Plutonium reprocessing plan raises alarm amid shutdown
Critics wonder why MOX plan is running when reactors are idle
AP Monday, June 4, 2012
Last year's tsunami crisis left Japan's nuclear aspirations in doubt and its reactors idled, rendering its huge stockpile of plutonium useless. So, the nuclear industry's plan to produce even more this year has raised a red flag.
Nuclear industry officials say they hope to start producing half a ton of toxic plutonium within months, in addition to the more than 35 tons Japan already has stored around the world. That is even though all the reactors that might use it are either inoperable or offline while the government rethinks its gung-ho nuclear energy policy after the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant.
"It's crazy," said Princeton University professor Frank von Hippel, a leading authority on nonproliferation issues and a former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology. "There is absolutely no reason to do that."……….
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., perhaps the most pro-nuclear power U.S. senator, said last week he is still undecided about how he may vote on ratifying President Obama's nominee to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
President Barack Obama nominated Allison Macfarlane, a professor at Virginia's George Mason University who specializes in nuclear waste, to succeed NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who is stepping down from the five-member panel after often differing with his colleagues. Macfarlane has been endorsed by the nuclear industry's chief trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, as well as nuclear power critics such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass….
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 107 is up at Idaho Samizdat
Atomic Insights – Exaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects.
A video was produced by the World Nuclear Association (WNA). It shows that the predicted health consequences of nuclear accidents are often orders of magnitude greater than the actual, measured health consequences of the accidents that have occurred. Instead of the “worst case scenarios” of hundreds of thousands to millions of people getting sick and dying, Chernobyl produced a few dozen casualties, a few thousand illnesses, and few, if any, additional long-term radiation related illnesses.
Fukushima will result in no casualties and no long term radiation related illnesses, because the key mistakes that were made in the initial response to the accident at Chernobyl were not repeated. Worker doses at Fukushima were controlled so that no one was exposed to dangerous radiation doses. The public was sufficiently informed about radiation releases so that no one drank milk that was contaminated by I-131….
well, that will be really good news for those "nonexistent" deformed children in Ukraine! Did you note that comments were disabled for that video? Such bald-faced liars. Why do they do it? For money?
What bald-faced lies! Argh…how can they sleep at night, knowing they are mouthing such lies in the face of reality?
Bottom line is this: Even just ONE child getting a thyroid tumor, or thyroid cancer, or leukemia, from exposure to nuclear radiation from nuclear power plants is ONE TOO MANY!!!
NO child or their family should EVER have to go through such trauma as a result of needless MANMADE radiation being spewed or leaked or exploded into the environment. I repeat: Even just ONE child getting sick from needless nuclear radiation exposure is ONE TOO MANY!!!
It is quite common in Japan that students clean their school (their classroom, corridors, assembly hall & toilets etc – there is no cleaning lady), it is part of their shared duty but I think given the circumstance, they'd better hire a pro for cleaning the radioactive swimming pool eh!?
Big media change. Some of you may remember talk of the academic service that tracks all media references to things like nuclear power. Over the last few weeks their top references have always been to the fuss over Iran's nuke ambitions. References to the Fukushima story were always far down the list. Suddenly that has changed, for whatever reason Fukushima is in the msm again. My source is a weekly nuke newsletter from http://www.carboncapturereport.org/
Tokyo Electric Power Co 144 (8.09%)
Nuclear Energy Agency 117 (6.57%)
Organization For Economic Cooperation 116 (6.52%)
Tokyo Seika Co 115 (6.46%)
International Commission On Radiological Protection 115 (6.46%)
International Atomic Energy Agency 114 (6.40%)
Energy Department 104 (5.84%)"
I have no idea what this shift means or whether it will continue.
Here's another sample of the kind of data I'm seeing now:
Agreed aigeezer,
I have beem mining that resource since you? or someone posted it here…
It has changed from pro, with any links anti conviently miss typed, so you can not just click and go. Many times I have had to put a php query question mark or the l in html, into the string to go to a link.
Now I see an increase of all things Fuku and more anti links. You still have to watch for the missing character in the links though.
A very good aggregate resource still…
This study seems to support the idea that children are much more sensitive to damage from radiation than adults:
"Study: Childhood cancer survivors face new risks"
"Women treated with chest radiation for cancer when they were girls have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than previously thought, doctors warn.
Even lower doses of radiation therapy posed a risk for survivors of a childhood cancer — something not known before, researchers found. That means more women might need to be screened beginning at age 25 for breast cancer.
"We find that by age 50, approximately 30 percent of women treated with radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma" as girls have developed breast cancer, said Chaya Moskowitz, a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York who led the study.
That is far higher than the 4 percent rate for the general population, and is comparable to the rate in women who have mutations in inherited BRCA genes that increase risk. Among women who had chest radiation for any type of childhood cancer, 24 percent developed breast cancer by age 50…."
Iam, see my post below on the new FDA guidelines for medical screening and treatment of children using radiation. They are finally starting to take notice and admit children's increased risk to radiation exposure, but only admitting it in this "safe," obsequious way, discussing medical use of radiation, rather than what our poor children may be exposed to at ever-increasing levels, thanks to Fukushima.
Where are the Japanese?? By that I mean, why don't any of them post here on Enews about their health ailments, locally deformed plants and animals, radiation readings, etc?? Is the internet that strickly controlled in Japan?
Here's a good one to file in the same folder with all the details of NRC/DHS/FEMA/USDA/EPA et al. deciding late last month that despite the example of Fukushima, federal, state and local first responders no longer need to conduct emergency training operations…
CBS news tonight had a story about using radiation to cure cancer.
24% of people who recieved radiation to cure a childhood cancer got a different cancer before age 50.
"Doctors don't keep track of how much radiation their patients receive from testing. They just order a scan, and how much radiation results can vary widely by the age and brand of machine, and the possible diagnosis. An average CT of the head for an adult is equal to about 100 chest X-rays, the FDA says, while a CT of the abdomen brings even more.
"Radiologists don't always need the crispest image. Often it's possible to diagnose fine while using a fraction of the typical radiation dose, said Dr. Marta Hernanz-Schulman of Vanderbilt University, who chairs the American College of Radiology's pediatric imaging commission.
"While there's no generally accepted safe lifetime radiation dose for children, Schulman tells parents to keep a list of their child's medical scans — and pull it out every time a doctor considers ordering another one…" (continued…)
"…That's especially helpful for children with chronic diseases who truly need more medical scans than the average youngster.
"Consider 4-year-old Sarhea (Sa-RAY-ah) Kaupp of Cincinnati, who has cystic fibrosis and serious intestinal complications. By her mother's count, she's had more than 100 X-rays, three CT scans and multiple fluoroscopies, like an X-ray movie.
