NEWS FLASH - URGENT !!!!!
(via www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com) --- Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear
disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says
radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded
nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not
know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see
what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that
building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool
criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning
up into the atmosphere and heading to North America. Steam photo, full
details and suggested methods to protect yourself appear below.
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The announcements from TEPCO (in Japanese) can be viewed HERE (12/27), HERE (12/25) and HERE (12/24). You can use Google Translate to convert to English.
On December 28, 2013, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
admitted steam was seen billowing out of reactor building #3, saying the
steam appeared to be coming from what's left of the fifth floor of the
mostly-destroyed building. It is widely known that persons cannot get
inside Reactor Building #3 because it is severely damaged and highly
radioactive, so TEPCO cannot state for certain what is happening in that
building or why. TEPCO admits they do not know why this steam is being
generated, but matter-of-factly revealed today (December 28) the steam
was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again
on December 24 and again on December 25.
Nuclear energy experts have told TRN that the ONLY way this could
be happening is if radioactive material previously ejected from the
reactor explosion in March, 2011 has mixed together with other materials
and has begun its own self-sustaining reaction(s), also known as a
"criticality." Put simply, another "meltdown" may be taking place.
There are basically two possibilities if another meltdown is in progress:
1) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected
when the reactor exploded, have mixed together and "mini" meltdowns are
taking place with those small clumps of pellets. This would not be a horrific problem and may be manageable, OR;
2) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected
when the reactor exploded, went into the spent fuel pool located above
the reactor and have begun melting down so seriously they are boiling
off the water in the spent fuel pool.
Since steam is visible, experts tell TRN that Scenario #2 above is is
the most likely scenario and if so, it would be an absolute nightmare
-- WORSE than the original Fukushima disaster!
The Spent Fuel Pool was situated on the fourth floor above Reactor #3,
and if this is the source of the steam, the situation could escalate
rapidly out of control.
The As shown in the diagram at left, the spent fuel pool is not
a contained structure; it is literally a "pool" filled with water, to
keep old fuel cool. (The metal radioactive fuel, once removed from a
nuclear reactor, remains hot enough to melt itself for two to three YEARS
after being removed from a reactor.) The experts tell TRN that if
steam is coming out of reactor building #3 this could very well be the
start of a much worse radiation release because once the spent fuel pool
begins its own reactions, all of it will be uncontrolled and uncontrollable.
To provide insight into how much trouble this could be, the chart
below proves that, according to TEPCO, reactor #3 was loaded with 566
fuel assemblies. The spent fuel pool in reactor building #3 contains
514 assemblies; about 89 TONS. If that "goes critical" there's nothing
to contain the radiation which will go directly into the air.
The video below was taken several months ago by TEPCO. It shows that the
roof is totally blown off reactor building # 3 and shows a robotic
crane being operated by remote control, trying to clear debris from the
Reactor # 3 spent fuel pool. TEPCO is forced use robotic cranes
operated by remote control because the area is so contaminated, anyone
entering the area would die from radiation within one hour.
Imagine, now, 89 tons of nuclear fuel boiling away that spent fuel
pool water and releasing 89 tons of deadly radioactive fuel directly
into the air. Two to three days later, the west coast of north
America would be "fried" by levels of airborne radiation and "hot
particles" which could kill.
PREPARATIONS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER ( We do **** NOT **** sell any of the products suggested below )
1) Keep up-to-date on developments via the Internet. The
mass-media is not reliable because like the government, they want to
avoid any mass panic. While that is a noble goal, withholding
information as was done previously when the Fukushima disaster struck in
March, 2011, allowed people to get exposed to radiation which could
kill them now - or years from now. TRN believes people have a right to
know, so as to make an informed decisions about whether to protect
themselves or not.
