“Israeli scientists are generously provided access to the nuclear facilities of certain nuclear-weapon states while nuclear scientists of NPT parties are being assassinated,” he said.
US ambassador Joseph Macmanus said: “There were no winners today. We don’t see that this issue has a place in discussions at the IAEA.”
VIENNA: A proposed resolution by Arab states criticising Israel’s widely-rumoured atomic arsenal was narrowly defeated on Friday at a gathering of the UN nuclear agency.
Following an acrimonious debate at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual general conference, the measure, supported by Iran, was defeated by 51 votes against and 43 in favour with 32 abstentions.
Israel is widely assumed to have nuclear weapons but has never acknowledged it and is not a signatory to the landmark Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
The Jewish state is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency but is not subject to IAEA inspections except for a small research facility.
“…The dismissal of Bruno Barrillot by Flosse government is a bad action against all those and all those in Polynesia and the world are fighting for truth and justice the victims of nuclear tests. “…”
CRIIRAD
Research Commission
Information and Independent
on Radioactivity
471 BC. V. Hugo – 26000 Valencia http://www.criirad.org
PRESS
June 11, 2013
CRIIRAD denounced the dismissal of Bruno BARILLOT and worries
close to see, once again, the issue of the impact on health and
environmental impact of nuclear tests France.
Since 2005, Bruno Barrillot was the official responsible for monitoring the effects of nuclear testing
for the government of French Polynesia. He was summoned June 6, 2013 the Ministry of Environment of French Polynesia for an interview prior to dismissal. This is one of first decisions taken by the government in place after the election on 17 May 2013, of Gaston Flosse returned President of French Polynesia.
CRIIRAD Barrillot Bruno knows well and can attest to the quality and effectiveness of its engagement with victims of nuclear testing and rehabilitation of polluted territories by military activities. It invites its members and all concerned citizens to send a message Support Bruno Barrillot at the association Mururoa e Tatou (*). moruroaetatou@mail.pf
These messages will be transmitted as the French Polynesian government that government.
Bruno Barrillot is a co-founder in 1984 of the Observatory of Armaments. He campaigned tirelessly decades for recognition of health and environmental impacts of French nuclear tests in the Sahara and French Polynesia. His work has resulted in progress
concrete, as the law on compensation for victims Loi Morin, the decommissioning military on the atoll of Hao, conducting independent radiological studies Hao, and Tureia Gambier, etc … Much remains to be done and his ouster is given by the new very negative signal
Government of French Polynesia.
(*) The Polynesian Mururoa e Tatou Association “is to defend and assist the victims of the trials nuclear, obtaining, by all legal means at its disposal, the right to information about the consequences of
participation in the right of access to records radiological nuclear testing programs on health and health, the right to pension, compensation and care. ”
Excerpts from the press release of June 4, 2013 the association “Mururoa e Tatou”
“On 17 May 2013, Flosse again became President of French Polynesia. Fervent support testing nuclear during his long political career (he’s 82), with money from France poured freely, it now beginning to make a clean sweep of all those who, for years, fought nuclear testing and
are committed to help the victims. “… / ….
“In July 2005, Bruno Barrillot was called by France Temaru government to facilitate the commission Investigation of the Assembly of French Polynesia on nuclear testing. For nearly eight years, with the support of
Mururoa e Tatou and successive governments has forced France to begin the rehabilitation of old sites occupied the time of the CEP and left in ruins since the end of the trial in 1996.
With associations, it denounced the consequences of nuclear testing on health and the environment and has forced the government French to concede a law to compensate victims of nuclear tests, law, unfortunately, has yet to reform.
With successive governments of Polynesia since 2005, particularly with the last government Temaru Barrillot Bruno has launched a program on the “Memory of the period of nuclear tests” completely obscured in the school curriculum, which is still to be consolidated. Mururoa e Tatou worries see Polynesian nuclear test victims disappear one after the other, without the official support the Polynesian government rejects their most loyal advocate for over two decades.
Mururoa earmadillo unworthy to see Bruno Barrillot and “thanked” and pursued by a vengeful hatred that does not credit to the government. The dismissal of Bruno Barrillot by Flosse government is a bad action against all those and all those in Polynesia and the world are fighting for truth and justice the victims of nuclear tests. ”
MururoaEARMADILLO(Associationof workers andvictims ofMururoaandFangataufaa) created a petition to supportBrunoBarrillot: “Justice for the victims ofFrenchnuclear tests“ Sign the petition
Law No.2010-2of 5 January2010 on therecognition andcompensation of victims ofFrenchnuclear tests
[1] http://www.obsarm.org
[2] Loi n° 2010-2 du 5 janvier 2010 relative à la reconnaissance et à l’indemnisation des victimes des essais nucléaires français
Putin told Shoigu to present a report on how to avoid such accidents, telling him during a video conversation that, “This is not the first time this has happened in Russia,” in remarks reported by the paper.
