Published: October 26th, 2011 at 7:11 pm ET
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SOURCE: No One Died From Radiation Exposure at Fukushima, Says Top U.S. Nuclear Regulator, CNSNews.com’s Christopher Goins, October 25, 2011
CNSNews.com reporter: “Would it be accurate to say that no one has died as a result of exposure to radiation in Fukushima? And secondly, can you assure that no one will die as a result of exposure to radiation in the future?”
Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission: “You wanna take that one?” (Looking at co-panelist who replies, “That’s yours.” This is followed by a roar of laughter from the panelists and audience)… “[There is no] immediate threat to their life based on what we know from the indications we have right now…”
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they only laugh because neither of them wants to field the question.
they know they are there to “assure” people and their laughter is indicative of their faltering confidence that this can be successfully done.
these poor guys find themselves on the wrong side of the fight between good and evil… and all they wanted was a good paying job.
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I don’t know Larry, seems like a really inappropriate time to laugh, I don’t see anything remotely funny about brave men risking their lives and 2 questions asking what the possible outcome of those valiant acts is. They chuckle like children, then go into a scenario about the impossiblities of injury from radiation. They are psuedo scientists being paid to say stupid stuff. And they are good at it.
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I agree. Because there shouldn’t be any question that the workers who have died of ‘heat exhaustion’ during the SPRING season died of anything else, right? It’s not like they’re in direct contact with radioactive substances or anything.
Just go ahead and keep laughing as people start losing their hair, forming blood clots, and having miscarriages. It’ll show the world who to blame for not even suggesting to take precautions.
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“these poor guys find themselves on the wrong side of the fight between good and evil”
Having found themselves on the wrong side we should expect them to come scurrying back across to the right side, pronto, with their tails between their legs. I see no evidence of that in this video. In fact, they bring to mind a hundred confrontations with management I attended as a union delegate over the years. These guys clearly think of themselves as winners, winning; thus the laughter.
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well said!
But they do know how badly they are destroying their species. But they want to pimp out there own measly little lives in doing so
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it is sickening these guys sit up there and laugh and lie about issues they KNOW are false. All they wanted was a good paying job. Thats bullshit and everyone here knows it. These guys have been on the dark side for a long time, and they probably laugh cause they are murderers and they are getting away with it. The whole nuclear industy is a joke, from the lies about its safety to the desperate attempts to assure everyone that they are doing the best they can when in fact they are doing nothing! They are just trying to get the reactors going again they are not shutting them down or that would of been done by now. I hope these guys loose thier jobs, I cant believe this industry is still going strong in north america and all the tax breaks, and breaks from having to be responsible for thier actions. The plant in Japan cant even afford to pay damages and they made hundreds of millions a year. And i bet they didnt pay much tax either. GE has record profits last year and look they cant even pay the people who were forced to leave or just made smart decisions and decided to leave. There should be a worldwide lawsuit for all the dammage done. But when your in bed with the government you get away with murder look at BP and the oil spill and how they got away with everything and actually made more money off the clean up then they would pumping oil and i bet alot of people are profiting here, but not normal people, corperations. Obama would stick his nose in every other countrys business for everything else but this he doesnt care about. wake up people they want to depopulate the world and make everyone sterile. and now they want to ban all websites that critisize the government cause they cant take hearing about how out of touch with reality they are.
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Remember the National Tobacco Institute “Scientists”: I **believe** that smoking cigarettes does not cause lung cancer. LOL. BELIEVE!!!
So forward to this PR db:
“What we know right now, there have been no fatalities we are aware of that are directly related to radiation exposure,” said Gregory B. Jaczko, the chairman of the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
**What we know now** (1st loophole)
**we are aware of** (2nd loophole)
That’s quite enough loopholes.
We know now —– who is “we” and what is your definition of “know” and what is your criteria for “that are directly related to radiation exposure.”
THEY ALL DIED and we are not 100% sure why?
Could be the FUKU Sushi? Could be!!!
Can’t win, don’t shop with psychopaths.
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Another loophole is when he says there were some workers exposed to more than they would be under normal operations, “but none of those would present an IMMEDIATE threat to their life” [c. 1:05]. That word “immediate” is one of the nuke industry’s favorite “cover” words–they focus on death by direct radiation poisoning and obscure the fact that deaths resulting from cancer, leukemia, and heart problems may still occur.
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Even the last guy who suggests there may be an undetectable increase in cancers among the broader population obscures things.
Thyroid cancer doesn’t normally occur in young people, but after Chernobyl there was an increase in its occurrence in those who were children at the time and were still only in their teens when the cancer manifested itself.
They also don’t mention the possibility of birth defects.
