Published: June 7th, 2011 at 7:54 am ET
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Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says, New York Times by HIROKO TABUCHI, June 6, 2011:
Japan said Monday that radioactive emissions from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the early days of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster might have been more than twice as large as a previous estimate, suggesting the accident was more grave than the government had publicly acknowledged. [...]
The agency also said it now estimated that the radioactive release from the plant totaled 770,000 terabecquerels in the first week after March 11. [...]
The agency suggested that the higher emissions estimate was equivalent to only about 10 percent of the radioactive materials released in 1986 by the explosion and fire at Chernobyl [...] But the 770,000 terabecquerels figure in fact comes to about 40 percent of the official Soviet estimate of emissions from Chernobyl. [...]
Officials cautioned that there was a wide margin of error involved [...]
Published: June 7th, 2011 at 7:54 am ET
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cooking the frog slowly. but they’ll face something they didn’t know before : everything is recorded on the web, no way to cheat memory, no way to lie in impunity. Sooner or later, you (nuclear/oil industry and politicians/medai covering them) will be charged for this (even if u try to erase evidences through a global war).
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MERRY XMAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWxb5qwbXsw
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“Every” staff member of the iaea should be hung for international fraud, extortion, accessory to murder, and treason.
There is no excuse for their incompetent role in attempting to coverup the biggest crime humanity has ever faced.
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Our own Gov should be strung up too. They gave the Green Light for Japan to lie and coverup the extent of this disaster, all the while raising levels of this country’s testing. You know that though…just saying.
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Our military is being exposed to radiation…who knows if the new radiation drug works?..who knows if all of them are receiving it?
The lie has to be maintained and those stationed there and on the Gulf are giving their lives in an unknowing way.
Our soldiers have forgotten that ..they too are dispensible.
How could they forget…?
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Psyops.
How many are sick now from DU from Iraq. Troops trained to kill and be killed.
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Gave the green light? Hell they were directing all to downplay
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One thing I think most people fail to consider, is the united states, is the japanese military…
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a question to the proud japanese people who are killing the world by not exerting any pressure on your rotten government.
if you are so proud,why do you need the protection of the school bully.
List of current american facilities in japan.
The USFJ headquarters is at Yokota Air Base, about 30 km west of central Tokyo.
The U.S. military installations in Japan and their managing branches are:
Air Force USFJ Facilities
Admin Code Name of Installation Location
FAC 1054 Camp Chitose (Chitose III) Chitose, Hokkaido
FAC 2001 Misawa Air Base Misawa, Aomori
FAC 2012 Misawa ATG Range (Ripsaw Range) Misawa, Aomori
FAC 3013 Yokota Air Base Fussa, Tokyo
FAC 3016 Fuchu Communications Station Fuchu, Tokyo
FAC 3019 Tama Service Annex Inagi, Tokyo
FAC 3048 Camp Asaka (AFN Transmitter Site) Wako, Saitama
FAC 3049 Tokorozawa Transmitter Site Tokorozawa, Saitama
FAC 3056 Owada Communication Site Niiza, Saitama
FAC 3162 Yugi Communcation Site Hachioji, Tokyo
FAC 4100 Sofu Communication Site Iwakuni, Yamaguchi
FAC 5001 Itazuke Air Station Hakata-ku, Fukuoka
FAC 5073 Sefurisan Liaison Annex Sefuri, Saga
FAC 5091 Tsushima Communication Site Tsushima, Nagasaki
FAC 6004 Okuma Rest Center Kunigami, Okinawa
FAC 6006 Yaedake Communication Site Motobu, Okinawa
FAC 6022 Kadena Ammunition Storage Area Onna, Okinawa
FAC 6037 Kadena Air Base Kadena, Okinawa
FAC 6077 Tori Shima Range Kumejima, Okinawa
FAC 6078 Idesuna Jima Range Tonaki, Okinawa
FAC 6080 Kume Jima Range Kumejima, Okinawa
Army USFJ Facilities
Admin Code Name of Installation Location
FAC 3004 Akasaka Press Center (Hardy Barracks) Minato, Tokyo
FAC 3067 Yokohama North Dock Yokohama, Kanagawa
FAC 3079 Camp Zama Zama, Kanagawa
FAC 3084 Sagami General Depot Sagamihara, Kanagawa
FAC 3102 Sagamihara Housing Area Sagamihara, Kanagawa
FAC 4078 Akizuki Ammunition Depot Etajima, Hiroshima
FAC 4083 Kawakami Ammunition Depot Higashihiroshima,…
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Dishonorable mention to the press who feel its more important to report on “Weinergate” (a congressman who sent a picture of his crotch to a young lady) rather then report on 3 core meltdowns.
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Even here in Germany this congressman was one of the top themes during the evening news….and we´ve never heard of this person before.
How can this be more important than the atomic accident in Japan?!
UNBELIEVABLE!
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FYI
FULL COMMITTEE HEARING this morning at 10:
testimony on S. 512, the Nuclear Power 2021 Act; ect
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=237c8727-802a-23ad-41f3-e4cfc52bc3a2
LIVE STREAM
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.LiveStream
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A Japan Regular just posted this other BETTER? one.
“Live at 8pm (JST) on Tue, June 7, 2011 & 12pm (JST) on Wed, June 8, 2011, YokosoNews Emergency Weekly Update will talk about East Japan Great Disaster and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant incident that you would not hear from other English media.”
http://yokosonews.com/news/311-disaster-update-39/
What time is it there?
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The one today is over. Guess tomorrow will be the one.
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Is it 40 percent or 400 percent? The truth? Nuclear Power the world over demands infallibility in forbidding the propagation of error. One of the biggest errors is the human being who created the nukes, because nuclears require infallibility of the human being!
Between June 12 and August 26 of this year(2011), I expect a great earthquake on the Pacific Ring of fire perhaps near the March 11 fiasco and it may include the longitude band 120 to 140. The whole world must prepare for all of this in totality starting now.
See
http://kritasdawn.blogspot.com/
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Nuclear Engineer: Far more radioactivity inside spent fuel ponds than in reactors — Could very well produce damage greater than Chernobyl
March 15th, 2011
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/nuclear-engineer-radioactivity-inside-spent-fuel-ponds-inside-reactors-could-very-produce-damage-greater-chernobyl
Nuclear power defender now says “I think we are facing another Chernobyl”
March 17th, 2011
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/nuclear-power-defender-facing-another-chernobyl
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“Tune in to Nippon Television at 5 pm for ‘Today’s Admission’, a new show brought to you by the Japanese government and TEPCO. What wild, crazy internet rumor will they confirm today? Tune in and see.”
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When will the U S government tell the truth about exposure in the U S?
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NEED YOUR ADVICE
hey guys.. want your opinion..
I live in Tokyo and the situation is driving me crazy (as it does every body). But most people who live here think that tepco will continue cooling the reactors “until it’s stable” and then every thing will be allright. “sure, I’m worrying about the economy, esp because of the tsunami cost” their only concern.
Plus, they do hardly worry about food contamination since “the gov’t will be urged to do regulations for measurements”. Well, I don’t believe in it.
They are now doing hardly any tests and in the future they will even do less I think. Furthermore all critical food will sure flood to the food service industry since it will be cheap & no one can control it.
What do you think?
Because of that I really do not want to stay in Kanto area too long.
I cannot move away right now, but e.g. even if the reactors will be in a stable status, I want to leave around next year spring, since radiation is accumulating.
But I have to give up going to an elite university in tokyo and leave everything behind. However if the health risk is really that high it’s worth moving.
So I want to ask..
- how is the immediate danger? (I know, probably noone knows for sure, even the world’s best scientists. But independent opinions from overseas wanted,since japanese ppl are already blind b/c of mass media here)
- what do you think, if there’s no immediate danger (explosion?) how severe is the situation to stay within the 250km area?
THANK YOU!
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fromtokyo
Indeed things are critical there and a Gov. Damed if they do and Damed if they don’t, I can tell you that Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior !
The have been caught in so many untruths/or evasion of and exposed millions to unprecedented risk as never seen before, raising levels to elevate standards of common practice is not fixing your exposure levels !
Have you though about leaving Japan, and do you have family there ?
I can see no hope for things improving, only radiation levels increasing and the risk of other anomalies may be in the near future !
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Thank you for your reply.
I appreciate any opinion.
Because I just don’t know how to react.
And I’m sure that many ppl are facing exactly the same problem.
I have family here in Japan aswell as overseas.
So it’s not that I have nowhere to go. But my current living, work, people (including relatives), (and maybe university) – everything is in Tokyo..
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some universities allow foreign exchange to another country for up to a year. look into that ASAP
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Just GO.
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Planning will take a bit of effort though if you have family abroad that should fix one of the variables. Language and then interests (interests or CV) would be the others. Make sure that you can transfer money to a bank in your destination country, or find a trusted friend to act for you as second account holder.
Check the visa regulations for where you are going. You may need to buy a return ticket but that could influence visa renewal. Best to be straight with the regulations when migrating, unpleasant consequences may follow.
Otherwise, as the others have replied.
Migrating is not difficult, but assimilation can be lengthy. Good luck. Think hard.
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from tokyo.
you are the author of your life.
but i would say DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING YOUR GOVERNMENT OR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SAYS.
look at how this has been drip fed.
the advantage nuclear has it is a slow death.
your country is run like a corporation,people are not important unless they are a buying opportunity.
plutinium tons of it where did it go.
this is the worst country in the world for this to have happened.
look at how the russians treated a nuclear disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o
the japanese site has tons more radioactive elements than chernobyl.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51284815/TEPCO-Storage-Status-of-Spent-Fuel-6-1
my friend you have not got until next spring.
even if everything was sorted tommorow.
the country is covered in deadly long term killing radiation in the sea and on the soil.
the government all over the country is burning massive amounts of sludge,slag building materials full of dangerious isotopes. at normal facilities with little filtration this alone will proove to be lethal long term.
the control the drip feeding of info is to stop riot,a breakdown of law and order and mass pillage.
look here even the police are looters when society breaks down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcajIRcBvA
education is important but not when your dead.
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from tokyo..
i hope you do not think my comments are harsh.but the fact is most people in japan cannot will not except or know not the reality of the situation.
ignoring plutonium in the atmosphere will not make it go away.burning it in a government run council dump will not make vanish.the super efficient clean up systems are working through japan at the moment at a giddy pace.i cannot stress enough how dangerous incineration is of radioactive waste.
the russians cleaned it up and buried it in the most deadly parts of pripyat.
what is going to really be a problem is the population densities in japan are so much greater than the ukraine.
you have a grim choice a kind of sophies choice.stay with your family and make peace with future reality or leave with the knowledge that you may live a few more years.
but because of the japanese governments corrupt and moronic actions and a total lack of worldwide help,this is now a slow worldwide cull of man and nature.
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thank you, I really appreciate your coments.
Thanks for taking your time.
Those comments are important since I was almost brainwashed the other day when I spent some time with my japanese fellow.
They really do not feel the danger…
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@ fromtokyo
See this clip !
http://members.beforeitsnews.com/story/598/757/The_Clouds_…html
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Agreed.
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Thanks to you two.
I think things would be much easier if those “coloration technologies of the particles” existed in reality.
Then TEPCO & the gov’t conldn’t hide data/contamination AND at the same time people knew when to react. Since nowadays leaving is not impossible (like in the movie).
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From Tokyo: I’m so sorry you’re faced with such a decision. It’s not much as advice goes but I would follow your heart and your instinct. You say you have family elsewhere so I think I would probably go as you’re not really going to lose anything and if it all turns out better than expected you will be able to return. Every best wish.
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Thank you, Rosie.
You’re right, if all turns out better I can return.
I’m feeling uncomfortable every time I eat outside thinking “this is contaminated food, right?” so I really want to leave but still there are stuff like work contracts, people relations…
don’t know how I should handle it v_v
I appreciate your comment, thanks!
