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3 Fukushima mayors boycott meeting with gov't ministers



Title: 3 Fukushima mayors boycott meeting with gov't ministers
Source: Kyodo
Date: February 27, 2012

A meeting between the government and municipalities located near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant was cancelled Sunday after three mayors boycotted it protesting that the government had informed the media of the specifics of the meeting's agenda prior to informing them.

Futaba Mayor Katsutaka Idogawa, who absented himself, told a press conference, "I strongly mistrust the government...So I have made a momentous decision not to attend the meeting" with Environment Minister Goshi Hosono and Tatsuo Hirano [...]

The mayors of the towns of Hirono and Namie followed Idogawa. [...]

[They] were expected to discuss how to eliminate radioactive materials leaked by the plant and explore ways to construct temporary storage facilities for contaminated soil. [...]

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A cold eerie quietness envelops the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. There is no activity among the snow-dusted buildings, and reminders of the devastation caused by last year's Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami are everywhere.

That was the scene that greeted an Asahi Shimbun team that flew to the site on a company helicopter on Feb. 25 [...]

Because it was the weekend, there was no activity. Not one plant worker could be seen and operational equipment lay idle. [...]

It was an eerie sight, made bleaker by the undisturbed thin carpet of snow covering the ground.



Title: Nuclear Crisis Set Off Fears Over Tokyo, Report Says
Source: New York Times
Author: Martin Fackler
Date: Feb. 27, 2012異常現象？深海魚が大量に打ち上げられる　隠岐(12/02/24) - YouTube

西日本大震災前兆か　深海魚キュウリエソ100万匹謎の大量死 - YouTube

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Gov't "collapsed" during Japan nuke crisis



Title: Report: Gov't "collapsed" during Japan nuke crisis
Source: CBS News
Author: Lucy Craft
Date: February 27, 2012 7:09 PM

[...] details about the nuclear meltdown that happened that tragic day are just beginning to emerge.

[...] Today, a report revealed the chaos between Japan's leaders during the crisis.

Tetsuro Fukuyama, prime minister's adviser

"The normal lines of authority completely collapsed"
"As we listened to our top nuclear experts, we politicians had no idea what they were talking about. Was anyone going to suffer radiation contamination? Would this be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island? No one could give us a straight answer"
Fukuyama said that the government thought that a nuclear meltdown was impending, and feared that a massive cloud of radiation would force the evacuation of 30 million people in the Tokyo region.
"Terrified doesn't begin to describe how we felt"
"When we learned the reactors had in fact melted down, I was overwhelmed, by our inability"

And as the result of such trauma they did and continue to lie to their people....


Tokyo; Is It Safe From Fukushima Radiation? | Care2 Share

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Okinawa will accept radioactive debris...

Japanese prime minister Noda visited Okinawa on 2/26/2012, then Nakaima Hirokazu, the Okinawa mayor decided they will accept radioactive debris if Japanese government asked them.
Having this decision, Naha shi and Haebaru shi have decided to be forward to accepting the radioactive debris.

As Okinawa prefecture requires, Naha city is start preparing for radioactive debris.

Is this planned extermination of Japan or total madness Why would anyone spread this all over the country? Unbelievable! Didn't they learn from burning debris in Tokyo incinerators already. I'm lacking words...

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IMHO Both, there can be no other explanation.

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Thanks for keeping us posted

There should have been urgency for all governments of the world to have helped them when it was needed last year.. The japanese refused help and told Green peace to get lost.

Now that we near the 03-11-2011 anniversary there is even greater concern.
If a 3rd great quake was to happen between march 23 and april 10 2012 and it did find japan once again, i would think the people of that country would want answers. I hope they would ask why.

My research as to the cause of the great quake is not important, but if it was a annual occurrence then all the governments have lied to all the people of the world..

That is Crazy.

Baja California, northern Cali, japan, chili, and Siberia. any one of these can have the next great quake IMO.

I hope this is not the case, but the evidence tells me there is at least an 80 % chance of another great quake close to 12 days after march 11.

1 Feb 27 2010 2 March 11 2011 3? March 23 2012?

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220 mSv/h in reactor2. Human can't workFukushima gov will use contaminated wood for building materials

Fukushima prefecture is going to financially support local governments for tree thinning as forest decontamination as of April of 2012. They are going to pressure Japanese government to include thinning as forest decontamination into the decontamination guideline.
They are planning to use the logged trees for building materials of reconstruction and woody biomass fuel.
71% area is forest in Fukushima.

Following up of the earlier post

..City councilor to measure radiation in Mizumoto park the first was found dead

Prof. Ogawa (68) from Risk management department of Chiba institute of science was found dead on the street. A passerby found him and reported.
It was in Chuoku Kobe, 2:55 AM 2/25/2012.

Only administrative autopsy was operated for some reason. As the result, it was death of disease.
He attended at a meeting of National research institute for earth science and disaster prevention.
He specialized in earthquake engineering, belonged to atomic energy society of Japan.

Originally posted on Fukushima Diary by Mochizuki on 2/28/2012.

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Higher magnitude quakes near the cost of Japan (Honshu). Also, there was a thick plume of smoke between reactors seen on one stream but not visible on Tepco webcam. I hope to be wrong...

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Fukushima Worker: We are treated like animals ...

Title: Fears for safety at Fukushima one year on
Source: AFP
Date: March 1, 2012

[...] "I can clearly say it's not safe at all," said one worker in his 50s, a subcontractor who has been working on the plant's cooling system since September. [...]"There are many spots where radiation levels are extremely high," he said.

The man said subcontractors like him were treated like animals. [...]

There have been deaths on site [...] although TEPCO says none related to radiation exposure. [...]



Alarms at Japanese nuclear power plant and processing facility after magnitude 5 earthquake

At 7:30 am local time March 1st, a magnitude 5 earthquake hit 68 miles from TOKYO, Japan. After the earthquake, alarms sounded from the nuclear fuel processing plants and Tokai 2 nuclear power plant in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture. Tsunami alert in Ibaraki coastal area.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nuclear and Industrial Safety announced that so far, the damage has not been confirmed in any of the facilities. The alarm in the reprocessing facility was located within the building housing nuclear waste.

The alarms at the plant were reported to have stemmed from sensors in the reactor pool that measure the movement of water from earthquakes.

Some 14 locations near nuclear facilities in Japan have been found to have the possibility of turning into active faults in the future, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has announced.

NISA said on Aug. 30

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Radiation and evolution: Surviving fallout

The disaster last year at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, caused by an earthquake and tsunami, scored seven on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). No worse rating exists. Radiation is harmful to living things, yet the long-term effects of persistently high levels of background radiation on ecosystems are poorly understood. With this in mind, a team led by Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders Moller of the University of Paris-Sud set out to compare bird species dwelling near the Fukushima plant with those living at the site of another nuclear incident that scored a seven on the INES: the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl [...]

[...] when researchers looked at the 14 bird species that lived in both regions, they found that the same level of radiation was associated with twice as large a drop in bird numbers in Fukushima as in Chernobyl.

The reasons for this are not clear. It is possible that the composition of the radionuclides are proving more dangerous to the Fukushima birds than they are to the birds near Chernobyl. But Dr Mousseau suggests a more likely explanation is that evolution has already been at work near Chernobyl, killing off individual birds that cannot cope with the background radiation and allowing the genes of those that have some tolerance to be passed on. The birds at Fukushima are only beginning to face the evolutionary challenge of living in a radioactive world.

Even though the article says the reasons are not clear, it claims "Remarkably, they found that some species seem to develop a tolerance for radioactivity over time." Yet it clearly says the tolerance explanation is only the 'more likely' reason compared to the other explanation -- that Fukushima's radionuclide composition is more dangerous.

Unfortunately, it has never been documented that humans can develop such but opportunity for long term study is developing .

High levels of cesium from Fukushima found near elementary school in Yokohama Japan by Lucas W Hixson on March 1, 2012

High levels of radioactive cesium were found in an area near an elementary school in Yokohama and official levels have been registered over 6.85 uSv/hr. After investigation officials believe that the radiation accumulated in areas where air conditioning filters were washed from industrial complexes.

It is believed that the filters were washed with water and the radioactive materials were transferred to the ground around the area where the cleaning work was carried out. Decontamination work will be required, and officials will monitor levels of radiation in the soil around the affected areas. The city government sees the high radiation levels to be likely caused by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and plans to decontaminate the area, the officials said.

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www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/2313/2012/

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Cherenkov Effect???

Glowing blue tap water reported in Minamisoma, just north of meltdownsCaesium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Scientists "tried to generate elemental caesium by electrolysis of molten caesium chloride, but instead of a metal, they obtained a blue homogenous substance" SOURCE - Caesium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/2313/2012/

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NISA team knew of triple meltdowns...

According to documents that The Asahi Shimbun obtained through a freedom-of-information requestwas largely submerged
IN FACT, IT WAS NOT
Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Has CLEARLY melted through - YouTube

They kept denying and hiding the truth, knowing that there is nothing they can do about....

Radioactive cesium causing holes in hearts of children

Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear joins Thom Hartmann. In a little over a week - we'll hit the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear crisis at Fukushima in Japan.

"The children in the Chernobyl region have heart pathologies you'd expect to see in very old people... Foreign teams of doctors go into Belarus like a MASH unit to perform 100s and 100s of heart surgeries on children, to put patches on their hearts because they have holes in their hearts. And its the radioactive cesium".

Fukushima Focus: Heart Muscle & Update 3/1/12 - YouTube

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US evacuation out at least 150-200 miles, past Tokyo? Concerned NRC Staff:

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi ET Audio File
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Wednesday, March 16, 2011


MALE PARTICIPANT: Are we (inaudible) to give recommendations to the Ambassador. Because we got into this at the beginning, like (inaudible) advising the Ambassador.

MIKE CASE: Yes.

MALE PARTICIPANT: So, (inaudible) only go out to 50 miles.

FEMALE PARTICIPANT: But the request we had yesterday at 6:54 a.m., which we're still waiting on, has to go out past Tokyo, go out at least 150-200 miles.

MIKE CASE: Okay.

FEMALE PARTICIPANT: Well, we should be able to get that information --

MALE PARTICIPANT: At least the first estimate. [...]

MALE PARTICIPANT: I have Tom Roberts here with me, and I guess we're hearing that Admiral Donald wanted to talk to the Chairman to get some clarification.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right. And so, are you plugged into that, to advise on whether it makes sense radiologically to --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Yes. No, I think it's more than radiological issues --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Uh-hum.

MALE PARTICIPANT: -- that the Ambassador has under consideration right now. You know, our position is that it is

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right. This is --

MALE PARTICIPANT: (Inaudible) --

MALE PARTICIPANT: This is not some we've calculated or we've recommended. We're responding to the Ambassador's request at this point.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Okay. Let me ask the question, isn't there an ALARA consideration here at some level? We calculate that if, in fact, the asumptions [sic] made relative to your 50-mile PEG calculation come to pass, that you would get like 1 to rem total effective dose equivalent out to 150 to miles. And wouldn't it make sense, if we're talking now voluntary departure, wouldn't it make sense to recommend voluntary departure in the name of avoiding that level of population dose?

MALE PARTICIPANT: Do you want my personal opinion?

MALE PARTICIPANT: Sure.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right.

MALE PARTICIPANT: That's my own personal view. And radiation is just one factor.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right. So, but what we are charged with advising on radiation or you are charged with advising --

MALE PARTICIPANT: And that's in our protective action to up to 50 miles.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right, but why are we being so rigid in terms of doing the right thing? The right thing is an ALARA thing here, in addition to strict interpretation of PEG.

MALE PARTICIPANT: If you went to a (inaudible, possible "law") --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Yes.

MALE PARTICIPANT: -- I suppose, I suppose you could get there.

MALE PARTICIPANT: Yes, so the question is, how much should the law play into --

FEMALE PARTICIPANT: Yes.

MALE PARTICIPANT: And the scope of that, as you understood it from him, was --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right. Now, if we were asked to advise strictly on radiological grounds, you would or would not take into consideration ALARA?

MALE PARTICIPANT: Yes, I would, but I keep coming back to I think that, if you're out beyond the 50-mile zone, there are other factors --

MALE PARTICIPANT: That take in --

MALE PARTICIPANT: -- that bear on this decision..

MALE PARTICIPANT: Okay.

VONNA ORDAZ: And other countries have recognized that as well in releases.

MALE PARTICIPANT: In the press releases -- thanks. Vonna Ordaz is here with me, and she is saying in the press releases other countries are acknowledging that the radioactive dose is just one of many considerations.

VONNA ORDAZ: Structural (inaudible) --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right.

VONNA ORDAZ: -- transportation, communications, and other --

MALE PARTICIPANT: Right, yes.



Title: Discovery, Fukushima nuclear accident
Source: BBC World Service Programmes
Date: March 6, 2012

It's nearly a year (11 March 2011) since Japan was struck by a huge earthquake and Tsunami.

Clouds of radioactive fall out from damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power station spread across heavily populated areas - many kilometres from the plant.

The government and power company TEPCO have been heavily criticised for not telling the local population soon enough about what was going on [...] deep mistrust developed towards government or TEPCO pronouncements on the nuclear incident. [...]

Read the report here- BBC - BBC World Service Programmes - Discovery, Fukushima nuclear accident

At 35:45 in

"There's uncertainty, especially over whether cesium levels in rice may increase in the future [...] It's possible this could become more concentrated in rice."



Japan's Fukushima Daiichi ET Audio File
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
March 15, 2011

DAVID: And the notion that Unit 2 is X vessel is something that is the the assessment of Jim Trapp, who's in the office talking to one NISA engineer, so that, that's their best estimate of what the situation is. But we don't have anything from either Tepco or NISA that, that verifies that information.

BRIAN McDERMOTT [Director of Division of Preparedness and Response]: When they say that the core is X vessel, what kind of rad readings are they getting near the site?

DAVID: I don't have any updates over the last, roughly six or seven hours. But six or seven hours ago, the site boundary in the vicinity of Unit 2 and 3 was 3 to rem per hour, and around Unit 4, was 10 rem per hour.

MALE PARTICIPANT: And at one point, there was a 40 rem.

DAVID: Yeah. There was a media report of a 40-rem dose measured somewhere near the plant.

BRIAN McDERMOTT: Okay. Wow. And they still have people there?

DAN DORMAN: There are 50 people remaining on site. Everybody else has been evacuated. Now I don't know if that 50 includes the 11 that were injured in the Unit 3 explosion or sent after that.

BRIAN McDERMOTT: Right.

DAN DORMAN: One of our, of our lingering questions is, is how many people are there monitoring this and trying to, to cool things, and for how long?

BRIAN McDERMOTT: Right, with those kind of dose rates.

[...]

MALE PARTICIPANT: No. He doesn't have anything else.

MALE PARTICIPANT: No, we're just trying to get a ballpark. Are we talking about, are people going to drop dead? Are they going to -- it's just -- you know, how hot is it? [...]

The paper by a Tokyo University researcher that was finally published [...]

It shows the spacial dose of radiation at the front gate of Fukushima I Nuke Plant and the timeline of events at the plant in March. The largest spike seems to be around or after 12AM on March 15, and the label on the spike says "Dry vent at reactor no.2". [...]

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