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November 3, 2012
Reuters is reporting no timeline for restarting unit 1 at Salem after a high wave from hurricane Sandy took out 5 of the 6 water intake pumps.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/03/salem-nuclearoutage-sandy-idUSL1E8M310N20121103
November 3, 2012
Are Nuclear Plants Safe in Hurricanes? Incident During Sandy Suggests They May Not Be.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-schiffman/are-nuclear- plants-safe-i_b_2063329.html
November 3, 2012
Video on how one town decided to take Potassium Iodide pills after Fukushima.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MissingSky101
November 4, 2012
Tokyo Bay cesium even higher than levels reported off Fukushima — Nearly entire sea floor contaminated by 2014 (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/user/guardianofmiyagi
November 4, 2012
Japan’s new nuclear regulatory agency has adopted a larger view of active fault lines to anything that has shifted in the last 400,000 years.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=8204
November 4, 2012
TEPCO’s Fukushima headquarters to help redress, cleanup.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima
November 4, 2012
Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission shut down three nuclear power plants and issued an alert for the Oyster Creek plant in New Jersey. This is an important reminder that the United States has several low-lying nuclear plants on the Eastern seaboard, with minimal protection against inundation. Particularly with climate change increasing the likelihood of extreme weather, this hidden threat to public safety should be remedied.
To assess the vulnerability of nuclear power plants around the world, we collected information on plant height, sea wall height and the location of emergency power generators for 89 nuclear power plants that lie next to water. We compared this to historical information on high waves triggered by various sources such as earthquakes, landslides and hurricanes.
Our findings were striking. Our data suggest that several U.S. nuclear power plants are unprepared for high waves. In our database, the United States came in second, behind Japan, as the country with the largest number of inadequately protected nuclear power plants.
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_21908690/sandy-and-nuclear-safety
November 4, 2012
Atomic industry bankrolls Japan’s nuclear watchdog.
Members of Japan’s nuclear watchdog who are charged with drafting nuclear safety rules have received sizable funds from the atomic industry. The reports raise concerns that regulations may be diluted after last year’s Fukushima nuclear disaster.
http://rt.com/news/japan-nuclear-funds-watchdog-943/
November 4, 2012
Gundersen: Nuclear fuel pool started to heat up at New Jersey plant due to Sandy — They were bringing in fire pumps because of all the problems (AUDIO).
http://fairewinds.org/content/podcast-november-4th-2012
November 4, 2012
Peach juice from Fukushima at 34bq/kg – “Oh it’s sweet! It’s delicious!” Just like last year: If it is delicious, it is “safe”.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/11/radioactive-japan-tokyo-had-day-tour-to.html
November 4, 2012
Members of Nuclear Regulation Authority took money from utilities, manufacturers.
November 5, 2012
A fault running under the Oi nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture is definitely active, an expert on a Nuclear Regulation Authority panel investigating the compound’s safety said Sunday, as other members continued to debate the potential danger.
Tokyo University professor Mitsuhisa Watanabe is calling for the immediate halt of two reactors at the plant, the only nuclear facility reactivated since the Fukushima disaster last year, arguing evidence points to an active fault.
“It’s certain there is an active fault. Operations should be stopped and another investigation should be conducted” at the Oi plant, Watanabe said.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121105a2.html
November 5, 2012
Study to look at Hanford risk factors for beryllium disease
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2012/11/05/2159220/study-to-look-at-hanford-risk.html
November 5, 2012
Report: What is going on at Daiichi? Fukushima fallout increased Nov. 2-4 — Highest back-to-back days in months (CHARTS).
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/j/koukabutsu313.pdf
November 5, 2012
US Paper: Fukushima kids playing above nuclear waste — Public parks are now unmarked radioactive dumps.
November 5, 2012
China refused importing Japanese frozen saury for excessive radioactive cadmium.
November 5, 2012
South Korea Shuts Down Two Nuclear Reactors After Discovering Parts With Forged Quality Certificates.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWVqOaxWcTU&feature=plcp.
November 5, 2012
Cracks In America’s Nuclear Safety Exposed By Super Storm Sandy.
http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/05/cracks-in-americas-nuclear-safety-exposed-by-super-storm-sandy/
November 5, 2012
Fukushima Watch: Active or Not? The Battle Over the Oi Nuclear Plant’s Seismic Fault.
November 5, 2012
Is the miso safe?
“One of the two Iitate-mura residents that I follow on Twitter, Mr. Ito, casually tweeted the other day that the much prized Matsutake mushrooms he just collected would probably measure anything from 1,000 to 15,000 becquerels/kg. He said he was thinking of sending them to TEPCO with an invoice.”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2012/11/radioactive-japan-revival-of-iitate.html
November 5, 2012
“Doctor couldn’t count all the thyroid cysts of my daughter”
http://ianthomasash.blogspot.jp/2012/11/the-mothers-and-their-children-part-2.html
November 5, 2012
Monitoring posts are made by nuclear power maker.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/monitoring-posts-are-made-by-nuclear-plant-maker/
November 5, 2012
Strong in the Rain, a new book co-authored by Japan Focus coordinator David McNeill and Lucy Birmingham, Time magazine’s Tokyo correspondent, tells the story of Japan’s 2001 [sic] triple disaster through the eyes of six ordinary Japanese people
http://www.japanfocus.org//-Lucy-Birmingham/3849
November 5, 2012
This is a very rare opportunity for overseas delegates, media, and citizens to hear what has been happening in Fukushima, as the Japanese government, Fukushima prefectural government, Japanese major media, and the nuclear lobby have been trying to send messages “it is safe to keep living in Fukushima”, and Fukushima citizens cannot express their concerns about radiation effects on their children. Since the national and local governments do not adopt a collective evacuation, children have been living in heavily contaminated areas, ie. 27μSv/h near a primary school in Date city, 1.3μSv/h in Koriyama city where these child plaintiffs have been living since 3.11, 2011.
http://fukushima-evacuation-e.blogspot.ca/2012/10/ngo-information-meeting-japan.html
November 5, 2012
Concerns rising at Fukushima plant — 16,000 workers have quit, ‘severe working conditions’ blamed (VIDEO).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Voqq-DYQ48k
November 6, 2012
Canada, India reach agreement on nuclear trade.
November 6, 2012
NRC: Steam vented into atmosphere through ‘monitored release path’ at Michigan nuclear plant — “No immediate safety concerns… here’s what happened” (VIDEO).
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2012/11/06/the-palisades-shutdown-explained/
November 6, 2012
Environmental coalition opposes Davis-Besse license extension at ASLB oral argument pre-hearings in Toledo.
November 6, 2012
Breast milk tested but with a high detection limit.
“The prefecture tested breast milk from 378 mothers among the 703 who received counseling by the end of October. It said all samples indicated levels lower than the detection limit of radioactive cesium, 2 becquerels per kilogram.
The prefecture earmarked 100 million yen ($1.25 million) for breast milk tests covering around 10,000 mothers, after estimating 18,000 births a year.”
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211060058
November 6, 2012
Film:
The full ramifications of the aftermath of the disaster that occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 will take decades to unfold. Having shifted from the initial visceral drama to a more long-term, almost invisible threat, there is a real risk that the situations faced by residents of Fukushima Prefecture will simply vanish from the radar screens of the world’s media (or, in the case of Japanese media, remain non-existent). To this day, as a result of the meltdowns, children can’t play outside, families are breaking up, and women are even having abortions for fear of genetic damage to their unborn children. Hope is hard to come by in Fukushima.
http://www.women-of-fukushima.com/production-notes/
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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.