Dutch pension fund sells stake in Fukushima operator over safety concerns
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7/1 2014 20:22
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch pension fund ABP said it has sold its stake in Tokyo Electric Power Co. after the operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant failed to respond to repeated requests…
norway’s $61 bln klp fund excludes tepco due to fukushima
Mon, 2 Dec 2013 01:00 PM by reuters in category business
OSLO, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Norwegian fund KLP has sold its shares in Tepco, the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, due to its handling of the disaster, a KLP executive said on Monday.
Tepco forcing families to return home
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Activists preparing to sue Fukushima nuclear plant suppliers
The nuclear activists will later leave Taiwan to garner support in other countries, including the Philippines, India, South Korea and Germany.
CNA
January 8, 2014, 12:26 am TWN
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/foreign-affairs/2014/01/08/397868/Activists-preparing.htm
TAIPEI — Anti-nuclear activists from Taiwan and Japan are calling for participation in a proposed international group lawsuit against the equipment suppliers of a Japanese nuclear plant that suffered meltdowns in a 2011 earthquake-tsunami catastrophe, in an effort to highlight the responsibilities they have for the disaster.
With the support of 500 Taiwanese citizens out of a target of 2,000, the organizers said Tuesday that they are aiming to enlist 10,000 supporters worldwide by the end of March to file a complaint against equipment suppliers to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, including General Electric, Toshiba and Hitachi.
Shih Shin-min, a professor of chemical engineering at National Taiwan University, questioned the regulations in Taiwan and Japan under which nuclear plant equipment suppliers are exempt from responsibility for nuclear accidents.
It does not make sense that only the nuclear plant operator and the government are held accountable for compensation in the event of a nuclear accident, while equipment suppliers are not, said Shih, who founded the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union.
Safety becomes less of a concern compared to the economy for nuclear plant suppliers under the current regulations, Shih said at a press conference in Taipei accompanied by Akihiro Shima, a member of a group of Japanese lawyers involved in the suit, and Daisuke Sato, a representative of the No Nukes Asia Forum.
The activists said they are seeking 100 Japanese yen (US$0.95) in mental health compensation per affected person, adding that rather than the sum of damages sought, they are trying to shake the perceived protection given to nuclear equipment manufacturers.
Taiwan and Japan are in the same boat regarding the Fukushima Daiichi plant issue, since some of the equipment in Taiwan’s nuclear plants are supplied by Japanese manufacturers, Shih said.
The three existing nuclear plants in Taiwan all have General Electric-manufactured equipment, he noted.
The nuclear activists will later leave Taiwan to garner support in other countries, including the Philippines, India, South Korea and Germany.
Secrecy agreement between Fukushima and IAEA revealed by Tokyo newspaper — They hid health effects in Chernobyl… same thing could happen to Fukushima”
Published: January 7th, 2014 at 12:38 pm ET
By ENENews
Tokyo Shimbun, December 31, 2013, with translation by Fukushima Voice (version 2e), published Jan. 6, 2014: It was discovered that the memorandum of cooperation between the IAEA and Fukushima as well as Fukui Prefectures contain a confidentiality clause […] critics say “it could be preempting the State Secrecy Protection Law.” […] In Fukushima Prefecture, it was the prefectural government that entered into an agreement with IAEA in the area of decontamination and radioactive waste management, whereas Fukushima Medical University entered into an agreement with IAEA in the area of the survey of radiological effect on human health. […] “The Parties will ensure the confidentiality of information classified by the other Party as restricted or confidential.” […] if either the prefectures or IAEA decide to classify information for “they contribute to worsening of the residents’ anxiety,” there is a possibility that such information as the accident information, as well as radiation measurement data and thyroid cancer information may not be publicized. […] IAEA has published reports, after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, stating “there were no health effects due to radiation exposure.” […]
Practical Arrangements between Fukushima Medical University and the International Atomic Energy Agency on Cooperation in the Area of Human Health (pdf), Dec. 15, 2012: The Parties have identified the following areas and activities in which cooperation may be pursued: […] IAEA will assist the University in implementing the Fukushima Health Management Survey project; […] the Parties will collaborate in capacity building and research on human health programmes, including radiation emergency medicine; […] the IAEA will endeavour to organize conferences, seminars and workshops, in cooperation with the University, with the aim of enhancing public awareness of radiological effects on human health and addressing the issue of “radiation fear” and post-traumatic stress disorders in the Fukushima population; […] The Parties will support the widest possible dissemination of unclassified information […] The Parties will ensure the confidentiality of information classified by the other Party as restricted or confidential. […]
Ruiko Mutoh, representative of Fukushima nuclear disaster plaintiffs: “IAEA has a history of hiding information about health effects in Chernobyl. The same thing could happen to Fukushima.”
