Op-Ed: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - The Lies They've Told; 15 Things You Should Know; And How This Could Be a Global Killer. This is opposite the editorial page, just Ophir Gottlieb's opinion and research (not Livevol). But every once in a while I write a story that goes well beyond the scope of just finance because this world goes well beyond finance. So, to my 780,000+ readers, I hope this is helpful and insightful. It is not intended to be fear mongering, it's the best I can do using "Just the facts Ma'am" while offering opinions now and again.
Ultimately, the facts are warped, hidden and manipulated for whatever agenda / propoganda is needed. So, this is the best I could do to inform you of what might be the single most important event in our lifetimes. NB: I have listed the contact information for every member in the house of representatives for every state and territory at the end of this article. I will start with "15 Things You Should Know" about the disaster. But, there's one opinion I will share up front, the nuclear power plant disaster (it is a disaster) needs your attention.
I. II. III. IV. 2. 3. Radiation Survival. Independent Report: Fukushima Disaster was Entirely Preventable | 80beats. Last year, after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, the Japanese parliament requested an independent report on the causes of the disaster. The 10 members of the report committee were not connected with the nuclear industry or the government bureaucracy and included distinguished scientists, doctors, lawyers, and even a science journalist. The resulting report, released this week, is damning. It was already more or less known that the disaster was at least in part caused by negligence on the part of the utility company TEPCO and the failure of government agents to enforce safety regulation, but the committee has had access to all of the documents and resources involved, and they write that even given the unusual force of the tsunami that struck the plant, had regulations been enforced, the nuclear meltdown would not have happened: The report, which you can read here, is heartbreaking.
State to spend over ¥1 trillion of taxpayer money for Fukushima decontamination work. In a major policy shift, the government will use more than ¥1 trillion in public funds to clean up contaminated areas around the Fukushima No. 1 plant, according to sources. The plan revealed Friday to alleviate the financial burden Tokyo Electric Power Co. was supposed to shoulder is in line with a ruling Liberal Democratic Party proposal compiled Thursday on ways to accelerate the sluggish recovery from one of the world’s worst nuclear crises.
Tepco is still expected to stump up to some ¥3 trillion because the government has no intention of exempting it from decontamination payments that have already been planned by the state and local governments. Unable to view this article? This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites. If this does not resolve the issue or you are unable to add the domains to your allowlist, please see this FAQ. We humbly apologize for the inconvenience. This is How we Fix Fukushima - by otb - Newsvine. Calling all newsviners, who can improve my plan to develop some semblance of control and ultimately, remediation, of Fukushima?? They should also be speciating exactly the types of radionuclides in these waters.
A respectable lab should be able to tell us exactly what’s in this water in a matter of days. It’s time to stop the denials, accept the problem for the colossal one that it is, and begin a comprehensive understanding that may lead to comprehensive solutions. The first thing that needs to happen is a shielding of the reactors. The most devastating event that could happen is another atmospheric ejection of nuclear material. I propose a zeolite and borax sand matrix packed into he reactor buildings. Once the venting, cooling, and radiation sorption barrier is in place, we cap the site over with the surrounding landscape. While all of this is happening, a permanent 2 million gallon per day full scale industrial water treatment plant should be being constructed uphill. Japanese seniors volunteer for Fukushima 'suicide corps' Elderly volunteers for nuclear crisis Yasuteru Yamada hopes his Skilled Veterans Corps can help end the nuclear crisis The 250-strong group has volunteered to work in the contaminated Fukushima plantThey say cells of an older person's body divide more slowly than a younger individualTEPCO says the plant currently has enough workers to control the crisis Tokyo (CNN) -- Up a narrow flight of stairs in a modest, non-descript office building, three retirees sit in a cramped room, hunched over their computers and mobile phones.
They look like the planning committee for a neighborhood senior breakfast, not the leaders of a 250-member team attempting to defuse one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in history. But that's exactly what 72-year-old Yasuteru Yamada hopes his seniors group, the Skilled Veterans Corps, will do: help end the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Holes feared in two reactors We 'came close' to losing northern Japan Raising funds to help Japan. A Viable Plan for Emergency Containment at Fukushima: Support this Campaign. Fukushima Nuclear plant is COLLAPSING - Ocean life extinction maybe near. Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant begins fuel rod removal. 18 November 2013Last updated at 03:12 ET Tepco has been preparing for months to remove fuel rods at Fukushima Workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have begun removing fuel rods from a storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor building.
The delicate operation is seen as a necessary step in stabilising the site. It will take about two days to remove the first 22 fuel rod assemblies, plant operator Tepco says. Overall, more than 1,500 assemblies must be removed in what correspondents describe as a risky and dangerous operation set to take a year. Experts say hydrogen explosions after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 have made the current storage facility vulnerable to further tremors.
The fuel rod assemblies are four-metre long tubes containing pellets of uranium fuel, and the fear is that some may have been damaged during the disaster. Continue reading the main story Removing fuel rods Unit 4 was undergoing maintenance, so all of its fuel rods were being stored. 'Important process' Alexander Higgins Blog - The Latest Buzz, Analysis, and News Without the Snooze! Des fruits et légumes mutants à Fukushima (photos) Radioactive cesium level soars 90-fold at Fukushima in just 3 days. Former head of Fukushima nuclear plant dies of cancer. (NaturalNews) In an ironic twist of fate, the former head of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in eastern Japan has died, according to new reports. After battling a bout of throat cancer that emerged just months after the stricken plant was overrun by a historic tsunami and subsequent earthquake, 58-year-old Masao Yoshida died at a Tokyo hospital from a condition that many others will likely also develop in the years to come as a result of Fukushima radiation poisoning.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), which owns the facility where at least three nuclear reactors either partially or fully melted down, insists that Yoshida's cancer and eventual death were not the result of radiation poisoning from the plant. It would take at least five years, the company has claimed, for radiation from the plant to develop into full-fledged cancer. But it does not take a rocket scientist to connect the dots. Sources for this article include: Amid nuclear crisis, Japan’s Tepco planned new reactors. The proposal was then included in a formal report submitted to authorities in Tokyo on March 31 as part of an annual process designed to assess Japan’s future electricity supply.
“It was just unbelievable,” said Yoichi Nozaki, director general of Fukushima’s Planning and Coordination Department, which oversees energy matters here in the capital of the region most blighted by the biggest nuclear debacle since Chernobyl. When Tepco notified Fukushima’s energy department of its new reactor plans, Nozaki immediately told Fukushima’s governor, Yuhei Sato, who reacted with fury. “What is going on?” He fumed. Nozaki met the head of Tepco’s local branch and told him “we definitely cannot accept” the building of new reactors. Tokyo Electric pressed on, declining to alter its plans and submitting them to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or METI, in Tokyo. With its reputation and its finances already shredded by the events at Fukushima Daiichi, Tepco now has another fiasco to contain.
night observing tepco fukushima livestream 18. to 19. of july Fukushima, from Fear to Fact by David Roberts and Ted Lazo. Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space BANGKOK – Masao Yoshida had been the chief manager of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for just nine months when, on March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami triggered a triple nuclear reactor meltdown. The plant spewed radioactive material into the air and water, terrifying the Japanese public and much of the world. Yoshida’s death last week from cancer under the pall of that nuclear disaster brings to mind how vulnerable facts can be to distortion. In the accident’s wake, a lack of trustworthy information – and an abundance of misinformation – fueled fear among the public, both in Japan and abroad. As we learned from the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents, stress can be at least as harmful as the radiation exposure itself. A fearful public quickly lost confidence in official communications channels after repeated failures, and people looked instead to the news media for information.
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