Does anyone have this geiger counter? :
GMC-300 Digital Geiger Counter
It's available on ebay for $168+$8 shipping. It has a usb connection so I could use it maybe on one of the rad networks online. Also want to go do some measurements in my local area; in Schenectady NY there was at least one plutonium spill back in the 50's or 60's, and there's 2 reactors nearby as well. Plus the person whose house we bought worked at a nuclear plant. (could have had something on his shoes and brought it home??) And whatever is coming down in the rain.
In this area back about in the 1960's, geiger counters at local colleges started showing high readings after a rainfall. This turned out to be from weapons tests in Nevada.
I'm looking for an idea of a good but not expensive rad meter. I would like to just get comments from anyone who has one or really knows what I should look for.
thanks
"Overpopulation is not the threat to Earth that we have been lead to believe. It is long past time for this lie to be exposed. We have been hearing about the so-called evils of OVERPOPULATION screamed in our ears for at least 40 years now.
Mass murder seems to have been big if not the biggest on the list of “the powers that want to be (TPTWTB)”. And clearly their accusations of "Overpopulation" creating the biggest threat to the Earth is a lie cooked up as an excuse to murder more people.
A lot of people are having trouble seeing this allegation as a lie. Think about the world with 100% clean energy. Or, even, think about a world with only 10% carbon based energy. Combine clean energy with better stewardship of the land and we could welcome more people to live in harmony here on Earth. Some of the most densely populated area in the world is in Northern Italy. If you look at a map, you see villages and roads laid out in patterns that look just like a Chinese checker’s board. Between the tight little villages are fields and forests and lakes. There is excellent stewardship of the land there. Good stewardship includes building of top soil, not the top soil depletion we see with petrochemical-based farming.
These elite with their agendas and their greed are far greater threats to the Earth than the general population living upon the Earth."
My spin i wrote on FB page goes something like this, and i aggree with Pu239 100%
In my case i have been putting a lot of finacial curve ball in.,
"Naturally this view differs to the view that is designed to lobotomise the public into thinking that they are at fault for the debt of their privatley owned democracy.
It is only these privately owned financial entities that are the root cause of pesiticide, herbicide, deforestation, extinxtion on steroids.
The idea that overpopulation causing global warming or any other is a gross misreprestation because technology has come to a point where we do not need the energy and resources we once did, but the relationship between the finacial parasite and the host forces the host into ever increasing death spiral far beyond anything that a mere increase in population could cause."
KITTERY, Maine — Multiple firefighters were injured while battling a fire aboard the USS Miami nuclear-powered attack submarine Wednesday evening at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, according to a shipyard and public safety officials.
Firefighters were initially called to the Shipyard just before 6 p.m. for a report of a fire on a ship in dry dock. Fire crews encountered heavy smoke and fire, and two firefighters were taken from the scene with injuries, the officials said, adding two more firefighters were later taken from the scene for treatment.
Uncertainties shroud implications of Energy Bill proposals
Dr David Toke, senior lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Birmingham, believes that nuclear energy in the UK is a "dead duck" that cannot be resurrected.
He compared trying to sell investment in nuclear power to trying to sell Greek government debt bonds: "ridiculously high rates of return are required which mean ridiculously high electricity prices have to be charged".
UK wants consumers to fund nuclear through higher utility bills
The UK government will today propose legislation that would guarantee profits to nuclear power providers by permitting them to charge more on consumers’ bills, BBC radio is reporting.
By putting the financial burden on consumers, the UK would attempt to sidestep a European regulation that prohibits direct state subsidies of nuclear power, BBC presenter John Humphrys pointed out while interviewing Energy Secretary Ed Davey on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 (audio link expires May 29).
The Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission rolls over and submits to the Nuclear Industry again…
NW's only nuclear plant gets 20-year extension
by Associated Press
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:50 AM
The license announced Wednesday extends operations at Columbia Generating Station through 2043.
The 1,150-megawatt plant located north of Richland provides about 3 percent of the region's power. That's enough electricity for roughly 1 million homes.
Thanks for highlighting this, Jebus. As a Washington State resident, I find this news simply disgraceful. Did you know that, due to our abundance of hyrdopower (it rains a lot here!), sometimes they have an EXCESS of power they don't know what to do with?
So the Columbia Nuclear Waste Generation Station is NOT NEEDED!!!
Chalk it up to the entrenched, deep-pocketed facist nuclear cabal controlling the strings of the marionette puppets dancing mindlessly in Olympia, our state capitol.
Adi Roche – She is the chief for Chernobyl Children's Project International, and in November 2010 received the Health Award at the World of Children Awards ceremony.
Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky pioneered the work on low dose exposure through the food chain on the human organism.
Here's some of what he had to say:
"They don’t want ordinary people to know that there is a 2400% increase in cancer of the thyroid gland there.
They don’t want people to know that one in four of all newly born babies is born with a thyroid abnormality.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 200% increase in birth defects and this is according to the experts from the University of Hiroshima who have analyzed the 30,000 fetuses of still born babies in a short amount of time.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 200% increase in breast cancer.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 40% increase in all kinds of cancers in Belarus alone in a very short four year period.
It’s extraordinary, they don’t want to know that between 30 and 60,000 cancer deaths will happen worldwide as a result of Chernobyl."
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Q: Why would they NOT want us to know?
A: Because NPP's would cease to exist and those guilty of criminal acts would be prosecuted and then…
Thank you for sharing this, ChasAha. This is stunning in its implications. No wonder the nukers are pouring money into PR campaigns. The tide is turning against nuclear faster than you can say: "mutation of our entire genome."
The death knell of nuke power has been tolling non-stop since March 11, 2011. It is only a matter of time before nukes are "history."
"Nature" on the health risks from Fukushima:
Studies indicate minimal health risks from radiation in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear disaster. http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-s-doses-tallied-1.10686
These lies have to be remembered well! I feel deep disgust posting this, and it is not the most disgusting , may be:
A far greater health risk may come from the psychological stress created by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. After Chernobyl, evacuees were more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than the population as a whole, according to Evelyn Bromet, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The risk may be even greater at Fukushima. “I’ve never seen PTSD questionnaires like this,” she says of a survey being conducted by Fukushima Medical University. People are “utterly fearful and deeply angry. There’s nobody that they trust any more for information.”
So, when lie after lie make people disbelieve, they call them stressed, may be mad! These so called "scientists"are shame for humanity!
Nature magazine seems to be a propagandist tool of the entire nuclear cabal, based on these kinds of articles we've been seeing over the past year post-3/11. Anyone else noticed this? And Scientific American…
Fukushima Tour de Force: New Book Chronicles Nuclear Devil's Tango
"At the heart of the nuclear nightmare," she writes, "is something no one wants to talk about: birth defects, a whitewash word for children born without the attributes we recognize as human."
Turning her focus on all 104 nuclear plants in the U.S., Pineda's searing account ultimately asks the reader: "What is right? What right have we to do what is right? What right remains to us, knowing the little that we know?"
In the end, with an unremittingly courageous if not prophetic voice, Pineda's day-to-day exposé transcends the ruts of most energy debates to raise these larger questions about one of the seminal crises of our times.
"To say that corporate enterprise has abrogated your right to ask questions, to raise objections, or to expose malfeasance tells only half the story," she writes. "Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/cecile-pineda-devils-tango_b_1537742.html
"Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us."
Great point! I just think that besides the protests, people need to support each other in small communities, sharing information, goods, moral support. This is a part of the freedom from big corporations – show them you can make it without them, and a lot better!
6 deaths and not from radiation!
You know you laughed I HEARD you laugh, you laughed
And laughed and laughed
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where Life is Beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those Nice Young Men
In their Clean White Coats
And they're coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAAA
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers
And Chirping Birds and basket weavers
Who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to Take me Away,
HAHAAAAAAAAA
Perfect! Now if only they'd take away to the funny farm the delusional nuclear cabalists who continue to deny the death and damage to our very DNA they are inflicting upon the world.
Once there, they can sit and laugh insanely and pretend all is well in nuke land all they want, while safely ISOLATED from the rest of the sane world.
Where are our brave leaders with integrity intact, who will stand up and defend the innocent among us, our children, from this nightmarish onslaught of death from ever-increasing amounts of radiation exposure we are all facing???
