The headline says it all:
Body Buried At Sea After Raid in Pakistan(New York Times)
The news touched off an extraordinary outpouring of emotion as crowds gathered outside the White House, in Times Square and at the Ground Zero site, waving American flags, cheering, shouting, laughing and chanting, “U.S.A., U.S.A.!” In New York City, crowds sang “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Throughout downtown Washington, drivers honked horns deep into the night.
“For over two decades, Bin Laden has been Al Qaeda’s leader and symbol,” the president said in a statement televised around the world. “The death of Bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat Al Qaeda. But his death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that Al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must and we will remain vigilant at home and abroad.”
Right! Here’s another headline:
Top Secret US Navy photograph of Osama bin Laden taken the instant before he was gunned down like the mad dog he was!
The same government that has been telling anyone who would listen that the recession is dead tells us now that Elvis the Pop Art caricature-of-evil, the ‘Caliph of Terror’ is also deceased.
Right on cue, normally cynical New Yorkers swallow this self- serving nonsense like candy, “waving American flags, cheering, shouting, laughing and chanting, ‘U.S.A., U.S.A.!’”. This has to be bullish for commodities, with Brent crude marked @ $126 per barrel.
Establishment credibility was gunned down like a mad dog a long time ago. Who is Osama bin Laden? Who cares?
- Osama is dead: was al Qaeda ‘real’ to begin with?
- Osama is dead: what did he have to do with the attacks on 9/11?
- Osama is dead, carrying his secrets to the grave: did some intelligence agency orchestrate the attacks on 9/11 as a ‘false flag’ incident?
- Was Osama working for the CIA or some other US- intelligence agency?
Osama is conveniently dead just when the president is busy converting the repulsive Donald Trump, a hairpiece in search of a dead cat to have sex with into a respectable GOP presidential candidate.
Trump would be a president able to endow the truly departed Ferdinand Marcos with ‘class’.
That Obama is Trump’s enabler tells everyone anything they need to know about life in this Age of Fraud. The convenient decease of Osama and disappearance of a body into the ocean is of a piece with Obama’s vanished ‘statesmanship’. There will certainly be a stream of ‘experts’ and ‘eyewitnesses’ swearing on stacks of bibles that Osama is really, truly dead this time around. Without a body, who will ever know? This is another fraud: like all the others to date it goes down easy and has no substance. Like all the others opportunities do exist for those with the wit to take advantage of them.
The opportunity exists to declare victory over ‘terror’ and escape Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq. How much do you wanna bet the establishment lets this opportunity slip away? Americans will have to stay in the Middle East to combat Osama’s lieutenants and adherents …
Meanwhile, while the diversions take place, reality grinds on and on:
At Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Ishikawa of JNTI Talks about Reactor Core ConditionsMore on 77-year-old Michio Ishikawa of the Japan Nuclear Technology Institute on the situation at Fukushima I Nuke Plant, as he appeared on Asahi TV on April 29.
As I watched the video, I started to like Mr. Ishikawa, who continues to believe in the safety of nuclear power generation. He didn’t mince his words, and said what they are doing at Fukushima I Nuke Plant is not working. That surprised some, including the host of the show, as Ishikawa is known as a strong proponent for the nuclear power generation and the nuclear industry.
“I believe the fuel rods are completely melted. They may already have escaped the pressure vessel. Yes, they say 55% or 30%, but I believe they are all melted down. When the fuel rods melt, they melt from the middle part on down.(Showing the diagram) “I think the temperature inside the melted core is 2000 degrees to 2000 and several hundred degrees Celsius. A crust has formed on the surface where the water hits. Decay heat is 2000 to 3000 kilowatts, and through the cracks on the crust the radioactive materials (mostly noble gas and iodine) are escaping into the air.
“Volatile gas has almost all escaped from the reactor by now.
“The water [inside the pressure vessel] is highly contaminated with uranium, plutonium, cesium, cobalt, in the concentration we’ve never seen before.
“My old colleague contacted me and shared his calculation with me. At the decay heat of 2000 kilowatt… There’s a substance called cobalt 60. Highly radioactive, needs 1 to 1.5 meter thick shields. It kills people at 1000 curies. He calculated that there are 10 million curies of cobalt-60 in the reactor core. If 10% of cobalt-60 in the core dissolve into water, it’s 1 million curies.”
[He’s an old-timer so he’s used to curies instead of becquerel as a unit. 1 curie equals 3.7 x 10^10 becquerels (37,000,000,000 becquerels or 37 gigabecquerels).
