Japan Times: Fallout from Fukushima causing problems 180 kilometers away — “It’s all become no good”… Contaminated wild vegetables, fish, wild game
Published: February 16th, 2013 at 12:57 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc
Source: The Japan Times
Author: Winifred Bird
Date: Feb 17, 2013
Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc
For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sanno, southern Tochigi Prefecture. […]
Because of fallout from three reactor meltdowns there, he has not sold a single shiitake since last May […]
Hoshino’s farm is about 180 km from the destroyed reactors.
[…] he shut down the family store last May and began disposing of 30,000 logs exposed to radioactive rain. […]
“Everything I’ve done up till now, it’s all become no good. I can’t collect wild vegetables and I can’t sell my mushrooms. There are problems with the fish in the rivers and I have to worry about contamination levels in the wild game, too. That’s what makes me the most angry,” he said. […]
See also: NHK Special: ‘Unexpected finding’ revealed in Tochigi Prefecture — 17 times radiation limit in front of school (VIDEO)
6 Bq/Kg of cesium from tomato ketchup produced in Miyagi
Posted by Mochizuki on February 16th, 2013
According to greencoop, 6 Bq/Kg of cesium was measured from tomato ketchup produced in Miyagi.
Origin : Miyagi
Harvesting time : August ~ September. 2012
Cs-134 : 2.43 Bq/Kg
Cs-137 : 3.56 Bq/Kg
Also, they measured 5.75 Bq/kg of cesium from Tomato juice. It was produced in Miyagi prefecture as well.
Origin : Miyagi
Harvesting time : August ~ September. 2012
Cs-134 : 2.28 Bq/Kg
Cs-137 : 3.47 Bq/Kg
http://www.greencoop.or.jp/genpatsu/img/kensadata/kensa130212.pdf
Iori Mochizuki http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/02/6-bqkg-of-cesium-from-tomato-ketchup-produced-in-miyagi/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29 I am unsure of the date on this following article, it appears to be a breaking story but the date is hard to work out. i added it because it shows where the above 100 Bq/Kg foodtuffs were likely to end up! If i remember correctly the kellogs article came out last summer..? [Arclight2011] http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=22511
Juice News: Gun Debate in Divided States of America
Published on Feb 16, 2013
Watch more at http://www.youtube.com/thejuicemedia and http://www.thejuicemedia.com
Robert Fosters explores one of the great debates taking place in the Divided States of America: Are guns there to stop tyranny? Is tyranny already here? Are there other ways of stopping it besides stocking up on munitions? Persuasive arguments have been levied from both sides; and yet both have failed to convince the other. Is this the quintessential impasse? Special guests in the episode include son-of-a-gun Terence Moonseed and big-gun General Baxter.
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Over 5,000,000 Bq/㎡ of Cs137-Soil Contamination. Fukushima Shinhamachō 1
guardianofmiyagi
Published on Feb 16, 2013
Fukushima City Survey Point; Fukushima Shinhamachō 1
Don’t Forget 3.11. Don’t Forget Fukushima Daiichi Accident. NHK Never Rebroadcast from 15 March 2011. They Know All…
‘A2’ (TRAILER予告編) documentary about Fukushima children with thyroid cysts and nodules
DocumentingIan
Published on Feb 3, 2013
SYNOPSIS: Many children in Fukushima were never evacuated after the nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011. Now the number of Fukushima children found to have thyroid cysts and nodules is increasing. What will this mean for their future?
シノプシス: 福島の子供達の多くは、メルトダウン後も避難させてもらえなかった。嚢胞としこりを持つ福島の子供達の数が増加してきている。このことが彼らの未来に対して意味するものは？
On February 12, Ian traveled to Fukushima to show the mothers who appear in his documentary “A2” the rough cut of the film. Ian wrote about the mothers’ reaction to the film on his DocumentingIan blog.
Ian is currently in post-production for “A2“, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of March. More information about the film and a link to the trailer can be found on the film’s website.
Translations in French, Portugese and Spanish are listed below:
Assange costs UK police £2.9m to watch
Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:29AM GMT
Press TV
Assange has been holed out in the embassy and has secured political asylum from Ecuador after he lost a legal battle on June 19 against extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning over sexual abuse allegations.
The Scotland Yard said they have paid £2.3 million to police stationed outside the embassy building on duty and another £600,000 to officers deployed overtime.
The revelations of the costs of keeping the Ecuadorian embassy under 24-hour watch have also drawn reactions from the embassy officials.
