(LinkAsia News: October 14, 2011) Japan reggae artists MC Rankin and Dub Ainu Band deliver a cautionary message about radioactive material through this song and music video “You Can’t See It, and You Can’t Smell It Either.”
“You can’t see it, and you can’t smell it either – 誰にも見えない、匂いもない 2011- ”
By Rankin Taxi & Dub Ainu Band Words & Music: Rankin Taxi
For the first time, a source from inside the San Onofre nuclear power plant has come forward to warn that restarting the power plant is too dangerous.
“There is something grossly wrong,” said the inside source, a safety engineer who worked at San Onofre and has 25 years in the nuclear field. […]
He wants to remain anonymous because he told Team 10 he fears for his safety.
“When they made these changes, they did not look at the academic research nor use critical question and an investigative attitude,” said the source. […]
The anonymous insider and [Dr. Joe Hopenfeld, a former employee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission] said if there is a main steam line break, there is potential for the reactor core to overheat – which could mean a full or partial meltdown. […]
Since the 1970′s Solar PV has improved unit costs by 1,000 times relative to Nuclear! Take a look at the embedded powerpoint.
1) Since the 1970′s the unit cost of new solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has improved by a factor of 100. That is, the dollar cost per watt, has dropped from about $65 per Watt to about 65 cents ($0.65) per watt, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.[1]
2) Since the 1970s, the unit cost per watt of a new nuclear power plant has increased by a factor of 10. That is, the dollar cost per watt of building a new nuclear plant has gone from about $1 per watt to $12-$14 per watt, according to Environment America.[2]
Put these two cost trends together, and you get the fact that Solar PV has improved its unit costs by a factor of 1,000 relative to nuclear since the 1970s.
Solar Disruption
There’s no doubt solar is disrupting power markets. Disruptive innovations tend to improve quality and decrease costs over time until it’s too late for the incumbents to compete. Here’s powerful data that shows how far solar has improved relative to nuclear.
Furthermore, solar unit costs keep dropping. First Solar (FSLR) has announced costs around 40 cents ($0.40) per watt by 2017 and others are aiming to get there sooner.[3] Nuclear unit costs have gone up for decades and they will undeniably keep going up after the Fukushima-Dai’ichi nuclear meltdown disaster.
Solar is already cheaper than nuclear. The trends are undeniable: solar will keep getting cheaper and nuclear will getting more expensive. This doesn’t even include the massive taxpayer costs of insuring the uninsurable nuclear industry.[4] These costs do not include the hundreds of billions of dollars that taxpayers in Japan are paying the nuclear industry because of the Fukushima Dai’ichi disaster.[5]
The Future of Energy is Bright
Pay attention to the exponentially improving cost trends of solar PV and the worsening unit costs of nuclear. It won’t be much longer before solar has improved its unit costs by 10,000 times relative to nuclear.
…..The last one was plutonium241, which had radiation dose about 50 times as much as the total of the other three(PU238, PU239 & PU240)…..
….The underground tanks were meant to store low level of radioactive water after being filtered through ALPS. But they have been using them to store high level of radioactive water (including β (beta) emitting nuclide, Strontium and α (alpha)emitting nuclide, Plutonium)…..
Thursday, 18 April 2013
A MBS radio interview with Prof. Koide: the repeated leaking problems at Fukushima Crippled Plant. Additional report: Plutonium should be in the leakage! 汚染水問題に関する小出先生のコメント、報道するラジオより。 追加報告：プルトニウムも汚染水に混じっているはず！
The most recent report on the leakage problem said that about 22 liters of radioactive water had leaked from gaps between the pipes used to transfer it from underground water storage tank into an another tank, and that the level of radioactivity in the water was 290,000Bq/m3.
This is so high that the leakage is unsafe to approach. Prof. Koide commented that according to Japanese law, the safety level of radioactive water that can be discharged into the environment is 0.05Bq/m3, or 0./03Bq/m3 if it contains strontium, so it is easy to imagine how high 290,000Bq/m3 actually is!
Dousing it or injecting it with water is the only way of continuing to cool the molten fuel, and this requires 400tons of water every day. Prof. Koide also observed that the leaks will carry on for as long as Tepco keeps using water to cool the molten fuel, possibly for at least 40 more years, or as long as it takes to decommission the plant.
He also commented that although Tepco keeps making new tanks to combat the problem, this solution would not work for ever, and urged the company again to bring a tanker to store the water.
