Cover-up! South Korean Seaweed with high Iodine and Mushrooms from the Ukraine
“…too high level of radioactivity (794 BQ/kg) in fresh chanterelles…”
“…high content of iodine (171 mg/kg dry matter) in dried seaweed from South Korea, via Austria….”
Data deleted from
| 25. | alert | 06/09/2012 | 15/11/2012 | 2012.1270 | DE | mercury (1.3 mg/kg – ppm) in frozen escolar (Lepidocybium flavobrunneum) fillets from Spain and Portugal | fish and fish products | food |
| 28. | alert | 30/07/2012 | 15/11/2012 | 2012.1092 | NL | cadmium (0.3 mg/kg – ppm) in tuna flakes in oil and brine from Ecuador | fish and fish products | food |
| 47. | border rejection | 07/11/2012 | 15/11/2012 | 2012.CEY | DE | too high level of radioactivity (794 BQ/kg) in fresh chanterelles from Ukraine | fruits and vegetables | food |
| 86. | alert | 16/10/2012 | 14/11/2012 | 2012.1450 | DE | high content of iodine (171 mg/kg dry matter) in dried seaweed from South Korea, via Austria | fruits and vegetables | food |
note the iodine levels in the South Korean Seaweed
The Cesium reference was not on the list it linked to
And this was on the link to the page….
“……CEY, DE, too high level of radioactivity (794 BQ/kg) in fresh chanterelles from……”
Amnesty Intl. slams UK indifference towards terrorists’ crimes in Syria
Press TV
Amnesty International, a UK based organization that deals with human rights, stressed that insurgents in Syria, responsible for human rights abuses have not been condemned by British Foreign Secretary William Hague.
UK Syria campaign manager for Amnesty International Kristyan Benedict said, “William Hague must insist on practical actions not just fine words to prevent opposition abuses. We need to see proper accountability, with any fighters accused of abuses detained and proper investigations mounted.” She added, “As we’ve seen in Libya, where militias are largely out of control, a failure to curb abuses from opposition forces can sow the seeds of future disaster.”
Meanwhile, the newly chosen leader of the main foreign-backed Syrian opposition group has admitted that several hundred armed insurgents fighting along the rebels against Syria’s government are foreigners.
The president of the so-called Syrian National Council, George Sabra called on the international community to supply weapons to the insurgents “without any conditions”.
Syria’s unrest began back in March 2011, when peaceful protests were hijacked by foreign-backed terrorists, who have killed many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel since then.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/16/272727/indifference/
The Guardian posts Fukushima film: Reactors not repaired at all — With one more quake Japan will cease to exist; Resulting destruction will take half of planet along with it (VIDEO)
Published: November 16th, 2012 at 10:40 am ET
By ENENews
Title: CPM-703: After Fukushima
Source: The Guardian
Author: Jake Price
Date: 16 November 2012
An in-depth portrait into the lives of a population living under the constant threat of radiation in Fukushima, Japan. The film, a work in progress directed by Jake Price, focuses on Fukushima born Shimpei Takeda who was living in New York and working as a visual artist when the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant began to meltdown.
Excerpts
- Being born in Fukushima Prefecture I took on a mission to create a physical record of the worst man made nuclearaccident in history… Using a cameraless process, I want to capture the current state of Japan directly, by exposing photo-sensitive material to traces of radiation emitted from contaminated particles.
- I’m afraid Japan will follow in the footsteps of ancient civilizations that vanished like the Egyptians, Mayans and Mesopotamians that came before us.
- The tsunami and earthquake well they’re just the earth shivering. The problem is the disaster that man has made.
- There are so many possibilities of a tsunami and earthquake happening again. The damaged reactors haven’t been repaired yet… they haven’t been repaired at all.
- The resulting destruction will take half the planet along with it. …With one more earthquake or tsunami Japan will cease to exist.
