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March 12, 2012
Contamination Fears Linger for Japanese Children, Workers One Year After Fukushima Meltdown
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/12/contamination_fears_linger_for_japanese_children
March 12, 2012
Contamination Fears Linger for Japanese Children, Workers One Year After Fukushima Meltdown – Aileen Mioko Smith talks from Green Action
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/12/contamination_fears_linger_for_japanese_children
March 12, 2012
French nuclear specialists agree Fukushima “could still explode”, corium a threat — Reactors remain in meltdown says expert, molten lava could break through at any point
March 12, 2012
Germany and France see mass protests
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_12/68172670/
March 12, 2012
Nuclear Expert: Fukushima 10 times worse than Chernobyl
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-03/12/content_14814975.htm
March 12, 2012
Gundersen on CTV: The country of Japan is contaminated — “Just routine checking an area here and there” in Tokyo found all samples to be radioactive waste (VIDEO)
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/World/20120309/fukushima-cleanup-evacuees-face-uncertain-future-120311/
March 12, 2012
Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen: Fukushima Meltdown Could Result in 1 Million Cases of Cancer
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/12/nuclear_engineer_arnie_gundersen_fukushima_meltdown
March 12, 2012
Fukushima prefecture aims for green power
The governor of the Japanese prefecture of Fukushima called for terminating nuclear power and promoting renewable energy.
March 12, 2012
5 stories about the Fukushima anniversary that you really need to read
http://grist.org/list/5-stories-about-the-fukushima-anniversary-that-you-really-need-to-read/
March 12, 2012
Watch Maggie Gunderson (minute 59 into the video)
• There was a lot of fallout that came to this country
• A lot of radiation came down in rain
• British Columbia, Seattle, … that whole Washington, Oregon, part of California
• We know of an organic farm in Portland that is not selling or producing anything anymore because he tested a lot of radiation on his farm
• Hawaii had tainted fruit and milk, there’s a lot of radiation there
• Very frightening what happened on the West Coast
• People breathing 10 hot particles per day – runners – 20 /day
University Researcher: U.S. topsoil with up to 8,000 pCi/kg of cesium
March 13, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for March 9th – March 12th, 2012
March 13, 2012
The Legacy of Fukushima with Helen Caldicott
http://www.corbettreport.com/the-legacy-of-fukushima-dr-helen-caldicott-on-grtv/
March 13, 2012
Seattle doctor raises serious concerns about nuclear reactor near Hanford, Washington
March 14, 2012
EnergySolutions awarded Fukushima clean-up contract
US-UK firm will be charged with decontaminating the seawater that was used to cool the reactor as it went into meltdown
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/14/energysolutions-fukushima-clean-up-contract
March 14, 2012
Let’s reduce our atomic footprint before there’s another Fukushima
March 14, 2012
Fukushima citizens to accuse TEPCO, state of negligence over crisis (in Iwaki)
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/03/147140.html
March 15, 2012
2 Other Reasons Why Municipalities in Japan Want Disaster Debris
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/2-other-reasons-why-municipalities-in.html
March 15, 2012
Radio: “Something new in the history of medicine is happening at Fukushima” says physician — 30% of children tested had thyroid lumps — “Now that’s really early, that’s within the first year, that’s unheard of” (AUDIO)
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/01/1117-children-over-30-of-3739-tested.html
March 16, 2012
One Municipality After Another Says YES to Disaster Debris Contaminated with Radioactive Materials
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/one-municipality-after-another-says-yes.html
March 16, 2012
PM Noda demands WTO do something about the baseless rumours
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/03/japans-pm-noda-demands-wto-do-something.html
March 16, 2012
How far the plume has travelled:
Please note this simulation, as explained below, shows only the extent of where the particles in radioactive plume have traveled.
It does not attempt to estimate the dilution of the radiation since such estimates are currently impossible due to refusal by TEPCO and the government of Japan to release critical scientific data required to calculate the concentration of the plume.
Also note that the simulation only takes into account the million gallons of radioactive water TEPCO purposefully dumped into the ocean.
That water was later found to have been 7.5 million times the legal limit and the dumping was done after TEPCO was “Stongly urged to do so by the US government.
Since then TEPCO has reported on numerous occasions that they lack on-site storage space and may need to dump even more radioactive waste into the Pacific ocean.
The simulation also doesn’t account for any of the “run-off” radiation from TEPCO spraying the reactors with water cannons to keep the nuclear fuel cool.
