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L'Autre Monde 1er juillet 2013 : Dernière de la saison été!
L'Autre Monde 1er juillet 2013
90 min / Radio de l'UQAM, CHOQ FM
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Au programme cette semaine:
Dossiers
santé, actualité mondiale, le désastre de BP dans le Golfe du Mexique
et celui nucléaire de Fukushima, rencontre des Bilderberg et plus!
C'est en rendez-vous le lundi dès 15h pour l'émission la plus écoutée de CHOQ FM, la radio officielle de l'Université du Québec à Montréal !
***Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l'émission d'aujourd'hui:
Usury is also strongly condemned in
many other parts of the Bible. It is difficult to understand how we can class
ourselves as a Christian and Godly civilization when we pursue a nation on a
course such as this. Our banker "money"system is THE great usury
conspiracy. It makes usury an inherent part of our system. It is economically
unsound, and is wicked, vicious and defenceless method of exploitation. It is
contrary to the laws of reason, to the laws of nature and to the laws of God. Such
violation of the laws of nature and of God could only have resulted in bringing
the great curses upon our civilization known as "depressions."The
Communists want us to be drowned in an ocean of worthless currency. The
privately owned Federal Reserve System (created by Paul Moritz Warburg, agent
for the Rothschild's), stands ready to create that ocean. -- Major George Racey
Jordan
"Fear
is the foundation of most governments." -- John Adams, Second President of
the United States
Corporate psycho-criminal at work
"You
will have a smart meter
or you will not have power"
or you will not have power"
- See
more at:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/corporate-criminality-/corporate-psycho-criminal-at-work.html#sthash.uEGJM1Ef.dpuf
can install a dangerous microwave transmitter
in your home...
Against your will...and at gunpoint (with the
help of your friendly tax payer-supported
sheriff's office.)
If you refuse, your power can be turned
off indefinitely and your local political
"representatives" can't do a thing about it.
If you think this is insane, watch this.
This is serious
Here's
the deal folk...
1. So called "smart" meters are microwave transmitters that will blast your home with dangerous levels of radiation hundreds of times per day
2. Many countries have banned their use or required them to be seriously modified
3. In contrast, the US and some other countries are ramming these devices down people's throats against their expressed wishes, sometimes at the barrel of a "law enforcement" officer.
4. Failure to accept a "smart" meter can result if having your power off indefinitely.
If you think this is insane, watch this video.
YouTube comments:
If you want to voice your complaint about SmartMeters, go to : http://www.SmartMeterHelp.com
December 13, 2011 - PG&E decided to shut off the power to 10 customers. These customers had pleaded with PG&E for months requesting to have the SmartMeter removed from their homes, but PG&E refused to help. These people were all experiencing headaches, insomnia, ringing ears, and other symptoms which thousands are reporting throughout California.
Finally, these customers felt they had no choice but to hire an electrician to remove the SmartMeters themselves. They replaced the SmartMeters with a store-bought analog meter (the old style electromechanical meter).
Instead of agreeing to work withe these customers, PG&E decided to retaliate and shut of their power - even though many of these customers have a 50 year history of timely payments with PG&E.
These customers include a 75 year old widow who has multiple disabilities and families with young children. PG&E shut off their power on December 13 - 2 weeks before Christmas. Many of the homes are now without heat as well, with night time temperatures dipping into the 30s.
This video shows the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors questioning PG&E representative Wendy Sarsfield. She tries to defend the indefensible. PG&E refuses to install an analog meter for these customers. PG&E's only offer is this: Take the SmartMeter which was making you sick in your own home, or we will shut off your power forever - even on Christmas day!
Over 100,000 customers in PG&E territory still have their analog meters because they were able to call the PG&E SmartMeter installation delay line. But PG&E refuses to allow customers who were not aware of the delay line - or customers whose SmartMeters were installed prior to the existence of the delay line - they refuse to allow these customers to get an analog meter and be placed on the delay list.
The final SmartMeter opt out decision could take months to finalize through the Utilities Commission, and PG&E position is: Wait and suffer in your own home from the SmartMeter that is making your sick, or we will shut off your power.
