Not looking good at Fukushima

[halffull]

NEWS FLASH - URGENT - December 28, 2013 11:00 PM EST -- (TRN http://www.TurnerRadioNetwork.com ) -- Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what's happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a "spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)" involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America. Steam photo, full details and suggested methods to protect yourself appear below.

On December 28, 2013, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) admitted steam was seen billowing out of reactor building #3, saying the steam appeared to be coming from what's left of the fifth floor of the mostly-destroyed building. It is widely known that persons cannot get inside Reactor Building #3 because it is severely damaged and highly radioactive, so TEPCO cannot state for certain what is happening in that building or why. TEPCO admits they do not know why this steam is being generated, but matter-of-factly revealed today (December 28) the steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again on December 24 and again on December 25.




Nuclear energy experts have told TRN that the ONLY way this could be happening is if radioactive material previously ejected from the reactor explosion in March, 2011 has mixed together with other materials and has begun its own self-sustaining reaction(s), also known as a "criticality." Put simply, another "meltdown" may be taking place.

Read more at
http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt

[ghostrider]

just look at the mass fish deaths since 2011 , the air and the oceans are done ... it's only a matter of time , without help from ET , we won't survive this ...

[TODD & NORA]

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[Tesseract]

live radiation levels in US:

http://radiationnetwork.com/

[Deborah (ahamkara)]

Thank you for this information. Certainly it is information to know. I wonder if the many underground bases established by the military, as well as the Norwegian Seed Vault, will be utilized in the coming days? I have wondered, as well, at the blatant printing of Monopoly money by the Federal Reserve… perhaps they are not so concerned with the long term consequences of that kind of fiscal irresponsibility? Anyway, this forum is a good source of info on the developing situation. Thanks again.

[ljwheat]

This report is only feeding those who believe in doomsday and all is lost. Give me a break, west coast in danger yet with in its own radius Japan is fine and flourishing, no mass evacuations or danger to the locals, yet our fear mongering is going to kill us all hear in the USA. LOL

Chicken little is not the way to look into the story that’s in front of you. Do your home work, fear kill’s more people than fact. Check out this thread instead, open your mind, and look at a second opinion
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46819-A-video-they-won-t-want-you-to-see--Galen-Winsor-nuclear-scare-scam-

[halffull]

This is not about dooms day all is lost, sometimes fore warned is fore armed.

This is NOT to put fear into people, it is reporting the situation as it happens. If reporting the latest news is scare mongering, then perhaps no news should be reported.

I agree there is no mass evacuation in Japan but that does not mean all is well

We should NOT look on this with fear but with the awareness that there is something very wrong when main stream media are very quiet on the subject

I am yet to be persuaded that nuclear is good for you

[ghostrider]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_xbNhkDQs

[Ellisa]

Whilst I believe that we should start developing energy sources other than nuclear FAST, I do not think that even Fukushima is a global doomsday situation. The world has withstood the effects of man-made nuclear radioactive radiation on numerous occasions. The testing in the US in Nevada, and the testing by Britain in Australia are cases in point. These produced quantities of contamination and were observed by troops and officials who had little or no protection from the fall out. The US, along with France, then contaminated huge areas of the Pacific making some islands uninhabitable even today. What happened during testing in Russia, China, India and Israel I don't like to speculate, and the ensuing contamination has caused damage, but not an ultimate catastrophe.

Fukushima will cause problems, as will the next disaster and the one after that, until we stop using nuclear power and use solar, wind and water energy as safer non-polluting sources of energy. I often read about self- serving companies and deliberate acts of selfish criminality on this site, but I think those who oppose the development of clean energy instead of the polluting energy of nuclear, coal and others are causing much more damage in the end.

[marlowe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_xbNhkDQs

If you go to 50 minutes into this link and listen for 10 minutes James Horak explains why and how the Fukushima radiation will KILL EVERYBODY.....Thanks for posting Ghostrider.....
IMO the optimists on this forum are spreading false hope...But whatever.....everybody is entitled to their own opinion....:)>>even me...

[Erich]

James Horak says essentially this is an event that cannot be remedied without outside help.

[sheme]

Then may I respectfully request all the outside help generous ETs can bestow on the dear mother Earth and her creatures, on behalf of humanity please help us clear away the damage from our land and seas when the time is right. Thank you.

[thepainterdoug]

thanks for posting. if you go to Hatrick Penry on youtube or google his site, he's doing great work and provides actual N R C, F O I A documents that seem to illustrate that fuel pool 4 had a zirconium fire back in 2011 and was already pretty much destroyed and drained of cooling water.
This sheds new light on whatever Tepco is supposedly doing with their so called rod removal at no 4. How can this be? building 4 looks destroyed yet Tepco is showing a pristine orderly fuel pool. is this a complete hoax and for public consumption? It is quite possible that this looming fuel pool disaster has already happened.
this needs real investigation and verification. thoughts?

[GreenGuy]

I don't know what's going on, but I know we are immediate losers if we give in to fear. I don't understand the physics of radiation but I know that there is a remediation. I'm lucky in a way. Being old, I only have 2 or 3 decades left on earth anyway, therefore I am not particularly afraid. I'm hard to scare anyway. I don't believe we are looking at an extinction event.

[Wind]

Nuclear plants are ticking time bombs... We should have public free energy, now!

Via Transients.info (http://www.transients.info/2013/12/radiation-cloud-to-hit-us-west-coast.html)...

Radiation cloud to hit the US West Coast - Message from Dr. Simon Atkins

I caught up a few times with Dr. Simon Atkins in Sydney last month and it was great to finally meet him. Simon has sent along this message in relation to the Fukishima radiation situation and the news of another radioactive cloud coming out of reactor 3. As you can see below, he is fine if you share this with others.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tod020oAv74/UsCbqI4KMfI/AAAAAAAAKQc/GOE7nPHq35c/s640/fallout.jpg

An old nuclear fallout map (not current)

By Climate Risk Scientist Dr. Simon Atkins, 30th December 2013

I figure you would want to know the truth, and so I do not mince words in this email.
If you do not want to know anything about how Fukushima radiation is entering the US food supply, then please do not read any more of this email.

Many radiation clouds from the Fukushima catastrophe have been moving downstream over the last 1,000+ days, and the cumulative radiation and the different types of radiation isotopes / nuclides (of strontium, plutonium, tritium as well as cesium and others) have been intensifying and are entering the food chain in the United States. The bio-accumulation of radiation in people is already causing many primary and secondary radiation poisoning symptoms. Families, especially with children younger than 16 as well as those single adults, couples, and older folks with immune challenges, are already doing everything they can to think of and act upon ways to either move further east or get out of the USA all together. These choices are not easy. But with radiation, you cannot see, smell, feel, taste or hear it coming. We are blinded, deaf and dumb to this catastrophe. Unfortunately, as an atmospheric scientist for 25 years, in watching the Jetstream and sea currents, there is no end in sight. The Japanese government is not doing a single thing to make this better or try to solve it.

And this is the latest news ramping-up the detection of contamination spreading into the United States: http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt. This is worse a warning than I have been giving, but I do believe a lot of it is true.

It's incredibly sad, I am just about lost for words. I have been predicting this for over 2 and a half years now. Many of you knew that I left the United States and moved my family out of the country because of this. I have to say it bluntly: the radiation contamination into America is going to get much worse especially since nothing is being done to solve it. We literally have rogue "terrorist" governments -- the USA and Japan -- that are looking blindly the other way, doing absolutely NOTHING to solve this or tell the American people. The sickness, mutations, and slow deaths from cancers, and other immunological degenerative dis-ease and illness in America will be on the increase, more and more every quarter. The suffering and chaos will be at times worse, because let me blunt again, some will see no answer, and will 'lose' it. This is just another one of the dangers to society-at-large when a Black Swan slowly unfolding event (with an acceleration of impacts over time) is happening without being greatly solved.

PLEASE send this out to everyone you know. Yes, you may forward this with my signature. You can also follow my tweets at: @DrSimonAtkins. Post this or any links on Facebook. You can also do Web searches for "Dr Simon Atkins + Fukushima" to listen to radio interviews where I provide a list of anti-radiation products. I am doing the best I can to make everyone aware of this. There will be delays in answering any question via e-mail.

Too much of Mainstream Media is following a script full of lies, some knowingly, some unknowingly. I ask you to empower yourself to get more information. Go to www.ENEnews.com. Soon though, more "brave" TV stations will go up against "The System" to report on Fukushima. And you will begin to hear more about Fukushima, whereas now, most Americans literally have no idea what is truly going on.

People that you know in potential harm's way need to REALLY take this warnings very seriously. I am on record for saying that after March 2014, and I stand with my prediction, that a social movement will begin (due to the Fukushima disaster's impacts & effects inside America), and life in the USA will change a lot.

Think of ways you can change your life accordingly. Remember, in the past, there have been thousands upon millions of people that have "fled", left, or otherwise gone to another part of their country or out of their country for all types of reasons in the past. These have been social migrations, and I believe another one is soon going to begin. We are now in a "Post-Radiation" world, and Fukushima is easily the biggest environmental disaster that has ever happened.

God Bless. In peace,
Simon

[cloud9]

I honestly believe that if the situation were so dire we would already know it. This disaster happened almost 2 years ago and it hasn't been fixed so it means that radiation has been coming out all this time.
Have any of you seen any documentaries or news about the effects of such radiation on the japanese people? I would assume they would be dying by the hundreds or thousands every day and even the people on the west coast would be dying too.
If it takes a few days for radiation to reach the west coast we would already know about the fatal effects of it and would have seen it many many times by now.
Please don't believe everything people or the internet say, even doctors or experts don't know everything.
To me, it makes sense that if after almost 2 years nothing so devastating (or not devastating at all at least for US so far) has happened, perhaps radiation is not as dangerous as we have been told but it's a great tool to make people scared to death.

[Octavusprime]

If you want a little peace of mind, stock up on Calcium, Iodine (kelp) and selenium supplements. Those three will do the most good for the least invested if dangerous levels of radiation do arrive. Even Iodized salt could help protect. Until then I'll sit back drinking this amazing homebrewed brown ale and relax.

[sygh]

Just taking this one day at a time, as most of us do not have the knowledge to fix it. Loss of sea life concernes me, and ofcourse, the loss of human life does as well. Exposure to low levels of radiation is slow to present; however, illness does show itself more quickly in the young and old. I am suprised more people haven't left Japan, I would have been out of there as fast as I could.

[cursichella1]

I'd be grateful for another source on this story if anyone knows of one? Other than RT, I can't find any authoritive report (and by authoritive, I mean someone trustworthy) to substantiate immediate panic. On Dec 21st, RT reported that TEPCO recorded "1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor" and said TEPCO suspected a below ground leak (ground water and ocean) of radioactive Cesium.

Turner Network Radio is very questionable in my book and though RT's report is certainly bad enough, the "fear factor" of TNR throws up more flags for me than the radiation. In addition, I think James Corbett (CorbettReport.com) would be all over this if it was time to hit the fallout shelters.

I'll keep looking. It is good advice to follow the recommendations posted above, but let's keep our heads here.

[cursichella1]

Oops, I managed to post the same thing twice and hate wasting space!

[cursichella1]

I'd be grateful for another source on this story if anyone knows of one? Other than RT, I can't find any authoritive report (and by authoritive, I mean someone trustworthy) to substantiate immediate panic. On Dec 21st, RT reported that TEPCO recorded "1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor" and said TEPCO suspected a below ground leak (ground water and ocean) of radioactive Cesium.

Turner Network Radio is very questionable in my book and though RT's report is certainly bad enough, the "fear factor" of TNR throws up more flags for me than the radiation. In addition, I think James Corbett (CorbettReport.com) would be all over this if it was time to hit the fallout shelters.

I'll keep looking. It is good advice to follow the recommendations posted above, but let's keep our heads here.

[teknix]

If you want a little peace of mind, stock up on Calcium, Iodine (kelp) and selenium supplements. Those three will do the most good for the least invested if dangerous levels of radiation do arrive. Even Iodized salt could help protect. Until then I'll sit back drinking this amazing homebrewed brown ale and relax.

Hi Octavusprime,

I always keep J.Crows Lugols Iodine/Iodide on hand, it has many good purposes, such as water purification/decontamination and heavy metal detoxification as well.

[pine boy]

Here's the Tepco doc.Translation required...
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu-news/2013/1233248_5304.html

This is the statement on the steam for one day 12-27

※ 48 At around 7:00 am on December 27, and confirmed by the camera that from Unit 3 reactor building, 5th floor near the center, steam is generated. 同日午前７時54分時点のプラント状況、モニタリングポストの指示値等に異常は確認されていない（午前７時50分時点の気象データは、気温5.1℃、湿度93.1％）。 Have not been identified abnormal plant conditions of 54 minutes at 7:00 am the same day, the indicated value of the monitoring post (meteorological data of 50 minutes at 7:00 am, 5.1 ℃ temperature, 93.1% humidity).

[marlowe]

here is BP Earthwatch saying we possibly have a fuel rod meltdown in progress...
This is MUST WATCH ,,imho....6 minutes..this could be the event the experts were dreading might happen....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5tZi-eO-_I

[ljwheat]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46819-A-video-they-won-t-want-you-to-see--Galen-Winsor-nuclear-scare-scam-

Here you will find a wealth of side information confirming all this and more. Night Hawk a company run by a guy named Jay two or three time’s a month visits abandon mines to collect hot ore, to make jewelry and mud packs for his customers. He stays down in these mine’s for a few days at a time with no ill effects other than glowing like a light bulb when he comes out.

And this article talks of trace amounts of radiation???

This should make you wonder about the fear factor and the agenda behind why they want to keep the 50’s going when the NRC came about so did the fear tactic’s. if you only follow the fear story’s then yes we are doomed. Look at Hollywood they’ve made trillion’s on fear , fear sells. The truth is boring.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46819-A-video-they-won-t-want-you-to-see--Galen-Winsor-nuclear-scare-scam-

[panopticon]

Mobile radiation monitoring site levels @ TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi plant over the last week:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2013monitoring/f1_lgraph-j.gif

Source (www.tepco.co.jp/nu/fukushima-np/f1/index-j.html)

Want readings for the Month? Try here:
http://new.atmc.jp/pref.cgi?p=07#d=m

No change in radiation levels reported (doesn't mean they aren't lying but that's what the reported levels are).

Steam was reported by TEPCO in one of the reactor units however it doesn't appear (from the Japanese translation) that the coolant temperature levels have altered (~10 C). They'll put out more information tomorrow hopefully in the English language section of their briefings site (here (http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/handouts/index-e.html) and here (www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.html)).

The current status of fuel removal from SFP #4:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/removal4u/images/R4_FuelTransfer_132e.jpg

-- Pan

[Mozart]

I am against the use of nuclear energy for power, as well as weapons; however, the situation at Fukushima is a massive disinfo campaign that's designed to make people feel powerless.


Here's two links that, as far as I understand, gives the most accurate pictures of what really is going on with Fukushima:

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903

http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/


The comments section at the base the Southern Fried Science site's article alone are worth the read.


Jim's site ... http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/ ... is also a very good source of good info about Fukushima.


I've been in email contact with Jim (a while ago, not now) and he's on the run from several alphabet soup agencies, as Jim himself is a former NSA agent, so he really knows a lot of deep, accurate info on numerous topics of which the vast majority of us are misinformed/underinformed/brainwashed.


Jim is a real deal and his information is highly accurate.

[Kimberley]

I highly recommend that you all read the article that Mozart posted!

http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903

Below is just the beginning of the article and I agree that the comments are worth a read also.


28 fallacies about the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s effect on the US West Coast

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is back in the news, with recent reports of continued leaks. Coming on the heels of these new reports is a viral blog post entitled 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima. The article is a paranoid, poorly reasoned attempt to link the tragedy of the Fukushima disaster to just about every environmental issue facing the US west coast in the last few months. At its best, it’s an illogical piece of post-modern absurdism. At its worst, its empirically false and intentionally misleading, rife with out-of-context quotes and cherry-picked data. The author had 28 chances to make a single reasonable point, and every single one rang hollow.

Of course it went viral.

Since I believe in open, honest discourse, let me begin by pointing out that I am not a physicist, nor do I have any particular credentials when it comes to nuclear energy. I am a marine ecologist. You’ll find, however, that for these 28 points, the devil is not in the details. Most are the result of logical fallacies, rather than technical inaccuracies. Many are simply articles taken out of context or unbelievably tenuous observations followed by “couldn’t it be Fukushima?” In a follow up, the author even argues that he’s “Just asking questions” a phrase I thought was long ago relegated to Glenn Beck parodies. A fifth of these points don’t even have to do with the North American West Coast.

