Published: June 3rd, 2011 at 4:00 am ET
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Radiation monitoring continues near damaged Japanese nuclear plant, UN reports, UN News Centre, June 2, 2011:
[...] Nearly three months after the incident, the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant remains “very serious,” Denis Flory, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, told a news conference in Vienna, where the Agency is based. [...]
In its preliminary report, the team of international nuclear safety experts from 12 countries said Japan had underestimated potential tsunami hazards to its nuclear power plants before the March earthquake and tsunami.
They added that “Japan’s response to the nuclear accident has been exemplary… [and that the country’s] long-term response, including the evacuation of the area around stricken reactors, has been impressive and well organized.” [...]
Published: June 3rd, 2011 at 4:00 am ET
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ARE YOU SHITTIN’ ME??? WTF!!
We are soooooo doomed!
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TEPCO and the Japanese government poop rainbows as far as the IAEA is concerned. I think we should send in 12 anti-nuke volunteers to do the same study and see if we get the same results.
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That’s because they are all making billions off of energy terrorism together.
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Exactly.
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Imagine a Nuclear power plant blows in Armenia. it will be worst.
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Am I on EnergyNews or The Onion here?
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I give IAEA shittyshitty appallingly failed marks for its deplorable incompetent and corrupt response to the disaster. Take their authority away from them and invest it in a new body manned with people who are rightly suspicious of the nuclear industry.
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‘Were Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance’. /Sublime lyrics/
Early man walked away
As modern man took control
There mind’s weren’t all the same
And to conquer was their goal
So he built his great empire
And he slaughtered his own kind
He died a confused man
And killed himself in his own mind
Were only gonna die for our own arrogance, so we might as well take our time.
All the best.
Ali
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GINKO BILOBA CAN PROTECT – BEFORE AND AFTER EXPOSURE
[I've heard flavanoids in general have very high protective and curative properties for radiation. It was used successfully with Chernobyl victims. You should take some just before and after getting a CT or X-Ray.].
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091019122956.htm
MORE ON HOW GINKO BILOBA WORKS
http://www.naturalnews.com/032103_ginkgo_radiation_protection.html
NaturalNews) Reports on the radiation from Fukushima and on what we can do to protect ourselves are perplexing. Three things are certain: There is radiation leaking and spreading, and it is most dangerous as it seeps into our water and food supplies. And iodine supplements or iodine from kelp can block the iodine isotopes from rushing into our thyroids and disrupting our endocrine systems.
But the iodine isotope has the shortest half-life of all radioactive particles. Cesium isotopes hang around for thirty years, and strontium and others have even longer half lives. So what else can help reduce or reverse radiation damage? Ginkgo Biloba is another.
Real Life Heavy Radiation Episodes
Reportedly, the only trees that survived the Hiroshima nuclear blast were ginkgo trees. Not just the trees, but the seeds of the trees. That alone doesn’t warrant using ginkgo to protect humans from radiation. Fast forward to the Chernobyl disaster.
Various herbal and mineral methods to protect and reverse radiation damage were experimented with. Ginkgo biloba was highly successful, even reversing radiation damage incurred by Chernobyl plant workers.
Ginkgo in the Lab
Empirical evidence is hardly acceptable by modern science. So Chang-Mo Kang of the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences in Taegu led a research team in an ex-vivo human study of radioactive damage to white blood cells. Ex-vivo means testing outside the organism.
Blood samples were taken from several volunteers ranging…
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Thanks for this.
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Rather a scathing review of Tepco officialdom and other things Japanese:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20110603gc.html
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This is scary.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_czech_uranium_mining
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Cindy,
Totally scary! Did you see the documantary “Uranium- is it a country?”. Leaves you speechless. It’s on youtube.
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This man says it all
Quote:
Josef Jadrny, a leading opponent of new uranium mines, is angered that one of the proposed mine sites is just to the east of Straz pod Ralskem in an area that has one of the largest natural underground resources of drinking water in the country.
“We can do without uranium but we can’t do without water,” said Jadrny as he stood under a thousand-year-old lime tree that has become a symbol of local resistance against mining.
Thank you Cindy for the link
I agree with you both, Totally Scary.
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I’d like to share a secret to ensure your happiness.
Always keep a song on your lips, and the world will sing with you. No lie.
Old McDonald had a nuclear power plant,
I A E A – Oh
And at that plant he did some good stuff
I A E A – Oh
With a meltdown here
And a meltdown there
Here a meltdown, There a meldown
Everywhere a freaking meltdown
Old McDonald had a nuclear power plant
I A E A – Oh
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Well Done….The I A E A is a little tough at the beginning since you want to say E I E I OH
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Thanks, Matt. Good morning to ya.