10 million curies equals 370,000 terabecquerels, and 1 million curies equals 37,000 terabecquerels. I used this conversion table. Tell me I’m wrong! Cobalt-60 alone would make a Level 7 disaster…]
“They (TEPCO) want to circulate this highly contaminated water to cool the reactor core. Even if they are able to set up the circulation system, it will be a very difficult task to shield the radiation. It will be a very difficult work to build the system, but it has to be done.“It is imperative to know the current condition of the reactor cores. It is my assumption [that the cores have melted], but wait one day, and we have water more contaminated with radioactive materials. This is a war, and we need to build a “bridgehead” at the reactor itself instead of fooling around with the turbine buildings or transporting contaminated water.”
Ishikawa is saying the reactor cores all melted — including the core(s) stored in spent fuel pools in reactor 4 — and are now all uncontained. He did not say when the meltdowns took place, but likely during the first days, during the period of zero- cooling, the period of TEPCO head- scratching and reactor explosions.
He observes that water being used to submerge and cool the core material is absorbing radioactive isotopes and becoming more intensely radioactive in the process. This water is leaking into the ocean.
At the same time, TEPCO proposes to circulate this water as a coolant by way of hoses and stand-alone pumps, presumably rigged outside the reactor buildings. The water would instantly and cumulatively irradiate the hoses and pumps, rendering them too radioactive to approach. Cobalt- 60 is an intense gamma- ray emitter. Keep in mind, EACH reactor can be presumed to contain 370,000 terabecquerels – or so of cobalt- 60. It is hard to see how a jury- rigged ‘cooling system’ could be approachable by human beings.
What happens if there is a water leak or a pump breaks down? What about the other heavy radionuclides in the water besides cobalt: uranium and plutonium?
The jury rigs would have to cool the cores for years, perhaps decades! Who or what is TEPCO trying to con?
Ishikawa’s ‘bridgehead’ amounts to using ‘bio-robots’ working in five- minute shifts to clear working areas on plant grounds and within reactor buildings. These bridgeheads would be are lead- shielded from radiation as much as possible. Each worker would carry his lead brick and set it on top of bricks brought by others. Eventually enough lead bricks would amount to a lead wall, then other lead walls would be built the same way. This was done @ Three Mile Island to access controls that were located in high radiation areas.
Within these bridgeheads, the cores can be accessed and steps taken to entomb them. This would be accomplished by pumping sand, boron and lead into the containments with concrete pumps. The material would be in the form of a water slurry, pumped though holes core- drilled by robots into pressure vessels.
The sand/boron mix would displace the water in the containments. Water that remained would be ‘cooked off’ by the core heat, leaving behind the nuclides. Wells would be drilled around the reactors to allow radioactive groundwater to be pumped out and treated.
Meanwhile, a sheet- pile/slurry- wall cofferdam would be built around the reactor complex to prevent groundwater from seeping from higher ground into or under the reactors and to force it to flow around rather than though the plant complex. Water would carry less radioactivity over time. A shed roof of some kind would be erected over the reactors to keep rainwater out and radioactive dust damped down.
Waste and debris would be pushed or craned into pits excavated on the site. After debris removal the equipment can be driven into the pits along with the debris. The entire are can be paved with asphalt to keep out water that gets past the roof. After twenty years of cooling the recovery can begin with heavy equipment.
To do this job would probably require a half- million ‘volunteers’ sent into the four reactors: to build lead bridgeheads, to remove waste and debris unrecoverable by machine and to access the cores and fuel pools.
About “war” at Fukushima I Nuke Plant:
“Take the debris clean-up job for example. They are picking up the debris and putting them in containers, as if this is the peacetime normal operation. This is a war. They should dig a hole somewhere and bury the radioactive debris and clean up later. What’s important is to clear the site, using the emergency measures. Build a bridgehead to the reactor.
“The line of command is not clear, whether it is the government, TEPCO, or Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.“Look squarely at the reactors and find out the true situation. [Trying to do something with] the turbine buildings is nothing but a caricature [a joke, a manga, a diversion].”
The show’s host says:
“But wait a minute, Mr. Ishikawa, you are a proponent of nuclear power and we expected to hear from you that everything is going well at Fukushima…”Mr. Ishikawa answers,
“Well, if I’m allowed to tell a lie…”
Now, Mr. Tetsunari Iida speaks, agreeing to Mr. Ishikawa’s “war” analogy:
“I totally agree with Mr. Ishikawa’s assessment of the plant, and that this is a war. The government simply orders TEPCO to “do it”. But it is like the Imperial General Headquarters (大本営) on the eve of the Sea of Japan Naval Battle during the Russo-Japanese War [in 1905] ordering merchant ship TEPCO to attack [the imperial Russian navy].“The government should appoint a commander. TEPCO has a limit as a private business. No one knows what to do. We have to seek the advice from the best and the brightest in the world.”
They don’t have to do that, just look @ YouTube videos about Chernobyl or read articles about TMI.