Images of potential radioactive fallout, if San Onofre nuclear plant had an accident
Imaging Potential San Onofre Fallout What might the radioactive fallout cloud look like at San Onofre from a Chernobyl-like or Fukushima-scale nuclear accident? http://eon3emfblog.net/?p=6317
Recently two concerned men, each in his own way, have set out to answer that question. Torgen Johnson mapped a scaled overlay of the Fukushima fallout cloud over the San Onofre region. Paul Frey mapped a scaled overlay of the Chernobyl radioactive plume. Their findings are presented
VIDEO: Taiwanese protest against unfair nuclear referendum
VIDEO: Hundreds rally against Taiwan nuclear referendum http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/17337705/hundreds-rally-against-taiwan-nuclear-referendum/May 27, 2013, TAIPEI (AFP) – Hundreds of Taiwanese protested in the capital Taipei on Sunday over government plans to hold what they call an unfair referendum on the fate of a nearly-completed nuclear power plant.
Chanting slogans like “Stop dangerous nuclear power”, the protestors stood together in front of parliament to spell out the word “STOP” and held up black and yellow signs.
The demonstration came a few days before the ruling Kuomintang party plans to push through a bill to host a nationwide referendum that will decide whether the the island’s fourth nuclear plant should be completed.
A “No” vote would only be accepted if turnout reaches 50 percent of the island’s 18 million people, rather than a poll based on a simple majority.
“Such a design is unfair,” Liu Hui-min, a spokeswoman for the protest, told AFP.
“Since so many people have voiced against the risky power plant, the government should scrap the project instead,” referring to several public surveys which indicated around 70 percent of respondents opposed the plant.
Concerns about the island’s nuclear power plants have been mounting since the March 2011 Fukushima crisis in Japan……
Abandon useless £100 billion Trident nuclear programme, Hans Blix urges UK
Hans Blix urges Britain to relinquish Trident nuclear programme , Shiv Malik, The Guardian, 27 May 2013 Former UN weapons inspector says UK will not be more protected if it extends life of Trident, at a cost of £100bn Former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix has said it is time for Britain to relinquish its Trident nuclear programme.
Speaking at the Hay literary festival, the Swedish international lawyer who led the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq war, said he did not see how the UK would be any more protected if it extended the life of the nuclear programme – at an estimated cost of £100bn….. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/26/hans-blix-trident-abandon-britain-nuclear
Hitachi, Toshiba and Mitsubishi General Electric, Westinghouse, Areva will make Japan keep nuclear power
Is it safe? Ruling party pushes nuclear village agenda BY JEFF KINGSTON JAPAN TIMES, 26 May 13, “…..The election of the pro-nuclear Liberal Democratic Party to power in December 2012 was not about energy policy, but has revived prospects for the nuclear village; citizens may favor phasing out nuclear energy, but they will not get to decide. Hitachi, Toshiba and Mitsubishi tie-ups with General Electric, Westinghouse and Areva mean that Japan stands at the nexus of the global nuclear-energy industry. The recent award of a $22 billion contract by Turkey to a Japanese-led consortium indicates how high the stakes are, explaining why domestic firms’ nuclear-policy preferences are fully reflected in government policy.
If Japan terminated nuclear power, the pain would extend beyond the utilities and vendors; lenders and investors, including Japan’s major banks and insurance firms, would also face huge losses. Pulling the plug on nuclear power could also drive some of Japan’s 10 utilities into insolvency. In addition, there have been strident voices from the political right calling for the retention of nuclear energy because it leaves available the nuclear-weapons option. Washington, too, has warned Tokyo that phasing out nuclear energy would harm bilateral relations because it would raise concerns about Japan’s large stockpiles of plutonium and uncomfortable questions about the consistency of U.S. nuclear non-proliferation efforts targeting Iran and North Korea…….http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/26/commentary/is-it-safe-ruling-party-pushes-nuclear-village-agenda/#.UaPpE9JwpLs
UN calls on Japan to help Fukushima victims more
UN asks Japan, operator to help nuclear power plant victims Times Live, Sapa-AP | 26 May, 2013 A United Nations expert who investigated the aftermath of Japan’s 2011 nuclear power plant disaster says the government and the operator of the facility should do more to help those affected by the catastrophe.
