Though the mainstream media has long since abandoned the issue, the
precarious situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in
Japan is only continuing to worsen, according to a prominent Japanese
official. During a recent interview, Mitsuhei Murata, the former
Japanese Ambassador to both Switzerland and Senegal, explained that the
ground beneath the plant's Unit 4 is gradually sinking, and that the
entire structure is very likely on the verge of complete collapse.This
is highly concerning, as Unit 4 currently holds more than 1,500 spent
nuclear fuel rods, and a collective 37 million curies of deadly
radiation that, if released, could make much of the world completely
uninhabitable. As some Natural News readers will recall, Unit 4
contains the infamous elevated cooling pool that was severely damaged
following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that struck on March
11, 2011.According to the Secretary of former Japanese Prime
Minister Naoto Kan, the ground beneath Unit 4 has already sunk by about
31.5 inches since the disaster, and this sinking has taken place
unevenly. If the ground continues to sink, which it is expected to, or
if another earthquake of even as low as a magnitude six occurs in the
region, the entire structure could collapse, which would fully drain the
cooling pool and cause a catastrophic meltdown."If Unit 4
collapses, the worse case scenario will be a meltdown, and a resultant
fire in the atmosphere. That will be the most unprecedented crisis that
man has ever experienced. Nobody will be able to approach the plants ...
as all will have melted down and caused a big fire," said Murata during
the interview. "Many scientists say if Unit 4 collapses, not only will
Japan lie in ruin, but the entire world will also face serious damages."Because
there are 31 nuclear units of a similar type to Unit 4 in the U.S., the
American government has been downplaying the disaster to protect its
own reputation, alleges Murata. This is, in fact, the primary reason why
so little has been reported on the severity of Fukushima
following the disaster. The American empire, in other words, does not
want the world, nor the American people, to know that there is the
possibility of literally dozens of Fukushima situations occurring on
American soil, should the right disaster situations arise.You can watch the full 3:51 minute translated interview with Murata at the following link:http://youtu.be/-LCTv65aqgASources for this article include:http://enenews.comhttp://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html
Japanese officials are currently engaging in talks with Russian
diplomats about where tens of millions of Japanese refugees might
relocate in the very-likely event that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
facility's Reactor 4 completely collapses. According to a recent report
by EUTimes.net, Japanese authorities have indicated that as many
as 40 million Japanese people are in "extreme danger" of radiation
poisoning, and many eastern cities, including Tokyo, may have to be
evacuated in the next few weeks or months to avoid extreme radiation
poisoning.
As we continue to report, the situation at Fukushima is dire, to say the least. Reactor 4 is on the verge of complete collapse (http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html),
which would send radioactive nuclear fuel from thousands of fuel rods
directly into the atmosphere. These fuel rods, after all, are already
exposed to the open air, but the full release of their fuel would cause
not only a regional catastrophe, but also a global nuclear holocaust.
"A
report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission
on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool
of the plant's No. 4 reactor has clearly been shown to be 'the weakest
link' in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear disaster,"
reported the Mainichi Daily News recently.
"The worst-case
scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of
the No. 4 reactor pool, but the disintegration of spent fuel rods from
all the plant's other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the
Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate."
So in an
effort to establish contingency for the Japanese people in closest
proximity to the fray, authorities are considering potentially
relocating tens of millions of Japanese people to the Kuril Islands,
which are located in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region, or potentially
even to China, where hundreds of uninhabited "ghost town" cities with no
apparent use could house at least 64 million refugees. If this
relocation were to occur, Japan would largely become a barren wasteland.
'Wave' of highly-radioactive waste reportedly headed for West Coast of U.S.
For the Japanese people, the Fukushima disaster represents the complete
demise of their nation, as literally nothing is being done to contain
the thousands of exposed fuel rods that will eventually explode when
Reactor 4 fails. But the consequences of all this are not limited to
just Japan, as the rest of the world, including the U.S., will bear the
brunt of this ticking nuclear time-bomb as well. We are, in fact,
already suffering the consequences of this "nuclear war without a war" (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870).
Late last year, for example, it was reported that U.S. officials ordered the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) to release three million gallons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean. Now, according to The Intel Hub,
this waste will soon arrive on the shores of the U.S. West Coast,
unbeknownst to the millions of Americans living in that region that will
be exposed to it.
This new 'wave' of radiation is, of course, in
addition to previous waves that have already killed thousands of
people, many of whom were children, and sparked a considerable uptick in
cancer cases. And as time goes on, more and more people living in
America will begin to develop chronic conditions as a result of
perpetual radiation poisoning from Fukushima, and many will die, all
while the mainstream media remains willfully silent on the issue.
And
the federal government has known all along that the Fukushima disaster
is shaping up to be the most severe global catastrophe in recorded
history, as was evidenced in a recent Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request. Not only were federal authorities aware of the extreme
dangers posed by Fukushima from the early days of the disaster, but they
also orchestrated misinformation campaigns to keep the American people,
and the rest of the world, in the dark about the truth (http://www.naturalnews.com/035847_plume-gate_Fukushima_radiation.html).
Since
neither the U.S. nor the Japanese governments appear willing to
actually deal with Fukushima, and particularly the Reactor 4 situation, NaturalNews
is calling on the United Nations (U.N.) to take swift action. A new
petition urges the U.N. to organize a Nuclear Security Summit to address
the problem of Reactor 4, and also establish an independent assessment
team to somehow stabilize it and prevent its fuel from potentially
destroying all life on earth.
You can access that petition here:
http://fukushima.greenaction
Sources for this article include:
http://www.eutimes.net
