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Angry crowd shouts at Japan’s Prime Minister

Video: “Frankly, things like this have never ever happened in Japan before — Ordinary people shouting down leadership of country”  http://enenews.com/watch-frankly-like-never-happened-japan-before-ordinary-people-shouting-down-leadership-country-video 
 September 20th, 20 Title: Angry Crowd Shout “GO HOME! GO HOME!” to PM Noda and Leadership Candidates in Shinjuku, Tokyo  
Source: EXSKF
Date: Sept 19, 2012
Frankly, things like this have never ever happened in Japan before – ordinary people shouting down the leadership of the country.

“帰れ、帰れ！　解散しろ！” Go home, go home! Dissolve the Diet and hold election! People shouted at the DPJ leadership candidates speaking atop the van, on September 19, 2012 on the street corner in Shinjuku, Tokyo.

According to people who watched the snippet in the evening news in Japan, the television stations all filtered out the angry crowd.

September 21, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO – Fukushima whistleblower

GE Nuclear Plant Inspector/Whistleblower Kei Sugaoko Speaks About Fukushima, GE &  Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJjbNw07OUAGeneral Electric nuclear plant inspector Kei Sugaoka was one of the inspectors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2000. He noticed a crack in the steam dryer which he videotaped. He was later ordered by Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO to edit this part of the tape which is illegal in the United States. He went public and some TEPCO managers were fired. He thought that things would change but they have not. Additionally, as a result of being a whistleblower he was also laid off by General Electric and has been struggling to get the truth out about these dangerous plants. Sugaoka has inspected plants throughout the world including in Taiwan and Europe.

This interview was done on May 5, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBjiLaVOsI4&feature=
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?hpw
http://www.baycitizen.org/disasters/story/inside-japans-failing-nuclear-react…
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20040523x2.html
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/28/from-hiroshima-to-fukushima-1945-2011/
Production of Labor Video Project www.laborvideo.org laborvideo.blip.tv
2011 (c)

September 20, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Youtube video – fake worker documents at Fukushima

Watch: Fukushima worker films at plant — I was asked to fake documents — Underage people employed (VIDEO)http://enenews.com/watch-fukushima-worker-films-plant-asked-fake-documents-underage-workers-employed-video September 14th, 2012 By ENENews Source: 8bitnews Translation: mina564da 
Date Filmed: June 18, 2012(?) Date Published: Sept 11, 2012

I was employed by a subcontractor of Tepco.

I was asked to write a fake CV by the contracting company.

I was told my duty was to be logistical support. But the reality was to work at the highly radioactive area (over 1 milliSv/hr).

Most of the workers come from all over Japan as a day laborer.

Underage workers (18 & 19 years old) are also employed.

These are just ordinary people without good knowledge of radiation. The fake CV establishes them as an experienced worker and they are sent to the Fuksuhima Daiichi NPP.

September 17, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Japan, Resources -audiovicual, secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Emergency preparedness on nuclear power – don’t be lulled by pro nuke propaganda

Emergency Preparedness–Nuclear 911 Campaign    http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/emergency/emergencyhome.htm   includes excellent VIDEO 
 September 13, 2012.Statement of Michael Mariotte, NIRS Executive Director, at NRC scoping meeting on emergency planning on need to expand EPZs, not be fooled by computer accident simulations, and public’s expectations of protection from radiation exposure.Statement of Dominique French, NIRS Campaigner, at same NRC meeting, on lessons from Fukushima & Chernobyl…….

September 15, 2012 Posted by | general, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Workers reluctant to go to Fukushima nuclear plant, if no medical checkups

Anonymous Fukushima Worker: Nobody will want to come work at plant if there’s no more health checkups – Gov’t does not understand situation here (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/anonymous-fukushima-worker-one-will-work-plant-health-checkups-govt-understand-situation-video
 September 12th, 2012  By ENENews Without medical examination cost assistance on site of the Fukushima nuclear high dose News 7 (Japanese TV)
Fukushima Daiichi Worker: The Health Ministry is busy with paperwork
and does not understand the situation at the plant. The Health Ministry must think the workers are dispensable. No one will want to start working at plant.

