What if the Jap reactor Blows??? what will be the effect on the Western USA??? [Archive] - Page 13

Serpo

23rd March 2012, 02:08 PM

by Zen Gardner

The outrage against nuclear power is totally under reported. Naturally. Who in the corporate media would want to fight corporate interests in a corporately controlled world?

The amazing video below is the soul of conscious Japan revealed and well worth the full watch. It’s extremely powerful, lucid, comprehensive, consciously aware and emotionally moving.

All the right stuff.

This is activism at its most profound. Using your talent as a springboard for spreading social and conscious awareness and giving guerrilla type public awareness performances is absolutely brilliant. Just wonderful. We need more of this.

Where are the big names? Cowering for ratings and protection I’d imagine. Forget them. This is a consciousness issue and they’re apparently compromised. We don’t need them anyway. We need responsive souls, that’s all. Souls like you. Our preponderance wipes them out.

Join us.

The awakening continues. Do your part.

Love, Zen

The Rage Against Radiation

Frying Dutchman, a Kyoto-based band virtually unknown a year ago, is behind what has perhaps become the anthem of the post-Fukushima youth movement. The song “humanERROR,” a poetic rant which, if nothing else, clearly articulates the narrative embraced by many Japanese, has become an internet sensation over the past three months. Organizers, concerned that people might not know how to articulate their protest on the one year anniversary of 3.11, began a campaign to get 100,000 people to play “humanERROR” on sound systems across Japan — the louder and more public the better, they explained. Sixty-seven thousand registered. Source

Let it move you. It’s the heartcry of humanity. Respond to it. Please, don’t just watch. It’s time to act.
Long ago, human beings lost their true sense of time, and because of this, their senses grew dull and they lost other-dimensional creative powers that would be unimaginable today, like telepathy and advanced powers of thought.
Ever since then, evil people have created a false sense of time to keep those abilities smothered. Using the science of destruction,
they built civilizations dependent on material things and created religion to force their self-serving rules on a bewildered populace,
while behind the scenes, they monopolized energy and built money-based economies,snuffing out our powerful natural abilities.
Over thousands of years, genetic memory loss set in: after numerous reincarnations, here we are,having completely forgotten those abilities. We all have collective amnesia! Talking about four-dimensional science and philosophy may bore people who have no interest in fantasy, so let me put it simply: For a long time,
some people have made money by destroying nature and irresponsibly making dangerous products, all while using the media to deceive the masses and inflicting horrible pain and susffering on those in harmony with nature.
The electricity powering our lives is no exception — it’s built on the suffering of others.
But peer deep into Pandora’s box and you’ll see advanced technologies that harness natural energy without destroying nature.
With technologies like solar power and other renewables,we can get all the electricity we need without nuclear power, and cheaply, too.
We could shut down all the nuclear plants and easily make up the difference by operating our hydroelectric and thermal power plants at full capacity.
But powerful interests hide this fact from us.
Why? Because of money! Money! Those people are terminally insane!

Power companies get up to a trillion yen (about US$13 billion) in subsidies from the government to build a nuclear power plant. Once the location is chosen, the power company showers the locals with money.
They take the guys to hostess bars and the old people to hot springs.
Wine and dine, wine and dine! And they lie to them about the nuclear plant being good for the local economy.
They actually have a manual on how to use money to divide the community into supporters and opponents.
Fishermen even sell off their fishing rights for enormous sums.
Then there’s a PR barrage that’s nothing but propaganda, about safety measures and secret dangerous experiments.
Where does the money for all that come from? From your taxes!
This is how Japan has aggressively constructed 59 nuclear power plants, either operating, decommissioned, or planned.

That means we are now living with over 50 time bombs strapped to our bodies.
If even one blows up, the entire area around it becomes uninhabitable for all living things, and contamination slowly spreads all over. That’s not pleasant to imagine.
Japan built these reactors under the banner of peacefully using nuclear power,but the real reason is that the government wants nuclear weapons.

Right now, in Kaminoseki Town in Yamaguchi, Chugoku Electric Power wants to build what would be two of Japan’s largest nuclear reactors, filling in ocean along the beautiful Tanoura coast.
For 30 years, the people of nearby Iwai Island have fought these plans.
They devoted their lives to this cause, and they stopped the construction.
These people lived in harmony with their island’s verdant nature for generations.
It’s an amazing place, with history and wide-open nature.
But Chugoku Power wants to ignore all that and force their plans through.
“Fukushima?” they say. “We didn’t have anything to do with that.” Until only recently, they were working on that plant every day.
How stupid! And now other companies that shut down their nuclear plants after Fukushima want to restart them.
“They’re safe,” they say. What do you mean, safe?
Did a meltdown happen inside your heads? They are terminally insane.
With all that chanting of “It’s safe, it’s safe” they’ve brainwashed themselves, like people in a religious cult.
What idiots! But we’ve been deceived by those idiots, which makes us idiots, too.
We’re completely caught in their trap!

A lot of people on Twitter and the Internet nitpick what the anti-nuclear people say,but those shallow types don’t understand the situation at all.
It’s pathetic! Don’t say you support nuclear power until you know the real history — Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the radiation exposure from Fukuryumaru Reactor No. 5.; the United Nations “peaceful use” campaign starting in 1953, which was just a cover for the Cold War nuclear development race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.; the nuclear energy plans drafted by America and sold to the public by Matsutaro Shoriki’s Yomiuri newspaper and TV station.
That’s how uranium came to Japan.
Once you know that history, your views will change!
Once you see the negative chain reaction that nuclear energy has throughout our society, it’ll make you want to puke!
If you have a heart, that is.

Television and newspapers are tools for deceiving the public,
and it’s really bad in Japan. The TV news is absolutely horrible.
Only now have they even started mentioning plutonium — the most dangerous substance in the world! Fukushima Reactor No. 3 is a plutonium-thermal reactor,
the kind promoted in the Kansai Power commercials starring baseball coach Sen’ichi Hoshino.
A reactor that uses plutonium
– that’s the one that blew up!
But the newspaper headline the next day just said it was a “planned stoppage.”
That is pure propaganda! Just how many people’s lives will they sacrifice to cover up their crimes? Enough already, you bastards!

Plutonium is far deadlier than other radioactive materials.
If you breath in even just a tiny amount, it attacks your cells and destroys their DNA so they can’t reproduce.
That’s the stuff that leaked out, but for a long time, those bastards never even mentioned plutonium.
They just kept repeating “There is no immediate health risk. There is no immediate health risk.”
That phrase should win some kind of propaganda award. This is organized crime committed by a gang of murderers.
More lives could have been saved if they had disclosed more information, and not just about nuclear power.
You TV news people are nothing but mindless cheerleaders for the nuclear industry.
Do you have any respect for human life, you stupid morons! You scumbags!

Right now, those lying, deceiving bastards aren’t thinking about the Japanese people.
They’re desperately trying to think up excuses to avoid taking responsibility for what they’ve done.
That’s their job. “Human error”? What a joke! The whole world is watching.
The whole universe is watching!

Anyone can see right through that crap!
Now, the world is watching to see how the Japanese will overcome this horror
– what Japan’s young people will do, how artists and musicians will express this pain in their art.
Japan is in crisis, and the whole world is watching, so this is no time for hair-splitting arguments.
It’s time to wake up! Nuclear energy is outdated!

The Swedish government was honest with its people.
“Nuclear energy is headed for disaster,” they said.
“We can give it up, but it will be hard at first.”
But the people still said no to nuclear power, and now the country is working to get by without it!
Japan already has the technology to get by with just natural energy,
but that fact is covered up with lies and fearmongering.
Because of money!
So wake up! How can you be so apathetic?

At the Rokkasho nuclear reprocessing plant in Aomori, nuclear waste leaked from a 3,000-ton pool.
There was too much liquid waste to bury, so they dumped it into the ocean.
Can you believe that? And they’re hiding that from everyone.
There’s so much nuclear material there that if the plant ever exploded, forget about Japan — the whole world would be finished.
The government is hiding so much, and that’s just what they’re hiding about nuclear power.

Those recent planned power outages were outrageous.
They intentionally did that to fool people into believing they need nuclear power.
People died because of those outages, but what’s the point?
Japan has so much electrical power that more and more homes and buildings are switching to electricity-only power.

Think about it, everyone. Japan has hot springs almost everywhere, so there’s plenty of hot water underground for geothermal energy!
Japan is an island nation, and we’ve created the technology to generate unlimited energy from the tides.
Japan also has high-tech power-transmission lines that could almost eliminate electricity loss — the lines we use now to transmit electricity from power plants to your homes and office buildings lose a lot of power!

We Japanese have amazing technology!
If we had the money for all that stuff, then we absolutely can achieve the goal of getting by on natural energy alone.
So why don’t we? Because of nuclear weapons and money! Dirty damned money!
And the money has them in a feeding frenzy! Japan’s electric power companies are monopolies, so they themselves are illegal!
What are you all paying taxes for?
It’s all about money, money, money!
Sure, money is important, but there are more important things than money!

You can buy a house, but you can’t buy a home.
Money buys you a watch, but it can’t buy you time.
You can buy a book, but you can’t buy knowledge.
You can buy a bed, but you can’t buy sleep.
Money pays the doctor, but it can’t cure disease.
Buying electricity destroys nature.

A lot of people feel frustrated because they want to help, but all they can think of is sending in a donation. Donating money is a good thing, but how many people think about how that money is spent or who benefits from it?
Many people send in donations out of guilt, but they don’t really care.

One thing we can do is democratize electric power. In Kyoto, wherever you dig a hole you hit a hot spring, so the city could create a power grid where every community has its own hot spring to generate electricity.
Wouldn’t that be awesome? Geothermal has its downsides, but communities can decide what the right balance is.
Kyoto also has dams, so cloudy weather is no problem, and the dams can turn rain into more hydroelectric power.
With all that, Kyoto could generate the electric power it needs without harming nature.
That is electric democracy.

Of course a project like that will take capital, along with thorough discussions and transparency, so everyone can see how donations, subsidies, and taxes are used.
Working together, we can do it!
People would want to donate if it was for a good cause and if there was transparency.
Donation scams are out there.
You can’t trust a company just because it’s big. In fact, big companies are better at pulling off scams.
I hate to say it, but there is a dismal amount of dishonesty in Japan today.

Nuclear energy has powered our daily lives, and being ignorant of the situation, we let that happen.
While we played around, engineers designed nuclear power plants.
They knew the dangers better than anyone, and they got paid well, so maybe they did the best job they could.
Maybe I should feel grateful for nuclear power, but I just can’t — not with all the lies we’ve been told.
Irresponsible people have left us contaminated waste that will plague the nation for who knows how many generations.
The power companies, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, bureaucrats, politicians, bankers, corporate executives, the mass media, and government scientists are all chasing money around like characters in a comedy.
But it’s too painful to watch anymore!
If we pursue the truth and keep our eyes on those criminals, if we open our eyes to reality to see how things should change, we’ll be able to visualize creatively and come up with concrete ideas.
We’ll also figure out how everything we lost over thousands of years can be regained, even if it takes thousands of years.
But no matter what, we do not need nuclear energy anymore.

Staying apathetic and gullible will only lead us to destruction!
This isn’t about not having enough electrical power, because you can live without electricity, but you can’t live without nature.
Irreversible damage has already been done.
I’m not talking about feeling sorry for animals and plants harmed by our egotistical ways, because you know who we should really feel sorry for?
The children!
They’re our future!
If we don’t protect them, who the hell will?
Fifty, a hundred, or two hundred years from now, people might look back on our era and say, “They were a bunch of Hitlers! They were a bunch of genocidal maniacs!” If we see the truth behind the lies, we can change the world overnight without violence!

No matter how many detours we take, or how many times we are reborn, the goal remain the same: love! Love!
It’s not just some corny word, and don’t be embarrassed to say it: “Love!”
Love is what we need! Shout it out: “LOVE!”
Now let the bastards hear you!
“You bastards!”
Shout it: “YOU BASTARDS!”
All right, now stand up and make your voice heard!

NO MORE NUCLEAR POWER!
NO MORE NUCLEAR POWER!
NO MORE NUCLEAR POWER!
SHUT DOWN ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!

Eliminate nuclear power right now!

http://www.zengardner.com/the-rage-against-radiation/

lapis

23rd March 2012, 11:25 PM

by Zen Gardner

Power companies get up to a trillion yen (about US$13 billion) in subsidies from the government to build a nuclear power plant. Once the location is chosen, the power company showers the locals with money.

[snip]

They actually have a manual on how to use money to divide the community into supporters and opponents.

It looks like they got Delphi'd (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?58130-Fight-Back-at-Delphi-Meetings&highlight=delphi+technique)

That’s the stuff that leaked out, but for a long time, those bastards never even mentioned plutonium.
They just kept repeating “There is no immediate health risk. There is no immediate health risk.”
That phrase should win some kind of propaganda award. They get away with it because in narrow terms, that is correct; the bulk of the problems don't show up for years or decades. As with all great propaganda, it's what they leave out that's usually the most important information.

lapis

23rd March 2012, 11:47 PM

Here's the YouTube video of the Frying Dutchman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q5p283KZGa8

Serpo

25th March 2012, 02:41 AM

Japanese boat swept away a year ago by deadly tsunami spotted 4,703 miles away floating near Canada

By Daily Mail Reporter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter)
PUBLISHED: 14:30 GMT, 24 March 2012 | UPDATED: 14:59 GMT, 24 March 2012

A large fishing vessel swept away by the tsunami that devastated Japan last year has been spotted bobbing in the seas near British Columbia in western Canada.
The trawler is part of the 5 million tons of debris that were swept into the ocean in March 2011 when a magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck Japan.

The 23ft wall of water struck the east coast of the island nation following a 9.0 earthquake, sweeping everything from cars to houses into the ocean leaving a wake of devastation.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/24/article-2119702-124F2349000005DC-940_634x354.jpg Lost: A Japanese fishing boat swept away in the 2011 earthquake has been spotted a year later near British Colombia

More than a year later a Canadian military air patrol spotted the vessel - 4,703 miles away from where it was originally moored - floating towards the shore.
It has been determined that the boat has been adrift without anybody at the helm since March 11 last year.

More...

Close encounter: Space station astronauts forced to shelter in escape pods after near miss with debris from Russian rocket (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2119710/Close-encounter-Space-station-astronauts-forced-shelter-escape-pods-near-miss-chunk-Russian-rocket.html)
Hiker wrung out his clothes and drank sweat and rainwater to survive seven days lost in mountains (and his dog didn't leave his side) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119673/Honolulu-hiker-drank-sweat-rainwater-wrung-clothes-7-day-ordeal-mountains.html)

The 50-foot-long (15-meter-long) vessel was recently about 160 miles (260 kilometers) west of Haida Gwaii, islands off the north-coast of British Columbia, slowly drifting toward shore.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/24/article-2119702-12501B92000005DC-107_634x378.jpg 4,703 miles: In just over one year the fishing vessel has travelled over 4,000 miles across the Pacific ocean

A maritime warning has been issued because the vessel could pose a navigational hazard.
The Japan Coast Guard identified the owner of the fishing trawler after being contacted by Canadian officials, who were able to provide the identification number on the hull of the ship.
The vessel, which was used for squid fishing, was moored at Hachinohe in the Aomori prefecture when the tsunami hit, said Toshiro Yoshinaga, a Coast Guard official.
Canadian agencies are monitoring the ship for possible marine pollution, though there are no reports of leaks from the vessel, the defense department said.
The earthquake, which struck about 230 miles northeast of Tokyo, was the largest in the country’s history.
Thousands of people were killed when the earthquake triggered the tsunami and other giant waves that devastated cities and rural areas.

According to the official toll, the disasters left 15,839 dead, 5,950 injured, and 3,642 missing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2119702/Japanese-boat-swept-away-year-ago-deadly-tsunami-spotted-near-Canada.html#ixzz1q7UxmDDK

beefsteak

25th March 2012, 06:53 AM

solid

26th March 2012, 12:38 PM

Wonder if the current owner of the ship is going to adopt the same posture as TEPCO...no responsibility after "accidental release of radiation"....

And just who exactly is the USA or the state of Washington going to send the bill to for lassoing this trawler and bringing it safely to rest? The nation of Japan is just as broke as we are, if not more so and for longer.

Perhaps they'll settle up in tungsten riddled 1000g bars, yes?

beefsteak

According to maritime law, first one to take control of this vessel owns it. Salvage companies work this way, and have often been very corrupt about it. They will seek out boats not under command or under control, then take control and demand payment from the owner to release the vessel. Sometimes, up to 50% of the value of the boat. All legally, a form of extortion.

Sailor's know this, and protect ourselves by entering into a contract whenever seeking assistance. For example, if a sailor requiring a tow into port due to a bad engine, must state that this is not a salvage operation. Do not receive one line from the assisting ship, until a verbal contract is made, with a monetary sum. This is a tow into port, only, for x amount of money.

My guess, is that once the environmentalists check this ship out, empty any fuel tanks, then scuttle it.

It's really amazing it floated 4000 miles without sinking. Tough ship. As they say, ships outlast people at sea...

Serpo

26th March 2012, 02:56 PM

I dont mean to scare anyone .....but this is scary......

There is a vid which they say has english subtitles but there were not....

http://enenews.com/german-tv-armageddon-if-no-4-collapses-end-of-japan-as-we-know-it-could-change-the-world-interview-with-nuclear-engineer-video

Narrator: Yukitero Naka and his people know what is really happening in the nuclear ruins. [...] Even if they were able to create enough qualified engineers and staff for the next 40 years, one problem remains that could change Japan and the world.

Question: Is the nuclear power plant safe now?

Yukitero Naka, Nuclear Engineer: Well, that’s what TEPCO and the government says, but the people in there don’t believe it.

There is still a great danger.

My personal concern is the fourth reactor block.

The building has been strongly damaged by the earthquake.

There are approximately 1300 spent fuel rods in the cooling pond on level four. In the level above newer rods are stored as well as a lot of heavy machinery. This is all very, very heavy.

If another earthquake occurs then the building could collapse and another chain reaction could very likely occur.

Narrator: So, a meltdown under the free sky which would be the end of Japan as we know it today.

The radiation would be direct deadly.

The work on the ground would be totally impossible.

The most likely consequence is that reactors 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 get out of control.

Armageddon!

gunDriller

28th March 2012, 05:34 AM

man this situation is like a case of Terminal Herpes.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/fukushimas-no-2-reactor-has-fatally-high-radiation-hardly-any-water

"Very high radiation, little water in Fukushima No. 2 reactor

By Mari Yamaguchi

National Mar. 28, 2012 - 11:20AM JST ( 60 )

TOKYO —

One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination that renews doubts about the plant’s stability.

A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a thermometer, a dosimeter and a water gauge was used to assess damage inside the No. 2 reactor’s containment chamber for the second time since the tsunami swept into the Fukushima Daiichi plant a year ago.

The data collected Tuesday showed the damage from the disaster was so severe, the plant operator will have to develop special equipment and technology to tolerate the harsh environment and decommission the plant, a process expected to last decades.

The other two reactors that had meltdowns could be in even worse shape. The No. 2 reactor is the only one officials have been able to closely examine so far.

Tuesday’s examination with an industrial endoscope detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the chamber. Plant officials previously said more than half of the melted fuel has breached the core and dropped to the floor of the primary containment vessel, some of it splashing against the wall or the floor.

Particles from melted fuel have probably sent radiation levels up to a dangerously high 70 sieverts per hour inside the container, said Junichi Matsumoto, spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. The figure far exceeds the highest level previously detected, 10 sieverts per hour, which was detected around an exhaust duct shared by No. 1 and 2 units last year.

“It’s extremely high,” he said, adding that an endoscope would last only 14 hours in those conditions. “We have to develop equipment that can tolerate high radiation” when locating and removing melted fuel during the decommissioning.

The probe also found that the containment vessel - a beaker-shaped container enclosing the core - had cooling water up to only 60 centimeters from the bottom, far below the 10 meters estimated when the government declared the plant stable in December. The plant is continuing to pump water into the reactor."

DMac

28th March 2012, 09:35 AM

Tepco Fukushima is reporting today China Syndrome 3/27/11

Over one year after the quake and MThs after the I.A.E.I. confirmed that the core had 10 meters of water over it they now today say less than two meters do you know what that means I DO, China syndrome

NSFW warning - this guy drops a lot of F bombs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yedeYN5XTZo&feature=player_embedded

gunDriller

29th March 2012, 06:17 AM

WHOA F'ING WHOA !!! as in, WHOA !

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120328x1.html

"Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Reactor 2 radiation too high for access
73 sieverts laid to low water; dose too high even for robots

By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer

Radiation inside the reactor 2 containment vessel at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has reached a lethal 73 sieverts per hour and any attempt to send robots in will require them to have greater resistance than currently available, experts said Wednesday.

Exposure to 73 sieverts for a minute would cause nausea and seven minutes would cause death within a month , Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

The experts said the high radiation level is due to the shallow level of coolant water — 60 cm — in the containment vessel, which Tepco said in January was believed to be 4 meters deep. Tepco has only peeked inside the reactor 2 containment vessel. It has few clues as to the status of reactors 1 and 3, which also suffered meltdowns, because there is no access to their insides.

i didn't know robots could get nausea, but anyway, WHOA !

this is outside my 5 AM reality - need more coffee - too much radiation ?! i know sub-atomic particles can wreak havoc with electronics - why don't those fools use lead lined robots & radiation hardened IC's like Harris Semiconductor makes ?! they've been around for 30 years+.

Blink

30th March 2012, 04:35 PM

California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation

By George Washington
Created 03/30/2012 - 12:26
[1]
Submitted by George Washington [1] on 03/30/2012 12:26 -0400

The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study [5] that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California's seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada:

Projected paths of the radioactive atmospheric plume emanating from the Fukushima reactors, best described as airborne particles or aerosols for 131I, 137Cs, and 35S, and subsequent atmospheric monitoring showed it coming in contact with the North American continent at California, with greatest exposure in central and southern California. Government monitoring sites in Anaheim (southern California) recorded peak airborne concentrations of 131I at 1.9 pCi m−3

Anaheim is where Disneyland is located.

EneNews summarizes [6] the data:

Corona Del Mar (Highest in Southern California)

2.5 Bq/gdwt (gram dry weight)= 2,500 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
Santa Cruz (Highest in Central California)

2.0 Bq/gdwt = 2,000 Bq/kg of dry seaweed
Simon Fraser University in Canada also tested North American seaweed after Fukushima:

“In samples of dehydrated seaweed taken on March 15 near the North Vancouver SeaBus terminal, the count was zero; on March 22 it was 310 Bq per kilogram; and by March 28 it was 380 Bq/kg.” -Vancouver Sun [7]
Seaweed in Seattle also tested positive for iodine-131; levels were not reported -KIRO [8]
No results after March 28 were reported
In addition, radioactive debris is starting to wash up on the Pacific Coast [9]. And because the Japanese are burning radioactive materials instead of disposing of them, radioactive rain-outs will continue for some time … even on the Pacific Coast [10].

Of course, the government is doing everything it can to help citizens cover up what’s occurring. We pointed out [11] in January:

Instead of doing much to try to protect their citizens from Fukushima, Japan [12], the U.S. [13] and the EU [14] all just raised the radiation levels they deem “safe”.

Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says [15] that high-level friends in the State Department told him that Hillary Clinton signed a pact with her counterpart in Japan agreeing that the U.S. will continue buying seafood from Japan, despite that food not being tested for radioactive materials [see this [16]].

And the Department of Energy is trying to replace the scientifically accepted model of the dangers of low dose radiation based on voodoo science. Specifically, DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley Labs used a mutant line of human cells in a petri dish which was able to repair damage from low doses of radiation, and extrapolated to the unsupported conclusion that everyone [17] is immune to low doses of radiation….

Indeed [18]:

American [19] and Canadian [20] authorities have virtually stopped monitoring airborne radiation, and are not testing fish for radiation. (Indeed, the EPA reacted to Fukushima by raising “acceptable” radiation levels [13].)

So – as in Japan – radiation is usually discovered by citizens and the handful of research scientists with funding to check, and not the government. See this [21], this [22], this [23], this [24], this [25] and this [26].

The Japanese government’s entire strategy from day one has been to cover up the severity of the Fukushima accident [27]. This has likely led to unnecessary, additional deaths [28].

Indeed, the core problem is that all of the world’s nuclear agencies are wholly captured by the nuclear industry [29]… as are virtually all of the supposedly independent health agencies [29].

So the failure of the American, Canadian and other governments to test for and share results is making it difficult to hold an open scientific debate about what is happening.

And it’s not just radiation from Japan. An effort by the Southern California Edison power company to secretly ramp up production to avoid public disclosure may have led to a leak at the San Onofre nuclear power plant [30].

And see these articles on California radiation exposure courtesy of EneNews:

Anaheim, CA has highest amount of radioactive fallout of any EPA air monitoring station in Continental U.S. for iodine-131 [31]
Over EPA limit: Cesium levels in San Francisco area milk now higher than 6 months ago [32]
USGS: Los Angeles area had highest cesium deposition in US after Fukushima [33]
“Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima [34]
Unprecedented Spike: 1501 atoms of radioactive sulfur per meter³ was detected in California air [35]
Radioactive sulfur in California spiked to highest levels ever detected: University researchers [36]
Controversy after US gov’t estimate showed 40,000 microsievert thyroid dose for California infants from Fukushima — Data not released to public — “Very high doses to children” [37]
Spike in radiation levels for West Coast? “Abnormal” readings on 8 of 18 EPA monitors for California, Oregon, Washington — Devices now “undergoing quality review” [38]
Nuclear policy expert: “Striking” that radioactive iodine-131 in California rainwater is so far above level permitted in drinking water [25]
Uranium-234 detected in Hawaii, Southern California, and Seattle [39]

Source URL: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-13-30/california-slammed-fukushima-radiation
Links:
[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington
[2] http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/10432
[3] http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/8436
[4] http://www.zerohedge.com/taxonomy_vtn/term/11901
[5] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203598r?journalCode=esthag
[6] http://enenews.com/california-2500-bqkg-iodine-131-seaweed-500-higher-other-tests-canada
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gunDriller

31st March 2012, 06:14 AM

California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation

you beat me to it.

dang. if you skin-dive in this soup of low-level radiation, and then shower afterwards, and don't swallow any sea-water - how exposed to radiation do you get ?

the government will protect us, RIGHT ?

Blink

31st March 2012, 08:38 AM

you beat me to it.

dang. if you skin-dive in this soup of low-level radiation, and then shower afterwards, and don't swallow any sea-water - how exposed to radiation do you get ?

the government will protect us, RIGHT ?

They'll have some sort of vaccine for it..........

Serpo

3rd April 2012, 03:55 AM

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/godzilla_dees.jpg

Serpo

3rd April 2012, 04:03 AM

links at rense ....

Typhoon Class Storm Heading To Fukushima Area Tuesday
http://yokosonews.com/news/20120403-spring-storm/

Fukushima Radioactive Seawater To Hit Hawaii In 2 Yrs
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204030004

http://www.rense.com/

Serpo

4th April 2012, 03:36 PM

http://archive.org/details/scm-30754-drhelencaldicottwhatwelearnedf

(http://enenews.com/tokyo-radiation-monitor-spikes-to-400-average-as-storm-passes-fukushima-japan-video)Caldicott Is Evacuating Boston If Reactor 4 SFP Collapses (http://archive.org/details/scm-30754-drhelencaldicottwhatwelearnedf)

beefsteak

4th April 2012, 04:43 PM

Dr. Caldicott = Courageous Woman, Physician, and "Neighbor," Serpo Thank you. I look forward to her straightforward style of delivery.

Thanks so much for posting this.

beefsteak

Book

4th April 2012, 06:29 PM

http://www.whyyoushouldworry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Japan-Tsunami-Radiation-Check.jpg

Why aren't we seeing more death and sickness in Japan if the radiation is so widespread?

http://forums.aria.co.uk/images/smilies/ScratchHead.gif

lapis

4th April 2012, 07:53 PM

Why aren't we seeing more death and sickness in Japan if the radiation is so widespread?

There's more reports from this in Japan, and here in the States from alternative news sites (like Enenews.com) that translate the Japanese news. Of course you're not going to hear about it on the MSM.

Book

4th April 2012, 08:08 PM

Of course you're not going to hear about it on the MSM.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Medical_aspect,_Hiroshima,_Japan,_1946-03-23,_342-USAF-11034.ogv/seek%3D152-Medical_aspect,_Hiroshima,_Japan,_1946-03-23,_342-USAF-11034.ogv.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/radiation-sickness/DS00432/DSECTION=symptoms

Wouldn't widespread radiation sickness be obvious in Japan by now?

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solid

5th April 2012, 12:27 PM

Wouldn't widespread radiation sickness be obvious in Japan by now?

http://www.palyne.com/talk/Smileys/palyne/scratchhead.gif

That's a real good point, Book. My apologies for calling you a hammerhead.

There's no way the media could hide it, if it was that widespread. Sometimes I think these disasters play on people's fear, and make them seem worse than they actually are.

gunDriller

5th April 2012, 12:58 PM

There's more reports from this in Japan, and here in the States from alternative news sites (like Enenews.com) that translate the Japanese news. Of course you're not going to hear about it on the MSM.

that can result in some strange conversations with friends & family members who rely mainly on US MSM.

you're preparing for a disaster - or basically altering your food intake to avoid radiation foods.

then, in my case, e.g. i talk to my mother or one of my brothers (both of whom i warned 11 months ago) - they're like, "what are you talking about ?! oh, yeah, that thing again".

i must say, on the occasion when i drink cafe coffee with half-and-half, it really does taste good. better than the canned milk i've been drinking since Fukushima, in coffee at least.

do any of you take radiation detectors to the food store ? or is it mostly something that has to be used by taking a sample of the food & putting it into the rad. detector - a practice which many stores frown upon - if you haven't paid for the food yet. ;)

lapis

5th April 2012, 10:46 PM

There's no way the media could hide it, if it was that widespread. Sometimes I think these disasters play on people's fear, and make them seem worse than they actually are.

Some of this stuff takes years or even decades to become a problem like cancer.

But my main issue is that I am being exposed to radioactive particles whether or not I want to be, through no fault of my own. I don't care if the particles are small or not causing any health issues right this hot minute; but I'm extremely pissed that this has to even be on my radar along with everything else.

lapis

5th April 2012, 10:51 PM

do any of you take radiation detectors to the food store ? or is it mostly something that has to be used by taking a sample of the food & putting it into the rad. detector - a practice which many stores frown upon - if you haven't paid for the food yet. ;)

I don't, but am eating a lot of cilantro and taking a lot of magnesium and other supplements. I guess it's something I'll be doing for the rest of my life barring a miracle.

I'm almost out of my huge bag of pre-Fukushima green tea from Japan...so when it's gone, I won't be buying any more. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad010.gif

gunDriller

6th April 2012, 06:49 AM

I don't, but am eating a lot of cilantro and taking a lot of magnesium and other supplements. I guess it's something I'll be doing for the rest of my life barring a miracle.

I'm almost out of my huge bag of pre-Fukushima green tea from Japan...so when it's gone, I won't be buying any more. http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sad010.gif

just bought some cilantro yesterday - but just because i like it - especially with radishes & sweet pickles.

seems like a roll of the dice though - unless you know that the cilantro was grown in soil, and using water, both protected from Fukushima radiation - how do you know the Cilantro is 'healthy' cilantro ?

sorry to hear about the tea - i know the feeling.

Book

6th April 2012, 09:15 AM

Some of this stuff takes years or even decades to become a problem like cancer.

But my main issue is that I am being exposed to radioactive particles whether or not I want to be, through no fault of my own. I don't care if the particles are small or not causing any health issues right this hot minute; but I'm extremely pissed that this has to even be on my radar along with everything else.

http://www.nationsonline.org/gallery/Earth/earth-map.jpg

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg

That's my whole point. We are no where near Japan. We can "worry" about all kinds of stuff we can't change but that "worry" is actually unhealthy and counter-productive. THESE PEOPLE (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=564&q=earth&gbv=2&oq=earth&aq=f&aqi=g6g-z1g3&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0l6j0i3j0l3.2033l3280l0l3712l5l5l0l1l1 l0l80l282l4l4l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=family+hiking&oq=family+hiking&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.12...0l0l2l10699l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.frg bld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e15d43dcebc660f1&biw=1280&bih=564) face the same condition as us but cope differently with what is happening in far-away Japan.

http://www.boardoo.com/free-smilies/smilies/boardoo-bouncy-smiley-1846.gif

lapis

6th April 2012, 02:06 PM

seems like a roll of the dice though - unless you know that the cilantro was grown in soil, and using water, both protected from Fukushima radiation - how do you know the Cilantro is 'healthy' cilantro ?

I'm going on the assumption that nothing is "healthy" anymore, but am relying on the minerals, enzymes and other beneficial things things that are in whole foods to help protect me from radiation.

Remember, there were survivors of the Nagasaki bombing like Dr. Akizuki, director of the St. Francis Hospital who served his staff and patients a traditional Japanese diet which included miso, while also restricting sugar and wheat (he really made a big deal about the sugar, which is a good thing). The hospital was a mere 1.4 kilometers away from the epicenter of the explosion.

At the time the Japanese were warned that the area would be uninhabitable for 70 years, and that everyone should stay inside as much as possible to protect themselves from the fallout. But Dr. Akizuki and some of his co-workers ignored the warnings and continued to visit patients in the city, walking around outside in simple straw sandals.

He lived to be almost 90 years old. Out of 31 people who were his staff and his patients that followed the diet, 9 were still alive in 2006. I'm sure they were eating food that was heavily contaminated with radiation for the rest of their lives.

I don't know if this has been posted on this thread before, but here it is in case it hasn't:

Dietary Practice of Hiroshima/Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors (http://yufoundation.org/furo.pdf)
This is a short PDF that explains the diet and also has excerpts of interviews with some of the survivors.

lapis

6th April 2012, 02:21 PM

That's my whole point. We are no where near Japan. We can "worry" about all kinds of stuff we can't change but that "worry" is actually unhealthy and counter-productive. THESE PEOPLE (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=564&q=earth&gbv=2&oq=earth&aq=f&aqi=g6g-z1g3&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0l6j0i3j0l3.2033l3280l0l3712l5l5l0l1l1 l0l80l282l4l4l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=family+hiking&oq=family+hiking&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.12...0l0l2l10699l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.frg bld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e15d43dcebc660f1&biw=1280&bih=564) face the same condition as us but cope differently with what is happening in far-away Japan.

http://www.boardoo.com/free-smilies/smilies/boardoo-bouncy-smiley-1846.gif

*Chuckle* I love those pictures, but to be fair some of the people may have cancers we can't see, and off-camera some of the kids may be be the arm-flapping diaper-shitting autistic we've been hearing so much about that are supposedly the result of higher rates of diagnosis (::)), or just "regular" kids with asthma, eczema and life-threatening allergies, their backpacks full of Big Pharma meds and inhalers.

I'm not really worried and I think with the right tools, we can stay healthy in spite of all the crap being spewed from Fukushima and elsewhere.

And I'm pretty sure karma will catch up with all the evil-doers who are responsible. After all no one gets out of here alive, even them. ;-)

osoab

6th April 2012, 06:38 PM

http://www.nationsonline.org/gallery/Earth/earth-map.jpg

http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/asteroid-hits-earth-2.jpg

That's my whole point. We are no where near Japan. We can "worry" about all kinds of stuff we can't change but that "worry" is actually unhealthy and counter-productive. THESE PEOPLE (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=564&q=earth&gbv=2&oq=earth&aq=f&aqi=g6g-z1g3&aql=&gs_l=img.3..0l6j0i3j0l3.2033l3280l0l3712l5l5l0l1l1 l0l80l282l4l4l0.frgbld.#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=family+hiking&oq=family+hiking&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=img.12...0l0l2l10699l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.frg bld.&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=e15d43dcebc660f1&biw=1280&bih=564) face the same condition as us but cope differently with what is happening in far-away Japan.

http://www.boardoo.com/free-smilies/smilies/boardoo-bouncy-smiley-1846.gif

It's the large scale fraud that has been cast upon all of Japan and everything East. They never had anything under control and still don't. Everything that has to do with "decontamination" is all about kick backs.

The threat of long term cumulative effects is serious. If not us currently, what about your grand kids?

Going with your second pic, I would say that the rock has already crashed. We are still waiting for the final "fire ring" to hit us.

gunDriller

8th April 2012, 05:09 AM

"Japan’s former Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Mitsuhei Murata, was invited to speak at the Public Hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on March 22, 2012, on the Fukushima nuclear power plants accident. Before the Committee, Ambassador Murata strongly stated that if the crippled building of reactor unit 4—with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground—collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4. In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421 (396+615+566+1,535+994+940+6375).

I asked top spent-fuel pools expert Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy, for an explanation of the potential impact of the 11,421 rods.

I received an astounding response from Mr. Alvarez [updated 4/5/12]:

In recent times, more information about the spent fuel situation at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site has become known. It is my understanding that of the 1,532 spent fuel assemblies in reactor No. 304 assemblies are fresh and unirradiated. This then leaves 1,231 irradiated spent fuel rods in pool No. 4, which contain roughly 37 million curies (~1.4E+18 Becquerel) of long-lived radioactivity. The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident.

The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks.. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters. Despite the enormous destruction cased at the Da–Ichi site, dry casks holding a smaller amount of spent fuel appear to be unscathed.

Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19 Bq) of long-lived radioactivity. About 134 million curies is Cesium-137 — roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident as estimated by the U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP). The total spent reactor fuel inventory at the Fukushima-Daichi site contains nearly half of the total amount of Cs-137 estimated by the NCRP to have been released by all atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and world-wide reprocessing plants (~270 million curies or ~9.9 E+18 Becquerel).

It is important for the public to understand that reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet.

Many of our readers might find it difficult to appreciate the actual meaning of the figure, yet we can grasp what 85 times more Cesium-137 than the Chernobyl would mean. It would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival."

http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html

Happy Easter ?! :(

beefsteak

8th April 2012, 06:08 AM

On this, our second Easter celebration of the Risen Christ since 3.11.11, let us lift up our eyes unto the everlasting hills. For our strength comes from a certain knowledge from which springs our eternal hope, a hope and knowledge that radiation and death cannot touch, tarnish nor harm in any way.

The wages of our sin and shortcomings and error ways even in receiving electrical power from those who have planned death for us flowing from their ill-will, those ways always result in death. In myriad forms.

But as we celebrate the REALITY of our Risen, Elder Brother from the Grave which could NOT hold Him, may we focus on not just earth school events of horrors too overwhelming to grasp, but instead recall and regroup based upon our everlasting birthright as joint heirs with the Living Son of God, regardless of what name we use when referring to the Eternal Jaweh.

Today I give thanks for those with courage, both "there" and "here" for getting up, and moving through our day, radiation and all. This earth school is NOT "all there is." TEPCO does NOT get the last word in this earth plane.

THANKS BE TO Jehovah God. Today, for me an my household, we will lift up our eyes unto the everlasting hills, from which cometh our Strength and our Redeemer.

beefsteak and family

Serpo

9th April 2012, 03:27 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJISxqqE-oA#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nJISxqqE-oA#!

Serpo

9th April 2012, 03:45 AM

http://www.zeolite.com/

I have no idea about this company but zeolite is going to be necessary for people to take everyday in this environment.

There looks to be a real danger of this stuff coming over to the US mainland plus Canada.

My very good suggestion is to leave and see what happens from the Southern hemisphere for the next few years .

It may take longer to get to the southern hemisphere but the potential is there for total doom.

As it is now its not good and then there are other factors like no 4 and then not far away a massive amount stored as well ,its an incredibly dangerous situation .

At least by taking micronised zeolite radiation can be combated to a large degree as it takes out of the body,if it gets to the point of constantly coming in then take it every day.

Other things as well are good to take which may need some people refreshing those ideas of the ways to combat RADIATION.Starting a thread on it would be good as all the radiation nutrition could be condensed into one area more so answers are easier to find.

lapis

9th April 2012, 02:46 PM

Other things as well are good to take which may need some people refreshing those ideas of the ways to combat RADIATION.Starting a thread on it would be good as all the radiation nutrition could be condensed into one area more so answers are easier to find.

That's a good idea. There's actually a lot we can do to combat this stuff. It's not hopeless....yet.

Serpo

9th April 2012, 03:30 PM

lapis

9th April 2012, 05:22 PM

Report: Secret Japan nuclear bomb program covered up by nuclear power industry — Enough to build arsenal larger than China, India and Pakistan combined

What the frak?! I normally have low blood pressure, but it must be through the roof after reading that.

Serpo

9th April 2012, 11:49 PM

And if thats not enough........

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-15-09/japan-poisoning-other-countries-burning-highly-radioactive-debris

Fukushima to Burn Highly-Radioactive Debris

Fukushima will start burning radioactive debris containing up to 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. As Mainchi notes (http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120408p2g00m0dm055000c.html):

The state will start building storage facilities for debris generated by the March 2011 tsunami as early as May at two locations in a coastal area of Naraha town, Fukushima Prefecture, Environment Ministry and town officials said Saturday.

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About 25,000 tons of debris are expected to be brought into the facilities beginning in the summer, according to the officials.

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If more than 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium are found per kilogram of debris, the debris will be transferred to a medium-term storage facility to be built by the state. But if burnable debris contains 100,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium or less, it may be disposed of at a temporary incinerator to be built within the prefecture, according to the officials.

Within the 20-km-radius no-go zone spanning across Naraha and five other municipalities along the coast, debris caused by the magnitude 9.0 quake and the subsequent tsunami has amounted to an estimated 474,000 tons, much of remaining where it is.
How much radiation is that? It is a lot. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen has said that much lower levels of cesium - 5,000-8,000 bq/kg (20 times lower than what will be allowed to be burned at Fukushima) - would be sent to a special facility in the United States and buried underground for thousands of year. See this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoUIYAd1Vog) and this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/tokyo-soil-hit-with-fukushima-radiation-would-be-considered-radioactive-waste-in-the-united-states.html). It is comparable to the levels of radioactivity found within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. See this (http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/japan-soil-measurements-surprisingly.html?rss=1&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter) and this (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904332804576540131142824362.html). And even the Japanese - who have raised acceptable levels of radiation to absurd levels - would normally demand that material with this radioactivity be encased in cement (http://japanpropertycentral.com/2011/09/tokyo-real-estate-company-buys-nuclear-waste-dumping-ground-in-fukushima-prefecture/) and buried:

According to plans by the Ministry of Environment, if the radioactive cesium concentration is less than 8,000 Bq/kg, then it is possible to dispose of it by burying it. Rubble that has 8,000 ~ 100,000 Bq must be encased in cement in order to prevent contact with water before being dumped. For rubble that exceeds 100,000 Bq, it must be encased in concrete walls and stored temporarily. The disposal place must be approved of by the Prefectural Governor.
In addition, some allege that debris surpassing 100,000 bq/kg of cesium will be burned, after being mixed with less-radioactive materials (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-mix-and-match-and.html?m=1). And many of the incinerators are located smack dab in the middle of crowded cities, and are not equipped to contain radiation (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/tokyo-starts-to-burn-onagawa-debris-in.html).
Other Parts of Japan Are Also Burning Radioactive Debris

And it's not just Fukushima. Tokyo (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/tokyo-starts-burning-radioactive-waste-from-other-areas-tokyo-governor-tells-residents-to-shut-up-and-stop-complaining-about-it.html) and many other areas (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/nuclear-expert-because-japanese-are.html) in Japan are burning radioactive debris as well. And see this (http://www.stripes.com/mobile/news/pacific/japan/opposition-grows-on-okinawa-to-burning-debris-from-quake-1.172759).
Burning to Continue for for Years

Mainichi reports that the radioactive debris will be burned for years ... through at least March 2014 (http://enenews.com/tokyo-begin-burning-radioactive-waste-disaster-area-will-continue-march-2014-city-process-1-billion-pounds).
Poisoning Other Countries

Burning radioactive debris does not destroy the radioactivity. It merely spreads it. Gundersen says that radioactivity from the burnt debris will end up not only in neighboring prefectures, but in Hawaii, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and California (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/nuclear-expert-because-japanese-are.html). Gundersen said that burning radioactive debris is basically re-creating the Fukushima disaster all over again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoUIYAd1Vog&feature=player_embedded), as it is releasing a huge amount of radioactivity which had settled on the ground back into the air. Steven Starr – Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri-Columbia (http://www.psr.org/about/experts-speakers/steven-starr.html), who has advised numerous countries on issues of nuclear non-proliferation – writes (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/burning-radioactive-debris-will-only-serve-to-further-randomly-spread-radiation-across-japan-as-well-as-the-rest-of-the-world.html):

Burning radioactive debris will only serve to further randomly spread radiation across Japan, as well as the rest of the world. Not only will this lead to more morbidity and mortality within Japan, but it will further complicate epidemiological studies of the Fukushima disaster. Raising “acceptable” levels of radioactive fallout is a false solution to a serious problem. It is possible for the government authorities to do this because radiation is invisible to us, and at lower doses, the consequences of exposure do not manifest themselves for some time . . . thus it is a poison that is easy to hide and ignore. Sadly, the children of Japan will be those most seriously affected by this man-made environmental catastrophe.
It is bad enough that radiation from Fukushima is spreading across the Pacific to the United States through air (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/california-slammed-with-fukushima-radiation.html) and water (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJISxqqE-oA&feature=player_embedded), that the Japanese are underplaying the enormous threat posed by the spent fuel pools (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/the-largest-short-term-threat-to-humanity-the-fuel-pools-of-fukushima.html), and that the Japanese have engaged in a massive cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima crisis (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/fukushima-cover-up-unravels-the-government-can-no-longer-pull-the-wool-over-the-publics-eyes.html). But intentionally burning radioactive debris to try to cover up the problem - and spreading radiation worldwide in the process - is an entirely separate affront. Postscript: In addition to burning radioactive debris, Japan intends to build tents over the leaking Fukushima reactors. While this sounds like a way to contain the radiation, it would actually funnel it straight up and spread it globally (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/09/tents-fukushima-increase-airborn.html):

My reaction [to the announcement that the Fukushima nuclear operator would build giant tents over the reactors] was hope that the tents would at least keep radiation from spreading worldwide through the air, even if they didn’t do anything to prevent contamination of Japan’s groundwater or the Pacific Ocean.

But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says (http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/audio/IYLTP%20-%20Ep%20147.mp3) that the tents – while helping to protect workers at Fukushima – will actually increase the dispersion of radioactive gases. Specifically, Tepco will pump radiation out through stacks, which will push radiation up to a higher elevation, dispersing it even further around the world.

Serpo

9th April 2012, 11:53 PM

What the frak?! I normally have low blood pressure, but it must be through the roof after reading that.

If true then its extraordinary to say the least and scary.

Serpo

10th April 2012, 02:56 AM

Scientists baffled after finding polar bears in Arctic with sores and patchy fur

By Daily Mail Reporter (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter)
PUBLISHED: 19:21 GMT, 8 April 2012 | UPDATED: 20:53 GMT, 8 April 2012

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Polar bears have been spotted with sores and missing patches of fur, causing concern among wildlife experts that a mystery disease had become widespread in the species.

Nine bears were being studied by biologists carrying out work along the Arctic coast to see if the condition was related to similar symptoms in seals and walruses.

The bears were among 33 seen near Barrow, Alaska and according to the U.S. Geological Survey, the polar bears had 'alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions'.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/08/article-2126955-1284C4ED000005DC-762_634x429.jpg Mystery illness: Nine polar bears have been discovered with evidence of alopecia and skin lesions near Barrow, Alaska

Tony DeGange, the chief biologist for the USGS in Alaska, told Reuters: 'There's a lot we don't know yet whether we're dealing with something that's different or something that's the same.'
Last summer, an unusually high number of 60 ring seals and several walruses were found dead in the same area with hair loss and sores.

More...

Are you watching this, pandas? World's rarest duck breeds successfully in captivity, giving birth to 18 adorable fuzzy chicks (taking the total population to 40) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2126083/Are-watching-pandas-Worlds-rarest-duck-breeds-successfully-captivity-giving-birth-18-adorable-fuzzy-chicks.html)
Mystery of why Ethiopian hyenas give up eating rubbish for Lent (but would the Church approve that they eat DONKEYS instead?) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2125474/Mystery-hyenas-eating-rubbish-Lent-Church-approve-eat-DONKEYS-instead.html)

No dead polar bears have yet been found by scientists.

USGS stated: 'Despite extensive testing for a wide variety of well known infectious agents, the cause(s) of the observed condition in walruses and ice seals remains unknown.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/08/article-2126955-1284A77B000005DC-290_634x334.jpg Into the wild: A polar bear and cub walking along the edge of the pack ice, at the eastern Chukchi Sea, Alaska

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/08/article-2126955-1284AABA000005DC-242_634x313.jpg Studies: Biologists were studying the bears after they were observed with alopecia, loss of fur and other skin lesions

'Advanced testing techniques for unidentified infectious agents is continuing as well as further testing for potential causes including man-made and natural biotoxins, radiation, contaminants, auto-immune diseases, nutritional, hormonal and environmental factors.'

There had been suggestions that the mystery condition in the polar bears may be related to the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan which was badly damaged by last year's tsunami - however early tests do not support that theory.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126955/Polar-bears-alopecia-Arctic.html#ixzz1rd7UgSsv

Serpo

10th April 2012, 03:03 AM

http://www.dcbureau.org/201204097128/national-security-news-service/united-states-circumvented-laws-to-help-japan-accumulate-tons-of-plutonium.html

United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

gunDriller

10th April 2012, 06:59 AM

Report: Secret Japan nuclear bomb program covered up by nuclear power industry — Enough to build arsenal larger than China, India and Pakistan combined

: United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium
Source: National Security News Service
Author: Joseph Trento
Date: April 9th, 2012

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals. [...] the United States has known about a secret nuclear weapons program in Japan since the 1960s, according to CIA reports.

it's logical for the US to have a "forward base" (Japan) with nuclear weapons near its long time rivals as superpower, aka Russia & China.

not unlike the Russian plan to station nuclear weapons in Cuba, 50 years ago.

there was also another article about radiation measured in kelp off the California coast. the article is recent, the measurement was made in April 2011.

i was at the beach in Northern California in late March 2011. i actually went there to grab some seaweed & got about 50 pounds, 1 or 2 construction bags full.

haven't done anything with it yet but it feels oddly good to have it.

the article about radiation-kelp ~
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/calif-kelp-radioactivity-study.html

"Radioactive particles from Japan detected in California kelp
April 9, 2012 | 1:04 pm

Radioactive particles released in the nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami were detected in giant kelp along the California coast, according to a recently published study.

Radioactive iodine was found in samples collected from beds of kelp in locations along the coast from Laguna Beach to as far north as Santa Cruz about a month after the explosion, according to the study by two marine biologists at Cal State Long Beach.

The levels, while most likely not harmful to humans, were significantly higher than measurements prior to the explosion and comparable to those found in British Columbia, Canada, and northern Washington state following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, according to the study published in March in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Giant kelp, or Macrocystis pyrifera, is a particularly good measure of radioactive material in the environment because it accumulates iodine, researchers said. They wrote that radioactive particles released into the atmosphere, in particular radioactive isotope iodine 131, made its way across the Pacific, then was likely deposited into the ocean during a period of significant rain shortly after the meltdown in Japan.

The highest levels were found in Corona del Mar. Researchers wrote that the levels were probably highest there because the kelp is also exposed to urban runoff, which may have increased the amount of rainfall it received.

The study’s authors said that while the effect of radioactive material in kelp is not well known, it would have been consumed by organisms that feed on the kelp such as sea urchins or crustaceans. Certain species of fish, including opaleye, halfmoon or senorita may be particularly affected because their endocrine systems contain iodine, according to researchers."

Corona del Mar is in SoCal.

lapis

14th April 2012, 03:40 PM

I've been listening to a lot of Clif High's podcasts lately. Here's one on radiation he did last month:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBrInnF7d4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBrInnF7d4

lapis

15th April 2012, 09:21 PM

Someone I met on Enenews.com has a forum where he posts a lot of the same information we do here. He claims that he got a lot of health problems from working at San Onofre for years.

http://radiationandcancer.proboards.com/

Book

15th April 2012, 10:04 PM

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I asked Mimi to turn off the lights and be sure to start feather-dusting anything that glows.

::)

keehah

16th April 2012, 04:30 PM

Fukushima damage leaves spent fuel at risk-U.S. lawmaker (http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/fukushima-damage-leaves-spent-fuel-at-risk-us-lawmaker)
Reuters

* Spent fuel rods need to be moved to safety-Wyden

* Urges Japan to accept help, asks US officials to do more

WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - Japan, with assistance from the U.S. government, needs to do more to move spent fuel rods out of harm's way at the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said U.S. Senator Ron Wyden on Monday.

Wyden, a senior Democratic senator on the Senate Energy committee, toured the ruined Fukushima plant on April 6, and said the damage was far worse than he expected.

"Seeing the extent of the disaster first-hand during my visit conveyed the magnitude of this tragedy and the continuing risks and challenges in a way that news accounts cannot," said Wyden in a letter to Ichiro Fujisaki, Japan's ambassador to the United States...

osoab

17th April 2012, 09:55 AM

http://wyden.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=2f18cd7b-8207-4315-8c02-0feb64f51549

Press Release of Senator Wyden After Tour of Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, Wyden Says Situation Worse than Reported
Urges Japanese Ambassador to Accept International Help to Mitigate Continued Nuclear Risks

Monday, April 16, 2012

Washington, D.C. – After an onsite tour of what remains of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facilities decimated by last year’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki looking for ways to advance and support clean-up and recovery efforts. Wyden’s principal concern is the relocation of spent fuel rods currently being stored in unsound structures immediately adjacent to the ocean. He strongly urged the Ambassador to accept international help to prevent dangerous nuclear material from being released into the environment.

“The scope of damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected and the scope of the challenges to the utility owner, the government of Japan, and to the people of the region are daunting,” Wyden wrote in the letter. “The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance.”

Wyden visited Fukushima on April 6, 2012 while on a Congressional delegation trip to the region. He and a staff member wore radiation suits as they toured the facility and met with workers and managers from the Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, which is responsible for the clean-up. Wyden found that the facilities designed to house spent nuclear fuel and the reactors themselves were still in a state of disrepair and located in areas that would make them susceptible to further damage from future seismic events. The reactor buildings still contain large amounts of spent fuel – making them a huge safety risk and the only protection from a future tsunami, Wyden observed, is a small, makeshift sea wall erected out of bags of rock.

Wyden is also sending letters today to U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Greg Jaczko asking them to identify additional resources and assistance that their agencies could provide to Japan to address these risks.

Click here to read Wyden’s letters to Ambassador Fujisaki (http://wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ambassador-Fujisaki.pdf), Secretary Chu (http://wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Secretary-Chu.pdf), Secretary Clinton (http://wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Secretary-Clinton.pdf) and Chairman Jaczko (http://wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Chairman-Jaczko.pdf).

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osoab

17th April 2012, 10:02 AM

I didn't see these posted.

NEW
Yoichi Shimatsu
Japan Update
4.9.12
Free MP3 - Listen
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Radiation Update
4.16.12
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beefsteak

17th April 2012, 04:21 PM

Lapis,
Helen and I got to listen to Michael Collins last night. He talked about the Japanese Tea grown way down south on the end of the Isle of Japan which he just purchased for the purpose of testing it for the radiation CPMs.

He talked testing the newly purchased package before he opened it.

He talked about the higher readings after he opened the newly purchased tea package.

He talked about comparing it to the same branded specimen he had left over from his pre-Fukushima stash.

Very enlightening stuff.

Helen wants me to ask you a question for her. She wondered if you'd thought about growing your own hibiscus and making your own tea from steeping the best part of that plant? She claims it has a nice aroma and flavor to it. It is my opinion that pre-Fukushima dirt is still available and certainly pre-F. hibiscus seeds are.

Back to Michael Collins interview posted so generously by Osoab up above (thanks!). He talked about how LITTLE decay had occurred in the intervening 12mo since 3.11.11, re: the 1/2 life is supposedly 81 days for radioactive Iodine down standard in LA, Cali.

He didn't identify the particular radioactive isotope as I recall, but he stated if memory serves that the Alpha particles had only decayed approx 10%. He's wondering what the
heck is radioactive in his testing subject.

Quite an informative hour with MC. He of course, talked about the impending collapse and follow-up explosion from F#4 spent fuel pool on the come. Not exactly cheerful stuff.

Funny, but it never occurred to me that focus on storage, also involves focusing on permanent "reference product storage" for comparing before and after readings using one of the geiger counter units. As if everyone has unlimited storage capacity and
excellent, dedicated filing skills for such logs in their stash places. The logistics of responding to this F. event are multiplying like rabbits.

beefsteak

lapis

18th April 2012, 11:45 PM

lapis

18th April 2012, 11:57 PM

The Activist Post site posted this article last week:

19 Things That The Talking Heads On Television Are Being Strangely Silent About (http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/19-things-that-talking-heads-on.html)

And one of them is Fukushima, of course.

Serpo

19th April 2012, 12:15 AM

http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-fukushima-daiichi-and-us-domestic-nuclear-crisis

WBAI's Robert Knight and Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen discuss the prospects of a domestic nuclear crisis. Robert and Arnie discuss last year's flooding and fire at the Nebraska Ft. Calhoun nuclear reactor, the bewildering containment cracks at the Crystal River nuclear plant operated by Progress Energy in Florida, the aging Vermont Yankee plant in Vermont, and the current steam generator failures and related issues at San Onofre Units 2 and 3 in California. One thing is clear: America’s fleet of aging nukes need more thorough regulation not less.

gunDriller

20th April 2012, 12:35 PM

if an alien species looked at we humans, i think they would conclude that we are not likely to survive. they might even laugh at us.

we can master - in ONE sense of the word - complex technologies like nuclear fueled electricity, or deep water oil extraction.

but we allow the people that manage the technologies to completely mis-manage them, with catastrophic results. today is the 2 year anniversary of the BP disaster, sort of. it was spread over several days but April 20 2010 was the day that the rig blew up.

Fukushima was 100% avoidable. so was the BP disaster.

no one was held accountable for BP, even though it was clear that the project managers were massively reckless and over-wrote the objections of their top engineers & operators.

hence the appeal of wave power & wind & solar. it's not that nuclear is necessarily bad, it's that human beings collectively are not mature enough to do it right ... which is the only way to do it.

the worst that can happen with wind-power - dead birds & the need for energy storage.

firewood is looking better and better as an energy source.

lapis

21st April 2012, 02:02 PM

Clif High has some more interesting views on the whole Fukushima debacle in his little rant about Benjamin Fulford:

my opinion is that fulford is lying... (http://www.halfpasthuman.com/fulford.html)

(update at bottom)

i have been repeatedly asked my opinion of the claims being made by Ben Fulford and David Wilcock and this fellow identifying himself as Drake. This is becoming tedious to address in emails.

My opinion is that Drake is full of shit. Further, he does not have the 'contacts', nor position that he claims. In his several radio interviews, the language that he uses brings me to this conclusion.

My opinion is that Ben Fulford is lying. And is he lying not only about the 'mass arrests', but also is clearly fishing in the river of denial about Fukushima. His lies about the financial oppression by the banksters are disinformation that causes emotional turmoil as listeners who do not use discrimination of mind are first taken to the heights of hope, only to crash to deep dispair as reality intrudes on Ben's fantasy.

But he will kill people with his lies about the radiation.

So, i call Benjamin Fulford on his bullshit. The financial shit i do not care about (total fantasy on his part), but if he actually has tested for background radiations in dozens of places in and around Tokyo, then please, provide specifics about the types of counters used, the dates, and the actual readings . Otherwise shut the fuck up about it. You will cause people to die.

Here on the West Coast of North America our daily background radiations are now 20 to 40 times higher than in my first samples in our area in 2003. Unlike fulford, i actually own two nuclear decay meters, and have them calibrated, and know how to use them, and further know what i am measuring. These were obtained through UnitedNuclear.

Fulford, in my opinion, does not possess the mental acuity to be an accurate reporter of the radiation story in Japan. It is my opinion that he did not participate in any sampling for radiation at all, and is lying about it. Part of the denial syndrome. It will break down soon, not only for Ben, but for millions around the planet.

David Wilcock claims to have 'vetted' the 'drake' by his (david's) previous contacts to 'inside' sources.....sooo...since drake is not as claimed, then this makes David's contacts worthless in validating anything, and, now calls into question ANY and ALL claims he has ever made to any 'inside' source or knowledge. Not that i ever gave David much credence, after all, Wilcock is so naive that he believes what Dan Burish (nee Crain) has to say.
____
i did not, as many on the net have claimed, call ben fulford a 'liar'. What i criticized (re read above), was his behavior, not the man. Likely this will not be understood, but i like the personality that ben fulford presents to the world. Also, in many regards he is braver than i, and for that, i give him proper respect as a human and a man. So no, i did not call ben a liar. Let us be clear on that. My comment on his mental acuity goes to his focus on all things financial to such an extent, in my opinion, that it is an obstacle to clear thinking in other areas.

Also, i respect David Wilcock, for what he is, and the contribution that he makes for us all in his unceasing work. Again, i am not critcizing the man, but the behavior. In this case, David is risking huge amounts of what has now become known as 'social equity'. If, as i suspect, the 'drake' is not what he claims, then David will take a hit to his social equity (credibility/prestige) that will be felt.

But let us also be clear on something, the disaster at Fukushima is manifesting the language of the 'israeli mistake' sub set of our data (israeli ties to this are extensive, from stuxnet onward...). This could well turn out to be a disaster that will yet kill most of the life north of the equator and a good deal of that below. The data set that produced the forecast language for the 'israeli mistake' has had fulfillment from language emerging from this on-going, potentially lethal-to-all-humans-and-other-animal-life, nuclear disaster.

If our data set that forecast the 'israeli mistake' and subsequent 'ill winds' is to be taken as accurate, then the good news is that probably only a billion or so will die as a direct result of the on-going disaster at Fukushima. However, we are frequently wrong in our forecasts (as are all, honest, prognosticators). So, what if Fukushima actually is an extinction level event? We have had data sets indicating that scenario as well. And there are currently LOTS of supporting evidence for nasty nuclear effects all over Japan, and from credible sources. Which makes Ben's claims incredible by default.

In my opinion, as one of the soon to be killed by planetary radiation poisoning, now is the time to stop the bullshit.

If Billy Meier had ever really had contact with any alien, now is the time for him to shout to them as loud as he can, "help us". Personally i think he is a fraud.

If Dr. Andersen can really warp time, even in a small bubble for a limited period, now is the moment for him to get out of whatever hole they have him trapped in and give me a call. It is not hard to find me, and i think i have an idea of how to encapsulate Fukushima in such a way (with a time distortion field....if he can actually generate it) that would, theoretically anyway, cut off the risk from the continuing meltdown. It is certainly worth a few days out of our busy lives to try to correct this situation. Even if we, as individual human inhabitants of terra fail, which is the most probable outcome, we still have the right to try. It is our planet too. That the powers-that-be are incapable, or unwilling to attempt anything, and everything, no matter how screwy, to fix Fukushima, need not stop honorable humans from addressing problems in our planet's environment. Tptb merely think they run things. Now, when all that awaits us is death from nuclear bleed out, tptb are somehow, far less scary.

Again, let us be deadly clear about our situation. If Fukushima goes to the next level of meltdown, the result will be radiation poisoning at levels that will kill people rapidly. Should fukushima go supercritical with the hoard of fuel rods, the resulting volcano of radiation will spew an umbrella of death over the northern hemisphere. It will first kill those who work at high altitudes, such as pilots, and frequent air travelers, ski resort operators, high altitude hikers, and others. Then it will settle down into lower levels of atmosphere, poisoning the planet on its way to the oceans. This level of radiation potential will cause very rapid onset cancers, and 'strange bleeding', and 'abnormal wasting' conditions...all of which will have unexpectedly high death rates.

My bitch, if you read for content above, is that serious, deadly disaster is happening right now. And lying about it is not helpful. It would not be an issue, except that i get so many requests for my opinion about these lies....and think about it, the reason that i am getting those requests in the first place is that people are suspicious of what is being proffered as roses, but smells of manure.

Come on Ben, you are better than this. In spite of the barriers in your mind to the concept, the radiation danger, to you, and all of us on this planet, is very very real. If you have actual evidence that shows normal radiation levels in your area, please produce it as this anomoly needs to be investigated.

David, i don't think you and i agree on the definition of 'vetting'.

posted April 15, 2012 copyright clif high

lapis

21st April 2012, 02:03 PM

He also did another podcast about all this:

1/3 Clif's wujo - E10 - April 16, 2012 - time and fukushima (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2glJCeGLtfM&list=UUveGtSc0hS11_Hg-szItDCA&index=1&feature=plcp)

gunDriller

21st April 2012, 03:26 PM

So, what if Fukushima actually is an extinction level event?

i think it's a valid question. unfortunately.

SO FAR, i don't think it is. i.e. if present trends continue, it's 'just' one of the biggest environmental disasters ever. like the BP oil spill, except spread over half the Northern Hemisphere, including the US.

i.e., a situation where tactics like "defensive eating" and "selective drinking" will help most of us avoid the definitively fatal radiation.

however, nothing gives me the sense that it is "under control", or that adults are in control of the situation.

i guess the end-result is "Fukushima Roulette." it is still out of control, and still has the capacity to "go nuclear", in the sense of exploding a larger portion of the radioactive material on-site.

the "faint" (very faint) comfort that we have is that, the citizens of Japan and Hawaii that are closer to Fukushima will serve as unwitting canaries/ guinea pigs for the rest of us.

for example, we hear about a second wave of the radiation sort of "rolling into" Hawaii. Well, on most subjects, surfers are pretty honest. if the guys at Pipeline start getting sick en masse, the surf media will not suppress it. if nothing, the Twitter feeds of pros like John Florence would get the message out.

lapis

21st April 2012, 03:52 PM

however, nothing gives me the sense that it is "under control", or that adults are in control of the situation.

Is it just me or does it sometimes seem like they don't want to be in control of the situation?!

gunDriller

21st April 2012, 05:05 PM

Is it just me or does it sometimes seem like they don't want to be in control of the situation?!

at this point it's a hyper-critical & complex technical project to 'fix' Fukushima. not something most politicians have any knack for.

one thing that came to mind after i wrote that is, if i had the funds for a 'comfortable' expatriation, i'd start doing tours of South America & Africa & the Falklands and similar places.

which makes me think of Jim Sinclair.

one of his "claims to fame", that of calling the 1979-1980 highs almost to the day, merely bespeak good connections, insider knowledge.

i wonder if Sinclair's "Tanzania Itch" is related to Fukushima worries.

lapis

21st April 2012, 08:30 PM

i wonder if Sinclair's "Tanzania Itch" is related to Fukushima worries.

I was wondering that too. I'm sure we're going to be seeing an exodus of Elites to the Southern Hemisphere.

gunDriller

22nd April 2012, 06:26 AM

I was wondering that too. I'm sure we're going to be seeing an exodus of Elites to the Southern Hemisphere.

one clue in his April 21 post - "The collapse of 2013 – 2015 will be a horror to behold."

http://www.jsmineset.com/

i wish he'd hurry up and move. i have a feeling he'll feel more comfortable talking about his motivations after the move.

it's wierd. he refers to us as "CIGA" (Comrade in Golden Arms) but i have a feeling that in his book, some people are more equal than others. and i don't mean just his family.

beefsteak

22nd April 2012, 01:49 PM

Listened to the 4.9.2012 Yoi chi Shimatsu (Rense) interview last night. Thanks, osoab, post #3059

Some highpoints:

the ghost ship/Fukushima prefecture fishing trawler on the high seas, currently being tracked by satellite and headed for N.A. continental shores is "too hot" to halt, remove the oil from, and then be towed into some port.

the polar bears losing chunks of fur in the artic regions are suffering from radiation poisoning.

major "cloaked" relocation efforts of certain japanese people to places like Indonesia and Malaysia etc., currently ongoing and well known among the region's legit journalists.

Just some highlights.

beefsteak

Serpo

22nd April 2012, 08:57 PM

09:18 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 33 comments
Kyodo Gets Suspicious? Mitsui “claimed” radioactive agent is harmless to people — Radiation mentioned 4 times — Explosions started breaking out while shutting down plant

08:08 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 32 comments
Closing Scene: Family fleeing Fukushima radiation watches through rear window as their dog runs behind car trying to catch up (VIDEO, 50 min.)heart breaking to watch, the clip is shorthttp://enenews.com/closing-scene-family-watches-rear-window-dog-runs-behind-trying-catch-being-forced-evacuate-fukushima-video

04:54 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 38 comments
HuffPo: Large amounts of radioactive materials could be deposited across 1,000s of miles if water lost at Fukushima fuel pool — Media just beginning to grasp that danger to world is far from over -Nuclear Expert

04:04 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 10 comments
Radioactive material stored 500 meters from where incident began at chemical plant — “The containers are intact” (PHOTO)

02:48 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 3 comments
AFP: Officials “waiting for combustible materials to burn out” after Japan explosions — Fire not extinguished — May take days to determine cause

12:32 PM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 29 comments
NHK: Another Mitsui chemical plant had trouble BEFORE multiple explosions — All plants were halted at time of blasts (VIDEO)

11:17 AM EST on April 22nd, 2012 | 24 comments
Second explosion at Mitsui plant — FNN confirms depleted uranium — Kyodo: 3,400 drums with radioactive materials — “Did not appear to have any effect on radiation levels” (VIDEOS)

10:12 PM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 140 comments
Explosion at Japan chemical complex, still burning — 3,379 containers of nuclear waste onsite — Reports of depleted uranium — Gov’t says no release of toxic material (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

08:17 PM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 19 comments
California Nuclear Plant Operator: No further description of fire could be provided — “Cause was still unclear”

03:24 PM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 12 comments
Japan Times on Plant Mutations: “Trees died and others grew in abnormal shapes” says ecologist visiting Japan from Chernobyl

02:28 PM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 11 comments
Watch: Babies born this year may be working at Fukushima Daiichi one day

01:04 PM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 15 comments
INES level 1 event at Tokai nuclear plant after March 11 quake — Cobalt-60 detected outside of radiation control area — Safety inspectors rushed to site (PHOTOS)

04:03 AM EST on April 21st, 2012 | 135 comments
Fire at California’s San Onofre nuclear plant burns for over 40 minutes — Cause unknown

09:00 PM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 54 comments
CNN: Fukushima Daiichi engineer says “we still don’t know what’s going on inside the reactors” — Cold shut down “wasn’t true then, and it’s still not true today”

02:05 PM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 58 comments
“Squeals of delight from environmentalists”: Japan will awake on May 6 powered entirely by non-nuclear energy — DPJ Lawmaker: “As many as half of us are against the idea of restart” — Public opposition running hot, now solid majority against nuclear power

12:06 PM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 43 comments
More from Lead Investigator: “The ‘nuclear lava’ melted the bottom of the containment vessel, leaking a huge amount of fission gasses and particles to the air and water”

11:01 AM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 48 comments
‘Territory deactivation’ and long-term health problems after Fukushima studied by Japanese specialists (VIDEO)

09:18 AM EST on April 20th, 2012 | 61 comments
Fukushima Investigation: “Within one day complete meltdown and melt through occurred” — “There is no way that gov’t did not know this” (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/

Serpo

22nd April 2012, 09:00 PM

This thing truly has become a time bomb waiting to go off.............

Serpo

22nd April 2012, 09:15 PM

Title: Robert Alvarez: The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/the-fukushima-nuclear-dis_b_1444146.html)
Source: Huffington Post
Author: Robert Alvarez*
Date: Apr 22, 2012
More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world are far from over. After repeated warnings by former senior Japanese officials, nuclear experts, and now a U.S. Senator, it’s sinking in that the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools amidst the reactor ruins pose far greater dangers than the molten cores. This is why: • Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl
• Several pools are 100 feet above the ground and are completely open to the atmosphere because the reactor buildings were demolished by explosions. The pools could possibly topple or collapse from structural damage coupled with another powerful earthquake.
• The loss of water exposing the spent fuel will result in overheating and can cause melting and ignite its zirconium metal cladding resulting in a fire that could deposit large amounts of radioactive materials over hundreds, if not thousands of miles. [...]
*Robert Alvarez, an Institute for Policy Studies senior scholar, served as senior policy adviser to the Energy Department’s secretary and deputy assistant secretary for national security and the environment from 1993 to 1999. He is an award winning author whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, the Nation, Technology Review, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. He has also been featured on”60 Minutes”, Nova and All Things Considered.
Read the report here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/the-fukushima-nuclear-dis_b_1444146.html)
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over

Posted: 04/22/2012 3:45 pm

Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes.
More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world are far from over. After repeated warnings by former senior Japanese officials, nuclear experts, and now a U.S. Senator, it's sinking in that the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools amidst the reactor ruins pose far greater dangers than the molten cores. This is why:
• Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl
• Several pools are 100 feet above the ground and are completely open to the atmosphere because the reactor buildings were demolished by explosions. The pools could possibly topple or collapse from structural damage coupled with another powerful earthquake.
• The loss of water exposing the spent fuel will result in overheating and can cause melting and ignite its zirconium metal cladding resulting in a fire that could deposit large amounts of radioactive materials over hundreds, if not thousands of miles.
This was not lost on Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), who after visiting the site on April 6, wrote to Japan's U.S. ambassador, Ichiro Fujusaki, that "loss of containment in any of these pools... could result an even larger release of radiation than the nuclear accident."
The urgency of the situation is underscored by the ongoing seismic activity where 13 earthquakes (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/?regionID=15) of magnitude 4.0-5.7 have occurred off the northeast coast of Japan between April 14 and 17. This has been the norm since the first quake and tsunami hit the Dai-Ichi site on March 11 of last year. Larger quakes are expected closer to the power plant.
Spent nuclear fuel is extraordinarily radioactive and must be handled with great care. In a matter of seconds, an unprotected person one foot away from a single freshly removed spent fuel assembly would receive a lethal dose of radiation within seconds. As one of the most dangerous materials on the planet, spent reactor fuel requires permanent geological isolation to protect humans for thousands of years.
It's been 26 years, since the Chernobyl reactor exploded and caught fire releasing enormous amounts of radioactive debris -- seriously contaminating areas over a thousand miles away. Chernobyl revealed the folly of not having an extra barrier of thick concrete and steel surrounding the reactor core that is required for modern plants, in the U.S., Japan and elsewhere. The Fukushima Dai-Ichi accident revealed the folly of operating several nuclear power plants in a high consequence earthquake zone while storing huge amounts of highly radioactive spent fuel in vulnerable pools, high above the ground.
What both accidents have in common is widespread environmental contamination from cesium-137. With a half-life of 30, years, Cs-137 gives off penetrating radiation, as it decays and can remain dangerous for hundreds of years. Once in the environment, it mimics potassium as it accumulates in the food chain. When it enters the human body, about 75 percent lodges in muscle tissue, with, perhaps, the most important muscle being the heart.
Last week, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) revealed plans to remove 2,274 spent fuel assemblies from the damaged reactors that will probably take at least a decade to accomplish. The first priority will be removal of the contents in Pool No. 4. This pool is structurally damaged and contains about 10 times more cesium-137 than released at Chernobyl. Removal of SNF from the No. 4 reactor is optimistically expected to begin at the end of 2013. A significant amount of construction to remove debris and reinforce the structurally-damaged reactor buildings, especially the fuel- handling areas, will be required.
Also, it is not safe to keep 1,882 spent fuel assemblies containing ~57 million curies of long-lived radioactivity, including nearly 15 times more cs-137 than released at Chernobyl in the elevated pools at reactors 5, 6, and 7, which did not experience meltdowns and explosions.
The main reason why there is so much spent fuel at the Da-Ichi site is that the plan to send it off for nuclear recycling has collapsed. It was supposed to go to the incomplete Rokkasho reprocessing plant, just south of the Fukushima nuclear site, where plutonium would be extracted as a fuel for "fast" reactors. This scheme is based on long discredited assumptions that world uranium supplies would be rapidly exhausted and that a new generation of "fast" reactors, which held the promise of making more fuel than they use, would be needed. Over the past 20 years the Rokkasho's costs have tripled along with 18 major delays. World uranium supplies are far from depleted. Moreover, in November of last year, Japan's "fast" reactor project at Monju was cancelled for cost and safety reasons -- dealing a major blow to this whole scheme.
The stark reality, if TEPCO's plan is realized, is that nearly all of the spent fuel at the Da-Ichi containing some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet will remain indefinitely in vulnerable pools. TEPCO wants to store the spent fuel from the damaged reactors in the common pool, and only to resort to dry, cask storage when the common pool's capacity is exceeded. At this time, the common pool is at 80 percent storage capacity and will require removal of SNF to make room. TEPCO's plan is to minimize dry cask storage as much as possible and to rely indefinitely on vulnerable pool storage. Sen. Wyden finds that that TEPCO's plan for remediation carries extraordinary and continuing risk and sensibly recommends that retrieval of spent fuel in existing on-site spent fuel pools to safer storage... in dry casks should be a priority.
Despite the enormous destruction from the earthquake and tsunami, little attention was paid to the fact that the nine dry spent fuel casks at the Fukushima Da-Ichi site were unscathed. This is an important lesson we cannot afford to ignore.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/the-fukushima-nuclear-dis_b_1444146.html

Serpo

22nd April 2012, 09:15 PM

Fukushima is falling apart: are you ready?

By Christina Consolo
Contributing writer for End the Lie (http://endthelie.com/) and host of Nuked Radio (http://www.oriontalkradio.com/Default.aspx?PID=27&T=Nuked%20Radio%20with%20RadChick%20Home)
http://endthelie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fukushima-IAEA-and-TEPCO-reps-300x183.jpg (http://endthelie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Fukushima-IAEA-and-TEPCO-reps.jpg)Investigators visiting the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in May 2011 (Image credit: Greg Webb/IAEA)

Thirteen months have passed since the Fukushima reactors exploded, and a U.S. Senator finally got off his ass and went to Japan to see what is going on over there.
What he saw was horrific (http://enenews.com/breaking-us-senator-issues-press-release-on-no-4-spent-fuel-pool-warns-situation-worse-than-reported-after-tour-of-fukushima-plant-urges-japanese-to-accept-international-help).
And now he is saying that we are in big trouble.
See the letter he sent to U.S. Ambassador to Japan Ichiro Fujisaki, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and NRC’s Chairman Gregory Jaczko here (http://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Ambassador-Fujisaki.pdf).
But what is so ironic about this is that we have been in this heap of trouble since March of 2011 (http://endthelie.com/2011/03/28/partial-meltdown-finally-admitted-at-fukushima-no-end-in-sight/). March 17th, to be exact, when the plume of radioactive materials began bombarding the west coast of California.
And Oregon. And Washington. And British Columbia. And later Maine, Europe, and everywhere in between.
Independent researchers, nuke experts, and scientists, from oceanography to entomology and everywhere in between, having been trying to sound the alarm ever since.
The scientists most upset are those who have studied the effects of radiation on health. I’ll say it again, so its really clear: we are in big trouble.
The most preliminary reports of soil contamination are starting to come in from the USGS, who has seemed reluctant to share this information. Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Boulder, Colorado, so far have the highest radioactive particle contamination out of the entire US.
That being said, every single city tested across the country showed contamination from Fukushima. What is even more alarming, however, about the numbers coming in, is that they are from samples taken April 5th, of last year.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has only recently confirmed that there were three meltdowns, and they have been ongoing, unabated, for thirteen months, and no effort has been made to contain them.
Technology has to be developed/invented to deal with the melted out corium under the reactors. Until then, they will keep doing what they have been doing.
TEPCO just keeps dumping water on them, after which they let it pour into the ocean, and steam up through the ground, every second of every day. The jet stream, and a highly dynamic portion of our atmosphere called the troposphere, have been swirling around massive amounts of radioactive particles and settling them out, mostly in rain, over the entire northern hemisphere, especially the west coast of North America, from Alaska down to Baja and even further.
Iodine, cesium, strontium, plutonium, uranium, and a host of other fission products have been coming directly from Japan to the west coast for thirteen months.
Maybe you have heard about sick seals, polar bears, tainted fish, mutations in dandelions and fruits and vegetables, possibly even animals already, and seaweed. In fact the kelp from Corona del Mar contained 40,000,000 bcq/kg of radioactive iodine, as reported in Scientific American several weeks ago.
If you don’t know your becquerels, its a lot. That’s what your pacific fish feed on. And that was only ONE isotope reported. There were up to 1600 different isotopes that have been floating around in our air, pouring out of the reactors, and steaming out of the ground, every second of every day, for 13 months.
And there has been silence from our mainstream media, for which the depths of depravity are so severe I will devote an entire article just to the “why” at a future time.
But back to the research: reports in the past week indicate the pollen in southern California is radioactive now too, and it is flying around, and if you live there and go outside, you are breathing it in. And so are your children.
Along with fission products blowing over from Japan. And radiation in your drinking water. And in your rain. And in the fish you are eating. And your vegetables. And the milk supply. And its happening every second, of every day. For 13 months. Are you starting to see a problem here?
Problem is, that’s not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is what Senator Wyden is all bent out of shape about, even though independent researchers and nuke experts have been warning about this for a year.
And that is that the Reactor #4 building is on the verge of collapsing. Seismicity standards rate the building at a zero, meaning even a small earthquake could send it into a heap of rubble. And sitting at the top of the building, in a pool that is cracked, leaking, and precarious even without an earthquake, are 1565 fuel rods (give or take a few), some of them “fresh fuel” that was ready to go into the reactor on the morning of March 11th when the earthquake and tsunami hit.
If they are MOX fuel, containing 6% plutonium, one fuel rod has the potential to kill 2.89 billion people. If this pool collapses, as Senator Wyden is now saying too, we would face a mass extinction event from the release of radiation in those rods.
That is, if we aren’t in one already. Nuke experts like Arnie Gundersen and Helen Caldicott are prepared to evacuate their families to the southern hemisphere if that happens. It is that serious.
So now you know, if you didn’t before. We are in big trouble.
Get informed. Start paying attention to this. Every single statement in this article is verifiable, and I will continue to verify and validate the seriousness of this situation at every opportunity I have.
This may be the most important thing you ever pay attention to, for the sake of your family, friends, your neighbors, every one you know and meet, all of humanity.
It’s been thirteen months, you have some catching up to do.

Related posts:

Fukushima plant not ready for approaching typhoon (http://endthelie.com/2011/05/29/fukushima-plant-ready-approaching-typhoon/)
Partial Meltdown Finally Admitted at Fukushima – No End in Sight (http://endthelie.com/2011/03/28/partial-meltdown-finally-admitted-at-fukushima-no-end-in-sight/)
As Libyan rebels are falling apart at the seams, Gaddafi regime remains unfazed by NATO campaign (http://endthelie.com/2011/08/09/as-libyan-rebels-are-falling-apart-at-the-seams-gaddafi-regime-remains-unfazed-by-nato-campaign/)
Fukushima, U.S.A.: could we be next? (http://endthelie.com/2011/06/20/fukushima-u-s-a-could-we-be-next/)
Fukushima Reactor No. 1 more radioactive than ever (http://endthelie.com/2011/06/05/fukushima-reactor-no-1-more-radioactive-than-ever/)
http://endthelie.com/2012/04/21/fukushima-is-falling-apart-are-you-ready/#ixzz1sjCSJ7yc

Serpo

24th April 2012, 12:28 AM

http://japanfocus.org/-Murata-Mitsuhei/3742

gunDriller

29th April 2012, 12:29 PM

i thought a saw some articles about the Japanese gov. nationalizing TEPCO.

Iori Mochizuki, the hard working proprietor of Fukushima-Diary, has an article on the subject -
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/japanese-government-will-nationalize-tepco-by-july/

"Japanese government will nationalize Tepco by July
Posted by Mochizuki on March 29th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Tepco requested Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund for capital infusion of 1 trillion yen public fund without clarifying the voting right of the government, which is very rare.

Tepco is going to submit their restructuring plan for the next decade by mid April to the government.

Tepco has also requested for 845.9 billion yen of the support for the expanding compensation of Fukushima disaster. Japanese government is going to nationalize Tepco by July."

and an interesting article at Biz. Insider that sheds light on the politics of the situation -

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-tepco-cds-2011-3

CHART OF THE DAY: TEPCO CDS Explode Higher After An "Unforgivable Mistake"

It's easy to imagine nuke plant operator TEPCO going bust over the nuke plant crisis, except for the fact that it's largely backstopped by the government.

All Japanese utilities are highly rated by the ratings agencies because they enjoy an unusual level of regulation and protection.

