Published: April 25th, 2016 at 7:26 am ET
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NBC L.A., Apr 19, 2016 (emphasis added): Officials are investigating why sick sea lions are washing up onshore… The Laguna Beach Pacific Marine Mammal Center has an overflow of sea lions… The reason for the influx of sea lions remains a disappearing cold water food source… Another unusual phenomenon they are seeing: Elephant and harbor seals are coming into the centers in addition to California sea lions, and that is not typical.
NBC L.A. transcript, Apr 19, 2016: “Now, an alarming number of sea lions are washing up along our local beaches… it is taking longer to rehabilitate these sick sea lions… Experts say [they are] taking longer to become healthier.”
Laguna Beach Independent, Apr 23, 2016: Most are malnourished and many are infected with parasites, [said Keith Matassa, Pacific Marine Mammal Center]… “The rehabbing process is slower this year because the sea lions are coming in older and sicker.”
Salon, Apr 21, 2016: Dead animals litter California beaches — California is in its third straight year of “unusual mortality” rates for sea lions. The dismal state was first declared in January of 2013 and death rates have increased each year since… It looks like 2016 will be worse… They are starving to death. The same goes for birds… California beaches are littered with dead sea lions and birds. Watch our video for more on this alarming phenomenon. [Video transcript: (Stephen Scheiblauer, Monterey Harbormaster:) "We're seeing a greater mortality of sea lions... also some kinds of birds… We bury [sea lions]… dig a big trench and bury it.”]
Pepperdine University’s student newspaper (‘The Graphic‘), Mar 28, 2016: A walk on Point Dume’s beach [Malibu, California] recently resembles a graveyard of washed-up sea life. On the stretch of the Pacific Coast… dead sea lions, tuna crabs and crows littered on the sand, a defunctive and rotten smell permeating the sea air… [S]tranded sea lions have become a regular sight for those who frequent Point Dume, as beach-goers stretch their towels yards away from the rotting corpses. “This has been a coast-wide problem for the past four years,” Seasonal Assistant Marine Coordinator Colleen Weiler said.
KRON, Apr 11, 2016: Marine Mammal Center dealing with influx of malnourished sea creatures… Hundreds of elephant seals, harbor seals, and sea lions are [at the center]… Rescue crews are bringing them in daily because they simply don’t have enough to eat… Dr. Shawn Johnson is the lead veterinarian at the center and said the animals are starving…
The Channels Newspaper, Apr 22, 2016: Rescued seals are brought [in] with seaborne diseases… causing bumps and blisters on the face, neck and flippers…
Marin Independent Journal, Apr 10, 2016: Marine Mammal Center coping with relentness influx of ailing sea lions… “They are skin and bones, they are malnourished, they have secondary infections like pneumonia because their immune systems are suppressed,” said [Dr. Shawn Johnson]… the sea lions appear to be experiencing stunted growth… “These are the smallest pups we have seen in 41 years of study,” [NOAA's Sharon Melin] said.
The Marine Mammal Center, Mar 29, 2016: This is the fourth year in a row that we’ve seen California sea lions in crisis… [This year] these animals are also unusually small… essentially fur-covered skeletons—they seem to be experiencing stunted growth… pup weights are the lowest ever documented… [T]he spike in sea lion strandings began before the current El Niño pattern took hold and even before the warm water “blob” began to form… “After four years of sea lions in crisis, the initial shock of seeing so many starving sea lions is over and now we’re really starting to worry about long-term impacts on the population as a whole,” says Dr. Shawn Johnson, Director of Veterinary Science at the Center.
Watch videos here: NBC LA | Salon | KRON
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"I just can't figure out everything. This is just too frickin...
"The goal is to keep enough sea lions around since they act as sentinels of the ocean."
"Environmental conditions have changed. Stresses on the ocean have changed and it's causing problems on the whole food chain," Matassa said.
NBC News 4 LA
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/influx-sea-lions-laguna-beach-376298061.html
No mention of Fukushima's TRIPLE ongoing MELTDOWNS.
Maybe 'stresses' equals radioactive contaminated FALLOUT?
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If homo sapiens miraculously evolve into a species that cares about fossils and understands cause and effect, they will research what caused this global extinction during this era in the history of earth. Thousands of years into the future after the survivors left their bomb shelters. The pacific tar pits will be an unsolved mystery.
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"The scientists I spoke to found it hard to believe it was Fukushima but said that the most likely mechanism would be through reproductive failure if the fallout were responsible."
The massive amount of radioactive environment pollution from Fukushima has resulted in the Northern Pacific Ocean food supply crashing! Like the human embryo, embryonic sea life including fish eggs, are hypersensitive to radioactive contamination, hence the large number of reports of seals, whales and birds etc., washing up on the west coast of North America, starving to death.
This view is sported by Dr. Sternglass's research paper below. It clearly demonstrates how nuclear contamination from the nuclear bomb testing era caused a significant crash in Pacific Ocean fish stocks. If this was the case then, it would be logical to assume that the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe is having a similar effect.
Quote:
“The purpose of the study was to determine whether continued atmospheric testing by France and China or potential releases from underground detonations that might unexpectedly escape into the nearby fishing grounds could have detectable effects on the reproduction of fish populations similar to the unanticipatedly severe effects of low level radiation on the human embryo and fetus (2, 3, 4) recently confirmed by independent studies by other investigators (5, 6).”
http://sccc.org.au/the-pacific-ocean-is-dying
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Use Dr. Sternglass's research paper as a resource to educate people.
Like the human embryo, embryonic sea life including fish eggs, are hypersensitive to artificial isotope radioactive contamination.
Hence no food to eat so the larger animals up the food chain die of starvation.
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Bomb explodes and produces near equal amounts of barium and krypton. About 10-20 pounds of each, and negligible amounts of U or Pu are left over. When there are people out there trying to compare Fukushima with anything man has done in the past, usually it is an attempt to minimize the disaster.
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Highly Radioactive Fukushima Harbor Fish Measured With 740,000 Bq/Kg Cesium, Strontium Spiking And Getting Worse At Fukushima, Data And Evidence For Period Covering 2011-2016
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/09/fukushima-harbor-fish-measured-with.html
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Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed, Fukushima Mega Nuclear Disaster Causing Massive Die Offs
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
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Wakee, wakee
Time to smell the decay and stench from the mass die offs happening…
De-nial is not a river in Egypt.
Wakee, wakee
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Hear! Hear! Since 3~11~11 I, too, have developed sores on my face and upper arms that keep coming. The doctors tell me I cause them. Yeah, they say don't touch my skin and they won't be there. Yeah, sure. I fight them with small band aids with manuka honey and/or antibiotic cream spread on them. Leave on for several days or as long as you want. This heals them! Yes, I follow a good diet with a number of vitamins and supplements. Fukushima PROVES that we are living (dying?) in these last of days!
ETERNAL SURVIVAL BLESSINGS FOR YAHWEH'S SAINTS!
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The new and improved el nino!"hotter"than ever
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Whether we discuss it or not…
Whether it evokes fear or not..
Does it matter?
Is it going to go away.. if we change our rhetoric to that of Sunday tea?
IS IT GOING TO BE ALL BETTER?
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Is it going to be all better, by continuing to cling to lessor causes than admit the 'invisible elephant in the room'?
How does it serve?
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It is unclear from the current political circus, that the politicians even KNOW. Bernie Sanders, supposedly the most progressive, does not get past "climate change and carbon tax" — he never got past Al Gore! Hillary knew about Fukushima at the time (Hatrick Penry got a transcript with her calling it "FUBAR") and went right ahead to let Japan ship to the U.S. food too contaminated to feed to their own Japanese. So Sanders is ignorant, and although Hillary is hardly stupid, did she just forget or block out that just maybe we are being massively contaminated ongoing? Obama is the worst because after Gina McCarthy turned off radiation monitors, he rewarded her with a promotion to EPA! Who then raised so-called "acceptable" radiation to post-lethal levels twice. Meanwhile, the Repubs are clueless and claim everything is just fine.
Meanwhile, they are all scrambling to be titular head of a nation which will first be drenched in medical crisis, and later on, panic and starvation. So we walk around acting normal as much as we can, but every now and again, we just sit down and cry.
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Yah, it's all unclear. Ha. Ever hear a defendant in court plead unclear?
I really hate that word now, it's all the rage in mainstream media circles.
No it is all too clear. Like the waters on California beaches.
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This is what Bernie has to say about nuclear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTAQ8IPrgvI&feature=share
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Hillary makes money from nuclear. Westinghouse/Toshiba specifically but she also got $5 million from that dirtbag deal involving the sale of Uranium One to Rosatom. State Dept/Hillary had to review the deal so of course she ended up approving the sale of North America's largest uranium producer to the Russians… for a $5 million "donation" to the Clinton Foundation of course!! Hillary is a dirtbag lying nuker! Hatrick Penry's excellent documentary book is linked below. Spread this truth far and wide.
Ban Reactors Forever
http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/uncategorized/plume-gate-abstract/
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The Clintons should be in jail..sorry state when the entire country is in on these ongoing scams.
Always follow the money..it will lead you to the wizards.
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Hell you can bet they are involved in the kick-backs from building the prisons and profiting from putting more people in them! Criminals-in-chief! Why spend millions for a job that pays a few hundred thousand? A 2 year old should be able to see how absurd that is! The only incentive is to rip-off and rip-off big!
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They care and work just for you..see.
Is the country still gouging everyone for healthcare? I think it is..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3558500/Hillary-private-jet-hypocrite-hits-Trump-vast-wealth-travels-private-owns-two-mansions.html
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Some people are getting, very, very rich..
Stealing legally from everybody..
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/12/03/Federal-Health-Care-Costs-Surge-17-Percent-GDP
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Yesterday, did you hear candidate Trump state that "radiation" is the biggest concern that we face now? It seems that he may be referring to nuclear bombs but he seems to be closest on track. No, I don't believe that we have had a genuine presidential election in decades. Donald Trump almost ran in 2008 and 2012. What should this tell us?
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This is our best?
This is the best the Human race has to offer? ..lame answers.
Oh, and the occasional snideness of those that are sure they are conspiracy busting.
Folks at ATS ..thanks a lot.(sarc). I haven't changed, it's you.
HOW DOES IT SERVE?
Stand down!
Look away if you must ..cowards!
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"The influx makes it the fourth year in a row of sea lions in peril…"
Why is Fukushima radiation so high?
FDNPP was built on top of a cut down cliff, at the shore of the Pacific Ocean.
Inland stretch valleys and mountains.
Underneath the multiple-reactor nuclear reservation runs a groundwater river, at an estimated flow rate of 1,000 tonnes of water per day.
Three of the nuclear reactors suffered complete meltdowns, containing a total of 257 tonnes of nuclear fuel assemblies.
At some 2,300C, this nuclear lava, called "corium", quickly ate through the bottom of reactor and containment vessels, and very likely now sits in the ground below.
This melt-through took about a week.
Steam vents opened up in the ground, and workers could even hear the corium hissing and spitting in the ground.
There is evidence, such as the presence of Iodine isotopes found in sewage sludge, that criticalities in the corium continue to this day.
Japanese officials have been unable to locate the corium, and have been unable to divert groundwater around the ruins.
The underground river, flowing over, under, and around the corium lava washes lots of radiation into the ocean.
Currents and migrating animals have carried the radiation throughout the North Pacific Ocean.
Sickness spreads up the food chain, from single cell plants and animals, right up to large animals like fish, sea birds, whales, and sea lions.
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Right on PUN, and if 80% initially launched into the ocean, a significant amount will settle at the bottom where it will dissolve and decay over many centuries.
What happens when you shake a can of carbonated soda? Gases diffuse from the liquid water. If something shakes that ocean floor, gases will diffuse and be released. Look it up if you want, it's in a science book under "properties of gases".
What your information tells me is that a supercharged storm system is heading east and will possibly strike the pacific coast in the days to come. Duct tape>check. Air filter>check. Emergency supplies>check.
