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Capitalize adj. as "To take advantage of - To use to ones
own advantage."
Blacks Law Dictionary • Revised 4th Edition 1968,
provides a more comprehensive definition as follows:
Capitis Diminutio (meaning the diminishing of status
through the use of capitalization) In Roman law. A
diminishing or abridgment of personality; a loss or
curtailment of a man's status or aggregate of legal
attributes and qualifications.
Capitis Diminutio Minima (meaning a minimum loss
of status through the use of capitalization, e.g. John
Doe) - The lowest or least comprehensive degree of loss
of status. This occurred where a man's family relations
alone were changed. It happened upon the arrogation
[pride] of a person who had been his own master, (sui
juris,) [of his own right, not under any legal disability] or
upon the emancipation of one who had been under the
patria potestas. [Parental authority] It left the rights of
liberty and citizenship unaltered. See Inst. 1, 16, pr.; 1, 2,
3; Dig. 4, 5, 11; Mackeld. Rom.Law, 144.
Capitis Diminutio Media (meaning a medium loss of
status through the use of capitalization, e.g. John
DOE) - A lessor or medium loss of status. This occurred
where a man loses his rights of citizenship, but without
losing his liberty. It carried away also the family rights.
Capitis Diminutio Maxima (meaning a maximum loss
of status through the use of capitalization, e.g. JOHN
DOE or DOE JOHN) - The highest or most
comprehensive loss of status. This occurred when a man's
condition was changed from one of freedom to one of
bondage, when he became a slave. It swept away with it all rights of citizenship and all family rights.
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" Most likely 'solution' to fuel melting through reactor is a concrete wall around Unit No. 1 — "Could now take years"
http://enenews.com/solution-fuel-melting-reactor-concrete-wall-around-unit-1-...
" ** Xe 133 Gas ** "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_1828.gif
" ** Xe 133 Gas over north America from May 11-12th.** "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_2020.gif
" Cesium 137 map "
http://db.eurad.uni-koeln.de/prognose/data/alert/ddcs_hem_1h_movtotal_1.gif
" Iodine 131 map "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_2011.gif
" Australia Xe 133 gas map "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_2047.gif
" ** Xe 133 gas ** over Europe map "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_2206.gif
" Back door "
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/?C=M;O=D
**** Canadian Guidelines for the Restriction of Radioactively Contaminated Food and Water ***
" withdrawal and substitution of food and drinking water following a nuclear emergency are appropriate if there is no short age of food or other social or economic constraints."
http://hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/contaminants/emergency-urgence/recommended-recommandes-eng.php#t24
" Email from Japanese gov't officials says high density radiation will be released May 8"
http://enenews.com/email-from-japanese-govt-officials-says-high-density-radiation-will-be-released-on-may-8-if-current-situation-continues
" TEPCO admits "multiple holes" found in bottom of No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel"
http://enenews.com/tepco-admits-multiple-holes-found-bottom-1-reactors-pressure-vessel
" Japanese nuclear expert says meltdown has now made cooling "very difficult"
http://enenews.com/japan-nuclear-expert-says-meltdown-has-now-made-cooling-very-difficult-audio
" Fears that Reactor No. 3 "which contains MOX plutonium fuel, may have also suffered a meltdown"
http://enenews.com/observers-fear-that-reactor-3-which-contains-mox-plutonium-fuel-may-have-also-suffered-a-meltdown
" 'Situation' at No. 1 reactor "could escalate rapidly if the lava melts through the reactor vessel"
http://enenews.com/meltdown-1-reactor-could-escalate-rapidly-lava-melts-reactor-vessel
" Gov't Official: It is a fact that nuclear fuel melted a hole through Reactor No. 1"
http://enenews.com/govt-official-fact-nuclear-fuel-melted-reactor-1
" "It's Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Full-Blown Nuclear Meltdown" — Pool of radioactive lava could be melting its way out"
http://enenews.com/its-official-fukushima-was-hit-with-a-full-blown-nuclear-m...
" Real severe problem cooling Unit No. 3 reactor — Hydrogen explosion possible "
http://enenews.com/real-severe-problem-cooling-unit-no-3-reactor-hydrogen-exp...
" Japan admits daily radioactive release from Fukushima at 154 trillion Becquerels, many times higher than previously announced "
http://enenews.com/daily-radioactive-release-from-fukushima-is-150-times-high...
" Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8509502/Nuclear-meltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html
" Japan Reactor Core Damage Worse Than Feared, Delaying Cleanup"
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-12/japan-reactor-core-damage-worse-than-feared-delaying-cleanup.html
" http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/tracer_h_2020.gif
" US President Can Now Declare Wars Without Asking Congress "
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With all the crap being shovelled into the airways by our supposed 'news' sources this last week, it's time to leave the Land of Oz and return to reality.
This interview has been available for years. Anyone surprised?
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Prime Minister Naoto Kan has stunned Japan's power industry by asking for the closure of the country's most controversial atomic plant, eight weeks after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Mr Kan said the authorities in Japan have long accepted the high probability of a major jolt underneath the Hamaoka complex, about 200km south-west of Tokyo. "This is a decision made for the safety of the Japanese people when I consider the special conditions of the Hamaoka plant," he told reporters.
Some seismologists have called Hamaoka the world's most dangerous nuclear power facility. Government forecasts have predicted an 87 per cent chance of a powerful quake in the area, which sits on two major subterranean faults. A major accident would be likely to force the evacuation of Greater Tokyo, home to 28 million people.
The warnings have been given more urgency since the start of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, 250km north-east of the capital. The plant's cooling systems were destroyed by March's magnitude-9 quake and the 15-metre tsunami that followed. Hamaoka is presently built to withstand only an 8.5-magnitude quake and an eight-metre tsunami.
Plant operator Chubu Electric Power Co will temporarily shut down reactors 4 and 5 and cancel the resumption of reactor 3, which was due to restart in the summer. Reactors 1 and 2 have been permanently mothballed. A sixth reactor is also planned. Mr Kan said the directive would continue until the "appropriate" safety measures were taken, including the strengthening of tsunami walls around the complex.
"The Prime Minister's announcement is a huge step toward permanently closing this power plant and an acknowledgement that it is too dangerous to operate," said Yoshika Shiratori, who is leading a lawsuit against Hamaoka. "We hope this is the beginning of the end for nuclear power in Japan, where constant earthquakes make them too risky."
It was unclear last night how Chubu Electric and the rest of Japan's nuclear industry will react. Legal experts told the media the premier has no authority to stop power plants from operating. Akihisa Mizuno, president of Chubu Electric, declined to comment. "We will try to respond as soon as possible," he said. Chubu Electric won a lawsuit four years ago against local activists who wanted Hamaoka to be closed. They claimed that Chubu Electric had underestimated seismic activity when it built the plant four decades ago.
Article from The Independant UK on May 7, 2011
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/worlds-most-dangerous-nuclear-power-plant-is-closed-down-2280356.html
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* The Interstellar 'Etheric' Cloud Index *
Essential Background Information
http://www.susanrennison.com/Index_Joyfire_Interstellar_Cloud_Index.htm
* Terrifying scientific discovery: Strange emissions by sun are suddenly mutating matter *
The angry sun
For months mounting fear has driven researchers to wring their hands over the approaching solar storms. Some have predicted devastating solar tsunamis that could wipe away our advanced technology, others voiced dire warnings that violent explosions on the surface of the sun could reach out to Earth, breach our magnetic field, and expose billions to high intensity X-rays and other deadly forms of cancer-causing radiation.
