Posted by EXOGEN on December 30,
2013 at 11:01am
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Saturday, 28 December
2013 22:55
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NEWS FLASH - URGENT -
December 28, 2013 11:00 PM EST -- (TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com
) -- Persons residing on the west coast of North America
should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of
dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in
Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive
steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor
building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says
they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the
building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels
in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a
"spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS
of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North
America. Steam photo, full details and suggested methods to protect
yourself appear below.
The announcements from TEPCO (in Japanese) can be viewed HERE
(12/27), HERE
(12/25) and HERE
(12/24). You can use Google Translate to convert to English.
On December 28, 2013, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)
admitted steam was seen billowing out of reactor building #3, saying the
steam appeared to be coming from what's left of the fifth floor of the
mostly-destroyed building. It is widely known that persons cannot get
inside Reactor Building #3 because it is severely damaged and highly
radioactive, so TEPCO cannot state for certain what is happening in that
building or why. TEPCO admits they do not know why this steam is being
generated, but matter-of-factly revealed today (December 28) the
steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then
again on December 24 and again on December 25.
Nuclear energy experts have told TRN that the ONLY way this could be
happening is if radioactive material previously ejected from the reactor
explosion in March, 2011 has mixed together with other materials and has
begun its own self-sustaining reaction(s), also known as a
"criticality." Put simply, another "meltdown" may
be taking place.
There are basically two possibilities if another meltdown is in
progress:
1) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected when the reactor exploded, have
mixed together and "mini" meltdowns are taking place with those
small clumps of pellets. This would not be a horrific problem
and may be manageable, OR;
2) Pellets of radioactive fuel, ejected when the reactor exploded, went
into the spent fuel pool located above the reactor and have begun melting
down so seriously they are boiling off the water in the spent fuel pool.
Since steam is visible, experts tell TRN that Scenario #2 above is is
the most likely scenario and if so, it would be an absolute nightmare
-- WORSE than the original Fukushima disaster!
The Spent Fuel Pool was situated on the fourth floor above Reactor #3, and
if this is the source of the steam, the situation could escalate rapidly
out of control.
The As shown in the diagram at left, the spent fuel pool is not
a contained structure; it is literally a "pool" filled with
water, to keep old fuel cool. (The metal radioactive fuel, once removed
from a nuclear reactor, remains hot enough to melt itself for two to
three YEARS after being removed from a reactor.) The experts
tell TRN that if steam is coming out of reactor building #3 this could very
well be the start of a much worse radiation release because once the spent
fuel pool begins its own reactions, all of it will be uncontrolled and
uncontrollable.
To provide insight into how much trouble this could be, the chart below
proves that, according to TEPCO, reactor #3 was loaded with 566 fuel
assemblies. The spent fuel pool in reactor building #3 contains 514
assemblies; about 89 TONS. If that "goes critical" there's
nothing to contain the radiation which will go directly into the air.
The video below was taken several months ago by TEPCO. It shows that the
roof is totally blown off reactor building # 3 and shows a robotic crane
being operated by remote control, trying to clear debris from the Reactor #
3 spent fuel pool. TEPCO is forced use robotic cranes operated by
remote control because the area is so contaminated, anyone entering the
area would die from radiation within one hour.
Imagine, now, 89 tons of nuclear fuel boiling away that spent fuel pool
water and releasing 89 tons of deadly radioactive fuel directly into the
air. Two to three days later, the west coast of north America would
be "fried" by levels of airborne radiation and "hot particles"
which could kill.
DO NOT PANIC - - - - PLAN
The purpose of this news report is not to scare or frighten
anyone. It is to report the news to allow the public to educate
itself on the issue and take whatever personal protective action they deem
necessary. There is no reason to panic but there is reason to plan.
It is better to have a plan, and not need it, than to need it and not have
it.
PREPARATIONS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER ( We do **** NOT
**** sell any of the products suggested below )
1) Keep up-to-date on developments via the Internet.
