Nuclear Fallout Alert: Fukushima Unit 3 - Steam Explosions - Radiation Cloud expected for West Coast (REVISED) | Turner Radio/ENENews/TEPCO

UPDATE 1.1.2014:

Due to the feedback we have received on this post, MP has added Live TEPCO Feeds as well as press release from TEPCO describing the event in question.

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Gundersen: Very visible steam at Fukushima Unit 3 is from constant radioactive releases — Coming from hot rubble, not related to new explosion

http://enenews.com/gundersen-very-visible-steam-releases-at-fukushima-unit-3-are-radioactive-coming-from-hot-rubble-not-new-meltdown-or-explosion

Published: January 1st, 2014 at 4:21 pm ET
By ENENews

Fairewinds Energy Education, Jan. 1, 2014: [...] the Internet has been flooded with conjecture claiming that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is ready to explode. Fairewinds Energy Education has been inundated with questions about the very visible steam emanating from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3. [...] Hot water vapor has been released daily by each of the four Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants since the accident. We believe that is one of the reasons TEPCO placed covers over Daiichi 4 and 1. [...] radioactive rubble (fission products) was left in each unit [...] heat from this ongoing decay of radioactive rubble is constantly releasing moisture (steam) and radioactive products into the environment. [...] [Unit 3] is still producing slightly less than 1 megawatt (one million watts) of decay heat [...] it is creating radioactive steam [...] hot radioactive releases [...] have occurring [sic] for the entire 33 months [...] The difference now is that the only time we visibly notice these ongoing releases is on the cold days [...]

https://www.facebook.com/fairewinds/posts/389097744557979

The Ecologist reported on this unsubstantiated rumor which was then used as a source by ‘Gizmodo. The Ecologist has now changed their original report without any notice or explanation. Here’s the original ending: “The Turner Radio Network is advising people on the West Coast of North America to”prepare for the worst” in case a meltdown of the waste fuel is in fact commencing. No official warnings have been released on either side of the Pacific.”
Here’s how it ends now: “According to a Fairewinds Energy Education posting on Facebook, the reactor is currently producing about 1 MW of heat, equivalent to 1,000 1KW electric fires, so enough to produce plenty of steam. This would provide the least worrying explanation for the steam, in that as the radioactivity continues decline so will the heat production and the volume of steam produced. If this explanation is correct, there is no reason expect any catastrophic outcome. However the steam is carrying considerable amounts of radiation into the atmosphere and represents an ongoing radiation hazard.”

See also: Gizmodo Report Claims: “Fukushima could be in the middle of another meltdown” — 300th most popular website in U.S. publishes “unsubstantiated rumor”

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Published on Dec 26, 2013

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• Just found this from TEPCO:

  [About the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and (Daily)
  [3 pm]
  Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. December 27, 2013
  
  An accident of our Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant due to the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake on March 11, 2011, and including our location area, to our society, widely apologize for the great inconvenience and worry Regarding that you have, I would like apologize from the bottom of my heart.
  Regard to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, April 17, 2011, compiled the "path towards convergence of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and accidents", to July 19 the same year, the "radiation dose We achieved a step 1, goal, "which has become a steady downward trend. Then, on December 16 the same year, to confirm the achievement of step 2, which targets "that the release of radioactive materials is under control and radiation doses are being significantly held down", to December 21 the same year, the Fukushima I have compiled the medium-and long-term roadmap for the Decommissioning of Unit 1-4 first nuclear power plant.
  November 18, 2013, and began the work is taken out of fuel from Unit 4 spent fuel pool. As a result, we achieved ahead of schedule (start taking out fuel from the spent fuel pool within two years from step 2 is complete) the first phase of the medium-and long-term roadmap, and has gone into the second phase of the medium-and long-term roadmap .
  Continue, by our efforts to ensure the maintenance of a stable state of the plant, you go through over the medium-to long-term necessary measures towards the decommissioning of Units 1 to 4, and national implementation of your feedback of people who are displaced To help our life with peace of mind, we will work at full power continuously.
  