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Like this situation has time for 'pussy footing'…
BANG, BANG, BANG ..on the 'adult table'!
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If Japan would tell the world where the corium is located, it would become very clear to the whole world why the Pacific Ocean is dying.
There is only this essential question:
"Where is the corium?"
This question should be asked at every seminar, each convention, public meeting, and news conference related to the collapse of the Pacific Ocean Ecosystem.
Japan must tell the world where the corium is located.
If they still don't know where the 3 missing nuclear cores are located, they must find them right now.
This is not a small problem.
And it is not going to go away anytime soon.
The spreading death throughout the Pacific Ocean is not due to warm water, climate change, red tide, or lack of food.
It is due to disruption of the food chain caused by Fukushima radiation.
Period.
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But, they have the ice wall.
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Yes, Keyhole, but the ice wall will still take many months to freeze the entire perimeter around the reactor ruins.
Meanwhile, the groundwater continues to flow.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/30/472394299/ready-set-freeze-japan-prepares-to-switch-on-fukushima-ice-wall
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Prediction;
The ice wall will NEVER freeze. At best it will freeze to some extent, but it will have HOLES in it, just like the reactors, pouring highly radioactive water into the basements and tunnels, which then goes straight into the ocean.
Stupid is as stupid does.
FIX THE HOLES.
FIND THE CORIUMS.
DEAL WITH REALITY.
DOH!
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…and properly inform the people of this planet of the severity from ongoing TRIPLE MELTDOWNS so at least some precautionary measures and informed decisions can be made.
Seems simple enough, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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PUN, I actually admired you for pushing and pushing and pushing on "the impermeable wall," although I found it exasperating and pointless. Have always been clear how much you CARE. But maybe by now, reality has finally sunk in. So just please DO NOT push on the ice wall now. Aside from the multiple factors of impossibilities, it would use up more electricity than that site ever produced, just to keep it going. And address only a tiny portion of the overall problem at that. Not even going near the melted coriums that no one can even find, much less contain.
Sometimes nothing works. It's too late, too pervasive, even massive outpourings of money can't fix it. Unfortunately, shy of a literal miracle, we are long since there. NOTHING WORKS.
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Who gives a crap about electricity at this point. Anything to reduce the radiation leaking into our water, air and food is useful. I think the ice wall plan is a foolish long term plan but it beats doing nothing. Building a permanent upstream wall and culverts to divert groundwater is a better plan. Robot excavators may be required due to the high rads in the earth there. Japan is committing slow mass suicide by not confronting this problem head on. Unfortunately Japan's radiation problem is also a global threat now. The ice wall is dumb but at least it might help. Maybe.
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Yes, this slow motion genocidal nuclear train which is fully loaded is just starting to go off the cliff… Worse is yet to come.
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Just so that we maintain perspective, a new view of the galactic plane has been released.
http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2016/04/Herschel_s_view_of_the_Galactic_Plane
Herschel's View of the Galactic Plane of the Milkey Way Galaxy will calm your heart.
Even as the radiation from the ruins 3 melted nuclear power plants is killing our planet, within the Milkey Way, millions of stars form and die, along with their countless planets, throughout the 100,000 lightyear diameter of our little galaxy, spinning in space.
Be of good cheer!
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Maybe one of those planets is up to taking refugees from Planet Earth? Of course, they would first have to tag our species as highly dangerous, and keep us quarantined. Or maybe that's how we got to Earth in the first place — a last ditch reform school which does not seem to have worked. Who in their right mind ethically would have ever promoted nuclear ANYTHING? It's the very smashing of the fabric of life. It's the closest we have ever seen to "demonic" — remember, EVIL is LIVE spelled backwards.
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WeNotTheyFinally,
You are quite correct, there shouldn't be 'nuclear ANYTHING' in Japan.
First, didn't the US bomb Japan with nukes?
Should be a big 100% unanimous
"No To Nukes"
thing going on in Japan.
Small island, big volcanos, tremendous earthquakes, "Ring Of Fire", and tsunamis all the time.
Nuke anything is such a bad idea for Japan.
Saying that "a meltout is impossible" doesn't MAKE a meltout impossible.
Saying that a very strong earthquake is "very unlikely" doesn't matter when very strong earthquakes actually HAPPENS?
Saying a tsunami of such a height as that which occurred on 3/11 is "highly unlikely" doesn't matter when one ACTUALLY HAPPENS.
The earthquake and tsunami of 3/11/2011 may have been a natural occurrance.
But the nuclear releases that resulted are on the human race.
The destruction of the Pacific Ocean Ecosystem is on the human race.
Failure to FIND AND MITIGATE three missing nuclear cores is on the human race.
It was all so clearly stupid.
Nuclear proliferation, all over the world is really, really stupid.
You know what's even more stupid?
Leaving nuclear power plants in operation all over the world.
Now that's STUPID!
And we actually deserve our fate.
And the way we have DESTROYED PLANET EARTH, we actually do not deserve to have a place among the Galactic Council Of Worlds.
Hang onto your skivies, folks.
It's gonna get a lot worse, before it…
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IMO, there are a number of things going wrong in the ocean right now; from radiation dumping –> to overfishing –> to oil rigs drilling 7,000 meters deep into the ocean floor and extracting oil, etc.
All of these are affecting the ocean's precarious balance and health.
>> The ocean's survival is based on Plankton.
Plankton is food for the smallest fish such as krill, all the way up to whales.
Micro-algae, a type of Plankton, consume carbon and produce oxygen.
Plankton's survival is based on ocean temperatures and conditions that have to be just-right.
The large bloom of Plankton occurs at a specific spot in the ocean, but due to ocean conditions, the Plankton has moved over 10 kilometers north.
Therefore, fish have to swim further to find it. Some cannot make this trip.
>> Coral reefs are made up of dead plankton. Coral reefs are like "spas" to fish. Fish use coral reefs to hide their eggs; to utilize symbiotic-relations of smaller fish eating the parasites off larger fish; to hide and rest… But with up to 80% of coral being destroyed in the Caribbean, for example, the fish have fewer places to go.
>> Coral reefs regenerate themselves by spawning; releasing eggs/sperm which in turn create more coral. But if the eggs and sperm are not healthy, lets say due to radiation exposure which we know is detrimental to eggs and sperm, then can the coral be as healthy?
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>> With overfishing, entire species of fish are missing from the ocean. Almost 100 million tons of fish are fished from the ocean per year.
These are just some of the problems occurring in the ocean.
Some also blame the ocean's bad health on deforestation, ocean acidity, sunscreen for destroying coral, etc.
It's probably a combination of ALL of the above things.
Either way, the ocean is in bad shape. and the fish populations are dangerously low.
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Oh ..I believe it is a combination too, and that there are synergistic opportunities.
But why deny 'the icing on the cake'?
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Yes, Fukushima is definitely the "icing on the cake" imo, especially with regard to what's happening in the Pacific.
As we all know, 80% of the radiation from 3 nuclear meltdowns landed in the Pacific Ocean and has travelled to the California coastline, affecting sea-life along the way.
Thinking globally of the ocean, here's just a theory on another way radionuclides could be affecting ocean health with regard to Plankton:
Plankton gets its energy from the sun's rays which penetrate 100 meters deep.
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oops, not finished.
So Plankton gets its energy from the sun's rays which penetrate 100 meters deep.
Aren't most of the radionuclides from nuclear meltdowns, etc., found within the first 100 meters of water?
Are these radionuclides blocking the sun's rays from reaching the Plankton; or killing the micro-Plankton as the radionuclides settle into the ocean; or interacting negatively with other elements in the ocean, thereby suffocating elemental ocean life?
This is pre-coffee. Sorry if it makes the brain hurt
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Very nail-on-the-head of you! Plankton also gives off 50-70% of the world's oxygen. And what affects the plankton (via radiation) bio-accumulates, then bio-magnifies up the food chain.
And they think that the problem is "global warming" and "climate change"? Just curtail fossil fuels and it all gets fixed? Don't they have to also BREATHE?? And not produce deformed children? And not eat poisonous food or drink poisonous water?
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We Americans had better get over here and destroy this reef as quickly as possible before any other country gets the credit! Damn.. can't have any life out there that is healthy now can we!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3554588/Massive-600-mile-long-reef-mouth-Amazon-Scientists-stunned-discovery-say-threat-oil-exploration.html
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All of conditions and progression of conditions have and are being studied.
IMHO, even in combination as they are and have been.. does not constitutes a condition that provides for the rapid onset of vast mortality across the species.
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Hey Heart! PUN Chas; we battle on as we may against the institutional liars;
How to get others to see truths so painful; how to get them to consider a story so tragic; they look away;
the nuclear rationale at the beginning was "We know there will be a few additional (how they underestimated and understated) cancers and leukemias but what the hell, 50,000 people die on the highways each year from car accidents and still we drive" (that number has gone down) so basically Gofman, Sternglass and Mancuso (not to mention Einstein and Oppenheimer) were right: uranium fission power plants have received a license to murder (how many we know not precisely, nor whom, either)
and then a meltdown times 3 (Fukushima) confirms the dire results of the 1992 Rhine River Reactor Meltdown simulation; the solubility of the corium is truly monstrous and diabolical (Helen Caldicott);
and still nuclear apologists cling to their lies: "no one has died from the radiation" etc. etc.
and so we carry on with our lives trapped aboard a planet which has been irreversibly altered by some men's insatiable appetite for money, power and influence through over-use of uranium fission technology;
truly it must have seemed an imperative to once dominant Great Britain, in 1945, as she pondered a reduced role for the Empire, in a fossil fuel world, with all that uranium in Canada and Australia; and all that Rothschild banker money for weapons to invest and keep happy.
peace all
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The nuclear industry seems to have no problem rationalizing cancer deaths and leukemia traded for an energy source.
Remember that Dr. Gofman theorized there would be 1,600 cancer deaths per year for each nuclear power plant running.
That would mean that the nuclear industry says it's A-Okay to have 158,400 cancer deaths per year in the U.S. alone (1,600 X 99 operating plants in the U.S.)
Worldwide it would mean the nuclear industry is saying it's A-Okay with them if 700,800 people die of cancer due to nuclear energy every year (1,600 X 438 operating plants worldwide)
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Mack, but think of all the "wealth" created by treating those cancers. The Precious!
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You are so right, stock! Global cancer treatments alone were 100 Billion Dollars in 2015!
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The Precious Plutonium! What nuclear reactors do is create the precious plutonium for weapons of mass destruction. It's about having the ultimate weapons; not boiling water.
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We should research corporations who own both nuclear energy AND chemotherapy drugs. These are the ultimate EVIL on Earth. Rip off electric ratepayers to make plutonium for bombs. Spew fission byproducts into the environment. Directly cause innumerable cancers, birth defects, diseases, neurological problems. Rip off medical patients by overcharging them for radiation "treatments" including chemo. It's all so sick and wrong. Hell awaits these nuclear profiteers
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I think you've accurately described the General Electric business plan post 1945 … except for … 'and build expensive diagnostic equipment … CAT scans which give you additional dose … so you can see yourself dying live on TV …. from a disease we gave you' …. while they extract the "maximum of the consumer surplus" …. your last dollar of hard won savings from a life spent soaking up their radioisotopes … which, it is important to remember, were never necessary to make in the first place!!! Conventional chemical explosives finished off the Third Reich … and Japan was finished by March '45; suing for peace by July … and the United States controlled the entirety of the world inventory of special nuclear materials …
Then GE got the US government to sponsor the RIDICULOUS 'Atoms for Peace' program …. a sop to the uranium ore owning business interests (including the oil majors) and away we all blew … like the down off a thistle;
So late now to change such a heavy rolling chain of disaster …
Still we 'newsers will try to shed the light on these weighty matters …. as we ride the spaceship called Earth to its eventual 'business-caused' doom … the uranium business … the ultimate business of death is slowly faltering … Cameco just cut 500 jobs in Saskatchewan; uranium spot price is hovering below $26.00 a pound … an eleven year low in nominal dollars for a metal which had better been left in the ground!
peace …
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" we battle on as we may against the institutional liars;"
And battle data control and risk perception management.
