Published: November 23rd, 2014 at 1:35 pm ET
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Japan Times, Nov 22, 2014 (emphasis added): Tepco fails to halt toxic water inflow at Fukushima… [TEPCO] admitted failure Friday in its bid to halt the flow of toxic water into underground tunnels alongside the ocean… Some 11,000 tons of highly radioactive water have accumulated in the tunnels… connected to the reactor 2 and 3 turbine buildings… according to Tepco. There are fears that this toxic buildup… could pour into the Pacific, which is already being polluted by other radioactive leaks… Friday, Tepco proposed a new technique for the tunnels: injection of a cement filler… some [highly radioactive water] would be left behind, endangering plant workers, Tepco acknowledged… [Gov't experts] argued that Tepco should stick to the original plan and draw out all of the water. Others said giving up on it may hamper the construction of the ice wall.
Mainichi Daily News, Nov. 22, 2014: TEPCO fails to stop toxic water inflow into tunnels – [TEPCO] said Friday its attempt to stop the flow of highly toxic water into underground tunnels by the sea had failed… There are fears that the toxic water… could leak into the ocean… Removing the water is a necessary step in TEPCO’s unprecedented attempt to create a huge underground ice wall… Initially, TEPCO sought to freeze water in a section of a tunnel… The utility also took some additional measures, but they also failed.
Asahi Shimbun, Nov 22, 2014: After failures, TEPCO to use special cement… [TEPCO] plans to fill in trenches on the coastline in yet another attempt to prevent highly contaminated water from pouring into the sea… The new method will allow radioactive materials to remain in the surrounding soil, but TEPCO decided to employ the technique because it puts high priority on preventing massive amounts of highly contaminated water from leaking into the ocean. This spring, TEPCO tried to stop the water influx at the trench for the No. 2 reactor by freezing the junction of the turbine building and the trench… The company then attempted to stop the water inflow with a cement mixture, but was unable to do so…
NHK, Nov 21, 2014: TEPCO gives up on freezing tainted water – [TEPCO] is drastically changing its plan to remove highly radioactive water from underground tunnels… inundated with water from the plant’s heavily contaminated reactor buildings… TEPCO officials found that water levels in the tunnels were still changing in sync with volumes in the reactor buildings. The officials admitted to the Nuclear Regulation Authority on Friday that the tunnels hadn’t been plugged. They said they’re giving up on the plan… [NRA] commissioners asked whether the new method can really halt the inflow. They also spoke of the risk of cracks forming in cement… [O]ne commissioner asked what all the trouble over the past months was for.
NHK transcript: Regulators said they’re worried [the cement] might not stop the water and that it could crack. >> Watch the broadcast here
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24 November 2014
French Polynesia: Billion dollar nuclear claim
An overseas territory governed by France is to ask Paris for nearly $1bn in compensation for damage caused by nuclear weapons tests, it's been reported.
The assembly of French Polynesia, based in Papete, has prepared a demand for $930m (£594m) over the 193 tests carried out by France in the South Pacific between 1966 and 1996, Radio New Zealand International reports. The ruling Tahoeraa Huiraatira party, which opposes independence from France, is also demanding an additional $132m for the continued occupation of a pair of atolls used for nuclear testing but which still not been returned.
French Polynesia is a territory comprising more than 100 islands and atolls with its own government, but is still part of the French Republic. At the end of French nuclear testing in 1996, former Polynesian president Gaston Flosse negotiated a $150m annual payment to support the country's economy.
The billion-dollar claim is not universally popular in Papete. Current president Edouard Fritch said he was unaware of the assembly's demand and was "disappointed" at plans to ask Paris for the money, Radio New Zealand reported.
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NYC decries plan for Ginna plant
Jon Campbell November 23, 2014
ALBANY – What does New York City — the state and nation's most populous city — care about an aging upstate power plant in a county just a fraction of its size some 300 miles away on the shore of Lake Ontario?
The answer lies in a little-noticed, highly technical document filed in August with the state Public Service Commission.
Within its 13 pages, a branch of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office weighed in against a request from the R.E. Ginna Nuclear Power Plant in Wayne County to force an electric utility — Rochester Gas and Electric Corp. — to negotiate a payment plan to keep the plant running and the Rochester-area power grid reliable. The filing also points to the Cayuga Power Plant in Lansing, Tompkins County, and another in Chautauqua County, citing similar circumstances.
Essentially, the city asks: If Ginna gets approval for a survival package that will likely be paid for by RG&E ratepayers, what's keeping other power plants from holding other utilities and their customers hostage?
"If the commission allows such conduct in this case, it should expect other generators to follow suit," according to the filing, which was written…
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by Michael Delaney, director of energy regulatory affairs for the New York City Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, and Kevin Lang, an Albany-based lawyer retained by the city.
