Raids on Traveller sites condemned by campaigners -UK

September 18, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Where did Fukushimas Plutonium go to? Where did it come from?

“…Appprox 10 Curies of PU 241 was released PER TON of MOX fuel ejected.. no figures have been done to ascertain the actual quantity of Pu241 that was ejected. In fact the Japanese can only refer to plutonium as “Alpha” (hinting at the type of energy released by plutonium 241)….”

Date posted 17 September 2013

Posted by Arclight

h/t Satsuki “the indomitable ” and Paul Langley ” a very nice person”

Looking through some of the limited public data on radionuclide contamination, i noticed a few points that might be worth noting. Although the levels are shown as low in these USA air readings , the proportions of Iodine 131 and Beta was surprising. Also, the Alpha measurement was only slightly less.. there was a larger selection of radionuclide’s to include as well.

And this is to show the date of the air samples

The Beta (radon and uranium?) content was as high as the iodine 131, or at least the beta reading as shown on the screenshots.. you can access the hard to use, unergonomic csv files here…

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/FieldSampleAirResults_2.csv

From this link

http://energy.gov/downloads/us-doennsa-response-2011-fukushima-incident-data-and-documentation
could this be where the beta or radon came from?

Did they come from the very active MOX spent Fuel pool 4 contents?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y8LuCaWLUYg#t=64

or

MOX reactor 3 contents ejection event?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7naSc81WSqA

here is Prof. Chris Busby measuring an air filter and finding high levels of Pb lead from a Tokyo apartment building contaminated during the same early months

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3YMa391qrE

The levels found on the above screenshots show low values and much of the actual data is under encrypted password, though they show these values.. if we were to look at the comparative values of these low doses and say that Tokyo was hit with Pblead (betas) and Iodine131 and slightly lesser Plutonium and uranium quantities  The Radon component that would leave a Pblead residue that would build up over time as shown by Prof Busbies video. So, does this mean that the new MOX fuel has had unintended contaminations?

The chart also shows a lesser amount of alpha. Is this a uranium component that is responsible for it?
Mox fuel has a lot of waste uranium in it and a lesser amount of Plutonium. However, the total amount of plutonium that could be released from unit 3 Daichi during its mile high dark smoke explosion (shown on the nearly censored video of it) is about 10 curies per ton of MOX fuel ejected from Daichi 3 and likely more if it was from the superhot new fuel rods that nestled with the older MOX fuel rods.. It sounds like they were trying different mixes too.. sort of experimental, like Chernobyl. UK made and USA supported for those needed exclusive isotopes. All corporately backed.

Some interesting links for you to look at that i feel are relevant;

Berkeley Nucleonics: Plutonium-239 levels were almost as high as Cesium-137 a dozen kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/berkeley-nucleonics-plutonium-239-levels-almost-high-cesium-137-dozen-kilometers-fukushima-daiichi-photo-video
November 24th, 2012
Title: Berkeley Nucleonics Japan Update Page
Source: Berkeley Nucleonics
Live Map in Fukushima (SAM 940 Readings) – Ground

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/04/30/shocking-findings-on-effects-of-mox-processes-on-miscarriage-and-respiratory-illness-in-th-uk/

UN Report – Bloggers response! – Japanese delegation to The UN spreads Lies and Deception!

The Japanese delegation prevaricated and outright lied concerning the present situation on the ground in the most contaminated  areas downwind of the stricken nuclear plant Daichi 1 where 3 meltdowns occurred and a MOX Plutonium reactor exploded with devastating results, creating a mile high mushroom cloud!

Appprox 10 Curies of PU 241 was released PER TON of MOX fuel ejected.. no figures have been done to ascertain the actual quantity of Pu241 that was ejected. In fact the Japanese can only refer to plutonium as “Alpha” (hinting at the type of energy released by plutonium 241).

…..Tepco was not just seeking approval to install 32 MOX fuel assemblies into the core of Reactor 3 at Fukushima – I.  It appears that they were intentional about taking it a step further and in fact seeking approval for a quick transition to a 1/3 MOX core at the NPP in question……(July 31, 2010  http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=1734 )…

https://nuclear-news.net/2013/05/16/un-report-bloggers-response-japanese-delegation-to-the-un-spreads-lies-and-deception/

September 18, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Eliminating nuclear weapons is just as important as eliminating chemical weapons

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Leukemias near Nuclear Power stations: A preliminary critique of the new study – Ian Fairlie

Bithell et al September 2013.

Interim response

As many agencies and individuals have requested my comments, this is an initial response to the new Bithell et al study on childhood leukemias near nuclear power stations. Its methodology raises several questions to which answers are not yet available. This reply should therefore be viewed as interim.

