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More Fukushima Fallout: Radiation contamination levels skyrocket! 80-thousand becquerels of Tritium!

10 September 2013 (22:45 UTC-07 Tango 09 September 2013)/05 Dhu ‘l-Qa’da 1434/19 Shahrivar 1392/06 Xin-You (8th month) 4711

A week after reporting spikes in radiation contamination in test wells, a different groundwater test well shows beta ray contamination, including strontium, skyrocketing.

Tokyo Electric Power Company revealed that on 05 September 2013 they detected 80-thousand becquerels per liter of tritium in a well on the Pacific Coast side of Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 1.  The well is not a new test well, but has been there before the 11 March 2011 disasters.  TEPCo also admitted the radiation levels have increased from levels detected in the same well last year.

TEPCo also detected 32-hundred becquerels per liter of contamination at a well 20 meters (65 feet) north of a leaking water storage tank!  The week prior 650 becquerels per liter of beta contamination was found at a well 10 meters (32.8 feet) to the south of the same leaking storage tank.

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?

 

 

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.

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.

United States is the most prolific user of Weapons of Mass Destruction, even against its own troops!

04 September 2013 (11:05 UTC-07 Tango)/28 Shawwal 1434/13 Shahrivar 1391/29 Xin-You (7th month) 4711

“In World War I, the U.S. produced its own munitions as well as deploying weapons produced by the French. The U.S. produced 5,770 metric tons of these weapons, including 1,400 metric tons of phosgene and 175 metric tons of mustard gas.”-Wikipedia

“Agent Orange or Herbicide Orange (HO) is one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its chemical warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth defects as a result of its use. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.”-Wikipedia

Recently a study out of New Zealand revealed that an incredibly high number of Australian and New Zealand Vietnam veterans died from all kinds of nasty cancers.  Those Digger and Kiwi troops served in Vietnam in the same area that U.S. forces sprayed Agent Orange.

“A review of thousands of declassified government documents and interviews with former policymakers shows that U.S. intelligence and logistical support played a crucial role in shoring up Iraqi defenses against the ‘human wave’ attacks by suicidal Iranian troops. The administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush authorized the sale to Iraq of numerous items that had both military and civilian applications, including poisonous chemicals and deadly biological viruses, such as anthrax and bubonic plague.”Michael Dobbs, Washington Post

“The United States offensive biological weapons program was instigated by President Franklin Roosevelt……The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, located in Fort Detrick, Maryland, produces small quantities of biological agents, for use in biological weapons….”-Wikipedia

“The United States developed an anti-crop capability during the Cold War that used plant diseases…..”-Wikipedia

“In 1779, George Washington sent orders to General John Sullivan concerning the need to attack and destroy the Iroquois Nations.  ‘The immediate objects are total destruction of their settlements, and capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex possible.’   Washington was also an advocate of germ warfare, first introduced by Sir Jeffery Amherst after whom the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, and Amherst College are named. The idea of germ warfare with smallpox was suggested to Colonel Henry Bouquet, after which Colonel Bouquet wrote back: ‘I will try to inoculate the [Indians] with some blankets that may fall into their hands, and take care not to get the disease myself. As it is pity to expose good men against then, I wish we could make use of the Spanish method, to hunt them with English dogs, supported by rangers and some light horse, who would, I think, effectually extirpate or remove the vermin.’  About 60 years later, Andrew Jackson took Colonel Bouquet’s advice in his war against the Seminoles.”– Kurt Kaltreider, American Indian Prophecies

“During the Seminole War the Federal Soldiers used germ warfare weapons, such as leaving small pox infected blankets for the Seminole to take and catch the disease.…..At Yorktown, the National Park Service explains the role of Slaves as germ warfare weapons in the plaque reproduced here.”-?

“Mighty Chief Billy Bowlegs died from the scourge that felled tens of thousands of Native Americans following the arrival of European settlers on the continent. Between 1837 and 1870, at least four different epidemics struck the Plains tribes. Chief Billy Bowlegs was deported by the U.S. Army right into the teeth of one of those small pox epidemics.”Examiner

“The Chickasaw tribe probably had the easiest removal because there were fewer of them.  Nonetheless, 500 died of smallpox alone.  It has been said that the Cherokees suffered the most.  The Georgia militia invaded the nation destroying crops, burning homes, and scattering families.  Federal Troops rounded up the remaining tribe and herded them into concentration camps.  Disease spread and eventually one quarter of the tribe perished. Lastly, the Seminoles who were deceived by the government agents into signing the treaty, and they fought when authorities tried to enforce it.  The result was the second Seminole War in 1835 as the U.S. army moved to Florida to remove them. The last band of the Seminoles were force westward in chains in 1859.”Trail of Tears: 1830-1858

“…two nuclear weapons were used by the United States against Japan in World War II in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Altogether, the two bombings killed [initially] an estimated 200,000 Japanese citizens [including children] and injured another 130,000.”-Wikipedia

“Conducted in 1946 at Bikini, CROSSROADS [nuclear weapons test] involved approximately 42,000 [U.S. military] personnel, 251 ships, and 156 aircraft. The series consisted of an airdrop detonated at a height of 520 feet and an underwater shot conducted at a depth of 90 feet….”-Trinity Atomic Web site

“The Navy had provided most of the personnel for the earlier Pacific nuclear test series. It contributed the largest number to GREENHOUSE, too, but the Army and Air Force were also well represented…..Film badges were issued to individuals who might be exposed to radiation while performing their duties. In addition, over 75 film badges for each test were distributed among the six participating ships, to be worn from the day of the test to 7 days thereafter. Among the men in the test area during all or part of the testing operations, 2,416 were badged one or more times.”-Trinity Atomic Web site

