Published: August 24th, 2012 at 9:55 am ET
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Title: Visiting the end of the world
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Author: Senator Scott Ludlam, Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
Date: Aug 24, 2012
[...]In Minamisoma, a coastal city 20 km to the north of the wrecked Fukushima complex, they’re getting their park back this morning. For seventeen months kids have been unable to play outside, and the locals are balancing the risks of radiation with the risks of physical inactivity, vitamin D deficiency and depression.
The city has put the machinery we saw in the dead village to work here at Takami Koen, stripping the topsoil, sealing it into a plastic cocoon, and covering the mound with uncontaminated earth. The community has backed this effort with its own independent radiation monitoring, confident now that the park is their own again. The six-year-old child bounding up the slope of the mound doesn’t know he’s chasing his ball up the side of a small radioactive waste dump, and there is something compelling about the resumption of normality in a landscape so dramatically altered.
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Published: August 24th, 2012 at 9:55 am ET
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The waste is covered with halfway clean soil.
So Japanese only follow practice common in the USA.
American radwaste storage sites are being reused even for residential use just by covering them with a thin soil layer.
Read more here, for example: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-08-17/nuclear-radiation-san-francisco%E2%80%99s-treasure-island-we-don%E2%80%99t-need-know-apparent
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Isn't this what General Electric was talking about when they insisted, "We bring good things to life?"
Somehow nobody paid enough attention to the ad campaign.
Jeffrey Immelt: you will have a lot of 'splainin' to do some day. You might as well start now, unless you really are unable to see out of your own eyeballs.
General Electric, an American icon deeply associated with my own family's history, has essentially destroyed Japan, forever.
And not one peep from the perp.
Your reputation will sink to a level somewhere between Adolf Hitler and Josef Mengele.
I hope for your sake, the stock options and ass kissing was all worth it. You'll have dubious company in your collaborator-in-chief, that warm and fuzzy exec we all love so well, Jackie Welch.
You guys had a chance to redeem the company's reputation and mission, and instead you both rode it into mindless, radioactive oblivion.
Well on you!!!
peace …
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Go Ned, go!
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At least, Adolf Hitler reportedly was anti-nuclear.
The Third Reich nuclear programme was hindered much because of that. Other Nazi leaders continued the nuclear programme behind Hitler's back, but it was very difficult, as it had no major priority. When Hitler found out about this, he got furious, but as he had no absolute power (in spite of what is usually reported), he was not able to completely shut down the German nuclear programme.
If Hitler had been pro-nuclear, the outcome of WW II could have been different.
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GE seems to be going cold on nuke profit due to Solar and cheap gas
http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/ge-nysege-slams-economics-of-nuclear/2097
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Same things are happening in the USA. So Japan is just learning from the US, about how to effectively 'coverup' a nuclear problem.
Nuclear Reactor Chicago Pile I; Hidden In Open Sight; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/nuclear-reactor-chicago-pile-i-hidden.html
Los Angeles Nuclear Plant Meltdown; Completely Covered Up; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/los-angeles-nuclear-plant-meltdown.html
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My family has been living just 3 miles NE of Red Gate Woods since they came to the Chicago area in the late 1800's. Red Gate Woods has ALWAYS been where Argo Community High School Dist.#217 held "Senior Ditch Day" and many people still make heavy use of the forest preserve and some anglers even eat fish caught in small bodies of water very close by!! I can't even count the number of times I'd stopped there while riding dirt bikes & 3-wheelers throughout the 70's and 80's when they still had hand-pumped wells dotting the landscape-averaging one about every 60-100 meters apart as a matter of fact?!! The even had signs proclaiming the wells to be free of contamination which served as a reminder to those who don't see the plaques and foundations,etc. or the huge slab of graphite that was left in the mud where it fell off an army truck leaving the site in a hurry when they moved it a few miles west where present-day Argonne National Laboratory was built and the graphite slab is still there to this day-although the brass plaque was stolen by vandals which commemorates "where they stood" as they did their dirty work. The stretch of Cass Ave. that runs around Argonne is also lined by woods-much of which allow unrestricted access for recreational use.A "big hit" with the locals is to go there to watch the "white deer" which were always rumored to have turned that way by radiation,but actually were imported by the DOE to monitor bio-accumulation.Cancer rates here are…
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that was a good post AGR!!it holds an infamous & "dirty" reminder for me personally as it literally hits so close to home!! YIKES!! PEACE
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How long till the soil is radiated again, not long, reactors are still leaking vast amounts of radiation.
Virtually impossible to remove contaminants from soil, if mushrooms collect cesium why do they not plant mushrooms, collect and dispose in a never ending cycle.
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Standard practice the world over. Dilute and/or hide. Then duck and/or cover.
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Corporations that deal in nuclear materials,chemicals,etc…don't care in the slightest about the conditions in which the people live.
Please see: Uranium Mining and the Navajo
http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/nativelands/navajo/humanhealth.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_Mining_and_The_Navajo_People
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PS.Please see..Films of the Second International Uranium Film Festival.
http://www.uraniumfilmfestival.org/index.php/en/programme/schedule
Truth being told..yes!
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The World Court must prosecute all crimes against humanity!
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