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This discussion gets very interesting around the 7:30 mark. Essentially, there is a guest on the Rense show, claiming that the results of exposure to Fukushima Plutonium plumes in the Jet Stream, will have a larger effect on North Americans and Europeans, than on Africans and Hispanics.

He claims that both Geographic and Demographic conditions are the basis, as:

a) there is less exposure to the Southern Hemisphere
b) the peoples within these regions tend to have larger families
c) the rate of birth defects within the scope of the number of births, will, through attrition, give a clear advantage to the peoples within these regions

My apologies if this information has been posted or highlighted. I, personally, had not heard it or recognized it.

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Radioactive substances detected in 10 Japanese children near nuclear plant.

The discovery, in Fukushima city, has raised concerns that residents have been exposed internally to radiation from the plant, 60 kilometres away at the coastline.

Tests were conducted in May on the 10 children, aged between six and 16, by a local Japanese group and Acro, a French organisation that measures radioactivity. All 10 tested positive for tiny amounts of caesium-134 and caesium-137, Guardian News & Media reported.

The Japanese government said it was concerned and would examine the results.

The survey found 1.13 becquerels of caesium-134 per litre of urine in an 8-year-old girl — the highest reading for that isotope. The highest reading for caesium-137 (1.30 becquerels) was in a 7-year-old boy.

The discovery came days after health authorities in Fukushima began checking internal radiation doses among all 2 million of the prefecture's residents, a 30-year project that will cost an estimated ¥100 billion ($1.1 billion).

[link to www.globalpost.com]

-This is so sad. Innocents.
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This discussion gets very interesting around the 7:30 mark. Essentially, there is a guest on the Rense show, claiming that the results of exposure to Fukushima Plutonium plumes in the Jet Stream, will have a larger effect on North Americans and Europeans, than on Africans and Hispanics.

He claims that both Geographic and Demographic conditions are the basis, as:

a) there is less exposure to the Southern Hemisphere
b) the peoples within these regions tend to have larger families
c) the rate of birth defects within the scope of the number of births, will, through attrition, give a clear advantage to the peoples within these regions

My apologies if this information has been posted or highlighted. I, personally, had not heard it or recognized it.

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I can't really find any reason to dispute this. The fact of NH contamination is real. North America is getting hosed.
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Fukushima Cover Up Unravels
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French nuclear power lobbyists used Fukushima smear campaign to promote own businesses

The color-print, A-4 size brochures, later to be called the "Fukushima Files," were handed out by lobbyists from France's nuclear power giant Areva SA in early April.

The 33-page brochure underscored that General Electric Co. (GE)'s Mark I containment system was employed at the Fukushima plant, while containing speculation and describing fuel melting in the spent fuel storage pool, which never took place. On its last page, the brochure concluded that Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) apparently had not released most of the information it held.

[link to mdn.mainichi.jp]
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The tragedy that has befallen Japan should make any sensible person even more wary of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. For years, Iran has attempted to alleviate the world’s fears over its nuclear program by maintaining that any nuclear technology would only be used for civilian power plants.
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Genkai mayor OKs restart of reactors

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is there a link that will show all the nuke plants in the us and their current state?
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Experts urge gov't to improve info disclosure on nuclear crisis TOKYO - An academic society of nuclear experts on Monday urged the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. to promptly improve the disclosure of information on the Fukushima nuclear crisis to ease public anxiety.

Public concern about nuclear power has increased due to the disclosure of "obscure and confusing" information about the crisis at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, the Atomic Energy Society of Japan said in a statement.

[link to www.tmcnet.com]
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Japan's apple exports to Taiwan fall to less than a ton in May

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Fukushima municipality leaders criticize TEPCO over nuclear crisis
FUKUSHIMA (Kyodo) -- Local municipalities affected by the ongoing nuclear crisis on Friday criticized the former president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. for stepping down from the post too early and demanded that the company more clearly take responsibility over compensation.

Masataka Shimizu, accompanied by Toshio Nishizawa, who replaced Shimizu as the utility's new president Tuesday, faced the reactions on the second day of their two-day visit to Fukushima Prefecture to offer their apologies to the mayors of 11 crisis-hit municipalities.

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Should the elderly be allowed to sacrifice themselves for the big picture?
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Kan rival calls for Japan to ditch nuclear power after quake crisis
A leading contender to replace Naoto Kan as Japan’s prime minister has called for the country to phase out nuclear power over the next two decades.

Seiji Maehara, one of the most popular figures in the ruling Democratic party, told the Financial Times that construction of new nuclear reactors should “basically be stopped” following the crisis at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant.

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Japan: N-crisis hits Fukushima cherry farmers

As the shipping of brand cherries produced in open fields in Fukushima Prefecture reaches its peak, farmers are being hit hard by sharp drops in sales for gift use and the number of visitors to pick-your-own farms. The nuclear crisis in the prefecture is apparently behind the declines, although the cherries are selling as well as usual at retail stores, partly because of campaigns to support farm products from the prefecture.

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Among my Japanese friends, soul-searching about the future direction of their country is rife. Nor are long-time foreign residents immune. A New Zealander friend confided recently that for the first time in a decade he was contemplating leaving. Father of two toddlers, he felt disillusioned by a system willing to distribute thousands of radiation dosimeters at schools, or to keep removing top soil from every public park in the affected areas, but not ready to question the nuclear industry or the kind of politics that had gotten Japan into its current predicament.

“The Japanese people are good at being patient, but not very good at being angry. Now they are getting very angry,” Murakami said in Barcelona.

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is there a link that will show all the nuke plants in the us and their current state?
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Yes. Here are 2 for you.

