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After a week of limited coverage of "unimaginable levels" of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima[...], Nuclear-News.net reported February 11 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than "unimaginable".
Continuous, intense radiation at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017--as if this were a new phenomenon. It's not. Three reactors at Fukushima melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011, and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email February 10:
Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2 atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago.... As Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel) at Fukushima Daiichi.
What's new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgment of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012). The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an hour.
[...] This coverage relates only to Unit 2's melted reactor core. There is no reliable news of the condition of the melted reactor cores in two other units.
[...] Whatever is actually going on at Fukushima is not good, and has horrifying possibilities. It is little comfort to have the perpetrator of the catastrophe, TEPCO, in charge of fixing it, especially when the Japanese government is more an enabler of cover-up and denial than any kind of seeker of truth or protector of its people.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:29AM
Thank you Charon - I did click through, and found authoritative news sources. It's all good, and I really can't find fault with the editorial. I clicked around the DissidentVoice, found some stuff I liked, found other stuff I thought was silly, found more stuff I didn't like. I only felt it necessary to point out that TFA is, in fact, an editorial.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @04:08AM
Just another daily example of "no enemies to the left". Anyone more than a smidge to someone's right is beyond the pale and probably Hitler but for most people there is no such thing as too far left. Openly Socialist? We just saw Bernie Sanders run up an impressive delegate count and only a few "nutters on Fox or the Alt-Right" even brought up his openly Socialist stances. Che might have been a mass murderer but you can wear his hip t-shirt anywhere and not worry about being punched. Muslim Brotherhood stooge and general idiot? Yea, he is almost certainly going to be the next DNC chair. Because he also professes to be on the left. Far enough left might be seen as "zany" but never "evil".
Because being way out on the left isn't extreme, it is just ahead of the curve. And that is the idea anyone on the right needs to be working tirelessly to discredit and reverse. And it starts by reorienting your own frame to look right and adopt "no enemies to the right." Run the mental exercise and see what it does for ya.
In the current model Bitch McConnell leads the Senate Repubs because he it pretty much as far left as anyone else in his group. That means they will all accept his leadership, all he has to do is choke down the bile from having to associate with "Nazis" and the power gained is more than sufficient. After all he is the one making the decisions so those crazies can't actually do anything but vote for whatever McConnell tells them to. Imagine what would happen if that flipped.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:21PM
I'll just point out that it wasn't a leftie that started throwing around insults in this thread.