TEPCO ‘doctored’ video of Fukushima conference
Yomiuri: Tepco has ‘heavily altered’ video footage — Expert suspects images have been altered more than necessary http://enenews.com/yomiuri-tepco-has-heavily-altered-video-footage-expert-suspects-images-have-been-altered-more-than-necessary August 7th, 2012 By ENENews
Title: TEPCO video heavily altered / Alternation shows utility’s reluctance to make information available
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Aug. 8, 2012
The recently disclosed video of Tokyo Electric Power Co. teleconferences that took place just after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been significantly altered, with many images blurred and audio heavily obscured. Continue reading
In Japan, (as in other countries) nuclear lobby cons children
At left is an example of AREVA’s spin to children in Australia
‘Alice in Wonderland’ was used to convince children in Japan nuclear power is safe (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/alice-wonderland-convince-children-japan-nuclear-power-safe-photo-video (VIDEO) August 8th, 2012 By ENENews
Speaker: Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists Stories have come out that the government was promoting nuclear power so much that they were using cartoon characters, they were using Alice in Wonderland to convince school children nuclear power is incredibly safe. They weren’t showing the other side of the story adequately enough. It was an unbalanced presentation.
The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme: The New York Times’ Norimitsu Onishi on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ theme:
Source: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times
Near a nuclear power plant facing the Sea of Japan, a series of exhibitions in a large public relations building here extols the virtues of the energy source with some help from “Alice in Wonderland.”
“It’s terrible, just terrible,” the White Rabbit says in the first exhibit. “We’re running out of energy, Alice.”
A Dodo robot figure, swiveling to address Alice and the visitors to the building, declares that there is an “ace” form of energy called nuclear power. It is clean, safe and renewable if you reprocess uranium and plutonium, the Dodo says.
“Wow, you can even do that!” Alice says of nuclear power. “You could say that it’s optimal for resource-poor Japan!”
Nuclear power workers co-operate in deception, in order to keep their jobs
Nuclear power plants: A hidden world of untruths, unethical behavior August 06, 2012 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN The long and the short of it is this: Nuclear power plants probably would not operate properly in Japan if workers were not willing to sacrifice their health, and possibly their lives.
It emerges that workers at nuclear plants routinely resorted to ingenious ways to conceal the true levels of radiation to which they were exposed–simply to go on earning a living. Continue reading
Tepco managing director says “evacuate the workers from the site” after Reactor No. 3 exploded
WSJ: Tepco managing director says “evacuate the workers from the site” after Reactor No. 3 exploded — “Bulk of footage is available for viewing only by select journalist” http://enenews.com/wsj-tepco-managing-director-evacuate-workers-site-after-reactor-3-exploded-footage-available-viewing-only-select-journalist August 6th, 2012 By ENENews
Title: Tepco Releases Video Footage Taken During Critical Hours After Fukushima Daiichi Accident
Source: Wall Street Journal
Author: Phred Dvorak and Mitsuru Obe
Date: Aug 6, 2012
On Monday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. for the first time released footage taken inside its command centers
[…]
They’re 150 hours recorded over Tepco’s emergency videoconference system — 100 of them without audio — and they largely show tiny, blurred-out faces around conference tables. The bulk of the footage is available for viewing only by select journalists in Tokyo (including JRT). Continue reading
Highest Yet: 300 times over cesium limit in wild mushroom
Highest Yet: 300 times over cesium limit in wild mushroom — Found far
from Fukushima plant, 140 km away in Tochigi Prefecture
http://enenews.com/highest-yet-310-times-safety-limit-in-wild-mushroom-found-outside-fukushima-in-tochigi-prefecture August 7th, 2012
August 6, 2012 report in the Nikkei Shinbun translated by EXSKF:
Highest level of cesium detected in wild mushroom
Tochigi Prefecture announced on August 6 that 31,000 Bq/kg of
radioactive cesium was detected in wild “Lactarius volemus” (tawny
milkcap mushroom) harvested in Nikko City, far exceeding the national
safety standard (100 Bq/kg).
[…]
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, it is the highest
level exceeding the amount detected in “Lactarius volemus” harvested
in Tanakura-machi in Fukushima Prefecture in September last year,
which measured 28,000 Bq/kg. The Tochigi prefectural government says,
“We believe the cesium absorption was largely from the soil, but
radioactive materials from the surrounding trees may also have
affected it.”
