Since the catastrophic meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant
in March of 2011 irreparably altered the state of the planet for the
known future, the incident has been shrouded in nothing but bureaucratic
cover ups and government-backed disinformation. Now, within our own
borders, top experts turned whistleblowers are warning of a nuclear
nightmare that could surpass Fukushima and Chernobyl alike by leaps and
bounds.
Initially listed as a Level 4 incident on
the International Nuclear Event Scale, pressure from scientists on an
international level
ultimately led to Fukushima’s classification as a maximum Level 7 accident within the
INES system — with some suggesting an entirely new level was needed to describe
the true impact
and atrocity of the nuclear meltdown. Now, even after witnessing what
happens when a major power plant is placed within the crosshairs of
earthquake activity, a ‘new Fukushima’ is sitting off the Central Coast
within California’s Diablo Canyon.
And top level nuclear experts,
including a senior federal nuclear inspector turned whistleblower, are
warning that the California-based plant is a sitting radioactive duck
amid the nearby faults that have actually been found to be more
dangerous than previously thought. Back in 2008, a new fault known as
the Shoreline fault was discovered just offshore from the Diablo Canyon
nuclear facility: a discovery that truly changes everything about the
‘safety’ of the California plant.
The whistleblower and former federal inspector of the plant, Michael Peck,
has even presented
his case highlighting the serious hazards of the plant he used to
oversee to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in a highly
confidential report. National organizations are already calling
attention to Peck’s finding and reports, with senior strategist Damon
Moglen of Friends of the Earth International stating:
“We agree
with him that Diablo Canyon is vulnerable to earthquakes and must be
shut down immediately. Rather than the NRC keeping this a secret, there
must be a thorough investigation with public hearings to determine
whether these reactors can operate safely.”
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Yet
it appears that the general public is not even being made aware of
what’s really going on, let alone the real threat that they face on a
national and international level.
As usual, the general public is
not being told about ways in which they can prepare themselves for a
nuclear meltdown. Instead, government officials were caught back in
February stockpiling iodine stores
in excess of 14 million doses
in a purchase order that came conveniently after reports began
surfacing over another possible meltdown at the Fukushima plant. The
doses will be enough for many officials and federal employees, however
the public will be forced to fend for themselves — and they will not
even be told about the necessity of iodine nor how they can better
prepare their families for a radioactive scenario.
The reality is
that even getting a hold of low quality potassium iodide, which I would
not ever personally take over a higher quality form of pure iodine, is
becoming difficult as the population becomes aware of Fukushima’s
expansive dangers. Many manufacturers are now stockpiling raw iodine and
holding on to the element as a form of investment with the knowledge
that Fukushima may very well meltdown in the coming months. For this
reason, we have had a very hard time securing nascent iodine formulas
that many in the field of preparedness have been stockpiling for quite some time.
Fukushima Radiation Continues As Experts Warn Of ‘American Fukushima’
But
even outside out Peck’s analysis and years of experience as a nuclear
inspector at the federal level, numerous high level scientists and
researchers have been speaking out about the continuation of Fukushima’s
devastating effects and the need to further stabilize and shutdown
nuclear plants along the fault lines throughout the United States — and
California is not the only region in question. Even another earthquake
affecting Japan could lead to the ‘evacuation of North America’,
according to scientists David Suzuki.
In statements made during a presentation on water ecology at the University of Alberta, award winning scientist David Suzuki
went on record in saying
that in the event of another seven or above earthquake, which he says
has about a 95% chance of occurring over the next three years, it would
require a complete evacuation of North America and mean ‘bye bye Japan’.
“I
have seen a paper which says that if in fact the fourth plant goes
under in an earthquake and those rods are exposed, it’s bye bye Japan
and everybody on the west coast of North America should evacuate,” he
said.
Specifically speaking to the nature of Fukushima’s ticking
time bomb, Suzuki began the breakdown of the plant’s numerous threats
with stating the very real concept that Fukushima is perhaps the largest
threat to both humanity and the planet that we face in the immediate
future.
“Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can
imagine,” he said before delving into the issue. “Three out of the four
plants were destroyed in the earthquake and in the tsunami. The fourth
one has been so badly damaged that the fear is, if there’s another
earthquake of a seven or above that, that building will go and then all
hell breaks loose… And the probability of a seven or above earthquake in
the next three years is over 95 per cent.”
And Suzuki is not the
only one with major concerns. In fact, Suzuki is perhaps one of the very
few who actually received media attention due to his celebrity status
as a recipient of 16 significant academic awards and host of the popular
CBC Television program entitled ‘
The Nature of Things’. Yale University professor Charles Perrow has voiced similar concerns in a telling
piece entitled ‘Fukushima
Forever’, which highlights the very serious threat of nuclear meltdown
as a result of human error when it comes to removing the plant’s spent
fuel rods.
A danger that the United States government certainly
recognizes as legitimate based on the analysis of top experts, and
undoubtedly is silently preparing for behind the scenes.
Perrow writes:
Much
more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of
the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake,
or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and
safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away.
Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous,
and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that
would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if
they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the
evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the
radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could
not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will
be threatened, for thousands of years.
The Fukushima
nuclear nightmare is far from over, and even now the disaster is being
extremely mishandled and blatantly ignored by plant operator company
TEPCO and the Japanese government. In the event of an American Fukushima
within California, which would in fact be much more devastating, there
is truly no telling how much of a fatal blow would be dealt to humanity.
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