Russian investigators of the fire that broke out aboard the Tomsk nuclear submarine Monday morning near Vladivostok have now admitted that 15 people died in a fire that raged for five hours after welding and sawing works went awry, and that the vessel did sustain damage, Russian news agencies reported.
The fire was the second onboard a Russian nuclear-powered submarine that was in port for maintenance in less than two years.
The statements on injuries and damage to the sub from Naval and other officials represent a contradiction of official reports issued by the military on Monday.
That’s typical,” said Alexander Nikitin, chairman of the Environmental Rights Center Bellona and a former Russian naval captain. “For the Russian military, such delays in reporting are pretty much mandatory.”
In a report to President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called for increased oversight of facilities where submarines are repaired, according to The Moscow Times.
Putin told Shoigu to present a report on how to avoid such accidents, telling him during a video conversation that, “This is not the first time this has happened in Russia,” in remarks reported by the paper.
Indeed, the Tomsk represents the fourth submarine fire since 2006, and the sixth major incident aboard a sub since the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, when one two of the sub’s torpedoes exploded in their tubes during a training exercise.
The press service for the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes in Russia, said in a statement Tuesday that it had opened a criminal probe into suspected abuse of authority over the fire on the Tomsk submarine in the Bolshoi Kamen shipyard in the Russian Far East. Nikitin said the Investigative Committee’s involvement was a routine matter.
The Investigative Committee’s statement said the Tomsk has “lost some of its functional characteristics” as a result of the fire, but offered no further information about damage to the submarine.
“The health of 15 servicemen was harmed and they are now receiving treatment in a military hospital,” the Investigative Committee’s statement said. It did not give further details on the nature of the injuries, where they were being treated and without divulging their names or ranks.
While at the Sept. 21, 2013 Anti Nuclear protest in Tokyo I spot police harassing protesters. A Japanese man explains what is happening and demands his rights.
“Everything came to a halt and it is very bad for us, in a business sense and mentally. I have a family business but don’t think I can ever go back to work.
“Lots of people want to leave this area. I want to leave as well but I can’t because my life and money are all tied up here.”
Takashi Suzuki surfs in water near crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan
Says he believes the risk is low but wouldn’t allow his children to swim in the water
He lost his fishing business in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and reactor meltdowns
Many people in the region are in limbo after being denied the chance to return home
Fukushima, Japan (CNN) — Takashi Suzuki peels on his wet suit and looks out to sea. The waves are good and the water’s not too crowded, with only a dozen or so other surfers riding the waves.
Suzuki has been surfing these waters since he was in his 20s — he’s now 59. Not even the fact this beach is only 31 miles (50 kilometers) south of the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant deters him.
“The radiation levels here are low,” he says. “The data says so, so all I can do is believe it. But I won’t let my children or grandchildren go in the water.”
The Holy See used the opportunity of the 57th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) to renew its call “upon the leaders of nations to put an end to nuclear weapons production and to transfer nuclear material from military purpose to peaceful activities”.
The Most Reverend Dominique Mamberti, Secretary for Relations with States of the Holy See, addressed the Conference, held in Vienna on 16 September, 2013. Archbishop Mamberti also noted that “this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Papal Encyclical Pacem in Terris of Blessed Pope John XXIII”.
Next week, during the Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace is leading a reflection on the continuing pastoral pertinence of Pacem in Terris.
Funny, what you can stumble onto on the web. A government agency put up 266 pages of “highly confidential” government information about the nation’s nuclear facilities, including precise locations (with helpful maps) of where uranium is stored, reports the New York Times. The information was being compiled for release to the International Atomic Energy Agency when the Government Printing Office mistakenly posted it. The report has since been taken down….
The bomb that nearly exploded over North Carolina was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945. Photos: On Guardian link
A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima.
The document, obtained by the investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gives the first conclusive evidence that the US was narrowly spared a disaster of monumental proportions when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina on 23 January 1961. The bombs fell to earth after a B-52 bomber broke up in mid-air, and one of the devices behaved precisely as a nuclear weapon was designed to behave in warfare: its parachute opened, its trigger mechanisms engaged, and only one low-voltage switch prevented untold carnage.