On top of the reported leakage problems, Prof. Koide reckons that there must have been many cracks in many different places in the trenches and pits and also in the concrete basements of the reactor and turbine buildings, which must have been damaged by the M9 earthquake in March 2011.
The Supreme Court has heard our case against the Government for failing to meet legal limits for air quality.
Alan Andrews, ClientEarth lawyer, says: “The Judges were clearly convinced of the serious health implications of allowing air pollution to continue unabated. It was also apparent that the case raised a fundamental question about the rule of law. If the Supreme Court is unable to give an effective remedy to a clear and admitted breach of EU environmental law, there are grave constitutional consequences. There is now the distinct possibility that this will be referred to the European Court of Justice.
“Judgement has been reserved and we are hopeful this will be handed down before Easter.”
We brought the case was brought to make the Government take action to reduce air pollution, a public health issue that causes 29,000 early deaths each year – more than obesity and alcohol combined. Air pollution also stops children’s lungs from growing properly and is linked to low birth weight in newborns.
The case was also widely covered in the media. Read about it here on the BBC
Whether, as regards areas where compliance with nitrogen dioxide limits set out in Directive 2008/50/EC (the Air Quality Directive) cannot be achieved by 1 January 2010, the Air Quality Directive requires the Respondent to prepare an air quality plan which demonstrates compliance by 1 January 2015.
Facts
The Air Quality Directive requires Member States not to exceed certain limits on concentrations of nitrogen dioxide set for 1 January 2010. It also provides machinery by which that deadline can be postponed by a maximum of 5 years (to 1 January 2015) on condition that an air quality plan is established.
In June 2011, the Respondent had published draft air quality plans for public consultation. The draft overview statement said that of the 40 zones which exceeded the limits, compliance may be achieved by 2015 in 23 zones, 16 zones are expected to achieve compliance between 2015 and 2020, and compliance in the London zone is expected to be achieved before 2025.
The Appellant began judicial review proceedings at the end of July 2011. In September 2011 the Respondent submitted the final plans to the European Commission, with no major changes having been made to the draft plans. The Appellant argues that the Respondent was and is obliged to put to the Commission plans for reducing nitrogen dioxide levels by 1 January 2015. The Respondent argues that it was and is under no such obligation.
Subject Matter catchwords for indexing
EU law – environmental law – air quality – Directive 2008/50/EC
UK Increase in miscarriage rates due to MOX nuclear fuels policy change!
This video shows the Statistics for Watford Hospital in terms of stillbirth and miscarriage on an annual basis since 2007.. This video is a follow up to the respiratory increase correlating with Fukushima Daichi meltdowns and Budapest Medical Isotope Institute in Hungary
The battle against nuclear power rages on in Tokyo despite the best efforts of the Abe lead nationalist government in Japan. Ryan shows us that the Japanese anti nuclear movement is still alive and going strong!
In Miyagi the “Under 1 Bequerel/Kg Campaign For Children” is still going strong too!
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 below)
The below thread from Enenews shows an interesting discussion about caesium studies and caesium non-studies by the Japanese involving the Imperial College University London claiming no knowledge of data garnered from the Chernobyl accident. The UK thyroid Association works CLOSELY with Imperial College.. Very close! And the UK thyroid Association works closely with the Japanese Thyroid Association who did no research into radiation effects in the first years of the Fukushima disaster, according to their website.
Heres some of that reply from Imperial College University
“Belarus was an original partner in the project, but one of the conditions of the project was that each centre would provide samples to researchers. The Institute in Belarus did not do so and this is why they are no longer a partner.
Although Belarus is not included in the Tissue Bank, the incidence of thyroid cancer in Belarus is the subject of on-going research, including studies in Belarus supported by the Japanese.”
Does anyone have references to this Japanese data.. Imperial College University London doesnt seem to have it either???????…”
Extract of reply to my questions concerning the innapropriate comment
“..some people in the future will actually not want the samples at all..”
when in fact there will be a need for the samples themselves by the victims of the tragedy and their lawyers…
Extract of response..
“….. Thank you for your email regarding Professor Geraldine Thomas’s work with the Chernobyl Tissue Bank.
