FILM: HOT WATER exposes scandal of uranium mining and cancer
HOT WATER http://www.zerohotwater.com/ When you were growing up, how many people did you know who had cancer? How many do you know today? Filmmakers Liz Rogers and Kevin Flint go to South Dakota following a story about Uranium contamination only to discover that the problem flows much farther, and runs deeper than they could have imagined. Three years and thousands of miles later, “Hot Water” tells of those impacted by Uranium mining, atomic testing, nuclear energy and the contamination that runs through our air, soil and even more dramatically, our water.
From ‘Fat Man’ and ‘Little Boy’ to ‘Duck and Cover’ we believed it was safe to eat, drink and breathe in the shadow of the Atomic Bomb. “Hot Water” begs the question, are the 38 million people in the American southwest aware that their water supply is filtered through millions of tons of radioactive waste lying on the banks of the Colorado River?
Our ground water, air and soil are contaminated with some of the most toxic heavy metals known to man – the subsequent health and environmental damage will take generations and in some cases, thousands of years to heal.
Follow Liz, Kevin and their team as they travel the American west and expose uranium mining and our atomic legacy for what it is, and for what it’s left behind.
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Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, his wife Elizabeth Kucinich and filmmaker Liz Rogers discussed their new documentary “Hot Water” about uranium mining and the nuclear industry with POLITICO’s Patrick Gavin.
Fiji’s solar expert grandmothers show the way
AUDIO Fijian grandmothers educating locals on solar panel installation http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-17/fiji-grandmothers-educating-younger-generation-on-solar-pane/4826594 Jul 17, 2013 A group of grandmothers in Fiji are educating the younger generation on solar panel installation to generate electricity in their villages.
The elderly women underwent training at the Barefoot College in India, an NGO that provides rural communities with training and education. Fiji’s Womens Minister, Dr Jiko Luveni, has told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat program the training programme was specifically for grandmothers.
“The idea behind it is that these women are already established in the villages,” Dr Luveni said.
“They have their homes and they are not likely to leave the village as soon as they come back with their skill. Dr Luveni says the elderly women are now celebrated as solar experts and are supervising their young trainees as they install the solar equipment.
“After the training, it was these young people who actually installed the equipment in each house,” she said.
“The grandmothers were merely supervising what they did.
She says the initiative is bringing about various other social benefits to the villages.
“In this particular village that I went into, I could see that the moral of the villagers were boosted as they have a product that is an evidence of development in their villages,” Dr Luveni said.
“That village has gone into some income generating activity…They are more development oriented in their thinking.
“That particular village now has established a canteen and he young people are being recruited to help in the assemblage and installation of the solar equipment in those villages. Thereby, gaining an income,” she said.
AUDIO: Hanford nuclear site: officials browbeat TV journalist
TV Journalist: Officials at U.S. nuclear site browbeat me for reporting on radioactive leaks — “You will be publicly humiliated” — Said I was basically an idiot — Never treated that way before (AUDIO) #Hanfor http://enenews.com/tv-journalist-officials-nuclear-site-browbeat-reporting-radioacitve-leaks-will-be-publicly-humiliated-basically-idiot-never-treated-before-audio
Title: KING 5′s Susannah Frame Nails Nuclear Hanford Secrets
Source: Nuclear Hotseat
Host: Libbe HaLevy
Date: July 15, 2013
Follow-up to: TV: Leaking tank at U.S. nuclear site may be in far worse condition than previously known — Workers shocked by new findings #Hanford
Susannah Frame,, KING 5 TV: At the beginning, especially WRPS officials [at the Hanford nuclear site] were extremely condescending. They tried bullying me. They tried to tell me that basically I was an idiot, that I didn’t know what I was doing. I’ve never had media professionals deal with me in that way. I’ve been around for a long time. […]
I was really surprised at the way I was treated. They said do you even know how to Google? […]
They really tried to browbeat me into not doing the story at all. They said, ‘We think that you will be publicly humiliated if you go on TV and online and report this because what you are saying is so absurd — You’re saying we ignored a leak?’
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PHOTOS Japan’s mutated tomatoes- the evidence is not clear
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2367436/Fukushima-mutant-vegetable-images-sweep-region-years-nuclear-disaster.html PHOTOS Have Japan’s gardeners come a cropper? Mail Online 17 July 13 Two years after Fukushima radiation disaster, evidence of ‘mutant vegetables’ sweeps across the region
Series of snaps apparently showing ‘mutant vegetables’ have emerged online They were posted by a Korean website – it is not clear when they were taken
The fall out from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster two years ago appears to have found its way into the food chain, as a series of snaps apparently showing ‘mutant vegetables’ have emerged online.
