Beyond evacuation zone, high levels of radiation in Fukushima residents
Fukushima Residents With Exposures As High As Chernobyl Areas http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=7187August 24th, 2012 Two couples from outside the evacuation zones have shown with some of the highest internal radiation exposure to date in Japan. One couple lives in Nihonmatsu, the other in Kawamata-machi.
Kawamata-machi
man 19,507 becquerels
his wife 7,724 becquerels
Nihonmatsu City
man 11,191 becquerels
his wife 6,771 becquerels
Dr. Tsubokura, one of the doctors conducting the exposure scans on residents said these levels are similar to internal exposure seen in Belarus.
The couples have been eating home grown mushrooms, bamboo shoots and local persimmons. The mushrooms were grown on logs from Namie, a highly contaminated area in the evacuation zone. It was not clear if they logs were gathered before the nuclear disaster or not. EX-SKF mentions they may not have understood the risks in doing this. Most of the elderly rely on TV and print newspapers for information, both sources have downplayed the risks in the region.
There may be more instances of high radiation in elderly residents. Many have been reluctant to leave or felt their age would spare them from the long term effects of radiation exposure. It is giving researchers a contrasting group of exposures that hint what could have happened to more residents had food restrictions not been implemented.
Cumbria’s huge report on proposal for underground nuclear waste bunker
NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL: THE DEFINITIVE REPORT CONDENSED, in-cumbria by Ellis Butcher , 24 August 2012 The experts call it a “geological disposal facility”. Opponents call it a “nuke dump”. They all agree it’ll contain “high level and intermediate nuclear waste”.
A history-making vote takes place on October 11 which represents one of Cumbria’s most important ever nuclear decisions.A trio of councils, involving hundreds of community leaders, decides on whether West Cumbria takes part in a search to site a massive underground bunker containing the UK’s most toxic nuclear waste. Business Editor Ellis Butcher looks at the definitive report facing them. Continue reading
Aruna Roy, India’s powerful voice against nuclear energy
Stop new nuclear projects, Aruna Roy urges Sonia Gandhi http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Stop-new-nuclear-projects-Aruna-Roy-urges-Sonia-Gandhi/articleshow/15649860.cms TNN | Aug 25, 2012, NEW DELHI: National Advisory Councilmember Aruna Roy has asked the chairpersonSonia Gandhi to stop the installation and commission of new nuclear projects, including the one at Kudankulam.
Adding her voice to protestors at the Tamil Nadu site, Roy in a letter addressed to Sonia said, “The prime minister’s recent remarks about the liability issue related to reactors 3 and 4 at the Kudankulam nuclear power plant has brought out the lack of clarity regarding the liability issue related to reactors 1 and 2, which are to be commissioned soon.”
Roy said she had visited the site and met the people, “All of them expressed anguish and dismay at the government’s insistence on going ahead with the plant, turning a deaf ear to their legitimate concerns of safety and survival.”
She noted that “many of them had police cases against them for expressing dissent. This included charges as serious as sedition, and waging war against the state”. Continue reading
Award winners from the Uranium Film Festival
Special achievement awards Uranium Film Festival, by Robert del Tredici , 23 Aug 12, Special achievement awards of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival go to “Chernobyl, the Invisible Thief”, by Christoph Boekel (Germany), “Buried in Earthskin”, by Helena Kingwill (South Africa), ”Australian Atomic Confessions”, by Katherine Aigner (Australia),
“Radioactive Wolves”, by Klaus Feichtenberger (Austria), “The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos” by Claus Biegert, (Germany) and “Rokkasho Rhapsody” by Hitomi Kamanaka (Japan) and to Peter Greenaway’s outstanding experimental documentary “Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”.
“Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”
Peter Greenaway and Irma de Vries (Video design), United Kingdom/The Netherlands
Special Achievement Award “Hors Concours” for reminding us of something we have tended to forget, or maybe even not to know: that 2,201 atomic bombs have been exploded on, within, or over our own home planet – which, from Earth’s point of view, are not atomic tests at all but preemptive nuclear strikes. Greenaway creates an infernal cinematic aesthetic to convey this truth.
