SHHH! We don't want to let them know that we can see that shit from space…
They'll start asking questions, like, where the hell is the Xenon data from Fukushima…
Oh okay, right, so we'll pull that story then…
Nature pulls ‘North Korean radioactivity’ story
Prestigious science journal Nature has had to scramble to kill a story that it says turned out to be mistaken.
Headline: Government-backed researcher plays down health effects of Fukushima
"A Japanese government-backed researcher has been quick to play down dangerous health effects from radiation released by the Fukushima nuclear plant in a statement released on Friday. The conclusion made by Kazuo Sakai of Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences is the latest coming from authorities seeking to downplay fears over the long-term effects of the disaster, especially in the people living nearby.
“Since the accident in Fukushima, no health effects from radiation have been observed, although we have heard reports some people fell ill due to stress from living as evacuees and due to worries and fears about radiation,” Sakai said. The researcher also declared that the said radiation is not at a “level where we have to worry about its health effect” for people living in and near Fukushima, taking into account normal day-to-day environmental exposure and ingestion from food."
Shunichi Yamashita (aka Dr. Smiley) is stepping down from his post in March:
"After two turbulent years on the job, the head of Fukushima prefecture's massive survey to understand the health effects of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accident is stepping down. Shunichi Yamashita, a radiation health expert from Nagasaki University, told Nature by e-mail that he will leave his post at the end of March."
"Even as the Japanese government evacuated many areas in Fukushima, Yamashita insisted that radiation levels presented little risk, creating confusion."
"He also made public gaffes, including telling Fukushima residents to smile and be happy, says Azby Brown, a member of Safecast, a Tokyo-based non-profit organization that monitors radiation in Fukushima prefecture. "He was seen as being flippant and dismissive," Brown says"
GAO: SC First MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant Will Cost $2B More
"…Confirmation of a stunning $2-billion cost increase of the MOX plant construction spells big trouble for the project," Clements said. "There has been nothing short of a cover-up by NNSA of the huge cost increase, so GAO has done a public good by doing what NNSA adamantly has refused to do…." http://beforeitsnews.com/japan-earthquake/2013/02/gao-sc-first-mox-fuel-fabrication-plant-will-cost-2b-more-2441016.html
Thanks to xdrfox.
5-year prison sentence for perpetrator of bomb plot hoax involving Entergy's Palisades atomic reactor
From the website of Beyond Nuclear the last paragraph of their article ….
Palisades has experienced a number of real security breaches over the past decade, however. It has been cited by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for security violations. Esquire Magazine broke the story in May, 2007 that Palisades' security chief was a fraud, unqualified for his position, although able to convince local, state, and federal officials that his nuclear security approach should be implemented as a model nationwide. And on the first anniversary of 9/11 attacks, the New York Times reported that an armed Palisades security guard had suffered a nervous breakdown on the job, due to being forced to work 72 hours per week, for months on end; additionally, three suspicious cars had penetrated deep into Palisades' property, but got away because Palisades' security had phoned the wrong local law enforcement agency for response.
Group wants Fukushima plant preserved for Chernobyl-style tourism
Seven young intellectuals are seeking support for their proposal to preserve the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a tourist site carrying a cautionary message for future generations.
Yes, I can see it…'Kids! – put on your suits and respirators, for we are now going down the tower of doom roller coaster through the heart of the beast. It will be FUN!… ooohh… danger!'
What a freakin joke.
** In 1957, a nuclear waste storage tank accident released radiation double the amount released by the Chernobyl accident. This accident was kept secret and 10,700 people were evacuated. The severe environmental contamination of this region led to dramatic increases in cancer rates, birth defects, and sterility. Over the past 33 years, there has been a 21% increase in the incidences of cancer, 25% increase in birth defects and 50% of the population of child bearing age are sterile.”
“50% of the population of child bearing age are sterile”
That’s really something. That’s 1,800,000 (one million, eight hundred thousand) people! How terrifying! No wonder it was hushed up for all those years.
I’d never even HEARD of the place until that meteor drew it to my attention last week.
Fukushima survivors to sue Japan government
Feb 9, 2013
“People whose homes or farms were hit by radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will file class-action lawsuits next month to seek damages from the Japanese government, lawyers said Friday.
“At least 350 residents are to file a case with Fukushima District Court on March 11, the second anniversary of the disaster, the lawyers said, describing it as the largest class-action on the issue against the state.
“The plaintiffs, who are also scheduled to sue plant operator Tokyo Electric Power, plan to seek 50,000 yen ($535) in compensation for every month they have been displaced by the disaster.
“They also intend to ask the court to issue an order forcing both the government and TEPCO to reduce radiation levels in the area to those of before the accident….” http://ph.news.yahoo.com/fukushima-survivors-sue-japan-government-184927856.html
“In later years, Einstein came to regret some of the ramifications of his annus mirabilis work. Despite his quantum mechanical explanation for the photoelectric effect, he remained forever uncomfortable with quantum theory. He disliked the way people would confuse his concept of physical relativity with philosophical relativism. And of course he came to despise the atomic bombs that were the best-known manifestations of his mass-energy equivalence….” http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/einsteins-annus-mirabilis
**Hanford's tanks hold some 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste — enough to fill dozens of Olympic-size swimming pools — and many of those tanks are known to have leaked in the past. An estimated 1 million gallons of radioactive liquid already leaked there.
The tanks also are long past their intended 20-year life span — raising concerns that even more tanks could be leaking — though they were believed to have been stabilized in 2005.**
"Iran announces uranium discovery, plans to build 16 new nuclear power plants"
"… It did not specify the exact locations but said they included coastal areas of the Gulf, Sea of Oman, Khuzestan province and in coastal areas of the Caspian Sea."
The info I had indicated that the uranium was one of the reasons that the Israel & the US wanted to go to war with Iran. This then makes sense about the timing of this report…just before scheduled talks.
I understand that the US has only a few years supply left of its own uranium.
Iran selects 16 new sites for nuclear plants
Locations chosen in part for their resistance to military airstrikes; state TV reports new uranium reserves discovered By AP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF February 23, 2013, 12:47 pm
I'm less than a whiz at cyber-stuff because I held out & stayed old skool preferring CB/Ham Radio communications & the challenges involved with making contact with people near & far with an emphasis on the latter which caused me to reject computer technology that evolved from the Amateur Radio Service/hobby,but took away a lot of would-be newcomers from the radio hobby along with the challenges involved with having conversations about just about anything with the other radio hobby enthusiasts conditions & equipment used would allow. I still resisted even as my peers were integrating their amateur radio stations with PC's which has advanced faster than I've kept up with although I'm gaining ground & making up lost time of late so I can apply the useful resources provided via integrated Ham/PC station maintain communications with and monitor ongoing developments when TSHTF,and it will.I wrestled with my fairly new triple-core,Windows 7 laptop when the thing acted up and I lost internet & a-v/firewall software lost function until I'd manually reset the date/time and rebooted the pc & the modem a couple times before it got straightened out!(??) So I notice a cartoon depicting an animated clock w/ arms & legs fighting animated Mozilla,Google chrome,MSN I.Explorer & comments suggesting it was a GLOBAL "glitch"??!! So how did this event/issue affect nuclear facilities?!! I'd bet it exposed yet another weak link in the fatally-flawed nuke infrastructure to hide from us!(?)…
Please anyone that can help. I am looking for the name of the organization giving free treatment to the children effected by radiation in Japan. I have searched for the article and cannot get a good match to any of my keyword combinations. Does anyone remember offhand?