So here we go, with a point by point debunking of this unfortunate article. I’ve broken them out into larger themes which I hope will make the many logical fallacies apparent. For reasons that will become obvious, we begin with point 20.



http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903

[freedom4all]

I think that nuclear waste is probably harmless to humans in small dosages
and they probably are ramping up the fear factor about Fukushima cos thats
what they do best.
But anyone who is awakened should know by now that we are infinite and for
me fear doesnt even come in to it,just an urge to get the message out that there
is alternative energy sources that we can use that wont harm the Earth/Environment
/Animals/Humans and the old way of doing things simply wont do.
I dont think we need ETs to save us i think we are the ones we have been waiting for
and if they do come to save us you can be sure there is an Agenda behind it.
We simply have to wake up and realize who we are KNOW THYSELF.

[Kimberley]

Oh and I must post this also...Daphne gets credit for finding Sunniva Rose. Sunniva has a PhD in Nuclear Science and is from Norway.

She does not believe that Fukushima nuclear incident is as bad as the media makes it out to be...

This Ted Talk from November is only 18 minutes...

u7H5ToqUmfk


Much love, peace, health, joy, and fun to us all!!! :grouphug:

[marksircus]

Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan.

This is of course deadly serious communication that I believe most people will take too lightly. I have published about fifty essays on Fukushima since it occured and also updated my Iodine book to include the radioactive danger and another book called Nuclear & Chemical Toxicity. I fortunately live in Brazil but everyone on the globe should be more than super concerned and start treating using the basics first......which are....oral clay daily, bicarbonate and magnesium baths, magnesium bicarbonate water, iodine, and selenium just for starters....

Anyway I have just joined this forum and perhaps there is a unseen reason for me being put in touch with such a tight nit community. First of all I live on the northeast coast at the furthest point east in all of the Americans meaning we will get hit from any tidal wave that comes from the Canary Islands in a worst case scenerio but its probably the nicest city in the world to move to if you have money or income and believe civilization is going to make it. In the meantime for nine years I have been building a Sanctuary in the very heart of South America about three hours north of Brasilia and I do have a building company who are going to be finished with my place, which was originally designed to be a retreat center for cancer patients. So I could help a few people relocate and for sure can share information about how to prepare and protect one's families, which one needs to do whether one moves or not. I would be as nervous as hell if I was directly downwind of Fukushima. Here is a link to a page of mine which shows my essays on Fukushima. Am just starting my next one.
http://drsircus.com/?s=fukushima&submit=

[marksircus]

Well panic is not going to help at all and RT offers pretty solid reporting.....read enough about Fukushima and hopefully it will drive you and others to action........the chances of the whole place going up is about 99.999 percent.....so we need a whole lot of miracles........maybe if the entire race prayed but come on.....I have been nervous for my American friends and family for well over two years.....only human arrogance is to blame and human arrogance keeps us frozen.....so maybe a little panic might be healthy but I doubt it. This is not an all or nothing trip.....but when looking at the young and what they can look forward to its the ultimate nightmare....

[marksircus]

Bald eagles are dying in Utah – 20 in the past few weeks alone – and nobody can figure out why. Hundreds of the majestic birds – many with wing spans of 7 feet or more – migrate here each winter, gathering along the Great Salt Lake and feasting on carp and other fish that swim in the nearby freshwater bays. Earlier this month, however, hunters and farmers across five counties in northern and central Utah began finding the normally skittish raptors lying listless on the ground. Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis in the legs, feet and wings.

Was just reading this and of course they have not the slightest idea why this is happening. Take a guess..............

[marksircus]

I think that nuclear waste is probably harmless to humans in small dosages
and they probably are ramping up the fear factor about Fukushima cos thats
what they do best.

This is crazy sorry to say and the truth is just the opposite.....the government and the media are keeping Fukushima on ice and have since the beginning. And again sorry, it really does not matter what you think about radiation. Hard science says every small amount is dangerous....every x ray, every cat scan, PET Scan, mammogram and on and on......but you have a lot of company....even professionals I know who should know better are downplaying the danger....of course the ones I know doing that live in Hawaii and America....

[Milneman]

just look at the mass fish deaths since 2011 , the air and the oceans are done ... it's only a matter of time , without help from ET , we won't survive this ...

Ghost...this is really important that I say this, so thank you for opening this door.

IF they help us, and it's not out of the question that they will, but if they do....you don't want to live in that kind of world. If you think it's bad now....

I was going to write about this in my thread, but I think here might be a better place for this.

We have to fix this ourselves. Nobody likes to hear that. But this is the bottom line: if they come to fix the problem, they are going to take control of this planet away from us. That means its resources, it's government, it's cultures, everything. The trade we are going to have to pay is our human freedom, the freedom most people are still waking up to realize exists (I'm pleased to say there's a lot of awake people here!).

If we fix the problems ourselves, we get to keep our Autonomy. Capital A. If we leave it up to, or agree to, assistance that is coming to us...I don't know when the offer is going to be made, or who to, but it is coming. If that offer is accepted we're doomed.

As sick as this sounds...given the choice of the reality of what could/is happening to our planet, and the choices we have to make to make it right? I'd rather take those risks than...you don't want to know how bad it will be if they help. Don't even wish it. Please. :(

[freedom4all]

Im meerly saying that with all these people saying that they have had known cases
where people have been in contact with Radiation and are fine that it might be the
case that it is not a large dose that they came in contact with but Fukushima is a
different thing hence its harming the EARTH/ENVIRONMENT/ANIMALS/HUMANS and
something needs to be done about it but dont fear it just take precautions and do all
you can to join together and try to solve this global problem.
Once the fear sets in we wont be thinking straight and the ones who purposely did this
have met their objective.

[freedom4all]

To me this game is obvious!
Yes the Bible is gonna play out cos its the Annunaki who wrote it and this
is the end of a cycle and yes they are killing the Earth cos they need us to
submit with fear so that when our Saviours come we will grab it with both hands/call
on outside help cos all they need is our permission and we are trapped in the game again
so yes its going to get wild and its going to hurt but i will not submit!
Everything they are doing to the Earth and us has been in the plans for thousands of years
and its all culminating for these end times.
I have no fear just a sadness for such a wicked game which we all agreed to participate in.

[marksircus]

I put a call into Arnie Gutherson a man and nuclear engeneer I trust greatly for confirmation about what is happening.

[Maria Stade]

I must say I am some times amazed when people think they are out of reach.
http://www.nyrnaturalnews.com/cancer-2/2013/04/fukushima-fallout-thyroid-damage-in-us-children/

We are talking about some thing that the eye cant see. Now days the most people understand that we dont se everything in this world with our eyes.
Animals in the polar regions are loosing their skin. Yeah even Sweden did get some of it.

[Maria Stade]

I have been digging for thyrode canser statistics in Sweden for 2012 but failed because they have not been given.
2011(again) was given as the new dates for 2013 :jaw:

[aviators]

Well my first question is: How could we get some actual radiation readings here
in the states? Dutch is from Ohio I think? (Correction St. Louis) Perhaps we could get some volunteers
on the west coast to do some scientific data logging. I'm sure Dutch would give us some pointers.West coast should be hit the hardest. What our government doing
on this???

JQY-_utYkUU

[marksircus]

I have not been able to confirm this story on Turner Radio................................that is puzzling and they have no contact options....I don't like that at all.................

[Maria Stade]

I saw this some day ago.
But Im not sure if he is doing it correctly. Maybe he would be intressted in collecting data ?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGhRLcOTNc

[Kimberley]

hey have any of you taken the 18 minutes to view this???

u7H5ToqUmfk

I am now in touch with Sunniva Rose and will interview her and she has agreed to be an avalon member....a work in progress... PLEASE listen to this!!! Thank you !!! XOXOX Much love! :grouphug:

[Ellisa]

I did watch it Kimberley! She is an amazing speaker and one I'd like to hear more from. When I posted earlier about the previous contamination caused by ALL nuclear radiation events, I pointed out that they had not caused extinction, and that we are going to survive his latsest one, however I still think we should be exploring the alternatives.

Firstly let me say that I acknowledge that nuclear power produces safe and seemingly pollution-free energy. We have no nuclear power here in Australia. Our one reactor is small and only produces medical nuclear needs (another area of useful nuclear production by the way!) Instead we use filthy, abundant, cheap coal, which we also export in massive quantities to China and India to run their factories which produce all the lovely "toys" we enjoy playing with. Where I live the coal is brown coal, just one step away from peat, it is filthy stuff--- but we have enough to provide energy for us for the next thousand years! Meanwhile we have access to a marvellous source of energy-- the sun. But we make little use of solar energy, and the miners in our country make sure we have little inducement to research it. So we are, here in Australia, one of the worst countries in the world for carbon pollution.

I am glad though that we have not gone for nuclear here (we have had plenty who wanted to, our north has plenty of uranium to dig up--- we send it to others to use though). I am glad we don't. The fall-out from nuclear energy production does not stop at the first stage--- that is usually the safe bit, but the radioactive waste does last for hundreds of years. And, in spite of the speaker's cheery attitude, there is nowhere at the moment to dump it safely, and no country wants to store it or bury it, shipping it to poor countries to deal with is despicable. We are making a huge problem for the future.

[panopticon]

Oh, BTW, just getting back on topic for a moment, TEPCO has said that there was no observed steam coming from the 5th floor of #3 on the 30th December 2013 (source (http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu-news/2013/1233282_5304.html)).

They haven't identified the cause of the steam (as far as I've found anyway).

-- Pan

[carriellbee]

thanks for posting. if you go to Hatrick Penry on youtube or google his site, he's doing great work and provides actual N R C, F O I A documents that seem to illustrate that fuel pool 4 had a zirconium fire back in 2011 and was already pretty much destroyed and drained of cooling water.
This sheds new light on whatever Tepco is supposedly doing with their so called rod removal at no 4. How can this be? building 4 looks destroyed yet Tepco is showing a pristine orderly fuel pool. is this a complete hoax and for public consumption? It is quite possible that this looming fuel pool disaster has already happened.
this needs real investigation and verification. thoughts?

I have reviewed several of the FOIA documents presented by HatrickPenry and I am confident that he is a very reliable source, certainly more reliable than CNN et. al.

[heyokah]

It's all about "objective evidence".

"ONE WRONG MOVE AT FUKUSHIMA COULD UNLEASH A NUCLEAR DISASTER EQUIVALENT TO 85 CHERNOBYLS"
By Brian Klonoski. Editor In Chief bij RYOT, Writer/Photographer.
http://www.ryot.org/one-wrong-move-a...rnobyls/388813

"28 SIGNS THAT THE WEST COAST IS BEING ABSOLUTELY FRIED WITH NUCLEAR RADIATION FROM FUKUSHIMA"
By Michael T. Snyder, former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller is entitled “The Beginning Of The End” .
http://thetruthwins.com/archives/28-signs-that-the-west-coast-is-being-absolutely-fried-with-nuclear-radiation-from-fukushima

Or,

"28FALLACIES ABOUT THE FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER'S EFFECT ON THE US WEST COAST"
By Andrew David Thaler.
Deep-sea biologist, population/conservation geneticist.
http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903

"TRUE FACTS ABOUT OCEAN RADIATION AND THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER"
By Kim Martini.
http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean-radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/

FUKUSHIMA REACTOR 3 MELT DOWN MAY NOT BE A HOAX.
and
"Don't fall for the "Fukushima reactors were poorly designed" B.S. being pushed to the forefront now".
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/



Fukushima is a very serious problem. That's a fact.
But fear won't help us, as a fearful masses are easily manipulated and kept under control.

We have to be critical and alert of not being manipulated by hysterical broadcasting but only go for scientific evidence.

[Maria Stade]

hey have any of you taken the 18 minutes to view this???

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I am now in touch with Sunniva Rose and will interview her and she has agreed to be an avalon member....a work in progress... PLEASE listen to this!!! Thank you !!! XOXOX Much love! :grouphug:

There are other ways Sunniva Rose may have one of them, I have been in contact with a man in Sweden angry that people was so against nuclear power that his projekt that he considers safe was put aside.
The problem remains Japan is leaking.

Most things on this planet have the habit of aging/changing.
What ever system used it has to be safe even when we look at the waste.
In many parts of this world it is possible to use solar energy and maybe that is what should be used where it is effektive.
Even solarpanels are aging and their must be a plan for how the should be re used when they are not functioning any more.
It should be a responibillity for the maker to also be in charge for the waste.
And if it is a danger to life as such.. maybe it should not be used at all.

[marksircus]

You can expect an enormous amount of cancers” around Pacific — “We’re all at risk, this radiated water is going to hit right here” in U.S. — We’re at top of food chain, so we get highest radiation dose. Seafood catches off U.S. Pacific coast more likely to be contaminated than ones far closer to Japan — ‘Gravest danger’ to public is if they eat these products. Nice headlines to wake up to but wait, you have not seen statements like this on TV or in the New York Times?
Did you hear Fairewinds chief engineer Arnie Gundersen telling his fellow Americans that the boron between the nuclear fuel rods (in the spent fuel pool on top of building number four) has disintegrated. It was never designed for the temperatures it's seen and it was never designed for saltwater? So there's no assurance that you've got boron neutron absorbers between the nuclear fuel rods. So you've got what we call an inadvertent criticality — you've got the chance of the nuclear fuel pool becoming a nuclear reactor when it didn't want to be, as they pull these rods out. So they have to be extraordinarily careful that they don’t snap a rod and extraordinarily careful that as they're pulling these rods, that they don’t get an inadvertent criticality.

Gundersen is the nuclear engineer that told us that pulling the nuclear fuel rods out of pool number four, which they are doing now, was going to be a sticky as pulling cigarettes out of a crushed cigarette box when in fact you have to get each one out whole as to not destroy much of the world with radiation.

[Maria Stade]

This guy is worth lisstening to !


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKTJ47R-hNw&list=LLfHMTa798nYJI9jVTagkuaw

Se also this :

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?66858-Japanese-farmers-dont-whant-to-sell-the-food.

[marksircus]

Nuclear researcher Christina Consolo said on Russian television that, “Although fuel rod removal happens on a daily basis at the 430+ nuclear sites around the world, it is a very delicate procedure even under the best of circumstances. What makes fuel removal at Fukushima so dangerous and complex is that it will be attempted on a fuel pool whose integrity has been severely compromised. However, it must be attempted as Reactor 4 has the most significant problems structurally, and this pool is on the top floor of the building.’
Lew Rockwell tells it like it is about why this will be a dangerous undertaking.
- The racks inside the pool that contain this fuel were damaged by the explosion in the early days of the accident.
- Zirconium cladding which encased the rods burned when water levels dropped, but to what extent the rods have been damaged is not known, and probably won’t be until removal is attempted.
- Saltwater cooling has caused corrosion of the pool walls, and probably the fuel rods and racks.
- The building is sinking.
- The cranes that normally lift the fuel were destroyed.
- Computer-guided removal will not be possible; everything will have to be done manually.
- TEPCO cannot attempt this process without humans, which will manage this enormous task while being bombarded with radiation during the extraction and casking.

[halffull]

Professor Michio Kaku, Dr Helen Caldicott explain horrific cancers in the long term from Fukushima

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[Camilo]

Epidemiologist back from Fukushima: ‘We’re talking about a sacrifice zone and millions of people live in this area’ — Exceeds allowable radiation dose for nuclear workers 40 kilometers from Fukushima plant


http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/e...s-40-kilomete/

[dianna]

36 Signs The Media Is Lying To You About How Radiation From Fukushima Is Affecting The West Coast

Michael Snyder

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/01/36-signs-media-is-lying-to-you-about.html#more

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AiQyOH4W9bU/UsQwIEUTsbI/AAAAAAAAXp4/2TYf_9lKsvU/s1600/Fukushima-Radiation-450x270.jpg


The west coast of the United States is being absolutely fried by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and the mainstream media is not telling us the truth about this. What you are about to see is a collection of evidence that is quite startling. Taken collectively, this body of evidence shows that nuclear radiation from Fukushima is affecting sea life in the Pacific Ocean and animal life along the west coast of North America in some extraordinary ways. But the mainstream media continues to insist that we don’t have a thing to worry about. The mainstream media continues to insist that radiation levels in the Pacific and along the west coast are perfectly safe. Are they lying to us? Evaluate the evidence compiled below and come to your own conclusions…

#1 Independent researchers have measured alarmingly high levels of radiation on the beaches of the west coast. For example, the video posted below was taken on December 23rd, 2013 at Pacifica State Beach. As you can see in this video, radiation levels near the water are up to five times higher than normal background radiation…


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0

#2 According to Oceanus Magazine, the total amount of cesium-137 that has been released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima is 10,000 to 100,000 times greater than the amount released into the oceans by the Chernobyl disaster or by the atmospheric nuclear weapons tests of the 1960s.




#3 Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur has admitted that while he was at MSNBC he was instructed not to warn the public about the radiation coming from Fukushima…
“I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, “Don’t trust what the Japanese government is saying, they’ll say trust what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It’s literally a core meltdown.” And they always don’t want people to panic, so they were always like, “Oh it’s going to be okay.” [...] I’m like, “You’re crazy man, don’t be anywhere near that reactor.” And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on cable news, people were like, “Hey Cenk, you know, I don’t know that you want to say that, because the official government position is that it’s safe.” Oh, is that the official government position? Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald Reagan.”

