Fukushima Documentary: Surviving The Tsunami; Radiation Exposure
Evidence of Japanese government cover up of blood tests designed to confirm or deny low level ionising dose damage! @ 21.07 mins
Published on Feb 27, 2013
CCTV documentary aired 3/16/12
Japan’s Dr. Shuntaro Hida strongly opposes the safe levels of radiation exposure that are currently being advocated by the government. “They are not dictated by safety standards, but by a nuclear industry that wields far too much power, and not just in Japan”.
Shuntaro: “At the root of the problem is US nuclear policy which asserts that a small intake of radiation is harmless”.
http://enenews.com/ap-flurry-of-films…
New Fukushima Documentary: “We’ve been deceived… We’ve been betrayed” (VIDEO)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=…
GE will not chase nuke business if laws don’t change !!
One big multinational is almost certain to be out of the race for nuclear energy business in India. On Wednesday I had met John Flannery, outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer of GE in India for a chat before he left for his new assignment: finding targets for the company to buy. Flannery said GE will rather give up business than play within India’s civil nuclear liability rules.
“If the [civil nuclear] liability law stays the way it is, we won’t pursue the business.”
Flannery knows other companies, French and Russian, are nosing ahead in the race but points out that they are backed by the government. He is very clear about his own: “We are a private enterprise and we just can’t take that kind of risk profiles.”
Last week, on his maiden visit to India as French President, Fracois Hollande had said that his country was okay with Indian laws. “Regarding civil nuclear liability, we obviously respect Indian law. It is the sovereign decision of a country that has witnessed catastrophes like the Bhopal gas tragedy,” Holande had told an interviewer from the Times of India February 14.
France’s Areva wants to supply nuclear reactors and fuel to India’s Nuclear Power Corporation which is planning to add about 37500 MW generation capacity. The contracts could be worth billions of dollars. Many of the units that the corporation plans to build such as at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are large ones with a capacity of 1000 MW and above. Areva also has an advantage here because it is also building similar sized reactors at home.
The world has been thinking deeply since March 11, 2011, whether nuclear plants are worth the risk………
– See more at: http://forbesindia.com/blog/business-strategy/ge-will-not-chase-nuke-business-if-laws-dont-change/#sthash.frMlRDjt.dpuf
H/t Sue and Anne
Japan to Begin Restarting Idled Nuclear Plants, Abe Says
“…Mr. Abe also said Japan will continue seeking energy alternatives to reduce its dependence on nuclear power, even without going so far as to eliminate it….”
By MARTIN FACKLER
Published: February 28, 2013
NY Times
TOKYO – Japan will begin restarting its idled nuclear plants once new safety guidelines are in place later this year, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday, moving to ensure a stable energy supply despite public safety concerns after the Fukushima disaster.
In a speech to Parliament, Mr. Abe pledged to restart nuclear plants that pass the tougher new guidelines, which are expected to be adopted by a newly created independent watchdog agency, the Nuclear Regulation Authority, as early as July. However, he did not specify when any of the reactors might resume operation. News reports have suggested that it might take months or even years to make the expensive upgrades needed to meet the new safety standards.
All of Japan’s 50 operable nuclear reactors were shut down following the March 2011 triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which spewed radiation across northern Japan after a huge earthquake and tsunami knocked out vital cooling systems. Two were later restarted as an emergency measure to avert power shortages in the heavily populated region that includes the cities of Osaka and Kyoto.
Responding to public safety concerns, leaders from the previous Democratic Party government had vowed to slowly phase out nuclear power by the 2030s in favor of cleaner alternatives like solar and wind. However, Mr. Abe, who took power after his Liberal Democratic Party won national elections in December, has vowed to shelve the planned phase out, saying that Japan needs stable and cheap electricity from nuclear power to compete economically.
On Thursday, Mr. Abe said that Japan had learned the need for tougher safety standards from the Fukushima accident, which forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate. He said the new safety standards will be enforced “without compromise.”
