Fukushima

Record Levels Of Radiation At Fukushima Detected

December 23, 2013 Staff, www.presstv.ir Educate! Energy, Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

TEPCO, the operator of crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said on Saturday that it found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of radioactive substances at the damaged reactor. The company added that the latest examination of groundwater around Reactor 4 has raised concerns about another leak at the site. The analysis of water samples taken from 25 meters beneath Reactor 4’s well has shown that there is radioactivity in the groundwater. Nuclear radiation exposure can cause serious health problems. The first signs of nuclear radiation exposure are nausea and vomiting. It can increase the probability of developing some other diseases, mainly cancer, tumors, and genetic disorders.

US Navy Sailors Sue TEPCO Over Fukushima

December 22, 2013 William Boardman, www.readersupportednews.com Educate! Fukushima, Government, Health Care

The core of this story is the lawsuit filed December 21, 2012, by attorney Paul C. Garner of Brooks & Associates of Encinatas, California, on behalf of nine plaintiffs (including a one-year-old), all of whom "were among the members of the U.S. Navy crew and attached to the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), whose home port was San Diego, California, when they were exposed to radiation off the coast at Fukushima prefecture, Japan, whereat the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant is located, on and after March 11, 2011, during the mission known as 'Operation Tomodachi.'" The complainant seeks a jury trial, but the case is still in the pre-trial stage. The plaintiffs are seeking $40 million each in damages as well as a fund of more than a billion dollars to be used for their future medical expenses.

Fukushima Coverup: “Biggest Industrial Catastrophe In History”

December 14, 2013 Michael Welch, www.globalresearch.ca Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The guests on this week`s Global Research News Hour speak of cover-up. Yoichi Shimatsu spoke to the Global Research News Hour about the misleading statements coming from the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) about the explosions from March of 2011, the radiative effects, and the secretive role of Fukushima as a storage site for Plutonium and nuclear weapons. Hatrick Penry goes even further. Penry utilizes documents disclosed from unimpeachable documentary sources, attained through Freeedom of Information requests, to show that much more radiation was released into the atmosphere than is generally recognized.

Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Will Be Dumped Into Pacific Ocean

December 6, 2013 Mark Willacy, www.abc.net.au Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The man in charge of the clean-up at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant says growing stores of contaminated water from the site will eventually have to be dumped into the sea. In an exclusive interview with the ABC (Australia), the chairman of the Fukushima Monitoring Committee, Dale Klein, has also admitted there are likely to be more blunders and slip-ups at the plant in the months and years to come. "I think the best word to use with Fukushima is challenging," the former chief nuclear watchdog in the US said. Since the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami sparked the nuclear disaster, TEPCO has been pouring millions of litres of water onto Fukushima's reactors to try and keep them cool. That radioactive water is now being stored in tanks at the site but already thousands of litres have leaked into the Pacific Ocean.

A Climate Change-Fueled Revolution?

November 19, 2013 Michael Klare, www.tomdispatch.com Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Tar Sands, Wars and Militarism

Don’t be surprised if that green energy revolution erupts in your neighborhood as part of humanity’s response to the greatest danger we’ve ever faced. If governments won’t take the lead on an imperiled planet, someone will. None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment. Take a look and you will see that the assorted environmental protests that have long bedeviled politicians are gaining in strength and support. With an awareness of climate change growing and as intensifying floods, fires, droughts, and storms become an inescapable feature of daily life across the planet, more people are joining environmental groups and engaging in increasingly bold protest actions. Sooner or later, government leaders are likely to face multiple eruptions of mass public anger and may, in the end, be forced to make radical adjustments in energy policy or risk being swept aside. In fact, it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. Because climate change is going to inflict increasingly severe harm on human populations, the impulse to rebel is only likely to gain in strength across the planet. While circumstances may vary, the ultimate goal of these uprisings will be to terminate the reign of fossil fuels while emphasizing investment in and reliance upon renewable forms of energy.

