**** As Europe’s biggest nuclear producer, France has closely monitored the Japanese disaster. Two French specialists decode Takahashi’s statement.
"Reactors are still in meltdown"
Stéphane Lhomme, head of the French anti-nuclear organisation l’Observatoire nucléaire, says that TEPCO is seriously playing down potential dangers. “Their declarations are over-confident, and moreover, simply not true,” he told FRANCE 24. “The plant is neither stable nor fragile.” Lhomme describes the current situation as “catastrophic. Even if the thermal power in the four damaged reactors has been considerably reduced, they are still in meltdown and therefore still noxious.” Speaking with an alarmed tone, he says “of course the global situation is slightly better than it was a year ago. But the corium, a lava-like fuel-containing material that lies at the bottom of the containers, remains a real problem.”
Fukushima one year on: a quest for viable energy
JAPAN
Fukushima one year on: a quest for viable energy
Lhomme argues that at several thousand degrees, this molten lava could break through the cask at any point and destroy the concrete beneath the container, reaching soil and water located beneath the surface. “If it comes into contact with water, the corium would spark a series of massive vapour cloud explosions,” warns Lhomme. ****
Thierry Charles, security director of the French Institute of Radio-Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), agrees that the remaining corium could pose a threat. “We don’t even know how much corium each cask contains,” he explains, “or how much could get through several metres of concrete.”
However, Charles is more optimistic than his colleague. “The plant is still leaking in some places and so remains fragile,” he admits. “But the situation can’t be compared with what it was a year ago. The Japanese authorities have already done plenty to tackle the problem. They have injected a cement substance into the floor of the plant, removed the debris, blocked off potential seepage points, cleaned the floors and dressed Reactor 1 in a metal cover in order to limit any fallout.”
Charles dismisses the global hysteria over radiation levels. “The main leakages happened from 12 to 25 March 2011,” he explains. “Except for caesium, most of the particles released only have a short lifespan. They lose half their strength very quickly, from within a few hours to eight days depending on the type of iodine. So except for the 30km surrounding the plan, we’re only at risk in the first few weeks after an accident.”
‘Decades before locals can move back’
Charles agrees that there is still work to do. The site must be progressively dismantled – a highly technical and expensive operation. ****
Lessons from Fukushima: new Greenpeace report on nuclear risks
February 28, 2012
“…In the latest report Greenpeace points that people were left to die in a hospital, abandoned by medical staff. People were sent to areas with higher radiation levels. Others were told to stay indoors but without assistance for days, only to run out of food, water and fuel for their eventual escape. Some were told you are safe where you are, only to hear the government admit weeks later that they weren’t safe at all and needed to evacuate.
“And the nuclear industry gets out of paying the full costs of a nuclear disaster. By official numbers, 150,000 Japanese people had to evacuate and leave everything behind. Those people are still without support or compensation for rebuilding their lives. This is despite Japan being one of only three countries that does not cap the liability of a nuclear reactor operator for the damages caused by an accident….” http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/02/28/lessons-from-fukushima-new-greenpeace-report-on-nuclear-risks/
Analysis: Japan reactor restart debate swells beyond nuclear frontline
OTSU, Japan | Fri Apr 13, 2012
… Edano is expected to visit Fukui soon as part of his effort to get at least two of the four reactors at Ohi up and running again in time for the approaching summer. Shiga's governor wants him to make a trip to her prefecture as well.
ALL RISKS, NO REWARDS
Lake Biwa spans over 670 sq km (260 sq m) and is home to trout and carp. In spring, fall and winter, the wind often blows from the north – from the plants in Fukui.
Unlike Fukui, and other prefectures that host nuclear plants, Shiga feels as though it shares the risks of the nuclear industry but reaps few if any of the rewards.
"In the case of Fukushima, the local communities that had hosted the plants used to see some positive elements through subsidies, employment and the economy," Kada said.
"Shiga has absolutely no benefits in that sense. If we were just to receive damage, then I cannot explain that to the residents," said the 61-year-old Kada, a former professor of environmental sociology. …
Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who has called for building 100 reactors in the next few years
OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!
Now, he said, it is an “awakening to the awareness of nuclear.”
BOY YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Laaamarrrr! NO NEW NUKES!!
Aigeezer, they are shameless and keep trying to save their sinking ship. Can you sense the last ditch desperation? I can! See my comment below (from tonight, April 14 or Early April 15 for Easterners) about a similar attempt in yesterday's L.A. Times. Shame on them…but read the comments section! Priceless! People are waking up! Yay!
Here's somebody wanting to HELP TEPCO
Fukushima Reactor Enclosure Proposal 2: http://wp.me/p2iOG9-6T updated 4/13/2012 5:54 am PST enhanced text from DC
Feasible? No expert here…
EPS Form Blocks with lead facing.
Levy to stop aquifer migration. Water pump.
I am recommending in addition to whatever “road map” the operators of the facility issued December 2011, they consider the following.
Redundant dike construction per above sketch.
Temporary building wraps with lead impregnated tyvek or equal.
Redundant enclosure offset some distance from the existing structures with provisions for blast release. DC 4/13/2012
We are Japanese people living in the UK. We are not activists or scientists, just normal citizens who want peace in the world and to protect our environment in a way that serves everybody. We are aware that there isn’t enough information in the main stream media in the UK about what’s going on in Fukushima, and we would like to share with you what we’ve found from Japanese web sites: information and news from scientists and doctors who are extremely worried about the safety of citizens, and from concerned freelance journalists and ordinary people. Since the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we have been feeling a huge sense of loss… and have learned that nothing stays the same. Also we think that the Fukushima disaster was actually the result of many years of global political and economic corruption going on behind the scenes, and that the Japanese government was taken in by the worldwide drive for nuclear power, without learning the lessons of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. (NB: English is not our native language, so please take this into account when reading this blog.)