This is what happens when investor owned utilities (PG&E is owned by Wallstreet investors) are allowed to have monopoly status. PG&E is supposed to be regulated to act in favor of the customers they serve, but the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) is currently led by the former CEO of Southern California Edison - the major investor owned utility in southern California. The CPUC top attorney is Frank Lindh, a former PG&E top attorney. You get the picture.
PG&E and the CPUC are out of control, and customers are being abused. Governor Brown, we need your help!
NOTE: This is not an attack on Wendy Sarsfield, the PG&E rep. We sympathize with her that she is being forced by PG&E top brass to speak publicly to defend PG&E's indefensible decisions. At some point however, you have to question the ethics of the company you are representing. If you don't agree with shutting off the power on families and seniors weeks before Christmas when these customers were only asking for your help to solve the health problems caused by the wireless SmartMeters - perhaps you should quit your job and work for a company who tries to serve and respond to their customers. PG&E has received tens of thousands of health complaints about SmartMeters, and their response is to punish those customers for asking for help.....Wendy?
1. So called "smart" meters are microwave transmitters that will blast your home with dangerous levels of radiation hundreds of times per day
2. Many countries have banned their use or required them to be seriously modified
3. In contrast, the US and some other countries are ramming these devices down people's throats against their expressed wishes, sometimes at the barrel of a "law enforcement" officer.
4. Failure to accept a "smart" meter can result if having your power off indefinitely.
If you think this is insane, watch this video.
YouTube comments:
If you want to voice your complaint about SmartMeters, go to : http://www.SmartMeterHelp.com
December 13, 2011 - PG&E decided to shut off the power to 10 customers. These customers had pleaded with PG&E for months requesting to have the SmartMeter removed from their homes, but PG&E refused to help. These people were all experiencing headaches, insomnia, ringing ears, and other symptoms which thousands are reporting throughout California.
Finally, these customers felt they had no choice but to hire an electrician to remove the SmartMeters themselves. They replaced the SmartMeters with a store-bought analog meter (the old style electromechanical meter).
Instead of agreeing to work withe these customers, PG&E decided to retaliate and shut of their power - even though many of these customers have a 50 year history of timely payments with PG&E.
These customers include a 75 year old widow who has multiple disabilities and families with young children. PG&E shut off their power on December 13 - 2 weeks before Christmas. Many of the homes are now without heat as well, with night time temperatures dipping into the 30s.
This video shows the Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors questioning PG&E representative Wendy Sarsfield. She tries to defend the indefensible. PG&E refuses to install an analog meter for these customers. PG&E's only offer is this: Take the SmartMeter which was making you sick in your own home, or we will shut off your power forever - even on Christmas day!
Over 100,000 customers in PG&E territory still have their analog meters because they were able to call the PG&E SmartMeter installation delay line. But PG&E refuses to allow customers who were not aware of the delay line - or customers whose SmartMeters were installed prior to the existence of the delay line - they refuse to allow these customers to get an analog meter and be placed on the delay list.
The final SmartMeter opt out decision could take months to finalize through the Utilities Commission, and PG&E position is: Wait and suffer in your own home from the SmartMeter that is making your sick, or we will shut off your power.
This is what happens when investor owned utilities (PG&E is owned by Wallstreet investors) are allowed to have monopoly status. PG&E is supposed to be regulated to act in favor of the customers they serve, but the CPUC (California Public Utilities Commission) is currently led by the former CEO of Southern California Edison - the major investor owned utility in southern California. The CPUC top attorney is Frank Lindh, a former PG&E top attorney. You get the picture.
PG&E and the CPUC are out of control, and customers are being abused. Governor Brown, we need your help!
NOTE: This is not an attack on Wendy Sarsfield, the PG&E rep. We sympathize with her that she is being forced by PG&E top brass to speak publicly to defend PG&E's indefensible decisions. At some point however, you have to question the ethics of the company you are representing. If you don't agree with shutting off the power on families and seniors weeks before Christmas when these customers were only asking for your help to solve the health problems caused by the wireless SmartMeters - perhaps you should quit your job and work for a company who tries to serve and respond to their customers. PG&E has received tens of thousands of health complaints about SmartMeters, and their response is to punish those customers for asking for help.....Wendy?
- See
more at: http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/corporate-criminality-/corporate-psycho-criminal-at-work.html#sthash.uEGJM1Ef.dpuf
UK
stops all smart meter installations
News
censored in the US
Why is this story being censored?
