Published: July 22nd, 2011 at 11:52 am ET
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Are worries over meat overblown?, Japan Times, July 22, 2011:
[...] Do people who have eaten contaminated beef need to worry about their health? [...]
Eating 1 kg [2.2 pounds] of the meat is roughly equal to a radiation dose of 82.65 microsieverts for a period during which radioactive cesium remains in one’s body. If a person eats food with radioactive cesium, half the amount remains in the body for nine days for a baby younger than 1. But the duration gets longer as people age, and it takes 90 days for those aged 50. [...]
Published: July 22nd, 2011 at 11:52 am ET
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Nice headline – overblown.
Maybe people are justifiably angry about being exposed to this extra dose. Over a year that adds up to 3 mSv, a significant load, and more than anyone’s standard of exposure for the public. We have to eat every day. What else are the not monitoring or not telling us about? People already exposed to increased background and inhaled radioactive dust don’t need dirty food as well.
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Hiroshima survivors get special checkups in Seattle
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/126069283.html?skipthumb=Y
SEATTLE — Dozens of survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb are being checked out by a special team of doctors this weekend.
It’s been over 65 years since that tragic day, but it still affects many people.
Fred Hasegawa, now 81, was just 15 when the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan near the end of World War II. The first bomb hit Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later, the second one hit Nagasaki.
The Hiroshima explosion destroyed Hasegawa’s high school, wiping out his freshman class. But that day, he had been sent to work at a military factory.
“We are lucky. We were kind of far outside of the city,” he said.
Dr. Jitsuro Yanagida leads the team of doctors from Hiroshima who have been doing check-ups on survivors like Hasegawa every two years in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Honolulu since 1977.
Cancer killed three of the doctor’s family members.
“I, myself, still don’t know whether they died of A-bomb or not,” Yanagida said. “But the possibility of developing cancer is higher.”
As Hasegawa continues to have research done on him, he is concerned about the future of Japanese people who might be affected by the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
“Nuclear is more scary, ’cause (the effects) don’t show right away,” he said. “They show later on, maybe 10, 20 years later.”
For now, Hasegawa says he feels lucky.
“I feel good, so far,” he laughed. “Can’t tell tomorrow, but so far, OK.”
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Fukushima Fallout Update July 21, 2011
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/9307-fukushima-fallout-update-july-21-2011.html
Radioactive cesium far above the government standard was detected in rice straw for cattle feed collected by a supplier in Kurihara City.
Thursday, July 21, 2011 07:31 +0900 (JST)”
Energy News carried a similar story yesterday regarding radiation levels in Toyko:
http://enenews.com/radiation-dose-tokyo-higher-several-locations-inside-30-km-evacuation-zone-around-fukushima-meltdown-photos
These new (by official government sources) radiation levels at large distances from the plant site go right along with the next story on the increase in the number of prefectures reporting radioactive hay.
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
READERS IN COUNCIL
Open letter to nuclear experts
By NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST
Marumori-machi, Miyagi
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20110724a1.html
As a father who has evacuated his wife and children from our home near the mess at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, I would like to share a couple of insights that will hopefully inform the debate, or the lack of one, that has been raging:
* It seems to be very difficult for the administration and the so-called experts who have visited the villages and towns of Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures to reassure us. We don’t know [what to believe or what to expect] because nothing like this has ever happened before. Forget about Chernobyl, Hiroshima and Windscale; the timelines, locations, climate, topography, wind patterns and groundwater systems are all different.
* Authorities have not taken systematic readings. Air, water and soil samples have not been taken in areas that matter. We have no benchmark, because samples were not taken before the nuclear plant crisis. The speedy radiation sensor system failed immediately after the March 11 earthquake because of inadequate electricity backup. There are no future projections of radioactive contamination and no model on which to base them.
* That livestock seem to be receiving more attention than children in the region is a disgrace. On March 10, we would not have been able to imagine that our children would be attending contaminated schools wearing dosimeters.
* Internal radioactivity will be passed on to our children’s children. Cesium will remain in the environment for 150 years. A parent can’t help viewing this threat as the result of unforgivable neglect. It’s past time that the authorities admit what they don’t know, and act now to move children out of contaminated areas and provide them with a chance at a future.
And let’s turn our minds to how to make this evacuation an opportunity for them, rather than wringing our hands over what we should do.
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Dozens? How about 104 to be exact.
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“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” — A.H.