The key thing you can do is to monitor the Japanese articles and make sure that the translations are factual and post your "FINDINGS"; that way those of us that cannot read or write Japanese can rely on your approval that we are getting the straight story and not some goofed up translation…
Someone posted a link to -Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards-Subcommittee on Fukushima.
I've lost the post…but thanks so much.
The posturing of the NRC reads like the Sunday comics.
Got to get some juicy quotes…. http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1114/ML11147A075.pdf
Did you hear about who Japan is getting to work there??
"Tepco encourages the population to increase usage of electricity in their homes in inefficient refrigerators and condominiums, according to Akita-san. Temporary workers brought in to work in the reactors are displaced farmers and Koreans who live in Japan along with African Americans from the US, he claims. Akita-san says that proper precautions and appropriate education is not being offered to these new workers"
Adding this: "Both political parties in Japan are basically are pro-nuke. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would increase GMO and would eliminate labeling of GMO products. Japan is being armed by the US. The nuclear peaceful atom is the cover for the arms program (as usual)
Corrupt BASTARDS! All being done for weaponry/nukes!! From Korea and USA Of course, makes sense to me. Unemployed being paid low incomes without protection…geezus christ. That is so sick!!
Answer Each of us needs to send our Leaders info about this DEBACLE and ask them for replies, then we need to publish the answers, maybe start a Blog entitled: Our Leaders Replies to Our Nuclear Questions
That way we can post names and answers; which we can then use to PUSH for ever more info about what the US and other Countries are doing to prevent a global catastrophe, caused by the Japanese!
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election."
+ This: Congressional Reform Act of 2012:
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives
no pay when they're out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
4 feet of darkish hail in Amarillo, Texas.
"It looked like soap suds," said Pronews 7 meteorologist Steve Kersh.
I wonder if anybody thought to use a Radiation Detector? Would be nice to know. We've definitely had strange hail in California and I've read reports of odd hail issues elsewhere too. Just a thought.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The operator of an idled nuclear plant on the California coast announced Thursday that more unusual wear has been found on tubing that carries radioactive water, the latest disclosure in a mystery involving the plant's steam generators.
Southern California Edison said in a statement that investigators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found additional damage on tubes in its Unit 2 generators that is … continue
Guess now we know where the plutonium in Boise is coming from..
…and why Obama wants all the drones..
..and speaking of drones.. it occurred to me last night that drones can't talk about what they are spraying in the air.. or have a conscience about it..
Seen this?
Plans for Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 cover revealed on same day TEPCO applied for 1 trillion yen injection of public funds. http://wp.me/p21p6a-8k7
Exelon Exec admits building reactors may require “sovereign” support from that state – Meaning on the backs of ratepayers not shareholders
Building reactors may require “the sovereign support of that state, which really means it’s on the backs of the ratepayers, not the backs of the shareholders,” Shattuck added. State support may include letting companies recover costs from customers during construction, providing loan guarantees or agreeing to buy power from the plant.
but does he admit that the more it costs to build said reactors,the higher the rate when done, even if built with tax payer money.. quite the rig doncha know.. one industry that must love cost overruns! And from a purely business perspective, Exelon has nothing in the game.. nothing to loose..so do they really care about the end product? They can live fat on the construction draws alone.. for ten, fifteen or more years.. cost of doing business.. you bet it is factored into the "funding".. so our tax dollars pay, yet again for Corporate Welfare Program allowing recipients to live like Kings.
Sure would love to see some of the construction "costs" that get paid for.. Wonder if any of those screw drivers are thousands of dollars..
All Kings need pawns right? trickle down economics
Hey Look!, two wrongs DO make a right!
And here I thought it took three lefts!
Radiation from Japan's damaged reactors posed little risk in Oregon despite Portland "hotspot"
Gregory Whether, lead author of the USGS report, said cesium-137 from Fukushima increased the radioactivity per square meter of soil by about 3 to 10 percent across all the sites the report monitored.
During bomb testing in the 1960s, some cities accumulated five times more cesium-137 per year than the maximum level deposited near Los Angeles after the Fukushima accident.
Stop the Nuclear Industry Welfare Program http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/10941-stop-the-nuclear-industry-welfare-program
Nuclear welfare started with research and development. According to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, since 1948 the federal government has spent more than $95bn (in 2011 dollars) on nuclear energy research and development (R&D). That is more than four times the amount spent on solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, and hydropower combined.
Japanese professor says Fukushima radiation leaks are harming children's health
By Charlie Smith, April 13, 2012
A media professor at Akia University in Japan has claimed that children in his country are suffering serious medical problems as a result of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster.
In December 2011, the Japanese government's Nuclear Disaster Response Headquarters declared that 'Step 2' of the Fukushima accident recovery plan had been completed. The primary reasons for this declaration were that the RPV (reactor pressure vessel) bottom temperatures and the PCV (primary containment vessel) internal temperatures were being kept below about 100 deg C, the release of radioactive materials was being sufficiently suppressed and kept under control, and the mid-term safety of the reactor circulating water cooling system had been secured.
We are losing the War on Drugs even worse than the War in Afghanistan…
(Even GE has gotten in the For Profit Prison business…)
Yet most of our Leaders ONLY speak out about stopping the War in Afghanistan
… US prisons are now mostly overfilled with low level drug related prisoners that each cost the USA over $50,000 per year; that is a Leadership Failure and a subject that increasingly more fear to comment upon because they might get put on a Gov't. list!
