Before It’s News – by Zen Gardner
Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima and the Mass Media, Vivian Norris for Hufffington Post, May 17, 2011:
[…] Fukushima differs from other nuclear reactors in that it uses a dirty fuel or MOX which is banned in many of the countries where nuclear power is a major energy source. My Swedish-Russian nuclear physicist friend is sending me links for reliable radioactivity readings and weather/wind patterns. We must remember some of what is posted on the internet are simulations, not actual readings. But he did add this:The most terrifying fact is that the Japanese power plants are using ‘dirty’ fuel, which most countries have rejected and banned. Needless to say that the Americans built them. Since the Earth is moving Counterclockwise most of the fall-out will drop on U.S., unless very strong winds take it somewhere else. […]
The “Great Debate” (http://www.indianafreedomtalkradio.com/Archive/TheWordFromTheTrenches.12.17.13.03pm.mp3) turned out to be the most informative discussion I’ve ever heard on the subject of nuclear fallout and radiation, but I don’t remember that the planet’s rotation was taken into account as a contributing factor in its spread.
I don’t trust “before it’s news”, so it would be good to hear one of our local experts comment on the credibility of this assertion.