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Study on Plutonium Pu

On the determination of 239Pu and 241Am content in human tissues

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January 12, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Londoners to hold anti-Gitmo vigil outside US embassy

All Roads Lead to Guantánamo…Follow the Action Here!

As well as updating the day’s actions on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AllRoadsLeadToGuantanamo), Twitter @allroadsleadg11 and Tumblrhttp://thelondonguantanamocampaign.tumblr.com/, we will be updating the information on this blog every half hour here.

Update at 4:45pm GMT:
Adnan Latif/Ahmed Belbacha tour at Turkish Embassy, more questions from the cops, then on to Portuguese Embassy where they finished at 16:45. Now on to US Embassy for 6pm vigil – Adnan Latif’s body left Guantánamo decomposed weeks ago in a …bodybag to his family in Yemen. His soul left on 8 September 2012. He was 36. His lawyers say Guantánamo and extended arbitrary detention killed him. In 2010, Obama placed a moratorium on returns to Yemen as it was too dangerous.
Ahmed Belbacha, cleared for release almost 6 years, remains at Guantánamo for want of a safe third country to return to. Sentenced in absentia in Algeria in 2009 to 20 years for membership of a “terrorist organisation” abroad, a claim now taken back by the Pentagon, and unwanted by the UK where he lived for 18 months, he remains there for want of a safe place to go.
The Shaker Aamer tour has also come to an end and is heading to the US Embassy too.

The Omar Khadr tour is at the Spanish Embassy and the Abd El Nashiri tour has left the Polish Embassy.

Update at 4:15pm GMT:
The Adnan Latif/Ahmed Belbacha tour took the bus to the Turkish Embassy. A large number of prisoner were flown through Incirlik and to other European countries before being taken to Guantánamo Bay:http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=126951 These were mostly stop-overs and for refueling.

The Omar Khad team is currently en route from the Afghan Embassy, where he was picked up and detained at Bagram for several month in 2002 before being flown to Spain before Guantánamo.

The Abd El Nashiri tour went from the UAE Embassy to the Thai Embassy as he was held at a secret prison there and tortured for several months before being taken to Poland, along with other “high value” prisoners, such as Abu Zubaydah, where they are heading to.

Diplomatic police are still on the look out for our tours.

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NASA researchers studying advanced nuclear rocket technologies

“The information we gain using this test facility will permit engineers to design rugged, efficient fuel elements and nuclear propulsion systems,” said NASA researcher Bill Emrich, who manages the NTREES facility at Marshall. “It’s our hope that it will enable us to develop a reliable, cost-effective nuclear rocket engine in the not-too-distant future.”

Jan. 10, 2013 ? Advanced propulsion researchers at NASA are a step closer to solving the challenge of safely sending human explorers to Mars and other solar system destinations.

By using an innovative test facility at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., researchers are able to use non-nuclear materials to simulate nuclear thermal rocket fuels — ones capable of propelling bold new exploration missions to the Red Planet and beyond.

The Nuclear Cryogenic Propulsion Stage team is tackling a three-year project to demonstrate the viability of nuclear propulsion system technologies. A nuclear rocket engine uses a nuclear reactor to heat hydrogen to very high temperatures, which expands through a nozzle to generate thrust. Nuclear rocket engines generate higher thrust and are more than twice as efficient as conventional chemical rocket engines.

The team recently used Marshall’s Nuclear Thermal Rocket Element Environmental Simulator, or NTREES, to perform realistic, non-nuclear testing of various materials for nuclear thermal rocket fuel elements. In an actual reactor, the fuel elements would contain uranium, but no radioactive materials are used during the NTREES tests. Among the fuel options are a graphite composite and a “cermet” composite — a blend of ceramics and metals. Both materials were investigated in previous NASA and U.S. Department of Energyresearch efforts.

Nuclear-powered rocket concepts are not new; the United States conducted studies and significant ground testing from 1955 to 1973 to determine the viability of nuclear propulsion systems, but ceased testing when plans for a crewed Mars mission were deferred.

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UK -Network Rail will purchase power exclusively from EDF Energy, with that supply matched to nuclear generation

“…”Rail is already the greenest form of public transport and this partnership with EDF Energy will help us make it greener still.”…”

“…Network Rail will purchase power “up to ten years in advance”…”

11 January 2013

By electrifying more track and contracting nuclear power supplies from EDF Energy the UK rail network operator will reduce fossil fuel use over the next ten years.

A joint statement today described how Network Rail will purchase power exclusively from EDF Energy, with that supply matched to nuclear generation. With a requirement of 3.2 TWh per year, Network Rail is the UK’s largest power customer. It owns all the railway infrastructure and purchases power centrally, recouping money from firms that operate trains across its network.

