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Proof that the nuclear industry has been dodging its responsibilities for over 50 years via Greenpeace グリンピースが情報発表：原発産業は今まで50年間の間、責任をとらなくともいいことになっていた。

Image source ; http://www.greenpeace.org/japan/ja/

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http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/proof-that-nuclear-industry-has-been.html

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Information released today by Greenpeace Japan shows that the builders and suppliers of nuclear reactors were afraid of being held financially responsible for any accidents they might cause from the outset of the nuclear energy era in Japan.
A freedom of information request made by us has turned up documents from 1960 that show nuclear companies pressured the Japan Atomic Energy Commission to make sure they were exempted from all responsibility for a nuclear accident, except in the case of a deliberate act. The Commission was only too happy to agree.
But what if a nuclear company is grossly negligent? It needn’t worry. The Commission’s documents say:
“…we decided to delete ‘gross negligence’ to not make suppliers feel uneasy”
We wouldn’t want nuclear suppliers to feel uneasy, would we? But uneasy is the way the Japanese people must be feeling when they see the size of the costs of the Fukushima disaster that they are now having to pay.
And this is a state of affairs that continues to this day.
What this proves is the nuclear industry has never had any faith in the safety of its nuclear reactors. If it did, why would it have worked so hard to be protected from its responsibilities?
It’s an admission that nuclear power is inherently unsafe and that the nuclear industry is not able and willing to deal with a major accident. They’ve known this from the very beginning.
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This is not a scandal unique to Japan, however.

Greenpeace Canada has copies of letters written to Canada’s government by GE Hitachi (GEH), Babcock and Wilcox, and Westinghouse, all demanding to be let off the hook in the event of a nuclear catastrophe. In its letter, GEH says it wants to avoid what happened to Union Carbide after the disaster at its chemical plant in Bhopal, India. Union Carbide was sued in US courts. GEH wants indemnification from nuclear liability, from being sued the way Union Carbide was.

We know who really needs “an indemnification from nuclear liability”. Us, the people, who have to live with nuclear power and all its dangers and who have its massive costs forced upon us. The nuclear industry has put its own interests and those of its shareholders above the people it is supposed to be serving.

The nuclear industry has been allowed to write its own rules for more than 50 years, as the documents we’ve made public show. It’s time those rules were scrapped and the nuclear industry disqualified from the game it’s been playing with all our lives.

This must stop. Right now.

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September 12, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

UNSCEARが被曝による健康被害はなかったという報告を出そうとしている！ UNSCEAR is going to publish a report that says there is no health hazards after the Fukushima disaster!

Contact address: To UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moonsg@un.org
国連科学委員会の福島事故の健康影響に関しての最終報告は、9月に出されます。

The final UNSCEAR report will be released in September.
ちなみに私は上記の人に既にオーストリアでお会いし、健康被害を口頭と書面にて訴えました。

By the way, I visited the above UNSCEAR officer in Austria and verbally explained the health hazards occurring in Japan along with the following documents.

そして2013年6月3日に提出した書類が以下の通りで、健康被害を訴えた詳細なものです。
The following are the documents I submitted to UNSCEAR on June 3, 2013.

1. Report from a Citizen from Fukushima
http://takenouchimari.blogspot.jp/2013/08/unscear.html
上記の日本語版；福島県郡山市の市民からの健康被害の訴え→http://takenouchimari.blogspot.jp/2013_08_01_archive.html

2. Open Letter to the UN on Health Hazards
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/01/open-letter-to-un-on-health-hazards.html
上記の日本語版；国連への手紙は2013年1月のブログに章ごとに日英で掲載されています。
そしてもちろん、6月に発表された甲状腺がん27人、また8月の44人の件もすぐにメールいたしました。
(お返事は頂いていませんが)

Of course I sent mails regarding the 27 thyroid cancer and the suspected cases in June and 44 in August, though there have been any reply.
皆さん、誰かがやってくれると待っていてはいけません。主要な組織は、私が働きかけても動いてはくれませんでした。 だから、気づいた人が一人ひとり立ち上がってやるしかありません。
私が実際にオーストリアまで単独で（正確には3歳の子連れで）行った時の記録がここにありますので、時間のある人はこちらもお読みください。
http://takenouchimari.blogspot.jp/2013/06/blog-post.html

Save Kids Japan 2013年8月31日土曜日
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2013/08/even-belgian-delegates-got-mad-at.html?spref=tw

September 12, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

On Fukushima Beach 3 Trailer #2. New release date 9/13/13

Andrew Ebisu

Published on 11 Sep 2013

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My Hour Of Silence For Subcritical Nuclear tests – A Kishner

Judge Jenkins found that the U.S. government was guilty for the deaths or cancers of most of the plaintiffs in that court case yet a more conservative-leaning federal appeals court overturned his landmark decision on the grounds of what is called the ‘discretionary function,’ which translates to THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO NO HARM.

