BREAKING: US Senator issues press release on No. 4 Spent Fuel Pool — Warns situation worse than reported after tour of Fukushima plant

[link to squall.sfsu.edu]

[link to squall.sfsu.edu]

Japan, with assistance from the U.S. government, needs to do more to move spent fuel rods out of harm’s way at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Monday

Wyden, a senior Democratic senator on the Senate Energy committee, toured the ruined Fukushima plant on April 6, and said the damage was far worse than he expected

Wyden said he was most worried about spent fuel rods stored in damaged pools

He urged the Japanese government to accept international help to prevent further release of the radioactive material if another earthquake should happenWyden said the only protection for the pools from another tsunami appeared to be “a small, makeshift sea wall erected out of bags of rock”

Wyden said the spent fuel should be moved to safer storage sooner than anticipated under a 10-year clean-up plan

[link to enenews.com]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 04/16/2012 07:25 PM

I felt compelled to email Senator Wyden to tell him how much I appreciate the illumination he brings to the ongoing disaster in Japan. If only we had more open and honest public servants like him!

I felt compelled to email Senator Wyden to tell him how much I appreciate the illumination he brings to the ongoing disaster in Japan. If only we had more open and honest public servants like him!

did you ask senator wyden what technology he had in mind to remove this spent fuel, as none exists.

Tepco releases footage of No. 3 Spent Fuel Pool

8 hours ago ..




[link to www.youtube.com]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 04/16/2012 08:01 PM

Then apply the best minds in Japan and the US to inventing one asap! Or get permission to set off a small nuke to incinerate the Fukushima site.

Either way it's better to do something than to carp from the sidelines. If the Yanks spent less time whinging at their TVs and more time holding their elected officials to account, the world wouldn't be in the sorry state it is now.

No need to panic. President Obama is monitoring the sitiation.

said senator is a mouthpiece clown

only humans can attempt to carry out any work at fukushima daiichi,so when he calls on japan to accept international help, you can rest assured that he has no intention of sending any of his own 4 children there but someone else's.

not only a clown
In 2011, Wyden expressed support for the no-fly zone and other intervention in Libya

a murderer

We ALL already knew that by March 12, 2011. This is OLD news.

Amen!

but....but...but.....but.......I THOUGHT RADIATION WAS GOOD FOR YOU!!

been screaming that one out for almost a year..... the leaders of this world are sick, repugnant and deaf.... really proves that the rich are only worried about their own opulent lifestyles during their own selfish lifespans... .and that for the most part.... the rest of the gullible public are people to pay tax for their lifestyles...... forget about the children of today and tomorrow, whilst you can get your cocaine hit today.....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 04/16/2012 09:32 PM

Since "saving face" is a major deal in Japanese society don't expect them to open their country to outside help any time soon.
What should be happening right now is, Obama should be on the phone to the Japanese government telling them in no uncertain terms to get their shit together or we'll send our people over to mop this up. Someone must do something and quickly, otherwise the Northern Hemisphere (and maybe the Southern too) is toast. There's enough radiation to wipe out all Human and animal life, which of course presents nuclear radiation problems locally from 200 some odd nuke plants here in the U.S. I say unmanned because if these fuel pools at Fukushima start burning, the radiation will be released into the air and we're downwind folks!
So the time to act was a year ago, it may already be too late.

Wow, what a mess.

/sarcasm on/



do you MIND, how dare you draw attention to this when preparations are in full swing for the upcoming uranium jubilee, you australian prole!!!!



/sarcasm off/

bollocks, that's the titanic

simple question here...we here in the 21 century think this is exectible means to hold some of the most dangerous matter on earth?
talk about zimmerman or anyother silly thing going on today ...americam idol...people will go on and on.
talk about this and they look at you as if you are crazy!

we all are to blame
can't push it off on someone else.

it is all of us, we let this happen.
here i am now using AC for this computer. and lights to see the keyboard. a am guilt as well as every single human on this planet.
time is now we must take this world back. or it's over....
GAME OVER!

to all the world leaders...EVERYONE OUT OF THE POOL!

"we all are to blame
can't push it off on someone else."


nice try. not true.
how many laws have you passed?

I know they could clean all that shit up and dump it into lead lined ships and put them in a remote location, but it would cost a $$LOT OF MONEY$$ to do it! So they'll just skirt the issue and let it be a threat to mankind.

I agree, mate. God! I can't believe how whiny we've become. There's a lot of pussies that are posting here.

At least this guy YOUR government done? Maybe now, we'll get some people moving on this. I for one, am extremely thankful that our gov't is at least doing something!

At least this guy YOUR government done? Maybe now, we'll get some people moving on this. I for one, am extremely thankful that our gov't is at least doing something!

Jeez that didn't type out right.

What was written was:

At least this guy is doing something! What has YOUR government done?

the only thing our govenment has done is.... nothing.... at least we have credible australian reporters actually saying something..... we as a people are as gullible and sheeple as the rest of the world.... sad.... when i have posted to blogs on facebook and twitter and stuff?... most people prefer lindsey lohan and who's got talent.... says it all....

"I for one, am extremely thankful that our gov't is at least doing something!"

yep, raising their profile, there's an election coming up in november after all

truth is, some people tried to awaken people to the dangers of worst case scenario accidents back in the early days. they were right. they're not the type of people to say i told you so.

your government and everyone elses government is doing exactly what is expected of them, talking politics while people die.

i can't quite manage a round of applause for that.or any cheerleading.

you were told. decades ago.

read it and wept
for the innocent
the children

Indeed.

Note The Senator said 'surrounding', it LOCAL DOOM, phew, the world can breathe relatively clean air again!

...Now lets see how things progress with the whole world helping out...

Here's the thing. Kudos to you for keeping on it. I've seen you posting from day one and your efforts to bring it out should be admired. If your press is reporting on it, than good for them as well. Ours isn't. Nothing we can do about that but keep pushing.

But when a Senator comes out and says something about it, don't bitch about "what is he gonna do?" He set the cogs of the wheel in motion. That's pretty damn good. It's friggin better than nothing, and that's what we've been seeing so far. He sent for information from different people requesting them to find out what we can allocate to it. What resources we have. Resources, not only being financial, but it could mean great minds being put on it. That's what we need. Even Arnie (who should be sainted) said he was stumped on how to fix 4.

My point is, when you're so frustrated by no one doing anything, when they DO do something, don't hack at them! At least they're doing something!

it's called pretending, it's what politicians are best at

agreed.. i think of it like a hand grenade thrown into your fox hole... you all jump out... wait for it to go off... and if it's a dud?... you can then go in and fix it.....

... my point being is i think they had to wait until it was somewhat safer before venturing in... which only points out how dire the situation really is....

people who are determined to highlight the dangers of the accident at fukushima are motivated by truth, not any solutions to the meltdowns, because there aren't any.
it has happened, they said it never would.
deal with it by telling the truth

it's 2012, how many satellite images of fukushima daiichi have you seen since this shit happened? none. because there aren't any satellites? or because the truth is being hidden?

I honestly can say I hope it kills every human being on this fucking planet. I want to see devastation, destruction and mayhem. Fuck this species. I want to watch it all burn.