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Taiwan -Minister warns of price rises if nuclear is ditched

“…As nuclear power plants can generate electricity at a lower cost compared with thermal, wind or hydroelectric power farms and emit less CO2, it could be a better option to generate electricity…”
Fri, Jan 11, 2013

The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday warned that electricity prices could soar by 40 percent if the country abandoned nuclear power as its major electricity source.

If the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) is prevented from becoming operational, while the first and second nuclear power plants are retired, state-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) would have to increase electricity rates sharply to cope with the high costs of generating power by using coal or natural gas, Minister of Economic Affairs Shih Yen-shiang (施顏祥) said at the legislature, calling on lawmakers to be prepared for price increases when making decisions.

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Genetic effects of radiation shown in USA government film

YouTubefallout from fukushima  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aoo2wvsojg  This is what the government FAILED to tell us about the after-effects from fukushima. they LIED when they told us there would be NO contamination. childhood spontaneous deaths are up 40-60% along the northeast coast of the united states. there are high numbers of senior citizens who are dying suddenly from heart attack(chernobyl heart). the u.s. government committed a heinous crime when it told americans NOT to prepare and protect from the rad-fallout from fukushima. i provided this video to show you the truth

butterflies-mutant-0812  US Gov’t Film: We must be very careful using radiation — Flies with white eyes, no wings, extra wings — Albino corn, distorted corn, stunted plants (VIDEO) ) http://enenews.com/govt-film-be-very-careful-radiation-flies-white-eyes-wings-extra-wings-albino-corn-distorted-corn-stunted-plants-video

January 10th, 2013
Watch the video here

 Source: milidude

Date Published: Jan 9, 2013

Dr. Frank Baxter: […] purpose was to see if mutations could be caused by radiation […] some striking abnormalities among the descendants of irradiated fruit flies.

White-eyed Fly
Nearly wingless flies, flies with extra wings, white-eyed flies. […]

A certain proportion of their descendants died as embryos and the eggs never hatched.

Scientist who photographed irradiated cells find that strange things happen […]

These are cells that have been irradiated. They cannot divide normally. Some of the chromosomes are broken. Some are misshapen. Sometimes the chromosomes fail to split and the cell cannot reproduce.

Lighter doses of radiation produces that changes that can’t be scene in the chromosomes, apparently by producing changes in the genes themselves. Thus the descendants of irradiated germ cells give us albino corn, distorted ears of corn and stunted plants.

Question: But Dr. Baxter, are all the effects of radiation bad?

Baxter: Most of them are, therefore we must be very careful when we use radiation. 

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Cesium measured from 100% of wild boar samples in Fukushima, over 100 Bq/Kg from 19 of 20 samples

 

Photo from http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/08/07/germany-terrorised-by-swarms-of-radioactive-boar/

Posted by Mochizuki on January 11th, 2013

According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, high level of cesium was measured from 20 of 20 samples of wild boar meats in Fukushima.

The highest reading was 1,800 Bq/Kg from the meat of wild boar taken in Nihonmatsu city.

Sampling date : 12/7/2012

Cs-134 : 657 Bq/Kg

Cs-137 : 1,140 Bq/Kg

The lowest reading was 74 Bq/Kg from the sample taken in Nishiaizu machi, but they measured cesium more than 100 Bq/Kg from all the other samples (19 of 20) .

Source: http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/01/cesium-measured-from-100-of-wild-boar-samples-in-fukushima-over-100-bqkg-from-19-of-20-samples/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cesium-measured-from-100-of-wild-boar-samples-in-fukushima-over-100-bqkg-from-19-of-20-samples

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At long last – cleanup of radiation area at Staten Island

text-radiationRadiation clean up to start in Staten Island’s Gateway National
Recreation Area, SI Live.com  By Deborah Young/Staten Island Advance
  January 11, 2013  STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The long-awaited survey and
clean-up of radiation-contaminated ballfields, along with more than
200 acres of green space in Gateway National Recreation Area’s Great
Kills Park should begin next week, according to the National Park
Service (NPS), under whose stewardship the land falls.
In a shift from a plan announced last year, when Park Service
contractors were slated to survey the area and then come up with
clean-up recommendations for a later time, the process set to begin
Monday will include both the identification of hot spots and the
remediation of toxins…..
As of November, six radium spots had been removed from the 223-acre
swath of the park that had once been landfill, with the primary
contaminant found to be Radium-226, a radionuclide formerly used in
medical treatment.

After that, even more potential hot spots were discovered, prompting
the National Park Service to rethink its more limited plan, and
instead include more sweeping investigations of the area, as well as
immediate elimination of the radiation.

The radiation-affected area — which comprises a large portion of the
488-acre park — has been closed to the public.

