Published: May 24th, 2016 at 8:22 am ET
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El País Semanal (Spanish newspaper), May 2, 2016 (emphasis added): Fukushima: Contaminated lives… Spanish media investigates how the 2011 Japanese tsunami changed the course of the country’s history… the Fukushima nuclear plant started to leak radiation that seeped insidiously into the atmosphere, the soil and the Pacific Ocean… Mr Toru Anzai, 63, wanders around the house he abandoned five years ago [in] Litate… Two years ago, he had a heart attack and a stroke… in the hospital they found a hole in the frontal lobe of his brain that was producing paralysis down the left side of his body. The doctor said it could have been caused by absorbing cesium over a period of time… [After the reactor explosion on] March 14, he heard a thunderous noise… It didn’t take long for the wind to bring the penetrating smell of melted iron mixed with sulfur to Litate as a massive toxic cloud blew towards his home. In spite of the mayor of Litate’s assurance that there was no risk of radiation, Mr Anzai bought his first dosimeter on April 18… the radiation in the room where he and his brothers had been sleeping for the past month was at six microSieverts an hour – 20 times higher than the level stipulated by the government for relocating residents…
Xinhua, May 23, 2016: Five years on, Fukushima remains shrouded in untold stories… Some of them suffer from radioactive-related diseases, and some are seeking help but having nobody to turn to. [Since] the Chernobyl nuclear disaster… various investigations and commemorations have never ceased… Yet on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, probes have always been wrapped in an ominous cloak for the past five years… However, concealing the truth will not lead people’s memory to oblivion, but arouse anger… One focal point is the local children’s poor health, especially thyroid cancer… The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, a global organization, sent a message to the Japanese government this January expressing worry over the high incidence of thyroid cancer…
Xinhua, May 23, 2016: A 2015 research found that children living near the Fukushima nuclear facilities are significantly up to 50 times more likely to develop thyroid cancer compared to those children living elsewhere in Japan. Data on radiation levels collected by Japanese volunteers near the Daiichi nuclear power plant is 8 to 10 times higher than the official number… Questions over the Fukushima aftermath have never ceased to pop up… Japan is concerned with its national image, food security, tourism, nuclear policy, medical compensation and possibility of public lawsuits… [none] of them should be the country’s excuse for preventing the post-disaster situation from being known to the public…
Xinhua, May 23, 2016: Children near Fukushima more likely to suffer from thyroid cancer… More than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, including suspect cases… The Fukushima prefectural government doubted the cases were related to the nuclear disaster… Some nuclear experts were surprised by the Japanese government’s irresponsible and indifferent attitude.
Xinhua, May 23, 2016: Truths deliberately covered about Fukushima surface over five years — Facts about the Fukushima nuclear disaster… kept emerging over the past five years after the mishap took place, revealing the real face of the disaster. In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture [a device reads] 0.38 microsieverts/hour… However, volunteer Yoichi Tao who majored in physics said the figure of radiation on their own device is 8 to 10 times of the official one. According to Tao, the government dispatched the military to wipe out the nearby nuclear radiation on the ground in advance, so the official figure looks very low. “That’s how the government did it,” he said…
Xinhua, May 24, 2016: The improper handling of the Fukushima aftermath by the Japanese government has had grave consequences… a Russian radiation expert has said… Japan followed the suit of the former Soviet Union in playing down the disastrous consequences, said Valery Stepanenko, a leading specialist in medical and environmental dosimetry and radiation safety… the Japanese government attempted to hide the truth… After the disaster, lies and contradictive information emerged, making it impossible to decide the level of exposure… ”data of internal exposure were still left out,” he said… The consequence is dire… more than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture have been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, including suspect cases…
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Currently…450 million people have GMI
http://www.ispn-psych.org/docs/GlobalPerspectMentalHlth0804.pdf
That is about 1/12 of hominids on the planet.
Seems like a lot of
Holes in brains……
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You must obey!
