Video: USA food and japan’s tsunami debris
NBC: Japan tsunami debris may be impacting U.S. food supply (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nbc-japan-tsunami-debris-be-impacting-food-supply-video
December 12th, 2012
Title: Troubling signs in paradise
Source: NBCNews
Author: Miguel Almaguer
Date: December 11, 2012
Last month we showed you what [the wave of debris coming ashore in the U.S. after the tsunami in Japan is] doing to one of the most spectacular coastlines in this country, creating the world’s dirtiest beach in the big island in Hawaii. Tonight from the same spot, the impact it’s having on wildlife and perhaps next on our food supply […]
Podcast on Japan’s nuclear plants’ risks from earthquakes
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SITING A NUCLEAR PLANT IN A SEISMICALLY ACTIVE AREA? December 9, 2012 http://www.fairewinds.com/content/fairewinds-podcastAUDIO: Fukushima’s spent nuclear fuel racks likely to be damaged by recent earthquake
Gundersen: M7 quake likely caused damage to spent fuel racks at Fukushima Daiichi AUDIO http://enenews.com/gundersen-m7-quake-caused-damage-spent-fuel-racks-fukushima-daiichi-video December 11th, 2012
Fairewinds Podcast, Dec. 9, 2012:
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: The fuel racks are going to be damaged. What that means is the box of spaghetti is going to be dented.
So when they go in to try to pull the fuel out, they’re not going to be able to, some of that fuel is going to be stuck, like spaghetti stuck in a box.
An earthquake like this most recent one likely caused more damage, or it caused more crap to fall into the pool. And as particles fall into the pool again it’s going to change the friction that’s required to pull out this spaghetti in the box — to pull out the nuclear fuel.
I think what they’re going to see is they’ll go down with this long handle and try to grab the fuel on the top and if the fuel is undamaged and the rack is undamaged it slides out pretty easily. If the fuel is bent or if the rack is bent, it doesn’t. So what they can do is they can crank up the power and pull a little harder. The problem is that this is spent fuel so it’s brittle, and if they pull too hard they’re likely to snap the fuel and what that can mean is a gaseous release of radiation.
So that was a long prelude to answer your question, why are they building these roofs over the fuel pool? Is that they’re afraid that when they come to pull the nuclear fuel, they’re going to snap some of the bundles and they’re going to release radioactive gases.
Fukushima NHK Documentary:Letters of hope – Children from the tsunami zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaXtfZ5WGf8 Letters of hope – Children from the tsunami zone aired 12/8/12 (excerpt) MissingSky101 Dec 8, 2012 A very moving and poignant video diary selection describing the hopes and fears of the children living near the nuclear disaster site.
Children talk about the nuclear accident after the earthquake. with updates a year and a half on.
NHK March to Recovery Series:
One year has passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Reconstruction initiatives are underway in many places, including the disaster-stricken areas. March to Recovery shows how the nation is recovering from the unprecedented disaster.
VIDEO – frenzied consumerism
Fetid Consumer Society – Black Friday Feeding Frenzy http://deadwildroses.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/fetid-consumer-society-black-friday-feeding-frenzy/ November 27, 2012
This is what we get when people accept the idea that we are nation of consumers rather than a nation of individuals with rights and responsibilities to ourselves and others.–
Nuclear power “like burning $20 bills to generate electricity”
It was Wall Street, not environmentalists, that put the kibosh to nuclear power: McKibben http://www.mining.com/it-was-wall-street-not-environmentalists-that-put-the-kibosh-to-nuclear-power-mckibben-36270/ Michael Allan McCrae | December 9, 2012 People aren’t looking to nuclear power as a solution to global warming because building a plant is just too expensive, says American environmentalist and author Bill McKibben.
“Given what happened in Fukushima it seems entirely unlikely to me you are going to convince people to put these in,” McKibben told the Daily Dish in a recent interview.
“[But] it wasn’t really environmentalists that put the kibosh on nuclear power, it was pretty much Wall Street. Nobody was willing to pay for these things.
“It’s like burning $20 bills to generate electricity.” McKibben admits there are few places like China where nuclear power is being built “for a variety of reasons.”
“But even in China they are putting in vastly more renewable energy than nuclear power because they can do it quickly, and they can do it economically.”
Wind and rain repeatedly bring radioactive material into Fukushima cities
TV: Fukushima ‘hotspots’ move to new areas, but still remain where they were — “With rain or wind, radioactive materials come always into city” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/tv-radioactive-fukushima-hotspots-move-new-areas-remain-rain-wind-radioactive-materials-always-city-video
Title: The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Source: CAN TV (Chicago Access Network Television)
Date: Dec 1, 2012
Akiko Yoshida, Friends of the Earth – Tokyo: This is the contamination survey in October this year.
The hot spots still remain in these areas and also in other cities in Fukushima.
The hotspots is moving from here to another place, but still remain there.
The government said that they do decontamination, but the effect of decontamination is very limited. […]
With the rain or with the wind, radioactive materials comes always into the city.
Watch the presentation here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c32EjEmLwA
AUDIO: Wider implications of Fukushima nuclear disaster
AUDIO: UN expert:Japan’s view on Fukushima too optimistic http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2012-12-03/un-expertjapans-view-on-fukushima-too-optimistic/1055192 3 December 2012 The United Nations’ special rapporteur on the right to health, Anand
Grover, says the Japanese government should consult more with local communities to assess the real impact of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Continue reading
AUDIO: Indigenous campaign against Pinehouse uranium gag deal
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Local+Shows/Saskatchewan/ID/2310512792/ Committee for Future Generations on Pinehouse 2 Dec 12, Two Pinehouse residents are campaigning against further nuclear development in the area.