A digital march on the powers that be.
A simple idea is right in front of us, with potentially big results.
How do we get the attention of the powers that be? How do we perform shock and awe?
How do we tell them that we won’t stand for the lies and deception anymore.
How do we tell them to get real or get out? We sure haven’t accomplished this by our votes.
This seems to be the universal cry of every nations people.
We all have lives to live. Realistically, we can not physically march on our governments.
A digital march on the powers that be, is one answer. One very loud voice.
We can join our individual voices into one very loud voice that can not be ignored.
We can tell the powers that be, who serves who. Get real or get out.
If one person did this, sending a million emails at once, he/she would be arrested.
If a million or more people did this, we could get the attention of the powers that be.
They can not arrest a million or more people for flooding the powers that be with emails on one day.
If we could set a date and time to email, en masse, to the powers that be, we would get some attention.
I think that the ten year anniversary of 911 and the six month anniversary of 311 is perfect.
September 11 is a Sunday, and most are at home near their computers.
This gives time to get the word out. A million or more emails at once is undeniable.
This should be a public event, the MSM should be notified as much as possible.
Twitter, facebook, google+, and all the alt news sites, can be used to get the word out.
Maybe it will take a full day of emails to achieve the desired results.
Each person could send just a couple of emails to the address’s of choice.
Each country could send email’s to their respective powers that be.
Each of us could send big pictures and links that we have gathered.
It does not matter what the content of each email is, that is up to the individual.
The key is in the timing of the protest. When to click send.
This would need to be coordinated to the hour in each time zone.
How much effort would that take from each individual. Not much.
But the sum of each individual’s efforts would be an eye opener for sure.
Would they block the servers to stop this? If so, then we have accomplished the task.
Would they shut down the internet that day? Again, then we have accomplished the task.
A large planned multinational protest, like this, has never been attempted before.
We can be the first world revolution in history to protest en masse over the internet.
Is the direction of the future of this planet at stake here, right now?
Do you agree, we must do something? What do we stand to lose? What is your idea?
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Jebus, your passion and resolve are admirable. There are however a couple of things that should be mentioned in relation to your idea.
1. Due to the lack of information in the MSM we are currently very much a minority group. Any attempt to impose the will of a minority on the majority would simply be labelled undemocratic, whatever the cause or concern.
2. Even when a majority disagrees with a particular stance taken by their elected goverment, they are usually ignored (unless elections are due).
I suggest you continue with your fine commentary, and play the waiting game for awhile. It takes longer to turn a big ship around than a rubber dingy (and if it hits an iceberg in the meantime, it’s not your fault. There’s only so much you can do).
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there seems to be an incredible amount of apathy about…alt websites go for the popular stories that increase click rate revenue and underpin advertising streams…good example alex jones, why isnt he and david icke, webster tarpley etc etc as well as john pilger etc etc covering this. it must be that the media has done a good job of spreading apathy! the wrong stories exagerated ie immigration, and the right stories minimalised or in the case of anything to do with old fuku an apparent censorship! alex can talk about anything except his readers being contaminated with iodine and possibly equal amounts of ceasium and strontonium with a small dash of plutonium (ignoring los alamos etc for the moment). and i dont mean to pick only on dear alex! ive been scouring the internet like everyone here and pickings are thin…many compatible sites dont even register enenews! fear, apathy with just the right amount of propaganda has made the antinuke movemnt irrelevant, sidelined and on the defensive! Greenpeace international, are they still trying to contaminate irretrrviabilty their nice shiny new ship? any more readings or statements from them…it is a nice ship i suppose, shame to have to scuttle it in fuku harbour! but still no readings while children are being forcefed radioactive mushrooms! and still …schhhhhhhhhhh! all is quiet….schhhhhhhnothing to see hear…..schhhhhhhit!
moonkais video post got me really angry with all this pussyfooting around..
there was a time that greenpeace battled japan on the high seas with just the aid of arm inflatables, taling chunks out of whaling ships with thier bare teeth!
there was a time when alex jones would jam a loudspeaker up little georges butthole and tell him what he thought!
ther was a time when david icke realised that he had the freedom to say anything? but little on old fuku!
listen up! CHILDREN ARE BEING FORCE FED FUKU!(copyright applied for whoopee
) and not just in japan?
/rant
peace
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arclight, + 100.
