Let the Kids Play!! Help us send the kids in Fukushima to camp.
Because of the Nuclear Plant Disaster, the lives of the children in Fukushima have been turned upside down. We want to let them play!
Update:Because of your amazing support we have exceeded our goal! Thank you so much.Knowing there’s all these wonderful people supporting us, we want to take this to the next level and keep on campaigning!Please help us create an amazing experience for these children and spread the word about the project. Let the kids play!! Love TA
The TA project is a group of young Japanese professionals living in Osaka. We’re not captain planet and we’re not perfect. But we are united with the passion of wanting to help these children in Fukushima and to make a difference.
The Story
Did you know children in Kori-machi Fukushima are only allowed to play outside for 1 hour because of the risk of radiation?
And this is only one of the many side effects caused by the Nuclear Plant Melt Down in Fukushima. Well and truly the lives of people in Fukushima have been turned upside down.
Not only have children lost their homes, family and friends. Everyday they have to stress about radiation levels in the food they eat, the water they drink and the environment they play in.
No child should ever have to go through this!!
Let’s do something for these kids!!
The Impact
The TA project is inviting children from Fukushima for a 4day camp in Osaka from August 17th to 20th.
This is how we’re going to help…….
Fukushima : Nuclear Waste Curse and Reactor 4 Fuel Not Visible
Rad News 2/22/13
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Published on Feb 22, 2013
Local communities oppose Ohma plant construction
Municipalities on the northernmost island of Hokkaido have asked the Japanese government to halt indefinitely the construction of a nuclear plant in neighboring Aomori Prefecture. NHK
Update Hedges Vs. Obama and NDAA
Published on Feb 22, 2013
Manuel Rapalo talks to Alexa O’Brien, journalist and plaintiff in the lawsuit against the NDAA’s indefinite detention clause, about the latest in the case and why the issue has yet to permeate the mainstream media.
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Thinking after Fukushima. Epistemic shift in social sciences
“….The presuppositions and limitations of its three components, a theory of risk, a conception of trust and the idea of “knowledge
society” are now exposed to public scrutiny. The apparent rationality, efficiency and legitimacy of this complex failed to anticipate, prevent and respond to this disaster. Its real
function was to dissimulate the power structure behind. To analyze these networks of mutual interests and supports is an exercise in democracy…”
Abstract
The Fukushima catastrophe is a turning point in the conception, role and management of technology in industrial societies. As did Hiroshima (on another dimension) after 1945, the Fukushima nuclear accident questions and transforms established conceptions and values concerning the relations between technology, politics, industry, society and the environment. It has become impossible to think after Fukushima as we did before. This catastrophe initiates a major epistemic and conceptual shift with long-term consequences. This paper focuses on a powerful conceptual complex associating the notions of risk, trust and knowledge society. This complex associates discourses, theories and policies. The objective is to criticize this conceptual complex in order to explore how to rethink, after Fukushima, the relations between technology, politics, industry and society.
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Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Sediment Sample Collected from Flooded Torus Room of Reactor 1
Uh… They put the sediment sample in a plastic bottle?
According to TEPCO, the plastic bottle is emitting 4 millisieverts/hour radiation with the sediment in it.
From TEPCO’s Photos and Videos Library, 2/22/2013:
Workers in full gear collecting samples through the hole on the first floor of the Reactor 1 building, where the air radiation dose ranges from 2 to 10 millisieverts/hour. It took 20 workers 2 hours and 35 minutes to complete the task, for which they received 1.46 millisievert (maximum) of radiation exposure.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-sediment-sample.html
From the comments:
A polyethylene bottle is an appropriate container for reducing α, β, and neutron emission. E.g., from “Neutron Interactions with Matter”, P. Rinard:
“Figure 12.8 shows that a cylinder of polyethylene is more effective in preventing the transmission of neutrons than a cylinder of heavy metal. A neutron loses most of its energy by colliding with the light elements in polyethylene and then the mean-free-path length becomes small as the cross sections increase.”
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/la-pubs/00326407.pdf
Six, Not One, Rad Waste Tanks Are Leaking at Hanford, Washington Governor Says
The leaking tanks were missed because graphs that monitor the waste levels were evaluated only over a short period, rather than a longer period that might have shown the levels changing, Inslee said.
Friday, February 22, 2013
EXSKF
Tanks as they were being installed, (from Wikipedia on Hanford):
Governor Jay Inslee had said a week ago that one tank was found leaking (see my 2/16/2013 post).
Now it turns out there are six tanks leaking extremely toxic liquid, but they don’t know which six, out of 177 tanks.
From Fox News quoting AP (2/22/2013; emphasis is mine):
6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking, Washington governor says
Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday.
The leaking tanks strike another blow to federal efforts to clean up south-central Washington’s Hanford nuclear reservation, where any successes often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges.