Contrary to many other studies, the new report fails to find an increase in leukemias and non-Hodgkin lymphomas near nuclear power stations. However the authors admit that their negative findings are not statistically significant and that their study is statistically underpowered compared with many other studies, especially the powerful KiKK study, which do find increases. The normal rule is that weak epidemiological studies which are not strong enough to pick up effects should be careful about making negative conclusions, as this one does unfortunately.

Bithell et al (2013) (see references below) have published a new study on the numbers of cases of childhood leukaemia + non-Hodgkin lymphoma (LNHL) in Great Britain between 1962 and 2007. These were compared with matched controls and analysed by regression to estimate the risk of residential proximity to UK nuclear power plants (NPPs). The comparisons were made in two ways – by residence at the time of birth and by residence at the time of diagnosis.

The authors stated their results showed little evidence of an increase in risk of LNHL to children from living in the vicinity of 13 UK NPPs. In essence, the authors found 13 cases of LNHL among under fives living within five km of the UK NPPs. These 13 cases were fewer than the 14 matched controls near NPPs, so the authors concluded there was “little evidence of an increased risk”.

However there are several problems apparent with the new study.

First is the discrepancy between their observed 13 LNHL cases (residence at time of diagnosis) and the 20 LNHL  cases found in the 14^th COMARE report (COMARE, 2011). This is so even though their new study period (1962 to 2007) is 10 years longer than the 14^th COMARE report (1969 to 2004). Other things being equal, the new study should have found more, not fewer, cancers.

I have contacted Dr Bithell about this and will amend this interim post in the light of his reply.

Second, the results of the new study are inconsistent with the very large number (over 60) of epidemiology studies of cancers near NPPs around the world, the large majority of which have found increased risks. These studies have been discussed by me previously (Fairlie, 2010).

In particular, the new study’s results conflict with several recent powerful studies including the German KiKK study (Kaatsch et al, 2008) which found increased risks. The authors themselves state that their derived risk estimates are incompatible with the KiKK risk estimates.

In addition, their results do not agree with a recent meta-analysis of four European studies (Körblein and Fairlie, 2012) nor with the COMARE 14 report itself which found a 22% increase in LNHL. Some discussion of possible reasons for this inconsistency with  previous studies is necessary.

Third, there are several problematic technical points such as the authors’ use of “other cancers” instead of no cancers for the controls in their diagnosis analysis. This depends on their hypothesis (that there is no association between increased risks and proximity to NPPs) being true when it might not be true.

Fourth, the authors themselves admit their study is statistically underpowered, certainly when compared with the more powerful KiKK study. They also admit that their findings are not statistically significant. The usual rule is that weak epidemiological studies which are not strong enough to pick up effects should be careful about making negative conclusions. As Altman and Bland (1995) have stated, absence of evidence – as found in this study – should not be construed to mean evidence of absence.

More later.

References

Altman DG, Bland J. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. BMJ. 1995;311:485.

Bithell JF, M F G Murphy, C A Stiller, E Toumpakari, T Vincent and R Wakeford. (2013) Leukaemia in young children in the vicinity of British nuclear power plants: a case–control study. Br J Cancer. advance online publication, September 12, 2013; doi:10.1038/bjc.2013.560.

Bithell JT, Keegan TJ, Kroll ME, Murphy MFG and Vincent TJ. (2008). Childhood leukaemia near British Nuclear Installations: Methodological Issues and Recent Results. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. vol 45:1–7.

COMARE (2011) Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment Fourteenth Report. Further Consideration of the Incidence of Childhood Leukaemia Around Nuclear Power Plants in Great Britain. HMSO: London. (http://www.comare.org.uk/).

Fairlie I (2010) Hypothesis to explain childhood cancer near nuclear powerplants. Int J Occup Environ Health 16: 341–350.

Körblein A and Fairlie I (2012) French Geocap study confirms increased leukemiarisks in young children near nuclear power plants. Int J Cancer 131: 2970–2971.

September 17, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Endless Fukushima catastrophe: Many generations’ health at stake 永遠に続く福島原発の大惨事; 何世代と続く健康被害

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

(Source)
http://rt.com/op-edge/fukushima-catastrophe-health-japan-803/
Dr Helen Caldicott is one of the most articulate and passionate advocates of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises.