#4 71 U.S. sailors who assisted with the initial Fukushima relief efforts have developed serious diseases such as testicular cancer, thyroid cancer, Leukemia, “unremitting gynecological bleeding” and brain tumors since that time as a result of exposure to radiation coming from Fukushima.

#5 Something is causing starfish all along the west coast of the United States to literally disintegrate into piles of "white goo"…

Researchers say nuclear pollution from the 2011 earthquake in Japan that damaged the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant could be partially to blame for a disease wiping out starfish along the West Coast.

Dr. Peter Raimondi of the University of Santa Cruz says something is making starfish susceptible to whats believed to be a bacteria coined “Wasting Disease.” It essentially disintegrate the marine invertebrates into a white goo, after the starfish loses its legs.

#6 Bald eagles are dying in unprecedented numbers in Utah, and nobody can figure out why this is happening…

Bald eagles are dying in Utah — 20 in the past few weeks alone — and nobody can figure out why.

Hundreds of the majestic birds — many with wing spans of 7 feet or more — migrate here each winter, gathering along the Great Salt Lake and feasting on carp and other fish that swim in the nearby freshwater bays.
Earlier this month, however, hunters and farmers across five counties in northern and central Utah began finding the normally skittish raptors lying listless on the ground. Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis in the legs, feet and wings.

#7 Huge numbers of dead birds are dropping dead and washing up along the coastlines of Alaska. It is being reported that many of the carcases of the dead birds are “broken open and bleeding”.

#8 The recent deaths of thousands of birds in Oregon is absolutely baffling scientists.

#9 Something is causing large numbers of seals and walruses up in Alaska to lose hair and develop “oozing sores”.

#10 Substantial numbers of polar bears along the coast of Alaska are suffering from fur loss and open sores.

#11 There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline.

#12 The population of sockeye salmon along the coastlines of Alaska is at a “historic low”.

#13 Something is causing Pacific herring to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.

#14 Dangerous levels of cesium-137 have been discovered in mushrooms and berries grown along the west coast.

#15 According to an absolutely shocking report put out by the National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported radioactive material “across the entire North Pacific Ocean”…

“We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”

#16 Something seems to be causing a substantial spike in the death rate for killer whales living off of the coast of British Columbia.

#17 Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.

#18 One test in California found that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.

#19 Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…

73 percent of the mackerel
91 percent of the halibut
92 percent of the sardines
93 percent of the tuna and eel
94 percent of the cod and anchovies
100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish

#20 An EU-funded study concluded that Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere.

#21 One very experienced Australian adventurer has stated that he felt as though “the ocean itself was dead” as he journeyed from Japan to San Francisco recently…

The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear.
“After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,” Macfadyen said.

“We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening.
“I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.”

In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes.

“Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it’s still out there, everywhere you look.”

#22 It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years.

#23 The deputy chairman of Russia’s State Duma Committee for Natural Resources, Maxim Shingarkin, says that seafood captured off the northwest coast of the United States is so radioactive that it represents a “danger for mankind”…

Currents in the world ocean are so structured that the areas of seafood capture near the U.S. northwest coast are more likely to contain radioactive nuclides than even the Sea of Okhotsk, which is much closer to Japan. These products are the main danger for mankind because they can find their way to people’s tables on a massive scale.

#24 According to one recent scientific report, radiation from Fukushima could affect our seafood for “many generations” and ultimately kill more than a million people…

This cycle will last for many generations, because of the food chain of fish and other marine fauna, and the radioactivity will be recycled and in fact the meat content will increase rather than decreasing by decay. Even if only one one-hundredth of the radioactivity (more than 1e15 Bq of CS137) were to enter this recirculation pattern, the collective whole body ingestion dose over many generations would exceed 1e7 Sv, sufficient to kill more than 1,000,000 people.

#25 The Japanese government has estimated that approximately 300 tons of highly radioactive water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear facility every single day.

#26 A senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute says that “30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium” are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.

#27 According to Tepco, a total of somewhere between 20 trillion and 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have gotten into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima disaster first began.

#28 According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.

#29 It is being projected that significant levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean by the year 2020.

#30 It has been estimated that the entire Pacific Ocean will soon “have cesium levels 5 to 10 times higher” than what we witnessed during the era of heavy atomic bomb testing in the Pacific many decades ago.

#31 The immense amount of radioactive material being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima has caused environmental activist Joe Martino to issue the following warning…

Your days of eating Pacific Ocean fish are over.

#32 The Iodine-131, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 that are constantly being released from Fukushima are going to affect the health of those living in the northern hemisphere for a very, very long time. Just consider what Harvey Wasserman had to say about this…

Iodine-131, for example, can be ingested into the thyroid, where it emits beta particles (electrons) that damage tissue. A plague of damaged thyroids has already been reported among as many as 40 percent of the children in the Fukushima area. That percentage can only go higher. In developing youngsters, it can stunt both physical and mental growth.

Among adults it causes a very wide range of ancillary ailments, including cancer.
Cesium-137 from Fukushima has been found in fish caught as far away as California. It spreads throughout the body, but tends to accumulate in the muscles.

Strontium-90’s half-life is around 29 years. It mimics calcium and goes to our bones.

#33 Outdoor radiation levels at Fukushima recently hit a new all-time high.

#34 According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete.

#35 Yale Professor Charles Perrow is warning that if the cleanup of Fukushima is not handled with 100% precision that humanity could be threatened “for thousands of years”…

Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.

#36 There are very alarming reports that new “unexplained plumes of radioactive steam” are rising at Fukushima. Japanese officials are not able to get inside and see what is causing these plumes. Some are speculating that the crisis at Fukushima just got a whole lot worse. The following is from a recent Ecologist article…

Unexplained plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?

Fukushima’s Reactor Building 3 exploded on 13th March 2011 as a result of a hydrogen buildup, breaching the building’s containment and emitting a huge plume of radiation. The reactor itself is in meltdown.

And now fresh plumes of steam have been seen coming out the structure. These have now been confirmed by Tepco, the owner of the nuclear plant, from 19th December onwards. The company believes the steam is coming from the fifth floor of the building.

However it does not know the cause of the steam. Lethal levels of radiation and the physical damage to the structure have so far made entry and inspection impossible.
If a full-blown meltdown does happen at Fukushima, it would be an environmental disaster unlike anything that we have ever seen before in human history.

As we enter 2014, we are entering a time when the world is becoming increasingly unstable. The global economy is being shaken, political corruption is seemingly everywhere, evidence of advanced social decay is all around us and the earth itself is starting to groan and crack with increasingly regularity. But the mainstream media continues to insist that everything is going to be just fine. That is one of the reasons why I wrote my new novel. The American people deserve to hear the truth and be warned about the great challenges that are rapidly approaching.

In the end, millions upon millions of people could end up getting seriously ill as a result of all of this radiation coming from Fukushima. Most of them will never even know why they have gotten sick.

And if there is a major earthquake or a significant accident during the cleanup at Fukushima, we could actually see huge sections of Japan be evacuated permanently.

It would be hard to overstate just how serious all of this is. But you won’t hear about this from the mainstream media. Their story is that “everything is okay” and they are sticking to it.

[panopticon]

There are so many inaccurate or misleading statements in the above quote that it's hard to know where to start...

Take this:


#15 According to an absolutely shocking report put out by the National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported radioactive material “across the entire North Pacific Ocean”…

“We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”

This is quoting a journal article titled 'Pacific blue fin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California' (source (http://micheli.stanford.edu/pdf/Madiganetal_PNAS_2012.pdf)).

Simple enough, except it doesn't pass mention that the report indicated that naturally occurring radionuclides were of a higher concentration than the combined Caesium 134 & 137. To quote the same scientists in a report titled 'Evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood':


PBFT captured off California in August 2011 contained activity concentrations below those from naturally occurring radionuclides. To link the radioactivity to possible health impairments, we calculated doses, attributable to the Fukushima-derived and the naturally occurring radionuclides, to both the marine biota and human fish consumers. We showed that doses in all cases were dominated by the naturally occurring alpha-emitter 210 Po and that Fukushima-derived doses were three to four orders of magnitude below 210 Po-derived doses...
... doses are comparable to, or less than, the dose all humans routinely obtain from naturally occurring radionuclides in many food items, medical treatments, air travel, or other background sources.
Source (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/26/10670.full.pdf#page=1&view=FitH)

So yes, detected levels were higher (up from 1.5 Bq kg-1 in 2008 to 6.0 Bq kg-1 in 2011) but this is no-where near even the levels of naturally occurring polonium-210 in the same fish samples...

From the same report:


Dose to Humans. Consumption of 200 g (a typical restaurant-sized serving) of PBFT contaminated with 4.0 Bq·kg -1 dry weight of 134 Cs and 6.3 Bq·kg -1 dry weight of 137 Cs (mean values for PBFT caught off San Diego in August 2011) resulted in committed effective doses of 3.7 and 4.0 nSv, respectively (Table 1). To put this into perspective, the combined dose of 7.7 nSv from these two Cs isotopes is only about 5% of the dose acquired from eating one uncontaminated banana (assuming 200 g weight) and absorbing its naturally occurring 40 K (28), and only about 7% of the dose attributable to the 40 K in the PBFT (Table 1). More strikingly, the dose from both Cs isotopes is only 0.2% of that attributable to the naturally occurring 210 Po from ingesting the fish (Table 1). Furthermore, in August 2012, PBFT off California were found to have less than half the levels of radioactive Cs than were found in August 2011 (29), which would result in even lower doses to human consumers.
Source (http://www.pnas.org/content/110/26/10670.full.pdf#page=1&view=FitH)

So, to be clear, if you sat down and ate a 200 gram serving of tuna with the quantity of Caesium 134 & 137 mentioned in the first article that would be about 5% of the equivalent dose from an average banana (ie eat twenty 200 gram servings of "contaminated" Tuna in one sitting and you've got the same equivalent dose as you'd get from eating one banana).

-- Pan

[Camilo]

Fuku Warning! US Gov’t Orders 14 Million Doses Of Potassium Iodide

Fukushima - A Recap Of its Carnage on Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rycyCPc7AcE&feature=share

Streamed live on Dec 31, 2013

Lets end the year with a recap of the stunning facts that are speaking for the victims and voiceless .
Rad Chick Nuke Radio - Coverup Of Radiation Exposure Of US Servicemen Near Fukushima And Operation Tomodachi

[Maria Stade]

Something to look at !

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/index.html

[Hervé]

Fuku Warning! US Gov’t Orders 14 Million Doses Of Potassium Iodide

[...]

Here is the Solicitation for proposals:

U.S. government orders 14 million doses of potassium iodide (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5cd0c1800435272c80ad292aeb9d1ba7&tab=core&tabmode=list&)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
FBO.gov (https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=5cd0c1800435272c80ad292aeb9d1ba7&tab=core&tabmode=list&)
Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:35 CST



http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/163505/medium/potassium_iodide.jpg (http://www.sott.net/image/image/s8/163505/full/potassium_iodide.jpg)

© Seerpress, Potassium Iodide


Solicitation Number: 14-284-SOL-0015A

Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Synopsis:
Added: Dec 06, 2013 3:35 pm (i)

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for a commercial item prepared in accordance with FAR Subpart 12.6, as supplemented with additional information in this notice.

This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; proposals are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued.

(ii) The solicitation number is 14-284-SOL-0015A. This solicitation is issued as an [sic] Request for Quote (RFQ).

(iii) The corresponding NAICS code is 325412 and the small business standard size is 750 employees.

(iv) The contract line item number, item, quantity and unit of measure is:

Line No. 001; potassium iodide tablet, 65mg, unit dose package of 20s; 700,000 packages (of 20s)

(v) Delivery is required on or before February 1, 2014.
Delivery will be made to:
DHHS, SSC
Bldg #5 Receiving Dock
Perry Point,MD 21902

(vi) The provisions of FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors - Commercial Items; 52.212-2, Evaluation - Commercial Items; and FAR 52.212-5, Contract Terms and Conditions - Commercial items apply to this acquisition. The Government will awad a contract resulting from this synopsis/solicitation to the responsible offerror whose offer conforms to the solicitation and provides the best value to the Governemnt - price and other factors considered.

(vii) Quotes are due Tuesday, December 23, 2013 by 3:30 pm, EST, electronically to the Contracting Officer at timothy.bouchelle@psc.hhs.gov.

(viii) Contact Timothy R. Bouchelle, Contracting Officer, at timothy.bouchelle@psc.hhs.gov regarding this solicitation number 14-284-SOL0015A.
Phone inquiries can be made at 410-642-1382.
Contracting Office Address:
Building 14
Perry Point, Maryland 21902
Place of Performance: DHHS
SSC, Bldg #5 Receiving Dock

Perry Point, Maryland 21902
United States
Primary Point of Contact:
Timothy R. Bouchelle timothy.bouchelle@psc.hhs.gov
Phone: 4106421382


__________________________________



Alarmist title of "14 million doses", that's 1 pellet inside a bag of 20... reduces to 7ooK bags... let's say 2 bags per individual... that's for only 350,000 people...

[Camilo]

Study: Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast; up from one percent before Fukushima

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/s...ore-fukushima/

[panopticon]

Study: Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast; up from one percent before Fukushima

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/s...ore-fukushima/

Responded to the above Icke copy of the Naturalnews.com article (http://www.naturalnews.com/043380_Fukushima_radiation_ocean_life.html) in another thread.



The full paper the above is based on 'Deep ocean communities impacted by changing climate over 24 y in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean' can be found here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/110/49/19838.full

The authors clearly state that the measurements prior to 2011 were not as detailed (or accurate) as the measurements taken from the Summer of 2011 onwards. Prior to 2011 the measurements were taken seasonally as opposed in the reported period used in the above article being on a more frequent basis (in some instances photos were taken hourly).

Yet another misrepresentation of a paper by people wanting to point at something which just isn't presented.

So where is Station M?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=24358&d=1388810273

What does the sea floor look like there?

http://www.mbari.org/pelagic-benthic/images/Seafloor%20Bottom%20at%20Station%20M.jpg

Want more information on Station M and the area of study being undertaken there?
Try here: Abyssal Time-Series Studies at Station M (http://www.mbari.org/pelagic-benthic/deepsea.htm).


Look at the following image that as used in the naturalnews article Icke quoted and compare it to the one shown above that really is of the ocean floor in that area (taken by the people who wrote the paper quoted in the article):

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/300X250/Nature/Ocean-Dead-Zone.jpg

Now, tell me that the original article from Naturalnews.com wasn't biased and trying to mislead.

:tsk:

-- Pan

[panopticon]

There seems to be some people in the US who are concerned about the effect the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will have on them.

A new paper I came across talks about measurements taken during the period from March 14th, 2011 through to December 2012. It also presents results from independent examination, in October 2013, of imported food for Sr, Cs etc as well as some data following the 1986 Chernobyl accident as a comparison.

The paper is 'Measurements of Fission Products from the Fukushima Daiichi Incident in San Francisco Bay Area Air Filters, Automobile Filters, Rainwater, and Food (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314)'.

The conclusion reads:


Monitoring of fallout from the Fukushima nuclear accident was performed on a variety of media at the LBNL Low Back-ground Facility starting soon after the tsunami on March 14, 2011 and reported here through the end of 2012 on air filters, automobile air filters, and rainwater. At the local LBNL LBF location, HEPA air filters were used in sampling durations ranging from 24 hours to one month while monitoring radioisotope concentrations. Rainwater was also collected and analyzed through the end of 2012 in Oroville, CA. Additionally, the fission products monitored provided a useful demonstration of the use of automobile filters as a low cost means of monitoring for radioisotopes. More extensive analysis was performed upon rainwater samples from March 2011 that contained the highest measured activities in the Berkeley area in an effort to search for the presence of 90 Sr in the rainwater that arrived in the initial weeks following the incident, in which it was not detected and one sigma limits were placed at < 8.98 mBq L-1.

A series of food measurements were also performed in October 2013 upon imported food products from the Pacific region, and although background 137 Cs was present from sources prior to Fukushima, it was far below any level of concerns due to radioactivity– both from FDA DIL's and comparison to natural 40 K. Measurements made by the same authors of air filters and food products in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster are also presented here in comparison to the Fukushima fall-out. The main conclusion drawn from these sets of data is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011.

The fission products measured in this work in the San Francisco Bay Area of California were not found at any time to be of concern to public or environmental health. These conclusions are justified not only through governmental limits of exposure and activities, but also by direct comparison of natural radioactivities also present in all samples measured.
Source (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314v1)

Just to repeat:

'The main conclusion drawn ... is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011'.

I hope this is of use to someone.

-- Pan

[Kimberley]

Pan thank you! Great find...

I posted this on another thread a few days ago ...it is over a year old, from Nov 2012. Very interesting!

The women living in Chernobyl's toxic wasteland

Full article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9646437/The-women-living-in-Chernobyls-toxic-wasteland.html


Decades after Chernobyl's nuclear disaster, despite the severely contaminated ground, government objections and the deaths of many fellow 'self-settlers’, a community of determined babushkas remains.


