{"id":294874,"date":"2017-02-15T02:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fukushima-still-getting-worse-after-six-years-of-meltdowns\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T02:15:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T01:15:03","slug":"fukushima-still-getting-worse-after-six-years-of-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fukushima-still-getting-worse-after-six-years-of-meltdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima: Still Getting Worse After Six Years of Meltdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>After a week of limited coverage of \u201cunimaginable levels\u201d of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima (see below), <a href=\"https:\/\/nuclear-news.net\/2017\/02\/10\/radiation-level-in-fukushima-no-2-reactor-measured-higher650-sieverts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuclear-News.net<\/a> reported February 11 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than \u201cunimaginable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Continuous, intense radiation, at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017 \u2013 as if this were a new phenomenon. It\u2019s not. Three reactors at Fukushima melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011, and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email February 10:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2 atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago\u2026. As Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel) at Fukushima Daiichi.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgement of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012). The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an hour. What this all means, as anyone paying attention well knows, is that the triple-meltdown Fukushima disaster is still out of control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSievert\u201d is one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/02\/fukushima-still-getting-worse-after-six-years-of-meltdowns\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a week of limited coverage of \u201cunimaginable levels\u201d of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima (see below), Nuclear-News.net reported February 11 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than \u201cunimaginable.\u201d Continuous, intense radiation, at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is a lethal level), was widely reported in early February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-294874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}