[link to www.nrc.gov]

[link to www.animatedsoftware.com]
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Fukushima to disarmament

Any country that can enrich uranium to fuel nuclear reactors has everything it needs to enrich uranium further, to weapons-grade strength. In a nuclear reactor, 1-2 per cent of the uranium fuel is inevitably converted to plutonium. This can be separated through chemical processing and used to build a bomb, as Israel, India, and North Korea did — and as many fear that Iran is seeking to do. Currently, there is no restriction on any country building a uranium-enrichment plant or reprocessing spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium. As we have seen, safeguards alone are not up to the job. We will not prevent further proliferation of nuclear weapons and their eventual use, much less achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, without strict international control of all uranium enrichment, and without banning the separation of plutonium from spent fuel.

That which cannot be controlled must be prevented. Today, that means preventing the threat of climate change and eradicating nuclear weapons. But we cannot afford efforts to address one challenge that end up aggravating the other. Attempting to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through nuclear energy, thereby fueling the dangers of the ultimate global incendiary — nuclear war — could be the most tragic of all miscalculations.

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 Quoting: Waterbug


i realize thats a news article but its fucking retarded.

our greenhouse emissions are not enough to influence the global temperature in any significant way.. the only things that can do that are A. The Sun B. Water vapor and C. a super volcano eruption.

You dont stop world climate from changing, its a continuous changing process by definition.
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Carbon tax anyone.....
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Ibaraki residents start monitoring radiation

Residents of a city northeast of Tokyo have started monitoring radiation levels in an effort to protect children from radiation exposure.

The group in Moriya, Ibaraki Prefecture, began the monitoring in a park on Monday. Measurements were taken one meter above the ground.

Moriya is about 200 kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, but the city has recorded the highest level of radiation among the municipalities in Ibaraki Prefecture.

The group says it will take measurements at 60 locations and put up warning signs where high levels of radioactive substances are detected.

Group member Mitsunobu Oishi says the authorities cannot conduct detailed checks in many places, so the group is taking action to ensure the safety of children.

Monday, July 04, 2011 15:54 +0900 (JST)
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Mamma's are starting to act!
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short half life for japanese politicians:

FLASH: Reconstruction minister Matsumoto intends to resign (08:57) english.kyodonews.jp
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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
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Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation
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"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
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Nuclear Workers and Fukushima Residents at Risk: Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation
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 Quoting: Southern OR


Good article. At some point in the future, historians will consider the way the workers and residents have been treated a national disgrace.
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Seawater restored in 3 1/2 hours in latest mishap


The reactor's temperature was 43.1 degrees as of 8 a.m. Sunday and rose another 5 degrees during the 3 1/2 hours it took to repair the hose, Tepco said.

If it hadn't been fixed, the reactor would have reached boiling point about 22 hours later, the utility said. That would cause all its water to evaporate, exposing the rods and causing another core meltdown.

After the March 11 megaquake and tsunami ravaged the six-reactor plant in Fukushima Prefecture, units 5 and 6, which are based on a safer design, were able to achieve cold shutdown because their Residual Heat Removal Systems survived the waves and were able to be restarted.

A reactor must stay below 100 degrees to be considered in cold shutdown.

On May 29, unit 5 nearly started boiling after a seawater pump broke overnight and its replacement was delayed until daylight.

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-this illustrates the tenuous hold that Tepco has on this crisis.
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I strongly felt this was happening early in April but couldn't really prove it. Coverup.
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Yep.
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I have a degree in medicine.

I can confirm the bsflag.

I have a degree in medicine.
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I'm posting links to articles. Don't really get the bs flag. They can't all be bullshit.
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This poster was being sardonic about the poster who was making such posts for a while.

(hopefully)
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bsflag
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I have a degree in medicine.

I can confirm the bsflag.

I have a degree in medicine.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1437553


I'm posting links to articles. Don't really get the bs flag. They can't all be bullshit.
 Quoting: Waterbug


This poster was being sardonic about the poster who was making such posts for a while.

(hopefully)
 Quoting: cloister 1155256


Yeah, I read that thread. Bot. The original post was a BS flag from a disgruntled poster. No reason given. Just to annoy I suppose.
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Design Flaw Fueled Nuclear Disaster
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TIME -worst nuclear disasters

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What Went Wrong In Fukushima: The Human Factor

"So people were out scavenging batteries out of cars and trucks," says Lake Barrett, a retired nuclear engineer who led the Three Mile Island cleanup. He says that workers brought those batteries into the control rooms, "wiring them with hot wires to the instrumentation to try to determine the water level in the cores, and to control the pumps they had."

Those desperate measures were clearly not enough. But why the heroics failed is not quite so clear.

"It's like the anatomy of any complex accident," Barrett says. "There are a lot of parts to it. I'm sure there's going to be design features, there's going to be some equipment operability features, and there's probably going to be some personnel features as well."

The plant operators might have done something different if they had better information, better training or perhaps better guidance.

[link to www.npr.org]

One critical decision was whether to pump seawater into the reactors. That would certainly ruin them, but it could also keep them cool and prevent meltdowns. It appears that the engineers on site hesitated for some hours before they went ahead and did that. Per Peterson, chairman of nuclear engineering at University of California, Berkeley says that was a questionable decision.

"It's quite likely that if the injection of seawater had been initiated earlier, the damage of fuel could have been limited greatly or even prevented," Peterson says. "So I think there are possible pathways by which the severity of the accident could have been substantially less."



I said a long time ago that this was Tepco's fault and could have been prevented. Means nothing now.





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