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from what I’ve read – 100 millisieverts per year and health problems start 1 sievert per year and you have a good chance of serious health effects – 10 Sieverts/year and you are dead. Those are for adults, children can be much more suscebtible.
That’s external radiation. If you inhale or ingest radioactive particles, then the exposure goes way up, because they sit right next to your cells
There’s also different kinds of particles/waves you get hit with. Many sources forget to distinguish between them.
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I’m sorry 7he4uthor,….I’d like that answered also. I know nothing of these measurements, like you and your readers.
Pretty sure someone will weigh in with at least an educated guess?
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Fukushima panel to query SPEEDI’s role as people fled to hotter areas
Government evacuation order to come under fire
A government panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear crisis is expected to state in an upcoming report that the evacuation order issued shortly after the accident began was irrational, sources said.
The government ordered people living within 20 km of the plant to evacuate, but the panel believes the order led some residents to move to areas where radiation was actually higher and …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111224a2.html
AEC chairman warned people within 170 km of Fukushima plant might need to relocate
The head of the government’s nuclear energy panel warned in March that all residents in areas within a 170-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant might need to be relocated in a worst-case scenario, sources close to the government have disclosed. …
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111224p2a00m0na011000c.html
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New Toshiba reactor model gets U.S. nod
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves Toshiba’s new AP1000 reactor design, paving the way for building the first new U.S. reactors in more than 30 years.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111224n1.html
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merry christmas in japan already. its 25 dec there now.
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excuse me for not being enthusiastic
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Feds make decision about Hanford contaminated soil:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2011/10/08/1671372/feds-make-first-decision-about.html#storylink=mirelated
RICHLAND — The federal government has made the first decision on how to clean up contaminated soil in the heart of Hanford, settling on a combination of methods planned to protect the environment.
The soil, contaminated with plutonium, is within the central 10 square miles of Hanford that will be permanently used for radioactive and hazardous waste disposal. Land use plans call for no one to ever live there and the area will be cleaned up only to industrial standards.
“This decision balances public sentiment for digging deeper with a science-based cleanup action that will protect human health and the environment,” said Matt McCormick, manager of the Department of Energy Hanford Richland Operations Office, in a statement. “This decision was based on the anticipated future use of this area of the Hanford Site.”
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In Japan, Radiation Fears Reshape Lives:
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/24/144194589/in-japan-radiation-fears-reshape-lives
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ere is actual assembly load information for the reactors:
Number of fuel assemblies
In the reactor
400 unit 1 – Melted Down
548 unit 2 – Melted Down
548 unit 3 – Exploded on March 14th
0 unit 4 – NA
548 unit 5 – Status Unknown
764 unit 6 – Status Unknown
Spent fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool
292 unit 1 – Status Unknown
587 unit 2 -Status Unknown
514 unit 3 – Fell on or around December 5 – burning as of December 24
1,331 unit 4 – Shored up, leaning, possibly melted, possibly burning
946 unit 5 – Status Unknown
876 unit 6 – Status Unknown
New fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool
100 unit 1 – Status Unknown
28 unit 2 – Status Unknown
52 unit 3 – Burning – see above
204 unit 4 – Leaning – see above
48 unit 5 – Status Unknown
64 unit 6 – Status Unknown
Spent fuel assemblies in the Common Spent Fuel Pool:
Approximately 5,000 – 6,000 – Status Unknown.
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Happy holidays folks. I’ll be gone for a couple days.
If you have time off, make sure you enjoy it especially this year.
I believe 2012 is going to be a rough one for us all.
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James,
Happy holidays to you also. Happy holidays to all Enenews posters. I also believe 2012 will be a rough year due to radiation poisoning of food supply and lungs of people. I hope all of us will be healthy in 2012.
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hope you have a good one too and to all enenewsers!!
enjoy your well earned break james
peace alexia
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South Korea to build 8 new nuclear power plants along the Sea of Japan
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/news/news_Ec_detail.htm?No=86963&id=Ec
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Gotta admire the Russians, when push comes to shove…
Hey Anonymous, ya might wanna take notes!
Cause this is how it will be done….
