Fukushima - a German view

The original title in German is Fukushima: „Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Rettung gelingt, geht gegen Null“. Translation via Google Translate

Fukushima: "The probability that the rescue succeeds goes to zero"

The German physicist Sebastian Pfugbeil is extremely pessimistic that an elementary Fukushima disaster can be averted. The consequences would be felt the entire northern hemisphere. Pflugbeil: "Humanity could be damaged during failure of attempts to recover the used fuel elements of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in an unprecedented way by blasting."

Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachtrichten,

9 October, 2013

The German physicist Sebastian Pflugbeil considers the situation in Fukushima for extremely critical. Pflugbeil told the German business news: "Humanity could to recover from failure of attempts to make the used fuel elements of the Fukushima nuclear power plant are damaged in an unprecedented way by blasting." Although Pflugbeil does not believe that the human race by another disaster in Fukushima is extinguished: "Humanity is very sturdy!" But he is very pessimistic about the possibilities that the situation can not be brought under control.

Pflugbeil the situation in Fukushima:

"The situation is becoming increasingly critical due to the decay of the ruins. The fuel rods are not safe. The reactor blocks from bag. Thousands of tons of contaminated water to be discharged into the sea. The ground on which rests the reactor is no longer resilient - he swims . It has all been moved so that there is about one meter height difference from one corner to another. The resulting induced voltages have resulted in alarming cracks in the building construction. "

Pflugbeil to the dangers:

"If the fuel rods are not cooled, it will be a disaster. Then huge amounts of radioactivity are released. As a crack extends into the pelvis and the cooling water is running out. The fuel would ignite . The fuel rod cladding are made ​​of zirconium. If it burns, you can not get it under control. The shells break on then. Then flows to a large extent from radioactivity - gaseous, volatile, medium volatile. Also, the fuel in the other blocks of the nuclear power plant are then destroyed in the foreseeable future, because the employee must leave the area due to the extreme radiation exposure immediately. It requires only a small earthquake or a storm surge or simply the failure of building structures to set this disaster in motion. "

The rescue plan of the Japanese:

"The Japanese will first extract the 1,300 fuel in unit 4 individually. Even if only one is broken, the workers have to go. This is an extremely complicated and lengthy process. How difficult is you have seen on a test that have made ​​a still unused fuel the Japanese. Dens have steered her hand while pulling out. Hand! The active fuel rods can not handle with one hand, that would be fatal. The probability that the rescue is successful, zero. "

Pflugbeil the consequences:

"The danger posed by the old fuel is enormous. In all the experts agree on. When it comes to this worst-case scenario, large areas have to be evacuated. If the wind is blowing in the direction of Tokyo, would completely evacuated Tokyo are. But we can not. The consequences would not only Japan but the entire northern hemisphere concern . Because the air currents run on the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere somewhat separated. Chernobyl was, after more than 1000 km away. The competent experts and politicians have then assured that we have no fear of health problems in Germany. There were different: more disabled children were born, the infant mortality rate rose, Down syndrome and leukemia in children increased. Other consequences were even more dramatic: In Western Europe, the Chernobyl region and the southern states of the Soviet Union about a million girls were not born because of the Chernobyl disaster. The number of victims in Western Europe alone is demonstrably in the hundreds of thousands . There is much to suggest that we all experience after the Fukushima disaster once again. In addition, the contamination of the Pacific, in the complicated and long dauerne food chains run that play an important role in human nutrition. This will hit the entire Pacific population and the living of it. "

Pflugbeil the lethargy of many Japanese:

"The Japanese have been educated for centuries to an extremely customized behavior. They have been repeatedly drilled out that they have to behave like the others, that criticism of superiors in politics is indecent. The social pressure on the individual is enormous. They may not admit that they are afraid. Beneath the blanket of course they are terrified . But they may not show it. I have been repeatedly reported that someone has to go to the doctor because of some disease in its environment it tells nothing. He was afraid that you would think he would go to the doctor because of Fukushima. But this is not desirable. "

To the denial of reality:

"In Fukushima, get kids in the canteens of schools still have the food from the region. Now, when a child takes his lunch from home because his parents worried, then the child is quoted forward. It is alleged, because it is not patriotic acts. This reminds me very much of the time in East Germany after Chernobyl: the children whose parents were aware, have not been drinking their milk at school. Then these parents found themselves in trouble at their work places. Parents were asked what nonsense because they tell their children. "

The previous "rescue":

"It is incredible that the Japanese government has cause to be deleted without the international community to ask for help more than two years into the country. It is not the case that you systematically step by step brings the faulty installation fine .. There are many companies on site, everyone wants to do something - but there is no master plan , as the problem should be solved. Until recently, the Japanese have not even had instruments with which they were able to measure the radiation of the highly contaminated liquids that are kept poorly in large tanks on the grounds of the nuclear power plant. Thus, all workers who had to do with a lot of exposed to high levels of radiation have been. "

On the international nuclear authorities:

"The bodies of the UN, IAEA and WHO, as it should be actually to protect the people who are almost exclusively in the service of the nuclear industry. The people in the authorities come from uranium mining, nuclear energy operators of the nuclear industry or nuclear medicine. There are very few independent people on the boards. The UN will soon release a report is the responsibility of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the effect of Atomic Radiation UNSCEAR: The report is a plain edifice of lies. He will totally trivialize the situation in Fukushima . He will pretend that everything was under control and there would be no radiation damage in the population. We know the corresponding estimates of the consequences of Chernobyl. In Japan, it is unfortunately also the custom that politicians , when they leave office, a well-paid jobs in the nuclear industry get where they do not need to work. These items they do not want to jeopardize. Therefore, they do not dare to tell the truth.

About the fear of international experts to help in Fukushima:

"There are only a handful of experts who really have expertise in this problem. These people behave quietly now and duck away to. They pray that the world which comes with a black eye. No rips about to go to Fukushima and help. For all to know: This work is life-threatening and success is more than questionable.

Sebastian Pflugbeil will travel to Japan on Thursday. After a congressional he will ride in the Fukushima Prefecture. He wants to get an idea of ​​the situation. He will try to come in spite of active obstruction by the operators and the government of information, such as the situation really is.

Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Pflugbeil is president of the German Society for Radiation Protection Pflugbeil worked until the turn as a medical physicist at the National Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin-Buch and dealt volunteer with problems of atomic energy recovery, in particular the effects of radiation in uranium mines of bismuth. He was co-founder of the East German citizens' movement New Forum and represented this as a speaker at Berlin and at the Central Round Table. In 1990 he was Minister without Portfolio in the transitional government under Hans Modrow. In this role, he campaigned for the immediate decommissioning of nuclear reactors in the GDR. He was then to 1995 deputy in the Berlin city parliament. In 2012 he received the Nuclear-Free Future Award for his life's work.