Image source ; http://www.architectsofpeace.org/architects-of-peace/helen-caldicott

Bio-accumulation of radioactive elements around Fukushima will devastate many future Japanese generations, while the Pacific Ocean is also being contaminated by leaking radioactive water. Yet there is still no good solution from the Japanese government.
[…]

Medical implications

Water in the bay beside Fukushima is highly contaminated with tritium, which is constantly increasing in concentration and now measures 4,700 Becquerels per liter – the highest level ever recorded in seawater. Furthermore a total of 20 to 40 trillion Becquerels of tritium have now been discharged into the Pacific Ocean –a Becquerel is one disintegration of radiation per second. Tritium is radioactive hydrogen, H3. It combines with oxygen to form tritiated water HTO, which is very dangerous. It emits an electron, or beta particle which, if lodged in the body, is very energetic.
Tritium combines within the DNA molecule inducing mutations. In numerous animal experiments tritium causes birth defects, cancers of various organs including brain and ovaries, and it induces testicular atrophy and mental retardation at surprisingly low doses. Tritium is organically taken up in food and is concentrated in fish, vegetables, and other food groups, and it remains radioactive for over 120 years. Ingestion of contaminated food causes 10 percent to combine in the human body where it can remain for many years continuously irradiating cells.
One of the main elements is cesium, a potassium mimicker, which concentrates in the heart, endocrine organs and muscles where it can induce cardiac irregularities, heart attacks, diabetes, hypothyroidism or thyroid cancer and a very malignant muscle cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. Cesium remains radioactive for 300 years and concentrates in the food chain.
Another very dangerous element is strontium 90, which also is poisonous for 300 years. Analogous to calcium, it concentrates in grass and milk, then relocates into bones, teeth and breast milk where it can cause bone cancer, leukemia or breast cancer.
Amongst the many other radioactive elements which are almost certainly escaping into the sea is plutonium which lasts for 240,000 years and is one of the most potent carcinogens known, such that a millionth of a gram can cause cancer. Each reactor core contains 500lbs of plutonium, but Reactor 3 contains even more, because it also contained plutonium/uranium fuel rods which were placed inside the core as an experiment.
As plutonium resembles iron in the body, it induces cancers in the lung if inhaled, and also cancers in the liver, bone, testicle and ovary. As an iron analogue, it readily crosses the placenta causing severe birth deformities similar to those produced by the drug thalidomide. All radioactive elements which irradiate the reproductive organs will induce genetic mutations in the sperm and eggs, thereby increasing the incidence of genetic diseases over future generations such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, hemochromatosis and 6000 others.
These are only several of over 100 deadly radioactive poisons polluting the Pacific Ocean and the air, each of which has its own pathway in the food chain and the human body. Radioactive elements are tasteless, odorless and invisible, and it takes many years for cancers and other radiation-related diseases to manifest – five to 80 years for most cancers.
Children are 10 to 20 times more sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation than adults, fetuses are thousands of times more so. One x-ray to the pregnant abdomen doubles the likelihood of leukemia in the baby. Females are also more sensitive than men at all ages. Radiation is cumulative, there is no safe dose and each dose received by a person adds to the risk of developing cancer.

Of great concern is the fact that 18 cases of childhood thyroid cancer in children under the age of 18 have already been diagnosed and 25 more are suspected in Fukushima. This is a remarkably short incubation time for cancer, indicating that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of iodine 131 plus other carcinogenic radioactive elements that were and are still being inhaled and ingested.
Thyroid cancer in Chernobyl victims did not appear for four years. Thyroid cancer is rarely found in young children. Iodine 131 is radioactive for 100 days, and is a potent carcinogen. Iodine 129 on the other hand lasts millions of years.

Over 350,000 children still live and go to school in highly radioactive areas, and as juvenile thyroid cancers are arising, so the number of leukemia cases will start to increase about two years from now, with solid cancers of various organs diagnosed about 11 years later. These will increase in frequency for the next 70 -80 years.
Food in the contaminated zone will remain radioactive for hundreds of years because it will continue to bio-accumulate radioactive elements from the soil, thus ensuring that an increased incidence of cancer will devastate many future Japanese generations.
Medical doctors in Japan are reporting that they have been ordered by their superiors not to tell the patients that their problems are radiation related.
[…]

Posted by Mia

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/endless-fukushima-catastrophe-many.html

September 17, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

UNSCEAR is a mechanism for radiation damage cover up. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.国連科学は放射能汚染による被害を隠蔽する機械のような団体　彼らの言うことを、信じないで！

Monday, 16 September 2013

posted by Mia [with some additions from Arclight2011 ]

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/unscaer-is-machinery-for-radiation.html

(Source)

https://www.facebook.com/kodomo.zenkokunet?ref=hl

National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation

“A pack of lies. UNSCEAR is a mechanism for radiation damage cover up. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM.”

In response to…

 

Fear and Fukushima

www.world-nuclear-news.org

International radiation protection experts have written to the Japanese people to explain the health impacts of the Fukushima accident.