And also I am looking for a point of contact for any organization assisting service members who were on the USS Ronald Regan and their families. I am up against a bit of a deadline so if you would like to see them get some tangible support, please help by pointing me in the right direction.
Aftershock, ChasAha, anyone? Do you remember the name for organization providing radiation relief for Japanese children. If I can get the name I may be able to get some funding. Clock is ticking.
Thanks Aftershock, Actually I just found it in one of my own Jan posts ironically. That is probably why it was bugging me was I knew I had seen it, I wrote it.
For anyone interested:
"Kumi no Sato, located about 100 kilometers west of Naha, was set up by nonprofit organization Okinawa Kumi no Sato in the aftermath of the nuclear crisis as part of efforts to help maintain the health of disaster-afflicted children in Fukushima."
@16Penny: when you get your ducks in a row, it may be helpful to contact Doctor Caldicott's group and run it past them. It's likely they'll be able to lend much support, to your effort…
I will see what I can figure out. I am kind of down to the wire as any proposal I put together will be presented tomorrow. I guess I will see how fast Dr. Caldicott's group can respond! I know at least I can get some funding for the children's relief. Again, thanks for the advice and I welcome any other suggestions.
For the person who was looking for the video showing the rock that would kill you with radiation if you accidentaly sat on it…. I AM SURE it was in a documentary on this place : Chelyabinsk
Pardon me for ROFL. The U.S. taxpayers funded this research which was done under a government grant yet denies they have any certainty of its validity whatsoever. They admit they have no responsibility beyond providing the money.
Did you know that is how your tax dollars are spent? The U.S. government is that irresponsible? Delete Sandia labs from any more government funding.
@NoPrevarication.. No pardon needed, rolling on the floor laughing is excellent therapy for what we are having to sift through.. yep, I know. Lots and Lots of Japan-US workshops funded by the DOE, who's budget is 85% for Nuke. So US tax dollars working for industry and only industry and leaving the citizens to fend for themselves.. through all the bastards out, make nuclear power illegal! All of these Labs and Universities are conspiring against the human race, only they occur too dumb to realize it, and these are our supposed "best and brightest"???? Winning as Charlie would say eh?
Symantec discovers 2005 US computer virus attack on Iran nuclear plants
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Researchers at the security company Symantec have discovered an early version of the "Stuxnet" computer virus that was used to attack nuclear reprocessing plants in Iran, in what they say is a "missing link" dating back to 2005.
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Once again I am sickened by greed. #Fukushima Prefectural Officials Want Children to Come to Fukushima on School Trips, Promise "Charm and Safety" and "Heart-Throbbing Experience"
Heart-throbbing experience in Fukushima!! We gotta do it! Educational trips to Fukushima Prefecture
Hi occiferdave – at which venue/town do you want the ticket purchased, or does it matter?
Let me know…I'll buy a ticket. Also, make sure to email RadChick and Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear Hotseat and ask them to post this a.s.a.p.
How about everyone else here?
> Portland needs 32 more tickets purchased or they can't show the movie.
> Seattle needs 43 more tickets purchased.
> San Francisco needs 36 more tickets purchased.
> Los Angeles needs 21
> New York needs 24
> Chicago needs 41
> San Diego needs 22
Come on folks! Let's help make this happen. Let's do some good outside of Enenews. Tickets are $10. Chip in and buy a ticket even if you can't go.
U.N. panel: Thyroid radiation doses in Fukushima infants within safe limits.
U.N. panel: Supporting Japanese children's E tickets to hell.
FUKUSHIMA–Thyroid gland doses of internal radiation in year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are well within safety limits, according to a United Nations committee.
Cat's now bark and dog's walk backwards, UN say's "more li…err…news in five years"
Post-Fukushima, Arguments for Nuclear Safety Bog Down
"… Ever since the nuclear accident in Japan released radiation into the atmosphere, regulators in the United States have been studying whether to require filters, costing as much as $45 million, on the vents of each of the country’s 31 boiling water reactors.
The filters, which have been recommended by the staff of the regulatory commission, are supposed to prevent radioactive particles from escaping into the atmosphere. They are required in Japan and much of Europe, but the American utilities say they are unnecessary and expensive.
The industry has held private meetings with commissioners and their staffs … and helped line up letters of support from dozens of members of Congress, many of whom received industry campaign contributions.
… Congress has since gotten involved. Over the last month, 55 lawmakers have signed letters, some pushed by industry lobbyists, that urge commissioners to reject the filters.
“It’s not the time to be rash with hasty new rules,” wrote Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the Senate committee that oversees the industry, in a letter signed by six other senators. (Twelve senators — 11 Democrats and an independent — signed a letter supporting filtered vents.)
"… Representative John Barrow, Democrat of Georgia, in a letter signed by 25 other House Democrats, argued that the filtered vent “is not justified on a cost-benefit basis,” a fact the commission staff acknowledges….
Many of these lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, have received significant campaign contributions from the industry. For instance, Mr. Barrow’s top contributor in the 2012 election was the Southern Company, a Georgia-based utility that is a major player in nuclear power. Some of the lawmakers also have nuclear reactors in their districts, a major source of tax revenue and jobs.
…E-mails… also demonstrate the teamlike approach taken by the industry and the regulators in dealing with safety questions, as they have worked behind the scenes with the Nuclear Energy Institute, the leading trade association, to try to prevent a reaction against nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident.
The filtered vent proposal, by far the most expensive, would be required only on boiling water reactors like Nine Mile Point…
But how well the filters work is unclear because the vents to which they would be attached have never been used successfully in an accident at a modern commercial reactor…. The vents failed at Fukushima, which would have rendered filters moot….
Four things you should know about the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Laura Kenyon, Greenpeace International – February 28, 2013
“…4. Two of the Fukushima reactor makers: Toshiba and Hitachi, are now making money from the disaster clean up process.
“Toshiba and Hitachi are, in effect, being paid to clean up their own nuclear mess. That’s right, these companies have now made money from Fukushima twice, first from building and maintaining reactors, and then again for cleaning up after those reactors failed. What an interesting business model.