A Korean website has published pictures of flowers, vegetables and
fruit covered with deformities and lumps. But it is not immediately clear where the produce was farmed from,
whether the images have been doctored and whether the nuclear disaster is in fact to blame…… Continue reading
Greater and faster amounts of radiation leaking from Fukushima nuclear plant
TV: Fukushima plant is hemorrhaging radioactivity — “Scariest part of all is they don’t know where it’s coming from” — The big mystery is why contamination is coming out now in such a hurry http://enenews.com/tv-fukushima-plant-is-hemorrhaging-radioactivity-scariest-part-of-all-is-they-dont-know-where-its-coming-from-big-mystery-is-why-its-getting-out-now-in-such-a-hur
Title: Radioactive Fish, Pacific Ocean, Fukushima Leaking MORE Radiation update 7/11/13
Source: RT
Date: July 12, 2013
h/t MsMilkytheclown1
Radioactive Fish, Pacific Ocean, Fukushima Leaking MORE Radiation
Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear: Well, the best I can come up with for what’s happening in recent days and weeks at Fukushima Daiichi is hemorrhaging of radioactivity.
And the scariest part of all is that they don’t know where it’s coming from.
But ultimately it’s coming from 3 melted down atomic reactor cores and severely damaged, if not entirely destroyed, radiological containment structures. That’s where it’s ultimately coming from.
But why it’s getting out now in such a hurry all of a sudden is the big mystery.
Japan’s strange and menacing radioactive black substance
I would say they’re much more an ingestion hazard. And that usually tends to target children and agricultural workers. […] A child on average consumes between 100 and 200 milligrams of soil a day because of hand-to-mouth activity. So that’s something to really think about.
Japan’s Black Dust, with Marco Kaltofen http://fairewinds.org/podcast/japans-black-dust-with-marco-kaltofen 12 July 13, This week Fairewinds Energy Education interviewed Marco Kaltofen, a leading scientist who studies radiation as well as specific radioactive isotopes. Marco and Arnie discuss a recent sample that contained highly concentrated radioactive material from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. As the sound quality of this recording varies, we have transcribed the podcast so you can read along. Read Marco’s Report: Radiological Analysis of Namie Street Dust http://fairewinds.org/podcast/japans-black-dust-with-marco-kaltofen
Japan’s Radioactive Black Dust – Audio interview with transcript
Japan kids ingesting pieces of Fukushima fuel rods? Expert: Mystery black substance “very likely contains concentrated unburned nuclear fuel” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-kids-swallowing-pieces-of-fukushima-fuel-rods-expert-mystery-black-substance-very-likely-contains-concentrated-unburned-nuclear-fuel-video
Title: Japan’s Black Dust, with Marco Kaltofen
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: July 10, 2013
Marco Kaltofen, President at Boston Chemical Data Corp. & Doctoral student researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute: […] We kept hearing reports about something unusual, a black dust […] we finally got a very small sample of that […]
What’s different about this material is unlike a lot of the soil and dust samples we’ve gotten, there’s a real uniformity to this stuff. It’s a single substance. Continue reading
“Pandora’s Promise” deadly wrong conclusion in this nuclear advertising film
Despite the unknowns, Pandora wants a massive turn to new types of nuclear power plants. The world’s power plants currently produce about 5,000 gigawatts (1 gigawatt = 1 billion watts). Replacing this fleet with new plants of 1 gigawatt each — the common commercial size — means building 5,000 new nuclear plants, over 10 times the current number. Existing experience indicates that $6 billion may be a lower cost estimate to build such plants, so the total cost would be about $30 trillion, possibly higher.
Is such a sum even conceivable? Maybe yes, but would such a massive program be the best use of $30 trillion? At the same time, Pandorafails to seriously address the promises and challenges of developing major roles for renewable energy.
“Pandora’s Promise” and “Switch” raise the right issues but get nuclear wrong, Grist, By John Perkins, 6 July 13Two recent movies, Pandora’s Promise and Switch, promote massive changes in the U.S. energy economy; both embrace nuclear power and point to France as the nuclear success story. The two-part company, however, on natural gas: Switch sees gas plus nuclear as the major energy sources of the future, but Pandora gives gas no significant role.
These are “good-bad” movies. They effectively raise the right issues but crash on flawed conclusions. Pandora correctly places energy at the heart of the most important environmental issue: climate change…..
Make no mistake about it: These films engage and persuade. That’s precisely why the nonsense of their conclusions is so deadly…… Continue reading
VIDEO: Radioactive dust storms spreading from Iraq?
VIDEO: Iraqi Dust Contaminated with Uranium? http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2013/07/02/iraqi-dust-contaminated-with-uranium/ From Iran’s PressTV. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.
The wave of “dust pollution” seems unwilling to leave Iran.
According to the latest report dust storms and pollution which have spread across almost 23 Iranian provinces continue to have impact on the lives of people.
The rising haze level sometimes reduces visibility to 400 meters from the minimum standard of 800 meters.
VIDEO: No evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear bomb
Video: Iran and a nuclear bomb: Jack Straw and Melanie Phillips http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23181459 There was no evidence that Iran has been building a nuclear bomb, said a former British foreign secretary. Jack Straw said he was not naive about Iran, but things were looking “more hopeful” with the new president-elect Hassan Rouhani.
He was debating with columnist Melanie Phillips who claimed on a recent Question Time that Iran should be “neutralised” and she was asked on the Daily Politics how that could be achieved.
The pair disagreed on whether Iran should be invited to a peace summit.
