Seafood Industry Counters Fukushima “Misinformation”
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute >>counters<< scaremongering claims of radioactive salmon (I think not – arclight2011, read on)
POSTED: 07:11 PM AKST Jan 05, 2014
ASMI (AZ’-me) communications director Tyson Fick says the institute has seen a resurgence of unsubstantiated, scaremongering articles designed to generate advertising revenue by curious readers clicking on websites.
Fick tells the Kodiak Daily Mirror (http://bit.ly/1crItqr) that the latest wave of misinformation claims Alaska fish has been contaminated by radiation from a Japanese nuclear power plant damaged in a 2011 earthquake.
Fick says ASMI previously have countered misinformation that Alaska salmon contained mercury or PCBs.
He says ASMI refers people to the Food and Drug Administration website. The FDA has found has no evidence of dangerous Fukushima radiation in the U.S. food supply.
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Berkeley Lab and Cal State Long Beach Researchers Launch ‘Kelp Watch’ to >>Determine Extent of Fukushima Contamination<<
Researchers from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have launched “Kelp Watch 2014,” a scientific campaign designed to determine the extent of radioactive contamination of the state’s kelp forest from Japan’s damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.
Initiated by CSULB Biology Professor Steven L. Manley and the Berkeley Lab’s Head of Applied Nuclear Physics Kai Vetter, the project will rely on samples of Giant Kelp and Bull Kelp from along the California coast.
“The California kelp forest is a highly productive and complex ecosystem and a valuable state resource. It is imperative that we monitor this coastal forest for any radioactive contaminants that will be arriving this year in the ocean currents from Fukushima disaster,” said Manley, an expert in marine algae and kelp.
“I receive calls and emails weekly from concerned visitors and Californians about the effect of the Fukushima disaster on our California marine life,” he continued. “I tell them that the anticipated concentrations that will arrive are most likely very low but we have no data regarding its impact on our coastal ecosystem. Kelp Watch 2014 will provide an initial monitoring system at least in the short-term.”
The project includes the participation of 19 academic and government institutions and three other organizations/businesses. These participants will sample kelp from the entire California coastline as far north as Del Norte County and as far south as Baja California. The sampling will begin in mid-February and will end in late winter.
Nuclear Plume Moving Off Barnwell Site –
DHEC Confirms Nuclear Plume Moving Off Barnwell Site
“It combines with oxygen to form basically radioactive water. So, it gets everywhere in the environment,” Clements said. “The level was far above the drinking water standard but fortunately it doesn’t look like anyone is drinking the water.”
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=260884
Jan 9, 2014
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The Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed to the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council a plume of radioactive Tritium is in the groundwater.
“DHEC has documented there is a plume leaking from the site but the problem with Tritium is it’s hard to remediate, it’s hard to clean it up,” said Tom Clements, Southeast Nuclear Campaign Coordinator for Friends of the Earth. “So we have to look at ways to stop it from leaking from the dump.”
Clements says DHEC’s annual updates monitor the plume, but fail to provide a long term solution on how to keep ground water safe.
The plume is moving off the Barnwell Nuclear site southwest toward the Savannah River Site. Traces of Tritium have also been found in Mary’s Branch Creek.
“About 95 percent of the 235 acres are under institutional care,” said site director Michael Benjamin.
Insurance investment in the UK nuclear to corrupt science
The UK will use this corrupted science to answer the legal challenges from nuclear test veterans, effected Irish ciizens after Windscale disaster and Irish Sea pollution, The victims of the Japanese nuclear disaster and the forgotten victims of Chernobyl and Semi in Kazahkstan as well as others.
OpEd
Arclight2011
11 January 2014
Blimey! This has been one hell of a year on the blog here at nuclear-news.net .. Our subscribers have grown and the links and info is getting out.. And this can be seen all over the web.
Activists with different views are getting their voices and opinions heard. It wasnt always like this.
In the early stages of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as the news organisations began shying away from the topic for a variety of reasons. The main driving force for this was the beleaguered nuclear and energy corporations and more importantly the insurance and investment sectors who had invested a staggering amount on the “new green hope” since the 2008 crash in the banking sector.
