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Censorship of radioactive fallout reports

Comparison Of Censored And Uncensored Japan Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Fallout Forecast

Active map Cover up of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Radiation Fallout Forecasts Exposed!

I previously reported on the steady concentrated stream of Nuclear radioactive fallout heading toward the US and Canada. In that post I pointed out that several censored radiation forecasts have been found but were never released to the public.

We now have for the first time a side by side comparison of two radiation fallout forecasts. On the left is the censored version released to the public downplaying the levels of radiation spreading around the world. On the right is the same uncensored forecast…. http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/19/comparison-censored-uncensored-japan-nuclear-radiation-fallout-forecast-18514/

April 22, 2011 Posted by | - Fukushima 2011, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

520 tonnes of high level radioactive water into sea off Fukushima

Japan’s nuclear leak into ocean at catastrophic levels

RT.com news 21 April, 2011 The Tokyo Electric Power Company says radioactive substances that leaked into the sea at the damaged Fukushima plant over six days in April exceed the annual allowable limit by 20,000 times.

The plant operator said it calculated the total amount of leaked water assuming that the leak began on April 1st. Some 520 tonnes of the high-level radioactive water have likely reached the sea during the period, reports Japan’s Broadcasting Corporation NHK.

The announcement comes as the government brought into effect the entry ban for the 20-kilometer evacuation area around the paralyzed nuclear complex. Police found more than 60 families still living within the contaminated area. …. http://rt.com/news/fukushima-plant-radioactive-leakage/

April 22, 2011 Posted by | - Fukushima 2011 | Leave a comment

Trillion dollar costs could result from nuclear accident

“The Risk of a Nuclear Catastrophe … Could Total Trillions of Dollars and Even BANKRUPT A COUNTRY” by George Washington on 04/21/2011…. http://www.zerohedge.com/article/risk-nuclear-catastrophe-could-total-trillions-dollars-and-even-bankrupt-country

April 22, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Call for immediate stop work on new nuclear plants

‘Stop work on new nuclear plants’ THE HINDU KOLKATA, April 22, 2011 There should be an immediate stop in work on all new nuclear plants across the country without any exception, Prakash Karat, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said here on Thursday.

“It is ‘elementary’ for the government to pay heed to public protests against such plans, particularly after the Fukushima disaster,” Mr. Karat said at a press conference.

“The CPI(M) had raised objections to the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra where farmers are agitating even before the Fukushima disaster,” Mr. Karat pointed out.

“The technology being provided for the Jaitapur plant by the French company is not tested even though the plants they [the company] are constructing in France are under construction… Besides, Jaitapur is in a seismic zone. Many scientists have already demanded a stop to the project,” Mr. Karat added….. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1716178.ece

April 22, 2011 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

Police crackdown on Jaitapur anti nuclear leaders

Cops tapping our phones, say anti-nuclear plant leaders MidDay

By: Kaumudi Gurjar

2011-04-22

 jaitapur

 The Ratnagiri police are allegedly tapping phones and scrutinising call records of leaders including those of political parties to gather crucial information related to the agitation against the proposed nuclear plant in Jaitapur. Senior leaders like B G Kolse-Patil, Justice P B Sawant and Vaishali Patil have alleged that since they are heading the protests, the police are monitoring their movements continuously through technical surveillance.

Cops evasive
When asked about phone tapping, Superintendent of Police Pradeep Raskar was evasive about the issue. “We do sometimes check the phone call records but that does not mean we do it everytime. We will comment on the phone tapping at the right time,” Raskar said…….Retired Justice Sawant said the police often indulged in tapping phone calls of leaders under the pretext of gathering intelligence for public interest, which may not always be the case. “In any case, it will not affect our agitation against the proposed nuclear plant,” he said……http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/apr/220411-Jaitapur-tapping-phones-anti-nuclear-plant-leaders.htm

April 22, 2011 Posted by | civil liberties, India | Leave a comment

15 metre wall planned to protect Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear plant

Tepco to Build Wall for Nuclear Plant After Fukushima Disaster Bloomberg, By Tsuyoshi Inajima – Apr 21, 2011   Electric Power Co. will build a seawall to protect its biggest atomic power station from a tsunami like the one that knocked out its Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, causing the worst nuclear crisis in 25 years.

