Stop animal research at Imperial College London! – Tip of the iceberg!!
Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Secretary of State, Home Office: Stop animal research at Imperial College London
Video contains some graphic pictures! Advisory..
An undercover investigation carried out by the BUAV has exposed appalling suffering and wrong-doing inside one of the UK’s leading universities, Imperial College London, ranked as one of the best in the world. Despite Government and industry claims that the UK has strong regulations in place, the BUAV has uncovered a catalogue of suffering and wrongdoing.
Behind the closed doors of this ‘world-leading’ university, the BUAV investigator discovered a nightmare world for animals used in experiments: animals who suffered even more than was allowed by the experiment because of staff incompetence and neglect; a failure to provide adequate anaesthesia and pain relief; breaches and lack of knowledge of UK Home Office project licences and the shocking way in which animals were killed.
The harrowing experiments carried out at Imperial College during the investigation involved the deliberate infliction of major organ damage, surgical mutilation and invasive head surgery to implant cannulas (tubes) so that substances could be directly injected into the brain. Some animals were forced to run on treadmills to exhaustion to avoid electric shocks, others were restrained while a long tube was forced down their throats and substances injected directly into their stomachs.
This investigation has shed new light on the daily reality for animals in laboratories and the ordeal they are forced to endure. Their suffering was often severe and could include a high degree of pain, distress, weeping or bleeding head or abdomen wounds, diarrhoea, lethargy or hypothermia. Many animals died during or after the surgery; and others had to be killed because the level of their suffering was so great.
The BUAV is calling on the Home Secretary to revoke Imperial College’s Establishment Licence, stopping them from carrying out further animal research, and launch a full and independent inquiry in the concerns raised by the BUAV investigation.
Former Imperial College student and Queen guitarist Dr Brian May has spoken out against the university and backed our call for an independent inquiry:
“I am shocked and saddened to see these revelations. And ashamed that it could have taken place in the University of my own training, in which I have had so much pride.
I can only fully support the work of BUAV and the RSPCA in conducting a full inquiry.
And I hope the result will be that this appalling cruelty will never be allowed to happen again.
Research on animals is an outdated concept – unethical, and unsupportable now that it is known that it yields false results.
There is now, in every case, a better alternative.
Experimentation on animals must now come to an end, and I urge Imperial College to use this opportunity to put all cruelty in the past, by eliminating animal experimentation, and thereby set an example to the world.”
Watch the investigation film and find out more about the investigation: http://licensedtokill.buav.org
Please give a voice to these animals and take a stand against the terrible suffering at Imperial College London by signing this petition.
Some more investigations on Imperial College University London here…
Imperial College University London hints to Prof Yamashita that they would destroy vital evidence of thyroid tissue samples in 2011
Op-Ed -Arclight2011
Published – Nuclear-news.net
28 April 2013
It makes me ashamed actually, the media coverage we have had that has added pressure to the Japanese who have had a lot of problems at the same time…”
“some people in the future will actually not want the samples at all – the bioinformaticists amongst us will actually want data to look at, rather than the tissue samples themselves.”
(but what about evidence for future litigation on behalf of the victims who were demonstrating outside the Symposium? Arclight2011)
Professor Geraldine Thomas at the Fukushima Symposium September 2011 -video link here..
Fukushima deletes radiation data needed for exposure assessment!
“……”We were preoccupied with other tasks and were late in collecting the dosimeter. The maker told us that data couldn’t be taken from the device, and we overwrote the readings because we needed to use the dosimeter to monitor radiation levels in various parts of the prefecture,” an official of the task force said. “We’ve heard that radiation levels were normal at the time. We didn’t report the loss of the data, and we’re extremely sorry.”
However, the manufacturer denies that data cannot be extracted from the dosimeter.
“Readings are saved in the dosimeter’s memory chip and can be extracted using a special program installed on a computer,” a representative of the manufacturer said….”
Prof Yamashita – Japan Thyroid Association and ex Fukushima Medical Uni Hospital
Prof Thomas – BBC PRopagandist (UK Thyroid Association and Imperial College University London)
Richard Wakeford – Statisticall Liar for UNSCEAR and the BBC (ex BNFL)
A crying child!