That's why the market is alarmed by the fact that relations between TEPCO and the government seem to be fraying. As Markit's Gavan Nolan pointed out, CDS spreads are widening for the company, after the government said TEPCO committed an "unforgivable mistake" this weekend. The mistake: accidentally issuing a false radiation reading at the plant that was orders of magnitude too high. That caused a delay in the ongoing crisis operations, and it only confirmed the general sense that TEPCO is mishandling the crisis.

If there's some sense that TEPCO could lose government support -- and it's not clear that this is even possible, especially over something like this -- the safety of TEPCO debt is called much more into question.

Hence the CDS spike."

i can't help but wonder if TEPCO actually told the truth, gave out an alarmingly high radiation reading, and is being slapped down for their trouble.

Serpo

29th April 2012, 04:08 PM

http://enenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/birdxray.jpg (http://mphoto.sblo.jp/article/55571894.html)SOURCE: Takashi http://morizumiphoto.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/mphoto/image/mphoto-2012-04-28T23:28:01-2-thumbnail2.jpghttp://morizumiphoto.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/mphoto/image/mphoto-2012-04-28T23:28:01-1.jpg (http://morizumiphoto.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/mphoto/image/mphoto-2012-04-28T23:28:01-2.jpg)Morizumi

This image was published on the photo blog of Takashi Morizumi (http://mphoto.sblo.jp/article/55571894.html). It appears Dr. Satoshi Mori was responsible for the x-ray-like view showing black dots spread throughout the body of a small bird from Iitate Village. The dots are said to be radioactive particles of Cs-137 internalized by eating contaminated insects.
“Takashi Morizumi is a photojournalist who covers topics in Japan and overseas such as the effects of US military bases and environmental problems. In particular, since the later half of the 90s, he has covered the damages caused by nuclear mining, testing, power plants, and the use of depleteted uranium and other nuclear weapons.” -Source (http://www.savewarchildren.org/morizumi.html)
h/t Fukushima Diaryhttp://enenews.com/photographer-ray-like-image-shows-radioactivity-spreads-body-fukushima-wildlife-photos (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/how-contaminated-a-bird-is-in-fukushima/)

lapis

29th April 2012, 04:10 PM

Wow, that's ^^ really depressing.

LastResort

1st May 2012, 06:52 AM

A friend asked me If I wanted to go to a Japanese restaurant for sushi the other day... I said no thanks. I'm not big on radioactive food... She told me to put on my tinfoil hat and I'd be ok....[(:)]

I also noticed at the health food store the other day that they seemed to still be well stocked with Japanese green tea... Wish I had a geiger counter...

JAPAN - Radioactive iodine in fish is 7.5 million times the legal limit. The Japanese government has imposed new health limits on sushi!

The water is contaminated and that means that the fish are contaminated. All sushi in Japan is believed to be radioactive. Further, the United States government believes that all fish/sushi in the United States is also radioactive – and is considering a ban on all sushi in the United States.

http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/31471/radioactive-sushi/

gunDriller

1st May 2012, 07:05 AM

http://morizumiphoto.sakura.ne.jp/sblo_files/mphoto/image/mphoto-2012-04-28T23:28:01-1.jpg

i held a little bird like that in my hand just yesterday.

my back door is a home-made butcher block door. it has been changing & moving when the weather changes - won't stay shut unless i throw the dead-bolt. so i have been leaving it open.

i was in my office & i realized, "my window is making some wierd sounds". like there was a really big bug, making an occasional soft chirping sound. Lo & Behold, it was a small bird. not hard to catch, it was so tired.

ANYWAY, i look at that X-ray film & i wonder - a silver chloride film, not exposed to light, sealed in a light-tight plastic. you put the sample on top. if it creates an image, as if light got to the silver chloride, then the sample is radio-active ?

is that about how it works with these X-ray films ?

+ there was an interesting 'primer' about spent nuclear fuel storage -

"Dear Akio,

You asked me why there has been so little warning from the “nuclear establishment” (TEPCO and the regulatory agency) about the potential for catastrophic accidents involving the spent fuel pool in reactor number 4.

In the field of nuclear safety, the focus of attention has always been on analyzing and preventing catastrophic accidents involving the core of the reactor. In comparison, little attention has been paid over the years to catastrophic accident scenarios involving the spent fuel pool.

Since the very first US Reactor Safety Study, the “Brookhaven Report” in 1957, to the major 12-volume US NRC Reactor Safety Study (the Rasmussen Report) of 1974, and continuing right down to the present day, virtually all of the attention has been directed to extreme conditions that might develop in the core of the reactor — unterminated power excursions, loss of coolant accidents, breach of the reactor vessel, core meltdowns, and so on.

Most nuclear engineers and nuclear regulators have developed a “blind spot” about the catastrophe potential associated with the spent fuel bay because of years of neglect. Such considerations have never played a significant role in their training as nuclear engineers or in their many subsequent years of experience in the field of nuclear safety analysis.

As a result we have backup pumps, backup electrical supply systems, and backup cooling systems for the core of the reactor, but no backup pumps or electrical supply or cooling system for the spent fuel bay. We have extravagant containment systems for the core of the reactor, but no comparable containment systems for the spent fuel pool.

This absence of backup systems for the spent fuel pool is testimony to the lack of effort and lack of forethought that has been devoted to the spent fuel bay. Nevertheless, the radioactive inventory in the spent fuel pool is often much greater than that in the core of the reactor, and a prolonged loss of coolant — or even loss of circulation of coolant — will lead to overheating of the fuel and extensive fuel damage. This will result in significant releases of radioactive fission products into the atmosphere due to the inadequate or even non-existent containment provided for the spent fuel pool.

Moreover, a loss of coolant in the spent fuel pool — whether by leakage, spillage, or boiling off of the cooling water — will lead to intense gamma radiation that would prevent human access for hundreds of metres in all directions around the spent fuel pool, making it very difficult to take corrective actions.

Under adverse circumstances there can even be a fuel meltdown in the spent fuel pool, if the temperature climbs to about 2800 degrees C, which would vastly increase the radioactive releases and spread those releases over a much wider area.

The overheating of the spent fuel in the pool can be exacerbated by the intense exothermic reaction between the zirconium cladding and the steam produced from the overheated water, and can even result (at around 1000 degrees C) in a very intense zirconium fire which can result in tiny particles of intensely radioactive spent fuel being liberated into the atmosphere.

Depending on the diameter of these “hot particles” (sometimes referred to as “nuclear fleas”) they can be transported greater or lesser distances by the wind, possibly affecting populations hundreds of kilometers from the spent fuel pool. Once dispersed into the environment, these hot particles will constitute a source of radiation exposure and environmental contamination for centuries to come.

In addition to the possibility of zirconium fires (which have for a long time been almost completely overlooked by nuclear engineers and regulators) there is another, even more dangerous possibility. An alteration in the geometry of the spent fuel in the pool, by which the separation between the spent fuel rods is slightly but significantly reduced, can lead to re-initiation of the chain reaction in the pool.

This “accidental criticality” will not only drive the temperature up rapidly, but will also replenish the supply of short-lived heat-producing fission products, accelerating the damage to the fuel, magnifying the heat loading, increasing the probability of a fuel pool meltdown, and vastly increasing the atmospheric releases of radioactivity.

It has been a standard practice in the nuclear industry to avoid consideration of all of these possibilities, based on the assumption that there will be “lots of time” to react to any emergency involving the spent fuel pool, as it will normally take days for the spent fuel to reach the melting point and it will be a “simple matter” to refill the pools with water if necessary.

This ignores the fact that major structural damage may make it impossible to approach the spent fuel pool due to the lethal levels of gamma radiation emanating from the spent fuel once the protective shielding of the water is gone."

http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/01/lack-of-training-on-the-catastrophic-accident-potential-at-spent-fuel-pools.html

beefsteak

1st May 2012, 12:12 PM

All,
listened to both Michael Collins' radiation update Rense interview last night, as well as the getting ever rarer Yoi chi Shimatsu update. Shimatsu was physically in Thailand when interviewed last night.

First notes from Collins' segment: Rense 4.30.2012

****Tepco is currently ADMITTING that they are releasing 1,000 tons DAILY into the Pacific Ocean of radioactive water...

****35% of young people living in Fukushima prefecture now have thyroid cysts, which is the precursor to thyroid cancers.

****In New Zealand this following event is a major newsstory. There is a species of long distance flyer type birds, die off that is making the news there. These long distance flyers head northward to Japan to feed, and then come home to NZ to nest and lay eggs, traditionally in Nov ea. year. This season, they have not returned.

Muttonbird is the name of the species making the NZ news. (Looks like a sea gull relative when moi googled for pix.)

****In Fukushima prefecture itself, the overwhelmingly obvious to those living there, human die-off is beginng to overwhelm the news censorship, due to humans bleeding out from every orifice, now 14 months after 3.11.11 after obvious being radiated. The source of the truthful reports are medical reporting practictioners. (I remember the early heart breaking photos of the little school children and their constant nose bleeds and only palative, kleenex type tissues availability was the classroom level response.)

****Collins and wife accepted a party invitation to a home this past week where sushi was served. The host & hostess had TWO unopened packages of a specific branded packages of seaweed --one packaged in Japan, and one from China--that were used in wrapping the sushi appetizers/entres at the party.

The hostess specifically requested Collins bring his geiger unit to the event.

2 of the 3 samples were the very same Nori brand the hostess had heard Collins refer to in last week's Rense interview as recently purchased and tested, and found by Collins' as " now too hot to safely consume." The "too hot readings" were taken on said Nori branded sample last week, prior to the Nori package being opened, and as second reading after the Nori package was opened.

The party hostess had Collins test her previously stored 2 years ago, Nori seaweed, same brand, packaged pre-Fuku. Collins was excited because he finally had a verifiable "control sample of pre-Fuku seaweed" for his testing. It was the Nori seaweed brand that is now quite "famous" in culinary circles.

The hostess ALSO had an unopened package from China. Upon testing each one, Collins found both packages "flatlined"...yes, both the Japanese nori and the Chinese nori.....flatline...both...kelp/dried...

****Then the bombshell. The hostess also had a "busang (sp) packaged Nori, also unopened for 2 years ago in her pantry."

Collins tested it: it was hot--> over 2x background. He set off to research why and reported his findings live on air last night, prior to even posting the information onto his own website. He learned THAT Nori was packaged in Korea, in a town next to a 4-nuke plant complex, no one had ever heard anything about there being problems at.

****Collins then closed his segment with the following report:
Vital Choice---a North Pacific wild caught seafood company has just put out in the last few days, an Vital Choice authorized newsletter reporting on their own internal radiation testing of wild-caught N. Pac. albacore and wild-caught N. Pac. halibut.

Googling shows this item:
NuclearCrimes.org, Fukushima's a Global Emergency-Health Crisis ... (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=human%20pico%20curies%20safe%20exposure%20levels %20cesium%20134&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuclearcrimes.org%2F&ei=WTagT6acHejM2gWBqsinAg&usg=AFQjCNGNZe9TwZkgdXsf2ezf4cxlfpc6Bg&cad=rja)

www.nuclearcrimes.org/ (http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/)
When Cesium-134, which is shorter-lived than Cesium-137, is found in the environment ... It is incorrect to say that the cesium-134 levels in Vital Choice products are safe. ... Levels of cesium-137 in the tens of picocuries per kilogram in common ... from 'beta burns,' which are caused by significant external exposure to 'beta ...
Their reported findings are:
wild caught N.P. albacore 37.8 pico curies Cesium 134 per kg.
wild caught N.P. halibut 35.1 pico curies of Cesium 134 per kg.

This particular radioactive cesium 134 is 1/2 life of 8 days..., and not the longer cesium 137 half-life radioactive isotope.

I believe Collins stated Vita Choice http://www.vitalchoice.com/shop/pc/home.asp?gclid=CKyTpMTd368CFYFeTAodckg_Bw was and had immediately pulled all N. Pac. albacore and halibut from their product line. I'd have to listen again to make sure I heard that right, I was furiously taking notes at the time. If someone hears differently, please post.

Both Helen and I find that courageous and ethical corporate behavior on the part of Vital Choice. Certainly, this type of responsible corporate behavior is NOT the norm as we understand current food supplier consumer ethics, especially in regard to Fukushima radiation distribution and subsequent harm in the food chain.

I'll bring the second part (Shimatsu) of the Rense referenced interviews later. I've got stuff to do.

beefsteak

MNeagle

1st May 2012, 12:17 PM

Thank you gunny, beef and all other contributors for helping us stay informed. This doom knows no bounds, does it?

beefsteak

1st May 2012, 04:06 PM

This dying by nanometers sucks, as my grandchildren would say, MNEagle. I mean we all know that this earth school isn't all there is, in the Divine Scheme of things! But to wrap our minds around deliberately being cooked from inside out? WOW!

Okay, to Yoi chi Shimatsu's notes from last night's Live from Thailand Rense interview:

****At the outside, by12-18months from now, the "other Fuku shoe" will drop... This reference is in regards to the lack of structural integrity of Reactor 4's spent Fuel Pool.

****Part of the flow-through disaster which will wipe out all Northern Hemisphere life forms in short order after Pool #4 goes, will be caused by the intense heat of the scattered on the ground, unquenchable fuel rods from Pool #4. Said heat will IGNITE the nearby MOX Fuel Rod Pool still in nearby #3 building, sending the Plutonium everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere primarily. There may or may NOT be an explosion, but there WILL be an almost immediate failure of cooling of the MOX fuel Pool #3 as the result of the collapse of Pool #4.

****The ozone layer of the upper atmosphere which has protected Europe thus far in this unfolding disaster...it is gone now. When the "other shoe falls" that airborne radiation will then drop directly into Europe via rainy weather b/c the OZONE is gone.

****A study of residents living at the 200 km radius from Fukushima has just been completed. The results show that 119 out of 132 test participants had the radioactive cesium-137 in their urine.

****There are openly discussed plans for the relocation of 40mil Japanese currently ongoing. No mention yet of where nor how, let alone "who."

****Japanese Govt has admitted every major city is burning radioactive debris from the Fukushima prefecture disaster. That includes the deforestation along with the rubble, etc. This is putting up into the air unconscionable levels of radiation only to fall back down upon the Japanese residents themselves.

**** Considerable discussion was triggered and flowed from Shimatsu's long tenure as a vetted Environmental activist journalist re: Monsanto's GMO DNA modification assault on the Northern Hemisphere now being added onto by Fukushima's continuous and increasingly expanding radiation which is ADDITIONALLY massively modifying human DNA as well as all other life forms on North Hemisphere.

****Discussion of TEPCO being broke and that not only was this disaster a company bankrupting result, but S. stated that "the coffers were already raided by the insiders" prior to them abandoning TEPCO to Govt Control and financial support now.

that's it for my notes. I was physically uncomfortable and agitated by the end of this 30 minute interview over and above the 30 minute Collins' interview which preceded Y.S.'s candid reporting and reflective analyses.

Oh, God Have Mercy.
Christ Have Mercy.
On us all.
Most especially for the suffering of the tiny and little children among us.

Forgive us for our wicked and ignorant ways. We beseech Thee.

Soon!!! PLEASE.

beefsteak

MNeagle

1st May 2012, 06:59 PM

Amen.

beefsteak

1st May 2012, 10:20 PM

One of many anomalies on the come...first we heard of "ghost ships"/Fukushima Fishing Trawler's too hot to handle, currently adrift on the high seas...

now this...Ghost Harley's....

Japanese owner of Harley-Davidson that washed up on B.C. shore has now been identified by attached license plate.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/6548726.bin

The owner of a motorcycle that was swept from northeastern Japan by last year's tsunami and washed up on Canada's west coast has been identified as 29- year-old Ikuo Yokoyama. A BC man found the motorcycle last month on a beach of one of the Haida Gwaii islands, 6,500 kilometers from Japan.The vehicle's license plate helped identify the owner who is from a coastal town of Miyagi Prefecture that was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Photograph by: Screengrab NHK News

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Japanese+owner+Harley+Davidson+that+washed+shore+i dentified/6548260/story.html#ixzz1tfQW3HEY

gunDriller

6th May 2012, 07:13 AM

"They were ready to have another run when Fukushima happened.

There was a terrible Tsunami.

There wasn't a single death from radioactivity.

And yet the entire catastrophe was blamed on nuclear power."

Can you guess which supposed ultra investing guru (specializing in uranium, among other commodities) said the above in a recent interview ?

beefsteak

7th May 2012, 04:04 PM

I'll take a stab...Jim Dines?

PatColo

7th May 2012, 08:00 PM

I haven't read every recent post in this thread- but this is some quality Fukushima doom porn, :o

Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Vulnerable to Catastrophic Collapse; Could Unleash 85 Times Cesium-137 Radiation of Chernobyl; Human Civilization on the Brink (http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html)

Monday, 07 May 2012 08:05

http://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/May20122/79431-reactor-4-at-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-power-plant.jpg

'The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of "insignificant" by comparison. Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons? None of that even matters if we don't solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet.

The resulting releasing of radiation would turn North America into a "dead zone" for humans... mutated (and failed) crops, radioactive groundwater, skyrocketing infant mortality, an explosion in cancer and infertility... this is what could be unleashed at any moment from an earthquake in Japan. Such an event could result in the release of 85 times the Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl catastrophe, say experts (see below). And the Chernobyl catastrophe made its surrounding regions uninhabitable by humans for centuries.'

Read more: Fukushima Reactor No. 4 Vulnerable to Catastrophic Collapse; Could Unleash 85 Times Cesium-137 Radiation of Chernobyl; Human Civilization on the Brink (http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html)

Book

7th May 2012, 09:39 PM

Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet.

http://www.timelessgaming.com/timeless/forum/images/smilies/Kolo%20popcorm1.gif I've been at this doomer stuff too long. Even something as catastrophic as this does not phase me anymore.

Serpo

7th May 2012, 11:14 PM

Broken Fuel Rods Admitted Lying On Bottom Of SFP 4 - Vid

Worries Mount Over Reactor 4 SFP Stabilty

Radiation Is 4,000% Higher Than Reported By Japan Govt

Radiation Already Causing Health Problems Around Tokyo

Prof - 20,000 Sq Km Should Be Evacuated At Fukushima - Vid

shima
http://www.rense.com/
New York — Description: Japanese Nuclear Scientist and Japanese and US medical doctors to discuss current radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe.

Hiroaki KOIDE / Nuclear Reactor Specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute

Excerpts

Large amount of radioactive material has fallen to the bottom of that pool [in Unit 4 ...]

There are already known to be broken assemblies as a result of the debris and structural elements that have fallen down on top of them.

Many years to get the fuel out of Unit 4… praying for no large quake.

vids...........http://enenews.com/japan-expert-there-are-known-to-be-broken-fuel-rod-assemblies-in-spent-fuel-pool-no-4-large-amount-of-radioactive-material-has-fallen-to-bottom-many-years-to-get-fuel-out-video

Serpo

7th May 2012, 11:28 PM

(NaturalNews) The news you are about to read puts everything else in the category of "insignificant" by comparison. Concerned about the 2012 U.S. presidential election? Worried about GMOs? Fluoride? Vaccines? Secret prisons? None of that even matters if we don't solve the problem of Fukushima reactor No. 4, which is on the verge of a catastrophic failure that could unleash enough radiation to end human civilization on our planet. (See the numbers below.)

The resulting releasing of radiation would turn North America into a "dead zone" for humans... mutated (and failed) crops, radioactive groundwater, skyrocketing infant mortality, an explosion in cancer and infertility... this is what could be unleashed at any moment from an earthquake in Japan. Such an event could result in the release of 85 times the Cesium-137 released by the Chernobyl catastrophe, say experts (see below). And the Chernobyl catastrophe made its surrounding regions uninhabitable by humans for centuries.

Yet, astonishingly, the usual suspects of deception are saying absolutely nothing about this problem. The mainstream media (the dying dinosaur media, actually) pretends there's no problem with Fukushima. President Obama says nothing about it. Federal regulators, including the NRC, are all but silent. It's as if they think their silence on the issue somehow makes it go away.

Perhaps these professional liars in the media and government have become so used to idea that they can simply spin their own reality (and get the public suckers to believe almost anything) that they now believe they can ignore the laws of physics. That's why they have refused to cover the low-level radiation plume that continues to be emitted from Fukushima.

The fate of the world now rests on reactor No. 4

"It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on No.4 reactor." - Mitsuhei Murata, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and Senegal, Executive Director, the Japan Society for Global System and Ethics

Mr. Murata's stunning statement should be front-page news everywhere around the world. Why? Because he's right. If reactor No. 4 suffers even a minor earthquake, it could set off a chain reaction of events that quickly lead to North America becoming uninhabitable by humans for centuries to come. Imagine California, Oregon and Washington states being inundated with radiation -- up to 85 times the radiation release from Chernobyl. We're talking about the end of human life on the scale of continents.

Here's how this could happen, according to Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy:

"The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident. The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters." (http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-... (http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-fuel-has-85-times-more-cesium-released-chernobyl-%E2%80%94-%E2%80%9Cit-woul))

Note: He says "10 times" the Cesium-137 of Chernobyl. Others say up to 85 times. Nobody is 100% certain of what would actually occur because this has never happened before. We are in uncharted territory as a civilization, facing a unique and imminent threat to our continued survival. And both governments and the corporations that assured us nuclear power was safe are playing their "cover my ass" games while the world waits in the crosshairs of a nuclear apocalypse.

Fukushima Facts

To better understand the severity of this situation, read these facts about Fukushima reactor No. 4 which I have assembled from available news sources:

• Reactor #4 contains 1,535 spent fuel rods which remain highly radioactive.

• These fuel rods currently hold the potential to emit 37 million curies of radiation.

• Those fuel rods are stored in a concrete pool located 100 feet above the ground, inside the structurally compromised reactor building, effectively making the pool open to the air.

• The pool holding these fuel rods is "structurally damaged."

• "If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident." - Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy.

• "The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors." - Mr. Alvarez.

• Just 50 meters from reactor No. 4, a much larger pool of spent fuel rods contains 6,375 fuel rods, all of which remain highly radioactive.

• All these fuel rods are, astonishingly, exposed to the open air. They are not held inside any containment vessel.

• The total number of spent fuel rods across all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site is 11,421.

• If reactor No. 4 suffers a structural failure, the release of radiation from the 1,535 spent fuel rods would make it virtually impossible for work to continue on the site, potentially resulting in an inability to halt a massive radiation release from all the other rods.

• In all, the 11,421 fuel rods held at the Fukushima Daiichi facility contain roughly 336 million curies of "long-lived radioactivity." Roughly 134 million curies of that is Cesium-137.

• "Reactors that have been operating for decades, such as those at the Fukushima-Dai-Ichi site have generated some of the largest concentrations of radioactivity on the planet." - Mr. Robert Alvarez, U.S. Dept. of Energy

• This amount of Cesium-137 radioactivity held in the full collection of fuel rods at Fukushima is 85 times the amount released at Chernobyl.

• The release of this amount of Cesium-137 would "destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is an issue of human survival." (http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html)

• The mainstream media operates in a total blackout of this news, refusing to even acknowledge the existence of this immediate threat to human civilization.

• The mainstream media is, in large part, owned by General Electric, the very company that designed the Fukushima reactors in the first place. It is clear that GE is diligently running a total media blackout on this news in order to cover its own ass and prevent people from asking questions about the faulty engineering and nuclear facility site selection that led to this catastrophe.

18,000 dead so far and hundreds of millions at risk: The media cover-up

"The executive branch and multiple federal agencies, agencies tasked with keeping the American public safe, did their best to hide and to cover-up information about a deadly radioactive plume and ensuing fallout that was headed for the West Coast of the United States from Japan," says Alexander Higgins. (http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/01/plumegate-media-silent-fe... (http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/01/plumegate-media-silent-feds-fukushima-coverup-88832/))

He goes on to state "The evidence obtained in the FOIA request indicates that right from the start, the NRC had a clear idea of the significance of the disaster that was unfolding, but concealed the truth from the American public. The results of the plume and fallout can be measured in the rise of infant mortality rates: cells of unborn and newborn children are dividing at a much higher rate than those of a mature adult, thus the amount of damage is greatly increased and hence more detectable. Conservative estimates place the number of stillborn following the Fukushima accident at over 18,000."

See the FOIA documents here:
http://www.houseoffoust.com/NRC/ML11269A172.pdf

and here:
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A106.pdf

The conspiracy cover-up of the radioactive plumes still being emitted from Fukushima is now being called "Plume-Gate." This issue needs to be front and center on all our radar screens. There may quite literally be nothing more important for the survival of the human race than dealing with this runaway issue of Fukushima radiation in the immediate term, and the larger issue of the scientific fraud of nuclear power "safety" thereafter.

As Higgins explains, "It is this author's opinion that any media source not shouting about Plume-Gate as loud as they can are likely controlled by the powers-that-be." He's got a point. This should be our No. 1 issue, and NaturalNews is re-shifting priorities right now to help raise the alarm on the impeding Fukushima disaster for the obvious reason that everything else pales in comparison to the importance of dealing with this.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1uFztqlew

Serpo

7th May 2012, 11:31 PM

http://www.timelessgaming.com/timeless/forum/images/smilies/Kolo%20popcorm1.gif I've been at this doomer stuff too long. Even something as catastrophic as this does not phase me anymore.

What about when yer pop corn becomes radioactive..................

Spectrism

8th May 2012, 06:45 AM

What about when yer pop corn becomes radioactive..................

The problem is when all your stored popcorn pops in your prepper stores because of all the radiation. Then you know we got a problem.

People still living in Japan are delusional. The place is toast. It will take massive deaths before they wake up. The enormous volume of radioactive water poured into the Pacific would kill even godzilla.... or make a new one.

This summer will be a hot one in many ways.

PatColo

8th May 2012, 08:04 AM

People still living in Japan are delusional. The place is toast. It will take massive deaths before they wake up.

According to Yoishi Shimatsu, they are waking up- and stories of radiation related health problems are getting too abundant to ignore.

latest @ rense:

Japan Nuclear Disaster

Radioactive Tokyo
Jeff With Dr. Richard Wilcox PhD
Listen Free - Click Here (http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Wilcox_030112.mp3)

NEW
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Japan Update
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Free MP3 - Listen
http://rense.com/1.mpicons/audio_icon.gif (http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Shimatsu_050712.mp3) NEW
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Free MP3 - Listen
http://rense.com/1.mpicons/audio_icon.gif (http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_050712.mp3)
Real Time World Earthquake Monitor (http://www.iris.edu/seismon/)

TEPCO Fukushsima Live Cam (http://mfile.akamai.com/127380/live/reflector:51361.asx)
Fukushima Reactor Bldg 4 Said 'Safe' After Quakes (http://enenews.com/nisa-earthquake-may-have-caused-ground-subsidence-in-the-area-of-fukushima-plants-safety-of-reactor-no-4-building-was-visually-confirmed-video)- Vid
Scientist Worries Over Fukushima Daiichi Grow (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/07/japan-fukushima-nuclear-power-earthquakes)
WA To Begin Testing Clams For Fukushima Radiation (http://enenews.com/just-in-could-it-really-happen-state-of-washington-to-begin-testing-clams-for-fukushima-radiation-salmon-and-steelhead-also-will-continue-until-public-concern-abates-video)
Broken Fuel Rods Admitted Lying On Bottom Of SFP 4 (http://enenews.com/japan-expert-there-are-known-to-be-broken-fuel-rod-assemblies-in-spent-fuel-pool-no-4-large-amount-of-radioactive-material-has-fallen-to-bottom-many-years-to-get-fuel-out-video)- Vid
Worries Mount Over Reactor 4 SFP Stabilty (http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/fukushima_spentfuel)
Radiation Is 4,000% Higher Than Reported By Japan Govt (http://enenews.com/physician-radiation-levels-4000-higher-reported-japan-govt-12-megabequerels-meter-designated-evacuation-site-video)
Radiation Already Causing Health Problems Around Tokyo (http://enenews.com/head-medical-clinic-radiation-already-causing-health-problems-around-tokyo-highly-contaminated-areas-already-led-physiological-damage-video)
Prof - 20,000 Sq Km Should Be Evacuated At Fukushima (http://enenews.com/kyoto-professor-20000-square-kilometers-be-evacuated-japan-followed-law-illegal-radioactive-waste-completely-devoid-people-video) -- Vid
Mayor - 'Losing My Hair, Nose Bleeds Every Day' (http://enenews.com/mayor-i%E2%80%99m-losing-my-hair-and-have-nosebleed-everyday-i-asked-for-blood-test-at-a-hospital-in-tokyo-because-i%E2%80%99m-exposed-but-they-refused-it-video) - Vid
German TV More & More Living In Highly Radioactive Areas (http://enenews.com/german-tv-interview-fukushima-people-living-highly-contaminated-places-dying-heart-disease-because-cesium) - Vid
Which Falls First, The Economy Or Fukushima SFP 4? (http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/07/which-will-collapse-first-the-economy-or-the-spent-fuel-pool-at-fukushima/) - Vid
Tornado Rips Ibaraki Prefecture, 30 Homes Destroyed (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/tornado-in-ibaraki-prefecture.html) - Vid
Gunderson - SFP 4 Reinforced Floor Not As Strong As Original (http://enenews.com/gundersen-unit-4-reactor-building-has-not-been-reinforced-floor-of-fuel-pool-was-but-not-strong-as-original)
How Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool Cooling Should Work (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-fukushimas-spent-fuel-pool-cooling.html)
NRC Avoids SFP 4 Because Of Identical Plants In US (http://enenews.com/experts-charge-nrc-letting-fukushima-unit-4-threat-fester-because-acknowledging-call-question-safety-dozens-identically-designed-nuclear-plants)
No Non-Radioactive 'Clean' Food Left In Japan (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/hiroaki-koide-adults-in-japan-should.html)
Japan Doesn't Know Where Melted Cores 1-3 Are (http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-dont-point-melted-down-core-reactors-1-2-3-video) - Vid
Ability Of Reactor 4 To Take Another Serious Quake Rated '0' (http://enenews.com/ability-unit-4-withstand-another-seismic-event-rated-nuclear-watchdog)
Japan Prof - Adults Should Eat Radioactive Food To Atone... (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/05/hiroaki-koide-adults-in-japan-should.html)
Reactor Building 4 Ability To Withstand New Quake Rated ZERO (http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/33192-if-fukushima-unit-4-falls-hazardous-radioactive-cesium-137-release-could-be-eight-times-worse-than-chernobyl.html)
Gunderson - Water Pouring Out SFP 4 Bottom, Pumped Back Into Top (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-on-no-4-fuel-pool-theyre-pumping-water-in-and-its-draining-out-into-basement-they-suck-it-out-of-basement-and-put-it-back-in-at-top-there-is-no-containment-video) - Vid
124.8 Sieverts/Hr In Iidatemura AFTER Decontamination! (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/124-8%CE%BCsvh-in-iidatemura-after-decontamination/)
Limitless Radiation Dosage For Nuclear Workers (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/limitless-dosage-of-nuclear-workers/)
Tepco Manipulating Dosages Of Fukushima Workers (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/tepco-started-manipulating-dosage-of-nuclear-workers/)
Graffiti - 'I Will Kill Myself If You Accept Radioactive Debris' (http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2012/05/graffiti-on-city-hall-bldg-in-akita.html)
Gunderson - Move South Of The Equator If SFP 4 Goes Dry (http://enenews.com/gundersen-move-south-equator-unit-4-fuel-pool-dry-lesson-like-cesium-all-800-nuclear-bombs-dropped-earth-except-all-video)
Japan Prof Extremely Worried That Reactor 4 SFP Might Fall (http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-professor-press-conference-im-worried-very-about-reinforcement-4-fuel-pool-praying-wont-be-large-aftershocks-video) - Vid
6 Days Straight Of 4.0 And Greater Fukushima Quakes (http://enenews.com/sixth-straight-day-m4-quake-above-fukushima)
Japan Switches Off Last Nuclear Power Plant (http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/uk-japan-nuclear-idUKBRE8430BR20120504)
Everyone Now Watching Reactor 4 SFP - Danger Grows (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-everybody-paying-attention-unit-4-because-four-years-water-lost-beacon-radiation-will-bathe-site-sky-shine-gamma-rays-audio)
Gunderson - SFP Water Still Boiling And Throwing Off Radiation (http://enenews.com/gundersen-water-steaming-boiling-radiation-being-given-be-visible-recent-tepco-webcam-footage-video) - Vid
Reactor 4 SFP Not Safe Even If It Survives More Quakes (http://tinyurl.com/br5oeab)
A No-Nuclear Scenario For Japan Possible (http://enenews.com/financial-times-no-nuclear-scenario-could-be-ruled-japan-iea-public-remains-sceptical-concerning-nuclear-industry)
Fukushima Could Leave Giant Areas Dead For 100,000s Yrs (http://tinyurl.com/bmxab88) - Vid
DHS Study Coverup Of Fukushima Fallout Over US (http://tinyurl.com/csbp5lw)
US Seafood Co Now Testing For Radiation In N Pacific Fish (http://enenews.com/seafood-provider-tests-fukushima-contamination-growing-concern-potential-radiation-affecting-nations-seafood-trace-amounts-present-rare-cases)
Over Limit Cesium In 51 More Food Items In 9 Prefectures (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120502a9.html)
Decontaminating Japan Is 'Hopeless' (http://enenews.com/cleaning-up-radiation-hopeless-there-is-no-end-we-adults-have-to-bear-a-responsibility-for-the-future-impossible-to-decontaminate-vast-forested-areas-and-japan-is-a-country-of-forest)
Japan Will No Longer Be A Developed Country By 2050 (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120502a1.html)
Expert - No Known Technology Can Resolve Fukushima Crisis (http://enenews.com/world-leader-in-decommissioning-reactors-there-is-no-technology-which-may-be-directly-applied-at-fukushima)
Urgent Request For UN To Stabilize Reactor 4 SFP (http://enenews.com/just-in-coalition-requests-un-intervention-to-stabilize-spent-fuel-pool-no-4-at-fukushima-endorsed-by-nuclear-experts)
Japan Journalist - TEPCO Is On Week Long Vacation! (http://enenews.com/report-tepco-taking-vacation-from-fukushima-for-week-long-holiday)
TEPCO Can't Measure Temps In SFPs 1-3 f Cooling Stops (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/in-case-coolant-system-stopped-in-any-sfp-tepco-cant-measure-temperture/)
New Radiation Readings In Fukushima...Bad News (http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/reality-in-fukushima-video/) - Vid
Japan Government Insane Views On Radiation Exposure (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/04/ministry-of-environments-logic-on.html)
Fukushima Radiation Is Destroying The Pacific Ocean (http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/30/fukushima-on-steroids-japan-is-in-the-process-of-contaminating-the-entire-pacific-ocean/)
Hydrogen Explosion Risk At Reactor 4 Increases (http://enenews.com/hydrogen-levels-continue-rising-reactor-2-above-50-highest-months-explosion-risk-4)
Tokyo Resident Talks About Radiation And The Future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKpmeLrPLL8&feature=youtu.be)
Inspecting support posts under Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 (http://enenews.com/watch-footage-of-posts-holding-up-spent-fuel-pool-no-4-videos) - Vid
119 Of 132 People Have Radiation In Urine 200km From Fukushima (http://tinyurl.com/7fwucnf)
Over 35% Of Young People Have Thyroid Cysts, Nodules (http://enenews.com/govt-thyroid-cysts-nodules-detected-35-children-18-years)
Radioactive Debris Being Incinerated All Over Japan (http://ex-skf.blogspot.jp/2012/03/disaster-debris-is-radioactive-ministry.html)
Public Right To Know About Looming Fukushima Disaster (http://www.collegian.com/index.php/article/2012/04/public_deserves_to_be_informed_of_looming_fukushim a_disaster_and_ron_pauls_delegate_success)
Canada Govt 'Confused, Directionless' About Fukushima (http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Canadian%2Baction%2BFukushima%2Bconfused%2Bdirecti onless%2Breport/6521698/story.html)
Fukushima Radiation Cause NZ Muttonbird Decline? (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=10802442)
Reactor 4 SFP Needs Only Coolant To Stop To Go Critical (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-all-takes-coolant-stop-circulating-spent-fuel-pool-4-extensive-fuel-damage-occur-doesnt-leak-crack-fall-fuel-overheat)
Find Fukushima Corium? Maybe In A Few Thousand Years... (http://endthelie.com/2012/04/28/fukushima-find-the-corium-maybe-in-a-few-thousand-years-or-so/#ixzz1tRoEHJVq)
Fukushima - Nuclear War Without A War (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870)
Another Ever More Dangerous Potential For Reactor 4 SFP (http://enenews.com/canadian-nuclear-scientist-another-even-more-dangerous-possibility-than-fire-at-spent-fuel-pool-no-4-re-initiation-of-chain-reaction-can-occur-if-fuel-rods-move-slightly-an-accidental-critica)

More... (http://rense.com/Datapages/japanquakedat.htm)

http://rense.com/1.mpicons/images%284%29.jpgFuksuhima Radiation In US & Canada

Jeff With Dr. Blaylock - Supplements That Protect Against Radiation (http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/healing/food-and-supplements-that-protectagainst-dna-damage-dr-russell-blaylock.html) - Vid

US Chart Showing Precipitation
Radiation Types & Amounts (http://opendata.socrata.com/Government/Precipitation-RadNet-Laboratory-Analysis/e2xy-undq)

Live National Radiation Network Map (http://radiationnetwork.com/)

West LA - Santa Monica Live Readings (http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/#averages)

Radiation And Jet Stream Forecast Monitoring Sites (http://rense.com/general93/radiation.htm)

Radiation Dose Chart (http://xkcd.com/radiation/)

Cesium Covers The West Coast, In Pine Needles, Soil (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-studies-showing-cesium-all-down-west-coast-pine-needles-california-ground-vancouver-oregon-lot-biggest-concern-bioaccumulation-works-food-chain-audio)

Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Ill, Hair Falling Out (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139763/Hundreds-flight-attendants-toxic-new-uniforms-causing-hair-fall-making-ill.html)

Weidner - Its Been 3 am For Over A Year Now... (http://rense.com/general95/3am-over-year.htm)

Nuclear Dangers - Mankinds Most Desperate Hour (http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/04/nuclear-dangers-mankinds-most-desperate-hour/)

DHS Study Coverup Of Fukushima Fallout Over US (http://tinyurl.com/csbp5lw)

Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzrWJXBIM0&feature=player_embedded) - Vid
Hanford Radioactive Waste Tanks Failed Requirements (http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/05/hanford_nuclear_reservation_ta_1.html#repete)
Small Dose Radiation May Be Worse (http://enenews.com/nytimes-radiation-small-doses-could-actually-be-disproportionately-worse-report-doses-spread-time-be-dangerous-doses-given-all-renewed-importance-after-fukushima)
Radiation Triples At Tokyo Monitoring Station (http://enenews.com/happening-now-radiation-triples-at-tokyo-monitoring-stations-levels-spike-at-multiple-locations-in-last-two-hours)
Global Radiation Catastrophe & Cataclysmic Evolution (http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/global-radio-logical-catastrophe-and.html)

'Staggering Mess' Tsunami Debris Hits Alaska Coast Early (http://thesunbreak.com/2012/04/30/a-staggering-mess-as-tsunami-debris-hits-alaska-coast-early/)

Mass Radiation Released From US Nuke Plants 1958-1984 (http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/radioactive-revelations-on-nuclear-plants-sound-a-warning-633299/)

Fukushima - The Unspoken Crisis Of Global Nuclear Radiation (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870)

Gunderson On The San Onofre Problem On PBS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2j2vVGkj8) - Vid

Gunderson At San Onofre - Listen - Audio (http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/nuclear-hotseat-45-arnie-gundersen-on-san-onofre-exclusive/)

EPA Failed To Monitor, Protect Americans From Fallout (http://enenews.com/govt-report-epas-ability-to-protect-human-health-with-radnet-was-potentially-impaired-for-fukushima-epa-officials-questioned-why-they-were-using-dramatically-less-strict-standards-for)

3rd Plant Species With Radiation Mutations In Michigan (http://theintelhub.com/2012/04/24/3rd-plant-species-with-radiation-mutations-found-in-3rd-michigan-location/)

Japanese Seaweed Radiation Doubles (http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/japanese-seaweed-radiation-doubles/)

LA Air Even Hotter With Radiation (http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/la-air-even-hotter-with-radiation/)

SF Bay Area Milk Radioactive - 2x Over Allowed EPA Limits (http://enenews.com/april-milk-sample-highest)
SoCal Kelp Radioactivity Danger To Fish Lovers? (http://enenews.com/local-tv-radiation-in-kelp-could-create-a-health-concern-for-so-california-seafood-lovers-the-question-we-all-want-answered-how-dangerous-is-this-to-you-and-me-video) - Vid

The Buckyball Stops Here - Detecting Low Radioactive Levels (http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/the-buckyball-stops-here/)

US Warns Fukushima Tsunami Debris May Be Radioactive (http://enenews.com/us-govt-gets-real-tsunami-debris-might-be-contaminated-with-radiation-from-fukushima-dai-ichi)
Fukushima Radiation In SoCal Fish, Kelp Food Chain (http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_20347771/study-orange-county-coastal-fish-possibly-affected-by)
Berkeley Plutonium Tests Admitted 200-300 Weaker Than Feds (http://enenews.com/uc-berkeley-plutonium-testing-was-200-300-times-less-sensitive-than-us-govt-university-still-may-consider-performing-more-precise-analysis-for-alpha-particles-epa-detected-uranium-238-in-s)

Beware Of Spring Maximum For Radioactive Fallout (http://enenews.com/beware-spring-maximum-radioactive-fallout)

Caldicott Is Evacuating Boston If Reactor 4 SFP Collapses (http://archive.org/details/scm-30754-drhelencaldicottwhatwelearnedf) - Vid
Fuskushima Radiation Reached Alaska In Less Than Month (http://enenews.com/fukushima-radiation-reached-alaska-ocean-month-map)
More... (http://www.rense.com/Datapages/radiationdat.htm)

beefsteak

8th May 2012, 11:36 AM

http://www.timelessgaming.com/timeless/forum/images/smilies/Kolo%20popcorm1.gif I've been at this doomer stuff too long. Even something as catastrophic as this does not phase me anymore.

Whenever did this event phase you in the first place, book? I guess I slept through that posting spate of yours in the last 14 months...

beefsteak

8th May 2012, 11:53 AM

Hi, PatColo,
Many thanks for your generous hyperlink jammed posting above.

While admitting I did not click either 'More' invitation at the bottom of each sectional divider in your proferred and most helpful post, Yoi chi Shimatsu did mention one thing that spun my head around. This particular, vetted and long-standing, credible environmental journalist's report is exactly why I listen to Rense on Monday nights...Y.S. can say "unsanitized by ZSM" factual reporting that only one outside the USA can get away with saying.