My Hour Of Silence

A resurrected essay from 2010 – by Andrew Kishner

http://www.nuclearcrimes.org/index.php

After learning two weeks ago about the U.S. government’s notification that it had conducted a subcritical nuclear test, and also its failure to provide its customary 48 hour advance notice, I took the advice of my girlfriend. I wrote an oped, circulated it widely on the internet and began observing an “hour of silence” every day to bring attention to the heinous and outrageous subcritical nuclear experiment named ‘Bacchus’ that was conducted in Nevada.

The daily ritual lasted until September 25th; during those bizarre interruptions of mundane errands and interesting discussions we got strange looks whenever we stopped shopping to scribble notes to each other in the center of aisles and in parking lots. But, once or twice, a quiet hour-long drive through the countryside gave me time for deep thinking about subcrits.

What I learned was that subcritcal tests are such a great – perhaps, the great – litmus test for how well developed are ones thoughts about nuclearism. Subcritical experiments, I learned, force one to develop an argument why these tests are bad, which is difficult because they are such a ‘grey matter’ subject.

Subcrits aren’t really causing proximate harm to anyone, nor are they part of any overt threat to a sovereign country. How could one persuasively argue they are bad? Because they violate the ‘spirit’ of the CTBT treaty or some promise to one day abolish nukes? Accusing a citizen of ‘violating the spirit of the law’ never landed anyone in jail or resulted in any great reprimand.

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September 12, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

SCANDAL!! Norways NGO Bellona uncovers secret nuclear deals at the experimental thorium reactor complex in Norway

“….The Halden reactor’s own ethical guidelines state that it will not “export technology or materials that can be used for another nation’s military capacity without export permits from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the Norwegian daily VG reported…..”

Charles Digges,

11 September-2013

http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/halden_scandal

A major Norwegian nuclear technology institute has, as the result of Bellona legal pressure, admitted it has carelessly shared nuclear fuel technologies with other countries in contravention of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry’s regulations guiding the release of such sensitive information.

As a result of a police report filed in May by Bellona general director and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer, Norway’s Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) – which runs the country’s Halden research reactor – has come clean that it should have handled several research agreements, some involving foreign militaries via the appropriate channels.

The unique qualities of the Halden reactor allow for a wide array of nuclear experiments that can have direct military applications, said Bøhmer. Research contracts with the Halden reactor are therefore overseen by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with international non-proliferation principles.

The Halden reactor’s own ethical guidelines state that it will not

“export technology or materials that can be used for another nation’s military capacity without export permits from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the Norwegian daily VG reported.

The nuclear research in question involves developing fuel for nuclear submarines that can last substantially longer than traditional fuels, thus allowing military submarines to remain at sea for greater lengths of time without refueling.

Bellona’s Nils Bøhmer.

Tone foss aspevoll/bellona

According to Bøhmer, that research is likely now in the hands of Russia, the US, Brazil, Argentina, and France.

The agreements the IFE has secured with nuclear research institutes in these countries circumvent Foreign Affairs Ministry approval as well as Halden’s own stated policies, said Bøhmer.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign affairs confirmed it had not received any documents pertaining to the deal in place between IFE and Brazil before the case was brought to its attention by Bellona and newspaper reports in late spring.

On May 12, the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo reported that the Halden reactor was carrying out so-called irradiation tests for Brazil’s navy as part of the development of the country’s first generation of nuclear submarines, VG reported. The first of these submarines is to be commissioned in 2023.

The IFE emphasized that no uranium fuel was ever to be exported, only reports on the experiments.

Deal sailed under the radar for two years

According to the VG report, the deal between the IFE and Brazil has been in effect for two years prior to its discovery.

According to Bøhmer, “the IFE seems to be selling know-how to the highest bidder” without regard to its possible military application.

This is especially dicey, he said, in the hands of non-NATO bloc nations, such as Russia and Brazil and Argentina.

“Research handling is out of control,” said Bøhmer, who noted that several other stop gaps, such as Norwegian Minister for Trade and Industry, Trond Giske, should have red-flagged the research sharing deals.  The Ministry for Trade and Industry oversees IFE.

“What happens at the IFE is [Giske’s] responsibility, but did he know what kind of research the institute was participating in?

Have all customers been civilian?” said Bøhmer. “There is every reason to question the common sense of these scientists when they wait until the case comes out in the media before applying permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

The allegations that the IFE skirted Ministry of Foreign Affairs approval for the export of nuclear technological know-how, which could be used for military purposes are currently under investigation.

If found guilty it could lead to fines and even jail time for IFE upper brass, Bøhmer said Tuesday.

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