BREAKING! World Health Organisation report into estimated health effects from the Japanese Nuclear accident at Fukushima
The values presented in the report should be regarded as
inferences of the magnitude of the health risks, rather than as precise predictions.“….Moreover, it is also important to note that the exposure data upon which this report is based are preliminary and include only data that were available as of September 2011.
Because scientific understanding of radiation effects, particularly at low doses, may increase in the future, it is possible that further investigation may change our understanding of the risks of this radiation accident……”
[Highlighted parts for your conenience. Also, there is nothing about the data on Thyroids as they stopped the data set in Sept 2011, before the results of the preliminary thyroid tests in early 2012?? So the estimated figures here are not very accurate? Why? – Arclight2011]
Image source : http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/thyroid-cancer-found-from-fukushima-children/
SUMMARY.
Published on 28 Feb 2013
Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident after the
2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
based on a preliminary dose estimation
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Introduction
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 11 March 2011 led to releases of radioactive
material into the environment from the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power station.
A major release of radioactivity to the environment is always of concern, owing to
potential acute and long-term health effects. Evidence from historic events confirms that
any major uncontrolled release of radiation should be cause for immediate response
and scientific assessment of potential health effects.
When such an event occurs, the World Health Organization’s mandate, as described in
the Joint Radiation Emergency Management Plan of the International Organizations, is
to assess and respond to public health risks.
The primary purpose of this health risk assessment of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
accident is to estimate its potential public health impact so that future health needs can
be anticipated and public health actions can be taken. This assessment is based on a
preliminary estimate of radiation doses, as described in a WHO report published in May
2012.
Methods
This health risk assessment was conducted by independent international experts who
were selected by WHO for their expertise and experience in radiation risk modelling,
epidemiology, dosimetry, radiation effects and public health. All experts completed a
declaration of interests form. The group met in December 2011 and March 2012. At
both meetings, observers were in attendance from the United Nations Scientific
Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), the International LabourOrganization, and the Government of Japan. The observers participated in discussions
and sharing of data but were not involved in the decision making process.
The risk assessment was made using four steps:
•
The specific radiation sources, such as different radionuclides and pathways
of exposure, were identified (hazard identification).
•
The types of harmful effects that could result were identified based on
scientific knowledge about the relationships between radiation dose and
biological effects (dose-response relationships).
•
Based on the preliminary dose assessment, lifetime organ doses were
estimated for the general population within geographical locations ranging
from the most affected areas of Fukushima prefecture to the rest of the world.
Based on available data on occupational exposure assessed by the operator
of the nuclear power station, lifetime organ doses were also estimated for
emergency workers (exposure assessment).
•
The lifetime risk of cancer was estimated for all solid cancers combined, and
also for individual cancer sites most closely associated with radiation
exposure and with a known dependence of the magnitude of risk on age-at-
exposure (leukaemia, thyroid cancer and female breast cancer). The lifetime
risks were estimated for both sexes and three different ages at exposure
(1 year [infant], 10 years [child], and 20 years [adult]). Calculations of the
cumulative risks for the 15 years following the accident were also performed.
Health risks for male emergency workers were estimated for three different
ages (20 years, 40 years, and 60 years) (risk characterization).
Findings
In view of the estimated exposure levels, an increased risk of cancer is the potential
health effect of greatest relevance. The relationship between radiation exposure and
lifetime risk of cancer is complex and varies depending on several factors, mainly
radiation dose, age at time of exposure, sex and cancer site. These factors can
influence the uncertainty in projecting radiation risks, in particular when assessing risks
at low doses.
Outside of the geographical areas most affected by radiation, even in locations within
Fukushima prefecture, the predicted risks remain low and no observable increases in
cancer above natural variation in baseline rates are anticipated.
Some health effects of radiation, termed deterministic effects, are known to occur only
after certain radiation dose levels are exceeded. The radiation doses in Fukushima
prefecture were well below such levels and therefore such effects are not expected to
occur in the general population.
The estimated dose levels in Fukushima prefecture were also too low to affect fetal
development or outcome of pregnancy and no increases, as a result of antenatal
2 radiation exposure, in spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, perinatal mortality, congenital
defects or cognitive impairment are anticipated.