I have never seen so many macho men armed to the teeth so scared out of their fricking minds from a guy holding a knife..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3620090/Knife-wielding-robbery-suspect-no-history-violent-crime-shot-dead-cops-fire-20-rounds-disturbing-dashcam-footage.html
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Before I was born …
“The element of surprise which could delay the discovery of the great danger, and thus allow more plutonium piles to come into existence, is the fact that scientists are looking near the ground for fallout dangers. The greatest radioactive dangers are accumulating from eight to twelve miles up in the stratosphere. The upper atmosphere is already charged with death-dealing radioactivity, for which it has not yet sent us the bill. It is slowly coming and we will have to pay for it in another century, even if atomic energy plants ceased today.”
https://nuclear-news.net/2015/09/18/nuclear-radiation-depletes-the-ozone-layer-will-eventually-destroy-planets-oxygen/
I firmly believe we are seeing alterations in the upper atmosphere set in motion decades ago. None of which is due to CO2.
That should be TATALly obvious by now.
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I wrote and article on this very subject, pointing out the dynamic effect the huge radioactive contamination releases from Fukushima, plus from Nuclear reactors worldwide are having on the planets atmosphere.
Planetary Thermal Imbalance & Extreme UV Levels.
http://www.sccc.org.au/extreme-uv-levels-in-summer
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And quite a few high altitude atomic bomb explosions https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=high+altitude+atomic+explosions
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But we as a species are too arrogant to believe that our own stupidity could actually contribute to our demise.
Make America Great again.
Crikey.
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"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" has my favorite movie intro.
Here's the best part:
"Reactors over heating. We can't stop a meltdown."
https://youtu.be/QgHATo0d3YA?t=85
FINALLY! Some nuclear truth in an apocalyptic movie! But only some.
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No news in over a week. Dare we hope nothing else has blown up, leaked or melted down? The strong earthquake in Japan a while ago keeps surfacing in my mind. As does the leaking radiation from the nuclear power plant outside of NYC, which is near me. I volunteer at a food bank in town…and they suddenly have this huge quantity of tuna fish from China. It's in black cans and the people who come for food skip over it and leave it on the shelf. So the people running the food bank decided they won't put any other kind out on the shelves until it's all gone. Is it evil or stupidity? You decide.
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Marcie. That is heartbreaking.
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No news is good news, that is if nothing bad is actually happening! This will fry your egg:http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/05/31/indian-point-nuclear-power-plant/85202118/
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Crap! Run like hell! We are 3 to 5 years from the next Nuclear meltdown.
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This is one of the most frightening articles I've read, yet. The official attitude that all is well is prevalent in everything said by both private and public officials… truly frightening…..
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@Its All True – read this one on Indian Point! It's even more frightening.
https://spoonsenergymatters.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/degradation-of-indian-point-reactor-triggers-nrc-investigation/
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When we talk about poisoning the Pacific it becomes, shall we say, somewhat personal for moi.
I know where I was conceived…the North Shore.
Yet we had already detonated bombs into the atmosphere and my mother ran a fever while pregnant with me. The docs called it scarlet fever (not Zika) and nobody discussed, you know, THE BOMBS.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as tragic as they were, in a sense were puny compared to many that followed.
Those detonations didn't just fade into the void, rather they continue to hasten our own demise into the void.
Atmospheric chemistry when altered changes how thermal dynamics work and new stress lines build up in the jetstreams.
Rainfall patterns are affected by countless factors, not just dust from the Sahara, etc.
Now forget the atmosphere…go marine.
Egits.
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When you alter the biological matrix of the marine environment, all manner of detrimental changes kick in.
Example: Poison top 6" of sea surface. Solar energy no longer is trapped by organisms to buffer the temperature gradient, hence the water column heats up.
UV rays can do that as well so it makes no sense to destroy the ozone layer with chloroflouro-carbons, jet kerosene, etc.
A twofer so to speak.
Carbon dioxide is NOT the problem.
Our stupidity and arrogance is.
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Some humans are so arrogant and hubristic that have perfected a technology that disassembles all genomes.
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CO2 Added By Humanity Is More Than 200 Times All Volcanoes Combined, As Oxygen Levels Drop, Human Intelligence, Reaction Times, Health And Environment Deteriorates, Salby Debunked
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/08/as-co2-levels-rise-human-intelligence.html
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I just saw the last few minutes of a docu called "merchants of doubt"..
To bad i cant find the full version online for free..looked really powerfull.
2 min trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ii9zGFDtc
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Yep!
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TEPCOn's meltdown manual:
"In case of power disruption monitor core temperatures to the nan0-second. 1. If you notice a spike it is too late.
2. Contact Ann Coulter and have her tame the masses into thinking that radiation is a nutrient….."
3. Evacuate to 50 miles via helicopter.
4. Invite US Navy to take a peek at the rad levels justy off shore. Valuable data can be had as to how much reactor potential went kablooey.
