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March 16, 2011  Statement by Helen Caldicott, M.D.

My heart goes out to the people of Japan who are of course suffering under the double blow of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, as well as the threat from the Fukushima reactors. They are dealing stoically and with great dignity with conditions that are severely challenging.

The world is now paying – and will pay however severe Fukushima turns out to be – a grave price for the nuclear industry's hubris and the arrogance and greed that fueled their drive to build more and more reactors.

What's more, having bamboozled gullible politicians, the media, and much of the public into believing that it is a "clean and green" solution to the problem of global warming, the nuclear industry has operated facilities improperly, with little or no regard for safety regulations, and they have often done this with the connivance of government authorities.

Nuclear power is not the answer to global warming; it is not clean, it is not green; it is not safe; and it is not renewable.




It is time the global community repudiated it – however economically painful in the short term that taking such a step would be.

There is no other choice for the sake of future generations.



We have been attempting to sound the alarm for over a year now.

But people refuse to acknowledge the tell-tale signs that something is seriously wrong.





This interesting story from April, 2011.

EPA to raise limits for radiation exposure while Canada turns off fallout detectors (http://www.naturalnews.com/031963_radiation_exposure.html)

(NaturalNews) The mass radioactive contamination of our planet is now under way thanks to the astonishing actions taking place at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan.

As of last night, TEPCO announced it is releasing 10,000 tons of radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean.

That 2.4 million gallons of planetary poison being dumped directly into the ocean.


Quick, fudge the numbers before anybody notices!


Fukushima, you see, is doing to the Pacific Ocean what BP and the Deepwater Horizon did to the Gulf of Mexico last summer.

Except that in the case of Fukushima, that radiation doesn't just disappear with the help of millions of gallons of toxic chemicals.

Nope, that radiation sticks around for decades.


So what to do? If you're the United States Environment Protection Agency, there's only one option:


Declare radiation to be safe!


Yes indeed, friends, we have reached a moment of comedic insanity at the EPA, where those in charge of protecting the environment are hastily rewriting the definition of "radioactive contamination" in order to make sure that whatever fallout reaches the United States falls under the new limits of "safe" radiation.

The EPA maintains a set of so-called "Protective Action Guides" (PAGs).

These PAGs are being quickly revised to radically increase the allowable levels of iodine-131 (a radioactive isotope) to anywhere from 3,000 to 100,000 times the currently allowable levels.




US stores spent nuclear fuel rods at 4 times pool capacity | COTO Report (http://coto2.wordpress.com/2011/03/26/us-stores-spent-nuclear-fuel-rods-at-4-times-pool-capacity/)

QuoteIn a recent interview with The Real News Network, Robert Alvarez, a nuclear policy specialist since 1975, reports that spent nuclear fuel in the United States comprises the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet: 71,000 metric tons.

Worse, since the Yucca Mountain waste repository has been scrapped due to its proximity to active faults (see last image (http://www.dpc.ucar.edu/earthscopeVoyager/JVV_Jr/didyouknow/lvcTect.html)), the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has allowed reactor operators to store four times more waste in the spent fuel pools than they're designed to handle.

Each Fukushima spent fuel pool holds about 100 metric tons, he says, while each US pool holds from 500-700 metric tons.

A single pool fire would release catastrophic amounts of radioactivity, rendering 17-22,000 square miles of area uninhabitable.

That's about the size of New Hampshire and Vermont – from one pool fire.

In a March 25th interview, physician and nuclear activist Dr Helen Caldicott explains that "there's far more radiation in each of the cooling pools than there is in each reactor itself.... Now the very short-lived isotopes have decayed away to nothing.

But the long-lived ones, the very dangerous ones, Cesium, Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium, Americium, Curium, Neptunium, I mean really dangerous ones, the long-lived ones – that's what the fuel pools hold."

Nuclear waste, in the form of tiny pellets, are loaded into metal rods, that are then bundled into a "fuel assembly." The assemblies are stored inside casements that are then submerged in cooling pools that are located at the top of a nuclear reactor, as the following images reveal:

QuoteAs a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Alvarez was part of a multidisciplinary international team that looked at possible terror attacks on nuclear facilities, focusing on the spent fuel storage pools. 

In 2003, they released a report, Reducing the Hazards from Stored Spent Power-Reactor Fuel in the United States, which calls for transferring the spent fuel from the pools into dry-cask storage. (Summary here (http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/reducing_the_hazards_from_stored_spent_power-reactor_fuel_in_the_united_states)).

The report recommends that 75% of the spent rods be removed from each of the pools and stored in ultra-thick concrete bunkers capable of withstanding aerial impact.

The project would take about ten years and would "reduce the average inventory of 137Cs (radioactive cesium) in U.S. spent-fuel pools by about a factor of four."

The NRC attempted to suppress the IPC report, Alvarez says.

"The response by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and nuclear industry was hostile." But the National Academy of Sciences agreed that a fire in an overloaded fuel pool would be catastrophic. The NRC attempted to block the Academy's report, as well.

The NRC serves industry, not the public, and by controlling the purse strings, Congress has forced the NRC to "greatly curtail its regulatory programs," says Alvarez.

Engineer Keith Harmon Snow couldn't agree more. He recently lambasted the NRC and mainstream media for downplaying the ongoing catastrophe in Japan. He notes that,






And that's just one US nuclear plant, out of 104, not to ignore the undisclosed number of research sites. 

Then consider that several nuclear plants sit on geologic faults, as this image by Public Integrity reveals:




Also see this global map (http://maptd.com/map/earthquake_activity_vs_nuclear_power_plants/) of earthquake activity and nuclear power plant locations.

Nuclear waste is a serious, deadly and growing problem that the industry refuses to address, preferring to externalize disposal costs onto the public (even suing the US government to clean up its mess for them, under a 1998 law it no doubt favored).

Unless the radioactive waste is laser-launched toward the sun, we're stuck with waste that will contaminate the biosphere for thousands of years, for the measly prize of 25-30 years of electricity, as nuclear activist and mathematician Gordon Edwards so eloquently explained.


The risk far outweighs the benefit;

this energy choice exemplifies the insanity of the nuclear industry and its government protectors.






(http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=6473%3Cbr%20/%3EUS%20Spent%20Nuclear%20Fuel%20Largest%20Concentration%20Of%20Radioactivity%20On%20Planet%5B/url)

QuoteBOB ALVAREZ: Well, we have the largest inventory of spent fuel in the world. It's about--it's been recently reported to be at this time about 71,000 metric tons. And it really represents the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet...

Well, I mean, it's not a pretty picture in this country right now, because of the Congress dominated by politicians who want to take a meat ax to programs that protect our public safety, feed our children, reduce the hardship of the poor, and all these things.

I mean, for example, the House passed funding legislation recently that cut off all fundings for the federal program to issue tsunami warnings.

It's a very difficult environment right now. So--but I think that the public should do everything they can, if they have these nuclear power plants anywhere near their backyards, is to call their members of Congress to task about fixing this problem.

"A nuclear reactor is not really producing electricity so much as it is producing two things:

long-lived nuclear waste which lasts for millions of years and plutonium which lasts for many thousands of years.

The electricity is just a little drop in the bucket.

It's a little flash in the pan.



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150 mph Super Typhoon Sets Aim at Japan: Fukushima near center of forecast track — "Expected to intensify" and already the highest category storm (http://enenews.com/accuweather-150-mph-super-typhoon-sets-aim-at-japan-fukushima-near-center-of-forecast-track-expected-to-intensify-and-already-the-highest-category-storm)

By Evan Duffey, Meteorologist: Jun 17, 2012; 11:32 AM ET

"Guchol, a tropical cyclone in the western Pacific, rapidly strengthened Saturday afternoon, local time.

Winds are now in excess of 150 mph, making Guchol a super typhoon, the highest classification for tropical cyclones in the western Pacific.

If Guchol were an Atlantic Hurricane, it would be considered a Category 5 storm."


Meanwhile, back at the ranch...





"Fatal Error": Japan given precise radiation levels from US gov't just after explosions

— Officials kept data secret from public

— Year of 'safe' radiation received in 8 hours (http://enenews.com/fatal-error-japan-given-precise-radiation-levels-from-us-govt-just-after-explosions-officials-kept-data-secret-from-public-year-of-safe-radiation-received-in-8-hours)

QuoteEven as thousands of residents pondered the implications of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture last year, Japanese government officials took little notice of up-to-the-minute high radiation measurements provided by the U.S. Energy Department.

The Energy Department used its Aerial Measuring System (AMS) between March 17 and 19, 2011, and compiled a detailed map of radiation levels on the basis of 40 hours of flight time over Fukushima Prefecture.

The data was provided to Japanese government officials, but not released to the public.

This is possibly the 'most worrisome' information to date about #4 SPF at Fukushima.


Nuclear Engineer Identifies Mechanism for Potential Catastrophic Drain Down of Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool (http://enformable.com/2012/06/nuclear-engineer-identifies-mechanism-for-potential-catastrophic-drain-down-of-fukushima-unit-4-spent-fuel-pool/)

QuoteDuring a review of events concerning the status of Fukushima Unit 4, nuclear engineer Chris Harris identified the "weakest link" which may initiate a spent fuel pool drain-down event.

A major portion of the water in the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool remains over the Fuel because of the, "Refueling Bulkhead and Bellows" Seal (see drawing above).

Although this component has received little attention, its integrity is vital to maintaining Spent Fuel Pool Level.  This is because in the current configuration (Refueling Mode) of Unit 4 and the known problem of leaking Refueling Slide Gates, the Drain Down of the Spent Fuel Pool could occur via Failure of the "Refueling Bulkhead and Bellows"...

Sign at Tokyo Hospital: We do not treat radiation exposure... (http://enenews.com/sign-posted-on-tokyo-womens-hospital-we-do-not-treat-radiation-exposure-nurse-we-are-told-to-say-we-dont-do-tests-for-radiation-exposure)




And two different interpretations of that information:

A freelance journalist Hiroki Suzuki reportedly spoke with a nurse at the hospital.

QuoteTranslated by EXSKF:

We are instructed to say we don't do the tests for radiation exposure.

All we can say is that people consult the local public health center.

Tests for radiation exposure cannot be done without appointment.

There's also an issue with the national government when it comes to radiation exposure...

QuoteTranslated by Fukushima Diary:

We are told to say, we don't serve radiation inspection.

We can only say, please consult near public health center.

We can not do radiation inspection for a sudden outpatient.

Radiation issue is connected to the government...

Just In: Tepco admits total cesium-137 release from Fukushima over 300% greater than Chernobyl (http://enenews.com/just-in-tepco-estimates-total-cesium-137-release-from-fukushima-at-360000-terabecquerels-4-times-higher-than-chernobyls-85000-terabecquerels)

QuoteTokyo Electric Power Co. has estimated the total amount of radioactive substances discharged from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant measured 760,000 terabecquerels, 1.6 times the estimate released by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in February.
[...]
There are two ways to estimate the amount of discharged radioactive substances.
[...]
TEPCO combined the two methods and repeated its calculations under different conditions. It reached a final estimate of 400,000 terabecquerels of iodine-131 and 360,000 terabecquerels of cesium-137.

Leaked Tepco Email: Possible re-criticality in Reactor No. 2 (http://enenews.com/tepco-email-possible-re-criticality-in-reactor-no-2)

QuoteA Japanese publication has obtained an email sent from a worker in Tepco's engineering division.

Here is an excerpt of the email from a report in the June 8, 2012 edition of the Weekly Asahi via Yahoo.jp translated by Fukushima Diary:

From looking at the [Reactor No. 2] water level (60cm), it is obvious that the PCV and suppression chamber are severely damaged.

It is very likely that a new heating mass is generated from re-criticality. We can not tell exactly what is happening inside of PCV. We can never deny the possibility of re-criticality.

Shukan Asahi: Fukushima Daini also had major damage from 3/11 – Submerged under 4 meters of water (http://enenews.com/shukan-asahi-fukushima-daini-also-had-major-damage-after-311-submerged-under-4-meters-of-water)

May 27, 2012 report in the Shukan Asahi via Yahoo News Japan summarized by Fukushima Diary:

Quote[...]

Fukushima Daini was severely damaged by Tsunami and lost its coolant system as well.

Tepco related workers state, the reactor started overly heating, they ordered 700 hoses for the damaged coolant system.

Last May, Tepco announced reactor 3 and 4 were not damaged. However, Mr. Kirishima, a journalist to work in Fukushima Diani denies that.

A notice is put on the wall "This area is submerged on 3/11/2011. Up to 430cm from the floor."

[...]

"430cm" means it was not flooding, it was submerging.

Nuclear Expert: The truth is the damage caused by Fukushima is "too great for the government of Japan" (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-the-truth-is-the-damage-caused-by-fukushima-is-too-great-for-the-government-of-japan)



Cover-up: Researchers having 'extraordinarily difficult time' getting Fukushima articles published due to nuclear industry pressure (AUDIO) (http://enenews.com/researchers-having-extraordinarily-difficult-time-getting-fukushima-articles-published-due-nuclear-industry-pressure-video)

Arnie Gundersen, Nuclear Expert:

QuoteI've been working with researchers who are doing great science and they're having an extraordinarily difficult time getting their articles published.

Again because of industry pressure to downplay the significance of this event.

There's trillions of dollars at stake.

Nuclear Expert: Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 likely to shatter or collapse onto its side in a M7.0 quake (AUDIO) (http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-spent-fuel-pool-4-shatter-collapse-m70-quake-audio)


And from the WTF?/DisInfo/Gobbledegook Department:

Japanese ministry sorry for setting radiation limits "too high" | Fukushima (http://fukushima.org.ua/japanese-ministry-sorry-for-setting-radiation-limits-too-high/)

QuoteOn April NINETEENTH, 2011, the Japanese authorities embossed the permissible one-year radioactivity picture demarcation from 1 mSV (millisievert) to 20 mSV.

The conclusion was hard criticized by experts inwardly and out-of-door Japan, as it is applied to children who are more susceptible to radiotherapy, and this demarcation does not yield intra-group irradiation dose into retainer.

Did something get lost in the translation here?

Sounds like TepcoSpeak... try this one:

On April 19th, 2011, the Japanese government raised the allowable annual radiation exposure limit from 1 mSV (millisievert) to 20 mSV.

The decision was heavily criticized by experts inside and outside Japan, as it is applied to children who are more susceptible to radiation, and this limit does not take internal radiation dosage into consideration.

Source: Local official "has not collected real black substances" — "He had only mixtures, not real substances" — Levels still reached over 5,000,000 Bq/kg (http://enenews.com/source-local-official-has-not-yet-collected-real-black-substances-he-had-only-mixtures-not-real-substances-levels-still-reached-over-5000000-bqkg)


SOS from Local Official: I can't take it any more! "Black dust" over 5.5 million Bq/kg -- They're going to do what? Spring athletic meets? Swimming pool opening? (http://enenews.com/sos-from-local-official-i-cant-take-it-any-more-black-dust-over-5-5-million-bqkg-theyre-going-to-do-what-spring-athletic-meets-swimming-pool-opening)

QuoteOoyama says he went and collected soil samples (what he calls "black dust") in locations in Minami Soma, including several in Odaka District after the no-entry zone designation was lifted.

He had them tested by the city's laboratory for radioactive cesium, and the result, as posted on his blog (5/10/2012) is shocking. 

The maximum is 5,570,000 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium in soil in Odaka District. In the same district, half a million becquerels/kg of cesium in cow dung was also found. [...]

Assemblyman Ooyama screams,"And they're going to do what? Spring athletic meets? Swimming pool opening? I can't take it any more!"

US Study: Radioactive xenon in Washington was 450,000 times above detection levels after Fukushima – "Persisted for weeks" (CHART) (http://enenews.com/study-radioactive-xenon-washington-450000-times-above-detection-levels-after-fukushima-persisted-weeks-chart)

QuoteUS Particulate and Xenon Measurements Made Following the Fukushima Reactor Accident

http://www.batan.go.id/inge2011/file/day1/1650_mcintyre.pdf

Page 8

Xenon-133 measurements were 450,000X our detection levels using a SAUNA-II xenon measurement system

Noble gas does not "washout," and is the first emitted from any possible fuel damage

Levels persisted for weeks and isotopes were ultimately detected across the northern hemisphere and around the world

Remember this?




"Truly Frightening": Higher and higher radioactivity levels expected to continue for years in bluefin tuna (VIDEO) (http://enenews.com/frightening-every-bluefin-tuna-high-levels-cesium-higher-higher-levels-radioactivity-expected-continue-years-audio)

QuoteIt's truly frightening.

What happened was these fish were caught [and tested] five months after the accident.... but the research wasn't published until June of this year. Scientists sat on this information for 8 or 9 months while waiting to get report published...

It still had body burdens of cesium that were surprisingly high for a fish that had only been near Fukushima for a couple of weeks.

And what's been going on since then? We know cesium is being continually released via ground water and as well as being deposited from these plumes.

It's likely that the next catch is going to be worse than the tuna they caught.

Every one of these tunas had high levels of cesium 134 and 137...

Cesium detected from surface to bottom of ocean

'Snow' falling through water column, loaded with cesium...

Concentration in small fish is higher than these tuna.

So one would expect that now as more and more tuna start to swim toward the US we'll see higher and higher levels of radioactivity in the tuna.

I don't think that trend is going to stop for the next couple of years.

*4-hour Fukushima Special* Gundersen: This basically means that every bluefin tuna in Pacific now contaminated with Fukushima cesium (AUDIO) (http://enenews.com/4-hour-fukushima-special-gundersen-this-basically-means-that-every-bluefin-tuna-in-pacific-now-contaminated-with-fukushima-cesium-audio)

QuoteArnie Gundersen, Nuclear Expert: They went 15 for 15. Every tuna they caught had cesium...

So that basically means that every tuna in the Pacific is carrying cesium 134 and 137...

"If Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 collapses I am evacuating my family from Boston."

QuoteFew people know that the Pacific Northwest got whacked hard by fallout from the Fukushima disaster with radiation rates hundreds of thousands of times higher than normal background radiation.

The damage from this is not something that the corporate media or the government is talking about.

It mysteriously disappeared from the radar almost immediately.

Dr. Caldicott referred to this as a process of "cover-up and psychic numbing."

Looks like it may be working.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission just approved two new nuclear power plants this week (4/2/12) in South Carolina in addition to the two approved earlier this year in Georgia.

Dr. Caldicott talks about the dangers and hidden costs of nuclear power then tells the awful truth in minute detail about the actual scale of the Fukushima disaster and compares it to the nuclear disasters of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island.

Recent studies estimated that a million people have died so far from Chernobyl.

(Ed note: Dr. Helen Caldicott is a physician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, noted author, anti-nuclear power advocate and has founded numerous national and international groups which oppose nuclear power & weapons, including Physicians for Social Responsibility.)


