Insider threats biggest challenge to nuclear security
http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/insider_threats_biggest_challenge_to_nuclear_security_20140409/
By Clifton Parker
April 9, 2014 – CISAC, FSI Stanford In the News
The greatest dangers to nuclear facilities are sabotage and theft from insiders, according to political scientist Scott Sagan. Analysis of past incidents can help boost safeguards at these sites.
A diesel generator at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station in Southern California was possibly sabotaged, likely by an insider, in 2012.
Insider threats are the most serious challenge confronting nuclear facilities in today’s world, a Stanford political scientist says.
In every case of theft of nuclear materials where the circumstances of the theft are known, the perpetrators were either insiders or had help from insiders, according to Scott Sagan and his co-author, Matthew Bunn of Harvard University, in a research paper published this month by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
“Given that the other cases involve bulk material stolen covertly without anyone being aware the material was missing, there is every reason to believe that they were perpetrated by insiders as well,” they wrote.
And theft is not the only danger facing facility operators; sabotage is a risk as well, said Sagan, who is a CISAC senior fellow and professor of political science.
While there have been sabotage attempts in the United States and elsewhere against nuclear facilities conducted by insiders, the truth may be hard to decipher in an industry shrouded in security, he said.
“We usually lack good and unclassified information about the details of such nuclear incidents,” Sagan said.
The children of Japan’s Fukushima battle an invisible enemy
Hiraguri said that stress was showing up in an increase of scuffles, arguments and even sudden nosebleeds among the children, as well as more subtle effects.
“There’s a lot more children who aren’t all that alert in their response to things. They aren’t motivated to do anything,” he said.
http://news.msn.com/world/the-children-of-japans-fukushima-battle-an-invisible-enemy
3/10/14 By Toru Hanai and Elaine Lies of Reuters
KORIYAMA, Japan (Reuters) – Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside – fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives.
Though the strict safety limits for outdoor activity set after multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in 2011 have now been eased, parental worries and ingrained habit mean many children still stay inside.
And the impact, three years on, is now starting to show, with children experiencing falling strength, lack of coordination – some cannot even ride a bicycle – and emotional issues like shorter tempers, officials and educators say.
“There are children who are very fearful. They ask before they eat anything, ‘does this have radiation in it?’ and we have to tell them it’s okay to eat,” said Mitsuhiro Hiraguri, director of the Emporium Kindergarten in Koriyama, some 55 km (35 miles) west of the Fukushima nuclear plant.
“But some really, really want to play outside. They say they want to play in the sandbox and make mud pies. We have to tell them no, I’m sorry. Play in the sandbox inside instead.”
Following the March 11, 2011, quake and tsunami, a series of explosions and meltdowns caused the world’s worst nuclear accident for 25 years, spewing radiation over a swathe of Fukushima, an agricultural area long known for its rice, beef and peaches.
A 30-km radius around the plant was declared a no-go zone, forcing 160,000 people from homes where some had lived for generations. Other areas, where the radiation was not so critically high, took steps such as replacing the earth in parks and school playgrounds, decontaminating public spaces like sidewalks, and limiting children’s outdoor play time.
“There are children in the disaster-stricken areas who are going to turn three tomorrow,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday. He told a nationally televised news conference he wanted to invite as many of them as possible to the 2020 Olympics, when they will be fourth-graders, as a “symbol of reconstruction.”
Any such revival looks a long way off.
“AVOID TOUCHING THE OUTSIDE AIR”
Koriyama recommended shortly after the disaster that children up to two years old not spend more than 15 minutes outside each day. Those aged 3 to 5 should limit their outdoor time to 30 minutes or less.
These limits were lifted last October, but many kindergartens and nursery schools continue to adhere to the limits, in line with the wishes of worried parents.
One mother at an indoor Koriyama playground was overheard telling her child: “Try to avoid touching the outside air”.
Even three-year-olds know the word “radiation”.
Though thyroid cancer in children was linked to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, the United Nations said last May that cancer rates were not expected to rise after Fukushima.
Radiation levels around the Emporium Kindergarten in Koriyama were now down around 0.12-0.14 microsieverts per hour, from 3.1 to 3.7 right after the quake, said Hiraguri.
This works out to be lower than Japan’s safety level of 1,000 microsieverts a year, but levels can vary widely and at random, keeping many parents nervous about any outdoor play.
Breaking UK – Daring dawn blockade of Britain’s Nuclear weapons factory
This morning at 7.20am a group of peace campaigners began blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site at Burghfield, near Reading. The protesters, acting as part of ActionAWE [1] campaign of non-violent direct action, are trying to disrupt construction of a new nuclear warhead factory on the site.
The new development at AWE Burghfield is being built at a cost to the tax payer of almost £2 billion, despite the fact that parliament has yet to vote on replacing the current generation of nuclear warheads that the site would build.
The protesters were locked together using handcuffs inside ‘lock-on’ devices – made from drainpipes, and vegetable oil drums filled with concrete in order to block the gate to the construction site to prevent further work on the site.
Amy Clark, 19, a Peace Studies Student at Bradford University said “Public money is already being spent in its millions toward the renewal of trident. The final decision on renewal must be made by 2016 so it’s time to act now to stop it.”
Phil Wood, 20, a Politics Student also at Bradford University added “To be spending millions of pounds and planning to spend billions more on nuclear weapons while cutting back on essential public services that people rely on is unforgivable”
Catherine Bann, 40, mother of two from Todmorden, said: “The money we would spend renewing Trident could pay for all A & E hospital departments in the country for the next 40 years! It’s a huge waste of public money to be investing in nuclear weapons, and people like us must make a stand now, so that future generations do not have to bear the cost.”