Moscow protest draws more than 100,000 anti-Putin marchers
December 24, 2011 | 9:17 am
REPORTING FROM MOSCOW — More than 100,000 people took to the streets Saturday in the biggest show of protest in Russia’s capital since the breakup of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.
“Russia without Putin!” the crowd chanted as it protested alleged election fraud during the recent parliamentary vote that saw Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party garner nearly 50% of the vote.
Many in the crowd said they were fed up with Putin, who served as president for eight years beginning in 2000 and is now seeking a return to the presidency in an election scheduled for March.
“In 2012, we will clear the Kremlin of swindlers and thieves.” said opposition leader Garry Kasparov, a former world chess champion….
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/12/moscow-protest-vladmir-putin-election-fraud.html
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Hello All,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mu4NBs1dyc
There are many differences between all those who post here and some are not so inclined to be positive when contributing. Black is also a color in the rainbow, but that does not make it ugly. It is an inseparable part of the whole color spectrum, just as we all are inseparable from the One energy that we ALL Are.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/41/merrychristmastree12211.jpg/
What is true is we are many and we are different and there are lots of differences in opinions. The good news is, there is all this input around this horrible subject and the additions to the data base here keeps on coming from so many great contributors.
We are grateful for all you ALL share and proud to belong to such a great bunch of writers and intelligent commenters here. Everyone’s opinion is respected and honored for what it is. Their truth even if it is dark and negative. Truly, there is really some positivity in the care to comment even in a negative way so actually it is good to know how people feel, or where they are coming from.
Here is another Truth for all to embrace if you choose to. Tools for the spiritual tool box.
In life, we are only coming from one of two energies in all of our human expressions. We are coming from a place of love, or fear. If you observe anyone displaying any irrational or dysfunctional human behavior patterns, it is usually coming from a place of fear. Anger is one of those negative expressions that comes from the base of fear.
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Cont.
On the other hand, we all instinctively know when someone is coming from a place of love. The actions, words, and deeds of anyone all show us where one is coming from. Every heart knows what love is, and easily recognizes it in all the beautiful various forms. When you see the negative type of expressions, actions, words, or deeds coming from someone ask them, Hey Man/Woman!, Where are you coming from?, Love or fear?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/705/christmassanta122111.jpg/
Resolution comes from the identification of the fear, then the choice to continue to embrace it, or release it. Fear has been so well used to control and manipulate mankind, and more so in this last century. It is the first conditioned human behavior pattern in the spank most of us got when first born, and nurtured well ever since.
Upon recognition of the fear, one then has the opportunity to change your core of expression from this fear into coming from a place of love. That is where all these words come from and they will continue to come whether accepted or not by the majority here. It is for you and given as a gift in this holiday season. Imagine a world of souls always coming from a place of love.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/703/christmasangel122111.jpg/
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Cont.
There will always be separate thinking and many who will not agree with what some of us have to share. Accepted. What we are here is a group of concerned folks. We have all gathered to share this information and the good thoughts of many. What we are is the most unique news gathering network and commenting bunch of concerned souls in the world all sharing our individual light around this horrendous subject. Something to be truly grateful for and real evidence that from a terrible black subject, there comes something good and great. We are One awakening Tribe…we are all EneNewszers!
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas/Solstice and a Happy New Year to come.
Shalom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkCdOSvBHGM
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SHALOM back to you my light-barer friend!
Have thrown some black threads myself a time or two,…lately especially. Council taken,…..(and I hope and pray ‘the TAPESTRY’ needed a dark shadow or two anyway????)
James T,….your Spiritual Historical Accounting is your gift to US,…the ENENEWS bunch,….and to the greater World indeed!
May you and yours feel His love as fully as you’ve brought His feelings to me this day. I thank you for that deeply,…was doing Jill’s will today. I feel much lighter and LOVE is my choice now! ::-)
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CHRISTMAS EVE ERUPTION
http://spaceweather.com/
Station Commander Captures Unprecedented View of Comet
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=125774121
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May you have a wonderful Christmas and may 2012 be your best year yet.
PEACE and JOY and LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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merry christmas anne, thanks for all your hard work.. 2012, the year the nuclear industry died? fingers crossed!!
peace light and love!!
