Japan - 8.9 Earthquake - Fukushima Meltdown

[Rich]

I recall that after the Chernobyl incident steps were taken to seal the site with concrete. Why are they not attempting to seal up the Fukushima plants to prevent the escape of additional radiation?

Apparently Tepco are starting tomorrow:

General Plan and Start of Main Work of the Cover for Fuel Removal of Unit 4 in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station

Based on "Mid-to-Long-Term Roadmap towards the Decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1-4" which was announced on Dec. 21, 2011, we started the preparation work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal of Unit 4 on Mar. 23, 2012.

We would like to inform that we will start the main work for the installation of the cover for fuel removal on Apr. 17.

As the first step of the main work, we will conduct the foundation improvement work in order to strengthen the foundation which supports the foundation of the frame for supporting the crane which is a part of the cover for fuel removal.

At the same time, we will conduct the countermeasure to prevent rainwater from penetrating into Unit 4 Reactor Building.

PHOTOS at source: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/releas/2012/1201934_1870.html

Detailed plans pdf: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu12_e/images/120416e0201.pdf

 

[Cosmos]

a recent interview with Gunderson:
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/lmh-interview-title-coming-soon

 

[Ca.]

Nuclear News by Region
http://enenews.com/

Japan (Fukushima)

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Also as of April 29th, 2012 from ENENEWS

Source: “Real” mystery black substance NOT yet measured — Possibly 20,000,000 Bq/kg of cesium — Many times more radioactive than local official’s sample — “It is too dangerous and must be analyzed by public institutions” (PHOTOS)

“Revelations on nuclear plants sound warning” — Harvard study reveals large-scale radiation releases just outside major US city that lasted for decades — “Surely this could not have happened, but apparently it did” (VIDEO)

Tokyo Suburb: Children playing on dirt with “huge amounts of radioactivity” — Includes alpha particles — Cesium levels so high it prevented identification of other isotopes (VIDEO)

Video: Corium from Fukushima causing increase in radon-222?

TV: No chance of removing melted nuclear fuel from reactor at Chernobyl — 100s of times above airborne radiation limit while digging nearby (VIDEO)

Footage of gov’t official at Fukushima inspecting support posts under Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 (VIDEOS)

Japan medical doctors coming to America to tell of Fukushima’s under-reported health consequences
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ENENEWS
Gundersen featured on PBS — Host: “Growing movement” to keep California’s San Onofre nuclear plant shut down permanently (VIDEO)
Title: Arnie Gundersen on San Onofre-Date: Apr 24, 2012
http://enenews.com/tipping-point-growing-movement-keep-california-nuke-plant-shut-down-permanently-gundersen-featured-tv-news-segment-video

An exclusive Nuclear Hotseat interview with Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com on San Onofre, how and when the problems happened with the steam generators, and the dangers of even thinking about a restart this summer (as SCE has announced they are planning to do)
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/058e2217-178c-965c-5dfb-0c3b695b9d27.mp3
Source: Nuclear HotSeat
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/

Also at this connection
Nuclear Hotseat
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/nuclear-hotseat-45-arnie-gundersen-on-san-onofre-exclusive/

3-11-12 Arnie Gunderson Bee Pollen samples in California
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9nVoFtEs-Y&feature=player_embedded#!

Japan and the battle to find radiation-free-Monday, 12 March 2012
by Jane Barraclough, an Australian freelance journalist living in Okinawa

If it wasn’t for a metallic taste and strange, powdery sensation on her skin, Sato Sachiko could have almost believed nothing changed in “beautiful Fukushima” after March 11.

The vegetable farmer and slow-food guru, who went from self-sufficient to homeless over night, saw the same azure skies — famously described by 19th century Japanese poet Kotaro Takamura as Japan’s “True Sky”.

“The view in Fukushima remained the same; the mountains, the coast, and the many different types of trees and flowers which transform with Japan’s distinct seasons. And of course, the clear, blue sky, or Honto-no-Sora, in the words of Takamura.”

As a schoolgirl, Sachiko was moved by the poet’s depictions of nature in Japan’s thriving food bowl.

“Living here, with such beauty all around, it was easy to love nature and feel close to it,” says the 53-year-old, who has spent her adult life honing and teaching others the skills of traditional Japanese food preparation and organic farming in Kawamata — now part of the voluntary evacuation zone around the wrecked nuclear plant. In these familiar surroundings, the shock of losing her farm to 6000 becquerels per kilogram of Cesium was all the more surreal.