A report by special rapporteur Anand Grover, posted on the UN Human Rights Council’s website, says the government’s takeover of Tokyo Electric Power Co. allowed the utility to evade full responsibility for the nuclear disaster, the worst since Chernobyl. The report points to problems with the handling of the crisis, including a difficult process for seeking compensation for radiation exposure, a lack of openness about health risks from radiation and inadequate protection for nuclear plant workers.
It urges Japan to improve its emergency preparedness and its handling of compensation claims.
The Geneva-based council is due to discuss the report, compiled after a visit to Japan by Grover late last year, at its general meeting starting Monday.
Japan’s atomic energy industry remains in crisis more than two years after a powerful earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant…… http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/05/26/un-asks-japan-operator-to-help-nuclear-power-plant-victims
Strict safety measures would mean Japan’s nukes are uneconomic
Is it safe? Ruling party pushes nuclear village agenda BY JEFF KINGSTON JAPAN TIMES, 26 May 13, “………the NRA has signaled its intention to not approve restarting a reactor at the Tsuruga plant in Fukui, and there are several other candidates for closure; Tepco’s Kashiwazaki plant with six reactors is sited near an active fault line as proven in the 2007 earthquake there, but the utility’s business plan depends on restarting this facility. There are some tough calls ahead.
There has also been no conclusion declared as to whether or not seismic damage compromised cooling-system pipes at the Fukushima plant in the interval before the tsunami hit. This is an important issue because if the earthquake caused the meltdowns, all Japan’s reactors would require extensive safety upgrades that would further undermine their financial viability. In any event, The Economist magazine has concluded that nuclear power is simply not economically feasible.
The NRA is set to adopt stricter safety regulations in July, but the key will be the implementation and monitoring of compliance. Problematically, there are only nine inspectors overseeing the 3,000 workers engaged in decontamination and decommissioning efforts at Fukushima, a bungled operation that has been left to the discretion of Tepco.
The utility decided against bringing in outside experts and failed to anticipate the problem of what to do with massive volumes of radioactive waste water that are accumulating at the plant. The improvised responses have proved inadequate, while the touted “solution” involves dumping the toxic water into the ocean. The Tokyo-based New York Times reporter Martin Fackler concludes that Tepco is “lurching from one problem to the next without a coherent strategy … a cautionary tale about the continued dangers of leaving decisions about nuclear safety to industry insiders” (NYT 4/29/2013).
Despite this and other red flags on nuclear safety, the political pressures on the NRA to resume business as usual are intensifying……. .http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/05/26/commentary/is-it-safe-ruling-party-pushes-nuclear-village-agenda/#.UaPpE9JwpLs
VIDEO: Finland’s nuclear waste tunnels
VIDEO Finland to bury nuclear waste underground http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2013/05/201352154030372976.html Country plans to solve problem of disposing radioactive waste permanently by using tunnels. 21 May 2013 Finland has struggled with disposal of radioactive waste for decades, with temporary storage sites requiring constant monitoring.
The country now plans to bury its nuclear waste in tunnels underground.
But in the United States and elsewhere such tunnels have been prevented because of safety fears.
Al Jazeera’s Tim Friend reports from a facility in Olkiluoto island.
Manmohan Singh off to Japan for a nuclear deal
Policy Watch: The PM’s nuclear dreams, May 27, 2013, Agency: DNA, R N Bhaskar Minister Manmohan Singh is off to Japan this week. Among other things, he is expected to sign papers relating to a nuclear deal. If true, that would be most unfortunate.
Past experience has shown that even a small percentage as commissions can be hugely tempting.
Second, all the data currently available indicates that nuclear power is more expensive than coal based power
Germany meeting the challenges of intermittent renewable energy
We can let fission fizzle out in a renewable world, New Scientist, 20 May 2013 by Jochen Flasbarth“……One of the most pressing challenges of a 100 per cent renewable world is how best to use energy sources that by their very nature do not run constantly. Your average German wind turbine operates for 1600 hours of the year. Equally, there are times when wind turbines or solar panels produce too much electricity. How to store this excess? This can be done conventionally by pumping water to fill a reservoir during the day, and using it to produce hydroelectric power at night.
More sophisticated is power-to-gas: carbon dioxide and water are combined in a series of steps to produce methane. Renewables will supply the electricity and the methane can be fed into the gas network to heat homes, fuel cars or generate electricity. The technology has yet to mature. But firms such asAudi are trying to get it off the ground commercially.
Another challenge is to transport power from the wind-rich north to the more populous southern and central Germany. That will mean building hundreds of kilometres of new power lines. Opposition is predicted. But this could be tackled by offering locals a financial share in mid-scale, private solar power installations or wind farms.
