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Traveler to Japan measures radiation on planes, near Fukushima (news flash: planes are much worse!)
5/5/2011
http://www.tokyomango.com/.a/6a00d8341c5d3253ef0154326d2a51970c-pi
“A Silicon Valley exec recently traveled to Japan for business. He took a Geiger counter with him and measured radiation throughout the trip–including on his flights to and from Asia. Steve Jurvetson posted a graph on his Flickr stream. He writes:
“’One of his destinations was 50 miles from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. As a precaution, a colleague gave him a Geiger Counter so he could make sure it wasn’t getting dangerous as he approached the plant.
“’Maybe they assumed he would turn it on when he hit the ground… Instead, he logged the whole trip, and you can see the relative peaks of radioactivity.’”
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2011/05/traveler-to-japan-measures-radiation-on-planes-near-fukushima-news-flash-planes-are-much-worse.html
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Stop all nukes NOW!
http://imagepush.to/uploads/a/3/35/352/42.jpg
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US teachers offered support for climate change lessons
National Centre for Science Education gives teachers advice on how to deal with demand to drop classes on climate change
(…)
“In May last year, a school board representing 15,000 pupils in Las Alamitos, California, voted unanimously to teach “multiple perspectives” about climate change in environmental science classes. The school board later revised its opinion.
The strategy of demanding that teachers “teach the controversy” is similar to that used by opponents of evolution who have demanded equal time for the creationist ideology known as “intelligent design”.
American students at the high school level typically learn only the basics about climate change – that the planet is getting warmer, and that human activity has been a cause of that.
But even those basics are apparently too much for those who doubt the existence of climate change, and are opposed to environmental regulations.
In an online survey last year conducted by Nesta, more than 25% of teachers reported disputes with students, parents, or school administrators who doubted the existence of climate change, or that it was caused by human activity.
Some 82% of respondents to a similar online survey last year by the National Science Teachers Association reported encountering climate change scepticism – including 26% who faced such doubt from school administrators.
“I do fear for the upcoming generation,” said Scott. “If teachers are intimidated and neglect this topic for fear of raising controversy we wil have a new generation that is under-educated and less concerned about an issue than they need to be.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/13/teachers-support-climate-change-lessons
I find this simply unbelievable.
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Get to the ‘kid’s’ minds,…as early as possible,….EGO,…”Easing God out”,….then ‘we’ will replace IT with ‘no absolutes’. They’ll think for themselves. They’ll be liberated.
See THEM swarm.
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…Researchers are now exploring new avenues to fight mosquitoes-and it starts in the laboratory where scientists manipulate the DNA of the insects. For the first time ever, limited trials were launched in 2010 with genetically modified mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands, where dengue fever is a major problem. More than three million reengineered male mosquitoes were released to mate with wild female species. Since the males were sterile, females couldn’t produce offspring, which quickly caused an estimated 80 percent drop in the mosquito population in a 40-acre area. …
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/innovations/summit/top-ten-innovations/2012/ten.html
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…As of December 21, Alani, who has worked at the hospital since 1997, told Al Jazeera she had personally logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009. Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city on December 29, that number had already risen to 699. …
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/330-131/9306-fallujah-babies-under-a-new-kind-of-siege
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Interesting report on the robot technology (or dearth thereof) used at Fukuville.
Most chilling factoid: Reactor 2 too hot to enter by carbon forms for at least 18 months. I am thinking despite all the terror at 3, 4 and CSFP… Reactor 2 may be the worst and has new surprises that may prove the death blow for the plant grounds.
All it takes is one of the units to impose its will on all the other buildings. Long known by all nuclear scientists as the Achilles heel for all the megaplex plants in the world… When one unit spirals into total destruction then the entire plant dominoes into Armageddon. Fuku Island 1 is one if the very largest megaplex nuclear facilities in the world… Some say in the top 10 for fuel load. The MOX fuel adds a huge potentially ELE factor to the carbon forms on earth.
Total loss of plant control by humans hasn’t totally happened yet at Fukushambles, but the handwriting is on the wall that it will domino within this year. The Mayan year… Quite apropos.
http://grendelreport.posterous.com/japanese-robots-failed-to-ride-to-rescue-afte
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What will be funny (in a dark grim humor fashion) will be the reaction of the MSM if the island of Daiichi is abandoned by the land workers. The air attempts may continue feebly, but if the land troops can’t work on the ground we enter a new disinformation campaign by the MSM (which of course is Big Brother speaking covertly though the lips of Brian Williams, Anderson Cooper, et all).
The MIC (Military Industrial Complex) spin writers have had 300 days to practice their soothing spiels. Here are some sound bites we will hear as the Sheeple wake to the news of a nuclear megaplex in Japan totally out of control for the next millennia:
Sheeple: “What does this mean for my family?”