From
YouTube commentary:
This video series shows the Commons Select Committee enquiry into the UK Smart Meter roll-out held on Tuesday 23rd April 2013. Witnesses appearing to give evidence to the Committee in the first session include Dr Elizabeth Evans and Mike Mitcham from Stop Smart Meters! (UK), alongside Dr Jill Meara, representing Public Health England, and Dr John Swanson, from the Biological Effects Policy Advisory Group for the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
The representatives from Stop Smart Meters! (UK) share their concerns about adverse health effects from wireless smart meters due to the pulsed microwave radiation that is emitted 24/7 by these meters, up to 190,000 pulses a day - acute effects (insomnia, headaches, nausea, anxiety and depression, fatigue and memory/concentration problems) and chronic effects (including increased risk of cancer, infertility, dementia, immune system dysfunction, damage to fetuses); environmental damage from wireless smart meters - RF radiation affecting bees, plants, trees, birds etc and the inherent energy-inefficiency of wireless technology: cybersecurity problems - leaving homes and communities vulnerable to hacking of their smart meters; privacy issues - concerning the masses of real-time data on energy usage collected by the utility company which gives a detailed picture of family life inside a home with a smart meter, who will have access to that data, and how that data will be used; and the specter of higher bills resulting from smart meters - as has been the experience in Canada where 80% of Smart Meter users complain of higher bills within a year of installation, often more that 50% higher.
Stop Smart Meters! (UK)
http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/
This video series shows the Commons Select Committee enquiry into the UK Smart Meter roll-out held on Tuesday 23rd April 2013. Witnesses appearing to give evidence to the Committee in the first session include Dr Elizabeth Evans and Mike Mitcham from Stop Smart Meters! (UK), alongside Dr Jill Meara, representing Public Health England, and Dr John Swanson, from the Biological Effects Policy Advisory Group for the Institute of Engineering and Technology.
The representatives from Stop Smart Meters! (UK) share their concerns about adverse health effects from wireless smart meters due to the pulsed microwave radiation that is emitted 24/7 by these meters, up to 190,000 pulses a day - acute effects (insomnia, headaches, nausea, anxiety and depression, fatigue and memory/concentration problems) and chronic effects (including increased risk of cancer, infertility, dementia, immune system dysfunction, damage to fetuses); environmental damage from wireless smart meters - RF radiation affecting bees, plants, trees, birds etc and the inherent energy-inefficiency of wireless technology: cybersecurity problems - leaving homes and communities vulnerable to hacking of their smart meters; privacy issues - concerning the masses of real-time data on energy usage collected by the utility company which gives a detailed picture of family life inside a home with a smart meter, who will have access to that data, and how that data will be used; and the specter of higher bills resulting from smart meters - as has been the experience in Canada where 80% of Smart Meter users complain of higher bills within a year of installation, often more that 50% higher.
Stop Smart Meters! (UK)
http://stopsmartmeters.org.uk/
- See
more at:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/corporate-criminality-/uk-stops-all-smart-meter-installations.html#sthash.YIXUJezo.dpuf
Pavlov’s Duck: Behaviorism and Control of Society
Obedience is learned through the reinforcement of reward.Aaron Dykes
Activist Post
Do the elites control society? At the very least, they have developed techniques to steer it, including incorporating the integrated Pavlovian/Skinnerian conditioned response technique that has been used in animal training and reinforced with an incentive (or scheduled reward). The same concept works on humans, too.
The values of compliance are taught to 20th and 21st Century populations through electronic stimulation, opiating foods, misinformation and the illusion of choice...
Food can
kill - or heal. Info to help you choose wisely.
MSG - an excitotoxin that kills brain
cells
I
grew up on the 60s and 70s and
I remember my older relatives saying:
"I've never seen so many sick kids."
I find myself saying the same thing
today.
What's behind the epidemic in
obesity, behavioral problems and
lower intelligence?
Poisons in the food supply...put
there deliberately...to make a buck.
A very important talk about a substance
widely used, little understood and never
discussed by the mainstream media.
I remember my older relatives saying:
"I've never seen so many sick kids."
I find myself saying the same thing
today.
What's behind the epidemic in
obesity, behavioral problems and
lower intelligence?
