{"id":12460,"date":"2015-09-21T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12460"},"modified":"2015-09-21T06:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T11:19:36","slug":"the-fukushima-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12460","title":{"rendered":"The Fukushima Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/09\/21\/the-fukushima-fix\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Fukushima Fix<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/09\/Fukushima_101413.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-74368\" src=\"http:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2015\/09\/Fukushima_101413-510x319.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was briefed on the situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant as he toured the facility back on Sept. 19, 2013.  chief Akira Ono (4th L) in front of two tanks (back) which are being dismantled after leaking contaminated water, during his tour to the tsunami-crippled plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan on September 19, 2013. Abe told Fukushima's operator to fix radioactive water leaks as he toured the crippled nuclear plant on September 19, less than two weeks after assuring the world the situation was under control. AFP PHOTO \/ Japan Pool  JAPAN OUT        (Photo credit should read JAPAN POOL\/AFP\/Getty Images)\" width=\"510\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Abe government claims portions of Fukushima Prefecture (original population 2 million) are safe for habitation, radioactivity is acceptable; whereas scientific data by third-party NGOs indicates otherwise, stay away!<\/p>\n<p>PM Abe\u2019s specific maneuvers towards rehabilitation give the appearance that the Fukushima full-blown nuclear meltdown is relatively minimal in comparison to Chernobyl\u2019s disastrous explosion of 1986. After all, to this day, Chernobyl after 30 years is still a 30km \u201cexclusion zone\u201d where nobody is allowed due to excessive levels of radiation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back in Japan, PM Abe is moving people back into former restricted zones four years after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>It remains an open question as to whether the Fukushima aftermath will be worse than Chernobyl. After all, the China Syndrome may be actively at work at Fukushima and as such could last over many lifetimes.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the immediate direct exposure of radiation over population centers at Chernobyl was significantly more than Fukushima of which 80% drifted out into the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>But, that may be slight solace because, horrifyingly, nobody knows where the Fukushima melted cores are located, nobody knows; it\u2019s absolutely true, nobody knows whether the molten cores are within the containment vessels, outside of the vessels, deep in the ground, or cataclysmically traversing towards the water table.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, PM Abe\u2019s directive appears to be: \u201cNo problem, we\u2019ve cleaned up a whole lot of the mess outside of the immediate meltdown\u2026 so, move back into former restricted areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s nearly impossible to give an all-clear signal at this stage, especially with the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station containment vessels completely out of control with wild atom-splitting rogue radionuclides spewing into the Pacific Ocean, and who knows where else (Einstein must be spinning in his grave).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fukushima Fix Japan\u2019s Abe government claims portions of Fukushima Prefecture (original population 2 million) are safe for habitation, radioactivity is acceptable; whereas scientific data by third-party NGOs indicates otherwise, stay away! PM Abe\u2019s specific maneuvers towards rehabilitation give the appearance that the Fukushima full-blown nuclear meltdown is relatively minimal in comparison to Chernobyl\u2019s disastrous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4448,9152,5493,340,452,3423,580,2189],"class_list":["post-12460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-chernobyl","tag-china-syndrome","tag-counterpunch","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-nuclear-meltdown","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-shinzo-abe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12461,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12460\/revisions\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}