In the two most affected locations of Fukushima prefecture, the preliminary estimated
radiation effective doses for the first year ranged from 12 to 25 mSv. In the highest dose
location, the estimated additional lifetime risks for the development of leukaemia, breast
cancer, thyroid cancer and all solid cancers over baseline rates are likely to represent
an upper bound of the risk as methodological options were consciously chosen to avoid
underestimation of risks. For leukaemia, the lifetime risks are predicted to increase by
up to around 7% over baseline cancer rates in males exposed as infants; for breast
cancer, the estimated lifetime risks increase by up to around 6% over baseline rates in
females exposed as infants; for all solid cancers, the estimated lifetime risks increase by
up to around 4% over baseline rates in females exposed as infants; and for thyroid
cancer, the estimated lifetime risk increases by up to around 70% over baseline rates in
females exposed as infants. These percentages represent estimated relative increases
over the baseline rates and are not absolute risks for developing such cancers. Due to
the low baseline rates of thyroid cancer, even a large relative increase represents a
small absolute increase in risks. For example, the baseline lifetime risk of thyroid cancer
for females is just three-quarters of one percent and the additional lifetime risk
estimated in this assessment for a female infant exposed in the most affected location is
one-half of one percent.
These estimated increases presented above apply only to the most affected location of
Fukushima prefecture. For the people in the second most affected location, the
estimated additional lifetime cancer risks over baseline rates are approximately one-half
of those in the highest dose location. The estimated risks are lower for people exposed
as children and adults compared to infants.
In the next most exposed group of locations in Fukushima prefecture, where preliminary
estimated radiation effective doses were 3 to 5 mSv, the increased lifetime estimates for
cancer risks over baseline rates were approximately one-quarter to one-third of those
for the people in the most affected geographical location.
Among Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station emergency workers, the lifetime risks
for leukaemia, thyroid cancer and all solid cancers are estimated to be increased over
baseline rates, based upon plausible radiation exposure scenarios. These scenarios
and their corresponding estimated risks are detailed in the body of this report. A few
emergency workers who inhaled significant quantities of radioactive iodine may develop
non-cancer thyroid disorders.
Conclusions
This health risk assessment is based on the current state of scientific knowledge. The
assessment models used were derived from previous radiation events and experience,
which do not match exactly the pattern of exposure seen in Fukushima; thus,
3 adjustments were required. The dose estimates and assumptions used in this
assessment were deliberately chosen to minimize the possibility of underestimating
eventual health risks. The values presented in the report should be regarded as
inferences of the magnitude of the health risks, rather than as precise predictions.
Moreover, it is also important to note that the exposure data upon which this report is
based are preliminary and include only data that were available as of September 2011.
Because scientific understanding of radiation effects, particularly at low doses, may
increase in the future, it is possible that further investigation may change our
understanding of the risks of this radiation accident.
This health risk assessment concludes that no discernible increase in health risks from
the Fukushima event is expected outside Japan. With respect to Japan, this
assessment estimates that the lifetime risk for some cancers may be somewhat
elevated above baseline rates in certain age and sex groups that were in the areas
most affected. These estimates provide valuable information for setting priorities in the
coming years for population health monitoring, as has already begun with the
Fukushima Health Management Survey.
On the basis of these findings, the continued monitoring of food and the environment
remains important. When additional dose estimations become available from studies
undertaken by UNSCEAR and others, such data can be used to further refine these risk
estimates.
Executive summaries
Download FULL REPORT
Source:
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/pub_meet/fukushima_report/en/index.html
Reported here
Bulgarian parliament suspends power plant construction!
27 February
Image Source : http://cryptome.org/info/nuclear-protest2/nuclear-protest2.htm
RT Breaking News
The Bulgarian parliament has suspended the construction of the country’s second nuclear power plant (NPP) that was approved in 2005. The decision comes after more than 60 per cent of voters in a referendum in January said “yes” to the question on whether the country should build a new NPP. However, only 20 per cent of the eligible population took part in the referendum. In accordance with the Bulgarian constitution the decision still needed approval from parliament. The project has been frozen since July 2009 when the GERB party of Prime-minister Boyko Borisov came to power.
