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Fukushima, International, U.S.

More Fukushima / Nuke Industry Fallout: IAEA preps for global spread of radiation! More contaminated fish! Radioactive dirt dumped in California? USN knew personnel were being irradiated!

28 February 2014 (00:11 UTC-07 Tango)/27 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/09 Esfand 1392/29 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Fishermen in Fukushima Prefecture report they’ve caught scorpion fish that are contaminated with as much as 110 becquerels per kilogram of radiation.  That’s much higher than the original government safe limit, which was actually raised to 100 Bq per kilogram after the Fukushima Daiichi nuke disasters.  However, the Fukushima fishing association is maintaining their own standard of 50 Bq limit.  The fishing association says they are down to about 32 specie of fish that are so far within their 50 Bq radiation limit.

A report in The Asia Pacific Journal says the U.S. Navy knew the USS Ronald Reagan carrier group was being hit by high levels of radiation, during Operation Tomodachi.  This is based on recorded U.S. government phone conversations: “…The ship was adhering to that requirement and detected some activity about two and a half times above normal airborne activity using on-board sensors on the aircraft carriers. So that indicated that they had found the plume and it was probably more significant than what we had originally thought. The second thing that has happened is we have had some helicopters conducting operations from the aircraft carrier and one of the helicopters came back from having stopped on board the Japanese command ship in the area, and people who had been on — were on the helicopter who had walked on the deck of the ship, were monitored and had elevated counts on their feet, 2500 counts per minute. But I wanted to get you guys on the line and my expert on the line so we can get the data and then the proper people notified.”-Admiral Kirkland Donald

Notice that what Admiral Donald was saying , not only he is concerned for U.S. military personnel, but he’s indicating that the Japanese navy ships and personnel were already highly irradiated!

The discussion pointed out that after ten hours of exposure USN and USMC personnel would be dealing with a “thyroid dose issue”.   Radiation detectors on the USS Ronald Reagan itself showed levels at 30 times ‘normal’ background.

In San Francisco, California, workers removing contaminated dirt from the old Hunters Point Navy Shipyard report that nobody is conducting required radiation checks, before the dirt is hauled off to a garbage dump.  Kevin Jackson, a truck driver whose been hauling the contaminated dirt to land fills for the past three years, testified at a community meeting: “They would dig it up and load the trucks and take it out. It’s not being tested for RAD.”

Officials from the U.S. Navy told residents that they do not believe all the dirt is contaminated, hence the lack of testing.  However, local news media say that in 2012 the USN stated that all the dirt will be tested.  The scandal was revealed by an unnamed whistleblower who told California officials that “no radiological soil assessment has been or is being performed”, period!

I’ve reported on the pseudo-secret U.S. Department of Energy taxpayer funded radiation detection program in Jamaica and Bahamas.   Now the Bahamian Ministry of Health has revealed they’ve spent more than $80-thousand USD (probably money from the U.S. DoE) to join the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

It was also revealed that this month the IAEA held meetings with Bahamas’ Department of Customs, Environmental Health Services, the Port Authority as well as the Ministries of Health and National Security.  Apparently there is growing concern about irradiated products coming from Japan, or other countries: “Imported products that are at greatest risk from elevated levels of radiation emission will be identified and items found emitting radiation will be returned to the primary source where the imported product originated.”-Perry Gomez, Health Minister of Bahamas

 

 

Fukushima, U.S.

More Fukushima / WIPP Fallout: People in New Mexico contaminated! Japan admits to storing weapons grade plutonium? Water filtration stopped again! More proof medical radiation is bad for you!

27 February 2014 (02:42 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/08 Esfand 1392/28 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

The neo-imperialist government of Japan has agreed to hand over plutonium to the Obama regime.  Officials admitted they bought the plutonium from the United States, during the Cold War, for “research purposes”.

Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that once again filtration of radioactive water was stopped.  This time it was an automatic shutdown after alarms sounded.  TEPCo is now investigating to find out why the system automatically shutdown.