Check this out:



Japan Geigermap: At-a-glance (http://japan.failedrobot.com/)

This map visualizes crowd-sourced radiation geiger counter readings from across Japan. Click on the labels to get more information on the source of each reading.

The number of locations fluctuate due to the validity of the data feeds.

There are approximately 185 feeds from the official Japanese government source MEXT and the rest are from other sources such as the Tokyo hackspace, universities, local councils and concerned individuals.


Another of our favorite sources:

Safecast (http://blog.safecast.org/)

Safecast is a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements to empower people with data about their environments.



Please put your attention to the elements of truth contained in the message in this next video.

The truth is out there... though much of it may be buried in a sales presentation - or a real attempt at warning and helping at the same time.

You be the judge.

QuoteUS Army General Warns of Impending Fukushima Doom
Maj. Gen. Albert N. Stubblebine III (US Army Ret.), President of the Natural Solutions Foundation, an international NGO (non-governmental organization), released a 27 minute public service Estimate of Situation about Fukushima, Japan focusing on the immediate threat to the Northern Hemisphere emanating from the highly radioactive ruins of the 5 Fukushima nuclear reactors.

Gen. Stubblebine's prognosis is dire: "When the highly radioactive Spent Fuel Rods are exposed to air, there will be massive explosions releasing many times the amount or radiation released thus far.
...
When the final cataclysm occurs, sooner rather than later, the whole Northern Hemisphere is at risk of becoming largely uninhabitable."

General Stubblebine details in his riveting video the amounts of radioactive materials that will be propelled across the Pacific and across the United States if the Fukushima reactor structures (especially Spent Fuel Pool Number 4) collapse.

With over 15,000 'spent fuel rods' on the site, the Fukushima reactors have accumulated one of the largest stockpiles of these dangerous, intensely radioactive materials on the planet. No remediation work is being done at the site; there is no official remedial planning or disaster preparation.

No private remediation, or public discussion of the need for it, is permitted by the Government of Japan under its new suppression of nuclear discussion laws.

Transcript of EoS with citations (http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9498292.htm)


And then this:

Details sketchy on radioactive leak at Ohio nuclear plant: Officials unsure how much leaked or for how long – "I can tell you that it had not been an overly long time" (AUDIO) (http://enenews.com/details-sketchy-on-radioactive-leak-at-ohio-nuclear-plant-officials-unsure-how-much-leaked-or-for-how-long-i-can-tell-you-that-it-had-not-been-an-overly-long-time-audio)

Nuclear regulators and plant operators say the leak was in a line to a pump that pushes water through the reactor. The plant had been shut down for re-fueling when it was discovered Wednesday.

FirstEnergy spokeswoman Jennifer Young says the water never got outside the building and posed no threat to the public.

Quote"We were in the process of beginning to restart the plant when the issue was uncovered. I can tell you that it had not been an overly long time that it had been leaking, because we had just started pressurizing the plant within the previous 24 hours.

It was definitely not leaking before the plant was pressurized, and it wasn't leaking in the early stages of pressurization."

Young estimates the water leaked at a rate of about six gallons per hour, but is unsure of the total.

A possible 144 gallons max, eh Ms young Jennifer?

Sure smells like swamp gas to us plain folk... pure bovine-generated methane.


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Excellent Thor!

:'(
Do we all know, that there are storage areas in the U.S.
that are similar concerning storage of spent rods?

Yes, very scary! I will find the clips and add them here.

This seems like a good place to repeat the observation I made in my -Day Before Roswell- thread -

(@ copyright by me, no peeking stealing sharing downloading copying or anything else I can think of for all time forever or you will be sued by one of my survivng lawyers!  ;) )



"As mentioned previously, I noted with interest all the TS bases and facilities the UFO's made a beeline for, one of which was Richland, Washington.

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/f726a1694a71.jpg)

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/196881bae842.jpg)

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d702c45e5233.jpg)

Which was home to The Hanford Engineer Works, where plutonium was produced for The Manhattan Project, so we can certainly understand the popularity for curious visitors.

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d8a1d0482d96.jpg)

Located conveniently on the edge of the Columbia river, for easy access to coolant water:

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/fa5693a230bf.jpg)

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/ccce1f933973.jpg)

Yes those are the same "cooling pools" that Japan has been having such a problem with recently.


Construction of The B Reactor:

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/ac1447c98f50.jpg)


1947 photo - View of the Hanford site from Rattlesnake Mountain

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/bcab8ef46c09.jpg)


Same image darkened which shows a large 'steaming indentation' on the ground -

(never mind those little things flying around in the sky, that's just some 'dirt'  or swamp gas ;D )


(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/59af940ea08d.jpg)


That darkened version of that photo I found shown above is kind of creepy if you think about what was under that circular depression on the ground, that is shown 'steaming' (just like those 'cooling ponds' shown in the photo even above that one.)

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/852fbda40576.jpg)


No wonder those discs were caught coming in for a look, like 'check this out, look what these idiots are doing with this stuff!"


...


At this point I should pause to point out the obvious here - it is now 67 years later and we are STILL using WATER as a containment vessel for nuclear material???

Are you KIDDING me??? This has GOT to be a joke!  >:(

Is it any WONDER we are in such serious trouble right now?

Quote 'safety' officials have continued to approve this insanity from the beginning.

The ONLY difference is the 'ponds' were outdoors in the above early photo, today they just been moved indoors.  >:(

...


Imagine my surprise when I discovered that another top 10 destination was - Oak Ridge, TN.-

In fact the map I am now creating showing the top destinations is a real eye opener.

While Hanford and Oak Ridge are fairly well known (these days) as obvious targets of interest, many others were not well known to me, and as I started researching those areas, now- declassified information makes it easy to see why they were chosen.

For example I come across a 1947 sighting in Chalk River, Ontario.
Never heard of the place... did a quick check on it and -gulp-!    :o

... or how about The White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico, whose location should be of obvious interest:

(http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/dd78390f52f5.jpg)

 this fits here too

The U.S. Is Unable To Account For 36k Pounds Of Weapons Grade Uranium And Plutonium (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=66.0)

If the UFOs are checking on what we're doing, does that make us the combatants in the colisseum, and them the Romans watching?

Shasta

Somebody send me an air conditioner!  I'm ready to shave my fur!

Quote from: Shasta56 on June 26, 2012, 03:58:53 AM
If the UFOs are checking on what we're doing, does that make us the combatants in the colisseum, and them the Romans watching?

Shasta

Somebody send me an air conditioner!  I'm ready to shave my fur!

Maybe just the ant farm.   8)  ;)

The current edition of Reader's Digest has a story written by a woman who grew up in the shadow of Rocky Flats, then worked there in it's waning days.  She says, in her story, that as a kid she always knew the plant was there, but thought they produced industrial cleaning supplies.  Does one have to grow up with places like Rocky Flats as part of one's life to understand the scope of operations at such places?  I grew up with that stuff as part of my life.  Is that why I understand?

Shasta

This is a great thread OP, I can't imagine the work and how you must have felt writing it.  Has to be said, still it is heartbreaking.  We are so short-sighted.  I do not see hope for the future in Japan, to stop using this type of power and dismantle the plants, and even less hope here in the US.  I want to cry.

Quote from: kdog on July 03, 2012, 10:26:43 PM
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I bow to the master .

Thank you very much for that,you have reawakened my spirit.

Greetings Sweet Woofi !

So glad to see you here and just backtracked some of your action... get down, you dog, you!

Glad the recent spat of USGOV distraction/retaliation weather manipulation spared you - this time.

Really pleased that Slayer made his way here and looking forward to his magnificent contributions (he's currently online looking at new member intros).

In his honor - so-to-speak, we humbly offer our first thread here (whilst setting up the Nuclear Challenges forum) for your edification and enjoyment.

Worsening Weather, Earthquakes, Vortices, Volcanoes, CMEs ... What's Up? (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1141.0)


Love seeing you!!!

With great respect,

28 July 2012

Position Statement:
What Is Currently Happening to Fukushima Children? (http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/07/position-statement-what-is-currently.html)

Consideration of thyroid disorders, pulmonary function, bone marrow function based on the studies from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, etc.

Michiyuki Matsuzaki, M.D.
Internal Medicine Department
Fukagawa Municipal Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

May 19, 2012

1. Brief biography of author

Name: Michiyuki Matsuzaki   DOB: June 26, 1950
March 1975  M.D.(provisional), School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
April 1975  Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine 1, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
June 1986  Executive Board Member of Hokkaido Physicians and Dentists Against Nuclear War
September 1986  Doctoral thesis for M.D. accepted, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
April 2010  Head of Internal Medicine Department, Fukagawa Municipal Hospital, Hokkaido
April 2012  Professor of Clinical Administration, Asahikawa Medical University, Hokkaido
May 2012  Special member of Cancer Policy Board, Hokkaido Prefecture


2. Thyroid Disorders



Thyroid examinations of Fukushima children have been implemented as part of the "Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey" to monitor the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant nuclear accident.  The results of the thyroid examinations released on April 26, 2012 are summarized here.

(The official document in Japanese may be downloaded from the following link.)

http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkoukanri/240125shiryou.pdf

The implementation status of the examinations and the summary of the results are shown in the above document, the sixth report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey. 

(Translator note: As of the date of translation in late July, 2012, the seventh report was available, which covered further analysis of the same data from the sixth report.  For a complete description of the thyroid examination and analysis of data from both reports in English, please refer to this article. http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.com/2012/07/thyroid-examination-by-fukushima.html)

Age distribution of the children who received thyroid examinations (average age of 10 in 4th or 5th grades), follow.

Ages 0-5:  9,826 children
Ages 6-10: 10,662 children
Ages 11-15: 11,466 children
Ages 16-18: 6,160 children

Actual examination findings are evidenced in the chart below.
"Nodules" comprised 1% and "cysts" 35.1%.


In regards to Fukushima thyroid examinations including children from babies and infants up to high school students, I would like to discuss the prevalence of "cysts" detected by thyroid ultrasound examinations in comparison to the research result reported in the past.

(2)  In 250 children ages 7 to 14, two children (0.8%) had thyroid cysts.
(Based on a study co-authored by Shunichi Yamapoopa)

(This paper may be downloaded from the following link.)

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/endocrj1993/48/5/48_5_591/_article

Nagasaki University's study in 2006, co-authored by the current Fukushima University Medical School vice president Shunichi Yamapoopa, examined 250 children in Nagasaki prefecture with ultrasound.  Two children (0.8%) were found to have thyroid cysts.  (Cited in second paragraph on page 593 of the above study.)

(3) There are few incidences of thyroid nodules or cysts at birth. 

Thyroid abnormalities begin to gradually increase past age 5. 

By age 20, one in ten has thyroid nodules and/or cysts.  (Study by Mazafferri in New England Journal of Medicine.)


The study published in 1993 (Mazzarerri EL, et al. Management of a solitary thyroid nodule. N Engl J Med 1993 Feb 25) examined mostly Americans with ultrasound examinations and autopsy/biopsy. 

The study revealed that few thyroid "nodules" (The study defined both tumors and cysts as nodules.) were found at birth.  Incidence began to gradually increase past the age of five, proportionate with age, with one in ten having thyroid nodules and/or cysts by age 20. 

The graph below has been compiled from Figure 1 in this study: 

? represents the prevalence of thyroid nodules detected at autopsy or by ultrasound. 

? represents the prevalence of thyroid nodules detected by palpation.

In addition, the study stated that 25-35% of the "nodules" were "cysts.'


Prevalence of Palpable Thyroid Nodules Detected at Autopsy or by Ultrasound or by Palpation in Subjects without Radiation Exposure or Known Thyroid Disease.

The above graph indicates that the prevalence of thyroid nodules in children around the age of ten is about 1-2%.  Since 25-35% of them turned out to be cysts, the prevalence of thyroid cysts is estimated to be about 0.5-1%.

(4) Prevalence of thyroid cysts in Chernobyl children under the age of 18 was 0.5%.
(The Nippon Foundation study)


(The above article may be downloaded from the following link.)

http://nippon.zaidan.info/seikabutsu/1999/00198/contents/012.htm

From 5 to 10 years after the Chernobyl accident, Shunichi Yamapoopa, the vice president of Fukushima University Medical School, conducted ultrasound thyroid examinations in a total of 160,000 children in Gomel and surrounding areas with marked radioactive contamination. 

In this study, "nodules" and "cysts" were recorded separately: "nodules" mean solid tumors.  The results show that cysts were seen in 0.5% and also "nodules (solid tumors)" were seen in 0.5%.  Below is Figure 11 from this study, seen in above URL.


Figure 11. Dynamics of prevalence of abnormal findings by thyroid ultrasound examinations (1991-1996).

(5) Prevalence of thyroid "cysts" in Fukushima children is higher than in any other studies.


When the above four studies are tallied in one table, it becomes obvious that the result of the thyroid examinations of children in the "Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey" is astonishing. 


A "cyst" is a fluid-filled sac.  Cysts don't mean there is an immediate chance of developing thyroid cancer. 

However, it is apparent that something extraordinary is happening inside the thyroid gland, such as inflammation or changes in cellular properties.



(Section 2 Summary)

   1.   Summarizing the thyroid ultrasound examination results from Japan and overseas, prevalence of "cysts" detected in children around the age of 10 is approximately 0.5-1.0%.     
                                                                                           
   2.   The fact that 35% of Fukushima children (average age around 10) have thyroid cysts strongly suggests that these children's thyroid glands are negatively affected by undesirable environmental factors.             
               
   3.   There is a strong concern that waiting for further analysis of above data and the completion of follow-up examinations will lead to irreversible health damages in these children.   
                                               
   4.   Consequently, it is strongly desired that small children living in Nakadori (adjacent to the coastal region) and Hamadori (the coastal region) in Fukushima receive immediate implementation of preventive measures such as evacuation and more frequent screening examinations.         
                                                 
   5.   Based on above findings, a letter from Shunichi Yamapoopa to thyroid specialists all over Japan, instructing them not to offer second opinions to concerned families, can only be considered a repressive conduct:

a violation of human rights for those exposed to radiation and current patients.

3. Pulmonary Function

Sevendsen et al, from the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, demonstrated in 2010 that children who had been living in areas heavily contaminated with radioactive cesium have decreased pulmonary function.

(This article may be downloaded from the following link.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2866691/?tool=pubmed

Svendsen et al. 137 Cesium Exposure and Spirometry Measures in Ukrainian Children Affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Incident. Environmental Health Perspectives 2010 May;118(5): 720-725.

In this study, pulmonary function of 415 children under the age of 18 (mode age 8-9) was followed from 1993 to 1998.  The result showed that children who continuously lived in areas with the highest Cs-137 soil contamination (average 355 kBq/?) had 4-5% less forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1) than children who continuously lived in areas with the lowest soil contamination (average 90 kBq/). 

Forced expiratory volume per 1 sec (FEV1) is the portion of the forced vital capacity exhaled in the first second of forced exhalation.  Elementary school children can normally exhale over 3 liters in the first second of forced exhalation.  A decrease of 4-5 % FEV1 means a decrease of 100 -150 cc of absolute volume of exhaled air.

Normally pulmonary function peaks around age 20, and from then on, FEV1 decreases by 20-30 cc per year.

A decrease of FEV1 by 150cc means either an early aging of lungs or a failure of pulmonary maturity by 5-7 years.

Children who continuously live in areas of Ukraine with 355 kBq/? soil contamination will have pulmonary function aging five years faster than those living in uncontaminated areas.

Currently in Fukushima, which areas have Cs-137 levels of 355 kBq/ vs.  90 kBq/


This is a soil contamination distribution map created by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology last year and depicts the total soil concentration of Cs-134 and Cs-137(Bq/m2) calculated to the value estimated for August 28, 2011.

Deep blue indicates a soil contamination level of 60-100 kBq/, framing the hillsides of Nakadori: this is comparable to the "low contamination area" in the Sevedsen study.

Light blue indicates a soil contamination level of 300-600 kBq/, comparable to the highest contaminated areas in Ukraine.  All areas in Nakadori, such as Fukushima-city and Koriyama-city, have contamination levels somewhere between "low" and "the highest."

Therefore, children currently living in Hamadori (coastal region) and Nakadori (adjacent to the coastal region) are at risk of accelerated pulmonary aging by several years.


Furthermore, this study underestimates the effect of radiation exposure by using the control group in low contamination areas in comparison. 




4. Bone Marrow Function

The next study to be presented exhibits data about hematopoietic dysfunction due to radiation exposure in children who kept living in highly contaminated areas leading to leukopenia and anemia. 

This is a 2008 study published in Environmental Health by Dr. Stepanova from Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.  It's a follow-up study of blood counts in 1,251 children living in Narodichesky region, Zhitomir Oblast, Ukraine from 7 to 11 years after the accident.

(This article may be downloaded from the following link.)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2459146/

Stepanova et al. Exposure from the Chernobyl accident had adverse effects on erythrocytes, leukocytes, and, platelets in children in the Narodichesky region, Ukraine: A 6-year follow-up study. Environ Health. 2008; 7: 21-.


The study revealed that children living in high contamination areas (350-879 kBq/) had a 20% less leukocyte count (5,810 vs. 6,870) than those living in low contamination areas (29-112 kBq/).  Platelet count and erythrocyte count were also less by 5-10%.

Currently in Fukushima, areas around Nakadori indicated in deep blue in the previous map is similar to low contamination areas and Kawamata-machi (outside edge of Iitate-mura) area in green is similar to high contamination areas.

Therefore, what we need to medically assume from this study is that there is a possibility that hematopoietic function of the bone marrow might be suppressed for a long time in children who are currently living in Hamadori and Nakadori of Fukushima. 

Leukopenia reduces body's resistance against bacteria and viruses. Low red blood cell count can cause anemia more easily. Low platelet count interferes with blood coagulation when hemorrhaging from injuries.

Moreover, we must take into consideration that, if there are any children with illnesses or disabilities currently living in Fukushima Nakadori and Hamadori, this degree of effect on bone marrow function might exacerbate their existing conditions.

Furthermore, this study underestimates the effect of radiation exposure by using the control group in low contamination areas as comparison.  Therefor, we must be prepared to face much greater health damage in reality


(Sections 3 & 4 summary)

   1.   Fukushima Nakadori area continues to have radiation contamination comparable to highly contaminated areas in Chernobyl.

   2.   Chernobyl epidemiological studies indicated that children who keep living in such areas have serious abnormalities in pulmonary function and bone marrow function.

   3.   It is clear that an immediate evacuation from highly contaminated areas is imperative in order to prevent a possibility of irreversible health damages in children with future potential for life and improved health.