(sarc)
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they should order some manuals…only 10.87 euros.
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/nuclear-power-plant-reactor-training-manual-boiling-water-reactor-design-at-japan-tepco-fukushima-plant-and-u-s-plants-comprehensive-technical-data-on-systems-components-and-operations/9200000034462190/
"in the event of a cooling system malfunction, monitor the temperature in the spent fuel pool, switching to manual override if there is a 5 to 10 millisecond thermal runaway reaction"
http://everist.org/Fukushima/aerial-2011-3-30-unit3.jpg
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Homo sapiens….
…they went data way.
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Nice one Nick.
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@stock, would very much like to hear about your observations about your trip to Japan
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Journalist Roger Witherspoon writes an excellent piece on the damaged baffle bolts at Indian Point npp in New York
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-witherspoon/degradation-of-indian-poi_b_10197520.html
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The article continues here
https://spoonsenergymatters.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/degradation-of-indian-point-reactor-triggers-nrc-investigation/
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Since we live close to North Anna Nuclear Plant.this is the FIRST I have heard about a possible dangerous event there:
"In the North Anna nuclear reactor in Virginia, one of the baffles became slightly loose – though the bolts proved to be sound – and the pressurized coolant shot through the gap in an intense, cold water jet and damaged two 12-foot-long fuel rods. The water jet forced the rods to spin, and the zirconium cladding burst, sending 15 radioactive uranium fuel pellets careening throughout the reactor ( http://bit.ly/1XTuCBR ). Actual core damage can be a precursor to a meltdown since the loose fuel cannot be controlled and roaming metal parts can block the cooling system for other fuel assemblies. "
What was the plan to WARN and evacuate citizens BEFORE they, the humans, got damaged? Right now I understand it is the county governments responsiblity to provide Iodine tablets for victims..before thyroid damages. Anyone want to guess if the 'county' government health departments even knows they have to have enough immediately for everyone? Are the tablets expired? They were in one area when a 5.0 earthquake occurred, damaging the plant a few years ago. And then there is Surry Nuclear Plant..just nine miles away..also a 'close friend." If they have an accident..I hope winds are from the South and West! Look at a map…
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Happened around Sept 15, 2014..report made Sept 30th 2014. So what could go wrong with a slightly delayed report? HUMMMM?? Now if they had to HOLD THEIR BREATH between went the event occurred and report was sent, now that would be useful!
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"The direct cause of the event was due to baffle jetting. Baffle jetting is the process by
which water on the outside of the core baffle plate is forced through small openings in
the baffle seams and onto the fuel assemblies. During Unit 2 Cycle 23, baffle jetting
caused two rods in assembly 4Z9, located in core position B11, to begin rotating and
vibrating. This movement resulted in fuel rod wear and eventual mechanical failure and
rod separation. Once separated, a maximum of 15 fuel pellets were released from the
two affected fuel rods. The Root Cause of the failed fuel assembly was the change in
material properties of the baffle plates and bolting due to aging mechanisms resulting in
the gap widening at the baffle joint. Stress, temperature, and irradiation since initial plant
start-up have resulted in relaxation, creep, and loss of pre-load in the bolting and baffle
plates. The changes in material properties allowed the gap in the corner baffle joint"
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Possible Causes Of Fukushima Frozen Wall Failures
June 1st, 2016
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=15503
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Belarus. And the human effects may be getting worse.
“…5 million people still live on heavily contaminated lands in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, and hundreds of thousands of people are sick or suffering in different ways.
“The true impact from Chernobyl may not be known for decades to come….
“Some parts of Chernobyl, an area the size of Rhode Island, will not be radiation-free, if ever, for at least 24,000 years….”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/17/chernobyl-disaster-health-impact-30-years/82907102/
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“The most dangerous place on the planet”:
Fear of hyperflooding and nuclear hazard on Dnieper River, Ukraine
April 05, 2012
“…The dam also receives particular scrutiny because the Kyiv Reservoir contains sediments contaminated with radionuclides from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown of 1986. The defunct plant is located about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of the dam, and a river that flows near it drains directly into the Kyiv Reservoir….”