TEPCo’s Managing Executive Officer, Anegawa Takafumi, has admitted that continued problems within the corporation, relating to the handling of the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi disaster, are due to a “corporate culture”.   Anegawa told government officials that it would take time to change the pervasive and irresponsible corporate culture.

Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Maine, United States, are asking Canadians in British Columbia to step up where the Canadian government is failing.  Woods Hole is asking Canadians to take part in the same independent and individually funded program that people in California, Oregon and Washington are taking part in: ourradioactiveocean.org

13 employees at the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico, were notified that they are contaminated with radiation.   The notice came from the Department of Energy, and was the result of testing of samples taken off the employees.   The workers were exposed during the 14 February “radiological event”.

In PortMiami, Florida, part of the cruise ship terminal was evacuated after an old school compass set off radiation detectors.  The compass was made in the 1950s, and has a luminescent dial made with radioactive materials (which is very common even in old watches and old glow in the dark model kits and toys).

Uganda’s Atomic Energy Council is warning against the overuse of medical testing and treatments that are radioactive.  It turns out that many medical clinics in Uganda are not licensed to use such things, but are.

There has been increasing studies showing that medical radiation testing and treatment is actually causing harm.  The latest study says children with brain tumors don’t live long if treated with radiation: “The first comprehensive, large-scale cohort study of the long-term survival of children treated for low-grade gliomas, the most common pediatric brain tumor, finds that almost 90% are alive 20 years later and that few die from the tumor as adults. However, children who received radiation as part of their treatment had significantly lower long-term survival rates than children who were not radiated.”

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More Fukushima Fallout: More sabotage as cooling system fails?

25 February 2014 (00:00 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/06 Esfand 1392/26 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Tokyo Electric Power Company is investigating why cooling fans on the reactor Unit 4 spent fuel pool stopped working.

Alarms sounded, and work to remove fuel rods was stopped.

A secondary power source for the cooling system is being turned on.  TEPCo suspects the power cable for the primary power source was cut by throwaway workers while they did excavation work on a road.

Fukushima, U.S.

More Fukushima / WIPP Fallout: North American scientists announce ‘It’s here!’ Throwaway workers to finally get tested for radiation! More radiation leaks at WIPP!

25 February 2014 (18:54 UTC-07 Tango 24 February 2014)/24 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/06 Esfand 1392/26 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“The only cesium-134 in the North Pacific is there from Fukushima.”-John Smith, Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia

At the yearly American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Meeting in Hawaii, scientists revealed that cesium-134 and 137, from Fukushima Daiichi, has hit the coastline of British Columbia, Canada.  At this point the levels are still considered safe, but they definitely came from Japan.  The radiation is expected to make its way down the Pacific coast of North America, as far south as Baja California, and then back towards Hawaii.

A study done in 2012 by Kyoto University revealed that some people in Fukushima Prefecture are being exposed to 2.5 millisieverts per year (mSv/y) of radiation.  In Japan the safe level for people not working in the nuclear industry is 1 mSv/y.  Getting a CT scan exposes you to at least 2 mSv/y, if the operator doesn’t screw up and OD you.

Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry is finally going to study the health of 2-thousand throwaway workers who were involved at the beginning of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster back in 2011.  The ministry is looking specifically for thyroid cancer.  To this point no official agency has done such a survey, in fact even the employers of throwaway nuclear power workers are not required to monitor their health, or how much radiation they’ve been exposed to (that’s why they’re called ‘throwaway’ workers).

The number of children in Fukushima Prefecture with thyroid cancer is at 33.  Most Japanese officials blow it off.  However Russian health officials, who monitored the situation after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, pointed out that it took as long as five years before thyroid cancer showed up in the victims of that nuclear disaster.

The latest airborne radiation testing at the U.S. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico, shows elevated radiation levels.  Officials with the DoE claim those levels are still below the amount of radiation you get from a properly done chest x-ray.