Poisons in the food supply...put
there deliberately...to make a buck.
A very important talk about a substance
widely used, little understood and never
discussed by the mainstream media.
Found in
many processed foods
We know
through many studies that the effect of excitotoxins, especially MSG, is
cumulative.
Excitotoxins kill brain cells. They have been linked to behavioral problems in children, to macular degeneration, and to a host of other symptoms.
The amount of MSG in our food has increased dramatically since 1960, from 12 grams per person per year to 500 grams in 2000.
Excitotoxins kill brain cells. They have been linked to behavioral problems in children, to macular degeneration, and to a host of other symptoms.
The amount of MSG in our food has increased dramatically since 1960, from 12 grams per person per year to 500 grams in 2000.
- See
more at: http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/dangerous-foods/msg---an-excitotoxin-that-kills-brain-cells.html#sthash.1r1yCFxe.dpuf
Fukushima:
It has to be from fuel…. either the SFP or the
reactor!
A simple hydrogen explosion would not dislodge
this much radiation.
[...]
extremely radioactive debris on the top of reactor3.
The debris was found in the North side of the
top, where used to be the operation floor.
When they loaded it onto the remote controlling
truck, they measured 540 mSv/h. [...]
From Tepco’s April 22, 2013 release:
To prepare for the second phase of protection installation on the spent fuel
pool, the steel beam truss debris, etc. which interfere with the work will be
removed.See also: US nuke industry report: Explosions at Fukushima Units 1, 3, 4 may have caused inventory (nuclear rods) to be lost from spent fuel pools -- "Debris" on ground near Unit 3 was extremely radioactive after blast
Source: City Watch (Los Angeles)
Author: John LaForge
Date: May 3, 2013
Humans Used for Radiation Experiments: A Shameful Chapter in US History
[...] The military even dumped radiation from planes and spread it
across wide areas around and downwind of Oak Ridge, Tenn., Los Alamos, NM, and
Dugway, Utah. This “systematic radiation warfare program,” conducted between
1944 and 1961, was kept secret for decades.
“Radiation bombs” thrown from USAF planes intentionally spread
radiation “unknown distances” endangering the young and old alike. One such
experiment doused Utah with 60 times more radiation than escaped the Three Mile
Island accident, according to Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, who released a report on
the program 20 years ago. [...]
See also: Victims of suspected radiological spraying in St. Louis suffer thyroid, other cancers -- Helicopters covered children in powder -- "Oh my God, if they did that there's no telling what else they're hiding"
Source: FSRN
Date: May 1, 2013
Dan Hirsch, a nuclear safety expert,
president of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, and lecturer at the University of
California, Santa Cruz: Many experts are extremely concerned that we
could have additional releases.
This is a very, very unstable facility.
Very, very damaged with people working in
extraordinary high radiation fields trying to repair it.
Full broadcast here
Fukushima I Nuke Plant: amount of radioactive materials in the soil [outside] the in-the-ground water storage pond No.1 10 times larger, compared to two days ago
Regarding the leak of radioactive waste water from the in-the-ground water storage ponds at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, TEPCO announced on April 28 that the amount of radioactive materials in the water sample taken from the soil outside the Pond No.1 on April 27 was more than 10 times the amount from two days prior. There are two sampling locations outside the pond, and the location that saw the increase this time had had low amount of radioactive materials. TEPCO says “We don’t know the cause. We will continue to watch carefully.” [...]
Source: NY Times
Author: MARTIN FACKLER (Makiko Inoue and Matthew L. Wald)
Date: April 29, 2013
Radioactive Water Imperils Fukushima Plant
[...] the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly radioactive wastewater that workers are struggling to contain.
[...] the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is faced with a new crisis: a flood of highly radioactive wastewater that workers are struggling to contain.
Groundwater is pouring into the plant’s ravaged reactor buildings at a
rate of almost 75 gallons a minute. It becomes highly contaminated there,
before being pumped out to keep from swamping a critical cooling system. [...]
That quandary along with an embarrassing string of mishaps — including
a 29-hour power failure affecting another, less vital cooling system — have
underscored an alarming reality: two years after the meltdowns, the plant remains
vulnerable to the same sort of large earthquake and tsunami that set the
original calamity in motion. [...]
