Hanford nuclear site area has dramatically high rate of babies born without brains
New data shows babies missing brains at 2,500% national rate in county by nuclear site — Mother: Officials “shut me down the minute I mentioned Hanford!… WE NEED ANSWERS!” — Experts: No birth defect is more extreme; It’s the most significant impact of radiation on developing embryos (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/79334?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
“Nothing [is] more extreme than anencephaly” –Dr Michael Grodin, Boston U. School of Medicine
‘Fatal Birth Defects Surge’ – Dr. Kathy Lofy, Washington Dept.of Health (emphasis added): Anencephaly is a rare birth defect in which the brain and the skull of the baby do not fully form [and is] not compatible with life… The most well known risk factor… is a deficiency in folic acid… that’s one of the possibilities we’re looking into [note that mothers in the birth defect cluster had much higher rates of folic acid consumption than the control group chosen by officials]…Hanford nuclear facility has been one concern of the community. We worked really closely with our radiation experts… who work closely with… Hanford. There have been no recent releases [note how she rephrases this] — no recent CHANGE in radiation releases. We can’t really determine any pathway by which radiation could affect all the women in the 3-county area [note all 3 counties surround Hanford]… We’re working with the doctors to make sure we’re identifying all the cases… It’s very important to figure out the rates.
Dr. Wladimir Wertelecki, MD, (Chair of Medical Genetics at U. of S. Alabama), Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Crisis Without End, Oct 2014: “The most significant negative impact of radiation on a developing embryo includes anencephaly… Two US studies… sponsored by the[CDC and published in 1988] sought to determine the… impact of ionizing radiation nearHanford… One study detected higher neural tube defect rates [e.g. Anencephaly, Spina Bifida] in two counties near the nuclear complex and the other demonstrated higher rates of neural tube defects in parents exposed… to low levels of radiation.”
Physicians for Social Responsibility: Hanford documents [reveal] incredible contamination of the environment and exposure of large numbers of citizens to dangerous amounts…Eight plutonium production reactors dumped a daily average of 50,000 curies of radioactive material into the Columbia... [In 1949] 8,000 curies of iodine-131 were [secretly] released [over] an area o 200 by 40 miles, no warnings were given… [`400 times TMI’s release of] 15 -24 curies — PSR: Contamination has not and will not stay inside Hanford’s boundaries… Over 300 miles of the Columbia… are threatened… [Fires in] 2000… burned three radioactive waste sites [and] plutonium was detected in nearby communities. — PSR: Hanford is the most contaminated site in the Western Hemisphere… At least 200-square miles of groundwater… is contaminated and migrating to the Columbia.
Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen on Nuclear Hotseat, Nov. 12, 2014 (at 34:00 in): Birth defect issues occur in the 2nd [generation after radiation exposure] — especially the 3rd and 4th.
Washington Anencephaly Investigation, Oct 2014:
- Anencephaly in Benton, Franklin, YakimaCounties (next to Hanford) from Jan 1 to Oct 17, 2014: 9 cases in 290 days with est. 6,423 births (based on 8,084 in 2013) —RATE: 14 cases per 10,000 births
- Anencephaly in Yakima County from Jan 1 to Jun 6, 2014: 2 cases in 157 days wirh est. 1,700 births (based on 3,953 in 2013) – RATE: 11.8 cases per 10,000 births
- Anencephaly in Yakima County from Jun 7 to Oct. 17, 2014: 3 cases in 133 days out of est. 1,440 births (based on 3,953 in 2013) — RATE: 20.8 cases per 10,000 births (2,860% of US national rate)
CDC 2010 statistics, released 2013: Anencephaly 313 cases; RATE: 0.73 per 10,000 births.
Instead of using the 0.73 rate, officials claim the national rate is 2.1, nearly 3 times higher. The rate of 2.1 is from a study using data from 2004-2006 that estimates the anencephaly rate, andonly uses data from less than 15 states — unlike the CDC report above which is based on the most current data, uses data from all 50 states, and is not an ‘estimate’.
Nikki Shelton, mother of baby w/ neural tube defect (e.g. Anencephaly, Spina Bifida) 13 mi. from Hanford, Nov 6, 2014: This is not something that is going away… the numbers are increasing. The last teleconference I was in shut me down the minute I mentioned Hanford! … let’s not let the department of health just sweep this under the rug…WE NEED ANSWERS!
USA’s Nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Project (WIPP) has now its ‘Worst Case Scenario’
‘Worst Case Scenario’ has happened at US nuclear site — Robert Redford film predicted 2014 WIPP disaster: Plutonium release due to chemical reaction in burst nuclear drum is ultimate catastrophe… Most significant issue is combustible waste exposed to high heat, everyone understands that (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/worst-case-scenario-nuclear-site-1989-robert-redford-film-predicted-2014-disaster-wipp-plutonium-release-due-chemical-reaction-burst-nuclear-drum-ultimate-disaster-significant-issue-combustible-was?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ENENews+%28Energy+News%29
Sante Fe New Mexican, Nov 30, 2014: [D]ocuments obtained by The New Mexican… raise questions about the stability of dozens of other nuclear waste drums that were in the same chamber as the drum that ruptured [after a] chemical reaction… Radiation leaked into the air, and temperatures in the underground chamber peaked at nearly 1,600 degrees… One internal lab report described the [contents] as similar to plastic explosives… Investigators believe the organic material may be one reason temperatures in the chamber rose so high… Internal emails… detail concerns about the stability of drums… exposed to the extreme temperatures… June 17 draft of a LANL report… suggested the high temperatures may have made other nuclear waste drums in the chamber more unstable than ever…
Albuquerque Journal, guest column by Harish C. Sharma, retired engineer, Nov 30, 2014: Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General… report mentions that the use of “kitty litter/Zeolite clay”… may have been the cause of the fire and release of radiation… What is the real cause of the incident? No one is sure… What if the real reason for the fire and release of radiation was not the “kitty litter”?… Without finding the real cause, DOE and LANL’s actions only assure that this incident will occur again.
The WIPP Trail, narrated by Robert Redford, 1989 (at 17:00 in):
- Robert Redford: We now know that 40% of the [WIPP] hazardous waste is combustible, thus posing a more serious and immediate threat.
- Bruce Throne, New Mexico State Attorney: I think the combustible waste is perhaps the most significant because even a layman can understand that when combustible waste is exposed to high levels of heat, there may be some effectinside the TRUPAC [containers].
- Redford: Wind is a critical factor that must be considered. The worst case scenario would be if a fire occurs within a breach of a container. The wind could then carry plutonium particles through the atmosphere, traveling considerable distances.
- Oxford Dictionary’s definition of fire: “Combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke”
Japan bringing in drastic new ‘special secrets’ law
Under new law, about 460,000 documents likely to be called ‘special secrets’ UK government provides financial guarantee for giant Moorside nuclear project
UK agrees finance guarantee deal for nuclear project http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/uk-britain-politics-nuclear-idUKKCN0JG00320141202 LONDON Tue Dec 2, 2014 (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday it had agreed a preliminary deal to provide a financial guarantee to help fund the development of Europe’s largest nuclear power project, in northwest England.
The 3.4-gigawatt Moorside project, a joint venture between Japan’s Toshiba and France‘s GDF Suez, could provide nearly 7 percent of Britain’s projected electricity needs and create up to 21,000 jobs, the companies
say.