It can not account for any contamination in the ocean from pieces of the nuclear fuel rods that were scattered all over the area after a series of massive explosions at the plant.
It does not account for the run off of radioactive sewage which is piling up all over Japan, running off into the ocean and resoluting in a layer of cesium sludge on the bottom Tokyo bay which is now over 10 inches thick.
It can not account for the cloud of nuclear ash that has rained down on the country from numerous incinerators being used to dispose radioactive waste by burning it.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/03/16/ocean-radiation-plume-hits-hawaii-from-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown/
March 17, 2012
Irish Chernobyl campaigner shares lessons
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/03/147572.html
March 17, 2012
Cesium found almost 375 miles from Fukushima nuclear plant
March 17, 2012
Dr. Haruki Madarame, who is resigning as the head of the Nuclear Safety Commission, is remembered by me as having spoke the universal truth when he said “It’s all about money, isn’t it?” when it comes to nuclear waste.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/australia-is-ideal-for-contaminated.html
March 18, 2012
80% in Japan ‘support nuclear phase-out’
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/284903/80-in-japan-upport-nuclear-phase-out
March 18, 2012
Fukushima radiation moving in seawater across Pacific Ocean, according to consulting company
“Last April, Japanese officials claimed that they had halted the release of radioactive radiation from the crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima. On December 5, however, the Los Angeles Times revealed that “45 tons of highly radioactive water” had been released from the plant on the previous weekend. Greenpeace has also reported finding highly radioactive sea life off the Japanese coast.”
March 19, 2012
Japan objected to IAEA IAEA’s proposal in 2005 to designate the area within the 300-kilometer radius from a nuclear plant as “an area where shipment bans on farm products and other measures would be implemented to regulate the intake of radioactive contaminated food”.
(in the event of a disaster)
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/asahi-japan-objected-to-iaea-defining.html
March 20, 2012
India government takes blunt approach to anti-nuclear push – in what some critics are calling a “witch hunt.”
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2012/03/20/2445283/india-government-takes-blunt-approach.html
March 20, 2012
End of the nuclear illusion
A year after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe began in Japan, the world has a historic chance to end one of the biggest-ever frauds played on the public to promote a patently unsafe, accident-prone, expensive and centralised form of energy generation based upon splitting the atom to boil water and spin a turbine.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/End-of-the-nuclear-illusion-30178373.html
March 20, 2012
A Solartopian tipping point is upon us in the U.S., Europe and Japan which will re-define how the human race gets its energy. The definitive breaking point looms in Vermont. By mid-March a state board is likely to deny the Yankee reactor licenses to operate or to create radioactive waste.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman/post_3127_b_1353253.html
March 20, 2012
Mayor of Shimada City re spreading the radioactive debris all over Japan and burning
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/mayor-of-shimada-city-copies-goshi.html
March 20, 2012
Switzerland: Muhleberg Nuclear Plant Decision Heartens Foreign Activists:A ruling by the Swiss Administrative Court ordering the closure of the Mühleberg nuclear power station has galvanised anti-nuclear campaigners elsewhere in Europe too.
March 20, 2012
Gundersen- 1 in 5 young girls living in some areas around Fukushima Daiichi will get cancer from radiation over their lifetimes (AUDIO)
http://fairewinds.com/content/arnie-and-maggie-talk-vermont-yankee-fukushima-and-nuclear-industry
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@what the; The US is not assisting in this because GE is a USA company and therefore would have to admit to being a huge part of the problem. And we have several type of reactors made by GE on line in the USA. Admitting fault would be a financial disaster for both GE and the government. And even the best scientists who can assist are held hostage from the arms of the corporate government. Sad, but I believe, true.
Why is this still not a priority in the US (or anywhere?)??????? I know it will hurt business, and it’ll hurt the very thing i’d been putting so much effort into working and supporting – local organic farming. And people i mention it to often act like i didn’t say anything at all, because acknowledging it means completely CHANGING something essential in one’s life, and beliefs, and sense of “security”. Is there even hope for human consciousness to awaken to what’s right in our faces (and in our food and air!!)… let alone to make a significant impact on the way things are going??!! What else can we do about it to express the imminence of the global situation??? The US has the technology to assist in this dilemma, yet it’s not. What else do they know that we don’t???
I agree, Brian – people should be yelling their heads off – but why aren’t they?
