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July 10, 2013
Fukushima getting worse: Gundersen’s Fairewinds podcast
Marco Kaltofen, a leading scientist who studies radiation as well as specific radioactive isotopes. Marco and Arnie discuss a recent sample that contained highly concentrated radioactive material from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.
Marco Kaltofen, President at Boston Chemical Data Corp. & Doctoral student researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute: […] We kept hearing reports about something unusual, a black dust […] we finally got a very small sample of that […]
What’s different about this material is unlike a lot of the soil and dust samples we’ve gotten, there’s a real uniformity to this stuff. It’s a single substance. It’s not a mix of mineral particles and pieces of dead bugs and plant matter and dust particles. It’s actually very homogenous and uniform when you look at it under the microscope. And it doesn’t look like the surrounding soils. And it is much more intensely radioactive than any other soil or dust sample we’ve gotten from around Fukushima Daiichi. So this material is different. It’s not a natural soil. There’s something unusual happening with this stuff. […]
The sample had fairly high levels of radium 226. Now that’s not a radioisotope that we hear as much about. The radium 226 has almost as much activity as the radioactive Cesium in the sample. Radium 226 is a degradation product of uranium and we can’t really detect the uranium directly. […] And this tells me that this particle contains not only fission waste products from the reactor but very likely contains a concentrated unburned nuclear fuel. And that’s unusual. This sample had by far the highest level of uranium daughters that we’ve seen in a dust or soil sample. We’re actually seeing material that might well have come from inside a failed fuel assembly.
http://fairewinds.org/podcast/japans-black-dust-with-marco-kaltofen
July 9, 2013
Fukushima getting worse Officials report “troubling discovery” at Fukushima nuclear plant: Cesium levels rocket 9,000% over 3 days in groundwater — Tepco “can’t explain it” (VIDEO)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307090059
July 9, 2013
Canada’s first nuclear emergency response support centre planned for Ontario.
July 9, 2013
Masao Yoshida, the Fukushima nuclear chief who led efforts to stabilise the crippled plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, has died at the age of 58.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23251102
July 9, 2013
Public to have say in WIPP’s rule change. The Department of Energy will not have an easy path to bringing 3.1 million gallons of radioactive waste from its Hanford Washington site to New Mexico.
http://www.abqjournal.com/main/218907/news/public-to-have-say-in-wipps-rule-change.html
July 8, 2013
[Column] Summary of Fukushima situation ~What we are not informed of
July 8, 2013
Germany heading toward 100% Renewable Energy – so should we.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/2013/germany-100-renewable-energy-and-beyond-78310
July 8, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Record levels of radioactive material detected at Fukushima — 600,000 Bq/liter Tritium in groundwater — Official: May be seeping from reactors into ocean.
July 8, 2013
Blasted by explosion?] 2 more radioactive pieces found in Naraha-machi, “16cm long, 5mm thickness”.
July 8, 2013
Michael Collins Radiation Update – EPA radiation readings now on Enviroreporter.com.
Michael Collins Radiation Update July 8, 2013: Special 1-hour show with Fukushima corium wrecking groundwater flowing into Pacific; new EnviroReporter.com US EPA RadNet beta and gamma air monitoring data for 48 states & Puerto Rico made user-friendly; new EPA emergency rad regs that raise limits thousands of times & much more!
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_070813.mp3
July 7, 2013
Fukushima getting worse:Fukushima Groundwater Shows Record Radiation Levels
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/fukushima-groundwater-radiation_n_3565767.html
July 7, 2013
NEWS ANALYSIS: Fukushima Continues: More than two years after the initial meltdowns, Fukushima is still SNAFU
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/66916
July 7, 2013
600,000 bq/l Tritium into Ocean at Fukushima.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/07/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-highest-amount.html
July 7, 2013
Spain closes controversial nuclear power plant.
July 7, 2013
The Department of Energy on July 9 will mark 15 million tons of waste disposed of at Hanford’s Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/07/05/2667600/doe-to-mark-hanford-waste-disposal.html
July 7, 2013
Food contamination fears still persist in Japan, and will for decades. This short video by Jamie Williams of the New York Times, clearly explains why private food testing has become a necessity to protect families, and children in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwQvZTFulPw
July 6, 2013
More than 500 citizens from across North America gathered at the Southampton to protest the Great Lakes Nuclear Waste Dump.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/stop-the-great-lakes-nuclear-waste-dump/5341849
July 5, 2013
What Fukushima Might Have Taught Terrorists.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/05/what-fukushima-might-have-taught-terrorists/
July 4, 2013
1,785,216 Bq/Kg of radioactive Cesium from moss in Fukushima city.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/1785216-bqkg-of-radioactive-cesium-from-moss-in-fukushima-city/
July 4, 2013
FUKUSHIMA–Radioactive cesium levels found in moss on a rooftop in downtown Fukushima exceeded 1.7 million becquerels, the highest levels detected in a year, researchers said. – 50 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201307040081
July 3, 2013
Extremely radioactive piece of debris found in 7km from Fukushima nuclear plant “3.4 mSv/h”.
July 3, 2013
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for July 2nd to July 3rd, 2013.
July 3, 2013
Dr. Helen Caldicott: Radiation and Fukushima, What They Aren’t Telling You.
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Michael..what a great way to start a New Year! It is just way beyond terrific to have all of these important articles, with their links, all listed on one page. First of all, it is really impressive to see that there are so many recent articles that MUST be read, and second…it is wonderful not to have to go hunting for them. I just wish I had the time back that I have spent in the past, trying to locate these articles, in order to forward them to friends, in an attempt to inform and educate them as to the nuclear crisis that is going on, thanks to Fukushima. I just wish that the US Government would go and do likewise!
While I know that there are certainly articles on this potential global disaster to be found in some small newspapers, I have not, so far, found anyone, anywhere, who has been tackling the whole Fukushima disaster, head on, as you have been doing. And, in addition, you have also written many articles, plus, now, a five part series, on our local nuclear and toxic chemical contamination on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
I cannot believe how incredibly lucky that we all are to have you here in our midst, doing your knowledgeable environmental reporting, without which we would basically all be in the dark, when it comes to understanding and interpreting everything that has been happening in California, the USA, and the World. My hope is that in 2013, you, and also Denise, will continue to have the concern, energy and courage to keep investigating and writing about all of these issues, which affect the health and welfare of all of us.
Meanwhile, 2012 grateful THANKS!
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