A quick word on prices: the financial support for renewables has taken some flak. Critics argue that ladling out money for solar panels has overheated the market and created too much capacity at too high a price. But this can be dealt with. Cuts to payments to panel owners for the electricity they generate, the feed-in tariff, have been made, more will follow. To put things in perspective: under the present system the average German is expected to pay €5 a month towards the feed-in tariff. This is a sound investment in clean technology, protecting us from the spiralling prices of conventional energy.
In a recent study we showed that in 2030, renewable electricity on average will cost 7.6 cents per kilowatt hour; electricity from gas or coal-fired power plants will probably be 9 cents. Onshore wind turbines already match prices of some fossil fuels…… http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829170.200-we-can-let-fission-fizzle-out-in-a-renewable-world.html
Rise of the Proto Fascists – Written by Chris Hedges – Just released!
Published on May 26, 2013
Short remix of ‘Obey’ documentary with excerpts from book – Death of the Liberal Class – written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges.
Interesting to see how many of these predictions have become true and this in itself hints that these fascists groups have been manipulated by concentrated economic power to fight manufactured enemy. Both fascists and their enemy are ultimately victims of the political and economic elite – the Corporate Class.
“Until industrial feudalism is replaced by industrial democracy, politics will be the shadow cast on society by big business” – John Dewey
Full Documentary here
Warning: Viewers may find some of the clips in the film disturbing.
A day in the life of the Fukushima children – 19 April 2013
Published on Apr 19, 2013
WARNIING !!!! you all can now see clearly what we will all have to accept as routine exposure (and make no mistake cs137 am241 detection is very serious} if the nuclear plants are kept operating as more shall surely meltdown.
More clear evidence of radionuclides in the schoolyard
Please help children from radioactive contamination 茨城県高萩市
http://youtu.be/ORhIDZCV38I 148production
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013…
Hitomi Kamanaka 鎌仲ひとみ
Published on May 26, 2013
http://www.yonaoshi311.com
Hitomi Kamanaka 鎌仲ひとみ
EN
Hitomi Kamanaka is a Japanese documentary filmmaker known particularly for her films on the danger of atomic power and the nuclear industry in Japan. In 2012, she directed a movie on internal contamination where she interviews 4 doctors from Japan and Russia who studied the consequences of Hiroshima, Tchernobyl, and now Fukushima.
FR
Hitomi Kamanaka est une réalisatrice japonaise qui fait des documentaires sur les dangers de l’énergie atomique, et l’état de l’industrie nucléaire au Japon. En 2012, elle a fait un film sur la contamination interne dans lequel elle interviewe 4 médecins japonais et russes qui ont étudié les conséquences de Hiroshima, Tchernobyl et maintenant Fukushima.
日本
ドキュメンタリー映画監督, 鎌仲ひとみは2012年に発表した映画で、広島、チェルノビルそして福島での被曝（ひ
ばく）の影響を研究している日本とロシアの４人の医師にインタビューしている。
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Interview conducted by Keiko Courdy for 霧の向こう＊AU-DELA DU NUAGE°Yonaoshi 3.11_ Japan Webdoc project in Tokyo on June 18, 2012
Uploaded on Nov 24, 2011
Atomic bombs survivors received fair compensation, not so in Fukushima!
Atomic bombs survivors received fair compensation, not so in Fukushima!
広島・長崎の被爆者援護法：追加１ミリ被曝で被曝者認定、福島事故被害者にも認定を、するべき！
*Added dose of ionizing radiation “1mSv/y”=0.23uSv/h
http://www.env.go.jp/press/file_view.php?serial=18437&hou_id=14327
” I’m sure the cover up is to avoid the high cost of compensation and mitigate their legal liability.”
Japanese researchers exposed to accidental radiation – Video
Published on May 25, 2013
Researchers exposed to radiation during experiment
A Japanese nuclear research agency says 4 of its researchers accidentally suffered internal radiation exposure during an experiment. The incident took place on Thursday at the government-affiliated Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority says it received a report from the agency on Friday evening. It is asking the agency for details about the accident and the reason for the delay in filing its report. The Japan Atomic
Energy Agency says four male researchers in their 20s and 30s were firing a beam over gold to generate elementary particles when the device malfunctioned and the output of the beam rose 400-fold. The gold was heated to high temperatures and vaporized, generating radioactive materials.
