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FuelRod swapping at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts continue to be free for guests who have purchased the portable chargers. Recently, signs appeared on the kiosks throughout the domestic parks indicating that on November 1st, there would be a $3 charge for swapping fuel rods.

Disney has made the decision to not implement the $3 fee for swapping until further notice. Disney officials told DAPS MAGIC this morning that guests will be able to “continue to swap their FuelRod portable chargers using FuelRod’s owned and operated kiosks at Walt Disney World and Disneyland for no additional cost.”

The FuelRods have proven to be quick popular at both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts. Guests can purchase one for $30 and then swap them out to continue to maintain a charge on their phone throughout their visit. As Disney Parks have utilized their individual apps for the resorts along with the Play Disney apps, the FuelRods have been very helpful in being able to enjoy what the apps have to offer without worrying about a dead battery before the end of the day.

DAPS MAGIC will continue to cover this story and update it if there are any future changes.

  FuelRod Swapping to Remain Free at Disney Parks! FuelRod swapping at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts continue to be free for guests who have purchased the portable chargers.

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Fuel Rods at Disneyland, Disney World to start charging for swapping

Disney Fuel Rod charging kiosks at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will begin charging guests every time they swap the charger.

Oh come ON, Disney! This was the last really nice thing you were doing for guests!

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Throughout the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts guests have been swapping out portable chargers for free after purchasing them at kiosks for $30. This is all about to change. Starting on November 1st, there will be a $3 charge to swap out fuel rods. New signage was added to the fuel rod kiosks throughout both Resorts overnight that indicated the upcoming price change.

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The fuel rods first came to Walt Disney World in 2016 and then later Disneyland. They soon became popular with guests who find more battery usage for phones and devices. This is partially due to people’s Disney experiences relying more and more on apps, phone cameras, and also social media.

What do you think of the $3 charge for swapping out portable chargers? Do you use them? If so, will it change how you use them? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

Disney to Charge for Swapping Portable Chargers Throughout the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts guests have been swapping out portable chargers for free after purchasing them at kiosks for $30.

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Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At "Unimaginable" Levels | Zero Hedge

http://uniteordiemedia.com/fukushima-aborts-latest-robot-mission-inside-reactor-radiation-at-unimaginable-levels-zero-hedge/ http://uniteordiemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fuktushima-Johnny-5-600x450.jpg Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At "Unimaginable" Levels | Zero Hedge Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels | Zero Hedge Two years after sacrificing one robot, TEPCO officials have aborted their latest robot mission inside the Fukushima reactor after the ‘scorpion’ became unresponsive as...

Fukushima Aborts Latest Robot Mission Inside Reactor; Radiation At “Unimaginable” Levels | Zero Hedge

Two years after sacrificing one robot, TEPCO officials have aborted their latest robot mission inside the Fukushima reactor after the ‘scorpion’ became unresponsive as it investigated the previously discovered hole where the core is believed to have melted.

Read More: www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-19/fukushima-aborts-latest-robot-mission-inside-reactor-radiation-unimaginable-levels

Why The Melted Fuel Under Fukushima Could Poison Our Planet With Nuclear Radiation For 1000s Of Years

Six years ago, an absolutely devastating tsunami caused a triple meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power facility.  It was the worst environmental disaster in all of human history, and even though six years have passed since that time, nobody knows where the three melted cores are.  Just recently, authorities believe that they spotted some melted fuel underneath reactor 2, but even from a distance the level of nuclear radiation that was detected was being described as “unimaginable”.  Essentially what we are talking about are three enormous “dirty bombs” that are continuously emitting tremendous amounts of nuclear radiation into the air, water and soil.  Some of the radioactive elements that are being released have half-lives that are measured in tens of thousands of years, and so the poisonous effect of these “dirty bombs” could potentially be with us for generation after generation.

Personally, I don’t know why the big mainstream news outlets in the U.S. are almost entirely ignoring Fukushima these days.  Fox News did a story on the “unimaginable” radiation at Fukushima just a few days ago, but that was about it.

To me, it is certainly newsworthy that nuclear radiation inside reactor 2 at Fukushima is at the highest level ever recorded…

Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high, and are the worst since the plant suffered a triple meltdown nearly six years ago. The latest readings now pose a serious challenge as officials prepare to dismantle the stricken facility.

