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
It has been more than a year now since the massive 9.0-plus magnitude
earthquake and corresponding tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan, sending untold
amounts of nuclear radiation into the environment. And to this day, the
threat of nuclear fallout is ever-present all around the world in what
some have described as a "nuclear war without a war."
Though
governments and many media outlets have downplayed the disaster, its
aftermath continues to threaten the health and well being of plants,
animals and humans not only in Japan, but all around the world. Far worse than Chernobyl,
the Fukushima catastrophe truly is a nuclear holocaust event with
gradual, long-term consequences that we are only just now beginning to
recognize and grasp.
Though the devastation was not delivered in
one fell swoop via an atomic bomb, radioactive elements from Fukushima
continue to be quietly delivered through air and ocean currents to
soils, drinking water supplies, farms, lawns, children's playgrounds,
airplanes and countless other sources. Products made with elements and
materials that have been contaminated with radiation, particularly in
Japan, are also exposing untold thousands, if not millions, of people to
dangerous levels of nuclear radiation.
"Hazardous radioactive
elements being released in the sea and air around Fukushima accumulate
at each step of various food chains (for example, into algae,
crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow's
meat and milk, then humans)," writes Helen Caldicott in her piece, Fukushima: Nuclear Apologists Play Shoot the Messenger on Radiation, in The Age.
"Entering
the body, these elements -- called internal emitters -- migrate to
specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain,
continuously irradiating small volumes of cells with high doses of
alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years often induce
cancer."
Nuclear war, whether intentional or unintentional, has already been waged
Regardless of whether or not the Fukushima disaster was a natural event or a man-made terrorist conspiracy (http://www.naturalnews.com/032692_Fukushima_earthquake.html),
the trigger has been pulled, and the quiet nuclear war has been set in
motion. Fukushima's thousands of exposed fuel rods continue to remain in
a precarious plight. Reactor 4 is on the verge of collapse, and
radiation from existing leaks and damage continues to spread.
Politically,
the entire nation of Japan is the biggest casualty of this nuclear war
so far, as the country's economy is in dire straits, and on the verge of
collapse. Tokyo is reportedly now suffering its first trade deficit
since the 1980s, and the rest of the country's manufacturing base is
quickly dwindling as the world grows increasingly leery of importing
goods from Japan that may be contaminated with Fukushima radiation.
Because
no efforts are being made to contain Fukushima, as was done with
Chernobyl, the facility itself is essentially a grounded nuclear weapon
that every second of every day is waging war against Planet Earth. And
as far as the human race is concerned, thousands have already died as a
result, with millions more to follow in the years and decades to come as
the unrelenting spew of radiation settles in every crevice of the
global ecology, spurring rapid increases in cancer and other deadly
conditions.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php
