Tokyo Bay radioactive contamination is equivalent to the sea at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to within 20km – 東京湾放射能汚染は福島原発20km圏内の海と同等 NHKスペシャル
Published on 20 Feb 2014
もう忘れてるでしょ？福島沖の魚を危険というなら、東京湾は同じぐらいやばいってこと。ま、当然ですが。高級江戸前寿司で東京湾のアナゴ食ってる場合じゃない
Team to Do Assessment at New Mexico Nuclear Site
CARLSBAD, N.M. February 20, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/team-assessment-mexico-nuclear-site-22602425
The U.S. Department of Energy has appointed a team to investigate the detection of radiation in and near a southeastern New Mexico facility that is the nation’s only underground nuclear waste repository in operation.
The assessment of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant will be conducted by an accident investigation board consisting of department officials and representatives of health and safety agencies, the department said in a statement released late Wednesday.
The board will be assisted by experts in fields such as fire protection, ventilation, and mine safety, the department said.
Aircraft threaten nuclear power plants and other industrial plants – Global dimming effects over the Atlantic due to contrails increasing severe rainfall
NATS is the UK’s leading provider of air traffic control services. Each year we handle 2.2 million flights and 220 million passengers in UK airspace.
http://www.nats.aero/about-us/what-we-do/our-control-centres/
OpEd
Arclight2011
20 February 2014
This post attempts to answer the question of what mechanism is causing the large amounts of record breaking levels of rainfall in Norway and the UK over recent years. Whilst global warming is an obvious answer as clouds hold more water if the atmosphere is warmer but the facts remain that increased flights across the Atlantic and increased particulates from various sources are responsible for this.
This dimming effect has repercussion concerning reports that use data that expects no quick changes to the earths climate (ref MET Office UK). In planning large projects such as nuclear power plants, waste/fuel processing work and storage sites, I have noticed that they refer to the incorrect information on the MET Office site and do not include the obvious recent data showing record breaking severe weather.
Of course this localised dimming effect causes the clouds to empty quicker in Europe and has reported to be causing droughts in Iran for instance.
Severe rainfall also can flood deep nuclear waste repositories as well as undermine buildings.
David Cameron on Sky TV yesterday did not say that climate change was definite and a done deal in answer to why is the flooding so severe. David Cameron decided to concentrate on the here and now and not worry about the future (even with more storms heading towards the UK).
So as part of my research i will place the links and info that is helping to inform me.. I think many flights are not reported (rendition and military but bear in mind that most flights to the wars from the USA to the middle east fly either to Ireland or across the top of Scotland).
Below are some links concerning localised global dimming in the context of global warming.
Extreme Weather in parts of the world (Updated 14 February 2014)
Parts of the world have witnessed a series of extreme weather conditions in the first six weeks of 2014, continuing a pattern that was set in December 2013.
Much of the United States of America has experienced cold waves and major winter storms, whilst California remains gripped by drought.The United Kingdom has seen its wettest December-January period on record, with severe, widespread and prolonged flooding. A combination of strong winds, storms and high tides caused damage and flooding in other coastal areas of Europe. There has been unusually heavy snowfall in the southern Alps.
Monthly mean temperatures were extremely high from eastern Mongolia to eastern China. In the Southern hemisphere, Australia, Argentina and Brazil experienced extended heatwaves.
Throughout this period, national meteorological and hydrological services provided forecasts and regularly-updated warnings.
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html
Tuesday, 8 January 2013: 9:15 AM
Relating the climate impact of trans-Atlantic flights to typical north Atlantic weather patterns
Room 17A (Austin Convention Center)
Emma A. Irvine, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and K. P. Shine and B. J. Hoskins
Video of talk here that discusses the connection between contrails and the jet stream and high pressure ridges as well as the connection between dimming (cloud cover) and rain.
https://ams.confex.com/ams/93Annual/flvgateway.cgi/id/23305?recordingid=23305
Martin Wild
ETH Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zurich, Switzerland
Coherent periods and regions with prevailing declines (“dimming”) and inclines (“brightening”) in surface solar radiation have been detected in the worldwide observational networks, often in accord with anthropogenic air pollution patterns
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00074.1
By Kharunya Paramaguru
Oct. 30, 2013
A new report on extreme-weather events by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the European national science academies suggests that “some of the extreme weather phenomena associated with climate change are increasing in frequency and intensity within Europe.” They also say that
“human activity has been the cause of more profound and rapid change”
for the earth’s climate.
Using computer modeling, the authors have found a “consensus” on “the likely future pattern of extreme weather events in Europe.” This includes more frequent and intense heat waves, as well as a reduction of rainfall and average temperatures for southern Europe.
