Thursday, August 9, 2012

Your Life Depends on This Building

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This is a photo of Reactor 4 at Fukushima in May 2012. Reactor 4 stores about 1500 nuclear fuel-rods in a cooling pool more than 100 feet above the ground. The common cooling pool containing another 6300 spent-fuel rods is located less than 100 meters from the base Reactor 4. If Reactor 4 collapses, surviving workers at the site, if any, will immediately depart, and all the water in the common pool will boil away. 1500 + 6300 = 7800 nuclear fuel rods will burn. All maintenance on every other installation at Fukushima will cease, and all nuclear material on-site will ignite. Northern Japan including Tokyo will be evacuated. All maintenance at every other nuclear installation in Northern Japan will shut down, after workers are either evacuated or die on the job. Cooling and containment vessels at all these installations will shut down, and all the nuclear material they contain will melt-down or ignite, and...

You will perish, wherever you are.

 
 

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