“There was no visible sign of radiation. But I knew there was nuclear fallout, because I could taste it, and I could feel it. Until June, every time I returned home to feed my cat, I had that metallic taste again and sometimes I had a strange sensation on my skin like a very fine powder.”

Similar descriptions have surfaced in a survey of the local population by NGO Green Action Kyoto, which along with a local newspaper in Koriyama City, also reported clusters of children with nose-bleeding and diarrhoea.

Meanwhile, one in three Fukushima children in a survey of 3000 developed thyroid lumps last year — possibly due to the huge releases of Iodine131, which attracts to young thyroids. The government and Japan’s mainstream medical fraternity deemed the majority of these too small to warrant future monitoring.

While Iodine has a short half-life, cancer-linked Cesium lingers in the environment and the food cycle for generations. Provided there is no further contamination, it will take seven years before the cesium level in Sachiko’s property is deemed “safe” for growing food, but she has no plans to return.

“Even when it gets to what the government deems ‘safe’ levels of radiation, it will never be the same,” she says. “If only 1% of the population develops illness or cancer from exposure to internal radiation through the food, that’s a 100% impact on that person. You wouldn’t accept that risk for your own child, so why accept it for others?”

Levels of Cesium exceeding the government’s 500-becquerels-per-kilogram limit have been found in rice, beef, baby products, vegetables and fish. While shipment is stopped in many cases, some of this food has reached restaurants and supermarkets even as far as Okinawa. Packaging is not always clear, making it difficult to trace the origin of food products.

“The most important thing right now is making sure people, especially young kids, can get access to radiation-free food,” says Sachiko.

After evacuating to a temporary rental property in the neighbouring prefecture of Yamagata, Sachiko set up Fukushima Network, a non-profit café and vegetable market in Fukushima City sourcing food from South and West Japan.

“Parents are extremely worried about their children and food,” she says. “We try to help by providing food products that have been screened for radiation, and informing people about contamination in areas that would have been evacuated under post-Chernobyl limits.”

But not everyone wants to know about radiation. “More and more people are starting to demand information,” she says. “But there is still division in the community on the level of risk, and some people feel guilty if they don’t support the local economy.

“In my family people reacted differently to the crisis and disagreed, with some quite angry about the level of panic around radiation. But I cannot hide this information — I must share it so that individuals can make their own informed decisions.”

It is testament to the sense of unity among Japanese that people often speak about the “guilt” they feel for friends, family and even strangers affected by the nuclear disaster.

“I feel bad because even though my husband and I could afford to evacuate, we can’t help all our family and neighbours do the same, so many remain in contaminated areas in the voluntary evacuation zone,” says Sachiko.

It is unclear when any of them will be compensated by Tokyo Electric Power Company, which is slowly dealing out ¥1.7 trillion in government bail-out compensation funds. “It’s a long and convoluted process and we’re not yet sure what we’re eligible for and how much we would get,” Sachiko says.

Sachiko and her husband are now looking for land in northern Honshu, where they plan to retire and again live off their own produce.

“We’ll manage OK,” she says. “I’m more worried about others who were hit harder by the loss of income. These financial circumstances exacerbate the stress of being physically separated from what was a very bonded community.”

As though trying to shoulder the national burden, some people even choose Tohoku products to support farmers. A woman in her mid-20s, who evacuated with her sister and niece to Okinawa, looks saddened when asked about food products in her former home town of Okuma. It reminds her of Fukushima’s former farming glory.

“I rarely went to the supermarket because people were so generous with their produce,” she says. “We didn’t have a farm, but our neighbours gave us rice and vegetables and lots of seafood. It was a very happy, thriving community.”

Like Sachiko and many Fukushima residents, this evacuee longs for the “simple things” she used to enjoy in an abundant environment. “When you are suddenly no longer able to carry out the basic human practice of growing food, that is a profound loss,” adds Sachiko.

She fears the international community will lose interest in the ongoing crisis, which she says is not Japan’s problem alone. Five out of six reactors at TEPCO’s Daiichi plant contained Australian uranium.