“The Ecuadoran government is concerned by the significant cost to the taxpayers of London of policing the embassy,” a spokesman said.
“However, we believe this expenditure could be avoided if the UK government would provide the undertakings that the Ecuadoran government has sought that there will be no onward extradition of Julian Assange to the United States,” the spokesman added.
The embassy further stressed they will continue to “protect Julian Assange’s human rights” until they obtain the assurance from the British government.
AMR/HE
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/16/289195/assange-costs-uk-police-29m-to-watch/
USA -Cs137 in my rain? Results in!
antiprotons
Published on Feb 15, 2013
I have concluded that my rain sample has indication of possible Cs137 presence and no indications of Cs134 presence. The levels were too low to accurately quantify but could not exceed 5.55 Bq/liter (and are suspected to be less than 1 Bq/liter if at all).
Sorry folks. Maybe my collection bucket will have better luck next time.
NASA document showing how much more greatly contaminated our soil is than that of my rain sample:
ssfl.msfc.nasa.gov/documents/technical/Natural_Variations_of_Cesium-137.pdf
More nuclear sludge leaking at Hanford Site
“..One million gallons (4,000 cubic meters) of highly radioactive waste from Hanford is currently traveling through the groundwater toward the Columbia River and will reach the river in 12 to 50 years if the cleanup operation is delayed,..”
Sat Feb 16, 2013 3:9AM GMT
Press TV
Nuclear technicians are working on a storage tank at the Hanford Site. (file photo)
On Friday, Inslee said that between 150 and 300 gallons of waste might be leaking from the 65-year-old tank at the Hanford Site, which is located on the Columbia River in the state of Washington, the Associated Press reported.
“I am alarmed about this on many levels. This raises concerns, not only about the existing leak… but also concerning the integrity of the other single shell tanks of this age,” he added.
The US Energy Department said the leaking tank holds roughly 447,000 gallons of sludge.
For the disposal of its nuclear waste, the United States has constructed 177 underground storage tanks holding nearly 56 million gallons of toxic nuclear sludge.
The US government is currently looking for a site to construct a permanent nuclear waste repository.
Energy Department spokesman Lori Gamache, said the cause of the leakage is still unknown.
“So we have equipment that’s in the tank that monitors the levels. And this week we went in and did some visual inspections and confirmed that the equipment was working correctly. And the equipment was showing there was a level decrease in this tank,” she stated.
Built in 1943 or 1944, the tank is one of 149 with a single shell. The single-walled tank holds spent nuclear fuel from nuclear weapons development and production.
Hanford has the highest level of radioactive waste of any site in the United States. It produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
One million gallons (4,000 cubic meters) of highly radioactive waste from Hanford is currently traveling through the groundwater toward the Columbia River and will reach the river in 12 to 50 years if the cleanup operation is delayed, according to Hanford Quick Facts, which was published by the Washington Department of Ecology.
KA/HGL
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/16/289177/more-nuclear-sludge-leaking-at-hanford/
Russian meteorite blast explained: Fireball explosion equal to 20 Hiroshimas
Published: 15 February, 2013, 23:10
Edited: 16 February, 2013, 05:40
RT
A Russian policeman works near an ice hole, said by the Interior Ministry department for Chelyabinsk region to be the point of impact of a meteor seen earlier in the Urals region, at lake Chebarkul some 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Chelyabinsk February 15, 2013 (Reuters / Chelyabinsk region Interior Ministry)
Russian scientists investigating the meteorite explosion in the Urals explained the nature of the event that caused havoc in the region. NASA meanwhile said that the shockwave from the blast was equivalent to a 300-kiloton explosion.
The object was identified as a solitary 10-ton bolide by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Bolides, or bright fireballs, are large meteors that explode in the lower atmosphere, and unlike meteorite showers they can be dangerous, scientists explained.
The Chelyabinsk fireball entered the atmosphere moving at a speed of about 20 km/s. The object, which was several meters in diameter, then burst into pieces at a height of 30-50 km above the ground, RAN reported.
Three consecutive explosions shattered the meteorite further. Large fragments moving at a high speed caused a powerful flash and a strong shockwave, with most of its energy released at a height of 5 to 15 km above the earth, with the atmosphere absorbing most of that energy.
NASA has estimated the energy released is equivalent to a 300-kiloton explosion, according to Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
The impact and the sound of the blast reached the ground minutes after the explosion, causing havoc and panic in Chelyabinsk. While most of the object burned down during the fall, the remaining parts showered over the region, possibly adding to the damage and injuries.