Check out the latest Wired Magazine for more news on how the USA Gov't. is Monitoring all of US.. .
Many facts by many criminal justice professionals on their great site: http://www.leap.cc/
snip
LEAP : Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international organization of criminal justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current drug policies.
The Mass Murderers are serial killers and should be in jail. I'm speaking of the nuclear industry and the nuclear industry advocates including all the stock holders as well as the processors and users and advocates of nuclear weapons including use of depleted uranium and pure uranium in weapons and in our fertilizers and concrete and roads and in our golf clubs. Genocide is serial killing at its worst and most prolific.
Radiation leak near Philadelphia kept secret from public for weeks
Thread: FOX: Is Iodine-131 Killing Babies In Philadelphia? Deaths up 48 percent since radiation levels spiked in tap water (VIDEO). "i am what i am"…The sailor … http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1837501/pg1
Bad form by lawmakers
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Unlike Fukushima, which is built on the ocean which dispersed much of the radiation away from people, the Connecticut river would flood irradiated water through Springfield mass, Hartford Connecticut and right into the long island sound, … http://www.timesargus.com/article/20120413/OPINION02/704139961/0/ARCHIVES
Ottawa – Fearing the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will again put the interests of the industry ahead of the health and safety of Canadians, four environmental organizations – the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Sierra Club Canada, Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County, and Safe and Green Energy (Peterborough) – held a press conference today to draw attention to upcoming hearing on a re-licensing application by Shield Source Inc. (SSI) of Peterborough, Ontario, and the CNSC’s refusal to bring tritium standards up to date.
Unexpected Death of Dolphin at Texas State Aquarium
KIII TV3
Tests were planned on him today, but unfortunately staff discovered the 15 year old dolphin dead this morning. DJ came to the Texas State Aquarium in 2006, and since then has performed in the Aquarium's dolphin show. A necropsy is being performed to …
Thanks anne, thank you for all your hard work!
I am having a hard time coming to grips with the reality we faced before spent fuel pool 4 made the headlines. With the nuclear triple melt downs, outs, explosions, spent fuel pools where a bouts, china syndromes and unknown secret facilities possibly having damage, THAT this may be a diversion from the already ELE. A diversionary tactic of sorts.
Yes SFP 4 IS that important. But is it being PLAYED to distract from the current radioactive releases, distracting our attention.
mini ~ alert
Yes I'll second that. Anne is definitely one of the most energetic and consistent contributers to this forum. No forum like this can exist without people like her. Thank you.
The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan – On the danger of a killer earthquake in the Japanese Archipelago
“(Nuclear) Power Corrupts
“A puzzle for our time: how is it possible for a person to be smart enough to make plutonium, and dumb enough actually to make it?….
“There are large seismic faults, capable of producing earthquakes at the 7 or 8 magnitude level, near each of Japan’s nuclear plants, including the reprocessing plant at Rokkasho. It is hard to believe that there is any nuclear plant that would not be damaged by a magnitude 8 earthquake.
“A representative case is the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant itself, where it has become clear that the fault under the sea nearby also extends inland. The Rokkasho plant, where the nuclear waste (death ash) from all the nuclear plants in Japan is collected, is located on land under which the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate meet. That is, the plate that is the greatest danger to the Rokkasho plant, is now in motion deep beneath Japan….”
MIT engineer warns of nuclear Armageddon, urges preventative measures
"There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more either under construction or in the planning stages. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization, and the planet's ecosystems, if we were to suddenly experience not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400. In this article, you will come to understand that unless we take significant preventative measures, this Apocalyptic scenario is not only possible, but probable…." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-stein/400-chernobyls_b_1171129.html
If Chernobyl is 300 times worse than one bomb on Hiroshima and Fukushima is 72,000 times worse, then that makes Fukushima 240 times worse than Chernobyl.
Shirin Ebadi Interview: Iran’s Voice of Reason on Nuke Talks
by R.M. Schneiderman Apr 15, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
As the U.S. resumes nuke talks with Iran, the nation’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, talks to R.M. Schneiderman about the pain inflicted by sanctions—and why Iranians can’t stand the enrichment program.
“…The people want to stop enrichment but the government doesn’t listen. Iran is situated on a fault line and people are scared of a Fukushima type of situation happening. We want peace, security, and economic welfare, and we cannot forgo all of our other rights for nuclear energy….” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/15/shirin-ebadi-interview-iran-s-voice-of-reason-on-nuke-talks.html
Anne, did you see this blantant Nuke industry propaganda opinion piece so willingly printed by the Los Angeles Times, written no less by a Harvard Nuke industry tool!
But be sure to read the comments! Southern Californians are starting to "get it" big time, given they have a Fukushima in waiting there at San Onofre. LOVE the smart comments by folks calling a spade a spade. They pull no punches!
I especially love "Archibald's" post at 9:58 am on April 13; he did a background search on the author (David Ropeik) and found he has been a paid consultant for several Nuke companies! No more pulling the wool over our eyes. LOL!!! People are finally waking up and we can no longer be fooled. Read the comments and enjoy! I know I did! They give me HOPE! Good night!
Hmmm…Now if only the anti-nuke readers of the Guardian would start being more vocal and give Monbiot (sp?) a piece of their minds. Wouldn't THAT be a kick? ;-D LOL
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**** As Europe’s biggest nuclear producer, France has closely monitored the Japanese disaster. Two French specialists decode Takahashi’s statement.
