UK Forcing Local People to Drink Contaminated Water While Saving Good Water for the Nuclear Industry; Short-term Impact of Rashes Points to a Likely Future of Cancer, Infertility, and Other “Disorders” — Mining Awareness +
? Many thanks to Scisco Media for publishing the “Troubled Waters” article. There is an update to the article as we now have answers to a Freedom of Information request from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority who have replied that they will not be stopping their abstraction of 36 mega litres a day from the river…
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¶ “A Call For Help For Puerto Rico” • Since Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on September 20, the island is entirely without grid power. It faces the prospect of remaining without grid power for months. It is appalling that citizens of the US are so exposed to hardship. But we could crowdfund microgrids in large numbers and get them up quickly. [CleanTechnica]
Old San Juan in better days (flickr image, Wikimedia Commons)
¶ “Trump’s Plan to Prop Up Coal and Nukes Would Drive Up Utility Bills” • Energy Secretary Rick Perry is urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue new rules to force regional electricity suppliers to pay premium prices for coal and nuclear power. This would drive up our monthly electricity bills. [Environmental Working Group]
Science and Technology:
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2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #39
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Censoring the radioactive mushrooms in Japan prior to #EU sales!
Radioactive mushrooms in Japan article deleted #safecast【rough translation】
720 bq per kg of nuclear substance has been detected in mushrooms sold at a farmers market in Nasu Shiobara City in Tochigi Prefecture. That figure is over seven times higher than the government’s standard. It came to light through an individual inspection. The market has been recalling the products and alerting customers not to consume them.
直売所のキノコから放射性物質
08月25日 20時20分
栃木県那須塩原市の農産物の直売所で販売されたキノコから国の基準を超える放射性物質が検出され、直売所は、自主回収を行うとともに食べるのを控えるよう呼びかけています。
栃木県那須塩原市によりますと、市内にある農産物の直売所「そすいの郷直売センター」で、今月、販売されたキノコ、「チチタケ」を購入した人から「自分で調べたら国の基準を超える放射性物質が検出された」と市に連絡がありました。
市が調べたところ、この「チチタケ」から国の基準の７倍を超える１キログラムあたり７２０ベクレルの放射性物質が検出されたということです。
「チチタケ」は、市内の男性が県外で採取して直売所に持ち込み、今月８日から２２日にかけて１３４パック、合わせておよそ２１キロが販売されたということで、市が採取された場所などを調べています。
直売所は、自主回収を行うとともに、買った人は、食べるのを控えて届け出て欲しいと呼びかけています。
今回の「チチタケ」に関する問い合わせは、「そすいの郷直売センター」、電話番号０２８７－３７－７７６８で受け付けています。
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Radioactive substance from mushroom of direct sales place
08/25/17
Radioactive substances exceeding the standards of the country were detected from the mushrooms sold at agricultural products direct sales place in Nasushiobara city, Tochigi prefecture, and the direct sales office calls for voluntary collection and refrain from eating.
According to Nasushiobara city, Tochigi prefecture, from the person who bought “mushroom mushroom” sold this month at “Susumu no Tomo Direct Distribution Center” in the city’s agricultural products direct store ” There were contacts with the city that more radioactive substances were detected. ”
According to the city’s investigation, 720 Becquerels of radioactive substance per kilogram exceeding the national standard was detected from “Chichitake”.
“Tichitake” was collected outside the prefecture by men in the city and brought them to the direct sales department, and 134 packs were sold from the 8th to the 22nd of this month, about 21 kilos in total, so the place where the city was sampled etc. I am examining.
At the direct sales office, we voluntarily collect and recall that those who bought it want to report before eating.
For inquiries about “Chizitake” this time, we accept “Susumu no Tomo Direct sales center”, telephone number 0287-37-7768.
