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November 6, 2011
Radiation in milk in California is increasing:
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5877
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Documents/CDPH-RHB-RadReport-2011-10-10.pdf
Cesium 137 2.95 picocuries/litre June 14, 2011; 5.09 picocuries/litre Aug 22, 2011
Cesium 134 2.37 picocuries/litre June14, 2011; 3.94 pCi/l Aug 22, 2011
This is what HC says about milk:
Milk Samples
Analysis of radionuclides in milk samples provides valuable information of the general population’s intake of radionuclides as it is consumed fresh by a large portion of the population. Milk contains biologically important radionuclides from environmental releases as a result of the following significant route of intake: the grass – cow- milk pathway.
Analysis of milk samples for Sr-90 in Canadian cities was initiated at RPB in 1957, with the analysis of powdered milk samples at 20 locations. The program was expanded to collect whole milk samples with monthly analysis of Cs-137 and quarterly analysis for Sr-90 at 16 locations.
Since the cessation of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing by treaty signatories in 1962, the values for Sr-90 and Cs-137 in milk have been steadily decreasing. (Note: A spike in Cs-137 levels in milk was detected after the Chernobyl incident in 1986, and has since decayed away). As a result of decreasing radiation levels, the milk sampling program was modified in 1994, to analyze commercial milk samples from Ottawa only. The analysis consists of quarterly measurements for Sr-90, and gamma scan, for the detection of Cs-137 and other gamma emitting radionuclides.
November 11, 2011
75% of all US nuclear power plants are leaking radioactivity
November 11, 2011
It is as mothers that women speak out against corporate interests and government policy. They speak as they protect their children, their families; in this capacity, they are forced but also entitled to protest nuclear threats. They have been charged with something more fundamental than capital accumulation, more important than the postwar protection of corporate heath. Feeding children healthy food is more important than feeding the energy demands of a hungry urban popular.
http://japanfocus.org/events/view/117
November 11, 2011
Marco Kaltofen – makes an excellent case for food testing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJe7rCHXgYs
November 11, 2011
Low levels of Iodine 131 in Europe (from the hole in reactor #2?)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/11/us-nuclear-iodine-iaea-idUSTRE7AA4U020111111
November 12, 2011
Japan takes journalists inside crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
November 12, 2011
Reporters given first tour of reactors
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/12/world/asia/japan-nuclear-reactor/index.html?hpt=wo_c2
From afar, a new structure surrounded the No. 1 reactor building, which had lost its roof due to a massive hydrogen explosion related to overheating the day after the quake.
No. 2 appeared to be intact, painted blue and white, despite a reported hydrogen detonation on March 15.
The No. 3 building, meanwhile, had been diminished to a skeletal concrete frame and large pile of rubble, which crews were cleaning up with cranes ahead of it being covered by its own structure.
And the No. 4 building — whose reactor was inactive at the time of the tsunami — also had significant damage, with one side entirely blown out, exposing the nuclear spent fuel pool.
http://followingtruth.blogspot.com/2011/11/follow-up-on-fukshima-dai-ichi-nuclear.html
November 12, 2011
Plutonium/cesium in US-BIGTIME 11.1.2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=3ZzS1xrhHSI
November 12, 2011
HIGH RADS WA CA AZ TX CO ID IA MN NB IN PA TN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q1TsbDkdlE&feature=player_embedded
November 14, 2011
Population Germany 81 million
If Germany can do it why can’t we?
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2011/2011-11-14-02.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert re: sieverts
November 14, 2011
European Iodine 131 Detections Indicative of Atmospheric Plutonium 239 Concentrations
The European Iodine 131 detections are a possible indicator of how much Plutonium 239 is in the upper atmosphere; for that reason alone it is EXTREMELY unlikely that the true source and cause of those Iodine 131 detections will ever be revealed.
The POTRBLOG team has warned since early April 2011 that Solar Coronal Mass Ejections impacting both Radioactive AND Non-Radioactive high atomic weight Fukushima fallout in the upper atmosphere could generate a witches’ brew of “Fresh” radioactive iodine fallout across the sunlit side of the Northern Hemisphere.
November 15, 2011
This is what Greenpeace says:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/
November 15, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=152470368157331
Countries with no nuclear power plants = 8 good countries to buy organic food from: Australia, New Zealand, Colombia, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Nepal, Belize, Peru
http://www.expatify.com/advice/8-good-expat-countries-with-no-nuclear-power-plants.html
November 17, 2011
Japanese authorities have so far estimated about 8,300 hectares (20,000 acres) of paddies and fields are contaminated beyond acceptable limits for farming, the IAEA report found.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/17/world/asia/japan-fukushima-rice/
November 17, 2011
Russian general warns of nuclear war if NATO expands to include Georgia and Ukraine
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/world/europe/russia-border-conflicts-risk-nuclear-war-officer-says.html
November 18, 2011
Largest release in history of nobel gases released from Fukushima (not connected with nuclear weapons) Nobel Gases decay to Strontium 90, Iodine31, crypton 90 etc.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ACPD…1128319S WRONG LINK – CHECK THEIR WEBSITE
November 18, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/post-correspondent-visits-nuclear-disaster-zone/2011/11/18/gIQAF5fLhN_blog.html
And most people in Japan, as a fallback, have resorted to the government’s guidelines.
Which are:
* No nuclear plant worker should receive more than 250,000 uSv per year.
* No adult should receive more than 20,000 uSv per year. [CHECK US LIMIT FOR CIVIES]
Do the math in reverse, dividing 20,000 uSv by 365 days and 24 hours, and you come up with the hourly radiation level that puts you on target for the ordinary-adult limit: 2.28 uSv per hour. The number is arbitrary, of course — who spends his or her life in one spot? — but it also has practical applications, particularly in Fukushima. If your front yard gives off radiation levels of 2.28 uSv/hr, you might want to think about moving.
[AT THIS RATE, THE BG OF LA AT 0.014 uSv/hr means the limit is ~163 times our BG]
November 18, 2011
French Socialists and Greens unite for near 50% nuclear shutdown by 2050
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/11/18/french-socialists-and-greens-unite-for-near-50-nuclear-shutd.html
November 18, 2011
Annie Leonard in her Story of Broke talks about the 5 reasons to be against nuclear power –
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/article_redirect.cfm?ID=13447
cost
security
safety
waste
proliferation
November 20, 2011
Fire latest emergency at problem-plagued Davis-Besse atomic reactor
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/11/20/fire-latest-emergency-at-problem-plagued-davis-besse-atomic.html
November 20, 2011
Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition
http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/11/28319/2011/acpd-11-28319-2011.html
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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.