Watch Mutoh at a recent press conference here
Japan’s Nihon TV in 1993: ‘What Happened to Chernobyl Children 7 Years after the Accident’ (Source: tokyobrowntabby2)
CEO of Vice ; “We have a team there shooting right now. The levels of radiation in the place are through the f****** roof. “
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:10
Globalist Report
Joe Rogan, host: How bad is Fukushima?
Shane Smith, reporter and CEO of VICE (Forbes: ‘One to Watch’ on Forbes 400 record. Est. Net Worth: $400 million): Bad, very bad. […] If you look at Fukushima, it’s an perfect example of the issue with nuclear power. […] The levels of radiation have not f****** gone down. We have a team there shooting right now. The levels of radiation in the place are through the f****** roof. […]
Rogan: I did see a piece on the fish — on tuna’s being 3% [actually around 1,000%, see below] more irradiated than before¹. That’s a big number, 3% after a couple years when you’re dealing with something that’s going to be radiating the ocean for hundreds of thousands of years if it’s still leaking. […]
Smith: There’s a lot of stories now coming out that the Japanese government kept it under wraps, didn’t want to tell anybody. The food around the whole region was irradiated. People in Tokyo were showing increased signs, etc. etc. It’s going to be bad for quite some time. What do you expect?
Rogan: And how the f*** are they ever going to stop it? […] Are they still leaving it up to Japan? […] It’s just unbelievably incredible that they never thought that it would be able to get shut off — that they just built this crazy power plant with no ability to cool it down. […] What really scares me is I don’t think I’ve heard one person come up with any way that makes sense as to how to contain it. Not just hot to contain it, but how to stop it, how to clean the area up — It’s almost just not even discussed. How the f*** do they clean that? […]
Eddie Huang, chef, restaurant owner, TV host: I’m guessing they can’t — that’s why they don’t talk about it.
¹It’s about 1,000% higher, not 3% — Fox News, AP: “The levels of radioactive cesium were10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years.” The ’3%’ figure came from people comparing this nuclear waste (e.g. cesium-134, -137) to the natural background radiation levels (e.g. potassium-40) in the fish. This comparison is rejected by pro-nuclear scientists, and has been labelled ‘propaganda’.
U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Weather the “Polar Vortex”
Christina Macpherson’s opinion of this post is that it is: 
January 6, 2014 – 3:12pm
Whats the worry? – Dose or hot particle? Chris Busby
There is a lot of argument about the effects from Fukushima on the Pacific and the US west coast. I have just been reading one site “true facts about ocean radiation and. . .blah blah “.
I agree with the author about the total radiation concentration (activity) in sea water less than 30Bq/cubic metre. The calculation I made show that its unlikely that the total radioactivity levels in the will be higher than those which we had in the Irish Sea or the Baltic Sea, but the problem is the particles, and these are not described by “radioactivity levels”.
I attach a picture of an edible mussel (myrtilis edulis) from the Irish Sea. The tracks are from a hot particle, which would end up inside you if you ate it.
Irish free to sue British nuclear operators over contamination
….A spokesman for Ireland’s energy department said that ministers and officials there were “aware” of the amendments and its implications. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which owns 19 sites in the UK, said that accident clean-up costs are covered by insurance….
Or they could trample them to death with these guys and gals:
TEPCO demands families of employees return compensation for evacuation
….According to the sources, the families of at least four TEPCO employees have received demands that they return compensation to the firm, with two of them being required to repay over 10 million yen.
Another employee of the utility was quoted by the sources as saying, “I’m afraid because I could be urged to return the compensation at any time.”
