Exploiting Japan’s university students as Fukushima cleanup workers
[Exploiting the youth] Fukushima university to give students credit
for decontamination work http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/11/exploiting-the-youth-fukushima-university-to-give-students-credit-for-decontamination-work/ by Mochizuki November 24th, 2012
On 11/19/2012, Fukushima Diary wrote, “It’s likely that they make it a credit necessary to graduate from schools to go to Fukushima (plant).” in the column [Japan may seek solution of Fukushima in drifting to the right]. Fukushima university is going to do exactly what was written in the column.
Fukushima university is going to give students credit for decontamination work, which is supposed to be volunteer. 45 hours of decontamination is one credit, 90 hours of decontamination is two credits.
Nuclear lies against Germany have been shown up, in its nuclear free success
unrepentant global warming hysterics such as Britain’s James Lovelock or the USA’s James Hansen cling to the all-powerful image of nuclear power, like any easily impressed and easily manipulated schoolboy
in Germany, its bet against nuclear power, driven by massive popular and political support has won out against all the nuclear propaganda and lies.
Germany’s Energiewende And The End Of Nuclear Power, The Market Oracle Nov 25, 2012 By: Andrew_McKillop “……..Making a smooth transition to a renewable energy-based economy is simply not possible by ruining energy consumers. The big-spending wishlist, to be sure, is almost endless: as shown by the now farcical story of UK government attempts to “relaunch nuclear power” in Britain, with its contracts for difference and electricity market regulation – and guaranteed producer prices for nuclear electricity up to 166 euros per 1000 kWh (145 GBP/MWh) – trying to breathe life back into La Fee Atomique, or the nuclear fairy as it is called in nuclear-besotted France, is a very expensive game. Continue reading
Plutonium levels near Fukushima
Berkeley Nucleonics: Plutonium-239 levels were almost as high as Cesium-137 a dozen kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/berkeley-nucleonics-plutonium-239-levels-almost-high-cesium-137-dozen-kilometers-fukushima-daiichi-photo-video
November 24th, 2012
Title: Berkeley Nucleonics Japan Update Page
Source: Berkeley Nucleonics
Live Map in Fukushima (SAM 940 Readings) – Ground
Fukushma mothers stand up for rights to school radiation cleanup
Fukushima Journalist at UC Berkeley: Gov’t complained when school tried to remove radioactive material — “Why you did that? You don’t need to” — But mothers are standing up (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fukushima-journalist-govt-complained-when-school-remove-contamination-dont-need-mothers-standing-video
November 24th, 2012
Title: Reporter From Fukushima Prefecture Speaks at UC Berkeley About Cleaning Up Contaminated Schools
Source: EnviroNews
Date: November 20, 2012
Hiroko Aihara, Journalist: Koriyama City, last year two months after, they decided to clean up the school ground.
The city did that.
But after that, national government said to mayor ‘Why you did that? You don’t need to remove soil from the school grounds.’
But mothers are standing up.
Watch the video here http://environews.tv/reporter-from-fukushima-prefecture-speaks-about-cleaning-up-contaminated-schools-at-uc-berkeley/
UK has to rely on international wheeler dealing, for its grand new nuclear power programme
UK fights to build a nuclear legacy Ft.com, By Sylvia Pfeifer, 25 Nov 12 EDF Energy, the British subsidiary of French utility EDF, is spearheading the UK programme to build up to 12 reactors over the next decade. Under a £400m deal with French energy group Areva, which will design the reactors for EDF, Rolls-Royce could build a component factory at the Yorkshire site. It is already home to an advanced manufacturing centre.
However, the deal is just one of a number of international partnerships that need to be sealed to enable EDF to fulfil its plan of installing four reactors at two sites in the UK, starting with Hinkley Point in Somerset.
It won’t be easy. The last time Britain built a reactor was more than 20 years ago. Whether the UK still has the skills and the capability is open to question. It has had to rely on international players such as Areva and Japan’s Hitachi – which recently bought Horizon Nuclear Power, a venture to build as many as six reactors – to provide the reactor designs after the previous Labour government sold Westinghouse to Toshiba of Japan in 2006……
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ffa6d0fa-323b-11e2-916a-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2DMouWKWY
Chancellor Merkel’s nuclear free gamble has paid off
The British right wing economic magazine The Economist, which in 1998 had gleefully predicted oil prices of “$5 a barrel by 2010”, branded Merkel’s May 2011 action “a lunatic gamble.”
