Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 4:07 am ET
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Title: Fukushima residents rip nuke power
Source: The Japan Times
Author: NATSUKO FUKUE
Date: Aug. 2, 2012
[...]The event in the prefecture that hosts the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant was the latest in a series of nationwide hearings by the central government to solicit views on its proposals for the target ratio of nuclear energy by 2030.
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“I don’t want them to use (the hearing) as an excuse that they listened to citizens’ opinions” said Hanazawa, a mother of two daughters in the city of Fukushima, who also stressed that the government should give up on nuclear power as soon as possible.
“The government should take responsibility for what happened” in Fukushima, she said. “There are monitoring posts everywhere in town. The weather forecast also talks about the level of radiation. This is not a normal way of life.”
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Published: August 2nd, 2012 at 4:07 am ET
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And they cannot trust the measurements anyway!
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Low-level radioactivity was discovered in a packaged oats product from Japan on sale at a retail outlet in Hong Kong, a spokesman for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department said Wednesday. After testing a sample from the package, the Hong Kong-based CFS said radioactivity levels were low enough that there is no health concern for anyone consuming the oatmeal. "The oats sample was collected from a local supermarket for radiation testing under the regular food surveillance program, the CFS spokesman said. "The test result showed that a low level of the radioactive substance, Caesium-137 (Cs-137), was detected at 7 Bq/kg." The CFS spokesman said the radioactivity level is far below the 1,000 Bq/kg safety guideline established by the international Codex Alimentarius Commission. CFS did not order a recall of the product because the dietary exposure shows the internal dose of Cs-137 even at high consumption, figured at 90 grams per day, would not be enough to result in adverse health effects.
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wonder where the fukushima fish will end up cos some of it is over the low japanese standards…??
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schools' lunches -dirty bastards!!!
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They're killing the kids first. Wasn't the radioactive fish also sent to Thailand for their school lunch program, too?
Let's kill a bunch of another nation's children, too.
How can human beings make these decisions? Hillary?
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Send it to the US thanks to Hillary..
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link
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"Last August, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a secret pact with her Japanese counterpart to continue importing Japan's untested food for American dinner tables."
http://www.examiner.com/article/radiating-americans-fukushima-rain-clinton-s-secret-food-pact
http://coupmedia.org/toxins/fukushima-radiation-on-us-west-coast-mainstream-media-coverup-0304
http://solarimg.org/?p=1722
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http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm247403.htm What specific tests is FDA using?
FDA has procedures and laboratory techniques for measuring radionuclide levels in food, and can also utilize the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN). FERN integrates the nation's food-testing laboratories at the local, state, and federal levels into a network that is able to respond to emergencies involving biological, chemical, or radiological contamination of food. FDA is working with Customs and Border Protection (CPB) to share resources and techniques for measuring contamination. FDA has the ability to measure contamination in products and issued guidance in 1998 regarding safe levels.
For those food and feed imports from the areas in proximity to the reactor but not covered by the import alert, FDA will:
Conduct a field examination, including time/temperature changes, water damage.
Collect a sample for radionuclide analysis at FDA laboratories.
For food and feed imports from Japan that originate outside the area of concern, FDA will:
Collect a sample for any radiation pager reading significantly above background.
As additional surveillance and as resources allow, collect other samples for radionuclide analysis as resources permit, for readings of 0 on the radionuclide pager.
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it's bad enough without embellishment.
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Clearly, you haven't been here long enough. The FDA is one of the most corrupt agencies in the US government. If you think they give a damn about you or your kids, start researching. They don't.
Welcome to the Red Pill.
PS: Although your avatar meant something centuries ago, you probably won't get much love these days with it. Many Masons in leadership positions in the nuke industry. What goes on between the pillars doesn't trump a corrupt paycheck.
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+1
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@ Time Is Short. So, is it really appropriate to be telling someone to change their avatar? I thought this was an open forum? No?
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@ Bobby Smith, Keep your avatar. Not everyone here thinks the Masons eat babies. Interestingly, the Romans thought the same of the Scots. Some misperceptions never seem to go away.
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Hola Vic, noone asked him to change it! Peace!
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Hong Kong, one of two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (the other being Macau), has been conducting daily tests for radioactivity of food from Japan since March 12, 2011. One day before that, a powerful 9.0 earthquake struck Japan, causing a devastating tidal wave and leading to the melt down of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. With the farmland environment around the Daiichi plant poisoned with radioactivity, Hong Kong CFS has conducted nearly 91,000 tests of food imported from Japan to weed out any that are radioactive. Just 171 Japanese food samples have been found to be radioactive by the Hong Kong testing program. With the packaged oats, high consumption would result in a radiation dose lower than one might receive during a chest X-ray. Hong Kong tests for Iodine-131, Caesium-134 and Caesium-137. It has detected these elements in fruits and vegetables, meat and aquatic products, and various beverages and cereals. In most cases, the findings do not exceed Codex levels or the importer for disposal surrendered the product. CFS said it will "review and adjust" the monitoring of food from Japan based on "recommendations from international authorities to safeguard food safety."