Meanwhile, environmentalists, avid users of the park, local residents
and lawmakers have demanded for years to know why the remediation
process has been so slow….
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/radiation_clean_up_to_start_in.html

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Fukushima City Housewife: “Fukushima 50” No Hero, Because They Work for TEPCO

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013

Ms. Seiko Takahashi responds to BBC‘s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (1/3/2013) when he asks about “Fukushima 50”, workers who remained at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant after Reactor 3 building exploded and kept on doing whatever they could to contain the situation:

Before the meltdowns, Seiko Takahashi never thought of activism. Now the middle-aged mother from Fukushima City is a passionate anti-nuclear campaigner. And she admits there is little sympathy for the Fukushima workers.

“They are not heroes for us,” she says. “I feel sorry for them, but I don’t see them as heroes. We see them as one block, they work for Tepco, they earned high salaries. The company made a lot of money from nuclear power, and that’s what paid for their nice lives.” 

 

She is essentially saying they get what they deserve, for having worked for TEPCO.

Her city, Fukushima City, is in the highly contaminated middle-third of Fukushima Prefecture. While most Japanese (and foreigners) may sympathize with her and her city’s plight, many of them are also angry that the city, along with almost all municipalities in that prefecture, continues to grow crops and sell them outside, claiming they are “safe” (i.e. less than 100 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium), and claims it suffers tremendously from “baseless rumors”.

For how some of the Fukushima I Nuke Plant workers have been treated by their fellow Fukushima residents, see my post from February 2012. That post was about an article that appeared in Germany’s Der Spiegel. I have seen hardly any coverage on the issue in the Japanese media.

As BBC’s Wingfield-Hayes says at the end of his report,

There is wide sympathy here for victims like him, [Mr. Yoshizawa the cattle farmer in Namie-machi] but the Japanese public appears to have little sympathy or concern for the suffering of Fukushima workers.

That’s Japan for you.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fukushima-city-housewife-fukushima-50.html

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Cheaper for Duke Energy to close Crystal River nuclear plant

nuclear-cost-comparisonRating agency thinks nuclear plant will be closed, Tampa Bay Times, By
Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer, Jan 11, 2013 In its latest evaluation
of Duke Energy, the Fitch rating agency concludes this week that the
utility probably will permanently close the crippled Crystal River
nuclear plant.

In giving Duke a “stable” outlook, Fitch noted that a repair of the
Crystal River plant would pose too much of burden on Duke but shutting
it down would guarantee some protections provided by a settlement
agreement with the state.

“Fitch believes it is unlikely management will elect to repair Crystal
River 3 given the rising cost estimates, construction risks and low
gas-price environment, and instead will pursue the retirement option
and recovery of invested capital,” the rating agency stated…..
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/rating-agency-thinks-nuclear-plant-will-be-closed/1270052

January 12, 2013 Posted by | business and costs, USA | 1 Comment

Rice contaminated with radioactive cesium has been detected in Miyagi Prefecture -Greenpeace

“..Rice contaminated with radioactive cesium has been detected in Miyagi Prefecture. It is the first time that contaminated rice has been discovered outside of Fukushima Prefecture. The rice, which at 240 Bq/kg exceeded government-mandated limits by almost two-and-a-half times, was not sold to the public. Prefectural officials have requested that nearby farmers refrain from shipping rice and other produce until further testing can be conducted…”
Blogpost by Christine McCann – January 11, 2013 at 11:46

Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

 

Decontamination Scandal

A major scandal involving shoddy decontamination practices in Fukushima Prefecture is continuing to unfold. Workers say that no training, impossible deadlines, and a sense that their efforts were useless, as well as direct orders from supervisors, led to the improper disposal practices.

In response to a scathing ten-part expose by the Asahi Shimbun, which revealed illegal dumping of radioactive waste into rivers and forests, failure to collect contaminated water used in the cleanup process, and inappropriate use of high-pressured sprayers, Ministry officials finally interviewed supervisors from four contracting firms that had been awarded a highly lucrative 650 billion yen ($7.4 billion) contract. The firms originally agreed to bag all radioactive material, including leaves and branches; only use high-pressure sprayers on gutters and collect all water used; and wipe down walls and roofs of houses by hand or with brushes. Contaminated materials were to be stored at temporary storage sites, and cleanup was to occur within 20 meters of both sides of all roads. The work was to be performed in 11 municipalities over four prefectures.

During the course of the interviews, two firms admitted that workers had not properly collected contaminated water in the towns of Naraha and Iitate. Although that practice is a violation of the Ministry’s contract with the firms, it is not illegal. The Asahi reporters, however, submitted extensive photographic, video, and audio documentation of far more extensive problems than those to which the firms admitted.

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