Y.S. addressed and spent some time dicussing the beaching deaths of over 900 dolphins onto Peruvian beaches, 6 days ago (May 2, 2012).

Y.S. stated it is known fact that these porpoises were examined post death and were hugely sporting massive amounts of internal lesions especially visible in the lungs. He mentioned other internal evidences of lesions, as well. )0(

And he spoke to the evidence of starvation due to the lower in the aquatic foodchain decimated supplies of what consistutes "fish food" for these mammals.

NO wonder journalistic reporting/investigation of this story has quickly "fallen off" the front pages in western press most especially.

And some bar keep in the PacNW has a minnow shooting contest and awards emblazoned T-shirts to those who down the formerly live now frozen minnows?

Well, I guess it should be wrily noted that he at least got the T-Shirt color right...glow in the dark brilliant yellow.

beefsteak

gunDriller

8th May 2012, 01:08 PM

I'll take a stab...Jim Dines?

you win !!!

Beefsteak the Master of World Affairs !

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/5/5_James_Dines_files/James%20Dines%205%3A5%3A2012.mp3

there's a link to the webcast.

Dines is fvcking BRILLIANT as a market watcher & analyst. he catches historical points of inflection years before others see them, sort of delivering on what Gerald Celente promises.

side-note - all these guys brag about seeing the real estate collapse coming.

but for Dines to say what he said, Gosh Almighty, the man has a cognitive blind spot that is just singularly huge.

from hearing other engineers who work in the nuclear industry subscribe to the "nuclear power is safe" concept, i can sort of understand. sort of. but people like Helen Caldicott are fairly un-impeachable.

i wonder if Jim Sinclair knows Helen Caldicott ? since he is following her advice re re-locating - and they're both on the US EAST Coast.

there have been so many news articles about Fukushima. i remember some about the Japanese crew of workers who knowingly exposed themselves to fatal doses of radiation in order to try to fix the many problems. OK, conceivably they are all still alive, just slowly dying from radiation exposure.

but there was also a news story about a spike in infant death mortality immediately post-Fukushima. conceivably caused by something else.

it is just odd to hear someone as smart as Dines promote the idea that such a massive concentrated release of many, many different kinds of radiation has no negative health effects.

Triple face palm.

maybe we should put him in contact with a Fukushima prefecture real estate agent ? :) i would love to see Dines use his fairly massive wealth to provide relocation assistance for the victims of Fukushima.

Neuro

9th May 2012, 12:15 AM

If Sinclair moved to Tanzania to avoid the glowing rain, I think he is deluding himself, it isn't South enough from the equator, you should be at least below 23' South probably below 30' South latitude, to minimize northern hemisphere fallout. Possibly being above the North polar circle (67' N) could offer protection also...Think Svalbard seed vaults of the elite...

Serpo

9th May 2012, 03:21 PM

Serpo

9th May 2012, 03:22 PM

Fukushima Daiichi Worker: Nothing can be done except to leak radioactive water! — Honestly feel that we are dumping massive amounts into ocean — Will spread all over world, reaching Hawaii and US soon

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After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the Legacy of 3.11 (http://japanfocus.org/-Makiko-Segawa/3752)
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 19, No. 2
By Makiko Segawa
May 7, 2012

Continuous Dumping of Contaminated Water Possibly angry at this situation, on April 21st a 62-year-old nuclear worker broke the silence on the continued leakage of contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi. Speaking to me, he requested anonymity for fear of losing his job. He supervises a construction site aimed at building a new facility to extract radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium from the contaminated water used to cool the plant’s crippled reactors. He revealed that the current facility removes only cesium and that other radioactive materials such as strontium cannot be cleaned up.
He expressed astonishment at the scale of the cleanup operation. “You know how much contaminated water is stored at the Fukushima Daiichi site? It is 200,000 tons. It is an enormous amount!” “In reality,” he said, raising his voice, “it is impossible to store that much water on site. So, it is obvious that some of the contaminated water has been leaked into the ocean.”
[...] “Everyone there knows that the amount of water is huge but does not speak about it. Anyone who works there understands that nothing can be done except to leak the water!” he stressed. “Everyone criticizes North Korea for its missiles. But what about Japanese morality? The contamination will spread all over the world, reaching to Kamchatka, Hawaii and the U.S. soon,” he added.
Toward the end of our conversation, he said, “You know, in Japan, there is ‘honne’ (honest feeling) and ‘tatemae’ (polite-face). “Our tatemae is that we are doing our utmost to stop the leakage of contamination, and our honnne is that we are dumping massive amounts of contaminated water into the ocean.” [...]

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Serpo

9th May 2012, 03:27 PM

LOS ANGELES May 8, 2012 (AP)

More than 1,300 tubes that carry radioactive water inside the San Onofre nuclear plant in Southern California are so damaged that they will be taken out of service, the utility that runs the plant said Tuesday.

The figures released by Southern California Edison are the latest disclosure in a probe of equipment problems that have kept the coastal plant sidelined for more than three months.

At issue has been the integrity of tubing that snakes through the plant's four steam generators, which were installed in a multimillion-dollar makeover in 2009 and 2010.

A company statement said that as of Monday, 510 tubes had been plugged, or retired from use, in the Unit 2 reactor, and 807 tubes in its sister, Unit 3. Each of the generators has nearly 10,000 tubes, and the number retired is well within the limit allowed to continue operation.

The statement comes just days after an Edison executive said the company hopes to restart at least one of the twin reactors next month. The company is drafting a plan under which the reactors would run at reduced power, at least for several months, because engineers believe that will solve a problem with vibration that the company believes has been causing unusual wear in the alloy tubing.

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Government regulators say there is no timetable for a restart, which would require federal approval.

A joint statement issued Tuesday by Edison and the agency that operates the state's wholesale power system, the California Independent System Operator, said the possible June dates are for planning and subject to change.

"There is no timeline on nuclear safety," Edison President Ron Litzinger said.

Activists viewed the new figures as another alarming sign following a tube break in January, which prompted Edison to shut down the Unit 3 reactor as a precaution. Traces of radiation escaped at the time, but officials said there was no danger to workers or neighbors.

Unit 2 was taken offline in January for routine maintenance, but investigators later confirmed accelerated wear on tubing in both units.

"It seems that these new steam generators are falling apart and Edison doesn't know why. It would be foolhardy to restart, even at reduced power, under the current circumstances," said Daniel Hirsch, a nuclear watchdog who lectures on nuclear policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ted Craver, chairman of SCE parent Edison International, told investors in a phone call last week that unusual wear was found in about 1 percent of nearly 39,000 tubes in the steam generators.

Costs related to the long-running shutdown could climb over $100 million, company officials say, and state officials have warned about possible rotating blackouts in Southern California while the reactors are offline.

About 7.4 million Californians live within 50 miles of San Onofre, which can power 1.4 million homes.

The plant is owned by SCE, San Diego Gas & Electric and the city of Riverside. The Unit 1 reactor operated from 1968 to 1992, when it was shut down and dismantled.http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/1300-tubes-damaged-ailing-cal-reactors-16304993#.T6ru6TIoM-N

Serpo

9th May 2012, 03:38 PM

you win !!!

Beefsteak the Master of World Affairs !

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2012/5/5_James_Dines_files/James%20Dines%205%3A5%3A2012.mp3

there's a link to the webcast.

Dines is fvcking BRILLIANT as a market watcher & analyst. he catches historical points of inflection years before others see them, sort of delivering on what Gerald Celente promises.

side-note - all these guys brag about seeing the real estate collapse coming.

but for Dines to say what he said, Gosh Almighty, the man has a cognitive blind spot that is just singularly huge.

from hearing other engineers who work in the nuclear industry subscribe to the "nuclear power is safe" concept, i can sort of understand. sort of. but people like Helen Caldicott are fairly un-impeachable.

i wonder if Jim Sinclair knows Helen Caldicott ? since he is following her advice re re-locating - and they're both on the US EAST Coast.

there have been so many news articles about Fukushima. i remember some about the Japanese crew of workers who knowingly exposed themselves to fatal doses of radiation in order to try to fix the many problems. OK, conceivably they are all still alive, just slowly dying from radiation exposure.

but there was also a news story about a spike in infant death mortality immediately post-Fukushima. conceivably caused by something else.

it is just odd to hear someone as smart as Dines promote the idea that such a massive concentrated release of many, many different kinds of radiation has no negative health effects.

Triple face palm.

maybe we should put him in contact with a Fukushima prefecture real estate agent ? :) i would love to see Dines use his fairly massive wealth to provide relocation assistance for the victims of Fukushima.

These people are delusional as they still promote the idea that nuc is safe ,safe ,safe...........except its just another BS dream they are trying to promote........some people get paid to say anything and any one that says nuc is harmless ect after what has happened at FUK is batting for the other side.The atomic nuc agency is still out to make a profit from nuc energy even if it means we all die....................

Serpo

10th May 2012, 02:52 PM

report about airline workers hair falling out from Alaska so he takes a Geiger counter up on flight with him..............

Flight attendants fall ill after wearing ‘toxic’ uniforms which ‘make their HAIR fall out’

Hundreds of Alaska Airlines flight attendants say their new uniforms are making them ill.The attendants have complained that the outfits, which may be contaminated with a toxic chemical, have caused itching, hair loss and other unpleasant reactions.
In a letter to the company’s president, union leaders representing Alaska Airlines employees demanded that the uniforms are changed.
[...]http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/05/09/hundreds-flight-attendants-fall-ill-hair-falling-131171/
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/04/article-2139763-12EDF234000005DC-367_468x286.jpg
Painful: 280 attendants have complained about the uniforms causing itching, hair loss and other adverse side affects
The Association of Flight Attendants says that 280 flight stewards – roughly one in 10 of the total workforce – have suffered from the side effects since the new uniforms were introduced last year.
[...]
The attendant said he didn’t know whether the uniform was definitely the cause of the rash but added: ‘I didn’t have it until I flew six, seven days in a row and then I started breaking out.’
[...]
Source: The Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139763/Hundreds-flight-attendants-toxic-new-uniforms-causing-hair-fall-making-ill.html)
Here is a snip from my report on the animal die-offs.

Marine Die-offs, Polar Bears Losing Fur And Sick Animals In Alaska As Radiation Hits West Coast (http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/10/marine-dieoffs-polar-bears-losing-fur-mystery-illnesses-alaska-115241/)

Marine and land life in Alaska is being sickened and dieing off from an unknown causes as a wave of Fukushima nuclear radiation heads toward the coast of California.

The raw story just ran a corporate media article acknowledging the discovery of Iodine radiation in kelp off the coast of California.
The story added few details to what has already been widely reported in the alternative media. Most notably was the iodine was first detected in the water within a month of the Fukushima meltdown and the double speak over the safety because the levels are supposedly relatively low. Relative to what?

Radiation from Japan found in kelp off U.S. West Coast

LOS ANGELES — Radioactive iodine was found in kelp off the US West Coast following last year’s earthquake-triggered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, according to a new study.
It was already known that radioactive iodine 131 (131-I), carried in the atmosphere, made it across the Pacific within days of the March 11, 2011 tsunami disaster, albeit in minuscule amounts.
But marine biologists at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) discovered the radioactive isotope in ocean kelp, which is “one of the strongest plant accumulators of iodine,” within a month of the accident.
“We measured significant, although most likely non-harmful levels of radioactive iodine in tissue of the giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera,” said Steven L. Manley, author of the study with Christopher G. Lowe
“Although it is probably not harmful for humans because it was relatively low levels, it may have affected certain fish that graze on the tissue because fish have a thyroid system that utilizes iodine.”
[...]
Source: Raw Story (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/09/radiation-from-japan-found-in-kelp-off-u-s-west-coast/)
What was most notable about the story was the following comment which points out the polar bears in Alaska are losing their fur and there are marine die-offs occurring in the Gulf of Alaska.
Anyone talking about the recent strange illness involving polar bears losing their fur? The reported marine die-offs in the Gulf of Alaska?
http://www.alaskapublic.org/20… (http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/04/06/polar-bears-show-signs-of-mysterious-illness/)
Polar Bears Show Signs of Mysterious Illness

http://www.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/polar-bear-alopecia_USGS.jpeg (http://www.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/polar-bear-alopecia_USGS.jpeg)
Polar bears with Alopecia and skin lesions in the Beaufort Sea. March 21, 2012. Photo courtesy USGS.
Biologists have found Polar Bears in the Beaufort Sea with hair loss and skin lesions. Those are the same symptoms that have sickened ice seals and walruses in the arctic since last summer and led the federal government to declare the incident an unusual mortality event. Scientists are just beginning an investigation into whether polar bears are suffering from the same thing.

“The first day we observed it was on March 21st and we had three captures and two of them had Alopecia, which is the skin loss and so it was like, ‘oh that’s interesting.’ Then we started picking it up on other animals in later march so it was like, this is more than normal.”
So far, the field scientists have found hair loss on nine of the 33 bears they’ve captured. The bears have skin lesions on their head, neck and ears. Degange says they have found polar bears with similar symptoms since 1999, but the number of effected bears makes this year unusual:

“The bears appear to be healthy otherwise. We haven’t seen any dead bears, so its not a mortality event as far as we know. But the fact that its occurring at the same time as this unexplained mortality event with seals certainly raises the interest level.”
The biologists collected blood and tissues from the affected bears to try to figure out if the symptoms are related to the mysterious illness that has been found in ice seals and walruses. Dozens of seals have died from the disease, but no walrus deaths are attributed to it. Scientists don’t know yet if the walrus and seals are suffering from the same thing. Although the veterinary pathologist who has done most of the necropsies on the animals say the lesions look very similar under the microscope. Julie Speegle is a spokesperson for the National Marine Fisheries Service. She says its been a difficult case:
[...]
Read Entire Article (http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/04/10/marine-dieoffs-polar-bears-losing-fur-mystery-illnesses-alaska-115241/)
Then If you haven’t seen it check out this video of the radiation in airplane fights which was recorded during a flight from Michigan to Georgia which is much further from Fukushima.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmqgYyyDDU&feature=player_embedded#!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qmqgYyyDDU&feature=player_embedded#!NOTE FROM MILKY: I borrowed a Soeks geiger counter from a friend to measure the radiation in the airplane ride from Flint Michigan (layover in Atlanta) and off from Atlanta to San Diego this past Feb. 22, shortly after the Chicago area and San Onfre (near San Diego) nuclear plants both released radioactive steam. I turned it on at 10,000 feet when the pilot announces you can turn electronic devices on. We cruised up to 32.000 feet. Radiation reached approx. 2.85 mcSv/h Microsiverts per hour. Considered Dangerous radiation.

PatColo

11th May 2012, 06:37 PM

This story combines "reactor #4 doom" with the conspiratorial "Izzy did Fukushima" perspective; however, check the link, I don't see an author attrubuted. Other's published work are cited, Shimatsu, Jim Stone etc. It's really sort of a composite of the various known & speculative scenarios floating around.

find some reader comments on this article here: http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/20...hima/#comments (http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/why-the-media-is-silent-about-fukushima/#comments)

Why the Media is Silent about Fukushima (http://jinnwe.com/quest.php?id=511)

Fukushima's Reactor 4 threatens to make extinct ALL humanity.
Many have already come forward to speak about the impending extinction level event that Fukushima represents.

Nuclear expert Leuren Moret (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be0ow2Jjs9E)
Japanese nuclear expert Hiroaki Koide (http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-humanity-as-whole-has-literally-never-experienced-something-like-fukushima-we-will-be-fighting-this-radiation-on-the-order-of-tens-or-hundreds-of-years-video) says "This is something which humanity as a whole has literally never experienced"
Japanese Diplotmat Akio Matsumura (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwCfAY4iyPQ&feature=player_embedded)
Former head of US Army intelligence (http://youtu.be/UJIEZvX4PZI)
American Senator Ron Wyden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34oRAnQNH_s)

They have come forth and stated point blank that Fukushima is now on the brink of taking down the entire human race. This is the greatest danger humanity has ever faced, yet the mainstream media has barely covered the story... why?

more: http://jinnwe.com/quest.php?id=511

Golden

12th May 2012, 11:55 AM

http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/20120430_Message_of_Fuku3.htm
The Message of Fukushima Unit Three

TerraHertz 20120501
Recently there has been a great deal of concern about the stability of the Unit #4 spent fuel pool at Fukushima, and the globally disasterous consequences should it fail.

That is an entirely valid fear. However it's not the worst news from Fukushima. It might even be that focus on the #4 SFP is a deliberate distraction. Because there's something even more terrible off to the side of #4. That is the message of Fukushima Unit Three.

Some people still think it was the reactor pressure vessel of Fukushima Unit #3 that blew up on March 14, 2011. However when one examines aerial shots of the roof wreckage afterwards, it's clear it can't have been the #3 reactor that blew, because the girder framework of the roof is still intact above the reactor well. If the reactor had blown its lid, the pressure dome and the huge floor-plug above it would have punched a hole in the roof girder framework directly above.

http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/aerial-2011-3-30-unit3.jpg

Fukushima Unit Three, Mar 30th, 2011.

There is little damage to the girders above the reactor well, and the crane is also present below them. The frame damage in this area seems to be from the impact of rubble from the concrete roof slab, as it fell back down.
Instead we see the girders are entirely destroyed and missing above the #3 Spent Fuel Pool. Mr Gunderson has pointed this out, suggesting there must have been a criticality in the SFP.

I agree. Where I differ from Gunderson, is that I think there were three prompt criticalities in SFP #3, in rapid succession.

There is just one video on the net of the Unit #3 explosion complete with sound. It was recorded live off-air from channel 9 TV in Australia by 'oztvwatcher', before anyone in the MSM networks thought to edit out the sound. It is hard to find the video as it seems to keep being taken down, but here is my saved copy. (679KB) Take and save that now while you can, in case I'm forced to remove it.

It is one of the most significant videos you'll ever see. The crucial point in the video is, there are three very distinct and separate bangs, about equal in intensity, and half a second gap between each.

One bang or three, what's the difference, it blew up, right?
Perhaps it won't seem terribly significant when you first hear them. But once you understand what they signify, and the implications, they carry a terrible message. In this article I will tell you what it is.

The first bang was the hydrogen explosion and immediate first prompt criticality in the SFP, as the hydrogen explosion rearranged fuel pellets that were above the lowered water level and loose because their zirconium tubes had burned away. That burning in steam was what produced the hydrogen for the initial explosion. With possible contribution from exposed rods burning in the reactor core as well, and the gases escaping the pressure vessel.

And then... now pay attention, this is tricky. First you need to understand how the water in SFPs does more than keep the rods cool, and shield the radiation. If there was no water, decay neutrons leave the vicinity too fast to interact with other rods enough to support a criticality. Not enough neutron-reaction feedback, so no chain reaction criticality. (Never mind that the rods would be overheating and catching fire in air, that's not the point here.)
On the other hand, with water present the neutrons are slowed and absorbed by the water fast enough to prevent them interacting with other rods, so... not enough feedback, and no chain reaction criticality.

Got that? No water, neutrons leave too fast. With water, neutrons slow down too much and get absorbed. Both states mean no nuclear chain reaction, no criticality.

Now for the cold, logical and horribly inevitable truth. It follows from the above that for some degree of neutron slowing/absorption in between the 'water' and 'no-water' states, there is a condition in which neutron-fission positive feedback within the stacked rods is just right, and prompt criticality will occur within milliseconds.

What might this intermediate state between water and no-water be? Why, it's simple. It would be water in the process of flash boiling into steam. At some point, the expanding froth of water/steam will hit the right average density between the fuel rods, and there'll be a nuclear chain reaction.

What would cause a volume of water in a SFP to flash boil? Why... a strong nuclear chain reaction nearby! The huge flux of neutrons from a zone of the rods that went critical, will be absorbed by the water nearby... as in, deeper in the SFP. The neutrons heat the water enormously, and the water suddenly wants to boil. Nothing stopping expansion but its own inertia, and so it begins to expand...

It turns out that SFPs are actually much like strings of firecrackers tied together.

If the tops of the rods are exposed for a while, they burn. In the worst case there's a prompt criticality in the burning section, either spontaneously as pellets fall into clumps, or as a result of shock movement of pellets due to hydrogen explosion.

The criticality causes a huge neutron pulse. Which in turn causes a volume of water lower down in the pool to flash boil.

As that water changes state into steam (which takes a little while, say, oh, half a second) a moment will come when a new area of the fuel rods in the volume of expanding water/steam froth suddenly reaches criticality. Causing another huge pulse of neutrons.

These in turn heat another shell of water, still deeper in the SFP. And the cycle repeats until it runs out of fuel rod length, or water, or some other limit is reached. In the case of Fukushima #3 SFP, the cycling stopped after the third criticality pulse.
Why not two pulses, or five? It doesn't matter. The point is it kept going after the first.

Note that each prompt criticality will only be brief, since it will stop as soon as the flash boiling water expands further and becomes sufficiently like 'no water'. It's likely that the rods going briefly critical would still be sitting there afterwards, rather than actually blowing up. They just produced a brief, huge thermal and neutron power pulse.

Then afterwards, exposed to air, they'll suffer a zirconium fire and burn. But that's much later compared to the fast process of the 'SFP firecracker string' effect. The newly exposed rod casings burning may be why unit #3 had so much white smoke in the day or so after the main explosion.

The fuel pellets thrown for kilometers around SFP #3 would be from the initially burnt top sections of the rods, before the nuclear-flash boiled water below turned the SFP into a giant steam-powered shotgun. That fired three times. Three bangs.

Note that this effect may have involved quite a small proportion of the total fuel load in the SFP. Other sections of the rod racks may be mostly undamaged. The initial zirconium fires may have been only among areas of recently added rods, with their higher heat output. The first criticality may have been in a relatively small volume of the collapsed burnt rods. Only some rod groups will be sufficiently active enough to support criticality at all.

Also the brief criticalities themselves may not have done much physical damage to the racks. A steam flash boil explosion down in the pool would direct its force up, between the vertical fuel rods. But the three-shot series of steam bangs from the gun-barrel-like SFP, mixed with rubble and uranium dust went straight up.

The original hydrogen explosion produced a powerful distributed overpressure pulse, that blew out the concrete side wall panels and set the concrete roof slab moving rapidly upwards. The steel girder structure below the roof slab would have been relatively unaffected by the hydrogen explosion overpressure due to the low surface area of the beams, and their strength and ductility. But the high velocity jet of material ejected upwards from the SFP by the steam explosions then completely obliterated the roof structural girders above the SFP. Basically, the jet cut them to pieces.

In the video we see an incredible dense vertical shaft of upwards-directed material, that just seems to go on and on. In a classic nuclear mushroom cloud the 'column' is fairly static - it's just a smoke trail rising slower than the fireball. But with Fuku #3 that column looks like it's all going UP, fast, the whole time. The reason the explosion jet looks so continuous, is that the base was being resupplied with newly ejected material, blasted out of the concrete 'shotgun barrel' of the SFP by three successive criticalities. The jetting material probably was virtually continuous, with only invisible pressure waves coming in the distinct pulses that we heard as three bangs.

There are some other details in the photo above. Over to the right the roof girders are also severely damaged. The rubble in this area seems to consist of many large concrete fragments, and the way a major roof strut is twisted to the side suggests the damage was due to that heavy concrete rubble falling back down after the explosions. In contrast, at the left around the SFP, the concrete rubble appears much more finely powdered, and there are a large number of the light colored 'twisty straw' objects. These are lengths of corrugated galvanised iron, that was originally formwork on the underside of the poured concrete roof slab. As the slab was pulverized, these metal strips were torn loose then settled back with the rest of the ejecta. They are common in all the aerial shots of the three destroyed reactor buildings.

The Lesson

At Fukushima, a natural disaster broke all the 'failsafe backup systems' in four nuclear reactors. Causing a chain of nuclear disasters. But more significantly, during this cascade of expected awful consequenses of wrecking a nuclear power plant's control systems, something entirely unexpected happened. The spent fuel pool of reactor number three experienced a 'firecracker string' series of nuclear criticalities.
If there's any one detail of this whole tragic saga that should prove finally and forever that humans are not capable of 'safe design' of fission power stations and their fuel chains, it is this. No one seems to have ever predicted that 'spent fuel pools' are capable of firecracker-string rapid fire sequential prompt criticalities.

But they are. In that video we hear and see it happening.
Bang... Bang... Bang... Nuclear fission power is dead.

Every single spent fuel pool, in every nuclear plant and storage facility on Earth, has this incredibly stupid and dangerous design flaw. Lose the water cooling system, and this can happen. Fukushima Unit Three demonstrates it.

Some generations of nuclear plants may have insane features like fuel pools up on top of tall buildings, in earthquake zones. Emergency generators in basements, that get flooded. Backup diesel fuel tanks on seaside docks, that get washed away. There are endless such stupidities, but they don't tend to be universal to all designs. Fukushima #3 demonstrates there can be unseen fatal traps across all nuclear plants. Deep conceptual flaws, unaccounted for in designs. Spent fuel pools are suddenly and unexpectedly shown to be fundamentally unsafe.

Yet no one foresaw this! All the so called expertise of the nuclear industry, so called safety analysis, so called redundant fail-safe designs, and no one saw that a simple arrangement of used fuel rods in a pool of water can act like a nuclear firecracker string.

So what is the message of Fukushima Unit Three?

This. Humans are inherently fallible and blind. No matter how hard we try, no matter how certain we feel, we can still screw up horrifically. And given this sorry but inescapable fact, we cannot, MUST NOT, ever, ever build things that can destroy the planet if they go wrong. Or even whole nations. Or cities... Or anything bigger than a quite small area, really.

What have we done?

I strongly recommend everyone to watch the slides or video at http://enenews.com/prepare-yourself-photographer
The photographer: "My first reaction was I was looking at a different race of people" — Brain outside of skull, kidneys outside of torso, legs resembling elephant — Some doctors feel strongly there will be no more Belarus people in future.
It's a nightmare tour of the horrors of Chernobyl, over 25 years later. Understand that Fukushima is already worse - far worse. There just hasn't been time for the reality to become visible as endless death and disfigurement. Not only is the scale of the disaster worse, but it is amplified by Japanese cultural and political weaknesses, that seem to prevent the decisive and honest steps necessary to realistically deal with the crisis. Wait another 25 years, and see the horror that Fukushima will have brought the world.

Now here's a thing few people understand. The science of Epigenetics. In a general sense, it means the way the information in our genes is transmitted from generation to generation, over long time-frames. Overall, the genetic integrity and health of all species is a balance between information loss due to errors occurring in the DNA, and the weeding out of such errors and unfitness in the DNA due to evolutionary competition. So in the long term it's a balance — accumulating errors vs reproductive competition.

This can only work for complex species with long reproductive cycles, if the accumulating error rate is quite low. Which fundamentally means, only if the background environment radiation level is very low. As it has been on Earth for billions of years. Till now. Till Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the several next such events.

In the Russian video about Chernobyl, there's concern that in future there will be no more people in Belarus. They are right; after some generations of spreading and accumulating radioactive genetic tragedy, there may not be.

But it's worse than that. Complex systems interact. There are hundreds of nuclear power stations in the world. As regions like Belarus, Japan, and surrounding badly affected areas lose social cohesion due to declining genetic fitness, there will be more such nuclear accidents. Like the chain of explosions in a spent fuel pool, unexpected dependencies will bite, and the nuclear contamination problem will snowball. Slowly at first, but I do not believe that we humans as a species currently have the political intellectual grasp and strength of will it would take to avert this cascade of spreading genetic chaos and death.
It will continue.

The long term containment of the ruin at Chernobyl is still unresolved, even with the new shield building. It will require continuous maintenance for centuries, perhaps thousands of years, and has rendered a large portion of the Ukrainian nation uninhabitable for generations.
Fukushima will be even more intractible, especially as it is on the sea shore with almost no possibility of preventing radioactive runoff to the Pacific Ocean. The ongoing airborne emission of radioactive isotopes including Caesium-134, 137, Iodine-131 from continuing criticalities in the melted-down cores appears likely to make most or all of Japan uninhabitable within a few years. Areas of the west coast of the USA have already registered dangerous levels of contamination.

This just from two nuclear accident sites! There are hundreds of such potential sources of disaster in the world. All it would take to convert them all to Fukshimas, would be a loss of human capacity to maintain the scientific and industrial infrastructure required to keep these sites running safely, and the nuclear materials isolated from the environment. But that failure could easily occur, globally even, with just one or two further unexpected events. A couple more earthquakes near reactors, or a medium-sized asteroid strike, or a solar flare taking out large areas of the electrical distribution grid. Or something slower but equally dangerous - supposing Japan really does become uninhabitable, or is still inhabited but experiences a social breakdown as the genetic tragedy unfolds. What will happen to the nuclear reactors in Japan, and their spent fuel pools?

We're walking very close to the edge here.

I recall first seeing the images of Unit #3 exploding that day; the second plant to explode at Fukushima, and saying to myself as the cloud still rose "That is the end of nuclear power, right there."

But I was mistaken. It was actually the end of the human race, and possibly all advanced life on Earth. It's just going to take a few more generations before the dead world walking finally falls, and lies silent.

This text at: http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/20120430_Message_of_Fuku3.htm
See also:
http://everist.org/archives/links/!_Fukushima_nuclear_disaster_info.txt
To illustrate the scale: Fukushima and the Pyramids [Larger image]

beefsteak

12th May 2012, 10:52 PM

Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police

Amanda Cuda

Updated 08:36 p.m., Thursday, May 10, 2012

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/13/11/23/2921725/7/628x471.jpg (http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Radioactive-man-Milford-resident-pulled-over-by-3549631.php#next)
Mike Apatow, of Milford, poses at Stratford Fire Station, Company 2, in Stratford, Conn. May 10th, 2012, where he works as firefighter. Apatow, who had a radioactive stress test Wednesday, was pulled over later in the day, in Newtown, by a state police trooper after a radioactivity detector in the trooper's car was set off when Apatow passed. The detectors are used to help identify potential terror threats. Apatow was not on duty at the time. Photo: Ned Gerard / Connecticut Post

(http://www.ctpost.com/default/article/Radioactive-man-Milford-resident-pulled-over-by-3549631.php#photo-2921725)Mike Apatow was minding his own business Wednesday, driving to an appointment for work in Washington Depot when a state police (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22State+Police%22) car appeared suddenly and signaled for the Milford resident to pull over.

Apatow, 42, was entering Interstate 84 in Newtown when the cruiser appeared, and he had no idea what he'd done to merit police attention. It turns out he didn't do anything.

But earlier that day, Apatow, who'd experienced a recent spike in his blood pressure, had a nuclear stress test at Cardiology Associates (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Cardiology+Associates%22) of Fairfield County in Trumbull. In the test, a small amount of a radioactive material is injected into the veins and used to help track blood flow to the heart.

Though the amount of radioactive material used in the test is relatively low -- equal to a few X-rays or a diagnostic CT scan -- it was enough to set off a radioactivity detector in the state police car. The detectors are used to help identify potential terror threats.

"I asked the officer `What seems to be the problem?' " Apatow said. "He said `You've been flagged as a radioactive car.' "

Apatow's doctor had given him a document attesting that he'd had a medical procedure involving a small amount of radioactive material that he handed to the officer. A Stratford firefighter, Apatow was more curious than annoyed by the incident.

"I had no idea the police even had devices like that," he said. "I imagined it being like a cartoon -- like I'm driving down the street and my car was glowing."

State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22J.+Paul+Vance%22) confirmed that many of the state police cars have the radioactivity detectors. "It's part of our homeland security operations here," Vance said. "It's just another layer of public safety that we have in this state."

Though the goal of the detectors is to alert police to motorists who might be carrying hazardous materials, cases like Apatow's happen from time to time.

"They're very sensitive," Vance said of the detectors.

Apatow had the stress test after feeling ill while working at the Fire Department (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Fire+Department%22). He took his blood pressure and found it was 180 over 110 -- much higher than the 120 over 70 reading he usually gets. He attributed the spike to a variety of potential factors, including a lack of sleep. On Thursday, after visiting his doctors again, he was cleared for duty.

Dr. Gilead Lancaster (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Gilead+Lancaster%22), president of the Connecticut chapter of the American College of Cardiologists (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22American+College+of+Cardiologists%22), said Apatow's experience with the stress test isn't as rare as some might think.

Lancaster, also director of non-invasive cardiology at Bridgeport Hospital (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Bridgeport+Hospital%22), said a colleague knew of an incident in which a patient was traveling by plane the day after a stress test and set off alarms in the airport. "It's definitely known that this happens, and we do let patients know that there is a chance that they could be picked up," he said.

He said patients are also often told to avoid close contact with family immediately following the stress test.

Apatow said his doctors told him not to go within 10 feet of his infant son within 24 hours of the test. Despite this, Lancaster said the amount of radioactive material used in the stress is unlikely to be harmful to the patient. "Any amount of radiation is harmful, but nobody has yet shown that this level of radiation has been of significant harm, especially to adults," he said.

Dr. Lawrence Schek (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Lawrence+Schek%22), chief medical officer and chairman of cardiology at St. Vincent (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22St.+Vincent%22)'s Medical Center (http://www.ctpost.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Medical+Center%22) in Bridgeport, said facilities that perform these tests have to be certified and are meticulous about safety.

"There's very strict criteria in place," he said.
acuda@ctpost.com; 203-330-6290;

twitter.com/AmandaCuda; http://blog.ctnews.com/whatthehealth/

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Radioactive-man-Milford-resident-pulled-over-by-3549631.php#ixzz1uj3j1KFC

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Anyone live in Conn.?

Did you know about the "many" state police cars carrying radiation detectors?

Interesting, yes?

Local Leo's stop you here for driving by them after a medical test. In Fukushima, they raise allowable limits and don't admit anyone is "glowing." HUH? ? ?

beefsteak

PatColo

13th May 2012, 04:50 AM

Jeff Rense Radio Show - 2012.05.11 (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2012/05/jeff-rense-radio-show-20120511.html)

http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/thinlogo2color.gif (http://www.rense.com/)
Download (http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/yioyhv58p2/rense_20120511_2of2.mp3) Hour 3 - Dr. Richard Wilcox, PhD - Time Running Out For Japan & The World

gunDriller

26th May 2012, 06:39 AM

sorry to bring this news -

recent surveying shows that the Reactor 4 building is bulging about 1 1/2 inches

http://fukushima-diary.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%8 2%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%EF%BC%882012-05-25-14.50.29%EF%BC%89.png-450x332.jpg

from Hon. Mr. Mochizuki @
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/west-side-of-the-reactor4-building-bulged/

bulge is on the West side (facing away from ocean).

beefsteak

26th May 2012, 11:12 AM

Thanks, Gunny!

Serpo, hope you can find the last couple of posts you put up about the stupid WHO under IAEA control, and the Fukushima info you posted last couple of days.

Lapis,
Please re-post that kind response you put up about was it Dr. Williams and Kidney Stones or was it Julian Whitaker and Kidney stones. You had some dandy links, and I was chasing them down when the forum went belly up.

Hillbilly,
I'm sorry your post is gone too...and have thought of you often as I attempt to sort out the gamma radiation exposure you and I both admit to have experienced.

Moi? I'm going to put back up the conversion into REMs of basic medical gamma testing procedures as a jumping off point.

OHL,
I'm so looking forward to you putting in some of your valuable wisdom re: kidney stones, parsley tea, olive oil and lemon juice etc., and whatever else you have to contribute, please.

Radiation is radiation folks...some longer wave, some shorter wave, some short half life, some half lifes that will out live us.

Then I read LT's post about HAARP just now and find myself shuddering again. Thank you, Dr. Aquino!

PatColo, anything you can add to the discussion that is now missing, please re-post. THANKS ALL!

Sorry if I missed anyone.

beefsteak

beefsteak

26th May 2012, 04:39 PM

Here's what I promised to repost:

The article starts with the following abstract:
'Emergency physicians order numerous CT scans each shift, and dole out radiation exposure dwarfing the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The public demands them, the lawyers agree, and clinicians blandly comply. Even seemingly educated parents commonly ask, "Aren't you going to do a CT scan of my child who bumped his head?" '

Next, it goes on to describe an egregious culture of abuse of radiation for the sake of legal immunity for the doctor. Of particular interest is a table (converted from the original mSv units used by the author to Rems) of radiation doses for different types of CT scans:

* Dental x-ray -- 0.0005 Rem
* PA chest x-ray -- 0.001 Rem
* screening mammography -- 0.3 Rem
* natural radiation per year -- 0.3 Rem
* adult abdominal CT -- 1-2 Rem
* CT scan of chest -- 1.5-2 Rem
* adult head CT -- 2 Rem
* average dose received by a Hiroshima nuclear bomb victim -- 4 Rem
* Child head CT -- 9.5 Rem

(source: New Engl J Med 2007;357:22, http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/full/357/22/2277 )

So, my 3 CAT Scans nuked me 3/4 to 1.5 TIMES the avg Japanese Hiroshima Gamma dosage.

Don't I feel spesschule....

beefsteak

beefsteak

26th May 2012, 04:46 PM

Sorry, the edit post function isn't working, so that I can stick in the link. Maybe Osoab will lend a hand. He's good at noticing my deficits in this dept. LOL

beefsteak

Serpo

1st June 2012, 03:02 AM

This whole industry is just a scam so the can make BOMBS.
It is not surprising to learn that the International Nuclear Crime Syndicate Of Satanists (INCSS) has adopted a sophisticated propaganda system in order to dupe the public into believing that the benefits (ie., production of a mere 2.5 percent of world energy production; weapons of mass destruction supply) are worth the risk of radioactive waste and disasters. As Robert Zimmerman writes in his book that dissects the “cult of nuclearists” and their “fraudulent science”:

Tokyo Electric Power
Company’s Radioactive Lies
The Arsonist Investigating The Fire
By Richard Wilcox
5-31-12

“Nuclear energy is incredibly expensive as well as fantastically dangerous....One might ask why, if nuclear power is the energy of the future, it has taken so long for it to supply less than 6 percent of the world’s energy. Even this meager achievement accounts only for commercial energy, excluding the requirements of world total primary energy of all kinds. In that case, nuclear power’s share drops even further, to about 2.5 percent.” - Martin Cohen and Andrew McKillop, authors of The Doomsday Machine (1)

“To negotiate with the nuclear industry is like debating with the drug cartels about the introduction of law and order” - Ralph T. Niemeyer, editor and journalist (2)

“In space no one can hear you scream” - Alien (3)

“And when I die, I want to go to hell
And that's when goodbye should be farewell” - Morrissey (4)

Can we trust Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) to tell the truth about the status of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) or is Tepco really “Tipco,” a company based on shaky practices that now claims their radioactive storage building won’t tip over in another earthquake?

While imperfections are not uncommon in the history mankind, nuclear power companies are substantively different given their blunders have the potential to release massive and life destroying plumes of radiation across the entire planet.

It is not surprising to learn that the International Nuclear Crime Syndicate Of Satanists (INCSS) has adopted a sophisticated propaganda system in order to dupe the public into believing that the benefits (ie., production of a mere 2.5 percent of world energy production; weapons of mass destruction supply) are worth the risk of radioactive waste and disasters. As Robert Zimmerman writes in his book that dissects the “cult of nuclearists” and their “fraudulent science”:

“The field of radiation protection has been heavily infiltrated and compromised by those with a vested interest in ensuring the proliferation of nuclear and radiological weapons and commercial nuclear reactors. A politically motivated international system of standard setting agencies, upholding antiquated models of the biological effects of ionizing radiation, has asserted itself as the voice of authority in the field of radiation protection. Governments, in turn, depend on the flaws within these models to legitimize the safety of their nuclear programs and conceal the detrimental biological effects these programs impart to unsuspecting populations” (5).

It is important to not overly particularize the topic in the midst of our frustration and anger with Japan for what we (correctly) perceive as their incompetent and callous behavior in this nuclear tragedy. That the “WHO’s Coverup Of Fukushima Radiation Is Unscientific Hogwash” is another case that proves this is a problem of international scope (6).

It is now well known that in case of another major earthquake the Unit 4 and other fuel pools at the Fukushima no. 1 power station have the potential of releasing 85 Chernobyl’s worth of radiation into the ocean and atmosphere. The possibility of a worse case scenario, even if it is only 1 percent probability (yet there is high probability of another major earthquake in the region) is behind mind boggling. A religious, spiritual or other worldly explanation can only suffice and is elucidated in this conceptually original and frightening essay by the Cosmic Convergence group (7).

If you prefer a more conventional track: over past centuries humanity went down a slippery slope. It compromised morality, integrity and order in exchange for freedom, security, convenience and comfort. In the bargain an economic system based on fraudulent accounting tricks emerged (8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15) and created an unnecessarily overly built infrastructure that is overburdened, and in the case of nuclear power stations, appears to be in collapse.

The Sherlock Holmes Mystery of the Tilting Reactor Building

Shortly after the nuclear accident on March 11, 2011, one observer noted that Japan’s “downplaying” of the disaster was leading to “informational uncertainty.”

“It is absolutely imperative that Japanese officials become more transparent in their crisis communication. It is equally imperative, as this present crisis makes clear, that officials around the world realize the severe harm that can be inflicted by the obfuscation and distortion of critical information in the wake of catastrophe” (16).

And yet, well over a year later how little we have learned. After Japan declared the nuclear crisis under control with “cold shutdown” earlier this year they have since quit releasing “plant parameter data” in English which is “one of the most important” sources for understanding the current situation at the FNPP (17).

Grassroots and political pressure is having an effect on forcing Tepco to become more transparent and pro-active in solving the Unit 4 fuel pool crisis. Everyone from the alternative media on the internet to Arnie Gunderson to former Japanese diplomat Murata to Senator Wyden have made enough noise to force Tepco to attempt to speed up their operations. Tepco recently announced they are beginning to remove fuel rods from the Unit 4 reactor building ahead of their original schedule which was to begin only in late 2013 (18; 19).

Not surprisingly, Tepco and the Japanese government have resisted outside help in the matter, in the same way that Obama let BP take over damage control after the BP oil catastrophe in the spring of 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico. It is a case of the Arsonists putting out the fire. Yet Israel-US insist that Iran must have endless nuclear inspections despite the fact that Iran has already complied with every IAEA rule under the sun. This is an astonishing double standard of international norms.

Why is Japan not being more cooperative? After all, Japan is a society built on cooperation and consensus (if a bit coercive).
1. They don't want a precedent to be set by letting independent teams of scientists “nose around” their operations;
2. Arnie Gunderson notes the reason for lack of international effort to fix Fukushima is that if the fatal flaws in the Japan nuke system are exposed, that also indicts the US nuke industry in one fell swoop (20).

