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

Don't worry, its entirely safe. Its in 'COLD SHUTDOWN'.

Beat that!

You mean 'cold shutdown condition'.

Totally different.

Pure bullshit.

wasn't it even 'conditions similar to a cold shutdown'?... not splitting hairs, but they are hilariously stupid.....

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 09/12/2013 07:21 AM

They continue to attempt to parse the catastrophe away.

Japan Marine Expert: Fukushima radioactive tanks may have already been emptied into Pacific Ocean -Xinhua
[link to enenews.com]

Nuclear Expert: Molten fuel may have flowed through cracks in foundations of Fukushima reactor buildings — No one’s been able to go under there and take samples
[link to enenews.com]

NHK: Attempts to stop Fukushima contamination flowing into ocean have failed — Japan Nuclear Expert: “Most likely flowing fairly quickly into sea” from nearby Reactor No. 2
[link to enenews.com]

Fukushima Plant Chief in 2011: If we fail to urgently deal with radioactive leakage, we can’t overcome the crisis — 2 years later Tepco admits they couldn’t afford to work on it
[link to enenews.com]

Good work folks.

Last Edited by the deplorable ar-15 nut on 09/12/2013 09:42 AM

Gundersen: Fukushima Unit 4 fuel racks distorted from quake and roof falling into pool — Nuclear rods likely to snap, they won’t be able to remove be able to be removed (AUDIO)
[link to enenews.com]

EPA Documents Raise Doubts Over Intent of New Nuclear-Response Guide
[link to www.nationaljournal.com]


The EPA document goes on to list reports of the private National Council on Radiation Protection and the nongovernmental International Commission on Radiological Protection as among the potential sources for such benchmarks.

It is the recommendations of these very groups that EPA and state cleanup officials, along with environmental activists, have criticized in the past on the grounds they suggest remediation goals thousands of times less rigorous than what has ever been permitted in the United States.

Most recently, a February NCRP report funded by the U.S. Homeland Security Department suggested implementing ICRP cleanup goals under which an annual radiation dose of up to 2,000 millirems per year is permitted -- a rate at which as many as 1 in 20 people would be expected to develop cancer from long-term exposure. Normally, EPA does not permit actions that would leave more than 1 in 10,000 people at risk for cancer from 30 years of exposure, pursuant to rules its Superfund program established in the 1980s.


more at link..

Atomic Gaffes
[link to www.nytimes.com]


A little over 50 years ago a South Carolina doctor (and the grandfather of this reviewer) treated a family for injuries sustained when a sudden, inexplicable explosion tore through their backyard. The injuries were not serious, and after spending the night at the doctor’s house they returned home to discover that the object in the 50-foot crater left behind their house was an atomic bomb that had fallen from a passing Air Force plane. The bomb had not been “armed” with its nuclear core; the blast came from the explosives intended to trigger a chain reaction. The crater can still be seen today.

Urgent call for help at Fukushima. Sign petition!
[link to www.beyondnuclear.org]

Meanwhile, while 95% of the Japanese public believe that the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is out of control, Prime Minister Abe focused his recent energies on a final, and successful, push to secure the 2020 Olympic Games for Tokyo. He used the selection of Tokyo as host city for the Games to state that "that there has not been, is not now and will not be any health problems whatsoever," from the disaster, a position that is unsupportable in medical science.

Buried in the same news cycle was the decision by the Japanese courts not to prosecute TEPCO executives for their handling of the Fukushima disaster. Residents of Fukushima had filed a criminal complaint, and are insensed at this decision.

In the US, 31 Fukushima-style reactors remain running — the antiquated and dangerous General Electric Mark I and Mark II boiling water reactors (BWRs). This notorious design was flagged in 1972 as too flawed to build, but the warnings were ignored. During Congressional testimony in 1976, three senior GE engineers who had publicly resigned, testified the design was “so dangerous that it now threatens the very existence of life on this planet.”

Tepco Adviser Promoted Fukushima Water Dump to Ocean in Op-Ed
[link to www.bloomberg.com]

'Lighten up' French mag tells Japan in Fukushima row
[link to www.google.com]


One cartoon showed sumo wrestlers with extra limbs competing in front of a crippled nuclear plant. A sports commentator says: "Marvellous, thanks to Fukushima, sumo wrestling has become an Olympic sport."

Another image showed two people standing in front of a pool of water while wearing nuclear protection suits and holding a Geiger counter, saying water sport facilities had already been built at Fukushima.

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the satirical jabs give the wrong impression about the country.

i'm expecting this big time now the ioc are involved.. watch fro the coming blanket bans and indictments

PM Abe’s assurance about Fukushima to IOC members now being questioned
[link to japandailypress.com]



At a press conference on Monday, two days after the IOC decision, the media demanded of TEPCO to corroborate Abe’s statement that the radioactive water has been “completely blocked” and is not flowing into the ocean. However, while the spokesperson said they are working on stabilizing the situation, it appeared like they are contradicting what the prime minister said by revealing they cannot say for sure that it is technically possible to “completely block” the contaminated water from flowing outside of the crippled plant.