Bloomberg: Tepco considered shooting firearms at No. 3 reactor building
Bloomberg: Tepco considered shooting firearms at No. 3 reactor building
August 7th, 2012 By ENENews Title: Tepco Weighed Using Firearms to Avoid Fukushima Explosion
Source: Bloomberg
Author: By Tsuyoshi Inajima and Yuji Okada
Date: Aug 7, 2012
As the first hydrogen explosion rocked the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) officials scrambled to prevent a second blast, at one point weighing the use of firearms to shoot a hole in the reactor building to release the pressure.
[…]
Officials were discussing methods to release hydrogen gas building up inside the facility housing the No. 3 reactor after the first explosion rocked the No. 1 unit on March 12, 2011. Videos show officials considering the use of firearms and a helicopter to drop an object into the reactor housing to make a hole, with those who proposed the actions at one point suggesting they may sound “wild” or “absurd.”
[…]
Some in the U.S. government were coming up with similar plans:
« WSJ: Tepco managing director says “evacuate the workers from the site” after Reactor No. 3 exploded — “Bulk of footage is available for viewing only by select journalist” Radioactive cesium reported in Kellogg’s cereal from Japan — Almost 20 becquerels per kilogram »
Tepco Tapes: Fukushima chief calls out ‘mayday, mayday’ when Reactor No. 3 exploded http://enenews.com/tepco-tapes-fukushima-chief-calls-out-mayday-mayday-when-reactor-no-3-exploded-hq-started-to-respond-as-if-he-said-he-was-going-out-to-lunch-video — HQ started to respond as if he said he was going out to lunch (VIDEO)
Published: August 6th, 2012 at 10:53 am ET
By ENENews Video of when Reactor 3 exploded posted on Nikkei.com with summary translation by EXSKF:
It was more like Plant Manager Yoshida was calling “mayday, mayday” when Reactor 3 blew up. The people at TEPCO HQ didn’t seem to comprehend what Yoshida was saying for several seconds, and started to respond as if Yoshida had just said he was going out to lunch.
They started to say “hai”, “hai” – OK, yes -, then “Uh… so it’s the same as Reactor 1? OK it’s an emergency. I will issue emergency communication then…”
[…]
Wikipedia: Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. […] It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by mariners and aviators, but in some countries local organisations such as police forces, firefighters, and transportation organizations also use the term.
Nikkei has 9 videos (Japanese only) posted here
Fukushima – deception in the workplace
Asahi: Disturbing picture emerging as nuclear employees come out of the woodwork — Fukushima workers report groups clocking in with no dosimeters http://enenews.com/asahi-disturbing-picture-emerging-nuclear-employees-woodwork-fukushima-workers-report-groups-clocking-dosimeters August 6th, 2012
By ENENews (Subscription Only) Title: Nuclear power plants: A hidden world of untruths, unethical behavior
Source: Asahi AJW
Author: Compiled from reports by Miki Aoki, Toshio Tada and Tamiyuki Kihara
The long and the short of it is this: Nuclear power plants probably would not operate properly in Japan if workers were not willing to sacrifice their health, and possibly their lives.
It emerges that workers at nuclear plants routinely resorted to ingenious ways to conceal the true levels of radiation to which they were exposed–simply to go on earning a living. Continue reading
When radioactive cesium enters body, 75% lodges in muscle tissue
including heart http://enenews.com/when-radioactive-cesium-enters-body-75-lodges-in-muscle-tissue-including-heart May 6th, 2012 By ENENews
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a
Ticking Time-Bomb
Alternet
Brad Jacobson
May 4, 2012
[…] Nuclear experts noted that other lethal radioactive isotopes
would also be released in such a fire, but that the focus is on
cesium-137 because it easily volatilizes and spreads pervasively, as
it did during the Chernobyl accident and again after the disaster at
Fukushima Daiichi last year.
With a half-life of 30 years, it gives off penetrating radiation as it
decays and can remain dangerous for hundreds of years. Once in the
environment, it mimics potassium as it accumulates in the food chain;
when it enters the human body, about 75 percent lodges in muscle
tissue, including the heart. […]
July 2012: Fukushima Man has 20,000 becquerels of cesium in body — Wife has 10,000 Bq http://enenews.com/july-2012-fukushima-man-20000-becquerels-cesium-body-wife-10000-bq August 5th, 2012
By ENENews August 4, 2012 report in the Asahi Shinbun with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:
A hematological physician in Minamisoma general hospital (23km from Fukushima plant) wrote on his blog that he measured 20,000 Bq/body from a man in 70s living in Fukushima by WBC (Whole body counter) though it was already July 2012. This is the total of Cs-134 and Cs-137.
He measured 10,000 Bq/body from the wife as well. It’s about 300 Bq/Kg.
