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FIRST PUBLISHED: 11:44, 06 May 2012 | LAST UPDATED: 08 September 2013
"Be able to suspend your anger at injustice, able to switch your focus from stating the problem to addressing solutions, there are avenues available. If you would like to elevate your discussions from the argumentative "he said, she said" to letting the facts declare themselves, and, especially, if you are in a position of authority from which you can champion performance of due diligence, act now."
- Jeff Green (paraphrased)
There's still a potential for x80 Chernobyls at Fukushima. This would be devastating to the entire world; in fact it would be the end of life as we know it. Check some of the data and be surprised and a little dismayed that the Nippon government are allowing the firing up of two reactors to save money this summer; that's after all 54 had been closed down indefinitely. Then we have the ageing nuclear reactors elsewhere on the planet to consider (439 at last count). Incidentally, the Chernobyl aftermath is still poisoning the Northern Hemisphere as we speak -- the mainline media don't mention this. I mean, how sensible was it building 54 reactors in an earthquake zone subject to regular significant earth movements and oceanic disturbances in the first place? It really is worth catching up on some intel regarding this apocalypse in waiting . . .
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"It is no exaggeration to say that the fate of Japan and the whole world depends on NO.4 reactor." Letter to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, from Mitsuhei Murata, former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland and Senegal.
Does Daiichi 4 Spell the End?: 'Cesium-137 is 85 Times Greater Than at Chernobyl'
reclaiming its property
the North Pacific
rippled
Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to catastrophic collapse; could unleash 85 times Cesium-137 radiation of Chernobyl; human civilization on the brink
http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html
white doves
from all around the world
flying to Japan
EXTRACT FROM PRIOR LINK
"The No. 4 pool is about 100 feet above ground, is structurally damaged and is exposed to the open elements. If an earthquake or other event were to cause this pool to drain this could result in a catastrophic radiological fire involving nearly 10 times the amount of Cs-137 released by the Chernobyl accident. The infrastructure to safely remove this material was destroyed as it was at the other three reactors. Spent reactor fuel cannot be simply lifted into the air by a crane as if it were routine cargo. In order to prevent severe radiation exposures, fires and possible explosions, it must be transferred at all times in water and heavily shielded structures into dry casks. As this has never been done before, the removal of the spent fuel from the pools at the damaged Fukushima-Dai-Ichi reactors will require a major and time-consuming re-construction effort and will be charting in unknown waters." (http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/nuclear-expert-fukushima-spent-fuel-has-85-times-more-cesium-released-chernobyl-%E2%80%94-%E2%80%9Cit-woul) -- Mr. Robert Alvarez, former Senior Policy Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Security and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Energy
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1u8hcmSl4
Note: He says "10 times" the Cesium-137 of Chernobyl. Others say up to 85 times. Nobody is 100% certain of what would actually occur because this has never happened before. We are in uncharted territory as a civilization, facing a unique and imminent threat to our continued survival. And both governments and the corporations that assured us nuclear power was safe are playing their "cover my ass" games while the world waits in the crosshairs of a nuclear apocalypse.
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html#ixzz1u8gefcev
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BACKSTORY UNEXPURGATED
An unprecedented look at the disastrous handling of the accident at TEPCO's nuclear power station explains why Japan still doesn't trust nukes: Fukushima Daiichi: Inside the debacle
Fukushima
oh, Fukushima—
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Human race being terminated by 'scientific suicide' "The entire Northern hemisphere is now imminently threatened by a massive, "global killer" radiation release from failing Fukushima reactor No. 4. Our world is right now just one earthquake away from a radiological apocalypse, and we were put into this position by scientists who promised us that nuclear power would be safe and inexpensive."
