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November 27, 2012
[Column] X-day – when Fukushima plant discharges millions of tones of the contaminated water to Pacific ocean.
November 27, 2012
Radioactivity density of the seawater is increased at 57% of tested locations offshore Fukushima.
November 27, 2012
Workers raise 1st section of new Chernobyl shelter.
November 28, 2012
UN special report on Fukushima criticizes handling of radiation catastrophe, suggests positive steps forward.
November 28, 2012
Nuke Waste Con Game? Urge NRC to “STOP MAKING IT!”
November 28, 2012
TEPCO announced that the robot used to enter the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor Building measured radiation levels up to 4,780 mSv per hour, nearly three times the 1,300 mSv reading taking in the same location last year on November 14th, 2011.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8426
November 28, 2012
Last week the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its decision to award the first company to receive government funding in support of commercializing Small Modular Reactors (SMR), a new generation of nuclear power plants.
http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2012/11/state-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.html
November 28, 2012
Riverkeeper recently filed a 10 C.F.R. § 2.206 enforcement action petition urging that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) permanently shut down reactors at Indian Point due to safety concerns.
“Citing the risk that hydrogen produced in a severe nuclear accident could accumulate and explode with sufficient force to breach Indian Point’s Unit 2 and 3 containment buildings and expose the public to a large radiological release, the New York clean water advocacy group Riverkeeper recently filed a 10 C.F.R. § 2.206 enforcement action petition urging that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) permanently shut down these reactors.”
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/cpaine/minimizing_the_risk_of_hydroge.html
November 28, 2012
New Documentary: On Fukushima Beach.
“An hour long brilliantly constructed documentary that uses a montage of mainstream and Internet media clips to unpack the Fukushima disaster. In addition to providing a painless scientific overview of radiation health issues, it outlines the ongoing radiation risks faced by all residents of the northern hemisphere.
There are simple measures people everywhere (except the Japanese – they need to be evacuated asap) could be taking to protect themselves. Yet in their eagerness to promote and support the nuclear power industry, the Obama administration, the Japanese government and the international agencies charged with monitoring and addressing similar health issues (such as the UN, the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization), have remained stubbornly silent on what promises to be the most serious health crisis of the 21st century.”
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/11/on-fukushima-beach/
November 28, 2012
Foreign doctors on Fukushima trip “very surprised” at condition of patients: “Symptoms are always the same” — Pains at rear of ears, stomatitis, skin disease… more (VIDEO).
http://cinemaforumfukushima.org/
November 28, 2012
[Reactor3 got worse than last year] 5 Sv/h on the first floor of reactor3, “3.6 times worse than last year”.
November 28, 2012
Footage of new giant sarcophagus at Chernobyl — Still nowhere near dealing with corium over 25 years later — Storage area for fuel debris not yet built (VIDEO)
http://rt.com/news/chernobyl-new-safe-confinement-773/
November 29, 2012
Support the evacuation of Japanese children – sign the petition!
“It is a huge lie from the government and the medical people. Most dangerous now is that the first NPP is still melting, secondly a lot of hot spots near big concentrations of people and high background levels near Fukushima city.”
November 29. 2012
NRC staff will urge Commission to install radiation filter vents at flawed Fukushima-style reactors in US and industry will oppose.
November 29, 2012
Radiation levels going up in Reactor #3 to 4.78 millisieverts/hour (478,000cpm).
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/11/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-reactor-3.html
November 29 2012
Fukushima governor urges prefecture’s municipalities to accept state surveys on nuclear waste disposal site.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121129b6.html
November 29, 2012
Nuclear is not Cheaper.
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/Nuclear+cheaper/7550998/story.html
November 29, 2012
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission will have public hearings on the Darlington rebuild project of 4 reactors December 3-6, 2012 in Courtice, Ontario. The hearing will be webcast live on:
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/pdf/12-H16.A-RevisedAgendaDarlington.pdf
November 29, 2012
Councillor asks Toronto uranium plant to shut down.
“Families living in Toronto shouldn’t have to be exposed to the risk of a radioactive heavy metal in their air, water or soil. It’s time for the GE-Hitachi uranium processing plant to be relocated to some nuclear exclusion zone like those around the Bruce or Darlington nuclear reactors. The existing site in Toronto should be vacated and decontaminated.” Dr. Gordon Edwards
http://www.nowtoronto.com/mobile/story.cfm?c=189925
November 29, 2012
Osaka started test incineration of 100 tones disaster debris, 36,000 tones more to come next year.
November 29, 2012
Reactor 4 has new hole on 4th floor of the south side and 2 door-looking marks on the 1st floor.
November 29, 2012
“Wait until you see pictures of what we found on the beach in Hawaii” — “Leading edge of what many fear is an oncoming wave” (VIDEO)
http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/tsunami-debris-washes-up-in-hawaii/
November 29, 2012
Nuke Power’s Collapse Gets Ever More Dangerous.
http://www.nukefree.org/editorsblog/nuke-powers-collapse-gets-ever-more-dangerous
November 29, 2012
Tepco press releases:We deeply apologize to the people of Fukushima and broader society for the tremendous inconvenience and anxiety caused by the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2012/1223417_1870.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.