The guys have rationalized themselves into blindness (and hence complicity) with their self-serving risk assessments.
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should say “These guys”
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For sure, they might even believe it. Although in their heart of hearts, they would despise themselves.
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And,…they’re blaming the victim again,…now there’s a new one,…..saying they take off their geiger/dosimiter counters.
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Just to be clear Al-Chemisto, the cancer risk from smoking is due mainly to radioactive materials in the tobacco, most likely deposited there as a result of all the nuclear releases over the last several decades. In other words, we smokers are losing (have lost?) access to a relatively safe recreational drug, favoured over the centuries by several cultures and now seemingly highly unsafe thanks to nuclear activity. Anyone who eats or drinks is next, as the fallout continues to accumulate on everyone’s favourite breakfast cereal.
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It’s already in dairy products, fish, and water in the US. Radiation will likely take out the food chain before it takes out people. But, seeing as how food is an important factor in survival, I’d say thats just as bad
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This is the occupy everything Corporate/Government training video now.
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Oh yes.
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send them to me
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They are even wearing the same outfit. Clowns!
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They always use key words like not an “immediate” health risk. they say shit like that all the time as if people wont catch on
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Some people laugh when they lie.
When faced with no other option than lying, some people laugh, particularly if they are in danger of being uncovered. They will break eye contact with the person they are lying to and start laughing. They will loose their train of thought, stutter and/or break up their sentences. Fiddling hands are also a sign that they are knowingly lying.
The question asked is absolutely not funny in any way. It is very clear to me that the bald guy is lying as best he can. But all the telltale signs are saying “DON’T BELIEVE THIS GUY”
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That’s right. Some laugh when people die too.. *raised brow*.. He scratched his chin, picked his nose and rubbed his face prior to the question even being asked. Also turned his head when answering to try to hide his face. Definite indicators of discomfort and dishonesty. I’m surprised they haven’t employed actors to do a better job interviewing for these minions. Ya know..sometimes I wonder if I’m more pissed from being slowly murdered or having my intelligence constantly insulted..
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80% of communication is body language. 20% verbal. Clearly lies. If I know what the hell’s going on, he sure as hell does.
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clearly lies, pimps, of their own species.
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They laugh yet maybe they wouldn’t if these headlines hit the front page:
World Series Game 6 in St. Louis Postponed Due to Radioactive Rain
2377 CPM measured on geiger counter, 270 times background level.
SP: Sounds impossible with the “vast” ocean, but yet maybe more truth than the scoffers care to admit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Plpo0DwPY&feature=player_embedded
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looks like his truck needs a bath. I don’t think much can be said about this sample because from the looks of it, that truck has been picking up crud for a long time. Who knows when the radiation accumulated on this truck.
It’s probably form one of the many releases this year, but who knows…
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“Japanese nuclear authorities have elevated the disaster at Fukushima to level 7, the same as the meltdown at Chernobyl 25 years ago. But level 7 in Japan is not the same as it was in Russia. Melissa Block talks to NPR’s Richard Harris, who explores the differences between the two biggest nuclear accidents in history.”
the apologist who takes over the interview from the “awkward brothers”
heres some lies
“For example, the evacuation zone that they established was primary to move people who were closest to the reactor to a safer distance in case things got worse. And in the early days, when the disaster was still unfolding in particular, restrictions on food and water were based actually on the measurements that they made of the food and the water and the milk and so on, the radiation levels in those products.”
“BLOCK: Sure. There is an apparent contradiction here, isn’t there, Richard? This new rating, as we said, puts the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in the same category as the Chernobyl plant. But as you’ve been explaining, the radiation released from Chernobyl was much, much worse. So how does that compute?
HARRIS: Well, the international guide, in part, sets the accident scale based on how much radiation goes into the environment. And both Chernobyl and the Japanese plant have exceeded that limit that defines a Level 7 accident.
But Chernobyl was 10 times worse in terms of the amount of radiation that was released. And let’s not forget it’s not just the total amount of radiation that we care about. But it’s what the effects were. …………
Also, critically, the Soviets didn’t stop people from drinking the milk, and that ended up causing a lot of thyroid cancer. So, Japan has responded a lot differently than that, and that really affects the response that we’ve seen.”???????
