Radiation Monitoring Data In Japan Systematically Faked Downward
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=6993
July 31st, 2012
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As with so many things going on in relation to the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, people know something isn’t right or outright bogus, yet it takes time to document and prove it. We documented earlier this week about the discrepancies in Miyagi Prefecture in radiation & contamination government figures vs. non government figures for the region including elevated thyroid nodules in children.
In yet another case of this, government radiation monitoring has been being systematically faked to show far lower than actual levels. Academics and an engaged public can and will eventually uncover these lame attempts by the government to deceive the public about the safety risks in Japan due to the nuclear accident.
Stig from Safecast.org has been following this in various Japanese language sources and has documented much of it here in a new article on their website…..”
“…The various monitoring posts around Japan are also not completely correct. Per this MEXT spreadsheet from July 26th you can see that many of the monitoring posts are quite high in the air, likely on building roofs. The one in Miyagi is 80meter off the ground, the government claims they put it on the roof of the govt. building to make maintenance easier…..”
13,299 Bq/Kg from home-grown rosemary in Kashiwa
It’s very difficult to judge what to eat, what not to eat in Japan. Radiation measurement of local governments and supermarkets may not be trustworthy. However, it seems like we must avoid home-grown products at least.
Sample : Home-grown rosemary
Date : Early summer of 2011
Location : Kashiwa Chiba (200km from Fukushima plant)
Cs-134/137 : 13,299 Bq/Kg
13,299 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured from rosemary in Kashiwa.
A media writer, Chidai conducted radiation measurement of rosemary, grown in the garden of Kashiwa Chiba. Kashiwa is about 200km from Fukushima plant, known to be a hotspot.
The sample was taken by the person who found the highly radioactive yellow substance. (cf. 180,000 Bq/Kg from the yellow substance in Kashiwa Chiba) It is from early summer of 2011.
Fukushima starts radiation checks on rice- New 10 second test for Cesiums only
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120826-367613.html
The Yomiuri Shimbun/Asia News Network
Sunday, Aug 26, 2012
“….The inspection took only about 10 seconds for each bag, with none of the bags showing measurable levels of radioactivity. The lowest measurable level is 11 becquerels per kilogram.
Rice farmer Takayuki Anzai, 58, smiled after his first bag passed the check. “I don’t think consumers will feel safe immediately, but we have to demonstrate scientifically proved safety and security,” he said.
The rice harvest this year in Fukushima Prefecture is expected to total about 360,000 tons, or about 12 million bags, according to the prefectural government. Most of the checks will be finished by the year-end…..”
Mainichi: “Nuclear devastation” for Japan, in peace time — Fukushima disaster “the same as war” -Buddhist Nun
[…]
Future historians looking back on our time may conclude that the nuclearaccident changed Japan not much less than the atomic bombs did. There’s a lot happening, where little was before. The weekly Shukan Gendai talks to three female lawmakers who lately bolted the governing Democratic Party of Japan, largely over its decision to reactivate two nuclear reactors in Oi, Fukui Prefecture. “Foreigners think the Japanese are sheep,” said one of them, Kuniko Tanioka. “But we’re raising our voices now, saying no to nuclear power, no to reactivation.”
[…]
“Perpetrators of the subway sarin affair were given death sentences,” she says. “The top people in the company that caused radiation contamination are still in their executive boardrooms, drawing high salaries. That’s odd, isn’t it?”
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Nuclear Power Is Incompatible with the Way of the Buddha
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Buddhists Must Send a Message
Q: After the nuclear incident at Fukushima happened last year, Rev. Kono, as the President of the Japan Buddhist Federation (JBF), made the following comments in August about nuclear energy while considering the people who had become victims of the incident: “Who is making sacrifices to ensure our convenient lifestyles? Each person, individually, must think more about their responsibility. So that this kind of incident does not happen again, we all must adjust the way we look at our daily lifestyles.” Rev. Kono, then, in yourrole as the Chief Priest of the Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen in September issued a declaration calling on the abolition of nuclear power and then further in December helped to draft the JBF declaration entitled “Appeal for a Lifestyle without Dependence on Nuclear Power.” Today we would like to hear about Rev. Kono’s thoughts since the time that these declarations were made.