“The Guarantee Scheme is another way in which we can help companies to make the huge investment that building new nuclear power involves,” Finance Minister George Osborne said in a statement.
The scheme, which was introduced in 2012, is set to help the Moorside developers gain external project finance to cover the upfront costs of building a nuclear plant.
NuGen, the name of the Toshiba/GDF Suez joint venture, welcomed the agreement. he Moorside plant will be powered by three nuclear reactors by the end of 2026 to be provided by Toshiba’s Westinghouse unit, with the first reactor expected to start operating by the end of 2024.
NuGen said it plans to make a final investment decision for the Moorside project in 2018.
Britain is counting on replacing its ageing fleet of nuclear reactors with new stations. The government is already providing loan guarantees to France’s EDF for a 16 billion-pound nuclear plant due to be built in southern England.
(Reporting by William James and Karolin Schaps; editing by Robin Pomeroy and Jason Neely)
UNSCEAR not independent, and its April report on atomic radiation is not reliable
British researcher blasts U.N. report on Fukushima cancer risk as unscientific http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201412010036 By MASAKAZU HONDA/ Staff Writer
A British scientist who studied the health effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster panned a United Nations report that virtually dismissed the possibility of higher cancer rates caused by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Keith Baverstock, 73, made the comments during a visit to Tokyo at the invitation of a citizens group related to the Fukushima disaster.
In response to questions from The Asahi Shimbun, Baverstock said a report released in April by the U.N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) was “not qualified to be called ‘scientific’” because it lacked transparency and independent verification. He added that the committee should be disbanded.
The U.N. report said any increase in overall cancer rates among residents of Fukushima Prefecture due to fallout from the accident was unlikely.
However, Baverstock, former head of the radiation-protection program at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe, said radiation levels shown in the report were enough to cause a spike in cancer rates.
For example, the report said nearly 10,000 workers at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant were exposed to radiation levels exceeding 10 millisieverts over about 18 months following the outbreak of the crisis in March 2011.
Baverstock said such an exposure level was enough to cause an increase in cancer among about 50 of the workers.
After studying the health effects from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Baverstock was the first to point out an increase in thyroid cancer among residents of areas hit by radioactive fallout.
He also questioned UNSCEAR’s neutrality, given that members are nominated by nations that have a vested interest in nuclear power. He noted that such nations provide funds to the committee.
Baverstock also suggested a conflict of interest, as committee members are not required to disclose their history working in the nuclear industry or sign pledges stating that no conflict of interest exists in evaluating radiation risks.
Baverstock said that when he was working for the WHO, he felt constant pressure from the International Atomic Energy Agency, a major promoter of nuclear power. He also questioned why it took more than three years for UNSCEAR to release its Fukushima report.
Referring to what he called inside information, Baverstock raised the possibility that the delay was caused by criticism about the report’s conclusion and the influence of other U.N. agencies, such as the IAEA.
Nuclear power has no place in any ‘Clean Power Plan’
There’s no place for nuclear in the ‘Clean Power Plan’, The Ecologist Tim Judson / NIRS 28th November 2014
The EPA’s plan for ‘clean power’ are welcome, writes Tim Judson – except for its inclusion of nuclear, and economic distortions and serious omissions that favour the technology. In this open letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, he and co-signatories call on her to ditch the ‘false and irrational assumptions’ used to justify both new and existing nuclear power. “………..Unfortunately, the treatment of nuclear energy in the draft rule is unsupported by meaningful analysis, and would make it possible for states to implement the rule in ways that are counterproductive to the Clean Power Plan’s purpose of reducing emissions.
The role of nuclear power must be re-evaluated
We are, additionally, very concerned about industry proposals to expand provisions to encourage nuclear. We urge the EPA to conduct a thorough and fact-based analysis of nuclear, and to do the following:
- Remove the preservation of existing nuclear reactors from the BSER.
- Do not force Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee to finish building new reactors.
- Conduct a thorough and accurate analysis of the environmental impacts of nuclear power, from radioactive waste and uranium mining to reactor accidents and water use.
- Recognize and incorporate the much greater role renewable energy and efficiency can, will, and must play in reducing carbon emissions and replacing both fossil fuels and nuclear………
- False and irrational assumptions
Unfortunately, the Clean Power Plan’s treatment of nuclear incentivizes the preservation and expansion of a technology that is and has always been the most expensive, inflexible, and dangerous complement to fossil fuels.
The Clean Power Plan incorporates nuclear into the BSER in two ways:
- Assumes five new reactors will be completed and brought online in the states of Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, and irrationally estimates the cost of doing so as $0. In fact, billions more remain to be spent on these reactors and there is a great deal of uncertainty about when, if ever, they will be completed, facing years of delays and billions in cost overruns. The cost assumption would force states to complete the reactors no matter the cost, rather than enabling them to choose better ways to meet their emissions goals. Even though renewables and efficiency could be deployed at lower cost than nuclear, the draft rule would make it look like they are much more expensive because of the zero-cost assumption about completing the reactors.
- Encourages states to ‘preserve’ reactors economically at-risk of being closed, equivalent to 6% of each state’s existing nuclear generation. While it is true that about 6% of the nation’s operating reactors may close for economic reasons, this provision encourages every state to subsidize existing reactors, greatly underestimates the cost of doing so, and overestimates their role in reducing emissions. Uneconomical reactors have high and rising operating costs, and cannot compete with renewables and efficiency. If anything, EPA should simply recommend that low-carbon energy sources be replaced with other low-carbon resources, but singling out nuclear for ‘preservation’ suggests it is better for states to lock themselves into obsolete and increasingly uneconomical nuclear.
The rule also says states may utilize two other ways of adding nuclear capacity as options for achieving the goals, even though they are not incorporated in the BSER:
- New reactors other than those currently in construction. EPA recognizes that new nuclear is too expensive to be included in the BSER, so it should not suggest states consider it as a way of meeting their emissions goals.
- Power uprate modifications to increase the generation capacity of existing reactors. Power uprates are capital-intensive and expensive, and several recent projects have been cancelled or suffered major cost overruns, in the case of Minnesota’s Monticello reactor, at a total cost greater than most new reactors ($10 million/megawatt). [1]
Rather than suggesting states waste resources on nuclear generation too expensive and infeasible to be included in the BSER, EPA should include an analysis of these problems so that states can better evaluate their options and select lower-cost, more reliable means for reducing emissions, such as renewables and efficiency.
- Serious nuclear concerns ignored
The Clean Power Plan also considers some non-air quality impacts of nuclear generation, as it is required to do under the Clean Air Act. However, the EPA’s evaluation is both woefully incomplete and alarmingly inadequate. EPA dismisses concerns about radioactive waste and nuclear power’s impact on water resources, simply characterizing them as equivalent to problems with fossil fuel generation.
In fact, radioactive waste is an intractable problem that threatens the environment for potentially hundreds of thousands of years. In addition, nuclear reactors’ use of water is more intensive than fossil fuel technologies, and a majority of existing reactors utilize the most water-intensive once-through cooling systems.
Regardless, however, rather than only comparing them to fossil fuels, EPA should have compared these impacts to the full range of alternatives, including renewables and efficiency, which do not have such problems.
EPA leaves out a host of other environmental impacts unique to nuclear, including uranium mining and nuclear accidents.
