11/22/2011 Experts Admit Fukushima is Causing Hidden Cancer Deaths

Source: Activist Post
Date: 11/22/2011
by: Anthony Gucciardi

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Health and radiation experts are now admitting that the Fukushima disaster is contributing to an unknown number of deaths as a result of increasing cancer rates around the globe.
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11/24/2011 -- 6.2 magnitude earthquake in Japan after yesterdays 6.1M

Source: Dutchsinse
Date: 11/24/2011


See also:  M6.1 quake strikes off south coast of Hokkaido

Editor's Note: USGS Report and map of quake below.

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11/22/2011 Fukushima: “China Syndrome Is Inevitable” … “Huge Steam Explosions”, “Massive Hydrovolcanic Explosion” or a “Nuclear Bomb-Type Explosion” May Occur

Source: Washington's Blog
Date: 11/22/2011

Fukushima May Blow

I’ve repeatedly noted that we may experience a “China syndrome” type of accident at Fukushima.
For example, I pointed out in September:

Mainichi Dailly News notes:

As a radiation meteorology and nuclear safety expert at Kyoto University’s Research Reactor Institute, Hiroaki Koide [says]:
The nuclear disaster is ongoing.
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At present, I believe that there is a possibility that massive amounts of radioactive materials will be released into the environment again.
At the No. 1 reactor, there’s a chance that melted fuel has burned through the bottom of the pressure vessel, the containment vessel and the floor of the reactor building, and has sunk into the ground. From there, radioactive materials may be seeping into the ocean and groundwater.
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The government and plant operator TEPCO are trumpeting the operation of the circulation cooling system, as if it marks a successful resolution to the disaster. However, radiation continues to leak from the reactors. The longer the circulation cooling system keeps running, the more radioactive waste it will accumulate. It isn’t really leading us in the direction we need to go.
It’s doubtful that there’s even a need to keep pouring water into the No.1 reactor, where nuclear fuel is suspected to have burned through the pressure vessel. Meanwhile, it is necessary to keep cooling the No. 2 and 3 reactors, which are believed to still contain some fuel, but the cooling system itself is unstable. If the fuel were to become overheated again and melt, coming into contact with water and trigger a steam explosion, more radioactive materials will be released.
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 We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before.

11/20/2011 RealistNews: Advice on radiation detection and water filtration

Source: Realist News YouTube channel
Date: 11/20/2011
by: jsnip4


Editor's Note: Per jsnip4 reverse osmosis water filtration systems help remove hot particles. He has some good silver (physical) investment videos as well.  Using his Digalert+ meter, jsnip4 measured his air filters in his house and found them to be 4-5x the normal background radiation.  

Startling: If you scroll forwards to 12:40 or view the video below, a concerned mother says her daughter was caught in a rainstorm and got a radiation burn and mysterious flu-like symptoms.  Unconfirmed but something worth investigating.  Here is the original source video which jsnip4 embedded in his own:

11/19/2011 NRC to Investigate Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station Radioactive Water Leak

On Wednesday (11/16/2011) after having completed scheduled maintenance Unit 2 of the two reactor Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station run by Progress Energy was found to have a radioactive water leak from the reactor core, after the reactor had been ramped up to 7% power. [1]  Brunswick discovered the problem the next morning and has since shut down the reactor. Unit 1 is still running at full power.  The NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) will investigate and produce a report within 45 days. [1]

See also:

1. Nuclear plant water leak probed, John Murawski, Charlotte Observer
2. Nuclear Engineer shares concerns about Brunswick Nuclear Leak, Lucas Whitefield Hixson, Enformable

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11/17/2011 Radiation Mystery Solved? Budapest 'Probably' the Source

Source: ABC News
Date: 11/17/2011
by: LEE FERRAN and DRAGANA JOVANOVIC

Chain Bridge and Houses of Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, are seen in this elevated view. (Getty Images)

Nuclear officials said today they believe they have traced the source of a massive, but harmless, radiation plume that has spread across the atmosphere in Europe to an institute in Hungary, but the head of the institute disagrees.  

The Hungary Atomic Energy Authority said the Budapest-based Institute of Isotopes was "most probably" the source of the continued leak of trace amounts of Iodine-131 into the atmosphere, according to a statement by the International Atomic Energy Institute. Last week the IAEA first announced they received reports of trace iodine-131 detections from countries "across Europe," but had no idea from where the radiation was leaking. 

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11/17/2011 Fukushima, Tokyo log fewer births

Source: The Japan Times
Date: Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 JST

 

Kyodo

The number of births between April and June slumped 25 percent in Fukushima Prefecture and also declined significantly in Tokyo, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, but the tally rose in northern and western Japan, a recent survey showed.

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11/16/2011 Former IAEA Inspector: Misleading Iran report proves nothing

Source: TheRealNews
Date: 11/14/2011 (part 1), 11/16/2011 (part 2)

Part 1: Robert Kelley: Latest IAEA report recycles old intelligence and is meant to bolster hard liners

Part 2: Robert Kelley: IAEA Iran Report Fit Facts to Strengthen Hardliners


The full history of U.S. and British foreign policy concerning Iran: What every person should know

11/16/2011 Airstrike Against Iranian Nuclear Facilities Could Kill 100s of North Koreans and Russians

Source: OilPrice.com
Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 23:25
by: John Daly

As the drums for direct military intervention to derail Iran’s purported covert military nuclear weapons program beat louder in both Jerusalem and Washington, an overlooked issue is the possibility of international “collateral damage,” to use the Pentagon’s favourite euphemism for civilian casualties.
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11/15/2011 Europe Bans X-Ray Body Scanners Used at US Airports

Source: TruthOut
Date: 11/15/2011
by: Michael Grabell of ProPublica

The European Union on Monday prohibited the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing.
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11/16/2011 Low-level radiation in Europe still a mystery: IAEA

Source: Reuters
Date: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:38pm EST


(Reuters) - The source of low levels of radioactive iodine-131 detected in several European countries over the past few weeks is still unclear, the U.N. nuclear agency said on Wednesday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) first announced on Friday that traces had been detected in Europe, after it was tipped off by authorities in the Czech Republic.
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11/16/2011 Land in parts of Japan 'too radioactive to farm'

Source: The Telegraph
Date: 1:33PM GMT 15 Nov 2011

Farmland in parts of Japan is no longer safe because of high levels of radiation in the soil, scientists have warned, as the country struggles to recover from the Fukushima atomic disaster.

A deserted field and buildings inside the contaminated exclusion zone Photo: David Guttenfelder/Bloomberg

A team of international researchers said food production would likely be "severely impaired" by the elevated levels of caesium found in soil samples across eastern Fukushima in the wake of meltdowns at the tsunami-hit plant.
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