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USA -Fukushima: Radiation, Politics and Public Relations II -VETERANS TODAY

Sunday, November 11th, 2012 | Posted by Jim Fetzer

by Leuren Moret, Dr. Majia Nadesan and Jim Fetzer (with Major William Fox)

On Friday, 30 March 2012, Dr. Majia Nadesan and Leuren Moret appeared as the featured guests on “The Real Deal” hosted by Jim Fetzer to discuss the radiation effects of the Fukushima disaster and the fashion in which it has been covered up both by the Japanese and the American governments and media.  Dr. Nadesan, a professor of communication in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University, has studied Fukushima extensively.  Ms. Moret is an independent geoscientist who has done expert studies on the Fukushima disaster and radiation problems around the world, including depleted uranium.  What they had to tell us smacks of politics and public relations and is profoundly disturbing. This is Part II of the original interview, which can be heard here:

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11/11/fukushima-radiation-politics-and-public-relations-ii/

Introduction AND TRANSCRIPT 

by Major William Fox

NOTE: I invited Major William Fox (former USMCR commissioned officer), who was instrumental in arranging this interview to prepare an introduction. His key point is that the first line of defense to handle any major crisis is accurate information. Tragically, not only has accurate information been deliberately withheld from Americans regarding the Fukushima crisis, but they have also been steadily fed disinformation.  He continues:

The stealth dirty nuclear war currently being visited upon America goes far beyond government and major media disinformation, although there is certainly plenty of the latter as well as the former.  Dr. Majia Nadesan stated in this interview,

“In June it was reported in the Japanese press that there was actually melt-through. A melt-through is when the melted corium melts through all levels of containment. And not a single U.S. media — I did a search using EBSCO and using LexisNexis to see if any U.S. media picked up in June the Japanese report about the melt-through, and not one single U.S. media picked up that story. A melt-through means that the situation is out of control. Corium is sinking deeper into the ground while sporadically undergoing `limited criticalities’ and releasing ever more extremely dangerous volumes of contamination into the atmosphere, ground water, and ocean. The entire public in Japan, North America, and elsewhere needs to understand how this situation remains out of control.”

The failure to report these melt-throughs was followed by the Japanese government’s big lie perpetrated in December 2011 that all the reactors were in “cold shut down,” implying that all the melted nuclear fuel remained safely within their containment chambers and were subject to stable cooling systems which guaranteed against any further criticalities or radiation releases. Nothing could have been further from the truth. .

In the first part of this series, Dr. Nadesan described how Japanese media even went so far as to censor the Emperor of Japan’s speech in January 2012. She noted:

“This censorship was — the only American media that picked it up was The Atlantic where there was an article discussing this. But the Emperor of Japan stated that the Fukushima disaster was not over — one [his first point]. And there has been a concerted propaganda effort to make people in Japan and elsewhere believe that the reactors are in cold shut down, and that is a myth. And so the Emperor destroyed that myth by saying that the disaster was not over. The second thing that the Emperor said was that it wasn’t safe for people to return to their homes in the exclusion zone or even further out. That was censored in Japan, and there was no coverage of it in the United States. And, sort of the predominate message of cold shut down continues to prevail in the U.S. media.”

During the first hour of this interview, Leuren Moret explained how blame for the cover-up went much higher than just the Japanese government alone: “But the U.S. had to hide the effects of the nuclear weapons testing program, and they have hidden the effects of nuclear power in the United States, and actually it is Secretary of EnergySteven Chu and former British Petroleum scientist Steven Koonin from Cal Tech who have been directing TEPCO and the Japanese government on their emergency response.”

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November 13, 2012 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

USA World’s most powerful laser becomes nuclear weapon project -now only half research for peaceful uses

….Unfortunately, the reality is that actually turning this technology into a sustainable and reliable energy source is something that will take decades, if it even happens at all.

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The NIF will now only be able to spend 50% of its resources on ignition research. And, as a trade-off, it will now be mandated to spend more time with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

 

One project at the forefront is creating experiments that can simulate the conditions inside nuclear weapons. The goal is to assess the phase of nuclear weaponry where fission begins. This phase is comprised of the same chemical combination that was being manipulated in the energy research…..

 

 

Nov. 12, 2012 (6:45 pm) By: Mark Raby

Government officials have decided that a super high-tech facility with emerging laser technology will no longer put most of its focus on a futuristic energy source. Instead, it will now be spending half of its efforts and resources on how the technology can be used in the application of nuclear weapons.

The change marks an admitted setback for the hopeful scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. They are convinced that it will be possible to some day use laser beams as an energy source. The basic process — known as ignition –  would take place when hydrogen isotope pellets were smashed with powerful laser beams. By imploding hundreds or even thousands of pellets every minute, huge amounts of energy could be produced — as much as a power plant.

This process was of great interest and excitement to Congress. Legislators approved large amounts of funding to the group, on the assumption that a new energy source could be developed within a few years.

Unfortunately, the reality is that actually turning this technology into a sustainable and reliable energy source is something that will take decades, if it even happens at all. Now, Congress is forcing the NIF to re-allocate its use of federal funds.

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November 13, 2012 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment