The dismantling of Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant continues in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 5, 2019.
January 21, 2020
OKUMA, Fukushima Prefecture—At the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant north of Tokyo, workers in protective suits are still removing radioactive material from reactors that melted down after an earthquake and tsunami knocked out its power and cooling nearly nine years ago.
On an exclusive tour of the plant, spread over 3.5 million square meters, Reuters witnessed giant remote-controlled cranes dismantling an exhaust tower and other structures in a highly radioactive zone while spent fuel was removed from a reactor.
Officials from Tokyo Electric, which owns the plant, also showed new tanks to hold increasing amounts of contaminated water.
About 4,000 workers are tackling the cleanup, many wearing protective gear, although more than 90 percent of the plant is deemed to have so little radioactivity that no extra precautions are needed. Photography was highly restricted and no conversations were allowed with the workers.
Work to dismantle the plant has taken nearly a decade so far, but with Tokyo due to host the Olympics this summer–including some events less than 60 kilometers from the power station–there has been renewed focus on safeguarding the venues.
“TEPCO tries to disclose all information to the public as soon as possible. If something happens at the site, we let people know by email, for example,” said Kan Nihonyanagi, risk communicator at Fukushima, said in an interview at the site.
The buildup of contaminated water has been a sticking point in the cleanup, which is likely to last decades, and has alarmed neighboring countries. In 2018, TEPCO said it had not been able to remove all dangerous material from the water – and the site is running out of room for storage tanks.
Officials overseeing a panel of experts looking into the contaminated water issue said in December choices on disposal should be narrowed to two: either dilute the water and dump it in the Pacific Ocean, or allow it to evaporate.
The Japanese government may decide within months, and either process would take years to complete, experts say.
“The Olympics are coming, so we have to prepare for that, and TEPCO has to disclose all the information not only to local communities but also to foreign countries and especially to those people coming from abroad,” said Joji Hara, a Tokyo-based spokesman for the power company who accompanied Reuters during the visit.
TEPCO has opened English-language Twitter and Facebook accounts, he said. It is also preparing to put out basic emergency information in Korean and Chinese, he added.
Athletes from at least one country, South Korea, are planning to bring their own radiation detectors and food this summer.
Baseball and softball will be played in Fukushima city, about 60 km from the destroyed nuclear plant. The torch relay will begin at a sports facility called J-Village, an operations base for Fukushima No. 1 in the first few years of the disaster, then pass through areas near the damaged station on its way to Tokyo.
In December, Greenpeace said it found radiation “hotspots” at J-Village, about 18 km south of the plant.
When Tokyo won the bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared that Fukushima was “under control” in his final pitch to the International Olympic Committee.
In 2016, the Japanese government estimated that the total cost of plant dismantlement, decontamination of affected areas, and compensation would be 21.5 trillion yen ($195 billion)–roughly a fifth of the country’s annual budget at the time.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ202001210037.html
Fukushima 311 Watchdogs 
I wonder how , so many people, from Yokohama to Fukushima, arw coping
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Dr Goodheart from a green road stole my article on pyrophoricity and said he wrote it. he is a thief and scumbag
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Sorry to hear that. He might have picked it up here in the comments that you wrote. 6 years ago I was offered to join the Green Road and I refused. Best wishes.
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no he just stole it. such a bastard. must get money. my emails are hacked. i am dying. nothing left. why steal the only thing a person has left. evil devil
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It was an article i wrote in a comment yesterday January 24 2020. This is watt he wrote wen he stole it.
“AGR will do an in depth article on this subject. Due to copyright restrictions, this comment has to be taken down, but feel free to send in links via email that an article can be built around.”
He plagiarized the whole thing here. auch an evil thing
https://agrdailynews.com/2020/01/24/pyrophoric-radioactive-cesium-can-burn-in-air-and-explode-underwater-just-like-radioactive-depleted-uranium-hafnium-thorium-plutonium-cerium-neptunium-sodium-plutonium-radioactive-lead-cesium/
Credited itself for writing it. another piece of crap, like so many in these dark times.
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there is a signin blocking ioris fukushima diary page access
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there is a signin blocking ioris fukushima diary page access
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Iori stopped his blog many years ago….
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i know but the page was still up and accessible. you could look at it in the usa till feb of 2019. but who knows wat is going on w it now. i tried to go to it and it says u have to sign in. u cannot believe wat an evil police state america is now herve and how fascist many people are. it is so sikening
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How can someone get an ego boost from stealing other peoples ideas and work and calling it their own? This thing that calls itself dr goodheart is a pathetic evil bastard. may it rot in hell soon
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This is what he atole from me he is such a piece of shit
https://www.agreenroadjournal.com/2014/03/radioactive-cesium-is-pyrophoric-it.
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Stole this directly from me and credited himself for my blood and work. He did this from enenews several times. People heartbroken and dying and sik and destitute trying to get heard.
evil devil dr crapheart is a thief a ghoul a liar and a sociopath
https://agrdailynews.com/2020/01/24/pyrophoric-radioactive-cesium-can-burn-in-air-and-explode-underwater-just-like-radioactive-depleted-uranium-hafnium-thorium-plutonium-cerium-neptunium-sodium-plutonium-radioactive-lead-cesium/
This was written by me ken raskin 1-24-2020 and this clown Dr crapheart ceedits it to itself. evil garbage has the audacity to criticize trump
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Yes, very sad. At least he should have given you the due credits for it.
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I made a comment on his blog post, that he should attribute you the credits for this. Best wishes.
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thanks
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my son is japanese. his mom from kyoto. my family is downwinder and mostly gone. i ask “how can so many people in the world not know or care about nuclear and fukushima?” Is the propaganda machine that good or is it becuase most people are pathological or cowardly and selfish, or is it all of this. u talk to the most destitute in the streets of evil shithole murica, they say, ” yes i know about fukushima.” u talk to the asslickers. they make fun of u and call u a conspiracy nut. fuk them. when they get leukemia or thyroid or colon or pancreatic cancer and see how nuclear has made everyone sik they will have a glimmer of reality , they will not be evil and smug . but it will be too late
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Sadly true.
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Ken, I still can access Iori’s blog. It is still up. Without needing to sign up.
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Murica is so much more screwed over than france. Sean said my emails are hacked. i know they are. yahoo gmail etc. It is unbelievable here. We know there are spycops and privately contracted staasi snitches. Preachers who tell u that mussolini was a saint which implys hitler was ok too. of course they will not say that. Cops harrassing disabled people ,who protest and are law abiding. cop political black lists. we know wat is up. it is so evil.3 million people locked up in thisevil racist bigoted fake shithole. 10 million homeless . many from medical to die in the street. 400 dollars to get a simple prescription refill. The violent phonies and fascist pig bastards intelligence fuks and nazis that took over enenews and murica and japan are hatching so much evil now
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I will not go to the CS a green road daily news, or a green road journal ever. It is probably an intelligence site gathering info on users. A deathly , dark time in the hell that is created and unleashed.
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This is my carefully researched article that the thief from A Green Road Daily News and A Green Road Daily News Stole and Plagiarized
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Nuclear Danger of Wildfires in the World Now
Nasty wildfires are common in moist industrial areas now. Especially in nuclear countries. In populated areas on the coasts of Australia, where they mine and process millions of tons of uranium and take it to ports to ship and the world. Where they tested nuclear bombs that left pyrophoric radionucide residue. Coastal regions that now have wildfires.
In the French Riviera and Greece. California. Scandanavia. China. Chernobyl. Japan. Serous threats to population.
The wildfires around Fukushima could only have occured from the initial- horrendous radionuclide spew of the ongoing Fukushima tragedy.
There is a great amount of uranium residue in the environment from fracking.
Reactors emit pyrophorics. They emit pyrophoric radionuclides in places like Palos verde in arizona. Fukushima and chernobyl are the largest mass emitters of radionuclide toxins and pyrophoretic radionuclides in history
Large swaths, across the world
The nuclear danger in wildfires: why the silence on spontaneous ignition, (pyrophoricity), of uranium Continued
Nuclear danger in wildfires
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY of
PYROPHORETIC SUBSTANCES
Pyrophoric materials
White phosphorus, the original “phosphor”
Alkali metals Sodium, Cesium 137, Strontium 90
Metals URANIUM, hafnium, thorium, Plutonium
Metals and alloys in bulk form (cerium, plutonium)
Metal hydrides : Radiostronium and Radiocesium hydride, uranium trihydride, plutonium oxide
Neptunium
Why doesn’t anyone care about pyrophoricity and the speading of unquenchable wildfires in populated areas, in industial Countries? Especially around large nuclear complexes like Idaho National Laboratory, Hanford, Mayak? Fukushima and Chernobyl?