If nothing done, all the health hazards observed since the onset of the Fukushima accident and the recent news of 44 thyroid cancer and suspected cases would be totally ignored.
これを訴えられるのは、日本人しかいません。 Only Japanese can respond to this!
英語ができない？ You say you cannot write English?
関係ありません！今はグーグル翻訳だったあるのです。
Nonsense! You can use google translation!グーグル翻訳でいいからメールを、以下のUNSCEAR担当者に！ Please write a mail to UNSCEAR person below, 緊急事態です。
日本人がWatchしていることを国連に伝えないとなりません！！！ We need to tell the UN many Japanese are watching!!!
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 heatlh hazards occuring 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.
By the say, UN HRC recommens relocation over 1mSv area, but I think this is insufficient considering that they ignore the initial exposure and internal exposure.
１ｍSvの内部被曝＝体内３０００００Bq＝６０ｋｇの成人で５００Bq/kgの体内濃度 1mSv internal exposure＝30000 Bq bodily incorporation＝500Bq/kg for 60kg adult
すなわち、低レベル放射線廃棄物の５倍にもなる濃度でやっと１ｍSvとみなされるのです！ このような換算式はまったくおかしな話です！ This internal exposure calculation into mSv is totally out of question!
実際に健康被害が出ている事、そして7q11遺伝子を検査すること、これらが早急に求められます。
Health hazards have been actually occuring among so many people in East Japan and we need to conduct 7q11 gene tests more than anything else.
Gerry Thomasb, I could not resist a little smiley here .. “hoisted by your own petard” methinks Geraldine??? 🙂 (feel free to leave a comment below 🙂 Thank you Fiona Fox of the UK SMC, best laugh all year 🙂 LMAO) OOps … no 4 smileys 😉 . And seriously, why is the Imperial University College London not advising these tests as a matter of course. The Chernobyl Tissue Bank (aka G Thomas) has been working with the Japanese and the contentious Fukushima Medical Hospital 😦 NOT VERY PROFFESSIONAL!
Fukushima news dominates – as always. There is so much information coming out – it’s hard to keep up. I recommend the website http://enenews.com/ for up to date news.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has rocked Japan’s Fukushima prefecture on Thursday – 50 km South West of the crippled nuclear reactors. No harm reported there.
Workers on Wednesday discovered the cracks and cuts at 8 places in the buttress supporting the 120-meter vertical pipe standing between the number-1 and number-2 reactor buildings about 66 meters above the ground..
The planned ice wall around and under the plant is likely to increase the sogginess of the ground there, and thus increase risk of reactors collapsing
Top actress Norika Fujiwara [former Miss Japan] has accused the government of covering up the truth about the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant,
India . Anger as the government tries to do a “sweetheart” deal with American nuclear companies, so that they can get around India’s Nuclear Liability Act . ( This would mean that the Indian tax-payer would cop the costs of a nuclear accident, rather than the nuclear company as the Act stipulates)
Syria. The situation has settled down to the extent that war is not now so likely. Questions arise as to why nuclear weapons of mass destruction are not banned, if chemical ones are. Israel stands out as a nuclear weapons country in the region.
Iran New President Hassan Rouhani making efforts for more diplomacy, and pledging that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.
Guests: Arundhati Ghosh (Former Ambassador and former leader of the Indian delegation to the CTBT conference) ; Dr. G Balachandran (Consulting Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis) ; Nilotpal Basu (Central Committee Member, CPI(M) and a former MP) ; D. Raghunandan (Secretary of the Delhi Science Forum) ; Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad (Technologist)
At least 15 armed Russian Coast Guards have just illegally boarded and taken over our ship the Arctic Sunrise.
They immediately seized every crew member except three people who locked themselves inside the radio room as the guards tried to break in. We had a satellite phone link to them and they were speaking to international media, trying to stay there for as long as they could.
As far as we know, everyone else is being held under armed guard.
The ship had been part of a peaceful protest against energy giant Gazprom which is poised to drill for the first oil to come out of the icy waters of the Arctic.Yesterday there were guns pointed at the protesters, shots fired and two other crew members were arrested as they protested Gazprom’s Arctic drilling.
The Arctic Sunrise was circling Gazprom’s Prirazlomnaya platform inside international waters and outside the jurisdiction of Russian authorities, making the boarding of the ship unlawful.
Thank you for emailing the Russian Ambassador. So far, over 145,000 people have sent emails to embassies around the world.