Forget Fukushima: Chernobyl still holds record as worst nuclear accident for public health
4/25/2016
"Fukushima in contrast, was an unfortunate natural disaster – caused by a tsunami that flooded reactor basements – and the workers acted responsibly to mitigate the damage despite loss of electrical power."
http://theconversation.com/forget-fukushima-chernobyl-still-holds-record-as-worst-nuclear-accident-for-public-health-57942
LIAR.
What else does he lie about?
Timothy J. Jorgensen, PhD
"And since 2006, he has served on the National Council for Radiation Protection (NCRP), an independent body of academics that advises the federal government on setting safety limits for radiation exposure to the public."
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It's about the amount of original material onsite.
Chernobyl 1, Fukushima 3(4)-6, worth of material ..throw in some SFPs.
The difference ..geological and human effort.
Chernobyl .. containment ..partial at best.
Fukushima .. a fountain and at the moment ..a slushy wall.
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The words of President John F. Kennedy
July 26, 1963 re: nuclear testing
[excerpt]
“…this is not a natural health hazard and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby who may be born long after we are gone, should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.”
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/JFK-Speeches/Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty_19630726.aspx
The mass psychology of the denial/apathy, media manipulation, political failures and academic tunnel vision regarding 3 ACTIVE NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS that sit on an aquifer which feeds the ocean is beyond astounding to me.
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Ned I'm with you 100% they went ahead and created the means to destroy the planet as a "deterrent" ?????????? It's the most effective way that man has to end our world and they went for it? With a shitload of money and effort mind you! Imagine if that effort was used build great things and make life wonderful for everybody! What a sick group of sadists these people are and were. Now there's no turning back for the rest of this planets existence! What a shit sandwich these guys gave us. And they have most people in the industry and public so convinced they need it and it's jobs etc. they will never be shut down, we will just wait for them to melt down one by one (or a dozen or two) until they are melted down and all life ceases to exist. It's as if man exists solely to destroy themselves and all other life as their porpose or destiny. Or it's just some random stupid shit that just worked out that way. Same shit sandwich any way you slice it!
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I wonder if the Pacific's problems have anything to do with what happened in Japan in Fukushima Prefecture a few years ago? Weren't there some incident or other involving several reactors?
Never mind. Let us join in celebrating MOX fuel, plutonium energy salvation. Very clever technology. Like harnessing the devil on steroids. Homo sapiens sapiens finest hour.
http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2010/03/09/areva-mox-fuel-provides-electricity-for-the-second-time-in-japan-03092#.Vx4ZRfkrJAk
Then let us gaze with wonder at Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3, after having converted to the salvation:
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm
Now that's what I call a glitch.
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I'm wondering if you have chain reaction china syndromes out of the inferior containment vessel, would those reactions alter the temperature of the pacific ocean over say 5 years and are they still filling and adding expansion tanks, or just dumping it all in the sea?
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ISHI: Unlikely that the corium in the ground could heat the entire ocean.
Pretty easy to calculate the total calories of heat available in 257 tonnes of fuel assemblies.
This question has come up before, and I believe several posters offered their calculations at those times.
Too few calories in the corium to heat an entire ocean.
But Tepco gave it a good try.
Going so far as to let an UNDERGROUND RIVER wash the UNDERGROUND CORIUM into the ocean for FIVE YEARS!
With NO EFFORT to divert the groundwater around the reactor ruins.
There is also the problem of decay reactions in metal nuclides floating in the Pacific Ocean, plus their chemical reactions with seawater and chemicals in the sea.
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Thank you Oldster. These are the best pics I've seen. My sister is a marine biologist in a major position with a highly respected California Academy. She is basically blind to any possibility that Fukushima has anything to do with what's going on in the Pacific Ocean. I have sent her these pictures….Will it make a difference? Probably not, but we keep trying…
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I have a sister who was working at such a place (Monterey, "seafloor"), and she has the very same affliction. Wonder what they put int heir coffee there… or, maybe it's just simple willful ignorance for a paycheck.
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Found some strong Chernobyl is not where wildlife or humans thrive sort of news today
15 April Svetlana Alexievich: ‘Ten to 15 of my childhood friends from Minsk died of cancer. Chernobyl kills’ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/books-interview-svetlana-alexievich-nobel-laureate-2015-chernobyl-30th-anniversary?CMP=share_btn_tw
25 Apil Belarus ignoring risks of farming near Chernobyl? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/chernobyl-radiation-belarus-farm-produce-milk-high-level-radiation/
25 April Medical Implications of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-medical-implications-of-the-1986-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster
25 April 30 years later, fallout continues from Chernobyl: Belarusian milk shows elevated radiation levels chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2016/04/25/30-years-later-fallout-continues-from-chernobyl-belarusian-milk-shows-elevated-radiation-levels/
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continuing w/chern from cbs news
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-30-years-chernobyl-repair-racing-against-time/
also is everyone aware this occurred yesterday
http://www.mydailyinformer.com/earths-magnetosphere-collapsed-in-space-today-for-two-hours-trouble-ahead-for-all-of-us/
apologize if these links are a repeat from other ene posters
papy out
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Yes. papacares. Ty. http://www.mydailyinformer.com/earths-magnetosphere-collapsed-in-space-today-for-two-hours-trouble-ahead-
for-all-of-us/
"While the magnetopause shields us to some extent from the solar wind, it is far from impenetrable, and energy, mass, and momentum are transferred from the solar wind to regions inside Earth’s magnetosphere."
"The interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, and the influence of the underlying atmosphere and ionosphere, creates various regions of fields, plasmas, and currents inside the magnetosphere such as the plasmasphere, the ring current, and radiation belts."
"Even worse, during this outage of the magnetosphere, the arrows on the image below show complete reversal of Interstellar magnetic flows around earth; the arrows show all the magnetic energy from interstellar space is moving back toward the Sun!"
"Just over two hours later, the Magnetosphere was back and all the Solar wind magnetic energy is once again flowing away from the sun."
"Hang-on, folks. We could be in for quite a ride over the next few days as this strange occurrence plays out in earth's weather and seismic events."
Peace
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PinkClouds, I would be very cautious about how to interpret the NASA data. Some flux reversal from a magnetic swirl coming off the sun perhaps? An outage of the magnetosphere? Im not seeing it
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Yes. CodeShutdown. Ty. I always appreciate your input. I should have said magnetopause. I haven't conveyed clearly that I am a novice at looking at these charts/graphs/videos on these topics. I will be able to discuss these fascinating topics,more authoritatively,hopefully,within a short time.
Peace
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These poor sea creatures suffer a drawn out long painful death so the criminals at General Electric and the American war machine can profit. I only hope the coria melt their way to the underground DUMBS a vote for Hillary is yet another war criminal in power. We spent 800 billion on defense. We have Zero threats. Imagine if we spent 800 billion to try to stop Fukushima and to protect the sea life still here. Where is the humanity?
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Sea creatures first, eagles, animals, humans.
Tell Kevin to keep a lookout for destabilization in the London financial markets. Something big is on the way.
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Zero threats, Kitty? That's hallucinatory…
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I think Kitty meant " Real " not " Imagined " threats. We have nothing to fear but fear it's self. A wise statement.
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EMP, the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, Iran, our open borders, the various viruses held by governments all over the world etc, etc, etc… are NOT imagined threats
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When was the last time the Russians attacked a country not filled with Russian speaking people? Or China? Or North Korea? You may think Russia 'attacked' the Ukraine, BUT, they only went in to assist the people that SPEAK RUSSIAN and consider themselves to be RUSSIAN. China did go into North Korea but we were there killing the North Koreans first. Iran? Who have they EVER attacked that didn't attack them first? The U.S. is the only country on earth that attacks and kills foreign countries for no reason what so ever. So, really, Its All False…..
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The only thing Americans have to fear is themselves.
We are Fukushima.
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Our govt and military has become the ultimate threat to humanity. Nuclear is the all powerful weapon the US govt brandishes to intimidate all who might oppose US. If our govt were not also so corrupt it might not be as scary but alas our leaders are some of the most corrupted puppets on Earth. Spending another $1 TRILLION of money we do not have on nuke weapons is absolutely INSANE AND CRIMINAL!!!
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Why would they want to kill their cash-cow? The implied threat has and always will create more opportunities for profit and justification for the government and it's military on both sides! They know it, we have been played for fools.
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Nuclear, inbreeding, pedophilia, voc's in aquifers, evil dust everywhere etc, we're on top of the world!
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Pretty well said..
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Another one bites the dust. Dead whale washes up at SONGS yesterday
http://m.ocregister.com/articles/whale-713433-dead-carcass.html
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Stop killing our Krill.
Radiation bio-magnifies up to 2,000,000 time in Chitin. Chitin forms the exoskeleton of Krill and Bees. What animals are being pounded into near extinction? All the ones that use Chitin (pronouced Kai-ten) in their bodies or that consume critters that use Chitin are being decimated.
This needs to become common knowledge, so we can stop killing our bio-sphere with radioactive toxins. The scientific proof is here, spread the word. IT IS NOT OVERFISHING!
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-scientific-basis-for-destruction-of.html
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Stock,
Excellent work on collecting this Chitin-Radiation relationship. Everyone should check out nukeprofessional.blogspot.com to see the information about how Chitin is damaged by rads.
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At some point in this ongoing slow death of our planet some way of removing as much radiation from our environment if we live that long would be a greater achievement than creating the mess in the first place! It sounds like there's a possibility with Chitin any method should be looked into, we just have to wait for the world to realize it needs to be done and done asap! That's going to take precious time that looks like we are running short on. Right now people trying to expose the danger from all nuclear thing man-made are in a similar position as the intellectuals are in dictatorships, someone to discredit and eliminate! It's going to be a painful uphill battle but staying silent is not the answer!
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off coast of oregon I have seen no whales for several months now, at my favorite beach hideout yesterday there was nothing on the rocks that used to be covered with life – the whole place was as if it had been scrubbed clean – few Mures, lots of gulls appeared to be about one quarter of the birds usually found in the area – also a question to the group here – is anyone suffering from this new ailment rightly named "chemflu" – anything to tell us about this new threat Onto?
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemtrail-flu-have-you-had-it-yet/
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SPelling police stock here====
We were at the Murres, now we are past the Murres
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I spent probably 20 hours on the beaches of Oahu on my last solar blast.
I did not see a single whale. It was peak time.
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I saw one pod of 5-7 whales off Huntington Beach CA back on March 10th 2016. They were feeding within 500 yds of shore. Looked to be small baitfish they were going after. Did not see the pod again but only looked for about 15 min each morning at dawn. Unknown species of baleen whales.
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I lost the conversation about CERN.
But they are proud to share.
Material that is of no use to the average person, but it conveys involvement, to thwart the query as to WHAT PURPOSE and what dangers may apply.
Science isn’t Stingy: CERN Makes 300 TBs of Supercollider Data Free Online
4/24/2016
http://sputniknews.com/science/20160424/1038520146/large-hadron-collider-data.html#ixzz46rBgLJah
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Blind mice and bird brains: the silent spring of Chernobyl and Fukushima
April 25 2016
"Fukushima cannot necessarily be blamed, as some would wish, but the compounding and potentially synergistic effect of radiation in the Pacific could still be taking its toll, Mousseau avowed.
"We don't know how different environmental stresses interact with each other", he said. "They could be synergistic and related. There is almost no research on this even in the Pacific off Fukushima – virtually nothing on the biological consequences in really contaminated areas."
With "little real science" to rely on, Mousseau says, "we will never know" just how much marine damage the Fukushima disaster may do.
He finds the continued lack of other independent animal studies in radioactive zones frustrating. "We have a responsibility to protect the environment and wildlife, not just man", he said. It may be expensive and difficult to conduct these kinds of studies, but, says Mousseau, "that is not an excuse."
