Quotes About the Global Nuclear Emergency

“We have not four but 13 reactors out of control now. Thirteen reactors have lost capacity to cool. Once a reactor loses capacity to cool, they heat and begin releasing radiation. I do not believe they are not leaking.” [1]

“Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the ... steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor ..Tanaka has called [the reactor] a “time bomb,”...When Tokyo Electric sent a representative to check on their progress, Hitachi distracted him by wining and dining him... Rather than inspecting the part, they spent the day playing golf and soaking in a hot spring, he said. The guy wouldn’t have known what he was looking at anyway,” Tanaka said. “The people at the utility have no idea how the parts are made.”…. ... Thirty- six years later, that reactor pressure vessel is the key defense protecting the core of Fukushima’s No. 4 reactor…Two years [after Chernobyl] Tanaka says he went to the Trade Ministry to report the cover-up he’d been involved in more than a decade earlier. The government refused to investigate and Hitachi denied his accusations, he said.” [2]

“So if, for example, one of the reactors at Daiichi goes down, the other five are only a matter of time. We can’t know in what order they will go, but certainly all of them will go. And if that happens, Daini isn’t so far away, so probably the reactors there will also go down. Because I assume that workers will not be able to stay there.” [3]

In 1982, the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs received a secret report received from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission called "Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences 2". In that report and other reports by the NRC in the 1980s, it was estimated that there was a 50% chance of a nuclear meltdown within the next 20 years which would be so large that it would contaminate an area the size of the State of Pennsylvania, which would result in huge numbers of a fatalities, and which would cause damage in the hundreds of billions of dollars (in 1980s dollars). Those reports were kept secret for decades. [4]

“Only one reactor blew at Chernobyl and it was only 3 months old, with new cores holding relatively little radiation; these ones have been operating for 40 years and would hold about 30 times more radiation than Chernobyl’s.” [5]

"There is talk of an apocalypse and I think the word is particularly well chosen. Practically everything is out of control. I cannot exclude the worst in the hours and days to come." [6]

"When I held up samples of the rocks the plant was sitting on, they crumbled like sugar in my fingers. "But the power company told us these were really solid rocks!" the reporters said. I asked, "Do you think these are really solid?' and they started laughing." [7]

REFERENCES:
[1] Exclusive: Fukushima babies, pregnant women nuclear fallout rescue underway
Deborah Dupre (* Human Rights Examiner) March 23rd, 2011 1:32 pm ET
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/exclusive-fukushima-babies-pregnant-women-nuclear-fallout-rescue-mission

[2] Fukushima Smoking Gun Emerges: Founding Engineer Says Reactor 4 Has Always Been A “Time Bomb”, Exposes Criminal Cover Up. Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge. March 23, 2011
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fukushima-smoking-gun-emerges-founding-engineer-says-reactor-4-has-always-been-a-time-bomb-exposes-criminal-cover-up.html

[3] What They're Covering Up at Fukushima By HIROSE TAKASHI
Introduced by Douglas Lummis. Okinawa
"You Get 3,500,000 the Normal Dose. You Call That Safe? And What Media Have Reported This? None!"
http://www.counterpunch.org/takashi03222011.html

[4] Governments Have Been Covering Up Nuclear Meltdowns for Fifty Years to Protect the Nuclear Power Industry. Saturday, March 19, 2011
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/governments-have-been-covering-up.html

[5] Caldicott: Japan may spell end of nuclear industry worldwide. Thursday, March 17, 2011. Helen Caldicott at globalresearch.ca
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/03/caldicott-japan-may-spell-end-of.html

[6] Japan nuclear plant disaster: warning of an 'apocalypse’ as fallout hits danger levels. 16th March 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8384809/Japan-nuclear-plant-disaster-warning-of-an-apocalypse-as-fallout-hits-danger-levels.html

[7]
Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette. Sunday, May 23, 2004
By LEUREN MORET. Special to The Japan Times
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html