"The risk of radiation in our experience, it has to happen. It's the lesser of two evils," says her mother, Sarah Kaupp. But she lists all her daughter's latest scans at every doctor visit to avoid any unnecessary repeats.
"And now she only gets them at a pediatric hospital, after X-rays from a stand-alone facility had to be repeated twice because the technicians aimed wrong and took blurry shots. Until then, "I thought an X-ray was an X-ray," Kaupp said.
"For parents, the FDA recommended:
—Keep a list of your child's medical scans. At the least, it helps guard against unneeded repeats.
—Ask the doctor who orders a scan how it will improve the child's care and whether there are alternatives, such as MRI or ultrasound, that don't use radiation.
—Ask the imaging facility whether it uses reduced radiation techniques for children.
"The FDA also is urging doctors to consider how many scans the child already has had and the possibility of alternatives before ordering another test.
"It's something you need to use conscientiously," Schulman said…
Feb 2011 I drank a contrasting fluid and the next day had a CT scan on my kidneys, Mar 2011 I drank a contrasting fluid and had angiogram of my heart. In May 2011 My doctor told me the specialist did not send the results and wanted me to have another CT. I said no way call and get the info from the other doc. I am not doing that again.
I don't blame you one bit, Sharp2197. Last Spring, during Fuku fallout here in Seattle, there were a lot of kids in my child's sports league with foot or arm injuries, many with bone fractures…my child included. A slight hairline fracture in the foot did not show up in the first set of xrays. (Taken from three angles).
After the season ended, with pain persisting, the doc ordered yet ANOTHER set of xrays, and confirmed the hairline fracture (which had healed on its own, despite being played on all season.)
At a follow up appt with a new doc, who was filling in for the regular doc, they wanted to order yet ANOTHER xray. I had to mention that I preferred to LIMIT the amount of xrays my child received. No one, not the doc or the xray tech, seemed to care one bit.
Before looking at the xray on the monitor, while waiting for it to boot up, up popped the G.E. logo. I can't tell you how that turned my stomach. What a perfect racket: Make the deadly nuke plants that spew death into our environment and cause cancers and other diseases. Then diagnose the diseases with your xray machines. Then treat the cancers with your medical radiation treatments.
How can the shareholders at G.E. sleep at night? Do they not have a conscience? Do they not have loved ones?
Hey, did you ever check out that documentary about the secret Australian nuclear tests and human bones study I mentioned? Just curious to hear your thoughts about it, given you are an Aussie. Wonder how many other Australians even know about that dark history…?
It's already happening in Japan richard.
Aeon who sells radioactive rice started a funeral service after the disaster. Too dark humour for my liking. Never thought a company could run both food and funeral business but I guess their vision must be 'to feed the poison and let's rake in the profits' hey.
POTR blog has posted reports about recent high air readings. Have there been any reports about recent events that might be associated with these apparent increases in jet stream radiation?
i posted on my videos last week that the east coast usa could actually get hit by european radiation discharges that were happening.. the low level winds headed to canada and new york state.. either iodine 131 or cobalt 60 or some such.. dont know how far it might have penetrated inland..
peace
oh its arclight2011 on youtube and the videos are dated if you want to backtrack for the weather info and rad levels in the uk at the time
europe is having multiple reactor problems/emmissions
primarily budapest, chonin and sizewell as far i can glen from london
Honeywell, uranium gas releases & union workers
(…) "Recently, on May 10, at around 2 p.m., managers walked into Honeywell's uranium conversion plant in Metropolis, Ill., and told workers—both union and nonunion—they had to leave the plant immediately. Multiple workers present say a manager told them the sudden dismissal was because the company had to investigate "sabotage" of plant equipment. (…)
Then on May 14, an engineer (..)caused a release of highly toxic radioactive UF6 gas for over seven minutes. Contrary to company policy, no alarms were sounded informing the community of the release of this deadly gas. Fortunately, no one was hurt by the accidental release of UF6 gas. Yet another leak of the same gas occurred at the Metropolis plant yesterday, although again it appears that workers fortunately escaped serious injury. (…)
So when I heard Honeywell CEO Dave Cote would be talking at a forum on "Revitalizing America: Encouraging Entrepreneurship," hosted by Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.),….I began to ask Cote about the uranium release caused by a non-union engineer working a job performed by a union worker. Cote began to frown and looked annoyed with my question. Immediately, I started getting dirty stares and smirks from the room of assembled corporate lobbyists and allies. http://truth-out.org/news/item/9558-microphone-grabbed-out-of-hands-of-reporter-questioning-honeywell-ceo
Ugh, sorry aigeezer! I just now noticed you posted it first further up! I tend to quick-post the lunchbreak finds without screening the threads first….as it seems, truth-out has two regular readers…
No problem, B&B. It's bound to happen now and then. The two versions have slightly differing perspectives, I think, so it's good that they're both available.
"Maximum Jet Stream Alert, STAY OUT OF THE RAIN!
We continue to receive reports of unusually high AIRBORNE radioactivity associated with the current Jet Stream. Given those detections, our detections, and recent Iodine 131 detections in Japan, we consider it imperative to STAY OUT OF THE RAIN, and to use home HEPA air filters.
"We are extending our Maximum Alert to stay out of the Jet Stream and rain for the following reasons.
(1) Recent large Iodine 131 detections in Japan
(2) Multiple individual reports of high AIRBORNE radiation along the Jet Stream
(3) EPA Radnet data showing high, multi hour, AIRBORNE radiation …"
One could pose similar questions regarding their next generation (and beyond).
Nuclear technology is an affront to the idea of intergenerational justice. It forces long-term environmental contamination, DNA damage, and dangerous, difficult to contain waste on future generations in order to power people's televisions and air conditioners (and advance the selfish interests of politicians and corporations) today.
Ya..like how NOAA gives specific detecting rad debris instructions to their employees but tells citizens searching with kids to only exercize caution. Makes me want to take my next vacation in the new and prisitine GoM.
Japanese Tsunami Debris Washes Ashore Near Prince William Sound
"They tend to aggregate debris on individual beaches,” said Peter Murphy of NOAA’s marine debris program. “Areas that previously got debris will likely feel more debris and so we would expect that to continue.”
From that news clip: "Officials from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said the garbage isn’t contaminated with radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant".
SP: Such a dubious claim considering how little debris they have personally analyzed. Did they board the Japanese derelict ship before the US Coast Guard blasted it to the ocean floor?