 

Abel Gonzalez of Argentina of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), a party to international cover up of radiation health damage for decades and blaming ‘stress’ for all but a few thousand thyroid cancer deaths from Chernobyl disaster, has reassured the Japanese regarding the effects of Fukushima radiation. The American representative of UNSCEAR, Fred Mettler, too, categorically dismisses genetic effects of radiation.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Fear_and_Fukushima_0309131.html

Abel J. González has worked in radiation protection for the last four decades, most recently as Director of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety, the senior radiation safety official of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Previously, in his native Argentina, he was a Director of the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission and President of the Argentine Nuclear Power Plant Corporation. He is a founding member of the Argentine Radiation Protection Society.Mr González was a member of International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Committee 4 from 1978 to 2000 and is currently an ICRP commisioner, member of the ICRP Main Commission. He is one of the longest serving participants of the United Nations Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR). He is also member of the IAEA Commission on Safety Standards.

He has been honoured with a number of awards, notably: the IAEA Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his work for the International Chernobyl Project; the Morgan Award of the Health Physics Society (twice); the Lauriston S. Taylor Award of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements; and, most recently, the Sievert Award for outstanding contributions to the field of radiation protection.

Mr. González graduated in 1964 from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with the highest diploma in engineering. In 1962, while still an undergraduate, he began his professional career as a staff member of the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) specializing in the fields of radiation protection, safety of radioactive waste management and of radioactive materials transport, and related aspects of nuclear safety.

http://www.world-nuclear-university.org/about.aspx?id=17712

[And this upcoming meeting Dr Gonzales and friends –  Arclight]
Invited speaker I: Dr. Abel J. Gonzalez (Argentina/NRA)
“Current Status of the Global Levels of Radiation Exposures”

Provisional Programme

International Conference on the Sources, Effects and Risks of Ionizing Radiation

Bali, Indonesia, 10-11 October 2013

 

Thursday, 10 October 2013
Time	Agenda
08.00 – 09.00	Registration desk open, set up for posters
09.00 – 09.45	Opening session: Welcoming address by BATAN Speech by representative from the Ministry of Health Speech by representative from the Ministry of Science and Technology Speech by representative from the International Atomic Energy Agency Opening remarks from the President of the Conference
09.45 – 10.30	Keynote speaker: Malcolm Crick, Secretary, UNSCEAR “The Works of the United Nations Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation”
10.30 – 10.45	Tea/Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.30	Invited speaker I: Dr. Abel J. Gonzalez (Argentina/NRA) “Current Status of the Global Levels of Radiation Exposures”
11.30 – 12.15	Invited Speaker II: Dr. Ohtsura Niwa (Japan/Emiritus Prof., Kyoto University) “Estimating Radiation Risks in the Aftermath of Fukushima Accident”

Departure of Abel González from ICRP

Main Commission member Academician Abel J. González has decided to leave ICRP after 36 years of membership. At the time of his departure, Abel was the longest serving member of ICRP. He joined Committee 4 in 1977, under Committee 4 Chair Henri Jammet (France). ICRP Chairman and Vice-Chairman at the time were Bo Lindell (Sweden) and Dan Beninson (Argentina). In 2001 Abel was elected to the Main Commission under ICRP Chairman Roger Clarke (UK), and he served as ICRP Vice-Chairman from 2008 to 2013.

His long and active service to ICRP will be honoured at a Gala Dinner on October 22, 2013, as part of the 2nd International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection in Abu Dhabi.

http://www.icrp.org/page.asp?id=181

And Dr Gonzalez also has a much more detailed account of his work here.. He shared the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize with the IAEA for instance ,, Arclight2011

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=26&cad=rja&ved=0CFMQFjAFOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffr.crms-jpn.org%2Fdoc%2F%25E5%259B%25BD%25E9%259A%259B%25E5%25B0%2582%25E9%2596%2580%25E5%25AE%25B6%25E4%25BC%259A%25E8%25AD%25B0%25E2%2580%2590%25E9%2585%258D%25E5%25B8%2583%25E8%25B3%2587%25E6%2596%2599%2FCurriculum%2520Vitae.pdf&ei=yME4UrvTB8ixhAfeuYHwAg&usg=AFQjCNF9aD-JTSQ-62ycXa-TP8neu6H9BA&sig2=R18_KdscCROH78ie0uO0fw&bvm=bv.52164340,d.ZGU

And there is this…
CONSEQUENCES OF CHERNOBYL WORSE THAN ASSUMED

At the last international meeting organised by the IAEA in 1991 on the consequences of Chernobyl, they concluded “future increases over the natural incidence of cancers or hereditary effects would be difficult to discern, even with large and well designed long term epidemiological studies”(The International Chernobyl Project, Assessment of Radiological Consequences and Evaluation of Protective Measures. Conclusion and Recommendations of a report by an international advisory committee, 1991.). This prediction has proved to be totally incorrect…..