2) Go immediately (RIGHT NOW) to your local home improvement or hardware store for rolls of plastic, Duct tape, WIDE masking tape and a couple rolls of self-adhesive weather stripping. You
want to have a roll or two of the type of plastic that is used by
painters; (the kind they use to cover your floor and furniture in case
paint drips) and a roll or two of Duct tape. Don't
deploy this yet, but if the radiation arrives, you'll HAVE what you need
and won't be battling a million other people trying to get some when
the danger actually hits. You can use the plastic and duct tape things
to cover the insides of your windows, doors, AC electric plugs, light
switches, bathroom exhaust vents, stove exhaust vents, -- even ceiling
vents, to TRY to keep out radiation particles once you know they're
arriving. (NOTE: this may not be 100% effective. Houses have loads of
nooks and crannies which allow air from the outside to get inside. If
you cover the largest ones, you're at least giving yourself and family a
fighting chance.) These supplies are available immediately at: Home Depot Lowes Walmart TrueValue Ace Hardware and many other retail stores.
3) If radiation is identified as heading toward your area or has arrived in your area:
a) Cut sheets from the roll of plastic, large enough to cover your windows, window frames/woodwork,
sliding glass doors, doggie doors, etc., and do so on the INSIDE of
your house. Once the sheets are cut to size, secure that plastic to
your inside walls using Duct tape. You want to cover things inside not outside so the weather doesn't cause the plastic to make noise or perhaps rip off during high wind, rain or snow. The
duct tape should cover 100% of the edge of the plastic, making a good
seal AROUND the window, sliding glass doors, doggie doors, etc. It is
important to note that the plastic should go AROUND the woodwork on the
inside the window/door and NOT merely around the inner perimeter of the
window itself. Gaps between the window assemblies and exterior walls
might not be air-tight; especially in older homes where the silicone
weather sealant around windows/doors is worn or in earthquake prone
areas where the shaking has loosened-up window/door seals. This will
help seal out radiation particles in the air so they shouldn't be able
to get inside your home. Those of you in private homes should do this
sealing on EVERY opening to the outside (doors, windows, vents) on every floor
of your home, from the basement to the attic. Those of you who do not
have basements, will usually find vents along the slab foundation which
are designed to naturally ventilate under the house. SEAL THESE from
the outside as best you can. Similarly, those of you without full
attics, will usually see vents of some type for the roof rafter area.
SEAL THESE as best you can too. (PLEASE don't fall off any roof or off
any ladder. Be careful!)
b) Cut smaller sheets from the roll of plastic to cover electrical outlets and light switches inside the house. Those
outlets and switches are breaks in the walls to the inner structure of
the house. The inner structure gets naturally ventilated under the
eaves and awnings of the house. While the air flow is not generally a
lot, it IS there; you want to seal it out. As with the windows, use
Duct tape to hold the plastic a full inch or two around the entire
perimeter of the light switch our electrical outlets.
c) Cut sheets from the roll of plastic to cover vents: Bathrooms, stoves. Remember,
this is just a TEMPORARY situation and the radiation will usually
blow-over or dilute within a week or so. While none of us likes the
smell in the bathroom after it is used, it's better to put up with that
for a few days than have radiation in there from the vents. BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU CHOOSE TO COVER A STOVE EXHAUST VENT; YOU DON'T WANT THE PLASTIC GOING ON FIRE IF YOU'RE COOKING.
d) DO NOT use duct tape or plastic over your main entry/exit door. If,
God forbid, there's a fire, you want to be able to exit fast and not be
battling duct tape to get out. Instead, maybe check to see the
weatherstripping around the door is in good shape or at worst, add a
layer of new weatherstripping to what's already there. The bottom of
the door sill can be covered with a rolled-up towel if necessary,to
prevent drafts at the bottom of the door.
NOTE: Duct tape, when removed, may
damage the surface of the wall it was stuck to. It may peel off paint
or even the paper covering of Sheetrock when you remove it. If this is a
concern, you may wish to utilize WIDE masking tape instead. We do not
recommend masking tape, but it may be viable if you are concerned about
peeling off the duct tape when the emergency is ended.
