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FORUM: Discussion Thread for October 31 – November 7, 2011

Published: October 31st, 2011 at 12:00 am ET
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midwestern

November 7, 2011 at 10:49 pm

Today a real live human being that I barely knew, standing right in front of me, said the word “Fukushima” without being prompted by me. He is German, visiting from Munich. We were talking about Germany’s plans to shut down its’ nuclear industry and he credited that happening to the Fukushima disaster. I had to touch him to see if he was real or if I was hallucinating. He is the first in-the-flesh human being who has said that word to me since March 11th without me saying it first and explaining the situation there. I felt like I connected with reality today right in the place where I work…it was astounding in that it reinforced my awareness of the depth of absolute delusion that we are living in.
I know this might sound ridiculous, but it was powerful.

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Hot Tuna

November 7, 2011 at 11:18 pm

Almost sounds like a religious experience, midwestern. If that happened to me at work I’d be wondering if somebody spiked the water cooler.

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arclight

November 7, 2011 at 10:50 pm

THIS IS WIERD??

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011

“Amid probe, sumo elder Naruto, the ex-yokozuna Takanosato, dies at 59
Kyodo
Sumo elder Naruto, the former yokozuna Takanosato, died of respiratory failure at a hospital in the city of Fukuoka on Monday morning, the Japan Sumo Association said. He was 59.

He was admitted to the hospital Sunday night after complaining of ill health and was treated for asthma, the hospital said.”

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111108a3.html

November 7, 2011 at 11:48 pm

NRC staff: Fermi 3 plant poses no environmental threat:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-newnuke-michigan,0,2702111.story

FRENCHTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich.—
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff says there are no environmental reasons to reject DTE Energy Co.’s application to build a nuclear power plant next to its existing Fermi 2 plant in southeastern Michigan.

The NRC’s staff has released a report for public comment on its analysis of plans for the Fermi 3 plant. The complex is near Monroe and Lake Erie in Monroe County’s Frenchtown Township, northwest of Toledo, Ohio.

The staff will discuss the analysis and take comments Dec. 15 at Monroe County Community College. pponents say the plant would harm wetlands and feed toxic algae in Lake Erie.

November 8, 2011 at 12:03 am

Uranium giant Cameco reduces production forecast:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/cameco-reduces-production-forecast/article2227869/

Cameco shares closed down 6.5 per cent to $20.35 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday, a sign investors are worried that Cameco will continue to suffer from volatility in the sector following the Japanese nuclear disaster.

“We expect the current uncertainly in the uranium market to linger for the near to medium term,” Mr. Gitzel warned.

Driving industry concerns are forecasts for excess uranium inventories in Japan and Germany, which represent 12 and 5 per cent of global nuclear generating capacity, respectively. Germany is phasing out its nuclear program, and Japan is operating only 11 of its 54 reactors since a tsunami and earthquake destroyed its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant this past March.

“With the political flux they’ve been experiencing, the mixed public sentiment toward nuclear, and the difficult and emotional cleanup from the earthquake and tsunami, it is certainly not what you would call an easy situation in Japan,” said Mr. Gitzel, who recently visited the country.

November 8, 2011 at 12:43 am

Photographer Fukushima Kikujiro: Confronting Images of Atomic Bomb Survivors:
http://japanfocus.org/site/view/3623
Kikujiro’s Lucky Escape from the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Just before 8:16 am on August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb named Little Boy dropped from the Enola Gay B-29 bomber and exploded 580 meters above Shima Hospital near the Aioi Bridge in the center of Hiroshima City. After the bomb was detonated, powerful heat rays were released for approximately 0.2 to 0.3 seconds, heating the ground to temperatures ranging from 3,000 to 4,000ºC. These heat rays instantly burnt people to ashes and melted bricks and rocks within a 1.5 kilometer radius of the hypocenter. In addition, heat rays burnt buildings, triggered large-scale fires and ignited an enormous firestorm. The blast and fire from the atomic bomb destroyed all 75,000 wooden houses within a 2.5 kilometer radius, leaving only the skeletal remains of a few concrete buildings. In the areas surrounding the hypocenter, people were slammed into walls and crushed to death by collapsing houses. Injuries were sustained from flying glass and other debris even in areas far from the hypocenter. People who survived the blast, many of them severely injured, ran through the flames trying to escape, but many burnt to death.

Hiroshima City destroyed by the atomic bomb, August 6, 1945

An A-bomb victim with burns over his entire body, August 7, 1945

The fires quickly spread to the outskirts of the city, and firestorms were created at many spots by large and intense fires. Hounded by the flames, people ran into the river in search of a safe refuge. They found little sanctuary, however, as flames licked the surface of the water and soon all six tributaries of the Ota River that ran through the city were filled with dead bodies. Many more went into the river, seeking water to relieve their thirst, but passed away as soon as they reached the water. About half an hour later, it rained hard in the northeast part…

chemfood

November 8, 2011 at 2:46 am

The Fog of War is an amazing documentary detailing, among other wars, the how and why of the WWII US nuclear attack on Japan

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8653788864462752804

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Mack

November 8, 2011 at 1:05 am

What do you think about this? Do we need more radiation? —>

“Cancer-Causing Airport Scanners? Enough is Enough”

(FYI, noticed a bi-partisan Petition in the Comments section)

http://nuclear-news.net/2011/11/08/radiation-airport-scanners-us-govt-backs-corporate-profit-rather-than-public-health/

November 8, 2011 at 2:10 am

“American Cancer Society To Conduct 30 Year Cancer Prevention Study In La Plata County”

“A Colorado region known for producing large amounts of uranium in the 1960s has been selected for a large-scale study by the American Cancer Society (ACS).”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/american-cancer-society-la-plata-county_n_1080469.html?ref=denver

November 8, 2011 at 6:08 am

holy mother of god!! wowzer!! must watch …cheers for the link steve bryant (you can forget the donation… sorry admin )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD-tDlQvyiw&feature=player_embedded#!

arclight

November 8, 2011 at 6:18 am

interesting… the video stops half way through and theres only 9 views!! just as it was hotting up…see next weeks episode…..this is worse than east enders…

oh well heres the article with the you tube

“West Coast activists from FFAN, the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network – a coalition of groups including One World No Nukes, Beyond Nuclear, Citizens for Health, Nuclear Information Resource Service, and EON, the Ecological Options Network – deliver 7000 signatures from around the world to the San Francisco Japanese embassy in support of the Japanese mothers trying to prevent their government from shipping radioactive rubble from Fukushima to various locations in Japan, burning it, and dumping the ash in the ocean as a way of ‘sharing the pain.’

As nuclear expert Dr. Chris Busby points out, this would not only eliminate a ‘base line’ of exposure for Fukushima victims near the plant who are certain to sue for damaging health effects in the future, but spread the contamination via the jet stream throughout the northern hemisphere and eventually the entire planet.

The U.S. – which dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then encouraged Japan to buy the faulty GE Mark 1 reactors that caused Fukushima – remains in cover-up mode regarding the ingoing contamination of North America and beyond by Fukushima fallout.

FFAN is pressing California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer to hold hearings and insist that the appropriate U.S. agencies intensively monitor the on-going Fukushima fallout and publicly report the results.”

gonna email web site to see if they can fix it ….only 9 views
nuch your needed!!

from this website
Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network:

http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=3869&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

nice people!!

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arclight

November 8, 2011 at 6:36 am

breaking video working now!! phew! the responce to the pettition

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  November 8, 2011 at 6:44 am
  
  that was mindblowing citizen stuff!! cool vid!!
  +100
  peace
  
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