It has been 24 hours since the Arctic Sunrise was illegally boarded by Russian agents and details at the moment are sketchy. My colleague Frank on board was able to make one last phone call late last night before all their communications equipment was shut down, he told me:
“About 10 commandos armed with rifles, handguns and knives, boarded by a soviet era helicopter. They pushed us aside and ordered us to lie flat out on the deck. They then smashed their way onto the bridge. Our engines have been turned off and they have isolated the captain Pete Wilcox. We have no idea what is happening.”
There has been no official statement from the Russian government as to why the Arctic Sunrise was stormed. But it’s becoming clear that the security forces were acting in the interests of Gazprom. The crew have been totally cut off with no access to lawyers, no contact with the outside world, and all this in international waters.
The real threat to the safety of the Arctic is not from our activists, but from a reckless oil company so desperate for profit that it is willing to risk the pristine Arctic. We’re defending our right to peaceful protest. This is what our movement is all about.
The epicentre of the earthquake was 22km below the ground, according to the US Geological Survey.
It struck 20km west of the city of Iwaki, bordering the Pacific Ocean, at 2.25am (3.25am AEST) on Friday.
The epicentre was about 50km southwest of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which was crippled by the major quake and tsunami in March, 2011.
The Japan Meteorological Agency, which put the quake at magnitude 5.8, said no tsunami warning had been issued.
The tremor caused buildings to shake in the capital Tokyo, 175km away, an AFP reporter there said.
It came just hours after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe toured the Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, ordering its operator Tokyo Electric Power to fix radioactive water leaks there.
TEPCO said in a statement to Kyodo news agency that no abnormalities in radiation or equipment were observed at the plant after the quake.
NHK Newsline,, Sept. 19, 2013 (Transcript Excerpts): The people in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have yet another problem on their hands. They say they found cracks in the brace supporting an exhaust pipe. Authorities are concerned the pipe could collapse in another earthquake […] Officials with Tepco say they spotted cracks in 8 places on the steel brace that holds the pipe upright. […] Overseers at the nuclear regulation authority are demanding that company officials investigate immediately. They want to know if the structure can withstand another earthquake.
NHK WORLD English, Sept. 18, 2013: […] workers on Wednesday discovered the cracks and cuts at 8 places in the buttress about 66 meters above the ground. The Nuclear Regulation Authority has ordered the company to assess the capacity of the pipe to withstand an earthquake as quickly as possible. The 120-meter vertical pipe stands between the number-1 and number-2 reactor buildings. […] they believe the 2011 earthquake damaged the steel framework. They say they have not observed any obvious damage in the pipe itself. The officials say they are considering how to access the pipe to assess its strength. The area around the pipe is contaminated with high levels of radiation measuring 10 sieverts per hour. Watch the broadcast here
Asahi: Buildings at Fukushima plant can start floating from too much groundwater — Expert: Blocking groundwater with ice wall may weaken soil and cause buildings to topple (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/asahi-buildings-at-fukushima-plant-could-start-floating-from-continuous-flow-of-groundwater-expert-ice-wall-may-weaken-soil-and-cause-buildings-to-topple-audio Asahi Shimbun,, Sept. 18, 2013: […] The site receives so much groundwater that special equipment–rendered useless by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami–was set up to prevent the plant’s buildings from floating on the continuous flow. […] The original site of the Fukushima No. 1 plant was a cliff more than 30 meters high. But 20 meters was lopped off […] putting the groundwater level only a few meters below the surface. The plant itself was constructed on land containing gravel layers through which water can easily pass through. In the past, a brook trickled by the No. 4 reactor. […] Without that pumping, the buildings faced the danger of being buoyed by rising groundwater. […] TEPCO officials have pinpointed only two locations, including the turbine building of the No. 1 reactor, where groundwater is entering the building basements. They believe there are many more breaches. […]
Atsunao Marui,, head of Groundwater Research Group at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: “About 4 million tons of rain falls on the plant site over the course of a year. Of that figure, it is believed that between 1 million and 1.5 million tons seep into the ground.”
Gordon Edwards, nuclear expert (at 39:45 in): This underground river that we talked about flowing thorough — the problem with this is they don’t really know how to stop it. […] They really don’t know how to stop this flow because it’s a major aquifer. One of the plans that they are talking about is… a wall of ice a mile long to act as a barrier to prevent the groundwater from going in to the cores of these damaged reactors, in order to try and solve the problem… And nobody knows if it’s actually going to work. In fact, some of the experts in Japan have said that by diverting the groundwater around the sides of the building, you may weaken the soil to the point where the buildings themselves topple — and that could be a far worse problem. So, they really don’t know what they’re going. They literally don’t know what they’re doing.
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