Friday, December 6, 2019

Important Health News: Big Pharma And Corporate Media FINALLY Admit The Oral Polio Vaccine Is A Failure - Causes Polio Instead Of Preventing It!

Why am I not in the least bit shocked these days when I see more and more reports surfacing via the alternative media about how "vaccines" absolutely do NOT work, and in fact those poisons are an absolute detriment to human health?   I have  been standing firm for decades now in the conviction that we must avoid vaccines and "vaccination" at all cost, and I have found absolutely nothing out there that changes that standing..

And of course I always come across more important reports about the dangers of vaccines through so many other websites that I do want to share with my readers here... One came thanks to one of my fellow Canadian bloggers, "Canadian Wildflower"  at www.canadianwildflower867537505.wordpress.com, and originated from the "From The Trenches World Report" website, at www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com.  This one is entitled: "Big Pharma And Corporate Media Finally Admit The Oral Polio Vaccine Is A Failure - Causes Polio Instead Of Preventing It" and I absolutely do have that interesting report right here in its entirety for all of my own readers to view for themselves... Here is that report, with my usual thoughts and comments to follow:

Big Pharma and Corporate Media Finally Admit the Oral Polio Vaccine is a Failure – Causes Polio Instead of Preventing It

In an almost unprecedented admission of vaccine failure, National Public Radio (NPR) recently published a show explaining how the present-day oral polio vaccine is a failure, and is actually contributing to the rise of polio in poor countries.
In it’s Weekend Edition Saturday show, NPR’s Scott Simon and Jason Beaubien produced a show titled: “How The Oral Polio Vaccine Can Cause Polio.” 
They report that the U.S. CDC is now recognizing that there is a problem with the oral polio vaccine, which as a live-virus vaccine is actually causing polio around the world, a fact reported here at Health Impact News for over 6 years now.
Of course when we, or any other alternative media source, report this or any other negative news about vaccines, it is labeled as “Fake News,” and it is censored in social media, particularly on Facebook, if the article becomes too popular.
Apparently, this problem of polio being caused by the oral polio vaccine has become such a problem worldwide, that someone gave NPR the approval to cover the story, probably for “damage control.”
SIMON: I understand the problem begins with what’s called a live vaccine, which has little bits of weakened polio virus in it, given to children around the world. What seems to have gone wrong?
BEAUBIEN: Yeah, that is the crux of it – that this – the oral polio vaccine that’s used primarily in low- and middle-income countries – it’s been the workhorse of this global effort to eradicate polio. But it is a live vaccine. It’s cheap. It’s easy to administer.
However, this live vaccine is continued to be used worldwide. And while you’re doing that, some of that vaccine has gotten out into the world.
And it’s mutated. It starts circulating again, just like regular polio. But early on, it’s just – it’s still a vaccine. It’s not dangerous. And then slowly, it sort of regains strength. And they’re finding they can actually genetically see this – that scientists can actually trace it back directly to the vaccine. And now these vaccine-linked cases are actually causing more cases of paralysis each year than actual traditional – what scientists call wild polio.
The reporters on NPR are quick to point out, of course, that this is not a vaccine currently offered in the U.S.
SIMON: Now, we should underscore, Jason, this is not the version of the vaccine that’s given to youngsters in the United States.
BEAUBIEN: Right. So in the United States and in Europe and other countries like that, it – we’re using an injectable vaccine, which is a dead vaccine. It is not a live virus, and it cannot cause polio. So that should not at all be a concern. The issue, however, is that it’s an injection that has to be given. It’s given four times between the ages of 2 months and 7 years. So just administering it is difficult.
And just frankly, there is not enough global stockpile of that vaccine to vaccinate all of the children around the world, you know, four times over the course of their childhood. So there’s some real problems with that. That, ultimately, would be the goal – is to eventually get to the point where you’re not using oral polio vaccine, but it’s not logistically possible at this point.
Really? The reason the oral polio vaccine is given in poor countries is because there aren’t enough injectable vaccines? With excuses like that, is it any wonder that parents around the world in poor countries are questioning this vaccine which is responsible for crippling probably hundreds of thousands of children worldwide with Accute Flaccid Paralysis or Vaccine-derived Polio?
For the many years that Health Impact News has been covering the oral polio vaccine tragedy around the world, a vaccine that has long been rejected as unsafe and not used in the U.S., Europe, Israel, and other wealthy nations, but is crippling children in poor countries like India, Africa and Pakistan, Big Pharma and their sponsored “mainstream” media have been criticizing parents in these countries as being “uneducated” for refusing the vaccine which is then forced upon them, often at gun point.
This is just another example of the fact that vaccines can never survive in a free market where one has to prove the success of one’s product to survive in the marketplace, but that government intervention, censorship of science and harmful side effects, and physical force is necessary to get people to comply with mandated vaccinations.
Will future world wars and national revolutions arise from vaccine resistance?