Tsuyoshi Kamata, a lawyer consulted by the families of TEPCO employees, criticized the utility’s practice. “TEPCO’s attitude to require families of employees to tolerate hardship is impermissible. The company needs to improve itself.”…..
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140106p2a00m0na019000c.html
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima nuclear plant, is demanding that the families of employees return compensation paid to them for being forced to evacuate from their neighborhoods due to the nuclear disaster, sources close to the case said.
In one case, a household is under pressure to return more than 30 million yen in damages from the company, raising concerns about future livelihoods.
Critics pointed out that TEPCO’s demands are unfair. “The families of employees aren’t responsible for the nuclear disaster. As such, the firm’s demands for the return of the compensation are inappropriate,” one of them says.
According to the sources, one TEPCO employee under pressure to return compensation was living with his wife and two children in a rented house in an area near the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant — where it has been deemed that evacuees are unable to return home in the foreseeable future with an annual radiation dosage of over 50 millisieverts. The family moved to another area several months after the March 2011 outbreak of the nuclear disaster.
Good News from KC anti-nuke protesters, and help needed for the Oak Ridge Three
Alert from our friends at Roots Action on the Oak Ridge 3:
On January 28, 2014, three nonviolent protesters against nuclear weapons, Sr. Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Gregory Boertje-Obed, are scheduled to be sentenced in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, for the supposed crime of sabotage.
They risked their lives, but threatened no one else, when they entered the free-fire zone of a supposedly top-security nuclear weapons facility called Y-2 in Tennessee. They spray painted messages of peace and exposed the lack of security.
Click here to tell the judge how such courageous activists should be sentenced.
In a separate case in Kansas City, nuclear weapons protesters were recently sentenced to write explanations of their concerns to be included in the court records. That seems far more appropriate than prison for people upholding the law and morality.
Since the 1963 limited test ban treaty, the United States has been committed to “the speediest possible achievement of an agreement on general and complete disarmament.”
The law and morality demand disarmament, but those calling attention to the ongoing evil of nuclear weapons production and maintenance stand convicted and face the risk of 30 years behind bars.
Please sign this petition, which we will deliver to the judge before the sentencing.
Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.
– The RootsAction.org team
P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others.
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One of the things we like to highlight at Peace Action is we use all the tools in the activist toolbox, from congressional lobbying to public education to community organizing to supporting pro-peace candidates for election to nonviolent direct action from time to time.
Below are two items related to inspiring nonviolent civil resistance actions against nuclear weapons from Kansas City (which included many of the leaders of our affiliate, PeaceWorks KC) and Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The first is an article from Common Dreams and the National Catholic Reporter on a surprise “sentence” from the judge in the trial of peace activists protesting the new bomb factory in Kansas City. The second is an action alert to the judge in Tennessee urging leniency for the Oak Ridge 3, who trespassed onto the nuclear weapons manufacturing facility there but posed no harm to anyone (as a matter of fact they did us all a favor, even the government!).
Every Time I Learn Something: Judge Gives Anti-Nuclear Activists A Break and Platform
by Abby Zimet
Evolution Happens Dept: An uplifting scene recently in a Kansas City courtroom, where a group of Catholic priests – two over 75 – and activists were being sentenced for a July protestat a National Nuclear Security Administration plant that produces nuclear weapon components. After allowing much rowdy evidence and listening intently to defendants’ impassioned arguments – Question: “Don’t you teach your parishioners to obey the rules?” Answer: “God’s rules….We each have our own conscience to follow” – Judge Ardie Bland, who two years before had sentenced other nuclear activists to jail, announced, “If you’re not getting to anyone else, you’re getting to me,” according to the National Catholic Reporter.Noting the activists’ mention of Rosa Parks and others whose actions changed the world – Bland is black – he found them guilty of trespassing, and sentenced each not to prison, fines or community service but to the writing of a one-page essay in response to a series of ethical and political questions, to be made part of the public record in order to “give you a chance to say what you want to say.” With moving, joyful, Louis-Armstrong flavored video of the July action.
