Leave Tokyo If Fukushima Building 4 Collapses – Gunderson
Nuclear expert Arnie Gunderson says if Fukushima Building 4 collapses, it’s time to leave Tokyo. Short of saying evacuate Tokyo, but being not so alarmist about it. Just like this French guy who is leaving Tokyo after realizing that the Fukushima crisis is far from over and will eventually sicken him in Tokyo.
“I have said it’s worse than Chernobyl and I’ll stand by that. There was an enormous amount of radiation given out in the first two to three weeks of the event. And add the wind blowing in-land. It could very well have brought the nation of Japan to its knees. I mean, there is so much contamination that luckily wound up in the Pacific Ocean as compared to across the nation of Japan – it could have cut Japan in half. But now the winds have turned, so they are heading to the south toward Tokyo and now my concern and my advice to friends that if there is a severe aftershock and the Unit 4 building collapses, leave. We are well beyond where any science has ever gone at that point and nuclear fuel lying on the ground and getting hot is not a condition that anyone has ever analyzed.”
Read more at Exclusive Arnie Gundersen Interview: The Dangers of Fukushima Are Worse and Longer-lived Than We Think
P.S. A comment found at Huffingtonpost reveals a bit more about the ensuing crisis at Fukushima:
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05:42 AM on 5/17/2011
Imagine you are an executive at a movie studio, and someone walked in and pitched this setup:
A powerful earthquakeÂ, a Tsunami described by witnessess as moving like a jetliner and the height of three story building hits the island of Japan killing tens of thousands of people, triggering a crisis at a large nuclear power plant. The world looks on in horror as the corporatioÂn that owns the facility reveals a shocking lack of preparedneÂss, footage of plant workers spraying garden hoses on smoldering reactor buildings, civilian helicopterÂs darting past tossing little buckets of water stand out in vivid almost comic impotence as one reactor building after another explodes in a massive fireball.
In the ensuing aftermath it is revealed that one of the more spectaculaÂr explosionsÂ, an olympic sized swimming pool on the top floor of one of the reactor buildings full of weapons grade plutonium is instantly vaporized and catapulted into the upper atmosphereÂ, where it was promptly picked up by the prevailing 150 mph winds of the jet stream and on it’s way across the Pacific to the west coast of the US.
The crisis is compounded when it is revealed that the reactors are archaic designs that were plagued with problems even forty years ago, which is further complicateÂd by the fact that the company,is in fact the same company that owns many of the media outlets around the world that are reporting this event.
Suddenly, the screen goes black.
Read the full set of comments and article about Fukushima Building 4 on Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-unit_b_861449.html