These bureaucratic savants also gave similar optimistic accounts of sealife April 2, 2012:
"A new study, based on data from a NOAA research vessel, takes a look at radioactivity levels near Japan a few months after the disaster. The data suggests that the highest estimates of radioactive discharges are likely to be accurate, but the rapid dilution of the water has kept the levels from Fukushima's isotopes below those of the naturally occurring radioactivity."
SP: There they go again comparing natural radiation with the Dr. Frankenstein test tube witches brew from Hell. Kind of like comparing a Yorkie to a rabid pit bull.
Also from that April 2012 article:
"The net result is that the 137 in fish was about 150 times lower than the legal limits in Japan. Even if all the isotopes were considered, the fish would be safe to eat."
SP: Keep that thought in mind as the bioaccumulation continues in sea life. And we know there is more than just cesium in the toxic sea water…
Jaczko isn't out of the picture yet.
His incompetance remains.(leadership issues?) http://www.lvrj.com/news/nrc-chief-jaczko-not-packing-just-yet-153266375.html
Evidently he has no power to persuade the comissioners under his leadership.
He is going to resign?..then why doesn't he tell the truth about Fukushima?
Stay or go.. what difference does it make?
NONE.
Well, by announcing his resignation, he has made himself a lame duck, essentially stripping himself of any influence among the commissioners. They are acting as if he is no longer present.
The point is that the concrete and steel in the 40 year old reactors were designed to last 40 years and then be decommissioned (in other words, now). To assume that they could last for eighty years is nothing short of criminal.
Poll: I oppose construction of new reactors in the U.S.
I support construction of new reactors in the U.S.
Take the Poll no matter where You live, as we know if there is an accident radiation follows the jet stream so it Will affect You…Also setting a precedent in one country may help determine what gets built in other countries.
Find the poll at the end of the article indicating
Conclusion 1: The public does NOT want to pay for new nuclear power. It IS willing to pay for renewable energy.
Conclusion 2: Americans do not think nuclear power is “clean” energy, and still don’t want to pay for it.
Conclusion 3: On new reactors, how one asks the question matters.
Nuke safety panel told utilities to say no risk of long-term power loss in 1992
The working group of the government's Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) instructed power utilities to "write a composition" in 1992 on why there would be no need for the nuclear watchdog to consider a long-term power loss at nuclear power plants in its review of the country's safety guidelines for nuclear reactor designs, it has been learned….
…NSC Chairman Haruki Madarame apologized for what happened some 20 years ago, saying. "It was clearly inappropriate to have utility firms take their share of writing a draft report. I am very sorry." Although NSC was aware of the internal documents in question in June last year, it did not release them. The secretariat said, "We had been proceeding with preparations to release them, but we were busy with other work."
The survey released Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center said 70 percent of Japanese believe the country should reduce its reliance on nuclear energy, up from 44 percent last year.
Canadian Solar bets on Japan nuclear crisis being a game-changer
Solar power firms are betting that the nuclear crisis in Japan will become a game-changer for renewable energy in the world’s third largest economy, with new foreign entrants such as Canadian Solar looking to go toe-to-toe there with some of the biggest utilities in Asia.
They will be given a big helping hand next month when the government introduces a generous subsidy for renewable energy via a so-called feed-in tariff (FIT), in a bid to encourage alternative energy sources, which currently only generate about 1% of power in Japan.
The FIT, which excludes large hydro-electric schemes, will require utilities to buy electricity generated by renewable sources such as solar, wind and geothermal heat at a premium for 20 years. Costs will be passed on to consumers through higher power bills.
The vacuum cleaner strikes again. I think that vacuum cleaners should share the nobel peace prize with jellyfish. Obama got one…
U.S. nuclear submarine fire linked to vacuum cleaner
(Reuters) – A fire that caused an estimated $400 million in damage to a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked in Maine may have been caused by a vacuum cleaner, authorities said on Wednesday.
"… an acronym standing for Plutonium – URanium EXtraction — de facto standard aqueous nuclear reprocessing method for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from used nuclear fuel. It is based on liquid-liquid extraction ion-exchange.
The PUREX process was invented by Herbert H. Anderson and Larned B. Asprey at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project under Glenn T. Seaborg; their patent "Solvent Extraction Process for Plutonium" filed in 1947,[1] mentions tributyl phosphate as the major reactant which accomplishes the bulk of the chemical extraction.[2]
"The major uses of TBP in industry are as a component of aircraft hydraulic fluid and as a solvent for extraction and purification of rare earth metals from their ores.[2]
[...]
Nuclear Chemistry:
A 15-40% (usually about 30%) solution of tributyl phosphate in kerosene or dodecane is used in the liquid-liquid extraction (solvent extraction) of uranium, plutonium, and thorium from spent uranium nuclear fuel rods dissolved in nitric acid, as part of a nuclear reprocessing process known as PUREX."
Well…mighty suspect connections this TBP has; an all-around shady ingredient.
"OTHER REFERENCES
Smyth: 'A General Account of the Development of Methods of
Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices
of the United States Government' page 99 (1945), U.S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C."
Alert 6064 cpm right now
RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation two more spikes, 5000 cpm and even higher…its being looked into right now
19 minutes ago · Like.
RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation 7089 still alerting….hoping this is a malfunction http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Radiation Net Alert!!!South Bend, IN, US 7000 cpm+ RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation 7089 still alerting….hoping this is a malfunctionhttp://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Does anyone know what these high readings mean? I live in South Bend, and my GC in my apartment is generally indicating normal levels (from mid-20s to 40s in CPM, with an occasional random 58 or 60).
How can one check into this to confirm if it is an error? Is there anyone that one could contact to find out?
While there are numerous nuclear-related facilities in Illinois and Michigan that might have accidents, I am not aware of any such facilities in South Bend. Does anyone else know of any? Presumably if it were jet-stream related, it would be showing up in more locations than just South Bend.
Yes rad network is showing high readings. They are trying to figure out what is causing the high readings. They are pretty well off the map. Interesting…
Iam, I was having the same problem. Here's my post about it which I just posted to the Radiation Monitoring forum:
Thanks, ChasAha. Are we sure they are indeed separate, meaning different people using different Geiger Counters, are both getting high readings?
Could the same person and Geiger counter be hooked up to BOTH systems? Could be possible…
I hope this is the case and these are both false positives/system malfunctions…
Interestingly, however: when I tried clicking on the link you gave to blackcatsystems using my Opera browser in my smartphone, it redirected to a long url filled with gobeldygook…Then, when I tried pasting the link directly into my browser, it did the same thing.
It was only when I searched for the link by pasting it into the Startpage.com search engine ("The World's Most Private Search Engine"), then clicked on it, was I able to get to the radiation map…
This has happened to me previously in similar circumstances. It's hard not to suspect my browser has some strange censoring code in it somehow? Why else would this happen? Anyone with programming background know?