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More Fukushima/Nuke industry Fallout: New record high contaminated 100 tons Fukushima leak caused by sabotage? New Post Disaster Illness! U.S. whistleblowers fired over new Hanford disaster! New radiation leak at WIPP! NASA says women are radiation sponges!

20 February 2014 (01:22 UTC-07 Tango)/19 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/01 Esfand 1392/21 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

TEPCo made conflicting statements Wednesday night.  First they reported a 100 metric tons leak of highly contaminated water from a storage tank.  Officials said it leaked from a seam, and was already repaired.  Then later Tokyo Electric Power Company revealed that once again their poorly trained throwaway workers had overfilled a storage tank, the true cause of the leak.  The leak caused by inadequately trained subcontractors resulted in yet another record level of strontium-90 being flooded into the groundwater: At least 230-million becquerels per liter!  9300 becquerels per liter of cesium-137 also leaked.

Then, after further investigations it was discovered that valves on the water tank, that should have been closed, had been opened.  TEPCo also stated that an overflow alarm had gone off, but the cheap throwaway workers who responded to the alarm reported nothing was wrong!  It was six hours later before the massive leak was stopped!  Can you say, sabotage?

Also, TEPCo claims that throwaway workers shorted out one of two thermometers monitoring temp levels in reactor Unit 2, Fukushima Daiichi. Can you say, sabotage?

The Fukushima Prefectural Federation of Fisheries Co-operative Associations is taking upon themselves to start a new radiation monitoring website.  It will publish radiation results from local fish catches.

Fukushima Prefecture is holding off on efforts to build new housing for nuclear refugees who are still living in forced evacuation shelters elsewhere.  Officials put up for bid a 16 unit apartment contract in the city of Aizuwakamatsu, and even though eight contractors expressed interest, none of them bid!  A similar thing happened back in August, when the city of Koriyama asked for bids on a 20 unit complex, twice, and no contractors bid!  This comes as the Japanese Ministry of Health released results of a study on tsunami/nuclear refugees who are still not allowed to return to their homes.  The study found that the stress of being forced to live in evacuation shelters is actually killing people (this syndrome is being called Post Disaster Illness)!  Specifically, the study found that nuclear refugees from Fukushima Prefecture are suffering the most.  More Fukushima residents have died since the March 2011 disasters, than during the initial earthquake/tsunami!  1656 deaths in Fukushima Prefecture are being blamed directly on Post Disaster Illness!

Japanese and U.S. scientists are conducting a study of cows in Fukushima Prefecture.  They want to see if radiation contamination will show up in the cows’ DNA samples.

In a new report, researcher Kyle Cleveland concluded that U.S. personnel involved in Operation Tomodachi were exposed to radiation levels at least 30 times “normal” levels.

A new radiation leak has been detected at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico.  This follows several radiological emergencies at WIPP.  This latest emergency involves an external airborne contamination alarm going off.  The Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center detected trace amounts of plutonium and americium outside the nuke waste facility, for the first time in WIPP’s short history.  Scientists are checking filters on the detectors.

A second whistleblower at the infamous Hanford nuke site, in the U.S. state of Washington, has been fired for revealing new problems.  Government taxsucker, URS Corporation, fired Donna Busche.  She reported a coverup of construction safety issues at the new $12.3-billion Bechtel-URS nuke waste vitrification plant, more than a year ago.

Busche went through all the federal government whistleblower protect hoops, to try and protect her job, but it was for naught.  A politician from Oregon says this proves federal whistleblower protection laws are a joke: “Today’s decision to fire yet another Hanford whistleblower shows that nothing has changed at the Energy Department when it comes to stifling dissent.”-Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator for Oregon

In October 2013, URS fired Walter Tamosaitis.  He was research and technology manager at the new Hanford vitrification plant.  He warned of safety violations concerning the construction of the nuke waste facility back in 2010!

