“Why Don’t You Go to Fukushima I Nuke Plant? Lots of Jobs There…”, Says City Official In Charge of Public Assistance for the Poor in Hokkaido -EXSKF
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 2013
EXSKF
According to Hokkaido Shinbun, this is what a city bureaucrat said to a 27-year-old man who went to the counter at the City Hall to ask about public assistance after he lost his job and couldn’t find a job for a year, being late on rent, subsisting on one piece of bread per day.
Public servants whose salary derives from taxpayers’ money and/or money borrowed on the backs of taxpayers (municipal bonds for general expenses) told this young man that the assistance was not meant for people like him, and that he should go to Fukushima I Nuke Plant so that he didn’t need to receive public money.
From Hokkaido Shinbun (1/3/2013; part) as copied by this blog:
あのころ…昨年４月。男性の財布に現金はほとんどなかった。建設会社の期間雇用作業員だったが、２０１１年春に雇い止めに。地元企業数十社に履歴書を送り、３社の面接は受けたが、採用してもらえなかった。
Back then, in April last year. There was hardly any cash in the man’s wallet. He used to be a seasonal worker at a construction company, but the company didn’t hire him in the spring of 2011. He sent his resumes to dozens of local companies. He landed on three job interviews but he was not hired.
蓄えは底をつき、食事は一日菓子パン一個。一年で１０ｋｇやせた。アパートの家賃も払えず、家主は退去を求めてきた。行き倒れも覚悟したある日、気が付くと市役所に向かって歩いていた。最後の助けを求めるために。
His savings were depleted, and his meal consisted of one piece of bread per day. He lost 10 kilograms in one year. He couldn’t pay the rent for his apartment, and the landlord wanted to evict him. He thought he would die on the street. Without realizing it, he was walking toward the City Hall. The last resort.
だが、生活保護の窓口で、見ず知らずの職員に怒鳴られた。
Vt. and NY seek more review of nuke waste storage
Updated 5:25 am, Friday, January 4, 2013
Seattle PI
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Twenty-four anti-nuclear and environmental groups are joining the states of Vermont and New York in calling on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to do a more thorough study of the impacts of storing spent nuclear fuel on the grounds of nuclear power plants.
The groups range from the Vermont-based New England Coalition to Washington-based Beyond Nuclear to California’s San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.
The groups want a more thorough look at risks of fire and leakage at the expanding dry cask storage sites for highly radioactive nuclear waste at reactors around the country.
They want a moratorium on licensing and relicensing of reactors until the risks are resolved.
Professor: Cesium in wild mushrooms not caused by Fukushima accident
January 06, 2013
By SEIKO SADAKUNI/ Staff Writer
When high levels of radioactive cesium were detected in wild mushrooms in Towada, Aomori Prefecture, a restaurant owner pointed her finger at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
The government slapped a ban on shipping wild mushrooms for 10 prefectures, including Aomori, Nagano, Shizuoka and Yamanashi.
The 70-year-old woman was forced to stop using wild mushrooms in the stew and vinegared dishes served at her restaurant in Towada, 350 kilometers from the crippled nuclear plant. She now buys screened mushrooms from a vegetable stand.
She still asks, “How can the mushrooms be contaminated when the city is so far away from the nuclear power plant?”
Gakushuin University professor Yasuyuki Muramatsu, an expert on radioecology, has an answer: The high radioactivity levels in the mushrooms were not caused by the Fukushima disaster, but by events much farther away.
If the Towada “chichitake” mushrooms had been contaminated by the Fukushima accident, then two types of radioactive cesium–cesium-134 and cesium-137–would have been detected in roughly equal amounts, he said.
Cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, was detected at a level of 120 becquerels, exceeding the government-mandated safe level of 100 becquerels per kilogram. But no cesium-134, which has a half-life of two years, was found in the mushrooms.
Similarly, in “sakura shimeji” mushrooms from the city of Aomori, cesium-137 was measured in late October at 107 becquerels, while almost no cesium-134 was found.
“The fact that no cesium-134 has been detected proves that the contamination happened prior to the Fukushima nuclear accident,’’ Muramatsu, 62, said. “It is from nuclear weapons tests conducted by the Soviet Union and China from the late 1940s to the late 1960s, and from the Chernobyl accident in 1986.”
The women of Fukushima with rare footage from inside the exclusion zone and opinions on the nuclear disaster
Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families.
