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Nuclear waste 'may be blighting 1,000 UK sites'
"Hundreds of sites across England and Wales could be contaminated with radioactive waste from old military bases and factories, according to a new government report.
Up to 1,000 sites could be polluted, though the best guess is that between 150 and 250 are, says a report on contaminated land by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), released last month, but previously unreported. (…)"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/02/radioactive-waste-contaminating-uk-sites?intcmp=122
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And the USA is any different?
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NOPE !
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How the FDA's absurd radiation standards could be leading us to our slaughter
… levels of Fukushima fallout were being found in U.S. food and drinking water. … There are a number of ways to explain the absurdity of the FDA's DILs. A DIL is short for 'Derived Intervention Level,' which is a measurement of a large amount of radioactivity in food that is set by the FDA. The FDA explains on its website that a DIL "does not define a safe or unsafe level of exposure." So, what is the purpose of the DIL?
…The purpose of the DIL is to convince Americans that eating slightly radioactive foods won't do shit to your health over the long term. The implied message is that, like Hiroshima, radiation only hurts you in big honking quantities. (That also didn't pan out to be true for 'black rain' residents in the suburbs of Hiroshima). …
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/fdadil.php
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Fukushima on Steroids: “Japan is in the Process of Contaminating the Entire Pacific Ocean”
April 30, 2012
… After low-balling initial estimates of radiation releases, the Japanese authorities now acknowledge that substantial amounts of radioactive material leaked from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi reactors.[1]
The nuclear disaster in Japan has released radioactive isotopes that have poisoned the country’s soil, food, and water.
The fallout is being rapidly taken up by living things and passed up the food chain with …
http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/30/fukushima-on-steroids-japan-is-in-the-process-of-contaminating-the-entire-pacific-ocean/
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Inspector General Blasts EPA For Failure To Monitor Fukushima Radiation
Apr 28
Inspector General Faults EPA Radiation Monitoring (Forbes, April 27, 2012):
Twenty percent of the EPA’s stationary radiation monitors were out of service last year at the time of the Fukushima nuclear accident, leading the U.S. Office of the Inspector General to conclude that the EPA’s Radnet …
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/28/inspector-general-blasts-epa-for-failure-to-monitor-fukushima-radiation/
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Does this remind anyone of the Gulf of Mexico Oil spill response..of course, now they have had to close the gulf areas from Mississippi to Florida to shrimp fishing because of deformed sealife…
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9/11 FDA … The air is clean !!!, had they told the truth no one would have cleaned the Twin Towers area and the whole place would have become a ghost town forever !
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FDA=EPA opp's
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They should close it to swimming too…it only makes sense!
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You may be shocked !
Guide to Finding a Clean Beach… LOL
To Gulf Oil Spill on Friday, August 20, 2010
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/144/332/
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See this yet? Japan-U.S. statement to include energy ties
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120429002914.htm
It appears that the two extremely PRO nuclear leaders are trying to circle the wagons and get nuclear back into what they believe is its rightful place in the energy scheme, ignoring the radiation that has spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Daiichi.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN.
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2 Petitions need signatures:
Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool 4 Risks U.S. Health and Safety
http://www.change.org/petitions/fukushima-spent-fuel-pool-4-risks-u-s-health-and-safety
http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Protect_the_children_of_Japan_against_radiation_exposure/?fMQfocb&pv=14
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Uh huh… "Safe" trace amounts of radiation…
The results are in! Vital Choice Wild Seafood & Organics, the leading source for fast home delivery of the world’s finest wild seafood from Alaska and the North Pacific, today announced that tests conducted at their request by an independent laboratory show that none of their seafood is contaminated by radiation released from the compromised nuclear plants at Fukushima, Japan.
After the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima last March, the team at Vital Choice Wild Seafood & Organics wanted to ensure that they were taking every safety precaution possible for their customers. Addressing a growing concern for potential radiation affecting the nation’s seafood, Vital Choice contracted Eurofins, the world leader in food testing, to test their wild Alaskan salmon and North Pacific seafood for radioactive elements. Vital Choice is proud to announce that the test results proved that all of their seafood products are completely safe for human consumption… The trace amounts that may have been present in rare cases fell below the extremely low, very safe levels detectable with current technology.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9409710.htm
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RIGHT !