See the video on the Enenews link above
Breaking! Nobel laureates slam the US over Bradley Manning case -RT
“As people who have worked for decades against the increased militarization of societies and for international cooperation to end war, we are deeply dismayed by the treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning,”
Published: 16 November, 2012, 21:07
RT
Leaders of the United States have insulted the intelligence of the rest of the world, three Nobel laureates write this week, because of their continuously perverse mishandling of the case against accused WikiLeaks source Pfc Bradley Manning.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel have authored a statement to be published in an upcoming issue of The Nation that condemns the United States’ persecution of the 24-year-old Army private and implores the rest of America to question the country’s secretive torture of a soldier that the prize winners say defended democracy.
“As people who have worked for decades against the increased militarization of societies and for international cooperation to end war, we are deeply dismayed by the treatment of Pfc Bradley Manning,” the laureates write.
“Questioning authority, as a soldier, is not easy.But it can at times be honorable. The words attributed to Manning reveal that he went through a profound moral struggle between the time he enlisted and when he became a whistleblower. Through his experience in Iraq, he became disturbed by top-level policy that undervalued human life and caused the suffering of innocent civilians and soldiers. Like other courageous whistleblowers, he was driven foremost by a desire to reveal the truth.”
UK -MARYPORT HOSTS ‘CRISIS’ TALKS ON SOLWAY NUCLEAR DUMP
Last updated at 13:31, Friday, 16 November 2012
A CAMPAIGN to stop an underground nuclear waste storebeing built on the Solway Plain will step up a gear next week.
[Picture – CAMPAIGNERS: Kath Ostell, left, and Chris Graham]
A series of what are described as “crisis” meetings will be held in Maryport and Silloth.
A recently formed protest group, Solway Plain Against Nuclear Dump, will hold its first public meeting at Maryport’s Wave Centre on Wednesday.
It will be followed by another public meeting at the Solway Community College, Silloth, on Thursday. Both meetings start at 7pm.
The group has invited what it says are two leading authorities on geological disposal of nuclear waste.
They are Stuart Haszeldine, Professor of Geology, and David Smythe, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics.
Campaign posters have started appearing throughout the area following concern that the Solway Plain has been identified as having geology suitable for hosting a controversial 23 square kilometre high-level nuclear waste dump.
A petition against the dump has been set up on the Government’s website and in shops.
Dr Jeremy Dearlove, who identified the Solway Plain rock strata as being potentially suitable, has been invited to give a presentation at the Silloth meeting.
Twenty-five per cent of West Cumbria has already been ruled out as geologically unsuitable.
USA Ploughshares -Sid Drell on the Logic of Nuclear Zero
Here at FAS, the first organization organized after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to address the grave new challenge to civilization posed by nuclear weapons, I call on my colleagues in the science and technology community to meet this challenge, and work to disarm the skeptics and cynics who dismiss zero as an unrealistic unachievable goal.
Recall the wisdom of Austrian philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer who said: “All truth passes through three stages:
- First, it is ridiculed;
- Second, it is violently opposed;
- Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
BY ADMIN
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Is it illogical to think of a world without nuclear weapons? Must we accept the world as it is, with nuclear weapons, as many in the high priesthood of strategic policy insist? That was a broad reaction to the effort to get rid of them that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev made at the Reykjavik Summit 26 years ago in what George Shultz has called “the highest stakes poker game ever played.” And I still hear it frequently today.
Accepting a world with nuclear weapons as inescapable means nothing less than also accepting it to be inevitable that, sooner or later, there will be a nuclear explosion somewhere – deliberate or otherwise. Things happen; there are errors in systems involving humans, like the 6 nuclear armed cruise missiles that were mistakenly loaded on a B-52 enroute from North Dakota to Louisiana in 2007 without being missed for 36 hours. Just consider the consequences, long term as well as immediate, of a nuclear bomb exploding in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, or wherever. They will be so appalling that people everywhere will demand that governments do something about it. Wouldn’t it be wise to do something before rather than after such an explosion?
What prevents us from attaining a goal of a world without nuclear weapons? Why is it dismissed as illogical?
Since the end of the Cold War two decades ago, we have shown that it is possible to make substantial progress in reducing nuclear arsenals; U.S. and Russia are down to a fraction of their peak level of about 70 thousand warheads at the time of Reykjavik. In the New START treaty of 2011 we have negotiated intrusive and cooperative on-site inspections, including actually counting the numbers of deployed warheads, as well as all delivery vehicles. This was unthinkable during the Cold War. Thus far we are implementing them without a hitch.
But the numbers of existing nuclear weapons are still very large – in the thousands. Their absurdly large number is a good example of what to me is truly illogical. We are still caught in the Cold War trap of nuclear deterrence more than two decades after the demise of the Soviet Union. But what are they deterring now?
They are credited with deterring a nuclear holocaust, or worse, during the Cold War but what else did they deter? Not the Korean War, not the squashing of the Hungarian and Czech uprisings. We have recently marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis, but there were other close calls during the Cold War.
South Korea- power blackouts after nuclear plant closures – Increase in thermal underwear sales!
“..A further 3,000 MW is targeted from power savings including less heating at firms and public places, switching off neon lights and even a campaign to wear thermal underwear…”
16 November 2012
South Korean Economy ministry sources said the country may have to bring in rolling power blackouts this winter after the closure of two nuclear plants for safety checks means the electricity network will have under a third of normal reserve capacity.
Asia’s fourth-largest economy said it plans to add 4,000 megawatts (MW) of power supply capacity through savings and new plants in a bid to head off potential blackouts.
The nuclear problems have increased the risk of power shortages in the harsh Korean winter after the closure of the two reactors to replace parts with fake certificates and an extended shutdown of another reactor where microscopic cracks were found.
The northeast Asian country is heavily dependent on oil, gas and coal imports, but usually supplies about a third of its electricity from nuclear power generation from its 23 reactors.
Economy minister Hong Suk-woo said it remained uncertain whether reactors would be restarted in December after parts were replaced because the approval of the regulator was necessary, as well as support from residents.
“This winter will be very, very difficult for us to cope with,” he said, when asked what would happens if reactors did not restart as planned in December
Report: ‘Explosive’ UK PV growth will diminish need for nuclear
By Peter Bennett | 16 November 2012, 14:55 Updated: 16 November 2012, 15:45
A new report published by the green campaign group Energy Fair shows that rapid renewables growth in the UK spearheaded by solar photovoltaics (PV) will severely eat into nuclear’s market by the time any new nuclear stations are brought online in 2020 or later.
The report, titled The financial risks of investing in new nuclear power plants, states: “By the time any new nuclear plant can be built in the UK, the market for its electricity will be disappearing, regardless of any possible increase in the overall demand for electricity.
“The rapidly declining cost of PV with the falling costs of other renewables, and the likely completion of the European internal market for electricity with the strengthening of the European transmission grid, will be transforming the market for electricity in the UK.”
The authors of the report believe that solar PV’s popularity will grow to such an extent that it will be capable of generating much of the profitable peak-time market for electricity – this would only leave less profitable gaps in the electricity market to be plugged by nuclear. However, the report contests that there are better suited renewable sources for the gap-filling role than nuclear, such as wind power at night.
CUMBRIAN MUSICIAN RECORDS NUCLEAR DUMP PROTEST SONG
First published at 14:03, Friday, 16 November 2012
Published by http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk
It might not be Blowin’ in the Wind but a musician hopes his newly-recorded protest song will do its bit to stop a nuclear dump being built.
Songwriter Geoff Betsworth, who is also president of Silloth Rotary Club, is so incensed at the possibility of having nuclear waste stored underground in the Solway Plain that he has put pen to paper to vent his feelings.
Titled Wrong Rock Blues – the Other Road to Hell, the blues-tinged hard rock song features lyrics against the proposed developments.
A description on the song’s YouTube video notes that it was inspired by “scheming, conniving, gravy-training politicians.”
Mr Betsworth, 60, said: “I’ve never written a protest song before but I live at the epicentre of where this could go.
“What’s annoying is the fact that the geologists are saying it’s the wrong area to put it. If the geology was correct I would not feel so strongly. That’s why I felt so incensed.”
Currently the majority of nuclear waste in the area is stored above ground at Sellafield but the Government believes that the best solution is to store it underground.