Germany’ trade surplus remains massive while the UK goes on running huge deficits, to add to its national debt and small scale economy status, relative to economic giant Germany
Germany’s Energiewende And The End Of Nuclear Power, The Market Oracle Nov 25, 2012 By: Andrew_McKillop”…..The real blackout was political. Merkel’s support for the Energiewende, like her support for many other policies and programs had always been tepid. However, she had suddenly pinned Germany’s future entirely on renewable energy and energy saving. Continue reading
Economic doubts about South African govt’s nuclear power programme
Do we really need a nuclear fleet?, Business Report, Mike Kantey, November 25 2012 Despite protestations by thousands of South Africans, our ANC-led government seems determined to spend over R1 trillion on a nuclear fleet, including a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel assembly plant, a reprocessing plant and a high-level waste management facility.
How has this impossibly expensive project been motivated and by whom? Continue reading
The remains of Lithuania’s Ignalina nuclear plant, dangerous and expensive
Ignalina is turning out to be a hard lesson for Europe: It’s one thing to kill a nuclear power station; getting rid of the remains is another headache entirely.
Lithuanians near old nuclear plant fear for their lives Washington Times,
By Gary Peach-Associated Press , November 25, 2012 VISAGINAS, Lithuania — The parking lot outside the atomic power plant is weedy and potholed. Bus stops that once teemed with hundreds of workers are eerily empty.
Yet the stillness at Ignalina, a Lithuanian nuclear plant built in the 1980s Soviet era, belies an unsettling fact: There is still nuclear fuel inside one of its two reactors, three years after it was shut due to safety concerns. A temporary storage facility for spent fuel and radioactive waste is four years behind schedule, creating a money drain at a time when the 27-nation European Union grapples with a crippling economic crisis.
States don’t need EU permission to build nuclear plants, but they need to abide by its safety rules, and the problems at Ignalina have provoked threats from the EU to cut the funding promised for dismantling it. Continue reading
Need to remember that coal ash, too, contains radioactive dust
NIRPC committee wants radiation study in The Pines Duneland Community.com November 24, 2012 Lauri Harvey Keagle A Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission Environmental committee wants the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate radiation levels in The Pines after hearing concerns from residents
over coal ash from a facility in their community. Continue reading
South Korea’s ambitions for a nuclear reactor export industry
Lee: Nuclear power plants ‘core staple’ for S. Korea SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Yonhap) — President Lee Myung-bak said Monday atomic power plants are a key export industry that will help lift South Korea’s growth in the years to come, just as auto, shipbuilding and
electronics industries have powered the country’s economy so far.
Lee also said his latest trip to the United Arab Emirates was aimed at laying the groundwork for South Korea to win another massive nuclear power plant construction order from the oil-rich MiddleEastern nation after the first deal in 2009 to build and operate four reactors……
Arafat’s remains to be exhumed for radiation checks
“A murder inquiry was launched by French prosecutors in August after an investigation by al Jazeera TV, working with scientists at the Institute of Radiation Physics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, found “significant” traces of polonium-210 present in samples taken from Arafat’s personal effects, including his trademark keffiyeh headdress.”
SUNDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2012
Palestinian authorities to carry out tests this week after polonium found on former leader’s clothes By Dalia Nammari in Ramallah
THE remains of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is due to be exhumed on Tuesday, to enable foreign experts to take samples as part of a probe into his death.
Arafat died in November 2004, a month after falling ill, and Palestinian officials have insisted he was poisoned by Israel. Israel has vehemently denied killing him.
The detection of traces of a lethal radioactive substance in biological stains on Arafat’s clothing earlier this year sparked a new investigation.
Former Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfik Tirawi, who heads the committee investigating Arafat’s death, said yesterday that Swiss, French and Russian experts would take samples from Arafat’s remains on Tuesday. He said Arafat would be reburied the same day with military honours but the ceremony would be closed to the public.
Arafat, who led the Palestine Liberation Organisation for 35 years and became the first president of the Palestinian Authority in 1996, fell violently ill at his compound in October 2004.
Two weeks later he was flown to a French military hospital in Paris, where he died on 11 November 2004, aged 75.
His widow, Suha, objected to a post-mortem examination at the time, but later appealed to the Palestinian Authority to permit the exhumation “to reveal the truth”.
In 2005, the New York Times obtained a copy of Arafat’s medical records, which it said showed he died of a massive haemorrhagic stroke that resulted from a bleeding disorder caused by an unknown infection.
Independent experts who reviewed the records told the paper it was highly unlikely that he had died of Aids or had been poisoned.
76% Of Children In Nihonmatsu Radiation Monitoring Over 1mSv/year
November 25th, 2012
Some data has been released about the external radiation monitoring program going on in Fukushima. These programs involved issuing glass badges to school children then periodically handing them in for testing. This does not record the children’s internal radiation doses from what they breathe in, eat or drink. Those levels are in addition to what is recorded by the badges.
