Published: August 19th, 2012 at 5:27 pm ET
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Title: Do not underestimate the severity of the Fukushima nuclear crisis: interview
Source: Mainichi
Date: Aug 9, 2012
Before her retirement in 2000 from the University of Bremen in Germany, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake had been an experimental physicist who some 30 years ago had analyzed data on nuclear bomb survivors[...]
Mainichi: How would you evaluate the way the Japanese government has handled the crisis?
Schmitz-Feuerhake: I praise the government for designating the area within a 20-kilometer radius from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as a no-entry zone. That it set annual radiation levels of 20 millisieverts as a standard for evacuation is understandable for a government that was unprepared for a large-scale nuclear disaster. But it’s being grossly irresponsible by reactivating nuclear reactors and trying to shift the public’s attention towards “recovery.”
With the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and past atmospheric nuclear tests, the total volume of radioactive material released was clear. In the case of the Fukushima crisis, however, we still don’t know how much radioactive material has been released. Nuclear fuel that far exceeds the nuclear bombs in both quality and quantity remain in very vulnerable conditions, and it’s unclear whether it will be possible to retrieve them safely in the future. While the amount of radioactive material being released may be far less than immediately after the disaster began, the reactors still continue to release these materials. The government needs to recognize the gravity of this situation.
Published: August 19th, 2012 at 5:27 pm ET
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"The government needs to recognize the gravity of this situation."
The Japanese government IS aware of the situation.
They MUST be made to admit it.
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"They MUST be made to admit it."
They can never do this, it would undermine everything we've been taught up to this point. This would be a most game changing event, for TPTB. It will not happen.
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The trouble with liers, Heart of the Rose, is that they must maintain each and every lie, or, all their lies will be exposed.
peace to you and yours.
BOYD
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BOYD, I know that saying, but perhaps it applies to someone in a witness box more than to large hydra-headed entities like governments or corporations with media control. In the Big Everything model the story keeps changing. Each uncovered lie is challenged, distorted, retold, forgotten, discounted, and new ones are injected into the story. From time to time an intern is fired if necessary or one talking head replaces another and insists on fresh dialog.
Corporations and governments don't appear to be too upset if caught in a blatant lie. "I was misquoted." "I misspoke." "My remarks were taken out of context." "We have corrected the problem." "Next time will be different." "We have learned our lessons." "I wasn't there." "It was before my time." "My staff failed to inform me." "You'll have to ask (someone unavailable)." "That's not my department." "There was a failure in communication." "I am not at liberty to comment." "Only a traitor would suggest such a thing." "National security demands that you not inquire further." "The matter is under investigation." "That department (company) no longer exists."…
Stenographic mainstream media parrot each side's press release, then change the subject for the next news cycle.
The overall pattern is Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) about everything… until a dizzy public just gives up and retreats into displacement activities.
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aigeezer,
You are wise beyond my limited vocabulary to respond. All the points in your above post are true, but, should not be so. How do we make the corrections required?
Peace to you and yours,
BOYD
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BOYD – real wisdom is in asking the right questions, as you just did. Um… I think we're doing the right thing here at Enenews. It needs to "go viral" without having millions/billions of people joining the dialog. Some version of what we are doing now, amplified by the real power of the Net, should eventually bring them down. "Eventually" may be too late, of course.
On the other hand, even if we do nothing at all, the system is collapsing – financially, environmentally, whatever – it will change in some spectacular way relatively soon. I hope the change is benign but fear it won't be.
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aigeezer +1
This is reality! Wake up!
http://deformed-babies.tumblr.com/
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Greetings, AIG, what I'm seeing is a healthy response to what's being discussed here. Many new blogs starting covering nuclear news, greater influence for Enenews, Enformable, Beyond Nuclear (and many, many, many others including many Enenewsers here). A decentralized but effective effort to nibble away at the Hydra Headed monster. Many tiny fleas are enough to drive one big dog to distraction.
Lots of people following on FB for example. Word gets out. IMHO this is already viral; just a limited audience at present. But awareness is growing. We just haven't reached the "tipping point" yet.
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2 AIG (not to be confused with the corporate giant AIG of course):
I meant many Enenewsers have independent blog sites, websites, and so forth. Lots of bright people are reporting on this news, and have influence within their personal spheres of existence and communication.
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2 AIG, I guess I should finish my thought before hitting the "post" button. What I meant is many millions are probably already engaged in the dialog, but since the anti-nuclear movement is decentralized, it's not so obvious millions are involved.
IMHO it's a grand thing when a decentralized movement w/o a figurehead can have impact. It's rather hard for the teeth of one large dog to have much effect when the dog is nipping at all those tiny fleas.
Ha! Ha! I R a flea.
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Fleas 'r' us, HoTaters – nice idea. Dare I ask if your dog is ok? I remember you were worried a while back.
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Well said geezer! I would add, those responses only come years later in some documentary, cuz the MSM do not ask any questions.
