Plume-Gate - Fukushima catastrophe

Remember that scary time-lapse video showing all those atomic bomb tests over the decades?

I don't know how much fuel was in Unit 3 compared to 4, but check out what the Fairewinds team had to say about Unit 4 a couple of years ago:

"There is as much cesium in the fuel pool at Unit 4 as there was in all of the atomic bombs dropped in all of the tests in the 1940's, the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's. All of the above ground testing has less cesium in it than is in the reactor pool at Fukushima 4 right now."

If the WHO is forecasting a 70% increase in the rate of lung cancer by 2032, then it's probably doing so on the basis of current increasing trends. You've gotta wonder about the extent to which this, the largest industrial accident in history, is spreading and intensifying the cancer pandemic.
 
Kniall said:
If the WHO is forecasting a 70% increase in the rate of lung cancer by 2032, then it's probably doing so on the basis of current increasing trends. You've gotta wonder about the extent to which this, the largest industrial accident in history, is spreading and intensifying the cancer pandemic.

Kniall, the health effects will be concealed as long as they can obfuscate the data. EPA raised the limits of allowable radiation exposure. Now efforts to redefine cancer so only fatal cancers are counted. Try getting infant mortality or cancer statistics after 2011. By focusing on cancer the nuke industry can ignore the other health effects of radiation and continue to profit from treating the cancers they caused. Cesium concentrates in soft tissue and weakens the heart muscle, increasing heart attacks and infant mortality.

Here’s research linking CFS to low level rads: http://www.ncf-net.org/radiation.htm

EPA shut down radiation monitors and continues to take them offline when levels spike. The nuke industry does not want us to be able to link low level rads with health effects. The baby tooth study of strontium levels in the 60's led to the nuke test ban treaties. “The Federal Government no longer measures strontium intake in baby teeth. Yet RPHP believes it is important to know what the facts of our radioactive exposure actually are. Thus, RPHP has launched its own national study of the levels of radioactivity in American baby teeth.”
http://www.radiation.org/projects/tooth_fairy.html

The rise in heart attacks, immune diseases, and cancers, will seem minor compared to the damage happening to the human genome that will be seen later. Mutations occurring around Chernobyl and Fallujah can be expected in Japan.

“Thus the passage of a single track of Pu 239 alpha ray results in cells exhibiting chromosome instability after several generations and derived from non-irradiated cells. Thus there is no safe dose of radiation!”
http://isisunveiledhenp.blogspot.in/2012/11/what-is-consequence-of-power-at-which.html

Chernobyl Decay and Deformed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAJ_u3Q0Hw

When I read the C's advise about diet and stress relief to strengthen our immune systems and grow our DNA and the warnings that human activities will make the transition more difficult, I wonder if they're hinting at the dangers of these industrial accidents.
 
6.8 quake in Fukushima! Tsunami risk. The night of friday to saturday at 04h20, Hour Nippon.
 
Found this article to be very informative on the Fukushima situation, which includes, the last chapter and diagrams from a book recently published.

“The Nuclear Energy Paradigm Collides with Earth Changes and Technospheric Breakdown” — The Final Chapter
_http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=8037

“Fukushima: Dispossession or Denuclearization?” is a definitive and riveting book on the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe which has recently been published HERE. If there is one sober assessment of what this unparalleled event means to humanity, this scholarly yet practical review is it.

The last chapter of this extraordinary and eye-opening exposé provides only a glimpse into what are perhaps the most important messages that Fukushima has to deliver to humankind.

This exceptional treatment of the Fukushima disaster offers both uniquely penetrating insights and weighty conclusions. Those inescapable conclusions must now be acknowledged, and responded to with great immediacy, by Japan and the world community of nations.
 
angelburst29 said:
“The Nuclear Energy Paradigm Collides with Earth Changes and Technospheric Breakdown” — The Final Chapter
_http://cosmicconvergence.org/?p=8037

Thanks, angelburst29, for posting the link to the last chapter of Majia’s book.

“Earth changes and technospheric breakdown — will only intensify for the foreseeable future.”

Good reasons to denuclearize sooner rather than too late. Important information if we are to correctly evaluate our power options. Accelerating earth changes add urgency to getting this information to the public.
 
Former executives of the TEPCO company, which operated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) will come up for trial on June 30 for the 2011 nuclear disaster, local media reported on Wednesday.