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It all depends on how long they've tested and what do they consider 'low' in exact Bq/kg. UK considers 1000 Bq/kg for lamb is OK (>.<)
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Nuked Radio #27 False-flag & Psyops Chicago to Fuku
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBMp_2THl0o&feature=player_detailpage
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Nuked Radio #25 Nuked after going VIRAL pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eli7dPD2CQc&feature=player_detailpage
Nuked Radio #26 More fallout Cops & Rads pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eli7dPD2CQc&feature=relmfu
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Moved from Japan 40 year thread to Nuclear Geneneral:
Stock sez: >PS its the cesium.
>Swimming world champ Dale Oen dies during training
SP: Certainly seems feasible. But sudden athlete deaths have happened long before Fukushima with athletes so we will certainly never know even if he had an advanced autopsy (cesium in heart muscle would never be released thtough this country's media). But I am inclined to ascribe the duck quaking theory also like Stock.
Condolences to the family in Norway…huge tragedy.
I do know yesterday was a very bad pollution day in America. A friend in Boulder, Colorado told me she had a massive headache two days ago (about the time of the Mitsui petro fire plume passed across that area. My headache Monday and Tuesday was intense. Hope Bobby1 can stay inside more than I did because the cloud should be finsihing up the east coast today and headed on across to the Europeans. Meterologists are as backward as witch doctors when it comes to predicting toxic atmospheric global plumes. But some naked apes are much smarter.
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Sickputer, I was about to head out the door for a 30-mile trip, foraging for imported food… hope that cloud holds off a little while.
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I got tingly tongue on the trip, not good. California produce was dirt cheap, and the imported was expensive. Peru asparagus not available any more, now they have cheap California asparagus. Holland eggplant was $4.99/lb, where the California stuff was 79 cents. I did get Argentina apples and pears, and Chilean grapes, though.
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Yes friends,…time to scamper to find the 'holes' in our prep supplies!
Tomorrow I am heading out to do the same. Ordered about 2 years worth of radiation removal supplies last night on credit cards,…sheesh. Sure hope I don't have to pay them off!
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I agree with those who doubt the UN is the right agency to look to for hope: when it comes to saving lives. They have had a dark agenda in that area.
So where to put all this energy more productively? Let's think on that.
Bilderberg is coming up at the end of the month. That's one good candidate for us in terms of sleuthing and pressure. Check out Jim Tucker and infowars.com I don't know what's up with Estulin these days.
Also the NATO Summit–we should not lose sight of the agendas that do not have our interests at heart.
I do wonder about the PTB not being concerned about their own exposure–in where they travel and in where they live. Do they have a secret antidote? Perhaps we should not underestimate the second A in DARPA?
Profound gratitude to all here for their deep caring,
openeye
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two premier soccer league players in europe had internal bleedings (heart/brain) in master games 2-4 weeks ago in europe. 1 died, one survived after being dead for x minutes.
they are monitored completely, so it was kind of that special random factor?
(sorry for missing details and names, to tired to investigate (and not a soccer fan myself) but it was widely reported)
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Map and list of spent nuclear fuel storage facilities in the US
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/isfsi/isfsi-eyeball.htm
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Thank you, Anne! What an EXCELLENT resource, not just for the map of U.S. SFPs, but the report by the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, showing the lack of a clear U.S. policy on both the safe storage and transport of highly radioactive spent fuel.
We are failing to address this hugely important problem our nation faces, (as Robert Alvarez states, we are "kicking the can down the road" instead of addressing the problem). Why? It is really difficult to solve, given we lack the technology or means to safely store and transport highly radioactive waste.
