A little over a month ago, back on March 19, at 3:00 in the morning, the Limerick Nuclear Power Station, which runs two aging GE nuclear reactors along the Schuylkill River east of Philadelphia, had an accident. As much as 15,000 gallons of reactor water contaminated with five times the official safe limit of radioactive Tritium as well as an unknown amount of other dangerous isotopes from the reactor’s fission process blew off a manhole cover and ran out of a large pipe, flowing into a streambed and on into the river from which Philadelphia and a number of smaller towns draw their municipal water supplies.
No public announcement of this spill was made at the time, so the public in those communities had no idea that it had occurred, and water system operators had no opportunity to shut down their intakes from the river. There was no report about the spill in Philadelphia’s two …
26 years on: helping Chernobyl's children *VIDEO*
CNN Wed April 25, 2012
Twenty-six years ago this week, a botched reactor safety test in a corner of what was then the Soviet Union set off the worst nuclear accident in history.
The radiation effects of the April 26, 1986, reactor explosion were about 400 times more potent than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, and nearly 14 times greater than the disaster last year at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
Fast forward to today, and even in the exclusion zone, plants have re-grown, animals are flourishing and Chernobyl has been opened to tourists.
But Chernobyl refuses to be relegated to the past. Indeed it may still be devastating the lives of millions who continue to live in the fallout …
A botched reactor safety test set off the worst nuclear disaster in history in 1986
About 5 million people remain in what have been termed 'contaminated territories'
Kathy Ryan: "People are still being affected by the social and economic fallout."
CCI helps children from contaminated areas who are negatively impacted
Figures released by UNICEF in 2010 showed that more than 20% of adolescent children in Belarus suffered from disabilities and chronic illness. Belarus absorbed 70% of Chernobyl's fallout.
Treatments for Nuclear Contamination
Apr-24-2012
Submitted by Paul de Burgh-Day for Salem-News.com
Dr. Mark Sircus, says it is unclear how far the impact of a meltdown might reach. In the US, communities plan for evacuation typically within 10 miles of a nuclear plant.
(TASMANIA, Aust) – It is too early to call everyone in North America to prepare for a radiation cloud streaming down radioactive particles from the accident in Japan. According to the media and government, America is not at risk due to radioactive fallout from the recent Japanese nuclear accidents in several reactors but that could change in a heartbeat as authorities race to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns. Nuclear plant operators are working frantically to try to keep temperatures down in several reactors crippled by the earthquake and tsunami, wrecking at least two by dumping sea water into them in last-ditch efforts to …
Green,
I know the full is out there, often people don't have time to see THE FULL, piecemeal items is enough to open that door perhaps a little wider for more after a taste !
26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear disaster – International cardiac team flies to Ukraine to save lives
26 April 1986, 26 years ago, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. To mark this anniversary Chernobyl Children International (CCI) are flying an international cardiac team, led by North America, into the Chernobyl area of Ukraine to carry out life-saving surgeries on a condition known locally as ‘Chernobyl Heart’. Each year …
Video montage recognizing the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl. Music provided by U2. Chernobyl Children International, http://www.chernobyl-international.com
CB, See credit :
11,000 Fish Deaths in Little Beaver Creek a Mystery, Ohio
To Mass Animal Death on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2075/540
LOL, now that's funny. I should have known better. Well I guess I recognize your interests.
RSOE today – Strange, jellyfish-like creatures swarming a coastal nuclear power plant: It might sound like the premise of a cult horror flick, but the invasion has prompted officials at the Diablo Canyon facility in San Luis Obispo, Calif., to curtail operations for at least a few days. The plant's operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, cut power generation from one of the plant's two reactors to 25 percent of its capacity, spokesman Tom Cuddy said Wednesday. The other reactor was shut down this week for what PG&E described as routine refueling and maintenance, a procedure that could take about a month.
Workers on Monday discovered an influx of the creatures, called salp, clogging screens that are used to keep marine life out of the sea water used as a coolant,
Reposting from my comments on another thread: I highly recommend you download the American Lung Association's just-released: " State of the Air 2012" report, downloadable from a link at the very top right of their homepage at: http://www.stateoftheair.org/
While I read NOTHING (surprise, surprise) about the harmful affects of breathing radioactive gases like Xenon and Krypton or Tritiated steam which all our nuclear power plants release on an ongoing basis, their updated recent discoveries about the seriousness and potentially deadly affects of breathing high levels of "particulates" and ozone in the air are frightening to discover.
They state that they now know that breathing such particulates can lead to strokes and heart attacks, and even just a relatively brief, one-time exposure to high enough harmful levels can lead to immediate death by heart attack or stroke!
So, extrapolating from this, exposure to other types of "particulates" (like the deadly radioactive heavy metals and isotopes which a nuclear power plant explosion…or two or three…like Fukushima unleashes into our atmosphere and troposphere, could indeed have immediate and harmful health consequences, as well as harmful health affects which take more time to manifest themselves. Indeed, this is something we here at enenews have known instinctively, all along.
Anyone wish to take a guess as to why the American Lung Association fails to mention in their above mentioned report any harmful affects to our lungs from breathing in radioactive gases and particles, as we indeed have all been subjected to after 3/11???
Again, just like the WHO, these leading health organizations chose to simply turn a blind eye to the deadly health affects of nuclear radiation exposure and pretend Fukushima never happened. Amazing, considering that even Pacific Northwest Labs and the NGS admitted to findings that Washington state residents were breathing 40,000 times "background" of radioactive xenon gas when the Fuku plumes reached our state.
At the very least, the ALA could have stepped up to the plate by adding a section on the "State of Our Air In Communities Near Nuclear Power Plants or Uranium Mines", don't you think?
Someone at the ALA sincerely needs a WAKE-UP call. Anyone care to join me in helping to wake them up? I'm sure they would welcome feedback on their new report…
Congratulations to Admin and all enenewsers for enenews reaching the 4,000 Facebook followers milestone! (Actually, at this time, it is showing a total of 4,001!
Having been a long-time follower and contributor here on enenews.com, I have watched with fascination as the number of followers has steadily grown, day by day, week by week. Slowly, but surely, the world is waking up to the dangers of nuclear power and needless exposure to manmade ionizing radiation that all nuclear power plants spew out on a daily basis.
Kudos to all! Keep up the great work and thanks again, Admin, for all your amazing efforts!
Wonder if Admin would divulge the number of website visitors as well? Many of us do not do Facebook, so I am pretty sure the enenews.com website gets a heck of a lot more visitors each day than just the 4,001 FB fans.
We could all venture some guesses…Hmmm…I say about 10,000 daily visitors? Am I close, Admin? ;-D LOL
“… [nuclear power’s] the most socialist program in government, we [taxpayers] pay for it coming and going.”
–Great quote by Michael Collins in discussion with Jeff Rense on 4.23.12
Radioactive cesium exceeding the new legal limit has been found in fish in the Tone River, which passes north of Tokyo. Authorities have taken measures to stop the shipment of fish caught in the river.
Chiba prefectural officials say a silver crucian carp caught in the river contained 110 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. The new limit is 100 becquerels per kilogram.
Radioactive cesium was detected in the ocean as far as 600 kilometers to the east of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, scientists said, in amounts that reached 100 times pre-accident levels.
Terror Tourism: A Day At Chernobyl, 26 Years Later (PHOTOS)
It takes a certain kind of tourist to sign away their life and board a bus to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
April 26, 2012 marks 26 years since the devastating explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant. Within the past year, small groups of extreme tourists make the macabre pilgrimage to the crippled plant and surrounding radioactive zone.
