Extreme heat, police repression, nothing stops The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)
Anti-nuclear protesters lay seige to Kudankulam plant http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/October/international_October252.xml§ion=international&col= 9 October 2012 The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday strengthened their 420-day agitation against Kudankulam atomic power plant in Tamil Nadu by laying siege of the plant.
Hundreds of fishermen and farmers from over 80 villages in Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Thoothukudi districts surrounded the sea 500 metres off the plant by placing their fibre boats and floating buoys. The protests passed off peacefully.
Defying the scorching heat, the protesters remained in the sea till evening demanding closure of the plant, 100kms from the Kerala capital of Trivandrum. The villagers also demanded withdrawal of police from the villages, release of those arrested and cancellation of false cases registered against them. Continue reading
The UNsafety of South Korea’s nuclear power plants
Nuclear safety concerns growing Korea Times. Experts stress system overhaul necessary to avoid disaster By Park Si-soo, 8 Oct 12, With nuclear reactors shutting down repeatedly month after month, there is growing concern over whether the nation’s atomic power plant management system has a structural problem that could lead to disaster. Continue reading
South Korea – civil liberties disappearing, in the interests of nuclear industry
South Korea can’t deny the risks of nuclear power forever http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/nuclear-south-korea-risks/blog/42486/
by Jan Beranek – October 8, 2012 I am at a detention centre at South Korea’s airport, quickly writing these few words as best I can on a mobile phone. Together with my colleague, Dr. Rianne Teule, I have been denied entry to South Korea.
We have done nothing wrong. That is, unless you agree with the government in Seoul that exposing the risks of nuclear power and calling for better protection of people from radiation is wrong. Continue reading
The “Fukushima Syndrome” – sick and dying cattle
Inside Evacuation Zone: Cattle sick, dying — “We call it Fukushima syndrome” — Severe diarrhea, skin problems, weakened immune systems http://enenews.com/farm-evacuation-zone-cattle-sick-dying-call-fukushima-syndrome-diarrhea-like-water-snivel-spreading-dermatitis-immune-system-being-weaken October 8th, 2012
Oct 5, 2012Recent tweets by Fukushima Farm Sanctuary (@kibounobokujyou), a farm inside the 20 kilometer evacuation zone, translated by Fukushima Diary:
4 cattle have died since yesterday. One more calf is about to die. They must be fed enough though nutrition might not be perfect. Is bad disease going around ? I’m worried about radiation too. We call it Fukushima syndrome. […]
3 died yesterday. […]
Masami Yoshizawa, RancherDiarrhea like water, snivel, spreading dermatitis, their immune system is being weaken, which is obvious even for amateur. It might be because of simply the lack of nutrition, epidemic disease, or radiation exposure. Probably it’s only in this hazard area, where series of cattle die one after one. We call it Fukushima syndrome, which was born from Tepco and the government.
A lot of calves are dying but adult cattle are dying too. Calves die regardless of the age. If it becomes winter in this situation, the number might become half or less than that.
Japan authorities passing the buck on decision-making about nuclear restart
Government tries to duck reactor-restart decisions Fujimura hints decision rests with new body, Japan Times By MASAMI ITO, 7 October 12, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura suggested Thursday that the central government does not have the ultimate say, or responsibility, in reactivating nuclear reactors, triggering confusion over who is in charge of making the decision.
At a news conference, Fujimura repeatedly stressed that the new Nuclear Regulation Authority is in charge of assessing the safety of reactors and that power companies are only tasked with explaining reactor restarts to host municipalities and seeking their consent. Continue reading
Japan’s new nuclear regulation agency- a nuclear promotion agency?
New nuclear regulation agency lined with nuclear promoters http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=4147 September 25, 2012
The nuclear regulation agency will serve a clerical function for the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA). It will be essential for the people to strictly watch the agency along with the NRA led by Tanaka Shun’ichi, former dweller of the “nuclear power village”.
The agency’s top officials are Ikeda Katsuhiko (former superintendent general at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), Morimoto Hideka (former senior official of the Environment Ministry), Yasui Masaya (former atomic policy chief of the Resources and Energy Agency), Kuroki Yoshihide (former official of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department), Nayuki Tetsuo (former official of the Nuclear Safety Bureau of the Science and Technology Agency), Sakurada Michio (former director of the nuclear fuel cycle industry division of the Resources and Energy Agency), and Yamamoto Tetsuya (former official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency – NISA).
