Published: December 12th, 2011 at 5:24 pm ET
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NRC ‘Coup’ Leader, Bill Magwood, Consulted For Fukushima Parent Company, Huffington Post by Ryan Grim, Dec. 12, 2011:
Bill Magwood, the man at the center of an effort to overthrow the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and his most likely successor if the move is successful, served as a consultant for Tepco, the Japanese company that owns the Fukushima nuclear power plant, according to information provided by Magwood as part of his nomination and confirmation process, which was obtained by The Huffington Post.
On Friday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released a letter signed by Magwood and three other commissioners attacking the panel’s chairman, Gregory Jaczko, setting off a firestorm in the energy industry. Issa and the four commissioners framed the dispute as personal and managerial, but emails released by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) show a political and ideological battle underway over post-Fukushima safety standards. [...]
Magwood’s previously unreported relationship to Japan’s nuclear industry, via the firm he founded and ran, Advanced Energy Strategies, sheds new light on that debate.
On Saturday morning, just hours after the dueling release of documents, utility lobbyists began reaching out to Democrats on key committees, urging them not to back Jaczko. “It’s obvious these guys are all in on this coup. They’ve been whining about Jaczko, particularly after Japan, and what he’s been doing since then, consistently,” said a senior congressional aide on the receiving end of the lobbying push, who is supportive of Jaczko but wanted to remain anonymous so as not to alienate the industry. [...]
Published: December 12th, 2011 at 5:24 pm ET
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“Magwood’s previously unreported relationship to Japan’s nuclear industry, via the firm he founded and ran, Advanced Energy Strategies, sheds new light on that debate.”
Wow! Should be interesting (but the corium is still on the floorium somewhere).
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Interesting points in the article:
—> Bill Magwood’s former client was the Japan Atomic Energy Agency
—> Darrell Issa receives a lot of donations from the nuclear industry
—> Darrell Issa represents the San Onofre nuclear plant district in California. ( San Onofre has the worst safety record of any npp in the U.S. )
—> Utility lobbyists urged Democracts NOT to back Jaczko
—> Magwood worked with Sen. Inhofe to discredit Jaczko
—> Jaczko wanted to release a statement about safety, but Magwood “asked it to be toned down, saying that “someone reading this would think that every reactor in the country is a time bomb waiting to go off” and that the release was “almost breathless.”"
—> “Magwood has regularly voted against safety proposals put forward by the chairman, urging instead delay and more study.”
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“..When Magwood was nominated by President Obama in 2009 to become a commissioner, nearly a hundred environmental groups, along with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), urged his defeat in the Senate, arguing that he was too close to the industry to be tasked with regulating it.”
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“…Magwood’s recent client list makes up a who’s who of Japanese power and nuclear companies, and included CLSA Japan Equities Division, the Federation of Electrical Power Companies in Japan (FEPC), IBT Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, RW Beck, Sumitomo Corporation and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, which was roundly criticized for its response to the crisis.”
Wow, this is an allout war. The nuclear bullies fighting unfairly once again against reality.
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More lying to continue to kill people:
“The emails disclosed by Markey show that Magwood worked with staff for Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to discredit Jaczko. Magwood told them that he hadn’t been informed that Jaczko had put the commission on emergency footing after Fukushima — a decision that consolidates more power in the hands of the chairman — but the internal emails show this claim is untrue.”
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“Between 1998 and 2005, Magwood served as the Director of Nuclear Energy for the Department of Energy.”
(okay, I’ve lost it…uncontrolled screaming at this point…don’t know if I can continue reading…)
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—> Who gets the most donations from nuclear industry:
Rep. James Clyburn, Democrat, South Carolina
Steny Hoyer, Democrat, Maryland
Peter Visclosky, Democrat, Indiana
Joe Barton, Republican, Texas
—> Nuclear Energy Institute and Exelon together “spent nearly $6 million lobbying Washington last year”
—>Nuclear Energy Institute and Exelon “gave a combined total of $4.4 million to congressional candidates in the past two elections.”
http://craigcrawford.com/2011/03/17/nuclear-cash-in-congress/
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So the utilities are out to get the head of the Regulatory agency?
And want to install their own handpicked shill? I’m shocked.
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I know I am God but I need some advice.
I am currently in Virginia but my Fiancee is in Orange County, CA.
She reported to me getting a rash (as well as her roomates) and a bloody nose. She has never had a bloody nose in her life and she has no allergies. She told me her rash was “raised and quarter like” up her left arm and down her right leg. She said she didn’t think she had a fever and no nausea.
She told me that she took benadryl before she went to bed and it seemed like the rash went away. However, she called me in the morning and told me that it came back.
Could this be from fallout? Or am I getting overexcited?
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Had she and her roomy been out in the rain or done anything over the weekend that they may have received it from ? If radiation, benadryl will not get rid of it, nose bleeds are/have been reported regularly since 3/11 in Japan and in the US !
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Yeah, it could be, but you should post your question in two other threads to get response:
Effects of Low Level Radiation and
Methods to Combat Radiation.
Possibly also Methods to Combat Radiation.
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Thx midwestern, Good Orderly Direction, did you get that !
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Gross Beta Count Rate Anaheim, CA
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Anaheim-CA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
San Diego, CA
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/San%20Diego-CA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
500 in San Diego is not a good count; Gamma went up at the same time.
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I’m sure that’s helpful but I don’t know what it means.
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God knows
Can she get a radiation counter, calibrated to cesium?
survey her live/work spaces?
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Harrisonburg, VA (is this near North Anna NPP?)