“I have consulted Professor Thomas and answers to the questions that you have raised are as follows:
1. In your email, you ask about Professor Thomas ‘hinting that she would destroy vital evidence of tissue samples.’
Professor Thomas is actually explaining that researchers will be able to access existing research data as well as the samples themselves. Professor Thomas and her colleagues in the Chernobyl Tissue Bank are not planning to destroy tissue samples. To clarify what Professor Thomas says in the relevant section of her lecture, I have transcribed her words below (the words in bold represent my emphasis)……….”
“…..Because we’re now collating data back in, we have the opportunity not only to give you tissue samples, but we also have the ability to give you some existing research data that has already been collated and 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.”
Far from wishing to destroy the samples or the data, the project has been working very closely with the Japanese to provide any information that may be useful to them to help with their studies on those exposed to radiation post Fukushima………”
“…Professor Thomas says that that there is no evidence for an increase in heart disease in the general population as a result of the radiation leak at Chernobyl. She has provided the following information, which may be useful:…..”
More of the reply from Imperial College UL here with some comments
The point G Thomas was trying to make in her reply to me was that Cs137 the isotope, does not cause heart problems, and she goes on to state that stable caesium does have an effect..
Also her wording of “destroy the thyroid samples because we dont really need them, we just want the statistics to work with” (my take on her general point) and in the link is her exact wording..
It took nearly 4 days in an university to “properly” phrase the reply lol! and Richard Wakeford and friends helped her with the statistical facts ..
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 qouted 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. And if you need statistics because it helps to swallow this level of carnage, please feel free to contact the IAEA .
Of course, this doesnt account for illness caused by… erm .. hope you dont mind me saying… radiation stuff..
Interestingly, Tamaras avoided statistical things and stuck to old fashioned addition and subtraction, to make things clear !
3.2 million with health effects and this includes 1 million children..
That statistic tells me that children are effected more than adults.. but i suppose you could read statistics any old way.. if you are Richard Wakeford or someone like that! imo very clever guy grrr! (from the comments)
Anonymous said…
So cured. So why is my daughter, who also has radiation caused thyroid cancer told she has a 50 percent chance of reoccurance, has to have radiation treatments every three years..has to TAKE THYROID replacement daily, has severe issues with keeping thyroid function “normal”, has damage to the parathyroid glands from surgery *cant regulate calcuim“, should NOT have children…or probably can not get pregnant. THIS IS NORMAL AND OKAY? What a polly anna report… (From the comments)
For what it’s worth, on the anniversary day of the accident.
Chernobyl Follow-Up Study Finds High Survival Rate Among Young Thyroid Cancer Patients
Apr. 24, 2013 — More than a quarter of a century after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, many children and teenagers who developed thyroid cancer due to radiation are in complete or near remission, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Following the April 26, 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union, the number of children and teenagers diagnosed with differentiated thyroid cancer spiked in Ukraine, Belarus and western areas of Russia. Most of the patients developed the papillary subtype of differentiated thyroid cancer. Although this cancer tends to be more aggressive in children than adults, nearly all of the patients tracked in the study responded favorably to treatment.
“Even though some patients did not receive optimal treatment initially, the vast majority went into remission after receiving state-of-the-art radiodine treatment and follow-up care,” said study lead author Christoph Reiners, MD, of the University of Würzburg, Germany. “Many patients recovered from advanced cancers. Of this group, 97 percent had cancer spread to the lymph nodes, and 43 percent had cancer metastasize in the lungs.”
The observational study followed the treatment and outcomes of 229 Belarusian children and adolescents who underwent surgery in Belarus and radioiodine therapy in Germany. The study participants were among the highest-risk young patients exposed to radiation from the accident.
Despite the risk, 64 percent of the patients are in complete remission and 30 percent nearly complete remission of their cancer. One patient died of lung fibrosis, a side effect of cancer treatment. Only two had cancer recurrences.
The findings suggest victims of more recent nuclear accidents like the 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan face lower risk of developing advanced-stage thyroid cancer, Reiners said.