4) Get a minimum "NIOSH N100-certified" filter mask for yourself and each member of your family.
NIOSH stands for National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) which is an agency of the US Government. They rate protective
gear for various industries and the lowest possible level of mask with
any hope at all of filtering out radiation particles must be rated by
NIOSH as N100. The masks cost about $30 on Ebay and look like the one in the image at left below.
SERIOUS NOTE:
There are TIME CONSTRAINTS on the use of the N100-rated mask in a
hostile environment. Having such a mask is not a license to go out and
have fun. It is a limited mask, with limited capability for a limited
time period, to help protect you in this type of emergency.
Of course, you can go all-out and get some super-mask for several
hundred dollars, but the minimum you need is an N100 rated mask.
Whatever you do, don't try to get "cute" and figure you can "get away
with" a mask that is rated N95 or lower. An N95 mask will NOT filter
out the tiny particles involved here and you will be fooling yourself if
you buy any mask rated less than N100.
It is important to understand that a "hospital mask" normally used by Doctors, WILL NOT PROTECT YOU AT ALL
from radioactive particles. The particles are so small, they can fit
right through a typical surgical mask used by doctors. If you
breathe-in any "hot Particles" of radiation, they will wreak havoc on
your lungs and cause very rapid deterioration of your health. Cancers,
Leukemias, Hemorrhaging . . . . you get the idea.
5) About your job and going to work during a radiation emergency . . . .
Those of us with jobs can't simply call-in and tell the boss we can' come to work today because we're afraid of the radiation. So
start discussing this situation with your bosses first thing TODAY. See
if the company as a whole is willing to develop some type of strategy
to deal with taking time off due to a radioactive plume coming onto the
west coast of north America from Japan, making things unsafe for a few
days. Start the conversation. Don't wait until things spiral out of
control and people are panicking.
6) If you HAVE to go out, clothing will get contaminated; be prepared to protect yourself
Wear an NIOSH N100 mask at all times when you are outside your house
during the plume's arrival and presence. Yes, you're probably going to
feel like a jerk; especially when the uninformed, the ignorant and those
"in denial" about the real danger, start poking fun at you. Just
remember you'll have the last laugh.
A VERY helpful tool for this situation is a disposable TYVEK suit and booties. You can get them at most home improvement stores and on EBAY for about $8. Tyvek coveralls are one-piece garments, usually white, commonly worn
by mechanics, painters, installation installers, and laboratory and
cleanroom workers where a disposable, one-time use coverall is needed.
They are also used for some light HAZMAT applications, such as asbestos
and radiation work but do not provide the protection of a full hazmat
suit. Wear it to work, when you get inside, take it off right at the
doorway and throw it away in a garbage can near the door. It's done.
Don't touch it again. Then go wash your hands and face to wash away
whatever may have accumulated on them. These suits are also available
at the retailers listed above (Home Depot, Lowes, etc.).
If you simply refuse to walk outside dressed-up like a Bunny, you must realize that Clothing worn while you are outside will have contamination on it.
This is unavoidable. Once you've been outside and enter your job,
remove your outerwear and place it as close to the door as you can. You
may want to pack a change of clothing in a tightly closed gym bag, to
change-into at work. Having a change of clothes for when you get to work
might not be a bad idea. The change of clothes ought to include
FOOTWEAR.
When you're outside, your footwear is going to be picking up the
contamination that fell onto the ground. This is unavoidable. What you
CAN do, is take those shoes off once you get where you're going, and
thereby not track the radiation into wherever you are. You may want to
get "Disposable Plastic Shoe Covers"
to help avoid at least SOME of the radiation getting onto your shoes.
These shoe covers are cheap, and you throw them away as soon as you get
inside your destination.
