Published: September 23rd, 2011 at 7:49 am ET
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News: Japan after the typhoon, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki, September 22, 2011:
[... J]ust like after the rain in March, yellow powder was found in North Kanto area, where Utsunomiya is.
In March, the yellow powder phenomena was found everywhere after the rain too [... the] government explained it was pollen or yellow sand from China, but strangely, nobody had ever seen it before though pollen and yellow sand fly every year.
The yellow powder was found in Chernobyl too. It looks “like” cesium powder actually. [...]
Taken Sept. 22 (SOURCE: Fukushima Diary)
Published: September 23rd, 2011 at 7:49 am ET
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How difficult would it be to simply collect some of this yellow powder, analyze and put suspicions to rest?
And last time I checked, pulling chunks of hair off your head is a symptom of exposure to something… what was it again?
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Thank You bmurr, that is exactly what I was thinking. Even if they just get a device near that stuff to see how radioactive it is. I know a few people I know are convinced that could be pine pollen, personally I wouldn’t touch the stuff. The Japanese Government already used the pollen excuse six months ago, they need to hire new “spin doctors”.
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Right on bmurr!
If that yellow powder was gold there would be no speculation….that’s how they address the problem..
“let’s see here, the seasons have changed, it’s no longer summer…hm fall now, could it be POLLEN? hmm I don’t know…yellow powder…hm could be pollen in fall…hmmm, could be lemon kool aid…tang has a yellow powder drink you add with water….but the big question here is and this should be investigated at length…where was the tang purchased, who put it all around to look like something disturbing…I think that info will be posted soon after the new year!
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To me it looks a lot like Pine Pollen.
I am not pro nuke at all, but it would be easy to look at it under a microscope in oder to indentify it:
http://luirig.altervista.org/cpm/albums/yellowstone-park07/normal_7271-Pine-pollen-on-Yellowstone-Lake.jpg
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My Friend, if it was pine pollen, the authorities would have already come out and said “don’t worry about the yellow power…it’s pine pollen…test it if you like!” But they didn’t they said “looks like pollen…but we don’t know what it is” when in fact they do know what it is…so there is your answer. It ain’t pine pollen…or gold dust…or sugar plum fairy dust…it’s something that since last march hasn’t had a name cause the name isn’t a good thing…OR we would know what it is!
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You just need to look at it under a microscope with 400x in order to see if it is pine pollen or not. Yes, Tepco and the Japanese Government are not telling the truth and their behaviour is crimminal, but we should try to get more facts, instead of wondering about everything that suddenly seems to be unusual. The human perception can be a very tricky thing.
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Enenews thanks for all you do.
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BBC DEBUNKED
http://info-wars.org/2011/09/23/fukushima-bbc-debunked/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Watching now.
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Just finished…This VIDEO needs to go VIRAL.
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I have watched the full Horizon Episode with Jim Al-Khalili and I was totaly shocked about the blunt lies!
I thought very highly about Prof. Al-Khalili and the Horizon Series before, but now I feel just appalled.
Prof. Al-Khalili mentioned in the episode that injesting radionuclides is a natural thing, since there a natural radionuclides in nature! Yes, there are natural radionuclides and whe got used to them, which is true, but what about injesting a dose of artificial radionuclides like the alpha emitters Strontium 80, Plutonium or the artificial gamma emitter like Cesium 137 or 134?
I was just shocked when he said that, oh my science this is crimminal misleading propaganda from the BBC!
Please watch the Horizon episode, to make your own opinon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIs0lp8l8F4
Please feel free to leave Prof.Al-Khalili a message with your personal thoughts :
http://www.jimal-khalili.com/contact
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Good video Whoopie!
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The link is not working!! Could someone maybe take the time and put up another link / mirror. Thank you.
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Nevermind it’s working again.
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hi whoopie
Repost (classy version)
naughty bbc!! I remember the censorship of [censored out]
“ To many people outside our field, both scientists and the general public, nuclear physics is no longer regarded as being at the forefront of scientific endeavour. Indeed it is often met with outright hostility. Other physicists will point out that the last time a Nobel Prize was awarded in the field was in 1975”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037594740500120X
And this too
“Issues concerning the management of the UK’s official radioactive wastes and associated surplus radioactive materials are summarised. The potential for partitioning and transmutation (P&T) of these materials is considered and associated potential developments discussed. The paper recommends international P&T research as part of a move to reduce the volume of nuclear waste. This reduction would be beneficial in addressing security and environmental concerns, as well as improving public acceptance of the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle.”
http://inderscience.metapress.com/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,7,9;journal,18,20;linkingpublicationresults,1:110843,1
let me just say this guy is
A/ a theorist scientist
B/ a PR boy trying to sell the goodies
C/ not a nuclear health specialist as far as i could trace! he has no experience in belarus etc apart from that interview with the famous (?) russian specialist person
peace
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thanks for posting this video, this guys is seriously delusional! I bet he made a nice chunk of change for that from IAEA and TEPCO and NRC. The guy is obviously an idiot, i did like the part where he put on his chicken feet boots and stated that it was totally safe. They shouldnt even be allowed to put out such a poor misinformation. The guy obviously didnt do any research and just said whatever the nuclear corperations wanted him to say. Keep you head up everyone, these skumbags are gonna eventually get what they deserve, we definately need more people speaking out against it and more protests. Thanks again for sharing Whoopie! have a great day
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I don’t think I ever HEARD of that BBC report til that Tweet came through. The commentator certainly puts a NAIL IN BBC’s coffin, eh? Can’t wait til the Japan (Ir)Regulars wake up and watch it, esp CaptD and Outnow. Wowzer. It’s a good one.
