Fukushima timeline - October 2011

Source: ARAMafter0311

Over the last 40 years, all levels of government in Germany have retooled policies to promote growth that is more environmentally sustainable. Germany’s experiences can provide useful lessons for the United States (and other nations) as policymakers consider options for “green” economic transformation. Our analysis focuses on four case studies from Germany in the areas of energy, urban infrastructure, and transportation. We show how political challenges to the implementation of green policies were overcome and how sustainability programs were made politically acceptable at the local, state, and federal levels of government. Within the three highlighted sectors, we identify potential opportunities and barriers to policy transfer from Germany to the United States, concluding with specific lessons for policy development and implementation.

Source: energybulletin.net

In his meetings, the State Secretary once again emphasised Austria’s concern about the plans to extend the operation of the Krško nuclear power plant and to even expand the plant. Waldner: “The strict criteria of the stress tests agreed at EU level apply to all currently existing nuclear power plants in Europe and to the ones planned to be constructed in future. We are also expecting clear consequences from the investigations carried out by independent experts.”

Various new and highly promising initiatives for more in-depth cooperation have recently developed, especially with Slovenia. One example is the quadrilateral dialogue (with Switzerland and Liechtenstein) on consular and visa issues and human rights.

webmasters comment:

The State Secretary is reaching out to Slovenia. Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria are all either non nuclear or phasing out. The call will be overheard in Slovenia, where corrupt political environment and officials are trying to suck the last cent out of anything still running. Our nuclear power plant is no exception.

Source: bmeia.gv.at

[...] A documentary to be broadcast by BBC Scotland tells how the collapse of the Soviet Union meant no definitive research was ever carried out into the impact of the Chernobyl disaster on human health. [...]

Professor Keith Baverstock, who led the World Health Organisation’s radiation protection programme for more than 10 years, believes new research is vital.

Source: enenews.com

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko agreed on Tuesday that Russia should build the country's first, $9 billion nuclear power station.

"It is only today that I've signed the resolution and agreed to sign a contract with the Russian Federation to build our first nuclear power station," he told a meeting with a Russian governor.

Source: en.rian.ru

Presenters include Daniel Hirsch, lecturer in nuclear policy at UC Santa Cruz and former director of the Stevenson Program on Nuclear Policy at the university. Hirsch is also president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a 40-year-old nonprofit organization working to reduce risks of nuclear accident and problems of radioactive waste disposal. He recently testified before the Select Committee of the California Senate on earthquake and disaster preparedness, response and recovery on implications of the Fukushima disaster for California’s San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors. A question and answer session will follow Hirsch’s presentation.

In addition, the program will include a live video presentation and teleconference for public interaction with Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president and energy advisor with nearly 40 years of nuclear power engineering experience. He has managed and coordinated projects at 70 nuclear power plants around the country. An independent nuclear engineering and safety expert, Gundersen provides testimony on nuclear operations, reliability, safety and radiation issues to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, congressional and state legislatures and government agencies throughout the world.

Source: missionviejo.patch.com

In Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa, they all do these fun-filled activities to enjoy and celebrate autumn, just like they did last year and year before, radioactive fallout or not. A minor nuclear accident must not disturb the preset schedule, ever.

At this point, though an increasing number of parents are simply horrified, the majority are quite happily following whatever the school teachers say and accuse the concerned parents as "monster parent" (a Japlish word that they use in katakana) - a troublemaker. The majority are more worried about their children's prospect of getting into prestigious schools.

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

[...] The number is 195 becquerels/kg, more than 150 times more than the background (1.2 becquerels/kg).

This is probably the lower of the two samples; the other sample is currently being analyzed.

As far as the Ministry of Education is concerned, the southern most detection of strontium-90 was in Shirakawa City, 79 kilometers from the plant. [...]

Source: enenews.com

In the simplest put, it’s over.

The amount was 195 Bq/kg.

Detected by a university staff teaching engineering, so the measurement is trustworthy.

It has nothing to do with the historical world-wide nuclear test, because it was measured on the roof of and apartment, which was built only 5 years ago.

Source: fukushima-diary.com

A 43-year-old mother who took her four sons, from 5 to 11 years old, to the Fukushima Medical University for the Oct. 9 thyroid gland examinations questioned the government's earlier reassurances.

"Now it says my sons need to take thyroid gland tests for the rest of their lives.

Source: asahi.com

Kesennuma, Miyagi Pref., Oct. 11 (Jiji Press)--The northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi is facing a fishery industry crisis because many seafood processing plants have been unable to resume operations even seven months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Source: jen.jiji.com

For a country as given to debate and argument as France, there has been a deafening silence surrounding the choice of nuclear as the prime source of energy. With a population of 62 million, France boasts 59 nuclear reactors — the highest per capita in the world, with over 75 per cent of its electricity coming from the power of the atom.

webmasters comment:

according to poll by PressTv over 70% of the french population supports gradual shutdown by 2030.

Source: thehindu.com

ALGIERS - Algeria will invest nearly 15 billion euros ($20.5 billion) over the next 20 years to boost electricity production from renewable energy sources, the public Sonelgaz group said on Monday.

"The total sum of electricity production development between 2011 and 2021 is nearly 2,600 billion dinars (25.9 billion euros, $35.4 billion), 1,500 billion of which (15 billion euros) will be dedicated to renewable energy," Nordine Bouterfa, the head of Sonelgaz, told a press conference.

"By 2030 some 40 percent of electricity production for national consumption will come from renewable" energy, he said.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

On October 1st 2011, Reykjavik's utility company, Orkuveita Reykjavikur, celebrated the start-up of the 5th phase of the Hellisheidi geothermal combined heat and power plant (CHP), located just outside Reykjavik, Iceland. This fifth phase added an additional 90 MW of power. The plant, which was designed by a group of consulting firms led by Mannvit, is now one of the world's largest geothermal energy plants, producing 303 MW of power and 133 MW of thermal energy for space heating and hot water.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

The largest markets for offshore wind through the remainder of this decade, though, will be in Western Europe, which as a region will account for fully 75% of global installed capacity in 2017.

Source: www.marketwatch.com

IWAKI, Fukushima -- On Oct. 11, seven months after the earthquake and the beginning of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, students of three schools here returned to their classrooms for the first time since the disasters.

The schools, south of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, had been part of the government-designated indoor advisory zone, and their reopening is the first for any schools within the indoor standby and evacuation zones.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

Source: MsMilkytheclown

...The unease is especially strong in areas in and around mountains that must be repeatedly decontaminated, as every rainfall brings a new batch of radioactive substance-contaminated leaves and soil washing down from the hills. Since some 70 percent of Fukushima Prefecture is mountainous, such instances of regular recontamination could occur over a broad area, while the same effect has also been observed in some undeveloped areas of cities.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

It may seem a stretch for Japan to acclaim its nuclear technology overseas while struggling at home to contain the nuclear meltdowns that displaced more than 100,000 people. But Japan argues that its latest technology includes safeguards not present at the decades-old reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, which continues to leak radiation.

webmasters comment:

Preaching latest technology and safeguards, exporting nuclear technology etc only means that gov. of japan intends to continue its nuclear program despite the majority of the population against it.

It would look strange selling "high tech" nuclear power plants, while not building any at home...

Source: todayonline.com

Blogpost by Justin McKeating - October 11, 2011

(This post is by Christine McCann)

Today marks seven months since the nuclear disaster occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis.

Source: greenpeace.org

ASTRAVETS, Belarus -- An antinuclear activist in western Belarus is suing President Alyaksandr Lukashenka over plans to build a contentious nuclear power station there, RFE/RL's Belarus Service reports.

Mikalay Ulasevich, who helps coordinate the "A Nuclear Power Station in Astravets Is A Crime" campaign, told journalists on October 7 that he has submitted his lawsuit to the Supreme Court.

He said Presidential Decree No. 418 "On the location of a nuclear power station in Belarus" contradicts Article 18 of the country's constitution, which proclaims Belarus "a neutral country with a nuclear-free territory."

Source: rferl.org

Odessa, Ukraine - Three rural districts in Ukraine were chosen to receive training on self-constructing solar collectors for warm water and heating.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

The old technology represented at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the product of the Cold War. It was chosen because of, not in spite of, its ability to create plutonium. In the 1950s, when the nuclear power was developed, manufacture of "a bomb a day kept the other side away." This was true for the Soviets and for the United States. It has cursed Japan with 60 to 70 tons of plutonium stored at various waste locations.

Source: japantimes.co.jp

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology admitted that they have made a “mistake” on the report about fall out in Fukushima.

The data is about the amount of fallout and the rain, from 6/6/2011 ~ 8/4/2011.

Having said that it was a simple error, it turned out that it was 10 times more than originally reported.

Source: fukushima-diary.com

Plants’ mutation are observed everywhere, and the cases are increasing.

webmasters comment:

wow, great video. You can observe the destructive force of radiation, tearing apart the most intangible fabrics of life.

Radiation is like shooting bullets into DNA several thousand times per second, splitting and ripping apart the normal DNA sequence of each living creature.

Nature, even universe as a whole functions in such a synchronous way beacuse of its common underlying principle, described in so called Fibonacci numbers. (please ignore the religious tone of the video posting beacuse it contains lots of examples)

This of course is not the sole example. Many are not aware that the underlying sequence of todays information technology follows the same pattern. The binary system, attributed to philosopher and mathematician Liebnitz was derived from chineese I Ching, describing the world as we see it as an interaction of ying and yang, of ZERO and ONE. And the virtual world is no exception.

Source: enenews.com

Fukushima Daiichi NPS 8 October 2011 Photos

Photos and videos released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. on 8 October 2011.

Cryptome Nuclear Power Plants and WMD Series:
http://cryptome.org/nppw- series.htm

Source: cryptome.org

The Japan Tourism Agency under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is competing with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in giving away free trips to Japan to foreigners in the hope of "favorable" coverage on the Internet social media.

webmasters comment:

Here's an idea. Use that money to help 10.000 children out of contaminated areas. That might ring a favourable buzz across the social media. Anything else is a FAIL.

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

U.S. Representative Paul Gosar, a native of Flagstaff, led a dedication ceremony at the plant, where nearly 1,900 glistening solar panels span over 70,000 square feet on the rooftop. The solar array will take advantage of Arizona's average of 300 days of sunshine annually to produce emission-free solar electricity.

webmasters comment:

Each private company that decides to ditch the grid, cut costs, go green and profit at same time from lower electricity costs that can become a profit center by itself, is a nail in the coffin of nuclear power industry.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

Okutama cesium level seen spiking, Japan Times by Mizuho Aoki, Oct. 8, 2011:

An aerial radiation survey of the capital and Kanagawa Prefecture has revealed the northwest tip of Tokyo was tainted by an unusually high amount of fallout [... in] the mountainous Okutama region on Tokyo’s western fringe. Radiation readings in the area were the highest of the two prefectures at 100,000 to 300,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per square meter.

webmasters comment:

Nice pic posted on enenews to easily suck-in the extent of the disaster.

Source: enenews.com

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, said Saturday it has started to discharge hydrogen with high concentration levels from a pipe connected to a reactor containment vessel at the plant, as a measure to prevent an explosion.

webmasters comment:

Ejecting dense hydrogen is similar to "sprinkling"... Nothing else than venting and discharing of highly radioactive concetrations.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

Greenpeace is already pursuing a judicial review for alleged insufficient lack of consultation on nuclear power, and has been further antagonised by a perceived lack of transparency over submissions made to Weightman.

Anti-nuclear protesters are infuriated that EDF, the French state-owned energy company at the heart of the UK's new nuclear plans, has started preparatory work on a facility at Hinkley Point in Kent ahead of the report's publication.

Source: guardian.co.uk

We are well into autumn. And despite the growing sense in the Tokyo metropolitan area that things are now all right -- with train services back to pre-disaster schedules and the regret we once felt over our wasteful consumption of electricity dissipating -- Fukushima remains a war zone.

webmasters comment:

Tokyo got shelled too, some people just can't see it.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

More than 600 bales of straw sat in one greenhouse at a cattle farm in southern Iwate Prefecture. Their combined weight was more than 60 tons, the farmer said.

Radioactive cesium of more than 8,000 becquerels per kilogram was detected in the straw, more than the limit allowed for incinerating the straw or taking it to a landfill.

webmasters comment:

Government of Japan crooks par excellence. It's ok for 8.000 bcq/kg x 60.000kg = 480.000.000 bcq = 480.000 Kbcq to be stored at some farmers home, while nothing can be done to help him remove the nuclear waste from his backyard. And it keeps comming.

Source: yomiuri.co.jp

...The Ministry doesn't have a plan to test for strontium or plutonium outside the 80 kilometer radius.

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

Sellafield unions and politicians in Cumbria have lobbied for a second Mox plant to save the 1,000 jobs that could be lost with the closure of the existing £1.3bn Sellafield Mox Plant. However, the possibility of keeping the plant open in order to make low-grade "disposable" Mox has been ruled out.

Source: independent.co.uk

It's a program from July 10, 2011 on France 24 International News in English. Unlike NHK documentaries or Germany's ZDF programs, France 24 managed to get the workers talk in front of the camera without hiding their faces and having their voices changed to avoid identification.

It is a well-made program.

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

This may be your last chance to see Reactor 1 from the top, before TEPCO manages to cover the whole reactor building up.

webmasters comment:

the main question remains if the new building will suffer substantial damage when the original structure finally collapses. "by TepCon"

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

Why would people wear contamination suits while spraying water on some bushes?

You certainly wouldn't do this in the back yard. But you might if the water included radioactive, cancer-causing agents like plutonium and strontium.

Source: straight.com

[...] Okutama area, where Tokyo tap water comes is as dangerous as “contaminated area” in Chernobyl.

Source: enenews.com

While offshore wind turbines is well established in Europe, with some wind farm projects there in place for more than 20 years, there are not yet any in operation or under construction in North America.

Maersk Line Ltd., a Norfolk-based shipping line, is teaming up with Apex Offshore Wind LLC to develop utility-scale offshore wind energy facilities, the two companies announced Friday.

Source: evwind.es

A national fisheries cooperative has decided to ban saury fishing within a 100-kilometer radius of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant in an effort to gain consumer confidence in the safety of saury caught in other areas.

webmasters comment:

Propaganda tricks... see todays other article regarding fishing

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

[...] according to the just released Ministry of Education’s aerial survey [...] most of Tokyo has less than 10,000 becquerels/square meter of radioactive cesium, with the exception of the western-most Okutama and the eastern special wards (“ku”) [...]

Source: enenews.com

The cover-up, literally, will be complete shortly.

From TEPCO's "Photos for the Press" page, taken on October 8.

webmasters comment:

So preety.... and look they even made windows :/

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

Arriving in Washington on the six month anniversary of the March 11 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, they have addressed the National Press Club, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, as well as participating in an action at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant just 38 miles north of New York City. Their central messages to the American and to the Japanese people:

• Save the children of Fukushima and Northeast Japan

• End nuclear power everywhere drawing on the lessons of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima

• Asylum for Fukushima refugees: help both in Japan and abroad.

• UN stop promoting nuclear power.

Source: japanfocus.org

DUKOVANY NUCLEAR PLANT, Czech Republic — Surrounded by corn fields, bicycle routes and a nature reserve, the eight huge cooling towers of the Dukovany nuclear power plant have dominated the Czech countryside near the Austrian border for almost three decades.

Source: washingtonpost.com

ATLANTA (AP) — Four generators that power emergency systems at U.S. nuclear plants have failed when needed since April, an unusual cluster that has attracted the attention of federal inspectors and could prompt the industry to re-examine its maintenance plans

Source: Associated Press

Source: nonukestokyotube

Source: smilenewsjapan

TOKYO — A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit the Fukushima area and parts of Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, but a nuclear plant there that was crippled by a huge quake and tsunami in March remained stable, officials said.

webmasters comment:

quakes keep comming and japan gov. keeps promoting nuclear power.

