Published: February 6th, 2012 at 4:25 am ET
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Title: Shining the Light on the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi
Source: Town Meeting TV on Channel 17 in Burlington, VT
Air Date: Feb 2, 2012
CCTV host Margaret Harrington interviews Maggie and Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp regarding the triple meltdown in March 2011 at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. There were ample warnings that both TEPCO and Japan’s regulators ignored steps that would have prevented this tragedy. Throughout the world, nuclear oversight has been compromised by the revolving door and cozy relationship between the nuclear industry and the so-called nuclear regulators who promote nuclear power rather than regulate.
Excerpt at 25:30 in
I’m afraid that the Japanese gov’t and the Japanese medical establishment are going to try their very best to hide the numbers coming out of Fukushima Prefecture.
Already we’ve seen national death rates published in Japan, they’re not available in the areas near the Fukushima reactors.
For whatever reason, that is not available for the last 9 months. Why is that?
So I’m afraid that the medical community is going to follow Japanese gov’t and try to downplay the significance of this.
Published: February 6th, 2012 at 4:25 am ET
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“So I’m afraid that the medical community is going to follow Japanese gov’t and try to downplay the significance of this.”
Durrr. Ya think?
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X infinity + 1. If that was not the understatement of the year. Arnie knows his nukes but not cultures. If doctors even hint that something is related to radiation here doctors receive nothing.
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They are not counting total deaths caused by Fukushima in either Japan or in other countries…
In another direction, they are also not capable of doing any math in this area either….
Total Radiation Released Into Ocean, Air, Groundwater, Storage Tanks, etc http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3069802
updated 2/6/2012
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Found in craigslist discussion forum searching for fukushima…. very interesting discussions in this ONE city…. wonder whats happening in yoursÉ
rcs 65% of Japanese fishing catch radioactively con < risk-averse > 2012-01-16 16:58:28
has been found to be radioactively contaminated. The Fukishima disaster is so far the worst manmade ecological disaster, releasing between 10x to 100x Chenobryl contamination into the world’s oceans. Reactor 4 spent fuel pool completely completely evaporated, fuel has melted, and walls have deteriorated. MOX fuel with Plutonium was wildly released into the environment. Radiation levels within areas of the compound are so high that even robots deteriorate. In October, a U.S. study – co-authored by oceanographer Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Mass., – reported Fukushima caused history’s biggest-ever release of radiation into the ocean – 10 to 100 times more than the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/After%2BFukushima%2Bfish%2Btales/5994237/story.html#ixzz1jfk19Yl6 — Cesium was especially prevalent in certain of the species: 73 per cent of mackerel tested 91 per cent of the halibut 92 per cent of the sardines 93 per cent of the tuna and eel 94 per cent of the cod and anchovies 100 per cent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish Some of the fish were caught in Japanese coastal waters. Other catches were made hundreds of kilometres away in the open ocean.
https://forums.craigslist.org/?SQ=fukushima&act=RSR&forumID=96
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Hey check it out:
**sfo radiation monitoring group starting < markd3733 > 2011-08-01 09:46:03
Hello! In the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns and what seems to be a coordinated effort by the companies and governments involved ( including ours) to cover up the severity and downplay the consequence, there are efforts being made to get citizen monitoring of radiation levels going; I am involved in such an effort and hope that someone reading this might be willing to help with some of the technical aspects by answering some question about monitoring equipment and procedures. I am a devoted follower of science news, but lack the education ( and , being honest, the IQ)required to understand the intricacies which are involved. If there is anyone out there who is well versed in this area, particularly anyone familiar with the foreign made ( mostly Asian and European) digital detection equipment and is willing to talk to me for a bit about it, please contact me. Please don’t bother with the flamings. If you don’t think there is a problem, or that I’m an idiot, or whatever, you’re probably right and shouldn’t waste your valuable time on this. thanks! Mark Davis 707-393-1192**
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***Soon they will probably start dumping their problem into the Pacific without any notification to the public. They have more (Cesium) radiation in the water contained in the basement of one of their reactors than was released in the entire Chernobyl event. All the industry insiders including the IAEA is helping them cover up the magnitude of the disaster there.
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The interesting part was that many of these fishies are being EXPORTED TO CANADA
Canada happens to have a radiation ‘safe’ limit of 1,000 Bq/kg…
I wonder if they are doing ANY testing at all on what is coming in these days?
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Ahhh yes, liability! I found this interesting article…Nuke Intl. covering its ass.
“Japan wants in on nuclear accident compensation pact
Prompted by the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Japan has decided to join an international convention that will set a global uniform standard for compensating victims of such nuclear disasters, sources said.
Tokyo has decided it would be of benefit to belong to the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC), as it is seeking to restart its own nuclear reactors and to export reactor technology to other nations.
Japan has not joined any similar international conventions because it did not anticipate a major accident could occur in a nuclear plant in its own country. (…)
The CSC currently has four nations that have signed and ratified the convention: the United States, Argentina, Morocco and Romania. The United States, the leading advocate of the CSC, has been calling on Japan to join.
