Published: June 21st, 2011 at 7:27 am ET
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Tokyo area parents’ radiation worries grow with discovery of local ‘hotspots’, Mainichi, June 21, 2011:
More than three months after the Great East Japan Earthquake and the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, Tokyo region residents are becoming increasingly worried over radiation exposure as a number of radioactive “hotspots” have been discovered in and around the capital.
Local governments are calling for calm, as annual doses of radiation at the hotspots — sites where radiation levels are significantly higher than their surroundings — would not exceed 20 millisieverts as they do in parts of Fukushima Prefecture. Residents are nevertheless calling on their local governments to take some kind of action. [...]
“Everyone is worried about their children,” [33-year-old housewife and mother of two Yuki Osaku] says. [...]
Published: June 21st, 2011 at 7:27 am ET
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Why did alex jones / infowars step off fukushima?
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Good question. Perhaps he was under orders? It will be interesting to see. When a small time blogger’s videos get taken off youtube, then the silencing of news is getting very serious. Maybe even “alternative” news sources are getting the memo to shut up now.
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I wonder. He also backed off the BP spill near the end of last summer, right around the time he started pushing Porter Stansbury, who RECOMMENDS the purchase of BP and Monsanto stock (to “preserve your wealth”, if not your integrity and what remains of your soul).
However, he has at least begun to list Fukushima articles again (though still weak on GOM) on the sites
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RAW doesn’t seem to cover it any more,which kind of surprised me, I thought they had some moxie.
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Noticed you have not been yourself Taco?
Sorry for being negative but I need to know its you and not a government hack?
Been reading your stuff for months and I like how you write. Made me think and prepare. Thanks and peace. Also I have noticed after using google for many years that there search results are getting worse and worse (censored?) I found this search engine much better- http://yippy.com/ please anyone give me your thoughts. Thanks.
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I personally believe that many sites as well as individuals have been hacked. I was notified by a friend with high clearances that I had been hacked and they could tell it was not me by the writing style of an item they received. They were right. Since then I have been very careful as to what I post, who I send items to etc.
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…And I thought I was nuts. What makes you so important that you are going to be “hacked” so people can comment under your name. That is absurd. Do you even know what hacking is?
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Re 2010 BP-GOM, as an ex-pat Southerner, I was looking for info. Didn’t find much on Alex Jones. Then from June 6 as a traveling tourist, I saw Alex had interviewed one of his preacher regulars about the gusher, so I tuned in on my little netbook in the hotel room. I distinctly remember that before Alex interviewed the preacher (who was very upset about the oil gusher’s health effects and had some scheme to mitigate), Alex talked about how his family was in the oil business for a long time and he pooh-poohed the seriousness of the disaster. Then when he talked to the preacher, he was sympathetic to his concerns and admitted he didn’t know too much about it. Made me think Alex has personal stake in pooh-pooing “man-made climate change”. On the other hand, he is always pushing the idea of eugenics plots to kill us all, so perhaps he is not certain how to spin Fukushima. His coverage that I’ve caught is decent enough just sparse; ironically, like the MSM.
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Sharp article from Independent Australia:
“there is an official cover-up going on about the full extent of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.”
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/environment/the-truth-about-the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-and-cover-up/
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And here is the rad map they don’t want the people to see:
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/elevated-radiation-levels-widespread-in-eastern-japan/7160?tag=search-river
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whats very odd is on Yahoo’s front page without even having to search in unusual places the top news story is about
Radioactive tritium leaks found at many nuke sites’
Wonder what thats doing in the headlines?
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Simple, seems they want people to read it and their line: “Federal regulators set a limit for how much tritium is allowed in drinking water. So far, federal and industry officials say, the tritium leaks pose no health threat.”
Many folks will come away with the assumption that radioactivety is no threat not understanding all other isotopes and in future may dismiss any concern or respect for the dangers of radioactivity and health implication, remember how they pushed the half life of iodine 131 as being a few days !!
it is called minimizing/spin !
