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January 3, 2012
Christmas in the Radiation Zone
http://www.indypendent.org/2012/01/03/christmas-radiation-zone
“Radiation from the three severely damaged reactors that suffered explosions and core meltdowns at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant complex has spread far and wide. But apart from evacuating those within the 20-kilometer radius, the government merely raised the allowable radiation does by 20 times, from the internationally recognized 1 millisievert per year to 20. This means that anything over 0.6 microsieverts per hour–an amount previously limited to people working in “radiologically controlled areas”–is no longer cause for evacuation.
“Even though the emergency evacuation centers are said to be “temporary,” it is likely that thousands of the 110,000 people who have been evacuated–in particular those from around Fukushima-Daiichi and downwind of the radioactive plume–will never be able to return to their former homes, due to radioisotopes contaminating the ground, food and water.”
January 4, 2012
http://radiationtest.blogspot.com/
Seaweed in Illinois from eastern Japanese sea is 0.72 mR/hr or 70 times LA BG
January 6, 2012
Mysterious Spike in Cesium Fallout in Fukushima on January 2, 2011
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/01/mysterious-spike-in-cesium-fallout-in.html
January 6, 2012
Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: measurement and modelling approaches.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22206700
January 8, 2012
Info from Gunderson re cedar pollen
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/13512171f2ba7229
January 9, 2012
“The captain came on the loudspeaker and announced that we were at 28,000 feet heading up to 38,000 feet. SE International’s “Radiation Basics” page says “When you fly in an air plane at 30,000 feet your rate meter is getting 200 CPM [Counts Per Minute] for anywhere between 2 to 5 hours.”
Our reading was 1,035 CPM which was over five times higher. Two hours later we took another ten-minute average approaching the Missouri River north of St. Charles, Missouri – 1,238 CPM or over 36 times the background in the jet at the terminal. Descending into Chicago the count was 586.2 CPM or 17.40 times previous background in the jet”
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https://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/01/seasons-readings/
January 10, 2012
Fukushima Radiation Spike after Jan 1 Earthquake
http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/fukushima-radiation-spike-after-jan-1-earthquake
January 11, 2012
Child leukaemia doubles near French nuclear plants-study
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/nuclear-leukaemia-france-idUSL6E8CB5QY20120111
January 12, 2012
Fukushima’s Impact on the Ocean Analyzed:
No danger from water (Oh sure – buckyballs anyone?), but marine sediments are the big question
accumulation in marine sediment could be of concern for decades,
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/fukushimas-impact-on-the-ocean-analyzed
January 13, 2012
The debate in Canada: What is a ‘safe’ level of radiation?
http://www.montrealgazette.com/touch/story.html?id=5994285
January 13, 2012
Dr. Busby – you shouldn’t go to Japan
January 14, 2012
Evidence of High Radiation in Australia
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2012/01/14/radiation-cloud-not-harmful-sunshine-coast/
January 14, 2012
Canadian fish eaters threatened by Fukushima radiation: anti-nuclear group
January 14, 2012
Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Radioactive+iodine+rainwater+Public+dark/5995357/story.html
January 14, 2012
Antinuclear conference begins urging elimination of nuclear power
January 14, 2012
San Francisco milk samples: For someone drinking milk at the relatively high rate of one gallon per week, the TEDE could be nearly 1 microsievert/hour
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/milk-sample-update-1142012.2012-01-14
January 14, 2012
Low levels of both Cs-134 and Cs-137 still being detected in California milk samples
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/milk-sample-update-1142012.2012-01-14
January 14, 2012
In Australia: “The reading was taken at 6.30pm and measured 0.80 microsieverts, which is eight times over the average level of radiation in the atmosphere.”
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/14/radiation-cloud-not-harmful-sunshine-coast/
January 15, 2012
Study Authors: Now 20,000 excess U.S. deaths after Fukushima, not 14,000? Follow up article looking at age groups, cities (AUDIO)
Download the program here: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/deluge/NuclearHotseat-31_1-12-12.mp3
Transcript Summary at 31:30 in
Mangano:
Follow up journal article looking at additional deaths
14,000 may be closer to 20,000 excess deaths
Looking at age groups, different cities
January 16, 2011
FRONTLINE examines the implications of the Fukushima accident for U.S. nuclear safety, and asks how this disaster will affect the future of nuclear in a clearly pro-nuclear industry sop that is a mark of shame for this once-illustrious program.
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/16/truth-and-consequences.html
January 17, 2012
Hanford Nuclear Safety Manager Questions Waste Treatment Plant
http://www.kplu.org/post/hanford-nuclear-safety-manager-questions-waste-treatment-plant
January 17, 2012
Why are infants more vulnerable to the fallout?