Matt Fawcett, 39, from Yorkshire CND said: “This ‘do as we say, not as we do’ policy of telling other countries they can’t develop nuclear weapons while we spend billions developing new weapons of our own, not only undermines attempts to limit the spread of nuclear weapons but also discredits Britain on the world stage. Polls show 87% of the British public are against spending on new nukes at a time of such drastic cuts, yet the construction goes on at Burghfield without any parliamentary debate”
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Notes to editors
The UK has an armed nuclear submarine on patrol and ready to fire at all times, with the ability to wipe out cities almost anywhere on earth within 15 minutes[2]. The UK has a stockpile of around 225 nuclear warheads[3], each with eight times the explosive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 [4] that killed an estimated 140,000 to 200,000 people. Running the Trident nuclear weapons system currently costs £2 billion a year[5], and has not seen any of the cutbacks facing other government spending and public services. The government will vote in 2016 to decide whether to invest in the UK’s Trident nuclear weapon system for another 30 years.
Operated by a consortium of Jacobs Engineering Group, Lockheed Martin and Serco, AWE Burghfield plays an integral part in the final assembly and maintenance of nuclear warheads for use in the Trident system[6]. In 2011 Peter Luff, the then Minister for Defence Equipment, announced £2 billion of spending for redevelopment of the Burghfield and Aldermaston weapons factories[7]. The total spending on Weapons of Mass Destruction in the UK will soar to over £100 Billion should the government take the decision to renew Trident in 2016 [8].
Action AWE (Atomic Weapons Eradication) is a grassroots campaign of nonviolent action dedicated to halting nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield.
[2]
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/peace/trident-the-uks-nuclear-weapons-system
[3]Stockholm International Peace Research Institute:
http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/nuclear-forces
[4] http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings UK warheads are thought to have a yield of 80-100kt.
[5] http://fullfact.org/factchecks/cost_trident_nuclear_deterrent-28864
[6] http://www.awe.co.uk/aboutus/the_company_eb1b2.html
[8] http://www.cnduk.org/information/briefings/trident-briefings
Tags:Aldermaston, Bradford, Disarmament Activism, Nuclear, Nuclear weapon, Warfare and Conflict, Weapons, Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Journalist Makes Documentary Film After Spending 2 Years In Fukushima
“I didn’t know what I should do,” he says, to help the residents there who have been forced to live their lives together with the threat of radiation.
After over two years in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, and recording some 250 hours’ worth of footage, a journalist is putting his work out in the form of a 3 hour and 45 minute documentary film.
A producer and editor for “The Will: If Only There Were no Nuclear Plant” praised the film as a “treasure-trove of imagery,” so well does it capture the emotions of Fukushima residents and tense situations. In one such scene, the film’s protagonist rushes to the home of a fellow dairy farmer who has committed suicide, a scene filmed after that farmer’s obituary just happened to come to bear while the journalist who made the film was on-site.
That journalist was Naomi Toyoda, 57, who got his start as a freelance reporter back in 1982. A cram school teacher until then, he was spurred to act after seeing reports of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon on television. He would spend 20 years reporting on Palestine, and 10 years covering Iraq’s depleted uranium rounds.
“It’s deep reporting, different than constantly dealing with the latest stories like in the mass media,” says Toyoda. He runs his camera only after building a relationship of trust with his subjects, after they begin to show their natural selves.
Despite his time reporting from battlefields, Toyoda was still struck with doubt while working in Fukushima Prefecture. “I didn’t know what I should do,” he says, to help the residents there who have been forced to live their lives together with the threat of radiation.
The documentary film ends with the protagonist walking with a dosimeter around a temporary storage site for radioactive waste that resulted from decontamination work. Toyoda, in an expression of determination, says, “Three years after the nuclear disaster, nothing is solved. I’m going to keep on reporting.
Source: http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20140518p2a00m0na005000c.html
Another documentary here;
Published on 3 Feb 2013
SYNOPSIS: Many children in Fukushima were never evacuated after the nuclear meltdown on March 11, 2011. Now the number of Fukushima children found to have thyroid cysts and nodules is increasing. What will this mean for their future?
シノプシス: 福島の子供達の多くは、メルトダウン後も避難させてもらえなかった。嚢胞としこりを持つ福島の子供達の数が増加してきている。このことが彼らの未来に対して意味するものは？
*** version Françaises: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFV-By… ***
Questions to NHK hiding thyroid kids in Japan! 安倍首相と甲状腺がん情報隠すNHKへの質問
Also, it seems that NHK isn’t supposed to make any investment on private corporations given that there is no stipulation regarding purchase of corporate bonds in the Broadcast Law Chapter 3 Clause 2 Article 19, and there is a stipulation on the investment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
2013年4月26日金曜日
http://koukaishitsumon.blogspot.ie/2013/04/7-questions-to-nhk.html?spref=tw
Questions to NHK hiding thyroid kids in Japan! 安倍首相と甲状腺がん情報隠すNHKへの質問
2014年5月18日、福島で89人の甲状腺がんが確認されました！同日、安倍首相は福島医大を訪問したが、NHKニュースはまったくやらなかった！NHK従軍慰安婦の番組で安倍氏が加害者証言を削除改竄した時のように、一番ヤバい情報を隠しているのです！
(50人確定で39人疑いだが、疑いでも手術はやり、ほとんどの場合、確定される。よって89人とした。山下俊一も以前10人の時に学会発表でこれをやった。)
On May 18, 2014, 89 thyroid cancer kids were found among Fukushima kids! On the same day, Prime Minister Abe was reported to have visited Fukushima Medical University on NHK, which had never touched upon this number! (50 confirmed and 39 suspected who should go through operation anyway and most of them would get confirmed.)
As in the case of Comfort Women’s Program in 2001 where Mr. Abe put some pressure to eliminate the testimonies by the persecutors, Prime Minister Abe and NHK are hiding the most inconvinient truth from the public!