The mass-media is not reliable because like the government, they want to
avoid any mass panic. While that is a noble goal, withholding
information as was done previously when the Fukushima disaster struck in
March, 2011, allowed people to get exposed to radiation which could kill
them now - or years from now. TRN believes people have a right to
know, so as to make an informed decisions about whether to protect
themselves or not.
2) Go immediately (RIGHT NOW) to your local home improvement
or hardware store for rolls of plastic, Duct tape, WIDE masking tape
and a couple rolls of self-adhesive weather stripping. You
want to have a roll or two of the type of plastic that is used by painters;
(the kind they use to cover your floor and furniture in case paint drips)
and a roll or two of Duct tape. Don't deploy this yet, but if the
radiation arrives, you'll HAVE what you need and won't be battling a
million other people trying to get some when the danger actually
hits. You can use the plastic and duct tape things to cover the
insides of your windows, doors, AC electric plugs, light switches, bathroom
exhaust vents, stove exhaust vents, -- even ceiling vents, to TRY to keep
out radiation particles once you know they're arriving. (NOTE: this
may not be 100% effective. Houses have loads of nooks and crannies
which allow air from the outside to get inside. If you cover the
largest ones, you're at least giving yourself and family a fighting
chance.) These supplies are available immediately at: Home
Depot Lowes Walmart
TrueValue Ace Hardware and many other retail stores.
3) If radiation is identified as heading toward your area or
has arrived in your area:
a) Cut sheets from the roll of plastic, large enough to cover
your windows, window frames/woodwork, sliding glass doors, doggie
doors, etc., and do so on the INSIDE of your house. Once the sheets
are cut to size, secure that plastic to your inside walls using Duct
tape. You want to cover things inside not outside so the
weather doesn't cause the plastic to make noise or perhaps rip off during
high wind, rain or snow. The duct tape should cover 100% of the
edge of the plastic, making a good seal AROUND the window, sliding glass
doors, doggie doors, etc. It is important to note that the plastic
should go AROUND the woodwork on the inside the window/door and NOT merely
around the inner perimeter of the window itself. Gaps between the
window assemblies and exterior walls might not be air-tight; especially in
older homes where the silicone weather sealant around windows/doors is worn
or in earthquake prone areas where the shaking has loosened-up window/door
seals. This will help seal out radiation particles in the air so they
shouldn't be able to get inside your home. Those of you in private
homes should do this sealing on EVERY opening to
the outside (doors, windows, vents) on every floor
of your home, from the basement to the attic. Those of you who do not
have basements, will usually find vents along the slab foundation which are
designed to naturally ventilate under the house. SEAL THESE from the
outside as best you can. Similarly, those of you without full attics,
will usually see vents of some type for the roof rafter area. SEAL THESE as
best you can too. (PLEASE don't fall off any roof or off any ladder. Be
careful!)
b) Cut smaller sheets from the roll of plastic to cover
electrical outlets and light switches inside the house.
Those outlets and switches are breaks in the walls to the inner structure
of the house. The inner structure gets naturally ventilated under the
eaves and awnings of the house. While the air flow is not generally a
lot, it IS there; you want to seal it out. As with the windows,
use Duct tape to hold the plastic a full inch or two around the entire perimeter
of the light switch our electrical outlets.
c) Cut sheets from the roll of plastic to cover vents:
Bathrooms, stoves. Remember, this is just a TEMPORARY situation
and the radiation will usually blow-over or dilute within a week or
so. While none of us likes the smell in the bathroom after it is
used, it's better to put up with that for a few days than have radiation in
there from the vents. BE VERY CAREFUL IF YOU CHOOSE TO COVER
A STOVE EXHAUST VENT; YOU DON'T WANT THE PLASTIC GOING ON FIRE IF YOU'RE
COOKING.
d) DO NOT use duct tape or plastic over your main entry/exit
door. If, God forbid, there's a fire, you want to be able to exit
fast and not be battling duct tape to get out. Instead, maybe check
to see the weatherstripping around the door is in good shape or at worst,
add a layer of new weatherstripping to what's already there. The
bottom of the door sill can be covered with a rolled-up towel if
necessary,to prevent drafts at the bottom of the door.