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Excellent account of tritium hazards:
http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/canada/en/documents-and-links/publications/tritium-hazard-report-pollu.pdf
Internal emitter eternal danger
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That sounds like “My Yahoo” which changes according to your search history and preferences.
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This is odd… latest TEPCO status report:
“At 9:49 am on June 20, we started fresh water injection to the reactor
wells and pools for temporary storage of equipments of Unit 4 and Unit 5,
in order to improve the working environment (to reduce radiation dose) on
the 5th floor of the reactor building of Unit 4 and Unit 5.”
Unit 5? Anyone else know about an issue with the SFP at R5?
Link:
http://www.noodls.com/view/E941581912D1E118FDCF29E16D662C3A71306204
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ooops apologies for formatting issues above. Trust TEPCO to add large chunks of nothing to their report lol
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Steven,
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Yes Unit 5 is in deep trouble.
This from TEPCO itself…
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/11052906_temp_data_56u-e.pdf
The rate of climb of temperature in the reactors of 5 and 6 looks like about 20 degrees C per day. Reactor 5 was at 81.4C at 06:00 on the 29th and 0.015 MPa g.
//www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/11052906_table_summary-e.pdf
…so by 06:00 tomorrow (30th May) it will be well above 100C and heading for meltdown soon after, unless the pressure starts to rise significantly as she boils up.
Looking at the charts its obvious that they are running the cooling pumps for each Unit to cool the reactor, then cool the spent fuel pond then the reactor again. They must be so short of power or pump capacity that they cant do both at once.
So now at unit 5 it seems like they have lost cooling for both the reactor AND the spent fuel pond.
It looks like it will take about 7 days for the spent fuel pond to get to 100C, after which that will boil out.
Quite how soon the fuel rods in reactor 5 will take to be exposed once it gets to 100C is unknown, but the history of the melt down in Unit 1 looks like they only have minutes not hours before meltdown gets underway, and the threat of hydrogen production and explosion escalates.
A very unhappy state of affairs.
Link to the TEPCO site, which seems to give real data, and reasonably close to real time:-
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/
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Unable to shed much heat, the concentrated radioactive slurry continued to increase in temperature within the defective 80,000 gallon containers. On 29 September 1957, one tank reached an estimated 660 degrees Fahrenheit. At 4:20pm local time, the explosive salt deposits in the bottom of the vat detonated. The blast ignited the contents of the other dried-out tanks, producing a combined explosive force equivalent to about 85 tons of TNT. The thick concrete lid which covered the cooling trench was hurled eighty feet away, and seventy tons of highly radioactive fission products were ejected into the open atmosphere. The buildings at Chelyabinsk-40 shuddered as they were buffeted by the shock wave.
While investigators probed the blast site in protective suits, a mile-high column of radionuclides dragged across the landscape. The gamma-emitting dust cloud spread hazardous isotopes of cesium and strontium over 9,000 square miles, affecting some 270,000 Soviet citizens and their food supplies. Over twenty megacuries (MCi) of radioactivity were released, almost half of that expelled by the Chernobyl incident.
A report compiled in 1991 found that the incidence of leukemia in the region had increased by 41% since Chelyabinsk-40 opened for business, and that during the 1980s cancers had increased by 21% and circulatory disorders rose by 31%. It is probable, however, that the true numbers are much higher since doctors were required to limit the number diagnoses issued for cancer and other radiation-related illnesses. In the village of Muslyumovo, a local physician’s personal records from 1993 indicated an average male lifespan of 45 years compared to 69 in the rest of the country. Birth defects, sterility, and chronic disease also increased dramatically. In all, over a million Russian citizens were directly affected by the misadventures of the Mayak Chemical Combine from 1948 to 1990, including around 28,000 people classified as “seriously irradiated.”
http://www.damninteresting.com/in-soviet-russia-lake-contaminates-you
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Thanks. Very informative. See also Zhores Medvedev. Nuclear Disaster in the Urals.
