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Japan -Metropolitan Coalition Against Nukes -12 14 脱原発国会議事堂前 小沢一郎さん演説 -Video in Japanese

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYu4md3HMO8

Grand Election Finish 【48】
Finally Ichiro Ozawa (小沢一郎) appeared at “Metropolitan Coalition Against Nuke”(首都圏反原発連合) which is the core institution of the last 18 months’ demonstrations.

Ozawa appeared within the Sprechchor of “再稼働反対(Saikado Hantai, No reactivation)” and Speaks Out the Truth.

Core of his Speech:
「マスメディアは当初から脱原発を、選挙の争点から外そうとしている。
(Mass Media tries to shade No Nuke from the theme of Election)
脱原発は、即時に可能である。

(No Nuke is possible from now on)
このままでは、日本の将来はない。
(No children, No future.)」
(Full Contents in search→Retrieved)

脱原発隠しは既得権の癒着の中で、マスコミさえも組­み込まれている、本当に大きな日本社会のいびつ、最大のミスだ。
(Mass Media obsolete the voice of No Nuke and is built in protecting vested rights. This distortion is the biggest mistake of JAPAN,)
このままでは日本の未来は暗闇に包まれてしまう。
(Japanese future will be buried in the darkness if we fail to correct this.)
日本の未来を子供達を心配する皆さんの声を一人でも多くの人たちにに伝えてください。
(No Children, No future.)」
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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

BBC: “One of the most contaminated places on Earth” — Silence is deafening 10 miles from Fukushima plant — Nuclear power’s lie has been so tragically exposed

http://enenews.com/bbc-one-of-the-most-contaminated-places-on-earth-silence-is-deafening-10-miles-from-fukushima-plant-nuclear-powers-lie-has-been-so-tragically-exposed

Published: December 14th, 2012 at 2:13 am ET
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Title: Why Japan’s ‘Fukushima 50′ remain unknown
Source: BBC News
Author: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
Date: 13 December 2012

Entering the exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant is an unnerving experience.

It is, strictly speaking, also illegal. It is an old cliché to say that radiation is invisible. But without a Geiger counter, it would be easy to forget that this is now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.

The small village of Tatsuno lies in a valley 15km (9.3 miles) from the plant. In the sunlight, the trees on the hillsides are a riot of yellow and gold. But then I realise the fields were once neat rice paddies. Now the grass and weeds tower over me.

On the village main street, the silence is deafening – not a person, car, bike or dog. At one house, washing still flaps in the breeze. And all around me, invisible, in the soil, on the trees, the radiation lingers. […]

Back in the 1960s and 70s, getting rural Japanese communities to accept nuclear power plants was hard.

[…] they were promised that nuclear power was completely safe.

Now that the lie has been so tragically exposed, the feeling of betrayal is huge. […]

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Crackdown: Japanese professor’s arrest “extremely unjust” — Publicly opposed burning of radioactive debris

 

http://enenews.com/crackdown-japanese-professors-arrest-extremely-unjust-publicly-oppossed-burning-radiaoctive-debris

 

 

Published: December 14th, 2012 at 2:23 pm ET
By 

Title: Unjust Arrest of a Professor Opposing Debris Incineration in Osaka
Source: Civic Activity (Organization supporting citizens opposing spread of radiation)
Translation: Fukushima Voice
Date: December 14, 2012

[…] On December 9, 2012, Masaki Shimoji, an associate professor of economics at Hannan University was arrested by the Osaka Prefectural Police. This arrest is extremely unjust in form and content. It is clearly a crackdown on citizens’ movement.

Professor Shimoji and others are opposing the “areawide management of the disaster debris” measure, which intended to spread, incinerate and bury harmful substances in the disaster debris all over Japan that should not be incinerated, such as radioactive material and asbestos. Osaka-city is trying tobegin regular incineration and burial beginning in February 2013.

The following is the timeline for the arrest:

At 3 pm on October 17, 2012, voluntary citizens opposing to test incineration of disaster debris in Osaka-city, including associate professor Shimoji, gathered on the sidewalk outside the northeast corner of Osaka station. They began to walk towards Osaka city hall, walking through the east concourse inside Osaka station from north to south. This act was considered a “violation of Railway Operation Act,” “forcible obstruction of business, “ and ”non-withdrawal,” and used as charges for the arrest.

