News of the Imbalance

PODCAST #164 – Shane Smith, Brian Redban, The Joe Rogan Experience, Dec 6, 2011 [*WARNING* ADULT LANGUAGE]:

A professional video of Marco Kaltofen’s presentation to the American Public Health Association was recently made available to Fairewinds. Kaltofen states that hot particles are contaminating portions of northern Japan. He also states that auto air filters from Fukushima, that he tested in his Massachusetts laboratory, are so radioactive that they have to be disposed of in a buried radioactive waste disposal site in the US. Additionally, he expresses concerns for the mechanics who work on cars in Fukushima Prefecture.

And also we have Fukushima’s which is about 65 kilometers away from the site. This automobile air filter is actually hazardous. My university is annoyed with me because we have to contract to have this filter disposed of as radioactive waste. Unfortunately, you can just imagine what this means to the people in Fukushima City which is not evacuated, and even for the (automobile) mechanics who are changing these air filters.

Host: [...] The architect of Reactor No. 3 at Fukushima spoke out recently criticizing Tepco saying their explanations don’t make sense. And he claimes that it’s inevitable that nuclear fuel has leaked into the groundwater which means China Syndrome is upon us, or could be [...] Based on what the architect said, have we officially reached the edge of the China Syndrome stage at Fukushima?

Gunter: [...] The former president of Saga university, this info is also corroborated by an earlier report from September by an assistant professor at the Kyoto Research Reactor Institute who said reactors 1 and 3 already had a melt-through and that by his projection the corium had moved 10-12 meters into the ground already [...]

Highly radioactive fuel and steel and its just burning down [...]

Even in Tepco’s simulation, they admitted corium has burned through 2/3s of floor [...]

Tepco’s credibility is less than zero right now [...]

“Nothing. There is no way to stop the nuclear fuel that has melted-through leaking. All we could do is to pray for the fuel not to touch the underground water vein.

We must avoid internal exposure from contaminated food. Authorities are trying to make Japanese eat polluted food for their twisted patriotism, but on the other hand, citizens are setting up independent labs around Japan. This is very important. However, lab facility costs are huge. Maintenance, recording the data costs too. Now, the best thing Germans can do is to support those independent facilities financially.”

“Tokyo is not the safe area. Now Tokyo is in the similar situation to Kiev in Chernobyl. Ukrainian Government couldn’t define that densely populated area, Kiev, as evacuating area so they did not admit Kiev was threatened and manipulated the radiation map to look like Plutonium stopped just before Kiev.”

Fukushima worker confesses “There is nothing left that we could do”, Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki, November 23, 2011 (Emphasis Added):

This Fukushima worker (Twitter account Happy20790) tweets useful information daily. [...]

In short, he says Tepco started reducing the number of workers because they can not do anything for the reactors anymore. [...]

He explains, the next thing to do is to check the state of container vessels pressure vessels, define the actual point of the leakage of contaminated water, and action to stop the leakage, but there is zero plan / idea how to manage it.

The interiors of the buildings are extremely radioactive and nobody can officially go into reactor 3 [...] The only thing they can do is to analyze the gas from inside of the container vessels.

Thus nothing can be done by human anymore.

Grampybone: November 23, 2011 at 12:20 pm

There is nothing they can do? Well they could start by telling the public the truth. I wish they would give status reports on reactors 5&6 but I guess they can’t even take measurements in the 4 confirmed problem zones. What a mess! Now they want to reduce workers? Gorbachev would have mobilized an entire nation by now what the hell are the clowns at TEPCO smoking? The messiest situations have yet to happen and they want to reduce staff. I have seen stupid before, but not at this extreme. Cold shutdown my ass! Why don’t they just say “we failed and we’re sorry for ruining 10% of the country.”

• Vindicated Seismologist Says Japan Still Underestimates Threat to Reactors
  Bloomberg News, 21st November 2011
  Dismissed as a “nobody” by Japan’s nuclear industry, seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi spent two decades watching his predictions of disaster come true: First in the 1995 Kobe earthquake and then at Fukushima. He says the government still doesn’t get it.
  
  The 67-year-old scientist recalled in an interview how his boss marched him to the Construction Ministry to apologize for writing a 1994 book suggesting Japan’s building codes put its cities at risk. Five months later, thousands were killed when a quake devastated Kobe city. The book, “A Seismologist Warns,” became a bestseller. [...]
  
  “What was missing -- and is still missing -- is a recognition of the danger,” Ishibashi said, seated in a dining room stacked with books in his house in a Kobe suburb. “I understand we’re not going to shut all of the nuclear plants, but we should rank them by risk and phase out the worst.”
  
  Comment: Shakes head... Obviously, someone who removed some of his blinkers enough to see reality as it is... This is the point where seeing danger and averting danger become incongruent with those blinkered by "thinking positively".
  

• Shukan Asahi reporter says he heard ambulances come to Fukushima plant “at least for 10 times a day” (VIDEO)
  Energy News, 9th November 2011
  Nov. 9 — “A journalist of Shukan Asahi, Mr. Imanishi was invited to go into the site by an actual Fukushima worker,” reports Mochizuki. Mochizuki reveals the reporter stated, “He heard ambulance comes to the plant at least for 10 times a day.”
  
  Comment: I call this headline a jaw dropper... Plutonium was named after the god of hell and we are clearly seeing hell on Earth with the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This is just the start... I tried to use the goggle translation option for the captions with this video to transcribe from Japanese into English but it was complete gibberish, so hopefully someone might do the job properly.
  