Original source (deleted article) http://www3.nhk.or.jp/shutoken-news/20170825/3355481.html
Backed up article link http://web.archive.org/…/shutoken-news/20170825/3355481.html
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It might be noted also that the upcoming 2020 Olympics will put a strain on the planned cleanup of domestic and public areas and mean that it will be likely to put back any possible clean up plans for the forested areas. Also, as soil sampling has not generally been effective, will there be a threat to Olympic tourists and athletes who might venture into these largely unmapped and untested areas? https://nuclear-news.net/2017/07/27/fukushima-radioactive-mushrooms-report-details-concerns-to-olympic-tourists-and-athletes/
Everyone should be careful and aware that radiation contaminated food is being distributed anywhere in Japan, not only in Fukushima Prefecture.To know the exact measure, becquerels level in each food to be consumed is becoming vital so as to not be harmed internally, knowing that radiation exposure internally is much more harmful than external exposure : at least 100 times more harmful. https://nuclear-news.net/2016/06/15/the-spread-of-radiation-internal-contamination-thru-fresh-produce-in-japan/
40,000 bq/kg cesium in mushrooms found in Norway after 30 years (Norwegian only) http://www.miljostatus.no/radioaktivitet-i-sopp/
No joke! Despite the evidence, nuclear power declared safe
By CHIAKI OGIHARA/ Staff Writer
September 30, 2017
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201709300035.html
IKATA, Ehime Prefecture–It’s as if the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan never happened.
A public relations facility here that was set up to publicize the safety of the Ikata nuclear power plant operated by Shikoku Electric Power Co. still insists that nuclear plants can withstand a tsunami of any height.
Like the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that went into triple meltdown, the Ikata facility faces the coast. A magnitude-9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011, triggered tsunami that put the Fukushima facility out of action.
More than six years after that catastrophic event, the Ehime prefectural government is finally moving to revise the information designed to ease fears about a nuclear accident.
The contents on display will be updated before the end of the fiscal year because, as one prefectural government official put it, “Some of the information does not square with the current situation.”
The facility is located in the Minatoura district of Ikata about four kilometers east of the Ikata nuclear plant. It was established in 1982 by Ehime prefectural authorities to remove concerns the public may have about nuclear power generation.
It is operated by an organization that survives on funding from Shikoku Electric, the Ehime prefectural government and the Ikata town government.
In the last fiscal year, the facility had 1,761 visitors, including elementary school students who live nearby.
Near the entrance to the facility is a touch-panel screen where visitors can learn about nuclear power plants in a quiz format.
One question asks, “What would happen to a nuclear power plant if a large earthquake should strike?”
The three alternatives to choose from are: 1) Continue to generate power; 2) The reactor automatically stops to prevent any form of accident; and 3) It would be destroyed if a large earthquake struck.
The second choice is considered the correct answer.
The monitor also offers this reassurance: “(The nuclear plant) is a sturdy building that would not budge an inch in an earthquake, typhoon or tsunami.”
Another entry states that “it was designed with the largest possible quake in mind.”
Another question asks, “Would a nuclear power plant explode like a nuclear bomb?”
Again, there are three choices: 1) It would explode if used in a wrong way; 2) It would never explode; and 3) Nuclear reactors might explode once it ages.
The correct answer is again the second choice.
In fact, after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 2011, reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 plant were severely damaged by hydrogen explosions caused by core meltdowns after cooling functions were lost when power to the plant was lost.
About a year ago, facility operators have attached a sign to the touch-panel screen that says, “We are in the process of preparing a revision because some of the wording differs from the current situation.”
However, no explanation is offered to show what sections differ from reality.
A prefectural government official in charge of nuclear power safety measures said, “There is some accurate information so we decided it was preferable that some of it was viewed.”
But, the official added that the display would be revised along with improvements in other equipment. The cost of about 500,000 yen ($4,400) would be paid for from tax subsidies obtained through laws covering power generation.
After the Fukushima nuclear accident, a new display was added to show the safety measures being taken at the Ikata plant. There is also a video shown at the facility which explains there has been no noticeable spike in cancer rates or hereditary illness caused by radiation levels under 100 millisieverts.
Safecasting the newly reopened radioactive Route 114 in Namie Fukushima
Thursday September 28th, 2017
Above: National Route 114 runs through the current exclusion zone in Namie. The area remains evacuated but the road was recently reopened for public use.