Fukushima Protester Jailed For 21 Days Speaks Out

November 18, 2013 MsMilkytheclown1, www.youtube.com Resist! Energy, Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Energy, Video

Prof. Masaki Shimoji was Jailed for 21 days because he was speaking out against the way the Japanese government is handling the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster - burning debris, hiding test results, etc. He speaks out at a town hall in Berkeley, CA. "We are alarmed at the lack of testing currently in place to meet the present-and-growing threat of Cesium 134 and 137 contamination in our food supply. The time is past-due for a comprehensive response to radiation present in our food supply from the Fukushima disaster. " Alexis Lynn Baden-Mayer, Political Director, Organic Consumers Association. Now revealed there's 80 damaged spent fuel assemblies leaking radioactive materials in Fukushima storage pools — Kyodo: Removal attempt at Unit 4 starts later today — Japan nuclear official 'nervous', as one slip could result in monumental chain reaction (AUDIO) CBS News: 'Immense mystery' as sea stars being wiped out along West Coast, could be gone for generations — Bewildering disease is spreading and "no idea what's causing it, or how to stop it" — Timelapse shows all legs lost in 7 hours (VIDEOS) 'Anonymous' protests at California TV station over lack of Fukushima coverage — Show Host: I wonder if media paid not to report on it — Senior Scientist: Phony stories made up by National Propaganda Radio (NPR) Yale: Chief Arvol Looking Horse at U.N. to speak about Fukushima crisis and threat to future of humanity — 2001 Quote: "Contamination of our food and land now affecting way we think... disease of the mind has set in World Leaders... faced with chaos, disasters, diseases... end of life as we know it"?

Fukushima Update: TEPCO & Japan Begin To Face Reality

November 16, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Environment, Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear Energy

The Japanese corporation TEPCO is finally beginning to face reality. Removing the fuel rods from Fukushima will be a difficult and dangerous task. They had been saying -- no problem, routine, we've done this a thousand times before. Thankfully, they looked one more time and saw what we have been reporting -- this is a unique challenge, never been done before. The fuel rods are damaged and will be very dangerous to remove. They have to be removed because of the tremendous risk from an earthquake or tsunami. In the last month Fukushima has barely avoided catastrophe from both earthquakes, tsuanmi and a tidal wave. This is a very risky situation no matter what direction TEPCO goes. We are urging people to push to remove TEPCO and replace them with an international group of expert engineers, overseen by civilian experts and a transparent process. Join that effort here.

Bill Moyers Journal: Fighting the Good Fight

November 15, 2013 Staff, www.billmoyers.com Strategize! Democracy, Education, Finance and the Economy, Fukushima, Health Care, Housing, Nuclear Energy, Occupy

“When people ask me ‘what kind of medicine are you practicing?’ I usually say, ‘I’m practicing political medicine because it’s the mother of all illnesses,’” Stein tells Bill. Flowers adds: “Once you start speaking truth to power and standing up for the right things, it’s very empowering.” Stein and Flowers serve as the president and secretary of health, respectively, for the Green Shadow Cabinet, an organization offering alternative policies to the “dysfunctional government in Washington, DC.” This week, Bill talks with them about their personal journeys fighting for policy change — including arrests for acts of civil disobedience — and the pressing challenges they’re focusing on, such as the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

VIDEO: Fukushima: The Beginning of The End Of Nuclear Power | Resistance Report #12

November 9, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., AcronymTV, www.yuotube.com Resistance Report Activism, Fukushima, Marijuana, Women's Rights

The hear no evil see no evil attitude of mainstream media outlets here in the United States about the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima nuclear facility in Japan does not obscure the fact that, in the attempt mitigate future catastrophic damage, the global community is faced with challenges unique in the history of humankind. Members of the Green Shadow Cabinet traveled to the UN on Thursday to deliver a petition signed by 150,000 citizens of the world demanding that the government of Japan transfer responsibility for the Fukushima reactor site to an international engineering firm overseen by a civil society panel and an international group of nuclear experts. Additionally, the petition demanded that the global media be permitted around-the-clock access to accurate information throughout the entire process of removal of the spent fuel rods so that the international community can be informed of any risks to its health. Also covered this week’s episode of the Resistance Report:

Cynical US’s Hidden Agenda In Offer To Help Japan With Fukushima

November 9, 2013 Rianne Teule, www.greenpeace.org Educate! Corporatism, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