"Reactors are still in meltdown"
Stéphane Lhomme, head of the French anti-nuclear organisation l’Observatoire nucléaire, says that TEPCO is seriously playing down potential dangers. “Their declarations are over-confident, and moreover, simply not true,” he told FRANCE 24. “The plant is neither stable nor fragile.” Lhomme describes the current situation as “catastrophic. Even if the thermal power in the four damaged reactors has been considerably reduced, they are still in meltdown and therefore still noxious.” Speaking with an alarmed tone, he says “of course the global situation is slightly better than it was a year ago. But the corium, a lava-like fuel-containing material that lies at the bottom of the containers, remains a real problem.”
Fukushima one year on: a quest for viable energy
JAPAN
Fukushima one year on: a quest for viable energy
Lhomme argues that at several thousand degrees, this molten lava could break through the cask at any point and destroy the concrete beneath the container, reaching soil and water located beneath the surface. “If it comes into contact with water, the corium would spark a series of massive vapour cloud explosions,” warns Lhomme. ****
http://www.france24.com/en/20120306-one-year-later-fukushima-still-threat-radiation-explosion-tepco-residents-corium
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**** Authorities working round the clock
Thierry Charles, security director of the French Institute of Radio-Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), agrees that the remaining corium could pose a threat. “We don’t even know how much corium each cask contains,” he explains, “or how much could get through several metres of concrete.”
However, Charles is more optimistic than his colleague. “The plant is still leaking in some places and so remains fragile,” he admits. “But the situation can’t be compared with what it was a year ago. The Japanese authorities have already done plenty to tackle the problem. They have injected a cement substance into the floor of the plant, removed the debris, blocked off potential seepage points, cleaned the floors and dressed Reactor 1 in a metal cover in order to limit any fallout.”
Charles dismisses the global hysteria over radiation levels. “The main leakages happened from 12 to 25 March 2011,” he explains. “Except for caesium, most of the particles released only have a short lifespan. They lose half their strength very quickly, from within a few hours to eight days depending on the type of iodine. So except for the 30km surrounding the plan, we’re only at risk in the first few weeks after an accident.”
‘Decades before locals can move back’
Charles agrees that there is still work to do. The site must be progressively dismantled – a highly technical and expensive operation. ****
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Lessons from Fukushima: new Greenpeace report on nuclear risks
February 28, 2012
“…In the latest report Greenpeace points that people were left to die in a hospital, abandoned by medical staff. People were sent to areas with higher radiation levels. Others were told to stay indoors but without assistance for days, only to run out of food, water and fuel for their eventual escape. Some were told you are safe where you are, only to hear the government admit weeks later that they weren’t safe at all and needed to evacuate.
“And the nuclear industry gets out of paying the full costs of a nuclear disaster. By official numbers, 150,000 Japanese people had to evacuate and leave everything behind. Those people are still without support or compensation for rebuilding their lives. This is despite Japan being one of only three countries that does not cap the liability of a nuclear reactor operator for the damages caused by an accident….”
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/02/28/lessons-from-fukushima-new-greenpeace-report-on-nuclear-risks/
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Looking alot better Tacomagrove. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/operations/heliplots_gsn.php
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Analysis: Japan reactor restart debate swells beyond nuclear frontline
OTSU, Japan | Fri Apr 13, 2012
… Edano is expected to visit Fukui soon as part of his effort to get at least two of the four reactors at Ohi up and running again in time for the approaching summer. Shiga's governor wants him to make a trip to her prefecture as well.
ALL RISKS, NO REWARDS
Lake Biwa spans over 670 sq km (260 sq m) and is home to trout and carp. In spring, fall and winter, the wind often blows from the north – from the plants in Fukui.
Unlike Fukui, and other prefectures that host nuclear plants, Shiga feels as though it shares the risks of the nuclear industry but reaps few if any of the rewards.
"In the case of Fukushima, the local communities that had hosted the plants used to see some positive elements through subsidies, employment and the economy," Kada said.
"Shiga has absolutely no benefits in that sense. If we were just to receive damage, then I cannot explain that to the residents," said the 61-year-old Kada, a former professor of environmental sociology. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/13/us-japan-nuclear-shiga-idUSBRE83C0BQ20120413
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Lake Biwa spans over 670 sq km (260 sq m)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Biwa
Fukui.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Fukui_earthquake
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BBC News – France's Nicolas Sarkozy admits Fukushima nuclear gaffe http://bbc.in/HFILdG
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from your link whoopie
"France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has conceded he did not visit Fukushima on a visit to Japan after last year's tsunami, despite saying he had.
Election rival Francois Hollande had queried Mr Sarkozy's claim that he had been to the stricken nuclear plant.
Mr Sarkozy admitted on Friday that he had not. "I'm not an engineer, I don't need to stick my nose in the situation at Fukushima," he said on I-tele."
oooops!! the translation came out wrong…
he actually said…..
"i am only good at shagging"
"no fekkin way am i going near that place!!"
"do i look like someone with beach property near la hague??"
melt-what??
how much? (ref gadaffi stopped sending sarkosy election funding and he needs it from somewhere else)
"what do you mean that the french tax payers have to pay for the decommissioning of british nuclear reactors and clean up!! how much do i get??"
"it was under advice from the same pr company tepco uses"
my translation may not be fully accurate as i am not familiar with french gutter talking, but i think i caught the gist of it rather well!!
and this
"..Election rival Francois Hollande had queried Mr Sarkozy's claim that he had been to the stricken nuclear plant…"
translates as
"you are both a cad and a liar mr sarkosy (and his pr firm)!!"
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Pro-nuke piece in the New York Times yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/business/energy-environment/nuclear-powers-death-somewhat-exaggerated.html?_r=2&src=rechp
It seems a bit half-hearted to me, but they're still pushing.
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Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who has called for building 100 reactors in the next few years
OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!
Now, he said, it is an “awakening to the awareness of nuclear.”