Polio Vaccination—Still Causing Polio After All These Years

It is exceedingly rare for the public health community to admit to any problems with vaccination. Every so often, however, circumstances force officials into making just such an acknowledgement.
The current debacle seeping out into the news—which is actually a long-running tale minted anew—is that oral polio vaccines are “spawning virulent strains” of polioviruses.
The alarming surge in vaccine-derived polio cases presents vaccine planners with a “quandary” or “conundrum”—because “The very tool you are using for [polio] eradication is causing the problem.”
The oral polio vaccine (OPV) is in use around the world and constitutes the “workhorse” of global polio eradication efforts due to its low cost and ease of administration. The OPV contains live but weakened polioviruses that match up to wild polioviruses.
Vaccine researchers have long known that these OPV-derived viruses can themselves cause polio, particularly when they get “loose in the environment.”
In settings with poor sanitation and iffy hygiene, the vaccine viruses can easily “find their way into water sources, and onto contaminated hands or foods,” where they can then launch a self-perpetuating chain of transmission.
Researchers concede that an OPV virus “can very rapidly regain its strength if it starts spreading on its own,” acquiring “mutations that make it basically indistinguishable from the wild-type virus.”
In other words, there is no meaningful difference between a wild and OPV-derived poliovirus “in terms of virulence and in terms of how the virus spreads.”

The conundrum

Until recently, the OPV was trivalent, containing three vaccine serotypes corresponding to the three types of wild polioviruses (types 1, 2 and 3).
In 2015, however, global public health agencies declared wild poliovirus type 2 eradicated and, in 2016, they decided to oversee a closely coordinated 155-country “switch” to a bivalent oral vaccine that includes only types 1 and 3.
The ostensible rationale for this global maneuver was to take vaccine-derived type 2 virus out of the running; if wild type 2 viruses had disappeared, “the thinking went,” it would be “unethical to expose children to the risk the vaccine viruses posed,” particularly since type 2 had been responsible for close to 90% of the vaccine-derived polioviruses circulating since the year 2000.
However, in a what-could-possibly-go-wrong scenario, the lingering background presence of the type 2 vaccine virus has prompted a spectacular backfiring of the “switch,” with vaccine-derived polio outbreaks emerging in numerous countries.