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/12/135354910/japan-raises-severity-level-at-nuclear-plant
a bunch of w^$%$%&s
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Arclight, the big difference was that in Japan the wind blew most of the radiation out to sea, this gave time for Japan to organize and prepare. Even with the weeks of wind pushing the radiation out to sea they still where slow as Arnie and others where exposing the dangers. I believe if the public had not gained knowledge about what was happening that they would not have evicted the 30KM zone even until today or in the future. Has the officials in Japan ounce told us of a warning ahead of others, even though they are the closest to the problem, they should be executed for holding information back from the people that may affect their lives and future generations. The officials do not even confirm or deny what Arnie and others are stating and leave the people on their own. The only words the people get from the officials is that before the nuclear disaster humans where considered safe with external 1milSv/hr of radiation continually for a life time and now after the nuclear accident humans are safe with up to 100milSv/hr from external radiation and unknown internal radiation from ingested and breathing it without any explanation as to why this is so. On top of this is that the 1milSv/hr radiation is from back ground radiation which has been well blended from the creation of the universe and planets compared to small chunks of highly enriched compact radioactive material from the power plants that will give a much higher dose in a small area then the universes spread out radiation. I believe this is known as hot particles because the chunks have many decaying atoms in a small area bombarding human tissues. Wow, people are safe now from the radiation of the nuclear accident.
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I’m not sure I agree with a word that you said, Richard.
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Do you know why Chernobyl is still seen as worse than Fukushima by government puppets? It’s because that incident wasn’t covered up by so many lies! People were made aware of the risks and action to stop the radiation leaks were swift and immediate. Now we’re seeing the opposite in this situation, the poor Jap citizens themselves don’t even know whats going on and this crises has only gotten worse over time.
The day I wake up and don’t read any enenews headlines that say “tepco admits (insert sad news here)” is the day I’ll believe poison can’t hurt you
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They won’t be laughing if North Anna goes berserk! Too close to home.
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True. In that case, they will just quit their jobs and fly southward on a golden parachute.
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actually, trying to evacuate and sell their mansions and cars around here, plus yank out the wifey/mistress and kids out of their schools might be a hindrance… But, I do see them running & hiding! (groan)
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They need to be working hard on coming up with some new Laws of Physics!! And on the double!!
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How could any one die or be sickened by Fuku?–after all, the typical worker’s dose was no worse than if he had simply consumed 1 million bananas in one sitting. Bananas are good for you. Furthermore, there is not a single documented case of a person becoming sick or dying after having eaten 1 million bananas at a time. Clearly, there is no discernible increase in risk here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15288975
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See the spin already. Cancer is a very common disease so it would be hard to see any increase from Fukushima. Its just too hard to make the connection say the scientists paid by nuclear industry. Replay of big tobacco. Said the doctor, I’d walk a mile for a camel. The laughter in the video is typical of these types.
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“Cancer is a very common disease”
Nuclear reactors are very common also !
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I think it is : Since the beginning of mankind’s nuclear adventure, cancer has become a very common diseaese .
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Dam! two tards! They know who signs the checks.
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Would you buy a Japanese used car from these guys ?
There is your true thoughts !
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Uh huh, right, EVERYONE carries around radiation meters and radiation measurement badges when they work in Fukushima, and all results of these measurements are transparent, told to the workers and available to the public, right?
WRONG… the workers have no badges, no meters, do not know what they are exposed to, are never told what their exposure is, and none of this is reported to the public or to the workers. Those few who do have meters, what do they do when the run into a hot area, where the meter pegs off the scale? None of these extremely hot areas are mapped, no warnings are provided. One area measured over 5 Sieverts if I recall correctly. The basements have MILLIONS of Bq per litre of water, and they are working around this highly radioactive water.
As a matter of fact, the workers are sworn and made to sign contracts that force them into secrecy for life. They are told NEVER to tell anyone anything about their work, radiation or anything else. How many workers can the media interview? How many journalists have been allowed into ANY of the Fukushima plants, spent fuel pools? How many international journalists are allowed or invited to attend press releases by TEPCO? I would bet the number is few or none for all of the above. Prove me wrong.
So thank you very much for all of this non information, spin, and industry feel good answers… plus laughter about the wonderful, radiation free, safe Fukushima, which everyone would enjoy working in.
The reality is sadly, very different. Reports are coming out from sources like enenews.com and others, slowly but surely. The truth can only be covered up and hidden away for so long.
Bottom line, you can fool some of the people, some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people, all of the time.
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It was very refreshing to see the comments posted there. A shill or two, but most commenters appear to be very aware.
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Um….and um…. and um…. and um…. How many times did that guy say “um?” WHY would ANYONE believe their shit?!
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Where’s nuckelchen? He needs to edit the (very few) words out of that vid so all the guy says after the question is erm…um…ahh..
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21 ahh and…er…ums.