Bland’s questions, as reported by National Catholic Reporter:
AREVA signs agreement with Saudi groups to develop country’s nuclear program
Luc Oursel, President and CEO of AREVA, added: “These agreements demonstrate the common will of EDF and AREVA to establish a true long-term partnership with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They will enable the country to build a strong industrial base and a robust skills management program.”
EDF Energy Group and AREVA signed agreements with several Saudi industrial groups last week to advance the country’s nuclear program.
The memorandum of understanding, which was signed while French President Francois Hollande was in Riyadh, was developed with four Saudi universities and five Saudi manufacturers.
EDF CEO Henri Proglio said that the agreements will develop Saudi Arabia’s network of local manufacturers and qualified engineers.
Here’s the full press release from Areva
UK nuclear weapons components and arms sales under question
Sky News reports that the UK actually sold materials to Syria that could have been used to make chemical weapons, with the Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) citing that as one example of questionable deals being carried out by UK contractors and countries on the (FCO) list.
Recent news that the United Kingdom may in fact be arming or assisting in weapons deliveries to Somali pirates should be of great concern not only to the companies and individuals who have paid millions upon millions of dollars to the pirates to secure the release of ships, cargoes and crews, but also to all of the governments, including that of the Russian Federation, that have also spent millions and risked lives while engaged in anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden and other pirate-infested waters off the coast of Africa and Somalia.
John Robles
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_01_06/UK-nuclear-weapons-components-and-arms-sales-under-question-0367/
6 January 2014
The UK’s Independent, a publication which has regularly published articles and information shedding a less than positive light on the dealings of the UK Government, recently reported that in a 15 month period, between April 2012 and June 2013, over 44,000 guns of various types were sent to “tackle piracy in East Africa”.
Although officially the weapons were supposed to be used by security firms the sheer number of fresh weapons exported by the UK during the period in question raised the alarm among members of the House of Commons Arms Export Controls Committee especially in light of the fact that the firms in question already have thousands of weapons in their armories. Surely it is suspicious and call for concern why these firms which have been operating at full force would all of a sudden need to escalate the level of their already adequate arsenals with the addition of 30,000 assault rifles, 11,000 rifles and 2,536 pistols.
Members of the committee are right to voice concern especially given the light that the scourge of piracy has all but been eliminated and that the weapons could be destined to the pirates themselves or to other regimes in Africa and perhaps even the Middle East where ongoing violence is taking place.
According to the Independent Ann McKechin, a committee member said: “The evidence provided to us by Mr. Bell seems to suggest that the department did not have a process of looking at the cumulative number of weapons and whether those exports fitted the scenario on the ground needed for protection.”
Unfortunately for those profiting from weapons deals the latest enquiry is only part of a wider inquiry into arms exports from the UK which the Independent continues has already attempted to force the UK’s recalcitrant Business Secretary Vince Cable into publicly revealing the names of British companies who were given licenses to export items to Syria that could be used to make chemical weapons, something he continues to refuse to do.
Given the record of US/UK/NATO in the Middle East and Africa and the propensity for continuing and escalating conflicts in order to further expand militarily and maintain the profit margins of their military industrial complexes and self-serving desire to stay relevant while justifying their over-bloated military budgets, it is very reasonable to question whether so many weapons are needed, not in fact to maintain “security”, but to continue to have a well armed “enemy” thus justifying their own expansion and existence, something particularly true of NATO which has arrogated unto itself authority to operate almost worldwide.
Nuclear waste decisions loom on the Great Lakes! – Petition
……A small group of Bruce County residents has started an
against burying waste near Lake Huron.
Co-organizer Beverly Fernandez calls the OPG site a “Trojan horse” for the used fuel site, arguing that once one is approved, it will open the gates for a second.
Dozens of Great Lakes towns and cities — including Toronto — have gone on record opposing any nuclear waste site in the Great Lakes basin.
An umbrella group, the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, whose members include Toronto, Montreal and Chicago, issues a statement in May voicing concern over “the close proximity of the site” to Lake Huron…..
John Spears Business reporter,
Published on Mon Jan 06 2014
http://www.thestar.com/business/2014/01/06/nuclear_waste_decisions_loom.html
More than half a century after miners started gouging uranium out of the Canadian Shield at Elliot Lake, William Elliott wants it back.
