Published: October 20th, 2012 at 5:22 pm ET
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Title: Masaki KITO, Attorney in Tokyo, on Fukushima and fishing
Published by: A4NR
Published on: Oct 19, 2012
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Masaki KITO, an attorney in Tokyo, is suing Tepco for ongoing damages caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster: Let me be clear: Once an accident occurs EVERYTHING is over! Those who make a living from fishing will have zero prospects of ever restoring their fishing grounds after a single accident. […]
Accidents are more likely from mistakes in the siting of a nuclear plant. […]
Diablo Canyon [California, US] also needs a thorough study of its faults. The current assumption of seismic force seems to be grossly underestimated based on what we experienced in Japan. We’ve already experienced a M9.0 quake here. Similar sized faults anywhere in the world could produce another M9.0 quake. […]
Please understand once that happens, all will be lost. This is the reality of nuclear energy today.
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Published: October 20th, 2012 at 5:22 pm ET
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Incredible! A laywer is speaking out, what anti-nuclear activists try to bring to public attention for decades.
Yes, Japan is finished und won't recover the next 1000 years. And all and everything is lost.
The same might happen again at any moment in the US, Europa and wherever else nuklear power plants exist.
But the sheeples of this planet prefer to sleep, unaware of the long-term consequences of such an event.
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Not might…will. Arnie said with the way things are right now in the USA, there is a 300 percent likelyhood of a major accident…we just don't know where.
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@many moons
October 20, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Yes. Look at the tragedy of the commons. Its unbearable and will occur again and again:
http://deathdealersnukes.blogspot.in/2012/10/high-atomic-number-uranium-and-thorium.html
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There are other disasters that need lawyers suing responsible parties.. But the courts seem to be stacked against the people.. because the deceptive industry 'experts' are believed ahead of citizens doing research and independent scientists or researchers, like Gunderson.
Hanford; Lethal And Leaking; A Race To Armageddon? via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/hanford-lethal-and-leaking-race-to.html
Three Mile Island (TMI) Coverup; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/three-mile-island-coverups-exposed.html
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I am in California and trust me, many people are not sleeping. We are paying off our bills, changing states, or choosing overseas areas for retirement. Californians are about to take the money and run. The politicians can sort it out after we're gone.
As a citizen I will only do so much to help educate my neighbors before I hunker down and concentrate only on refugees, children and seniors. Anyone over 18 in America, entertainers, politicians, bankers, and otherwise had better seriously stop what they are doing to check into this situation or get left behind.
Time's up.
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There is nowhere to go, no place is safe to hide.
The only option is to shut them all down.
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You are confused about my intentions AGreenRoad. For me personally there is no reason to run. I am traveling because my time is running out a bit more quickly than many on this board (for now anyway) and I need to help more people in person.
Many more people will begin to feel the physical changes very soon. By Spring 2013 there will be no more confusion anywhere in this world about Fukushima.
I will conserve my energy while I move around to make sure I can help as many people as I can. When my energy runs out I will know I did the best I could for the children of Fukushima.
I can think of no better way to leave this life
Namaste~
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Greetings kalidances $$POD$$ here, … we are just 30 miles north of Diablo NPP … as you know it was not built on solid ground(there is no solid ground "solid" enough for these nuclear water boilers). Every time we feel a tremor you have to think "Is this going to be the one that breaks it?"
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$$POD$$ says "It seems that a large percentage of adults utilize "Magical Thinking" when confronted with dangerous or very difficult problems." … from the safety of a childs mind is where most people exist … this has to be considered when attempting to understand how people are responding to this catastrophe.
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Hi ProfitofDoom. Every time it quakes I think about having a BBQ with margaritas and 420 lol. Quakes are a part of Earth's life. I still will never understand why islands spaced in an area the size of Cali put 50 nuke plants in such a small space. Perhaps they figured if America ever tried to bomb them again we'd all go together. That is what has happened anyway. All because of money and power.
Teenaged Enenewsers you have a very good opportunity to succeed where your elders have failed.
IMO all adults have failed all of their children. We all have created a fatally toxic world and this is not the world our children should have had. We are going to have to bury our loved ones because of greed. I apologize for this and there is no excuse for it.
Inaction is also a choice in all nuclear matters. What you ignore now will live in your lungs and on your skin later.
Let us all hope that these next generations have the brains and strength to reject money and power for healthy,productive lives for their children and grandchildren.
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i can really relate to what you say, having lived -20 miles from TMI as a teenager, and now -20 from san onofre as an adult, i find myself more and more disgusted with my generation. how we really screwed up this beautiful planet for the future generations. i am so sorry we did not kill this beast after TMI. these endless wars, these toxic chemicals, how many ways do we really need to kill people. it is just so disrespectful and wrong. and the fact that our government is not even having the decency to offer the citizens information as to how to protect their children, in my mind it is a criminal act. we must help these people.