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Good morning. Nothing like waking up to a nice cup of BS from yet another corrupt agency.
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BS double double….
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Too funny – very clever – thanks for the laughs!
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Well organized evacuations. HAHAHA!!! That’s why they forgot to inform some cities there was even a nuclear meltdown occurring. They also left many people in high risk areas, not to mention trying to lower the standards so kids have a 1 in 200 chance of getting cancer. Meanwhile, they lied for months about the true nature of the reactor.
Well done!!! Excellent job!
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Never forget:
The IAEA is NOT nuclear-neutral.
They are deeply involved in nuclear energy; using nuclear to mutate seeds; irradiating food…
To understand better, here’s a March 19th interview of former IAEA director general, Hans Blix:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-03/19/c_13788017.htm
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Note that Blix says the tsunami did all the damage to the reactors while even TEPCO has said the quake did the damage resulting in melt-down before the tsunami occured.
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CHERNOBYL – THE REAL STORY
http://news.linktv.org/videos/chernobyl-the-real-story
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This REALLY isnt the real story but a whitewash: whole Europe was and is contaminated. At 1:00 map the typical hoax, scandinavia and europe is somehow unaffected.
This is the very same LIE as fukushima ongoing hoax : the whole northern was then – and is now – radiated to the hilt. That is because the rad floats freely in the air, anybody under the Northern sky gets whatever happens to rain – from our common sky. There is no safe place…
Do not believe that papal hoax video!
Whole scandinavia anti catholic population has been kept all the time under the MSM-illusion that Chernobyl had/has no effect on us. Quite the contrary: the doc states that 30.000 scientific studies – hidden from us …
What would this de-pop-j§uit-ilk do with fukushima info? They would pa pal patiently wait until all patients are 6feet under.
http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
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IAEA: “We tested your dosage with DUGA3, and it showed that distribution has to be 1000x Chernobyl to reduce population as planned (the stated 90%)
As DUGA3 is history, we thank j-parc, jap-prime ministry & Fermilab for their crucial work…. But bro’s, still lots more –rad– err ‘work’ to do. We are now at the biginning, just 20% -level from the stated goal. Thank Yall for co-operation!” Gorba&bros, R0me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqX6bXYnNFA
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Get. Me. A. Bucket.
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i had a similar reaction
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Fukushima truly was terrorism. Nothing has struck more fear in me in my life than this. I literally was/am terrorized by this. It has essentially destroyed my life (although not by a mile compared to those living in Fukushima).
How the IAEA can call the Japan gov’s response “exemplary” is beyond me. Yeah, I suppose concealing 3 reactor meltdowns from the public for nearly 2 months would be exemplary of how to handle such an incident in the eyes of the IAEA.
Japanese people need to get more angry. There is not enough rage going on there.
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We need to get more angry. Excessive radiation contamination may physically induce apathy.
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Excessive radiation contamination may physically induce apathy.
methinks the apathy began in the 1980s and we have been slowly poisoned ever since.
people talked about the greed of the horrible 80s,the 90s or now is know different.
the only hope we have is the spirit of riot that is happening in greece.
iaea where is the plutonium.
of course the leader of the team works for the british government and areva who just happen to have signed billion dollar water cleaning contracts.
that areva contract is kind of like winning a service contract on a 747 after it has crashed.
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I think apathy is handed out in grade school in the USA…home school…they may not learn to read or write but they won’t learn how to be an apathetic moron either!
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How bout in the USA….no rage either…infact the President is working hard to push more reators through and giving congrats to the EPA (for their non-monitoring) job well done, don’t tell the tax payers anything…cmon…easy to see the short comings of others…but the Americans are playing a good round of couch potato
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LOL. Order Delivered: “How the IAEA can call the Japan gov’s response “exemplary” is beyond me.”
0rder 0f M@lta. Is happy and thankFULL. MSM-media, its orchestra.
http://wp.me/pwIAV-19
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Thank You BetaFlare. Everyone needs that website, to save it.
Folks who are here pooh-poohing anything Esoteric (to Them),
are revealing themselves as UnderEducated.
Oh Well, It IS the End.
Lest these Days be Shortened, No Flesh would be Saved.
That’s how bad us Sinnin’ malevolent Hoomin Bein’s ARE.
Thank You, Yahshua, for Saving Me.
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OK, I take back some of the nice things I said about nuclear experts.
This shocked me when I saw it yesterday. The only sense I can make of it is that the experts were wined and dined by the Japanese, given all the geishas they could handle, and then simply fed false information.
