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More Fukushima Fallout: Japan misleads with latest radiation report! TEPCo so incompetent it must be ‘taught’ how to measure radiation!!!

06 September 2013 (12:40 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/15 Shahrivar 1392/02 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“Technical advisors employed by the NRA have been working on teaching TEPCo the way of radiation monitoring and advising TEPCo to map an on-site radiation distribution.”-Nuclear Regulation Authority report, 05 September 2013

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) announced that it has finally begun to take part in regular safety inspections at Fukushima Daiichi, on 04 September 2013, more than two years after the nuke melt downs began!

The NRA has also released Pacific Ocean contamination data, collected by Tokyo Electric Power Company over the past six months.  However, when you realize how the two major North Pacific Ocean currents work, you’ll realize the collection points are fallacious.

TEPCo collects ocean water samples at two dubious points; along the coastline north of Fukushima Daiichi, and along the coastline south of Fukushima Daiichi.

Collection point north data shows cesium 137 (Cs-137) hit 3.3 becquerels per liter in June, and tritium (H-3) hit 8.6 becquerels per liter, also in June.  Collection point south data is considered “under limit of detection”, which does not mean there is no radiation, it means it’s at a level officials believe is safe.

Collection point north is 30 meters (98 feet) from the cooling water outlet for Reactors 5 and 6.  Back in 2011 the public was told those reactors were OK, but, they were suffering cooling problems as well.

Collection point south is 1.3 kilometers (0.8 mile) from the cooling outlet for Reactors 1, 2, 3 and 4.  Reactors that are in slow burn melt down.

These reported radiation levels are perplexing to me because it seems the groundwater under Fukushima Daiichi is reported to have much higher levels of contamination, and it’s pouring right into the Pacific Ocean.  This brings me to my point: TEPCo’s collection points are bogus.

The collection points are north and south of the reactors, but, the contaminated groundwater flows out northward at first, then eastward to Canada and the United States.   This is due to the convergence of the North Pacific Ocean’s main current called Kuroshio (Black Current or Black Tide) coming up from the south, and the Oyashio (Parental Current or Parental Tide, aka Kurile Current) coming from the north.  They converge, conveniently, at Hokkaido and the north eastern end of Honshu (where Fukushima Daiichi is).

This northward then eastward flow of water, from Fukushima Daiichi, could explain why radiation levels at the southern collection point are lower than the northern collection point.  Also, collection point south is too far away from the disaster site to affected by the contaminated groundwater anyway!

Collection point north, while almost 100 feet from the site, could still be far enough away from where the aquifer is entering into the ocean.  Both northern and southern collection points are outside the man made breakwaters along Fukushima Daiichi’s Pacific front.  The northern collection area is actually blocked by the northern breakwater.

Independent testing done by individuals and NGOs, at places like the mouths of rivers flowing into the ocean, and further out to sea, shows radiation levels are much higher than what TEPCo has been reporting.   Now that the NRA is in charge will we get more accurate reports?

 

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: Korea enacts Japanese fish ban! Demands testing on other food products!

06 September 2013 (02:06 UTC-07 Tango)/01 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/15 Shahrivar 1392/02 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

“The measure comes as our people’s concerns are growing over the fact that hundreds of tonnes [metric tons] of radiation contaminated water leak every day from the site of Japan’s nuclear accident in Fukushima. The government has concluded that the information provided by Japan so far has failed to make it clear how the incident will develop in the future. Under the new measure, all fisheries products from this region will be banned regardless of whether they are contaminated or not!”-South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries

Republic of Korea has banned fish from eight of Japan’s Pacific coast prefectures: Fukushima, Ibaraki, Gunma, Miyagi, Iwate, Tochigi, Chiba and Aomori.

Korea is also asking for radiation test certificates on not just fish products, but dairy and other food products from Japan.

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More Fukushima Fallout: More confirmation groundwater pouring into Pacific Ocean is radioactive!

