Fukushima radiation health effects: officials are lying
In Post-Fukushima Japan, Civil Society Turns up Heat on 
Officials Global Issues, by Kim-Jenna Jurriaans (United Nations), November 27, 2012 Inter Press Service“……..when asked about a link to radiation exposure, Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, a researcher at Fukushima Medical University and who headed the survey, suggested to German TV channel ZDF that the findings may instead reflect Japanese children’s seafood-rich diet.
“Suzuki is lying to the Japanese people,” Dr. Yurika Hashimoto, a pediatrician with 15 years’ experience, told IPS. “People are not believing them anymore.”.
Hashimoto made no secret of her distrust in much of the information issued by government and the highest ranks of themedical establishment. Recently, to limit her own exposure to radiation, she relocated to Osaka from Tokyo, where she was trained and once ran her clinic.
Diarrhea, nose bleeds, skin infections and conjunctivitis are among a plethora of symptoms she has increasingly seen in her patients, both in and outside of the Fukushima prefecture, since the March 2011 disaster.
When she brings these symptoms to other doctors, however, patients are frequently ridiculed or ignored, according to Hashimoto. ……. http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/11/27/15359
Radioactive material below Louisiana’s giant sinkhole
Newspaper: Officials concerned about radioactive material below giant Louisiana sinkhole http://enenews.com/newspaper-controversy-over-radioactive-material-stored-below-giant-louisiana-sinkhole November 27th, 2012
Update Here: People need to know if radioactive waste is coming up from the ground in area of giant sinkhole -Legal Expert
Title: Radioactive material handling probed
Author: DAVID J. MITCHELL
Date: November 27, 2012
State officials are investigating how Texas Brine Co. LLC handled naturally occurring radioactive material [NORM] in Assumption Parish — where a large sinkhole was found Aug. 3 — and whether it was illegally disposed of inside the Napoleonville Dome in the mid-1990s. […]
Texas Brine officials, in a statement last week, said they did not put NORM in the caverns […]
The statement contradicts detailed comments from company officials on Aug. 10 that a small amount of NORM was disposed of in the Napoleonville Dome […]
Sonny Cranch, spokesman for Texas Brine, said last week that officials “misspoke” then in their attempt to respond to questions about NORM and that it was never put in the cavern.
Statements by Texas Brine VP Bruce Martin
“We submitted a request to DNR to place this material, this normally occurring radioactive material, that was actually about a little bit less than a cubic yard, to place it back in the well […] We did that work. That material was solid dirt, dirt with some NORM in it, and it was placed in the bottom of the well, and it would be my guess and firm belief that that’s where it sits today.”
The dirt had a radioactivity of 20 to 40 micro-rems per hour
Watch an expert discuss radioactivity around the sinkhole here
16 USA nuclear power plants vulnerable to flooding from dam failure
List of Reactors Potentially at High Risk of Flooding due to Dam Failure
Alabama: Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2, 3
Arkansas: Arkansas Nuclear, Units 1, 2
Louisiana: Waterford, Unit 3
Minnesota: Prairie Island, Units 1, 2
Nebraska: Cooper; Fort Calhoun
New Jersey: Hope Creek, Unit 1; Salem, Units 1, 2
New York: Indian Point, Units 2, 3
North Carolina: McGuire, Units 1, 2
Pennsylvania: Beaver Valley, Units 1, 2; Peach Bottom, Units 2, 3;
Three Mile Island, Unit 1
Tennessee: Sequoyah, Unit 1; Watts Bar, Unit 1
Texas: South Texas, Units 1, 2
South Carolina: H.B. Robinson, Unit 2; Oconee, Units 1, 2, 3
Vermont: Vermont Yankee
Virginia: Surrey, Units 1, 2
Washington: Columbia
(Source: Perkins, et al., “Screening Analysis,” July 2011) http://www.nationofchange.org/whistleblower-nuclear-regulators-suppress-facts-break-law-1354009225
Whistleblower: Nuclear Regulators Suppress Facts, Break Law, Nation of Change, William Boardman, 27 November “…….Event Unlikely, Would Be Sure Disaster South Carolina’s Oconee plant on Lake Keowee has three reactors, located 11 miles downstream from the Jocassee Reservoir, an 8,000 acre lake. As HuffPo put it:
…the Oconee facility, which is operated by Duke Energy, would suffer almost certain core damage if the Jocassee dam were to fail. And the odds of it failing sometime over the next 20 years, the engineer said, are far greater than the odds of a freak tsunami taking out the defenses of a nuclear plant in Japan…. Continue reading
Nearly 1000 more fake nuclear quality certificates found in South Korea
South Korea finds more nuclear parts with fake documents CNBC, 27 
Nov 2012 | SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean nuclear regulators have discovered nearly a thousand more parts supplied for nuclear power plants with fake quality certificates, Continue reading
Hinkley nuclear project needs to get more permissions
The granting of the licence does not provide full permission for the construction of the power station.