Japan’s biggest power company, known as Tepco, plans to construct a wall to a height of 15 meters (50 feet) above sea level off the coast of its Kashiwazaki Kariwa plant northwest of Tokyo, spokeswoman Ai Tanaka said by phone. Three of seven reactors remain shut at the station after an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks.

Tepco has been battling to contain radiation spewing from the Fukushima plant after a magnitude-9 quake on March 11 unleashed a tsunami that flooded the station, knocking out cooling systems. The company won’t get approval to start the remaining reactors at Kashiwazaki until it resolves the crisis at Fukushima, a local government official said on April 6.

Japan’s government last week raised the severity rating of the Fukushima crisis to the highest on an international scale, the same level as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The station, which has withstood hundreds of aftershocks, may release more contamination than Chernobyl before the crisis is contained, Tepco officials said. …..http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-22/tepco-to-build-wall-for-nuclear-plant-after-fukushima-disaster.html

April 22, 2011 Posted by | Japan, safety | Leave a comment

Problematic evacuation of Japanese from nuclear zone

Japanese Revisit Nuclear Zone While They Can, New York Times, By ANDREW POLLACK April 21, 2011 “……In Futaba, a town next to the plant, several signs stretching across the empty streets extolled the virtues of atomic energy. “Nuclear power is energy for a brighter future,” read one. Another said, “The correct understanding of nuclear power leads to a better life.”

And at the gate of the Fukushima Daiichi plant itself, workers in white suits and masks turned away an unauthorized car while photographing its license plate. On a board behind the workers someone had written, “Don’t give up.” …… Continue reading →

April 22, 2011 Posted by | - Fukushima 2011 | Leave a comment

Doubts on viability of Latest Fukushima cleanup plan

the presence of highly radioactive water at Unit 2 posed a particular challenge. There and at other units, workers have been cooling nuclear fuel at the reactor’s core and in storage pools by pumping in hundreds of tons of water a day, producing dangerous amounts of runoff.

  Radiation Poses Barrier To Repair Work at Plant NYTimes.com By HIROKO TABUCHI April 18, 2011TOKYO — Robots deployed inside two reactors at the Japanese nuclear plant overrun by last month’s devastating tsunami have detected radiation levels too high for workers to enter, posing immediate challenges for a new plan to bring the ravaged complex under control by year’s end…. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | - Fukushima 2011 | Leave a comment

Radiation in seafoods

“[People] should not venture into the ocean [where the radioactive materials are being released]; they should not eat any fish or seaweed from the ocean.

“The living species likely to be most affected are shellfish because they are stationary whereas fish that swim may pass through the area and out again. The shellfish such as mussels, oysters and clams certainly accumulate high levels of radioactivity….

Japanese earthquake | what Japan’s new nuclear crisis rating means, Sydney Morning Herald, Glenda Kwek April 12, 2011 As Japan raised the severity level of its nuclear crisis to match Chernobyl’s seven, an Australian scientist explained what that meant. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | environment, Japan | Leave a comment

Developing the myths of nuclear power as cheap and safe

The myth of radiation being very interesting but not dangerous was however firmly debunked by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, but not without a last ditch attempt by the occupying Allied Powers to protect it – by arresting and deporting any journalist who talked about radiation deaths.