Hello??? Is anybody out there??? He-ll-oooooooo???
Environment correspondent Sandi Keane takes an in-depth look at the troubling implications of the Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion before asking: “Is Occupy Roxby Downs a possibility?”
Argh. Just have to share the pain.
At a meeting this morning with representatives of a British school. Headteacher's son's living in Tokyo ("all is fine there, no worries.")
During the conversation, energy questions come up.
Me:"I wonder which future the UK will choose, still supporting nuclear or finally some renewables?"
…silence…
…errrm…hmmm…
Fat bloke: "Well, there's only one way to a prosperous future. They should finally get off their bums and modernize the nuclear facilities, it's overdue for god's sake! And then put the things on remote Scottish islands so they can blow up if they like without harming anyone!"
NB Power says about 300 litres of heavy water spilled Monday at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Atlantic Canada's only nuclear facility.
The Crown company says the spill happened when a test equipment relief valve opened prematurely as officials were working on the plant's refurbishment. Heavy water then overflowed from a collection system inside the reactor building.
The utility says the water has been recovered for reuse and there is no risk to workers, the public or the environment.
Point Lepreau has been out of service since March 2008 for a major refurbishment that's meant to extend the life of the reactor by 25 years.
The project is about three years behind schedule and $1 billion over the original $1.4-billion budget.
"The utility says the water has been recovered for reuse and there is no risk to workers, the public or the environment.
"Highly trained and qualified staff are in place at all times to respond to an event such as this one," refurbishment project director Rod Eagles said in a statement.
"All alarms sounded as per design and heavy water was collected safely and in a timely manner.""
Feel better?… I don't – I'm a few miles downwind from it, in another jurisidiction – a no-nuke jurisdiction, but that's small comfort when/if this one blows.
@ tomarsandbeyond:
The GQ GMC 300 is a small, well made instrument with many selectable options. It is able to detect beta particles and gamma rays. Though the measurements you want to do seem related to low level activity phenomena, which could be more effectively
detected by a more sensitive tool. I have both the GQ GMC 300 and the Inspector Exp with the classic pancake styled probe
RAP-RS1, which can detect alpha, beta, gamma and X-Rays, albeit with different sensitivities. If I put the GMC 300 and the
Inspector's probe in the same spot on my desk, GMC 300 reports an average background radiation of 10uR/hr (10 micro-Roentgens per hour = 0.0869 micro-Sievert per hour) while Inspector says that the average background is about 15uR/hr.
Imo, and as a rule of thumb, the GMC 300's readings need to be multiplied by 1.44 in order to get the equivalent Inspector's
readings. This difference is due to the large sensitive area of the open Inspector probe in respect with the GMC little geiger tube located inside the plastic box with no window.
That said, the GMC 300 is obviously able to do its job, eg warning you in presence of large spikes during abnormal events.
Also, due to its small size, it can be used to inconspicuously check the enviroment around the place you live in.
Welcome, SpookyDark! Are you posting your readings on the Radiation Monitoring forum here? We welcome your contributions, as you seem to have good knowledge and experience that could be helpful. Thanks!
@ tomarsandbeyond:
It might be worth noting that I did not purchase Inspector because I was unsatisfied with GMC 300. In facts, I bought it _after_ buying Inspector for the reasons that I have said, in part.
As to the measurements you need to do, imo it's difficult you can get something by means of a geiger counter, not even a
first class one. Should the person who worked at a nuclear plant have had her/his shoes or clothing dirty with
large amounts of radioactive mud and powder then you might detect something, but I wouldn't think that it's your case. Few isolated particles aren't detectables, although minor amounts of radiations, just above the background noise, can be revealed using the geiger in the scaler mode, provided that your geiger allows it, by a two/three hours measurement.
I live in Center Italy and feel pretty alone here as to the people awareness of the dire situation the world is in. The
public information is almost non-existent, as well. In the last three months I've spent dozens and dozens of hours in reading your messages on enenews.com. Thanks to each and everyone of you.
Detection in Colorado – Alert Update: 5/23/12, 5:00 P.M. –
This morning, at about 7:00 A.M. local time, the Rattler station in eastern Colorado recorded an elevated level of environmental radiation, as shown on the included graph. While it was short of triggering the 100 CPM Alert level on our network, the graph definitely shows an upward trend for a period of an hour or so. This extent of a wave pattern is pretty unusual.
to info
Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents
J. Lelieveld, D. Kunkel, and M. G. Lawrence
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 4245-4258, 2012
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
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"No government official in the world wants to be the first one to announce the human race is over."
–Time Is Short, May 24, 2012 5:01pm
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President Obama nominates Prof. Allison Macfarlane to Chair NRC
“Rather than take the easy, industry friendly way out, by nominating one of the currently seated NRC Commissioners to chair the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the White House has tagged George Mason University Professor Allison Macfarlane to replace the outgoing NRC Chairman, Dr. Greg Jazcko, to chair the federal agency charged with safety and security oversight of the nuclear industry.
“Professor Macfarlane, a geologist, has extensive credentials in environmental science. She has won thanks from the environmental and public interest community, for: her opposition to risky radioactive waste reprocessing while serving on Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future; her shining a spotlight on the scientific unsuitability of the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump (she co-edited the book Uncertainty Underground, about Yucca's many flaws); and her advocacy for addressing the potentially catastrophic risks of high-level radioactive waste storage pool fires (see co-authored the 2003 study by Alvarez et al., highlighting such risks in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks). However, Professor Macfarlane is not anti-nuclear power, and concerned citizen and environmental advocacy are always required to hold NRC's feet to the fire, no matter who chairs the agency.
[cont.]
“The nomination sets up what could be a thorny and prolonged confirmation process before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Barbara Boxer (D-CA), which vets NRC Commissioner nominees, as the nuclear industry will very likely weigh in opposed to the nomination. Thus far, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as well as the Union of Concerned Scientists, have weighed in in favor of Macfarlane's confirmation.” http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7285/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1207003
Anne says: "President Obama nominates Prof. Allison Macfarlane to Chair NRC"
SP: Didn't take long after Greg pushed their hand with his talk about staying until June 2013. The other four commissioners quickly get on speed dial to lots of folks. And I think we know who those folks are.
Alert, just saw this on the news…
Although they are saying it is a chemical contamination, we all know how mushrooms uptake cesium in great quantities.
Dried shiitake mushrooms sold at Costco recalled
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Dried mushroom slices sold at Costco Wholesale stores in Oregon, Washington and California have been recalled due to possible contamination.
California-based L.A. Link Corp. issued the voluntary recall Wednesday for Shiitake-Ya brand gourmet shiitake mushroom slices with a sell-by date of April 16, 2013.
The company said they might have been contaminated with carbendazim and other chemicals. Carbendazim is a fungicide used to control plant diseases.
The contamination was found after U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulators tested a product sample.
Shiitakes have meaty caps and woody stems, and are often sold dried and reconstituted for cooking.
A: Our mushrooms originate from a variety of mushroom farms around the U.S. as well as around the world depending on months and seasons as indicated on the package. While the countries of origin may differ, they are always grown in pristine mountainous regions with our company's high standards for quality, hygiene, and ecological responsibility. Although we are not officially certified organic (in-process), we never use any pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers or sprays of any kind in the growing of our mushrooms since our mushrooms are all natural and wild-harvested.
Q: What is the expiration date for Shiitake-Ya Products?
A: We officially suggest that our dried mushrooms be consumed no later than one year from the "SELL BY" date on the package or the date you purchased them. After that period, we are no longer liable for their product quality.
Although we are not officially certified organic (in-process), we never use any pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers or sprays of any kind in the growing of our mushrooms since our mushrooms are all natural and wild-harvested.
Many people including myself… use mushrooms like shiitake and reishi both for culinary purposes and medicinal purposes.
Mushrooms being high bioaccumulators changes everything.
Another note of caution/ those vegetarian burgers often
times have mushrooms in them. Portabello
mushrooms , the meat substitute can also contain
some cesium bio-accumulation. How much?
Fukushima is going to bring on more
anorexia. What are we going to eat?
We cannot starve ourselves out of
fears, yet we have to eat!
What have they ate at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What have they ate at Bikini?
What have they ate at Santa Susana?