Liability wavers, radiation detectors and disturbing images are par for the course. This is the unsettling reality of …
What interested me is the casual tone from the nuke community, along the line of "Nature happens. No big deal. We'll just close down for a while" which I think is entirely appropriate, but…
when they talk about solar or wind they make it sound like a deal-breaker when they say the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow all the time.
Today is the anniversary of Chernobyl. A. Yablokov has written this: http://echo.msk.ru/blog/yablokov/882108-echo/
In a dicussion with his readers(15:13) today, he said this:
Nuclear technology – THE MOST DANGEROUS for man and nature among all, human beings have invented – and this is the problem. Think about the "global" and "eternal" radionuclides. But they do not come out just during nuclear accidents and disasters, but also from the regular work of the NPP.
Deep respect, Mr. Yablokov!
"There is no report of leakage of hazardous substances or materials at this time.
Premises warehouses store catalyst waste which includes radioactive material. This material is stored in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Storage facilities are over 500 meters from the affected area and there has been no report of changes in either containers or radiation measurements as compared with those prior to the accident."
IMHO interesting choice of words — translation? That is, "no report of leakage." So let's dissect this. No report does not mean no leakage. No leakage does not include other types of releases of radioactive materials. So are they telling the truth?
Just spoke about water containers with Radiological Health Div. Chief re: water containers. He said if the vessels are measuring higher than background Gamma, and about 5X background (air) levels of Beta, "it's definitely of concern." He's going to have the Chief of Radiological Materials (testing) contact me.
He said while I didn't measure Alpha (possible uranium) the daughter products could emit the Gamma and/or Beta radiation.
Am assuming someone is going to come and test the water vessels soon.
Interestingly, he told me in the 1920's and 1930's clay water pots were made using radium or uranium. He said the idea was to have it leach into the water. This was at the time thought to promote good health.
BTW, that's IF there is uranium in the containers. We don't know if there is, yet. We were discussing why there might be higher than background Beta and Gamma levels.
CA State Dept. of Public Health, Radiological Control Division coming to test my water dispensers later today. The State of CA got involved when the "hot" nickel tissue boxes showed up at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
"US is immediately downwind from Fukushima. A plethora of isotopes and radioactive particles have been rained down on us and deposited into food and water supply.
The reactor building around reactor #4 is on the brink, as Senator Wyden said. The spent fuel pool is capable of a mass extiction event.
Anonymous is exposing these dangers.
Many people still wish to be ostriches with their heads in the sand. You must pay attention to this as it could be the most important event in history. It is way worse than Chernobyl, which will end up killing over a million. This Fukushima event may kill one-hundred times that many, or more, depending on #4. I has continued for 13 months and the worst may lie ahead. Significant amounts of dangerous radionuclides and particles have already cross the Pacific and even spread to Europe. As far down as the Baja, there are measurable amounts deposited in pollen, milk and water.
Cancer rates will climb to over 50% and those additional deaths will occur over fifty to seventy years. There will be additional genetic problems that will cause other plagues for humanity. This IS a nuclear holocaust. Meldowns can be WORSE than a nuclear blast in delivering radiation that LASTS VIRTUALY FOREVER.
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THE END
"…there are measurable amounts deposited in pollen, milk and water."
…AND our soil, lungs, and most likely other internal organs.
Affecting EVERY living thing, sooner or later.
Question: Why are we not measuring/testing everything?
Their Answers:
1. Because it's of no concern
2. Your risk assessment is low
3. Our equipment is broken
4. Nobody told me to test it
5. We're just too lazy
6. You wouldn't understand the results anyway
more…
MY Answer:
I can only guess.
1. It's literally a Pandora's Box, it's been opened and it cannot be stopped.
"Pandora opened it, and all evil contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped, except for one thing that lay at the bottom…" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
This anonymous video states that 1 fuel rod containing 6% Plutonium has the potential to kill 2.89 Billion People. 1,565 rods in Spent Fuel Pool 4, give or take a few.
Check it out! This poor thing has what looks like a third eye (bizarre looking, like a cyclops eye) in the middle of its forehead. This is in addition to the two normal eyes on the side of its head (for stereoscopic vision). Would like to find an entomologist to look at it. Maybe UC Davis?
Yes, you are right, though, the mutated things are all around us now!
Whoopie, this is a normal dragonfly. It has the thing on its back to discourage predators. There are some other insect species that have this on their backs or other parts of their bodies.
@HoTaters: that appendage is normal. Its used for "steering" in flight. It's wired into the dragonfly brain and acts as feedback control for flight compensation. All flying insects have similar 'devices'. The best examples can be found on fruit flies…
You better BELIEVE Cornelia is WATCHING PAINTING POSTING her findings. I heard of her through Paul Langley! Love them both.
Just checked, here' his latest. ANZAC DAY 2012. Lest we forget. http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/anzac-day-2012-lest-we-forget/
Look at the charts and photos he has. GOD I AM SO SORRY SO MANY OF US WERE ASLEEP DURING THE NPP BUILDUP, through the atrocities of NUKES all over the world….horrible, life altering DEATH NUKES.
@HoTaters: that appendage is normal. Its used for "steering" in flight. It's wired into the dragonfly brain and acts as feedback control for flight compensation. All flying insects have similar 'devices'. The best examples can be found on fruit flies…
Yes, common Green Darner. I wasn't aware of the appendage being used for flight. Thank you for sharing that! I was pretty horrified until I looked it up and realized it is normal for its species.
I've got some pretty ugly looking stuff coming up, though. Plant mutations. Unless the County Agriculture officer can convince me the plants have normal plant diseases, I'm assuming they are mutated. Gnarly-looking stuff. Will have photos soon.
Aftershock, a CA State Radiological officer is coming here shortly to inspect the water containers. I get the impression their office is concerned, as I got a call back within an hour of reporting what I'd found.
@HoTaters: though you should remain vigilant in your observations, part of the problem is in what you missed over the preceding period (before Fukushima). Many of these observed abnormalities can be natural genetic deviations (i.e. evolutionary), while others may be due to toxic exposure. That exposure can include an array of stressors; from chemical to nuclear…
#FUKUSHIMA: JPN – TEPCO is going to continue make their 16 employes work at Fukushima Daiichi! http://t.co/D2mvtiJ5 #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
The Living Planet Fukushima Mutations? 3rd Plant Species With Mutations Found In 3rd Michigan Location: It's not… http://bit.ly/IsivBk #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in Finland (first in world): via @youtube Look at that sucker!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhjf4fv1GhA&feature=plcp
Grant each and every Nuke Liar long enough life to be lynched, tried and lynched again when #fukushima truth happens.
Your welcome StillJill!, I don't think I should start anything new so I'll limit my postings. Twitter is awesome. xdrfox stated a concern for safety however.
Chernobyl in Fukushima’s shadow – nuclear energy today and in the future
Twenty-six years has passed since the Chernobyl catastrophe. And although Fukushima has somewhat eclipsed Chernobyl, the memory of the late Soviet period disaster remains a living memory to many people, especially specialists among whom, as before, there is no consensus on the present and future of nuclear energy.Aleksandr Nikitin, 26/04-2012 – Translated by Charles Digges
Today, there is great distrust of the safety of nuclear power plants has is seen worldwide. First Chernobyl then Fukushima forced a whole array of countries to reassess their attitude toward nuclear power. There have been no new nuclear plants built in the United States over the past 26 years. Now Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium will be shuttering their reactors …
10:12 PM EST on April 21st, 2012
Explosion at Japan chemical complex, still burning — 3,379 containers of nuclear waste onsite — Reports of depleted uranium — Gov’t says no release of toxic material (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
Still burning??? Sigh…Did they ever definitively say what caused it? Was it really a fluke lightening strike, or was someone playing with their EMF toys?
