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March 30, 2012
California Slammed With Fukushima Radiation
The Journal Environmental Science and Technology reports in a new study that the Fukushima radiation plume contacted North America at California “with greatest exposure in central and southern California”, and that Southern California’s seaweed tested over 500% higher for radioactive iodine-131 than anywhere else in the U.S. and Canada:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/california-slammed-with-fukushima-radiation.html
March 30, 2012
Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp
Kelp off Southern California was contaminated with short-lived radioisotopes a month after Japan’s Fukushima accident, a sign that the spilled radiation reached the state’s urban coastline, according to a new scientific study.
The largest concentration was about 250-fold higher than levels found in kelp before the accident.
March 30, 2012
Kyoto governor demands reactor safety guarantee
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120330a5.html
March 30, 2012
Expert: Nuclear Power Is On Its Deathbed
A new report from a University of Vermont researcher says the cost of the safety measures needed for nuclear energy will eventually make the power source economically unviable
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/03/30/expert-nuclear-power-is-on-its-deathbed
April 1, 2012
Fallout in Fukushima 10 times higher in Feb 2012 than in September 2011
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/radioactive-fallout-in-futaba-machi.html
April 2, 2012
NHK’s new cesium levels – 100 bq/kg food and 50 Bq/kg milk and water
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/nhk-on-japans-new-safety-limits-for.html
April 2, 2012
One of the biggest issues that we face is the possibility that the spent nuclear fuel pool of the No. 4 reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will collapse. not only independent experts, but also sources within the government say that it’s a grave concern.
The storage pool in the No. 4 reactor building has a total of 1,535 fuel rods, or 460 tons of nuclear fuel, in it. The 7-story building itself has suffered great damage, with the storage pool barely intact on the building’s third and fourth floors. The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy company Areva have warned about this risk.
Even today at the end of March 2012, TEPCO workers are still pumping about 9 tons of water every hour into Unit 2’s core to keep it cool. But the containment vessel radiation has been measured at 72.0 sieverts. That’s enough radiation to kill a person in minutes and to cause electrical equipment to malfunction. So now, special equipment might need to be developed that can tolerate the still-high radiation levels.The low water level plus high radiation in Unit 2 means that radioactive water might be leaking out at a higher rate than previously estimated, flowing through pipes and right into the Pacific ocean.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20120402p2a00m0na002000c.html
April 2, 2012
New Data Show Fukushima Radiation Moved Rapidly Out Into Pacific Ocean
“One particular radionuclide of concern is strontium-90, which has a half-life of nearly 30 years. “It accumulates more in bones,” continued Buesseler. “It replaces calcium in your bones or in fish bone. And in fish, in particular, there is a concern of this accumulation. And if you were to eat small fish, then you would accumulate strontium-90 that would then affect your dose through the accumulation in your bone.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/New-Data-Show-Fukushima-Radiation-Moved-Rapidly-Out-Into-Pacific-Ocean-145813175.html
April 2, 2012
Everyone knows nuclear plants are not really safe — Only a few noisy die-hards arguing radiation from nuke plants is harmless – Nuclear industry dreams dashed by current economic reality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-blog/2012/apr/02/nuclear-dreams-economic-reality-blog
April 2, 2012
L.A. Rain Radiation Over Five times Normal
An imperfect storm swept into Southern California on, perhaps appropriately enough, April Fools weekend creating the conditions that tested EnviroReporter.com’s scientific hypothesis that radioactive “buckyballs” and other fission radionuclides from the triple Fukushima Japan meltdowns are already impacting the region. Sure enough, a rain composed primarily of sea mist formed over a choppy ocean with high winds tested higher than any other Los Angeles Basin rain since Radiation Station Santa Monica began fallout radiation tests March 15, 2011, four days after the unabated meltdowns began. The rain, not impacted by so-called “natural” radon progeny, came in at a whopping 506% above normal, more than high enough to qualify as a hazardous material situation for the California Highway Patrol. This is the hottest L.A. rain detected with our Inspector Alert nuclear radiation monitor in the over 1,500 radiation tests we’ve taken since last year’s Ides of March.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/l-a-rain-radiation-over-five-times-normal/
April 3, 2012
Occupy Portland aims at Wash. nuclear plant
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/234433.html
April 3, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident
http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/04/682.html
April 3, 2012
Hanford rally will challenge cleanup work, call for more funding and transparency
http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/04/hanford_rally_will_challenge_c.html
April 3, 2012
PM wants Fukushima accident taken into account on safety standard
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/03/japan-power-nuclear-idUSL3E8F36EU20120403
April 3, 2012
Post Fukushima, China says 27 Nuke projects safe
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/post-fukushima-china-says-27-nuke-projects-safe_767989.html
April 3, 2012
Iodine-129 “a growing radiological risk” — 15.7 million year half-life — Almost undetectable — Traveled along with iodine-131 from Fukushima — Concentrates in hotspots
April 3, 2012
Japan’s Nightmare Fight Against Radiation in the Wake of the 3.11 Meltdown 私たちは放射能とどう闘えばよいのか
About radioactive waste and Reactor #4
http://japanfocus.org/events/view/136
April 3, 2012
Interview with Kevin Kamp – Beyond Nuclear:
Fukushima…radiation so high – even robots not safe. Radiation levels have reached their highest point yet within the plant’s No. 2 reactor in the crippled complex, and are currently at ten times the immediate lethal dose.
Former Prime Minister Kan reveals nuclear coverup — After Fukushima he’s “devoting himself to nuclear activism, he now wants to abolish nuclear power in Japan”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwO3MDfUeRo&feature=related
April 4, 2012
Anti-Nuke Group Slams San Onofre with CNN, MSNBC Ad
April 4, 2012
Public Meltdown: The Story of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, published by UVM’s Center for Research on Vermont.
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=13524&category=ucommfeatureb
April 4, 2012
Japan Turns To Geothermal Energy Amid Nuclear Uncertainty
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/324072/20120404/japan-geothermal-energy-fukushima.htm
April 5, 2012
Strontium leaking into ocean — Tons more highly contaminated water enters sea — “TEPCO has apologized for the incident and says it will determine the cause and extent of the leakage”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120405_09.html
April 5,2012
Tons of radioactive water spill from Fukushima nuclear plant – 12 tons of radioactive water has flowed into the Pacific Ocean.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-nuclear-water-leak-378/
April 5, 2012
Food items exceeding safety limits in Japan – do we import them?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/radioactive-japan-food-items-exceeding.html
April 6, 2012
Greenpeace update April 3-5th
April 6, 2012
Osaka Mayor: Japan will collapse if reactors are restarted hastily — Asahi: New safety standards for restarts written in just two days
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204060040
April 6, 2012
Japan Shiga threatens to rain on nuclear restarts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/06/us-japan-nuclear-governor-idUSBRE83507W20120406
April 6, 2012
Government sets new safety standards for nuclear power plants
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204060040
April 6, 2012
Debate growing over ‘local’ reactor consent – Governors of prefectures without units seek greater say in process
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120406x1.html
April 6, 2012
Election Watch: Hashimoto Blasts Noda Cabinet on Nuke Restarts
April 6, 2012
NRC chair: No timeline for restarting San Onofre nuclear plant as protesters demand its closure (photos)
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/06/31933/chairman-nuclear-commission-considers-closing-san-/
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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.