BOY YOU GOT THAT RIGHT Laaamarrrr! NO NEW NUKES!!
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Again the Nuclear Fascists* beg for more, despite Solar (of all flavors) costing less and being SAFER…
*/*Nuclear Fascism
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nuclear+fascism
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Nuclear Fascists on roids.. Karl's article..http://enformable.com/2012/04/space-nuclear-2012/
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Aigeezer, they are shameless and keep trying to save their sinking ship. Can you sense the last ditch desperation? I can! See my comment below (from tonight, April 14 or Early April 15 for Easterners) about a similar attempt in yesterday's L.A. Times. Shame on them…but read the comments section! Priceless! People are waking up! Yay!
http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-oe-ropeik-california-nuclear-risk-20120413/10
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[Live] Police inspector join anti-nuke demonstration in front of prime minister’s official residence
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/live-police-inspector-joins-anti-nuke-demonstration-in-front-of-prime-ministers-official-residence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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HERO! What a wonderful story this a.m. Heart! TY!
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You're welcome Whoopie..I wish there was a tranlation to the video.
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nice post heart! its good to see different layers of society being more vocal!! that is really encouraging!!
and nice one fd!!
good news indeed!! +100
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New Tweet: 35 tones of refueling machine on fuel storage rack in reactor 3 | Fukushima Diary: http://bit.ly/HCRqMa
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Here's somebody wanting to HELP TEPCO
Fukushima Reactor Enclosure Proposal 2: http://wp.me/p2iOG9-6T updated 4/13/2012 5:54 am PST enhanced text from DC
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Feasible? No expert here…
EPS Form Blocks with lead facing.
Levy to stop aquifer migration. Water pump.
I am recommending in addition to whatever “road map” the operators of the facility issued December 2011, they consider the following.
Redundant dike construction per above sketch.
Temporary building wraps with lead impregnated tyvek or equal.
Redundant enclosure offset some distance from the existing structures with provisions for blast release. DC 4/13/2012
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As I have said before, this project should be crowd sourced with a million dollar Prize for the best suggestion…
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We are Japanese people living in the UK. We are not activists or scientists, just normal citizens who want peace in the world and to protect our environment in a way that serves everybody. We are aware that there isn’t enough information in the main stream media in the UK about what’s going on in Fukushima, and we would like to share with you what we’ve found from Japanese web sites: information and news from scientists and doctors who are extremely worried about the safety of citizens, and from concerned freelance journalists and ordinary people. Since the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we have been feeling a huge sense of loss… and have learned that nothing stays the same. Also we think that the Fukushima disaster was actually the result of many years of global political and economic corruption going on behind the scenes, and that the Japanese government was taken in by the worldwide drive for nuclear power, without learning the lessons of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. (NB: English is not our native language, so please take this into account when reading this blog.)
http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.com/2012/04/many-unborn-babies-die-in-fallujah.html
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Salute for your efforts!
The key thing you can do is to monitor the Japanese articles and make sure that the translations are factual and post your "FINDINGS"; that way those of us that cannot read or write Japanese can rely on your approval that we are getting the straight story and not some goofed up translation…
Thanks for considering it….
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Yes a salute to xdrfox, SALUTE! I am at your beckon call.
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Someone posted a link to -Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards-Subcommittee on Fukushima.
I've lost the post…but thanks so much.
The posturing of the NRC reads like the Sunday comics.
Got to get some juicy quotes….
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1114/ML11147A075.pdf
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Did you hear about who Japan is getting to work there??
"Tepco encourages the population to increase usage of electricity in their homes in inefficient refrigerators and condominiums, according to Akita-san. Temporary workers brought in to work in the reactors are displaced farmers and Koreans who live in Japan along with African Americans from the US, he claims. Akita-san says that proper precautions and appropriate education is not being offered to these new workers"
Outnow just now…
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Adding this: "Both political parties in Japan are basically are pro-nuke. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would increase GMO and would eliminate labeling of GMO products. Japan is being armed by the US. The nuclear peaceful atom is the cover for the arms program (as usual)
Corrupt BASTARDS! All being done for weaponry/nukes!! From Korea and USA Of course, makes sense to me. Unemployed being paid low incomes without protection…geezus christ. That is so sick!!
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More Nuclear Crapola!
Thanks Japanese Greedheads…
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Advanced Dinosaurs May Rule Alien Worlds, Chemist Claims http://huff.to/IzzbKS via @huffingtonpost
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Question: How do we enable change?
Answer Each of us needs to send our Leaders info about this DEBACLE and ask them for replies, then we need to publish the answers, maybe start a Blog entitled: Our Leaders Replies to Our Nuclear Questions
That way we can post names and answers; which we can then use to PUSH for ever more info about what the US and other Countries are doing to prevent a global catastrophe, caused by the Japanese!
"Just" blogging will not help!
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Someone sent this to me, and it makes sense:
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just
pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more
than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible
for re-election."
+ This: Congressional Reform Act of 2012:
1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives
no pay when they're out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social
Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the
Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into
the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the
American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all
Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and
participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the
American people.
…
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My name is ~CB and I approve of this message. Thanks CaptD!
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+10000000000000
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4 feet of darkish hail in Amarillo, Texas.
"It looked like soap suds," said Pronews 7 meteorologist Steve Kersh.
I wonder if anybody thought to use a Radiation Detector? Would be nice to know. We've definitely had strange hail in California and I've read reports of odd hail issues elsewhere too. Just a thought.
article with photos:
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/12/11160993-4-feet-of-hail-in-texas-reports-photos-cause-quite-a-storm?lite
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wind blowing towards tokyo today, hope they take care
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While you suffer from a drought your local nuclear power plant gulps water.
