2 years after the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, more than 150,000 people in Fukushima Prefecture are still forced to leave their homes and try to rebuild their lives amid the threat of radiation exposure. We’ll look into the unprecedented challenges they are facing.
Air date 4/19/13
I apologize for the mediocre quality of the video. It is a broadcasting issue, perhaps solar activity and it does happen occasionally. There is a very limited time period to capture these documentaries, only a few times during a 48 hour period and then NHK pulls them down from their site.
…..The question surrounding Glencore’s role in unintentionally potentially helping arm a nuclear Iran comes as Obama ramps up pressure on Tehran to end its atomic weapons programme……
…..”We might expect this from a Russian or Chinese company, but the truth is that even those companies usually stay away from this sort of exposure.”…
….Last year the head of its food trading business said the worst drought to hit the US since the 1930s would be “good for Glencore” because it would lead to opportunities to exploit soaring prices. It has also attracted attention by selling more than £50m worth of wheat to the World Food Programme….
Glencore traded $659m worth of commodities, including aluminium oxide, with Iranian entities during 2012, the Guardian has learned. Photograph: Urs Flueeler/AP
One of Britain’s biggest companies has made millions of pounds selling goods to Iran, including to a state-owned firm that supplies the regime’s nuclear weapons programme.
Glencore, a commodity trading house run by the billionaire Ivan Glasenberg, traded $659m (£430m) of goods, including aluminium oxide, to Iran last year, the Guardian has established.
The company, which is one of the biggest businesses in the FTSE 100 and has a market value more than three times that of Marks & Spencer, has admitted that some of its aluminium oxide ended up in the hands of Iranian Aluminium Company (Iralco).
Trafigura, another commodity trading house, has also admitted to trading an unspecified aluminium oxide (also known as alumina) with Iralco in the past.
1) “…Their concept (or way of dealing with it) is to downplay the disaster as much as they can, trying to make the public to forget about the danger of the disaster, then start promoting nuclear when things have calmed down. But their concept was never been talked about in the main media….”
2. “…There isn’t any hope for any help from anywhere! We are treated as if we were homeless….”
3. IN English
4. The Minami Soma Mayer, Mr. Sato said, “…..Government’s official should have visited the Fukushima crippled plant and seen the scale of the disaster with their own eyes. (I think he means a few officials came to visit but it is always for a short time and they ignore what’s happening to Tepco workers and the general state of the emergency…) ….”
5. “….The Japanese government prioritize economy first and people’s lives second…”
6. In English
7.in English.
8. “….All sorts of Geiger counters from different countries arrived in Japan. However they were stopped at customs and never made available to the public….”
8. In English.
9. “….The government should listen to people suffering by the disaster. They should listen to the weaker positioned people in our society….”
10 “…The real victims here are children. They have done nothing wrong…” by Aileen Miyoko Smith
11. “….I don’t know how to be proud of myself being Japanese when we have been abandoned by the Japanese government….”
12. “….In reality we never know which area is really safe….”
13. “…What can save Japan and Fukushima children is only by international pressure…”
…..Readings taken in September and December 2012 showed levels of tritium at 850 Becquerels per litre (Bq/l). The Environment Agency investigation level is 100Bq/l……
…..He said the investigation will need to find out the rate of decay, which could be up to 120 years, and where the water will have dispersed to over that time.“…. Prof. John Large
By Amy Woodland
Thursday, April 18, 2013
A RADIOACTIVE substance has been found to be leaking out of Dungeness B power station – the recent filming location for singer Peter Andre.
Owner EDF Energy says there is no threat to staff or the public, but an independent nuclear expert has said he “would be concerned”.
Elevated levels of tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen produced by nuclear fission, were found at three boreholes during routine testing of the groundwater around the site.
Just last month singer Peter Andre and his crew came to the tip of Dungeness to shoot footage with his Lamborghini at the boardwalk and the new lighthouse, for a new ITV series.
The Environment Agency and water authorities have now been informed and an investigation is under way at the power station.
Readings taken in September and December 2012 showed levels of tritium at 850 Becquerels per litre (Bq/l). The Environment Agency investigation level is 100Bq/l.
A spokesman for EDF Energy said: “Work is well under way to resolve this issue and the Environment Agency and Office for Nuclear Regulation site inspectors are being kept informed.
“The environmental impact is negligible and there is no risk to the public or our employees.
“Tritium levels in boreholes on the station boundary have been confirmed to be at background levels, and the local water company has confirmed the local water system is unaffected.”
But independent nuclear expert John Large said: “I would be concerned, they have clearly gone over their statutory limit – it’s eight times over the certified limit.”
A woman is at significantly greater risk of suffering and dying from radiation-induced cancer than a man who gets the same dose of ionising radiation.
This is news because data in the report on the biological effects of ionizing radiation published in 2006 by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has been under-reported.
It is more often acknowledged that children are at higher risk of disease and death from radiation, but it is rarely pointed out that the regulation of radiation and nuclear activity (worldwide) ignores the disproportionately greater harm to both women and children. http://www.nirs.org/radiation/radhealth/radiationwomen.pdf
It is scandalous that these facts are not generally known. It is scandalous that the so-called “permissable levels” of ionising radiation are based on the “normal person” – that is, a 30 year old male. Foetuses, children and women are far more susceptible to radiation harm than men are.
Women are consistently reassured by narrowly educated nuclear physicists, and other technocrats, that nuclear power is safe, and that they have nothing to worry about in regard to ionising radiation.
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