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NFS Receives 25-Year License Renewal
http://www.greenevillesun.com/Local_News/article/NFS-Receives-25-Year-License-Renewal-id-320606 12-08-03   BY KEN LITTLE

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Thursday renewed the operating
license of Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. (NFS) in Erwin for an additional
25 years.

The action prompted a positive reaction from NFS officials and an
angry response from longtime critics of the Unicoi County operation.

NFS has been operating on a 10-year license that expired on July 31, 2009.

The approval “means that the (NRC) has concluded that no safety or
environmental issues preclude renewal of the plant’s license,” NFS
spokeswoman Lauri Turpin said in a news release.

August 8, 2012 Posted by | general | Leave a comment

VIDEO Daniel Hirsch speaks at anti nuclear rally

Nuclear Expert: Substantial portion of California could be wiped out for generations by one of state’s nuke plants — “You can have a release of radioactivity on a scale that no one can really imagine” (VIDEO)   August 5th, 2012   By    Daniel Hirsch Speaking at Rally

Daniel Hirsch of CommitteeToBridgeTheGap.org, UCLA professor: If that radioactivity were released you could wipe out a substantial portion of California for generations.

And the only thing that prevents that radioactive material from getting out is if the coolant keeps operating…

You can have a release of radioactivity on a scale that no one can really imagine…

http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-substantial-portion-california-could-be-wiped-generations-either-one-states-reactors-release-radioactivity-scale-one-really-imagine-video

August 8, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

« Canadian Nuclear Expert: Reactor is releasing 200 trillion becquerels of tritium every year — Becomes a part of your body and all living things — Gives off beta particles which produce damage that can result in cancer (AUDIO)
http://enenews.com/govt-releases-last-years-tests-contamination-detected-sea-japan-airborne-material-blamed-includes-niigata-shizuoka-iwate
  July 2012: Fukushima Man has 20,000 becquerels of cesium in body —
Wife has 10,000 Bq »
Gov’t Releases Last Year’s Tests: “Contamination detected even in the
Sea of Japan” — “Airborne material” blamed — Includes Niigata,
Shizuoka, and Iwate

August 5th, 2012
By ENENews
Title: Radioactive cesium found off of Niigata, Shizuoka, Iwate
coasts: gov’t study
Source: Mainichi
Date: August 4, 2012
Radioactive cesium likely from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was
detected last year in a survey of ocean waters and fish off Niigata,
Shizuoka, and Iwate prefectures, the government announced on Aug. 3.
“Even if taken internally, the radiation levels detected are not a
risk to human health,” the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology stated. The ministry added it believes the
small amount of contamination detected even in the Sea of Japan off
Niigata was probably originally airborne material that made it to
coastal waters through rain and river courses.

[…] […]

Test results:
In May last year that there were 9.1 millibecquerels of radioactive
cesium per liter of seawater off Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture
In December, the survey found two becquerels per kilogram in a type of
flounder in [Shizuoka]
In May last year, the survey found dried sea floor dirt from the
southeast of Sado Island […] was contaminated with 31 becquerels of
cesium per kilogram
In the ocean off Yamada, Iwate Prefecture […] 0.7 becquerels per
liter of seawater were detected in May 2011

August 8, 2012 Posted by | Canada, health | Leave a comment

When radioactive cesium enters body, 75% lodges in muscle tissue
including heart http://enenews.com/when-radioactive-cesium-enters-body-75-lodges-in-muscle-tissue-including-heart May 6th, 2012   By ENENews

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a
Ticking Time-Bomb
Alternet
Brad Jacobson
May 4, 2012

[…] Nuclear experts noted that other lethal radioactive isotopes
would also be released in such a fire, but that the focus is on
cesium-137 because it easily volatilizes and spreads pervasively, as
it did during the Chernobyl accident and again after the disaster at
Fukushima Daiichi last year.

With a half-life of 30 years, it gives off penetrating radiation as it
decays and can remain dangerous for hundreds of years. Once in the
environment, it mimics potassium as it accumulates in the food chain;
when it enters the human body, about 75 percent lodges in muscle
tissue, including the heart. […]

August 8, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, health | Leave a comment

July 2012: Fukushima Man has 20,000 becquerels of cesium in body — Wife has 10,000 Bq  http://enenews.com/july-2012-fukushima-man-20000-becquerels-cesium-body-wife-10000-bq   August 5th, 2012 
By ENENews August 4, 2012 report in the Asahi Shinbun with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:

A hematological physician in Minamisoma general hospital (23km from Fukushima plant) wrote on his blog that he measured 20,000 Bq/body from a man in 70s living in Fukushima by WBC (Whole body counter) though it was already July 2012. This is the total of Cs-134 and Cs-137.

He measured 10,000 Bq/body from the wife as well. It’s about 300 Bq/Kg.

See also: Top Radiation Expert: 50 Bq/kg in humans leads to irreversible lesions in vital organs — Then top UN official refutes effects of internal radiation (VIDEO)

August 8, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, health, Japan | Leave a comment

Gov’t Releases Last Year’s Tests: “Contamination detected even in the Sea of Japan” — “Airborne material” blamed — Includes Niigata, Shizuoka, and Iwate  http://enenews.com/govt-releases-last-years-tests-contamination-detected-sea-japan-airborne-material-blamed-includes-niigata-shizuoka-iwate 
   August 5th, 2012  
By ENENews Title: Radioactive cesium found off of Niigata, Shizuoka, Iwate coasts: gov’t study

Source: Mainichi
Date: August 4, 2012

Radioactive cesium likely from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was detected last year in a survey of ocean waters and fish off Niigata, Shizuoka, and Iwate prefectures, the government announced on Aug. 3. “Even if taken internally, the radiation levels detected are not a risk to human health,” the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology stated. The ministry added it believes the small amount of contamination detected even in the Sea of Japan off Niigata was probably originally airborne material that made it to coastal waters through rain and river courses.

[…]

Test results:

  • In May last year that there were 9.1 millibecquerels of radioactive cesium per liter of seawater off Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture
  • In December, the survey found two becquerels per kilogram in a type of flounder in [Shizuoka]
  • In May last year, the survey found dried sea floor dirt from the southeast of Sado Island […] was contaminated with 31 becquerels of cesium per kilogram
  • In the ocean off Yamada, Iwate Prefecture […] 0.7 becquerels per liter of seawater were detected in May 2011

August 8, 2012 Posted by | Japan, oceans | Leave a comment

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty   John Kennedy, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1963  “…….This treaty can be a step towards freeing the world from the fears and dangers of radioactive fallout. Our own atmospheric tests last year were conducted under conditions which restricted such fallout to an absolute minimum. But over the years the number and the yield of weapons tested have rapidly increased and so have the radioactive hazards from such testing. Continued unrestricted testing by the nuclear powers, joined in time by other nations which may be less adept in limiting pollution, will increasingly contaminate the air that all of us must breathe Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard-and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby-who may be born long after all of us have gone-should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

Nor does this affect the nuclear powers alone. These tests befoul the air of all men and all nations, Continue reading →

August 8, 2012 Posted by | history | Leave a comment

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