Now evidence has surfaced that something potentially more dangerous is happening deep within the hidden core of our life-giving star: never-before-seen particles—or some mysterious force—is being shot out from the sun and it's hitting Earth.
Whatever it is, the evidence suggests it's affecting all matter.
Strange and unknown
Alarmed physicists first became aware of this threat over the past several years. Initially dismissed as an anomaly, now frantic scientists are shooting e-mails back and forth to colleagues across the world attempting to grasp exactly what is happening to the sun.
Something impossible has happened. Yet the "impossible" has been proven to be true. Laboratories around the globe have confirmed that the rate of radioactive decay—once thought to be a constant and a bedrock of science—is no longer a constant. Something being emitted from the sun is interacting with matter in strange and unknown ways with the startling potential to dramatically change the nature of the very Earth itself.
Exactly what has scientists so on edge is the fact that the natural rate of decay of atomic particles has always been predictable. Indeed, using the decay rate of Carbon-14 has been a method to date archeological artifacts. The process, known as carbon dating, measures the quantity of Carbon-14 within organic objects. According to the numbers, Carbon-14 has a specific half-life of 5,730 years. Physicists have proven through exhaustive observation and experimentation over the course of a century that it takes 5,730 years for Carbon-14 atoms to decay into a stable Nitrogen-14.
The values don't change—or at least they never have in the past. With certain evidence that radioactive decay can be significantly affected by an unknown effect from the sun, much of science is turned on its head.
Rate of decay speeding up
Worst of all, if the decay rates of matter are being mutated then all matter on Earth is being affected including the matter that makes up life.
READ MORE: http://www.helium.com/items/1936132-strange-emissions-by-sun-mutating-matter
* Strange cosmic ray hotspots stalk southern skies *
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20436-strange-cosmic-ray-hotspots-stalk-southern-skies.html
* Is the Sun Emitting a Mystery Particle? *
http://news.discovery.com/space/is-the-sun-emitting-a-mystery-particle.html
* The Sun Influences the Decay of Radioactive Elements *
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Sun-Influences-the-Decay-of-Radioactive-Elements-153704.shtml
* Mysteriously, Solar Activity Found to Influence Behavior of Radioactive Materials On Earth *
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-08/strange-solar-particles-might-be-affecting-earths-radioactive-materials-scientists-say
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* Radiation Sickness *
http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html
Where is all that Fukushima radiation going, and why does it matter?
http://www.fairewinds.com/home
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?edis=NC-20110503-30570-USA
Situation Update No. 1
On 03.05.2011 at 02:57 GMT+2
Radioactive leakage from fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in the city of Tsuruga in Fukui prefecture on Honshu island of Japan are believed to be the cause of a surge in the density of toxic substances detected in coolant water, the prefectural government said Monday. Japan Atomic Power Company, owner and operator of the potentially faulty nuclear plant, has said it will attempt to manually override the plant's No. 2 reactor's system in an effort to contain the leak and conduct further investigation into its critical cooling systems.
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=30563&cat=dis&lang=
"It's one of the most incredible gatherings of animals that's ever been recorded. It's mind-blowing," said marine biologist Al Dove of the Georgia Aquarium. "As someone who studies whale sharks, which have a reputation of being something you see once in a blue moon, the idea of finding 400 in an area of the size of a couple football fields is unheard of."
http://www.sott.net/signs/list_by_category/4-The-Living-Planet?page=1
KA BOOM! (Maka's Video)
Explosion Footage As US Army Corps Of Engineers Blow First Levee In Birds Point
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZErCTZS0Nk
VIDEOS:
BIRDS POINT LEVEE FIRST SET OF EXPLOSIONS MORE TO COME .
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New Nuclear Problems in Tsuruga Japan WTF!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmMhLzYPdIM
Felicia Rodriguez Tours Alabama Tornado Damage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Qk-HpUxUQ
Fukushima TEPCO update 5/2/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEmKQOvuVzk
02/05/2011 - Real-time Magnetosphere Simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDxmR7ogQo
mirrored from NibiruMagick2012's Channel
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April 2010
-- 20: The BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes and is engulfed in flames in the Gulf of Mexico some 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven rig workers are killed and several more are seriously injured in the accident, which destroys the rig.
-- 22: The rig sinks 5,000 feet to the sea floor.
May 2010
-- 2: President Barack Obama visits Louisiana and says in a speech that BP is clearly "responsible" for the giant oil spill and must pay for the clean-up.
The US government bans commercial and recreational fishing in parts of the Gulf.
read more: http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Timeline_of_Gulf_of_Mexico_oil_spill_999.html
MIRRORED from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuLPRj1MXlc
This video speaks for itself. This is my home. This is the only part of evil and the only place that I find it where it makes me feel totally defeated, where I cannot cope, If I look at it or think about... I become totally dysfunctional---I just want to quit, to stop, and I can't breathe.... I hate what has happened here!
Thats enough. Thoughts get jumbled... but I am so grateful for people like Laurel and Deniselngbch, Fritzi Presley and all the Gulf Coast activists even those who don't live here like Evelyn Guzman.
But I just want it to all go away, for someone to make it all better...But , that can't happen....and it will never be the way it was...
Video from: www.youtube.com/user/JapanAnimalRescue
The US government announced it doesn't plan to monitor RADIOACTIVITY in the fish we buy in America. Does the Japanese government plan to monitor the RADIOACTIVITY release into the air when burning wood from an area that has been contaminated from the nuclear power plant meltdown?
*French company to decontaminate Daiichi water*
French nuclear reactor maker Areva says it has agreed with the Tokyo Electric Power Company to build a facility to decontaminate radioactive water at the compound of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/19_33.html
*NM Rothschild & Sons Canada Limited is acting as financial advisor to AREVA and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP is acting as legal counsel to AREVA.*
http://www.areva.com/EN/news-6505/areva-announces-us-7-75-per-share-friendly-cash-offer-for-uramin.html
*New cybervirus found in Japan / Stuxnet designed to attack off-line servers via USB memory sticks*
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T101004003493.htm
*Japan's Nuclear Crisis, Stuxnet and SCADA Defenses*
I believe we can use the events that are unfolding in Japan as a learning opportunity regarding the possible consequences of a sophisticated Stuxnet-type attack against SCADA networks at a nuclear facility.
Stuxnet is a highly sophisticated designer-virus that wreaks havoc with SCADA systems which provide operational control for critical infrastructure and production networks, such as those used to operate a nuclear power plant.
Stuxnet-type viruses are uniquely dangerous because they are capable not only of affecting network computer systems, they can also cause actual physical damage to the equipment the networks control.
From what I understand of the current crisis in Japan, the problems at the nuclear facilities did not stem from the reactors themselves sustaining significant damaged in the earthquake.
Instead, the problem with the reactor cores over-heating was caused by a disruption to the power and water supplies that are needed for the cooling systems. The problem was compounded by the destruction of the backup generators for the cooling system pumps in the subsequent tsunami
READ MORE: infosecisland.com/blogview/12628-Japans-Nuclear-Crisis-Stuxnet-and-SCADA-Defenses.html
Nuclear fallout: http://www.answers.com/topic/nuclear-fallout
Video from NHK World News Japan
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He also explains what the radiation data released by TEPCO really means.
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Below is a tweet we prepared last night 4/15/11 to disseminate to the people of Japan who are searching for their lost pets.
Please tweet, post, email share throughout Japan thank you!
