Video: the dangers of ionising radiation
The Dangers of Radiation: Dr. Group on Info Wars http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/edward-group/dangerous-radiation-is-already-upon-us/ By Edward Group Global Healing Center September 21, 2013
Dr Edward Group ~ The Dangers of Radiation
Recently I was on Info Wars with Anthony Gucciardi and we discussed the dangers of radiation, how we’re exposed to this toxic glow, and the measures you can take to protect yourself and your family. This is a big deal. Radiation is escaping Fukushima at an alarming rate. Are you prepared for the toxic aftermath?
Increase in health problems among Fukushima nuclear workers
TV: Gov’t reports large spike in health problems for Fukushima nuclear workers — 400% of levels seen previously — Unhealthy white blood cell counts (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/tv-govt-reports-large-spike-in-health-problems-for-fukushima-nuclear-workers-400-of-levels-seen-previously-unhealthy-white-blood-cell-counts-video
NHK World,, Sept. 20, 2013: More Fukushima plant workers show health problems […] The health ministry says the percentage of workers who have health issues in their physical exams has increased at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and nearby locations. The ministry for the first time analyzed the results of physicals reported to a labor standards inspection office which has jurisdiction over 2 nuclear plants in Fukushima. […] 4.21% of the employees in the area, showed unhealthy medical readings, such as higher white blood cell counts. […] it plans to conduct an epidemiological survey to learn more about the impact of the radiation.
NHK, Sept. 20, 2013 (transcript excerpts): […] They’ve seen an increase in health problems […] More than 4% of those workers had health problems such as high white
Fukushima nuclear plant never should have been placed over river site
TV: Warnings the worst is yet to come at Fukushima — Deep underneath nuclear plant a massive pool of contamination is believed to be heading toward Pacific Ocean (VIDEO) Title: Fukushima leak questions handling of nuclear plant crisis
Source: ABC News (Australia)
Date: Sept. 19, 2013 MARK WILLACY, REPORTER: Atsunao Marui is one of Japan’s top groundwater scientists and a member of a panel set up by TEPCO and the Government to try to find ways of managing Fukushima’s growing reservoir of radioactive water. He says putting the nuclear plant on this stretch of coast in the first place was inviting disaster
ATSUNAO MARUI, GROUNDWATER SCIENTIST(voiceover translation): A river used to flow right where the turbine and reactor buildings are now standing, so the groundwater is flowing very fast through there and it’s spreading the contamination. The company should have known this could happen.
WILLACY: But there are warnings the worst is yet to come because it’s believed that deep beneath the nuclear plant is a massive underground pool of contaminated water which is slowly making its way towards the sea.
Leaks, cracks, and more lies at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant
TV: Officials concerned about 400 ft. tall pipe near Fukushima reactors collapsing during quake — 8 cracks found in support brace — Gov’t orders immediate investigation — Tepco unsure how to access area as radiation levels around it are 10 sieverts per hour (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/tv-officials-concerned-400-ft-tall-pipe-next-to-fukushima-reactors-will-collapse-during-quake-8-cracks-found-in-support-brace-govt-orders-immediate-investigation-tepco-unsure-how-to-acces
Fukushima Update: Leaks, Cracks and More Lies
NHK Newsline,, Sept. 19, 2013 (Transcript Excerpts): The people in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have yet another problem on their hands. They say they found cracks in the brace supporting an exhaust pipe. Authorities are concerned the pipe could collapse in another earthquake […] Officials with Tepco say they spotted cracks in 8 places on the steel brace that holds the pipe upright. […] Overseers at the nuclear regulation authority are demanding that company officials investigate immediately. They want to know if the structure can withstand another earthquake.