Photo by Ritika Mittal
March 09, 2013 (Mainichi Japan)
FUKUSHIMA — The prefectural government deleted radiation data that it gathered at an evacuation shelter near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant shortly after the disaster broke out, it has been learned.
Click here for the original Japanese story
The Fukushima Prefectural Government explained that it wrote over the data without saving it. It failed to report the case to the national government.
https://nuclear-news.net/2013/03/22/fukushima-deletes-radiation-data-needed-for-exposure-assessment/
Chernobyl London meeting (27 April 2013) Speech by Tamara Krasitskava from Zemlyaki
…..On Sunday the 27 April 2013 in a little room somewhere off Grays Inn road London, a meeting took place. In this meeting was Ms Tamara Krasitskava of the Ukrainian NGO “Zemlyaki”.
In this meeting she quoted that only 40 percent of the evacuees that moved to Kiev after the disaster are alive today! And lets leave the statistics out of it for a moment and we find out of 44,000 evacuated to Kiev only 19,000 are left alive. None made it much passed 40 years old…
“…..3.2 million with health effects and this includes 1 million children…”
T .Kraisitskava (YOUTUBE Link)
“….I was told to not talk of the results from Belarus as the UK public were not allowed to know the results we were finding!….”
A.Cameron (Belarus health worker from UK) (YOUTUBE Link)
Turkey bullies nuclear France to also deny the Armenian Genocide – With Japans blessing!
Turkey guarantees the procurement of electric power from the two nuclear plants during the 20 years following their completion. Ankara will pay $12.35 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to Russia and $11.8 to Japan.
In line with the deal signed between Turkey and Japan, the parties will establish a separate company to undertake the construction and operation of the nuclear plant in Sinop province. A 51 percent share in this company will belong to Japan, with the rest in Turkey’s hands.
Turkish denials of the Armenian Genocide ring hollow when looking at the evidence
12 May 2013
http://witnesshr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/turkey-bullies-france-to-also-deny.html
Turkey the regional middle east bully is now using its financial muscle to bully France into giving up recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
Turkey would be better off admitting what was done, paying compensation to victims families and ceasing its murderous blockade of Armenia. Children are suffering in Armenia because of the poverty brought about by Turkey’s blockade.
Turkey must stop the bullying, admit the Genocide, and end the blockade.
Is that too much to ask?
Ismet Baransel
Ankara is expecting to see Paris weigh its stance on Armenian genocide claims rather more carefully amid improving trade ties, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yıldız told reporters Monday in Ankara.
France’s GDF Suez will partner with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Itochu Corporation to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant at an estimated cost of $22 billion under an agreement signed last week. The consortium will use French nuclear group Areva’s Atmea reactors.
Yıldız’s remarks on Monday come on the heels of speculation in French and Turkish media that the nuclear deal will benefit the political relations between Paris and Ankara, which have been strained by the former’s recognition of killings of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide. Ankara last year rejected requests by two French firms to be involved in Turkish nuclear power projects amid Turkish anger at a French bill making it illegal to deny that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a century ago was genocide.
Observers argued the French stance on the issue would continue to test Turkey’s patience as the 100th anniversary of 1915 events approaches. It is known that the Armenian diaspora is pushing for a worldwide initiative in 2015.
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant – Maybe slightly radioactive water leaked?
Published on 11 May 2013
“A Michigan-based nuclear power plant has been shut down due to water leakage from the tank, which exceeded its capacity. Inspectors are now studying the problem to see if there is any danger to the public.”*
Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan is definitely leaking radioactive material. regulators are saying it’s “slight” and there aren’t health risks.
But is this a cover-up for a profitable corporations?
How slight it 79 gallons of radioactive material flowing into Lake Michigan? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more from Russia Today:
http://rt.com/usa/palisades-nuclear-p…
Taipower Corporation should pay for Orchid Island nuclear pollution related health risks!
…The Control Yuan report stated the different treatments for northern residents and the people of Orchid Island amounted to discrimination. Huang suggested the Ministry of Economic Affairs should tell Taipower to subsidize relevant medical checkups for residents of the remote island……
“..The capital Taipei would have to be abandoned if there was a Fukushima sized disaster with a 30 Km evacuation zone (population 2,635,766 as of 2012 ) !..”
Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2013-05-11 03:59 PM
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=2218441
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Taiwan Power Corporation should pay for the health checks of the local population on Orchid Island, the main storage location for low-grade nuclear waste, the Control Yuan said Saturday.
The nation’s top government watchdog body entrusted one of its members, Huang Huang-hsiung with writing a report about the topic, long a source of controversy as residents of the remote island in Taitung County, mostly indigenous Tao people, have long protested against the health risks.
Since 1982, state-run Taipower has stored a total of 100,000 barrels of radioactive waste on the island, 88 percent of which came from the country’s three operating nuclear plants, Huang said.
At present, Taipower employees and contractors on the island received a complete medical checkup from the company once a year, while residents had only gradually been subjected to tests for radiation at the third nuclear plant in Pingtung County since 1999.
Taipower never agreed to local demands for full medical checkups or for the payment of insurance against cancer, Huang said. In contrast, from 2000 to 2002, the company subsidized then Taipei County to conduct wide-ranging tests on residents of Sanchih, Shihmen, Chinshan and Wanli, the coastal area where the first and second nuclear plants operate, he said.
The Control Yuan report stated the different treatments for northern residents and the people of Orchid Island amounted to discrimination. Huang suggested the Ministry of Economic Affairs should tell Taipower to subsidize relevant medical checkups for residents of the remote island.
The company has come under increasing attack for its plans to start up a fourth nuclear plant in Gongliao, close to the first and second plants and only dozens of kilometers away from Taipei.
Anti-nuclear campaigners have chosen May 19 as the date for the next protest against the project because it falls on the eve of the anniversary of President Ma Ying-jeou’s inauguration. His administration wants to hold a referendum about the fourth plant before the end of the year, but critics say the government should save itself the trouble and declare an immediate halt to the project. Opinion polls show up to more than 70 percent of the public opposed to the fourth plant, mainly because of safety concerns.
Standing on Shaky Ground
Broadcast: 09/04/2013
Reporter: Mark Willacy Video on link and transcript below (Recommend Video)
“..The capital Taipei would have to be abandoned if there was a Fukushima sized disaster with a 30 Km evacuation zone (population 2,635,766 as of 2012 ) !..”
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2013/s3733236.htm
A massive earthquake and series of tsunami triggered 2011’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and exposed major shortcomings and widespread complacency in safety and preparedness but the shockwaves reverberated well beyond Japan.
Further along the fault lines of the Pacific Rim of Fire lies Taiwan – another heavily industrialised, modern economy highly reliant on nuclear power. On the mainland, home to three nuclear power-plants (with another on the way) concern is growing about the threats posed by reactors on shaky ground. And because of its disputed nationhood, Taiwan can ship its waste for processing overseas, so the occupants of a little Taiwanese island are also up in arms about the dumping of waste on their beachfront.
Radioactive Reality (11 May 2013) Terror drill at Fukushima nuclear plant
Published on 11 May 2013
The trials and tribulations of Sister Megan Rice – “The trial was unusual in many ways!”
……According to the receipt presented as evidence, Y-12 purchased 20 five-gallon cans of paint — at a cost of $450.60 — in order to make the graffiti and stains go away.
Boertje-Obed, who served as his own legal counsel in the trial, had one question for Johnson during cross-examination.
“Do you know if any paint was left over?” he asked the retired general.
Boertje-Obed, a house painter by trade, said he thought the job could probably have been accomplished with a single gallon of paint.
When the government objected to his line of questions, Boertje-Obed turned and went back to his seat…….
KNS photo/SAUL YOUNG
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2013/05/notebook-was-the-judge-wearing.html
Michael Walli, left, of Transform Now Plowshares dances with costumed Rick Brown during a rally Wednesday at Market Square. Walli, along with co-defendants Sister Megan Rice and Greg Boertje-Obed, participated in the demonstration during a break in their trial. A federal jury later that day found the three guilty on all charges in the July 28, 2012 break-in at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant.
This week’s trial of Y-12 protesters proceeded at a speedy pace, reminiscent of a fast break by one of Kentucky’s highly talented basketball teams.
