Published: March 17th, 2011 at 3:59 pm ET
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Japan Admits Nuclear Problem Is ‘Severe’, Sky News, March 17, 2011 2:51 pm EST:
Sebastian Pflugbeil, from the private German-based Society for Radiation Protection, said Japan’s efforts at Fukushima 1 plant signaled “the beginning of the catastrophic phase”.
“Maybe we have to pray,” he said.
The head of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gregory Jaczko, said he believes the situation is more serious than the Japanese government is letting on.
Published: March 17th, 2011 at 3:59 pm ET
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At this point we should realize that the Japanese people are trying to save the motherland and their race.
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Caller: in touch with people well south of Nuclear plant, People are getting sick and vomiting, red blotches on there bodies…
ALEX JONES SHOW !
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Yes, Japan is such a small country, with most Japanese having little choice of where to go. Prayer certainly helps.
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“”Where have they been storing the ready to use fuel they have been stock pilling”" ???
Friday 2nd April 2010
MOX Fuel Shipment from France to Japan
Following the press release issued on February, 8th, 2010, we are now implementing the preparative actions related to the coming recycled MOX fuel transport from France to Japan.
This transport will depart shortly from Cherbourg (France), heading to Japan where the MOX fuel will be delivered to the Japanese utilities KANSAI EPCo and KYUSHU EPCo.
This maritime transport will be carried out by…
http://www.innuserv.com/news/2010-04-02/mox-fuel-shipment-from-france-to-japan
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FUKUSHIMA reactor receives MOX
Aug. 23, 2010
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Saturday loaded a nuclear reactor inFukushima Prefecture with MOX, a controversial fuel made with reprocessed plutonium anduranium oxides, as it prepares to become the leading power utility’s first facility to gopluthermal.The No. 3 reactor at Tepco’s Fukushima No. 1 plant will…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50670006/Japan-Exploded-Nuclear-Plant-Uses-MOX-Fuel-Not-Uranium-What-is-That-Just-2-MILLION-Times-WORSE-Than-Uranium-or-Chernobyl-s-Meltdown
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Just one race, human race.
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High-Level Radioactive Waste Shipped from the UK *photos*
A total of 28 vitrified HLW waste canisters, each weighing about 500kg, were shipped on this occasion. They were packed into a single 98-ton (113.5 ton loaded) TN28VT transport cask (also referred to as a ‘flask’).
Seven canisters each belong to Tokyo Electric Power Company, Kansai Electric Power Company, Shikoku Electric Power Company and Kyushu Electric Power Company. They were produced at the THORP reprocessing plant in Sellafield, UK. The nine Japanese electric power companies which operate nuclear power plants as well as electricity wholesaler Japan Atomic Power Company signed contracts with France’s AREVA (formerly Cogema) and the UK’s NDA (formerly BNFL) to reprocess1 their spent nuclear fuel. The contracts covered a total of 7,100 tons of spent fuel….
http://cnic.jp/english/topics/radwaste/hlwreturn1mar10.html
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Rainbow Warrior in Cherbourg to protest against plutonium fuel shipments
10 July, 1999
“Japan’s secretive program to amass weapons-usable plutonium not only threatens regional stability in East Asia but fatally undercuts the cause of international non-proliferation,” said Damon Moglen of Greenpeace International. “Rather than competing to be the world’s two biggest traffickers in plutonium, France and Britain should shut their reprocessing plants down and prohibit this deadly industry.”
The controversial plutonium fuel shipment is to be made on two ships, the Pacific Pintail and the Pacific Teal, owned by Pacific Nuclear Transport Limited (PNTL), but operated “on government service” to the UK. One of the ships will leave Britain with a cargo of 8 MOX (mixed plutonium/uranium oxide) fuel elements containing some 225 kilograms of plutonium. The othership will leave France with 32 MOX fuel elements containing an estimated 221 kilograms of plutonium. The two freighters, presumably each under naval escort, will then rendezvous at sea, off the French Atlantic coast, and continue together on their approximately 20,000 mile voyage to Japan without naval escort along a still secret route.
…both British-flagged freighters used for the transport will contain an estimated 7 tonnes of high explosive ammunition, and 1100 tonnes of fuel oil in conjunction with its plutonium cargo
“This shipment is a recipe for disaster. What madman would consider mixing highly explosive ammunition, a massive amount of fuel oil and 60 weapons worth of nuclear bomb fuel”,
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/rainbow-warrior-in-cherbourg-to-protest-dangerous-plutonium-fuel-shipments
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Nuclear Power in Japan
(updated 24 February 2011)
Japan needs to import some 80% of its energy requirements.
Its first commercial nuclear power reactor began operating in mid 1966, and nuclear energy has been a national strategic priority since 1973.
The country’s 54 reactors provide some 30% of the country’s electricity and this is expected to increase to at least 40% by 2017.
Japan has a full fuel cycle set-up, including enrichment and reprocessing of used fuel for recycle.
Despite being the only country to have suffered the devastating effects of nuclear weapons in wartime, Japan has embraced the
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf79.html
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While the people of Japan are suffering the spawn of Satan IMF has this to say! May the IMF rot in Hell!
Wealthy Japan has means to recover: IMF
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/business/a/-/world/9031839/wealthy-japan-has-means-to-recover-imf/
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Oh this is interesting….
http://www.advancedtrading.com/articles/229301010
Even Before Quake, Hedge Funds Wagered Against Japan By Justin Grant March 15, 2011 URL:
Hedge funds were leery of the Japanese economy even before last week’s devastating earthquake laid waste to the island nation’s infrastructure and marketplace.
Long before global markets plunged in the aftermath of the quake, hedge funds were betting against Japan due to the nation’s skyrocketing debt, stagnant economy, and shrinking population, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The epic disaster, which has sent global investors running for the hills, was the last thing Japan’s teetering economy needed. But hedge funds smelled blood long before the March 11 tragedy, which has led to a death toll so far of 3,300 according to media reports.
From the WSJ:
Commonwealth Opportunity Capital, a $90 million hedge fund in Los Angeles, made a profit of several million dollars on Tokyo Electric on Monday, from an investment of less than $200,000. The annual cost of protecting $10 million of Tokyo Electric’s debt jumped to $240,000 on Monday from $40,700 on Friday.
“Nobody wants bad things to happen to people,” said Adam Fisher, who helps run Commonwealth Opportunity Capital. He said the firm has been betting against Japanese corporate bonds for two years. “But it shows how fragile that heavily levered nation is; there’s very little margin for error.”
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Japanese economy,.. Think about all that is made in Japan, from computer chips to American car parts to kitchen appliances, this will hit everyone around the world from spare parts to assembly lines across the world. This stop of production there will echo around the globe.
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The ones that profit from “globalization” are NOT the citizens! It is turning the people of this WORLD into slaves!
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C.Dodds I am just curious..are you the same C. Dodds from Philadelphia? Because if you are what the hell do you know about the suffering on the GUlf!
http://www.morganlewis.com/bios/jdodds
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C.Dodds, sorry for going off. I am just so disgusted with what is going on in the Gulf and indeed the rest of the world and we seem to have an administration that just does not give a rip. Now with everything else they are talking about going into libya. We are already stretched to thin and don’t need to get in yet another war!
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I agree. It seems every tragedy only exists in most peoples’ minds for as long as the media chooses to cover it. It is honestly very, very sad. Hopefully everything in the Gulf is getting better.
-Josh
Webmaster of Atom Pintail Longboards
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