Yasui is a person who once ordered the cover-up of estimated costs for disposal of nuclear spent fuel in order “to prevent public scrutiny.”
Kuroki, though he apologized later for his unfounded assertion, stated that “it makes no sense in Japan to include nuclear opponents” as nuclear regulators.
Akahata described the nuclear regulation agency as a nuclear promotion agency.
Fukushima nurses leaving, to protect their own children from radiation
Nurses evacuate Fukushima to save their children from the potential risk of radiation http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/nurses-evacuate-fukushima-to-save-their-children-from-the-potential-risk-of-radiation/ by Mochizuki October 6th, 2012 Fukushima prefecture is facing a serious shortage of nurses and health workers.
The biggest reason is nurses have evacuated to save their children from the potential radiation risk because of Fukushima accident. On the other hand, the number of patients are increasing as evacuation period is prolonged.
According to Fukushima prefectural government, 14,556 nurses and other workers were at hospitals in the prefecture on 3/1/2011, shortly before 311, but it dropped to 14,089 on 3/1/2012.
Fukushima nursing association comments in 2/2011, there were 216 applications for 366 jobs, the job opening-to-application ratio was 1.69. However, at the end of this August, there were 174 applications for 768 jobs. The job-opening-to-application ratio was 4.41, which made a huge increase since before 311.
The number of young people receiving checkups is expected to increase in line with the Oct. 1 launch of a system providing free medical care to people aged 18 or under, and the association remains concerned about the situation, which could hinder health checks, saying a shortage of people in the medical profession could impede local restoration efforts.
In other disaster areas, Iwate and Miyagi are also having shortages of medical workers, but the situation has been particularly serious in Fukushima Prefecture due to the nuclear disaster, and it is expected to continue for a long time.
Midori Suzuki, a senior director of the Fukushima Nursing Association comments, “The shortage of regular nurses and health nurses was an issue even before the disaster, but since the nuclear disaster, the situation has gotten unusually serious, I want the government to widen its awareness of what is hindering restoration.”
Fukushima information website
http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/new-nuclear-regulation-agency-lined.htm We are Japanese people living in the UK. We are not activists or scientists, just normal citizens who want peace in the world and to protect our environment in a way that serves everybody. We are aware that there isn’t enough information in the main stream media in the UK about what’s going on in Fukushima, and we would like to share with you what we’ve found from Japanese web sites: information and news from scientists and doctors who are extremely worried about the safety of citizens, and from concerned freelance journalists and ordinary people. Since the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we have been feeling a huge sense of loss… and have learned that nothing stays the same. Also we think that the Fukushima disaster was actually the result of many years of global political and economic corruption going on behind the scenes, and that the Japanese government was taken in by the worldwide drive for nuclear power, without learning the lessons of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. (NB: English is not our native language, so please take this into account when reading this blog.)
Japan’s Science Ministry may have “doctored” Fukushima radiation readings
Group: Ministry may have manipulated Fukushima radiation readings October 06, 2012 THE ASAHI SHIMBUN Citizens and scientists have raised concerns that the science ministry manipulated its measurement of radiation levels in Fukushima Prefecture to show figures lower than they really were.
The Association for Citizens and Scientists Concerned About Internal Radiation Exposures said on Oct. 5 that its survey this year of airborne dose levels found an average 10-30 percent higher than the ministry’s numbers, and in certain areas, the discrepancy was even
greater….. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201210060041
Boss of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at Japan’s Nuclear-Free Forum
Japan forum to discuss nuclear-free energy future, 06 October 2012 Muhammad Iqbal TOKYO: Japanese and European officials are to discuss future energy solutions at a forum in Kyoto this weekend in the wake of Japan’s plans to eliminate atomic power from the country’s energy mix by 2040.
Officials at the annual Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum Sunday will discuss the experience of removing nuclear power from a country’s energy mix, and what independent institutions can advise on the process.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration in September declared its aim to eliminate atomic power over the next 30 years, as the cabinet declared a three-pronged strategy leading up to the halt, with tougher safety standards, the shuttering of reactors 40-years-old and a ban on the building of new units.
Since the tsunami-sparked meltdowns at the Fukushima plant last year there has been a grounds well of public opposition to nuclear power, which once provided a third of energy-hungry Japan’s electricity.
Genevieve Fioraso, France’s minister of higher education and research, told reporters Saturday ahead of the forum that Japan fared well despite its energy problems but said development of renewable energy solutions was “difficult”.