The European Space Agency (ESA) is studying why women are more susceptible to radiation, and what can be done to prevent it.  The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has long known that women accumulate at least double the radiation contamination in outer space, than men.  This is the real reason why a human trip to Mars is not practical.  Now realize that women on Earth are subjected to many medical procedures involving radiation, like cancer detection and treatments, and no wonder cancer rates just keep going up.

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More Fukushima Fallout: Snow storms flood Strontium 90 into groundwater! Uranium prices crashing! Native Americans demand action! Men avoiding contaminated women?

16 February 2014 (15:50 UTC-07 Tango)/15 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/27 Bahman 1392/17 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that almost 20 tons of strontium-90 has flooded into the groundwater around the contaminated water storage tank farm near reactor Unit 4!  The cause: Snow storms and the idiotic way they tried to raise the height of the ridiculously short barrier wall around the tank farm.

Japan has been hit with record level snow.  Fukushima Daiich is literally hot with radiation so it all melts.

Last year TEPCo feebly tried to raise the short height of flood barrier walls, around the tank farms, by simply clamping a new section of wall on top of the old one.  The clamps are just sections of steel plate bolted to the walls.  Throwaway workers found at least seven massive leaks coming from the join between the top and bottom walls around the tank farm near reactor Unit 4.  The water contains 23 becquerels per liter of strontium 90.

More big snow storms are forecasted to hit Japan.

It turns out the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster has resulted in crashing uranium prices.  Several uranium mining operations have actually stopped digging for the radioactive rock (Paladin Energy lost $255-million USD in the last half of 2013).  Uranium prices are below $36-per pound.

Former president and CEO of Ontario Hydro International, Thomas Drolet, says the official estimate for the cost of ‘cleaning up’ Fukushima Daiichi is a lie.  He says it will cost at least $120-billion, and taxpayers are going to pay for it!

For weeks now, native Americans (aka First Nations) in Canada have been demanding action by the evil British empire government in Canada.  They want the government to begin official radiological testing of food sources along the Canadian Pacific Coast.

The Korean edition of Maxim men’s magazine is getting Japanese all hot and bothered.  That’s because it has an article claiming to tell men how to find and date women not contaminated by radiation!  Here’s how one Japanese responded: “I’ve gotten tired of looking at these ridiculous stories day after day. I’m begging you, please just ship everyone off to Mars.”

International, U.S.

Proof medical radiation equals cancer! Nix chemo, x-ray and even mammograms! Cell phones do cause cancer, because they emit radiation, get rid of 4G! International conspiracy? Wake up people!

14 February 2014 (02:10 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/25 Bahman 1392/15 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“We are silently irradiating ourselves to death.” Doctors Rita Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bedman, of the University of California, went on to basically say the entire U.S. medical industry is incompetent: “A recent study at one New York hospital found that nearly a third of its patients undergoing multiple cardiac imaging tests were getting a cumulative effective dose of more than 100 millisieverts of radiation — equivalent to 5,000 chest X-rays. And last year, a survey of nuclear cardiologists found that only 7 percent of stress tests were done using a “stress first” protocol (examining an image of the heart after exercise before deciding whether it was necessary to take one of it at rest), which can decrease radiation exposure by up to 75 percent.”

“Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma have a 20-fold increased risk of mesothelioma after radiotherapy.”–Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Malignant Mesotheliomas Arising in Patients With a History of Radiation for Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

A new study (see quote above) has surprising results, saying most new cases of mesothelioma are not caused by asbestos, but by exposure to radiation!  Specifically, in the case of lymphoma people who got radiation treatment ended up getting mesothelioma, sarcomas of soft tissue and bone, stomach, breast and/or thyroid cancers!  By the way, the study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital was published back in November 2013, where was the main stream news media?

If you think about it, cancer cases have been increasing as more and more stupid people are duped into undergoing medical radiation treatments for a variety of things.  ‘Simple’ x-rays, MRIs and even angeoplasty are bombarding you with radiation!