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FukushimaVoice: What Really Happened in Fukushima:
A Report From a Medical Care Provider (http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/07/what-really-happened-in-fukushima.html?spref=tw)

July 27, 2012
What Really Happened in Fukushima:
A Report From a Medical Care Provider

Part 1
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

I am a medical care provider. 

At my workplace we began taking care of patients from the evacuation zone from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the evening of March 11, 2011.

The president of the hospital where I am employed says people live longer when irradiated and Fukushima people now will be healthier because of radiation hormesis.

There is no argument allowed. 

Since this statement comes from a physician, many people believe this in Fukushima.

Those who were contemplating on evacuating from Fukushima are now in a mental state that is not even conducive to thinking about it any longer.

This was becoming obvious beginning in April or May, 2011, and it might have been a coping mechanism for mass psychology and dangers. 

However, it is entirely different now.  I feel they are no longer capable of avoiding dangers.

This is what I heard from a clinical laboratory technician at work.  Thyroid ultrasound examinations for children, which have already been done in my town and which will be held in other cities from now on, are being performed by Fukushima University Medical School Hospital laboratory technicians who have only done blood tests before.


In other words, they are being done by people who have never used ultrasound equipment before.


Technicians are being dispatched from Fukushima University Medical School.  For instance, there is a whole body counter car stationed in Kawamata-machi, Date district, where a part of the town is a deliberate evacuation area.  There are physicians and clinical laboratory technicians stationed there, and they are all young.

Currently there is "that" Yamapoopa stationed at Fukushima University Medical School.

After being dismissed as the radiation advisor for Fukushima prefecture, he became a vice president for Fukushima University Medical School.

The reason not a single Fukushima physician even mentions medical care for radiation exposure is because of the power of Fukushima University Medical School. 


Yamapoopa and Fukushima University Medical School are planning on creating a cancer center (already publicized).  Minami Tohoku General Hospital in Koriyama-city, which has been introducing Gamma Knife and PET for cancer treatments on a large scale, has not had any say.  It is obvious this is because of Fukushima University Medical School.

I have also learned the following from a radiology technician in mid-March, 2011. 

Test anomalies began to show in Kanto summer of 2011 also.  But in mid-March, X-rays for a particular patient began to show white spots.  They didn't show up if the patient was undressed.  They didn't show up in X-rays of other patients who were examined at the hospital.  This particular patient was actually not even an evacuee but a resident who lived 45 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The technician initially thought they were dust specks, but they were clearly bright spots. It was determined that clothes hung up to dry outside must have radioactive materials attached to them.  This "finding" was reported as such to the hospital president as well as the prefectural office. 

At the time we had no idea what was going on at Fukushima Daiichi, and it was reported as a proof that "the radioactive materials have reached as far as here," but it was never publicized.
     

Part 2
Thursday, December 22, 2011


Please let me explain about what happened immediately after the earthquake.

On March 11, 2011, we began to have more and more evacuees from Futaba-machi.

At the time, the media reported that nobody needed decontamination for high radiation levels after evacuees were "screened."  However, some evacuees had already discarded all the clothing and belongings, decontaminated (showered), and had brand-new clothes on.  There were some who evacuated without screening examination because the system wasn't available.  There were some elderly evacuees who were carried to the hospital by Self-Defense Force soldiers in protective clothing.  They did not go through screening.

We accepted both inpatients and outpatients without any manual or instruction for medical care for radiation exposure. 

However, Fukushima University Medical School Hospital only accepted the seriously injured (essentially refusing to accept evacuees) and


the Red Cross medical team said "we were told by the headquarters not to provide medical care for those exposed to radiation."


They stayed for three days, but the Red Cross medical team went to another prefecture without seeing any patients.

More and more evacuees were coming in.  There was a talk of making this hospital a screening center in order to provide adequate screening examinations, but it was stopped by Fukushima University Medical School.  By the way, what was called screening examination was contamination examination of body surface by gamma survey meters.

As a result, the screening center was established at a nearby evacuation center.  Those who were determined to require medical care for radiation exposure were sent to Fukushima University Medical School.  Soon after Minami Tohoku General Hospital was also designated as the screening center.


Incidentally there is something important I would like to add. 

There was a "thyroid examination" of children from Iitate-mura and Kawamata-machi at the end of March, 2011, but it was just like this screening examination. 

Of course there was nothing abnormal found.  The children had taken a shower and changed their clothes beforehand.

The thyroid examination was carried out because there were many children who evacuated from Kawamata-cho.  Residents from Iitate-mura and Kawamata-machi did not receive stable iodine tablets even though evacuees from near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had taken them.

Soon the residents began to be required to go through screening examination.  More people were being denied entry into other areas for evacuation: they were told they needed proof of normal screening examination.  They went through screening examinations by staff of National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS) at each evacuation center.  They should really screen thyroids or the back of hands, but what they did was a less detailed scanning.  That's how they did the examination because it was assumed to be "okay."

Yamapoopa went around declaring "It's safe." after March 20, 2011.  He said he would conduct children's thyroid examination, and he repeated said, "Everything is fine."


Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR): The research and collection of data due to the Fukushima nuclear accident. We have a monthly report that can be viewed at the end of the month by anyone interested.

Our website is not just for those affected by Fukushima but also for anyone in the world that may have been exposed to radiation. Our hope is to improve the situation of those who are suffering from radioactive contamination anywhere in the world.

Please contact us by e-mail if you have any questions or valuable information on these matters. This website is located in the United States of America and protected by the U.S. copyright laws.

This month a big characteristic is a change in the number of symptoms per person. 

The whole group saw an increase from 3.96 symptoms to 4.5 symptoms per person.  The children's group went from 3 symptoms to 3.6 symptoms per person.  Also, the addendum to prior reports revealed progression of symptoms in the form of worsening symptoms or a new onset of symptoms. 

Both in the whole group and the children's group, the top three symptoms were in bronchi, skin, and general, and the numbers have markedly increased. Also infections are increasing, suggesting decline in the immune competence. 

I guess you heard that Greenland is melting rather quickly.



Off the Chart: University researchers film while measuring radiation levels in evacuation zone — "'Over' means it's beyond the capacity of the measuring device"

Good grief! (http://enenews.com/off-the-chart-university-researchers-film-while-measuring-radiation-levels-in-evacuation-zone-over-means-its-beyond-the-capacity-of-the-measuring-device-video)


The following depicts a one day journey inside the barricaded Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant taken on July 18, 2012, almost a year and a half after the Nuclear Disaster.

Read the entire story here: Venturing inside the nuclear evacuation zone | The Urban Nomad (http://gis.yohman.com/blog/2012/07/30/venturing-inside-the-nuclear-evacuation-zone/)

Nice job Thor,

I almost hate to write this but I am now thinking that if someone came up with a new method of power that did no damage to anything yet it was as expensive or even more than current methods, TPTB might just go for it and let it be sold. As long as they can put a meter on it it can slide by. Even if we got to this first step, at least it would help Mother Earth out and our kids.

I have done enough research here to know that any free energy would be met with a death blow instantly. You take away their toys, they get mad. Give them better toys, they are happy. I just want to see all of this radiation and major pollution stopped. In my life time.

Did anyone catch the new biofuel that MIT designed?

Deuem

Quote from: thorfourwinds on July 31, 2012, 05:27:17 PM

The president of the hospital where I am employed says people live longer when irradiated and Fukushima people now will be healthier because of radiation hormesis.

There is no argument allowed. 

I thank you, thorfourwinds, for providing the most eloquent explanation yet, by way of example, of the reason why I have rejected the cult of scientific authority.  Scientists of all kinds may be bribed and corrupted into claiming that up is down and black is white, at the behest of psychopathic politicians; and the people have been taught to believe said lies, purely because of the supposed scientific credentials of those who issue such pronouncements.

Give me individual, direct, experimental empiricism, or give me death.

Quote from: petrus4 on August 27, 2012, 06:43:40 AM
I thank you, thorfourwinds, for providing the most eloquent explanation yet, by way of example, of the reason why I have rejected the cult of scientific authority.  Scientists of all kinds may be bribed and corrupted into claiming that up is down and black is white, at the behest of psychopathic politicians; and the people have been taught to believe said lies, purely because of the supposed scientific credentials of those who issue such pronouncements.

Give me individual, direct, experimental empiricism, or give me death.

Hi, to a very small point I would have to agree. We have places all over the world that have natural radiation and it does not kill anyone. In fact it can actuallly help them, to a point. The big difference is how much how fast. When a nuke plant or nuke bomb goes off the amount is way over the natural levels and people will die from too much. Yes you can also die from eating too much or drinking too much, but that is a decission you make for yourself. These people in Japan and now the rest of us have to suffer because of greed and stupidity in construction methods.

Where I live the natral raditation levels are very high and in some areas even higher than here and the local people live very long, into the 80, 90, and 100's. Once you go over the limit the cells break down and you start to die or mutate. I would suggest your president to put his feet where his mouth is and take a walk to the exposed sites and have lunch with his loved ones. I think he would change his mind very fast. Tell him he will live longer!

deuem

Quote from: thorfourwinds on July 31, 2012, 05:27:17 PM
The president of the hospital where I am employed says people live longer when irradiated and Fukushima people now will be healthier because of radiation hormesis.


There is no argument allowed. 

Oh come on... just take your PILL like a good boy and all will be well..


I have my stock pile :D

Japanese doctors warn of public health problems caused by Fukushima radiation. (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/08/201181665921711896.html)


Residents of Ohkuma-cho attend a memorial service for the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami on 24 July 2011 in Ohkuma-cho, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, 20 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant [EPA]


Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima's heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.

"How much radioactive materials have been released from the plant?"

asked Dr Tatsuhiko Kodama, a professor at the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology and Director of the University of Tokyo's Radioisotope Centre, in a July 27 speech to the Committee of Health, Labour and Welfare at Japan's House of Representatives.

"The government and TEPCO have not reported the total amount of the released radioactivity yet,"

said Kodama, who believes things are far worse than even the recent detection of extremely high radiation levels at the plant.

There is widespread concern in Japan about a general lack of government monitoring for radiation, which has caused people to begin their own independent monitoring, which are also finding disturbingly high levels of radiation.

Kodama's centre, using 27 facilities to measure radiation across the country, has been closely monitoring the situation at Fukushima - and their findings are alarming.

According to Dr Kodama,

the total amount of radiation released over a period of more than five months from the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster is the equivalent to more than 29 "Hiroshima-type atomic bombs" and the amount of uranium released "is equivalent to 20" Hiroshima bombs.




Kodama, along with other scientists, is concerned about the ongoing crisis resulting from the Fukushima situation, as well as what he believes to be inadequate government reaction, and believes the government needs to begin a large-scale response in order to begin decontaminating affected areas.

Distrust of the Japanese government's response to the nuclear disaster is now common among people living in the effected prefectures, and people are concerned about their health.

Recent readings taken at the plant are alarming.

When on

August 2nd readings of 10,000 millisieverts (10 sieverts) of radioactivity per hour were detected at the plant,



and is enough radiation to kill a person within one to two weeks after the exposure.

[color=limegreen]10,000 millisieverts (mSv) is the equivalent of approximately 100,000 chest x-rays.[/color]




The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), that took the reading, used equipment to measure radiation from a distance, and was unable to ascertain the exact level because the device's maximum reading is only 10,000 mSv.

TEPCO also detected 1,000 millisieverts (mSv) per hour in debris outside the plant, as well as finding 4,000 mSv per hour inside one of the reactor buildings.

The Fukushima disaster has been rated as a "level seven" on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). This level, the highest, is the same as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, and is defined by the scale as:

"A major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures."


UPDATE:

Gundersen: Level 8 on INES Scale is needed for Fukushima-like disasters (VIDEO) (http://enenews.com/gundersen-recommends-level-8-on-ines-scale-for-multi-unit-disasters-like-fukushima-video)

QuoteArnie 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.

The Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters are the only nuclear accidents to have been rated level seven on the scale, which is intended to be logarithmic, similar to the scale used to describe the comparative magnitude of earthquakes. Each increasing level represents an accident approximately ten times more severe than the previous level.

Doctors in Japan are already treating patients suffering health effects they attribute to radiation from the ongoing nuclear disaster.?

"We have begun to see increased nosebleeds, stubborn cases of diarrhoea, and flu-like symptoms in children,"

Dr Yuko Yanagisawa, a physician at Funabashi Futawa Hospital in Chiba Prefecture, told Al Jazeera.

She attributes the symptoms to radiation exposure, and added: "We are encountering new situations we cannot explain with the body of knowledge we have relied upon up until now."??"The situation at the Daiichi Nuclear facility in Fukushima has not yet been fully stabilised, and we can't yet see an end in sight," Yanagisawa said.



Gee whiz, Wally, where do you think it's going?


Health concerns

Al Jazeera's Aela Callan, reporting from Japan's Ibaraki prefecture, said of the recently detected high radiation readings:

"It is now looking more likely that this area has been this radioactive since the earthquake and tsunami, but no one realized until now."

Workers at Fukushima are only allowed to be exposed to 250 mSv of ionising radiation per year.

Junichi Matsumoto, a TEPCO spokesman, said the high dose was discovered in an area that does not hamper recovery efforts at the stricken plant.

Yet radioactive cesium exceeding the government limit was detected in processed tea made in Tochigi City, about 160km from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to the Tochigi Prefectural Government, who said radioactive cesium was detected in tea processed from leaves harvested in the city in early July.

The level is more than 3 times the provisional government limit.

Yanagisawa's hospital is located approximately 200km from Fukushima, so the health problems she is seeing that she attributes to radiation exposure causes her to be concerned by what she believes to be a grossly inadequate response from the government.

From her perspective, the only thing the government has done is to, on April 25, raise the acceptable radiation exposure limit for children from 1 mSv/year to 20 mSv/year.

"This has caused controversy, from the medical point of view," Yanagisawa told Al Jazeera. "This is certainly an issue that involves both personal internal exposures as well as low-dose exposures."

Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director, said:


"The Japanese government cannot simply increase safety limits for the sake of political convenience or to give the impression of normality."




Fukushima reopens beach after nuke crisis (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/fukushima-re-opens-beach-after-nuke-crisis/story-e6frfkui-1226428145902)

FUKUSHIMA prefecture has opened its first beach to swimmers since last year's nuclear disaster after judging the water to be safe.



Not everyone agrees with the idea.

About 1,000 people descended on Nakoso beach on Monday.

The beach is about 65 kilometres south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, where three reactors melted down after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The opening was celebrated with beach volleyball games and hula dancers from a nearby spa.



Cheers returned to a beach in Fukushima Prefecture for the first time in two years Monday after all bathing beaches in the northeastern Japan prefecture were closed last year after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and resultant nuclear crisis.

Iwaki city official Joji Kimura says negligible radiation was detected in water at the beach. Airborne radiation was measured at 0.08 microsieverts per hour, far below dangerous levels.

Swimming had been banned at all beaches in Fukushima prefecture since March 2011.

On the Marine Day national holiday, the Nakoso beach in Iwaki was filled with families with children as well as young men and women.

While the prefecture has 17 bathing beaches, Nakoso is the only one that was reopened, because debris disposal and facility restoration have not proceeded well.

Beside the conventional water quality check, the Fukushima prefectural government measured radiation levels in late June. No radioactive cesium was detected in sea water, and air dose rates at the beach were low at up to 0.07 microsievert per hour.

Yosuke Shirado of Iwaki said he is concerned about radiation levels due to the nuclear crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.




Lest we forget:


Fukushima Daiichi Radioactive Seawater Update (http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fukushima+radioactive+plume&view=detail&id=641D24760C4234B777E33868AD9434CC81063932&first=71)

Radioactivity levels in the seawater outside of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant continue to ignite concerns over the spread of highly radioactive material in the surrounding seawater.

From the Washington Post: "Samples taken 360 yards offshore from the plant Friday showed radioactive iodine levels 1,250 times the legal safety limit. The levels of iodine-131 in the water had been closer to 100 times the limit this past week.

Attention has turned to cleaning up stagnant, highly contaminated water found in turbine rooms outside the reactors. Pools of the radioactive water have been found at the plant's units 1 and 3. Similar standing water at units 2 and 4 is being tested for radioactivity.


Japan's Nuclear Crisis likened to Chernobyl. Asian Markets Dip in Response (image courtesy googlenewslive.com)

"The unusually high rates of radiation found in the turbine rooms —

and now in the ocean

— have fueled concerns that water may be seeping from at least one of the reactor cores, leaks that could release longer-lasting and much riskier forms of contamination."

Government officials have stated that they are not sure whether the primary containment vessels have been breached. Experts say it could be from reactors or from cooling pools where used nuclear rods are stored.

Nuclear experts have also suggested that the high levels of radioactivity in the surrounding waters could also be attributed in part to emissions in the air.

Officials continue to stress that contaminants will become diluted as currents carry them farther offshore.

However, the elevated radiation levels in the water pose a serious concern for Japan's large fishing industry, with the possibility that other countries could impose bans on imports.

Fishing has already been banned in the area around the plant.

"I don't believe the levels we detected today would...cause a direct problem," Nishiyama said.


ASR modeling of the radioactive seawater tells a different story, cause for serious alarm. While these models do not estimate levels of radioactivity in the surrounding waters, the assumption that nearby currents will quickly dilute the radioactive material does not appear to be accurate.




Instead our model shows radioactive sea water slowly drifting south at an average of 0.2 m/s in an low energy area between the Kuroshio Current, the Japan coastline and an large eddy formation further up in the north. 


Update on Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Nick Behunin

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that seawater collected roughly 300 yards from the Fukushima Daiichi station was found to contain iodine 131 at


the highest levels reported so far.



On Sunday, a test north of the plant showed 1,150 times the maximum level, while a test one day before showed 1,250 times the limit in seawater taken from a monitoring station at the plant.

Responding to these concerns, ASR Limited, a New-Zealand based marine consulting and research firm, has developed computer models able to accurately predict the spread of the contaminated material.

"We've based our simulations on daily updates of the local winds and currents.  This information is then fed in to our model to predict how fast and how far the radioactivity will spread, and what its concentrations will be" Says ASR Scientist Laurent Lebreton who developed the model.

PRESS RELEASE  (http://blog.asrltd.com/storage/ASR_Fukushima_PressRelease.pdf)

Authoritative current estimates of the health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation are published in the Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation VII (BEIR VII) report from the US National Academy of Sciences.

The report reflects the substantial weight of scientific evidence proving


there is no exposure to ionizing radiation that is risk-free.



The BEIR VII estimates that each 1 mSv of radiation is associated with an increased risk of all forms of cancer other than leukemia of about 1-in-10,000; an increased risk of leukemia of about 1-in-100,000; and a 1-in-17,500 increased risk of cancer death.

Dr Helen Caldicott, the founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility,

(and our first Earth Aid Concert (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=1405.0) Twitter Follower)

a group that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985, is equally concerned about the health effects from Japan's nuclear disaster.