映画「カリーナの林檎 チェルノブイリの森」Web予告 – Kalinas Apple, Forest of Chernobyl
Russian with Japanese subtitles
SAMBOLGHINI·
Uploaded on Apr 16, 2011
映画「カリーナの林檎 チェルノブイリの森」Web用予告編です。
この映画を、取材途中で亡くなったカリーナ（仮名）という少女に捧げたいと思います。
Akiyoshi Imazeki began shooting “Kalina’s Apple, Forest of Chernobyl” in 2003, a film about a girl who falls sick by eating the radiated apples grown on her grandmother’s farm. It was a film he believed in, but he had never hoped for massive appeal.
His post-Fukushima 2011 re-edit _ with its juxtaposition of pastoral lakes and forests, so much like Fukushima landscapes, with the forlorn faces of children hospitalized for cancer _ is striking home with many Japanese.
The film was shot quietly like many Japanese classics, and the cast is entirely Belarusian and Russian. But the dozens of screenings in Fukushima are drawing positive reviews.
“They all cry,” said Imazeki.
Imazeki is convinced the parallels between Fukushima and Chernobyl are striking, and stressed “Kalina’s Apple, Forest of Chernobyl” dramatizes the tragedy of radiation.
“The invisibility adds to the turmoil,” he said. “Families can no longer live normal happy lives.”
New! Iran, P5+1 to return to Almaty after expert-level nuclear talks: report
Image source : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/26/iran-nuclear-talks_n_2764270.html
Reuters
27 February 2013
(Reporting By Marcus George; Editing by Pravin Char)
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran and world powers have agreed to hold a further meeting to discuss Iran’s nuclear program in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after first holding “expert-level” talks in Istanbul, Iran’s Fars news agency reported on Wednesday.
The report did not specify any dates for the two meetings but said the expert-level talks would take place “days before” the Almaty meeting. There were no further details.
The two sides met in Almaty on Tuesday and Wednesday in an attempt to resolve international concerns over Iran’s nuclear activities.
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/iran-p5-1-return-almaty-expert-level-nuclear-080102462–sector.html
Nuclear plant safety tests to continue: Taiwan government
Hwang predicted problems at least before 2015 as power plants closed and economic growth picked up again, leading to increased demand from business. Using coal to produce power would damage the environment, while gas was hard to store more than seven days during the low season in summer, he reportedly told lawmakers. He didn’t rule out the possibility of his company going bankrupt if problems continued to mount..
With abundant wind resources along the west coast and on offshore island, Taiwan has superior advantages in geographic location to develop wind energy……
http://web3.moeaboe.gov.tw/ECW_WEBPAGE/webpage/book_en1/page1.htm
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2013-02-27 03:50 PM
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Safety tests at the fourth nuclear plant will continue despite a Legislative Yuan decision to stop work on the project ahead of an eventual referendum, the government said Wednesday.
Premier Jiang Yi-huah announced Monday that he would allow a referendum about the controversial reactors under construction in Gongliao, New Taipei City, while caucuses at the Legislature agreed on Tuesday that work should be halted and new funding would not be approved as long as the vote had not been held.
Cabinet spokeswoman Cheng Li-wun said Wednesday the lawmakers had agreed that safety-related work could continue, so the government would still invite domestic and foreign experts to visit the plant and conduct safety tests. In the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, public concern has been mounting that an earthquake could cause a nuclear calamity in Taiwan as well.
Additional budgets for the plant requested by the state-run Taiwan Power Corporation will not be approved but the installation of the first fuel rods will not be affected by the legislative agreement because it was planned for next year, Cheng said.
Opposition Demands Fair Referendum on New Taiwan Nuclear Plant
Opposition-backed demonstrators have demanded a halt to the New Taipei City project, with many protesters citing design and construction flaws.
