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In reply to the discussion: The Mystery Plume Rising Over Fukushima’s Reactor 3 [View all]longship
(40,416 posts)Concerning breach. I stand corrected. I used a poor description. What I meant was that the fuel rods in the containment vessels are still intact. I have seen nothing to indicate otherwise.
Concerning the water level, if it were not sufficient and the core was exposed we would all know soon enough, as would the rest of the world.
The water running off is from leaks in the systems supporting the reactor. Yup! It's bad, very bad.
But when Energy News spews crap about sea stars melting (a syndrome which has been tracked by marine biologists since the 1990's) as being a result of Fukushima, I have to do a palm face.
Likewise the eagle deaths in Utah. And the herring. And the salmon -- people do know that salmon have been in trouble for decades don't they? Nope! Not according to Energy News. Correlation must be causation. These things happened after Fukushima (again, even if they didn't) therefore they must be caused by Fukushima. Well, for those keeping score, that's the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
It doesn't stop Energy News from posting articles that fallaciously connect these events. What's next? The arctic ice cap decrease caused by Fukushima?
What will fix this is international oversight and transparency. Unfortunately, that's apparently not likely to happen, at least not right away. But if that were to happen we'd know what was happening there and there would be no withheld data and science could quickly respond to the lunatic scare mongering.
Could you get on board with that robertEarl?