I’m just reflecting my comment to Jebus below. And i wonder – wouldn’t it be best to start in our own community to raise awareness? Instead of trying to put the world on our shoulders? “Slow and steady wins the race” – I think that’s true.
With you being in the UK, you probably know the “Transition Town” movement, which I love. Based on their ideas, I organised a public “no nuke” film screening last autumn. I decided to consider it a success if 5 people showed up. 24 came. Was great.
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Excellent Arc and BB.
We’ve talked about what you mention so often at HP. What is missing are THE BIG GUNS…ORGANIZATIONS COMING OUT WITH THE TRUTH! Everyone you mention do seem ODDLY QUIET about all this. What good does it do to continue like little ants RANTING DAY IN DAY OUT but the MSM does NOTHING?! We need all the voices we can get on this TODAY! It’s like pissing in the wind! If Big Names/Websites aren’t speaking out TOO, then what good does it all do? Frustrated?! You betcha esp when the f**kers you mention DO NOTHING. I dont know what the answer is. I DO like BB’s IDEA below.
Somethings got to give here…I DONT know what THE ANSWER IS. I’m as frustrated as I’ve ever been…maybe moreso. Epic Failure of the MSM.
I LIKE HOW THIS THREAD IS PROGRESSING. Keep it coming…surely something can and WILL come from this DISCUSSION. Your great in figuring things out. I’ll join YOUR BANDWAGON, damn straight. TY
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I’ll take that as a censure then Whoopie. Caution to the wind then is it? Full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes?
Just remember, they are BIG damn torpedoes lol.
(mops flop sweat from brow)
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Union of Concerned Scientists has a petition to NRC running right now, http://ucsusa.org/action/ Urge the NRC…
Here’s what I “personalized” on their whitebread form:
What happened in Japan is already happening here in the US, too. It is your job to make sure that it doesn’t continue. I urge you to take immediate action to enact and enforce safety and security reforms that will help prevent any more nuclear catastrophes and improve public safety.
Specifically, I urge you to reduce the risks associated with how still dangerous “spent” nuclear fuel is stored. As we see in the cases of Los Alamos and its uncontrolled wildfire and Ft. Calhoun in its woefully inadequate preparations for flooding, we don’t even need a terrorist attack to cause US citizens to be subject to the release of life-threatening radiation. Frighteningly inadequate standard operating procedures at aging nuclear plants are being condoned by your license extensions, lax regulations and enforcement.
Experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists and the National Academy of Sciences say that by requiring plant owners to store more radioactively toxic used fuel in dry casks instead of pools of water, many of these dangers can be reduced.
I also urge you to adopt a *zero tolerance* approach to safety violations and stringently enforce existing NRC regulations. The NRC must no longer ignore or tolerate problems at nuclear facilities and instead require plant operators to STOP OPERATIONS UNTIL they fix these safety and security issues.
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Joviation, good link, thank you! In general, the UCSUSA are doing great work, and they’re worth to be supported, methinks.
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Thanks Joviation. I’ll post to hp.
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On the dot. One must apply the precautionary principle and stop all activities of power production(sic) by nuclear and entomb them. Fukushima is good enough to apply this measure.
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Hi Jebus,
Good morning. Wow. Thanks a lot for your post. You ask for our thoughts and our ideas, well, here are mine :
What would this e-mail be? I guesss it would have tob e not a letter, but a manifesto, right? Something like
„We the people want to live without the dangers of nuclear power. To do so, we want:
- To see our taxes spent on the development of renewable energies instead on loans for nuke investments
- Independent surveillance of radiation levels and them being made public at all times and under all circumstances
- To shut down immediately all reactors which have reached 40 years operational time
- To exit nuclear power completely by the year 2025
- …….
I would, however, suggest a different approach than sending e-mails. Beause
- You’d have no idea how many e-mails have been sent before the server crashes (but that would be important for the media (and us) to know)
- If they decide to take the server down before, we have achieved nothing (apart from a nightshift for their IT department, maybe).
As it’s not necessary to « re-invent the wheel », let’s see how other s do it.
For example, we have an organisation here which is called Campact (« campaign & action »),
http://www.campact.de/campact/home
They are, if you will, a lobby group for civilians. They take care of different topics, among them also «no nukes“. Their members have grown from 125.000 to almost 500.000 during the last 18 months (which is a lot in a country of 18 million people).
They collect online signatures for prepared messages to the government, when important decisions are getting on the political agenda. They HAND THEM OVER publicly to politicians (with media coverage).