However, this act of “walking through the station” was conducted nearly two months ago, and it is extremely unnatural for them to arrest him for it now. We can’t help but consider it as an intentional crackdown on citizens’ movement. […]

Dec. 12, 2012 letter from Professor Shimoji here

 

 

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japan -Radiation forecast maps corrected again for all nuke plants

“The NRA said its predecessor, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), gave ambiguous instructions when it commissioned the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization (JNES) in March to create the forecast maps. JNES, which won the contract, failed to double-check the specifications, while the NRA also failed to define the procedures for checking them after it took over the mission from the now-defunct NISA.

The NRA on Dec. 13 verbally admonished three officials in charge of the matter.”

December 14, 2012

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN

The Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Dec. 13 released corrections to all of its radiation forecast maps, which show the likely spread of radioactive substances from a serious accident at 16 nuclear power plants across Japan.

The Asahi Shimbun

The corrections affect all of the nuclear plants under study, which do not include the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, site of the reactor meltdowns following an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, or the Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor.

The forecast maps show the likely spread of radioactive substances in the event of an accident similar in scale to the Fukushima disaster, and the corrections are expected to affect the ongoing efforts by local governments situated near nuclear plants to draw up emergency evacuation plans.

Errors in the maps have been found on successive occasions since the nuclear regulatory agency initially released them on Oct. 24.

The most significant errors discovered in the recent overhaul concerned the forecast maps for the Tomari plant in Hokkaido, the Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture, and the Sendai plant in Kagoshima Prefecture.

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Norway to commence testing of promising new nuclear fool

“Despite abundant oil reserves which have made Norway one of the world’s most affluent countries on a per capita GDP basis, the Scandinavian nation has always been a strong advocate of nuclear power, no doubt partially due to its extensive thorium deposits.”

Marc Howe | December 14, 2012

The Norwegian government plans to conduct trial usage of the nuclear fuel thorium, considered by many to be one of the most promising future energy sources, at its existing nuclear facilities.



Business Insider reports
 that the Norwegian government will be conducting the trials in collaboration with the USA’s Westinghouse and Norway’s own Thor Energy.

Despite abundant oil reserves which have made Norway one of the world’s most affluent countries on a per capita GDP basis, the Scandinavian nation has always been a strong advocate of nuclear power, no doubt partially due to its extensive thorium deposits.

Thorium was in fact first discovered by a Norwegian mineralogist, who named the radioactive mineral after the Norse god of thunder.

Thorium is touted by many, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, as a preferable alternative to uranium as a nuclear fuel source. Its key advantages vis-a-vis uranium include greater abundance, improved power generation, less waste, and most crucially the fact that thorium plants are considered to be impervious to meltdowns.

China and India are also currently considering the inclusion of thorium-powered nuclear plants as significant components of their national energy portfolios.

The Norwegian trials will make use of an existing heavy-water nuclear reactor, instead of the molten salt or pebble bed reactors which are considered to be best suited to thorium power generation.

(“thorium power desperation” in my opinion – Arclight)

http://www.mining.com/norway-to-commence-testing-of-promising-new-nuclear-fuel-72358/

 

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Paladin granted mining license for Malawi uranium project

Malawi’s Mining and Energy Ministry has granted uranium miner Paladin a mining licence for the Kayelekera uranium project, clearing the way for construction to start.
The Malawian government has granted Paladin a mining licence, covering 55,5 km2 over a period of 15 years, after which the licence would be renewable for a further ten years, the company said this week.

Commissioning at Kayelekera was scheduled for September 2008 and full productconcrete portable crushing machinesion, some 3,3-million pounds of U3O8, was expected to be reached in the second quarter of 2009.

The company reported that iron dressing from iron ore plant designthe selection of the engineering, procurement and construction manager was at an advanced stage and that the mining contractor tender was at the final stages of rused track crusher for saleeview.

“Commencement of construction of the Kayelekera uranium project marks a highly auspicious moment in the development of Paladin towards becoming a major uranium sstone crusher plants from europe supplier to the global markets,” MD John Borshoff said.

