10/27/2011 "No More Nuclear Power" 100 Women from Fukushima: A Sit-in Action in Tokyo

Source: tokyobrowntabby YouTube channel
Date: 10/27/2011

【Please scroll down】On Oct 27-29, the action will be on Ustream broadcast from 10am to 3pm.
URL: http://ustre.am/usAQ

"No more Nuclear Power"
"Evacuate children living in contaminated areas"

100 women from Fukushima will be sitting in front of Agency of Ministry and Trade located in Tokyo, giving a peaceful appeal for three days. Another 100 from all areas in Japan will be sitting from 10/30-11/5.

Ustream broadcast by Independent Web Journal (Tokyo)

This is a mirrored video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEnrd_ZRwIo.

10/24/2011 Radiation check in Japan October 24 2011 over 11µSv/h

Source: asuperdry YouTube channel
Date: 10/24/2011 upload date


Hello again from Kashiwa, this is a drain pipe check right in my own back yard. It could be any drain pipe in any yard here in Kashiwa. I have checked a few other drain pipes in other peoples yards and the ones that don't have good run-off have high readings as well.

10/27/2011 Panel advises limiting lifetime radiation exposure to 100 millisieverts

Source: Kyodo News
Date: 10/27/2011

TOKYO, Oct. 27, Kyodo

A government food safety panel finalized its report Thursday calling for limiting cumulative internal radiation exposure during a person's lifetime to below 100 millisieverts, a benchmark beyond which the risk of cancer increases.

Following the Food Safety Commission's conclusion, which updates an evaluation by its working group in July, the health ministry will convene an advisory panel meeting Monday to revise its provisional limits for radioactive substances in food set after the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The current provisional limits such as 500 becquerels of radioactive cesium for rice, vegetables, meat and fish per kilogram, and 200 becquerels for drinking water and milk are expected to be lowered with the commission's advice.
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10/27/2011 Nuclear pollution of sea from Fukushima was world's biggest

Source: AFP (Agence France-Presse)
Date: October 27, 2011 6:05 AM

The IRSN cites deep-water fish, fish at the top of the marine food chain and molluscs and other filtrating organisms as "the species that are the most sensitive" to caesium pollution. 

Photograph by: REUTERS/Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force/Handout, xx

 

PARIS - France's nuclear monitor said on Thursday that the amount of caesium 137 that leaked into the Pacific from the Fukushima disaster was the greatest single nuclear contamination of the sea ever seen.
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10/27/2011 Fukushima Station Discharged More Radiation Than Estimated

Source: Bloomberg
Date: October 27, 2011, 4:45 AM EDT
by: Tsuyoshi Inajima

(Updates with NISA comment in fifth paragraph.)

Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan may have released more than twice the amount of radiation estimated by the Japanese government, a study by European and U.S.-based scientists said.

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10/27/2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster lifts Shell profit

Source: The Indepedent
Date: 10/27/2011
by: Peter Cripps


Spiralling oil prices and strong demand for gas after the Fukushima nuclear disaster helped Shell double its profits between July and September.

Europe's largest oil company reported profits of $7.2 billion (£4.5 billion), up from $3.5 billion (£2.2 billion), at a time of continued fuel price misery for British motorists.

Shell has benefited from a 48% rise in oil prices - partly caused by unrest in the Middle East and North Africa - as well as a 2% increase in production, excluding asset sales.
Natural gas prices have risen nearly a third after the Fukushima nuclear disaster boosted demand as Japan sought alternative sources of power.

Today's figures, which were in line with City expectations, come two days after BP reported a three-fold increase in profits to $5.1 billion (£3.2 billion) for the three months to September.
The Hague-based group said its investments in big new projects including in Canada and Qatar were paying off, while the result was also boosted by stronger refining margins. It plans 20 new investments between 2011 and 2014.

Earnings at its downstream business, which includes its petrol stations, increased by 24% to $1.8 billion (£1.1 billion).

Chief executive Peter Voser also said that although Shell had already met its target of $5 billion (£3.1 billion) of disposals this year, including the $1.2 billion (£750 million) sale of Stanlow refinery in Cheshire, sales of "non-core" assets would continue.
Shares rose 0.7% today. Richard Hunter, head of equities at Hargreaves Lansdown stockbrokers, said the results were a reminder of why some investors adhere to the adage "never sell Shell".
He added: "The update may be the cause of some admiring glances from arch rival BP, currently in the midst of its own transformation."
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10/25/2011 Busby: Enriched uranium weapon new battlefield horror

Source: Russia Today
Date: 10/25/2011


The high court in London is to hear a case over the use of uranium-enhanced weapons by U.S.-led forces during the infamous Iraqi Battle of Fallujah in 2005. This, following a number of reports alleging their use was much more widespread than originally thought. RT talks to Christopher Busby, the co-author of two such reports and a visiting professor at the school of Biomedical Studies, the University of Ulster.

