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Explosion at Japan chemical complex

Explosion at Japan chemical complex, still burning � 3,379 containers of nuclear waste onsite � Reports of depleted uranium � Gov�t says no release of toxic material

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Explosion at Petrochemical Complex in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Radioactive Waste Stored at the Complex
Source: EXSKF
Date: April 21, 2012

UPDATE: One of the two missing workers was found dead. 9 workers injured, 3 residents in the area were also injured (cuts from broken glass). It looks like part of the complex is still burning. The prefectural government does say the depleted uranium is stored at the complex, but there has been no release of toxic materials from the fire, according to the prefectural government. [...]

Someone on Twitter has dug up information from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) that lists companies that have radioactive waste on the premise. Mitsui Chemical�s complex in Yamaguchi Prefecture is one of them. According to the MEXT data from 2009, the complex has 3,379 containers of nuclear waste. [...]

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[blackchisel97]

Fukushima is falling apart

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[blackchisel97]

The Legacy of Chernobyl

Russian Gov�t Radio: �The number of victims has reached one million people today� � Consequences of Chernobyl meltdown are endless and uncontrollable

Chernobyl tragedy: the last �gift� from the Soviet regime
Source: Voice of Russia
Author: Dmitry Konchalovsky
Date: Apr 26, 2012

Exactly 26 years ago there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Whole regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have become unfit for life, and the number of victims has reached one million people today. And experts are still disputing about long-term consequences of the disaster.

[...] its consequences are endless and uncontrollable, and it is impossible to count the exact number of victims. Scientists are still arguing if the number of one million deaths is valid, but when such big numbers are taken into account, the one thing is absolutely clear � things are in a bad way. Besides, no one can count how many babies could not be born, and on the lives of how many subsequent generations this disaster will tell in the form of cancer.

Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России) is the Russian government�s international radio broadcasting service

Photographer: �My first reaction was I was looking at a different race of people because the damage was so incredible� � Brain outside of skull, kidneys outside of torso, legs resembling elephant � Some doctors feel strongly there will be no more Belarus people in future....

Local Fukushima official films radioactive whirlwind � �All black dust has been also blown away�

The wind of one thousand Bq - YouTube

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[blackchisel97]

The Legacy of Chernobyl

Russian Gov�t Radio: �The number of victims has reached one million people today� � Consequences of Chernobyl meltdown are endless and uncontrollable

Chernobyl tragedy: the last �gift� from the Soviet regime
Source: Voice of Russia
Author: Dmitry Konchalovsky
Date: Apr 26, 2012

Exactly 26 years ago there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Whole regions in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have become unfit for life, and the number of victims has reached one million people today. And experts are still disputing about long-term consequences of the disaster.

[...] its consequences are endless and uncontrollable, and it is impossible to count the exact number of victims. Scientists are still arguing if the number of one million deaths is valid, but when such big numbers are taken into account, the one thing is absolutely clear � things are in a bad way. Besides, no one can count how many babies could not be born, and on the lives of how many subsequent generations this disaster will tell in the form of cancer.

Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России) is the Russian government�s international radio broadcasting service

Photographer: �My first reaction was I was looking at a different race of people because the damage was so incredible� � Brain outside of skull, kidneys outside of torso, legs resembling elephant � Some doctors feel strongly there will be no more Belarus people in future....

Chernobyl Legacy by Paul Fusco
Chernobyl Legacy by Paul Fusco - YouTube


Local Fukushima official films radioactive whirlwind � �All black dust has been also blown away�

The wind of one thousand Bq - YouTube

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[Black Sheep Bill]

I am shocked - why no lawsuits?

Yes, MS, that definitely is what we are seeing happen, and here's one example:

I-131 (radioiodine), which serves as a marker for other products of radiation, is now being found in every place that it is looked for in the US. The Governor of Pennsylvania, allowing as how 33,000% the background radiation level ( and the allowable US government level of I-131) was being found in rainwater in his state said, "No one drinks rainwater, so there is no threat to human health!"

"No threat to human health," huh? I wouldn't believe that any more than I would believe Obama is a natural born citizen of the US. But don't worry, folks, surely the US Government, in the form of the Environmental Protection Agency, is ramping up efforts to protect us, right?. Yes, they are! And here's how they are doing that - they are raising the allowable levels of contamination in drinking water that can be present before an alert is sounded - nearly a 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90, a 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131; and an almost 25,000-fold rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63�

I feel so much more at ease and reassured now, because of the EPA's actions, don't you?

If this is true why isn't Greenpeace or others suing the sh*t out of the EPA? Do you have any links to document this?