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+1
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Bioaccumulation… Adding daily to the Northern Hemisphere toxic radiation that will not disperse for centuries and milleniums.
The nuclear megaplex disaster that never stops and is uncapped.
Madness in Japan… and disinformation by Big Brother.
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You are correct Sickputer, this is a slow motion disaster that will not end for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years after we are dead.
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It's never going to be over. Not only will the radiation never dissipate, the genetic mutations will only increase. Those who first split the atom recognized this. Those who have come after are already dumbed down by all the ever accumulating radoatopm/
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"It's never going to be over."
So true, it brings tears to my eyes to realize how ignorant I've been, all these years.
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BringOutYourDead, tears, yes, many of us have openly shared we have been there, too. It's a gut wrenching situation on many levels. Dr. Caldicott concurs. She has been in our camp since before most of us were born. She actually built one of the first small "camps" and now is one of the giants of nuclear awareness and protection against the health effects of nuclear energy.
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Or anti-nuke outposts, if you will.
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Releasing radioactive materials (( continually )) carried by winds to every country in the Northern Hemisphere. And forever, since the nuclear industries of the world cannot stop the spewing radiation. Total failure, is what this is.
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"The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry writer/poet (early 1900's)
We've taken the plunge.
'EVERYONE' needs to know the gravity of how they've been lied to. 'EVERYONE' needs to know we are all part of one big risky insidious experiment in self destruction.
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ChasAha…It's not just one-sided–"…one big risky insidious experiment in self destruction." I see it more as a contest, a battle between evolution and extinction.
There already is massive destruction. Can we climb out of this death spiral we have created? I don't know, but I'll keep trying by speaking what I see as perhaps possible, however slightly.
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Social media a factor, as Japan’s anti nuclear protests influence government Submitted by Contributors on August 19, 2012
“…Many of the protesters are disgusted and disillusioned with the mainstream Japanese media coverage of the nuclear problem. They credit the success of their movement to social media, word of mouth, and the Internet. And it is true that the mainstream Japanese media, which was the recipient of TEPCO’s annual $400 million worth of advertising, has been very reluctant to even report on the existence of the protesters until recently…”
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/08/20/social-media-a-factor-as-japans-anti-nuclear-protests-influence-government-submitted-by-contributors-on-august-19-201/
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Tepco have run out of advertising revenue.. thats why they are pulling some bad manipulation tactics. for instance
"…16 August 2012
People living near to the Fukushima accident in Minamisoma have low rates of contamination and can expect correspondingly low internal radiation doses, according to the first study on internal radiation…"
"…Between 26 September 2011 and 31 March 2012 they were checked for the presence of caesium-134 and caesium-137 in a counter shielded from natural background radiation…"
"…All test subjects' internal radiation doses for coming decades totalled less than 1 millisievert, apart from one dose of 1.07 millisieverts.
Caesium was only detected in 34.6% of the volunteers. In children the contamination results ranged from 2.8-57.9 becquerels per kilogram. In adults the isotopes were detected in 37.8% and found in concentrations of 2.3-196.5 becquerels per kilogram…"
"…The scientists cautioned that it is not possible to tell if the contamination represented low ongoing exposure or a gradual reduction from previous higher levels.
In a research letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Tsubokura said that to his knowledge the study was the first on internal exposure to caesium from the Fukushima accident. He concluded that "no case of acute health problems has been reported so far…."
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Low_internal_doses_in_Minamisoma_1608121.html
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and this is the slightly relevent bit they dont tell you..
"…The researchers note that because this screening program started 6 months after the nuclear power plant disaster, higher exposure levels might have been detected earlier, and that it is not possible to ascertain whether the low levels of exposure were due to low ongoing exposure or decay from high exposure values. "Because data were collected from volunteers, the results may not be representative of the entire population in contaminated areas. No case of acute health problems has been reported so far; however, assessments of the long-term effect of radiation requires ongoing monitoring of exposure and the health conditions of the affected communities…."
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/jaaj-seh080912.php
msm corp are cracking as bad as the 22 hidden reactors vessels of the kind that had a near meltdown like Doel3
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"…No case of acute health problems has been reported so far…"
Means if people are dying because of the Fukushima disaster, it is because we don't reveal all the reports.
Any deaths related to Fukushima are re-diagnosed as a convenient lesser disease not directly traceable to radiation poisoning.
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I've been appreciating everyone's posts here since April 2011, when I found you all making some sense of the situation and providing informational links. / Nice quote from Saint Exupéry! / We found and watched 'The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom' last night, a short wonderful film by Lucy Walker which can be watched online. See trailer at http://thetsunamiandthecherryblossom.com. It is a documentary, with new footage of the tsunami coming ashore at Minami Soma and interviews of some survivors. / Everything must change, and the more people who understand the enormity of what we need to do, the better.
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All must hope that it is not too late to abandon ALL technologies that are capable of producing a worldwide extinction event!
We must have some leaders with a vision for a viable future!
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