Outbreaks unsquelched

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a combined effort of the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International.
In pre-“switch” computer modeling, the GPEI’s scientific advisors predicted that some vaccine-virus-derived outbreaks would inevitably occur. However, they confidently asserted that they would be able to “quickly squelch” any such outbreaks through—what else?—the “judicious use of a new live vaccine…effective against only type 2.”
In effect, they advised taking a “gamble” that the monovalent vaccine “would not spawn new outbreaks of its own.”
In Africa, at least, the gamble has failed. The frequency with which type 2 vaccine-derived outbreaks are occurring has far exceeded projections—and the rush to administer the new monovalent type 2 vaccine appears to be exacerbating rather than stemming the problem.
In an astonishing admission, a CDC virologist has stated that due to the stop-gap use of the new type-2-only vaccine, “We have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped.”
Another vaccine expert has remarked, “if you just keep trickling in with a little bit of [monovalent] vaccine every time you think you have a problem all you’re doing is reseeding [more transmission chains].”
There had been no cases of wild poliovirus on the African continent since September 2016, but by July 2019, the WHO was cautioning that there was a high risk of ongoing type 2 vaccine virus spreading across Africa.
Outbreak investigators have been documenting an uptick in circulating vaccine-derived  poliovirus type 2 in both human and environmental samples since mid-2017 (two years after the “switch”), generally obtaining human samples either from children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or from “healthy community contacts.”
Although the WHO describes polio as just one of AFP’s possible causes, African labs have been isolating type 2 vaccine virus in case after case of AFP.
To date, surveillance reports have noted the presence of the vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, and Somalia. In Nigeria, type 2 has spread from the north of the country to Lagos—Nigeria’s largest and most densely populated city.
In Ghana, soon after investigators found type 2 vaccine viruses in sewage in the capital of Accra, a toddler 400 miles away was diagnosed with vaccine virus paralysis—representing Ghana’s “first ever” reported outbreak of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus.
On September 19, ABC News announced a polio outbreak in the Philippines, caused—as confirmed by WHO and UNICEF—by “vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2.”
The “outbreak”—which has thus far affected just two children and some sewage samples—is unfolding two decades after the WHO declared the Philippines to be polio-free.
Blaming the situation on the decline in public acceptance of routine vaccination—following the rollout of a dangerous dengue vaccine that killed as many as 119 children in 2016-2017—the two global health agencies have sternly asserted that the only way to get back on track with polio is to vaccinate at least 95% of children under age 5. The Philippine government is complying, launching an aggressive polio vaccination campaign.
In other countries ranging from Myanmar to Indonesia to Papua New Guinea, surveillance programs are also reporting cases of paralytic polio resulting from circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1.

New and improved = same old, same old

The presence of type 2 vaccine viruses “over a widening swath of territory” in Africa and elsewhere is apparently disheartening to polio eradication enthusiasts, but not to worry, they have another ace up their sleeve—another new and improved polio vaccine!
In fact, two new polio vaccines are in the works. One is a “novel” genetically engineered oral vaccine supported by the Gates Foundation; the second is an inactivated vaccine hypothesized to be “powerful enough to end outbreaks.”
As the WHO’s lead polio researcher has stated, “The race is on” to deploy at least one of the two vaccines under the WHO’s “emergency use protocol” by as soon as mid-2020—even before licensure. Conveniently, the new oral vaccine’s manufacturer, Bio Farma, will soon “have the capacity to make 35 million doses a month.”
Meanwhile, the Gates Foundation is “pushing hard to get the [new oral] vaccine into the field as soon as possible,” speculating that it will have a lower risk of transmitting vaccine virus—however, the Foundation cautiously notes that “the only way to know for sure will be to use the vaccine.”
Eventually, the global public health community has set a goal of ending all use of the OPV and switching over to exclusive use of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) administered via injection, making the assumption that the IPV is incapable of causing vaccine-derived polioviruses to circulate.
However, as Children’s Health Defense recently described, from the 1950s on, the U.S. has witnessed serious cases of paralytic polio induced by both types of polio vaccine—injected and oral. Similarly, a reporter describing the glitches with the “switch” observed that “Even children who have received IPV…can be infected by and transmit the vaccine viruses” [emphasis added].
In Pakistan, where wild polioviruses are still on record as circulating, some citizens in poor communities are refusing the oral polio vaccine, questioning a one-trick public health charade that never does anything to address more pressing health threats such as lack of running water and sanitation.
Rather than respond to these reasonable concerns, the government has taken to jailing uncooperative parents, while the latter resort to “hiding their children or using fake finger markings to pretend they have been vaccinated.”
Whether in Pakistan, Africa or the U.S., it is time to stop equating public health with vaccination and time to admit that vaccination programs often leave new and worse problems in their wake than those they were intended to solve.
Read the full article at ChildrensHealthDefense.org.
© 2019 Children’s Health Defense, Inc.

NTS Notes: Do I have to even bother saying that I am not in the least bit shocked by this report?

