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April 16, 2012
70 Corporations to accept the radioactive debris
By going the corporate route – industries that use debris as fuel and raw material (ashes for the cement, for example) and the industrial waste management industry, the national government can bypass the municipalities who may have to deal with those pesky residents against accepting and burning the disaster debris at their municipal incineration facilities. The municipal governments will be relieved that it won’t be their responsibility to ascertain safety.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/70-corporations-willing-to-accept.html
April 16, 2012
The aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear meltdown from 2011 is still fresh on our minds so Kevin Pereira talks to Michael Collins from EnviroReporter.com on his radioactive rain and what this means for our own safety. NBC’s G4-TV Attack of the Show! breaks new ground with this compelling live show.
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/58173/radioactive-rain-the-reality-of-japans-nuclear-fallout/
April 17, 2011
Fukushima Daiichi’s Achilles Heel: Unit 4′s Spent Fuel?
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a senior member of the Senate’s energy committee who toured the plant earlier this month. Another big earthquake or tsunami could send Fukushima Daiichi’s fragile reactor buildings tumbling down, resulting in “an even greater release of radiation than the initial accident,” Mr. Wyden warned in a Monday letter to Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Ichiro Fujisaki.
In particular, Japan isn’t moving fast enough to remove dangerous nuclear-fuel rods from the reactors, and the U.S. should offer its help to speed things along, Mr. Wyden urged, in letters to Ambassador Fujisaki, as well as U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/04/17/fukushima-daiichis-achilles-heel-unit-4s-spent-fuel/
April 17, 2012
Senator Wyden interviewed about what he saw in Fukushima – also on NBC!
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-daily-rundown/47073287/#47073287
April 17, 2012
Trade Minister Yukio Edano signalled it would take at least several weeks before the government, keen to avoid a power crunch, can give a final go-ahead to restarts, meaning Japan is set on May 6 to mark its first nuclear power-free day since 1970.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/17/japan-nuclear-idUSL3E8FH16V20120417
April 17, 2012
The number of operating reactors will be zero at least for a while,” Edano said at a news conference, referring to a speech he delivered Sunday in Tokushima Prefecture.
April 18, 2012
EnviroReporter’s Michael Collins discussing Fukushima radiation on well known national TV show — Host: “Very, very serious stuff, I hope you guys take it as seriously as you should” (VIDEO, 11 min.)
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/58173/radioactive-rain-the-reality-of-japans-nuclear-fallout/
April 18, 2012
Four months after the federal government pledged a whopping $1.28 billion to the project, Port Hope is moving ahead with phase two of the biggest radioactive cleanup in Canadian history.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1163923–port-hope-set-to-start-pushing-dirt?bn=1
April 18, 2012
Ace Hoffman, an anti-nuclear activist, talks to KPBS about the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-fnnv5Gd0
April 18, 2012
An increasing number of children he has seen “have nosebleeds that don’t stop, diarrhea, dark circles under their eyes, and incurable stomatitis [an inflammation of the mucous linings in the mouth]. A growing number of children [at the centre] have pains in their chests.
April 18, 2012
Gundersen: As much cesium in No. 4 fuel pool as in all 800 atomic bombs ever dropped — Fukushima would be at one place, at one time, and on ground level (AUDIO, 30 min.)
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-fukushima-daiichi-and-us-domestic-nuclear-crisis
April 18, 2012
At the stroke of midnight on April 19, Japan’s nuclear reactor count will officially drop from 54 to 50, as the ruined No. 1-4 reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will be formally retired. Official ‘decommissioning’ of Fukushima reactors brings locals no peace.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120418p2a00m0na014000c.html
April 18, 2012
The incredible danger to us all at reactor #4 in Fukushima; Kevin Kamps
It starts at minute 31:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KrE6HRRBl74#!
April 18, 2012
Federal government not testing West Coast salmon for Fukushima radiation
http://www.straight.com/article-663186/vancouver/feds-not-testing-salmon-radiation
April 19, 2012
NRC Commissioner ‘Lied To Congress’ — Could bring Senate to grinding halt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/harry-reid-nrc-commissioner_n_1436088.html?ref=tw
April 19, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 high-level radioactive waste storage pool at risk of catastrophic fire
April 19, 2012
Plans for the removal of nuclear fuel from Fukushima Daiichi 4 have been explained by Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco)
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Fukushima_fuel_removal_buildings_1904121.html
April 19, 2012
Something can go wrong anytime at any of the 58 reactors in France. Between 600 and 800 “significant events” in nuclear power plants are registered every year in France.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120419a1.html
April 20, 2012
Japanese report on the lessons they learned from Fukushima
Other reactors are all in considerably severe condition” — 14 total; Dai-ni, Onagawa, Tokai — “Extreme situations, though not much has been broadcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKN3bggza5I&feature=player_embedded
April 20, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi engineer says “we still don’t know what’s going on inside the reactors” — Cold shut down “wasn’t true then, and it’s still not true today”
April 21, 2012
Ashes from May were found with 16,670 becquerels/kg of radioactive cesium, and the ashes from June with 9,623 becquerels/kg, says Assemblyman Nishimaki. If you think they are not supposed to dump the ashes with more than 8,000 becquerels/kg in the final disposal site, you are right, but they do it anyway in Kiryu City. (Probably Kiryu is not alone.)
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/ashes-from-sewer-sludge-with-16670-bqkg.html
April 23, 2012
Naoto Kan: The man who says he saved the world
April 23, 2012
It is estimated that six municipalities near Fukushima will have dangerous levels of radiation – above 20 millisieverts of radiation (mSv) per year – for a decade.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/04/2012423133539728838.html
April 23, 2012
The Highest Risk: Problems of Radiation at Reactor Unit 4, Fukushima Daiichi
http://japanfocus.org/-Murata-Mitsuhei/3742
April 23, 2012
Fukushima poses lethal risk to US West Coast, says Senator — Another bomb waiting to go off — Extreme nuclear vulnerability, especially in Reactor No. 4
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/04/ron_wydens_nuclear_field_trip.html
April 23, 2012
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Is Far From Over
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-alvarez/the-fukushima-nuclear-dis_b_1444146.html
April 23, 2012
Mitsui Chemicals plant racked by explosions while shutting down; radiation risks dismissed
The plant had 3,400 drums of used catalytic agent containing radioactive materials on the premises, but the explosions did not appear to have any effect on radiation levels.
The radioactive agent is harmless to people, Mitsui Chemicals claimed.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120423a1.html
April 23, 2012
A decade from now, airborne radiation levels in some parts of Fukushima Prefecture are still expected to be dangerous at above 50 millisieverts a year, a government report says.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120423x2.html
April 23, 2012
Kurion and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sign Agreement to Demonstrate Kurion’s Modular Vitrification System.
http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120423005521/en/Kurion/Fukushima/TEPCO
April 23, 2012
Japan still divided on nuclear issue.
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/japan-still-divided-on-nuclear-issue-1.175315
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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.