“Tepco is clearly just hanging on day by day, with no time to think
about tomorrow, much less next year,” said Tadashi Inoue, an expert in nuclear
power who served on a committee that drew up the road map for cleaning up the
plant. [...]
See also: NYTimes: Fukushima plant unstable says official, concern another accident can't be prevented -- "Vulnerable... Very dangerous"
Fukushima:
Source: Asahi
Author: JIN NISHIKAWA
Date: May 10, 2013
[Tepco] will demolish and replace the makeshift
canopy covering a badly damaged reactor building at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant in order to remove rubble and radioactive material.
TEPCO, which announced the plan on May 9, said it
will take about four years to complete a new cover for the No. 1 reactor
building before removing fuel rods from the reactor’s pool.
Although the amount of radioactive substances
released from the reactor into the air will increase between the time the
current cover is removed and the new one is installed, TEPCO said that it will
not likely have a significant impact on the exposure assessment. [...]
Kyodo News: Tokyo Electric Power
Co. plans to discharge some groundwater that has flowed into the premises of
the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant [...] As a trial, TEPCO has
pumped out about 200 tons of groundwater using the wells. Its density of
radioactive substances was “the same as rivers in surrounding areas,” according
to company officials. [...] The utility hopes to hold a meeting with local
fishermen Monday to seek approval of the groundwater release [...]
SimplyInfo: TEPCO Begins
Dumping Contaminated Water Into The Sea [...] TEPCO has begun dumping
groundwater pumped out of a set of wells inland from the reactors into the
Pacific. TEPCO dumped 200 tons of groundwater yesterday as a test. [...]
He’s collaborating to collect the data about the
crisis rate of cerebral apoplexy with Tokyo University.
The provisional data says the crisis rate of
cerebral apoplexy among 35 ~ 64 years old people in Minamisoma area is 3.4
times much as before. [...]
He said this is an extremely scary data.
See also: Not Just Cancer: "How Low Doses Of Radiation Can Cause Heart Disease And Stroke"
Watch the video here
Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire
Author: Peter Bradford , adjunct professor, Vermont Law School and Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis, Institute for Energy and the Environment, Vermont Law School
Date: May 8, 2013
Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks
In 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles For U.S. Nuclear Power Industry
Reverse Renaissance? Experts Point to 6
Reactors on the Chopping Block and Passage of Anti-Industry Florida Law;
Beleaguered Industry’s Woes Start With Bad Economics … and Go Downhill From
There.
Call it the “renaissance in reverse.” Not only is
the U.S. nuclear power industry mothballing plans for planned reactors in North
Carolina and Texas, it also is now pulling the plug (or threatening to do so)
on existing reactors in California. All of that and the passage of
anti-industry legislation in Florida happened last week (April 28th-May 3rd),
easily the worst single week for the U.S. nuclear power industry since the
March 2011 meltdown of nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan. [...]
Source: Asahi Shimbun
Date: May 8, 2013
After a series of blunders, miscalculations and unresolved problems,
Tokyo Electric Power Co. adopted a new strategy to avoid a total collapse of
its system for handling radioactive water at its crippled nuclear plant. [...]
[...] it plans to pump up groundwater before it can enter the
facilities and become contaminated.
“We would like to release that water into the ocean if we can
gain the understanding of the relevant officials” [...]
[...] If approval is obtained, the utility plans
to start dumping the pumped-up water into the ocean the following day.
“We would like to cooperate in settling the
situation by giving our approval once safety has been confirmed,” Tetsu Nozaki,
chairman of the federation of prefectural fisheries cooperatives, said.
The Math
400 tons of groundwater flow into the reactor buildings on a daily
basis and mixes with the radioactive water. [...] 300 tons of groundwater would
still flow into the reactor buildings every day even after TEPCO starts pumping
up the water through the wells.
Authors: Toshiaki Mizuno & Hideya Kubo
Date Published: April 29, 2013
[...] The extent of active cesium (quasi-Cs137)
contamination of Ayu [fish] is observed in the entire eastern Japan. The some
level of the contamination is recognized even in Shizuoka prefecture, 400 km
south-west from the plant. [...]
The serious accidents of the Fukushima Nuclear
Power Plant have been contaminating a vast area in eastern Japan, home of 60
million people. [...]
