Published: October 16th, 2011 at 1:47 pm ET
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Aftonbladet, Mar. 20 — Frigyes Reisch worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency as an international educator in the INES scale and spent 27 years at the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI). He is a professor of nuclear safety at the Royal Institute of Technology and a leading expert on nuclear safety:
- “They have economic interests. This is a seven [on the INES scale]. During my years at SKI, I would not have talked, but now I’m retired and can speak freely.”
- “This is absolutely comparable with Chernobyl. It’s about the impact on a large area with many people and local release of radioactive material that is likely to be the case of lethal doses.”
- “The accident should be classified as the worst on the scale – Fukushima is as serious as Chernobyl.”
SOURCE: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster As Bad As Chernobyl According To Swedish Expert
h/t Whoopie
Google Translation of the original Aftonbladet article below
Expert: Lethal doses released | The earthquake in Japan
Frigyes Reisch is one of the leading experts on nuclear safety. In 27 years he worked at the Nuclear Power Inspectorate, SKI.
He has worked for the IAEA and nuclear physicists trained abroad in how to assess the seriousness of nuclear incidents.
Frigyes Reisch knows what he’s talking about.
Now he says – in an exclusive interview with Aftonbladet – that the accident in Fukushima is as severe as Chernobyl. [...]
Published: October 16th, 2011 at 1:47 pm ET
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Bastards. This confirms everything we have been saying. This is about MONEY not people.
The WSP in New Haven Connecticut was lame. I’m sorry. But if you can’t demonstrate a clear connection between Corporate greed and the destruction of Human health, and the health of our planet – than just give up, go home, and live out the rest of your years as best you can.
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Cant demonstrate? Hmm interesting… Anywho ACK to Frigyes Reisch knows what he’s talking about.
Now he says – in an exclusive interview with Aftonbladet – that the accident in Fukushima is as severe as Chernobyl. The release of radioactivity is most likely the lethal doses.
WTHay?? Thats speakin freely? Yea ok U no the re-riting of this disaaster is shilly really. Look folks the facts have been in for a Looong time now. How many spent fuel pools are left? Member they wuz in the freakin top floors of all the reactors that have poped off each pools magnitudes of orders WORSE-then Noblecherry Common spent fuel pools?? Cores from reactors 5 n 6?? Yea and refined Pluto- Who doz that sh## anyway- MILLIONS of times worse than the evilest crud u can imagine! who u kidding Zig?? U wish I wish WE ALL wish it were the same as ONE reactor that got buried in a week inside Russia. ***and drill ye shilliers drill
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found two english translations of the topic-article:
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster As Bad As Chernobyl According To Swedish Expert
http://gramercyimages.com/blog1/tag/frigyes-reisch/
http://torbjornsassersson.com/2011/03/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-bad-chernobyl-nuclear-expert/
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“…….Millions may be affected
- It’s not good. I do not know how many people who live north of Fukushimaanläggningen, but I guess it is so densely populated that there are a few million, said Frigyes Reisch.
How far the radioactive particles can be spread due to local conditions. After the Chernobyl accident did Gavle, 100 mil from Chernobyl, most radioactive precipitation in Sweden.”
greed, profit and a large dose of corporate law has turned japan into a researchers dream….government funded
private healthcare…research….profit
getting to see where this is going…..adk, wpp, nuclear medicine and private oncology. also, the iaea, who and the un…. hmmmmm!!
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Arclight, hey, morphine is cheap and this will solve the overproduction of Afghan poppies in an eyeblink.
fux.
[Sheds full of dormitories with hundreds of patients hooked up to timer morphine drip machines] does that make you wince?
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I thought i had read that they changed the scale to icnlude a level 8 just for this event… am i remembering that right? I guess it thought this had already been classified a level eight. Theres so much information i cant keep it all straight anymore. Sorry in advance for asking stupid questions. :/
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The only stupid question is the one unasked.
The top levels remains at 7 despite some calls by nuclear folks to add levels. That change is probably not what the industry fatcats would prefer.
You can see the scale here:
http://www-ns.iaea.org/tech-areas/emergency/ines.asp
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Please watch Mt. Fuji in Red and The Weeping Demon, two very short stories of a film 10 minutes each called Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams made in the 60′s by Kurosawa and Martin Scorcese. There are about 7 dreams in all. He was prescient. This article, this hiding the truth, this disaster is exactly what these two short films are about. The others are also beautiful and interesting, especially the the one about the village. Watch and share. Kurosawa tried to warn Japan. Is it too late? Maybe this film can get a little life back into it and get shown around Japan again. His was a voice of reason that was viewed with derision and silenced by the very people who brought the world this triple meltdown!
