Mushrooms containing radioactive cesium sold in Western Japan
Cesium from mushroom made in Kyushu, sold in west coast of Japan
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/09/cesium-from-mushroom-made-in-kyushu-sold-in-west-coast-of-japan/ by Mochizuki on September 30th, 2012 · According to the report of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, cesium was measured from mushroom made in Ohita prefecture, in Kyushu of western Japan. It was sold in Niigata prefecture, west coast of Japan.
Also, cesium was measured from mushroom made in Shizuoka prefecture, in central Japan. It was also sold in Niigata prefecture, west coast of Japan.
Sample 1
Product : Dried mushroom
Date : 9/24/2012
Cs137 : 5.9 Bq/Kg
Production : Ohita
Sample 2
Product : Dried mushroom
Date : 9/24/2012
Cs137 : 6.3 Bq/Kg
Production : Shizuoka
Punjab goes all out for solar power
Punjab to set up solar photo-voltaic power packs across state: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Punjab/Chandigarh/Punjab-to-set-up-solar-photo-voltaic-power-packs-across-state/SP-Article1-937965.aspx Majithia Punjab is all set to set up solar photo-voltaic power packs in households across the state in a major move to encourage use of solar energy for basic electricity needs, Non-Conventional Energy
Minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia said on Sunday. He said the government was making all
efforts to fulfill the gap in demand and supply of electricity by installing more generating capacity in the renewable energy sector as well as conventional sector.
Majithia said Punjab has considerable sun light available for more than 330 days in a year and this abundant energy could be utilised for generation of power during the day time through solar photo-voltaic power plants.
He said the state is endowed with vast potential of solar energy estimated at 4-7 KWH per one sq mt of solar insulation level and added that Punjab government was committed to tap this resource.
He also said the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has planned installation of Solar Power Packs at households in the state of capacity 500Wp to 1000Wp.
Majithia said the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has sanctioned the Central Financial Assistance of Rs. 3.03 crore as first installment and with total project cost of Rs. 10 crore.
He said that besides generating power, Solar Photo-voltaic Power Packs were environment friendly and carbon neutral and were easily produced and consumed.
The Punjab government has set up Akshey Urja shops in all districts of the state, where people can buy these at 30 % subsidy.
Climate change brings storm, wave, threats to nuclear power plants
Millstone shutdown is a sign of broader power problem caused by climate change, CT Mirror, September 24, 2012, By Jan Ellen Spiegel “……As if warm water and lack of water haven’t produced enough hand-wringing at power plants this summer, scientists also are mindful that climate change includes sea level rise and increasingly violent storms. Millstone, literally at the water’s edge, has suffered storm-related power reductions over the years. MacManus said waves came over the seawall during Tropical Storm Irene, but water did not enter any buildings.
The NRC’s new chairwoman, Allison Macfarlane, has asked her staff to examine the effects of climate change on nuclear power plant operation.
But the industry bristles at the notion that it has ignored water issues. “It would be wrong to think that this is a sudden thing no one has ever thought about, no one has ever talked about,” said William Skaff, director of policy analysis at the Nuclear Energy Institute, the industry’s policy organization.
But others like John Rogers, co-manager of the energy and water project for the Union of Concerned Scientists, saw the Millstone shutdown and other incidents as wake-up calls.
“It’s clear that past energy choices in numerous instances are colliding with available water resources,” he said. “What this summer did was really underscore the potential for collision. In a lot of cases power plants got the water they needed. What we don’t know is who didn’t get the water.” http://www.ctmirror.org/story/17512/millstone-shutdown-sign-broader-water-power-conflicts-climate-change
Never mind the radioactive waste under the Arctic sea: Shell is keen to drill there
Shell still optimistic about Arctic drilling
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/breaking-news/shell-still-optimistic-about-arctic-drilling/story-e6frf7ko-1226485643427 AP October 01, 2012 THE stars lined up – almost – for Shell Oil to drill exploratory wells this year in waters off Alaska’s north coast.