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ty, Whoopie – It’s gone from disinformation to lack of information to outright lies that attempt to associate with the word ‘fact’.
The above video is proof in my opinion that the Nuclear industry is grasping at straws and will do most anything in an attempt to keep the folly rolling.
The truly sad part is that when disinformation of this kind ‘escapes’ or is ‘spewed’, sort of like radiation, then some peoples brains remain contaminated.
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Chasa Aha
I agree with you that it has gone from outright censorship to outright LIES.
i honestly cannot believe that this level of fraud is possible.
I guesse I was naive.
The WSJ reported yesterday that there exists only now “small radiation leaks”
Hello!
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Sorry Chas…once again I forgot to Scroll UP and see comments. You are so very WELCOME!!
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Only a ‘minor’ meltdown. -> Yesterday while watching a local Los Angeles TV show called Good Day LA the weather reporter, Jillian, was reporting on the typhoon in Japan and reading from a teleprompter. At the end of the report she states, “a minor meltdown in Japan back in March”. (that’s how I heard it) She sort of got a look on her face like. What the ????! I wish someone out there had a clip for youtube on that one.
Wow, at least they mentioned it.
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@ Tacomagroove
(since you set the precedent of replying to posts on later topics, I presume this is ok).
On May 17th you stated : “I am tacomagroove.
I also go by Tacomagroove84… I was known as mikey goldman, matthew neuman,and many many other aliases… I am jonathan clowers (as of current).”
(read full post here):
http://enenews.com/bbc-melted-floor-damage-severe-initially-thought
Basically I was wondering why it is that someone who uses so many male aliases (while purporting to be female, or did I get that part wrong Emmy?) is suspicious of someone like myself posting under their actual name, especially in view of the very real threat to anyone expressing antinuclear sentiments.
Please feel free to use the new search function to check my posts for any pronuclear material or behaviour. I assure you that my motives are genuine and honourable (and anyway, I doubt that the nuclear industry even has an office here in South Australia, much less a paid ‘shill’).
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A typical example of some of the ‘greatly appreciated’ info you posted earlier: (May 18th)
“Tepco will likely evacuate the site between the dates: June 16th – June 28th…
“This is because boron is limited and can no longer sustain its self within the current settings”.
Meaning: the fuel will release amounts of neutrons in such excess that the boron “in any quantity” will be now be unable to capture enough neutrons to stop a criticality.
At this time neutrons will begin to react against atoms, leading to a spike in temperatures exceeding any known cooling process… The fuel will then go core through the floor, and reach the water table in no less than 1-6 hours…
At that time the fuel will both be released in atmospheric and oceanic / form. Plaguing Japan first and foremost. I presume that over 100,000- 10,000,000 deaths will be attributed to the event alone. Japan will likely be forced to abandon the main island entirely within that time.”
Apparently you had not realised even by mid May that there had been a full meltdown/out. Just wanted to clear that up, for those here who can’t distinguish actual science from psuedoscience.
Full post here:
http://enenews.com/nyt-rapid-meltdown-happened-reactors-2-3
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Flogging a dead horse but I just couldn’t resist this howler:
“The second point I plotted was a constant variable in respect to the inclining water being pumped into the reactor which has inclined from 1- 15 metric tons.”
What the hell is a ‘constant variable’?
Full post at : http://enenews.com/film-foretold-fukushima-meltdown-reactors-could-be-kept-full-water-fuel-eat-container-resulting-china-syndrome-video
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“What the hell is a ‘constant variable’?”
In basic algebra a ‘variable’ is a term used for an item in an equation. It can be a ‘constant’ or a fixed number.
It does look funny when written out. Sort of like Military Intelligence, they just don’t go together.
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So this makes sense to you? Did you read the post? I’m no nuclear engineer but I got the distinct impression that Tacoma isn’t either.
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C’mon Steven we all know you are Grace too!
Who u think your kidding.
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I’m not touching THAT with a 10 ft pole.
Whoopie (not my real name)
Country Joe and the Fish
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Message Admin, he will confirm I only post under one account. Can’t be that many posting here from my part of the world.
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I sure like looking at your Avatar. It’s mesmerizing.
Kinda Hypnotic.
WAY OFF TOPIC
(remove Admin if you want)
HP has an article where Ahmadjinadad states that jets did NOT take down the Twin Towers. No matter what one believes, the very fact that HP posted THIS SUBJECT is quite shocking. Me? I think it was a planned operation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/ahmadinejad-twin-towers-c_n_977039.html
Back to your Regular Schedule Programming
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That avatar is annoying and possibly dangerous to those who may have epilepsy. Red Flashing things can cause an episode. Seriously.