JAPANESE
行方不明のペットを探しですか。迷子を見かけた知っている人ですか。URLで登録ください。1) http://bit.ly/dEiFnJ 2)
http://bit.ly/goePGN 3) http://tiny.cc/f0saz 4) http://bit.ly/fR1cJF
ENGLISH
Are you looking for a lost pet? Do you have info. regarding location of a lost pet? Please visit and register the info. at these websites. 1) http://bit.ly/dEiFnJ 2) http://bit.ly/goePGN 3) http://tiny.cc/f0saz 4) http://bit.ly/fR1cJF
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! ! ! ! ! THE EFFECTS OF RADIATION EXPOSURE IS ACCUMULATIVE ! ! ! ! !
That's why regulatory agencies set yearly thresholds of acceptable exposure for employees who regularly work around radioactive material.
The mass radioactive contamination of our planet is now under way thanks to the astonishing actions taking place at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan. As of last night, TEPCO announced it is releasing 10,000 tons of radioactive water directly into the Pacific Ocean. That 2.4 million gallons of planetary poison being dumped directly into the ocean.
This water is being released because they have run out of places to keep it on land. It's too deadly to transport anywhere else, and all the storage pools around Fukushima are already overflowing. So they're dumping it into the ocean, then calling it "safe" because they claim the ocean will "disperse" all the radiation and make it harmless.
But because there's more radioactive water being produced every day at Fukushima, this process of releasing radioactive water into the ocean could theoretically continue for years, easily making Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster in the history of our world.
The EPA maintains a set of so-called "Protective Action Guides" (PAGs). These PAGs are being quickly revised to radically increase the allowable levels of iodine-131 (a radioactive isotope) to anywhere from 3,000 to 100,000 times the currently allowable levels.
READ MORE: http://www.naturalnews.com/031963_radiation_exposure.html
New data released by the EPA show three of the five highest readings for radioactive iodine in the U.S. are in the Philadelphia drinking water supply.
A blogger on Forbes first spotted the data on Sunday in a database of water tests posted on the EPA Web site.
Read All Findings at: www.epa.gov/japan2011/rert/radnet-sampling-data.html#water
The EPA site shows the effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident on American supplies of milk and water.
The EPA said in a previous statement "detections in air, precipitation, and milk were expected, and the levels detected have been far below levels of public-health concern."
However, some scientists don't agree with the EPA guidelines on radiation. The Physicians for Social Responsibility, a prominent anti-nuclear group, believes there is no safe level of exposure to radiation .
The EPA says the most common source of Iodine-131 from the "fission of uranium atoms during operation of nuclear reactors and by plutonium (or uranium) in the detonation of nuclear weapons."
The newest data release has samples from 66 sites across the U.S. and 21 sites picked up traces of Iodine-131 in the water supply.
The sample from Philadelphia's Queen Lane Treatment Plant showed 2.2 picoCuries per liter—the highest drinking-water level shown in the U.S. after the Fukushima accident.
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/radioactive-iodine-in-philly-water-supply-041011
Dr. Mike: Iodine 131 In Philly's Water
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/good_day_philadelphia/doctor_mike/Radioactive_Iodine_131_Philadelphia_Water_Samples_041211
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IS GOOGLE EVIL?
From: http://www.goldenmean.info
+Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google...detailing Google's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, +naming Google's CIA point man., with the parasitic takeover by village vampire George Bush.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2006/10/google-evil
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/061206seedmoney.htm
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Radiation has risen to high levels above the spent-fuel pool at reactor No. 4 and its temperature is rising, the nuclear safety agency said Wednesday, indicating the fuel rods have been further damaged and are emitting radioactive substances.
"It's quite an amount," figured Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
Tepco dumped 195 tons of fresh water onto the rods early Wednesday to stop the temperature from rising.
Tepco said the fuel rods in the Unit 4 pool had released cesium-134 and -137 in the process of being damaged. Cesium-137 has a half-life of 30 years. "Contaminated water leaked From the Unit 2 may have gathered as a lump and drifted offshore," Nishiyama said. "We need to continue monitoring it."
The temperature of the pool was 90 degrees, compared with 84 before it caught fire on March 15 in a suspected hydrogen explosion.
READ MORE: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110414a1.html
*Groundwater radiation level at nuke plant rises* April 15 Update
The concentration levels of radioactive iodine and cesium in groundwater near the troubled Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have increased up to several dozen times in one week, suggesting that toxic water has seeped from nearby reactor turbine buildings or elsewhere, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday.
The announcement came as the plant operator continued to grapple with pools of highly radioactive water found on the plant's premises, with the level of polluted water filling an underground trench edging up again after the company finished pumping out around 660 tons of water.
According to the latest findings, a groundwater sample taken April 6 near the No. 1 reactor turbine building showed radioactive iodine-131 of 72 becquerels per cubic meter, with the concentration level growing to 400 becquerels as of Wednesday. The concentration level of cesium-134 increased from 1.4 becquerels to 53 becquerels.
The government's nuclear regulatory agency said it had ordered the utility firm known as TEPCO to enhance monitoring of groundwater inside the plant, which is located on the Pacific coast.
A total of around 60,000 tons of contaminated water is believed to be flooding the basements of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactor turbine buildings as well as trenches connected to them, and the water is hampering work to restore the cooling functions of the reactors lost since the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
READ MORE WITH PHOTOS: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85532.html
Fukushima's Unit 4 fuel pool still poses a huge danger to Japan if it catches fire. The pool has both plutonium and depleted uranium.
Arnie Gundersen talks to Russia Today on April 13 about how the Japanese government dragged their heels in evacuating their citizens from the area effected by the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
Gundersen compares events of Chernobyl to that happening in Fukushima.
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Cesium-137 in the Body
Radioactive elements contaminate the body's cells either environmentally via gamma radiation or through inhalation and ingestion. It affects the chromosomes within tissue cells, but the injury to the body is caused primarily by interfering with cell biology and breaking apart molecules. This creates free radicals, or single electrons usually present in pairs. Cells are capable of repairing the damaged genetic material, but high levels of exposure can overwhelm the system. By far the most vulnerable tissues are bone marrow and the lymph nodes.
Cesium-137 and Cancer
Cell damage and the presence of free radicals lead to various cancers in injured areas where cesium-137 is concentrated. The story in Chernobyl was the more than 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer from radioactive iodine, but in 1986, the Soviet government estimated that cesium-137 would have an effect on long-term cancer deaths nine times greater than that of radioactive iodine.
http://www.ehow.com/list_5910922_health-risks-cesium-137.html
The health ministry has detected radioactivity above the legal limit in fish caught off Fukushima Prefecture and 11 kinds of vegetables grown in the prefecture.
The ministry says it found 12,500 becquerels per kilogram, or 25 times the limit, of radioactive cesium in small fish called sand lances caught off Iwaki City, south of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Wednesday. It also discovered 12,000 becquerels, or 6 times the limit, of radioactive iodine in the fish.
On April 7th, sand lances caught off the city were already found to be contaminated with radioactive cesium in excess of the limit. Sand lances caught off Ibaraki Prefecture, south of Fukushima, were also found to be polluted with the radioactive substance.
The central government says sand lances are currently not being sold as fishing cooperatives in the 2 prefectures are not in operation.
Radioactivity was also detected on 11 kinds of vegetables sampled in Fukushima on Monday.
Authorities detected 1,960 becquerels per kilogram, or 4 times the legal limit, of cesium on Japanese parsley, known as Seri, grown in Soma City.
On Wednesday, the government banned the shipment of some shiitake mushrooms grown outdoors in eastern Fukushima after detecting radioactivity above the legal limit.