“How do these companies get away with this?
“They are protected by dusty, old nuclear liability laws established in the 1950s, which place the burden of paying for nuclear disasters on the operators of nuclear power plants (in this case TEPCO), while companies that design or supply nuclear reactors are protected from paying, no matter what the circumstances of their involvement. After Fukushima TEPCO could not afford the cost of the nuclear disaster and was nationalised, shifting the majority of the costs onto the government, and therefore the Japanese public. This is the situation in Japan and nuclear liability laws are the same in almost all other countries.
“When nuclear companies are not liable for the huge costs of nuclear risk, what incentive is there for them to avoid it? None.
[cont.]
“This unjust situation can change. India created a strong nuclear liability law in 2010, which can hold nuclear supplier companies liable for the damages of a nuclear disaster. Last week the CEO of General Electric was quoted admitting that as long as this law is in place General Electric will stay out of the nuclear business in India. When they are forced to admit it, most nuclear companies will come to the same conclusion – the cost of nuclear risk is far too high.
BREAKING NEWS..Highest radiation detected in fish at TEPCO port
Radioactive cesium far beyond Japan's safety limit has been detected in a fish caught near the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant says the rock trout contained 510,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.
That's the highest ever detected in fish and about 5,100 times the government safety limit.
The utility caught the fish on February 17th in a net put up around its own port at the plant.
TEPCO installed the net about a week before to contain contaminated marine life after detecting high levels of cesium in fish and shellfish caught in the port.
A fish caught in December at the same port contained 254,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.
The new record is about twice that amount.
TEPCO says it will step up efforts to keep fish within the port and exterminate them.
Feb. 28, 2013 – Updated 09:51 UTC (18:51 JST)
SP: What a word…"exterminate" the poor fish. Also no mention of strontium-90 or other nuclear toxins that are surely accompanying the cesium. This kind of report coming on the eve of the two year anniversary of the accident proves there has been little improvement in stopping emissions from the crippled complex.
Water and steam emissions from three buried nuclear coriums is still out of control. Japan is in big trouble and things aren't improving. The nucleocrats never had any solutions for a castastrophe like Fukushima Daiichi.
A nuclear disaster can happen to any of the nuclear plants in the world…who will be the next victim? Chernobyl Unit 4 caused the breakup of the USSR. Fukushima Daiichi Units 1-6 will do the same to Japan. In another three years there will be massive upheaval in Japan and the fallout will not just be nuclear isotopes.
"TEPCO fails to submit dose data on 21,000 Fukushima plant workers
"It remains unclear whether the utilities, or layers of contractors involved in the nuclear power industry, are responsible for managing workers’ dose data and protecting their safety.
The government is not directly responsible, although the science ministry, the health ministry, the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s secretariat and other branches are involved."
"After the disaster, records were initially kept on paper, and it took time to convert them into electronic form."
Last night I was reading an article in National Geographic from 2006 regarding Chernobyl at 20 years and the future of Nuclear Power.
IMO – NG is a shill for the Nuclear Industry. However, they are read by a large number of people.
While reading the article and looking at the photos I couldn't help but think of the large number of 'liquidators' who lost their lives.
Then, I thought, how can Fukushima (3 meltdowns etc…) not of caused more liquidator-like fatalities?
It just seems impossible to me.
I watch the web cam periodically and I know I see heavily suited people on top of Unit 4. (almost daily) They are there for longer than 15 minutes at a time. Those still working in areas of Chernobyl can only be suited and remain exposed for up to 15 minutes at a time.
So, why is Fukushima different? …or is it?
I know this is complete 'speculation', but I get a real gut feeling there are many dead and dying.
If the WHO would spew the rhetoric, as released in articles we've seen today, about the consequences of Fukushima, which is criminal in my opinion, then what's going to stop them from covering up the deaths of Fukushima's Liquidators?
Never in my life, have I read any more ignorant, self serving, repetitious, immature, and blatant lies, than from the mouthpiece for atoms.
This guy makes a burnt out light bulb seem bright…
Tweet that!
Fission Fast! New Slogan for Nuclear Energy Revolution
Posted February 27, 2013 by rod adams
If you are going to have an irradiated populace, then you need better radiation tools. Or is it hype for the flock?
Levels Of Certain Small Molecules In The Blood Altered By Radiation Exposure, Offering A Possible Measure Of Damage To The Body
If verified in human subjects, the findings could lead to new methods for rapidly identifying people at risk for acute radiation syndrome after occupational exposures or accidents such as the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor incident. The microRNA markers might also help doctors plan radiation therapy for individual patients by taking into account how different people respond to radiation treatment, the researchers say.
nuclear is a nuclear bomb
nuclear power is a dirty bomb
sorry rod
fission faust is just gonna bomb
Group gives ‘Golden Fleece’ award to DOE
doh!
The new and smaller nuclear plant design being pursued by the Tennessee Valley Authority was denounced by a taxpayer advocacy group Wednesday as a wasteful, government subsidy for a technology that remains in question.
Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded its “Golden Fleece Award” to the U.S. Department of Energy for paying more than $500 million to private companies to develop small modular reactors. Babcock & Wilcox and Bechtel Corp. are developing the new mPower reactors, which can largely be built in a factory and then assembled and located underground to cut their costs and improve their safety. TVA has agreed to locate up to four of the new units on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, if the new design is approved.
Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, said the federal government has already spent billions of dollars subsidizing nuclear energy, including similar smaller reactors that power U.S. Navy submarines.
“We cannot afford to pile more market-distorting subsidies to profitable companies on top of billions of dollars we already gave away,” Alexander said in a report released Wednesday.
The last remaining Manhattan Project facility still located in Manhattan was officially transformed into a modern new laboratory Wednesday — part of an ongoing commitment to keep Americans safe from radiological threats
The Radiological Emergency Management System is a gamma radiation detection network that monitors radiation levels throughout the city.
Already fully deployed, it provides a single picture of the radiological threat for emergency managers within moments of an incident.
Immediate knowledge of radiation levels is important because emergency management officials can then deploy resources effectively
This sort of information is essential to provide correct advice on whether the public should shelter in place or evacuate. When used with meteorological data and plume modeling, REMS can predict the path of radioactive plumes and provide early warnings to areas that will become affected.
Well there's a complete waste of money for a start, but my favourite line:
'Kitty litter' they explained, accounts for about 30 percent of radiological hits.
Much more info in this article but this is worth quoting:
"In September 2012, we sent another sample of our milk to the same lab that had previously tested for and detected the Strontium 90. We received a call from the lab telling us that they had had an “explosion” because of the processing – get this – of our milk samples. They would no longer test our milk for Strontium 90."