• Japanese Debris to Start Hitting Western U.S. and Canada THIS WEEK
  Washington's blog, 11th November 2011
  Japanese Debris to Hit Western U.S. and Canada
  

  I noted in June that debris from carried out to sea in the Japanese tsunami would hit the Western U.S. and Canada within a year or so, and that nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen urged us to demand testing of radioactivity from the American government.

  It turns out that scientists underestimated the speed with which the debris would reach the Western coast of North America.

  As Canada’s National Post reports today:

  The main part of the 20-million-tonne debris field, equivalent in size to the state of California, isn’t expected until about 2014, but houses, fishboats and even small freighters could already be close to Canadian shores, Mr. Ebbesmeyer said.

  
  Comment: ????????? Come on... what are all those hundreds of satellites doing in the sky then if they can't track stuff floating in the oceans properly?
  

The areas surrounding the imperial household in the center of Tokyo in Chiyoda-ku has elevated radiation levels. The foodstuff that is used in the imperial household - vegetables, milk, egg, beef - comes from the imperial farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture (Imperial Household Agency, announcement on 7/21/2011) where the radiation is even more elevated and where the meat cow nearby was found with high level of radioactive cesium.

#Radiation in Japan: Small News and Baseless Rumors, ex-skf.blogspot.com, 6th November 2011

The areas surrounding the imperial household in the center of Tokyo in Chiyoda-ku has elevated radiation levels. The foodstuff that is used in the imperial household - vegetables, milk, egg, beef - comes from the imperial farm in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture (Imperial Household Agency, announcement on 7/21/2011) where the radiation is even more elevated and where the meat cow nearby was found with high level of radioactive cesium.

#Radiation in Japan: Small News and Baseless Rumors, ex-skf.blogspot.com, 6th November 2011

Nov. 3, 8:30 pm ET (Emphasis Added) — A report published at 8:30 pm ET by the Japan Times calls on Tepco and the Japan gov’t to “find out true reactor conditions” at Fukushima.

Tepco announced Wednesday that, according to the Times, “There is the possibility that criticality, a sustained nuclear chain reaction, had occurred ‘temporarily’ and ‘locally’ in the No. 2 reactor.”

During it’s testing, Tepco has detected xenon-133 and -135, “Products of uranium or plutonium fission.”

The half life of xenon-135 is about 9 hours, therefore, “Criticality is very likely to have occurred just before the gases were analyzed,” reports the Times.

• OurPlanet TV: What's Happening to Children Now? (7/14/2011)
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 30th October 2011
  Our Planet TV is an Internet-based station "with no religious or political affiliations. It was founded by a small group of producers, video journalists and other media professionals who questioned the way mainstream media covered 9.11 and the events that followed."
  
  One of the programs, ContAct, did an interview with Mika Noro, which was webcasted on July 14, 2011. Ms. Noro has been active in helping children in areas affected by the Chernobyl nuke plant accident, and after the Fukushima accident her organization has been setting up free medical consultations for mothers and children in Fukushima.
  
  Noro and the host of the program discussed health issues that were starting to get reported more widely around that time, and compared them to what Noro observed in Chernobyl. Her conclusion: weakened immune system due to exposure to radiation. She is no medical doctor or radiation expert, but considering what the medical doctors and radiation experts have been saying and doing since March 11 (remember Dr. Yamashita?), that doesn't necessarily disqualify her from commenting on health and radiation.
  
  Rather, as Dr. Nishio of Hokkaido Cancer Research Center says in the video, if this many people report almost identical symptoms (throat problems, nosebleed, diarrhea, fatigue, etc.) after being exposed to radiation from the Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident, "the doctors need to recognize them as new clinical symptoms of low-dose radiation exposure", instead of outright dismissing them (which is what almost all of them do). The Japanese authorities don't even care about the perpetuation of their own race and are spreading the radiation all over Japan by burning contaminated radioactive material, I think this is some serious psychopathy for the world to see. Are the people in charge humans or evil aliens?
  

Radiation levels there remain around 3 uSv/hr.

Koichi says he is having his “last fight” and knows he may die of exposure.

He is trying to save people for his life and spends his time driving around the city calling on people to evacuate, shouting “we are not human guinea pig”.

The councilor “tells Japanese young people to leave Japan too,” according to Mochizuki.

Read More: News: My last fight

Comment: I will admit, I am so gutted by the events in Japan that it's been hard to even read the reports, this article is just the latest devastating news. Look, the officials know how serious this is, hence all the early reports of moving the capital away from Tokyo coming from diplomatic sources who certainly have no interested in being irradiated to death in Tokyo.

ABC News (Australia) Japanese communities record Chernobyl-level radiation
YouTube, 19th October 2011
"Thousands of Japanese forced to evacuate their homes by the Fukushima nuclear disaster are facing the prospect of never being able to return."
A Zen Buddihist in the Fukushima prefecture doing prayers in a 400 year old temple is actually quite interesting.

"We in Otsu-City, Shiga Prefecture, 311 miles (500 km)
from Fukushima, are seeing readings around 0.15 microsieverts on average,
which is around five times what the Japanese government is reporting. My wife
and children will leave Japan as early as possible because I perceive a growing
exodus will come and it might become hard to place kids in schools."

Frank Daulton, Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, Ryukoku Univ., Kyoto, Japan

From: Frank E. Daulton
Subject:   Radiation Cover-up in Japan
Date: September 8, 2011
To: Linda Moulton Howe <earthfiles@earthfiles.com>

Dear Linda,

I need to report on the cover-up involving nuclear contamination throughout Japan. I have been conducting measurements and experiments near my home in Western Japan, more than 500 kilometers from Fukushima (in Shiga Prefecture). I have found the local soil to be quite and undeniably contaminated. Even ambient radiation levels are around five times government data.

However, there is no acknowledgement from the government or media of this situation. The average citizen has no idea of the dangers, and therefore, takes no precautions.

