Must see!! Hiroshima Univ. Historian: Don’t believe Tepco’s lies — Fukushima meltdowns caused by quake not tsunami (Videos)
Published: October 6th, 2012 at 1:15 am ET
By ENENews
Hiroshima University Historian Robert Jacobs
Uploaded: Oct. 2, 2012
h/t SimplyInfo
Breakdown from Mack (enenews poster)
– Earthquake. Not tsunami.
– Particularly Unit 1 released a lot of radiation before tsunami hit.
– Ex-Tepco worker: “I personally saw pipes that came apart…”
– 5 minutes before tsunami flooded the plants, radiation alarm went off.
– Much damage to cooling system before tsunami.
The Real US Motivation For Japan To Keep Nuclear Power
“At a meeting with the DPJ’s policy chief Tuesday, Poneman said that if Japan takes such steps it might have unexpected effects on the United States and other concerned parties, Maehara said”
“The new policy allows Japan to continue its fuel recycling program, despite the nuclear phase-out. The contradiction prompted U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman to raise concerns about Japan’s ability to reduce plutonium stockpiles,”
The US has also sent a former NRC official to assist TEPCO in their effort to rehabilitate their image in order to restart some of their nuclear reactors.
October 4th, 2012
Last week the odd political dance between the US and Japan ended with Japan backing off of their plan to phase out nuclear power. The US claimed heavily that is was over proliferation issues but mentioned as an aside it would hurt the US nuclear energy sector. This seemed quite odd, why the US would be so worried about Japan’s civilian nuclear power program. The proliferation excuse was very flawed and made no sense.
Ending nuclear power generation would stop the fuel cycle in Japan meaning no new plutonium would be created. This then would only leave the issue of what to do with all the spent fuel and plutonium already created in Japan. A wide array of options exist to deal with the proliferation issue yet the US pretended to be oblivious to the multiple ways to solve this problem declaring the only solution would be for Japan to instead keep making even more spent fuel….
So why does the US really need Japan to not phase out nuclear power?
There are three companies capable of currently building nuclear reactors in the US.
Areva/EDF from France, they have the EPR reactor. Two are attempting to be built currently. One in France and the other in Finland. Both are massively over budget and have had a long history of technical failures in the building process. Currently there are no plans to build an EPR in the US.
Idaho National Laboratory, Fined After Radiation Exposures USA
Reuters | Posted: 10/04/2012
In the violation notice issued on Thursday, federal regulators found Battelle failed to perform real-time air monitoring in November 2011 “to detect and provide early warning to individuals of events that could lead to substantial unplanned exposures to airborne radioactivity.”
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy fined a nuclear research lab in Idaho more than $400,000 on Thursday for multiple safety violations stemming from two mishaps last year that caused workers to be contaminated with radiation.
“DOE considers these events to be of high safety significance,” …
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He was referring to two incidents in 2011 that exposed employees to radiation at the nation’s leading nuclear research and development center, which is operated by contractor Battelle Energy Alliance.
The lab was fined for failure to prevent contamination of a worker’s hand in August 2011. In November 2011, 16 workers were also exposed to low-level plutonium radiation while preparing fuel plates for shipping …..
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……. including two who inhaled radioactive particles, ….
Tokyo getting 5 times more radioactive fallout than Fukushima (chart)
Published: October 3rd, 2012 at 11:54 pm ET
By ENENews
h/t Fukushima Diary
August 2012 Fallout Date by Prefecture:
- Shinjuku, Tokyo: 10.5 MBq/km2 total cesium-134 and -137
- Saitama, Saitama: 2.27 MBq/km2 total cesium-134 and -137 (20 km N of Tokyo)
- Maebashi, Gunma: 1.8 MBq/km2 total cesium-134 and -137 (100 km NW of Tokyo)
http://enenews.com/tokyo-getting-5-times-more-fukushima-fallout-than-prefectures-closer-to-daiichi
spectrometer analysis evidence here…
Prof. Chris Busby analysed dust from an apartment in Tokyo recently from an air conditioning filter.
100,000`s of bequerels per kilogram!
mechanics and air conditioning engineers would need to be nuclear licensed in the UK to work with these filters!
High Cesium and Pb210 and Po210.. still awaiting results for full spectroscopy
Duration 9.31 min
Russia could resume subcritical nuclear bomb tests in Arctic
“The tests can be done in a laboratory. There are no environmental hazards in and of themselves, but [the tests] suggest Russia is preparing for something larger, and that may go in the direction of performing an ordinary atomic bomb test,” said Kudrik.
Russia last carried out a series of subcritical tests beginning in 1998, but the tests ceased in 2000. These tests took place during the same time frame that the United States was ramping up subcritical tests of its own, said a recent report from the Montreal-based Centre for Research on Globalization.
