Published: April 30th, 2011 at 7:58 pm ET
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Japan’s Prime Minister Defends Handling of Nuclear Crisis, New York Times, April 30, 2011:
[A Japanese government] adviser resigned during a tearful news conference in which he charged that the government was not adequately protecting the population from radiation. [...]
“I cannot allow this as a scholar,” said Mr. Kosako, an expert on radiation safety at the University of Tokyo. [...]
He also blasted the government for what he said was a lack of transparency in releasing radiation levels around the Fukushima Daiichi plant [...]
Government advisory positions are considered prestigious, and it is highly unusual for an academic to quit one in protest. [...]
Photo of Kosako breaking down in tears here.
Published: April 30th, 2011 at 7:58 pm ET
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I give Mr. Toshiso Kosako a lot of credit for caring and for standing up to what is right.
I can’t imagine, how hard this was for him.
I hope from what he did, he has alerted people on the dangers.
Speaking up was an extremely brave thing to do.
The world needs more people like Mr. Toshiso Kosako.
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if you read the tiny articles on the story…his resignation concerns the school with high levels of contamination…
he believes children should not be at that site. and the government are not being honest.
what about the kids in china,korea,hawaii and the usa now.
not to mention the coming mega explosion from the cores hitting the water table,with fission reactions for hundreds of years.
this guy will be erased in the next couple of days.
he will not betray his country by doing an interview with a foreign news agency.
i doubt he could even find someone to talk to.
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Manslaughter at the highest levels
“What about the kids in China, Korea, Hawaii and the USA now.”? – Tony Wilson
Willful denial of the Petkau Effect by the scientific advisers to governmental leaders, regarding nuclear safety, is truly a crime against all mankind.
The unborn and very young are especially vulnerable to internal emitters, which cut through DNA like a buzz-saw through wood.
The utter shame for Japanese leadership to send young innocents into the invisible maelstrom is unthinkable.
The utter shame of American leadership not acting to protect the entire nation is absurd to the point where there is no precedent to be found in all of human history. Ignorance is not the condition of American leaders, it is willful dereliction of duty.
What we are witnessing is Infinite Arrogance + Infinite Pride + Infinite Greed.
This dereliction has expressed utter contempt for the unborn, babies, children and families, a slow motion genocide of not just ethnic groups, but of the human race and indeed, of all living things.
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Food Safety
Protection for children & family
Lifestyle changes
Rainfall has carried the various radio isotopes down upon the produce in our area. To avoid the ingestion of radioactive emmitters, the Noah family has given up broad leaf vegetables and milk products. We have substituted with sprouts of various kinds and replaced milk with pre-311 “Almond Breeze” and pre-311 powdered milk (used for baking).
I especially miss ice cream, but am adjusting to life without it.
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Noah, Consider frozen spinach from Trader Joe’s? It has a cut-rate price, advertised as pesticide-free, and Mexico-grown. Spinach is incredibly healthy and contains tons of calcium! Also, there are still MANY pre 3/11 frozen organic ice creams and other products, meats, etc. Check production codes and with companies on their est. turnaround…You can keep most frozen products fresh for up to a year in a freezer.
As for EGGS, I have no idea what their exposure is??…although they fit into the category of dairy!
Does anyone know about whether there’s a good source or set of criteria for SAFE EGGS??? I prefer organic and free range, but I’d rather keep my hens off the grass these days!!
Thanks!…
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On eggs: in light of no testing data, free range are more susceptible (via yolks), others are sheltered or enclosed feed by practice. Brown egg chickens consume more feed than white eggs chickens certain times of the year (like now, when it’s colder). Powdered pre-event” whole eggs are available.
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Thanks, Mothra…I need protein and love eggs-good detoxifiers, too.. Do you have any stores or name brands on those powdered eggs? I would hope that hens could stay out of the worst of it in a covered enclosure… hopefully, FARMERS ARE WISING UP? and have stocked organic feed from last year!
We have the technology to protects crops & livestock–just not the proper notice!!
We need to start contacting Farmers’ Bureaus, local Co-Ops, Agricultural organizations and univ. Ag depts. to generate some action and ideas!!!