Why Aren’t people yelling their heads off?
Last year, J.H. Bartlett wrote a novel called “Last Summer at the Compound”. It’s about a family in Plymouth who meet at their summer compound that is just a few miles from the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The disaster at Fukushima has made them realize how close they are to this Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor and the book is about how they grapple with the decision about selling this summer estate that has been in the family for 5 generations. To quote from the book, the “children, the thirty to fifty year olds were the ones most consumed with safety. Have a Healthy and Safe New Year was the message on their Christmas cards. Merry and Happy were out of fashion, pushed aside by healthy and safe. Accidents, disasters, diseases, even death, could be avoided with sufficient vigilance. Seat belts and helmets were called for, sturdy SUV’s that would not crush on impact were encouraged. Fire alarms and burglar alarms were installed. They enthusiastically lighted up dangerous, dark nights. Regular checkups were made of their bodies, X-rays, MRIs, mammograms, colonoscopies, camera probes were sent down the throat to meet those going up the rear end, blood pressure readings were taken, and electrocardiograms. Some wore gizmos to keep a daily check on heart beat, blood pressure and sugar levels. They had flu shots, took pills to lower cholesterol, relieve arthritis, rejuvenate the blood and thicken the bones. Women took hormones, and then men took Viagra to satisfy their wives’ new hormonal induced sex drive. Dogs were fixed and children were driven to play dates, potholes were filled, roads widened. Smoking was abandoned as was the eating of red meat. Defibrillators were installed at parks, schools and playing fields. There were hand sanitizers inside the doors of most public buildings and bowls of condoms in some.” …”Yet they had little time to do anything about the nuclear plant; they did not show up at meetings or demonstrations or go door to door collecting signatures”….
So people aren’t yelling – but not because they don’t care about health and safety.
A friend of mine says it could be because radiation is so new to human beings. The atom was split in 1917 – less than 100 years ago.
He says “it is truly fascinating, but not too complicated, why most people don’t care or cannot comprehend what’s happening. I think it’s partly the genetic marker. Unfortunately the human race has no genetic marker for radiation. There is nothing for us to latch on to at the instinctive level. So the general public fails to recognize the threat. Can you imagine if Fkushima Daiichi was a biological weapons lab? Now that would get everyone’s attention.”
He goes on to say:
“I think it takes an interdisciplinary mind, background, and personality, an investigative, mentality, interest in earth and life sciences, curiosity, truth-seeking nature (void of politics, religion, belief systems, or any exterior motivations) and the ability to think not only linearly but abstractly and certainly from at least 50,000 feet up as well as down into the microscope to be able to gasp at the epic severity of the situation and to be able to visualize and understand what’s happening. It also helps to be educated in and understand public relations and how things work, so you can laugh at the corporate/govt BS in their mainstream media distraction entertainment money junk science parade. Not many in today’s distraction-based entertainment brainwashed world have those qualifications.”
“For some people, they need to see ‘numbers’ and need to hear from ‘official sources’, they need to be told they should be worried by official sources.”
“The health effects of nuclear power and associated accidents are devastating. Cancer is a side track. Other fallout-related health problems will affect many people first, including heart attack and stroke, before they get to cancer. It’s a cakewalk for the thinktanks and the highest of public relations geniuses to generate misinformation and perception that dismiss all health-related problems. The various forms of disease will not come with a Made in Fukushima tag and good luck proving it in a court of law. Sadly,it is highly likely that the general public will never realize what has happened to them.”
People should be yelling their heads off. It won’t be long before the water off California will be too radioactive to swim in. Reactor 1 is back in fission mode because it is emitting radioactive Krypton and Xenon. Reactors 2 and 3 are putting out isotopes as well. And the Japanese are dumping 1000 tons a day of radioactive water into the Pacific. The plume is reportedly 3500 kilometers out to sea. And if the reactor 4 building collapses? The spent fuel pool will start to burn and the site will have to be abandoned. Do I need to say more?
An excellent timeline historical document!
I clicked on “View All” and just scrolled.
two nuclear bombs. four nuclear power plants. it’s called karma
We would have been better off without the invention as it is so really dangerous unlike anyhing else.Thanks to uranium fluoridation was given boost because nothing was to be allowed to stand in the way of this warlike invention.Still many suffer with the infliction of fluoridation today and without any advantages except as a way to dispose of dangerous fluorides.