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July 13, 2012
A simple question follows: If the Japanese government can provide billions of dollars to bail out the shareholders and executives of TEPCO, why are Japan’s leaders so unwilling to help the innocent victims of the failed Fukushima nuclear plant?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/westonhill/post_3648_b_1670850.html
July 13, 2012
A group of researchers from Osaka University estimate that eliminating nuclear power in Japan by 2020 and increasing renewable energy use to 20% of the total could create 200,000 to 300,000 new jobs annually.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/07/13/fukushima-watch-no-reactors-fewer-jobs/
July 13, 2012
1.000.000 Bq detected in a school after a decontamination conducted!
http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.ca/2012/07/1000000-bq-detected-in-school-after.html
July 14, 2012
Activists appeal against AEC’s power plant restart
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/07/15/2003537796
July 14, 2012
Olympic Dam (Australia) uranium mine protest continues
http://www.skynews.com.au/businessnews/article.aspx?id=771872
July 14, 2012
And maybe there’s where cultural distinctions can be drawn. In Japan, the citizenry–especially women–are not demonstrating “reflexive obedience,” instead, they are demonstrating. In the United States, where 23 nuclear reactors are of the same design as Fukushima Daiichi, and 184 million people within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant, when the chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission suggested requiring some modest upgrades as a response to the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear industry got its henchmen on the NRC and in Congress to push him out. . . with little public outcry.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10333-made-in-japan-fukushima-crisis-is-nuclear-not-cultural
July 14, 2012
REVITALIZING JAPAN — Living on an island arc / Fukushima’s health data to be shared worldwide
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120713004777.html
July 14, 2012
Thyroid Examination by Fukushima Prefecture
This is important information on how faulty Fukushima thyroid screening is.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/07/thyroid-examination-by-fukushima.html
July 14, 2012
Anti-nuclear protesters put heat on Noda
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207140056
July 14, 2012
Tepco and Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency are going to take out 2 of the 204 new fuel assemblies soon in order to check the damage on cladding tube caused by sea water injected just after 311, but they are not going to announce the date. The reason is supposed to be the protection of nuclear material.
July 14, 2012
Family 100 km from Fukushima Daiichi: 4, 7, and 10 year old each with many cysts on thyroid. (ULTRASOUND)
http://www.facebook.com/americaiminvisa/posts/349426408469319
July 14, 2012
Comparing the population shifts between the pervious year and this year, a decrease in birth rate and an increase of death number are observed all over Japan. Especially, mortality increased overall.
c.f. Belarus after Chernobyl:
Fig.3 the process of malignant tumor morbidity in 100.000 residents in Belarus
http://dissensus-japan.blogspot.ca/
July 15, 2012
N. America’s West Coast to be most contaminated by Fukushima cesium of all regions in Pacific in 10 years — “An order-of-magnitude higher” than waters off Japan.
Model simulations on the long-term dispersal of 137Cs released into the Pacific Ocean off Fukushima.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034004/article
July 15, 2012
A group of activists is undertaking a month-long No More Fukushimas Peace Walk around Lake Ontario to call attention to the presence of what they say are “dangerous, aging and polluted nuclear reactors (16 active and 2 shut down) around that ecologically precious body of water.”