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20120802-36023-CHN
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thanks mungo for bringing this story to our attention…
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"..This is not a normal way of life.”
oh yes it is!
London olympic radiation pollution alert 29 july 2012 from la hague waste processing edf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn4d1AI_M5E
the radiation is low today average 0.10 mcSv/h …with the odd rise to 0.17 mcSv/h …brief lows to 0.05 mcSv/h
thats about as good as it gets here in london
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Now..the weather channels are chiming in..offering false data to the people.
The people instinctively know…that these readings are not correct.
Reports show that the monitoring stations are rigged to show lower contamination levels.
The goverment is trying to show control..
And it is..
They are head honchos..in genocide against the people of Japan.
http://enenews.com/tokyo-paper-thick-iron-shielding-below-radiation-monitoring-post-journalist-dose-doubled-5-meters-away
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Dear Heart of the Rose,
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Agreed!
Do you have any thoughts on this? It breaks my heart, especially if I reference to the writings of Dr. John Gofman.
National Downwinders Day:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jan/27/nation-recognizes-nuclear-test-downwinders/
Dr. John Gofman (All credit to bleep_hits_blades
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/inetSeries/nwJWG.html
Aloha.
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7 Bq/kg in food! Of Cs-137(infintely more than natural). In a year I eat say 365 kg. That means say 2500 Bq of Cs 137. When this Cs137 lodges in the cell via a receptor, it is decaying at the rate of 7 disintegrations per second. The energy release is 0.662 million electron volts in 10E-17 secs to the cell weighing 512E-15 kg! Which is 100 milliSv! The dose to the DNA is a million times more! Or 100000 Sv! So Herman Mueller observed mutations and won the Nobel! And many decades ago. Infinitely more than nature! Stop this madness now. "This is not a normal way of life." Modern civilization is founded on false foundations by breaking up society into a specialist ruled suicidal route. Go normal. In living in this world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or TRIBAL is more competent than the most intelligent worker or technician or intellectual in a society of specialists((Wendell Berry(1975), Mahatma Gandhi(1908)).
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@Ramaswami Kumar: excellent information! Could you site some online references?
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http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2011/07/toward-a-new-moral-equivalent-of-war/
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@AFTERSHOCK
August 2, 2012 at 11:51 am
Thanks for your comment. The reference is
mentioned in at Ref 2:
http://plutoniumaradiumabillionpeoplehitdna.blogspot.in/2007/12/stop-nuclear-energy-programmes.html
2.Gofman,J.W.1990.Radiation Induced Cancer from Low Dose Exposure: An Independent Analysis.
Chapter 19-3.
This is available on line in ratical.org:
http://ratical.org/radiation/CNR/RIC/contentsF.html
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@Ramaswami Kumar, thx for posting the link to the low dose radiation study. I've been talking to various people about that and needed to brush up. And, nice treatment of the ethics, or lack thereof, of nuclear power and the acceptability of its inevitable harmful impact on unwitting local communities.
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@VicFromOregon
August 3, 2012 at 6:43 am
Thanks for your comments. In those days(1990s)there was no internet in India but we were aware of nukes through various sources like No Immediate Danger, Bertell and the works of Dr John Gofman. He was kind enough to post me a copy of each of his works on radiation and they were really knowledge builders. Some of my works like the one mentioned above use the base provided by him to get the big picture. This is the kind of networking we need not some shady nuclear deal a la MM Singh et al. We of course are welcoming nukes into our country instead of shunning them. Hope all our micro efforts go a long way in stopping nukes.
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@Ramaswami Kumar: thanks for the followup! I'm impressed by the prescience that you've exhibited in your writings. You've obviously been concerned with these issues for some time.
I'd suggest distilling this subject mattern (internal exposure to radioactive toxins) into a PDF, for those of us who lack the scientific acumen to understand this nuanced subject. It should be constrained to as few pages as possible and include demonstrative graphics. It's imperative that people grasp the differences between internal and external radiation exposure. Such a 'pamphlet' would serve well to illustrate how cellular damage is perpetrated through 'low-level' internal exposure to radioactive toxins.
Thanks again!!!
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@AFTERSHOCK
August 3, 2012 at 10:11 am
Thanks for your very timely suggestion.I will try and achieve asap the aftershock!