The widespread contamination in eastern Japan
To the south west of Fukushima prefecture, there
lies the Kanto region which as well as containing the metropolitan prefecture
of Tokyo also comprises Ibaraki prefecture, Tochigi prefecture, Gunma
prefecture, Saitama prefecture, and Chiba prefecture. In the area, there is the
Tone river basin that is the one of biggest river basins (16,840 km2) in Japan.
[...]
[...] In areas within a radius of 100 km from the
nuclear plant, active cesium contamination levels of the Ayu are more than 200
Bq/kg. In those between a radius of 100 km and 200 km, it is around 60–200
Bq/kg. In those between a radius of 200 km and 300 km in which Tokyo is
included, it is 20–60 Bq/kg. Therefore, it is estimated that contamination of
freshwater fish is extended to all prefectures in eastern Japan. The
contamination is recognized as far as Shizuoka prefecture, 400 km south-west
from the plant. [...]
Full study available here
Fukushima:
Source: Japan Times
Author: Ken Kawashima
Date: May 19, 2013
[...] Returning to the base of [Mount Higakure]
overlooking the manmade lake behind the [Sakashita] dam, we find a public
radiation-monitoring post indicating a reading of 0.44μSv/hour — roughly 40
times the level in Tokyo on the same day.
Moving on from there, before heading back to
Tokyo we decide to drop by the abandoned tsunami-ravaged town of Tomioka, which
had been off-limits until just recently. There, a mere 10 km from the nuclear
plant, we were chastened to find the radiation readings were almost 10 times those
by the dam — some 400 times Tokyo levels at the same time on the same day.
[...]
Full report here
Source: The Local
Date: May 17, 2013
Burning ship had tonnes of radioactive
material
[...] Fire fighters said they had only narrowly
been able to prevent a catastrophe on May 1st when the freighter “Atlantic
Cartier” caught fire – complete with its radioactive load.
Tens of thousands of people were gathered just a
few hundred metres away to celebrate the Evangelical church day when the ship
went up in dramatic flames.
[...] The authorities confirmed that the ship had
been carrying around nine tonnes of the dangerous uranium hexafluoride, a toxic
chemical used in the nuclear industry, as well as four tonnes of explosives,
the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported. [...]
Most of the shipments were due for a
uranium-enriching facility [...]
Source: OTTAWA CITIZEN
Author: IAN MACLEOD
Date: May 15, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
[...] a Chalk River nuclear operator mistakenly closed a vital pumping
system that cools the immense heat generated within the NRU reactor’s core
[...]
[...] the Crown corporation said the Feb. 27 event — which the official
report characterized as a “near-miss” — needs to be taken very seriously. [...]
[Randy Lesco, vice-president of operations and
chief nuclear officer for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd] said that further
categorizing the incident as at “Significance Level 1,” the highest order,
means AECL is treating it with appropriate importance [...]
CNSC President Michael Binder questioned why AECL
and CNSC staff did not alert the public to the incident, which the Citizen
first reported on May 8. [...]
Full report here
May 15, 2013 Tweets from Johannes
Hano, Bureau Chief East Asia for ZDF German TV (h/t Anonymous
tips):
#Hotspot 65 uSv in #Fukushima City #Japan.
Informed Officials 3 month ago nothing happend until today! #nuclear #atom
[...] 65 uSv still very high. spot is at the
backend of the lot. A lot of people/children passing by every day
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Fukushima:
Japan Times: Officials from the Ibaraki Prefectural Government raided the complex Saturday afternoon to investigate the delay in reporting the incident. [...] The level of radioactive contamination at the facility stands at as much as 40 becquerels per square centimeter, it said.
AP: An atomic research lab in northern Japan has reported a radiation leak that may have affected about 55 people, though none were hospitalized and no impact was expected outside the facility, the lab’s operator said Saturday. [...] The JAEA said it was studying the potential environmental impact from the radiation leak, but did not expect any effect on surrounding areas.
See also: INES level 1 event at Tokai nuclear plant after March 11 quake -- Cobalt-60 detected outside of radiation control area -- Safety inspectors rushed to site (PHOTOS)
Source: KING 5
Author: SUSANNAH FRAME
Date: May 21, 2013
A government-chartered advisory panel was told
last September that materials spotted outside the inner wall of a tank holding
radioactive waste at the Hanford Site were possibly the result of a “carbonate
buildup,” “cross-contamination” or “rainwater leakage.” [...]
