Published: September 14th, 2014 at 9:45 pm ET
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The Yomiuri Shimbun, Sept. 11, 2014: TEPCO measures fail to hold water — Three and a half years after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, efforts to contain water contaminated with radioactive substances at the plant are at a crossroads… [TEPCO] has been unable to curb the growing volume of contaminated water… Yomiuri Shimbun reporters entered the Fukushima No. 1 plant on Monday morning… Ocean still remains vulnerable — Leakage of highly contaminated water into the sea is another problem that must be dealt with immediately…
Nuclear Safety In The Age Of Chernobyl And Fukushima (pdf), website of Ulrich H. Kurzweg, University of Florida Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Dec. 10, 2013: Strontium, cesium and plutonium are the real source of potential long term problems for humans as they can cause cell damage over many years especially if they get into the food chain as may be happening at the moment to people in Japan and to fish in the Pacific… The worry at Fukushima at the moment is… the leakage of radioactive water into the Pacific…
U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Meeting, Japanese Nuclear Plant Crisis in March 2011 (emphasis added):
- Bill Borchardt, Executive Director of Operations at Nuclear Regulatory Commission (at 13:00 in): Units 2 and 3 appear to have some primary containment damage. There have been releases of radioactivity that are of significant concern, including a significant contamination in the lower levels of Unit 2 and Unit 3 turbines… On Friday, March 11 [2011 the NRC's] first concern was for a possible tsunami impact on U.S. plants and radioactive materials on the West Coast.
- U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (31:15 in): There’s a lot of concern about what may end up in our oceans, impact to the fisheries. Do we have radiation monitors off of Honshu that are measuring anything in the ocean? Or is it just monitors that are evaluating the air?
- Peter B. Lyons Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy at US Dept. of Energy (in 31:45): The Dept. of Energy systems [are] not over the ocean… I am not aware of monitoring capability within the ocean that we have… That certainly could be added if it was deemed necessary. I should add that the Department of Energy, through the calculational capabilities — using the source terms developed by the NRC as being the worst cases — we do not anticipate a significant health effect in any of the United States areas.
- U.S. Senator John Barrasso, R-Wyoming (53:30 in): In the New York Times today, it reported that highly contaminated water… could leak into the ocean. What are the implications of that?
- Lyons (53:45 in): Well, certainly that has to be monitored from the standpoint of fisheries, food products. There are other agencies within our government that would be tracking whether there were any concerns from a U.S. perspective.
Watch the Senate meeting on C-SPAN here
Published: September 14th, 2014 at 9:45 pm ET
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Regardless of TEPCO's numbers, I can assure you that more than one milligram of Plu-kun is leaching into the Pacific every 24 hours.
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The fall-out from unit 3 explosion alone is still leaching WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more than that…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndtcw6Os-wo
let alone the 1280+ days of multi-corium spewing Fuktonium(thanks Kevin) into the Pacific Ocean.
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Break the silence, Folks. Get the Rad Word Out!
Fukushima Business Cards 4 U! And everyone else, too!
http://tinyurl.com/fukushimabusinesscard4u
These nifty cards are easy to print and pass out.
Or leave randomly, where ever you please. Distribute liberally.
Other practical resources
http://enenews.com/forum-best-practices-combating-effects-radiation/comment-page-13#comment-478924
TY.
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US Citizens, please do your best to alert your communities and reps. Not only for yourselves, but for your children and their children. It is guaranteed, for a time, they will also have children. Please prepare them.
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
(state and locals will listen best)
Find a mayor near you
http://www.usmayors.org/me
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Way to go, Mr. Barrasshole. Last time I heard Wyoming didn't acknowledge offshore issues … to the public
http://wyofile.com/rtempest/before-deepwater-horizon-disaster-wyomingites-had-key-roles-in-mms/
I'm sure Wyoming has nothing to do with Fukushima
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wyoming+uranium+fukushima
Except for that pesky uranium part. Wake up, Wyoming. Your low population numbers will either get lower, or spike, if the west coast ever gets it's head out of its….