The facts are that the "Polio Vaccine" has been an absolute disaster since it was introduced in the 1950's.... The facts are that not only does this horrendous "vaccine" cause Polio instead of preventing it, but the ingredients in that "vaccine" were found to contain materials that actually promoted a wide range of other diseases including CANCER.....

It also must be noted that some real researchers who have come forward and shown clear evidence that vaccines are deadly to human health have been dying under "mysterious circumstances" (being murdered of course..) including Jennifer Jaynes, the author of the book "Malice" that supposedly "committed suicide" by putting a gun to her head and firing off two bullets (heck, people seem to be committing suicide by this method more often these days, right?). It therefore should be so obvious that the criminals in charge are now murdering the opponents to their heinous vaccines to shut them up permanently!

I am going to continue with reports about the TRUTH about vaccines and vaccinations here at this blog until the criminals in charge shut me up by shutting me down... People do need a reality check about this horrific crime against humanity, and we must do our best to get that truth out....

More to come

NTS

Important Health News: 5G Radiation Causes Behavior Changes In Humans, Causes Ion Potentiation Poisoning Of Brain Cells, Leading To Mass Insanity!

I want to switch gears for the next few articles, and concentrate on some very important health related issues... I have long said that in this battle against the criminals that want total control of the planet and the resulting enslavement of us all, it is so very important that we absolutely do what is necessary to keep ourselves as physically fit as possible.....

I came across the following report from Mike Adams, through the Natural News website, at www.naturalnews.com, and I do want to share its findings with my own readers... This one is entitled "5G Radiation Causes Behavior Changes In Humans, Causes Ion Potentiation Poisoning Of Brain Cells, Leading To Mass Insanity", and absolutely backs up so much of what I have already been covering here at this blog in regards to the dangers of that insidious "5G technology" that the criminals in our telecommunications industry is wanting to ram down our throats..... Here in fact is that article, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:

5G radiation causes BEHAVIOR changes in humans, causes ion potentiation poisoning of brain cells, leading to mass insanity


(Natural News) If you’re wondering why people who live in 5G rollout areas seem to be going insane, it’s not your imagination. 5G radiation causes “neuropsychiatric” effects through a mechanism described as ion potentiation poisoning of brain cells, according to research published in Environmental Research.

This results in behavioral changes and even personality changes among those who are routinely exposed, researchers found. In other words, 5G is a weapon system that doubles as a telecommunications infrastructure, but the real impact is to damage human brain function and destroy rationality, reason and civility, especially among those who live in high population cities where 5G towers are becoming ubiquitous. That’s why you may have noticed increased insanity and widespread mental derangement in those areas.

I’ve published an important podcast that details the mass mental illness now being caused by 5G exposure. Watch it on Brighteon.com, the free speech alternative to YouTube (you can create your own account there for free and post your own videos, too).


NTS Notes: As I have said many times before...Nothing shocks me any more, and this report is so damning in regards to the dangers of 5G radiation and how it indeed does have such horrific detrimental effects on our bodies and especially our minds!

I have indeed been following other studies into 5G technology as well and how when it has been "switched on" in test scenarios, it has had some very strange effects on animal life and especially on humans... But of course the criminals in charge are hell bent on having this infrastructure in place as they are only looking at the massive profits that they will make thanks to the "benefits" of 5G!   Yes, readers, greed trumps human health apparently...

Well, there we have it... Now we can add mental psychosis as another great side effect to 5G radiation.... It is bad enough that 5G can cause such horrific health effects on our bodies, but now clearly we have evidence that it will destroy our minds as well..

As I said before... With 5G we will all be dying from its horrible side effects, but we will have some "kick ass" cellular and telecommunications services!  What a great trade off!

More to come

NTS

Thursday, December 5, 2019

London Bridge False Flag Attack: Ten Strange Things About The London Bridge Terrorism Incident

I have been awaiting some more truthful and real evidence concerning last weekend's "terrorist" attack in London England on the famous London Bridge.... I had my suspicions from the moment this latest "terrorist" attack took place that it was a patented false flag incident and/or a controlled operation, and apparently my suspicions are true..... I want to present some further evidence showing that "attack" to be a well orchestrated event here at this blog for everyone to see for themselves...