Thursday, April 14, 2011 07:28 +0900 (JST)
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*Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D's interview with Newsmax*
Dr. Blaylock says the radiation could pose a cancer risk, and explains steps to take to protect against the damaging effects of radiation exposure.
Blaylock is a health practitioner, lecturer, and editor of Newsmax.com's "Blaylock Wellness Report." His books include "Nuclear Sunrise," which examines the threat nuclear radiation poses.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Dr. Blaylock was asked about the risks faced by people in Japan close to the damaged reactors.
"Of course people near the site face the greatest danger," he responds.
"Anything over 150 rads [a measurement of radiation] is going to produce radiation sickness. And they're getting close to that level, from what I understand.
"The safety level is set at 5 rads per year. They're getting this dose within a short period of time.
"At about 100 to 400 rads you drastically increase death risk. Once you get above 600 rads, about 95 percent of people are going to die within two weeks. This is what they're worried about."
Radioactive elements Strontium 90 and Cesium 137, which can be released by a damaged reactor, "have a half-life of 30 years, so we're talking about very long contamination, a hundred years or more," he adds.
Prevailing winds in the area of the stricken Japanese reactors have been heading east into the Pacific, toward the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Blaylock was asked about the threat to Americans if radiation from the reactors eventually does reach Hawaii or the West Coast of America.
"Most of the health risks are not going to be due to acute radiation poisoning," he tells Newsmax. "It's going to be a risk of increased cancer.
"When we look at Chernobyl, most of West Germany was heavily contaminated. Norway, Sweden. Hungary was terribly contaminated. The radiation was taken up into the plants. The food was radioactive. They took the milk and turned it into cheese. The cheese was radioactive.
"That's the big danger, the crops in this country being contaminated, the milk in particular, with Strontium 90. That radiation is incorporated into the bones and stays for a lifetime."
If radiation does arrive in the United States, people would need "to change their diet. They need to stop eating Western farm products," Dr. Blaylock says.
They might also need to take several supplements that can protect against the effects of radiation, he suggests.
"Taking these supplements not only protects you against radiation but a lot of other diseases including cancer, brain degeneration."
Among the supplements he cited, Iodine can protect the thyroid gland if taken before the exposure to radiation.
Gingko biloba can be protective even after exposure to radiation. Beta-glucan protects the bone marrow. Curcumin also can offer protection after exposure, particularly against breast cancer. He also suggests garlic extract, ginger, melatonin and magnesium.
Dr. Blaylock's e-book "Nuclear Sunrise" focuses mainly on the threat of radiation from nuclear terrorism, but it examines in detail the effects of radiation and steps to take to protect against radiation damage. It can be found at the website www.blaylockwellnesscenter.com.
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Fairewinds Associates chief nuclear engineer explains the dynamics of the damage in a nuclear reactor meltdown. Rods are made of zircaloy. He demonstrates how Fukushima's zircaloy fuel rods melted and shattered.
*Zircaloy is a problem*
Fuel rods in many types of nuclear reactors consist of pellets of fissile material (uranium and plutonium) sheathed in a metal alloy called zircaloy, made unsurprisingly from zirconium.
Zircaloy seems to be one of the major reasons why the Fukushima crisis is scary. When the earthquake happened, the reactors automatically inserted neutron-absorbing control rods to stop the nuclear chain reaction. This process is called a SCRAM. Despite this, the fuel rods are still producing heat because of other ongoing nuclear reactions (decay heat). This is what makes Zircaloy so worrisome, because when it gets heated up it can oxidize or burn exothermically, producing even more heat. That adds to the risk that fissile material will end up in the wider environment. It also adds to the risk that the nuclear fuel will melt, dribble down to the bottom of the reactor containment vessel, and re-form a critical mass.
That's the really scary possibility, as far as reactors one, two, and three at Fukushima are concerned. If the fissile material in the fuel rods forms a critical mass again, it could melt through the bottom of the containment vessel. It could also trigger a large steam and/or hydrogen explosion that could spread radiation further.
There are other risks with Zircaloy. When hot, it oxidizes in the presence of water, stripping oxygen from water molecules and producing explosive hydrogen. Zircaloy is also what makes spent storage pools so scary. If they lose cooling, the rods can heat up, burn, and release large amounts of radiation into the environment. Cooling ponds are not placed inside containment vessels in the same way reactor cores are.
READ MORE: http://burycoal.com/blog/2011/03/18/zircaloy-is-a-problem
Original Ustream Video from Crane Camera at Reactor Building 4
http://fairewinds.com/content/ustream-video
*What is Happening in the Reactor Cores of Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station?*
Author: Michio Ishikawa (Chief Adviser of Japan Nuclear Technology Institute (JANTI))
Mar. 24, 2011 account of Fukushima accident.
As you will read, the situation turned much worse than anticipated in his report. Ishikawa compares the situation at Fukushima with the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident. Arnie Gundersen was the vice president of the TMI reactor after the accident and during the years of cleanup, which makes his opinion and knowledge of the Fukushima situation so valuable.
READ MORE: http://www.shimbun.denki.or.jp/en/news/20110324_01.html
Do not get caught up in the lies of the world which would have you believe that you are at the mercy of your environment. We are so powerful that we can literally change our environment, starting with our thoughts. One can identify with that process in many ways. Some may see this as prayer. Others, intention. Regardless of how you wish to internalize this process, please know that change and healing start within our hearts. The indigenous grandmothers know this. That is why the controllers of the material world set out to ridicule and silence them.
Whether you choose to gather with like-minded people or simply bless the water each time you interact with it, raising the consciousness of the planet is what it is all about. We have been given a planetary wake up call. First, with the Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. Now with the spreading radioactive water caused by the Japanese nuclear power plants leakage into the Pacific Ocean.
Will you wake up from your slumbler and take a stand for our beautiful planet earth and the children that inhabit it?
Grandma Aggie Pilgrim of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers invites you to the next Star Knowledge Conference in Collinsville, Illinois on 11-11-11.
More info at: http://www.comewalkinbeauty.com
Dr. Emoto's home page, including his message of how to heal the water:
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/e_ome_home.html
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AREVA REPORT - March 2011
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/3-2011-areva-fukushima-report
NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) Report, Official Use Only, Fukushima Assessment, March 26th, 2011
http://www.fairewinds.com/content/nrc-report-official-use-only-fukushima-assessment-march-26th-2011
* Cumulative Low-Level Doses of Radiation Can Cause Big Problems *
When scientists speak of radiation, they speak not only of single doses but also of cumulative doses.
Research from the University of Iowa shows that "cumulative radon exposure is a significant risk factor for lung cancer in women".
A military briefing written by the U.S. Army for commanders in Iraq states:
"Hazards from low level radiation are long-term, not acute effects... Every exposure increases risk of cancer."
READ MORE: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/cumulative-low-level-doses-radiation-can-cause-big-problems
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says Japan informed it that the source of the radioactivity at the Onagawa power plant is being investigated. It said all three reactors at the plant are under control.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/13/japan-onagawa-nuclear-plant-state-of-emergency_n_835059.html
APRIL 8: Japan's nuclear agency says the quake on Thursday night disabled 2 out of the 3 outside power lines used at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Prefecture.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the plant has been using outside power lines to cool its nuclear fuel rods since the March 11th quake. The agency says after Thursday's quake, the plant is using only one remaining power line.
The agency says there is no change in radiation levels around the plant as of just after midnight Thursday. The agency is trying to confirm the current status at the plant.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_04.html
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
*update* (7 April, 17:30 UTC)
The IAEA confirms that an earthquake occurred in Japan at 14:32 UTC 7 April. The IAEA International Seismic Safety Centre has rated it as a 7.1 magnitude, revised from an initial 7.4 magnitude. The epicenter of the earthquake was 20 km from the Onagawa nuclear power plant and approximately 120 km from the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini nuclear power plants.