New nuclear clears licence hurdle for EDF-Centrica link2 David Thorpe, News Editor, 27 Nov 12, EDF, the French power company, and Centrica are closer to building the first new nuclear power station in Britain, following the granting of a Nuclear Site Licence (NSL) for Hinkley Point C by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). Continue reading
Human rights in Fukushima’s ongoing radiation crisis
Watch: Immediate attention from medical experts is needed for people in contaminated areas — Fukushima is ongoing crisis (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/watch-immediate-attention-medical-experts-needed-people-contaminated-areas-fukushima-ongoing-crisis-video
November 27th, 2012
Title: How to protect the right to health and life of citizens from radiological contamination? – Ms. Mari INOUE, Esq., Human Rights Now New York
Source: ERF2012
Date: Nov 25, 2012
Ms. Mari INOUE, Esq., Human Rights Now New York: Recommendation by [the United Nation’s investigator] Mr. Grover will not be published until next summer. So it’s a long process and both of those processes are legally non-binding.
So how are we going to protect the rights of people, especially the right to health and life of people in contaminated area, because they need immediate assistance. They need immediate attention from medical communities and civil societies, because what’s going on in Fukushima is ongoing crisis.
Over 60,000 homes near Illinois nuclear plants to get Potassium Iodide pills
IEMA Offering Potassium Iodide to Residents within 10 Miles of Nuclear Power Plants SPRINGFIELD (WIFR) 27 Nov 12-– The Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) today announced plans to begin offering free Potassium Iodide (KI) pills to residents living within a 10-mile radius of the state’s six operating nuclear power plants. Continue reading
Legal squabbles delay start of Georgia new nuclear power plant
Debate over starting Ga. nuclear plant in 2017 http://www.wtvm.com/story/20197742/debate-over-starting-ga-nuclear-plant-in-2017 Nov 27, 2012 By RAY HENRY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) – Contractors building a new nuclear plant in eastern Georgia have indicated the first of its two reactors may not begin operating until 2017.
Southern Co. Vice President David McKinney said Tuesday that contractors building the new reactors at Plant Vogtle (VOH’-gohl) have indicated it may take until early to mid-2017 to get the first reactor operating. The second reactor would follow about a year later.
McKinney said Southern Co. does not accept those dates and believes its contractors can still speed up the schedule. The utility originally wanted the first reactor to start producing power in April 2016.
The utility and its contractors have sued each other over project costs. Both sides are still working on an updated timeline.
Construction delays could increase project costs.
No plans to make Kolar gold mine a nuclear dump yard
“Above all, the capping of nuclear liability for protecting the interest of nuclear suppliers and the virtual impossibility of extending insurance coverage, speak of the incalculable and unfathomable magnitude and range of risk in the affair”
The Hindu
No plans to make Kolar gold mine a nuclear dump yard
TNN | Nov 28, 2012, 01.22 AM IST
NEW DELHI: Kudankulam nuclear power plantoperator Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd(NPCIL) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it has not identified the abandoned Kolar gold mine as a dump yard for spent nuclear fuel.
NPCIL executive director Ashok Chauhan said its earlier affidavit narrating the development of an underground chamber in Kolar gold mine had led to unwarranted speculation in a section of media about converting it into a site for storage of nuclear waste.
