IAWM PRESS RELEASE – 20 MARCH 2011
Nuclear devastation in Japan will have worldwide health repercussions, and soon
The nuclear crisis in Japan, with effects occurring in all six reactors on the site in question, is now officially ranked as level 6, and it is not yet resolved, if it ever can be. To put this in context, Chernobyl was ranked as level 7. The US is expecting nuclear contamination to hit there within about two days, and Western Europe later. There has been and will be increased seismic activity worldwide, and there are other reactors built in fault zones. Japan’s disaster will become the world’s disaster.
In February and March, earthquakes have occurred along the ‘ring of fire’ – Chile, New Zealand, Japan. If this continues, the west coast of North America might take the next hit. Geologists are predicting it. The washing up of fish and whales on beaches probably has to do with electromagnetic disturbances underwater which could presage earthquakes and tsunamis.
IAWM PRESS RELEASE – 20 MARCH 2011
Nuclear devastation in Japan will have worldwide health repercussions, and soon
The nuclear crisis in Japan, with effects occurring in all six reactors on the site in question, is now officially ranked as level 6, and it is not yet resolved, if it ever can be. To put this in context, Chernobyl was ranked as level 7. The US is expecting nuclear contamination to hit there within about two days, and Western Europe later. There has been and will be increased seismic activity worldwide, and there are other reactors built in fault zones. Japan’s disaster will become the world’s disaster.
In February and March, earthquakes have occurred along the ‘ring of fire’ – Chile, New Zealand, Japan. If this continues, the west coast of North America might take the next hit. Geologists are predicting it. The washing up of fish and whales on beaches probably has to do with electromagnetic disturbances underwater which could presage earthquakes and tsunamis.
Japan was the most prepared of all countries, or so they thought. They had huge walls to protect against tsunamis. They had nuclear backup systems – but they did not calculate on an earthquake as high as level 9 on the Richter scale. So their protective measures were not enough. Once again, an improbable chain of events has happened.
They are now at the point where workers will be asked to volunteer on a suicide mission- to sacrifice themselves to ‘save Japan’ by going into the deadly radioactive areas to try to fix the problems, get electricity supply back to run pumps, etc.. As this was never foreseen as a possibility, there are no manuals to follow telling them how to deal with six reactors in a meltdown or potential meltdown process.
Glenda Cimino from the IAWM Steering Committee said:
“The only protection now against nuclear disaster for the world is to SHUT DOWN THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS and do not let them build any more. With every new generation of nuclear plants, we are reassured that these are much safer than the last. But they will never be safe enough to protect us from the possibility of radiation exposure, with the inevitable trail of cancers, childhood leukemias, birth mutations for generations, and poisoned water and food.”
For further info contact:
Glenda Cimino, Steering Committee IAWM. Tel. 086 124 9456
