Published: June 4th, 2012 at 4:22 pm ET
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Japan’s Latest Nuclear Crisis: Getting Rid of the Radioactive Debris
The Atlantic
Michael McAteer
Jun 4 2012, 8:14 AM ET
[...]The [Japanese] government has raised the limit for how radioactive something can be before requiring special disposal by a factor of 80.
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The government insists that its radiation limits ensure that the program will pose no health risks to surrounding residents. Those limits, however, have been significantly relaxed since the disaster at Fukushima. Radioactivity is measured by becquerel per kilogram, or bq/kg. Previously, Japanese regulations required nuclear waste with 100 or more bq/kg of Cesium to be monitored and disposed of in specialized containers. [...] The new government limit for material headed for landfills is 8000 bq/kg, 80 times the pre-Fukushima limit.
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Panel OKs lower cesium limit for food
Kyodo
Feb. 17, 2012
[...]The new limits, which come between one-twentieth and one-quarter of the present tentative limits depending on the food category, are set at 100 becquerels per kilogram for regular food items such as rice and meat, compared with the current 500 becquerels , 50 becquerels for milk and infant food, and 10 becquerels for drinking water.
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Published: June 4th, 2012 at 4:22 pm ET
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There is only one word I can think of to describe this travesty…
Obscene.
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Genocide could be another my friend!
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OT, but see this:
Mon. 6-4: After 14 months of no Fuku coverage in U.S. media, look what suddenly appears this morning as the banner headline on our CA desert cities local paper:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=CA_DS
Raises questions such as, is the national news coverup being rescinded, did our local editors have brain-fade this a.m., did other local U.S. papers do the same coverage, and will the nuclear concern story be refuted in tomorrow's edition?
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Here is a link to the full article. I think the link above was to the front page of the newspaper whichh changes everday. Tile of article: "Nuclear Plant Presents Danger to West Coast"
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012206040307
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My goodness, the G word. I agree, we're looking at a genocide in progress. We're all expendable, or in military (i.e. DOE-funded MIT) parlance we're 'collateral damage'. We're statistics.
"A disturbing theme in nuclear advocacy is not how we can prevent the next Fukushima, but how we can *prevent evacuations* from the next Fukushima."
MIT Pro-Nuke Study Debunked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YFe6Q08M8
[Published on Jun 5, 2012 by GoddardsJournal
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The Japanese Government is poisoning it's own people. Of course the U.S. Government is poisoning it's own people also. The Japanese raised their limits. The U.S. quit publishing it's test findings. And the difference is?
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Take two Rad-Away and call me in the morning.
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[STOP SPAMMING, FINAL WARNING]
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wtf?
in the UK, the 'safe' limit for lamb, post Chernobyl is 1,000 bq/kg.
i feel sick.
and angry
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Is that the post Chernobyl pre Fukushima limit or the post Chernobyl post Fukushima limit???
I believe there might be a difference!
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A live sheep-monitoring programme, known as ‘Mark and Release’, operates to ensure that sheep
exceeding 1,000 Bq/kg of radiocaesium do not enter the food chain. This limit was set in 1986,
based on recommendations from a group of experts established under Article 31 of the Euratom
Treaty.
http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/chernobylassessment.pdf
they are about to stop testing altogether
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no surprise,
Euratom:
The purposes of Euratom are to create a specialist market for nuclear power and distribute it through the Community and to develop nuclear energy and sell surplus to non-Community States. Its major project is currently its participation in the international fusion reactor ITER financed under the nuclear part of FP7. Euratom also provides a mechanism for providing loans to finance nuclear projects in the EU.
In the history of European regulation, Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty represents pioneering legislation concerning binding transfrontier obligations with respect to environmental impact and protection of humans.
sick.
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@blackrain66
Can you elaborate on what this means? Does it mean limiting the liability of of those expanding nuclear in the EU?
"binding transfrontier obligations"
with respect to environmental impact and protection of humans
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This is a global problem, spreading to every country. Maybe the nuclear industry does not want any nation to be left out?
Chernobyl; Animal Studies Show Radiation Is Still Harming Our Wild Companions; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/chernobyl-radioactive-deer-antlers.