The actual power of the blast is still being discussed, with some scientists estimating it as low as 0.1 kilotons and others saying it could be more than 300 kilotons, depending on the height the explosion was registered. Conflicting reports also centered on the trajectory of the falling body.
The combustion products won’t stay in the atmosphere for long, and will soon come down with precipitation, Russian scientists said. The meteorite is believed to have caused no significant pollution, but the elements it emitted could only be identified after studying its fragments, they added. So far, RAN and Emergency services have denied the possibility of radioactive pollution.
MET-7 view (Copyright 2013 © EUMETSAT)
Russian space agency Roscosmos earlier admitted they did not track the meteorite that fell near Chelyabinsk, although several other flybys were detected by Roshydromet overnight. “Our ground facilities and, as I understand, those abroad too did not monitor this celestial body,” the agency spokesman said.
Astronomers around the globe didn’t notice the object coming either, and rushed in search of its traces on satellite images after the news spread.
“Objects like that are nearly impossible to see until a day or two before impact,” Timothy Spahr of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts told Nature Magazine.
Although the meteor was relatively small to detect, some argued its blast was comparable with the power of a nuclear bomb.
According to Canadian astronomer Margaret Campbell-Brown, the blast could be even more powerful than North Korea’s recent nuclear test. Citing the data from two infrasound stations near the impact site, she estimated the object to be 15 meters in diameter with a mass of around 40 tons.
“That would make it the biggest object recorded to hit the Earth since Tunguska,” Campbell-Brown told Nature Magazine.
Most scientists both in Russia and abroad do not believe the Chelyabinsk bolide had anything to do with the asteroid 2012 DA14, which is expected to fly by just hours later.
Weather sattelite Meteosat 10 has taken an image of the meteriote shortly after entering the atmosphere (Copyright 2013 © EUMETSAT)
Weather sattelite Meteosat 10 has taken an image of the meteriote shortly after entering the atmosphere (Copyright 2013 © EUMETSAT)
http://rt.com/news/scientists-explain-chelyabinsk-bolide-337/
INES Level 1 Nuclear Event — Pump incident at Belgian plant
http://enenews.com/reports-ines-level-1-nuclear-event-pump-incident-at-belgian-nuke-plant
Published: February 15th, 2013 at 2:52 pm ET
By ENENews
DMorgen (Google Translation), Feb. 15, 2013 at ~12:45p ET:
h/t Anonymous tip
New water pump incident […] After analysis, the incident was classified as a level 1 of the INES* scale (International Nuclear Event Scale) […]
Lalibre.be (Google Translation), Feb. 15, 2013 at ~1:30p ET:
Doel: technical incident at the nuclear […] The defect was classified at Level 1 (anomaly) on the INES scale (with 7 levels). A pressure difference was found on a turbopump unit 2 of the Doel nuclear power plant, announced Friday the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC) on its website.
*The [INES] International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale is a worldwide tool for communicating to the public in an open and consistent way the safety significance of nuclear and radiological events –IAEA
It appears the last INES event involving a nuclear reactor was last April.
See also: AFP: Fires, radioactive fluid leak at French nuclear plant — Level 1 on INES scale… ‘provisionally’ — Small pools of burning oil
The Economic Impact of a War Between Japan & China -Video – “News Art”
A CALL TO PEACE!
All news should be delivered using this method.. A very clever montage of images .. I recommend you view this!! [Arclight2011]
Published on Feb 11, 2013
MinuteMBA
Duration 5.28 mins
View full post:
http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/economi…
A major conflict between the region’s two largest economies would not only impose a harsh dilemma on U.S. diplomats, but also have a significant impact on the entire global economy. It is in every nation’s best interest that the Chinese and Japanese settle their territorial dispute peacefully.
A very moving blog here.. with some interesting results for heavy metals contamination.. Double the expected cesium 137 levels than would be expected.. Where? USA!!
Italian nuclear waste transport ship still awaiting work in Northwest Russia
Charles Digges, 14/02-2013
Bellona
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/rossita_awaits_work
Two years after the € 70 million Italian-built spent nuclear fuel transport ship Rossita was launched as part of Italy’s international efforts to aid Russian nuclear remediation, the vessel has languished with absolutely no work commissions, and is currently in dry-dock for scheduled repairs.
Image courtesy of Barents Observer
The ship, which was built and given to Russia as part of Italy’s commitment to the G-8 Global Partnership program, under which the G-8 nations sought to donate $20 billion in funding toward Russian nuclear remediation projects over 10 years beginning in 2002.