I simply scroll past it for now, which means I do not read Steven’s posts.
ADMIN, please disallow .gif files or whatever that is.
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Thanks Whoopie, your avatar much more original and meaningful IMHO. Watch out though, according to the general consensus, only a paid shill would fly such blatant anti-nuke colours (sorry, colors – keep forgetting I’m in the US here lol). In fact, when I walk the streets in my anti-nuke T-shirt, people point and yell “Shill, shill!”
As for the other, hmmm none of my business. I’ll leave that stuff for the fine citizens of the United States of America to sort out.
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I hear you Steven. People better wake up to the fact that Gov’s and the NRC are in collusion with each other. It’s who can scratch each others backs with CASH.
Chas, I have my doubts about a tiny little Avatar causing THAT. Anyway, EVERYBODY is using gifs these days. They are ALL over HP.
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BS..Steven…your flashy annoying pic..means nothing…you are a shill…
You and Grace sound too much like…you need to work on that..
And… when real worked up you sound like..our pal… acidlab…
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Heart, use the new search function and produce just one of my posts that you think is pro-nuclear.
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now im getting really confused… is grace a bloke or is steven a bird??? errr keep up the good work anyway!! lol
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more than one email address…
in the past whenever you posted so did grace…saying the same things..I guess you 2 are a lot alike.
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@many moons
Do you know what an IP address is? The Admin would be all over someone posting under different names. Personally I always give people the benefit of the doubt, until such time that they prove themselves unworthy. Most civilised societies have systems of justice that function this way. You might want to consider doing the same.
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@Steven?Grace?
More than one computer more than one IP address…
You have proven yourself unworthy…you spend your time thinking of ways to attack the peaceful people of this site….
With pllenty of time to do that..I think there is a paycheck in there somewhere…
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I’m not of the commonly held belief that newcomers to a forum should be held in less esteem than those with a longer local history. Neither would I expect someone such as yourself to be so judgemental of an established member of the community, whatever their perceived status by the current dominant minority.
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Hmmm. Steven has implied he has been at ene for six months. Which is it? Old shill or new?
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“That avatar is annoying and possibly dangerous to those who may have epilepsy. Red Flashing things can cause an episode. Seriously.” Thank you Casaha you crack me up!
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@socal I am glad I crack you up. Laughing is a good thing. I hear it can stop radiation contamination or something like that. ( < -- just kidding, lol )
However, I am 'serious' about the Photosensitive Epilepsy. My friend has it and I've seen it happen. It's primarily the color red.
Strobe lights and even old florescent bulbs that are flickering can have the same affect.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosensitive_epilepsy
There is also a scene in the movie Andromeda Strain which shows the lady scientist having a seizure due to the red flashing warning light.
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you have to imagine the setting here! roman guards shout out is grace here? grace slowly stands up knowing her fate if she does….suddenly a voice from the back shouts out im grace (probaly steven! and then another no, im grace….ice lad there!! (who is also admin)….yeh! sounds confusing enough! keep up the good work everyone lol
of course there is the slippery theological argument that we are all one! but i digress!
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lol arclight I think Grace might have something to say about chemfood/manymoons et al accusing her of being me (or was it accusing me of being her? Now I’m confused). Funny thing is, it never even occurred to me before these allegations that anyone would bother to do such a thing. For one, I can’t see the point. Unless someone was so lacking in self esteem that they felt this was the only way they could gain acceptance, through reinforcing their popularity artificially? Sick puppies, if you ask me.
I merely welcomed Grace to the forum on her arrival, shortly thereafter she posted something which was misinterpreted (and some people refuse to accept when they are in error, preferring to continue their groundless attacks) and by association we were both ‘tarred with the same brush’. On reflection methinks the ‘gang’ that went into a feeding frenzy was probably all the one poster.
How am I doing so far mikey goldman/matthew neuman/jonathan clowers/Emmy/and ‘many many other aliases’?
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mikey goldman/matthew neuman/jonathan clowers/Emmy/and ‘many many other aliases’?
Actually I only use one name here…
So your right, on the facebook iaea page ive had multiple accounts.
Although, I only post with one account here on enenews.com…
(as it is not banned).
I feel that shows dedication steven…
Why you have all my screen names saved is another story…
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I am grace! lol (not noticed the uk connection?)
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btw you mentioned names ive never linked too…
So you just accidentally dropped the ball on who you are too…
my guess is it wasn’t an accident…
Thanks for the head start.
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@ Tacoma
“Why you have all my screen names saved is another story…”
You must have missed this thread then:
http://enenews.com/report-yellow-powder-found-north-kanto-area-after-typhoon-rains-location-mistaken-newly-found-cesium-photo
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Too cryptic? See above, link to your first post on ENENEWS.
Seems that the question here is not who I am, but who YOU are (today).
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luv you emmy!!
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Alright then, now I can tell you – I’m actually chemfood.