"Nuclear Power: Bad for Water"
http://www.heraldandtribune.com/Detail.php?Cat=OPED&ID=59872
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More Wear Found on Tubes at Ailing Nuke Plant
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The operator of an idled nuclear plant on the California coast announced Thursday that more unusual wear has been found on tubing that carries radioactive water, the latest disclosure in a mystery involving the plant's steam generators.
Southern California Edison said in a statement that investigators at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found additional damage on tubes in its Unit 2 generators that is … continue
http://www.chem.info/News/2012/04/Plant-Maintenance-More-Wear-Found-on-Tubes-at-Ailing-Nuke-Plant
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Been gone all day,…may be old news,…but I see Dan Rather "LIKED" us on facebook. He's up in our box now.
How cool is that?????
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He's one of the only anchormen I thought had a distinct problem lying! He was "too honest" for his own good, IMHO!
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That is cool, StillJill!
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I agree HoTaters! Dan is a good, old fashioned reporter. He follows the facts wherever they lead!
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Here it is the dirty bold faced lie..I've been waiting on this one.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/04/japans-reconstruction-agency-official.html
The "Reptilian Mind" is not more human..it is SUBHUMAN!
Never forget…
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Techie article on (Nuclear) Water Hammer.pdf
http://speca.ca/PDF/SPE_WhatSAGDknow.pdf
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Excellent scary article by Karl Grossman.. http://enformable.com/2012/04/space-nuclear-2012/
Tons of information..
Guess now we know where the plutonium in Boise is coming from..
…and why Obama wants all the drones..
..and speaking of drones.. it occurred to me last night that drones can't talk about what they are spraying in the air.. or have a conscience about it..
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Great article, thanks, Cataclysmic
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Seen this?
Plans for Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 4 cover revealed on same day TEPCO applied for 1 trillion yen injection of public funds.
http://wp.me/p21p6a-8k7
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JUST SAY NO! NO TAX MONEY TO NUCLEAR! PERIOD!
Exelon Exec admits building reactors may require “sovereign” support from that state – Meaning on the backs of ratepayers not shareholders
Building reactors may require “the sovereign support of that state, which really means it’s on the backs of the ratepayers, not the backs of the shareholders,” Shattuck added. State support may include letting companies recover costs from customers during construction, providing loan guarantees or agreeing to buy power from the plant.
http://enformable.com/2012/04/exelon-exec-admits-building-reactors-may-require-sovereign-support-from-that-state-meaning-on-the-backs-of-ratepayers-not-shareholders/
NO NO NO NO MORE NUKES! Tell your "Elected" Officals!
JUST SAY NO! NO TAX MONEY TO NUCLEAR!
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but does he admit that the more it costs to build said reactors,the higher the rate when done, even if built with tax payer money.. quite the rig doncha know.. one industry that must love cost overruns! And from a purely business perspective, Exelon has nothing in the game.. nothing to loose..so do they really care about the end product? They can live fat on the construction draws alone.. for ten, fifteen or more years.. cost of doing business.. you bet it is factored into the "funding".. so our tax dollars pay, yet again for Corporate Welfare Program allowing recipients to live like Kings.
Sure would love to see some of the construction "costs" that get paid for.. Wonder if any of those screw drivers are thousands of dollars..
All Kings need pawns right? trickle down economics
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+ don't forget the "extra" De-Commissing costs that nuclear rate payers also have to pay on top of what they have to pay for the energy!
That is why Nuclear Energy is a thing of the past…
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Hey Look!, two wrongs DO make a right!
And here I thought it took three lefts!
Radiation from Japan's damaged reactors posed little risk in Oregon despite Portland "hotspot"
Gregory Whether, lead author of the USGS report, said cesium-137 from Fukushima increased the radioactivity per square meter of soil by about 3 to 10 percent across all the sites the report monitored.
During bomb testing in the 1960s, some cities accumulated five times more cesium-137 per year than the maximum level deposited near Los Angeles after the Fukushima accident.
http://www.oregonlive.com/health/index.ssf/2012/04/radiation_levels_in_portland_a.html
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So why should folks have to accept,
… ANY ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF RADIATION
… So some Utility can make a profit?
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Analysis: Japan reactor restart debate swells beyond nuclear frontline
By Yoko Kubota | Reuters – Fri, 13 Apr, 2012
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/analysis-japan-reactor-restart-debate-swells-beyond-nuclear-065657123.html
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Stop the Nuclear Industry Welfare Program http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/10941-stop-the-nuclear-industry-welfare-program
Nuclear welfare started with research and development. According to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, since 1948 the federal government has spent more than $95bn (in 2011 dollars) on nuclear energy research and development (R&D). That is more than four times the amount spent on solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biofuels, and hydropower combined.
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From Yesterday Sorry if posted. A Green Road is linked in all throught this LINK: How Dangerous Is 400-600 Pounds Of Plutonium Nano Particle Dust Liberated By Fukushima? http://dprogram.net/?p=107127
And Another Tweet: Let's write to PM's Office of Japan ! https://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/forms/comment_ssl.html
Think he'll listen?
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Never seen these groups before:
OCCUPY THE EPA
http://www.facebook.com/OccupyEPA
OCCUPY THE NRC
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-the-NRC-Nuclear-Regulatory-Commission/150882998363940
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#Fukushima: Heartbreaking Post Settlement report 4/11~4/13/2012 | Fukushima Diary: http://bit.ly/HFvvnH
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Corbett Report Radio 111 – The Fukushima Cover-ups http://www.corbettreport.com/corbett-report-radio-111-the-fukushima-cover-ups/
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From F311WD comes this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xusdWPuWAoU
Poster adding: "Yes, this is where we can visualize how powerfully alive this planet is, one wholesome and alive…We are but little selfish nasty fleas living off her back!
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Weekend Fallout Forecast by RadChick ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4KRRM5_17E
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Here is why Gov't. supports Nuclear and other Boondogles:
Special Interests…EXPOSED!!! – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xOAgT8L_BqQ&feature=player_embedded
and
B of A: Too Crooked to Fail | Politics News | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
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Japanese professor says Fukushima radiation leaks are harming children's health
By Charlie Smith, April 13, 2012
A media professor at Akia University in Japan has claimed that children in his country are suffering serious medical problems as a result of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster.
http://www.straight.com/article-660131/vancouver/japanese-professor-says-fukushima-radiation-leaks-are-harming-childrens-health
Fukushima – One year on – A TEPCO perspective.
13/04/2012
In December 2011, the Japanese government's Nuclear Disaster Response Headquarters declared that 'Step 2' of the Fukushima accident recovery plan had been completed. The primary reasons for this declaration were that the RPV (reactor pressure vessel) bottom temperatures and the PCV (primary containment vessel) internal temperatures were being kept below about 100 deg C, the release of radioactive materials was being sufficiently suppressed and kept under control, and the mid-term safety of the reactor circulating water cooling system had been secured.
http://www.cospp.com/news/2012/04/13/fukushima-one-year-on-a-tepco-perspective.html
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Journalist Iwakami Yasumi has tested positive for thyroid disease.
"Journalist who visited Fukushima plants had (sic) thyroid disease." Tense is important. The headline to the article uses present tense, "has".
"His thyroid test tuned (sic)to be positive."
Story here: <http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2012/04/13/journalist-who-visited-fukushima-nuke-plant-has-thyroid-disease/comment-page-1/#comment-165777>
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Soccer is my 2nd Fav sport: Italian Soccer Player Dies After Cardiac Arrest During Match http://huff.to/IyUehz via @huffingtonpost
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Obama: ‘I Don't Mind A Debate' About Drug Legalization http://huff.to/IWWQ7C via @huffingtonpost What?!??!?!?!
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We are losing the War on Drugs even worse than the War in Afghanistan…
(Even GE has gotten in the For Profit Prison business…)
Yet most of our Leaders ONLY speak out about stopping the War in Afghanistan
… US prisons are now mostly overfilled with low level drug related prisoners that each cost the USA over $50,000 per year; that is a Leadership Failure and a subject that increasingly more fear to comment upon because they might get put on a Gov't. list!
Check out the latest Wired Magazine for more news on how the USA Gov't. is Monitoring all of US.. .
Many facts by many criminal justice professionals on their great site:
http://www.leap.cc/
snip
LEAP : Law Enforcement Against Prohibition is an international organization of criminal justice professionals who bear personal witness to the wasteful futility and harms of our current drug policies.
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The Mass Murderers are serial killers and should be in jail. I'm speaking of the nuclear industry and the nuclear industry advocates including all the stock holders as well as the processors and users and advocates of nuclear weapons including use of depleted uranium and pure uranium in weapons and in our fertilizers and concrete and roads and in our golf clubs. Genocide is serial killing at its worst and most prolific.
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I'm not in favor of the legalization of drugs. No way to have a democracy if everyone is zonked out on drugs.
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If you think the USA is a democracy, you must be high.
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Drugs ruin the immune system. Whitney Houston died because she was a cocaine addict.
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I believe all drugs should be legalized. In addition, the monopoly doctors have on writing prescriptions should be abolished.
Cannabis has been shown to shrink tumors. Your attitude condemns millions to death in the upcoming cancer pandemic.
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Marijuana Damages DNA And May Cause Cancer, New Test Reveals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090615095940.htm
Does Marijuana Cause Cancer?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201102/does-marijuana-cause-cancer
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Radiation leak near Philadelphia kept secret from public for weeks
Thread: FOX: Is Iodine-131 Killing Babies In Philadelphia? Deaths up 48 percent since radiation levels spiked in tap water (VIDEO). "i am what i am"…The sailor …
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1837501/pg1
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Bad form by lawmakers
Barre Montpelier Times Argus
Unlike Fukushima, which is built on the ocean which dispersed much of the radiation away from people, the Connecticut river would flood irradiated water through Springfield mass, Hartford Connecticut and right into the long island sound, …
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20120413/OPINION02/704139961/0/ARCHIVES
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Ottawa – Fearing the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will again put the interests of the industry ahead of the health and safety of Canadians, four environmental organizations – the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Sierra Club Canada, Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County, and Safe and Green Energy (Peterborough) – held a press conference today to draw attention to upcoming hearing on a re-licensing application by Shield Source Inc. (SSI) of Peterborough, Ontario, and the CNSC’s refusal to bring tritium standards up to date.
http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9474&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Unexpected Death of Dolphin at Texas State Aquarium
KIII TV3
Tests were planned on him today, but unfortunately staff discovered the 15 year old dolphin dead this morning. DJ came to the Texas State Aquarium in 2006, and since then has performed in the Aquarium's dolphin show. A necropsy is being performed to …
http://www.kiiitv.com/story/17452472/dolphin-dies-at-texas-state-aquarium
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/stories/by/0000000000004882
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The greatest single threat to humanity – Fukushima nuclear reactor no. 4 raises new global worries
April 12, 2012
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2012/04/12/while-number-of-earthquakes-increase-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-no-4-raises-new-global-worries/
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Thanks anne, thank you for all your hard work!
I am having a hard time coming to grips with the reality we faced before spent fuel pool 4 made the headlines. With the nuclear triple melt downs, outs, explosions, spent fuel pools where a bouts, china syndromes and unknown secret facilities possibly having damage, THAT this may be a diversion from the already ELE. A diversionary tactic of sorts.
Yes SFP 4 IS that important. But is it being PLAYED to distract from the current radioactive releases, distracting our attention.
mini ~ alert
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Yes I'll second that. Anne is definitely one of the most energetic and consistent contributers to this forum. No forum like this can exist without people like her. Thank you.
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Does anne have a SURPRISE un BIRTHDAY TONIGHT! YAAAYYYY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14IRDDnEPR4
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Thanks, guys! I just wish TPTB were reading everything and that they would wake up and smell the roses (unmutated, that is).
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There's SFP#4, and then there is Rokkasho.
The Nuclear Disaster That Could Destroy Japan – On the danger of a killer earthquake in the Japanese Archipelago
“(Nuclear) Power Corrupts
“A puzzle for our time: how is it possible for a person to be smart enough to make plutonium, and dumb enough actually to make it?….
“There are large seismic faults, capable of producing earthquakes at the 7 or 8 magnitude level, near each of Japan’s nuclear plants, including the reprocessing plant at Rokkasho. It is hard to believe that there is any nuclear plant that would not be damaged by a magnitude 8 earthquake.
“A representative case is the Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant itself, where it has become clear that the fault under the sea nearby also extends inland. The Rokkasho plant, where the nuclear waste (death ash) from all the nuclear plants in Japan is collected, is located on land under which the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate meet. That is, the plate that is the greatest danger to the Rokkasho plant, is now in motion deep beneath Japan….”
http://japanfocus.org/-Hirose-Takashi/3534
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400 Chernobyls
01/03/11
MIT engineer warns of nuclear Armageddon, urges preventative measures
"There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more either under construction or in the planning stages. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization, and the planet's ecosystems, if we were to suddenly experience not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400. In this article, you will come to understand that unless we take significant preventative measures, this Apocalyptic scenario is not only possible, but probable…."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-stein/400-chernobyls_b_1171129.html
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Didn't CB say that Fukushima was worth 400 Chernobyls?
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Yes I did. But the MIT engineer has a very different image, and it is not related to what I said.
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If Chernobyl is 300 times worse than one bomb on Hiroshima and Fukushima is 72,000 times worse, then that makes Fukushima 240 times worse than Chernobyl.
Independent: Why Fukushima is worse than Chernobyl; “Now the truth is coming out” — 72,000 times worse than Hiroshima & 1 million+ cancer deaths, says professor
http://enenews.com/independent-why-fukushima-is-worse-than-chernobyl-now-the-truth-is-coming-out-72000-times-worse-than-hiroshima-1-million-cancer-deaths-says-professor
“Some comments have been made in which the radioactive release of the Chernobyl event is claimed to be 300[3] or 400[4] times that of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_compared_to_other_radioactivity_releases
But then MOX is 2,000,000 times worse than enriched uranium….
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html
and http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.html?http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/469-470/6.html
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Shirin Ebadi Interview: Iran’s Voice of Reason on Nuke Talks
by R.M. Schneiderman Apr 15, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
As the U.S. resumes nuke talks with Iran, the nation’s only Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, talks to R.M. Schneiderman about the pain inflicted by sanctions—and why Iranians can’t stand the enrichment program.
“…The people want to stop enrichment but the government doesn’t listen. Iran is situated on a fault line and people are scared of a Fukushima type of situation happening. We want peace, security, and economic welfare, and we cannot forgo all of our other rights for nuclear energy….”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/15/shirin-ebadi-interview-iran-s-voice-of-reason-on-nuke-talks.html
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Still critical: radiation levels at Fukushima can kill in minutes
Latest readings from tsunami-stricken nuclear plant overturn claims that reactors have been made safe
Thursday 29 March 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/still-critical-radiation-levels-at-fukushima-can-kill-in-minutes-7595018.html
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World is ignoring most important lesson from Fukushima nuclear disaster
Fukushima's most important lesson is this: Probability theory (that disaster is unlikely) failed us. If you have made assumptions, you are not prepared. Nuclear power plants should have multiple, reliable ways to cool reactors. Any nuclear plant that doesn't heed this lesson is inviting disaster.
April 5, 2012
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2012/0405/World-is-ignoring-most-important-lesson-from-Fukushima-nuclear-disaster
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Japan reactor restart debate swells beyond nuclear frontline
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/13/uk-japan-nuclear-shiga-idUKBRE83C0C420120413
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Anne, did you see this blantant Nuke industry propaganda opinion piece so willingly printed by the Los Angeles Times, written no less by a Harvard Nuke industry tool!
http://discussions.latimes.com/20/lanews/la-oe-ropeik-california-nuclear-risk-20120413/10
But be sure to read the comments! Southern Californians are starting to "get it" big time, given they have a Fukushima in waiting there at San Onofre. LOVE the smart comments by folks calling a spade a spade. They pull no punches!
I especially love "Archibald's" post at 9:58 am on April 13; he did a background search on the author (David Ropeik) and found he has been a paid consultant for several Nuke companies! No more pulling the wool over our eyes. LOL!!! People are finally waking up and we can no longer be fooled. Read the comments and enjoy! I know I did! They give me HOPE!
Good night!
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Thanks, WATKids. It is encouraging to read all the comments.
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My pleasure, Anne. I'm glad you found it encouraging as well. Signing off now…G'nite.
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great news!!
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Yay! Glad you like, Arclight!
Hmmm…Now if only the anti-nuke readers of the Guardian would start being more vocal and give Monbiot (sp?) a piece of their minds. Wouldn't THAT be a kick? ;-D LOL
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