“It is no co-incidence that Aboriginal landowners previously warned of the dangers of exporting uranium to other countries. It is not just our economies that are linked, but our environments too,” she says, referring to a letter of solidarity from the Mirrar — the traditional owners of land around Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines — to the people of Fukushima. “The damage to livelihoods here is immeasurable, let alone potential health impacts.”

At an anniversary concert for evacuees in Okinawa, Japan’s largest district without any nuclear plants, the anti-nuclear message echoed Sachiko. With some local governments here considering accepting radioactive tsunami debris, people are stressed about the dispersal of March 11’s impact.

Dressed in brightly sequined body suits, one satirical band got the crowd chanting: “We don’t want nuclear, we just want to drink milk.”
_http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/03/12/japan-and-the-battle-to-find-radiation-free-food/

Sierra Club-27 Mar 2012
_http://pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/pa_chapter_2008/Sylvanian/Issues/201205SylvanianSpring.pdf

04/27/2012
Gundersen on KPBS Discusses Developing San Onofre Situation
http://fairewinds.org/content/gundersen-kpbs-discusses-developing-san-onofre-situation

About this video

A leak discovered earlier this year in a steam generator pipe at the San Onofre nuclear plant has lead to two unanimous City Council decisions to send letters of concern to the NRC. Fairewind's Arnie Gundersen presented at both council meetings. In this video Gundersen talks with KPBS's Peggy Pico about the steam generator leak, the city council decisions and the licensing status of San Onofre.

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, July 26, 1963
President John F. Kennedy July 26, 1963
The White House speech in Podcast, and written text.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-207.aspx
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Speeches/Radio-and-Television-Address-to-the-American-People-on-the-Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty-July-26-1963.aspx#.T55gfKembXc.email

 

[Kaigen]

This is the last update from different areas.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/170000-bqkg-from-the-soil-of-storage-reservoir-in-fukushima/

Tohoku Regional Agricultural Administration Office and Fukushima prefectural government conducted radiation measurement for the ground soil of 14 storage reservoirs in Fukushima from 3/26 to 4/6/2012. Sample is dried soil from ground of storage reservoir (5 ~ 7cm deep).

Cesium134 and 137 were measured from all of those samples.



(Cesium 134 (Bq/Kg), Cesium 137 (Bq/Kg) )

Sudori, Fukushima city 13,000 18,000
Numata, Date city 25,000 37,000
Tanichitamei, Date city 7,400 11,000
Shinnuma, Date city 43,000 62,000
Matsuzawakamiike, Kawamata machi 15,000 21,000
Higashi sasataike, Motomiya city 70,000 100,000
Kajika, Tamura city 12,000 17,000
Akatsuchi 1, Tamura city 77 76
Akatsuchi 2, Tamura city ＜10 11
Tamano, Soma city 7,600 11,000
Mukaihara 1, Kawauchi mura 2,200 3,300
Nishinosawa, Hirono machi 1,700 2,500
Higashihara, Hirono machi 880 1,200
Teichiike, Yabuki machi 680 1,200



They also conducted radiation measurement for 86 storage reservoirs in Fukushima.

Cesium was measured at 8 locations as well.

Cesium 134 : <1Bq/L ~ 5.7Bq/L

Cesium 137 : 1.3 Bq/L ~ 7.9 Bq/L

Total : 1.8 Bq/L ~ 13.6 Bq/L

The original papers are attached as well.

 

[Ca.]

Mashpedia
http://www.mashpedia.com/Caesium

Caesium or cesium is the chemical element with the symbol Cs and atomic number 55. It is a soft, silvery-gold alkali metal with a melting point of 28 °C (82 °F), which makes it one of only five elemental metals that are liquid at (or near) room temperature. Caesium is an alkali metal and has physical and chemical properties similar to those of rubidium and potassium. The metal is extremely reactive and pyrophoric, reacting with water even at −116 °C (−177 °F). It is the least electronegative element having a stable isotope, caesium-133. Caesium is mined mostly from pollucite, while the radioisotopes, especially caesium-137, a fission product, are extracted from waste produced by nuclear reactors.

Two German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff, discovered caesium in 1860 by the newly developed method of flame spectroscopy. The first small-scale applications for caesium have been as a "getter" in vacuum tubes and in photoelectric cells. In 1967, a specific frequency from the emission spectrum of caesium-133 was chosen to be used in the definition of the second by the International System of Units. Since then, caesium has been widely used in atomic clocks.