Here’s the youtube link -
file:///Users/vic/Desktop/Mount%20Fuji%20in%20Red%20–%20Akira%20Kurosawa’s%20Dreams%20-%20YouTube.webarchive
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Mount Fuji in Red — Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_ZxTB8mqbk
DREAMS by Akira Kurosawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTRw66CnWLI
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams – Demo Reel 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbDSi_K-FY&feature=related
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Thanks, Anne, I’m new at this!
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If this link doesn’t get you to the film, just go to youtube and type in Mt. Fuji in Red or Weeping Demon for the shorts, or Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams for the entire movie.
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Found it and posted it at HP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sdi1xt5Y8&feature=related
BARELY ALIVE thread is this old thread @ HP:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/japan-earthquake-2011-gov_n_989682.html
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Fukushima: Rainfall brings Re-contamination
Date: 16 October 2011
Posted By : Special to The Canadian
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/intrnational/2011/10/16/1174.html
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ALERT:
PLEASE TG CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY.
I may have a NEW resource to get the word out.
Email me please. I’m begging you!
Not a small time site either.
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has to be said it, this article tends to support prof busbys comments at cover up and mismanagement at these so called safety agencies….
hope your listening busby…..get this guy on board..!!
just saying…
peace!
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A must-read:
The Betrayal of Mankind by the Radiation Protection Agencies
http://du-deceptions.blogspot.com/2010/01/betrayal-of-mankind-by-radiation.html
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I can’t remember who asked about South America but Mexico said China was affected back when this started:
http://imagenypolitica.com/noticias/mexico-y-el-mundo/item/12085-detectan-radiaci%C3%B3n-de-fukushima-en-pek%C3%ADn.html
Use the translation function…
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>I can’t remember who asked about South America
I did. I was hoping with 371 million people in South America we would have one participant here. *;-(
I guess that shows you radiation has been a Northern Hemisphere issue because of the location of the plants and where most of the thermonuclear bombs were tested. Very few in South America:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WKtBxOT6JgM/TarmgVwu4DI/AAAAAAAAANg/AdR3axApkIE/s1600/world_map.png
4 plants it looks like. Quite a bit of uranium mining in Australia and China is poised to exploit S. America. Check out this article from one day before the Fukushima blowiut:
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/03/10/China-sets-sights-on-S-American-uranium-deposits/UPI-56081299800964/
Hopefully the dictators and governments in the Southern Hemisphere will see the tragedy in Japan as a stop sign for those risky ventures. But they probably won’t.
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@sp re “dictators and governments in the Southern Hemisphere”
Not too many dictators in South America any more, that is, unless you accept the hatist flack about Chavez from, guess where, oh yes, the country that destabilised an elected government in, let’s see, oh yes, Chile,.. and whose ambassador was, more recently, chucked out of Bolivia for (allegedly) meeting secretly with the rich landowners in Santa Cruz to pay for (alleged) propaganda and other (alleged) activities with the (alleged) aim of destabilising the new (indigenous-oriented) government.
South America now has a populist look, or a communist look, or a democratist look, take your pick, and in some ways offers hope of a better example of how to do things.
Actually I don’t mind if anyone shoots at this post as the prejudices that feed this shade of opinion leaves it a nicer place for such as myself, refugees from the rotten and declining first world.
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I can now speak freely — “Fukushima is as serious as Chernobyl”
Oh really. Chernobyl didn’t use MOX fuels. Talking about Plutonium ground up and mixed with ground up uranium melting and reacting and producing a lot of hydrogen and oxygen as the nuclear reaction of a melting core or rather a melt through splits the cooling water into its two elements.
Keeping in mind that Plutonium readily bonds with the two elements oxygen and hydrogen to create http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium%28IV%29_oxide and plutonium hydride which means the explosion in number 3 was a hydrogen plutonium and oxygen plutonium explosian.
If Tacomagroove is right all that shit is way up in the air waiting to come down in rain and snow.
The natural outdoor exposure in Great Britain ranges from 2 to 4 nSv/h (nanosieverts per hour).[15] Natural exposure to gamma rays is about 1 to 2 mSv per year, and the average total amount of radiation received in one year per inhabitant in the USA is 3.6 mSv.[16] There is a small increase in the dose, due to naturally occurring gamma radiation, around small particles of high atomic number materials in the human body caused by the photoelectric effect.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray#Units_of_measure_and_exposure
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As the international nuclear accident score goes up to 7 there was some talk in the seventies of having the scale go up to 8 or even 10 but the experts said that an accident of that scale could never happen.