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/data/uploads/2012/04/568px-Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996.svg_.png
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/data/uploads/2012/04/DnieperRiver_Chernobyl_Map.png
“Moreover, it contains additional major threat – after the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in 1986, radionuclides washed away by rains badly contaminated the bottom silt of the reservoir. During the years following the disaster, there were suggestions to drain the reservoir because it was too shallow. It appeared that, if done, this could have created the threat of the tremendous amounts of radioactive dust travelling by wind, lethally affecting Europe….
” First of all, a release of each but the southernmost reservoir would damage several top-hazard nuclear sites in the Dnieper basin, as explained below. Subsequently, the whole Black Sea area would be radioactively contaminated to a significant extent. This would cause a Europe-wide nuclear disaster by means of large-distance air and water circulation.
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The cities of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, standing on the Dnieper, contain dozens of hazardous industrial sites, mostly toxic wastes dumps, which may be destroyed not only by hyperflooding but also by weather extremes due to their poor protection.
“The most dangerous among those sites are the radioactive dumps in the riverbank city of Dniprodzerzhynsk. The now-defunct Prydniprovsky Chemical Plant (PHZ) has been enriching uranium ores for Soviet nuclear program from 1948 till 1991, preparing the so-called Yellowcake substance. Its processing wastes are now stored in 9 open-air dumping grounds containing about 36 million tones of sand-like low-radioactive material, occupying area of 2,5 million square meters. The sites, improperly constructed from the very beginning, have been abandoned by industry long ago and remain in very poor condition. The top concern is the dumps’ closeness to both the Dnieper River and city residential areas….”
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/data/uploads/2012/04/cheruno-cesium-kiev-reservoir.jpg
“According to government experts, the dams separating the grounds from soil water are already leaking, causing the pollution of Dnieper basin. It is believed that further deterioration of the dams in itself may cause a devastating radioactive mudslide….
“Ukraine’s uranium ore mines (which products have been enriched by PHZ) are also situated in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in proximity of the Dnieper and its tributaries, particularly in the town of Zhovti Vody.
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“The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant is also situated within miles from the Dnieper, in the left-bank city of Enerhodar. In case of a hyperflooding, hazardous materials from these and many other industrial sites may be poured on surrounding territories and the Black Sea. On May 30, 2006 researcher Vasily Kredo alerted the nation again, calling the Kiev Reservoir “the most dangerous place on the planet”. The researcher says there is a remote possibility of a ‘radioactive tsunami from the Kiev Sea’ that would kill 15 million and make Ukraine ‘never revive again’.”
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/04/05/fear-of-hyperflooding-and-nuclear-hazard-on-dnieper-river-ukraine/
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The Dnieper River Aquatic System Radioactive Contamination; Long-tern Natural Attenuation And Remediation History
There are different aspects of radionuclide transport in the environment were studied since the Chernobyl fallout in 1986 covered the river catchments, wetlands, river, lakes/reservoirs and reached the Black Sea. The monitoring time series data set and also data on the radionuclides behavior studies in the water bodies (river, lakes and the Black Sea) are available now in Ukraine and other affected countries. Its causation analyses, considering the main geochemical, physical and chemical and hydrological process, governing by radionuclide mobility and transport on the way from the initially contaminated catchments, through the river-reservoir hydrological system to the Black Sea can help in better understanding of the main factors governing be the radionuclide behavior in the environment. Radionuclide washout and its hydrological transport are determined speciation of radionuclides as well as soil types and hydrological mode and also geochemistry and landscape conditions at the affected areas. Mobility and bioavailability of radionuclides are determined by ratio of radionuclide chemical forms in fallout and site-specific environmental characteristics determining rates of leaching, fixation/remobilization as well as sorption-desorption of mobile fraction (its solid-liquid distribution).
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In many cases the natural attenuation processes governing by the above mentioned processes supported by water flow transportation and sedimentation played the key role in self-rehabilitation of the aquatic ecosystems. The models developed during post-Chernobyl decade and process parameters studies can help in monitoring and remediation programs planed for Fukusima Daichi affected watersheds areas as well. Some most important monitoring data collection results and experience gained during post-Chernobyl decades at the Dnieper River aquatic system are presented (catchments, river and reservoirs). This experience show that only information on radionuclide deposition levels is not enough for accurate predictions on radionuclide wash-out and transport in the hydrological systems. Data on speciation in fallout, rates of transformation processes and site-specific environmental characteristics determining these rates are needed….”
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013EGUGA..1510508V
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/EGU2013-10508.pdf
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