Twenty-Five Years after Chernobyl: Outcome of Radioiodine Treatment in Children and Adolescents with Very-High-Risk Radiation-Induced Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma
Christoph Reiners, MD1,
Johannes Biko, MD1,
Heribert Haenscheid, PhD1,
Helge Hebestreit, MD2,
Stalina Kirinjuk, MD3,
Oleg Baranowski, MD3,
Robert J. Marlowe, BA4,
Ewgeni Demidchik, MD5,†,
Valentina Drozd, MD6 and
Yuri Demidchik, MD7
– Author Affiliations
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Würzburg, Germany;
2Department of Pediatrics, University of Würzburg, Germany;
3Hospital for Oncology, Thyroid Cancer Center, Minsk, Belarus;
4Spencer-Fountayne Corporation, Jersey City, NJ, USA;
5National Academy of Sciences, Minsk, Belarus;
6International Fund Help for Patients with Radiation Induced Thyroid Cancer “Arnica”, Minsk, Belarus;
7Belarusian Medical Academy of Post-Graduate Education, Minsk, Belarus
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Prof.Dr.Dr.med.h.c. Christoph Reiners, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Würzburg, Oberdürrbacherstr. 6, D-97080 Würzburg, Germany, Tel. +49 931 201 55001, Fax. +49 931 201 655001, E-mail: reinersc@klinik.uni-wuerzburg.de.
Abstract
Context: After severe reactor emergencies with release of radioactive iodine, elevated thyroid cancer risk in children and adolescents is considered the main health consequence for the population exposed.
Design: We studied thyroid cancer outcome after 11.3 years’ median follow-up in a selected, very high-risk cohort, 234 Chernobyl-exposed Belarusian children and adolescents undergoing post-surgical radioiodine therapy (RIT) in Germany.
Interventions: Cumulatively 100 (134) children with (without) distant metastasis received a median 4 (2) RITs and 16.9 (6.6) GBq, corresponding to 368 (141) MBq/kg iodine-131.
Main Outcome Measures: Outcomes were response to therapy and disease status, mortality, and treatment toxicity.
Results: Of 229 patients evaluable for outcome, 147 (64.2%) attained complete remission (negative iodine-131 whole-body scan and TSH-stimulated serum Tg <1 μ g /L), 69 (30.1%) showed nearly complete remission (complete response, except stimulated Tg 1–10 μ g/L), and 11 (4.8%) had partial remission (Tg >10 μ g/L, decrease from baseline in radioiodine uptake intensity in ≥ 1 focus, in tumour volume, or in Tg). Except two recurrences (0.9%) after partial remission, no recurrences, progression, or disease-specific mortality were noted. One patient died of lung fibrosis 16 years post-therapy, two of apparently thyroid cancer-unrelated causes. The only RIT side effect observed was pulmonary fibrosis in 5/69 patients (7.2%) with disseminated lung metastases undergoing intensive pulmonary surveillance.
Conclusions: Experience of a large, very-high-risk paediatric cohort with radiation-induced differentiated thyroid carcinoma suggests that even when such disease is advanced and initially suboptimally treated, response to subsequent RIT and final outcomes are mostly favourable.
I thought i would point out that the price of Urenco is dropping.. the different currencies below show the bottom price as having dropped to 2.5 billion dollars and that means ..
2,500,000.00 USD = 1,614,987.08 GBP
O00ps! its a sale!!
…The move marks a step towards a deal that could net British taxpayers as much as £3bn, according to estimates that value the entire company at £8bn-£10bn….
july 2012
and
….Bidders are lining up for for Urenco’s privatisation, which could put £4bn in the UK chancellor’s coffers….
17 March 2013
and
….Analysts estimate that the Buckinghamshire, UK-based uranium enrichment firm is worth between 2.5 billion euros and 3.6 billion euros ($3.27 billion to $4.70 billion), but some of the sellers are hoping for as much as 12 billion euros…..
Sun Mar 17, 2013
Its just a thought but I have cone across some shocking preliminary statistics from a UK hospital. Miscarriage and stillbirth statistics running over the period of the great UK MOX renaissance (since 2007)!! should be posted later today..
The respiratory “admission to ICU” stats are on the pollution link.. Time to FOI Health departments for these statistics at a hospital near you perhaps? .. That could be interesting.. imo
You can see why nuclear-news.net (world) and antinuclear.net (australian) are being targetted
here is the link to show how the legal crowd deal with bloggers.. or are trying too!?
Legal firm Ashurst threatening Australian nuclear/uranium critic
Among other things, the Ashurst letter accused the anti-nuclear campaigner of imputing that Mr Walker was ‘’insensitive’’.
And Ashursts Australia are employed by an extremely broke Palladin Mining?? or is someone else paying the legal fee??
Areva boss Luc Oursel quietly bullies the UK to stop supporting the poor!! …and support nuclear!
…..Until now, it was widely assumed that EDF was leading the call for subsidies for new nuclear. But a new document reveals that last November, Areva‘s chief executive officer, Luc Oursel, lobbied the European Environment Commissioner, Connie Hedagaard, for financial help for the construction of new nuclear power stations…..