What have they ate at Kazakhstan?
What have they ate at Sellafield?
What have they ate at (Insert unknown releases here)
What have they ate at TMI?
What have they ate at Chernobyl?
What are they eating at Fukushima?
What are all the earths creatures eating now?
What is all of the world's humans eating now?
@ jebus ..thanks for the link.
Mycelium…a different fungus..mycofiltration..what percentage would remained stored in the flesh of the fungus itself?
Interesting.
Reisha is effective for many things including severe allergies.
So ..I will probably continue to use them medicinally.
I'll be the test rabbit.
Please call up Paul Stametz a world class mycologist in Washington State.
the number of his firm Fungi Perfecti is 800-780-9126
He can be of great help to you.. His firm sells medicinal mushroom extracts.
Be interesting to see what he says in response to your questions.
Shitake contaminated with Fall Out, not a fungicide..
no surpise here. especially if it
came from Japan or other
near by countries. mushrooms are
great bio-accumulators of radiation,
they were used in Chernobly to
help in soil decontamination. Paul Stametz
has a 300 year plant to decontaminate
forests in Fukushima through mushroom
remediation. As an aside. I would be careful
of eating mushrooms both wild and factory
farmed until you know the cesium levels in them.
FDA and EPA what's in the soil of our forests on
the WEst Coast where the delicious wild mushrooms
grow that are harvested in the fall and winter months
after the first rains? What about state of Penn. home
of three mile island. Lots of commercial mushroom farms
there. Maybe they can grow them deep inside Yucca Mtn
with filtered air. Make good use of that space.
Forgot to mention; Substrate for mushroom
growing is ; wheat straw. wood chips,
cow dung composted, wood logs,
remember reading here about human
excrement in Japan being highly radioactive.
Same applies to animals as well.
So even growing them in Yucca mtn
you still need a clean sutbstrate along with
clean air. they don't exist today.
The next time you order a pizza,
leave the mushrooms off and go
really light on the cheese. Put other
veggies on the pizza. Remember what
Potrblog said, beef is contaminated.
Go vegetarian pizza.
"President Obama on Thursday nominated Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science at George Mason University, to serve as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission….
… Dr. Macfarlane, 48, a geologist and an expert on nuclear waste disposal, has the support of Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, who called her “eminently qualified” to lead the commission….
… The Senate is currently considering Mr. Obama’s appointment of Kristine L. Svinicki, a current member of the commission originally nominated by President George W. Bush, to a second five-year term. The Senate is likely to consider the two appointments in tandem, possibly easing the political path for each."
An article that implies that, if not for Jaczko, the NRC would be "above politics" (the author also seems to minimize the extent to which the industry's financial interests shape its decisions):
"Last irradiated fuel shipment leaves area near river at Hanford"
"Stray fuel pieces found during Hanford cleanup had been transferred to the K West Basin for storage in underwater containers. Eventually, about 90 pieces of reactor fuel, ranging from a quarter-inch to 26 inches in length, were held there in double-barrel canisters.
Now they've been moved to the Canister Storage Building in central Hanford until they can be disposed of, likely in a national deep underground repository for irradiated fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
The move is a step toward getting radioactive materials away from the Columbia River and also emptying the K West Basin, which is about 400 yards from the Columbia River, so it can be demolished…."
i have decided to have an opinion on your "activism"…
strikes me you are not into promoting the anti nuke cause..
350,000 children at risk and you dont want inform your readership
strikes me more of marketing your argentine solution…
(word to the wise.. that solution is what WILL happen when the markets crash anyway, lots of countries have such schemes in place (though underused) that will be initialized by the lack of cash.. its a no brainer for survival and is worthy backing.. however, enenews is a campaigning site as well as an info site and most here are aware of the contents of the book you read.. and more up to date info too!
you need to research AND take sides imo! not hide your worries about dose issues in some dusty corner of you tube imo!!
".. for the decriminalisation of marijuana to fight the cancers coming from the Japanese low-level radiation…"
from the hidden video description
no mention of the plight of the children of fukushima (a BIG theme on enenews for some reason.. but talking about dope!… should dull the sound childrens pain WHEN cancer develops!
grrr!
i gave you the benefit of the doubt.. now i have only doubt
proove me wrong KING of the paupers.. please!
research the dose question better
mention the dose issue concerning said 350,000 children
AND let your viewers know
then i will put you back on my interesting list
off to delete the description until you sort out your direction…
@king of the paupers
meant delete the subscription to your you tube account
me bad
ADHD and dyslexia (as a result of over air testing perhaps?)
family from west coast of ireland.. MAJOR cancer area too?
SORT IT OUT DUDE!!
HERES WHAT THE JAPANESE CHILDREN ARE DOING!
they need help!!
15-Year-Old Kokoro Fujinami's Speech: "Nuke Plants Are Ticking time bombs
IMHO, anyone who is not anti-nuclear is making money off the MIC or the health industry, and as such is not promoting life, and all their remedies are also money making driven schemes and not promoting of life and as such not to be believed.
once i get his reply anne… i might well agree with your statement, however there is hope he will change track and realise the human rights issues that he has stepped into… looks like his passio diesnt match his research imo
'Chernobyl Diaries' Controversy: Charity Slams Found-Footage Film For Being Insensitive
Posted: 05/21/2012 2:28 pm Updated: 05/21/2012 2:28 pm
**"It is terrible that such a tragic event as Chernobyl is being sensationalized in a Hollywood horror film," a representative from Friends of Chernobyl Centers U.S. told TMZ. "Thousands of people have died and over 400,000 people were evacuated from their homes. Today over 5 million people still live on contaminated land. The horror is not mutants running around, the real horror is the effect that Chernobyl continues to have on the lives of millions who have been devastated physically, emotionally and economically."**
11 Worst Nuclear Accidents
A snapshot of the most frightening nuclear meltdowns, contaminations, and explosions in history.
By Andrew Freeman May 23, 2012
Flawed MIT Study Used To Dismiss Need For Nuclear Disaster Evacuations
~This is the reason for this report…"However, the FINANCIAL and emotional cost of such relocation may not be worthwhile, the researchers say.”
Excellent report on each element of the flaws in this study. also refers to possible conflict of interest. And more.
There are so many flaws it is amazing including that Radiation Resistant mice were used.
..Yanch in the days following the March 2011 disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, flaunted her MIT credibility calling herself “professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”, failing to mention the whole “visiting” part of it. On March 22, Yanch was in the media desperately trying to downplay and dismiss Fukushima and again on March 31st.
TEPCO sponsors a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. As part of this TEPCO also funds research programs in the nuclear engineering department at MIT, though TEPCO is not mentioned as a funder or conflict of interest in the actual paper.
It is unclear if all of this questionable activity violates MIT’s Ethics and Conduct rules, it certainly doesn’t meet the public standards of being unbiased.
The overarching problem is that this very small and questionable study is being used to justify scaling back nuclear accident evacuation zones. This is clearly stated as the conclusion of the researchers as they state in the MIT article on the study.
"Her track record in her own work and her comments to the media showed a serious effort to promote her idea that nuclear evacuations shouldn’t happen even if the science doesn’t back this up. Yanch is now promoting this flawed MIT study as “evidence” and she is using it quite clearly to advocate that we roll back evacuation zones or simply not even evacuate people."
Well worth reading the entire article. Also follow additional links in the article.
I have no doubt with just what I read here that if you follow the money more than Tepco have funded this study.
I woke up today dreaming about Japanese being given places to live in the U.S. We did this for some Vietnamese after our war with them: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6855407
"In 1975, President Gerald Ford set up an inter-agency task force that resettled 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon."
My dream had to do with working on setting up a new city in the U.S. for some people who want to move out of the danger zone in Japan.
This would almost be the reverse of what the U.S. did to the Japanese-Americans in WWII. Instead of forcing anybody to move it gives people a chance to move but gives them their own city where they can maintain their language and culture.
This effort would also wake Americans up to the reality of how bad the contamination is over there. In my dream it was a model city designed to not be based on cars but where you can walk places, and a city that uses something other than nuclear power.
Seems to be mostly accurate info in this article; but Stubblebine & Laibow are probably dis-info 'controlled opposition' operatives. If you Google them, you will find several articles alleging this to be the case.