Here's the gobeldygook I got when it redirected automatically in my Opera browser:
Just go to http://www.haarp.edu and click on the "online data" link in the menu bar at the top. Then click on either the Haarp Fluxgate Magnetometer or Induction Magnetometer links directly from there.
I checked the JetStream on Stormsurf.com and it looks like the JetStream went directly through that area near Ill/Ind/SouthMi today. A direct hit!
But this one huge reading in only one area can't be from the Jet Stream, or other areas would show equally high readings, yes? Must either be a glitch (hopefully!) or a local source…
BTW. The last time radiationnetwork had such a high reading in one area, in Colorado, they said it was due to the operator having had a medical test with radiation that day and getting too close to the Geiger Counter…However, the guy in CO who runs the (different) system Anne is always posting readings for got the exact same spike at the exact same time…so that excuse about the medical test seemed suspect..Who knows? The mystery deepens…
Are referring to the supposed medical test false reading that happened a month or two ago, Anne? If that is the one you're referring to, yes, I don't think it was in the 1000s, if my memory serves me correctly…500 seems to ring a bell.
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They are nucking futz! MOX MOX MOX Drunk!
Plutonium reprocessing plan raises alarm amid shutdown
Critics wonder why MOX plan is running when reactors are idle
AP Monday, June 4, 2012
Last year's tsunami crisis left Japan's nuclear aspirations in doubt and its reactors idled, rendering its huge stockpile of plutonium useless. So, the nuclear industry's plan to produce even more this year has raised a red flag.
Nuclear industry officials say they hope to start producing half a ton of toxic plutonium within months, in addition to the more than 35 tons Japan already has stored around the world. That is even though all the reactors that might use it are either inoperable or offline while the government rethinks its gung-ho nuclear energy policy after the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant.
"It's crazy," said Princeton University professor Frank von Hippel, a leading authority on nonproliferation issues and a former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology. "There is absolutely no reason to do that."……….
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120604a6.html?utmsource=feedburnerutmmedium=feedutmcampaign=Feed3Ajapantimes28TheJapanTimes3AAllStories29
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According to wiki.answers.com, there are about 1,500 tonnes of plutonium in existence.
And only a few hundred kgs evenly distributed are said to be a wipe-out.
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U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander ponders NRC chairman
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., perhaps the most pro-nuclear power U.S. senator, said last week he is still undecided about how he may vote on ratifying President Obama's nominee to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
President Barack Obama nominated Allison Macfarlane, a professor at Virginia's George Mason University who specializes in nuclear waste, to succeed NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who is stepping down from the five-member panel after often differing with his colleagues. Macfarlane has been endorsed by the nuclear industry's chief trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, as well as nuclear power critics such as the Union of Concerned Scientists and Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass….
http://timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jun/03/us-sen-lamar-alexander-ponders-nrc-chairman/
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And this garbage from the WNA and Rod…
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 107 is up at Idaho Samizdat
Atomic Insights – Exaggerated myths about nuclear accidents CAUSE negative health effects.
A video was produced by the World Nuclear Association (WNA). It shows that the predicted health consequences of nuclear accidents are often orders of magnitude greater than the actual, measured health consequences of the accidents that have occurred. Instead of the “worst case scenarios” of hundreds of thousands to millions of people getting sick and dying, Chernobyl produced a few dozen casualties, a few thousand illnesses, and few, if any, additional long-term radiation related illnesses.
Fukushima will result in no casualties and no long term radiation related illnesses, because the key mistakes that were made in the initial response to the accident at Chernobyl were not repeated. Worker doses at Fukushima were controlled so that no one was exposed to dangerous radiation doses. The public was sufficiently informed about radiation releases so that no one drank milk that was contaminated by I-131….
http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/carnival-of-nuclear-energy-107.html
Fukushima and Chernobyl: Myth versus Reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Ncm8KwxWNg
What is wrong with these people!
Seems there's alot more work to do…
Many places to comment… Ima outa here for tnight….
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well, that will be really good news for those "nonexistent" deformed children in Ukraine! Did you note that comments were disabled for that video? Such bald-faced liars. Why do they do it? For money?
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What bald-faced lies! Argh…how can they sleep at night, knowing they are mouthing such lies in the face of reality?
Bottom line is this: Even just ONE child getting a thyroid tumor, or thyroid cancer, or leukemia, from exposure to nuclear radiation from nuclear power plants is ONE TOO MANY!!!
NO child or their family should EVER have to go through such trauma as a result of needless MANMADE radiation being spewed or leaked or exploded into the environment. I repeat: Even just ONE child getting sick from needless nuclear radiation exposure is ONE TOO MANY!!!
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Children cleaning the swimming pool that measures 20K Bq/kg!!
http://www.best-worst.net/news_5At6onS7O.html
It is quite common in Japan that students clean their school (their classroom, corridors, assembly hall & toilets etc – there is no cleaning lady), it is part of their shared duty but I think given the circumstance, they'd better hire a pro for cleaning the radioactive swimming pool eh!?
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Radioactive Japan: JAEA compares an angry wife to radioactive material.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/radioactive-japan-jaea-compares-angry.html
How lame is that!
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The Ooi Nuclear Plant Restart :Edano,Hosono. and Kingmaker Sengoku Arrive in Fukui Prefecture.
The trio of deceivers arrives.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/06/ooi-nuke-plant-restart-edano-hosono-and.html
Here is a little of Edano running his mouth.
The moment when Edano lied to the people
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/the-moment-when-edano-lied-to-the-people/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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PS. Someday..and I get the feeling it won't be long..the people of Japan are going to find out these men are traitors and murderers.
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Big media change. Some of you may remember talk of the academic service that tracks all media references to things like nuclear power. Over the last few weeks their top references have always been to the fuss over Iran's nuke ambitions. References to the Fukushima story were always far down the list. Suddenly that has changed, for whatever reason Fukushima is in the msm again. My source is a weekly nuke newsletter from http://www.carboncapturereport.org/
"Top person names mentioned in today's news:
Fukushima Dai-Ichi 133 (7.47%)
Fukushima Daiichi 125 (7.02%)
Edward Lazo 117 (6.57%)
Toraaki Ogata 117 (6.57%)
Yukio Nishi 116 (6.52%)
Masataka Kase 115 (6.46%)
Christopher Clement 115 (6.46%)
Top Organizations
Top organization names mentioned in today's news:
Tokyo Electric Power Co 144 (8.09%)
Nuclear Energy Agency 117 (6.57%)
Organization For Economic Cooperation 116 (6.52%)
Tokyo Seika Co 115 (6.46%)
International Commission On Radiological Protection 115 (6.46%)
International Atomic Energy Agency 114 (6.40%)
Energy Department 104 (5.84%)"
I have no idea what this shift means or whether it will continue.