[MonsieurM]

BREAKING! Navy sink ship; Alaska fishing shut down!, page 1

"the Navy just sank a Japanese ghost ship wrought with nuclear fallout off the coast of Alaska because they didn't know what else to do with it." The ship was part of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and was apparently swept out to see with no one on it, but covered in radioactive material. Now fishing along the coast of Alaska, the canneries, and other coastal businesses have been shut down due to nuclear fallout. She said nuclear fallout out is all over the place up there; it's in the water, it's in the soil, it's everywhere. She's bummed out about her job falling through, but also warned "don't eat the seafood...radiation levels are really high."

[blackchisel97]

BREAKING! Navy sink ship; Alaska fishing shut down!, page 1

They want to prevent this "piece of evidence" from being scanned by independent body and possibility of results being placed in public domain.
Lethal game they play...

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[mbrownn]

Greenpeace, like most of the green movements, have been co opted to some extent. They have been redirected to push things like climate change instead of looking at the real problems such as Fukushima, GMO Toxins in the food supply and DU, so we cannot expect much more than token protests from them.

It is up to us, the ordinary man in the street, to start and put pressure our "lords and masters" and make them take action.

Any of you guys noticed a metallic taste in your mouth since Fukushima? I have

[blackchisel97]

Just read the report of declined birds population, about 33%. They migrate from NZ to Northern Hemisphere (Japan in particular). NZ ornithologist said that those returning this year are in poor shape.

And this may be or not related but I decided to post here -

1200 + Dead Pelicans in Northern Peru, Same Region as Mass Dolphin Die-Off
After a mysterious massive die-off of over 3,000 dolphins along the northern coast of Peru this year more than 1200 pelicans have been found dead in the past ten days in the same region. The deaths of the pelicans and dolphins, unexplained.

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Just scroll the column in the link below for this month only
Mass Animal Death

WTF is going on??

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[blackchisel97]

Emergency declared at New Jersey nuclear plant

Multiple fire alarms sound after reactor shuts down � Tests were occurring on emergency cooling system � Cause remains under investigation.

�Unusual event� declared at Salem 1 nuclear reactor after plant automatically shuts down
Source: NJ.com
Author: Bill Gallo, Jr.
Date: Apr. 30, 2012 2:12p ET

An �unusual event� was declared at the Salem 1 nuclear reactor here this morning after the plant shut down and fire alarms sounded, a spokesman for the plant�s operator said.

An unusual event is the least serious of four emergency classifications at a nuclear power plant.

Salem 1 automatically shut down at 10:15 a.m., according to Joe Delmar, spokesman for the reactor�s operator, PSEG Nuclear.
According to Delmar what caused the reactor to trip remains under investigation, but testing was occurring on the reactor�s emergency cooling system at the time.
After the reactor shutdown, multiple fire alarms sounded, according to Delmar. [...]
The reactor is stable, Delmar said, and there was no release of radiation during the event. [...]

'Unusual event' declared at Salem 1 nuclear reactor after plant automatically shuts down | NJ.com

Anonymous Interview: Medical doctors working in Fukushima say lots of people are dying � �Bleeding, losing hair, and having a bad health condition�

Japan Physicians Demand Answers: 90% of urine samples contaminated with cesium in city 200km from Fukushima

119 of 132 people positive from sampling survey of radioactive substances in urine in Iwate
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: Apr. 29, 2012

Iwate prefecture conducted sampling survey of radioactive substances in urine in Ichinoseki city and Oshu city.

The result published on 3/2/2012 shows cesium was measured from 119 of 132 people (90.1%). The highest reading was 6 Bq/L.

On 4/16/2012, the chairman of Iwate association of obstetricians and gynecologists, Kobayashi sent public questions to Tasso, Iwate governor. [...]

Translations of Selected Questions

[Are] the meeting minutes of the assessing committee disclosed? If not, we demand to know the reason.
Is there any schedule to conduct research about the diet of the children who they measured cesium from the urine of and about their symptoms? If not, we demand to know the reason.
We think we shall continue to conduct children�s urine test and health inspection from now on. What is the view of Iwate prefecture?
Please tell us how much of cesium per L in urine corresponds to �1 mSv/h� or 100mSv/Life on the assumption that a 40kg of a child continuously takes cesium for 365 days after Fukushima accident / urine = 1L/d.
Please give us documented answers for those questions above by 5/16/2012. We will disclose the content of the answer to media.

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[blackchisel97]

Reality in Fukushima

Reality in Fukushima | Fukushima Diary
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Investigations into Fukushima accident disagree on key points
Source: Asahi AJW
Author: Naoya Kon and Takashi Sugimoto
Date: May 01, 2012

Despite investigations by four special committees [Gov't, Diet, Tepco, private sector], key questions remain about the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant [...]