Gov’t Releases Last Year’s Tests: “Contamination detected even in the Sea of Japan” — “Airborne material” blamed — Includes Niigata, Shizuoka, and Iwate http://enenews.com/govt-releases-last-years-tests-contamination-detected-sea-japan-airborne-material-blamed-includes-niigata-shizuoka-iwate
August 5th, 2012
By ENENews Title: Radioactive cesium found off of Niigata, Shizuoka, Iwate coasts: gov’t study
Source: Mainichi
Date: August 4, 2012
Radioactive cesium likely from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was detected last year in a survey of ocean waters and fish off Niigata, Shizuoka, and Iwate prefectures, the government announced on Aug. 3. “Even if taken internally, the radiation levels detected are not a risk to human health,” the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology stated. The ministry added it believes the small amount of contamination detected even in the Sea of Japan off Niigata was probably originally airborne material that made it to coastal waters through rain and river courses.
[…]
Test results:
- In May last year that there were 9.1 millibecquerels of radioactive cesium per liter of seawater off Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture
- In December, the survey found two becquerels per kilogram in a type of flounder in [Shizuoka]
- In May last year, the survey found dried sea floor dirt from the southeast of Sado Island […] was contaminated with 31 becquerels of cesium per kilogram
- In the ocean off Yamada, Iwate Prefecture […] 0.7 becquerels per liter of seawater were detected in May 2011
50,000 at Hiroshima remembrance rally, opposing nuclear weapons and nuclear power
Nuclear fears focus attention on Hiroshima anniversary, THE HINDU, 6 Aug 12, Interest in the anniversary of the US atomic bombing of the western Japanese city of Hiroshima was heightened on Monday amid growing public frustration with the country’s decision to restart atomic reactors after last year’s nuclear accident.
Most participants at the 67th anniversary commemorations expressed their opposition to nuclear power generation. Those attending also included people who once lived near a nuclear plant in Fukushima prefecture in north-eastern Japan that was the site of the 2011
meltdowns of three reactors.
Such attendees included Tamotsu Baba, the mayor of Namie town, all of whose residents were forced to leave after the accident.
Students lie down symbolising deaths from nuclear wars and accidents
About 50,000 people attended the observance in Peace Memorial Park near ground zero, Hiroshima’s city government said. Mayor Kazumi Matsui called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the ceremony…. http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article3733249.ece
Remembrance of Nuclear Energy Disaster Victims
heres a video with Paul Gunter from Beyond Nuclear and others making statements and prayers at the New York memorial.. the introduction is very interesting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKiUteVBrR8
Discrimination, mental health issues, among Fukushima’s brave clean-up workers
Doctors: Japan Nuclear Plant Workers Face Stigma By MALCOLM FOSTER Associated Press abc News, TOKYO August 5, 2012 (AP) A growing number of Japanese workers who are risking their health to shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are suffering from depression, anxiety about the future and a loss of motivation, say two doctors who visit them regularly.
But their psychological problems are driven less by fears about developing cancer from radiation exposure and more by something immediate and personal: Discrimination from the very community they tried to protect, says Jun Shigemura, who heads a volunteer team of about ten psychiatrists and psychologists from the National Defense Medical College who meet with Tokyo Electric Power Co. nuclear plant employees. Continue reading
Much uncertainty in predicting cancer deaths from Fukushima radiation
Trying to Tally Fukushima, NYT, By MATTHEW L. WALD, 19 July 12 “….In the slippery question of “How bad was Fukushima,” two Stanford University researchers have published a paper that casts the accident in a new light. It still seems hazy, though …… The study’s significance is not clear. The International Commission on Radiological Protection, the body from which the United States draws most of its radiation limits, warned of the limitations of such predictions in a 2007 position paper.
It said that calculating the collective radiation dose of the whole population and then trying to derive numbers on risks from it presented problems. “Collective effective dose is not intended as a tool for epidemiological risk assessment,” the group said, “and it is inappropriate to use it in risk projections.”
“The aggregation of very low individual doses over an extended time period is inappropriate, and in particular, the calculation or the number of cancer deaths based on collective effective doses from trivial individual doses should be avoided,” that paper added…
Political instability in Japan, as anti nuclear sentiment grows
Nuclear energy wild card in Japan poll which Democrats likely to lose Asahi Shimbun REUTERS 4 Aug 12, Growing Japanese opposition to nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster will be a wild card in a general election many expect within months, but politicians on both sides of the aisle agree on one thing: the Democratic Party is likely to fall from power just three years after its historic landslide win….
….Whatever the timing, the DPJ risks facing an anti-nuclear backlash as protests grow against Noda’s decision to restart two atomic reactors to avoid blackouts, despite
safety fears after an earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011 the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986……. Continue reading
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