6人の日本人女性が、福島原発事故以降の汚染除去の現状、隠ぺいと嘘について包み隠さぬ本音を打ち明け、そして事故が彼女たちの人生、故郷、家族にどのような影響を及ぼしたかについて語ります。
Women of Fukushima – Pt 1 of 2
Published on Jan 5, 2013
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Woman of Fukushima – Pt 2 of 2
Published on Jan 5, 2013
Over a year since three reactors went into meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, a broad, disparate anti-nuclear movement is growing in Japan. Nowhere is that more apparent, perhaps, than in Fukushima prefecture, where a group of local women boldly protest the deafening silence of the Japanese government over the worst nuclear accident of this century.
Largely ignored by their own media, these brave women brush aside their cultural shyness and share their brutally honest views on the state of the cleanup, the cover-ups, the untruths and the stagnant political climate in today’s Japan.
Supported with rare footage from inside the exclusion zone, as well as from abandoned neighboring towns, the Women of Fukushima (“Fukushima no Onnatachi”) offers startlingly candid insights, in the women’s own voices, about what has become of their lives, homes, and families in the aftermath of 3/11.
福島第一原子力発電所で３基の原子炉がメルトダウンを起こしてから１年以上。さまざまな人々による大がかりな反原発運動が日本国内で拡大しつつあります。この運動がもっとも顕著なのは、おそらく福島県でしょう。そこでは地元の女性グループが勇敢にも立ち上がり、今世紀最悪の原発事故に対する日本政府の沈黙に抗議しているのです。国内メディアにほとんど無視されてきたこの勇敢な女性たちは、内気な県民性を脇へ押しやり、現在の日本における汚染除去の現状や隠ぺい、嘘、そして停滞した政治情勢について包み隠さぬ率直な意見を公表しています。立ち入り禁止区域内や周辺の荒れ果てた無人の村々の貴重な映像と共に、「福島の女たち」は3･11によって彼女たちの人生、故郷、家族がどのような影響を受けたのかについての驚くほど率直な見解を、彼女たち自身の声で伝えます。
reblogged from
http://www.women-of-fukushima.com/
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Enenews from this article highlighting one comment in the film
Co-Star of Fukushima Film: “I think my phone is bugged, and when I’m out I think someone might be entering my house” (VIDEO)
Published: January 5th, 2013 at 11:17 pm ET
By ENENews
Film: Women of Fukushima
Director: Paul Johannessen
Co-Director: Jeffrey Jousan
Director of Photography: Ivan Kovac
Women of Fukushima on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Women-of-Fukushima/421693721210035
At 13:00 in
Setsuko Kuroda:
The Japanese police in this sense are very good.
Everyone could be watched.
I think my phone is bugged.
And when I am out I think someone might be entering my house.
http://enenews.com/star-fukushima-film-phone-bugged-when-im-be-entering-house-video
could be some interesting comments on that link 😉
Unique radio program on nuclear issues – podcasts still available
Helen Caldicott, M.D. 5 Jan 2013, After four-and-half-years and 197 programs, If You Love This Planet will end with the broadcast of its last new episode on the week ending December 28, 2012.
I believe we have made a valuable contribution to the public debate on any number of important issues over the years. I have thoroughly enjoyed interviewing the most interesting and highly informed people on a variety of topics relevant to planetary and individual survival.
A new book of 25 of the interviews called Loving This Planet may interest you.
The time has come, however, for me, as its president to concentrate on other new initiatives of The Helen Caldicott Foundation, including an international symposium to be held at the New York Academy of Medicine on March 11-12, 2013 titled, “The Medical and Ecological Consequences of Fukushima” and to write a new book which I hope will be published in 2014.
The program archives will continue to be available for downloading on this website. http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/
Radioactive fallout from Fukushima travelled in the atmosphere to USA
Gov’t Map: Fukushima fallout transported directly to U.S. — Canada, Mexico avoided much of contamination after 3/11 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/map-fukushima-fallout-transported-directly-canada-mexico-avoided-contamination-video
January 3rd, 2013
Title: Measurement of Radioactive Fallout from the March 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Incident
Source: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program
h/t Anonymous tip
Atmospheric back trajectories from sites where radioactive fallout was measured in NADP wet deposition samples. NOAA’s HYSPLIT model was used for this analysis
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program in an effort to monitor North American precipitation samples for the presence of nuclear fallout in response to the Japan Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station incident that occurred on March 11, 2011. […] Continue reading
Nuclear regulators uphold secrecy about San Onofre nuclear plant agreement
“I would like to have them at least list the documents that are being
kept in confidentiality and say why,”
Damon Moglen of Friends of the Earth said the group’s ultimate goal is
to require a more detailed, public review of Edison’s restart plan for
San Onofre. “We may not like this process very much,” he said. “But
we’re committed to that as our goal and our objective.”