I want to present the following very important article that comes courtesy of "The Truthseeker" website out of the United Kingdom, at www.thetruthseeker.co.uk, that shows TEN very STRANGE things about the London Bridge "Terrorism" incident that shows that we are indeed dealing with a pre-planned incident... Here is that article for everyone to see for themselves here, and of course I have my own thoughts and comments to follow:


Ten Strange Things About the London Bridge Terrorism Incident

u-new-monkey – reddit Dec 1, 2019

In no particular order:
  1. A terrorist attack happened in the exact same area just before the last Election took place in 2017
  2. Coincidentally there was a BBC reporter on the bridge both times
  3. The attacker supposedly had a knife duct-taped to each hand. How this is possible without help is beyond me
  4. There’s no blood on the knife the ‘civilian’ carries away from the incident. There’s also no sign of damage or bending – kitchen knives are actually really crap for stabbing or hacking people – the blade may be sharp but they’re truly not designed for either activity
  5. Aerial footage from the BBC helicopter showed a jack-knifed white truck across the bridge. Armed police could be seen surrounding it and approaching it slowly with caution. The BBC presenter said they had received reports that police had fired at the truck, causing it to stop. This was never mentioned again
  6. The BBC spoke to a bunch of people on the telephone who had directly witnessed the event. Several of them reported two series of gunshots, which fits in with the police firing at the truck. Most of the phone calls were replayed in the rolling coverage, but not the ones that mentioned two lots of shots
  7. The ‘civilian’ with the knife takes a white bag out of his pocket and discards it in a curiously exaggerated fashion. Was that a signal?
  8. Footage exists of the terrorist sitting back up again, despite the fact he’d been shot twice at point blank range and badly beaten by the narwhal tusk ninja and the dudes with fire extinguishers
  9. The speed that the authorities declared the terrorist to be a lone wolf was far too fast – literally the next morning. That surely wasn’t long enough for the intelligence agencies to track down and interview everyone he hung out with, looked at everything on his electronic devices, and examined all possible links to terrorist organizations
  10. Everyone’s been named now – the poor victims and the brave vigilantes, all except for the ‘civilian’…


NTS Notes:  I honestly knew we were dealing with a scam here in this "terrorist" attack from the moment we had that phoney and bullshit American run "terrorist" group called "ISIS" take responsibility for this incident... They claimed that this attacker was one of their "agents", meaning that the attacker was obviously either a stooge, an MK Ultra programmed fool, or a CIA/MI5 operative....

Yes, the coindences are too much here, meaning that we are indeed dealing with a well planned and well orchestrated event..... I for one am still wondering as to the WHY they did this incident at this time and at that place in London?   The usual perpetrators behind these frauds are up to their usual dirty tricks, and we all would love to know the truth, including myself... If something does surface, I will indeed include that report here at this blog...

And one other note... Some people have strangely associated myself with "The Truthseeker" in the United Kingdom... I am in no shape or form in any way associated with those writers and their site.... I do however applaud their fine work, and will most probably be adding their site link to my rogue's gallery of the finest bloggers that I know on the right hand side of this blog shortly....

More to come

NTS

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Climate Crisis Fraud: Early Snow Cover Record Set For USA - A Foot Of Snow In 25 US States! Where Is Greta Thunberg Now?

I am continuing to bash the fraud of "climate change" and the evil machinations of that fraud "Extinction Rebellion" and their main assholes in charge of that criminal group, especially that heinous little Greta Thunberg.... I am sick and tired of these bastards as they are NOT in this to "save the planet" but are in reality in it for the money and to promote the sickness of having us all give up our rights and freedoms and bow down to the "one world government" bullshit!

And yes, I am well aware of what is presently happening across the northern United States at this very moment.... The entire eastern seaboard of the continental United States was just walloped by a massive winter storm, and we see reports of major snow storms happening elsewhere in America as well... The facts are that this is only the beginning of December, and such snow accumulations in the United States usually do not occur until later on this month and into January!