For Eye protection, we suggest a cheap pair of Swimmer's Goggles. They vary in cost from 99 cents to about $10 on Ebay
- or your local sporting goods store. The purpose of this is to prevent
radioactive particles from landing on your eyeballs. Swimmer's goggles
will fit the bill pretty well and you can wash them off once you get to
where you're going, and use the goggles again the next time you go
out. Radiation washes off with soap and water.
7) IN AND OUT OF YOUR HOUSE
The same procedures listed above for going to and from work, should
be used by you and your family when going to/from home. After all, you
don't want to bring radiation into your house on your clothes, shoes
etc, or walk-it-through the whole house once you arrive. Put a coat
rack just-inside the entry door. Put a shoe rack too. First thing
everyone does when they walk in the door - ditch the outerwear and shoes
right then and there. YOU DO NOT want to be tracking radiation into
and all over your house, then spewing it up into the air when you vacuum
and it comes out with the vacuum exhaust air. You want to stop the
radiation as close to the door as you can. If you prefer, put a clothes
hamper -- LINED WITH A PLASTIC LAWN-AND-LEAF-SIZE BAG just inside the
front door and change your clothes the moment you get in. When the
hamper is full, seal-up the bag, take it to the washer and wash the
radiation away.
8) Wash obsessively during the emergency
External radioactive material washes off with soap and water. When
you consider that everything you touch and all the air that touches you
OUTSIDE can be contaminated, it is important to WASH exposed body parts
(face & hands) with soap and water often. When you get home from
your daily routine and get out of potentially contaminated clothing,
take a shower before anything else. A SHOWER, NOT A BATH.
Showering will allow the radiation to fall off you and go down the
drain whereas a bath could possible allow the radioactive materials to
cling to your body as you leave the bathwater. Sadly, this
brings us to one, final, MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR problem: Water comes from
reservoirs and reservoirs are out in the open; radiation has and will continue to fall into our water supplies.
LOCAL OFFICIALS CAUGHT DELIBERATELY CONCEALING RADIATION IN DRINKING WATER
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists the maximum safe
levels and government-approved methods for removing, radiation in
water. Yet according to KHOU-TV in Texas, local and state officials in
that state deliberately conspired for YEARS to alter the results from
their municipal water tests, to deliberately CONCEAL high levels of radiation
in municipal water! If local and state officials in one state have
already been caught deliberately concealing radiation in water, can any
rational person believe they aren't doing it now in other states -- or
won't do it (again) in the future? You can read that story and watch the
KHOU-TV news video HERE.
In fact, KHOU-TV found that the radiation in local water was so
severe, that it made the underground water pipes and the water heaters
inside homes radioactive; in some cases 11 times more radioactive than
allowable by law! The pipes and water heaters were so radioactive that
none of those things could be scrapped in a junk yard! You can read
this separate KHOU-TV story and watch the video HERE.
Given the irrefutable proof above we suggest equipping your sinks and
shower head(s) with a water filter. Now, getting radiation out of
water is NOT simple. Paper filters do nothing in that regard.
Granular Activated Carbon filters have shown SOME ability to remove
SOME types of radiation. Reverse-Osmosis has shown good ability to
remove other types of radiation. ION Exhange is the final method which
has shown good ability to remove radiation. Yet getting all these types
of filters in ONE system is not easy and it is considerably expensive.
As such, we suggest that having a filter of some type is better than having no filter at all.
Of course, once the filters become saturated with pollutants, they're
useless, so expect to change-out those filters PRECISELY in accordance
with the manufacturer's recommendation or even more frequently. Yes,
this will cost a few bucks, but this is an extraordinary situation
calling for extraordinary response. What good is all the safety you
exercise with the steps above, if you then eat, drink and bathe-in
contaminated water?
The suggestions above are just that SUGGESTIONS. What you choose to
do - or not do - is, of course, up to you. One thing is clear, though:
Fukushima is acting up again and when it does, the wind and, later, the
sea will carry the results to North America within days.