In February 2016, former TEPCO chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two ex-vice presidents Ichiro Takekuro and Sakae Muto were accused of failing to take necessary security measures in the face of potential tsunami-related incidents at the NPP.

According to the NHK broadcaster, the preparations for the first hearing is ongoing at the Tokyo District Court.

In March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit the Fukushima NPP and led to the leakage of radioactive materials and the shutdown of the facility. The accident is considered to be the world's worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl accident that took place in the Soviet Ukraine in 1986.
 
angelburst29 said:
Judge dismisses Salior's Radiation Case
_http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/17/reagan-radiation-lawsuit-dismissed-tomodachi/

WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN (March 23, 2011) - Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 14 man their brooms during a counter-measure wash down on the flight deck. Crewmembers scrubbed the external surfaces on the flight deck and island superstructure to remove potential radiation contamination. Ronald Reagan is currently operating off the coast of Japan to provide disaster relief and humanitarian assistance as directed in support of Operation Tomodachi. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Nicholas A. Groesch/Released)

A San Diego federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that U.S. sailors were exposed to dangerous radiation during the humanitarian response to the March 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

But Judge Janis L. Sammartino left the door open for a follow-on lawsuit, and the attorney representing several sailors from the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan said he intends to refile.

The judge dismissed the case Nov. 26 on jurisdictional grounds, saying that it was beyond her authority to determine whether the Japanese government had perpetrated a fraud on its American counterpart.

The defendant in the December 2012 case was Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The lawsuit argued that power company officials lied about the amount of leakage from the damaged plant, in concert with the government of Japan. It says the Navy used those reports in its own calculations about the safety of U.S. sailors in the relief effort, called Operation Tomodachi.

The carrier Reagan responded to the disaster and for more than three weeks stayed off the coast, launching aircraft to help Japanese survivors.

Two days after the disaster, the Navy repositioned the Reagan after detecting low levels of contamination in the air and on 17 aircrew members.

Sailors represented in the lawsuit were deckhands who washed down the flight deck, and performed over decontamination tasks on the ship.

Paul Garner, the Encinitas lawyer leading the case, said the sailors’ ailments include rectal bleeding and other gastrointestinal trouble, unremitting headaches, hair loss and fatigue. Some have thyroid and gallbladder cancer. Many are in their 20s.

Garner said he will refile the case without alleging the conspiracy with the Japanese government.

The number of plaintiffs is now at 51 people. Garner said he intends to add at least 20 more when he refiles.

51 U.S. Navy personnel acquire Cancers after helping mitigate Fukushima disaster
_http://intellihub.com/2013/12/16/51-u-s-navy-personnel-acquired-cancers-after-helping-to-mitigate-fukushima-disaster/

The 51 U.S. Navy personnel were some of the first responders off the coast of Japan aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. The sailors turned back that dreadful day, already in route to Korean waters to provide aid to Japan.

Charles Bonner “says that as a result of this exposure, the 51 sailors have come down with a host of medical problems, “They have testicular cancer, they have thyroid cancers, they have leukemias, they have rectal and gynecological bleeding, a host of problems that they did not have before … people are going blind, pilots who had perfect eyesight but now have tumors on the brain. And it’s only been 3 years since they went in.” Bonner pointed out that these service men and women are young people, ages 21, 22, 23 years old and no one in their family had ever suffered any of these kinds of illnesses before.”, according to the Turner Radio Network.

Although members of the crew knew that this is the type operations they may have signed up for, some blame the Japanese Government for covering up the meltdown which actually took place 5 hours after the earthquake on March 11, 2011. News of the meltdown was reported by Intellihub News early on then later confirmed by Tepco’s own admission and other sources.

U.S. Navy personnel who were exposed to radiation from Japan’s wrecked Fukushima plant during earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in 2011 can sue the power station’s operator in California, a court ruled.

Judge: Sailors Can Sue California Company Over Fukushima Exposure
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2014/10/30/345455.htm

U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino in San Diego denied the request by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to dismiss the class- action lawsuit based on jurisdictional issues and have it heard in Japan instead.

“Although Japan is an adequate alternative forum, the balance of the private and public interest factors suggest that it would be more convenient for the parties to litigate in a U.S. court,” Sammartino wrote in her Oct. 28 ruling.

The sailors and their families claimed the company known as Tepco, Japan’s biggest power utility, was negligent in the design and operation of the Fukushima plant, according to their amended complaint filed in February. They’re seeking to create a fund exceeding $1 billion to monitor their health and pay for medical expenses, on top of unspecified damages.