That’s probably fitting because the trial was being pushed along by U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar, a huge fan of the Kentucky Wildcats who never let anybody forget where his loyalties lie — at least during basketball season.
Thapar’s normal judicial seat is the Eastern District of Kentucky, but he was on loan to Knoxville for the federal trial of three defendants — Sister Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed — known collectively as the Transform Now Plowshares.
The trial wrapped up in half the time of the predicted four days.
On Monday, during jury selection, Thapar did all the questioning himself, and he kibitzed with the potential jurors, telling them he was from a “foreign state north of here” where the basketball players go pro.
“Yes, I am a Big Blue fan,” he said, assuming he was talking to a bunch of folks with orange stuff running through their veins (although there was never a retort of “Go Vols!” from the jury box).
The judge continued to make Kentucky references throughout the trial, and more than one participant suggested the speed of the trial was directly related to Thapar’s desire to go home.
The crowds are coming
Shock report! 30 Percent of Japanese Nuclear experts remain uncomfortable with Nuclear Power!
Image source ; http://laughzilla.com/2011/05/31/endangered-species-nuclear-plants/
The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) included continuing atomic power in their election promises last year and won a huge victory, so I think nuclear experts might have regained some of their confidence in the technology.
May. 12, 2013 – 04:53AM JST
Kansai University professor of social psychology Shoji Tsuchida, referring to the results of a survey that show 70% of nuclear energy experts with the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) remain comfortable with nuclear power. (Mainichi Shimbun)
-*+Fukushima – School students forced to clean swimming pool without proper safety equipment! – 未成年が除染作業を強いられている-福島県郡山市
Published by nuclear-news.net
by Arclight2011
10 May 2013
h/t Mia
HAS THE UN “OPTIONAL PROTOCOL” FAILED
FOR THE CHILDREN OF
FUKUSHIMA?
…On a more technical point, it was explained that annual exposure to radiation was at the level advised by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP)….
Japanese government delegation statement to the UN concerning the Fukushima Nuclear disaster April 2013
High school students were forced to clean their swimming pool!
未成年が除染作業を強いられている-福島県郡山市
Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture
The students were allowed to clean the swimming pool (Gieger showing 0.51 uSv/h) without wearing any safety equipment. They just had their school uniforms for protection!
Nearby were students doing vigorous exercise, as dust and moisture droplets were being made airborne.
The Reading here was 0.50 mcSv/h, an air reading taken approximately 1 metre off the ground.
This is the video footage from the high school in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture showing the work being done;
Published on 8 May 2013
2013年5月8日
福島県立郡山高等学校の生徒が教諭の命令によりプールの除染作業を強いられています。
The Japanese Government has allowed decontamination work to be done by minors!
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights considers Report of Japan
Committee on Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights
30 April 2013
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Regarding those that survived the atomic bombing, their medical needs related to their exposure was subsidised and this would allow them to maintain a suitable level of living.
A Novel Idea: Asking an Afghan About the Future of Uranium
…..Plus, the Taliban know there’s a four-trillion-dollar carrot awaiting those who sign on to a peace agreement. The US Air Force has conducted a complete aerial survey of Afghan resources and released Russian assays measuring the nation’s untapped mineral wealth in gold (in Badakshan), copper (Balkhab), iron (Haji-Gak), cobalt (Aynak), carbonatite (Khanneshin), tin (Dusar-Shaida) and more. Afghanistan could be the Saudi Arabia of rich rocks.
Left out of the published US reports (but something I dug out of old paper CIA files not purged from computers) was the most valuable stash of all: uranium, possibly the world’s largest deposit, which the Soviets secretly mined using only imported Soviet workers until they were chased back to Russia in 1988.
Cobalt mining beats the hell out of the opium trade (which is slipping to Myanmar, anyway). The Karzai government’s hope is to leave a path to wealth as its legacy, but that wealth can’t be dug out until the soil above is free of landmines and maniacs.
Chinese state companies are today lining up in Kabul with shovels and signing bonuses. Maroofi likes Chinese companies – they’re more likely to provide jobs than baksheesh. Unlike Western companies.