NUCLEAR REGULATORS DISMISS PROTESTS TO PRIVATE REPORTS
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/04/tp-nuclear-regulators-dismiss-protests-to-private/
Watchdog group, Edison agreed to restrict information by Morgan Lee
4 Jan 13, Nuclear safety regulators have dismissed objections to a
nondisclosure agreement that seals from public view some documents
related to faulty steam generators at the San Onofre nuclear plant and
an application to restart the facility.
Open-government activist Ray Lutz of El Cajon filed the objections to
an agreement made in early December between plant operator Southern
California Edison and Friends of the Earth, an international
environmental and nuclear watchdog group. Continue reading
Fukushima Prefecture residents get radioactive cesium in their food
Study: Radioactive cesium in 25 of 26 food samples from Fukushima prefecture Title: Dietary Intake of Radiocesium in Adult Residents in Fukushima Prefecture and Neighboring Regions after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: 24 hr-Food Duplicate Survey in December 2011 http://enenews.com/japan-study-urgent-estimate-dietary-exposure-fukushima-fallout-cesium-detected-25-26-samples-prefecture
January 3rd, 2013
Title: Dietary Intake of Radiocesium in Adult Residents in Fukushima Prefecture and Neighboring Regions after the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: 24 hr-Food Duplicate Survey in December 2011
Source: Environmental Science & Technology (American Chemical Society)
Authors: Kouji H Harada , Yukiko Fujii , Ayumu Adachi , Ayako Tsukidate , Fumikazu Asai , and Akio Koizumi
Publication Date (Web): December 24, 2012
Abstract
[…] This study aimed to provide an urgent estimate of the dietary exposure of adult residents recruited from three areas in Japan to cesium 134 (134Cs), cesium 137 (137Cs), and, for comparison, natural potassium 40 (40K) on December 4, 2011. Fifty-three sets of 24-hr food-duplicate samples were collected in Fukushima Prefecture and neighboring regions. The 134Cs, 137Cs, and 40K levels in the samples were measured using a germanium detector. Items in the food-duplicate samples were recorded and analyzed for radiocesium intake. Radiocesium was detected in 25 of 26 samples from Fukushima. The median dietary intake of radiocesium was 4.0 Bq/day (range <0.26–17 Bq/day). […] The estimated dose level of radiocesium was significantly higher in Fukushima than in the Kanto region and western Japan. Stepwise multiple linear regression analyses demonstrated that the intake of fruits and mushrooms produced in Fukushima were significant factors for the dietary intake of 137Cs in the 26 participants from Fukushima. […]
Dates for action to stop uranium mining in Virginia
The Time Has Come: Uranium Mining Battle Takes Center Stage in Richmond http://vasierraclub.org/2013/01/the-time-has-come-uranium-mining-battle-takes-center-stage-in-richmond/
By Eileen Levandoski Jan 04, 2013 The time has come to take our fight to keep the ban on uranium mining to Virginia’s General Assembly. And we do so bolstered by over 10,000 petition signatures of Virginians throughout the Commonwealth, 65 organizations signed-on, numerous Virginia newspaper endorsing the ban, and over 50 government jurisdictions representing millions of Virginians resolving formally and informally their interest in maintaining Virginia’s ban on uranium mining.(Check out KeeptheBan.org for full list.) Continue reading
Fukushima govt’s new law to force stores to sell local produce?
New law to force stores to sell produce from Fukushima? http://enenews.com/report-japan-govt-force-stores-sell-fukushima-food Fukushima Minpo’s Jan. 3, 2013 report on their recent interview with Masako Mori, the ‘minister in charge of dealing with declining number of children’ (elected to the Upper House from District in Fukushima Prefecture), translated by EXSKF:
[…]
[Mori said] the government will aim to pass the legislation to promote the sale of Fukushima produce and goods, in order to clearly show [to the public] how the national government stands on the issue of baseless rumor damages. It is considered that Mr. Mori’s agency [Consumer Affairs Agency] and related agencies and ministries will decide on the details [of the legislation]. In summary, the legislation would “designate Fukushima Prefecture as the “special zone”, and enable the national government to order retailers to sell locally-produced goods and to extend preferential treatment to retailers who sell such goods in the storefronts”, Ms. Mori explained.