The convention would grant “exclusive jurisdiction” to Japan in the event an accident in the nation affected other countries. Following the Fukushima accident, it has been seen as a major potential burden that Japan could face court proceedings overseas if victims abroad sued concerned parties for compensation. (…)
The convention would also ensure “exclusive liability of the operator,” which means that all liability should be borne by the nuclear operator, not the manufacturers, if an accident occurs at a nuclear reactor exported by Japanese enterprises.
(BnB thinks: OR if an accident occurs in Japan at a reactor exported by the USA, as seen in Fuku!)
That provision requires that the importing country also join the CSC, but Japan was expected to find it difficult to call on countries buying reactors from its domestic manufacturers to join the treaty unless it was a signatory in the first place.
cont. (drum roll)
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The International Atomic Energy Agency pointed out a need for an international compensation framework during a Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety it hosted in June.
Daniel Poneman, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy, also said during his visit to Japan in December that “the events at Fukushima emphasized the need for a global nuclear liability regime” and called on Japan to ratify the CSC.
An international convention on liability does not work sufficiently unless neighboring nations, which could be affected, also sign and ratify the pact. Japan is hoping that Taiwan, South Korea and other Asian countries will also join the CSC.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201202030021
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Amazing find, B&B. They really do value green paper over everything else on the planet – they have completely lost perspective. It has to change.
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Hi aigeezer – we all wondered “why oh why aren’t the USA more demanding towards Japan to improve / fix the situation?”
Answer: “To avoid being sued themselves over eventually faulty reactors.”
Solution:”Quick – get Japan to sign the CSC thingie, so we can’t sue each other ever again and can continue swapping crappy nuke technology.”
Lovely. And the bloody IAEA amongst them.
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Arnie takes membership in the club
that thinks JMOs* are willing to scrub
medical evidence linking disaster
to sickness happening even faster.
Late’s better than never
when raising a voice.
It just may help
Japanese make the choice
to stand and make no uncertain demand
they get proper treatment
while they still can.
*Japanese Medical Organisations
This is another nail that can’t be hammered down by J-gov.
I hope Japanese speakers add translated subtitles to his videos.
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Wow! I did not know about this Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC).
So the Price Anderson Act in the USA helps nuclear operators by limiting their liability and putting the bulk of the financial burden of a nuclear accident on the government. Now the government is limiting their own liability not just in this country but around the world. While the governments could argue that they are limiting the liability of the tax payers they represent I would argue that if the tax payers understood the risks involved in nuclear they would not take the chance or risk the liability. Wall Street investors do not invest in the nuclear industry because they understand the risk and in no way do they want to take that risk or the burden of the liability and neither should the uninformed tax payer.
The government already supports and covers-up how the nuclear industry radiates our food, water, community and children then they limit what they will pay us or even worse what other countries will pay us if they are at fault.
What a world we’ve made.
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This Convention needs it’s own thread.
After a quick look at a 40 page Doc in typical “‘crat-speak”, I see it exempts military nukes.
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I am amazed at the Craigslist forum, just amazed. No one is trying to sell it, trade it or give it away with a happy ending….sOOOO not the craigslist I remember from a decade ago. just so happens my name is also Craig but I don’t make lists.
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Found this:
*** http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/fe….html?ref=rank [29 January] During the week from 22 January to 28 January, the cesium released into the atmosphere by Fukushima Daiichi increased in comparison to the December level. The radiation released by units 1, 2, and 3 all together was 72 million Bq/hour , which is 12 million Bq/hour higher than in December. It is said that as more work was done inside units 2 and 3, the cesium accumulated on the floor soared into the air. Until then cesium release quantities had been steadily decreasing. Tepco said “It is difficult to dramatically decrease the releases. For the time being, the present level will be continuing”. To prevent the spreading of the cesium accumulated on the sea floor, the sea floor in the harbour in front of the plant will be covered with a 60 cm thick layer of clay and cement. This work will be done from mid-February to March.***
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@Anthony..Craigslist forum? …weird and interesting…
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Radioactive Clay and Cement. What a creative way to get rid of radioactive sludge!
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The corporation model needs to go away with all the contamination into to pacific. People taking positions of power need to actually be held accountable if their ship sinks and kills off people. If the sentence is your company fucks up, thus, you are going away for life I think a lot more people would not be so eager for promotion. On the other hand, we might actually get competent management.
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In your face Tort Reform!!! Hurry up and get your legal loopholes, folks, before they’re all gone!!!
Step right up and get your higher radionuclide max contaminant levels here! We do it all for you!
You’ve worked hard all your life, we’ll help you keep all you’ve earned in a Swiss or Dubai bank account. It’s not your fault that radiation kills people, you’ve been good and done what you’re told…we’ll take care of those pesky anti nuke protesters; we have some guys on the streets that know how to make them shut up!!
CSC
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…umm..I don’t listen to Arnie’s lectures..so correct me if I am wrong….
.. but the BOLD statement that TEPCO… and the government are covering this up is hardly news…it has been a given… since day one.
…considering the condition of Fukushima..I wonder why/how Arnie can resist the urge to comment…
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Arnie suffered great financial loss his first battles with the nuclear cabal. Older and wiser he does not accuse them in an antagonistic manner, but rather presents logical observations that are damning and hard to refute. Nobody from the nuclear industry wants to take him on because his position is so strong.
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