The debate centers on what's known in regulatory parlance as a Reliability Support Services Agreement, or an RSSA.
It works like this: If a power plant is losing money and planning to shut down, it files a notice with the Public Service Commission alerting the board of its intentions. From there, it's determined whether or not taking the power plant off of the grid would result in any blackouts or service issues for customers in a particular region.
If shutting down the plant would cause problems for the grid, the plant's owners can request a temporary RSSA — monthly payments from an electric utility, usually paid for via a surcharge on customer bills, which are meant to keep the plant running and able to generate power while a long-term solution is figured out.
Since 2012, two such arrangements have been approved: One for the Cayuga plant, which provides much of the power for the Ithaca area; and another for an NRG Energy Inc.-owned plant in Dunkirk, Chautauqua County, which has since received approval to switch from coal to natural gas.
The payments are significant: Under the Cayuga plant's latest deal, New York State Electric & Gas will pay the facility's owners between $2 million and $2.8 million a month through June 2017, along with up to $42 million …
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in one-time capital costs. NYSEG is owned by the same parent company as RG&E.
Cayuga, which first opened in 1955, gets to keep the first $5 million in net revenue each year, while anything over that is split 50/50 with NYSEG. The electric utility then places a surcharge on its customers' bills to recover the costs, ranging from about $1 a month for a small residence to more than $1,600 a month for a large industrial customer.
Ginna's owner, Chicago-based Exelon Corp., is seeking a similar arrangement. …
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If TEPCO is to be believed, all the spent fuel has been unloaded out of Unit 4's spent fuel pool leaving 158 unused/fresh fuel assemblies to be still unload into Unit 6's fuel pool (that is where they are going to store them).
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html
Unit 1 and 2 spent fuel removal from the pools has been delayed for 2 years. Might as well be indefinitely.
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Just found out my niece living in the Northern California San Francisco area has Thyroid cancer. After the melt downs in Fukushima, I figured there would be more cases especially thyroid cancer just a little freaked that its so close to home. Sad that no warnings were sent out and no precautionary iodine pills were dispersed in the public and you were made to feel like a paranoid for getting some from the health food store and recommending others take them. So 3 almost 4 years later the cancers are coming out, the ocean is dying, the silence is deafening.
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I'm so sorry. That's sad, I guess we need to emotionally prepare ourselves for more of the same. It's time to sue them out of existence, imho.
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Thank Barack Hussein Obama, Jerry Brown, Congressmen & Media for cancer & deaths in California. The Nuclear Village CAUSED the Fukushima Disasters and CONTINUE to cover them up. Blue State Democrats and Red State Republicans STIFLED the alarm; as the Vast Radionuclide Storm of 311 rolled across America.
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Doof – What Republican was on TV screaming out a warning? There was none. Stupid is as stupid does. We are all fucked whether we duck our heads or not……
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Unless a few folks get aggravated and do something about it.
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California maintains an anti-radiation medication supply, independent of federal control. The Left Coast citizenry was NOT alerted during the PEAK airbourne fallout. Northern USA States and the Eastern Seaboard were similarly left in COW-LIKE, ignorant bliss. Torrential Rains came down, and washed these deadly radioactive pathogens to earth.
Shelter in Place orders never came. Disaster sirens were silent. Medicines were withheld. Simple, cheap decontamination measures were never implemented.
Cancer will be universal in Japan, North Pacific Islands. North America will experience a Cancer Epidemic of unprecedented proportion.
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How could they? How can so many people be complicit? I guess no one wants to be the person to say, hey, we screwed the pooch, your going to die, I'm going to die, we're all going to die. For a pittance, and if you look at the big picture it is a pittance, we contaminated the entire planet and insured domestic tranquility by killing everything and making sure it stays dead for a million years or so. And instead of a thank you card, you called us nuketarded. We had really thought you would notice we were psychotic and stop us, but now its too late…yeah, there not going to say that ever, are they?
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Even AFTER the tsunami, this did NOT have to play out like the movie, "On the Beach". Duck & cover and a few meds, with decontamination; and the Japan Genome could have – would have survived.
You are correct, psychopaths do not confess, repent, heal or even reflect. Millions will die premature and painful deaths. I do not personally believe that the Earth biosphere will die. A substantial portion of our planetary biota will die. A lot of what/who remains will be likely be sickly and deformed.
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sorry to hear your niece's been so affected, Replacant. I also have family sprinkled throughout the West Coast – from Texas to Washington state – one of which (my niece) is reporting deteriorating health. I've declined to emphasize the 'potential' post-Fuku effects that may be the underlying cause. I don't want to add to her anxiety.