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NHK経営委員→http://www.nhk.or.jp/keiei-iinkai/member/index.html
忘れてはならない。東電社外取締役を兼任が発覚しNHK辞任した数土委員長。質問8番を参照
Mr. Sudo pressured to step down from NHK Management Commission Chief by taking the position of outside director of Tokyo Electric Power Company. (He is still the director of TEPCO)
そしてなんと、数土氏は、2014年4月から東電会長に就任予定！元NHK経営委員会委員長ですよ！！もともとNHKに多くの部下がいた人物が！こんなことが許されるのですか？？
And now, Mr. Sudo is going to be the chairman of TEPCO from April, 2014. Is this allowed for a man who used to have lots of surbordinates in NHK!?
Japanese public TV station is committing a crime against humanity. Please read my 10 questions and then you will know!!!
私はころころ変わる政治家を追及するよりも、国民から毎月、お金を徴収し、老若男女、みんなに知られているNHKを攻めることこそ、効果的だと考えています。
皆様もぜひ、やりましょう！！
そうでないと、食べて応援やがれき拡散、福島帰還奨励によって被曝を推進し、脱原発も緊急にやってくれないNHKに、日本の子供たちが殺されます！！！
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１．2011年3月15日に10時から11時などは１１００Bq、放射性ヨウ素合計はセシウム１３７の９倍以上、１４核種の合計は、セシウム137の18倍以上ありますが、なぜリアルタイムで計測していたこの重大データをNHKは報道しなかったのですか？
http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/INET/CHOUSA/2011/12/DATA/60lcq104.pdf
また、2013年1月12日に放送されたNHKスペシャル「空白の初期被ばく～消えたヨウ素１３１を追う」でもなぜか、この具体的なBq数値を発表しませんでした。おかしくないですか？
On March 15, from 10 to 11 am, 1100Bq of 14 radionuclides were detected real time. The total amount of radioactive iodine was more than 9 times than Cesium 137, the total of 14 radionuclides were more than 18 times than Cesium 137. Why hasn’t NHK broadcasted this important data?http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/INET/CHOUSA/2011/12/DATA/60lcq104.pdf
Even in the program”Initial Radiation Exposure Not Recorded~Seeking the vanished Iodine 131 ” NHK did not report on this very concrete figure in Bq. Why?
２．福島県郡山市の住民が子供たちの集団疎開を求めている裁判http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.jp/で、4月25日、仙台高裁が、危険性を認めながら棄却をしました。このふくしま集団疎開裁判について、AP通信、ニューヨークタイムズ、ワシントンポスト、ＡＢＣニュース （米国三大テレビ局の１つ）、FOXニュースが一斉に報道しているのに、なぜこのトップニュースをNHKは報道しないのですか？
On April 25, Sendai High Court, though they acknowledged the danger from radiation exposure, dismissed the case of Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.jp/
in which plaintiffs in Kooriyama City demanded the collective relocation of children by the government. As for this dismissal, AP, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, FOX news immediately reported. Why doesn’t NHK broadcast this top news?
３．2012年初頭に福島で甲状腺 のう胞および結節を合わせ３６％であったこと、そして9月に小児甲状腺がん第１号が見つかり、そして2013年初頭に小児甲状腺がん3人、疑い7人という （検査対象3万8千人のうちであり、事故前の発生率に比べ、既に13倍から44倍の率）悲しく衝撃的なニュースが伝えられました。本来であれば、トップ ニュースになるものを、一部福島のみで放送し、全国ニュースで放送しない理由はなんですか？一方有名な文化人やスポーツ選手の成功物語はトップニュースで やっています。無名の子供たちが放射能の原因が強く疑われる甲状腺がんになっても、御社は構わないのですか？逆に権力側に加担し、このまずいニュースを故 意に隠しているのではないですか？
NHK did not give any report (aside from Fukushima local NHK branch) on 36% thyroid abnormalities in the beginning of 2012, the first thyroid cancer kid case in September 2012 and 3 cancers and 7 suspected case (out of 38000, which is 13 times to 44 times higher compared to before the accident) in February 2013. Why is this? Meanwhile, you are broadcasting a lot of success stories of celebrities. You don’t care about non-famous children’s sickness? Or are you intentionally hiding this most inconvenient news for pro-nuke government?
Canada – Federal Court denies approval of new nuclear reactors due to safety and environmental factors
Toronto, May 15 2014 – Environmentalists are applauding a landmark Federal Court ruling that puts the brakes on building expensive and risky new nuclear reactors in Ontario.
“The Federal Court has thrown out the approvals for building new reactors at Darlington. This is a win for Canadians’ right to meaningfully participate in environmental reviews and understand the risks of nuclear power,” said Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA).
In his ruling, released on May 14, Justice Russell agreed with environmental groups that a federal environmental review panel wrongly recommended approval of Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) proposal to build up to four new reactors at the Darlington without first examining the environmental effects of radioactive fuel waste, a Fukushima-type accident, and hazardous emissions.
Lawyers from Ecojustice and CELA represented Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Northwatch, CELA and Greenpeace, all of whom participated in the federal environmental review process since 2006.
“This is a common sense ruling. It boggles the mind that the federal authorities approved new reactors without first considering the environmental effects of radioactive waste and reactor accidents,” said Shawn-Patrick Stensil with Greenpeace.
In October 2013, the Ontario government announced that it was suspending plans to build the new reactors. But without this ruling, the deficient assessment and licence issued to OPG could have been used to revive the project at any time over the next decade.
“The Federal Court has confirmed that federal authorities must do more than simply kick the tires before approving new nuclear reactors,” said staff lawyer Justin Duncan. “Fully assessing radioactive waste, major accidents, and hazardous emissions is essential to protecting the health of Ontarians.”
If OPG wishes to proceed with new reactors, Justice Russell’s ruling requires that the review panel reconvene or a new review panel will need to be formed and properly consider the environmental effects of radioactive waste, accidents and emissions.
“I think most Canadians would agree with Justice Russell that we have a responsibility to fully consider the risks of managing radioactive waste for hundreds of thousands of years before we produce more. This is a sensible and prudent judgment,” said Brennain Lloyd with Northwatch.