The advice to "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts' come to mind, & I would paraphrase it for our modern world, to "Beware 'retired- Army-generals-who-were/are-also-CIA-intelligence-operatives' bearing gifts." (The prevailing wisdom has it that, once an intelligence operative, always an intelligence operative; there is no such thing as an 'ex' intelligence operative – one who, you know, after overseeing numerous torture and kill operations over a long career has finally 'seen the light' and turned from his evil ways…
The warning,'Caveat emptor' (let the buyer beware) could be re-formulated 'Caveat lector'.
Dis-info operatives have to put out predominately good info if they are to gain the trust of their target audience.
I certainly am not disputing the info in this article – far from it; I am just suggesting that Stubblebine & Laibow are not to be trusted, and I wonder about Alex Jones, because the man is just to smart and savvy and knows how to do good research – makes it hard for me to believe that he 'just doesn't know' that Stubblebine and Laibow are alleged disinfo operatives.
Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor
A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan
The robot, called "Rosemary," is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles. It can ascend at angles over 60 degrees and can carry instruments and other payload weighing up to 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
"We tested the robot's various electronic components using an exposure test," said Takeshi Nishimura, a researcher at the Future Robotics Technology Center. "It can be used without any additional shielding or protection."
The robot will be sent to Fukushima in the next few months, he added. It is the successor to a robot from the center that was originally developed for disasters in subways, but was put to use at the nuclear plant.
"THE WRONG STUFF – The Space Program's Nuclear Threat To Our Planet"
The Wrong Stuff details NASA's mishaps with plutonium-fueled missions to date and its unrealistic calculations about the probability of a major accident.
There is so much radiation out in space that there is no way we can ever colonize space. This is just an excuse to keep manufacturing nuclear fuel (i.e., manufacture nuclear weapons). The myth is that nuclear fuel will help them travel so much faster.
It is also to give credence to the false attack by so-called "aliens" that we all submit happily (and in fear) to the NWO and world-wide dictatorship.
#Fukushima I Nuke Plant Press Tour 5/26/2012 by IWJ USTREAM
Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ has started the USTREAM channel of the tour earlier today, ahead of Nico Nico.
A reporter from Al-Jazeera and a cameraman from Germany's ZDF are there.
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Needs refutation
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2012/05/23/un_fukushima_workers_deaths_not_from_radiation/
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Turn on KPFA –Flash points having a program on Fukushima.
FM 94.1 and on the web. started at 5pm pdt.
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This the right link?
http://www.kpfa.org/node/30
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Perhaps reference to this event? Can't find a recording…yet
http://www.kpfa.org/events/devils-tango-how-i-learened-fukushima
Ah here…haven't yet listened to
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/80855
Also brilliant kevin blanch with a plan, msmilky NHK and other rad updates
Nuclear News Now
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
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Does anyone have this geiger counter? :
GMC-300 Digital Geiger Counter
It's available on ebay for $168+$8 shipping. It has a usb connection so I could use it maybe on one of the rad networks online. Also want to go do some measurements in my local area; in Schenectady NY there was at least one plutonium spill back in the 50's or 60's, and there's 2 reactors nearby as well. Plus the person whose house we bought worked at a nuclear plant. (could have had something on his shoes and brought it home??) And whatever is coming down in the rain.
In this area back about in the 1960's, geiger counters at local colleges started showing high readings after a rainfall. This turned out to be from weapons tests in Nevada.
I'm looking for an idea of a good but not expensive rad meter. I would like to just get comments from anyone who has one or really knows what I should look for.
thanks
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The Myth of Overpopulation
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/mythofoverpopulation02oct09.shtml
"Overpopulation is not the threat to Earth that we have been lead to believe. It is long past time for this lie to be exposed. We have been hearing about the so-called evils of OVERPOPULATION screamed in our ears for at least 40 years now.
Mass murder seems to have been big if not the biggest on the list of “the powers that want to be (TPTWTB)”. And clearly their accusations of "Overpopulation" creating the biggest threat to the Earth is a lie cooked up as an excuse to murder more people.
A lot of people are having trouble seeing this allegation as a lie. Think about the world with 100% clean energy. Or, even, think about a world with only 10% carbon based energy. Combine clean energy with better stewardship of the land and we could welcome more people to live in harmony here on Earth. Some of the most densely populated area in the world is in Northern Italy. If you look at a map, you see villages and roads laid out in patterns that look just like a Chinese checker’s board. Between the tight little villages are fields and forests and lakes. There is excellent stewardship of the land there. Good stewardship includes building of top soil, not the top soil depletion we see with petrochemical-based farming.
These elite with their agendas and their greed are far greater threats to the Earth than the general population living upon the Earth."
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+1 I just said almost the same thing over on another thread.
http://enenews.com/caldicott-corium-hasnt-finished-will-never-finish-means-japan-financially-video/comment-page-1#comment-253207
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My spin i wrote on FB page goes something like this, and i aggree with Pu239 100%
In my case i have been putting a lot of finacial curve ball in.,
"Naturally this view differs to the view that is designed to lobotomise the public into thinking that they are at fault for the debt of their privatley owned democracy.
It is only these privately owned financial entities that are the root cause of pesiticide, herbicide, deforestation, extinxtion on steroids.
The idea that overpopulation causing global warming or any other is a gross misreprestation because technology has come to a point where we do not need the energy and resources we once did, but the relationship between the finacial parasite and the host forces the host into ever increasing death spiral far beyond anything that a mere increase in population could cause."
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Nuclear Sub at dock in Portsmouth, Maine has an explosion, or fire, or both. Just in — CBS news 6:44 PDT.
My edtorial statement: We will soon be told there has been no release of radiation. Ya think?
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Is this close enough?
"The submarine's reactor was not operating at the time the fire started and was not affected by the blaze, shipyard spokeswoman Bridget Church said."
Fire on nuclear sub goes to 4 alarms
By Joey Cresta
jcresta@seacoastonline.com
May 23, 2012 7:45 PM
KITTERY, Maine — Multiple firefighters were injured while battling a fire aboard the USS Miami nuclear-powered attack submarine Wednesday evening at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, according to a shipyard and public safety officials.
Firefighters were initially called to the Shipyard just before 6 p.m. for a report of a fire on a ship in dry dock. Fire crews encountered heavy smoke and fire, and two firefighters were taken from the scene with injuries, the officials said, adding two more firefighters were later taken from the scene for treatment.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120523-NEWS-120529865
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Nuclear energy is a Dead Duck! Literally!
Uncertainties shroud implications of Energy Bill proposals
Dr David Toke, senior lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Birmingham, believes that nuclear energy in the UK is a "dead duck" that cannot be resurrected.
He compared trying to sell investment in nuclear power to trying to sell Greek government debt bonds: "ridiculously high rates of return are required which mean ridiculously high electricity prices have to be charged".
http://www.eaem.co.uk/news/uncertainties-shroud-implications-energy-bill-proposals
UK wants consumers to fund nuclear through higher utility bills
The UK government will today propose legislation that would guarantee profits to nuclear power providers by permitting them to charge more on consumers’ bills, BBC radio is reporting.
By putting the financial burden on consumers, the UK would attempt to sidestep a European regulation that prohibits direct state subsidies of nuclear power, BBC presenter John Humphrys pointed out while interviewing Energy Secretary Ed Davey on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 (audio link expires May 29).
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/uk-wants-consumers-to-fund-nuclear-through-higher-utility-bills/16133
Hey British consumers, just say no…
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The Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission rolls over and submits to the Nuclear Industry again…
NW's only nuclear plant gets 20-year extension
by Associated Press
Posted on May 23, 2012 at 10:50 AM
The license announced Wednesday extends operations at Columbia Generating Station through 2043.
The 1,150-megawatt plant located north of Richland provides about 3 percent of the region's power. That's enough electricity for roughly 1 million homes.
http://www.kgw.com/news/NWs-only-nuclear-plant-gets-license-153170275.html
Wow 3% and 1 million homes, thats almost as many people that Fukushima will kill by 2043…
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Thanks for highlighting this, Jebus. As a Washington State resident, I find this news simply disgraceful. Did you know that, due to our abundance of hyrdopower (it rains a lot here!), sometimes they have an EXCESS of power they don't know what to do with?