Since the 1990s, the largest application of the element has been as caesium formate for drilling fluids. It has a range of applications in the production of electricity, in electronics, and in chemistry. The radioactive isotope caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30 years and is used in medical applications, industrial gauges, and hydrology. Although the element is only mildly toxic, it is a hazardous material as a metal and its radioisotopes present a high health risk in case of radiation leaks.

Health and safety hazards
http://www.mashpedia.com/Caesium#Health_and_safety_hazards

Caesium compounds are rarely encountered by most people, but most caesium compounds are mildly toxic because of chemical similarity of caesium to potassium. Exposure to large amounts of caesium compounds can cause hyperirritability and spasms, but as such amounts would not ordinarily be encountered in natural sources, caesium is not a major chemical environmental pollutant. The median lethal dose (LD50) value for caesium chloride in mice is 2.3 g per kilogram, which is comparable to the LD50 values of potassium chloride and sodium chloride.

Caesium metal is one of the most reactive elements and is highly explosive when it comes in contact with water. The hydrogen gas produced by the reaction is heated by the thermal energy released at the same time, causing ignition and a violent explosion. This can occur with other alkali metals, but caesium is so potent that this explosive reaction can even be triggered by cold water. The metal is highly pyrophoric, and ignites spontaneously in air to form caesium hydroxide and various oxides. Caesium hydroxide is a very strong base, and can rapidly corrode glass.

The isotopes 134 and 137 (present in the biosphere in small amounts from radiation leaks) represent a radioactivity burden which varies depending on location.

Radiocaesium does not accumulate in the body as effectively as many other fission products (such as radioiodine and radiostrontium). As with other alkali metals, radiocaesium washes out of the body relatively quickly in sweat and urine. However, radiocaesium follows potassium and tends to accumulate in plant tissues, including fruits and vegetables. It is also well-documented that mushrooms from contaminated forests accumulate radiocaesium (caesium-137) in their fungal sporocarps. Accumulation of caesium-137 in lakes has been a high concern after the Chernobyl disaster. Experiments with dogs showed that a single dose of 3.8 millicuries (140 MBq, 4.1 μg of caesium-137) per kilogram is lethal within three weeks; smaller amounts may cause infertility and cancer. The International Atomic Energy Agency and other sources have warned that radioactive materials, such as caesium-137, could be used in radiological dispersion devices, or "dirty bombs".

The Chenobyl disaster
Rivers, lakes and reservoirs
http://www.mashpedia.com/Chernobyl_disaster#Residual_radioactivity_in_the_environment

Radiation levels
http://www.mashpedia.com/Chernobyl_disaster#Radiation_levels_2

The explosion and fire threw hot particles of the nuclear fuel and also far more dangerous fission products, radioactive isotopes such as caesium-137, iodine-131, strontium-90 and other radionuclides, into the air: the residents of the surrounding area observed the radioactive cloud on the night of the explosion.

Mutational meltdown
http://www.mashpedia.com/Mutational_meltdown

 

[Voyageur]

a recent interview with Gunderson:
http://www.fairewinds.org/content/lmh-interview-title-coming-soon

Of the few thousand initial attack workers, our gratitude. Of Tepco and the Japanese government; their planning, denials and ultimately core transference of disease and death

 

[Ca.]

The recent Japan chemical blast (SOTT http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244416-Chemical-Plant-Blast-Kills-1-Injures-17-People-in-Japan) that suffered another, (on the 22) blast, with 3379 barrels of depleted uranium (that were stored there) and were part of the explosion, and ensuing fire. There are concerns that a fallout cloud may be possibly heading toward Hawaii, and the west cost of the United States. There are conflicting reports of just what was released.
Enenews

Second explosion at Mitsui plant — FNN confirms depleted uranium — Kyodo: 3,400 drums with radioactive materials — “Did not appear to have any effect on radiation levels” (VIDEOS)
http://enenews.com/second-explosion-at-mitsui-plant-kyodo-3400-drums-with-radioactive-materials-fnn-confirms-depleted-uranium-at-plant-did-not-appear-to-have-any-effect-on-radiation-levels-videos

4/29/2012 -- Japan 'cloud' UPDATE -- petro-chem or radioactive = west coast arrival now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLRRgbMx44&feature=g-all-u

4/27/2012 — Cloud of depleted URANIUM heading towards Hawaii and West Coast USA
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/4272012-cloud-of-depleted-uranium-heading-towards-hawaii-and-west-coast-usa/

The Mitsui petrochemical plant has been rocked by a second explosion as the plant owner is now claiming the radioactive agents are harmless to people.

