*** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links

There has been lots of nuclear testing over the years in Australia and the Pacific, so it is possible that it is not from Japan. Can't they test now to tell the origin?

Xenon is merely a part of the story. A multitude of isotopes are produced during fission. If you find one....


The truth is not that elusive. I find that many aussies are not familiar with it.

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Nuclear advocates deride and dismiss public ignorance about radionuclides like, for example, the noble gases. Nuclear advocates frequently state that both xenon and krypton decay and disappear in a matter of seconds or minutes. What they don't tell us is that these isotopes decay into daughter isotopes that are extremely deadly emitters. Many credible physicians, scientists and other nuclear experts -- free of the self-interests of nuclear profits, academic sponsorship or career advancement -- have outlined the absence of epidemiological studies of certain radionuclides emitted or flushed at nuclear reactors. Dr. Helen Caldicott has elaborated the detrimental health effects of the noble gases xenon (Xe) and krypton (Kr), and she notes that these have appearance hundreds of miles from reactors believed to have emitted them.


• Xenon 137, with a half-life of 3.9 minutes, converts almost immediately to the notoriously dangerous cesium 137 with a half-life of thirty years.
• Krypton 90, half-life of 33 seconds, decays to rubidium 90, half-life of 2.9 minutes, then to the medically toxic strontium 90, half-life of twenty-eight years.
• Xenon 135 decays to cesium 135 with an incredibly long half-life of 3 million years.
• Large amounts of xenon 133 are released at operating reactors, and although it has a relatively short half-life of 5.3 days, it remains radioactive for 106 days.
• Krypton 85, which has a half-life of 10.4 years, is a powerful gamma radiation emitter.
• Argon 39 has a 265-year half-life.


"Other dangerous noble gases include xenon 141,143 and 144, which decay to cerium 141,143 and 144," Dr. Helen Caldicott reports in Nuclear Power is Not the Answer. "According to the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP Report No. 60) these three cerium isotopes,which are beta emitters,are abundant products of nuclear fission reactions and have moderately long half-lives. They bio-concentrate in the food chain, and they irradiate the lung, liver, skeleton, and gastrointestinal tract, where they act as potent carcinogens."

On March 14 Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) outlined the risks from Japan. Iodine 131 migrates in air and is known for causing thyroid cancers, especially in children. Strontium 90 causes different cancers. Cesium 137 concetrates in bone and causes leukemia. Microscopic particles of plutonium 239 cause lung cancer if inhaled and Pu-239 kills instantly in any sizeble dose. Areas contaminated by plutonium will have to be abandoned -- as happened at Chernobyl.

"Since 2010, Fukushima Daiichi Unit-3 reactor had been using mixed-oxide fuel (also called plutonium fuel or MOX)," PSR reported, in Japan's Nuclear Crises Worsens, "which is even more dangerous to the public than a severe accident with uranium fuel. Plutonium fuel contains plutonium and other very toxic actinides that would increase the number of resulting cancers. Current reports say that this fuel has been exposed to air."

"Pressure in at least two of the reactors have reported to be well above normal levels," continued PSR, "and the reactor operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company, released some of the pressure by venting radioactive vapor from the containment structure. In addition, the radionuclide cesium has been reportedly found outside the reactor, which indicates that there has been fuel damage."

The proponents of nuclear power have used all kinds of disinformation and tactics to protect the industry -- compelling the nuclear complex to arm guards to 'protect' these secrets and to 'protect' civilian reactors. It is not only 'terrorists' that the nuclear establishment seeks to protect us from: the armed guards and classified documents are to prevent the public from learning the truth about the destruction of documents, the disappearing of evidence, the falsification of reports and records, the calculated fudging of risk and safety assessments. There have been countless exposes, such as Daniel Ford's 1982 book The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission.
[link to globalresearch.ca]

Hi guys! Just wanted you to know I'm having trouble with GLP, keep getting timeout messages. Very frustrating!

Think I saw a thread about someone having the same problem. That you?

Op was R.

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Yep, that's me. Weirdest thing. I can get the main GLP page after a few retries. Hard to get into a thread though, even harder to get a post to go through. It's been 2 days now.

Possible black substance in Tokyo
[link to fukushima-diary.com]

Govt. to gain majority of TEPCO voting rights
The Japanese government will acquire up to two thirds of the voting rights in Tokyo Electric Power Company in exchange for the injection of public funds into the firm.

Tokyo Electric is in dire financial straits due to the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which it operates.

TEPCO will draw up a business renewal plan this month with the support of a government-backed fund to help the firm compensate those affected by the Fukushima crisis.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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when are they going to draw up a plan to fix things?

Education Ministry okays teaching nuclear risks
Japan's education ministry is revising what its subsidies on energy education can cover following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The ministry has decided to offer funds to municipalities whose schools teach the danger of nuclear accidents and other disadvantages of nuclear power generation.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Mystery of lost Fukushima radiation emails ‘a major cover-up’
23 March, 2012


The Fukushima Prefecture government apparently deleted emails with reports on data vital to safely evacuate people from that area, according to fresh appeared revelations. But as Pepe Escobar told RT, it is unlikely Japan will investigate.

­It appears that in March 2011 the Fukushima Prefecture requested the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to send emails with the radiation data registered in the first five days after devastating tsunami.

The System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI), which was responsible for analysis, sent emails to Fukushima Prefecture government, but they have all disappeared...

More:
[link to www.rt.com]