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Top physicist: Fukushima radiation will impact humanity for generations
by Terrence Aym

Created on: September 08, 2011

In what may turn out to be the most under-reported story of the century, the American media continues to fall flat on its face regarding their coverage of the Japanese Daiichi Nuclear facility Fukushima disaster and its impact on American citizens.

Despite the dearth of reporting by the vaunted US media, the radioactive disaster continues to worsen—not only in Japan, but across the Pacific, North America, and beyond to northern Europe.

Fukushima magnitudes worse than BP Gulf and Chernobyl disasters

A disaster that may affect humanity for generations, the Fukushima nuclear reactor catastrophe is proving magnitudes worse than Chernobyl and much, much worse than the frenzied media coverage of the Deepwater Horizon BP Gulf disaster.

The crippled reactors are still leaking, pouring huge quantities of radioactive Iodine-131, strontium and Cesium-137 into the air, ground and surrounding sea. Some nuclear experts predict full recovery from the disaster may be measured in centuries. Cleaning up the northeaster prefecture of Japan may take longer than that as it is still being flooded with heavy gamma radiation.

Meltdowns confirmed, containment breached

After the worst case scenario was confirmed during early summer 2011, the world learned that at least one, perhaps two of the Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO) three Fukushima reactors had undergone partial or full meltdown. Containment had been breached and perhaps millions were exposed to cancer-causing radioactive particles and rays.

World famous physicist, Dr. Michio Kaku of the New York University, stated for the record that although Japanese officials and TEPCO executives assured the public that the reactors were stabilized, that so-called stability was "like you're hanging from the edge a cliff…hanging by your fingernails…and that one-by-one your fingernails start to crack. That's 'stability.' In other words, it's a race against time."

That race is being lost on a daily basis and is having a significant impact on other parts of the world, especially Canada and the United States.

Clean up beyond ability of current technology

Food and water has been contaminated in Japan. Large swaths of agricultural land have been devastated by contamination. Clean up is beyond the ability of current technology. Some of the land may be unusable for hundreds of years.

According to radiation monitors at the University of California, Berkley, significant amounts of radioactive contamination have reached America. Alreadycrops, dairy products, and ground water has been found to be affected.

Americans being exposed to life-threatening radiation

"As the years and decades go by, we will see an increase in cancer," warns Kaku.

If Fukushima is so much worse than Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear accident, is that really so bad? Hasn't Chernobyl been contained?

The surprising answer is no, the Chernobyl disaster is still ongoing. It's thought the nuclear core is still melting and a concrete sarcophagus built to encapsulate the main reactor core is cracking and disintegrating. Pastures as far away as Scandinavia and England to the west are still unusable as the radiation there is too high to safely herd livestock. They are still contaminated with Cesium-137 from Chernobyl.



Dr. Kaku states that "All of us have a piece of Chernobyl in our bodies. Realize that we could take Geiger counters, simulation counters, and see—and actually see—that radiation from Chernobyl has been incorporated into our flesh and tissue."

That's bad. But it gets worse…a whole lot worse.

"The situation at the Daiichi Nuclear facility in Fukushima has not yet been fully stabilized, and we can't yet see an end in sight," Dr. Yuko Yanagisawa, a physician at Funabashi Futawa Hospital in Japan's Chiba Prefecture said. "Because the nuclear material has not yet been encapsulated, radiation continues to stream into the environment." ["Fukushima radiation alarms doctors"]

According to Dr. Kaku, the whole world will eventually be exposed to the radiation gushing from the destroyed Fukushima reactors and melting fuel rods.

"The radiation traveled over the Pacific Ocean, sailed over the United States and is now circulating around the entire Earth."

Scientists monitoring the spreading radiation in the US expect death rates from cancer to climb in the coming years.

Unfortunately, nations in the path of Japan's ongoing disaster have no way to effectively combat it and governments van do little more than await the future when millions will sicken and die prematurely.

Video link: Fukushima update,"60 Minutes" news report.

http://www.helium.com/items/2225554-michio-kaku-declares-fukushima-radiation-will-impact-humanity-for-generations