Maximum Alert’ In Japan Over Fukushima Nuke Crisis As TEPCO Head Vanishes From Sight

‘Maximum Alert’ In Japan Over Fukushima Nuke Crisis As TEPCO Head Vanishes From 
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The Intel Hub
By Alex Thomas
March 29th, 2011
Workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are working in  overdrive, 
attempting to stop the spread of radioactive materials into  the ocean as well 
as avoid a full scale meltdown.
In a startling development, Crews found traces of plutonium in the  soil outside 
of the Fukushima  Dai-ichi nuclear complex on Monday, but  officials continued 
to insist there was no  threat to public health.  Plutonium is highly dangerous 
and has raised the level of fear tenfold.
Worried? Apparently at least one person now believes that Plutonium is actually 
good for human health!
Plutonium, one of the most feared radioactive substances on earth,   may  in 
fact enhance human health, according to unexpected new findings    published in 
the journal, Health Physics, wrote Lawrence Solomon in the Financial Post. 

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kanhas stated that Japan is on Maximum Alert and 
the situation remains unpredictable and ever changing.
Multiple embassies in Japan have started to pass out potassium iodide  tablets 
as a precautionary measure. These tablets are being distributed  in a 250km 
radius yet Japanese officials continue to claim that  potassium iodide is only 
needed within the 20km evacuation zone.
The difference in opinion between the Japanese government and Foreign  embassies 
is so huge that it seems impossible that Japan is not  covering up the extent of 
this disaster.
“The recommendation by the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority that  all  Swedes 
who are staying within a radius of 250 km from the Fukushima  No. 1  power plant 
to take iodide tablets every three days is still  valid,”  the embassy’s 
website, last updated Saturday, says. “Best  protection  against radioactive 
iodine is to take iodide tablets before  the  exposure, as doing so afterward 
will prove too late,” reported The Japan Times. 

Officials with TEPCO are also facing a major dilemma. They need to  cool the 
reactors with water but at the same time keep the water from  contaminating the 
ocean with toxic radioactive materials.
“TEPCO is in an awful dilemma right now,” said Jim Walsh, an   international 
security expert at the Massachusetts Institute of   Technology. “One the one 
hand, they want to cool the reactor and keep   the reactor cool, so they have to 
pour water in. If there is a leak in   one of the containment vessels, that 
water keeps leaking out. So they   have a problem where the more they try to 
cool it down, the greater the   radiation hazard as that water leaks out from 
the plant,” reported the CNN Wire Staff. 

Fox News is reporting that TEPCO officials have LOST the battle to save one of  
the damaged reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
“The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and  the  
materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through  the  bottom 
of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it  is  down on the 
floor of the drywell,” Lahey told the Guardian.
Meanwhile the Head of TEPCO has all but vanished since a 9.0  earthquake and 
tsunami devastated Japan on March 11th. He was last seen  on the 13th which has 
led many to speculate that he has left the  country.
Amid rumors that Shimizu had fled the country, checked into a  hospital  or 
committed suicide, company officials said Monday that their  boss had  suffered 
an unspecified “small illness” because of overwork  after a  9.0-magnitude 
earthquake sent a tsunami crashing onto his  company’s  Fukushima Daiichi 
nuclear power plant, reported the Washington Post.
There is no way to tell if Shimizu is actually in Tokyo due to the fact that no 
one has actually seen him.
Officials in the United States have continued to claim that the  levels found in 
the U.S. are no worse then background radiation,  ignoring the simple fact that 
most of these radioactive particles do not normally occur in the atmosphere at 
all.
Radiation from Japan N-plant reaches Britain