"Evaluation of the Technical Basis for Extended Dry Storage and Transportation of Used Nuclear Fuel, United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, December 2010:"
http://www.nwtrb.gov/reports/eds_execsumm.pdf (145 pp, 5MB)
Conclusions
"The technical information currently available, together with the experience gained to date in the dry storage of used fuel, demonstrates that used fuel can be safely stored in short term and then transported for additional storage, processing or repository disposal, at least for low burnup fuel. However, additional information is required in order to demonstrate, with similarly high confidence, that high burnup fuel can be safely transported and any type of used fuel can be stored in dry storage facilities for extended periods without the fuel degrading to the extent that it may not perform satisfactorily during continued storage and subsequent transportation…
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Continued…
Much more excellent information and analysis of the problem at Anne's link above. I highly recommend the read! Educational to say the least…
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Wow, the Eureka, CA casked spent fuel pool is sitting right next to the ocean! This is a heavily laced earthquake area and there is the Juan de Fuca subduction zone out in the ocean that could bring in a 100 ft. tsunami. The Juan de Fuca will go off sometime and these casks are at risk. I shouldn't be surprised at this incompetence of placing a SPF cask next to the ocean after Fukushima but I am. Bet there are other casks sitting on earthquake faults in the US.
Thanks Anne for this report.
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Eureka. … That's not far from that dead whale today !
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Thanks for noting the dead whale north of Crescent City, CA today. This is about 60 miles north of Eureka. Crescent City is about 20 miles from the Oregon border.
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Japanese Butcher Serves UP 'Cesium Beef'
On the afternoon of March 11, exactly one year after last year's Great East Japan Earthquake, a group of around 30 people were invited to gather at a 12-story building a few blocks away from the bustling streets of the Shinjuku district in Tokyo. The diners were in for a nuclear treat … "This one is 6 becquerels," said Mitsuhiro Anada, 40, who was the host, referring to the level of radioactive cesium in the food. "Please feel to say no, if you don't want to eat it. We've got some cesium-free items as well."
Anada runs Mooton Family, a meat processing company, with his wife in northern Iwate Prefecture, where
… continue
http://www.foodmanufacturing.com/news/2012/05/japanese-butcher-serves-cesium-beef
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The new normal !
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Canada's standard for tritium in drinking water is nearly 10 times higher than the limit set by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Fugère says Québécois sentiment against nuclear energy runs deep, though one “Jean-Jacques” encountered in Trois …
http://www.7dvt.com/2012nuke-north-qu-becs-gentilly-2-reactor-faces-vt-yankee-style-closure-fight
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OT
I have a dumb question about Tweeting. When I put these #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight in a Tweet, does it go to those TAGGED? IS IT DOING ANY GOOD I guess is my question.
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Whoopie,
Above my payscale, never tweeted, someone help her !
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Wikipedia Cleansed of Spy Info, Hiding “Nuke Market”
Archive: The Soviet Union/Russia’s SPECIAL CONTROL SERVICES Censored
History of Real Nuclear Proliferation, Worldwide Nuke Market Will Begin Here
by Dimitri Khalezov, former officer of the Soviet 12th Nuclear Chief Directorate
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/02/wikipedia-cleansed-of-spy-info-hiding-nuke-market/
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Fukushima Primed For Worldwide Disaster
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/01/fukushima-primed-for-worldwide-disaster/
A pretty good article…
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I have a Juicer, mmm, .. I can only find carrots from California !?
I can find nine brands of Apples, from Or.Wa.Co. and Michigan, Now I have a question, … isn't this spring and these FRESH Apples are not grown yet, .. so where are they from and why marked from above as fresh from …. ???
They are really from south America right !
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fresh when frozen
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richard,
These are in plastic bags as if they were just picked and shipped ! I KNOW this is just not right ! So where are they from ????
Australia ????
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We have noticed this, too. Very odd!
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If a person were experiencing health effects that were caused by radiation, how would a doctor determine the cause? Let's say a person in the Midwest had a chronic cough for months. How would their doctor test to see if it was a result of radiation or some other cause ? Are there blood tests that can detect relatively low levels of radiation ( low compared to lethal doses?)
I saw a report recently that said that deaths from pneumonia were very high over this Winter. I think most people who comment here would say that there is some connection to the high levels of Fukushima radiation that have been detected in Hawaii. Let's say that a doctor or researcher sincerely wanted to investigate, what would they do ?
Thanks
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Good question bluebonnet.
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bluebonnet,
A persons health prior Fuka and after will be an indicator, timing is everything I would think !
Deaths were proving up by I think it was 64 thousand more then normal last year !
That says suspicious !
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Hi Enenewsers,
Not sure if this is the place for Fuku discussions, but I'll post anyway. I was hoping to get some informed opinions of the points below. These are just my ideas.