NOTE: Duct tape, when removed, may damage the surface of the wall it
was stuck to. It may peel off paint or even the paper covering of
Sheetrock when you remove it. If this is a concern, you may wish to
utilize WIDE masking tape instead. We do not recommend masking tape,
but it may be viable if you are concerned about peeling off the duct tape
when the emergency is ended.
4) Get a minimum "NIOSH N100-certified" filter
mask for yourself and each member of your family. NIOSH stands for
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) which is part
of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an agency of the US
Government. They rate protective gear for various industries and the
lowest possible level of mask with any hope at all of filtering out
radiation particles must be rated by NIOSH as N100, which filters 99.97% of
airborne particles. The masks cost about $30 on Ebay and look like the one in the
image at left below. The CDC also lists N100 mask suppliers HERE.
SERIOUS NOTE: There are TIME CONSTRAINTS on the
use of the N100-rated mask in a hostile environment. Having such a
mask is not a license to go out and have fun. It is a limited mask,
with limited capability for a limited time period, to help protect you in
this type of emergency.
Of course, you can go all-out and get some super-mask for several
hundred dollars, but the minimum you need is an N100 rated mask.
Whatever you do, don't try to get "cute" and figure you can
"get away with" a mask that is rated N95 or lower. An N95
mask will NOT filter out the tiny particles involved here and you will be
fooling yourself if you buy any mask rated less than N100.
It is important to understand that a "hospital mask" normally
used by Doctors, WILL NOT PROTECT YOU AT ALL from
radioactive particles. The particles are so small, they can fit right
through a typical surgical mask used by doctors. If you breathe-in
any "hot Particles" of radiation, they will wreak havoc on your
lungs and cause very rapid deterioration of your health. Cancers,
Leukemias, Hemorrhaging . . . . you get the idea.
5) About your job and going to work during a radiation emergency
. . . .
Those of us with jobs can't simply call-in and tell the boss we can'
come to work today because we're afraid of the radiation. So start
discussing this situation with your bosses first thing TODAY. See if the
company as a whole is willing to develop some type of strategy to deal with
taking time off due to a radioactive plume coming onto the west coast of
north America from Japan, making things unsafe for a few days. Start
the conversation. Don't wait until things spiral out of control and
people are panicking.
6) If you HAVE to go out, clothing will get contaminated; be
prepared to protect yourself
Wear an NIOSH N100 mask at all times when you are outside your house
during the plume's arrival and presence. Yes, you're probably going
to feel like a jerk; especially when the uninformed, the ignorant and those
"in denial" about the real danger, start poking fun at you.
Just remember you'll have the last laugh.
A VERY helpful tool for this situation is a disposable TYVEK suit and
booties. You can get them at most home improvement stores and on EBAY for about $8.  Tyvek coveralls are
one-piece garments, usually white, commonly worn by mechanics, painters,
installation installers, and laboratory and cleanroom workers where a
disposable, one-time use coverall is needed. They are also used
for some light HAZMAT applications, such as asbestos and radiation work but
do not provide the protection of a full hazmat suit. Wear it to work,
when you get inside, take it off right at the doorway and throw it away in
a garbage can near the door. It's done. Don't touch it again. Then go
wash your hands and face to wash away whatever may have accumulated on
them. These suits are also available at the retailers listed above
(Home Depot, Lowes, etc.).
If you simply refuse to walk outside dressed-up like a Bunny, you must
realize that Clothing worn while you are outside will have
contamination on it. This is unavoidable. Once you've
been outside and enter your job, remove your outerwear and place it as
close to the door as you can. You may want to pack a change of clothing in
a tightly closed gym bag, to change-into at work. Having a change of
clothes for when you get to work might not be a bad idea. The change
of clothes ought to include FOOTWEAR.