  About the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, I will inform you as follows]
  
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Fukushima World Warning! Spent Fuel Melt Down BPEarthWatch·470 videos ** NEWS FLASH -- URGENT ** STEAM SUDDENLY EMANATING FROM FUKUSHIMA REACTOR # 3 - WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS

Saturday, 28 December 2013 22:55

NEWS FLASH - URGENT - December 28, 2013  11:00 PM EST -- (TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com ) --   Persons residing on  the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan.  The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of  a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America. Steam photo, full details and suggested methods to protect yourself appear below. Editor's Note: This pic is from March, 2011 - via fukushimadiary.com: [Mochizuki Cheshire Iori's Photos A lot of people ask me about the "steam"coming up from reactor3. As Fukushima Diary has reported, this "steam" has been observed <almost everyday since this July". (http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/steaming-reactor3-thermography-shows-the-steaming-area-is-over-15%E2%84%83-hotter-than-atmosphere/) (http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/tepco-not-to-investigate-nor-take-countermeasures-for-reactor3-steam-anymore/)] On December 28, 2013, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)  admitted steam was seen billowing out of reactor building #3, saying the steam appeared to be coming from what's left of the fifth floor of the mostly-destroyed building.  It is widely known that persons cannot get inside Reactor Building #3 because it is severely damaged and highly radioactive, so TEPCO cannot state for certain what is happening in that building or why. TEPCO admits they do not know why this steam is being generated, but matter-of-factly revealed today (December 28)  the steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again on December 24 and again on December 25.

Winter Storm Warning: Madison, WI - SAT/SUN - Heavy Accum/Severe | NWS/NBC15

Local Weather Alert - MADTOWN, WI

Winter Storm Warning for Dane CO, WI

From 6:00 PM CST, Sat., Dec 21, 2013 until 6:00 PM CST, Sun., Dec 22, 2013

SNOW WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA VERY QUICKLY EARLY SATURDAY EVENING... THEN CONTINUE THROUGH THE NIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE TAPERING OFF FROM SOUTHWEST TO NORTHEAST LATER SUNDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON. THE SNOW WILL BE HEAVY AT TIMES... ESPECIALLY BETWEEN THE MIDNIGHT TO 8 AM

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS. ONLY TRAVEL IN AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL... KEEP AN EXTRA FLASHLIGHT... FOOD... AND WATER IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. 

Other affected areas: 

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Marquette, WI;  Green Lake, WI;  Fond Du Lac, WI;  Sheboygan, WI;  Sauk, WI;  Columbia, WI;  Dodge, WI;  Washington, WI;  Ozaukee, WI;  Iowa, WI;  Dane, WI;  Jefferson, WI;  Waukesha, WI;  Milwaukee, WI;  Lafayette, WI;  Green, WI;  Rock, WI;  Walworth, WI;  Racine, WI;  Kenosha, WI

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Issued by The National Weather Service
Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI

Fri, Dec 20, 2013, 9:59 PM CST

http://www.nbc15.com/weather/stormmode

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Nuclear Alert: High RAD Counts in Snow - Fukushima Fallout 3X Normal in St Louis | BPEarthwatch/dutchsinse

NUCLEAR ALERT 16.12.2013

High RAD Counts in snow in St Louis:  

76.9 CPM (769 total) over the course of 10 minutes on one counter ... 74.2 CPM (742 total) on the second counter.

Alert level is normally at 100CPM (1000 total).

Thus we are reaching higher and higher compared to 2011 and 2012 levels... Normal "background" count returns approximaely 20-40CPM level. - dutchsinse

 

#Fukushima Falluout continues unabated in many forms.

• Know where your food was harvested.

• Protect your self from overexposure (Bio Accumulation).

• Stay Informed.

_MP

High Levels of Radiation In Snow!

BPEarthWatch·465 videos

Published on Dec 15, 2013

WORLD WARNING!

BPEarthWatch Dutchsinse has been reading this radiation with his meters.  12/15/2013 -- ☢ HIGH LEVELS of Radiation ☢ 76.9CPM in the Snow - St. Louis, Missouri (2nd test)

dutchsinseThank you for sharing...

mamaknock

@Jesse thank you for addressing fukushima This is the worse disaster the world has ever seen and the biggest coverup from all governments. All west coast monitors were turned off 3 days after 3/11. It is up to the pple to get the message out to others. This

Avian Flu Update: Hong Kong Quarantines 19 in Outbreak after Second Case reported | Reuters/Bloomberg/gov.hk

H7N9 Avian Influenza Alert:

Hong Kong may be the newest #HotZone in the ongoing #H7N9 Avian Flu Pandemic.

The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection has Quarantined 19 after Second Reported case of H7N9 Avian Flu after contact with 80 year old man.