Source: japantoday.com

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has begun sprinkling low-level radioactive water from the No. 5 and No. 6 reactor buildings at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on the ground elsewhere to prevent fires at the site, the utility said.

webmasters comment:

video posted above... but still...

SPRINKLING LOW - LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WATER? SPRINKLING?

Source: asahi.com

Under the current system, fishermen can simply write down the ports where they have taken their fish and other marine products as the locations for their catches. For example, if fish caught off Hokkaido end up at Kesennuma Port in Miyagi Prefecture, the fishermen can say the fish were caught off Miyagi Prefecture.

webmasters comment:

make no mistake about it... your favourite sushi is radioactive.

EU only checks for radiation in food comming from 3 designated prefectures.

Source: asahi.com

Environmental campaigners today accused the Government of pushing forward with new nuclear power plants before lessons could be learned from the Fukushima disaster, ahead of the publication of a report on the crisis.

This week the Department of Energy and Climate Change is expected to publish the final report into the implications for the UK nuclear industry of the disaster at the tsunami-hit Fukushima reactor in Japan.

Source: independent.co.uk

Reports of a tender process being under way for six new nuclear power plants are wrong, says South Africa's Department of Energy.

"At no point has the Government committed to build six new nuclear reactors," it said.

Source: nzherald.co.nz

TOKYO (Reuters) - Support for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's government dropped by 10 points to 55 percent one month after he took office, with more than half opposing planned tax increases for post-quake restructuring efforts, a poll showed on Monday.

Source: mb.com.ph

One year ago, German cyber security expert Ralph Langner announced he had found a computer worm designed to sabotage a nuclear facility in Iran. The Stuxnet worm is now recognized as a cyber super weapon, and it could end up harming those who created it.

webmasters comment:

A reminder that Siemens pulled out of nuclear industry. What happens now to all them CS7 run Siemens controllers, targeted by Stuxnet? No driver update available?

Source: weeklyintercept.blogspot.com via WRH

FALLON, Nev. (AP) — Federal land managers have approved plans for construction of up to seven geothermal power plants in a portion of Churchill County southeast of Fallon.

Source: canadianbusiness.com

Source: BillMVI

The Author

Colonel Warner D. “Rocky” Farr, Medical Corps, Master Flight Surgeon, U.S. Army, graduated from the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama before becoming the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He also serves as the Surgeon for the U.S. Army Special Forces Command, U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, and the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare

Abstract

This paper is a history of the Israeli nuclear weapons program drawn from a review of unclassified sources. Israel began its search for nuclear weapons at the inception of the state in 1948. As payment for Israeli participation in the Suez Crisis of 1956, France provided nuclear expertise and constructed a reactor complex for Israel at Dimona capable of large- scale plutonium production and reprocessing. The United States discovered the facility by 1958 and it was a subject of continual discussions between American presidents and Israeli prime ministers. Israel used delay and deception to at first keep the United States at bay, and later used the nuclear option as a bargaining chip for a consistent American conventional arms supply. After French disengagement in the early 1960s, Israel progressed on its own, including through several covert operations, to project completion. Before the 1967 Six-Day War, they felt their nuclear facility threatened and reportedly assembled several nuclear devices. By the 1973 Yom Kippur War Israel had a number of sophisticated nuclear bombs, deployed them, and considered using them. The Arabs may have limited their war aims because of their knowledge of the Israeli nuclear weapons. Israel has most probably conducted several nuclear bomb tests. They have continued to modernize and vertically proliferate and are now one of the world's larger nuclear powers. Using “bomb in the basement” nuclear opacity, Israel has been able to use its arsenal as a deterrent to the Arab world while not technically violating American nonproliferation requirements. Center and School.

Source: fas.org via WRH

....Abstract

The United Kingdom has been the most successful of all the nuclear weapon states in terms of creating a minimum nuclear deterrent; in fact, there is reason to believe that the country is considering whether to move toward denuclearization. The authors assess the country’s nuclear forces, providing clear analysis on the British nuclear stockpile and its reductions, the modernization of its nuclear deterrent force, the British– French collaboration on defense and security matters, the country’s nuclear policy, and the country’s nuclear accidents.

Two months after the collision, the Ministry of Defence disclosed that there have been 14 collisions (mostly groundings) involving British SSBNs since 1988, as well as 236 fires. Of the fires on Royal Navy nuclear submarines, 213 were classified as small-scale, while 20 were more serious (the size of three of the fires was not characterized).7 Two of the collision incidents involved the grounding of nuclear-armed SSBNs: the Repulse in the North Channel off Northern Ireland in July 1996 (the sub was decommissioned the same year) and Victorious on Skelmorlie Bank on the Irish Sea in November 2000 (Ainsworth, 2009; BBC, 2009b). The February 2009 collision of the Vanguard was not on the list.

Source: bos.sagepub.com

Radioactive material has leaked at the site of the former Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, it has been confirmed.

Radioactive liquid effluent is understood to have leaked inside a treatment facility.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) said the leak was minor and did not get outside the plant.

Sepa has launched an investigation. Dounreay is currently undergoing a £2.6bn decommissioning process.

