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.