Thanks for this info, Jebus. It is disturbing to think our Senators are eyeing Hanford as the nation's dump for highly radioactive nuclear waste. Given the fact that the immense waste already there, leftover from the Manhattan Project days, will take 1,000s of years to clean up, and is in groundwater heading towards the Columbia River, a huge water and fish resource for so many people, it is unbelievable that they want to try and dump EVEN MORE deadly waste at Hanford. What are they thinking?
And get this? Trucking the stuff through cities like Spokane and Portland will cause an estimated additional 800 adult cancers (per year?) What about children's cancers???
"The federal Energy Department’s own draft impact statement (GNEP EIS) calculated that trucking the wastes would cause over 800 fatal cancers in adults along the truck routes.
"The truck routes to Hanford include through downtown Portland and Spokane. Radiation from the spent nuclear fuel is so high that the casks on trucks can not entirely keep the radiation level in without making the casks too heavy to truck.
"USDOE has two pending proposals for a total of approximately 30,000 truckloads of radioactive waste to come to Hanford for burial in two proposed landfills, including 12,000 truckloads of extremely radioactive (GTCC) wastes which are as hot as or hotter than Spent Nuclear Fuel and are mixed with hazardous chemical wastes. The Impact Statement on shipping GTCC waste to Hanford is not due…
The extremly hot, toxic nuclear waste at Hanford, has been heading towards the beautiful Columbia River for over 30 years. The waste dump is less than a quarter of a mile away from the river.
I have lived in the PNW all my life and have been hearing this since high school. I am 53 may 3rd.
Do you think it has made it there yet?
FROM WORLD WAR II UNTIL THE EARLY 1970s, the Columbia River downstream from Hanford "held the distinction of being the most radioactive river in the United States." [1] The cold and abundant waters of the Columbia River made the Hanford site an ideal location. Approximately 1,200 miles long, the Columbia is the largest North American river flowing into the Pacific Ocean. With its magnificent native salmon runs and seemingly endless flow of pure water, the big river represents the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest for many of the region's inhabitants, especially Native Americans.
For more than 40 years, the U.S. government produced plutonium for nuclear weapons at the Hanford Site in south central Washington state. During that time, Hanford released radioactive elements and other materials into the Columbia River. (See map below.) From World War II until the early 1970s, the Columbia River downstream from Hanford "held the distinction of being the most radioactive river in the United States."1 Many people now wonder what the potential health effects might be from exposure to these materials. There is also concern about the effects of these releases on the fish population and whether eating contaminated fish increased the risk of adverse health effects in humans.
A whole library could be devoted to the information published about how the Columbia River has been used as a dumping groung by the M.I.C. and the Nuclear Industry.
We have been so screwed for so long that we are numb to the assaults upon our childrens future.
That's the spirit, Jebus! Are you a member of Heart of the Northwest? I am thinking of attending one of their upcoming workshops, to be held 30 minutes prior to the public sessions on the proposed bill to use Hanford as the nation's nuclear dumping ground.
Perhaps I'll see you there? Be sure to wear your enenews.com t-shirt.
This would explain the unusual high number of cancers in Washington state area a poster here last week was saying about his family members over the last 30 years or so,…
if you are here please post so we cam re-find your post !
Hi Jebus. As the articles you posted discussed, Hanford (and its 9 previously-operating reactors!) regularly released radiation into the river all those years. Now we all know that radioactive isotopes like plutonium will remain radioactive for generations to come. It's not likely the DOE or their clean up contractors were able to clean much of that stuff up from the Columbia River. Ya think?
So even if the estimates I read of the radioactive groundwater reaching the Columbia within 7-14 years is correct, surely there is already enough of the deadly stuff in the water to have a harmful effect on one's health?
My other concern is how the "Green Run", the purposeful release of radiation into the surrounding air for a period of 2 years during the Cold War, affected crops and the watershed in Eastern WA. Given much of WA agriculture is grown in E. WA, and the fact that the Cascades captured a lot of the Fuku fallout too, I can't help but wonder what the real impact both of these combined have been on our food and water supply.
After moving to Seattle two years ago, I was shocked to hear so many stories about children (and some adults) in the area with brain tumors. I had never heard about so many kids with brain tumors before.
…And after hearing about the woman at the Irvine City council meeting this week, talking about all the brain cancers in her neighborhood near San Onofre in S. CA, it seems likely that radiation exposure may be what is causing the children's brain tumors (which are usually RARE in children.)
Is it in the food? The water? Perhaps all the attention on testing of food and air for radiation by citizens in this post-Fuku world will help us get closer to the facts and help us understand why these children are getting brain tumors?
Eastern Washington is a huge potato-growing region, along with Idaho. You've gotta figure that between Hanford and Fuku, that this staple of the American diet must be contaminated with radiation.
I picked up some frozen fries, the label said they were from Prince Edward Island, Canada… I didn't get metal mouth from it. The stores around here carry sacks of potatoes from Quebec. These are probably not near as bad as the Idaho/Washington variety.
DETROIT – About two dozen protesters chanting "Pay your fair share!" were escorted out of General Electric's annual meeting Wednesday at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt had no sooner opened the meeting with several hundred shareholders in attendance when protesters stood up and began chanting. Immelt delayed the start of the meeting for several minutes while security guards led the protesters out. The protesters continued to chant from outside the ballroom.
The chant referred to reports that GE paid no corporate income taxes in some years due to various tax breaks.
Once the protesters had been removed, Immelt resumed the meeting. He told the audience, "We're happy we brought jobs here. … We are proud to be in Detroit this morning."
Chernobyl in Fukushima’s shadow – nuclear energy today and in the future
Twenty-six years has passed since the Chernobyl catastrophe. And although Fukushima has somewhat eclipsed Chernobyl, the memory of the late Soviet period disaster remains a living memory to many people, especially specialists among whom, as before, there is no consensus on the present and future of nuclear energy.
Chernobyl and Fukushima both showed it is practically impossible to anticipate or predict what will cause an accident, and that it is impossible to construct some algorithm of activity that would avert or localize a catastrophe. Therefore it is not nearly as important what causes an accident at a nuclear power plant as it is what the consequences are that result. We must consider that catastrophes at nuclear power plants have an effect on coming generations. Today, we lack both the knowledge and the experience to deny that.
UPDATED: Virginia study makes economic case for renewable energy
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Pursuing a portfolio of renewable power sources such as solar, biomass and wind power to satisfy Virginia's energy appetite through 2035 would create tens of thousands more jobs than relying on either coal or natural gas, a George Mason University study concludes.
Are you in the UK? Here's a form you can fill out expressing your Views on Nuclear:
Risk and safety assessments of nuclear power plants (EU stress tests) as a follow-up to the Fukushima accident http://pfeust.jrc.ec.europa.eu/public-feedback
She offers this resource: "For more info including mitigation for radiation exposure, please visit FukushimaFacts.com "
You are right–it's not that the risk isn't elevating every day, but that more and more people are starting to specify the enormity. For example, Consolo tells us that one rod alone can kill over 1 billion people.
How is your health doing?
I wish we could levitate to South America. A person would need a personal army to drive through Mexico et al safely.
So many of us are without the resources to move to safer ground, or even to buy all the antidotes Dr. Sircus and others suggest.
So, for me, it's time to "work out my salvation" and simultaneously help others in any way God may want to use me.
