The
US Corporate Media - Killing Us with Silence over Fukushima
Many
very credible sources are talking plainly about the single greatest
and very real threat to human existence that we have ever faced --
FUKUSHIMA. It’s happening right now and we have the chance to save
our own lives, yet our governments are silent and this Armageddon
scenario is being denied coverage by virtually every “mainstream”
media outlet.
Written
by Wesley Miller
18
May, 2012
It
has been five days since one of the world’s foremost experts on
nuclear energy and safety issued the following dire report:
“Unit
4 has always been my biggest concern…Unit 4 has more fuel in it
than any of the other units in the complex, but more importantly it
has the most recently used nuclear fuel. And all of that fuel
is outside of the containment. So that would make it dangerous
enough. Except that also, of course, Unit 4 has had a series of
explosions and is weakened structurally...
…If
air is all there is cooling the fuel, it will burn. It will
burn the zircaloy cladding on the fuel, (and) will react
with the oxygen to create a fire. And it is a fire that once it
starts, cannot be put out by water. Water would make it worse.
So the nuclear fuel would have to burn completely before the fire
would ever go out.
In
the process, all that radiation would go up into the atmosphere and
blow all over Japan and all over the world.
There
is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of
the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the
1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's. All of the above
ground testing has less cesium in it than is in the reactor pool at
Fukushima 4 right now. So it is a grave situation…We
have to quickly move that fuel out of that pool and onto the ground.
The key here
is quickly.” (emphasis
added) Starting
at minute 1:10 of this video below:
It
has been 31 days since April 16, when U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of
Oregon returned from Fukushima with similar news. From his press
release of
April 16, 2012:
“…Wyden’s principal
concern is the relocation of spent fuel rods currently being stored
in unsound structures immediately adjacent to the ocean. He
strongly urged the Ambassador to accept international help to prevent
dangerous nuclear material from being released into the
environment…
The
precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units
and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive
materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats
should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international
support and assistance.”
And
as Sen. Wyden stated in the only media interview (shown
below) aired by mainstream TV news:
“…TEPCO has
a ten-year plan for essentially moving the spent fuel rods to dry
storage. That must be sped up because if another earthquake or
tsunami hits, it could be very, very damaging and possibly more
radiation than earlier.”
CollapseNet is
not alone in recognizing The
Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4,
but now we have additional confirmation from a U.S. Senator who
just visited the site and is calling it a direct
threat to U.S. National Security.
As reported by Alternet, “In a statement released by his
office, Wyden replied, “The radiation caused by the
failure of the spent fuel pools in the event of another earthquake
could reach the West Coast within days. That absolutely
makes the safe containment and protection of this spent fuel a
security issue for the United States.”
To
make matters worse, more serious earthquakes and aftershocks are
expected as the fault
near Fukushima has “awakened”.
Listen
folks, if Fukushima Fuel Pool #4 gets dumped, by current structural
failure of the severely damaged building or as the result of another
of the hundreds of aftershocks since the 9.0 earthquake, not only
will we have more radioactive cesium than all 800 above ground
nuclear bomb tests done in our history – all at once – wafting
through the Northern Hemisphere, it also means that NO
ONE and NO THING will be able to work on the remaining reactors and
fuels pools. Now
that gets really bad because it means ALL remaining fuel pools will
eventually ignite, too, burning 10,893 spent fuel assemblies. Then
it’s “Game Over” for humans.
If
the international community does not take action immediately to
secure Fuel Pool #4, we all might die very soon!
Guess
how many “mainstream” national or international television news
agencies are covering this story?
Zero.
Many
very credible sources are talking plainly about the single greatest
and very real threat to human existence that we have ever faced. It’s
happening right now and we have the chance to save our own lives, yet
our governments are silent and this Armageddon scenario is being
denied coverage by virtually every “mainstream” media outlet.
It
is not hyperbole to say that this is equivalent to a giant asteroid
on a collision course with Earth that we can see coming, and we have
the capability to deflect it, but instead our political and media
elites choose to cover it up, cross their fingers, and hope it
misses!?
ABC,
NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, BBC, Current, and PBS – none of these retail
news organizations have dared cover the most important story of our
lives happening right now. I have to ask their editors and
management, are tornadoes, beauty pageants, political horse races,
and celebrity fucking the only things you deem worthy to cover? I’m
pretty certain that if a missing white women or a cheating politician
were involved, your TV reporters would be on this story like starving
pit-bulls at a sausage factory.
In
a way I’m shocked that the Wyden interview made it on
MSNBC at all, considering that they are owned by GE, the maker of
the Mark1 reactor at Fukushima, but I commend young
Mr. Russert for rocking the boat at all. So where is the
follow-up, by ANY major news organization?
I
understand the “business-as-usual” method of reporting – or
rather, not reporting – the really vital news of the day. That is
why CollapseNet and other independent media are so
necessary and have a growing audience. But we’re at another level
of incompetence or corruption entirely here…
You “MSM” press
minions and editors, listen up - your job, prestige, access to
political and business fiends, your chance at fame, glory and a
fantastic retirement, all of that means exactly nothing if that
nuclear fuel pool collapses. You will die too, as will your kids,
your family, and every other person you have ever known.
We
all know that if the general public understood the facts about
Fukushima as much as they understand the George Zimmerman case or how
well some fake celebrity is getting on with her current squeeze, the
public pressure to demand immediate international
action might actually
cause immediate
international action at the scale it needs to be in order to prevent
us all from getting killed.
Your
failure to properly cover Fukushima has been an embarrassment and a
disgrace to this point. Failure to cover it presently could be
suicidal. This is not merely a “national security” issue;
it is a HUMAN SURVIVAL issue!
Get
it yet, “press-corpse”?
Now
do your jobs like you are supposed to. If you have a family, put them
ahead of your miserable careers for just this one time. We’ll all
be grateful for it.
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