Spin doctors:
The ocean is vast. (My personal favorite)
The damage will be localized to central Japan.
We are working to regain control.
American (insert your country name) food and water is perfectly safe to eat.
We are monitoring the air, rain, and snow to assure your safety.
There is no need to take iodide tablets.
Trust us… We will keep you updated on the movement of radiation clouds.
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9,686 Bq/kg of cesium in Osaka Bay seabed.
http://dub314.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-30.html (Japanese)
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A place for the Japanese wealthy to go !
Japan’s Government-Industrial Complex to Create Small “Japan” in Southern India
…The accompanying residential area will be 2 square kilometers. The “resort city” with the expensive condominiums facing the Indian Ocean will be developed starting 2013. Japanese shopping center, golf course, and hospitals with permanently-stationed Japanese doctors will also be built. The plan is to create a high-quality city where Japanese expatriates can live with their families. …
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/japans-government-industrial-complex-to.html
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we should go as well and build a little enenews community next door…….i believe its one of the two ”safest” places left on this planet….by the way this land had been bought by the japanese back in 2008.
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OT..Where’s… Red Red Wine? Party like it’s 1969.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2821Jvnaeg8
Were we hopeful and innocent..or what?
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Paid internet shill demands a raise, lol.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/troll-asking-raise-salary-manager-twitter/
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The Geology of Fukushima
By Pierre Fetet, posted in Le blog de Fukushima
Translation from French: Robert Ash
12 nov 2011
“…One dissenting Japanese geologist, for example, – who wishes to remain anonymous – has been noted for his views expressed on a U.S. forum, “Physics Forum”: according to him, the bedrock of the region is made of coarse, very permeable sandstones, and contains vast amounts of water from the neighboring Abukuma mountain. This groundwater, he claims, is flowing under the plain towards the sea at a very low speed of about 50 cm / day (3).
“In fact, in light of the collected data, it seems that the views of these two geologists may not be conflicting after all, because both types of layers do exist: argillite (or silt) and sandstone. However, Andreas Küppers, in line with Tepco’s style of communicating, refrains from disclosing all the information he possesses: namely, that there is not only waterproof argillite, there are also some strata of permeable sandstone, which allows groundwater to move towards the sea. Moreover, the presence of this fault under the plant makes it possible for the water to sink down vertically without being stopped by a horizontal waterproof layer of argillite, and allows connection between several sheets of groundwater which one would have thought were independent.
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[cont.]
Good and bad news
“The good news is that the radioactive water leaking from the plant will not be able to spread towards the Japanese inland and the Abukuma plateau due to the downward slope of the geological layers. The bad news is that there exists a fault which appears to be active right under the Fukushima Daiichi plant itself: this allows, and will continue to allow, radioactive pollution of aquifers over a depth of several hundreds of meters, as it runs through the different “waterproof” strata (4). This also means that the radionuclides will naturally be carried towards the sea by this underground water stream flowing through the permeable layers of sandstone. Sandstone is indeed the ideal rock for aquifers, as it is both permeable and fractured, providing easy movement of water. And finally, there is the problem of the type of rock on which the plant was built being rather “soft”, meaning that an earthquake can only destabilize the buildings.
“As early as March 31, 2011, Tepco announced that the groundwater was contaminated with radioactive iodine, according to an analysis of a sample taken at a depth of 15 meters under the first reactor (link). Today, if one or more coriums have sunk into the ground, this pollution has very likely been increasing. But Tepco no longer shares any information about the pollution of groundwater. Their only concern is to present a beautiful reassuring façade, which will never solve this disastrous pollution of soil and groundwater: underground contamination is irreparable, because there is no access to it. ”
http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/m/article-88575278.html
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Large-scale seismic activity rising along planet’s southern pole
A strong and shallow series of earthquakes have erupted near the remote South Shetland Islands region of Antarctica on Sunday, experts from the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquakes in the intense tectonically-activated series measured a 6.6 magnitude, followed by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake and a 5.1 aftershock. The epicenter of the …
…The digital 3-dimensional model shows planet Earth’s dimensional gravity signature is now severely deformed and this is increasing mechanical stresses within the planet’s interior- which will further aggravate thermal gradient. As the planet is generating more energy in rotation to do the same work under greater resistant pressure- it is …
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/large-scale-seismic-activity-rising-along-planets-southern-pole/
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/data/Seismic_Data/telemetry_data/PMSA_24hr.html
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php
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Irradiated gravel used for Fukushima condominium
Officials in Fukushima Prefecture say they have detected high levels of radiation in a new building. They say a construction material may have been tainted with radioactive substances from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The officials say the contamination was found at a 3-story apartment building in Nihonmatsu City that was completed last July.
