According to Japan Today; “Japan’s national debt has topped 1,000 trillion yen….Tokyo has the dubious distinction of having, proportionately, the biggest debt pile among industrialized nations, more than twice the size of its economy.

Japan cannot afford to take ANY of their small island land, forests or ocean out of production. However, due to the Fukushima disaster, thousands of square kilometers were lost (permanently) due to radiation, or they should be. Could there be a financially motivated reason why Japan is taking such a harsh stand about declaring an end to the disaster, while claiming everything is back to normal, plus inviting people to come back and live, work and farm in Fukushima Province? 

In the Soviet Union, the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl consisted of just one nuclear reactor out of the two that are present there melting down. There were no spent fuel pools involved and the corium did not go beyond the basements, where it cooled off and stopped. Over 1 million liquidators were pressed into service to try and stop the corium from reaching groundwater. The other twin of the two Chernobyl nuclear reactors located at the same place is still operating. However, no such effort was made at Fukushima. They claim to not even know where the coriums are.

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Japan had 3 nuclear reactors melt down, and at least 3 and possibly 4 spent fuel pools dry out and catch on fire, meaning that the contents of the spent fuel pools at least partially melted down as well. None of the reactors is presently producing power at the Fukushima Daichi complex. 

The claim of Fukushima being only 10% of Chernobyl as the pro nuclear apologists claim with their fancy computer ‘estimates’, is completely and absolutely ridiculous. Without good data, no one can put their reputation on the line and claim ‘no harm’ or give a hard number for this disaster.

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There has been no hard data coming out of Fukushima, but plenty of ‘estimates’ and computer models based on miniscule amounts of data, for only very short periods. Many scientists and pro nuclear organizations are putting their reputations on the line by claiming with great certainty that Fukushima is a non-disaster or non event, when compared to Chernobyl.

Worst case, Fukushima could be a triple China Syndrome, which means the mega disaster is still ongoing. Best case, those who are absolutely sure that Fukushima is only 10% of Chernobyl are risking their innocent yet naive reputations. Worst case, they are all hired guns of the nuclear industry, and do not care what their professional reputations look like.

The large amount of steam coming from Bldg #3, the 400 tons a day of highly radioactively contaminated groundwater flowing into the ocean, and the leaking 1,000 plus huge ‘temporary’  storage tanks (built to last only one year) are all evidence that Fukushima is an ongoing, active nuclear disaster. 99% of the data and facts have been withheld or covered up about the Fukushima disaster, but there are people who claim to know EXACTLY how much radiation was released. 

No one is looking for the coriums, and no one seems to care where they are, at least in the nuclear industry. TEPCO claims it does not know ANYTHING about where the contents of the nuclear reactors or spent fuel pools are located, much less where they ended up going, so that still needs to play out. But the steaming structures, smoking fissures and pictures of melted fuel coming out of buildings does not bode well for when the truth finally does come out. 

Even without a triple China Syndrome, Japan is in dire straits financially, with most of it’s nuclear reactors shut down after a huge 9.0 earthquake and a destructive tsunami, neither of which Soviet Russia had to deal with. The Soviets also did not have to cram everyone into a tiny island. The Soviets could and did evacuate many people far away from Chernobyl to safer areas, although millions still live in contaminated areas.

Japan has no such luxury. When 30 million people in Tokyo got contaminated with radiation, there was no place to evacuate them, and no money to do it with. Tokyo is highly contaminated, but that fact is also completely covered up, due to the panic it may cause if the truth came out. 

Due to the earthquake and tsunami, much of the fishing industry and infrastructure was destroyed. Much of the real estate and business structure along the East Coast of Japan was destroyed. Much of the transportation and government structure was also damaged or destroyed, including bridges, roads, and government buildings. All of this will take money to rebuild, repair or replace. Where will that money come from? 

No one has yet financially calculated the cost of what was destroyed due to the Fukushima Daichi nuclear mega disaster, such as thousands of square kilometers of forest, agricultural land, housing, businesses, and ocean fishing resources, along with farm animals and crops. These were all taken out permanently, due to low level radiation contamination. Tokyo should be abandoned and everyone should be evacuated out of there. What is the cost of doing what is right? Where does the money come from?

(contaminated areas shown below in brown, red, white and light blue)

Source; Safecast citizen provided radiation monitors

These radiation caused financial losses are effectively permanent, (with a minimum 300 year clock running to time out cesium contamination) unless Japan eliminates radiation testing and uses/sells contaminated products, such as lumber, crops, fish and animals. Anyone can easily see that this is a huge temptation for abuse. But the downside is that using and selling radiation contaminated products also comes with a huge cost for future generations, as they consume or use contaminated products, food and drinks.