1) Arnie Gunderson showed us the photos of the pool with the tops of the racks exposed, back in March last year. Now I am guessing that these rods had to be sitting in some water, otherwise they would have been on fire? Does that mean that it would take a complete loss of water to cause a fire?
2) If the rods had no water surrounding them, why would SFP4 collapsing be a big deal? The rods didn't catch fire then when they were dry, what difference would a collapsed pool/building make?
3) Gunderson says in an interview that if the rods were to catch fire, it would be impossible to put it out with water because that would cause explosions. This would mean that if the numerous reports of the pool being on fire at some stage were true then all the fuel has been on fire/melted?
4) From those aerial shots showing the exposed rods, it seems impossible that water could be pumped back into that area to cover the rods at a depth shown in the newly released TEPCO vids of the pool. Are these videos of other pools?
Thanks, much appreciated!
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Don't have all the answers to your questions.
Some thoughts: the flimsy plastic wall on one end of the SFP 4 is not going to hold up much longer. The water is stagnant, super contaminated, and may have reached its cooling end of life cyle as they have been afraid to add more weight.
The fires in the past: no accurate reports to determine the source. Much speculation and very few whistleblowers. Tepco has been very adept in silencing eyewitness accounts of issues.
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My two cents..I dont any materials released from TEPCO..I think it is another spent fuel pool and may not be recent photos.
This is 4..March 16 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0catEdRqGX4
The fire at SFP 4 is ongoing..IMHO
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PS.I don"t trust…TEPCOs releases..period…photos or printed..it reads and looks like a fairy tale.
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Nuckelchen has provided us with some great captures of TEPCO's photo shop shennanigans.
This vid a SFP 4..is a grand charade.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRbMNsLqwg&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ6mUyjlRFY&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU_yxltsZDo&feature=youtu.be
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Half-Life,
We do not know if the photos and videos are from pools and reactors they are saying they are from, … do they lie, mis-inform, obfuscate ? Nough said, I believe that much of some of the pools has already burned from reports !
They may have much boron on them to contain but if they fall this may set of new fires of unburnt fuel !
They are very concerned about future fires so there is something to be very concerned about !
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"Japan to close last nuclear reactor"
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/05/03/japan-nuclear-reactor-close.html
Great headline. Lots of spin in the story though.
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Canada embassy shuts the door in Tokyo for new visas: refers people to Philippines office (asked to use international mail).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/canadian-embassy-closed-visa-department-in-japan/
SP: the noose tightens for the poor Fukooed folks near ground zero (all of Japan). Personna non grata.
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Is anyone aware of people who are thinking of bugging out to South America if the SHTF? I would like to make some contact with possible preppers? There are a few of us up here in B.C who are making tentative plans if #4 goes for a splash.
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If you are planning to go to Brasil I can help you.
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Hi Many Moons: We had not thought about Brazil. We were more thinking of Argentina or maybe Ecuador. However, I would like for this thread go somewhere….lots of input. I am all ears many moons, what can you do about Brazil? If you want to do this private, that is no problem. We can trade e-mail addresses. I also have no problem having this out in the open. Cheers!
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I'd like to know more about what you are looking for. Brasil is a country the size of the USA and there are many different areas from huge urban areas to large agricultural areas to completly untouched land.
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We are thinking of finding a small farm or maybe a vineyard to try and make a go of it. Something sustainable. Something that is not in a large urban setting. Safe is the thing that we are looking for. A place with maybe a vibrant expat population. We are also open to suggestions or ideas…… I firmly believe that if the fuel pool ever tips, there will be large rush of radiation refugees pouring from the north. We want to be at the front of the wave. We would even consider looking into buying a place at first to either rent out in the time being or maybe move down sooner. I would like to thing of it as a "lifeboat".
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Patagonia, there won't be anyone to bother you there. I think it will be one of the safest places but the growing might be difficult.
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Many moons: What are your specific suggestions for help concerning this topic? Curious…
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Well if you arrived in Brasil I could help try to assit you in reaching your goals, suggestions and perhaps introductions to the local expat pop. which by the way has a web site in english.
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You could contact these people they are very nice.
http://www.bcsrio.org.br/bcsrio/default.asp
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Thanks Many Moons
I'm also looking at South America, at least for the summer.
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The trouble might come in identifying the front of the wave…how will you do that????