So the Columbia Nuclear Waste Generation Station is NOT NEEDED!!!
Chalk it up to the entrenched, deep-pocketed facist nuclear cabal controlling the strings of the marionette puppets dancing mindlessly in Olympia, our state capitol.
Shame on them all!
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Some Chernobyl stats I had not seen before.
Link courtesy of Tom, a commenter at EnviroReporter.com
Some great photos too.
Adi Roche Part 2
http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.9.AdiRoche.2.htm
Adi Roche – She is the chief for Chernobyl Children's Project International, and in November 2010 received the Health Award at the World of Children Awards ceremony.
Professor Yuri Bandazhevsky pioneered the work on low dose exposure through the food chain on the human organism.
Here's some of what he had to say:
"They don’t want ordinary people to know that there is a 2400% increase in cancer of the thyroid gland there.
They don’t want people to know that one in four of all newly born babies is born with a thyroid abnormality.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 200% increase in birth defects and this is according to the experts from the University of Hiroshima who have analyzed the 30,000 fetuses of still born babies in a short amount of time.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 200% increase in breast cancer.
They don’t want people to know that there is a 40% increase in all kinds of cancers in Belarus alone in a very short four year period.
It’s extraordinary, they don’t want to know that between 30 and 60,000 cancer deaths will happen worldwide as a result of Chernobyl."
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Q: Why would they NOT want us to know?
A: Because NPP's would cease to exist and those guilty of criminal acts would be prosecuted and then…
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…executed.
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Thank you for sharing this, ChasAha. This is stunning in its implications. No wonder the nukers are pouring money into PR campaigns. The tide is turning against nuclear faster than you can say: "mutation of our entire genome."
The death knell of nuke power has been tolling non-stop since March 11, 2011. It is only a matter of time before nukes are "history."
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"Nature" on the health risks from Fukushima:
Studies indicate minimal health risks from radiation in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear disaster.
http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-s-doses-tallied-1.10686
These lies have to be remembered well! I feel deep disgust posting this, and it is not the most disgusting , may be:
A far greater health risk may come from the psychological stress created by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. After Chernobyl, evacuees were more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than the population as a whole, according to Evelyn Bromet, a psychiatric epidemiologist at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. The risk may be even greater at Fukushima. “I’ve never seen PTSD questionnaires like this,” she says of a survey being conducted by Fukushima Medical University. People are “utterly fearful and deeply angry. There’s nobody that they trust any more for information.”
So, when lie after lie make people disbelieve, they call them stressed, may be mad! These so called "scientists"are shame for humanity!
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I agree, Pure Water! They are a shameless bunch of liars and give scientists and medical professionals everywhere a BAD name!
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Nature magazine seems to be a propagandist tool of the entire nuclear cabal, based on these kinds of articles we've been seeing over the past year post-3/11. Anyone else noticed this? And Scientific American…
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Yes. They're out in force now, crawling out of the woodwork.
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Japan: Freelance Journalists Face Discrimination On Fukushima Plant Visit
http://www.eurasiareview.com/24052012-japan-freelance-journalists-face-discrimination-fukushima-plant-visit/
Chinese tourists affirm safety of nuclear accident-hit Fukushima
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120524p2g00m0dm028000c.html
United Nations: Six Fukushima reactor workers did not die from radiation
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57440261-10391704/united-nations-six-fukushima-reactor-workers-did-not-die-from-radiation/
U.N. says most Fukushima radiation doses below norms
http://www.abc4.com/news/world/story/U-N-says-most-Fukushima-radiation-doses-below/PL6TsQAc8ku8iTwKXDbYPw.cspx
Fukushima like accidents to recur
http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_fukushima-like-accidents-to-recur_1692661
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Busting the carbon and cost myths of Germany's nuclear exit
Critics of the atomic phase-out said energy emissions, costs and imports would all rise. They were wrong
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/may/23/energy-nuclear-power-germany?newsfeed=true
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Fukushima Tour de Force: New Book Chronicles Nuclear Devil's Tango
"At the heart of the nuclear nightmare," she writes, "is something no one wants to talk about: birth defects, a whitewash word for children born without the attributes we recognize as human."
Turning her focus on all 104 nuclear plants in the U.S., Pineda's searing account ultimately asks the reader: "What is right? What right have we to do what is right? What right remains to us, knowing the little that we know?"
In the end, with an unremittingly courageous if not prophetic voice, Pineda's day-to-day exposé transcends the ruts of most energy debates to raise these larger questions about one of the seminal crises of our times.
"To say that corporate enterprise has abrogated your right to ask questions, to raise objections, or to expose malfeasance tells only half the story," she writes. "Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/cecile-pineda-devils-tango_b_1537742.html
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"Corporations are not people. We are people, and until we learn to protest en masse, until we make it impossible for corporations to continue stripping the planet, they will hijack our earth, and make all living things expendable. That means you. That means us."
Great point! I just think that besides the protests, people need to support each other in small communities, sharing information, goods, moral support. This is a part of the freedom from big corporations – show them you can make it without them, and a lot better!
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Excellent! Thanks for the link, Anne!
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It is difficult to see anything but sorrow in the future:
How Chevron Is Shaking Up The Uranium Industry
http://seekingalpha.com/article/614191-how-chevron-is-shaking-up-the-uranium-industry
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UN: Fukushima workers' deaths not from radiation.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/05/23/un-fukushima-workers-deaths-not-from-radiation/
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6 deaths and not from radiation!
You know you laughed I HEARD you laugh, you laughed
And laughed and laughed
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where Life is Beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those Nice Young Men
In their Clean White Coats
And they're coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAAA
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers
And Chirping Birds and basket weavers
Who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to Take me Away,
HAHAAAAAAAAA
lyrics-napolean the 14th.
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Good choice, wideawake. I remember that one – those were innocent times, it now seems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXZMZ-XvvzI
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Perfect! Now if only they'd take away to the funny farm the delusional nuclear cabalists who continue to deny the death and damage to our very DNA they are inflicting upon the world.
Once there, they can sit and laugh insanely and pretend all is well in nuke land all they want, while safely ISOLATED from the rest of the sane world.
Where are our brave leaders with integrity intact, who will stand up and defend the innocent among us, our children, from this nightmarish onslaught of death from ever-increasing amounts of radiation exposure we are all facing???
Hello??? Is anybody out there??? He-ll-oooooooo???
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Environment correspondent Sandi Keane takes an in-depth look at the troubling implications of the Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion before asking: “Is Occupy Roxby Downs a possibility?”
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/politics/uranium-mine-expansion-to-unleash-radioactive-dust-storms-across-australia/
r: found this little nugget reading comments on ex-skf
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Nato plans to upgrade nuclear weapons 'expensive and unnecessary'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/nato-nuclear-weapons-upgrade?intcmp=239
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Argh. Just have to share the pain.
At a meeting this morning with representatives of a British school. Headteacher's son's living in Tokyo ("all is fine there, no worries.")
During the conversation, energy questions come up.
Me:"I wonder which future the UK will choose, still supporting nuclear or finally some renewables?"
…silence…
…errrm…hmmm…
Fat bloke: "Well, there's only one way to a prosperous future. They should finally get off their bums and modernize the nuclear facilities, it's overdue for god's sake! And then put the things on remote Scottish islands so they can blow up if they like without harming anyone!"
Laughter around the table.
Me:
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And then put the things on remote Scottish islands so they can blow up if they like without harming anyone!"
Consequences in Norway after
a hypothetical accident at Sellafield
Predicted impacts on the environment
http://www.nrpa.no/dav/9d9004bb5b.pdf
download this and hand it to them..
cheeky arc!
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I will arc….after they signed
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Disgusting, B & B. It must have been hard listening to such drivel…
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Garbage in…garbage out.
The biggest single problem with mind-controlled idiots is that they don't know they're mind-controlled idiots.
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Another nuclear plant spill in New Brunswick
NB Power says about 300 litres of heavy water spilled Monday at the Point Lepreau nuclear power plant, Atlantic Canada's only nuclear facility.
The Crown company says the spill happened when a test equipment relief valve opened prematurely as officials were working on the plant's refurbishment. Heavy water then overflowed from a collection system inside the reactor building.
The utility says the water has been recovered for reuse and there is no risk to workers, the public or the environment.