For northern Europe, the authors say that “high intensity and extreme precipitation are expected to become more frequent……
Read more: Europe Hit by Powerful Storm: More Extreme Weather Is Likely in Future | TIME.com http://science.time.com/2013/10/30/bad-news-for-storm-battered-europe-theres-more-extreme-weather-on-the-horizon/#ixzz2tsKnjFg2
2011: world’s 10th warmest year, warmest year with La Niña on record, second-lowest Arctic sea ice extent
“Norway also had its wettest summer on record, and record summer rainfalls also occurred in many parts of Denmark and northeast Germany. “
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/gcs_2011_en.html
Past and future variations in climate and runoff in Norway
8 Nov 2000 – “….but in most regions there is a substantial increase in precipitation….”
What Tokyo has to look forward to when the fascist Olympics come to town – Persecution!
Yevgeny Vitishko, the Russian environmentalist who drew damning attention to gross ecological violations surrounding the Sochi 2014 Olympics today was transferred from administrative custody to an unknown prison colony to serve three years for spray-painting a fence.
But for several hours, he his whereabouts were completely unknown to activists, his family and police and corrections officials refused to discuss it. His release from jail in Tuapse, 72 kilometers northwest of Sochi – where he was held for 15 days on trumped up charges of swearing in public – was supposed to have occurred at 1:20 pm local time.
He would have then been allowed to return to his home, see his family and collect his personal affairs before being transferred to the prison colony for the next three years.
Instead, it was finally tentatively confirmed three hours later that he had been transferred earlier in the day to Krasnodar, the capital of the Russian region where the Olympics are being held – a violation of the conditions of his transfer as established by the Krasnodar regional court on February 12.
Judges in Krasnodar said Vitishko would not only be allowed to return home prior to going to the penal colony, but that he would be released from the Tuapse jail on his own recognizance to see his family, collect his things and then turn himself into penal colony correctional officials.
According to Dmitry Shevchenko, a fellow activist of Vitishko’s at the Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus, Vitishko should have been released at 1:20. Activists and well wishers as well as Norway’s TV2 had gathered for his release.
But when he failed to appear, no one could get a straight answer from jail officials as to Vitishko’s whereabouts.
Shevchenko told Bellona in a telephone interview that Vasily Vinishenko, the head of the local detention center in Tuapse where Vitishko was being held, told waiting activists that Vitishko had already been sent to Krasnodar.
During a call to the duty officer at the Tuapse jail by Shevchenko, he was told Vitishko was still in the custody of the detention facility.
The duty officer told Shevchenko in yet a later telephone call to the jail that Vitishko had been released at 1:24 pm local time.
At the same time, Vitishko’s wife, Larisa, received a call from the Tuapse jail. She told Bellona that a duty officer there had informed her Vitishko had been freed, but then immediately detained again.
Øystein Bogen, a reporter with TV2 news in Norway, who had been sent to cover the release of Vitishko, posted on his twitter account at 2:10 pm local time that, “Vitisko vanished without a trace from remand detention in Tuapse. The police cannot account for where he is.”
URGENT! LOCK THE GATE ON NUCLEAR WASTE: LILLYHALL LANDFILL
Beneath the Dark Mountain, lies the Dark Secret… the earth is Unearth – and can never be unearthed.
TODAY Workington made a stand against higher activity low level nuclear waste arriving in tipper trucks to be dumped in plastic bin bags into Lillyhall landfill.
Over 100 people stopped to sign letters to Cumbria County Council ”why should we have it on our door step!” was the cry !
Secretary of State Ed Davey has told campaigners that the landfill site has already been awarded a permit by the Environment Agency (over the heads of local councillors and the public) to take High Volumes of building rubble from decommissioning activities “primarily from Sellafield”. Asbestos laced with tritium will also be arriving from Chapel Cross in Scotland with a “controlled release of radioactivity to ground waters.” This is acceptable to government so long as it does not leak to other European countries: “The proposal was also subject to Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty which requires Member States to provide the Commission with general data so that they may give an opinion on whether the proposal is likely to have an impact on other Member States. The opinion of the Commission in this case was that it would not. The Commission visit ion the site in 2013 and reported that they were content with what they saw.” WE ARE NOT CONTENT WITH WHAT WE SEE which is the dispersal of radioactivity to our environment by all means possible including dumping radioactive wastes into landfill.
PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION OF OUR GROUNDWATER WITH RADIOACTIVE WASTES
JOIN THE DEMO OUTSIDE COUNTY OFFICES KENDAL from 10am Wednesday 26th February
Public “relatively safe” from Fukushima, IAEA says
Feb. 18, 2014
VIENNA, Feb. 18 (UPI) — The International Atomic Energy Agency said work remaining at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear site will be challenging but the public is “relatively” safe.
“In general, it is expected that the situation onsite will remain very challenging as the recovery operations progress,” the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog group said in a statement Monday.
“Based on “the information” that has been made available, the IAEA considers that all members of the public are safe and that the food supply is safe and is being appropriately managed.”
Last week, Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant’s operator, reported high levels of the radioactive element Cesium in groundwater samples near monitoring wells associated with the plant.
A 13-page report from the IEA said Monday monitoring of the air around the plant detected “no significant” increase in radiation levels.