05 September 2013 (10:16 UTC-07 Tango)/29 Shawwal 1434/14 Shahrivar 1392/01 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

Tokyo Electric Power Company says a monitoring well dug 10 meters (32.8 feet) from a contaminated water tank farm, is contaminated with deadly beta rays.

A water sample was taken at 7 meters (22.9 feet) depth, which means it is at the level of the aquifer that flows under Fukushima Daiichi (amazing; they built a nuke plant over such an aquifer).  The sample contained 650 becquerels per liter of beta contamination, including strontium.  The aquifer flows into the Pacific Ocean at a rate of at least 300 to 1-thousand metric tons per day.

The Black Tide (Kuroshio) of the Pacific Ocean flows from Northern Japan across to British Columbia/Washington/Oregon.  As I warned in April 2011.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Korea considers banning all food imports from Japan! Why isn’t U.S. media reporting 6.6 million pounds of contaminated fish?!?

04 September 2013 (10:11 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Shawwal 1434/13 Shahrivar 1392/29 Xin-You (7th month) 4711

Japan’s NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) reporting that the boss of Republic of Korea’s (aka South Korea) dominant political party, Hwang Woo-yea, wants the RoK government to ban all food products from Japan.

RoK fish mongers have already reduced the amount of fish they get from Japan, as well as testing the fish for radiation contamination.  Two weeks ago Korean news media reported massive amounts of Japanese caught fish brought for sale in Korea as being contaminated with radiation.

RoK’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety reported that since 11 March 2011, 3-thousand metric tons (6.6 million pounds) of fish from Japan contained cesium contamination!  However, they also claim the cesium levels were under RoK’s maximum safe limit of 100 becquerels per one kilogram.

Revelations from subcontracted Tokyo Electric Power Company employees show that no progress has been made on stopping the slow burn nuke melt downs of the GE designed reactors of Fukushima Daiichi.  Early today, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority reported the discovery of another deadly leak of radiation, which is ending up in the Pacific Ocean.

The revealed ongoing and increasing leaks into the ocean has destroyed Japan’s Pacific coast fishing industry.  It’s that revelation that has RoK leaders wanting an outright ban on not just fish products from Japan, but all food products.

Japan’s NHK has been reporting that more than 60% of farm land in north eastern Honshu are still unusable, two and a half years later.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Killer Beta Radiation Spikes Again! Too late to stop catastrophe! More incompetence revealed by whistleblowers!

04 September 2013 (02:10 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Shawwal 1434/13 Shahrivar 1392/29 Xin-You (7th month) 4711

“It is too little, too late!”-Koide Hiroaki, Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute, commenting on new efforts to stop the ongoing slow burn nuke melt down at Fukushima Daiichi

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority reporting that deadly beta radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant has spiked to 2200 millisieverts per hour!  Just days ago a leaking water tank was emitting 1800 millisieverts per hour, which can kill you within 4 hours of exposure.

The latest radiation ‘leak’ was found in a third tank farm.  The tank farms sit on top of a hill, above the nuclear plant.  The latest radiation readings were taken just above ground level.  There are at least 900 1-thousand metric tons capacity water storage tanks around Fukushima Daiichi, all were hastily assembled by bolting together panels.  The panel seams were sealed with a resin, but over the weekend it was discovered the resin is breaking down and coming through the seams.

The contaminated water is flooding into the Pacific Ocean.

On the PBS Newshour, Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, explained why after two and a half years Tokyo Electric Power Company is only now detecting such high levels: “….the first measurement was done with an instrument that only went up to a hundred millisieverts and maxed out!”  

In other words TEPCo was using inadequate radiation detectors!

Another PBS Newshour guest revealed that the general public is hearing about the catastrophe only because subcontracted TEPCo employees are whistleblowing: “…..some of the media reports coming from Japan are saying things like subcontractors are….literally leaking information that the tanks….put together, in great haste, under severe cost pressure from TEPCo….these subcontractors are saying, well, in the long run, even medium run, you would expect them to start springing leaks. So, clearly, the operator hasn’t been on top of the situation and people are getting fairly nervous about that.”-Kenji Kushida, Stanford University

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: Water tank seals degraded by radiation! Another killer leak discovered!