The current wildfires in Australia are some of the worst catastrophe in History. I have been reading about Uranium and rare earth mining, close to the Amazon. The mining and contamination of areas around and, in the Amazon. The contamination maybe a more important factor in the wildfires there, than climate change.
The human encroachment via clearing of forests, heavy metal mining, rare earth mining and uranium mining are certainly important factors.
There is a 70 percent chance that there will be another major nuclear reactor accident, in the world, in the next 2 years. So far they have been occuring on an average of about every 10 to 15 years. They have become much worse.
Most reactors are well beyond their initial licensing dates. More than 30 years old. Corroded, embrittled, cracked with poor to no backup. Poor supervision in countries like the USA, Ukraine, and eastern Europe.
The reopened Japanese reactors are old and damaged. Many are in earthquake zones.
Accelerated climate change, is significantly increasing the risk of nuclear reactor catastrophe.
ONE OR TWO major nuclear explosions, meltdowns and fuel fires, probably will occur in the USA or europe in the next 2 years.
They will spread, an unimanigable swath of pyrophoric and highly toxic, hi level radionuclides across the USA or in europe. Wildfires in populated swaths of the USA will surely accelerate dramatically within a few years, of nuclear reactor catastrophes in the USA . The large areas that burned at Santa Susana and INL fires sent radionuclides across Socal from Santa Susana and 6 states, from the 900,000 acre INL fire. These fires occured in the past 2 years. They have been all, but ignored.
FROM IAEA PDF on Uranium PDA
“Uranium metal can be melted by any of several different techniques. However, because uranium is very reactive when heated in air, melting must be done either under a protective inert atmosphere or in a vacuum.17
Uranium and its alloys are considered difficult to machine and almost
all machining of uranium results in some sparking or burning because of its pyrophoricity.
Health and safety considerations must be carefully considered when using uranium because of its high toxicity and pyrophoricity. The main hazard to health occurs where finely divided particles can become airborne and inhaled. For this reason, vents and fume hoods should be used, or the workers should use respirator equipment to avoid inhalation.
Uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element that exists in recoverable amounts, averaging about 4 ppm in the earth’s crust”
The use of pyrophoric phosphorus to fire bomb dresden, in world war 2 killed 120,000 people and burned Dresden to the ground. Guess what, Uranium is more pyrophoric than phosphorus . It takes much less to start fires and keep them burning with even trace amounts of radionuclides. The government will not talk about it. Nobody will talk about it primarily because of the implications for storage of nuclear waste, what can happen after nuclear catastrophes, and because of the militaries ongoing uses, of depleted Uranium that is highly pyrophoric and radioactive.
There is uranium mining, nuclear fuel production, depleted uranium and isotope production, from nuclear waste. Flintlocks for drought and climate change related wildfires. Methane release in the arctic with trace radionuclides.
Massive wildfires, in and around the worst pryrophoric, radionuclide contaminated-nuclear reservations in Russia and the USA in the past three years. Some going on in siberia right now, that started by nuclear areas. No one will talk about it.
Pyrophorics can ignite spontaneously. They burn white hot, like the thorium, in the thorium lantern mantles, used for their pyrophoretic properties. Radionuclides are by far and above, the strongest pyrophorics known to man. They include most classes of radionuclides: actinides like thorium, uranium, transuranics like plutonium, alkali metals like cesium 137. They are highly reactive, in trace amounts. No media attention about it at all, except in episodic incindents like WIPP and the plutonium fires ar Rocky Flats. No mention of pyrophorics at Santa Susana or INL(Idaho National Laboratory)
Nasty Wildfires in Australia
Massive wildfires in populated areas, on the coasts of Australia, where people in cars, burn masses of hyrocabons, with uranium, radium and thorium traces in them. They also mine and export large amounts of Uranium in Australia. There are chemical factories, petroleum on the coast of Australia Refineries that create natural radioclide waste with, high concentrations of heavy metals and the natural radionuclides thorium, uranium, radium.
There are fires around reactors and other nuclear facilities. There was a major fire in the Ukraine, by a hi-level nuclear waste-containment facility in 2014.
There were pyrophoric fires, at Idaho, Nevada, and Washington-low-level nuclear waste facilities in the past 10 years, not associated with INL. The government and media will not talk about the pryrophoric-radionuclide induced fires.
There was a pyrophoric radionuclide fire at WIPP. WIPP is one of the largest plutonium repositories in the world. WIPP had to be closed down in 2013 from an intense, plutonium pyrophoric fire. Remember that trace amounts of radionuclides can set off and keep a wild fire going. Like the small Uranium town in utah, Where the town had a wildfire from uranium, that had accumuated in the soil for 60 years. There have been multiple pyrophoric-radionuclide wildfires in an eastern Washington at low level nuclear waste processing facilities.