The city checked the condo for radiation in December after regular monitoring found that children living there had been exposed to higher levels of radiation than other children over …
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120115_28.html
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Antinuclear conference calls for full support of victims in Fukushima
YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) — Citizens, politicians and scientists attending an antinuclear conference called Sunday for sufficient support to be provided to those affected by the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. …
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120115p2g00m0dm075000c.html
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Japanese whalers hurl stun grenades at Sea Shepherd
TOKYO (majirox news) — Crewmen aboard the Japanese Fisheries Protection vessel Shonan Maru 2 on Jan. 11, raised the ante of violence by hurling stun grenades at Sea Shepherd crew members who were dogging the whalers in an …
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2012/01/12/japanese-whalers-hurl-stun-grenades-at-sea-shepherd/
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Treasured pine still standing tall after tsunami
A 400-year-old pine tree on the coast of Minami-Soma City, has survived the tsunami following the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent salt pollution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8YMLE1IPVTw
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Honda to build NSX ‘supercar’ in Ohio
With one announcement last week at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Honda surprised auto industry observers in at least two ways. First, the automaker is …
http://newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/94205.php
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More moving out of Japan manufacturing !
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Asia’s automakers like Honda, Nissan moving production to US
AFP Jan 12, 2012, 02.34AM IST
DETROIT: Asian carmakers are boosting their production in the United States after disaster-caused production bottlenecks abroad and disadvantageous exchange-rate shifts have helped erode their market shares in the country….
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-01-12/news/30619787_1_nissan-carlos-ghosn-new-plant
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Nissan recently sign a 8 Billion $ deal with China to build 30 models there !
NISSAN | Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. Announces New Mid-Term …
Jul 26, 2011 … With investments totaling RMB 50 billion (610 billion JPY/ 8 billion … car for the
Chinese market under Dongfeng Nissan’s original new brand, … City, Jiangsu
Province, which will produce light commercial vehicles (LCVs). …
http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/NEWS/2011/_STORY/110726-02-e.html
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They will be building everything off Japan soon, too irradiated in Japan !
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Manufacturer’s in Japan Signed deals with India, Ford in the U S A to build their cars and trucks future models !
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Seems that Berkshire Hathaway is so concerned with losing business that they are giving PR counseling away…
Press release
Jan. 11, 2012, 8:30 p.m. EST
Business Wire Japan to Offer Free International PR Counseling at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2012
Join Business Wire Japan at East Hall Booth #12-13 at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2012
TOKYO, Japan, Jan 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Business Wire, the global leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure, will host a booth at AUTOMOTIVE WORLD 2012, January 18 – 20, 2012 at the Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, Japan. Business Wire is the official media partner for this event.
Business Wire Japan will offer complimentary international public relations counseling, including best practice guidance for press releases writing, how to gain exposure for corporate news in the global market and ideas for increasing corporate brand awareness. Information of worldwide media and case studies will also be provided.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/business-wire-japan-to-offer-free-international-pr-counseling-at-automotive-world-2012-2012-01-11
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C.Busby “You shouldn’t go to Japan even for business trip.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qqyk4bVVYKQ
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Workshop on nuclear law for government entities:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2012/January/theuae_January368.xml§ion=theuae&col=
ABU DHABI – More than 60 representatives from over 20 federal and local government entities are discussing how to best implement national and international laws that govern the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
The UAE’s nuclear regulator, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have jointly organised the workshop on the ‘Legal infrastructure supporting the development of a Nuclear energy programme’. The workshop was opened at Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (PSUAD) by Ambassador Hamad Al Ka’abi, UAE’s Permanent Representative to the IAEA and the Special Representative for International Nuclear Cooperation, on Sunday.
Participants will hear presentations by IAEA experts on the international legal framework and by UAE experts on the national implementation. The event will also enable FANR and other main stakeholders to discuss their particular responsibilities and achievements in the context of the UAE’s nuclear legal framework. Topics such as safety, security, safeguards and export control etc will be among the issues on the agenda of the three-day event.
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NRC: Operators at Nuclear Reactor surfed the net:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9S65QE00.htm
Operators in the control room of an Entergy Corp. nuclear reactor spent long periods browsing a variety of Web sites — catching up on news and reading about fishing — while they were supposed to be monitoring the plant’s operations with undivided attention, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
On Monday, the NRC said Entergy faced $140,000 in civil fines for the violations at its River Bend Station, a nuclear plant about 25 miles north of Baton Rouge.