Baksheesh. Bribes. Corruption. It was this topic that set Maroofi on a long rip. Yes, Afghans have been showered with billions in bribes, backhanders and corrupt deals, but who’s paying those bribes? Who’s doing the corrupting?
“Karzai told Lockheed [Lockheed Martin, the defence technology company], ‘You give hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to my family and to my minister’s families because you expect to buy influence. You’re not getting influence, and you’re not getting your money back, either.’”…..
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Newsnight and in The Guardian. Palast eats the rich and spits them out. Catch his reports and films at www.GregPalast.com, where you can also securely send him your documents marked, “confidential”.
Vice
10 May 2013
“Now that the sonovabitch is dead, why is the US still angry with us?”
“Us”, in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden.
The Taliban’s frustration was relayed to me by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai – Karzai’s Kissinger, if Kissinger had a soul.
The Silk Road nation of Kazakhstan is an excellent place to encounter the dervishes of the Great Game for control of the camel-and-pipeline routes of the Central Asian steppes. Here we can witness the diplomatic-military idiocies of new empires pathetically attempting to ignore the dried skeletons of the imperial forces that went before them.
Maroofi was spending the day in Kazakhstan’s capital on his way to little-noticed peace negotiations – little noticed because neither Uncle Sam nor Great-Uncle Britain were invited. Attendance is limited to those frontline states that will be left holding the grenade when the US and UK pull out the pin with the removal of their troops in 2014. The lineup includes Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan (birthplace of the Boston Bombers) and the big new swinging dick on the block, Turkey, as well as Iran, the nation most feared and despised by the Taliban. The unannounced guests, of course, are the Taliban themselves.
I am moved to recount a bit of my lengthy talk with the Afghan minister after reading reams of meretricious bunkum about Afghanistan from the pens of US propaganda repeaters pretending to be reporters. My favourite is, “Hope Seen for Afghanistan After Coalition Leaves,” in the New York Times. To give us an expert view, two American reporters spend their 20-column inches taking down the words of General Joseph F Dunford Jr, commander of all “international forces” in Afghanistan.
Dunford just arrived in Afghanistan for the first time about 12 weeks ago. He may not know a Tajik from a camel fart, but he does speak fluent Pashto. (I made that last one up because I’m tired of Europeans making fun of Americans for being ignorant of foreign languages.)
Notably, the Times article about the future of Afghanistan includes not one word from an Afghan.
Nuclear-news.net presents the video – Alone in the zone 原発20キロ圏内に生きる男
Published on 10 Mar 2013
福島の警戒区域にただ独り残る松村直登。Surviving solo in the Fukushima evacuation zone.
For English subtitles, click “CC” button at the bottom of the video player.
– 本作のVICE.comでの記事はこちら http://www.vice.com/jp/read/alone-in-…
– Read the article at VICE.com http://www.vice.com/read/radioactive-…
誰もいなくなった警戒区域でただ独り、生きる男。彼には、ひとつの使命があった。
東日本大震災から２年。福島県双葉郡富岡町は今なお立入禁止の警戒区域に指定されている。全町民が避難したなか、この地にたった独り、残ると決意した男が。松村直登、53歳。この地を襲った惨事に苛立ちながらも、彼が居続けるのには訳があった。警戒区域で孤独に暮らしてきた男が語った、愛と憎しみの２年間。
Two years since the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant went into full meltdown, and the resulting 20KM evacuation zone was enforced, one farmer still remains behind braving high levels of radiation and loneliness to tend to abandoned animals. His name is Naoto Matsumura, and he is the last man standing in the ghost town of Tomioka. Another farmer, Kenji Hasegawa’s town of Iidate was also evacuated due to high levels of radiation, he sought refuge in temporary housing. Faced with a post-nuclear world both these men share brutally honest views on the state of their lives, TEPCO, government inaction and some of the hardest situations they have had to face in the midst of overwhelming radioactivity.
A terrible silent tragedy is happening in Fukushima! The lone horseman of Itate speaks out! Repost
“I would like to welcome anybody who is concerned to contact me. I request vets and radiation specialists to come and investigate my horses.”