On Aug. 13, the results were sent to multiple
[Washington River Protection Solutions] officials showing measurable amounts of
Cesium-137 and Strontium-90, two highly radioactive elements that are a
byproduct of nuclear fission. Trace amounts of Plutonium 239/240 and
Americium-241 were also detected.
A reference to the results in a Leak Assessment
Report made public on Nov. 7 says the materials were registering 800,000 dpm
(disintegrations per minute), a high level of radioactivity that had never been
found in that portion of the tank before. [...]
“This was a very deliberate cover up and I will
use the word that we were lied to. There’s no two ways about it, we were lied
to,” said state Rep. [Gerry] Pollet. [...]
Anchor: “Susannah, amazing stuff, thank you.”Watch the broadcast here
Source: The Japan Times
Author: Reiji Yoshida
Date: May 21, 2013
[...] Tepco must perpetually pour water over the melted cores of
reactors 1, 2, and 3 via makeshift systems to prevent the fuel from melting and
burning again. [...]
Tepco is proposing some of the water be dumped into the sea after
processing it to remove most, but not all, radioactive isotopes. [...]
Previous discharges into the Pacific have effectively contaminated the
sea. Failure to store it means it will probably flood the whole compound and
end up in the ocean anyway. [...]
Will the processed water pose health or
environmental risks?
According to Tepco, the processed water could
theoretically be safe [...]
Tritium is the exception, however. Tepco says the
tritium level in the contaminated water is between 1 million and 5 million
becquerels per liter. The legal limit is 60,000. [...]
Fukushima:
Source: Birdhairjp
Date Published: June 2, 2013
A very small portion of the sample have been sent
to a certain laboratory for analysis. [...]
On 6 Apr 2013, I measured radiation in front of a
temple of Onoda area, Namie town of Fukushima prefecture Japan.
I monitored 7.97 micro Sievert per hour in air at
chest hight standing on the grass.
I measured 86.09 micro Sievert per hour 1cm from
road side dust. [...]
The monitoring place is 10km (corrected from 17
km) from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant. [...]
Watch the video here
Title: Frightened
to return: A Fukushima father’s story
Source: The Independent
Author: David McNeill
Date: June 1, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
Source: The Independent
Author: David McNeill
Date: June 1, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
Rates of thyroid problems in children near the
nuclear plant are high
[...] Last December, the eldest of the two was diagnosed with adenoidal cysts, the prelude to a type of cancer that often strikes the salivary glands. “I was told by the doctor that it’s very rare,” [Yoji Fujimoto] says. [...]
[...] Last December, the eldest of the two was diagnosed with adenoidal cysts, the prelude to a type of cancer that often strikes the salivary glands. “I was told by the doctor that it’s very rare,” [Yoji Fujimoto] says. [...]
“I’m convinced this is because of the Fukushima
accident.” [...]
[Steve Wing, an epidemiologist at the University of
North Carolina] says that parents like Mr Fujimoto do have reason to worry. “We
know that doses to populations are both unquantified by the official agencies,
that evidence suggests relatively high doses, and that children and women are
more vulnerable to radiation. So the questions and deep concerns for the people
in Fukushima will continue for the rest of their lives.” [...]
“I expect a growth in the numbers of thyroid
cancers in Japan from next year,” [Dr Alexey Yablokov, a Russian biologist]
said. [...]
Parents accuse government scientists of making
their minds up before the [thyroid] survey began – Professor Suzuki’s team said
last July that their aim was “to calm the anxiety of the population”.
Yoji Fujimoto
·
“I have
absolutely no faith in what the Fukushima government is saying”
·
“They
want people to go back and live there so they clearly want to keep a lid on the
impact of the disaster”
·
“There is
so much information not getting out at the moment — It will be too late for my
children when it is eventually released”
Source: ANI
Date: Jun 1, 2013
Fukushima nuclear disaster poses no immediate health risks: UN experts
The Fukushima nuclear disaster has not caused any immediate health
risks, UN experts reported in Vienna on Friday as part of their interim
investigation results.