State officials just last week announced that one of Hanford’s 177 underground tanks was leaking in the range of 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby wells haven’t detected higher radioactivity levels.
Inslee traveled to Washington, D.C., this week to discuss the problem with federal officials. He said Friday he learned during meetings that six tanks are leaking waste.
“We received very disturbing news today,” the governor said. “I think that we are going to have a course of new action and that will be vigorously pursued in the next several weeks.”
Inslee noted there are legal and ethical considerations to cleaning up the Hanford site, both at the state and national level. He also stressed the state would impose a “zero-tolerance” policy on leaking radioactive waste into the soil and insisted that the Department of Energy fully clean up the site.
TV on U.S. Nuclear Waste Leak: Feds “just trying to figure out exactly what’s going on here” — “This has a lot of people saying, ‘What is going on out at Hanford?’” (VIDEOS)
Published: February 22nd, 2013 at 10:48 pm ET
By ENENews
Follow-up to: Governor: “We received very disturbing news today” — Radioactive leak at U.S. nuclear site much larger than first reported — No ‘immediate’ health risks
KING5 Seattle: This has a lot of people saying, “What is going on out at Hanford?” […] I just got off the phone with the Department of Energy’s people at Hanford who say they’re just trying to figure out exactly what’s going on here.
Watch more video on today’s Hanford revelations here
Embedded videos on link
Inslee: 6 underground Hanford nuclear tanks leaking!
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) – Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday.
By SHANNON DININNY Associated Press Published: Feb 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM PST
Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revealed that one of the 177 tanks at south-central Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids. Inslee called the latest news “disturbing.”
The tanks, which already are long past their intended 20-year life span, hold millions of gallons of a highly radioactive stew left from decades of plutonium production for nuclear weapons.
The U.S. Department of Energy said earlier that liquid levels were decreasing in one of the tanks at the site. Monitoring wells near the tank have not detected higher radiation levels.
The federal government created Hanford in the 1940s as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. The government spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup – one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. The cleanup is expected to last decades.
Central to cleanup is the construction of a plant to convert millions of gallons of waste into glasslike logs for safe, secure storage. The $12.3 billion plant is billions of dollars over budget and behind schedule.
Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber have championed building additional tanks to ensure safe storage of the waste until the plant is completed. Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said earlier this week that he shares their concerns about the integrity of the tanks, but that he wants more scientific information to determine it’s the correct way to spend scarce money.
Wyden noted the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site – and the challenges associated with ridding it of its toxic legacy – will be a subject of upcoming hearings and a higher priority in Washington D.C
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Inslee-6-underground-Hanford-nuclear-tanks-leaking-192588501.html
Syria: IAF to blame for uranium traces at suspected nukes site – A depleted uranium mystery?
In Syria, for example, the IAEA was successful in collecting uranium particles at a site that had been “sanitized.” But then the IAEA cavalierly dismissed Syrian explanations that the natural uranium particles found at a bombed suspect site came from Israeli missiles. The agency’s claims that the particles are not of the correct isotopic and chemical composition for missiles, displays an appalling lack of technical knowledge about military munitions based on information from questionable sources. If the IAEA is to be respected it must get proper technical advice. For example deep earth penetrating bombs, not missiles were used in Syria. (February 06, 2013 update 2nd article below)
Image source: http://inesad.edu.bo/developmentroast/2012/02/guest-roast-cancer-and-condescension-the-case-of-iraqs-imposed-epidemic/
Syrian FM: IAF bombs last September may have contained uranium, West is trying to pressure Damascus.
By The Associated Press | Nov.12, 2008
Syria’s foreign minister suggested on Wednesday that Israel Air Force bombs may have been the source of uranium traces diplomats from the United Nations nuclear agency said were found a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem said the leaks by the UN diplomats about the traces found at the site were politically motivated and aimed at pressuring Syria.
Unnamed diplomats at the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency have said samples taken from a suspected nuclear site allegedly bombed by Israeli planes last September contained uranium combined with other elements that merit further investigation.
‘Ban on Iran channels lacks legal basis’ -Video
“This is a great disaster from the point of view of Britain, America and France. We would not be in this terrible nonsense in Syria supporting al-Qaeda and supporting the Saudis in their attempt to wreck Syria if we had proper debate on the BBC, on the ITV and on the Sky; but we do not get that debate,” the analyst explained
Fri Feb 22, 2013 5:25PM
Image source: http://kasamaproject.org/1636-68keeping-the-war-and-its-horrors-hidden
“I think what is behind it is some authoritarian personality in the United States of America and/or Paris, and/or London, who are thoroughly debased in their thinking, who have not the slightest trace of liberal values at all,” William Spring said in an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
He went on to say that although it is clear that banning Iranian media has no legal basis, getting this message across to European governments and the European courts is extremely difficult.
