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VIDEO: Children living in radioactive areas in Fukushima

Why Can’t They Relocate? Fukushima’s Dilemma http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTmT8JOlG40&feature=player_detailpage#t=1080s BACKGROUND: A year and a half after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, there are still many families with children who live in highly contaminated areas for various reasons even if they are concerned about the health effects from radiation exposure. Many citizens are struggling financially and unable to relocate to outside of Fukushima without a proper assistance from the government. Fukushima families’ unique ties with neighbors, relatives and friends in their communities sometimes prevent them to evacuate from contaminated areas. Some families with members who have a disability or chronic illness do not have capacity to relocate to a new community. In order to assist those families from highly contaminated areas in Fukushima, many Japanese nonprofit organizations and grassroots organizations established “hoyo projects” or recreation projects to provide them with temporary group homes, so that their children could enjoy short-term recreation opportunities in less contaminated areas while reducing their accumulated dosage of radiation. However, these projects are now facing challenges.

November 2, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

AUDIO: Oyster Creek nuclear plants problems are not over, after the hurricane

http://enenews.com/9pm-special-edition-exactly-happened-fukushima-going-njs-oyster-creek-except-reactor-refueling-gundersen-audio  SPECIAL EDITION PODCAST: AFTER HURRICANE SANDY – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED In this special edition question & answer podcast, Gundersen and Hurley discuss what effects Hurricane Sandy had on U.S. nuclear power plants, especially Oyster Creek. Gundersen explains how spent fuel pools are not configured to be cooled with diesel power in the event of a loss of offsite power. Oyster Creek and several other nuclear power plants did lose offsite power and Thomson Reuters reports that they may use fire pumps to cool the pools.

November 1, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

“Nuclear Savage” shows recently declassified films about Marshall Islands bombing

John Dear will speak  Nov. 9 at the Call to Action conference in Louisville, Ky. To see John’s 2012 speaking schedule, go to John Dear’s website . His new book, Lazarus, Come Forth! , explores Jesus as the God of life calling humanity (in the symbol of the dead Lazarus) out of the tombs of the culture of war and death. John’s talk at last year’s Sabeel conference in Bethlehem is featured in the new book Challenging Empire . John is profiled with Dan Berrigan and Roy Bourgeois in a new book, Divine Rebels  by Deena Guzder (Lawrence Hill Books). This book and other recent books, including Daniel Berrigan: Essential Writings ; Put Down Your Sword  and A Persistent Peace , are available from Amazon.com.

Nuclear Savage’: A powerful new documentary on U.S. hydrogen bombs, National Catholic Reporter,  John Dear S.J.  |  Oct. 30, 2012 Recently, I saw a powerful, disturbing new documentary about the U.S. hydrogen bomb explosions in the islands in the South Pacific, the U.S. government’s campaign to keep the indigenous people on those contaminated islands and the U.S. government’s secret program to monitor the effects of radiation on them.

“Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1 ,” a film by former Greenpeace activist Adam Horowitz, uses recently declassified government film footage of the hydrogen bombs we dropped in the South Pacific and recent interviews with survivors to tell this nightmarish nuclear tale. In old black-and-white footage, we see excited white, U.S. military men speaking somberly into the camera about the glories of the hydrogen bomb and describing how well “the savages,” his term for the people of the Marshall Islands, were responding to our nuclear bomb explosions. The combination of militarism, U.S. imperialism, nuclear weapons, environmental destruction, sheer racism and total disregard for these gentle, impoverished people is shocking, to say the least.

Of course, the real savages are the Americans who built and dropped these bombs and who maintain our nuclear weapons industry today. Continue reading →

November 1, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Spent nuclear fuel likely to heat up at New Jersey nuclear plants

AUDIO: Gundersen: I suspect we’re going to see reports of spent fuel pools heating up at New Jersey nuclear plants — The problem is reactors were in refueling mode  
http://enenews.com/gundersen-suspect-going-reports-spent-fuel-pools-heating-new-jersey-nuclear-plants-video
October 30th, 2012
Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Associates: The problem is that Salem and the Oyster Creek plant, which we just talked about, were in a refueling mode. And what that means is that all of the nuclear fuel is not in the nuclear reactor, it’s in the spent fuel
pool. And when you lose off-site power, you can’t cool the fuel pool. I suspect in the next couple days we’re going to see reports of the fuel pools heating up because they were unable to cool the spent fuel pool.