Using 25 screens at once, Atomic Bombs on Planet Earth overwhelms the viewer’s field of vision with dazzling cascades of poison fire punctuated by percussive sounds and eerie sonics to convey the reckless enormity of the many Bombs
humans exploded not all that long ago. The grid of screens gives rise to multiples of every blast a dozen times or more and staggers clips to make them tumble downscreen, slantwise, in coruscating tides. By the time the razzle-dazzle’s over, Greenaway has delivered more fireballs than any viewer will be able to absorb — and more than any living planet may be able to sustain. The first Trinity blast appears several times as Robert Oppenheimer provides the film’s voice-over
with words repeated like a mantra: “Some laughed – Some cried – Most remained silent.”
These are hardly words of wisdom from the father of the Bomb… and half a century on, in the absence of anything like sage words on nuclear weapons, we get what’s coming to us: an experimental documentary impossible to forget that triggers in our collective brain an atomic migraine of criminally insane proportions whose energies go deeper and are destined to last longer than our own DNA. http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/home-en/73-en/frontpage-en/162-special-achievement-awards
Cumbria ponders on hosting UK’s underground radioactive waste dump
The anticipated footprint of the underground facilities ranges from 2.32 square miles to 8.88 square miles, depending on rock type and the amount and type of waste to be disposed of.
The Government has said deep geological disposal is the best way to dispose of higher activity radioactive waste. The waste is currently stored above ground at 36 UK sites, with most of it at Sellafield.
NUCLEAR DUMP COULD BE AS BIG AS WORKINGTON, Times & StarNews, 24 August 2012 An underground nuclear dump in West Cumbria would be about the size of Workington, a report has revealed. West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely Partnership, which published its final report this week, said it would take at least 15 years to find a site.
Twenty-five per cent of West Cumbria has already been ruled out as unsuitable for an underground nuclear waste dump, the report said, and more work would be needed before it would be known if any of the area would be able to host the site. Continue reading
Russia committed to nuclear disarmament, but USA’s missile shield is the obstacle
Putin says Russian nuclear cuts to hinge on U.S. missile shield By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/24/russia-usa-nuclear-idINDEE87N0EX20120824 MOSCOW Aug 24, 2012 (Reuters) – Moscow is open to the idea of new nuclear arms cuts on a reciprocal basis and if Washington addresses its concerns about a U.S.-led missile defence system in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Continue reading
Tremendous growth in renewable energy in India
Renewable Energy As Solution And Responsibility, Huffington Post, Mohamed NasheedFormer President of the Republic of Maldives, 24 Aug 12
India’s power sector has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Last month, technical problems in India’s over-stretched electricity grid plunged half the country, some 600 million people, into darkness for up to two days, in the worst power outage in history.
Behind the stormy news reports, however, shines a brighter energy story. India’s renewable energy sector, and its solar sector in particular, is experiencing tremendous growth. Far from being a decrepit laggard in renewable energy India is fast becoming a leading light, with technology that has the potential toreduce carbon emissions on a global scale. Renewable energy already accounts for some 12% of India’s total installed power capacity …. Continue reading
Food to hospitals from radiation contaminated area in Japan
More hospital food will be from contaminated areaThey are pushing food from contaminated area even to hospital and senior citizens’ home.
On 8/22/2012, MAFF sent an official request to Public Interest Incorporated Association “Japan medical kyushoku (Lunch) association” to consume more food from the contaminated area.
全国規模での被災地産食品の消費拡大が図られるよう、医療施設、介護・福祉施設において食事提供の業務をされている貴会員の皆様に、被災地産食品の利用の促進を働きかけていただくなどご尽力を賜りますようお願い申し上げます。
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In order to improve the consumption of food from disaster area, we request you to actively purchase and consume food from disaster area for medical facilities and nursing facilities.
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When you are hospitalized, you can not choose the origin of food.
Vested interests keen to sell nuclear reactors to Indonesia
AUDIO Indonesia’s nuclear power plans http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/connect-asia/indonesias-nuclear-power-plans/1005302 24 August 2012 Pressure is 
mounting on Indonesia to push ahead with planning for the country’s first nuclear power plant. Neighbouring Vietnam and Malaysia already have nuclear planning firmly in place, and nuclear power advocates within government are proving to be increasingly vociferous in Jakarta.