Going with it, they organise public actions in front of the parliament, etc. They get a lot of media attention, because they are SEEN.
To do that, we’d need a simple but professional website. I bet there are talented agencies in the US who would set one up for free, along with a logo. Campact is financed by single donations, but mostly be persons who sponsor permanently by giving a monthly amount of their choice.
That were my (pretty long) 2 cents.
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May I correct myself: Germany has actually 80 million, not 18 million inhabitants
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My intent was to stimulate the ideas that are inside all of us.
Ya gotta wonder about these existing movements, efforts, petitions.
What is missing that they have gone basically nowhere so far?
These attempts at change have been going on for over 50 years.
Are we any further than we were at that time? What does it take to make this global?
If radiation spread all over this planet, twice, hasn’t catalyzed the people, then what will?
Do we have to wait until the children start dying again, before we attempt to give this planet back to mother earth?
How do you turn apathy into interest? What will it take to create the REAL new world order?
It seems like the real spark, the real beginning will not involve money, it will be far more costly than that.
I’m wondering what was going through this man’s mind that day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk&feature=related
A river starts with a drop.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXmD3YCMcGw
It’s Sunday, I’m off do chores, mow the lawn, walk the dog, and live my life.
I’m livin the dream, inside the nightmare of reality.
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Just in from ex-skf:
Radiation in Fukushima City Order of Magnitude Higher Than Official Numbers?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/radiation-in-fukushima-city-order-of.html
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Japanese government killing its own people in Fukushima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVuGwc9dlhQ&feature=feedu
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ugh….thanks for the link, though.
Morning Whoopie. Sorry, but HP is really too hectic for me…I can’t keep up! Is there a way to get this atoms4peace-idiot over here so we can nail him down?
(btw, I’m german, living in old europe, lol)
peace
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That’s ok BB. I was a little over the top yesterday. Better today. I’d LOVE to get Atoms over here!! hahah! But we’ll just leave him where he’s at. PEACE and it’s Onward and Upward!! I pray to God.
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Whoopie, did you already think about contacting Gary Headrick http://www.sanclementegreen.org/ ? The Fuku flyer guy. He comes up with some great ideas, he has just put up “San Onofre evacuation route” signs along the roads (on private properties, so they can’t be taken down).
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Thanks for the link!! I’ll do it right now!!
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We have our own version of atoms, IC
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Majia…lol…true! But they’ve become less, don’t they?
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Aaaaahhhh..now I see who you mean (blonde moment here).
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I was impressed by this video…the Japanese do not appear weak to me!
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Same in the Gulf areas should have been evaced and they did not ! Only later posted the readings that were thousands of times over the limits of deadly gases and chemical poisons, it wasn’t even on the news to warn people !!!!!
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Decontamination experiment starts in Fukushima
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/society.html
“More than 3,500 city employees and citizens took part in an experiment to remove radioactive materials from roads in a highly contaminated area of Fukushima City on Sunday.
The experiment follows the city’s decision to clean up all the roads used by elementary and junior high school students.
Participants dug up weeds and removed sludge from roadside ditches, where radioactive materials tend to accumulate.
They used high-pressure washing equipment and scrubbing brushes to clean roads near schools.
A father of 2 elementary school children said he took part to bring down radiation levels for the many children who are still living in the community.
A house in the area was also cleaned for experimental purposes. The roof and plants were washed with high-pressure equipment after city employees measured radiation levels.”
They are NUTS.
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I feel so bad for these people. Watching that video above, the Government officials never once addressed the concerns of these people. They COULDN’T EVEN LOOK AT THEM. Disgusting. BTW Arnie tweeted that video about an hour ago too.
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Nirek just posted this update on VERMONT @ HP
http://vtdigger.org/2011/07/22/to-fuel-or-not-to-fuel-entergy-self-imposed-deadline-for-costly-fuel-fecision-looms/
BBL…exhaustion has got the better of me this morning. Age does that to ya.
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Smoking bad right now too = other link has ended:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html
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Take care, Whoopie….or you might develop “sympathy fatigue” syndroms…
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110724p2a00m0na001000c.html
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Is anyone here? did anyone see the two blazing orbs of light and steam at7/25/1-20 on webcam?