I want to present the following very important report, that was sent to me as a link from an email late yesterday, and has been covered by Penny just today, over at her website "Penny For Your Thoughts", (http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/12/early-snow-cover-record-set-for-usa.html) as well... This one comes from the "Watts Up With That?" website at www.wattsupwiththat.com, and is entitled: "Early Snow Cover Record Set For USA - A Foot Of Snow In 25 States"..I have it right here for everyone to see for themselves, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:

Early snow cover record set for USA – a foot of snow in 25 states!

Snow cover over Lower 48 most extensive on record for early December (going back to 2003). At least a foot of snow has fallen in 25 different states over last few days. And snow has fallen as far south as Southern California, Tennessee, and Northern Georgia.
Snow covered the ground on nearly half of the real estate in the Lower 48 — 46.2 percent of land area — on Monday morning, the largest area on Dec. 2 since snow cover records from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began in 2003. Normally, a little more than a quarter of the nation has snow on the ground at this time of year.
– Source: Jason Samenow, Capital Weather Gang
This graphic from NOAA
Source: https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/index.html?region=National&year=2019&month=12&day=2&units=e
I personally saw the snow in southern California the day after Thanksgiving. This view below is from Interstate 5 crossing “The Grapevine” north of Los Angeles:
Photo by William Watts
From the NWS:
Here's a look at total snowfall accumulation across the Lower 48 States since last Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. At least 19 states had at least an isolated location with at least a foot of snow over the past 6 days!
Embedded video

NTS Notes: Honestly, when you see reality such as this staring at you right in your faces, how can anyone actually believe the bullshit of the "climate crisis" criminals any longer?

The reality is that the planet is DEFINITELY now entering what is a "Grand Solar Minimum" where we will see much much longer winters that will be most brutal with temperatures much lower than normal and snow accumulations higher as well.....  This again is reality, and definitely shows that the entire "climate crisis" charade being promoted across the planet is sheer and utter bullshit...

And where is that Greta Thunberg right now?  Still singing Swedish Death Metal?  Apparently that little witch is right in Spain about ready to attend that "climate" summit to spew her trash once again to gullible and stupid people.... Someone does need to put her and her criminal George Soros financed handlers in their place by giving them copies of this report to shut them up.....

The facts are that this is reality, people, and everyone has to face the facts that the sky is not falling, the world is NOT "in flames" and we are heading towards a very long cold period on this planet... To hell with the fraud scam artists behind the "climate crisis" bullshit!

More to come

NTS


The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Finally! An Important Update, As Japanese Officials Are Claiming They Will Start Removing "Nuclear Debris" From Failed Reactors In 2021!

It has indeed been a very long time since I last was able to put an important update here at this blog concerning the still ONGOING nuclear disaster at Fukushima Japan... Unbeknownst to most people, this crisis is still going as strong as ever, as the failed reactor cores at the Fukushima Daichii facility are still spewing their nuclear radioactive residues into both the Japanese countryside and directly into the Pacific Ocean.... The criminals in charge of even attempting to clean up that mess, both Tokyo Electric Power Corporation as well as the Japanese government have been more concerned in keeping the fact that the disaster is still going as strong as ever from the general public, rather than actually call out to the world for help in fixing this mess.... Thus, most everyone is under the belief that the disaster is somehow "under control" when the facts are vastly different..

However, there appears to be at least some light on the horizon in terms of cleaning up the mess at Fukushima, for according to the following report from the Kyodo News online news service, at www.kyodonews.net, apparently the most difficult job of even attempting to clean up the nuclear debris from the 2011 disaster will begin in "2021"....  Here is that report for all to see for themselves, and I do have my own thoughts and comments to follow:

Fukushima nuclear debris removal to begin in 2021
KYODO NEWS KYODO NEWS - Dec 3, 2019 - 02:08 | AllJapan