Russia’s unofficial floating of its plans for subcritical tests in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, speculated the Barents Observer news portal in Kirkenes, Norway, could be a response to US announcements that the US Department of Energy last month conducted underground subcritical testing of its own, according to the Canadian think-tank.
The Centre for Research on Globalization said in its report, published on September 30 that, “Since 2010, the US has ‘shot’ off three subcritical tests and has plans in late 2012 for ‘Pollux,’ a ‘first-of-a-kind demonstration’ combining a ‘scaled subcritical experiment’ with plutonium-239.”
Charles Digges, 03/10-2012
Vattenfall: new Swedish nuclear plant ‘years away’
Published: 4 Oct 12
The claims from Vattenfall comes two days after environmental advocacy group Greenpeace issued a report arguing that safety at Sweden’s nuclear power plants is so bad that all the facilities should be taken offline, citing a number of safety incidents in recent years.
Power group Vattenfall believes it will take several years before a decision can be made to build another Swedish nuclear reactor, the head of its nuclear operations told a newspaper on Thursday.
[…]
However, a decision on the matter could take up to ten years, he added.
Building a reactor would cost around 60 billion kronor ($9 billion).
“It’s a huge project where the economic and political circumstances both have to be right,” he said.
[…]
The Swedish parliament voted in June 2010 to authorize the replacement of thecountry’s nuclear reactors.
Two years later, Vattenfall asked the Swedish regulator to evaluate the conditions for replacing the group’s seven reactors, which will begin to shutter in the second half of the 2020s.
Vattenfall operates two out of three nuclear power plants in Sweden, where atomic power accounts for 35 percent of all electricity production.
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Exclusive: Workers at San Onofre Nuclear Plant Report Culture of Fear, Deep Mistrust
Karlene Roberts, an expert in workplace culture within high-risk industries and a professor at University of California Berkeley’s Haas business school, said this about those survey results: “Those numbers are bad … that company’s in trouble.”
The internal documents—one report, one companywide survey and a series of management e-mails—reveal that in the last few months, electric utilitySouthern California Edison has quietly begun a restructuring that has thus far included the ouster or retirement of several top executives, the consolidation of ethics investigations within SCE’s corporate parent and the reorganization of several departments.
In addition to the unpublicized shakeup, the company recently announced it would reorganize management at its idled San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and cut more than 700 jobs, or about a third of the plant’spayroll. And last week, Edison told employees it would also trim 20 percent of the managers in the utility’s Information Technology group.
The big changes at Edison, which operates SONGS and is its majority owner, come at a critical juncture in an ongoing debate about the safety, cost and necessity of restarting the nuclear plant’s two reactors. SONGS has been shut down since February because of fears that excessive wear inside its steam generators could trigger a radioactive leak.
Senate panel findings: A Paranoid Dept of Homeland Security and useless information
Senate panel findings: A Paranoid Dept of Homeland Security and useless information
Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
This is far from surprising to me since in September of last year a report from the Homeland Security Policy Institute revealed the fact that information received from fusion centers “often lacks value.”
Fusion centers are also involved in rolling out nationwide biometrics systems as well as centralized biometrics databases coordinated by the federal government.
In the past, Napolitano has claimed that fusion centers are “one of the centerpieces of our counterterrorism strategy,” while reality paints a completely different picture.
YouTube Removes Undercover Video – GMO Misinformation – Whole foods brand (video) USA
Must watch!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Youtube has pulled an undercover ‘Organic Spies’ video questioning Whole Foods employees as to whether or not any of the products within Whole Foods contained GMO ingredients. Created to show how even the employees themselves are misinformed (or even dishonest) about the very real presence of Monsanto’s GMOs in a store like Whole Foods that is supposed to promote health and wellness, the Organic Spies video received over 100,000 views in a few short days.
The video has since been removed due to apparently ‘violating the Terms of Service’, according to the genetic Youtube message that appears in place of the original video. As Infowars.com’s Aaron Dykes explains, this could be due to a third party complaint (such as Whole Foods demanding it be taken down), but it is not known as YouTube no longer tells the user of the third party identity. In other words, videos like these can be taken down without a trace of who is responsible.
You can see a re-upload of the video here
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/youtube-removes-undercover-video.html#more
Anti-Nuclear Protesters at LDP HQ Nagatacho Tokyo Oct 2 2012 | Demand Zero Nuclear Energy Policy
Published on Oct 2, 2012 by freedomwv
Anti-Nuclear protesters rally at the Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) HQ demanding the party accept a zero nuclear energy policy. The party were the ones who brought nuclear power to Japan with the help of the United States. They set up the system of collusion between the Japanese government and the nuclear industry. This video video also includes amazing Japanese dummers inspiring everyone who were there.