Using the PR companies like Ogilvy and Maher who also “smoothed” the Gulf Oil spill in the USA, the UK government used the very Biased science from their “nuclear professionals” from the Science Media Stable. I called many independent nuclear scientists and professionals in the UK and Europe and discovered that the Science Media Centre had blocked all of them for a number of years. The Science media centre has been recorded as taking its orders from the Department of Environment and climate change DECC (65 percent of whose budget goes on nuclear decommissioning).
To my astonishment as the years began to role by, I realised that UK science had been bought of by the corporations. This point on corrupted science and academia in the UK was mentioned by Noam Chomsky in his recent speech in the UK as well as a critique of the same by Chris Busby. I independently discovered this with the help of many astute blog researchers at enenews, exskf and fukushima diary to name but a few.
So, I decided that someone had to look at the science behind radiation myself. After seeing Yablakovs book on Chernobyl being attacked and false rumours of the book not being peer reviewed, so was not valued, I decided to research further. The Independent WHO (Allison Katz) did research on the Chernobyl Forums report (ICRP and IAEA) version of events and found many more peer reviewed articles in Yablakovs book than the international Chernobyl Forum.
After that I decided to find as much info on the nuclear effects and share far and wide.
And that brings me to nuclear-news.net . The news balance is still not even but people are starting to wake up it would seem. The nuclear industry workers have to come to blogs like this one to find out information about their own industry. More censorship is on the way too! In the UK under corporate law. In japan with the corporate secrecy law.
Tepco’s new name, its failure. its demands for workers to return compensation!
Official: Tepco has failed at Fukushima, no progress made — Tepco to change name, start new business — Tepco demands nuclear workers return payments, anger passed tipping point http://enenews.com/tepco-to-change-name-and-start-new-business-official-tepco-has-failed-no-progress-made-with-leaks-or-reactors-tepco-demands-fukushima-workers-return-money-anger-has-breached-tipping-point
Mainichi,, Jan. 9, 2014: [TEPCO] plans to create a new brand name under which the utility will sell electricity in regions outside its own service area across the country as part of efforts to boost its earnings, it has been learned. […] TEPCO made the decision apparently because the beleaguered utility thought that clients could accept the service more easily if it were provided under a brand name other than TEPCO […] One of the main reasons why TEPCO is rushing to enter into the business of selling electricity throughout the country is that unless it boosts its earnings by increasing the number of its clients, it will not be able to secure enough funds to cover the costs of dealing with the Fukushima nuclear accident […]
Asahi Shimbun,, Jan. 10, 2014: Previously, these issues [i.e. Decommissioning, controlling radioactive water, land contaminated by radioactive fallout] were left entirely in the hands of [TEPCO] […] “The coming several years are crucial,” [Hajimu Yamana, the expected leader of government’s new decommissioning division] said. “If we crawl along as we have done, radioactive contamination will spread to groundwater and the sea. We have to pick up our pace.” […] TEPCO has failed to make progress in decommissioning the reactors and dealing with leaks of radioactive water at the plant. […]
Mainichi,, Jan. 10, 2014: The employee was among those who worked on the front lines immediately after the onset of the nuclear disaster in March 2011, Amid high levels of radiation, the employee and his colleagues trembled with fear as they worked to contain the unprecedented nuclear plant disaster […] he received a letter from TEPCO last spring asking him to return part of the compensation he received from the utility […] “That can’t be possible,” he thought, and read the letter over and over again. […] He shed tears of frustration and suffered sleepless nights. His coworkers had also received similar documents. A gloomy, depressing atmosphere prevailed, significantly undermining workers’ morale. […] suspension of compensation payouts to employees [started] in 2012 and the demand to return compensation in spring 2013 […]
Mainichi,i, Jan. 6, 2014: [TEPCO] is demanding that the families of employees return compensation […] In one case, a household is under pressure to return more than 30 million yen in damages from the company, raising concerns about future livelihoods. […] According to the sources, one TEPCO employee under pressure to return compensation was living with his wife and two children in a rented house in an area near the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant — where it has been deemed that evacuees are unable to return home in the foreseeable future with an annual radiation dosage of over 50 millisieverts. […]
Mainichi,, Jan. 4, 2014: [TEPCO employees] have been asked to return compensation payments, with the total amount exceeding 100 million yen. One employee said, “Around 100 employees have had their compensation payments stopped, and many of them have been asked to return money.” In October, TEPCO held a meeting in Fukushima Prefecture between company executives and employees. In an audio recording of the meeting obtained by the Mainichi Shimbun, an employee says, “Asking us to return the money sent to us has made everyone’s anger breach the tipping point.”