http://oswegocountytoday.com/?p=92506
July 15, 2012
Former NYTimes journalist goes inside no-entry zone, reports radiation levels over 10 times higher than Tepco’s data. (VIDEO)
[Uesugi Takashi] 106.87μSv/h in hazard area, where Tepco said “9.3μSv/h”
July 15, 2012
Now 35.8% of Fukushima children have thyroid cysts or nodules — 13,646 do and 24,468 don’t.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/07/thyroid-examination-by-fukushima.html
July 15, 2012
US scientists develop wonder capsule that ‘pulls’ radioactive substances out of beverages
July 15, 2012
The New China Syndrome: Radioactive Drywall
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/new-china-syndrome-radioactive-drywall.2012-07-15
July 15, 2012
How To Remove Radioactive Iodine-131 From Drinking Water
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/how-remove-radioactive-iodine-131-drinking-water.2012-07-15
July 15, 2012
Cesium-134 and -137 detected in sand from San Francisco Bay Area yard
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/UCBAirSampling
July 15, 2012
Masako Mori, Member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature): He said without reconstruction of Fukushima we cannot reconstruct Japan. But he lied. He let people die in Fukushima. I think he cannot reconstruct. I want him to resign immediately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKPJFI5MDXk&feature=plcp
July 16, 2012
Fukushima Watch: Tokyo Protesters Stage Largest Anti-Nuclear Rally So Far
July 16, 2012
In wake of Fukushima, Japanese village goes all-solar
July 16, 2012
Japan’s largest anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo draws over 170,000
http://japandailypress.com/japans-largest-anti-nuclear-rally-in-tokyo-draws-over-170000-166711
July 16, 2012
Geneticist charts effects of nuclear disasters
US Newspaper reports on link between birth defects and eating radioactive contamination — One piece of contaminated food may deliver radiation of hundreds of x-rays
http://blog.al.com/pr-community-news/2012/07/geneticist_charts_effects_of_n.html
July 16, 2012
Greenpeace update:
Triple-quake toll put at 400,000 / Tsunami caused by Nankai Trough temblors ‘would kill 360,000’
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120710003126.htm
Allison Macfarlane was sworn in as commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday July 9, 2012, replacing controversial NRC commissioner Gregory Jaczko, who abruptly resigned in May.
The Mayor of Futaba, Katsutaka Idogawa, has lashed out at Japan’s central government for its failure to share US radiological data about the spread of radiation in the days following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
July 17, 2012
Radiation from Fukushima disaster going nowhere fast — Levels can change a 100 times just crossing the street — No useful data being published by gov’t (AUDIO)
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/japan-effort-crowdsource-radiation-information
July 17, 2012
Children swim at Fukushima beach as ocean opened for first time since 3/11
July 17, 2012
Michael Collins and Jeff Rense – discuss radioactive bluefin tuna, worsening Pacific, reminder to wear facemasks on planes and more.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_070912_hr2.mp3
July 18, 2012
Film Crew Near Fukushima Plant: “That was bizarre, I felt it as well” — We drove into a high radiation area and something happened in the car. (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/user/DocumentingIan
July 17, 2012
West Coast to receive dangerous levels of Fukushima radiation:
scientists now fear that incredibly contaminated ocean waters could be reaching the West Coast of the US in a matter of only five years, and the toxicity of those waves could eventually be worse than what was seen in Japan.
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-coast-levels-fukushima-412/
July 18, 2012
Fukushima Study: People inhaled up to 85,000 becquerels of radioactivity… in just 4 hours — Includes only iodine-131.
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120712/srep00507/pdf/srep00507.pdf
July 18, 2012
Working Together for a Nuclear Free, Carbon Free Energy Future
http://blog.cleanenergy.org/2012/07/18/working-for-a-nuclear-free-carbon-free-future/
July 18, 2012
Controversial Stanford University Researchers: Fukushima radiation may cause 1300 cancer deaths worldwide.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/07/stanford-university-researchers.html
July 19, 2012
“Is process of emptying the Unit 4 pool starting?” — Will Tepco continue taking out more racks? — Law forbids disclosing when nuclear fuel is moved.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/07/170347.html
July 19, 2012
Removed fuel assemblies 100 times more radioactive than normal — Tepco worker thinks it’s from before 3/11.
July 19, 2012
Post-Fukushima, Japan’s irradiated fish worry B.C. experts.
http://www.straight.com/article-735051/vancouver/japans-irradiated-fish-worry-bc-experts
July 19, 2012
Massive Demonstrations Working in Japan? AFP: Size and regularity of events giving gov’t pause — Prime Minister: “Nuclear energy is becoming an issue that divides the nation”, says he will “listen attentively.”
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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.