All we have now is love–the love of those of us who still have humanity. May God help us all, take those who suffer into His loving care, and bring good out of evil.
ABSOLUTELY openeye! Sooth all of the 'little ones',…big and small, the "Captive Royalty", I call them. Traveling alone is not smart, unfortunately, I agree!!!
It will take help from whatever Higher Power each one of us has,….and the power of that chosen god, or God.
Expert's report outlines cover-ups of radiation leaks
PITTSBURGH – An expert's report on shuttered nuclear fuels plants in Armstrong County, Pa., provides new detail on allegations that operators Babcock & Wilcox Co. and Atlantic Richfield knew about worst-in-the-nation releases of radioactive materials that spanned decades, but opted not to do enough to protect neighbors from cancer-causing dust…
Ring found "numerous large-scale releases of ionizing radiation into the neighboring environment" during the operating lives of the plants, which spanned 1958 through 1984, adding up to "the largest quantity … of any nuclear facility in the United States."
The effects continue to bedevil the Armstrong County communities.
"A lot of people have lost not only their entire savings but their homes," due to the health effects and loss of property value caused by the plants, said Patricia Ameno, who sued the companies in a previous round of litigation. "Their families have been torn apart by illnesses and deaths."
Ring wrote that the trouble began with the construction of the Apollo plant, which opened in 1958 as a research facility for uranium enrichment and became a production facility for uranium fuel…
Coupled with the fact that it "should never have been located in a residential neighborhood," he wrote, the design flaws resulted in dramatic radiation exposure.
(Original author given in the last post–Max Keiser is NOT the author. Plus I found his website to have some weird stuff,e.g., holocaust denial and Benjamin Fulford White Dragon claims.
General Electric Stockholders Seek Freeze on 23 U.S. Fukushima-Design Reactors
The General Electric Stockholders' Alliance, in coalition with Beyond Nuclear and Don't Waste Michigan, sent out a media release after its presentation of an anti-nuclear power shareholder resolution at GE's Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan on the eve of the 26th annual commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.
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A little over a month ago, back on March 19, at 3:00 in the morning, the Limerick Nuclear Power Station, which runs two aging GE nuclear reactors along the Schuylkill River east of Philadelphia, had an accident. As much as 15,000 gallons of reactor water contaminated with five times the official safe limit of radioactive Tritium as well as an unknown amount of other dangerous isotopes from the reactor’s fission process blew off a manhole cover and ran out of a large pipe, flowing into a streambed and on into the river from which Philadelphia and a number of smaller towns draw their municipal water supplies.
No public announcement of this spill was made at the time, so the public in those communities had no idea that it had occurred, and water system operators had no opportunity to shut down their intakes from the river. There was no report about the spill in Philadelphia’s two …
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26 years on: helping Chernobyl's children *VIDEO*
CNN Wed April 25, 2012
Twenty-six years ago this week, a botched reactor safety test in a corner of what was then the Soviet Union set off the worst nuclear accident in history.
The radiation effects of the April 26, 1986, reactor explosion were about 400 times more potent than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II, and nearly 14 times greater than the disaster last year at the Fukushima plant in Japan.
Fast forward to today, and even in the exclusion zone, plants have re-grown, animals are flourishing and Chernobyl has been opened to tourists.
But Chernobyl refuses to be relegated to the past. Indeed it may still be devastating the lives of millions who continue to live in the fallout …
A botched reactor safety test set off the worst nuclear disaster in history in 1986
About 5 million people remain in what have been termed 'contaminated territories'
Kathy Ryan: "People are still being affected by the social and economic fallout."
CCI helps children from contaminated areas who are negatively impacted
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/25/world/iyw-chernobyl-children/index.html
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This one is on the same page !
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/04/26/natpkg.chernobyl.misery.fusco.cnn
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Figures released by UNICEF in 2010 showed that more than 20% of adolescent children in Belarus suffered from disabilities and chronic illness. Belarus absorbed 70% of Chernobyl's fallout.
http://www.unicef.by/junisef_v_belarusi/unicef_belarus_annual_report_2010/
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http://cnn.com/video/?/video/international/2012/04/24/iyw-chernobyl-children.cnn
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Chernobyl Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M-pz0vp1dE&feature=player_detailpage
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Chernobyl,
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Treatments for Nuclear Contamination
Apr-24-2012
Submitted by Paul de Burgh-Day for Salem-News.com
Dr. Mark Sircus, says it is unclear how far the impact of a meltdown might reach. In the US, communities plan for evacuation typically within 10 miles of a nuclear plant.
(TASMANIA, Aust) – It is too early to call everyone in North America to prepare for a radiation cloud streaming down radioactive particles from the accident in Japan. According to the media and government, America is not at risk due to radioactive fallout from the recent Japanese nuclear accidents in several reactors but that could change in a heartbeat as authorities race to combat the threat of multiple nuclear reactor meltdowns. Nuclear plant operators are working frantically to try to keep temperatures down in several reactors crippled by the earthquake and tsunami, wrecking at least two by dumping sea water into them in last-ditch efforts to …
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april242012/nuclear-contamination.php
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 1/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_FI2alBpBY&feature=player_detailpage
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 2/7
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 3/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cYnRs5jKAMQ
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 4/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QX548SE0jEQ
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 5/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R0oALxwWAAg
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 6/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=epK2v_ZuIts
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The Children Beyond Chernobyl, Part 7/7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ei3SA5KXmA&feature=player_detailpage
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How is this? A little easier to find them all perhaps?
The Children Beyond Chernobyl Movie; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/children-beyond-chernobyl.html
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Not Kool
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AGreenRoad,
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster !
I was doing it my way, thanks for the sore toe !
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Green,
I know the full is out there, often people don't have time to see THE FULL, piecemeal items is enough to open that door perhaps a little wider for more after a taste !
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26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear disaster
26th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear disaster – International cardiac team flies to Ukraine to save lives
26 April 1986, 26 years ago, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant. To mark this anniversary Chernobyl Children International (CCI) are flying an international cardiac team, led by North America, into the Chernobyl area of Ukraine to carry out life-saving surgeries on a condition known locally as ‘Chernobyl Heart’. Each year …
http://www.chernobyl-international.com/News/News/12-04-25/26th_Anniversary_of_Chernobyl_Nuclear_disaster.aspx
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REPLAY !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_jrVgu88ZVk
Uploaded by ChernobylChildren on Apr 26, 2011
Video montage recognizing the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl. Music provided by U2. Chernobyl Children International, http://www.chernobyl-international.com
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A deadly legacy !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2M-pz0vp1dE
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Genetic defects, most will die.
…and most likely many were not even born.
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For xdrfox ~ 11,000 Fish Deaths in Little Beaver Creek a Mystery
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244606-11-000-Fish-Deaths-in-Little-Beaver-Creek-a-Mystery?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Map ~ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
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CB, See credit :
11,000 Fish Deaths in Little Beaver Creek a Mystery, Ohio
To Mass Animal Death on Wednesday, April 25, 2012
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2075/540
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LOL, now that's funny. I should have known better. Well I guess I recognize your interests.
RSOE today – Strange, jellyfish-like creatures swarming a coastal nuclear power plant: It might sound like the premise of a cult horror flick, but the invasion has prompted officials at the Diablo Canyon facility in San Luis Obispo, Calif., to curtail operations for at least a few days. The plant's operator, Pacific Gas & Electric, cut power generation from one of the plant's two reactors to 25 percent of its capacity, spokesman Tom Cuddy said Wednesday. The other reactor was shut down this week for what PG&E described as routine refueling and maintenance, a procedure that could take about a month.