The only way to understand how the government can present false data showing absolutely no effect of Fukushima in Western Japan -- knowing that some day the lie will become apparent -- is that things are far worse than anyone has imagined. Indeed in Japan, one does not tell someone with cancer than he/she has cancer; it may 'upset' them too much. I think, in the future, we will be given a similar excuse for the current cover-up.

I am writing a paper on the situation and my measures to alleviate the radiation on my property. I have four small children, who I plan to send abroad early next year. They will be among the first of many 'radiation refugees'. [...]

The Fukushima Prefectural Government said on Sept. 23 that it had detected 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram — the government-set allowable limit — in a sample of “Hitomebore” rice collected in Nihonmatsu’s Obama district. It will greatly increase the number of testing locations there for a second test to decide whether to allow shipments of rice from the city. [...]

• Palisades nuke plant checks for earthquake damage
  Michigan Messenger, 24th August 2011
  It looks like Palisades Nuclear Plant was not even on the list of Massachusetts Representative Edward Markey’s letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, August 29, 2011 (see archives), but at the time. there was media attention given to issues related to the 5.9 Virginia earthquake.
  
  The earthquake that hit Virginia and much of the east coast yesterday was felt at Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant, where a federal regulator has warned that the spent fuel storage is vulnerable to damage from quakes.
  
  The 5.9 magnitude quake was centered few miles from Dominion’s North Anna nuclear power plant in Lousia County, Virginia. The reactors there were forced into a hot shutdown after the plant lost electricity, officials said, and diesel powered back-up generators functioned to cool the reactors and spent fuel pools until power was restored. It is not yet clear what physical damage the plant may have sustained.
  
  Entergy’s 40-year old Palisades plant on Lake Michigan near South Haven was among at least a dozen nuclear power plants that notified the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of “unusual events” related to the quake.
  

Pr Chris Busby on children’s heart attacks in Fukushima, radioactivebsr, September 11, 2011:

Summary of interview with Christopher Busby, expert on health effects of ionizing radiation

At :40 in

• Yury Bandazhevsky, studied effects of cesium-137 on children in Belarus after Chernobyl
• He found that children with just 20-30 Bq/kg of cesium-137 suffering cardiac arrhythmia (heart not beating properly) and were suffering heart attacks and dying
• Not a question of cancer or leukemia (although that occurred as well), there were very high rates of heart disease in these children… manifesting heart disease usually only found in old people

At 4:00 in

• Heart cells are non replaceable by-and-large
• Only 1% of heart cells replaced in a year
• Cesium-137 goes to muscle, so concentrates in muscle tissue of heart

At 5:00 in

• It does seem from what people have been telling me in the Fukushima affected area, is they [children] are actually suffering heart attacks

At 6:40 in

• Cesium-137?s effects on heart muscle cannot be repaired, heart tissue cannot be repaired
• These children will suffer their whole life and die young

At 7:30 in

• Post-Chernobyl Belarus showed an increase in cancer… but an “enormous” increase in heart disease

Turning away from today's reality will blind our future.

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• NPO in Fukui Selling Buddhist Rosaries and Bracelets Made of Rikuzen Takata Pine
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 23rd August 2011
  "A Sakai City, Fukui Prefecture-based NPO "Fukui Disaster Volunteer Net" has been selling the Buddhist rosaries and bracelets made out of the core of the trunk of the pine trees that was felled in the March 11 disaster in Rikuzen Takat City in Iwate Prefecture. The firewood made out of those pine trees was to be used at "Gozan no Okuribi" in Kyoto, but radioactive materials were detected [from the bark of the wood]. There was no radioactive cesium detected from the core. [...] You can buy them at the website of the NPO "Fukui Disaster Volunteer Net", at http://www.fukkou.org/contact-us/tyumon Disaster capitalism alive and well."
  
  
• New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide
  Vimeo, 22nd August 2011
  
  
• Inside Fukushima – interactive guide
  Earlier this month, Kazuma Obara became the first photojournalist to gain unauthorised access to the power plant and produced an exclusive glimpse of life inside the facility
  The Guardian, 20th August 2011
  
  Fukushima Safety Fears , Channel 4 News (UK)
  Energy News, 18th August 2011
  
  
• Wall Street Journal: How the Japanese Government Failed Residents of Namie, Fukushima (Video)
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th August 2011
  
  
• Our Nationwide Soil Testing Project has begun!
  Radiation Defense Project, August 2011
  "As our first work of our Nationwide Soil Testing Project, we tested soil samples from 150 areas in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This project is the first unified investigation on the diffusion of radioactive particles in the metropolitan area including Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, Kanagawa, and Ibaraki prefectures, whereas the national and local governments are separately performing their investigations."

• Huge Quantities of Radiation Are Still Being Released By Fukushima (Video)
  Washington's Blog, 17th August 2011
  Radiation expert Dr. Chris Busby says that huge quantities of radiation - 10¹³ or 10 trillion becquerels per hour - are still being released from Fukushima.
  
  This is down slightly from some of the radiation levels observed in March, which - as I noted in April - exceeded levels pumped out at Chernobyl during the week-long fire.
  
  But given that the Fukushima crisis has continued for months, Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl in terms of radiation released.
  
  
• Tends to concentrate in the testicles”: 360+ atoms of radioactive sulfur per day may have been inhaled by Californians after Fukushimab>
  Energy News, 17th August 2011
  When the news broke yesterday that a previously unreported type of fallout from Fukushima—radioactive sulfur—had reached the United States in late March, nearly all mainstream media reports made the claim that it poses no threat to the health of Americans. [...]
  