September 14, 2012 Posted by | Fukushima 2012, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Medical checkup subsidy stopped, for Fukuhsima cleanup workers

Japan: Fukushima Daiichi No Longer Considered Emergency Work (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/japan-fukushima-daiichi-longer-considered-emergency-work-video
September 12th, 2012  By ENENews  Medical checkup subsidy halted for nuclear plant workers NHK The Health Ministry says jobs at the Fukushima plant can no longer be
considered emergency work. That means workers should be treated the
same as any other nuclear plant.

September 14, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

ENE News shows photos of how TEPCO doctored reactor damage pictures

Tepco edits ‘photoshopped’ image — Removes original alteration (PHOTO) http://enenews.com/tepco-edits-altered-image-removes-original-alteration-photo

Japanese citizens want answers about altered Fukushima photo: “What do you think they were hiding, and why do you think they were hiding it?” (VIDEO) »
Tepco edits ‘photoshopped’ image — Removes original alteration (PHOTO)    September 4th, 2012   By ENENews

UPDATED HERE: Tepco: We fabricated part of the photo

The altered area has been cropped out of the new image. See:http://photo.tepco.co.jp/library/20120830_03/120830_28.jpg

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

TEPCO not capable of Fukushima cleanup – Gundersen press conference in Japan

Gundersen gets to question Tepco and NISA: “Frankly, I was surprised and appalled” — “It was as if they were wearing blinders” (VIDEO)  http://enenews.com/gundersen-gets-to-question-tepco-and-nisa-frankly-i-was-surprised-and-appalled-it-was-as-if-they-were-wearing-blinders-video September 5th, 2012  By ENENews Arnie Gundersen Press Conference Sept 5, 2012

I was able to ask [Tepco and NISA] questions for the very first time since the accident.

And frankly, I was surprised and appalled by their responses.

It was as if they were wearing blinders.

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 2 Comments

VIDEO: Plutonium probably reached critical mass n Fukushima reactor No 3

Busby: I think plutonium probably reached critical mass at Reactor 3 which caused explosion (VIDEO)  September 6th, 2012 By ENENews Nuked Radio Special: Busby Speaks September 4, 2012
Dr. Chris Busby: I think what happened originally was it got hot enough to volatilize the plutonium. See, in these reactors there’s always plutonium. In Reactor 3, there was plutonium they put in there in the first place.

And plutonium has a lower boiling point than uranium.

So in principal if you heat the thing high enough, the plutonium comes off first, like the fractional distillation of oil.

So as the plutonium comes off, it will then condense in the cooler part of whatever it is coming off into, the pressure vessel I guess… and you only need about 9 kg of plutonium to have critical mass, so that could then explode and blow everything up in the air.

I think that is probably what happened at Reactor 3……  http://enenews.com/busby-plutonium-reached-critical-mass-reactor-3-caused-explosion-video

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

AUDIO: Fukushima deposited more radioactive material than Chernobyl did

Nuclear Expert Back From Japan: Fukushima deposited a lot more radioactive material than Chernobyl, except for immediate area around
reactors (AUDIO)
http://enenews.com/listen-expert-back-from-japan-fukushima-deposited-a-lot-more-radioactive-material-than-chernobyl-except-for-immediate-area-around-reactors-audio  September 5th, 2012  Title: Clean Energy View: Fukushima’s History, Recovery & Future Source: The Organic View
Date: June 19, 2012 
Energy expert, Thomas S. Drolet, President of Drolet and Associates
Energy Services, Inc. recently visited Fukushima and was also at the
site shortly after the disaster occurred to assist with the recovery
process. Mr. Drolet has also been to Chernobyl and is a highly sought
after speaker on the subject of nuclear energy. Drolet: The land to
the northwest of Chernobyl Unit 4 was severely contaminated in
comparison to anything that happened at Fukushima Daiichi, and then
was less and less.

The only good news I can say about Chernobyl is the initial blast was
so strong and so powerful that a lot of it went up into the air, into
the stratosphere almost, and got carried by the jet stream around the
globe.