Paladin would spend $185-million on building the project. The major portion of the capital small concrete batch plant price expenditure had been raised through its $250-million convertible bond raising, which was carried out in December.

The company said that the banking syndicate that provided project debt finance for the Langer Heinrich uranium project, in Namibia, was expected to provide a similar debt-funding package for Kayelekera.

Further, Paladin said that it would start exploration to extend the project life beyond the 11 years as stated in the bankable feasibility study. Paladin holds exploration properties around Kayelekera, which covers 1 140 km2.

Paladin expects to produce in the order of 31-million pounds of uranium by 2012 from Langer Heinrich and Kayelekera and, using a price forecasting of $90/lb, the total revenue generated during the period woudl be in the order of $2,8-billion.

http://www.ubcc.se/2012/12/paladin-granted-mining-license-for-malawi-uranium-project/

 

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Unreported by the Media: America’s Nuclear Weapons Tests. The Truth is a “Bitter Pill”

By Andrew Kishner

Global Research, December 13, 2012
NuclearCrimes.org

On December 13,  North Korea’s state-run news agency issued a two-sentence statement via radio, joining critics in Iran and Japanese hibakusha and anti-nuclear activists who have condemned the U.S.’s December 5th subcritical nuclear experiment named ‘Pollux.’

The critical part of the North Korean statement, as translated by a BBC news monitoring service, reads: ‘Despite strong objection and denunciation from the world community, the United States is continuously and frantically clinging onto carrying out nuclear tests for developing new nuclear weapons.’

There are elements of truth and mistruth in North Korea’s statement. Let’s start with the mistruths. Contrary to misleading statements made in blogs and by some in the international media, the recent subcritical experiment was not a nuclear test. Nor did it lead to any leaked radiation. These tests occur in a fortified containment in an underground tunnel that prevents the possibility of an accidental release (although one similar test, decades ago, did cause a fire).

The U.S. Department of Energy argues that because it can’t conduct a real nuclear test to ensure that aging components and weapons-grade plutonium inside U.S. nuclear warheads are still reliable, it therefore has to resort to subcritical tests and other so-called ‘stockpile stewardship’ experiments.

As long as these laboratory tests on plutonium (and warhead weapons parts) don’t induce a runaway chain reaction, the U.S. is allowed by the CTBT to do these things. A runaway chain reaction, by the way, is the modern definition of a nuclear explosion, but modern doesn’t mean good. In fact, the current definition of ‘nuclear explosion’ is a very bad one. Why? Well, no one opposing nuclear weapons has ever said they oppose them on the grounds that they’re designed to induce a domino effect on the fissioning of plutonium. People complain about nukes because of the size of the energy release these weapons of mass (or worldwide) destruction are designed to discharge – as heat, blast and radiation. It would make more sense to ban all man-made nuclear energy releases.

Critics of the U.S. program allege that the hundreds and hundreds of stockpile stewardship experiments conducted since the U.S. signed the CTBT and the fact that most of them are duplicate experiments of precursor ones suggest that the program is not, or not any longer, credible. The thought is that the program is either a big boondoggle or the Department of Energy is secretly designing new nuclear weapons.

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Defiant N Korea stages rally amid nuclear fears

By: AFP | December 15, 2012

SEOUL  – Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans rallied Friday in the freezing cold to revel in the country’s rocket launch as South Korea voiced concern that its rival could follow up with a third nuclear test.

Defiant N Korea stages rally amid nuclear fears

The enormous rally in central Pyongyang came two days after the launch of the rocket and just ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the death of new leader Kim Jong-Un’s father.

The West fears the launch has taken the nuclear power a step closer to firing intercontinental ballistic missiles across the planet, and it has provoked UN Security Council condemnation along with calls for more sanctions. North Korea is already under international sanctions for conducting two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, which both came after long-range rocket launches, and South Korea said history could be repeating itself. “A nuclear test is highly probable, and judging from analysis of intelligence, significant preparations have been made,” Unification Minister Yu Woo-Ik told a parliamentary committee in Seoul, without elaborating. “North Korea has a track record of conducting nuclear tests following missile launches whose aim was to develop a delivery system for nuclear warheads,” he added. Refuelling its criticism of Wednesday’s launch, the US State Department said Kim had the chance as new leader “to take his country back into the 21st century” but instead was making the “wrong choices”.

