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November 30, 2012
Japan’s Idle Land Finding New Life as Solar Farms.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323751104578150481477282630.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
November 30, 2012
“Beef labelled as from Hokkaido, but the tracking code tells it’s grown in Fukushima”.
November 30, 2012
NRC meeting re decision on restarting or closing San Onofre.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/san-379301-monks-plant.html
November 30, 2012
Tepco has no solid plan for increasing amount of contaminated water.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/tepco-has-no-solid-plan-for-increasing-contaminated-water/
November 30, 2012
A World In Denial: Underestimating Japan’s Nuclear Disaster.
http://rense.com/general95/worldindenial.html
November 30, 2012
Tepco only visually measures the tilt of SFP4.
November 30, 2012
Radioactive silver and Sr-90 measured from marine products of Fukushima, silver higher than cesium in 62% of samples. Ag-110m (radioactive silver) and Sr-90 were measured from crabs, common skete, and barfin flounder.
November 30, 2012
Sunshine Coast Australia Radiation levels 40% above background.
https://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/09/radiation-conversation/#comment-206953
November 30, 2012
An Open Letter: Why I Support Akio An Open Letter: Why I Support Akio Matsumura, and Why You Should Too.
November 30, 2012
Some of the Japanese aluminum is mixed with contaminated aluminum cans from Fukushima.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/express-2-49-μsvh-in-kitakyushu-after-debris-incineration/
December 1, 2012
San Onofre nuclear plant may have been sabotaged.
http://rt.com/usa/news/san-onofre-nuclear-employee-009/
December 1, 2012
Massive undertaking to overhaul 4 reactors at Darlington Ontario at a cost estimate of $6 to $10 billion.
“To advocate or authorize the building of new or extended nuclear reactors at the Darlington site, knowing what has happened at Chernobyl and at Fukushima, it is not only unwise but could be seen as a crime against current and future generations…”
December 1, 2012
TEPCO shows Fukushima footage leading to tainted water release.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/12/196820.html
December 1, 2012
Presentations at the Mountain of Waste 70 Years High Conference.
December 1, 2012
Tokyo still accepts 148 tonnes of debris to incinerate per day.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/tokyo-still-accepts-148-tones-of-debris-to-incinerate-per-day/
December 1, 2012
Southern Co. is building the first U.S. nuclear reactors approved in decades. However, the AP1000 design does not have any safety advantages compared to currently operating reactors and, in fact, may be less safe,” Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist for the watchdog Union of Concerned Scientists, said. “The features described are only designed to function in the event of [a] so-called ‘design basis accident’ — not the type of severe accident that occurred at Fukushima.”
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/01/us/fukushima-safety-measures/
December 1, 2012
High Thyroid radiation doses in Fukushima recovery workers.
Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health Organization. The highest recorded dose was 11,800 millisieverts, a level that would give a correspondingly high probability of thyroid cancer.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ201212010050
December 1, 2012
“2.49 μSv/h (249 cpm) in Kitakyushu, Japan after debris incineration.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/express-2-49-μsvh-in-kitakyushu-after-debris-incineration/
December 1, 2012
Mountain of Waste Conference.
Akiko Yoshida of Friends of the Earth – Tokyo discusses the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and Japan’s energy policy after the accident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c32EjEmLwA/
December 2, 2012
“Faced with this (Fukushima) catastrophe, many people concluded that this social and political deterioration had to be remedied and Japan’s energy and nuclear power policies fundamentally changed. We are witnessing a once-in-a-century opportunity where such change is possible.”
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20121202rp.html
December 2, 2012
Children who have been using internet device since they were born are seemingly rebelling in Fukushima. They search on the internet and are accusing the adults of forcing the children to eat contaminated food, where they can’t take any responsibility.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/12/express-fukushima-children-are-standing-up-with-the-internet/
December 2, 2012
Free Webinar: Centralized vs. Decentralized Energy: Lessons from Germany Dec. 6, 10 a.m. EST. What lessons can Ontario and North America learn from the decentralized energy transition occurring in Germany?
http://ontario-sea.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&ContentID=4137
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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.