NHK WORLD English, Sept. 18, 2013: […] workers on Wednesday discovered the cracks and cuts at 8 places in the buttress about 66 meters above the ground. The Nuclear Regulation Authority has ordered the company to assess the capacity of the pipe to withstand an earthquake as quickly as possible. The 120-meter vertical pipe stands between the number-1 and number-2 reactor buildings. […] they believe the 2011 earthquake damaged the steel framework. They say they have not observed any obvious damage in the pipe itself. The officials say they are considering how to access the pipe to assess its strength. The area around the pipe is contaminated with high levels of radiation measuring 10 sieverts per hour. Watch the broadcast here
Seattle art show “Echo at Satsop”- aftermath of Fukushima nuclear disaster
Artist Etsuko Ichikawa’s ‘Echo’ of quake, tsunami, fire, radiation, Seattle Times 20 Sept In drawings, installation and film, Seattle artist Etsuko Ichikawa channels the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power-plant meltdown that hit her native Japan in 2011. The exhibit runs at Davidson Galleries through Sept. 28, 2013. By Michael Upchurch Seattle Times arts writer EXHIBITION REVIEWEtsuko Ichikawa: ‘Echo at Satsop’
10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Sept 6 -. 28, Davidson Galleries, 313 Occidental Ave. S., Seattle (206-624-7684or www.davidsongalleries.com ).
Spare, spooky and, in its rigorous way, spectacular, Etsuko Ichikawa’s “Echo at Satsop” (on show at Davidson Galleries through Sept. 28) has a nightmare beauty to it.
Its drawings, wall sculptures, sound installation and short film were triggered, in part, by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011. Ichikawa, born in Tokyo and residing in Seattle since 1993, is especially concerned by the meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
“This incident,” she notes in her artist’s statement, “caused substantial radiation leakage that has had an immeasurable impact on people’s health and the environment, and will continue to do so for generations to come.”……..
Taken together, the works of “Echo at Satsop” shine a pale, ghostly light on the damage humankind has done its world. This is a powerful show.
Michael Upchurch: mupchurch@seattletimes.com http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/2021838272_satsopartexhibitxml.html
AUDIO: No way to get at Fukushima’s molten nuclear fuel, no solution known
Today on Your Call: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-how-concerned-should-we-be-about-fukushima
Today on Your Call: How concerned should we be about Fukushima? http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-how-concerned-should-we-be-about-fukushima
NPR: How can Fukushima’s molten fuel be contained so it stops contaminating the planet? Nuclear Expert: There’s no way to get at molten fuel… I’ve not seen a solution to this (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/nuclear-expert-melted-fukushima-fuel-solution-problem-audio
Title: How concerned should we be about Fukushima?
Host: Rose Aguilar
Date: Aug. 29, 2013 Kevin in Felton, California: Considering the fact that the containment buildings and vessels are breached, that the floors of the structures are breached — What methodology exists to actually re-establish containment of this burned fuel, so that they can then control the water leakage that’s contaminating the planet? How are they going to re-establish a seal around this burned fuel? […]
Arjun Makhijani, Nuclear expert and President of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research: To the caller’s question, the main problem of the molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor — that is going to much more intractable, because, as I said, the infrastructure on the site has been destroyed, and how they’re going to get at that molten fuel and actually extract it, at least I have not seen any reasonable solutions to this problem.
See also: UC Berkeley Nuclear Professor: Work to go on for thousands of years at Fukushima site if they can’t retrieve melted fuel (AUDIO)
Large release of Fukushima radioactive water into Pacific Ocean
Japan Radiation Doomsday: Typhoon Man-yi Pushes Fukushima Operator to Release Contaminated Rainwater into Pacific Ocean, Assures Low Radiation Levels International Business Times By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | September 17, 2013
Waving Typhoon Man-yi as a reasonable enough excuse, the operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has again dislodged contaminated water, this time in the guise of rainwater, into the Pacific Ocean. Fearing the heavy rains dumped by Typhoon Man-yi will flood and further devastate the Fukushima nuclear power plant, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) decided to open its barriers to release the water through drainage ditches into the ocean. This happened around 12:40 pm on Monday.