He’s leading the campaign by the town and surrounding communities to become the place where the used fuel from Canada’s nuclear reactors is stored forever.
But the long-running saga of finding a spot for Canada’s nuclear waste still has years more to run as those who want the waste — and those who don’t — struggle over what to do with it.
And the question gets even more vexed as a decision nears on a second radioactive waste site for less potent — but still hazardous — nuclear waste that Ontario Power Generation wants to develop at its Bruce nuclear site near Kincardine, Ont.
Decisions about nuclear waste, which have simmered for decades, are starting to heat up, as two processes move forward.
- The Nuclear Waste Management Organization, responsible for finding a home for used fuel from nuclear reactors, has started trimming the list of applicants from its roster, dropping four communities and leaving 17 in the running.
- A federal panel is due to make a decision this year on whether to give the go-ahead to OPG’s proposed waste site at the Bruce.
The double process, for two different waste sites, has sown confusion in the Kincardine area, where the town solidly backs OPG’s proposal, but has made it clear it has no interest in the used fuel waste site.
But a number of Kincardine’s neighbours have said they do want the used fuel site, leading to speculation that the two projects could still somehow become one.
That simply isn’t going to happen, vows Mike Krizanc of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO).
Hitachi-GE nuclear reactor design assessment begins and comment by John H. large UK
…Nuclear expert John Large commented: “The existence of such uncertainties together with the quite obvious incompleteness of the plant design and development, particularly in the generic safety critical areas of Fault Studies and Control & Instrumentation must have, surely, rendered the GDA process itself incomplete and inconclusive.”…
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have begun assessing Hitachi-GE’s boiling water nuclear reactor design.
The Ecologist
6th January 2014
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/2225593/hitachige_nuclear_reactor_design_assessment_begins.html
In January 2013, UK regulators received a Government request to undertake a Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of a new nuclear reactor design in the UK, Hitachi-GE’s Advanced Boiling Water Reactor – the UK ABWR.
A year on, the regulators “consider that they should now begin their assessments and that there are adequate project management, technical and legal provisions in place.”
Horizon Nuclear Power Ltd are planning to use the UK ABWR at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire. If the reactor design passes the GDA it may also be used by any developer at any of the sites included in the Government’s Nuclear National Policy Statement.
These include Bradwell (Essex), Hartlepool (Durham), Heysham (Lancashire), Hinkley Point (Somerset), Oldbury (South Gloucestershire), Sellafield (Cumbria), Sizewell (Suffolk) and Wylfa (Anglesey).
In principle the design could also be used at the two EDF nuclear sites at Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk. However EDF has announced its intention to build the troubled EDF / AREVA European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) reactor design – despite the prodigious problems being experienced with the EPR at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France.
The purpose of the GDA system is to allow regulators to begin assessing the safety, security, environmental and waste implications of a new reactor design before site-specific proposals are brought forward. The GDA for the ABWR is expected to take four years to complete.
However critics say that the GDA system has already failed after it passed the EPR reactor design in spite of 724 unresolved concerns known as ‘Assessment Findings’. This is set out on The Ecologist in “Hinkley C: the Generic Design Assessment has failed“.
Nuclear expert John Large commented: “The existence of such uncertainties together with the quite obvious incompleteness of the plant design and development, particularly in the generic safety critical areas of Fault Studies and Control & Instrumentation must have, surely, rendered the GDA process itself incomplete and inconclusive.”
130 ‘radioactive’ Japanese cars banned from entering Russia
Breaking and unverified – Arclight2011
Source ;
Published time: January 05, 2014 15:36
A customs officer holds up a device used for measuring radiation levels, while standing in front of vehicles delivered from Japan, in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok.(Reuters / Yuri Maltsev)
About nuclear meltdowns, explosions and other technical stuff!
Arclight2011
4 January 2014
Nuclear-news.net
I have just posted a rebuttal of the Turner Radio article claiming a recent meltdown of a reactor (that had already melted down in the early stages of the Daichi nuclear disaster in March 2011).
This is already documented and even the pro nuclear sources agree (finally), that this happened.