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Hold on – no, catweazel’s my alter ego
Or was it…errr
*scratches head
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Troll patrol … you folks are the best! Even multiple personalites need to rest! @low self-esteem steve … did you eat GW’s yellow cake? With this Iraq thing settled down a bit he’s asking for it back. Going green with nuclear or something like that. Maybe socal can deliver it …just a hop skip from Texas. Or maybe Y’ALL aren’t allowed to leave the same desk?
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@ chemfood
Here’s a look at what appears to be your first post here back in June:
“one doesn’t have to “believe” (or not) in chemtrails. their reality is all too real. a good place to start might be to watch “What in the World Are They Spraying?” the full length version is available via youtube.”
So right away you headed off topic and drive a wedge in with what is perceived by most as a ‘tinfoil hat’ conspiracy theory. Methinks he doth protest too much?
link to post: http://enenews.com/report-yellow-powder-found-north-kanto-area-after-typhoon-rains-location-mistaken-newly-found-cesium-photo#comment-134649
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Yes, I was pretty busy with the GoM when Japan butted in.
that link seems to circle back to this thread. no chemtrails where you live, mate? you should come to the states and get a taste. http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?19191-Chemtrail-test-data-PDFs-this-is-REAL-research-on-the-issue-of-geo-engineering
I know you’re busy with the troll project, but maybe they give you a donut break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA
just add the rads to the corps.gov soft kill and it won’t matter where you live. maybe you could help out Grace with the petitions … the world can stand all the help it can get.
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That link should have been:
http://enenews.com/251-sieverts-hour-radiation-inside-reactor-1-drywell-hits-new-high
I didn’t give an opinion on the chemtrails thing. Just stating the fact that the majority see it as just another conspiracy theory. I have a few personal favourites but keep them to myself here, for fear of derailing the main issues (divided we fall?)
I’ll admit that your commitment seems genuine. Why a genuine antinuclear activist would not recognise another will have to remain a mystery. I can’t influence how you view others so I’ll wish you good luck and hopefully somehow things will work out ok for us all (although I don’t see how).
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g’day, mate. i look forward to your future anti-nuclear posts!
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Hey..Steven…Oye! wink wink…lolol
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I remember seeing the yellow powder in Tokyo shortly after the explosion. It looked like pollen but we never saw it in the great volumes that we did this year so I am very concerned about what that may have actually been. Even if it was simply pollen it was no doubt radioactive.
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I remember some reporting that here. And wasn’t there a report of the same here on the West Coast? Yellow “powder” right in March sometime.
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Yes Whoopie,…I spoke a lot, A LOT about the yellow (not-pollen) here in April and May, BIG time! We had literal ‘drifts’ of the stuff! I saw ‘it’ floating in the air one day in April. The sun was shining through some tall pines and it threw a beam of light through the air,…which caught these particles! I had just driven under those INTENSE black, hangy, oozy looking low clouds for about 2 hours!
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Been living in Japan over ten years now. Yellow pollen fallouts and occasionally yellow sand fallouts have been happening as long as I’ve been here. Both spring and autumn as long as I can remember. Due to last years exceptionally hot summer, this years cedar pollen counts set records. Hence heavier than usual pollen dusting after rain. Also why you saw people wearing masks back in spring. Right now is autumn pollen season, weeds and other late flowering trees.
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A year ago in spring/summer 2010 (Ohio, USA) we had lots of yellow pollen everywhere. After Fukushima, I didn’t notice any yellow pollen, most likely because we had so much rain all spring and summer.
I am so disgusted with the wet, swampy, mushy ground, and this damp, miserable weather.
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The yellow powder is probably natural uranium!!!
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I’m here now http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/05/iraq1 ,looking for more hints or facts
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Here we go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
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Yellowcake is produced by all countries in which uranium ore is mined.
Well let’s see who that would be.
Here’s the LIST:
http://daniel-workman.suite101.com/worlds-best-uranium-countries-a20338
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Yes, I’m sad to see Australia in the number two position there
We sure did try, just not enough influence and too much apathy… possibly because we don’t have nuclear power here, which might produce a kind of ‘take it if you want it that badly’ outlook. Plus the mines are way out in remote areas, and ‘city folk’ probably don’t care one way or another about a few holes in the desert. No doubt it’ll come back to haunt us, sooner or later.
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Don’t quote me on this but someone earlier said something about an isotope of sulphur being produced in certain meltdown conditions (Chernobyl was mentioned). As far as I remember sulphur is yellow, I think. But I don’t have either a link or personal knowledge of that.
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It was mentioned by Arnie refering to the millions of free neutrons at Fukushima mixing with the chloride from the salt water producing radioactive sulphur isotopes in the form of (colorless) gas
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Radioactive Sulfur-35
Jeff McMahon/Forbes wrote about it:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/16/wheres-that-radioactive-sulfur-now-possibly-in-your-pants/
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I think the yellow powder and yellow rains are indicative specifically of strontium.
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Any thoughts on reports of yellow rain in Tokyo and Arizona?
There are reports in the news of yellow rain in Tokyo that have been classified as”pollen”, however during Chernobyl, there was yellow rain too and goverments claimed it was pollen it turned out to be strontium.