“The Court’s decision shows just how badly federal authorities failed the public. If our case motivates regulators to pay more attention to the impacts of big projects on our waterways, then we could not have asked for a better outcome,” says Mark Mattson, environmental lawyer and president of Lake Ontario Waterkeeper.
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Justin Duncan, staff lawyer, Ecojustice647-865-9364 (cell)
Shawn-Patrick Stensil, nuclear analyst, Greenpeace, 416-884-7053 (English/French)
Mark Mattson, President, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, 416-861-1237
Brennain Lloyd, coordinator, Northwatch, 705-497-0373
Ukraine Crisis Goes Nuclear-Gunmen Attempt Takeover of Nuclear Power Plant
Published on 17 May 2014
Neo-Nazi “Right Sector” attempts to seize largest Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine
Policemen of the city of Energodar have detained 20 activists of the Right Sector, who tried to seize the Zaporozhye NPP. According to the leader of the Zaporozhye branch of the organization, the militants were afraid that the city would fall in the hands of supporters of federalization.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/right-se…
Former US Official: War in Ukraine could cause disaster worse than Chernobyl and Fukushima — Situation “calls for far greater global concern” — Multiple scenarios result in meltdown — Foreign Minister: “Potential threat to many nuclear facilities”
Apr. 14, 2014: […] Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind [than Chernobyl,] the possibility that the country’s reactors could become military targets in the event of a Russian invasion. […] Ukraine’s parliament [called] for international monitors to help protect the plants […] the angst is real. […] With the exception of the 1990’s Balkan conflict, wars have not been fought against or within countries with nuclear reactors […] military jets overflew Slovenia’s Krško nuclear power plant in a threatening gesture […] Serbian nationalists called for attacks to release the radioactive contents. […] the sheer scale of Ukraine’s nuclear enterprise calls for far greater global concern […] aging plants provide 40% of Ukraine’s electricity. […] In Ukraine, nuclear emissions could exceed both Chernobyl and Fukushima. Wartime conditions would prevent emergency crews from getting to an affected plant […] In the event of fighting near reactors, the West should prepare to ferry forces to secure the plants […] in the event of a meltdown, the West should rally both governments to initiate a cease-fire […] failure to prepare for the worst is not an option.
Ramberg’s analysis suggests several scenarios:
Warfare is rife with accidents and human error, and […] could cause a meltdown
Fighting could disrupt off-site power
Operators could abandon their posts
Combatants could invade nuclear plants
Others might take refuge there, creating a dangerous standoff
Failure of military command and control
Fog of war could bring plants under bombardment
Andrii Deshchytsia, Ukraine acting foreign minister at the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague: “Potential threat to many nuclear facilities [should events deteriorate into open warfare].”
Ihor Prokopchuk, IAEA ambassador from Ukraine wrote to the agency’s board of governors: “[An invasion could bring a] threat of radiation contamination on the territory of Ukraine and the territory of neighboring states.”
From Jan. 30, 2014: BBC: Ukraine “on brink of civil war” — Gov’t: Threats to blow up nuclear plants; Facilities on high alert after seizure of energy ministry (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/former-us-official…
Shale Gas and Politics: Are Western Energy Giants’ Interests Behind Ukraine Violence?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-sAk…
Monsanto invests in Ukraine
Rowlands continued: “The bulk of Monsanto’s investment in Europe is destined for the Ukraine, where Monsanto expects to have its largest seed production plant in Europe within five years after earmarking an initial $150 million investment, which could rise to $300 million within several years. Does Ukrainian agriculture want to totally rely on the success or failure of one US based company?”
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently announced that Russia will no longer import GMO products, stating that the nation has enough space, and enough resources to produce organic food.
If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We don’t need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food.” – Medvedev
Russia has been considering joining the long list (and continually growing) of anti-GMO countries for quite some time now. It does so after a group of Russian scientists urged the government to consider at least a 10-year moratorium on GMOs to thoroughly study their influence on human health.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/04/15/its-official-russia-completely-bans-gmos/
‘Oishinbo’ manga to be suspended – Japan censorship on the rise!
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0001288519
1:21 am, May 18, 2014
Jiji Press Shogakukan Inc. will suspend publication of the gourmet manga series “Oishinbo” after recent episodes provoked controversy over the health effects of radiation from the March 2011 nuclear accident, it was learned Saturday.
Oishinbo will not appear in the publisher’s weekly Big Comic Spirits magazine for some time from the issue to be released on May 26, informed sources said. Shogakukan will announce the decision in the issue to be published Monday.
In the next issue, the weekly’s chief editor Hiroshi Murayama will say he is keenly aware of his responsibility for causing discomfort to many people, adding that he and the associate editors will take seriously criticism and rebuke and review the way events were depicted in the manga series.
Futaba is one of the two municipalities that host Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the site of the nuclear accident, while the city of Osaka accepted debris from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami to help with their disposal.
The upcoming issue of the magazine is set to run the final episode of Oishinbo’s serial titled “The Truth of Fukushima.” In the episode, characters visit a livestock farmer family who moved from the Fukushima village of Iitate to Hokkaido and conclude that it is their responsibility to call for state compensation for anyone who wants to move out of Fukushima.
The manga series caused controversy due to a recent episode in which the lead character suffers nosebleeds after visiting the Fukushima nuclear plant—suggesting the nosebleed was an effect of exposure to radiation—and by another in which a character modeled after a real-life former Futaba mayor warns, “People currently must not live in Fukushima.”
In addition, a separate character calls attention to the health effects of radiation-contaminated debris on residents in Osaka.
More here
One of the characters in the cartoon is based on the ex mayor of Futaba ( Katsutaka Idogawa on Facebook) who agrees with the representations of him in the Manga cartoon story. His likeness in the cartoon is obvious.