November 1, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

AUDIO: Oyster Creek nuclear plant: lucky it was refueling

AUDIO : Special Edition: Exactly what happened at Fukushima is going on at NJ nuclear plant, except now reactor is in refueling -Gundersen (AUDIO) http://enenews.com/9pm-special-edition-exactly-happened-fukushima-going-njs-oyster-creek-except-reactor-refueling-gundersen-audio
 October 31st, 2012 
Special Edition Podcast: After Hurricane Sandy – Questions and Answers
About What Happened, Oct. 30, 2012

Host: […] What if the reactor were running in that type of situation?

Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Energy Education: That
would be worse case scenario.

If Oyster Creek wasn’t in a refueling and this tidal surge hit, it’s
exactly what happened at Fukushima Daiichi at that point.

You’ve lost off-site power and you can’t cool the nuclear reactor
because these pumps were flooded.

We can all be thankful that the plant was in a refueling outage.

November 1, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

AUDIO: A horror story, Fallujah massacre, and depleted uranium

Donna Mulhearn on her work to protect innocent Iraqi and Palestinian civilians from the ravages of war http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6520   This week, Dr. Helen Caldicott speaks with Sydney-based peace activist Donna Mulhearn, an author, former journalist and political adviser. She was a human shield in the war in Iraq in 2003 and later returned to Iraq as a humanitarian aid worker. Mulhearn was part of an international team of volunteers that established a small NGO “Our Home – Iraq’ which set up a shelter for street kids in Baghdad, a center for traumatized children and provided emergency aid to displaced families. During this time she witnessed the massacre of Fallujah in April 2004, survived constant bombing, being kidnapped by fighters, and being shot at by American soldiers. In 2004- 2005, Mulhearn spent four months in the West Bank of Palestine as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement. During these years she continually wrote reports and reflections called pilgrim notes, which were distributed widely around Australia and the world.Listen to Dr. Caldicott’s June 2010 interview with Mulhearn.

October 29, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO: Nuclear Waste Burial in the Great Lakes Basin

Deep Trouble: Nuclear Waste Burial in the Great Lakes Basin By Ahni Oct 13, 2012 http://intercontinentalcry.org/deep-trouble-nuclear-waste-burial-in-the-great-lakes-basin/ This video is a recording of the joint St. Clair County Community College’s Green Team and Blue Water Sierra Club presentation “Deep Trouble — Nuclear Waste Burial in the Great Lakes Basin.” Continue reading →

October 25, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Nuclear Regulatory Commission now discussing 80 year nuclear reactor licensing!

AUDIO “You won’t believe this”: US nuclear regulator meets to discuss 80-year licenses for old reactors -Expert  ) http://enenews.com/you-wont-believe-this-us-nuclear-regulator-meets-to-discuss-80-year-licenses-for-old-reactors-not-just-rolling-the-dice-youre-practically-committing-suicide-expert-video
October 18th, 2012 Title: Interview with David Freeman
Source: IF YOU LOVE THIS PLANET with Dr. Helen Caldicott
Date: Oct. 12, 2012
h/t MsMilkytheclown

David Freeman, a senior advisor with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign […] was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he stopped the construction of eight large nuclear power plants and pioneered a massive energy conservation program. Subsequently, Freeman served for two decades as general manager of several large public power agencies including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. He is a renowned expert on clean energy, efficiency and the risks of nuclear power.

At 27:30 in

David Freeman, former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority: And now guess what? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission last Thursday, guess what they met on? You won’t believe this… The subject of the meeting was 80-year licenses for old nuclear power plants […]  If you have a plant operating for 80 years [next to an earthquake fault] you’re not just rolling the dice, you’re practically committing suicide […] everyone living within a 50 mile radius is a guinea pig.