Rescue plans for damaged tanker in Arctic unclear as Russian military flotilla steams by
[link to www.bellona.org]


A Russian tanker loaded with diesel fuel, which last week was crippled on the Northern Sea Route after colliding with an ice floe, remains adrift at sea in icy waters despite enormous resources devoted to escorting the Russian Navy’s flagship battle cruiser through the same territory.

The Hanford Files — Downwinders Left Out of the 70th Anniversary of Plutonium Central
[link to dissidentvoice.org]


There are over 40 miles of unlined trenches with radioactive and chemical wastes – picture I-90 as a trench fifty feet deep filled with radioactive wastes from Spokane to Ritzville, or I-5 from Seattle to Marysville. Then picture your federal government refusing to do anything to clean it up. — Gerry Pollet, JD; executive director, Heart of America Northwest


Oct. 2 pomp and circumstance by the engineers, by the Department of Energy, by the welfare giant contractors eating off the public coffers – GE, Fluor, Bechtel, et al, and the city fathers of Richland and Kennewick and Pasco, the Tri-Cities, who have benefited from the arid lands of this sagebrush place of winds and permanent drought – they are not including the downwinders, some two million affected by the Iodine-131 releases into the atmosphere.

Yep, I’ve been talking with historians, downwinders, environmental lawyers, and many more. People with the Hanford necklace – scars from the thyroidectomy to take out cancerous and blown out thyroids. It’s a story of know-it-all-scientists, and, really, government collusion, secrecy, and the Radiation Warfare Project, taken over by DARPA.


Downwinders are dying, are old, and are sick. And worn down by the Michael Clayton rule of law – we the taxpayers are footing the bill for the legal fees of the downwinder lawyers – up to $60 million thus far — and the plaintiffs are up against those big ass lawyers who DO NOT care about people but do care about BUCKS and delays and inside negotiating and buying off JUDGES and fixing JUDGMENTS. No payouts for folk who have seen entire families die of cancers and autoimmune diseases, and, well, look it up – all the maladies caused by radionuclides.

Forget about DNA mutations one, two- four generations down the line. So, in the end, some of these people, AKA whistleblowers, conspiracy nuts who are in fact sane, all these folk who have been screwed by scientists, academics, city, county and federal officials, by the corporations, by the Curies hitting them, they are the heroes in some sense. I try to capture some of the struggle.

My thoughts on the already ball rolling IOC entrance into the fight for Fuku

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

Well roll me in flour..... TEPCO release a press release saying Prime Minister statement for the Olympics were false:

[snip]

Here

TEPCO official denies Abe’s claim that nuclear crisis is 'under control' - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
ajw.asahi.com
No clue what so I think that's the starting point
The unraveling of cover up

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[link to ajw.asahi.com]

I agree.

I'm kind of mystified by the disconnect between Abe and tepco.

UNUSUAL URGENT ACTIVITY: CDC Readies MULTIPLE Medical Stations & EMERGENCY Stockpile Supply Deliveries to the Pacific Rim

[link to pissinontheroses.blogspot.com]

Envoy: Iran wants constructive nuclear talks

A new Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says his country has a strong political will to constructively interact on its nuclear program.

Ambassador Reza Najafi made the remark at the regular board meeting of the IAEA in Vienna, Austria, on Thursday. He was handpicked by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

Najafi stressed Iran's new government is ready to faithfully engage with the international community and remove any ambiguity about its nuclear activities.

Referring to the talks between the IAEA and Iran to be held on September 27th, Najafi told reporters that both sides should sit together and directly and frankly discuss their differences. He added Iran hopes the differences can be solved.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Rouhani: Iran ready to accept IAEA inspectors

Iran's leader has told his Chinese counterpart that Iran is ready to accept inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani made the remarks to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek. The leaders met on the eve of a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It was their first meeting since they both took office.

Xi said Iran's nuclear program is a significant concern for the region. He urged Iran to promote practical dialogue to seek a mutually beneficial solution with relevant Western countries.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Hmm, how much was he paid for that statementT...

US expert: TEPCO should say more on water leaks

A US nuclear expert has urged the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to do more to tell the world about leakage of radioactive water at the site.

Lake Barrett is a former official of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission who led cleanup work for 4 years after the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.

Barrett took part in a meeting at Tokyo Electric Power Company on Friday to address problems including leakage from wastewater storage tanks and contamination of massive amounts of groundwater.

Barrett, who inspected the site on the previous day, said measures taken there are helping to contain significant amounts of radioactivity.

He said there's no reason for concern about public health or safety concerning water at the plant.

But he stressed that efforts for technical control of the water are insufficient. He urged TEPCO to improve its methods of communicating to the world so that people know what's going on at the plant.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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Re the post above...

[b"]He said there's no reason for concern about public health or safety concerning water at the plant."
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Meh, cheap whiskey is my posting problem at the moment... lol

"He said there's no reason for concern about public health or safety concerning water at the plant."
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TEPCO official: Leakage 'not under control'

A senior official from the Tokyo Electric Power Company has acknowledged that the radioactive water leakage at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant is not under control.

The government's top spokesman later said the assessment does not contradict Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement, delivered internationally, that the situation in Fukushima is under control.

TEPCO official Kazuhiko Yamashita was speaking at a hearing on Friday in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. The session was organized by the opposition Democratic Party, with officials from the government and TEPCO taking part.
[link to www3.nhk.or.jp]
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