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987598/blind_mice_and_bird_brains_the_silent_spring_of_chernobyl_and_fukushima.html
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Yes. Heart of the Rose. Ty.
http://www.theecologist.orgNewsnews_analysis/2987598/blind_mice_and_bird_brains_the_silent_spring_of_chernobyl_and_fukushima.html
This is a powerful statement coming from a real Scientist:
The consequences of radiation exposure, says Mousseau, "will have a tremendous impact on the quality of life of these animals, and the length of quality of life. It need not necessarily be cancers", that cause these damages he said. "There is no doubt that the levels of radiation in Chernobyl and Fukushima generate genetic damage."
This statement categorically contradicts the IAEA and WHO assessments.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/51087283/Environmental-consequences-of-the-chernobyl-accident
"At present, traces of adverse radiation effects on biota can hardly be found in the near vicinity of the radiation source (a few kilometres from the damaged reactor), and on the rest of the territory both wild plants and animals are flourishing because of the removal of the major natural stressor: humans."
I trust Dr. Mousseau.
Peace
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I trust Dr. Mousseau, too.
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For space weather, no one does it better than this Citizen scientist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXvwT4lpbt4
Suspicious Observers
I would like to see his take on CERN
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magnetic reversal….i been on this for years, its real
here is another site
http://magneticreversal.org/
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Stock, were you able to find the original data for the graph in that video that seems to show Earth's shield going to zero this year or next?
"Number 1 Risk To Earth" video.
I can't seem to find any data like this with a search for "Earth's Weakening Shield", the title of that graph.
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Stock,
This video:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwi61fiXwarMAhVimoMKHe80D4gQjhwIBQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26ved%3D0ahUKEwj6h_mMwarMAhWEvoMKHTC1BHYQjhwIBQ%26url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.youtube.com%252Fwatch%253Fv%253Drxo6L255Pp0%26psig%3DAFQjCNEVuQnFkF8DyKaTUZDu_IdW6wC89Q%26ust%3D1461698313658656%26rct%3Dj&psig=AFQjCNEVuQnFkF8DyKaTUZDu_IdW6wC89Q&ust=1461698313658656&rct=j
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PUN yep great video, slapping back the AA club Academic Assholes
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Pacific Sardine Collapse worsens…
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/03/as_pacific_sardine_collapse_wo.html
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So, when will it all be over?
" "I don't want to take a pessimistic view, but I would think we'll be shut down until 2030," said Ryan Kapp, a Bellingham fisherman who advises the Pacific Fishery Management Council on sardines and other fish.
From my link above.
My, that view is optomistic, don't you think, Ryan?
Anyone want to buy a used fishing trawler?
Business idea for all the unemployed fishermen:
Buy and flip fishing trawlers.
Rennovate them as yachts for the 1%!
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PUN sick but true
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Wow, PUN, that article is very telling.
It says
* sardines are down to 7% of their high amounts
* that "warm blob" of water is still hanging out in the ocean
(Caused by Fukushima fallout, says me)
* NOAA is linking the sardine crash to the starving sea lions
(but what's casing the sardine crash, NOAA ??? )
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*spelling == should be causing not casing
* the sardine crash is having a ripple effect; affecting pelicans, salmon, birds
Did everyone know that they feed sardines to farmed fish –> something like 10 million tons of sardines, herring and mackerel are ground up as fish meal and fed to farmed fish.
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What Sardine Collapse? Warning – Industry Denialist article follows -
http://www.montereyherald.com/article/NF/20160423/LOCAL1/160429920
Who is the author? Well…
https://start.cortera.com/company/research/l1o4puo0o/db-pleschner–associates/
and oh look -
Officers (constitute Executive Committee)
President Vince Torre, Tri-Marine Fish Company
Vice President David Haworth, F/V Barbara H
Secretary – Treasurer Mike Carpenter, Sun Coast Calamari
Executive Director Diane Pleschner-Steele, DB Pleschner & Associates
In other words, the paid PR denialist shill for the industry front.
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http://www.californiawetfish.org/board.html
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Its really past time for humanity to become serious about eating less animals.. every individual (or most) has still the luxury of free will about that..use wisely to make the switch comfortable and in your own pace (but with an educated guessed urgency nevertheless)..
That luxury , just like all others , is dissapearing like snow on a bursting supervolcano..
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Around 1 Billion people rely on fish as their primary source of protein.
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Yes.. the bill is going to be rough.. but we created the deficit and couldent care less then or now.. there is no way to avoid the bill.. but its a luxury to still be able to make choices about it..that won't last..
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worse than previously thought…
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/21/fish-stocks-low-worse-official-figures
The global fishing industry is very like the global nuke industry.
They have their cabal, or stable, of bought-and-paid-for scientists, their hired professional shills as well as amateurs, their backers in national governments, the suite of routine lies they trot out, the cherry-picking, data-omitting wrong conclusions, the very vested interest in maintaining the rape.
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ruh roh, fish catch has declined by over 1m tonnes every year since 1996. They forgot to add that 90% of the top predator fish are gone already. Too many human type apes killing and poisoning everything. By far the worlds most dangerous animal
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ya Code, as an obsserver, I don't care for that species much.
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Everyone/thing is eating someone/thing…
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I wanted to ask you Stock, Have you seen any whale sign?
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Alive whale sign?
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Answered up in top of thread.
Nope, not ONE.
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I saw one pod of 5-7 baleen whales off Huntington Beach CA, 3.10.16
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2 of the science denialists are named in this article.
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2012/04/exaggerated-claims-about-over-fishing-of-the-oceans.html
you could think of them as being like those others -J Cullem and Ken Pukular – but those are not their names.
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the world's fisheries are likely to have completely collapsed by 2048….huh, well thats about the time we can expect 100% autism in newborns. By then it will be too late to get it through our heads that endless procreation, exploitation, and pollution wasnt such a good idea after all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDzCOyhFXM
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Wild-caught fish versus farmed fish, over time:
http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C55
Wild-caught fishing peaked about 1990.
Farmed fish production has rapidly caught up with wild-caught production.
I would try to stay away from both.
In China, they feed farmed fish hog manure.
Farmed fish are poisoned by eating fish feces.
Ugh!
All seafood from the Pacific Ocean should be considered poisonous nuclear waste.
Hell, I don't even buy cat food made with seafood any more.
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sound familiar?
"When Ruth Thurston and I published our
research on the Clyde in 2010,
many fishermen and others familiar wit
h the area agreed with our conclusion.
But industry leaders were not pleased.
In one newspaper report the heads of
two of two Scottish fishing organisat
ions between them deployed the three
favourite tactics of those in denial:
attack the science, slander the scientists
and blame something else (pollution
seals and climate change were the
straws to which they clutched.)"
http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0044/00441266.pdf
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They have since simplified the blame to climate change. Its easier for befuddled scientists to remember one cause than three.
Funny the industry slander the scientists when they are right and we pick up and slander them when they are wrong. Poor guys
If there was ever a time, they need LSD now
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/11/lsd-impact-brain-revealed-groundbreaking-images
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Scientists need to integrate their left and right hemispheres a little. You can actually see the physical change in their features as they go through school, become fixed into the linear reductionist way of thinking
a recommended TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight?language=en
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Overfishing denialists -
Ray Hilborn University of Washington, Seattle USA
Robert Arlinghaus Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Germany
Kevern Cochrane FAO Retired, Cape Town, South Africa
Stephen Hall, World Fish Center, Penang, Malaysia
Olaf Jensen, Rutgers University
Ana Parma CONICET Puerto Madryn Argentina
Tony Smith, Hobart Australia
Nobuyuki Yagi, The University of Tokyo
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or-well, my apology for tagging onto and interrupting your important thread. Somehow I was just going with the flow of extinction, to whatever delightful ports it would take me
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Hey Code – no harm, no interruption, actually my posts need spacing out otherwise they can be ignored all at once instead of one at a time…
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or-well:
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This was the telling quote to me
"Even with fishing pressures lifted, sardines could struggle to bounce back in an ocean devoid of their main food source. The lipid-rich coldwater plankton that sardines like to eat are becoming scarcer…"
An ocean devoid of their main food source — coldwater plankton.
Stunning admission. The plankton are disappearing.
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Scientists are blinded by nuclear science! Theyve all been hoodwinked by the ICRP model! Its as simple as that.
Radiation testing wont reveal death and illness due to fallout. Radioactive iodine has damaged thyroids but is no longer detectable. Other short lived isotopes have also done their damage and are no longer detectable. Cesium has been shown to be dangerous 50 bq/kg, even 10 bq/kg and this will be totally dismissed by science as one hundredth the level of concern.
Radiographs show that nuclear fallout forms point sources in living beings. High 'specific activity' radioisotopes dont remain evenly dispersed, and are not diluted at the atomic or nanoparticle level. Thus radioactivity measurements averaged over any significant quantity of tissue may be misleading.
photo showing natural compositional sorting…in this case magnetite.
http://geologycafe.com/images/ano_nuevo_sand.jpg
radiographs showing point source radionuclide deposition and biological sorting
http://www.haa.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/MorizumiFlier%20image.jpg
strontium lung scan
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEfc_DAik9eZBP6PDAClf65kV6qT9Rd0FNHripIMatWZOdRVRG
from
http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/arrd.1973.108.3.441?journalCode=arrd
The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly
Atsuki Hiyama, Chiyo Nohara
deterioration is due to artificial radionuclides from the Fukushima
http://www…
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This is a good paper to show to marine scientists who are blinded by the ICRP model. Chiyo Nohara died doing research, showing an LD50 for a butterfly larva of 2 becquerels
The biological impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the pale grass blue butterfly
Atsuki Hiyama, Chiyo Nohara
deterioration is due to artificial radionuclides from Fukushima
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00570
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Code, thank you for bringing up Chiyo Nohara.
I didn't realize the lengths with which she put herself in harm's way to bring us the butterfly study.
Her first trip to Fukushima was on May 13, 2011, for 6 days.
Then,
"It was Chiyo and her husband who made the trips to the contaminated territories to collect contaminated oxalis – 15 trips in the space of 18 months.
Inevitably Chiyo worried about her health. A friend said [2] 'every time she went to Fukushima to collect butterflies, and every time she measured the radiation level of the contaminated oxalis, her physical condition deteriorated. But she did not want young students to do the job.' "
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She died of a heart attack in October 2015.
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Honouring_the_Life_and_Work_of_Chiyo_Nohara.php
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This s how I will remember Chiyo, samurai of the butterfly.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vickisnature/6883020544/
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That's very nice, Hillbilly.
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Radionuclides are not evenly distributed. The usual measurements of radiation wont show these point sources and the average radiation dose may seem low level.
A lobster claw showing point source distribution of radioactive calcium and strontium in the chitin shell of a lobster
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS48CTYCq3C5zOALvLMmQ-5PYeFImgUpUeQEDvMaz3YJzx-wotB
from
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237585446_The_Distribution_of_Mineral_Material_in_the_Calcified_Carapace_and_Claw_Shell_of_the_American_Lobster_Homarus_americanus_Evaluated_by_Means_of_Microroentgenograms
uneven distribution of nuclear fallout in trees shown by autoradiographs. Point source ionic and voltage fields disturb the bioelectric field which is a regulator of morphogenesis. Measuring bulk becquerels and using the ICRP sievert system will not show this
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRPciPEQAqoO6_tEjkQqHazUV1zr_6zJSUlq_xw7Q-MA42u9WA
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Correct!
Better be careful where you sit, stand, walk, run, and what you eat, breath and drink these days..
http://www.naturalnews.com/030125_thyroid_cancer_radioactive_iodine.html
The problems is now growing in leaps and bounds after all these Nuclear meltdowns,
TMI
http://news.psu.edu/story/325718/2014/09/10/research/thyroid-cancer-rates-pennsylvania-rising-faster-rest-country
Chernobyl
https://www.mskcc.org/blog/study-reveals-genetic-causes-thyroid-increase-after-chernobyl
Fukushima
http://www.integrativecanceranswers.com/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-increased-thyroid-cancer-in-u-s/
Genetics is a real science..humans can't trash their DNA fast enough.