When you're outside, your footwear is going to be picking up the
contamination that fell onto the ground. This is unavoidable. What
you CAN do, is take those shoes off once you get where you're going, and thereby
not track the radiation into wherever you are. You may want to get
"Disposable Plastic Shoe Covers" to help avoid at
least SOME of the radiation getting onto your shoes. These shoe
covers are cheap, and you throw them away as soon as you get inside your
destination.
For Eye protection, we suggest a cheap pair of Swimmer's Goggles.
They vary in cost from 99 cents to about $10 on Ebay - or your local sporting goods store.
The purpose of this is to prevent radioactive particles from landing on
your eyeballs. Swimmer's goggles will fit the bill pretty well and
you can wash them off once you get to where you're going, and use the
goggles again the next time you go out. Radiation washes off with
soap and water.
7) IN AND OUT OF YOUR HOUSE
The same procedures listed above for going to and from work, should be
used by you and your family when going to/from home. After all, you
don't want to bring radiation into your house on your clothes, shoes etc,
or walk-it-through the whole house once you arrive. Put a coat rack
just-inside the entry door. Put a shoe rack too. First thing
everyone does when they walk in the door - ditch the outerwear and shoes
right then and there. YOU DO NOT want to be tracking radiation into
and all over your house, then spewing it up into the air when you vacuum
and it comes out with the vacuum exhaust air. You want to stop the
radiation as close to the door as you can. If you prefer, put a
clothes hamper -- LINED WITH A PLASTIC LAWN-AND-LEAF-SIZE BAG just inside the
front door and change your clothes the moment you get in. When the
hamper is full, seal-up the bag, take it to the washer and wash the
radiation away.
8) Wash obsessively during the emergency
External radioactive material washes off with soap and water. When
you consider that everything you touch and all the air that touches you
OUTSIDE can be contaminated, it is important to WASH exposed body parts
(face & hands) with soap and water often. When you get home from
your daily routine and get out of potentially contaminated clothing, take a
shower before anything else. A SHOWER, NOT A BATH.
Showering will allow the radiation to fall off you and go down the drain
whereas a bath could possible allow the radioactive materials to cling to
your body as you leave the bathwater. Sadly, this
brings us to one, final, MAJOR, MAJOR, MAJOR problem: Water comes from
reservoirs and reservoirs are out in the open; radiation has and will
continue to fall into our water supplies.
9) Potassium Iodate Pills: Have them but DO NOT USE
THEM --- YET
One of the major concerns in a situation like this is a material called
radioactive Iodine (I-131). Your body needs iodine to function and
iodine is stored in your Thyroid gland in your neck. The Fukushima disaster
released radioactive Iodine in March, 2011 which has long since dissipated,
but could release more if the spent fuel pool goes critical. Since
Iodine is stored in your Thyroid, any radioactive Iodine would get stored
there too and likely lead to Thyroid cancer. For women, Thyroid
cancer is about 95% curable; for men, it is about 95% fatal.
In order to prevent your Thyroid from absorbing radioactive Iodine, your
body needs a very good supply of non-radioactive iodine. If your body
has the Iodine it needs, it won't try to store more. You get Iodine
from your diet but if Radioactive Iodine is released by Fukushima, you'll
need to guarantee your body has a supply that is not radioactive;
that's where pills called Potassium Iodate come in to play.
Potassium Iodate provides Iodine to your body/Thyroid and when used
during a radiation emergency, will help avoid the need for your body to
absorb potentially radioactive iodine. SERIOUS
CAUTIONARY NOTE: DO NOT TAKE POTASSIUM IODATE PILLS UNLESS AND UNTIL
RADIATION LEVELS ARE CONFIRMED TO BE HIGH. If you take those
pills when radiation levels are normal, your Thyroid will begin to GROW to
absorb the extra Iodine and will not return to its normal size once you
stop taking the excess Iodine! If you take Potassium Iodate pills
when they are not needed, you could end up with a Thyroid that is so big,
it might look like a tumor in your neck; so DO NOT take Potassium Iodate
Pills until they are actually needed. You can find Potassium Iodate Pills on Ebay for about $10 a bottle.
