nuclear-news

 a recent report revealed thatradiation is being detected across Europe. “Anywhere spent nuclear fuel is handled, there is a chance that… iodine-131 will escape into the environment,” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says on its website.

Speaking as a part-time resident of Kauai, we’ve been immensely concerned about radiation plumes blowing over from Japan.  If the government has been monitoring radiation levels, then that critical information has been concealed from the public.

Last week, an article appeared in the Kauai Garden Island news that caught my attention.  Why is thePentagon involved in providing free health care clinics, up to 350 clinical and non-clinical medical personnel, for Kauai’s residents, the north island closest to Japan?   Is the Pentagon concerned about radioactive cesium plumes carried by the wind currents across the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima’s nuclear meltdowns?

Since when has the Pentagon cared about providing free health care, and why are the clinics under the control of the military, and why only on Kauai?….

Speaking of alarm in regard to radiation leaks, last week the Lihue Kauai airport was shut down due to a possible radiation leak from the imaging screening booth.  The general public was adamantly opposed to using image scanners for airport security checks, but the Obama White House ignored the public’s concern over the health risks of being exposed to radiation, or possible radiation leaks, and quickly deployed the scanners in 2007 to airports around the country.  Frequent flyers viewed the scanner booths as a health hazard more than a privacy issue, and for good reason. This is what can happen at any given time:

Radiation feared in Airport shutdown “Mysterious emissions caused the Lihu’e Airport to shut down for a few hours Thursday evening and sent several Transportation Security Administration staff to Wilcox Memorial Hospital emergency room…at least one person who was working at the airport Thursday suspects the culprit was a radiation leak in one of the TSA screening booths… The worker was concerned that he, his co-workers and the thousands of passengers who went through the same booth Thursday could have been exposed to unsafe radiation levels….the TSA workers at the main checkpoint experienced dizziness, nausea, headache, throwing up and a chemical taste in their mouths.”….

The big utility lobbyists that pay off our politicians are destroying our lands and our lives.  When President Obama says nuclear power is safe, it doesn’t automatically make them safe. TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Company owners, engineers and Japan’s leaders also said that Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants are safe.  Northern Japan is now uninhabitable and will be a toxic dead zone for hundreds of years.  We don’t know the extent of food and land contamination from the radiation.  No doubt, cancer is going to be the number one killer in Japan.  Was it worth it to risk so much when our energy could have been provided easily and safely with wind and solar power from the get-go?

The good news is that California is moving away from nuclear and oil and paving the way to constructing the largest solar energy farms in the country…..

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