2014 May 12 « nuclear-news

Mainstream media dismisses the menace of nuclear energy

Our Nuclear Menace – Just as Darwin Would Have Predicted Andrew McKillop MAY 6, 2014 BY 21WIRE Fukushima. It is perhaps the most under-reported cataclysmic event in human history. Maybe things would have been different had it happened in either Russia, Iran or North Korea.

By now, we can write off the mainstream media and our political creatures with regards to this catastrophe. For reasons associated with the nuclear lobby and its corporate machine, their tongues are tied on the issue. More silence, a few new theories and a couple of less than convincing assurances like, “It’s all under control, the humming birds and the badgers have returned to the exclusion zone and there’s a lot of very affordable property now, lost of economic opportunity in Fukushima”, (if you had any doubt of how spineless and redundant our leadership would be in the event of a true humanitarian crisis, this should be your ‘eureka’ moment). The best they could manage is release a new Godzilla film production – and that’s about as close as you’ll get to an admission from the global elite’s media machine.

In alternative media, there is even a paralysis beginning to set in – a general malaise afflicting even those left with integrity enough to comment or honestly report on the crisis. Already, the situation in Japan is so degraded that it’s almost past the point of blame game. It’s not so much that the establishment is holding a gun to our heads, as it is man-kind holding a shotgun to its own head.

A Major Glitch in ‘Evolution’ Theory
When it comes to devising new and creative ways to snuff out his own species, you really have to hand it to mankind. Not surprisingly, Darwinian nihilists must be quietly chuckling in the corner.

Incredibly, many politicians, economists and even hard-core environmental priests, still love nuclear power. It’s a strange kind of love, or a Strangelove to be precise.

May 12, 2014 Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | Leave a comment

Effects of Chernobyl radiation over many generations

CHERNOBYL RADIATION EFFECTS: 28 YEARS LATER Green Fudge, Irini Chassiotou May 11th, 2014 “……… Many studies have shown that birds living in the area have eye cataracts or smaller brains, while insects, microbes and other decomposers exhibit abnormal behavior. Changes in abundance, distribution, life history and mutation rates are some more documented negative effects of Chernobyl’s radiation on the region’s plants and animals. In fact, the genetic effects of chronic radiation exposure on each species studied so far have often been subtle and varied and only conclusively shown after many generations.

What’s sure is that different species react to chronic exposure in different ways. Research into low-level radiation since 1986 have demonstrated that, for example, pine trees are more adversely effected by radiation than birch, while migrant barn swallows are more radio-sensitive than resident birds. In another study, winter wheat seeds were taken from the Exclusion Zone a few days after the disaster and they were germinated in uncontaminated soil, producing thousands of different mutant strains. This resulted to genetically unstable new generations, even 25 years after the accident.

Flora and fauna studies may reveal the effects of long-term radiation exposure on humans, obtaining statistically significant epidemiological data on cancer, which is rather complicated. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government, satisfied with the anecdotal evidence of the zone-based research team, has opened the zone to tourism. Scientists fear that future plans will include repopulating the Exclusion Zone at the earliest opportunity.

May 12, 2014 Posted by Christina Macpherson | radiation, Ukraine | 1 Comment

“Mothers Day” for Mari Takenouchi ?

Ironically, two stories about Mari Takenouchi appear on “Mother’s Day”. And we learn what happens to a single mother of an infant son. What will happen to Mari Takenouchi and her little boy? It could be, that if she “shuts up” about the health effects, and the secrecy surrounding the nuclear crisis, she and her son will be together, and alright.

If she speaks out, perhaps it is separation, and gaol for this mother. Either way, her son loses out. Yet she has had the courage to speak out not only for her child, but for all children in the area – for all children in Japan/ for all the world’s children?

World authorities seem to be turning their back on this problem. Notably health aithofrities, UNSCEAR and WHO word their statements so carefully, so as not to offend the global nuclear industry. They carefully do not investigate certain aspects, such as the effect of ingested radioactive particles “internal emitters”. They point out the difficulties of estimating cancer effects decades later – as if that means that there are NO effects. Like radiation itself – its effects at this easrly stage are “invisible – therefore it is argued that they don’t exist.

Secrecy and doubletalk protect an industry that apparently is “too big (and too dangerous) to fail”

Time that the world chose to first protect mothers and infants, people like Mari Takenouchi.

May 12, 2014 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina's notes | 3 Comments

A2B2 director takes some time out for a bit of reflection

The very beginning

May 11th 2014

http://ianthomasash.blogspot.jp/2014/05/the-very-beginning.html

There are many things happening, too many to process.

Following last night’s opening of ‘A2-B-C’ in Tokyo (INFO), I went for a walk in a Japanese garden this morning to clear my head before heading to the airport on my way to the Canadian and South American premiers (INFO).

I am tired. It is not the “bad kind of tired” that is accompanied by the dreading of getting out of bed and having to face another day. Nor is it the “good kind of tired” that comes with the feeling that one has after working hard but sensing that it was somehow all worth it.

This is the tired one has when turning back is unimaginable, how to move forward is yet unknown, and staying where one is is not an option.

Someone recently commented to me that with all that has happened over the past year, I am finally standing on the “start line”. I was taken aback at first, thinking “how can I have come this far and only just now be approaching the starting line?”.

But I know now they were right. Everything I have done up until now has been in preparation to begin the work ahead. And that work is about to begin.

In the Radiation Zone: Revisiting Minamisoma (part 3 of 3)

Monday, October 17, 2011

I have just uploaded Part 3 of our “Revisiting Minamisoma” update. In case you missed it, more information on Part 1 can be found here and on Part 2 here.While this marks the end of the update Colin and I filmed in Minamisoma in September, we have already filmed the next update which I will start editing next week.

We are going to be filming the stories of the people of the north and sharing them with you until they recover. We hope you will be watching and thinking of them for just as long.