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/rainbowgarnet1/e/6d51ec6ae9dd6c4314d2175bb18e4005
(Abstract)
(Translated by Mia)
7 May 2013 repost 10 May 2013
Iitate village (In Fukushima Prefecture) is surrounded by beautiful mountains and forests. And the village and setting still looks beautiful, even after being heavily contaminated by the fallout from the Fukushima disaster.
Mr. Tokuei Hosokawa (60 years old), a third-generation livestock dealer working in the family business, is one of a few who has remained at this village since the disaster.
He has kept quiet about the condition of his horses up until now, but as the condition of his horses has been deteriorating, he has decided to warn others that there is something terribly wrong going on, by making people aware of what has been happening to his horses.
He kept a carcass of one of his horse that died a month ago, he said;
“I want to bury it, but I preserved it so that I could show it as proof to Tepco”.
“I hear that lots of cows have been dying of hunger in 20k radius of the crippled plant. My horses have been looked after and fed well but four out of thirty two horses are getting very weak, unable to stand up well, with weakness in their knees.”
One of them, a little white pony, has been in the worst condition with its coat in a very poor condition.
The vet came to look at the little pony and diagnosed that it developed jaundice with a malfunctioning liver.
Also, 14 out of 15 foals died within 1 week to 1 month.
He asked a health care-centre for blood tests for his horses.
And there was no evidence of contagious disease or malnutrition found in the test results.
He was told that the blood test were not enough to find out the reasons behind his horses getting weak. He said;
“I think that it is to with the fallout from the Fukushima disaster. I can’t prove it scientifically, but I know it from my many years of experience in working with my horses. “
While he was running his family farm, he was also involved in various volunteering activities using these horses.
Various shrine ritual events such as “Soma Nomaoi”, the most famous traditional war game using horses.He even appeared on some TV period dramas such as ”水戸黄門”, the Tokugawa Shogun Mito Mitsukuni, a historical drama loved by all generations in Japan.
He was also actively involved with local primary school events and also held horse therapy sessions at an educational facility for the blind.
He evacuated with his family out of the village, but couldn’t bare to leave his horses behind, so he returned on his own to look after them.
He has been helping to save other cows and horses owned by other people in the same situation. So far, he saved 87 horses by himself and found a second home for them in different places in Japan.
He asked Tepco for the compensation of the cost of re-housing and caring for these horses but Tepco has rejected his appeals with the reason that there is no proof he looked after them.
He has been rejecting all personal health checks including the radiation “whole body counter”. For him it doesn’t seem to be an important issue to check his health because he has made the decision to stay, for the rest of his life, with these horses.
And although he feels that he is getting to the end of his tether, he still cannot bring himself to kill them. They have been in his family for generations, so he feels honour bound to return to return the help the horses have provided his family. He feels he should show gratitude and give respect to these wonderful creatures for their many years of work by keeping them company until they die, no matter the personal cost.
A week after this interview, as he had guessed, the little white pony had died (at the end of March 2013.)
During the interview Mr. Hosokawa kept saying;
“Japan is in a mad situation! From now on, even more terrible things will happen!”.
A personal plea by Mr. Hosokawa:
*A personal pleas by Mr. Hosokawa:“I would like to make public about the situation of my horses, my name, address and telephone numbers are below. I would like to welcome anybody who is concerned to contact me. I request vets and radiation specialists to come and investigate my horses.”細川牧場 細川徳栄さん福島県相馬群飯舘村臼石字町123-1090-9742-3141Tokuei HosokawaHosokawa Farm,123-1, Usui Aza-machi,Iitate village,Soma-gun, Fukushima prefectureTel: 090-9742-3141
h/t ;http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a-terrible-silent-tragedy-is-happening.html
Nuclear fears in Europe after dangerous radioactive material is found!
…Shockingly, the men had even stored their sandwiches and drinking water in with the radioactive material.
In Austria the men admitted they had made the journey from Germany to Romania carrying similar radioactive loads dozens of times and had not realised how dangerous it was….
CALLS are growing for more routine radioactive screening at borders after a second lorry containing unshielded radioactive material was stopped on a European road!
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
The vehicle was contained after it was discovered to be exceeding the legal radioactive emission limits.
Shockingly, the men had even stored their sandwiches and drinking water in with the radioactive material.
In Austria the men admitted they had made the journey from Germany to Romania carrying similar radioactive loads dozens of times and had not realised how dangerous it was.