The NRC said that between January and April 2010, nine operators surfed the Internet on a computer in the control room while they were on duty, supposedly monitoring the reactor’s control panels, computers and alarm systems.
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Huh! If naturally occuring decaying uranium generated radon gas is that dangerous, then that counterdicts what the nuke industry says about low level ionizing radiation…
Vancouver man raises awareness of radon
Gas is 2nd-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States
The number didn’t mean much to John Koroloff at first: 26 picocuries per liter.
That’s the amount of radon gas the retired environmental science professor measured in the air of his own basement, after getting his hands on a home test kit a couple of years ago. He just wasn’t sure if it was good or bad.
“It meant nothing to me,” Koroloff said.
That feeling didn’t last long. Turns out, the reading registered way past what’s considered a safe level of radon — the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States, after only smoking, according to the Environmental Protection Agency…
http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jan/15/vancouver-man-raises-awareness-of-radon/
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The 6 Most Reckless Uses of Radioactive Material
http://www.cracked.com/article_19607_the-6-most-reckless-uses-radioactive-material_p2.html
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Besides boiling water?
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Greenpeace: No power shortages in Japan despite idling of 90% of nuclear capacity:
http://www.panorientnews.com/en/news.php?k=1564
Tokyo- (PanOrient News) Despite the cold winter and with more than 90% of nuclear capacity being offline, there are no power shortages in Japan, according to Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director, commenting on the Shikoku Electric Power’s Ikata No.2 nuclear reactor being taken offline on January 13th for scheduled checkups, bringing the three-reactor plant to a complete halt for the first time since the No. 3 unit started operating in 1994.
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The following comment is from:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-ii-not-i-nuke-plant.html
jp said…
I think what happened at Fuk 2 is a bigger story than it has been in the press. Afterall even when Fuk 1 was built the NRC had said this really isn’t a safe design. But Fuk 2 is a PWR on which all new western Nuke plants are based, and therefore what happened there is much more pertinent to future of Nuke build out.
And yet all I have heard is there was an exclusion zone which was lifted, an article about there being tons of contaminated water in the basement and now a witness statement that there was smoke.
I really want to know what happened at Fuk 2.
August 21, 2011 8:40 AM
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Fukushima II [Dai-ni] Nuclear Power Plant
Number of Reactor Units: 4
[Photo of Fukushima Daini, before the Mar. 11 earthquake.]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/FUKUSHMA2-NPP.JPG
Courtesy, Wikipedia – Author, KEI [Photo of Fukushima Daini, before the Mar. 11 earthquake.]
“The Fukushima II Nuclear Power Plant (福島第二
“原子力発電所 Fukushima Dai-Ni Genshiryoku Hatsudensho?,
“Fukushima II NPP, 2F), or Fukushima Dai-ni (Dai-ni simply means second or number 2), is a nuclear power plant located in the town of Naraha and Tomioka in the Futaba District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
“Like the Fukushima I, 11.5 kilometres (7.1 mi) to the north, it is run by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
“After the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, all four units were successfully automatically shut down,[1] but cooling water pumps at Units 1, 2 and 4 at the Fukushima number one [Fukushima I [Dai-ichi]; see above] were damaged by the tsunami.[2] An evacuation order was issued, because of possible radioactive contamination.[3][4]”
http://epacha.org/JAPAN_EARTH_QUAKE_8_POINT_9_RICTER_SCALE_2011.aspx
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The following comment, which includes pictures showing great earthquake damage on the ground at Fukushima Daini, is from:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-ii-not-i-nuke-plant.html
Anonymous said…
“There was a typical A Pee hoax … with blown out concrete pillars. The pictures could not have been Fuk I. The only place they matched in Fuk II.
“Only weird pics available; seems top secret.
“- Tetsuo Jimbo Yakuza Youtube -video forgery, at 7:24 edited (!?) pics of Fuk II – but why? Collapsed!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8
“Ref pic of the edited portion;
http://erilainen.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/video-daichiille-rantakooste.jpg?w=700&h=105
“- also sound was a Arnie-class Forgery, here original: http://www.videonews.com/asx/special/110403_nukereport_300.asx
“- AP had a story 27.05.2011 Fukushima Daini reactor fire
“- Fukushima Daini 2-reactor has (Mox; UO2,UO2-Gd2O3)
“- 4.4.2011 Yomiuri Shimbun: huge radioactive leak – Fukushima DAINI
“- 7Jun Fukushima DAINI reactor hall flood with radioactive water
“- 30.03.2011 Fukushima DAINI reactor 1 released steam Wall Street Journal: March 30, 2011, 6:33 a.m. EDT”
August 21, 2011 12:49 PM
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Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel
(Updated August 2011)
“Today MOX is widely used in Europe and in Japan. Currently about 40 reactors in Europe (Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and France) are licensed to use MOX, and over 30 are doing so. In Japan about ten reactors are licensed to use it and several do so. These reactors generally use MOX fuel as about one third of their core, but some will accept up to 50% MOX assemblies. France aims to have all its 900 MWe series of reactors running with at least one third MOX. Japan also plans to use MOX in one third of its reactors in the near future and expects to start up a 1383 MWe (gross) reactor with a complete fuel loading of MOX at the Ohma plant in late 2014.2 Other advanced light water reactors such as the EPR or AP1000 will be able to accept complete fuel loadings of MOX if required….”