It's truly difficult to know what is happening. I think you have to decide now to stay or go. I think waiting might be easier now but more difficult later. I guess it really depends on what you believe. Some days I wake up and I don't believe the world is being contaminated, that it's all been exagerated, if I just don't do certain things it will be OK. Then other times I feel restless if I don't have a flight ready to leave…this is a hell of terrible situation.
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The front of the wave would be when the fuel pool falls over. I belive that the mainstream media will take there time on reporting this event. There will be a four or five day time period when the winds make it over here. I would guess the smart thing to do is to identify a place that you want to go, check out flight times, make sure your passport is up to date. Think about what to do with your world that will be left behind. Try to come up with something to help yourself in the new land. Congratulations…you will be a radiation refugee!! One of the hordes I imagine that will swamp the southern hemisphere. This is only a start. One could also just hunker down and take what is coming to the northern hemisphere. Watch all the sheeple scurry around with there new awareness of there predicament. Really sad that would be.
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I still don't understand how we will know in time WHEN the sfp 4 comes down.
If the camera goes off that won't be proof.
Japan will continue to lie as will the USA…I don't understand how we will know????
They will continue to keep the radiation monitors set to a safe level…only people with a geiger will know something is a foot and by that time it will be too late to leave.
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I think TEPCO or govt won't tell us straight away because… you've heard it before 'to avoid panic!'. The Chernobyl accident wasn't announced straight away. I think if anything happens, individuals who are monitoring the rad level in Fukushima would report the change via twitter etc.
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many moons: Best advice is if you are going to go, then make your plans and go. Don't worry about when SFP4 goes. You won't be able to fly then anyway. In the first place, you won't be able to buy a ticket because everyone will want to go at once. In the second place, the radiation might cause all who fly to get radiation sickness. When planes begin falling out of the sky, air travel will be grounded in any case. In the third place, the economy will tank, and your money won't be any good. It will look like a Mad Max movie all around the northern hemisphere. If you want to go, best go now.
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Groups like safecast will probably be an early indicator as well as radiation network (which I am an active member here on the west coast of B.C). I believe that the genie is out of the bottle now for accurate reports on what is going on over there. Sites like this one will also be on the vanguard to spread the "real news".
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Yes I have considered heading to South America perhaps Belize, I'm not quite sure where to go and I'm fortunate to have the resources to relocate but do not know any one living there thus it may be difficult.
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There are a couple of interesting web site that give a ton of info on relocation. Check out "escapeartist.com" or "Internationalliving.com" I routinely check out these sites. It is a start.
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moonshellblue: From what I have learned, Belize is supposed to be right up there in a relatively safe stable place to relocate from North America. They speak English, stable government, and relatively cheap to live. The one thing that I would have to consider is the trade winds. I am not positive if the southern hemisphere winds are separate from the north??
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You should check about Visas. Brasil wouldn't be a good choice if you are American, you would need a visa and you would have to use it within 90 days of receiving it…it wouldn't be a good lifeboat choice. You may not need avisa for Argentina or Uraguay…Uraguay is beautiful and has a wonderful climate for growing.
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We are Canadian.
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Here's a video of Brasilians organizing a protest against….well watch the video…we can all learn from it!!!
http://youtu.be/kAAdXrdXSpM
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belize is north of the equator.
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Belize is said to be a VERY nice place, moonshellblue! The currency is the same, Yes? The weather is nice,….lots of growth, etc. I could be wrong, but I had a friend with two homes several years ago, one here in Cali, one in Belize. He liked Belize better, but his work required both. I have always seen myself there too, but never have been.
Good for you,…I say, "Do it, friend!"
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You should read http://ferfal.blogspot.com/ Survival in Argentina. Ferfal who has written a book and has this website about prepping and survival is an excellent source of information about moving to South America and in particular Argentina. He just got out of Argentina in January with his family and now lives in Ireland. South America is far more lawless than the US.
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Birmingham Alabama has a higher murder rate per capita than Rio de Janeiro.
You can think what you want…but before you believe the propaganda look at the facts.
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Thanks Ruth….
