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Aug 11, 2011
The Canadian government is disbanding it’s testing stations!!!!
“As part of routine operations, Health Canada’s Radiation Protection Bureau monitors radiation levels across Canada 24/7 through networks of stations which measure radioactivity in air, water and other environmental samples (see Health Canada’s pages on Environmental Radiation for a detailed description of these networks.”
Given that radioactivity levels across Canada continue to be within normal background levels and that there is no cause for concern, on Thursday, August 11, 2011 Health Canada removed nine supplementary fixed point detectors that were installed in British Columbia and the Yukon in response to the Fukushima nuclear incident. In addition, on September 15, 2011, Health Canada will end its weekly data postings, resuming its previous schedule of quarterly postings of the fixed point network data and terminating Website Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) data reporting. Please note that Health Canada will maintain its continuous monitoring of radiation levels and daily review of data. Should there be changes in the situation in Japan; the reporting frequency of radiation data will be reassessed.
As part of routine operations, Health Canada’s Radiation Protection Bureau monitors radiation levels across Canada 24/7 through networks of stations which measure radioactivity in air, water and other environmental samples (see Health Canada’s pages on Environmental Radiation for a detailed description of these networks.
August 13, 2011
Censorship and safety: Health Canada and the nuclear information blackout
Written by Zach Ruiter
August 13, 2011
Human Rights Violation after Fukushima disaster~ HRN published opinion paper to urge the Japanese government to take immediate measure to protect affected people
August 16, 2011
Highest Yet: Rain near Toronto, Canada measures 20,000 CPM per square meter — “Crazy hot” (VIDEO) which is 1,666,666 times the typical background in LA
August 16, 2011
“Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushima – FORBES
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/08/16/wheres-that-radioactive-sulfur-now-possibly-in-your-pants/
August 16, 2011
UC Researchers Produce First Quantitative Estimate of Fukushima Radiation Leak- Daily Tech
http://www.dailytech.com/UC+Researchers+Produce+First+Quantitative+Estimate+of+Fukushima+Radiation+Leak/article22458.htm
6.0 and 6.4 recent quakes have led to maybe why steam is coming out of ground. Fukushima built to withstand 9.0. Same with other reactors in Japan but since 9.0 is obvious risk, whole island at risk.
August 17, 2011
Reactors were doomed to fail. EXCELLENT
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-explosive-truth-behind-fukushimas-meltdown-2338819.html
August 18, 2011
Fukushima now radiating everyone: ‘Unspeakable’ reality
http://margotbworldnews.com/WordPress/wp-content/August/August18/Fukushima.html
August 18, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baya8-agPs4
NRC permissible dose for public is 100 millirem/year. Fukushima steam is 1,000,000 per hours (Therefore 1 year = 8,760 hours) so 8,760/100 x 1,000,000 = 87,600,000 times American public annual dose. (@ 5:20 of tape, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear says “The first thing to be controlled in nuclear accidents is the information and now 160 days into this accident, and still worsening, we still see that the information is being withheld. There is an incredible lag time, months before we really understand the situation. It’s a global nuclear industry that can control the airwaves, the media. We’re really dependent on indy media right now like on your program right now, what’s on the blogs, coming up on YouTube. This is where news on Fukushima breaks first.”
Aug 22, 2011
Australian report on Fukushima
Aug 26, 2011
The amount of caesium-137 released since the three reactors were crippled by the March 11 quake and tsunami has been estimated at 15,000 tera becquerels, the Tokyo Shimbun reported, quoting a government calculation.
That compares with the 89 tera becquerels released by “Little Boy”, the uranium bomb the United States dropped on the western Japanese city in the final days of World War II.
http://edmortimer.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/fukushima-caesium-leaks-equal-168-hiroshimas/
August 31, 2012
French map of cesium-137 deposition from Fukushima shows the US more contaminated than Western Japan
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2011/08/map-of-cesium-137-deposition-across.html
September 6, 2011
3rd quarter report showing WAY HIGHER CS-134 & 137 IN SO CAL MILK RISING
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Documents/CDPH-RHB-RadReport-2011-10-10.pdf
September 7, 2011
Taos NM rain 21 times BG on great You Tube
http://youtu.be/VOS7zgvHO5g
September 12, 2011
“If you Love this Planet” by Helen Caulidcott
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=4952 – listen to her show each week!