The Arctic Ocean was on record pace for low sea ice. The Obama administration gave a qualified green light to drilling. Two drill ships and a flotilla of support vessels were staged off prospects.
But as the open water season wound down, Shell announced last week it would limit drilling to time-consuming preparation for an offshore well. The final straw for the decision: damage during testing September 15 to an undersea containment dome, a key to the company’s spill response system.
Environmentalists cheered the setback. Shell Oil President Marvin Odum says he considers it a temporary impediment in the long-term quest to open a petroleum frontier.
More nuclear accidents are probable. Solar Power is the best solution
Nuclear Power Part III: Safety and Conclusion by Jeff Danner – Common Science Sep 30 2012 “…….Given that the world currently hosts a fleet of a little over 400 nuclear power plants, how frequently should we expect reactor core meltdowns to occur in the future?
Organizations ranging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute in Germany have estimated that we can expect a serious nuclear accident every 8 to 20 years. As the average age of nuclear plants around the world grows, I would expect the rate of incidents to increase…….
The only practical and ethical pathway to a sustainable future that I consider to be plausible is a massive national effort to construct solar electric plants and corresponding upgrades to the power grid.
The efforts and expenses on this monumental project need to be on the equivalent scale of what we have invested in the military over the last several generations. The growth of solar power capacity must be tied to firm targets to reduce per capita electricity use and an
enforceable schedule for decommissioning both fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. I plan a future series of columns on how this transition to solar power can take place.
Unfortunately, as I have bemoaned before, our current social and political culture is not at all prepared to grapple with issues of with import and complexity of nuclear power. Discussions of energy resources and long-term sustainability during the current presidential election campaign have been shallow and inconsequential at best. So for now, we’ll just have to hope the next melt down is far away.
http://chapelboro.com/Nuclear-Power-Part-III–Safety-and-Conclusion/9686450?pid=268649
Breakthrough in nuclear talks likely after U.S. election: Iranian president Tehran Times, 30 September 2012 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that talks over Iran’s nuclear program will result in a “very important decision” after theU.S. presidential election, which is scheduled to be held on November 6. Continue reading
Iwaki City Japan -Child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/radioactive-japan-wbc-result-of-child.html
“…the test has found one child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
Some speculate that this particular child was eating food grown in the home garden. Iwaki City hasn’t disclosed the details of the child (age, sex, where he/she lives, what he/she eats, etc.). The date this child was tested hasn’t been disclosed. ..”
Iwaki City in southern Fukushima Prefecture has been testing the residents in higher radiation districts since November last year using the Whole Body Counter (WBC) for internal radiation exposure. On September 25, the municipal government announced the result of the test for about 12,000 residents. (Iwaki City’s population is about 330,000.)
Iwaki City’s radiation levels are moderately high (it was on the path of the radioactive plume (or cloud) on March 15, 2011), but compared to the municipalities in Nakadori (middle third, including Date City, Fukushima City, and Koriyama City) and northern Hamadori (ocean-side third, including Futaba-machi, Okuma-machi, and Namie-machi) they are much lower. Still, the test has found one child with 3,300 becquerels of radioactive cesium.
Some speculate that this particular child was eating food grown in the home garden. Iwaki City hasn’t disclosed the details of the child (age, sex, where he/she lives, what he/she eats, etc.). The date this child was tested hasn’t been disclosed.
From Mainichi Shinbun Fukushima local version (9/26/2012):
Iran’s Imminent Nuclear Weapon – On Max Kaiser- by Azziz
Iran’s Imminent Nuclear Weapon
Here’s some context behind the claims that Iran will imminently possess a nuclear weapon.
It started a long time ago (but not, unfortunately, in a galaxy far, far away):
1984: Soon after West German engineers visit the unfinished Bushehr nuclear reactor, Jane’s Defence Weekly quotes West German intelligence sources saying that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.”US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
Seven years away? And did they have a bomb in 1991?