Workers on Monday discovered an influx of the creatures, called salp, clogging screens that are used to keep marine life out of the sea water used as a coolant,
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Chernobyl Consequences Children in need part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5oaT91CBw&feature=player_detailpage
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Reposting from my comments on another thread: I highly recommend you download the American Lung Association's just-released: " State of the Air 2012" report, downloadable from a link at the very top right of their homepage at: http://www.stateoftheair.org/
While I read NOTHING (surprise, surprise) about the harmful affects of breathing radioactive gases like Xenon and Krypton or Tritiated steam which all our nuclear power plants release on an ongoing basis, their updated recent discoveries about the seriousness and potentially deadly affects of breathing high levels of "particulates" and ozone in the air are frightening to discover.
They state that they now know that breathing such particulates can lead to strokes and heart attacks, and even just a relatively brief, one-time exposure to high enough harmful levels can lead to immediate death by heart attack or stroke!
So, extrapolating from this, exposure to other types of "particulates" (like the deadly radioactive heavy metals and isotopes which a nuclear power plant explosion…or two or three…like Fukushima unleashes into our atmosphere and troposphere, could indeed have immediate and harmful health consequences, as well as harmful health affects which take more time to manifest themselves. Indeed, this is something we here at enenews have known instinctively, all along.
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Continued from my above post:
Anyone wish to take a guess as to why the American Lung Association fails to mention in their above mentioned report any harmful affects to our lungs from breathing in radioactive gases and particles, as we indeed have all been subjected to after 3/11???
Again, just like the WHO, these leading health organizations chose to simply turn a blind eye to the deadly health affects of nuclear radiation exposure and pretend Fukushima never happened. Amazing, considering that even Pacific Northwest Labs and the NGS admitted to findings that Washington state residents were breathing 40,000 times "background" of radioactive xenon gas when the Fuku plumes reached our state.
At the very least, the ALA could have stepped up to the plate by adding a section on the "State of Our Air In Communities Near Nuclear Power Plants or Uranium Mines", don't you think?
Someone at the ALA sincerely needs a WAKE-UP call. Anyone care to join me in helping to wake them up? I'm sure they would welcome feedback on their new report…
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One final comment for tonight:
Congratulations to Admin and all enenewsers for enenews reaching the 4,000 Facebook followers milestone! (Actually, at this time, it is showing a total of 4,001!
Having been a long-time follower and contributor here on enenews.com, I have watched with fascination as the number of followers has steadily grown, day by day, week by week. Slowly, but surely, the world is waking up to the dangers of nuclear power and needless exposure to manmade ionizing radiation that all nuclear power plants spew out on a daily basis.
Kudos to all! Keep up the great work and thanks again, Admin, for all your amazing efforts!
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+ to the ++nth x hell yes!!! Exponentially Momentous Momentum
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We could all venture some guesses…Hmmm…I say about 10,000 daily visitors? Am I close, Admin? ;-D LOL
Anyway, congrats again!
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“… [nuclear power’s] the most socialist program in government, we [taxpayers] pay for it coming and going.”
–Great quote by Michael Collins in discussion with Jeff Rense on 4.23.12
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Cesium contaminated fish found in Tone river
Radioactive cesium exceeding the new legal limit has been found in fish in the Tone River, which passes north of Tokyo. Authorities have taken measures to stop the shipment of fish caught in the river.
Chiba prefectural officials say a silver crucian carp caught in the river contained 110 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. The new limit is 100 becquerels per kilogram.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120426_08.html
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Radioactive cesium was detected in the ocean as far as 600 kilometers to the east of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, scientists said, in amounts that reached 100 times pre-accident levels.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204260084
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Terror Tourism: A Day At Chernobyl, 26 Years Later (PHOTOS)
It takes a certain kind of tourist to sign away their life and board a bus to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.
April 26, 2012 marks 26 years since the devastating explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant. Within the past year, small groups of extreme tourists make the macabre pilgrimage to the crippled plant and surrounding radioactive zone.
Liability wavers, radiation detectors and disturbing images are par for the course. This is the unsettling reality of …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elyse-pasquale/terror-tourism-a-day-in-chernobyl_b_1452608.html
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Creatures occupy Calif NPP!
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/04/26/v-print/4443446/jellyfish-like-creatures-force.html
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Here's another version of the story, a bit closer to the source:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=NC-20120426-35013-USA
What interested me is the casual tone from the nuke community, along the line of "Nature happens. No big deal. We'll just close down for a while" which I think is entirely appropriate, but…
when they talk about solar or wind they make it sound like a deal-breaker when they say the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow all the time.
Can't have it both ways.
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Hot Tuna.
This has happened in 3 other plants in the past year !
Scottish plant closes as jellyfish swarm clogs up filters (Wired UK)
Jun 30, 2011 … A nuclear power plant in Scotland has been forced to shut down two reactors
after a swarm of jellyfish clogged up a cooling water pool and its …
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-06/30/jellyfish-clog-up-nuclear-plant
Moon Jellyfish Kill Tons of Goliath Groupers At St. Lucie Nuclear …
Dec 8, 2011 … Jellyfish must be passionate critics of nuclear energy. This past summer, they sacrificed their own lives to clog up nuclear power plants from as …
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/08/jellyfish-grouper-power-plant_n_1136811.html
Jellyfish invasions shut down three Israel nuclear power plants
Jul 7, 2011 … Earlier this week a nuclear power plant on the coast of Israel was forced to shut down due to a jellyfish clog in their cooling system. Two weeks …
http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/jellyfish-invasions-shut-down-three-nuclear-power-plants/
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New York Radiation Network reading 63 a few minutes ago. Now down to 35. Worth watching.
Another Pennsylvania situation?
Eastern Colorado at 60.
It's 7:43 AM PDT.
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Today is the anniversary of Chernobyl. A. Yablokov has written this:
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/yablokov/882108-echo/
In a dicussion with his readers(15:13) today, he said this:
Nuclear technology – THE MOST DANGEROUS for man and nature among all, human beings have invented – and this is the problem. Think about the "global" and "eternal" radionuclides. But they do not come out just during nuclear accidents and disasters, but also from the regular work of the NPP.
Deep respect, Mr. Yablokov!
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FYI, Mitsui press release says radioactive waste 500 meters from area affected by fire and explosion.
http://www.mitsuichem.com/release/2012/120426_02.htm
"There is no report of leakage of hazardous substances or materials at this time.
Premises warehouses store catalyst waste which includes radioactive material. This material is stored in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Storage facilities are over 500 meters from the affected area and there has been no report of changes in either containers or radiation measurements as compared with those prior to the accident."
IMHO interesting choice of words — translation? That is, "no report of leakage." So let's dissect this. No report does not mean no leakage. No leakage does not include other types of releases of radioactive materials. So are they telling the truth?
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OVER 500 meters away from affected area, that is.
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Waiting for the new forum to discuss the explosion at #3, 3/15/11.
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Just spoke about water containers with Radiological Health Div. Chief re: water containers. He said if the vessels are measuring higher than background Gamma, and about 5X background (air) levels of Beta, "it's definitely of concern." He's going to have the Chief of Radiological Materials (testing) contact me.
He said while I didn't measure Alpha (possible uranium) the daughter products could emit the Gamma and/or Beta radiation.
Am assuming someone is going to come and test the water vessels soon.
Interestingly, he told me in the 1920's and 1930's clay water pots were made using radium or uranium. He said the idea was to have it leach into the water. This was at the time thought to promote good health.
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California Dept. of Public Health officials ….
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BTW, that's IF there is uranium in the containers. We don't know if there is, yet. We were discussing why there might be higher than background Beta and Gamma levels.