"Radioactive elements get into the testicles and ovaries, and these cause genetic disease like diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and mental retardation," she told Al Jazeera.

"There are 2,600 of these diseases that get into our genes and are passed from generation to generation, forever."

So far, the only cases of acute radiation exposure have involved TEPCO workers at the stricken plant. Lower doses of radiation, particularly for children, are what many in the medical community are most concerned about, according to Dr Yanagisawa.

"Humans are not yet capable of accurately measuring the low dose exposure or internal exposure," she explained, "Arguing 'it is safe because it is not yet scientifically proven [to be unsafe]' would be wrong. That fact is that we are not yet collecting enough information to prove the situations scientifically. If that is the case, we can never say it is safe just by increasing the annual 1mSv level twenty fold."

Her concern is that the new exposure standards by the Japanese government do not take into account differences between adults and children, since children's sensitivity to radiation exposure is several times higher than that of adults.


Al Jazeera contacted Prime Minister Naoto Kan's office for comment on the situation.

Speaking on behalf of the Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Public Relations for the Prime Minister's office, Noriyuki Shikata said that the Japanese government "refers to the ICRP [International Commission on Radiological Protection] recommendation in 2007, which says the reference levels of radiological protection in emergency exposure situations is 20-100 mSv per year.

The Government of Japan has set planned evacuation zones and specific spots recommended for evacuation where the radiation levels reach 20 mSv/year, in order to avoid excessive radiation exposure."

The prime minister's office explained that approximately 23bn yen ($300mn) is planned for decontamination efforts, and the government plans to have a decontamination policy "by around the end of August", with a secondary budget of about 97bn yen ($1.26bn) for health management and monitoring operations in the affected areas.

When questioned about the issue of "acute radiation exposure", Shikata pointed to the Japanese government having received a report from TEPCO about six of their workers having been exposed to more than 250 mSv, but did not mention any reports of civilian exposures.

Prime Minister Kan's office told Al Jazeera that, for their ongoing response to the Fukushima crisis,

"the government of Japan has conducted all the possible countermeasures such as introduction of automatic dose management by ID codes for all workers and 24 hour allocation of doctors.

The government of Japan will continue to tackle the issue of further improving the health management including medium and long term measures".


Shikata did not comment about Kodama's findings.

Kodama, who is also a doctor of internal medicine, has been working on decontamination of radioactive materials at radiation facilities in hospitals of the University of Tokyo for the past several decades.

"We had rain in Tokyo on March 21 and radiation increased to .2 micosieverts/hour and, since then, the level has been continuously high,"

said Kodama, who added that his reporting of radiation findings to the government has not been met an adequate reaction.

"At that time, the chief cabinet secretary, Mr Edano, told the Japanese people that


... there would be no immediate harm to their health."




Kodama is an expert in internal exposure to radiation, and is concerned that the government has not implemented a strong response geared towards measuring radioactivity in food.

"Although three months have passed since the accident already, why have even such simple things have not been done yet?" he said. "I get very angry and fly into a rage."

According to Kodama, the major problem caused by internal radiation exposure is the generation of cancer cells as  the radiation causes unnatural cellular mutation.

"Radiation has a high risk to embryos in pregnant women, juveniles, and highly proliferative cells of people of growing ages. Even for adults, highly proliferative cells, such as hairs, blood, and intestinal epithelium cells, are sensitive to radiation."




Children are at greater risk ?

Early on in the disaster, Dr Makoto Kondo of the department of radiology of Keio University's School of Medicine warned of "a large difference in radiation effects on adults compared to children". Kondo explained the chances of children developing cancer from radiation exposure was many times higher than adults.

"Children's bodies are underdeveloped and easily affected by radiation, which could cause cancer or slow body development. It can also affect their brain development," he said.

Yanagisawa assumes that the Japanese government's evacuation standards, as well as their raising the permissible exposure limit to 20mSv "can cause hazards to children's health," and therefore "children are at a greater risk".

Nishio Masamichi, director of Japan's Hakkaido Cancer Centre and a radiation treatment specialist, published an article on July 27 titled: "The Problem of Radiation Exposure Countermeasures for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Concerns for the Present Situation".

In the report, Masamichi said that such a dramatic increase in permitted radiation exposure was akin to "taking the lives of the people lightly".

He believes that 20mSv is too high, especially for children who are far more susceptible to radiation.




Caldicott told Al Jazeera.


In early July, officials with the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission announced that approximately 45 per cent of children in the Fukushima region had experienced thyroid exposure to radiation, according to a survey carried out in late March.


The commission has not carried out any surveys since then.


"Now the Japanese government is underestimating the effects of low dosage and/or internal exposures and not raising the evacuation level even to the same level adopted in Chernobyl," Yanagisawa said.



"People's lives are at stake, especially the lives of children, and it is obvious that the government is not placing top priority on the people's lives in their measures."

Caldicott feels the lack of a stronger response to safeguard the health of people in areas where radiation is found is "reprehensible".




Dr Yanagisawa is concerned about what she calls "late onset disorders" from radiation exposure resulting from the Fukushima disaster, as well as increasing cases of infertility and miscarriages.

"Incidence of cancer will undoubtedly increase," she said. "In the case of children, thyroid cancer and leukemia can start to appear after several years. In the case of adults, the incidence of various types of cancer will increase over the course of several decades."

Yanagisawa said it is "without doubt" that cancer rates among the Fukushima nuclear workers will increase, as will cases of lethargy, atherosclerosis, and other chronic diseases among the general population in the effected areas.

Yanagisawa believes it is time to listen to survivors of the atomic bombings. "To be exposed to radiation, to be told there is no immediate effect, and afterwards to be stricken with cancer - what it is like to suffer this way over a long period of time, only the survivors of the atomic bombings can truly understand," she told Al Jazeera.


Radioactive food and water?

An August 1 press release from Japan's MHLW said no radioactive materials have been detected in the tap water of Fukushima prefecture, according to a survey conducted by the Japanese government's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters.

The government defines no detection as "no results exceeding the 'Index values for infants (radioactive iodine)'," and says "in case the level of radioactive iodine in tap water exceeds 100 Bq/kg, to refrain from giving infants formula milk dissolved by tap water, having them intake tap water ... "

Yet, on June 27, results were published from a study that found 15 residents of Fukushima prefecture had tested positive for radiation in their urine.

Dr Nanao Kamada, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Hiroshima University, has been to Fukushima prefecture twice in order to take internal radiation exposure readings and facilitated the study.

"The risk of internal radiation is more dangerous than external radiation," Dr Kamada told Al Jazeera. "And internal radiation exposure does exist for Fukushima residents."

According to the MHLW, distribution of several food products in Fukushima Prefecture remain restricted.

This includes raw milk, vegetables including spinach, kakina, and all other leafy vegetables, including cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and beef.

The distribution of tealeaves remains restricted in several prefectures, including all of Ibaraki, and parts of Tochigi, Gunma, Chiba, Kanagawa Prefectures. Iwate prefecture suspended all beef exports because of caesium contamination on August 1, making it the fourth prefecture to do so.


Due to caesium contaminated straw, beef exports have been banned in four Japanese prefectures [EPA]

Jyunichi Tokuyama, an expert with the Iwate Prefecture Agricultural and Fisheries Department, told Al Jazeera he did not know how to deal with the crisis. He was surprised because he did not expect radioactive hot spots in his prefecture, 300km from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

"The biggest cause of this contamination is the rice straw being fed to the cows, which was highly radioactive,"

Tokuyama told Al Jazeera.


Kamada feels the Japanese government is acting too slowly in response to the Fukushima disaster, and that the government needs to check radiation exposure levels "in each town and village" in Fukushima prefecture.

"They have to make a general map of radiation doses," he said. "Then they have to be concerned about human health levels, and radiation exposures to humans. They have to make the exposure dose map of Fukushima prefecture. Fukushima is not enough. Probably there are hot spots outside of Fukushima. So they also need to check ground exposure levels."

Caldicott said people around the world should be concerned about the ongoing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

Radiation that continues to be released has global consequences.

More than 11,000 tonnes of radioactive water has been released into the ocean from the stricken plant.



Scientists warn that tuna caught off the Pacific coastal prefecture in northern Japan are now at risk of being radioactive [EPA]

"Those radioactive elements bio-concentrate in the algae, then the crustaceans eat that, which are eaten by small then big fish," Caldicott said. "That's why big fish have high concentrations of radioactivity and humans are at the top of the food chain, so we get the most radiation, ultimately."

On August 6, the 66th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said:




We will thoroughly look into the cause of the [Fukushima] accident, and to secure safety, we'll implement fundamental measures while also decreasing the degree of dependence on nuclear power generation, to aim for a society that does not rely on nuclear power."

But doctors, scientists, agricultural experts, and much of the general public in Japan feel that a much more aggressive response to the nuclear disaster is needed.

Kodama believes the government needs to begin a large-scale response in order to begin decontaminating affected areas. He cited Japan's itai itai disease, when cadmium poisoning from mining resulted in the government eventually having to spend 800 billion yen to decontaminate an area of 1,500 hectares.


"How much cost will be needed if the area is 1,000 times larger?"



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L8 seems reasonable at a 1st glance  :) but no one will go up to: first & foremost, no one of humans has suitable instruments/methods to amend a mess that magnitude, so official monkeys shall keep ostrich policy going + most activated activists shall stumble upon $ome accidental occurrences (sudden heart attacks, mental shifts... & pathetic blackmails).  actually, protests & rebellions been perfectly useless. i support only way -- HEIS  :) cheap LEO makes possible to sling nuclear waste to the Moon or Sun at least partially. Amici, i fully understand how hella much many of ye has hated the f*King morons ($-clans). but here no Time exists to waste it on emotions  :)

And all caused by us  :(

Quote from: SarK0Y on September 05, 2012, 03:26:35 AM
L8 seems reasonable at a 1st glance  :) but no one will go up to: first & foremost, no one of humans has suitable instruments/methods to amend a mess that magnitude, so official monkeys shall keep ostrich policy going + most activated activists shall stumble upon $ome accidental occurrences (sudden heart attacks, mental shifts... & pathetic blackmails).  actually, protests & rebellions been perfectly useless. i support only way -- HEIS  :) cheap LEO makes possible to sling nuclear waste to the Moon or Sun at least partially. Amici, i fully understand how hella much many of ye has hated the f*King morons ($-clans). but here no Time exists to waste it on emotions  :)

You jest, we hope    ???

Quote from: thorfourwinds on September 06, 2012, 01:56:32 AM
You jest, we hope    ???

jest? :) actually not. but what exactly ye have against that plan? at now, this way looks impossible, however we can down the cost below 1k $ per kg of payload 4 LEO  :)

Sending it to the Sun would be a great idea... that little bit won't even fizzle the sun :P

But the Moon? Nah I want to go rock hunting there for new gemstones.. so don't mess up that lace any more than NASA already has  :P

But seriously why not just put it in Yucca Mountain? The facility is already uilt and one day in the future some genius will figure out how to leach off the energy and thank us for having it all in one spot :D

The are is already contaminated so what's it matter? From what I understand its only the transportation TO the site that has people concerned... well heck the stuff would be shipped in those huge storage containers, A LOT better than leaving the stuff just lying around where it is nowj.

And if one of those falls off a truck its not the radiation that will kill you :P

Sent all those billions on that facility and now the STOOPID Hu-mons are afraid to move it there.

Maybe we should ship all the STOOPID Hu-mons into the Sun :P  Now THAT would be a useful cleansing :D

(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aMhYOkb75g0/T-70mGWjc3I/AAAAAAAAC7Q/nZeFLCjZaLg/s1600/strangelove+pickens.jpg)

Amicus, how long those territories shall be stable to contain so dangerous matter 4 Biosphere? :) look at the sinkhole in the Louisiana, we have no rights to $hit on the Holy Earth anymore. Otherwise we shall be erased as useless material, all mechanisms to run this task are lubricated & calibrated. the Prime Law has no mercy, no exclusions.  :)  he-he-he, i used en w/ bad grammar, but calculations have been made quite well even w/o HEIS  ;D http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread7704/pg12#pid6034054 

Thor, did that girl have 3 bumms?

Yes, as in what reactor and spills usually produce heaps of different birth defects.

As if Selma Hayek wasnt hot enough already...good grief!  :)

And now for something completely different...from Monty Python...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqosS6DBwhA

Cheers!

25 August 2012

Amid the cover-up of the Fukushima nuclear power disaster, the title of Kimberly Roberson's book rings so unfortunately true: Silence Deafening, Fukushima Fallout...A Mother's Response.

It's relatively brief at 69 pages but gets to the heart of the catastrophe: the meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant complex in 2011, the months and months of discharges of radioactivity—




"The silence after the earthquake, nuclear meltdowns and tsunamis AF [After Fukushima] was truly deafening and unlike anything I had experienced before. Surreal 'Twilight Zone' comparisons were hard to avoid,"

she writes.


"Knowing what I knew, and then seeing those facts to be so thoroughly disregarded by the media and elected officials has begun to take on a sort of nightmare quality."


"It may take decades for the true magnitude of Fukushima Daiichi to be comprehended, just as the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown of 1986 are still being realized,"

she continues.


"This is the story of my attempt to learn the truth, and then to do something about it in my own small way."


The book, published by VisionTalk, is very personal and written from a mother's perspective. Roberson is also well-educated about the horrors of nuclear technology.

She relates how, working for Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. in 1986, she opened a "letter from the farmer near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster who had mailed us pictures of grossly deformed farm animals.

Those images would later appear in magazines like Time and Newsweek and helped to open the world's eyes to the largest nuclear disaster to date."






She writes about a main consequence of pollution from radioactivity and other sources—cancer—and how "it's reached epidemic proportions."

As to the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster, she tells of the English version of the landmark book, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, published by the New York Academy of Sciences 25 years after the accident—with the horrible consequences manifest.

The book, written by a team of European scientists led by Dr. Alexey Yablokov of Russia, concludes that based on available medical data, nearly one million people around the world died as a result of fall-out from Chernobyl.

"At Chernobyl," Roberson writes, "there was one reactor affected" while "at Fukushima there are four, and workers are still struggling to contain radiation there as of this writing nearly one year after the disaster began March 11."

The book is studded with breaks for quotes such as that from Gandhi:




Winning over nuclear power is still far off, however. Roberson writes how in Spring 2011,

"Apart from the occasional Internet bombshell...the deafening media silence around Fukushima raged on."

She, however, has been taking action—which she writes about.  There is a petition campaign and, with the findings of radioactivity in her home state of Calilfornia, the creation of the Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network.

"While young children, the elderly and immune deficient are at particular risk, the Fukushima Daiichi will affect us all globally for generations to come just as at Chernobyl," Roberson writes. "One thing we do know is that we are at a crossroads with nuclear power."

Roberson's book helps in choosing a direction: away from this lethal technology.


(Photo Credit: solution-nine.com)








In recent days, Fukushima nuclear power plant in northern Japan attracted worldwide attention. For the powerful devastating earthquake and tsunami, as a result, they suffered heavy losses, it never rains but pours, the earthquake and tsunami have made great havoc of a nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture, even the big bang.

People can not help but think of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident and its consequences in 1980s of former Soviet Union, it is still a dead city because of nuclear leakage. This group of photos shows the areas nowadays near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Will the Fukushima be the next Chernobyl?

As usual, Thor, a marvelous set of informational pieces.   I wish I had more to say except My heart bleeds for the planet.  And an anger so deep runs through Me knowing nuclear energy is completely unnecessary - and has been long before the first nuke plant.

Thank You for compiling all this and presenting it so well.

Question: If I can print solar panels in my backyard,

why would I want a nuke plant across the street that has hot plutonium rods in a swimming pool as a means of 'safe containment'  ::) ?


Not to mention I could also extract the H from H2O for all my home energy needs as well?

I have always enjoyed windmills so a nice wind turbine might make a nice addition also.  8)

Quote from: A51Watcher on October 01, 2012, 03:53:23 AM
Question: If I can print solar panels in my backyard,

why would I want a nuke plant across the street that has hot plutonium rods in a swimming pool as a means of 'safe containment'  ::) ?


Not to mention I could also extract the H from H2O for all my home energy needs as well?

I have always enjoyed windmills so a nice wind turbine might make a nice addition also.  8)

I have always wondered how a windmill works.  Will have to research.

And there apparently is like out here, gas solar systems for water, like for your gas hot water.  How does that work; I know will have to investigate.

I suppose you have to research the land your on to see if there is any water underground to put a windmill on; I wonder how much a windmill costs, just to service a household.

I know will have to research.

Quote from: A51Watcher on October 01, 2012, 03:53:23 AM
Question: If I can print solar panels in my backyard,

why would I want a nuke plant across the street that has hot plutonium rods in a swimming pool as a means of 'safe containment'  ::) ?


Not to mention I could also extract the H from H2O for all my home energy needs as well?

I have always enjoyed windmills so a nice wind turbine might make a nice addition also.  8)

well, what about capacity factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor) of windmills & solar panels? ;) + efficiency out the ain't good at all too  ;D extraction H2 from H2O is economically useless.  :P

Quote from: SarK0Y on October 01, 2012, 10:49:16 PM
well, what about capacity factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor) of windmills & solar panels? ;) + efficiency out the ain't good at all too  ;D extraction H2 from H2O is economically useless.  :P

But efficiency has has greatly improved since the early days and will continue to do so.

As Zorgon said, any reduction in the power bill at this point is desireable.


And Hydrogen extraction is highly desirable over dead dinosour extraction no?  ;)

What's being used energy-wise to extract hydrogen?

A51..check this fellow out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck01KhuQYmE

fossil fuel? Hmmm more to think about...

Le

Quote from: A51Watcher on October 02, 2012, 02:59:30 AM
But efficiency has has greatly improved since the early days and will continue to do so.

Including the diffractive lensing which now generates a decent charge even on cloudy days.


I also now have a solar mp3 player (8 gb) that plugs into anything stereo-


(http://keetsa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/untitled12.bmp)


On the left you see the solar panel side, and on the right you see the control side.

Those lights are the controls and are touch sensitive.  8)


The solar panel will charge even from the lights in your house.


eta: price - 20 bucks and is about the size of a silver dollar and no moving parts






 

Quote from: Amaterasu on October 02, 2012, 03:09:56 AM
What's being used energy-wise to extract hydrogen?

Extraction can be done either with solar or wind turbine in your own backyard.

Ah.  K.

Just so long as it isn't oil, gas or coal.  [smile]  Or nuclear.

Quote from: Littleenki on October 02, 2012, 03:12:17 AM
A51..check this fellow out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck01KhuQYmE

fossil fuel? Hmmm more to think about...