There are over 10,000 abandoned uranium mines throughout the US, which are subject to lax environmental standards, pose major groundwater and public health risks, present serious environmental justice concerns, and could entail billions in site cleanup and remediation costs.
The failure to consider the impacts of a nuclear accident is a glaring oversight, in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. EPA must consider both the environmental and economic impact of nuclear accidents.
Renewables can do the job!
In general, the Clean Power Plan’s consideration of nuclear appears to be based on a dangerous fallacy: that closed reactors must be replaced with fossil fuel generation, presumably because other low- / zero-carbon resources could not make up the difference.
In fact, renewable energy growth has surpassed all other forms of new generation for going on three years, making up 48% of all new electricity generation brought online from 2011 to July 2014. [2]
- The growth rate of wind energy alone (up to 12,000 MW per year) would be sufficient to replace all of the ‘at-risk’ nuclear capacity within two years, at lower cost than the market price of electricity, [3] let alone at the subsidized rate for nuclear the draft rule suggests.
Assuming that closed reactors will be replaced with fossil fuel generation both encourages states to waste resources trying to ‘preserve’ (or even build) uneconomical reactors rather than on more cost-effective and productive investments in renewables and efficiency.
While states are free to develop their implementation plans without using the specific energy sources included in the BSER, the rule should not promote such foolishness.
No amount of spending or subsidies for nuclear has been effective at reducing the technology’s costs nor overcoming lengthy construction times and delays, whereas spending on renewables and efficiency has had the effect of lowering their costs and increasing their rate of deployment.
The economic problems facing currently operating reactors merely underscore the point that nuclear is not a cost-effective way of reducing emissions.
We are hopeful that the Clean Power Plan will be a watershed in setting the country on a path to emissions reductions and climate action, and we are grateful to the EPA for taking this step.
We believe that correcting the problems with the way nuclear is considered in the draft rule, and increasing the role of renewables and efficiency, will make the Clean Power Plan much stronger and lead states to implement it more productively and cost-effectively……….http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2654789/theres_no_place_for_nuclear_in_the_clean_power_plan.html
Petition to stop Saskatchewan plan for small nuclear reactors- University in grip of nuclear lobby
Stop plans to build small nuclear reactors in Saskatchewan to power oil extraction from the Alberta Tar Sands. https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Stop_plans_to_build_small_nuclear_reactors_in_Saskatchewan_to_power_oil_extraction_from_the_Alberta_Tar_Sands_1/?pv=10
Why this is important to me
When elected in 2007, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall (his Saskatchewan Party is ideologically tied to Harper’s federal Conservatives) created the Uranium Development Partnership (UDP), chaired by one of the U of S vice-presidents. With industry support from Bruce Power (nuclear reactors) and its majority shareholders, Cameco (uranium mining) and TransCanada Corporation (the Keystone pipeline), the UDP pushed to establish a nuclear program at the University.
Public consultations in 2009 gave a resounding 88% “NO” to this nuclear agenda , but the government/corporate/university consortium have used the U of S to bypass this overwhelming expression of public opinion. The Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation (CCNI) was announced in March 2011 with $30 million of Government funding over 7 years. Its first goal is to build a prototype small nuclear reactor on campus. In August 2011 the Government and Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy Ltd announced another $10 million towards that objective.
Current U of S President MacKinnon and Board of Governors Chair Nancy Hopkins have been deeply involved in this project. Hopkins owns nearly $2 million in Cameco investments and is a paid Cameco director ($175,872 in 2009). MacKinnon accepted an all-expenses-paid trip to Cameco’s northern operations and exclusive lodge in 2009, at the peak of the public debate about the UDP report.
But MacKinnon retires from the U of S on June 30. We must send a clear message to his successor, Ilene Busch-Vishniac, to step off this destructive path.
Brad Wall’s government has starved the University of essential funding – U of S has an accumulated $90 million debt. Existing infrastructure is crumbling. New buildings on campus can’t open. And the $40 million for the CCNI and related nuclear projects won’t help U of S out of this crisis.
The University of Saskatchewan, founded in 1907, was once proudly called “the people’s university” – set in the heartland of the Canadian cooperative movement, home to Tommy Douglas, the greatest Canadian, the father of Medicare. Today the University has become an easy target for corporate takeover and a tool for the nuclear and petroleum industries. But right now we have a chance to stop this from happening.
Swedish petition to Finland, opposing Fennovoima nuclear facility
Swedish NGO delivers anti-Fennovoima petition toFinland http://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2014/12/03/swedish-ngo-delivers-anti-fennovoima-petition/by Radio Sweden
Members of a Swedish civic organisation collected and delivered more than 20,000 signatures from individuals protesting the proposed construction of a nuclear power plant in northwest Finland by the power consortium Fennovoima.
The delegation from the Swedish NGO Nuclear-free Gulf of Bothnia (Kärnkraftsfritt Bottenviken) visited the Finnish parliament Tuesday morning to hand over the petition on behalf of more than 170,000 residents of seven municipalities that lie close to the proposed construction site of the Pyhäjoki nuclear power plant. The site in northwest Finland lies just 155 kilometres from the Swedish coast.
“Because of the natural environment Hanhikivi is an extremely poor choice to locate a nuclear power plant,” activist Kristina Berg told lawmakers in Helsinki.
Earlier this year, demonstrators gathered in the centre of the Swedish coastal city of Luleå ahead of a public hearing on the proposed plant in Pyhäjoki, near Raahe.
Environmental impact on Sweden?
The protesters have long been worried about the potential environmental impact of the nuclear facility on the Swedish side of the Gulf of Bothnia. Many have demanded a fundamental re-think of the project and have also called for a system of sustainable energy that is not based on continuous growth.
Residents of the Swedish communities have also pointed to the strong role of the Russian state-owned nuclear contractor Rosatom in the proposed project, even charging that Finland is outsourcing its energy needs to Russia.
The petition was delivered as Finland’s largest power producer Fortum announced plans to buy a stake in the Fennovoima nuclear power plant, taking it one step closer to reality.
The cabinet had previously dictated that the plant should be at least 60 percent domestic or European-owned as a prerequisite for a final go-ahead. Fortum’s investment would take Finnish ownership to 66 percent, helping the project meet the government’s criterion.
Murky labor conditions at crippled Fukuhsima nuclear facility
Fukushima workers still in murky labor contracts: Tepco survey, Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov 14 The number of workers at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant on false contracts has increased in the last year, the station operator said, highlighting murky labor conditions at the site despite a pledge to improve the work environment. The survey results released by Tokyo Electric Power Co <9501.T> (Tepco) late on Thursday showed that around 30 percent of plant workers polled said that they were paid by a different company from the contractor that normally directs them at the worksite, which is illegal under Japan’s labor laws.
Many workers asked Tepco in the survey forms whether they were supposed to receive an equivalent of about $180 a day in hazard pay, the company said, adding that it did not mean each worker would necessarily see a pay increase of that amount.
Tepco said last November it would double the allocation for hazard pay to workers at Fukushima……..http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/technology/sns-rt-us-fukushima-workers-20141127-story.html
Corporate power, and its religious belief in nuclear power
Nuclear power keeps the corporates in charge. No wonder it’s conservatives’ preferred solution to climate change, Guardian Tim Hollo, 2 Dec 14
Tony Abbott says he has ‘no theological objection’ to nuclear power. That’s fair – only blind faith could justify his belief in a power source that’s so costly and risky “I have no theological objection” to nuclear power, Tony Abbott said on 1 December, responding to Julie Bishop’s relaunch of the right’s preferred “solution” to global warming this week.