At this point, any-and-all who've been residing on the West Coast since 311, are, for all intents, irrevocable 'statistics'. Regardless where one was when the first Fuku plume circled the globe, none should think they'll emerge unscathed. The post-Fuku contamination of both east and western Pacific regions will be but the tip of the iceberg…
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Very sorry about your niece. Apparently in California, doctors were actively STOPPED from giving out potassium iodide pills to their patients.
The whole culture needs to be doing SOME ongoing cancer preventatives. A baseline is that cancer thrives in acid and in lack of oxygen. Baking soda is the best thing to quickly and reliably make the body more alkaline (1/2 teaspoonful in water twice a day) and liposomal vitamin C for anti-oxidants (3 tablespoons non-GMO lecithin to one tablespoon non-buffered vitamin C powder, in a pint of water.) Put C, lecithin and water in a blender, then put through an ultrasonic cleaner (available at a hardware store for $30) for 6 minutes. It will make the vitamin C 4-5 times more absorbable.
Just making these suggestions because they are cheap, reliable, easy to do for anyone. We all need such minimal protections. Everyone.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvAbDX0R2Eg
Dry Cask Radwaste Storage Issues – Donna Gilmore
Nov 24, 2014
This is SanOnofreSafety.org founder Donna Gilmore's presentation to the NRC on dry cask nuclear waste storage issues, delivered by invitation as part of an NRC Regulatory Conference held Nov. 19-20, 2014 in Rockville, Maryland.
Why are the NRC and Southern California Edison favoring inferior, short-lived, thin-walled, unsafe stainless steel canisters to store San Onofre's tons of nuclear waste in a corrosive seaside environment instead of the long-lasting, thick-walled, top-of-the-line technology available?
Gilmore presents a strong case for regulators and utilities to take the lead in setting the highest possible standards for America's growing inventory of radioactive waste that will remain deadly for hundreds of thousands of years longer than human civilization has yet existed.
With no safe long-term storage sites having been found despite over half a century of attempts to find them, Gilmore urges officials not to 'play bureaucratic roulette' with the future of California and the rest of the nation.
- MsMilkytheclown1
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…
NRC revision to NUREG-1927 scheduled for 2015
NRC plans to require first inspection after 25 years, allowing vendor five years to develop
inspection technology.
Only requires inspection of one canister per plant.
That same canister to be inspected every 5 years.
NRC TO ALLOW UP TO 75% through-wall crack even though there is no seismic rating
for cracked canisters…
- 19 min 30sec. This is required viewing and should be preserved, imho
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More GROSSLY defective Nuclear Village products, complete with false assurances.
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Donna is a class act; relatively new to anti-nuke; a Cal-Trans IT accounting executive who was casually reading her local San Clemente paper (two miles north of SONGS) when she read that a couple of whistle blowers were being retaliated against!
She has done some great work exposing the great North American dry waste canister storage fraud;
The German Company which makes the better canister, the twenty inch thick, ductile cast iron, with bolt-on lids with seals which can be inspected and replaced, unlike the Holtec thin-walled variety which cannot be repaired or replaced, Castor, has not bothered to have their superior product vetted and approved by the NRC because they have always considered the American nuclear village to be so corrupt as to not warrant honest competitive pricing into;
Hers is explosive but wholly believable info!
We stayed up late debriefing each other at the Sierra Club Summit Meeting for a Nuclear-Free Future, held recently at the national 4-H Center on Connecticut Ave in Chevy Chase, MD.
This was a great meeting, second annual, spearheaded by several Sierra Club members unhappy that Sierra Club central command is not interested in telling Big Nuke where to get off the bus;
She is very open and approachable and has a great web-site at http://www.sanonofresafety.org;
This is great info we should all be throwing at every State local and federal agency: TRUTH
peace
The Holtec canisters are sub-standard crap, they crac
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Work starts to fill tainted underground tunnels
Nov. 25, 2014
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have started pouring cement into underground tunnels filled with highly radioactive water.
The effort is aimed at replacing the water with cement. The water is believed to be leaking into the nearby sea after mixing with groundwater.
Workers on Tuesday poured into the tunnels 80 cubic meters of cement that can solidify in water…
The operator says it plans to check the effectiveness of the measure in about a month … if there are no problems, it will resume the work to finish it by March…
Workers using the method are likely exposed to more radiation than under the original plan.
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Do they really have engineers? or just pretend wanna be's?
First stop the high level radioactive water leaks coming out of the reactors, that go into the basements and then the tunnels.
Prediction;
This will fail, just like everything else they tried.
If anything, it will make it worse.
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Yes Japan does have engineers assigned to the FDNPS disaster.
However, the Nuclear Village is HOSTILE to engineering ethics. The Nuclear Engineering Association has belatedly adopted, (in name only) a pro-forma ethics statement. This is most certainly an exercise in futility; much as if 3rd Reich concentration camp guards adopted a similar statement.