H7N9, an influenza virus that normally infects birds such as chickens and wild geese, first jumped to human hosts in China early this year.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 20% of those infected have died, but the virus does not spread easily from person to person — at least not yet. So far, the World Health Organization says 137 people have been sickened by H7N9 and 45 have died. Here’s what you need to know about the latest bird flu and whether it poses a threat in the U.S.

Stay Informed.

Alerts/News/Preparedness Info on USAEBN - www.usaebn.org

A computer monitor shows whether incoming passengers have high abnormal body temperatures at the Hong Kong International Airport on December 3, 2013. Photographer: Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images

Second confirmed human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Hong Kong under CHP investigation

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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health (DH) is today (Dec 6) investigating another confirmed human case of avian influenza A(H7N9) in Hong Kong affecting a man aged 80.

     The patient, with underlying medical condition, lives in Shenzhen. He was admitted to a hospital in Shenzhen for management of his chronic illness from November 13 to 29.

     On December 3, he arrived in Hong Kong with his three family members via Shenzhen Bay Port Border Control Point (SBP BCP) and subsequently took a taxi there in the afternoon to the Accident and Emergency Department (AED) of Tuen Mun Hospital (TMH) where he was admitted for further management of his chronic illness on the same day.

"The Serious Response Level under the Government's Preparedness Plan for Influenza Pandemic has been activated while the CHP's epidemiological investigation and follow-up actions are currently in full swing," a CHP spokesman remarked.
Courtesy:  http://www.info.gov.hk/

Hong Kong Quarantines 19People After Second Case of H7N9

By Zijing Wu & Joshua Fellman - Dec 7, 2013 9:37 PM CT

Hong Kong health officials have quarantined 19 people who had contact with an 80-year-old man confirmed to have the city’s second case of H7N9 influenza, which has killed 45 people in China this year.
The patient is a long-term resident of mainland China who was hospitalized in the border city of Shenzhen from Nov. 13 to Nov. 29 for treatment of an underlying chronic illness, the Hong Kong government said in a statement on Dec. 6. He moved to Hong Kong on Dec. 3 and was admitted to Tuen Mun Hospital, where he tested positive for the new strain of bird flu after developing a fever, the statement shows.

IAEA suggests discharging the toxic Fukushima water into Pacific — Impact on human health must be monitored

Juan Carlos Lentijo, head of IAEA’s mission to Fukushima Daiichi, Dec. 4, 2013: “Controlled discharge is a regular practice in all the nuclear facilities in the world. And what we are trying to say here is to consider this as one of the options to contribute to a good balance of risks and to stabilize the facility for the long term.”

http://madtownpreppers.blogspot.com/2013/11/fukushima-workers-begin-fuel-rod.html

Shunichi Tanaka, chairman of Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority, Dec. 4, 2013: “You cannot keep storing the water forever. We have to make choice comparing all risks involved.”

Xinhua, Dec. 4, 2013: Lentijo said that TEPCO should weigh the possible damaging effects of discharging toxic water against the total risks involved in the overall decommissioning work process. [...] Tanaka highlighted the fact that while highly radioactive water could be decontaminated in around seven years, the amount of water containing tritium will keep rising, topping 700,000 tons in two years. [...] nuclear experts have repeatedly pointed out that [tritium] is still a significant radiation hazard when inhaled, ingested via food or water, or absorbed through the skin. [...] fisherman, industries and fisheries bodies in the Fukushima area and beyond in Japan’s northeast, have collectively baulked at the idea of releasing toxic water into the sea [...] TEPCO will be duty-bound to submit assessments of the safety and environmental impact [...]

NHK, Dec. 4, 2013: IAEA team leader Juan Carlos Lentijo [...] said it is necessary and indispensable to assess the impact the tritium discharge might have on human health and the environment, and to get government approval as well as consent from concerned people.

Japan Times, Dec. 4, 2013: “Of course . . . public acceptance for this purpose is necessary,” said Lentijo, adding strict monitoring of the impact of the discharge would also be essential.

AFP, Dec. 4, 2013: [L]ocal fishermen, neighbouring countries and environmental groups all oppose the idea.
See also: Gundersen: They want to dump all Fukushima's radioactive water in Pacific -- Tepco: It will be diluted, then released -- Professor suggests pumping it out in deep ocean (VIDEOS)

 

IAEA suggests Fukushima consider ‘controlled discharge’ of Toxic Water into ocean