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf29.html
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MOX fuel
“Japan aimed to have one third of its reactors using MOX by 2010, and has approved construction of a new reactor with a complete fuel loading of MOX. Of the total nuclear fuel used today, MOX provides 2%.[4]…”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOX_fuel
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The following comment, which includes pictures showing great earthquake damage on the ground at Fukushima Daini, is from:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/fukushima-ii-not-i-nuke-plant.html
Anonymous said…
“A Pee Man standing on Fukushima Daini roof … the stacks are NOT aligned as the text implies (Daichii.)”
http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
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Sorry, I left out the picture:
Picture http://preparator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/newnwe-crack-kooste-a.jpg?w=585&h=472
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TEPCO report, August, 2011, status of Fukushima Daini
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOE1T9cah8A/TlHMv8PqOqI/AAAAAAAAB_k/q3J8IPeOTb8/s1600/FukushimaII.JPG
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For discussion of probable meltdown at Fukushima Daini in March, 2011 see:
More on Fukushima II (Daini): Loss of Function to Remove Residual Heat for Up to 2 Days and 23 Hours, March 11 to 14
Sunday, August 21, 2011
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-on-fukushima-ii-daini-loss-of.html
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One comment:
Morbid said…
“I can’t believe they lost cooling for 3 days. If they did the cores would have melted down within about 10 hours.
“These plants come with failure simulation software. Like this it is immediately known what the damage will be. Just like the inner circle knew Plant I had melt-through within the first day but only dribbled out the news months later.”
August 21, 2011 11:46 PM
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Another comment:
Capt said…
See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/japan-earthquake-tsunami-warning-_n_931417.html
“Starting about 4 pages ago (10:26 AM) be sure to read all the ” Click Here To See them All” for the full discussion.
“Here is my take: Despite what TEPCO’s Log states, I believe that at least one reactor was in the first stages of melting (through or down) and that the Tsunami just was the icing on the cake!
I don’t believe TEPCO logbooks or “Black Box” because they have a history of falsifying records, link are on this thread of the last one…
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“I think that the Corium (one or more) have already gone downward enough to have made contact with the landfill/Earth below the complex, and that it is moving downward toward the water table/ Ocean water interface much faster than TEPCO expected!
“If what I envision is indeed the case, then it (Elvis) will cause a steam event that will put the entire complex in N☢T water (No pun intended) and or vapor that will follow the winds for s long as they remain suspended!”
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Another comment:
evendine said…
“I agree with Morbid that if indeed there was a …’loss of function to remove residual heat…’ for more than two days (which the TEPCO reports make clear), then it is inevitable that all of the cores would have melted down and worse…
“During the NRC initiated NUREG-1150 ‘Severe Accident Risks Assessment’ study in 1991, Peach Bottom boiling water reactor failure modes were reviewed and the conclusion was that in the event of loss of core cooling capability, +melt through+ would occur within 8 hours!
see: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/6124656-R8y05j/6124656.pdf
“Peach Bottom has the same basic design as the GE BWR reactors at Daiichi and Daini sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_Bottom_Nuclear_Generating_Station
“The wiki page on Daini indicates that the plant was inundated with sea water and that the cooling systems did indeed fail for far longer than 8 hours:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daini_Nuclear_Power_Plant
….”
August 22, 2011 8:44 AM
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Another comment:
Ono said…
“Thanks.
“I alreadly summarize situation of Fukushima II.
See My blog. but In Japanese sorry.
“I worked at Fukushima II for 5years. So I paid an attention to this plants since the very begining. ( AS if my father…)
“The key … they did not loss external power supply from the beginig.
“THE Plant still have very serious porblem—SALT DAMAGE from the sea water from TSUNAMI in the building.
http://onodekita.sblo.jp/article/46638181.html
Sorry in JAPANESE only
you can get more information from
http://onodekita.sblo.jp/tag/articles/2F
(ALSO Japanese)
August 21, 2011 10:40 PM
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Radiation in Urine of Children In Tokyo, Daini Has Cracked Containment
January 9th, 2012
“….UPDATE: A look back at old TEPCO documents shows unit 1 at Fukushima Daini (Fukushima II), had an increase in reactor containment pressure at 6:08pm March 11. All four units at Daini appear to have been subsequently vented as their suppression chambers were over 100 degrees Celsius and ceased working.
