{"id":2877,"date":"2013-12-23T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:52","slug":"fukushima-unit-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/fukushima-unit-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Wasserman talks about the dangers of Fukushima Unit 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those things that news networks aren&#8217;t talking about when they really should be. A blurb scrolling past the bottom of the screen doesn&#8217;t mean a whole lot.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this will really affect the tuna we eat &#8212; as bananas have been known to contain more radiation &#8212; but I honestly feel concerned. Irradiated water is washing up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/12\/fukushima-radiation-hits-west-coast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">west coast of the United States<\/a>. People in Japan are swimming in the water. Plant and animal life may be affected.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the kind of problem that should be handled by a for-profit company that has already held back and lied to the public about how things are going. This is something that should be handled by people with know-how and concern for the public health. There should at the very least be some kind of over watch on the situation that has thus far not been provided.<\/p>\n<p>Do we really want a situation like they had in The Host?<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vaxwv1rndPI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Harvey Wasserman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Community Must Take Charge at Fukushima<\/p>\n<p>At Fukushima Unit 4, the impending removal of hugely radioactive spent fuel rods from a pool 100 feet in the air presents unparalleled scientific and engineering challenges. With the potential for 15,000 times more fallout than was released at Hiroshima, we ask the world community, through the United Nations, to take control of this uniquely perilous task.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_C01z-D8JeU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They need 125,000 signatures. Go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>The danger of huge radiation releases from Fukushima 4 has taken on a new dimension; the world community must step in!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/embed\/widget.html?v=3&#038;name=the-world-community-must\" class=\"moveon-petition\" id=\"petition-embed\" width=\"300px\" height=\"500px\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those things that news networks aren&#8217;t talking about when they really should be. A blurb scrolling past the bottom of the screen doesn&#8217;t mean a whole lot. I don&#8217;t know if this will really affect the tuna we eat &#8212; as bananas have been known to contain more radiation &#8212; but&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/fukushima-unit-4\/\" title=\"Harvey Wasserman talks about the dangers of Fukushima Unit 4\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harvey Wasserman talks about the dangers of Fukushima Unit 4<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[335,410,654],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-signal-boost","tag-fukushima-4","tag-japan","tag-signal-boost-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Kp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3893,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/zika-virus-still-not-being-handled-pandemic-in-progress\/","url_meta":{"origin":2877,"position":0},"title":"Zika virus still not being handled #pandemic-in-progress","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"September 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I love how much the Senate cares about North America and the human race: It gives me all kinds of warm and fuzzies to think that members of our esteemed Senate would add unacceptable clauses to bills we desperately need passed IMMEDIATELY. 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