Tepco had argued the U.S. military had contributed to the plaintiffs’ harm, limiting the utility’s liability.

Tepco spokeswoman Mayumi Yoshida said she couldn’t immediately comment on the latest ruling.

In Japan, an inquest committee has recommended that local prosecutors indict former Tepco chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two executives over negligence claims leading to the disaster. Prosecutors in Tokyo said this month they would decide on charges by Feb. 2.

The record earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 caused the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima plant, the worst civilian atomic disaster since Chernobyl in 1986. About 160,000 people were forced to evacuate because of radiation fallout.

The case is Lindsay R. Cooper v Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc., 12-cv-3032. U.S. District Court, Southern District of California.


SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court says members of the U.S. Navy can pursue their lawsuit in a U.S. court alleging radiation exposure from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Court: Sailors can sue in US over Japanese nuclear disaster
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/article157684114.html

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court says members of the U.S. Navy can pursue their lawsuit in a U.S. court alleging radiation exposure from Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Thursday that the sailors for now don't have to make their legal claims in Japan.

Their lawsuit accuses Tokyo Electric Power Co. and the Japanese government of conspiring to keep secret the extent of the radiation leak following a 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of people.

The plaintiffs arrived off the coast of Fukushima aboard the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and other vessels to provide humanitarian aid a day after the quake.

They filed their lawsuit in 2012 in federal court in San Diego.

An email to an attorney for Tokyo Electric was not immediately returned.
 
The International Research Institute for Nuclear Decommissioning launched tests to stop leakage of highly contaminated water at the Japanese Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), local media reported Saturday.

Research Institute Launches Tests to Stop Fukushima NPP Water Leakage
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201706241054951056-fukushima-npp-water-leakage/

As the contaminated water is believed to be leaking through cracks in equipment that links the Fukushima's reactor with the containment vessel, the research institute is testing a method to fill the equipment with concrete, according to the NHK media outlet.

The tests are conducted at an institute's facility in Naraha town, located in Fukushima Prefecture. Some 4,800 tonnes of concrete are set to be poured into mock equipment over an eight-hour period.

In 2011, a major earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Japan's Fukushima NPP and led to the leakage of radioactive materials and the shutdown of the plant. Following the incident, Tokyo shut down all the NPPs in Japan and started to restart them after introducing new security standards.
 
Trial of Tepco executives over Japan's Fukushima disaster heads to conclusion
FILE PHOTO: A small monument to victims is seen in front of an abandoned house at the tsunami destroyed coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima prefecture, some 6 km (4 miles) from the crippled Daiichi power plant, September 22, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo

FILE PHOTO: A small monument to victims is seen in front of an abandoned house at the tsunami destroyed coastal area of the evacuated town of Namie in Fukushima prefecture, some 6 km (4 miles) from the crippled Daiichi power plant, September 22, 2013. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo

September 17, 2019 - A Tokyo court will hand down a verdict later this week on whether three Tokyo Electric Power executives are liable for the 2011 Fukushima disaster, the only criminal case to arise out of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986.

The trial, which started in June 2017, was conducted by state-appointed lawyers after prosecutors decided not to bring charges against the executives of the company known as Tepco.

Former Tepco Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and onetime executives Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro apologized during the first hearing at the Tokyo District Court for causing trouble to the victims and society, but pleaded not guilty.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear station, located about 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo, was rocked by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011, sparking three reactor meltdowns and prompting Japan to shut down its entire fleet of nuclear reactors.

Lawyers acting as prosecutors said the three executives had access to data and studies anticipating the risk to the area from a tsunami exceeding 10 meters (33 feet) in height that could trigger power loss and cause a nuclear disaster.

Lawyers for the defendants, however, said the estimates were not well established, and even experts had divisive views on how the Fukushima reactors would be affected by a tsunami.

The three former Tepco executives are the first individuals to face criminal charges for the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but a high bar for proof may prevent a conviction. Prosecutors had declined to bring charges, citing insufficient evidence, but a civilian judiciary panel twice voted to indict the executives, overruling the determination not to go to trial.

“If I were a gambling man I would certainly not bet on a conviction. The citizen-panel initiated trials do not have a good success rate,” Colin Jones, a professor at the Doshisha Law School in Kyoto, told Reuters.

