Storm warning in Fukushima: Greatest crisis threatens humanity German Economic News | Posted: 1:10:13, 20:34 | 609 comments
The disaster at Fukushima power plant, another leak was detected. Now draw tropical storms on the island. If the building in which the fuel rods still store collapses, it can cause a global catastrophe. The exposed fuel can 15,000 times radioactivity release more than the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. There remain a few weeks to avert the danger.
Themen: AKW, Atomkatastrophe, Atomkraft, Brennelemente, Ernährung, Fukushima, Hiroshima, Kinder, Menschheit, Reaktor, Tepco, Tschenobyl, UN, Welt Incredible: The fuel rods at Fukushima are heavily damaged. If they can not be salvaged and kept under water, civilization is threatened worldwide. (Image: Tepco) Incredible: The fuel rods at Fukushima are heavily damaged. If they can not be salvaged and kept under water, civilization is threatened worldwide. (Image: Tepco)
Incredible: The fuel rods at Fukushima are heavily damaged. If they can not be salvaged and kept under water, civilization is threatened worldwide. (Image: Tepco)
The destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant threatens the whole world: On Monday, a leak was discovered again. The operators have drained the contaminated water into the sea. Workers have made ??more errors when draining, Reuters reports.
The clock is ticking.
No one knows how the problem is to get a grip.
In the ruin store 1,300 highly radioactive fuel rods. If they are exposed, threatens an unimaginable catastrophe.
Experts warn that the situation could spiral out of control.
Stephan Kurth from the Institute for Applied Ecology told the German Economic News:
"The problem is: A large number of fuel assemblies is simply spot. The must or so away there. This are yet no ideal conditions exist. The buildings are as they are -. Predamaged The fuel must ... away from there - and quickly as possible. "( interview here ).
The activist and editor of the Columbus Free Press Harvey Wasserman writes in an article for globalreserach.ca with the title "The most dangerous moment of humanity: the water tank with the fuel in Unit 4 of Fukushima":
"We are only two months away from the potentially dangerous moment of humanity since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There is no excuse for inaction now. All the resources we can mobilize as humanity now must be provided for the fuel in the Unit 4 at Fukushima.
Tepco, the operator company of the nuclear plant in Fukushima, says: We will begin within the next 60 days trying to remove the 1,300 fuel rods from the heavily damaged water tank, which stand about 30 feet into the air. The container sits on a heavily damaged building , which lurches, drops and may collapse in the next earthquake or even by itself.
Approximately 400 tons of contaminated fluid could have a 15,000 times higher than the radioactivity release in the case of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has been.
The only thing we know about this crisis: Tepco has neither the scientific, engineering, technical or economic resources to cope with the problem. Even the Japanese government can not solve the problem . The position requires a coordinated use of the best scientists and engineers who are in the world in this area. "
However, there are no signs that the international community take the risk seriously. The Japanese try more or less alone, to get the situation under control ( here ).
For next week severe tropical storms for the southern Japan have been announced. If the ruin collapses, the consequences are incalculable.
Harvey Wasserman:
"The spent fuel elements must somehow remain under water . You are surrounded by a zirconium alloy, which will instantly ignite if it comes in contact with air. We know the phenomenon of the old cameras where zirconium was used for the flash. The material burns with a bright and extremely hot flame. Every single fuel rod radiates so much radioactivity that someone is nearby, would be killed within minutes. When it comes to a fire, the entire security staff would be forced to leave the place immediately. , the entire electronic machinery of the plant would then be useless.
The nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson, who has worked forty years for the industry, says that the fuel rods in Unit 4 bent and damaged are. They are in such bad condition that they threaten to fall apart. "
Murata Mitsuhei, the former Japanese ambassador in Switzerland, said the threat of loss of control in Fukushima could " destroy the global environment and civilization. "
It is already observed a sharp increase of thyroid disease in Japanese children. Worrying: The radius of the disease is expanding more and more, so that it can be assumed that the radioactivity spread with great rapidity.
Japanese designers have developed an interactive map showing the extent of the disaster. The values ??are constantly updated ( more here ).
Japanese and activists from around the world have a petition started for the fight against the contamination of food taken.
In another petition, the UN will be asked to help in the recovery of fuel: To petition here.
Also growing in Europe, meanwhile, the concern for ailing nuclear plants. For the case of Fukushima shows: There is no textbook for the time after the disaster ( more on that here ). God Bless
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