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You know Anne,…it really COULD wind up being our best year yet,….in this Topsy-Turvy World we live in!
Thanks for the great thought, friend!
And from me,….to ALL of you, but ESPECIALLY to you ADMIN,….you gotta know that the God in me, salutes the God in you. My life-raft!
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god bless stilljill
hope the day is good for you!!
peace
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Is India becoming anti-science?
“…We need to give S&T a chance to deliver. I am sure, eventually, nuclear power can take care of at least 25 per cent of India’s requirements. GM technology can increase food productivity and improve nutritive quality. We cannot cut off our nose to spite our face or throw the baby out with the bathwater.”
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article2745149.ece?css=print
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Time for Japan to realize it really is the canary in the mine
“…there may be no systemic change until another crisis precipitates drastic moves to avert disaster. And by that time it may be too late,’ he warns….
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fe20111225sh.html
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Ridiculous antinuclear claims
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/rc20111225a3.html
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Radiation levels almost 90 times Chernobyl evacuation limits found in unevacuated Fukushima school zone at a level so high it is lethal to 100% of the population within 15 years.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/06/11/chernobyl-evacuation-limit-5000-usvyr-394200-usvyr-detected-fukushima-school-zone-25951/
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MOX FUEL IS 2 MILLION TIMES MORE DANGEROUS THAN URANIUM
http://www.earth-issues.com/2011/03/mox-fuel-is-2-million-times-more-dangerous-than-uranium/
MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima’s Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched uranium
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html
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As plutonium and uranium concentrations in the US hit their highest levels in 20 years a top nuclear physicists says most of the plutonium MOX nuclear fallout from Fukushima will drop on the United States.
“In an interview with the Huffington Post, Nuclear Engineer Akira Tokuhiro, says most of the plutonium mox fuel nuclear fallout from the Fukushima nuclear power plant will likely drop on the United States.,,,”
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/19/nuclear-physicist-plutonium-mox-fuel-nuclear-fallout-drop-22822/
What about MOX Plutonium?
Submitted by joshbot (not verified) on Thu, 2011-06-16 06:45.
“Did the publication take into account MOX Plutonium. As I’m sure we’ve all learned by now, it was used in reactor 3, MOX rods blew 2 miles up and out into the surrounding area. MOX is so bad that according to CNN the Japanese have even tried to censor searches for it on the internet…”
http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/life/tell-me-about-it/david-mcneill-whos-tell…
“…It’s absurd to average the effects of wildly different radioactive elements into one single threat level. Breathe in MOX and your done. Breathe some of the lesser elements and it’s like eating at Mc. Donalds or smoking a cigarette….”
35% increase in northwest infant mortality since the disaster. http://www.counterpunch.org/sherman06102011.html
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4503
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Earthquake 25 Dec 12.36 JST
Magnitude 4.6
Date-Time
• Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 03:36:49 UTC
• Sunday, December 25, 2011 at 12:36:49 PM at epicenter
Location 36.845°N, 140.883°E
Depth34.7 km (21.6 miles)
RegionNEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Distances23 km (14 miles) S of Iwaki, Honshu, Japan
63 km (39 miles) NE of Mito, Honshu, Japan
76 km (47 miles) SE of Koriyama, Honshu, Japan
163 km (101 miles) NE of TOKYO, Japan
Location Uncertaintyhorizontal +/- 25 km (15.5 miles); depth +/- 6.2 km (3.9 miles)
This earthquake is 40.8 mi (65.63 km) S from Fukushima Daiichi (#1) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 33.5 mi (53.92 km) S from Fukushima Daini (#2) Nuclear Power Plant
This earthquake is 30.3 mi (48.79 km) NE from Tokai Nuclear Power Plant
http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html
Fukushima #1 37.422972N 141.032917E
Fukushima #2 37.316389N 141.025556E
Tokai NPP 36°27′59″N 140°36′24″E
12:36 JST 25 Dec 2011 36.8N 141.1E 50 km 4.2 Ibaraki-ken Oki
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake/20111225124145391-251236.html
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breaking!! wowzer!!