Cement will ABSOLUTELY displace the tunnel water. DEEP Cement Vertical Grouting surrounding each of FD Units-1-2-3, will somewhat isolate and partially contain the respective CORIUM SLUGS. Multiple concentric rings of increasing depth, will further isolate & contain. Difficult and dangerous, but effective and essential.
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Where does all of the high level liquid radioactive water waste go after everything is cemented up?
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The water leaking or pouring out of multiple reactors?
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I am NOT saying that Japan IS doing this. Japan SHOULD do this now. And Japan SHOULD have done this long ago. IMHPO.
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With 100% meltdowns, you have to throw ethics out the window to some degree. You can argue the Soviet Union did exactly that as they accepted reality with Chernobyl.
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Ethics are not been a prominent feature in the Nuclear Village.
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Really?
This would have worked out well for the country..ya think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTMFp3Lvi2A
Ethics dripping in money and the wanting of more money and control over others.. pay up!
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The underground river will continue to flow, with a slight change in course. Three (3) deep, metal & reinforced cement tubes will extend below the corium, to bedrock or the bottom of the tubes will be plugged, also with cement. Each tube will be longer, wider and deeper than the corium. At that time, it becomes POSSIBLE to again have a closed loop cooling and filtering system. Water level and temperature can be kept relatively constant.
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Is there any proof that the cement chemistry will work, (as in, will it set?) when it is made with radioactive water and under intense radiation?
What if it doesn't set?!
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Some may NOT like this answer. The GLOBAL experts in underground cement bonding is Halliburton.
Incidentally, Halliburton pump trucks COULD have prevented the FDNPS meltdowns in Unit-3 and Unit-2. The Unit-1 reactor had broken pipes, from the earthquake. So that baby was doomed from the Get-Go.
Nobody from Team Obama COULD or WOULD call Halliburton, to save their lives, Japan, OR the North Pacific Fishery. So they did not call Halliburton. As the Watermelons have chanted for years, Halliburton is evil. Why would Team Obama or Japan, Inc. ever even think to call Halliburton?
No, I do not own any Haliburton Stock and have not worked WITH them on any project in decades.
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Coulda, shoulda, didn't!
Japan is toast!
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http://allthingsnuclear.org
All Things Nuclear
Insights on Science and Security
Simplified Drawings: Electrical Distribution Drawings
Dave Lochbaum, director, Nuclear Safety Project
November 25, 2014
Nuclear Energy Activist Toolkit #43
The primary objective of nuclear power plants is to generate electricity for use (i.e., purchase) by industrial and residential customers. Nuclear power plants consume large amounts of electricity themselves in pursuing this objective. Read More…
The 2014 USCC Report: Still Sloppy After All These Years
Gregory Kulacki, China project manager and senior analyst
November 24, 2014
Last week The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) released yet another in a long line of annual reports with sensational claims about China’s military capabilities. Unfortunately, the USCC also continued to improperly source the information on which some of its claims are based. Read More..
NRC: Obstructing Justice?
Dave Lochbaum, director, Nuclear Safety Project
November 18, 2014
Fission Stories #176
On June 23, 2014, NRC issued two yellow findings, the second most serious among the agency’s four color-coded sanctions, to the owner of the Arkansas Nuclear One plant for violations identified during a March 31, 2014, fatal accident. Read More…
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http://www.pistonheads.com/GASSING/topic.asp?h=0&t=983288&d=12747.29875&nmt=
Sunday 9th November
Just found out my BiL, who lived within sight of the plant, has just been told he's got 6-12 months to live…
He moved to Vietnam pretty much as soon as he could after the tsunami, and had a pretty bad stroke a year later.
Has been back in the UK for 2 years, where the they've been very confused by his bloodwork etc., once my SiL let them know where he had been it apparently all fell into place.
Likely to experience more strokes and has big problems with his bone marrow.
I'm a proponent of nuclear power (well aware of the relative numbers of deaths etc. compared to other power sources) but it's brought something that had been very abstract very close to home…
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You're saying that YOU are a proponent of nuclear power? YOU? Not the people you are quoting?
Please do an autopsy of your brain, if so. I cannot even believe you are saying this.
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WNTF – if you read what's at the link you'd have your answer.
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keep calm WNTF, it's just a post by someone on the net
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quote rogerthat
"I'm a Proponent of nuclear power (well aware of the relative numbers of deaths etc. compared to other power sources)"
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That is indeed..an unexpected surprise..and hard to believe looking back at all your work..are you sure its not a typo rogerthat ?
Or is your account hacked ?
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Thanks or-well , cleared it up right away…
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The most important part of any education, is the ability to click on the links/information provided, and then read them.
Vox has failed to give me his report in written and or verbal presentation form..
Why he was dismissed!