Abbott’s choice of words is fascinating. On the face of it he’s suggesting that opposing nuclear power is a faith-based, rather than rational, view. But it is the right’s consistent promotion of a technology that has been shown repeatedly to be too slow, too costly and too risky (see, for instance, here and here) that is underpinned by several right wing articles of faith. It’s worth unpacking this credo, because it reveals what’s really going on when nuclear power is raised……….
the “dominion mandate” dovetails so neatly with the modern industrial idea that humanity is separate from and dominant over nature that it has become a powerful aspect of the western materialist creation story.
Nuclear power fits perfectly within a world view that sees splitting the atom as the apogee of human dominance over nature. Given its enormous and persistent waste problem, nuclear power is only acceptable if you believe that it is our right to pollute as we please.
………. the increasingly blind faith Abbott and his ilk invest in corporate capitalism has developed a distinctly theological aura. While it is reasonable to reject climate science, and acceptable to deny declining reef health, it is heresy to question whether handing ever more power to corporate interests will benefit the rest of us.
The privatisation of profit and socialisation of risk inherent in nuclear power only makes economic sense if you believe in the divine right of corporations. With multi-billion dollar cost blowouts in construction and decommissioning, the refusal of private insurance companies to cover risk, and a waste stream that will need to be managed for many times longer than our civilisation has so far existed, it’s basically a complex wealth transfer from citizens to corporations.
Nuclear power’s great attraction for those who subscribe to this particular faith is that it would maintain the corporate grip on energy infrastructure at a time when diversified and distributed renewable energy systems threaten to democratise energy supply……..
Support for nuclear power is based on a world-view, but it doesn’t have the benefit of also being backed by rational arguments. It is simply a fantasy of the right, a convenient prop they occasionally produce to pretend we can address climate change while changing nothing, and a weapon in their culture war. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/01/nuclear-power-keeps-the-corporates-in-charge-no-wonder-its-conservatives-preferred-solution-to-climate-change
Utraviolet radiation – its mixed benefits and problems
How to protect your skin while getting enough vitamin D , The Conversation 3 December 2014, Terry Slevin Honorary Senior Lecturer in Public Health at Curtin University; Education & Research Director, Cancer Council WA; Chair of the Occupational and Environmental Cancer Committee at Cancer Council Australia
“..….While limited dietary sources of vitamin D are available, exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) is the most effective source of vitamin D for the majority of the world’s population.
Vitamin D deficiency is unquestionably linked to compromised bone health. While levels of evidence vary, it is also associated with a wide range of other potential health problems.
On the other hand, excess UVR exposure is strongly linked to increasing risk of skin cancer.
To confuse the issue further, a recently published papersuggested sun exposure might help reduce blood pressure and influence heart disease risk. But not through vitamin D. This research is still in its early days, but it may be that some of the benefits previously ascribed to vitamin D occur through other mechanisms related to sun exposure…………
What should we do?
So what does make sense when it comes to sun exposure, skin cancer and vitamin D? The trick is, of course, getting the balance right and avoiding extremes, in one direction or the other.
Adjusting sun exposure according to the time of year and time of day is important. The UV Index will be in the extreme range in the middle of the day through most, if not all, of summer. So avoiding exposure for the few hours in the in the middle of summer days is smart. The World Health Organization recommends sun protection once the UV Index reaches or exceeds three……..
Depending on where you live, five minutes of mid-morning or mid-afternoon sun two to three times a week – and certainly avoiding any sun burning – is a helpful rule. But it’s best to keep the head, face and neck protected as they get lots of sun and are at highest skin cancer risk.
Terry Slevin is editor of Sun, Skin and Health, CSIRO Publishing. https:// theconversation.com/how-to- protect-your-skin-while- getting-enough-vitamin-d-34143
Fukushima News Links for November 2014
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TEPCO removes section of radiation cover above Fukushima reactor building
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411010028
Scrapping of Fukushima No. 1 reactor pushed back
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001682743
Koizumi calls for society without nuclear plants
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141102_05.html
Miyazawa visits Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141101_21.html
NRA rebuts claim that Fukushima cleanup affected far away rice paddies
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411010037
Tepco posts solid first-half profit sans reactors, rate hikes
TEPCO, 7 other power firms report profits in April-Sept.
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001685718
No law suit focusing on health in Japan!
http://savekidsjapan.blogspot.jp/2014/11/why-no-lawsuit-focusing-on-health-in.html
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Japan conducts nuclear disaster drill
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141102_10.html
Official: Fukushima “destroyed our life… it can destroy history itself” —Professor: “Very hard to imagine a future beyond Fukushima, it’s so uncontainable” — Filmmaker: Meltdowns “opened up a fissure in time and space… Horror of radiation menaces the future in the present” (VIDEOS)
Tepco postponed removing molten fuel from Reactor 1 until 2025
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/tepco-postponed-removing-molten-fuel-reactor-1-2025/
Cash-strapped nuclear power company secretly donates 1.54 billion yen to city
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201411020032
Results of Radioactive Analysis around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/smp/index-e.html
Japanese civil society and that from 7 other countries request the reports of the United Nations Scientific Committee on Fukushima to be revised
METI chief Miyazawa pays first visit to Fukushima No. 1 plant
Fukushima mother’s tweet
Japan’s Natural Perils and Promises, in the Wake of Fukushima
Undermining Nuclear Non-Proliferation: Energy and Security Politics in the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Nuclear Nexus
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Adam-Broinowski/4226
Murakami says Japan ignoring WWII, Fukushima role
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/murakami-says-japan-ignoring-wwii-fukushima-role
ANALYSIS: Abe bereft of reasons to continue nuclear recycling program
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201411030052
fukushima fallout deaths breaking news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7NYuPaqn4
Food products ‘heavily contaminated’ by Fukushima found in US; Over30,000 pCi/kg of cesium, also had Cobalt-60 and Antimony-124 — FDA: We found no Fukushima contamination in US food supply during our routine monitoring
Fukushima Unit 2 Subdrain Has Larger Problem
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14006
Retained water underground temperature went up by 10℃ near Reactor 2 / Tepco“Still investigating the cause”
Volcano experts call for guideline review
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141103_10.html
Radiation Rape – Crimes of Eternity against Us
http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/11/03/radiation-rape-crimes-of-eternity-against-us/
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Storage site for radioactive debris near Fukushima No. 1 is one step closer
Numerous sardines washed ashore in Pacific coastal area of Hokkaido – Photos
‘Mysterious Phenomena’ off West Coast: Fish disappeared, whales nearly absent, no krill, high rates of egg failure among birds — Official:“There’s almost nothing down there, just a lot of warm clearwater” in S. California
Discarded protective suits piling up at Fukushima nuclear plant
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141104p2a00m0na008000c.ht
LowerHouse approves Fukushima waste bill
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141104_24.html
Japan Atomic-Fuel Processing Plant Now 19 Years Behind Schedule
Japanese grant for tritium removal technology
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Japanese-grant-for-tritium-removal-technology-0401148.html
IRID Shows New Robot To Inspect Fukushima Unit 2 Pedestal
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14021
Senior Scientist: Fukushima nuclear fuel burned holes through the containment vessels, it’s “a pretty close approximation” of‘The China Syndrome’ scenario — Material went below reactor structures and is mixing with groundwater — “You have essentially a machine that’s washing radioactivity into the sea” (AUDIO)