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oops..the is should be an are.
The problems "are" now growing in leaps and bounds after all these Nuclear meltdowns,
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A note for both anti nuke radiation chasers and Fukushima deniers;
The world and our bodies have always been radioactive but only nuclear fallout causes a Graveyard of washed-up sea life.
Thus dont be fooled by the background to man made radiation comparison or the ICRP science standard. 70 bq/kg of constant internal radiation from potassium is not dangerous, but 70 bq/kg from C-137 causes heart damage and morbidity
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How does background stand up to say….a very large body of water?
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HillBilly, Im sorry, please explain?
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Yes, Code, too simplistic a question, sorry.
If you were to get a background reading above, say a fuel pool…and then IN the pool itself, under water, what would the comparison be? I am wondering, I guess, how one might measure "background" in water? The ocean comes to mind, also. Not to rely on background for Fukushima study, of course, but instead, to understand this "background" meme and the underlying fault comparison to measure nuclear events…as opposed to a specific isotope or location of said isotope and it's specific properties.
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HillBilly Im not sure that I understand yet. Stock gives a calculation here
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/radiation-in-ocean-how-large-is-natural.html
MVB talks about his revelations on K-40 here
https://allegedlyapparent.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/potassium-40-food-beans-seaweed-radiation/
I wasnt as concerned with how they measure background but instead how they dont measure it. It was the ion exchange resin that got me thinking about biological analogs.
There is little doubt the ocean has always had about 12,000 bq/m3 (varying with salinity) pre nuclear era. This is also about the level that our scientists have allowed for Cesium-137, based on a linear, and failed extrapolation from poor bomb survivor data. We have about 5 times as much radiation naturally inside our cells from the same element. Its no wonder that a scientist can dismiss 10 bq/m3 of C-137 when there is 60,000 bq/m3 at all times in your cells. Unfortunately, they were wrong. What can you expect from a three pound ape brain? Too bad it takes common fools to point out their errors. Too bad they wont listen.
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What are our method options for testing the ocean, currents and background for Fukushima? Not just cesium -137 in one lab. Surely we have more than these results? Is that a scintillator? Why not actual radiation readings at the specimen locations? They had bouys for currents…Why not radar sensor buoys for Fukushima? And what happens when you take a Geiger underwater in Fuku harbor? Thy give results for specific isotopes, but no "background".
Of course, I have no idea about these methods. Probably apparent…
Like sands through the hourglass, Fukushima is upon us.
"Detection Options"
http://www.omega.com/literature/transactions/volume4/T9904-14-RAD.html
Geiger, ion chamber, scintillation, radiation gages, nuclear sensors…
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HillBilly, some have identified C-137 and strontium as the elements of greatest concern after Chernobyl. We dont see strontium tests very often. Buesseler says they are about 1/40 that of C-137.
But radiation readings may not tell the story. What we have is the ultimate uncontrolled poisoning experiment.
Devastation of the food chain could occur and leave little detectable radiation. We have the combination of exotic forms of fallout with pre existing pollutants like plastic, the tsunami washout of chemicals from Japan, unknown leaks from chemical dumps and runnoff, hypoxic zones, overfished loss of biodiversity. The only scientific and valid conclusion is to simply witness what is happening. When you poison the ocean, the ocean gets poisoned.
Testing, while much desired and much lacking, can lead, and has already lead to misunderstanding, a downplaying of Fukushima as a cause. Not due to lies necessarily. THey have the ICRP model, they dont need lies!
Im saying that testing amounts of radiation is not deterministic unless you already know the effect of said levels, and they dont. But now we do! The way forward is not testing, but admission that if you poison an ecosystem, the system is poisoned whether you know exactly how or not…
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A note to marine biologists; remember what you learned; ecology is a web of life. You wont detect a thorn in a lion anywhere unless you find the paw it is festering in. Yet the thorn could cause the lion to die from starvation or infection or losing a fight.
Just remember this when you throw out any possibility of Fukushima impacting sea life; you deny that approximately 10,000 dirty Hiroshima bombs can do anything to the ecosystem and thus imply there is no nuclear deterrent. Is that really where you are at?
When you refer to your mother ship Woods Hole, remember this;
"we live in a sea of radiation, the danger was insignificant until man added new radioisotopes.–Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds–"
Is this true or do you dismiss it out of hand? It is true. Look at the specific activity of the different radioisotopes and realize there is no such thing as a homogenious dilution factor. Scientists have shown; 70 bq/kg from K-40 is harmless, 70 bq/kg of C-137 is deadly
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We are running out of time..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3558185/Dead-whale-washes-popular-California-surf-spot.html
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Fukushima 3 was a nuclear type explosion, the nuke cartel will go to any length to cover this up since it will be the death of nuclear power when the general public understands they can blow up in a nuclear runaway criticality. Proof is here
http://nukeprofessional.blogsp…
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Well at least they're STARTING to worry!
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Bill gates again with nuclear:
http://www.techinsider.io/bill-gates-talks-private-nuclear-fission-plant-terrapower-2016-4
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What an asshat that one is.
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"..In the interview, Gates said TerraPower's pilot plant will be built in China with a slated completion date of 2024. That arrival date would mean "sometime in the 2030s you’d have a design that you’d hope all new nuclear builds would adopt, because the economics, safety, waste, and all the key parameters are dramatically improved," Gates said in the interview.."
"safety, waste, and all the key parameters are dramatically improved.."
Hey billy boy , "dramatically improved" is not going to save us..
How about "Dramatically" reversing ALL the damage done so far on ALL levels to the planet , the only one we can scientifically proof to support life as we know it and need it around us to be alive ourselfes,..how about DRAMATICALLY fast reversing Fukushima from a global killer to a biological neutral zone..
Before moving that psychologically deseased by unethical gained monopoly and uber-richness mouth in favor of more of the same dead-end , i'm uncontrollable and have no mercy , technollogy..
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Pretty much the ONLY countries moving ahead with nuclear are countries that have little or no functional democracy left. Autocratic countries seem to be attracted to nuclear bombs and nuclear plants.
Poison attracts poison.
Poison creates more poison.
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Gates is a nuker profiteer. His vaccines have paralyzed tens of thousands of children. He has made repeated statements about wanting to reduce the human population… nukes and sinister vaccines are great tools for reducing the population.
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We were told many moons ago this was going to happen in the bible…
Dont hate me cause I Believe.It will get far worse before it gets better.
In my view of the bible,there wont be a "rapture" no "magic bus"to paradise.I hope when the time comes I will strong enough not to deny my Maker.
Love em if ya got em:)
Peace.
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The Bible. This book has caused more death, destruction and suffering than any other book. EVER. It's full of fictionalized events and non-sense. Believe what you want fool…..
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Thanks, I will
Peace
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The bible is one of the greatest cypher codes in this universe, if ONLY known by the key users. Misinterpreted it can be a great danger. A destroyer of worlds. You have wisdom, but I would urge you to revisit it, as it is coming of age where understanding the scriptures will reveal … this book was meant for this generations understanding.
Cloning genetic engineering and DNA manipulation
Aliens
Atomic explosions centuries ago
Falls of civilisations and the reasons for their fall
Even the destruction of the false gospel and its anti-christ imposter
You can get it free on the internet in pdf, you don't need a robber to charge you for what should be free.
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There has been a ton of information created by others and then forced into billions of human minds.. Enjoy!
Bill Hicks- It s Just A Ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwV0fqEQrw
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Poor guy was not on this ride for a very long time.
Thanks Nuclear!
"The elder Hicks would say, "I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God." And Bill would counter, "No it's not, Dad." "Well, I believe that it is." "Well," Bill replied, "you know, some people believe that they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth."[8]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks
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forced into minds….
yeah, like the bitch-o-pedia
http://www.beachapedia.org/Radiation_From_Fukushima
ha ha. Fucking nuketards. Just put your towel a couple of yards away from those corpses. Never mind the smell. Free copies of bitch-o-pedia and a lemonade.
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yet they have an article like this:
http://www.beachapedia.org/Illicit_Connections_and_Illicit_Discharges
Who frigging cares, it's all diluted anyway, right?
Only if it's nuclear pollution, it's ok. Doh
DDT and Dioxin, etc… here's an idea: Add curium and plutonium, then just dump it in the sea! Radioactive dilution! Magic. "I want my royalties"
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Is anyone taking water samples off the coast of Fukushima?
I thought they did some time ago, but it would seem like someone would be doing this on a periodic timeframe. Once a month, quarter, year?
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AirSep – tweeter "uketukeman" is doing a great job keeping up with radiation leaked around the Fukushima complex, the underground reservoir, the groundwater…but that's all I know about:
https://twitter.com/uketukeman
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AirSep…I think that fishing has resumed near Fukushima and they declare most (all?) fish are below the 100 bq/kg safety limit
detected in the fish were below the central government’s safety standard of 100 becquerels per kilogram
http://www.fukushima-is-still-news.com/2015/10/salmon-fishing-resumes-in-fukushima.html
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Thanks guys, I'll check out uketukeman, I remember the fish ok'd.
ya, ok, as they all croak. 4000mi away. hmmmm
I am just 'baffled' they do not post this s#it,,,,, like the tide reports, sea temps, etc. To squelch the bafflegab, questioning, etc.
Even if it was total BS, you would think it would be a logical ploy.
I'm a gonna go out in the yard, bang my head on some bricks.
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AirSep…the Bikini island reefs, Chernobyl and Belarus give some idea of how nature gets along. Nature fills in with life, in Belarus, people carry on. But there is lasting devastation.
Scientists are unquestioning believers in their science. They really believe in their radiation safety and measurements. They look to see if the numbers fall below safety standard, not stopping to think that if you poison the sea and land, the land and sea are poisoned
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080415101021.htm
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The Denialist – black is white, no lie is too big
http://cfooduw.org/california-sardine-numbers-are-low-why-is-oceana-blaming-fishing/
the rebuttal
http://usa.oceana.org/blog/role-fishing-pacific-sardine-collapse
BTW this character limit is a steaming pile of dogcrap.
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Watch a denialist blow off the by-catch issue -
"Another issue that has had great publicity in fisheries is biodiversity impacts, often through by-catch of non-target species. Species like sharks, turtles, marine birds and mammals are caught in some kinds of fishing gear. While such by-catch can often be largely eliminated by good fishing practices, there is no denying that fishing impacts biodiversity. But again we see agriculture and livestock getting an almost clean bill of health."
Just like a fucking Nukist! Minimise, lie, pie-in-the-sky theoretical, deflection/diversion.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-25/computer-virus-discovered-german-nuclear-power-plant
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At Chernobyl and Fukushima, Radioactivity Has Seriously Harmed Wildlife
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-25/at-chernobyl-and-fukushima-radioactivity-has-seriously-harmed-wildlife
That article should be significantly doomy for an enenews headline story.
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"The 2011 power loss and core meltdown at three nuclear reactors there released about one-tenth as much radioactive material as the Chernobyl disaster." Power loss?
How bout meltdowns and explosions? one-tenth?
U.S. News… and nuke propaganda report
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Doomy: ADJECTIVE 1.suggesting or predicting disaster; ominous:
Yes, the ENE headline is "significantly doomy". That's what happens when you dump three living, breathing, planet killing nuclear reactors into the Pacific Ocean. Our worst reality.
Face your maker, or turn in shame.
http://www.valuewalk.com/2015/01/bankers-suicide-conspiracy/
Nuclear: You have met your maker.
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While Japanese limit their uptake to 100 bq/kg and USA to 1200 bq/kg . . . fish, whales, polar bears, sea lions, seals, salmon, just eat what is easy to catch. And their whole diet is seafood.