Power generation at Wales Wylfa’s Reactor 1 was stopped on Sunday due to a problem with refuelling work
No return-to-service date has been indicated.
3 October 2012 Last updated at 15:26
The existing Wylfa plant, which has been producing energy since 1971, is set to continue generating electricity until the fuel runs out or September 2014, whichever comes first.
Wylfa is the only Magnox site still generating electricity, following the closure of Oldbury in Gloucestershire in February.
If finance is difficult, and finding £8bn for a capital spend on Wylfa B is beyond French company like Areva and the China Guangong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG), then it may hamper the two bids believed still to be on the table.
Japan – Scientists in study on effects of radiation on Fukushima wildlife
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 04, 2012
In April last year, researchers from Nippon Veterinary and Life ScienceUniversity (NVLU), along with other institutions, began sampling muscle tissue of wild Japanese macaques caught in the provincial capital, Fukushima, for radioactive cesium content.
The concentrations ranged between 10,000 and 25,000 becquerels per kilogram immediately after the nuclear crisis began to unfurl the month before.
The readings fell to 500-1,500 becquerels per kg in June, but rose again to more than 2,000 becquerels per kg from last winter to spring.
German solar, wind power generation grows 27% in Jan- Sep 2012
(SeeNews Renewables) – Oct 3, 2012 – Wind and solar power plants in Germany generated a total of 57.6 billion kWh in the first nine months of 2012, an increase of almost 27% year-on-year, news portal IWR said on Tuesday, citing estimates of the European Energy Exchange.
Accumulated wind power generation came in at 32.6 billion kWh in the period, recording a 10% rise. In September alone, wind power plants fed into the grid 3.02 billion kWh of electricity which corresponds to a monthly increase of 40%. However, August was the month of the least winds so far this year.
Electricity generated from solar power grew to 25 billion kWh in the first nine months of the year, from 16 billion kWh a year earlier. However, solar power production fell by one-fourth to 2.91 billion kWh in September as compared with August 2012.
Wind and solar power complement each other. Wind power contributed much more to electricity generation than solar power from January to April, while solar power generated more electricity than wind in the period from May to August.
Utico Middle East, the GCC’s largest private full service utility and solutions provider, and Shanghai Electric, the world’s largest coal power company, announced a joint collaboration to establish the world’s greenest coal-fired power plant in Ras Al Khaimah.
Japan nuclear-watchdog issues disaster guidelines that do not make sense?
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T121003003856.htm
The plans will be the basis for decisions on whether to allow the reactivation of reactors at nuclear power plants across the nation.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
(Oct. 4, 2012)
The Nuclear Regulation Authority released Wednesday a draft of guideline measures to cope with nuclear disasters….
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The NRA will finalize the draft guideline by the end of this month.
[…]
Compiling the new guideline was one of the first tasks of the NRA, which was established in September.
[…]
As a result, the number of municipalities to be covered under the new guidelines will increase from the current 45 to 135.
[…]
The draft guideline also proposed stable iodine pills be directly distributed in advance to all households that may be affected to prevent radiation exposure to thyroid glands.
The previous guidelines stated that iodine pills should be stored near nuclear plants by local governments and only be distributed after an accident actually occurs.
The European commission has been accused of ‘dodging tough questions’ on the safety of nuclear plants in Europe.
Commenting ahead of the report’s publication on Thursday, Greens/EFA joint leader Rebecca Harms said, “The final report of the EU nuclear stress test charade looks set to dodge all the tough questions as expected. One thing seems clear: this exercise has been orchestrated to cause as little stress to the nuclear industry as possible.
“Safety campaigners also say the tests “fail to properly assess a host of key risks to nuclear reactors and contain no proposals to close unsafe reactors.”
According to the leaks, safety regimes vary greatly and the commission report will say that Europe’s nuclear reactors need investment of €10-25bn.
The commission is also expected to propose new laws next year, including on insurance and liability, to “improve the situation of potential victims in the event of a nuclear accident”.
Of the 134 EU nuclear reactors grouped across 68 sites, 111 have more than 100,000 inhabitants living within 30km.”
By Martin Banks – 3rd October 2012
The attack from the Greens group in parliament comes ahead of this week’s publication of a commission report of the outcome of ‘stress tests’ on Europe’s nuclear reactors.
The stress test report was commissioned by the executive in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan last year and is expected to be adopted on Thursday.
The review was designed to ensure a disaster like Japan’s Fukushima cannot happen in Europe.
It has been claimed that leaked drafts appear to confirm fears that large numbers of nuclear reactors in Europe are deficient in basic security areas.
Safety campaigners also say the tests “fail to properly assess a host of key risks to nuclear reactors and contain no proposals to close unsafe reactors.”
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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