National Route 114 in Namie was reopened to public access on Sept 20th of this year. The route, also known as the Tomioka Highway, is a primary thoroughfare which runs east-west in Fukushima, primarily through the mountainous sections of Namie. Prior to the accident it was the major lifeline connecting Fukushima City in the west with the center of Namie and other coastal towns in the east. Since April 2011 the road has been officially closed to public access, as the entire town of Namie was placed under evacuation orders. However, Joe and Kalin shot this video on Rte 114 in Namie in May, 2012, so it was still at least partly accessible then, and to the best of our recollection remained so until Spring of 2013. In March this year, the previously more populated eastern portion of Namie was reopened for residence. But the rest of the town, through which Rte 114 runs, remains part of the “Difficult to return zone” (kikan konnan kuiki), usually marked in red on evacuation maps. It’s been difficult for us to get access to this area in the past, but longtime volunteer KM Aizu recently Safecasted the reopened road. He measured dose rates at 1 meter of up to 5.91 µSv/hr along one stretch. This is somewhat higher than the 5.53 µSv/hr shown by an official survey in August, as reported recently in the Asahi Shimbun. It is also significantly lower than the 19.6 µSv/hr we measured there in Oct-Nov 2011.
KM Aizu commented that while driving on the road, which took about 45 minutes end-to-end, he thought, “It’s been a long time since I’ve been anywhere with dose rates this high.” The portion of Route 6 in front of Fukushima Daiichi is still up to about 5 µSv/hr, he noted, “But this is now the highest dose rate anywhere that is publicly accessible in Fukushima.” As with Rte. 6 and the Joban Expressway, both of which cut through the “Difficult to return zone,” the government advises people not to stop along the way but to enter and leave the area quickly so as to minimize their radiation exposure. Barriers blocking access to side roads have been placed at over 80 locations along Rte 114, and according to our volunteer, the road is regularly patrolled by police cars. (KM Aizu noted that as with other law enforcement teams patrolling and manning roadbocks, the ones he saw were from other prefectures). He also noted that while Rte 6 is lined with houses and businesses to which somewhat efficient decontamination could be done before and after reopening it, Rte 114 runs almost entirely through forested hillsides. The hillsides immediately flanking the road have been remediated to a distance of about 10 meters, but the remainder is essentially untouched. “If people went even a fairly short distance into the mountains,” he observed, “I’m sure the doses would be much higher.”
The reopening of Rte 114 will definitely make travel between Fukushima City and the coast easier for people and goods, and in that sense it will bring benefits and is probably justified. There have been increasing discussions about reopening Rte 399, which runs north-south between Iitate and Katsurao, intersecting Rte 114 in Namie, as well. This would essentially restore the basic road network through the area. Locals generally seem to acknowledge and accept the risks the potential exposures present, but nevertheless we urge people intending to travel in the region to be aware of the situation and to exercise adequate caution.
Norway grants immigration to Israeli nuclear whistleblower
I live in Ireland and we have signed the UN nuclear weapons ban. If there was another good reason for banning these awful things it would also be because of the governments that stifle freedom of speech and use the official secrets act to terrorise and discriminate against their citizenry .. God willing that this poor man will be released to live with his wife and family. Norway is a wonderful place and he will be welcomed. Time for Israel to show some compassion and forgiveness. It is time! [Arclight2011]
Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been granted permission to immigrate to Norway so he can be united with his Norwegian wife.
Vanunu’s wife, Kristin Joachimsen, told Norway’s TV2 channel Friday the couple requested family reunification after they wed in May 2015. It wasn’t clear when he would relocate.
Joachimsen says: “Family values have prevailed.”
Vanunu served 18 years in prison for leaking details and pictures of an alleged Israeli nuclear weapons program to a British newspaper. He sought asylum in Norway after his 2004 release.
Israel then banned him from speaking with foreigners and leaving the country, among other restrictions.
Israel neither confirms nor denies its nuclear weapons capability.
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NUCLEAR LIES – theme for October 2017
The nuclear industry’s history of lies goes right back to its beginnings in the early 1940s.
I would say the that lying is the worst thing about the nuclear industry – and that’s saying plenty!
Of the current lies – it’s hard to pick which lie matters most.
Lately the nuclear lobby is touting the lie that “new nuclear” is essential for peace and nuclear non proliferation. That’s a beauty, isn’t it?
The truth is that the nuclear weapons industry needs the “peaceful” new nuclear industry – in which to grow its expertise for the nuclear killing factories – the $trillion dollars nuclear weapons makers. (Which is why governments are lending an ear to the otherwise completely futile “Generation IV” nuclear reactor lobbyists)
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