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This from USGS
About 60 miles from Diablo NPP.
5.3
Date-Time
Sunday, October 21, 2012 at 06:55:09 UTC
Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 11:55:09 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
36.311°N, 120.856°W
Depth
9.4 km (5.8 miles)
Region
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Distances
20 km (12 miles) SW (234°) from New Idria, CA
25 km (16 miles) NE (36°) from San Lucas, CA
27 km (17 miles) ENE (65°) from King City, CA
77 km (48 miles) SE (141°) from Hollister, CA
147 km (91 miles) SE (141°) from San Jose City Hall, CA
Location Uncertainty
horizontal +/- 0.2 km (0.1 miles); depth +/- 0.5 km (0.3 miles)
Parameters
Nph= 81, Dmin=7 km, Rmss=0.14 sec, Gp= 68°,
It is only a matter of when.
100% certainty it will happen.
Collective insanity.
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It is good if someone brings this to a court for trial. The area where these reactors are built – were estimated to be safe, but the reality shows they were wrong.
This is a great miscalculation of the circumstances. These calculations have been made by professional experts. But the company hiring these experts is the responsible part.
People there know this sort of things happen. I estimate it occurs approximately once per sixty years. And sometimes they are bigger.
The plant had been built to withstand 7 meter waves, but in reality there were places with nearly forty meters. This shows an unacceptable miscalculation. If the epicentre had been a little more to the south – then the waves could have reached over thirty meters also by Fukushima Daichi.
An other thing is that all trained personnel were taken away from the plant – and instead untrained people were hired to solve the crises. That is almost a crime in itself.
There have been more crimes – the information has been too bad. When something catastrophic happens – it is of course of utmost importance to provide everyone with accurate information. To neglect information is a danger of life. The responsibility for other people depends on correct information.
This is also clear that when plants like this – that have no insurances – the people are in much more risk. Because the company that does not have any insurance, try to withhold information in their own interests – to minimise their responsibility.
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I like Mr. Kito, he goes for the jugular with the truth. I hope he wins.
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He's giving his opening speech, making the public the first jury. It's a good opener and a good strategy. He, as do we all by now, knows the industry argument and response, which has billions to make infomercials, and as we've seen, coffee table books. He's talking job loss, using personal economics against corporate economics. That is, ultimately, what civil lawsuits are all about – compensation and redress. He's saying that this can happen to any working person anywhere. That we are all like the fishermen in Japan. He is making his argument of the commonality of the everyday person, asking us to have personal individual empathy. TEPCO will use the argument of societal necessity, the forces they attempt to tame, like nuclear energy, that drive energy and create jobs. With the current income disparity around much of the globe right now, his argument will resonate with far more people who could find themselves on the jury in Japan. I like his manner. He will do good.
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Maybe there is some way we can all get behind him.
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If I was in Japan, believe all was NOT OKAY and the Govt and TEPCO etc were all saying ITS OKAY, this lawyer would appear to me to be the proverbial Eye of the Storm. He validates their suffering in the healthiest way.
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There's "no" guarantee of safety with nuclear plants. The disasters happen from mechanical error, human error, and quakes. And all unforeseen, as proven by past and present accidents: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, and others. The "only" guarantee of safety is to stop using nuclear reactors.
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Yes, but, success in shutting them down will rarely be based upon public safety issues. Not for any energy production will safety issues take priority over production and use, ever, anywhere at any time. Economics. Money. Personal gain. Political power through money. National power through energy production. That will always trump safety. If safety were the first consideration there would be no nuclear power in the first place. But, we all want to believe that safety is the priority. So, the game will be played, and TEPCO will be sued, and will lose because their own public admittance 2 weeks ago publicly has guaranteed it. They said nuclear power would have been safe had they not made deliberate mistakes. They have stepped into the trap knowingly to try and save the industry. And, it is through notorious lawsuits backed by protests in the streets that giants are taken down. The game is officially on!
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Wonderfully perceptive Vic. You captured the truth!
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@VicFromOregon
October 20, 2012 at 10:48 pm
What for safety when there no energy production even, only consumption by the nuclear industry, not only of all the energy delivered by nukes at the busbars during their entire lifetime but also more demanded from society and consumed at the busbars by the nuclear programmes? When this point firmly resides in our psyches, there is no question of nukes whose safety need be considered. No energy then where is the question of safety? Even when it were to deliver any legitimate net energy to society it is totally an extinction level event, the nuke! When one does not know and does not know that he does not know, he is a fool shun him. All of you 99.999 percent! Not O not R but then who in lieu of OR for P?