3400 barrels of depleted uranium were reported to be at this facility.. clearly.. the buildings are destroyed.. and for SURE some form of cloud released —- how much? what was destroyed? well, we’re left with mainstream reports that give conflicting accounts.

Keep in mind.. LAST YEAR when “they” (over in Japan and the MSM) told us NOTHING OF CONCERN blew at Fukushima.. and it was quote “nothing to worry about”.. then move forward a few months into 2011 … the very same MSM was calling Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster ever.

So , when I see a factory destroyed… and see reports of depleted uranium being exploded into vaporized clouds … and then see the news “fall off the map”… that raises my suspicions.

Whatever type of cloud blew off.. its now coming across the pacific ocean as of FIVE days ago (april 22, 2012).. putting the current “projected” path of this cloud to be somewhere just northwest of Hawaii.. heading east across the pacific ocean towards the west coast USA.

Jet stream, and weather monitoring links:
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/2122012-weather-monitoring-links-satellite-and-radar-for-usa-and-world/

Online Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Detector Map
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

4/25/2012 — Radiation Monitoring Links Posted on April 26, 2012
http://sincedutch.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/4252012-radiation-monitoring-links/

 

[Kaigen]

As I mentioned in this post

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27520.0.html

It could be fear mongering. Talking about cloud of depleted uranium heading towards Hawaii is pure nonsens in my opinion. In this video guy is talking about explosion about depleted uranium factory. This is petrochemical complex storing depleted uranium drums not depleted uranium factory. little truth sandwich with lies, you remember? Those bloggers are just waiting for such news to spread more fear.

The fire fighters of this area are also aware of this danger. I heard at that night only 3 cars with sirens comming from this area. It could be more, but the days after the situation stabilized and more reporter are gone to the area, talking to the people about the accident. There is no future action seen as in Fukushima.

Going back today to Iwakuni and will try to find out more.

 

[Kaigen]

There is Dr. Satoshi Mori who is taking picture of dead birds, and checking the radiation.
I don't know if it is possible to do it this way, but please check it out.

_http://mphoto.sblo.jp/article/55571894.html

Dead body of the nightingale I've been taken in December last year in the village Iidate.
Still had much exposure.

I used to visualize the status of the exposure of the nightingale.
Color picture of a sample.
Autograph radio is something like the X-ray photo of black and white.
Blackened for those black dots and radiation of Cs137 has gone out.
Part of the wings were attached to the surface, where the blackened parts of the belly is that radiation is from the inside of the stomach.
Seems to be concentrated in the food chain has been eaten by, such as contaminated insects.

 

[Ca.]

As I mentioned in this post

http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,27520.0.html

It could be fear mongering. Talking about cloud of depleted uranium heading towards Hawaii is pure nonsens in my opinion. In this video guy is talking about explosion about depleted uranium factory. This is petrochemical complex storing depleted uranium drums not depleted uranium factory. little truth sandwich with lies, you remember? Those bloggers are just waiting for such news to spread more fear.

The fire fighters of this area are also aware of this danger. I heard at that night only 3 cars with sirens comming from this area. It could be more, but the days after the situation stabilized and more reporter are gone to the area, talking to the people about the accident. There is no future action seen as in Fukushima.

Going back today to Iwakuni and will try to find out more.

Are you seeing any of the emergency crews on the news dressed for a chemical fire? ( _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazmat_suit ) Do you anyone in the arera with proximity to what is really going on, like first responders, police, ambulance crews, or hospital personnel that are receiving some the wounded, and dead. And or other blogs in blog sites, concerning of what they might be hearing or witnessing?

Like 911 many were sent into the hot zone after the towers fell, ill prepared, and lied to that it was all safe, using the hero factor as a tool to subvert consciousness of the danger they were being exposed to promote dig out the dead, and possible survivors. i belive this was just another way to eliminate wittiness's down the road.

Can side with your opinion of the fear factor, as this guy ( _dutchsinsehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLRRgbMx44&feature=g-all-u) maintains that harrp is being used for wheather modifacation. i have even posted that on his comments box, that this not true, but like dog with a bone he is convinced, or being paid to say other wise.
So this is very good possibility. As you know, disfo sites will mix real, and good info to make them more creditable. Rensse, Alex Jones, Art Bell, aka Coast to Coast. He does promote good whether updates, and has a large following, but always drags in the harrp issue.

