Hello friends,
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This is my personal warning: the Japanese reactor disaster appears to be spinning out of control, heading toward Chernobyl levels.
You should have at least two week’s worth of water in your home. A month if you can.
There is no way to boil radioactivity out of water. None of us has filters to remove it.
We should try to have a month’s food supplies as well. I recommend big bags of rice. It’s cheap, and rice is one of the few foods that can be eaten without cooking (soak for 20 minutes and it is edible.)
Add canned goods. Fresh vegetables may become coated with radioactivity IF the worst happens in Japan.
You also need the old standby stuff: duct tape and plastic to seal off doors, stove hood, etc. Flashlight, wind-up radio, garbage bags.
Does that sound too extreme?
I’ve been watching Japanese English language TV, and following top experts. Even the Japanese authorities admit Fukusima Reactor #3 has a leak in the reactor core, which has flooded into the main building. Three workers stepped in water 10,000 times over radiation limits. I doubt anyone will be able to go back in there, and live.
We are approaching the time when the cement trucks will line up all over Japan, to build a sarcophagus over the reactor, if they can find brave drivers. But that will take time.
News reports today also say that Reactors #1 and #2 have been breached or damaged to the point of leaking from the core. We haven’t even talked about the spent fuel cooling ponds, which contain even more radioactivity.
Tiny trace amounts of radiation have now circled the Northern Hemisphere from the Japanese reactors. It has hit the U.S. West coast, passed over that whole continent, landed in Germany, and heading into Russia. We know the winds can carry this stuff.
IF there is a major storm in Japan, or another explosion, very serious radiation, including plutonium, could be carried up into the Jet Stream, and arrive where you live. You would have to stay indoors, until significant rain removes the particles. They could end up on crops or the water supply. And don’t go out in that rain.
The water supplies of Tokyo and a large area of Japan near the reactor have already been poisoned with radioactive iodine, beyond levels safe to feed to babies, toddlers, or breast-feeding women, or pregnant women. Bottled water sold out in Tokyo a week ago. It’s too late for them to stock up.
It’s not too late for you. Our water supplies could be hit. The chances this could still happen are still low, say 20 percent. It has NOT happened yet. But it is possible.
News authorities do not want to panic the public. There is not enough food and water for all of us to stock up.
The official interpretation of radiation, comparing it to “a Chest X-Ray” or “a bottle of beer” is bullshit. For more information on that, read or listen to my interview this week with Dr. Helen Caldicott. That’s in the program “The Nuclear Nightmare Continues” at ecoshock.info.
Heads up. Prepare.
Alex Smith
Radio Ecoshock
http://www.ecoshock.org
Alex: Thanks for the update. I plan on increasing water supply and canned goods.Already have ample supply of rice on hand. This disaster is reaching catastrophic levels very quickly and it will take a miracle to contain reactors 1 and 3. Too much damage as evident by the satellite photos available on the net.The plutonium in 3 is the scariest part. We live within 30 miles of the Plymouth plant in Mamonet,Ma which should have been decommisioned but is up for a 10 year renewal. I don't believe any one will stop them from getting it. President Obama has once again reneged on another campaign promise and has shown his true colors in support of nuclear power and doing the business of any corporation associated with this industry.Great interview with Dr.Helen Caldicott and plan on getting a copy of her latest book.
Ted Lukac
Ps.Its amazing though how so many people I know are so uninformed on what is going on. Most of them can't deal with it psychologically and will do anything to avoid the topic. American Idol anyone. You get the picture.
Thanks Ted.
We have to remember the mainstream media is a distraction machine. A little singing and dancing for all the folks who fear losing their homes, their health insurance, their pensions.
We are not expected to participate in major decisions about our lives – those will be decided by the appropriate billionaires and lobbyists, while we watch TV or check out celebrity gossip.
I hated sending this alert out. It is the first time I have done that, and I know I'll get more flack for being "an alarmist".
But when the heck should someone ever sound an alarm, if not the possibility of drinking water contaminated by radioactive particles! We have the word "alarm" for a reason. Medieval towns had watchmen, who darn well better sound the alarm if an army appears at the gates!
Still, I limited this warning to regulars of the blog and podcast, rather than a widespread radio broadcast. I figure the regulars are ready for it, the public is not. A shame.
My thanks to all the listeners who did send complementary emails about the last two shows, and the Atomic Emergency podcasts. And to the critics as well, I learn from criticism too.
Alex
Alex, thanks for your vigilance. I spent yesterday responding to your alarm. I wish my family would follow, but they won't. Still hoping for the best possible outcome.