Deafening silence of the mainstream media about Fukushima
Journalism Professor: Goebbels would smile in his grave to see how nuclear establishment handled disaster — Lots around world will die from Fukushima contamination (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/journalism-professor-goebbels-would-smile-in-his-grave-to-see-how-nuclear-establishment-handled-fukushima-disaster-audio
January 30th, 2013
Update Here: Jiji: Japan plummets in press freedom list — “Almost zero respect for access to information related to Fukushima… Should sound an alarm” -Group
Title: Nuclear Hotseat #85: Journalist Karl Grossman Reveals 40+ Years of Nuke Media Manipulation
Source: Nuclear Hotseat
Date: Jan 29, 2013
Karl Grossman, , Professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury: What we’re undergoing now is a huge coverup […]
There’s nothing. When was the last time you read or heard or saw, regarding mainstream media, any information about Fukushima?
Lots of people are going to end up dead, not just in Japan, but all over the world because of the radioactivity released, continuing to be released […]
The media have been basically silent. I mean Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, would smile in his grave to see how the nuclear establishment has handled, quite successfully, the Fukushima disaster.
VIDEO: 55% of Fukushima girls aged 11 to 15 have thyroid abnormalities
Lawyer: Thyroid abnormalities in 55% of Fukushima girls tested age 11 to 15 (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/lawyer-thyroid-abnormalities-55-fukushima-girls-tested-age-11-15-video (English subtitles)
Title: The Reality of Fukushima- A Japanese Lawer Speaks at UN
January 25th, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnk5mPAGCZI (French subtitles)
Source: WorldNetworkChildren (World Network for Saving Children from Radiation)
Filmed by: Independent Web Journal
Edited by: The Fukushima Collective Evacuation Trial
Date Jan 25, 2013
Toshio Yanagihara at the United Nations Human Rights Council, NGO Information Meeting: Let me now talk about the actual health condition of the children of Fukushima. On September 11, the thyroid examinations found abnormalities such as nodules or cysts in 43% out of the 42,000 children tested. The numbers for girls are worse. 54% of girls from age 6 to 10 had these abnormalities, and 55% for age 11 to 15.
See also: Gundersen: 20 percent of young girls living in some areas around Fukushima Daiichi will get cancer from radiation over their lifetimes (AUDIO
Japan’s only two operating nuclear reactors to be shut for maintenance in 2013
Japan faces nuclear shutdown for 2nd time since Fukushima — Expert: They’re trying to protect their nation from diseases, death http://enenews.com/reuters-japan-faces-nuclear-shutdown-for-2nd-time-since-fukushima-expert-trying-to-protect-their-nation-from-diseases-and-death-audio
January 24th, 2013
Title: Japan faces nuclear shutdown for second time since Fukushima
Source: Reuters
Author: Aaron Sheldrick
Date: Jan 24, 2013
Japan may face a total nuclear shutdown in the summer for the second time since the March 2011 Fukushima disaster as the country’s two operating reactors close for maintenance and tough new safety checks keep the rest of the fleet offline. […]
The only two of Japan’s 50 nuclear plants operating are both at Kansai Electric Power’s Ohi plant in western Japan, and must be for shut for maintenance [in mid-September 2013] 13 months after resuming commercial operations, according to Japanese law. […]
Title: Japan Contemplates Complete Nuclear Shutdown
Source: Voice of Russia American Edition
Date: Jan 24, 2013
Full broadcast here
AUDIO: Nuclear Regulatory Commission prevents public participation in nuclear re-licensing process
AUDIO http://www.fairewinds.org/content/games-people-play THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY In this week’s podcast, Fairewinds looks at how difficult it is for the public to meaningfully participate in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process. Arnie Gundersen was retained by Friends of the Earth to assess major problems at the San Onofre nuclear plant in California that have caused a year long shutdown. Arnie met with the NRC this week concerning his analysis of what went wrong and how the problems were foreseeable. In this podcast, Arnie discusses how the NRC and Southern California Edison deliberately withheld information to make his technical analysis more difficult to accomplish. Fairewinds taped the meeting, so our podcast listeners can hear for themselves the difficulties Arnie encountered and the games the NRC and Southern California Edison played to prevent his participation.Films awaken Indian audiences to the dangers of the nuclear industry
Uranium Film Festival: Capturing Fallout Tehelka Blog, 17 Jan 13 Author: Ajachi Chakrabarti “I am now in this place where you should never come. We call it Onkalo. Onkalo means ‘hiding place’. In my time it is not yet finished, though work began in the 20th century, when I was just a child. Work will be completed in the 22nd century, long after my death. Onkalo must last 100,000 years. Nothing built by man has lasted even a tenth of that timespan.But we consider ourselves a very potent civilisation. If we succeed, Onkalo will most likely be the longest lasting remains of our civilisation. If you, sometime far in the future, find this, what would it tell you about us?”