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"The most important part of any education, is the ability to click on the links/information provided, and then read them.
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Yeah..and the use of quotation marks..
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Yes, of course, quotation marks or so, so important, especially when 550,000 Americans died directly from cancer last year.
Projected US minimum from cancer death would be 20,000,000 over the next 40 years.
Maybe the Nuclear guys and gals did not use quotation marks in their manuals and Walah the entire world now fries from an ever growing manmade Nuclear fire!
Yes, if only everything was a simple as using quotation marks!
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? Something wrong obe ?
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Nothing wrong!
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I was pointing in good fun at how the misunderstanding probably occured , we all have different posting styles not meaning anything with it because it's no biggie…it was just harmless accident..and indeed unimportant..compared to everything that's going on , and compared too all the good work that rogerthat does..i know that too..i'm just surprised that's unclear..tbh..
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http://www.vietnambreakingnews.com/2014/11/fukushima-festival-2014-in-ha-noi/
Fukushima festival 2014 in Ha Noi
November 25, 2014 by vietnamtourism
On November 23rd, in Ha Noi, Vietnamese Women’s Museum coordinated with Viet Nam – Fukushima Friendship Association to organize the Fukushima festival 2014 helping to consolidate the bilateral relationship between Viet Nam and Japan.
The second festival focused on the spirit of Fukushima and contemporary Japanese culture.
Diverse cultural activities were held during the event, including a traditional tea ceremony, Kimono fashion shows, doll painting, Japanese comedy, flower arranging showcases and an exhibition of Bonsai trees. Visitors also had a chance to participate in the exciting Yosakoi dance, and attend a Sake tasting experience.
Fukushima is well known to the Vietnamese people because of the recent tsunami and nuclear power station disasters that occurred in March 2011. These duel disasters almost destroyed this peaceful and beautiful city.
Since then, people in Fukushima have [...]
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An attempt at dilution of message..
Physicists Say Fukushima Reactors Pose Eternal Threat to Humanity
Nov 25 2014
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=173386
First they quote Helen Calldicott.. then they quote Thomas Drolet..
"Thomas Drolet is the principal of Drolet & Associates Energy Services Inc. He has had a 44-year career in many phases of energy—nuclear, coal, natural gas, geothermal and distributed generation, with expertise in commercial aspects, research and development, engineering, operations and consulting. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Royal Military College of Canada, a Master of Science degree in nuclear technology/chemical engineering and a DIC from Imperial College, University of London, England. He spent 26 years with North America's largest nuclear utility, Ontario Hydro, in various nuclear engineering, research and operations functions."
He says ..all that has to happen ..is pump out the basement of reactor 2 move some spent fuel ..damaged rods and it's golden.
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Note the guys recent interviews…like he is going to be a spokesman of truth..
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Aside from the complete inanity of his assertion, no one can get into reactor 2 long since. The radiation would kill them. Why is the paper quoting him? At the least, he's a corrupt idiot.
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"He says ..all that has to happen ..is pump out the basement of reactor 2 move some spent fuel ..damaged rods and it's golden."
A little duct tape …
http://descrier.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/starfish-wasting-virus-702×261.jpg
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2013/07/10/1226676/897782-130710-canada-oil-train-derailment.jpg
…and it's golden. That guy is a real "MacGuyver"
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Now look MarineChemist..
You can't force people ..to work with a certain set of data..(particularly if the data appears slanted and insufficient.
No amount of peer reviewed studies can substitute the fact ..that there was more material onsite and now x-containment…at Fukushima Npp than Chernobyl…with less evidently no containment at Fukushima.
Something about very little PU has moved from the cores and spent fuel pools.
WHAT CORES?
To use slight of hand ..look at this paper ..look at this one ..no this one.
Resembles the activity of a pick pocket.
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Page not found..
https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/plutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater/
Cowards…
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MOX fuel rods used in Japanese Nuclear Reactor present multiple dangers
March 15 2011
"Part of the process of making MOX fuel is to grind plutonium into a fine power before it is robotically inserted into fuel rods. Experts agree these tiny plutonium particles once airborne are extremely dangerous to human health."
http://www.dcbureau.org/20110315782/natural-resources-news-service/mox-fuel-rods-used-in-japanese-nuclear-reactor-present-multiple-dangers.html
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It's like a drug….
