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Nuclear power and civil liberties – theme for January

The Obama administration must become more alert to authoritarian trends in Japan that its policies have been either encouraging or knowingly ignoring – often behind the curtains of our own chronic secrecy.

The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/01/24-8 By Ralph Nader, 24 Jan 14  Last month, the ruling Japanese coalition parties quickly rammed through Parliament a state secrets law. We Americans better take notice.

Under its provisions the government alone decides what are state secrets and any civil servants who divulge any “secrets” can be jailed for up to 10 years. Journalists caught in the web of this vaguely defined law can be jailed for up to 5 years.

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Government officials have been upset at the constant disclosures of their laxity by regulatory officials before and after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster in 2011, operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO).

Week after week, reports appear in the press revealing the seriousness of the contaminated water flow, the inaccessible radioactive material deep inside these reactors and the need to stop these leaking sites from further poisoning the land, food and ocean. Officials now estimate that it could take up to 40 years to clean up and decommission the reactors.Other factors are also feeding this sure sign of a democratic setback. Militarism is raising its democracy-menacing head, prompted by friction with China over the South China Sea. Dismayingly, U.S. militarists are pushing for a larger Japanese military budget. China is the latest national security justification for our “pivot to East Asia” provoked in part by our military-industrial complex. Draconian secrecy in government and fast-tracking bills through legislative bodies are bad omens for freedom of the Japanese press and freedom to dissent by the Japanese people. Freedom of information and robust debate (the latter cut off sharply by Japan’s parliament in December 5, 2013) are the currencies of democracy.There is good reason why the New York Times continues to cover the deteriorating conditions in the desolate, evacuated Fukushima area. Our country has licensed many reactors here with the same designs and many of the same inadequate safety and inspection standards. Some reactors here are near earthquake faults with surrounding populations which cannot be safely evacuated in case of serious damage to the electric plant. The two Indian Point reactors that are 30 miles north of New York City are a case in point. Continue reading

January 25, 2014 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Fukushima WAS a Nuclear Explosion, Here Is The Proof!

Friday,January 24, 2014
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Fukushima WAS a Nuclear Explosion, Here Is The Proof

Nuclear? Blast at Fukhshima reactor 3

Image source ; http://www.asianweek.com/2011/04/30/nuclear-cloud-over-fukushima/

25 January 2014

The only way that the tens of tons of uranium and plutonium shown by US EPA air samples could occur was if the explosion came from within the reactor vessel,and/or spent fuel pool.   So clearly the explosion was a nuclear type of explosion from within.    Nuclear promoters have long stated that nuclear plants can’t blow up in a nuclear explosion.    We know this to be a lie. In fact Chicago’s own Argonne National Lab has video from back in the day when it was “cool” to perform open air tests to blow up reactors to prove the nuclear chain reaction can blow up the reactors.    The special type of Nuclear Explosion is called a “prompt moderated criticality”.

A blast from a “hydrogen explosion” would come from a wide area where hydrogen would be,Hydrogen is the lightest element, so it would float up and fill the reactor building from the top down.   If it truly was a hydrogen explosion, and it wasn’t, then the blast would come from the top down.   The fuels would be compressed into their deep containments, not launched thousands of feet into the air as did occur.

I am going to stop calling these things reactor vessels, and instead call them “Radiation Canons”

Here is the Argonne National Lab proof of concept

Borax – Safety experiment on a boiling water reactor – Safety experiment on a boiling water reactor conducted by the Argonne National Lab

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WfNzJVxVz4

Even Arnie Gundersenchimed in to clarify the nature of the Prompt Criticality

This Prompt criticality doubles in power every millionth of a second and causes incredibly rapid power increase that is the destructive nature of a bomb. The second type of prompt criticalityis called a prompt MODERATED criticality, which is what I believed happened at Fukushima.

Here is his whole email on the subject
GundersenEmail

Now we do know that tens of tons (at least) were launched into the air and effectively aerosolized by the Radiation Canon (aka reactor vessel).   Simply using the density of theuranium and plutonium in the air as presented by EPA air sampling tests that are data mined to reveal their dirty little secrets.  All that data and the simple calculations to calculate mass using known density and area/volume of dispersion are HERE-

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January 25, 2014 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Audio: India’s Nuclear Challenges with Pakistan and China

Jan 24, 2014
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Please listen as the Proliferation Prevention Program welcomes Dr. Manpreet Sethi, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi. Dr. Sethi presents an insider’s view of the challenges India faces as a nuclear weapon state outside of the NPT and as a civilian nuclear energy state in a tense, nuclearized neighborhood.

Dr. Manpreet Sethi    

Senior Research Fellow

Centre for Air Power Studies

January 25, 2014 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Thorium nuclear reactors: radioactive wastes are a problem

Thorium Cycle questions and problems“……..Certainly the fission products from a Thorium reactor are a worry, Technetium-99 has a half life of 220,000 years, uranium-232 produces thallium-208 (a nasty wee gamma emitter), Selenium-79 (another gamma emitter with a 327,000 year half-life), evenThorium-232 is a problem with its half life of 14 Billion years (and while the T-232 isn’t a major worry, all the time during this 14 Billion years it will be decaying and producing stuff that is!)……”http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-8-msr-lftr/8-3-thorium-lftr/

January 25, 2014 Posted by | Reference | Leave a comment

Nuclear power destroying democracy in Japan. And Beyond?

Abe NUCLEAR FASCISM“Shock & Outrage”: Japan TV host reveals being told he cannot discuss nuclear power until pivotal Tokyo election ends — “Somebody needs to bring these issues into the media” — #2 in trending news http://enenews.com/shock-outrage-japan-tv-host-reveals-being-told-he-cannot-discuss-nuclear-power-until-pivotal-tokyo-election-ends-somebody-needs-to-bring-these-issues-into-the-media

TokyoReporter’s tweet, Jan. 22, 2014: Radio host Peter Barakan says broadcasters told him to avoid nuclear issues till after poll

Japan Times, J , Jan. 22, 2014: Freelance TV and radio commentator Peter Barakan said he was pressured by two broadcast stations to steer clear of nuclear power issues on his programs until after the Tokyo gubernatorial election on Feb. 9, causing concern among some about possible media censorship. [He] mentioned the “requests” on his live show Monday but didn’t identify the stations. Nor did he say when or why the requests were made. […] In no time, listeners were posting comments, particularly on Twitter, expressing their shock and outrage at the possible restraint on freedom of speech. […] he hosts several other news and music shows on radio and TV, including for NHK. […]  Backed by popular ex-Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, another outspoken critic of nuclear power, a Hosokawa victory could deal a severe blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s drive to […] restart the nation’s reactors […]Barakan on Monday: : “I have been told by two stations (other than InterFM) not to touch on the nuclear issue until the gubernatorial election is over, even though the campaign has not officially kicked off.”

Barakan on Wednesday:: “What happened was, I made a very casual comment on my program, and I didn’t anticipate how overheated Twitter was going to get […] It took me a little by surprise. It’s gone a little bit too far. I probably made the wrong comment […] But somebody needs to bring these issues into the media. I probably should’ve done it in a different way.”See  also: Report: TEPCO paid for creation of a blacklist of actors and musicians who are against nuclear industry

January 25, 2014 Posted by | Japan, politics, Reference | Leave a comment