TEPCO to conclude most vital phase in fuel rod extraction from No. 4 reactor
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411050045
EDITORIAL: Measures needed to reduce financial fears over decommissioning reactors
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201411040028
Survey: Nearly half of local government leaders want a say in restarting nuclear reactors
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/politics/AJ201411040025
Fukushima and Samurai
http://ianthomasash.blogspot.jp/2014/11/fukushima-and-samurai.html
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All spent fuel removed from Fukushima No.4 reactor
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141105_02.html
‘Abenomics’ struggle to boost Japan’s economy
TV:“This is really kind of scary… a grim reality” for West Coast —Alarm as baby whales keep dying; Since 2011 none have survived over a year — Biologist: We see them pregnant for weeks, then no longer pregnant — NOAA: “Not what we’re used to… Incredibly poor condition… Skeleton with skin” (VIDEO)
Fukushima rice farmers seeking restoration of land suffer setback
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20141105p2a00m0na017000c.html
All spent fuel removed from Fukushima No.4 reactor
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141105_02.html
Kagoshima Pref. assembly debates reactor restart
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141105_23.html
All Spent Fuel Out Of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14030
Press Release (Nov 05,2014)ADVANCES IN CLEANING WATER, SAFELY REMOVING NUCLEAR FUEL AT FUKUSHIMA CITED IN TEPCO’S MOST RECENT PROGRESS REPORT
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2014/1243826_5892.html
Japan’s wrecked nuclear plant removes first set of spent fuel rods
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-fukushima-fuel-rods-cleanup-20141105-story.html
Taiwan to check waste shipments from Japan for radiation
Fukushima disaster site ‘like a science fiction film’
http://www.dw.de/fukushima-disaster-site-like-a-science-fiction-film/a-18039892
Emergency radiation testing program used for Democrat and Republicanconventions after Fukushima — Also implemented for Obama Inauguration — Seafood, meat, fruits, vegetables, milk, water all checked for nuclear material… as top officials agree to publicly downplay Japan crisis — Tests find nearly 50% of Florida milk samples had ‘significant’ cesium-137
Anatomy of a Failing State: Japan’s Budgetary Nightmare
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/11/anatomy-failing-state-japans-budgetary-nightmare.html
Local Rifts on Display in Japan’s Nuclear Restart
http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/local-rifts-on-display-in-japans-nuclear-restart/
Fuel Removal from Unit 4
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html
Japan’s wrecked nuclear plant removes first set of spent fuel rods
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/05/japan-nuclear-idUSL4N0SV3HN20141105
COMMENTARY: Birth defects never increased in Fukushima Prefecture
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/column/AJ201411050012
EDITORIAL: Proper evacuation plans needed before reactor restarts
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201411050033
Fukushima dismantling crew removes 400 tons of spent fuel from crippled reactor
http://rt.com/news/202367-fukushima-spent-fuel-removed/
Study Points to Overdiagnosis of Thyroid Cancer
Lessons from Fukushima
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclearwatch/20141105.html
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Fuel removal from SFP4 – Abridged ver. – Published on 11/6/2014
Tepco“All the spent fuel assemblies removed from SFP 4″ – Videos and Photos
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/tepco-spent-fuel-assemblies-removed-sfp-4-videos-photos/
Multiple Safety Issues Being Ignored In Japan’s Nuclear Restart
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14033
Town offers counterproposal on radioactive waste
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141107_02.html
TEPCO Demands Family Pay Back Compensation Because Daughter Goes To College
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14036
The Sorrow of Living in Fukushima 福島は日本か：ツイッターで綴る震災後の日々
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Kagoshima assembly, governor green-light restart of Sendai reactors
Plant restart approved by Kagoshima assembly
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141107_22.html
Kagoshima Governor agrees to plant restart
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141107_26.html
Mochiduki comments on nuclear waste disposal
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141107_21.html
Fukushima construction workers hurt: operator
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2014/11/07/Fukushima-construction-workers-hurt-operator/
Approx.100 t of sardines washed ashore in Pacific coastal area of Hokkaido again – Photos
NYTimes: Doctors call for banning of thyroid cancer screening — “A tsunami of thyroid cancer… Stop the diagnosis… We need to actively discourage early detection” — WSJ: Judge rules releases from nuclear reactors are causing thyroid cancers
Radioactive waste storage in Fukushima likely to be delayed
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/11/321129.html
Gov. denies holding talks over restart of Kashiwazaki nuclear plant
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/11/321202.html
IRID Documents Detailed Plans For Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14039
Fukushima workers injured as steel material for coolant tank collapses
http://rt.com/news/203171-fukushima-collapsed-storage-injured/
Japanese Governor Ito ignores lessons of Fukushima to approve the Sendai reactor restarts
Scandal-RiddenJapan Descends Into Pit Of Moral Degeneracy And Radioactive Hell
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/11/scandal-ridden-japan-descends-into-pit.html
Fukushima sends out wrong thyroid test results
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Anti-nuclear rally against plant restart
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141107_37.html
Denuclearize or lose our species: Multigenerational effects of exposure to radiation
http://stop-u238.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/multigenerational-effects-of-exposure.html
Recent topics: MAJOR MILESTONE AT FUKUSHIMA: ALL SPENT FUEL REMOVED FROM UNIT4, REMAINING UNUSED FUEL ASSEMBLIES WILL BE REMOVED BY YEAR END
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2014/1243876_5892.html
Indian Researcher Says Radiation May Cause Brain Tumors
Regional Politicians Approve Restart of Nuclear Plant in South of Japan
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Japan in Depth / Gov. limits approval scope for restart of N-reactors
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001704813
Hundreds in Tokyo protest Japan’s decision to restart nuclear plant
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-08/protests-as-japan-to-restart-sendai-nuclear-plant/5877040
Still 102,900 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 measured from Matsutake mushroom in Minamisoma city
Gov’t says interim nuclear waste storage facilities delayed
Robot brings safety, dexterity to Fukushima cleanup arsenal
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/business/AJ201411080026
Right-wing witch hunt signals dark days in Japan
Public universities to aid revitalization
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001704831
Editorial: Safety questions remain over Sendai nuclear plant
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20141108p2a00m0na014000c.html
EDITORIAL: Sendai nuclear plant should not be model for reactor restarts
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/editorial/AJ201411080035
VOXPOPULI: Green light for Sendai reactor restart signals return to‘happy fantasy
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/views/vox/AJ201411080019
Fukushima update 11-8-14- Good news and bad news
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fukushima-update-11-8-14–by-carol-wolman–
MD-Fukushima_Fukushima-Cover-up_Water-141109-495.html
Protests erupt after Japan local government OKs first reactor restart
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Minamata disease group opposes restart of Sendai nuclear plant
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411090008
Tokyo restaurant to host event to cheer up Fukushima natives
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141107p2a00m0na019000c.html
Fukushima: le Japon a choisi d’incinérer des tonnes de déchets radioactifs
http://blog.serge-angeles.com/2014/11/09/japon-2014-fukushima324/
Uranium Destroys DNA Through Chemical Action AND Radioactive Decay
http://majiasblog.blogspot.fr/2014/11/uranium-destroys-dna-through-chemical.html
Another part of cover removed from reactor bldg.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141110_11.html
TEPCO removes 2nd canopy panel covering Fukushima reactor building
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411100047
Fukushima Daiichi and Other Horror Stories
http://nf2045.blogspot.fr/2014/11/fukushima-daiichi-and-other-horror.html
Fukushima Unit 1, 2nd Cover Section Removed
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14063