Someone on youtube says it was seen in Arizona
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here is the link to the yellow rain in Arizona and Texas
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-04-03 12:34.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTqb__RO9bQ
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I live in Phoenix, AZ and
Submitted by Kami (not verified) on Sun, 2011-04-03 16:51.
I live in Phoenix, AZ and have seen rain only once since the disaster. The images in that video are what it looks like anytime it rains in Phoenix during this time of year! I’ve ALWAYS noticed the yellow color, especially, the residue left after all is dry, and thought it was odd; I think it’s from pollen but I don’t really know.
Trust me, this is nothing new. And, I am concerned about the residual effects of this disaster; this just isn’t one of them.
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http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/2363
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Do you suppose they were making their own fuel? Must be cheaper that way.
Or perhaps needed the yellow cake for experiments.
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yellow cake…..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115×107
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Sulphur oxide…in the mix…for once you said something of value..Steven.
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Hey, if it takes me six months to produce one useful comment, so be it. At least I kept at it, and didn’t give up.
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Have you noticed yet that I’m always polite and friendly while your comments are just downright abrasive and abusive? You might want to think about how that looks, and also what sort of person doesn’t hate, even in the face of hate.
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I dont know what’s going on so far be it for me to say anything. I need a break anyway. So Thanks ALL for forcing it sooner than later.
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Shills must not get paid enough to research or post links. Conveniently left out of the job description, I suppose. So why bother…unless it’s a copy/paste hijack from Tacomgroove, of course. Someone should tell acid Lab… that one is going to be upset off the hook!
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So if you post plenty of links you are ‘in’, and if you take the time to write opinions and discuss issues you are ‘out’?
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“six months to produce one useful comment” … nice job outting yourself.
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Steven… Ummm warned you my man. No sense trying.
AND now you are Grace!!! Too F*@king funny.
Sign me up for one of those troll jobs will ya. I like it under a nice damp bridge basking in the warm glow of my puter (and you get paid too!?… SWEET)
Peace.
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lol Bonz, water off a duck’s back mate
Where I come from a disagreement usually ends up with someone in hospital. These girlie spats here don’t even raise a frown.
What I do try for though, is to shed some truth where confusion abounds, especially as a result of deliberate deceit. Someone is making alot of noise about multiple identities and disinformation. A simple check will confirm I’m innocent. My opening post above will indicate someone else who has admitted to a history of using multiple identities. Game over, for those of us seeking the truth, and those aliases now seem fairly obvious on reflection.
Thanks for your kind words btw
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…alter ego Bonz on cue to aid in the shrilling rad distraction. wow..that didn’t take long dude. thanks for the clarification. lol … mates! no joke folks… nothing to see here… nope
http://australiancannonball.com/articles/
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@chemfood
Not sure what your agenda is nor the reason for the hostility, which is not reciprocated btw. You appear to have the wrong idea about my motives. As I told Heart, use the new search engine and find one post from me which justifies your accusations. She/he ignored that challenge, I suspect you will also.
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Nothing personal. Just no-pay troll patrol. Your motives again, please? With so many ‘usefull’ posts I forget…but many sure would appreciate the reminder. Since Heart is on real research duty perhaps you could do the grunt work and cut/paste your own useful past no-nukes posts here for the world to observe. I’ll be shocked if they come close to your petty attacks on Tacomagroove et al. Me? You’ve got to be kidding … I’m already sincerely busy with too many rad mouths to feed.
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Yeah I thought not.
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Lazy inarticulate trolls … my favorite.
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From April 16 enenews -> ‘Yellow Rain’
http://enenews.com/yellow-rain-around-tokyo-caused-by-pollen-officials-say-residue-left-on-roofs-and-elsewhere-by-the-rain-may-have-contained-radioactivity
[a female faust
March 24, 2011 at 1:26 pm
The third-year graduate student didn’t know it then, but the unnatural color of those puddles in her hometown of Gomel, Belarus were due to radioactive particles spewing from a nuclear explosion 80 miles away. ]
[Mothra
April 16, 2011 at 3:58 am ·
It’s likely a Xenon compound that appears mustard yellow. It’s like a salt. Of course, the implication is what else comes with it. Unlike other contaminates, xenon compounds are not invisible – they’re pollen-like. ]
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Is this what Japan government was trying to avoid by covering up the Fukushima meltdowns?
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-23/greece-on-edge-of-insolvency-24-centuries-after-city-default.html
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Hello Dave! Good to see ya!
I’ll post that to HP
BBL
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*high fives Whoopie*
So Japan protected the economics and political system of Japan by sacraficing its people’s health, happiness, and lives. Instead of protecting its people via correct evacuations, its killing them off slowly which in turn will kill off the rest of what they were trying to protect (ie politics, economics, government, etc).
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Of course ….it has always been money first and people’s health last.
Tepco is going to need a big handout from the government and the government is trying to keep financial panic from wiping out their economy.
That will be difficult to achieve as the radioactive stigma of Japanese products will eventually seriously effect exports. How many people from other countries knowingly buy boar meat from Belarus? The same mindset will eventually filter out despite the news blackout.