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they stopped testing in march 2012 against the monitors advice..
the actual limit is 1024 bq/kg
peace
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correction
the actual limit WAS….. ??
see comment below
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If they stop testing…then we stop buying…boycotting is one of our only weapons of defense.
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Is it possible to calculate how much radioactive material will eventually accumulate in a person that eats, drinks and breathes according to Japanese regulations?
A certain percentage of all the radionuclide the person gets inside the body will stay there. As the person continually eats drinks and breathes, the body will eventually become so contaminated that it can no longer function.
If we knew those percentages, it would be possible to calculate how long a person could survive living within Japanese radiation standards.
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Chernobyl Heart Movie; How Children Are Affected; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/chernobyl-heart-movie-how-children-are.html
A russian researcher found that if children eat foods containing more than 30 Bq/kg, it is in danger zone and negative effects will be there.
If a child eats food with more than 50 Bq/kg, and absorbs it to the point where body has same burden, that is the critical tipping point where there are permanent damages to heart, lesions, heart attacks, etc.
But depending on food choices, some foods are much higher in radiation than others.
Around Chernobyl they say do not eat wild berries, (jam) mushrooms, milk or game. Those usually have the highest radiation and concentrate it the most.
Also the lower one eats on the food chain, the better.
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Hell, Polish jam has recently been showing (or continuing to show) high levels of Chernobyl fallout!!
It is possible that we could all easily become 'over the limit' with accumulation! Cannibals will soon be losing their appetite for same species flesh!!
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It seems that radiation prepares the flesh for disease, and makes one succeptable to illness. Perhaps it's the tenderizer that 9 zombies out of 10 prefer.
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I'm no mathemetician…but have a few links to rad mitigation
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,98.0.html
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Nobody believes governments anymore, or their news. Those days are gone.
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Thanks, Admin. You write excellent headlines (I would be so longwinded). We appreciate the countless hours that creating and maintaining Enenews must consume. It is heroic work.
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I second that! Thanks for all your efforts, Admin!
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meee toooo!
100 bq yuk!!
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oh and scottish lamb, last measured at 1024 bq/kg before they stopped testing pre dounray, sellafield, sizewell (ongoing), chinon (ongoing france), penly (france), mercoule budapest, turkey (unknown after earthquake), fukushima blah blah blah blah etc
do you think the levels have risen since they stopped testing?? hmmm?? snow melted in the spring??
no nukes now!!
arc goinmg vegetarian
only lichen and moss for this lemming now!! errrrrr! :/ ???
maybe not
how radioactive is your mountain dwelling lemming
BOOO HOOOOOOOOO!
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oops typo
budapest hungary (ongoing today according to a slightly broken eurdep!!!)
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Ah, but now even Yamashita "Keep smiling"-"You've become famous without even trying!" is apologizing for his minimizing the risks of radiation levels below 100 millisieverts/yr., as reported on Fukushima-Diary.com today:
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/yamashita-admits-he-exaggerated-the-safety-of-under-100msvy/#comments
"About the threshold about dose, I don’t disagree to the hypothesis of ICRP about the linear causal relationship between radiation dose and health risk. I apologize for exaggerating the safety of radiation exposure under 100mSv/y. I am sorry for causing anxiety and distrust."
Oops! Sounds like these folks need to get on the same page in the "Deny, Downplay and Deflect" Nuke Industry playbook…
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Yamashita in the smiling days and Mr. Nakate's plea refuting him
… also, radiation effects to women and children
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,9.msg27.html#msg27
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This is an outrage. The UN refuses to intervene because of the WHO's complicit agreement with the IAEC. Our NRC and all of the other so-called global nuclear regulators remain silent; covering their asses along with their corporate and political sponsors, and the MSM, while the conditions in Japan are spinning out of control. It is surely criminal.
The airborne and waterborne releases from the Daiichi generating station in combination with the ongoing incineration of radioactive debris, have created a witches’ brew in the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean. And, it keeps on streaming.
The MOU that destroyed the world’s economy, and now, the supportive global politicians, the corporations and their shills for nuclear power are now destroying what’s left of our compromised environment and the global gene pool. The wrong folks are in charge and unless that gets fixed, we’re toast.