Clare Jim | February 27, 2013
Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan’s main opposition party called on Tuesday for a change in the law governing referendums to give voters a fair chance to decide whether to halt construction of a fourth nuclear power station on the self-governing island.
The ruling Nationalist Party, long a backer of the project, bowed to opposition demands on Monday to hold a referendum on halting the construction of two reactors in New Taipei City county in northern Taiwan.
The opposition says provisions of Taiwan’s Referendum Act make it difficult to pass any motion submitted for approval, as half of all voters must take part, and half of them must vote in favor of a motion for it to pass.
“We want an impartial and fair referendum,” opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairman Su Tseng-chang said in a statement. “Not with this ‘bird cage’ referendum law and not in this deceptive manner.”
The government is clearly gambling on a favorable vote to proceed.
Construction is 98 percent complete and tests have begun on the first reactor. Any halt to the project would incur huge costs, with the budget standing at T$283.8 billion ($9.57 billion), according to state-owned Taipower, and the cabinet is expected to seek additional funds in June.
Opposition to nuclear power swept across the world following the 2011 crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, triggered by an earthquake and tsunami. But pressure on governments to reduce reliance on oil and tap cheaper energy forms is bringing projects back to the drawing board.
Last month, South Korea decided to expand its nuclear program despite safety concerns and scares that closed two reactors. China this month started up the first reactor commissioned since the meltdowns at Fukushima, the world’s worst nuclear accident in 25 years.
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Korean Kids Lose Out in Japan After Pyongyang’s Nuclear Test
“North Korea fired its missile and went ahead with a nuclear test. They are such provocative actions against the wishes of the international community,” he said at a press conference. “I have no intention of continuing to defend Korean schools anymore.” Governor Yuji Kuroiwa
“I once thought maybe the schools could become independent [from Pyongyang] — but not now,” she said. “Not until Japan becomes completely free of discrimination against Koreans.”
And beyond all the politicking, Han Bok-Myong, a mother of three students at the school, says it is the children who are suffering.
No Free Education for Pro-DPRK High School in Japan
February 27, 2013
As the world rushed to condemn North Korea for its nuclear test, the shockwaves from international politics rippled into the daily lives of ethnic Korean children living in Japan.
Amid clamor for an effective way to punish a Pyongyang leadership that has proved immune to years of diplomatic pressure, youngsters who have never lived under the regime are bearing the brunt of Japanese anger.
The schools many of these children attend are having their funding withdrawn by Japan, leaving students and parents wondering why they are being punished for something they cannot control.
“Every time something happens in our fatherland of Korea, small Korean children get harassed verbally and physically by those who watch the news,” said Kim Su-Hong, a 17-year-old pupil at a school in Yokohama, near Tokyo. “The daily reality of discrimination that we face really hurts.”
There are around 500,000 ethnic Koreans in Japan, mostly descendants of migrants and forced workers from Tokyo’s sometimes brutal 1910-1945 occupation of the Korean peninsula.
Many are effectively stateless, having forfeited their Japanese nationality with Japan’s 1945 defeat. They remain without the vote in their host country.
When Korea was divided in 1953, they were forced to choose between allegiance to the US-allied Seoul or to Beijing-backed Pyongyang.
Plant Vogtle – Lawmakers debate penalizing utility over nuclear expenses
Martin said Chapman needed to better define what qualifies as a cost overrun. But time is getting short. The bill would have to be adopted by a committee and be approved by the entire House in six legislative days or else it fails for the year.
Associated Press Writer
Part of the containment vessel for a new nuclear reactor at the Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant is under construction in Augusta in 2012. Rep. Jeff Chapman (R-Brunswick) asked a House subcommittee Tuesday to support his proposal to cut into the profits of Georgia Power if the company’s cost of building Plant Vogtle exceeds a state-approved budget of roughly $6.1 billion.