One refrain I heard often was, 'Those who left are worse off now. They are all dying of sadness. ’What sounds like faith may actually be fact. According to reports by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Children’s Fund, many of those who were relocated after the accident now suffer from anxiety, depression and disrupted social networks, the traumas of displaced people everywhere.

And these conditions seem to have health effects as real as those caused by radiation. The journalist Alexander Anisimov, who spent his career studying the self-settler community, claimed that the women who returned to their ancestral homes in the zone outlived those who left by a decade.

No health studies have been done, but anecdotal evidence suggests that most of the babushkas die of strokes rather than any obvious radiation-related illnesses, and they have dealt better with the psychological trauma. Toxic levels of strontium and cesium in the soil are real, but so are the tug of the ancestral home and the health benefits of determining one’s own destiny.


Now why would no health studies be done when they could get so much information? That does not add up...just saying. :grouphug:

[panopticon]

Ted talk by Holly Morris on her visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone and her upcoming documentary on the Babushkas of Chernobyl (http://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com).

93hbqLBp_HI
Getting back to Japan, the following excerpt (from a 2012 article) summarises the prevalence of I-131 activity in the thyroid of examined individuals (46 of the 62 tested reported positive):


The thyroid equivalent doses assessed in this study were much smaller than the mean thyroid dose in the Chernobyl accident (which was 490 mSv in evacuees). Thyroid equivalent doses assessed assuming an ingestion pathway were similar to those found for inhalation. Even when either of the two intake pathways or their combination was assumed, no dose exceeded 50 mSv.
Source (http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120712/srep00507/full/srep00507.html)

-- Pan

[Kimberley]

Ted talk by Holly Morris on her visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone and her upcoming documentary on the Babushkas of Chernobyl (http://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com).

93hbqLBp_HI
Getting back to Japan, the following excerpt (from a 2012 article) summarises the prevalence of I-131 activity in the thyroid of examined individuals (46 of the 62 tested reported positive):


The thyroid equivalent doses assessed in this study were much smaller than the mean thyroid dose in the Chernobyl accident (which was 490 mSv in evacuees). Thyroid equivalent doses assessed assuming an ingestion pathway were similar to those found for inhalation. Even when either of the two intake pathways or their combination was assumed, no dose exceeded 50 mSv.
Source (http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120712/srep00507/full/srep00507.html)

-- Pan

OMG Pan you did it again! Congratulations...this is amazing!!! Thank you!!!

It is amazing how we can all work together and gather the information that is true!!!! :hug:

[Rocky_Shorz]

There seems to be some people in the US who are concerned about the effect the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will have on them.

A new paper I came across talks about measurements taken during the period from March 14th, 2011 through to December 2012. It also presents results from independent examination, in October 2013, of imported food for Sr, Cs etc as well as some data following the 1986 Chernobyl accident as a comparison.

The paper is 'Measurements of Fission Products from the Fukushima Daiichi Incident in San Francisco Bay Area Air Filters, Automobile Filters, Rainwater, and Food (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314)'.

The conclusion reads:


Monitoring of fallout from the Fukushima nuclear accident was performed on a variety of media at the LBNL Low Back-ground Facility starting soon after the tsunami on March 14, 2011 and reported here through the end of 2012 on air filters, automobile air filters, and rainwater. At the local LBNL LBF location, HEPA air filters were used in sampling durations ranging from 24 hours to one month while monitoring radioisotope concentrations. Rainwater was also collected and analyzed through the end of 2012 in Oroville, CA. Additionally, the fission products monitored provided a useful demonstration of the use of automobile filters as a low cost means of monitoring for radioisotopes. More extensive analysis was performed upon rainwater samples from March 2011 that contained the highest measured activities in the Berkeley area in an effort to search for the presence of 90 Sr in the rainwater that arrived in the initial weeks following the incident, in which it was not detected and one sigma limits were placed at < 8.98 mBq L-1.

A series of food measurements were also performed in October 2013 upon imported food products from the Pacific region, and although background 137 Cs was present from sources prior to Fukushima, it was far below any level of concerns due to radioactivity– both from FDA DIL's and comparison to natural 40 K. Measurements made by the same authors of air filters and food products in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster are also presented here in comparison to the Fukushima fall-out. The main conclusion drawn from these sets of data is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011.

The fission products measured in this work in the San Francisco Bay Area of California were not found at any time to be of concern to public or environmental health. These conclusions are justified not only through governmental limits of exposure and activities, but also by direct comparison of natural radioactivities also present in all samples measured.
Source (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314v1)

Just to repeat:

'The main conclusion drawn ... is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011'.

I hope this is of use to someone.

-- Pan

we're all being told that the effect on California Ocean life is from Fukushima, but this quietly slipped by most people...


Wall St. Journal: Plutonium levels 1,000 times normal on seafloor 50 miles from San Francisco — Expert Appalled: Major nuclear dump offshore is a threat to health — Around 50,000 containers of radioactive waste in globally significant ecosystem...


A 2001 federal study of part of the Farallon dump site [off San Francisco] found indications of leakage from barrels. Estimates of the radioactivity amounts in the containers “could be off as much as a factor of 10 [...] little is known of the fate of radioisotopes added to the sea.” link (http://enenews.com/wsj-plutonium-levels-1000-times-normal-on-seafloor-50-miles-from-san-francisco-appalled-major-nuclear-dump-offshore-is-a-health-threat-said-expert-47000-containers-of-radioactive-waste-in-a)

[panopticon]

There seems to be some people in the US who are concerned about the effect the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will have on them.

A new paper I came across talks about measurements taken during the period from March 14th, 2011 through to December 2012. It also presents results from independent examination, in October 2013, of imported food for Sr, Cs etc as well as some data following the 1986 Chernobyl accident as a comparison.

The paper is 'Measurements of Fission Products from the Fukushima Daiichi Incident in San Francisco Bay Area Air Filters, Automobile Filters, Rainwater, and Food (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314)'.

The conclusion reads:


Monitoring of fallout from the Fukushima nuclear accident was performed on a variety of media at the LBNL Low Back-ground Facility starting soon after the tsunami on March 14, 2011 and reported here through the end of 2012 on air filters, automobile air filters, and rainwater. At the local LBNL LBF location, HEPA air filters were used in sampling durations ranging from 24 hours to one month while monitoring radioisotope concentrations. Rainwater was also collected and analyzed through the end of 2012 in Oroville, CA. Additionally, the fission products monitored provided a useful demonstration of the use of automobile filters as a low cost means of monitoring for radioisotopes. More extensive analysis was performed upon rainwater samples from March 2011 that contained the highest measured activities in the Berkeley area in an effort to search for the presence of 90 Sr in the rainwater that arrived in the initial weeks following the incident, in which it was not detected and one sigma limits were placed at < 8.98 mBq L-1.

A series of food measurements were also performed in October 2013 upon imported food products from the Pacific region, and although background 137 Cs was present from sources prior to Fukushima, it was far below any level of concerns due to radioactivity– both from FDA DIL's and comparison to natural 40 K. Measurements made by the same authors of air filters and food products in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster are also presented here in comparison to the Fukushima fall-out. The main conclusion drawn from these sets of data is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011.

The fission products measured in this work in the San Francisco Bay Area of California were not found at any time to be of concern to public or environmental health. These conclusions are justified not only through governmental limits of exposure and activities, but also by direct comparison of natural radioactivities also present in all samples measured.
Source (http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7314v1)

Just to repeat:

'The main conclusion drawn ... is that the peak fallout activities from Chernobyl in 1986 upon the San Francisco Bay Area were approximately an order of magnitude more than the levels seen from Fukushima in 2011'.

I hope this is of use to someone.

-- Pan

we're all being told that the effect on California Ocean life is from Fukushima, but this quietly slipped by most people...


Wall St. Journal: Plutonium levels 1,000 times normal on seafloor 50 miles from San Francisco — Expert Appalled: Major nuclear dump offshore is a threat to health — Around 50,000 containers of radioactive waste in globally significant ecosystem...


A 2001 federal study of part of the Farallon dump site [off San Francisco] found indications of leakage from barrels. Estimates of the radioactivity amounts in the containers “could be off as much as a factor of 10 [...] little is known of the fate of radioisotopes added to the sea.” link (http://enenews.com/wsj-plutonium-levels-1000-times-normal-on-seafloor-50-miles-from-san-francisco-appalled-major-nuclear-dump-offshore-is-a-health-threat-said-expert-47000-containers-of-radioactive-waste-in-a)

Yeah I came across that report Rocky.

Remnant of the old "Solution To Pollution Is Dilution" rhetoric.

Never ceases to amaze me that people think it's horrific to pump oil & pesticides into the ocean but reckon that radioactive waste is all fine and good.

-- Pan

[Rocky_Shorz]

I'm sure it must have been on the California's voters ballet...

as a peace loving hippy, would you rather store nuclear waste in your back yard where it might affect your crops, or would you prefer we just dump it safely off shore in containers guaranteed not to rust for 25 years?

[panopticon]

Ted talk by Holly Morris on her visit to the Chernobyl exclusion zone and her upcoming documentary on the Babushkas of Chernobyl (http://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com).

93hbqLBp_HI
Getting back to Japan, the following excerpt (from a 2012 article) summarises the prevalence of I-131 activity in the thyroid of examined individuals (46 of the 62 tested reported positive):


The thyroid equivalent doses assessed in this study were much smaller than the mean thyroid dose in the Chernobyl accident (which was 490 mSv in evacuees). Thyroid equivalent doses assessed assuming an ingestion pathway were similar to those found for inhalation. Even when either of the two intake pathways or their combination was assumed, no dose exceeded 50 mSv.
Source (http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/120712/srep00507/full/srep00507.html)

-- Pan

OMG Pan you did it again! Congratulations...this is amazing!!! Thank you!!!

It is amazing how we can all work together and gather the information that is true!!!! :hug:

I've been reporting the same stuff for ages and have been largely ignored (except by Target, Cid and a few others).

-- Pan

[panopticon]

I'm sure it must have been on the California's voters ballet...

as a peace loving hippy, would you rather store nuclear waste in your back yard where it might affect your crops, or would you prefer we just dump it safely off shore in containers guaranteed not to rust for 25 years?

Just got to shake my head on it mate.

Lack of foresight? Deliberate action? Fiscal avoidance? etc etc etc.

It's just bloody shocking mate, sometimes I despair.

Then Australia thrashes the Poms in the Ashes and I know I can carry on. :)

[outerheaven]

Thanks for the TED video Pan.

It's amusing, isn't it -- seeing a scientist's smug befuddlement when our infallible belief system is challenged.

Certainly I don't mean to criticize Ms. Morris, as she seems to be more open-minded than most. But that video, as incredible and mind-blowing as it might be to someone who believes the official narrative and fear-mongering, is as equally incredible in showing the unwavering faith our society puts in our authorities.

I imagine a future civilization watching this video and reflecting on our society, wondering what we were like. It's quite amusing. We clearly think ourselves so smart and advanced. TEDTalks, an organization that is considered an unbiased, cool, tech-savvy, on-the-cutting-edge of science, has given forum to this scientist to stand on stage in front of thousands and amaze them by revealing an element of the lie that has been perpetrated on them, ... but under the pretense of the amazing mysteries of science.

Ms. Morris seems to understand half the equation, that belief creates reality. I wonder if she understands the other half -- that we have been deceived -- but knows saying it could end her career, or very possibly her life.

[Camilo]

Fukushima Meltdowns: A Global Conspiracy of Denial
By William Boardman

Global Research, January 05, 2014

Theme: Environment, Media Disinformation

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Does anyone in authority anywhere tell the truth about Fukushima?

If there is any government or non-government authority in the world that is addressing the disaster at Fukushima openly, directly, honestly, and effectively, it’s not apparent to the outside observer what entity that might be.

There is instead an apparent global conspiracy of authorities of all sorts to deny to the public reliably accurate, comprehensible, independently verifiable (where possible), and comprehensive information about not only the condition of the Fukushima power plant itself and its surrounding communities, but about the unceasing, uncontrolled release of radioactive debris into the air and water, creating a constantly increasing risk of growing harm to the global community.

While the risk may still be miniscule in most places, the range of risk rises to lethal in Fukushima itself. With the radioactive waste of four nuclear reactors (three of them in meltdown) under uncertain control for almost three years now, the risk of lethal exposure is very real for plant workers, and may decrease with distance from the plant, but may be calculable for anyone on the planet. No one seems to know. No one seems to have done the calculation. No one with access to the necessary information (assuming it exists) seems to want to do the calculation.

There is no moral excuse for this international collusion. The excuses are political or economic or social, but none of them excuses any authority for withholding or lying about information that has potentially universal and destructive impact on everyone alive today and everyone to be born for some unknown generations.

Japanese authorities may be the worst current offenders against the truth, as well as the health and safety of their people. Now the Japanese government has passed a harsh state secrets law that threatens to reduce or eliminate reliable information about Fukushima. The U.S. government officially applauded this heightened secrecy, while continuing its own tight control on nuclear information. Japanese authorities are already attacking their own people in defense of nuclear power: not only under-measuring and ignoring varieties of radioactive threat, but even withholding the iodine pills in 2011 that might have mitigated the growing epidemic of thyroid issues today. Failing to confront Fukushima honestly, the Japanese are laying the basis for what could amount to a radiological sneak attack on the rest of the world.

Just because no one seems to know what to do about Fukushima is no excuse to go on lying about and/or denying the dimensions of reality, whatever they might be.

There are hundreds, probably thousands of people with little or no authority who have long struggled to create a realistic, rational perspective on nuclear threats. The fundamental barrier to knowing the scale of the Fukushima disaster is just that: the scale of the Fukushima disaster.

Chernobyl 1986 and Fukushima 2011 are not really comparable

Chernobyl is the closest precedent to Fukushima, and it’s not very close. Chernobyl at the time of the 1986 electric failure and explosion had four operating reactors and two more under construction. The Chernobyl accident involved one reactor meltdown. Other reactors kept operating for some time after the accident. The rector meltdown was eventually entombed, containing the meltdown and reducing the risk. Until Fukushima, Chernobyl was considered the worst nuclear power accident in history, and it is still far from over (albeit largely contained for the time being). The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone of roughly 1,000 square miles remains one of the most radioactive areas in the world and the clean-up is not even expected to be complete before 2065.

At the time of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, the Fukushima plant had six operating reactors. Three of them went into meltdown and a fourth was left with a heavily laden fuel pool teetering a hundred feet above the ground. Two other reactors were undamaged and have been shut down. Radiation levels remain lethal in each of the melted-down reactors, where the meltdowns appear to be held in check by water that is pumped into the reactors to keep them cool. In the process, the water gets irradiated and that which is not collected on site in leaking tanks flows steadily into the Pacific Ocean. Within the first two weeks, Fukushima radiation was comparable to Chernobyl’s and while the levels have gone down, they remain elevated.

The plant’s corporate owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), in turn effectively owned by the Japanese government after a2012 nationalization, began removing more than 1,500 fuel rod assemblies from the teetering fuel pool in November, a delicate process expected to take a year or more. There are additional fuel pools attached to each of the melted down reactors and a much larger general fuel pool, all of which contain nuclear fuel rod assemblies that are secure only as long as TEPCO continues to cool them. The Fukushima Exclusion Zone, a 12-mile radius around the nuclear plant, is about 500 square miles (much of it ocean); little specific information about the exclusion zone is easily available, but media coverage in the form of disaster tourism is plentiful, including a Google Street View interactive display.

Despite their significant differences as disasters, Chernobyl and Fukushima are both rated at 7 – a “major accident” on the International Nuclear Event Scale designed in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). That is the highest rating on the scale, a reflection of the inherent denial that colors most official nuclear thinking. Designed by nuclear “experts” after Chernobyl, the scale can’t imagine a worse accident than Chernobyl which, for all its intensity, was effectively over as an accident in a relatively short period of time. At Fukushima, by contrast, the initial set of events was less acute than Chernobyl, but almost three years later they continue without any resolution likely soon. Additionally Fukushima has three reactor meltdowns and thousands of precarious fuel rod assemblies in uncertain pools, any of which could produce a new crisis that would put Fukushima clearly off the scale.

And then there’s groundwater. Groundwater was not a problem at Chernobyl. Groundwater is a huge problem at the Fukushima plant that was built at the seashore, on a former riverbed, over an active aquifer. In a short video, nuclear engineer Arnie Gunderson makes clear why groundwater makes Fukushima so hard to clean up, and why radiation levels there will likely remain dangerous for another hundred years.

