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Subject: Fukushuima on the Verge KZYX Thursdays Midnight
From:    "John Lewallen" <lewallen at mcn.org>
Date:    Mon, October 21, 2013 5:21 pm
To:      opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
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Dear friends,Barbara Stephens-Lewallen, Jamie Lee, and yours truly plan to
be on KZYX from midnight until two Thursdays at Verge Beaulanger's program
"On The
Verge" helping to organize an international effort to clean up Fukushima.
The program streams on the web at KZYX.org. Love, John

Fate of Human Race in Hands of Fukushima Cleanup Workers



October 21, 2013



          Fukushima cleanup workers deserve the loving support of the
whole human race as they begin next month a one-year process of
removing 1,300 damaged radioactive fuel rods from a tank
teetering eighteen feet above ground below Reactor 4.

          Even a mild earthquake may drain the holding tank or bang the
rods together, triggering atmospheric release of four hundred
tons of highly radioactive material, including plutonium.

          A giant steel frame has been constructed above the tank holding
the radioactive rods. The rods and tank are distorted by the
earthquake and tsunami which hit the Fukushima nuclear power
plants on the Japanese coast in March, 2011, causing three
reactors to melt down, and beginning a cleanup effort now
estimated to take forty years and cost $10 billion.

          An October 13 report in The Guardian found that the 6,000
workers who suit up and work to maintain the leaking radioactive
containment systems are experiencing plummeting morale. Workers
took a 20 per cent pay cut in 2011, and now most are low-paid
private contractors. Hundreds of the most experienced
technicians must leave soon, because they have received the
maximum exposure to deadly radiation allowed by the Japanese
government.

          "I'm particularly worried about depression and alcoholism,"
public health professor Takeshi Tanigawa told The Guardian.
"I've seen high levels of physical distress and symptoms of
post-traumatic stress disorder."

          The radioactive rods must be removed with manual guidance. If
the rods bump or crumble in the process, what is estimated to be
to worst atmospheric release of deadly radioactive materials
ever could occur.


          Please consider joining a well-funded international effort to
clean up Fukushima.



--John Lewallen

Philo, CA

707-895-2996
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