Source: bbc.co.uk via WRH

When asked during the question and answer session about the status of the Calvert Cliffs 3 project, Vanderheyden explained why the project is being held in abeyance. “Funding isn’t our problem,” he said. “Our problem is the economy. We are not going to build a power plant today. At the current price of electricity, it would lose money.”

webmasters comment:

This is a very very important development if not a litmus test of nuclear power industry. What he actually means is that with the current price of electricity generated by nuclear power plants, the project would loose money, since obviously cost of electricity is far from being on historic lows, rather vice versa. Also, the current price is not really relevant... it is the projection of the price when the plant comes online that is important.

What this means is, that companies, corporations and individuals are turning towards renewables and buying electricity from renewable sources at an advanced pace. Altough it remains to be debated what is the "lesser evil", the fact remains that oil industry is jumping the green tech wagon in order to improve it's image.  Distributors selling nuclear generated power will suffer. Distributors ready to tranform and promote electricity out of renewable sources as the only option, will prosper at an amazing pace.

For a moment it looks like we might get lucky and the nuclear power industry might simply get demolished by the markets.

Also note the article posted below "Britain's nuclear future is not so bright as firms look for exit strategy ".

If we spice up this info with UN statement that 1.4 trillion is needed for green energy investments, which would equal about 280 nuclear power plants (that will not be build), this might just be the sign of things to come.

Keeping my fingers crossed :)

Source: thebaynet.com

Israeli Double Cross in Secret US-Japan Nuke Deal (That Presupposed A New Japanese Defense Program) Set Stage for Fukushima Crisis?!?!

The following article blew my mind -- and I don't think it can be disregarded, I think it checks out, but that is merely an opinion. Perhaps you can help me? I would like to verify, corroborate, correct, or debunk every statement of the following intense little article to which WRH linked on Sunday October 2, 2011. The article itself appears in Rense; the author, Yoichi Shimatsu, is no lightweight (more on that later). His article is iframed below, for your convenience (you can leave comments easily), and mine (in receiving your comments). If you haven't yet read it -- sit down, cancel appointments, turn off the phone...

webmasters comment:

I found it odd from the very beginning, that Japans government in the early days of the crisis declined the entry of Russian experts with vast experience from handling the Chernobyl crisis.

At the time when they could use all the help they could get, they have BANNED Russian scientists from the site. You don't turn down neighbours waterhose when your house is burning... Something sinister was going on even before earthquake occured... Stuxnet, nukes... it remains to be seen altough the presumption in the article "American-made uranium and plutonium is the world's finest nuclear material. The lack of mineral contaminants means that it cannot be traced back to its origin", comes in quite handy.

Source: femalefaust.blogspot.com

webmasters comment:

in 20 -30 km range, most of the areas are above 100.000 - 300.000 Bcq/m2 or way above. The Chernobyl evac zone was 37.000 bcq/m2. Japan government is forcing the population to return in the 20-30km range, while it can be clearly seen that in 30- 60km range only about 30% of the area is bellow 30K - 100k bcq/m2. Also using radius from the power plant as the criteria is utterly moronic, as the graphics clearly show.

Source: japantimes.co.jp

The State Department on Friday advised U.S. citizens to stay more than 12 miles away from the Fukushima (foo-koo-SHEE'-mah) Dai-ichi plant — in line with Japan's own no-go zone.

The previous U.S. travel alert recommended against going within 50 miles of the plant. The latest announcement said Americans staying for more than a year within that wider area should consult with local authorities on radiation levels.

webmasters comment:

Sigh. 50 mile radius and prompt evac by us military was one of the rare proper examples on how to start dealing with such a situation.

This just came out as writing this...

The alert recommends that U.S. citizens stay away from any place within 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the plant. They are also being told to stay away from territory northwest of the power facility in what Japan has described as the "Deliberate Evacuation Area" and includes Iitate-mura, the Yamagiya district of Kawamata-machi, Katsurao-mura, Namie-machi and parts of Minamisoma.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/07/world/asia/japan-us-travel- alert/ 

Source: google.com/hostednews/ap

[Iitate, 45 km from meltdowns] offers an extreme example of how difficult it will be to recover from the disaster. That is mainly because of the enormous spread of radiation. [...]

Outside [the chief of Iitate's village council, Mr. Chohei Sato's] house, however, a reading of the equivalent of 150 millisieverts a year left your correspondent strangely reluctant to inhale.

Source: enenews.com

The former Prime Minister of Japan has revealed that scientific advisors to the Japanese government warned that evacuataions of as many as 30 million people up to 250 kilometers away from Fukushima would have to take place in the event of a worst case scenario at the stricken nuclear plant in the country’s Northeast. The proposal would have seen Tokyo itself subject to evacuation, but the idea was immediately rejected because of the chaos it would have caused.

The revelations come as Naoto Kan, who stepped down as Prime Minister last month, finally opened up about the deliberations that took place in the wake of Japan’s nuclear disaster.

Source: corbettreport.com

High levels of soil contamination caused by radioactive cesium have been detected in Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa Prefecture, but only sporadically, according to the science ministry.

On Oct. 6, it released its latest version of a map showing soil contamination by cesium 134 and 137 due to the accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, adding Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture to the previous version...