“The charitable view would be that prosecutors don’t take cases unless they know they can win, so it shouldn’t be surprising that the cases they don’t want to take end up being losers,” he said.

Citizen judiciary panels, selected by lottery, are a rarely used feature of Japan’s legal system introduced after World War Two to curb bureaucratic overreach.

Indictments brought by the panels, however, have a low conviction rate. One review of eight of these cases by the Eiko Sogo Law Office found just one, equal to a 17 percent conviction rate, compared with an overall rate of 98 percent in Japan.

Japan’s government estimated in 2016 that the total cost of dismantling Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, decontaminating the affected areas, and paying compensation would amount to around $200 billion.

More than 160,000 residents fled nearby towns in the aftermath of the March 2011 tsunami as radiation from the reactor meltdowns contaminated water, food and air.
 
Japan court acquits energy bosses over Fukushima disaster
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This combination of pictures taken and created on September 19, 2019 shows three former executives from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), former chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata (R), former vice presidents Ichiro Takekuro (C) and Sakae Muto (L), arriving at the Tokyo District Court to attend their trial. (AFP)

September 19, 2019 - TOKYO: A Japanese court on Thursday cleared three energy firm bosses of professional negligence in the only criminal trial stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown.

The three men were senior officials at the TEPCO firm operating the Fukushima Daiichi plant and had faced up to five years in prison if convicted.

“All defendants are not guilty,” the presiding judge said, ruling that the executives could not have predicted the scale of the tsunami that overwhelmed the plant and triggered the accident.

The decision is likely to be appealed, extending the legal wrangling over responsibility for the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, more than eight years after the disaster.

Outside the courtroom, dozens of people staged a rally, including some who had traveled from the Fukushima region to hear the verdict.

“It is absolutely an unjust ruling. We absolutely cannot accept this,” one woman said angrily, addressing the crowd. “We will appeal this and continue our fight,” shouted a man nearby.

TEPCO declined to comment on the verdict, repeating its “sincere apologies for the great inconvenience and concern” caused by the disaster.

The three former executives were accused of professional negligence resulting in death and injury for failing to act on information about the risks from a major tsunami, but they argued the data available to them at the time was unreliable.

Judge Kenichi Nagafuchi said the verdict turned on the “predictability” of the massive tsunami that swamped the nuclear plant in March 2011 after a 9.0-magnitude undersea earthquake.

He pointed out there had been no proposal from the government’s nuclear watchdog “that TEPCO should suspend operations until (safety) measures are taken.”

No one was killed in the nuclear meltdown, but the tsunami left 18,500 dead or missing.

The ex-TEPCO executives faced trial in relation to the deaths of more than 40 hospitalized patients who died after having to be evacuated following the nuclear disaster.

Prosecutors twice declined to proceed with the case, citing insufficient evidence and a slim chance of conviction, but were forced to after a judicial review panel composed of ordinary citizens ruled that the trio should face trial.

All three defendants — former TEPCO chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 79, and former vice presidents Sakae Muto, 69, and Ichiro Takekuro, 73 — had pleaded not guilty.

The prosecutors said the men were present at meetings where experts warned of the anticipated height of a tsunami off the Fukushima coast and should have taken better safety measures.

They argued the executives were presented data warning a tsunami exceeding 10 meters (33 feet) could trigger power loss and a major disaster at the plant. And a TEPCO internal study, based on a government report, concluded that a wave of up to 15.7 meters could hit after a magnitude-8.3 quake.

In the event, when a 9.0-magnitude quake hit offshore on March 11, 2011, waves as high as 14 meters swamped the reactors’ cooling systems. The resulting meltdown forced massive evacuations and left parts of the surrounding area uninhabitable — in some cases possibly forever.

The three defendants have apologized, but argued they could not have foreseen the disaster based on the available evidence and that they thought officials in the firm responsible for nuclear safety had taken appropriate measures. “It is difficult to deal with issues that are uncertain and obscure,” Takekuro said during the trial.

Separately from the criminal case, dozens of civil lawsuits have been filed against the government and TEPCO. Some district courts have granted damages to local residents, ordering TEPCO and the government to pay.

Before the verdict, protesters outside the court said the trial was a chance to hold someone accountable for the disaster. “If we don’t hear guilty verdicts, our years-long efforts to bring this to court will not have been rewarded,” said Saki Okawara, 67, who came from Miharu in the Fukushima region to hear the verdict. “And Japanese society’s culture of no one taking responsibility will continue.”
 
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