Journalist Yoichi Shimatsu has claimed in his conversations with radio host Jeff Rense that something fishy is going on in Japan with a possible secret nuclear weapons program (21; 22).

Cohen and McKillop make the case that the nuclear arms race is one of the most important reasons the otherwise nearly useless nuclear power industry is able to muddle along: as a cover for weapons programs and a global nuke arms race (Ibid.).

Washington DC reporter, Joseph Trento, has documented the empirical and circumstantial evidence of Japan’s nuclear power/weapons program. Here are a few stunning revelations:

* “The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities; while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s.”

* “While Japan has refrained from deploying nuclear weapons and remains under an umbrella of U.S. nuclear protection...the country has used its electrical utility companies as a cover to allow the country to amass enough nuclear weapons materials to build a nuclear arsenal larger than China, India and Pakistan combined.”

* “This deliberate proliferation by the United States fuels arguments by countries like Iran that the original nuclear powers engage in proliferation despite treaty and internal legal obligations. Russia, France, Great Britain as well as the United States created civilian nuclear power industries around the world from their weapons complexes that amount to government-owned or subsidized industries. Israel, like Japan, has been a major beneficiary and, like Japan, has had nuclear weapons capabilities since the 1960s.”

* “ [The] Reagan administration....ceded virtually all control of U.S.-origin nuclear materials shipped to Japan....The Japanese government exploited the Japanese public’s well-known abhorrence of nuclear weapons to discourage the media and historians from delving into its nuclear weapons activities.”

* “International corporations and officials sacrificed the safety and security of the public to carry out the deception. Under the guise of a peaceful nuclear power program, they made huge profits” (23).

Tip Tip Tepco-- Oops A Daisy

It is well documented and even admitted by Japanese nuclear whistle blowers themselves, that the Nuclear Village has a long history of corruption and cover-ups, with foxes guarding hen houses and arsonists investigating the fire (24). Professor Jeff Kingston of Temple University in Tokyo, offers a thorough chronology of the Fukushima nuclear crisis from the political perspective (25). The Citizens' Nuclear Information Center has documented the Japanese nuclear industry’s malfeasance in scrupulous detail since 1987 (26), and Kingston
supports their 25 years of work exposing the fraud of nuclear power by stating that the Fukushima disaster “was preceded by a series of mishaps, cover-ups, irresponsible practices, close calls and ignored warnings....it was an accident waiting to happen.” Which raises the question: how can we trust now the same people who have zero credibility? The obvious answer is that we cannot, thereby, Japan is in a precarious situation if another earthquake strikes the FNPP.

Kingston shows how Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who was in office at the time of the Tohoku Disaster, was attacked and removed from office by the Nuclear Village specifically because of Kan’s strong anti-nuclear/pro-renewable energy stance (27). Kan who was trained as an engineer now firmly believes that the use of nuclear power in Japan is discredited and dangerous, whereas other officials typically in key positions of power are lawyers (28; 29).

As Kingston explains in “Mismanaging Risk”:

“So who is to blame for the three meltdowns at Fukushima? The nuclear village tried to shift blame onto PM Kan, spreading erroneous information about his visit to Fukushima Daiichi to the effect that he forced TEPCO to stop venting and subsequently alleging that he ordered the halt of pumping of seawater to cool the reactors and spent fuel rods stored in adjacent pools...but this was TEPCO’s responsibility and had nothing to do with Kan’s visit on March 12....TEPCO retracted its allegations against Kan, but not before damaging Kan’s reputation....Scapegoating Kan served many purposes, especially diverting attention away from TEPCO’s, NISA’s and METI’s responsibility for the accident and woeful crisis response....

The third party panel that investigated the nuclear crisis...was harshly critical of TEPCO and the government, pointing out that the utility was ill-prepared for a crisis and that its’ workers made critical errors....workers and their managers were inadequately trained to cope with an emergency situation....Their mishandling of emergency procedures contributed to the crisis.

The investigations also pilloried TEPCO and the government’s mishandling of the evacuation of residents living near the plant, in many instances evacuating people to places where levels of radiation were higher than those where they had left....The panel confirmed that data generated by the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI) on radiation dispersal was available and could have been used to evacuate residents at greatest risk to safer areas, but this information was not provided to the Prime Minister’s crisis management center until March 23....[O]ne month after the original evacuation, the government used this SPEEDI data to move evacuees out of harms way, meaning that many had been subjected to substantial doses of avoidable radiation exposure.

TEPCO and its regulators...failed to act on fresh and compelling evidence about tsunami risk, a blind spot that left the plant needlessly vulnerable....Telltale warnings began accumulating over the decade prior to 3/11....Clearly, there is no basis to TEPCO’s claim that the scale of the 3/11 tsunami was inconceivable; the utility chose to ignore centuries of geological evidence and repeated 21st century warnings from modern scientists, including in-house researchers....Inexcusably, TEPCO did not make safety its ethos while lax oversight by the government allowed this culture of complacency to persist long after it was obvious that TEPCO was cutting corners to cut costs” (Ibid.).

Due to outside pressure Tepco has had to confront the situation more forthrightly. The corporate controlled media has also begun to take notice, with the Wall Street Journal, New York Times (30) and the Asahi Newspaper and TV News finally doing some decent reporting. On the other hand, the lapdog presstitutes continue to make excuses for Tepco without strongly challenging the assumption that “all is OK, you can trust us.” This story from MSNBC fails to point out that Mr. Hosono, who recently inspected the nuclear site, is a lawyer and not a technician. Not much credence is given to “environmental critics” and it does not go into any details of their analyses. The media omits and marginalizes interpretations of events that are outside the acceptable boundaries of elitist discourse (31).
Nevertheless, Tepco has been forced to dust off documents purporting to show that Unit 4 is safe and will not collapse. Fukushima nuclear disaster blog hero, “Ex-SKF” points out after translating this information to her readers that “there is no independent confirmation of the data” (32). Information uncertainty and lack of trust lead round and round in circles.

Another example of Tepco’s arrogant and dissembling nature is when a Wall Street Journal reporter kept pressing the question of what Tepco would do if Unit 4 was damaged in an earthquake (33). The video is transcribed into English but I listened to it and speak Japanese well enough to understand the PR person’s evasiveness. The question is direct, honest and fair enough, but the Tepco guy immediately changes the topic by wondering, in a snide tone, “what kind of influence” could cause such a disturbance? As if worrying about rogue asteroids bombarding the nuclear site might be far fetched. Finally he makes the point that if a magnitude “10, 11 or 12” occurred they have really not considered what would happen. But the question was about an intensity 6 earthquake, not a magnitude 12 quake. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency Seismic Intensity rating, on 3/11 for Fukushima the SI was 6+. The magnitude at the plant was 7 and magnitude 7 is what experts have been warning about, saying that may be enough to damage the Unit 4 fuel pool.

Despite the dire situation, Tepco executive, Akio Komori, “rejected growing calls to let outside experts...inspect the plant” and stated that "[a]s the party with direct responsibility, it's our job to carry out the necessary checks." At the same time Japanese government representative for the Fukushima nuclear crisis, Mr. Hosono, toured the plant and gave the go-ahead and thumbs-up for Tepco to keep up their good work. Hosono graduated from the Faculty of Law at Kyoto University in 1995 and only became the Environment minister recently. He is neither a technician, engineer nor an architect, let’s see what his assessment is:

“Hosono said he wasn't able to see the reported 3-cm wall bulge with his own eyes but urged Tepco ‘not to take an optimistic view and instead deal with it carefully in order to ensure safety.’ Hosono later told reporters that he could see the pool had been sufficiently reinforced. ‘I could see steady progress being made toward removal of the spent fuel, which is the next major goal,’ he said” (34).

Tepco may be making progress but is it fast enough to beat the next big earthquake? One worker at the plant anonymously reported that if an accident were to occur, emergency measures would not occur as smoothly as Tepco claims. For example, it would be difficult to get trucks to the site quickly enough to act. Another experienced worker also said that spraying a special form of concrete on exposed fuel rods may not be as easy as it sounds! (35; 36).

When the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency was quizzed by a diligent reporter about earthquake-caused ground subsidence at the FNPP, NISA claims to have conducted the seismic evaluation of Unit 4 building according to “the most severe standard.” Later in the interview they admitted it was merely done “visually” (37). Similarly, computer models are used by Tepco to show that earthquakes over a certain size will not damage the plant even though the intensity they admit could happen could indeed damage the plant-- and such level of earthquake has been predicted by a number of experts (38). Tepco chutzpah is further rebutted by a recent independent scientific report from the US that regulatory “non-solutions” inevitably lead to problems with nuclear reactors (39).

The potentially catastrophic situation at Fukushima prompted one outside expert, who for 20 years ran a consulting business in Japan for some of their largest companies, to call for a “Manhattan Project approach.” He warns that an “accident, involving nuclear fuel rods, is virtually inevitable, most likely preventable, and the fact that it won’t be prevented comes down solely to Japanese government and TEPCO incompetence and stupidity. Japanese citizens will probably die unnecessarily because the way things are done at the top in Japan is completely screwed up” (40). We can’t wait three or four years let alone thirty of forty years to remove the fuel rods and clean up the mess (41). Kyoto University professor of nuclear engineering Hajimu Yamana has chimed in that “[i]t’s a race against time” (42).

Arnie Gunderson admitted for the first time that he would not be surprised if after ten years Tepco did not decide to pour concrete into the reactors and call it a day once they have been cooled enough. The technical problems of removing the melted fuel are formidable and the reactors are already leaking contaminated water downward while the ground water seeps upward and becomes contaminated. The soil structure at Fukushima is soft and penetrable and different from Chernobyl where it is continental hard pack and better suited for catastrophic nuclear accidents (Ibid.)http://www.rense.com/general95/tokyoars.html

Serpo

1st June 2012, 03:02 AM

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DMac

1st June 2012, 04:49 AM

Hey Serpo - would you mind editing your post above #3114? The font is pretty small and hard to read without magnifying.

TIA

osoab

1st June 2012, 05:17 AM

Hey Serpo - would you mind editing your post above #3114? The font is pretty small and hard to read without magnifying.

TIA

found the link at the bottom.

http://www.rense.com/general95/tokyoars.html

DMac

1st June 2012, 05:23 AM

DMac thanks oso.....oh never mind :)

PatColo

1st June 2012, 09:34 PM

The Next Catastrophic Nuclear Reactor Core Meltdown is Much More Likely Than You Suspect (http://www.naturalnews.com/036041_nuclear_reactors_meltdown_catastrophe.html)
Friday, 01 June 2012 08:21

http://www.davidicke.com./images/stories/June2012/radiation.jpg
'Remember the Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown in Russia in 1986 and, more recently, the tsunami-caused nuclear plant crisis at the Fukushima complex in Japan last year? Well, new research shows that the probability for more such disasters is much higher than previously believed.

Currently there are 440 nuclear reactors in operation around the world, and another 60 are planned (of those figures, there are 104 operating reactors in the U.S. with five under construction and 10 applications for new plants under review with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute). Scientists at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany say that core meltdowns at nuclear plants may occur every 10-20 years, or about 200 times more than earlier estimates found.'
Read more: The Next Catastrophic Nuclear Reactor Core Meltdown is Much More Likely Than You Suspect (http://www.naturalnews.com/036041_nuclear_reactors_meltdown_catastrophe.html)

Golden

2nd June 2012, 04:00 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJTeaeyv8Fw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJTeaeyv8Fw
Published on May 27, 2012 by ichicax4
Taking a drive around Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This ginger-red color was widely observed around Chernobyl in pines, as they are notorious for cesium uptake. Fallout tends to occur in a leopard-spot pattern. The color change in pines has been observed all over Michigan since May of last year. We stopped at 3 of the worst trees, and there was no pine beetle damage on this particular day, as well as all the other trees we have checked in the past year.

EE_

7th June 2012, 11:09 AM

A Radioactive Nightmare

Millions of Southern Californians and tourists seek the region’s famous beaches to cool off in the sea breeze and frolic in the surf. Those iconic breezes, however, may be delivering something hotter than the white sands along the Pacific.
Buckyballs.

Read the rest: http://www.vcreporter.com/cms/story/detail/a_radioactive_nightmare/9886/

beefsteak

7th June 2012, 03:00 PM

Here it is in its entirety. Personally, I find Michael Collins' enviro-reporting credible and enduring.

FUKUSHIMA Jetstream blowing west to east Feb. 7, 2012.
A Radioactive Nightmare
As fallout from Fukushima heads our way, the government turns a blind eye

By Michael Collins 06/07/2012

Millions of Southern Californians and tourists seek the region’s famous beaches to cool off in the sea breeze and frolic in the surf. Those iconic breezes, however, may be delivering something hotter than the white sands along the Pacific.

Buckyballs.
According to a recent U.C. Davis study, uranium-filled nanospheres are created from the millions of tons of fresh and salt water used to try to cool down the three molten cores of the stricken reactors. The tiny and tough buckyballs are shaped like British Association Football soccer balls.

Water hitting the incredibly hot and radioactive, primarily uranium-oxide fuel turns it into peroxide. In this goo, buckyballs are formed, loaded with uranium and able to move quickly through water without disintegrating.

High radiation readings in Santa Monica and Los Angeles air during a 42-day period from late December to late January strongly suggest that radiation is increasing in the region including along the coast in Ventura County.

The radiation, detected by this reporter and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, separate from each other and using different procedures, does not appear to be natural in origin. The EPA’s radiation station is high atop an undisclosed building in Los Angeles while this reporter’s detection location is near the West L.A. boundary.

Both stations registered over 5.3 times normal, though the methods of sampling and detection differed. The videotaped Santa Monica sampling and testing allowed for the detection of alpha and beta radiation while the sensitive EPA instrument detected beta only, according to the government website.

A windy Alaskan storm front sweeping down the coast the morning of March 31 slammed Southern California with huge breakers, a choppy sea with 30-foot waves and winds gusting to 50 mph. A low-hanging marine layer infused with sea spray made aloft from the chop and carried on the winds blew inland over the Los Angeles Basin for several miles bringing with it the highest radiation this reporter has detected in hot rain since the meltdowns began, over five times normal.

Scientific studies from the United Kingdom and Europe show that sea water infused with radiation of the sort spewing out of Fukushima can travel inland from the coast up to 300 kilometers. These mobile poisons include
cesium-137, and
plutonium-239,
.....the latter with a half-life of 24,400 years.

Even with government, University of California and this reporter’s tests showing high radiation in the air, water, food and dairy products in this state, the state and federal governments cut off special testing for Fukushima radionuclides more than half a year ago.

Southern California is still getting hit by Fukushima radiation at alarmingly high levels that will inevitably increase as the main bulk of polluted Pacific Ocean water reaches North America over the next two years.

Luckily, the area is south of where the jet stream has brought hot rains from across the Pacific and Fukushima, more than 5,000 miles away, upwind and up-current of the West Coast. Those rains have brought extraordinary amounts of radiation to places like St. Louis, with multiple rain events detected and filmed, showing incredibly hot rains.

Unluckily, North America is directly downwind of Japan, where the government is having 560,000 tons of irradiated rubble incinerated with the ash dumped in Tokyo Bay. The burning began last October and continues through March 2014, enraging American activists for this unwitting double dose.

American media coverage of Fukushima’s continuing woes and of contamination spreading across Japan and threatening Tokyo’s 30 million residents, while not robust has been adequate. Coverage of contamination in America and Southern California has been practically non-existent.

That’s one of the reasons we started Radiation Station-Santa Monica four days after the meltdowns began on March 11, 2011, transmitting live radiation readings for the Los Angeles Basin 24/7 ever since.

With nuclear radiation monitoring equipment, this investigation has performed more than 1,500 radiation tests in different media throughout four states and in jet airplane cabins where, even accounting for higher radiation at higher altitudes, readings were more than five times normal according to the manufacturer of our Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor.

Those readings, along with the EPA’s, combined with the UC Davis study of buckyballs and a European study of sea spray radiation spread, strongly indicate that Southern California is being exposed to significant amounts of radiation. The closer to the coast, like much of populated Ventura County, the more pronounced the radiation in this scenario.

Other reports exist of what likely-Fukushima fallout in the Southland exist.

Researchers from Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, released a study May 28 that showed that all 15 samples of Pacific Bluefin tuna caught off of San Diego in August 2011 showed indisputable signs of radiation contamination emanating from Fukushima.

This suggests that the popular and expensive animal carved up usually for sushi is even more contaminated now nearly a year after it was first harvested and tested. At least 1,000 tons of highly radioactive water used to cool the melted cores and spent fuel ponds are being dumped daily into the ocean, according to recent revelations of the nuclear plants owners, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

The study also suggests that other highly migratory species, like turtles, sharks and marine birds, may also be contaminated with the radiation found in the tuna: cesium-134 and cesium-137.

The U.S. Geological Service (USGS) reported Feb. 21, 2012 that Los Angeles had more cesium-137 fallout than any other place in the nation during the opening days of the disaster from March 15 to April 5, 2011.

The amount of Cs-137 detected in precipitation at a monitoring station 20 miles east of downtown was 13 times the limit for the toxin in drinking water according to a report obtained by the VCReporter.

USGS released another astonishing study Feb. 22, from measurements taken at its Bennington National Atmospheric Deposition Program in Vermont, confirming a grim cesium-137 scenario for Southern California.

“Deposition actually decreased as the air mass traveled east to west,” Greg Wetherbee, a chemist with USGS, told the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper before imparting an additional bombshell.

“In the United States, cesium-134 and cesium-137 wet dispersion values were higher than for Chernobyl fallout, in part due to the U.S. being further downwind,” Wetherbee told the paper. “With Chernobyl, there was more opportunity for plume dispersion.”

This double whammy of cesium-137, with a half-life of 30 years isn’t even in a uranium-60 buckyball. But they are in the unfathomable spread of goo throughout the Pacific on the second strongest current in the world headed right for us.

The three meltdowns have spewed trillions of becquerels of highly radioactive iodine-131,
cesium-137,
strontium-90 and
plutonium-239 into the atmosphere and Pacific since March 11, 2011. The initial explosions and fires sent untold amounts of radiation high into the atmosphere.

A Feb. 28, 2012 report by the Meteorological Research Institute, just released at a scientific symposium in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, says that 40,000 trillion becquerels, double the amount previously thought, have escaped Unit 1 reactor alone.

This has resulted in fallout around the globe and especially impacting the Pacific and parts of America and Canada, two countries downwind of Japan on the jet stream.

British Columbia,
the Pacific Northwest,
Midwest and
Ontario
.....have been hit especially hard by
rain,
sleet and
snow, in some cases with dizzying amounts of high radiation.

A March 6, 2012 study Department of Biological Sciences study conducted at California State University, Long Beach, found that kelp along the coast of California was heavily impacted by radioactive Iodine-131 a month after the meltdowns began. The virulent and deadly isotope was detected at 250 times levels the researchers said were normal in the kelp before the disaster.

Radioactive fallout in St. Louis, Mo., rainfall, which has been monitored at Potrblog.com since the crisis began, has been repeatedly so hot that levels have been reached that make it unsafe for children and pregnant women. An Oct.17, 2011, St. Louis rainstorm was measured on video at 2.76 millirems per hour or more than 270 times background.

The U.S. EPA considers anything 3 times background to be significantly above background. The California Highway Patrol deems any material more than three times background as a potential hazardous materials situation. The St. Louis rain was 90 times CHP’s hazmat trigger.

The main wave of water-borne radiation from the meltdowns, including highly mobile uranium-60 buckyballs, is surging across the Pacific along the Kuroshio Current, second only to the Gulf Stream for power on the planet.

Millions of tons of seawater and fresh water have been used to cool the melted cores and spent fuel rods, generating millions of tons of irradiated water. The Kuroshio Current is transporting a significant amount of this escaping radiation from Fukushima Daiichi across the Pacific toward the West Coast.

The 70-mile-wide current joins the North Pacific Current, moving eastward until it splits and flows southward along the California Current, which flows along the coast to Ventura County and beyond.The American government has done nothing to monitor the Pacific Ocean for over half a year, even though a Texas-sized sea of Japanese earthquake debris is already washing up on outlying Alaskan islands and is suspected to have already hit the West Coast, including California.

“In terms of the radiation, EPA is in charge of the radiation network for airborne radiation; it’s called RadNet,” EPA Region 9 Administrator Jared Blumenfeld told the VCReporter on Feb. 9 during a news conference about new ship sewage regulations. “And we have a very significant and comprehensive array of RadNet monitors along the, actually along the coast, but on land. We don’t have jurisdiction for looking at marine radiation. Perhaps NOAA would be able to answer that question but we don’t have data or monitor it,” he said.

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, suspended testing the Pacific for Fukushima radiation last summer after concluding that there wasn’t any radiation to be detected.:|~

“As far as questions about radiation, we are working with radiation experts within the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy,” NOAA media liaison Keeley Belva wrote in a Feb. 10 e-mail. “Here are some contacts information for those agencies at the headquarters level.”

In other words, no federal agency, department or administration is doing anything to sample and analyze water from the Pacific. Fish aren’t being tested for contamination, either.

“NOAA is not currently doing further research on seafood,” Belva said adding “NOAA is doing a study related to radiation that is focused on radiation plume modeling.”

The lack of testing disappoints Dan Hirsch, U.C. Santa Cruz nuclear policy lecturer and president of Committee to Bridge the Gap which exposed the Rocketdyne partial meltdowns above the western San Fernando Valley in 1979 and continues to lead the fight to clean up Rocketdyne today.

“EPA did some special monitoring for a few weeks after the accident began, then shut down the special monitoring” Hirsch told the VCReporter. “What monitoring was done was very troubled. Half of the stationary air monitors were broken at the time of the accident. Deployable monitors were ordered not deployed.”

Even when the government testing did work, increasingly high levels of radiation seem to have been ignored.

The VCReporter has learned that the California Department of Public Health halted monitoring of Fukushima fallout when its Radiologic Health Branch issued its last report on Oct. 10, 2011.

That report shows an alarming rise in cesium-137 in CalPoly San Luis Obispo dairy farm milk beginning June 14, 2011, when it tested 2.95 picocuries per liter (pCi/l) and steadily rising in four subsequent tests until it was 5.91 pCi/l. The hot milk was at twice the allowable amount of this radionuclide in drinking water, according to the EPA’s 3.0 pCi/l limit.

Then the testing stopped, for no other reason than the government concluded that nothing from Fukushima had sufficiently contaminated anything to be of concern. Even detections of radioactive sulphur-35 in San Diego and plutonium-239 in Riverside did nothing to pique the interest of regulators.

“The lesson to be learned is that both the U.S. and Japan suffer from very lax regulation, a too-cozy relationship between nuclear regulators and the industry they are to regulate,” Hirsch said. “This can lead to dangerous outcomesThis was not unanticipated. Yet the need for immediate information was undeniable.

Live-streaming radiation readings from Santa Monica began four days after the meltdowns. Since then, this reporter has conducted more than 1,500 tests in four states and miles above the Earth, where jet radiation registered more than five times normal, even accounting for altitude.

Special tests revealed elevated radiation in Bryce Canyon and Grand Canyon rain. Southwest Michigan rain samples were hot.

Santa Monica and Los Angeles rain and mist were also high. Readings taken in Agoura, Oxnard and Ventura mostly mirrored these measurements. The Radiation Station-Ventura California provides near-daily radiation readings that include local food measurements.

Japanese sake,
beer,
vegetable juice,
seaweed,
pastries and
tea
......all registered significant ionization above background.
Powdered milk,
turkey hot dogs, and
jet travel breathing masks
.....were all part of the specific media tested, many of which were recorded in these videotaped radiation detections.

HEPA filters may also be effective in capturing buckyballs, which are geodesic dome-shaped structures that are spherical with multiple flat sides. Strong evidence suggests that these hardy radioactive Uranium-60 nanoparticles have crossed the Pacific quickly, with their concentrations rising.

That evidence includes our and the EPA’s high beta readings in Los Angeles. Our radiation station is a little more than a mile from the Pacific shoreline. Downtown Los Angeles is more than 13 miles away from the sea.

The Jan. 27, 2012, U.C. Davis report “Uranyl peroxide enhanced nuclear fuel corrosion in seawater,” is the first account to analyze what is happening to the gargantuan amount of seawater, as well as fresh water, that has been hosing down the melted reactor cores and flushing into the Pacific.

Alexandra Navrotsky, Ph.D., director of nanomaterials research at U.C. Davis (center) with colleagues. {She and they are pictured in the photograph accompanying this article}

The study spells out a horrific scenario in which compromised irradiated fuel turned huge amounts of ocean water into a series of uranium-related peroxide compounds containing as many as 60 “uranyl ions” in hardy nanoscale cage clusters that can “potentially transport uranium over long distances” and persist for “at least 294 days without detectable change.”

How hot these nano-cage clusters of cancer-causing radiation are depends on what kind and ratio of uranium isotopes make up the 60 in each one.

“A given isotope has the same radioactivity (half-life) regardless of what chemical state it is in,” Alexandra Navrotsky, Ph.D., director of nanomaterials research at U.C. Davis, told the VCReporter. “So the radioactivity for a constant number of U atoms depends on the proportion of different isotopes in the sample.”

There is a strong possibility that these uranium peroxide buckyballs are already sloshing around in the waters off Southern California as this reporter and the EPA’s radiation readings appear to indicate. But if it was the source of our high detections what was the mechanism that was transporting radiation inland.

Sea spray, perhaps. Radioactive sea spray has been shown to blow hundreds of kilometers inland in tests conducted in the United Kingdom by British and European researchers. As any one who has ever smelled the salty ocean air miles from the ocean might expect, salt in sea spray can travel a significant distance. The same holds true for radioactive particles floating in the sea, even if in addition to U60 buckyballs.

In the 2008 report “Sea to land transfer of radionuclides in Cumbria and North Wales,” the greatest average concentration of cesium-137 and plutonium-239 in soil at a depth of 0 to 15 centimeters was found 10 kilometers from the coast. The highest average amounts found at 15 to 30 centimeters deep were 5 kilometers away from the sea illustrating the unpredictability of radiation fallout.

A 62-page UK study released in December 2011 found that sea spray and marine aerosols created from bubbles forming and popping when the sea is choppy or waves break have increased concentrations of radioactive “actinides.”

Actinides are chemically alike radioactive metallic elements and include uranium and plutonium. One actinide infused the spray with an 812 times greater concentration of americium-241 than normal amounts of Am-241 in ambient seawater.

The report cited information that sea-spray-blown cesium 137 was found 200 kilometers from the discharge source in the New Hebrides islands in northern Scotland.

Another UK study found that the Irish Sea has a micro layer on top of it, perhaps only thousandths of a millimeter in thickness, that can become imbued with fine particulate material and its absorbed radiation.

These concentrations of plutonium and americium are four to five times their concentrations in ambient seawater. Plutonium concentrates by 26,000 times in floating algal blooms at sea, says the report.

These radionuclides and buckyballs make up the goo inexorably crossing the Pacific, which may just have begun to impact our shores. Yet not a nickel of state or federal money is spent monitoring it. We are on our own in this Fukushima nightmare.

This report was originally published at EnviroReporter.com. Contact the writer and view additional materials at http://EnviroReporter.com

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First the British did in Northern Europe with the Christmas Island Nuke "accident."

Then
the Ruskies did in the REST OF EUROPE w/Chernobyl.

Recently, BP did in the GOM 2 years ago and that blow-out is still oozing abiotic oil through the heavily fractured GOM sea floor.

Not to be outdone,
the ELITE have now majorly poisoned the mighty Pacific.....
.....which at the moment--->is still mostly above the equator of the Pacific vis a vis the Kuroshi Current. HOWEVER, the currents have mixed and have started spilling south along S.America, as well. Recall the 900+ die off of radiation tumored brains and lungs of dead dophins in Chile'....What is even more remarkable, the great whites, the orcas, and the other massive whales aren't consuming these perceived dolphin delicacies, permitting the massive tumored necrotic flesh to reach shore in recognizable shape and form, basically intact.

These old knees buckle.

beefsteak

Serpo

10th June 2012, 02:47 PM

These fucky balls are a new element and sound mighty scary, this is sickening stuffhttp://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple9%28R%29_dees.jpg

gunDriller

11th June 2012, 06:07 AM

These fucky balls are a new element and sound mighty scary, this is sickening stuffhttp://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/Sheeple9%28R%29_dees.jpg

this relates to one of the things i've been wondering about major releases of radiation - Megaton nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and now Fukushima. i'm not sure where Hiroshima & Nagasaki count in terms of the amount of radiation released.

genetic mutations, born of radiation, most of which die, but a few live.

i just wonder what the long term effects will be, i.e. what new species might be born out of this nuclear madness.

but i'm more concerned with dodging the radiation in the short term. i'm about to run out of the milk supply i stashed a year ago.

Spectrism

11th June 2012, 08:15 AM

this relates to one of the things i've been wondering about major releases of radiation - Megaton nuclear weapons testing, Chernobyl, and now Fukushima. i'm not sure where Hiroshima & Nagasaki count in terms of the amount of radiation released.

genetic mutations, born of radiation, most of which die, but a few live.

i just wonder what the long term effects will be, i.e. what new species might be born out of this nuclear madness.

but i'm more concerned with dodging the radiation in the short term. i'm about to run out of the milk supply i stashed a year ago.

There will be no new species- no viable life form- to come from this. There will be no long term effects because there will be no long term.

Throughout all of history, we have no record of a new species evolving. We see layered fossil records, but that does not prove anything. We have no defined mutation-into-new-species mechanism visible at all. Any mutations genetically cause inferior lifeforms.... never do we see improvements.

Time will be closing down soon. This world will be ended before all flesh is destroyed.

beefsteak

11th June 2012, 11:00 AM

Thank God the message doesn't stop where you placed the gloomy grammatical period there, Spectrism. Death has already been conquered when all is said and done.

Therein lies the hope for humanity, Japanese included.

beefsteak

11th June 2012, 11:02 AM

gunDriller

11th June 2012, 01:54 PM

Gunny,
have you devised a milk replacement plan? Believe many will be grateful if you share or others chime in with their mitigation plans/implementations/outcomes.

Do sincerely believe you are not the first one to be facing the depletion of stored milk.

beefsteak
Gunny,
have you devised a milk replacement plan? Believe many will be grateful if you share or others chime in with their mitigation plans/implementations/outcomes.

Do sincerely believe you are not the first one to be facing the depletion of stored milk.

beefsteak

i talked to a few goat farmers about the how-to's of raising goats. they need a lot of attention, in the sense that you can't "just leave them" if you are going out of town - you have to hire a sitter. so developing a working relationship with a caretaker that you trust - including with the fact that you are out of town, which has major security implications - well, that's what i'm working on. besides learning the details of goat farming.

i also am eating LOTS of parmesan cheese, purchased about 4 months ago. it is aged 9 months - if you buy it today June 11, it is likely produced from milk coming in September or August 2011. my Parmesan stash would be from about June 2011 - and it's running out.

so basically, i'm sort of caught flat-footed at this point. in a few weeks i will likely be back playing "radiation roulette" with my dairy products, like the general population.

PatColo

11th June 2012, 07:46 PM

C2C - 2012.06.09 (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2012/06/c2c-20120609.html)

http://missionsunknown.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/coast2coast1.jpg (http://missionsunknown.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/coast2coast1.jpg)
Fukushima Special

Host: John B. Wells
Guests: Arnie Gundersen, David Blume, Dr. John Apsley, Dr. Theresa Dale

John B. Wells welcomed various experts in nuclear power, energy, and health for a discussion on the Fukushima nuclear accident and how the disaster may affect our health and environment.

Hour 1 - First up, nuclear engineering expert Arnie Gundersen commented on recent news that bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California were found to have radioactive contamination from last year's Fukushima accident.

"They went fifteen for fifteen... that basically means that every tuna in the Pacific now is carrying cesium-134 and 137," he reported. Gundersen expressed concern over the rush to get nuclear units in Japan running again before safety modifications are put into place. Even when you safely shut down a nuclear reactor, about 5% of the heat never goes away, he explained, adding that in the case of Fukushima 5% represents 150,000 horsepower worth of heat. If that heat isn't dealt with on a continual basis, a meltdown is possible, he noted. Gundersen also talked about the astronomical amount of radiation in spent fuel rods, pointing out that the radiation in the fuel pool in Fukushima's Unit 4 is equal to all of the cesium exploded during the 700 above ground nuclear tests the United States did in the 60s and 70s. He suggested spent nuclear fuel rods be stored in heavily shielded dry casks.

Hour 2 - Next, ecological biologist and advocate for alcohol-based fuel, David Blume, spoke about the history and problems with nuclear power, as well as possible alternative sources.

Atomic energy was born out of the U.S. military's desire to produce material for its nuclear weapons program, he said. Heat is a by-product of nuclear reactions and can be used to make steam and generate electricity, Blume explained. "Using nuclear energy to make steam is the least intelligent way to boil water we've ever come up with," he added. Blume proposed shutting down all nuclear reactors, as they violate a basic tenant of ecology and good energy production: never use a resource that destroys other things in its use. In the case of nuclear energy, there is not only real danger from a meltdown but also from the waste which remains radioactive for 250,000 years, he continued. Blume wondered how humanity would keep track of where it is stored over the millennia. He proposed using alcohol from corn and other plants to provide fuel for cars, heating, lighting, and electrical generation, as it burns clean and is biodegradable.

Hour 3 - Dr. John Apsley appeared in the third hour to report on the far-reaching effects of radiation in the environment.

The problem with radioactive contamination is that it sticks around for so long and accumulates in food sources, he explained, noting the fallout from the Fukushima disaster that blanketed the U.S. West Coast was magnitudes higher than anyone expected. It will effect North America for three centuries, Apsley added. He estimated the Fukushima disaster will ultimately be to blame for the deaths of one to seven million people over the next 20 years, and perhaps even more. Low doses of radiation amplify toxins in environment that cause cancer and other diseases, he said. Apsley recommended smoothies made from select mushroom blends and whey (from the East Coast or New Zealand) to counteract the negative health consequences of radiation in the body. He also revealed how Japan is ruining their food supply of seaweed and fish by dumping radioactive waste into their waters, as well as how the island nation has been in talks with China and Russia for land to evacuate up to half of their population to should Fukushima Unit 4 fail.

Hour 4 - Fourth hour guest, naturopathic doctor Theresa Dale, shared her personal experience with radiation poisoning and how she learned to heal it.

Dale was studying in Europe when the Chernobyl plant blew up in 1986. "I got very sick and I didn't know why," she recalled, noting that the disaster was kept from the public for a two week period because of tourism concerns. According to Dale, a physicist she worked with tested her with electrodiagnosis and determined that she had radiation sickness. Switzerland was one of the only countries in Europe honestly reporting on the disaster and its impact, so I moved there to begin healing, she continued. Two months later and slightly healthier, Dale said she returned to the U.S., where she embarked on an 8-month healing regime. In light of the Fukushima disaster and still unknown long-term effects on the environment, Dale recommended an organic vegan diet, soaking vegetables and fruit for 15 minutes in clean water with a 1/4 teaspoon of 35% food-grade hydrogen peroxide (to remove pesticides and radiation), iodine to protect the thyroid, niacin to help the liver repair itself, detoxification saunas, and her own homeopathic formula to neutralize radiation in the body. "I can tell you that you can get [radiation] out, but you have to act," she declared.

Listen (http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/talkshoe/images/swf/lastEpisodePlayer.swf?fileUrl=http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/oczp5bbm0i/c2c_2012_06_09.mp3)
Download (http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/oczp5bbm0i/c2c_2012_06_09.mp3)
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Book

11th June 2012, 09:40 PM

It will effect North America for three centuries, Apsley added. He estimated the Fukushima disaster will ultimately be to blame for the deaths of one to seven million people over the next 20 years, and perhaps even more. Low doses of radiation amplify toxins in environment that cause cancer and other diseases, he said.

Read the bold sentence. Then read it again.

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beefsteak

12th June 2012, 07:31 AM

Book,

me thinks you're majoring on the Apsley minor in your selective quote post immediately above.

You been drinking deeply from "the fountain of youth" and now know you'll live at least 300 years as a modern Methusela?

Serpo

22nd June 2012, 04:09 AM

It says it will kill millions over the next 20 yrs and then says it will last 3 centuries ......WTF...how many million does that add up too............

Serpo

22nd June 2012, 04:12 AM

Gov’t flip-flops: Unit 4′s fuel rods to be removed starting this year — ‘Buckling’ building, quake concerns behind change Published: June 21st, 2012 at 11:42 am ET
By ENENews

INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-Japan nuclear minister speeds up Fukushima cleanup
Reuters
By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Kubota
7:53 a.m. CDT, June 21, 2012

Fuel rods in cooling pool have fanned safety worries

Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will begin removing fuel rods from a damaged reactors a year ahead of schedule, a government minister said Thursday, a move to address concerns about the risk of a new quake that could cause a further accident and scatter more radioactive debris.

“We would like to start taking out undamaged fuel this year. Preparation is now under way,” Japan’s nuclear crisis minister, Goshi Hosono, told Reuters in an interview.

[...]

Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) [...] had said in April it aimed to begin removing the fuel rods from the No. 4 reactor at the end of next year.

[...]

Tepco says its analysis shows the No.4 reactor building would hold up in a strong earthquake. But Japanese safety regulators ordered Tepco to recheck its findings last month after measurements showed one of the walls of the reactor building was buckling out by about 3 centimetres (1.2 inches).

http://enenews.com/just-in-govt-flip-flops-fuel-rods-to-be-removed-starting-this-year-buckling-building-quake-concerns-behind-move

Serpo

24th June 2012, 01:47 PM

[LA times]Japan to restart nuclear reactors despite widespread fear
Posted by Mochizuki on June 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments

Following up this article..[Hydrangea revolution] 45,000 joined demonstration against the restart of Ohi nuclear plant

<Quote> [LA times]

In a nation deeply scarred by nuclear disaster in both its military and civilian iterations, Japanese are deeply skeptical and resistant to government plans to take the first steps toward resuming nuclear energy production this weekend.

Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — the hibakusha, or “explosion-affected people” — are dwindling 67 years after the war-culminating horrors. But last year’s earthquake- and tsunami-triggered nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi complex have instilled fresh and widespread fear about radiation hazards.

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has succeeded in lobbying local authorities in Fukui prefecture to approve the restart of two reactors at the Ohi nuclear complex, warning that widespread power shortages will occur this summer otherwise and undermine Japan’s already wobbly recovery. The island nation got more than 30% of its electrical energy from nuclear generation before the March 2011 chain of disasters that gradually shut down the whole nuclear production network for safety checks and improvements.

A poll published last week by the Washington-based Pew Research Center showed 70% of Japanese surveyed wanted nuclear power reduced or eliminated. It also found 80% distrustful of the government’s ability to properly manage the nuclear industry and be candid about safety and environmental concerns.

Mindful of those worries, lawmakers on Friday approved a new and independent oversight scheme to replace the “unholy triangle” of government, industry and regulators whose cozy relations have been blamed for lax safety standards. The proposed Nuclear Regulatory Commission, guided by a five-member board free of financial ties to the industry, will replace the much-maligned Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency, which has regulated nuclear production from within the government trade ministry.

Noda also sought outside evaluation of Japan’s 50 reactors. Last week, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the Japanese industry’s draft guidance on seismic and flooding mitigation, and in April the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency signed off on safety upgrades at the Ohi reactors as “generally consistent with IAEA safety standards.”

Still, many Japanese remain unnerved about the impending resumption of nuclear generation 15 months after the tsunami wiped out containment structures at Fukushima, leading to meltdowns at three reactors and unsalvable damage to the fourth unit at the complex. At least 20,000 died in the natural disasters and tens of thousands were driven from their homes by the nuclear catastrophe that followed.

Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa signaled his approval of the Ohi restart this week, noting the importance of reliable power supplies to the industry-intensive region around Osaka and Kyoto. On Thursday, Ohi Mayor Shinobu Tokioka provided the last needed endorsement.

Political and media reaction to the decisions has been mixed, and Noda’s critics have expressed disappointment with his view that resource-starved Japan must see itself as a nuclear energy producer for the long term.

“Does this reflect the sentiment of the citizens, who are seeking an exit from nuclear power?” the daily Tokyo Shimbun asked in an editorial Friday. “Won’t it instead make what was supposed to be a rare exception par for the course?”

Tetsuen Nakajima, chief priest of Myotsuji temple in Fukui and an anti-nuclear activist, warned in a commentary in Asahi Shinbum on Friday that Japan risks unleashing another nuclear disaster with “a hasty resumption” of operations at Ohi.

“The myth about the safety of nuclear energy did not collapse with the Fukushima accident,” said the priest and advocate for the hibakusha. Only after exposing the Japanese people to yet another disaster, he said, will the cabal overseeing the industry be forced to give up an energy policy that has brought such suffering and loss on the country.

The newly independent regulatory commission expected to be approved in the Diet, Japan’s parliament, by July won’t take over from the current troika any sooner than September, and that concerns some outside nuclear experts.

“Japan’s nuclear regulator has never been independent from the industry or of the powerful Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry,” said Najmedin Meshkati, a systems engineering professor at USC who has closely followed Japan’s legislative and technical responses to the Fukushima crisis. He blames inadequate oversight and error-prone evaluation as contributing factors to the failure of containment structures at Fukushima when they were inundated by the tsunami.

“My only consolation is that the Ohi plant belongs to the Kansai Electric Power Co. and not to the notorious TEPCO,” Meshkati said, referring to the Fukushima operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.

He said Kansai is the most safety conscious of Japan’s nuclear operators and founded the Institute of Nuclear Safety Systems in the wake of two mishaps at its plants in 1991 and 2004.

Meshkati agrees with Noda that Japan must resume nuclear energy production for the sake of its economic future. He expressed the hope that with the Ohi restart, “this milestone which puts KEPCO under the microscope of Japanese media and public will re-energize the safety culture … which slowly drifted to the back burner prior to Fukushima.”

