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

Another Japanese Nuke plant in trouble, CEPCo worse than TEPCo!

‘‘Neither the government nor we would be able to say it is okay to operate (the reactors) unless it is confirmed that they would be able to handle (accidents) in light of the latest findings.’’-Mizoguchi Zembee, Governor of Shimane Prefecture

Chugoku Electric Power Company (CEPCo) runs the Shimane nuclear power plant, and, apparently they have a worse track record than TEPCo.  Reactor 1 is currently shut down due to gross safety violations, and operation of Reactor 2 is under review.

The governor of the prefecture says he will not OK the powering up of Reactor 1, until the Japanese central government enforces new safety standards.  Governor Mizoguchi says the current safety standards are part of the reason for the ongoing disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.

The violation of current safety standards, with the operation of reactor 1, were discovered in March of last year.

In June of 2010, CEPCo officially admitted they had violated safety regulations at their Shimane nuclear power plant.

 

 

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TEPCo admits radiation contamination Will Exceed Chernobyl!

‘‘The radiation leak has not stopped completely and our concern is that the amount of leakage could eventually reach that of Chernobyl or exceed it.”-Official statement from Tokyo Electric Power Company

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says most of the radioactive material spewed from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is coming from Reactor 2.  Reactor 2 building exploded on 15 March.  They now know the reactor containment vessel was damaged, possibly breached, resulting in highly radioactive isotopes being emitted.

Also, radiation has been spread by the spent fuel rods, after the explosions, because the spent fuel pools were located on the top of the buildings.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says the current readings of radiation emitted is 10% of the Chernobyl disaster, but, TEPCo believes it’s likely Fukushima Daiichi will exceed the contamination caused by Chernobyl.

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Tokyo Disneyland hopes to open on Friday

Tokyo Disneyland is set to open on April 15.  Even thought it is more than 200 miles from the epicenter of the 11 March 2011, 9.0 earthquake, Tokyo Disneyland suffered damage from liquefaction.

https://youtu.be/5UiHBH5NLCI

They hope to open Tokyo DisneySea by April 28.  One of the conditions to opening, is a steady and reliable source of electrical power, to run the amusement parks.

International

Another aftershock jolts Japan, more warnings of 7.0 or greater

Initial reports say a 5.5 quake hit Nagano Prefecture.

Also, the Japanese Meteorological Agency warned that more aftershocks of 7.0 or greater could hit Japan.  Keiji Doi, earthquake prediction division chief, said the chance of aftershocks of 7.0 could continue for at least a year.

So far, more than 400 aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or larger have occurred since the catastrophic March 11 quake.

 

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Fukushima is now Officially as bad as Chernobyl!

The Japanese government just raised the level of the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi to 7.  That is the same level as Chernobyl.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision to raise it to the worst condition, under the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, because of the extremely high levels of radiation that is being spewed.  Also, it is based on the size of the area that is being contaminated, and the threat to life.

At one point Fukushima Daiichi was emitting up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour!

International

Terrorists bombed Minsk subway, Moscow on alert, graphic video

At least 11 people are dead, and as many as 103 wounded, after an explosion in a Minsk subway, in the country of Belarus.  The explosion caused Russian police in Moscow to search their subways.

Witnesses say there is a large crater where the ‘bomb’ went off.  Belarus police say it is an act of terrorism, they found the remains of a bomb that ahd been stuffed with scraps of metal.  One analyst says this is the first time for such an act of terrorism in Belarus.

Russia suffered a terrorist attack at one of its airports in January.  Russia has been asking Western leaders to help them in their fight against terrorism since the 1990s.

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