Le

Interesting vid Le. More to ponder.

I also contend that the clean emissions from hydrogen power are desirable compared to dead dinos and the emissions from the extraction process is just good old oxygen.  ;D

Refineries can't beat that!  8)

I currently have solar panels running my gate opener, and am working on more panels to charge my electric scooter I commute to work on.

Even charging it from the grid as I currently do, it costs me about 30 cents a day to charge it.



Brushless motors are a fantastic breakthrough in efficiency.  8)

And as far as Hydrogen efficiency, Bob Lazar is able to create enough in 8 hours to equal a full tank of gas for his Corvette.

That is enough to run a generator for a long time.

Quote from: SarK0Y on October 01, 2012, 10:49:16 PM
well, what about capacity factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor) of windmills & solar panels? ;) + efficiency out the ain't good at all too  ;D extraction H2 from H2O is economically useless.  :P

Depends :D

...if you want to power the world of just take yourself off the grid

(http://1bog.org/files/2011/01/backyard_farm.jpg)

Cool graphic, Zorgon, all I have to do now is tear down four of my neighbor's homes, commandeer their land, and bring in two acres of top soil and spend about a thousand bucks on seeds and weed block...guess Im headed for the water to catch my dinner! :P :P

As for the H2 from water weve spoke about..HHO and H2 is a viable alternative when the tech is allowed, and it is monumentally better than so called fossil fuels and new-kee-ler.

We have too many people in too small of an area in most cities and towns..and those people dont have a clue as to how to even place a seed in the ground correctly.

I think Kissinger in one of his more memorble moments said it..useless eaters...and even though every person has the rights of the next, they generally dont have the wherewithal and ability to survive without being spoon fed their mcd's and applebees chicken fingers.

Death, and the Destroyer of worlds, has been the greed and inability to realize just how deadly new-kee-ler is and how long the ramifications will linger on from just what weve used so far.

Apathy and apathetic leaders who wish to surf through their lives on our dime, and could give two sh!ts about what our grandkids will have to deal with...their's will be wealthy like them and will always have a safe place to live away from the lower lifeforms..the useless eaters.

Elites and the continuance of their agenda..how will we break the cycle?

Le

Quote from: zorgon on October 02, 2012, 09:55:02 AM
Depends :D

...if you want to power the world of just take yourself off the grid

(http://1bog.org/files/2011/01/backyard_farm.jpg)

no, no, my free energy so far been offline  ;)

Quote
Originally posted by earthdude
Somebody is doing testing.
They would tell us if we were in danger.
Everyone is not out to fool us.
There are many who are just like us, they care.
The sky is not falling.

Greetings:

Thank you for your time, consideration and participation.

It is good to know that there are many who are just like us who care.

Too bad they are not in any position of power at the EPA.  :P

QuoteSomebody is doing testing.

And just who do you think "somebody" is?

QuoteThey would tell us if we were in danger.

And just who do you think "they" are?

QuoteEveryone is not out to fool us.

We're not talking about "everyone."

The EPS/USGOV in collusion with TEPCO/JAPGOV have been engaging in a massive cover-up of the true facts concerning the 24/7/365 bombardment of radioactive contaminates from Fukushima Dai-ichi.

QuoteThe sky is not falling.

Prove it.

However, we did not say the sky is falling.

We did say that the radiation from the multiple melt-throughs at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is a serious threat to all life on the planet.

If you feel we are in error in this statement, please prove otherwise.

FYI:



Does the Jet Stream come anywhere near you in either season?

Would you not be affected by any airborne contaminates?

Can we agree that it is serious?    :P


Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

From the wayback machine for your viewing pleasure on this beautiful Sunday morning in the North Georgia mountains (hey there, destinyone, you up for coffee?)




19 June 2011
Japan Tsunami 2011-Deliveryman's Dashcam Video
(http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1db_1308510054)
This video is, IMHO, one of the best examples of "turn around, don't drown," that we have yet to experience. Notice that the water is first seen in front of the delivery man's POV, yet the first water to inundate the vehicle comes from behind it.

19 June 2011
Fukushima Reactor Water May Be 144 Times As Radioactive As Anticipated — Almost 20 Times Total Chernobyl Release (http://enenews.com/report-fukushima-reactor-water-be-144-times-radioactive-anticipated-be-20-times-radioactive-material-total-chernobyl-released)

Quote(...) ... over 100,000 tonnes of highly-contaminated water at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant are estimated to contain 720,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials.

If Kurion's vessel absorbed enough radioactive materials in 5 hours and it should have taken 30 days, as I wrote in my previous post, the water was 144 times as radioactive as the system had anticipated.

If the water actually turns out to be 144 times as radioactive, the Fukushima accident would need a new INES category and should not be placed in the same category (Level 7) as the Chernobyl accident which released only 5.6 million terabecquerels of radioactive materials.

Maybe it should be simply called "Level Fukushima".

Jump to the present-day headlines you may have missed on the MSM:

15 October 2011
Leaked TEPCO Report: 120 billion Becquerels of plutonium, 7.6 trillion Becquerels of neptunium released in first 100 hours — Media concealed risk to public (http://enenews.com/leaked-tepco-report-120-billion-becquerels-of-plutonium-7-6-trillion-becquerels-of-neptunium-released-in-first-100-hours-media-concealed-risk-to-public)

QuoteYokohama, Oct. 15 — Mochizuki of the Fukushima Diary website is reporting on a June 2011 document that has been "leaked on the internet" which reveals that Plutonium-238, -239, -240, and -241 were released "to the air" from Fukushima Daiichi during the first 100 hours after the earthquake.

The amount of Plutonium released is said to be 120 billion Becquerels.

It also states there was a release of 7.6 trillion Becquerels of Neptunium-239.

Mochizuki says this report was made by TEPCO for a press conference on June 6 and the media knew and "kept concealing the risk for 7 months and kept people exposed".

The amount of plutonium released is said to be 120 billion Becquerels.

'Is said to be...'

So many different (and each larger than the previous) numbers have been thrown about that sometimes it becomes difficult to grasp the significance of all this.
Wait just a sec.

WTF ?

Is it 7.6 or 76?

Yes, we see that it is differentiating between Plutonium and Neptunium, but the cooinkydink raised an eyebrow (the other one burnt off already by radioactive rain here in Georgia.  :P

Rather peculiar similarities, wouldn't you agree.


(http://s14.postimg.org/ebqcw4obl/fukishimablowsup.jpg)


Fukishima on the left, atom bomb test on the right

22.97 microSv/h, Koriyama city, Sakabuta Park, housing area, Sep. 2013 - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eecF_ChdoYU)

Published on Sep 8, 2013
On 7th of Sept 2013 , I measured radiation around Sakabuta Park, Koriyama city, Fukushima pref. Japan.

I monitored 0.47 to 0.65 micro Sv/h at my chest height in air.
22.97 on road side sand, on gutter cover on a foot of a slope road.

The monitorinig place is 55 or 60 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant.?Housing area of Koriyama city.

Koriyama city: population approx. 330,000.

Measuring instrument ECOTEST MKS-05, Ukraine made and Air counter of ST Corp., Japan.

Kids have been endangered with external & internal radiation exposure risk.

A map shown in the video is "Radiation counter map of the FUKUSHIMA Daiich nuclear accident" by frofessor Yukio HAYAKAWA of GUNMA university......22.97 Sv/h...............September 2013.

Quote from: Gigas on May 31, 2013, 10:57:45 PM
Rather peculiar similarities, wouldn't you agree.

Indeed, I noticed this immediately. Now we find out
Fukushima may be worse that many dirty bombs.

:(

When They said, a few weeks after the quake, that Chernobyl was worse - and everyOne was believing this - I was shaking My head saying, No... This is FAR worse.  One only has to look and listen.  Why can't They see? ? ?

Well, here We are, and it's far worse that They are saying still - but Their assessments have gotten worse and worse as time has gone on, so They are moving in the right direction.

? Fukushima Nuclear Plant Says Another Tank Leaking Toxic Water into Ocean - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcTcbFt242A)

Published on Oct 3, 2013
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday,



Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) spokesman Masayuki Ono made the announcement and apologized during an emergency news conference.

One of the reasons for the overflow, Ono says is due to having to deal with excess rainwater during Typhoon 22, also known as Typhoon Sepat, which hit Japan on October 2.

Tepco says the water that leaked contained


The breach was discovered in a tank holding area away from where 300 tons of toxic water escaped in August.??About 113 gallons of water spilled over a period of as much as 12 hours after a worker also misjudged how much could be held by the tank, which is tilting because of an uneven location.


The latest leaks show Tepco's efforts to improve its handling of the contaminated water are not sufficient, Japan's top government spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, told reporters on Thursday.

Tepco has been relying on hastily built tanks to hold excess cooling water flushed over damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi site.

Three units suffered nuclear meltdowns and hydrogen explosions after a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Britain to build Europe's first nuclear plant since Fukushima | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/20/us-britain-nuclear-hinkley-idUSBRE99J03T20131020)

20 October 2013
(Reuters) - Britain is set to sign a deal with France's EDF for the first nuclear plant to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster raised safety concerns worldwide, at a cost estimated at around $23 billion.

Under the deal, expected to be announced on Monday, the French utility will lead a consortium, including a Chinese group, to construct two European Pressurised Water Reactors (EPRs) designed by France's Areva.

Industry estimates, based on other nuclear projects, put the cost at around 14 billion pounds or more than 16 billion euros.

EDF's long-time partner China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), possibly in combination with China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), is expected to have a 30 to 40 percent stake in the consortium, with Areva taking another 10 percent, according to newspapers including France's Les Echos and Britain's Sunday Telegraph.

EDF and the British prime minister's office declined to comment on the media reports.

(snip)

George Borovas, nuclear specialist at law firm Pillsbury, said Britain is a unique environment for nuclear, given political support, a relatively strong economy and an existing nuclear fleet.


he said.



For your consideration:

QuotePlutonium records discrepancy
On 17 February 2005, the UK Atomic Energy Authority reported that 29.6 kg (65.3 lb) of plutonium was unaccounted for in auditing records at the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The operating company, the British Nuclear Group, described this as a discrepancy in paper records and not as indicating any physical loss of material.

They pointed out that the error amounted to about 0.5%, whereas International Atomic Energy Agency regulations permit a discrepancy up to 1% as the amount of plutonium recovered from the reprocessing process never precisely matches the pre-process estimates. The inventories in question were accepted as satisfactory by Euratom, the relevant regulatory agency.

:P

And what about this?

QuoteIn 2003 it was announced that the Thorp reprocessing plant would be closed in 2010. Originally predicted to make profits for BNFL of £500m, by 2003 it had made losses of over £1bn.[91] Subsequently Thorp was closed for almost two years from 2005, after a leak had been undetected for 9 months. Production eventually restarted at the plant in early 2008; but almost immediately had to be put on hold again, for an underwater lift that takes the fuel for reprocessing to be repaired.[92]

In November 2008 Sellafield was taken over by a new consortium (US company URS Corp., French firm Areva and the UK company Amec) for decommissioning, as part of a 5-year £6.5bn contract.

In October 2008 it was revealed that the British government had agreed to issue Sellafield an unlimited indemnity against future accidents; according to The Guardian, "the indemnity even covers accidents and leaks that are the consortium's fault."

The indemnity had been rushed through prior to the summer parliamentary recess without notifying parliament.[93]

In 2009 Sellafield decommissioning accounted for 40% of the budget of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority – over £1.1bn.[94]

In 2013 a critical Public Accounts Committee report stated that the private consortium managing Sellafield has failed to reduce costs and delays. Since 2005 the annual costs of operating Sellafield had increased from £900 million to about £1.6 billion. The estimated lifetime cost of dealing with the Sellafield site had increased to £67.5 billion.[95][96][97]

And this?

QuoteSellafield's (http://readtiger.com/wkp/en/Sellafield#MOX_fuel_quality_data_falsification) biggest decommissioning challenges relate to the leftovers of the early nuclear research and nuclear weapons programmes.[98] Sellafield houses "the most hazardous industrial building in western Europe" (building B30) and the second-most (building B38), which hold a variety of leftovers from the first Magnox plants in ageing ponds.[98]

(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10005/Disused-plutonium-reactor-001.jpg)

The disused plutonium reactors at Sellafield are a 'slow-motion Chernobyl', according to Greenpeace campaigners against nuclear energy. Photograph: Robert Brook/Alamy/Alamy


Some of the problems with B38 date back to the 1972 miners' strike: the reactors were pushed so hard that waste processing could not keep up, and "cladding and fuel were simply thrown into B38's cooling ponds and left to disintegrate."[98]

Some of the problems date back to the original nuclear weapons programme at Sellafield, when Piles 1 and 2 were constructed at breakneck speed, and safe disposal was not a priority. Building B41 still houses the aluminium cladding for the uranium fuel rods of Piles 1 and 2, and is modelled on a grain silo, with waste tipped in at the top and argon gas added to prevent fires.[98]

The Sellafield MOX Plant
Construction of the Sellafield MOX Plant (SMP) was completed in 1997, though justification for the operation of the plant was not achieved until October 2001.[30]

Mixed oxide, or MOX fuel, is a blend of plutonium and natural uranium or depleted uranium which behaves similarly (though not identically) to the enriched uranium feed for which most nuclear reactors were designed. MOX fuel is an alternative to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel used in the light water reactors which predominate in nuclear power generation. MOX also provides a means of using excess weapons-grade plutonium (from military sources) to produce electricity.

Designed with a plant capacity of 120 tonnes/year, it achieved a total output of only 5 tonnes during its first five years of operation.[30]

In 2008 orders for the plant had to be fulfilled at COGEMA in France,[31] and the plant was reported in the media as "failed"[32][33] with a total build and operation cost of £1.2 billion.[34]

On 12 May 2010 an agreement was reached with existing Japanese customers on future MOX supplies.[35] In July 2010 Areva was contracted to design and supply a new rod line to improve reliability and production rate.

On 3 August 2011 the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced that the MOX Plant would close, due to the loss of Japanese orders following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.[36]

However Japanese orders for MOX have recommenced as of April 17, 2013, being supplied by the Sellafield MOX plants main competitor, the French MOX fuel vendor COGEMA owned by Areva.[37]

And what about this?

Between 1950 and 2000 there were 21 serious incidents or accidents involving some off-site radiological releases that warranted a rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale, one at level 5, five at level 4 and fifteen at level 3. Additionally during the 1950s and 1960s,

there were protracted periods of known, deliberate, discharges to the atmosphere of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particulates.[45]

These frequent incidents, together with the large 2005 Thorp plant leak which was not detected for nine months, have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the managerial processes and safety culture on the site over the years.

Sellafield in popular culture
Music
In 2010 Post-Punk group Spear of Destiny wrote the song "Windscale" on their album Omega Point which referenced the fire in 1957.

In 1992, rock bands U2, Public Enemy, Big Audio Dynamite II, and Kraftwerk held a "Stop Sellafield" concert for Greenpeace to protest against the nuclear factory. Stop Sellafield: The Concert was later released that year on VHS in the UK, and all proceeds went directly to Greenpeace.

On their 2005 live album Kraftwerk preface a live performance of Radioactivity with a vocoder voice announcing: Sellafield 2 will produce 7.5 tons of plutonium every year. 1.5 kilogram of plutonium make a nuclear bomb.

Sellafield 2 will release the same amount of radioactivity into the environment as Chernobyl every 4.5 years.

One of these radioactive substances, Krypton 85, will cause death and skin cancer.[99]

(snip)

EDF operates 15 nuclear reactors in the UK following its 12.5 billion pound takeover of British Energy in 2008-2009.

(snip)

Direct market support for new nuclear plants is unprecedented in Europe since liberalization started two decades ago, and Britain will be the first country to seek consent from the European Commission's competition department for this.

Earlier this month the Commission ruled out including a reference to nuclear power in revised state aid rules, an indication the UK request could be difficult.
Critics say that by freezing the power price for a nuclear plant for decades ahead, the government is taking huge risks.

"Why would anyone begin to imagine that you know what the price of wholesale electricity will be in be 2058?" said Tom Burke, environmentalist and former government energy adviser.

For EDF too the project is a major risk. At the EPR reactor EDF is building in Flamanville, France, costs ballooned from a budgeted 3.3 billion euros in 2005 to 8.5 billion euros late last year. An EPR built by Areva in Olkiluoto, Finland, has suffered similar overruns and is also years behind schedule.

(snip)

British finance minister George Osborne signed an agreement in China on Thursday allowing Chinese companies to enter Britain's nuclear power sector.

China, which is developing its own reactor, sees the Hinkley Point deal as a first foot in the door in Europe and hopes to use the British reference to sell nuclear plants worldwide.

Eventually, this could bring it into competition with EDF and Areva, on whose technologies the Chinese designs are based. ($1 = 0.6178 British pounds, $1 = 0.7302 euros)

26 November 2013
Gov't model shows West Coast of N. America to get highest level of Fukushima contamination until 2030s (VIDEO)
(http://enenews.com/govt-model-shows-west-coast-of-n-america-to-get-highest-level-of-fukushima-contamination-until-2030s-video)

China-Korea Cooperation on the Development of Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System of Radionuclides (http://www.mrcor.org/Research.aspx?m_id=5): In this study we are concerned with long-term oceanic-scale dispersion of Cs 137 released from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP.
[...]
The information that helped us to determine the source term of radioactive materials for the numerical experiments was the concentrations of radioactive materials in the ocean reported by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).
[...]
using monitoring data from the web site of TEPCO near the northern and southern discharge channels of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP.
[...]
Assuming a total release of 9 PBq of 137 Cs from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the marine environment (only including liquid releases on the Pacific Ocean), the simulation is carried out up to 2031.


Top (L) Mar. 2015; Top (R) Mar. 2019; Bottom (L) Mar. 2021; Bottom (R) July 2031


Note that the total ocean release used in the model is just 1/3 of the estimate by other researchers (http://enenews.com/study-up-to-47-quadrillion-becquerels-of-cesium-137-flowed-into-pacific-nearly-50-times-tepcos-original-estimate).

It also does not take into account the daily release of 400 tons of radioactive water (http://enenews.com/japan-times-now-400-tons-a-day-of-toxic-water-estimated-to-be-entering-pacific-ocean-from-fukushima-plant-100-tons-more-than-tepco-had-claimed-asahi-leakage-radioactive-materials-is-becoming-s) from the plant that's likely been ongoing since soon after 3/11.   :P

So any updates on them removing those fuel rods yet?

This newly released story (http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/fuku-death-98-of-pacific-seafloor-covered-in-dead-creatures-145-mi-from-cali-national-geographic-and-national-academy-of-sciences/) from ENENews (http://enenews.com/study-dead-sea-creatures-covered-98-of-seafloor-last-year-150-miles-off-california-coast-had-been-less-than-1-previously) is mindblowing and shares how quickly since the Fukushima disaster happened that our chain of life in the seas is dying.