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Diablo Canyon reactor gets unwelcome guests
The invasion has prompted officials at the Diablo Canyon facility in San Luis Obispo to curtail operations for at least a few days.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0426-jellyfish-nukes-20120426,0,3192890.story
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CA State Dept. of Public Health, Radiological Control Division coming to test my water dispensers later today. The State of CA got involved when the "hot" nickel tissue boxes showed up at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.
Oooo-eeee, here we go again!
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What can I say? Not a damn thing … Outnow @ HP
"US is immediately downwind from Fukushima. A plethora of isotopes and radioactive particles have been rained down on us and deposited into food and water supply.
The reactor building around reactor #4 is on the brink, as Senator Wyden said. The spent fuel pool is capable of a mass extiction event.
Anonymous is exposing these dangers.
Many people still wish to be ostriches with their heads in the sand. You must pay attention to this as it could be the most important event in history. It is way worse than Chernobyl, which will end up killing over a million. This Fukushima event may kill one-hundred times that many, or more, depending on #4. I has continued for 13 months and the worst may lie ahead. Significant amounts of dangerous radionuclides and particles have already cross the Pacific and even spread to Europe. As far down as the Baja, there are measurable amounts deposited in pollen, milk and water.
Cancer rates will climb to over 50% and those additional deaths will occur over fifty to seventy years. There will be additional genetic problems that will cause other plagues for humanity. This IS a nuclear holocaust. Meldowns can be WORSE than a nuclear blast in delivering radiation that LASTS VIRTUALY FOREVER.
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THE END
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"…there are measurable amounts deposited in pollen, milk and water."
…AND our soil, lungs, and most likely other internal organs.
Affecting EVERY living thing, sooner or later.
Question: Why are we not measuring/testing everything?
Their Answers:
1. Because it's of no concern
2. Your risk assessment is low
3. Our equipment is broken
4. Nobody told me to test it
5. We're just too lazy
6. You wouldn't understand the results anyway
more…
MY Answer:
I can only guess.
1. It's literally a Pandora's Box, it's been opened and it cannot be stopped.
"Pandora opened it, and all evil contained therein escaped and spread over the earth. She hastened to close the container, but the whole contents had escaped, except for one thing that lay at the bottom…"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
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ChasAha, (sorry to say it folks)
THE ANSWER can only be Pandoras Box
and that this IS so immense, that nothing
can (reasonably) be done
(I had to log in to comment,
couldn't lurk on this topic)
"Acceptance phase" for me here,
Mr. Negativity this morning.
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Some here do not tweet, so I would like to post a tweet ~ http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/anonymous-video.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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This anonymous video states that 1 fuel rod containing 6% Plutonium has the potential to kill 2.89 Billion People. 1,565 rods in Spent Fuel Pool 4, give or take a few.
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CB,…I don't tweet,…so I was helped by your thoughtfulness,…again!
Bless you!
Loved that video,…sent it on a lot!
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Dragonfly with "cyclops eye" in middle of forehead – from my back yard. See link to Photbucket here:
http://s1053.photobucket.com/albums/s463/AlmMen/Mutant%20Things/
Check it out! This poor thing has what looks like a third eye (bizarre looking, like a cyclops eye) in the middle of its forehead. This is in addition to the two normal eyes on the side of its head (for stereoscopic vision). Would like to find an entomologist to look at it. Maybe UC Davis?
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Oh, what fun it is to live in the Land of Mutant Things.
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Someone posted at Garden Web it's normal, a "Common Green Darner."
http://nature.gardenweb.com/forums/load/insect/msg0816222318828.html?1
I'm so very relieved.
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These deformities are probably all around us now. I'll never look at another bug, spider, dandelion, flower, tree the same way.
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Yes, you are right, though, the mutated things are all around us now!
Whoopie, this is a normal dragonfly. It has the thing on its back to discourage predators. There are some other insect species that have this on their backs or other parts of their bodies.
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@HoTaters: reposted from below thread.
5:17 pm · Reply
@HoTaters: that appendage is normal. Its used for "steering" in flight. It's wired into the dragonfly brain and acts as feedback control for flight compensation. All flying insects have similar 'devices'. The best examples can be found on fruit flies…
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Looks like he's missing an antenna too.
Mutant eyes: by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
http://www.wissenskunst.ch/en/biographie.htm
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You better BELIEVE Cornelia is WATCHING PAINTING POSTING her findings. I heard of her through Paul Langley! Love them both.
Just checked, here' his latest. ANZAC DAY 2012. Lest we forget.
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/anzac-day-2012-lest-we-forget/
Look at the charts and photos he has. GOD I AM SO SORRY SO MANY OF US WERE ASLEEP DURING THE NPP BUILDUP, through the atrocities of NUKES all over the world….horrible, life altering DEATH NUKES.
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#FUKUSHIMA: THIS POST IS FOR YOU PAM "radiation is good 4 you" SYKES http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/anzac-day-2012-lest-we-forget/ #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
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The thing in front is one of the front legs. Do they have antennae?
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@HoTaters: that appendage is normal. Its used for "steering" in flight. It's wired into the dragonfly brain and acts as feedback control for flight compensation. All flying insects have similar 'devices'. The best examples can be found on fruit flies…
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Yes, common Green Darner. I wasn't aware of the appendage being used for flight. Thank you for sharing that! I was pretty horrified until I looked it up and realized it is normal for its species.
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I've got some pretty ugly looking stuff coming up, though. Plant mutations. Unless the County Agriculture officer can convince me the plants have normal plant diseases, I'm assuming they are mutated. Gnarly-looking stuff. Will have photos soon.
Aftershock, a CA State Radiological officer is coming here shortly to inspect the water containers. I get the impression their office is concerned, as I got a call back within an hour of reporting what I'd found.
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@HoTaters: though you should remain vigilant in your observations, part of the problem is in what you missed over the preceding period (before Fukushima). Many of these observed abnormalities can be natural genetic deviations (i.e. evolutionary), while others may be due to toxic exposure. That exposure can include an array of stressors; from chemical to nuclear…
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The dragonfly reminded me of an Avatar one of the users here had. For some reason I can't remember who it was, right now. Very funny, though.
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CAN I GO TO PANDORA? Oooooo…i never thought about the connection before!! PANDORA + BOX Was Cameron sending a message? lol!
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Poordaddy,…cyclops eye,…no legs,…miss the bugger somethin' dreadful too! He and or-well,….about the same time!
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Work Begins On New Chornobyl Shell http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine_chornobyl_disaster_anniversary/24560502.html via @RFERL The work to replace the existing shell, which is CRUMBLING AND LEAKING RADIATION TO THIS DAY, comes on the 26th anniversary of the world's worst civilian nuclear disaster there.
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Despite Fukushima and Chernobyl Has World Learned Nothing? | Common Dreams: http://bit.ly/ItSTY6 #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
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#FUKUSHIMA: JPN – TEPCO is going to continue make their 16 employes work at Fukushima Daiichi! http://t.co/D2mvtiJ5 #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
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The Living Planet Fukushima Mutations? 3rd Plant Species With Mutations Found In 3rd Michigan Location: It's not… http://bit.ly/IsivBk #genpatsu #BBC #PBS @maddow #LAW #HumanRight
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Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in Finland (first in world): via @youtube Look at that sucker!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhjf4fv1GhA&feature=plcp
Grant each and every Nuke Liar long enough life to be lynched, tried and lynched again when #fukushima truth happens.