03 September 2013 (21:18 UTC-07 Tango 02 September 2013)/27 Shawwal 1434/12 Shahrivar 1392/28 Xin-You (7th month) 4711

Workers at Fukushima Daiichi discovered the reason for the massive leaks of highly contaminated water from the tanks farms.  The soft resin used to seal the bolted together tanks is degrading and being pushed out by the pressure of the water.

Over the weekend TEPCo contracted workers discovered high levels of radiation emitting from three 1-thousand metric tons capacity tanks, within the same tank farm.  One had enough radiation to kill a human after 4 hours of exposure (1800 millisieverts per hour of beta rays)!   The workers also found the degraded resin seals coming out of the seams on the tanks.

Today, inspectors discovered another water tank leaking killer radiation, at a different tank farm.  This one will take more time to kill you as it was emitting only 100 millisieverts per hour of deadly beta rays!

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More Fukushima Fallout: Radiation levels so high now, it will kill you in 4 hours!!!

01 September 2013 (02:35 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Shawwal 1434/10 Shahrivar 1392/26 Xin-You (7th month) 4711

Radiation levels continue to skyrocket at the deadly Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant.  Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say there has been a huge increase, about 18 times greater, in radiation readings coming from a leaky water tank.

The tank was last checked on 22 August 2013.  Today it is reading 1800 millisieverts per hour, TEPCo officials say this level can kill a person in 4 hours!

TEPCo also reported a leaky pipe, connecting storage tanks.  The puddle of water under the pipe has 230 millisieverts per hour of contamination.  This is more evidence that there are many unaccounted for leaks still to be discovered (there are more than 900 storage tanks, and growing since they have to build new ones to store the ongoing water leaks from the reactors).

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More Fukushima Fallout: TEPCo says radiation levels continue to increase! Inspectors say quake did not cause reactor damage!

31 August 2013 (22:06 UTC-07 Tango 30 August 2013)/24 Shawwal 1434/09 Shahrivar 1392/25 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) concluded that the 11 March 2011 earthquake did not damage the cooling system for the GE designed reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.  Investigations as to why the General Electric designed reactors melted down are ongoing.

Tokyo Electric Power Company officials revealed that radiation levels continue to increase, especially since 27 August 2013.  They said higher concentrations of strontium and other beta ray isotopes are being detected in water flowing through runoff ditches around the nuke plant.  Officials with NRA say it’s a sign there are more leaks that have yet to be discovered!

 

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: TEPCo tries to tarnish image of dead hero Fukushima manager, proof of False Flag Op? TEPCo now blames understaffing for mistakes!

23 August 2013 (15:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“We want officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company to have the courage to admit the limits of their efforts, instead of simply repeating ‘they are doing their best’.”-Fuketa Toyoshi, Nuclear Regulation Authority

NRA Commissioner, Fuketa Toyoshi, took an inspection tour of Fukushima Daiichi.  He blasted TEPCo officials for covering up the severity of the two and half years old nuclear disaster.  He also blasted TEPCo for not keeping records of ongoing radiation contamination!

Tokyo Electric officials whined back at Fuketa, saying they need at least four times their current number of subcontracted workers to properly deal with the disaster!  Keep in mind that TEPCo has been getting big bucks from the Japanese government to deal with this, and now they say they don’t have enough employees?

TEPCo is now removing soil from around the contaminated water tank farms.  It’s because they now realize that the contaminated water not only ran off into the Pacific Ocean, but soaked into the ground (before ending up in the ocean, as well).

More than 1-thousand people attended the funeral for hero Yoshida Masao.  He was in charge of Fukushima Daiichi when the 9 quake and tsunami hit on 11 March 2011.  He stayed on trying to fight what was later admitted to be melt downs in several GE designed reactors.  He died last month from esophageal cancer.

TEPCo tried to tarnish the hero’s image, blaming him for lack of tsunami protection.  TEPCo also downplayed his sudden case of throat cancer after fighting the nuke melt downs, saying it was not related!