September 18, 2011
Experts say Fukushima ‘worse’ than Chernobyl
At least one billion becquerels of radiation continue to leak from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant each day even though it is now more than five months after the March earthquake and tsunami that damaged the facility.
Experts say that the total radiation leaked will eventually exceed the amounts released from the Chernobyl disaster that the Ukraine in April 1986. This amount would make Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster in history.
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2011/09/201191845015428149.html
September 26, 2011
Burning radioactive debris in really fun-looking Tokyo incinerators that look more at home at Disneyland than Fukushima.
http://www.newcolonist.com/osaka_waste.html
September 27, 2011
Cesium Levels Nearly Double in Northern California Milk
http://www.myweathertech.com/2011/09/29/cesium-levels-nearly-double-in-northern-california-milk/
The 9/29 milk sample contains a total of 0.181 Bq/L of radioactive cesium (4.9 picocuries per liter), or more than 160% of the EPA’s Maximum Contaminant Level.
Sept. 28, 2011
The New York Times: Fukushima’s Contamination Produces Some Surprises at Sea
Six months after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi, the news flow from the stricken nuclear power plant has slowed, but scientific studies of radioactive material in the ocean are just beginning to bear fruit.
The word from the land is bad enough. As my colleague Hiroko Tabuchi reported on Saturday, Japanese officials have detected elevated radiation levels in rice near the crippled reactors. Worrying radiation levels had already been detected in beef, milk, spinach and tea leaves, leading to recalls and bans on shipments.
Off the coast, the early results indicate that very large amounts of radioactive materials were released, and may still be leaking, and that rather than being spread through the whole ocean, currents are keeping a lot of the material concentrated […]
Full article at:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/fukushimas-contamination-produces-some-surprises-at-sea/
September 30, 2012
Tokyo plans to store, burn debris from disaster zone
Earlier this month, the Iwate Prefectural Government detected 133 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram in ash from waste incinerated in Miyako. That’s well below the government’s provisional standard of 8,000 becquerels per kilogram for ashes from incinerators.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20110930a2.html
October 2, 2011
Plutonium was found 40 kilometers away from plant!
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e3af460-ece6-11e0-be97-00144feab49a.html#axzz1aG7UU555
Sept 30, 2011
“But questions remain about whether radiation levels are low enough for all residents to return. On Friday morning, for example, the entrance to Minamisoma city’s main hospital measured 0.51 microsieverts per hour in radiation, according to numbers released daily by the city. A simple calculation would bring annual exposure at the level to almost 4,500 microsieverts, or 4.5 millisieverts a year, far above the annual 1 millisievert limit for civilians recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.
At an elementary school in Naraha town, also declared safe for residents to return, the measurement came to 0.77 microsieverts per hour, or 6.75 millisieverts a year at that level.”
October 4, 2011
US government wasting $$$ on nukes
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/10127/expanding-nuclear-weapons-budget-a-bad-investment
October 07, 2011
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_5574.html
Issued Oct. 7, 2011: “October 07, 2011 -This Travel Alert updates the Travel Alert for Japan dated July 19, 2011, to note modifications to U.S. government recommendations for U.S. citizens traveling to or residing in the area around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. This Travel Alert expires on January 13, 2012.”
[snip]
“Areas We Recommend U.S. Citizens Avoid
Based on current data from Japan, we recommend that U.S. citizens avoid all areas within 20 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant.”
That’s a reduction of 75% – thanks to Potrblog for this incredible find.
Oct 8, 2011
The total cesium per square meter in Shinjuku therefore is: 51,350 becquerels per square meter.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2011/10/tokyo-metropolitan-government-measures.html
October 8, 2011
Egypt authorities find another case of radiation in Japanese shipment
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/485146
October 9, 2011
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201110080286.html
“Officials in the Aizu municipalities said no districts under their jurisdiction had annual radiation levels exceeding 1 millisievert, the level at which the central government is using to determine areas that should be decontaminated.” which is 83.3 times LA BG of 0.012 pCi/g
October 10 , 2011
Email from Health Canada:
“Health Canada continues to monitor radiation levels across Canada and post these results to their website, but discontinued supplemental testing stations last month. All test results to date have been below background levels (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/ed-ud/respond/nuclea/data-donnees-eng.php#ddrl_sept2011).”
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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.