Thus begins Into Eternity, Danish director Michael Madsen’s documentary about the Onkalo spent nuclear waste repository on the island of Oikiluoto in Finland. In 1994, the legislature amended the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act to specify that all nuclear waste produced in Finland must be disposed of in Finland. The solution was the repository, a deep cavern to be filled with radioactive waste that is designed to hold for ten half lives – in some cases, as long as 250,000 years – the accepted timespan for such waste to be considered safe.
Obvious geological fears aside, the fear that Madsen taps into in this film is that of communicating to future civilisations that the contents of this cavern they would find are very toxic Continue reading
Uranium/nuclear film festival – India 19 January
MIC to host film fest on nuclear threat from Jan 19 http://www.deccanherald.com/content/306047/mic-host-film-fest-nuclear.html Manipal, Jan 18, 2013, DHNS:
Manipal Institute of Communication and Manipal Film Study Centre at Manipal University will be organising ‘The Traveling Uranium Film Festival’ on January 19 and 20.
The International film festival is dedicated to independent documentaries and movies about nuclear power and the whole nuclear fuel chain from uranium mining, nuclear bombs to nuclear waste, from Hiroshima to Fukushima.
Started in Rio de Janeiro in 2011, the International Uranium Film Festival has traveled across Europe and has now come to India.
After successful screenings in New Delhi, Shillong and Ranchi, the film festival is set to showcase documentaries and movies about nuclear issues. Continue reading
Video: Cumbrians want Sellafield nuclear facility, just not the wastes
VIDEO Protests spread on Cumbria nuclear waste dump plan, guardian UK 17 Jan 13, As Cumbria Tourism joins the Lake District national park inwarning against research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, local meetings and rallies are spreading Here’s more on the growing concern that nuclear waste burial could be considered within the borders of the Lake District national park, followingCumbria Tourism’s stand against the prospect earlier this week.
A meeting in Keswick saw all but three of 500 present vote against the idea of pursuing research in Ennerdale and Eskdale, one of the few areas of stable geology in West Cumbria, the home of the Sellafield nuclear complex.
As well as being in the national park, the lonely valley is the subject of an experiment called Wild Ennerdale which has barred all traffic apart from a few forestry trucks and the Land Rover which services remote Black Sail youth hostel. Even the latter has been limited to the minimum possible number of journeys to sustain the many walkers to whom it is a shrine.
You can read about the Guardian Northerner‘s weekend there last November, here, and a post from its recent wardens Suzanna Brett and Martin Lyne here.…… http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/jan/17/ennerdale-nuclear-waste
Hear Arnie Gundersen on USA’s costly shutdown nuclear reactors
AUDIO http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcast REPAIRS AT FOUR NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE SO EXPENSIVE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT BE RESTARTED Jan 13, 2013 Fairewinds examines continuing problems at four US nuclear reactors, each of which have been shutdown for more than two years. Upstream dam failures continue to plague Ft. Calhoun, steam generator tube failures at San Onofre jeopardized Los Angeles. Crystal River’s containment repairs burden Floridians with excessive costs. Finally, Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
David Bradbury: background to his documentary films on nuclear issues
A first wave of David Bradbury’s critically acclaimed filmography is now available for immediate streaming video on ScreenZone.tv:
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http://www.screenzone.tv/products/hard-rain
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/public-enemy
http://www.screenzone.tv/products/blowin-in-the-wind
ON THE FRONTLINE: A ScreenZone interview with David Bradbury, 15 Jan 13 ”……DB: My current film examines the three stages of the nuclear film cycle on a very personal level. It started when I met an aboriginal woman called Isabelle Dingamah (sic) about four years ago, and I started to film her story. She is one of the traditional custodians of the land at Roxby [Downs]. As a little girl she’d had the British atom bomb dropped on her and her family when she was 18-months-old. It’s kind of Shakespearian. Continue reading
AUDIO USA Dept of Energy plans to put radioactive materials into products
Gundersen: U.S. gov’t to allow highly radioactive material from nuclear plants into silverware, other items? (AUDIO)http://enenews.com/gundersen-u-s-govt-to-allow-highly-radioactive-material-from-nuclear-plants-into-silverware-other-items-audio 15 Jan 13
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013 Arnie examines a new proposal by the Department of Energy to melt radioactive scrap metal and reuse it in consumer goods like knives and forks.
- 14:15 Radioactive material from inside a nuclear plant
- 14:20 Turn radioactive vessels from liability to asset
- 15:30 Pots, pans, forks, knives, spoons
- 16:30 Highly radioactive steam generators to be used?
- 17:15 Reused material can remain in radioactive lumps
- 19:45 It’s not helping the consumer here to get any radioactive material in their baby spoons
Full program here http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcast
VIDEO USA’s Atomic Energy Commission’s pointless efforts at “peaceful bombs”
in the least productive but most destructive test, the scientists wanted “to see how big of a hole a nuclear bomb could make.” Motherboard:
“It proved to be a really big hole.”
That test, Project Sedan, spewed radioactive fallout across four states, contaminating “more Americans than any other nuclear test.”