This information is taken from both National Geographic and the National Acadamy of Sciences and shares that as of July 1st of 2012,


For those who think that 98% is probably a normal study number, only a few months earlier, the same study found less than 1% of the sea floor covered with 'detritus'.


Several up to date video reports below as well including one from kevin blanch (http://www.youtube.com/user/kevindblanch?feature=watch) who shares that squid are now washing ashore on Santa Cruz beaches as well as well as one from MsMilkytheclown1 (http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkytheclown1) who shares more about the deadly quality of the radiation we are now getting from Fukushima..:

National Geographic (http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/22/sea-snot-explosions-feed-deep-sea-creatures/), Nov. 22, 2013: [...]

"In the 24 years of this study, the past 2 years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far,"  said study leader Christine Huffard, a marine biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California.

[...] In March 2012, less than one percent of the seafloor beneath Station M [located 145 miles west of the coast of California between Santa Barbara and Monterey] was covered in dead sea salps.

By July 1, more than 98 percent of it was covered in the decomposing organisms,

according to the study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[...] Although climate change is a leading contender for explaining the major increases in 2011 and 2012, Huffard says that these spikes could be part of a longer-term trend that scientists haven't yet observed. She hopes to continue gathering data from Station M to try and figure it out.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/05/1315447110), Nov. 11, 2013 (emphasis added): [...] Two major peaks in POC [particulate organic carbon] flux occurred over the last 18 mo of the time series

[...] The peak POC flux in spring/summer 2011 was the highest recorded over the 24-y time series (Fig. 1D)

[...] The daily presence of detrital aggregates on the sea floor did not exceed 15% coverage over the period from 1990 to 2007. The highest sea-floor coverage by detrital aggregates measured throughout the 24-y time series occurred between March and August 2012, when salp detritus ranged from <1% cover in early March to a high of 98% cover on 1 July (Fig. 1E)









Large die-off of Alaska seabirds from disease never found before in state history — Hundreds dead per km² (http://enenews.com/large-die-off-of-alaska-seabirds-from-disease-never-found-before-in-states-history-official-its-super-super-common-except-its-the-first-time-carcasses-continued-to-wash-ashore-re)

12 December 2013
Anchorage Daily News (http://www.adn.com/2013/12/06/3216897/bering-sea-bird-die-off-called.html): Hundreds of dead sea birds found on the beaches of St. Lawrence Island were the victims of Alaska's first detected avian cholera outbreak, officials said this week. One hunter in Gambell spotted a bird on the beach, its head flopping backward.

[...] The bird acted like it was having a seizure. Then it dropped dead.

[...] Gay Sheffield, a Nome-based biologist with the University of Alaska's Marine Advisory Program received three bird carcasses: a northern fulmar, a thick-billed murre and a black crested auklet.

[...] "For this disease, actually, these numbers are really small, which makes me think there's a lot more birds that died somewhere else that we didn't see" [said Kimberlee Beckmen, Fish & Game veterinarian.]

98% is everything. The last 2% most likely got eaten on the way down while fresh. I relooked over the maps with the flow of radiation. I would think they are wrong. They seem to just move a blob from west to east while in reality the blob never stops. It just keeps getting worse. The ocean is a big bathtub. There is no drain. What goes in stays in.

Also I really don't think Japan cares if they get back at the US for nuking them. This is revenge in a soft way that everyone accepts. Like, you nuked us, we nuke you, and we're even. Even if we all die, why do they care. They like the sword in the belly. Deuem is not saying that every single Japanese person is out for revenge. It only needs a few to do this. It is an option to think about.  I do think that if all the currents and air went to the west instead of the east, that Japan would no longer be on the map. Chinas biggest and most important cities are right in line. I think [IMO only] a different solution would have come down. There is no love lost between the two.

So far, Japan is what I call LUCKY. everything is going away from us and leaving the coast alone for now. Every map I see shows us in the clear. Anyone want to move here with Deuem? We have lots of ghost cities to fill up.

No one in the USA is going to do anything till all their hair falls out, the cows fall over dead and MTV goes off air. Well after it is too late the party will start. At this point in time it actually might be several years too late. There is no magic pixie dust to clean the pacific bathtub. It will take a few more years to enter the rest of the oceans and then we are all done. The oceans go, we go. We need them to survive.

Thor any news on Whales, They are plankton feeders and they should get hit hard very fast. It is a one step food chain for whales.

Deuem

University of Alaska Scientists: Fukushima Radiation May Be Making Alaska Seals Sick (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-university-alaska-scientists-fukushima-radiation-may-be)

26 January 2014 - Zero Hedge

Preface: Leading Scientist On Fukushima Radiation Hitting West Coast of North America: "No One Is Measuring So Therefore We Should Be Alarmed" (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/leading-scientist-fukushima-radiation-hitting-west-coast-north-america-one-measuring-therefore-alarmed.html)

American sailors on the USS Reagan got really sick after having snowball fights (http://enenews.com/radio-u-s-navy-sailors-were-havinng-snow-ball-fights-on-deck-using-radioactive-snow-off-fukushima-crew-was-pretty-well-toast-by-time-they-came-into-port-contaminated-debris-off-uss-reagan) with radioactive snow blowing off of the coasts of Fukushima.

University of Alaska professors Doug Dasher, John Kelley, Gay Sheffield, and Raphaela Stimmelmayr theorize that radioactive snow might have also caused Alaska's seals to become sick (page 222):

On March 11, 2011 off Japan's west coast, an earthquake-generated tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant resulting in a major nuclear accident that included a large release of airborne radionuclides into the environment.

Within five days of the accident atmospheric air masses carrying Fukushima radiation were transiting into the northern Bering and Chukchi seas.

During summer 2011 it became evident to coastal communities and wildlife management agencies that there was a novel disease outbreak occurring in several species of Arctic ice-associated seals.



Gross symptoms associated with the disease included lethargy, no new hair growth, and skin lesions, with the majority of the outbreak reports occurring between the Nome and Barrow region. NOAA and USFWS declared an Alaska Northern Pinnipeds Usual Mortality Event (UME) in late winter of 2011.

The ongoing Alaska 2011 Northern Pinnipeds UME investigation continues to explore a mix of potential etiologies (infectious, endocrine, toxins, nutritious etc.), including radioactivity.

Currently, the underlying etiology remains undetermined [i.e. scientists don't yet know what caused the seals' sickness, but they think it might have been Fukushima radiation].




We present results on gamma analysis (cesium 134 and 137) of muscle tissue from control and diseased seals, and discuss wildlife health implications from different possible routes of exposure to Fukushima fallout to ice seals.

Since the Fukushima fallout period occurred during the annual sea ice cover period from Nome to Barrow, a sea ice based fallout scenario in addition to a marine food web based one is of particular relevance for the Fukushima accident.

Under a proposed sea ice fallout deposition scenario, radionuclides would have been settled onto sea ice. Sea ice and snow would have acted as a temporary refuge for deposited radionuclides; thus radionuclides would have only become available for migration during the melting season and would not have entered the regional food web in any appreciable manner until breakup (pulsed release).

The cumulative on-ice exposure for ice seals would have occurred through external, inhalation, and non-equilibrium dietary pathways during the ice-based seasonal spring haulout period for molting/pupping/breeding activities.

Additionally, ice seals would have been under dietary/metabolic constraints and experiencing hormonal changes associated with reproduction and molting. Here are some pictures of the sick seals:




Many other West Coast animals have gotten sick. Scientists need to get to the bottom of what is making them sick, whether it's radiation or something else.

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Months before Hurricane Sandy hurled the Atlantic Ocean into houses and cities along the East Coast, another record-breaking cyclone battered North America, helping push this year's Arctic sea ice to a record low, a new study finds.

   •   Radiation Levels At Fukushima Soar By Over 20% In Three Days, Hit 2,200 mSv And Rising (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-radiation-levels-fukushima-soar-over-20-three-days-hit-)
Moments ago a powerful 6.5 quake struck the Izu Islands, 400 miles south of Tokyo, strong enough to be felt among the taller buildings of the Japanese capital. Luckily, there was no tsunami or any destructive aftermath, at least none publicly announced. None was needed, because the great earthquake of March 2011 and subsequent tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima continue to do enough damage. Sadly, it is the gift that keeps on giving... gamma rays.

   •   Japan Upgrades Fukushima Nuclear Incident To 'Serious' After Plant Operator Admits Started Over A Month Before Being Discovered (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-japan-upgrades-fukushima-nuclear-incident-serious-after)
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday upgraded the rating of a leak of radiation-contaminated water from a tank at its tsunami-wrecked nuclear plant to a "serious incident" on an international scale, and it castigated the plant operator for failing to catch the problem earlier.

   •   Radioactive Water Leaking From Fukushima: This Is What We Know, And Why Millions Of Lives Are At Stake (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-radioactive-water-leaking-fukushima-what-we-know-and-wh)
In lieu of the Japanese government doing the right thing and finally coming clean about the epic environmental catastrophe that is Fukushima, which it hopes to simply dig under the rug even as the inconvenient reality gets worse and thousands of tons of radioactive water make their way into the ocean, one is forced to rely on third-party sources for information on this tragedy.

   •   Garbage Bags Of Contaminated Dirt And Leaves Are Dumped Near Roads In Fukushima Cleanup Effort (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-garbage-bags-contaminated-dirt-and-leaves-are-dumped-ne)
After a massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, officials promised to use cutting-edge technology from across the globe to mount the most ambitious radiological cleanup humanity has ever seen. But it appears that the $11.5 billion, multi-decade effort has become part of the nuclear disaster.

   •   New Japanese PM: Cleaning Up Fukushima Is An Unprecedented Challenge (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-new-japanese-pm-cleaning-fukushima-unprecedented-challe)
The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever undertaken, Japan's prime minister said on Saturday during a tour of the plant.

Published on Apr 27, 2014
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PBS Reporter Miles O'Brien: "No one likes to see ocean filled with cesium and strontium and so forth"
— "It's arriving on West Coast of U.S. as we speak"
— "Nobody likes the idea of eating cesium from Fukushima"
— "Tainted water dumped into Pacific as we speak" (AUDIO)

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These are just the LATEST (27 April 2014) updates on MARINE findings from http://enenews.com/?s=marine

CBS San Francisco: Record number of sick seals & sea lions — Doctor: A lot with "large pockets of green and yellow puss all over their body" (PHOTO & VIDEOS)

NBC: Record level of sick or injured California seals and sea lions turning up — "The numbers are extraordinary" — "Scientists worried... The worst kind of perfect storm" — Pups should be weighing 2 or 3 times as much, "severely malnourished" (VIDEO)

Vancouver Sun: Scientists concerned dolphin species on west coast to be negatively impacted by Fukushima nuclear waste — Radiation levels to be increasing for years to come along coast — Canadian gov't sampling for Iodine-129 in Pacific

Experts: Nuclear chain reactions may have lasted over 7 months at Fukushima — Neutron leakage from 'active' molten fuel — "Core producing radioactive sulfur" — Top Gov't Official: MOX fuel could be neutron source

Marine Chemist: Highly contaminated waste flowing in aquifer below Fukushima — Mag: Groundwater can 'erupt' from seafloor offshore — Gov't expert warned about radioactive substances 'springing up' in Pacific (PHOTOS)

Professors: Seafood off N. American coast predicted to exceed gov't radioactivity limit — "High priority looming threat" to global ocean from Fukushima releases — Radiation levels 'well above' 1,000 Bq/kg according to model

Reports: Sea stars decimated on West Coast — SoCal ravaged as mystery disease spreads south; Saw hundreds last year, now none... got hit really hard — Mortality event like this never before documented — "Uncharted waters... likes of which we haven't seen" — Turning to 'bacterial goop' (RADIO)

Radio: "Surprisingly, high concentrations [of Fukushima cesium] found in Vancouver area" since ocean currents slow down — Levels are increasing — "Might be hotspots where radiation concentrates" — "Chances are high for marine life to absorb it... concern about mussels... clams, oysters" (AUDIO)

Swiss Journalist: Marine biologists now telling me there's been a change in radioactive material coming from Fukushima — More and more strontium being detected in samples, not just cesium — Is gov't testing for it... is it in our food? (VIDEO)

Researchers predict west coast killer whales will exceed 1,000 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium — Over 10 times gov't limit in Japan — Concern about harm to humans, sea life — Expert: People eating large amounts of fish may have levels similar to whales

'Ultra-Rare': Up to 70 endangered 'whales' by California coast — Seen once in several decades, lives in open ocean — Breached as if performing, rubbing heads on boat — So loud thought it was engine — "Seemed to be speaking to camera" — Also spotted in Western Pacific same day (VIDEO)

"Radioactive metal from Fukushima" detected in Pacific Northwest — Professor: "That was a surprise, it means there are still emissions ... and trans-Pacific air pollution... It's a concern to us, this is an international issue"

Expert: 'The worst' from Fukushima has left Japan and is headed to US, Canada — "Most of the radioactivity" moving with currents toward west coast — Report: Front edge of plume arrives in Gulf of Alaska — State: "There's been a detection of cesium from Fukushima"

NBC Nightly News: 'Has Radiation Entered Our Food Supply Chain?' — USA Today: News getting worse at Fukushima, widespread suspicion leaks into ocean 'underreported' — Expert: "I'm not trying to be alarmist... but how will we know it's safe" for West Coast? (VIDEO)

NBC: Head of radiation testing program on West Coast says Fukushima plume could threaten ecosystems — The effect on marine life? "We don't know, whatever is in the kelp will get in bodies of those animals also" (VIDEO)

US Gov't Expert: Large marine animals likely sensed danger of Fukushima plume and fled, "Not going to wait until they start to die off" — Explains unprecedented concentrations of whales and other sea life clustering off West Coast? (VIDEO)

CBC: Radioactive particles arrive 'far earlier than predicted' for N. America — Mag: 'Plumes stretch 4,800 miles across ocean!' — Experts: There's great alarm... Legitimate concern... Expected to dilute, but don't really know — US Govt: 'Monitoring beaches for debris from Fukushima nuclear disaster' (VIDEO)

Experts: Areas along West Coast "may be... affected in a significant way" by Fukushima plume in coming months —

LATEST updates on MARINE findings from enenews.com as of 10 December 2014 (http://enenews.com/?s=marine)

12:41 PM EST on December 10th, 2014 | 351 comments
Experts: 100% death rate for baby killer whales along West Coast — 'Alarm bells ring' as no newborns have survived in past 3 years — "This is absolutely the worst thing possible", pregnant orca dies with decomposing stillborn full-term fetus inside — "We're going to lose them... they'll be extinct for sure" (VIDEO)

08:53 AM EST on December 9th, 2014 | 462 comments
Nuclear Scientist: Fukushima an apocalyptic disaster that will haunt future generations; World now an experimental lab with humans as guinea pigs — Japan Gov't Report: Fukushima is worse than 3/11 quake and tsunami

04:48 PM EST on December 5th, 2014 | 255 comments
"Deadly" radioactive material up around 50,000,000% at Fukushima plant in recent months — Strontium-90 spikes to record level near ocean outside Reactor No. 2

02:44 PM EST on November 24th, 2014 | 184 comments
'Special Alert' issued for major dam upstream of US nuclear plants — Muddy seepage coming up near foundation — Cause of sinkhole and 'mysterious' discharges unknown after weeks of analysis — Newspaper: "Hopefully, it isn't catastrophic" — Officials working around clock, submarines and ground-penetrating radar in use (VIDEO)

12:59 PM EST on November 18th, 2014 | 359 comments
West Coast Scientists: Many animals on sea floor looking sick or dead — "Everything's dying... Dead, dead, dead, and dead" — Experts investigate what's killing sea urchins and cucumbers in Pacific Northwest — "Seeing things never previously observed" (PHOTOS)

06:58 AM EST on November 18th, 2014 | 179 comments
Experts: Seemingly benign virus on West Coast causing "ecological upheaval the likes of which we've never seen" — Very peculiar, different from all known viruses — Mutations could be helping it spread — Something may have recently caused it to go rogue... we've never seen anything like this — Why now, what changed to allow outbreak? (VIDEO)

04:34 PM EST on November 10th, 2014 | 166 comments
Canadian scientists detect "significant" concentrations of radioactive material off West Coast, levels double in months since last test — Marine Chemist: "Much greater concern" over Fukushima releases that will be hitting shores of US & Canada; Lack of data "really disturbing" (AUDIO)

09:43 AM EST on November 10th, 2014 | 203 comments
Top Headline: 'Fukushima radiation identified off northern California' — 50% of samples around West Coast test positive — 7.7 Bq/m3 of cesium near California shore, expected to keep rising for years to come (MAP)

02:07 AM EST on November 5th, 2014 | 178 comments
TV: "This is really kind of scary... a grim reality" for West Coast — Alarm as baby whales keep dying; Since 2011 none have survived over a year — Biologist: We see them pregnant for weeks, then no longer pregnant — NOAA: "Not what we're used to... Incredibly poor condition... Skeleton with skin" (VIDEO)

08:14 AM EST on November 4th, 2014 | 146 comments
'Mysterious Phenomena' off U.S. West Coast: Fish disappeared, whales nearly absent, no krill, high rates of egg failure among birds — California Fishermen: "There's almost nothing there, just a lot of warm clear water"

04:19 PM EST on October 30th, 2014 | 185 comments
US sailors "have won the major battle" in Fukushima lawsuit — Now 200 young Navy and Marines with leukemia, organs removed, brain tumors/cancer, blindness, more — Gov't: Fukushima a terrible tragedy... Navy ships under threat and didn't know where to go, some 'very interesting' moments... That radiation will kill you like a nuclear weapon (VIDEO)

10:15 AM EST on October 27th, 2014 | 263 comments
Watch: Nuclear experts confront Japanese scientists — IAEA says Fukushima reactors "might still be active" long after meltdowns — "Changes completely" our idea of what happened — "Very surprised... extremely high" Iodine-131 levels — Means fission reactions lasted for weeks or months (VIDEO)

09:16 PM EST on October 20th, 2014 | 657 comments
Gov't report reveals Fukushima radioactive release much larger than Chernobyl — Japan reactors could have emitted nearly four times as much cesium-137

06:22 PM EST on October 15th, 2014 | 562 comments
PBS: Plague along West Coast has biologists fearing extinction of species — Experts: Take your kids to beach and see them before they're gone; Worst outbreak ever known in the oceans; Catastrophic losses nearly everywhere we've been (VIDEO)

07:56 PM EST on October 8th, 2014 | 279 comments
Professors: Fukushima has emerged as global threat — Major health concerns along west coast — Bioaccumulation expected to keep rising for decades — Gov't failing to inform public of looming long-term radioactive hazard... Instead, official gives tips on how to disguise radiation levels from public (PHOTO)

11:28 PM EST on October 2nd, 2014 | 246 comments
MSNBC: Largest epidemic ever seen in world's oceans hits West Coast — Emergency legislation proposed in US Congress — Newsweek: Millions dead, researchers have lost count — Experts: It's beyond anything I ever imagined... Disintegrating before our eyes... Never been an event so dramatic... Shorelines losing biodiversity, blanketed in barnacles (VIDEO)

10:02 AM EST on September 18th, 2014 | 139 comments
Fukushima radiation a "major threat" to survival of baby birds — "Immediate and worrisome" impacts on marine wildlife discussed — More damage to come as radioactive material biomagnifies in food chain

12:07 PM EST on September 17th, 2014 | 171 comments
Gov't Scientists: "Something very unusual occurring" off west coast of US, Canada — "Unprecedented in historical record" — "Will dramatically reduce productivity" in 6,500 sq. miles of ocean — Anomaly extends "across Pacific to Japan" — "Who knows what will happen?" (MAP)

09:00 AM EST on September 10th, 2014 | 180 comments
Head Scientist: "I used to think I knew" why mystery epidemic is decimating millions of West Coast starfish, "but now I don't" — Toxic pollution now suspected — Fukushima 'not dismissed' as cause — California Professor: Significant levels of fallout got into our coastal food web... marine life exposed... It's not good

08:06 PM EST on September 9th, 2014 | 91 comments
EPA: Models show "greater potential impact" to US West Coast from rainfall containing Fukushima radioactive material — California sea water with over 10 Million pCi/m3 of iodine-131 found in sample squeezed out of seaweed

01:00 AM EST on September 9th, 2014 | 172 comments
"Not for Distribution, Internal Use Only": US Energy Dept. estimated Fukushima release up to 10,000 times larger than nuclear regulators predicted — 'Supercore' scenario an underestimate?