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Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission: … Laughing at the ‘unlisted’ Fukushima radiation workers that are held captive until they die, then marked as ‘missing’ — Police guards also dying.
http://enenews.com/interview-local-says-unlisted-fukushima-workers-who-cleanup-highly-radioactive-debris-are-held-captive-until-they-die-then-marked-as-missing-police-guards-also-dying-video
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The EPA, Chairman, CNN news room, all sit together and laugh.
The EPA laughs at the table when they say – we’ll say that the radiation levels in the US as related to the Fukushima incident have been “consistently decreasing,” and that there is no further need to regularly test milk, food, air, and water contamination in the manner that it has been especially monitoring following the incident.
http://www.examiner.com/natural-health-in-atlanta/environmental-protection-agency-stops-radiation-monitoring
CNN laughs and says “tourism in Fukushima makes more sense then ever’ “Life in much of Fukushima goes on as normal now”
The Chairman slaps his leg, falls out of his chair and staff just want to suck his @&*! (Rhymes with prick).
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the laughter was morbidly inappropriate.
they totally dodged the long term question.
what a disgrace we are.
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Jaczko is pretty bad at hiding it when he’s full of shit. I know little about the man, but if he were a salesman, I would walk away from him.
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But he IS a salesman. The worst kind. A salesman for worn out, broken down, leaking, spewing, corroding, murderous nuclear reactors. And more newer, bigger, faster, quickly built with regulators looking the other way nuclear reactors (like the ones he wants to build in Georgia).
He is not made “immediately” accountable for any of the invisible death that his industry spills into our lives.
Would be nice if the 3 spirits of Christmas from ‘Scrooge’ could visit this man and show him to himself.
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Better still ..may they laugh for eternity in hell..
Laugh it up…
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Hyenas laugh alot….. and little boys doing something behind the teachers back…..
Teenage girls….and LIARS.
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I don’t think they will be able to discount the role of Fukushima in producing illnesses, including birth defects and cancers.
The scale of this disaster is simply unprecedented. Chernobyl’s initial release may have been greater in the first 10 days but Fukushima has been going on for 7 plus months.
And the radiation levels are not decreasing–they are increasing in key US cities under the jet stream. Look at Yuma Arizona! According to the EPA it registered 950 CPM beta last week.
I think this has gone beyond long term effects.
Bobby1 has already documented immediate effects but I think the scale of this disaster is going to overwhelm propaganda efforts.
The problem is by the time people take notice the damager is going to be tremendous…
Plus, if Potrblog is correct, a rather huge explosion could still occur…and might be preferable over indefinite fission…
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I think that the earlier release of radiation in Fukushima was much worse than Chernobyl. There was simply a huge cover up.
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Probably so!
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Fukushima will dwarf Chernobyl in the amount of radionuclides released and in the number of people affected. To say anything else is preposterous.
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Well, they will defend nuclear power till the end, until the stark face of reality leaves them no room to squirm. The whole argument is about to become moot, now that we approach the 9 month passage, and post meltdown babies start being born. It’s about to start hitting the fan.
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No one has ever looked more like Mr. Burns!
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Yeah, so true. I was thinking crossbreed between a vulture and Satan’s sphinxter but mister Burns fits perfectly too.
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Well, Mr. Jaczko, why not offer to move your office to the plant, to show how safe it is? With all the modern technology, you could perform most of your administrative/managerial tasks remotely from there. It would be a good show of faith in the safety of your industry. You could give remote reports daily as you personally check up on the workers. You could walk the grounds on a daily tour with a Tepco official.
How much is a job worth? What level of unbelief does a man have to possess to be an NRC chief? What does it profit a man?
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+100
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He counterdicts himself many times in recent history…
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid ‘another Chernobyl’
Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”, it was claimed last night.
By Gordon Rayner and Martin Evans
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
Nuclear safety officials in France said they were “pessimistic” about whether engineers could prevent a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant after a pool containing spent fuel rods overheated and boiled dry.
Last night radiation levels were “extremely high” in the stricken building, which was breached by an earlier explosion, meaning that radiation could now escape into the atmosphere.
Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured.
Last night, a US nuclear safety chief said the Japanese government had failed to acknowledge the full seriousness of the situation at the Fukushima plant and that warnings to citizens had been insufficient and understated.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned that if “extremely high” radiation levels increased it would become impossible for workers to continue to take corrective measures at the plant as “the doses they could experience would potentially be lethal doses in a very short period of time”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8387051/Japan-nuclear-plant-Just-48-hours-to-avoid-another-Chernobyl.html
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Fukushima radiation reaches lethal levels
Discovery at crippled plant a fresh reminder of risks faced by workers battling to contain nuclear accident
Reuters
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 August 2011 03.09 EDT
Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) reported on Monday that radiation exceeding 10 sieverts (10,000 millisieverts) per hour was found at the bottom of a ventilation stack standing between two reactors.