  And if you’re a man, you may be interested to know that some miniscule portion of it could be in your testicles. [...] Sulfur-35 is absorbed by the entire body but is of particular concern to men because it tends to concentrate in the testicles, according to a Nuclide Safety Data Sheet from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Beta radiation occurring there could damage neighboring cells. [...]
  
  Comment: Let's see how long it takes now for people (men) to wake up and decide enough is enough...
  
  
• Now, #Radioactive Sanitary Napkins??
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 17th August 2011
  "Someone tested the "Unicharm" brand of feminine sanitary napkins, and the survey meter showed 0.15 microsievert/hr on a napkin. The ambient radiation level was 0.07 microsievert/hr (indoors). He was worried for his wife, and traced the manufacturing number on the package, and it was made in the factory in Fukushima Prefecture."
  
  
• Young Turks: America's Nuclear Nightmare
  YouTube, 12th August 2011
  The Young Turks tell it straight

• pick tea leaves which turned out to be highly radioactive (in one case in Ibaraki, they made them eat the tempura made out of the leaves);

• participate in outdoor PE classes with the threat that they wouldn't get good grades if they (or their parents) refuse;

• clean the school yard, pulling weeds and sweeping;

• clean out the swimming pools with sludges which turned out to be highly radioactive;

• plant rice seedlings in rice paddies with bare feet (this was done throughout Japan, high radiation or not);

• eat school lunches using beef which turned out to be highly radioactive, despite protests from informed parents and labeling such parents as "monsters" for causing totally unwarranted fuss;

• go to summer schools located in high radiation areas.

Now the latest: they made them plant flowers using the leaf compost which turned out to be highly radioactive.

As journalist Takashi Hirose said, they are "killing the children".

Comment: OK, the situation in Japan is deteriorating as expected, there are people clearly in major denial and others who are fully aware that the government plus authorities are killing their own children. The list here is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty of stories here but 2 brave journalists pressing charges against various authorities is quite interesting...

• Takashi Hirose Who Has Pressed Criminal Charges Against Government, TEPCO: "We remain unaware, we just want to believe everything is OK"
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 31st July 2011
  "Journalists Takashi Hirose and Shojiro Akashi announced at a press conference on July 15 that they had pressed criminal charges against 32 people including TEPCO management, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisors including Shunichi Yamashita."
  
  
• “I am shaking with anger” says head of University of Tokyo’s Radioisotope Center before testimony about internal radiation (VIDEO)
  Energy News, 1st August 2011
  
  
• New Fairewinds video: Gundersen discusses effect of inhaling hot particles… More
  Energy News, 1st August 2011
  "Included in this presentation and PowerPoint is a discussion of how nuclear power plants work, how to cool a reactor during an accident, the effect of hot particles when inhaled, and concerns involving the long-term storage of nuclear waste. This presentation took place at the Nuclear Power Conference held at the University of Vermont July 23, 2011."
  
  
• Record-high radiation detected at Fukushima
  ABC News, 2nd August 2011
  10+ sieverts per hour means there is direct exposure to fuel rods accordind to Australia’s former top radiation official

• Dr. Bill Deagle. Japan Update 7.11.11 (MP3)
  Rense.com, 11th July 2011
  
  Comment: Update on Fukushima and other nuclear diasters.... This is a serious interview with lots of good information but Deagle made me smile right at the end of this interview with Jeff Rense, when he stated:

  "We were being watched like we are a very very sick 4th dimensional sitcom. It's called 'Planet Earth the Real Story'. It's going on right now and people are sitting there, probably across the cosmos, probably popping cosmic popcorn and thinking I don't want to miss the next episode. This is the outer reaches of the twilight zone in the theme park called Earth."

  
  
• Fukushima Warning (Translated) w/ Chris Busby HOT PARTICLES
  YouTube, 14th July 2011
  
  
• S.O.S. From Fukushima English translation (PLEASE SHARE!)
  YouTube, 15th July 2011
  "Fukushima residents are trapped in their community without government support to help move them out of the area. Please do what you can to support these residents. Contact whoever you can think of to spread their concern."
  This is so sad I could not even finish listening to this plea....
  
  
• Christopher Busby's Talk in Japan, 17th July 2011 With Japanese Translation Part 1/5
  YouTube, 18th July 2011
  

• Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know
  YouTube, 11th July 2011
  "Nuclear engineers Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum discuss how the US regulators and regulatory process have left Americans unprotected."
  This is an excellent presentation at Boston Public Library with an introduction by Arnie Gundersen.
  
  
• Fukushima nuclear contamination in Japan: Looking at maps of Science Ministry survey data
  YouTube, 10th July 2011
  Shocking.... This is a very good tutorial by an American living in Japan, explaining the severe radiation contamination in Fukushima and surroundings.
  
  
• FAQ: Seattle Area Radiation Testing Results May Be Kept Hidden
  Washington DOH, July 2011
  The headline comes from Rense.com
  
  
• DHS Using Helicopter To Test Seattle Area Radiation Levels
  YouTube, 12th July 2011
  
  

• Japanese are being told that smiling will protect them from radiation.
  Revolutionary Politics, 7th July 2011
  Here we have the power of positive thinking being used as defense against radiation, when plutonium was named after the god of hell... obviously, the cultic milieu claptrap has spread far and wide...
  
  
• Tests show normal radiation exposure rates near Las Conchas
  The Taos News, 22nd July 2011
  so what's 'normal radiation' these days?

• Radiation: Like an Angel's Smile
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 30th June 2011
  Unbelievable.... It's almost like these pro-nukers are completely in denial, a sort of fantasy world mental existence, a total refusal to face facts and reality...
  