Note:Radiation is unsafe at any dose: Helen Cauldecott
http://naturalsociety.com/radiation-is-unsafe-at-any-dose/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28714
January 17, 2012
Cancer Risk To Young Children Near Fukushima Daiichi Underestimated
January 18, 2012
Program: FRONTLINE
Episode: Nuclear Aftershocks
FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O’Brien travels to three continents to explore the revived debate about the safety of nuclear power, the options for alternative energy sources, and questions about whether a disaster like the one at Fukushima could happen in the United States. Another sop to the nuclear industry and another black mark on broadcast journalism.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2187854464
January 20, 2012
Fukushima Update: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried
http://whowhatwhy.com/2012/01/20/fukushima-update-why-we-should-still-be-worried/#ixzz1k9KFixwg
January 20, 2012
Iodine-131 measured from incineration plants in Tokyo
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/iodine-131-measured-from-incineration-plants-in-tokyo/
January 21, 2012
The real nuclear threat is not Iran, but Fukushima fallout
January 21, 2012
Rapid increase of fall-out is because of incineration of radioactive waste
January 22, 2012
Radiation still a threat to Japan’s food supply
January 22, 2012
Nuclear critic says Health Canada should have issued warning on radioactive raindrops
http://www.calgarysun.com/2012/01/21/platt-fukushima-fallout-hit-home
January 22, 2012
Stop Harrassing Anti-Nuclear Activists: An Open Letter to Maharashtra Home Minister
January 23, 2012
Why Nuclear Scientists Have Missed the Danger of Spent Fuel Pools
January 23, 2012
Tepco: Radiation levels from Fukushima increasing — Now releasing 70,000,000 Bq/hr
January 23, 2012
Japan seeks UN atomic agency presence in Fukushima
January 23, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi Video: Footage Shows Inside Damaged Reactor – nothing there
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/23/fukushima-nuclear-reactor-video_n_1224472.html
January 23, 2012
Calgary Sun: Fukushima fallout hit home
http://fukushimaupdate.com/calgary-sun-fukushima-fallout-hit-home/
January 23, 2012
Tepco admits radiation levels from Fukushima increasing — Now releasing 70,000,000 Bq/hr — Reactor 3 leaking most
January 24, 2012
LOW-DOSE RADIATION ☢ DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY STUDY (VIDEO)
http://fukushimaupdate.com/low-dose-radiation-☢-department-of-energy-study-video/
http://fairewinds.com/content/cancer-risk-young-children-near-fukushima-daiichi-underestimated
January 24, 2012
Sundance Premiere: “Death Row” in NY town where nuclear reactors leaked — “Almost every house on this street had somebody who was sick with cancer or something else”
January 25, 2012
Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
ONLINE READER by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870
January 25, 2012
Japan’s Former Premier Takes Antinuclear Campaign to Davos
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204624204577180231906156286.html
January 27, 2012
California Nuclear Initiative
On November 18, California’s Secretary of State approved the ballot initiative that seeks the closure of the two remaining nuclear power plants in California,
http://fukushimaupdate.com/the-california-nuclear-initiative/
January 27, 2012
Anti-nuke groups sputter to life in Asian countries in wake of Fukushima.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2012/0127/Anti-nuclear-movement-growing-in-Asia
January 27, 2012
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/canadian_news/2012/01/27/2786.html
Fukushima radiation falls on Calgary
[snips]
Health Canada hasn’t even released the data, saying it’s too small an amount to be worthy of public comment — and the same silence has applied for much of the Canadian data collected so far.
— Health Canada confirms that last March, after the Fukushima nuclear accident, a Calgary monitoring station detected an average of 8.18 becquerels per litre of radioactive iodine, stemming from Japan.
Canadian guidelines limit exposure to six becquerels of iodine per litre of drinking water, and much lower radiation spikes in the U.S. resulted in a “don’t drink the rainwater” order.
But not here.
Edwards says Calgarians should at least have known there was a spike beyond recommended levels, especially as rain-bourne radiation concentrates in vegetation and the food chain.
“It’s not up to Health Canada to decide for everybody else what they should do,” said Edwards.
December 2011 – 14,000 dead in US report with excellent chronology with especially good US failure to monitor as compared to Chernobyl response in 1986.
January 29, 2012
Fukushima casts a shadow over India’s industrial boom
The ongoing nuclear disaster in Fukushima has quashed once ambitious plans for the construction of new reactors in Japan. The government does, however, remain committed to promoting exports of nuclear reactors and technology as it sees huge potential in overseas markets.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20120129x3.html
January 29, 2012
The cooling operations at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant have had to be suspended for about 90 minutes because of radioactive leaks.
In the wake of the Fukushima meltdowns in March, the authorities evacuated some 80 thousand people from the surrounding area. The plant’s engineers are now preparing for an operation to remove the fuel from the damaged reactors.
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/29/64882378.html
January 29, 2012
Anti-nuclear movement growing in Asia
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/anti-nuclear-movement-growing-asia
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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.