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Recent Tweetes ~ Radioactive Japan: 14,210 Bq/Kg Of Cesium Next To Chiba Schools: http://tinyurl.com/c39xc3v”
A Delta passenger jet has been quarantined at Chicago; CDC on the scene – http://bit.ly/ITSRb2”
University of #Texas to get #fluoride-free water fountains http://on.esne.ws/Iu8arO
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One doesn't get the eeee sound if spelled correctly.
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Well, CB,…two out of three are GREAT news! I'll take those odds my friend!
Thanks!
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Your welcome StillJill!, I don't think I should start anything new so I'll limit my postings. Twitter is awesome. xdrfox stated a concern for safety however.
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Whoopie,…are you sure twice is enough?
(Lynching).
Can 'we' tar and feather 'em first?
Heat it up, boys!
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Greetings to all
I had to take a break for some other deadlines, but am back.
Today I saw this max keiser article and it sacred the hell out of me.
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-is-falling-apart-are-you-ready-for-a-mass-extinction-event/
Could someone please tell me if the risk has in fact elevated, or is max just catching people up?
Thanks so much, back to other deadlines go I,
openeye
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openeye!
Have missed you!!!!!
Here is the same report,…only spoken in the COOL 'anonymous' voice!
Is it for real? You betcha,….like it says,…every fact stated here is verifiable by any ape,….O.K., I added the ape part!
Love you friend!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sNeRxpYCkHs
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Chernobyl in Fukushima’s shadow – nuclear energy today and in the future
Twenty-six years has passed since the Chernobyl catastrophe. And although Fukushima has somewhat eclipsed Chernobyl, the memory of the late Soviet period disaster remains a living memory to many people, especially specialists among whom, as before, there is no consensus on the present and future of nuclear energy.Aleksandr Nikitin, 26/04-2012 – Translated by Charles Digges
Today, there is great distrust of the safety of nuclear power plants has is seen worldwide. First Chernobyl then Fukushima forced a whole array of countries to reassess their attitude toward nuclear power. There have been no new nuclear plants built in the United States over the past 26 years. Now Germany, Switzerland, and Belgium will be shuttering their reactors …
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/nikitin_chernobylfukushima
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10:12 PM EST on April 21st, 2012
Explosion at Japan chemical complex, still burning — 3,379 containers of nuclear waste onsite — Reports of depleted uranium — Gov’t says no release of toxic material (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream Map. Japan is at 8:45am/pm on this map, you can select going back 4 days for the animation loop.
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html
Jet Stream 180hr. forecast. http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=glob_250
Notice from April 1st on. Notice anything across the country?
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/12/realtime-epa-radnet-japan-nuclear-radiation-monitoring-every-us-city-single-page-16511/
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Still burning??? Sigh…Did they ever definitively say what caused it? Was it really a fluke lightening strike, or was someone playing with their EMF toys?
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GOES West 1-km Water Vapor Weather Satellite Images
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeswestpacuswv.html
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NW US ALERT! Is this really the best place?
Hanford May Be High-Level Nuclear Waste Storage Site
Heart of America Northwest, says a US Senate bill moved today could lead to trucks of radioactive waste on NW roads.
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april242012/hanford-waste.php
Nuclear reigns king
Life becomes servitude
Wherever Nuclear steps
Life's will is lost
GE – Genetic Engineers
We bring mutations to life…
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Thanks for this info, Jebus. It is disturbing to think our Senators are eyeing Hanford as the nation's dump for highly radioactive nuclear waste. Given the fact that the immense waste already there, leftover from the Manhattan Project days, will take 1,000s of years to clean up, and is in groundwater heading towards the Columbia River, a huge water and fish resource for so many people, it is unbelievable that they want to try and dump EVEN MORE deadly waste at Hanford. What are they thinking?
And get this? Trucking the stuff through cities like Spokane and Portland will cause an estimated additional 800 adult cancers (per year?) What about children's cancers???
"The federal Energy Department’s own draft impact statement (GNEP EIS) calculated that trucking the wastes would cause over 800 fatal cancers in adults along the truck routes.
"The truck routes to Hanford include through downtown Portland and Spokane. Radiation from the spent nuclear fuel is so high that the casks on trucks can not entirely keep the radiation level in without making the casks too heavy to truck.
"USDOE has two pending proposals for a total of approximately 30,000 truckloads of radioactive waste to come to Hanford for burial in two proposed landfills, including 12,000 truckloads of extremely radioactive (GTCC) wastes which are as hot as or hotter than Spent Nuclear Fuel and are mixed with hazardous chemical wastes. The Impact Statement on shipping GTCC waste to Hanford is not due…
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(continued):
"… The Impact Statement on shipping GTCC waste to Hanford is not due out until after the Presidential election…"
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The extremly hot, toxic nuclear waste at Hanford, has been heading towards the beautiful Columbia River for over 30 years. The waste dump is less than a quarter of a mile away from the river.
I have lived in the PNW all my life and have been hearing this since high school. I am 53 may 3rd.
Do you think it has made it there yet?
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Safe as Mothers Milk – The Hanford Project
FROM WORLD WAR II UNTIL THE EARLY 1970s, the Columbia River downstream from Hanford "held the distinction of being the most radioactive river in the United States." [1] The cold and abundant waters of the Columbia River made the Hanford site an ideal location. Approximately 1,200 miles long, the Columbia is the largest North American river flowing into the Pacific Ocean. With its magnificent native salmon runs and seemingly endless flow of pure water, the big river represents the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest for many of the region's inhabitants, especially Native Americans.
http://www.hanfordproject.com/columbia.html
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Radionuclides in the Columbia River
For more than 40 years, the U.S. government produced plutonium for nuclear weapons at the Hanford Site in south central Washington state. During that time, Hanford released radioactive elements and other materials into the Columbia River. (See map below.) From World War II until the early 1970s, the Columbia River downstream from Hanford "held the distinction of being the most radioactive river in the United States."1 Many people now wonder what the potential health effects might be from exposure to these materials. There is also concern about the effects of these releases on the fish population and whether eating contaminated fish increased the risk of adverse health effects in humans.
http://doh.wa.gov/ehp/hanford/publications/overview/columbia.html
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A whole library could be devoted to the information published about how the Columbia River has been used as a dumping groung by the M.I.C. and the Nuclear Industry.
We have been so screwed for so long that we are numb to the assaults upon our childrens future.
I am ready to fight!
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That's the spirit, Jebus!
Are you a member of Heart of the Northwest? I am thinking of attending one of their upcoming workshops, to be held 30 minutes prior to the public sessions on the proposed bill to use Hanford as the nation's nuclear dumping ground.
Perhaps I'll see you there? Be sure to wear your enenews.com t-shirt.
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This would explain the unusual high number of cancers in Washington state area a poster here last week was saying about his family members over the last 30 years or so,…
if you are here please post so we cam re-find your post !
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Hi Jebus. As the articles you posted discussed, Hanford (and its 9 previously-operating reactors!) regularly released radiation into the river all those years. Now we all know that radioactive isotopes like plutonium will remain radioactive for generations to come. It's not likely the DOE or their clean up contractors were able to clean much of that stuff up from the Columbia River. Ya think?
So even if the estimates I read of the radioactive groundwater reaching the Columbia within 7-14 years is correct, surely there is already enough of the deadly stuff in the water to have a harmful effect on one's health?
My other concern is how the "Green Run", the purposeful release of radiation into the surrounding air for a period of 2 years during the Cold War, affected crops and the watershed in Eastern WA. Given much of WA agriculture is grown in E. WA, and the fact that the Cascades captured a lot of the Fuku fallout too, I can't help but wonder what the real impact both of these combined have been on our food and water supply.
