Fukushima China Syndrome near says TEPCO, Government

December 2, 2011
Deborah Dupre, Human Rights Examiner

'Gravest Fukushima status report'

TEPCO and the Japanese government, for first time since the Fukushima nuclear power plant nuclear catastrophe began on March 8, have said the facility is near China Syndrome according to a report that the Wall Street Journal called Thursday the "Gravest Fukushima status report." Nuclear fuel rods in Reactor No. 1 have likely melted completely through the last vessel between radioactive material and the planet, as independent scientists and nuclear whistleblowers have been saying was a clear concern since August.

The new report says that the nuclear fuel rods in reactor No. 1 have likely melted completely -- burning a hole through one surrounding vessel and through up to three-quarters of the concrete base at the bottom of a second containment vessel, a last barrier between the radioactive core and the outside world, reported Mitsuru Obe and Tom Fowler for the Wall Street Journal.

Obe and Fowler say that the latest assessment "marked Japan's most sobering reckoning to date of the nuclear disaster sparked by the country's March 11 earthquake and tsunami."

Sobering reports have been available for nine months. Such as in August when Arnie Gundersen told Solar IMG that Americans are unaware of being rained on with Fukushima nuclear hot particles and eating Fukushima contaminated food because the US government deliberately minimized the catastrophe, partially due to a pact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed with Japan. (Radiating Americans: Fukushima rain, Clinton's secret food pact")

As far as China Syndrome finally admitted to be near by officials, on August 20, Dupré reported China Syndrome was already a clear concern:

Its molten core was sinking through Earth's crust, appearing to be in early stages of a "total China Syndrome meltdown" according to a Russia Today report when Beyond Nuclear's Paul Gunter answered why media has been blacking out the catastrophe, as noted by numerous scientists. He also revealed the increasing threat of a nuclear explosion. ("Fukushima China Syndrome 'clearly a concern': Expert")

By November 21, the Examiner.com reported China Syndrome is "inevitable":

"Eight months after 311, a human right to health violation with media blacking out the public health hazards of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the highest radiation to date, the silence was broken Sunday with news that 1600 millisievert per hour at Unit No. 3 reported on Tokyo Broadcasting System, shocking news that the nuclear event is equivalent to 27 Hiroshimas per day.

"Uehara Harua, architect of Fukushima's Reactor #3 warned that China Syndrome is inevitable and tons of radioactive contaminated debris is hitting shores of Least Developing Pacific Island nation, Marshall Islands where its Indigenous People's rights have been gravely violated for years by American scientists studying nuclear weapons on them." ("Fukushima: 27 Hiroshimas per day, China Syndrome inevitable, Abused Islanders")

(Watch "China Syndrome" movie Youtube trailer.)

Today, The Wall Street Journal reports about the latest official assessment, "The findings are the latest reminder of how dangerous the mid-March accident at Fukushima Daiichi was and how much remains unknown."

Since the Fukushima nuclear energy catastrophe began, independent scientists and whistleblowers have been frustrated over TEPCO, the Japanese and American governments, and media being less than transparent about Fukushima and the public health risk to people in Japan and elsewhere, including in the US.

At Fukushima, unlike Chernobyl, reactions have become worse, for eight months. TEPCO'S plant operator said Wednesday, however, that there is no danger of further damage now.

"Independent nuclear specialists are warning that long-term risk of radiation due to internal exposure will be worse than they needed to be due to lies and cover-up of the catastrophe used to protect the nuclear energy industry." ("Nuclear whistleblowers: Stop lying about Fukushima")

While one day, reports show near China Syndrome, Japan may announce on December 16 that the nuclear reactors in Fukushima are in a cold shutdown because water has become cool enough.

"A cold shutdown is when water used to cool nuclear fuel rods remains below its boiling point, preventing the fuel from reheating." (Reuters)

Meanwhile, using same propaganda US officials have used to win public support to assert power over Iran, Israel all but boasted that to stop Iran's nuclear weapon production, it conducted a nuclear terror attack on Iran this week, three times blasting its nuclear power facility in a heavily populated area.

President Barack Obama had been pressing U.N. nuclear inspectors to release classified intelligence information showing Iran designing and experimenting with nuclear weapons technology.

Israel and the US are using propaganda against Iran, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that has shown those to be false assertions that have been repeated.

"Most analysts agree that there "is nothing in the report that was not previously known by the governments of the major powers" -- a nuclear Iran is "neither imminent nor inevitable."

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