,"date":"2012-07-30T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2012-07-30T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T23:18:00","slug":"bigger-disaster-for-fukushima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2012\/07\/bigger-disaster-for-fukushima-3759.html","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Disaster for Fukushima?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve ignored most of the conspiracy talk and amateur speculations that can be found online, like \u00a0suggestions that the\u00a0Fukushima disaster of 2011 is the cause of illness in the USA.<\/p>\n

But when the report is from ABC Australia<\/em> and they interview a\u00a0senior nuclear reactor engineer from Japan, I listen:<\/p>\n

One more major earthquake in Japan and the nation could face a nuclear disaster 10 times the scale of Chernobyl.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If there’s a crack in the pool and water drains out, the fuel rods will be exposed. It will then be impossible to cool the fuel. So if an accident happens, 10 times more cesium than has already been released by the Fukushima meltdown will go into the atmosphere. Depending on which way the wind is blowing, Tokyo could become uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

HIROAKI KOIDE (voiceover translation): As soon as possible, those fuel rods should be removed. Earthquakes are striking almost every day around the Fukushima plant, so I’m praying that a big one won’t hit.<\/p>\n

MARK WILLACY: This warning is echoed by international nuclear safety experts, among them, Robert Alvarez, a former advisor to the US Secretary of Energy.<\/p>\n

ROBERT ALVAREZ: You have a very, very large concentration of radioactivity where the only thing that keeps that radioactivity from being released through a catastrophic fire is a pool of water. That pool is 100 feet off the ground in a structurally damaged building in a high-risk earthquake zone. I mean, what more you can be worried about?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video<\/a> to get the full picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve ignored most of the conspiracy talk and amateur speculations that can be found online, like \u00a0suggestions that the\u00a0Fukushima disaster of 2011 is the cause of illness in the USA.
\nBut when the report is from ABC Australia and they interview a\u00a0senior nuclear reactor engineer from Japan, I listen:
\nOne more major earthquake in Japan and the nation could face a nuclear disaster 10 times the scale of Chernobyl.
\nIf there’s a crack in the pool and water drains out, the fuel rods will be exposed. It will then be impossible to cool the fuel. So if an accident happens, 10 times more cesium than has already been released by the Fukushima meltdown will go into the atmosphere. Depending on which way the wind is blowing, Tokyo could become uninhabitable.
\nHIROAKI KOIDE (voiceover translation): As soon as possible, those fuel rods should be removed. Earthquakes are striking almost every day around the Fukushima plant, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthquakes","category-nuclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}