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet Union, areas with 37,000 becquerels of cesium 137 per square meter or more were designated as the contaminated zone. ...
Source: ajw.asahi.com

Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry inaugurated a panel of experts on Friday to discuss measures to help boost agricultural exports, which have plunged since the crisis at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.

webmasters comment:

exporting radioactive produce while just yesterday they announced a panel that will help acquire natural resources from foreign countries (such as uncontaminated water).

Source: jen.jiji.com

The future of Britain’s nuclear power is at risk, with one of the three groups looking to build the next generation of reactors on the brink of splitting up.

RWE, which owns npower, is in talks with partner E.ON about the future of its involvement in their joint project to open a reactor by 2020.

According to people familiar with the situation, RWE is looking for a way to pull out of the Horizon Nuclear Power scheme.

Source: thisismoney.co.uk

Violent protests in April halted construction in Jaitapur in the western state of Maharashtra, where a French company was to build six 1,650- megawatt reactors, and West Bengal state refused permission in August for a proposed 6,000-megawatt facility near the town of Haripur intended to host six Russian reactors, Nature reported Thursday.

Source: upi.com

apan has achieved only some 17 pct of the goals set in the country's health promotion program for fiscal 2000-2010, a health ministry panel said Friday.

webmasters comment:

17% ? I guess Fukushima will be much lower... like 1.7% of all the BS comming out of government about cleanups and how fine and shiny all things are.

Source: jen.jiji.com

As mentioned in an earlier post today, another Fukushima worker died.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/10/news-another-nuc-worker-died/

According to the very trustworthy announcement of Tepco,the worker was only exposed to 2.02 mSv in total.

If that is right, it means you can die from only a 2.02 mSv dose. If that is not right, they manipulate the dose data. Anyway,it’s clear that they totally ignore the internal exposure risk.

Source: fukushima-diary.com

According to a spokesman for Entergy, the ads for the Indian Point plant will begin running next week on cable television and in newspapers.

The operator is seeking to renew its licenses for its two reactors.

Entergy spokesman James Steets tells The New York Times (http://nyti.ms/qBEu6i ) the campaign is aimed to reassure the public about the plant’s safety.

Source: enformable.com

The compost, made from fallen leaves at the school, had radioactive cesium of 1,488 becquerels per kilogram, higher than the 400 becquerels set by the government for agricultural fertilizers...

Five kindergartens and 20 elementary and junior high schools in the ward have been making compost for use in flower gardens.

Source: jen.jiji.com

"Radiation? What radiation?" must be the message from the Ministry which has been doing the aerial survey of radiation in Tohoku and Kanto.

They did Tokyo and Kanagawa from September 14 to 18, using one helicopter that flew 10 times over the area. The radiation detection device on board the helicopter measured gamma radiation from the radioactive materials deposited on the ground from 150 to 300 meters off the ground. The measurement of about 300 to 600 meters radius below the helicopter is then averaged out. Here's the report by the Ministry (PDF).

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

Residents of Kawachinagano in Osaka Prefecture have expressed concerns over radiation from girders made in Fukushima Prefecture [...]
Source: enenews.com

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology quit measuring plutonium but they mistakenly published the contamination map of Tokyo, Kanagawa and north Kanto area.

It was measured by a helicopter.
Source: fukushima-diary.com

OSAKA -- Residents of Kawachinagano in Osaka Prefecture have expressed concerns over radiation from girders made in Fukushima Prefecture, which will be used for a bridge construction project as part of National Route 371's bypass linking here with Wakayama Prefecture.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

Radioactive amounts ranging between 30,000 and 100,000 becquerels per square meter were detected in the mountain areas in northwestern Okutama, in western Tokyo.

Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

neither Florida nor Georgia have meaningful renewable energy standards but do have significant potential for developing them.

In Florida, renewable energy could provide almost 20% of the state's electricity by 2020, its Public Service Commission reported in 2008. And renewables could have supplied 25% of Georgia's energy in 2008, according to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

Source: sustainablebusiness.com

Honda Motor Co. President Takanobu Ito says the high yen makes it impossible for Japan to remain a major manufacturing center for automobiles.

webmasters comment:

right. strong yen... Russians repeatedly returning radioactive cars back to Japan don't have anything to do with it.

Source: asahi.com

SOFIA - Bulgaria has filed an international arbitration court claim against Russian nuclear company Atomstroyexport over delayed payments, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said Thursday.

"On Friday, (Bulgaria's power utility) NEK filed its claim in the Geneva- based arbitration court," Traikov told state BNT television, without providing details.

NEK was not immediately available to comment but it had previously said that Atomstroyexport owed it as much as 61 million euros ($81 million) for equipment the Russian state-owned company bought back from the stalled Belene nuclear plant.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

More than 10 billion yen has been set aside almost every fiscal year for subsidies designed to persuade municipalities to accept new reactors.

Source: asahi.com

Challenge: find a map of the Pacific Ocean that includes both Japan and California. Or that focuses on any of the island nations in between.

One of the casualties of mapping a three-dimensional planet on two- dimensional paper is the part of the world that is split between the edges of the paper. Usually, this is the Pacific. As Sarah Palin made famous in the 2008 presidential campaign, as an Alaskan, she can see Russia from her house. While I admit that for Palin, this is an exaggeration, but for the residents of St. Lawrence Island, this view is a reality. In fact, they are as likely (if not more) to speak Russian than English and have the capability of kayaking to Russia if so desired. But your average world map makes that distance look infinite.