The IAEA has been in contact with NISA and can confirm the status of the following nuclear facilities:
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
NISA confirms that no changes have been observed at the on-site radiation monitoring posts. The injection of water into the reactor pressure vessels of Units 1, 2 and 3 was not interrupted.
Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant
NISA confirms that no changes have been observed of the readings at the on-site radiation monitoring posts.
Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
All reactors have been in cold shutdown since the 11 March earthquake.
NISA has confirmed that two out of the three lines supplying off-site power to the site were lost following the 7 April earthquake. Off-site power continues to be supplied through the third line.
Cooling of the spent fuel pool was temporarily lost, but has subsequently been restored.
No change has been observed in the readings from the on-site radiation monitoring post. The status of the plant is currently being checked.
Tokai Daini Nuclear Power Plant
Tokai Daini nuclear power plant remains in cold shutdown since the 11 March earthquake. No abnormality has been observed.
Higashidori Nuclear Power Plant
NISA has confirmed that the Higashidori NPP was shutdown and in a maintenance outage at the time of the 7 April earthquake. Off-site power has been lost. Emergency power supply to the site is operating. All the fuel had been removed from the reactor core and stored in the spent fuel pool. Cooling of the spent fuel pool is operational.
Tomari Nuclear Power Plant (in Hokkaido)
At the time of the 7 April earthquake Tomari Unit 1 and Unit 2 were in operation. Following the 7 April earthquake, the Hokkaido Electric Power Company reduced the generating power to 90% of capacity.
Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant
NISA confirms that Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and uranium enrichment facility lost off-site power. Emergency power supply to the site is operating.
The IAEA will issue further information as soon as it becomes available
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This appears to be a similar situation to what is happening at the moment at Fukushima reactor #1. Hydrogen is building up. Tepco plans to inject nitrogen into it to ease the hydrogen steam pressure buildup.
Gundersen puts into perspective the level of radiation being released into the ocean, pointing out that the radiation from the leaking containment tank had very high levels of radiation. Tepco admitted that the level was 7.5 million times higher than the legal limit. CNN host makes lame comparison of amount of radioactive water released to the amount of water in the ocean without reporting the astronomical high concentration.
CNN, you have a really BIG swimming pool.
Using CNN math and reported radiation leaks, the real calculation looks something like this (and I hope I did this right):
As a child, my pool was 18 ft x 4 ft. That is ABOUT 45 meters sq.
One ton of water = one meter sq.
There were 11,500 tons of radioactive water 7,500,000 TIMES the legal limit of iodine 131 released.
11,5000 x 7,500,000 / 45 = 1,916,666,666
According to CNN math, the radioactive water released would fill 1,916,666,666 (one billion nine hundred sixteen million six hundred sixty six thousand six hundred sixty six) swimming pools that are 100% over the legal limit of radioactive iodine 131. Is it OK if I round this up to 2 billion, since no one knows exactly the volume of the Pacific Ocean so maybe you rounded up too?
AGAIN, radioactive water 100% over the legal radiation limit would fill 2,000,000,000 (two billion) swimming pools which hold 45 tons of water.
Wow, what a relief. I thought there was a real problem in the Pacific for a minute (she said, sarcastically).
To put that in perspective, the population of China is about 1,300,000,000 (one billion three hundred million) people.
Every single person in China could swim in their very own toxic swimming pool and there would still be 700,000,000 (seven hundred million) pools left over.
*7.5 million times legal limit of iodine in sea*
The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says 7.5 million times the legal limit of radioactive iodine 131 has been detected from samples of seawater near the plant.
The utility firm said samples of water taken near the water intake of the No. 2 reactor at 11:50 AM Saturday contained 300,000 becquerels of iodine 131 per cubic centimeter, or 7.5 million times the legal limit.
READ MORE: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_27.html
Arnie Gundersen Discusses Radioactive Water Leaking Into the Pacific Ocean with CNN's John King
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday started injecting nitrogen into one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex to reduce the potential risk of a hydrogen explosion, while it succeeded in stopping highly radioactive water leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the plant the previous day.
Nitrogen, an inert gas, was injected into the No. 1 reactor's containment vessel, a process that could take several days. Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, denied there is an ''immediate danger'' of explosion and described the injection as ''a preventive measure.''
At 5:38 a.m. Wednesday, highly contaminated water, which had been confirmed as leaking into the sea from around a cracked pit located near the No. 2 reactor water intake on Saturday, stopped flowing after TEPCO injected around 6,000 liters of chemical agents including sodium silicate, known as ''water glass.''
Nishiyama told a press conference... there is a possibility that the water, which has lost an outlet, could show up from other areas of the plant.
The highly radioactive water is believed to have come from the No. 2 reactor core, where fuel rods have partially melted, and ended up in the pit. The pit is connected to the No. 2 reactor turbine building and an underground trench connected to the building, both of which were found to be filled with highly contaminated water.
To make room to store the highly radioactive water that is hampering the plant's restoration work, TEPCO continued to dump into the sea massive amounts of low-level contaminated water from inside a nuclear waste disposal facility at the site as well as contaminated groundwater found from around the Nos. 5 and 6 unit buildings.
TEPCO is aiming to dispose of a total of about 10,000 tons of low-level contaminated water into the sea by this weekend, a move which has sparked concern among neighboring countries and strong protests from the domestic fishing industry.
After opening up the disposal facility, which can accommodate 30,000 tons of liquid, some repair work is expected to take place for about a week to ensure that the facility can retain highly radioactive water safely without fear of the stored liquid leaking outside.
The plant's power grid and most of the emergency diesel generators were knocked out by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11, resulting in the loss of many of the reactors' key cooling functions, partial melting of reactor cores and hydrogen explosions.
According to estimates by TEPCO announced Wednesday, 25 percent of the nuclear fuel rods have been damaged at the No. 3 reactor. The company earlier said that 70 percent of the No. 1 reactor's fuel rods and 30 percent of the No. 2 reactor's fuel rods have been damaged.
Nishiyama said past hydrogen explosions have likely occurred due to hydrogen accumulation caused by the reaction of melted fuel rods' zirconium with steam from the coolant water. But now there is concern that hydrogen could accumulate in the No. 1 reactor under a different process involving radiation-induced decomposition of water into hydrogen and oxygen.
In announcing TEPCO's decision to inject nitrogen into the reactor's containment vessel, an operation approved by the government, the nuclear agency said that radioactive leaks are ''unlikely to significantly rise'' even if the pressure inside the vessel increases as a result of the injection.
Nishiyama said that he also expects nitrogen to be injected into the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors in the future.
The utility has been pouring massive amounts of water into the reactors and their spent nuclear fuel pools as a stopgap measure to cool them down. But the measure is causing ''side effects,'' such as the detection of contaminated water in various parts of the nuclear complex and some leakage into the sea.
A seawater sample taken near the No. 2 reactor water intake on Saturday showed a radioactive iodine-131 concentration of 7.5 million times the maximum level permitted under law, or about 300,000 becquerels per cubic centimeter.
In the first case of contamination levels in seafood exceeding the maximum legal limit, radioactive cesium in excess of the set limit was detected in young sand lance caught Monday in the sea off the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture.
The National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives Associations lodged a protest with TEPCO and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Wednesday, saying the dumping of contaminated water into the sea without any prior consultation with fishermen was an ''outrage.''