Among officials attending the forum Sunday are Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), UK government chief scientific adviser John Beddington, and members of the Fukushima inquiry commission…..http://www.brecorder.com/world/southeast-asia/84115-japan-forum-to-discuss-nuclear-free-energy-future.html
Japan’s proposed nuclear waste dump, close to cultural icon
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 2nd to October 4th, 2012 Greenpeace International, by Christine McCann – October 5, 2012 “…Waste Removal and Storage Joining the chorus of voices opposing the government’s recent decision to build a nuclear waste depository in a national forest in Ibaraki Prefecture, the Tokugawa Museum is protesting the location choice, which is only 3 km from a forest it owns. That forest is home to a mountain villa built in 1886 by the 11th lord of the Mito domain and the brother of the last Tokugawa shogun. The museum plans to have it designated as a national important cultural asset. “We’re worried about all sorts of rumors [about radioactivity] ahead of our plan to have the villa designated an important cultural asset. We’ll strongly oppose construction.” http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-october-2/blog/42456/
Japanese government secrecy tightening, over Fukushima health effects
Officials from Fukushima Prefecture have admitted that they conducted secret meetings with 19 health experts and government officials, discussing the impact of radiation on human health, in the wake of the Fukushima disaster. The meetings were held before official meetings, and participants were instructed not to tell anyone that they had
participated. Meeting materials were collected after the meeting so that they could not be removed from the room, and no minutes were kept.
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 2nd to October 4th, 2012 Greenpeace International, by Christine McCann – October 5, 2012 “…..As duties are transferred from the now defunct Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) to the newly-created Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), the Nuclear Energy Library, which gave the public access to over 40,000 documents relating to nuclear power, will close.
The Library was created in 1997 to create transparency after a leak and subsequent cover-up at the Monju fast-breeder. It was heavily visited in the period following the Fukushima nuclear disaster; many documents there are not available online. Experts are criticizing the decision. Continue reading
Japanese government ‘cooking the books’ on Fukushima health effects
Mainichi: Gov’t “choreographed” event on Fukushima health effects http://enenews.com/mainichi-govt-choreographed-event-fukushima-health-effects/comment-page-1#comment-293237 October 5th, 2012 Title: Fukushima Prefecture prepared proceedings for nuke radiation meeting Source: Mainichi Date: Oct 5, 2012 The Fukushima Prefectural Government drew up proceedings for a health research panel prior to a formal July 2011 meeting on nuclear radiation, deciding in advance what members should say, the Mainichi has learned.
The drafted proceedings included concluding remarks about the results of the research on the health of Fukushima Prefecture residents […]
When contacted by the Mainichi Shimbun about the choreographed proceedings, a prefectural government official in charge said the Fukushima government “may have produced” a chart of proceedings but declined to make further comment. […]
[The chart] ended with the prearranged conclusion that internal exposure to cesium 134 and cesium 137 was less than 1 millisievert in total and extremely low […]
A prefectural government official said the chart may have been prepared for the panel chairman, Shunichi Yamashita, vice president of Fukushima Medical University. […]
See also: Gov’t held secret meetings about human health impacts from Fukushima crisis
More on Yamashita: Head of Fukushima health study: 100 mSv/yr OK for pregnant moms — “Effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy… They come to people that are weak-spirited”
First case of compensation for cancer in Fukushima worker
Fukushima workers started having cancer
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/fukushima-workers-started-having-cancer/ by Mochizuki October 5th, 2012 In September, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare admitted a Fukushima worker applied for workmen’s compensation insurance. It isfor gastric cancer, esophageal cancer or colon cancer.
This is the first case of the application of workmen’s compensation insurance. The occupational disease department of MHLW is concealing the profile and the integral dose of the worker.
Another nuclear worker commented like this below, Continue reading
Politics in Japan, as government muddles over Fukushima crisis
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Update for October 2nd to October 4th, 2012 Greenpeace International, by Christine McCann – October 5, 2012 Nuclear Regulation Authority Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has released new guidelines for nuclear disasters, including expanding the evacuation zone around nuclear reactors from 10 to 30 km. The move will have a significant impact on local communities, which now need to craft complicated evacuation plans. Previously, only 45 municipalities in 15 prefectures were required to have nuclear emergency plans; now 135 municipalities in 21 prefectures are required to submit them by March 2013. Iodine tablets will also be distributed to anyone living within 50 km of a nuclear reactor. Local officials are complaining that the central government has not shared radiation diffusion simulation data, which makes it impossible to determine where to send people if a nuclear accident occurs. Continue reading 1 This Month
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