They disappeared quickly…
very, very strange…
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6.2 EQ 59 mi. off Fuku
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc00053hg.php
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6.2 2011/07/24 18:51:25 37.758 141.540 35.6 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
5.1 2011/07/24 15:07:11 38.857 141.987 60.4 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
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Hi Pu,
icone just discovered the plume coming from unit 3 after the shake…check timelapse…
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No tsunami warnings.
Hopefully they’re not hiding those too.
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[2 big'ens in 2 days.]
Strong earthquake jolts northeastern Japan
AP – 1 hr 10 mins ago
The U.S.G.S. says the magnitude 6.2-quake struck at 3:51 a.m. Monday and was centered at a depth of 22.1 miles (35.6 kilometers) in the Pacific Ocean, 59 miles (94 kilometers) east of Fukushima prefecture. The epicenter is 175 miles (282 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.
On Saturday afternoon, a magnitude-6.4 quake struck in the same area off the east coast of Honshu.
http://news.yahoo.com/strong-earthquake-jolts-northeastern-japan-045705487.html
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This time it’s much closer to the power plant. You can bet the energy received by the crippled structures had been much greater than a couple of days ago…
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Bouild a timeline base, concentrated on Fuku and on radiation.
I firmly belive in education and there need to be a “library”. I cant but there are others that can do it.
There must be someting to slam in their faces, with all relative info. from rad.messurments to what to do and how to live in a fallout sone.
Colected and stacked, easy to use and easy to read.
The people of Japan and the rest of the world needs it. Let it bee a begining and a work in progress.
Like wikipedia, elegant and simple.
And if some from Japan reads this I will again stress that, look for changes in your enviroment, childrens helth, insects, small ceatures and so on, even to plants.
I have read about rumurs on cats and dogs loosing hair, when I read about that my hair stood in my neck, I got numb.
Thats bad, realy realy bad, infact it cant be wurse, this is so bad it can be.
I sincerly hope that the gravness in parts of Japan dawns on us all, for me thats the sign of realy bad contamination. And people sould leave and leave now.
Its from now on we wil see a slow train of deth comming, it will. This must be taken at the outmoust seriousness.
My hart is bleeding for the inocent and the unborn, they rely solely on us and nobody else.
Thats the issue.
I hate people hat sits down and waits for a any fu.. entety coming fom what, heven.
Thats a selfimposed lie and a covards exuse, for doing nothing and sitt there and wait for others to do it.
Thats a shore way to die.
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
— Kalu Kalu
peace
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
— Kalu Kalu
nice qoute!
this site will provide you with info and timeline links…there has been work on video and readings evidence etc…but its a lot of info…i suspect that the beginings of synopsis of this tragedy are already being compiled!
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@mikael
“I hate people hat sits down and waits for a any fu.. entety coming fom what, heven.
Thats a selfimposed lie and a covards exuse, for doing nothing and sitt there and wait for others to do it.”
In just these few words you have attacked some folks beliefs, their intelligence, their courage and their morality. You protest the current situation yet clearly you stand with the rationalists in scorn of a belief in God.
You may be right about one thing… if there are enough people with your views then divine intervention is unlikely.
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Is this site kind of down? I mean there has been no new articles put up for a couple of days.
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Japan about to censor Internet news on nuclear radiation?
On June 17, 2011 the Japanese Parliament passed “The Computer Network Monitoring Law” . Prof. Ibusuki of Seijo Univ. Law Dept. comments that “The Computer Network Monitoring Law will enable the police to monitor anyone’s internet activity without restriction.”…
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/07/24/japan-about-to-censor-internet-news-on-nuclear-radiation/
also tepco/gov have reduced the regularity of the press releases this week ….think the web cam guys might be in for a surprise! im a poet and i dont know it… the fight is on!! and were not doing very well
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Ahhhh, But,…it is written: “There are more with US, than are with them”
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What about this site? What’s going on?
Won’t it be any new article about Fukuschima?
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BREAKING: Japan extends evacuation zone; Radiation in US strawberries and mushrooms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaxpnXCePxA&feature=player_embedded
when he talks about ceasium you can double the particulate count because apparently there was an equal amount of stronyium 90 (leukimea etc)
dont know why were not covering this ? maybe admins having a break…wouldnt blame him or her… hopefully thats what it is??????? peace oh and enenews website is still up and risa seems to be on the case there
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bugger! this artcle from 8 april oops……point about strontium stands though!!