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83628.html
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Highly radioactive water leaking into sea stops: TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Co. succeeded in stopping highly radioactive water from leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant early Wednesday morning after injecting a chemical agent, it said.
In a bid to stem the leak, the utility, known as TEPCO, injected about 6,000 liters of ''water glass,'' or sodium silicate, and another agent around a seaside pit located near the plant's No. 2 reactor water intake, through which the highly radioactive water had been leaking heavily.
The leak has apparently seriously contaminated the marine environment, as a seawater sample taken near the water intake Saturday showed a radioactive iodine-131 concentration of 7.5 million times the maximum level permitted under law.
As the first case of contamination levels in seafood have exceeded the limit, radioactive cesium over the limit was detected in young launce in the sea near the northern part of Ibaraki Prefecture.
The highly radioactive water has been filling up the basement of the No. 2 reactor turbine building and the trench connected to it. The water, believed to have come from the No. 2 reactor core, where fuel rods have partially melted, ended up in the pit.
In order to make room for the storage of the highly contaminated water, TEPCO also continued to dump low-level contaminated water into the sea.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83402.html
NHK WORLD NEWS VIDEO:
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says radioactive water stopped leaking into the sea from a concrete pit on Wednesday morning.
Tokyo Electric Power Company plans to check if there are any new leaks.
TEPCO says it confirmed that the water flow stopped at 5:38 AM.
On Tuesday, workers drilled a hole to reach the gravel below the pit and poured 1,500 liters of a hardening agent called liquid glass. TEPCO says this has stopped the flow. The company released a photo which shows that water is no longer flowing into the ocean.
On Saturday, the company spotted water contaminated with high-level radioactive substances leaking from a crack in the pit of the Number 2 reactor. TEPCO said the contaminated water was flowing from a damaged pipe onto the gravel, then into the pit and finally out to sea.
The company had tried a variety of measures to stop the water flow.
The latest move comes as the company continues to release low-level radioactive water from the plant into the sea. The discharge started on Monday to free storage space for higher-level radioactive water. As of 11 PM on Tuesday, 5,600 tons had been expelled into the ocean.
TEPCO has been trying to contain radioactive dust by spraying synthetic resin around the reactors. The company says it will continue this successful operation.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011 08:10 +0900 (JST)
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Three pages of high resolution photos of the Fukushima nuclear reactor plant's damage.
*7.5 million times legal limit of iodine in sea*
The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says 7.5 million times the legal limit of radioactive iodine 131 has been detected from samples of seawater near the plant.
The utility firm said samples of water taken near the water intake of the No. 2 reactor at 11:50 AM Saturday contained 300,000 becquerels of iodine 131 per cubic centimeter, or 7.5 million times the legal limit.
READ MORE: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_27.html
"There is no safe level of radionuclide exposure, whether from food, water or other sources. Period.... every effort must be taken to minimize the radionuclide content in food and water." warns Jeff Patterson, DO, immediate past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23902
*Japan defends radioactive water disposal, vows to fully inform world*
Japan defended Tuesday its dumping of a massive mount of low-level radioactive water from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, saying the action does not violate international laws, and pledged to fully inform the international community of Tokyo's steps to tackle the ongoing emergency.
Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said that Tokyo had briefed diplomatic corps in Japan on the start of radioactive water disposal hours before the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. began releasing the liquid into the Pacific Ocean on Monday evening.
''We feel very sorry for causing anxiety among our neighbors. We could not help but resort to the measure, but we will provide full explanations from now on."
The foreign minister stressed that the discharge poses ''no significant health threats'' to human bodies. (yes, you read that correctly)
He also said the dumping does not violate the 1986 Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident, which obligates nations to provide data such as the accident's time, location and radiation releases to affected states when harmful trans-boundary radiation release is feared.
The top government spokesman also said the discharge would ''not cause immediate radioactive contamination in neighboring countries.''
READ MORE: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83353.html
*High level of cesium detected in fish*
Small fish caught in waters off the coast of Ibaraki have been found to contain radioactive cesium above the legal limit.
It is the first time that higher-than-permitted levels of radioactive cesium have been found in fish.
READ MORE: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_34.html
"When contact with radioactive cesium occurs, which is highly unlikely, a person can experience cell damage due to radiation of the cesium particles. Due to this, effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and bleeding may occur...How serious the effects are depends upon the resistance of individual persons and the duration of exposure and the concentration a person is exposed to".
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/cs.htm
Cesium-137 and strontium-90 are the most dangerous radioisotopes to the environment in terms of their long-term effects. Their intermediate half-lives of about 30 years suggests that they are not only highly radioactive but that they have a long enough halflife to be around for hundreds of years. Iodine-131 may give a higher initial dose, but its short halflife of 8 days ensures that it will soon be gone. Besides its persistence and high activity, cesium-137 has the further insidious property of being mistaken for potassium by living organisms and taken up as part of the fluid electrolytes. This means that it is passed on up the food chain and reconcentrated from the environment by that process.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/fisfrag.html
*Radiation-shielding sheets to be installed in September at earliest*
A plan to cover damaged reactor buildings at the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant with special sheets to halt radiation leakage cannot offer a quick remedy, as the sheeting will be installed in September at the earliest due to high-level radioactivity hampering work at the site, government sources said Tuesday.
They said workers need to wait until radiation levels drop at the site, where hydrogen explosions have blown away the roofs and upper walls of three reactor buildings.
Some nuclear experts have been skeptical about the feasibility of the plan as they believe the step would have only limited effects in blocking the release of radioactive substances into the environment.
READ MORE: http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83374.html
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ISRAEL'S YOUNG CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS. The Shministim are Israeli high school students who have been imprisoned for refusing to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinian Territories. December 18, 2008 marked the launch date of a global campaign to release them from jail. SHMINISIM 2010: A new Shministim letter has been drafted for 2010, and 88 Israeli young people have signed it. The letter, addressed to Prime Minister Netanyahu, slams the Occupation and asks, Can military rule of a civilian population be considered anything other than a dictatorship?
To learn about this new class of conscientious refusers, go here: http://www.shministim.com
Below are but a few who refuse to serve the occupation! These Israeli teenagers refuse to take part in an army that illegaly and brutally occupies the Palestinian Territories and are willing to pay the price for our struggle against the occupation and in favor of peace. May God bless and protect each and every one of them.
Name: Or Ben-David
Age: 19
Location: Jerusalem
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I refuse because I want to make a difference. I want all those Palestinian youths who have lost hope to see that there are Israelis who care and who make a different choice. I want all those of my friends who became soldiers or who are about to become soldiers to see that things dont have to be the way they are
Pre-Sentence: 28th Sept. 2009 (7 days of confinement to base)
First Sentence: 29th Oct. 2009 (20 days)
Second Sentence: 16th Nov. 2009 (20 days)
Third Sentence: 15th Dec. 2009 (34 days)
Name: Efi Brener
Age: 18
Location: Rishon Le Zion (a suburb of Tel-Aviv)
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I object to oppression, whether it is committed by a hierarchical organisation, such as the military is, or whether it is committed by the human species against animals.
First Sentence: 22nd Oct. 2009 (10 days)
Name: Yuval Ophir-Auron
Age: 19
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I am convinced that it is no one but ourselves who determines that it is our fate to live by the sword. There is another way, which is not the way of war. This is the path of dialogue, of understanding, of concession, forgiveness, of peace.
I believe that a person should take responsibility and feel reconciled to the way he chooses. This is why I shall not join an army behind whose actions I cannot stand and whose behavior I cannot justify.