Fukushima Radioactivity Detected Off West Coast
http://www.ourradioactiveocean.org/results.html
Fukushima Contamination Found 150km Off Eureka California
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14060
Fukushima radiation detected 100 miles off California coast
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102169649
Fukushima radiation identified off northern California
Top Headline: ‘Fukushima radiation identified off northern California’— 50% of samples around West Coast test positive — 7.7 Bq/m3 of cesium near California shore, expected to keep rising for years to come (MAP)
Fukushima Radioactivity Detected Off West Coast
http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/Fukushima-detection
Most Recent Measurements of Fukushima Derived Isotopes in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
Gov’t Scientists: Significant concentrations of radioactive material detected off West Coast; Levels doubled in months since previous tests — Marine Chemist: ‘Much greater concern’ over Fukushima releases that will be hitting shores of US and Canada; Lack of data‘ really disturbing’ (AUDIO)
Fukushima cesium contained in common mineral
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141111_09.html
FukushimaNews 11/10/14: ‘Fukushima Radiation Identified Off Northern California’
TheSorrow of Living in Fukushima
http://www.evacuate-fukushima.com/2014/11/sorrow-living-fukushima/
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TEPCO Publishes Arrogant Press Release To The US On Fukushima
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14080
TEPCO ISSUES STATEMENT ON WOODS HOLE REPORT FINDING VERY LOW LEVEL OFCESIUM 134 FROM FUKUSHIMA OFF CALIFORNIA COAST
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/2014/1243939_5892.html
Thyroid abnormality found among 63% of children in 5 prefectures of Kanto area
Nuclear disaster drill held at plant in Niigata
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141111_24.html
Municipalities seek Hamaoka plant safety agreement
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141111_33.html
TEPCO to refrain from taking legal action over repayment of nuclear compensation （Mainichi）
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141111p2a00m0na010000c.html
Fukushima Contaminated Food Was Found In US Right After The Meltdowns
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14071
UNITS RELATED TO RADIATION EXPOSURE AND RADIOACTIVITY IN MASS MEDIA: THE FUKUSHIMA CASE STUDY IN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/11/11/rpd.ncu328.short
Fukushima Radiation Reaches California Coast, Contamination to Increase in Two Years?
Small amount of Fukushima radiation detected in water off North Coast
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3094619-181/small-amount-of-fukushima-radiation?page=0
Birth Defects in Fukushima
http://majiasblog.blogspot.jp/2014/11/birth-defects-in-fukushima.html?m=1
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Estimated Dietary Intake of Radionuclides and Health Risks for the Citizens of Fukushima City, Tokyo, and Osaka after the 2011 Nuclear Accident
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0112791
Energy plan overlooked flat-out opposition to nuclear power, analysis shows
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411120044
First bags of contaminated debris prepared for transfer to Fukushima interim facility
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411120042
Earthquakes suddenly increased all around in Japan on 11/12/2014
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/earthquakes-suddenly-increased-around-japan-11122014/
More post-nuclear accident interviews released
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141112_40.html
Nuclear Watch: Earning Consumer Trust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smxwrfePmVY&feature=youtu.be
Residents object to NRA go-ahead for Sendai plant
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141112_29.html
Panel Cites Critical Error in Asahi Story on Ex-Fukushima N-Plant Chief
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014111200873
Japan’s Nuclear Cleanup Stymied by Water Woes
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japans-nuclear-cleanup-stymied-water-woes-26850428
Fukushima Governor Opposes Call for Waste Disposal
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/i?g=eco&k=2014111200702
Japan’s Fukushima cleanup 3 years on: little key work done
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-s-fukushima-cleanup-3-years-on-little-key-work-done-1.2832270
Nuclear Watch: Japan Update Residents object to NRA+A Shimbun errors + Abefall 11/12/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s5J0675eAA
Fukushima Radiation Reaches U.S. Coast
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/videos/news/fukushima-radiation-reaches-us-coast/vC2pCP/
Bad precedent for nuclear restarts
Records Show N-Safety Authority’s Regret over Fukushima No. 1 Plant Power Loss
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014111200925
reflections on Fukushima Daiichi
http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=reflections-on-Fukushima-D-by-carol–
wolman-MD-Fukushima_Olympics_Radiation-141112-373.html
NuclearHotseat #177: Fukushima Update – Arnie Gundersen
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/2200/
Japanese doctors threatened for revealing data on how bad Fukushima-related illnesses have become — Gundersen: We had pregnant sisters in Tokyo deliver two dead babies and one with deformities that’s alive; Gov’t refuses to disclose miscarriages or stillbirths around Fukushima (AUDIO)
http://enenews.com/japanese-medical-experts-threatened-bad-radioactive-illnesses-really
Fukushima Mushrooms Still As High As 102,900 Bq/Kg
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14077
How to Best Guard Your Health in a Fukushima Radiation World
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/best-guard-health-fukushima-radiation-world/
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highschooler in Tokyo sells “canned Fukushima air” / 600 yen each
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/high-schooler-tokyo-sells-canned-fukushima-air-600-yen/
Nuclear cleanup at Fukushima plant stymied by water woes
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411130092
Study: Fukushima health risks under-estimated
Kepco mulls operating two reactors beyond 40-year limit
Dates set for sequel on Fukushima community ripped apart by nuclear disaster
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411140003
Fukushima £11bn cleanup progresses, but there is no cause for optimism
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/13/fukushima-11bn-cleanup-will-take-another-40-years
9 prefectures face severe shortage of obstetricians
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/news/20141113p2a00m0na013000c.html
Fukushima Student in Documentary: “Japan is clearly going insane, it seems like we are about to get killed” — “Nothing has gotten better…Our government abandoned us… Anyone, please, please save the lives of Fukushima people and children” (VIDEO)
Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Like Japan’s Inevitable Apocalypse
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-13/things-make-you-go-hmmm-japans-inevitable-apocalypse
IEA: $100 bil. in costs to retire 200 reactors
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141113_29.html
Radioactive water may still be entering tunnels
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_05.html
Utility mulls restart of 40-year-old reactors
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_02.html
Municipalities briefed on Oma plant construction
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141113_40.html
Geiger Counter Interpretation Simplified
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.fr/2012/04/geiger-counter-interpretation.html
Bioaccumulation: Cesium is One Among the 1000 Radionuclides Unleashed by Fukushima Now Bioaccumulating in Flora and Fauna
http://majiasblog.blogspot.fr/2014/11/bioaccumulation-cesium-is-one-among.html
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The Ballad of Fukushima
Radiation is Safe – So Don’t Worry About a Thing
Nuclear operators push to open new plant, extend life of aging reactors
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411140068
TV: Attempt to stop flow of highly radioactive liquid at Fukushima “in doubt” — AP: Much of it is pouring in trenches going out into Pacific —Experts: Amount entering ocean “increasing by 400 tons daily” —Problem “so severe” it’s consuming nearly all workers at site — Top Plant Official: “Little cause for optimism” (VIDEO)
Radioactive water discharge from Fukushima Daiichi NPP into ocean continues
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/759657
Relatives of man who killed himself to sue TEPCO
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_30.html
Nuclear evacuees seek rise in TEPCO compensation
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_34.html
Radioactive waste site surveys to go beyond Nov.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141114_42.html
Groundwater coming up in seaside of Reactor 2 again / Overflowing up-ground around 18th December
METI played key role in TEPCO-Chubu Electric tie-up
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001716087
Avec le nucléaire, on tourne en rond !