BTW…this situation reminds me of the World War II conundrum: Roosevelt had knowledge of the Nazi death camps and the trains that carried Jews and political prisoners to Dachau and Auschwitz and could have ordered bomb strikes on the rail lines or even the Auschwitz camp itself. This might have saved Ann Frank as she was on one of the last death trains.
So why did he not act on that knowledge? Because his generals and advisors convinced him that the Nazis were wasting troops and resources killing the concentration camp prisoners and if the rail lines were bombed then the Allies would face more opposition. Also the Roosevelt camp were afraid of Jews being repatriated to America. So the Holocaust continued unabated…much like Fukushima.
Billions of people are being kept from radioactive fallout information that could save their lives by making lifestyle changes. The top conspirators are not worried about Nazis, but the world economy.
As has been stated…I would rather shiver in the…
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Boar meat or Electronics. I don’t a radioactive laptop next to me…or a radioactive car to drive in…but thanks to Hillary Clinton, the folks in the USA will never know what is radioactive and what isn’t…that has to change and it’s easy…we need to get together an ban all non tested imports…better sooner than later.
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And some of the dangerous rain at Chernobyl was black….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1549366/How-we-made-the-Chernobyl-rain.html
They saved Moscow…but Belarus took the bullet.
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I mean seriously guys, everyone knows that the yellow powder is gold that the nibiru are harvesting so that they can aerosol it into their atmosphere so that planet x doesn’t burn up when it passes close to the sun in 2012…
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Another yellow candidate is Strontium:
“Strontium (chemical symbol Sr) is a silvery metal that rapidly turns yellowish in air”
http://epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/strontium.html
“Strontium is a soft, silver-yellow, alkaline-earth metal”
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:02L2y4HO7_sJ:www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/sr.htm+what+caused+yellow+rain+at+Chernobyl&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1
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Yes was looking at strontium too but i cant really connect the powder they found to it.
From wiki: Finely powdered strontium metal is pyrophoric meaning it will ignite spontaneously in air at room temperature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium
So it would be ignite when it came in contact with air and should not be on the ground. Or am i missing something.
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In Dutch Stront means shit..
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We know cows and worse in goats take in strontium as it adheres to feed and grass. Humans drink the contaminated milk and your body mistakes it for calcium and deposits in your bones. It may ignite (I am no nuclear engineer thank god) but it does not disappear.
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Perhaps there is something to the story of military missions going on and this yellow powder was part of it…perhaps that’s why they can’t say what it is cause it shouldn’t have been there…so they are going with the hmm looks like….approach instead of saying what they must know it is…we know they must know cause they have tested it! Probably tested it last March!
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And even another candidate: Funshine the carebear. She is a yellow bear that lives one the clouds. With the recent weather events or is entirely possible that her dandar is falling out from the clouds. I have included a like to a page supporting my theory.
http://members.fortunecity.com/jeromey2/jeromesfunkycarebearspage/id2.html
Test the stuff, find out what it is. End of discussion.
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well, to
“most likely a xenon compound” ….
the only possibility that for sure will NOT exist in free nature and by any circumstances for sure NOT produced by any form of radioactivity. Xenon is produced, yes. but for sure no xenon compound.
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I am glad TacomaG is not a nuclear engineer and I don’t want that job either… It might be looked back on in 200 years assuming anyone is still breathing as an occupation that nearly destroyed the human race.
Three kinds of liars: Liars, damn liars, and nuclear engineers.
Just ask one how he or she plans to solve Fukushima and the toxic waste emissions at the other 500 world sites.
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“Just ask one how he or she plans to solve Fukushima and the toxic waste emissions at the other 500 world sites.”
With their laptops of course!?
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Funny…the nuclear industry executives also like their second vacation homes and their sports cars to drive to work. But one day there may be no gas to get to work or to the vacation home because we will all be On The Road! (Or On the Beach).
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Check this out:
Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is the chemical form of uranium that is used during the uranium enrichment process. Within a reasonable range of temperature and pressure, it can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Solid UF6 is a white, dense, crystalline material that resembles rock salt. Uranium hexafluoride does not react with oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, or dry air, but it does react with water or WATER VAPOR (including humidity in the air). When UF6 comes into contact with water, such as water vapor in the air, the UF6 and water react, FORMING corrosive hydrogen fluoride (HF) and a uranium-fluoride compound called URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2). For this reason, UF6 is always handled in leak-tight containers and processing equipment. Although very convenient for processing, UF6 is not considered a preferred form for long-term storage or disposal because of its relative instability.
http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/guide/ucompound/forms/index.cfm
URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2), a compound of uranium, is an intermediate in the conversion of uranium hexafluoride UF6 to an uranium oxide or metal form and is a direct product of the reaction of UF6 with moisture in the air. It is very soluble in water. Uranyl fluoride also is hygroscopic and changes in color from brilliant orange to YELLOW after reacting with WATER.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranyl_fluoride
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+10 *;-)
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well spotted lacsap!!! Uranium hexafluoride is a nasty thing needs uranium, and flouride (from the seawater or underground waters as they are both high in flouride!! course you would need some kind of furnace too!………..
