10 January 2014 (04:22 UTC-07 Tango)/08 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1435/20 Dey 1392/10 Gui-Chou (12th month) 4711
Japan Times reporting that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency will conduct a full meltdown of nuclear fuel in March! The crazy bastards at the JAEA want to observe the meltdown “….to figure out how meltdowns occurred at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in 2011”!
The meltdown will take place at the Nuclear Safety Research Reactor in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture. It will involve one fuel rod. The test is being done because, still, nobody knows what’s really going on at Fukushima Daiichi, three years after at least three GE designed reactors melted down!
Remember, between reactors 1,2 & 3 there are at least 1500 fuel rods! And don’t forget they’re still having problems with reactor Unit 4!
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) reporting that overall radiation levels at the boundaries of the Fukushima Daiichi radiation factory have risen to 8 millisieverts in December 2013! In March 2013 it was at 1 millisievert. Currently, Japanese nuke throwaway workers can be legally exposed to 1 millisievert per year, the latest reading is eight times that limit!
NRA officials blame the build up of beta ray contamination in the leaking water storage tanks. They claim that the inflow of beta radiation contaminated water into the tanks is actually crowding out the other isotopes, pushing them right through the thick metal walls of the tanks! Officials at the NRA are now holding meetings to figure out what to do!
The inflow of beta radiation into the storage tanks can be partly blamed on the failed Advanced Liquid Processing System. Tokyo Electric Power Company, apparently, finally gave up on their failed ALPS filtration system. ALPS was supposed to be used to filter the hotter isotopes from water before being stored into the tanks. I’ve been following the implementation of ALPS, and it never worked right. TEPCo had so many problems with it that it seemed they couldn’t go three weeks without shutting down for repairs.
On 08 January 2014, TEPCo shut down all three ALPS filters. This time they blame it on the 14 containers used to store the filtered material, saying they are packed full. They also said it will be some time before they can get empty containers and re-start the filtration. (Update: 10 January 2014, TEPCo re-starts ALPS. Says the problem was the massive crane used to move the containers. They fixed the crane, and moved new containers in place. However TEPCo stated that ALPS is still officially in test run mode, since they’ve had so many problems it’s been difficult to asses its effectiveness. Really?)
The Half Moon Bay Review interviewed an electrical engineer who’s worked with geiger counters for 40 years. His own radiation checks of Surfer’s Beach, in California, showed a 1400% increase in radiation: “It’s not normal! I’ve never seen 400 CPM [counts per minute] when I just wave my geiger around! There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”-Steve Weiss, radiological analyst
The Half Moon Bay Review also reported increasing amounts of cesium-137, radium and thorium on California beaches.
After California officials denounced the independent radiation monitoring by residents (one video showed a 500% increase in radiation on California beaches), the alternative news source InfoWars deployed a squad of reporters to the U.S. west coast to take radiation samples for themselves.
For their first rad check, the InfoWars radiation squad reports they found high levels of radiation outside the famous Redwood Forest; more than 80 CPMs at some points leading up to the entrance of the famous Drive Thru Tree.
Despite the geiger counter evidence of increased radiation, University of Southern California professor Daniel Stram said “There’s no danger from Fukushima with the fish that we eat.”