WHAT HAPPENED AT THE NO. 2 REACTOR?

One point that none of the investigative committees has uncovered is the extent of damage to the No. 2 reactor.

At a little after 6 a.m. on March 15, a number of workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant heard the sound of a large impact.

At 6:18 a.m., during a teleconference with TEPCO headquarters, a plant official said that the sound might have been caused by the bottom of the suppression chamber of the No. 2 reactor falling. [See also: NHK: Suppression chamber "may have been destroyed" at Reactor No. 2 (VIDEO)

At 6:50 a.m., a radiation level of 583 microsieverts per hour was recorded at the main gate to the plant about one kilometer from the No. 2 reactor building. That reading was about eight times the level recorded an hour earlier. At 9 a.m., a radiation level of 11,930 microsieverts was recorded, the highest for the entire accident.

The government panel report said, �(Fukushima plant chief) Yoshida felt some sort of explosion occurred in the containment vessel based on information received that a large impact was heard as well as information that the pressure in the suppression chamber of the No. 2 reactor was zero.� [...]

The extent of damage to the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor is unknown. Once that becomes clear it could be possible to point to the No. 2 reactor as the cause of the high radiation levels. [...]

�Investigations� Claim No Explosion

However, the TEPCO panel included an analysis of readings from seismographs at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. There were no observations of shaking caused by an explosion between 6 a.m. and 6:10 a.m. when the sound of an impact was heard at the No. 2 reactor. Shaking was recorded at 6:12 a.m. when an explosion likely occurred at the No. 4 reactor, according to the TEPCO panel.

The government panel also said the impact sound was likely caused by the explosion at the No. 4 reactor. The private-sector panel also rejected the notion that an explosion occurred at the No. 2 reactor.

The panels also could not explain what caused the high radiation levels.

Unexplained Damage

TEPCO used an industrial endoscope on March 26 to check the interior of the reactor. The water level was only about 60 centimeters from the bottom of the containment vessel, much lower than estimated. Water pumped into the reactor more than likely has leaked from damaged parts of the core. However, none of the panels have yet explained how that damage occurred.
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Koriyama board of education stops decontamination of schools
by Mochizuki - Fukushima Diary on April 30th, 2012

Prof. Yamauchi Tomoya from Kobe university confessed the board of education of Koriyama city stops decontamination, on the radio show MBS Tanemaki journal. (Assistant professor Koide from Kyoto university regularly talks on this radio show as well.)

He is an expert of decontamination. On the radio show, he talked his experience when he went to a kindergarten and elementary school of Koriyama city to assist decontamination but the board of education stopped him from decontaminating. The reason was not talked.

He also added, the safety limit is 0.23μSv/h. If it goes over 0.23μSv/h, local government must decontaminate the school areas, but actually it was difficult to find somewhere less than 0.23μSv/h though it was after decontamination.

Contaminated soil was already removed and new soil was added, but places surrounding the playground of elementary school or kindergarten are still highly contaminated, radiation comes over the playground. If those severely contaminated areas are not owned by schools, it is impossible to decontaminate it.

Children are still living there.
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In case coolant system stopped in any SFP, Tepco can�t measure temperature
by Mochizuki - Fukushima Diary on April 30th, 2012

In the daily press conference of 4/27/2012, Tepco stated they lose the manner to measure the temperature of each SFP from reactor 1 to 3 when circulative cooling system is troubled.

Only SFP 4 can be reached by human worker so a temporary heating gauge is attached.

According to Tepco, they measure temperature where water comes from skimmer surge tank to primary cooling water pump at each reactor, not inside of the pool. They thus can not measure temperature when circulative cooling system stops. There is no plan to solve this problem.

Thyroid nodules rate in Fukushima is 20 time higher than in Chernobyl
by Mochizuki on April 29th, 2012

In March, Fukushima government conducted thyroid test for under 18 in 13 cities and towns such as Minamisoma city, Namiemachi, Iidatemura, Tomiokamachi etc..

The result shows thyroid nodules (≦5.0mm) or cyst (≦20.0mm) were seen in 13,460 from 38,114 people (35.3%).

Compared to their pre-test result of January, it increased from 29.7% to 35.3%. (↑ 5.6%)

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[MonsieurM]

some weird stuff is going on ... i think they running out of BS .... it seems that this Fractal Resonance is starting to drown their voice meant to hide it in the first place ... sooner or later they'll have to face the Music

[blackchisel97]

Unit 4

If Fukushima Unit 4 Falls, Hazardous Radioactive Cesium-137 Release Could be Eight Times Worse Than Chernobyl
Enews Park Forest Service
May 4, 2012

Beyond Nuclear today joined with concerned Japanese citizen groups and US Senator, Ron Wyden (D-OR), urging that swift international action be taken to prevent a catastrophic high-level radioactive waste fire at the precarious Unit 4 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.