Fukushima Unit #3 activity led to some panic-driven reporting in 2013

The Japanese government and nuclear power industry have a history of not telling the truth about nuclear accidents dating back at least to 1995, as reported by New Scientist and Rachel Maddow, among others. Despite Japan’s history of nuclear dishonesty, Japanese authorities remain in total control of the Fukushima site and most of the information about it, without significant objection from most of the world’s governments, media, and other power brokers, whose reputation for honesty in nuclear matters is almost as bad as Japan’s. In such a context of no context, the public is vulnerable to reports like this from the Turner Radio Network (TRN) on December 28:

** NEWS FLASH – URGENT ** STEAM SUDDENLY EMANATING FROM FUKUSHIMA REACTOR # 3 – WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS

Five days after this story was posted, the “radiation cloud” had not developed despite the story’s assertion that: “Experts say this could be the beginning of a ‘spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)’ involving up to 89 TONS of nuclear fuel burning up into the atmosphere and heading to North America.” The story named no “experts” and provided links only to TEPCO announcements in Japanese. The bulk of the story reads like an infomercial for “protective” gear of various sorts that TRN makes a point of saying it does NOT sell. Despite such obvious warning signs, others – such as The Ecologist and Gizmodo – reported the threat of “another meltdown” at Fukushima Unit #3 as imminent.

Clarification and reassurance quickly started chasing the “new meltdown” rumor around the Internet. ENENEWS (Energy News) promptly posted the TEPCO reports in English, demonstrating that there was nothing “sudden” about the steam releases, they’ve been happening more or less daily since 2011, but condensation caused by cold weather makes them visible. At FAIREWINDS (Energy Education), Arnie Gunderson posted on January 1:

“… the Internet has been flooded with conjecture claiming that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is ready to explode…. Our research, and discussions with other scientists, confirms that what we are seeing is a phenomenon that has been occurring at the Daiichi site since the March 2011 accident…. While the plants are shutdown in nuke speak, there is no method of achieving cold shut down in any nuclear reactor. While the reactor can stop generating the actual nuclear chain reaction, the atoms left over from the original nuclear chain reaction continue to give off heat that is called the decay of the radioactive rubble (fission products)…. constantly releasing moisture (steam) and radioactive products into the environment.” [emphasis added]

In other words, Fukushima Unit #3 continues to leak radioactivity into both air and water, as Units #1 and #2 presumably do as well. But as Gunderson explains, the level of radioactivity has declined sharply without becoming benign:

“When Unit 3 was operating, it was producing more than 2,000 megawatts of heat from the nuclear fission process (chain reaction in the reactor). Immediately after the earthquake and tsunami, it shut down and the chain reaction stopped, but Unit 3 was still producing about 160 megawatts of decay heat. Now, 30 months later, it is still producing slightly less than 1 megawatt (one million watts) of decay heat…. 1 megawatt of decay heat is a lot of heat even today, and it is creating radioactive steam, but it is not a new phenomenon.”

Reassurances about Fukushima are as misleading as scare stories

The reassuring aspects of the condition of Unit #3 ­– radioactive releases are not new, they’re less intense than they once were, the nuclear waste is cooling ­– while true enough, provide only a false sense of comfort. Also true: radiation is released almost continuously, the releases are uncontrolled, no one seems to be measuring the releases, no one seems to be tracking the releases, no one is assessing accumulation of the releases. And while it’s true that the waste is cooling and decaying, it’s also true that a loss of coolant could lead to another uncontrolled chain reaction. (“Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 is not going to explode,” says Gunderson in a headline, but he can’t know that with certainty.)

For the near future, what all that means, in effect, is that the world has to accept chronic radiation releases from Fukushima as the price for avoiding another catastrophic release. And even then, it’s not a sure thing.

But there’s another aspect of Fukushima Unit #3 that’s even less reassuring. Unit #3 is the one Fukushima reactor that was running on Mixed oxide fuel, or MOX fuel, in its fuel rods. MOX fuel typically uses Plutonium mixed with one or more forms of Uranium. Using Plutonium in fuel rods adds to their toxicity in the event of a meltdown. In part because Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 240,000 years and can be used to make nuclear weapons of “dirty bombs,” its use in commercial reactors remains both limited and controversial. Because it contains Plutonium, MOX fuel is more toxic than other nuclear fuel and will burn at lower temperatures. As Natural Resources News reported in 2011:

“The mixed oxide fuel rods used in the compromised number three reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi complex contain enough plutonium to threaten public health with the possibility of inhalation of airborne plutonium particles…. Plutonium is at its most dangerous when it is inhaled and gets into the lungs. The effect on the human body is to vastly increase the chance of developing fatal cancers.”

Reportedly, TEPCO plans don’t call for the removal of the MOX fuel in Unit #3 for another decade or more. Fuel removal from Units #1, #2, and #3 is complicated by lethal radiation levels at all three reactors, as well as TEPCO’s inability so far to locate the three melted cores with any precision.

There is ample reason to hope that Fukushima, despite the complex of uncontrollable and deteriorating factors, will not get worse, because even the Japanese don’t want that. But there is little reason to expect anything but worsening conditions, slowly or suddenly, for years and years to come. And there is even less reason to expect anyone in authority anywhere to be more than minimally and belatedly truthful about an industry they continue to protect, no matter how many people it damages or kills.

The perfect paradigm of that ruthlessly cynical nuclear mentality is the current Japanese practice of recruiting homeless people to work at Fukushima in high level radiation areas where someone with something to lose might not be willing to go for minimum wage.

[halffull]

Fukushima: Who Profits from a Cover-up?

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Henry Shivley


I was part of that generation that as children participated in the nuclear attack drills, hiding under the desk, all through the cold war. Our population was bombarded with information that articulated beyond a doubt that radiation presents a detrimental threat to the human life organism.

Once the $5.5 trillion had been milked from the American population to procure a nuclear arsenal capable of destroying the planet, the emphasis shifted as the interest of the international nuclear industry commanded they must.

All of the sudden, radiation wasn’t so bad. In fact, the thought being projected was that if we allowed these very intelligent and competent people in the industry, and in consideration of their impeccable integrity, nuclear power plants could be built and that which was once demonized to create fear for profit within the industrial war complex was now a godsend that would free us from that nasty old polluting coal, which became the new demon.

The point here is the projected reality in reference to nuclear byproducts has been determined in direct coalition to wealth to be procured.

When the reactor melted down at Chernobyl, the death and carnage caused by the spread of the radiation was studied and documented by interests within the international political arena as showing the carnage caused harm to the Soviet Union, which was portrayed as the enemy, causing the need for further expenditures of wealth to keep them in check.

When examining the catastrophe at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant at Fukushima, Japan, and as there has been zero true scientific investigation into the spread of the material and its effect on organic life around the planet, all that is left is speculation. But in our speculating we can apply the lessons of the past in evaluating the present.

Now there are some out there who are saying the consequences of four reactors melting down are a very big problem, while another sect are of the contention that the meltdown is almost a good thing and that if mother’s milk is found to contain small levels of radiation there is really no concern.

These geniuses put forth the hypothesis that the radiation from Fukushima has not spread and that though the Russians had to cement in their failed reactor to stop the spread of radiation, these four at Fukushima are magically containing themselves. They say gamma rays can only travel in a couple of directions, straight into the earth below them or the earth on the horizon.

They say they have about 28 people throughout the United States monitoring the radiation. What they do not tell you is that each one of these 28 monitors spread out over 3,900,000 square miles can only detect one single square inch at a time. In short, radiation of a level sufficient to kill can be ten feet away from this single square inch and the meters will read safe levels.

But wait, they say, if the radiation was coming over in the Jet Stream, it would be evenly dispersed and they would be detecting it in their one inch circumference.

Let’s go out on a limb here and say those gamma rays that radiate can also radiate up from those four failed reactors. The Jet Stream does not always travel in a straight line directly over Fukushima or anywhere else that sport mountains as a part of its topography. You have gusts this way and that way; hence you have air pockets over the plants in varying degrees at varying times.

Now these amateur experts also make the claim that radiated particles of dirt can only get into the Jet Stream via an explosion. This is not only bull****, it is deliberate bull****. The wind coming across the land surfaces picks up particles, and as those winds pass over uneven surfaces, creating upward wind currents that can easily take the radiated particles up into the Jet Stream.

Don’t believe me? Just ask any airplane pilot and as sure as there are upward currents, there are downward currents. And as these particles would be in pockets as previously mentioned because of the topography and because of the fact that the Jet Stream does not move in a straight line, pockets of extremely radiated particles, by the laws of physics, can be blotched across the landscape, and unless you were to walk up on them with your one inch circumference reading meter, you would not pick up the reading.

Like I said, 28 square inches over the entire United States, that is their scientific study of the situation, which facilitates their absolute, unfounded, arrogant assertions that they are the absolute authority on the matter. And this is not mentioning the thousands of tons of radiated water still being released from the plant into the Pacific Ocean every day, which through the currents, migratory birds and fish has had two years to filter out into the United States and the rest of the world.

So what is the truth? Is it being covered up that the radiation has spread and poses a threat or is it being covered up that there has been no effect, and if there has been, well it is actually a good thing, because radiation is our friend. The multi-billion dollar grants going to the nuclear industry from the people of the United States for the building of more of these toxic plants has been going forward with little fanfare as reports of more and more leaking plants across the United States surface.

Looks like a money incentive to me. And is it just a coincidence that all of these ‘move along there is nothing to see here’ amateur expert radiation advocates seem to know someone in the industry that they have known for years that supports their position? There are issues here of liabilities from one people to another for negligent activity that have never been seen before, not to mention the billions in new construction. Do you think that just maybe this multi-billion dollar industry might just go out and hire one, two, maybe 28 guys to put up websites in an effort to put out a false narrative, which is not being challenged as the corporate owned press and the scientific community being finance through corporate grants stands mute?

Naw, this couldn’t be. The truth is mother’s mild and radiation are what builds our immune systems as babies and makes us strong, intelligent, and responsible Americans….Now where’s my check?

http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fukushima-who-profits-from-a-cover-up/71247

[feltip]

With all the misinformation around the internet here are links to articles that we trust. The following provide credible information about what is actually occurring and/or dispel myths about Fukushima radiation that are prevalent on the internet. I will not link to pseudoscience, misinformation, or outright lies in this post or allow them in the comments below. These posts and ideas have received far more attention and links than they deserve already. I provide the author, their credentials, a statement of the misinformation if applicable, the take home message, and my favorite quotes.


1.My favorite magazine growing up, Popular Mechanics, has a very nice write up about understanding radiation counts from radiation safety expert Andrew Karam. Andrew Karam has over 30 years of experience in health physics (radiation safety), beginning with an eight-year stint as a mechanical operator and radiation safety specialist in the Navy. Since then, Karam has worked for the State of Ohio, Ohio State University, the University of Rochester and as a private consultant. Favorite Quote: “In the areas of Japan I visited, radiation dose rates were elevated to about three to four times typical natural radiation dose rates (which are about .1 mrem per hour), but nowhere near as high as natural radiation levels I’ve measured in parts of Iran.”


2.Is the west coast being fried by Fukushima radiation? Dr. Andrew Thaler, a marine biologist and chief editor of Southern Fried Science, totally dismantles Michael Snyder’s Activist post 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima. Take Home: No and the Snyder article distorts the truth and outright lies to advocate for his position. Favorite Quote: “The article is a paranoid, poorly reasoned attempt to link the tragedy of the Fukushima disaster to just about every environmental issue facing the US west coast in the last few months.”


3.Are high radiation readings being observed on the west coast of the United States? No doubt you’ve seen the video of a man in San Francisco, California using a Geiger Counter showing high radiation readings on the beach. Enter Dan Sythe, the CEO of International Medcom Inc. that develops and produces radiation detection instruments and systems. Dan has a list of impressive credentials on everything Geiger Counter related. At the Geiger Counter Bulletin, he tests the same California sand and compares it to readings from Fukushima. Take Home: The radiation signature in the coastal sands is normal and is not the same as from Fukushima. Favorite Quote: “The radionuclides are in the NORM class of radioactive substances, not from Fukushima. NORM stands for Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material…If the sand were contaminated by radiation from Fukushima it would show Cesium 137 [it does not].” Super Favorite Bonus Quote: “The radiation level [in the sand] is elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.”


4.Related to the above, Wendy Hopkins an Information Officer of the California Department of Public Health, has made a public statement. Favorite Quote: “Recent tests show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident. There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima.” By the way, Dean Peterson, Director for Environmental Health Services for San Mateo County, also stated that the radiation is due to naturally occurring minerals typically found in coastal geology.


5.Dr. Jay T. Cullen, an Associate Professor of marine chemistry at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, researches the fate of metals that can be toxic and/or essential nutrients for organisms in the marine environment. He has an excellent set of articles at the Daily Kos including this primer and this one. Question: Is radiation, in the form of Cesium, reaching the west coast? Favorite Quote/Take Home: “Most recent measurements show that Fukushima derived Cs has reached the west coast as of June 2013 by ocean transport but that concentrations of Cs continue to be well below levels thought to pose environmental or public health threats.” Question: Is cesium being found in fish? Favorite Quote/Take Home: “Like fish sampled thus far in the north Pacific the contribution of Cs to overall exposure of human consumers to radiation by consuming these fish is very small.“


6.Are babies in the U.S. dying as a direct result of Fukushima radiation? Michael Moyer is a writer and editor at Scientific American and writes about these concerns (Post 1, Post 2). The first post deals with an unpublished study where “researchers” cherry picked data to fit their agenda. This group revised their analyses and now have a “published study” that is so fundamentally flawed it’s not worth mentioning. Take Home: Babies in the U.S. are not dying from Fukushima radiation. Favorite Quotes: “A check [of the data] reveals that the authors’ statistical claims are critically flawed—if not deliberate mistruths…picking only the data that suits your analysis isn’t science—it’s politics.” But my all time favorite quote is this baby that comes across as a stern gentlemanly slap to the face, “No attempt is made at providing systematic error estimates, or error estimates of any kind. No attempt is made to catalog any biases that may have crept into the analysis, though a cursory look finds biases a-plenty (the authors are anti-nuclear activists unaffiliated with any research institution). The analysis assumes that the plume arrived on U.S. shores, spread everywhere, instantly, and started killing people immediately. It assumes that the “excess” deaths after March 20 are a real signal, not just a statistical aberration, and that every one of them is due to Fukushima radiation.”


7.Skeptoid is an award winning blog and podcast dedicated to everything anti-science. The show is produced and hosted by Brian Dunning, a computer scientist who turned toward public engagement. If you want the unbiased and most critical assessment of any issue tune into them. A writer for Skeptoid, Michael Rothechild, has been providing background on the people making many of the alarmist claims on the impacts of Fukushima. Favorite Quote 1: “The piece was written by Gary Stamper, who runs “Collapse into Consciousness,” a website devoted to surviving the supposed coming collapse of society.” Michael has a series of posts that tackle the pseudoscientific claims being made about radioactive fish, whether we will all face a cesium soaked death, and a whole list of common claims about Fukushima. Make sure you read the last one especially. Favorite Quote 2: “Obviously, the situation at Fukushima is distressing, and not at all something that should be shrugged off. But compounding it with scaremongering about our food supply does nothing productive for anyone. But I urge you to make that decision based on sound scientific research and testable claims, not hysterical screeds backed by supposition and fear.”


8.The list wouldn’t be complete without including Deep-Sea News posts. Dr. Kim Martini, a physical oceanographer, wrote an excellent post about Fukushima radiation that separates fact from fiction. Question: Is everyone on the west coast swathed in Fukushima radiation? Take Home: No. Favorite Quote: “This is not a map of Fukushima Radiation spreading across the Pacific. This is a map of the estimated maximum wave heights of the Japanese Tohuku Tsunami by modelers at NOAA.”


9.Dr. Miriam Goldstein, a biological oceanographer now working on policy in D.C., wrote about recent studies of Fukushima radiation in fish. The title states the take home message: radiation levels were detectable but not hazardous. Favorite Quote: “So teeny fish in the waters off Japan just a few months after Fukushima had such low levels of radioactivity that they are considered safe to eat under Japanese law. And of this radioactivity, only 10-30% of the total radioactivity found in marine life was attributable to the Fukushima discharges – the rest was from naturally occurring radionuclides… tuna caught off California contains ten times LESS radiation than even the strictest food limit. What’s the theme? DETECTABLE but not HAZARDOUS”


10.Dr. Chris Mah is a researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and one of the world’s leading experts on starfish and echinoderms in general. Chris’s post here at DSN debunks the claim that the starfish dying on the west coast have anything to do with the Fukushima incident. Favorite Quote: “If there were waves of Fukushima radiation pouring onto the coast-and “melting” all the starfish as some folks would suggest, EVERYTHING would be dead. Not just the sea stars. Note also that all the divers involved in these surveys have reported NO ill effects.”


11.I wrote about whether dead and irradiated animals were littering the Pacific floor. I am a deep-sea biologist and over the last several years my research has focused on the biodiversity of deep-sea communities off the California coast. Like many others, I am also working toward understanding how deep-sea life will respond to increased anthropogenic impacts, particularly climate change. This resulted in a high profile publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. My favorite quote of myself: “Nowhere does the paper or the press release mention radiation or Fukushima. Nilch, negatory, nadda, never. But this is not good enough for staff writer Ethan Hunt and other outlets that continue to recycle this story.”


12.I finish the list by quoting Michael Rothechild again. “I believe the anxiety about the meltdown and its aftermath comes from a mix of negativity toward nuclear power, hostility toward plant operators TEPCO (which is well-deserved in most cases), a lack of knowledge about basic science, distrust of experts (who are seen as dishonest shills) and the common habit of sharing social content that’s driven by strong negative emotions – often without understanding it, and sometimes without even reading it.”