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Record number of Americans renouncing US citizenship allegedly due to new tax laws. The rich are renouncing citizenship to hang onto their money. http://rt.com/usa/news/us-citizenship-tax-denounce-521/
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chemfood@hushmail.com
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Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in Finland (first in world)
Published on Apr 26, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
Published on Apr 26, 2012 by rumorecurioso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Lhjf4fv1GhA
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thanks, good dr. added to full length documentary Into Eternity
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,21.msg424.html#msg424
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Resolved Question
You are receiving radiation on a daily basis, for 13 months now?
Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his *** and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.
What he saw was horrific.
And now he is saying that we are in big trouble.
See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC’s Chairman Gregory Jaczko here.
But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011. March 17th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California.
And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between.
Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever …
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120423163914AAqwls9
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5 videos !
Chernobyl; Animal Studies Show Radiation Is Still Harming Our Wild Companions
It seems that many countries, including the Russians, are not interested in knowing radiation levels in animals. They also do not seem to be interested in knowing what effects low level radiation has on animals, insects and birds in areas such as the 'exclusion zones' around Chernobyl. It seems that the only studies being done around Chernobyl have been performed by 'foreign' researchers coming in from other countries. This is curious in and of itself.
Why does the media seem to be promoting the Chernobyl exclusion zone as a 'Nature Reserve', full of a rebounding population of apparently 'happy and healthy' animals? Why are they not disclosing that these animals all have high levels of toxic radiation inside of them?
Why are there no studies …
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/chernobyl-radioactive-deer-antlers.html#!/2012/04/chernobyl-radioactive-deer-antlers.html
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a green road has some good stuff!! +100
"..There also does not seem to be any international agreement or standard about what is considered a 'safe' amount of radiation in wild game, or retail food and drinking water. In Germany, unsafe radiation is considered to be any Cesium found at 600 Bq per kilogram or more.
In the UK the level of unsafe radiation is almost double that amount; at 1,000 Bq per kilogram Cesium 137. Until February of 2012, they authorities were testing all sheep and other animals consumed for their meat or exported out of 'control areas' found to have elevated Cesium levels due to Chernobyl.
However, that testing and contaminated meat exclusion program has recently been dropped completely, so people in the UK can now eat radioactively contaminated sheep or other meat, with no radiation measurement or warning labels at all. This lack of testing also means that this contaminated meat can be exported abroad…"
im missing agr on the blog
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whew..i finally found the AGreenRoad nuke info motherlode
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/index.html
yes, agr … how are you?
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Problem with Fukushima Diary
Anyone else having this problem?
When I go to http://fukushima-diary.com/
I get a site called "Humble Garden".
Is it just me that is getting this?
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@enoughalready45 I get the same too. Looks like the FD site has been hacked. The links to it on The Radioactive Chat site are strange too:
http://radioactivechat.blogspot.co.uk/
Poor old Lori. Obviously doing too good a job out there.
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Read fukudiary earlier, and it was fine. Now I get same Humble Garden as you. I've grown quite fond of the guy, and want Fukushima Diary back!
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FD seems OK now. I dunno if it had helped but I sent Lori a message via FB to alert him. Glad it's back. Phew.
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Works fine for me…
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what a fuck chickens
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soon enenews will shutdown
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Not a chance, gaining momentum we are!
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Giant ghost flotilla of tsunami debris on course to hit US coast (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/news/tsunami-nasa-debris-graphic-435
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Do you remember there were workers who stepped into highly contaminated water?
A photo of a Fukushima worker's feet
*Warning* I can't even get myself to have a look at this so I have no idea how bad it is. Don't look if you are squeamish!
http://j.mp/IKXLF1
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Highly radioactive brand new car parts were exported to Iraq.
I wonder how many slips through the net. *shudders*
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Canadian embassy in Japan closed its door on 1st May :O
The nearest embassy is in Phillipines :O
Looks like Canadian govt doesn't want to issue more visa to Japanese. But I don't blame them, who wants to remain in Japan!?
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800 out of 3000 Fukushima workers have already died but staff at Tohoku University School of Medicine & Hospital are under gag order. The patients are initially treated at Tohoku University hospital but transferred to another hospital in Niigata because no treatment can save them.
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Andii, do you have a link to the reference to where you read this? If true, this would be very disturbing.
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http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.kuruten.jp%2Fitagakieiken%2F205490&act=url
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Thank you, Andii. I would love to see more reports by others to confirm this, such as statements from doctors or nurses working there, autopsy reports, etc.