Source: southernfriedscience.com

Here’s the latest of our news bulletins from the ongoing crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) finally submitted full, unredacted copies of three accident manuals to Japan’s Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), after numerous requests. However, the company has requested that no more than 50% of the manuals be released to the public, citing intellectual property concerns. Two of the manuals are only a few pages long. In the case of the so-called serious accident manual, TEPCO says that 90% of the document must remain confidential, because of ‘terrorism concerns.’ NISA said it would consider the request; the documents will be released by the end of this month.

Source: greenpeace.org

Researched by Industrial Info Resources East Asia (Kofu-shi, Japan) -- On Tuesday, Kyushu Electric Power Company Incorporated (tyo:9508) (Kyuden) (Fukuoka, Japan) reported that it was forced to shut down Unit 4 at Genkai nuclear power station. The unplanned shutdown comes in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident and brings Japan's nuclear fleet to 10 operational reactors.

Source: marketwatch.com

Northern Light, also known as Aurora Borealis, is a natural light display (Aurora) in the sky, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (Wikipedia). In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the Aurora Borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas.

Source: greenfudge.org

Solar photovoltaic (PV) power installations on university and college campuses have surged 450% over the last three years, according to a new database constructed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Source: cleantechnica.com

We have a $104 price estimate for Chevron which implies a 14% premium over its current stock price.

webmasters comment:

markets are rewarding towards green tech mindset...

Source: forbes.com

TOKYO (Reuters) – It may look like a glorified salon chair, but a new Japanese hair-washing robot replicates the dexterous touch of a human hand to care for the locks of the elderly and the infirm.

webmasters comment:

hairdressers get fancy new robots while fukushima workers get.... ? seems like hair industry is putting more moneys into R&D than nuclear...

Source: news.yahoo.com

"The most important implication of our findings is that the massive Tohoku -Oki earthquake brings significant changes to not only the ground but also the underground structure of Japan," researcher Koji Matsuo, a geophysicist at Hokkaido University in Japan, told OurAmazingPlanet.

Source: msnbc.msn.com

If you don’t want Fukushima USA to happen, there’s only one choice:

Shut ‘em down! Shut ‘em all down NOW!

But don’t for a minute think that Fukushima was as bad as it can get!

It was bad. It was under-reported how bad it was — and is.

But Fukushima could have been worse — and still might be. In fact, it still probably WILL get worse — when the corium (reactor cores, melted into blobs) start hitting the water table.

At that point, Fukushima will get worse.

Source: counterpunch.org

(NaturalNews) It is extremely saddening to see the cost in human lives that modern society pays for its false belief in conventional medicine and the cancer industry in particular. Visionary Steve Jobs died today, just months after being treated for cancer with chemotherapy at the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California. In recent months, he appeared in public photos as a frail shadow of his former self. The thin legs, sunken cheek bones and loss of body weight are all classic signs of total body toxicity observed in chemotherapy and radiotherapy patients.

Source: naturalnews.com

5 October 2011 – The United Nations atomic energy agency reported today that one of its safeguards inspectors has been involved in a contamination incident at a nuclear waste processing facility in Dessel, Belgium.

The incident happened yesterday at the Belgoprocess facility, the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said, adding that the agency’s staff member was in the company of a European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) inspector and a Belgoprocess official carrying out routine inspection when the exposure occurred.

Source: un.org

A centralized storage facility for nuclear waste is to open in the Chornobyl zone in 2013, Head of the State Agency for Managing the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone Volodymyr Kholosha told reporters during a briefing in the Chornobyl zone (Kyiv region) on Wednesday.

webmasters comment:

better to move radioactive waste in allready contaminated area than people, as is the case in Japan.

Source: kyivpost.com

The Radiation Council at the Ministry of Education and Science submitted its opinion on the domestic standard on radiation exposure on October 6. Considering the current situation of radioactive materials widely spread after the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, the Council's opinion is to set the lowest possible standard in stages between 1 to 20 millisieverts per year for the residents in Japan [who are not engaged in occupations that deal with radiation].

webmasters comment:

This is nothing else but an official declaration of Japan as a 1- 20mSv/year radioactive zone.

20 mSv per year was official dose for radiological workers before Fukushima accident. But do take into account that such workers have a reduced work week span and also much shorter time to retirement age. What will people in Japan do... retire early? from life?

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

THE camera guy showed himself up in the press conference of Tepco on 9/29/2011 and 9/30/2011.

It was shocking enough to make the Tepco spokes man blush.

His name is “Takeuchi”. He called himself “a freelance journalist”.

Here is the highlight of his question on 9/29/2011.

webmasters comment:

After the 1st official unveiling of the person i suspected he is planted "alternative" by tepco. I still think so. His language is way off, sounds like a very thought out propaganda where feeding lesser evils to hide larger ones. 

The question remains whats up with the real person behind the cam or what was he pointing at before this "semi official alternative bs" came out regarding working conditions. Hello, it's a freaking hellhole not what you could consider a normal work environment is it?

My opinion about the actual "pointing man" is the importance of direction to where he was pointing. Namely after i checked the radioation levels around the plant published on NHK

▼southern side of The main office: 500 meters north-west of the Unit 2 . 306 μSv/h Time:09:00 October 03, 2011 Winds: northwesterly 1.4 m/s

i realized that radiation level 500 m northwest (exactly where the "pointing man" is pointing - NW) remains constantly very high around 300uSV/h. Many simply dismiss the data as an error, but i believe that that is where they have pointed the exausts to vent out the accumulating radiation plumes, which are constant and ongoing.