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Seriously, we need to start raising the roof with the Agro community, organic farmers and co-ops, especially!! They are very innovative on pest control and weather management. But, this poses one heck of a challenge!!!…
Onward & Upward!!!
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@ hello!
Build a coop, they must stay indoors and out of the winds, rains all exposed weathers !
Feed them chicken feed cracked corn !
The bugs in the lawns/grasses and grounds are contaminated…You chickens may be already laying HOT EGGS, no need to cook, PUN, ha ha !
You may want to consider getting some new laying hens and a new Rooster, he may be still proud by may pass on some morbid/deformed cookadoodaldoo… Just keeping the birds and bees out of it !
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yeah, poor babies!!
Has anyone here gotten pushy with Big Ag or Little Ag (!) on this whopping Farm crisis??!!
The local farmers I’ve met at farmers’ markets are incredibly proud, conscientious, and clever about how to protect their property and the quality of their work.
I need to get on this & suggest that others do as well.
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Canada source says 36.3 Bq/kg of I-131 (1,020 pCi/l) in one mother tested!
http://www.canada.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4656453
Geez. They’re also hiding strontium, americium, uranium and plutonium we’ve detected in the US. No wonder he quit!
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What they think the spinach, beef, fish et al they’re shluping to citizens and trying to or are exporting worldwide is worth it? I’m cussing like a sailor. They’d better not try to pack that hot mess in the less regulated pet food market. I will… So help me.
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I stopped feeding my dog commercial pet food a long time ago. I won’t even consider the ones my vet swears are ok.
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our dog REFUSES to eat regular pet food and he’s incredibly healthy…odd, huh?! He just won’t eat it. He eats a balanced diet of people-food healthy scraps and now a sprinkling of kelp and chlorella, too! Poor little babies!..:(
The burden on animals is heartbreaking.
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It will be in EVERYTHING soon enough !
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@ mothra
The heavy hand they put on China over the last dog food milk and toothpast products here, you would think they would not be hypocritical, but seeing actions of with Gulf and of late ????
Maybe best if you put that evil eye on them to let them know they are being looked at closely, now beware they are slicker then pick pockets !
Will steal your wallet and help you look for it !
They say they are here to protect and help, help… themselves to your money, ie taxes for their salarys..over paid @ that !
Look for the problem and fail report truthfully on !
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Nice to see some sane advice;
“Quake reconstruction panel member says Fukushima should abandon nuclear power”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110430p2a00m0na003000c.html
Let’s hope we can stop the annihilation of the world:
“Fukushima spurs nuclear opposition “
http://www.cphpost.dk/component/content/51520.html?task=view
“’The future of nuclear power was doomed even before Fukushima,’ said the report’s main author, Mycle Schneider.
“According to the Worldwatch Institute, nuclear power never really recovered after Chernobyl.”
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I love the glasses on this person.
I just hope, this person doesn’t drive in them.
Thanks for the links Anne
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Russia is intent on building more nuclear reactors:
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE73T01M20110430
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Finally, some hopeful news. Thank You Anne.
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What nerve! Read this story:
“Mitsubishi Heavy to retain plan to double nuclear business by FY 2014
In this March 20, 2011 aerial file photo taken by a small unmanned drone and released by Air Photo Service, the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant is seen in Okumamachi, Fukushima prefecture. From top to bottom: Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3 and Unit 4. (AP Photo/Air Photo Service)
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. will retain its plan to double nuclear business sales from the current level to 600 billion yen by fiscal 2014 through March 2015, despite the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its President Hideaki Omiya said Thursday.
“We have no intention to withdraw the plan, although sales are likely to slow down in the immediate future,” Omiya told a press conference in reference to the crisis at the nuclear plant crippled since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Mitsubishi Heavy has confirmed that a U.S. power company has no intention of changing a plan to award a nuclear reactor order to the Japanese company following the disaster, Omiya said, adding he expects Mitsubishi Heavy to secure orders for enhancing safety measures at existing reactors.
“We do not foresee any scenario in which our (nuclear business) sales would suddenly disappear,” he said.
Mitsubishi Heavy said the same day its group net profit in fiscal 2010 more than doubled from the previous year to 30.12 billion yen on cost savings and other improvements, while sales fell 1.3 percent to 2.90 trillion yen.