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chem, are you familiar with the Wyoming town which was basically destroyed because its aquifer is contaminated with frac waste? Pavillion, Wyoming.
http://www.wateronline.com/doc/wyoming-writes-rules-safeguarding-groundwater-from-fracking-0001
Now they want to frac in Idaho, which might contaminate three major aquifers and the Snake River Basin. And "experimental" frac (industry word for "frack") wells are being built all over the California Central Valley. Most people don't know about the expansion of fracing into Idaho and California,
Just a few more examples of how the out of control energy industry runs rampant over the rights of citizens. In Wyoming, the regulations are being written to require the companies to monitor their own sites. (Yeah, right, like the fox guarding the hen house.)
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Our family is going into the green energy business. Sales of solar systems and other energy efficient, clean technologies for homes. This is something we can feel really good about, as we were formerly in the telecommunications industry. Now there's another industry run amock. They build cell towers everywhere, even in defiance of local laws and regulations. We're gonna make you have those smart meters and 4G networks frying your brain cells 24/7 whether you like it or not! You're gonna have those smart appliances reporting your every activity at home through our smart meter network whether you like it or not, slaves!
(Sorry, on a sarc rant this morning. Tired of this dis-empowerment.)
You go, Chem, I'm ready to print out & use some of your materials. Thanks for all that you do.
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Congrats on the green energy endeavor! Solution oriented businesses (and even support from stock investors) is how to be part of the mitigation and changes.
Bringing the future we want into the now. Good magic!
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Thank you LCT. We are feeling SOOOO much better about being involved in a business that offers real solutions. It has been my opinion since the late 1970's the U.S. made a huge mistake in not pursuing clean, alternative energy production. It has hindered our economic prosperity, not to mention it's just a better way to live all around, when energy production is "clean and green."
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Whaaaaaaattttttt? That can't be true… Nuclear experts cannot tell a lie. Their statistical modeling and computer programs always tell the truth.
(sarc)
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Haven't you heard?
Never trust atoms, they makeup everything.
(a repost)
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…..
curb growing volume
sorry, we just can't do it
i miss tunafish
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If and when TEPCO ever admits that Plu-kun is going into the Pacific, be sure to multiply the number by seven orders of magnitude to get a grasp of what the reality is.
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Fukushima Released Massive Amounts of Plutonium; Being Found In Japan, The Pacific Ocean And Inside Many US Cities; via @AGreenRoad http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/01/fukushima-released-massive-amounts-of.html
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Plutonium Mimics Iron In Body – 2 Million Times More Dangerous Than Uranium, MOX Planned For Use In All Future Nuclear Power Plants; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/09/plutonium-mimics-iron-in-body-2-million.html
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"we do not anticipate a significant health effect in any of the United States areas."
I believe that any effect to my health caused by Fukushima is significant to me.
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Exactly!
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Good point.
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How about for anyone- from a human perspective?!
Since we fail from a perspective of the entire biosphere.
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If we only had the American governments pride and arrogance we could make stupid comments like stated above. The tragic thing is people conditioned with years of propaganda have been brainwashed into thinking the world starts and ends in USA. In reality its a failed nation in its dying glory, broken by the system it pollutes the world with. (Ooow a pun)
All those years trampling on the vines of earth, bad karma. All those capitalist corporations off to ride the dragons back.
I hope you Americans have been taking Spanish lessons for the rich nation over the border. Watch out for those carpet bagging Americans, I've heard their like locusts consuming everything as they swarm. Make sure you hide your apples they love them.
Oh bugger, now I've got the gigs.
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@KI, eff you, plenty of blame all around. Current gov is a joke, I agree on that point.
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@ stock. I wouldn't deminish the usefullness of potassium iodide. It is essential for correct body funcion in an atomic ionised environment.
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KI…you'd better find 1000 other pills for the rest of the radionuclides in suspension with the Iodine. Potassium Iodide pills are a PR tool; at best, they are a false treatment for anxiety.
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Ask any GP/MD if iodine is essential for the endocrine/immune system to function correctly, its also wonderful in cases of the mind altering fluoride poisoning. You are focussing only on one aspect of this depleted in our diet iodine. Depleted in USA due to frankenstein DNA abominations and crop intensive farming.
People wishing to save their lives by fortifying their endocrine/immune system must seek a natural practitioner or doctor before taking iodine supplementation. There are risks for certain people supplementing iodine.