The US has “kindly offered” to help Japan with the decommissioning of the Fukushima reactors and the problems with the ongoing leakages of radioactively contaminated water. Is the US being the good Samaritan? Unfortunately not. Before the US will provide assistance, Japan has to sign the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage(CSC). This is an international treaty that supposedly provides an international regime on nuclear liability -- the who-should-pay-for-a-nuclear-accident issue. But the real aim of the CSC, along with other international conventions on nuclear liability, is to protect the nuclear industry. It caps the total compensation available after a nuclear accident at a level much lower than the actual costs. The companies that supply nuclear reactors and other material are exempt, they don't have to pay anything if there is an accident.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – People Power Expressed In Elections

November 8, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Elections, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Fracking, Fukushima, GMOs, TPP

Sometimes it feels like elections are an exercise in futility. We live in a mirage democracy in which major party candidates are vetted by the corporate machine before they get on the ballot and third party candidates who represent the values of the movement are undercut by actions in which the major parties collude against them. History instructs that in this environment, it is important to build the movement and use what tools are available to shift power to the people. San Francisco-based lawyer-activist Randy Shaw writes in his new edition of The Activist’s Handbook “that neither politicians nor political parties are the prime movers for progressive change.”

Take Action For International Assistance With The Crises At Fukushima

November 8, 2013 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

On November 7, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) started removing the spent fuel rods from the damaged Reactor 4 building. This task, which may take a year to complete, requires great care and precision. The rods are damaged and displaced. If a rod breaks, or rods get too close to each other or are exposed to air, a catastrophic reaction could begin and release massive quantities of radioactive material. Not only has TEPCO demonstrated that it is overwhelmed by the crises at Fukushima, but it has also not been forthcoming about the problems they face. Similarly the Japanese government has not been pro-active or forthcoming enough about this situation. The Abe Administration is pushing a state secrets act that would make the repercussions for blowing the whistle severe.

2013 Nagasaki Appeal On Nuclear Power And Weapons

November 7, 2013 5th Nagasaki Global Citizens’ Assembly for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Fukushima, Nuclear Energy, Wars and Militarism

Although more than 50,000 nuclear weapons have been eliminated since 1986, more than 17,000 remain. It would only take a small number of these weapons of mass destruction to end civilization and most life on earth. Nine countries possess nuclear weapons, another five host U.S. nuclear weapons on their soil, and more still base their security on alliances with nuclear weapon states. Countless atomic bomb survivors worked hard until their last days for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The danger of nuclear annihilation, by accident, miscalculation or design continues to cast a dark shadow over humanity’s future. In addition, the failure of the nuclear weapon states to achieve more progress toward a nuclear weapons free world is undermining the legitimacy of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).

Poem: A Walk With Toshio

November 7, 2013 Martin Steingesser, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Environment, Fukushima, Nuclear Energy

Tsunami becomes a household word, along with foreign names: Saito, a village on the northeastern coast of Japan; Toshio Abe, an old man who heard the siren, ran, climbed a hill and looked back to watch the wave rise. Wreckage carpets the news. Toshio walks along a road, on either side nothing but rubble, only him and the mid-stripe curving away to the sea, a narrow blue band, a few distant islands like a view of islands across the harbor where I live. Where I live, seagulls sail above rooftops, wings brushed rose in morning sun, around me the hum of conversation, white porcelain cups and dishes, and I wonder about who’s tumbled in the wave, who’s left standing on shore. Days later, radiation crackles at the broken power plant.

International Community Demands New Direction, Transparency At Fukushima

November 7, 2013 Green Shadow Cabinet Fukushima Sub-committee, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Environment, Fukushima, Government, Health Care, Nuclear Energy

Members of the Green Shadow Cabinet Fukushima subcommittee and allies deliver a letter signed by more than 150 organizations and individuals from across the globe and petitions signed by more than 150,000 people to the United Nations today calling for a new direction in the management and clean-up of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. As more information is revealed about the ongoing crises at Fukushima and the difficulties faced by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Japanese public and the global community recognize that the situation requires immediate and independent intervention. TEPCO has failed to demonstrate competence in managing the situation, and they continue to place profits before safety. TEPCO is cutting corners and mistreating workers, which is adding to the deterioration of the situation. They have also shown themselves to be untrustworthy hiding information about serious problems at Fukushima.

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