On March 11, 2011 an undersea earthquake rumbled off the coast of northeastern Japan. The powerful 9.0 magnitude quake soon generated a devastating tsunami which then swept in over the low lying coast where the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant complex is located, destroying the complex, disabling the power supply that cooled the reactors. This apparently caused three of the reactors to melt down.
A lethal radiation cloud ascended into the sky and was carried away by the wind into the atmosphere to impact people all over the globe. Reactor particles have been detected landing in the United States and also in Europe. Specks of the reactor core heating rods are themselves incredibly toxic; if one landed upon a human he would probably die instantly. Who really knows where all of these specks of death blew around the world or upon whom they descended?
Almost immediately, TEPCO (Toyko Electric Company), the international news media and the Japanese government moved into damage control of the information being given to the public. The Japanese people were told that the the reactor had not melted down and that it really wasn't that dangerous. Many other countries in the world, including the United States, also downplayed the extent of the accident.
While officials were claiming that the accident wasn't that bad, many independent scientists were already sounding the alarm. If you go onto Youtube and look at the videos about Fukushima, many of which were uploaded in 2011 right after the disaster, you'll see a consistency between both groups. "Official sources" downplay the dangers while actual scientists and independents continually offer grave assessments and warnings of what had already happened as well as what would likely still be happening in the future.
It's been more than three years now since the debacle happened and we have a lot more information about this critical ongoing situation. Each day it seems, the extent of the hazard continues to grow. TEPCO, who ran the reactor and whose feeble attempts to fix the ongoing radiation leaks, has finally admitted that it has lost control of the situation. All along the company has been hopelessly over its head. Its attempts to fix the problems have actually made the problem much worse and it seems likely that there will be new explosive meltdowns in the future.
A lethal radiation cloud ascended into the sky and was carried away by the wind into the atmosphere to impact people all over the globe. Reactor particles have been detected landing in the United States and also in Europe. Specks of the reactor core heating rods are themselves incredibly toxic; if one landed upon a human he would probably die instantly. Who really knows where all of these specks of death blew around the world or upon whom they descended?
Almost immediately, TEPCO (Toyko Electric Company), the international news media and the Japanese government moved into damage control of the information being given to the public. The Japanese people were told that the the reactor had not melted down and that it really wasn't that dangerous. Many other countries in the world, including the United States, also downplayed the extent of the accident.
While officials were claiming that the accident wasn't that bad, many independent scientists were already sounding the alarm. If you go onto Youtube and look at the videos about Fukushima, many of which were uploaded in 2011 right after the disaster, you'll see a consistency between both groups. "Official sources" downplay the dangers while actual scientists and independents continually offer grave assessments and warnings of what had already happened as well as what would likely still be happening in the future.
It's been more than three years now since the debacle happened and we have a lot more information about this critical ongoing situation. Each day it seems, the extent of the hazard continues to grow. TEPCO, who ran the reactor and whose feeble attempts to fix the ongoing radiation leaks, has finally admitted that it has lost control of the situation. All along the company has been hopelessly over its head. Its attempts to fix the problems have actually made the problem much worse and it seems likely that there will be new explosive meltdowns in the future.
Amazingly, to keep a lid on the truth, Japan has now passed a law which makes it illegal for its citizens even to talk about the disaster. Still, every day new and more troubling revelations are coming to light. As you'll see in a moment, Fukushima now threatens much of the life on our extremely delicate planet. Many of the best experts are saying this disaster is the worst nuclear cataclysm our world has ever experienced—and its impact has only just begun. Every day it is spewing out radiation and they currently have no workable plan to stop it. All forms of life on our planet will in some way experience an impact from these ongoing radiation leaks. Our earth will never recover (at least in our lifetimes) from Fukushima.
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