http://www.agoravox.fr/actualites/international/article/avec-le-nucleaire-on-tourne-en-159404
New Fukushima Governor Inspects Plant
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141115_05.html
Dimming Prospects for Solar Energy
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/onbusiness/20141114.html
Asahi Shimbun president resigns; aboard member to take over
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201411140092
Massive radiation spike at Fukushima: 40,000% increase below ground between Units 1 & 2 this month — Order of magnitude above record high set last year
Estimated Dietary Intake of Radionuclides and Health Risks for the Citizens of Fukushima City, Tokyo, and Osaka after the 2011 Nuclear Accident.
Welsh Fukushima visitor returns from fact finding mission to declare ‘It was worse than I could have imagined’
Fukushima News 11/14/14: Tepco Can’t Stop Poisoning The Pacific Ocean-“Little Cause For Optimism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bVN6zVEbPM
Resource Spreadsheet: Strontium Biological Half Life
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.fr/2014/11/resource-spreadsheet-strontium.html?__scoop_post=187e4cb0-6deb-11e4-c67e-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=431752#__scoop_post=187e4cb0-6deb-11e4-c67e-001018304b75&__scoop_topic=431752
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Nouvelles de Fukushima à l’automne 2014
http://www.fukushima-blog.com/2014/11/nouvelles-de-fukushima-a-l-automne-2014.html
Cesium-137 density spiked over 300 × in groundwater of Reactor 2 seaside
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/cesium-137-density-spiked-300-x-groundwater-reactor-2-seaside/
DAIICHI: Study: Fukushima health risks underestimated
Debate over ‘right to know’ versus ‘right to be forgotten’ accelerates in Japan
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/perspectives/news/20141115p2a00m0na001000c.html
Bus companies face uphill battle over nuclear disaster compensation
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141115p2a00m0na006000c.html
Japan’s 21st-century tsunami stones
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US institution “Very low level of contaminant from Fukushima detected in West coast”/ Large areas left untested
US Nuclear Professor: Fukushima “a really major event here”, Washington had radioactive aerosols 100,000 times normal; “Far more bigger accident than we’re hearing” — Model shows West Coast completely blacked out due to particles covering area — Gundersen: Lung cancers to start increasing in Pacific Northwest (AUDIO)
Mock test to retrieve radioactive waste starts
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141117_01.html
Contaminated water swamps Fukushima No. 1 cleanup
http://www.fukushima-is-still-news.com/2014/11/water-an-enormously-distracting-problem-1.html
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Fukushima chief urges govt. to respect local voice
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141117_26.html
Fukushima Gov. seeks Daini plant decommissioning
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141117_40.html
I-131 density spiked in sewage plant of Fukushima
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/131-density-spiked-sewage-plant-fukushima/
TEPCO Begins Draining Unit 2 Trench Of Radioactive Water
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14132
Thierry Ribault, Le désastre de Fukushima et les sept principes du national-nucléarisme, 2014
http://sniadecki.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/ribault-sept-principes/
Fukushima nuclear cleanup stymied by water woes
http://www.japantoday.com/smartphone/view/national/fukushima-nuclear-cleanup-stymied-by-water-woes-2
Radioactive water to tunnels unlikely stopped
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141118_03.html
Fukushima Daiichi Updates From IRID Part 1
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14093
Fukushima News 11/17/14: Pacific Bluefin Tuna At Risk of Extinction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPDlyMlcVk
Citizen scientists’ collect B.C. seawater for Fukushima radiation research
Continuing Fukushima Nuclear Crisis
http://www.projectcensored.org/continuing-fukushima-nuclear-crisis/
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Anonymous NISA staff “All NISA staff escaped Fukushima plant by 3/12/2011″/”It’s meaningless for us to go back”
Experts: Seemingly benign virus on West Coast “causing ecological upheaval the likes of which we’ve never seen” — Very peculiar, differentfrom all known viruses — Mutations could be helping it spread —Something may have recently caused it to go rogue… we’ve never seen anything like this — Why now, what changed to allow outbreak?(VIDEO)
Tepco unable to halt tainted water flowing into tunnels at Fukushima
Op-Ed: Fukushima disaster — Ignorance is bliss despite the dangers
TEPCO Declares Effort To Drain Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 Trench Futile
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14156
Radioactive water leak found at Ikata plant
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141118_39.html
Attempt to stop water flowing into trench at Fukushima plant fails
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141118p2a00m0na005000c.ht
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Nuclear Hotseat #178: Fukushima Kids, Moms & Thyroids – Filmmaker IanThomas Ash, Voices from Japan w/Beverly Findlay-Kaneko
http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/2228/
NRA panel: Fault under Tsuruga reactor could move
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141119_41.html
Diet approves nuclear compensation treaty
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141119_23.html
Diet approves Fukushima waste disposal bill
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141119_22.html
The Long Haul for Fukushima
http://thediplomat.com/2014/11/the-long-haul-for-fukushima/
Japan’s 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster still fracturing families
http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-fukushima-recovery-20141119-story.html#page=1
TEPCO to bury Fukushima plant trench with concrete to control radioactive water
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141122p2a00m0na015000c.html
TV:“Barrier is not holding” at Fukushima plant — All efforts have failed to stop very high levels of radioactive materials flowing into ocean — Officials: More water’s coming in than we were pumping out — Workers now trying to prevent overflow (VIDEO)
You Won´t Believe The Truth About Fukushima The Japanese Government Is Hiding From The World
Dead fish at Kapoho tide pools puzzle researcher, trouble neighbors – See more at: http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-news/dead-fish-kapoho-tide-pools-puzzle-researcher-trouble-neighbors#sthash.00Qlt6A4.dpuf
US fails to properly monitor Fukushima fallout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr2CZDLhQRw&feature=youtu.be
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Photographer Explores the Effects of Fukushima Three Years Later
http://vdoop.com/photographer-explores-the-effects-of-fukushima-three-years-later/
Nuclear watchdog panel: Fault under Tsuruga reactor is active
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411200043
Fukushima rice cultivated in decontaminated fields served at Environment Ministry
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411200068
Can Cement Stop Contaminated Water Leak at Fukushima?