"Could it be that the Canadian government’s involvement in the mining, processing and selling of uranium to other countries, its selling of nuclear technology to the world as well as its profiting from Canada’s own nuclear power plants and nuclear research reactors, makes it not want to draw attention to the dangers of radioactivity?"
"The national anthem of Canada, “O Canada,” has lyrics that include “With glowing hearts.” Those lyrics can be taken literally in this Land of Milk and Strontium 90."
FINLAND: Reactor being built is years behind schedule
FRANCE: Reactor being built is years behind schedule
JORDAN, VIETNAM, ARGENTINA and TURKEY: Looking to build nuclear power plants
SAUDI ARABIA, POLAND, SOUTH AFRICA: Areva hopes to sell nuclear power plants there http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-areva-results-idUSBRE91R1DY20130228
So what kind of money do they spend on worker safety? We know they have bought some tungsten vests. But how many of these Rad Vests can they afford at $7320 each (lots above 50):
Photos from the World’s First Underwater Nuclear Explosion
"…There were many issues with cleaning up after the test, the life expectancy of people involved was reduced by an average of three months, and the test was later referred to as, “the world’s first nuclear disaster.” You can read up on the whole operation in detail on its Wikipedia article."
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SHHH! We don't want to let them know that we can see that shit from space…
They'll start asking questions, like, where the hell is the Xenon data from Fukushima…
Oh okay, right, so we'll pull that story then…
Nature pulls ‘North Korean radioactivity’ story
Prestigious science journal Nature has had to scramble to kill a story that it says turned out to be mistaken.
Really? Nature mistaken? I think too honest…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/nature_pulls_nuke_story/
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Headline: Government-backed researcher plays down health effects of Fukushima
"A Japanese government-backed researcher has been quick to play down dangerous health effects from radiation released by the Fukushima nuclear plant in a statement released on Friday. The conclusion made by Kazuo Sakai of Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences is the latest coming from authorities seeking to downplay fears over the long-term effects of the disaster, especially in the people living nearby.
“Since the accident in Fukushima, no health effects from radiation have been observed, although we have heard reports some people fell ill due to stress from living as evacuees and due to worries and fears about radiation,” Sakai said. The researcher also declared that the said radiation is not at a “level where we have to worry about its health effect” for people living in and near Fukushima, taking into account normal day-to-day environmental exposure and ingestion from food."
http://japandailypress.com/government-backed-researcher-plays-down-health-effects-of-fukushima-1823529
SP: The lies before the coming storm of massive health problems in Japan.
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Have you ever noticed that 'some' people who were pro-nuke advocates turn anti-nuke?
What does that say? I think it says a lot.
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Nuclear Whistle Blower Tell All & Cover-Up.
·YouTube user MsMilkytheclown1·
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHwDS84UN1Y
"…Gundersen and special guest David Lochbaum, the Director of Nuclear Safety for the Union of Concerned Scientists, compare experiences…"
"Pay off the whistle blower… the problem is never really addressed."
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Shunichi Yamashita (aka Dr. Smiley) is stepping down from his post in March:
"After two turbulent years on the job, the head of Fukushima prefecture's massive survey to understand the health effects of the 2011 Japanese nuclear accident is stepping down. Shunichi Yamashita, a radiation health expert from Nagasaki University, told Nature by e-mail that he will leave his post at the end of March."
"Even as the Japanese government evacuated many areas in Fukushima, Yamashita insisted that radiation levels presented little risk, creating confusion."
"He also made public gaffes, including telling Fukushima residents to smile and be happy, says Azby Brown, a member of Safecast, a Tokyo-based non-profit organization that monitors radiation in Fukushima prefecture. "He was seen as being flippant and dismissive," Brown says"
http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-health-survey-chief-to-quit-post-1.12463
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Fukushima Pacific Sea Radiation Contaminated Map 10YR Model
http://thegic.org/video/10-fukushima-pacificsea-radiation-contaminatedmap-in10ys
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GAO: SC First MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant Will Cost $2B More
"…Confirmation of a stunning $2-billion cost increase of the MOX plant construction spells big trouble for the project," Clements said. "There has been nothing short of a cover-up by NNSA of the huge cost increase, so GAO has done a public good by doing what NNSA adamantly has refused to do…."
http://beforeitsnews.com/japan-earthquake/2013/02/gao-sc-first-mox-fuel-fabrication-plant-will-cost-2b-more-2441016.html
Thanks to xdrfox.
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Michigan, South Haven (USA)
5-year prison sentence for perpetrator of bomb plot hoax involving Entergy's Palisades atomic reactor
From the website of Beyond Nuclear the last paragraph of their article ….
Palisades has experienced a number of real security breaches over the past decade, however. It has been cited by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for security violations. Esquire Magazine broke the story in May, 2007 that Palisades' security chief was a fraud, unqualified for his position, although able to convince local, state, and federal officials that his nuclear security approach should be implemented as a model nationwide. And on the first anniversary of 9/11 attacks, the New York Times reported that an armed Palisades security guard had suffered a nervous breakdown on the job, due to being forced to work 72 hours per week, for months on end; additionally, three suspicious cars had penetrated deep into Palisades' property, but got away because Palisades' security had phoned the wrong local law enforcement agency for response.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2013/2/20/5-year-prison-sentence-for-perpetrator-of-bomb-plot-hoax-inv.html
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Looks like Lady Denial is polishing the furniture…
Fukushima health-survey chief to quit post
Shunichi Yamashita led well-received study of nuclear accident's effects but was blamed for poor communication.
http://www.nature.com/news/fukushima-health-survey-chief-to-quit-post-1.12463
poor communication = lies
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what?
Group wants Fukushima plant preserved for Chernobyl-style tourism
Seven young intellectuals are seeking support for their proposal to preserve the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a tourist site carrying a cautionary message for future generations.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302210058
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Yes, I can see it…'Kids! – put on your suits and respirators, for we are now going down the tower of doom roller coaster through the heart of the beast. It will be FUN!… ooohh… danger!'
What a freakin joke.
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** In 1957, a nuclear waste storage tank accident released radiation double the amount released by the Chernobyl accident. This accident was kept secret and 10,700 people were evacuated. The severe environmental contamination of this region led to dramatic increases in cancer rates, birth defects, and sterility. Over the past 33 years, there has been a 21% increase in the incidences of cancer, 25% increase in birth defects and 50% of the population of child bearing age are sterile.”
http://www.wentz.net/radiate/cheyla/index.htm
“50% of the population of child bearing age are sterile”
That’s really something. That’s 1,800,000 (one million, eight hundred thousand) people! How terrifying! No wonder it was hushed up for all those years.
I’d never even HEARD of the place until that meteor drew it to my attention last week.