Eskimos are our 'canary in the coal mine.'
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When they start getting heart attacks and cancer, you know the evidence should be pretty obvious and well let's hope the Inuit stay healthy. http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-heart-disease-and-cancer/
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Synergy could be defined as "didn't see that coming." Water itself is my favored reference. Who would have thought that a couple of hydrogens coupling with oxygen could do so many amazing things that neither oxygen nor hydrogen alone gave little hint of. Like you and me, for the most part, dripping wet. Given those original 90 some-ish elements, that's a lot of combos – on the threshold of infinite – for life to play with and be subjected to.
And life is a wondrous achievement!
Then some lifeforms thought they were really smart, and started adding new elements to the earth and its residents. And the new stuff was typically heavy and unstable – active, or if you like, radioactive.
For example, the destiny of plutonium-238: Becomes uranium-234 whose alpha emitting primary destiny is to become thorium-234 which emits beta to become protactinium-234 which emits beta to become U-234 nuclei which becomes via alpha emission (for the most part) thorium-230.
The destiny of plutonium-241, half-life 14.4 years: It becomes alpha emitting weak gamma emitting americium-241, with a half-life of 432.2 years, which becomes the unnatural unstable element Neptunium-237:
Now the following is direct quote from Wikipedia: "Twenty neptunium radioisotopes have been characterized, with the most stable being 237Np with a half-life of 2.14 million years, 236Np with a half-life of 154,000 years, and 235Np with a half-life of 396.1 days…."
And so on. What could possibly…
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…go wrong?
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Hubris makes certain that life won't be long.
Oh, what a piece of work art man!
We are just sitting here waiting for the magnetosphere to go off for good. Then we may be blown-off of earth into the near absolute zero of space.
In the meantime we have all of the wealth and health transfer or diminishing mechanisms in place and being created to contend with.
Sad.
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"beach-goers stretch their towels yards away from the rotting corpses. 'This has been a coast-wide problem for the past four years.'"
If you wrote "Beach-goers stretch their towels yards away from the rotting corpses" on an elementary school paper you would probably be subjected to intensive psychological counseling.
But, the times they are a changing, and we will adjust to our new dead environment.
"After all, we all end up in a box anyway."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=166eY5_hn1I
GE — We bring dead things to life
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Nice wake up call..
Should the world buy/build more weapons of mass destruction?
The Pacific Ocean thinks not..
Humans have such potential.
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Trending — large beach towels with sea life skeletons. Investment opportunities abound.
New movie — burying Nemo.
Reactor Pop brand gmo popcorn.
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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/04/25/the-next-chernobyl-may-be-intentional/
The Great Debate
The next Chernobyl may be intentional
By Bennett Ramberg April 26, 2016
Chernobyl’s 30th anniversary on April 26 comes against the backdrop of growing apprehension that nuclear reactors may become a terrorist target.
Serious concern arose during the recent Islamic State attacks in Brussels. Evidence suggested that the assailants were considering a nuclear-related incident. The terrorists had a senior Belgian nuclear official under surveillance, and two former nuclear power-plant employees were reported to have joined Islamic State.
This may help explain why Belgian authorities rushed military forces to protect its nuclear plants. …
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Bennett Ramberg served as a policy analyst in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs in the George H.W. Bush administration. He is the author of “Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy.”
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The authorities rushed the soldiers to protect the reactors from the possibility of a terrorist attack that may come from the outside, but what about the terrorists/ijits working on the inside?
Remember Chernobyl was done by an experiment done by the staff on duty.
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That 'experiment' was more like sabotage, IMHO -
or intentional radiation assault upon the neighboring countries.
A nuclear plant as a corporate person had everything it needs for a suicide attack on those around it.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chernobyl-anniversary-idUSKCN0XN008
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http://www.reuters.tv/ERa/2016/04/26/chernobyl-30-years-on-inside-the-danger-zone
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https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/chernobyl-return-to-pripyat
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http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2016-270/
esearch article25 Apr 2016Review status
This discussion paper is under review for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).
Long-term assessment of airborne radiocesium after the Fukushima nuclear accident: Re-suspension from bare soil and forest ecosystems
M. Kajino1,2, M. Ishizuka3, Y. Igarashi1, K. Kita4, C. Yoshikawa5, and M. Inatsu6
1Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
2RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS), Kobe, Hyogo, Japan
3Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
4Ibaraki University, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
5Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
6Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Received: 29 Mar 2016 – Accepted: 18 Apr 2016 – Published: 25 Apr 2016
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https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2016/webprogram/Paper81730.html
Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016): http://www.isa-sociology.org/forum-2016/
Learning from Experience? the Role of the “Lessons” of the Fukushima Accident for Nuclear Safety Regulation
Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 09:30
Location: Hörsaal 47 (Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien)
Oral Presentation
Valerie ARNHOLD, Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (Sciences Po Paris/CNRS), France
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http://www.japanbullet.com/news/tepco-to-dismantle-top-of-exhaust-stack-at-fukushima-plant-due-to-fractures
Tepco To Dismantle Top Of Exhaust Stack At Fukushima Plant Due To Fractures
April 26, 2016
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) will begin dismantling the upper section of the joint exhaust stack for the No. 1 and 2 reactors of its Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in fiscal 2018, company officials announced on April 25 during a meeting with the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).
NRA officials had advised TEPCO to disassemble the structure due to fractures in its pillars that increased the risk of it collapsing.
Because the vent to reduce the pressure of the nuclear reactor containment vessels contaminated the stack in the 2011 nuclear disaster at the plant, and it is releasing extremely high radiation, the work will be undertaken from a distance utilizing a large crane. The work is expected to be completed in fiscal 2019.
Explaining the dismantling plans during the NRA meeting, TEPCO officials said that fractures or deformities had been detected in a total of eight different sections of the pillars' steel joints, which are found at approximately the 66 meter-mark of the exhaust stack. The structure stands at a total height of around 120 meters.
The cracks are thought to have been caused by the hydrogen explosions that occurred during the disaster. …
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Radiation measurements conducted at the base of the structure in 2013 stood at an estimated 25 sieverts per hour — an extremely high level that would kill nearly everyone exposed for that long.
While TEPCO has determined that the structure "would not fall over even if an earthquake of the same intensity as that which struck during the Great East Japan Earthquake (an upper level 6 on the Japanese scale) were to occur again," the utility decided to dismantle the top section as it would have repercussions on the reactor decommissioning work taking place in the area in the unlikely event of the structure's collapse.
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HaHaHa. HaHa. …Wait… What?
Now, that's what I call a hot stack.
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Taking their sweet damned time with this shit aren't they!
The world trade center came down in just a few seconds. Shit.
It's real fucking sad. Morons
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https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/
Belarus ignoring risks of farming near Chernobyl? via CBS News
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“We have a disaster,” he told the AP in the Ukraine capital, Kiev. “In Belarus, there is no protection of the population from radiation exposure. On the contrary, the government is trying to persuade people not to pay attention to radiation, and food is grown in contaminated areas and sent to all points in the country.”
The milk sample subjected to an AP-commissioned analysis backs this picture.
The state-run Minsk Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology said it found strontium-90, a radioactive isotope linked to cancers and cardiovascular disease, in quantities 10 times higher than Belarusian food safety regulations allow. The test, like others in resource-strapped Belarus, was insufficiently sophisticated to test for heavier radioactive isotopes associated with nuclear fallout, including americium and variants of plutonium.
The Belarusian Agriculture Ministry says levels of strontium-90 should not exceed 3.7 becquerels per kilogram in food and drink. Becquerels are a globally recognized unit of measurement for radioactivity.
The Minsk lab informed the AP that the milk sample contained 37.5 becquerels. That radioactive isotope is, along with cesium-137, commonly produced during nuclear fission and generates most of the heat and penetrating radiation from nuclear waste. When consumed, scientists say strontium-90 mimics the behavior …
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of calcium in the human body, settling in bones.
Milkavita chief engineer Maia Fedonchuk rejected the findings.
“It’s impossible. We do our own testing. There must have been a mix-up,” she said, adding they test samples from every batch of milk they receive from Chubenok and do an “in-depth” analysis every six months. She said the plant’s own lab analysis indicates its overall milk supply contains an average of 2.85 becquerels per kilogram.
Health officials say the danger level posed by low levels of radioactive isotopes depends greatly on length of exposure and individual physiology. Notably, the regional free-trade bloc that includes Belarus and Russia permits higher levels of strontium-90 in goods of up to 25 becquerels per kilogram, still lower than that detected in the AP-commissioned test.
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Ausrele Kesminiene, a doctor in the cancer research unit of the World Health Organization, said the consumption of radioactive food is linked chiefly to the development of cancer in the thyroid, a gland in the neck that produces body-regulating hormones. Thyroid cancer is typically not fatal if diagnosed early.
WHO officials say they are dependent on reports from sister agencies in Belarus to alert them to cancer clusters or other signs of unresolved Chernobyl-related dangers. Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman in Geneva, said the agency had no authority to regulate or oversee food safety – even products exported to other countries – because …
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that is a domestic responsibility.
“Radiation effects and the development of cancers and the effects on the region are something which go on over a long, long period. So we haven’t seen the end of it,” Hartl said. “Undoubtedly there is going to be some increase in cancers.”
Hartl said WHO officials have not received “any red flags” from Belarus.
Environmentalists critical of Belarus’ Chernobyl cleanup record says that’s hardly surprising, since the government has funded no machinery to scrutinize corrupt practices in the food industry. As a result, they say, no Belarusian food maker has ever been prosecuted for using ingredients or producing goods containing excessive levels of radioactive materials.
Irina Sukhiy, founder of the Belarus ecological group Green Network, said workers in food-industry factories have confidentially told her that ingredients and products are blended to dilute the impact of potentially radioactive ingredients from Belarusian suppliers bordering Ukraine. Such alleged mixing, she said, reduces the level of potentially carcinogenic isotopes in dairy products and processed meat below “the allowable dose, but it is still hazardous to health.”
Read more at Belarus ignoring risks of farming near Chernobyl?
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http://www.exchangemonitor.com/publication/morning-briefing/nwp-making-strides-wipp-operating-procedures-significant-challenges-remain-doe-report-says/
APRIL 26, 2016
NWP Making Strides With WIPP Operating Procedures, But ‘Challenges’ Remain: Report
BY EXCHANGE MONITOR
The Department of Energy and contractor Nuclear Waste Partnership have made strides in updating safety procedures at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, N.M., but there are still “significant challenges” to surmount if the facility is to reopen in December as planned, according to a new report from the agency’s Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA). …
The report focused generally on operational procedures at the nation’s only permanent storage facility for the radio-contaminated material and equipment known as transuranic waste.
The biggest shortcoming the office noticed in a visit to the site was that Nuclear Waste Partnership modified one of WIPP’s safety systems — a fire suppression system that needed a new tank-level indicator for its water tank — by issuing instructions through a maintenance order, rather than submitting the proposed change for review to engineers on site and letting them pass judgement on whether, and how, to proceed, according to the report.
“NWP did not follow its temporary change procedure, did not obtain the required engineering change order, and did not have a qualified cognizant engineer review the package,” the report reads. …
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http://www.nirs.org/fukushimafreeways/mediarelease42510fukushimafreeways.pdf
Concerned for Nuclear Safety * Nuclear Information and Resource Service * Redwood Alliance
SEED Coalition
April 25, 2016
For Immediate Release
Contacts: Mary Olson, Nuclear Information and Resource Service (828-242-5621) cell
Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, NM (505-986-1973) cell
Karen Hadden, SEED Coalition, NM (512-797-8481)
Graphics: See attached maps (also available as JPGs)
Goals of U.S. Department of Energy Meeting in Sacramento April 26 would
Trigger Largest Nuclear Shipping Campaign in History:
California Cities Would be Fukushima Freeways
Tuesday April 26, on the 30th commemoration of one of history’s catastrophic releases of radioactivity
from Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor in the former Soviet Union, the US Department of Energy (DOE) is holding a public meeting in Sacramento to under-pin its program to expand nuclear energy.