The agency officials say they believe there’s no risk to the researchers’ health.
May 25, 2013 – Updated 00:04 UTC
Water decontamination device to be used in fall
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is expected to start full operations this year of a system to remove accumulated radioactive wastewater.
The Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, can filter 62 types of radioactive material.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has 3 such systems. Operators have carried out a performance test for one of them since late March.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/05/fu…
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The Unclear Fate of Nuclear Power
Two years after the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi, can the nuclear renaissance regain its momentum?
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ideas-i…
Sanctifying nuclear hazards
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News…
May 25, 2013
Are we ready? Crews prepare for nuclear accident
John K. Manna
New Castle News
NEW CASTLE — The chances of an accident occurring at the Beaver Valley Power Station are considered to be small.
Nonetheless, FirstEnergy Corp., along with first responders and emergency management personnel, are continually preparing just in case.
http://www.ncnewsonline.com/topstorie…
Documentary – Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten [Banned in the uk]
Published on May 25, 2013
This documentary was shown on German and French TV but not in England. For obvious reasons the English don’t want anyone to see it. This is the English version which we hope you will mirror and call attention to. It discusses the effects of sea dumping of radioactive waste on the health of people living on the local coasts, like the Irish Sea and the Baltic Sea, which is the most radioactive sea in the world. The documentary focuses on the British sea dumping in the English Channel Hurd Deep about 12 miles north of the Channel Island of Alderney. Alderney is also subject to releases to the sea from the French Nuclear Reprocessing Plant at Cap de la La Hague 12 miles East of the small island. Prof Chris Busby who was consulted on the health effects of this marine radioactive pollution visits the island with the producers and makes measurements of contamination on the beach. Busby originally visited the island in 1998 with Jersey MP Stuart Syvret and found an excess of brain tumours and also general cancer mortality which was written up as a Green Audit paper and became part of a BBC news story at the time. They were both chased off the island.
Manfred Ladwig manages to get Dr John Cooper, head of the UK radiological protection organisation, the HPA, to admit that they balance childhood cancer cases against the advantages of cheaply disposing of nuclear waste. Cooper also agrees that his position involves a conflict of interest since he is head of HPA which takes advice on radiation protection from ICRP. Cooper is on the ICRP committee. He therefore takes advice from himself. We also hear from Prof Richard Wakeford, ex head of research for Sellafield, but now an “independent” expert, also on ICRP, who tells us the coastal child leukemias were caused by “population mixing”. How long do we have to be subject to advice from these clowns?
Prof Busby asks the youtube to kindly leave this alone since he was part of the production and has the right to upload it.
Published on May 25, 2013 by Professor Chris Busby http://www.youtube.com/user/drdrwoland on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaOX2…
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HALF-Life Radioactive Elements listed Here. Remember the Half life is the time it takes an element to decay by HALF. Thus, multiply the Half life by approx. 10 to find out how long these deadly elements will remain.
http://www.iem-inc.com/toolhalf.html
The solution to pollution is NOT Dilution.
THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN
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ECRR-model http://www.euradcom.org
Recommendations of the ECRR http://www.euradcom.org/2011/ecrr2010…
ICRP-model http://www.icrp.org
Analyses of the ICRP model http://irpa11.irpa.net/pdfs/3a35.pdf
Enjoy the scientific batttle of both directors of the two Radiation Risk models — J. Valentin and C. Busby, 22.03.2009, Stockholm
Published on Mar 30, 2013 Sellafield and Professor Chris Busby – INTRIGUE AND DECEPTION CONCERNING IRELAND! by arclight2011 (thank you)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1yQS5…
Petition to Legally STOP Nuclear: Dr Chris Busby
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Breaking! Sellafield, the BBC and EURDEP lie to cover up contamination incident! Irish coast hit!
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/se…
Radiation alert at home of dead Russian tycoon in UK — Officers search for nuclear material — Connected to ex-KGB spy poisoned with polonium-210 (VIDEO)
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/br…
Sellafield smoke stack incident — 20 October 2012 — Picture-repost
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/23/se…
Irish bid to close Sellafield — Sellafield covering something up!
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/26/ir…
India -Scientist: Physicians report increased cancers near nuclear site — Birth defects, still births, spontaneous abortions on the rise!
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/24/sc…
Study shows radiation can be bad for a woman’s heart
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/24/st…
Study: Nuclear Plant Shutdown Results in 4,319 Fewer Cancer Cases
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/29/st…
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