After moving to Seattle two years ago, I was shocked to hear so many stories about children (and some adults) in the area with brain tumors. I had never heard about so many kids with brain tumors before.
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(Continued from above):
…And after hearing about the woman at the Irvine City council meeting this week, talking about all the brain cancers in her neighborhood near San Onofre in S. CA, it seems likely that radiation exposure may be what is causing the children's brain tumors (which are usually RARE in children.)
Is it in the food? The water? Perhaps all the attention on testing of food and air for radiation by citizens in this post-Fuku world will help us get closer to the facts and help us understand why these children are getting brain tumors?
One can hope.
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Eastern Washington is a huge potato-growing region, along with Idaho. You've gotta figure that between Hanford and Fuku, that this staple of the American diet must be contaminated with radiation.
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From what I remember MacDonald's gets ALL it potatoes from there also !
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And the were the best tasting !
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I picked up some frozen fries, the label said they were from Prince Edward Island, Canada… I didn't get metal mouth from it. The stores around here carry sacks of potatoes from Quebec. These are probably not near as bad as the Idaho/Washington variety.
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My oldest sister died from twice operated on brain cancer at the age of 48.
My mother died from mestastic brain cancer at the age of 64 two years ago…
This brings back a flood and I am out of here for t'nite.
Hug the ones you love, for that is what you have.
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I am so sorry, Jebus. I can't imagine what you and your mother and sister went through.
Ok, peace and hugs to you. Would love to continue the conversation another day, if you'd like.
Good night.
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Protesters escorted from GE annual meeting
DETROIT – About two dozen protesters chanting "Pay your fair share!" were escorted out of General Electric's annual meeting Wednesday at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center.
GE CEO Jeff Immelt had no sooner opened the meeting with several hundred shareholders in attendance when protesters stood up and began chanting. Immelt delayed the start of the meeting for several minutes while security guards led the protesters out. The protesters continued to chant from outside the ballroom.
The chant referred to reports that GE paid no corporate income taxes in some years due to various tax breaks.
Once the protesters had been removed, Immelt resumed the meeting. He told the audience, "We're happy we brought jobs here. … We are proud to be in Detroit this morning."
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/04/25/2496053/protesters-escorted-from-ge-annual.html
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Chernobyl in Fukushima’s shadow – nuclear energy today and in the future
Twenty-six years has passed since the Chernobyl catastrophe. And although Fukushima has somewhat eclipsed Chernobyl, the memory of the late Soviet period disaster remains a living memory to many people, especially specialists among whom, as before, there is no consensus on the present and future of nuclear energy.
Chernobyl and Fukushima both showed it is practically impossible to anticipate or predict what will cause an accident, and that it is impossible to construct some algorithm of activity that would avert or localize a catastrophe. Therefore it is not nearly as important what causes an accident at a nuclear power plant as it is what the consequences are that result. We must consider that catastrophes at nuclear power plants have an effect on coming generations. Today, we lack both the knowledge and the experience to deny that.
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/nikitin_chernobylfukushima
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UPDATED: Virginia study makes economic case for renewable energy
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Pursuing a portfolio of renewable power sources such as solar, biomass and wind power to satisfy Virginia's energy appetite through 2035 would create tens of thousands more jobs than relying on either coal or natural gas, a George Mason University study concludes.
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/apr/25/2/virginia-study-makes-economic-case-renewable-energ-ar-1868161/
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Newest Fukushima Online Reader Update:
Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
ONLINE READER, by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
<http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870>
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Wasn't this thread supposed to expire two days ago?
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Are you in the UK? Here's a form you can fill out expressing your Views on Nuclear:
Risk and safety assessments of nuclear power plants (EU stress tests) as a follow-up to the Fukushima accident http://pfeust.jrc.ec.europa.eu/public-feedback
Plus (both from f311wd's)
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
HIROSHIMA, CHERNOBYL, FUKUSHIMA: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY http://moritagen.blogspot.jp/2012/04/blog-post.html
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Hi Still Jill, and deep thanks for the welcome and love–right back to you.
It turns out that story was picked up here and there and yet not credited to its actual author: http://endthelie.com/2012/04/21/fukushima-is-falling-apart-are-you-ready/Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?
By Christina Consolo Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of Nuked Radio
She offers this resource: "For more info including mitigation for radiation exposure, please visit FukushimaFacts.com "
You are right–it's not that the risk isn't elevating every day, but that more and more people are starting to specify the enormity. For example, Consolo tells us that one rod alone can kill over 1 billion people.
How is your health doing?
I wish we could levitate to South America. A person would need a personal army to drive through Mexico et al safely.
So many of us are without the resources to move to safer ground, or even to buy all the antidotes Dr. Sircus and others suggest.
So, for me, it's time to "work out my salvation" and simultaneously help others in any way God may want to use me.
All we have now is love–the love of those of us who still have humanity. May God help us all, take those who suffer into His loving care, and bring good out of evil.
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ABSOLUTELY openeye! Sooth all of the 'little ones',…big and small, the "Captive Royalty", I call them. Traveling alone is not smart, unfortunately, I agree!!!
It will take help from whatever Higher Power each one of us has,….and the power of that chosen god, or God.
May we all choose wisely–AMEN.
So 'warm and fuzzy' having you back with us (me)!
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Expert's report outlines cover-ups of radiation leaks
PITTSBURGH – An expert's report on shuttered nuclear fuels plants in Armstrong County, Pa., provides new detail on allegations that operators Babcock & Wilcox Co. and Atlantic Richfield knew about worst-in-the-nation releases of radioactive materials that spanned decades, but opted not to do enough to protect neighbors from cancer-causing dust…
Ring found "numerous large-scale releases of ionizing radiation into the neighboring environment" during the operating lives of the plants, which spanned 1958 through 1984, adding up to "the largest quantity … of any nuclear facility in the United States."
The effects continue to bedevil the Armstrong County communities.
"A lot of people have lost not only their entire savings but their homes," due to the health effects and loss of property value caused by the plants, said Patricia Ameno, who sued the companies in a previous round of litigation. "Their families have been torn apart by illnesses and deaths."
Ring wrote that the trouble began with the construction of the Apollo plant, which opened in 1958 as a research facility for uranium enrichment and became a production facility for uranium fuel…
Coupled with the fact that it "should never have been located in a residential neighborhood," he wrote, the design flaws resulted in dramatic radiation exposure.
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/68899
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Correction: the article says a single MOX rod can kill 2.89 billion, not 1 billion. Guess the shock addled my memory.
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-is-falling-apart-are-you-ready-for-a-mass-extinction-event/
(Original author given in the last post–Max Keiser is NOT the author. Plus I found his website to have some weird stuff,e.g., holocaust denial and Benjamin Fulford White Dragon claims.
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Here's a GOODIE,….openeye,…it made me think of you.
I watched this right after hearing 'anonymous', yesterday!
http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=5BDF2BC01C51C5EFA3B9694E89EA1543
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General Electric Stockholders Seek Freeze on 23 U.S. Fukushima-Design Reactors
The General Electric Stockholders' Alliance, in coalition with Beyond Nuclear and Don't Waste Michigan, sent out a media release after its presentation of an anti-nuclear power shareholder resolution at GE's Annual Meeting in Detroit, Michigan on the eve of the 26th annual commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe.
Media Release: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/storage/Final%20Draft%20GESA%204%2026%202012.pdf
"GE Chairman,Jeffrey Immelt,closed the GE Stockholders Annual Meeting by denying any liability."
enoughalready45 says: No liability, huh, okay let's all boycott GE!
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