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Collusion and damage control campaign in motion?
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anyone know where the TEPCO donations link might be? I wonder what kind of award is in store for them….
looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
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IAEA:ABOUT Japan gov’t WHAT!!! MAN SOMEONE IS FULL OF S**T HERE HOW CAN Y0U PEOPLE LIE AND GET AWAY WITH IT AND YES IM SCREAMING, TRADIERS
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Money is the single biggest terrorist on the planet. It’s a huge conspiracy … governments, corporations, religions, and individuals … all conspiring to keep the truth from being known. Fukushima is a prime example of how this is done.
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is that a fire on the TBS live feed?
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Looks like another fire in reactor building 4, JNN live cam operator is zooming in showing what looks like flames at the spent fuel pool.
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Hmmmm no smoke…. nearly sunset there, could be reflections? Seems very deep inside the ‘structure’.
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not fire…..fog machine
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The # 4 reactor as to the Fire There is no difference as to either lightflickering I have a close up of the reactor,and the lights do not change in intensity like a fire, both lights stationary, could it be some kind of huge ship behind the plant or reflections or lights that have been put up WEIRD ISN’T IT
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Yep nighfall and it definitely looks like lights of some sort. Must have fooled the camera operator also, he was all over it for awhile there. I guess this means they are inside the building, if the lights are indeed inside as they appear. Maybe that’s a good sign, low radiation would allow them to get close in to the pool and take better control of it.
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Look at the TEPCO live cam. I just saw a large dagger shaped flash of light above #4. Something is definitely going on.
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Probably best not to infer too much from transient events under poor light conditions anne, you can end up jumping at shadows (like I did lol).
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The height of the flash was at least 1/3 the height of the building. When I look at the jnn live cam I see two lights. One of them is pulsing.
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“Exemplary” in this instance, means lying and delaying the release of important information so that innocent people will not ‘panic’–and will be exposed to deadly radiation. I need a bucket too.
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Here you can borrow my bucket but I need it back soon okay?!
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It also must mean putting the bottom line ahead of public safety…the idea that any of these heaps of junk could be ‘salvaged’ boggles the mind. Russian, US, British, and Chinese help, possibly military, should have been sought immediately. Instead, the greedheads got to try to ‘save’ their ‘investment’.
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The red dot in reactor four seems pretty static. I suspect it may be working lights. That would be the first external sign of any effort we have seen for a while.
I wish Tepco’s camera was looking along the front of the reactor buildings so we could see what, if anything was going on.
At Chernobyl they put 100,000 men through the plant in a few weeks to do their 15 minutes of duty for the sake of the nation.
Here we have three Chernobyls plus two more waiting in #5 & #6 for their pumps to fail again plus four to eventually six reactor spent fuel pools (minus #3, which is all over the countryside) plus the huge Common Spent Fuel Pool, and the only action Tepco shows us is a raccoon wandering around, and she doesn’t seem to be helping much!
The site should be seething with men and machines at sea, on the ground and in the air tearing their way 24hours every day into as close to the corium as they can get so than find out what its condition and location really is;
The place should be a blaze of night all over by night.
The highway in and out should be clogged with construction equipment and materials.
There should be stockpiles of material for sheet piling, concrete production, cladding materials, pond liners, piping, pumps motors fans being created at staging points into the plant.
They should be pulling rods out of the surviving spend fuel ponds by robots and putting them somewhere safer ASAP. If they have to build ramps up to the spent fuel pond floors to run robots on then build then now like the Egyptians did to build the pyramids!
They should be sheet-piling a coffer dam down to bedrock all around #1 to #4 to contain water outflow and pump the ground dry;
They should be building a huge concrete reservoir to take the radioactive cooling water as a temporary store rather than sticking it in a floating time bomb which will be wrecked in the next typhoon!
Arhg!!
But hey, I’m a long way a way.
But they owe it to the…
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you would think they could have access to some better quality cameras
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Contd…
But they owe it to the world and to Japan to show that something is actually being done.
TEPCO, another camera please! Prove to us that you are saving the world!
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Where is NASA they have cameras that could make the picture look like your standing there, cheap cameras on the plant I guess (fukushima) also where is the Israel camera that can tell you every radioactive element and has way better camera imaging
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@MARKWW NASA is working – to feed yall more CO2 AlGoRealism.
Theur expert solution: more fukushima for the sake of depop
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I can think of lots of words to describe the Japanese government’s response, but “exemplary” and “impressive and well organized” are not among them. Should have worn my boots today….
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Agreed.