Unbowed, North Korean state media said Kim, who is in his late 20s, had personally signed off on firing the three-stage rocket and had declared his regime’s “unshakable stand” that the programme will continue. Kim stressed the need “to launch satellites in the future… to develop the country’s science, technology and economy”, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) as it gave new details of the launch. The “dear respected Marshal” visited mission control an hour before the rocket took off on Wednesday morning and praised the “ardent loyalty and patriotic devotion” of the technical team, KCNA said in the report early Friday.

The report gave no reaction to the international opprobrium that has been heaped on North Korea since the rocket went up, ostensibly to place aresearch satellite in orbit, with even close ally China expressing its “regrets”.

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

One U.S. Nuclear Reactor Uses as Much Water as All of D.C.

CAITLIN DICKSON  , 2011

“It takes the same amount of water required by a city of 5 million to fuel a typical U.S. nuclear power plant for one hour: 30 million gallons, Fast Company reports. Charles Fishman, author of the bookThe Big Thirst, notes that “the U.S. has 104 nuclear power plants–more than any other country, a quarter of all plants worldwide.” As the world’s largest energy consumer, “49% of the water used in the U.S. goes to generate electricity,” Fishman notes. That’s “the single largest use of water” in the country.”

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/04/one-us-nuclear-reactor-uses-much-water-as-all-dc/36634/

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Military To Continue Bombing Nuclear Waste Dumps In Hawaii

December 14, 2012

Sleuthjournal

Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action

Comments on Dec. 12, 2012 NRC meeting with the Army in Maryland from 10AM-1PM Hawaii time. The public could listen in and make comments/ask questions at the end of the meeting.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be issuing a license for the mongoose to guard the hen house in Hawaii.  The Army will be issued an NRC license to possess Depleted uranium (DU) in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks and the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA).

In effect, the NRC is licensing Hawaii nuclear waste dumps and allowing those dumps to be bombed, spreading the nuclear dump debris wherever the wind takes it. The State Dept. of Health made no comment, nor did it ask any questions, following the meeting.  It is a fact that DU exists at Schofield Barracks and PTA, and perhaps other present and former military sites in Hawaii, including Kaho’olawe and Makua Valley.  How much is not known.

A minimum of 700, perhaps more than 2000, DU Davy Crockett spotting rounds have been fired at Pohakuloa.  Less than 1% of PTA’s 133,000-acres have been surveyed. DU cluster bombs, and more than a dozen DU penetrating rounds, DU bunker busters, etc. may also have been fired at PTA and elsewhere. All branches of the US military use DU weapons today.  It’s clear to me that we cannot rely on so called regulators to fix the problem.

Nuclear regulators are just as much part of the problem as bankregulators. The DOH is also part of the problem. Where have our health officials been all these years on the issue. The military in Hawaii has lied and use deception repeatedly.  The US military mission goes before concern for the health and safety of its own troops and Hawaii’s people and land. Uranium is now showing up in Big Island residents’ urine.  Is it related to PTA, Fukushima or what? The people have a right to know.

Is the military above the law?  What’s needed is a peoples’ movement of non-violent resistance to stop the bombing to protect the people and land of Hawaii against attacks by the U.S. military.

http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/military-to-continue-bombing-nuclear-waste-dumps-in-hawaii/

 

December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Launch of Russia’s first floating nuclear plant pushed back several years – again

Bellona

Charles Digges, 14/12-2012

Hindered by contract delays,bankruptcy proceedings, and switching ownership of the company that is building it, plans to launch Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant have again been scuttled, with the new launch date pushed back from this year to 2016, Bellona has learned.

In all, Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom wishes to produce six 70 megawatt floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs), which it says are designed to deliver power to far flung regionsalong its own northern Arctic coast, and says further that the plants are a hot item on the wish list of foreign customers, mainly China.

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Many of these potential foreign customers had been hoping Russia would meet its originally promised deadline for FNPP delivery of 2010.

Environmental outcry over FNPPshas been present since their inception. Russia has neither the means nor infrastructure to ensure their safe operation, has made no plans for disposing of their spent nuclear fuel (SNF), and has not taken into consideration the enormous nuclear proliferation risks posed by placing nuclear reactors in remote areas.

Furthermore, officials apparently have not considered their vulnerability to terrorist attacks while on site or during transportation to their intendedlocations.

But the fates of shifting shipyards, bankruptcy of the shipyard to where the first floating nuclear power plant was transferred, and the acquisition of the foundering shipyard by other financial holdings have not been kind to the timely launch of one of Rosatom’s pet projects – and have more than once shed doubt on whether the environmentally dicey project would be completed at all.

“With the constant changes of venue for construction, ownership and pushed back delivery dates, one begins to wonder whether this ill-advised project will ever see the light of day,” said Bellona’s general manager and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer.

This first FNPP, the Akademik Lomonosov, is scheduled for deployment in Russia’s Far East Kamchatka region, which is prone to tsunamis and far for an ideal location for a nuclear power plant – especially moored at sea.

First FNPP already the world’s most travelled

The keel for, the Akademik Lomonosov, was initially laid in 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard in Russia’s far north and Far East. In 2008, Rosatom said that it would transfer its construction to Baltiysky Zavod because Sevmash was inundated with military contracts.

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Russia first to break route in northern Arctic ice – Arctic development on way!

The National

Dec 12, 2012

The cold blue Arctic Ocean has been open for shipping all summer, a clear swathe of water stretching from Norway’s north cape to the Bering Sea and Russia’s far east.

 The Arctic Ocean from space: the yellow line marks the extent of summer sea ice 30 years ago, and the area of white is the ice as it is today. The red line is the new northern sea route. Nasa / Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio / The National
The Arctic Ocean from space: the yellow line marks the extent of summer sea ice 30 years ago, and the area of white is the ice as it is today. The red line is the new northern sea route. Nasa / Goddard Scientific Visualization Studio / The National

There haven’t been too many venturing into its sea lanes so far, just a few pioneers testing the waters.

Last week, the Ob River, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier, successfully completed the world’s first LNG voyage via the far northern sea route. And it was quicker and cheaper than the conventional route from Norway to Japan.

“If a cargo ship with a maximum load capacity of 40,000 tonnes can pass through the northern sea route, that will shorten the journey by 22 days and cost US$839,000 [Dh3 million] less than going through the Suez Canal,” says Felix Tschudi, the chairman of Tschudi Shipping in Norway.

The Ob River, chartered by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, left the port of Hammerfest in Norway on November 7 and arrived at the LNG terminal in Tobata, Japan, last Wednesday. Its ship and crew delivered 150,000 cubic metres of gas to eager Japanese consumers and achieved what navigators from the 15th-century explorer John Cabot down to Sir John Franklin, whose entire expedition vanished in northern Canada in 1847, had only dreamed of.

All thanks to the melting Arctic ice cap. And it is disappearing fast.

According to US government scientists, satellite imagery showed Arctic sea ice on September 16 had shrunk to its smallest since records began 33 years ago. The average annual minimum area since 1979 has been 6.2 million square kilometres – this year it is just 3.4 million sq km.

But the jury is still out on whether that means the dreams of Cabot and Franklin have come true, yet.

Gas shippers want it to be true because nuclear power plants in Japan, after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, have shut down, spurring a grab for gas to make up the energy shortfall.

And shipping gas over the top of the planet rather than across the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, Red and Arabian Seas, Indian Ocean, the Malacca Straits and the South China Sea is a lot quicker – and cheaper. Also, it avoids the pirate-infested waters off Somalia and in the Malacca Straits.

But the Ob River had some heavyweight help on its record-setting voyage. It had to be accompanied by two Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers for much of the trip.

The first half, between the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea, was relatively ice-free, but during the second half of the passage, from the Vilkitsky Strait to the Bering Strait, the LNG carrier was butting through “young”, or recently formed, ice with a thickness of up 30cm.

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December 15, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japan nuclear power plant neglected safety measures

“Clearly they were not taking responsibility for the accident initially, and that has now changed,” he said. He added, however, that he still thinks TEPCO is underestimating how difficult it would be to transform.

