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November 18, 2012
Trout caught in Fukushima Prefecture contains radioactive cesium110 times over limit.
November 18, 2012
“Under a Cloud” presents evidence that the Savannah River Site in South Carolina had an unreported radioactive fallout event. That fallout threatens human and environmental health. This is a “wake-up call” for the communities neighboring the Savannah River Site: we must take action to secure site accountability and to protect our health and our environment.”
http://arklite.blogspot.ca/2012/11/savanah-river-site-and-small-modular.html
November 18, 2012
Uranium processing plant a major concern for west-end Toronto neighbourhood.
November 18, 2012
Scientists: “The very lowest levels of radiation are harmful to life” — We have to rethink exposure levels from nuclear plants.
Even the very lowest levels of radiation are harmful to life, scientists have concluded in the Cambridge Philosophical Society’s journal Biological Reviews. Reporting the results of a wide-ranging analysis of 46 peer-reviewed studies published over the past 40 years, researchers from the University of South Carolina and the University of Paris-Sud found that variation in low-level, natural background radiation had small, but highly statistically significant, negative effects on DNA as well as several measures of health.
http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5214#.UKsqWI6tsoL
November 19, 2012
Scientist fears radiation still leaking at Fukushima nuclear plant.
November 19, 2012
Disaster Debris Test Burn to be Halted November 24 in Osaka City.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/11/radioactive-japan-small-victory-in.html
November 19, 2012
Tsunami debris is late, but it’s still on its way. See map:
November 19, 2012
Michael Collins and Jeff Rense: Highest readings in rain yet recorded by Radiation Station Simi Valley, highest Cesium 137 in L.A. Milk plus Portland tested by U.S.EPA Radnet, massive amounts of rad ruined water gushing into the Pacific and $640 billion that could be saved by ditching nuclear weapons relics.http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_111912.mp3
November 19, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 13th to November 15th, 2012.
November 19, 2012
Most tsunamis occur in oceans and are generated by earthquakes, like the one off Japan last year. But lake tsunamis are not unknown, said Richard A. Schweickert, an emeritus professor of geology at the University of Nevada in Reno. He cited evidence that the collapse of part of the shoreline of Lake Tahoe within the past 20,000 years caused a tsunami with wave heights of perhaps 100 feet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/science/earth/a-tsunami-in-switzerland-lake-evidence-says-yes.html
November 19,2012
Costs and Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster.
By Steven Starr, Physicians for Social Responsibility
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12832-costs-and-consequences-of-the-fukushima-daiichi-disaster
November 20, 2012
Caldicott in Japan: “Incredibly rare” thyroid abnormalities found in 40% of Fukushima children (almost 100,000 children) — Indicates a really high dose of radiation, higher than at Chernobyl (VIDEO).
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/27136614
November 20, 2012
Quake, nuke, economy fears chase Japanese overseas.
NEW figures reveal the number of Japanese leaving their homeland for a life abroad has more than tripled in the wake of last year’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.
November 20, 2012
DOE award supports development of small modular reactors; Oak Ridge’s Clinch River site eyed.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/11/doe-award-supports-development.html
November 20, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for November 16th to November 19th, 2012.
November 20, 2012
TEPCO, Japanese government denying Fukushima radiation reaching ocean fish. What must the most dumbfounding state of denial seen in modern times, both the Japanese government and utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) are disputing the recent study that showed radiation from the Fukushima nuclear plant is leaking into the ocean. 18 months after the March 2011 nuclear disaster, the U.S.’s Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a respected research group, reported that 40% of the fish caught off the coast of Fukushima were still testing positive for radioactive contamination above the government’s safety own limits.
November 20, 2012
The Fukushima prefectural government […] survey found that 40 percent of 96,000 or so children for whom test results are available developed thyroid gland problems, such as nodules, or lumps, and cysts. […]
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211200069
November 20, 2012
“One thing sure is doing something is better than doing nothing.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/column-soon-it-will-be-one-year-since-i-left-japan/
November 20, 2012
Gov’t complained when school tried to remove radioactive material — “Why you did that? You don’t need to” — But mothers are standing up (VIDEO).
November 20, 2012
Watch the video at the end, see the contamiinated areas “everyone is living normally – no one seems to care”.
November 20, 2012
Interesting and eye-opening insights into what has happened in Japan since Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/column-wisdom-to-realize-our-own-ignorance/
November 20, 2012
Kashiwa city served Fukushima rice for school lunch to fight harmful rumor.
November 20, 2012
The Children of Fukushima (PHOTOS). Ground level radiation: the counter read 47μSv/h (microsieverts per hour).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/newsmotion/the-children-of-fukushima_b_2166067.html
November 21, 2012
33,000 Bq/Kg from wild boar in Iwaki city, “The highest measurement ever”.
November 21, 2012
Financial pressures are affecting safety decisions at the nations nuclear power plants.
November 21, 2012
Pu-239/240 was measured in sea water from 15km offshore Fukushima plant.
November 21, 2012
MEXT reported the contamination of Tokyo Bay “114 Bq/Kg from ground soil”.
November 21, 2012
Are radioactive insects spreading Fukushima contamination from lake bottoms across the land? Scientist: They grow underwater then fly out & die everywhere.
November 21, 2012
Possible safety breaches at radioactive waste plant, files show.
November 21, 2012
Wild mushrooms far from Fukushima show high levels of cesium.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211210054
November 21, 2012
Japanese evacuating country because of radiation — “Passport issuance growing sharply”
November 21, 2012
Urge NRC to consider risks of pools & dry casks, improvements of HOSS.
November 22, 2012
USGS: Coral disease outbreak an ‘epidemic’.
“Given the scale of the event, the large numbers of corals affected, and the consistent preponderance of a few agents (cyanobacteria and fungi) associated with gross lesions that look similar in both Makua (Tunnels Beach) and ‘Anini, this outbreak would have to qualify as an epidemic”.
“I have never seen a cyanobacterial disease like this killing corals to this degree in Hawaii”.
November 23, 2912
Expert says Japan should be prepared for possibility of M10 quake — “Days of tsunamis” — Only 1 magnitude below asteroid strike (VIDEO).
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201211230030
November 23, 2012
[Column] What current anti-nuke activity lacks – they are not covering a thing in the best way, which is the internet sector.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/column-what-current-anti-nuke-activity-lacks/
November 23, 2012
North Korea is ready to launch extended range ballistic missile by the end of November.
November 23, 2012
Port Hope (Canada) Initiative gets federal approval to move forward with cleanup.
November 23, 2012
Where the ocean plume is – Day 623 and counting.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2099954/Rad%202012-11-23%20Ocean%20623%20Days%200031.jpg
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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.