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August 17, 2012
Hosono vows to support robot development to scrap Fukushima reactors.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/08/177225.html
August 17, 2012
IAEA’s post-Fukushima progress report.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-IAEAs_post-Fukushima_progress_report_170812a.html
August 17, 2012
Analysis: Radiation Health Risk Management Adviser Shunichi Yamashita. (editorial note: a must read)
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blogspot.ca/2012/08/analysis-radiation-health-risk.html
August 17, 2012
Cesium measured from American pistachios( 9.54 Bq/Kg. Cs-137).
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/cesium-measured-from-american-green-nuts/
August 17, 2012
US halts shipments of Japanese beef due to concerns of radioactive contamination from Fukushima disaster.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGO1lKzVIcM
August 18, 2012
Persisent long half life radiation readings in rain fallout in St. Louis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLbtZTY4l9k&feature=youtu.be
August 18, 2012
Radio: Nuclear test site in danger of collapsing — Could create 15 meter tsunami — 193 explosions conducted in little area (AUDIO).
August 18, 2012
No. 1, 2 plants’ reactors written off.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120818a7.html
August 19, 2012
Mainichi Interview: “The reactors still continue to release radioactive materials” — “The gov’t needs to recognize the gravity of this situation”.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120819p2a00m0na004000c.html
August 19, 2012
Fukushima: 11,400,000 Bq/m3 of cesium leaked again, “metal fatigue of a coupler.”
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20120817193111736
August 19, 2012
NBC: Radioactive contamination in San Francisco neighborhood — 400 times EPA limit found in soil sample — Boys & Girls Club exposed to contaminated dust?
August 19, 2012
Rubella pandemic “Rubella causes neonatal heart disease”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/rubella-pandemic-rubella-causes-neonatal-heart-disease/
August 19, 2012
Arnie Gundersen analyzes a US government national laboratory simulation video that shows nuclear spent fuel rods do catch fire when exposed to air.
http://fairewinds.org/content/can-spent-fuel-pools-catch-fire
August 19, 2012
Chiba, Japan, radioactivte fruit being sold to Thailand – and so it spreads around the world.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/08/chiba-produce-fair-in-thailand-all-out.html
August 19, 2012
Fukushima Radiation Damages Butterflies, but not People – Yet.
August 19, 2012
Fukushima towns asked to support work to select nuclear repository.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/08/177455.html
August 19, 2012
Fukushima Nuclear Situation “Deteriorating”.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/08/19/fukushima-nuclear-situation-deteriorating/
August 19, 2012
Nuclear Power Protests Find Wide Support in Japan.
August 20, 2012
Jeff Rense Radio Network with Michael Collins.
Cesium in California nuts and fruits, airplane radiation increased since December and much more.
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/special/rense_Collins_082012.mp3
August 20, 2012
Japanese Diplomat: “Worsening situation” at Fukushima Daiichi — 40+ more years of radiation contamination coming out of plant may have sizeable effects in neighboring countries.
http://akiomatsumura.com/2012/08/862.html
August 20, 2012
Seismic study near California nuclear plant wins key approval.
August 20, 2012
People who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as children continue to have a higher-than-normal risk of thyroid cancer more than 50 years after radiation exposure, according to a U.S. study.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/20/health-thyroid-idINL4E8JK00R20120820
August 20, 2012
The nuclear power industry has made behind-the-scenes payments to the tune of at least 3.18 billion yen ($40 million) to six local governments hosting nuclear-power related facilities since the Fukushima disaster last year.
https://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208200103
August 21, 2012
4 prefectures chosen for disposal of contaminated ash.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208210084
August 21, 2012
Interim storage facilities urgently needed for decontamination work.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T120821003300.htm
August 21, 2012
Lawyer, writers call for legislation on nuclear phaseout.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208210065
August 21, 2012
Fukushima govt to use stricter rice screenings. The nationwide limit for radioactive cesium in rice will be cut to 100 becquerels per kilogram in October.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120820003678.htm
August 21, 2012
Plutonium Detected at 10 Locations in Fukushima.
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2012082100888
August 21, 2012
Nuclear Chief: Belgium reactor could have ‘1,000s of cracks’ — Same as used at U.S. plants — Suggests permanent closure all but certain.
August 21, 2012
Cesium from 90% of fishery products offshore Fukushima, “Highest reading was 25,800 Bq/kg”.
August 21, 2012
Fukushima’s Fish Are Soaked In Record Levels of Radiation.
http://gizmodo.com/5936706/fukushimas-fish-are-soaked-in-record-levels-of-radiation
August 21, 2012
Mainichi: “High-radiation jungle” developing in Fukushima mountains, forests — “A natural disaster will certainly y occur” if situation continues.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20120817p2a00m0na015000c.html
August 21, 2012
Radioactive food exceeding city’s limits fed to school children in Japan.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/08/radioactive-japan-food-items-exceeding.html
August 22, 2012
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Releases Steam but no Radiation detected?
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/08/steam_release_at_tmi_causes_lo.html
August 22, 2012
Two men in Fukushima Prefecture showed high levels of radioactive cesium this week after eating vegetables grown in their home gardens, showing that the risk of internal radiation exposure in some areas remains high. One of the men measured nearly 20,000 Becquerels. Their wives also were also exposed to radiation. The men were from Kawamata and Nihonmatsu, and had consumed, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and dried persimmons.
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20120822p2a00m0na008000c.html
August 22, 2012
The Environment Ministry cautioned this week that the amount of highly radioactive waste measuring more from last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster, previously estimated at 50,000 tons, is now likely to be much higher. The government is responsible for handling any waste measuring more than 8,000 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium, and Fukushima and nearby prefectures are currently storing 42,575 tons of highly radioactive waste. Estimates measuring the amount of waste that will need to be stored are as high as 28 million cubic meters, or enough to completely fill 23 Tokyo Domes
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/editorial/T120821003300.htm
August 22, 2012
Fukushima fish carrying 258 times the ‘safe’ level of radiation – 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo. The radioactivity which seeped into the region’s air and water has left humans facing potentially life threatening health issues.
Over a third of Fukushima children are at risk of developing cancer, according to the Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey.
http://rt.com/news/fukushima-nuclear-radiation-fish-238/
August 22, 2012
Radioactive material has been found between the inner and outer walls of an underground double-shell tank at Hanford for the first time.
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/08/18/2066462/double-shell-tank-at-hanford-might.html
August 22, 2012
Nuclear watchdogs are questioning a proposal to ship tons of plutonium to New Mexico, including the cores of nuclear warheads that would be dismantled at an aging and structurally questionable lab atop a major earthquake fault zone.
August 22, 2012
Anti-Nuclear Demonstrators Confront Japan’s PM.
August 22, 2012
Japan Nuclear Professor: Fukushima smoke stacks releasing radiation on a daily basis (VIDEO).
http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia/atomic-age-ii-fukushima-session-3-roundtable-japanese
August 22, 2012
Official: “Way beyond the levels recorded (258 times limit) before, it is worrying” — Suggests more releases from Fukushima plant may be causing extreme contamination –Asahi
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208220077
August 22, 2012
Still smarting from Fukushima, Japan is turning to renewable energy in a big way. A recent survey from the Kyodo News discovered that more than a third of 109 Japanese companies are confident that renewable energy can take the place of nuclear power in the nation’s distribution of power resources.
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/post-fukushima-japan-turns-to-renewables/2487
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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.