Back in December 2012, we wrote that it was only a matter of time before Japan's criminal lying about the radioactive exposure in the aftermath of the Fukushima catastrophe caught up with it, as well as with countless numbers of people who would soon succumb to radiation induced cancers and other diseases.

US Sailors, Assisting With Fukushima Clean Up, Crippled By Cancer (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-us-sailors-assisting-fukushima-clean-crippled-cancer)

US Navy Sailors Have Filed A Massive Lawsuit Against Tokyo Power For Radiation Lies (http://www.bullfax.com/?q=node-us-navy-sailors-have-filed-massive-lawsuit-against-toky)

Here are  some significant 2014 updates, in chronological order.

The first article is an excellent overview of the situation as of February 2014.


Contamination of USS Ronald Reagan During Fukushima Response Underreported (http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2014/02/06/contamination-uss-ronald-reagan-fukushima-response-underreported/)

6 February 2014
As was reported in 2011 (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/radiation-detected-on-us-warship-near-japan/), the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to radiation contamination from Fukushima during its earthquake/tsunami rescue operations—"Operation Tomodachi"–off the Japan coast.

The original coverage minimized the significance of the contamination, saying it was equivalent to an extra month's background radiation.

This narrative was called into question as sailors who had served on the Reagan at that time filed suit, first in San Diego court and then against the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation or TEPCO, for damages relating to health problems they blamed on the contamination. Currently, there are more than 50 plaintiffs and their attorney says he expects the number to grow. Congress recently directed the Department of Defense to look into potential health impacts from exposure during Operation Tomodachi. Stars & Stripes reported the story with this arresting image of a line of sailors pushing soapy water across the Reagan's flight deck.

First off, the adjective "potential" perhaps conveys a false idea of the level of confirmation that the Reagan was contaminated. The Reagan is nuclear-powered, and chock-a-block with radiation detectors. Indeed, the CBS report at the time acknowledged that the radiation detectors were triggered. So the radiation contamination was "actual" not "potential" unless one wants to engage in word-parsing that there were no radiation detectors on the surface of the flight deck, so there was no confirmation of radiation contamination in the particular locations where the sailors were pushing their brooms at that time.

But it looks pretty likely that there was contamination, for a key and dire reason: the Reagan had experienced a snow storm while it was near the Fukushima reactor, raising the possibility that the plume of radioactive material, instead of dispersing in the higher atmosphere, had been washed down—and all over the Reagan—by the precipitation. Indeed, a sailor who is suing for health-related issues stated that the snow "tasted metallic."

Not exactly a good sign.

Which meant it is likely that radioactive particulate was all over the ship, and available to be inhaled. So it's not like the crew simply experienced an increase in background radiation one might associate with a stay on the space shuttle or by standing next to a poorly shielded microwave; it is possible they were exposed to and inhaled radioactive particulate, which is universally acknowledged to be very bad for you.



The Stars & Stripes photograph confirms that there was a concern over particulate contamination; otherwise they don't send out the guys with the brooms. The likely contamination of the Reagan by particulate radioactive material raises another extremely expensive, difficult, and perhaps insoluble problem. I am not aware of current advances in decontamination but, unless revolutionary breakthroughs have occurred, complete decontamination of a vessel exposed to particulate radiation is impossible. In fact, the inability to decontaminate navy vessels guided the evolution of US military strategy.

Faced with the threat to its mission and relevance in the atomic age, in 1946 the US Navy conceived an experiment in decontamination, Operation Crossroads (https://www.bikiniatoll.com/Ships.html). We know it as the Bikini Atoll atomic test. A flotilla of derelict ships were anchored around the atoll and two nuclear devices were detonated—one, Able, an airburst, the second, Baker, under water—to see how the ships and a few head of livestock would do.

As expected, the livestock did not do well, but the ships did, riding out the shock wave with limited damage and raising hopes that, in a wartime situation, US Navy ships could be experience a nuclear attack, survive, be decontaminated, get a fresh crew, and return to action.

However, the decontamination exercise simply didn't work. Months were spent trying to scrub down the ships and obtain an acceptable radiation level, but the contaminate (particularly from Baker, which was a spectacularly dirty underwater shot and perhaps analogous to the messy meltdown and explosion at Fukushima) proved far too tenacious.




As was reported in 2011 (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/radiation-detected-on-us-warship-near-japan/) the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to radiation contamination from Fukushima during its earthquake/tsunami rescue operations—"Operation Tomodachi"–off the Japan coast. The original coverage minimized the significance of the contamination, saying it was equivalent to an extra month's background radiation.

This narrative was called into question as sailors who had served on the Reagan at that time filed suit, first in San Diego court and then against the Tokyo Electric Power Corporation or TEPCO, for damages relating to health problems they blamed on the contamination.

Currently, there are more than 50 plaintiffs and their attorney says he expects the number to grow. Congress recently directed the Department of Defense to look into potential health impacts from exposure during Operation Tomodachi. Stars & Stripes reported the story with this arresting image of a line of sailors pushing soapy water across the Reagan's flight deck.




First off, the adjective "potential" perhaps conveys a false idea of the level of confirmation that the Reagan was contaminated. The Reagan is nuclear-powered, and chock-a-block with radiation detectors. Indeed, the CBS report at the time acknowledged that the radiation detectors were triggered. So the radiation contamination was "actual" not "potential" unless one wants to engage in word-parsing that there were no radiation detectors on the surface of the flight deck, so there was no confirmation of radiation contamination in the particular locations where the sailors were pushing their brooms at that time.


But it looks pretty likely that there was contamination, for a key and dire reason: the Reagan had experienced a snow storm while it was near the Fukushima reactor, raising the possibility that the plume of radioactive material, instead of dispersing in the higher atmosphere, had been washed down—and all over the Reagan—by the precipitation. Indeed, a sailor who is suing for health-related issues stated that the snow "tasted metallic." Not exactly a good sign.

Which meant it is likely that radioactive particulate was all over the ship, and available to be inhaled. So it's not like the crew simply experienced an increase in background radiation one might associate with a stay on the space shuttle or by standing next to a poorly shielded microwave; it is possible they were exposed to and inhaled radioactive particulate, which is universally acknowledged to be very bad for you.




The Stars & Stripes photograph confirms that there was a concern over particulate contamination; otherwise they don't send out the guys with the brooms. The likely contamination of the Reagan by particulate radioactive material raises another extremely expensive, difficult, and perhaps insoluble problem. I am not aware of current advances in decontamination but, unless revolutionary breakthroughs have occurred, complete decontamination of a vessel exposed to particulate radiation is impossible. In fact, the inability to decontaminate navy vessels guided the evolution of US military strategy.

Faced with the threat to its mission and relevance in the atomic age, in 1946 the US Navy conceived an experiment in decontamination, Operation Crossroads. We know it as the Bikini Atoll atomic test. A flotilla of derelict ships were anchored around the atoll and two nuclear devices were detonated—one, Able, an airburst, the second, Baker, under water—to see how the ships and a few head of livestock would do.

As expected, the livestock did not do well, but the ships did, riding out the shock wave with limited damage and raising hopes that, in a wartime situation, US Navy ships could be experience a nuclear attack, survive, be decontaminated, get a fresh crew, and return to action.

However, the decontamination exercise simply didn't work. Months were spent trying to scrub down the ships and obtain an acceptable radiation level, but the contaminate (particularly from Baker, which was a spectacularly dirty underwater shot and perhaps analogous to the messy meltdown and explosion at Fukushima) proved far too tenacious.




On the military level, the takeaway was that surface vessels did not have a viable survivable role in a nuclear exchange. On the scientific level, the Bikini test—and the revelation that the radiation aftereffects of a nuclear attack could not be adequately remediated, no matter how much time and energy were expended—was an important factory in the growing anti-nuke orientation of many scientists who had willingly worked on the bomb during WWII.

In an indication of trends in decontamination technology, here is a photograph from 1946 of sailors trying to decontaminate one of the test vessels, the Prinz Eugen. Pushbrooms and soapy water seem to be a universal element in decontamination strategy, and it is unlikely that today there is any magic bullet that will allow a ship to be completely decontaminated.

A plaintiff in the TEPCO case (http://ecowatch.com/2013/12/27/ronald-reagan-cancer-sue-tepco-fukushima-radiation/) claimed that the USS Reagan had been denied approval to dock in Japan or South Korea after contamination and had spent over two months at sea before returning to San Diego.

I would expect those two months were spent in extensive and laborious decontamination efforts that got most of the radiation; but with particulate radiation you can never get it all, and there's a chance that it can be ingested and cause serious illness.

There are some strikingly significant consequences to the probability that the USS Reagan can never be completely and demonstrably decontaminated. First, sailors may not be particularly enthusiastic about serving on the Reagan, especially since dozens of the crew are blaming their time on the ship for serious health problems. Second, if the contamination story gains legs in the popular media, the US disposition of forces in the Pacific is vulnerable to serious disruption.




The Navy has announced that the Reagan will replace the USS George Washington at the Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. Post-tsunami, polls in Japan have demonstrated a predominant dislike for nuclear power in general and Fukushima radiation in particular, and it is unlikely to welcome it into a Japanese port aboard the Reagan.

This is a matter of concern to the Abe government, not for public hygiene reasons—the regime's foot soldiers are busy trying to sell the local population on the lack of peril and even the health benefits of Fukushima radiation—but because the unconditional welcome that the Japanese government offers to US forces is a key component of its strategy to use an unbreakable alliance between the US and Japan to confront the PRC.

Abe already has enough problems trying to shove the Futenma base relocation down the throats of the resisting Okinawans; he does not need the additional headache of having to rebut the argument that the US alliance brings with it additional nuclear contamination. That is probably why, as CNN put it, "specific timelines are yet to be announced" for when the Reagan will actually show up at Yokosuka.




Third, the most logical way to deal with this issue once and for all would be to scuttle the USS Reagan in some conveniently deep marine trench and hope that the radioactive particulate will disperse sufficiently on the seabed and in the food chain to make the risk acceptable (the contamination issue, I imagine, would make the financial and political cost of scrapping the ship unsupportable). However, I imagine the US Navy is loath to scuttle a $6 billion ship that is also the symbol and instrument of US military hegemony in the Pacific in order to prevent a few dozen potential premature cancer deaths.

Instead, as noted above, instead of shunting the Reagan off to some US base, the US government announced in January 2014 it would station it at Yokosuka. Maybe the Defense Department has decided that the best defense is a good offense, and instead of giving credibility to Japanese nuclear anxieties, it's just going to say The ship is clean, here's the ship, it's not going anywhere else. However, nuclear fears are notoriously difficult to allay and it will be a challenge for the US Navy and the Abe government to use scientific, statistical, and University of Chicago-style cost/benefit analyses to reconcile the Japanese citizenry to the presence of the USS Reagan.

So I predict that the preferred strategy of the US Defense Department and the Abe government will be: first, don't acknowledge there's a problem, followed by the usual stonewalling, modified hangout, and suppression of negative information—information like this from Stars & Stripes (http://www.stripes.com/congress-wants-answers-on-health-impacts-of-japan-disaster-relief-1.263843):

Sailors who were onboard the Reagan have claimed that they were drinking contaminated desalinated seawater and bathing in it until the ship's leadership came over the public address system and told them to stop because it was contaminated. They claim the ventilation system was also contaminated.

Furthermore, some claim they were pressured into signing forms confirming they had been given iodine pills when none had been provided.

Given the stakes involved—not just the $6 billion aircraft carrier and the health of its crew, but also the implications for the Abe government and the US-Japan alliance if the Ronald Reagan story gets out of hand—it will be interesting to see how the media covers this story.



[Update: In 2013, Japan Focus published two superb pieces by investigative reporter Roger Witherspoon on the US military's response to radioactive contamination during Operation Tomodachi.

His interviews with servicemen and women who served on the Reagan–and in many other locations and capacities during the relief operation, describe the harrowing circumstances of trying, sometimes unsuccessfully, to predict and dodge the Fukushima plume and deal with onboard contamination of people as well as equipment.

Witherspoon's account begs the question of why the Department of Defense saw fit to discontinue the Todomachi Medical Registry, which would have established baseline data for exposed personnel and monitored them for health problems. CH 2/5/14]

USS Reagan Sailors File $1 Billion Suit Over Radiation Exposure (Video) | KPBS (http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/apr/08/uss-reagan-sailors-sue-japan-radiation-earthquake/)

8 April 2014
Scores of USS Ronald Reagan crew members have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Japanese utility that runs the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The class-action suit, filed in federal court in San Diego, claims the utility lied about unsafe levels of radiation emanating from the plant after Japan's epic 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

A portion of the lawsuit, published by the Orange County Register, reads:
"TEPCO likewise hid, covered up, and negligently concealed these facts and falsely represented the true facts to the U.S. Navy. Plaintiffs suffered harms, damage, and suffered, and continue to suffer, life-threatening injuries as a result of TEPCO's negligence."

According to the OC Register, dozens of Reagan crew members have been diagnosed with cancer since participating in humanitarian efforts to help the Japanese people in 2011. Another sailor's child was born with birth defects.

The Associated Press reports a judge dismissed the Reagan sailors' first attempt to sue in 2012. That's because the initial suit named the Japanese government, which owns the utility in question.

The second lawsuit, with 79 Reagan sailors as plaintiffs, names just TEPCO as the defendant.

TEPCO has responded to the amended lawsuit, according to the A.P., saying in a statement:

"It's wholly implausible that military commanders in charge of thousands of personnel and armed with some of the world's most sophisticated equipment, relied instead only on the press releases and public statements of a foreign electric utility company."

As Home Post previously reported, the Reagan spent three weeks off the coast of Japan participating in a humanitarian mission called Operation Tomodachi. The crew provided food, water, medicine, and clothing to those left destitute by the earthquake and tsunami.

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BREAKING: USS Reagan sailors win a victory in court!
Judge rules that lawsuit can proceed and include not only TEPCO
but additional Defendants General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi,
the builders of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.

Here's the full press release, just issued:
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Charles Bonner & Cabral Bonner & Paul Garner, Esq.
760.671.8183 pcg@garnerlaw.com
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Ph: 415.331.3070; 415.601.0268; 510.213.9777

U.S. SAILORS WIN KEY COURT DECISION TO GO FORWARD WITH CLASS ACTION AGAINST JAPAN'S NUCLEAR POWER COMPANY
U.S. Navy Sailors have won a crucial battle in the United States District Court in San Diego against Tokyo Electric Power Company, known as TEPCO.

A Federal judge has ruled that the sailors' class action law suit may go forward against TEPCO and additional Defendants General Electric, EBASCO, Toshiba and Hitachi, the builders of the Fukushima nuclear reactors.

The 200 young sailors claim that TEPCO deliberately lied to the public and the U.S. Navy about the radiation levels at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant at the time the Japanese Government was asking for help for victims of the March 11, 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami.

Up to 70,000 U.S. citizens were potentially affected by the radiation and will be able to join the class action suit.

The lawsuit is based on the sailors' participation in Operation Tomodachi (meaning "Friends"), providing humanitarian relief after the March 11, 2011 devastation caused by the Earthquake and Tsunami.

The lawsuit includes claims for illnesses such as Leukemia, ulcers, gall bladder removals, brain cancer, brain tumors, testicular cancer, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, thyroid illnesses, stomach ailments and a host of other complaints unusual in such young adults.

The injured servicemen and women will require treatment for their deteriorating health, medical monitoring, payment of their medical bills, appropriate health monitoring for their children, and monitoring for possible radiation-induced genetic mutations.

One Sailor, age 22, has been diagnosed with Leukemia and is losing his eyesight. In his declaration to the court he states, "Upon my return from Operation Tomodachi, I began losing my eyesight.I lost all vision in my left eye and most vision in my right eye. I am unable to read street signs and am no longer able to drive. Prior to Operation Tomodachi, I had 20/20 eyesight, wore no glasses and had no corrective eye surgery. Additionally, I know of no family members who have had leukemia."

Paul Garner and Charles Bonner, attorneys for the sailors, say that additional plaintiffs are continuing to come forward with serious ailments from radiation.

The sailors would like the general public to contact their members of Congress, locally elected officials, and President Obama and implore them to tell the Government of Japan to (1) apply the principles of "Operation Tomodachi" to the Plaintiff-victims and help these U.S. Sailors; and (2) tell TEPCO to stop shirking responsibility for their publicly acknowledged wrongdoings.

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EMAIL: daryljbrooks@roadrunner.com

Published on Nov 26, 2014
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AMERICA CAN GO IN Denial ALL THEY WANT,
the FACTS ARE;
they human lab-ratted their OWN soldiers,
DEATH FOR PROFIT AGAIN,
they are sick many U.S. MARINES , NAVY , AND ARMY
are dying from the exposure to radiation AGAIN,

The POST IGNORANCE PROJECT;
YELLOW AND BLACK FRIDAY,
PROTESTING at the killers' places
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, URANIUM MINES, G.E. HEADQUARTERS,
WESTINGHOUSE, NUCLEAR WASTE SITES, WAL-MARTS, TARGETS,
ALL OF THE USURY LIARS SITES, death for PROFIT,
AN APPLE WITH A BITE OUT OF IT !
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Wonder whatever happened to the many other boots on the ground/First Responders from various fire departments in the U.S.?



