Published: December 8th, 2011 at 10:59 am ET
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Returnees fear Fukushima’s invisible touch, Asia Times Online By Donald Kirk, Dec 9, 2011:
[Minamisoma, a] coastal city on the northern edge of the 20-kilometer “exclusion zone” around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant [...]
[N]obody really believes bad stuff is no longer floating through the clear cold air or lapping up on the innocent looking shores [...]
“It’s invisible substances,” said Sumiko Goto, a manager of a hotel filled with engineers, officials and construction workers who’ve been there for months cleaning up the wreckage that inundated everything within a kilometer of the shoreline. “It’s in the air, in the river, on the walls,” she said. “People are very anxious about the situation. Radioactive substances come from the ground, from the river bottom.” [...]
As for the railroad, the trains are not expected for many years to go south to Tokyo, once a three-hour run through a densely populated region. “The railroad fears radioactive substances passing by the Fukushima plant,” said one person to whom I spoke. “They can’t enter the area.”
Local Tax Official
At City Hall, Koshin Ogai, a young tax official, shared his fears. Ogai, originally from Osaka in western Japan, moved here a few years ago after marrying a local woman but sent his wife and their two children to his parents after explosions at the Fukushima first spread the fear of radiation. “I don’t permit them to come back,” he said. “I don’t think the record here is safe.”
But what about all those assurances about the levels of radioactivity having fallen well within safe limits, I asked him. His answer was prompt. “The government is a liar.”
And how, I pressed, could he as a government employee, talk so frankly? “I work for the local government,” he said, not the national government.” [...]
Published: December 8th, 2011 at 10:59 am ET
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Off headline topic but what is the green blob by reactor 3 or sticks as I call it. Is it convection of boron, etc. or something even more ominous? Thanks as I’m sure this has already been discussed.
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There is a discussion on the WEBCAM thread.
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Paging Arnie Gunderson,
“…what is the green blob by reactor 3…?”
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Those of us who studied communication theory know that one-way asymmetrical communication is a guaranteed lose-lose scenario (for TEPCO, and us).
TEPCO needs to learn a lot more about issues and crisis management and planning. In our university class, we use TEPCO as a textbook example of what NOT to do in a crisis.
Yes, we have a huge disaster. But, NO, TEPCO, your way out is not through lies and pretending that you own Japan, or the whole world. The Clinto-Harper-TEPCO response is not going to work.
Read up on two-way symmetrical communication and strategic planning – please.
Crisis And Strategy Management – James Grunig / MAM
http://www.slideshare.net/difusao/crisis-and-strategy-management-james-grunig-mam
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My ex has her bedroom in the basement of her home. She is having all sorts of trouble sleeping.
There is an uncovered sump pit in her basement. I told her that radon, radioactive iodine, krypton and xenon is coming out of it. She needs to get an airtight cover for it.
And we just had a record rain event here.
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Are you mailing from Pittsburgh or Fuku? I want to know desperately pl.
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I meant whether she is in P or F pl.
Thanks.
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She lives in the DC-Baltimore area of the US. The rain around here is contaminated, so the sewers are too. There is radioactive iodine in the water supply.
For all I know, though, the iodine might be coming from the North Anna or Brunswick nuclear plants.
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Thanks Bobby 1, its dreadful, to know all this. Its so beautiful those areas!
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So true Bobby! How do we know that it not only is Japan but the damn reactors nearby? WE never get the FULL truth about any of these reactors. NRC is such a corrupt industry, even WORSE TODAY. They have MUCH TO HIDE. I truly think they’re Sweating Bullets, dont you?
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Philadelphia has had I-131 in their water supply for 9 years, they didn’t bother to tell anybody about it till recently. The Limerick NPP discharges into a river that feeds the water supply, and they have been handing out potassium iodide pills to people that live near it.
Of course, they blamed it all on peeing cancer patients.
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Yep..the Schuylkill has full of tritium for years too. No one seems to wonder where the massive numbers of cancer patients apparently peeing in the river came from though..or why a sudden increase in cancer… I take it as an indication that the xenon is working.
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Ventilating, is whats been recomended in my Country and so far its seems right.
Radon is a gasslike “substance”.and often good venting. Make shure that you create ventilating in all rooms, and in all the walls.
And is an easy, can do it your self task.
Good venting, I am 100% certain, that good venting is probably the moust efficent way of regaining a good common helth.
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Do a radon check. That is the only way to tell if radon is the problem.
Who knows? It may also be a number of other things that also can be tested for such as mold, asbestos, chemicals, etc.
If none of these are found, then she can pursue health related concerns. This is another avenue for possible pursuit.
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@Ramaswami Kumar if you need people from Japan to speak with hop over to the Forum or webcam discussions. Someone will check in with you.
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Thats because in Pitts in the basement there is a sump cover with perforations and I use the washing machine there when I am there! Thanks thelili.
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Covering the sump pit is one of the simple things you can do to reduce radiation exposure, like taking your shoes off when you come into your home.
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Well liars are everywhere. The ICRP is one. They do not care to accept the ECRR 2010 radiation risk model and all the world’s nukes are based on bankrupt ICRP risk model. All them reactors and the mines are ten times riskier than what should be the limit for a member of the public. ECRR 2010 limit is an annual exposure of 0.1 millisievert(mSv). ICRP says 1 mSv! On this basis even Kudankulam reactors in Tamilnadu, India where a mammoth relay fast by the people is happening are totally unacceptable, let alone the older ones in India and elsewhere. When ICRP still sticks to its limit it is a liar. Witchcraft is being practiced and the Liability of all concerned authorities and suppliers must be infinite. We are some 160 million people in the region where the all the nukes are situated in South India.
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Of course it’s been all over the news India is going full steam ahead, no matter what the people want. What am I saying…USA is no different. Shame on Obama.
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I don’t think Monbiot should get away with this nonsense. He’s seems to be trying to outdo his own stupidity:
A nuclear solution
South Asian News Agency (SANA) ⋅ December 8, 2011
http://www.sananews.net/english/2011/12/a-nuclear-solution/
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nice find pu
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As I said in the other thread – the global warming sham was created to advance the nuclear energy sham.
This guy’s article is 100% proof.
No doubt they would like the greenies to jump all over Greenpeace and tell them to leave Japan alone.
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Agreed.
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Yes, the “normal” emissions from nuclear plants is a staggering amount in airborne and water borne pollution. The nuclear mafia has documentation on those releases and certainly it never gets aired in an open venue.
But Fukushima is special…perhaps the tenth largest nuclear mega reactor complex in the world. The releases from Fukushima dwarfs by a million fold the annual world-wide residual releases from all the other 400 plus sites. It has long been secretly theorized by nuclear scientists that a total blowout of one of the major multi reactor complexes could wipe out the northern hemisphere carbon forms.
Now we begin to test that theory because Fukushima Daiichi is going to release every ton of fuel on site. It is an unstoppable force so far and any plans to snuff the fuel may be too little and too late.
Sayonara Japan for sure (we will miss your beloved country and people dearly). And perhaps Sayonara northern hemisphere because this may well be the extinction level event laid at the feet of the cursed technocrats who brought us the idea of “electricity too cheap to meter.”
Instead the nuclear mafia brought us invisible death rays and deadly invisible isotopes too numerous to contain. It is the Invisible Plague of the 21st century that will devastate the human race and the murderers will deny their ilnvolvement.
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Total Fukushima Radiation Released Into Ocean, Air, Groundwater, Storage Tanks via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/total-fukushima-radiation-released-into.html
Tokyo radiation http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-is-it-safe-from-fukushima-httpwww.html
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