A 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami crippled the nuclear facility in 2011. Environmental groups like Greenpeace accused the Japanese utility company of failing to manage cleanup operations effectively.
REFILE -Japan to fast-track some nuclear restarts; may break logjam
..NRA chairman Shunichi Tanaka said comments by Motegi or pressure from utilities did not affect decisions by the regulator. “This has absolutely no impact on our review,” he said. “There is no chance we will be swayed.”…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/japan-nuclear-restarts-idUSL2N0LO0DQ20140219
Feb 19 (Reuters) – Japan will fast-track the restart of some nuclear reactors, the regulator said on Wednesday, potentially breaking a logjam that has kept the country without nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
Making a priority list for a few nuclear plants will move them forward in an approval process that has become bogged down in laborious safety checks and paperwork.
It remains unclear when any of Japan’s 48 reactors could come back on-line, but fast-tracking the process is good news for the nuclear industry, which had been hoping to begin the restarts by the middle of this year.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), an independent body created in 2012, said it will craft a priority list of plants that meet its earthquake and tsunami criteria as early as next month, selecting a few to expedite from six pressurised water reactors run by Kansai Electric Power Co, Kyushu Electric Power, Hokkaido Electric Power and Shikoku Electric Power.
Japan’s nuclear shutdown has forced the resource-poor nation to import costly fossil fuel, pushing the economy into a record 18 months of trade deficits.
Post-tsunami deaths outnumber disaster toll in Fukushima caused by depression
….However, with the aid of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), EEG and positron emissions tomography (PET) it is possible to prove that cerebral changes in Chernobyl liquidators and veterans of the first Gulf War, as well as the war in Bosnia, are very similar….(Ratical article below)
…Campaigners say the sense of impermanence and the fracturing of families and communities has led to a marked increase in medical problems among evacuees, especially mental illnesses like depression….
….While both Iwate and Miyagi suffered higher tolls in the initial disaster, the number of indirect deaths in both prefectures is lower than in Fukushima, at 434 and 879 respectively.
The small Fukushima city of Minamisoma has been the worst-hit, with 447 deaths indirectly blamed on the disaster, followed by 317 in Namie town and 225 in Tomioka town….
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/post-tsunami-deaths/1006448.html
Health complications stemming from Japan’s 2011 tsunami have killed more people in one Japanese region than the disaster itself, the local authority said on Thursday.
TOKYO: Health complications stemming from Japan’s 2011 tsunami have killed more people in one Japanese region than the disaster itself, the local authority said on Thursday.
Data compiled by officials and police show that almost three years after the huge waves smashed ashore, 1,656 people living in Fukushima prefecture have died from stress and other illnesses related to the disaster, compared with 1,607 who were killed in the initial calamity.
“The biggest problem is the fact that people have been living in temporary conditions for so long,” Hiroyuki Harada, a Fukushima official dealing with victim assistance, told AFP.
“People have gone through dramatic changes of their environment. As a result, people who would not have died are dying,” he said.
Along with the prefectures of Miyagi and Iwate, Fukushima was one of the worst hit parts of Japan when a huge 9.0 undersea earthquake sent a wall of water barrelling into the coast.
The waves swept more than 18,000 people to their deaths across the country, and destroyed entire communities.
Fukushima was also hit with the resulting nuclear disaster after cooling systems at the Daiichi nuclear plant were knocked out, sending reactors into meltdown and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
Almost three years on, many people remain displaced, whether because their homes around the power plant have not been declared safe or because rebuilding along the coast has been slow.
Officials say that as well as those who died in the early stages of the disaster, through lack of initial care because medical facilities were hobbled, a growing number of people are dying from the physical and mental stress of staying at shelters, including through suicide.
Physical and mental stress
Arnold Gundersen : Fukushimas mystery leaks explained and most toxic leak to date, now stopped with a plastic garbage bag!
From Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.
TEPCO is behaving as though it is the victim of the largest industrial accident in the history of time rather than the perpetrator. Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen analyzes new leaks at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 and discusses TEPCO’s negligence in not applying engineering rigor to its analysis of the leaks.
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http://asiancorrespondent.com/119786/japan-highly-radioactive-fukushima-leak-doesnt-reach-ocean/
Japan: Highly radioactive Fukushima leak ‘doesn’t reach ocean’ – stopped with plastic bag!
By AP News Feb 20, 2014
TOKYO (AP) — Highly radioactive water has overflowed from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled nuclear power plant, but the operator says it did not reach the Pacific Ocean.
The operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said Thursday that the leak involved partially treated water from early in the crisis, meaning it was more toxic than previous leaks. Three reactors melted at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, with radioactive water partially recycled and stored in more than 1,000 tanks.
TEPCO says about 100 tons of the contaminated water overflowed through a rainwater drainage pipe, where plant workers attached a garbage bag to contain the leakage. TEPCO says the leak has since stopped after workers closed the valves and did not escape into the Pacific.
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