Israel, Vanunu and the Bomb (2007 BBC FULL 1 HOUR DOCUMENTARY)
Published on 16 Mar 2012
I apologize that this is not available on mobile devices or TV but this is due to Youtube policy as (apart from being BBC) it has 15 secs of a song by “DJ Shadow” in there somewhere….this is also the reason the video is completely unavailable in Germany, out of my hands sorry again. :O(
That all said…Enjoy.
Vanunu and the Bomb synopsis below:
“This is the first man to tell the world nuclear weapons have arrived in the most troubled region on the Earth, the Middle East. In doing so he’s exposed the West’s opposition to nuclear proliferation as little more than a sham. Vanunu is banned from talking to foreign media, based on eyewitness testimony, this film is his story.”
—Sean Pertwee’s opening narration
February 1977 Nuclear Technician Mordechai Vanunu is assigned to work at the top secret Dimona facility. In 1986 he reveals to journalists Oscar Guerrero and Peter Hounam the presence of an underground plutonium plant there. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion had commissioned construction of the plant in 1958. Vanunu had made the discovery after 7-years at the plant and had photos to prove his story. Hounam takes Vanunu to The Sunday Times in London, where Nuclear Physicist Frank Barnaby confirms the data, but Mossad is tailing them.
Guerrero arrives in London and tries to sell the story to rival paper The Sunday Mirror. France, Britain and the U.S. had been complicit in the construction under a secret agreement between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The lonely Vanunu befriends intern Wendy Robbins but she insists that they remain just friends. The discredited story in the Mirror causes the Times to delay their publication. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Perez forbids Mossad from kidnapping Vanunu on British soil so they spring a honey trap to lure him to Rome.
In Italy Vanunu is abducted and shipped back to Israel but the Times decides to publish in the hopes of protecting his life. The Western powers that had professed a stance of non-nuclear proliferation while collaborating in the construction of Dimona were exposed as hypocrites and yet the press in those countries remained curiously silent on the subject. The Israelis confirm that they have Vanunu in detention but refuses to explain how. Convicted of treason Vanunu was sentenced to 18-years in prison.
Environment: Ingesting radioactive materials from Fukushima impacts butterflies
… consuming leaves that contain relatively small levels of artificial cesium released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP has measurable effects on the butterflies’ survival, growth and development…
http://www.natureasia.com/en/research/highlight/9275
Scientific Reports
May 15, 2014
Butterfly larvae that ingest radioactive plant materials collected from the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant may be more prone to abnormalities and early death. The findings are published in Scientific Reports this week.
The accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (NPP) in March 2011 led to the release of a large amount of radioactive materials into the environment. Previous research has indicated that exposure to such radioactive materials may have physiological and genetic effects on the Japanese pale grass blue butterfly (Zizeeria maha). Now Joji Otaki and colleagues examine how radiation from the contaminated region around Fukushima may contribute to lifetime ingestion of radionuclides by butterflies, and the potential biological consequences. The authors fed radioactive plant materials from locations around Fukushima to Japanese pale grass blue butterfly larvae from Okinawa – a Japanese prefecture about 1,000 miles south of Fukushima.
They show that consuming leaves that contain relatively small levels of artificial caesium released by the Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP has measurable effects on the butterflies’ survival, growth and development. Further research is needed to explore the potential implications of these findings for other organisms.
DOI:10.1038/srep04946 | Original article
Article has been pulled off this link however Nature has still got the details on their web site. Here is the information I was able to get;
The biological impacts of ingested radioactive materials on the pale grass blue butterfly
http://www.nature.com/srep/2014/140515/srep04946/full/srep04946.html
Dr. Rima Truth Reports – The Conscience of Fukushima with Misuhei Murata
http://drrimatruthreports.com/fukushima-against-the-will-of-heaven-and-earth/
By on May 15, 2014
His Excellency Misuhei Murata, Former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland, in an exclusive interview with Natural Solutions Foundation, identifies the Will of Heaven and Earth to repair Fukushima and end, once and for all, the use of nuclear power.
. . General Bert Stubblebine joins us in one of his rare appearances in this amazing interview.
The Interview Archive Podcast here: http://youtu.be/-9WRJlZ_Hfc
. . Fukushima is not like Chernobyl. There, a single reactor went bad and, although controlling the contamination took 7 years, 110,000 worker’s lives, it was a relatively straight forward task.
. . Fukushima Daiici (No. 1) is far different: Murata-San confirmed my information that there are 4 more reactors nearby at Fukushima Daiini (No. 2) which, while not as badly deteriorated as those at Fukushima, brings to 10 the number of dangerously compromised reactors.
. . His Excellency Ambassador Maurata has refused to remain silent, despite global inattention to the cataclysmic problems Fukushima represents for the entire world. He has formed the Japan Society for Global Systems and Ethics, https://sites.google.com/site/jasgseenglish and has posted a number of his missives to world leaders on Dr Rima Truth Reports: http://drrimatruthreports.com/ambassador-murata-continues-to-speak-truth-to-power/
. . TEPCO’s solutions are inadequate. The response of the Japanese government has been to criminalize truthful speech about radiation hazards in general and Fukushima in particular.
. . The Natural Solutions Foundation and Ambassador Murata have joined forces to bring this looming cataclysm to the world’s attention so it can be fixed.
. . Currently, there are no real fixes, there are only band aides. For that reason, the Natural Solutions Foundation has searched for novel or underused technologies which have the potential to actually fix the problem. These technologies have been made available to Murata-San and the Japanese government. The silence of the government is, quite literally, deafening.
. . Ambassador Murata has reached out to world leaders, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Pope Frances, Presidents Obama and Carter, among others, asking for the Will of Heaven and Earth, the reassertion of ethical behavior, to make itself felt.
We join in his call for a return to humane ethics.
. . We reject the crony corporatist system that treats human life and well-being as expendables. We reject the political decisions that led to the uninsurable risk of nuclear power and join Murata-San in calling for a Zero Nuclear Option. The First Rule of Ethics must be, “Do no harm!”