….Mr Oursel also called for the “progressive removal” of “a stack of ad hoc tariff distortions” – such as “subsidies for renewables [and] energy poverty”…..
And of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons by world nuclear powers, which did not stop until 1980 (China).
One of my twitter followers lives in south western Japan. A while ago he sent me the result of the test he had it done with the ashes from burning wood pellets in his stove this winter. The lab test, using the germanium semiconductor detector, found 223.8 Bq/kg of cesium-137.
He was upset, thinking it is from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, until I pointed out to him that there was no cesium-134 found. The Cesium in the ashes is most likely from the fallout from atmospheric testing, and the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
He burned 600kg of wood pellets made from cedar trees in Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku Island in southwestern Japan. According to the pellet manufacturer, the concentration factor was about 375, and radioactive Cesium (Cs-137) in the pellets was estimated to be about 0.59 Bq/kg.
He said he will “entomb” the ashes with concrete and bury.
The chart plotting the historical monthly fallout in entire Shikoku (4 prefectures, as they didn’t start measuring the fallout in Ehime until 1977) shows the spike from the Chernobyl accident was less than that of the atmospheric testing, and larger than that from the Fukushima accident. (The chart was created from data at Japan Chemical Analysis Center. Y-axis in log scale.)
In 2012 he tested the ashes from burning the wood pellets from a different company, and to his great dismay the test found 1,000 Bq/kg of radioactive Cesium (Cs-137) in the ashes. He had already spread some of those ashes on his home garden. Those pellets, it turned out, were made from trees from Europe (Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria) that the manufacturer had started to purchase in 1994 . That manufacturer told him that it had never ever occurred to them that the trees were contaminated from the Chernobyl accident, and there was no regulation on importing. The manufacturer told him that they chose European trees because they were cheap, and supply was steady.
April 26 marks the 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant accident.
Radiation of Chernobyl blast discovered in Sri Lankan soil
Friday, 19 April 2013 – 01:06 PM
A sample test carried out by the Sri Lankan Atomic Energy Authority has found some acute radioactive particles which were released by the Chernobyl nuclear explosion of Ukraine in Sri Lankan soil.
“If an accident takes place in the Kundankulam Nuclear plant it will directly effect the public within a 50 Kilometre radius. The public will NOT be evacuated in such an instance.
The closest nuclear plant to Sri Lanka is 220 Kilometres, the further the distance the less the impact but if an accident did take place, radioactive material can settle down in the soil in Sri Lanka but this would be in minimal quantities and the risk would be minimal“
The court case that was trying to get a legal judgement on the right of the children of Koriyama city to evacuate but received an unusual judgement from the court on Wednesday 24 April 2013.
This judgement from the Sendai High Court found that there was a problem with the children’s health due to local contamination issues from the Fukushima disaster in 2011.
The earlier Koriyama District Court ruling used the argument that there was not enough ICRP dose radiation measurement to cause harm but, strangely this crucial point was ignored by the Sendai High Court. The court found that there was existing health issues to take into account after hearing the masses of compelling evidence set before them. The case has taken 3 months to reach judgement.
Strangely, the judgement then rejected the petition saying that the Local Government of Koriyama was not responsible for the costs or organising the evacuation.
The Lawyer for the children, Toshio Yanagihara a member of the Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial Team, said that this means the national government has been put in the spotlight, though the judges did not want to look at this aspect of the case and make a statement supporting, more fully, the idea behind the court case that “someone” needs to act on the children’s behalf.
This legal twist allows the main stream media to claim that the overall case was rejected and this is a win for the well paid PR companies like Ogilvy and Maher who are tasked with mitigating the news and the costs of the 3 meltdowns at Daichi by the government of Japan and Tepco (bankrupted and now owned by the government of Japan). The spin on this story will ensure that the truth does not come out about the plight of the children of Koriyama city and other effected cities and prefectures.
It is up to us as individuals to spread the word and stop this corporate propaganda machine of lawyers and PR companies and stop them in their tracks. The word has to get out. It is up to you!
“..based on the logic that there is no need to give legal permission to the Koriyama children’s evacuation….”
Hows that for legal double speak? They must have had an army of solicitors firms working on this confusion?
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lol! and Richard Wakeford and friends helped her with the statistical facts ..
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