In particular the Greenpeace report points to:* Increases in diseases, such as immune deficiencies, diseases of the digestive organs, cardiovascular systems and malignant tumours have all been noted in both some of those involved in the clean-up (800,000 so called “liquidators”) and some of those living in contaminated areas.* Several studies have showed a clear relationship between radiation dose and particular morbidity’s (e.g. malignant tumours) among liquidators. These findings are based on substantial epidemiological data and cannot be ignored.In addition to underestimating the health consequences serious errors have come to light in recent months regarding the total radioactivity released.

Since 1986 international experts have claimed that the total radioactivity released was around50 million curies. However in February this year the Nuclear Energy Agency(NEA), part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reviewed the discharge and established that 140 million curies was released.The figures for total land contaminated in the three republics most affected (Belarus, Russian and Ukraine) range from 100.000 to 160.000 square kilometres, with the cost to those countries estimated to rise to a staggering $300 billion, by 2015.To date an estimated 375 000 people have been relocated with a further 270 000 requiring evacuation due to the high radiation levels. In total at least 9 million people have been affected by the accident.

“It is difficult to comprehend the enormity of the Chernobyl accident” said Antony Froggatt of Greenpeace International, “

and ten years later the health, environmental and social costs have not yet peaked and are unlikely to do so for years if not decades”.Despite the massive media and public attention, the resources available to the United Nations Trust for Chernobyl have been exhausted and without further support from the international community the UN’s efforts will simply cease.http://www.witch.plus.com/chernobyl.html

September 17, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

五輪でＪヴィレッジ活用を　楢葉町長「復興の後押しに」 Fukushima: Naraha-machi Governor, Mr. Matsumoto wanting J village to be used as a practice place for Tokyo Olympic

Sunday, 15 September 2013

Posted by Mia

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/fukushima-naraha-machi-governor-mr.html

September 17, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Citizen symposium to challenge the UNSCEAR and WHO report deception – Tokyo

“Studies and surveys concerned with Fukushima should be shared with international radiation protection communities….”

“… The health examination for disaster victims is conducted only in Fukushima Prefecture; furthermore, the examination focuses thyroid cancer and checks a small number of health areas, and is conducted on an extremely limited number of population. Under the name of “communication opportunities with stakeholders including locals,” the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is holding seminars that deliver one-sided views….” (see bottom of article for UNSCEAR links Arclight)

The Third Citizen–Scientist International Symposium on Radiation Protection – 2013.09.17 Tue

http://csrp.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-44.html

This symposium aims at scientifically examining the health effects of exposure to radiation resulting from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, and realizing the implementation of health protection measures

Since March 2011, we have been committed to minimizing damage and radiation exposure resulting from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in our individual positions. Victims, children and citizens, who are concerned about radioactive contamination, demand the establishment of better radiation protection measures and radioactivity control measures. To satisfy these demands, we need to scientifically examine the health effects of radiation, a major part of which is unknown. The purpose of the Third Citizen–Scientist International Symposium, which will take place in October 2013 in Tokyo, is to provide citizen scientists from within and outside of Japan with an opportunity of discussing health effects from radiation and prevention measures, thus contributing to the establishment of an extensive international network for radiation protection. We would appreciate your cooperation.

The two-day symposium will include lecture sessions on day 1, October 13. On day 2, October 14, working sessions will be held in the morning and round-table sessions in the International Conference Room in the afternoon.

We plan to hold three working sessions. The planned themes of the working sessions are as follows:

Session 1. Biological effect and its mechanism
Session 2. Epidemiology and dose assessment
Session 3. Laws and rights for public health

Currently, the Japanese government is taking steady steps to restart nuclear power plants in Japan and to export Japanese nuclear power technologies to other countries. On the other hand, dozens of years is expected to be spent to settle the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant reactors to a stable condition. It is said that we will need to wait 30 years until “stone coffins” for the crippled reactors, like the one covering the Chernobyl reactor, start to be built to enclose them. It is not certain we, who experienced the disaster, can see the completion of the coffins. At the Fukushima disaster site, no effective solutions have been found to handle the increasing volumes of contaminated water. Onsite workers, who are already immense in number and expected to increase further, are operating under extremely severe conditions, where they can be exposed to radiation. During the dozens of years spent to handle the crippled reactors, an adverse event may occur unexpectedly. Many people are concerned about the recurrence of the days when they will need to lead a life while fearing radiation.