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Yes, there will be. News on the weekend gets this way. I have seen it every single weekend. However, Sunday usually heats up late,..as it is Monday already there. They are bound to F-up somehow today,….and ENENEWS will be there!
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Grrrrr…..Fuckers!
Fukushima residents’ radiation level low
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110724002608.htm
The Yomiuri Shimbun
FUKUSHIMA–None of the 122 residents from Namiemachi and other areas in Fukushima Prefecture whose internal radiation exposure was tested in late June received doses that would endanger their health, the prefectural government said.
The prefectural government examined the residents from evacuation areas amid the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, prior to health checks for every resident in the prefecture.
Converted to a yearly level, the group’s radiation exposure level was confirmed to be less than 1 millisievert.
According to Makoto Akashi, executive director of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, radioactive cesium was detected in the urine of about half of the 122 residents.
“The detected exposure level was much lower than the level that affects human health. I think the residents will be relieved,” Akashi said.
He conveyed the results to the residents at a briefing session in Nihonmatsu in the prefecture Saturday.
(Jul. 25, 2011)
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Let’s temper this a bit. Akashi is highly respected and has enormous expertise in radiation medicine. Having said that I certainly don’t know the dynamics of exactly how they tested these residents (whole body scanners?) or why they say cesium in half of them presents no health issue.
That is a point many scientists will debate…that any levels of radioactive poisoning are safe.
Akashi had a great presentation at the WHO meeting in Switzerland in May and on page 14 of this PDF you will see staggering levels of cesium that thye have discovered in eastern Japan.
http://www.nirs.go.jp/data/pdf/WHO_PresenVer3.pdf
Information about his speech and the WHO meeting is here:
http://www.nirs.go.jp/data/pdf/i18_e1.pdf
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approx. 2500 tests done in 45 days means that with all the resources of the government, private institutions and universities only 55 tests a day were done during the period 1st april to 15th may with only 200 tests showing over the limit …???????
Approx. 270 samples with no timeframe, 16 were over reg levels no details again of excess levels…
definately no mention of strontium of which it appears there was an equal amount…
i am not to reasured by this document!
only 55 tests a day! how many suitable labs in japan? shall we say 10… that would be 5 tests each??!! what were they doing testing the food? oh that was later, after they sold loads of it!! another grrr from me this time….nice post sickputer, really brings things into persrective doesnt it?
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Ahhhhhhhhhh! I’m ashamed to have ever read that rag.
Japan to tourists: Visit, we’re OK
Published: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 5:00 AM
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2011/07/japan_to_tourists_visit_were_o.html
…..
Radiation levels from the damaged nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture, about 150 miles from Tokyo and much farther from Kyoto and Hiroshima, are negligible except inside and within a few miles of the plant, an area that’s been evacuated and off-limits to all but essential personnel. Issues remain regarding the plant itself.
Kyoto and Hiroshima, popular tourist destinations, hardly even felt the quake.
Because of rigorous inspection policies ordered by the Japanese government, food that reaches consumers, including fish (raw or cooked), is not hazardous to health. At least that’s what we’re being told not only by government agencies but by people who handle the food for a living.
Finally, the tsunami was, indeed, a monster. Cleanup continues, damaged buildings and debris remain, thousands of people are still unaccounted for, and though the destruction was limited to coastal areas in northeast Honshu and away from most major population centers, that pain was felt nationwide. Think “Katrina” but far deadlier.
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I’m done for a while. I can’t take this shit any more for a while. I gotta go out for a walk and scream at the top of my lungs!
Plutonium-Removing Drug Developed In Japan
Sunday, July 24, 2011
http://www.panorientnews.com/en/news.php?k=1037
Tokyo- (PanOrient News) A Japanese joint venture has developed a drug to remove plutonium from patients exposed to the radioactive substance, Nikkei reported today.
Intravenous injection of such drugs puts calcium or zinc into the blood to replace plutonium and other radioactive substances, which are passed out with urine. Plutonium released outside the body will be stringently controlled, according to the paper.
The joint venture between Sumitomo Chemical Co. and GE Healthcare Japan Corp. has obtained a licence in Japan to sell the drug, and Nihon Medi-Physics Co. will launch it later this year, it said.
Only medical institutions capable of treating patients with emergency exposure will be able to prescribe. Physicians will also be able to prescribe the drug to children. Individuals will not be able to buy the new drug, which will only be permitted for use if patients are diagnosed with emergency radiation exposure after a strict examination.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plants, said on March 28 that Plutonium has been detected in soil at five locations at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the level “does not pose a risk to human health.”
The plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the devastating March 11 earthquake and the 14 meter-high tsunami.
PanOrient News
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the PR campaign seems to have taken a step up against nuke protesters..i think it is to hide the info on the protests in japan!! just my opinion!
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have a good scream for me!…i live in a built up area and sorrounded by sleeping kids etc….unable to sceam!!
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I had calmed down a little from this morning and thought I could stomach this headline article and read some more comments, but now I am disgusted again at their leaders !
What can we do to get them babies out of there !!!!!!
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Plutonium removing drug lol. Why don’t they say they have invented the world’s first time machine. So that they can go back in time and prevent the whole accident.
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unfucking believable
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“According to Makoto Akashi, executive director of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, radioactive cesium was detected in the urine of about half of the 122 residents.”
it follows that there was an equal amount of strontium to ceasium, smaller amount of plutonium etc hopefully….interesting that they did not test for beta and alpha emmitters too! im sure the people of japan are very secure in knowing that all possible testing is being done? /sarcasm
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Don’t you guys feel weird. Every time its about half or 45%.
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I am referring to the youtube video ‘Japanese Government Killing Its Own People’…these citizens were very bold.
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great video! encourages me to try and support these peoples aims and objectives!
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strange lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruUX5ywOQrU
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This link appears to have been censored? It takes me to Utoob’s home page after about one second.
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Looks like I “lied” — new post. Whew.
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Woops, tagged this to the wrong comment. It goes with the one about Admin being “kept” from us — getting paranoid, me.
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“A Japanese joint venture has developed a drug to remove plutonium from patients exposed to the radioactive substance, Nikkei reported today.
Intravenous injection of such drugs puts calcium or zinc into the blood to replace plutonium and other radioactive substances, which are passed out with urine. Plutonium released outside the body will be stringently controlled, according to the paper.”
they want to give this to children with heavy exposure to plutonium?? hmmm!! has it been put through vigorous testing or is this a panic move by the pronukes??
injecting massive doses of minerals and vitamins into the body might even be more harmful!! is there a doctor in the house..would appreciate some feedback on this article if possible??
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…two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, isotopes on a sesame seed bun…
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Thanks Jebus! You go take yourself out for a walk,…your post included this: ” Plutonium released outside the body will be stringently controlled, according to the paper.”
Does this mean here comes the pee pee police?
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lol! i will refrain from all the urinary lokes i know…probaly better that way lol
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arclight, ” and other radioactive substances, which are passed out with urine. Plutonium released outside the body will be stringently controlled, according to the paper.”
Does this mean, here comes the pee pee police?
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Thought for the day
If Europe was to enter into a war the first attacks would be against, possibly, the French nuclear reactors. This would cause chaos in Europe with large movemnts of civilians trying to escape the fallout or contaminared zones around the plants.this would leave Europe very vunerable in case of attacks If isreal can take out an Iranian reactor it makes sense that iran could do the same to an isreali reactor? So why does iran want the bomb when its main protagonists seem to be the usa and isreal, both countries with nuclear reactors? Sitting targets if you like!
Clinton Says He Had Plan to Attack North Korean Reactor in 1994
U.S. Reportedly Spurned Israeli Plan To Attack Iranian Reactor
“While the paper said details were closely held by U.S. officials, it quoted one as saying, “It was not until the last year that they got really imaginative about what one could do to screw up the system.”
But the official said “none of these are game-changers” in that the efforts would not necessarily cripple Iran’s program.”
Talking about that really good idea like stuxnet maybe ?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,73061,00.html
Updated: 3:36 PM May 11, 2011
NRC Wants Attack Response Plans for All U.S. Reactors
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is demanding that operators of the 104 U.S. nuclear reactors submit detailed information about plans to respond to a possible terrorist attack.
NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko said Wednesday the agency will require operators to submit by June 10 details about plans, equipment and personnel in place to respond to a terrorist attack. The agency has required nuclear power plants to prove their ability to respond to terrorism since the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Officials began updating requirements after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis in Japan.
Jaczko said officials want to ensure those strategies still work and employees at nuclear plants know how to carry them out. Operators will be required to provide more detailed information by mid-July.”
Wonder what there response was…mid july?
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/NRC_Wants_Attack_Response_Plans_for_All_US_Reactors_121655074.html
and finally a quote from an unnamed and unverified source… but it gives you some idea of the strategic implications of these reactors in a military sense!