The Associated Press
Rep. Jeff Chapman (R-Brunswick) asked a House subcommittee Tuesday to support his proposal to cut into the profits of Georgia Power if the company’s cost of building Plant Vogtle near Augusta exceeds a state-approved budget of roughly $6.1 billion. Georgia Power is a subsidiary of the Atlanta-based Southern Co.
As a regulated monopoly, the utility earns a profit of roughly 11 percent on every dollar it invests in the capital project. Chapman’s plan would force the utility to earn a much lower profit on any spending in excess of its budget.
“The way it’s set up today, it actually incentivizes cost overruns,” Chapman said. “Now I don’t believe Georgia Power would intend to do that. But they can legally now charge and profit from cost overruns.”
Georgia Power officials say the project is already monitored by the state’s Public Service Commission, which can prevent the utility from passing along costs to customers if it decides any project spending is egregious.
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Vermont Yankee and nuclear optimism!
Perhaps a similar principle sometimes applies to blogs. If there’s a subject you have covered in a series of blog posts, you can put an eBook together, and the book will be something you can point to, refer to, or suggest that people buy. “Get the eBook” is far more understandable than telling people that if they go to a blog and search for the keyword “economics” (for example) they will find some interesting stuff.
By Meredith Angwin
Refueling optimism
The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will refuel this spring, probably in March or April. Vermont Yankee’s statement announcing the refueling was optimistic about the plant’s future. Spokesman Rob Williams:
“We’re proceeding business-as-usual and making upgrades where necessary. As we plan this outage our assumption is we’re operating until 2032” (quoted by Terri Hallenbeck in the Burlington Free Press).
The Hallenbeck article also noted: There’s been much speculation that the 41-year-old plant’s closure might be impending…
This negative speculation about the plant was based on a UBS report that claimed that Vermont Yankee is uneconomical and might well be closed by Entergy. Andrew Stein at Vermont Digger reported on this analysis, and an earlier article by Stein provides a link directly to the UBS report.
I wasn’t negative. I thought Vermont Yankee would refuel. As a matter of fact, I posted a blog article titled: Vermont Yankee is Refueling and I Sort of Told You So.
The “I told you so” incident came about a week before Entergy announced that it was refueling. Pat Bradley ( WAMC Plattsburgh NY) interviewed three people, including me. She asked us all about the UBS report, and I was the only one who thought the plant would continue to operate. (A link to the interview is here—it’s about three minutes long).
My optimism
Japan tsunami and nuclear disaster movies seek to tell untold stories of forgotten victims
The movie started with 1,400 people in the school building, but that has dwindled lately to about 100. Funahashi is determined to keep filming until the last person leaves.
“The evacuated people are being forgotten,” said Funahashi. “And criminal responsibility is also being forgotten.”
Such scenes fill the flurry of independent films inspired by Japan’s March 2011 catastrophe that tell stories of regular people who became overnight victims _ stories the creators feel are being ignored by mainstream media and often silenced by the authorities.
Nearly two years after the quake and tsunami disaster, the films are an attempt by the creative minds of Japan’s movie industry not only to confront the horrors of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, but also as a legacy and to empower the victims by telling their story for international audiences.
The impact these films have on the global and Japanese audiences could perhaps even help change Japan, the directors say.
What’s striking is that many of the works convey a prevailing message: The political, scientific and regulatory establishment isn’t telling the whole truth about the nuclear disaster. And much of the public had been in the past ignorant and uncaring about Fukushima.
And so the films were needed, the auteurs say. The people leading Japan were too evasive about the true consequences of the multiple meltdowns at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant _ minimizing people’s suffering, playing down health risks and shrugging off accountability for past go-go pro-nuclear government policies.
“Japan’s response is ambiguous and irresponsible. But, meanwhile, time is passing,” said Atsushi Funahashi, director of “Nuclear Nation,” which documented the story of the residents of Futaba, Fukushima, the town where the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi plant is located.
The entire town became a no-go zone _ contaminated by radiation in the air, water and ground after the tsunami destroyed the plant’s cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors. Decommissioning the reactors is expected to take decades.