 

[Ca.]

Intell, Links, and Current News- 05/2012

Nuked Radio with RadChick-5/10/2012 12:00:00 PM
http://www.oriontalkradio.com/streams/32k/2012/05/10/Orion%20Talk%20Radio%202012%2005%2010%2012%2005%2056.mp3
YouTube-Nuked Radio #29 Enjoy It While You Can~ May 9, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k8G-oVmPAuQ&list=PLB8CCA91E4F3BD7CA
NucNews What's News Updated - Saturday, May 12, 2012
http://nucnews.com/whatsnew.php
RealityCheck-Nuclear News
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
SimplyInfo-Crowd sourced information research & analysis without focus on profit.
http://www.simplyinfo.org/
Nuclearcrimes.org-Special coverage of Fukushima radiation reaching the U.S.-Canada West Coast
http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/fukushimaupdates.php
Energy Net
Radiation Bulletin: Fukushima News: May 7th – 13th 2012
http://www.energy-net.org/blog/2012/05/13/radiation-bulletin-fukushima-news-may-7th-13th-2012/
Nuclear Information and Resources Service
http://www.nirs.org/

Nukepills.com
Emergency Preparedness Products
http://www.nukepills.com/

Purchasers of iOSAT™ (Potassium Iodide tablet) include:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (11 million tablets)
U.S. Postal Service (1.6 million tablets)
Defense Intelligence Agency (50,000 tablets)
Center for Disease Control ( 2 million+ tablets)
U.S. Navy and U.S. Army
U.S. Dept of Homeland Security
And many other hospitals, nuclear plants, pharmacies and foreign governments.

Purchasers of ThyroShield (Potassium Iodide liquid)™ include:
Kuwait Ministry of Health (5.4 Million doses)
U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (144 million doses)
Dept of Defense and U.S Dept of Homeland Security

FAIRWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION-05/12/2012Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-daiichi-truth-and-future
Does Japan Have a Nuclear Free Future?-05/09/12
http://fairewinds.com/content/does-japan-have-nuclear-free-future
Radio/Audio-WDEV's May 1, 2012 Mark Johnson and Arnie Gundersen Discuss the Triple Meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi and the Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool
http://fairewinds.com/content/wdevs-mark-johnson-and-arnie-gundersen-discuss-triple-meltdown-fukushima-daiichi-and-unit-4-
Radio/AudioApril 24, 2012-Arnie Gundersen and Indianapolis' WIBC Denny Smith Discuss Radiation Releases at Fukushima Daiichi
http://fairewinds.com/content/arnie-gundersen-and-indianapolis-wibc-denny-smith-discuss-radiation-releases-fukushima-daiic

KPBS-NRC Chair Visits Troubled San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Friday, April 6, 2012 By Alison St John
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/apr/06/nrc-chair-visit-troubled-san-onofre-nuclear-power-/

FaceBook Pic.s
_http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=424906580867000&set=o.260610960640885&type=1&theater
NuClear HOPE? Still UnClear...
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JB9aX-Nfa4
William Milberry's YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by AluminumStudios Compulsory x-rays for public employees and students in Japan
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQ8JtgcJEo&list=UUIO5WfcTgl3xmpYJFA_RUdQ&index=1&feature=plcp
Technorati
Fukushima Reactor 4 Release Would Doom Western USA -Author: Stephen Alexander Published: May 07, 2012 at 8:58 am
http://technorati.com/lifestyle/green/article/fukushima-reactor-4-release-would-doom/

If Reactor 4 at Fukushima becomes unstable and releases 10 times the amount of Cesium-137 (CS-137) released at the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, then the prevailing winds could carry it all the way to the Western USA – that means California.

Hmmm, a mass exodus, the C's made a reference to this possibility, but left open the question of why.

 

[engagedinattempting]

Clif High had the following on his HalfpastHuman.com site 5/11/12:

Things change [...] 2003 - 2005 our local background radiation here at 47.0381° N, 122.8994° W (West Coast US) was consistently one click per 7 or 8 minutes.

Post Fukushima nuclear disaster we are now at 72 clicks per minute on a light rads day.

