New! -Importation Of Some Food Items From Japan Suspended -Lack of trust? -Brunei Darussalam
THURSDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2012 08:50ROKIAH MAHMUD
Bandar Seri Begawan – The importation of certain products from Japan has been temporarily suspended by the-government as a precautionary measure to safeguard the public from radioactive contaminants in food originating from the country.
A press release dated March 29, 2011 from the Ministry of Health (MoH) said the MoH and Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources (MIPR) have continuously monitored, reviewed the situation and obtained further information from regional neighbours and relevant international organisations.
In this regard, importers and the public have been informed that the importation of certain food categories has been suspended.
The importation of any meat, seafood, milk and milk products, fruits and vegetables (fresh and processed), tubers including potato and sweet Potato, seaweed and green tea products from Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Kanagawa, Tokyo and Chiba Prefectures are temporarily suspended.
After Decades of Uranium Mining, Navajo Nation Struggles With Devastating Legacy of Contamination (Video)
New Mexico’s long history of uranium mining on Native American lands provides fuel for the front end of the nuclear industry and stores much of the mine tailings and radioactive waste from nuclear weapons and power plants. We look at the devastating impact uranium mining continues to have on Native lands with Leona Morgan of Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, a group dedicated to protecting the water, air, land and health of communities in areas impacted by uranium mines. We’re also joined by Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico and former Los Alamos National Laboratory investigator Chuck Montaño.
Leona Morgan, coordinator with the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining. Their mission is to protect the water, air, land and health of communities in areas impacted by uranium mines.
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director at Nuclear Watch New Mexico.
Chuck Montaño, former investigator and auditor at Los Alamos who faced retaliation after he blew the whistle on wasteful spending and fraud at the lab. He is now a board member with the Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety…….
2 men arrested for selling falsely labeled Fukushima onions
“..Police said the men first began selling the onions to schools and elderly care homes last January. Around 31 transactions have been discovered so far. The men claim the produce was tested for radiation before being shipped and was found to be within acceptable limits, according to TBS…”
“..They also apologized to those affected, particularly children…”
October 11th, 2012 |
TOKYO —Two men in Fukushima Prefecture have been arrested for relabeling spring onions grown in the prefecture to conceal their point of origin.
According to police, the men, who work for a food wholesaler based in Miharu, are accused of falsely labeling the onions to indicate that they were grown in Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures, TBS reported Wednesday.
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The men were charged with obtaining money by deception. They released a joint statement through their lawyers in which they said they were unable to meet demand for vegetables grown outside Fukushima Prefecture. They also apologized to those affected, particularly children.
There has been a doubling of the concentration of nuclear radiation in the atmosphere.
“Yet another concern is the increase of radiation in our global environment – including the doubling of the concentration of nuclear radiation in the atmosphere.”
Re “Safety Report Says Europe’s Nuclear Reactors Need Repair” (news article, Oct. 4):
I spent the last year reviewing Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and so on and found that neither they nor practically any of the 435 operating nuclear plants around the world are designed for safe shutdown in case of simultaneous external and internal electricity failure.
Similarly, few of them are protected against hydrogen explosions, and practically none can handle regular or cyberterrorist attacks.
I also found that most are not fully automated but operated in the dangerous, old semimanual mode. Many were designed for a useful life of 30 years and yet reached 40. There is still no permanent disposal site for their waste, and decommissioning of the few that have been shut down takes decades: Chernobyl occurred in 1986, yet the end of decommissioning is planned for 2015.
In spite of all that, and in spite of the doubling of radioactivity in the atmosphere, 60 new plants are under construction, 150 more are planned and Europe is writing reports about possibly repairing some.
In short, while the question is not if but when and where the next accident will occur, even our presidential candidates neglect the issue.
Japan keen on nuclear cooperation with India but concerns over “civil nuclear liability”
India | Posted on Oct 11, 2012
IBN live
New Delhi: Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s likely visit to Tokyo next month, Japan has conveyed to India its keen desire for civil nuclear cooperation with India. It has also sought some clarifications on the civil liability law that will provide the framework of such cooperation. They have conveyed that they are interested in civil nuclear cooperation with India, Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said in a telephonic interview from Tokyo. The issue of carrying forward talks on civil nuclear cooperation was discussed in a joint working group on nuclear energy, part of the broader India-Japan Energy Dialogue, in Tokyo Tuesday, said Ahluwalia.
“They have sought certain details and clarifications on issues related to but concerns over law from India’s department of atomic energy,” Ahluwalia said. Ahluwalia was speaking after co-chairing the sixth round of the India-Japan Energy Dialogue that concluded in Tokyo on Wednesday.
If Manmohan Singh goes to Tokyo, likely next month, imparting a fresh thrust to negotiations for a civil nuclear deal will be high on the agenda. A decision on the prime ministerial visit is expected by next week, said well-placed sources.