First All-MOX Plant To Apply For Safety Screenings
Nov 17 2014
"Electric Power Development Co. (J-Power) President Masayoshi Kitamura said Thursday that the company will submit its application to the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority for safety screenings to start operations for the world's first all-MOX fuel plant, which is under construction in Oma, Aomori Prefecture. The application will be submitted before the end of the year, he said."
http://nuclearstreet.com/nuclear_power_industry_news/b/nuclear_power_news/archive/2014/11/17/first-all_2d00_mox-plant-to-apply-for-safety-screenings-111701.aspx#.VHSOe7ktDIU
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MOX plutonium fuel used in Fukushima's Unit 3 reactor two million times more deadly than enriched uranium
March 17 2011
An exact quote from the report reads:
"In the event of such accidents (involving the accidental release of MOX), if the ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection) recommendations for general public exposure were adhered to, only about one mg of plutonium may be released from a MOX facility to the environment. As a comparison, in [sic] uranium fabrication facility, 2kg (2,000,000 mg) of uranium could be released in the same radiation exposure."
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html#ixzz3K5ezCHRh
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Page not found..
https://cosmosmagazine.com/news/plutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater/
Cowards…
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Hi Heart , could it be related to this article ? According to google they only differ one day..
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2006/October/26100602.asp
I just left out the original source…the top two result's are your article and this one…(might differ if you click from different country don't know)
https://www.google.be/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=https%3A%2F%2Fcosmosmagazine.com%2Fnews%2Fplutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater%2F&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=RKB0VKLfKKmK8Qf9w4C4Bg#channel=fs&q=news%2Fplutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater%2F
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nope they both work (the google links) , must have been an other article you found that got deleted..
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http://web.cosmosmagazine.com/news/plutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater/
This works..
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Sorry DID ! We be simulcasting!
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No sorry needed or-well.. i blame jung and the oneness of everything lol
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test
http://web.cosmosmagazine.com/news/plutonium-hitchhikes-groundwater/
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only "web" missing from HotR's link
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hello syncronity…er or-well
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Thanks for this folks.
What?.. PU ..just sitting at the edge of the reactor?
Dressed up with no place to go?
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plutonium containing fuel pellets bulldozed over is bad news. When nuclear fuel goes ex-vessel, souls go ex-vessel
Pu decays to americium-241, an alpha emitter with a halflife of 432 years which is a major contributor to the radioactivity of nuclear waste on a scale of hundreds or thousands of years.
Plutonium and Americium have huge bioconcentration factors;
Plutonium-238;… 2,600 in fish muscle up to 840,000 in macroinvertebrate larvae.
Americium from 650 in waterfowl muscle to 240,000 in macroinvertebrate larvae
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1016/ML101600579.pdf
Fukushima-derived 239+240Pu 60 times greater than bomb test fallout
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297203/
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As a self professed fukuphobic, I wish more humanoids would wake the f up and realize we ALL are f'd!
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They have all been placed in a trance..
A heavily medicated spell.
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It's a little like that. The greatest powers on Earth are probably just what we could call "energy fields" — invisible silent unmeasurable forces that sway our brains to and fro. Some is bad microwave energy, yes, but there is a lot else. Even emotionally, propaganda sways whole populations into a trance energy field and they all believe the same wrong things in tandem.
Modern technologies have not even suggestions what to do about this. Spiritual mediation can be immensely helpful, but most people don't know how to get it and even recognize what is there.
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NOT A FAILURE . . .
There was never a chance of containing the meltdowns.
Not by anyone in the world.
This was known in the first weeks of the disaster, and posted on this site.
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This one kinda went south on me. Get it NZ…South…Excellent read actually.
http ://www.nobraintoosmall.co.nz/students/physics/NCEA_Level2/L2_Atoms/pdfs/phys_91172_half-life.pdf
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http://www.nobraintoosmall.co.nz/students/physics/NCEA_Level2/L2_Atoms/pdfs/phys_91172_half-life.pdf
Dang…
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Jebus adding to your comment…
Please everyone READ all provided commentary information FIRST before sticking anything derogatory out here in this forum also! Speculation is OK in this challenging NEW SCIENCE we MUST deal with. SOME of you DO understand this concept that there is NO TIME for peer reviewed propaganda pseudoscience papers here! ONLY the work we all MUST do!
Basic Atomic:
http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/human_elements_star.htm
http
://www.nobraintoosmall.co.nz/students/physics/NCEA_Level2/L2_Atoms/pdfs/phys_91172_half-life.pdf
http://www.geigercounter.org/radioactivity/decay.htm
http://hpschapters.org/northcarolina/NSDS/strontium.pdf
Moderate Light (QED):
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/blusky.html#c4
http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~ljc/light3a.html
http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/CesiumSky/library/Cesium%20Sky
http://s1273.photobucket.com/user/CesiumSky/library/Cesium%20Sky/ELEmentSky
Advanced Light:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.3710.pdf
Advanced Atomic:
http://hxiris.med.upenn.edu/publications/Englander69.pdf
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ch24/lecture2324_2004.pdf
Wireless Power Transmission & Tesla’s Electro-Gravity Research:
http://www.ascension-research.org/tesla.html
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/lostjournals/lostjournals06.htm
http://teslatech.info/ttmagazine/v1n4/valone.htm
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Sorry about the mess moderate this!