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Canadian Medical Association Journal Blasts Japanese Government: “Culture of Coverup” Exposing Japanese Citizens to “Unconscionable” Radiation Risk
“Written by Lauren Vogel of CMAJ quoting medical experts, the article states:
•The Japanese government has been “lying through their teeth” ever since the March 11 accident;
•The Japanese government hasn’t disclosed enough information for the citizens to make informed decision, with “extreme lack of transparent, timely and comprehensive communication”;
•The response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster by the Japanese government is far worse than the response to the Chernobyl accident by the Soviet Union government;
•The annual radiation exposure limit for the general public of 20 millisieverts is “unconscionable”, and there has been no government “in recent decades that’s been willing to accept such a high level of radiation-related risk for its population”
The article is literally trashing the Japanese government. Quite a contrast to certain international organizations who praise the Japanese government at every opportunity. But in fact, the second point above is in violation of one of the ICRP’s recommendations which says the residents should be made aware and understand the radiation risk fully before giving consent to the government policy.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/12/canadian-medical-association-journal.html
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Merry Winter Arclight. Other voices rising from the rad abyss
http://enenews.com/nuke-expertmd-japan-govt-lying-teeth-about-fukushima
http://enenews.com/australia-professor-japanese-exposed-to-unconscionable-health-risks-govt-has-provided-public-with-misinformation
http://enenews.com/canada-medical-journal-experts-calling-for-wider-japan-evacuations-officials-would-have-to-evacuate-1800-km%C2%B2-using-chernobyl-standard
what i want for x-mas? 3000 fb likes before dinner time
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good time for this then!!
Children at risk from exposure to radiation in the Fukushima prefecture have filed a lawsuit demanding that the government transfer them to a safer location.
“14 children of Fukushima, the plaintiffs of the lawsuit, go to school everyday where the contamination level of radiation is dangerously high.
The map below shows air dose levels of radiation based on the data of “On the analysis of the radionuclide in the soil (cesium 134 and 137)”, announced by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, August 30, in which we applied Chernobyl evacuation standard indicated as colored circles……..”
see diagram links and article here
CHILD RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL
http://crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=26981
merry soltice chem!!
liking the news already, the truth will out!!
for the children of fukushima and there parents
for all those in contaminated areas in japan… the world is with you!! we have not forgot!!
平和の光と愛
(hope thats right?)
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heres a link to the apppeal mentioned in above article
http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.com/2011/11/urgent-appeal-to-save-children-of.html
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173 people approve 4 disaproove
as they say in ireland thats a “piss poor” turnout!
see if the enenewsers can make a difference? eh?
sign this petition.. its got alot of backing!!
banzai!!
peace
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thanks, arc. i had been looking for active fuku children information. suing jap.gov to be evacuated out of the poison. amazing. posted here
http://enenews.com/forum-petitions-ballot-initiatives-other-signature-drives-video
and in the rc forum
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,132.0.html
with a small addition …
http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.com/2011/11/urgent-appeal-to-save-children-of.html
at the above link, Please click in the check box □ next to “approve” to express your agreement with the appeal of the children.
※ You only have to click in the box □. Nothing else is needed.
※ If you have already signed the written petition you can still click in the “approve” check box as the two petitions are different.
※ This petition cannot be signed using mobile devices. Please use a computer.
※ The four other check boxes are “approve” written in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Russian.
※ We encourage you to forward the URL of the post to all your friends where ever they may be in the world.
it is very much needed. as you say, the ‘ approval’ count is hardly anything
namaste
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nice one chem! and anyone with facebook get facebooking etc, link on sokai link
peace!!
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breaking…
New radiation limits alarm local entities
Dec. 25, 2011
“A senior official of the ministry emphasized the new ceilings on radioactive cesium in food items were “based on the judgment that we should take into account permissible levels [of radioactive substances in food] that have been approved by the relevant international entities.”
The new limits were calculated by working backward from the figure of 1 millisievert of radioactive cesium, which is the maximum allowable annual dietary intake for an ordinary person, according to the ministry.