I don't doubt that this certainly could be true, I just would like to have additional references and proof, to use to counter the oft-heard pro-nuke propaganda that "no one has died from radiation from Fukushima."
Thanks again!
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I guess difficulties being that the information is supposed to be covered up hence it cannot be an official news. I think this is a case of a friend who works in a hospital leaks this type of info to a friend as part of rant etc But I'm sure it will come out later. I am hoping someone like Iwakami from IWJ or Kouta Kinoshita does interview on this to get to the bottom of it.
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Look at what the f#ck#rs are gonna do now!
Nuclear Radiation Plants on Steroids….
Wheres Al Quida when ya most need em!
3rd Annual
Nuclear Power Uprate Conference
June 20-21, 2012, Hilton Charlotte Executive Park, North Carolina, US
The Nuclear Power Uprate Conference is back for its 3rd year and is the most focused power uprate meeting for the US & International nuclear industry. Held in Charlotte, NC, the 2012 show will showcase more world class speakers, crucial industry debates and executive attendees than ever before!
NRC Updates: Understand the current status regarding the impact on Uprates from Fuel Performance and Containment Accident Pressure and how this may affect your project execution
In times of austerity, uprating nuclear power is the answer. Exelon has estimated a power uprate investment cost of $2.2m-$2.5m per added megawatt, about half that of a new reactor. The US NRC expects 24 power uprate applications over the next 4 years, including 11 extended power uprates and 13 measurement uncertainty recapture uprates, thus creating a potential market of $25 billion.
http://www.nuclearenergyinsider.com/nuclear-power-uprate-conference/index.php
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FUKUSHIMA PRIMED FOR WORLD WIDE DISASTER!
The radioactive Fukushima Genie is out of the bottle and is primed to accomplish a worldwide disaster. If the roof of Reactor building #4 collapses, a building that is now seismically rated at zero, a pool of 1563 spent fuel rods perched 100 feet above the ground would also collapse ~ resulting in a gusher of global radiation that would put most of the world’s human and biological populations at severe risk.
The greatest and most dangerous on going cover up in the world today is not the official 9/11 cover up (now into its 11th year); it is not the supposed assassination of Bin Laden by Navy Seals last year (an operation with no confirmed body, no video and completely staged as a re-election gimmick as we are now witnessing); but instead, it is the unspoken on going conspiracy of silence regarding the spreading worldwide nuclear radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2012/05/02/fukushima-primed-for-world-wide-disaster
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If there will be a history recording of these events you mention I wonder how it will be recorded. Will it show the twin towers coming down, then the lies that accompanied the event will perhaps play out. Will the spectators, our descandants wonder how we could have believed the lies? Will they turn on us and call us cowards. Will they blame us for the events that followed, that we didn't organize, and those who did were looked at as freaks. Who will be blamed for this mess….we may not look so innocent in the future if we act so cowardly now….lets stand up to the USA goverment and ask why the radiation detectors were turned off, why the old reactors keep going???and many other questions.
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Cook nuclear reactor unit shuts down
Wednesday, May 02, 2012 8:48 a.m. EDT
BRIDGMAN (WKZO) — There has been a series of problems with the Palisades Plant in Covert Township and now one of the reactors at the Cook nuclear reactor has shut down because of a generator problem. It happened as the reactor was being powered back up after a scheduled fueling outage.
Cook spokesperson Bill Schalk says that some kind of problem occurred, which caused a unit to shut down automatically. He says they are trying to determine what went wrong. Schalk says that all safety systems operated as they should have, adding that customers should notice no difference in service.
There's no estimate as to when the unit could be ready to go back online.
http://wtvbam.com/news/articles/2012/may/02/cook-nuclear-reactor-2-scrams-on-restart/
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Thanks, Jebus. That's strange. I didn't see that "event" listed among the reactor events from May 2 on the NRC website today. Wonder when they will be updating their website?
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/en.html
But I did notice a couple other reports of events at Limerick in PA, at Ft. Calhoun in NE:
The description of the Ft. Calhoun event stated:
"While investigating operating experience from another station it was determined that Fort Calhoun Station (FCS) is subject to similar conditions. The operating experience involved setpoint drift of safety related pressure switches beyond what had been accounted for in the station's safety analyses.
