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AUDIO: the Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to unfold

Arnold Gundersen with another update on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima disaster http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=6397

This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineerArnold Gundersen to update readers on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima meltdowns and what is happening with nuclear power in other parts of the world. Longer show description to follow. As background, listen to earlier conversations with Gundersen (starting with April 1, 2011), which can be found on the Archives page.

Read the August 2012 news articles Study: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Caused Mutant Butterflies andGrassroots Power Pushing Japan Towards Nuclear-Free Future . And visit Fairewinds.org, the website of Gundersen’s organization, for more information.

This week, Dr. Caldicott brings on nuclear engineer Arnold Gundersen to update readers on the unfolding effects of the Fukushima meltdowns and what is happening with nuclear power in other parts of the world

[…]Gundersen: The big problem is going to be — Have these things been distorted by the earthquake or heat during the process, or by rubble falling on them. They may not be able to pull them. They may get on them and try to pull them and try to lift and they’ll be jammed. Then that’s another problem. We’ll see as time develops. Unfortunately, they’re taking way too long. http://enenews.com/gundersen-they-may-not-be-able-to-pull-out-spent-fuel-rods-the-big-problem-is-are-they-distorted-from-heat-or-quake-or-fallen-rubble-video

September 3, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO Fukushima emergency in English

Fukushima Tapes in English: Daini workers needed emergency room after being at Unit 4 — Unable to decontaminate exposed people — “Plants are not safe” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/fukushima-tapes-in-english-daini-workers-needed-emergency-room-after-being-at-unit-4-unable-to-decontaminate-exposed-people-plants-are-not-safe-video

Title: TEPCO TV Conference of Evacuation from Fukushima Daiichi
Author: dm_5020e6f6cdc3a
Upload Date: August 19, 2012

This video was taken on March 14, 2011.

  • Top left:Fukushima Daiichi
  • Top center: Fukushima Off-site Center
  • Top right: Kashiwazaki Nuclear Power Plant

At 4:00 in

Right now [Daini’s] plants are not safe, so we use emergency power supplies.

Unfortunately they refuse to supply fuel.

We said, “We supply fuel then.” Then they said we cannot let you do so…

[Daini] doesn’t have water. We don’t have enough water to decontaminate exposed people…

We prepare emergency rooms for Unit 4 of [Daini] and people from [Daiichi].

We prepare emergency rooms for each. So Head Office, please think separately. That’s all.

August 31, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Youtube: flaws in Sweden’s nuclear waste plan

Chris Busby: the Forsmark nuclear waste Repository plan  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oliHTaHhDYc&feature=shareThe future of nuclear energy depends on the industry finding somewhere to put the high level waste. This is radioactive for millions of years and must be isolated from the environment. The hitherto intractable problem was apparently solved by the Swedish nuclear industry who proposed a plan to encapsulate it in copper canisters and bury it in tunnels 500m underneath the Baltic sea at Forsmark.

The full environmental impact report was released last year; the government requirements are that the company SKB show that the waste will not emerge from the canisters between 100,000 years and 1 million years.

After studying the report in detail it became clear that the design was flawed because it did not include consideration of the Helium gas produced from the alpha emitters. The volume of gas in each canister would cause it to explode long before 100,000 years resulting in the contamination of the Baltic Sea by the equivalent of 2000 Chernobyl accidents. Back to the drawing Board guys!
Paper is at
http://www.bsrrw.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/forsmark_ecrr_busby20120531.pdf

August 30, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

No progress in Daiichi Nuclear Fuel Rod Removal says Mayor

NHK: Mayor says work to remove radioactive substances “making no
progress” (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/nhk-mayor-says-work-to-remove-radioactive-substances-was-making-no-progress-video
August 25th, 2012
By ENENews
Title: Fukushima NHK Special: Daiichi Nuclear Fuel Rod Removal
Source: NewsWatch 9
Published by: Missingsky101
Date Aired: July 18, 2012
Date Published: August 24, 2012

Last December, the government said the accident at Fukushima nuclear
plant had been contained, but the local residents still face a long
road to rebuild their lives. The government also said the work to
remove radioactive substances from areas with relatively low
contamination would end by March 2014. But Iitate village Mayor Norio
Kanno told reporters yesterday the work was making no progress.

August 27, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Noam Chomsky- Julian Assange deserves applause rather than denunciation and punishment (video)

http://www.japantoday.com/category/opinions/view/julian-assange-deserves-applause-rather-than-denunciation-and-punishment?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2012-08-26_PM

AUG. 25, 2012

What’s at stake here?

“…At stake is the question of whether the citizens of a country have a right to know what their elected officials are doing. Those who have a lingering affection for an odd notion called “democracy” believe that this is important. To be sure, a state has the right to keep some matters secret. I haven’t read all the WikiLeaks exposures, but I have read quite a few, and I have not seen an example of anything that could legitimately be kept secret, nor, to my knowledge, have the horde of angry critics presented an example. I should say that this is not unusual. Anyone who has spent time studying declassified documents is well aware that overwhelmingly, they are kept secret to protect elected officials from the scrutiny of citizens, not for defense or some other legitimate purpose.

Someone who courageously carries out actions in defense of democratic rights deserves applause, not hysterical denunciation and punishment. We understand that very well with regard to official enemies. Since you bring up the matter of “hypocrisy,” it is the extreme of hypocrisy to refuse to apply the same standards to ourselves…..”

And this is the julian assange show with Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali discussing activism

http://assange.rt.com/chomsky-ali-episode-ten/

DID YOU HAVE AVE ANY IDEA? with Noam CHOMSKY (video)

“Julian Assange should be congratulated for carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the population should be aware of what their selected representatives are doing and planning.

The Wikileaks revelations have surely advanced such awareness and understanding, and are a valuable contribution for that reason”.

Noam CHOMSKY
December 2011

https://vimeo.com/35941909

August 26, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

VIDEO Cesium levels increasing in soil in Chernobyl area

Physician: We don’t know what’s happening — Cesium levels in soil not going down after Chernobyl, some areas have gotten even higher (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/physician-cesium-levels-soil-going-down-areas-gotten-higher-dont-whats-happening-around-chernobyl-video  August 23rd, 2012 at 3 By 

Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima, May 5, 2012 – Session II
Published: August 22, 2012
Published by: University of Chicago

At 1:44:15 in

Jeffrey Patterson, MD, Physicians for Social Responsibility board member: Chernobyl today is still a mess […] The levels of cesium in the soil have stayed the same, and in some areas gotten higher. We don’t know why — what’s happening.

August 25, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO – Melted nuclear fuel in ground under Fukushima?

Japan Nuclear Expert: Melted fuel may have gone through cement floor and into ground under Fukushima reactors — I don’t believe Tepco’s claim for one second — Where in the world is it? (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-melted-fuel-gone-cement-floor-leaked-ground-fukushima-reactors-dont-believe-tepcos-calculations-one-second-world-video 

August 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 pm ET
By   Atomic Age Symposium II: Fukushima, May 5, 2012 – Session III Roundtable

Published: August 22, 2012
Published by: University of Chicago

Transcript Excerpt

Hiroaki Koide, nuclear reactor specialist and Assistant Professor at Kyoto University’s Nuclear Research Institute:

The problem right now is not figuring out what the cause of the explosion [at Unit 3] is, but where in the world is the melted nuclear material that is in the plant right now?

Unfortunately we have no way of figuring this out…

We can’t go in and look… there’s nothing we can do at this point…

Like I said we have no idea where the melted nuclear core is at this point…

100 tons [was in reactor]…

Fell through steel reactor…

So where did the melted material go from there? It fell into the containment vessel and what is that made of? Also steel.

But what Tepco has been telling us is that underneath that steel is a floor of cement and that cement hasn’t melted yet.

But it’s not as if Tepco has gone there and seen if this is the case or anything like that. It’s based on calculations that they claimed to have worked out that way.

But I don’t believe it for one second.