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Actually, I think we're already toast, soon to burn. But, the MOU are going with us…this time.
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And the latest disturbing news from Japan:
3 tons (60,000 pounds) of dead sardines wash up in Chiba:
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/a-few-tens-of-tones-sardines-washed-up-on-fishing-port-in-chiba/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
Guess they reached that magic 100 millisevert limit…
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Nazi CIA murderous f!!ks at work. More death to Japan.
"Rewind almost 60 years and the government had a similar problem: how to persuade the public to support its ambition to become a nuclear nation only nine years after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
According to one Japanese university professor, that ambition was achieved with help from an unlikely source: the CIA.
Tetsuo Arima, a researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, told JRT he discovered in the U.S. National Archives a trove of declassified CIA files that showed how one man, Matsutaro Shoriki, was instrumental in jumpstarting Japan’s nascent nuclear industry."
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/06/01/japans-nuclear-industry-the-cia-link/
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I noticed lately the snacks and chips I buy started saying :"Now with sea salt".
Soon they can say "Now with cesium".
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"get your cesium here only 10$ a bottle" It's imported so it must be good.
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Terrorists might buy that to make a "dirty bomb"… Oh, wait. If they set it off, who would know?
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GE and Immelt are implicated. Obama is carrying water for the Big Nuke capitalist thugs.
Better to lose a war than win it and lose the peace with this nuclear gamble.
How does GE come to admit culpability with our system of unlimited damage lawsuits??? No answers yet to this puzzle …
Nuke weapons are safer than nuke power plants!!! Who would have thought this?
We are on the right side of this issue, no doubts there. Maybe some Japanese can evacuate? I have a big piece of undeveloped land, and we could model the relocation process. Was meant to be for retirement resort … or maybe climate refugees … now I see we need new developments for radiation refugees. If we can close Vermont Yankee, it would be safer. My land is thirty miles north of that poison factory.
Close them all today, and start the dry cask campaigns. It would be a start. And all hope is not yet lost.
Sending out love and light to you all. Peace, folks.
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Nedli, you are so kind to want to help the Japanese evacuate and move to the U.S. Such a huge undertaking, but if you start small, it can grow from there…
Who to help first? Perhaps the children and families living just outside the a no-go zone who the Japanese gvt. somehow believe are "magically" protected from radiation that they assert must have simply "stopped" at their (arbitrary) boundary lines…
Kind of reminds me of the U.S. NPP's "permissible levels" of radiation spewed on their neighbors. Should call it for what they really are: "permissible levels of Death," drawn out of some pencil pushing number crunchers' assumptions, who decided just how many of their neighbors' deaths would be "A-ok" in a given year from the NPPs ongoing radiation releases…Wow, must be "nice" to get to play God, hmm? (Not!)
Similarly, the Japanese gvt gets to decide who they will help escape the hell of a life condemned to ever-increasing levels of internal and external radiation contamination, and who they will leave behind to fend for themselves…
In a word, unconscionable, and to borrow another from an earlier post by JoyB today:" OBSCENE.
My heart goes out to all who are suffering.
Nedli, please let me know how I can assist you in your effort. It is a noble one at that. May your endeavors meet and succeed your expectations!
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"Before Fukushima: 100 Bq/kg of cesium is nuclear waste — After: 100 Bq/kg of cesium is safe to eat"
I keep coming back to that headline in horror and fascination.
I've edited this post a dozen times, but there's nothing much to say after reading that headline. I'm going to take a break from here for a while – go play in the dirt or something while I can. I know it causes puzzlement when a regular poster just goes quiet, so I mention it. Everything's fine – I just need some time in dirtspace.
Best wishes to all, and thanks for the stimulating company. I'll be back in a while, no doubt.
Hehe – irradiated – if you're reading this – you'll get the last word in our ongoing debate about Gannett. Be gentle.
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Fukushima farmers fight for their land 福島農家さん耕して汚染と戦う
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_8scmK7LiU
Look at the trouble the Fukushima farmers are in.
April 6 2012..533 views..what a shame..
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