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Will Fukushima’s Next Earthquake Start A Global Extinction
Event?
http://www.emfnews.org
May 11, 2011
By Tom Burnett
Those of you who have been following me at
HawaiiNewsDaily or on my blog may not have been thrilled
with my initial assessments back in March – and ongoing –
that Fukushima isn’t going away.
The reactors can NEVER be placed in ‘cold shutdown‘
because the cores are partially melted together. We are
talking about hundreds of tons of fissile material inside
reinforced concrete containment vessels. The containment
vessels are cracked. They are releasing radiation. Fission
excursions are still occurring and no one can go inside
those containments for hundreds of years – even if they
could get to the fuel.
They continue to pour water on them and drain it off into
the ocean because there is nothing else they can do. If they
stop pumping water, the genie comes out. If they keep
pumping water, it has to go somewhere and that somewhere is
the ocean. It is still a stop gap. Those reactor cores
cannot be put into ‘cold shutdown’ or dismantled or
entombed. Ever.
They cannot treat as much radioactive water as they have
to keep pumping in. No one can. So the radiation is going
to come across the Pacific and impact the US and, certainly,
Hawaii. Yes, I read that they are going to start treating it
or storing it, but the task is impossible. Reactor cores
have to be maintained in a ‘clean room’ environment or the
water picks up particles – which then become radioactive –
which then irradiate the reactor plumbing – and, eventually,
become fuel. That’s why they have to keep pumping fresh
water in and dumping it out. They cannot recirculate it,
even if they manage to get new plumbing installed. The next
major earthquake there will begin an extinction event.
I am not going to say ‘told you so’. I am going to
suggest that people who have the opportunity should consider
growing their own food for a variety of reasons. I like
aquaponics.
Growing food in enclosed greenhouses protects from
fallout and the organic uptake of radionuclides. For my
system, I have developed an ion-exchange filter to remove
radioactive isotopes from rainwater. I can still use
catchment. The water inside the greenhouses; water we need
to drink, will be clean.
Consider this. When the economy collapses, as it must,
the money people have invested almost anywhere except under
their mattresses will be gone. If, instead, you chose to
develop an aquaponics farm, in two years you would probably
have a continuous supply of non-radioactive food.
We are now at the crossroads. The economic collapse IS
coming. The radiation IS coming. I am going to have a
radiation-free food source. If you believe you have your
money and food supply secured into the future and that we
will not devolve into a greenhouse economy, you don’t need
to worry about it. If you guess wrong, you will have lost
both your money and your chance.
It is true that I am a doomsayer and actively prepare for
the worst situation I can imagine. If I don’t, that’s what
will happen. If I do, and it doesn’t happen, I will still
have an active, organic aquaponics enterprise. It is win-win
for me when I get it built on whatever scale I can do.
I am going to make fresh food and clean water no matter
what anyone else does. It’s merely the practical matter of
how many people I can feed. In one greenhouse I can produce
enough food for myself and the people who help me. With two,
I can produce a surplus and feed other people. I envisioned
three, but I may have to convert the third one to a water
treatment/storage facility. I presently don’t have enough
land for more than three and I don’t have access to more
than three greenhouses in any case. I still have to buy
them, prep the ground, do the plumbing, dismantle them. move
them, re-erect them and build the two-tier infrastructure
inside them. Then I have to make them produce. It is
happening.
I have friends – maybe a lot of friends – who are
investing in silver and gold. You can’t eat it. I’m just
saying – the markets are going back up today after what
looked like a downward spiral on 3 May. They are fluctuating
and confused. That is not a foundation for stability.
One of these days you will look at the clock and it will
say “too late”.
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