In spite of these gloomy expectations, the Japanese government and the radiation experts hired by it say, in the guise of science, that low dose radiation hardly has effects on health, and are talking evacuees into returning to the areas whose yearly dose is determined to be under 20 mSv by the government and experts. The health examination for disaster victims is conducted only in Fukushima Prefecture; furthermore, the examination focuses thyroid cancer and checks a small number of health areas, and is conducted on an extremely limited number of population. Under the name of “communication opportunities with stakeholders including locals,” the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is holding seminars that deliver one-sided views. The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) released a report telling “no health effects attributable to radiation exposure have been observed,” based on the dose estimates presented in discussion with the radiation experts designated as representatives by the Japanese government, supporting the Japanese government’s actions. The disguise used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the U.S. atomic bombing, in the three Chernobyl-hit countries which were formerly part of the Soviet Union, and in many sites of calamity where nuclear weapons were developed or tested, is being repeated here.

The Statute on Protection and Support for the Children and other Victims of Tokyo Electric Power Company Nuclear Power Plant Disaster (Children and Victims Protection Law) was established last year by the initiation of lawmakers recognizes the right of moving to prevent radiation exposure and specifies that the government should assume the responsibility of providing victims with health examinations during their entire lives, exempting them from medical care cost or otherwise reducing the cost, and organizing and promoting the surveys and studies of health effects. The report of the United Nations Human Rights Council recommends the implementation of the Children and Victims Protection Law in the areas where the extra yearly exposure dose is 1 mSv or higher. The report also indicates that the risk versus benefit assessment based on which the ICRP report was written prioritizes collective benefits over the rights of individuals and is not appropriate to examine the framework concerning health rights. However, the Japanese government postponed the establishment of the basic policies for the implementation of the Law for more than one year and thus neglected to designate the regions where the Law would take effect, and announced on August 30, 2013 that the Law would be implemented with a miscellany of conventional policies and measures, without incorporating the purposes of the Law or the wills of the lawmakers and victims. The government has been repeating the tremendous abuse of human rights.

The only way to resist such strong policies of trying to divide those who are suffering from the disaster is that citizens begin with measuring radiation and radioactivity by themselves, learning the scientific and medical knowledge of health effects, and come up with the measures for stopping the expansion of damage. If citizens expand their networks while learning with Japanese and international scientists and conducting surveys and actions together, we will eventually obtain great power. We expect that the Citizen–Scientist International Symposium will help achieving this goal.

The first Citizen–Scientist International Symposium was conducted in October 2011, immediately after the an international symposium on radiation and health risks was organized by the Nippon Foundation at the Fukushima Medical University in September 2011, six months after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, to critically review the symposium. It assessed the Japanese government’s actions taken in response to the disaster, and pointed out the problem that the framework of the governmental health examination scheme, which was limited to Fukushima Prefecture, was established by an extremely biased initiative of a small group of experts who had been hopping around international organizations.

The second Citizen–Scientist International Symposium was held in Inawashiro Town, Fukushima Prefecture, in June 2012, when the Act for Establishment of the Nuclear Regulation Authority and the Children and Victims Protection Law were established coincidentally. The symposium started with the examination of basic concepts concerning the health effects of radiation, based on the knowledge obtained by the multifaceted review of nuclear power, including the development and use of nuclear technology that started in the 20th century, the civilian use and accidents of nuclear power, and the health effects of medical radiation use. The symposium then summarized the contamination and exposure to radiation resulting from the Tokyo Electric Power Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster and discussed how to take effective actions through dose measurement and health consultation programs. At the conference, it was made clear through the voices of local people that exposure to radiation and health are not only a scientific, medical issue but also a social issue — an issue of human rights.

While the third symposium is coming up soon, the health examination in Fukushima Prefecture is proceeding to a new stage: International nuclear organizations, international experts promoting nuclear development, and Japanese nuclear and radiation-effect experts are going to interpret the findings of the health examination in favor of them. The symposium organizing committee hopes to create the starting points of establishing a third-party organization that can closely examine their health-effect studies and epidemiological surveys , performing independent surveys and studies that will be verifiable , and building a specific program based on which to implement necessary medical actions and care . Concerning Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Three-mile Island, and Chernobyl, a great number of studies have been publicized but many things remain unknown concerning the details and extensions of health effects and their connection with exposure or contamination. As for the health effects that may emerge over a long period of time, studies should be performed in a great variety of areas in the future, and we human beings have not found no ultimate answer to them.

Studies and surveys concerned with Fukushima should be shared with international radiation protection communities. At this symposium, we hope to discuss how to verify, criticize, and use the surveys and studies by the government and its hired experts, how to use them for radiation protection, medical actions and care, in what ways citizens should perform measurement, surveys, studies, and actions, and what problems remain in terms of laws, ethics, and society.

