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April 24, 2012
Why Fukushima is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl
by ROBERT ALVAREZ
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/24/why-fukushima-is-a-greater-disaster-than-chernobyl/
April 24, 2012
Fukushima To Ask IAEA To Open Local Office
Prefecture officials say the assistance of IAEA experts is essential for dismantling the tsunami-wrecked reactors and and minimizing radiation effects.
http://www.rttnews.com/1866245/fukushima-to-ask-iaea-to-open-local-office.aspx?type=gn&Node=B1
April 24, 2012
Wall nearly 100 feet tall to be built underground at Fukushima Daiichi to prevent further spread of radioactive contamination — Construction beginsapril 24, 2012, ends June 2014
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2012/1202600_1870.html
April 24, 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 24, 2012
View inside reactor #4 building – video at 2:40 min
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/video-of-inside-reactor-4-bldg-at.html
April 24, 2012
Anyone looking for the most under-reported story of the spring in California need seek no further than the tall stalks of kelp swaying back and forth just beneath the ocean surface along much of the California coast.
Fish eat kelp; so do small crustaceans near the bottom of the food chain that themselves are later consumed by larger fish that sometimes become food for humans. The largely-neglected news story is that it’s been somewhat radioactive off-and-on for months and it concentrates Iodine 131 isotopes at levels 10,000 times higher than what’s in the surrounding water.
http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_20471926/thomas-d-elias-coastal-nuclear-plants-generate-big
April 25, 2012
Japan nuclear plant may be permanently shut down because of quake risk — Fault line found 500 feet from reactor on Tuesday
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120425p2g00m0dm019000c.html
April 25, 2012
Japan nuclear plant may be permanently shut down because of quake risk — Fault line found 500 feet from reactor on Tuesday. The Tsuruga nuclear plant of Japan Atomic Power Co. in Fukui Prefecture could be “disqualified” as a fault running under it and soft earth layers may have moved together in the distant past, nuclear power regulatory agency officials said.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120425p2g00m0dm019000c.html
April 25, 2012
Groups challenge insufficiency of NRC Post Fukushima Orders to install reliable hardened vents on all U.S. GE Mark I and II reactors and modify spent fuel storage pools
April 25, 2012
Fukushima fallout lingered just above ground to be inhaled — Chernobyl particles never came down, or were rained onto surface without floating at low elevation.
http://www.irf.se/~yamau/conference/press-Yamauchi-handout.pdf
April 26, 2012
Pluto’s Fire – Global Nuclear Contamination and Japan’s Nuke Policy
Epidemiology scientist Alice Stewart* at ~37:00 in
“It was once thought that provided the radiation was delivered slowly enough to everybody there would then be no effect at all. What was dangerous was the sudden explosion.My work suggests the opposite. The slower you spread the dose, the more effective every bit of radiation is going to be for producing cancer or inherited defects. In my opinion, Japan is going the very best way in the world for destroying the human race.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KsNsJ-Heu4&feature=g-all-f&context=G2f75184FAAAAAAAAJAA
April 26, 2012
Lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima: Nuclear Safety is an Oxymoron
http://www.dianuke.org/lessons-of-chernobyl-and-fukushima-nuclear-safety-is-an-oxymoron/
April 26, 2012
7-fold increase in radioactive cesium being released from Reactor No. 2 during April
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/cesium-emission-from-reactor-2-increased-700/
April 27, 2012
Root cause of Fukushima accident:
For the prefectural government, there was no such word as “severe accident”. If they didn’t mention the word, it wouldn’t happen.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/reporting-by-fukushima-local-newspaper.html
April 27, 2012
Revelations on nuclear plants sound a warning
April 27, 2012
Japanese nuclear scientist and Japanese and U.S. medical doctors to discuss current radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe.
http://www.psr.org/news-events/events/press-conference-on-fukushima.html
April 27, 2012
SoCal Edison, UC San Diego study earthquake risks near San Onofre nuclear plant
http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/27/32211/ucsd-and-socal-edison-study-seismic-data-near-san-/
April 28, 2012
66Bq/kg of radioactive cesium found in Maccha Green Tea
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/66-bqkg-of-radioactive-cesium-from.html
April 27, 2012
Prof. Takeda Kunihiko from Chubu university roughly estimated anyone can no longer live in Japan after 3/31/2015
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/prof-takeda-3312015-is-the-last-day-of-japan/
April 27, 2012
Arnie Gunderson discusses the San Onofre Situation
http://fairewinds.org/content/gundersen-kpbs-discusses-developing-san-onofre-situation
April 27, 2012
After a blackout-and-coverup episode recently, another development is emerging that could deepen distrust in South Korea’s nuclear industry: a corruption scandal.
clear indication that the Korean nuclear industry is out of control.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2012/04/27/another-nuke-scandal-theft-and-bribery/
Companies rush to set up solar companies in Japan
April 28, 2012
Last year’s green tea from Tokyo found to have 210 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/04/last-years-green-tea-from-tokyo-found.html
April 28, 2012
Nuclear experts: Fukushima crisis may become ‘global catastrophe – Good review of current situation
http://peakoil.com/enviroment/nuclear-experts-fukushima-crisis-may-become-global-catastrophe/
April 28, 2012
Swedish opposition to nuclear energy on the up
http://www.thelocal.se/40532/20120428/
April 28, 2012
Mr. Murata Tomoaki, a town councilor of Manazuru town in Kanagawa received resignation advisory resolution from town council.
He is blamed for commenting they should not spread radioactive incineration ash from Kanto to western Japan on twitter.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/local-official-purged-for-being-against-spreading-radiation/
April 28, 2012
Why you should stay out of the rain!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nJb2j5jVy4&list=UUQ7a7Q4EN-OY1mdyanRs-3w&index=1&feature=plcp
April 28, 2012
Why Nuclear Scientists Have Missed the Danger of Spent Fuel Pools
Dr. Gordon Edwards, one of Canada’s best known independent experts on nuclear technology, uranium, and weapons proliferation.
[Article will help you better appreciate the serious issues of the spent fuel pools.]
April 29, 2012
Why is safety a divisive issue for Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120429,0,1556565.column
April 29, 2012
Public deserves to be informed of looming Fukushima disaster and Ron Paul’s delegate success
April 30, 2012
Japan’s finding it’s not so easy to go nuclear-free
April 30, 2012
The infighting that threatens to undermine US nuclear safety
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/30/nuclear-industry-nrc-infighting-fukushima
April 30, 2012
Brazil, the Next Fukushima?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/323938
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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.