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March 21, 2012
Many residents of Fukushima prefecture still lack basic information and clear answers about the level of radiation in their food and environment, Human Rights Watch said March 9, 2012
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/03/09/japan-year-after-fukushima-response-falls-short
March 22, 2012
Engineers admitted they still have not resolved major safety problems with the Hanford Washington plant — which is supposed to help dispose of 53 million gallons of nuclear waste — 12 years after design of the Western world’s most expensive and complex construction project began. So to make sure the plant is safe, engineers may have to rule out processing some volume of the waste, either because it contains high volumes of plutonium or because the mix of chemicals and gases is corrosive or explosive. That means some as-yet unproven new technologies will have to be used to deal with Hanford’s waste.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2012/03/22/technical-problems-still-bedevil-hanford-plant
March 22, 2012
Armageddon if Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 collapses and melts down — Could change the world — Most likely consequence is that reactors 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 get out of control — Interview with nuclear engineer (VIDEO) (note: in German – click on cc to get English subtitles)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rFqhKhtB7Q&feature=channel
March 23, 2012
Escobar on Fukushima email leak: ‘Deleting data a cover-up’
http://fukushimaupdate.com/escobar-on-fukushima-email-leak-deleting-data-a-cover-up/
March 23, 2012
Panel sets standard for shipments of radiation-tainted stones.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120323p2g00m0dm016000c.html
March 24, 2012
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, focused on how we can prevent a similar event from happening right here at San Onofre.
http://www.keyt.com/news/local/Preventing-Nuclear-Catastrophe-144070816.html
March 24, 2012
Helen Caldicott: Fukushima/Nuclear Medical Impact
http://www.edhat.com/site/tidbit.cfm?nid=84299
March 24, 2012
The removal of radioactive contamination an important and urgent task.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/ed20120324a1.html
March 24, 2012
24,700 Bq/kg radioactive Cesium from Tea leaves in Fukushima City.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/24700-bqkg-radioactive-cesium-from-tea.html
March 24, 2012
Governor of Kyoto on Disaster Debris “We May Not Tell Residents.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/governor-of-kyoto-on-disaster-debris-we.html
March 24, 2012
Disaster Debris is Radioactive – see table
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/03/24700-bqkg-radioactive-cesium-from-tea.html
March 25, 2012
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US.
http://fairewinds.com/content/tokyo-soil-samples-would-be-considered-nuclear-waste-us
March 25, 2012
Minister requests debris disposal in western Japan
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120325_14.html
March 26, 2012
Fukushima Prefecture deleted 5 days of radiation dispersion data just after meltdowns.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20120322p2a00m0na012000c.html
March 26, 2012
Tokyo Soil – Blanketed With Fukushima Radiation – Would Be Considered “Radioactive Waste” In the United States
March 26, 2012
Think about ramifications for Tokyo… How would you like kneeling in radioactive waste to pick flowers? Cobalt-60 in majority of samples, up to 1,481 Bq/kg (VIDEO & CHART)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B77engN4qk&feature=relmfu
March 26, 2012
Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor’s Anti-Nuclear Speech
March 26, 2012
Japan Is Left With Only One Working Nuclear Reactor
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303816504577304763323680918.html
March 26, 2012
Majia Holmer Nadesan
“Lessons From Fukushima: Governments and the Media Will Deceive the Public and Withhold Vital Information, Leaving Citizens to Create Informal Information Sharing Networks”
March 26, 2012
Chiba local city government published the measuring data of citrus produced in Chiba. For some reason, they picked up only 11 samples for 3 different kinds of fruits, and they measured cesium from 3 of them. However, because it’s under the new safety limit of 100 Bq/Kg, those products will be distributed to the market. […]
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/03/81-bqkg-of-cesium-from-citrus-in-chiba/
March 27, 2012
Anti-Nuclear Activists Say Summit Ignores True Nuclear Security
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2012/03/27/2012032700452.html
March 27, 2012
Threatening, active faults found off Boso
Dual jolt could trigger Tokyo temblor up to magnitude 9
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120327a1.html
March 27, 2012
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant still emits fatally high radiation, lacks cooling after latest quake
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2012/03/27/news/doc4f71e8bc3fa75812131811.txt?viewmode=2
March 28, 2012
Radiation levels inside Fukushima’s reactor 2 have reached fatally high levels, and levels of water are far lower than previously thought, experts say today.
The current radiation levels are so high that even robots cannot enter.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/28/1078698/-All-s-NOT-Well-at-Fukushima
March 28, 2012
Swiss gov’t appeals nuke shutdown order
The Swiss government has launched an appeal of a court decision seeking the early closure of the aging Muhleberg nuclear power plant near Bern.
March 28, 2012
Anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott to speak at 4Cs in West Barnstable April 4th
http://www.capecodtoday.com/news/event/2012/03/28/anti-nuclear-activist-dr-helen-caldicott
March 28, 2012
Over a Year Later, Fukushima’s Radiation Is Still Fatal
http://gizmodo.com/5897126/over-a-year-later-fukushimas-radiation-is-still-fatal
March 28, 2012
Fukushima monthly fallout higher now than 9 months ago in June
http://radioactivity.mext.go.jp/en/monitoring_by_prefecture_fallout/index.html
March 28, 2012
Anti-Nuclear Activist Helen Caldicott Brings Message of Peace to Santa Barbara
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/032412_anti-nuclear_activist_helen_caldicott
March 28, 2012
From Inside Fukushima Reactor, New Data Raises New Worries
Crucial things about Unit 2: Engineers have found that radiation levels inside are much higher than they thought, and that levels of cooling water are much lower; and both of those, of course, are bad news. In particular, on the radiation levels, engineers have finally been able to directly measure the levels inside Unit 2 and they found that they’re currently seven times higher than they thought, and that’s 10 times the lethal dose for humans.
http://www.theworld.org/2012/03/from-inside-fukushima-reactor-new-data-raises-new-worries/
March 28, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for March 23rd – March 26th, 2012
March 29, 2012
Still critical: radiation levels at Fukushima can kill in minutes Latest readings from tsunami-stricken nuclear plant overturn claims that reactors have been made safe READ ALL OF THIS
March 29, 2012
Southern California had 2,500 Bq/kg of iodine-131 in seaweed — Over 500% higher than other tests in U.S., Canada
Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California ‘with greatest exposure in central and southern California.’
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203598r?journalCode=esthag
March 29, 2012
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Japan Being Pushed Into Revolt Over Fukushima Radiation
There are startling and shocking reports that show that that water that was poured into the failed reactor core has somehow leaked away into the environment, and there is now less than 60cm of water covering the failed core material itself (see report here). It is shocking to again see that all of the media reports about the ongoing disaster seem to embrace falsehoods!
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.ca/2012/03/fukushima-nuclear-disaster-japan-being.html
March 29, 2012
Nuclear power is no longer a viable source of new energy in US, says Excelon CEO who retired just days earlier
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/03/29/exelons-nuclear-guy-no-new-nukes/
March 30, 2012
Nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima may be more damaged, dangerous than thought
March 30,2012
As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/30-7
March 30, 2012
Kyoto governor demands reactor safety guarantee
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120330a5.html
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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.