Citizen–Scientist International Symposium Organizing Committee
Wataru Iwata

On the same date there are 2 separate UNSCEAR meetings discussing radiation and its non effects on the environment and humans,,

No obvious mention of the Fukushima disaster on this link.. they are nuclear promoting in the asias (ref IAEA)

http://www.batan.go.id/serir_conference/index.php/conference-details/programme-structure.html

As described above the WHO report (delivered by a non health professional and not a member of the World Health Organisation?)

MELODI Workshop Opening Ceremony
Moderator: Frank Hardeman (SCK•CEN, B)
8 October 2013

Fukushima: Emergency, Dosimetry, Environment, Health
Moderators: J.-R. Jourdain (IRSN, F) & J. Camps (SCK•CEN, B)
1.
Jean-René Jourdain (IRSN, F), UNSCEAR Fukushima
Report : UNSCEAR’s Assessment of Levels and Effects
of Radiation Exposure due to the Nuclear Accident
after the 2011 Great East-Japan Earthquake and
Tsunami
2. Richard Wakeford (UMan, UK), WHO Fukushima
  Report
3. Peter Jacob (HMGU, DE), Ultrasonography Surveys
  and Thyroid Cancer after the Fukushima Accident
4. Johan Camps (SCK•CEN, B), Response of SCK•CEN to
   the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in the Context of the
  Protection of Belgian Citizens

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CE4QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.melodi2013.org%2F~%2Fmedia%2FFiles%2FMelodi%2FMELODIWSprogrammedv06_09092013.pdf&ei=6rM4UvGMJ6ed7gapnIEg&usg=AFQjCNGpLfKMaiybo2G5fymzUV8irfSUMA&sig2=6PPbcYph437VNsyepAxhig&bvm=bv.52164340,d.ZGU

September 17, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The Bombing of Kyoto – A very nuclear story -Full Documentary

Andrew Ebisu

Published on 16 Sep 2013

September 16, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

The WHO/IAEA Unholy Alliance and its Lies about Int’l Nuclear Health Stats

Nuclear Hotseat #118:

How the World Health Organization came under the domination of the pro-nuclear International Atomic Energy Agency – the first of two exclusive Nuclear Hotseat reports on the unholy alliance that underlies our global misunderstandings of the dangers of nuclear radiation. 

http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/category/nuclear-regulatory-commission/

DOWNLOAD HERE:

http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/eb5073ca-87ee-356e-9812-2ac8eb4367b1.mp3

INTERVIEW:  Special full-length interview with Alison Katz of Independent WHO on the history, politics and criminal negligence of the World Health Organization.  She is a sociologist and psychologist who worked for WHO for 18 years and now is a spokesperson for the organization that wants WHO to do its job regarding nuclear dangers and international public health.  Even if you think you understand this issue, you will be shocked by the specific instances where WHO has abdicated its power.  You’ll also be inspired by an international tactic Katz proposes that has the potential to turn this issue around.  

CONTACT:  www.IndependentWHO.org

September 15, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Thank you for the Olympics but what about the children? – Japanese parents protest!

10 September 2013

National Parents Network to Protect Children from Radiation

https://www.facebook.com/kodomo.zenkokunet?ref=hl

Government: Since we won Olympics, protect our children : apply 1msv/h threshold

Since we won the Olympic bid , thank you now to be responsible and to adjust the radiation exposure limits to international standards. Japanese government agreed the limits set by the ICRP (INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION ) at ” 1 mSv ” / year Set up after Chernobyl accident this standard was considered as the limit for people evacuation . But today , many children and their families go on living above 1msv/year areas, even after decontamination , without anything being done. This limit was even raised. (up to 20 mSv with recommendations of half an hour per day outside for small children last year)

If Japan , claims to host the Olympics , he must not forget that there are people who are suffering and hopeless about their future and their health problems due to radiation Do not enjoy this festival atmosphère and stifle their voices . You must comply with this limit of 1msv/year and let immigrate population, provide them medical care, make measurements of radioactivity in food and give all necessary support to live decently . ( Cardiac , respiratory hematologic diseases emerged last year among children. This is denied by the government, which only recognizes the eventuality of thyroid problems which are currently the only recognized examinations )

To protect these children, we continue to ask through legal means ( as we did last year ) the promise to apply the threshold of 1 mSv / year . And we are more determined than ever since Japan won the Olympic Games. The country must take its responsibilities towards the Japanese people who live above an exposition of 1msv/year .