Launched in Italy in 2010, the vessels Rossita transferred to Rosatomflot in 2011with the aim of transporting containers of spent nuclear fuel from submarines from storage sites in Northwest Russia, namely Andreyeva Bay and Severodvinsk.
When Atomflot took possession of the vessel in August2011, Rosatomflot director Vyacheslav Ruksha said the ship would begin removing container of spent fuel during the last quarter of 2012, according to the Barents Observer news portal, citing nuclear.ru.
Rosatomflot is responsible for operating Russia’s nuclear icebreaker fleet as well as their technical base Atomflot. Atomflot itself is used to re-load the parcels of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste it receives, and send it on for further storage.
Yesterday it was reported that not only has the Rossita been involved in no efforts to transport spent nuclear fuel containers, but that it was also in dry-dock at the Nerpa shipyard north of Murmansk for repairs to its drive system and crane to optimize them for use in Arctic conditions, said the Barents Observer, citing Nord-News.
Andrei Zolotkov, director of Bellona Murmansk said the repairs the ship is undergoing are normal, and must be performed every year or two, so nothing was out of the ordinary.
According to Nils Bøhmer, Bellona’s general manager and nuclear physicist, the fact the ship has not been used is not a matter of negligence but rather a matter of ill timing.
“Its arrival sort of fell outside the framework of the master plan for cleaning up spent nuclear fuel in Northwest Russia,” he said in reference to the cleanup plan developed by Moscow and European donors.
“The Russians were hardly going to turn down a free ship,” said Bøhmer. “But the Rossita, as a boat designed to carry only prepackaged spent nuclear fuel, is not the ship needed for a little while yet.”
For starters, he said that ongoing remediation efforts the notorious submarine spent nuclear fuel storage facility at Andreyeva Bay have not yet produced a packing plant for the spent nuclear fuel there.
Andreyeva bay is currently home to some 21,000 spent nuclear fuel assemblies housed in dilapidated and ageing storage tanks. The facility is located 60 kilometers from the Norwegian border and has long been an environmental concern for Oslo.
“The ship is needed to transport packaged waste from Andreyeva Bay to Murmansk for intermediate storage built by the UK by rail directly to Mayak,” Russia’s nuclear reprocessing site in the Southern Urals, said Bøhmer. “It’s arrival just fell outside the overall development of the master plan.”
Bellona Murmansk’s Zolotkov agreed.
“It’s a pity that preparation works for transportation of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste from Andreeva Bay took longer time than the construction itself of Rossita, he said. “The Rossita was constructed for these purposes. Now the ship is just awaiting for the cargo to transport,” he told the Barents Observer.
The one ship currently transporting contaminated waste from Nerpa and the former Russian naval base Gremikha to Murmansk is the aged Imandra nuclear service vessel.
But the Imandra, pointed out Zolotkov, is built for transporting spent nuclear fuel assemblies, unlike the Rossita, which is not designed to bear such loads.
http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2013/rossita_awaits_work
UPDATE 1-Turkey’s 1st nuclear plant to operate from 2019-Rosatom
By Orhan Coskun
ANKARA, Feb 15 (Reuters) – Russia’s Rosatom plans to start construction of Turkey’s first nuclear power plant in mid-2015 and expects the facility to start producing electricity in 2019, its deputy general manager told Reuters on Friday.
‘Our work continues as predicted, there is no delay … The production of nuclear energy physically will start in 2019,’ Kirill Komarov said in an interview in Ankara.
Turkey plans to build nuclear plants over the next decade to reduce its dependence on imported oil and gas.
The $20 billion plant being built by Rosatom at Mersin Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast will have four power units with a total output of 4,800 megawatts (MW).
Turkey is likely to overtake Britain as Europe’s third-biggest electricity consumer within a decade and is in talks regarding a second nuclear plant at Sinop on the Black Sea and also plans a third plant.
It has been in talks with companies from Canada, South Korea and Japan, as well as China, regarding the planned Sinop plant, and France has also announced it would like to be involved.
Komarov said Rosatom would be ready to work with more Turkish companies in the construction of the Akkuyu plant.
(Reporting by Orhan Coskun; writing by Nick Tattersall, Seda Sezer; editing by Jason Neely) Keywords: TURKEY NUCLEAR/RUSSIA
(nicholas.tattersall@thomsonreuters.com)(Reuters Messaging: nicholas.tattersall.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)
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