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thought i would add this
“About 95% of the depleted uranium produced to date is stored as uranium hexafluoride, DUF6, in steel cylinders in open air yards close to enrichment plants. Each cylinder contains up to 12.7 tonnes (or 14 US tons) of solid UF6. In the U.S. alone, 560,000 tonnes of depleted UF6 had accumulated by 1993. In 2005, 686,500 tonnes in 57,122 storage cylinders were located near Portsmouth, Ohio, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky. The long-term storage of DUF6 presents environmental, health, and safety risks because of its chemical instability. When UF6 is exposed to moist air, it reacts with the water in the air to produce UO2F2 (uranyl fluoride) and HF (hydrogen fluorideHydrogen fluorideHydrogen fluoride is a chemical compound with the formula HF. This colorless gas is the principal industrial source of fluorine, often in the aqueous form as hydrofluoric acid, and thus is the precursor to many important compounds including pharmaceuticals and polymers . HF is widely used in the…
) both of which are highly soluble and toxic. Storage cylinders must be regularly inspected for signs of corrosion and leaks. The estimated lifetime of the steel cylinders is measured in decades.
There have been several accidents involving uranium hexafluoride in the United States. The U.S. government has been converting DUF6 to solid uranium oxides for disposal. Such disposal of the entire DUF6 inventory could cost anywhere from $United States dollarThe United…
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Uranium_hexafluoride
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Yellow water in BC back in March? http://gatewaytoheaven.ning.com/video/yellowish-light-brown?xg_source=activity
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should help the cause abit anyway!!
Kaminoseki village election a pointer to nuclear power’s future in Japan
“KAMINOSEKI, Japan—This small fishing village has become the next front in Japan’s battle over nuclear power, with an anti-nuke protester threatening to oust the pro-nuke mayor in an election Sunday.
At stake: the fate of a long-planned reactor for which ground-breaking is supposed to take place next year.
More broadly, the defeat of a mayor whose economic development strategy has centered around a controversial power plant could fuel the country’s increasingly influential anti-nuclear movement.”
And this
“Mr. Yamato’s answer is clear. His election poster, which shows him posed in front of solar panels and wearing a white polo shirt, is captioned “Graduate from Nuclear Power!”
http://nuclear-news.net/2011/09/23/kaminoseki-village-election-a-pointer-to-nuclear-powers-future-in-japan/
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This powder must be tested! It can be wiped out with a napkin and stored somewhere in a plastic bag till the proper laboratory is at hand.
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arnie!! hes got a spectrometer…you just have to mail it to him!!
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Yellowcake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
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See anne you don’t read, you just post. If you look at my post September 23, 2011 at 11:54 am, you see i posted that already.
Look at my post September 23, 2011 at 2:51 pm, that is probably what we are dealing with..
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I’m sorry, but this report is just over the top, and typical of the willingness of so many people on this forum to jump to conclusions. On the one hand, we have people insisting that this stuff is plutonium or “yellowcake” and presenting elaborate theories as to how they know this. On the other hand, we have the reality that Japan frequently gets dusted with yellow sand (黄砂) from the Gobi desert, and this often happens in Spring and Fall. This is a reality, and it would be no surprise to find yellow powder in the streets in this season. I have seen it myself on my balcony in years past, and have heard plenty of other people in Tokyo describe the same. This is a common occurrence –for people to claim that this new “mysterious” yellow powder is something different and a product of radioactive fallout, well there’s a dead simple way to find out –take a small sample and get it tested. Or I suppose you could just blog about how deadly you imagine the stuff to be and scare the shit out of people. Your choice. Might be nice to get some actual facts instead of supposition for a change.
I don’t mean to be downplaying the risks of Fuku-Daiichi’s contamination, which are real and ongoing. But by crying wolf every other day or so about some undocumented rumor which –like this one –may well turn out to be bullshit, it will destroy the credibility of people and sites trying to get out news about the nuclear risks. The pro-nuke crowd will seize on stuff like this and have a…
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so what you are saying is:
We should all just wait for cnn.
We should not think for ourselves.
No matter how likely the situation is.
because people in the japanese government are being forth right.
Which isn’t why we come here at all?
wow…
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No, actually, that’s NOT what I’m saying.
I am thinking for myself, and I don’t watch CNN. think it’s highly likely it’s the same yellow dust from the Gobi that Tokyo has seen many times before.
Evidence to the contrary is…?
I come to EneNews to find information unreported by the authorities, just like you. This “yellow powder” report, though, is little better than rumor and speculation.
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This finding is rather predictable..scientific deduction…
The “Seeing is Believing” mentality…is going to harm a lot of human beings.
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….a uranium/sulphur oxide mix…
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@fellfromthesun
I did not insist that it is yellow cake. I started doing research and i found yellowcake and i shared that on Enenews so others can comment on it. Later i found that it probably is –> URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2) (see my post on September 23, 2011 at 2:51 pm) and i stick with that.