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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/printpromotion/article/State-joins-nuke-waste-effort-5913384.php
State joins nuke waste effort
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Connecticut is joining a multistate effort to force the federal government to take custody of the thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel being stored at the Millstone Power Station and other plants across the nation.
State Attorney General George Jepsen, along with attorneys general in New York and Vermont, recently filed a joint petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., designed to overturn the latest Nuclear Regulatory Commission waste storage rule.
The rule issued in September allows on-site storage of spent nuclear fuel for 60 years after a nuclear plant closes.
"Spent fuel pools were not designed for indefinite storage," Jepsen said. "The federal government should act to accept its statutory responsibility to provide for long-term permanent storage of nuclear waste."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlv4mW2wFA
Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten
Published on Nov 24, 2014
This documentary was shown on German and French TV but not in England. For obvious reasons the English don't want anyone to see it.
This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to. It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world.
The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney. Alderney is also subject to releases to the sea from the French Nuclear Reprocessing Plant at Cap de la La Hague 12 miles East of the small island.
Prof Chris Busby who was consulted on the health effects of this marine radioactive pollution visits the island with the producers and makes measurements of contamination on the beach.
Busby originally visited the island in 1998 with Jersey MP Stuart Syvret and found an excess of brain tumours and also general cancer mortality which was written up as a Green Audit paper and became part of a BBC news story at the time. They were both chased off the island.
Manfred Ladwig manages to get Dr John Cooper, head of the UK radiological protection organisation, the HPA, to admit that they balance childhood cancer cases…
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against the advantages of cheaply disposing of nuclear waste.
Cooper also agrees that his position involves a conflict of interest since he is head of HPA which takes advice on radiation protection from ICRP. Cooper is on the ICRP committee. He therefore takes advice from himself.
We also hear from Prof Richard Wakeford, ex head of research for Sellafield, but now an "independent" expert, also on ICRP, who tells us the coastal child leukemias were caused by "population mixing". How long do we have to be subject to advice from these clowns?
Prof Busby asks the youtube to kindly leave this alone since he was part of the production and has the right to upload it.
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http://netteandme.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/part-10-of-15-killing-our-own.html
Monday, November 24, 2014
PART 10 OF 15; KILLING OUR OWN:
The more I read of this book,the more disgusted I become. That this book is over 30 years old, should be of great concern to readers, as we are dealing with federal agencies here…
The Disaster of America's Experience
with Atomic Radiation
Harvey Wasserman & Norman Solomon
with Robert Alvarez & Eleanor Walters
10
Tritium in Tucson, Wastes Worldwide
Like Agnes Engel of Canonsburg, Tom Charlie downriver from Church Rock, and the Haag and Mixon families near Rocky Flats, radiation has affected the life of Rita Linzy.
A mother of two and a lifelong resident of Tucson, Linzy knew little of the intricacies of atomic power until one of her near neighbors accidentally leaked radioactive tritium, introducing it into food being served to forty thousand local schoolchildren.
It happened in the summer of 1979. During the incident–which Linzy called "our Three Mile Island"–her hair fell out and scores of her neighbors began wondering if their health had been damaged.[1]
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http://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/nuclear-subs-trident-must-still-leave-scotland-more-must-not-come/
Nov 25
Posted by Mining Awareness Plus
Nuclear Subs-Trident Must Still Leave Scotland; & More Must Not Come!
The people of Scotland have awoken from their slumber and will no longer accept WMD on our doorstep. Is there any other country in the world that would have lived for 50 years with nuclear weapons 30 miles away from its largest city? No, and neither will we any longer. Trident has to go now!” http://scraptrident.org (Info, including re Protest on November 30th, at link).
Glasgow is the largest City in Scotland and the third largest in the UK. The population of Glasgow proper is 596,550 (2013), but the Metro area is estimated at 2.85 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow
This is not only an issue of ethics or of nuclear weapons which could go off by accident, it is also a question of radioactive waste created, and transport of weapons, due to required upkeep of nuclear warheads.
And, the nuclear subs which are stationed at Faslane routinely leak radiation into Scottish Lochs legally and sometimes illegally. They have mini-nuclear reactors and nuclear reactors leak by design.
http://scraptrident.org
The UK is removing its nuclear subs from Devonport in England and sending them to Faslane, adding more to Faslane.
They will do their upkeep in Scotland, leaking even more radioactive waste than usual …
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into quasi enclosed Scottish Lochs-waterways. And, they will dismantle the old nuclear submarines in Scotland and likely dump the nuclear submarine reactor parts in Scotland, or at Sellafield, unless people protest adequately.
The UK has expressed admiration of US disposal of reactor components. See what that looks like below.