The reform plans apparently aim to use Fukushima’s lessons at TEPCO’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in northern Japan. The cash-strapped utility wants to restart that plant.

TEPCO was bitterly criticised for allegedly covering up or holding key information about meltdowns and radiation data.

3:52 PM Saturday Dec 15, 2012

The New Zealand Herald

The operator of the disaster-struck Japanese nuclear power plant has acknowledged that the company long neglected safety measures intended to avoid and manage severe accidents while it was obsessed with fixing minor safety problems to improve operational records.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. is struggling to reform itself, and earlier this year launched an internal reform task force, led by company president Naomi Hirose, to find out what caused the disasters and compile improvement plans.

Last year’s powerful earthquake and tsunami caused multiple meltdowns and massive radiation leaks at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. TEPCO continues efforts to keep the plant stable until it’s decommissioned, a process expected to take decades.

The task force said that TEPCO just didn’t think disasters beyond their anticipation would occur, and failed to follow international standards and recommendations that could have mitigated the impact of the accident. The utility could have done more to back up its power and cooling systems, was short on emergency equipment such as fire engines and had treated crisis management drills as a formality, the group said.

At the same time, TEPCO focused on small safety concerns to avoid minor troubles that could have triggered inspections or reactor stoppages, the task force said.

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Top Secret Report released! -US planned atomic war on Russia and China

U.S. Had Plans for “Full Nuclear Response” In Event President Killed or Disappeared during an Attack on the United States

Both USSR and China Were To Be Targeted Simultaneously, Even If Attack Were Conventional or Accidental, and Regardless of Who Was Responsible

LBJ Ordered Change in Instructions in 1968 to Permit More Limited Response, Avert “Dangerous” Situation

Newly Declassified Document Expands Limited Public Record on Nuclear Predelegation

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 406

Posted – December 12, 2012

Edited by William Burr

Washington, D.C., December 12, 2012 – As late as 1968, the U.S. government had plans in place to fire an automatic “full nuclear response” against both the Soviet Union and China in the event of the death or disappearance of the President in the course of an attack against the United States, but President Lyndon Johnson changed that policy in October 1968, according to a previously Top Secret document published today for the first time by the National Security Archive. (see Document 5A)

Prior to President Johnson’s decision, instructions for the emergency use of nuclear weapons that both he and his predecessors had previously approved stipulated a full-scale nuclear counter-attack even if the initial strike were conventional, or the result of anaccident, and both Communist giants would be targeted regardless of whether either of them had launched the first strike.

This new information is contained in a record of a meeting between President Johnson and his top national security advisers on 14 October 1968. At the meeting, Johnson’s military and civilian aides unanimously recommended that the standing orders, known by the code-name “Furtherance,” be revised substantially in order to reduce the inherent risks involved. The changes included providing instructions to commanders to respond to a conventional attack with conventional weapons—an implicit “no-first use” nuclear policy. At the session, speaking of the new approach, National Security Advisor Walt Rostow advised Johnson: “We think it is an essential change. This was dangerous.” The entire Joint Chiefs of Staff concurred.

The meeting record, marked “Eyes Only for the President,” was released to the National Security Archive in late November 2012 under a Mandatory Declassification Review appeal to the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP), nine years after the filing of the original request. The declassified transcript offers important insights into the still-heavily shrouded subject of predelegation of nuclear weapons use. The meeting record is accompanied in today’s posting by several related items that provide contemporary context to the subject matter.

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On 14 October 1968, while holding intense meetings on Vietnam War policy, President Lyndon Johnson’s civilian and military advisers temporarily changed the subject when they recommended changes in changes in standing top secret instructions to senior military commanders on the emergency use of nuclear weapons. Since the Eisenhower administration, U.S. presidents had secretly approved instructions to military commanders authorizing or “predelegating” them to use nuclear weapons in response to an attack if the president was killed or otherwise unavailable. The changes in the instructions that President Johnson was considering were designed to prevent what national security adviser Walt W. Rostow called a “dangerous” situation that could inadvertently lead to nuclear weapons use on a catastrophic scale. The next day, Johnson approved the changes that Rostow had deemed “essential.”