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@Ramaswami Kumar: please flag me if-and-when you release it. There's so much being posted out here, there's a good chance I'd miss its release. Speaking of which: you should put it into the public domain (with due credits of course) and invite all relevant venues to freely distribute it.
Flag me at darkliteREMOVE@REMOVEhushmailREMOVE.REMOVEcom if you'd like a second eye. Though I'm extremely busy on my side of the fence, I'd be honored to help if I can…
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Today's USA forecast. Avoid the RAIN East of Oklahoma!!!
Oklahoma high 80's cpm several hours ago on Radiation Network.
Still showing higher than normal.
Heavy rains in OK overnight. Still raining too.
http://radiationnetwork.com/
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/
August 2, 2012 at 9:55 am · [re-post from Rad Monitoring Forum]
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ChasAha: Radiation Network currently (8/2/12, 11:30AM) shows 3 stations above 50cpm in the USA. (100 cpm = Alert Level) Radiation readings are trending up all over the USA, west to east, and north to south. This Fuku sh*t doesn't go away. A little bit of radiation falls to earth here and there, but if it is driven by the winds aloft, it will circle the globe again and again, bringing up the numbers on Radiation Network bit by bit over time (as it has over the past year and a half). SO STAY OUT OF THE RAIN ANYWHERE IN THE USA.
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California radioactivity monitoring map
http://www.gregslab.com/tools/radwatch
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Maybe the radiation falling on what's left of the failed corn crop will make our cars more fuel efficient. Glad we don't need it to feed anyone . . .
"AFIA emphasized that the current RFS requires the ethanol industry to use in excess of 40% of the US corn production to meet this mandate."
http://allaboutfeed.net/news/afia-worries-about-corn-supply-13501.html
That leaves less than 59% of whatever is left to feed animals and humans. Sheer madness.
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@ChasAha..Also avoid:
Eating
Breathing
Rain
Snow
Wind (can blow alpha particles down your nose)
Going outdoors for the next 30 years
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I have been monitoring radiationnetwork.com for 6 months now and I have noticed a slow increase of cpm #s across the US. Thank you [REMOVED. FINAL WARNING.]
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@rambojim: your outrage is well received. But such 'references' are not…
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@AFTERSHOCK..No apologies on my part..Sorry…
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@rambojim: not into beating horses. I can handle anything. I'm concerned that you'll not only unjustly offend others but that you'll be flagged from the site. You are respected and more than welcome to be here. Just keep in mind, we're all representative of this site; not just ourselves…
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@AFTERSHOCK You are right…..
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@rambojim: Great article on the history of U.S. influence over Japan's nuclear technologies path…
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United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
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http://www.dcbureau.org/201204097128/national-security-news-service/united-states-circumvented-laws-to-help-japan-accumulate-tons-of-plutonium.html#more-7128
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This is an extensive treatment of how we got to where we are today. It's good stuff…
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@AFTERSHOCK, this is a em of an article. Thx for posting it.
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@Vic: it is a gem! Confirms what might've been lurking in the subconscious, about the nuclear technologies industry…
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Whole northern hemisphere needs to worry about radiation, as tons spewed from Chernobyl and Fukushima. And still spewing.
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One good thing about us over the age of 65. We might still have a chance of dying in our sleep peacefully at a fairly ripe old age. There is a certain amount of pain associated with dying of cancer and radiation sickness and I have a very low tolerance for anything that hurts….
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National Health Care will be providing everyone with one free 30- day prescription of a very powerful painkiller for these eventualities.
No refill necessary, if you get my drift.
You don't think you'll get medical care for any of this, do you?
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Some of the Japanese probably thank us gaijin bastards for occupying their country for 60 years and bringing in the deadly industry.
The scourge of mankind is not exclusive to Japan. It's a few hundred thousand nucleocrats and they live all around the world. Hopefully they are nervous as their empire begins to lose any support from the citizens. The head GE man sees the handwriting on the wall.
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I would feel terrible about being thrown off enews so I will choose my words more carefully in the future…
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Sometimes ..truth must be told..chances of banishment..must be taken.
I am continually being hacked and banned at a certain..chat room.
They think they want truth..but it is evident they don't…
Guess what…. I have better things to do…
Just saying..
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Don't you dare leave us, HOTR. Never give up!
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Thanks for the encouraging words..Time Is Short.
This is all a "fool's game".
I tire of shenanigans easily.
Or rather …I get BORED.
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Troll jousting has its' moments.
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Free rambojim now!!
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@Time Is Short…Thank you sir…
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Heard you the first time, but this is not on topic. Please post with an appropriate URL (and one sentence summary by you) in the General Discussion Forum:
http://enenews.com/forum-general-discussion-thread-nuclear-issues-july-2012
Thanks,
SP
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