Salome.**
http://theyflyblog.com/billy-meier-warned-about-new-radiation-dangerstwo-years-ago/02/20/2013
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This was found in a comment on theflyblog.com
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Wife of Fukushima farmer who committed suicide to sue Tepco for damages
http://japandailypress.com/wife-of-fukushima-farmer-who-committed-suicide-to-sue-tepco-for-damages-2123832
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Fukushima survivors to sue Japan government
Feb 9, 2013
“People whose homes or farms were hit by radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant will file class-action lawsuits next month to seek damages from the Japanese government, lawyers said Friday.
“At least 350 residents are to file a case with Fukushima District Court on March 11, the second anniversary of the disaster, the lawyers said, describing it as the largest class-action on the issue against the state.
“The plaintiffs, who are also scheduled to sue plant operator Tokyo Electric Power, plan to seek 50,000 yen ($535) in compensation for every month they have been displaced by the disaster.
“They also intend to ask the court to issue an order forcing both the government and TEPCO to reduce radiation levels in the area to those of before the accident….”
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/fukushima-survivors-sue-japan-government-184927856.html
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"Japanese scientists develop robots to help Fukushima clean-up"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21538161
including a robotic "exoskeleton" to be worn by human beings … a 21st century version of Cherno's bio-robots?
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“In later years, Einstein came to regret some of the ramifications of his annus mirabilis work. Despite his quantum mechanical explanation for the photoelectric effect, he remained forever uncomfortable with quantum theory. He disliked the way people would confuse his concept of physical relativity with philosophical relativism. And of course he came to despise the atomic bombs that were the best-known manifestations of his mass-energy equivalence….”
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/einsteins-annus-mirabilis
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Don't know about Richard Wilcox, nor have time now to study his new Nukushima article, but here it is:
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/powerful-lies-fukushima-nuclear.html
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**Hanford's tanks hold some 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste — enough to fill dozens of Olympic-size swimming pools — and many of those tanks are known to have leaked in the past. An estimated 1 million gallons of radioactive liquid already leaked there.
The tanks also are long past their intended 20-year life span — raising concerns that even more tanks could be leaking — though they were believed to have been stabilized in 2005.**
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/hanford-nuclear-reservation_n_2744974.html
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Powerful Lies: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster And The Radioactive Effects On Human Health
Friday, February 22, 2013 5:51
http://beforeitsnews.com/japan-earthquake/2013/02/powerful-lies-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-and-the-radioactive-effects-on-human-health-2441072.html
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"Iran announces uranium discovery, plans to build 16 new nuclear power plants"
"… It did not specify the exact locations but said they included coastal areas of the Gulf, Sea of Oman, Khuzestan province and in coastal areas of the Caspian Sea."
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/iran-announces-uranium-discovery-plans-to-build-16-new-nuclear-power-plants-1.505268
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The info I had indicated that the uranium was one of the reasons that the Israel & the US wanted to go to war with Iran. This then makes sense about the timing of this report…just before scheduled talks.
I understand that the US has only a few years supply left of its own uranium.
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Big nuke arms industry's cash cow, follow the money.
The GOP is wrong to say Obama cut nuclear weapons budget
By Editorial Board,August 31, 2012
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-08-31/opinions/35490294_1_nuclear-weapons-nuclear-warheads-and-bombs-nuclear-stockpile
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Also this about how nuke warheads can degrade over time…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable_Replacement_Warhead
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Iran selects 16 new sites for nuclear plants
Locations chosen in part for their resistance to military airstrikes; state TV reports new uranium reserves discovered By AP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF February 23, 2013, 12:47 pm
http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-selects-16-new-sites-for-nuclear-plants/
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I'm less than a whiz at cyber-stuff because I held out & stayed old skool preferring CB/Ham Radio communications & the challenges involved with making contact with people near & far with an emphasis on the latter which caused me to reject computer technology that evolved from the Amateur Radio Service/hobby,but took away a lot of would-be newcomers from the radio hobby along with the challenges involved with having conversations about just about anything with the other radio hobby enthusiasts conditions & equipment used would allow. I still resisted even as my peers were integrating their amateur radio stations with PC's which has advanced faster than I've kept up with although I'm gaining ground & making up lost time of late so I can apply the useful resources provided via integrated Ham/PC station maintain communications with and monitor ongoing developments when TSHTF,and it will.I wrestled with my fairly new triple-core,Windows 7 laptop when the thing acted up and I lost internet & a-v/firewall software lost function until I'd manually reset the date/time and rebooted the pc & the modem a couple times before it got straightened out!(??) So I notice a cartoon depicting an animated clock w/ arms & legs fighting animated Mozilla,Google chrome,MSN I.Explorer & comments suggesting it was a GLOBAL "glitch"??!! So how did this event/issue affect nuclear facilities?!! I'd bet it exposed yet another weak link in the fatally-flawed nuke infrastructure to hide from us!(?)…
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Please anyone that can help. I am looking for the name of the organization giving free treatment to the children effected by radiation in Japan. I have searched for the article and cannot get a good match to any of my keyword combinations. Does anyone remember offhand?
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And also I am looking for a point of contact for any organization assisting service members who were on the USS Ronald Regan and their families. I am up against a bit of a deadline so if you would like to see them get some tangible support, please help by pointing me in the right direction.
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Aftershock, ChasAha, anyone? Do you remember the name for organization providing radiation relief for Japanese children. If I can get the name I may be able to get some funding. Clock is ticking.
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@16Penny: contact Doctor Caldicott's people at Nuclear Free Planet. They should know what active programs are relevant to your inquiry…
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/
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Thanks Aftershock, Actually I just found it in one of my own Jan posts ironically. That is probably why it was bugging me was I knew I had seen it, I wrote it.
For anyone interested:
"Kumi no Sato, located about 100 kilometers west of Naha, was set up by nonprofit organization Okinawa Kumi no Sato in the aftermath of the nuclear crisis as part of efforts to help maintain the health of disaster-afflicted children in Fukushima."
Source: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T130107003254.htm
Now to get these folks some more funding!
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@16Penny: when you get your ducks in a row, it may be helpful to contact Doctor Caldicott's group and run it past them. It's likely they'll be able to lend much support, to your effort…
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I will see what I can figure out. I am kind of down to the wire as any proposal I put together will be presented tomorrow. I guess I will see how fast Dr. Caldicott's group can respond! I know at least I can get some funding for the children's relief. Again, thanks for the advice and I welcome any other suggestions.
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Wet to the site and the first link on the left was to an appeal for funding.
http://www.nuclearfreeplanet.org/categories/fundraising-appeal.html
Blank sheet, knew it was too easy. Left a message.
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A Must Read… "The People's Voice
Obama's Clean, Green Fukushima Plumegate Machine"
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2013/02/24/obama-s-clean-green-fukushima-plumegate-#more23859
WOW!