The Constitution guarantees “freedom of commerce”. It remains to be seen whether the legislation can legally force retailers.
[…]
EXSKF adds, “It’s not very clear […] whether this legislation is intended for retailers only in Fukushima, or any retailers anywhere. (The more I read it, it feels the legislation will be for the retailers everywhere in Japan, but not 100% sure.)”
Duke/Progress Energy fleecing ratepayers on Chrystal River nuclear plant
Bland comments: Note using the lower estimate of $1.5 Billion,
Duke/Progress could build a brand new combine cycle natural gas plant
on the existing site or in Levy County producing 1600 MW,
approximately twice the output of the CR#3 nuke plant.
This would eliminate nearly all of the 600 24/7 dedicated staff for CR#3.
More importantly the additional capacity would defer or eliminate the
need to build the Levy Nuke and get rid of the existing prebilling for
its future construction of $24 Billion.
This makes too much sense and therefore probably will not
happen………..instead let’s continue fleecing the ratepayers……
desert scorpion
The CEO of Duke is a Democrat, Mr. Rodgers was instrumental in
bringing the DNC to Charlotte,,, the Duke CEO made a personal
contribution of $100,000 dollars to the Barack Hussein Obama
campaign… This mess goes beyond political parties.. both Republicans
and Democrats are responsible for the obscene fleecing of
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7 January hearing on Duke Energy’s Chrystal River nuclear plant
The status update on the Crystal River nuclear plant will be at 10
a.m. Monday at Betty Easley Conference Center, Room 148, 4075
Esplanade Way, Tallahassee. Follow the hearing online at
www.floridapsc.com.
New hearing on status of Crystal River nuclear plant
By Ivan Penn, Times, January 4, 2013 State regulators have scheduled a
hearing Monday to receive an update on the broken Crystal River
nuclear plant, which continues to sit idle with its future uncertain.
Duke Energy and its local subsidiary, Progress Energy Florida, have
yet to decide whether to repair the crippled plant or permanently shut
down the reactor.
Eduardo Balbis, a member of the Public Service Commission, scheduled
the hearing as part of an ongoing review of the nuclear plant. Continue reading
Illegal dumping of radioactive material in Fukushima
Contaminated soil might have been illegally dumped in Fukushima
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20130104p2g00m0dm068000c.html
TOKYO (Kyodo), 4 Jan 13, — Some Japanese contractors are suspected of 
having
illegally dumped radioactively contaminated soil, vegetation and water
into rivers or other places close to the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant, the Environment Ministry said Friday. Continue reading
Halliburton, GE and Conoco quietly traded with Iran
the subsidiaries of several American
companies have been quietly trading with Iran for years. These
companies include Halliburton, GE and Conoco.
Trading With the “Enemy”: Halliburton & GE Make Millions Trading With
Iran Democracy Now JULY 16, 2003 As head of Halliburton and as U.S.
Vice President, Dick Cheney lobbied to remove sanctions against Iran
to allow his business to profit off the Iranian dictatorship. Continue reading
Black ministers join in supporting Virginia’s ban on uranium mining
it would be a tragic mistake for the Virginia General
Assembly to even consider allowing Virginia Uranium Inc., or whater
it’s called today, to open a uranium mine in our beautiful but
frequently flooded Southside Virginia
Seventeen black ministers signed a resolution requesting a permanent
ban on uranium mining in Virginia.
Roanoke pastor: uranium mining is bad news for Va.By Ralph Berrier
Jr.The Roanoke Times January 4, 2013
A coalition of black ministers from the Roanoke Valley and Southside
Virginia spoke out today in Roanoke against lifting Virginia’s ban on
uranium mining, citing what they believe would be disproportionate
negative consequences on minority populations should the ban be
lifted.
State lawmakers are considering ending the 30-year moratorium on
uranium mining, as Virginia Uranium Inc. hopes to mine one of the
world’s largest known uranium deposits in Pittsylvania County. Continue reading
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