France’s top-down energy system makes it hard to switch to renewables
Some 95 percent of the territory’s electricity supply network is now managed by ERDF, a fully-owned branch of former state monopoly EDF.
“The French grid is a top-down network, conceived for a centralised production. It has to be restructured so power can flow in both directions. Today the grid is only used to distribute power from nuclear plants,”
France needs more local power for green energy shift PlanetArk 15-Nov-12 FRANCE Marion Douet Centralised France may lack the clout at local government level to ease its new shift to greener energy, contrasting with the regional and grass-roots power that helped push through the rise of renewables in Germany. Continue reading
Renewable energy the choice of most Americans – of all political views
Americans of all political persuasions really like renewable energy and will almost always choose it as a priority over fossil fuels.
Poll: Independent Voters Favor Renewable Energy Over Keystone XL Pipeline By 4-1 Margin Think Progress, By 
Stephen Lacey Nov 15, 2012 Environmental groups celebrated last fall when President Obama delayed the northern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would pipe carbon-intensive tar sands crude from Canadian strip mines to refineries in Texas.
Now that Obama is back in the White House for a second term, those same forces are banding together to encourage the president to kill the pipeline altogether. A new poll suggests that these groups have public opinion on their side. Continue reading
Anti nuclear protest, by thousands, in South Korea
Thousands protest at S. Korean nuclear complex
Bangkok Post: 16/11/2012 AMOnline news: Asia Thousands of villagers staged a protest outside one of South Korea’s largest nuclear power plants Thursday, voicing growing public concern over safety standards after a series of scares and scandals. Continue reading
Wake up America, to Great Lakes nuclear waste threat – says Sarnia Mayor
“I do not believe on the American side that there’s very much knowledge what’s going on, on this side of the border.”
Let U.S. comment on Canada’s nuclear waste plans, says Sarnia 
mayor The Star.com, November 15, 2012 John Spears Business Reporter The Canadian mayor who helped stall transport of radioactive equipment on the Great Lakes is pushing for an “international debate” on Canada’s plan for storing nuclear waste.
Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley has asked fellow mayors on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border to take a “strong position” on Canadian proposals for nuclear waste.
He has written to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative to get the ball rolling. Continue reading
Disastrous economic decline of USA’s nuclear industry
Exelon, the largest nuclear plant owner in the US had a disastrous 3rd quarter. The company’s profits dropped a staggering 51%. Even when sales rebounded in 2009 their income continued to drop
Just about every instance involved economics to some extent. The costs to repair and continue running the reactor vs. the profits from selling power became an unprofitable equation
US Nuclear Industry Meltdown, Simply Info November 14th, 2012 The issues have been lining up for a perfect storm of problems for the nuclear industry lately. It wasn’t just Fukushima that turned the industry on it’s head, many other factors have rocked the industry.
Ft. Calhoun nuclear station in Nebraska that has been shut down since April 2011 when a Missouri river flood threatened the safety of the plant. Continue reading
Radiation levels not decreasing in seas around Fukushima
Radiation Still High Around Fukushima http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33275/title/Radiation-Still-High-Around-Fukushima/,
Continued leaks, run off from land, and contaminated sediment on the ocean floor are causing radioactivity levels to remain high in the seas around Fukushima. By Dan Cossins | November 15, 2012 Levels of radiation in the seas surrounding the ruined Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan are showing no signs of dropping off as expected, according to new data presented last week (November 12-13) at a conference in Tokyo. Scientists believe that continued leaks from the plant in addition to run off from contaminated land and radiation-soaked sediment on the sea floor are responsible. Continue reading
1.This Month
Small Nuclear Reactors Education Task Force: https://stop-smrs.weebly.com/bulletins.ht
21 May Webinar. Protect Our Waterways. No Nuclear Waste.
7 pm Tuesday May 21 https://www.protectourwaterways.org/webinars
24 May. The Vow from Hiroshima film is coming on PBS, this month https://www.thevowfromhiroshima.com/
3 June – FILM. SOS – The San Onofre Syndrome: Nuclear Power’s Legacy
6-7 July A summit and a rally in Washington D.C. https://nonatoyespeace.org/
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