All posts by Hutchins AAron

Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport. My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front). Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42. Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
Fukushima

Confusion in way Radiation Levels Reported for Fukushima Daiichi disaster!

NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) is reporting that the confusion over radiation levels is because reports were made sometimes in microsieverts, other times in millisieverts.

1 millisievert equals 1000 microsieverts.  1 rem equals 10 millisieverts.  1 millirem equals 10 microsieverts.

There was more confusion during the nuclear plant official’s press conference. Reporters wanted clarification because the Prime Minister had just announced radiation levels were dangerously high, yet nuclear plant officials continued to down play the levels.

Local government officials complained to the media that nuclear plant officials and the national government are not communicating with local officials.  Reporters asked plant officials how they were notifying people, and local governments, of the evacuation orders. They answered they were using radio broadcasts. This is not practical because most people have lost everything including radios.  If they have radios, there is no power to run them.

 

Fukushima

Reactor 4 Fire taking Priority, Considered More Serious than Explosions

Officials now say that they are focusing on putting out fire at reactor 4.  Fire is more serious than the earlier explosions.

Reactor 1 & 3 still being flooded with sea water.  Reactor 2 can not be flooded after its explosion, a short while ago.

Officials continue to ask people to get inside. Adding that if you have laundry hanging up outside to leave it.  Take off shoes.

This continued stressing of  getting inside tells me this is really bad!

Fukushima

Fear of Further Explosions

Live press conference; official indicating more explosions possible, because they said they are working to “…prevent further explosions”.

Reporters asking for officials to clarify radiation level reporting, because they use different terminology each time in regards to levels officially reported.

Officials now saying get inside, try to get inside concrete buildings.  Telling people to “dust off” themselves before going inside.

Fukushima

Reactor 4 on Fire, Hole found in Reactor 2, Worst Case Becoming Reality

Japanese government officials say Fukushima plant 1, reactor 4 is on fire.  A hole has been found in reactor 2, which was earlier reported that a loud bang, or explosion sound, heard from inside.

Reactor 4 was being shut down at time of the quake/tsunami.  Exposed rods were spent, but are still radioactive.  Overheating might have caused fire that is currently burning inside the reactor.

Hole in reactor 2 might have been a result of the explosion sound heard from inside reactor.  They speculate there was a hydrogen explosion.

Prime Minister has expanded evacuation area, to 30km.  Japanese asked to stay inside, doors and windows shut, asked not to use air conditioning or any ventilation system.  Japanese government holding emergency meeting to figure out what to to.

Japanese reporters are asking for clarity, because officials seem to be down playing situation, on one hand saying not to worry, but on the other telling everyone to stay inside.  The implication from Japanese reporters is that officials are not telling truth about damage at nuclear reactors.  Officials also say people should stay inside, but, if they can leave to leave.  Reporters pointing out that other sources for radiation readings say radiation readings are “quite high”.  Officials are talking around radiation readings.  Officials now saying that high radiation readings coming from reactor 4, which is on fire.

 

Fukushima, International, U.S.

Japan Nuclear Crisis a Creeping Disaster

“It looks like the situation is creeping towards a radiological disaster,” said John Large, a nuclear consultant.  He also says that he believes Japan will experience a worst case scenario.  Partly due to officials not being honest about the situation.

Another problem is that the weekly weather forecast is predicting the winds will shift southward, which would blow radiation clouds onto Japan.  Currently the winds are blowing eastward.

Retail pharmacies in Japan report they have run out of anti-radiation Iodide pills.

Richard Thornburgh, who was Governor of Pennsylvania during the Three Mile Island incident, says “You can’t assure against every kind of natural disaster.”  He also admitted that officials are helpless in the face of natural disasters.

Fukushima

Comment by U.S. Navy Officer indicates seriousness of Radition Leaks

“The immediate action was to get out of the area,” said USN Commander Jeff Davis.  This was part of the explanation of why U.S. ships were moved away from Japan.

In just a few minutes 17 personnel were exposed to a months worth of radiation, even though the helicopters they were in were 60 miles away from the Fukushima nuclear plants.  The radiation clouds are moving eastward, away from Japan, which could explain why radiation levels being taking onshore in Japan look low.

Gregory Jaczko, of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, claims there is little threat of radiation spreading to U.S. territories.

If anyone is keeping track of statements made by government officials in the past few years, the track record shows their statements can not, and should not, be trusted.

International

Arrogant Russian Politican says Japanese should move to Russia

Vladimir Zhirinovsky has offered an invitation to the People of Japan, to move to unpopulated areas of Russia.

He says they will never half to worry about living on an unstable island again.

His also let slip his real reason for wanting Japanese to move to Russia: “Russia will even benefit if such hardworking people join us.”

Zhirinovsky also invited Muammar Gaddafi to move to Moscow.