However, Japanese media outlets reported the amount of contaminated rainwater remained unknown. It further confronted TEPCO if it first measured the toxicity of the contaminated rainwater before releasing it into the ocean….. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/506536/20130917/japan-radiation-doomsday-typhoon-man-yi-fukushima.htm#.Ujn5N9JwonE
Documentary film about Fukushima’s children
Award-winning Filmmaker on Fukushima: “People have low white blood cell counts… children and adults experiencing more nosebleeds and rashes” -Japan Times http://enenews.com/award-winning-filmmaker-on-fukushima-people-have-low-white-blood-cell-counts-children-and-adults-experiencing-more-nosebleeds-and-rashes-japan-times
Title: Filmmaker revisits the children of Fukushima’s ‘Grey Zone’
Source: Japan Times
Author: Louise George Kittaka
Date: Sept. 9, 2013
For independent filmmaker Ian Thomas Ash, making documentaries is an organic process. “I’m not a journalist, and I don’t try to make judgments,” he says. “My reaction is to film what is going on around me and see where it leads.”
In Ash’s case, it has led to recognition and awards at film festivals around the world for “A2-B-C,” the second of a pair of documentaries about children living in towns a stone’s throw from the site of the nuclear reactor meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture.
Ash, an American who has called Japan home for the past 10 years, was in Tokyo when the massive earthquake struck on March 11, 2011. […]
When he began hearing about an apparent increase in throat nodules and cysts among children in Fukushima, he knew this was a story that had to be told. There is an added urgency this time, since “A2-B-C” depicts the grassroots efforts of mothers in Fukushima to give a voice to their children and their worries for their future. […]
The film’s title comes from the medical classifications for the size and number of throat nodules and cysts, but the film deals with more than just worries about the risk of thyroid cancer among families in the region. “The film covers other health and environmental issues, such as our inability to decontaminate the area. People have low white blood cell counts, and both children and adults are experiencing more nosebleeds and rashes. Not to mention the constant stress they live with.” […]
Youtube: Fukushima radioactivity in seafood
If you think the Fukushima nuclear accident hasn’t affected seafood, watch this video http://www.straight.com/blogra/421206/if-you-think-fukushima-nuclear-accident-hasnt-affected-seafood-watch-videoToday, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe delivered one of thewhoppers of the year when he told people that the Fukushima nuclear accident is under control.
He probably felt this was a necessary lie to help Tokyo secure the International Olympic Committee’s approval to host the 2020 Summer Games.
But what about the Pacific Ocean, which is where radioactive water leaks from the crippled power plant end up?
Fukushima and Radioactivity in Seafood
Dr. Michael Gregor is a medical doctor and director of public health and animal agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States.
In the video above, he examines the impact of Fukushima’s radioactive fallout on seafood.
Dr. Gregor has been published in many journals and was one of the experts who helped Oprah Winfrey’s defence when she was accused of defaming the meat industry.
Could the Fukushima Ice Wall melt?
Nuke Fatigue & the 2020 Tokyo Olympics EE Times, Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent, 6 Sept 13, “…………So far, I’ve heard no skeptics in Japan questioning the science and long-term viability of the technology behind the proposed ice wall — especially on NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster.
To hear the argument against it, I had to turn to Tuesday’s edition of the PBS Newshour, whose link my former colleague and science writer George Leopold sent via e-mail.
‘Risky experiment’
In the program, Arjun Makhijani, an engineer specializing in nuclear fusion and president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, called the proposed ice wall scheme “a risky experiment.”
Looking at Risks if the Fukushima Ice Wall Defrosts
Makhijani explained that the Japanese “hope to freeze the soil, basically, with a giant freezing machine, just like your freezer at home, [to] put cooling coils in the soil, lots and lots of them.” He pointed out that this scheme “takes an enormous amount of electricity.” That is just what the Fujushima nuclear plant can’t do.
The biggest worry is potential power failures. Makhijani said:
…if the power fails, you know, just like if your — when the power goes out with your refrigerator, everything will de-freeze in — defrost in the freezer. Even though ice wall technology had been used frequently to stabilize the ground in big construction projects, like the Big Dig highway project in Boston, The New York Times pointed out that some critics are dubious.