File:Operation Tomodachi in Kamaishi.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation_Tomodachi_in_Kamaishi.jpg)
Members of the Fairfax County, Va., Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue search structures and debris on March 16, 2011 in Kamaishi, Japan.

A 9.0 earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011 that caused a tsunami that destroyed anything in its path.
1st Combat Camera Squadron
Photo by Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock
Date Taken: 03.16.2011
Location: KAMAISHI, 23, JPxx

Stars and Stripes "Operation Tomodachi" Book

The quality publication is now possessed by the collective.

If anyone is interested, select portions can be posted.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Peace Love Light
Liberty & Equality or Revolution

Hec'el oinipikte  (that we shall live)

FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT CLOCK
Elapsed Time since March 11, 2011, 2:46 PM - Fukushima, Japan (http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20110311T1446&p0=2155)

The World Must Take Charge at Fukushima (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=5453.msg74364#msg74364)

"In a time of universal deceit
telling the truth is considered a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

Debris removal begins along coast of Futaba town (http://www.fukushima-is-still-news.com/2014/12/debris-collecting-starts-in-futaba.html)

Published on Dec 18, 2014

Work to remove debris from the March 2011 tsunami has begun along the coast of Futaba Town in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture.

An evacuation order is still in place for the town since the accident there at the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Japan's government is responsible for removing the debris.

On Wednesday morning, government-appointed workers began clearing the roughly 200-hectare area. They loaded driftwood and housing material onto trucks using construction machinery, and took it to a provisional storage site.

The Environment Ministry estimates the amount of debris in the area at 5,500 tons. The area is designated for preparation for the lifting of the evacuation order, where radiation levels there are relatively low. Removal of the debris would enable decontamination work and hopefully speed up the area's reconstruction.




South Korean experts visit Fukushima Daiichi plant (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/05/us-fukushima-food-idUSKBN0KE07920150105)

South Korean experts have visited the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to study the possible resumption of seafood imports from Fukushima and other prefectures.

The 7 experts toured the plant for about 2 hours on Wednesday. They were accompanied by officials from the Japanese government and plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company. They studied the contaminated water processing system known as ALPS and other facilities.

A Japan fisheries ministry official said he believes the tour helped show the experts that substantive measures have been taken to prevent contaminated water leaks.   :P

South Korea banned seafood imports from Fukushima and 7 other prefectures in September of last year.





Japan changes renewable energy program (http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2014/02/japan-fit-changes-reflect-end-of-residential-pv-program-and-delay-in-non-residential-projects)

Japan's government has announced a major change in its program for asking power companies to buy electricity generated from renewable energy sources.

The new policy was announced at a meeting of an advisory panel of the Economy and Industry Ministry on Thursday.

Under the plan, utilities are to be able to stop buying electricity generated using solar and wind power if they see a risk of oversupply due to unpredictability involved in the 2 sources.

The utilities would turn down offers of solar power produced by households as well as businesses.

Utilities would still be obliged to purchase electricity generated through the more predictable methods of geothermal and small-scale hydraulic power generation.

Utilities have been obliged to accept essentially all offers of electricity generated through renewable sources.

Since September, many of the country's utilities started limiting their purchases of solar power, citing a destabilizing oversupply.

The ministry plans to implement the change in mid-January by amending a relevant ordinance.



Mushroom-shaped "pink cloud" seen at Fukushima after Reactor 3 exploded (http://enenews.com/new-book-pink-cloud-shape-mushroom-after-explosion-fukushima-unit-3-film-pink-clouds-radiation-after-nuclear-bombs-detonated-clouds-pink-pink-covering-sky-told-everyone-worry-about-video)

— Film: Nuclear bomb explosions caused "pink clouds of radiation"; "Clouds were pink from fallout... They told everyone there's nothing to worry about" (VIDEO & PHOTOS)
http://enenews.com/new-book-pink-clou...


Tritium density rose up 10 × since July in seaside of Reactor 1
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/12/tr...

The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fuku...



Army Claims it's too Dangerous to Clean Up Radioactive Weapons Test Site in Indiana (http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/army-claims-its-too-dangerous-to-clean-up-radioactive-weapons-test-site-in-indiana-141217?news=855126)

Fifty years of firing radioactive munitions by the U.S. Army has left a large swath of Southern Indiana toxic and dangerous: More than 160,000 pounds of depleted uranium projectiles and millions of artillery shells have been left behind, unexploded, at the firing range.

The Army, however, is showing no signs of cleaning up the mess. In fact, it appears to be trying to walk away from the problem altogether, leaving local residents at potential risk.
http://www.allgov.com/news/top-storie...

Rocky Flats was a disaster waiting to happen from day one.  It was also a major player in Denver's economy because of the number of jobs it provided.   Now it's been bulldozed and is a National Wildlife Refuge that is not open to the public.

Shasta

Published on Feb 9, 2015
Sick, abandoned pups have shown up in alarming numbers on beaches in January.



Published on May 7, 2015
www.undergroundworldnews.com
Apr 13, 2015 (emphasis added): CSU partners with Fukushima University to study radiation effects... Many CSU faculty and researchers are contributing to radiation research in Japan... including Thomas Johnson... professor of health physics, who is testing trace radiation samples in seal populations in the northern Pacific Ocean, where radiation from the Fukushima disaster was released.

Digestive system: microdontia teeth smaller than normal, chronic interstitial pancreatitis inflammation of pancreas, hepatic cyst liver, cholestatic jaundice yellowing of skin caused by thickening of bile or problems in liver, geophagia eating dirt, and primary diffuse peritoneal tumor membrane lining abdomen.

A variety of the observed disease conditions are reported for the first time in ice seals and/or walruses.


from poster 'LastbutNotFirst' 1 year ago

An MSNBC article in April of 2012 reported that seals and polar bears were found to have "external maladies" that consisted of fur loss and open sores, obvious signs of radiation burns from the Fukushima meltdown, despite the conclusions of the article.

Fukushima radiation appears to be causing an epidemic of dead and starving Sea Lions in California and the FDA has refused to test for radiation.

Update: Huffington Post reports that the reactors used "dirty fuel," a combination of plutonium and uranium (MOX), which means we can never return to this place again. This comes from a Russian nuclear physicist who is an expert on the kinds of gasses being released at Fukushima.

Almost a third more US West Coast newborns may face thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Contaminated water from Fukushima reactors could double radioactivity levels of US coastal waters in 5 years — "We were surprised at how quickly the tracer spread"








Published on Feb 9, 2015
Fukushima Radiation Pacific Ocean Apocalyptic California sea lions Shellfish Die Off West Coast Canada blood moon Illuminati mark of the beast

Sick, abandoned pups have shown up in alarming numbers on beaches in January.





SPIRITUALWARRIOR TRUTHSEEKER
Published on Mar 28, 2015

Hosea 4:2-3(KJV)
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.




Published on Dec 4, 2014
According to NASA, Fukushima will be an extinction Level Event by 2050 - Physicist Dr. Richard Alan Miller - there will be no life on earth according to NASA war document by the year 2050.

NASA Fukushima radiation.
Dr. Richard Alan Miller - Fukushima Radiation
http://richardalanmiller.com/breakingnews/radiation-fukushima

Fukushima Update
http://fukushimaupdate.com/

Fukushima T-Minus 00:00:00 Checkmate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2f6SUr4ozE




Published on Jun 5, 2015
The Opposite of the Manhattan Project IS I AM POST IGNORANCE

http://www.thepostignoranceproject.com/ http://www.gofundme.com/sdc76s
Where the Deer and the Antelope use to PLAY;;
Where the whales and the Children USE TO PLAY,,, BEFORE THE NUCLEAR CARTEL KILLED THE THERE MOTHER MY WET NURSE, kevin D. blanch 6/5/2015

The Opposite of the Manhattan Project IS I AM POST IGNORANCE http://www.thepostignoranceproject.com/
http://www.gofundme.com/sdc76s

ALL LIVING THINGS WET NURSE BEING MURDERED;;
https://youtu.be/tIRQgd-BfcQ

"According to information received from the members of the CMS expert mission, it is becoming clear that two secondary opportunistic pathogens, specifically Pasteurella and Clostridia, are contributing to the rapid and wide-spread die-off. However, the hunt for the fundamental drivers behind the mass mortality continues since these bacteria are only lethal to an animal if its immune system is already weakened."

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06...
"Ukraine's president says his forces have ousted pro-Russia rebels from the eastern town of Maryinka and captured 12 "saboteurs", including one Russian.

Petro Poroshenko's claim has not been independently confirmed.
Heavy fighting erupted on Wednesday in Maryinka and Krasnohorivka, west of rebel-held Donetsk.

The opposing sides have accused each other of shattering February's Minsk ceasefire, requiring them to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline.

The Donetsk rebel leader spoke of huge losses in the Ukrainian army.
Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic", said the Maryinka fighting had left about 400 Ukrainian troops dead and up to 1,000 wounded." bbc

Children near Fukushima likely to suffer | Colombo Gazette (http://colombogazette.com/2016/05/24/children-near-fukushima-likely-to-suffer/), May 24, 2016:

Children near Fukushima more likely to suffer from thyroid cancer... The rate of children suffering from thyroid cancer in Fukushima Prefecture was as much as 20 to 50 times higher than the national average as of 2014, three years after the disaster, said Toshihide Tsuda, professor of environmental epidemiology at Okayama University...

More than 160 teenagers in Fukushima Prefecture had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, including suspect cases... The Fukushima prefectural government doubted the cases were related to the nuclear disaster...

Some nuclear experts were surprised by the Japanese government's irresponsible and indifferent attitude... According to research by Fukushima University, about 3,500 trillion becquerels of radiative cesium-137 were discharged into the sea with toxic water since the disaster broke out and radioactive material reached as far as the western coast of northern America.


Xinhua (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/23/c_135380988.htm), May 23, 2016: Truths deliberately covered about Fukushima surface over five years —

Facts about the Fukushima nuclear disaster... kept emerging over the past five years after the mishap took place, revealing the real face of the disaster. In front of the local government of Iidate Village in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture [a device reads] 0.38 microsieverts/hour...

However, volunteer Yoichi Tao - who majored in physics - said the figure of radiation on their own device is 8 to 10 times of the official one. According to Tao, the government dispatched the military to wipe out the nearby nuclear radiation on the ground in advance, so the official figure looks very low. "That's how the government did it," he said...


The Times (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/asia/article4579144.ece), Oct 8 2015 (emphasis added): Child cancers up fifty-fold after Fukushima disaster — Cases of thyroid cancer among children living close to the Fukushima nuclear power plant have increased fiftyfold since the meltdown in 2011, according to Japanese scientists... in one of the most pessimistic assessments of the health implications of the world's second-worst nuclear disaster. He urged the Japanese authorities to stop quibbling over the interpretation of cancer statistics, and to muster medical resources. "We need to prepare for leukaemia, breast cancer and (remainder of article only available to subscribers)...

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Fukushima,  the radiation gift that keeps on giving.  I had stopped following this for some time.  Stupidity, greed for money, lack of acceptance of responsibility for accidents and bureaucrats in governments who fail to report the truth bear partial responsibility for this accident.  Failing to properly plan where to place reactors and not keeping up with keeping them safe all have contributed.

My grandson recently completed his Masters Degree in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.   Some recent discussions we had was regarding was partly about safety and the lack of correct oversight and the use of boiling water reactors.  His goal is to make obtaining energy  much safer with fusion reactors.

Radiation:  the death that has become the destroyer has good uses but has become the destroyer because of the above mentioned reasons along with some that have not been mentioned.

I had gotten away from Fukushima (the subject of a previous project) and jumped into the security of cities and towns and nations.  One of those items would be radiation from dirty bombs, small suitcase type nukes, smuggled nukes in seagoing containers and the lack of time, money, resources, slowdown of products being imported trying to check these incoming seagoing containers.  Not only are aging reactors a problem but trying to intercept smuggled nuclear material is a very large problem.  In my field of railroad security I see these containers all the time and I am appalled at the ease at which these things could have something harmful in them and they may not even be checked.  These containers are hauled by boat, trucked to a rail yard, picked up by a truck and hauled to a destination.  Inside could be a small nuke, dirty bomb, etc...  Radiation: the destroyer could be sent all over any country without anyone ever knowing.  So we have Nuclear waste dumps, aging reactors, reactors placed geographically in volatile areas, lack of proper safety oversight, smuggled radiation devices or dirty bombs.  Will this be our destruction in the end?  Sorry, I may have seemed to ramble but I think there are several concerns about radiation that need to be considered.  It can be a good thing and yet not handled properly could be our demise.  I have been in armed security now for 2 years positioned at a rail yard and you would be appalled at the lack of real good security practices at several points during the transport of seagoing containers.

Most Radioactive Waste on Earth May Soon Roll Through Your Town (http://www.ecowatch.com/radioactive-waste-doe-2214339533.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=b15d1ee2b0-MailChimp+Email+Blast&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-b15d1ee2b0-85943521)

(ETA: This thread has now been updated 12feb17)

The only beings that could fix this in an instant are the benign ETs, jmho.

How Time passes so quickly....since 2011..

Keeping us to maintain being aware as I know people do forget !

Its just wonder the real damage is now over 7 years on..

None on our West coast if UC Berkley is correct.  My grandson said they ran regular checks for radiation both on the ground and by helicopter.  Grandson is a nuclear engineer with his masters from UCB.

Quote from: spacemaverick on August 04, 2018, 06:16:36 AM
None on our West coast if UC Berkley is correct.  My grandson said they ran regular checks for radiation both on the ground and by helicopter.  Grandson is a nuclear engineer with his masters from UCB.

Well damn  8) that means we can't blame everybody in California being wacko because they getting irradiated

:P

Quote from: spacemaverick on August 04, 2018, 06:16:36 AM
None on our West coast if UC Berkley is correct.  My grandson said they ran regular checks for radiation both on the ground and by helicopter.  Grandson is a nuclear engineer with his masters from UCB.

Other than Iodine which spread rapidly in the early days of Fukushima (and has a short half life) most radioactive particles are heavy and won't float far in water.. 

Nevada had over 900 A bombs dropped at the test site yet today you can go visit it (just don't stay long or take souvenirs :P)

My garage has more radioactivity than Ca beaches :P  I have radioactive specimens and depression uranium glass.

But radiation is accumulative :D    And do you REALLY trust the kids at Berkley today?

LOL

Quote from: zorgon on August 04, 2018, 01:09:02 PM
Other than Iodine which spread rapidly in the early days of Fukushima (and has a short half life) most radioactive particles are heavy and won't float far in water.. 

Nevada had over 900 A bombs dropped at the test site yet today you can go visit it (just don't stay long or take souvenirs :P)

My garage has more radioactivity than Ca beaches :P  I have radioactive specimens and depression uranium glass.

But radiation is accumulative :D    And do you REALLY trust the kids at Berkley today?

LOL

I trust my grandson.  He has taken readings himself.  He is still out there working for a company that is dealing with Nuclear fusion for power purposes and also working on advanced Nuclear Medicine.  He spoke of the cumulative effect himself.

Eight years after triple meltdowns and explosions at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, major problems remain and many impacts are yet to manifest (http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2019/3/7/eight-years-after-triple-meltdowns-and-explosions-at-the-fuk.html)

Beyond Nuclear Press Release
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Beyond Nuclear spokespeople: Paul Gunter, reactor operation risks and regulatory capture: 301-523-0201; Cindy Folkers, radiation exposures and human health: 240-354-4314; Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste: 240-462-3216; Linda Gunter, international issues: 301-455-5655.

TAKOMA PARK, MD -- The legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster will continue indefinitely, creating long-term problems for human health, radioactive waste management and the environment:

   ▪   Around 1.09 million tons of radioactively contaminated water — used to cool the destroyed reactor cores as well as groundwater flowing across the site —  is being stored onsite in growing tank farms, which are now at capacity. Absent other options, Japanese authorities are looking to dump this radioactively contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean, a move strongly opposed by Japanese fishermen, ocean protection groups and the worldwide environmental community.
 
   ▪   In an effort to downplay or dismiss the health dangers of radiation exposure, the Japanese government has ended financial benefits to Fukushima evacuees, putting economic pressures on these families to return to the region, even though it has not been — and cannot be — adequately or effectively cleaned up and made safe for human habitation. According to noted physicist, Dr. Bruno Chareyron, who has conducted field measurements in the area, "The radioactive particles deposited on the ground in March 2011 are still there, and in Japan, millions of people are living on territories that received significant contamination."
 
   ▪   In order to justify the return of evacuees and claim the region is now safe, Japanese regulatory authorities have raised the allowable radiation dose from I milisievert per year to 20, an unacceptably high rate that is especially dangerous for pregnant women and children. This policy has been cited by a UN Special Rapporteur as having "potentially grave impacts on the rights of young children returning to or born in contaminated areas."
 
   ▪   Plans by Tepco and the Japanese government to begin removing melted reactor fuel in 2021 are fraught with risk and uncertainty since little is still known about its condition and there is no safe, permanent radioactive waste management plan in place.
 
   ▪   The Japanese government plans to hold two events — softball and baseball — in the Fukushima Prefecture during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a public relations maneuver to "normalize" the situation. However, in addition to unacceptable radiation exposure doses, particularly from hot spots, the discovery of radioactive particles of reactor fuel debris in the area, including uranium and cesium, would put both athletes and spectators at risk.
 
   ▪   The implications for returning populations to the Fukushima region come with dire warnings from the health findings in Macaque monkeys who have lived there continuously. The monkeys have been found to have bone marrows that are producing almost no blood cells, and mothers are giving birth to babies with reduced brain sizes. With a 7% difference in DNA with humans, these outcomes are alarming.
 
   ▪   Scandals surrounding the ill treatment of workers at the stricken Fukushima plant, many of whom are migrants and already low-income, continue. UN human rights experts found these workers to have been exploited and their health willfully jeopardized, with workers coerced "into accepting hazardous working conditions because of economic hardships, and the adequacy of training and protective measures."
 
   ▪   Despite widespread public opposition in Japan, the Abe government continues to try to restart nuclear reactors. However, only nine of the 42 still operable reactors are back on line (out of 58 originally). The government has instead turned its attention to the nuclear export market, but this took a serious hit when Toshiba's Westinghouse nuclear division went bankrupt two years ago and Hitachi withdrew from two new nuclear power plant projects in the UK in January 2019.