Sunday, May 8, 2011

Japan Quake: Latest Updates, May 8, 2011

Photos of fire at Fukushima on the night of may 8 japan time.

Official: Japan Won't Abandon Nukes Despite Crisis.  Ahh, but Fukushima's not over yet.  As it is, we're in the process of a global re-think regarding nuclear power.  If we're able, let's review statistics and mutations after this event's conclusion..

Anti-nuke protesters rally in Japan    From bdnews24.  Excerpts:
Several thousand Japanese anti-nuclear protesters marched in the rain on Saturday, welcoming a call from the prime minister to shut down a plant in central Japan and urging him to close more to avoid another nuclear crisis.

The surprise call from Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Friday to shut down Chubu Electric Power Co's Hamaoka plant followed pressure on the government to review nuclear energy policy after a Mar 11 quake and tsunami damaged another plant and triggered the worst disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.

Not surprising:  Bleak year predicted for Toyota, Nissan, Honda after Japan quake

Doors of No. 1 reactor building to open soon  Video from NHK via Rense.

There MAY Be A Two Year Window IF No More Big Quakes Hit  From Tom Burnett on Rense.  Excerpts:

The reactors can NEVER be placed in 'cold shutdown' because the cores are partially melted together. We are talking about hundreds of tons of fissile material inside reinforced concrete containment vessels. The containment vessels are cracked. They are releasing radiation. Fission excursions are still occurring and no one can go inside those containments for hundreds of years - even if they could crack one open.

They can continue to pour water on them and drain it off into the ocean because there is nothing else they can do. If they stop pumping water, the genie comes out. If they keep pumping water, it has to go somewhere and that somewhere is the ocean. It is still stop gap. Those reactor cores cannot be put into 'cold shutdown' or dismantled or entombed. Never.

In Japan, it's already May 8th.  Did this indeed happen?



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