This is happening in Canada. Far from the extractive industries in emerging nations but in a “developed country” and on 
Aboriginal land and with Indigenous people. You will recognize the names of the same players.
The public is being alerted to a plan for a “Collaboration Agreement” between uranium giants Cameco & Areva and the community of Pinehouse in Northern Saskatchewan Although this agreement is being presented as an opportunity for Pinehouse to receive resources for investments in Community Investment, Workforce Development, Business Development and Community Engagement and Environmental Stewardship, it represents an exchange of money from the nuclear industry to Pinehouse with a promise from the community that its members will stop speaking out against current, proposed or future uranium mining projects in the area. Critics are calling this a gag order.
Storm Warnings: Climate Change and Extreme Weather[Kindle Edition]
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This eBook, Storm Warnings: Climate Change and Extreme Weather, gives you the tools to better understand what’s behind climate change, what might be in store during the coming decades and how we can begin to reverse the detrimental effects mankind has had on the atmosphere. The first half of the book focuses on those unprecedented weather events and the science behind them, from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy to the collapse of glacial ice shelves in the Antarctic. Chapter 5 delves into greenhouse gas emissions and their effect on global warming, including an excellent piece by leading expert James Hansen, who exposes the main culprits of climate change. The last chapters focus on addressing and reducing the problems of climate change at both the public policy and local levels. In particular, Scientific American Editor David Biello lays out 10 solutions that include small changes we all can make in our daily lives—practical, but effective, consumer choices that add up. It might be a drop in the bucket, but every drop counts.
VIDEO: Nuclear Power is a Ticking Time bomb – conservative radio host says
Alex also talks with Gar Smith, author of Nuclear Roulette, a book also available at the Infowars Store that debunks the claim nuclear energy is clean, cheap, and safe.Nuclear Roulette
http://www.infowarsshop.com/Nuclear-Roulette_p_736.html
November 30th, 2012
Title: Nuclear Roulette: Countdown to Extinction
Source: The Alex Jones Radio Show
Date: Nov 29, 2012
I’m sorry folks, I’m what you call a libertarian constitutionalist. Back when I was more ignorant 15 years ago I was all about nuclear power, but now they are rotting and falling apart and the corporations don’t care, they’re crazy.
People say well why do you have a guy on, an environmentalist, when you’re talking about the green movement… because they attachall this real reasonable stuff to something run by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan that is a taxed based-system and so if we just fight the environmental movement, #1 it makes us look stupid and it’s not sophisticated. There’s a real environmental movement then there’s a clone of it, a counterfeit.
Nuclear power is a ticking time bomb that just keeps going off and now when they have leaks all the time in Nebraska or up in Canada, it’s a footnote now.
I believe that this is one of the greatest threats facing humanity is the fact that the nuclear industry is becoming collectively insane and self-destructive, and if they want to kill themselves that’s their business. They’re not going to kill me and my family.
Watch the video here
Don’t trust World Health Organisation’s data on Fukushima health effects
Gundersen on WHO: I don’t trust their data — Garbage in, garbage out — I suspect hot particles and internal emitters are omitted, and radioactive releases underestimated http://enenews.com/gundersen-dont-trust-data-garbage-garbage-suspect-hot-particles-internal-emitters-left-radioactive-releases-underestimated November 25th, 2012
Follow-up to: Asahi: Cancer risk for infants near Fukushima plant has risen, says WHO — More tumors and cysts likely for young people
According to an email from Fairewinds’ chief engineer Arnie Gundersen:
Do you trust the WHO?
I don’t trust this data … my guess is that WHO underestimated the radiological deposition and releases, and thus came up with exposures that are too low. Also, I suspect they have omitted hot particles and internal emitters from their dose assumptions. The same thing happened at TMI. Bad assumptions create low exposures. GIGO!
Watch: Exposed: World Health Organization beholden to nuclear interests — “Like having Dracula guard the blood bank” (VIDEOS)
Youtube: Human rights in Japan reagrding Fukushima radiation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbwjhXtAg0I Report on the “Learn from Chernobyl” tour in Japan Nov 25, 2012 Ms. Kazuko Kawai, Founder of Voices for Lively Spring HD, 30 min 26 sec, in English with Japanese subtitles
~How to protect the right to health and life of citizens from radiological contamination after the nuclear accident in Fukushima?~ Continue reading
Plutonium levels near Fukushima
Berkeley Nucleonics: Plutonium-239 levels were almost as high as Cesium-137 a dozen kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi (PHOTO & VIDEO) http://enenews.com/berkeley-nucleonics-plutonium-239-levels-almost-high-cesium-137-dozen-kilometers-fukushima-daiichi-photo-video
November 24th, 2012
Title: Berkeley Nucleonics Japan Update Page
Source: Berkeley Nucleonics
Live Map in Fukushima (SAM 940 Readings) – Ground
Fukushma mothers stand up for rights to school radiation cleanup
Fukushima Journalist at UC Berkeley: Gov’t complained when school tried to remove radioactive material — “Why you did that? You don’t need to” — But mothers are standing up (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fukushima-journalist-govt-complained-when-school-remove-contamination-dont-need-mothers-standing-video
November 24th, 2012
Title: Reporter From Fukushima Prefecture Speaks at UC Berkeley About Cleaning Up Contaminated Schools
Source: EnviroNews
Date: November 20, 2012
Hiroko Aihara, Journalist: Koriyama City, last year two months after, they decided to clean up the school ground.
The city did that.
But after that, national government said to mayor ‘Why you did that? You don’t need to remove soil from the school grounds.’
But mothers are standing up.
Watch the video here http://environews.tv/reporter-from-fukushima-prefecture-speaks-about-cleaning-up-contaminated-schools-at-uc-berkeley/
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