1/7/2014 Why Is Radioactive Snow Falling In Missouri?

Source: The Truth
Date:  January 7th, 2014
by: Michael Snyder

If radioactive snow is falling in Missouri, is it safe to assume that much of the snow that is falling on the rest of the country is also radioactive?  What you are about to see is absolutely shocking.  A highly respected YouTube personality known as DutchSinse has released video of himself measuring radiation levels of the snow falling on St. Louis, Missouri.  What he discovered was that he got a reading that was about twice as high as he did on a sunny day when there is no precipitation.  So what in the world could be causing this?  Could Fukushima be to blame?  Is radioactive water originally from Fukushima being picked up in the Pacific and dumped all across the country?  If so, there would seem to be no way to stop this from happening.  Now that highly radioactive water from Fukushima is spreading throughout the entire Pacific Ocean, it is simply impossible to put the “genie back in the bottle” again.  So could this mean that we might have to deal with radioactive rain and snow storms in North America for many years to come?
...
Read full article here.

Editor's Note: POTR Blog who run both an outdoor and indoor Geiger counter from their location in St. Louis, Missouri have also reported on the issue of the radioactive snow.

12/30/2013 Yakuza Gangsters Recruit Homeless Men For Fukushima Nuclear Clean Up

Source: Forbes
by: William Pentland
Date:  12/30/2013 @ 10:08PM

Organized criminal groups have infiltrated the massive, government-backed decontamination effort underway at the defunct Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to Reuters.
...
Read the rest here.

12/11/2013 General Electric Knew Its Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?

Source: Washington's Blog [Great financial blog with insightful articles on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as well!]
Date: 12/11/2013

GE Engineers and American Government Officials Warned of Dangerous Nuclear Design

5 of the 6 nuclear reactors at Fukushima are General Electric Mark 1 reactors.
GE knew decades ago that the design was faulty.
ABC News reported in 2011:

Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing — the Mark 1 — was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.
Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday’s earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.
“The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant,” Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. “The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release.”
***
Still, concerns about the Mark 1 design have resurfaced occasionally in the years since Bridenbaugh came forward. In 1986, for instance, Harold Denton, then the director of NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, spoke critically about the design during an industry conference.
“I don’t have the same warm feeling about GE containment that I do about the larger dry containments,” he said, according to a report at the time that was referenced Tuesday in The Washington Post.
“There is a wide spectrum of ability to cope with severe accidents at GE plants,” Denton said. “And I urge you to think seriously about the ability to cope with such an event if it occurred at your plant.”
***
When asked if [the remedial measures performed on the Fukushima reactors by GE before 2011] was sufficient, he paused. “What I would say is, the Mark 1 is still a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment.”

11/28/2013 Quake near Iran nuclear plant kills 8

Source: Reuters via YNet News
Date: 11/28/2013 22:02

A picture obtained from Iran's ISNA news agency shows Iranians gathering amid rubble in the Iranian western city of Borazjan, on Nov. 28, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country. AFP photo / ISNA

At least eight people were killed and 190 were injured in an earthquake in Iran on Thursday near the city of Bushehr, where the country's sole nuclear power plant is situated, state news agency IRNA reported.

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 5.6, struck about 40 miles (60 km) northeast of Bushehr on the Gulf coast, according to US Geological Survey data. No damage to the nuclear plant was reported.
...
Read the rest here.

Editor's Note: See also 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant kills at least eight from
Agence France-Presse.  Below is the map of the 5.6 magnitude quake.

11/23/2013 Fukushima Nuclear Fallout Has Damaged the Thyroids of California Babies

Source: Global Research, The Ecologist
Date: 11/23/2013
by: Dr. Chris Busby

Photo Credit: Global Research

 A new study of the effects of tiny quantities of radioactive fallout from Fukushima on the health of babies born in California shows a significant excess of hypothyroidism caused by the radioactive contamination travelling 5,000 miles across the Pacific. The article will be published next week in the peer-reviewed journal Open Journal of Pediatrics.

Congenital hypothyroidism is a rare but serious condition normally affecting about one child in 2,000, and one that demands clinical intervention – the growth of children suffering from the condition is affected if they are left untreated. All babies born in California are monitored at birth for Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) levels in blood, since high levels indicate hypothyroidism.
Joe Mangano and Janette Sherman of the Radiation and Public Health Project in New York, and Christopher Busby, guest researcher at Jacobs University, Bremen, examined congenital hypothyroidism (CH) rates in newborns using data obtained from the State of California over the period of the Fukushima explosions.

