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Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause ‘10,000 Chernobyls’ in South Atlantic

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Molten nuclear powerplant cores from Fukushima – having burned their way down through the planetary crust and plunged into the Earth’s centre – are set to emerge again on the other side of the planet and devastate the Falkland Islands, scientists believe.

Sensationally, the Register can reveal full details of the impending disaster in the South Atlantic, despite ongoing efforts by both the British and Japanese governments to keep it secret.

“It’s usually called the China Syndrome,” explains Dr Petar Glick of the Federation of Concerned Scientists. “The idea is that if a US-based reactor core melted down it would become so hot that nothing could resist it, and it would burn its way down through the planet until it reached China.

“But in the case of Fukushima, the other side of the planet is actually the Falkland Islands.”

It is of course an established fact that the cores at Fukushima Dai’ichi reactors 1, 2 and 3 melted through their armoured primary containment vessels early during the crisis of 2011 and sank into the plant foundations.

The terrifying truth, far less well known, is that nobody actually knows where they are now. The intense radioactivity in the old reactor buildings means that it is impossible to physically ascertain where the cores ended up.

Until very recently it had been generally assumed that the melted nuclear cores were still present in the plant’s foundations or somewhere beneath them.

However, just two months ago scientists in Japan finally developed a method by which the lost cores could be located. The Japan Times reported in January that a team from the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Tsukuba has perfected a method of using cosmic rays to see through concrete, rock and earth in order to locate nuclear core material.

The technique relies on the fact that cosmic-ray muons change course when they pass through heavy elements such as uranium but are largely unaffected by normal matter. Successful trials were carried out in January at a shut-down nuclear plant in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture.

“The (cosmic ray) measurement system can be installed easily,” Japanese scientist Hidekazu Kakuno told the Times following January’s trials. “We are ready to use it at the Fukushima No. 1 plant if Tepco cooperates.”

Schematic of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. Credit: JNEIThe bit in the middle: GONE

The Register understands that the nuclear power company Tepco did cooperate. Characteristically, however, Tepco and the Japanese authorities chose to deploy the muon scanning system at Fukushima secretly, fearing that if the world knew the truth huge investments made by banks and the government in Tepco might become worthless.

But, according to Dr Glick, brave Japanese researchers involved in the project were determined to let their colleagues worldwide know the results in the interests of scientific openness. Thus it was that the Concerned Scientists became aware of the astonishing results obtained from the recently completed inaugural muon scans at Fukushima.

“It turns out that the cores are simply not there at all – they can’t be found within the range of the detection system,” Glick tells the Register. “They obviously became so hot that they have simply melted their way right down through the planetary crust and into the interior of the planet, China Syndrome style. This goes a long way to explain the otherwise puzzlingly low levels of radiation in the vicinity, radiation levels are actually higher in most of the USA than they are in the towns near Fukushima Dai’ichi.”

[Amazingly, this does appear to be the case. -Ed]

Glick and his colleagues, on learning of the cores’ disappearance, worked with scientific experts around the world to develop models which could predict the path of the molten nuclear fuel after it sank out of the plant foundations. And what they found was still more remarkable.

“The ‘China Syndrome’ has always been thought to be just a figure of speech,” Glick explains. “Obviously if the fuel melts right down through the Earth’s crust it would then either break up, or if not, it would presumably sink to the very centre of the planet. One would imagine, naturally, that gravity would keep it there.

“But that turns out not to be the case.”

The scientific computer modelling developed in past weeks shows that in fact the molten reactor-fuel blobs are so incredibly hot that even the liquid interior of the planet is cold compared with them. Thus, the so-called “Leidenfrost effect” comes into play, the same phenomenon which makes a drop of water skitter about on a hot skillet or permits a person to put their bare hand into liquid nitrogen unscathed.

The cores are enveloped in a layer of metallic plasma vapour, causing them to slip almost completely frictionlessly through the liquid planetary interior. As the super-heavy, molten uranium blobs from Fukushima fell thousands of miles without resistance towards the centre of the Earth, they accelerated to enormous velocities.

“Our calculations show that the cores fell right through the centre of the Earth at high speed, so fast that momentum carried them almost back up to the crust again on the other side before gravity slowed them to a stop. Then they accelerated back down through the planet’s centre again, repeating the process,” explains Dr Glick.

The models show that the molten cores have pendulumned up and down through the centre of the planet many times since 2011, losing almost no energy due to their frictionless envelopes of superhot plasma vapour. But, over a time span of years, an additional effect has to be accounted for.

“The planet isn’t only turning about its own axis,” explains Glick. “It’s also orbiting around the Sun. What this means is that each year the oscillating cores get a boost to the amplitude of their cycle, rather as a spacecraft can gain speed by passing through a planet’s gravity field in a so-called ‘slingshot’ manoeuvre.

“Our models show that this year, the cumulative effect will have built up to the point where the cores will no longer fall back before reaching the surface. When the axis of travel passes through the line of the Earth to the Sun, the enhancement will kick in. The molten cores will soar upward once again, and this time they’ll impact the crust still travelling at high speed and emerge from the ground: naturally, on their original line of travel. Not in China, but in the vicinity of the Falkland Islands.”

‘Three Krakatoas and TEN THOUSAND CHERNOBYLS’ +++ Elite SAS race to rescue +++ Tragic PLIGHT of dachshund, ‘Colin’

The Concerned Scientists have not yet had time to model the results of the cores’ emergence in detail but the scientists believe the results will be catastrophic.

“There will be several large holes punched violently through the planetary crust,” explains Glick. “Magma will emerge through these at high pressure, even as the hot cores emerging from the seabed will cause a colossal steam explosion reaching high into the stratosphere. The radioactive fallout could travel hundreds of miles.

“It’ll be roughly equivalent to three Krakatoas combined with ten thousand Chernobyls. The Falkland Islands will be a barely habitable wilderness, afterwards.”

HMS <em>Daring</em> during sea trialsWarships on alert

The Register understands from its sources that the Japanese government has informed Britain, the colonial power which occupies the Falklands, of the situation. It’s believed that Britain also intends to keep the impending disaster secret for as long as it can in order to safeguard financial interests in the City of London.

It’s thought that this will give City bankers time to move investments out of oil exploration and fisheries in the South Atlantic.

However, the British are thought to have a plan to send a task force led by the SAS with ships and aircraft to the islands to evacuate the military occupation garrison.

“The cover story, which is quite clever, is that the transports will actually be reinforcing the garrison against a trumped-up new threat from Argentina,” comments Glick. This is corroborated by the fact that the British government announced that it would be boosting the Islands’ defences last week.

The Register contacted the British Ministry of Defence for comment on the SAS rescue operation. MoD spokespersons couldn’t deny that ships, aircraft and special forces troops are preparing for missions in the South Atlantic, but were reluctant to give any more information.

“It is Ministry of Defence policy that we never give details on special forces operations,” a spokesperson told the Register.

We also contacted the government of the Falkland Islands for comment, but were only able to obtain an answering machine message stating that the office is closed at the moment “due to the annual Port Stanley Bowls and Social Club group holiday trip to South Georgia.”

Military veterans who have served on the Islands have told the Register that this may mean, for the moment, that the civilian population of the Falklands is likely to be very small: possibly limited to a dachshund (believed to be named Colin) who is normally left behind with plenty of food by his owner during the annual outing.

Once the British military evacuation is complete, Colin may be left to face the impending nuclear apocalypse alone, apart from sheep and penguins. However the possibility does exist that Argentinian forces, learning of the British withdrawal, might be unwisely tempted to invade again.

“Even so it will still be a disaster of unparalleled magnitude,” comments Dr Glick. ®

[The Register may be unable to return to this sensational story as soon as we would normally expect to, as our lawyers are considering a notification that arrived just before publication via the DA-Notice system. We would suggest that interested readers may wish to keep their own copy of this article. -Ed]

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18 Comments on "Fukushima MELTDOWN to cause ‘10,000 Chernobyls’ in South Atlantic"

  1. Plantagenet on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 1:42 pm 

    Ohmigod. Call the anti-nuclear energy emergency hotline to the Avengers secret lair! This has to be stopped!

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

  2. Speculawyer on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 1:45 pm 

    LOL. What a complete joke of an article.

  3. beammeup on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 1:59 pm 

    April Fools!

  4. nubs on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 2:21 pm 

    No worries, the dragons will take care of that:

    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7545/full/520042a.html

  5. lawfish1964 on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 2:59 pm 

    Clearly an April Fool joke.

  6. ghung on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 3:04 pm 

    I consider this is in poor taste, even for an April fools’ joke.

  7. Nony on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 4:11 pm 

    Not that different from most of the Fuki coming to get us articles, you peakers have been running.

  8. Hugh Culliton on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 4:15 pm 

    OMG: the Falkland Islands real estate market is about to collapse!!!! I need to sell my five million dollar penguin ranch operation before it’s too late! Thank God the Royal Swiss Navy and the Czech Navy are standing by to help with the evacuation of Port Stanley!

  9. Hugh Culliton on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 4:18 pm 

    Nony: touché!

  10. Perk Earl on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 6:43 pm 

    What force would drive it upwards against gravitation from the core to the surface of the Falklands?

    When I was a kid living in Sausalito, CA there was this closed old safe in a partially sunken old ship. Finally one year on April 1st, about 1974, a few hippies used cutting torches to open it up and claimed to have found $100,000. in gold. That was a good one!

  11. Nony on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 7:00 pm 

    The motive force is Argentina sucking. 😉

  12. Repent on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 9:03 pm 

    Bad humor, this was clearly false for April 1st. Making fun of a really, really serious situation.

  13. dave thompson on Wed, 1st Apr 2015 9:22 pm 

    One would still have to wonder, where are the melted cores?

  14. Perk Earl on Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 1:11 am 

    On the last train to Palukaville.

  15. yellowcanoe on Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 8:16 am 

    I would not be surprised to see the anti nuclear folks latch onto this one just as they keep repeating the whimisical “too cheap to meter” line.

  16. Dredd on Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 2:02 pm 

    Gallows humor. Got lipstick?

  17. ghughes on Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 2:52 pm 

    Fuki may be the preview if the economy hits the skids enough to make proper maintenance of our old nuke plants here difficult long-term. The Japanese are not probably not laughing.

  18. Newfie on Thu, 2nd Apr 2015 8:39 pm 

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