There are still questionable issues with the spent fuel pools including the De-activated 4 5 and 6 Fuku reactors. Taco had a good point. Decent rain gear is always good to have in the rain forest we both live in. Sweatshirts boots etc a supply of food a water filter a late model car with a hepa filter or at least the ability to use “recirculate” and air conditioning. All these things will be good to have anyways. Respirator wouldn’t hurt either. Some sort of Geiger Counter won’t hurt. A bow and arrow, sword, axe, baseball bat or other convenient self defense tool would also be a good consideration. Rinse your rain gear in water and baking soda to decontaminate?
Peace and God Bless Everyone. Like Churchill said, We will never surrender!
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Questionable issues on spent fuel pools/ Like what ohh u mean they aint there anymore?
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Mark, we should try to learn from history.
Self defence tools, sword, NO. Weapons only for hunting.
The second lot of vikings to attempt to settle north america lost the plot by fighting the locals (who were more numerous, being on a hunting expedition, and disposed originally to be friendly) and ended up fleeing with what was left of their lives.
Let the warmongers inherit the earth if they will, and then see what a mess they make of each other. See what happened to the survivors of the Bounty mutiny on Pitcairn Is. for an object lesson.
If the warmongers lose out, they will lose out forever.
It MUST be worth the bet.
No, no weapons other than for hunting animals.
Can we do it, other humans?
M
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Tepco is announcing that cold shutdown will be achieved this year of the 3 stricken reactors…
I didn’t know you could ‘shut down’ a molten mess… they state that only 100 million bequerels are escaping per hour, so , that’s better also…
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_04.html
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still bubble away any Melk poroducts with air,
Pazific and soil ,and is all finish to get outside … the tepco could shot down is there SUPRICE!
and is the molten 30meter under the core, it is not from tepco it is a sabotage from anyone and not a tepco problem !
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This is old news. I want to know what is happening now to contain the continued radioactive releases. How much is being released? Where can I find that information? When is this disaster going to be contained so I can assess what this means in terms of risk for me and my family.
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No news is bad news, JM.
The coriums have no OFF switch.
A generously minded assessment says that there is no way that honourable japanese authorities and technicians can answer the question for you, because there is no way of locating let alone predicting.
Puts me in mind of an old saying from the East that goes something like “truth and politeness are not usually compatible”.
My worst advice to you would be to forget it all.
My best advice to you would be to follow Best Behaviour guides on this and similar sites and try to gain an understanding to help you answer your own question in your own terms.
In some way, having been deserted by our governments, we are now all on our own and can only do better by associating with like minded.
Hope this helps,
M
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tepcos bigger plan states that radioactive emissions should be stopped by 2014.
just one of a mountain of things tepco said where everyone with just a braincell left should have shouted “are you mad to even think of 2014 as the end of emission, that is to late”
so till 2014 no exact numbers will be known, 1-2 years later the first state paid studies will be started into the effects of radiation of unknown origin on happy beings.
everytime i read enenews i have a little jingle in my mind of britney spears wispering “this is sick”
unfortunately it is getting louder and louder over time……
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till 2014 affected regions will even not know if the radiation is new radiation, old radiation, radiation of products developing just outside of the reactor or from inside the reactor, radiation from incineration.
Only one thing is for sure: it will be more radiation everyday for the next 2-3 years according to that plan.
that is not fearmongery. that is their plan. next tent will be build next summer. that is their plan. it is windy and cold outside …..
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they have emitted the heavy load. when pu and uranium decay they produce radiactive isotopes which decay producig radioactive isotopes…. so 1 halflife and 1 component of the mix tells nothing about the total amount of radiation distributed, it is just the tip of the ice
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I’ve worked for nuke safety for 4 years. I disagree with the old guy. fuku is on a level 8 (just like debt, it breaks the roof of old scales). I said it early too (and may not have still info leaking connections as efficient as he does).
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“YES WE CAN” has turned into “NO WE CAN’T”
O is a Republican full front and center.
And to think we all were FOOLED so badly.
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I think B.O. is a chameleon.
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The doctor thinks you are fooling yourselves if you didn’t know the game was rigged long before President Obama was even born. If you don’t like him, I shudder at what the alternative would bring.
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What is so sad is to see young Black kids thinking the Hype
of the Great Speechmaker is the real Guy, and they fail to
spend the time to look at the Policies of this horrible WHite House.
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I couldn’t agree with you more Doc and I voted for him. Such a disappointment.
On the lighter side, I found this at Goodwill Online today. It might give some folks a giggle. Laughter is the best medicine, right Doc?
http://images.shopgoodwill.com/108/10-14-2011/sa16596611014-nc.jpg
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Here’s another photo of this early radiation detector.
http://images.shopgoodwill.com/108/10-14-2011/sa27298691014-nc-thumb.jpg
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