The company booked a special loss of 10.2 billion yen due to the disaster, which has affected its operations including thermal power plant construction.
Mitsubishi Heavy expects group net profit to increase 16.2 percent to 35 billion yen in fiscal 2011, on sales of 2.85 trillion yen, down 1.9 percent.
(Mainichi Japan) April 29, 2011″
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Ugh. Just say no to thugs.
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REALLY I think he was crying at the ROYAL Wedding. I mean didn’t they have it on EVERY FUCKING CHANNEL IN THE WORLD. And not a word about this. OUR OWN GOVERNMENT is CRIMINALLY neglect in its DUTY to protect and to provide real DATA. WHERE THE HELL IS THE OUT RAGE.
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We need a royal shedding.
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I agree with you. Those hideous hats at the wedding (some looked grotesque) reminded me of the Angelica Huston movie, “The Witches.” I won’t spoil the movie for you in case you decide to watch it someday.
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It’s just insulting pageantry at such a time as this and in light of extreme taxpayer austerity measures with tens of millions in cost for this display to the public treasury. Insane. Mocking.
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Great to hear there are some pricipled people left on the planet. They should give this guy a medal but he’ll probably be blackballed from everything.
(glenn = appalled)
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My deepest admiration for this gentleman who took a stand against the powers that be. I foresee others who will follow his brave action. I seriously believe we all have been through this “cycle”/”cycles” before. Within each heart there is a remembrance (Genetic Memory) of the former things and ironically the remembrance of the things to come. (Please – I plead with everyone to just listen to what I have to say. I know it sounds crazy but I assure you it’s not.) Militant and engineering methods are of no more use here. If fission and nuclear chain reactions are now occurring, is there any physical way to “stop” it with concrete, boron, liquid nitrogen injections? If the latest radiation levels being emitted are correct – I think the chance to stop it has passed. In every “cycle” we have always been forced to face our greatest collective fear. I believe in this cycle it has assumed the form of the hellish, poisonous, unimaginable, Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. This is no time to argue with or become combatant with each other. I feel this is the last “cycle” – the “curtain call”, the “last round”. Let us take each other’s hand, and face this “Hellhole” with our hearts and minds together as one. It’s okay to be scared but LET US USE THE POWER OF OUR FEAR INSTEAD OF THE POWER OF OUR FEAR USING US! This is the reason many of us are here at this specific time in history – how many of you have been ridiculed and shunned for somehow “knowing” this was coming? How many of you have had vivid dreams of this exact time? (I realize I may sound crazy – but I am only asking you to think about what I am saying. Ponder these things and if you don’t agree it’s fine. I am not forcing my perspective or beliefs on anyone.)If you know what I’m talking about and it has struck a chord deep in your heart – please let me know. Our hearts united in love is our only hope to stand against this seemingly unstoppable monster and the powers that be who are allowing it to continue poisoning the entire planet. The “powers that be” only want one thing – more power. This power comes in the form of money. We have seen their blatant disregard for human life for over six weeks now. They seek to divide us so we will quarrel with each other and cause them no problems at all. How many people feel the same way I do?
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yes, there’s a definite foreboding like the last war between good and evil!!…
Buckle up. There will be casualties…and beyond this life.
Ashen, I agree that both the problem and solution transcend the material world!
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Thank you, that was well said. I am with you. We must not short sell this world.
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I cry out with you, Ashen!
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Yes,Ashen! The world is upside down, we have been educated upside down all along…time to get back to what we know in our hearts to be true!
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How many American tame “academic” stooges have quit- or done anything other than lick the hand that gives them perks and grants?
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Ashen,…Of course,…you can count me in!
Just yesterday I experienced the ‘your CRAZY’ deal-e-o. My roommates invited me up to ride the horses,…it’s our first sunny day in EONS out here in radiated northern Cali. I told them No, thank you. They asked why. I died inside,…but said, “Because of the radiation”. They looked at each other,…rolled their eyes,…and I saw that EVEN THE ‘CRAZIES’ think I’m CRAZY!
They went,…and guess what? They are both home sick today,..because of “the allergens outside,…all the yellow pollen”. They sound like they are coughing up a lung!
Darned if I don’t wish I WERE wrong,….but we know ‘we’re’ not wrong.