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The latest from Dana…
9-14-2014
HELLO !! Geiger Counters Can Not Register Potassium 40- WAKE UP !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLNJJOfCIJE
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Since my emails go through 2 washing machines before being delivered i'd recommend a C-tek charger for Dana's scooter, like the mxt4. Makes your batteries last up to 3 times longer. Buy it on that bay place 'cos stores will rip you off. Need to modify the cable for scooter plug. The chargers that come with disability scooters are crap as!!
Dana should make many 5min clips. This method of presentation is more readily acceptable for YouTube consumption. His site is not really available to me for some reason, hmmmm!!!!!!
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think the photos need to be processed to smaller "weight" -they weigh down the the load time…
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Digital photos should be saved at 72 dpi. That is the correct resolution for posting on the Internet.
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For HD movies, well, that's another story. But 72 DPI is screen monitor resolution quality.
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Or it was, anyway.
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Speaking of sites http://nucnews.com/whatsnew.php is now back up and running again after being unavailable today.
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''Three and a half years after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant … 'Leakage of highly contaminated water into the sea is another problem that must be dealt with immediately…''
''Strontium, cesium and plutonium are the real source of potential long term problems for humans as they can cause cell damage over many years'' …
Borchardt:''Units 2 and 3 appear to have some primary containment damage'' …
Murkowski: ''There’s a lot of concern about what may end up in our oceans, impact to the fisheries. Do we have radiation monitors off of Honshu that are measuring anything in the ocean?'' …
Lyons: '' I am not aware of monitoring capability within the ocean'' …
Barrosso: ''In the New York Times today, it reported that highly contaminated water… could leak into the ocean.
- the rip van winkles of dunceville appear to be stirring.
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''we do not anticipate a significant health effect''
- the health effects will be real; it is we who are insignificant
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PU was but one of a host of horrors.
I found an interesting shot of R3 ELE that looks a bit pink…It looks as if there was a large amount of Barium137 in the explosion indeed. TY NFV for pointing this out to me.
Click my name for more info, new image is on first page.
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There are holes in ALL of the Fuku atomic buckets, and liquid death plus horrors are pouring out, but no one cares.
Pandora's Box of horrors was opened, not just once but MANY times over.
Those horrors are will not stop until suicide squads go in and stop the leaks, and others find the coriums.
Sacrifice is needed.. Where are the nuclear engineers volunteering to go?
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Japan is getting ready to lite off another NPP…nothing learned from Fukushima. The Fermi Paradox- "where has the intelligent life in the Universe gone"- explained. The energy from NPP's is just too appealing, no one can ignore the promise, and everyone ignores the danger, until too late. Mankind will have been extinguished by it's own hand, our existence a thin radioactive layer in the geologic record- much like the KT-BOUNDARY IMPACT layer.
Suicide squads? Volunteer nuclear engineers? Just a band-aid on a Volcano, too little too late. Indeed, Pandora's Box is open, spilled, scattered around the world, and no one is smart enough to fix it.
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Japanese scientist predicts another major earthquake in Japan by 2017
July 29 2014
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/07/29/japanese-scientist-predicts-another-major-earthquake-in-japan-by-2017/
And still they want to restart ..
Madness.
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Yes, pure madness, it is everywhere, and all one has to do is look around.
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In a speech in June in Barcelona, the writer Haruki Murakami drew a blunter connection with history than others have ventured: “This is a historic experience for us Japanese: our second massive nuclear disaster. But this time no one dropped a bomb on us. We set the stage, we committed the crime with our own hands, we are destroying our own lands, and we are destroying our own lives.” He challenged his countrymen to acknowledge “the failure of our morals and our ethical standards.” He said, “While we are the victims, we are also the perpetrators. We must fix our eyes on this fact. If we fail to do so, we will inevitably repeat the same mistake again, somewhere else.”
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/17/the-fallout
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Despite contamination of the pacific food chain 30,000 people turned out at Meguro station in Tokyo for a festival to eat pacific suary ( type of fish ) caught off Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Rather them than me.
http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/national/meguros-annual-saury-festival-draws-30000
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[Peter B. Lyons Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy at US Dept. of Energy] Lyons (53:45 in): Well, certainly that has to be monitored from the standpoint of fisheries, food products. There are other agencies within our government that would be tracking whether there were any concerns from a U.S. perspective.
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Didn't miss a beat dropping the hot potato for someone else to be bothered with it.