Here's another sample of the kind of data I'm seeing now:
http://nuclear.carboncapturereport.org/cgi-bin/dailyreport?DATE=2012-06-03
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Agreed aigeezer,
I have beem mining that resource since you? or someone posted it here…
It has changed from pro, with any links anti conviently miss typed, so you can not just click and go. Many times I have had to put a php query question mark or the l in html, into the string to go to a link.
Now I see an increase of all things Fuku and more anti links. You still have to watch for the missing character in the links though.
A very good aggregate resource still…
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This study seems to support the idea that children are much more sensitive to damage from radiation than adults:
"Study: Childhood cancer survivors face new risks"
"Women treated with chest radiation for cancer when they were girls have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than previously thought, doctors warn.
Even lower doses of radiation therapy posed a risk for survivors of a childhood cancer — something not known before, researchers found. That means more women might need to be screened beginning at age 25 for breast cancer.
"We find that by age 50, approximately 30 percent of women treated with radiation for Hodgkin lymphoma" as girls have developed breast cancer, said Chaya Moskowitz, a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York who led the study.
That is far higher than the 4 percent rate for the general population, and is comparable to the rate in women who have mutations in inherited BRCA genes that increase risk. Among women who had chest radiation for any type of childhood cancer, 24 percent developed breast cancer by age 50…."
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20120604/feb95fcd-4fac-42af-ac7f-8fa801942603
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Iam, see my post below on the new FDA guidelines for medical screening and treatment of children using radiation. They are finally starting to take notice and admit children's increased risk to radiation exposure, but only admitting it in this "safe," obsequious way, discussing medical use of radiation, rather than what our poor children may be exposed to at ever-increasing levels, thanks to Fukushima.
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Additional studies showing substantial rad risks to women & children
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php?topic=9.msg27#msg27
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"Video: On Capitol Hill, Reporter Attacked For Daring To Ask A Question To A Powerful CEO"
The context is a uranium mine owned by Honeywell.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31491.htm
YouTube version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-3DRoKRI62s
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Sickening.
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HoTaters is having trouble logging in. Anyone else have or hear of such a problem?
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I just logged out, then logged back in no problem.
I guess those who are having trouble may not be able to get back in to report they are having trouble.
Is the tip line working OK? I've been posting new stories at the end of the General Discussion for now.
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Logged in and out. All good here.
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I note careful avoidance of "the R word" here. I guess radiation is so safe and green that many cannot even pronounce or write the word:
Japan’s crisis hotline faces overload
Asia News Network (The Yomiuri Shimbun) | Mon, 06/04/2012 7:11 AM
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/06/04/japan-s-crisis-hotline-faces-overload.html
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Just a reminder to those living a happy life in Tokyo. You can't see it – but IT IS THERE.
TOKYO SOIL EQUALS NUCLEAR WASTE IN U.S.
Samples taken in city 200 miles from damaged reactor contaminated with radiation
Published: 05/24/2012 at 7:13 PM
http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/tokyo-soil-would-be-considered-nuclear-waste-in-u-s/?cat_orig=health
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Where are the Japanese?? By that I mean, why don't any of them post here on Enews about their health ailments, locally deformed plants and animals, radiation readings, etc?? Is the internet that strickly controlled in Japan?
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Here's a good one to file in the same folder with all the details of NRC/DHS/FEMA/USDA/EPA et al. deciding late last month that despite the example of Fukushima, federal, state and local first responders no longer need to conduct emergency training operations…
USDA Radiologist Discusses Impact of Fukushima Accident
http://www.agnr.umd.edu/news/article.cfm?id=879004f70a5a5a8f001c2628bda5272a
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CBS news tonight had a story about using radiation to cure cancer.
24% of people who recieved radiation to cure a childhood cancer got a different cancer before age 50.
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On a similar note: FDA releases guidelines on medical screening radiation levels for children…
(WATK: Truer words were never spoken):
snip:
"Any radiation you don't need is radiation you shouldn't get." (WATK: Tell that to the entire nuclear cabal!!!)
Taken from this AP article on new FDA guidelines for modifying radiation limits in children's medical imaging tests from xrays, CT scans, etc.:
"Child-sizing radiation doses from medical scans"
http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/FDA-Kids-medical-tests-need-child-size-radiation-3544642.php
"Doctors don't keep track of how much radiation their patients receive from testing. They just order a scan, and how much radiation results can vary widely by the age and brand of machine, and the possible diagnosis. An average CT of the head for an adult is equal to about 100 chest X-rays, the FDA says, while a CT of the abdomen brings even more.
"Radiologists don't always need the crispest image. Often it's possible to diagnose fine while using a fraction of the typical radiation dose, said Dr. Marta Hernanz-Schulman of Vanderbilt University, who chairs the American College of Radiology's pediatric imaging commission.
"While there's no generally accepted safe lifetime radiation dose for children, Schulman tells parents to keep a list of their child's medical scans — and pull it out every time a doctor considers ordering another one…" (continued…)
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(continued from above):
"…That's especially helpful for children with chronic diseases who truly need more medical scans than the average youngster.
"Consider 4-year-old Sarhea (Sa-RAY-ah) Kaupp of Cincinnati, who has cystic fibrosis and serious intestinal complications. By her mother's count, she's had more than 100 X-rays, three CT scans and multiple fluoroscopies, like an X-ray movie.
"The risk of radiation in our experience, it has to happen. It's the lesser of two evils," says her mother, Sarah Kaupp. But she lists all her daughter's latest scans at every doctor visit to avoid any unnecessary repeats.
"And now she only gets them at a pediatric hospital, after X-rays from a stand-alone facility had to be repeated twice because the technicians aimed wrong and took blurry shots. Until then, "I thought an X-ray was an X-ray," Kaupp said.
"For parents, the FDA recommended:
—Keep a list of your child's medical scans. At the least, it helps guard against unneeded repeats.
—Ask the doctor who orders a scan how it will improve the child's care and whether there are alternatives, such as MRI or ultrasound, that don't use radiation.
—Ask the imaging facility whether it uses reduced radiation techniques for children.
"The FDA also is urging doctors to consider how many scans the child already has had and the possibility of alternatives before ordering another test.
"It's something you need to use conscientiously," Schulman said…
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(continued from above):
…"Any radiation you don't need is radiation you shouldn't get."