In Tennessee, former and current employees at the incompetent Methodist Medical Center are suing after being exposed to excessive levels of radiation put out by the hospital’s CT scanner.  Here’s what happened: CT scan operators and recording equipment are supposed to be protected by a radiation proof wall. Employees knew something wasn’t right when the recording equipment was failing.  Turns out the wall between the CT scanner and recording/observation room was not radiation proof!  Now realize that people are put into these massive electromagnetic radiation generators!  (Mmmm, now what was that about all those TSA scanners at the airports?)

In Washington DC, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued new rules for the use of medical radiation, admitting that previous treatments are dangerous: “….this standard will…..reduce normal tissue irradiation so patients can reap the benefits of this treatment without the risk of damaging adjacent healthy tissue. The RT-1 standard defines specific technical ‘fail safe’ provisions…..in a safe and effective manner”

The California Dental Association (CDA) has changed its rules for taking x-rays of people’s teeth.  It’s all about reducing medical radiation risks: “Dentists have a responsibility to protect their patients and staff, and to make sure necessary exposures are kept as low as reasonably achievable.”-James Stephens, CDA

Out of Canada, a study warns that treating prostate cancer with radiation causes other cancers: “Cancers of the rectum, for example, cancers of the bladder, cancers of the bloodstream that occurred…we think due to the radiation exposure.”-Robert Nam, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Also out of Canada, researchers are saying radioactive mammograms do nothing to prevent cancer deaths in women!!!

Back at the beginning of 2013, researchers from United Kingdom reported that radiation treatment for breast cancer resulted in increased risk of heart problems for women.

Researchers in New Zealand are now warning that a skin protectant should be used during all medical radiation treatment.  The University of Otago Wellington’s Department of Radiation Therapy says from day one of radiation therapy people must protect their skin.  In the past five years, five hospitals were randomly studied.  The Kiwi researchers also point out that the international medical community is grossly ignorant about the effects of radiation treatments!

I’ve always asked this question since I was a kid: “If radiation causes cancer, why do doctors treat cancer with radiation?”

In Japan, the Fukushima prefectural Dental Association, along with Tohoku University and Ohu University, has begun a five year study of the effects of the ongoing nuclear disaster there, on children’s teeth.  Radiation collects in baby teeth.  Researchers hope to collect 4-thousand teeth per year, as they fall out when the adult teeth come in.  The baby teeth will be definitive proof as to how much strontium and cesium people are being exposed to.

In May 2011, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared cell phones a Group 2B human carcinogen, because they emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs).   Then, in 2013 a new study backed up the UN’s claim.   The researchers surveyed Swedish people, with brain cancer, about their cell phone use.  They also compared land line phone users to 2G and 3G cell phone users.  Land line phone users had an incredibly small rate of brain cancer, while users of 3G phones had the highest rate of brain cancer.  This could be because the more powerful your cell phone is the more RF-EMF it puts out!

In India, the mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Sunil Prabhu, is refusing to allow the installation of 4G cell phone towers saying “…we don’t know up to what level the towers will emanate radiation. Hence, we have instructed the administration to find out the possible effects of the same on residents’ health.”

Landlords in the United Arab Emirates have revealed that people are refusing to live in apartments near cell phone towers.

By the way, a study out of U.K. says wearing tinfoil, or aluminum foil hats (sorry Number 9 from Futurama), does not block radiation from cell phones! However, they also said cell phones are safe!

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: First Jamaica, now Bahamas reveal United States secretly monitoring radiation levels in Caribbean!

13 February 2014 (12:55 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/24 Bahman 1392/14 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

“The Department of Energy is committed to working with the Bahamas government and the Port Authority to insure that detection equipment is maintained properly and is operating at optimal levels.”-Neda Brown, U.S. Embassy Bahamas

Back in January 2014, I reported that Jamaican Customs officials revealed they had been trained at U.S. taxpayer expense, by the U.S. Department of Energy, to check all imports from Japan for radiation.  Now, Customs officials in the Bahamas are making the same claim!

