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Fukushima creating monster-mutated animals
(Before It's News) As frantic nuclear workers battle melting reactors and plutonium radiation in Tokyo Electric's Fukushima reactors a new fear has surfaced... Radioactive nuclear monsters may soon appear No, the mutated animals will not be giant radioactive ants or grasshoppers like 1950s monster movies. But they can be terribly mutated monstrosities with DNA horribly twisted by nuclear poisoning. Things of horror emerged from the southwestern desert after the early atomic tests by the U.S. military.
The Greanville Post » Japan’s Apocalypse
The Fukushima Nuclear complex, 1975, showing protecting walls against Tsunamis. They proved useless. DESPITE a disaster multiples worse than Chernobyl, major media reports all along have downplayed it. Now they largely ignore it, moving on to more important things like celebrity features and baseball’s opening day, besides pretending American-led Libya bombing is well-intended when, in fact, it’s another brazen power grab – an imperial war of conquest, explained in numerous previous articles. The horror of all wars aside, waged solely for wealth and power, never humanity, Japan deserves regular top billing, given its global implications and potential millions of lives affected.
Japanese nuclear crisis could go on for months, officials warn | World news
Policemen tear down debris in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. Photograph: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images Where concrete has failed to prevent highly radioactive water pouring into the sea, workers at Japan 's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have shifted hope of plugging the leaks to an absorbent polymer mixed with sawdust and shredded newspaper that expands 50-fold when in contact with water. Although officials conceded the polymer had made little impact so far, they will wait until Monday before deciding whether to abandon it.Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press Residents of Futaba, Japan, a town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, moved into a shelter near Tokyo last month. But Mr. Takahashi, 47, feels he has no choice: to earn enough to support his mother, he needs to go back to his job as a technician at the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, just six miles from the Daiichi plant, which is spewing radioactive particles. “They called several days ago, asking for me,” Mr.
Japanese Nuclear Disaster Severs Town’s Lifeline
'Citizen Scientists' Crowdsource Radiation M
From Tokyo to California, radiation tracking gets crowdsourced | Cutting Edge
Radiation data from Tokyo (static image). (Credit: altTokyo.com ) The intensifying nuclear crisis in Japan is raising anxieties on both sides of the Pacific over the potential impacts of radiation exposure, and a relative dearth of official information on radiation levels is leading some to turn to crowdsourced options. Japanese officials warned residents living near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to stay indoors after a third explosion at the plant in four days, followed by elevated radiation levels around the plant, which the officials said were high enough to harm human health. Panic was reported in Tokyo, as radiation levels rose to as much as 23 times the normal level, according to some reports. With official estimations of the threat from radiation across Japan changing rapidly and sometimes inconsistent, a number of real-time amateur radiation monitors have popped up online.Fukushima, «bien pire que Tchernobyl», selon une spécialiste russe | Séisme au Japon
«Tchernobyl était comme l'explosion d'une bombe sale. La nouvelle bombe sale, c'est Fukushima, et elle va coûter encore plus cher» en termes humains et économiques, a averti Natalia Mironova, ingénieur thermodynamique qui est devenue l'un des principaux adversaires du nucléaire dans son pays après la catastrophe de 1986. «Fukushima est bien pire que Tchernobyl», a-t-elle déclaré devant des journalistes, estimant que l'accident nucléaire japonais pourrait dépasser celui de la centrale soviétique sur l'échelle internationale de mesure de gravité. Au niveau «sept», l'accident de Tchernobyl, considéré comme le plus grave de l'histoire du nucléaire civil, occupe le sommet de cette «Échelle internationale des événements nucléaires et radiologiques».
In Japan: Wider Evacuation Zone Urged : The Two-Way
Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers walked in a line after finding the body of a boy in the rubble in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture earlier today (March 31, 2011). Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP/Getty Images There's more troubling news from Japan, which continues to struggle with the after-effects of the 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that killed thousands on March 11 and triggered an ongoing emergency at a nuclear power plant.
Pressure is mounting on Japan to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, as the prime minister says he plans to review the country's nuclear energy policy. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Japanese authorities should consider expanding the zone beyond its current 20km (12-mile) radius after high levels of radiation were detected at a village about twice that distance from the plant. The government has so far resisted calls to evacuate more people from the area, but said its policy was under constant review, and that monitoring of radiation levels was being increased. More than 70,000 people living inside the 20km zone have been evacuated, but another 136,000 living between 20-30km away have been told to stay in their homes.
Japan under pressure to widen nuclear evacuation zone | World news
Japan nuclear crisis: IAEA, Greenpeace report high contamination outside evacuation zone
Consequences of the nuclear crisis in Japan continue to expand. The March 11 quake and tsunami left 28,000 people dead or missing , and triggered a series of increasingly grave problems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Separately, both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Greenpeace have measured radioactivity levels outside the exclusion zone that exceed the limits established by the government of Japan. From the IAEA's update , which includes details on the data readings and locations:
La radioactivité effraie les ports d’Europe
Après les constructeurs automobiles notamment, c’est au tour des ports de demander des mesures de précaution concernant les bateaux en provenance du Japon. Le Financial Times Deutschland qui révèle l’information le 30 mars explique que les autorités portuaires à Hambourg sont en pleine négociation d’un plan d’urgence avec les douanes et les responsables locaux des Affaires intérieures. A Rotterdam, les autorités portuaires exigent des armateurs que les capitaines de tous les bateaux en provenance d’Asie transmettent la liste des dix derniers ports où ils ont mouillé. " Je m’attends à ce que des ports européens renvoient des bateaux arrivant du Japon" , assure Erik van der Noordaa, qui dirige la société d'audit maritime Germanischer Lloyd. Mais pour l’heure, selon la Fédération des armateurs allemands, il n’y a aucun plan d’action. Certaines entreprises prennent néanmoins déjà des précautions.