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Feb 2011 I drank a contrasting fluid and the next day had a CT scan on my kidneys, Mar 2011 I drank a contrasting fluid and had angiogram of my heart. In May 2011 My doctor told me the specialist did not send the results and wanted me to have another CT. I said no way call and get the info from the other doc. I am not doing that again.
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I don't blame you one bit, Sharp2197. Last Spring, during Fuku fallout here in Seattle, there were a lot of kids in my child's sports league with foot or arm injuries, many with bone fractures…my child included. A slight hairline fracture in the foot did not show up in the first set of xrays. (Taken from three angles).
After the season ended, with pain persisting, the doc ordered yet ANOTHER set of xrays, and confirmed the hairline fracture (which had healed on its own, despite being played on all season.)
At a follow up appt with a new doc, who was filling in for the regular doc, they wanted to order yet ANOTHER xray. I had to mention that I preferred to LIMIT the amount of xrays my child received. No one, not the doc or the xray tech, seemed to care one bit.
Before looking at the xray on the monitor, while waiting for it to boot up, up popped the G.E. logo. I can't tell you how that turned my stomach. What a perfect racket: Make the deadly nuke plants that spew death into our environment and cause cancers and other diseases. Then diagnose the diseases with your xray machines. Then treat the cancers with your medical radiation treatments.
How can the shareholders at G.E. sleep at night? Do they not have a conscience? Do they not have loved ones?
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well said watk!!
bravo!
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Thanks, Arc!
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They're probably in the funeral business too. shhh, don't tell them.
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I wouldn't doubt it, Richard.
Hey, did you ever check out that documentary about the secret Australian nuclear tests and human bones study I mentioned? Just curious to hear your thoughts about it, given you are an Aussie.
Wonder how many other Australians even know about that dark history…?
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It's already happening in Japan richard.
Aeon who sells radioactive rice started a funeral service after the disaster. Too dark humour for my liking. Never thought a company could run both food and funeral business but I guess their vision must be 'to feed the poison and let's rake in the profits' hey.
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The Iodine-131 experiment in Alaska. http://t.co/K8TxU4rP
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POTR blog has posted reports about recent high air readings. Have there been any reports about recent events that might be associated with these apparent increases in jet stream radiation?
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/06/maximum-alert-airborne-radioactivity-5.html
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/06/san-francisco-alert-3x-airborne.html
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@iam335
i posted on my videos last week that the east coast usa could actually get hit by european radiation discharges that were happening.. the low level winds headed to canada and new york state.. either iodine 131 or cobalt 60 or some such.. dont know how far it might have penetrated inland..
peace
oh its arclight2011 on youtube and the videos are dated if you want to backtrack for the weather info and rad levels in the uk at the time
europe is having multiple reactor problems/emmissions
primarily budapest, chonin and sizewell as far i can glen from london
suspect a few others too! ;/
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oops meant chinon npp france (near the pyrenees)
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Honeywell, uranium gas releases & union workers
(…) "Recently, on May 10, at around 2 p.m., managers walked into Honeywell's uranium conversion plant in Metropolis, Ill., and told workers—both union and nonunion—they had to leave the plant immediately. Multiple workers present say a manager told them the sudden dismissal was because the company had to investigate "sabotage" of plant equipment. (…)
Then on May 14, an engineer (..)caused a release of highly toxic radioactive UF6 gas for over seven minutes. Contrary to company policy, no alarms were sounded informing the community of the release of this deadly gas. Fortunately, no one was hurt by the accidental release of UF6 gas. Yet another leak of the same gas occurred at the Metropolis plant yesterday, although again it appears that workers fortunately escaped serious injury. (…)
So when I heard Honeywell CEO Dave Cote would be talking at a forum on "Revitalizing America: Encouraging Entrepreneurship," hosted by Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.),….I began to ask Cote about the uranium release caused by a non-union engineer working a job performed by a union worker. Cote began to frown and looked annoyed with my question. Immediately, I started getting dirty stares and smirks from the room of assembled corporate lobbyists and allies.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/9558-microphone-grabbed-out-of-hands-of-reporter-questioning-honeywell-ceo
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Also here: http://enenews.com/forum-general-discussion-thread-nuclear-issues-june-2012/comment-page-1#comment-257946
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Ugh, sorry aigeezer! I just now noticed you posted it first further up! I tend to quick-post the lunchbreak finds without screening the threads first….as it seems, truth-out has two regular readers…
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No problem, B&B. It's bound to happen now and then. The two versions have slightly differing perspectives, I think, so it's good that they're both available.
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"MIT Pro-Nuke Study Debunked" uploaded to YT from Goddard's Journal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8YFe6Q08M8&feature=em-uploademail
I don't think this subject is "new news" here, but this version of it was uploaded to YT today.
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Oops the announcement I got came with several other links, which I forgot to post at the time. They are:
MIT No-Evacuation-Study Press Release:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/prolonged-radiation-exposure-0515.html
MIT Awarded Nuclear Promotion Grant:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/mit-doe-grants-fellowships.html
MIT Plan For 3X More Nuclear Energy:
http://web.mit.edu/nuclearpower/
Tanaka et al 2009, find significant genotoxicity at 1/3rd MIT dose:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19267556
Google search for Chernobyl-induced genetic damage:
https://www.google.com/search?q=chernobyl+chromosomal+aberrations
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POTR blog:
"Maximum Jet Stream Alert, STAY OUT OF THE RAIN!
We continue to receive reports of unusually high AIRBORNE radioactivity associated with the current Jet Stream. Given those detections, our detections, and recent Iodine 131 detections in Japan, we consider it imperative to STAY OUT OF THE RAIN, and to use home HEPA air filters.
More to follow."
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2012/06/maximum-jet-stream-alert-stay-out-of.html
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POTR blog just added a video on this subject:
"We are extending our Maximum Alert to stay out of the Jet Stream and rain for the following reasons.
(1) Recent large Iodine 131 detections in Japan
(2) Multiple individual reports of high AIRBORNE radiation along the Jet Stream
(3) EPA Radnet data showing high, multi hour, AIRBORNE radiation …"
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/
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Additional jet stream and real-time radiation monitoring links
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,20.msg464.html#msg464
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This all dates back to a song called Mcarthur Park.
"I don't think I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and i'll never have that recipe again…., oh no…"
"Someone left the cake out in the rain…"
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I have a question regarding the shared sacrifice hoisted upon the Japanese people through the burning of radioactive debris:
Why do the 21st Century Leaders of Japan contaminate their ancestors…
… What did their ancestors do to them but give them life and a nation of beauty?
Such Leaders should be revoked by the people…
… The citizens have ancestors, too. Do they not?
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One could pose similar questions regarding their next generation (and beyond).
