Ceramic Cement Corporation/Cerako (C3Cerako)

Superior Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Shielding Solution!

(A personal report from Judd Hamilton, now modified, as of 12/5/11, in tone and enthusiasm due to a series of recent promising results.)

April 16, 2011

History: On March 14th I received a phone call from a friend and retired UN Staff member saying he was in contact with Washington D.C. based Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) officials. He was inquiring if my CeramXshield radiation shielding concrete could help with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis. Although my invention is ASTM certified to shield x-ray through lower gamma radiation emissions, it's not yet tested for nuclear shielding. Nonetheless I unhesitatingly replied, "Yes, we can help!"

Dept. of Energy/TEPCO: My confidence was based on a curiously similar phosphate-bonded Ceramic concrete nuclear shielding / containment material I knew of that has been tested and verified to be a superior concrete for nuclear encapsulation/shielding by the U.S. Dept.of Energy, but to date deemed to be to expensive. As someone with considerable experience in the formulation and production of phosphate-bonded concrete, and in light of the massive damage and on-going Fukushima radiation leakage danger, I'm absolutely certain that cost is no longer a valid reason to ignore the merits of this Ceramic concrete solution.

So, with this reasonably well proven but little known nuclear radiation containment solution in mind, and the future of my children and grandchildren foremost in mind, I contacted the U.S. based TEPCO official s to whom my friend had introduced me. I also communicated directly with Argonne and Idaho National Lab officials who were supportive and also appreciative that our company has available 100-ton a day production in Seoul, S. Korea, i.e. nearer Japan.

Networking: I have since gathered a wider consortium of Ceramic Cement companies, Ceramic Cement specialists, nuclear scientists and related expertise with the sole purpose of supplying hard facts and expert assistance to appropriate TEPCO/Japanese government officials and their nuclear science advisers, notifying all concerned that an advanced, U.S. government sponsored concrete radiation containment material was available that transcends the non-shielding, cracking, corrosive weakness inherent in the on-going Chernobyl Portland concrete encapsulation effort.

Timeline of critical events:  The urgency I felt to introduce this seriously superior nuclear containment solution increased as I began to study this gigantic (and from some angles never before imagined) challenge with an Idaho National Lab (INL) nuclear scientist for whom I have great respect.

Based on Fukushima related media news we soon realized the following:

(1) Since the force of the earthquake/tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi plant, a reactor repair project was in progress.

(2) This ill-fated repair job meant that hot fuel rods required temporary storage in a holding area designed for depleted fuel rods.

(3) A nearby reactor core was still intact but vulnerable to meltdown should the intense heat generated by the  'hot' fuel rods melt the building structure separating the energized hot rods from the reactor.

(4) The plant's electric supply also failed, instantly shutting down the water-cooling system,

(5) To avert a total meltdown, dozens of brave Fukushima nuclear technicians resorted to drenching the hot rods and surrounding infrastructure with corrosive seawater.

(6) More recent reports stated the plant's metal pipes were leaking radiated water into storage tanks which were then being regretfully dumped back into the sea while even higher levels of radiated water continued to flow into the emptied storage tanks.

(7) Unfortunately Japanese media sources have just announced that the structural melting process described in (3) has begun. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110416a1.html

Reaching out: I have spent the past four-weeks communicating with/working with relevant people to gain respected attention for this advanced concrete containment solution, including a DOE concrete specialist in Wash., D.C. and a Washington State Energy Adviser who are reaching out to other experts and politicians to examine this containment solution, along with other government officials, scientists and corporations who have also offered support.

A validated fit: Last week I finally spoke with a high-level U.S. nuclear industry official who assigned a leading nuclear scientist to confirm the viability of my idea. In our detailed discussion the nuclear science adviser realized he had several years prior helped Argonne National Labs secure Dept. of Energy (DOE) funding for this advanced concrete nuclear waste research.

Rapidly gaining scientific based confidence is rare and in this case fortunate. Disasters such as Fukushima and the recent Gulf Oil disaster elicit hundred's of untried, undocumented, waste of time ideas from which our decision-makers logically must be protected. So I was relieved and thankful that this particular scientist's relevant experience/knowledge allowed him to relatively quickly and comfortably endorse my radiation containment idea/proposal to his superiors.

Decision-makers: With this affirmative scientific groundwork laid I am now waiting for one or more high level Japanese government officials / decision-makers to respond in a timely, serious manner. This has so far proven to be the hard part.

The general attitude amongst the U.S. government decision-makers who are willing to listen is, if TEPCO and the Japanese government want to examine and use these advanced, commercially available radiation shielding/containment products they (the Japanese) have to officially make this request!

This interested but non-committal perception I've gain is decidedly disappointing as for starters my effort is not even remotely commercially oriented. For sure commercial considerations are an area of importance within the overall picture of implementing a solution of this magnitude, that's understood! Nonetheless, the cooperative expertise I have enlisted to demonstrate and implement this containment solution has nothing whatsoever to do with making money and everything to do with getting the job done as safely and effectively as is humanly possible!

When 'no' is not the answer: To my disappointment, I've found the higher the level of communications I've reached,  regarding this serious matter, the more reticent decision-makers are to get involved in anything that requires short term/accountable decisiveness. This reticence was not unexpected and even understandable to a degree, but to my way of thinking when the well-being of the entire world is threatened, arbitrarily opting out of at least examining an already scientifically validated solutionwhen no other solution iseven on the table, flies in the face of crisis management.

In my experience crisis management at its best requires probing questions (if possible), a wealth of specific knowledge within the people charged with resolving any given national/international crisis (especially nulcear radiation threats), and most of all the courage of creative decisiveness.

Given the wealth of scientific evidence gathered by the U.S.  National Laboratories that have contributed so much toward the development of these Ceramic concretes, which I also, albeit somewhat coincidentally & independently began to research and develop 12-years ago, and the escalating need to identify and implement available solutions to address and arrest the Japanese nuclear radiation crisis, it seems to me, "if there's a reasonable possibility 'we' can help, doing nothing is not an option!"

Time is not on our side: My determination is fueled by the fact that, (1) the still out of control ionizing radiation being absorbed into the oceans, atmosphere and localized vegetation, albeit with a relatively fast decay, is deadly, and (2) I've learned from nuclear experts if one of the Fukushima reactors melt down nearby reactors will also melt, releasing even deadlier atmospheric/water borne plutonium radiation with an approx. 25,000 year half-life decay rate!

Is Fukushima Daiichi the worst health/environmental threat we have ever known?

As I've gathered factual as well as reticent nuclear industry information from various sources, including exceedingly knowledgeable nuclear scientists.  I have come to the conclusion that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear radiation crisis is now the most dangerous health and environmental threat humanity has ever encountered, much less failed to imagine!

Does the next logical question foretell the need for a world citizen's call to action?

Can private citizens who are already in harm's way afford to stand by while, given the still generally unrecognized benefits of Ceramic concrete, understandably baffled nuclear experts, corporate officers and politicians appear to be unwilling to recognize and/or seriously examine the uniquely advanced Portland concrete repair and nuclear radiation containment benefits of the Ceramic cement solution that I and other more imminently qualified scientists are  proposing as a relatively immediately available, short and long term solution to stop the radiation leakage from further threatening the health of our children, grandchildren and planet?

Judd Hamilton - C3 Chairman/CEO

Judd@CeramicCementCorporation.com