. . This remarkable interview with Murata-San brings General Bert, Counsel Ralph and Dr. Rima together for the first time to consider how health, health freedom, ethics, common sense and survival can solve the greatest threat to human kind ever created and, at the same time, become a spring board for a level of positive change the world has never seen.
Ambassador Murata calls for “an honorable retreat” for Japan, resigning the position of Olympic Host for the 2020 games. Since Fukushima is already contaminating Tokyo, says Murata-San, bringing people there in large numbers for the games (and the workers building the facilities before that event) is immoral and unethical.
. . He has called for an independent study group to visit Japan and make their recommendation to the International Olympic Committee. Only public pressure will accomplish that. Add your voice here to that cry for sanity: http://TinyURL.com/FukushimaHope.
http://tinyurl.com/FukushimaHope
. . Such an outcry, and such a commission, would reveal just how bad the situation is and force world response. Right now, without the data available (remember, disseminating such data is currently illegal in Japan) there is no world will to respond to the problem presented by Fukushima, and the larger problem presented by nuclear power.
HUman Rights Watch lets activists and victims down!
Published on 16 May 2014
Abby Martin speaks to Keane Bhatt, journalist and activist about a recent open letter he and many prominent figures signed calling for the non-profit organization Human Rights Watch to close its revolving door with the U.S. government.
https://nacla.org/blogs/keanebhatt
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-hypocrisy-of-human-rights-watch/5367940
Over more than a decade, the rise of the left in Latin American governance has led to remarkable advances in poverty alleviation, regional integration, and a reassertion of sovereignty and independence. The United States has been antagonistic toward the new left governments, and has concurrently pursued a bellicose foreign policy, in many cases blithely dismissive of international law.
So why has Human Rights Watch (HRW)—despite proclaiming itself “one of the world’s leading independent organizations” on human rights—so consistently paralleled U.S. positions and policies? This affinity for the U.S. government agenda is not limited to Latin America. In the summer of 2013, for example, when the prospect of a unilateral U.S. missile strike on Syria—a clear violation of the UN Charter—loomed large, HRW’s executive director Kenneth Roth speculated as to whether a simply “symbolic” bombing would be sufficient. “If Obama decides to strike Syria, will he settle for symbolism or do something that will help protect civilians?” he asked on Twitter. Executive director of MIT’s Center for International Studies John Tirman swiftly denounced the tweet as “possibly the most ignorant and irresponsible statement ever by a major human-rights advocate.”1
HRW’s accommodation to U.S. policy has also extended to renditions—the illegal practice of kidnapping and transporting suspects around the planet to be interrogated and often tortured in allied countries. In early 2009, when it was reported that the newly elected Obama administration was leaving this program intact, HRW’s then Washington advocacy director Tom Malinowski argued that “under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place” for renditions, and encouraged patience: “they want to design a system that doesn’t result in people being sent to foreign dungeons to be tortured,” he said, “but designing that system is going to take some time.”2
Similar consideration was not extended to de-facto U.S. enemy Venezuela, when, in 2012, HRW’s Americas director José Miguel Vivanco and global advocacy director Peggy Hicks wrote a letter to President Hugo Chávez arguing that his country was unfit to serve on the UN’s Human Rights Council. Councilmembers must uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights, they maintained, but unfortunately, “Venezuela currently falls far short of acceptable standards.”3 Given HRW’s silence regarding U.S. membership in the same council, one wonders precisely what HRW’s acceptable standards are.
One underlying factor for HRW’s general conformity with U.S. policy was clarified on July 8, 2013, when Roth took to Twitter to congratulate his colleague Malinowski on his nomination to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Malinowski was poised to further human rights as a senior-level foreign-policy official for an administration that convenes weekly “Terror Tuesday” meetings. In these meetings, Obama and his staffers deliberate the meting out of extrajudicial drone assassinations around the planet, reportedly working from a secret “kill list” that has included several U.S. citizens and a 17-year-old girl.4
Malinowski’s entry into government was actually a re-entry. Prior to HRW, he had served as a speechwriter for Secretary of State Madeline Albright and for the White House’s National Security Council. He was also once a special assistant to President Bill Clinton—all of which he proudly listed in his HRW biography. During his Senate confirmation hearing on September 24, Malinowski promised to “deepen the bipartisan consensus for America’s defense of liberty around the world,” and assured the Foreign Relations Committee that no matter where the U.S. debate on Syria led, “the mere fact that we are having it marks our nation as exceptional.”5
Power Lines, Fallout and Childhood Leukemia
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/09/power-lines-fallout-and-childhood-leukemia/
by CHRIS BUSBY
Weekend Edition May 9-11, 2014
The risk of leukemia for children living near power lines closely tracks levels of radiation from nuclear bomb test fallout, writes Chris Busby. The obvious explanation the ‘experts’ have chosen to ignore: the electro-magnetic fields increase radiation exposure.
The Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG) has recently published the results of a study of child leukemia near high voltage powerlines.
The conclusions have been widely reported as proving that there is no excess risk, as in Medical News Today:
“No childhood leukemia risk from power lines – Children who spend their early years living near overhead power lines are not at greater risk of developing childhood leukemia, according to researchers at the University of Oxford in the UK, who report their findings in the British Journal of Cancer.”
However it is a tortured interpretation of what the results really showed. What they found answers one of the most important questions in the area of childhood cancer, and one that I have been involved in for 20 years.
Enter the nuclear establishment’s wet blanket
The CCRG, based in Oxford, was set up originally in the 70s by Dr Gerald Draper. Draper began his career working for the late Dr Alice Stewart, whose ground-breaking research and data identified radiation as one cause of the increasing rates of the then largely new disease, childhood leukemia.
Alice told me she didn’t trust him. He quickly left her to set up the CCRG, an operation largely to parallel her own acquisition of childhood cancer data, but (mysteriously) much better funded.