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@Jean Depends on point of view: R0me is veery happy
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HIGH INTENSITY LIGHTING I just saw a huge intensity light on The water front area when looking at the Tepco Camera and it lit up the closest tower they shined it from the bottom to the top so the lights you see behind number 4 looks like intensity lighting out by the water Mark
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We need CO-2 that is what makes plants breath and grow all over the world if you try to dilute it you will starve plants then they can not make oxygen for you to breath.
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ALERT ALERT THE REACTOR 4 SPENT FUEL POOL IS GLOWING…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptmoVcgpqg
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cant see the glowing, please share recorded video if you have
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It was high intensity lighting out behind the plant no fire I saw hem shining it on to the reactors and the towers
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http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-tokyo-as-measured-by.html
recent readings in and around tokyo
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I so glag thatthe IAEA told us what they think is a job well done…now we will all know what they expect for other energy companies when thir reators are “having trouble”…my question is…
What does the IAEA think is a poor performance from an energy company if telling lies, cover ups, sending workers in without proper protection, setting evacuation limits based on lies…the list goes on…I think the IAEA is doing a terrible job!
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That is some slow moving steam.Seems heavy.
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just saw a big flash of light lasted about one second.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html
you can let the vid play, and then you can use the scroll-bar below the video to see time-lapse.
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Children’s Safety: A Global Parental Concern
Posted: 06/ 2/11 03:54 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-g-yerman/childrens-safety-a-global_b_870465.html
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‘Never underestimate the ability of concerned parents to effect change.’
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http://www.momscleanairforce.org/
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‘Through a lack of transparency, Japanese officials have lost the confidence of their people. In America, there is a growing push back against lobbying influences and those who would put profit over the health of the country’s populace. ‘
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The IAEA has persistently tried to make everyone believe that this disaster was due to the tsunami when in fact reactor one failed well before the tsunamis effects manifested. This is because they would like to make the argument that in most places there may be earthquakes but not tsunamis. Just another spin to argue for the continued use of nuclear power. On the other hand we have three melted down reactors but that is not as big a deal to them as to continually try and tell us that what we should really worry about is nuclear weapons in Iran when we on the other hand actively support both Pakistan and India both of whom have nuclear weapons and hate each other. The IAEA is a sick bunch of politicians whose only goal is to promote nuclear power use. The world is run by sociopaths for sociopaths.
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“exemplary” – “impressive and well organized”, what, are they crazy? has their synapses already melted?!
“TEPCO didn’t follow Fukushima emergency manual” Sunday, May 22, 2011 23:18 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_21.html
Statement by Scientists and Engineers Concerning Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant March 23, 2011
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/safety/earthquake/fukukk23mar11.html
Statement by Scientists and Engineers Concerning Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (no.2) April 7, 2011
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/safety/earthquake/fukukk7apr11.html
TEPCO workers not warned of radiation risk Mar. 27, 2011
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110326003217.htm
TEPCO documents reveal chaos at Fukushima nuke plant after quake, tsunami May 17, 2011
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110517p2a00m0na010000c.html
Worker slams Tepco safety steps
Apr 032011
http://www.japan.org/tags/fukushima/page/2
and there is another report from Japan news i read that the relief worker arrived at Fukushima plant to replace the missing cables, and the (anonymous) Fukushima worker admitted there were none at Fukushima plant, postponing those repairs until more cables could be brought in from elsewhere. be darned if i can find that report now though!
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Another great statement which it ‘true’, but also a pack of lies. “impressive”?…true, but in the negative sense…impressively bad. “well organized”?…true, it was organised well…it’s just in the actual implementation where things atuffed up.
I’ve noticed this type of doublespeak repeatedly from these NWO organizations. They tell “the truth”, but in such a way they know will be misinterpreted by the general public to be the opposite of what they “really meant”.
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And flying pigs were seen at area 51.
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were discussing this very topic in our live chat daily. come join us
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This thread is a deserving topic…and as another poster said…where are the damn million workers they really need at the plant? What in the name of common sense makes them think a measly few hundred or 4 thousand or whatever they have been trotting out onto the plant grounds can solve a crisis with six reactor buildings, huge hot spent fuel ponds and common pool? Have you seen very many workers on the webcams? They need a crisp MILLION workers to dig a huge water holding tank down to the bedrock. I have no respect for whoever is in charge of making the numbers decisions at the plant. A million workers with a shovel and a five-gallon bucket could have made more progress there than all of their bumbling remote controlled bulldozers!
I wrote a little tongue-in-cheek yet truthful posting about 3 weeks ago at a website which was extolling the Japanese plan for the giant polyester tent…so for Friday night funnies in the spirit of the old Usenet here is a reposting:
Things are going rather badly in Number 3 indeed as it is now hitting new levels of radiation twice as high as at its peak in mid-April.