French Nuclear Cycle Crash
http://www.fairewinds.org/french-nuclear-cycle-crash/
Twice as much Fukushima radiation near California than originally reported; Most contaminated sample from Eastern Pacific — Official: Levels are ‘interesting’ — Scientist: Very little we can do… This is unprecedented… God forbid anything else happens — Gundersen: Multiple plumes now along west coast… Will be coming “for century or more”
Diet passes legislation to remove nuclear waste from Fukushima in 30 years
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411200041
Even Foods Considered Most Healthy Need Radiation Testing
http://blogs.naturalnews.com/even-foods-considered-most-healthy-need-radiation-testing/
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TEPCO starts transferring remaining unspent fuel from Fukushima No. 4 reactor
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411210037
Comparing the Environmental Impacts of the Chernobyl and Fukushima Disasters
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141121_36.html
40 of 47 given A2 in thyroid test of Matsudo city/City gov “Result not guarantee potential health in future”
Tepco fails to halt toxic water inflow at Fukushima No. 1 trenches
After failures, TEPCO to use special cement to prevent contaminated water leaks
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201411220029
TEPCO to bury Fukushima plant trench with concrete to control radioactive water
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141122p2a00m0na015000c.html
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Kepco weights new lease of life for geriatric reactors
Officials have “admitted failure” at Fukushima plant — Giving up on attempts “to prevent highly contaminated water from pouring into ocean” — Regulator asks “What was all the trouble over the past months for?” — Gov’t experts worried cement barrier is going to crack (VIDEO)
Restart depends also on Government’s stability
http://www.fukushima-is-still-news.com/2014/11/restart-depends-also-on-government-s-stability.html
Damage worse than thought in Nagano earthquake
FukushimaI NPP: Plan C Also Failed in Plugging Reactor 2 Trench… Now What?
http://ex-skf.blogspot.fr/2014/11/fukushima-i-npp-plan-c-also-failed-in.html
Fukushima’s Radioactive Waste Elements Three Years Later: Plutonium and Cesium
Plutonium Inventories at Fukushima Dai-ichii Nuclear Power Plant: Did Unit 3’s MOX Fuel Matter?
Nuclear Proliferation in the Australia-India-Japan-U.S. Nuclear Nexus
LDP Government in Japan on Suicide Mission
http://majiasblog.blogspot.jp/2014/11/ldp-government-in-japan-on-suicide.html?m=1
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 46, No. 1, November 24,2014. Beyond reality – or – An illusory ideal: pro-nuclear Japan’s management of migratory flows in a nuclear catastrophe
http://japanfocus.org/-C__cile-Asanuma_Brice/4221
No One Wants You to Know How Bad Fukushima Might Still Be
https://news.vice.com/article/no-one-wants-you-to-know-how-bad-fukushima-might-still-be
Drs Threatened For Revealing Fukushima ILL❢
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XYLyuhTKw&feature=youtu.be
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Tachyarrhythmia increased 8× as 2010 in a hospital of Sendai
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/11/tachyarrhythmia-increased-8x-2010-hospital-sendai/
Work starts to fill tainted underground tunnels
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141125_28.html
Nuclear power’s dark future
TEPCO’s Trench Saga Could Have Unintended Consequences
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14165
TEPCO Starts Work to Fill N-Plant Trench with Cement
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014112500859
To Fukushima and Back with Hiro
http://notesfromhadano.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/to-fukushima-and-back-with-hiro/
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Tepco starts filling cable trench with cement as it pumps out radioactive water
Strontium-90 density rose up 3 × in groundwater / 490,000,000 Bq/m3 from Reactor2 seaside
Utility to conduct special inspections on reactors
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141126_38.html
Kansai Electric to seek operation of 2 old reactors beyond 40 yrs
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/11/324381.html
Experts: Debris removal not cause of tainted rice
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141126_31.html
Radioactive waste incinerator built in Fukushima
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141126_27.html
Don’t forget secrecy law, reactor restarts, DPJ’s Kaieda urges voters
“Barrier Is Not Holding” at Fukushima Plant
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/barrier-is-not-holding-at-fukushima-plant_112014
Japan Eyes Restart of Next-Generation N-Reactor
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014112600724
JAEA eyes restart of next-generation nuclear reactor
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/11/26/national/science-health/jaea-eyes-restart-next–
generation-nuclear-reactor/#.VHe0Asm-mKF
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Suit against Fukui reactor restarts fails
METI group looking for ways for utilities to offset reactor-decommissioning costs
After liberalization, consumers still to pay for N-plant decommissioning
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001747428
Fukushima fallout on vegetation in South Florida exceeded gov’t notification limit by over 1,000% — Nearly triple the highest level reported anywhere on West Coast
WHERE DOES FUKUSHIMA GO – Pacific and Atmosphere
https://nuclear-news.net/2014/11/27/where-does-fukushima-go-pacific-and-atmosphere/
Japan seals up Fukushima reactor trenches (VIDEO)
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/world/article/japan-seals-up-fukushima-reactor-trenches-video
Restart of Sendai plant in February at earliest
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141127_27.html
Experts call for more child thyroid checks
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141127_13.html
Courtrejects demand to prevent reactors’ restart
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141127_29.html
Largest Japanese active volcano spews ash and rocks, disrupts flights
http://rt.com/news/209487-japan-vocano-aso-erupts/
Fukushima Engineer: “They’re covering up how badly the groundwater is contaminated” —Scientist: “We’re measuring higher levels off Japan” —Radiation near California already exceeds expectations, and will be rising for years to come — TV: “Cleanup can’t be done… They lied from the start, Tepco is a den of inequity” (VIDEOS)
“Public Health Emergency in the US” from Fukushima Radioactive Material: Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Official
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More difficulty in cleaning up reactor building
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20141128_02.html
Japan’s ruling party accused of shying from election questions
Fukushima workers still in murky labour contracts
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/fukushima-workers-still-murky-labour-contracts
Fukushima Watch: Japan Confident It Can Process All Highly Contaminated Water by End-March
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/11/28/fukushima-watch-japan-confident-it-can-process-all-highly-contaminated-water-by-end-march/
Nuclear Watch: Fukushima More difficulty Cleaning up reactor + Seals trenches +Lessons 11/28/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAH3TRDhS_k#t=88
Coolant system of Reactor 2 pool stopped / “Someone turned off a related switch”
Asahi Shimbun to Punish 6 over Report on Ex-Fukushima N-Plant Chief
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2014112800702
Asahi reporters slapped with pay cut over Fukushima story retraction
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2014/11/324777.html
Concerns simmer over access to nuclear info as enforcement of secrets law nears
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20141128p2a00m0na016000c.html
Electricity firms in Japan Solar shambles Japan has failed to learn from Germany’s renewable-energy mess
Op-Ed: Fukushima — Another failure and another attempt at a fix
Fukushima Clean-Up Based On Shady Science And Tax Payer Rip-Off
http://www.activistpost.com/2014/11/fukushima-clean-up-based-on-shady.html
Japan Atomic Power eyes decommissioning as new field
http://asia.nikkei.com/Japan-Update/Japan-Atomic-Power-eyes-decommissioning-as-new-field
Tepco mistakenly published concealed data of activation product in groundwater
NEWLEAK AT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI
https://www.youtube.com/embed/M5zSBI06nps
Strontium-90 density jumped up double in groundwater / 990,000,000 Bq/m3 fromReactor 2 seaside
Under new law, about 460,000 documents likely to be called ‘specialsecrets’
Fukushima ‘dark tourism’ aims to rebuild city
http://khon2.com/2014/11/30/fukushima-dark-tourism-aims-to-rebuild-city/
SimplyInfo.org Fukushima & Nuclear News Roundup, Nov 30, 2014
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14131
Fukushima Radiation: The Fatal Lie & Its Ultimate Toll
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/2014/11/30/fukushima-radiation-the-fatal-lie-its-ultimate-toll/
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