The CCRG are essentially part of the environmental risk fire brigade funded by the government. Any suggestion that there is a problem (with radiation near nuclear sites, with high voltage powerlines, mobile phones, etc) is ‘independently’ investigated by CCRG – and the public are reassured.
It was CCRG that examined child cancer near nuclear sites and (through questionable methodology) recently gave an ‘all clear’. In my own studies of child leukemia in the UK (e.g., the Irish Sea, Aldermaston/ Harwell, Chepstow, Dumfries) Draper has popped up to have a go at me, and to play down any suggestion of links with radiation.
In 2005, however, CCRG went off at a tangent. Draper and colleagues carried out a study of childhood leukemia near high voltage powerlines.
This is an issue which has been an area of controversy since the 1970s when Wertheimer and Leeper first reported an association between low frequency (wiring) electromagnetic (EM) fields and childhood cancer. [4]
It’s a highly controversial area which has now generated enormous amount of research and which has spilled into the mobile phone-and-cancer arguments.
Identified – an excess of child leukemia near power lines
The Draper 2005 study or ‘CCRG study’ was a case-control study of a large number of children living in England and Wales diagnosed with cancer and leukemia living near high voltage power lines.
Results demonstrated a modest but statistically significant excess of child leukemia 0-14 in those living less than 600m away. For those children within 200m the relative risk RR was 1.64. That means that there was a 64% greater chance of developing childhood leukemia if the child lived less than 200m from a high voltage power line.
The study covered 1962-95 and involved 9,700 children with leukemia and the same number of controls. The powerlines examined were the 400 and 275kV lines. This result was, of course, rather embarrassing for the government and particularly the electricity supply industry.
Various committees were set up, including one, SAGE which, since I had carried out some research in this area (funded by Children with Leukemia CWL) I was invited to join when it began in 2004. I agreed, but the government found out, and I was suddenly dis-invited.
Burying the evidence
Clearly, something had to be done. Draper retired from CCRG and a new study was funded by the charity Children with Cancer – the same outfit as CWL with a name change.
The senior researcher was Kathryn Bunch (as in bunch of flowers or bunch of crooks) and it is the result of this extension of the earlier Draper et al 2005 study that turned up a most amazing and important result.
And having made they extraordinary and important discovery, they wrote it off in a remarkable scientific misinterpretation of the findings. This finding is the subject of this article.
The Bunch study increased the number of children with leukemia to 16,620 by extending the period to from 1962 to 2008, and adding Scotland to England and Wales. The authors found that over the whole period and for all the children, the effect declined over time from a relative risk of 4.5 in the 60s to 0.71 in the 2000s.
They conclude that “a risk declining over time” cannot arise from any physical effect of the powerlines and is “more likely to be a result of changing populations of those living near powerlines.”
This conclusion is absurd. We are to believe that the explanation of this extraordinary finding is that the types of people that chose to live near high voltage powerlines changed from leukemia sensitive individuals in the 1960s to leukemia resistant individuals today.
Can I have heard right? What do the journalists who report these conclusions think? Do they think at all?
From 1960s to present, a declining risk – but why?
There are two initial results which are key. The first is that the original effect found by Draper et al 2005 [3] is actually found at a greater level in the results from Bunch et al for the period from 1962 to 1999. The Relative Risks in the 0-200m region are given in Table 1 below for the periods used.
Thus the initial observation of a link is supported by the more recent study.
| Period | Leukemia RelativeRisk 0-200m | Cases0-200m | Controls0-200m | Total Numberof cases |
| 1962-1969 | 4.5 | 14 | 4 | 1107 |
| 1970-1979 | 2.46 | 40 | 22 | 3519 |
| 1980-1989 | 1.54 | 52 | 36 | 3578 |
| 1990-2000 | 0.99 | 67 | 64 | 4325 |
| 2000-2008 | 0.71 | 48 | 59* | 3999 |
Table 1. Results Relative Risk (by regression) for childhood leukemia 0-14 Bunch et al 2014. All data including 132kV lines. * = adjusted for higher control numbers.
What is quite clear is that up to 1990 there were 106 case and 62 controls within 200m, which is a crude population weighted Relative Risk of 2.33. The figure may be compared with the curiously lower Draper figure of 1.6.
Taking all the data to 2000 the RR = 1.86. Also statistically significant as is the result for the entire period to 2008 (1.58). However, the second (and most important) finding is that the reduction of the risk over time is remarkable and is statistically significant.
Turkey – Coal mining and nuclear power – corporate corruption threatens society and environment but brings big corporations together
OpEd by Arclight2011part2
Date posted 15 May 2014
Posted to nuclear-news.net
The Mine disaster at Soma has highlighted the issues in Turkey regarding corruption and corporate cost cutting causing health and safety issues . The Turkish government, just two weeks ago, denied an opposition party investigation into ongoing accidents and lax safety procedures ever since the privatisation of the industry in the 1990`s.
A connection between Soma Holdings and the Turkish government was deemed to be a contributing factor.
The price of coal had dropped drastically as wages were cut by using cheap unskilled labour and other cost cutting procedures.
This cost cutting can also be seen in the uranium industry, where the spot price for uranium is a mere (estimated) $20.22/lb (excluding tax and royalty), measured against the Australian spot price of US$34.50 / lb (A price that might cause Palladin mining to possibly go into liquidation as they have to produce their ore using more environmentaly secure practises. The real cost of safe extraction is $144 / lb).
It would be bad enough if Turkeys lax safety procedures (in the name of profit) were just limited to mining coal and uranium. However Turkey is now in the planning process to build eight reactors at two different sites in conjunction with French, Japanese Chinese and Russian consortiums.
In Japan they are using homeless and disabled people with little engineering skills to work in TEPCOS destroyed Fukushima Daichi nuclear site using Yakuza gangster contractors. Areva, who is also involved in the cost cutting Fukushima Daichi nuclear site with their largely failed water processing equipment, are going to supply the design for the Franco-japanese venture.