Rocky flats plutonium trigger plant, by denver, was where 2 pyrophoric plutonium fires, contaminated half of Denver, with plutonium residue. The plutonium fires occured at rocky flats in the 1980’s. They were pyrophoric plutonium fires.
You hear little to nothing, about radionuclide-pyrophoricity and fires or, wildfires. Don’t ya know its national security and thhe media wouldnt want people to know the truth.
Reactors emit pyrophoric radionuclides.
There is uranium mining, nuclear fuel production, depleted uranium and isotope production, from nuclear waste. Massive flintlocks for drought and climate change related, wildfires.
Some of the recent, worst, wildfires are common around nuclear reservations in Russia, siberia and the USA. The wildfires in those areas, put large amounts of radionuclides into the air .
Recent serious wildfires have occured in
California by LA that started at Santa Susana
Mayak
Siberia
Central Idaho
Idaho National Laboraory 900,000 square mile wildfire
Australian coasts
The Chernobyl and Fukushima wildfires in 2013
Wild fires in populated areas in the
South of France
China
Alaska
Malaysia
Canada
The Amazon
Nasty wildfires are common in moist industrial areas now. Especially in nuclear countries. In popluated areas on the coasts of Australia, where they mine and process millions of tons of uranium and take it to ports to ship and the world. Where they tested nuclear bombs, that left pyrophoric radionucide residue. Coastal regions that now have unprecedented wildfires.
Pyrophorics can ignite spontaneously. They burn white hot, like the thorium, in the thorium mantle lanterns. Radionuclides are by far and above, the strongest pyrophorics known to man. They include most classes of radionuclides: actinides like thorium, uranium, transuranics like plutonium, alkali metals like cesium 137. They are highly reactive, in trace amounts. No media attention about it at all, except in episodic incindents like WIPP and the plutonium fires ar Rocky Flats. No mention of pyrophorics at Santa Susana or INL, which are major nuclear waste dumps and nuclear reservations.
There is a great amount of
uranium residue, in the environment from fracking.
There are fires around reactors and other nuclear facilities. There was a major fire in the Ukraine, by a hi-level nuclear waste-containment facility in 2014.
Remember that trace amounts of radionuclides can set off and keep a wild fire going.
Remember that trace amounts of radionuclides can set off and keep a wild fire going. Like the small Uranium town in Utah , Where a portion of the town had a wildfire from uranium that had accumuated in the soild for 60 years.
Little to nil ever said about radionuclide-pyrophoricity and fires or wildfires. Dont ya know its national security.
The corporate media, would not want people to know the truth.
The fact that most radionuclides are pyrophoric especially uranium, plutonium, radioactive lead, thorium, radium, iridium, and alkali metals like strontium90, cesium137, rsodium. The world is flooded with mined, fracked and artificial radionuclides since they stared playing with nuclear. Minute amounts of thorium and uranium dust and other radionuclide can set off wildfires and fires. Pyrophoric plutonium caused the rocky flats mess and WIPP fires
Look at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL)wildfire that did 900,000 acres in 2019. There were 60 years of nuclear waste accumulated on the 20 square mile nuclear reswrvation outside of pocatello, where 50 nuclear reactors exist.
The Wipp fires in Mew Mexico, happened when plutonium ignited kitty litter. The Santa Susana Fire that burned half of ventura county north of Los Angeles 2 years ago. One of the worst of many wildfire in southern California.
The Chernobyl WildFires, the Mayak Wildfires, the Hanford wildfires. There are many more. The primary reason depleted uranium is used in ammunition is because of the heat it generates on impact, from it’s pyrophoricity
Pyrophoricity
The pyrophoricity of hydrides and oxides forming on the surface of plutonium can cause it to look like an ember under certain conditions.
Several classes of radionuclides are pyrophoric. Actinides. Alkali Metals: Cesoum 137, Strontium 90. Plutonium and Uranium are very Pyrophoric in trace amounnts.
A pyrophoric substance (from Greek: πυροφόρος, pyrophoros, ‘fire-bearing’) is a substance that ignites spontaneously in air at or below 54 °C (129 °F) (for gases) or within 5 minutes after coming into contact with air (for liquids and solids). Examples are iron sulfide and many reactive metals including plutonium and uranium, when powdered or thinly sliced. Pyrophoric materials are often water-reactive as well and will ignite when they contact water or humid air. They can be handled safely in atmospheres of argon or (with a few exceptions) nitrogen. Class D fire extinguishers are capable of dealing with pyrophoric fires.