The 1-millisievert annual limit was set by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a body linked to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization, which is responsible for setting international food safety standards….”
and this
“…..The official said he also was concerned about how to run the school lunch service from now until April next year, when the new limits are scheduled to be put in place.
“Given that the new limit for general food items of 100 becquerels per kilogram has been made public, it is hardly conceivable that we can get understanding from parents of schoolchildren about using foodstuffs containing more than 100 becquerels, even if the concentration is less than 500 becquerels in line with the current limits,” he said.
“We will have to refrain from using ingredients with radiation exceeding 100 becquerels even before April,” according to the official.”
More here…….
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111224002468.htm
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“Bless all the dear children in thy holy care.”
Whether “thy” is your personal Deity, planet earth, or the love in humanitys’ common heart…
May it be so, and may this day refresh your belief in all good that is possible.
Merry Christmas.
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Ten day wind and weather report for Tokyo:
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/Tokyo+Japan+JAXX0085
The divine winds of the first several months after 311 have changed to not so friendly. Radiation is pouring through the skies from Fukushima 24 hours a day. We hear little talk of bioaccumulation… That must be the new verboten Tepco term.
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I am sure all of you will like this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-WRufvjdw&feature=related
Must watch! Chris Busby presents his opinion too.
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And you do not need to watch it all, because the second half is mainly in Russian. The arguments against nuclear industry here are strictly financial.
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@pure water
Dr. Busby’s comment is at 18:44. As usual, he gets right to the point most overlook: who owns uranium shares? Many have invested in the production of uranium.
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the 147 companies invested their shirts in nuclear between 2008(stock market crash) and 3/march/2011, then shares plummetted dQQwn!!
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
The Top 50 of the 147 Superconnected Companies from 2007
“Barclays plc. Capital Group Companies Inc. FMR Corporation. AXA. State Street Corporation. JP Morgan Chase & Co. Legal & General Group plc. Vanguard Group Inc. UBS AG. Merrill Lynch & Co Inc. Wellington Management Co LLP. Deutsche Bank AG. Franklin Resources Inc. Credit Suisse Group. Walton Enterprises LLC. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. Natixis. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. T Rowe Price Group Inc. Legg Mason Inc. Morgan Stanley. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. Northern Trust Corporation. Société Générale. Bank of America Corporation. Lloyds TSB Group plc. Invesco plc. Allianz SE. TIAA. Old Mutual Public Limited Company. Aviva plc. Schroders plc. Dodge & Cox. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc*. Sun Life Financial Inc. Standard Life plc. CNCE. Nomura Holdings Inc. The Depository Trust Company. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance. ING Groep NV. Brandes Investment Partners LP. Unicredito Italiano SPA4. Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan. Vereniging Aegon. BNP Paribas. Affiliated Managers Group Inc. Resona Holdings Inc. Capital Group International Inc . China Petrochemical Group Company…”
http://enenews.com/new-nuclear-expert-discusses-melt-through-at-nrc-meeting-i-believe-melted-nuclear-core-leaked-out-of-fukushima-reactors-onto-floor-video/comment-page-1#comment-145460
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http://isearch.avg.com/search?cid={DE19D685-3A2E-438E-93D3-A6F94F9E46F1}&mid=1f1efd7008a240e8ee93d3432972e4a0-ad1491be2ce6c122f6b66faa90e70c2decf7d34c&lang=en&ds=AVG&pr=fr&d=2011-09-23 09:06:57&v=9.0.0.22&sap=tr&q=uranium%20Queen%20of%20England
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“Can you name just one thing, one case where Obama has backed (EPA Administrator) Lisa Jackson when it came crunch time?” my friend asked. Yes! It happend the morning we talked. The administration unveiled its new and long-delayed rule for reducing toxic air pollution out of old power plants.
“Finally controlling mercury and toxics will be an advance on par with getting lead out of gasoline,” David Roberts wrote in Grist. “It will save tens of thousands of lives every year and prevent birth defects, learning disabilities and respiratory diseases. It will make America a more decent, just and humane place to live.” …
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/connelly/article/On-the-environment-a-good-Obama-and-a-bad-2422638.php
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Concerning Japan’s financial system:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/endgame-japan-makes-another-move
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