Now, a lorry from Lithuania on its way to Italy has been found to contain dangerous levels of radioactivity by customs officials.
The lorry was cordoned off, while the surrounding 300 feet around the vehicle was evacuated and the Customs border crossing point was closed.
A specialist team from the Bellinzona fire service and specially trained police officers were called in to investigate further, discovering that the radioactivity was from a package being transported in the lorry which was confiscated and secured.
Davide Bassi, from the Swiss Border Control Office said: “It is not unusual that lorry’s have a low level of radiation, and we do carry out controls to check that this limit is not exceeded.”
They were currently examining the package to find out why it was irradiated and what it contained, he said speaking to the Austrian Times.
Wolfgang Mueller from Greenpeace Germany said: “It is clearly a growing problem and about time that tougher action was made to cut down on the number of dangerous nuclear transports that seem to be taking place on our streets.”
US officials investigate deception at nuclear factory – More Shaw shenanigans !
…The investigation may also find that the manufacturer produced defective or unsafe parts slated for use in two nuclear power plants – Plant Vogtle in Georgia and Plant Summer in South Carolina…
Friday, 10 May 2013 02:21
US federal officials have started an investigation into a factory manufacturing parts for nuclear plants, alleging falsification of records and quality control rules.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Investigations has started the investigation at Shaw Modular Solutions facility in the US city of Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Some workers at the facility have already admitted that they entered the identification codes for other workers while recording who assembled parts.
The investigation may also find that the manufacturer produced defective or unsafe parts slated for use in two nuclear power plants – Plant Vogtle in Georgia and Plant Summer in South Carolina.
The factory has been hit recently with a number of other charges including whistleblower complaints, a failure to meet production schedules, and difficulty in the quality control process.
Editors note:
Concerning The Shaw Group that is mentioned above, it reminds me of another discussion concerning the connection with the Shaw Group and Texas Brine. The below is a culmination of links and findings concerning this from the Enenews comments section.
It is also worth noting on the point of companies covering their tracks on the web, that Shaw has now merged with CB and I and the the above Shaw nuclear group is now absent on the web and empty of activity on their Face book pages. Also, both are big players in the military and government spending areas. A perfect match! [Arclight2011]
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heres an odd link from Bayer`s 2010 annual report
it shows texas brine on the list but it shows a “0” as percentage of interest.. the only sale.. everything else they held a +50 percent holding except for a 45 percent stake in one of their dubai companies (dubai hardselling?)
just thought i would post it here in case it was useful
http://www.annualreport2010.bayer.com/en/changes-in-the-scope-of-consolidation.aspx
[….]
From a “chamber of commerce” type of site praising “big oil” in Baytown, Texas.
“Over the last ten years, Bayer Corporation has invested over $1.3 billion, by far the single largest capital investment within Bayer worldwide. Guest facilities (Hexion (Borden), Calpine Construction Finance Corporation (Baytown Energy Center), First Chemical, El Dorado Nitrogen, and Texas Brine) have been invited to join Bayer’s industrial park site to provide strategic raw materials and energy for Bayer’s consumption.”
http://www.baytown.org/business/ecodev
[…]
only texas brine is listed on the 2011 report not the others..?? interesting
I’m puzzled that Bayer would divest itself of Texas Brine at all (even regardless of timing). I keep finding the two names linked as a poster child of “Texas Industries of the Future”. For example:
“The Baytown Industrial Park is the flagship site for Bayer MaterialScience LLC in the
NAFTA region. Bayer MaterialScience is the chemical manufacturing arm of Bayer AG.
The Park sits on 1500 acres in Chambers County near Baytown and is 35% developed.
The site is home to five Bayer sub-groups: polycarbonate, coatings and colorants,
polyurethane, organics, and inorganics.
The site has grown more than 10-fold since 1971, when the first polyurethanes unit
started up. Today, the site is a thriving industrial park site anchored by Bayer
MaterialScience LLC and Bayer Technology Services. The site also hosts LANXESS
Corporation, Borden Chemical, El Dorado Nitrogen, First Chemical Texas, Texas Brine,
and the Calpine Baytown Energy Center.”