Breaking! Okinawa police remove anti-Osprey protesters, dismantle barricades
http://rt.com/news/osprey-protest-okinawa-police-360/
Published: 01 October, 2012
Japanese police have forcibly removed protesters and dismantled barricades around the US Futemma military base in the city of Ginowan ahead of the of the controversial deployment of American MV-22 Osprey aircraft.
Police had to use tow cars to remove 12 vehicles that had been parked by the protesters in front of the base over the weekend. Police also dispersed a crowd of demonstrators staging a sit-in near the entrance to the base to restore the vehicle traffic. So far no arrests have been reported.
Local residents, who are outraged by Monday’s deployment of the aircraft, began barricading one of the base’s gates last Thursday. Over the weekend they were parking their cars near the other two gates as well, effectively stopping all traffic from entering or leaving.
Video: Tepco’s Fukushima simulation has “100 percent error” — Bottom of containment “might be eroded or broken”
http://enenews.com/tepco-simulation-100-percent-error-bottom-containment-be-broken-eroded-video
Published: September 30th, 2012 at 10:23 pm ET
By ENENews
Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps
Uploaded by: OccupyUkiah
Filmed: July 30, 2012
Uploaded on: Sept. 27, 2012
Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps: Now this is a simulation carried out by Tepco of what happened in the vessel…
In the case of Fukushima, the fuel has melted down and eroded the concrete. And now Tepco says that there is some room. And they say this depth is 65 centimeters, 25 inches, but this is a simulation. No one has seen inside. Therefore, the shape of the debris is not known. This is just an assumption. And temperature is measured say 4-5 points, but the reliability of the measured temperature is very bad because of the damage inside. And furthermore sand and concrete is not uniform material like steel. It’s a mixture of stone, stand and cement.
Therefore that 65 centimeters must have, say 100 percent error, then if so the vessel bottom might be eroded, or broken.
And this
President Yamada back from his visit to the United States
2012/9/5
“..The “Fukushima Response”, a local activity group established by people who are concerned about the present situation of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, offered overall support for President Yamada, assiduously setting up meetings with decision makers of the United States, members of Congress and media representatives during the three week stay, as well as arranging more than ten lectures in cities on the West and East Coast; these lectures drew a lot of attention and sympathy, and were very well received on each occasion…”
USA CONDUCTS NEW UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS
REVIVAL OF NUCLEAR ARMS RACE:US CONDUCTS NEW UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS
In 1997, five years after its last underground nuclear test, the U.S. Department of Energy conducted its first subcritical nuclear test. Back then, critics said that the subcritical test program was creating a crisis of confidence in the negotiations over the CTBT because nations such as India and Indonesia strongly felt that such experiments should be included in the activities banned by the treaty. Critics also feared that because of the nature of these experiments on plutonium (e.g. conducted underground, there is no visible flash, seismic signal or ‘gas signature’), one country’s conduct of a subcritical test might easily be seen by another as a very low yield nuclear test.
Even without creating a ‘yield,’ which would categorize a nuclear experiment as a nuclear explosion, experts and even government documents agree that subcritical tests can be used beyond their stated purpose, to study the aging properties of plutonium. They could be used for developing new nuclear weapons. Although it hasn’t been yet proven that any country has used subcritical tests for this latter purpose, do we want to wait around and find out (the CTBT doesn’t actually ban subcritical nuclear tests)?
Officials mull seismic tests near US nuclear plant -may harm local ecology
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=854771&publicationSubCategoryId=200
(philstar.com) Updated October 01, 2012
“People need to understand, we’re living in the world post-Fukushima, so we need to go back and review everything we think we know about the seismic threat situation around important structures like this power plant,” said Bruce Gibson, a former seismologist who now serves as a San Luis Obispo County supervisor.
“Unfortunately, from an environmental impact standpoint, the only real way to get the images is to put high energy sound into the earth.”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Plans to use an array of powerful air cannons in an undersea seismic study near a Central California nuclear power plant have federal and state officials juggling concerns over marine life with public safety.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. wants to use big air guns to emit strong sound waves into a large, near-shore area that includes parts of marine reserves to make three-dimensional maps of fault zones, some of which were discovered in 2008, near its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.