“The other bit of bad news this morning. The containment of one of the reactors at Fukushima Daini (Fukushima II) has been found to be broken. An expert in metallic materials made the statement and went on to state that the earthquake caused the containment damage and TEPCO is currently trying to repair it. What is not 100% clear right now, if they are referring to the concrete and steel containment bulb or the steel reactor pressure vessel. We are currently going with the assumption they meant literally the containment vessel (PCV) not the reactor pressure vessel (RPV). Sometimes between casual phrasing and translations “containment” is used interchangeably. Damaged containment (PCV) on a much newer reactor design is a very bad sign for reactor reliability in general. This calls into question why the public is just finding this out now and why they are finding it out through an academic experts and not through TEPCO and the government. There were worker reports of smoke coming from the reactor buildings at Daini after the initial quake.
“On March 14 radiation rose at Daini, TEPCO claimed it was due to radiation from Daiichi.
“Smoke was also seen coming from a turbine building at Daini on March 30th.”
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4496
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http://enenews.com/tepco-president-mentions-accident-fukushima-daini
http://enenews.com/smoke-rising-fukushima-daini-after-quake-before-tsunami
http://enenews.com/new-data-shows-fukushima-daini-nuke-plant-prepared-to-vent-steam-from-all-four-reactors-feared-that-containment-vessels-might-be-damaged-by-pressure
http://enenews.com/another-nuke-plant-fukushima-daini-has-3000-tons-of-radioactive-water-in-reactor-buildings
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Smoke Rises at 2nd Nuke Plant
Mar 30, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uqtFRCja68&feature=player_embedded#!
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TEPCO Releases Detailed Analysis of Tsunami that Hit the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Plant
April 13, 2011
“TEPCO has released a detailed analysis of the tsunami that hit the Fukushima Daini Nuclear plant on March 11th, 2011. The analysis specifies the Inundation height, Inundation area, and the Run-up Height
“Inundation Height – Considering the marks left on building facilities the height of the Tsunami waters reached 6.5meters to 7meters above the base level (Base Level = O.P. 0 meters) Inundation Depth was approximately 2 to 3 meters only at the south side of Unit 1 building.
“Inundation Area – Most of the ocean-side area but no run-up over the hill to the main building area was found.
Run-up Height – Considering the vestiges on slope and road, approximately O.P. +14 meters.
“It appears the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant was designed to be able to handle Tsunami waters that are only 5.2 meters above the Base level O.P. 0 meters. As the Tsunami waters reached 6.5 to 7 meters above base level the heat exchanger building was overwhelmed but the waters did not overwhelm the Turbine buildings or the reactor buildings the way it did to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.”
http://www.japannewstoday.com/?tag=fukushima-daini-tsunami-analysis
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http://www.japannewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/FukushimaDainiTsunamiAnalysis-5.jpg
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http://www.japannewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/FukushimaDainiTsunamiAnalysis-11.jpg
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http://www.electrondance.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/fukushima-daini.jpg
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3/12
http://www.spotimage.co.jp/automne_modules_files/standard/public/p988_2a656b8fcdc73e593e9572ceb256d6a0p3677_e6ee9b8057937823e262d55d1324b275fukushima_daini_Spot5_20110312_M.jpg
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From:
After the devastation of the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami, all eyes are on the nuclear power stations along the eastern coast of Honshu, Japan. SPOT 5 is covering the disaster-affected region.
http://www.spotimage.co.jp/web/en/988-spot-5-watches-over-japans-coastline-after-earthquake-and-tsunami.php
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http://www.thenational.ae/deployedfiles/Assets/Richmedia/Image/WAS01_JAPAN-QUAKE_0314_11.jpg
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3/14
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More pictures of damage to Fukushima Daini:
IAEA Photo Essay
#11
“26 May 2011. Members of the IAEA fact-finding team in Japan examine the diesel generator room at Unit I of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant. The room was flooded by seawater during the 11 March tsunami, and Japanese workers have transferred the water into the containers shown.”
#12
“26 May 2011. Mike Weightman surveys the seawater intake area of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant in Japan. Mr. Weightman led a team on nuclear safety experts to Japan – from 22 May to 1 June 2011 – as part of a fact-finding team tasked with assessing the extent of the tsunami damage to affected nuclear facilities there.”