Radiation levels inside the containment vessel of reactor No. 2 at Fukushima has reached 530 sieverts per hour—a figure described by experts as “unimaginable.”

Previously, the highest level of radiation measured at Fukushima was 73 sieverts per hour, and just a small fraction of that amount would be fatal to most humans…

Needless to say, this plant is not fit for human life. Just one dose of a single sievert is enough to cause radiation sickness and nausea. Exposure to four to five sieverts would kill about half of those exposed to it within a month, while a single dose of 10 sieverts is enough to kill a person within weeks.

At 530 sieverts per hour, the radiation is so intense that even robots can only last for a couple of hours in that environment.  The Japanese hope to eventually remove the melted fuel from these reactors someday, but first they have to figure out if it is even possible.

And the truth is that the level of radiation in reactor 2 may actually be far higher than 530 sieverts per hour.  That is because the recent reading was taken “some distance from the melted fuel”…

The 530 sievert reading was recorded some distance from the melted fuel, so in reality it could be 10 times higher than recorded, said Hideyuki Ban, co-director of Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center.

Experts are also warning that the levels of radiation may be much higher than 530 sieverts per hour in reactors 1 and 3.  Nobody knows, because the melted fuel in those reactors has not even been located yet.

Even though so much time has gone by, there is still very much an urgency to this crisis.  In a newly published article, Mike Adams of Natural News explained why this is the case…

In effect, Fukushima has become the world’s largest dirty bomb, and the remaining fuel rods could explode (achieve criticality) at any moment. Even right now, the radiation is so intense that robots built to explore the wreckage can only survive for a few hours before their circuits are destroyed. Thus, there’s almost no scenario in which Japan, Tepco or anybody in the world figures out how to clean up the wreckage, reclaim the melting fuel rods and reestablish control over the nuclear reactions that are still ongoing.

You can’t even successfully build a containment vessel on top of it all because the melting nuclear fuel has already burned a massive hole in the floor and is melting its way into the ground water.

What most people don’t understand is that the melted nuclear fuel under Fukushima is going to be with us for a very, very long time.  Some of the fuel rods contained plutonium-239, and plutonium-239 has a half-life of approximately 24,000 years…

Do they think a one-meter hole magically appears in nuclear containment vessels due to random chance? No, it’s melting fuel rods, you morons. And some of that fuel is MOX fuel, which contains plutonium-239 that boasts a half life of 24,000 years. So sometime in the year 26000 A.D. the Fukushima nightmare will be HALF as toxic as it is right now. What a wonderful, progressive future to look forward to, eh?

Plutonium-239 is one of the most dangerous substances known to humanity.  As nuclear expert Steven C. Jones once explained, it would not take much plutonium-239 to kill every man, woman and child on the entire planet…

To give one an example of how lethal radiation is, one pound of plutonium evenly distributed into everyone’s lungs would kill every man, woman and child on Earth. There are literally “tons” of radioactive plutonium (among other radioactive elements) that have been released into the air and ocean environments since March 11th. Another critical fact to remember is that radioactive plutonium, for example, remains lethal (killing life) for thousands years as it has a half-life of 24,000 years. Some other radioactive elements such as uranium have a half-life of 4.47 billion years.

And remember, more radioactive material is being released from Fukushima every single day.  The following comes from an interview with Kevin Kamps, the radioactive waste monitor at Beyond Nuclear…

There are claims that “it’s all contained, don’t worry about it.” It is indisputable that there is a daily flow of radioactively contaminated groundwater into the ocean. The figures something like 80,000 gallons per day of relatively low-level radioactive waste water. Then you’ve got those storage tanks – we’re talking 800,000 tons of highly radioactive water stored in tanks. Every day they pour a hundred tons of water on each of these three melted down cores. Sometimes they lose those tanks. They leak, they overflow – it is an ongoing catastrophe.

Are you starting to understand how serious this is?

Read More: www.dcclothesline.com/2017/02/10/why-the-melted-fuel-under-fukushima-could-poison-our-planet-with-nuclear-radiation-for-1000s-of-years/