Last month Bahamian news media asked government officials if they were part of the U.S. sponsored radiation detection program in Jamaica.  Officials stated that the Bahamas Customs Department is not trained to detect radiation.  Now that’s changing, again at U.S. taxpayer expense.

U.S. embassy official, Neda Brown, confirmed that the DoE is now working with the Bahamian government to take part in a “radiation detection program”.

 

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More Fukushima Fallout: Hawaiians fearful! Record levels of Cesium found in new test well! Medical personnel flee! New survey says people don’t trust main stream news reports! IAEA wants to dump more radiation into the Ocean!

13 February 2014 (12:35 UTC-07 Tango)/12 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/24 Bahman 1392/14 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712

The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wants TEPCo to conduct “controlled discharges” of radiation (including tritium) into the Pacific Ocean: “The IAEA team believes it is necessary to find a sustainable solution to the problem of managing contaminated water….”-IAEA International Peer Review Mission On Mid-And-Long-Term Roadmap Towards The Decommissioning Of TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Units 1-4 (Second Mission)

Tokyo Electric Power Company has revealed that a new groundwater test well is full of record levels of cesium 137 and 134.  The new well was dug near Fukushima Daiichi’s reactor Unit 2.

TEPCo detected 54-thousand becquerels per liter of cesium 137 and 22-thousand Bq per liter of cesium 134 in the groundwater.  They still don’t know where it’s coming from.  This week’s water c-137 samples are 30-thousand times higher than samples taken last week, at a different well.

The announcement came just a couple of days after Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority criticized TEPCo for hiding data on massive amounts of strontium 90 contamination.  The NRA officials said TEPCo detected the record levels of strontium 90 last September, but waited until five days ago to publicize it.  TEPCo had originally claimed they delayed publicizing the record levels of contamination because they believed their detection equipment was faulty.  (and if you’ve read all my Fukushima articles you’ll know they’ve used that excuse before)

A hospital in Fukushima Prefecture is asking for help, as many nurses refused to return to work after the March 2011 nuclear explosions.   Hirono Town Hospital officials held a recruiting event in Tokyo to try an convince nurses there to work in the nuclear disaster area.  Officials said that before the nuke disasters they had 33 nurses.  For awhile after they had only five nurses, but that number is now up to 20 nurses.  They say it’s still not enough for them to take on new patients.  The recruiting efforts include letting prospective nurses serve on ‘tours of duty’ in Hirono Town.  So far 20 nurses have served on the tours of duty, but only six have decided to stay on permanently.

The Fukushima International Association released the results of their study on foreign nationals living in the prefecture.  Most evacuated after the nuclear disasters began, but many have since returned.  However, only 53 out of 100 foreign nationals knew there was a nuclear power plant in the area prior to the explosions!  Prior to the March 2011 disasters 11190 foreign residents were living in the prefecture, as of June 2013 there were 9489 foreigners.  The number one complaint from foreigners was the lack of trustworthy information from the main stream news media, and government.

Fukushima Governor Sato Yuhei is once again pointing out the incompetence of neo-imperialist national government officials.  It turns out that the national government wants to use three towns, which are currently not adversely affected by the nuke disaster, as nuke waste storage sites.  Sato told the national government that the mayors are complaining that by turning them into nuke waste sites it will destroy their efforts to rebuild their towns.  If you think about it, why not store the nuke waste in the areas that are already highly contaminated?

A new $1-billion USD lawsuit has been filed against TEPCo.  It involves at least 79 USN personnel who took part in Operation Tomodachi, as well as a infant born with genetic problems, a U.S. teenager who was living near the disaster reactors when they blew up, and up to 70-thousand additional U.S. citizens!

‘Elected’ officials in the U.S. state of Hawaii say they are getting swamped with phone calls from people demanding proof that the food in Hawaii is not contaminated with radiation from Fukushima Daiichi!