So the dispersion was far greater in distance, and the amount
deposited — except for the immediate area, say a 20 mile area around
Chernobyl — was a lot less.

So its just the way the vagaries of the explosion and the wind were at the time.

September 6, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Youtube: what happens when a Weather Girl goes Feral?

Don’t Miss This One!
Weather Girl Goes Rogue  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfcJP_0eMc&feature=share

September 5, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Video: VIMEO international conference on Chernobyl radiation

Nuclear Controversies http://vimeo.com/33724891  by  PLUS   by Wladimir Tchertkoff, 51min, 2004 In 1995, the Director General of WHO Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, tried to inform on Chernobyl by organizing in Geneva an international conference with 700 experts and physicians. This tentative was blocked. The International Agency for Atomic Energy blocked the proceedings, which were never published. The truth on the consequences of Chernobyl would have been a disaster for the promotion of the atomic industry.

This film shows the discussions at the following WHO- congress in Kiev in 2001, that lead to the fatal disregarding of internal radiation consequences throughout the nuclear world.

The full transcript can be found here:
vivretchernobyl.blogspot.com/2008/06/w-tchertkof-nuclear-controversies.html

September 4, 2012 Posted by | Reference, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Youtube: nuclear waste dump for Tochigi, Japan

NHK – Japan proposes radioactive disposal site in Tochigi  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Whe6frtDdo  Sep 3, 2012 by  NHK World News —- The Japanese government has proposed a site in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, to dispose of radioactive waste from the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. It is the first time the central government has made such a proposal to a prefectural government.

Senior Vice Environment Minister Katsuhiko Yokomitsu made the proposal to Tochigi Governor Tomikazu Fukuda on Monday.

The central government is responsible for disposing of more than 42,000 tons of radioactive ash and mud in 9 prefectures. Levels of Cesium in the waste are above the government standard of 8,000 becquerels per kilogram.

Tochigi Prefecture is already temporarily storing about 9,000 tons of radioactive waste at sewage treatment and other facilities.

The Environment Ministry says a 4-hectare national forest in Tochigi’s Yaita City is large enough for the purpose and far enough from the closest residential area and water source.
The ministry will brief people living near the site on the need and safety of the planned facility.

September 4, 2012 Posted by | Japan, Resources -audiovicual, wastes | Leave a comment

The true scale of Chernobyl’s radioactive disaster

Chernobyl, Insight from the Inside by Vladimir M. Chernousenko,  Scientific Director of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences  Institute of Physics in Kiev’s Task Force for the Rectification of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident

Foreward, pp. XVI-XVII, From the Publisher:

 The author’s chief motivation for writing this book is that he considers it vitally important that the world should be told the unvarnished truth about the scale and consequences of the disaster, the legacy of which will remain with us for many generations. He presents realistic estimates and new unpublished hard data from various reliable sources about the radiation pollution caused by the accident. The figures prove to be much higher than anyone dared assume up to now. We are confronted with horrendous numbers regarding the radiation pollution of the soil and aquifers in the Soviet Union. On the basis of these data, it is estimated that a territory of a least 100,000 km^2 is so polluted as to be uninhabitable. There are even estimates of an amount three times as high.

The author’s greatest concern is the well-being of the people still living in this huge territory. Many of those who are still living in the polluted areas want to leave, but the problems posed by local administration and bureaucracy do not allow them to do so. For lack of precedence, the effects on their health in the long-term can only be guessed at, at the present time. But those effects are already beginning to become evident. The health statistics included in this book are a matter of serious concern and urgently call for further investigations. Continue reading →

September 4, 2012 Posted by | environment, health, resources - print, Resources -audiovicual, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Hear Dr Bob Mtonga on consequences of nuclear weapons, and Africa’s role in banning them

An interview with Dr Bob Mtonga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlR7zq59vS8&feature=youtu.be  Sep 3, 2012 by  Dr Bob Mtonga, co-president of IPPNW, tells us about the importance of the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and the role of Africa in the process to achieve a ban on these inhumane weapons.

September 4, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

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