Recently declassified by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) in response to a mandatory review appeal by the National Security Archive, the record of the meeting shows that President Johnson considered recommendations to revise the “predelegation” instructions, codenamed “Furtherance,” by removing a perilous element of inflexibility from them. Instead of a nearly automatic “full” nuclear strike against both China and the Soviet Union in the event of a surprise attack, top commanders could initiate a “limited response” against the appropriate country. That would be all the more necessary in the event of a “small-scale or accidental attack.” Moreover, in the event of a nuclear response to a conventional forces attack “as is now in the plan,” the retaliation would be non-nuclear-a step toward a no-first use policy. With the revised instructions, commanders had explicit direction to avoid a nuclear holocaust.

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December 14, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Article by Kitagawa Takashi on nuclear realities in Japan -Spotlight on Ichiro Ozawa

“…One more Fukushima, Japan Collapse….”

Article posted by Kitagawa Takashi

Ichiro Ozawa is the closest to the Truth. He recognizes the fact and truth most among politicians. Let’s see his insights and backgrounds.
1. He was Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Science and Technology Agency (Seat of Nuke Plant, was in MITI, now in MEXT) in the 2nd year of representative. He learned Nuke Plant is transient energy and Nuke Waste would be big problem. When to stop? Chernobyl. Fukushima is fatal. Don’t stop means Crazy.
僕が二年生の時、科学技術庁の政務次官になり、その頃ちょうど、原発が研究炉から商業炉に、科学技術庁から通産省に移る頃でした。40年前からも今も、核廃棄物はガラス固化技術で、それは完全なものではない、廃棄物処理はできない、と分かっていましたから、過渡的なエネルギーだという認識でした。しかし、チェリノブイリがあり、そして福島の事故が決定的でした。
2. Germany decided to abolish Nuke Plant seeing Fukushima. They astounded knowing Japan do not stop Nuke Energy in spite of experiencing Fukushima.

Germany lacks in Energy, Japan does not.
ドイツは論理的で情緒性はなしで結論を出しますから、脱原発には、政党も、財界も、組合も、学者も、全員が賛成です。日本の事情を伝えると、ドイツは福島の事故でやめることを決めたのに、当事国の日本がなぜですか、と驚かれました。
訪れた村では、太陽光、バイオ、風力で必要な電力の倍以上発電していました。現在のドイツでは電力が不足していて、原発がないとやっていけない。だから、再生可能エネルギーを毎年1%ずつ上げている。しかし、日本では電力が足りている。3. Nuke Energy is inexpensive is totally misleading and lie. Nuclear Waste and risk of accident are enough to explain it.
原子力が安いなど、まったくの嘘っぱちです。当初の設備コストだけを議論しているが、高レベルの廃棄物のコストがどれだけ必要なのか、また一度、事故が起きると、どれだけコストが必要なのか。

4. When can Japan do No Nuke? “Right now”.
Utilizing gas combined. (Co-generation)

すぐにでもできる。嘉田さんの言うとおり、資源を大切に使うということと、火力ガスコンバインドはCO2も少ないし、原子力に負けない効率のいい技術が日本で作られている。だから、原発ゼロというのはすぐにでもできるが、廃棄物の問題と福島の問題を、何とかしないといけない。

5. What’s problem ?
Concealing Facts. Leaving Fukushima as it is and fading out the Nuclear Problem. People believe media and think safe. Disaster will come to Fukushima and will be tragic, I REALLY THINK SO.
One more Fukushima, Japan Collapse.
今の日本では一番の問題なのは、福島の問題をほっとらかしておいて、原発の話は絶対にしないようにし、本当のことを全部隠していることです。政官業、そしてその尖兵はマスコミですが、この選挙でも、原発のことのいっさい話をしない。
だから、みんなは安全だと信じ込んでいる。しかし、福島の人は深刻だ。これから発症するであろう病気のことを考えたら、悲劇ですよ。僕は本当にそう思う。しかも、何十万人が行くあてのないジプシーのような生活です。これは、本当に政治の責任です。これで、福島であれ、どこであれ、もう一度事故が起きたなら、日本は壊滅的なことになる。

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