VIDEO The U.S. Once Wanted To Use Nuclear Bombs as a Construction Tool : http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/the-u-s-once-wanted-to-use-nuclear-bombs-as-a-
construction-tool/#ixzz2IFsWdcSf Smithsonian. January 16, 2013 In 1962, the Atomic Energy Commission wanted to see how big of a hole they could make with a nuclear bomb. ……..Enter, Project Sedan. the U.S.’s Atomic Energy Commission, Project Plowshare, says Motherboard, was a project in which the nation’s scientists were supposed to find something useful to do with all the nuclear expertise they had acquired throughout World War II and its aftermath. From 1961 through 1973, Project Plowshare saw 27 nuclear detonations. Many of these were at a test site in Nevada, says Motherboard, but some were a bit more experimental. In 1973, Project Rio Blanco, an operation under the banner of Project Plowshare, Continue reading
VUDEO: online Atlas of Renewable Energy resources: IRENA
VIDEO World First Renewable Energy Resources Atlas Goes Online 
http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/16/world-first-renewable-energy-resources-atlas-goes-online/#pGsPGdve7XQtcPHD.99 January 16, 2013 Joshua S Hill
Live now at www.irena.org/GlobalAtlas, the atlas is the largest ever initiative to help countries asssess their potential renewable energy generating potential. It combines data and maps from leading technical institutions across the planet as well as private companies, and currently charts solar and wind resources.
The atlas hopes to expand to other forms of renewable energy during the next two years. In the next 10 years we expect a huge rise in the investments in renewable energy. The Global Solar and Wind Atlas will help us make the right decisions,” says Martin Lidegaard, Danish Minister of Climate, Energy and Building, and President of the 3rd session of the IRENA Assembly.
“The Global Atlas provides a powerful new tool in international efforts to double the world’s share of renewable energy by 2030,” said Adnan Z. Amin, IRENA Director-General. “With 22 countries now taking part, and more expected to join in the coming months, it is a clear sign of our growing political will to transition to clean, renewable energy.”
Renowned documentary film-maker interviewed by ScreenZone
ON THE FRONTLINE: A ScreenZone interview with David Bradbury, 15 Jan 13 ScreenZone is proud to have renowned Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury join our catalogue, with a number of his award-winning and important films taking centre stage. Bradbury’s films have been shown on all the major Australian commercial and public broadcast networks as well as globally. He has won countless international film festival prizes and been the winner of five AFI awards and two Academy Award nominations (Frontline, which profiled war cameraman Neil Davis, and Chile: Hasta Cuando?, on the brutal military dictatorship of General Pinochet).
Currently sourcing funding for an ambitious and strategic three-part documentary showing the relationship between Australian minining, depleted uranium (DU) fallout and the Indian nuclear program, Bradbury continues to fight on the frontline, using the power of media and documentary film to show the world the truth, and empower individuals into collective action. You can help by donating via The Frontline Film Foundation: http://www.frontlinefilmfoundation.org/friend.htm a registered charity with tax deductible status that is committed to making environmentally aware and consciousness-raising films. And stay tuned for the crowdsourcing campaign in 2013 to further engage with the power of activist filmmaking via: https://www.facebook.com/FrontlineFilmFoundation ……… http://screenzone.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/on-the-frontline-a-screenzone-interview-with-david-bradbury/
AUDIO: One by one, USA’s nuke plants likely to close?
Analyst: Florida nuclear plant will likely be closed — Gundersen: “The dominoes are starting to fall” (AUDIO)
Title: Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted http://enenews.com/analyst-florida-nuclear-plant-will-be-closed-gundersen-dominoes-starting-fall-audioSource: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: Duke is seriously considering pulling the plug on the [Crystal River nuclear] plant […]
Last week we had a financial analyst at UBS suggest that Vermont Yankee didn’t make economic sense.
This week, we’ve got a financial analyst at another firm called Fitch and he says that the Crystal River plant will likely be closed because Duke can’t make economic sense out of it.
So the dominoes are starting to fall.
We’ve have Kewaunee, which is shutting down in the Midwest because of financial reasons. And now we’ve got UBS analysts and Fitch analysts also claiming it makes no economic sense to keep other nuclear plants running.
AUDIO: Future great floods threaten USA’s nuclear power plants
Gundersen: US nuclear plants at risk of ‘flood of biblical proportions’? — “They’re not designed against biblical floods” (AUDIO) Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: At the Ft. Calhoun plant [in case of an upstream dam failure] we’re looking at 35 feet more water than there was in the flood 18 months ago. […]
January 13th, 2013 a
Title: Repairs at Four Nuclear Reactors Are So Expensive That They Should Not Be Restarted
Source: Fairewinds Energy Education
Date: January 13, 2013
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: At the Ft. Calhoun plant [in case of an upstream dam failure] we’re looking at 35 feet more water than there was in the flood 18 months ago. […]
Dr. [Bernard] Shanks has a quote […] he said that if an upstream dam were to fail it would cause a flood of biblical proportions. These plants are not designed against biblical floods. These plants were right at their limit 2 years ago.
According to Dr. Shanks and many other geologists and hydrologists, the condition of the upstream dams is suspect.
Full program here
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