If Fukushima Unit 4 Falls, Hazardous Radioactive Cesium-137 Release Could be 8x Worse Than Chernobyl

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If Fukushima Unit 4 Falls, Hazardous Radioactive Cesium-137 Release Could be Eight Times Worse Than Chernobyl

TAKOMA PARK, MD--(ENWESPF)--May 4 - Beyond Nuclear today joined with concerned Japanese citizen groups and US Senator, Ron Wyden (D-OR), urging that swift international action be taken to prevent a catastrophic high-level radioactive waste fire at the precarious Unit 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.

Unit 4 is leaning and could topple if hit with another earthquake or tsunami, resulting in a deadly high-level radioactive waste fire. The ability for the unit to withstand another seismic event is rated at zero.

Today, a coalition of concerned Japanese citizens is urging United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, to properly inform the Japanese people of the perilous situation at Fukushima Daiichi, and to work together to prevent what would be an irreversible disaster that would release huge amounts of lethal radiation, dwarfing the scale of the original disaster.

Since the nuclear catastrophe began in March 2011, Beyond Nuclear has called attention to the ongoing risks of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi high-level radioactive waste storage pools. A similar danger persists at the 23 identical GE Mark I boiling water reactors still operating in the US.

“If the cooling water supply is lost to the high-level radioactive waste storage pool in Unit 4, it could be just a matter of hours before the irradiated nuclear fuel is on fire,” warned Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. “A fire in the Unit 4 high-level radioactive waste storage pool could release up to eight times more hazardous cesium-137 than the Chernobyl reactor explosion. That in turn would mean the site would have to be evacuated, risking the potential for all seven high-level radioactive waste storage pools at the site to ignite. If that happened, Fukushima Daiichi would release 85 times the levels of cesium released by Chernobyl, potentially forcing an evacuation, and permanent condemnation, of hundreds to thousands of square miles,” Kamps added...

http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/33192-if-fukushima-unit-4-falls-hazardous-radioactive-cesium-137-release-could-be-eight-times-worse-than-chernobyl.html

[Esse Quam Videri]

1. If the storage pool at No.4 falls it is the end

of the N. Hemisphere. And I'm not sure that it would even be worth relocating to the S. Hemisphere.

[yodermon]

2. Yikes. What year is this again?

[Gman]

11. Most of the land in the world is in the Northern Hemisphere

There's no where near enough land in the Southern for a mass migration.

[ErikJ]

3. Sarcophagus

Why dont they put a sarcophagus over it like they did with Chernobyl?

[alittlelark]

5. Chernobyl was landlocked. Fukushima is on the ocean

My guess is that if they could figure out how to do it it would already be happening/done.

The situation is dire, and it has been downplayed for a year now.

The situation IS DIRE.

We need another 'manhattan project' team w/ $$$$ resources and the best brains we have to deal w/ it.

We need to SCORN those SHILLS attempting to whitewash this catastrophe.

[ErikJ]

9. If it costs money the GOP will filibuster it

We need to tell them that some socialists are in there. Then they'd want to nuke it.

[Logical]

4. If, If, If, If, If, If, If. n-t

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Yes, yes, we're all gonna die horrible deaths...we get it

Post something any of us can act on once in a while, y'know?

[Zoeisright]

7. Jesus Christ.

And god damn everyone who went around rabbiting about how nuclear energy is safe.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

8. Sweet.

Weren't there Repub people in this forum arguing that this was no big deal?

[mindwalker_i]

10. Cool, set the hot dogs outside

and head for the basement.

[malaise]

12. K & R

Why doesn't the fugging transnational corporation tell the people the truth.
When will someone be arrested for endangering human life?