On Tuesday Tepco said it found another spot on the ventilation stack itself where radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead to incapacitation or death after just a short period of exposure.
The company used equipment to measure radiation from a distance and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device’s maximum reading is 10 sieverts per hour….
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/02/japan-nuclear
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Fukushima’s nuclear plant workers walking into certain death by radiation
By ANDY SOLTIS
Post Wire Services
Last Updated: 6:18 PM, March 17, 2011
Posted: 2:43 AM, March 17, 2011
Although the workers are dressed head-to-foot in protective body suits, the gear provides little protection against the radiation, which is at four times the level that causes cancer.
“I don’t know any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war,” said Keiichi Nakagawa, a professor at the Tokyo University Department of Radiology…
…Nevertheless, some areas of the crippled complex — those closest to the reactors — remain too hot for anyone to get near.
The radiation “would be high enough that you would receive a lethal dose in something like 16 seconds,” nuclear-safety engineer David Lochbaum told National Public Radio.
Under current conditions, the Fukushima 50 are receiving the same amount of radiation in one hour that a US nuclear worker would be exposed to over an entire career, David Richardson, a professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, told the BBC.
At Chernobyl, at least 28 people died of ARS within months, another 19 died over the next eight years and 106 survived.
One who lived to tell his tale said his colleagues knew the risk they were taking, but they felt it was their duty. “We were like kamikaze,” he said….
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/fukushima_heroes_walking_into_certain_kxe5jvUT8MMti45nZk1FrO/1
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EXCELLENT RESEARCH JEBUS!
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BEYOND EXCELLENT. VERY BEYOND. A MEGA GOLIATHON of BRILLIANTLY DONE RESEARCH. Thank you.
+1 Googel
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I deserve no praise for 15 minutes of searching for the truth. It is the least that I can do in respect for those who are giving their lives trying to mitigate this horrendous disaster.
It disgusts me to no end that someone in the top NRC position has the gall to laugh at the sacrifice that those HERO’s are doing at ground zero fukushima.
I bow my head in shame to be an american today.
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I wish you commented more daily. That would be cool.
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Japanese Nuclear Plant Workers Say Radiation Death Is Inevitable
By Ben Yakas in News on April 1, 2011 5:29 PM
The Fukushima 50, the Japanese technicians who chose to stay behind in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to try to avert a meltdown after the deadly tsunami hit Japan last month, have reportedly resigned themselves to the fact that many or most of them will likely die in the upcoming weeks and months from radiation poisoning. “My son and his colleagues have discussed it at length and they have committed themselves to die if necessary to save the nation. He told me they have accepted they will all probably die from radiation sickness in the short term or cancer in the long-term,” the mother of a 32-year-old worker told FoxNews.
The workers have been struggling to prevent a meltdown to the four reactors which were critically damaged in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Since then, radiation has been leaking from the complex, contaminating food produced in surrounding farmland and seeping into groundwater beneath the site. Radiation has been detected in at least a 25 mile radius of the plant, and the workers, who wear nothing more than hazard suits sealed with duct tape, have been the most directly exposed. Around Japan, they have become heroes, and are known as atomic “samurai.”
But they are also fully aware of the realities of working so closely to the damaged reactors: “They have concluded between themselves that it is inevitable some of them may die within weeks or months. They know it is impossible for them not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation,” said the mother.
http://gothamist.com/2011/04/01/japanese_nuclear_plant_workers_resi.php
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Where are they now?
Two Fukushima Workers Are Hospitalized After Severe Radiation Exposure
Gus Lubin|March 24, 2011
Three Fukushima workers were exposed to a dangerous blast of radiation, nuclear safety agents announced today. Two of the men were hospitalized after developing skin lesions on their legs.
The workers were exposed to radiation “ranging from 170 to 180 millisieverts,” according to Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency, while an exposure of only 100 millisieverts is known to cause an increased risk of cancer. They had been laying cables at a reactor.
Japan has raised the legal limit of radiation to which workers can be exposed to 250 millisieverts annually, which is five times higher than the limit in America.
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-03-24/news/29980640_1_radiation-fears-millisieverts-skin-lesions
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40-year-old Fukushima radiation worker dies of acute leukemia after working at plant for week — Checkup showed no prior health problems
Fukushima N-Plant Worker Dies of Acute Leukemia, Jiji Press, August 30, 2011:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday that a man in his 40s who had worked to help contain the radiation crisis at the firm’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has died of acute leukemia. [...]
The man worked at the Fukushima plant for seven days from early August. His jobs included radiation exposure management, the officials said. [...]