Also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
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sorry, Cut off part of copy, That is about The Kyshtym Disaster, 29 September 1957
Here is another link, lost 1st
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2011/04/important-history-kyshtym-disaster.html
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The Kyshtym Disaster, 29 September 1957
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PQmVSm70050
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Kinda reminds me of the California one here experiment with sodium coolant that polluted Ca.
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Japan has declared 966 square kilometers km around the plant as inhabitable, what does this video(The Kyshtym Disaster) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PQmVSm70050 say about the 800 km at this contaminated site ! Poor people !!!
Japanese government recently explained that roughly 966 square kilometers (km), or 600 square miles, around Fukushima are now uninhabitable due to the unfolding disaster. This massive dead zone area is the equivalent size of 17 Manhattans placed next to each other.
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-strontium-levels-up-to-240-times-over-legal-limit-near-plant/
We all know about Chernobyl and deaths following there !!
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Telling when the Update Log has not been Updated June 2nd after frequent releases
Fukushima Nuclear Accident Update Log
Updates of 2 June 2011
Staff Report
→ Chronology of Updates:
2 June | 12-18 May | 4-11 May | 5 May | 3 May | 2 May | 28 April | 27 April | 26 April | 21 April | 20 April | 19 April | 18 April | 15 April | 14 April | 13 April | 12 April | 11 April | 10 April | 9 April | 8 April | 7 April | 6 April | 5 April | 4 April | 3 April | 2 April | 1 April | 31 March | 30 March | 29 March | 28 March | 27 March | 26 March | 25 March | 24 March | 23 March | 22 March | 21 March | 20 March | 19 March | 18 March | 17 March | 16 March | 15 March | 14 March | 13 March | 12 March | 11 March | Full Update
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
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Just restoration work, I think they plan a reality show this summer kinda like knockoff of the Bob Vila show ‘This __ House’ but i think its gonna be called ‘This Old Reactor’
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Good one – “This Old Reactor” could have several seasons. Can’t wait for them to tackle the Tampa reactor. We could call that episode – “The Crack in the Cracker Reactor”. I’m surprised they haven’t started it up, who needs containment after Fuku?
Fukushima – Man’s experiment with the Open Air Reactor Multiplex. Heck, can’t we just splice some cockroach genes into the new generation? They’re practically immune to radiation.
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A little JB Weld will fix it !!
Right ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JB_Weld
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i feel sorry for the people of japan. i hope their love for their children overrides their cultural tendencies to be obedient to authority. because the authorites dont give a crap about them sadly enuf
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Every trully conscient and loving japanese should have evacuated with whole familly from whole japan long time ago. At the very beginning of it all (few days), a friend living in japan asked me about it : I told him to sell everything and take off ASAP. Well, he knows he own me a good one now …
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I agree, I just read GE is jumping in trying to corner the market on LED light bulbs and other energy saving products to help them through the summer… They shouldnt even get a chance to do business in any market until they figure out how to contain this monster they created.
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Gee, a mob protection-racket by your local corporation: go in and rough up the neighborhood, then offer to restore order, at a high price.
Have consumer boycotts ever worked? How about: “Be Free, No GE” ?
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Disaster capitalism.
I kinda like that motto:
“Be Free. No GE.” !!
“Killing you softly – in microSieverts.”
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The only good part about it is they are up against the Chinese
they are the masters at producing for bottom dollar.
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This is it man, Japan is OVER. Unbelievable.
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I have a great idea to calm the public. Ask the government officals to eat fish caught off the coast near fukushima power station. Oh, bring their grandsons and grand daughters as well.
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but I think this info is new.
“Key water treatment system halts at Fukushima plant”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110621p2g00m0bu034000c.html
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“Whereabouts of 30 nuclear power plant subcontractors unknown: Health Ministry”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110621p2a00m0na005000c.html
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If you look at the pic, there’s a guy without any protection. Looks like the leader. Great find blackmoon.
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These are not the workers you are looking for.
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Live TEPCO.
All reactors steaming away.
Reactor 4 …kicking up.
