more admission from the liars at TEPCO

The Yomiuri Shimbun 4/14/11

..."Water leaks from No. 1 reactor
Meanwhile, TEPCO has announced that water has been leaking through small openings in the bottom of the No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel.
Combined, the openings would be equivalent to a hole several centimeters in diameter, and according to TEPCO, were made when melted nuclear fuel damaged the bottom.
The melted fuel likely has accumulated in the bottom of the vessel. TEPCO has admitted the situation is a meltdown, in which melted nuclear fuel cannot maintain its shape and drops down to lower parts of a reactor core.
TEPCO had previously said fuel was just partially damaged...."

fukushima quickly becoming chernobyl on roids....

looks like as they finally get the ability to measure what is going on at the daiichi plant things are going from bad to worse. Note that before this they were only guessing but made it appear as it were scientific fact.

Holes in reactor 1 mean road map needs major overhaul

By MINORU MATSUTANI

Staff writer

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will have to change its road map for stabilizing the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because it will take longer than expected to install a cooling system with circulating water for heavily damaged reactor No. 1, experts said Friday.

fukushima more BS

Reactor 1 fuel rods melted, sank to bottom

Coolant water much lower than Tepco had been estimating

By KAZUAKI NAGATA

Staff writer

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday that the water level in the No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant is much lower than thought and that some of the fuel rods melted down and fell to its bottom.

But Tepco also said the temperature in the pressure vessel has been kept at around 100 to 120 degrees, which is cool enough to keep the reactor safe, for now.

Paul Craig Roberts: osama bin laden's useful death

Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
May 3, 2011
In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated Press or, rather, of the White House Ministry of Truth, write, or copy off a White House or CIA press release that “Osama bin Laden, the terror mastermind killed by Navy SEALs in an intense firefight, was hunted down based on information first gleaned years ago (emphasis added) from detainees at secret CIA prison sites in Eastern Europe, officials disclosed Monday.”
“No credible image to show Osama killed by U.S. Special Forces.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRv-Zo7iZHE&feature=player_embedded

 

How many Americans will notice that the first paragraph of the “report” justifies CIA prisons and torture? Without secret prisons and torture “the terror mastermind” would still be running free, despite having died from renal failure in 2001.

Monday, May 2, 2011

U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids

Kyodo

Physicians for Social Responsibility, a U.S. nonprofit organization of medical experts, has condemned as "unconscionable" the Japanese government's safety standards on radiation levels at elementary and junior high schools in nuclear disaster-stricken Fukushima Prefecture.

Nuclear Adviser to Japanese President Resigns Over Radiation Levels

Nuclear Adviser to Japanese President Resigns Over Radiation Levels

Infowars.com
May 1, 2011
During an emotional and teary news conference, Toshiso Kosako, a professor at the University of Tokyo, announced his resignation as senior nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Kosako said he could not stay on while the government set inappropriate radiation limits for elementary schools near the plant. “I cannot allow this as a scholar,” he said, adding that he is also opposed the government raising the limit for radiation exposure for workers at the plant, according to the CBC.
Japanese authorities have set a 20-millisievert limit for radiation exposure as safe. Kosako said that is 20 times too high, especially for children, who are more vulnerable to radiation than adults.

Radioactive traces found in Tohoku, Kanto breast milk

the (not-so) funny thing is that they don't mention that  if the radiation is in the breast milk...so too then is it throughout the mothers' bodies. In their bones and glands and that they will die form cancer as a driect cause of the fuckinshima radiation. But hey, don't worry, small amounts of radiation being fed directly into you is god for you ... like meamine, and mercury (which anyone knows makes you smarter)

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Traces of radioactive material were detected in the breast milk of women living in the Tohoku and Kanto regions last month, but not at levels that could pose a health risk to them or their babies, according to the health ministry.
"The levels detected wouldn't harm the health of the mothers or their infants, so they can keep breast-feeding as normal," a Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry official said.