<End>

Iori Mochizuki

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/06/la-timesjapan-to-restart-nuclear-reactors-despite-widespread-fear/

Serpo

24th June 2012, 01:48 PM

http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/earth-rumbling-of-oppose-to-restart-of.html

Earth Rumbling of "Oppose to the restart of nuclear power plant" "Hydrangea Revolution "in front of Prime Minister Office
Original text from Ryusaku Tanaka Journal 16.06.2012 http://tanakaryusaku.jp/2012/06/0004549
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"Revolution of Hydrangea" A man after his work hold the Hydrangea and shouted "Oppose to the restart of nuclear" June 22 in the evening in front of PM's Office : Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka

A small carder of the privileged people who wants to restart nuclear power plant and massive majority of people who are opposed to restart the nuclear power plant. On June 22, an event which represents this composition happened in front of PM's Office.
I'll talk about it by hour. Around passed noon, there was a fake right wing group who started to do the promotion on the sidewalk in front of PM's Office. By the man who was the leader figure, they gave a notice of "Permission to hold a meeting until 8pm" to Kouji City Police Station. It was obvious that they wanted to block the meeting opposed to the restart of nuclear power plant which is held on every friday at 6pm. (The promoter is Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes)

Only 10 people of the fake right wing group occupied the crossroads in front of PM's Office which is the prime land for the meeting. "The radiation is good for our health", "The possibility of nuclear plant accident is less than air plane accident".
They continued their public speech which can't be a trick even for children.
A lot of citizens gathered using twitter and other social networks and waited beside the fake right wing group. At 6pm there were more than 10 000. (Issued by the promoter) There was a skirmish between citizens who tried to go to their fixed position and the fake right wing group who didn't let the prime land, and the police came to stop it.

Then there was a surprising incident. The police squad pushed the fake right wing to the direction of Tameike. The leader figure of the fake right wing lashed out to the top official of the police. "We pulled back so you should make the citizens backdown as well". "We can't make citizens pullback, the tail end continues until Kasumigaseki, there must be 20 000 people" answered the top official of the police in a straightforward manner.
How far the line of people go? I made sure of it by walking. The tail end reached at the crossroads of PM's Office. The filled people shouted "Wea are opposed to restarting the nuclear power plant" on the side walk in front of the conference hall.
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The police booked 10 people of fake right wing who promote the nuclear power plant. Just after the police pushed them to the direction of Tameike (To the right on the photo) Photo by Ryusaku Tanaka
Around 6:42 pm there were more than 30 000 protesters. (Issued by the promoter) The police answered to the leader of the fake right wing group that they can't pullback the citizen was a decision of objective circumstances. Even the police can't order the pullback to 30 000 citizens for only 10 people of fake right wing.
The journalist Takashi Hirose who has been working against nuclear power plant and explaining about it came to join the protest. He participated to the protest against The US-Japan Security Pact in the 60's when he was in third grade in high school. "I want to fill the roadway with people. We already did it".
In the 60's protest against The US-Japan Security Pact, there were demonstrations with a 100 000 people of workers and students who surrounded the National Diet and it made PM Kishi government deposed. When we think of the international situation, the US-Japan Security Pact had a reason to be. But Nuclear Power Plants is all pain, no gain. In front of the gate of the conference hall of The House of representatives's special road, there was a 4 years old boy who was on the bicycle of his mother who joined the chorus of the opposition to the restart of the nuclear power plant. Nobody can't stop this movement anymore. Even if the police makes controls, people will gather together. Finally 45 000 people participated to the protest on June. (Issued by the promoter) It would not be strange if it becomes 100 000 people next time. Some protesters calledl this demonstration "Hydrangea Revolution" like the arabian spring was called the "Jasmine Revolution" . "Retire Noda!", "Oppose to restart nuclear power plant!" were echoed all around PM's Office and the congress hall. It will be the citizens surrounding PM's Office which will depose PM Noda's government, not by the rise in rebellion of Ozawa group. It's already a revolution made by citizens.

beefsteak

29th June 2012, 04:53 AM

This brought me to tears as I listened to this marvelous rendition of Beethoven's 9th, in original German, and realized the equivalent of TWO of these 10,000 voice Japanese Choirs were lost in one fell swoop 3.11.2011.

This put the Tsunami tragedy into sharp, bias relief for me this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6s6YKlTpfw

Yin and Yang.

D.S. al fine as the tragedy just keeps replaying.....

beefsteak

osoab

29th June 2012, 03:08 PM

I came across this just starting to listen. Hour and 30 minutes. Disinfor from the 80's?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejCQrOTE-XA&feature=player_embedded

Here is where I found the vid. And the text they have with the vid. It doesn't match the video notes I copied below.
http://informationliberation.com/?id=40037

Apparently radioactive material isn’t as dangerous as the EPA has made it out to be.

From the video notes:
Galen Winsor is a nuclear physicist of renown who worked at, and helped design, nuclear power plants in Hanford, WA; Oak Ridge, TN; Morris, IL, San Jose, CA; Wimington, NJ. Among his positions of expertise he was in charge of measuring and controlling the nuclear fuel inventory and storage.

Galen Winsor has traveled and lectured all over America, spoken on national talk radio, and made several videos exposing the misunderstood issues of nuclear radiation. He shows that fear of radiation has been exaggerated to scare people … so a few powerful people can maintain total control of the world’s most valuable power resource. Filmed by Ben Williams in 1986.

In the video, you can watch Galen lick a pile of highly radioactive uranium off the palm of his hand and ignite a chunk of plutonium into a shower of flaming dust. The guy also drank reactor cooling pool water for fun and liked to go swimming in the pool to relax. He also spiked the basement flooring of his own home with enough radioactive material to send any Geiger counter reading off the scale to disprove the fear mongering surrounding radon at the time.

Galen surmises the regulations and fear mongering that surround radioactive materials are in place to prevent the widespread adoption of nuclear power in local small scale neighborhood/home based reactors. Galen also points out that hot nuclear “waste” can be effectively turned into a safe power source through thermionic conversion, which is how the U.S. submarine navigation network was powered. The heat it gives off can also be used to safely heat homes.

He points out that nuclear “waste” is worth roughly $10 million (in 1986 dollars) a ton if it were to be reprocessed to collect its useful isotopes, so all of this talk about trying to bury it is a sham. He says the power companies are holding all the waste with the intent of playing the plutonium futures market. The “waste” could be stored above ground in already constructed buildings meeting all the regulatory requirements without the need to have these outrageous basalt mines dug into mountains. The only reason he can think of for these underground vaults is to hide bodies/evidence that the state doesn’t want uncovered.

At its core, he says federal controls over nuclear material is about maintaining power and control over the masses through the denial of self-sufficient power sources. Obviously if one had a personal sized power source that was cheap and efficient, they wouldn’t need to be connected to the “grid” for anything. The power grid is the control grid our rulers use to keep us under their thumbs.

He also says Three Mile Island was an intentionally created disaster, and that a core meltdown could not melt its way deep into the Earth.

From the video notes.

Galen Winsor is a nuclear physicist of renown who worked at, and helped design, nuclear power plants in Hanford, WA; Oak Ridge, TN; Morris, IL, San Jose, CA; Wimington, NJ. Among his positions of expertise he was in charge of measuring and controlling the nuclear fuel inventory and storage.

Galen Winsor has traveled and lectured all over America, spoken on national talk radio, and made several videos exposing the misunderstood issues of nuclear radiation. He shows that fear of radiation has been exaggerated to scare people ... so a few powerful people can maintain total control of the world's most valuable power resource. Filmed by Ben Williams in 1986.

Links to informative news articles and essays on nuclear power and the "energy crisis":

Another Look at Nuclear Energy
Nuclear energy is on the go, helping countries in Europe and other parts of the world solve their energy woes economically and safely. Will America get back on board?
http://tinyurl.com/6w22kq6

Myths About Nuclear Energy
http://tinyurl.com/6r7yczn

Fukushima: Just How Dangerous is Radiation?
The situation in Japan is tragic: an earthquake, a tsunami, death, homelessness, and carnage. The grimness is exacerbated by worries about radiation. But should it be?
http://tinyurl.com/7zuuhqu

The Effects of Low-dose Radiation
The Japanese are not alone in being exposed to low-dose radiation; everyone is exposed to radiation daily, emanating from our food, buildings, etc. And that's good news!
http://tinyurl.com/73pfmtp

Rethinking Nuclear Power
With blackouts, power shortages, and rate hikes becoming more common, now is the time for America to reexamine the promise of nuclear energy.
http://tinyurl.com/7ux344e

Nuclear Waste: Not a Problem
Unbeknownst to most people, the bulk of nuclear waste is recyclable, and the remainder can be safely stored and presents little danger to anyone.
http://tinyurl.com/7px6d29

The "Other" Renewables
Environmentalists often refer to wind, solar, and "other renewable sources" of energy. What are these "other sources"? How can they contribute to our energy future?
http://tinyurl.com/7hhdy8v

Green Fairy Tales
The Obama administration's energy policy revolves around cutting energy usage and increasing "green" energy supplies. We examine the odds of the plan's success.
http://tinyurl.com/75dlhye

Energy's Future
The world need never run out of energy. In fact, technology and private enterprise are poised to bring us an abundance of energy—if government will just get out of the way
http://tinyurl.com/6pmhj23

Energy for America
http://tinyurl.com/7sagz2d

Stifling America's Energy Production
http://tinyurl.com/7nvcgmf

Building the Post-Kyoto Future
The new U.S.-Asian pact on global warming has more to do with transferring technology to China than with saving the planet from greenhouse gases.
http://tinyurl.com/6wdxne6

The New Fuel Crisis
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have exposed our nation's vulnerability to disruptions in fuel supply. Weaknesses in the system are due to unnecessary regulations and bureaucracy.
http://tinyurl.com/c5tpxk3

Race for Fuel
China's growing thirst for fuel has led the Communist country to search aggressively for oil outside its borders. That search may sow the seeds of conflict with the West.
http://tinyurl.com/cqm2rlg

Free Market vs. Price Controls
As gas prices hit record highs, calls are inevitable for government to remedy the "problem" through price controls— -- though that solution hasn't worked in the past.
http://tinyurl.com/7dr9njs

The High Cost of Heat
http://tinyurl.com/74ox2j6

Energizing America
http://tinyurl.com/7g4fvyk

Why Are Gas Prices Climbing?
http://tinyurl.com/7jmhytv

How to Create an Energy Crisis
http://tinyurl.com/75m2sr3

Losing America's Livelihood
The U.S. is headed for Third World status unless we change government policies that are driving U.S. businesses offshore, destroying jobs and putting entrepreneurs out of business.
http://tinyurl.com/7nvr33w

The "Geek Gap"
http://tinyurl.com/7xv7a6y

Freedom's Frontier
From the ocean's depths to outer space, private entrepreneurs have pioneered world-changing technologies. What more could be done if government got out of the way?
http://tinyurl.com/7cyuvhs

Science, Politics and Death
Environmental extremism kills. Millions die annually because of restrictions on DDT, and imposing the "Kyoto" regulations would kill many more.
http://tinyurl.com/6v53zye

The Fruits of Eco-Extremism
http://tinyurl.com/6ogcped

Reheating the "Global Warming" Myth
http://tinyurl.com/7478ryo

Eco-Agenda for Planetary Control
http://tinyurl.com/6wo9yv7

Hijacking "Spaceship Earth"
http://tinyurl.com/bw97mpg

UN Demands $76 Trillion for "Green Technology"
http://tinyurl.com/73l8uva

Rethinking Green
http://tinyurl.com/czu7owj

Environmental Stewardship
http://tinyurl.com/bo6mybf

Behind the Environmental Lobby
http://tinyurl.com/clprr3r

edit. I found an mp3 file interview of Winsor. Just started listening.

It's from some entity called "Lord's Covenant Church"

8618a (http://www.sheldonemrylibrary.com/8618a.mp3) Report On Chernobyl by Galen Winsor (05/11/86)

.........

From the video

I should add,

that Winsor claims that Three Mile Island was setup to create fear. It also occurred 1 year after the release of China syndrome. Remember, no new plants were built after TMI.

We started shipping nuclear material and plans for weapons to the soviets in 1944.

We know that Fukushima was allowed to go or force.

What about Chernobyl? The idiocy of the cause of the accident has always stayed in the forefront of my mind. I just never understood how something so boneheaded could occur.

osoab

30th June 2012, 02:56 AM

I highly recommend the above vid. I downloaded it. I can't find much on the guy, still digging. I did find the below article, still reading myself.

I am bringing these issues up, because we are not seeing a lot of effects of the radiation. Where are the mass deaths and cancers? I am wondering if the hypesters are just cashing or are part of the disinfo complex.

The Truth About Chernobyl Is Told

by Zbigniew Jaworowski, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc.
(Full text of article from the Winter 2000-2001 issue)

The recent report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) is in total disagreement with the opinions widely propagated by the international media, by the Greens, and by the governments of Belarus and Ukraine, that there have been tens of thousands of cancer deaths and epidemics of genetic disorders, allegedly caused by the Chernobyl accident. To the contrary, UNSCEAR states, even among the progeny of the survivors of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who received radiation doses hundreds of times higher than the radiation doses to the inhabitants of regions contaminated by the Chernobyl accident, no radiogenetic disturbances of health have been found.

UNSCEAR's 1,220-page magnum opus: "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation," subtitled "The UNSCEAR 2000 Report to the General Assembly, with Scientific Annexes," was published in September. The report to the General Assembly itself is short, only 17 pages, which serves as a non-technical summary of the 10 technical appendices.

These 10 annexes present an in-depth review of the current state of research on radiation levels and effects, based on 5,400 scientific references.1 The total report represents the work of 146 committee members of 21 national delegations to UNSCEAR, and of the organization's 15 scientific staff and consultants, over the past six years.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/images/winter2000art/Chernobyl.jpg

The Chernobyl accident is still surrounded by anti-nuclear lies and fear. Here, the damaged reactor, photographed in 1992. P. Pellerin

The two most important points that the report makes to the General Assembly are first, a comparison of the radiation doses that an average inhabitant of the Earth receives from all types of natural and man-made sources; and second, an estimate of the health effects caused by the Chernobyl accident, probably the largest possible catastrophe that can occur at a nuclear power station. This juxtaposition offers the reader a way to realistically compare man-made radiation hazards, such as Chernobyl, with the everlasting and ubiquitous natural radiation.

Both issues are "hot." Comparison of doses may influence the future foundations of radiation protection principles and regulations. The report's appendix on Chernobyl (115 pages and 558 references) is obviously politically incorrect: it denies the claims of a mass health disaster caused by radiation in the highly contaminated regions of the former Soviet Union.

At the global scale, as the report shows, the average natural radiation dose is 2.4 mSv per year, with a "typical range" reaching up to 10 mSv. However, in the Annex on natural radiation, UNSCEAR presents data indicating that this dose range in some geographical regions is many tens and hundreds times higher than the average natural global dose, or than the currently accepted annual dose limits for general population (1 mSv) and occupationally exposed people (20 mSv).

No adverse health effects related to radiation were ever observed among people exposed to such high natural doses. This strongly suggests that the current radiation standards are excessively, and unnecessarily, restrictive.

In 1986, some 116,317 persons were evacuated from contaminated regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. After 1986, about 220,000 additional persons were relocated, and relocation continued until 1992. In all, about 336,000 persons were resettled, incurring enormous costs to the country, and bringing great suffering to the people involved. There were actually plans to relocate 850,000 people, which fortunately were not fully realized.

The basis for the resettlement was, first, the possibility that those people living in the most contaminated areas would absorb a lifetime whole body dose (that is, their total dose received over a period of 70 years) higher than 350 mSv, which is about double the average global natural radiation dose. Later, this lifetime limit was lowered to 150 mSv, and then to 70 mSv (1 mSv per year).

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/images/winter2000art/birds.jpg

The scientists who have monitored the status of the contaminated area around Chernobyl, have argued on the basis of the development there, that the regulatory standards for radiation exposure for animals and plants should be higher than those for human beings. Here, Chernobyl's swans (left) and storks.
[/I]Courtesy of Dr. Ronald Chesser

According to Prof. Leonid Ilyin, the Soviet scientist who was a member of the group overseeing the rescue operations, a temporary evacuation was probably necessary for about 50,000 people, in addition to a special case of 49,360 inhabitants of the city of Pripyat, very close to the plant. In fact, the decision to evacuate Pripyat was not based on the actual contamination of the city (the lethal fallout covered about 0.5 km2, in two patches extending up to 1.8 km from the reactor, and did not reach Pripyat). The decision was made based on the suspicion that the burning reactor core might melt the concrete floor on which it was standing and fall into cellars below, which may have been filled with a large amount of water. In this case, an enormous vapor explosion might have sent vast amounts of radionuclides into the atmosphere, thus endangering the inhabitants of Pripyat. Fortunately, as became known later, there was no water in the cellars.

Thus, in the special case of Pripyat, one can say, that the early decision to evacuate the inhabitants of Pripyat was well conceived, and correctly performed. But most of the other evacuations were unnecessary, erroneous, and harmful.
The ultimate cause of these unnecessary relocations was the principle of the linear, no-threshold (LNT) relationship between radiation dose and health effects, which is accepted as the gospel of the International Commission of Radiological Protection (ICRP).
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Contrary to the scare stories about a nuclear wasteland, the most contaminated region around Chernobyl is now a magnificent nature preserve, with abundant flora and fauna. Courtesy of Dr. Ronald Chesser

LNT to Blame

The ICRP bases its recommendations for protection of the public in radiation accidents on the LNT. These recommendations—the lifetime limits of 350 mSv and 150 mSv—were used by the Soviet decision-makers, even though they are lower by a factor of 4 to 40 than the natural lifetime doses in many countries of the world, which have been inhabited for thousands of years.

People who were evacuated in 1986, received an average, whole-body radiation dose of 20 mSv, and a dose to the thyroid (from iodine-131) of 470 mSv. Inhabitants of the most highly contaminated parts of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, where deposition of cesium-137 was higher than 555 kBq per m2, received the whole body doses of 47 mSv, 36 mSv, and 83 mSv, respectively. The average doses to the thyroid in the most contaminated regions were 177 mGy in the Gomel district (Belarus), 37 mGy in the Bryansk district (Russia), and 380 mGy in the 8 most contaminated districts of Ukraine.

[FONT=Arial]The Thyroid Cancer Hoax

In its final conclusions on the health effects of the Chernobyl accident, the UNSCEAR report stated the following:

"The number of thyroid cancers (about 1,800) in individuals exposed in childhood, in particular in the severely contaminated areas of the three affected countries, is considerably greater than expected based on previous knowledge. The high incidence and the short induction period are unusual. Other factors may be influencing the risk."

One of these factors are what are called "occult" thyroid cancers, those detected at autopsies by histological studies, and which do not cause visible clinical disturbances during the person's lifetime. These occult thyroid cancers occur en masse all over the world. For example, in Canada their incidence is 6,000 per 100,000 population; in Poland it is 9,000; in the United States 13,000; and in Finland 35,000. The highest incidence of thyroid cancers in children found in Russia, before the Chernobyl accident, was 26.6 per 100,000; in Belarus, 17.9; and in Ukraine, 4.9. Thus, the potential for the discovery of "excess" thyroid cancers, after the intense health screening that took place after the accident, is enormous.

According to UNSCEAR data, the increase in thyroid cancers diagnosed in children under 15 years old, began to be seen as early as 1987 in Russia, and in 1990 in Belarus—that is, only one year and four years after the accident. However, the latency time for radiation-induced solid cancers, such as thyroid cancer, is about 10 years. According the data presented in the UNSCEAR 2000 report, there is no relationship (or rather there is an inverse one) between the registered incidence of thyroid cancers in children, and thyroid radiation doses to the population in contaminated areas (Figure 1).

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/images/winter2000art/tyroid.jpg Figure 1

MAXIMUM THYROID CANCER INCIDENCE RATES IN CHILDREN IN HIGHLY CONTAMINATED REGIONS, COMPARED WITH RADIATION DOSE

Shown are the maximum thyroid cancer incidence rates in children in highly contaminated regions of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, who were under 15 years old at the time of diagnosis, compared with average thyroid radiation doses. As can be seen, the area with the lowest radiation dose has the highest incidence of thyroid cancer.
Thyroid cancers are 90 percent curable. As of this writing, only one of these children has died.
Source: Adapted from UNSCEAR 2000, Annex J, Tables 40 and 57

No Increase in Cancers
Finally, UNSCEAR concludes: "Apart from the increase in thyroid cancer after childhood exposure, no increases in overall cancer incidence or mortality have been observed that could be attributed to ionizing radiation. The risk of leukemia, one of the main concerns (leukemia is the first cancer to appear after radiation exposure, because of its short latency time of 2 to 10 years), does not appear to be elevated, even among the recovery operation workers. Neither is there any proof of other non-malignant disorders that are related to ionizing radiation. However, there were widespread psychological reactions to the accident, which were due to fear of the radiation, not to actual radiation doses."

"Finally," the report continues, "it should be emphasized that . . . . . th. the vast majority of the population need not live in fear of serious health consequences from the Chernobyl accident. For the most part they were exposed to radiation levels comparable to, or a few times higher than, the natural background levels. . . . . . Li. Lives have been disrupted by the Chernobyl accident, but from the radiological point of view and based on assessment on this Annex (ÔExposures and Effects of the Chernobyl Accident'), generally positive prospects for the future health of most individuals should prevail."

The future will see what prevails: the diligent, objective, scientific judgment of UNSCEAR, which is the most competent scientific body worldwide on radiation matters, or the ideologically and politically motivated propaganda of fear.

Zbigniew Jaworowski, a former chairman and current member of UNSCEAR, is a leading expert on the effects of radiation. He is a professor at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw.

Notes

1. The 10 annexes discuss dose assessment methodologies; exposures from natural radiation sources; exposures to the general population from man-made sources; medical and occupational exposures; DNA repair and mutagenesis; effects of low-level radiation doses; combined effects of radiation and other agents; epidemiology of radiation-induced cancers; and exposures and effects of the Chernobyl accident.

2. For more details, see Z. Jaworowski, "A Realistic Assessment of Chernobyl's Health Effects," 21st Century, Spring 1998, pp. 14-25.[/TD]

osoab

30th June 2012, 03:29 AM

I went to the source of the last article on Chernobyl and found the below. It's a pdf. Anyone know anything about http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/.

INTERVIEW: DR. EDWARD CALABRESE
How a ‘Big Lie’ Launched The LNT Myth and The Great Fear of Radiation (http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2011/Fall-2011/Interview_Calabrese.pdf)

Dr. Edward Calabrese is Professor in the Environmental Health Sciences Division at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As a toxicology specialist, he has written scores of articles about the non-linearity of dose-response, including the benefits of low-dose radiation (called hormesis). He is founder and chairman of the advisory committee of BELLE, the Biological Effects of Low Level Exposure, a group founded in 1990, which includes scientists from several disciplines and aims to encourage assessment of the biological effects of low-level exposures to chemical agents and radioactivity.

Dr. Calabrese recently made the startling discovery that the linear no-threshold or LNT hypothesis, which governs radiation and chemical protection policy today, was founded on a deliberate lie to further a political agenda. According to LNT, there is no safe dose of radiation; the known deleterious effects of very high dose levels, under LNT, can be extrapolated linearly down to a zero dose.

As Dr. Calabrese elaborates in the interview, the contrary evidence was deliberately suppressed by Nobel Laureate Herman Muller, who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery that X-rays induce genetic mutations. Muller stated flatly in his Nobel speech that there was “no escape from the conclusion that there is no threshold,” although he knew at the time that there was reliable contrary evidence.

Society is still paying for this “big lie” in billions of dollars spent to meet unnecessarily strict regulations, in generations of people taught to be irrationally scared of any radiation, and in millions of lives lost as the cost of not going nuclear.
Dr. Calabrese was interviewed on Sept. 26, 2011 by Managing Editor Marjorie Mazel Hecht.

rest at the pdf. I wanted the LNT term to be defined.

osoab

30th June 2012, 04:09 AM

I highly recommend the above vid. I downloaded it. I can't find much on the guy, still digging. I did find the below article, still reading myself.

I am bringing these issues up, because we are not seeing a lot of effects of the radiation. Not at the levels that the commentators we have been listening too.

The Truth About Chernobyl Is Told

A little more about Jaworowski. These are all pdfs

Observations on Chernobyl After 25 Years of Radiophobia (http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Summer_2010/Observations_Chernobyl.pdf)

I guess the guy died in November.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2011/Jaworowski_obituary.pdf

osoab

30th June 2012, 06:19 AM

More about Winsor. Apparently he was alive as of last year after Fukushima.

I am reading some other stuff that he thought that the first WTC bombing was a suitcase fusion device.

The Truth Behind Japans Nuclear Issues (http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2011/06/the-truth-behind-japans-nuclear-issues/)

Nuke meltdown in Japan has taken a toll on clear thinking— and not because of radiation damage effects— because of our “conditioned hype effects.”

Whoa! Take a breath. While the Japanese earthquake/tsunami disaster was certainly a reality bigger than a lot of Hollywood productions. The destruction of the Nuclear power plants is not a world-ending disaster, no matter how many milliseiverts you read about in the plethora of scare stories in the news.

The mainstream media has done its share to make the disaster in Japan much worse for the future of the world than it is. I speak with authority in this matter, not that I understand nuke physics, or radiation dangers better than the “experts”, but because I hosted over radio, for several years, a guest who had more “hands on” experience in the Industry than any other individual. His name was Galen Winsor, an outspoken, irascible.,knowledgeable “Nuclear chemist and engineer” who, at one time or another during much of the 20th century held every job in the industry.
This is not a simple story, so bear with me; first we will look at the industry itself—a fascist monopoly with many dirty secrets, which is why the Japan disaster is going to be used totighten the screws on us stupid, lazy, misinformed Lemmings who evidently love getting kicked the teeth.

To illustrate the following can be gleaned from using Google and Galen’s name:

“On January 23, The SPECTRUM received a phone call from one of our respected subscribers recommending that we speak with nuclear energy expert Galen Winsor, who has been a frequent guest on Tom Valentine’s radio program over the last decade. Galen Winsor has been around the nuclear power scene for decades, and he knows quite a bit about the true costs and politics of electrical generation that are not being mentioned in the controlled media versions of the current California “emergency” situation that can rapidly spread to other areas. We know you will agree with us that this is not only an insightful conversation in terms of revelations of greed, but an extremely timely and important one—particularly if his recommendations are noticed by those truly efforting to get to the bottom of this so-called “emergency” in California.”

Then, the editor of Spectrum transcribed the kind of information I had broadcast for years. It provides us with overview of the nuclear problems worldwide, and we can thank the money mongers of International finance (always comes back to them, doesn’t it?

Martin: We received a call from one of our subscribers, and he suggested I have a conversation with you, on the record, about the current energy shortage.

Winsor: [Laughter] What shortage?

Martin: Out here in California they keep leading us to believe that there is an electricity shortage. I understand you might feel that is not the case?

Winsor: Electricity is not just a commodity. What they are talking about is electrical generating capacity. And if you’ve got capacity, you have to use it. They haven’t been using it. To answer your question, is Rancho Seco operating and on-line in Lodi, California? Is Humbolt Bay? How about Diablo Canyon? How about San Onofre, I & II?
Martin: You’re mentioning these nuclear facilities?

Winsor: Yeah, and if you’ve got a nuclear facility and you don’t use it, then it’s your own damn fault.

Martin: Do you think there is a conspiracy among those involved in the power companies to withhold power in an effort to glean profit?

Winsor: I can name the date when it started. The 28th of March, 1979, at Three Mile Island-II.

Martin: And what was so significant at Three Mile Island that would cause this kind of withholding from the public?
Winsor: There was nothing wrong at Three Mile Island-II.

Martin: Oh, really?

Winsor: The fuel didn’t melt-down, in accordance with the [movie] version in China Syndrome, which is a farce.

Martin: That’s really interesting, because that was sure a block-buster movie, and it sure created a lot of concern among the general public.

Winsor: The one that Jack Lemmon was in?

Martin: Right.

Winsor: The one that Dale Bridenbaugh and Greg Minor and Dick Hubbard wrote the script for?

Martin: Yes.

Winsor: I worked with those guys at General Electric Company, years ago.

Martin: Really? That’s fascinating. Tell us about this.

Winsor: When President Jimmy Carter, on the 29th of March, 1979, sent his henchman, Harold Denton of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, into Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to personally pull the operating license of Three Mile Island-II; and while he was at it, because TMI-I was the same kind of reactor, they pulled it too.

Martin: And why did they do that?

Winsor: There are several reasons, but one of them was that if you lost the plant, according to the insurance that was had by the nuclear insurers, American Nuclear Insurers, if you lost your plant, then their insurance policy would pay off $300 million. And that was collected. Now, why could American Nuclear Insurers pay-off $300 million?

Martin: Who got the money?

Winsor: Well, Metropolitan Edison got the money.

Martin: And what did they do with it, do you think? Any theories?

Winsor: [Laughter] What they did, it gave them an excuse to buy electrical power in Canada, cheaply—Ontario Hydro in this case, and sell it for any price that they wanted to, south of the border.

Martin: That’s amazing.

Winsor: And the American public would sit still for it.
Martin: The American public is largely ignorant of these facts.

Winsor: [Sigh] Yes. Let’s zero-in on the problem. The thesis of China Syndrome was that the fuel would melt-down and go clear through to China. It’s a false premise. But, I’ll tell you, 9 out of 10 who you talk to on the street think it’s real. In 1956, I worked in the nuclear industry and we put oxide fuel in the reactors.

Martin: Oxide fuel?

Winsor: Uranium dioxide ceramic fuel. It can’t melt. If there is any water present, you tony rogers .com
On 23 March, Tom Valentine of Radio Free America interviewed veteran nuclear physicist Galen Winsor, who said the blast was not caused by a low-yield conventional explosive charge. Galen Winsor went much further than this. “I’m sure it was just exactly what John McPhee predicted 20 years ago in his book, The Curve of Binding Energy” he said, “where McPhee quoted Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist out of Los Alamos, who said that someone someday was going to blow up the World Trade Centre with a small nuclear device, the size of a stick of gum.” Winsor continued, “McPhee’s book was published in 1975, although the prediction first appeared in the New Yorker magazine in 1973. Taylor worked in the area of the micronization of nuclear weapons, in other words making nuclear weapons small enough so the Israelis could carry them around in a briefcase.”
Bernard cohen

In March, 2011, Professor Cohen stated, reflecting on his study and it’s controversial findings that low levels of radiation can have beneficial health effects and reduce the risks of cancer, “There is evidence on both sides. Whether low-level radiation is protective against cancer, a theory called radiation hormesis, is debated in the scientific community. Furthermore, “…[on his viewpoint, and its' support found in his exhaustive studies] it could go further and say that no confounding factors (like socio-economic, geography, ethnicity, medical care access, and beyond 500 explored in the analysis) can explain the results. However, my study was designed to test the assumption that the danger of radiation is simply proportional to the radiation dose, which is the only evidence that low-level radiation may be harmful. My conclusion was that that assumption is false.”.[1][8][9] Reputable scientists disagree about that[10][11]; the debate is far from over. Given the uncertain effects of low-level radiation, there is a pressing need for good quality research in this area.[12]

Subsequent research would join a profound array of positions including a 1982 United Nations’ work-group study -UNSCEAR- concluding: “There appear to be no nonspecific effects from low doses of radiation that result in a shortening of the life span.”[13]

View the original article at Veterans Today (http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/09/the-truth-behind-japans-nuclear-issues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-truth-behind-japans-nuclear-issues)

osoab

30th June 2012, 07:08 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R1ReBuvsMk&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R1ReBuvsMk&feature=player_embedded

PatColo

1st July 2012, 09:06 PM

This guy Richard Wilcox in Tokyo has been getting more exposure. He was on Rense and then Spingola on consecutive days. I've only listened to the Spingola interview which is good, coz she's joowize & CT oriented, so asks questions along those lines. You'd like to give Rense credit for the same qualities, but recall Rense was quite hostile to the CT perspective on Fukushima (fall out w/Makow over Stone's work). So Spingola "goes there" where I don't expect Rense would. Here's both interviews:

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Spingola Special 2012.06.30 (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2012/06/spingola-special-20120630.html)

Richard Wilcox (http://environmentalarmageddon.wordpress.com/?s=Richard+Wilcox), of Tokyo, talks about the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Listen (http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/talkshoe/images/swf/lastEpisodePlayer.swf?fileUrl=http://www.spingola.com/RWilcox_2012-06-30_19-00-32.mp3) Download (http://www.spingola.com/RWilcox_2012-06-30_19-00-32.mp3)

& here's w/Rense,
Listen (http://www.talkshoe.com/resources/talkshoe/images/swf/lastEpisodePlayer.swf?fileUrl=http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/mp94woxe68/rense_20120629_3of3.mp3) Download (http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/mp94woxe68/rense_20120629_3of3.mp3) Hour 3 - From Tokyo - Richard Wilcox - Radioactive Japan

PatColo

2nd July 2012, 06:43 PM

^ you should give those Wilcox interviews ^^ a listen, I recall in the Spingola one the subject of radiation's effect on steel came up- Wilcox was trying to keep everything lay person friendly, doesn't go into chemistry etc. Otherwise his blog is Richard Wilcox (http://environmentalarmageddon.wordpress.com/?s=Richard+Wilcox) but looks like latest article is from May.

beefsteak

3rd July 2012, 07:01 AM

PatColo,
I have listened to Wilcox and heard the part where he briefly addressed the steel rebar topic.

Thank you for that link.

beefsteak

beefsteak

3rd July 2012, 07:17 AM

Y.S's on the ground sources in Fukushima are basically in Tokyo protesting the re-start of one of the Nuke plants down there, also on the East Coast of Japan (he named it but I didn't catch it) scheduled for July 5. Thus, his normal trusted sources are unavailable to him for local Bldg 4, Fukushima intel.

The July 5th restarting of another reactor (Not Dai ichi 1-6), is an enrichment reactor according to Yoi chi.

beefsteak

beefsteak

10th July 2012, 11:01 AM

36 minutes of Q&A with Japanese audience via HQ video conferencing, June 30. Topic is Fukushima now and in the future. Opens with recent video of Unit 4 before the deconstruction stills posted on this forum late last week, since some strucural collapse of upper floors were posted elsewhere by Golden Snake.

http://fairewinds.org/content/fukushima-daiichi-truth-and-future

beefsteak

PatColo

10th July 2012, 05:21 PM

Jeff Rense Radio Show - 2012.07.09 (http://grizzom.blogspot.com/2012/07/jeff-rense-radio-show-20120710.html)

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beefsteak

16th July 2012, 03:16 PM

Found this on ZERO just now...

adiation On West Coast of North America Could End Up Being 10 Times HIGHER than in Japan

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-7813.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington)
Submitted by George Washington (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/george-washington) on 07/16/2012 14:35 -0400
We've extensively documented the fact that ocean currents bring Japanese radiation to the West Coast of North America, and that - rather than adequate ocean dilution - there could be “pockets” and “streams” of highly-concentrated radiation (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/06/why-the-ocean-may-not-adequately-dilute-the-radiation-from-fukushima.html).

Joke F Lübbecke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/) and 3 scientists from the GEOMAR Research Center for Marine Geosciences poured tracer dye into coastal waters off of Fukushima, and monitored its progress as it traveled to the West Coast of North America, to find out what might really happen.

They have revealed their results in a new paper (http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034004/article?v_showaffiliations=yes) published by journal Environmental Research Letters.

The paper shows that the West Coast of North American could end up with 10 times more radioactive cesium 137 than the coastal waters off of Japan itself.

How could radiation levels be lower closer to the source of contamination: Fukushima?
Because the currents are swift off of the Eastern coast of Japan, and quickly move the contaminated water away.

The paper explains:
In the following years, the tracer cloud continuously expands laterally, with maximum concentrations in its central part heading east. While the northern portion is gradually invading the Bering Sea, the main tracer patch reaches the coastal waters of North America after 5–6 years, with maximum relative concentrations ( > 1 × 10−4) covering a broad swath of the eastern North Pacific between Vancouver Island and Baja California. Simultaneously some fraction of the southern rim of the tracer cloud becomes entrained in the North Equatorial Current (NEC), resulting in a westward extending wedge around 20°N that skirts the northern shores of the Hawaiian Archipelago. After 10 years the concentrations become nearly homogeneous over the whole Pacific, with higher values in the east, extending along the North American coast with a maximum (~1 × 10−4) off Baja California. The southern portion of the tracer cloud is carried westward by the NEC across the subtropical Pacific, leading to increasing concentrations in the Kuroshio regime again.

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With caution given to the various idealizations (unknown actual oceanic state during release, unknown release area, no biological effects included, see section 3.4), the following conclusions may be drawn. (i) Dilution due to swift horizontal and vertical dispersion in the vicinity of the energetic Kuroshio regime leads to a rapid decrease of radioactivity levels during the first 2 years, with a decline of near-surface peak concentrations to values around 10 Bq m−3 (based on a total input of 10 PBq). The strong lateral dispersion, related to the vigorous eddy fields in the mid-latitude western Pacific, appears significantly under-estimated in the non-eddying (0.5°) model version. (ii) The subsequent pace of dilution is strongly reduced, owing to the eastward advection of the main tracer cloud towards the much less energetic areas of the central and eastern North Pacific. (iii) The magnitude of additional peak radioactivity should drop to values comparable to the pre-Fukushima levels after 6–9 years (i.e. total peak concentrations would then have declined below twice pre-Fukushima levels). (iv) By then the tracer cloud will span almost the entire North Pacific, with peak concentrations off the North American coast an order-of-magnitude higher than in the western Pacific.

"Order-of-magnitude" is a scientific term which means 10 times higher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude). The "Western Pacific" means Japan's East Coast.

FOUR important graphics from the paper showing 1 yr, 2.5yrs, 5yrs, and 10 yrs dye dispersal activity.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-07-16/radiation-west-coast-north-america-could-end-being-10-times-higher-japan

Postscript by ZERO contributor: Prussian Blue may be used to treat cesium poisoning (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/treatments-for-radiation-poisoning.html). But don't take any Prussian Blue before consulting with a qualified healthcare professional.

Antioxidants may also help reduce damage from low-level radiation (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/how-to-help-protect-yourself-from-low-level-radiation.html).

beefsteak

16th July 2012, 03:59 PM

Thanks, PatColo, for continuing to faithfully post the Rense Monday night Collins and Shimatsu interview replay links. It was an audio treat to listen to the cleaned up audio of Yoi chi Shimatsu interview and his discussion re: Fuku#4. It was much easier to understand what his on-the-ground activists' resources were telling him about the now collapsed Unit 4. I didn't know until now that the replay was so much more intelligible than the original muddy interviews live on Monday night.

You continue to provide such a vital service to your concerned planet mates here on GS!

God's continued blessings, PatColo.

beefsteak

17th July 2012, 12:14 AM

Yoi chi Shimatsu's live from Hong Kong phone interview on Rense tonight was extremely sobering.

IN fact, Yoi chi had a hard time getting out what he had to say. He was obviously deeply moved by compassion and a sense of personal helplessness that crept into part of his sharing, and deeply angered by the callous genocidal murder being perpetrated upon his people.

Seems he's just back from a trip into Indonesia, where he observed--along with all the Indonesian peoples--for the first time ever, MASSIVE Northern Lights display in both Red and Green, in simultaneous dual colored bands, where there have never been aurora borealis displays in that country before. Said totally rare phenomena was attributed to radioactive Xenon gas from Fukushima (8-9 day half life) which lit up the sky in gigantic fashion similar to a rainbow in length and breadth as Y.S. tried to find words to describe the terrible beauty he himself saw while he was there. This is due to the collapse of Fuku #4 on June 26, 2012, sans explosion, but most definitely major radiation spewing, nevertheless.

The daughters of Xenon radioactive ionization is the diabolical strontium, which replaces the take up of calcium in all living things touched by radioactive fallout. Yours truly recalls earlier research posted upon this very forum wherein over 94-98% of all diabetes in this world is due to the radioactive strontium take up, especially in this nation, from the air and underground nuke "testing" of the late 40s/forward.

Furthermore, Yoi chi attributed said display to the lack of the protective ozone layer over the earth where this display in particular was observed for the first time in the history of the earth over there.

Yoi chi went on to describe the desolation of the Martian surface and orbiting uranium moons as the result of the stripping of the ozone lay there as well, as that planet burnt up in the resulting aftermath. He was obviously drawing parallels as best he could to what current science has discovered about the metamorphosis of Mars to what it is today. I'd never heard that explanation before. This merits some research on my part....

His message was clear. He said the depletion of the protective ozone could be instantaneous or perhaps take 10 years. He personally didn't give this planet 10 years before earth is stripped of all protective ozone. It is clear this timeline and Mars are 2 things to keep in mind as we as a planet face the consequences of Fukushima's nuclear disaster, globally.

He went on to speak to Fuku Unit 4 since he's been able to be back in contact with his sources on the ground there in Fukushima.

He stated that he's been told that Reactor 4 (yes, the big yellow life raft looking thing gunny brought it up earlier this past weekend), ....IT has split into 3rds, and is sinking into the earth from the uncontrolled reaction due to the intense heat of ongoing criticality/melt down in reactor 4 itself and disintegrating the reactor containment vessel itself.

He also spoke to the fact that the nuclear experts of this world dealing with Fukushima are now speaking about the current unfolding disaster of Fuku 3 meltdown and it's aftermath at the current moment.

Shimatsu also spent time speaking to the upthrust of the concrete below the reactors themselves, categorically stating that some of the broken concrete upthrusts have been sudden and some a foot high in their sudden upthrust. Remember, the intense heat has weaked the steel rebar in these reactor vessels, let alone the boxy buildings surrounding the reactors. If one needs any more lessons on the lack of permanence of concrete under intense radioactive meltdown, one only needs to reflect upon the concrete sarcophagus called Chernobyl, and now, 25 years later, which is getting a do over by the Russians, quietly and deliberately.

Yoi chi also spoke to the subject of an above post made on this thread earlier today of the dye studies in offshore ocean currents in order to determine cesium paths and subsequent build up on the west cost of North America.

The part that was heart breaking was Yoi chi trying to describe his personal conflict in trying to teach and help facilitate life giving natural mitigating remedies to the Fukushima adults, or whether he should spend his time and resources trying to provide pallative care to the thousands of dying children there in Fukushima in particular, as the thyroid tumors continue to emerge unabated in young people, becoming more and more visible by the day over there.

I wept after turning off this completed radio interview. I couldn't help myself.

beefsteak

Serpo

17th July 2012, 06:01 PM

Wikileaks release video: How the United States made the tsunami bomb used in Japan

no proof its from wikileaks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBppVHKm9pY&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBppVHKm9pY&feature=player_embedded

http://thirdsecret.org/content.php?323-Wikileaks-release-video-How-the-Japaneshttp://www.jamstec.go.jp/chikyu/exp343/e/images/outline/chapter_04_img.pnge-tsunami-was-made-using-atomic-bomb

Glass

17th July 2012, 06:33 PM

interesting video appalling music. So appalling that no one outside of GSUS types are going to watch it. I don't know why people post these things with death metal music in the background.

