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YouTube Added: 17.01.2013

- Video: “Going from bad to worse, day by day” at Fukushima plant — “The situation don’t improve at all” (ENENews, Jan 17, 2013):

Title: Statement von Izumi Yamaguchi zur Fukushima-Diskussion am 18.01.2013 in Düsseldorf-Bilk
Source: grueneddorf
Date Uploaded: Jan 17, 2013

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Izumi Yamaguchi, from Tokyo, Japan: It will be 2 years since the accident of Tepco Fukushima nuclear power plant No. 1 soon.

However, the situation don’t improve at all, rather are going from bad to worse, day by day.

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Tags: Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, TEPCO

- Tepco plans to discharge contaminated water into the environment, “Getting permission of related departments” (Fukushima Diary, Jan 6, 2013)

Tags: Contamination, Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, TEPCO

- Tepco requested additional financial support of 697 billion yen for the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund (Fukushima Diary, Dec 27, 2012):

Tepco has estimated the total nuclear damage compensation to be 2.5 trillion yen and has been requesting the financial support from the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund based on the revised Special Business Plan approved on May 9, 2012.

However, after deciding the compensation standard of lands or houses, adding real estate and postponing the compensation term for spontaneous evacuees and harmful rumor of agricultural products, the estimated compensation amount increased to be 3.2 trillion yen.

On 12/27/2012, Tepco requested the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund for 697 billion yen of the additional financial support.

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Tags: Businesses, Economy, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, TEPCO

- US Navy Sailors Sue, Readings On Ships During Disaster (Simply Info, Dec 27, 2012):

We mentioned previously how a group of sailors are suing TEPCO and the Japanese government for withholding information and lying to the public and the US Navy about the radiation levels near Fukushima Daiichi during the early days of the disaster. FOIA releases from the NRC document some of the radiation levels and reporting from those early days that may have been part of the reason for the lawsuit. FOIA documents report a level of 10,000 uCi/cm3 by air filter measurement on the USS Ronald Reagan while it was 100 miles out to sea. This would have been on March 13, 2011. This level converted to becquerels would have been 370,000,000 bq/cm3. The Navy said it was 30 times normal levels. A “Mr. Mueller” in the NRC transcripts reported this regarding the levels found “And so we thought — we thought based on what we had heard on the reactors that we wouldn’t detect that level even at 25 miles. So it’s much greater than what we had thought. We didn’t think we would detect anything at 100 miles.” The NRC discussions also considered this to be a thyroid risk to those on board.

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Tags: Environment, Freedom of Information Act, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Military, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, TEPCO, U.S., USS Ronald Reagan

- American Sailors Sue Tepco for Lying about Fukushima (Washington’sBlog, Dec 27, 2012):

On the USS Ronald Reagan for Rescue Work

Preface:  Before you get too mad at the Japanese, remember that the U.S. government and nuclear industry are just as bad.  And America is largely dictating Japanese nuclear policy.

Courthouse News Service reports:

Eight crew members of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan, whose home port is San Diego, sued the Tokyo Electric Power Co. in Federal Court.

They claim the utility company, “a wholly owned public benefit subsidiary of the government of Japan,” misrepresented radiation levels to lull the U.S. Navy “into a false sense of security.”

Lead plaintiff Lindsay R. Cooper claims Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) intentionally concealed the dangerous levels of radiation in the environment from U.S. Navy rescue crews working off the coast of Japan after the March 10, 2011 earthquake and tsunami set off the nuclear disaster. Continue reading »

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Government, Health, Japan, Military, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, TEPCO, U.S.

- Fukushima plant situation ‘volatile,’ a year after cold shutdown declared (The Asahi Shimbun, Dec 18, 2012):

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But Fumiya Tanabe, a former chief research scientist at the now-defunct Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, said persistent danger surrounds the plant’s reactors.

“Despite the (officially declared) cold shutdowns of the reactors, the cooling functions have been maintained there with no knowledge of where the melted fuel lies and in what state,” Tanabe said. “There is a risk of unforeseen circumstances arising if another major earthquake hits.”

Tags: Environment, Global News, Government, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, TEPCO

Flashback:

- U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alan Thompson Reported 1,500 MICROSIEVERTS Per Hour Thyroid Dose South Of Tokyo On March 20, 2011

See also:

- ‘Many People From Even Tokyo Have Thyroid Problems Already’

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

Now back to the following article:

Radiation is not only safe …

He said his studies on salamanders and other animal life since the Fukushima disaster have shown no ill effects, including genetic damage, and so humans, exposed to far lower levels of radiation, are safe.