It’s now been revealed that it was Yoshida Masao who made the emergency decision to use ocean water to cool the reactors.  This is because he knew they were melting down!  It’s also been revealed that TEPCo ordered him to stop cooling the reactors with ocean water!  This can mean only one of two things: TEPCo officials are totally incompetent, or they wanted the melt downs to occur!

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Food Crisis: Think Tuna prices are high now? Red Sea Tuna now extinct!

23 August 2013 (00:07 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01  Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“We are currently experiencing some of the most severe supply shortages that the tuna industry has ever faced.”-Unnamed fish supplier in a memo to a Rhode Island restaurant in 2012, trying to explain why prices are going up

On 22 August 2013, Japan’s Fisheries Agency warned they will order a reduction in allowed bluefin tuna catches by their fishing industry.  In March 2013, there were reports that the Japanese news media almost ignored a study by the International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the Northern Pacific that said not only have tuna populations been falling for decades, the population decline has snowballed towards extinction!

The latest survey estimates that today’s Pacific bluefin tuna population has crashed by 96.4% over the past few decades, and current catches could guarantee extinction: “Over 90% of the catch is juveniles, caught in nursery and spawning areas. Literally, the zero to three year age class, so they’re being caught on their spawning grounds before they can reproduce, with no catch limit, and gee whiz, we’re at 3.6% of the original population. I wonder why?”-Amanda Nickson, Pew Environment Group

In fact, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Ministry of Fisheries Affairs has reported a loss of 70% in its Red Sea fishing industry. Fishermen say it’s partly due to the extinction of Red Sea tuna caused by pollution: “The entire expanse of sea lying between Jeddah and Qunfuda is polluted and has resulted in the depletion of the fish resources and the total disappearance of tuna.”-Abdullah Al-Sayed, a fisherman in Jeddah.

Even the cheap generic brand of canned tuna could become unaffordable. Tuna packed in veggie oil has already gone way up because veggie oil prices have skyrocketed!

Even the cheap generic brand of canned tuna could become unaffordable. Tuna packed in veggie oil has already gone way up because veggie oil prices have skyrocketed!

It should matter to Japanese because tuna is king of sushi.  It’s estimated that the Japanese eat 80% of the tuna caught around the World!  Japanese have been hearing about this for awhile, but maybe they haven’t noticed that since 2007 some tuna sushi has been replaced with different fish (some reports mentioned deer meat).

But Japanese fish mongers have seen for years a decline in available tuna in the fish markets, resulting in higher prices every year.  In January 2013, a 489 pounds bluefin tuna sold for a record $1.76 million USD in Japan!

(don’t forget to add the incredible amount of deadly radiation that’s been pouring into the northern Pacific from Fukushima Daiichi, since 2011:  Pacific bluefin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California)

It’s not just bluefin that’s disappearing, it’s other tuna as well.  Today, the latest global tuna catch records show that only 18-thousands metric tons of tuna were caught last year, it hasn’t been that low since the 1980s.

Vietnam just reported that its fishing industry is having a hard time catching tuna, their exports are down as result.

An official with New Zealand’s Secretariat of the Pacific Community recently blamed lack of government management and monitoring of fishing industries: “…this is done country by country, different countries are doing different things and taking different approaches to their management and data collection. Some are focusing more on the tuna fishery….that’s being lost to the countries because the fishery wasn’t managed sustainably. We know that many of the main centers around the Pacific, the main urban centers, there is a shortage of fish and people are needing to go further to catch fish, or in some countries they are trying to bring in fish from other locations in the country, so we know there is over fishing occurring…..management is to include the monitoring so that you actually have an idea of what’s happening in the fishery…”-Lindsay Chapman

India has just lifted its trawling fishing ban, many people in India hope it will bring fish prices down, because the industrial fish farms just could not produce enough fish to offset the lack of wild caught fish due to the trawling fishing ban.  Not only are tuna prices way up in India, so are sardine prices.

What was that about “teach a man to fish”?