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October 18, 2012
Beyond Nuclear debates “thorium power” proponent at Sierra Club meeting.
October 18, 2012
How Citizen Scientists can Monitor for Radiation.
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/how-citizen-scientists-can-sample-radiation
October 18, 2012
Japanese gov’t changes rules and makes rice “safe” at 102.8 bq/kg.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/10/radioactive-japan-government-changes.html
October 18, 2012
Japan rejected signing to ban nuclear weapon in UN.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/japan-rejected-signing-to-ban-nuclear-weapon-in-un/
October 18, 2012
Radiation levels rising every month since decontamination in Fukushima district – Gov’t won’t help or even respond – “Are they forcing us to tolerate high radiation?”
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20121018p2a00m0na011000c.html
October 18, 2012
Radiation level keeps going up in Tokyo and Kanagawa area.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/radiation-level-keeps-going-up-in-tokyo-and-kanagawa-area/
October 19, 2012
Cesium measured from all the 61 unpolished rice samples in Fukushima, “the max is 99Bq/Kg.
October 19, 2012
Cesium above new limit in Miyagi beef – 150 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram. (new limit is 100 bq/kg, reduced from previous 500 bq/kg).
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121019a2.html
October 19,2012
Greenpeace Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 16th to October 18th, 2012.
October 20, 2012
Tokyo Legal Expert: Once a nuclear accident occurs EVERYTHING is over! — Zero prospect of ever restoring fishing grounds — Warns Californians of quake risks, “All will be lost, this is the reality of nuclear energy”. (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdILRvIdck
October 20, 2012
Magnitude M8.2 Aftershock Still Awaits Japan, Just Ask Sumatra.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x99YxRM-zQ&feature=youtu.be
October 20, 2012
San Onofre Restarting Today!
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-174933
October 20, 2012
Policemen are told not to make a child for 2 yrs after going to disaster area.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/express-policemen-are-told-not-to-make-a-child-for-2-yrs-after-going-to-disaster-area/
October 20, 2012
Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima.
October 21, 2012
Fukushima threatens Global Human Survival.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/nature/2012/10/19/4621.html
October 21, 2012
2100 Bq/Kg from mushroom in Nagano.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/2100-bqkg-from-mushroom-in-nagano/
October 21, 2012
European Union to ease Japan food import rules / No change for Fukushima restrictions. (Editorial note: And so it spreads…)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121020001960.htm
October 21, 2012
Interview: Arnie Gundersen and Kevin Hurley discuss the deteriorating status of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4, the ramifications of a recent TEPCO announcement, and how it all relates to nuclear reactors in the United States.
http://fairewinds.org/content/podcast-october-21st-2012
October 21, 2012
Environmental experts note that Japan, with the right policy push, could build up its long-neglected renewable energy sector and eventually fill the void of atomic energy, which before the Fukushima disaster accounted for one-third of Japan’s electricity output. But that will take years, and in the meantime, Japan will see its greenhouse gas emissions spike as power companies struggle to meet demand.
October 21, 2012
Fracking permit given just 1 mile from US nuclear plant (Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station in Shippingport). “Whether that is cause for alarm, experts can’t say.”
October 22, 2012
Leaked Report Suggests Long-Known Flood Threat To Nuclear Plants, Safety Advocates Say.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/nuclear-plant-flood-threat-leak_n_1983005.html
October 22, 2012
Energy Northwest mulls using Richland land for solar power.
October 22, 2012
Japan Nuclear Expert: 30,000 deaths in first month and up to 7 million cancer deaths total if accident at Taiwan nuke plant.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2012/10/22/2003545779
October 22, 2012
US nuclear plant permanently shutting down for economic reasons – Possible “Domino Effect” discussed (VIDEO).
October 22, 2012
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Japanese government plan to set up a long-term research base in Fukushima to study ways to decontaminate radiation-tainted areas and dispose of radioactive waste, government sources said Saturday.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121022a2.html.
October 22, 2012
Don’t Ship more Radioactive Waste to Hanford.
http://union-bulletin.com/news/2012/oct/19/dont-ship-more-nuclear-waste/
October 22, 2012
Fukushima Update: Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/fukushima-update-unit-4-is-sinking.html
October 22, 2012
Fuksuhima’s Returning Residents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b91VJ1KgwA
October 23, 2012
Two survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic attacks — and the grandson of the man who ordered the bombings — moved a classroom of high school students to tears with an impassioned plea to bring an end to the nuclear age.
http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2012/43/all_atomicsurvivors_2012_10_26_bk.html
October 23, 2012
Something of significance happened in Fukushima on Oct 14 – 1000cpm in Eugene Oregon. More On The Way: Fallout Detected on Radiation Network and RadNet.
http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.ca/2012/10/more-on-way-fallout-detected-on.html
October 23, 2012
Aging and Expensive, Reactors Face Mothballs.
October 23, 2012
Concern Japan gov’t is manipulating radiation readings — Levels nearby much higher than some monitoring posts indicate (VIDEO).
October 23, 2012
Some school facilities in Fukushima city exceeding radiation limit by 1,000% — Many hot spots around playground equipment are especially disturbing –Greenpeace.
http://www.mysinchew.com/node/79019?tid=37
October 23, 2012
Greenpeace slams Japan anti-radiation action. Government radiation monitoring in areas near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is unreliable, Greenpeace charged on Tuesday, with heavily populated areas exposed to 13 times the legal limit. 3 microsieverts/hour radiation is 100 times as much as pre-nuclear-accident level in Fukushima.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/10/greenpeace-slams-japanese.html
October 23, 2012
The world’s nuclear industry continues to decline.
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/10/23/the-worlds-nuclear-industry-continues-to-decline/
October 24, 2012
Australia’s Uranium Bonanza: Making the World a More Dangerous Place.
October 24, 2012
Creating a New Generation of Nuclear Knowledge Managers –(Editor’s note: in three days?)
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2012/nkmanagers.html?
October 24, 2012
Kindergarten outside evacuation zone closed because of Fukushima radiation threat — “No one can deny the reality” (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6scs7iE02Vg#t=145s
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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.