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More Fukushima Fallout: Record 5-Million Bq of Strontium 90 dumped into the Ocean! TEPCo admits they’ve dumbed down radiation levels for the past 3 years! More children with thyroid cancer! Desperate scientists to use Algea to soak up radiation? U.S. scientist admits oceans are already nuked!

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Fukushima Prefectural health officials announced eight more children have thyroid cancer.  The number of confirmed thyroid cases have been steadily rising.  Back in August it was reported that 25 children had thyroid cancer, that number is now up to 33, with another 75 suspected as having cancer!  So far 270-thousand people have been examined.  Surprisingly, the prefectural health officials are not willing to blame the ongoing Fukushima Daiichi slow burn melt down!

Fukushima Governor, Sato Yuhei, has flipped the bird at the national government’s nuke waste disposal plan, saying the Prefecture will handle its own nuclear waste storage.  Sato has repeatedly made statements indicating the national government, and Tokyo Electric, are incompetent.  The governor is meeting with mayors from eight municipalities to come up with their own storage plan.

Tokyo Electric Power Company has revealed that they been dumbing down reported radiation levels for the past three years!  They blame it on “malfunctions of analytical equipment” that they kept using up until October 2013!

The first correction they’ve made is to readings they took from a test well (near reactor Unit 2’s Pacific Ocean water intake), back in July 2013.  Back then TEPCo said there was 900-thousand becquerels per liter of strontium-90.  Now, supposedly using properly working equipment on the water sample they saved from July, that level has jumped to a record 5-million Bq per liter of strontium-90!

TEPCo also admitted that because they knew their equipment was “malfunctioning” they kept secret the results from 140 radiation water samples taken between June and November 2013!

The national government of Japan (Nippon) is now considering establishing an official Fukushima Daiichi public relations office, to “properly” disseminate updates about the ongoing disaster.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have been studying the use of algae on radiation.  They say microalgae can absorb 90% of cesium.  Yeah, then what do you do with the radioactive algae?

German scientists say radiation levels outside Fukushima Daiichi perimeter exceed safe levels by 700%!  They blame the contaminated water storage tank farms, saying the strontium-90 in the water is reacting with the metal tanks, actually creating X radiation (X-rays) that easily pass through the metal tanks into the air!

By the way, Japan does not require any of the the “throwaway” contracted nuclear industry workers to be tested for contamination on a regular basis.  It also does not require the contractor and subcontractor companies to do their own radiation monitoring.  Recently a group of Japanese scientist visited Chernobyl, to see how the disaster there is being handled.  They admitted to Japanese news media that they were amazed at the high level of health care that is mandatory for Ukrainians working at the disaster site, because Japan does not even come close to that level of concern for its own people!

Russian officials have already estimated that at least two thousand Japanese “throwaway” workers have been exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation: “If they received the total dose in the course of a year, those people definitely were exposed to excessive radiation above the established norm. They are to remain under the doctor’s observation for the rest of their lives. The mere fact that such levels of radiation energy are registered means that inside a person certain processes have already been set off. And it is impossible to predict when and in what form of disease this will show.”-Maksim Shingarkin, Russian natural resources committee

Canada’s National Institute of Public Health of Quebec, and the Department of Public Health Agency of Health and Social Services of the Gaspésie-Îles -de-la-Madeleine, are monitoring radiation levels in 145 public housing units.  Officially they claim it’s to measure radon.

In the U.S. state of California, UC San Diego researchers have been sending ocean water samples to Timothy Jull, a professor of geosciences and physics at the University of Arizona. Jull says “What we’ve seen so far is a slow increase directly after the Fukushima accident. Now we’re looking for a larger reading, which should happen soon……….all part of building a picture of the disposal of this material over time and how long it takes to get over here.”

Jull added that the info will be of use for “future” nuclear accidents!  He also revealed that nuclear power plants around the world have been dumping radioactive iodine into the oceans for decades, and your government officials know about it: “I guess if we continue to dump large amounts of radioactivity into the ocean that’s not a good thing, but in the short term it’s not. People have known this for a long time and are sort of tracking it.”