Rev. Kono: In a manner of speaking, it is about causes and conditions (hetu-pratyaya, innen). Two years ago I became the Chief Priest of the Myoshin-ji branch of the Rinzai Zen Denomination and then I became the Chairman of JBF. Since this latter position is a rotating one among the chief priests of the traditional Buddhist denominations, I couldn’t turn it down. Then the Great Eastern Japan Disaster struck, and there were critical victims whose lives and lifestyle rights were affected by the nuclear incident. I thought then that Buddhists should not become silent on this issue.
For myself, I would say that the fundamental teaching of Buddhism is to value life and respect human rights. The year before the disaster in November (2010), the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) bi-annual general conference was held in Sri Lanka. At this time, I gave a speech while keeping in mind the armed conflict between the Tamils and Sinhala in that country. J.R. Jayewardene, who served as President of Sri Lanka from 1978-89, had been the Finance Minister during the time of the San Francisco Peace Accords of 1951 formally ending the Pacific War. As the representative of the Sri Lankan government at the time, he suggested waiving the rights of reparation towards Japan, citing the words of the Buddha from the Dhammapada that go,” Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.” (Vs. 5). I not only have a feeling of gratitude for this act, but also, while speaking about the critical self-reflection and confession for the enormous suffering brought on the various countries of Asia by Japan during the war, I wish for Sri Lanka to also open the way to world peace by following the teachings of the Buddha in these further words from the Dhammapada, “All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.” (Vs. 129)……”
http://jneb.jp/english/eiheijisymposiu/konoseka
Japanese Buddhists’ Increasing Involvement in
Anti-Nuclear Activism
Jonathan S. Watts
International Buddhist Exchange Center (IBEC)
Yokohama
July 2, 2012
“….From this writer’s own personal interest, this demonstration was the first at which a coordinated group of Buddhists participated beyond the regular activism of the small Nipponzan Myohoji order. A small but not insignificant group of 8 Buddhist priests and at least 5 lay followers representing AYUS (a Japanese Buddhist development NGO increasingly involved in the nuclear issue) and the Japan Network of Engaged Buddhists (JNEB) gathered amidst the crowd and, holding high the Buddhist flag, maintained a presence throughout the demonstration……”
UK ‘may not have enough sailors to crew subs’
http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/UK-sailors-crew-subs/story-16744725-detail/story.html
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
“…BRITAIN risks not having enough sailors to man its submarine fleet including those armed with nuclear missiles, according to internal defence documents.
It is among a range of threats to the UK’s defence nuclear programme identified in heavily censored papers published under the Freedom of Information Act.
A shortage of personnel with technical nuclear skills is highlighted as a particular concern, in the face of growing demand from the civil industry.
Naval job losses as part of sweeping military cutbacks are unlikely to have helped problems of recruitment and retention.
The threat of shortfall in the submarine service was revealed in the risk register by the Defence Nuclear Executive Board (DNEB).
Under the ‘risk’ of submarine manpower, the report states: “There is a risk that the RN will not have sufficient suitably qualified and experienced personnel (SQEP) to be able to support the manning requirement of the submarine fleet.”….”
Glass offers improved means of storing UK’s nuclear waste
http://phys.org/news/2012-08-glass-uk-nuclear.html
“….ILW makes up more than three quarters of the volume of material destined for geological disposal in the UK. (1) Currently the UK’s preferred method is to encapsulate ILW in specially formulated cement. The waste is mixed with cement and sealed in steel drums, in preparation for disposal deep underground. Two studies, published in the latest issues of The Journal of Nuclear Materials and European Journal of Glass Science and Technology A show that turning this kind of waste into glass, a process called vitrification, could be a better method for its long-term storage, transport and eventual disposal. HLW is already processed using this technology which reduces both the reactivity and the volume of the waste produced. Until now, this method has not been considered suitable for ILW because the technology was not developed to handle large quantities of waste composed from a variety of different materials. The research programme, funded by the UK’s NDA and led by Professor Neil Hyatt in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the University of Sheffield, tested simulated radioactive waste materials – those with the same chemical and physical makeup, but with non-radioactive isotopes – to produce glass and assess its suitability for storing lower grades of nuclear waste….”
‘Sellafield is where we house the toxic legacy of our failed nuclear industry’
Jan 2011
“…Industry experts say the government must deal with legacy waste before committing to new nuclear in the UK.
The clean-up of nuclear legacy waste at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant – a site historically plagued with mismanagement and technical difficulties – is running behind schedule, according to the 2009-10 annual report from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which was quietly released in December….”