Nuclear weapons threatened by squirrels – worse than Sr Megan Rice!
How One Nuclear Missile Base Is Battling Ground Squirrels In Montana, squirrels have been tunneling under a base’s fences and setting off intruder alarms, prompting researchers to strengthen its defenses By Joseph Strombergsmithsonianmag.com August 30, 2013 Malmstrom Air Force Base, in Western Montana, is home to 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles, each tipped with a nuclear warhead. Each of these missiles is housed in an underground silo, staffed by two military personnel around the clock, and can be fired on a moment’s notice.
But in recent years, the base has been dealing with an enemy so relentless that they’ve been forced to call in outside help to defend against it. That fearsome enemy is a species of rodent known as Richardson’s ground squirrel.
Ground Squirrel Damage to Missile Silos
The squirrels, each about a foot long and 1-2 pounds, dig extensive underground tunnel networks (they’ve been known to excavate tunnel systems more than 30 feet in length). At Malmstrom, they’ve developed an annoying habit of tunneling underneath the fences that protect each nuclear missile’s silo……..The silos are scattered over some 23,000 square miles, so in some cases, simply traveling out to check out a false intruder alarm requires a substantial investment in time and resources.
Additionally, over time, the rodents have started damaging the base’s physical infrastructure. “They’re burrowing under foundations, undermining road beds and gnawing on cables,” Witmer says.
…… an underground barrier, they initially tested steel fabric (similar to steel wool) and a metal chain-link mesh, but they were no match for the squirrels. “They just tore through steel fabric, with their claws and ever-growing incisors, and squeezed right through the chain-link mesh,” Witmer says. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-one-nuclear-missile-base-is-battling-ground-squirrels-3031350/#ixzz2qK5IQlFS
Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Koizumi denounces the lies of the nuclear industry
“When experts say nuclear power generation is safe and doesn’t cost much and this is the only way to go if we want to stop relying on coal, well, we believe them. But they’ve been lying to us for years.
‘We’ve been lied to,’ said ex-Prime Minister Koizumi January 12, 2014 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Maki Okubo senior staff writer .Koizumi has not granted a single request for an interview or TV appearance since he stepped down as prime minister. But there was a question I just had to ask him, face to face. The question was, “Why have you become such a vocal opponent of nuclear power generation now?”
He was a staunch proponent of nuclear power generation while he was prime minister. His argument was that if our country is to curb carbon dioxide emissions, we cannot do away with nuclear power generation……..
I felt convinced that Koizumi’s “defection” from the pro-nuke camp to the anti-nuke camp must also have been caused by some deeply emotional experience. So, I asked him, “What was the biggest reason for your change of heart?”
Looking me squarely in the eye, Koizumi launched into a voluble spiel.
“Denjiren (the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan) has been telling a pack of lies,” Continue reading
Tax-payer faced with the costs of UK government’s big nuclear blunder
The government certainly seems to have gone out of its way to make itself an easy prey for EDF. It produced a White Paper with unreasonably low cost estimates and a commitment to no subsidy. This reassured many of the critics and made it easy to get parliamentary approval…..
The government has been dragging its feet on energy conservation and renewables, thus making it easier to argue for 
nuclear and further weakening its position in bargaining with EDF. Yet we can manage without it in the medium and long term [10] (Green Energies – 100% Renewable by 2050) and in the short term it has nothing to contribute because the earliest the new reactors at Hinkley Point can be producing their 3.2 GW of electricity is 2023.