Mike Adams (Natural News)
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035790_scientific_suicide_humans.html
amongst the rubble,
a child's hand waves—
in the breeze
S.O.S. alert: Help STOP Out-of-control Science from destroying us all
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035837_science_survival_human_race.html#ixzz1ulEFKhJb
S.O.S. Infographic
Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035847_plume-gate_Fukushima_radiation.html#ixzz1ulDCCwno
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If Fukushima goes down maximum the global effect will be x85 times worse than Chernobyl
Never-seen-before shots of Chernobyl nuclear disaster that cost two of the four photographers their lives
in a Nippon puddle
one leaf
glows
Preparing for Fukushima 2.0: Earthquake Activity is Increasing in The Ring of Fire. . . . .
Mike Adams presented a Fukushima mega-meltdown special on the Friday, May 11 edition of the Alex Jones Show. Adams talks with Arnie Gundersen [Fairewinds.com] the chief engineer of energy consulting company Fairewinds Associates and a former nuclear power industry executive. Mr. Gundersen continues to warn about the cataclysmic potential of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant and is now warning about serious problems at the San Onofre nuclear plant in San Diego. Mike also talks with Doctor Len Saputo, a board certified doctor of internal medicine and the founder of the Health Medicine Forum, a non-profit educational foundation. Dr. Saputo will talk about health issues related to the Fukushima disaster. Mike interviews Melinda Olson, a Minnesota mom who received a harassing letter from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture for allegedly violating food-handling regulations. Olson says she plans to ignore the state's warning. [See video below -- interview starts around 33 minutes in]
RELEVANT SEGMENT FROM PREVIOUS VIDEO
Sadly, despite knowing that the soil is toxic, décorum silences any interruption of the norm.
gardening
in Tokyo's nuclear waste
good neighbours
The problem with WA: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2005289/The-toxic-truth-Japans-harmony-tsunami.html
Discussion: https://sites.google.com/site/inthesoundofwater/home/splash/zhuangzi/humility
Senator: Fukushima Fuel Pool Is a National Security Issue for AMERICA "After visiting Fukushima, Senator Ron Wyden warned that the situation was worse than reported … and urged Japan to accept international help to stabilize dangerous spent fuel pools." - Washington Post
Japan nuke-free for first time since '70 "No reactors shut for regular scheduled checks have gone back online since the triple-meltdown crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power station in March 2011. All 50 of the nation's viable reactors must now undergo mandatory two-stage stress tests to determine if they can resume operations, a measure introduced amid the nuclear crisis." - Japan Times
Learn more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120506a1.html
Summer voluntary power curbs set "The government released its summer power-saving plan Friday, asking households and businesses served by seven utilities to voluntarily cut consumption by 5 to 15 percent to deal with an expected shortage amid the nationwide atomic plant shutdown" - Japan Times
Learn more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120519a1.html
Nuke crisis caused by Japan, not quake: Kan "But he said the disaster — the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 — laid bare a host of even bigger vulnerabilities in the nuclear power industry and its regulations, ranging from inadequate safety guidelines to crisis management, all of which he said need to be overhauled." - Japan Times / Learn more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120219a2.html?fb_ref=article_japantimes
Overview of Greed and Complacency
Nuclear apologists play shoot the messenger on radiation "TWENTY-FIVE years after Chernobyl, many billions of dollars are at stake if the Fukushima reactor meltdowns cause the so-called "atomic renaissance'' to halt or even slow down. This is evident from the nuclear industry's vociferous attacks on its critics."
- Helen Caldicott / Learn more: http://tinyurl.com/3bnngc2
Fukushima disaster is 'nuclear war without a war'
"Because no efforts are being made to contain Fukushima, as was done with Chernobyl, the facility itself is essentially a grounded nuclear weapon that every second of every day is waging war against Planet Earth. And as far as the human race is concerned, thousands have already died as a result, with millions more to follow in the years and decades to come as the unrelenting spew of radiation settles in every crevice of the global ecology, spurring rapid increases in cancer and other deadly conditions."
- Ethan A. Huff, Natural News / Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035950_Fukushima_nuclear_war_disaster.html
in-depth. . . .
Dr. Helen Caldicott
PHYSICIAN – AUTHOR – SPEAKER
http://www.helencaldicott.com/
The Medical Implications of Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age
On 19 April, Dr. Caldicott gave a presentation at University of Wisconsin.
Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Nuclear Age
Video [57mins]: http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videos/39682
On The Beach—
following a summer breeze
into literature
Japanese smartphone manufacturer builds phone with radiation detector
"Anti-nuclear sentiment is high, with advocacy groups in Tokyo and other cities calling for radiation
monitoring at schools and other public facilities." - Japan Times
Learn more: http://goo.gl/Be1nK
Revealed: Radioactive tuna from Fukushima meltdown
could be making its way onto YOUR plate
"While scientists claim that the fish is currently safe to eat, many
of the effects of radioactivity on the human body are still unknown."
- Daily Mail / Learn more: http://goo.gl/DGGWI
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Oi reactors' restart is vital, Noda stresses
Units said safe; move needed to keep power, economy going
"If we end (nuclear power generation) or if we continue to avoid reactivating
reactors," everything will grind to a standstill, Noda told a news conference.
- Japan Times / Learn more
Oi reactors won't be at max by late July
"The catastrophe resulted in the shutdown of all of Japan's 50 workable reactors.
If restarted, the two Oi units, each which has output capacity of 1.18 million kw,
would be the first to return to operations."
- Japan Times / Learn more
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Further restarts hinge on new watchdog
"Although the government instructed Kansai Electric Power Co. to resume operations at the Oi power station in
Fukui Prefecture on Saturday, the fate of the nation's other 48 reactors will remain in limbo until the launch of
a new nuclear regulator later this year." - Japan Times / Learn more
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even in the rain
or especially
Why I Don't Buy Japan's Nuclear Restart
"We have a problem distinguishing between wants and needs. Needs are food, clothing and shelter. Wants are
iPods, Lady Gaga and nuclear energy. Honestly, we could all do with a good scolding from Mother Nature."
- by Amy Chavez, Columnist, The Japan Times / Huffington Post -- Learn more
(Our comment on the previous item -- click image to enlarge.)
a Fukushima cow
in Japan Times, its ribs
as water
M U S I N G
"Massive Tokyo rally decries atomic power
Organizers say 170,000 turned out to demand nuke-free Japan"
- Japan Times / Learn more
all in a dream
Frankenstein cherry blossoms
eat Japan
SPECIAL REPORT
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: Author Says Nuclear Meltdown Good for the Environment "Silence, cover-ups and lies about the extent of the effects of the radiation have cost untold millions of deaths. The partial meltdown at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory nuclear salt reactors in 1959 went undisclosed to the public for decades, with total effects unknown. A recent survey found 48 of 65 nuclear reactors in the U.S. are leaking, with many of them introducing tritium, the radioactive element of hydrogen, to the environment. Our recent investigation into Austin’s nuclear secrets raises further questions about illegal dumping of waste and the lack of disclosure to the public on nuclear issues." - Aaron Dykes / Learn more
IMPORTANT ANALYSIS WITH GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS
Fukushima: Probability theory is unsafe "Assumptions and probability are for the theoretical dreamers. If you have a hot reactor, submerged in water and this reactor is without the power to circulate the coolant that can shut it down, then you have to find another way to cool it no matter what. If you have lost your last resort of power and heat sink, you should not have taken on the responsibility to operate a nuclear plant in the first place. That is lesson of Fukushima."
- KENICHI OHMAE, Japan Times / Learn more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120418a4.html?fb_ref=article_japantimes
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Fish caught near crippled Japanese N-plant with 2,500 times the legal limit of radioactivity for human consumption "A fish caught close the the Fukushima nuclear plant is over 2,500 times the legal safe radiation limit for seafood, the plant's operator has revealed." more
"Tales of spectral figures lined up at shops where now there is only rubble are what psychiatrists say is a reaction to fear after the March 11, 2011, disaster in which nearly 19,000 people were killed." Yahoo! News
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Good-Fortune Island. . .
they say the statues are haunted,
perchance to
10-07-13 "Sea Water Contamination Feared At Fukushima Plant" Huffington Post
Fukushima Rad News 7/4/13: Tepco's Corroding Tanks
4 Jul 2013TEPCO: Corrosion may be responsible for leak, Operator of the crippled Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant says chemical corrosion was likely to blame for a leak in a new filtering system.