First Sentence: 24th Nov. - 5th Dec. 2008
Second Sentence: 7th - 14th December 2008
Name: Raz Bar-David Varon
Age: 18
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I wasnt born to serve as a soldier who occupies another, and the struggle against the occupation is mine too. It is a struggle for hope, for a reality that sometimes feels so far away. I have a responsibility for this society. My responsibility is to refuse.
First Sentence: 3rd - 21st Nov. 2008 (18 days)
Second Sentence: 24th Nov. - 30th Nov. 2008 (6 days)
Third Sentence: 21st Dec. - 9th Jan (currently in prison)
Name: Omer Goldman
Age: 19
Location: Tel-Aviv
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I believe in service to the society I am part of, and that is precisely why I refuse to take part in the war crimes committed by my country. Violence will not bring any kind of solution, and I shall not commit violence, come what may.
First Sentence: 22nd Sept. - 10th Oct. 2008 (18 days)
Second Sentence: 12th - 24th Oct. 2008 (10 days)
Name: Mia Tamarin
Age: 19
Location: Tel-Aviv
Why I am one of the Shministim:
I cannot become part of an organization the purpose of which is to fend off violence by violence, because it stands unequivocally contrary to everything I believe in and to my whole life. There always is another, non-violent option, and it is this option that I choose.
First Sentence: 28th Sept. - 10th Oct. 2008 (12 days)
Second Sentence: 12th - 24th Oct. 2008 (12 days)
Third Sentence: 5th - 23rd Nov 2008 (18 days)
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December 18th
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The company says it is preparing to pour concrete into the cracked pit to stop the radioactive water leak.
A senior Nuclear Safety Agency official says the crack could be one of the sources of radioactivity found in the seawater near the water outlet.
He says the agency has ordered TEPCO to test samples of seawater at more locations near the plant and analyze them for different radioactive materials.
In the past week, the radiation detected in water in the basement of the turbine building at the No. 2 reactor was about 100,000 times higher than the normal level.
High-levels of radiation were also found in puddles in a utility tunnel outside the turbine building.
Saturday, April 02, 2011 17:33 +0900 (JST)
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Initial Analysis from Risk Model of the European Committee on Radiation Risk ECRR
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Japan says no plan to expand evacuation zone around nuclear plant
The Japanese government said Thursday that it had no immediate plans to expand a 20-kilometre evacuation zone around a damaged nuclear power station that is leaking radiation, dpa reported.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Tokyo would instead reinforce radiation monitoring of soil after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suggested overnight that the country consider evacuating Iitate village, about 40 kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, after the agency found amounts of radioactive iodine in the soil there that exceeded its health limits.
The village is not only outside the evacuation zone around the plant, which was crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, but it is also beyond the 30-kilometre zone in which people have been advised to stay indoors.
"The first assessment indicates that one of the IAEA operational criteria for evacuation is exceeded," senior IAEA official Denis Flory told reporters.
IAEA experts found radioactivity from iodine-131 at 25 megabecquerel per square metre of soil in Iitate, more than double the agency's evacuation threshold of 10 megabecquerel, an IAEA source said.
It was the highest level measured among nine communities located 25 to 60 kilometres away from the reactors, which are located 250 kilometres north-east of Tokyo.
"They should really think about evacuating," the source said.
http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1853237.html
RADIATION READINGS NEWS FOR THE U.S.
http://enenews.com/cesium-137-forecast-shows-high-altitude-radiation-cloud-concentrate-over-western-us-on-april-12-video
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/04/11/japan-nuclear-radiation-hawaii-milk-2033-percent-federal-drinking-water-limits-16130
Arnie Gundersen is the chief nuclear engineer for Fairewinds Associates
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*URGENT*: Radioactivity 10,000 times the limit found from groundwater: TEPCO
TOKYO, April 1, Kyodo
A radioactive substance about 10,000 times the limit was detected from groundwater around the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday.
A Tokyo Electric official said the radiation level is ''extremely high.''
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82382.html
Radiation in seawater at new high
Radiation 4,385 times higher than the legal standard has been detected in seawater at a location 330 meters south of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says 180 becquerels per cubic centimeter of radioactive iodine-131 have been detected in seawater sampled on Wednesday afternoon.
The figure is far above the 3,355-times level detected on Tuesday.
Wednesday's sampling also revealed cesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, at a level 527 times higher than the legal standard.
Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says no fishing is being carried out in waters within 20 kilometers of the plant, and the radiation is likely to be diluted significantly by the time humans take it in through seafood.
The agency says it will monitor radiation levels in seawater at points 15 kilometers from the plant, in addition to surveys being carried out by the science ministry at 30-kilometer points.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/31_19.html
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Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril
A deluge of contaminated water, plutonium traces in the soil and an increasingly hazardous environment for workers at the plant have forced government officials to confront the reality that the emergency measures they have taken to keep nuclear fuel cool are producing increasingly dangerous side effects. And the prospect of restoring automatic cooling systems anytime soon is fading.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/asia/30japan.html
Tepco Workers Threatened by Heat Bursts; Sea Radiation Rises
March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's damaged nuclear plant may be in danger of emitting sudden bursts of heat and radiation, undermining efforts to cool the reactors and contain fallout.
The potential for limited, uncontrolled chain reactions, voiced yesterday by the International Atomic Energy Agency, is among the phenomena that might occur, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters in Tokyo today. The IAEA "emphasized that the nuclear reactors won't explode," he said.
Radioactive chlorine found March 25 in the No. 1 turbine building suggests chain reactions continued after the reactor shut down.
Contamination of seawater found near the 40-year-old plant has increased. Radioactive iodine rose to 4,385 times the regulated safety limit yesterday from 2,572 times on Tuesday, Nishiyama said. No fishing is occurring nearby and the sea is dispersing the iodine so there is no health threat, he said.
Dismantling the plant and decontaminating the site may take 30 years and cost Tokyo Electric more than 1 trillion yen ($12 billion), engineers and analysts said. The government hasn't ruled out pouring concrete over the whole facility as one way to shut it down, Edano said. Tokyo is 135 miles (220 kilometers) south of the Dai-Ichi power plant.
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Deadly plutonium is leaking uncontrollably from the Fukushima. Tests show that both the land and seawater around the reactor are contaminated, with no projected end in sight. Based on the readings and observation of damage, fuel rods may have experienced a 70-80% meltdown.
Diagram of Fukushima Projected Radioactive Leak Path at:
http://fairewinds.com/content/projected-radioactive-leak-path
Read how are high levels of radioactive water might be getting out of the Fukushima 1, 2, and 3 Containment Buildings. Fairewinds believes that even if the nuclear reactors have not melted down, radioactively contaminated water is leaking out of the reactors and containment buildings.
Boiling Water Reactors (BWR's), like Fukushima, have dozens of holes in the bottom of the nuclear reactor because BWR control rods enter the reactor from the bottom, unlike Pressurized Water Reactors (PWR's) where the control rods enter from the top.
* U.S. experts: significant water contamination in Japan *
Nuclear and environmental scientists in the United States darkened their assessment of the risks markedly on Monday after operators at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant said that highly radioactive water has entered underground concrete tunnels extending beyond the reactor.
Sea water and fresh water used to cool the reactors, critically damaged by Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and spent fuel pools at the plant have been put in storage tanks there. But reports indicate these tanks are full or over-flowing with tainted water, experts said.
"It's just hard to see how this won't result in significant contamination of, certainly, sea water," said Edwin Lyman, a physicist and expert on nuclear plant design at the U.S.-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
"There will be dilution, some of that will be reconcentrated, but I don't think this can be sugar-coated at this point."