“…The safe removal and treatment of legacy waste has failed to hit the targetsdue to “factors including deteriorating building structures, uncertain material inventories and difficult working conditions,” the report says. Theconsolidation of “legacy sludges” in a storage pond are running behind, and the report gives no explanation for the delay….”
“….”Sellafield is a national disgrace. Sellafield is where we house the toxic legacy of our failed nuclear industry,” said Paul Dorfman from the University of Warwick, who has worked extensively on radiation and nuclear wasteissues with the government and industry….”
“….Prof Gordon Mackerron, the director of the science and technology policy research unit at the University of Sussex and who chaired the original Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, agrees that the consequences of creating more nuclear waste have not been properly addressed and debated….”
“The government has proposed a requirement that they store nuclear waste on site for a very long period, and why that’s politically important is that spent fuel has been moved off to Sellafield as soon as it was feasible to do so in the past.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/jan/27/nuclear-waste-legacy
Nuclear power station hopes to attract up to 10,000 children visitors this next year
“…Planning permission for the centre has gone to Hartlepool Borough Council. If approved, it will be built near the site’s existing training centres….”
“…The centre is scheduled to open early next year and will employ a centre supervisor and guides. It will normally be open on weekdays and it is expected it will attract up to 10,000 visitors a year…”
“…Most of the visitors will be children over ten on school trips,…”
“…Earlier this year, it was announced the firm was planning to extend the operation of the power plant until 2026 by investing£50m in the site….”
NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL: THE DEFINITIVE REPORT CONDENSED
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/news-focus/nuclear-waste-disposal-the-definitive-report-condensed-1.988438?referrerPath=home
by Ellis Butcher
Last updated at 14:07, Thursday, 23 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.
This is the skull and crossbones stuff. The worst from the nuclear process, the residue from the bowels of nuclear reactors which lasts for thousands and thousands of years.
Some argue a repository will create hundreds of jobs year-after-year and lever a multi-million Government pay day for west Cumbria to sweeten the pill. Others argue it will cost jobs, wreck tourism and daub one of England’s finest landscapes with a big dirty nuke brush.
Few issues polarise opinion like the nuclear legacy conundrum…..”
“…THE FINAL REPORT
The partnership’s final report – a hefty 270-page plus document neither proposes a recommendation for councils to follow, nor suggests an intended site. That was never its brief.
Instead it has overseen the complex evidence-gathering process. It was shared with about 2,300 people and organisations.
The final was signed off and is now the reference point for the issue.
Recently, it was released into the custody of decision-makers at Cumbria County Council, Allerdale and Copeland.
Between now and October, staff at these authorities and elected-representatives will be pouring over every single line with highlighter pens to inform what they stand up and say in a few weeks.
The report is available to download from the West Cumbria Managing Radioactive Waste Safely website….”
The Final Report of the
West Cumbria Managing
Radioactive Waste Safely
Partnership
http://www.westcumbriamrws.org.uk/documents/306-The_Partnership’s_Final_Report_August_2012.pdf
“….Long-standing Cumbria-based anti-nuclear campaigner Marianne Birkby, a wildlife artist based in south Cumbria, has been a critical opponent.
Ironically, her father worked at Sellafield as a young man. Marianne established campaign group Radiation Free Lakeland. It has seen Welcome To The Nuke District headlines in national newspapers, gained support from some scientists and found influential allies across the patchwork of parish councils which make up west Cumbria and its district seats of Copeland and Allerdale.
Radiation Free Lakeland was invited to formally join the 17 member partnership but declined.
Instead, it has maintained a distance on the sidelines – protesting, demonstrating, and issuing counter-challenges through the media. So too has academic Dr Ruth Balogh, of Save Our Lake District Don’t Dump Cumbria!.
It developed an associated website and blog and contributed a critical challenge to the partnership. Its opposition is clear….”
“…..Essentially, testing the ground for compatibility.
Opponents say the proof already exists – the soil in these parts isn’t right. Counter evidence argues that is not the case. Even one nuclear insider, who refused to go on record, questioned the chronology of the whole process.
“Why didn’t they just check the soil first at the start and save three years of work?” The answer is cost. Tests of this nature are so expensive you’d have to be sure you weren’t wasting money before putting pipes in the ground….”
Is this the photo that could clear Assange? Grinning for the camera, WikiLeaks boss and woman who says he sexually assaulted her 48 hours earlier
By ABUL TAHER
PUBLISHED: 22:57, 25 August 2012
“……It seems an unremarkable image: a group of friends smiling broadly. But this is the photograph Julian Assange hopes will clear his name.