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Thanks, Ramaswami Kumar, reactors are for bombs, always have been and will be, and the deadly poisons come back to contaminate the infants of the ones who dropped them.
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on another forum i'm having a debate with a pro-nuker who says NPPs are for energy only, and continues to say there is no 'nuke industry' that combines all of these nukes entities.
i continue to argue that nukes are owned by the mob.media.guv.com and are one big giant powerful organised crime unit.
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Let's get one fact straight, all reactors are not bombs. Solid fueled, water cooled reactors are bombs. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors cannot melt down, cannot explode. They are inherently safe.
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Hi FA … it is not about the machine me thinks … any form of ionizing radiation that we create is dangerous in our ecosphere … any substance that is toxic to life on earth should be avoided and certainly not created … and yes I am aware that we are soon to run out of cheap enough energy to keep "The Game" going … the sad reality, is that we overshot the carying capacity for human populations on the planet by at least a couple billion people … "would you like to live on a star, carry moon beams around in a jar" … love you brother … $$POD$$
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FA atetsts: "Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors cannot melt down, cannot explode. They are inherently safe"
SP: I would pen a rebuttal, but others state it far better than me:
"But even were its commercial viability established, given 2010's soaring greenhouse gas levels, thorium is one magic bullet that is years off target. Those who support renewables say they will have come so far in cost and efficiency terms by the time the technology is perfected and upscaled that thorium reactors will already be uneconomic. Indeed, if renewables had a fraction of nuclear's current subsidies they could already be light years ahead.
All other issues aside, thorium is still nuclear energy, say environmentalists, its reactors disgorging the same toxic byproducts and fissile waste with the same millennial half-lives. Oliver Tickell, author of Kyoto2, says the fission materials produced from thorium are of a different spectrum to those from uranium-235, but 'include many dangerous-to-health alpha and beta emitters'.
Tickell says thorium reactors would not reduce the volume of waste from uranium reactors. 'It will create a whole new volume of radioactive waste from previously radio-inert thorium, on top of the waste from uranium reactors. Looked at in these terms, it's a way of multiplying the volume of radioactive waste humanity can create several times over.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/23/thorium-nuclear-uranium
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thorium, 'it's a way of multiplying the volume of radioactive waste humanity can create several times over.'
'toxic byproducts and fissile waste with the same millennial half-lives'
these points just bring it all home for me.
if the byproduct cannot be cleaned up within the lifetime of the consumer, then it's a crime against the future.
Stop Nukes. Stop Uranium mining (and that stupid thorium thing).
Kick Start Renewables. Conserve while there is a deficit of renewables.
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@NoNukes
October 21, 2012 at 2:27 am
Exactly. See
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main46.asp?filename=Ne040910Nuclear.asp
The quote from there:"India already has negotiated agreements with the governments of Russia and France, allowing for Russian and French companies to participate in India’s nuclear energy programme. Significantly, India’s agreement with France in February 2009 allowed India to reprocess nuclear waste generated through the energy production programme and use it for its nuclear weapons programme."
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There were many from this central coast community that protested the construction of Diablo NPP and were arrested for there actions. I worked with a fine gentleman that was one of those that was arrested(David B. if your here this is Mike A. from U-28) … peaceful protests require a near "majority" to succeed … violence is the norm otherwise. As the English were shamed by the beating and violent treatment they inflicted on the people of India and were still human enough to feel shamed, peaceful protests succeeded. The "Nuclear Power" is pure evil and will not hesitate to crush any that appose them, they are psychopaths.
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Attention Enewsers … we just had a 5.3 quake north of Parkfield Ca at 2355 Pacific Time … we are just 30 miles north of Diablo NPP and I am sure those Mark 1 reactors felt it also … where is my can of "Radiation-B-Gone", I need to spray every room in the house just to be extra safe tonight … shiver my timbers, yarrh
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I saw this online, I'm a major nerd and follow this kind of stuff.
Did the EQ do any damage? There is nothing so far about information about this.
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Hi CBuck … did it take you long to achieve the rank of "major nerd" ? … I think of myself as an Admiral Nerd due to my coastal location … the only damage here is to our sense of well being … the epicenter is about 100 miles from Diablo NPP out in rattlesnake country(Google Earth is nerd worthy) … $$POD$$
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LOL, my ranking of major nerd is self proclaimed (I also follow weather patterns), but I'm glad no major damage…although that quake was no small beans, it is something to notice and consider.
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Attention Enewsers … this address (http://climateviewer.com/)is to a must have data base … brother James "Resonated" Lee has put a bunch of work into his site … take some time and check out his work … the earth is covered with nuclear poisons … $$POD$$
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