Number 4 is looking like the leaning tower of toxic Pisa and about to discharge a foul birth of 1,800 very hot rods on the ground (better get a bigger tent!).
Let’s not forget how swimming things have gone in Unit 1 also. The Tokyo wino jumpers the Japanese mafia hired to go diving in the unit landed on their head when they found there was not much water and things were dang hot inside. Just kidding again. Partially.
And Number 2…well, it has been kind of the forgotten stepchild…but it has a meltdown also and like the other Japanese reactors this phenomenon is CONTRARY to U.S. nuclear law!
Excerpted from http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
“…nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that the containment vessels for reactors 1, 2 and 3 are all leaking.
However, Gundersen points out, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assumes that containment vessels…
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However, Gundersen points out, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assumes that containment vessels cannot leak and there is a “zero probability of containment leakage”. U.S.. nuclear laws are based around that obviously false assumption.”
Moving along to other matters…the current Japanese exclusion zone is such a misnomer…let’s call it what it really is… a dead zone… as nobody will be able to live there for many generations. Incidentally the plans to scape topsoil in school yards is actually not the best step. The latest research says the best way to decontaminate radioactive soil is to plant hemp plants or sunflower plants in affected soil. The fibrous plants will soak up as much as 80% of the contaminants in one season. The plants are harvested roots and all and burned in incinerators with the ash stored in hazardous waste barrel and buried. In two or three years contaminated soil could be reclaimed versus just shoveling hot soil from one place to another. Maybe we can get Willie Nelson to take his shoe box lid to Japan and lend a hand.
Morgan Stanley, BMW, and a host of foreign companies have flown the coop from Tokyo, if not from the island completely. Toyota is looking to migrate jobs out of country cause frankly the perception of 2011 Japanese imports is about as appealing to some folks as alar on apples.
There has been quite a bit of chatter since mid-April about moving the politicians out of Tokyo (using the excuse that earthquakes make it so untidy when they hit. *;-)
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105080124.html
And now they want to put tents over the reactors which are spewing radiation nonstop. Brilliant idea! Nobody will be able to see the radiation smoke…so out of sight out of mind. Well, not quite. The monsoon winds in September will probably rip it to shreds anyway. At least the tent company will have a job.
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All this trouble because the leaders of a country with the only world victims of nuclear bomb attacks decided nuclear plants were totally safe. This brilliant thinking evolved despite knowing their island country averages 1,500 earthquakes a year.
As for the French coming in and solving the largest contaminated radioactive water problem in history….yeah…they will put it through their Rube Goldberg machine…sludge out some crap and barrel it up for burial and then proclaim the excess water is safe for ocean dumping…just like they do at their La Hague facility in Normandy. Do a little research about the discharges they have been foisting in the English Channel and elsewhere for years. Great idea for Fukushima! Put the clam fisherman to work for Areva!
Hysterical? No…pragmatic. It’s a harsh world we live in with most governments in the hip pocket of dictators and special interests. But unlike 1979 and 1986…the news from dissenters will not totally be silenced by Big Brother.
The Internet was built to withstand nuclear attacks and even fend off miscreants in power who try to keep bad news quiet (“Why the indigent folks will rob and kill us if they feel they are going to die from radiation!”).
Maybe there will be some anarchy…but that is an easier task to deal with than lying about toxic soil and pretending people can live there without grave risks. Big lies can lead to big upheavals.
Offer a thirsty big shot in the nuclear industry a glass of water and before they drink tell them it has tritium from groundwater at Vermont Yankee or plutonium from Fukushima and you will see the fear Erin Brockovich saw in the eyes of the lawyers at Hinckley. Primal fear beyond the lure of money! There is no safe level of radiation and if it was truly safe we would all happily drink the plutonium water. Cheers!
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under which category does this belong? “exemplary” or “impressive & well organized”?
Gov’t failed to release some radiation projections Saturday, June 04, 2011 09:05 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_07.html
“The Japanese science ministry has admitted failing to release some of its projections of how radioactive substances would spread if they leaked from the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant.”
“It said on Friday that it had failed to release 37 projections for the Fukushima Daini plant. It made the projections once an hour from 6PM on March 11 to 9AM on March 13.”
“The ministry said it had overlooked the existence of the data because it stopped making projections for the Fukushima Daini plant on March 13.
“It was found on Thursday that the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency had failed to release 5 SPEEDI calculations for the Fukushima Daiichi and Fukushima Daini nuclear plants.
“The government said in May that it would release all projections made with the SPEEDI system.”
gee… impressive.
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