A medical checkup prior to his work at the plant showed no problems in his health. [...]
http://enenews.com/40-year-old-fukushima-radiation-worker-dies-of-acute-leukemia-after-working-at-plant-for-week-checkup-showed-no-prior-health-problems
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Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: 50 Japanese Workers
By KEITH BRADSHER and HIROKO TABUCHI
Published: March 15, 2011
….The few details Tokyo Electric has made available paint a dire picture. Five workers have died since the quake and 22 more have been injured for various reasons, while two are missing. One worker was hospitalized after suddenly grasping his chest and finding himself unable to stand, and another needed treatment after receiving a blast of radiation near a damaged reactor. Eleven workers were injured in a hydrogen explosion at reactor No. 3….
Among plant employees and firefighters at Chernobyl, many volunteered to try to tame, and then entomb, the burning reactor — although it is not clear that all were told the truth about the risks. Within three months, 28 of them died from radiation exposure. At least 19 of them were killed by infections that resulted from having large areas of their skin burned off by radiation, according to a recent report by a United Nations scientific committee. And 106 others developed radiation sickness, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and dropping blood counts that left them highly vulnerable to infections.
The people who had suffered radiation sickness developed other problems later, according to the report: cataracts, severe scarring from the radiation burns to their skin and an increased number of deaths from leukemia and other blood cancers.
….Some of those Chernobyl workers were exposed to levels of radiation far beyond what has been measured to date at Daiichi — especially helicopter pilots who flew through radiation-laden smoke spewing from the reactor to drop fire-extinguishing chemicals on it….
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html?pagewanted=all
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What they meant to say is … Nobody WE give a damn about has died from fuku radiation.
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good insight, vivvi!
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deviant, misanthropic, cynical
Give them a seafood plate tea and steak
and rice, let them make holiday on site
or in Daichi garden let they play tennis or golf
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This is the darkest era for humanity.
(and there have been alot of bad times, frankly, in my oppinion this is the worst)At least during other eras of human atrocities people had some sympathy for the injured, this “don’t tell me I don’t want to know OR please tell me lies so I don’t have to know attitude,” from the world’s population, ultra, hyper extreme apathy…
Frost asked will the world end in fire or ice…this apathy is chilly!
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@many moons. I have said this about most news and global events the past few years… that people collectively are numb, (sorry to say) dumbed down, in deep states of apathy and denial. This .current. trend is astounding to me, as people are NOT paying attention, not even remotely, peripherally. My *meter is pegged*, as intuitional cores and logic are in complete turmoil with serious events unfolding.
**I nearly understand, when the greater body of humanity are routinely focused on core survival, even the most adept struggle to reason beyond their own immediate reality and sense of needs, especially when it is occurring a world apart them and they foster a sense of being isolated from it… out of site, nearly out of mind…
…EPIC…
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Does anybody remember an enews clip from a couple of months ago that showed a japanese offical laughing at lady who was concerned about radation. She shamed him. It was great!
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http://enenews.com/japan-officials-run-away-from-public-during-meeting-about-radiation-shame-on-you-please-dont-run-away-video
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Not the one I was thinking of, but another enews clasic for sure. How do these people live with themselves? Keep running little man….. its not going to help in the end!
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not found on ene for some reason
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/10/02/politician-claims-fukushima-children-treated-like-traitors-for-shunning-milk/#comment-1401
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Thats the one. You are incredable! Dont know how you found it. What a bunch of smug assholes! She is talking about childrens health and safety damn it!
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In the federal regulations it is clearly laid out as a felony for anyone in the nuclear industry or in the federal government to lie or obfuscate about nuclear safety issues. I pointed this out when the meeting occurred regarding the North Anna shutdown. Each one of the folks in that meeting are reminded that it is their duty to ensure the public safety, and if they do not, they can be convicted.
If the head of the NRC goes on national television and lies about the situation in Japan, he is committing a federal crime. And, by the way, so are any trolls on the internet who are in government or industry employ.
All someone has to do is find evidence that Jaczko and the others knew definitively about Fukushima deaths and then went on CNN and lied about it, and encouraged the public it was safe. Emails, briefings to the President, previous statements to the contrary, etc. would serve as proper evidence.
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Thats great news James! I will draft a letter to Eric Holder and the DOJ immeaditly! They are on our side, right?
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“They are on our side, right?”
Well, there’s my laugh of the day.
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Well, if you’ve ever been in government, you know they often consult their lawyers before they do anything. Now, they don’t always obey the lawyers, but they usually know when they step over the line.
I suspect these NRC idiots apparently didn’t even do that.