First goal: get the nation’s highly radioactive waste on to trucks and trains, moving off nuclear reactor sites to one or more “consolidated storage” sites. In order to achieve the goal of moving so-called “spent” nuclear fuel from the power generating sites where it was made, the DOE must get Congress, currently divided on the next step for this waste, to pull together and change the law.
This meeting, fourth in a nation-wide series of nine is designed, perhaps, to reassure law makers that the “public” has been “consulted.” …
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The meeting, at the Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, 300 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 begins at 4 pm with
an open house. The meeting will convene at 5 pm and will also be live web-cast with webinar features.
See: http://www.energy.gov/ne/downloads/meeting-materials-consent-based-siting-public-meetingsacramento-april-26-2016
“In order to move this most deadly of wastes any time soon, DOE will ask Congress to gut any remaining protections in the existing law,” said Mary Olson, Southeast Coordinator for Nuclear Information and Resource Service who on April 10th attended another of the DOE’s public meetings, in Atlanta GA.
“The Nuclear Waste Policy Act requires a licensed permanent site for the waste before the DOE can take the waste anywhere. It keeps liability with the waste generator until the real, long-term problem of what to do with this waste has been solved. This makes sense, especially when the hazard of transporting the waste is multiplied by adding a “temporary” site to the plan.”
NIRS calls this “Fukushima Freeways” since the shipments would carry the same material, irradiated nuclear fuel, as spewed from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors five years ago. Under some accident scenarios, local areas could be contaminated just like Fukushima Prefecture. See: http://www.nirs.org/fukushimafreeways/stopfukushimafreeways.htm
“Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS) is based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a state with no
nuclear power plants, but with a long history …
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of having DOE and its corporate contractors break their promises of safety at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).
DOE also has tried to ignore federal and state laws that limit WIPP’s mission.
New Mexico has for decades told DOE and nuclear corporations that it DOES NOT CONSENT to irradiated fuel being stored or disposed in the state.
DOE’s “consent-based siting” is a sham, since it wants to offer incentive packages
for volunteer sites, including to a few people with the Eddy-Lea Energy Alliance in southeastern New
Mexico and the nuclear corporation Holtec.
''Congress should not provide funding for the incentives, and DOE should publicly affirm that states that do not consent will be excluded from any future nuclear
facility siting processes,” said Joni Arends of CCNS, who will be attending the Tuesday meeting.
A second site, only miles away in West Texas is also being proffered by Energy Solutions / Waste Control Specialists, where, like New Mexico, many people oppose “consolidated storage” because it is
unnecessary and dangerous to the local communities all along the transportation routes.
“We do not consent to the plan to dump dangerous radioactive waste on us,” said Rose Gardner a SEED
Coalition member who lives in Eunice, New Mexico, a town of nearly 3000 people that is 40% Hispanic.
It lies five miles west of the WCS site. …
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“Andrews County officials say that we want this waste, but no one
has ever asked me if I consent. I would definitely say no, and many others here feel the same way.
''We never got to vote on this issue. The Department of Energy (DOE) is saying that our community consents to having radioactive waste dumped in our backyard, but this isn’t true.
''The DOE scheduled eight hearings around the country, but not a single one for New Mexico or Texas, the targeted region. Clearly they don’t want to hear our voices.”
Michael Welch, spokesperson for Redwood Alliance in Arcata, CA said, "Here in Humboldt County, CA, we have a nuclear power plant that has nearly completed the decommissioning process. With no rail lines, roads into and out of the area are so narrow and twisting, and they closely follow important bodies of water, that it makes waste transportation especially hazardous.
''Local citizens have worked with the utility to store the high level waste, on the reactor site to avoid that dangerous transportation. DOE would undercut our local effort to keep the waste as safe as possible, while increasing dangerous transport across the nation."
“Nuclear power reactors have generated both electricity and this waste over the last 40 years. We still don’t know how to keep it safe for a million years. An energy policy based on making more just does not make sense when we have better alternatives,” said Olson, NIRS Southeast Office.
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http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987518/mikhail_gorbachev_30_years_after_chernobyl_time_to_phase_out_nuclear_power.html
Mikhail Gorbachev: 30 years after Chernobyl, time to phase out nuclear power
Linda Pentz Gunter
26th April 2016
Thirty years after Chernobyl former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev remains haunted by the world's greatest ever industrial catastrophe, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. Now 85 and a committed environmentalist, he's still campaigning to bring the failed nuclear experiment to an end before further disasters follow, and encouraging a clean, efficient and renewable global energy economy.
"From the moment I was informed – by telephone, at five o'clock in the morning on that fateful April 26, 1986 – that fire had broken out in Block Four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, my life has never been the same."
The author of these words, Mikhail Gorbachev, is 85 now. His health is failing.
He would like to travel the world and deliver this message. But more often than not, he cannot muster the energy. So in March, he sent an eloquent emissary in his stead, to address a gathering in London.
Gorbachev watched the Unit 4 Chernobyl nuclear reactor explode and melt down and the Soviet Union dissolve during his tenure as premier from 1985-1991.
Arguably it was the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe that turned him into an environmentalist. By 1992 he had founded Green Cross International, based in Geneva and from whence …
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came his London emissary – Dr. Alexander Likhotal, the organization's current president.
In a public and parliamentary meeting at Westminster's Portcullis House entitled Fukushima 5 Years On, Chernobyl 30 Years On, Gorbachev's words resonated in a room filled mainly with supporters of the organizers, Kick Nuclear, Japanese Against Nuclear UK and London Region CND.
In marking those twin, grim anniversaries, Gorbachev reminded us that both Fukushima and Chernobyl were "the result of the inability of scientists and engineers to foresee how seemingly small problems can snowball into disasters of almost unimaginable scale." Chernobyl, Gorbachev said, "remains one of the most tragic incidents of our time." …
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http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987598/blind_mice_and_bird_brains_the_silent_spring_of_chernobyl_and_fukushima.html
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http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2987555/its_not_ever_yet_40000_more_cancer_deaths_predicted_in_chernobyl_aftermath.html
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Ice Wall Update
"Tepco has posted the latest Press handout on the status of the “ice wall”. It seems that freezing of the earth around the refrigerant pipes on the sea-side portion of the barrier is progressing nicely. Once it is fully frozen and a period of monitoring groundwater levels is complete, Phase 2 freezing of the north and south portions of the system will begin. Interestingly, groundwater level locations both inside and outside the portion being frozen demonstrated an initial decrease in groundwater levels for a few days, but have remained steady since."
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/2016/images/handouts_160421_01-e.pdf
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates.html
WeNotTheyFinally, and all who commented on my post above re Ice Wall.
I am actually not in favor of the Ice Wall.
I actually favor a 30' X 100' deep buttressed foundation of reinforced concrete, with a reinforced concrete floor at the 100' level.
(This all depends, of course, on the actual location of the corium.)
On top, construct a sarcophagus of concrete, with leaded sand fill, over reactors 1-4.
Thick membrane roof on sarcophagus to contain outgassing, if cracks develop from earthquakes or corium quakes.
But if the Ice Wall is all we have, then I am watching closely to see if it diverts the groundwater river around the reactor ruins.
If diversion of the underground river is possible, this might keep the corium in the ground from washing…
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Not possible. Period.
Leaks in ALL broken up reactors are POURING highly radioactive water into the basements and trenches on site, all connected to the Pacific via groundwater and underground river.
Even if this worked and they formed a CLOSED BATHTUB under and around these broken reactors, and the coriums underground, they CANNOT handle the amount of radiation coming out of what would be inside the sealed bathtub.
Because they are in terminal denial, the leaks continue and the multiple underground Corium 100 TON lava blobs continue to fission out of control and emit hundreds to thousands of deadly heavy metal poisons plus gases into the air and Pacific.
First they have to admit reality. They have not even done that yet.
An addict has to hit bottom FIRST, and they have not hit bottom yet.
Things may have to get MUCH WORSE in order for the addicts to hit bottom.
Sad… but nothing you can do to 'fix' an addict.
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What I'd like to know is how Tepco can provide 4 (ice) walls to the box, and assume the 5th wall (the bottom) is somehow smooth, defect free, and water-tight. I picture the "bottom wall" to be a fractured volcanic rock bed with bumps, outcroppings, tunnels, cracks, caves, and perhaps even a varying porosity. It seems like leaks are likely through the bottom wall. This would allow radioactive water to exit through the bottom, then travel under the ice wall, and resurface later, closer to the ocean.
If leaks render the ice wall effort unsuccessful, only changing the flow rate into the ocean marginally, we're going to need a plan B.
There's no way to know, except to try the ice wall, but it seems wishful and either desperate or naive to put all our eggs into one basket. We should have other ideas in the works too.
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Good point PN. The likelihood that an ice box with no bottom will stop mountain fissure river flow nuclear washout and reverse underground tidal flow nuclear washout from the harbor is slim to none. For all they know about what depth the three coria are at (zilch) the three hot masses could be 5,000 meters underground.
Remember that with a much smaller single corium at Chernobyl, they used tremendous numbers of suicide miners to dig under the reactor building to contain the core. The Japanese did not order that sacrifice.
BTW…30th anniversary of Chernobyl today. I doubt Fukushima will have tour buses on the 30th anniversary in 2041. I seriously doubt I will be alive to witness it. My cardiovascular health took a turn for the worse last year. Just 4 years of Fukushima aerial fallout about did me in, I died on the operating table for a while and quite frankly doubt I will survive another 20 plus years. But my posts will survive me. Hopefully knowledge will lead to a Millennial Revolution of America. How poetic that the Millennials surpassed in numbers the Baby Boomers today on this Chernobyl milestone.
The Baby Boomers started a revolution, saw our parents depose a crooked president, and momentum has been built for a green revolution. Soon Big Brother will put his economic stamp of approval on the drug that shattered 50 million households by the grimy crooks of lawmakers and police. All will be forgiven, but not forgotten. Keep the Enenews faith!
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The underlying layers are not horizontal, but ANGLED, so water flows along the angles of the strata.
All of the strata tilt towards the ocean.
The good news is that the radioactive water leaking from the plant will not be able to spread towards the Japanese inland and the Abukuma plateau due to the downward slope of the geological layers. The bad news is that there exists a fault which appears to be active right under the Fukushima Daiichi plant itself: this allows, and will continue to allow, radioactive pollution of aquifers over a depth of several hundreds of meters, as it runs through the different "waterproof" strata (4). This also means that the radionuclides will naturally be carried towards the sea by this underground water stream flowing through the permeable layers of sandstone. Sandstone is indeed the ideal rock for aquifers, as it is both permeable and fractured, providing easy movement of water. And finally, there is the problem of the type of rock on which the plant was built being rather "soft", meaning that an earthquake can only destabilize the buildings.
http://www.fukushima-blog.com/article-the-geology-of-fukushima-88575278.html
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Here's an FDA report on Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 found in U.S. Food from 2006-2014.
The report doesn't tell you the brand name or exactly when Strontium or Cesium was found.
It just tells you if Strontium or Cesium was found in a food OVER the FDA's reporting limit.