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Harrisonburg-VA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
I live near Denver where it is worse. But I have no money to go anywhere and I don’t know anywhere better to go. So I am taking as many dietary precautions and supplements as I can afford. I missed my 50th college reunion. First, I had no money to go. Second, I wasn’t going to pay a fortune for someone else to prepare radioactive food – I can make better choices than that.
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(She is 22 years old and has always been healthy)
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If she and her friends feel fatigued the next few days, I will draw my conclusion as to what they have been exposed to !
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She is working her way through college so fatigue would be illusory, no?
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You guys are freaking me out.
Her roomates haven’t gotten nosebleeds (that I know of) but I know my girlfriend has always been healthy. There are no strange ailments in her genes/heritage other than heart attack/stroke/ normal stuff people die from.
She is an amateur astronomer but doesn’t go out in the rain unless to go to the store or something. She has cats though that go out whenever they want.
I’m concerned so please don’t make me worried unless it is called for. If I have to fly her out I will…will that contaminate me? I wouldn’t care as long as I could make sure she’s safe.
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She go out for the moon eclips ?
Call her/email her and get more inf.
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She did, but she said it was mostly cloudy where she was.
What should I ask her?
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Just have her/them retrace her steps since Thursday !
If they all got rashes they may have been together when received, not everyone gets nosebleeds !
Some people are more sensitive then others in different ways !
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Going to see a doctor would be a wise thing. Even if I choose my own remedy, I always go to the doctor when I need a diagnosis.
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Traces of radioactive sulfur measured at Scripps Pier reveal extent of leakage from damaged Fukushima reactor
http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/08/15/traces-of-radioactive-sulfur-measured-at-scripps-pier-reveal-extent-of-leakage-from-damaged-fukushima-reactor/
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RE: Yellow rain in Orange County today post email
• Posted by californian 10 (My Page) on
Fri, Mar 25, 11 at 22:46
I just came across this article about a yellow rain panic in Japan. Yellow rain was also observed after Chernobyl.
Here is a link that might be useful: Yellow rain article
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/calif/msg0320284029223.html?19
Chernobyl-Style Yellow Rain Causes Panic In Japan
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/march2011/240311_yellow_rain.htm
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If she decides to go to the doctor, ask her to say nothing about radiation, unless she wants the doctor and nurse to look at her as a two headed cow in distress, might get a referral to another kind of witch doctor !
Ain’t that right folks, or the doc will tell her to lose you as a boy friend !
: D
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You read my mind…I showed my wife’s specialist a clip of June 11 and I thought he was going to pull out a tape measure to see what size straitjacket would work. Without a doubt some of the most ignorant naked apes on the planet are physicians.
Question: What the difference between a surgeon and a puppy dog?
Answer: The puppy grows up and stops whining.
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LOL
thanks SP
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It’s possible that these symptoms are due to radiation exposure.
But you shouldn’t assume it’s any better in Virginia. Plus flying gives you an exposure too. Jets routinely fly in the jet stream. The jet stream is contaminated, so the planes would be too. I would never fly in a plane again.
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+100
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Dear Bobby et al: Plus we, even for the carefully and relatively continuously better educated about this topic, have, whether we like it or not, been bioaccumulating ionizing radionuclides in all their horrific diversity (many hundreds of different radionuclides are out there, not just one or the other on which we keep gratefully accepting piddling newzy bits) for nearly nine months now. The bioaccumulation for children in contaminated regions of Europe effecting the health of maybe 80% of the children in much of NE Europe and who knows where else in Europe and Asia to this day 25 years or so later, was from one week of fallout.
Our bioaccumulation, by contrast, and more importantly, the children of Japan’s bioaccumulation has been continuous for for the past at least 48 weeks. I don’t believe that the fallout amounts were lower, where they did occur in Japan, in the early days and weeks, either.
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45 weeks
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Argh! was from one week of emissions before the corium had glassified at Chernobyl.
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Yes, I think the plant is spitting out more radiation now than it was then. And we have the radiation in the jet stream coming down as rain and snow, which we didn’t have then, and which is also getting worse. The contamination is in a much wider variety of foods than it was then.
Even if they fixed the NPP completely, today, it would continue to get worse for a long time, because of the poison in the atmosphere and the ocean.
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http://www.thecourier.co.uk/News/Perthshire/article/19622/radiation-contamination-shock-at-dara-in-almondbank.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8950513/Wild-monkeys-to-measure-radiation-levels-in-Fukushima.html
WHY THE FUCK CANT THEY USE FUCKING HUMANS? I HATE ANYONE WHO USE ANIMALS AS BAIT,I WOULD RATHER SEE HUMANS DIE
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http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/10/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-video-of-inside.html
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Dr Strangelove and the Nuclear DNA Infertility Bomb
http://thearrowsoftruth.com/dr-strangelove-and-the-nuclear-dna-bomb/
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 – by Isao Hashimoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY&feature=player_embedded
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Woah, that map of nuke explosions really makes the US look bad.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Ed Markey, Darrell Issa face off on Gregory Jaczko
“House Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Darrell Issa weren’t backing down Monday afternoon in their feud over Gregory Jaczko’s leadership of the NRC.”
“I believe that the president has named the best chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in its history, in terms of his commitment to nuclear safety,” the Massachusetts Democrat told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell as he and Issa faced off in a joint interview.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/70316.html
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Calhoun!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/apnewsbreak-regulators-increase-scrutiny-of-neb-nuclear-plant-after-finding-more-problems/2011/12/13/gIQAoHRXsO_story.html
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http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=4339 Simplyinfo on the NRC row
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