The Common Spent Fuel Storage facility and the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility….active..very much so.
http://bravenewclimate.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fukushima_daiichi_map_plan.jpg
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Ya would Uncle Arnie could just be clear as to the current conditions…
Kaku ,of course, says what the aliens tell him too.
What did his tweet say?… the most expensive environmental accident.
He sounds like T.Boone Pickens…going on about daily expenses running a rig..in the early days of the BP oil spill.
It’s not about the bottomline.
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I see he hasn’t done a vid for awhile. Latest one is dated 12th June. Doesn’t bode well.
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“Fukushima: Strontium levels up to 240 times over legal limit near plant, uninhabitable land area now the size of 17 Manhattans” June 20, 2011
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Fukushima%3A_Strontium_levels_up_to_240_times_over_legal_limit_near_plant%2C_uninhabitable_land_area_now_the_size_of_17_Manhattans_/14351/0/0/0/Y/M.html
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“The park in Nagareyama with the highest detected radioactivity in the six cities, meanwhile, was given an emergency mowing to reduce the radiation level.”
Good good good. Yay. Emergency mowing, problem sorted.
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(to the tune of ‘Whistle While You Work”
Be happy while you mow,
Be happy while you mow,
You can’t get hurt, so smile and flirt
Can’t hurt if you don’t know.
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In my grand’s garden in India three cows silently mow the lawn, leave their fertiliser behind and keep the garden lively and healthy. The garden grows Malgovas, a delicious mango and the thriving garden is a haven for birds-Even haditha comes with its red top and snouty beak-a large bird, then the grey hornbills, the parakeets… the monkeys also have a lunch of the fruits including cherry from the cherry tree… Pl no nukes here… Lo there is a uranium enriching facility just 20 km off here. no readings….
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Don’t tell too many people.
The big boys will come in to build condos.
You know, to make it even “better”.
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This Fukushima situation is officially CRAZY!
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Is there something they know ??
“postponement” ??
Japanese counterparts are expected to announce a postponement in the relocation of the Futenma air station, which was due for completion by 2014.
Okinawa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa
Okinawa Prefecture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Prefecture
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/US-Japan-mull-Marine-base-plans-at-security-talks-1432815.php
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Japanese government recently explained that roughly 966 square kilometers (km), or 600 square miles, around Fukushima are now uninhabitable due to the unfolding disaster. This massive dead zone area is the equivalent size of 17 Manhattans placed next to each other.
http://www.infowars.com/fukushima-strontium-levels-up-to-240-times-over-legal-limit-near-plant/
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How American are those reactors?
Obviously written (by TEPCO?) to counter the “Blame TEPCO” mantra:
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201106160177.html
The accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant following the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11 quickly worsened and spun out of control because the U.S.-styled design for its emergency power sources had been adopted without modification 40 years ago–a source at Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant operator, told The Asahi Shimbun.
In the U.S. design, emergency power generators are installed underground to guard against tornadoes and hurricanes. The Fukushima plant was, however, swamped when the tsunami rose more than 10 meters above the normal sea level along the coast and knocked out its power supply in the blink of an eye.
In the U.S. nightmarish scenario, used in the 1960s to draw up protection measures against nuclear plant disasters, violent winds, as strong as 360 kph, strike the plant. A giant tree growing nearby, uprooted and airborne, crashes through the walls of a reactor building like a missile and destroys the emergency power sources. The emergency power generator is located in a turbine building, which has thinner walls than the reactor building next door. Thus, it was deemed safer to install the emergency power generator underground to protect it from a “tree missile,” explained the TEPCO source.
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TEPCO dumping spent fuel rods into ocean?
http://radioactive.eu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:is-tepco-dumping-fuel-rods-in-the-sea&catid=38:fp-rokstories&Itemid=212
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My latest video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X01om7oUtEs
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a bit of recent context and how according to malcolm grimstom..
this event was and is not a problem.
this man works for london based
chatham house a policy maker for the british and world governments owned by the rothchilds.
warning this man has an ugly face as well as spirit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LumQPlwHWaI
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