Point Lepreau has been out of service since March 2008 for a major refurbishment that's meant to extend the life of the reactor by 25 years.
The project is about three years behind schedule and $1 billion over the original $1.4-billion budget.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/point-lepreau-nuclear-power-plant-reports-second-spill-in-six-months-153607525.html
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Second spill in six months for them, MH.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/point-lepreau-nuclear-power-plant-reports-second-spill-135256389.html
How's this for hype?
"The utility says the water has been recovered for reuse and there is no risk to workers, the public or the environment.
"Highly trained and qualified staff are in place at all times to respond to an event such as this one," refurbishment project director Rod Eagles said in a statement.
"All alarms sounded as per design and heavy water was collected safely and in a timely manner.""
Feel better?… I don't – I'm a few miles downwind from it, in another jurisidiction – a no-nuke jurisdiction, but that's small comfort when/if this one blows.
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Sorry to hear that, Aigeezer.
Where can any of us go to be "nuke-free" in a nuked world? Sigh…
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@ tomarsandbeyond:
The GQ GMC 300 is a small, well made instrument with many selectable options. It is able to detect beta particles and gamma rays. Though the measurements you want to do seem related to low level activity phenomena, which could be more effectively
detected by a more sensitive tool. I have both the GQ GMC 300 and the Inspector Exp with the classic pancake styled probe
RAP-RS1, which can detect alpha, beta, gamma and X-Rays, albeit with different sensitivities. If I put the GMC 300 and the
Inspector's probe in the same spot on my desk, GMC 300 reports an average background radiation of 10uR/hr (10 micro-Roentgens per hour = 0.0869 micro-Sievert per hour) while Inspector says that the average background is about 15uR/hr.
Imo, and as a rule of thumb, the GMC 300's readings need to be multiplied by 1.44 in order to get the equivalent Inspector's
readings. This difference is due to the large sensitive area of the open Inspector probe in respect with the GMC little geiger tube located inside the plastic box with no window.
That said, the GMC 300 is obviously able to do its job, eg warning you in presence of large spikes during abnormal events.
Also, due to its small size, it can be used to inconspicuously check the enviroment around the place you live in.
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Welcome, SpookyDark! Are you posting your readings on the Radiation Monitoring forum here? We welcome your contributions, as you seem to have good knowledge and experience that could be helpful. Thanks!
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@ tomarsandbeyond:
It might be worth noting that I did not purchase Inspector because I was unsatisfied with GMC 300. In facts, I bought it _after_ buying Inspector for the reasons that I have said, in part.
As to the measurements you need to do, imo it's difficult you can get something by means of a geiger counter, not even a
first class one. Should the person who worked at a nuclear plant have had her/his shoes or clothing dirty with
large amounts of radioactive mud and powder then you might detect something, but I wouldn't think that it's your case. Few isolated particles aren't detectables, although minor amounts of radiations, just above the background noise, can be revealed using the geiger in the scaler mode, provided that your geiger allows it, by a two/three hours measurement.
I live in Center Italy and feel pretty alone here as to the people awareness of the dire situation the world is in. The
public information is almost non-existent, as well. In the last three months I've spent dozens and dozens of hours in reading your messages on enenews.com. Thanks to each and everyone of you.
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take a look at this http://www.cleanenergy.org/index.php?/Testimony.html
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Pissin' On The Roses: !MAXIMUM ALERT! Unusual Jet Steam Radioactivity Detected http://t.co/dT28a1Ay
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Detection in Colorado – Alert Update: 5/23/12, 5:00 P.M. –
This morning, at about 7:00 A.M. local time, the Rattler station in eastern Colorado recorded an elevated level of environmental radiation, as shown on the included graph. While it was short of triggering the 100 CPM Alert level on our network, the graph definitely shows an upward trend for a period of an hour or so. This extent of a wave pattern is pretty unusual.
http://radiationnetwork.com/Message.htm
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to info
Global risk of radioactive fallout after major nuclear reactor accidents
J. Lelieveld, D. Kunkel, and M. G. Lawrence
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 4245-4258, 2012
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/title_and_author_search.html?author=Lelieveld&x=6&y=8
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"No government official in the world wants to be the first one to announce the human race is over."
–Time Is Short, May 24, 2012 5:01pm
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I doubt The Human race wants a government official to announce the next train… let alone the end of our lives.
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Current fallout forecast and other rad updates
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
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President Obama nominates Prof. Allison Macfarlane to Chair NRC
“Rather than take the easy, industry friendly way out, by nominating one of the currently seated NRC Commissioners to chair the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the White House has tagged George Mason University Professor Allison Macfarlane to replace the outgoing NRC Chairman, Dr. Greg Jazcko, to chair the federal agency charged with safety and security oversight of the nuclear industry.
“Professor Macfarlane, a geologist, has extensive credentials in environmental science. She has won thanks from the environmental and public interest community, for: her opposition to risky radioactive waste reprocessing while serving on Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future; her shining a spotlight on the scientific unsuitability of the proposed Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste dump (she co-edited the book Uncertainty Underground, about Yucca's many flaws); and her advocacy for addressing the potentially catastrophic risks of high-level radioactive waste storage pool fires (see co-authored the 2003 study by Alvarez et al., highlighting such risks in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks). However, Professor Macfarlane is not anti-nuclear power, and concerned citizen and environmental advocacy are always required to hold NRC's feet to the fire, no matter who chairs the agency.
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[cont.]
“The nomination sets up what could be a thorny and prolonged confirmation process before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Barbara Boxer (D-CA), which vets NRC Commissioner nominees, as the nuclear industry will very likely weigh in opposed to the nomination. Thus far, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as well as the Union of Concerned Scientists, have weighed in in favor of Macfarlane's confirmation.”
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7285/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1207003
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Anne says: "President Obama nominates Prof. Allison Macfarlane to Chair NRC"
SP: Didn't take long after Greg pushed their hand with his talk about staying until June 2013. The other four commissioners quickly get on speed dial to lots of folks. And I think we know who those folks are.
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Alert, just saw this on the news…
Although they are saying it is a chemical contamination, we all know how mushrooms uptake cesium in great quantities.
Dried shiitake mushrooms sold at Costco recalled
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Dried mushroom slices sold at Costco Wholesale stores in Oregon, Washington and California have been recalled due to possible contamination.
California-based L.A. Link Corp. issued the voluntary recall Wednesday for Shiitake-Ya brand gourmet shiitake mushroom slices with a sell-by date of April 16, 2013.
The company said they might have been contaminated with carbendazim and other chemicals. Carbendazim is a fungicide used to control plant diseases.
The contamination was found after U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulators tested a product sample.
Shiitakes have meaty caps and woody stems, and are often sold dried and reconstituted for cooking.
– The Associated Press
http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2012/05/oodried_shiitake_mushrooms_sold.html
Why would you put a plant fungicide on a fungus to control fungus. If mushrooms are dried properly there is no need for any added chemicals.
IMHO, This is just the beginning of the bioaccumulation…
Anyone have any of these mushrooms?
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Dried shiitake mushrooms at Costco recalled due to possible contamination
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/consumer/recalls&id=8675221
Shiitake-Ya Brand
Says on their website's faq page:
Q: Where do your dried mushrooms originate from?
A: Our mushrooms originate from a variety of mushroom farms around the U.S. as well as around the world depending on months and seasons as indicated on the package. While the countries of origin may differ, they are always grown in pristine mountainous regions with our company's high standards for quality, hygiene, and ecological responsibility. Although we are not officially certified organic (in-process), we never use any pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers or sprays of any kind in the growing of our mushrooms since our mushrooms are all natural and wild-harvested.
Q: What is the expiration date for Shiitake-Ya Products?
A: We officially suggest that our dried mushrooms be consumed no later than one year from the "SELL BY" date on the package or the date you purchased them. After that period, we are no longer liable for their product quality.
http://www.shiitakeya.com/faqs.htm
carbendazim | cesium ???
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Although we are not officially certified organic (in-process), we never use any pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers or sprays of any kind in the growing of our mushrooms since our mushrooms are all natural and wild-harvested.
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L a link Corporation
http://www.importgenius.com/importers/l-a-link-corporation
Look at where they import from!
When I hit their site an "ImportGenius" popup came up asking, "may I help you with something?"
