In spite of the fact that long ago disappeared from the headlines of major news
stories, an editorial in a leading newspaper in Japan warned that the crisis in
Fukushima is still in a critical stage and that the Japanese government has
developed contingency plans for evacuation of the Greater Tokyo potential of 39
million inhabitants.
The reactor number 4 of Fukushima, possessing 75% of nuclear fuel as well as
the Chernobyl complex, compliance before its collapse a total of 460 tons, is
at risk of collapse. With the roof of the complex destroyed, if the
storage pool for spent fuel, which is located on floors 3 rd and 4th of the
building, it would break, the nuclear fuel to overheat and explode, spreading
radioactive fallout across a wide zone.
Both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) U.S. and the French nuclear
energy company Areva, have warned that the reactor number 4 is the
"weakest link" of the whole complex of Fukushima. The Tokyo Electric
Power company has resisted calls to concrete to bury spent fuel rods citing the
cost, but an editorial in the Mainichi Daily News Japanese government
informants state that warn that the potential collapse of the reactor is
"a serious concern. "
"Because the sea water is introduced into the reactor, the strength of the
structure (concrete corrosion and deterioration) was questionable. So
there were also doubts about the calculations in the resistance to earthquakes,
"said a government source familiar with what took place at the
time."It had been suggested that the building would be strengthened and
that the spent fuel rods would be withdrawn from the pool in these
conditions. However, the removal of fuel rods takes three years. Does
the structure will remain standing for so long? "
As part of the contingency plan by the collapse of reactor number 4, the
Japanese government has developed a plan to evacuate the power to 39 million
residents of metropolitan Tokyo.
"The worst case scenario developed by the government includes not only the
collapse of the pool of the reactor No. 4, but the disintegration of the spent
fuel rods from all the other reactors at the plant. If this happens,
residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate, "according
to senior editorial writer Takao Yamada.
The radiation exposure they are getting the residents of Tokyo as a result of
the disaster, they are sure that will be devastating to the health of the
coming decades.
Research has shown that some areas of Tokyo have more radiation than that in
the Chernobyl exclusion zone. In fact, recent soil samples taken in Tokyo,
turned out to be so radioactive that are considered radioactive waste in the
U.S., and must be removed by the experts in a safe place.
TEPCO announced last week that "we have found that the cooling water in a
damaged reactor (number 2) in Fukushima is only 60 inches deep, much lower than
previously thought." The radioactive material affected nuclear plant has
been found in the creatures of Mary ocean water about 600 miles off the coast
of Japan.
"There was a possibility from the outset that a collapse of the storage
pool could be prevented, but according to the report from Tokyo Electric Power
Co., refused to take the necessary measures, as a cost cutting measure,"
writes Mac Slavo.
"If the storage pool reactor No.4 collapse and disintegrate, as the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. has warned it could happen, we will see
a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented magnitude, as millions of refugees have
no choice but to flee to Tokyo. They have no possessions, no money, no
food, no water, shelter, and a very fragile safety net. "
As highlighted last week, while residents in and around Fukushima continue to
express concern justified by poisoning of radiation, almost a quarter of them
are being treated for "mental disorders" by the fear pollution, which
is characterized by health authorities as a mental illness.
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