Whether a discovered increase in the instances of thyroid cancer
amongst children could be due to radioactivity or more and improved studies
could not be determined, said United Nations Scientific Committee on the
Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) Chair Wolfgang Weiss, according to UN
Information Service Vienna.
It is however assumed that children are more susceptible to radiation
and particularly to leukemia, thyroid, brain, and skin-related cancer types.
[...]
Weiss said further investigations would be necessary, with a final
UNSCEAR report to be completed by summer.
See also: “When you hear ‘no immediate danger‘ [from nuclear radiation] then you should run away as far and as fast as you can.” -Alexey Yablokov, member of the Russian academy of sciences and adviser to President Gorbachev at the time of Chernobyl
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Wort.lu: No injuries from nuclear reactor fire [...] A fire broke out at a nuclear reactor close to the Luxembourg border in France on Friday afternoon. The blaze, which began in Cattenom nuclear power station’s block 1 at around 1.40pm, created some panic among people in the area as plumes of black smoke could be seen from a considerable distance. [...]
Previously at Cattenom: Reports: Two dead, one wounded at nuclear plant in France
Fairewinds: Radiation levels actually rising in Fukushima — Started
going up again last fall (VIDEO)
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Source: The Local
Date: June 12, 2013
h/t Anonymous tip
Fire hits Swedish nuke plant near Gothenburg [...]
The blaze started shortly after 9am at Ringhals’
Reactor 1 and was extinguished less than an hour later. [...]
“Now we have to disassemble certain parts in
order to access where the fire took place and see what the damage is and we
don’t know how long that will take,” Ringshals spokesman Gösta Larsen told TT.
Ringhals’ Reactor 1 was restarted on Tuesday
after having been shut down the day before due to a broken meter. [...]
On Tuesday, the Swedish Radiation Safety
Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten, SSM) announced Ringhals would no longer
be held under special observation, a status implemented for Ringhals by the
agency back in 2009 following a series of safety lapses.
Source: Science of The Total Environment
Author: P. Thakura, S. Ballard, R. Nelson
Date: August 1, 2013
The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on
March 11, 2011 resulted in the tragic accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power
Plant (NPP) and subsequently
uncontrolled release of radioactive contaminants into the atmosphere. [...] The
radioactive gases and particles released in the accident were dispersed over
the middle latitudes of the entire northern hemisphere and for the first time
also measured in the southern Hemisphere. Isotopes of iodine and cesium were
detected in air, water, milk and food samples collected across the entire
northern hemisphere. Elevated levels of fission products were detected from
March to May 2011 at many locations over the northern hemisphere.
[...] The activity ratios of 131I/137Cs and
134Cs/137Cs measured at several locations are evaluated to gain an insight into
the fuel burn-up, the inventory of radionuclides in the reactor and the
isotopic signature of the accident. It is important to note that all of the
radiation levels detected outside of Japan have been very low and are well
below any level of public and environmental hazard.
Full study available here
Mainichi, June 11, 2013: Uncertainty over the location of melted fuel inside the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant continues to cast a shadow over plans to remove the fuel at an early date [...] Reactor Nos. 1-3 at the plant contained a total of 1,496 rods of nuclear fuel in their cores. [...] Each fuel rod weighs about 300 kilograms, and a high level of technical expertise would be required when undertaking a remote control operation to cut up and retrieve clumps of scattered radioactive materials weighing a combined 450 tons or thereabouts. [...] the cores of reactors at the Fukushima plant have holes, and the task at hand is finding which parts have been damaged [...] In a news conference on June 10, a representative of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Agency for Natural Resources and Energy said that bringing forward the plans would be dependent on developing technology, and suggested that the plans might even end up being delayed. [...]
Source: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Author: Shigeyoshi Otosaka, Takuya Kobayashi
Date: July 2013, Volume 185, Issue 7, pp 5419-5433
Sedimentation and remobilization processes of
radiocesium were investigated from time-series observations at nine stations in
the coastal area of Ibaraki, 70–110 km south of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear
Power Plant (1FNPP). Sediment samples were collected four times between June
2011 and January 2012, and concentrations of radiocesium as well as sediment
properties such as grain size and elemental compositions were analyzed. [...]
The incorporation of radiocesium into sediments was almost irreversible [...]
Full study here
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