Unit 4 is leaning and could topple if hit with another earthquake or tsunami, resulting in a deadly high-level radioactive waste fire. The ability for the unit to withstand another seismic event is rated at zero.

Today, a coalition of concerned Japanese citizens is urging United Nations Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, to properly inform the Japanese people of the perilous situation at Fukushima Daiichi, and to work together to prevent what would be an irreversible disaster that would release huge amounts of lethal radiation, dwarfing the scale of the original disaster.

Since the nuclear catastrophe began in March 2011, Beyond Nuclear has called attention to the ongoing risks of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi high-level radioactive waste storage pools. A similar danger persists at the 23 identical GE Mark I boiling water reactors still operating in the US.

�If the cooling water supply is lost to the high-level radioactive waste storage pool in Unit 4, it could be just a matter of hours before the irradiated nuclear fuel is on fire,� warned Kevin Kamps, radioactive waste specialist at Beyond Nuclear. �A fire in the Unit 4 high-level radioactive waste storage pool could release up to eight times more hazardous cesium-137 than the Chernobyl reactor explosion. That in turn would mean the site would have to be evacuated, risking the potential for all seven high-level radioactive waste storage pools at the site to ignite. If that happened, Fukushima Daiichi would release 85 times the levels of cesium released by Chernobyl, potentially forcing an evacuation, and permanent condemnation, of hundreds to thousands of square miles,� Kamps added.

Cesium-137 fallout from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe has already been measured by the US Geological Survey across the US, although the agency has downplayed the risks, despite the position long held by the National Academy of Sciences that there is no safe dose of radiation.

US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) visited the stricken Fukushima site several weeks ago and was particularly alarmed by the slow response of Fukushima Daiichi utility owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which has a several year-long plan to secure Unit 4 and its fuel pool, and urged swifter action.

�Loss of containment in any of these pools, especially the pool at Unit 4, which has the highest inventory of hottest fuel, could result in an even greater release of radiation than the initial incident,� Wyden said.

The letter to UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, initiated by Japanese environmental groups Green Action Japan and Shut Tomari, demands that Japan ask for international support to avert disaster. The groups are urging organizations around the world to sign on.

�Given the fact that collapse of this pool could potentially lead to catastrophic consequences with worldwide implications, what the Japanese government should be doing as a responsible member of the international community is to avoid any further disaster by mobilizing all the wisdom and the means available in order to stabilize this pool,� the letter states.

�It is clearly evident that the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool is no longer a Japanese issue but an international issue with potentially serious consequences,� the letter continues. �Therefore, it is imperative for the Japanese government and the international community to work together on this crisis before it becomes too late. We are appealing to the United Nations to help Japan and the planet in order to prevent the irreversible consequences of a catastrophe that could affect generations to come. Specifically, the Japanese people are asking that the UN organize a Nuclear Security Summit to take up the crucial problem of the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 spent nuclear fuel pool. In addition, the UN should establish an independent assessment team on Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 and coordinate international assistance in order to stabilize the unit�s spent nuclear fuel pool and prevent radiological consequences with potentially catastrophic consequences.�

Organizations around the world are urged to sign on to the letter by emailing their support to info@greenaction-japan.org. The full text of the letter plus endorsements can be read at: Urgent Request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon | Fukushima Update

Nuclear Expert: Everybody is now paying attention to Unit 4 because we have four years to go before fuel removed � If water lost, a beacon of radiation will bathe site in �sky shine� from gamma rays..

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[blackchisel97]

hours until Japan�s final nuclear plant shuts down

Japan shutting down last nuclear reactor
NHK WORLD English
Saturday, May 05, 2012 05:51 +0900 (JST)

Japan�s electricity will be nuclear-free for the first time in 42 years [...]

Officials at Hokkaido Electric Power Company say they will begin reducing the power output of the Number 3 reactor at the Tomari Nuclear Power Plant at about 5 PM. They plan to stop the reactor�s generator at about 11 PM and complete the shutdown at about 2 AM on Sunday. [...]

But there�s no prospect of a restart of any of the country�s 50 commercial reactors.

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[mbrownn]

This is one small blessing.

Note that it does not seem to have interrupted the electrical service closing all these plants down, admitted that the other conventional plants may well be stretched but it clearly shows that in reality there is no need for nuclear power. I am confident that more conventional CHP plants and alternative power sources, which by the way all cost less to build and run than nuclear, could easily replace this extra capacity.

Maybe GW bush's Freudian slip is accurate, "nookilla"