The face of the woman on the left has been obscured for legal reasons.
For although she is seen beaming, she would later tell police that 48 hours before the picture was taken, the WikiLeaks founder pinned her down in her flat and sexually assaulted her…..”
“….The photograph was taken on August 15, 2010, at the Glenfiddich restaurant in Stockholm, at a dinner of meatballs and schnapps hosted by Rickard Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party (PP), which campaigns for greater government transparency.
Although by all accounts it was a jolly occasion, there was some serious discussion that at times became ‘passionate and intense’….”
“…But he made it clear that he did not think Woman A behaved like a victim or someone who had suffered a traumatic sexual experience only two days earlier….”
“…The Mail on Sunday has also learned that just hours after the alleged attack, Woman A accompanied Mr Assange to a Social Democratic Party conference….”
Aruna writes to Sonia on nuclear plants and graft activists
PUBLISHED: 23:25, 24 August 2012
“…National Advisory Council (NAC) chairperson Sonia Gandhi received an earful from NAC member Aruna Roy on Friday.
Roy wrote two letters to Gandhi on ‘the government’s apathy towards the increasing attacks on anti-corruption activists’ (dated August 24) and on her opposition to the nuclear plant at Kudankulam (dated August 23)…..”
“…’In any case, the threatened radiation by daily disposal of cleaning water and threat of leaks and failures is significant,’ Roy wrote, adding that there was need for transparency and dialogue on the implantation of such projects….”
CND group urges SNP not to make Nato U-turn
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-19379047
25 August 2012
Gareth Finn, SNP CND group convener, said: “The main aim is to educate SNP members about what membership of Nato would look like. I’d like to think they’re all anti-nuclear but when it comes to Nato, there’s a small number of people that seek to change policy.”
While Mr Finn sees Nato as a nuclear alliance, the SNP leadership has argued that an independent Scotland could join on condition that no nuclear weapons are allowed in the country.
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“I really think it is very naive to think if we are a member of Nato they will allow us to remove Trident”
Sandra White MSPSNP
“…Mr Finn has pointed to the experience of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, all Nato countries which host US nuclear weapons but are having to argue for their removal…..”
“…An SNP spokesman said: “The SNP has a cast-iron commitment to rid Scotland of nuclear weapons.
SNP members have the democratic opportunity to make their views on Nato membership clear at the annual conference in October, where we are going to have an excellent debate on defence policy, including reaffirming the party’s strong anti-nuclear stance….”
Tuesday Protest Against TPP at PM Official Residence Features Fake “Prime Minister Noda”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/tuesday-protest-against-tpp-at-pm.html
“..Taking the advice (or taunts) from Friday protest organizers, people have started to do their own protests outside the narrow (and at this point meaningless) “single issue” protest on Friday at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence in Tokyo.
Here’s one of them, “Against TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership)”, a NAFTA equivalent being pushed by the United States and involving countries around the Pacific Rim.
The first protest was held on Tuesday August 21, 2012, and will be held every Tuesday at the PM’s Official Residence. On August 21, over 300 people gathered, made speeches, staged a short comic play with “Prime Minister Noda”. A good enough start….”
Yamada: We cannot cover Fukushima Daiichi reactors like after Chernobyl — It’s more complex (AUDIO)
Yastel Yamada, cofounder and director of Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima (Part II)
TUC Radio (Maria Gilardin)
Recorded July 30, 2012
“…Now a very important thing, Fukushima Daiichi is more complex than Chernobyl…
Their task was just to cover the furnace unit.
But in the case of Fukushima Daiichi, we have to continue to cool it for 10 years, 20 years. That is much different.
We cannot cover Fukushima Daiichi….”
Physician: Overwhelming number of cases being reported from around Japan — Medical data in Fukushima is sealed, no idea what’s truly going on there
Title: Analysis: Radiation Health Risk Management Adviser Shunichi Yamashita
Source: Chris Spivey
Date: Aug 24, 2012
“We have not had a chance to do more reports simply due to an overwhelming number of reported cases. In other words, current situations in Japan are worse than in this report. In addition, medical information in Fukushima is sealed, which means we have no idea what is truly going on there. What’s in our report is from the rest of the country”.
TIME TO STOP THIS CRUEL MADNESS NOW!
An appeal to Europeans to sign the International Committee on Nuclear Justice (ICNJ) challenge on the ICRP Dose Model
Link to website http://nuclearjustice.org/
Link to petition download
http://nuclearjustice.org/?p=50
Link to contact ICNJ with confirmation of registered post submission
Why is this important?