(Image shows Yakuza recruitment offices in Tokyo)
Russia who is overseeing the beginnings of a civil war in the Ukraine will likely be constructing first reactor to be built using nuclear workers from Belarus who should really be working on the Chernobyl Sarcophagus but the EBRDs (based the City of London) will only give funds to its own International private contractors, so as to deny any funding going to the non privatised Belarus government.
The Chinese will be using an American Westinghouse designed reactor for part of the business deal. China has a terrible record on environmental, transparency and safety issues and they pair well with the USA who are similarly minded.
Finally, none of this could have been possible without causing a thermo nuclear war, was it not for the ever diplomatic and nuclear selling organisation called the IAEA. The IAEA have done more for environmental disaster coverups and corporate profits than the International monetary Fund and all the major oil and coal corporations put together.
(Image shows how Turkish officials deal with the “opposition”)
The corporate international media have not given you all the details on the Turkish mining disaster. They will not say that the “mourners” were confronted by the police. The media says the “opposition” or “demonstrators”, much as in the Ukraine where the opposition is called the “Russians” or “terrorists”. Nor will anyone ask the question as to where did all the Chernobyl sarcophagus money go? And why is the work stopped if the Chernobyl site is actually in a peaceful (if corrupt) Belarus?
(Chernobyl sarcophagus not in Ukraine (As most media claim) and everyone seems to have gone on extended lunchbreak)
My thoughts have to go to the victims of corporate greed in India, Turkey, Japan and the Ukraine and the future victims of corporate greed that will be deemed “terrorists” or similar and have the police or armies controlled by the corporations set upon them.
Links to the above posits are below;
Turkey plans to build two nuclear power plants
English.news.cn 2014-05-14
ANKARA, May 13 (Xinhua) — Turkey and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) discussed Tuesday about the country’s plans to build two nuclear power plants.
“Turkey and the IAEA would continue the cooperation in a strong way, Yildiz said, adding that the IAEA would increase the number of Turkish engineers working in the agency…..There are technology universities of nuclear power plants in France, Russia, South Korea, Japan and the United States. We plan to open one in Turkey,” the minister added.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/14/c_133331477.htm
(Updated May 2014)
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Turkey has had plans for establishing nuclear power generation since 1970. Today, plans for nuclear power are a key aspect of the country’s aim for economic growth.
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Recent developments have seen Russia take a leading role in offering to finance and build 4800 MWe of nuclear capacity.
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Application has been made for construction and operating licences for the first plant, at Akkuyu, and these are expected in mid 2014.
- A Franco-Japanese consortium is to build the second nuclear plant, at Sinop.
“The Energy minister said in April 2013 that talks were continuing with both Mitsubishi-Areva-led and Chinese consortia, the latter led by China Guangdong Nuclear Power (CGNPC) and proposing ACPR1000 reactors, with Fangchenggang 3&4 (due to be built from 2014) as reference units. These may eventuate for another site.”
“Australian-based Anatolia Energy Ltd* has a 100% interest in 18 exploration licences which include the Temrezli project. Project activities are undertaken by A Dur Madencilik Ltd (Adur), a wholly-owned subsidiary.”
* Anatolia Uranium Pty Ltd (AUL) has 65% ownership of the Temrezli project,
Anatolia Energy also has a significant tenement holding in the Sefaatli (35 km away) and West Sorgun areas.
The Rosatom agreement for Akkuyu also provides for setting up a fuel fabrication plant in Turkey.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-T-Z/Turkey/
Chain Reaction #119, Nov 2013, www.foe.org.au/chain-reaction/editions/119
The 12% price slump in July was the biggest monthly loss since March 2011. Since September 2, the spot price has been still lower, at US$34.00. Those prices are just over half the spot price of US$66.50 / lb on 11 March 2011, the first day of the triple-disaster in north-east Japan.
http://www.foe.org.au/uranium-price-slumps-paladin-energy-trouble
Soma Mines Tragedy: Turkey burning in protests after police clashes with mourners
http://www.dnd.com.pk/soma-mines-tragedy-turkey-burning-protests-police-clashes-mourners/
“Even though the previous information given by the unauthorized persons about the death roll correspond to our present data, this does not make them right.”
Minister Yıldız’s statement was not a coincidence. Soma Holding, the parent company of Soma Coal, has close ties with the AKP government. Melike Doğru, the wife of the general director of Soma Holding Mine Enterprises, is a councilor from the government party.
“A parliamentary proposal of investigation about the working conditions into Soma mine workers and work accidents in the town proposed by opposition parties was refused just two weeks ago, on April 29, by the majority votes of AKP deputies.”
“The EBRD and Belarus The current political, economic and structural reform environment in Belarus warrants the continued application of a calibrated strategic approach, incorporating both political and economic benchmarks to gauge the country’s progress or regress against its key Article 1 commitments and adjusting the Bank’s operational response accordingly”
https://nuclear-news.net/2014/04/19/jonathan-steele-ukraine-whats-behind-the-crisis-belarus-next/
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2014/05/tepco-posts-4-3bn-profit.html
Vanunu Could Be FREE 18 May 2014 – Petition request!
A message from the campaign to
We are not free until Vanunu is FREE |
Invite your friends to sign the petition to World Media and Israel: We are not free, until Vanunu is free!
Posted By: TNT: Tell Nuclear Truths (campaign leader)
The current restrictions denying Vanunu his right to leave Israel expire on May 18, 2014.
For the last 10 years, Israel has renewed the restrictions but YOU can help Israel get the message that The World is watching and will not forget Vanunu by:
Visiting Vanunu’s website which he UPDATED on 13 May 2014
Posting a comment of support at Vanunu’s YouTube Channel
Thank YOU for already signing this petition, but will you now:
INVITE your friends to sign and share HERE
And email this link to your Media with the NEWS TIP that Vanunu could be FREE on 18 May 20014!
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of the week – Shut Down Drone Warfare!
Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
Petition to revoke the licensing of the Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7247
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