“No serious health effects are expected for regular people,” he said.

… it is good for you! …

… but Yoshiharu Yonekura, president of the National Institute of Radiological Sciences and an ICRP member, brushes off the worries and says such abnormalities are common. The risk is such a non-concern in his mind that he says with a smile: “Low-dose radiation may be even good for you.”

… denying all scientific studies that say otherwise:

- ‘Even The Very Lowest Levels Of Radiation Are Harmful To Life’ (University of South California, Nov 13, 2012)

And I could bombard you with more links about the dangers of low-level radiation here, but who cares about this anyway?

Again:

“If you don’t educate yourself now and fast, you’ll die.”
- Prof. Hayakawa of Gunma University

- AP Exclusive: Japan scientists took utility money (Denver Post/AP, Dec 6, 2012):

TOKYO—Influential scientists who help set Japan’s radiation exposure limits have for years had trips paid for by the country’s nuclear plant operators to attend overseas meetings of the world’s top academic group on radiation safety.The potential conflict of interest is revealed in one sentence buried in a 600-page parliamentary investigation into last year’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant disaster and pointed out to The Associated Press by a medical doctor on the 10-person investigation panel.

Some of these same scientists have consistently given optimistic assessments about the health risks of radiation, interviews with the scientists and government documents show. Their pivotal role in setting policy after the March 2011 tsunami and ensuing nuclear meltdowns meant the difference between schoolchildren playing outside or indoors and families staying or evacuating their homes.

One leading scientist, Ohtsura Niwa, acknowledged that the electricity industry pays for flights and hotels to go to meetings of the International Commission on Radiological Protection, and for overseas members visiting Japan. He denied that the funding influences his science and stressed that he stands behind his view that continuing radiation worries about Fukushima are overblown.

“Those who evacuated just want to believe in the dangers of radiation to justify the action they took,” Niwa told the AP in an interview.

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Tags: Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Science, TEPCO

See also:

- Extremely Highly Radioactive Water Flowing Into The Pacific Ocean

- Top Scientist Suspects Radioactive Water Being ‘Actively’ Pumped Into Pacific Ocean (Reuters Video)

- Fukushima Must Be Still Leaking About 300 Billion Becquerels Every Month Into The Pacific Ocean

- NYT: Radiation Levels In Fish Off Japan’s Coast Not Declining – Fukushima Reactor Site Leaking Into Ocean

- TEPCO considers net in nuke plant port to prevent irradiated fish from heading seaward (Asahi, Dec 4, 2012):

Tokyo Electric Power Co. may string nets across its port at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant to prevent fish contaminated with radiation from reaching the sea.

In surveys conducted through October, greenling caught in the littoral zone of the Otagawa river, about 20 kilometers north of the crippled plant, showed relatively low figures, with 1,350 becquerels per kilogram the maximum. Many greenlings had readings of around 100 becquerels.

But TEPCO also found in the port that species of Conger eel had 15,500 becquerels and other species of fish had 4,200 bequerels, sources said. Conger eels from outside the port posted 100 becquerels or lower.

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Tags: Environment, Fish, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, TEPCO

YouTube Added: 03.12.2012

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, TEPCO

Flashback:

- U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Alan Thompson Reported 1,500 MICROSIEVERTS Per Hour Thyroid Dose South Of Tokyo On March 20, 2011

See also:

- ‘Many People From Even Tokyo Have Thyroid Problems Already’

- Fukushima: More Then 42% of Children Have Thyroid Nodules Or Cysts (German TV Video, Nov 18, 2012):

More than 42% of 57,000 tested children have nodules or cyst, reports Dr. Suzuki who leads the examinations. In Chernobyl they found only 0.1 – 1%.

- WHO: Fukushima workers had radiation dose over 10 sieverts in their thyroids (ENENews, Dec 1, 2012):

(Subscription Only) Title: High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: YURI OIWA
Date: December 01, 2012

High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers

[...] A forthcoming WHO report, which cites the data, says two workers had an exposure of more than 10,000 millisieverts, a level widely considered to be a lethal dose when received as full-body exposure. However, a dose of this level received in the thyroid gland alone can have an impact limited to that organ and may not cause acute symptoms. [...]

TEPCO has not published its thyroid test results directly. The company justifies this by noting that it publishes other test results instead.

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Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, TEPCO, Thyroid