I understand why people are scared and concerned. I grew up in the age of imminent nuclear destruction (does anyone else remember doing nuclear attack drills in schools that were very similar to tornado drills?). My generation and the baby boomers before us were steeped in a pot of nuclear fear and skepticism. As Kim stated in her post, “While there are terrible things that happened around the Fukushima Power Plant in Japan; Alaska, Hawaii and the West Coast aren’t in any danger. These posts were meant to scare people (and possibly written by terrified authors). They did just that, but there is a severe lack of facts in these posts.” I caution everyone to thoroughly evaluate all claims and look at the biases and expertise of those making them.


http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/all-the-best-scientifically-verified-information-on-fukushima-impacts/

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Fukushima Fish 124X above radiation safe level

Each day, another 300 tons of highly radioactive water is released into the Pacific Ocean at Fukushima, and that means that the total amount of radioactive material that is getting into our food chain is constantly increasing. And since some of these radioactive elements have a half-life of about 30 years, that means that our food chain is going to be contaminated for a very, very long time.

Strangely, the mainstream media in the United States has been extremely quiet about all of this. The following is an article from a Russian news source about this highly radioactive fish that was just caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture…


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Fish with deadly levels of radioactive cesium have been caught just off the coast of Fukushima prefecture, as scientists continue to assess the damage caused to the marine food chain by the 2011 nuclear disaster.

One of the samples of the 37 black sea bream specimens caught some 37 kilometers south of the crippled power plant tested at 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, making it 124 times deadlier than the threshold considered safe for human consumption, Japan’s Fisheries Research Agency announced.
That same article also noted that a fish that was caught last year near Fukushima contained a level of cesium that was actually far greater…

The record cesium reading was recorded last year when a fish caught near the plant carried 740,000 becquerels of cesium per kilogram.
Would you eat such a fish?

The truth is that there might be one in your freezer right now.

According to an absolutely shocking report put out by the National Academy of Sciences, it has been proven that Pacific Bluefin tuna have transported highly radioactive material “across the entire North Pacific Ocean”…

“We report unequivocal evidence that Pacific Bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, transported Fukushima-derived radionuclides across the entire North Pacific Ocean.”

http://www.riseearth.com/2014/01/enjoy-radioactive-fish-tests-show.html#.UtlWuCLFLcs

[panopticon]

Glad that the elevated levels of Caesium etc found in fish off Fukushima has been pointed out.

There's still low-level waste water from the cooling system leaking into the ocean, not to mention we have no idea how water is flowing past the melted fuel in the other reactors...

Periodically TEPCO release the latest test results from fish caught off-shore.

We can also go to the TEPCO website to see the official measurements in the bay and further offshore by visiting here:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/index-e.html

Now if I'm right the below pdf's should update at least weekly on here.

Inner port area:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2014/images/intake_canal_map-e.pdf

Outer port area:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2014/images/seawater_map-e.pdf

As you can see the web page I gave above has all the measurements reported there and if we want to have a look at the levels from the radiation monitoring posts in the compound, check how much rain has fallen and which direction the wind is blowing we can visit here:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/index-e.html

Yeah, we know that TEPCO lie.

We know that they've deliberately altered figures and not reported accidents in the past.

We know that there is a constant leak and we know there are melted and damaged fuel assemblies in reactors #1, #2 & #3.

We know about the contractor/sub-contractor/Yakuza connection and that some of the work done on site is just a bloody joke.

However, we also know that there are many monitoring sites that haven't been tampered with and that there are concerned citizens in Japan who are measuring levels themselves.

As there have been no reports of massive differences between them and the official figures, that points to the possibility that the levels reported are fairly reliable...

Yes, there is an intermittent steam leak that has been going on for months and no-one really knows what is causing it but it's been going on for months and is probably a coolant exhaust pipe or something similar, not the trigger event the OP article was alluding too.

Oh, btw, the report from the Fisheries Research Agency of black sea bream with a Caesium level of 12,400 Bq/Kg comes from this page:
http://www.fra.affrc.go.jp/pressrelease/pr25/260110/index.html

A good report was done by The Asahi Shimbun about this on the 11th:

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Fish with very high levels of cesium found near Fukushima (https://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029)
January 11, 2014

A fish contaminated with extremely high levels of radiation was found in waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a government-affiliated research institute said.

The Fisheries Research Agency said Jan. 10 the black sea bream had 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, 124 times the safety standards for foodstuffs.

The fish was caught at the mouth of the Niidagawa river in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 17. The site is 37 kilometers south of the stricken power plant.

It was one of 37 fish-–all black sea bream--that researchers caught in waters in and off Iwaki in October and November to study the level of radiation to which they were exposed.

The research institute said it will study the fish further to try and determine when it became contaminated with such high levels of radioactive cesium.

Two other fish also exceeded the safety standards of 100 becquerels per kilogram, at 426 becquerels and 197 becquerels, respectively.

The readings of the remaining 34 fish were within the safety limits, according to the Fisheries Research Agency.

Officials said black sea bream in the region that was covered by the recent study have not been circulated as food in fish markets.

Black sea bream fishing in coastal waters off Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures is currently restricted.

They are also on the list of fish that local fishermen are asked to voluntarily refrain from catching in the northern municipalities of Ibaraki Prefecture, which is located just south of Fukushima Prefecture.

Source (https://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029)

###

I haven't found the full report from the Fisheries Research Agency, mainly because I've been a bit busy of late, it is probably written in Japanese, may not have been released to the public (it may never be) and all I needed to do was verify that there was a an actual report from an actual Fisheries Research Agency that the articles were based on. (Scrap that, report available in Japanese here (http://www.fra.affrc.go.jp/pressrelease/pr25/260110/20140110.pdf)).

I hope someone finds this useful.

-- Pan

[Sidney]

Glad that the elevated levels of Caesium etc found in fish off Fukushima has been pointed out.

There's still low-level waste water from the cooling system leaking into the ocean, not to mention we have no idea how water is flowing past the melted fuel in the other reactors...

Periodically TEPCO release the latest test results from fish caught off-shore.

We can also go to the TEPCO website to see the official measurements in the bay and further offshore by visiting here:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/index-e.html

Now if I'm right the below pdf's should update at least weekly on here.

Inner port area:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2014/images/intake_canal_map-e.pdf

Outer port area:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/2014/images/seawater_map-e.pdf

As you can see the web page I gave above has all the measurements reported there and if we want to have a look at the levels from the radiation monitoring posts in the compound, check how much rain has fallen and which direction the wind is blowing we can visit here:

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/index-e.html

Yeah, we know that TEPCO lie.

We know that they've deliberately altered figures and not reported accidents in the past.

We know that there is a constant leak and we know there are melted and damaged fuel assemblies in reactors #1, #2 & #3.

We know about the contractor/sub-contractor/Yakuza connection and that some of the work done on site is just a bloody joke.

However, we also know that there are many monitoring sites that haven't been tampered with and that there are concerned citizens in Japan who are measuring levels themselves.

As there have been no reports of massive differences between them and the official figures, that points to the possibility that the levels reported are fairly reliable...

Yes, there is an intermittent steam leak that has been going on for months and no-one really knows what is causing it but it's been going on for months and is probably a coolant exhaust pipe or something similar, not the trigger event the OP article was alluding too.

Oh, btw, the report from the Fisheries Research Agency of black sea bream with a Caesium level of 12,400 Bq/Kg comes from this page:
http://www.fra.affrc.go.jp/pressrelease/pr25/260110/index.html

A good report was done by The Asahi Shimbun about this on the 11th:

###

Fish with very high levels of cesium found near Fukushima (https://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029)
January 11, 2014

A fish contaminated with extremely high levels of radiation was found in waters near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, a government-affiliated research institute said.

The Fisheries Research Agency said Jan. 10 the black sea bream had 12,400 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium, 124 times the safety standards for foodstuffs.

The fish was caught at the mouth of the Niidagawa river in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 17. The site is 37 kilometers south of the stricken power plant.

It was one of 37 fish-–all black sea bream--that researchers caught in waters in and off Iwaki in October and November to study the level of radiation to which they were exposed.

The research institute said it will study the fish further to try and determine when it became contaminated with such high levels of radioactive cesium.

Two other fish also exceeded the safety standards of 100 becquerels per kilogram, at 426 becquerels and 197 becquerels, respectively.

The readings of the remaining 34 fish were within the safety limits, according to the Fisheries Research Agency.

Officials said black sea bream in the region that was covered by the recent study have not been circulated as food in fish markets.

Black sea bream fishing in coastal waters off Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures is currently restricted.

They are also on the list of fish that local fishermen are asked to voluntarily refrain from catching in the northern municipalities of Ibaraki Prefecture, which is located just south of Fukushima Prefecture.

Source (https://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201401110029)

###

I haven't found the full report from the Fisheries Research Agency, mainly because I've been a bit busy of late, it is probably written in Japanese, may not have been released to the public (it may never be) and all I needed to do was verify that there was a an actual report from an actual Fisheries Research Agency that the articles were based on. (Scrap that, report available in Japanese here (http://www.fra.affrc.go.jp/pressrelease/pr25/260110/20140110.pdf)).

I hope someone finds this useful.

-- Pan

The million dollar question I have is, can we really trust what we read on the TEPCO site?[COLOR="red"]

[panopticon]

The million dollar question I have is, can we really trust what we read on the TEPCO site?

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Can we really trust what is on the TEPCO site? Thats my milliond dollar question.

G'day Sidney,

Glad you asked. No, No & No. Never accept what is said without evidence from other sources.

I'll accept payment in used small denomination unmarked notes (AUD thank you)... :wof:

As I said in my previous post:


... there are concerned citizens in Japan who are measuring levels themselves.

As there have been no reports of massive differences between them and the official figures, that points to the possibility that the levels reported are fairly reliable.


Have a look at the Safecast (http://blog.safecast.org) website for an indication.

The Safecast map is available here:

http://map.safecast.org/

There are also a number of other maps available and some are linked to from the Safecast website:

http://blog.safecast.org/maps/

Democracy Now! had an article on Safecast and interview with Pieter Franken, co-founder, here:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/1/17/volunteers_crowdsource_radiation_monitoring_to_map

Hope this helps.

-- Pan

[halffull]

If you've heard about Fukushima radiation spreading to the Pacific Coast of North America but were "corrected" by sources both official and expert that this was based more on rumor than reality, then consider the information presented at the October 2013 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) annual meeting.

Researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirmed that the radioactive plume from Fukushima is indeed reaching the shores of Canada and the United States - and was detected at least six months ago - carried both in the ocean surface water and the atmosphere on similar but slightly different courses.

In a presentation titled "Communicating the forecasts, uncertainty and consequences of ecosystem change," (read here: http://www.pices.int) the Canadian researchers gave evidence that the bulk of radioactivity from Fukushima is shifting almost entirely from the western portion of the North Pacific (Japan) to the eastern portion (North America) over the course of the next five years. As of 2012, it had already reached the central region of the Pacific Ocean, and a previously unpublished map shows that, as of 2013, it had reached the shores of Alaska and British Columbia, with the most intense area of the plume yet to arrive.

The Fall 2013 discussion centered around competing calculations of the severity of effects from cesium-137, based around two differing models of the radiation's trajectory. The first, published by German researcher Erik Behrens and his colleagues at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in 2012, drastically understates the potential dangers, predicting only modest levels of 2 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m^3) by 2015 for the 49th parallel near British Columbia and Washington state - scarcely above the background levels from the continued fallout of Chernobyl.

Meanwhile, the second, published by Vincent Rossi and other colleagues from the Climate Change Research Centre in 2013, presents a much more consequential picture. It predicts alarming maximum levels reaching 25 Bq/m^3 at their monitoring station in British Columbia by 2015 and peaks above 30 Bq/m^3. Cesium levels at the 30th parallel - reaching Baja California in Mexico - wouldn't peak until about 2019, though projected maximum levels would reach only about 15-20 Bq/m^3.

The amount of atmospheric cesium being transported across the ocean via winds remains the unknown yet potentially greater factor. It partially explains the drastic difference in projections, as there are no monitoring stations for airborne radiation in the Pacific and no reliable methods of predicting the scale of its effects. Further, it has only recently been publicly admitted that 300-400 tons of contaminated water have been pouring into the Pacific per day since the meltdown began in March 2011.

The fact is that the initial findings of radioactivity from Fukushima on the shores of Alaska, British Columbia, California and Mexico - confirmed privately within the scientific community months ago - are just the beginning. They are consistent with previous predictions of cesium-137 hitting the West Coast of the continental United States in late 2013 and early 2014. Scientists have acknowledged that it will continue to spread into the Arctic Ocean, reaching eastern Russia and eventually pouring into the Atlantic Ocean.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/01/20/international-marine-science-organization-releases-report-on-radiation-in-pacific-ocean/

[panopticon]

Presentation referred to in above post:

https://www.pices.int/publications/presentations/PICES-2013/2013-MEQ/MEQ-1700-Smith.pdf

Source (https://www.pices.int/publications/presentations/PICES-2013/2013-MEQ/MEQ-1700-Smith.pdf)

-- Pan

[panopticon]

For those who might be concerned about the effect that the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi NPS has had on ocean radiation levels I might suggest a quick read of Marine Chemists blog over at Dailykos (http://www.dailykos.com/blog/MarineChemist). The PICES presentation (above) was mentioned there a few weeks ago:


About 93% of radioactivity in seawater results from the presence of primordial, naturally occurring potassium-40 (K-40) and rubidium-87 (Rb-87). The remaining 7% are radioactive elements deposited to the ocean from past atmospheric nuclear testing. The sum of these activities is about 14 Bq/L on average though there are regional differences that scale with ocean salinity.

Ongoing time series measurements are being carried out by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to determine when and how much radioactivity from the Fukushima disaster will arrive along the west coast of North America.

Results of the Line P Time Series Program thus far can be summarized as follows:
1) Cs levels in June 2011 were consistent with pre-Fukushima levels present from atmospheric nuclear test fallout
2) In June 2012 surface waters ~1500 km offshore had detectable Cs-134 from Fukushima and associated Cs-137 of 0.0003 Bq/L or roughly 0.002% of naturally occurring background radiation
3) Fukushima derived Cs was detected all the way to the coast in June 2013 with the highest levels of Cs-137 farthest offshore (0.0009 Bq/L or roughly 0.006% of background radiation) and lower levels of 0.0003 Bq/L toward the coast.
4) The timing of the arrival of the plume agrees with the modeling study of Rossi et al. (2013) published in the peer-reviewed journal Deep-Sea Research (link) but the concentrations are lower than predicted
Source (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/04/1267252/-Update-on-Fukushima-Radionuclides-in-the-North-Pacific-and-Off-the-West-Coast-of-North-America)

BTW, the PICES presentation had 2 misleading images at the beginning. The hoax "Nuclear Fallout Map" that circulated just after the accident and was supposedly from ARS (it wasn't, as can be seen from the ARS disclaimer at the time (https://web.archive.org/web/20110429213737/http://www.australian-radiation-services.com.au/)) and the widely posted but misleading graphic from ASR showing a computer animation of projected dispersal pattern of free floating material in the ocean. To quote ASR:

THIS IS NOT A REPRESENTATION OF THE RADIOACTIVE PLUME CONCENTRATION.
Source (http://www.asrltd.com/japan/plume.php)


For a number of different models on dispersal/transport patterns of radionuclides at different depths try the bottom of this page (nifty short movie for each one):
http://fvcom.smast.umassd.edu/research_projects/FVCOM_Tsunami/

Hope this was useful to someone.

-- Pan

[regnak]

I was a paying scriber to fulford years ago for like 2 months you get a in depth analysis from him and in the end I stopped because what he was talking about was a load of nonsense my opinion only for if I state something I like to give evidence or back up the statement with data which can be verified

Making wild statement with no verifiable data I think he means well

I read ( rexresearch )who says japan should be covered completely in lava and sunk into the sea over the Nuclear disaster ( Fukushima Daiichi ).The multiple melt downs of ( Fukushima Daiichi ) have not been solved yet and this is a extinction level event (E.L.E) most of the nuclear cores of ( Fukushima Daiichi ) have not been found and the building are sinking into the ground because the foundations have been compromised by two much water been pumped into the ground over the last ten years trying to cool the missing nuclear reactors . The nuclear cores of ( Fukushima Daiichi ) melted down through the concrete ( at the time of the disater ) and are missing robots have ben sent down looking for these core but because of the high radiation the robots malfunction and the cores have yet to be found .

If they stop pumping water volcanic nuclear eruption from multiple nuclear cores .

If another large earthquake happens the buildings will collapse all 4 and there will be a melt down three mile island x million if happens evacuate Japan .

Solution guys I read say the gravel should be converted into concrete overnight brown gas should be brought in to reduce radioactive by 99% the country should be covered with special soil that’s eats radio activity reduces soil by over 95% to a reasonable levels the missing core and the radioactive at the core of the site might need very exotic treatment or a manhattan project but it can be sealed off I would cover it with a pryminad which reduces radioactive rexresearch

Cost will be billion maybe more estimated only

[onawah]

The Run For Your Life Tokyo Olympics --Atomic Balm Part 2:
March 08, 2019
Written by Arnie Gundersen
https://www.fairewinds.org/demystify/atomic-balm-part-2-the-run-for-your-life-tokyo-olympics

"Thank you to Fairewinds’ Friends, who have written and called us to share their appreciation for Fairewinds’ post Atomic Balm Part 1, and for taking the time to read and understand our analysis of the real reasons the Summer Olympics were placed in Tokyo in 2020.

To begin Part 2, let’s talk about the scientific studies that Dr. Marco Kaltofen and I began together back in 2012. Before the ongoing catastrophe created by the Fukushima meltdowns, the maximum allowable radiation exposure emanating from commercial atomic power reactors was 100 millirem per year (1 milli Sievert per year) to civilians worldwide. Because radiation workers receive compensation for the increased body burden they take on by working in a high radiation risk environment, workers were allowed a maximum of 5,000 millirem per year of radiation (50 milli Seiverts of 5 Rem – depending upon which term one is applying). Although that is the legal upper limit, most workers in atomic power industry actually receive approximately 2,000 millirem per year (20 milli Sieverts or 2 Rem). According to DOE 2016 Occupational Radiation Exposure

Over the past 5-year period, all monitored individuals received measurable total effective dose (TED) below the 2 rem (20 mSv) TED ACL, which is well below the DOE regulatory limit of 5 rem (50 mSv) TED annually.

Since the Fukushima meltdowns, the government of Japan changed the rules by increasing the allowable amount of radiation civilians are subjected to at 20-times higher than was previously allowed, which is almost the same as the highest dose exposure nuke workers may receive in an entire year!

A significant portion of the Olympic games, including men’s baseball and women’s softball and the Olympic torch run, as well as the soccer training facility, will occur on land that the government of Japan has declared to be part of a “nuclear emergency”. This means that athletes and civilians will legally be exposed to allowable radiation levels that are 20 times higher than levels that exist at other athletic facilities on any other continent. Therefore, according to the National Academy of Science’s Linear No Threshold (LNT) radiation risk assessment, the athlete’s risk of radiation related maladies has also increased 20 times higher than if they stayed home.

The people living in and around the Fukushima Daiichi disaster were informed by Japan’s government that they must return to their contaminated homes and villages if the radiation levels there were 2 Rem, even though they are being subjected to daily doses of radiation that is 20 times higher than any people living near any nuclear plants in Japan were ever subjected to.

Rather than completing an effective cleanup, Japan’s government is forcing its evacuees to return to their allegedly clean but still highly contaminated homes if they wanted to continue to receive their financial refugee stipend. There are three fundamental problems that make the exposure to Japanese civilians much worse than the new dose limit.

The first problem is with the government of Japan’s clearance criteria that only areas in and around homes have been allegedly decontaminated. I measured radiation along highways and then 50-feet into the surrounding woods, only to find that the woods remained highly contaminated, so that when it rains or snows, or the wind blows the dust or pollen from the woods, that radiation migrates back to people’s supposedly clean and radiation-free homes. I went to the top of 4-story high rooftops in Minamisoma that had been completely cleaned and repainted following the meltdowns. These rooftops were recontaminated by dust on the wind, blowing in radiation from the surrounding mountains. Peoples’ homes and communities that were claimed to be clean are indeed being recontaminated every day.

The second problem is that the government of Japan is measuring only one type of radiation prior to forcing the refugees to return. Only the direct radiation from cesium is being measured with handheld Geiger Counters. Such measurements are the measurement of external gamma rays that travel through the human body uniformly, much like X-rays. Dr. Marco Kaltofen and I have long noted that ingestion of small radioactive particles, called hot particles or fine radioactive dust (or nanoparticles), migrate into peoples’ lungs and GI systems causing internal organs to receive heavy radiation doses for years on end. TEPCO and the government of Japan are ignoring the presence of these hot particles.

The third and final problem is that some hot particles are extraordinarily radioactive, much more so than the average hot particles. In a peer-reviewed paper that Dr. Kaltofen and I wrote, we detail our scientific research which proves that more than 5% of these particles are up to 10,000 times more radioactive than the average of all 300-particles we studied. Of course, this means that peoples’ internal organs are constantly bombarded with extraordinarily high levels of radiation, much higher than the civilian evacuees are subjected to.

These three additional selfie-videos that I took while in Fukushima during September 2017 show what is really happening near Fukushima. We cannot forget about the magnitude of these exposures to all people in order to create an image of normalcy by Japan’s hosting of the Tokyo Olympics.

(Go to the link https://www.fairewinds.org/demystify/atomic-balm-part-2-the-run-for-your-life-tokyo-olympics to see the Vimeo vids)

The migrating radioactive dust from Fukushima has had and will continue to have a devastating effect on thousands of people who lived near the reactors and are now being forced to return as well as hundreds of thousands who reside much further away. Highly radioactive samples were found as far away and in such populous places as Tokyo. In its effort to try and restore everything to the way it was before the triple meltdowns, the government of Japan has failed to realize that Japan and in fact the world, is a much different place than it was before the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Japan continues to force refugees to return to contaminated villages and is marketing what can only be irradiated products from Fukushima.

Cleaning up after a nuclear meltdown is no easy task, in fact a total clean-up is technically impossible, by slapping Band-Aids and quick fixes onto the problem instead of acknowledging the scope, severity, and root causes of the issues, the politicians and government officials of Japan and TECPO are endangering the lives of thousands of Japan’s citizens in order to protect their political standing, personal financial status, and the wallets of the nuclear industry.

According to the Asia Pacific Journal (AJP) last week, in a brilliant essay written by University of Chicago professor Dr. Norma Field, a Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations:

We might pause over predictions that the 2020 Olympics-Paralympics may end up costing 3 trillion yen (approximately 26.4 billion USD), many times the original budget for what was promised to be the most “compact Olympics” ever. These games are often touted as the “recovery Olympics” .

It is not hard to conjure ways that these monies might have been used to benefit the entire region afflicted by the triple disaster and especially, the victims of the enduring nuclear disaster. A pittance of the Olympics budget would have sustained modest housing support for evacuees, compulsory or “voluntary.” Instead, the highly restricted, arbitrarily drawn evacuation zones have been recklessly opened for return of evacuated citizens despite worrisome conditions prevailing over wide swaths of the region.

The Olympic soccer center that served TEPCO as a base for radioactively contaminated disaster workers (where they slept, donned protective gear, and were screened) has been contaminated by radioactivity yet is scheduled to be the training site for the national soccer team.

In Dr. Field’s essay for APJ, which was an introduction to a longer essay by the recently retired Kyoto University Reactor Research Institute professor: Dr. Koide Hiroaki, she wrote:

…As medical journalist Aihara Hiroko observes with not a little irony, “Surely the Tokyo Olympics will be a superb occasion for displaying ‘recovery from disaster,’” but also for revealing to the international community the “real consequences of the human-made disaster resulting from the national nuclear energy policy: the imposition of long-term evacuation and sacrifice on the part of area residents.”

Dr. Field’s introduction and Dr. Koide Hiroaki’s extensive article in APJ are crushing to read, yet they do not tell the whole story. I feel it is important to expand upon the ongoing radiation exposures that the 160,000 Fukushima refugees are still experiencing, eight years after the meltdowns. This science, that governments are hiding from people around the world, is not difficult to understand, especially if we also focus on the desire of world governments to keep alive the ever-intertwined nuclear power and nuclear weapons opportunities they have invested in so heavily ­– financially, politically, and emotionally. During my four trips to Japan, and from all the people who have written to Fairewinds from Japan since we first published our book there, I have met, spoken with, or communicated with numerous refugees from Fukushima and truly believe that Fairewinds understands their traumatic losses.

While people world-wide might cheer the Tokyo Olympians, the human perspective should focus on the real victims, those who are being shoved out-of-sight.

The bottom line is that to reduce cleanup costs while spending enormous funds on the Olympics, the government of Japan treats its 160,000 Fukushima evacuees as if they were radiation Guinea Pigs, forcing them to return to recontaminated areas to try and convince the world everything is ok, meanwhile making it difficult for serious scientists to accurately assess the effects of radiation on these evacuees. The billions of dollars being spent on the Olympics would be much better used to help those displaced by the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Help these families find permanent homes and employment and new supportive communities far away from the contaminated areas that they are now forcibly being returned to.

Fairewinds will keep you informed. "

[onawah]

Fukushima: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad
Fairewinds on Global Research News Hour
3/21/19

Arnie was recently interviewed on the Global Research News Hour podcast, hosted by Michael Welch. The topic of the podcast was Fukushima at 8 years and Arnie shares his understanding of the spread of nuclear contamination at Fukushima, the Japanese government’s bid to distract the public with heavy investment in and promotion of the 2020 Olympics, and the general tendency of governments and regulators to put the health of the industry above the safety of the public. Arnie also discusses the meltdown at Three Mile Island that took place 40-years ago near Harrisburg Pennsylvania on March 28th.

To listen to the interview click here:
https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/fukushima-at-eight-arnie-appears-on-global-research-news-hour
About the Interview
Arnie Gundersen appears on Global Research News Hour, Hosted by Michael Welch, to share his understanding of the spread of nuclear contamination at Fukushima, the Japanese government’s bid to distract the public with heavy investment in and promotion of the 2020 Olympics, and the general tendency of governments and regulators to put the health of the industry above the safety of the public. He also addresses some of the background of the Three Mile Island incident which took place 40 years ago this month in Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg.
Note
This version has been edited down just to showcase Arnie's interview. For the full length podcast including Dr. Helen Caldicott's interview, follow the link here:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-at-eight-ongoing-cover-up-of-the-nuclear-hazards-in-japan-and-abroad/5671690

Don’t Miss the Nationwide Premiere of Power Struggle
Filmed over five years, this feature-length documentary chronicles the heated political battle to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, located on the banks of the Connecticut River in southern Vermont. Power Struggle follows the unfolding drama as citizen activists and elected officials – alarmed at increasing safety violations – take on the federal government and one of the biggest nuclear power companies in America to call for closure of the reactor when its original 40-year license expires.

The film captures perspectives on all sides of the controversy, including from local residents both for and against nuclear power, elected officials (including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin), nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, a Vermont Yankee spokesperson, and federal nuclear regulators.

Tune in to Free Speech TV on Thursday, March 28 at 8 pm ET for the national broadcast premiere of Power Struggle.

To read more about the film follow the link here:
https://www.powerstrugglemovie.com/

Watch the POWER STRUGGLE Trailer from Robbie Leppzer on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/180335949

[Didgevillage]

Radioactive iodine is one of first substances that appears in a nuclear catastrophe like Fukushima.
Broad leaf vegetables are affected as the dust comes down.

Real threat is radioactive sesium that comes next, polluting the soil. However, sosium is water-soluble, so it sinks deeper into the soil with rain. Rice sucks up a lot of water, so it's necessary to forget about the rice crop of that year.

At this stage, taking iodine doesn't do you any good.

Fukushima: Israeli terrorism
http://82.221.129.208/fukureport1b.pdf

[onawah]

Brief Fukushima Prefecture Update
https://www.fairewinds.org/demystify/brief-fukushima-prefecture-update
October 16, 2019
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"At Least 14 levees broke in Fukushima Prefecture

News outlets worldwide are reporting that at least 66 residents of Japan have died as a result of Typhoon Hagibis. Our hearts reach out to the people of Japan and the families of the deceased.

The news coverage from Reuters caught our attention due to its research that Fukushima Prefecture was apparently the region hardest hit by the typhoon. According to the Reuters story entitled: Rescuers slog through mud as Japan typhoon death toll rises to 66:

“The highest toll was in Fukushima prefecture north of Tokyo, where levees burst in at least 14 places along the Abukuma River, which meanders through a number of cities in the largely agricultural prefecture. At least 25 people died in Fukushima, including a mother and child who were caught in flood waters, NHK said…. Residents in Koriyama, one of Fukushima's larger cities, said they were taken by surprise by the flooding. Police were searching house-to-house to make sure nobody had been left behind or was in need of help.

"The river has never flooded like this before, and some houses have been completely swept away. I think it might be time to redraw hazard maps or reconsider evacuation plans," said Masaharu Ishizawa, a 26-year-old high school teacher …”

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Fukushima prefecture is very mountainous and largely remote. The radioactive fallout, which spread throughout Japan after the three Fukushima nuclear meltdowns in 2011, is impossible to clean up in these inaccessible mountainous areas that lie throughout Fukushima Prefecture. Even in populous Tokyo, more than one-year after the meltdowns, Fairewinds’ research identified randomly selected Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste in the US, which we discussed in the video on Fairewinds’ website. https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/tokyo-soil-samples-would-be-considered-nuclear-waste-in-the-us

Plastic bags containing greenery collected during decontamination efforts after the 2011 Japanese nuclear disaster were washed down a river during Typhoon Hagibis.

It is our belief from our ongoing research that the ensuing flooding induced by Typhoon Hagibis is moving significant amounts of radiation from high in the mountains down to cities, towns, and farmland in Japan. Our analysis on several radiation sampling trips to the prefecture proves that there are huge amounts of residual radiation that were previously trapped in the soil.

Now, due to the heavy rain, subsequent river flooding, and burst levees (dams) this radioactive soil is moving and being pushed from the mountains down into more populous areas where people live and crops are grown. Once again it appears that government authorities and rescue organizations are ignoring this new, long-term threat, or have not been apprised by the JAEA (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) and nuclear power industry of the monumental health risks involved.

At Fairewinds, we know Radiation Knows No Borders! "

[onawah]

Japan planning to release over a million tonnes of radioactive water into sea from Fukushima power plant
Coolant contains toxic element which cannot be removed
Harry Cockburn
2/1/20

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/japan-nuclear-waste-fukushima-power-station-tsunami-water-sea-olympics-a9312246.html
"Massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at Japan’s Fukushima power plant could be released into the sea under plans provisionally accepted by the country’s government.

Tokyo Electric has collected nearly 1.2 million tonnes of contaminated water from cooling pipes used to keep fuel cores from melting since the plant was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami which hit eastern Japan in 2011.

The water, containing 62 radioactive elements, is stored in huge tanks on the site of the now disabled power plant, but Tokyo Electric has said it will run out of room to store the water by 2022.

The water has been treated and Tokyo Electric said it is able to remove all radioactive particles from the water to levels not harmful to humans, except tritium, an isotope of hydrogen which is more difficult to separate from water.

A panel of experts working for Japan’s economy and industry ministry concluded that letting the water run into the sea was the best option after looking at other proposals. The only other viable option considered was to let the water evaporate.In Friday’s proposal, the ministry said the controlled release to the sea is superior because its route is predictable and easier to sample and monitor.

“Compared to evaporation, ocean release can be done more securely,” the committee said, pointing to common practice around the world where nuclear power stations operating under normal conditions routinely release water containing tritium into the sea.

But the decision will alarm neighbouring countries and comes ahead of Japan’s hosting of the 2020 Olympic Games, with some events due to be held less than 60km away from the Fukushima site.

Fishermen and residents also fear health effects from releasing the radioactive water as well as harm to the region’s image and farm industries.Neighbouring South Korea has retained a ban on imports of seafood from Japan’s Fukushima region imposed after the nuclear disaster and summoned a senior Japanese embassy official last year to explain how the Fukushima water would be dealt with, Reuters reported.

South Korean athletes are planning to bring their own radiation detectors and food to the Games.

Experts say there is no established method to fully separate tritium from water, but it is not a problem in small amounts. Government officials also say tritium is routinely released from existing nuclear power plants around the world.

The report acknowledges the water releases would harm industries that still face reluctant consumers despite safety checks. It promised to reinforce monitoring of tritium levels and food safety checks to address safety concerns."

( "But the decision will alarm neighbouring countries and comes ahead of Japan’s hosting of the 2020 Olympic Games, with some events due to be held less than 60km away from the Fukushima site." Why in the world are the 2020 Olympics being held so close to all that toxic mess? )

[Seabreeze]

reminder :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37G4uzWCrqg

[onawah]

Georgia Nuclear: Vogtle Unit 3 Is Sinking!
May 14, 2020
What Does the Leaning Tower of Pisa Have In Common with the Vogtle Nuclear Reactor?
https://www.fairewinds.org/demystify/georgia-nuclear-vogtle-unit-3-is-sinking-bredl-petition

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[B]"Last month, Vogtle’s owner, Sothern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC), tried to amend its operating license with information that had been kept secret from the public. When that now leaning wall was first built five years ago, SNC established a program to monitor the lack of stability in the foundation.