Nuclear technology is an affront to the idea of intergenerational justice. It forces long-term environmental contamination, DNA damage, and dangerous, difficult to contain waste on future generations in order to power people's televisions and air conditioners (and advance the selfish interests of politicians and corporations) today.
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Japanese Tsunami Debris Washes Ashore Near Prince William Sound
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..oops ..my mouse is nervous.
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Morning howdy Heart and thank you. Placed in current debris tracking links
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,20.msg488.html#msg488
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Good morning Chemfood..Thank you ..NOAA is only going to tell us what they want us to know.
Citizen tracking is essential.
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Ya..like how NOAA gives specific detecting rad debris instructions to their employees but tells citizens searching with kids to only exercize caution. Makes me want to take my next vacation in the new and prisitine GoM.
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Japanese Tsunami Debris Washes Ashore Near Prince William Sound
"They tend to aggregate debris on individual beaches,” said Peter Murphy of NOAA’s marine debris program. “Areas that previously got debris will likely feel more debris and so we would expect that to continue.”
http://www.ktva.com/home/outbound-xml-feeds/Japanese-Tsunami-Debris-Washes-Ashore-in–155984035.html
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From that news clip: "Officials from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said the garbage isn’t contaminated with radiation from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant".
SP: Such a dubious claim considering how little debris they have personally analyzed. Did they board the Japanese derelict ship before the US Coast Guard blasted it to the ocean floor?
These bureaucratic savants also gave similar optimistic accounts of sealife April 2, 2012:
"A new study, based on data from a NOAA research vessel, takes a look at radioactivity levels near Japan a few months after the disaster. The data suggests that the highest estimates of radioactive discharges are likely to be accurate, but the rapid dilution of the water has kept the levels from Fukushima's isotopes below those of the naturally occurring radioactivity."
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/04/lots-of-radioactivity-but-little-risk-in-oceans-seafood-near-fukushima/
SP: There they go again comparing natural radiation with the Dr. Frankenstein test tube witches brew from Hell. Kind of like comparing a Yorkie to a rabid pit bull.
Also from that April 2012 article:
"The net result is that the 137 in fish was about 150 times lower than the legal limits in Japan. Even if all the isotopes were considered, the fish would be safe to eat."
SP: Keep that thought in mind as the bioaccumulation continues in sea life. And we know there is more than just cesium in the toxic sea water…
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Dilution is a joke …
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/06/02/declassified-report-debunks-media-myth-ocean-diluting-fukushima-radiation-140181/
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With Jaczko out of the way, the NRC is meeting to discuss extending the operating licenses of nuclear power plants to 80 years. Criminals!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/nuclear-regulatory-commission_b_1565916.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/04/an-80-year-license-to-kill/
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Jaczko isn't out of the picture yet.
His incompetance remains.(leadership issues?)
http://www.lvrj.com/news/nrc-chief-jaczko-not-packing-just-yet-153266375.html
Evidently he has no power to persuade the comissioners under his leadership.
He is going to resign?..then why doesn't he tell the truth about Fukushima?
Stay or go.. what difference does it make?
NONE.
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Well, by announcing his resignation, he has made himself a lame duck, essentially stripping himself of any influence among the commissioners. They are acting as if he is no longer present.
The point is that the concrete and steel in the 40 year old reactors were designed to last 40 years and then be decommissioned (in other words, now). To assume that they could last for eighty years is nothing short of criminal.
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40+ year-old reactor skeletons are subject to "embrittlement" … my skeleton empathizes.
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Religious leaders call on higher power against Oi restart
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201206060003
Better sneak this in ..under the religious discussion ban.
…..My prayers are being sent to them ….
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Alaska Airline staff suffering from Fukushima radiation?? I don't think I have heard anything about this until now??
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1870654/pg1
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Found the link to the actual news story about the uniforms….
http://www.king5.com/news/local/Alaska-Airlines-Flight-Attendants–150127485.html
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Dock found in Oregon is from Japan……
http://www.king5.com/news/business/157528145.html
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Poll: I oppose construction of new reactors in the U.S.
I support construction of new reactors in the U.S.
Take the Poll no matter where You live, as we know if there is an accident radiation follows the jet stream so it Will affect You…Also setting a precedent in one country may help determine what gets built in other countries.
Find the poll at the end of the article indicating
Conclusion 1: The public does NOT want to pay for new nuclear power. It IS willing to pay for renewable energy.
Conclusion 2: Americans do not think nuclear power is “clean” energy, and still don’t want to pay for it.
Conclusion 3: On new reactors, how one asks the question matters.
Article discusses several Polls.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say
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BONNIE RAITT BENEFIT RECEPTION FOR NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
WOLF TRAP, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012
ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1207528
The link below is to the NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) site. http://www.nirs.org/
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Nuke safety panel told utilities to say no risk of long-term power loss in 1992
The working group of the government's Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) instructed power utilities to "write a composition" in 1992 on why there would be no need for the nuclear watchdog to consider a long-term power loss at nuclear power plants in its review of the country's safety guidelines for nuclear reactor designs, it has been learned….
…NSC Chairman Haruki Madarame apologized for what happened some 20 years ago, saying. "It was clearly inappropriate to have utility firms take their share of writing a draft report. I am very sorry." Although NSC was aware of the internal documents in question in June last year, it did not release them. The secretariat said, "We had been proceeding with preparations to release them, but we were busy with other work."
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120605p2a00m0na008000c.html
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I'd say thats a majority!
Poll: Japanese opposition to nuke power stronger
The survey released Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center said 70 percent of Japanese believe the country should reduce its reliance on nuclear energy, up from 44 percent last year.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20120605/AP15/306059914
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Canadian Solar bets on Japan nuclear crisis being a game-changer
Solar power firms are betting that the nuclear crisis in Japan will become a game-changer for renewable energy in the world’s third largest economy, with new foreign entrants such as Canadian Solar looking to go toe-to-toe there with some of the biggest utilities in Asia.
They will be given a big helping hand next month when the government introduces a generous subsidy for renewable energy via a so-called feed-in tariff (FIT), in a bid to encourage alternative energy sources, which currently only generate about 1% of power in Japan.