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/government-since-we-won-olympics-protect-our-children-apply-1msv-h-threshold-4

September 13, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Olympic Insanity + If Gundersen were in Charge at Fukushima

Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gunderson with Nuclear Hotseat Producer/Host, Libbe HaLevy –

NUCLEAR HOTSEAT PROGRAMME NUMBER 117

September 10, 2013

DOWNLOAD HERE:

http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/7342ed07-115e-fa78-3b6c-ef92adacbac1.mp3

INTERVIEW: Former nuclear industry insider Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education (www.Fairewinds.com) paints a clear picture of the current state of problems at Fukushima Daiichi… and then explains what he would do if he were in charge of the disaster site. His first five minutes on the job would be awesome – and that’s a word I almost never use! – See more at:

http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/nuclear-hotseat-117-gundersen-charge-fukushima-vision/#sthash.9k9jcrfb.dpuf

September 13, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Support the growing number of imprisoned activists in the USA by sending books – Ploughshares

Posted by tnplowshares ⋅ August 31, 2013 ⋅

Editor’s Note: Here is a request from TNP supporter Marion Ward.  Please note that with sentencing coming up later this month, there is still time to write to Judge Thaper on behalf of Greg, Megan and Michael (see Marion’s note below).  Also, the book Marion attempted to send (that must have appeared too “subversive” to the prison staff) is a very worthy read.

 I highly recommend “Blood on the Tracks”!

Hmmm… I wonder what other books would be banned from the infamous Irwin County Detention Center??? Perhaps we can come up with a list???

I have been corresponding with Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed who are awaiting sentencing in the Irwin County Detention Center for their action at Oakridge, Tenn . I have not heard as often from Sister Megan. Greg is requesting books … at one time he said they pretty much only had Westerns in their library. Michael and Greg share books….I have had books shipped from independent book sellers and they have all been accepted with one exception – the book, Blood on the Tracks, by Brian Willson.

It was sent by an independent book seller through Amazon which gave me credit for the refused book. I also use Abe Books and they have been delivered without incident. It is important that books be sent from an independent source although Greg did say some paperbacks from individuals are getting through (no guarantee about that, however)

Greg is asking for more books and my budget is fairly limited. Can anyone send a book or two to Greg ? I know he would appreciate it and will share with Michael.

Greg Boertje-Obed
#22090
Irwin County Detention Center
132 Cotton Dr.
Ocilla, GA 31774

People are being asked to write Judge Thaper on their behalf.  Talking points and addresses are all listed on the following website:  https://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/author/tnplowshares/.

September 12, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Modern Heroes – Sister Megan Rice and Friends. NOT FORGOTTEN!!

Image source ; https://www.wepay.com/donations/transform-now-plowshares

http://blacksheepdiary.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/modern-heroes-sister-megan-rice-and-friends/

I make no apologies for reproducing this article from the New York Times in full.  It’s about Sister Megan Rice and her friends.  Looks like I’ve found more heroes…   Modern Heroes blog link above

DITTO here 🙂 Arclight2011part2 at nuclear-news.net

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/science/behind-nuclear-breach-a-nuns-bold-fervor.html?_r=1&hpw

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

Published: August 10, 2010.  She has been arrested 40 or 50 times for acts of civil disobedience and once served six months in prison.  In the Nevada desert, she and other peace activists knelt down to block a truck rumbling across the government’s nuclear test site, prompting the authorities to take her into custody.

She gained so much attention that the Energy Department, which maintains the nation’s nuclear arsenal, helped pay for an oral history in which she described her upbringing and the development of her antinuclear views.

Now, Sister Megan Rice, 82, a Roman Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and two male accomplices have carried out what nuclear experts call the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex, making their way to the inner sanctum of the site where the United States keeps crucial nuclear bomb parts and fuel.

“Deadly force is authorized,” signs there read. “Halt!” Images of skulls emphasize the lethal danger.

With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28, a Saturday. They splashed blood on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility — a new windowless, half-billion-dollar plant encircled by enormous guard towers — and hung banners outside its walls.

“Swords into plowshares,” read one, quoting the Book of Isaiah. “Spears into pruning hooks.” The plant holds the nation’s main supply of highly enriched uranium, enough for thousands of nuclear weapons.

The actions of Sister Rice, a New York native who grew up on a prosperous block in Morningside Heights, and her companions, ages 57 and 63, are a huge embarrassment for President Obama. Since 2010, he has led a campaign to eliminate or lock down nuclear materials as a way to fight atomic terrorism. Now, the three — two of whom, including Sister Rice, are free and are awaiting trial in October — have made nuclear theft seem only a little more challenging than a romp in the Tennessee woods.

In interviews this week, Sister Rice discussed her life — somewhat reluctantly at times — and kept emphasizing what she called “the issue.”

“It’s the criminality of this 70-year industry,” she said. “We spend more on nuclear arms than on the departments of education, health, transportation, disaster relief and a number of other government agencies that I can’t remember.”

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September 12, 2013 Posted by arclight2011part2 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment