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By Tsuyoshi Inajima, Yuji Okada and Shigeru Sato

Tokyo Electric Power Co. engineers tried to stabilize three nuclear reactors damaged by the biggest earthquake in Japan’s history, as a second explosion disrupted efforts to cool fuel rods and prevent a meltdown.

The cooling system failed at the Dai-Ichi No. 2 reactor today, said Tokyo Electric, which runs the Fukushima nuclear plant 220 kilometers (135 miles) north of the nation’s capital. Tokyo Electric is pumping sea water into the reactor after pressure buildup led to explosions at two other reactors.

Fuel rods in the reactor “may be” exposed, said Sakae Muto, vice president at Tokyo Electric. That increases the risk of a possible meltdown. A hydrogen explosion occurred at the No. 3 reactor today, following a similar blast on March 12 at the No. 1 reactor that destroyed the walls of its building.

The utility known as Tepco is flooding the three reactors with water and boric acid to reduce the potential for a large release of radiation into the atmosphere following the March 11 earthquake-generated tsunami that smashed into the plant, disabling electricity supply and backup generators.

“They are managing the situation, they have very qualified personnel there,” Gennady Pshakin, a nuclear expert based in Obninsk, Russia, said by telephone. “We will have a week or 10 days of this uncertainty, but the situation should normalize. What we need is for the water supply to be constant.”

Radiation Concerns

U.S Navy ships and planes involved in earthquake rescue efforts were moved after radiation was detected on three helicopters.

“Low level radioactivity” was detected on 17 air crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier operating about 100 miles northeast from the plant, Navy spokesman Jeff Davis said in an e-mail.

Japanese officials yesterday evacuated more than 200,000 people and handed out iodine, used to protect the thyroid from radioactivity, as they extended an exclusion zone around the plant to 20 kilometers.

Winds in the area of the Fukushima plant are blowing at less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) per hour generally in a northeasterly and northerly direction, according to a 9 a.m. update from the Japan Meteorological Agency today.

Core Intact

The vessel containing the No. 3 reactor’s radioactive core is intact after today’s blast, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said today. The likelihood of a large radiation leak is very small, even as radiation levels at the No. 3 reactor are rising, said Edano, the government’s spokesman.

Tokyo Electric said at least four employees and two contractors were injured in the blast. The company’s shares slumped 24 percent.

There are six boiling-water reactors at the Fukushima Dai- Ichi plant, three of which were shut for maintenance before the earthquake.

Unit No. 1 is a General Electric Co. model that can generate 439 megawatts of power and began commercial operation in 1971, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The No. 2 reactor was built by GE Toshiba and the No. 3 by Toshiba Corp.

Tokyo Electric said the sea water used to cool the two reactors is being retained at the plant. “We will look into what we will do about the water,” spokesman Shogo Fukuda said by telephone today.

Flooding the reactors with sea water renders them useless for future power production.

The disaster at Fukushima isn’t the first quake-related accident for Tokyo Electric.

A 6.8-magnitude temblor on July 16, 2007, caused a fire and radiation leaks that shut down the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant, the world’s biggest. It took almost two years to restart.

–With assistance from Chisaki Watanabe and Yuriy Humber in Tokyo. Editors: Amit Prakash, Peter Langan

To contact the reporters on this story: Tsuyoshi Inajima in Tokyo at tinajima@bloomberg.net; Yuji Okada in Tokyo at yokada6@bloomberg.net; Shigeru Sato in Tokyo at ssato10@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Amit Prakash at aprakash1@bloomberg.net

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By Frank Whalen

No, America is not going to lead the world in technological innovations or Sake consumption. Rather, it seems that a blueprint is being carried out in Japan to reduce the population and whose success could very easily be implemented in America if the liberal agenda continues to creep forward.

Many factors have been considered, such as a preponderance of pornography and socially acceptable fetishism, and the overcrowding problem that limits growth opportunities. In America, it can even be taken further, allowing for the global warming alarmists who feel it is a crime against mother earth to have children who will grow up to be a drain on the planet.
But there is more to this.

On June 13, 2008, The New York Times reported on the passage of an anti-obesity law in Japan in which both men and women between the ages of 40 and 74 will be required to have their waistlines measured in an attempt to end obesity. Those found to be overweight will be given three months of “dieting guidance” and after six months, they will receive “further re-education. In America, we have a health care reform plan yet to be fully implemented, that could also require annual checkups to accomplish many things, such as controlling weight.
Being overweight is a disease and a drain on health care funds, we hear often. It could also be taken to a different level involving young people. If the children are consistently overweight, could that be construed as child abuse, resulting in children being taken into government custody?

What foods are we eating, both the obese and the slim alike? Foods that contain added hormones to increase production are more available than not. Cows have been given recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, a Monsanto innovation, to boost milk yields since the early 1990’s. Synthetic Estrogen given to both cows and chickens increases the size of the animals and would clearly affect all resulting food and food products. On July 30, 2007 The Kansas City Star reported on “hormone fluctuation” causing males to experience gynecomastia, or enlarged breasts, some of which are undergoing breast reduction surgery. Considering the widespread use of genetically modified crops and other food, it seems likely that such things would affect the human body and genetic structure.

On October 27, 2005 Pravda.ru reported on a study in which rats exclusively fed genetically modified foods showed a severe and pronounced weakness in their offspring resulting in a birth mortality rate of over fifty-five percent. It seriously affected the behavior of the rats themselves, leading the news story to conclude that genetically modified foods are “in fact a delayed action biological weapon”.

Water would appear to be a factor, as well. Associatedcontent.com reports on a 2006 effort by the University of Colorado in which studies were done to discover why fish were spontaneously changing gender. Studies have shown that the estrogen taken in by women who use birth control is not properly filtered from wastewater during treatment and is released with high hormonal levels back into the water supply.

In 2009, CNN reported that young Japanese men are now commonly referred to as “herbivores” as they seem “not interested in flesh”, meaning not interested in a sexual relationship with women, preferring a more platonic situation. This mentality has resulted in lower birth rates and even translated into less economic production as the aggressive business practices of previous generations have been replaced by a much more passive outlook.

In Japan, masculinity in on the wane, being replaced by a more feminized male. America has experienced something similar.

The term metrosexual was coined in 1994 to describe a straight male who displays an almost stereotypically homosexual obsession with looks, grooming and clothing. Men wearing women’s jeans, makeup and even getting their eyebrows waxed have become more common over the last few years.

Whether you attribute all this to hormone overload, a social engineering program sold as being in touch with your more sensitive, feminine side, the liberal concerns with the overcrowding of the planet or the need to force the entire population to conform to health regulations for the greater good, all factors are on display in Japan, resulting in a sort of easily palatable population control. And like other successful products from our friends to the east, you expect that this program has been exported to America.

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