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Good article
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For the person who was looking for the video showing the rock that would kill you with radiation if you accidentaly sat on it…. I AM SURE it was in a documentary on this place : Chelyabinsk
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'Photos from the World’s First Underwater Nuclear Explosion'
http://www.themysteryworld.com/2013/02/photos-from-worlds-first-underwater.html
Presented with no comment.
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Here is the recreation of the Fukushima accidents by our own beloved Sandia National Labs.. it downloads..
http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2012/126173.pdf
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@Cataclysmic
Pardon me for ROFL. The U.S. taxpayers funded this research which was done under a government grant yet denies they have any certainty of its validity whatsoever. They admit they have no responsibility beyond providing the money.
Did you know that is how your tax dollars are spent? The U.S. government is that irresponsible? Delete Sandia labs from any more government funding.
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@NoPrevarication.. No pardon needed, rolling on the floor laughing is excellent therapy for what we are having to sift through.. yep, I know. Lots and Lots of Japan-US workshops funded by the DOE, who's budget is 85% for Nuke. So US tax dollars working for industry and only industry and leaving the citizens to fend for themselves.. through all the bastards out, make nuclear power illegal!
All of these Labs and Universities are conspiring against the human race, only they occur too dumb to realize it, and these are our supposed "best and brightest"???? 
Winning as Charlie would say eh?
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ok throw them out too
get typing too fast for my brain to keep up!
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oh, want more of the same??? go here http://www.science.gov/scigov/result-list/fullRecord:fukushima/#ResultList=0%7C0%7C_%7CRANK%7C0
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Symantec discovers 2005 US computer virus attack on Iran nuclear plants
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Researchers at the security company Symantec have discovered an early version of the "Stuxnet" computer virus that was used to attack nuclear reprocessing plants in Iran, in what they say is a "missing link" dating back to 2005.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/26/symantec-us-computer-virus-iran-nuclear
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Once again I am sickened by greed. #Fukushima Prefectural Officials Want Children to Come to Fukushima on School Trips, Promise "Charm and Safety" and "Heart-Throbbing Experience"
Heart-throbbing experience in Fukushima!! We gotta do it! Educational trips to Fukushima Prefecture
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/02/fukushima-prefectural-officials-want.html
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Indeed their hearts will throb as their hearts struggle to beat as cesium eats holes in it.
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http://www.311SurvivingJapan.Com
If enough people pre-order tickets for the theatrical release of "311 Surviving Japan" then at least NHK international and RT will cover it.
I put down a good bit of money to help this project get this far so we can get more exposure on Fukushima.
Please help this project get the lime light if you can.
Even if you can't attend, buying a ticket (approx $10) will help secure the theatrical release and thus news coverage.
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Hi occiferdave – at which venue/town do you want the ticket purchased, or does it matter?
Let me know…I'll buy a ticket. Also, make sure to email RadChick and Libbe HaLevy of Nuclear Hotseat and ask them to post this a.s.a.p.
How about everyone else here?
> Portland needs 32 more tickets purchased or they can't show the movie.
> Seattle needs 43 more tickets purchased.
> San Francisco needs 36 more tickets purchased.
> Los Angeles needs 21
> New York needs 24
> Chicago needs 41
> San Diego needs 22
Come on folks! Let's help make this happen. Let's do some good outside of Enenews. Tickets are $10. Chip in and buy a ticket even if you can't go.
Information and addresses of movie theaters here:
http://www.311survivingjapan.com/
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Kudos to Libbe HaLevy for interviewing filmmaker Christopher Noland about the movie “3.11: Surviving Japan"
Here's the interview and more info on the movie.
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/89-world-premiere-of-filmmaker-christopher-nolands-3-11-surviving-japan/
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Breast cancer among young women increasing
"Cases of younger women with advanced breast cancer have increased about 2% each year since the mid-1970s and show no signs of abating."
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-breast-cancer-younger-women-20130227,0,4208213.story
My comment: No one ever mentions the increased levels of ionizing radiation we are all being exposed to.
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U.N. panel: Thyroid radiation doses in Fukushima infants within safe limits.
U.N. panel: Supporting Japanese children's E tickets to hell.
FUKUSHIMA–Thyroid gland doses of internal radiation in year-old infants living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant are well within safety limits, according to a United Nations committee.
Cat's now bark and dog's walk backwards, UN say's "more li…err…news in five years"
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302270037
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Post-Fukushima, Arguments for Nuclear Safety Bog Down
"… Ever since the nuclear accident in Japan released radiation into the atmosphere, regulators in the United States have been studying whether to require filters, costing as much as $45 million, on the vents of each of the country’s 31 boiling water reactors.
The filters, which have been recommended by the staff of the regulatory commission, are supposed to prevent radioactive particles from escaping into the atmosphere. They are required in Japan and much of Europe, but the American utilities say they are unnecessary and expensive.
The industry has held private meetings with commissioners and their staffs … and helped line up letters of support from dozens of members of Congress, many of whom received industry campaign contributions.
… Congress has since gotten involved. Over the last month, 55 lawmakers have signed letters, some pushed by industry lobbyists, that urge commissioners to reject the filters.
“It’s not the time to be rash with hasty new rules,” wrote Senator David Vitter of Louisiana, the ranking Republican on the Senate committee that oversees the industry, in a letter signed by six other senators. (Twelve senators — 11 Democrats and an independent — signed a letter supporting filtered vents.)
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"… Representative John Barrow, Democrat of Georgia, in a letter signed by 25 other House Democrats, argued that the filtered vent “is not justified on a cost-benefit basis,” a fact the commission staff acknowledges….
Many of these lawmakers, both Democrats and Republicans, have received significant campaign contributions from the industry. For instance, Mr. Barrow’s top contributor in the 2012 election was the Southern Company, a Georgia-based utility that is a major player in nuclear power. Some of the lawmakers also have nuclear reactors in their districts, a major source of tax revenue and jobs.
…E-mails… also demonstrate the teamlike approach taken by the industry and the regulators in dealing with safety questions, as they have worked behind the scenes with the Nuclear Energy Institute, the leading trade association, to try to prevent a reaction against nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident.
The filtered vent proposal, by far the most expensive, would be required only on boiling water reactors like Nine Mile Point…
But how well the filters work is unclear because the vents to which they would be attached have never been used successfully in an accident at a modern commercial reactor…. The vents failed at Fukushima, which would have rendered filters moot….
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/business/energy-environment/a-divisive-debate-on-need-for-more-nuclear-safeguards.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y&_r=0
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Four things you should know about the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Laura Kenyon, Greenpeace International – February 28, 2013
“…4. Two of the Fukushima reactor makers: Toshiba and Hitachi, are now making money from the disaster clean up process.