Public hearings have started in the UK about where to put their components. There are some other places besides Scotland and Sellafield on the short list, from which somehow Devonport was removed.
The UK gov promised to do much of this nuclear dumping in Scotland before the referendum, which is why Scots needed to have voted Yes to Independence.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/201411241377.html
Zimbabwe: Call for National Policy On Radioactive Waste
By Sifelani Tsiko
The Herald
Nov 24
… Nuclear experts say practical application of radioactive materials inevitably generates radioactive waste, which, if not properly managed, presents a potential hazard to occupationally exposed workers, the public and the environment…
At present, Zimbabwe does not have an appropriate framework and infrastructure for managing radioactive waste that meets international requirements.
Mr Mupamhanga said he hoped that a national policy and strategy for the decommissioning of facilities, safe management and disposal of radioactive waste, management of disused radioactive sources as well as other orphaned sources would be in place by 2016.
Nuclear safety experts say exposure to high levels of radiation — above one gray (the standard measure of the absorbed dose of radiation) — can result in radiation sickness, which produces a range of symptoms.
Nausea and vomiting often begin within hours of exposure, followed by diarrhoea, headaches and fever.
At higher levels of radiation, nuclear experts say all of these symptoms may be immediately apparent, along with widespread — and potentially fatal — damage to internal organs.
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http://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-ninth-circuit-provides-clarity-on-er-24136/
The Ninth Circuit Provides Clarity on ERA Whistleblower Protections.
On November 7, 2014, the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling in Tamosaitis v. URS Inc.1 and provided clarity on three key aspects of the whistleblower protections afforded under the Energy Reorganization Act (ERA), 42 U.S.C. 5801 et. seq. This decision has important implications for employers facing ERA whistleblower claims.
I. Acting Solely at a Customer’s Direction Is Not a Defense…
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http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2014/11/fukushima-update-w-arnie-gundersen-nuclear-hotseat-177-3067426.html
Fukushima Update w/ Arnie Gundersen – Nuclear Hotseat #177
Monday, November 24, 2014
INTERVIEW:
Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (Fairewinds.com), Nuclear Hotseat’s favorite nuclear engineer, gives a concise, clear interpretation of what’s behind TEPCO’s recent announcements regarding water radiation levels, the removal of fuel rods from the fuel pool at Unit 4, and the hole in the roof of Unit 1; manipulation of Japanese doctors to eliminate evidence of radiation-related diseases in Fukushima’s survivors; and an elegantly brilliant way to deprive the nuclear industry of its peak energy profits, thus hastening its demise.
SPECIAL – Nuclear Hotseat’s UK Correspondent, Shaun McGee,reports on manipulations by the government regarding the British Nuclear Test Veterans Case, as well as actions taken against well-known opponents to nuclear, Prof. Christopher Busby and Dr. Ian Fairleigh. Exclusive to Nuclear Hotseat…
-and lots more
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http://majiasblog.blogspot.com.au
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2014
LDP Government in Japan on Suicide Mission
The LDP aims for collective suicide by extending Japan's nuclear reactors' life span to 60 years while pushing forward with the Oma nuclear plant, which will purportedly be the world's first 100 percent MOX facility!
Does everyone remember what Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 explosion looked like? Unit 3 was running MOX fueld. Its explosion strongly resembled a mushroom cloud and has been interpreted as involving a nuclear criticality. Plutonium from the Daiichi explosions, likely from Unit 3, was found in Lithuania.
MOX fuel is extraordinarily dangerous. Japan's earthquake activity has been increasing. At least one of Japan's volcanoes is displaying increased activity. Japan must be intent on self-destruction …
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http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/tachyarrhythmia-increased-8x-2010-hospital-sendai/
Tachyarrhythmia cases increased to be approx. 8 times much as 2010 in “Sendai Kousei Hospital [URL]”.
The hospital specializes in circulatory disease, respiratory disease, and digestive disease. They have the most operations in North East Japan for angina and myocardial infarction.
In 2010, the hospital had only 211 medical treatment results (34th most results in Japan) on Tachyarrhythmia.
However it increased to be 581 results (8th in Japan) in 2011, it became 1,637 results in 2012, which was the largest number in Japan.
At this moment, no official announcement has been published.
http://www.senmon-i.com/detail/0401138_9.html
http://www.senmon-i.com/dpc/050070.html
Iori Mochizuki
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Prolly domoic acid, or global warming causing that. Well, that coupled with not enough smiling happy faces.
They should ban nuclear plant meltdowns, because that depresses people and the population becomes vulnerable to radiation as a result. It's just coincidental. It's not an immediate threat to public health.
Well, to individuals it's a threat, but if you dilute the individuals with populations, some will still be alive so the public goes on…well, three's a crowd anyway.
Now two… nope one. nope, ELE
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