Charles J (1966). “The Reaction of Pyrophoric Radioactive lead and lead with Oxygen”. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 70: 1478–1482. doi:10.1021/j100877a023.
^ DOE | Office of Health, Safety and Security | Nuclear Safety and Environment | Uranium, retrieved 3 September 2013; archived on 24 August 2010.
^ DOE | Office of Health, Safety and Security | Nuclear Safety and Environment | Plutonium, retrieved 3 September 2013; archived on 28 September 2010
Radionuclides are flintlocks for many of the wildfires that plague the climate changing world now
Guarenteed wildfires around nuclear reservations in Russia and the USA from pyrophiric uranium and other pyrophoric radionuclide. No one will talk about it.
The worst wildfires in southern california history started at the radionuclide santa susana site and spewed radionuclides across Las Angeles county.
Pyrophorics ignite spontaneously. They burn white hot, like thorium in welding rods and mantles.
Radionuclides the strongest pyrophorics known to man. They include most classes of radionuclides: actinides like thorium, uranium, transuranics like plutonium, alkali metals like cesium 137. They are highly reactive, in trace amounts. No media attention about it at all, except in episodic incindents like WIPP and the plutonium fires ar Rocky Flats. No mention of pyrophorics at Santa Susana or INL.
Wildfires are common in moist industrial countries now. Especially in nuclear countries. In populated areas on the coasts of Australia, where people in cars, burn masses of hyrocabons, with uranium, radium and thorium traces in them. They also mine and export large amounts of Uranium in Australia. There are chemical factories, petroleum on the coast of Australia Refineries that create natural radioclide waste with, high concentrations of heavy metals and the natural radionuclides thorium, uranium, radium.
There have recentley been wildfires in the French Riviera and Greece. In California. In Scandanavia. In China. By Chernobyl. Widfires in the Japan Fukushima exclusion area and Chernobyl exclusion area.. Wildfires that are serious threats to populations that spread pyrophore even more.
There have been unprecedented wild fires around chernobyl and fukushima, post nuclear-castastrophes. Now there are massive wildfires in australia. Many of the worse in uranium tainted areas, downwinder, and nuke test site areas.
(PDF)Ecological Considerations of Depleted Uranium Munitions From The US Army
Click to access la-5559.pdf
1972 hansen
excerpt from pdf
“DEPLETED URANIUM MUNITIONS IN TER-
RESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
A. Wildfires During Military Exercises
The pyrophoric properties of DU make it extremely
effective in combat use where the ecological consequences
of wildfire are hardly a consideration. A similar philos-
ophy probably exists for training purposes, although fire
control is a greater concern near populated areas or where
arid conditions produce flammable environments.
Fire is a most important limiting factor in ecosystems
of forest and grassland regions of temperate zones and in
tropical areas with dry seasons. Fire is a major hazard, and
has been for centuries, of the normal climate in most of
the terrestrial environments of the world. This has
produced biotic, fire-adapted communities uniquely
suited to a region, such as the long-leaf pine forests on the
coastal plain of the southeastern United States.3
Manage-
ment of controlled environments by prescribed burning
has been intensively investigated in this southeastern
area.” Control of vegetative cover by fire is only one
consideration in the total ecosystem response. Animal
populations respond in various ways to such procedures,
as shown in studies of wild turkey management.5
In
southeastern US pine forests, controlled fire is an indis-
pensable tool to maintain and manage turkey populations;
however, it must be used wisely to ensure that associated
animal populations are not jeopardized and thai all popu-
lations achieve a balance. Differing responses of various
species to habitat fires are found in all ecosystems, such as
soil insects and their vegetative cover in desert steppe
vegetation,6
caribou and their crucial lichen winter ranges
in arctic areas,7
and muskrats and waterfowl in various
marsh habitats.8
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9
Less obvious effects of fire include the
induction of mortality factors in aquatic situations,
mostly due to chemical changes in the water produced ‘<y
burned vegetation.10
The above examples recognize the ecological con-
sequences of fires caused by the pyrophoric properties of
DU munitions. The degree of importance these con-
sequences attain will depend upon the situation (wariime
or training), the bio£'ographic region(s), climate, season
of the year, and several other factors. Each situation must
be judged independent"
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