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia/photoessays/fact_finding_mission/
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First IAEA report on Fukushima
01 June 2011
Mike Weightman surveys damage near the seawater intakes of
the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant during the IAEA tour
“….After a week’s fact-finding mission that involved touring nuclear sites and talking to officials, managers and engineers, head UK safety regulator Mike Weightman has delivered a preliminary summary of his group’s findings. The full report will be presented to a ministerial meeting held at the IAEA’s Vienna headquarters later this month.
“Some of the findings come as no surprise – ‘The tsunami hazard for several sites was underestimated’…”
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_First_IAEA_report_on_Fukushima_0106111.html
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Hi anne, Thanks for your reply to me questions elsewhere.
The IAEA has an “In Focus: Fukushima Nuclear Accident” on the right side bar they have a “NEW” feature which posts status reports. They started in October 2011 and appear to have ended just as the latest round of problems have begun. Last report on the list is December 22, 2011. A spike in emissions occured right after that. Earthquakes started on January 1st. Reactor #4 belched plumes of black smoke workers and radiation increases are being detected.
Guess the IAEA no longer has Fukushima “In Focus”
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101. The Japan Syndrome
March 11, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Aerial image of damaged nuclear plan
http://josna.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/600_nuclear_plant3_110311.jpg
“March 11, 2011: Today’s catastrophic earthquake in Japan has put five nuclear power reactors at risk. The nation’s first-ever nuclear state of emergency has been declared due to the damaged cooling systems of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) and Fukushima Daini (No. 2) nuclear plants, with radiation levels in the control room of Fukushima No. 1 reported to be one thousand times higher than normal.
“Update, March 12, 2011: Despite an earlier effort to reduce the pressure by venting radioactive steam, a hydrogen explosion has now been reported at the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s Unit 1 reactor.
“Update, March 13, 2011: There are now six reactors in trouble at two sites in Fukushima, with Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that 6-10 feet of the fuel rods in the Unit 2 reactor at Fukushima No. 1 have been exposed for some time, despite continuing efforts to cover them with sea water. March 14: There has been a second hydrogen explosion, this one at Fukushima No. 1’s Unit 3 reactor. March 15: An explosion has now been reported at the Unit 2 reactor. And a second explosion. And a fire. As rising levels of radiation are being measured around the facility, TEPCO officials acknowledge that there has been some kind of breach in the containment vessel. March 16: TEPCO has evacuated the last workers from the facility, because the radiation levels are too high. The spent fuel rods from Unit 4 reactor are on fire in their cooling pool, and even helicopters have been unable to deliver water to them….”
http://josna.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/101-the-japan-syndrome/
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Hi all,
The regulars here may have already seen this. (Also posted on radiation monitoring discussion thread) I found the link to it on my local anti-nuclear group’s website http://www.neis.org (Chicago, IL). It is about the risks of exposure to low dose radiation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ywKv0dj3UuY
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Thanks or the link. Adding this link research about the risks of exposure to low dose radiation
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075914/
While the benefit of radiation use in disease diagnosis and patient treatment remains undisputed, the current pooled study demonstrates that low-dose diagnostic X-rays are associated with measurable cumulative chromosome damage.
**This includes procedures that were performed in healthy individuals for annual screening purposes rather than to follow-up active disease processes.
Potential adverse health outcomes from various relatively high-dose imaging procedures such as CT scans or in the scenario of repeated examinations to monitor chronic conditions has become appreciated recently by the medical community, but effects from very low doses related to screening examinations may also be an emerging concern.
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Comment to physics forum. There is a question if Fukushima NPPs were floating buildings as this kind of construction is very expensive and the article link the commentator gives is no longer to be found.
May8-11, 12:33 PM #6203
NancyNancy
Posts: 6
Re: Japan Earthquake: nuclear plants
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=480200&page=388
Asahi Shimbun article about the floating buildings http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104010166.html
Manichi article about bedrock being 46 meters down http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/…dm091000c.html
Study confirming the NPP is on floating mudstone base not bedrock http://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/9_vol3_733.pdf
info and photos of r4 sinking and the moved crane http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/r4sinking.html
images of yesterday’s steam and smoke show http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/May8smoking.html
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Search for Doomsday is not healthy….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JslHSUk3E6A&feature=related
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Either is ‘magical thinking’! (Oh,…if I just don’t THINK about THIS,…surely it will go away,…’cause I have a magically, creating mind,…what I think happens,…Nope,…no nuclear,…I’ve made up my mind!) When DOOMSDAY IS AT YOUR DOOR,……try searching it out!
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Sudden Death
Navy recuit, 19, dies shortly after halting his training run.
“An autopsy performed…found no signs of trauma or disease, and there were no preliminary indications of drugs or alcohol.”