What the new round of testing found is that 76% of school children in Nihonmatsu are above the government goal of 1 mSv/year with just their external radiation exposure. The government goal is based on the ICRP guidelines but many consider the ICRP levels to be too high. Some actually saw their levels go up compared to their 2011 levels. One researcher assumed this is due to children being allowed outside more now than before.
As the disaster evolves people are still struggling to understand how and where the radiation contamination will show up to continue to try to mitigate people’s risk. Nihonmatsu City is about 45km from Fukushima Daiichi.
Sources:
Fukushima Diary
USA -30 Years of Breast Screening: 1.3 Million Wrongly Treated
Sayer Ji
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
The breast cancer industry’s holy grail (that mammography is the primary weapon in the war against breast cancer) has been disproved. In fact, mammography appears to have CREATED 1.3 million cases of breast cancer in the U.S. population that were not there.
A disturbing new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine is bringing mainstream attention to the possibility that mammography has caused far more harm than good in the millions of women who have employed it over the past 30 years as their primary strategy in the fight against breast cancer.[i]
Titled “Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence,” researchers estimated that among women younger than 40 years of age, breast cancer was overdiagnosed, i.e. “tumors were detected on screening that would never have led to clinical symptoms,” in 1.3 million U.S. womenover the past 30 years. In 2008, alone, “breast cancer was overdiagnosed in more than 70,000 women; this accounted for 31% of all breast cancers diagnosed.”
As we revealed in a previous article,[ii] the primary form of mammography-detected breast cancer is ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as ‘stage zero’ or ‘non-invasive breast cancer.’ Unlike truly invasive cancer, which expands outward like the crab after which it was named (Greek: Cancer = Crab), ductal carcinoma is in situ, i.e. situated, non-moving – an obvious contradiction in terms.
Also, DCIS presents without symptoms in the majority of women within which it is detected, and if left untreated will (usually) not progress to cause harm to women. Indeed, without x-ray diagnostic technologies, many if not most of the women diagnosed with it would never have known they had it in the first place. The journal Lancet Oncology, in fact, published a cohort study last year finding that even clinically verified “invasive” cancers appear to regress with time if left untreated:
[We] believe many invasive breast cancers detected by repeated mammography screening do not persist to be detected by screening at the end of 6 years, suggesting that the natural course of many of the screen-detected invasive breast cancers is to spontaneously regress.[iii]
Ayumi Kizenuka Discusses Her Contaminated Farm, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Plight of Her Fellow Farmers in Fukushima -VIDEO
“Which governmental agency is doing the tests (..of the produce)?”
“It is not the government, it is unfortunate that the government is not wiling to test all the products in Japan. The testing started as a voluntry move by the farmers…”
So, if the farmer volunteers information that is incorrect the goverment will allow that product to be sold?
“yes, if it is declared under the government limits..”
(EnviroNews USA) –
Video on link – Duration 23 mins
Amongst a lively group of keen Fukushima followers who attended a symposium at UC Berkely’s Institute of East Asian Studies, a brave organic Japanese tea farmer by the name of Ayumi Kizenuka spoke about the confusing post 3-11 agricultural climate currently affecting Japan’s widely contaminated farmlands.
According to Kizenuka, the situation is so uncertain that most farmers remain in the dark as to the levels of deadly radioactive pollution plaguing their crops and soil. Apparently, the local and national governments have been virtually invisible in their lackluster attempts to regulate and test farmlands for nuclear contamination since the disaster’s inception. Many of the region’s tea and rice growers, particularly those like Ayumi, who have dedicated themselves to sustainable horticultural practices, are doing their best to test their own crops for radiation. However, plenty of others desperately continue to harvest agricultural products from locations much CLOSER to the site of the nuclear catastrophe, without ANY sort of testing or regulatory oversight.
Ms. Kizenuka also spoke without reserve about how the situation has become so grim for farmers that there has been a noteworthy pandemic of suicides within the agricultural community. While Japan continues to export crops of questionable safety, such as the recent shipments of radioactive peaches that were busted in Thailand, the government fails to engage in any real measures of monitoring and enforcement, leaving Japanese farmers in a situation of “SELF-REGULATION”.
CESIUM 137 IN INFANT MILK IN SOUTH KOREA FROM NEW ZEALAND OCT 2012
http://www.acro.eu.org/OCC_fr.html
Radioactive Japan: Commercial-Use Skim Milk Powder Found with 23 Bq/kg of Radioactive Cesium
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2012
The data, photos and the graph are from Security Tokyo, with express permission to reprint.
Item: skim milk power in 1kg bag, commercial use
Manufacturer: Zenrakuren (all-Japan federation of dairy industry)
Manufactured in: Kita Fukuoka Factory in Iwate Prefecture
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