Source: fukushima-diary.com

Blogpost by Justin McKeating - October 5, 2011 at 16:44 1 comment

Take a look at this video. In it, Olivier Loubiere, Corporate Business Ethics Advisor of French nuclear conglomerate AREVA (it mines uranium, designs and builds reactors, and attempts – badly - to deal with nuclear waste), tells us how the company is to ‘self -regulate’ and adopt ‘a set of voluntary best practices’.

The nuclear industry is said to be one of the most tightly regulated industries in the world. The problem is, when you see what the nuclear industry gets up to under the supposedly watchful eye of its government watchdogs – leaks, accidents, cover-ups, and attempts to influence public opinion by subterfuge – one wonders what it might do under so-called self-regulation.

The problem is this: what the nuclear industry gets up to in the public eye is bad enough. What it does away from the public gaze can be even worse.

Source: greenpeace.org

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Department of Defense paid nearly $35 million for U.S. military families who chose to flee Japan amid the Fukushima nuclear crisis earlier this year, according to figures obtained by Stars and Stripes.

webmasters comment:

The article is a spin in a way that it intends to paint the evac as unnecessary, while it was the only right thing to do.

Also:

"During the crisis, military commanders on the ground had repeatedly told families living on bases in Japan there was no significant radiation threat, but there was still a flood of frightened residents boarding flights out of the country after the DOD issued the voluntary evacuation order March 17."

Here is the video featuring capt. Gardner providing evac info to service members in Atsugi, march 17th. It doesn't say anything about no significant radiation threat but rather goes on with saying: "women and children first".

Source: stripes.com

Those conclusions came from a report by the Worth Travel and Tourism Council that said the number of international visitors to Japan dropped off significantly in June and July, 36% below the average for the same period in 2010. Foreign visitors generate about $16 billion in annual spending in Japan.

But domestic travel demand dropped by only 2% in June and July, helping to keep the overall tourism numbers at just 5% below 2010 levels, the report said.

webmasters comment:

Foreign tourists 40% down. (I m certain that the actual % is higher)

Domestic travel down 2%, but somehow overall decrease in tourism is 5%.

???

Oh... i guess the evacuees are tourists also. o.O

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Oxford University physicist Wade Allison, who wants limits on radiation exposure to be increased by as much as a thousandfold.

In a provocative speech at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Professor Allison said current limits were "what the radiation-phobic world demanded in the Cold War years".

webmasters comment:

LOL @ Oxford? And the guy still has a job?

Professor Wade Allison is a nuclear and medical physicist at the University of Oxford

This is how paid nuclear shill looks like. You can "arrange a lecture" but rather I encourage the readers to email the dear prof. at

wade.allison@physics.ox.ac.uk

and let him know what you think of him and people like him and perhaps add a picture or two of Chernobyl children.

Source: theaustralian.com.au

ASTNANA, October 5 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan may have a nuclear power plant within the next 10 years, an official from the state-owned nuclear power firm Kazatomprom said Wednesday.

Source: chinadaily.com.cn

[...] Judging from [Kobe University Professor Tomoya Yamauchi's] air radiation survey (in Japanese), this particular location looks like the one that had 23 microsieverts/hour radiation at 1 centimeter off the surface of the dirt in the roadside drain. Professor Yamauchi hypothesized that radioactive cesium from surrounding mountains and forests washes down the drain after the rain, and naturally gets concentrated in the dirt.

Source: enenews.com

The main feature of Maehara's proposal is to increase to about 10 trillion yen ($130 billion) the loan limit of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation by adding about 2 trillion yen from the foreign exchange funds special account.

The increase in possible loans would provide support to Japanese companies seeking to acquire foreign companies involved in the food and natural resources fields, as well as to purchase stakes in ore mining rights.

webmasters comment:

This is about purchasing clean water resources, an issue completly avoided all over the media. All of the information is focusing either on air, earth or seawater. Drinking water contamination is out of public eye from obvious reasons.

Source: asahi.com

Minister of the Environment and Minister of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Goshi Hosono called representatives from 43 Prefectures to the Ministry of the Environment and requested again that they accept disaster debris from Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures.

Source: ex-skf.blogspot.com

HELSINKI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Finnish nuclear power consortium Fennovoima said it would build a reactor in Pyhajoki, northern Finland -- the first announcement of a new site anywhere in the world since the March disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan.

Source: reuters.com

With reference to Vestas Wind Systems A/S' company announcement No. 38/2011 of 6 October 2011, Vestas has received an order from a joint venture consisting of Arise Windpower AB and Platina Partners LLP for delivery of 43 units of the V112-3.0 MW wind turbine. The order has a total capacity of 129 MW and the turbines will be installed in Jadraas, Sweden.

Source: globalenergywatch.com

WASHINGTON – The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should take immediate steps to improve the safety of pools containing radioactive waste stored at U.S. nuclear plants, an internal report released Wednesday said.

The report by NRC staff elevates the importance of spent-fuel pools, saying current regulations do not require instruments measuring water levels to be operable in case of accident.

Source: news.yahoo.com

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