'other agencies' that went stone dead quite besides the DOE, EPA, NOAA, FDA, DHS, AMA, FEMA, NRC, US militaries, Whitehut and its administration, Congress (redacted)…pick more from the list.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_agencies
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The same Government agencies that gave us WIPP and are making documents for internal eyes only.
Expected behavior
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Sad..
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air monitors? Don't these elected officials know what their job is much less what is going on w/own gov. The "plastic people" from top to bottom is staggering. We are so screwed. The eventual when the SHTF will only be as ugly as them. Lunacy is the new epidemic and our leaders are spreading it.
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Peter B. Lyons Assistant Secretary of Nuclear Energy at US Dept. of Energy…you are a dumbass. It's your agency that IS RESPONSIBLE for Nuclear Energy and it's contamination of the total environment! You should be working with the EPA like two ball-brothers. What the Hell does the EPA do? They packaged up their radiation monitoring stations and trucked them out of their locations back in 2011…looks like they decided NOT to be, "tracking whether there were any concerns from a U.S. perspective".
So, guess who was responsible to pick up the ball because the EPA already knew they had a big bulls-eye on themselves if they continued monitoring the nuclear contamination from Japan, Peter? That would be YOU!
The guy with the $1,000 suit and perfect quaffed beard that is trying to act confused about his agency's job responsibilities and attempting to "turn into Teflon" denying his job responsibilities …get the drift Peter? How can you state, "We do not anticipate a significant health effect in any of the United States areas" at the same time you are saying it's some other agency's responsibility to make that determination? Double-speak doesn't cut it.
Do your fuking job.
It's your gang that is involved with Nuclear Energy. It's your gang that should be and, SHOULD HAVE BEEN updating the American Public on the ENTIRE SITUATION daily since 3/11/11!
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That would have been/meant work! Not going to happen..
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I relate to your anger, but (tragically, wrongly, yes) he IS "doing his job." His job is to promote the nuclear industry and protect it against attack. Also for Ernest Moniz, the guy he works under. Moniz went to Japan and his main stated concern was that "terrorists" might get near the NPP's. Never mind the worst-than-garden-variety terrorists who did this, and continue to terrorize their own Japanese populace by forcing them to live in death zones.
Obama appointed no one to do any job of protection of US.
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WHAT ARE THE REAL NUMBERS? From the front page of http://www.yahoo.com TEPCO admits, "Over 2 trillion becquerels of radioactive waste flowed from Fukushima plant into Pacific in just 10 months" – NaturalNews.com
http://www.naturalnews.com /046881_Fukushima_plant_radioactive_waste_Pacific_Ocean.html
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"Over 2 trillion becquerels of radioactive waste flowed from Fukushima plant into Pacific in just 10 months" – NaturalNews.com
http://www.naturalnews.com /046881_Fukushima_plant_radioactive_waste_Pacific_Ocean.html
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More like two trillion Bq per hour ….
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The central site, above, is a good read.
http://www2.mae.ufl.edu/~uhk/NUCLEAR-POWER.pdf
In clear scientific language explains about alpha, gamma and beta radiation AND has some interesting tidbits about world nuclear weapons capacity and production.
Accessible. Not very long. Readable, with a tiny bit of patience. Recommended.
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THOUGH absolutely be forewarned, The writer is a nuclear supporter, as seen here — I am NOT promoting his conclusion, just his clarity.
<<< The accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima are indicating that we can expect such accidents to occur once every few decades or so and this will continue unless one comes up with safer reactor designs. I estimate that this will be done in the form of
smaller reactor facilities using fail-safe reactor designs different from the light water reactors presently used throughout the world.
Also the need for a large storage facility serving the entire world must be established. When this has been done nuclear power will
again be considered a safe and indispensable energy source.>>>>>
STOP DREAMING and wake up to find the world, going, going, gone.
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Build "a large storage facility serving the entire world"??
Clueless and bonkers. Their role model is WIPP?? Or maybe the "large storage facility" has now become the Pacific Ocean…
zogerke, this isn't "clarity"!! It's dangerous and destructive nonsense. There has not been a single protective measure for humanity for 70 years now and counting, just a pack of lies. Clarity? No way!
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I think all the oceans are in trouble now. The Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea are also harboring nuclear waste and also north of Russia and Siberia, etc., etc.
