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November 12, 2012
UN expert to probe health rights dimension in the post-disaster Japan. United Nations Special Rapporteur Anand Grover will visit Japan from 15 to 26 November 2012 to assess issues related to the realization of the right to health in the country within the context of Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011.
“I will examine the interlinks between the right to health of the affected people and the actions taken in emergency response, recovery and mitigation following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents,” Mr. Grover said, announcing the first mission to Japan by an independent expert charged by the UN Human Rights Council to monitor the implementation of the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=12774&LangID=E
November 13, 2012
276,000 Bq/Kg from soil of Kashiwa Chiba.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/276000-bqkg-from-soil-of-kashiwa-chiba/
November 13, 2012
Asahi: Gov’t worried about highly radioactive fish — Why are radiation readings still 100s of times over official safe limits?
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211130032
November 13, 2012
Japan Experts: Contamination from Fukushima “is almost irreversible” in coastal sediments 70 km south of Fukushima plant.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23149839
November 13, 2012
Worries over highly radioactive fish prompt study. Two greenlings caught 20 kilometers north of the Fukushima plant were found to have cesium levels of 25,800 becquerels per kilogram, the highest level ever measured in fish since the nuclear accident.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211130032
November 13, 2012
Why the nuke boys don’t want to upgrade their reactors: Cheap renewables and post-Fukushima safety costs may close Oyster Creek reactor early.
November 13, 2012
San Onofre public meeting postponed.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/11/san-onofre-meeting-postponed.html
November 13, 2012
NHK Documentary: Recently deteriorating working conditions at Fukushima plant causing workers to quit — Company hasn’t been able to recruit a single employee (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/user/MissingSky101
November 13, 2012
Fault under Japan nuclear plant ‘may be active’. Japan’s only working nuclear power plant sits on what may be a seismic fault in the earth’s crust, a geologist has warned, saying it is “very silly” to allow it to continue operating.
http://fukushimaupdate.com/fault-under-japan-nuclear-plant-may-be-active/
November 14, 2012
The Search for Action among Japan’s Ruling Classes.
http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/11/906.html
November 14, 2012
Uranium Exposure Linked to High Lupus Rates in Community Living Near a Former Refinery. High rates of systemic lupus erythematosus have been linked to living in proximity to a former uranium ore processing facility in Ohio, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
November 14, 2012
Fukushima prefectural birth rate rapidly dropping in 2012.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/fukushima-prefectural-birth-rate-rapidly-dropping-in-2012/
November 14, 2012
Polymaster isotope identifier finds Americium 241 in Tokyo (142 miles from Fukushima Daiichi).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/video-am-241-measured-in-edogawaku-tokyo/
November 14, 2012
Researchers: Continuing radioactive leaks from Fukushima Daiichi — “There must be a source” — 300,000,000,000 becquerels (300 BILLION becquerels) a month thought entering Pacific.
http://www.nature.com/news/ocean-still-suffering-from-fukushima-fallout-1.11823
November 14, 2012
Radioactive tea leaves found over 1,000 km from Fukushima — 80 Bq/kg detected in Western Japan; Gov’t limit is 10 Bq/kg for tea leaves and drinking water.
November 14, 2012
The Nuclear Age Turns 70. This Conference notes that to this day, not a single ounce of radioactive waste has been permanently disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. And it attempts to bear witness to those fellow humans to whom the Nuclear Age has been less than kind. Whether the hibakusha of Hiroshima or now Fukushima; the Navajo or Australian Aborigines; the children of Belarus; the returning Gulf War veterans; the Marshall Islanders; or the old women of Opachychi, who have returned to their family homes in the highly contaminated regions surrounding Chernobyl to live out the remainder of their radiation-disrupted lives, it’s important to understand that the Nuclear Age has come at an exceedingly high price, often paid by those who don’t receive the alleged benefits.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Nuclear-Age-Turns-70–by-Dave-Kraft-121114-723.html
November 15, 2012
What is the risk to the public at San Onofre?
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-194986
November 15, 2012
Urge NRC Chairwoman Macfarlane to withdraw legally deficient Nuke Waste Con Game environmental assessment. On Nov. 14th, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held public comment hearing sessions regarding its court-ordered environmental assessment (EA) on its Nuclear Waste Confidence Decision and Rule. Critics have dubbed this NRC’s “Nuke Waste Con Game,” for it has been used by the agency to block challenges to reactor licensing for decades.
November 15, 2012
Potential Japanese new prime minister Abe declared to restart nuclear plants in Japan.
November 15, 2012
Anti-nuclear protest blogger’s home raided by police, computer equipment seized.
November 15, 2012
Massive tornados sweep through Japan — Filmed hovering along coastline — Warnings issued (VIDEOS). Tornadoes are relatively rare in Japan and the agency has issued further warnings of strong winds, lightning and tornados
November 15, 2012
Cesium over 500,000 Bq/kg detected in canal soil nearby Fukushima gov’t offices.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/after-the-road-relay-515000-bqkg-of-cesium-in-fukushima-city/
November 15, 2012
How Germany Is Getting to 100 Percent Renewable Energy.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_germany_is_getting_to_100_percent_renewable_energy_20121115/
November 15, 2012
Plans are under way to erect a partially sealed cover over a third reactor building at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, to contain radioactive debris during decommissioning work.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211150055
November 15, 2012
US importing food from Japan that’s considered unfit to eat there? (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/user/msmilkytheclown.
November 15, 2012
Watch the fascinating story of Britain’s Biggest Nuclear Disaster.
We all need to learn the history of the nuclear industry so we can understand our present day issues with perspective.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-194992
November 16, 2012
Mitsubishi to develop, market camera capable of ‘seeing’ radiation.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211160035
November 16, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Weekly Review – Unit 3 to Be Covered
plus World’s Largest Nuclear Plant to Remain Offline.
November 16, 2012
NUKE MATTERS: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima…Plymouth? (or read Columbia Generating Station…or any of the Mark 1 and 11 reactors).
November 16, 2012
[Debris incineration] Radiation level is jumping up near Kitakyushu city.
November 16, 2012
“Disturbing risks” have emerged at NJ’s Oyster Creek nuke plant after Sandy — Reactor may be decommissioned early.
November 16, 2012
Radioactive trout 11,400 Bq/kg (over 100 times gov’t limit) caught in Fukushima river.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/11/194389.html
November 16, 2012
Radiation level of the seawater at reactor2 reached the highest level since August 2012.
November 16, 2012
Another complaint filed over Fukushima disaster against Tepco, ex-nuclear body. In the complaint filed with prosecutors, the 13,000 demanded that the accused be investigated and charged with professional negligence resulting in death and injury.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121116b4.html.
November 17, 2012
The first confirmed case of thyroid cancer in a child in Fukushima Prefecture in September. Now a second case suspected.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/11/radioactive-japan-another-child.html
November 17, 2012
Strontium-90 measured from west of Tokyo.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/strontium-90-measured-from-west-of-tokyo/
November 18, 2012
Time bomb in Tokyo metropolitan area — Experts warn of accumulating Fukushima contamination.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20121118x3.html
November 18, 2012
Unit 3 Fuel Pool Repairs Support ‘Detonation’ and More Contamination Found in Fish and Tokyo Suburb.
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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.