One major reason that allowed the confusion is a lack of knowledge concerning nuclear matters. Years ago the Main stream media used to employ “Science Journalists” who did a specific qualification in related fields. Now we have to rely on largely volunteer bloggers and independent scientists, who are trying to disseminate real lies and real corruption that is hidden deep in the data, using the talents they have acquired to date. It is an imperfect way of gathering data but is useful if you have some basic knowledge and critical thinking skills. And this method has been effective for some. There are also differences of opinion on the effects caused by this disaster within the anti nuclear movement, most regular nuclear viewers are aware of the differences in ideas and can decide for themselves but all are agreed that there any meltdowns have already happened years ago.
The reason I wished to comment on this situation is because there is a twist to this tale. There are real people having real problems in Japan, especially those that live in the sporadically contaminated areas of Fukushima and Miyagi (possibly beyond). We have some evidence for the levels of contamination, not by the IAEA and the “nuclear family” but by independent scientists, bloggers in France and beyond. Most blogs might post some sensational posts but will balance it with other human interest stories that are available and are real such as this;
http://vimeo.com/51297975 Best Animated Film: ABITA, Germany, 2012, 4 min, Shoko Hara, Paul Brenner "Abita", animated short film about Fukushima children who can't play outside because of the radioactivity. About their dreams and realities. 福島の子供たちが、放射能のため外で遊ぶことができない。彼らの夢と現実について。
The argument is really about the dose and other issues on contamination that are effecting the effected areas. The secrecy that started early April 2011 has successfully blinkered the worlds view of the human impact of the Fukushima tragedy.
The lies of TEPCO, supported by their nuclear fuel friends from the USA and the UK and the IAEA, ICRP, UNSCEAR , have made Fukushima an internet brand that now commands many hits on a relevant website. The human dimension has been ignored and articles such as the Turner Radio and this effort; http://topinfopost.com/2014/01/03/underground-nuclear-explosion-at-crippled-japan-atomic-plant-shocks-world have caused real hurt to many.
These media outlets managed to miss all the more accurate news that can be found or as Dun Renard posits maybe there is something more suspect? They ignore the feelings of the people of Fukushima and concerned viewers from around the world that may have family and friends in these effected areas.
Fukushima, indeed Japan has started to slide into totalitarianism with military ambitions. Belarus was allowed to go that way by the Soviet leadership as it would contain the information that might effect its weapons program. Now the USA (with dozens of full on military bases around Japan) is allowing and encouraging Japans similar slide. It seems obvious to me this geo-political similarity. And the Military industrial complex`s of the world get “business as usual”. There are real stories to be told on this situation.
So well don D`un Renard for challenging this type of news. And the other media outlets that admitted it was just business as usual at Daichi. We need to think about the people in Japan and how we could support them because;
If we stop Japanese, USA or UK/French nuclear then that effects the whole global nuclear cabal and if we do that, no matter what you believe, the engorged one percent get a bad beating.
If we prove that there is more serious health effects than the nuclear lobby are letting on then many governments will get a bad beating and so will corrupt medical professionals etc.
We could then help better in mitigating contamination in the many areas that are polluted around the world and better support the most badly effected from this disaster and that would make us consider effects further away from ground zero. We need effective testing that is not available now and an independent radiological measuring organization such as the effrts of (The non-existence of the International Nuclear Emergency Service – Iouli Andreev)
For future disaster remember that Japan has now an independent radiation monitoring network called SAFECAST with more than 4000 monitors. Also, go to You Tube and look for new gieger readings, certain bloggers will post any high hits there.. Check the main nuclear news sources, I recommend http//www.nukene.ws to see the different posters there and any more reliable news sources you know off. They all have the links to the same Japanese bloggers etc.
The Japanese have an anti nuclear network that can doublecheck with a phone call/email so I recommend http://fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/fake-urgentalert-about-escaping-steam.html as a good place to start for the latest Japanese related as well as fukushima diary.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/01/column-reactor3-hoax-and-fukushima-exploiters/
I hope that this little bit of info might help in the future and hope that other media outlets use these links and ideas to double check stories. My thoughts are with all those Japanese and concerned bloggers/scientists around the world that had their New Year celebrations dulled with concerns.
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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
of the week–London Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
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