There’s at least a possibility that it’s gone through all of it and leaked into the ground…

If something like that happens, there’s a strong possibility that it leaks into the environment and the ocean is right there.

I’ve been advocating since last May that a wall be built underground…

That’s really all I know at this point. I really hope something is done so the material doesn’t spread to the greater environment and I’m going to do all I can do to prevent that from happening.

August 25, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Petition about radiation, and VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbto7xNypS0&feature=youtu.be    Nuclear Catastrophy Review & how YOU can Help   Link to the petion here:
http://nuclearjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Petition-ANY-Environment…
http://nuclearjustice.org/?p=50   It follows that if new evidence has appeared about the potential consequences of the EURATOM Basic Safety Directive, Under Article 20 (in the original 1996 version Article 6) all practices involving radiation exposure have to be re-justified. It is a legal requirement. What is proposed, therefore, is that all individuals resident in or citizens of a EU member state country, and all NGOs based in such countries, petition the European Parliament to require a re-justification of all radiation producing practices covered by the Euratom Basic Safety Standards Directive in any of its forms in the light of the new scientific evidence of health risks.

This new evidence is appended to the Petition as an Appendix and petitioners may ask for the evidence to be presented in any scientific discussion by members of the European Committee on Radiation Risk www.euradcom.org , or the International Committee on Nuclear Justice www.nuclearjustice.org .

  Chris Busby on radioactivity displacing supplements  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iutbbfduAQ

Busby talks here from a playground in Stockholm about the cover-up of the Fukushima contamination and the failure of the Japanese government to act for the children who are suffering the same health problems as those exposed to the Chernobyl contamination. Continue reading →

August 25, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 2 Comments

Award winners from the Uranium Film Festival

Special achievement awards   Uranium Film Festival, by Robert del Tredici , 23 Aug 12, Special achievement awards of the 2nd International Uranium Film Festival go to “Chernobyl, the Invisible Thief”, by Christoph Boekel (Germany), “Buried in Earthskin”, by Helena Kingwill (South Africa), ”Australian Atomic Confessions”, by Katherine Aigner (Australia),
“Radioactive Wolves”, by Klaus Feichtenberger (Austria), “The Secret and the Sacred: Two Worlds at Los Alamos” by Claus Biegert, (Germany) and “Rokkasho Rhapsody” by Hitomi Kamanaka (Japan) and to Peter Greenaway’s outstanding experimental documentary “Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”.
“Atomic Bombs on the Planet Earth”

Peter Greenaway and Irma de Vries (Video design), United Kingdom/The Netherlands

Special Achievement Award “Hors Concours” for reminding us of something we have tended to forget, or maybe even not to know: that 2,201 atomic bombs have been exploded on, within, or over our own home planet – which, from Earth’s point of view, are not atomic tests at all but preemptive nuclear strikes. Greenaway creates an infernal cinematic aesthetic to convey this truth.

Using 25 screens at once, Atomic Bombs on Planet Earth overwhelms the viewer’s field of vision with dazzling cascades of poison fire punctuated by percussive sounds and eerie sonics to convey the reckless enormity of the many Bombs
humans exploded not all that long ago. The grid of screens gives rise to multiples of every blast a dozen times or more and staggers clips to make them tumble downscreen, slantwise, in coruscating tides. By the time the razzle-dazzle’s over, Greenaway has delivered more fireballs than any viewer will be able to absorb — and more than any living planet may be able to sustain. The first Trinity blast appears several times as Robert Oppenheimer provides the film’s voice-over
with words repeated like a mantra: “Some laughed – Some cried – Most remained silent.”

These are hardly words of wisdom from the father of the Bomb… and half a century on, in the absence of anything like sage words on nuclear weapons, we get what’s coming to us: an experimental documentary impossible to forget that triggers in our collective brain an atomic migraine of criminally insane proportions whose energies go deeper and are destined to last longer than our own DNA. http://www.uraniofestival.org/index.php/en/home-en/73-en/frontpage-en/162-special-achievement-awards    

August 25, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | 1 Comment

VIDEO Aruna Roy speaks out for India’s thousands of anti nuclear people

 “Place for dissent is shrinking in our country which is evident here (in Kudankulam) where non-violent protests being seen as intolerable by the Indian government.”