I agree in the current environment the political winds are not favorable – however political winds have a tendency to shift – and I’m feeling a they are going to change a whole lot on this topic soon. At that point, the president and congress will need someone they can hang out to dry. In this case they don’t need to look very far.
True political professionals plan this stuff out in advance. When/if the public gets angry enough, then this guy – and all the folks in charge of the internet trolling crew – will be trotted out and given the royal Kenneth Lay treatment.
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Slicko Jaczko!!! Notice his body language: through the entire segment, he nervously rubs his chin, his 5 o’clock shadow, I don’t care what his educ and exper is…he’s much too young to have such grave responsibility over the health and safety of so many millions of people, babies, children…he is not allowed to make decisions that affect the life of MY children!! WE ALL NEED TO STOP ACKNOWLEDGING THIS MAN’S BESTOWED AUTHORITY.
We are taught by Thomas Jefferson that this is our right AND our duty. I pledged my allegiance to the U.S.A. my entire life and that includes upholding the Bill of Rights and Constitution, as well as the pearls of wisdom and ritten advice careful crafted by our founding fathers, the creators of our precious freedom documents and laws!
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(correx) “written advice carefully crafted” (damn the Submit Button). Y’know, he’s the same kind of stereotypical “white shirt” that has been seen all over the bankster industry…a real “go-getter!” Has someone been cloning these guys??
How about we make Leuren Moret the new Chairwoman of the NRC…and transform that agency into a Decommissioning Panel led by Arnie Gundersen and a Medical/Environmental Panel headed by Dr. Chris Busby. We should also develop a department of Pediatric Preservation and Repair, headed by Dr. Helen Caldicott. Let’s throw in Dr. Michio Kaku as Radiological Education Secretary, as he’s good at explaining things to the simpler minds of the general populus.
These are the folks I will appoint/vote into these positions of power over myself and my family…and they should be well compensated too, for they will have to decipher data and notes from people that are now in prison.
Isn’t my world a beautiful one? IMAGINE
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Well said, ion jean.
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I like it!
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I am. And, smiling, too.
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I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman
These nuclear whores invoke the Clinton defense by using every possible “loophole” (as an earlier poster noted) to distance themselves from a horrible reality they have unleashed into our villages around the globe. Thus, we have all these endless mind games…
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Like this the Dumb Down The Masses.
Or is it Numb Down The Masses.
Either way they are nuclear WHORES who have sold their souls to Evil.
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They look like a couple of guys who just stole a car..and think they got away with it….two-bit punks.
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..ya gotta know they worked in this..
One guy says to the other…”when they ask..(this)..we are going to laugh…ya got that..don’t forget”.
I’ve seen better clown acts.
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Stealing a post,….Cole,….”I see dead people”-The Sixth Sense.
Those two fake jokesters,….I see their rotting corpses!
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I think the laughter is nervous laughter about a dangerous and awkward question that most journalist would never ask outright, but, this one did. But, you are right on that they talked about what to say should the question come up. Just look at the other nodding his emphasis watching nervously that Jazcko give all the right responses. You are correct – the words were rehearsed. Not long ago Jazcko was declaring how dangerous radiation was. I think someone finally pointed out to him that Japan owns majority shares in American and world nuclear power plants through Westinghouse and GE.
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Jaczko declared a state of nuclear emergency on March 11.
According to the Federal Register, this gives the NRC all power in the dissemination of radiation information in the USA.
The total shut-down of all radiation info from the EPA, radiation dispersion models, etc. is 100% due to Jaczko withholding it. On orders, no doubt, from his buddy Obama.
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Ha, ha… ha, ha, ha. That is so NOT funny. These guys ARE clowns without a lot of makeup, just a lot of coverup instead.
I hope I live to see the day that these joker’s carcases are used to plug the holes in those containment structures that they claimed could never be breached. I know that would not fix the problem, but it certainly would be poetic justice and would be a start to the ‘scum’ cleanup process. (now that’s funny)
Why don’t they ask these questions:
* How many will suffer and die over the next 30 years?
* How will the ‘chains of life’ and the overall planet be affected?
* How many ‘living things’ that should have had life will never be born?
* How many genetic mutations will there be and for how many generations to come?
* How long will our air, water and food be contaminated?
* If the Fuku containment systems can be breached, then what about others?
The list goes on and on. How funny is that?