36 percent of the children of Fukushima have thyroids cysyts according to a recent medical examination; the World Health Organisation (WHO) uses the Dose model instead of real data. The WHO brought the recent Fukushima report out BEFORE these test came in.. in the report it noted that the tests would be a couple of weeks and the report HAD to come out earlier?
Why not wait for the REAL data? Why the hurry for just a few weeks?
The WHO report was copied to Nature Magazine and ALL the media copied the good news version of Fukushimas residents to the world.
This shows complete manipulation of the facts and condemns the children to obscurity and ill health and possibly death.
And its not the first time!
Many scientists and health professionals have decried the on-going situation in Gomel and sorrounds, the Japanese have the data for Belarus (According to the Imperial College London 2012) but they have not released it to the public nor to the international community of universities. The Japanese government is now doing the same thing with its own citizens. Although data collection is so undermined by the government there is actually little data after this accident..
Norway commenced a huge comprehensive study of its realm after the Chernobyl accident(1986). It was manned by volunteers and supported by many laboratories with spectrometers in industry and hospitals etc for detailed isotopic testing.
Why little testing by the Japanese now, you may ask?
So the Japanese Governmeent can show a smaller dose and cover up the real damage with equations and false/incomplete data. This is supported by the WHO, the IAEA and ICRP and by a cabal of international oncology university departments and many thyroid organisations.
The Japanese Thyroid Association has submitted NO papers to date for peer review on the children of Fukushima! Staggering! They would have been aware of this problem in December 2011 as the testing of a small cohort (40,000 approx) of children had started then. The Japanese Thyroid Association in fact has done 2 papers, one for xray machines at airports and another non relevant topic.
The UK Thyroid Association is complicit in this cover up though a spokesman from the American Thyroid Association did say that the childrens thyroid results was unusual and of concern.
No one said that the WHO report was obviously wrong and NOBODY has challenged it..
It doesn’t have to be this way!
We Europeans have been given a chance to fight back!
Since the beginning of this campaign many bloggers have noticed difficulties in uploading or viewing this petitions information, indeed I have been under cyber attack now since I posted the petition last Sunday, I have had to disconnect the broadband to write this. Also, miss milkytheclown1 on You Tube and Prof Chris Busby has had problems regarding this petition.
Also, concerning web manipulation, you will find that if you go on a webpage to do with this petition that you might receive a page not found message. if you do, hit the F5 button and the page should appear. I have been getting this problem via Google search and you tube since last Sunday.
Don’t get me wrong, I expect a bit of oversight but the web itself seems to have some subtle ways of blocking searches in my opinion. Please try to get a copy of this petition and fill it in as requested. The process is clearly explained on Prof Chris Busbies video on you tube.. there are many versions and the instructions about the process are clearly explained there.
Now as was going to post this plea up to nuclear-news.net my broadband has been stopped, the security services do not want me to post this up.. because its all true and verifiable!
I have had 2 warning near misses on my motorbike from these security types.. they are now aware of my resolve and intentions and seem to want to stop me researching for muclear-new.net (Australia) and enenews.com (USA).
I noticed Christina Macpherson has been able to post to nuclear-news.net and admin has been able to post to enenews.com so the problem is with the UK authorities.. I am doing nothing illegal with my blogging, I have been accessing information in “public domain” only, no whistleblower stuff!
When my bt broadband fails on a weekend I have to wait until office hours on Monday to sort it out,
I am no longer able to get help from out of hours staff (mainly indian or Egyptian) as the screen is now blocked. The reason?
These staff have informed me over the past year that a box needs to be connected to my phone line before the line could be activated, when asked if that was normal procedure I was told that it seems to be just my line that this is being done to.Also, A representative of Vodafone apologised to me for not being allowed to trace a hacker as the police had denied the Vodafone Police Liason Officer permission to trace. I could recount other instances but I think you get the idea.
For the record. I am not a member of any organisation, aside from the above mentioned blogger news sites. I have never been on a demonstration though I was involved in some green activities in the 1980`s. I have only been using information in Public Domain..
1984 UK George Orwell?
Now im off to find a computer to post this up! Hopefully
We have to stop the Military Industrial Complex.. or we face a bleak future!
Please support this campaign, Nuclear is having BIG PROBLEMS and is now VULNERABLE!
TIME TO ACT
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