But a state study, mandated by a bill signed into law in 2006, found the project is likely to have “unavoidable adverse effects” on marine life and the environment. Biologists, environmental groups and fishermen have opposed using the high-energy air guns, saying the blasts have potential to harm endangered whales, California sea otters and other creatures frequenting these waters.
Rights Advocate Lyudmila Alekseyeva Reminisces VIDEO)
Published 24 July 2012
Human rights activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva turned 85 on July 20. She spoke to Kristina Gorelik of RFE/RL’s Russian Service about her long career as a dissident and rights campaigner.
Duration 4.37 min (worth a view -arclight)
http://www.rferl.org/media/video/24655341.html
Alekseyeva: “We will remain without funding because we don’t receive Russian financing. The state won’t finance us because we defend citizens whose rights are violated by Russian bureaucrats. Our state won’t fund that kind of organization. Business here won’t finance us either because every businessman understands that if he finances an organization that is not useful to the authorities, then he puts his own business under threat.”
Interview: Helsinki Group Head Says USAID Ban Means Return To ‘Soviet’ Way
September 19, 2012
The move will be a serious blow to the many nongovernment organizations and rights groups that relied on USAID for a significant part of their funding.
RFE/RL correspondent Tom Balmforth spoke to human rights veteran Lyudmila Alekseyeva about the likely impact of the cessation of USAID’sfinancing on the Moscow Helsinki Group she heads and Russia’s human rights sphere as a whole.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange describes life in embassy like a ‘space station’
<>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on the United States to move from words to actions, and put an end to its persecution of WikiLeaks, its people and its sources. He made the statement during an address to a panel of UN delegates.<>
Addressing the representatives of the United Nations’ member countries, the WikiLeaks founder spoke of the difference between words and actions, praising US President Barack Obama for his words.
“We commend and agree with the words that peace can be achieved… But the time for words has run out. It is time for the US to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks, our people and our sources.”
RT see link below
- From:AP
- October 01, 2012 8:13AM
WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange is certain he will one day go to Ecuador, but described his life in the Ecuadoran embassy in London as “like being in a space station”.
[…]
Mr Assange – who denies the allegations and fears Sweden would extradite him to the United States – told Britain’s Mail on Sunday he was keeping busy by working 17 hours a day on the whistleblowing website.
[…]
Mr Assange’s supporters claim he could receive harsh treatment if sent to the US and possibly even face the death penalty.
[…]
“From Ecuador, me and my staff could safely travel to and from a number of friendly countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Brazil, India, Venezuela, Chile and Argentina.”…………
Ecuador granted Mr Assange asylum on August 16 but Britain has denied him safe passage out of the country, and police are guarding the embassy in case he tries to escape.
The WikiLeaks founder said he had spent some of his early days in the embassy “training to use emergency equipment”.
The Mail said was not permitted to disclose “the precise nature of the safety equipment he keeps close to his bed, nor of the contents of the documents and diagrams pinned to his wall”
[…].
Mr Assange complained that his health was “slowly deteriorating”, adding that he had “a racking cough”.
More on link
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/wikileaks/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-describes-life-in-embassy-like-a-space-station/story-fn775xjq-1226485698972
Meanwhile 4 days before…….
RT with video
Green Party calls for a national Climate Action Plan USA
“The Climate Action fund would help with investments in clean renewable energy (wind, solar, geothermal, tidal), mass transit and organic agriculture. The Greens would transfer funds from roads to mass transit, bicycles and pedestrian access.The Green Party would also shut down all coal, fossil fuels and nuclear plants with the 2025. It opposes the hydrofracking of natural gas not only due to the water problems in create but because it is just another fossil fuel that contributes to global warming. Rather than find new fossil fuels, it believes the 80% of the present supplies must not be converted to greenhouse gases.The Green Party would prevent oil drilling off shore and in the Artic and halt the Keystone natural gas pipeline. It would speed up the implementation of the new fuel mileage standards recently announced by EPA, and amend environmental review laws to focus on the impact on climate change”
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