The Nuclear Power Mercantilist Myth :: The Market Oracle :: By Andrew McKillop, 19 April 11, “…..COSTS DIDNT MATTERThe atom scientists of the 1930s with names we still know today, for example Fermi and Einstein, argued about those subjects but, being scientists, were not specially concerned what it would all cost. Only later, with the founding of the UN’s atomic energy agency in 1956 – a promotional agency for nuclear power – were the key subjects of entrepreneurial effort and the obligatorily linked need for government subsidies brought into the fray. This was sold as creating a future world where atomic arms will be changed to power plant ploughshares. While atomic weapons were expensive, the ploughshares would be cheap if we spent enough investing in them. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, history, spinbuster | Leave a comment

32 Asian nuclear plants at risk from earthquakes

.Like Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi plant they lie within a few hundred miles of the type of fault known to unleash the largest tsunami-spawning earthquakes…..At least 32 plants in operation or under construction in Asia are at risk of one day being hit by a tsunami, nuclear experts and geologists warn…..

Asia nuclear reactors face tsunami risk, Google News (AP)  19 April 11, JAKARTA, Indonesia — The skeleton of what will soon be one of the world’s biggest nuclear plants is slowly taking shape along China’s southeastern coast — right on the doorstep of Hong Kong’s bustling metropolis. Three other facilities nearby are up and running or under construction. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | ASIA, safety | Leave a comment

Fukushima the last chapter in dying nuclear industry

“The nuclear industry was arguably on life support before Fukushima. When the history of this industry is written, Fukushima is likely to introduce its final chapter,”New Worldwatch Report Previewed in Berlin    

To obtain a free copy of the draft report, click here

http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/NuclearStatusReport2011_prel.pdf

Berlin, Germany—The future of nuclear power was bleak even before the Fukushima disaster, said energy expert Mycle Schneider Wednesday at a press conference in Berlin, where he previewed an upcoming Worldwatch Institute report on the outlook of nuclear power.

“The industry was arguably on life support before Fukushima. When the history of this industry is written, Fukushima is likely to introduce its final chapter,” said Schneider, lead author of the new report, which was previewed in Berlin today at an event hosted by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Desperate marketing tactics of Nuclear Suppliers Group

Trying desperately to keep itself alive at whatever cost and whatever risk to present and future human and other life on the planet, the nuclear industry has retreated into its laager mentality with technology gimmicks ranging from thorium and other non-uranium fuelled reactors, fusion reactors, and fast breeder reactors. Although no commercial – that is non subsidized and large scale – versions of these quick fixes exist, the high tech sheen on these claimed alternatives is enough to beguile some weak minded, uninformed and gullible persons. Nuclear power should be given another try, they say !

The Nuclear Power Mercantilist Myth :: The Market Oracle :: By Andrew McKillop, 19 April 11,“…The now 46-nation NSG-Nuclear Suppliers Group is mainly OECD membership but also includes Argentina, Brazil, China, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Turkey and Ukraine, as well as some other small non-OECD countries but specifically does not include India. This traces to the 1975 founding of the NSG, in the wake of India’s 1974 test explosion of an atom bomb, and the alarmed but confused attempt by leaderships of the old nuclear nations to lock down nuclear technology but also promote nuclear power. The permanent and basic linkage between nuclear weapons, and nuclear power had been made clear for all to see by the Indian test, but business had to go on as usual. Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | 2 WORLD, marketing | Leave a comment

Anti nuclear protestor killed by police

Anti-nuclear activists were planning further protests this weekend in Maharahstra to demand that the Jaitapur and other nuclear power plant schemes be scrapped,

Indian police kill protester in anti-nuclear demo, Google News, (AFP) – 19 April 11, MUMBAI — Indian police opened fire on hundreds of protesters — killing one — at a demonstration against the proposed construction of a nuclear power station, police and the government said Monday… Continue reading →

April 19, 2011 Posted by | India, safety | Leave a comment

US Nuclear Regulators as US Nuclear Marketing Men

the cables — from 2006 to early 2010 — show that the NRC’s role in promoting its regulatory model around the world can easily turn it into an advocate for U.S. nuclear technology, whether its officials realize it or not…..

U.S. nuclear regulator a policeman or salesman? (Reuters), 18 April 11,  – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission exists to police, not promote, the domestic nuclear industry — but diplomatic cables show that it is sometimes used as a sales tool to help push American technology to foreign governments. Continue reading →

April 18, 2011 Posted by | marketing, USA | Leave a comment

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