“Operation BUSTER-JANGLE involved an estimated 7,800 DOD personnel….SWC sampling pilots and crews were authorized to receive up to 3.9 rem because their mission required them to penetrate the clouds resulting from the detonations…..”-Trinity Atomic Web Site

“…..8,700 DOD participants in Operation TUMBLER-SNAPPER…..The tactical maneuvers were designed in part to provide realistic training for ground units when supported by tactical atomic weapons and to determine the psychological reactions of troops participating in the exercise. The DOG tactical maneuver was the first Marine Corps maneuver of the CONUS tests….[in other words, U.S. Army and Marines were ordered to march about in an area hat had just been subject to nuclear explosion]-Trinity Atomic Web Site

“IVY engaged nearly 11,650 participants, of whom approximately 9,350 were military and about 2,300 were civilians. Most of the civilians and over 6,600 of the military personnel operated from Enewetak Atoll and from task force ships based there……operations were marred by an accident when a cloud-sampling pilot was lost at sea after his aircraft ran out of fuel. A seven-man rescue crew flew their aircraft over a fallout zone to reach the area of the downed airplane as soon as possible. In the process, the crewmembers received radiation doses ranging from 10 to 17.8 rem. These levels considerably exceeded the maximum permissible limit of 3.9 rem of gamma radiation established for Operation IVY participants……A crew of 12 in a second aircraft was overexposed when caught in fallout debris while on a photographic mission….”-Trinity Atomic Web site

“Operation UPSHOT­KNOTHOLE consisted of 11 nuclear tests, a number exceeding that of any previous nuclear test series….The Government wanted to show the American public that nuclear weapons could be used defensively, without destroying large urban centers and populations….An estimated 18,000 DOD personnel participated…..staff officers calculated [guesstimated] the effects of a nuclear detonation to determine a minimum safe distance for observing the blast; they later watched the detonation from the calculated position. Among the other activities, the operational helicopter tests performed by the Marine Corps were designed to investigate the capability of helicopters and their crews to withstand a nuclear burst and its effects.”-Trinity Atomic Web Site

“…Shot BRAVO, had a yield of 15 megatons and was the largest device ever detonated by the U.S. Government….approximately 12,700 DOD participants in this series had duty stations at the AEC design laboratories or were members of units performing separate experiments or various support roles. Almost all of the Navy support personnel…..personnel exceeded the maximum permissible limit of 3.9 rem of gamma radiation within any 13-week period of the operation. BRAVO fallout on some Navy ships resulted in personnel who had doses approaching or exceeding this limit. To allow for completion of the CASTLE tests, it became necessary to issue a number of waiver authorizations permitting doses of as much as 7.8 rem. In a limited number of shipboard cases, even this level was exceeded. Substantial overdoses from BRAVO, the highest for any test series, were accrued by the 28 Air Force and Army personnel on Rongerik Atoll and the 92 crew members of USS Patapsco, a Navy gasoline tanker that was overtaken by the nuclear cloud on the day following the shot while en route from Enewetak Atoll to Pearl Harbor…21 individuals on the USS Philip and 16 on the USS Bairoko sustained lesions that were classified as beta burns…”-Trinity Atomic web Site

“Operation TEAPOT was the fifth series of CONUS tests….troops [about 8-thousand] observing the ESS detonation….were positioned approximately 8 kilometers [4.9 miles] from the shot site……the Marine Brigade Exercise….involved about 300 officers and 1,950 enlisted men. The objective….to test the tactics and techniques employed if a nuclear detonation were used to support an air-ground task force. The troop test at APPLE 2, involving about 1,000 troops, was designed to demonstrate the capability of a reinforced tank battalion to seize an objective immediately after a nuclear detonation.”-Atomic trinity Web Site

Go to Trinity Atomic Web Site to view even more data on even more U.S. nuclear testing that directly affected military personnel and civilians.

“The U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus…….we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War 2!”-Dahr Jamail, DemocracyNow interview

Gulf War syndrome (GWS), also known as Gulf War illness (GWI), is a chronic multisymptom disorder affecting returning military veterans and civilian workers of the Gulf War. A wide range of acute and chronic symptoms have been linked to it, including fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, rashes and diarrhea. Approximately 250,000 of the 697,000 veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with enduring chronic multi-symptom illness, a condition with serious consequences. From 1995 to 2005, the health of combat veterans worsened in comparison with nondeployed veterans, with the onset of more new chronic diseases, functional impairment, repeated clinic visits and hospitalizations, chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, and greater persistence of adverse health incidents. According to a report by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, it showed that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan may also suffer from the syndrome.   Suggested causes have included depleted uranium, sarin gas, smoke from burning oil wells, vaccinations, combat stress and psychological factors, though only pyridostigmine (an antitoxin for nerve agents) and organophosphate pesticides have been conclusively linked.”-Wikipedia

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.

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

 

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!

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).

World War 3, West Asian Front: Iran increases air defenses around vital economic centers!

31 August 2013 (16:40 UTC-07 Tango)/24 Shawwal 1434/09 Shahrivar 1391/25 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“If any country decides to have the slightest aggression against Iran’s airspace, we will turn the sky of this sacred land into hell for them!”-Brigadier General Qader Rahimzadeh, Lieutenant Commander of the Iranian Army

Iranian officials announced they have boosted air defenses around not only vital economic centers but also around “oil zones” and “nuclear sites”.

They also revealed they have developed a new “highly mobile” phased array radar called Soundless Project, which can detect stealth aircraft and cruise missiles.