Union of Concerned Scientists web site: http://www.ucsusa.org
http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear?utm_source=SP&utm_medium=more&utm_campaign=sp-nuke-more-direct-3-24-2011
Fairewinds Associate's chief nuclear power engineer, Arnie Gundersen updates events at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant on Tuesday March 29.
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The main carcinogenic property of plutonium-239 arises from the energetic alpha radiation it emits. The alpha radiation it emits does not penetrate the skin, but can irradiate internal organs when plutonium is inhaled or ingested. Extremely small particles of plutonium on the order of micrograms can cause lung cancer if inhaled into the lungs.
Furthermore, plutonium may affect the ability to resist disease and the radioactivity from plutonium may cause reproductive failure.
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html
http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/pu.htm
Radiation & its Effects to you Body 101 - Fukushima Nuclear Plant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDri43B22oA&feature=player_embedded
Plutonium has just been detected in the soil at five locations around the Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday.
Meanwhile, high levels of radiation exceeding 1,000 millisieverts per hour have been detected in water in a trench outside the No. 2 reactor's building at the nuclear plant, with the contaminated water suspected to have come from the reactor's core, where fuel rods have partially melted, authorities said Monday.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/81603.html
Plutonium-239 is a very hazardous carcinogen which can also be used to make nuclear weapons. This combination of properties makes it one of the most dangerous substances.
Experiments on beagles have shown that a very small amount of plutonium in insoluble form will produce lung cancer with near-one-hundred-percent probability. When this data is extrapolated to humans, the figure for lethal lung burden of plutonium comes out to about 27 micrograms. Such an extrapolation from animals, of course, has some uncertainties. However, it is safe to assume that several tens of micrograms of plutonium-239 in the lung would greatly increase the risk of lung cancer. Larger quantities of plutonium will produce health problems in the short-term as well.
http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-3/puhealth.html
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http://www.nirs.org/fukushima/crisis.htm
Levels of radioactive materials soaring in sea near nuke plant
Levels of radioactive materials are skyrocketing in the sea near the crisis-hit nuclear power station in Fukushima Prefecture, the government's nuclear safety agency said Saturday, while the plant's operator has started injecting fresh water into the No. 2 reactor core to enhance cooling efficiency.
The radiation levels in seawater do not pose an immediate risk to human health, government officials said. But they are well above normal levels and fan concerns over fishery products in northeastern Japan as highly radioactive water has been found leaking near all four troubled reactor units at the plant.
The utility, known as TEPCO, will try to remove pools of water containing highly concentrated radioactive substances that may have seeped from either the reactor cores or spent fuel pools, while also trying to restore power at the No. 2 reactor in an effort to prevent the situation from worsening further.
read more at http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/81163.html
High level of iodine 131 in seawater near Fukushima nuclear power plant
A high level of radioactive iodine has been detected in seawater near Japan's troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The facility was hit by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said on Saturday that iodine 131 in excess of 1,250 times regulated standards was found in seawater collected 330 meters south of a plant water outlet at 8:30 AM on Friday.
The agency says there is no immediate threat to people within the 20-kilometer evacuation zone. The agency adds that as seawater is dispersed by ocean currents the contamination level will decline. (as it makes its way around the planet to a neighborhood near you!)
Iodine 131 at 146.9 times regulated standards was detected in seawater in the area on Wednesday.
Saturday, March 26, 2011 12:44 +0900 (JST)
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Greatest risk from plutonium is inhalation. Experiments on beagles have shown that a very small amount of plutonium in insoluble form will produce lung cancer with near-one-hundred-percent probability.
http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-3/puhealth.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/16/134600825/plutonium-in-fuel-rods-cause-for-concern?ps=cprs
Japan's nuclear safety agency says it is highly likely that radioactive materials are leaking from part of the Number 3 reactor of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency spoke to reporters on Friday about an accident in which 3 workers were exposed to radiation in the turbine building of the No. 3 reactor.
It said 3.9 million becquerels of radiation was detected from 1 cubic centimeter of water sampled from the floor of the building. The radiation level was about 10,000 times higher than the water inside a normally operating nuclear reactor.
The agency said the water sample indicated it is HIGHLY likely the leak comes from the reactor itself, not from the pool storing spent nuclear fuel.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english
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Radioactive iodine 146.9 times higher in seawater near nuke plant. First they contaminate the air; now they contaminate the oceans.
According to Tokyo Electric Power Co., radioactive iodine-131 146.9 times higher than the legal concentration limit was detected Wednesday morning in a seawater sample taken around 330 meters south of the plant, near the drain outlets of its troubled four reactors.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80810.html
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday, March 23, it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.
TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant's No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.
The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well.
In the 1999 criticality accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant run by JCO Co. in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, uranium broke apart continually in nuclear fission, causing a massive amount of neutron beams.
* Observation from Scientist Susan Rennison:
"Have the Japanese been caught out by spy satellites? A meltdown occurs when the control rods fail to contain nuclear reactions in the form of neutron emission and so heat levels inside the reactor rises to a point where the fuel itself melts. This is the level, where neutron beams can be observed. When a nuclear chain reaction occurs, neutrons bombard atoms of the nuclear fuel, splitting them (fission), which creates a lot of energy, and more neutrons and then the process just self perpetuates. Hence, the production of neutron beams are a clear sign of fission within the plutonium/uranium. This announcement most certainly means that the Japanese have been forced to admit the truth that meltdown is well underway. "
http://www.susanrennison.com/Index_News_oftheimbalance.htm
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Concerns Escalate Over Possible Plutonium Release at Fukushima, unit 3 Reactor
Fukushima unit 3 reactor is currently loaded with up to 500 pounds of plutonium.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/503/372/JAPAN:_Concerns_Escalate_Over_Possible_Plutonium_Release_at_Fukushima,_unit_3_Reactor.html
Largely absent from most mainstream media reports on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is the fact that a highly-dangerous "mixed-oxide" (MOX) fuel in present in six percent of the fuel rods at the plant's Unit 3 reactor. Why is MOX a big deal? According to the Nuclear Information Resource Center (NIRS), this plutonium-uranium fuel mixture is far more dangerous than typical enriched uranium -- a single milligram (mg) of MOX is as deadly as 2,000,000 mg of normal enriched uranium.
"In the event of such accidents (involving the accidental release of MOX), if the ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection) recommendations for general public exposure were adhered to, only about one mg of plutonium may be released from a MOX facility to the environment. As a comparison, in [sic] uranium fabrication facility, 2kg (2,000,000 mg) of uranium could be released in the same radiation exposure.", states Nuclear Information Resource Center (NIRS).
http://www.naturalnews.com/031736_plutonium_enriched_uranium.html
TEPCO: Black smoke rises from No.3 reactor
The Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says black smoke was seen rising from the No.3 reactor building at the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at around 4:20 PM on Wednesday.
TEPCO told reporters that it received a report 1 hour later that the smoke had gradually cleared.
The company said that the level of radiation near the main gate of the plant, 1 kilometer west of the No.3 reactor, was 265.1-microsieverts-per-hour at 5 PM. They added there had been no major change in the levels after the smoke was observed.
On Monday afternoon, gray smoke was seen rising from the same reactor building. TEPCO said that the plumes turned white before disappearing.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/23_33.html
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This is a cartoon to show Japanese children what is happening at the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactors.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/japanese-cartoon-uses-potty-humour-to-explain-nuclear-crisis-to-kids/article1950149
http://learnjapanesefaq.com/some-japanese-practise-how-to-understand-the-nuclear-situation
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