But for now at least a long standing scheme to build a nuclear power plant in Central Java is off President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s agenda, and has been ever since the Fukushima disaster in Japan last year.
So where does Indonesia go next ? Presenter: Richard Ewart
Speaker: Professor Richard Tanter, senior research associate, Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability
TANTER: Well there certainly are companies that want to be involved in it, there are certainly also foreign companies where nuclear power vendors, like Mitsubishi in Japan, Kepco in Korea, also Russian companies.
Unfortunately though, there’s a new factor, a wild card in the election campaign for president which is now beginning to get
underway in Indonesia. One of the leading contenders, Prabowo Subianto, who has a very famous or rather infamous record of human rights violations while a Kopassus military leader. He has come out and said Indonesia must get nuclear power, so that’s a big new change.
… don’t think he [the current President] will back nuclear power….. the pressures mainly are coming from as you would say before vested interests, Continue reading
JAPANESE FISH FOUND WITH RADIATION 250 TIMES LEGAL LIMIT
, fish Update.com, 25 Aug 12 NEW tests have detected high levels of radioactive cesium on fish caught close to the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant badly damaged in a massive earthquake more than 18 months ago.
Some reports suggests that the rock trout caught contained more than 250 times the legal limit.The Japanese government has already banned the sale of most species fish from that area and this is likely to continue in the light of the new tests. A few months ago radiation from the plant was found in fish close to the US West Coast…
http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/18105/FISHupdate_Briefing.html
All Fukushima rice to be checked for radiation
Asahi Shimbun August 24, 2012 By TETSUYA KASAI/ Staff Writer With early rice harvests under way in Fukushima Prefecture, farmers are keeping their fingers crossed that this year’s crop passes government radiation checks.
For the second year following the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the Fukushima prefectural government is inspecting all bags of rice produced in the prefecture to ensurelevels of radiation are below government limits, which were lowered this year to 100 becquerels per kilogram…. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201208240074
No more sky diving into Navy nuclear base
Skydivers jump into Navy nuclear base http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20120824/BLOG46/708249815, August 24, 2012 ST. MARYS, Ga. — Airport officials in southeast Georgia have decided to revoke the license of a skydiving business operating there after two skydivers missed the airfield and landed on a high-security submarine base less than three miles away.
The U.S. Navy briefly held the two skydivers earlier this month after they landed on the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base. The base is the East Coast hub for the Navy’s nuclear missile-armed submarines.
Before the airport board’s vote Wednesday, Navy Cmdr. Jeff Pafford told the authority, “This cannot happen again.”
The Jumping Place owner Cathy Kloess said she’s started looking into areas to relocate her business. Information from: The Florida Times-Union .
UNSCEAR to investigate radiation impact of Fukushima nuclear disaster
Next December Carl-Magnus Larsson, head of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency, takes over as UNSCEAR chairman.UNSCEAR has been the go-to body for such complex, high-profile investigations since it was established by the UN General Assembly in 1955 under the chairmanship of Australian radiation expert Cecil Eddy…. the Fukushima report .. will be presented to the [United Nations] General Assembly late next year.
Radiation risks high in Japan http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/health-science/radiation-risks-high-in-japan/story-e6frg8y6-1226456949429 BY: LEIGH DAYTON The Australian August 25, 2012 IT’S hard to believe, but earlier this month the power company that runs Japan’s devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant revealed that five people working on the clean-up had covered their radiation detectors with lead, rendering them useless.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company said the five were contracted by a subcontractor of a – yes – subcontractor and were not even authorised to work at the plant. Other workers were found not to have used dosimeters at all. Continue reading
Fifth Fukushima nuclear plant worker dies,
Herald Sun, AAP August 23, 2012 A WORKER at Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has died of a heart attack, the operator says, the fifth death at the power station since it was hit by the tsunami of March 2011.
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said the man, who was in his 50s, suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday while working on the installation of a tank to store contaminated water…. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/fifth-fukushima-nuclear-plant-worker-dies/story-e6frf7k6-1226456987933
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