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Many people including myself… use mushrooms like shiitake and reishi both for culinary purposes and medicinal purposes.
Mushrooms being high bioaccumulators changes everything.
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Check this shiitakeya.com page HOTR, and see if you think that these Shiitake-Ya shrooms are radioactive…
http://www.shiitakeya.com/eco_remediation.htm
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Another note of caution/ those vegetarian burgers often
times have mushrooms in them. Portabello
mushrooms , the meat substitute can also contain
some cesium bio-accumulation. How much?
Fukushima is going to bring on more
anorexia. What are we going to eat?
We cannot starve ourselves out of
fears, yet we have to eat!
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What have they ate at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What have they ate at Bikini?
What have they ate at Santa Susana?
What have they ate at Kazakhstan?
What have they ate at Sellafield?
What have they ate at (Insert unknown releases here)
What have they ate at TMI?
What have they ate at Chernobyl?
What are they eating at Fukushima?
What are all the earths creatures eating now?
What is all of the world's humans eating now?
Radioactive contaminated food!
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@ jebus ..thanks for the link.
Mycelium…a different fungus..mycofiltration..what percentage would remained stored in the flesh of the fungus itself?
Interesting.
Reisha is effective for many things including severe allergies.
So ..I will probably continue to use them medicinally.
I'll be the test rabbit.
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Please call up Paul Stametz a world class mycologist in Washington State.
the number of his firm Fungi Perfecti is 800-780-9126
He can be of great help to you.. His firm sells medicinal mushroom extracts.
Be interesting to see what he says in response to your questions.
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Mycelium
Mycelium (plural mycelia) is the vegetative part of a fungus
It is through the mycelium that a fungus absorbs nutrients from its environment.
All mushrooms are fungi.
All fungi have mycelia.
I am a fungi!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium
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@jebus…thanks for the bio facts on mycelium.
So… the mycelium from reshi must be pretty good stuff.
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4.8 earthquake, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. May 25 12:59pm at epicenter (22m ago, 88km NE of Iwaki, dept… http://j.mp/JOlNFp
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Shitake contaminated with Fall Out, not a fungicide..
no surpise here. especially if it
came from Japan or other
near by countries. mushrooms are
great bio-accumulators of radiation,
they were used in Chernobly to
help in soil decontamination. Paul Stametz
has a 300 year plant to decontaminate
forests in Fukushima through mushroom
remediation. As an aside. I would be careful
of eating mushrooms both wild and factory
farmed until you know the cesium levels in them.
FDA and EPA what's in the soil of our forests on
the WEst Coast where the delicious wild mushrooms
grow that are harvested in the fall and winter months
after the first rains? What about state of Penn. home
of three mile island. Lots of commercial mushroom farms
there. Maybe they can grow them deep inside Yucca Mtn
with filtered air. Make good use of that space.
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Forgot to mention; Substrate for mushroom
growing is ; wheat straw. wood chips,
cow dung composted, wood logs,
remember reading here about human
excrement in Japan being highly radioactive.
Same applies to animals as well.
So even growing them in Yucca mtn
you still need a clean sutbstrate along with
clean air. they don't exist today.
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The next time you order a pizza,
leave the mushrooms off and go
really light on the cheese. Put other
veggies on the pizza. Remember what
Potrblog said, beef is contaminated.
Go vegetarian pizza.
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no mushrooms for this old lemming since daichi blew!!
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Geologist Is Nominated to Lead Nuclear Agency
"President Obama on Thursday nominated Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science at George Mason University, to serve as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission….
… Dr. Macfarlane, 48, a geologist and an expert on nuclear waste disposal, has the support of Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, who called her “eminently qualified” to lead the commission….
… The Senate is currently considering Mr. Obama’s appointment of Kristine L. Svinicki, a current member of the commission originally nominated by President George W. Bush, to a second five-year term. The Senate is likely to consider the two appointments in tandem, possibly easing the political path for each."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/science/earth/allison-macfarlane-named-to-head-nuclear-agency.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
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"…expert on nuclear waste disposal,…"
Jaaaahhhhhh!!! Rastafari!! (non religious version )
turbulence -burn them up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH_H4xv6qLw
KRANK UP DAT BASS!
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An article that implies that, if not for Jaczko, the NRC would be "above politics" (the author also seems to minimize the extent to which the industry's financial interests shape its decisions):
"Why Jaczko Leaving The NRC Is Good for America"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/05/21/why-jaczko-leaving-the-nrc-is-good-for-america/
I wonder what kinds of vested interests this author has in the nuclear industry …
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No need to wonder. He'll tell you in his own words. He's as pro-nuke as they come:
http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/insight/insightjanuary2011/one-on-one-with-james-conca
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Actually, this is the same author (James Conca) who wrote
"Fukushima's Refugees Are Victims Of Irrational Fear, Not Radiation"
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2012/03/10/fukushimas-refugees-are-victims-of-irrational-fear-not-radiation/
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"Last irradiated fuel shipment leaves area near river at Hanford"
"Stray fuel pieces found during Hanford cleanup had been transferred to the K West Basin for storage in underwater containers. Eventually, about 90 pieces of reactor fuel, ranging from a quarter-inch to 26 inches in length, were held there in double-barrel canisters.
Now they've been moved to the Canister Storage Building in central Hanford until they can be disposed of, likely in a national deep underground repository for irradiated fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
The move is a step toward getting radioactive materials away from the Columbia River and also emptying the K West Basin, which is about 400 yards from the Columbia River, so it can be demolished…."
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/05/02/2505154/last-irradiated-fuel-shipment.html
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40 Tons of Tsunami Debris to be Removed from Alaska Island
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/25/11872317-crews-prepare-to-remove-40-tons-of-japan-tsunami-debris-from-alaska-island?lite
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https://www.youtube.com/user/kingofthepaupers/videos
odd that this guy comes to enenews full of vigour and direction… reads us a book.. good book… but doesnt allow his normal subscribers to see this post
Turmel: Big Lie of low-level radiation being harmless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N7jg4n5dCM
bit odd that that info isnt being shown around his viewers??
just saying..
the video isnt on his feed niether? nor on his featured…??
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@king of the paupers
i have decided to have an opinion on your "activism"…
strikes me you are not into promoting the anti nuke cause..
350,000 children at risk and you dont want inform your readership
strikes me more of marketing your argentine solution…
(word to the wise.. that solution is what WILL happen when the markets crash anyway, lots of countries have such schemes in place (though underused) that will be initialized by the lack of cash.. its a no brainer for survival and is worthy backing.. however, enenews is a campaigning site as well as an info site and most here are aware of the contents of the book you read.. and more up to date info too!
you need to research AND take sides imo! not hide your worries about dose issues in some dusty corner of you tube imo!!
".. for the decriminalisation of marijuana to fight the cancers coming from the Japanese low-level radiation…"
from the hidden video description
no mention of the plight of the children of fukushima (a BIG theme on enenews for some reason.. but talking about dope!… should dull the sound childrens pain WHEN cancer develops!
grrr!
i gave you the benefit of the doubt.. now i have only doubt
proove me wrong KING of the paupers.. please!
research the dose question better
mention the dose issue concerning said 350,000 children
AND let your viewers know
then i will put you back on my interesting list
off to delete the description until you sort out your direction…
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@king of the paupers
meant delete the subscription to your you tube account
me bad
ADHD and dyslexia (as a result of over air testing perhaps?)
family from west coast of ireland.. MAJOR cancer area too?
SORT IT OUT DUDE!!
HERES WHAT THE JAPANESE CHILDREN ARE DOING!
they need help!!
15-Year-Old Kokoro Fujinami's Speech: "Nuke Plants Are Ticking time bombs
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqt42a_15-year-old-kokoro-fujinami-s-speech-nuke-plants-are-ticking-time-bombs-feb-11-2012-yyyyy-yyyyyy_news
uploaded by a true campaigner who understand the issues, tokyobrowntabby (her you tube account has been blocked by big corp)
hope you step up to the challenge…
NO NUKES NOW!
BANZAI!