They argue that it’s a costly technology “that would be vulnerable at the blackout-prone plant because it relies on electricity the way a freezer does, and even more so because it has never been tried on the vast scale that Japan is envisioning and was always considered a temporary measure, while at Fukushima it would have to endure possibly for decades.” http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&_mc=SM_EET&itc=eetimes_sitedefault&doc_id=1319412&page_number=2
Films “Crying Earth Rise Up!” and “Black Waters” help tribes win Rapid City Coucil support against uranium mining
Rapid City backs tribes in uranium mine fight Climate Connections, By Talli Naumann, September 2, 2013. Source: Native Sun News Folks who want to learn more about the Rapid City Council’s vote to oppose Powertech Uranium Corp.’s Black Hills uranium mining plans got an opportunity with the scheduling of a double feature film showing at the Dahl Arts Center on Aug. 28.
Voices of the Heartland Independent Film Society booked filmmakers to lead a discussion on the issue following the 6:30 p.m. screenings of “Crying Earth Rise Up!” by Oglala Lakota producer Debra White Plume and “Black Waters” by Black Hills native Talli Nauman.
The Council voted 9-1 against the Canadian company’s proposal for the mining 50 miles west of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, after hearing testimony about treaty rights and children’s health downstream on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. Continue reading
If UN proved Syria’s chemical crime, and took action, Russia would join
Putin: Russia doesn’t defend Assad, we defend international law
‘A Dangerous Delusion’ – book shows up Western errors about Iran’s nuclear ambitions
BOOKS: ‘Delusion’ Challenges U.S. Claims About Nuclear Iran Global Issues, by Peter Jenkins September 02, 2013 Inter Press Service LONDON, Sep 02 – A Dangerous Delusion is the work of one of Britain’s most brilliant political commentators, Peter Oborne, and an Irish physicist, David Morrison, who has written powerfully about the misleading of British public and parliamentary opinion in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
This book will infuriate neoconservatives, Likudniks and members of the Saudi royal family but enlighten all who struggle with what to think about the claim that Iran’s nuclear programme threatens the survival of Israel, the security of Arab states in the Persian Gulf, and global peace.
Writing with verve and concision as well as with the indignation that has been a feature of good criticism since the days of Juvenal, the authors spare the reader potentially tedious detail so that the book can be devoured in a matter of hours. Their purpose, stated early in the work, is to argue that U.S. and European confrontation with Iran over its nuclear activities is unnecessary and irrational. Insofar as some concern about Iranian intentions has been and is justified, that concern can be allayed by measures that Iran has been ready to volunteer since 2005 and by more intrusive international monitoring. Continue reading
AUDIO about USA’s mounting nuclear waste problem
AUDIO: http://www.pri.org/stories/science/environment/fukushima-s-continuing-struggles-raise-questions-about-america-s-nuclear-waste-storage-14875.html 30 Aug 13, Fukushima’s continuing struggles raise questions about America’s nuclear waste storage Nuclear waste is piled up around the United States. Similar waste were part of the problem at Japan’s Fukushima plant, which continues to leak even 2.5 years later. That continued crisis has some asking if the U.S. is asking for trouble with its waste storage…… In the United States, there’s no urgent disaster, but there is the still-unsettled question of where U.S. radioactive waste will be stored.
Back in the 1980s, Yucca Mountain in Nevada was chosen as the nation’s nuclear waste dump, but widespread resistance has stalled the project. The waste is still with us, though, and Ed Lyman, the nuclear expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists says that’s a problem.
Back then, Lyman says, the Department of Energy was supposed to collect all of the radioactive waste by 1998. But that hasn’t happened — and it’s not going to happen any time soon.
With Yucca seemingly off the table, the government is starting over to find a permanent disposal site……. nuclear wastes continue to pile up, at the approximately 60 operating nuclear plants, at the decommissioned nuclear plants and at other places around the country.
“Most of the spent fuel is stored in swimming pool type structures called spent fuel pools,” Lyman said. “These are concrete, steel-lined pools filled with water, and the fuel is submerged under there. However, many of these pools have been overstuffed over the years because there’s been no place to send them.”
Beyond just being overstuffed — far beyond what they were originally designed for — they also represent a security risk, he added…… In the meantime, a group of Senators have proposed creating a new entity to manage nuclear waste, and to find a new long-term storage site for all of the country’s nuclear waste.
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