Examining the data sets for the upcoming report suggests that July 10th will see a major increase in nuclear problems across the northern hemisphere.

Anticipating this, and acknowledging the reality of our current nuclear contamination problem, it becomes necessary to drop less than vital activities.[...]

Forum members differ in opinion as to the value of High and/or his work:

Yeah, real life is messier. There's the jet stream, fishes eating radioactive algae, containment attempts by humans, etc. But with near-eternal half-lives, there's plenty of time for radiation to get to everyone eventually. We're lucky the Wave is coming. Then we don't have to see an alternate future where Japan's full of deformed children with leukemia.

Oh, and Clif High talked about a possible "Japanese exodus" in his latest Wujo.
A nuclear winter maybe?

Who knows what we'll see. It does seem quite reasonable to me that we'll wake up one morning and hear about another earthquake in the same region and uncontrollably burning fuel rods.

I also don't take anything Clif High says seriously and stopped following him a while ago. Considering his relation with Jay Weidner, his propaganda for vegetarianism, his numerous predictions that didn't manifest, his strange barely or completely nonsensical ramblings, and other nonsense I don't consider him to be a remotely reliable source, FWIW.

Clif High appears in some COINTELPRO threads, though not always negatively. His "rad clicks" information seems to square with this from an EnviroReporter.com story dated April 20, 2012:

EnviroReporter.com's detection of high radiation from sea mist-infused rain as covered in 'L.A. Rain Radiation Over Five Times Normal,' brought the Fukushima investigation to the show producers' attention[...]

[...]I soon moved over to the table where I briefly tested HEPA filter dust just collected[...]

That dust was tested just before showtime and came in at an astounding 746% of norma[...]"

http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/04/attack-of-the-show/

Here's a SOTT article April 8, 2012, indicating Hawaii is being hit by the plume now: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/243921-Fukushima-Radiation-Plume-Has-Now-Hit-Hawaii-In-a-year-it-ll-Probably-Reach-U-S-West-Coast-

The U.S. EPA offers this:
http://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-data/index.html

The interactive map led me (science idiot) to graphs that display a no-cause-for-alarm-nothing-to-see-here flatness from 1/12/12 - 5/11/12 that seem at odds with the other reports and would be of some comfort, perhaps, if one did not consider the source.

 

[Voyageur]

[quote author=c.a.]
FAIRWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION-05/12/2012Fukushima Daiichi: The Truth and the Future
http://fairewinds.com/content/fukushima-daiichi-truth-and-future
[/quote]

This video was from yesterday and is an interview with Arnie by his wife. He has a lot to say, especially of his concerns for reactor four, should a future event drain off the water. Think he said that it would amount (if it went to a burning phase) > then all the atmospheric testing from every bomb detonated in the 1950's, 60's and 70's.

He also unpacks Japan's "Tipping Point" of the present.
Worth a listen.

 

[Kaigen]

from fukushima-diary

Though I expected that, I couldn’t help thinking that was too ridiculous for a doctor to say stress causes diabetes. (6 in 10 children under 12 have diabetes in Fukushima)

They will say everything is because of stress soon, even leukemia is.

The doctor in this article asserts children are sick from mental instability. The doctors prescribed mental drug.

To keep children active, not to cause “harmful rumor”, they will prescribe stronger medicines to kids, I guess.

They say, Fukushima children need more Psychosomatic Medicine doctor and affection of the parents.

but what they really need is EVACUATION, not “mental care” because the matter is not mental, it’s radiation, which is the real matter.

and I think children’s depression is just a natural reaction, and it’s very rational.

Eat less, move less, and hardly go out. This is the only way for them to protect themselves. Children can not evacuate by themselves.

Being afraid of losing the job, house, car, social status, adults keep their own children stuck in the contaminated area.

This is the worst child abuse / murder.

I think the children already know that they won’t live long.

If they have some mental disorder, that would be the conflict of love and the sense of urgency to evacuate by “betraying” their parents.

more:

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/6-in-10-children-under-12-have-diabetes-in-fukushima/

 

[Yozilla]

Is radiation from Fukusima already affecting people on Alaska?

'Mysterious illness strikes hundreds of flight attendants, causes rashes and hair loss - are 'toxic uniforms' really to blame or is it Fukushima?'

...link:
_http://www.naturalnews.com/035884_flight_attendants_radiation_poisoning.html