LOCAL OFFICIALS CAUGHT DELIBERATELY CONCEALING RADIATION IN
DRINKING WATER
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists the maximum safe
levels and government-approved methods for removing, radiation in
water. Yet according to KHOU-TV in Texas, local and state officials
in that state deliberately conspired for YEARS to alter the results from
their municipal water tests, to deliberately CONCEAL high levels
of radiation in municipal water! If local and state
officials in one state have already been caught deliberately concealing
radiation in water, can any rational person believe they aren't doing it
now in other states -- or won't do it (again) in the future? You can read
that story and watch the KHOU-TV news video HERE.
In fact, KHOU-TV found that the radiation in local water was so severe,
that it made the underground water pipes and the water heaters inside homes
radioactive; in some cases 11 times more radioactive than allowable
by law! The pipes and water heaters were so radioactive that none of
those things could be scrapped in a junk yard! You can read this
separate KHOU-TV story and watch the video HERE.
Given the irrefutable proof above we suggest equipping your sinks and
shower head(s) with a water filter. Now, getting radiation out of
water is NOT simple. Paper filters do nothing in that regard.
Granular Activated Carbon filters have shown SOME ability to remove SOME
types of radiation. Reverse-Osmosis has shown good ability to remove
other types of radiation. ION Exhange is the final method which has
shown good ability to remove radiation. Yet getting all these types
of filters in ONE system is not easy and it is considerably
expensive. As such, we suggest that having a filter of
some type is better than having no filter at all. Of
course, once the filters become saturated with pollutants, they're useless,
so expect to change-out those filters PRECISELY in accordance with the
manufacturer's recommendation or even more frequently. Yes, this will
cost a few bucks, but this is an extraordinary situation calling for
extraordinary response. What good is all the safety you exercise with
the steps above, if you then eat, drink and bathe-in contaminated water?
The suggestions above are just that SUGGESTIONS. What you choose
to do - or not do - is, of course, up to you. One thing is clear, though:
Fukushima is acting up again and when it does, the wind and the sea will
carry the results to North America within days. Do not
"panic" -- Plan. Do not "react" --
respond. With a little planning and careful deliberation, we can all
get through this just fine.
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3 comments:
Surely you jest, if you think that simply shrink wrapping your house with plastic tarps and duct tape and wearing a tevlar paper jumpsuit outside are going to protect you from radiation poisoning! Soap and water are great for dust and dirt. They do NoThing to rid you of radiation! Are we all idiots?! WTF? This is craziness.
You are factually incorrect. Radiation particles do, in fact, simply wash off whatever they land on. Washing them off with soap and water removes them from whatever is washed so they do not lay around and give-off their energy, which is what causes cancer. It is when radioactive particles are inhaled or ingested that pretty much all bets are off. That's why they suggest wearing a mask and filtering your water as well as the other good suggestions they make. Please get your facts straight before you say things. You make yourself look foolish.
Oh, OK, I see your point.
I wonder though, how do we avoid the radiation contaminated particles that collect on the house wraps, suits and masks that we don to protect ourselves? How long exactly are we supposed to remain safely inside our shrink wrapped safe house? Where exactly are the trash receptacles into which we discard our radiation contaminated garb safe to dispose?
How do we know when we are safe to emerge from our protected space?
And when will it be safe to interact with every other thing in our environment outside our safe space that has been covered in radioactive particulates?! It seems to me to border upon the absurd to believe that we can somehow avoid contamination from this nebulous cloud of particulate radiation.
Call me foolish.
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