Blink

19th July 2012, 02:56 PM

interesting video appalling music. So appalling that no one outside of GSUS types are going to watch it. I don't know why people post these things with death metal music in the background.

Its seems that in western culture, if you don't keep it entertaining, nobody pays any attention.......... Btw, Drowning Pool isn't such a bad choice (maybe they chose it for the name of both the band and the song (Bodies)).

Glass

19th July 2012, 04:58 PM

Its seems that in western culture, if you don't keep it entertaining, nobody pays any attention.......... Btw, Drowning Pool isn't such a bad choice (maybe they chose it for the name of both the band and the song (Bodies)).

Without labouring the point too much, yes US troops like this song and they like it loud when they go on a death rampage. It keeps it interesting. For the other 99.9% of us it results in not paying attention. It could have been something easy on the ears like some kind of free studio music or something. Anyway. not everyone listens to death metal. Note to author - please try something else :D

Now there's an experiment. Do 2 vids, same material different music backing. Compare the performance views wise of each.

Golden

19th July 2012, 09:04 PM

MsMilkytheclown moving to MsMilkytheclown1 for Fukushima Updates on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-NXaDBbI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-NXaDBbI
Published on Jul 19, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
link to my new channel http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkytheclown1
Starting new over there. Leaving all my previous videos up on this channel - hopefully it won't get any more copyright strikes here and they will stay up forever to show the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima and how the media F*d it up and refused to cover the biggest world wide disaster EVER.
I'm not sure yet where to find mail on that account, so if I don't reply right away, give me some time to see where I put the mail settings to :) Computers are not my "thing", if you catch my drift.

BY THE WAY, in case you missed the link to the guy who has done back up videos for me for over a year (who also allows remix button on the stuff he copies of mine - and thank GOD he did) is Redbuttonstudio on Youtube. Link here!
http://www.youtube.com/user/redbuttonstudio
he has it all archived by date!

beefsteak

25th July 2012, 07:25 AM

Yoi chi Shimatsu's live Monday nite Rense interview was audibly clearer than usual, since Yoi chi was calling from Japan, as he was rumbling along on a bus. He revealed that the train service in Japan was still majorly non-functional since 3/11's nuke simultaneous outtages of 48 of 53 nuke plants on that island.

He spoke to the blistering traditional summertime heat in Japan, now majorly sans airconditioning of any kind. Also, how somber and quiet Tokyo is nowadays compared to the party town he knew Tokyo to be. Yours truly mused "perhaps that had something to do with what's in the smoke overhead" referring to, of course, all the incineration of outlier nuked tsunami scrap and the massive dead trees in the forests--dead from the nuke radiation there.

Yoi chi continued to speak to his talking points for this interview, mainly that his efforts to get phyto-remediation using wild mustard and sunflowers was basically kaboshed by the Japanese govt as "not fast enough"--taking 4-5 years to really get the job done by this sane and environmental effective means. By getting the job done he was speaking to the uptake into the plants of the radiation in the soil via the rain and other fallout. Then, the now radiation concentrated vegetation/plants were to be control burned and ashes stored, reducing the volume/mass of nucleated waste. Yes, this would necessarily concentrate the radioactive ion in the stored plant residue ash and any contaminated fitration media of the incinerators tasked to do the ashing.

Instead the govt opted for and pushed soil REMOVAL and storage, and the govt has run out of places to put the removed soil. Shimatsu spoke to at least one buddhist temple who permitted part of their grounds to be used for removed radioactive soil, but they were full-up now, these some 16 months later and weren't accepting more. He didn't know how many other temples had followed in the model footprint of this one temple grounds in particular.

Then Yoi chi moved to discussion of the STAGED initial rod removal sequence evidently recorded live on some camera and posted somewhere. Yours truly hasn't seen the footage, so I can't comment. However, Yoi chi proceeded to make his quite forthright and logical case for it being staged and not real by setting for what WASN'T visible in the staged demonstration.

He stated usually there are 3 --max 4 -- men on hand during rod removal under normal circumstances, reason being these rods are humongously long and swing and sway violently once lifted out of containment by overhead cranes.

There were 20+ people visible on the roof observing the activity with one rod-like something dangling in the air from the crane.

Normally the 3 max 4 groundsmen attending to rod removal function are riggers. Except this event last week, NO rigging to help control the rod swinging were visible at any time in this staged event.

Normally, the riggers wear required gloves in order to protect their hands from the riggings while helping control sway of these enormously long rods suspended from the crane. NO GLOVES on any of the 20+ people in attendance.

Finally and most damning in his mind--underscoring his conclusion this was a staged for press event--one of the 20 on the roof top reached out with bare hand and grasped the suspended rod-like unit--something no one in their right mind would do, let alone on camera, as the dosage would be lethal and almost immediately noticeable. This dangling-rod like unit was grasped by hand during the customary hand-off maneuver of the two pieces of equipment...the extraction unit and then transferred to the crane for finishing extraction.

He never spoke to where this long, supposedly zircon clad rod-like thing ended up. Perhaps that is visible on the camera footage alluded to in the interview, I don't know. Haven't seen it.

Yoi chi spoke to the increased cancers and deaths, and the continuing clamp down on the reporting of that angle. He wondered aloud where the govt & Tepco were stashing
the bodies. Yours truly wondered if the bodies were combined with the debris shipped to Tokyo's incinerators, but of course have no proof, just wonderings.

Yoi chi also spoke to the mood of the outlier rural communities being more upbeat than the more subdued city folk, due to the lack of news saturation in the city. He stated that where he was visiting and indeed traveling to while he was on this call, he observed major devastation of like 80%+ of the commerical fishing docks, and huge piles of debris and still standing but abandoned homes and business. This is in stark contrast as I understand it to the much photographed and quickly cleaned up Sendai photos we've all seen, where only the big boat is still resting atop a sturdy portside business and all the surrounds basically swept clean the the bare streets open to non-existent traffic.

He concluded those remarks about the commercial fisherman in these outlier towns as still having their boats but not going out in them because they had no one to sell their catch to, so what was the reason to even try.

beefsteak

beefsteak

25th July 2012, 05:26 PM

Just a reminder that Serpo posted back in June, on 21st about this "plan to remove rods"... an announcement which was made just prior to the collapse of Reactor Bldg 4 in Fukushima on June 26, a mere 5 days later.

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?45415-What-if-the-Jap-reactor-Blows-what-will-be-the-effect-on-the-Western-USA&p=550789&viewfull=1#post550789
(http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?45415-What-if-the-Jap-reactor-Blows-what-will-be-the-effect-on-the-Western-USA&p=550789&viewfull=1#post550789)

beefsteak

25th July 2012, 09:23 PM

ZeroHedge guest posted about the impacted Fukushima Children, and the spike in not only thyroid cancers but that 60% of Fukushima Children under the age of 12 have tested positive for diabetes.

Here's the entire piece.

Fukushima - Local Children Unwitting (And Unwilling) Radioactive Guinea Pigs http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 07/25/2012 21:51 -0400

Submitted by John C.K. Daly of OilPrice.com (http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Fukushima-Local-Children-Unwitting-and-Unwilling-Radioactive-Guinea-Pigs.html),

Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six–reactor complex at its Fukushima Daiichi, discussions continue about the possible effects of the radiation “dusting” the prefecture’s inhabitants received, and their consequences.

Far outside most media coverage, 2012 is shaping up to be the media battleground between the massed proponents of the ongoing ‘safety’ of nuclear power, as opposed to a motley coalition of environmentalists, renegade nuclear scientists and anti-nuclear opponents, largely bereft of media contact.

The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami double punch that effectively destroyed Tokyo Electric Power Company’s power plant complex has effectively become the newest “ground zero” in the debate over nuclear power. Advocates pro and con debate the implications of everything from the amount of damage to the release of radionuclides to the long term health effects on the Japanese population.

The stakes are high – quite aside from Japan’s multi-billion dollar investment in civilian nuclear energy, dating back to the 1960s, there remains the issues of Fukushima’s radioactive debris polluting neighbours.

All sides in the debate are playing for massive stakes, with the Japanese government and the nuclear industry broadly indicating the issue is under control. Accordingly, every issue from the amount of radiation released to the long term health consequences of the Fukushima disaster are subject to acrimonious debate.

That said, there is an involuntary irradiated “test” Fukushima group monitored since March 2011 displaying disturbing health abnormalities that may ultimately decide the debate, should the global media report it, forcing governments to debate its consequences.

The children of Fukushima.
The issue of nuclear radiation on human health cites besides Fukushima the August 1945 U.S nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the April 1986 explosion of the Chernobyl reactor complex in Ukraine, but in reality, there are no comparisons to evaluate Fukushima.

The 1945 U.S. Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were weapon “air bursts,” raising no nuclear debris from the ground. Furthermore, the Japanese medical establishment had no experience with the problem and when U.S. military forces arrived over a month later, information about the human cost of the bombings was censored for decades. Showing pictures of destroyed buildings, okay – showing victims with kimono patterns seared into their skin, no.

As for Chernobyl, the 26 April 1986 catastrophe represented a major black eye for Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev’s “glasnost” policy. Thanks to the heroic efforts of Soviet emergency workers, the Chernobyl smoking nuclear roman candle burned for nine days before being extinguished.

In contrast, Fukushima Daiichi has been like a suppurating wound, leaching radionuclides into the environment since March 2011, and since then furious arguments have swirled about not only how much radiation Fukushima released, but the potential long term health consequences.

But both disputes ultimately devolve into pure speculation.

Only two months ago TEPCO stated that the Fukushima debacle may have released twice as much radioactivity (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-24/fukushima-s-estimated-radiation-leak-doubles-versus-government) than Japan’s government initially estimated.

Accordingly, how can anyone estimate long term health effects when actual exposure rates are unknown?

That said, scientists do have a well defined test group – the population of Fukushima Prefecture surrounding the stricken NPP.

And the sixth report (http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/240426shiryou.pdf) of the Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey, which was released in April, revealed after the survey examined 38,114 local children that 36 percent of Fukushima children have abnormal thyroid growths.

The Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey revealed that 13,460 children, or 35.3 percent, had thyroid cysts or nodules up to 0.197 inches long growing on their thyroids and 0.5 percent of the children had growths larger than 0.197 inches.

So, why might this be significant? According to the American Thyroid Association (ATA), thyroid problems from nuclear events (http://www.thyroid.org/patients/brochures/NuclearRadiation_brochure.pdf) occur when radioactive iodine is leaked into the atmosphere and thyroid cells that absorb too much of this radioactive iodine may become cancerous, with children being particularly susceptible.

Furthermore, the ATA reports noted that thyroid cancer "seems to be the only cancer whose incidence rises after a radioactive iodine release" and that that babies and children are at highest risk (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207110058). The estimated lifetime radiation doses among the children are still low, but they do exist, the Japan’s National Institute of Radiological Sciences stated at a10 July international symposium in Chiba Prefecture.

Who cares about such an arcane issue? Well, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences conclusions refute the government’s assertion that Japanese children in effect received zero thyroid radiation doses from Fukushima.

Regarding Fukushima children’s health, the news just gets better. Two months ago Tokyo Shinbum reported (http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/) that 60 percent of Fukushima children under 12 have tested positive for diabetes, according to Dr. Miura, the director of Iwase’s general hospital.

Why, possibly?

Because the Strontium-90 radioactive isotope quickly decays to become Yttrium-90, which can concentrate in the pancreas, causing pancreatic cancer or diabetes. That said, while noting the abnormality, Dr. Miura declined to link it to Fukushima radiation exposure.

So, where does the Japanese government go from here?

It might do worse than to follow the advice of Australian pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, who after observing that "It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children," added that "you would not expect abnormalities to appear so early (http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-children-have-abnormal-thyroid-growths-2012-7) - within the first year or so - therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of (radiation)" before concluding, "it is impossible to know, from what (Japanese officials) are saying, what these lesions are."

Calidcott also noted that Japanese officials are not sharing the ultrasound results with foremost experts of thyroid nodules in children before noting, "The data should be made available. And they should be consulting with international experts ASAP. And the lesions on the ultrasounds should all be biopsied and they're not being biopsied. And if they're not being biopsied then that's ultimate medical irresponsibility. Because if some of these children have cancer and they're not treated they're going to die."

Nothing to see here, move along – unless your child is part of that 35.3 percentile.
Still, something for Westerners to think about the next time their government promotes building a nuclear power plant nearby - or if you live close to an existing one.

Thank you, Tyler Durden for once again given space to ignored newsworthy stories ignored by "regular media"....and not just in the field of corrupt finance and Euro-politics.

beefsteak

beefsteak

1st August 2012, 10:25 AM

If Sinclair moved to Tanzania to avoid the glowing rain...

Sinclair moved to Tanz to die, period....oh, AND to be where his money is available, un-encumbered. He's always planned to die in Tanzania, at least for the last 40 years that I know about. He just thought it would be with his wife at his side. Now, it's with Grandchildren at his feet, and good vino.

As far as your lats suggestion, thanks for sharing that. I too am curious how you came up with those perameters.

The Artic Polarbears are being negatively impacted by ionizing radiation of ungodly amounts. Ditto the Dolphins beached in SoAmer. Journalist Michael Collins had just received a fresh report from credible sources of horrendous multiples of "background" in rainwater in So. America. He was in the midst of investigating it and expected to have more info next Monday in his updates. Might keep checking his website for updates.... He also mentioned the galapagos turtle damage being witnessed, and investigating same w/r/t radiation and that rare population on those waaaaaaay far south of equator turtles.

What is your latitude over there, Neuro? You beyond those suggested lats in your post?

beefsteak

beefsteak

2nd August 2012, 06:17 AM

folks,
with the increasing radioactive assault on our bodies as the result of the unrelenting Fukushima Dai ichi spewing ulcers on the landscape West of the USA, the following copy paste from a venerated, Australian MD is now inserted into this thread.

Yours truly recalls Yoi chi Shimatsu bringing attention to the tremendous increase in thyroid tumors since 3.11.2011 over in Japan, especially among the young folk.

And we all recall the USNavy immediately pulling back to the 50 mile range upon the explosions of Fukushima 2 & 3, plus issuance of immediate Iodine dosage for all aboard those ships.

Furthermore, we now have Arnie Gunderson articulating as recently as last week of July 2012, that the entire west coast USA should have been immediately placed upon a thyroid protocol.

Well, here's another voice for thyroid health added to the mixture, even tho' Dr. Cabot does not speak to Fukushima directly in the piece below.

GS'ers might wish to print out this particular post, whether for current or future reference. In particular, I was struck by Cabot's specific reference to DENTAL X-RAYS (GAMMA) being a particular ionizing assault and attributable cause to the various varieties of thyroid nodules/tumors.

At least, these can be initially screened for by using Ultra Sound and not X-Ray!!!!!!!

What to do about thyroid nodules

Thyroid nodules are incredibly common. We see many patients (particularly women) with this complaint at our clinics. In fact research has shown that by the age of 60, more than 50% of the population has at least one thyroid nodule. Luckily most thyroid nodules are not cancerous; only approximately 5 to 10% are.

Thyroid nodules can be solid or fluid inside; sometimes they produce thyroid hormone and sometimes they don’t. It is important to find out as much information about the nodules as possible, as this determines their treatment. If you’ve been diagnosed with thyroid nodules, your doctor may offer a range of treatments: surgery, radioactive iodine treatment, or no treatment at all. Often thyroid nodules are left alone and the patient is advised to have them monitored regularly. Is this really the best option? Should you just do nothing and let them get worse, or hope they’ll go away? We think not.

There are several reasons why thyroid nodules may develop; addressing these factors can help in their natural treatment.

Thyroid nodules can vary in size from a few millimetres to several centimetres. The thyroid gland can contain one nodule or several. Sometimes a thyroid nodule can be visible just by looking at your neck; often thyroid nodules are present deep within the thyroid, therefore can only be seen on ultrasound.

Diagnosis of thyroid nodules
When a thyroid nodule is detected, it is important to find out if it is cancerous, or if it is producing thyroid hormones. A thyroid ultrasound is always performed, in order to see the size and structural composition of the nodule, and to find out if other nodules are present within the gland. It is also important to have a blood test, to determine if the levels of thyroid hormones are normal. Often hormone levels are normal. Sometimes a blood test will show hyperthyroidism because the nodules are producing excess quantities of hormones.

A thyroid nuclear uptake scan is used to determine if the nodules are “hot” or “cold”. The term hot means the nodules are producing hormones, and this often results in hyperthyroidism (an over active thyroid gland). Cold nodules are nodules that aren’t producing hormones; they might be composed of fluid (cysts), solid material or rarely, they may be cancerous. Luckily in the vast majority of cases thyroid cancer has an excellent prognosis and it very rarely spreads to other parts of the body.

Why do nodules form on the thyroid gland?
There are several factors that increase the risk of thyroid nodules:

Deficiency of the minerals iodine and selenium. It is quite difficult to obtain adequate quantities of these minerals through diet, and consequently many people are deficient. Your doctor can order a urine test to check for iodine deficiency. We commonly order this test for our patients and it’s rare to find a person who isn’t deficient. The level of selenium in the soil of most parts of the world is quite low; consequently very few foods are a good source of selenium. Brazil nuts provide selenium, however we commonly see patients who regularly consume Brazil nuts, yet their health improves substantially once they take a selenium supplement.
Vitamin D insufficiency increases the risk of nodules, polyps and fibroids in many areas of the body. Vitamin D controls the way in which cells grow and divide. Therefore not having enough vitamin D in your body is a risk factor for cancerous and non-cancerous growths on your body. You make vitamin D when you expose your skin to sunshine, but many people are not able to be outside frequently enough to produce sufficient vitamin D, plus vitamin D gets manufactured in your kidneys and liver, and if the health of these organs is compromised, this also affects production.
Exposure to ionizing neck radiation is a risk factor for thyroid nodules and thyroid cancer. Such exposure can be incurred through dental X rays and chest X rays. We are all exposed to an increasing level of radiation through modern appliance, mobile phones, wireless internet and aircraft. This is probably one factor responsible for the increasing global incidence of thyroid disorders. It is interesting to note that iodine deficient individuals are particularly sensitive to the harmful effects of radiation on the thyroid gland.
Research has shown that some pesticides promote the formation of thyroid nodules.

My recommendations for thyroid nodules

Thyroid Health capsules (http://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=shop&subpage=cat2&id=174), which provide effective levels of all the nutrients most important for the thyroid gland: selenium, iodine, vitamin D and zinc.
Regular consumption of seafood and the inclusion of seaweed in the diet. This provides additional iodine.
Regular consumption of raw nuts and seeds, for the minerals and essential fatty acids they contain. Other sources of beneficial fats for the thyroid gland are avocados, chia seeds, extra virgin olive oil, macadamia nut oil, avocado oil and coconut oil.
The avoidance of mucus producing foods such as margarine, hydrogenated vegetable oil, dairy products, deep fried foods and processed foods.
Minimise sugar in the diet, as it promotes inflammation and weakens immune function.
Natural progesterone cream (http://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=shop&subpage=cat2&id=136). Many women are progesterone deficient and this can worsen a thyroid problem.

In many instances, following these guidelines can lead to shrinkage of thyroid nodules, and sometimes they can slowly break down and dissolve. This may take a few years, and depends on how large the nodules are and how many of them are present within the gland.

There is a great deal more information about all thyroid conditions in our book Your Thyroid Problems Solved (http://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=shop&subpage=cat1&id=97)

http://www.liverdoctor.com/index.php?page=what-to-do-for-thyroid-nodules

Having lost 2 dear young ladies in our church circle --yes, both were sisters-- to thyroid cancer, this article is a personal reminder of great loss to their families and to mine.

Fukushima's Iodine radiation IS making it overhere, yes, even the 8-day half-life variety that the media has repeatedly trumpeted as more or less dissipated over the Pacific Ocean.

Here are 3 voices, Yoi chi's, Arnie's and Cabot's, PLUS something you can read, followed by a natural and alternative, research based protocol for post Fukushima irradiated populace.

Oh, and OF COURSE, lest I be remiss, as Dr. Cabot posts at the bottom of her articles and I now personally affix as well:
The above statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease.

Also, as a part of full disclosure, I receive no monetary benefit from posting the above nor flow-throughs from the mention of the products hyperlinked above, i.e., I'm not a distributor in any way, shape nor form, nor is any member of my family to the best of my knowledge.

beefsteak

7th August 2012, 10:25 AM

Yoi chi Shimatsu spoke to the radioactive rice mitigation being used by the processors in Japan. He stated they were polishing the Fukushima and all Japanese rice down to much smaller kernel size, which effectively reduces the radioactive burden by doing so.

(Logic dictates altho' Shimatsu did not make this observation: while smaller kernels may reflect less radioactivity collectively, the radiation has been transferred to the "polishing equipment" in a continuous re-application/re-contamination in perpetuity cycle.

Those who eat rice and notice a smaller grain size here and elsewhere might wish to keep this naked eye observable detail in mind when deciding to buy and consume rice from the far east.

Rense and Shimatsu briefly discussed the current statistical understanding of the AMOUNT of radioactive contamination in Japan since 3/11/2012, falling out on their own heads. That "number" is currently stated to be---and this is a quote--168x the amount of Hiroshima's single bomb event in '45.

Oh, My God, that knocked me to my bony knees..

And this fresh and ongoing Fukushima Dai ichi 1-6 meltdown radioactive contamination is continuing unabated.

Yoi chi stated he was back in Bangkok, and feeling akin to having been in a microwave oven for a considerable duration. He stated he was re-suming his decontamination routine immediately but didn't say what it was. The only clue he's given so far in that regard is that he's had success in turmor reduction and gradual removal by applying topical citronella to new, emerging skin growths on his body as the result of his prior contams, most especially when they emerge in his armpits where sweat collects the most.

He's tried to explain the association between absorbed radioactivity physiologically and the expelled salt from the human body as a normal function of our dermal waste systems working as designed, but yours truly didn't understand it all. It was the first time I'd heard anyone speak of that manifested association.

beefsteak

beefsteak

7th August 2012, 10:34 AM

Yours truly was engrossed in the "Part 1" of Lindsey Wm's 7.28 Mockton YouTube posted interview URL'd elsewhere by mamboni on this forum, and was late to the Michael Collin's segment preceding Shimatsu's live 30 minutes on Rense last night.

That being said, I'm unable to provide any elaboration on the Collins' 8.1.2012 Santa Barbara CA sunflower story and investigation, because it wasn't the topic under discussion by Collins and Rense when I joined as a listener.

Perhaps there is something on Collin's or Rense's website addressing this topic.

Rense.com
enviroreporter.com

If something additional on that story is located, it will be posted. If someone finds and posts it first, I'll be grateful for that, as well. :)

Our precious daughter --informed and aware since 3.11.2012 but not responding well-- works in Santa Barbara.

I'm/We're brokenhearted.

beefsteak

JohnQPublic

13th August 2012, 11:47 AM

Fukushima radiation spawned mutant butterflies (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-13/fukushima-mutant-butterflies/4194240)

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Researchers in Japan say radioactive fallout from the Fukushima meltdowns has created abnormalities among the nation's butterfly species.
The researchers collected hundreds of butterflies in the weeks and months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
They found abnormalities - including unusually small wings - in more than 10 per cent of the butterflies they surveyed.
The rate of abnormalities then rose to more than 33 per cent with the second generation, with some butterflies dying before reaching adulthood...

chad

13th August 2012, 11:51 AM

mothra!

beefsteak

13th August 2012, 11:57 AM

A lot of attention is paid to CCD suffered by the bee population...but little thought is given to the butterfly population who also aids in the pollination cycle. Sure hope they are prolific little creatures to withstand the wipeout of entire consecutive generations...how long does a butterfly live anyhow?

Thanks, JohnQ

beefsteak

undgrd

14th August 2012, 10:30 AM

Thought this was a good spot for this.

Study: Japan nuclear disaster caused mutated butterflies
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/14/13274288-study-japan-nuclear-disaster-caused-mutated-butterflies?

beefsteak

14th August 2012, 10:53 AM

EXCELLENT place for this, undrgrd! Thanks!

Yoi chi Shimatsu spoke to this very study last night during his weekly Rense phone interview "over there" in Asia. He didn't speak to whether he was still in Bangkok or not after concluding 10 days ago his latest Japanese trip to the northern coastal provinces ( above Fukushima), nor if he'd returned home to his Shanghi base of operations.

In any event, he spoke to the "giantism" HIS WORD, for the mutations that are showing up, and not just in butterfly studies. While mentioning the butterfly studies you referenced, he drew attention to the "Blackeyed Susan" plants. He described them as daisies with black centers that were quite common on the west coast USA. I recall them from my youth even tho' I was not born nor raised on the w.c.

He stated that the Blackeyed Susans in Japan were over 10 feet tall, as a easily identifiable giantism example due to the radiation mutations this growing season since 3.11.11's extreme radiation diaster. Additionally, Y.S. highlighted the fact of individual petals of this flower were as long as a man's hand currently witnessed by him. Normally the plant is a 2'-3' tall plant with a flower approximately 3" dia. (extrapolation: as opposed to the 14" dia he witnessed.)

It was shocking to him and noteworthy enough to mention on the show last night.

beefsteak

gunDriller

23rd August 2012, 07:27 AM

this thread deserves a bump.

i imagine gardeners in lead suits tending plants in the peak of the radiation zone, looking for genetic mutants that might have utility. e.g. higher yielding plants of different species.

i know a compost company that uses red clover as an "indicator plant" to test their compost batches.

is there an 'indicator plant' for radiation zones ?

beefsteak

23rd August 2012, 07:45 AM

Gunny,

Yoi chi spoke to such a plant last week, but I don't remember the name of it. It was a familiar name, not an exotic species. Sorry. Maybe PatColo will post that link.

beefsteak

JohnQPublic

25th August 2012, 09:53 PM

Record level of radioactive cesium found in a fish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSQM9SWZBOI

Golden

2nd September 2012, 04:47 PM

Fukushima: Consider THIS! by Arnie Gundersen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAf9KD53sAA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAf9KD53sAA
Published on Aug 30, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown
I have been wondering about this for a long time. I know some of you do not like Arnie, and some do, but let's have a listen to this...
At ~8:30 in Arnie Gundersen:There is a citizen scientist in Pennsylvania who has suggested, and I think it is a great suggestion, that we add a level to the international nuclear scale to address the fact that when more than one nuclear plant is having an accident, the whole world needs to mobilize to solve the problem. I am sure you know that Fukushima Daiichi and Chernobyl were both considered Level 7 accidents which is the worst that could happen. [...] it was a multi-unit accident and it also affected many sites. Well, that affects how many resources are brought in from outside and that is why Scott Portzline's recommendation that we add a level to the nuclear accident scale is so important. So Mr .Portzline is recommending, and I agree with him, that we really need one more rung on the international emergency scale. We need a Level 8. [...] the International Atomic Energy Agency needs to admit that there are circumstances beyond a Level 7, a Level 8, where international co-operation is critical. If only the international community had had a Level 8 and recognized that it was not just a single plant or a single site that was in jeopardy, and that, in fact, 14 nuclear reactors at 4 different sites were in jeopardy. The world might have been able to minimize the consequences at Fukushima Daiichi and minimize the exposure to the Japanese population if only the international community had acted faster.

k-os

5th September 2012, 02:04 PM

http://enenews.com/tepco-releases-badly-altered-image-unit-4-photo

Tepco releases badly altered image of Fukushima Unit 4

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Here's a close up of the badly photoshopped portion . . .
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Then, having been busted, Tepco admits to altering photo, with no explanation why.

http://enenews.com/tepco-we-fabricated-a-part-of-the-photo

gunDriller

8th September 2012, 07:27 AM

Then, having been busted, Tepco admits to altering photo, with no explanation why.

http://enenews.com/tepco-we-fabricated-a-part-of-the-photo

there's an opportunity there !

they need Photoshop lessons AND English lessons !

this looks like the Reactor 4 'wall-bulging' area. but i haven't been glued to the subject, i'm not sure.

PatColo

8th September 2012, 08:42 PM

Richard Wilcox on Spingola Special podcast, haven't listened, should be around 90 min comm. free,

Saturday, 9/8: Richard Wilcox (http://environmentalarmageddon.wordpress.com/?s=Richard+Wilcox), of Tokyo, talks about the Fukushima nuclear disaster; MP3 (http://www.activistpost.com/search/label/Richard%2520Wilcox)

Doomed Planet For A Failed Species? (http://rense.com/general95/dooomed.html)
Fukushima’s Tragic Nuclear Consequences

By Richard Wilcox
9-5-12

cortez

9th September 2012, 12:35 PM

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/greenpeace-detected-cesium-from-sushi-sold-beside-shinagawa-station-in-tokyo/

cortez

9th September 2012, 12:44 PM

gunDriller

11th September 2012, 04:43 PM

baby Godzilla crawling from the depths of reactor 4!!

might as well take advantage of the radiation and breed for Benevolent Mutations.

i'd like a Bearded Dragon that is house-broken and eats whatever is dropped on the floor.

sort of like a Roomba, but with scales & legs.

beefsteak

16th September 2012, 03:29 PM

Glo in t'mouth? Who's going to trust ANYTHING "made in Japan" anymore?

Japan tooth patch could be end of decay
http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image/images/afp/photo_1347826681415-1-0.jpg (http://www.france24.com/en/files/imagecache/aef_ct_wire_image_lightbox/images/afp/photo_1347826681415-1-0.jpg?1347834123) Handout picture released from Japan's Kinki University professor Shigeki Hontsu shows a tooth-patch, an ultra thin biocompatible film made from hydroxyapatitte. Scientists in Japan have created a microscopically thin film that can coat individual teeth to prevent decay or to make them appear whiter, the chief researcher said.

AFP - Scientists in Japan have created a microscopically thin film that can coat individual teeth to prevent decay or to make them appear whiter, the chief researcher said.
The "tooth patch" is a hard-wearing and ultra-flexible material made from hydroxyapatite, the main mineral in tooth enamel, that could also mean an end to sensitive teeth.
"This is the world's first flexible apatite sheet, which we hope to use to protect teeth or repair damaged enamel," said Shigeki Hontsu, professor at Kinki University's Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology in western Japan.
"Dentists used to think an all-apatite sheet was just a dream, but we are aiming to create artificial enamel," the outermost layer of a tooth, he said earlier this month.
Researchers can create film just 0.004 millimetres (0.00016 inches) thick by firing lasers at compressed blocks of hydroxyapatite in a vacuum to make individual particles pop out.
These particles fall onto a block of salt which is heated to crystallise them, before the salt stand is dissolved in water.
The film is scooped up onto filter paper and dried, after which it is robust enough to be picked up by a pair of tweezers.
"The moment you put it on a tooth surface, it becomes invisible. You can barely see it if you examine it under a light," Hontsu told AFP by telephone.
The sheet has a number of minute holes that allow liquid and air to escape from underneath to prevent their forming bubbles when it is applied onto a tooth.
One problem is that it takes almost one day for the film to adhere firmly to the tooth's surface, said Hontsu.
The film is currently transparent but it is possible to make it white for use in cosmetic dentistry.
Researchers are experimenting on disused human teeth at the moment but the team will soon move to tests with animals, Hontsu said, adding he was also trying it on his own teeth.
Five years or more would be needed before the film could be used in practical dental treatment such as covering exposed dentin -- the sensitive layer underneath enamel -- but it could be used cosmetically within three years, Hontsu said.
The technology, which has been jointly developed with Kazushi Yoshikawa, associate professor at Osaka Dental University, is patented in Japan and South Korea and applications are under way in the United States, Europe and China.

beefsteak

19th September 2012, 08:53 PM

Reuters reports that Alaskan seals are suffering mysterious lesions and hair loss (http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-test-sick-alaska-seals-radiation-003224466.html):
Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around the nose and eyes and patchy hair loss on the animals’ fur coats.

***

“We recently received samples of seal tissue from diseased animals captured near St. Lawrence Island with a request to examine the material for radioactivity,” said John Kelley, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“There is concern expressed by some members of the local communities that there may be some relationship to the Fukushima nuclear reactor’s damage,” he said.

Here’s a picture of one of the injured seals (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079317/Seals-damaged-flippers-hair-loss-killed-radiation-Fukushima-plant-biologists-warn.html):
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Seal.jpg (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Seal.jpg)

Found on ZeroHedge 9.19.2012 this day, plus some wind current maps that might be of interest.

beefsteak

1st October 2012, 10:38 AM

GS'ers may recall my dismay at ER CAT abdominal radiation when I was too ill to make an informed/pro-life choice.

Here's part what I learned from a caring personal trainer. It supports my own RAD conclusions from ordering out the CD visual record from the hospital, and finally getting a RAD # from off the last few pages of the 550+ images scan which was done on me from midsection to groin.

From:

Americans Exposed to Atomic Bomb Levels of Radiation through Medical Imaging, CT Scans, Mammograms

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/025767_Radiation_Ct_Scans.html#ixzz284PR3lig

Exposure to electromagnetic energy from electric and electronic equipment has become a factor in modern life. Radiation protection is offered by amino acids cysteine and glutathione; Vitamins A, C, and E; minerals Selenium and Zinc.

Russian clinical study reveals some benefit from Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus (ES)). RADIATION SICKNESS. Caused by overexposure to radiation such as x-rays, television screens and to an atmosphere polluted by such disasters as Chernobyl.
- Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine: The Definitive Guide (http://www.naturalnews.com/book_Bartrams_Encyclopedia_Herbal_Medicine.html) by Thomas Bartram

Quite an eye-opening article. Also, contains good protective directives if one knows they are getting dental Xrays anytime soon.

Bummer that it has taken me 4 months post ER admission to finally get my hands on this type info. Now I'm in major catch up mode. Looks like Large Sarge's chlorella needs to be a part of a post-even remediation practice from hereon out. Couldn't help but notice my chlorella poll posted in Sept 2012 had no responses. Must still be part of the underappreciated natural approach. Wonder why?

Thanks, Large Sarge!

Continuous to bewilder me the difficulty all lowly world citizens have at finding science based information about ANY radiation involved topic.

beefsteak

4th October 2012, 03:10 PM

Some scholarly "stuff" out there...this one from NIH... Year of pub. is 2000

[The adaptive potentials of those who worked in the cleanup of the aftermath of the accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Electric Power Station under the influence of different treatment methods].

Abstract
A comprehensive evaluation was done in 162 patients-liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. Of these, 80 percent were diagnosed as having stage I and II dyscirculatory encephalopathy (DE), 20 percent were in stage III.

It is shown that DE progression is caused by great strain on and breakdown of autoregulatory mechanisms of different biological systems (vascular, central nervous and vegetative, hormonal), and of central regulatory mechanisms as well.

Under certain conditions there may occur their breakdown, with syncopal states, crises, and even insults developing in its wake.

Treatment and rehabilitation of DE liquidators with
pyracetam,
vinpocetine,
cerebrolysine with magne B6, and
phytosorbents (spirulina, quercitrol, and vitapectine) lead to
reconditioning of central and autoregulatory compensatory-and-adaptive mechanisms,
long-lasting remission,
provide complication prophylaxis and promote work activity.

US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
PubMed.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10921251

Golden

5th October 2012, 09:21 PM

Fukushima, Diablo Canyon, and Crazy update 10/5/12

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbd6B5IP4ls
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbd6B5IP4ls
Published on Oct 5, 2012 by MsMilkytheclown

@(6:48)
Mice artificial iPS cells can create sperm and ova to produce "normal" mice... but Japan, in it's infinite wisdom, taking "creationism" into it's own hands, went ahead and did it for HUMANS too. A cure for "infertility"... a certain high demand project, given the magnitude of radiation that's spewing out there...

Japan will have to repopulate somehow...

Serpo

9th October 2012, 10:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjk4SP4utw&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjk4SP4utw&feature=player_embedded

Serpo

11th October 2012, 10:06 PM

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/radiation-continues-spreading-and.html

beefsteak

23rd October 2012, 09:16 AM

Last Paragraph succinctly NAILS the economic action/reaction of Fukushima. This from one of my favorite british economic reporters.

Its once vast current account surplus has vanished altogether since the Fukushima disaster last year.

Japan to join currency wars as exports slump

Japan is poised to join the world's "currency wars" as it battles a triple crisis of crashing exports, recession and a suffocatingly-strong yen. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02344/yen_2344982b.jpg Yen strength is Japan's curse. It rises on safe-haven flows during global downturns, choking the economy. This stems from Japan's bitter-sweet role as top creditor with $3 trillion of net assets. Photo: Bloomberg News

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01805/AmbroseEvans-Pritc_1805020j.jpg (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/)
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/), International business editor

7:13PM BST 22 Oct 2012

The country's exports plunged 10.3pc in September from a year ago (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9624914/Japan-reports-worst-September-trade-figures-in-30-years.html), dimming hopes of rapid recovery in the Far East. Exports to Europe crashed 21pc. Shipments to China fell 14pc as the Diaoyu-Senkaku islands dispute led to a slump in car sales. Honda, Mazda, and Nissan all saw sales plunge near 30pc as Chinese consumers boycotted Japanese brands. Nomura said the export slump will push country into full recession.

Stephen Jen from SLJ Macro Partners said the global storm is drifting eastwards into Asia, opening a "third chapter" of the crisis that will last well into 2013. "Many analysts have declared that the low in the global economic cycle is in place. We are not convinced," he said, predicting a rise in currency protectionism.

Japan (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/) is the awakening giant in this conflict. The yen has risen 30pc against China's yuan, 65pc against the euro, and 80pc against Sterling since 2008. Tokyo is itching to fight back.

Yen strength is Japan's curse. It rises on safe-haven flows during global downturns, choking the economy. This stems from Japan's bitter-sweet role as top creditor with $3 trillion of net assets.

Hans Redeker from Morgan Stanley says this pattern may soon change as political upheaval in Tokyo and surging public debt of 245pc of GDP usher in an era of devaluation.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) -- likely to win the Diet vote expected in December -- has written into its manifesto that the Bank of Japan should switch to a inflation and currency target. Pressure is growing for quantitative easing on a much greater scale to break out of the deflationary trap.

Mr Redeker expects the yen to weaken from 79 to 84 by Christmas, reaching 90 next year. "We think Japan will no longer be able to fund government debt (JGBs) from domestic investors as soon as 2015. They will have to print money instead. They can't afford to let bond yields rise because JGBs already make up 25pc of bank balance sheets. A rise in yields would set off a crisis."

Mr Redeker said the yen has been kept strong by Japanese insurers and pension funds hedging their $1.8 trillion holdings of foreign bonds with currency swaps. They are now fully hedged. This pillar of support has been knocked away.

Klaus Baader from Societe Generale said any attempt to weaken the yen risks disturbing a fragile equilibrium. "A policy of currency depreciation could trigger flight out of Japanese assets. This could trigger a crisis in the JGB market, and do more harm than good," he said.

Mr Baader said Japan should copy the Swiss, who fixed the franc against the euro at CHF 1.20 last year and vowed to defend the line by printing whatever it takes. A yen-dollar peg of 85 or 90 would slow the "hollowing out" of Japan's industry without frightening the horses.

Whatever happens, Japan's days as an export superpower seem numbered. Its once vast current account surplus has vanished altogether since the Fukushima disaster last year. The decision to abandon nuclear power has left the country reliant on imported fuels. It may face soon face a structural trade deficit. The workforce is shrinking every year as the bulge in pensioners grows bigger. The currency has to give.
=============

HAVE TO LOVE the next to the last line of Ambrose's op ed above: The workforce is shrinking every year as the bulge in pensioners grows bigger. Suggest that is pair of TYPOs "The workforce is shrinking every year..." since 3/11//2011 due to severely altered birth-death model forever altered by Fuskushima, then followed by "the bulge in pensioners GLOWS BRIGHTER instead of "grows bigger."

Just when you think someone is catching one, they go an BLOW IT in the last few sentences.

The very young, and the very old are the exact TARGET of radioneuclide poisoning from Fukushima.

Now to revisit this forum's topic, How does this effect the West Coast besides the obvious splash-over effect of weakening yen creates rising dollar in the USDX currency basket?

Simply this...US West Coast is the Japanese Exporter's rav fav western world shipping port destination. Not only will we not want Radioactive ANYTHING from Japan at somepoint, HOPEFULLY IN THE NEAR FUTURE, we will continue to bleed maritime jobs in the already open, regional, oozing economic wound known as "the west coast - USA."

We don't want their sushi, their cars, their cheap toys, nor their dying, glowing pensioners' exports.

beefsteak

23rd October 2012, 09:46 AM

Speaking of Fukushima, Yoi chi Shimatsu, vetted longtime Japanese award winning journalist, spoke long and mostly uninterrupted last evening on Rense, in his usual Monday night time slot. Yoi chi is still in Thailand undergoing his personal decontamination protocols after his weeks ago severe radiation exposure from his most recent trip to Japan to try to help.

Seems Arnie Gunderson has new thoughts to share, as they were played for the audience last evening. Yoi chi commented on them and with noticeable appreciation for Arnie's level of expertise. A.G. is at least ONE american nuke expert who is trying to help and indeed physically came over to Japan to do so.

One of the two topics Arnie spoke to was covered yesterday on ZERO, namely the already measureable 2 meter SINKING into the ground of Reactor 4, building and all.

Yoi chi categorically stated that the Thorium core (yes, the same stuff everyone and his dog is proclaiming loudly as the answer to the world's clamor for Nuclear Power) is already melted through and underground, the primary contributor to unstoppable nuke fission, which is undermining the entire geologic area under the entire Fuku-Dai chi complex.

The part that was news was Yoi chi's focus on the intensifying pressure on the underground water table that no one is talking about, and ZERO hasn't picked up on, either.

Yoi chi stated that for every meter of descending Reactor 4 plant, the underground water pressure increases 10-fold.

Two meters!!! YIKES!!!! We have 10-fold now times another 10-fold underground water pressure increase occuring there.

Yoi chi's conclusion, supported by his internal Japanese sources' / scientists' web of contacts is:

Another explosion--this time a massive, steam caused, radiation spewing explosion-- is not a matter of if, BUT WHEN!

beefsteak

23rd October 2012, 09:54 AM

Seems as if I'm "behind" the curve ball. Arnie Gunderson now has uploaded 96 Educational vimeos on the radiation topic. A healthy percentage are 15 minutes give or take. A very large proportion are Fukushima themed.