Ahluwalia also stressed that the Japanese side has conveyed that they won’t be eliminating their reliance on nuclear energy. Earlier, Japan had declared the goal of zero-nuclear energy by 2040, but following pressure from the powerful business lobby it has effectively given up this option.
UK – Councils call for ‘rush to renewables’
Anti-nuclear local authorities in the north are calling for a radical rethink of British government policy on nuclear power.
Manchester-based Nuclear Free Local Authorities Secretariat (NFLA) said that a range of recent announcements and stories in the media “highlight serious doubts over the potential private-sector support for a new nuclear build programme in the UK.”
As a result the organisation has urged the government to rapidly seek a plan B for the Britain’s future energy mix, as well as tackling the problem of nuclear waste.
The NFLA cited numerous developments that it believes necessitate the formulation of a nuclear alternative, starting with the fact that French, Chinese and Russian bids for new reactors at Wylfa and Oldbury had not materialised.
Concerns have also arisen after Scottish Power-owned Iberdrola opted to take a further three years before deciding whether to stick with a consortium to build a new reactor at Sellafield Moorfield in Cumbria.
GROUP CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION OF PLUTONIUM FUEL CONTRACTOR AREVA -USA
“The group cited a legal dispute between Areva and the Tennessee Valley Authority over a $76 million charge for fuel services. The costs were later reduced to $26 million but without explanation.”[…]“How much profit is our health and survival worth compared to the economic interests of a few greedy people? Areva and its allies are only interested in the bottom line. We cannot let them line their pockets off the health of others.”
Argentina, Saudi Arabia discuss nuclear energy cooperation
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 10, 2012
(Xinhua via COMTEX) —
Senior officials from Argentina and Saudi Arabia met here Tuesday to discuss bilateral nuclear energy cooperation, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
“The meeting’s main goal was to present a general view of the nuclear energy technological capabilities developed by Argentina at different stages, especially in infrastructure and nuclear plants, research reactors and production facilities,” said a ministry statement.
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The two sides, which signed a bilateral cooperation agreement in 2011, also discussed possibilities of bilateral cooperation in energy and other areas of technological importance, and analyzed regional issues of common concern, added the statement.
50th Anniversary of Cuban Missile Crisis
October 10, 2012
VOA news
On October 26th, 1962, `Kennedy received a message from Khrushchev, offering to withdraw the missiles from Cuba, in exchange for assurances that Washington would neither invade that country nor overthrow Fidel Castro.
WASHINGTON — On October 14th, 1962, picturestaken by an American U-2 spy plane revealed the presence of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Allison said the discovery was made by what he called “a magical intelligence capability”. “That an airplane, the U-2, could fly at over 60,000 feet, nobody would know that it was there, over territory, and then with this amazing camera take pictures that gave you details of what was happening on the ground – this was just unimaginable for most people. It was a great American intelligence success because the missiles were discovered before they were operational,” said Allison.
Kennedy Discusses Options
President John F. Kennedy then convened a small group of experts to decide what course of action to take. The group deliberated in secret for most of a week. Initially, the experts favored air strikes followed by an invasion, but they felt that would inevitably lead to nuclear war.
Shh! Swedish nuclear plant security missed Greenpeace activists for 28 hours
Blogpost by Brian Blomme – October 10, 2012 at 13:59
On Tuesday, we told you about the 70 activists who poured onto two nuclear sites in Sweden in an effort to show how lax the security is at these plants.
We didn’t tell you that at least six of them hid overnight at two of the plants: four at Ringhals and two at Forsmark.
They evaded security all night, and were only discovered when Greenpeace Sweden phoned the media early this morning to reveal their presence at the plants. This is despite the fact the operator Vattenfall said yesterday that “security had worked exactly as intended”. Oh dear.
One of the overnighters was Greenpeace International energy campaigner Lauri Myllyvirta. Here’s what he wrote about the experience:
“I’ve spent the night on the roof of the Swedish nuclear power plant Ringhals. More than 24 hours – and I’m only out because we chose to reveal our presence here.
That shows me, how alarmingly easy it is to access the vital systems that supply the reactor cooling systems with power.
The recent report on the EU stress tests revealed that in some Swedish reactors, a loss of power to the reactor would lead to a nuclear accident in just one hour.
Massive mushroom cloud in Russia after ‘spontaneous missile explosion’ — Shockwave caught on film, felt 25 miles away — Entire town in plumes of black smoke — “No nuclear arms involved” – No risk to public, public evacuated (VIDEOS)
http://enenews.com/watch-massive-mushroom-cloud-in-russia-after-spontaneous-missile-explosion-shockwave-felt-25-miles-away-entire-town-in-plumes-of-black-smoke-no-nuclear-arms-involved-n
Published: October 9th, 2012 at 9:52 am ET
By ENENews
Title: Blasts rock Orenburg polygon
Source: RIA
Date: Oct 9, 2012
According to preliminary data, the spontaneous missile explosion at the polygon near Orenburg has caused no casualties. The military were to dispose of several missiles, which spontaneously detonated resulting in a series of major blasts
A train loaded with missiles prepared for disposal has caught fire at a polygon outside Orenburg.