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@FromTokyo
My heart goes out to you, and I hope you don’t mind that I have been praying for your country and people. I hate that you have to make such a tough decision, but feel that I should encourage you to leave. I have a friend who has her degree in Nuclear Physics, and I talked to her back in March when this first happened. I don’t know that much about radiation, but I have tried to educate myself. She told me that she would be taking the fastest way out of the country with her family. She said that the government had to be lying about the severity of the accident. From experience, she told me that she knew hundreds of thousands of people would die from this. I can’t imagine how hard it would be to just pick up and leave, but I think you should take that chance, especially if (and when) this gets worse. People will panic, and there will be no fast way out.
I hope you don’t mind my somewhat damning advice. I just don’t want to see so many people sick and hurting. Please let us all know what you decide.
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Ariana, thank you for your opinion & information!
I think it’s because of the “so-so” distance tokyo→fukushima, why tokyo ppl do not panic and instead think it’s so “far away and safe”.. x_X
I think tokyo ppl won’t panic anymore even if one day all of the sudden the geiger counters show high radiation…
But for tokyo/kanto area it’s more the low radiation hence cancer/health risk than super-sudden danger – or am I wrong?
Is there any immediate danger if you live in Kanto area?
for example if reactor no. 4 explodes really bad and the rad. material goes into the air, it still takes some time (half day??) until it reaches tokyo? Am I too optimistic? (and even this should be true, will we able to move at that timing or know about that..?←even there’s the live cam now)
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About as wide as the Pacific, I’d say….
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This is a scary event from where I sit in North America – it has to be terrifying if you are in Japan.
I would say that anyone who is reading this site has enough information to know what to do if they live in Tokyo.
This is one of those situations in life where no one from the outside can give you advice, because they cannot possibly understand what you are facing.
The only advice I can give you is – read the facts you can from here and deduce what that means to you – combine the few facts you have with other information and make a decision about your action.
Then, if you decide to leave – act quickly. Do not wait – waiting will not bring better information.
Basically it comes down to only four outcomes for you:
1. You stay and it’s not catastrophic – you made the easiest decision and it will cause you little hardship
2. You stay and it is catastrophic – you made a wrong decision and you will likely pay for that one with your life.
3. You leave and it’s not catastrophic. You will suffer large financial and social loss, but over a lifetime those can be regained. You can return to Japan with your life, if not your fortune, intact.
4. You leave and it is catastrophic. You lose your fortune, same as #3, but you cannot return to Japan.
Remember, not making a decision is a decision on its own.
We are genetically programmed to “follow the herd” in a crisis situation – which often the worst thing to do. So it’s perfectly understandable to put it off for another week or month, but you owe it to yourself to make a decision and act on it intelligently. Good Luck.
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Get Far FromTokyo…. don’t delay, if you have the vision
of survivor for yourself. I face being a pauper in my country,
now that illegal immigrants are favored for jobs, College,
healthcare. For the healthy mentality of us all, we must
be aware of evil things happening. The Israelis shot down
a bunch of people just day before yesterday, firing OVER the
Border fence at a bunch of Syrians and Druze.
A serious question for you…?
Do you think you will face Ethnic confrontations in any of
the places you might travel today?
How about this current Korea/China refugee-asylum seeker
situation. How about the Indonesian/Phillippine religious
and ethnic strife? I know that IF you are Rich enough,
you are insulated from these things, but
I am facing going back to the Street and the Road…
and I’m a High-IQ type, not willing to Do Evil.
Ultimately, there is no Sanctuary protecting you from
your Divinely-made Destiny.
With Love…
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I also would leave. The government and TEPCO have stated they were hiding things to prevent panic. It is coming out more and more that the radiation is here , and there , and individuals with dosimeters are finding out for themselves that there are high amounts on the ground in Tokyo.
The radiation will not go away, it will accumulate , and get more and more dangerous over time .
You can always come back, but if overly exposed you cannot wash it out of your body, it is there for good.