Here's one where he reveals and enumerates conditions, flaws, locations, of all BWR identical to Fukushima Dai chi, #1-6.

http://vimeo.com/29294797 (http://vimeo.com/29294797)

beefsteak

23rd October 2012, 09:58 AM

This one should be of interest to all. Released 3 weeks ago now, AG actually has revealed HOW TO TEST FOR RADIATION in this vimeo.

He's known this info like for 40 years+...my question is what took him so long to do the trickle down information sharing in the following video. I see a pancake geiger counter, a computer spreadsheet, and a microscope, easy enough to acquire tools. It's the knowledge as to how to use them that has been withheld.

PS...the gamma testing cyclindrical chamber to the left of the computer is LEAD SHIELDED. Remember when we discussed earlier on this thread BUSBY'S Lead Boat Protocol for conducting testing? Here's a sophisticated "cylindrical lead boat."

I DO NOT LIKE THE ANSWER I GET WHEN I ASK THIS QUESTION!

http://vimeo.com/50406479

DMac

23rd October 2012, 11:14 AM

Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down In U.S. Is Even HIGHER Than It Was at Fukushima (http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.fr/2012/10/risk-of-nuclear-melt-down-in-us-is-even.html)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down In U.S. Is Even HIGHER Than It Was at Fukushima

Posted on October 20, 2012 (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/nrc-whistleblowers-higher-risk-of-nuclear-melt-down-in-u-s-than-fukushima.html) by WashingtonsBlog (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog)
https:/www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif

Massive Cover-Up of Risks from Flooding to Numerous U.S. Nuclear Facilities
Numerous American nuclear reactors are built within flood zones:
http://www.scienceprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/NuclearFloodsFinal_Highres.pngAs one example, on the following map (showing U.S. nuclear power plants built within earthquake zones), the red lines indicate the Mississippi and Missouri rivers (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25307):http://foodfreedom.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/nukes-near-earthquake-zones-ne.jpg?w=720&h=465.12 (http://foodfreedom.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/nukes-near-earthquake-zones-ne.jpg)
Numerous dam failures have occurred within the U.S.:
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/damfailures.jpg (http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/bigmap.jpg)
Reactors in Nebraska and elsewhere were flooded by swollen rivers and almost melted down. See this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/berm-protecting-fort-calhoun-nuclear-plant-breaks-plant-flooded-on-emergency-diesel-generators.html), this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/nebraska-nuclear-threat-as-predictable-as-fukushima.html), this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/nebraska-nuclear-reactor-flooded.html) and this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/parts-of-nebraska-nuclear-facility-already-under-2-feet-of-water-but-so-far-emergency-flood-walls-are-protecting-electrical-equipment.html).
The Huntsville Times wrote (http://blog.al.com/times-views/2011/03/editorial_mother_nature_not_ea.html) in an editorial last year:
A tornado or a ravaging flood could just as easily belike the tsunami that unleashed the final blow [at Fukushima as anearthquake].An engineer with the NRC says that a reactor meltdown is an “absolutecertainty” if a dam upstream of a nuclear plant fails … and that such ascenario is hundreds of times more likely than the tsunami that hit Fukushima (http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/249843-nrc-engineer-accuses-regulators-of-safety-cover-up) :
An engineer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) …Richard Perkins, an NRC reliability and risk engineer, was the leadauthor on a July 2011 NRC report detailing flood preparedness. He saidthe NRC blocked information from the public regarding the potential forupstream dam failures to damage nuclear sites.
Perkins, in a letter (http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/igletter.pdf)submitted Friday with the NRC Office of Inspector General, said thatthe NRC “intentionally mischaracterized relevant and noteworthy safetyinformation as sensitive, security information in an effort to concealthe information from the public.” The Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/flood-threat-nuclear-plants-nrc_n_1885598.html) first obtained the letter.
***
The report (http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1218/ML12188A239.pdf) in question was completed four months after … Fukushima.
The report concluded that, “Failure of one or more dams upstream froma nuclear power plant may result in flood levels at a site that renderessential safety systems inoperable.”Huffington Post reported (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/flood-threat-nuclear-plants-nrc_n_1885598.html) last month:
These charges were echoed in separate conversations with another risk engineer inside the agencywhosuggested that the vulnerability at one plant in particular — thethree-reactor Oconee Nuclear Station near Seneca, S.C. — put it at riskof a flood and subsequent systems failure, should an upstream damcompletely fail, that would be similar to the tsunami that hobbled theFukushima Daiichi nuclear facility in Japan last year.***
The engineer is among several nuclear experts whoremain particularly concerned about the Oconee plant in South Carolina,which sits on Lake Keowee, 11 miles downstream from the JocasseeReservoir. Among the redacted findings in the July 2011 report — andwhat has been known at the NRC for years, the engineer said — is thatthe Oconee facility, which is operated by Duke Energy, would suffer almost certain core damage if the Jocassee dam were to fail. And the odds of it failing sometime over the next 20 years, the engineer said, are far greater than the odds of a freak tsunami taking out the defenses of a nuclear plant in Japan.
“The probability of Jocassee Dam catastrophically failing is hundreds of times greater than a 51 foot wall of water hitting Fukushima Daiichi,” the engineer said. “And, like the tsunami in Japan, the man‐made ‘tsunami’ resulting from the failure of the Jocassee Dam will –- with absolute certainty –- result in the failure of three reactor plants along with their containment structures.
“Although it is not a given that Jocassee Dam will fail in the next20 years,” the engineer added, “it is a given that if it does fail, thethree reactor plants will melt down and release their radionuclides intothe environment.”
***In the letter, a copy of which was obtained by TheHuffington Post, Richard H. Perkins, a reliability and risk engineerwith the agency’s division of risk analysis, alleged that NRC officials falsely invoked security concerns in redacting large portions of a reportdetailing the agency’s preliminary investigation into the potential fordangerous and damaging flooding at U.S. nuclear power plants due toupstream dam failure.
Perkins, along with at least one other employee inside NRC, also an engineer, suggested that thereal motive for redacting certain information was to prevent the publicfrom learning the full extent of these vulnerabilities, and to obscurejust how much the NRC has known about the problem, and for how long.Huffington Post notes (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/nuclear-plant-flood-threat-leak_n_1983005.html) today:
An un-redacted version of a recently released NuclearRegulatory Commission report highlights the threat that flooding posesto nuclear power plants located near large dams — and suggests that theNRC has misled the public for years about the severity of the threat,according to engineers and nuclear safety advocates.
“The redacted information shows that the NRC is lying to the Americanpublic about the safety of U.S. reactors,” said David Lochbaum, anuclear engineer and safety advocate with the Union of ConcernedScientists.
***
According to the NRC’s own calculations, which were also withheld inthe version of the report released in March, the odds of the dam nearthe Oconee plant failing at some point over the next 22 years are far higher than were the odds of an earthquake-induced tsunami causing a meltdown at the Fukushima plant.
The NRC report identifies flood threats from upstream dams at nearlythree dozen other nuclear facilities in the United States, including theFort Calhoun Station in Nebraska, the Prairie Island facility inMinnesota and the Watts Bar plant in Tennessee, among others.
***
Larry Criscione, a risk engineer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commissionwho is one of two NRC employees who have now publicly raised questionsabout both the flood risk at Oconee and the agency’s withholding ofrelated information, said assertions that the plant is “currently ableto mitigate flooding events,” amounted to double-speak.
Criscione said this is because current regulations don’t include thefailure of the Jocassee Dam — 11 miles upriver from Oconee — in theuniverse of potential flooding events that might threaten the plant. “Ithink they’re being dishonest,” Criscione said in a telephone interview.“I think that we currently intend to have Duke Energy improve theirflooding protection and to say that the current standard is adequate isincorrect.”
According to the leaked report, NRC stated unequivocally in a 2009letter to Duke that it believed that “a Jocassee Dam failure is acredible event” and that Duke had “not demonstrated that the OconeeNuclear Station units will be adequately protected.” These statements —along with Duke’s own flood timeline associated with a Jocassee Damfailure and NRC’s calculated odds of such a failure — were among manydetails that were blacked out of the earlier, publicly released report.
***
Richard H. Perkins, a risk engineer with the NRC and the lead authorof the leaked report, pointed to the analysis by the Association of DamSafety Officials in an email message to The Huffington Post. “I felt itmade a significant point that large, fatal, dam failures occur from timeto time,” he said. “They are generally unexpected and they can killlots of people. It’s not credible to say ‘dam failures are notcredible.’”
Dave Lochbaum, the Union of Concerned Scientists engineer whoreviewed a copy of the un-redacted report, says these revelationsdirectly contradict the NRC’s assertions that Oconee is currently safe.“Fukushima operated just under 40 years before their luck ran out,”Lochbaum, who worked briefly for the NRC himself between 2009 and 2010,and who now heads the Nuclear Safety Project at UCS, said in a phonecall. “If it ever does occur here, the consequences would be very, veryhigh.
“Japan is now building higher sea walls at other plants along itscoasts. That’s great for those plants, but it’s too late for Fukushima.If in hindsight you think you should have put the wall in,” Lochbaumsaid, “then in foresight you should do it now.”
Other Comparisons Between Dangers In U.S. and Fukushima
There are, in fact, numerous parallels between Fukushima and vulnerable U.S. plants.
A Japanese government commission found that the Fukushima accidentoccurred because Tepco and the Japanese government were negligent,corrupt and in collusion. See this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/03/japanese-seismologist-in-2004-on-risk-of-nuclear-accident-its-like-a-kamikaze-terrorist-wrapped-in-bombs-just-waiting-to-explode.html), this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/11/engineers-knew-fukushima-might-be-unsafe-but-covered-it-up-and-now-the-extreme-vulnerabilty-of-new-u-s-plants-is-being-covered-up.html) and this (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/japans-nuclear-melt-down-economic.html). The U.S. NRC is similarly corrupt (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/congressman-theres-been-an-attempted-coup-at-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission.htmlhttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/congressman-theres-been-an-attempted-coup-at-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission.htmlhttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/12/congressman-theres-been-an-attempted-coup-at-the-nuclear-regulatory-commission.html).
The operator of the Fukushima complex admitted earlier this month that it knew of the extreme vulnerability of its plants, but (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/tepco-admits-it-knew-of-problems-at-fukushima-before-the-earthquake-hit.html):
If the company were to implement a severe-accident response plan, it would spur anxiety throughout the country and in the community where the plant is sited, and lend momentum to the antinuclear movement ….The U.S. has 23 reactors which are virtually identical (http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/13/6256121-general-electric-designed-reactors-in-fukushima-have-23-sisters-in-us) to Fukushima.
Most American nuclear reactors are old. They are aging poorly, and are in very real danger (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/must-watch-video-on-unsafe-american-nuclear-plants.html) of melting down.
And yet the NRC is relaxing safety standards (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/20/national/main20072497.shtml)at the old plants. Indeed, while many of the plants are already pastthe service life that the engineers built them for, the NRC isconsidering extending licenses another 80 years (http://enenews.com/you-wont-believe-this-us-nuclear-regulator-meets-to-discuss-80-year-licenses-for-old-reactors-not-just-rolling-the-dice-youre-practically-committing-suicide-expert-video/comment-page-1),which former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and now senioradviser with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign David Freeman calls“committing suicide”:
You’re not just rolling the dice, you’re practicallycommitting suicide … everyone living within a 50 mile radius is a guineapig.Indeed, the Fukushima reactors were damaged by earthquake even before the tsunami hit (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/05/two-nuclear-reactors-were-damaged-by-the-earthquake-before-the-tsunami-hit-and-the-entire-nuclear-reactor-design-is-flawed.html) (confirmed here (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/05/us-japan-nuclear-report-idUSBRE8640K420120705)). And the American reactors may be even more vulnerable (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/04/a-u-s-nuclear-accident-could-be-a-lot-worse-than-japan.html) to earthquakes than Fukushima.
Moreover, the top threat from Fukushima are the spent fuel pools (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/the-largest-short-term-threat-to-humanity-the-fuel-pools-of-fukushima.html). And American nuclear plants have fuel pool problems which could dwarf the problems at Fukushima (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/04/nuclear-plant-35-miles-from-major-american-city-with-high-earthquake-risk-has-more-radioactive-cesium-than-released-by-fukushima-chernobyl-and-all-nuclear-bomb-tests-combined.html).
And neither government is spending the small amounts it would take to harden their reactors against a power outage (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/the-government-spends-trillions-on-unnecessary-things-but-wont-spend-one-billion-dollars-to-prevent-the-very-real-possibility-of-global-nuclear-catastrophe.html).
The parallels run even deeper. Specifically, the American government has largely been responsible for Japan’s nuclear policy for decades (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/american-government-is-dictating-japanese-nuclear-policy.html).And U.S. officials are apparently a primary reason behind Japan’s cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima accident … to prevent Americans from questioning (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/american-government-is-dictating-japanese-nuclear-policy.html) our similarly-vulnerable reactors.

beefsteak

25th October 2012, 09:25 PM

ZERO's Tyler Durden talks Fuku Fish, front 'n center tonight. Here's what he has to say about the glowing denizens of the deep, Pacific-ly speaking.

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Fukushima Fish Still Glowing As Brightly In The Dark One Year Later http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 10/25/2012 21:33 -0400

In the immortal words of Bruce-the-shark from Finding Nemo: "Fish are friends, not food."

But in Fukushima, they are neither! As Bloomberg reports (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-25/fish-caught-in-fukushima-as-tainted-as-a-year-ago-study-says.html), radiation levels of fish caught off the coast of Northern Japan are as high as they were a year ago with contamination levels particularly high among bottom-dwellers. There remains a fishing ban on these bottom-dwelling fish as 40% are still above the limit for human consumption.

As one scientist noted, "This means that even if these sources were to be shut off completely, the sediments would remain contaminated for decades to come." So, today's lesson is, Fukushima fish are neither friends nor food, but more like lava lamps we suspect.

Via Bloomberg (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-25/fish-caught-in-fukushima-as-tainted-as-a-year-ago-study-says.html):

Fish caught in waters off the coast of northern Japan, where an earthquake triggered a radiation leak at the Fukushima power plant, are still as contaminated today as a year ago, a study found.

Contamination levels were particularly high among species dwelling at the bottom of the ocean, as sinking radioactive materials tainted the seafood, the research showed. The findings, published today in the journal Science, suggest there is a continued source of radiation from the seafloor that will have a lasting impact, said Ken Buesseler, the study’s author.

“This means that even if these sources were to be shut off completely, the sediments would remain contaminated for decades to come,” said Buesseler, a senior scientist at Woods Hold Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

In waters off Fukushima, where there is a ban on fishing for bottom-dwelling species, 40 percent of fish are above the limit for human consumption based on Japanese regulatory limits, Buesseler said.

...

Three-Reactor Meltdown

About 3,500 terabecquerels of radioactive cesium 134 and 3,600 terabecquerels of cesium 137 may have leaked into the sea between March 26 and Sept. 30 last year after a three-reactor meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a statement in May.

More than 80 percent of the radioactivity from the nuclear plant was released offshore or into the ocean from waters used for cooling, according to the study.

Radioactive cesium levels in seafood haven’t dropped as of August, except perhaps in fish that live near the surface, Buesseler said. Two greenlings caught in August closer to shore off Fukushima contained more than 25,000 becquerels per kilogram, compared with the maximum permissible level of 100 bq/kg set by the Japanese government, the author said.

osoab

3rd December 2012, 06:50 PM

Dang it Beefsteak, re-register.

Just for you Beef. I haven't listened yet.

NEW
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Japan Update
11.26.12
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11.26.12
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gunDriller

12th December 2012, 06:00 PM

Dang it Beefsteak, re-register.

Just for you Beef. I haven't listened yet.

i was just thinking i would bump this.

thanks to everybody who helped make it into one of the meatiest bodies of information ANYWHERE on the Fukushima Disaster (Past Tense, Present Tense, Future Tense.)

gunDriller

16th December 2012, 02:02 PM

OK, another Bump.

This is a photo of my Fukushima-Free Compost pile. It's where I put my best & finest compost feed-stock, like Fukushima-free cow guts. It has always been covered from the rain.

http://s403998394.onlinehome.us/DSCN5951-worm-macro_+_+__.jpg

This is also dedicated to Beefsteak, who I know was interested in the subject of Fukushima-free soil, composting, etc.

This compost pile started out about 7 feet by 7 feet by 3 1/2 feet. Then I put a potato box on top & grew potatoes.

Now it's "composted down" and is about 35% or 40% it's original size. I keep putting Fukushima free feedstock on it when I get it.

In many locales, premium worm castings go for up to $600 per cubic yard. I've heard higher, like $1500 per cubic yard, but I've never seen that price advertised.

Anyway, that comes out to $20+ per cubic foot (27 cubic feet per cubic yard).

This pile here is 2 or 3 cubic yards. I'm not planning on going into the business or anything, just building up my premium soil for Fukushima-free gardening.

I must say, it does sort of raise eyebrows when you email Soil & compost Manufacturers and ask them what the "Canning Date" was for their soil products. Or else, if I'm buying hay, I prefer hay that's been watered from a deep well - way more Fukushima free.

I need cheapo bark fines, sand, etc. to mix with my own dirt, to sort of dilute it. If I can stretch 2 cubic yards of Fukushima free worm castings to 10 cubic yards of premium mostly Fukushima free garden mix, well that will cover much of this year's garden.

gunDriller

27th December 2012, 05:41 AM

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/tokyo-almost-as-irradiated-as-fukushima.html

"Tokyo Almost As Irradiated As Fukushima"
Posted on December 27, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog
Tepco – and West Coast of America – Slammed with Radiation

We’ve documented the spread of radiation from Fukushima to Tokyo for a year and a half. See this, this, this, this, this and this. Unfortunately, as the following recent headlines from Ene News show, things are only getting worse:

Tokyo area turned out to be as contaminated as Fukushima -Kyoto Professor
http://enenews.com/japan-newspaper-tokyo-area-turned-out-to-be-as-contaminated-as-fukushima-kyoto-professor

Tokyo Bay cesium even higher than levels reported off Fukushima — Nearly entire sea floor contaminated by 2014
http://enenews.com/tokyo-bay-cesium-even-higher-than-levels-reported-off-fukushima-nearly-entire-sea-floor-contaminated-by-2014-video

Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than prefectures closer to Fukushima
http://enenews.com/tokyo-getting-5-times-more-fukushima-fallout-than-prefectures-closer-to-daiichi

Japan Times: Time bomb in Tokyo metropolitan area — Experts warn of accumulating Fukushima contamination — Potential disaster at Japan’s 2nd largest lake
http://enenews.com/japan-times-time-bomb-tokyo-metropolitan-area-experts-warn-accumulating-fukushima-contamination

Tokyo soil so hot it should be sent to nuclear waste dump — Really severe releases hit city
http://enenews.com/gundersen-tokyo-soil-hot-be-shipped-radioactive-dump

Japanese Legal Expert: “Even residents of Tokyo are evacuating” — More and more people fleeing Fukushima
http://enenews.com/even-residents-of-tokyo-are-evacuating

People from Tokyo area report thyroid cysts and nodules — Japanese doctors laughing at patients
http://enenews.com/watch-people-tokyo-area-report-thyroid-cysts-nodules-japanese-doctors-laughing-patients-video

Japan Scientists: Radiation dose has been “significantly increased” around Tokyo metropolitan area after Fukushima
http://enenews.com/japan-scientists-radiation-dose-has-been-significantly-increased-around-tokyo-metropolitan-area-after-fukushima

And we’ve previously noted that the radiation will spread worldwide (by water and air). For example:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/08/the-whole-world-will-be-exposed-from-the-radiation-from-fukushima.html

California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/12/www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/california-slammed-with-fukushima-radiation.html

“Absolutely Every One” – 15 Out of 15 – Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/05/absolutely-every-one-of-the-15-bluefin-tuna-tested-in-california-waters-contaminated-with-fukushima-radiation.html

Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/fukushima-radiation-japan-irradiates-the-west-coast-of-north-america.html

A new study says that the West Coast will get slammed with radioactive cesium starting in 2015"

it ain't over

EE_

27th December 2012, 06:00 AM

But Japan's economy is doing great? Just look at their stock market.
Isn't the health of a country's economy always determined by stock prices?

Japan's Stock Market Hits 9-month High as Abe Takes Helm
Wednesday, 26 Dec 2012 09:30 AM

Read Latest Breaking News from Newsmax.com http://www.moneynews.com/Markets/Japan-Stock-Market-Abe/2012/12/26/id/469030#ixzz2GGDSNPAO

osoab

27th December 2012, 11:47 AM

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Eight US Sailors Sue Japan's TEPCO For Lying About Fukushima Radiation (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-12-27/eight-us-sailors-sue-japans-tepco-lying-about-fukushima-radiation)

Glass

2nd January 2013, 07:10 AM

Check out the by line

Tsunami bomb feasible, secret WWII test showed
Jonathan Pearlman

THE US and New Zealand conducted secret tests in the 1940s of a ''tsunami bomb'' designed to destroy coastal cities by using underwater explosions to trigger tidal waves. The tests were carried out in waters around New Caledonia and Auckland during World War II and showed the weapon was feasible. A series of 10 large offshore blasts could potentially create a 10-metre tsunami capable of inundating a small city.

The top-secret operation, ''Project Seal'', tested the doomsday device as a possible rival to the nuclear bomb. About 3700 bombs were exploded during the tests in New Caledonia and on Whangaparaoa Peninsula, near Auckland.

The plans came to light during research by a New Zealand author and filmmaker, Ray Waru, who examined military files buried in the national archives.

''It was absolutely astonishing,'' Waru said, ''first that anyone would come up with the idea of developing a weapon of mass destruction based on a tsunami … and also that New Zealand seems to have successfully developed it to the degree that it might have worked.''

Waru said initial tests were positive but the project was shelved in early 1945. Experts concluded that a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about 8 kilometres offshore.

Link (http://www.theage.com.au/national/tsunami-bomb-feasible-secret-wwii-test-showed-20130102-2c5n5.html)

osoab

10th January 2013, 06:15 PM

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Important Video: Nun's Warning About Fukushima Radiation Hurting Children! (http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fukushima-nuclear-disaster.html)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E69VyJEBYY0&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E69VyJEBYY0&feature=player_embedded

osoab

19th January 2013, 07:59 PM

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Meet Mike, The Most Radioactive Fish Ever From Fukushima (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-19/meet-mike-most-radioactive-fish-ever-fukushima)Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 01/19/2013 - 12:20 http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2013/01/mike_0.jpg
Almost two years after the awful nuclear disaster occurred, a fish caught near Fukushima on Friday January 18th had a record-breaking level of radioactive contamination over 2500x the legal limit. TEPCO measured 'Mike the Murasoi' at 254,000 becquerels per kilogram (with the limit for edible seafood at 100 becquerels). As Le Monde reports (http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/01/18/radioactivite-record-sur-un-poisson-peche-pres-de-fukushima_1819315_3244.html), the previous record (caught on August 21st 2012) was a mere 25,800 becquerels/kg. As further precautions, TEPCO is installing new nets 20km around the Fukushima Daichi site to avoid highly contaminated fish gettig too far and being consumed by other species. While Mike's family are no doubt distraught (at him being caught and being so radioactive), it appears (somewhat disappointingly) that there is no apparent third eye, lazer fins, legs, or other 'expected' 'blinky' malformations.

gunDriller

21st January 2013, 07:16 AM

Check out the by line

Link (http://www.theage.com.au/national/tsunami-bomb-feasible-secret-wwii-test-showed-20130102-2c5n5.html)

by Jonathan Pearlman ?!

"Experts concluded that a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about 8 kilometres offshore."

2 million Kg ~ 2200 tons.

Given that a small-yield nuclear device is 100 kilotons, and that Israel has 200+ such devices --

all Israel had to do, to punish Japan for their pro-Palestine vote, was to secrete 1, 2, or 3 such devices along the fault-line on the Deep-water ocean floor East of Fukushima.

of course, it would be an experiment - but Israel has demonstrated clearly that they are 'happy' to perform experiments which cost Gentiles their lives.

as far as the Signature that such devices would yield, Israel knows they can count on the US Pentagon & the US government to participate in any required cover-up.

osoab

12th February 2013, 03:14 PM

Need some Fukushima info added.

Bumbling idiots here.
#Radioactive Japan: Decontamination Burned Down a House in #Fukushima City (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/02/radioactive-japan-decontamination.html)

Recent Aerial View of #Fukushima I Nuke Plant (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/02/recent-aerial-view-of-fukushima-i-nuke.html)
The photos were taken on February 10, 2013, from a Kyodo News helicopter at an altitude of 1,500 meters. For the first time, the government allowed the aerial photographs within 3 kilometers of Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant as long as the altitude is 1,500 meters.

Sankei Shinbun (http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/130210/dst13021019000013-n1.htm) has an article (2/10/2013) with these photographs:

Reactor 4 building, with the steel frame being built (upper left) to suspend the crane for the removal of spent fuel in the future. The blue keyhole shape is the reactor well. The Spent Fuel Pool is covered with steel sheet:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XSGqkV4qiHY/URnGflx0FUI/AAAAAAAAFWo/D7QHd1mcrig/s400/fukushimafeb2013sankei-1.JPG (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XSGqkV4qiHY/URnGflx0FUI/AAAAAAAAFWo/D7QHd1mcrig/s1600/fukushimafeb2013sankei-1.JPG)

Reactors 1, 2, 3, 4, from the right. Reactor 3 building is flanked by platforms for the debris removal equipment, where human workers observe the work in tungsten vests (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/02/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-workers.html). When TEPCO holds the plant tours for the media, the highest radiation is usually registered on the road outside the Reactor 3 turbine building on the ocean side (lower left), at over 1,000 microsieverts/hour (or 1 millisievert/hour):

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a839dPJXBQE/URnGeiwHBNI/AAAAAAAAFWE/bmFZN6al_hI/s400/fukushimafeb2013sankei-4.JPG (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a839dPJXBQE/URnGeiwHBNI/AAAAAAAAFWE/bmFZN6al_hI/s1600/fukushimafeb2013sankei-4.JPG)

Storage tanks for treated water taking up the available space at the plant:

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At the end of the article (http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/130210/dst13021019000013-n1.htm), Sankei says that at about 3 kilometer south of the plant at an altitude of 500 meters the radiation level inside the helicopter was 2.5 microsieverts/hour, but the radiation level inside the 3-kilometer radius at an altitude of 1,500 meters hardly registered at all.

MNeagle

10th March 2013, 06:54 PM

Japan marks 2 years since triple disaster amid slow progress on rebuilding, radiation cleanup (http://www.startribune.com/world/196789511.html)

TOKYO - Japan is marking the second anniversary of its earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe. More than 300,000 people are still displaced and virtually no rebuilding has begun.

Memorial services are planned Monday in Tokyo and in barren towns along the battered northeastern coast to coincide the moment the magnitude-9.0 earthquake — the strongest recorded in Japan's history — struck, unleashing a massive tsunami that killed nearly 19,000 people.

Some 160,000 evacuees remain uncertain if they will ever be able to return to abandoned homes around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, where rectors melted down after the tsunami.

On Monday, about 800 people plan to file a lawsuit against the government and utility owner demanding compensation and that all land and homes be restored to their state before March 11, 2011.

Golden

11th March 2013, 06:16 AM

Japan: Tsunami anniversary what has changed? What was learned?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LFdipsLANc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LFdipsLANc
Ry Dawson
Published on Mar 11, 2013

osoab

13th May 2013, 06:23 PM

#Radioactive Japan with Nothing Better to Do: Police and Japan Coast Guard Held Joint Anti-Terrorism Exercise to Protect #Fukushima I Nuke Plant from Terrorists (http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/05/radioactive-japan-with-nothing-better.html)

Jiji has a photo of Coast Guard officers with machine guns, dressed in black-and-yellow radiation protection gear and looking like a bee or fly, having subdued the "terrorists" on board a ship:

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FreeEnergy

3rd June 2013, 09:00 PM

Glass

4th June 2013, 08:49 PM

Good news everyone! No one ever got sick from Fukishima. That's a fact Jack.

Japan's radiation disaster toll: none dead, none sick

Heard much about Fukushima lately? You know, the disaster that spread deadly contamination across Japan and spelt the end for the nuclear industry.
You should have, because recent authoritative reports have reached a remarkable conclusion about a supposedly "deadly" disaster. No one died, nor is likely to die, according to the most comprehensive assessments since the Fukushima nuclear plant was hit by a massive earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
The accident competed for media space with the deaths of nearly 20,000 people in the magnitude 9.0 quake – 1000 times worse than the Christchurch quake – and tsunami, which wholly or partly destroyed more than a million buildings.

The nuclear workers were the living dead, we were told; hundreds of thousands would die if the plant exploded; even if that didn't happen, affected areas would be uninhabitable and residents' health would suffer for generations.

Instead, two independent international reports conclude that radiative material released from Fukushima's four damaged reactors, three of which melted down, has had negligible health impacts.

In February, the World Health Organisation reported there would be no noticeable increases in cancer rates for the overall population. A third of emergency workers were at some increased risk.

While infants in two localised hot spots were likely to have a 6 per cent relative increase in female breast cancer and 7 per cent relative increase in male leukaemia, WHO cautioned this was a small change. The lifetime risk of thyroid cancer, which is treatable, is only 0.75 per cent, so even in the worst-affected location it rose to only 1.25 per cent.
Now the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation has drawn on 80 scientists from 18 countries to produce a draft report that concludes: "Radiation exposure following the nuclear accident at Fukushima-Daiichi did not cause any immediate health effects. It is unlikely to be able to attribute any health effects in the future among the general public and the vast majority of workers."

The committee has had two years to build a fuller picture of radiation dosages (measured as mSv) and impacts. It finds most Japanese in the first and second years were exposed to lower doses from the accident than from natural background radiation's 2-3 mSv a year.
Also, "No radiation-related deaths or acute effects have been observed among nearly 25,000 workers involved at the accident site. Given the small number of highly exposed workers, it is unlikely that excess cases of thyroid cancer due to radiation exposure would be detectable."
Those workers, who were allowed a maximum short-term dose of 250 mSv, have been closely monitored. Of 167 exposed to more than the industry's recommended five-year limit of 100 mSv (a CT scan exposes patients to up to 10 mSv), 23 recorded 150-200 mSv, three 200-250 mSv and six up to 678 mSv, still short of the 1000 mSv single dosage that causes radiation sickness, or the accumulated exposure estimated to cause a fatal cancer years later in 5 per cent of people.
So, not even one case of radiation sickness to report.
A swift evacuation of 200,000 residents within a 20-kilometre radius of the plant helped protect them – WHO estimated most residents of Fukushima prefecture received doses of 1-10 mSv in the first year. By August 2011, however, the dose rate at the plant boundary was only 1.7 mSv a year.
The rapid decay of most of the radioactive material (iodine-131, which reduced to a 16th of its original activity in a month) also means the evacuated area has not been permanently blighted. Many residents have returned, although some areas have restricted entry until radiation drops below the 20 mSv-a-year threshold, expected in 2016-17.

Nor has the environment been devastated. The report says: "The exposures on both marine and terrestrial non-human biota were too low for observable acute effects."

This and much much more drivel right here. Free! (http://www.theage.com.au/comment/japans-radiation-disaster-toll-none-dead-none-sick-20130604-2nomz.html)

I read it on the mainstream news. It must be true.

Neuro

5th June 2013, 11:12 AM

osoab

5th June 2013, 06:15 PM

Didn't read the whole thing, just adding.

1. Japan stock market is up because of the same thing US stock market is up - they are printing yen like crazy, $80 billion US dollars (in yen) per month.

2. If I remember correctly couple of years ago, US auto industry was dead or dying. Japanese car manufacturers were killing it. Then boom comes Fukushima disaster. Two years down the line - Japan is fully irradiated, US auto makers are recovering, Japan CB is printing like crazy to become World Central Banker's slave. What gives?

You don't read zerohedge much or listen to Kyle Bass do you?

Japan has been dying long before Fukushima. I wouldn't say that Fukushima didn't help accelerate things a little. I disagree with Automakers recovering. Treasury is selling 30 million shares of GM in the near future.

Japan has been the bankers slave since the end of WW2.

Santa

5th June 2013, 07:13 PM

authoritative reports have reached a remarkable conclusion about a supposedly "deadly" disaster.

Authoritative reports?

two independent international reports conclude

Independent reports? Well, which is it? Independent or authoritative?

the World Health Organization reported

Ah, ok. Now we're getting somewhere. The WHO. Same folks who want to vaccinate us all against our will to save us from a flu bug. Lol...

the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation

The World Health Organization and the United Nations Scientific Committee. Yep. Independent and Authoritative. Uhuh...
The same folks that claim cow farts are destroying the world now claim the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown Disaster was no more dangerous than sniffing buttercups in a dew moistened meadow. Yep. Believe Authority. Lol...

JohnQPublic

6th June 2013, 06:26 AM

"Tsunami bomb feasible, secret WWII test showed
Jonathan Pearlman"

Check out the by line

Link (http://www.theage.com.au/national/tsunami-bomb-feasible-secret-wwii-test-showed-20130102-2c5n5.html)

"Experts concluded that a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about 8 kilometres offshore."

I wonder how many nuclear devices would suffice?

Neuro

6th June 2013, 06:37 AM

"Tsunami bomb feasible, secret WWII test showed
Jonathan Pearlman"

"Experts concluded that a successful tsunami bomb would require about 2 million kilograms of explosive arrayed in a line about 8 kilometres offshore."

I wonder how many nuclear devices would suffice?

2 million kilograms is equivalent to 2 kiloton, which is not a very big atomic bomb, but as I understand it the tsunami experiment required many conventional bombs timed to explode at the exact right time. Perhaps it is possible to create a super tsunami with say 20 20 kiloton nukes accurately timed...

vacuum

17th June 2013, 11:22 PM

Good news everyone! No one ever got sick from Fukishima. That's a fact Jack.

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This and much much more drivel right here. Free! (http://www.theage.com.au/comment/japans-radiation-disaster-toll-none-dead-none-sick-20130604-2nomz.html)

I read it on the mainstream news. It must be true.

That's because IT'S ALL A LIE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ejCQrOTE-XA

http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?70341-Nuclear-waste-is-fake-banker-plot-energy-control-precious-radioactive-metals

gunDriller

18th June 2013, 04:13 PM

Cebu_4_2

18th June 2013, 10:31 PM

Jews love to play God.

the Neutron Bomb was invented by a Jew.

I wonder who he stole the plans from?

Blink

21st June 2013, 05:16 PM

I wonder who he stole the plans from?

The Annunaki......

gunDriller

22nd June 2013, 03:21 PM

I wonder who he stole the plans from?

some things Jews are good at.

a bomb that kills Gentiles and leaves the real estate intact ?

it's logical that that would be invented by a Jew.

MNeagle

20th July 2013, 05:39 PM

“Who Could Trust Such A Company?” – The Big Fat Lies About Radiation Exposure Of Workers At Fukushima

Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com (http://www.testosteronepit.com/) www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter (http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter)

The nuclear fiasco playing out relentlessly in Japan since March 2011 has shaken the previously omniscient and omnipotent nuclear industry – and the government agencies that aided and abetted it. Yet they still obfuscate and minimize the consequences of the triple melt-down of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. Latest revelation: the number of workers at the plant who had cancer-inducing radiation doses in thyroid glands from inhaling radioactive substances during the early stages of the crisis was elven times higher than disclosed last December.

Not 178 workers, as TEPCO, the bailed out and now partially state-controlled owner of the nuke had said, but 1,973 workers, as the Asahi Shimbun (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307190080) has “learned.”

Despite its erstwhile omniscience and omnipotence, TEPCO has been publically baffled by an endless series of mishaps, surprises, and occurrences that left it mostly helpless. For example, in mid-March, it disclosed that a month earlier (!), a greenling with 740,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram had been caught near the plant. That’s 7,400 times the government’s food safety limit, highest ever measured by TEPCO’s testing program. The prior record-breaking TEPCO fish (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201303010040) had 510,000 becquerels. And they’re all part of the food chain.

Then, early last week, researchers determined that several Japanese sea bass caught off the coast of Hitachi, a city about 60 miles south of the plant – halfway toward Tokyo – had radioactive cesium levels of 1,037 becquerels per kilogram, over ten times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0JJI4i9cy7Y) the government’s food safety limit. It was the first time since April 2011 that such high levels of contamination had been found in that region. The researchers claimed they had no clue why this mega-dose was now showing up again, over two years after the accident.

Alas, cesium-134 and cesium-137 in groundwater at the plant suddenly started soaring in early July. When measured on July 8, levels were 90 times higher (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307090059) than those found on July 5 and reached 200 times the legal limit for groundwater. TEPCO was baffled. “It is unclear whether the radioactive water is leaking into the sea,” a company official said.

On June 19, TEPCO had already admitted that groundwater (http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/19/japan-nuclear-strontium-idINDEE95I02D20130619) contamination of highly toxic, radioactive strontium-90, a by-product of the fission of uranium and plutonium, had increased by more than 100 times between December and May; and that the level of radioactive tritium, a somewhat less harmful substance, had increased by 17 times. And when the cesium levels were spiking in early July, it admitted in the same breath that tritium levels in seawater (http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2013/07/234550.html) had soared to 2,300 becquerels per liter, the highest ever detected, and more than double the contamination measured two weeks earlier.

All this came at a very inconvenient time: TEPCO is cooling the reactors and spent fuel rods with a constant flow of water – 400 metric tons per day – and then stores that contaminated water in tanks on site. But some of them have been leaking due to sloppy workmanship. Plus, it cannot indefinitely build new tanks for that endless flow of water. So, it is trying to get approval to just dump that contaminated water into the Pacific. Whatever isn’t already leaking into it.

This is the backdrop to the revelation that TEPCO’s admission in December of radiation doses having exceeded the “safe” level of 100 millisieverts – and going as high as 11,800 millisieverts – in only 178 workers was a lie.

TEPCO might not even have studied the issue at all. Despite warnings from international health experts about the risks of radiation exposure, it didn’t launch an investigation into thyroid gland doses until it was essentially forced to by international pressure. So it finally collected thyroid data on 522 workers – of the 19,592 workers (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/19/national/1973-fukushima-plant-workers-show-higher-risk-for-thyroid-cancer/) who worked at the plant over time, of whom 16,302 were employed by often shady contractors and subcontractors. It submitted the results to the World Health Organization last year but still refused to release the results until it learned that the
WHO would publish them. Hence, the disclosure last December.

But no one believed the results. The UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation questioned the reliability of the data; and Japan’s Ministry of Health pressured TEPCO to give the data another look. Which it finally did. The Asahi Shimbun reported:

TEPCO and its partner companies not only re-evaluated the readings from thyroid gland dose tests, but they also estimated doses when the amount of radioactive iodine that entered the body was unavailable. These estimates were based on cesium intake amounts, the airborne iodine-to-cesium ratio on the days they worked, and other data. The latest study showed that doses topped the 100-millisievert mark in 1,973 workers.

For how long had TEPCO been dragging its feet? Since most of the exposure occurred during the early stages of the disaster, TEPCO had taken 28 months to admit that nearly 2,000 of its workers had cancer-inducing radiation doses in their thyroid glands. The workers themselves told the Asahi Shimbun that TEPCO "provided little or no information" about it.

So when push came to shove, TEPCO leaned over backwards to help these workers. “We will provide and pay for annual, ultrasound thyroid gland tests to all workers with thyroid gland doses in excess of 100 millisieverts over their lifetimes,” a PR person explained. “We have already notified those who are eligible for the checkups.”

True to its formerly omniscient manner, TEPCO didn’t know how many of those workers had actually taken the tests. And what if abnormalities were detected during the tests? TEPCO didn’t say. Hand in glove with TEPCO, the Health Ministry itself hasn’t examined the thyroid gland doses of the workers; it would be up to TEPCO on a “voluntary” basis.

Some workers complained that TEPCO hadn’t carefully explained the risks of radiation exposure in thyroid glands; and some employees of subcontractors complained that they’d never been informed about the radiation doses or the thyroid gland tests.

In July, Masao Yoshida, the plant manager, died of esophageal cancer. He was 58. He’d stayed at the plant for nine months after the accident, struggling to contain the accident and keep the reactors from overheating. He’d prevented a much larger fiasco. He resigned in December 2011, after having been hospitalized for what turned out to be cancer. TEPCO, suddenly omniscient again, and true to the manner of the nuclear industry, announced that his death was unrelated to radiation exposure. As in all such cases, no one could prove the opposite; it’s impossible to determine what exactly caused each individual cancer – the mantle the nuclear industry hides behind.

“Who could trust such a company?” said (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307030055) an exasperated Hirohiko Izumida, governor of Niigata Prefecture, after TEPCO’s board had decided on July 2 to restart two reactors at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa power plant in his prefecture, despite a survey that showed that only 27% of the residents in his prefecture supported it. “There is no greater disregard for local people than this,” the governor said.

Researchers of Tokyo Woman’s Christian University presented a survey (http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307180064) to the Cabinet Office’s Atomic Energy Commission on July 17. Among other results, it showed that 87% of the Japanese thought that Japan should get out of nuclear energy, either abandoning it as soon as possible (33%) or phasing it out over time (54%). And a full third thought that information propagated by the central government about nuclear issues was the most untrustworthy.

But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is a staunch supporter of the nuclear industry [though he might face some dense pillow talk at home: read.... Akie Abe, His “Anti-Nuclear” Wife (http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/6/12/akie-abe-his-anti-nuclear-wife.html)]. Reestablishing the glory of the nuclear industry is high on the Abenomics wish list – even as the true cost of nuclear power will gnaw away at Japan for generations.

Such catastrophic nuclear accidents are very rare, we’re told incessantly. But when they occur, they’re costly. So costly that the French government, when it came up with estimates, kept them secret. But the report was leaked: the total cost over time of an accident in a thinly populated area could exceed three times France’s GDP. Read.... Potential Cost Of A Nuclear Accident? So High It’s A Secret! (http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/3/13/potential-cost-of-a-nuclear-accident-so-high-its-a-secret.html)

On the lighter side, there is a Japanese ghost island, a speck of land that used to be a coal mine where 5,000 miners lived and toiled. In the 1970s, it was abandoned and the concrete structures left to decay, only to resurface in the last James Bond flick. Now Google captured it for Street View – and made an awesome brief video of this eerie industrial wasteland. Check it out.... Eerie Abandoned Japanese Island On Google Street View (http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2013/6/29/eerie-abandoned-japanese-island-on-google-street-view.html).

http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-07-20/%E2%80%9Cwho-could-trust-such-company%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-big-fat-lies-about-radiation-exposure-worker