Of all Fukushima communities forced to evacuate, Futaba chose the farthest spot from the nuclear plant _ an abandoned high school in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo. That choice Funahashi feels highlights a keen awareness of the dangers of radiation and distrust of officials as the town had been repeatedly told the plant was safe.
The outburst of post-disaster filmmaking includes Americans living in or visiting Japan, such as “Surviving Japan,” by Christopher Noland, “Pray for Japan,” by Stuart Levy and “In the Grey Zone” and “A2” by Ian Thomas Ash.
Fukushima Prefectural Officials Want Children to Come to Fukushima on School Trips, Promise “Charm and Safety” and “Heart-Throbbing Experience”
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
EXSKF
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/fukushima-prefectural-officials-want.html
Meanwhile in Fukushima Prefecture, the officials are ever more eager to persuade schools in other parts of Japan to send their pupils and students to Fukushima, for educational trips.
The officials hope that school educational trips will result in increase of tourism revenue for the prefecture.
From one of the Fukushima local newspaper Kahoku Shinpo (2/23/2013):
「教育旅行」福島に来れ！ 県、呼び戻しへ本腰
Come to Fukushima on “educational trips”! The prefecture to make serious effort to win them back
福島県は福島第１原発事故で減った修学旅行や遠足の呼び戻しに本腰を入れる。原発事故と東日本大震災に遭った経験を生かして旅行企画を開発し、教諭や保護者、児童生徒に魅力と安全性をアピールする。
Fukushima Prefecture will make serious effort to win back the school trips and excursions to Fukushima, which have declined in numbers after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident. The prefecture will develop trip plans based on the experience of the nuclear accident and the March 11, 2011 disaster, and sell such trip plans to teachers, parents and children on Fukushima’s charm and safety.
津波被災地や原発事故の避難区域の住民が「語り部」となって被災体験を伝える。従来の観光スポットに加え、可能な範囲で被災地を見てもらう。複数の旅行会社に企画提案を募る。
Residents from the tsunami-affected areas and (former) evacuees in the nuclear accident evacuation zone will act as “storytellers” to relate their experience to the children. In addition to regular tourist spots, children will get to see the disaster-affected areas where possible. The prefecture will ask multiple travel agencies to propose trip plans.
原発事故で福島行きを取りやめた首都圏や九州の学校に出向いて誘致する活動も続ける。県は２０１３年度当初予算案に関連費約７５００万円を計上した。
The prefecture will continue to visit schools in the Tokyo Metropolitan areas and in Kyushu to persuade them to come to Fukushima again. These schools stopped school trips to Fukushima after the nuclear accident. The budget of about 75 million yen [US$814,000] has been included in the fiscal 2013 budget.
Pirate Bay abandons Sweden for Norway and Spain after legal threats
“Being in the moral and legal right is something completely different from winning in a courtroom,” he said. “In the trial against the Pirate Bay operators, you saw everything from a corrupt judge who was part of the same interest group as the plaintiffs to an investigating police officer who was flat-out hired by Warner Brothers while doing the investigation.”
“It was a travesty of everything justice is supposed to be,” Falkvinge added.
Published time: February 26, 2013 13:47
RT
The Swedish Pirate Party has handed over hosting of the Pirate Bay to sister parties in Norway and Spain after the country’s copyright lobby sent a letter threatening criminal charges for hosting the controversial file-sharing website.
The Swedish Rights Alliance gave the party until Tuesday to cut all ties with the Pirate Bay following threats of serious legal consequences. In a letter sent directly to the party’s board members earlier this month, the Swedish Pirate Party was accused of violating copyright law by acting as an Internet service provider for the popular bittorrent site.
The alliance also charged that the Supreme Court of Sweden had “legally settled that not only those who operate an illegal file-sharing service, but also those who provide internet access to such an illegal service are committing a criminal act.”
The Rights Alliance said that such violations of copyright law could entail stiff fines for noncompliance, payment of damages and even potential prison terms. “These rules apply to legal entities, including non-profit organizations such as The Pirate Party and Serious Tubes, their board members, and other representatives of the organizations,” the letter continued.
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