[…]
One wonders why they would break up this relationship, which your find suggests they have done.
“…it shows texas brine on the list but it shows a “0” as percentage of interest…”
The 2011 Scope of Consolidation Report shows the same thing: 0% ownership interest for financial reporting purposes. It will always show 0% on Bayer’s financial statements, but it’s just some accounting trickery.
Texas Brine is a Special Purpose Entity subsidiary of Bayer. Bayer, for all practical purposes, totally controls Texas Brine.
No wonder they can afford Shaw.
n the 2009 report there are very few listed companies but in the 2010 texas brine is listed but again it is the only one with a zero share listed
have they been whitewashing the web??
full list of reports here
page 178 of 2009
from this link
http://www.bayer.com/en/annual-reports.aspx
[…]
more shenanigans from the scientific community.. some scientists have principle
and glad to report even some nobel laureates have principles
+1000
Nobel Laureate and 6 More Cancer Scientists Quit Texas Institute Over Grants -Cancer industry “politically driven”
Report: U.S. nuclear site cleanup may be too dangerous due to criticality problems!
A vain tale of hope! before the show stopper!
Video Published on 29 Apr 2013 Duration 8.30 mins
“Plutonium could congregate to trigger nuclear chain reaction” — Problems at Hanford ‘a show-stopper’
Published: May 9th, 2013 at 3:51 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Hanford Nuclear Cleanup May Be Too Dangerous, Future Of Storage Plant Uncertain
Source: Scientific American
Author: Valerie Brown
Date: May 9, 2013
Hanford Nuclear Cleanup May Be Too Dangerous, Future Of Storage Plant Uncertain
[…] the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant here—has hit a major snag in the form of potential chain reactions, hydrogen explosions and leaks from metal corrosion. And the revelation last February that six more of the storage tanks are currently leaking has further ramped up the pressure for resolution.
[…] The waste feed through the system will be in the form of a “non-Newtonian slurry”—a mixture of fluids and solids of many different shapes, sizes and densities. If the solids stop moving, problems ensue.
For one thing, there’s a chance that enough plutonium could congregate to trigger a nuclear chain reaction, or criticality—the self-sustaining cascade of atomic fission that releases massive amounts of energy. […]
The Defense Nuclear Safety Board, which advises the White House, has called these problems “a show-stopper.” […]
Full report here
See also: Coverup? Safety manager at Washington nuclear site: Criticality could be probable — Worried about hydrogen explosion — Up to 13 times more plutonium than thought, like 20+ Nagasaki bombs
ENERGY – Turkey hopes $7.2 bln gas bill cut with nukes
….He said there was always a risk, even if it is one in a million, with such projects but such risks can be minimized…..
….According to the latest nuclear plant agreement, Japan promises to set up Turkish vocational colleges and universities to provide nuclear training. Under the deal with Rosatom, 100 students each year are to be trained in Russia…..
Image source ;https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/09/japan-bear-warns-on-unfolding-debt-crisis-caused-by-fukushima-nuclear-accident/
Turkey plans to cut $7.2 billion from its annual natural gas bill after the planned nuclear plants are online in the next decade.
“Our power needs will double in the next decade. Now we have been importing 72 percent of our energy needs, but we will not need to import one-third of our current natural gas imports when our nuclear plants are online, saving $7.2 billion annually,” Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
Turkey’s power consumption has doubled in the last decade, having been increased from 130 billion kWh to 240 billion kWh.
Turkey’s nuclear power strategy constitutes one of the basics of its long-term strategy to decrease its energy dependence. Turkey aims to build a local nuclear industry over the next decade as it seeks to cut reliance on costly imported oil and gas, although Turkey outsourced its first two atomic power plants to foreign firms.
“Maybe we will build our third nuclear plant with our local [human] resources. We have already started to train our engineers and other workforce in this regard,” Erdoğan said during the opening ceremony of an event organized by the Ministry of Industry in Istanbul yesterday.
Turkey made a $22 billion deal with a Japanese-French consortium to build its second nuclear power plant in the Black Sea province of Sinop last week. The construction of the first nuclear plant was handed to a Russian company, Rosatom, which plans to begin operations in Mersin-Akkuyu by 2019.
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