22 July 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company says external power, needed to support efforts to control the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, has been cut.
There was a sudden surge of electricity which tripped a breaker controlling power to reactors 3 and 4. They are now using back up generators, and they are trying to find out why external electric power failed.
For months now, Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has been demanding that Tokyo Electric Power Company improve working conditions for their employees, including contractors. Officials have also been demanding to know why TEPCo is taking so long to get all the employees tested for radiation exposure (at least 1,500 are still awaiting tests). Now it turns out that 198 newly hired employees are missing!
The Japanese government has given TEPCo until 29 July 2011 to get all workers tested for radiation. The government is also demanding an explanation for the disappearance of 198 workers who were hired AFTER the 11 March disasters.
Earlier in the week TEPCo admitted that it could not find 132 employees, but after the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency investigated it turns out that 198 are missing.
Government officials are concerned that TEPCo’s lack of accounting for its employees is just par for the course; from day one of the nuclear disaster TEPCo officials have proven they have a lackadaisical attitude towards managing all aspects of running a nuclear plant. (or maybe they’re what are called ‘ghost workers’, they never existed, they were created on paper to ripoff taxpayers)
Japanese officials now say at least 1,400 contaminated cows made it to consumer markets. More and more rice hay is being found contaminated.
Rain and wind are helping to spread radiation, from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, all over Japan.
The Japanese government is considering a beef buy back program, to help the stricken cattle industry. No one in government ever considered the effects of radiation on cows, and now the Japanese cattle industry is crashing.
It’s now clear that no one in government was concerned about the effects that rain and wind would have, on spreading radiation across Japan.
On 20 July 2011, Japan’s Science Ministry released a radiation map of Japan. It showed that radiation levels 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, are just as high as areas just 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the damaged plant.
This means Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is putting out enough radiation to cover the northern half of the main island Honshu. It explains the extensive contamination to cattle feed and cows, among other things.
The radiation map is based on airborne radiation samples taken from 22-23 June 2011.
21 July 2011, Japan’s Health Ministry has discovered that at least 1,200 cesium contaminated cows actually made it to the consumer market. The national government has ordered a stop to all cattle shipments, and says efforts to protect the people from contaminated food must now focus on cows.
On 20 July 2011, test results showed that rice straw in ten prefectures, used for cattle feed, was found to be contaminated with cesium. This proves the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is spreading radiation all over Japan.
A Japanese university professor is blaming the Japanese government for the contaminated beef, because cattle farmers were never told how to protect their cows, and their feed, from radiation contamination.
Add Niigata and Miyagi Prefectures to the growing list of cattle, and hay farms, hit with high levels of cesium. Local officials now believe at least 578 contaminated cows made it to the consumer markets.
In Fukushima Prefecture, officials now say the level of cesium found on cattle feed is 520 times the national limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram of cesium. At least seven Fukushima farms are known to have contaminated cows.
Now cattle on farms in Niigata Prefecture have been found to be internally contaminated as well. The feed for the cows came from Miyagi Prefecture.
The high amounts of cesium contamination proves that the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is worse than officially stated, and continuing.
The amazing thing is that cattle farmers have not been ordered to stop shipping their cows to market, at this point it is just a request to voluntarily stop shipping their cows. Fukushima officials expect the number of contaminated cows, reaching consumer markets, to go up.
While attention has been focused on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, there is another nuclear plant in trouble. The Ohi plant in Fukui Prefecture.
Kansai Electric Power Company runs the Ohi plant, and Reactor 1 has been on emergency cooling, and now it has failed.
KEPCo says they were able to shut down the reactor. They are trying to find out why the emergency cooling system failed. The local prefectural government says that even if KEPCo finds out the cause, they will not allow them to re-start the reactor.
Japan has 54 reactors, now they are down to only 18 operating reactors. Japan is heavily dependent upon nuclear generated electricity.
“It does highlight the fact that the Palace was trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes last week.”-Graham Smith, anti-monarchy organization know as ‘Republic’.
Despite the belief, in the U.S., that the Royal Family in the United Kingdom are just figure heads, the Royal Family commands true Royal Power, and it’s the British taxpayers that pay for it.
The Queen of England is just a figure head when it comes to the larger Commonwealth, but in the United Kingdom she reigns supreme: She is the Governor of the Church of England and Scotland. She is the Head of the Armed Forces. She opens every yearly session of Parliament by dictating the agenda. She is the one who signs new laws, not the Prime Minister.
Now the part of the British Parliament, know as the House of Commons (representing the non-lorded class of people), has just released a financial study of the taxes paid to the Royal Family in the past year. They discovered that the Queen ripped off British taxpayers by at least 4 million pounds ($6 million).
Last week the Royal Family officially stated that they got only 32.1 million pounds, but it turns out they actually got 36.2 million pounds ($52 million). On top of that the House of Commons investigation (conducted by the Commons Library) revealed other expenses, paid by taxpayers, that were not accounted for by the Royal Family.
Last year’s estimated cost of the Royal Family, to the British taxpayers, was about 202 million pounds ($326 million). The Royal Family gets taxpayer money from several programs called Grants. The biggest one is called the Sovereign Grant, and is guaranteed never to decrease.
People of the United States should realize what the Royal Family is doing now is basically what the Royal Family did to push the American colonies to declare independence in 1776, leading to the Revolutionary War. Back then King George 3rd was ripping off the American colonies by making them pay taxes with no representation, and no return benefit (just like our grand U.S. government is doing to us now).
14 July 2011, officials from Fukushima Prefecture discovered that a second farm, in Asakawa Town, shipped off as many as 42 internally contaminated cows.
The discovery was made as local officials expanded their testing of locally grown feed for cows.
On top of the discovery that more contaminated cows, from other farms, were shipped off to market, the latest hay samples revealed increasing cesium contamination. The latest tests show 97,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium! Previously the highest reading was 75,000. The national safe limit is 500.
The contaminated cows from Asakawa Town, were shipped to Yokohama, Tokyo, Sendai and Chiba. They were shipped between 08 April and 06 July.
14 July 2011, I tried to access the Idaho Department of Environmental EPA RadNet site. All I got was a “Server Error” message.
I then tried accessing the Idaho Falls RadNet site, directly through the Environmental Protection Agency’s web site. I got an EPA page that said “The requested item was not found on the EPA’s Web Server”.