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May 18, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for May 15th – May 17th, 2012
New data released by Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute shows that aftershocks from last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake may go on for decades near the borders of Fukushima and Ibaraki Prefectures. In 2011, Japan experienced 9,723 earthquakes measuring magnitude 1.0 or larger, up to eight times more than in the previous decade. More than 600 of those measured magnitude 5.0 or greater.
NISA officials and TEPCO are now admitting that they knew that power loss leading to a total blackout as a result of flooding from a tsunami was possible at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as early as 2006 TEPCO, has been nationalised. Japan’s trade and industry minister Yukio Edano announced a de facto state take-over of the company with a further injection of $12.5bn, bringing the total of state capital in TEPCO to $33.2bn
MAY 21, 2012
Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk (finally hits mainstream!)
HTTP://WWW.CTV.CA/CTVNEWS/WORLD/20120518/FUKUSHIMA-DAI-ICHI-RISK-REACTOR-4-120519/
May 21, 2012
N.R.C. Chairman to Resign After “Stormy” Tenure
May 21, 2012
Akio Matsumura is a former UN diplomat who is very worried about the damaged Fukushima-Daiichi power plants in Japan.
May 21, 2012
The Pacific Ocean Is Dying: Special Report On Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article34766.html
May 21, 2012
People don’t realize that the Fukushima reactor is on a knife’s edge; it’s near the tipping point. A small earthquake, another pipe break, another explosion could tip it over and we could have a disaster much worse, many times worse than Chernobyl – Dr. Michio Kaku
http://theintelhub.com/2012/05/21/fukushima-forever/
May 22, 2012
Water inside Fukushima No. 1 reactor may be only 40 cm deep
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/05/159560.html
May 22, 2012
Fukushima Reactor 4: The Most Important Story Nobody’s Talking About – Media Deep Sixing Fukushima
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1-/11713-media-deep-sixing-fukushima-.html
May 22, 2012
Study highlights how Twitter is used to share information after a disaster
A study from North Carolina State University shows how people used Twitter following the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan, highlighting challenges for using the social media tool to share information. The study also indicates that social media haven’t changed what we communicate so much as how quickly we can disseminate it.
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-highlights-twitter-disaster.html
May 22, 2012
Probability of contamination from severe nuclear reactor accidents is higher than expected: study – and see map
such events may occur once every 10 to 20 years (based on the current number of reactors)
http://phys.org/news/2012-05-probability-contamination-severe-nuclear-reactor.html
May 23, 2012
Fukushima disaster is ‘nuclear war without a war’
“Hazardous radioactive elements being released in the sea and air around Fukushima accumulate at each step of various food chains (for example, into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow’s meat and milk, then humans),” writes Helen Caldicott in her piece, Fukushima: Nuclear Apologists Play Shoot the Messenger on Radiation, in The Age.
“Entering the body, these elements — called internal emitters — migrate to specific organs such as the thyroid, liver, bone, and brain, continuously irradiating small volumes of cells with high doses of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation, and over many years often induce cancer.”
http://www.naturalnews.com/035950_Fukushima_nuclear_war_disaster.html#ixzz1viwRiBYb
May 23, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has estimated the total amount of radioactive substances discharged from its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant measured 760,000 terabecquerels, 1.6 times the estimate released by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in February.
It reached a final estimate of 400,000 terabecquerels of iodine-131 and 360,000 terabecquerels of cesium-137.— 4 times higher than Chernobyl’s 85,000 terabecquerels
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120523005514.htm
May 23, 2012
Anti-nuclear activists from Greenpeace in Slovakia have lost a legal case against the finalization of construction of the third and fourth reactors at the Mochovce nuclear power plant (have to scroll down to find this news item)
http://www.praguepost.com/news/european-briefs/13244-bee-gees-singer-robin-gibb-dies.html
May 24, 2012
President Obama nominates Prof. Allison Macfarlane to Chair NRC
May 24, 2012
Columbia Generation Station protests: unnecessary nuclear plant – Bonneville power has the wind generators turned off because they have too much hydropower!!
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/05/24/1952315/columbia-generation-station-protests.html
May 24, 2012
Big change in number of child deaths in Fukushima due to illnesses after July 2011 — Death from cardiovascular disease doubled — Cancer and leukemia also increased
Report regarding the number of deaths due to illnesses in “Fukushima children” Changes since the Fukushima accident based on the government’s vital statistics data.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/05/report-regarding-number-of-deaths-due.html
May 24, 2012
Japan utility ups estimate of radiation released in Fukushima disaster
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/asia/japan-nuclear-disaster/index.html
May 24, 2012
TEPCO combined the two methods and repeated its calculations under different conditions. It reached a final estimate of 400,000 terabecquerels of iodine-131 and 360,000 terabecquerels of cesium-137.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120523005514.htm
May 25, 2012
Actual Fukushima worker “In case of the major aftershock, all the reactors will be in crisis”
May 25, 2012
TEPCO puts radiation release early in Fukushima crisis at 900,000 Terabecquerels/ Tepco “could not measure” amount of radiation released when Unit 4 exploded
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120525p2g00m0dm050000c.html
May 25, 2012
UN Radiation Expert: Neutron exposure from Fukushima criticalities not measured
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21849-fukushimaexposed-children-and-workers-ok-for-now.html
May 25, 2012
Fukushima Daiichi requires a Manhattan Project approach to avoid another nuclear accident – Gov’t TMI Investigator: Fukushima Daiichi requires a Manhattan Project approach — “Accident involving nuclear fuel rods is virtually inevitable” — Virtually 100% probability of large quake in 10+ years required to defuel plant
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@what the; The US is not assisting in this because GE is a USA company and therefore would have to admit to being a huge part of the problem. And we have several type of reactors made by GE on line in the USA. Admitting fault would be a financial disaster for both GE and the government. And even the best scientists who can assist are held hostage from the arms of the corporate government. Sad, but I believe, true.