October 22, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

“Fukushima Never Again”- film exposes cover-ups

Fukushima dirty bomb stories leaked, 300,000 children radiated daily http://www.examiner.com/article/fukushima-dirty-bomb-stories-leaked-300-000-children-still-being-radiated?CID=examiner_alerts_article
Examiner, OCTOBER 17, 2012 BY: DEBORAH DUPRE Fukushima energy refugee mothers’ and children’s stories are being leaked for the first time to Americans by a California filmmaker, who is returning to interview children, 300,00 of whom are still being radiated daily, according to an exclusive interview Sunday by Deborah Dupré when he explained it was like dirty bombs going off in Japan.

“We will get more of the stories from the Japanese people out to the United States,” said Fukushima Never Again director Steve Zeltzer about the government and industry coverup. Continue reading →

October 22, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

VIDEO: Masaki KITO, Attorney in Tokyo, on Fukushima and fishing

Tokyo Legal Expert: Once a nuclear accident occurs EVERYTHING is over!  http://enenews.com/tokyo-legal-expert-once-a-nuclear-accident-occurs-everything-is-over-zero-prospect-of-ever-restoring-fishing-grounds-warns-california-residents-of-risks-all-will-be-lost-this-is-the-realit— Zero prospect of ever restoring fishing grounds — Warns Californians of quake risks, “All will be lost, this is the reality of nuclear energy” (VIDEO)

Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdILRvIdck Title: Masaki KITO, Attorney in Tokyo, on Fukushima and fishing  Oct 19, 2012

October 22, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO: discharging Fukushima radioactive water underground

Japan Engineer: Fukushima contaminated water to go in giant pit — “It can easily be discharged underground” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-engineer-fukushima-contaminated-water-giant-pit-dug-tepco-easily-be-discharged-underground-video October 19th, 2012

 Follow-up to: Radioactive waste to be buried underground at Fukushima Daiichi? (PHOTOS) <<

Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps
Uploaded by: Sujoy Sarkar

Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012 at Chabot College
Uploaded on: Oct. 18, 2012

Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima Skilled Veterans Corps: Now we need the storage of the excess water. It increases day by day. You can see some tank here, storage tank of the excess water.

Tanks are not sufficient at this moment. Tepco has dug a pit and lined with bentonite and polyethylene seal, and stored water underground, and then cover.

But if there were any earthquake again here, a crack would generate, I guess. And I don’t know why Tepco has decided to make underground [inaudible] for excess water. It can easily be discharged into the underground water.

October 22, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

  Land of Hope – love, loss and nuclear power in Japan, Montreal Gazette October 21, 2012 Land of Hope is nothing like Sion Sono’s exuberant Love
Exposure (shown in Montreal at the Fantasia Film Festival).

It’s a sad, sober, quiet film that provides food for thought. I’m assuming that the titles is a bit of a sad joke because there isn’t too much hope here, actually. What hope that there is would probably die if exposed to the light of truth.

The movie imagines an additional nuclear power disaster, in Nagashima, Japan, after the one that really did happen in Fukishima, as a result of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011…..
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/10/21/fnc-2012-land-of-hope-love-loss-and-nuclear-power/

October 22, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

AUDIO: new insights into why the nuclear industry is failing

Nuclear Energy Raises More Questions  http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2012/10/nuclear-energy-raises-more-questions.html  ABC Radio 702 Sydney. Tim Holt interviews Derek Abbott,  Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Adelaide, raises some very interesting practical considerations that will affect the future of this alternative source.  17/10/2012   

TRANSCRIPT  – (best I could manage – Christina Macpherson)

PROF ABBOTT  – Very hard to say how much nuclear industry is going ahead. Nuclear power –  Some countries going ahead some countries pulling back. Not all so rosy in India.They are planning 60 nuclear stations. But In Tamil district 10,000 villagers demonstrating against local nuclear reactor, going on hunger strikes. Indian forces had to put out 4,000 security forces to control this problem. Needed large security force there.

October 20, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual | 2 Comments