24-07-13 Fukushima: Radioactive cesium levels jump 9,000 percent in just three days, nobody knows why
Fukushima Leak Is An 'Emergency,' Watchdog Official Says
Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is
creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's
nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily
Japan's nuclear watchdog has declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a "state of emergency."
Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it's now clear that TEPCO has engage in a
two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude.
Fukushima Tank Leaks 300 Tons Of 'Highly Radioactive' Water At Nuclear Plant
TOKYO — The operator of Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant said Tuesday that about 300 tons
(300,000 liters, 80,000 gallons) of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of hundreds of storage tanks
– its worst leak yet from such a vessel.
Natural News exclusive: Fukushima victim exposes Japanese government's attempted bizarre brainwashing of
radiation victims The following is a first-person account of attempt by the Japanese government to brainwash
victims of Fukushima radiation poisoning into believing radiation would not harm them if they simply "smile."
Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know
Tensions are rising Japan over radioactive water leaking into Pacific Ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear plant, a breach that has defied the plant operator's effort to gain control.
Fukushima in freefall: radioactive water filters taken offline, Tepco in desperation as leaks just won't stop
After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now calling for international help...
TEPCO admits deliberately using radiation detectors that give deceptively low readings
As a result, thanks to the arrogance and criminal dishonesty of top-level TEPCO managers and bureaucrats,
yet another massive radiation release from Fukushima is inevitable. In fact, it's just one earthquake away.
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with pride-
Tokyo, 2020
The Olympics are heading to Japan after Tokyo wins right to host 2020 games beating Istanbul in IOC vote
IOC will be looking for an alternative venue well before 2020. Whatever the Japanese Government says, Fukushima is much worse than Chernobyl. There is no control of the radioactivity, nor any plan to deal with the devastating consequences of the melt-down of three reactors. Large parts of Japan will become uninhabitable and a very large area of the Pacific will become un-fishable well before 2020. We in Europe will also suffer form the fall-out. Australia had better be ready to receive ~50 million Japanese refugees. After all, they own large chunks of it. Boat people, Mr Abbott? To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: Nah, THIS is a problem. - Bobs , Hitchin, 08/9/2013
As Fukushima radiation rages, Tokyo awarded bid to host 2020 Summer Olympics, hilariously named the 'Safe Games'
How, exactly, is it safe to host the Olympics in a nation which absolutely no workable evacuation routes from a nuclear facility on the verge of collapsing into another deadly radiation release? The answer to that question is provided by Japan's Prime Minister Abe. He claims that Fukushima is no problem whatsoever, that no one has ever been harmed by it, and that it is fully under control!
we watched the blast
from a picnic area
on the edge of town
"Hopefully this is a challenge which will evolve us(under pain of expulsion from evolution)." — jp
“Fire’, Panel 2 of the Hiroshima Panels, by Iri and Toshi Maruki
(Collection of the Hiroshima Panels Foundation Maruki Gallery)
Virtually unknown in the west, The Hiroshima Panels are as profound
an antiwar work as Pablo Picasso's famous mural, Guernica. . . . . . .
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kings and their armies sweep over
a cornfield
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NOTE: L1-2 of this post's themed haiku honkadori's (literary connotationin a ku) to a similar lament for Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . .
https://sites.google.com/site/artslab13/horrorshima-aug-6th-1945
(Honkadori / Honsetsu)
on the beach-
I get a surprise
looking up
Queen's World War 3 speech: Found in the archives, the dress rehearsal for disaster
Deep in the corridors of Whitehall at the height of the Cold War civil servants prepared a speech for monarch to deliver at the outbreak of World War Three between a nuclear-armed Soviet Union and West.
Bosnia war survivor warns of things to come in collapse of America
butterfly dreams—
a present of dew and nectar
seems forever
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