The FIT, which excludes large hydro-electric schemes, will require utilities to buy electricity generated by renewable sources such as solar, wind and geothermal heat at a premium for 20 years. Costs will be passed on to consumers through higher power bills.
http://business.financialpost.com/2012/06/05/canadian-solar-bets-on-japan-nuclear-crisis-being-a-game-changer/?__lsa=5918f9f5
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The vacuum cleaner strikes again. I think that vacuum cleaners should share the nobel peace prize with jellyfish. Obama got one…
U.S. nuclear submarine fire linked to vacuum cleaner
(Reuters) – A fire that caused an estimated $400 million in damage to a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine docked in Maine may have been caused by a vacuum cleaner, authorities said on Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-usa-submarine-fire-cause-idUSBRE8551DT20120606
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Tributyl phosphate, suspected irritant in the Uniforms, happens to be involved in this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX
"… an acronym standing for Plutonium – URanium EXtraction — de facto standard aqueous nuclear reprocessing method for the recovery of uranium and plutonium from used nuclear fuel. It is based on liquid-liquid extraction ion-exchange.
The PUREX process was invented by Herbert H. Anderson and Larned B. Asprey at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, as part of the Manhattan Project under Glenn T. Seaborg; their patent "Solvent Extraction Process for Plutonium" filed in 1947,[1] mentions tributyl phosphate as the major reactant which accomplishes the bulk of the chemical extraction.[2]
~~~Where TBP "finds its uses":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tributyl_phosphate#Use
"The major uses of TBP in industry are as a component of aircraft hydraulic fluid and as a solvent for extraction and purification of rare earth metals from their ores.[2]
[...]
Nuclear Chemistry:
A 15-40% (usually about 30%) solution of tributyl phosphate in kerosene or dodecane is used in the liquid-liquid extraction (solvent extraction) of uranium, plutonium, and thorium from spent uranium nuclear fuel rods dissolved in nitric acid, as part of a nuclear reprocessing process known as PUREX."
Well…mighty suspect connections this TBP has; an all-around shady ingredient.
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US Patent Office, 1960: "Solvent Process for Plutonium Extraction"
http://worldwide.espacenet.com/maximizedOriginalDocument?flavour=maximizedPlainPage&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19600209&CC=US&NR=2924506A&KC=A
Bottom, last page:
"OTHER REFERENCES
Smyth: 'A General Account of the Development of Methods of
Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices
of the United States Government' page 99 (1945), U.S. Govern-
ment Printing Office, Washington, D.C."
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Alert 6064 cpm right now
RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation two more spikes, 5000 cpm and even higher…its being looked into right now
19 minutes ago · Like.
RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation 7089 still alerting….hoping this is a malfunction
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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Radiation Net Alert!!!South Bend, IN, US 7000 cpm+ RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation 7089 still alerting….hoping this is a malfunctionhttp://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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Does anyone know what these high readings mean? I live in South Bend, and my GC in my apartment is generally indicating normal levels (from mid-20s to 40s in CPM, with an occasional random 58 or 60).
How can one check into this to confirm if it is an error? Is there anyone that one could contact to find out?
While there are numerous nuclear-related facilities in Illinois and Michigan that might have accidents, I am not aware of any such facilities in South Bend. Does anyone else know of any? Presumably if it were jet-stream related, it would be showing up in more locations than just South Bend.
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Yes rad network is showing high readings. They are trying to figure out what is causing the high readings. They are pretty well off the map. Interesting…
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Who is they?
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London Olympics site contaminated with radioactive waste:
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/1108
Ichicax mentions it on her most recent video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwehJf24feA&feature=em-uploademail
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Jane Payne geiger counter at 2157 !!! same area. http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html
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I can't get your link to work. Are you sure it is correct?
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I put the link down below.
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Thank you
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Iam, I was having the same problem. Here's my post about it which I just posted to the Radiation Monitoring forum:
Thanks, ChasAha. Are we sure they are indeed separate, meaning different people using different Geiger Counters, are both getting high readings?
Could the same person and Geiger counter be hooked up to BOTH systems? Could be possible…
I hope this is the case and these are both false positives/system malfunctions…
Interestingly, however: when I tried clicking on the link you gave to blackcatsystems using my Opera browser in my smartphone, it redirected to a long url filled with gobeldygook…Then, when I tried pasting the link directly into my browser, it did the same thing.
It was only when I searched for the link by pasting it into the Startpage.com search engine ("The World's Most Private Search Engine"), then clicked on it, was I able to get to the radiation map…
This has happened to me previously in similar circumstances. It's hard not to suspect my browser has some strange censoring code in it somehow? Why else would this happen? Anyone with programming background know?
Here's the gobeldygook I got when it redirected automatically in my Opera browser:
http://xn--www-4m0a.blackcatsystems.com/%E2%80%8BRadMap/map.html
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https://www.facebook.com/pages/RadChick-Radiation-Research-Mitigation/260610960640885
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7082 cpm 10:00pm South Bend, IN, US
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Just check http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ Still Over 7000cpm South Bend, IN, US 1:15 am
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7080 cpm. Its been going up and down 3000-7000 cpm
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Instead of 4 monitors around Denver area, there is only 1.
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On radnet, that is.
The following is horrible, but doesn't seem to be directed to longmont, CO for a change:
Induction Magnetometer, Gakona, AK
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=latest&Bx=on
HAARP Fluxgate Magnetometer
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/magnetometer/gak-mag.cgi
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wont let me access those pages.
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Just go to http://www.haarp.edu and click on the "online data" link in the menu bar at the top. Then click on either the Haarp Fluxgate Magnetometer or Induction Magnetometer links directly from there.
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i guess its my works interweb. ill look at home thanks.
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Suzan Laws The Black Cat Radiation Systems free realtime online radiation reading show a unit at 3000+ too *from facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/RadChick-Radiation-Research-Mitigation/260610960640885#!/pages/RadChick-Radiation-Research-Mitigation/260610960640885
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RadChick Radiation Research & Mitigation gave the alert out on facebook. RadiationNetwork.com has reading over/under 7000cpm
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I checked the JetStream on Stormsurf.com and it looks like the JetStream went directly through that area near Ill/Ind/SouthMi today. A direct hit!
But this one huge reading in only one area can't be from the Jet Stream, or other areas would show equally high readings, yes? Must either be a glitch (hopefully!) or a local source…
BTW. The last time radiationnetwork had such a high reading in one area, in Colorado, they said it was due to the operator having had a medical test with radiation that day and getting too close to the Geiger Counter…However, the guy in CO who runs the (different) system Anne is always posting readings for got the exact same spike at the exact same time…so that excuse about the medical test seemed suspect..Who knows? The mystery deepens…
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I just read somewhere that that reading in CO was 500 CPM. No where near the readings in Indiana tonight.
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Are referring to the supposed medical test false reading that happened a month or two ago, Anne? If that is the one you're referring to, yes, I don't think it was in the 1000s, if my memory serves me correctly…500 seems to ring a bell.
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I checked both Black Cat and Rad network. Both High in Indiana. Moved links to the Forum for Radiation readings.
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