“In the early 1990s, reports surfaced in London claiming Israel had repeatedly tried to pressure India into launching a joint strike on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons development plant at Kahuta. The reports claimed Israeli and Indian pilots would be aided by detailed satellite photographs of Kahuta provided by convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
According to a report in The Washington Times, citing US officials, Pakistan?s then Foreign Secretary Shamshad Ahmed had notified the US government and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that Israeli and Indian warplanes, equipped with long-range refueling gear and operating out of India, had planned to attack Pakistani nuclear facilities at dawn on Thursday, 28 May 1998.
It is possible that for Kahuta, the Israelis will use F-15 Strike Eagles to carry out the actual attack with F-16s providing air cover – a reversal of the roles in the operation against Osirak. Furthermore, it is almost certain that if Israel ever attempted to take out Pakistan?s nuclear weapons facilities, Kahuta will not be the only target and it is highly likely that the Plutonium Reactor at Khushab and the National Development Complex (NDC) at Fatehjung, among others, will be additional targets high on the priority list of the Israelis.”
And lastly this.. killing the best scientists might seem like a good idea, but if you get rid of the cream of irans nuclear scientists whose left to run the shop? Fallout knows no boundaries! The plan is to cause a nuclear accident by other means and if that’s not the plan, the result will be the same….love to be a fly on the wall at one of gadafis strategy meetings, but I can imagine?!!!! ….hope everyones getting the big unspoken picture here?
Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead (as well as the rest)
By Mohammad Davari (AFP) – 1 day ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikc66MaRBJc46jBogHOCdmj6Q7oQ?docId=CNG.a1648361eb4770cb518e681d9dc71f55.111
That’s all for tonight! Keep up the good work everyone!
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Workers at Fukushima plant report harsh conditions
Workers involved in the restoration of the areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant say their working conditions have been harsh.
About 1,500 temporary workers of subcontractors hired by leading construction companies gathered in Tokyo on Sunday to discuss the situation.
A man who took part in the construction of emergency housing in Iwate Prefecture said he had been promised 20,000 yen, or 250 dollars, per day, but received only about one-third of the amount.
He said there were inadequate meals and workers had to sleep together 40 per room.
There were also reports about the conditions for those engaged in treatment of radioactive water and piping construction at the Fukushima plant.
The workers were forced to work without any explanation about the risk of radiation or any measures against heat strokes.
Another worker said he has received only half of the wages he had been promised for building temporary housing in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. He said he wants the government to do something about the unfair working conditions.
The organizers say these issues have not surfaced before because many workers find it inappropriate to complain when they think about the hardships of people in the disaster-hit areas.
Monday, July 25, 2011 09:51 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/25_12.html
(sorry if posted already)
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All the more reason the Japanese government needs to kick Tepco to the curb. That probably won’t happen until three things happen: major vapors begin unabated due to some event that could occur from the runaway cores or spent fuel rods get out of control; winds shift fulltime towards Tokyo in September (through November); and politicians in Tokyo start worrying about their personal safety.
We know the wind direction will change, the question remaining is will the radiation releases reach new levels from future events. As for scared politicians, I think most are slightly scared and when they get as scared as the lawyers faced with drinking the Hinckley water provided by Erin Brockovich then they will whimper like a lost puppy dog in the night.
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Is this website down?????
I haven’t read any news intwo days here.
What’s wrong?
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Everyone needs a break. It is hard keeping website content fresh day after day. Check out the Facebook section as when things are slow here I try to add things there that are topical. Many people are new school social networking folks and Facebook is all they know. I’d like to see 10,000 on the Enenews Facebook roster even if 9,990 lurk.
http://www.facebook.com/ENENEWS
I am not advocating anarchy but if the nuclear industry kills the livable environment for world society then they will be responsible for creating a climate of deadly anarchy among the last survivors. It won’t be a pretty world.
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Web master weekend job, a rough one !
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Good Morning, If you have never visited modern survival here is a history of the Fukushima disaster, The page updates like ene, from top to bottom. Page started March 11 2011
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/west-coast-usa-danger-if-japan-nuclear-reactor-meltdown/
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Nice link, CB. Thanks.
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Japan about to censor Internet news on nuclear radiation?
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/07/24/japan-about-to-censor-internet-news-on-nuclear-radiation/
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