Media Coverup of Massive Chernobyl Event Underway in Japan

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:02 am » by **Frankenstein**

Things are becoming a little clearer. I do not believe that the media is covering anything up, but I do believe that the company that runs the reactors has been trying to minimize negative publicity.

However, I just spotted this gem:

TEPCO says the rise in radiation levels at the Japanese plant does not mean an "immediate threat" to human health, but chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano says it is possible the radioactive cores of the two damaged Fukushima reactors have already started to melt.

"We do believe that there is a possibility that meltdown has occurred, it is inside the reactor, we can't see," he said.

"However, we are acting assuming that a meltdown has occurred and with reactor No. 3, we are also assuming the possibility of a meltdown as we carry out measures."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/13/3162752.htm

They also say that the number of people exposed to radiation so far could be as high as 160.

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:09 am » by **Undaunted**

Why do people act so surprised when the media does not include important facts in their reports?It should be plain as day that we are ill informed when relying on the media for data.We are at DTV due to lack of info from our media.
Second of all,all we can do is hope and pray they get that under control.....thats it....nothing more.If this is all Haarp in cordination with the elite then where is the proof.Also the moon and magnetic field is a possibility,but whoes going to verify that?
My point is that there are a number of scenarios that could have caused this and when something of that magnitude happens people want to point the finger and blame anyone from the devil to a jackalope.Best answere..........SHIT HAPPENS.

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:10 am » by **Frankenstein**

More details and a warning of a potential second explosion in the other reactor.

Japan's top government spokesman has warned of the risk of a second explosion at the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, but said that reactor three could withstand it as reactor one did a day earlier.

"There is the possibility of an explosion in the third reactor, as in the case of the first reactor," chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told a televised press conference.

He said the reactor would survive and there would be no effect on the health of nearby residents.

The radiation emergency is widening in earthquake-ravaged Japan, with the cooling systems vital for preventing overheating failing at the second nuclear reactor.

The country is battling a feared meltdown of two reactors at the power plant as the full horror of the disaster emerges on the ravaged north-east coast.

An explosion at the ageing nuclear plant blew apart the building housing reactor No. 1 on Saturday, a day after the biggest quake ever recorded in Japan unleashed a monster 10-metre tsunami.

Asked earlier whether meltdowns had occurred, Mr Edano said: "We are acting on the assumption that there is a high possibility that one has occurred" in the plant's No. 1 reactor.

"As for the No. 3 reactor, we are acting on the assumption that it is possible," he said of the plant situated 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo.

Mr Edano said some radiation had escaped, but that the levels released into the air have so far not reached levels high enough to affect human health.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said about 200,000 people had so far been evacuated from the area around the two Fukushima plants that house a total of 10 reactors.

Japan's nuclear safety agency rated the incident at four on the international scale of zero to seven. The 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the United States was rated five, while the 1986 Chernobyl disaster was a seven.

After Saturday's blast, which sent smoke billowing into the sky, the government moved to calm growing fears, saying the explosion did not rupture the container surrounding the reactor itself.

Workers doused the stricken No.1 reactor with seawater to try to avert catastrophe, in what US experts warned was an "act of desperation" that, in the worst-case scenario, could foreshadow a much more serious disaster.

The plant's operator said that so much water had evaporated from the No. 3 reactor that at one stage the top three metres of the fuel rods were exposed to the air, although they were later covered again.

A total of 22 people have been hospitalised after being exposed to radioactivity, although it was not immediately clear to what degree they were exposed and what condition they were in.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/13/3162802.htm?section=justin

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:11 am » by **Tntbw**

I wouldn't say there is any media cover up. If anything, they are being very skeptical of the Japanese government's downplaying of the situation. Whether or not there is a full blown meltdown, the accident will have a long lasting effect on the country's population.

Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:15 am » by **Undaunted**

tntbw wrote:I wouldn't say there is any media cover up. If anything, they are being very skeptical of the Japanese government's downplaying of the situation. Whether or not there is a full blown meltdown, the accident will have a long lasting effect on the country's population.

I agree............I will not be surprised if the fund raisers pop up in a couple days so they can steal more money like they did after the Haiti quake.