"Following investigation and evaluation, it was determined that pressure switches that provide safety related signals for high containment pressure to the reactor protection system (RPS) and engineered safeguards actuation circuitry may be similarly affected at FCS. The impact of the potential drift was evaluated, and it was determined that neither RPS nor the engineered safeguard circuitry may actuate at the required containment pressure of 5 psig. An evaluation determined that the actuation may not occur until slightly higher than the required pressure. Other systems are currently being evaluated to see if this same condition applies.
"The station is in MODE 5, refueling shutdown condition, and there is no immediate safety concern."
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The Intelhub..fighting the good fight.
Nuclear Dangers: Mankind’s Most Desperate Hour
http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/04/nuclear-dangers-mankinds-most-desperate-hour/
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San Diego San Onofre
San Diego Radiation Monitor Not Working During Fukushima Crisis, Audit Reveals
May 3, 2012
An April 19 audit by the Inspector General of the United States Environmental Protection Agency has revealed that major components of the government's radiation monitoring and reporting system, including an air sampling device in San Diego, were not functioning during last year's Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan.
"On March 11, 2011, at the time of the Japan nuclear incident, 25 of the 124 installed RadNet monitors, or 20 percent, were out of service for an average of 130 days," auditors said.
San Diego's monitoring device was one of 11 said to be out of service for more than 140 days, according to the findings.
The San Diego outage began on October 26, 2010, and apparently …
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker/2012/may/03/san-diego-radiation-monitor-not-working-during-fuk/
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So how long was SONGS spewing? Had to be deliberate.
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A little booklet, that explains how radioactive materials disintegrate, published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology which were distributed to school children teaches disinformation. "Once the radionuclides disintegrate, it becomes a different substance and ceases to emit harmful radioactive rays" (Not quite true as it can increase the half-life of some of them!)
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Situation in Japan – Latest advisory
[Posted on: 02-May-2012]
Summary:
Important circulars or announcements on the Situation in Japan – Latest advisory
Details:
Situation in Japan (Date of notice: 27 Apr 12)
According to Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singaporeans travelling to Japan should be prepared for occasional tremors. They should pay close attention to and heed any instructions from the Japanese Government in the event of an emergency.
Reports of local cases of radiation sickness that result from travel to Japan have not been substantiated. Medical practitioners have been informed to refer suspected cases of radiation sickness …
http://teachers.nie.edu.sg/portal/page/portal/TeacherPortal/ContentDetails?paramMainTab=News¶mNodes=3149
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Muttonbirds affected by Fukushima – researcher
To Mass Animal Death on Friday, May 04, 2012
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2097/095/
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Underwater volcanic eruption reported near Japanese Iwo Jima Islands
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120430003314.htm
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Very good updated article from Dr. Mark Sircus,..Fukushima on steroids,…..he has info on decommissioning plant plans,…or not,…that are pretty eye opening too!
http://blog.imva.info/world-affairs/fukushima-steroids?utm_source=Medical+News+Commentaries&utm_campaign=5d61577946-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium
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Good morning to all,
Jill, dear friend to us all, as I have mentioned before the good doctor is now living in Brazil with his family. In earlier articles he predicted many would end up moving south.
I am so very grateful for all the expat info. and offers to help. Many Moons, can you tell us where in Brazil you are located?
I would have to drive to South America (from the southwest U.S.) and the dangers of driving through Mexico alone are staggering.
I am putting it all in God's hands, as I believe I will receive guidance, and then the means to carry it out.
May God help us all,
openeye
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Just out from Dr. Sircus
http://blog.imva.info/world-affairs/mankinds-desperate-hour
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Not to be an effing grinch…but please always give a description of what you are referencing in a hyperlink.
If you ever see me give a link without a sentence of description feel free to digitally scold me also.
I viewed that time lapse months ago. Re-blogged in your citation. Time is short and there is much to do.
Cheers,
SP
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As Japan Shuts Down Nuclear Power, Emissions Rise
The Fukushima crisis is eroding years of Japanese efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, as oil and natural gas fill the electricity gap … continue
http://www.chem.info/News/2012/05/Environmental-Controls-As-Japan-shuts-down-nuclear-power-emissions-rise/
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