>> For Cesium-137, they only report a number if OVER 5 Bq/kg was found
Over 5 Bq/kg Cesium-137 was found in these foods =
- Raisin bran – maximum found was 10.8 Bq/kg
- BF, squash – maximum found was 93.3 Bq/kg
- Salad dressing, buttermilk-type low cal – “ 40.5 Bq/kg
>> For Strontium-90, they only report it if OVER .1 Bq/kg was found
Strontium-90 =
- Whole milk = maximum found was .232 Bq/kg
- American processed cheese = “ .105 Bq/kg
- Cheddar Cheese = “ .227 Bq/kg
- Pork loin, oven-roasted = “ .644 Bq/kg
- Bologna, beef/pork = “ .110 Bq/kg
- Pinto beans, dry/boiled = “ .119 Bq/kg
- Pork and beans, canned = “ .116 Bq/kg
- Peas = “ .130 Bq/kg
- Peanut butter smooth/creamy = “ .191 Bq/kg
- Peanut butter dry roasted/salted = “ .173 Bq/kg
- Cream of white = “ .541 Bq/kg
- Corn hominy grits = “ .130 Bq/kg
- Bread white/enriched = .501 Bq/kg
- Cornbread = “ .154 Bq/kg
- Bread wholewheat = “ .100 Bq/kg
- Bread rye = “ .960 Bq/kg
- Blueberry muffin = “ .170 Bq/kg
- Saltine crackers = “ .100 Bq/kg
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- Corn tortilla chips = “ .450 Bq/kg
- Egg noodles = “ .469 Bq/kg
- Corn flakes = “ .125 Bq/kg
- Shredded wheat cereal = “ .201 Bq/kg
- Raisin bran cereal = “ .227 Bq/kg
- Granola w/ raisins = “ .115 Bq/kg
- Oat ring cereal = “ .201 Bq/kg
- Red apple w/ peel = “ .127 Bq/kg
- Banana = “ .485 Bq/kg
- Watermelon = “ .108 Bq/kg
- Apple sauce = “ .213 Bq/kg
- Grapefruit = “ .109 Bq/kg
- Collards = “ .405 Bq/kg
- Broccoli = “ .220 Bq/kg
- Green beans, fresh = “ .160 Bq/kg
- Green beans, canned = “ .170 Bq/kg
- Green pepper = “ .250 Bq/kg
- Brussels sprouts = “ .341 Bq/kg
- Onion = “ .128 Bq/kg
- Raw mushrooms = “ .320 Bq/kg
- Eggplant = “ 1.156 Bq/kg
- Turnip = “ .625 Bq/kg
- Beets, canned = “ .147 Bq/kg
- Potato chips = “ .130 Bq/kg
- Pretzels = “ .119 Bq/kg
- Spaghetti w/ meat sauce = “ .212 Bq/kg
- Canned chili = “ .145 Bq/kg
- Canned vegetable soup = “ .515 Bq/kg
- Dill cucumber pickles = “ .142 Bq/kg
- White sugar = “ .171 Bq/kg
- Syrup = “ .351 Bq/kg
- Honey = “ .183 Bq/kg
- Apple pie = “ .330 Bq/kg
- Milk chocolate candy bar = “ .242 Bq/kg
- Donut = “ .106 Bq/kg
- Red/white Wine = “ .106 Bq/kg
- Swiss cheese = “ .333 Bq/kg
- Fast food chicken nuggets = “ .273 Bq/kg
- Fast food quarter pound cheeseburger = “ .269 Bq/kg
- French fries = “ .139 Bq/kg
- Pizza carry-out – “ .157 Bq/kg
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- Chicken breast = “ .536 Bq/kg
- Shrimp, boiled = “ .255 Bq/kg
- Multigrain bread = “ .105 Bq/kg
- Graham crackers = “ .109 Bq/kg
- Canned pears light syrup = “ .269 Bq/kg
- Canned clam chowder – “ .480 Bq/kg
- Black olives – “ .529 Bq/kg
- Bottled drinking water – “ .202 Bq/kg
There are a few more I didn't list; you can find rest and the report here:
http://www.fda.gov/downloads/food/foodscienceresearch/totaldietstudy/ucm474705.pdf
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Mack, you are now an author, LOL
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The results are from 2006-2014, but it does not say what specific year. Results prior to 2011, or 2012 (given some time for the radionuclides to disseminate) are irrelevant.
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We are all heading to a death by cancer diagnosis..the entire world!
The world has no clue what is coming…Thanks Nuclear!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3558249/The-nuclear-scientist-hero-1986-Chernobyl-disaster-speaks-time-just-one-year-diagnosed-prostate-cancer-ahead-30-year-anniversary-tragedy-thought-claimed-lives-thousands.html
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Pay attention to this and learn why all current tax systems need to be abolished immediately..locking investigative journalists up over taxes?
Shut all these enslavement tax systems down now.
Tax only consumption and transactions. Do this now!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3560491/He-really-high-negative-rating-Amal-Clooney-calls-Trump-Islamophobic-sexist-comments.html
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Shouldn't the debate be terrorists from the outside vs. staff on duty?
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Our Planet Is At Grave Risk of Hemisphere Wide Blackout and 50 Nuclear Plants Melting Down
Let me start with this. I am an expert in theory and practice of protecting electrical and electronics from EMF destruction. I have designed and built protective systems for the most crucial of US government command/control/communication systems. Systems so critical that in tying in the new systems, it required months of planning for a temporary shutdown, and literally an approval from the US Congress.
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Our Planet Is At Grave Risk of Hemisphere Wide Blackout and 50 Nuclear Plants Melting Down
This does pose an interesting theory. The sun may be "judge" in which hemisphere becomes the ruler/survivor after a Carrington type Event. One hemisphere, plus a bit more since the earth is spinning, and the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) takes place over time, will be blacked out, and society will implode upon itself leaving few living, as 98% of the sheeple realize that they can't eat the rumors of how the Kardashians keep their skin so glowing.
Speaking of glowing, do you know what happens when power grids go down? Nuclear plants ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE the presence of an outside power grid in order to keep operating. When the grid fails, they go into an emergency shutdown mode. Now imagine what would happen if its not just the grid down, but all the electronics are fried also, all the computers are…
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all the computers are broke? Do you think the emergency shutdown systems of the nuclear plants will actually function correctly?
Would you think that the nuke plant workers and supervisors, who usually live quite close to the plant, will stay on duty, trying to control the risk, or will they leave to gather their family and try to escape the area. Most will just leave. The 2nd and 3rd shift will not report for duty, and in fact there will be no way to contact them.
There are 440 operating nuclear plants in the world, so perhaps 250 of them will be affected by the upcoming Carrington Event. I say upcoming, because it is just a matter of time. Watch the video below, there are 2 big things at play:
1) The earths magnetic field is a shield that protects us from Sun CME, and it is weakening
2) The sun is in a multi century type of "funk" of low sunspots, which actually put us at far greater risk of a large CME.
So WHEN the next Carrington event occurs, one half of the earth, will be wiped out, and the other half will be "victors". Except for this most inconvenient truth…..the nuclear plants melting down will release so much radiation and heavy metals and ionized particles, that the earth and almost all life forms will be toast. Even if only 20% of the 250 nuke plant affected do actually melt down, that will be an extinction level event.
We know a Carrington type event will occur eventually, and we know that if 50 nuke plants melt down…
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if 50 nuke plants melt down uncontrollably that all life will be extinguished. So mankind with its 3 pound insane monkey brain decides to extend the life of clunker nuclear plants, and engage on a nuclear renaissance.
Mankind could harden the electrical grids, for billions of dollars. This won't for the most part protect our "precious" electronics, but an operable grid will certainly aid recovery, under a different ruling country of course. – See more at: http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2016/04/our-planet-is-at-grave-risk-of.html#sthash.ruxy5QvE.dpuf
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Yeppers.. +1000
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Stock,
The inevitable crash of the electrical grid has been my obsession for most of the past 30 years.
My friends ask me what's new, and then just roll their eyes at each other, as "Old Doom & Gloom" describes the latest event that might take the grid down.
A lot of the preppers I read have written exhaustively about what comes after the grid goes down, and there has been some good fiction written about the days after grid failure.
Here is the deal about the sun:
The electromagnetic shield of Earth is actually strengthened by hits of CMEs from the sun.
If the solar activity decreases, as it has in recent years, the ability of Planet Earth's shield to withstand the shock of an X class CME also wanes.
Someone even coined the term "earth facing quiet" to describe the sun's quiet, at least on the side facing Earth.
An X20 or X30 CME would knock us down for the count.
But Earth's shield has grown so weak that now, only a moderate CME would be needed to disrupt grid power.
Watch this video:
The #1 Threat To Earth
http://www.suspicious0bservers.org
Agree 100%, stock. If 50 of the world's 400+ nucleear power plants meltout, Fukushima-style, Earth is finished.
Hell, we might be finished already from the meltouts of 3 reactors at Fukushima.
Preppers: I don't care how deep you dig, or how remote your cabin is, or how much food you got stached away, if 30 US nuke plants meltout, you and everyone you love are going to die.
Period.
Have a nice day.
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Agree.. preppers are just as much in denial as the rest of em, most of the time.
Prepping for what?
Not saying prepping is bad, because it is helpful, but seeing the REALITY and fighting the good fight in the right direction and knowing who the 'enemy' is, and what the REAL risks are, instead of the made up bogus stuff that most survivalists talk about, helps a lot.
The R word is taboo among preppers, just like with anyone else.
"If 50 of the world's 400+ nucleear power plants meltout, Fukushima-style, Earth is finished.
Hell, we might be finished already from the meltouts of 3 reactors at Fukushima.
Preppers: I don't care how deep you dig, or how remote your cabin is, or how much food you got stached away, if 30 US nuke plants meltout, you and everyone you love are going to die.
Period."
Yeppers…
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All of the silver, gold, money and stocks in the world won't help in that case either.
NADA.
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Yeppers to all the Preppers!
In this Mad House controlled by the/so many others the only thing any Yepper Prepper can really control is the world found directly around/near them…even if it (this control) is only for a very short period of time.. as indicated above.
The illusion created is about choice and control.
Nobody is standing out front protecting my family, my animals or my property.
No one! We are all on our own!
Best to always prepare for any true potentials/realities created by those many others.
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Obe,
In da UP, da preppers got machine guns in der living room.
You betcha!
In da winter, they go on group live ammo attacks on der skies.
But even in da UP, ain't even the loneliest prepper gonna survive the shitstorm an X-30 CME is gonna cause in a USA with 50 blowed-up nuclear plants.
Me, I'd rather die in da UP, den anyplace else.
Inna cabin, facing out ta da winter snow.
Some friends there, raisin a brew, well cases o' Bud stacked to da ceilin'.
"Well, guys, we had some good times here at da deer camp, didn't we?"
(Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9yhhflmvY
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Da yoopers, der havin funners, you betcha.
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But could it be, that as they investigated the dangers of Pole Shift, they saw an advantage in utilizing what knowledge they had gained, to set about forming a new round of armaments – EMP's? What is North Korea doing that hasn't already been done – by the Western World.
And the next lot of armaments…may be coming from the same basis of research.
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BUT NEW NEWS?
An extract from an article written in 2014
“The much neglected 2004 and 2008 reports by the congressional EMP Commission—only now garnering increased public attention—warn that "terrorists or state actors that possess relatively unsophisticated missiles armed with nuclear weapons may well calculate that, instead of destroying a city or a military base, they may gain the greatest political-military utility from one or a few such weapons by using them—or threatening their use—in an EMP attack."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/james-woolsey-and-peter-vincent-pry-the-growing-threat-from-an-emp-attack-1407885281
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How many millions of bags of radioactive soil will that make? Oh, zero – because civilization will end.
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EMP'S,
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The evidence of what real world ARMAGEDDON looks like is present in Belarus and about 100,000 square kilometers around Chernobyl.. Generation to generation, DNA is going downhill, genetic diseases are increasing every generation and the end is not pretty, even though it take another 10 generations to reach extinction.
Who wants to live in world where 99 percent of all kids are born sick, deformed, mutated and with one or more genetic diseases that get passed on PLUS more due to living in a radiation filled environment.
That is what the future of nuclear power IN ANY FORM means for the whole world, and it also the future if nuclear weapons are not abolished and gotten rid of, as there have been over 20 close calls so far.
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Add nuclear medicine to the above as it is the same creature, just with different lipstick.
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Nuclear power is ARMAGEDDON in slow motion.
Nuclear weapons are ARMAGEDDON via fast forward.
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Probably why NASA is going nuts for apocalypse by asteroid lately. Yeah, just another distraction from the nucELEr perps
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