The NPCIL had said in its November 7 affidavit, “Keeping in line with the international developments, the initial focus of work in the 1980s mainly centred on setting up generic underground research laboratory (URL) in one of the abandoned mines in India and resulted in the development of an underground chamber in Kolar gold mine located in south India.”
It said permanent geological disposal of vitrified high level radioactive waste in specifically designed geological repository (DGR), located at a suitable depth in a carefully selected site constituted the end point of management of spent fuel.
Answering allegations by petitioner G Sundarrajan through advocate Pranav Sachdeva about lack of preparedness to store spent fuel from KNPP, the NPCIL said the need for managing KNPP would arise only a few decades from now.
How secure is nuclear? UN -IAEA nuclear agency server hacked
Are nuclear reactors safe from hacking? It doesnt look like it....... HAVING DESIRES TO HELP IAEA CONTINUE ITS INTERNATIONALLY FAIR HUMANITARIAN DUTIES AND CONSIDERING STUXNETIZING NUCLEAR STUFF IS GETTING EASIER EVERYDAY...... [...]The IAEA was doing “everything possible to help ensure that no further information is vulnerable,”
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WE ASK THESE INDIVIDUALS TO SIGN A PETITION DEMANDING AN OPEN IAEA INVESTIGATION INTO ACTIVITIES AT DIMONA . WE WOULD LIKE TO ASSERT THAT WE HAVE EVIDENCES SHOWING THERE ARE BEYOND-HARMFUL OPERATIONS TAKING PLACE AT THIS SITE AND THE ABOVE LIST WHO TECHNICALLY HELP IAEA, COULD BE CONSIDERED A PARTNER IN CRIME SHOULD AN ACCIDENT HAPPEN THERE . IN SUCH CASE , MANY PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO AT LEAST ASK SOME QUESTIONS AND PARASTOO WILL PUBLISH WHEREABOUTS OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE INDIVIDUALS ALONGSIDE WITH BITS OF HELPFUL PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DETAILS .......[…]
Tue Nov 27 2012 19:59:00
VIENNA The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Tuesday that one of its servers had been hacked after a previously unknown group critical of Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program posted contact details for more than 100 experts working for the UN nuclear watchdog.
A group called Parastoo — Farsi for the swallow bird and a common Iranian girl’s name — claimed responsibility for posting the names on its website two days ago.
Israel is commonly acknowledged to possess nuclear weapons, but has neither confirmed nor denied its status. It says Iran is secretly working to make nuclear arms — something Tehran denies — and describes the Islamic republic as the greatest threat to the Mideast. But Iran and Arab countries say the Jewish state’s nuclear capacities pose the greatest menace.
Chastising Israel for its “nuclear arsenal,” the hackers urged the experts whose names they published to sign a petition demanding an “open investigation” into Israel’s nuclear program.
IAEA spokeswoman Gill Tudor said the agency “deeply regrets this publication of information stolen from an old server.” She said the server had been shut down some time ago and agency experts had been working to eliminate any “possible vulnerability” in it even before it was hacked.
The IAEA was doing “everything possible to help ensure that no further information is vulnerable,” she said.
The Associated Press
And here is the statement and letter requesting an investigation on Isreals hidden nuclear programme
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25 November 2012
Parastoo Hacks IAEA
Shelter for damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor to last at least 100 years before decommissioning is possible!
Even when the shelter is in place, the area around the reactor building will remain hazardous. The shelter is aimed only at blocking radioactive material from escaping when the reactor is being dismantled; it won’t block radiation itself.
But when the dismantling and cleanup work is complete, the radiation danger will decline. How long that would take is unclear…
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But I think this (shelter) will be so impressive that even in 100 years people will come to look at it,” he said.
[…]
- Jim Heintz
- Tue Nov 27 2012 18:17:00
CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, UKRAINE — Workers have raised the first section of a colossal arch-shaped structure that eventually will cover the exploded nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power station.
[…]
…..Upon completion, the shelter will be moved on tracks over the building containing the destroyed reactor, allowing work to begin on dismantling the reactor and disposing of radioactive waste.
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The shelter, shaped like a gargantuan Quonset hut, will be 257 metres by 150 metres (843 feet by 492 feet) when completed and at its apex will be higher than the Statue of Liberty.
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