Honestly, truth is stranger than fiction – you can’t make this stuff up! Now we learn that the Vogtle Unit 3 atomic power reactor is sinking into the red Georgia clay causing an inner wall to tilt! Yes, this is the same Vogtle Unit 3 that is already billions of dollars over budget and at least 5-years behind schedule.
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By The Fairewinds Crew
"The famous tower in Pisa, Italy was designed to stand straight up, and like Vogtle, it began to lean during construction. During the ensuing years after construction, the Pisa tower continued to sink into the ground due to the inability of the failing foundation to sustain the tower’s heavy weight. It became known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Similarly, the Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear power plant was designed to be straight on its firm ‘basemat foundation’, which is designed with extra rebar and mathematical calculations to assure that the foundation can support an atomic reactor as heavy as the unique design of the AP1000 with 8-million-pounds of emergency cooling water sitting on top of the containment.

Last month, Vogtle’s owner, Sothern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC), tried to amend its operating license with information that had been kept secret from the public. When that now leaning wall was first built five years ago, SNC established a program to monitor the lack of stability in the foundation.

Honestly, truth is stranger than fiction – you can’t make this stuff up! Now we learn that the Vogtle Unit 3 atomic power reactor is sinking into the red Georgia clay causing an inner wall to tilt! Yes, this is the same Vogtle Unit 3 that is already billions of dollars over budget and at least 5-years behind schedule.

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League [BREDL] announced that part of the Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear power plant currently under construction in Waynesboro, Georgia, is sinking. According to BREDL’s press release, “In a legal action filed Monday with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the group called on regulators to revoke the plant’s license for false statements made by its owners, Southern Nuclear Operating Company. On May 11, BREDL filed a nineteen-page legal petition requesting a hearing before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on a License Amendment for Plant Vogtle’s Unit 3. The petition is supported by detailed, specific expert opinion. Under rules of procedure, Southern Company has 25 days to respond.”
https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/petition-for-leave-to-intervene-and-request-for-hearing-by-the-blue-ridge-environmental-defense-league/#petition
Fairewinds Associates, Inc Chief Engineer Arnie Gundersen wrote an expert witness report submitted by BREDL to the NRC in which he said that Southern Nuclear Operating Company (SNC) chose not to disclose that the Vogtle Unit 3 foundation was sinking faster in the middle than at the edges, in the shape of a dish, causing internal walls to lean. From our point of view, leaning walls may have created a tourist destination for the Tower in Pisa, however, a leaning tower and failing foundation at a nuke plant is a meltdown waiting to happen.

BREDL has informed the NRC that there must be an entire reevaluation of the seismic/structural integrity of the entire nuclear plant. This means that a completely new licensing review and full analysis of all new stress conditions placed on other components that are no longer level needs to be conducted and receive an independent engineering review as well, since SCE has not publicized this fact to the people of Georgia.

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The 2 million pound roof of the Vogtle Unit 3 shield building has been set into place at Georgia Power’s nuclear expansion project near Waynesboro, Georgia. Credit: Georgia Power

Vogtle Units 3 & 4 are notoriously over budget, and their construction has been delayed for years. Now with the Covid-19 Pandemic, and these newly uncovered flaws, the construction will slow further as a complete safety review must be conducted to ascertain whether the ‘basemat foundation’ meets the foundation integrity demanded for a nuclear island (NI). The Vogtle Unit 3 nuclear island underlies the strange heavy design of the AP1000 with its donut-shaped 8-million-pound water tank at the apex of the entire containment system that is meant to protect us from a meltdown.

Let’s look more closely at the history of Vogtle and the so-called nuclear renaissance that never happened. Complicit in this financial boondoggle is the Georgia Public Service Commission (GPSC) whose members have greenlighted all these cost overruns in return for campaign contributions from the nuclear industry. That’s why we wrote The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia. At Vogtle, all the extensive cost overruns have been shifted to Georgia taxpayers and ratepayers, and originally these plants were built with federal loan guarantees – that is our money folks, and a story for another time in the Vogtle saga.

During the past decade Fairewinds joined with other nuclear risk and environmental advocacy groups to raise awareness about the numerous safety flaws and operational issues associated with the AP1000 reactor design. You can read more about those problems and issues here.https://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energy-education/post-accident-ap1000-containment-leakage-2

In its legal brief, based on this Fairewinds Associates report, BREDL asked for a formal investigation of the Southern Nuclear Operating Company for making “materially false statements” to the NRC by claiming that the leaning walls were caused by construction tolerance measurements when the real reason the walls have moved is that the ‘basemat foundation’ of the Vogtle nuclear island (NI) is sinking.

You can find the Fairewinds Associates expert report and BREDL’s legal filing here and under the reports section of this Fairewinds site. You also may read BREDL’s legal filing and the other documents filed on BREDL’s home site, where you will also see the breadth and depth of the environmental work conducted by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and its associated chapters in many states.

[onawah]

California:Climate Emergency/Nuclear Mismanagement
California: A Climate Emergency Fraught with Nuclear Utility Mismanagement
August 21, 2020
Fairwinds Energy Education
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https://www.fairewinds.org/demystify/california-a-climate-emergency-fraught-with-nuclear-utility-mismanagement

By Arnie Gundersen

"I began the pursuit of my two nuclear engineering degrees in 1967 as a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. That same year the Beatles released “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album and the New York musical Hair opened on Broadway with the hit song “Age of Aquarius”.

Unfortunately, 1967 was not the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius for many of us growing up in America during that time. The Vietnam war was raging, the civil rights act and the voting rights act had passed, and the country was in turmoil over war, voting rights, racial inequality, and feminism. And, in California, against a strong environmental movement, construction began on Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E’s) two large atomic reactors located at Diablo Canyon in California.

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From the beginning, their design and fabrication were one fiasco after another that led to almost 20-years of construction delays, during which portions of one Diablo Canyon reactor were built backward. The two nukes, first designed when I was in high school, were finally started up in 1985 and 1986. To say these atomic reactors are now outmoded is an understatement.

Several years ago, Fairewinds Associates, Inc [the paralegal and expert witness firm that Maggie founded in 2003] was retained by Mothers for Peace in St. Luis Obispo, California, to assess the condition and reliability of the two Diablo Canyon Reactors. Fairewinds’ testimony, which was submitted to the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission), delineated the daunting unreliability of both PG&E atomic reactors.

In that report, Fairewinds Associates, Inc wrote:

The closure of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (“Diablo Canyon”) has been inevitable for years. The degraded condition and economic infeasibility of the Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2 make it imperative for economic, safety, and environmental reasons that the reactors join the long list of atomic power plants that will permanently close during the next several years. The proposed joint agreement which allows Diablo Canyon Unit 1 to continue to operate until 2024 and Diablo Canyon Unit 2 until 2025 is not substantiated by available engineering and/or economic data produced by Pacific Gas & Electric (“PG&E”) or from published data regarding the operational longevity of any other nuclear power plant operated in the United States. The proposed shutting of the plant in 2024/2025 does not appear to be based on science and technical assessment of the condition of the plant and the best interests of ratepayers, but rather merely because 2024/2025 is the end of the operating license for the plant. The scientific and engineering evidence demonstrates that it is imperative that both PG&E atomic reactors are shut down in 2019. … As atomic power reactors age around the globe, these types of component malfunctions and replacements have proven to be systemic and costly, further reducing the operational reliability of old plants like Diablo Canyon as the cost to ratepayers increases with the continuous maintenance required to operate such an antiquated behemoth. Even in the best case with no serious mechanical failures, aging will inevitably cause increased costs; this technology has repeatedly shown itself to be uneconomical. Mechanical failure is likely and there remains a finite possibility of a serious mechanical failure with a significant release of radiation from the Diablo Canyon atomic power reactors as they age further.

Now, in August 2020, the untimely events at these two 54-year-old Diablo Canyon atomic reactors are proving that the Fairewinds Associates analysis identifying the unreliability and actual danger of continued operation of these two old, poorly maintained, and dysfunctional reactors, was spot-on.

Here are the latest calamities that have occurred at the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors during the last 20 days:

1.) In late July 2020, PG&E noticed that the hydrogen used to cool its electrical generator at Diablo Unit 2 was leaking. Although PG&E has repeatedly claimed that it has a rigorous inspection and maintenance program, its previous inspections failed to identify the mechanical flaws that led to this leak. Therefore, Unit 2 had to shut down for more than one week to avoid a possible catastrophe if the leaking hydrogen ignited. Diablo Canyon Unit 2 finally began operating again on August 3, 2020.

2.) A few days later that week, a staff member at Diablo Canyon Unit 2 noticed water leaking from the Auxiliary Feed Water system (AFW).

The AFW (Auxiliary Feed Water) system is a critical piece of reactor operating equipment, and as a result, is classified by nuclear regulations as safety-related equipment. Think of it this way, the AFW system acts as the brakes to cool the reactor in the event of other mechanical failures.

Did you know that it was the failure of the AFW (Auxiliary Feed Water) system that led to the meltdown at Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania more than 40-years ago?

Despite decades of AFW system inspections at Diablo Canyon Unit 2, PG&E failed to identify the flaw that led to this latest leak and mechanical defect. In nuke industry parlance [what we often call nukespeak], if a pipe leaks that should have been found defective during an inspection, it is called a self-revealing failure.

Initial inspection seems to show that the AFW system had a pipe that has worn out by thinning from the inside out, and thus the pipe wall simply became too thin to hold water.

Imagine the brake fluid leaking and the brakes beginning to fail as you drive your car. Luckily [and just dumb luck], it was not needed at the time to act as a brake on the reactor’s acceleration!

Diablo Canyon Unit 2 replaced the leaking piping and restarted this past week, however, how many other 54-year-old pipes or other mechanical equipment are also near-immediate failures at a reactor too vulnerable from aging defects to keep operating.

3.) The AFW system in Unit 1 is almost identical to the AFW system in Diablo Canyon Unit 2. Waiting until Unit 2 was operating again, PG&E suddenly noticed that the mechanical equipment inspections at Diablo Canyon Unit 1 might have also failed to uncover the same problem that they already discovered and repaired at Diablo Canyon Unit 2.

4.) Does PG&E plan to immediately shut down Unit 1 to perform this critical safety-related inspection? [Remember the brake line on your car.] No… instead, PG&E is requesting a license change from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), allowing the corporation to shut off the AFW safety system while this old and deficient reactor keeps operating. Imagine changing the brake pads on your car while driving your vehicle at 60-MPH!

5.) I believe that the NRC should not grant this license change, as it places Californians at greater risk of an atomic reactor meltdown.

In several of our newsletters and blog posts at Fairewinds Energy Education 501(c)3 nonprofit, we have previously discussed PG&E’s mismanagement of these two old and vulnerable nukes.

California’s largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), has a dubious safety record. PG&E customers have already seen their fair share of environmental threats, mismanagement and costly drama. PG&E has contaminated the groundwater at Hinkley (you remember Erin Brokovich), was on legal probation for killing eight people when one of its gas lines exploded in San Bruno in 2010, and then last year PG&E’s high voltage transmission line likely failed in high winds causing the Camp Fire that killed more than eighty others…. Now PG&E has declared bankruptcy in order to protect itself from more legal claims. And unfortunately, it is also the owner of California’s last nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, which is next to the San Andreas Fault. What more could possibly go wrong?

Let’s come back to August 2020. Now, we find California is in the middle of a climate emergency-induced heatwave that has ignited at least 23 forest fires that have forced entire swaths of the state to experience rolling blackouts.

In his third article about California’s latest utility and regulator provoked lack of electricity for the state, The New York Times Los Angeles based journalist Ivan Penn wrote:

“ “Some conservatives have blamed California’s growing reliance on solar and wind power for undermining the reliability of the state’s grid. President Trump said on Twitter that the state’s Democratic leaders had “intentionally implemented rolling blackouts — forcing Americans in the dark.” He added that the Green New Deal, a proposal for 100 percent renewable and zero-emission energy embraced by many liberals, “would take California’s failed policies to every American!”

“But Mr. Berberich [President and CEO of the California ISO (Independent System Operator)] said the reliance on renewables was not a factor because the state was facing such a huge shortfall in generating capacity. “It’s simply a matter of raw capacity.” ” [Emphasis Added]

After blocking rooftop solar on homes and business for years, the condition of PG&E equipment is so bad that this allegedly public utility must rush to get more electricity to the electric grid. Now, PG&E hopes to use public need during a climate crisis as an excuse to receive emergency license changes for inspection requirements for the Diablo Canyon Unit 1 atomic reactor. If granted, this NRC dispensation would allow Unit 1 to run without a critical safety system.

Is this a safe decision for Californians? ––– We know PGE’s failure to inspect pipes and power lines resulted in the San Bruno explosion in 2010 and the Camp Fire destruction of an entire community in 2018. Together these calamities resulted in the deaths of at least 90-people followed by PG&Es’ bankruptcy to avoid its responsibilities.

Once again, the public will be placed at significant risk by PG&E mismanagement if Diablo Canyon Unit 1 does not close for its essential safety inspection.

Will Californians ever be safe from PG&E and its political cronies?

Fairewinds will keep you informed. "

Additional Resources:
Poor Planning Left California Short of Electricity in a Heat Wave
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/business/energy-environment/california-blackout-electric-grid.html
By Ivan Penn on August 20, 2020

California Expresses Frustration as Blackouts Enter 4th Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/california-heatwave-blackouts-wildfires.html
By Ivan Penn on August 17, 2020

Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/business/california-blackouts.html
By Ivan Penn on August 16, 2020

Fires are coming. But PG&E and some cities are holding up battery backups
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-04-29/fires-blackouts-solar-batteries-essential
By Sammy Roth on April 29, 2020

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Fukushima’s First Decade In A 100-Year Long Catastrophe
BY ARNIE GUNDERSEN
3/10/21
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"On this 10th commemoration of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan, our thoughts and hearts continue to be with those impacted by both the ongoing radioactive contamination throughout Japan as well as those permanently displaced since March 11, 2011.With that being said, author and journalist Thomas Bass interviewed Fairewinds on Fukushima-related analyses for a previous publication. We found him accurate in his research, and his latest article for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) continues this trend.

As I read Thomas’s BAS article for the 10th commemoration of the three meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi, I was struck by how the pioneering analysis and commentary that Fairewinds brought forward in 2011 has now finally become the accepted tenets of the Fukushima story.

Long-time members of the Fairewinds Energy Education community should remember our pioneering analysis of topics, including but not limited to: the actual cost of decommissioning Fukushima, hot particle contamination, detonation shock waves, the need to evacuate women and children, and all of us worldwide were so lucky that the meltdowns at Fukushima were not more destructive and did not contaminate the entire northern hemisphere with what easily could have been a series 10-atomic-reactor meltdowns.

Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Way Forward

At Fairewinds, we are thrilled that our pioneering language and findings as memorialized by hundreds of Fairewinds’ videos, our book: Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Way Forward, and in hundreds of media interviews (CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many more print, television, radio, and internet interviews). Now to see our framing, pioneering language, and nuclear engineering evaluations as a part of the worldwide Fukushima lexicon truly makes us proud of all the work we began in March 2011 and continue today.

So, I offer a hat tip to my wife Maggie, the organization that she founded, and the concepts and model she created so we could respond accurately and in real-time as the Fukushima disasters were unfolding! Most of all, a special thank you to Fairewinds donors, the foundations who have supported and continue to support our work, and our scientific colleagues, who continue to conduct this valuable research with us. We do not and cannot do this work by ourselves!

Worldwide, it will continue to take all of us working together to change the global view of the vast risks of atomic power, nuclear waste storage, defunct leaking uranium mines, and experimental reactors. Hanging on to the expensive and dying nuke industry derails the world from moving to electric energy production that is safe for the environment and the species that live here, fully viable, saves billions of dollars, and creates new jobs for a healthy economy.

It is time we moved from an old, outmoded 20th-century methodology designed with a slide rule way back in the 1950s. Let’s all get on board with the 21st century; we’ve already lost 20+ years!

Please read the BAS article by Thomas Bass and a previous article he wrote entitled Made In Japan, published in May 2020. Thomas’s writing always captivates us by painting vivid pictures of what the victims of Fukushima face every day.

Fukushima is oddly tidy for all that death that lurks in its forested hills and emerald-green river valleys.

During the next two months, Fairewinds Energy Education will continue to follow up on the meltdowns and subsequent human catastrophes at Fukushima Dai-ichi in Japan, Three Mile Island (TMI) Pennsylvania, U.S., and Chernobyl in Ukraine. We will also be analyzing and discussing the fallacy that atomic power is a solution to the world’s climate emergency. We should focus on renewable and sustainable energy that creates millions of jobs and does not contaminate the environment or poison our communities with toxic nuke waste.

Remember, Radiation Knows No Borders! "

Free Online Event Hosted by Mothers For Peace
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"On the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, Mothers for Peace is hosting an online event, featuring a presentation by biologist Mary Olson. Learn about her work showing greater harm to the female body from radiation than the male body, the basis of data for regulators. This must change!

The event will begin with a current update on Fukushima by Yuji and Beverly Findlay Kaneko, co-producers of Voices from Japan, a special segment of Libbe HaLevy’s Nuclear Hotseat podcast.

The event is a free public event.

There will be ample time for questions and comments!"
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdOutqD0sGddniE9O2P4EimnWcl_QtaSV