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Title: 4,000 tons of shells explode in Central Russia, leave mushroom cloud-like plume of smoke
Source: RT
Date: Oct 9, 2012
Anxious comments about the aftermath of the explosions circulated on the Internet. Dunguz resident Valentina Aramova said the explosions were so powerful that some trees fell, the local Orenburg ‘56-media’ website reported.“At the local market the trading stalls folded up like playing cards,” she said. “Children are being evacuated from kindergartens and schools. Everyone is being asked to go far into the steppe. The whole of Dunguz is in plumes of black smoke.”
Other witnesses from the town of Donguz told RT they are being removed from the area, and claimed they saw a large number of military vehicles, ambulances, emergency workers, communication officers and repair workers heading to the site. Authorities are phoning local residents, explaining the situation and asking them to remain calm. Buses were dispatched to transport residents away from the area. […]
That statement was later disputed by the Press Service of Russia’s Defense Ministry, which claimed no one was injured or went missing in the incident. The ministry also denied that a train loaded with shells was at the testing range, saying only three shells exploded. […]
“Very Polluted”: Fukushima kids walking to school each day on radioactive road with 70,000 Bq/m2 (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/watch-fukushima-kids-walk-to-school-day-after-day-on-radioactive-street-with-70000-bqm2-video
Published: October 9th, 2012 at 4:09 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Children in Fukushima can not live long
Author: 148production
Date: Oct 8, 2012
Is there anyone who can help the children of Koriyama [60km from Fukushima Daiichi]? This is the children’s school route. Route is very polluted.
This is this is the current state of Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture.
Contact us: nekojob@gmail.com, 81-90-6176-3749, Yujiro Nekomanma
Breaking! BP Gulf disaster -Food chain damage likely on the way
Kristiansen said that the worst of the damage from the oil remains buried in such sub-sand deposits would likely be subsurface ecosystems.
“The damage that we don’t see could be far worse,” he said. “The subsurface ecosystem damage can damage the genetic make up of and productivity of these ecosystems.”
He said that the chemicals released by the initial spill accumulate upward in the food chain, and “reach levels above the threshold of what causes genetic damage in marine species, and may further cause cancer in seafood consuming humans.”
“If anyone is still accepting BPs assertions that this is not an environmental disaster any longer, this is an eye opener,” he added.
Post Hurrican Isaac oil washing up on Gulf of Mexico shores tied to BP Deepwater Horizon blowout
Charles Digges, 09/10-2012
Bellona
Most oil that appeared along Gulf of Mexico shores in the wake of August’s Hurricane Isaac has been traced to be remnants of crude that gushed from the Macondo well during BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, area marine laboratories and BP have confirmed.
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippiwere last month hit by tar balls and oilexposed by waves from the hurricane, which made landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi river on August 28.
Laboratories from across the states affected by the hurricane – and previously oil sludge from the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the largest oil spill in US history – said to Bellona in emails that their own independent chemical analyses revealed that most of the oil found along beaches in the coastal states had come from the Macondo well.
Tests run at Louisiana State University for state wildlife officials confirmed that oil found on Elmer’s Island and Grand Isle, near Venice, Louisiana, matched the biological fingerprint of the 4.9 million barrels of oil that gushed out of the well over a 55 day period after the BP operated Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, killing 11.
LSU chemist Ed Overton said the oil found on Elmer’s Island had not degraded much while oil at Grand Isle had.
“Both were good solid matches on Macondo oil,” Overton said.
Joel Hayworth, a researcher with Auburn University in Alabama confirmed that that tar balls collected in his state after Isaac were also associated with the type of oil spilled during the Deepwater Horizon accident.
“The discovery of oil spills on beaches in Louisiana confirms the severity of the Deepwater Horizon accident. This shows that the severity of the spill is much more complex than what we know today,” said Bellona President Frederic Hauge, who was in Louisiana in 2010 with other Bellona staff to follow the BP accident.
Watch: Kids run marathon on street with radioactivity of 134,000 Bq/m2 — “Children of Fukushima will be killed by the gov’t… Someone please help” (VIDEO)
Published: October 8th, 2012 at 12:24 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Children of Fukushima has still alive
Source: 148production
Date: Oct 8, 2012
[…]
19 months have passed since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. The situation has deteriorated. Children of Fukushima will be killed by the government.
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Someone please help the children in Koriyama. Fukushima will be collapsing.
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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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