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Our senate and house representatives can't be bothered with this Fukushima thing because it's in "cold shutdown" as my congressman Patty Murray has written to me over and over. This is all they know.
In 30 days our representatives will be home to campaign to keep their do nothing jobs. Not one of our representatives wants this issue to surface. These two bobble heads are in wink and nod mode to any question as our do nothing congress is killing not only us but the world and all they can think about is keeping their job.
Now is a good time to write your senators and representatives because they have want to be responsive to their voters. Maybe.
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bobble heads!
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Patty Murray of WASHINGTON STATE? SHE thinks it's in cold shutdown? Does she also say that about Hanford?
Fire her.
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Patty Murray of WASHINGTON STATE is this clueless and/or corrupt? And does she say the same thing about Hanford?
Fire her.
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We know the contamination is there, but it's of no consequence . That's because, of course, if we admitted it could impact human health, the teetering house of cards we've built and kept in place for the last 70 years would come crashing down ….
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I fear the story the trees are telling in my home. The tree is top to a vast multitude of life. But just try to pull the eye from the smartphone and see where you get. The photos i have taken over the past three years sing a sad song indeed.
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There is not one shred of honor in support of the death for money system. The children that enlist are sent off to fight for the corporations that are poisoning the world and breaking the genome strands. The people have no voice because the politicians are happy to receive their cut of the profits of these companies in order to keep writing favorable legislation to keep the profits rolling in and the taxes minimized, or cancelled. This is the program that has been set for us. I suppose that we will follow it to its logical conclusion, everything is made toxic to all life.
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For more on this topic search for the writing of "Radical Marijuana" on the Zero Hedge website.
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Yes, that is what appears to be the logical conclusion..
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Only the ill-informed have eaten from the Pacific since Fukushima.
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"…contamination now suspected"…..SUSPECTED????..where do they get these people to actually go on record to say this stuff?? Neptune? "why , no, I haven't heard a word about two headed whales or dolphins, you mean there's no sardines this year? no tuna? no salmon? only 10 brown baby pelicans born this year? Come on you MUST be making this stuff up buddy–go look at the beautiful sunsets and hears a nice warm glass of milk"" How 'bout you sit here and watch the next episode of Biggest Loser with me…"
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Someone call up GE and tell them some of their "brilliant design" "imagineering excellence" "six sigma suppositories" blew up and they need to fashion a remediation plan right away!!!
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… Oh right … they know about it already and there is not a single thing of substance they can either do or recommend about the problem …
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Holy Shit! GE screwed the pooch, and nobody is allowed to discuss the matter!!
Brilliant design My ASS!!
Where is Charles Albert Coffin when you really need him?!
Rhine Reactor Meltdown Study talks about isolating the groundwater under the reactor, so as to inhibit the actinide leaching process … and pumping like mad to lessen the contamination of the aquifer … Then they talk about underground frozen walls … This research was done at Karlsruhe … but perhaps General Electric Company has not heard of Germany? Or they can't find anyone to read technical manuals which have been translated from the original German …
Or maybe they just don't give a damn how many species and individuals they kill off. … This would make them worse than Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson, would it not?
Profits in the first place, moral compunction …. not so much …
Am I missing something here?
Help me 'newsers … I'm running out of mock.
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k, would you like your tuna sandwich with a glass of milk warm or cold?
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"There are other agencies within our government that would be tracking whether there were any concerns from a U.S. perspective"???
Oh, like the EPA? What, them worry? They raised "safe" levels to post-lethal and beyond, twice now, worse standards than even Japan. But say, now they can tell us that "there are no concerns from a U.S. perspective." Well, maybe except for the part about sanctioning massive ongoing poisoning…
Massive criminal negligence, a free pass for mass murder really, and no one on the Hill has said a word. Except for maybe this crappy whitewash hearing.
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The EPA works for Monsanto now, didn't you get the memo?
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Whitewash? More like black magic, bad mojo, and worse…
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There is a tremendous amount of useless double talk from these govt officials. They are just covering there ass with lies and double talk. After a completed meeting, they basically said nothing other than there is "no problem to public safety". What a bunch of crap.
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The wizards in charge are very, very, powerful..
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Gov’t: Effect on health of US public not ‘significant’
Of course they are saying this. This is a classic no problem line. If they say anything else, they open Pandora's box and it can never be closed.
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