Enenews has posted a very interesting interview with Mr. Steven Starr, Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri discusses the many dangers of Fukushima here
It is a great interview that is well worth listening in its entirety.
One comment I found notable was Starr's quote from Alvarez that there is enough cesium in 34 assemblies to make 5000 miles technically uninhabitable.
Starr emphasized that cesium bioaccumulates within species and biomagnifies across species
Cesium 134 and Cesium 137 decay beta particles (high speed electrons) and gamma rays. The effects of ingested radiocesium are significant on internal organs.
In a 2003 video titled Nuclear Controversies by Vladimir Tchertkoff,[i] Professor Yury Bandazhevsky (former director of the Medical Institute in Gomel), states that based on his research on children exposed to radiocesium from Chernobyl, ‘Over 50 Bq/kg of body weight lead to irreversible lesions in vital organs.’ In a short summary of his work published in 2003, Bandazhevsky described high levels of Cesium-137 bioaccumulation in Chernobyl children’s endocrine glands, particularly the thyroid gland, the adrenals, and the pancreas.[ii] He also found high levels in the thymus and the spleen. He found higher levels of bio-accumulation in children than adults.
How much cesium was released by Fukushima into the atmosphere and ocean if vaporization of 34 assemblies produces enough cesium to contaminate 5000 square miles, rendering it unsafe for human habitation?
I've been arguing for the last 18 months that fuel in spent fuel pool #4 burned. I don't know how much fuel burned before water was successfully used to stop the fires.
Enenews is reporting that Gundersen observed uncovered fuel in March of 2011:
NRC Transcripts March 16, 2011 http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A108.pdf
John Monger page :
“unit 1 and 2 is boiling down, and unit 3 and 4 is having zirc/water reaction.
They believe there is essentially no walls on unit 3. The explosion – I’m sorry
– unit 4. The explosion leveled the walls, leveled the structure for the unit 4
spent fuel pool all the way down to the approximate level of the bottom of the
fuels. So, there’s no water in there whatsoever” page 62
Majia here: Somehow the pool was stabilized. Even so, I think it burned again in the winter of 2012 - 2013.
Compare images of unit 4 in May of 2011 with the image from 2012.
MAY OF 2011
APRIL OF 2012
REFERENCES
MY PREVIOUS POSTS ON UNIT 4
MAY OF 2011
APRIL OF 2012
REFERENCES
[i] W. Tchertkoff (2008) Nuclear
Controversies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qqhm_ZrfhE&feature=relmfu.
[ii] Y. I. Bandazhevsky (2003) ‘Chronic
Cs-137 Incorporation in Children’s Organs’, Swiss
Med Wkly, 133, 488-490, http://tchernobyl.verites.free.fr/sciences/smw-Bandazhevsky_chronicCs137.pdf.
MY PREVIOUS POSTS ON UNIT 4
Jul 05, 2012
Is Unit 4 Pool (and Building) Gone?
Someone posted at Enenews that spent fuel pool #4 is now gone. There is an
inventory of videos available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/jnnlivecam.
These videos are not of high ...
Oct 23, 2012
A speaker asserts that there are “no
walls” on unit 4 spent fuel pool: “The explosion leveled the walls, leveled the
structure for the unit 4 spent fuel pool all the way down to the to the
approximate level of the bottom of the fuel.
Apr 19, 2012
RE UNIT 4: “The explosion leveled
the walls, leveled the structure for the unit 4 spent fuel pool all the way
down to the to the approximate level of the bottom of the fuel, so there is no
water in there whatsoever” ...
Jan 06, 2012
MAJIA HERE: The scenario of unit 4
spent fuel pool drying up does NOT appear to have been purely hypothetical. I
went back through all of the articles I've saved and looked at early reports on
the status of spent fuel pool #4.
Jun 23, 2011
"Japanese authorities also today
informed the IAEA at 03:50 UTC that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4
reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is on fire and
radioactivity is being released directly into the ...
Jul 07, 2012
July 2012: Gundersen: Latest probe
at Unit 1 indicates nuclear fuel has left containment (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/gundersen-latest-probe-unit-1-indicates-nuclear-fuel-left-containment-audio.
UNIT 2 (Explosion later in day on ... But there are other facilities in
Japan that produce enriched fuel for reactors and manage highly radioactive
waste, some of which are in remote areas in the north, "and no one has
said 'boo' about them," he said. "It's not inconceivable that ...
May 28, 2012
Many observers had believed spent fuel
pool 4 was indeed intact (e.g., Sickputer & Joy) because the incineration
of the pool would have been undeniably visible in the form of skyrocketing
radiation readings in Tokyo and ...
Apr 06, 2012
STATUS FOR SPENT FUEL POOL #4:
IMMINENT DANGER? A former Japanese diplomat, with a rather extensive history as
secretary generals for United Nations administrative units, has a webpage that
discusses ...
Jun 11, 2012
Monday, June 11, 2012 ...
system in Pacific Northwest • Noble gas does not “washout,” and is the first
emitted from any possible fuel damage • Levels persisted for weeks and isotopes
were ultimately detected across the northern hemisphere ... S.
Biegalski, et al., US Particulate and Xenon Measurements Made Following the
Fukushima Reactor Accident, accepted for publication in Jour. of Envir
Radioactivity, 2011. • T. Bowyer, et al., Elevated Radioxenon Detected Remotely
Following ...
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