The Japanese government said Monday the process of removing melted fuel from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, considered the most difficult part of cleaning up the crisis-hit facility, will start in 2021.
Among the three reactors that suffered a meltdown following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, work will begin at the No. 2 unit because it is the easiest and safest bet, the government said in its latest decommissioning plan.
The plan calls for completing the removal of the 4,741 fuel rods left inside the cooling pools of the Nos. 1 to 6 reactors by 2031, giving a specific time frame for the first time.
"As more people return and rebuilding progresses in the areas around the Daiichi plant, we will take measures based on the basic principle of balancing rebuilding and decommissioning," said industry minister Hiroshi Kajiyama, who heads the government task force on decommissioning.
(Photo taken in Fukushima Prefecture on Aug. 10, 2018, shows the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.)
The plan, revised for the fifth time, maintains the outlook of completing the decommissioning of the plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. in 30 to 40 years following the meltdowns triggered by a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, 2011.
But given issues that have caused frequent delays, it remains uncertain whether the plan will proceed as scheduled.
The No. 2 unit was in operation when the crisis began and some fuel has apparently melted through the reactor pressure vessel that holds the fuel and accumulated at the bottom of the outer primary containment vessel.
Among the three reactors that experienced core meltdowns, the reactor building housing the No. 2 unit was the only one that did not suffer a hydrogen explosion. The radiation levels near its containment vessel are also estimated to be lower than the others.
According to a person with knowledge of the matter, TEPCO plans to initially insert a robot arm into a hole in the containment vessel and extract small amounts of nuclear debris -- around 1 gram -- at a time, and gradually move up to removing several kilograms a day.
The process could take several years for the No. 2 unit alone, which according to one estimate contains 237 tons of debris. Together, the Nos. 1 to 3 units are said to house 880 tons of debris.
An earlier plan called for taking samples from the reactor in fiscal 2019 ending in March prior to removing the debris, but the revised plan states the two steps will happen at the same time, and that the scope of the debris removal will expand through 2031.
Spent fuel from the reactors is being kept in their respective cooling pools to prevent it from melting. The spent fuel is slated to eventually be moved along with some unspent fuel to a nearby common pool for longer term storage, although its final destination has yet to be decided.
All fuel has been removed from the pool of the No. 4 unit, which was being halted for a regular checkup at the time of the crisis, and the removal of fuel from the No. 3 unit began in April. The same work will begin at the Nos. 1 and 2 unit in fiscal 2023, according to the latest plan.

Related coverage:

NTS Notes: I have a few words to say about this report claiming that they will be able to "start cleaning up" the left over debris from the failed reactor cores and the 2011 explosions... "Good Luck to that one!" ...

I have seen too many truthful reports over the last few years concerning Fukushima, where the reports have stated clearly that there is no way in hell that anyone will be able to actually even get close to the failed cores directly due to the extremely high and deadly radiation involved... Even robotic probes have had difficulty in getting close enough to the failed cores to take pictures due to the extreme radiation frying their on-board circuitry! .... I have also seen so many reports that state that due to the extremely high radiation still spewing out of the failed cores, new technology will have to be developed to even attempt a major clean up and to shut down those cores.... I seriously doubt therefore that the new technology required to do this clean up will even be developed and in place by "2021"....

I therefore look at this report as being "optimistic", and as a method of assuring the Japanese people and the world that something is indeed being done at Fukushima.... In reality, the failed cores will most probably continue to spew their garbage onto the planet for decades to come.....

What does concern me, and should everyone else, at this point in time is the fact that even though Fukushima is as dangerous as ever, the Japanese government has been telling a lot of Fukushima's residents that it is now "safe" to return to their homes within the hot zone around the failed facility... To me, this is an outrage, as the radiation levels are still dangerous to human health and the radioactive residues that spewed into the countryside from the original March 2011 explosion are still there in abundance.... Again, to me this is politics and not real rationality at play here....

AND we cannot forget the fact that next year, the Olympic Games will be in nearby Tokyo.... I have been filing reports for months now in my weekend rants calling the impending Tokyo Olympics the "radioactive games" and have not found anything to change that stance..... Athletes going to Tokyo next year should be packing radioactive suits as well as geiger counters besides their athletic gear!

More to come

NTS