“I made an application for an injunction [and] judicial review in the UK courts, when they first took Press TV off the air and they, basically, did not appear to want to listen to legal arguments at all,” Spring added.
The activist also noted that the authoritarian personality in Europe permeates the thinking of the British, French and American establishments which say under no circumstances must free speech be allowed and it must be discouraged.
“This is a great disaster from the point of view of Britain, America and France. We would not be in this terrible nonsense in Syria supporting al-Qaeda and supporting the Saudis in their attempt to wreck Syria if we had proper debate on the BBC, on the ITV and on the Sky; but we do not get that debate,” the analyst explained
On Wednesday, the Arab satellite provider Gulfsat banned Iranian channels iFilm and Al-Kawthar under direct pressure from the European satellite company, Eutelsat.
The fresh encroachment upon freedom of speech targeting movie channel, iFilm, and Iran’s Arabic-language Al-Kawthar came one day after Eutelsat, owned by Franco-Israeli Michel de Rosen, asked Nilesat to take Press TV off the air.
TNP/HGH/SS
Video on link:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/22/290322/ban-on-iran-channels-lacks-legal-basis/
Syrian Foreign Ministry: Al-Qaeda-linked Groups Carried out Several Terrorist Bombings in Damascus, including al-Thawra St. Explosion
“Almost 60 people were killed in the blast that rocked the city with many children among those wounded.”
“But if the UNSC turns a blind eye to this terrorist act just as it did previously, It will deepen doubts in its seriousness in combating terrorism and its commitment to implementing its resolutions in this regard, in addition to the fact this will be considered as a kind of political concealment of these crimes,” the Ministry noted.
Feb 22, 2013
Image source: http://www.thejournal.ie/damascus-bomb-syria-804850-Feb2013/
DAMASCUS, (SANA) – Foreign and Expatriates Ministry addressed two identical letters to the President of the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General on terrorist bombings which hit Damascus City on Thursday, the most violent of which is the terrorist bombing in al-Thawra Street.
The Ministry said in the letters that Damascus witnessed a series of terrorist bombings on Thursday, the most violent of which was the terrorist bombing which hit al-Thawra St. near al-Mazaraa neighborhood and claimed the lives of 53 martyrs while hundreds were injured, including children and students.
The ministry added that the terrorist bombing caused huge damage to al-Hayat Hospital and Abdullah bin al-Zubair School, in addition to burning several cars.
Authorities stopped a car loaded with tons of explosives in the same site and arrested the suicide terrorist who was driving the car.
The ministry added that those terrorist acts coincided with targeting a number of residential buildings with mortar shells, causing material damage, while the armed terrorist groups targeted on Wednesday the Syrian sports institutions as they attacked Tishreen Sports City with two mortar shells, causing the martyrdom of player Youssef Suleiman and injuring others.
The Ministry said that those coward terrorist acts which targeted crowded areas in the Syrian capital, Damascus, come in continuation of the terrorist bombings witnessed in Damascus and other Syrian provinces which were perpetrated by al-Qaeda-linked armed terrorist groups which receive financial and logistic support and media and political coverage from regional and foreign countries.
The Ministry added that the credibility of combating terrorism which has always been a matter of concern for the international community is now under unprecedented test as the most disgusting form of terrorism hit the Syrian civilians with no mercy or differentiating between an elderly man or a child.
The Ministry added that the credibility of combating terrorism which has always been a matter of concern for the international community is now under unprecedented test as the most disgusting form of terrorism hit the Syrian civilians with no mercy or differentiating between an elderly man or a child.
The Ministry added that the credibility of combating terrorism which has always been a matter of concern for the international community is now under unprecedented test as the most disgusting form of terrorism hit the Syrian civilians with no mercy or differentiating between an elderly man or a child.
The Ministry added that the credibility of combating terrorism which has always been a matter of concern for the international community is now under unprecedented test as the most disgusting form of terrorism hit the Syrian civilians with no mercy or differentiating between an elderly man or a child.
Australia – Marcia Langton defends non-disclosure on mining cash before Boyers Lectures
“For 40 years this racist assumption in the green movement about Aboriginal people being the enemies of the wilderness is a leitmotif of deals between conservation groups and state governments to deny Aboriginal people their rights as landowners and citizens of Australia.”
Andrew Crook | Feb 22, 2013 11:54AM
The academic background to last year’s Boyer Lectures was funded by global miners Rio Tinto and Woodside. But the audience was none the wiser. Should she and the ABC have disclosed?
Indigenous leader Marcia Langton and the ABC have defended a lack of disclosure over last year’s Boyer Lectures, despite tens of thousands of dollars in cash for Langton’s academic research being sourced from resources giants Rio Tinto, Woodside and Santos.
The series of five Boyers, titled “The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom”, were delivered late last year by Langton at the ABC’s Brisbane studios and beamed around the country on Radio National.