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@ChasAha. Answers are overdue to the very pertinent questions. In the present fast by thousands of people from Tamilnadu in front of the KUDANKULAM nuclear reactors(2000 MW, ultimate nearly 6000 MW , god forbid all these and everywhere else in the world),these questions also have to be answered now: look at the scenario to the indefinite future for the time period while answering:
1. Trace the possible history of the reactors including every pipe and joints,valves,pumps,rpv,sfp,containment,cyclones, the climate within which they operate,the instrumentation,the computers,the codes,the power supply,the active and passive cooling systems,the turbines, the core, the electrical surge protection… How can you keep track of the complete status of every element in the system? And how are the interconnections are working regarding their integrity to perform as intended? Between the reactor systems as well. Are all the radiation monitors perfect? How are you set up as far as measuring all types of radiation 100 kms round the plant? Are you monitoring the effluents? How are you monitoring the bioconcentration levels? Are you monitoring the food production around the plant at various distances? Are you mapping the species health 100 kms around? Have you monitored the health status of all life before the plant is to come up? What do they show? How do you expect these to vary with time for the next millennia? How will you decommission the plant? What is the extra area required? How will you ensure the isolation of the spent fuel for the next billion years? Are you aware of the dynamics of the cumulative effects of man’s activities in modern civilization? Have you identified lacunae in the design of various equipment in place regarding their safe working within the design envelope? For example have you noticed that nuclear power programs do not give any net energy to society outside of the nuclear industry? Thus nukes may not be needed at all! Big quake at another nuke soon?
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Hey look! Two shiny new traitorous murderers!
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Amen ChasAha!
When Glenn Beck looked into the camera on about April 1st,…and said, “Containment CAN NOT be breached,…period!”.
Then he said, “There will be no radiation for ANYONE in the US to worry about!” MILLIONS believed him. I was one of his minions!
I want that pasty fucker to go back to AA and do another 10th step: “When you are wrong,…PROMPTLY admit it!” That rich, sold out son-of-a-bitch!
I hope they have a freezer to display him in for a week. I’ll pay to see!
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Morning Jill,
I don’t remember the date, but around that time, maybe a little later, I sent several Senators, Congressmen, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Glenn Beck three or four well written pieces I found on enenews that confirmed just how fucked we are. I got back two form letters extolling the virtue of said Sen or Congressman on their energy policy…..no relation at all to what I sent them, and no mention of Fuku. Since Glen Beck spent so much time “exposing” what he considered government hypocrisy (basically a slap Obama fest wrapped in the flag), I figured he, of all people would devote a little TV time to protecting the American people. Not a peep out of him, but I did get an email link to the GB website. Yippee! He is such an asshole, but just one of many.
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I still consider this the Mother of all Cover-ups…..but there are probly thousands more that were successful and I just never heard of them.
Look how little coverage the Occupy movement got in its first 2 weeks, then FOX made it sound like they are all sex freaks and heroin addicts. Hate to say it, but only when it turns violent does it get more than a nod from MSM.
People are waking up IN SPITE of our news media.
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Morning PoorDaddy!
Once again,…you ‘catch my drift’ friend! Thank you.
Will Glenn ever humble himself again? I pray he does. His very salvation DEPENDS upon it!
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,…where did all my Christianity go?
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Down the rabbit hole it went!
Lol
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You said it B&B,…that’s PRECISELY where IT went—down the rabbit hole!
Told my friend I’m gonna be Alice in Wonderland this Halloween.
I swear,…I have the perfect dress!
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i find that the officials and executives are very disrespectful when discussing issues to do with the japanese public…it seems that the public, is a beast to be controlled..an object…and the words and actions of these individuals/organisations, lead me to believe that the think they are superior… they can get away with anything… and they can.
.remember maher as an example!!
http://enenews.com/book-govt-considering-plan-evacuate-all-90000-citizens-living-tokyo-knew-fuel-melted-early-global-hawk-data/comment-page-1#comment-120221
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Arclight – You are so very right. My first thought after viewing these laughing execs was that these guys think they are better than, not only the Japanese public, but also, the same American public that they purportedly work for. It has also occurred to me that their desire to control the Japanese since the Fukushima accident has shown up in many of us in numerous ways. Let’s be respectful to these victims and understand the difference between being helpful and being controlling.
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“The Public Service Commission unanimously approved a request Monday to allow Florida Power & Light to charge customers a fee to pay for a proposed nuclear power plant.
The average Florida Power & Light customer will pay $2.20 per month per kilowatt hour in 2012..
However, a Progress Energy spokeswoman said the nuclear charge for that utility’s customers is going down from the current fee.
Suzanne Grant said Progress Energy’s current nuclear cost recovery clause charge will change from $5.53 to $2.93 per 1000 kwH residential, a difference of $2.60.
A 2006 law allows utilities to charge in advance for new nuclear plants, even if the prospect of those plants ever being completed are dubious.”
from your link!! like the last paragraph…looks like the nuclear lobbyists have been earning thier money!!
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