Why is this still not a priority in the US (or anywhere?)??????? I know it will hurt business, and it’ll hurt the very thing i’d been putting so much effort into working and supporting – local organic farming. And people i mention it to often act like i didn’t say anything at all, because acknowledging it means completely CHANGING something essential in one’s life, and beliefs, and sense of “security”. Is there even hope for human consciousness to awaken to what’s right in our faces (and in our food and air!!)… let alone to make a significant impact on the way things are going??!! What else can we do about it to express the imminence of the global situation??? The US has the technology to assist in this dilemma, yet it’s not. What else do they know that we don’t???
I agree, Brian – people should be yelling their heads off – but why aren’t they?
Why Aren’t people yelling their heads off?
Last year, J.H. Bartlett wrote a novel called “Last Summer at the Compound”. It’s about a family in Plymouth who meet at their summer compound that is just a few miles from the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. The disaster at Fukushima has made them realize how close they are to this Mark 1 Boiling Water Reactor and the book is about how they grapple with the decision about selling this summer estate that has been in the family for 5 generations. To quote from the book, the “children, the thirty to fifty year olds were the ones most consumed with safety. Have a Healthy and Safe New Year was the message on their Christmas cards. Merry and Happy were out of fashion, pushed aside by healthy and safe. Accidents, disasters, diseases, even death, could be avoided with sufficient vigilance. Seat belts and helmets were called for, sturdy SUV’s that would not crush on impact were encouraged. Fire alarms and burglar alarms were installed. They enthusiastically lighted up dangerous, dark nights. Regular checkups were made of their bodies, X-rays, MRIs, mammograms, colonoscopies, camera probes were sent down the throat to meet those going up the rear end, blood pressure readings were taken, and electrocardiograms. Some wore gizmos to keep a daily check on heart beat, blood pressure and sugar levels. They had flu shots, took pills to lower cholesterol, relieve arthritis, rejuvenate the blood and thicken the bones. Women took hormones, and then men took Viagra to satisfy their wives’ new hormonal induced sex drive. Dogs were fixed and children were driven to play dates, potholes were filled, roads widened. Smoking was abandoned as was the eating of red meat. Defibrillators were installed at parks, schools and playing fields. There were hand sanitizers inside the doors of most public buildings and bowls of condoms in some.” …”Yet they had little time to do anything about the nuclear plant; they did not show up at meetings or demonstrations or go door to door collecting signatures”….
So people aren’t yelling – but not because they don’t care about health and safety.
A friend of mine says it could be because radiation is so new to human beings. The atom was split in 1917 – less than 100 years ago.
He says “it is truly fascinating, but not too complicated, why most people don’t care or cannot comprehend what’s happening. I think it’s partly the genetic marker. Unfortunately the human race has no genetic marker for radiation. There is nothing for us to latch on to at the instinctive level. So the general public fails to recognize the threat. Can you imagine if Fkushima Daiichi was a biological weapons lab? Now that would get everyone’s attention.”
He goes on to say:
“I think it takes an interdisciplinary mind, background, and personality, an investigative, mentality, interest in earth and life sciences, curiosity, truth-seeking nature (void of politics, religion, belief systems, or any exterior motivations) and the ability to think not only linearly but abstractly and certainly from at least 50,000 feet up as well as down into the microscope to be able to gasp at the epic severity of the situation and to be able to visualize and understand what’s happening. It also helps to be educated in and understand public relations and how things work, so you can laugh at the corporate/govt BS in their mainstream media distraction entertainment money junk science parade. Not many in today’s distraction-based entertainment brainwashed world have those qualifications.”
“For some people, they need to see ‘numbers’ and need to hear from ‘official sources’, they need to be told they should be worried by official sources.”
“The health effects of nuclear power and associated accidents are devastating. Cancer is a side track. Other fallout-related health problems will affect many people first, including heart attack and stroke, before they get to cancer. It’s a cakewalk for the thinktanks and the highest of public relations geniuses to generate misinformation and perception that dismiss all health-related problems. The various forms of disease will not come with a Made in Fukushima tag and good luck proving it in a court of law. Sadly,it is highly likely that the general public will never realize what has happened to them.”
People should be yelling their heads off. It won’t be long before the water off California will be too radioactive to swim in. Reactor 1 is back in fission mode because it is emitting radioactive Krypton and Xenon. Reactors 2 and 3 are putting out isotopes as well. And the Japanese are dumping 1000 tons a day of radioactive water into the Pacific. The plume is reportedly 3500 kilometers out to sea. And if the reactor 4 building collapses? The spent fuel pool will start to burn and the site will have to be abandoned. Do I need to say more?
An excellent timeline historical document!
I clicked on “View All” and just scrolled.
two nuclear bombs. four nuclear power plants. it’s called karma
We would have been better off without the invention as it is so really dangerous unlike anyhing else.Thanks to uranium fluoridation was given boost because nothing was to be allowed to stand in the way of this warlike invention.Still many suffer with the infliction of fluoridation today and without any advantages except as a way to dispose of dangerous fluorides.