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Thank you, Another sunny day here in Fl. and I am hunkered down. How many die of the flue each year and don’t see it when it’s death comes in contact with them ?
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I CANNOT BELIEVE IT – a month and a half has passed since the double natural disaster in Japan crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and NOBODY has even seen what exactly has happened to the fuel rods – there have been just SPECULATIONS AND GUESSES as to what is going oN inside the reactor cores.
There is no excuse for having waited over a month to get robots on the job. Any right thinking TEPCO official should have had robots on site by at least the second day. I remember reading reports discussing the possibility of using robots and I was shocked and bewildered at the vast amount of time that went by between the US’ and France’s offers to supply robots specially designed for use in nuclear reactors and the time when the first 2 robots were actually sent in for the first look.
I have totally lost confidence with TEPCO and the Japanese government to solve this World-Wide Crisis. I call it world-wide, because as I sit here in Vancouver, BC Canada, I know that I have probably been exposed to more radiation in the last month than I probably get exposed to several years combined. If scientists and researchers are able to detect the radiation from Fukushima in our air, milk, etc, then I have to have been exposed to more radiation than I would normally be subjected to in a year and I NO LONGER FEEL SAFE FROM RADIATION.
I have lost all respect for the Japanese government for putting on blinders and refusing to enlarge the exclusion/evacuation zone around the facility, and making matters worse by simply raising the legal limits for acceptable radiation levels for it’s people to be exposed to and eat. This shows a complete lack of regard for their own citizens’ safety.
My prayers go out to all those brave workers who have been working tirelessly to try and fix the nuclear disaster going on in Fukushima. I really hope that if I was there, that I would be able to do what they are doing for our future generations. I firmly believe that all those workers should have all their debts paid off and that they should recieve the highest compensations for their selfless heroics (I mean more than the 2500-5000 yen per day I heard rumoured that many are getting – I think that they and their families should be well taken care of for the rest of their lives). They are fighting the biggest war that our world has ever seen up to this point… and who knows, it could be the last war that many of them ever fight… and the unbelievable thing is is that they all know it to… that is what makes them all even more special and deserving.
I heard (I realize that I may be wrong) that despite all the nuclear power plants on earth, that no one has actually done an experiment to see what would actually happen in a full-fledged meltdown… ARE THOSE IN CHARGE ABSOLUTELY CRAZY? How could something as powerful as nuclear energy have been taken for granted… Did all the nuclear agencies, scientists and governments truly believe that there would never be a nuclear accident… what about after 3 mile island and chernobyl… wasn’t it a good idea at least after those to nuclear incidents/accidents to look into nuclear safety issues.
Humans are such fools… we will be masters of our own downfall.
At the very least, all nuclear power plants that do not meet today’s earthquake standards and other natural and man-made disaster should be shut down. All nuclear power plants should be re-inspected and any that have any type of issue at all should be shut down for good. You cannot take a chance with nuclear reactors, obviously. Somebody should be accountable for the Fukushima incident, because somebody up there in rank (whose job it is to think of these types of things) should have forseen the possibility of the generators being covered up with water during a tsunami, considering Japan has so many earthquakes and tsunamis are par for the course in earthquake ravaged countries. It should have been a given that the power generators should have been high above sea level.
It is time for all the world leaders and scientists to get together and work on Fukushima as a team… all the great minds should work together to solve this crisis. TEPCO and the Japanese government need to stop pretending that they know what they are doing (I am not impressed with the “strategy” or “road map” that TEPCO has planned for the next 6-9 months. I firmly believe that TEPCO is in WAY OVER THEIR HEADS… they won’t be any closer to stopping the radiation in another month as they are today… and I doubt that in another month that they will even be able to say that they are certain of the state of the reactors… NOTHING CAN BE BEGIN TO BE SOLVED UNTIL THEY KNOW WHAT STATE THE FUEL RODS ARE IN… AND EVEN THEN, WHAT THEN… I TAKE IT THAT USING A CONCRETE TOMB IS OUT OF THE QUESTION AT THIS STAGE? I understand that they are concerned about the fuel getting into contact with the ground water… that it would cause massive steam explosions… the whole thing is overwhelming… GOD PLEASE HELP US STUPID HUMANS GET OUT OF THIS ONE!!!!
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