I’m so sorry, but I have 2 children , and if i was in Japan anywhere we’d leave …
Tea leaves 40 km south of tokyo have cessium in excess of 700 bq kg of radiation, i think that is a pretty good indicator of how widespread the contamination is ..
The Japanese government will not evacuate all of Japan, look they are hardly evacuating those who actually need to be .
It is sad really…
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What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
By Mark Selden and Matthew Penney
Source: Japanfocus.org
Monday, June 06, 2011
***Following the upgrade to level 7, Japan’s Prime Minister’s Office released a statement comparing Fukushima and Chernobyl. (Source)
The Japanese government argues that apart from children who contracted thyroid cancer from drinking contaminated milk, there have been no health effects among ordinary citizens as a result of Chernobyl radiation. Is this really the case? Given the Japanese government’s precautions against thyroid cancer in children, is there reason to believe that the Fukushima accident will take no lives except those exposed to the highest dangers in the plant clean-up? (Source)
On April 15, Kyodo, Japan’s major news service, ran an English language piece by Russian scientist Alexey V. Yablokov (source). Yablokov’s stern warnings about the threat of even low levels of radiation had been ignored by the major media but were reported in Japanese in the Nishi Nippon Shimbun. (Source)
The English only Kyodo piece, however, ties Yablokov’s extensive Chernobyl research with the unfolding Fukushima crisis. Under the headline “How to minimize consequences of the Fukushima catastrophe,” Yablokov observed that
“The analysis of the health impact of radioactive land contamination by the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, made by Professor Chris Busby (the European Committee of Radiation Risk) based on official Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology data, has shown that over the next 50 years it would be possible to have around 400,000 additional cancer patients within a 200-kilometer radius of the plant.”***
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-price-the-fukushima-meltdown-comparing-chernobyl-and-fukushima-by-mark-selden
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***Yablokov is one of the primary architects of the 2006 Greenpeace report “The Chernobyl Catastrophe: Consequences on Human Health” and an extensive 2010 follow-up study Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment published by the New York Academy of Sciences, which makes the startling claim that 985,000 deaths can be attributed to the 1986 disaster.
This claim is startling because it differs so dramatically from a 600 page 2005 study by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the WHO, and the UN Development Programme, which claimed that fewer than 50 deaths can be attributed directly to Chernobyl and fewer than 4000 likely from Chernobyl-related cancers in the future. Indeed, the two works continue to frame much of the public controversy, with little progress toward resolution. Attempts to assess the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster remain the subject of fierce debate over widely different estimates in both the scientific and policy communities. In the months since the Fukushima disaster, scores of reports have uncritically passed on the results of the IAEA/WHO or the Yablokov study published by the New York Academy of Sciences without seriously engaging the conflicting conclusions or moving the debate forward. Here we present the major findings of major studies across the divide that may help to clarify the likely outcomes of the Fukushima disaster. (1, 2)
Yablokov and colleagues assessed thousands of studies of the localities and people affected by the Chernobyl disaster in Russian and other Eastern European languages. They argue that these studies have been ignored by the Anglophone scientific community.***
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@from tokyo: ask your university about foreign exchange options with other countries for a year. this way you and your family can mentally go along easier with this choice sinse it is an a common school option even during non crisis times. find the country you can exchange to and then make an early trip there to get aquanted with the land and people. lot less resistance feom your loved ones since this can be viewed as a legit non extreme measure. try and do it with new zealand since its “up wind” from japan, southern hemisphere, “up current” too and not really to far away.
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Japan Doubles Admission of Radiation
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 :: Staff infoZine
Admits Three Meltdowns
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/47731/
Radioactivity in the Oceans After Japan Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Friday, May 20, 2011 :: Staff infoZine
Overheating at the power plant led to significant releases of iodine, cesium and other radioisotopes to the environment.
http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/47484/
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Now the question is – What is the current rate at which radionuclides are being released into the air and water? The fact that this information was not included with this announcement is not a good sign. You know that they’d love to say, “But the current release rate is only a few hundred Becquerels a day.”
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