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Please come to Japan's aid over Fukushima. Avert disastrous global catastrophe.

Please come to Japan's aid over Fukushima. Avert disastrous global catastrophe.

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Barack Obama, David Cameron, President Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu

Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Japan archipelago: The situation is getting increasingly desperate. Too many lives have been lost and threatened by the events set in motion by 2011's tsunami. The clean up is nigh on impossible and not sufficiently manageable as a country alone.

Firstly an Update:

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Stephen Hosea, MD in the Santa Barbara Independent, October 31, 2013: Radioactive Fallout from Fukushima — The World as We Know It Has Changed [...] I believe that humanity is standing on the brink of a possible worldwide nuclear holocaust. The world as we know it has already changed as the result of radioactive material that has been released into the air and the ocean. I am not an alarmist, but I am alarmed. [...] I know radioactivity has been and continues to be released into the air and ocean. The effects on our health are incomprehensible because the magnitude of radioactivity released and the extent of spread and contamination are virtually unknown. [...] In my clinical career, I have had the good fortune to care for the homeless and the disenfranchised and the rich and the famous. When one is lying in a hospital bed with those special gowns that are wide open in the back, everyone is pretty much the same. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat are gifts of life for all of us no matter what our creed or our color. I know that these precious gifts have been contaminated. The silence from the media and the powers that be has been deafening. [...] We have an opportunity to help the Japanese with the crisis in Fukushima. I want the best and the brightest that money CAN’T buy to be making those decisions. This is not a request–this is an inalienable right for the sake of our children and our children’s children and all of humanity. [...] The time to act is now.

The fallout of this disaster if it is not further averted now would be global. Already much of the world's Pacific sea-food stocks are proven to be dangerously contaminated, soon to be or highly at risk. The Russian government has banned all food from Japan's waters.

The gritty facts surrounding the clear up are:

All the remaining nuclear rods have to be moved. Moving even one must be manually done, sometime submerged.

Nothing remotely similar has been attempted before and while everyone – nuclear experts, government officials, environmental groups and the public – agrees that the rods [in the Unit 4 pool] must be moved to more secure storage. It is feared that any error of judgment could lead to a massive release of radiation into the atmosphere.

Unit 4 at the plant contains an alarming 10 times as much caesium-137 as was at Chernobyl, experts say.

A spokesman for Tepco admitted, however, that it was not clear whether any of the rods were damaged or if debris in the pool would complicate the recovery effort.

Charles Perrow, a professor emeritus at Yale University,
Has made even more strident warnings

Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable [and] would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo”

“Then the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years”

Unnamed nuclear energy expert who’s monitored Tepco during Fukushima crisis:

“I would prefer to have had some US companies that are experts on spent fuel decommissioning brought in to assist”
Should the worst happen at the Fukushima plant Some of the contamination would undoubtedly reach Tokyo...

This is not going to go away. The world is threatened, and it will start with the west coast of the USA and affect much of the northern hemisphere.

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