AUDIO: nuclear lobby’s hype about thorium reactors doesn’t impress investors
investors are refusing to put their money into either nuclear power, or this supposedly ‘new’ thorium idea, which is actually a very old idea being recycled from the 1960′s when it was found not workable. So why should the public put their tax money into thorium reactors?
http://agreenroad.blogspot.ca/2012/12/thorium-reactor-fort-st-vrain-power.html MSR Thorium Reactor Fort St. Vrain Power Station Experiment Failed – A Green Road Magazine, 1 July 13
AUDIO: Japan correspondent tells story behind Fukushima
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2013/06/27/3790863.htm?site=conversations Mark Willacy tells the story of the massive 2011 tsunami that rocked Japan, and the resulting catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear power station. He’s been the ABC’s North Asia correspondent for some years, and won his second Walkley for his coverage of the 2011 Japan tsunami and nuclear disasters.
The earthquake on 11 March 2011 was one of the largest ever recorded, and the resulting massive tsunami killed nearly 20,000 people. The waves rolled over the walls of the Fukushima nuclear reactor, and the result was a meltdown and the ejection of radioactive material into the air.
Mark reveals in his new book Fukushima why the catastrophe should not have happened.
Chernobyl’s Children
Seattle TV: Children now sicker than ever from Chernobyl disaster — Contamination to go on for centuries to come — Many with heart and digestive problems http://enenews.com/seattle-tv-children-are-now-sicker-than-ever-from-chernobyl-disaster-contamination-to-go-on-for-centuries-to-come-many-with-heart-and-digestive-problems-video(VIDEO)Title: Local program helps children receive treatment years after Chernobyl
Source: KING 5 News
Author: MITCH PITTMAN
Date: June 25, 2013 a
h/t moxnews
For most of us, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is history. But the reality is its effects linger for thousands still living around the site, which will be contaminated for centuries to come.
Two decades ago, a program was started locally to help those in Belarus receive treatment, and now Hope for Chernobyl’s Child is continuing that mission in Renton.
[…] organizers say children now are sicker than ever from Chernobyl’s lasting effects.
Transcript Excerpts
Many have heart and digestive problems and they’ll be treated by doctors who donate their time
Now over the years the Hope for Chernobyl’s Child program has helped over 350 kids and organizers say they’re sicker now than ever and they’re still looking for more doctors to help provide care
Watch the broadcast here
International Energy Agency predicts bright future for solar and wind energy
Quiz: What You Don’t Know About Solar Power http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/energy/great-energy-challenge/solar-power-quiz/
Global Renewable Energy on Track to Soon Eclipse Natural Gas, Nuclear A new report predicts that renewable power energy generation will exceed that of gas and nuclear by 2016. Ker Than National Geographic June 26, 2013
The future appears to be bright for renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and water.In fact, power generation from such renewables will exceed that of gas and nuclear by 2016, according to a report published Wednesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
“As their costs continue to fall, renewable power sources are increasingly standing on their own merits versus new fossil-fuel generation,” IEA executive director Maria van der Hoeven said in a statement. Continue reading
AUDIO: Obama gets around “flat earth” climate change deniers
Audio: Obama sidesteps ‘flat earth’ science deniers with new climate change plan, http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3789621.htm ABC Radio AM Ben Knight reported this story on , June 26, 2013 TONY EASTLEY: The US president Barack Obama has cited rising water levels in New York Harbour, the increasing prevalence of forest fires and heatwaves in Alaska as he’s laid out a broad new plan to fight climate change.
Because of difficulties getting his legislation through Congress, president Obama plans to use executive powers to get around what he described as “flat earth” science deniers.
He wants new restrictions on existing and new power plants to curb carbon emissions and he’s pledged to push new generation clean energy sources.
North America correspondent Ben Knight is in Washington……
Video: radiation problem in shipment from Hanford
Video: Radiation detected on Hanford waste shipment to contractor http://www.king5.com/news/local/Hanford-shipment-is-hot-on-arrival-213053591.html by GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News June 25, 2013 RICHLAND, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health is investigating the discovery of radioactivity outside the protective packaging of a recent shipment from Hanford. The shipment traveled a short distance from the Hanford site, down public roads, to a private contractor called Permafix.
Workers at the Permafix facility, which disassembles and repackages Hanford materials, reported the radioactive readings to the federal Department of Energy and state Departments of Health and Ecology.
The Health Department dispatched radiation physicists who confirmed the readings. A Health Department spokesman told KING 5 the radiation was discovered in a place it shouldn’t be and something went wrong.
Department of Energy (DOE) officials said they are not responsible for problems found at the contractor’s facility and are not responding to the incident. State Ecology officials say the case falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health.
Permafix said the public and workers were never exposed and there was no environmental damage. All the agencies said Permafix made the appropriate notifications.
The watchdog group Hanford Challenge, which uncovered documents about the incident, told KING 5 it was a dangerous situation that put the public and workers at risk. Executive Director Tom Carpenter said DOE cannot allow its contractors to cut corners when transporting plutonium and other dangerous materials just to save money.
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