–> I dare you to go to Japan (we love to chip all in for a plane ticket or not?) and go pick up the yellow stuff with your bare hands.< ---
I post my post again because you probably to lazy or stupid to find it:
Uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is the chemical form of uranium that is used during the uranium enrichment process. Within a reasonable range of temperature and pressure, it can be a solid, liquid, or gas. Solid UF6 is a white, dense, crystalline material that resembles rock salt. Uranium hexafluoride does not react with oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, or dry air, but it does react with water or WATER VAPOR (including humidity in the air). When UF6 comes into contact with water, such as water vapor in the air, the UF6 and water react, FORMING corrosive hydrogen fluoride (HF) and a uranium-fluoride compound called URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2). For this reason, UF6 is always handled in leak-tight containers and processing equipment. Although very convenient for processing, UF6 is not considered a preferred form for long-term storage or disposal because of its relative instability.
http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/guide/ucompound/forms/index.cfm
URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2), a…
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URANYL FLUORIDE (UO2F2), a compound of uranium, is an intermediate in the conversion of uranium hexafluoride UF6 to an uranium oxide or metal form and is a direct product of the reaction of UF6 with moisture in the air. It is very soluble in water. Uranyl fluoride also is hygroscopic and changes in color from brilliant orange to YELLOW after reacting with WATER.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranyl_fluoride
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@fellfromthesun, I missed out that your from Japan.. If you did not find it it’s of course because that they cleaned it up. If they find some nasty stuff it would be more then expected that they clean it up. Be happy that it’s gone..
If i was from Japan i would be long gone after the disaster.
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Lascap: who is “they”? And how would “they” know when and where yellow powder had fallen over a vast potential area, and how would “they” have magic cleaning teams able to pick it all up from a city of 13,000,000 people with no one having a chance to see, photograph, or sample it? This is just way over the top.
Yellow dust from the Gobi falls on Japan all the time — do a little research. If anyone has any evidence to indicate this stuff is something different, let’s hear it.
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They are TEPCO or the government, as soon as someone finds some un-normal stuff and report it they (TEPCO or some government people) go and check it out and if needed they clean it up. If it was a hazard they’ will say that it is just some polin or sand to the finder or media. If you trust a government or TEPCO or media then you’re a fool, this is not personal it counts for all. It is also not only in Japan but all over the world that they hide hazards from public if they can.. So maybe it was sand or polin but i could also be radioactive toxic, it’s not tested and gone now so we will never know..
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I’d take a sample myself, but I have not seen ANY of this mysterious yellow powder in Tokyo. I asked around with a bunch of people I know living in different parts of the city — no one has seen it.
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….and now your the expert. It’s corp.gov’s job to get this tested and honestly report to the public. Ain’t happenin on any Fukushima information, my friend. The nuclear industry is a sham.
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I agree the nuke industry is a sham. I also think there are real radiation risks to the Kanto plain. This just probably isn’t one of them.
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I don’t claim to be an expert. I just said that yellow dust falling on Tokyo has happened for years in the past, and it isn’t a new phenomena. This is documented. The most logical assumption is that the current yellow dust is more of the same Gobi desert sand, esp. since this is the season when it often appears. If there’s any reason to think otherwise, I’d like to hear it.
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Downwind ..at times (a lot)..downwind to 4 nuclear reactors..that are in uncontrolled nuclear fission……
That oughta do it….
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So as I understand it there seemed to be a lot of yellow sand after March 13th that Tokyo residents thought looked different than anything they had seen before. Then the government said it’s from the Gobi desert and no testing was done. Of course, you got to believe the government, right? Why would they lie?
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Aug. 6, 2011—
“…In the remote Alaska village of Kivalina a strange orange goo was sitting on top of the town’s harbor.
“The next day it rained, and residents found the orange matter floating on top of the rain buckets they use to collect drinking water. It was also found on one roof, leading them to believe whatever it was, it was airborne, too.
“By Friday, the orange substance in the lagoon had dissipated or washed out to sea, and what was left on ground had dried to a powdery substance.
“Samples of the orange matter were collected in canning jars and sent to a lab in Anchorage for analysis.
“Kivalina, an Inupiat Eskimo village, is located at the tip of an 8-mile barrier reef on Alaska’s northwest coast, and is located between the Chukchi Sea and Kivalina River to the north and the Wulik River to the south. Villagers have never seen anything like this before, and elders have never heard any stories passed down from earlier generations about an orange-colored substance coming into town…”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/what-is-it-mysterious-orange-goo-washes-up-baffles-alaska-village/
WELL… The test results did not agree! (no radioactivity tests done). They said it’s:
Eggs from unknown crustacean: http://www.adn.com/2011/08/08/2005526/orange-goo-on-village-shore-is.html
“Unknown” rust fungus:
http://alaska-native-news.com/article/Rural_News/Rural_News/Orange_Kivalina_Goo_Identified_as_Rust_Fungus/23154
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>Then the government said it’s from the Gobi desert and no testing was done. Of course, you got to believe the government, right? Why would they lie?
I don’t trust the government at all. But that’s completely beside the point. This has happened before, and has been happening for years, sand from the Gobi. It’s not like some brand new out-of-the-ordinary occurrence, people are deliberately trying to give that impression but it’s not.
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