“Toshiba and Hitachi are, in effect, being paid to clean up their own nuclear mess. That’s right, these companies have now made money from Fukushima twice, first from building and maintaining reactors, and then again for cleaning up after those reactors failed. What an interesting business model.
“How do these companies get away with this?
“They are protected by dusty, old nuclear liability laws established in the 1950s, which place the burden of paying for nuclear disasters on the operators of nuclear power plants (in this case TEPCO), while companies that design or supply nuclear reactors are protected from paying, no matter what the circumstances of their involvement. After Fukushima TEPCO could not afford the cost of the nuclear disaster and was nationalised, shifting the majority of the costs onto the government, and therefore the Japanese public. This is the situation in Japan and nuclear liability laws are the same in almost all other countries.
“When nuclear companies are not liable for the huge costs of nuclear risk, what incentive is there for them to avoid it? None.
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“This unjust situation can change. India created a strong nuclear liability law in 2010, which can hold nuclear supplier companies liable for the damages of a nuclear disaster. Last week the CEO of General Electric was quoted admitting that as long as this law is in place General Electric will stay out of the nuclear business in India. When they are forced to admit it, most nuclear companies will come to the same conclusion – the cost of nuclear risk is far too high.
“An important step towards making nuclear companies liable for nuclear disasters, is that the public knows and understands this unjust situation – you can help.”
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/makingwaves/four-things-you-should-know-about-the-fukushi/blog/44098/
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BREAKING NEWS..Highest radiation detected in fish at TEPCO port
Radioactive cesium far beyond Japan's safety limit has been detected in a fish caught near the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant says the rock trout contained 510,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.
That's the highest ever detected in fish and about 5,100 times the government safety limit.
The utility caught the fish on February 17th in a net put up around its own port at the plant.
TEPCO installed the net about a week before to contain contaminated marine life after detecting high levels of cesium in fish and shellfish caught in the port.
A fish caught in December at the same port contained 254,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.
The new record is about twice that amount.
TEPCO says it will step up efforts to keep fish within the port and exterminate them.
Feb. 28, 2013 – Updated 09:51 UTC (18:51 JST)
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Thanks Mungo… Credit to our friend Iori Mochizuki at Fukushima Diary:
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/510000-bqkg-from-fat-greenling-caught-in-fukushima-plant-port-over-100000-bqkg-from-30-of-the-samples/#comments
SP: What a word…"exterminate" the poor fish. Also no mention of strontium-90 or other nuclear toxins that are surely accompanying the cesium. This kind of report coming on the eve of the two year anniversary of the accident proves there has been little improvement in stopping emissions from the crippled complex.
Water and steam emissions from three buried nuclear coriums is still out of control. Japan is in big trouble and things aren't improving. The nucleocrats never had any solutions for a castastrophe like Fukushima Daiichi.
A nuclear disaster can happen to any of the nuclear plants in the world…who will be the next victim? Chernobyl Unit 4 caused the breakup of the USSR. Fukushima Daiichi Units 1-6 will do the same to Japan. In another three years there will be massive upheaval in Japan and the fallout will not just be nuclear isotopes.
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http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_WHO_Low_radiation_risk_from_Fukushima_2802131.html
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"…carefully extrapolated…" CRAP!
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…and thanks for putting this up, Dogleg. I needed a good laugh…
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"TEPCO fails to submit dose data on 21,000 Fukushima plant workers
"It remains unclear whether the utilities, or layers of contractors involved in the nuclear power industry, are responsible for managing workers’ dose data and protecting their safety.
The government is not directly responsible, although the science ministry, the health ministry, the Nuclear Regulation Authority’s secretariat and other branches are involved."
"After the disaster, records were initially kept on paper, and it took time to convert them into electronic form."
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201302280086
SP: Nobody wants to take care of the workers…it's all about the money.
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Last night I was reading an article in National Geographic from 2006 regarding Chernobyl at 20 years and the future of Nuclear Power.
IMO – NG is a shill for the Nuclear Industry. However, they are read by a large number of people.
While reading the article and looking at the photos I couldn't help but think of the large number of 'liquidators' who lost their lives.
Then, I thought, how can Fukushima (3 meltdowns etc…) not of caused more liquidator-like fatalities?
It just seems impossible to me.
I watch the web cam periodically and I know I see heavily suited people on top of Unit 4. (almost daily) They are there for longer than 15 minutes at a time. Those still working in areas of Chernobyl can only be suited and remain exposed for up to 15 minutes at a time.
So, why is Fukushima different? …or is it?
I know this is complete 'speculation', but I get a real gut feeling there are many dead and dying.
If the WHO would spew the rhetoric, as released in articles we've seen today, about the consequences of Fukushima, which is criminal in my opinion, then what's going to stop them from covering up the deaths of Fukushima's Liquidators?
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Never in my life, have I read any more ignorant, self serving, repetitious, immature, and blatant lies, than from the mouthpiece for atoms.
This guy makes a burnt out light bulb seem bright…
Tweet that!
Fission Fast! New Slogan for Nuclear Energy Revolution
Posted February 27, 2013 by rod adams
http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/191626/fission-fast-new-slogan-idea-effective-energy-revolution
grraobrrrrf, scuse me, I gotta empty this bucket…
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Oh my…Fission Fast! Quick… Get a trademark! Get a web domain!
Oh yeah… Fissionfast.com is available! Rod…why didn't you register it at GoDaddy? Oh heck…somebody will probably beat you to it.
(Just kidding… Go get it Rod)
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If you are going to have an irradiated populace, then you need better radiation tools. Or is it hype for the flock?
Levels Of Certain Small Molecules In The Blood Altered By Radiation Exposure, Offering A Possible Measure Of Damage To The Body
If verified in human subjects, the findings could lead to new methods for rapidly identifying people at risk for acute radiation syndrome after occupational exposures or accidents such as the recent Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor incident. The microRNA markers might also help doctors plan radiation therapy for individual patients by taking into account how different people respond to radiation treatment, the researchers say.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/256880.php
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nuclear is a nuclear bomb
nuclear power is a dirty bomb
sorry rod
fission faust is just gonna bomb
Group gives ‘Golden Fleece’ award to DOE
doh!
The new and smaller nuclear plant design being pursued by the Tennessee Valley Authority was denounced by a taxpayer advocacy group Wednesday as a wasteful, government subsidy for a technology that remains in question.
Taxpayers for Common Sense awarded its “Golden Fleece Award” to the U.S. Department of Energy for paying more than $500 million to private companies to develop small modular reactors. Babcock & Wilcox and Bechtel Corp. are developing the new mPower reactors, which can largely be built in a factory and then assembled and located underground to cut their costs and improve their safety. TVA has agreed to locate up to four of the new units on the Clinch River in Oak Ridge, if the new design is approved.
Ryan Alexander, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, said the federal government has already spent billions of dollars subsidizing nuclear energy, including similar smaller reactors that power U.S. Navy submarines.