10/20/2011 Fukushima Update with Arnie Gunderson

Source: Corbett Report
Date: uploaded 10/19/2011
by: James Corbett, Arnie Gundersen


Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds.com joins us for today's Fukushima Update. We discuss Tokyo's radiation hot spots, TEPCO's "cold shutdown" announcement and what the next step is at the site.
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10/19/2011 Japanese communities record Chernobyl-level radiation

Source: ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Lateline
Date: 10/19/2011
by: Mark Willacy, Steve Cannane


Thousands of Japanese forced to evacuate their homes by the Fukushima nuclear disaster are facing the prospect of never being able to return. 
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10/18/2011 Over 20 Radioactive Hotspots Found in Tokyo … Despite Government and Media Attempt to Cover Up Spread of Radiation

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 10/18/2011

More than 20 Radioactive Hotspots Found in Tokyo … All Due to Citizen Measurements

I noted last week that Tokyo and the adjoining city of Yokohama were found to contain “hotspots” with very high levels of radiation, and that all of the hotspots were originally found by citizens using geiger counters, because the government wasn’t really testing.

10/15/2011 How to protect oneself from radiation if evacuation is not possible

Source: drdrwoland YouTube channel
Date: 10/15/2011
by: Professor Christopher Busby

Chris Busby updates Japan on what to do to reduce the risk of radiation damage from the contamination from the Strontium-90, Uranium and Plutonium dispersed widely over northern Japan.First of all, evacuate the children and evacuate yourselves. The contamination of the ground and the food is a serious health hazard. Car air filter analysis shows the material on the ground becomes airborne and can be inhaled.

Get away If you can; but if not not then you can reduce the access of these radionuclides to the DNA. It is basic Physical Chemistry that increasing the Calcium concentration, (Calcium which stabilises the DNA phosphate backbone), will inhibit the equilibrium binding of radionuclides like Strontium, Uranium, Plutonium and other high DNAP affinity elements and complex ions. The Iodine thyroid blocking method is based on the same thermodynamic chemical equilibrium idea.

A number of websites have been selling pills based on his ideas and more are being set up but it is straightforward, he says, to buy Calcium/ Magnesium tablets from health food shops where they are not expensive. The adult dose is about 800mg Calcium and 350mg Magnesium. Reduce the dose for children in proportion to their relative weight, so for a 10-year old, about 400mg Calcium and 175mg Magnesium. This is a critical issue: it will save lives and it is so simple and is absolutely harmless.

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10/13/2011 Radiation Hotspot in Tokyo Linked to Mystery Bottles

Source: Reuters via Scientific American
Date: October 13, 2011
by: Yoko Kubota

A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant.

TOKYO (Reuters) - A radiation hotspot has been detected in Tokyo seven months into Japan's nuclear crisis, but local officials said on Thursday high readings appeared to be coming from mystery bottles stored under a house, not the tsunami-crippled Fukushima atomic plant.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, struck by a devastating quake and tsunami in March, has released radiation into the atmosphere that has been carried by winds, rain and snow across eastern Japan.
Officials in Setagaya, a major residential area in Tokyo about 235 km (150 miles) southwest of the plant, said this week it found a radioactive hotspot on a sidewalk near schools, prompting concerns in the country's most populated area far from the damaged nuclear plant.

The radiation measured as much as 3.35 microsieverts per hour on Thursday, higher than some areas in the evacuation zone near the Fukushima plant, the center of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl 25 years ago.

But the local government found several bottles under the floor of a nearby house emitting high levels of radiation.

"A measuring device, when pointed at them, showed very high readings. Radiation levels were even exceeding the upper limit for the device," Setagaya Mayor Nobuto Hosaka told a news conference.
Officials from the Education Ministry are now looking into the matter, including the contents of the bottles.
Public broadcaster NHK said no one had been living in the house in question.
The city of Funabashi, near Tokyo, said that a citizens' group had measured a radiation level of 5.8 microsieverts per hour at a park, but that the city's own survey showed the highest reading at the park was a quarter of that level.

Radiation levels in the 20 km radius evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant ranged from 0.5 to 64.8 microsieverts per hour, government data showed this week.

About 80,000 residents have evacuated this zone. A microsievert quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissue.

In Yokohama, also near Tokyo, radioactive strontium-90, which can cause bone cancer and leukemia, was detected in soil taken from an apartment rooftop, media reported.

Strontium has been detected within an 80 km zone around the Fukushima Daiichi plant, but this is the first time it has been found in an area so far away, local media added.

Radiation exposure from natural sources in a year is about 2,400 microsieverts on average, the U.N. atomic watchdog says.

Japan's education ministry has set a standard allowing up to 1 microsievert per hour of radiation in schools while aiming to bring it down to about 0.11 microsievert per hour.

(Additional reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa and Nick Macfie)