UK Government’s Great Nuclear Blunder Permaculture Research Institute, January 9, 2014The UK Government weakened its bargaining position by dragging its feet on renewables, and is promising to pay for nuclear at exorbitant prices in projects that will not deliver.by Prof Peter Saunders
Nuclear at all cost to taxpayer When the UK government published the 2008 White Paper [1] announcing its intention to commission a new fleet of nuclear reactors, it portrayed nuclear power as an economical way of providing low-carbon electricity. We were highly sceptical of the figures on which this claim was based ([2] Nuclear Subsidies Largesse by other Names, SiS59) and the terms of the contract that has been agreed with Electricité de France (EDF) [3] confirm that the project will cost far more than was envisaged in the White Paper. Many of those who supported the decision on the basis of what they read in the White Paper are now having second thoughts. Continue reading
Nuclear agreement with Iran finalised: uranium stockpile to be dismantled
Iran to begin dismantling nuclear stockpile ‘next week’ Iran to start dismantling its disputed stockpile of enriched uranium next Monday after details of nuclear deal finalised. By Colin Freeman, Telegraph UK 12 Jan 2014Iran will start dismantling parts of its uranium stockpile next week after details of an interim agreement over its nuclear programme were finalised over the weekend.
In a move described as “concrete progress” by Washington, the small print of the deal has now been nailed down between Tehran and negotiators representing Russia, China and the Western powers.
Iran first announced that all outstanding disagreements had been resolved last Friday, but Washington’s confirmation came only on Sunday night. William Hague, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, hailed it as an important “first step”.
The process of dismantling Tehran’s stocks of enriched uranium, which the West suspects was intended for weapons use, will begin a week on Monday. There will also be more frequent inspections by international monitors.
“Beginning January 20th, Iran will for the first time start eliminating its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium and dismantling some of the infrastructure that makes such enrichment possible,” the White House said.
Under the agreement, which follows a landmark deal reached in November, Iran will halt parts of its enrichment program for six months in exchange for modest relief from the international sanctions that has crippled its economy.
On Sunday, President Obama also said he would veto plans to pile on yet more sanctions, which have been proposed by hawkish factions in Washington’s House of Representatives. They claim the existing deal takes too much pressure off the Iranians, and will reduce their incentives to abide by the deal.
A bipartisan sanctions bill tabled before Christmas has so far attracted 59 out of 100 senators as co-sponsors. A total of 67 would be needed to over-ride the presidential veto.
The six month moratorium agreed to by Iran is designed to give further negotiating time for a longer-lasting settlement……Baroness Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said the different parties to the agreement would ask the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog to verify the deal finalised over the weekend.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10567105/Iran-to-begin-dismantling-nuclear-stockpile-next-week.html
South Korea’s nuclear scandals an obstacle to selling nukes to India
The KEPCO chief Kim Joong-kyum had to resign in the wake of the scam. The probe into the scam was subsequently widened and 100 people, including top executives of its energy companies, were indicted for corruption.
New Delhi wary of nuclear cooperation with Seoul Deccan Herald, Anirban Bhaumik, January 12, 2014, DHNS: A cagey New Delhi is unlikely to accede to Seoul’s request for a site to build atomic power plants during the forthcoming visit of the South Korean President Park Geun-hye to India.This is ostensibly because the East Asian country’s nuclear industry was recently hit by a scam, raising doubts about safety standards of its reactors. Park is set to arrive in New Delhi on Wednesday. This is going to be her maiden visit to India after taking over as the president of South Korea in February 2013.
New Delhi hopes that the South Korean president’s visit would “expand and strengthen” the bilateral strategic partnership. But no significant headway in the proposed civil nuclear cooperation is expected during the visit, as New Delhi is wary about allocating a site for South Korean reactors in India, particularly in the wake of the revelation last year that safety certificates for a large number of components procured by the state-owned Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) for its reactors over the previous nine years had been forged.
The KEPCO has since long been keen to export its APR-1400 reactors to India. The KEPCO and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) have been engaged in a joint study of “licensibility and constructability” of APR-1400s in India since 2009……….
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