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ps dope is good for the side effects of cancer treatment.. lets stop the need for that kind of support
good health eating limits the chance of disease and keeps your mind focused (step 1 to good health)
dope makes you eat chocolate and other rubbish and screws with your sleeping pattern (not step 2 to good health)
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Thanks arclight. I will look closely for his response to my post here.
http://enenews.com/caldicott-corium-hasnt-finished-will-never-finish-means-japan-financially-video
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@spectrometer
have left above message on thread also..
should be interesting…
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IMHO, anyone who is not anti-nuclear is making money off the MIC or the health industry, and as such is not promoting life, and all their remedies are also money making driven schemes and not promoting of life and as such not to be believed.
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once i get his reply anne… i might well agree with your statement, however there is hope he will change track and realise the human rights issues that he has stepped into… looks like his passio diesnt match his research imo
luv u loads anne!!
(but you know that!)
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TY arc. I'm busy watching the live stream of the Fuku I press tour on ex-skf. They are just leaving the view from unit #4. Totally sad!!!
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'Chernobyl Diaries' Controversy: Charity Slams Found-Footage Film For Being Insensitive
Posted: 05/21/2012 2:28 pm Updated: 05/21/2012 2:28 pm
**"It is terrible that such a tragic event as Chernobyl is being sensationalized in a Hollywood horror film," a representative from Friends of Chernobyl Centers U.S. told TMZ. "Thousands of people have died and over 400,000 people were evacuated from their homes. Today over 5 million people still live on contaminated land. The horror is not mutants running around, the real horror is the effect that Chernobyl continues to have on the lives of millions who have been devastated physically, emotionally and economically."**
http://news.moviefone.com/2012/05/21/chernobyl-diaries-controversy-survivors_n_1533615.html?ref=moviefone-canada&ir=Moviefone%20Canada&icid=maing-grid7%7Ccanada%7Cdl8%7Csec3_lnk2%26pLid%3D164238&just_reloaded=1
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"Catastrophic nuclear reactor meltdowns like Chernobyl or Fukushima could happen every ten to 20 years, scientists warn"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2149154/Catastrophic-nuclear-reactor-meltdowns-like-Chernobyl-Fukushima-happen-20-years-scientists-warn.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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11 Worst Nuclear Accidents
A snapshot of the most frightening nuclear meltdowns, contaminations, and explosions in history.
By Andrew Freeman May 23, 2012
http://www.takepart.com/photos/11-worst-nuclear-accidents?cmpid=tp-ptnr-hufpo
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Flawed MIT Study Used To Dismiss Need For Nuclear Disaster Evacuations
~This is the reason for this report…"However, the FINANCIAL and emotional cost of such relocation may not be worthwhile, the researchers say.”
Excellent report on each element of the flaws in this study. also refers to possible conflict of interest. And more.
There are so many flaws it is amazing including that Radiation Resistant mice were used.
..Yanch in the days following the March 2011 disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, flaunted her MIT credibility calling herself “professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”, failing to mention the whole “visiting” part of it. On March 22, Yanch was in the media desperately trying to downplay and dismiss Fukushima and again on March 31st.
TEPCO sponsors a professor of nuclear engineering at MIT. As part of this TEPCO also funds research programs in the nuclear engineering department at MIT, though TEPCO is not mentioned as a funder or conflict of interest in the actual paper.
It is unclear if all of this questionable activity violates MIT’s Ethics and Conduct rules, it certainly doesn’t meet the public standards of being unbiased.
The overarching problem is that this very small and questionable study is being used to justify scaling back nuclear accident evacuation zones. This is clearly stated as the conclusion of the researchers as they state in the MIT article on the study.
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"Her track record in her own work and her comments to the media showed a serious effort to promote her idea that nuclear evacuations shouldn’t happen even if the science doesn’t back this up. Yanch is now promoting this flawed MIT study as “evidence” and she is using it quite clearly to advocate that we roll back evacuation zones or simply not even evacuate people."
Well worth reading the entire article. Also follow additional links in the article.
I have no doubt with just what I read here that if you follow the money more than Tepco have funded this study.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6081
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On Alex Jones today http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-general-the-whole-northern-hemisphere-is-at-risk-of-becoming-largely-uninhabitable/ didnt know if you guys had seen this one yet
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I woke up today dreaming about Japanese being given places to live in the U.S. We did this for some Vietnamese after our war with them:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6855407
"In 1975, President Gerald Ford set up an inter-agency task force that resettled 130,000 refugees from South Vietnam after the fall of Saigon."
My dream had to do with working on setting up a new city in the U.S. for some people who want to move out of the danger zone in Japan.
This would almost be the reverse of what the U.S. did to the Japanese-Americans in WWII. Instead of forcing anybody to move it gives people a chance to move but gives them their own city where they can maintain their language and culture.
This effort would also wake Americans up to the reality of how bad the contamination is over there. In my dream it was a model city designed to not be based on cars but where you can walk places, and a city that uses something other than nuclear power.
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Seems to be mostly accurate info in this article; but Stubblebine & Laibow are probably dis-info 'controlled opposition' operatives. If you Google them, you will find several articles alleging this to be the case.
The advice to "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts' come to mind, & I would paraphrase it for our modern world, to "Beware 'retired- Army-generals-who-were/are-also-CIA-intelligence-operatives' bearing gifts." (The prevailing wisdom has it that, once an intelligence operative, always an intelligence operative; there is no such thing as an 'ex' intelligence operative – one who, you know, after overseeing numerous torture and kill operations over a long career has finally 'seen the light' and turned from his evil ways…
The warning,'Caveat emptor' (let the buyer beware) could be re-formulated 'Caveat lector'.
Dis-info operatives have to put out predominately good info if they are to gain the trust of their target audience.
I certainly am not disputing the info in this article – far from it; I am just suggesting that Stubblebine & Laibow are not to be trusted, and I wonder about Alex Jones, because the man is just to smart and savvy and knows how to do good research – makes it hard for me to believe that he 'just doesn't know' that Stubblebine and Laibow are alleged disinfo operatives.
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Japan robot lab readies second prototype for work at crippled nuclear reactor
A Japanese robotics lab has developed a new emergency response prototype that will soon be put to work at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in northern Japan
The robot, called "Rosemary," is about the size of a lawn mower and has four extended treaded feet that swivel up and down to help it climb over obstacles. It can ascend at angles over 60 degrees and can carry instruments and other payload weighing up to 60 kilograms (132 pounds).
"We tested the robot's various electronic components using an exposure test," said Takeshi Nishimura, a researcher at the Future Robotics Technology Center. "It can be used without any additional shielding or protection."
The robot will be sent to Fukushima in the next few months, he added. It is the successor to a robot from the center that was originally developed for disasters in subways, but was put to use at the nuclear plant.
~Watch "Rosemary" in action.
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227485/Japan_robot_lab_readies_second_prototype_for_work_at_crippled_nuclear_reactor
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Inside a Nuclear emergency – video
via Heart of the Rose from another thread.
Japan's Monju nuclear accident parts 1-3 A Coverup Revealed By Wikileaks Pre Fukushima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWudT8eEYk
Amazing, no wonder they didn't want people to see this.
What I noticed was the pinkish hues throughout. Like the 'pink' and 'purple' hues around Fuku.
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Weekend fukushima fallout forecast & update on Ft. Calhoun
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
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In case you want something else to worry about…
"THE WRONG STUFF – The Space Program's Nuclear Threat To Our Planet"
The Wrong Stuff details NASA's mishaps with plutonium-fueled missions to date and its unrealistic calculations about the probability of a major accident.
http://www.karlgrossman.com/Books.htm
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Are "they" planning to colonize space?
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/
And is that how they think they can escape this mess?
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There is so much radiation out in space that there is no way we can ever colonize space. This is just an excuse to keep manufacturing nuclear fuel (i.e., manufacture nuclear weapons). The myth is that nuclear fuel will help them travel so much faster.
It is also to give credence to the false attack by so-called "aliens" that we all submit happily (and in fear) to the NWO and world-wide dictatorship.
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Fukushima LIVE STREAM press tour. Watch now.
#Fukushima I Nuke Plant Press Tour 5/26/2012 by IWJ USTREAM
Yasumi Iwakami's IWJ has started the USTREAM channel of the tour earlier today, ahead of Nico Nico.
A reporter from Al-Jazeera and a cameraman from Germany's ZDF are there.
Saturday, May 26, 2012
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-press-tour.html
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