Their results are published in their paper Changes in confirmed plus borderline cases of congenital hypothyroidism in California as a function of environmental fallout from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The researchers compared data for babies exposed to radioactive Iodine-131 and born between March 17th and Dec 31st 2011 with unexposed babies born in 2011 before the exposures plus those born in 2012.
...
Read full article here.

There article on hypothyroidism in babies Elevated airborne beta levels in Pacific/West Coast US States and trends in hypothyroidism among newborns after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is available online from Scientific Research: Open Access.  I have mirrored the paper for your convenience as well to Scribd below.

11/27/2013 Chicago radioactive waste facility shutting down amid safety scandal

Source: Russia Today
Date: November 27, 2013 17:50

AP Photo

A radioactive waste disposal facility near a small residential neighborhood outside Chicago was found guilty of multiple, potentially hazardous violations and will reportedly be shut down.

Complaints waged by the likes of both local and federal regulators allege that Tinley Park, Illinois’ ADCO Services, Inc. inappropriately stored potentially hazardous waste for several years longer that they were supposed to, and time and time again they were warned by officials for their seemingly rampant disregard of the rules.
...
Read the rest here.

Editor's Note: Map of ADCO Services, Inc. appears below.

11/24/2013 Iran to Freeze Its Nuclear Program in Geneva Accord

Source: Gawker via Infowars
Date: 11/24/2013

Iran Geneva Accord 2013

After weeks of negotiations between diplomats from Iran, US, the UK, Russia, China, France and Germany, Iran has agreed to temporarily freeze its nuclear program while a larger deal is negotiated. 

The international agreement would give negotiators time to iron out a deal that would ensure that Iran's nuclear program would only be used towards peaceful ends, and not in pursuit of a nuclear weapon. Over the last few years, Iran has been enriching uranium to 20%, a level close to that which could be used in a weapon. Iran has now agreed to stop enriching at 5%, and dismantle links between centrifuges (which help enrich Uranium) and it has also promised to stop building new centrifuges.

...

Read the rest here.

Fukushima News 11/21/13: 1st Round Of Fuel Transfer Complete; "Cask" Containing Fuel In Safer Pool

Source: MissingSky101
Date: 11/21/2013

Video Description

Published on Nov 21, 2013

TEPCO at final stage in 1st round of fuel transfer
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is preparing to complete the first transfer of nuclear fuel from a reactor building to a safer storage pool.
On Thursday, Tokyo Electric Power Company moved the batch of nuclear fuel from the No. 4 reactor building to a nearby facility housing the safer pool.
TEPCO workers used a trailer to carry a cask containing 22 unused fuel assemblies to the building 100 meters away, then unloaded the cask inside the building.
The workers plan to transfer the fuel units from the container to racks in the storage pool on Friday.
This will mark the completion of the first transfer.
TEPCO says it will review whether there were any problems or challenges. If not, the utility says it may start removing spent fuel assemblies that are far more radioactive than the unused fuel.
The pool in the No. 4 reactor building contains more than 1,500 fuel units, most of which are spent fuel rods.

"Cask" containing fuel moved into safer pool
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant says it has removed the first batch of nuclear fuel from the reactor 4 building to a safer storage pool.
Footage released by Tokyo Electric Power Company on Thursday shows workers lowering a steel cask containing 22 unused fuel assemblies from the 5th floor of the reactor building. Engineers used a huge crane to lower the cask, 5.5 meters long and two meters across, onto a trailer on the ground.
The container was transferred slowly to a separate pool in a building 100 meters away, and lowered into water to store the fuel more safely.
TEPCO plans to begin on Friday plucking the fuel assemblies out of the cask and placing them in storage racks inside the pool. The utility says it will review the process before starting a second round of fuel transfer.
Thursday's transfer involved unused fuel units. The reactor's storage pool has 1,511 fuel assemblies left, including 1,331 highly radioactive spent fuel assemblies.
TEPCO says the building housing the separate pool can withstand an earthquake as strong as the March 2011 disaster that badly damaged the plant.
Nov. 21, 2013 - Updated 11:07 UTC

Trial run of last ALPS line at Fukushima resumed
The operator of Japan's damaged nuclear plant has resumed trial operation of the last of 3 lines of a key water decontamination system.
Officials of Tokyo Electric Power Company restarted the 3rd line of the Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Thursday.
The system is designed to remove from contaminated water 62 kinds of radioactive substances, excluding tritium.
But its test operation was suspended in June following leaks of unprocessed water from a tank due to corrosion.
The utility restarted the lines one by one after working to prevent further corrosion.
The officials say test runs so far have shown that the system is failing to fully remove 4 types of radioactive substances, including cobalt and antimony.
They say they will work to fix the system and confirm the effects of anti-corrosion measures before making it fully operational next year. ALPS was originally to be in full operation this autumn.
Tokyo Electric plans to add more lines to the system so that it will be able to process all radioactive water in the plant's storage tanks by March 2015.

http://enenews.com/professor-fukushim...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljzXFx...