  
• Radioactive Waste Dumped in Open Pits Outside Los Alamos National Lab
  Washington's Blog, 1st July 2011
  "To understand why a raging wildfire near the Los Alamos National Laboratory is a big deal, you must understand how wastes were disposed."
  Shocking stuff...
  
  
• Squirrel Blamed For Small Fire At LANL
  Flames Quickly Put Out After Transformer Spark
  KOAT News, 2nd July 2011
  
  

On this fourth day of the devastating Las Conchas fire which is threatening Los Alamos, New Mexico, the night sky finally cleared enough to see the flames licking all around the labs and the city.

This time-lapse video is comprised of 113 photographs taken 30 seconds apart. Each photograph is shown for one second. My vantage point is from my home on a ridge just to the north of Santa Fe.

"Note from Kevin: Thank you for your continued interest in our work. For the past 2 weeks, Arnie and Maggie have been traveling and presenting while I have been traveling and working in Brazil. As such, you have not seen any new content from us. At this time we are all back in the office and I am preparing new content for publication while Arnie and Maggie are working on back-to-back expert reports through the end of July. You can expect to see more video and updates soon. Thank you again for your interest in our work. This is from the latest email notification from Fairewind Associates. I think Arnie needs to talk about Los Alamos too! Radio link Stream WBAI Pacifica Radio @ 5:10pm

• Waters Encircle Nuclear Plant
  Wall Street Journal, 27th June 2011
  "The berm's collapse allowed floodwaters to wash around the main electrical transformers. As a result, emergency diesel power generators were started. Later in the day, power was restored. [...] Even when in shutdown mode, a nuclear plant requires electricity to keep key components cool in order to avoid any degradation or melting of the core that could result in the release of radiation. In response to the berm collapse, the NRC has activated its Incident Response Center."
  
  
• Many containers of fuel to power pumps were washed away after breach at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant
  Energy News, 27th June 2011
  Wonderful...
  
  
• 100% chance of reactor core damage if floodwaters went above 1010 ft. at Ft. Calhoun nuke plant, NRC said in 2010 — River now around 1,007 ft. and expected to rise
  Energy News, 27th June 2011
  3ft and it's game over?
  
  
• Ft Calhoun Newest Photos Have Disappeared
  Rense.com, 27th June 2011
  "I'll guess that when the aqua dam burst, the control room was flooded. They are saying "no problem, there is no danger"- but, of course, there IS a problem. The REASON there is a problem and why they aren't telling the truth is because, while Fukishima is equivalent to about twenty Chernobyls, Ft. Calhoun is equivalent to about twenty Fukushimas. Not because it has a lot of reactors - or even a very big one. But because it is holding an immense amount of nuclear fuel in its cooling pool."
  
  
• Flooding: The worst is yet to come
  Omaha.com, 26th June 2011
  
  
• The Purposeful Flooding of America's Heartland
  American Thinker, 22nd June 2011
  Environmentalists at the heart of this disaster?
  "Greg Pavelka, a wildlife biologist with the Corps of Engineers in Yankton, SD, told the Seattle Times that this event will leave the river in a "much more natural state than it has seen in decades," describing the epic flooding as a "prolonged headache for small towns and farmers along its path, but a boon for endangered species." He went on to say, "The former function of the river is being restored in this one-year event. In the short term, it could be detrimental, but in the long term it could be very beneficial."
  

• Photos: Flood at Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant:
  Cartor Radiations, 25th June 2011
  Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant: The spent fuel storage is in a modular concrete structure at ground level. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects record water release from the federal dams along the Missouri River to continue until mid-August.
  Great photos!

Pluto-Kun: Childrens Japanese Nuclear Cartoon
YouTube, 2nd April 2011
"ENGLISH TRANSLATION - The brainchild of a now defunct government research organization, the apple-cheeked animated Little Mr. Pluto debuted in the mid-1990s wearing a green helmet with a pair of antennae and the chemical symbol for plutonium, Pu. Promising to "never be scary or dangerous," Little Pluto extolled the benefits of plutonium, which Japanese nuclear authorities have viewed as a fuel of the future for fast breeder reactor technology."

Comment: This government propaganda cartoon was used to persuade Japanese Society to go Nuclear after nuclear bombs were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki with all the terrible consequences. This character is Pluto-Kun, the suffix '-Kun' after the name means more Honorable! However, I want to point out again that the element Plutonium was named after Pluto, the greek god of Hades or hell because this element releases energy that is traditionally compared to the fires of hell. The actually mythology and etymology is convoluted but a good explanation is provided here: Pluto (mythology). Unfortunately, humans have not worked out how to extinguish this fire and some of it lives on for hundreds of thousands of years. Therefore, we can only pray that the current evolutionary changes caused by a cosmic deluge in the form of Space Weather, allows this energy to be transmuted and with all the other strange evolutionary changes taking place, I consider this to be a strong possibility.

• Fukushima 'still a ticking time bomb' (Video)
  CNN News, 21st June 2011
  "Famed physicist Michio Kaku says Japanese officials still don't have control of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster."
  Kaku - 'They Lied To Us, They KNEW How Bad It Was'
  

Thom Hartmann: Second Japan Nuke...more dangerous than Fukushima? (Video)
YouTube, 27th June 2011
"Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. If Japan didn't have its hands full with one melted down nuclear plant at Fukushima - it certainly does now with another nuclear power plant on the verge of melting down. About 300 miles southwest of Fukushima sits the Monju nuclear reactor - a prototype fast-breeder reactor filled to the brim with plutonium - the deadliest element on the face of the planet. And last year - a 3 ton device of some sort fell into the Monju reactor blocking access to the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor core - and despite several attempts - has yet to be recovered."
Prepare to be shocked...

• Playground Radiation in Kashiwa Japan June 20, 2011
  YouTube, 20th June 2011
  "I'm here at a local playground in Kashiwa Japan just taking some geiger counter readings. Yes that is 6.46µSv/h right there on the play ground! The kids just keep on playing, its actually very sad if you think about it. Many of us here have been desperately trying to raise awareness. However, the government is still trying to keep this out of the news."
  
  
• #Radiation in Japan: Greenpeace Detected Cobalt-60 and High Radiation "Hot Spots" in Fukushima City in Fukushima
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 20th June 2011
  

• Levee near Nebraska’s Cooper nuke plant “about to break” and “at risk of washing away completely” after being overtopped Sunday (VIDEO)
  Record River Surge Recorded In Southeast Nebraska: River overflowing levees In northwest Missouri WOWT News, 20th June 2011
  I saw the headline provided above at Energy News and I thought they were exagerating until I watched the local news video at WOWT.... Crisis...
  
  
• Missouri river floods: 250 residents evacuated as water threatens to breach banks | Mail Online
  Daily Mail, 21st June 2011
  
  
• Fort Calhoun nuclear plant new Fukushima?
  RT America, 20th June 2011
  This is a nice summary of the situation...
  
  
• AP IMPACT: US nuke regulators weaken safety rules
  Yahoo News, 20th June 2011
  

The prefectural government found on Tuesday radioactive cesium exceeding the limit of 300 becquerels per kilogram in grass collected from pastures in four areas, including Tono and Otsuchi. The areas are located about 150 to 200 kilometers north of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

• U.S. reactors have weaker back-up batteries than Fukushima Daiichi had
  Homeland Security Newswire, 31st March 2011
  "Almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant did after a tsunami knocked out power there; just eleven of the U.S. 104 plants had eight-hour batteries, and 93 had four-hour batteries; the batteries are not powerful enough to run pumps that direct cooling water, but they can operate valves and can power instruments that give readings of water levels, flow and temperatures."
  
  
• Experts: Move to protect nuke plants from solar flare damage
  Scripps News, 4th March 2011
  
  WASHINGTON - It has happened before and it will happen again: an Earth-bound electromagnetic pulse from the sun that disrupts the power grid by burning out high-voltage transformers. [...]
  
  Thomas Popik, an economic researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineering graduate and a former Air Force expert on unattended power sources at radar sites, and his New Hampshire-based Foundation for Resilient Societies, think they have a solution to one sobering consequence of a grid failure.
  
  They filed a petition with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this month addressing a dire concern: If the spent fuel rod pools at the country's 104 nuclear power plants lose their connection to the power grid, they believe current regulations aren't sufficient to guarantee those pools won't boil over, exposing the hot, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation.
  
  Their solution is a relatively inexpensive, $152,800-per-plant arrangement to keep the coolant pools operating unattended in the wake of such an event. The foundation's members are not anti-nuclear, he insists, and their evidence comes from existing government studies, not advocacy groups.
  
  Comment: Now it's too late, I suppose someone at the top (none technical paper pusher) was penny pinching, just like the cause of the BP Gulf disaster...
  

China: 3 More Rabbitts With NO ears (Video)
China Central TV, 15th June 2011
China? These rabbitts are becoming star attractions... At the moment, I am not linking to rumours about an increase in miscarriages, I prefer to wait for a medical professional to comment.

• *High Alert* - Fire -Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant near Omaha Nebraska- Flooding Missouri River [40:25]
  YouTube, 13th June 2011
  "Five O'Clock Shadow" with Robert Knight and Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds Associates. Fire knocks out spent fuel cooling pool at nuclear plant near Omaha — Operating under heightened alert level because of nearby flooding on Missouri River."
  Full length interview
  
  
• Twitpic: Flooded Nebraska, Nuclear power plant
  
  
• Nebraska Aerial Flood Tour (Video)
  WOWT, 13th June 2011
  "According to Olson, the Nebraska Resource District told area landowners that the dikes in areas of Washington County "were designed to withstand two, maybe three weeks of water, maybe a month." Olson said, "we're talking three to four months of water at that height, how can those levees last, how can they hold?"
  Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, Nebraska: "A castle surrounded by a moat..." I don't think it will stand a chance...
  
  
• Nebraska Nuclear Power Plants Missouri River Flood Conditions
  cryptome.org, 15th June 2011
  mega photos
  

• RT in Fukushima: Radiation 1000 times over normal outside no-go zone
  YouTube/Russia Today, 13th June 2011
  
  
• Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Live Camera Shows Huge Smoke/Steam Enveloping the Reactor Buildings
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 13th June 2011
  "Steady streams of smoke/steam out of the Reactors 3 and 4 suddenly started to engulf the entire reactor complex at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. It is the TEPCO's live camera footage after 12AM JST on June 14. Watch after 2:00. (h/t whomeco) Something bad is happening there that we aren't told of."
  Black and white video that clearly shows plumes coming off one of the reactors that gets quite impressive after 2 mins.
  
  
• Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam
  YouTube, 13th June 2011
  Fukushima Live Cam: No.3 reactor smoking away or just the local fogium?
  
  
• Arnie Gundersen: Hot Particles From Japan to Seattle Virtually Undetectable when Inhaled or Swallowed. (Video)
  Fairewinds, 12th June 2011
  "Original estimates of xenon and krypton releases remain the same, but a TEPCO recalculation shows dramatic increases in the release of hot particles. This confirms the results of air filter monitoring by independent scientists. Fairewinds' Arnie Gundersen explains how hot particles may react in mammals while escaping traditional detection. Reports of a metallic taste in the mouth, such as those now being reported in Japan and on the west coast, are a telltale sign of radiation exposure."
  

• Anger over Fukushima spills on streets in Tokyo anti-nuke protests
  YouTube/Russia Today, 11th June 2011
  It's exactly three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing widespread destruction and leaving some 15,000 people dead. The nuclear crisis that followed shows no sign of abating as radiation continues to leak, forcing tens of thousands of evacuees into crowded shelters. Our correspondent Sean Thomas is in Tokyo where anger over the situation is spilling onto the streets.
  Very interesting footage showing nuclear protestors... I have just listened to Kei Sugaoka's interview so I am still in shock, I can't imagine people would be still so cheerful if they knew the truth...
  
  
• GE Nuclear Plant Inspector/Whistleblower Kei Sugaoko Speaks About Fukushima, GE
  YouTube, 6th June 2011
  "General Electric nuclear plant inspector Kei Sugaoka was one of the inspectors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2000. He noticed a crack in the steam dryer which he videotaped. He was later ordered by Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO to edit this part of the tape which is illegal in the United States. He went public and some TEPCO managers were fired. He thought that things would change but they have not. Additionally, as a result of being a whistleblower he was also laid off by General Electric and has been struggling to get the truth out about these dangerous plants. Sugaoka has inspected plants throughout the world including in Taiwan and Europe. This interview was done on May 5, 2011.
  
  Comment: This information provided in this interview is just frightening.... shocking... awful....
  

• Police to Send 150 Officers, Riot Squads to Tepco Meeting
  San Francisco Chronicle, 9th June 2011
  June 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's National Police Agency will send 150 officers and riot squads to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s annual general meeting this month to quell possible protests by shareholders and terror attacks, a police official said.
  Share price has fallen off a cliff....
  
  
• Widen evacuation zone for children, pregnant women: Greenpeace chief
  Japan Times, 10th June 2011
  "The government should consider evacuating children and pregnant women from a wider area around the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because radiation levels remain high even outside the 20-km no-go zone, Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, said Thursday in Tokyo."
  
  Comment: The Japanese government response is incredible compared to how the Russians dealt with Chernobyl, government advisers don't cry in public because they think everything is going to be OK.
  
  
  • Children's Lives At Risk - Slideshow (.pdf)
    Greenpeace, 27th June 2011
    21 slides, I found this really sad...
  
  
• U.S. Nuclear Industry: Japan Accident Won't Harm Health
  Wall Street Journal, 9th June 2011
  More lies....
  
  
• Hot particles in Japan
  THE LOW LEVEL RADIATION CAMPAIGN, 19th May 2011
  "Autoradiograph of dandelion leaves picked since the disaster. An autoradiograph is an image created by placing a specimen in close contact with X-ray film. If radioactivity is present it will darken the image. This image is from Professor Bin Mori of Tokyo University Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences. There are more autoradiographs on his blog site. He says the pictures show that radioactive materials have been absorbed from the roots and distributed throughout the plants."
  This is Professor Busby's website and there has been talk about dandelions before the birth of the rabbit with no ears.... the youtube video below is a little troubling too....
  
  
• Japan Fukushima Dandelion Mutations??? Alberta Canada
  YouTube, 7th June 2011
  "This video is comprised of photos taken in Edmonton Alberta Canada one week ago. The mutant Dandelions were in a 4 square foot radius. Some flowering candidates looked promising the day before... and then just died and then some just seem to flourish like marigolds on steroids! I'm no botanist but this doesn't seem right!"

• Parents urge Tokyo to rethink radiation monitoring
  Japan Times, 8th June 2011
  
  
• "We request that the Tokyo government and Koto Ward properly check the radiation levels, especially around school areas and parks," she said. According to Ishikawa, her group, which has about 35 members, checked the soil and air in Koto Ward for contaminants between May 21 and 25 with the help of Kobe University professor Tomoya Yamauchi.
  
  Yamauchi, an expert on radiation physics, said high levels of contamination were detected in soil, especially around a plant in Koto Ward that produces sludge, an ingredient in cement, where the level reached 2,300 becquerels per kilogram. That level is about a third of the 6,550 becquerels per kilogram detected at a schoolyard in Fukushima Prefecture in April.
  Yes, it's just a matter of time before Tokyo has the same levels of contamination as Chernobyl... and then what are the authorities going to do?
  
  
• ANOTHER NUKE PLANT: Fukushima Daini has 3,000 tons of radioactive water in reactor buildings
  Energy News, 7th June 2011
  There have been question marks about Fukushima Daini (the no. 2 nuclear power plant 10km away from Fukushima Daiichi), but the news has been very muted. Well, here it looks like they have been experiencing some of the exact same problems and we have to wonder what else has been going on there.
  

• Japan Concedes Severity of Blast
  Nuclear Disaster Strained Relations With U.S. in Days After the Meltdown
  Wall Street Journal, 7th June 2011
  "We felt pretty confident [within a few days of the accident] that there was significant fuel damage," Bill Borchardt, the NRC's operations chief, said in New York late last month. "There were numerous indications of high radiation levels that can only come from damaged fuel at those kinds of levels."
  
  In the accident's early days, the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo, John Roos, made "around the clock" phone calls to Japanese officials, according to a U.S. official. Upset by the slow trickle of data from Prime Minister Naoto Kan's office, he began calling Cabinet-level officials representing the ministries of defense, foreign affairs and even finance, this official says.
  
  That annoyed the Japanese foreign ministry, according to one senior Japanese official, which was trying on its own to coordinate the response to Washington's urgent pleas. [...] A U.S. official said Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell called Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, a longtime friend, to his office four or five times on March 16. Mr. Campbell told Mr. Fujisaki that the U.S. might have issue broader evacuation warnings, and brushed aside the ambassador's fears that the divergent views on evacuation could embarrass Japan.
  
  One U.S. official says Mr. Campbell told Mr. Fujisaki that "the survival of your nation" was at stake.
  
  Comment: I don't understand the headline.... there is one planet Earth, what happens to Japan effects us all so, why all the delay in helping to solve this crisis? Diplomats beating each other over the head does not actually make an ounce of difference.
  
  
• Radiation Understated After Quake, Japan Says
  New York Times, 6th June 2011
  TOKYO — Japan said Monday that radioactive emissions from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the early days of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster might have been more than twice as large as a previous estimate, suggesting the accident was more grave than the government had publicly acknowledged.
  
  Comment: The Japanese government are now admiting 40% of the total amount of radiation released at Chernobyl was released in just one week at Fukushima, but they still trying to cushion the blow by stating there is a "wide margin of error". There is already plenty of proof that the Japanese government are probably still hiding the extent of the radiation released and the figures here are probably still too low. Well, the mainstream media seems to have decided to restart reporting the seriousness of the disaster in Japan, whilst the blogosphere has maintained the stance of searching hard for stories to keep people informed.
  
  
• Fukishima -- Japan's Faustian Bargain With the West
  Henry Makow, 6th June 2011
  It is finally dawning on the Japanese that the 'West' was not/is not what it was purported to be and that the contact with the West and its technology has been a Faustian bargain. Indeed the whole of 'West' can almost be summarized, post Renaissance and Enlightenment as an re-enactment of the myth of Dr. Faustus. And with similar tragic ending to it. [In this myth, Faustus sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge.]
  
  Comment: This is what happens when you deal with psychopaths, as it's rather foolish to believe anything they say. I think the other excellent example is the problem of Uranium weapons and Israel using them extensively to kill their neighbours, but as a result, they have now got their own major infertility problem. So, at the current increasing rate of infertility, by 2020 their aspirations as a nation will be all over....
  
  
• Radiation check in Japan June7/11
  YouTube, 6th June 2011
  "Another beautiful day in Japan, I am 135 miles / 220 Km south of Fukushima, on the outskirts of the Tokyo area. It is Tuesday, June 7th, as you can see in the video, I just walk outside of my house and .... radiation. The air is not dangerous but the ground is. The radiation is much higher in low lying areas and the government here is desperately trying to keep it quiet."
  5.77 Microsieverts per hour on the ground at a drain...

• Japan's Exporters Clamor for Radiation Tests
  Wall Street Journal, 6th June 2011
  "TOKYO—Since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, many global consumers have equated "Made in Japan" with "potentially radioactive," hurting business across the country. That has fueled a boom in demand for radiation-testing equipment from exporters, such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd., seeking to reassure overseas clients that their cars, computers and other products are safe. Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai, which conducts safety inspections of marine cargo, has received more than 1,600 orders for radiation tests since the nuclear accident."
  The full report is for subscribers only, but this is enough to tell us that it does not matter that the global media are playing this down, self preservation is kicking in hard...
  
  
• TEPCO eyes design flaw in hydrogen explosion
  Asahi News, 5th June 2011
  "A design flaw in the exhaust system within the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant may have caused a hydrogen explosion at the No. 1 reactor March 12 that blew the top off the structure. The same type of exhaust and venting system is installed at other nuclear plants in Japan, meaning a major review will likely be required at those plants."
  
  Comment: Hopeless.... the news was circulating immediately after the explosions that 3 engineers complained in the 1970s regarding safety issues with this old design of nuclear reactor... See, 15th March 2011, ABC News report: Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest: Damaged Japanese Nuclear Plant Has Five Mark 1 Reactors

• Contaminated groundwater detected for first time near Fukushima plan
  Asahi.com, 2nd June 2011
  Surprise, surprise.... well, not really...
  
  
• 6.3-magnitude quake hits off the east coast of Honshu, Japan -- USGS
  Xinhuanet News, 3rd June 2011
  "TOKYO, June 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted off the east coast of Honshu, Japan at 09:05: 03 a.m. local time (00:05:03 GMT) on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said."
  That's right by the Fukushima nuclear plants.
  
  
• Japan bans radioactive green tea from area 40 miles SOUTHWEST of Tokyo
  Energy News, 2nd June 2011
  Japan banned the shipment of green tea leaves grown in four prefectures around Tokyo on Thursday after radioactive caesium above legal levels was found in samples, a media report said. [...] The ban covers tea leaves from parts of the Tochigi, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures and all of Ibaraki prefecture, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said, Kyodo News agency reported.
  
  Comment: A few bloggers have noted that the radiation levels around Ibaraki prefecture have been sky high. We know that the Tokai reactor was under suspicion (see archives for mid April), because there were reports of the pumps for cooling systems failing and backup diesel generators not working during power cuts. So now, they are banning produce from that region... I think it's easy to work out what has happened.... Well, the behaviour of world powers has been nothing short of criminal, so we await the next nuclear disaster and then the next after that.... When most people can't have babies and the babies born are badly mutated or people die in droves of cancer, then maybe a few more people will come to their senses, but I am not holding my breath... This is starting to look like a holocaust: 1. Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, esp. caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust". Sorry, the news from Japan is just terrible and getting worse, see more headlines at Energy News.
  
  
• An Angry Japanese Housewife in Fukushima City: "We've Had It, and We're Leaving"
  ex-skf.blogspot.com, 1st June 2011
  "Watanabe says to the NPR reporter Louise Lam that "Its our fault, we put the current DPJ government in power. We thought they'd be different from the last lot. But now it turns out we no longer know whether any political party out there will protect us. "
  
  Comment: There are so many people who think governments tell the truth and really care about the people...