Location: Northern Illinos, USA
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-13/news/ct-met-navy-recruit-death-20120113_1_boot-camp-navy-pushups-and-sit-ups
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typo: Location Northern Illinois, USA
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Chicago Tribune Article mentions Japanese Radiation
“Welcome to 2012: Year of the Animal Apocalypse – us
[11th paragraph]
Bernard “Bernie” Madoff technically killed nobody, but is his engineered financial fraud any less destructive than Japanese scientists forced to send monkeys into a nuclear meltdown to test radiation levels of a cataclysmic disaster that now means a country might be exporting radiated goods worldwide?”
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-01-14/news/ct-perspec-0115-wildlife-20120114_1_raccoon-bites-wild-animal-owl-sanctuary
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Magnetosphere real time simulation:
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/
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http://spaceweather.com/
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ATTENTION! For those who are on line now, the weekly radiation report will be on the Jeff Rense show in about 20 min. Here is the link to the page with different players to use. Happy listening.
http://www.renseradio.com/listenlive.htm
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1/16/2012 — ‘Strange sounds’ heard WORLDWIDE — Stay Alert and BE PREPARED!
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse
When I was working on links for HAARP, I read that someone is attributing these strange sounds to HAARP. They’ve been heard and recorded other places with other explanations. I’ll try to find some links.
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Earth Groans Or HAARP Warfare? – The Strange Sound Phenomenon
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1113/070/Earth_Groans_Or_HAARP_Warfare_-_The_Strange_Sound_Phenomenon.html
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The earth groans are on the 2nd video.
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Bizarre Unexplained Phenomena in Florida: Ground Shaking, Loud Noise (Video)
http://www.christiansvideo.net/article.php?action=print&n=79
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Earth Groans as Nibiru Nears
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAA_6SmCG9s
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EARTH groans and travails – Last Days sounds !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuTTz0YnBU&feature=youtu.be
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Earth Moans, Whines, Rumbles and Groans Making Strange Sounds Around the World Thursday, Aug 25 2011
http://ascendingstarseed.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/strange-sounds-heard-around-the-world/
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Strange sounds all around the world
http://www.reality-choice.org/159/strange-sounds-all-around-the-world
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More Unexplained Sounds, Tremors & Lights From The Skies
http://www.ghosttheory.com/2011/08/20/more-unexplained-sounds-tremors-lights-from-the-skies
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Strange Sound in Odessa (Ukraine) HAARP?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_udBqQTXw
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China’s work with Directed Energy Weapons confirmed on Google Earth
http://www.jungleapocalypse.com/featured/chinas-work-with-directed-energy-weapons-confirmed-on-google-earth/
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Enormous Cracks In The Earth Are Appearing Globally: International News Blackout
http://alternativenewsreport.net/tag/haarp/
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Looks like more severe weather. It’s snowing where I am in Colorado right now:
Induction Magnetometer, Gakona, AK
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=latest&Bx=on
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A friend shared this & I wanted to share it with those here that are helping inform others about the ongoing crisis. Just to note I am not being religious by posting this. Everyone can take these words to heart, repeat them a few times & truly think about their meaning. And Please Share~
“I expect to pass through the world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show to any creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
—Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855, Quaker leader
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Hi MaidenHeaven, that’s wonderful. It made it to my “post-it of the week” put on my screen frame next to the laughing Dalai Lama picture.
Last year’s favourite was
“Nobody will do what I won’t do.”
*peace
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J-PARC 36.4584988 140.6081772
J-PARC is on the coast just below Tokai NPP and is affected by all the earthquakes that affect Tokai NPP
“…accelerator points directly at the epicentre of the quake,…..” 9.0,11 March 2011
http://preparator.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/jpark-accel-kooste-s1.jpg
This photo is from:
http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
To see damage from the 9.0, 11 March 2011 earthquake see photos:
http://j-parc.jp/picture/2011/03/StatusEnglish0328.pdf
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Chevron oil rig catches fire off Nigeria coast (sorry if already posted before)
…”Chevron did not immediately say what caused the fire. However, Nigeria’s government believes a “gas kick” a major build up of gas pressure from drilling was responsible, said Levi Ajuonoma, a spokesman for the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/17/chevron-oil-rig-fire-nigeria?intcmp=122
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Wasn’t a gas kick what blew the Macondo well (GOM)?
aw hell…SSDD…
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umm.the state of the Loop Current.
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/ofs/viewer.shtml?-gulfmex-cur-0-large-rundate=latest
What the heck is going on in Brazil?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php
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Nigeria ..the coast of Nigeria is awash in oil.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/01/02/Fishing-suspended-after-Nigeria-oil-spill/UPI-27301325541972/
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