Oregon Official: Reports coming in of seafood with radioactive contamination, "They're kind of secretive, they don't want to give up their sources" — Locals concerned about impact Fukushima disaster is having on area fish (VIDEO)
http://videos.oregonlive.com/oregonia...

The Radioactive Ocean
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marbl...

Radionuclides in fishes and mussels from the Farallon Islands Nuclear Waste Dump Site, California.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/86...

Fish Anyone? Farallon Islands (and other) Oceanic Radioactive Waste Dumps
Long before Fukushima dumped millions of gallons of highly radioactive water into the sea, the oceans have been designated repositories for radioactive waste and fallout according to reports from the USGS and articles in the SF Weekly and Mother Jones. -
http://www.defyingdisaster.com/2011/0...

America's Nuclear Waste Is Now Even Farther from Finding a Home
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/us-n...

Senator Boxer Says Records Possibly Missing On San Onofre
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/nov/21/...

EPA Radnet
http://www.epa.gov/radnet/radnet-data...

The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry
http://nuclear-news.net/
http://www.youtube.com/user/MsMilkyth...

11/18/2013 Dr. Chris Busby Appears on Alex Jones Show to Discuss Nuclear Fuel Rod Removal at #Fukushima I Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool

Source: The Alex Jones Show
Date: 11/18/2013

Video Description

Published on Nov 18, 2013

Alex welcomes chemical physicist Dr. Christopher Busby to discuss what the removal of nuclear fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant entails, and to examine the tsunami-battered nuclear reactor's persisting radiation threat.
http://www.llrc.org/
http://www.greenaudit.org/
Stay in the know - Follow Alex on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones
'Like' Alex on FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderEme...
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.infowars.net/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv
**NEW ITEM**[[SURVIVAL SHIELD-NASCENT IODINE]]
http://www.infowarsshop.com/-Infowars...
Retail Price $49.95-Your Price $29.95*
Your Savings $20.00
[[START GETTING HEALTHY NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE]]
**Beyond Tangy Tangerine 2.0 is the most advanced multi-vitamin mineral complex to date. http://infowarshealth.com/
[[PREPAREDNESS PRODUCTS]] NEW ITEMS**
**EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SURVIVE THE COLLAPSE**
http://www.infowarsshop.com/-Prepared...
[[INFOWARS MAGAZINE]] NOVEMBER ISSUE**
http://www.infowarsshop.com/-Infowars...

Editor's Note: See Dr. Busby's article Fukushima Fallout Damaged the Thyroids of California Babies for his discussion of the thyroid study he co-authored.  I have embedded Dr. Busby's Fukushima worst case scenario paper mentioned in the interview below for your convenience.

11/18/2013 Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant [Uranium Enrichment Facility] Hit by Tornado, Damage Reported

Sources: MsMilkytheclown1, ENENews
Date: 11/18/2013

Damaged Cooling Tower at Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Credit: USEC Twitter Feed

I spotted this initially on MsMilkytheclown1's YouTube feed.  There is a lot of profanity in this video, so be warned.

See  ENENews Tornado hits U.S. nuclear facility – Uranium enrichment building damaged — Parts of cooling towers destroyed — Alert declared for ‘emergency condition’ (PHOTOS) for their usual good collation of articles.

A map of Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant appears below.

Video Summary of Fuel Transfer in Reactor 4 Spent Fuel Pool at #Fukushima I NPP on 11/18/2013

Source: EX-SKF Blog
Date: 11/18/2013
In this, I don't blame TEPCO for not having posted a video of the entire work (9 to 10 hours) on November 18, 2013.

The preparation for submerging the cask started in the morning, with the cask submerged completely at 12:30PM. The removal of unused (new) fuel assemblies into the cask started at 3:18PM, and by 6:45PM 4 unused fuel assemblies were transferred into the cask.

The names of the companies and the names of the workers are blurred in the video. They could be TEPCO workers, but most likely from one of the primary contractors.

From TEPCO's photos and videos library (11/19/2013):

...
Read the rest of this great blog here.

11/18/2013 Removal of nuclear fuel rods begins at Fukushima I

Fukushima I Unit 4, Spent Fuel Rod Removal Training  Photo Credit: NHK World

Removal of the unit 4 spent fuel pool nuclear fuel rods has begun today (11/18/2013) at Fukushima I. The process will take more than a year to complete. See NHK's Removal of nuclear fuel begins at Fukushima article for video and Asian Gazette Blog by Joël Legendre-Koizumi for further details.