They argued the boom had substantively benefited indigenous communities, with Langton lauding the work of a number of corporate behemoths — notably Rio — in providing job opportunities and friendly chop-outs. One lecture featured a full frontal attack on the “conceit” of anti-mining greenies.
But what listeners weren’t aware of was that two of the companies Langton praised were also bankrolling her.
The Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, where Langton serves as chairperson of the Australian Indigenous Studies, shows in its 2010 annual report that $480,000 in funding had been secured over four years for Langton’s joint Australian Research Council project ”Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: Economic Empowerment, Wealth Creation and Industrial Reform for Sustainable Indigenous and Local Communities”. The cash was provided by the federal government, corporate partners Woodside, Rio and Santos, and the Marnda Mia Central Negotiating Committee, a company that represents traditional owners in deals with Rio management.
According to a project outline, the study aimed to “promote economic empowerment for sustainable indigenous and local communities” by, among other things, removing the barriers to indigenous participation in large-scale resources projects. While a funding breakdown is not provided, Woodside confirmed it had provided $30,000 over three years. The project ran from 2009 until 2012.
Crikey asked Langton, the University of Melbourne and the ABC to explain the lack of disclosure. The university referred all queries to Langton. In an emailed statement, Langton told Crikey she had delivered the Boyers in a “private capacity”:
“I and the other members of the research team have complied with the university’s and ARC requirements for publications. The Boyer Lectures, however, are not subject to the university statutes.”
She says full details of the grant are available on an indigenous website, www.atns.net.au.
University of Melbourne researchers are required, under an official code of conduct, to ensure all:
“… publications must include information on the sources of financial support for the research and must include a disclosure of any potential conflicts of interest.”
The ABC’s Editorial Policies require the national broadcaster to:
“… ensure appropriate disclosure of any external funding arrangement … where the arrangement or acceptance, if it were not disclosed but later became public, may reasonably be perceived to distort the editorial content or otherwise undermine the ABC’s independence or integrity.”
UK – Scotland Dounreay nuclear fuel to be removed to Sellafield
Published on 22 February 2013
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority is to remove the remainder of the nuclear fuel it inherited at Dounreay.
The highly radioactive material, which was among 100 tonnes left by the UK Atomic Energy Agency, is to be taken to Sellafield in Cumbria.
One of Reasons to Stop Using Nuclear Energy before Accidents Stop it.
Sellafield Nuclear Plant is located on the Northwest Coast of England on the Irish Sea. It is a government owned facility that produces about one-fourth of the United Kingdom’s energy. Nuclear waste from this facility had turned the Irish sea into one of the most radioactive bodies of water in the world.
Sellafield discharges two million gallons of radioactive water into the Irish Sea every day at high tide. This includes a cocktail of over 30 alpha, beta and gamma radionuclides. BNFL admits that radioactive discharges in the 1970’s were 100 times those of today. As a result of these discharges, which include around half a tons of plutonium, the Irish Sea has become the most radioactively contaminated sea in the world.
A wide range of fish, shellfish and molluscs continue to show varying degrees of radioactive contamination from Sellafield’s discharges. Cesium-137(half life is 30 years) and Iodine-129(half life is 15.7 million years!) from Sellafield have spread through the Arctic Ocean into the waters of northern Canada and are having a bigger impact on the Arctic than the Chernobyl accident. Sellafield’s gas discharges of Krypton can be measured in Miami.
Greanpeace simulation of radioactive discharge from Sellafield and La Hague reprocessing plants http://archive.greenpeace.org/nuclear/ospar2000/images/content/ospar/model.gif (This link has been removed from the greenpeace site??)
Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy’s future
“….but until the academic world wakes up and realizes billions have been misspent to fulfill the fantasy of re-creating the sun, LENR and Cold Fusion will live in the shadow of false hope.”
“Hot Fusion research is expensive and as seen in the video, most researchers are tremendously close-minded and arrogant when it comes to other sources of fusion.”
Uploaded on Dec 22, 2009
TEDtalksDirector
Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work — and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source of energy.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.
Necessity is truly the mother of invention. Energy drives mankind and fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal, will only provide us with about 100 years of energy. Fusion is the answer, but replicating the energy generation of the sun or a star is never going to be practical. Hot Fusion research is expensive and as seen in the video below, most researchers are tremendously close-minded and arrogant when it comes to other sources of fusion.
Cold Fusion is not nonsense; it is simply misunderstand because it requires an open-mind and a multi-disciplined background. The Fleischmann Pons reaction has been replicated thousands of times and several companies are working towards the manufacturing of commercial models. The goal is the same, harnessing the power of fusion, but until the academic world wakes up and realizes billions have been misspent to fulfill the fantasy of re-creating the sun, LENR and Cold Fusion will live in the shadow of false hope.
Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.
h/t http://ecat.org/
1 This Month
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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