“We cannot afford to pile more market-distorting subsidies to profitable companies on top of billions of dollars we already gave away,” Alexander said in a report released Wednesday.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/feb/28/group-gives-golden-fleece-award-doe/
Fission Faust…
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Babcock & Wilcox posts $39.7M profit in 4Q
Feb 28, 2013, 2:52pm EST
The company’s revenue totaled $865.3 million in the latest quarter, up from $800.8 million a year earlier.
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2013/02/28/babcock-wilcox-posts-397m-profit.html
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Inside the last Manhattan Project facility in Manhattan
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/02/28/inside-last-manhattan-project-facility-in-manhattan/?intcmp=features#ixzz2MHdBP0cM
The last remaining Manhattan Project facility still located in Manhattan was officially transformed into a modern new laboratory Wednesday — part of an ongoing commitment to keep Americans safe from radiological threats
The Radiological Emergency Management System is a gamma radiation detection network that monitors radiation levels throughout the city.
Already fully deployed, it provides a single picture of the radiological threat for emergency managers within moments of an incident.
Immediate knowledge of radiation levels is important because emergency management officials can then deploy resources effectively
This sort of information is essential to provide correct advice on whether the public should shelter in place or evacuate. When used with meteorological data and plume modeling, REMS can predict the path of radioactive plumes and provide early warnings to areas that will become affected.
Well there's a complete waste of money for a start, but my favourite line:
'Kitty litter' they explained, accounts for about 30 percent of radiological hits.
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Canada’s Land of Milk and Strontium 90 ..4 pages
Much more info in this article but this is worth quoting:
"In September 2012, we sent another sample of our milk to the same lab that had previously tested for and detected the Strontium 90. We received a call from the lab telling us that they had had an “explosion” because of the processing – get this – of our milk samples. They would no longer test our milk for Strontium 90."
"Could it be that the Canadian government’s involvement in the mining, processing and selling of uranium to other countries, its selling of nuclear technology to the world as well as its profiting from Canada’s own nuclear power plants and nuclear research reactors, makes it not want to draw attention to the dangers of radioactivity?"
"The national anthem of Canada, “O Canada,” has lyrics that include “With glowing hearts.” Those lyrics can be taken literally in this Land of Milk and Strontium 90."
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/02/canadas-land-of-milk-and-strontium-90/
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Nuclear news roundup:
FLORIDA:
The warning level of Crystal River npp's radiation monitors were set so high that radiation could never be detected. This means that radiation could have leaked all these years and no one would ever know.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/crystal-river-nuclear-plant-had-flaw-in-its-safety-procedures-for-more/1276841
GEORGIA:
Plant Vogtle could take 2 years longer to build and cost billions more
http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Nuclear-reactor-delays-could-cost-billions-194108721.html
GEORGIA:
Plant Vogtle’s Unit 2 nuclear power reactor offline after excess leakage was detected in a coolant pump.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-27/vogtle-unit-2-reactor-idled-after-coolant-pump-issue
SOUTH CAROLINA:
SRS could become the country's nuclear waste dump
http://www.wrdw.com/news/politics/headlines/Aiken-group-fears-SRS-could-become-nations-nuclear-dump-194025021.html
IDAHO:
Idaho could become dump for nuclear waste
http://www.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005146307
MASSACHUSETTS:
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge against relicensing the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130227/NEWS/302270347
WASHINGTON DC:
Nuclear Lobbyists lobbying against vents and filters for nuclear power plants:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/lobbying-flurry-precedes-u-s-vote-on-fukushima-rules.html
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continued…
FINLAND: Reactor being built is years behind schedule
FRANCE: Reactor being built is years behind schedule
JORDAN, VIETNAM, ARGENTINA and TURKEY: Looking to build nuclear power plants
SAUDI ARABIA, POLAND, SOUTH AFRICA: Areva hopes to sell nuclear power plants there
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-areva-results-idUSBRE91R1DY20130228
JAMAICA
Jamaica's nuclear reactor being converted to low enriched uranium fuel.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2013/02/radiating-in-jamaica.html
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Well written. Learn all about milk (West Coast, B.C.) as an important marker for radionuclide contamination:
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2013/02/canadas-land-of-milk-and-strontium-90/
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So what kind of money do they spend on worker safety? We know they have bought some tungsten vests. But how many of these Rad Vests can they afford at $7320 each (lots above 50):
http://frhamsafety.com/radvest/tungsten.html
There were 19,000 workers in the first year…figure the math if they had bought Rad Vests for all of them.
How many $200 plus face shield respirators?
http://www.globalindustrial.com/g/safety/breathing/cartridge-respirators/sundstrom-half-and-full-face-respirators-94331
Or maybe they just stock up on $4 tyvek suits and $1 paper N95 masks?
http://www.saraglove.com/TYVEK-Protective-Coveralls-p/13-220.htm
http://www.amazon.com/RespirX-N95-Respirator-Mask-contains/dp/B0027VLU68
Some workers wear the cheapest safety gear:
Installing the electric motor of residual heat removal cooling system
(Photo taken on May 22, 2012)
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2012/201206-e/120605-01e.html
And my last link…a cartoon image of a worker:
http://antiworldnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/fukushima.gif
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Cheese anyone?
Produced two hundred tons of raw milk in Fukushima is Wasted per day, Kyodo http:// Fb.Me/1Z3BsOYus
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https://www.facebook.com/dairyvietnam/posts/459074524165881
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Cancer risk 70% higher for females in Fukushima area, says WHO
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/28/cancer-risk-fukushima-who …
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'I am one of the Fukushima fifty': One of the men who risked their lives to prevent a catastrophe shares his story
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/i-am-one-of-the-fukushima-fifty-one-of-the-men-who-risked-their-lives-to-prevent-a-catastrophe-shares-his-story-8517394.html
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a suicide mission: volunteering to return to a dangerously radioactive nuclear power plant on the verge of tipping out of control.
As he said goodbye to his colleagues they saluted him, like soldiers in battle.
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Plutonium circus – documentary. 1 hr. 13 min.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-085q_GK5E
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REALITY ~ Japan’s environment ministry said the WHO had overstated the risks and called on people living in the area to respond calmly to the report, which it said did not reflect “reality”. – See more at: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/japan-riled-by-whos-fukushima-cancer-warning#sthash.z481c9HY.dpuf
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Photos from the World’s First Underwater Nuclear Explosion
"…There were many issues with cleaning up after the test, the life expectancy of people involved was reduced by an average of three months, and the test was later referred to as, “the world’s first nuclear disaster.” You can read up on the whole operation in detail on its Wikipedia article."
http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/18/photos-from-the-worlds-first-underwater-nuclear-explosion/
If this was posted already, I missed it.
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