Ms Roy said she was very distressed about the action being taken on the non-violent protests against the establishment of a nuclear plant in Kudankulam.

VIDEO Social activist Aruna Roy slams nuclear energy http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/social-activist-aruna-roy-slams-nuclear-energy-258453   by Pallava Bagla, Edited by Shamik Ghosh August 23, 2012 New Delhi: Nuclear energy is bad for development and India should not adopt it – this was the key outcome of a people’s hearing on nuclear energy projects in India held on August 22-23 where concerns of the local communities regarding safety, viability and impacts of these projects on the lives and livelihoods of the surrounding
population and their environment were discussed.

Jury members included social activist Aruna Roy, member of the National Advisory Committee, former Navy chief Admiral L Ramdas, and KS Subrahmaniam, who heard testimonies of people part of the grassroots movements at sites where nuclear plants were coming up like in Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu), Jaitapur (Maharashta), Chutka (Madhya
Pradesh), Gorakhpur (Haryana), Banswada (Rajasthan), and Rawatbhata (Rajasthan), where strong agitations against upcoming and existing nuclear facilities are underway. Continue reading →

August 24, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear, Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO: Lessons not learned from the Fukushima catastrophe

   http://www.fairewinds.org/content/cctv-live-five-margaret-harrington-and-arnie-gundersen CCTV Host Margaret Harrington and Fairewinds Energy Education’s Arnie Gundersen discuss the urgent need to empty spent fuel pools into dry cask storage to prevent a serious but avoidable accident. They also discuss the economic cost to nuclear plants if they where forced to withstand natural calamities, the future of Yucca Mountain, and the radiological contamination caused by depleted uranium weapons…. 

August 23, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO Save the Children of Fukushima!

by   Artist: Madonna Save the Children of Fukushima! There is enough information out now, the children are being sacrificed so the cities will stay in business, if the kids leave so does the family and that means no money for the officials……  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZGlO71Ag3c&feature=related

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

Youtube – Assange granted asylum by Ecuador

Aug 16, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch v=0Zs0sNyrZ7s&feature=youtu.be    by TheYoungTurks “WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange was granted political asylum by Ecuador on Thursday, setting up a standoff with the British government, which has vowed to block his exit from the country. The announcement was made by the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño. He said that Ecuador was granting Assange political asylum because it believed he was being persecuted for his actions as the head of WikiLeaks…”.* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down….

August 18, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

Video: New NBC TV show trivialises war

Nobel Peace laureates vs NBC scandalous reality show http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IYIiW4VvRBw&feature=share Aug 14, 2012 by  NBC has come up with a new show, which the critics say ‘glorifies war.’ It debuted last night and is called “Stars and Stripes” but has a cast of people you can barely call stars. It can be sold as way to honor US troops but many don’t see it that way. Jody Williams, a long time peace activist and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner, joins RT’s Liz Wahl for more.

August 16, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

VIDEO Arnie Gundersen speaking about San Onofre Nuclear Plant

http://solarimg.org/shows/SolarIMG_Podcast_Arnie_Gundersen_100812.mp3

Gundersen: At this point my mind is changing — Perhaps best to entomb reactors and come back in 300 years (AUDIO)   – on NRC San Onofre August 15th, 2012  By 

 http://enenews.com/gundersen-point-mind-changing-best-entomb-reactors-300-years-video

Follow-up to: Gundersen: “I think people are beginning to think maybe we can never dismantle these plants, maybe we just fill them with concrete and walk away” (VIDEO)

Title: Interview with Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds
Source: SolarIMG
Date: August 12, 2012

At 25:45 in

Gundersen: At this point my mind is changing, and I think perhaps on Units 1, 2, 3, and 4 the best thing to do is to keep them cool for a couple more years and then entomb them for 300 and come back. Unit 4 is a different story, we’ve got to get the fuel out…

August 16, 2012 Posted by | Resources -audiovicual | Leave a comment

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